Patents Examined by P. Echols
  • Patent number: 5103543
    Abstract: A torque transmitter includes three coaxial helically wound springs of different inner and outer diameters positioned relative to each other such that the inner and outer generally circumferential surfaces of the center spring form interference fits with, respectively, the outer generally circumferential surface of the inner spring and the inner generally circumferential surface of the outer spring. The inner and outer springs are wrapped in one direction and the center spring is wrapped in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: The MicroSpring Company, Inc.
    Inventor: William S. Hodgson
  • Patent number: 4555846
    Abstract: Method for the manufacture of an electrochemical storage cell of the sodium and sulfur type, with at least one anode space and one cathode space as well as an alkali ion conducting solid electrolyte separating the two, where at least one cathodic current collector and one electron-conducting matrix material are arranged in the cathode space. The invention is characterized by the features that in the cathode space at least one strongly anisotropic felt is inserted with the principal fiber direction parallel to the solid electrolyte; the felt is impregnated with at least one dissolved duromer; and thereupon a larger amount of the duromer is collected in the vicinity of the cathodic current collector; and the duromer is subsequently coked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: Brown, Boveri & Cie AG
    Inventors: Stefan Mennicke, Karl Reiss