Patents Assigned to M
  • Patent number: 5659029
    Abstract: A hydroxyl-containing pyrrolic compound having a hydroxyl group or a hydroxyl-containing group in the 2-position, optionally substituted in the beta positions, is condensed in an acidified two immiscible phase solvent system to produce excellent yields of the corresponding porphyrin or metal porphyrin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Sun Company, Inc. (R&M)
    Inventors: Paul E. Ellis, Jr., Wayne A. Langdale
  • Patent number: 5658234
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to a method for treating a tumor comprising the steps of selecting a target substance which has at least one component with an atomic or molecular resonance frequency or frequencies different from the atomic, molecular or cellular resonant frequencies of normal cells, locating or depositing the target substance within the tumor, and irradiating the target substance with electromagnetic wave energy at a frequency or frequencies corresponding to the atomic or molecular resonance of the component such that the component absorbs energy from the electromagnetic wave, resulting in the release of heat sufficient to destroy, terminate or slow the growth of the tumor without adversely affecting the viability of normal cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignees: J. D. Technologies, Inc., Haynes and Boone, L.L.P., Donald M. Feferman
    Inventor: John Harold Dunlavy
  • Patent number: 5655829
    Abstract: A multi-configurable floodlight assembly may be configured to provide suitable lighting in a multitude of situations. The assembly includes a housing having top portion, side portion and bottom portion. The portions define a substantially hollow volume therebetween. Three threaded recesses are formed in the top portion of the housing, and at least one threaded recess is formed in the bottom portion. A plurality of knockouts are extend circumferentially around the side portion of the housing. Two light holders are provided each of which having a light socket for receiving a light bulb, a threaded base portion, and an universal joint disposed between the base portion and the light socket to provide for the movement of the light socket about the base portion. The threaded base portion is releasably insertable into any of the threaded recesses in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Kintron Industries (M) SDN BHD
    Inventors: Chien-Ting Lin, Chao-Chuan Chieh
  • Patent number: 5657378
    Abstract: A telephone device for accessing electronic services includes a housing having a front portion with a display device and a telephone keypad. The telephone device provides a graphical user interface whereby user selectable options are presented in a graphical format on the display device and a user is allowed to make selections therefrom with, for example, a point-and-click mechanism. A processor, preferably a single programmable digital signal processor, is responsive to the telephone keypad and the user selectable options and executes a variety of modem functions, telephone functions, and application programs. The programmable digital signal processor also supports the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: M Power Corporation
    Inventors: Robert L. Haddock, Joseph P. Randolph
  • Patent number: 5655334
    Abstract: Snow stop has a base, a snow-hindering member, and a convolute hook. The convolute hook includes a forward section, a first opening section, and a further opening section; the convolute hook can be present at a distal end of a base of the snow stop, and it also can include a distal base bend section, and an extending section. The snow stop can have its base and convolute hook made to include sheet metal, for an example, copper. In general, the convolute hook can act as a spring. The hook minimizes or eliminates crushing of the same, and the snow stop can be retro-fit in slate, shake and shingle roofs efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: M. J. Mullane Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Janusz Kwiatkowski
  • Patent number: 5655392
    Abstract: An anti-theft device to be applied to a shoe and provided with a sensor element (52) of an alarm system comprises two clamp plates (11, 12) which can be tightened against each other by a screw mechanism to be attached to the shoe straddling the edge of the upper leather thereof which defines the insert opening for the foot, and a device for preventing operation of the screw mechanism for displacement of the clamp plates from the tightened position, which can be actuated by means of a special tool only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: M W Trading APS
    Inventor: Bertil Holmgren
  • Patent number: 5653282
    Abstract: An impingement distributor for a shell and tube heat exchanger and a method of recovering waste heat from a hot gas which minimizes adverse heat flux at the outermost banks of tubes for enhanced operational reliability. The impingement distributor has a cylindrical distribution plate having evenly arranged rows of longitudinal perforations and a plurality of impact bars longitudinally aligned with the perforations. The hot fluid impinges on the impact bars, and direct impingement on the tubes is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: The M. W. Kellogg Company
    Inventors: Larry Gene Hackemesser, Lloyd Edward Cizmar, Robert Stevens Burlingame
  • Patent number: 5653135
    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 mechanical linkage assembly is driven by the engagement element to unlock a lock-bolt. The mechanical linkage assembly includes a low inertia pivoting cam which interacts with a lock lever of the locking mechanism to move it to an unlocking state. 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: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: C & M Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Clayton Miller, Michael Harvey, James L. Taylor, Thomas Clark, Gerry Dawson
  • Patent number: 5651971
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing an immunogenic construct comprising activating at least one first carbohydrate-containing moiety with CDAP, and covalently joining the activated first moiety to a second moiety. Preferably, the first moiety is a polysaccharide and the second moiety is a protein. Immunogenic constructs are prepared by this process using either direct or indirect conjugation of the first and second moieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
    Inventor: Andrew Lees
  • Patent number: 5649485
    Abstract: Self-inking stamps and methods of reinking such stamps are disclosed. The self-inking stamps comprise a frame and a removable ink pad holder releasably mounted on the frame wherein the ink pad holder may be at least partially removed while the remaining structure of the self-inking stamp remains substantially intact to facilitate reinking of the associated ink pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: M&R Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick W. Dour, Steven J. Sculler, Walter Stefanski
  • Patent number: 5649967
    Abstract: Safety element intended to assure in time the electric reliability of pulse transmitting leads, comprised in apparatus for the electric stimulation of the heart (pacemaker) and consisting of a main metallic coil of tubular structure delimiting an inner bore, covered by an insulating sheath, which safety element comprises a flexible lead formed by one or more wires coiled in tight turns or intertwined and provided with a rounded head for making it easier the introduction of the safety element in the bore of the main metal coil of the pulse transmitting lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: P.A. & M. S.p.A.
    Inventors: Ferruccio De Bellis, Enzo Borghi
  • Patent number: 5649479
    Abstract: A device for recovering accumulated ink from a screen in a printing press, the screen having interstices corresponding to printed indicia, the device comprising means for applying the screen with ink while travelling along the length of the screen in a first direction, first means for generating a signal when said ink applying means has reached a desired point of travel after printing, means for stopping travel of said ink applying means in response to said signal from said first signal generating means, second means for generating a signal when recovery of ink is desired, and means for permitting further travel of said ink applying means in response to said signal generated by said second signal generating means, and lowering said ink applying means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: M & R Printing Equipment, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Hoffman
  • Patent number: 5650044
    Abstract: A method for deinking paper pulp, wherein the batch of pulp to be deinked is made to circulate to move from top to bottom whereas the air bubbles are introduced at least in the lower part and move from bottom to top, characterized in that the pulp descends from top to bottom while being recycled in several consecutive and superposed stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: E & M Lamort
    Inventor: Alain Serres
  • Patent number: 5648240
    Abstract: Staphylococcus aureus can bind a number of different extracellular matrix proteins. Recent studies have shown that one particular Staphylococcus protein has the capacity of binding several different matrix proteins. The gene encoding this staphylococcal protein has been cloned and sequenced and the nucleic acid and amino acid sequences are provided as a feature of the present invention. This staphylococcal protein has a high degree of homology with eukaryotic MHC Class II antigens. Further analyses of the binding specificities of this protein reveal that it functionally resembles an MHC II antigen in that it binds synthetic peptides. Additionally, the present invention provides a vaccine and an in vivo vaccine against staphylococcal infections, and methods for using same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Texas A&M University
    Inventors: Magnus Hook, Klas Jonsson, Joseph M. Patti, Sivashankarappa Gurusiddappa
  • Patent number: 5647700
    Abstract: A router bit for trimming the overhanging edge of a plastic laminate is provided having a rotatable shaft. A cutting tool is connected to the shaft and a cutting flute or wing is connected to the cutting tool. A ball-bearing guide rides along the apron of a plastic laminated top holding the cutting flute or wing in a spaced relationship to the plastic laminate. The shape of the cutting flute or wing employs two straight edges connected by a small radial section. A first straight edge is provided which lies at an angle of 5.degree. to 7.degree. with a portion of the side edge of the laminate. The second straight edge is provided which lies at an angle of 40.degree. to 60.degree. with a portion of the side edge and the top edge of the plastic laminate. The radial section, connecting the first straight edge to the second straight edge, has a small radius of curvature of 0.005 inches to 0.015 inches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Fred M. Velepec Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Fredric A. Velepec
  • Patent number: 5647178
    Abstract: A through-roof fitting seals a stack with a boot and seals the boot with a gasket around an opening in a sheet roofing created to receive the stack or pipe. An elliptical opening is cut in the roofing sheet. A base plate is placed below the sheet with a central raised portion of the plate extending through the opening cut in the roofing sheet. A flange on the base plate extends outwardly beneath the roofing sheet around the opening. A clamping plate is embedded in a combined boot and gasket so that the gasket extends over the roofing sheet around the opening when an elliptical step in the clamping plate is aligned with the projecting central portion of the base plate. The boot has successively inwardly stepped elliptical portions which terminate in a sloped top with a central opening for receiving and tightly engaging and sealing the pipe or stack. The embedded clamping plate has fastener openings which align with fastener receivers in the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Roger M. Cline
    Inventor: Roger M. Cline
  • Patent number: 5648590
    Abstract: Acyclic hydrocarbons having 4 to 7 carbon atoms per molecule are isomerized in the liquid phase by contact with a solid superacid catalyst comprising sulfated oxide or hydroxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of Group III and Group IV metals, to obtain high octane number blending components for motor fuel and/or valuable chemical and fuel intermediates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Sun Company, Inc. (R&M)
    Inventors: Chao-Yang Hsu, Vasant K. Patel, David H. Vahlsing, James T. Wei, Harry K. Myers, Jr.
  • Patent number: D381594
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Fred M. Schildwachter & Sons, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas J. Ryan
  • Patent number: D382120
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Fred M. Lawrence Co., Inc
    Inventors: Vincent Lanci, Christopher Lanci
  • Patent number: D382502
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Fred M. Schildwachter & Sons, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas J. Ryan