Patents Assigned to M
  • Apparatus for automatically receiving and dispensing banknotes and valuables
    Patent number: 5488913
    Abstract: Apparatus for automatically receiving and dispensing banknotes and valuables comprising a protection casing (2) provided with access openings (3, 4), compartments (7) adapted to contain banknotes and valuables and movable along a loop-shaped movement path (6) extending within the protection casing (2) and passing close to the access openings (3, 4), drive and guide means (9) for moving the compartments (7), and electronic means (35) acting on the drive and guide means (9) and designed to select the compartments (7) to be positioned close to the access openings (3, 4), based on predetermined procedures and commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: M.I.B. Elettronica S.r.l.
    Inventor: Giuseppe E. Fumanelli
  • Roll with vibration damper
    Patent number: 5487715
    Abstract: A roll for the preparation or treatment of fiber webs includes a fixed central axis, a roll shell adapted to rotate around the fixed axis and a first chamber disposed between the central axis and the rotatable roll shell. The first chamber is filled with liquid which can transfer a hydraulic supporting force from the central axis to the roll shell. The roll includes a second chamber that is partially filled with air and partially filled with a liquid. Several narrow capillary lines connect the first and second chambers. The capillary characteristic (K) of the capillary lines ranges between about 2.5.times.10.sup.7 m.sup.-2 and about 2.5.times.10.sup.8 m.sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: J.M. Voith GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Schiel
  • Hadamard phasing in a multisource array
    Patent number: 5488474
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for minimizing the amplitude range in a time domain signal incorporating a plurality of periodic electromagnetic waves. One embodiment of the invention is a spectrophotometer or polychromatic light transmitter including an array of light emitting diodes or lasers configured for activation in successive encodement patterns, a diffraction grating, an optical slit, a detector and electronic controls including a computer. In operation, the periodic waves driving the diodes or lasers and their phases are adjusted in accordance with Hadamard mathematics in order to minimize constructive and destructive interference between the electromagnetic waves generated by the diodes array. The resulting time domain signal received at the detector is Fourier transformed to the desired spectral space. The invention effectively eliminates centerbursts in the resulting interferogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: D.O.M. Associates Int'l.
    Inventors: William G. Fateley, Radoslaw Sobczynski
  • Layout for radio frequency power transistors
    Patent number: 5488252
    Abstract: A layout is provided for RF power transistors that reduces common lead inductance and its associated performance penalties. An RF transistor cell is rotated 90.degree. with respect to a conventional RF transistor cell so as to located bond pads nearer the edge of a silicon die, reducing bond wire length and common lead inductance and thereby improving performance at high frequencies. The placement of bond pad and distribution of different parts of the transistor layout further reduces common lead inductance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Erricsson
    Inventors: Ted Johansson, Larry Leighton, Ivar Hamberg
  • Store ejector
    Patent number: 5487322
    Abstract: A store ejector includes at least one fluid pressure operated ram (4). In use the ram (4) engages and ejects a store (5). The ejector includes a source of fluid under pressure and a throttle valve connected between the source of fluid under pressure and the ram (4). A pressure sensor detects the pressure supplied to the ram and an extension sensor monitors the extension of the ram. A computer receives inputs from the pressure and extension sensors and provides a control output to the throttle valve to control the valve to provide a predetermined applied thrust profile to the store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: M L Aviation Limited
    Inventor: Glenn M. Rhodes
  • Direct tension indicator washer
    Patent number: 5487632
    Abstract: A pre-load indicating washer in which a plurality of protuberances, struck and partially sheared from the annular body of the washer, are pushed under load back into a corresponding plurality of indentations in the annular body which are formed when the protuberances are formed. The mass of material defined by each protuberance/indentation pair is concentrated along the lengthwise central region of the protuberance/indentation pair, thereby stiffening the protuberance, so that when load is applied to the washer, the protuberance will first undergo elastic deformation prior to collapsing back into the indentation from which it was formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: J & M Turner, Inc.
    Inventors: A. Craig Hood, Lloyd J. Larson
  • Powder feeding apparatus, electrostatic powder coating apparatus and powder flow-rate measuring apparatus
    Patent number: 5487624
    Abstract: A powder feeding apparatus which has a substantially simplified structure compared to conventional powder feeding apparatuses and which can be easily installed, without requiring any substantial adjustment work. The powder feeding apparatus includes a powder flow rate measuring capillary, the inlet of which is connected to a powder introducing device and to a sensor nozzle for a powder flow rate detection gas provided with a flow control device. A pressure difference detecting device whose interior volume is invariant during normal operation is connected between the inlet and the outlet of the capillary. Further, a pressure difference adjusting device and a large-diameter feeding duct are connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: I.T.M. Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi Toyota, Masao Iwanaga
  • Block pallet construction using corrugated sheet materials
    Patent number: 5487344
    Abstract: A block shipping pallet is constructed of multiple laminations of corrugated sheet material, with specific construction details providing advantages in strength and trueness of the completed pallet, and further advantages in the reduction of tooling and labor costs. The pallet comprises top and bottom sheets with a series of blocks formed of multiple laminations of corrugated sheet material sandwiched between. The top and bottom sheets, and particularly the intermediate blocks, may be sawn from stacks of plural laminations, thus precluding any requirement for costly dies and intensive labor. Asymmetrical corrugated sheets may be used with one side having a different weight than the other. By laminating two such sheets together with like weighted sides in contact, the tendency of such sheets to curve or warp due to the difference in side thickness is substantially eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Miriam M. Benson
    Inventor: Joel P. Hutchison
  • Behavior monitoring and analyzing system for stored program controlled switching system
    Patent number: 5488648
    Abstract: A test and diagnostic tool for stored program controlled telecommunications switching systems captures the occurrence and timing of "events" arising from subscriber actions and from actions which occur within blocks of software in the telecommunication switching system. Data related to the captured events as well as an indication of their location are stored in a large buffer memory. The stored data is then used to analyze the events for the diagnosis and correction of the cause of the fault as well as to recreate the same sequence and timing of events at a later period in order to test the corrections which have been made to ensure that they eliminate the cause of the fault condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Brian R. Womble
  • High security lock mechanism
    Patent number: 5487290
    Abstract: A safe locking mechanism has an engagement element movable from a disengaged position to an engageable position in response to a small amount of electrical power. When in its engageable position a manually operated element moves the engagement element to unlock a lock-bolt. In one embodiment, the engagement element is connected to the rotor of a low power, low-friction electric motor having magnetic detents corresponding to the disengaged and engageable positions. Electrical power is generated solely while the user manually inputs a combination code, and a microprocessor controls storage and delivery of this power to put the engagement element into its engageable position. Once the desired engagement is obtained, the lock-bolt is moved from its locking to its unlocking position manually. Subsequent unlocking requires another entry of the code input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: C & M Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Clayton Miller, Michael Harvey, James L. Taylor, Thomas Clark, Gerry Dawson
  • Angularly adjustable drainage foil for paper machines
    Patent number: 5486270
    Abstract: An angularly adjustable drainage foil for paper machines. A facultatively two-part support structure extends across the machine width, and comprises a first beam and a backing shape mounted on it. A facultatively two-part cover strip extends across the machine width, and consists of an upper, wear-resistant foil strip and a support shape supporting the foil strip. A moving device effects a relative longitudinal motion of the cover strip and support structure. As the cover strip and support structure are moved relative to each other, the angle of incidence .alpha. between drainage surface 12b and the wire surface running over it is influenced. Provided between the underside of the cover strip and the top side of the support structure are compression means which force the claws of the cover strip on the respective backing surfaces of the support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: J.M. Voith GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Schiel
  • Bumper sticker printing machine
    Patent number: 5487010
    Abstract: A bumper sticker printing machine having an arcade-style enclosure, a computer board and program, a monitor and touch screen, a vinyl bumper sticker stock, a vinyl bumper sticker feed mechanism, and a printer. A customer puts money into the machine and then selects a pre-printed message or creates an original message through the use of the touch screen. The machine then prints out the message on a bumper sticker and dispenses the bumper sticker to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: B.M.D., Inc.
    Inventors: Charles S. Drake, Bernhard O. Williams, Adrian T. Dombrowski, Athur R. Harth
  • Hinged support panel display prism
    Patent number: 5485693
    Abstract: A display device of the type having a plurality of parallel prisms that rotate intermittently and synchronously to present the surfaces of the different panels of each prism for view to provide different composite advertising designs. All the prisms are identical and each is formed with three identical panels that are rectangular and extend longitudinally of the prism. The panels have hinge sections formed integrally along their edges for meshing with hinge sections of adjacent panels in a piano-hinge-like arrangement. A removable hinge pin is disposed in at least one hinge connection so that upon removal of the hinge pin the adjacent panel can be swung open to allow access to the interior of the prism for changing a burned out illuminating device, such as a fluorescent or neon light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: M & V Reklametechnik Schoning-Krieg
    Inventors: Egbert Frenken, Michael Schoning
  • Centrifuge extractor
    Patent number: 5485683
    Abstract: A centrifuge extractor designed for reclaiming industrial fluids from absorbent matts and pads is characterized by a fixed cylindrical housing and a rotating cylindrical screen concentrically arranged within the housing to define inner and outer housing chambers. With fluid laden matts and pads arranged in the inner chamber, the screen is rotated to separate the fluids from the matts and pads. The fluids pass through the screen and exit the outer chamber through an outlet at the bottom thereof. The fluids pass through coarse and fine particulate filters. Thus, the matts and pads are reusable and the fluids may be reused or recycled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Charles M. Neal
    Inventor: Glenn D. Morgan
  • Process for operating permanently excited single-phase alternating current machines
    Patent number: 5485072
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for operating a permanently excited single-phase alternating current machine, otherwise known as a transverse flux machine, which allows optimal exploitation of the machine and economical design of the converter. A terminal voltage is applied to the machine, the shape of which is defined by the characteristics of the machine. The waveform of the terminal voltage converts from a sinusoid to a square wave, with a maximum voltage equal to the maximum available voltage, at defined switch-over times. Based on the switch over times, the resulting terminal voltage wave can be square, completely sinusoidal, or a combination of both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: J. M. Voith Gesellschaft M. B. H.
    Inventor: Rudolf Fehringer
  • Universally adaptable battery charger connector and method of using same
    Patent number: 5484668
    Abstract: A universally adaptable battery charger connector which couples electrically a battery charger outlet to pairs of terminals of different types and kinds of rechargeable battery devices. The universal adaptable battery charger includes an attachment arrangement for engaging releasably one of the pairs of battery device terminals. The attachment arrangement includes a pair of electrodes coupled electrically to a battery charger outlet for helping to supply electrical current to the battery device terminals. The universal connector also includes a securing device for mounting removably on the battery device to be charged. Each one of the electrodes includes a resilient contact for pressing resiliently into engagement with the terminals to maintain an electrical and mechanical contact between the securing device and the battery device terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: H.M. Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald A. Kutz, Philip J. DeSantis
  • Guide rail assembly for drawers
    Patent number: 5484199
    Abstract: A guide rail assembly for use on each of opposite sides of a drawer includes a support rail fastenable to a furniture body, a pull-out rail fastenable to the drawer and a middle rail disposed between the support rail and the pull-out rail. The weight of the drawer is transmitted between the rails by means of track or guide rollers. Respective deflection rollers or pulleys for a control rope are disposed at front and rear ends of the middle rail. Disposed at the front end of the middle rail is an end bearer or guide member made of plastic material and having at a front end thereof a curved, downwardly directed cap for the front end of the middle rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Ingo Gasser, Hermann Hammerle
  • Ski boot
    Patent number: D366136
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Koflach Sport Gesellschaft m.b.H. & Co. KG
    Inventors: Josef Locker, Wolfgang Skerbinjek
  • Dental tool holder
    Patent number: RE35147
    Abstract: A dental toolholder (2) has an endodontic filing tool (18) which is clamped in the toolholder so as to be secured against rotational and axial movements. A vibrating movement is impressed on the tool. The tool (18) can be clamped at its rear shaft end with a slight play and the vibrations can be imparted to the tool at its front shaft end (15). This part encloses the front shaft end (7b) with slight play and comprises a cylindrical recess whose cross-sectional shape has a constant-diameter configuration. Accordingly, the tool is set into a swinging movement perpendicular to its axis. The structural component part (15) rotates preferably at approximately 20,000 rpm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Dentalwerk Burmoos Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Marc F. C. Apap, Cedric L. M. C. Thorin, Otto Rosenstatter, Peter Malata
  • Combined ink pad holder and pad
    Patent number: D366894
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: M&R Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: John J. Vesey