Patents Examined by Chrisopher P. Ellis
  • Patent number: 10399661
    Abstract: A system for moving loads comprises a cargo hold floor, at least one row of rollers integrated into the floor, at least one guide rail in the floor and extending parallel to the at least one row of rollers, and a least one transport vehicle. The vehicle is received in the guide rail and movable along the guide rail and comprises at least one connecting element which is movable between first and second operating positions wherein the connecting element, in its first operating position, is arranged such that the vehicle is positionable under a load deposited onto the at least one row of rollers and, in its second operating position, is arranged such that it interacts with the load so as to connect the load to the vehicle such that the load is entrained by the vehicle when the vehicle is moved along the guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH, AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, AIRBUS SAS
    Inventors: Dietrich Lampe, Kai Christensen, Knut Niemeck, Claude Cuiller, Pierre-Eric Dereux, Frank Feest, Kathryn Waidelich, Hyung Jo Kim
  • Patent number: 6021918
    Abstract: A central motor-driven disk is formed with a row of open-bottomed pill-receiving virtually contiguous tubes about its border. The disk is surrounded by a first and second ring also having rows of pill-receiving open-bottomed tubes, the tubes come in to registry one-by-one with dispensing openings in a housing which supports these elements. Pills drop through a dispensing opening into a delivery drawer in the housing. Tab portions on the disk and the rings effect the driving by the disk of the first ring and then also the second ring as the pills in the previous ring or disk are dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Medical Equipment Development Services
    Inventors: Richard R. Dumont, Joseph W. Jarosz