Patents by Inventor Paul Lacroix
Paul Lacroix has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11513160Abstract: An electronic battery tester or battery charger for testing or charging a storage battery including electrical connectors configured to electrically couple to a terminals of the storage battery. Circuitry couples to the electrical connectors and is configured to test or charge the storage battery. An input signal is received related to a battery which is suitable for use with the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: MIDTRONICS, INC., INTERSTATE BATTERY SYSTEM INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Andrew John Salo, III, Paul Lacroix, Brian Paul Madeley, Clifford Evyn Sewing
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Publication number: 20200174078Abstract: An electronic battery tester or battery charger for testing or charging a storage battery including electrical connectors configured to electrically couple to a terminals of the storage battery. Circuitry couples to the electrical connectors and is configured to test or charge the storage battery. An input signal is received related to a battery which is suitable for use with the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Andrew John Salo, III, Paul Lacroix, Brian Paul Madeley, Clifford Evyn Sewing
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Patent number: 8741139Abstract: The present device is a detachable core for use with a cylindrical filter cartridge. The core includes a wire frame including at least two vertical struts oriented along a longitudinal direction. The wire frame includes an upper ring and a lower ring mounted to the distal ends of the vertical struts and further includes an upper flange and a lower flange mounted to the upper and lower rings respectively, wherein the lower flange is detachably mounted to the lower ring. Preferably the lower ring includes a gap in the lower ring to enable resilient compression of the ring by squeezing the lower ring in a radial inward direction prior to engagement with the lower flange. Preferably the cartridge filter includes elastomeric end caps and the cooperating rings and flanges are non-circular such that the elastomeric end caps conforms to the non-circular shape of the upper and lower flanges.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Inventors: Paul LaCroix, Barry LaCroix
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Patent number: 8580006Abstract: The present concept a filter lock and seal system for sealing a filter assembly to a tubesheet includes a filter assembly which includes filter media mounted between top and bottom end caps. The top end cap includes an annular seat portion extending longitudinally from the top of a lower flange and terminating at an annular radial outward projecting shoulder. The filter assembly further includes a snap band for sealing the filter assembly to the tubesheet and cooperatively seating against the annular seat portion. Wherein the snap band including a cavity and a deformable portion for engaging with a tubesheet end.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Inventors: Barry LaCroix, Paul LaCroix
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Publication number: 20120159913Abstract: The present concept a filter lock and seal system for sealing a filter assembly to a tubesheet includes a filter assembly which includes filter media mounted between top and bottom end caps. The top end cap includes an annular seat portion extending longitudinally from the top of a lower flange and terminating at an annular radial outward projecting shoulder. The filter assembly further includes a snap band for sealing the filter assembly to the tubesheet and cooperatively seating against the annular seat portion. Wherein the snap band including a cavity and a deformable portion for engaging with a tubesheet end.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Barry LaCroix, Paul LaCroix
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Publication number: 20120160755Abstract: The present device is a detachable core for use with a cylindrical filter cartridge. The core includes a wire frame including at least two vertical struts oriented along a longitudinal direction. The wire frame includes an upper ring and a lower ring mounted to the distal ends of the vertical struts and further includes an upper flange and a lower flange mounted to the upper and lower rings respectively, wherein the lower flange is detachably mounted to the lower ring. Preferably the lower ring includes a gap in the lower ring to enable resilient compression of the ring by squeezing the lower ring in a radial inward direction prior to engagement with the lower flange. Preferably the cartridge filter includes elastomeric end caps and the cooperating rings and flanges are non-circular such that the elastomeric end caps conforms to the non-circular shape of the upper and lower flanges.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Barry LaCroix, Paul LaCroix
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Patent number: 6871432Abstract: The invention concerns a label comprising a support (2), display elements (6a-6f), and means for mounting mobile elements rotatably on the support. For at least one of the display elements, the mounting means (14, 16) extend at some distance from the center of the element and are discontinuous along a circumferential direction around said center.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2001Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: DriverInventor: Jean-Paul Lacroix
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Publication number: 20030233774Abstract: The invention concerns a label comprising a support (2), display elements (6a-6f), and means for mounting mobile elements rotatably on the support. For at least one of the display elements, the mounting means (14, 16) extend at some distance from the centre of the element and are discontinuous along a circumferential direction around said centre.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2003Publication date: December 25, 2003Inventor: Jean-Paul Lacroix
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Patent number: 5934050Abstract: A cutting machine includes a cutting mechanism, an operating device and a carrying beam connected to the cutting mechanism by an articulation. The operating device includes a retractable stop which limits the upwards pivoting of the carrying beam about a longitudinal axis of the articulation when the cutting mechanism is extending in a windrowing position and which is retracted to allow the cutting mechanism to be placed in a transport position. The retractable stop is set in place and retracted automatically by a control mechanism when the cutting mechanism is brought from a work position or from the windrowing position into the transport position.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1997Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: Kuhn S.A.Inventors: Horst Neuerburg, Jean-Paul Lacroix
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Patent number: 5896733Abstract: A cutting machine including a cutting mechanism which can occupy at least one work position and one set-down position; a hitching structure; a carrying beam connected on the one hand to the hitching structure by a first articulation and on the other hand to the cutting mechanism by a second articulation; a lightening device including an elastically deformable element, and a locking device intended to block the first and second articulations. In the set-down position, the hitching structure and the carrying beam are held by the elastically deformable element and the first and second articulations are locked.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1997Date of Patent: April 27, 1999Assignee: Kuhn S.A.Inventors: Horst Neuerburg, Jean-Paul Lacroix
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Patent number: 5660032Abstract: An agricultural machine has a fixed structure, a retractable assembly connected to the fixed structure by at least one joint such that said retractable assembly can move to at least one locking position, and a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism includes (i) at least one stop element mounted for movement with one of the fixed structure and retractable assembly and cooperable with the other of the fixed structure and the retractable assembly to lock the retractable assembly in one locking position; (ii) at least one elastic element cooperating with the at least one stop element to bias the at least one stop element into a stop element lock position in cooperation with the other of the fixed structure and the retractable assembly so as to lock the retractable assembly in the locking position. The stop element is enclosed in the stop lock position such that the stop element can be moved from the said stop lock position only by a special tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Kuhn S.A.Inventors: Horst Neuerburg, Jean Paul Haberkorn, Joel Wilhelm, Rino Ermacora, Jean-Paul Lacroix
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Patent number: 4483840Abstract: The invention relates to synthetic carbonaceous granules having high mechanical characteristics and, more particularly, the granules produced from anthracite fines. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of these granules.These granules are produced by agglomeration of fines to the form of pellets, superficial pre-baking of these pellets by an oxidizing gas at a temperature of between 650.degree. and 1000.degree. C. for a few minutes, followed by calcination at a high temperature and, finally, by crushing permitting the desired granulometry to be obtained.The synthetic carbonaceous granules, according to the invention, are used for all types of application and, in particular, for the manufacture of all types of carbonaceous paste, electrodes and carbonaceous blocks for the linings of furnaces or electrolysis cells.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1983Date of Patent: November 20, 1984Assignee: Societe des Electrodes et RefractairesInventors: Jean-Paul Delhay, Daniel Dumas, Paul Lacroix
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Patent number: 4213256Abstract: A snow shoe, useful also in sand, comprises a flat member which is bisymmetric in the sense that its upper and lower sides are mirror images of each other. A pair of such snow shoes thus comprises two identical members disposed in mirror image relationship. The portion that supports the foot is displaced toward the inner side of the snow shoe, and the laterally outer portion comprises an open gridwork supported by a frame, the whole being of molded plastic construction. The portion that supports the foot is provided with holes therethrough adjacent the margins of the foot or shoe of the user; and a single lace can be inserted through these holes to provide front and rear bindings for the foot or shoe.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1978Date of Patent: July 22, 1980Inventors: Henri Mas, Paul Lacroix