Patents Assigned to wills
  • Apparatus for accumulating and transporting stacks of paper sheets and the like
    Patent number: 6527501
    Abstract: An apparatus for gathering successive sheets of a scalloped stream in an adjustable receptacle has a pivotable first stop in front of and a longitudinally adjustable second stop behind the receptacle. The second stop is shifted, together with the conveyor for the stream, toward or away from the first stop when the length of the sheets forming the stream is changed. The effective width of the receptacle is adjusted when a stream of relatively narrow sheets is followed by a stream of wider sheets or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: E.C.H. Will GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfram Wolf
  • Semiconductor wafer cleaning apparatus
    Patent number: 6505634
    Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide a semiconductor wafer cleaning apparatus designed to clean several wafers at the same time while rotating the wafers held in a horizontal, laid-down position. In an operation of this apparatus, a wafer feeding robot arm 20 feeds wafers 60 from a wafer cassette 10 to a wafer boat 50 and seats the wafers in the wafer boat while maintaining a horizontal, laid-down position of the wafers. The wafer boat 50, with the horizontally laid-down wafers 60, is vertically moved downward by a boat drive unit 40 to be immersed in a wafer cleaning liquid flowing in a wafer cleaning bath 30. Thereafter, the boat 50 is rotated within the wafer cleaning liquid, and so the wafers 60 are washed and cleaned by the wafer cleaning liquid while being maintained in the horizontal, laid-down position and being rotated horizontally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Will Be S & T Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: So-Lip Son, Han-Joo Lee
  • Method of and apparatus for accumulating successive stacks of superimposed sheets
    Patent number: 6481952
    Abstract: Apparatus for accumulating successive stacks of superimposed sheets on discrete pallets employs a conveyor which delivers a continuous imbricated stream of sheets to a stacking station where a pallet descends with an elevator and gathers a first stack. A separating finger is inserted into the accumulation of sheets at the stacking station at a level above the topmost sheet of the fully grown first stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: E.C.H. Will GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Deutschle, Norbert Rilitz
  • Semiconductor wafer cleaning apparatus
    Publication number: 20020134410
    Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide a semiconductor wafer cleaning apparatus designed to clean several ten wafers at the same time while rotating the wafers held in a horizontal, laid-down position. In an operation of this apparatus, a wafer feeding robot arm 20 feeds wafers 60 from a wafer cassette 10 to a wafer boat 50 and seats the wafers in the wafer boat while maintaining a horizontal, laid-down position of the wafers. The wafer boat 50, with the horizontally laid-down wafers 60, is vertically moved downward by a boat drive unit 40 to be immersed in a wafer cleaning liquid flowing in a wafer cleaning bath 30. Thereafter, the boat 50 is rotated within the wafer cleaning liquid, and so the wafers 60 are washed and cleaned by the wafer cleaning liquid while being maintained in the horizontal, laid-down position and being rotated horizontally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Applicant: Will Be S & T Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: So-Lip Son, Han-Joo Lee
  • Apparatus for the measurement or visual matching of the color or color effects of surfaces
    Patent number: 6437865
    Abstract: An apparatus for the measurement or visual matching of colors and color effects on a flat or slightly curved sample is proposed, with a lighting apparatus, a sample support and an observer location, wherein the direction of observation of a sample is adjustable by translational displacement of the sample and in the process the lighting direction of the light which illuminates the sample surface remains constant to the sample surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Dr.-Ing. Willing GmbH
    Inventor: Achim Willing
  • Advisory lighting fitting
    Patent number: 6428175
    Abstract: An advisory lighting with a luminous body has at least one light-radiating light outlet surface. The light outlet surface is divided up into part surfaces radiating in various colours. A light source arrangement radiates light into the luminous body, wherein the luminous body has a light conducting plate arrangement or a hollow body arrangement with limiting walls. The luminous body is composed of light conducting plates or hollow bodies arranged above, next to and/or in each other and having various part surfaces. Various light sources are assigned to the light conducting plates or hollow bodies, corresponding to the part surfaces radiating in various colors, which light sources radiate variously coloured light into the respective light conducting plates or hollow bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Dr.-Ing. Willing GmbH
    Inventor: Achim Willing
  • EXPRESSION OF SURFACE LAYER PROTEINS
    Publication number: 20020048816
    Abstract: A host cell which is provided with a S-layer comprising a fusion polypeptide consisting essentially of:
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 1998
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: MCDERMOTT, WILL, EMERY
    Inventors: ROLF Y. DEBLAERE, JAN DESOMER, PATRICK DHAESE
  • Method and arrangement for removing air inclusions when forming stacks from sheets
    Patent number: 6364312
    Abstract: A method and arrangement are provided for removing air inclusions between sheets in a stack when forming the stack from sheets fed successively by a sheet feeder to the stack to be formed and deposited thereon in a sheet feeding region. Air out is suction out of the spaces between the sheets in the sheet-feeding region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: E. C. H. Will GmbH
    Inventor: Bernd Ramcke
  • Apparatus for converting a file of successive sheets into a stream of partially overlapping sheets
    Patent number: 6338482
    Abstract: A file of successive sheets is delivered to a converting station by a faster first conveyor, and a stream of partially overlapping sheets is removed by a slower second conveyor. Partial overlapping between the leading sections of successive sheets in the file and the trailing sections of the respective preceding sheets in the stream is due to the difference between the speeds of the two conveyors. A deflector assembly at the converting station ensures that the leading sections of successive sheets of the file can predictably overlap with the trailing sections of the immediately preceding sections of the stream by causing the trailing sections to move out of the way of oncoming leading sections and/or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: E.C.H. Will GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Geske, Bernd Höpner
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE BITTING PATTERN OF KEYS
    Publication number: 20010033781
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining a bitting pattern of a key comprising a housing used for optically outlining at least the profile of the blade of the key so as to form an image. The image is digitized and information created therefrom, including information about the width of the blade of the key at a plurality of selected longitudinal positions along the length to include the width of the blade at the location of at least one cut of the bitting pattern. The information about the bitting pattern of the key digitized can then be used to cut the bitting patten into a key blank. Alternatively, the information can be compared to stored information and the detected width of the blade adjusted at a location of at least one cut to be one of a plurality of predetermined widths from the manufacturer, thereby creating a regenerated bitting pattern of the key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 1997
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Applicant: wills
    Inventors: PHILLIP R. WILLS, ROGER F. KROMANN, NORMAN N. AXELROD, WESLEY A. SCHROEDER, JAMES A. BERILLA, BRYCE BURBA
  • Low profile lift mounting arrangement for telescoping mast
    Patent number: 6299336
    Abstract: An improved low profile mounting arrangement is provided for a telescoping tube construction applied to the roof of a vehicle. The lowest mast section is nested between two vertically upright shaft support plates which journal a pivot shaft rotatably secured to a collar affixed to the bottom of the lowest mast section whereby rotation of the pivot shaft causes the telescoping mast to rotate from a horizontal to a vertically upright position. A pivot link mounted to an end of the pivot shaft extends downward adjacent a support plate side opposite to the side facing the telescoping mast so that an actuator secured to the pivot link is mounted on the side of the telescoping mast construction to achieve a low profile mount with minimal vertical elevation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: The Will-Burt Company
    Inventor: John A. Hulse
  • Pneumatically telescoping mast having DC operated lighting and pivoting means
    Patent number: 6290377
    Abstract: An improved pneumatically telescoping mast supported for pivotal movement in opposite directions is provided. The mast includes adjacent telescoping sections slidable relative to one another between retracted and extended positions. A pneumatic control system for displacing the mast sections between the retracted and extended positions is also provided, as is a mechanical arrangement for pivoting the mast between generally horizontal and vertical positions. The mechanical arrangement includes a drive mechanism operable independently from the pneumatic control system which is capable of securely maintaining the mast at any desired angle between the horizontal and vertical positions. The mast includes an AC powered light source mounted at the upper end of the mast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: The Will-Burt Company
    Inventor: John A. Hulse
  • Device for visually inspecting the surface condition of large-dimension surfaces to be matched
    Patent number: 6278517
    Abstract: This invention concerns a device for visually inspecting the surface condition of large-dimension surfaces to be matched, in particular painted bodywork, with substantially vertical and horizontal surfaces to be matched or painted surfaces. Provided at a lateral spacing from the object are vertically disposed luminous elements whose principal radiation direction, viewed in horizontal planes, is directed at an oblique angle to the substantially vertical surfaces to be matched. The luminous elements are protected against being looked at directly from an observation position (B), located in the space between the object (1) and the luminous elements at least from direction R2 of the normals of the vertical surface to be matched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. Willing GmbH
    Inventor: Achim Willing
  • Rotary knife carrier for use in cross cutters
    Patent number: 6263775
    Abstract: One rotary knife carrier of a pair of carriers in a cross cutter for running webs of paper, cardboard or the like has longitudinally extending peripheral recesses for disposable elongated strip-shaped knives each of which has a first lateral surface abutting and slidable along a supporting surface of the carrier in the respective recess, and a second lateral surface contacted by a retaining surface of an elongated clamping member which is urged against the second lateral surface by the head(s) of one or more tensioning bolts having shanks extending with clearance through openings in the clamping member and into tapped bores in the carrier. The clamping member is in form-locking frictional and/or mechanical engagement with the knife and is shiftable relative to the carrier to adjust the knife, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: E.C.H. Will GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Vössing, Wolfram Szczepaniak
  • Pole alarm system
    Patent number: 6252513
    Abstract: A Pole Alarm System including an electromagnetic field sensor and collision sensors for detecting overhead power lines and physical obstructions within the intended path of a telescoping mast or utility boom device is disclosed. The present alarm system includes a mast-mounted housing containing the sensors and a microprocessor-based control unit which interprets the output signals of the sensors and provides both audible and control feedback to a safety control module in the vehicle to alert the operator of impending contact and to automatically stop the movement of the mast. The alarm housing also features a light source which provides illumination in the direction of movement of the mast to assist in positioning thereof. The light source also functions as a heating element to prevent the accumulation of ice on the housing which would detrimentally affect the performance of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: The Will-Burt Company
    Inventor: Uwe L. Beckmann
  • Device for color matching or color measurement
    Patent number: 6204923
    Abstract: An apparatus is proposed for the color matching or colorimetry of colored samples, which are arranged in a sample support. It comprises a lighting device which illuminates the sample in a main beam direction and an observer provided at an observation position or a measuring device arranged at an observation position, the sample and observation position having a fixed coordination with each other. The sample and the lighting device are arranged in fixed coordination with each other and, to set different angles of observation between the direction of observation from the observation position to the sample and the main beam direction, the sample and the lighting device are pivotable about a common axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. Willing GmbH
    Inventor: Achim Willing
  • Safety sign book
    Patent number: 6179509
    Abstract: The present invention provides a book for vertically displaying safety information on selected pages. The book is particularly well-suited for use in laboratory, hospital and industrial environments where emergency situations can prevent access to remote reference manuals. The book has front and back covers with a releasable mounting means for mounting the book in a vertical position on a planar surface. The book also has a plurality of adjacent informational pages releasably adhered together, and a binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Perkins & Will, S.E.
    Inventor: Bevan D. Suits
  • Water clock
    Patent number: D462907
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Man Will Industrial Company
    Inventor: Wai-Man Ng
  • Windowgrid assembly
    Patent number: D468444
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Perkins & Will, S.E.
    Inventor: Bevan D. Suits
  • Window frame assembly
    Patent number: D472647
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Perkins & Will, S.E.
    Inventor: Bevan D. Suits