Patents Examined by Marc Jimenez
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Patent number: 7156796Abstract: There is disclosed an ink roller having a base and an inked sleeve received about and in supported contact with the base, wherein the fit between the inked sleeve and the base is insufficient to prevent relative slippage or rotation between the base and the sleeve, and wherein one or more small ridges on the base engage the sleeve to help prevent such relative rotation.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Paxar Americas, Inc.Inventor: James A. Makley
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Patent number: 7152322Abstract: A toner supply roller comprises a metallic core shaft and an electrically conductive elastic layer formed to surround the outer surface of the shaft. The conductive elastic layer is formed of open-cell polyurethane foam. The polyurethane foam is impregnated with an electrically conductive polymer and a binder.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2004Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignees: Nitto Kogyo Co., Ltd., Kurabo Industries Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Nakashima, Toru Nishino, Takeo Taniguchi, Ikuo Nishiyama
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Patent number: 7146726Abstract: A cross-flow cooling tower having a frame assembly that is unitarily molded from a plastic material. The frame assembly has opposing top and bottom walls along with opposing side walls and opposing ends. The side walls extend parallel to one another between the top and bottom walls. In addition, the opposing ends extend parallel to one another between the top and bottom walls. The frame assembly additionally has a vertical stack extending vertically from the top wall. The top covers of the tower extend outwardly and downwardly from the vertical stack.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2004Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ohler L. Kinney, Jr., Robert S. Glauz, Brian F. Wright, Kathryn L. Pullen, Eldon F. Mockry
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Patent number: 7146716Abstract: The invention is related to a tube extracting device for removing a tube from a conventional drum of a boiler or heat exchanger. The device includes a wedge which is driven into a tube hole between the tube outer wall and the hole in the drum that the tube is in. The wedge has longitudinal ridges on its internal surface and inwardly tapered edges at its end which is driven into the zone between the tube hole and the outer wall of the tube such that the tube may be readily inwardly collapsed. Upon retracting the wedge from the tube hole, the tube is removed from the drum inside the wedge.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2004Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd.Inventor: Luke G. M. Gray
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Patent number: 7146694Abstract: An apparatus for fabricating tubular vanes and adhering the vanes to a plurality of associated ladder tapes for use in a blind assembly for an architectural opening is described. The apparatus includes a first section for unrolling resin impregnated fabric tape, folding the tape, and cutting the tape to a predetermined length. In a second section of the apparatus, the cut and folded tape is bonded to together along its longitudinal edges to form a tubular vane. In the third and final section, the completed vane is positioned between the vertical cords of a plurality of associated ladder tapes and the vane is adhesively bonded to a cross rung of each. After the vane has been bonded to the cross rungs, the ladder tapes are advanced and prepared for receipt of the next vane. The resulting subassembly of vanes is used to fabricate blind assemblies through the addition of headrails and bottom rails.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2003Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Hunter Douglas Inc.Inventors: Wendell B. Colson, Daniel M. Fogarty, Todd B. Jaramillo
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Patent number: 7146730Abstract: A method of mechanical twist lock attachment of a pass-through valve or fitting over an aperture in a plastic fuel tank having an embedded vapor barrier layer. A ring having circumferentially spaced internal lugs is secured to the tank by weldment around an aperture in the tank wall exposing an edge of the barrier layer. A seal ring on the pass-through is located in the aperture to seal the exposed vapor barrier edge. Outwardly extending projections on the pass-through attach the pass-through by twist locking engagement with the projections on the ring.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2003Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventors: Rosemary Bergsma, legal representative, Robert P. Benjey, Carl Binder, Rudolph Bergsma, deceased
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Patent number: 7146725Abstract: A method of repairing a combustion turbine component having damage located at or near a cooling hole or hollow or geometrically complex portion of the component is provided. The method comprises forming a preparatory groove that extends from a surface of the component to the damaged area but does not extend to the cooling hole or hollow or geometrically complex portion of the component, the groove extending 40–90% the distance from the component to the damaged area; spraying a filler material into the groove with a micro-plasma torch at a current of less than 50 amperes; and filling the groove with the filler material such that the heated filler material substantially extends from the cooling hole or hollow or geometrically complex portion of the component to a surface of the component.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2003Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Siemens Power Generation, Inc.Inventors: Srikanth C. Kottilingam, Peter J. Ditzel
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Patent number: 7147596Abstract: A low-mass roller is disclosed comprising a cylindrical body formed of polymeric material and having an exterior surface, first and second open ends and defining an interior tubular space along a longitudinal axis therethrough for receiving an axle; and an outer shell formed of thin metal covering the exterior surface of the cylindrical body. In another aspect, the outer shell of the low-mass roller comprises an assembly of first and second tubular shells having inside diameters, equal within a predetermined tolerance, at first respective ends thereof, wherein the first respective ends are joined together and welded. The assembly of the first and second tubular shells includes a weld ring disposed between and nested within the first respective ends of the first and second tubular shells such that the shells are held together in alignment during the welding process.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2002Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Inventor: Ronald W. Reynolds
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Patent number: 7140106Abstract: A process to restore and refurbish an engine part or accessory. The process includes the steps of visually inspecting the pair or accessory for cracks, erosion or broken areas. Selected areas of the part or accessory are then machined or drilled off. The selected areas of the part or accessory are then built up in excess of finished dimensions by welding. Finally, the selected areas of the part or accessory are machined to their finished dimensions.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2003Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Inventor: Russell B. Reynolds
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Patent number: 7140108Abstract: Provided is a method of designing a device, comprising the steps of determining a disposing process for each component of the device, the disposing process being selectable from a melting process, a shredding process and a renovating process, and designing a connecting part for joining two of the components of the device that would be determined to be disposed by different disposing processes in the determining step so as to be easily separated from each other. Thereby, the amount of work for dismantling the device and separating the components can be substantially reduced, and the component parts can be disposed simultaneously in most part.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2001Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Kobayashi, Daisuke Susa, Kotaro Shige
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Patent number: 7137183Abstract: A drive axle assembly for motor vehicles, includes a support beam member having a substantially flat, enlarged central plate section and two opposite arm sections, a differential assembly module secured to the central plate section and enclosed into a housing formed by a rear cover and a front cover secured to opposite surfaces of the central plate section. A method for assembling the drive axle assembly comprises the steps of securing the front cover to a front mounting surface of the support beam member, fastening the differential assembly module to the central plate section of the support beam member, and fastening the rear cover to the rear mounting surface of the support beam member.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2003Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Torque-Traction Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Edward Eugene Stuart, Timothy Bernard Allmandinger, Sean Karl Hoefer, Earl James Irwin, Parvinder Singh Nanua, Gregory James Maser
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Patent number: 7137201Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for the production of locally reinforced drawn parts, in which the basic sheet of the structural part, in the flat or only preformed state, is connected in a defined position to the reinforcing sheet and this patched composite sheet structure is subsequently jointly formed. In order to improve the production method in terms of the product and result of the method and to relieve the forming tools during joint forming of the parts, the patched composite sheet structure is heated before forming at least to about 800° C. to 850° C. The composite sheet structure is then introduced quickly in the hot state to be rapidly formed. During forming the composite part is fixed mechanically and is subsequently cooled in a defined manner by contacting with the forming tool positively cooled from inside. Passage through a critical temperature range of 800° C. to 500° C. thus takes place with a defined temperature gradient.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2001Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Martin Brodt, Matthias Kroeger, Wolfgang Leutelt, Robert Mayrhofer
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Patent number: 7137199Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of pressing a bearing jacket (2) onto a monolith (3) of a catalytic converter, in particular in a motor vehicle. The bearing jacket (2) surrounding the monolith (3) on the perimeter is pressed during an initial phase onto the monolith (3) in a first peripheral section (8) and in a second peripheral section (9), whereby the two peripheral sections (8, 9) together are smaller than the total circumference of the monolith (3) surrounded by the bearing jacket pressed onto it. The bearing jacket (2) is pressed onto the monolith (3) during a subsequent second phase in at least one third peripheral section (16), which is situated between the first peripheral section (8) and the second peripheral section (9), whereby the first peripheral section (8) and the second peripheral section (9) together with all the third peripheral sections (16) are the same size as the total circumference.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2003Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Norbert Schug, Bernd Müller, Gerhard Bungert
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Patent number: 7137202Abstract: Apparatus and a method for assembly of panels into a composite structure are provided. The structure includes a form jig (1) having form boards (3, 4, 5) defining forming edges (6, 7, 8) against which a composite panel to be precisely formed may be drawn by a number of edge clamps (12), usually in combination with suction devices (26, 27, 28, 29, 30). The edge clamps (12) are able to extend around edges of the panel (13) for initial location of the panel against the form boards and subsequent more powerful drawing action to draw the panel into intimate contact with the forming edges of the form boards.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2001Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Airbus UK LimitedInventors: Keith E Miller, Robert J Simmonds
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Patent number: 7134202Abstract: A structure for transmitting the power of a motorcycle engine includes an intermediate shaft arranged between a crankshaft and an input shaft of a transmission, and a method for making the structure. The structure and the method have the objective of shortening the distances between these three shafts, improving workability of assembling, and providing freedom of setting a speed reduction ratio. An intermediate shaft driven gear and an intermediate shaft driving gear having a diameter smaller than the intermediate shaft driven gear and are mounted in two steps, with the former overlaid on the latter, on an end of the intermediate shaft projecting outside a right case. Similarly, the intermediate shaft driven gear is engaged with a primary gear of the crankshaft, and the intermediate shaft driving gear is engaged with a primary driven gear of the input shaft at a location outside the right case.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2004Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsuo Hojyo, Hiroatsu Inui, Naoki Kohno, Fumiaki Okubo
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Patent number: 7131198Abstract: A method for producing metallic honeycomb bodies contains the step of stacking and/or winding of at least partially structured metallic foils to form a honeycomb structure with channels. The metallic foils are heated using at least one radiant heater from the open front face of the channels, whereby at least one subsection of the honeycomb structure is heated to such a degree that the subsection reaches a temperature of between 800° C. and 1200° C. after 5 to 30 seconds. The metallic foils are interconnected in a subsection using a commercial jointing process. A device for producing metallic honeycomb bodies using at least one radiant heater is used in the process.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2003Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Emitec Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbHInventors: Rolf Brück, Peter Hirth, Katrin Konieczny
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Patent number: 7131201Abstract: A coupling device (11) and method of assembly, the device being of the type including a plenum member (17) disposed at one axial end of the coupling housing (13,15), the method comprising configuring the plenum member (17) such that each of the required features (55,57,61,66) is disposed circumferentially between an adjacent pair of fastener holes (18H). Next, the input ring gear (R) is installed about the housing (13,15) of the coupling device (11), from an axial end opposite said plenum member (17), into assembly position adjacent said flange portion (18). Each of a plurality (N) of fasteners (89) is inserted through one of the fastener holes (18H) and into initial threaded engagement with the input ring gear (R). Finally, by means of a fastener driver, all of the plurality (N) of fasteners (89) are driven into full threaded engagement, substantially simultaneously, with the input ring gear (R).Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2004Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventors: Keith E. Morgensai, Robert J. Kyle, Monowar Zahir, Mark J. Shewchuck, Christopher J. Babin
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Patent number: 7117584Abstract: A tube expanding apparatus includes mandrels, each mandrel having a billet on a leading end; a reciprocating actuator for supporting rear ends of the mandrels, the reciprocating actuator being supported to reciprocate in an axial direction of hairpin tube straight portions; a pressure cylinder for raising and lowering the reciprocating actuator and expanding the straight portions by pressing the billets into the hairpin tube straight portions; hairpin receivers for supporting curved portions of hairpin tubes; a fin receiver for supporting a lower end portion of the laminated radiating fins; and a hydraulic cylinder for raising and lowering the fin receiver in the axial direction of the hairpin tube straight portions. The hydraulic cylinder lowers the fin receiver to a predetermined position as the mandrels descend and the billets begin to be inserted into the hairpin tubes.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2004Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinji Nakadeguchi, Shinji Nakashima, Mitsuru Tanaka, Hiroaki Takada
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Patent number: 7117578Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a composite component from a plastic structure (1, 25, 31, 37) and a metal body (4, 25, 35, 40) by bringing together joining tools (11, 13). Plastic structure (1, 25, 31, 37) and metal body (4, 25, 35, 40) are joined by penetration, which takes place when contact surfaces (12, 14) of the joining tools (11, 13) are brought together, of tamped edges into the plastic structure (1, 25, 31, 37), in such a manner that a permanent, positive and non-positive connection (34) is formed.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2001Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventor: Stephan Schnell
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Patent number: 7117577Abstract: A method is designed to fasten a mold shell with a mold seat without causing the mold shell to crack. The method involves a first step in which a metal shell is formed on a model by electrocasting. The metal shell is then provided with at least one nut therewith by soldering through electrocasting. The metal shell is separated from the model and is then provided with a metal layer of a thickness by arc spraying, with the metal layer circumventing the nut. The mold seat is provided with at least one through hole. The mold shell is fastened with the mold seat by a bolt which is engaged with the nut via the through hole of the mold seat.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2003Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Chung-Shan Institute of Science & TechnologyInventors: Jen-Chin Wu, Chia-Hua Chang, Ming-Jen Wang