Patents Examined by Lisa Douglas
  • Patent number: 6622940
    Abstract: A water sprinkler includes a main body, a primary nozzle, and an auxiliary nozzle. The main body is provided with a water admitting pipe in communication with the primary nozzle by which a portion of the incoming water is distributed to the areas farther from the sprinkler. The auxiliary nozzle is rotatably mounted on the top end of the main body and is provided with an inclined edge forming adjustably a gap in conjunction with an inclined guide edge of a water chamber of the main body. The rest of the incoming water is guided into the water chamber from which the water is distributed via the gap to the areas closer to the sprinkler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Inventor: Huang-Fu Huang
  • Patent number: 6619559
    Abstract: An electronic scent-delivery system (10) is provided having one or more cartridges (100) filled with scented oil and maintained within pockets (53) of a tray (50) slidable within a tray support member (40) of a housing (20,30,60). Heating elements (76) are provided for indirectly heating the scented oil to an evaporative state, and acutating apparatus (92) are provided for engaging the cartridges to enable the scented evaporate to escape the cartridges. A blowing apparatus (86) provides an airflow over the tops of the cartridges, thereby directing the scented evaporate out of the housing through vents (65) in the housing faceplate (60) and into the surrounding environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Inventor: Gregory D. Wohrle
  • Patent number: 6619569
    Abstract: The extended reach pressure relief spray valve mounts on the end of any length extension tube with any brand of spray gun or feeder valve. As the fluid is pumped through the spray gun and extension tube and into the spray valve, the pressure increases until it reaches an adjustable pressure relief set point (such as 1000 psi). At that point the valve opens and begins spraying. The relief spray valve doesn't require any long needles or cables to actuate the valve that results in a very simple extended reach pole gun. The relief spray valve opens by fluid pressure. Such fluid pressure can be easily adjusted by the user. The valve can be installed on any length pole. The spray relief valve is located next to the spray tip to minimize the paint from spitting and provides a sharp spray pattern. The spray relief valve is also built with a 180-degree swivel spray head for easy turn directional spraying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Jens
  • Patent number: 6615927
    Abstract: An automatic sprinkler of fire detector type being electrically switchable when the sprinkler is opened due to detachment of heat actuatable element from the sprinkler is provided, and, thus, fire-protective signaling and controlling system associated with a sprinkler system including the automatic sprinkler of fire detector type can be activated by electrical switching of the automatic sprinkler of fire detector type when fire occurs. And, in a sprinkler system having non-wet piping network and normally closed deluge valve, it is possible that opening of the deluge valve can be made by electrical switching of the automatic sprinkler of fire detector type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Inventor: Sang Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 6609665
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve for reducing carbon deposit on a passage portion between a seat portion and an injection port. The fuel injection valve includes an injection port 13 for injecting a fuel that is arranged to face a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. A seat portion H, where a valve element 8 comes in contact with a face of a valve seat 11 to intermit fuel injection, is arranged at a place upstream the injection port 13. The valve element 8 is conical at a portion downstream the seat portion H to an inlet of the injection port 13. The sectional area of the passage between the valve element 8 and the face of the valve seat 11 at the time of fully opening the valve element 8 is arranged so that the sectional area of the passage downstream of the vicinity of the seat portion H is larger. A tapered face 17 having a bore not more than 1/2.5 of an inner diameter of a swirl chamber 16 of a swirler 10 is formed on the face of the valve seat 11 which is downstream the seat portion H.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norihisa Fukutomi, Mamoru Sumida
  • Patent number: 6601777
    Abstract: A container for containing a liquid that has suspended particles used for depositing on a substrate is formed of an electrically conductive material, and has a bottom wall. An atomizer for atomizing the liquid and particles to form an aerosol is mounted at an upper end thereof. A bottom wall of the container has a piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer attached to the wall. A high voltage connection to the piezoelectric transducer is in a recess formed by a lower skirt on the container and is mounted in an insulating block in the recess. A cup shaped insulating sleeve slips over the lower portions of the container and shields the high voltage connection from the exterior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: MSP Corporation
    Inventors: James J. Sun, Benjamin Y. H. Liu, Michael J. Rosen
  • Patent number: 6601782
    Abstract: A disposable synthetic resin spray nozzle assembly for spraying reactive multi-component liquid mixtures includes a static mixer and an air or gas manifold. The static mixer has an elongated mixing tube containing a mixing element, and a liquid dispensing nozzle is formed at the downstream end of the mixing tube. A one-piece manifold has an inner wall which includes a mixer support section sealingly mounted around the static mixer, an air inlet section for receiving an air supply through a conduit, and an air dispensing section which, together with the outer wall of the liquid dispensing nozzle, forms an air dispensing nozzle. The reactive liquid mixture is atomized by air that supplied through the air dispensing nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Plas-Pak Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert E. Sandholm, Richard W. Clemens, John H Hunter
  • Patent number: 6598806
    Abstract: A windshield washing apparatus for marine craft includes a reservoir container having a bracket pivotally connected thereto. The bracket can be connected to vertical, horizontal or sloping surfaces on the marine craft while the container remains level. There is a pump mounted on the reservoir. A filler fitting has a connector for mounting the fitting on the surface of the marine craft remote from the reservoir. A first conduit connects the reservoir to the filler fitting. The apparatus includes a spray nozzle and a second conduit for connecting the pump to the spray nozzle. Preferably the reservoir has positions thereon for a plurality of pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Inventor: Gary G. B. Phipps
  • Patent number: 6595439
    Abstract: A long-handled spray gun with a rotary head has a connector head, a rotary member, a fixed member, a connection, part, a long tubular rod, a block, a fixing bolt, a large and a small ring washers and a flexible locating member wherein the rotary member screw joined to the connector head at one side is pivotally engaged with the fixed member with the large and small ring washers adapted therein and the flexible locating member inserted into one of locating slots of the rotary member for proper location thereof, and the connection part is coupled with the fixed member and the long tubular rod at both ends respectively. The fixing bolt is adapted to pivotally engage the rotary member with the fixed member thereof and the block having a serrated polygonal flange disposed thereon is matched to a serrated polygonal fixing head of the fixed member, preventing the fixing bolt from coming off when the rotary member thereof are pivotally rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Inventor: Ming Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 6595437
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a packaged product (1) comprising a package having a liquid reservoir (2) for containing a product, preferably a cleaning product, and a means for delivering the product (4) in a labour efficient way and in a uniform manner. This is achieved by a packaged product (1) in which the means (4) for delivering the product preferably comprises an electrically driven pump (5), and further comprises a spray arm (220), the spray arm (220) having at least one dispensing opening (225), the spray arm (220) being preferably either extended or extendible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Russell Lawson, Marcel Vandebroek, Jelle Dankert Vuijk
  • Patent number: 6592055
    Abstract: A free standing sprinkler device having an inflatable hoop-shaped manifold for children to utilize as a recreational fun toy. The inflatable manifold is mechanically removably connected by fluid transmitting coupling components to a base manifold and accordingly expands into a hoop-shape component, responsive to the fluid pressure within, of sufficient size so as to permit persons to step or jump through the hoop-shape component which appropriately sprinkles water therefrom on such persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Inventor: Joseph Marino
  • Patent number: 6592051
    Abstract: An inner tank 6 is arranged on a partition plate 2 in a main tank 1, and a spray nozzle 8 is provided in a top wall of the inner tank 6. A mist separator 33 is formed by a helical tube wound around an outer wall of the inner tank 6. An upper port 33a of the mist separator 33 is connected to a connector block 32 provided at an upper portion of the inner tank 6 and a lower port 33b is positioned at a lower portion of a main mist chamber 5. Smaller particles in a primary mist produced by the spray nozzle 8 float in an upper portion of an inner mist chamber 7. Larger particles in the primary mist descend toward a lower portion of the inner mist chamber 7, and these particles adhere onto an inner wall of the inner tank 6 to form a secondary mist consisting of the smaller particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Kuroda Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Natsu, Takeshi Kamima
  • Patent number: 6588681
    Abstract: An assembly for making accurate mixtures of liquid components and feeding that liquid mixture to the inlet port of a sprayer. The assembly includes (1) a container of stiff visually transparent polymeric material comprising a side wall with a frusto conical inner surface, and a bottom wall at the bottom end of the side wall opposite a top end of the side wall that defines an opening into a cavity in the container. A flexible liner positioned within the cavity in the container has an outer surface corresponding in shape to the inner surface of the container, an inner surface defining a cavity in the liner, and an annular lip along the top end of the side wall defining an opening into the cavity in the liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Robert J. Rothrum, Joel A. Vokaty
  • Patent number: 6585175
    Abstract: A liquid injection nozzle including a substantially planar substrate having first and second opposed surfaces. A communicating portion, which has an inner circumferential surface, extends through the substrate from the first surface to the second surface of the substrate. The inner circumferential surface is tapered from the first surface toward the second surface such that a lateral dimension of the inner circumferential surface is narrowest at a tip portion. A projected part extends from the second surface of the substrate and defines the tip portion which terminates the communicating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihisa Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Nobuo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6578777
    Abstract: A spray nozzle is disclosed which includes an elongated nozzle body having an axially extending interior chamber and at least two radially extending air inlet ports communicating with the interior chamber. An elongated fluid inlet fitting having an axial fluid inlet passage is axially disposed within the interior chamber of the nozzle body. A fluid distribution insert is axially disposed within the axial fluid inlet passage of the fluid inlet fitting. The fluid distribution insert has an axial impact chamber formed therein, and an axial fluid feeding orifice which communicates with the axial impact chamber. An air swirling insert is disposed within the nozzle body. The air swirling insert has an interior bore for receiving the fluid distribution insert, and a fluid mixing orifice communicating with the fluid feeding orifice of the fluid distribution insert. A fluid metering insert is axially disposed within the impact chamber of the fluid distribution insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Delavan Inc.
    Inventor: Quy D. Bui
  • Patent number: 6575383
    Abstract: A pre-scented or custom scented card insert designed to fit into any existing toilet paper or paper towel holder. The insert allows consumers to choose a scent additive to freshen their bathroom, kitchens or any other place where these products are used, as well as to scent the toilet paper or paper towel rolls. The insert can be replaced easily to refresh the roll, or additional inserts can be added to create a stronger fragrance impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Orlandi, Inc.
    Inventors: Sven Dobler, Jonathan Millen, Neal Harris
  • Patent number: 6565021
    Abstract: A rotary atomizer with external charging which can be used for applying conductive paints, in particular water-based paint, to a surface of a body to be coated. The rotary atomizer has a directing air ring at a high-voltage potential and an earthed spraying bell. To reduce the risk of discharges, it is proposed to connect the ring to an earth potential via a high-impedance resistance, so that the ring assumes a potential which lies between the high-voltage potential of electrodes for the external charging and the earth potential of the bell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Börner, Steffen Georgi, Josef Wittmann, Hidetoshi Yamabe
  • Patent number: 6565016
    Abstract: A head assembly is provided which is adapted to be connected to the output shaft of a motor. The assembly is used in providing a cloud of liquid wax for coating foodstuffs and includes a collector coaxially attached to the motor output shaft. An internal wall of a dispensing shroud surrounds the collector. A housing is attached to the motor and coupled to a liquid wax source. A delivery tube, which extends from the housing to the collector within the shroud, has an aperture at one end positioned in close proximity to the collector. The liquid wax flows down the tube to form a bead on the collector to be centrifugally dispensed against the internal shroud wall and to run down the shroud to be expelled as a mist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Colour Vision Systems Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Ian Madden
  • Patent number: 6561441
    Abstract: A kitchen-used sprinkling gun including a main body, a cap body and a switch unit. The cap body is clockwise and counterclockwise rotatably disposed on the main body. The cap body is formed with a central outlet section and a circumferential outlet section. The switch unit is disposed in the cap body. A spring serves to push a valve body to optionally seal one of two dividing holes of a water dividing disc. The two dividing holes respectively communicate with the central outlet section and the circumferential outlet section. A water generator is disposed between one dividing hole and the central outlet section. When a user turns the cap body, the water dividing disc is driven, whereby the flowing path of the water can be changed to discharge the water in different patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Inventor: Max Hsieh
  • Patent number: 6561439
    Abstract: A dual closure nozzle for use with a hose carrying a liquid under pressure. The dual closure nozzle is made up of an inner delivery conduit attached to an end cap and threaded within an outer sleeve. The nozzle is configured to have two different stop positions and to be adjustable between these two stop positions and a variety of open positions. When a liquid is forced through the nozzle, the flow of the liquid can then be adjusted from a first stop position, where no liquid passes out of the nozzle, through a variety of open position spray patterns to a second stop position. This configuration thus provides a nozzle that can be closed by turning the outer sleeve portion of the nozzle in either of two directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Inventor: Robert L. Bonzer