Patents Issued in June 24, 2003
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Patent number: 6581850Abstract: The fuel injection valve (16) has an injection valve member (24), by which at least one injection opening (26) is controlled. The motion of the injection valve member (24) is influenced by a control valve (18), which has a control valve member (62) by which the pressure in a control pressure chamber (48) is controlled and which is movable by an adjusting force generated by a piezoelectric actuator (80) and in the process control the communication of the control pressure chamber (48) with a relief chamber (12). The control valve (18) has two valve seats (60, 74), spaced apart from one another in the direction of motion of the control valve member (62), with which seats the control valve member (62) cooperates, each with a respective sealing face (66, 69) disposed on it, so that the control valve member (62) has two closing positions, in which the control pressure chamber (48) is disconnected from the relief chamber (12).Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Friedrich Boecking, Wolfgang Stoecklein
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Patent number: 6581851Abstract: A nozzle is provided which includes a nozzle body having a proximal end and an insertion end and defining an inlet orifice at the proximal end thereof and an outlet orifice at the insertion end thereof. The nozzle body is adapted to be attached at the proximal end thereof to an opening of a container and to be inserted at the insertion end thereof into an opening of a receiving vessel for dispensing a first fluid from the container into the receiving vessel from the inlet orifice to the outlet orifice thereof. The nozzle further includes a venting device connected to the nozzle body and defining a vent discharge opening for venting a second fluid from the receiving vessel into the container through the vent discharge opening such that the second fluid is vented through the vent discharge opening of the venting device without traversing the first fluid in the container substantially during an entire time for a dispensing of the first fluid from the container into the receiving vessel.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Michael J. Murphy
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Patent number: 6581852Abstract: A fluid dispenser, including a fluid reservoir formed with an opening, the reservoir including a deformable flexible pouch in which the fluid is stored at a pressure substantially equal to or slightly lower than atmospheric pressure; a fluid dispensing system including a dispensing outlet; and a feed duct connecting the opening of the reservoir to the dispensing system; and wherein the flexible pouch contains a piece of porous material.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Valois S. A.Inventors: Firmin Garcia, Jean-Jacques Ligny
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Patent number: 6581853Abstract: A sprinkler structure which has an auxiliary flow control valve, a first handle, a second handle, a pivoting member, and a nozzle head. The auxiliary flow control valve is formed of a valve body and a control knob for controlling the water flow of the valve body. The two handles are pivoted end to end. The pivoting member is formed of a connector, a washer, a locating tube, and a spherical joint. The nozzle head is fastened with the spherical joint capable of turning in all direction in the locating tube.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Dustin Huang
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Patent number: 6581854Abstract: An irrigation apparatus comprises an in-line dripper insert having a support for attaching a micro tube to the dripper outlet. A fluid conduit in which the insert is placed has an aperture in line with the support. The support preferably comprises a projection for securing a micro tube thereto, a sleeve for securing a micro tube or a connector thereto, or a shoulder for supporting the attachment of a connector to the fluid conduit at the aperture. The dripper insert is secured to the inner surface of the fluid conduit and is contained entirely therein. After detachment of the micro tubes, the main fluid line may be easily reeled or otherwise handled. The internal dripper provides structural internal support to the main fluid conduit when external pressure is applied to the line, such as when a micro tube or a connector is forced against the fluid line to be connected thereto.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Drip Irrigation Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Eran Eckstein, Gershon Eckstein
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Patent number: 6581855Abstract: A water mist cooling system including a supply of water at a supply outlet. A plurality of misting nozzles are serially connected by hollow tubing means to form a line having two ends. A pump has an inlet connected to the supply outlet, and an outlet connected to a first of two ends of a line of nozzles. The pump is controlled whereby water is pumped by the pump at a preselected pressure through said hollow tubing means to the misting nozzles and thence exiting the nozzles as water mist to the atmosphere. Pressure regulator means is connected to the other of said ends of the line of misting nozzles to provide a line flushing function.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2000Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Pumptec, Inc.Inventor: James E. Cook
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Patent number: 6581856Abstract: A fluid mixer and distribution device which comprises an oscillation/mixing chamber having an upstream end, a downstream end, top and bottom walls, sidewalls which diverge from the upstream end and then converge towards the downstream end. A power nozzle, adapted to be coupled to a source of liquid under pressure, issues a main jet of carrier fluid (a liquid, for example) into the upstream end of the oscillation/mixing chamber. The oscillation/mixing chamber has a pair of control ports symmetrically contiguous to the side of the main jet of liquid, and an exit aperture at the downstream end of the oscillation/mixing chamber for the egress of the mixed fluids from the oscillation/mixing chamber to ambient or a point of utilization.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1999Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Bowles Fluidics CorporationInventor: Dharapuram N. Srinath
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Patent number: 6581857Abstract: A spindle for an electrostatic painting machine has a main spindle and a rotor coupled to the rear end of the main spindle. The main spindle and the rotor are rotatably supported through bearing gaps of externally pressurized gas bearing portions, and a paint spray head is mounted to one end of the main spindle. A current-carrying member having conductivity with the housing is brought into contact with the main spindle and floated off it via a small gap due to dynamic pressure produced by the rotation of the main spindle. With this arrangement, it is ensured that discharge occurs at gaps of externally pressurized gas bearing portions, sputtering is suppressed, and the life of the spindle is prolonged.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Shoji Fujii, Yoshio Fujikawa
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Patent number: 6581858Abstract: Components of crushed fluorescent lamps are conveyed pneumatically from a lamp crusher housing to a cyclonic hopper and enter tangentially into the hopper adjacent its upper end. The components include heavy glass particles and caps which are allowed to drop by gravity into a separator housing where they are separated from each other and discharged into different storage containers. Lighter glass particles and dust are recirculated from the upper end of the hopper back to the crusher housing. A vacuum source draws dust and vapors pneumatically from the bottom of the hopper and introduces them tangentially into a cyclone filter housing where particulate matter is allowed to drop into a dust collector. This vacuum source also draws lighter dust and vapors from the upper end of the cyclone filter housing to a dust and mercury filter. Mounted in the crusher housing is a paddle element which rotates adjacent lamp crusher blades and mechanically sweeps lamp components towards the crusher housing outlet.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2000Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Dextrite, Inc.Inventors: Joseph W. Deklerow, Otto Muller-Girard
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Patent number: 6581859Abstract: A drilling fluid homogenizer and method of homogenizing drilling fluid which produce a non-clogging homogenized drilling fluid at a high throughput, in an open-loop process. The non-clogging homogenized drilling fluid is capable of being created at high rate so that the non-clogging homogenized drilling fluid is available on demand to eliminate halting of drilling operations. The drilling fluid homogenizer is coupled in series with the closed-loop designed drilling fluid system and is adapted to homogenize water-based drilling fluid and other drilling fluid types, such as, synthetic drilling fluid during drilling operations on demand.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Diamond Tank Rentals, Inc.Inventors: Ben A. Adams, Chris G. Cooper
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Patent number: 6581860Abstract: A crusher comprises a main shaft a portion of which is disposed in a bore of a rotatable eccentric shaft, the main shaft (1) having a central axis that is inclined with respect to the axis of rotation of the eccentric shaft, and a first crushing head attached to the main shaft and rotatable by the main shaft with respect to a second crushing head so that constrained stroke motion is effected between the first crushing head and the second crushing head. The inclination of the central axis of the main shaft is changed with respect to the axis of rotation of the eccentric shaft by a gear transmission comprising cog wheels, such that the magnitude of the constrained stroke motion changes.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Metso Minerals (Tampere) OyInventor: Reijo Savolainen
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Patent number: 6581861Abstract: The unit for processing industrial rubber and plastic waste consists of a gasproof chamber (1), in which upper rollers (2) and lower rollers (3) are located in rows. The processed waste (4) passes between them, between the input and the output of the chamber (1). The lower rollers (3) are fixed in their position and the upper rollers are movable and attached by means of springs (5), which press them on the waste (4). The rollers (2 and 3) counter-rotate and the upper rollers (2) have projections (8) on their surface. The input area (10) with the input lifting closure (12) is placed on one front outer wall of the chamber (1) and the output area (14) with the output lifting closure (16) is placed on the opposite front outer wall of the chamber (1). Each area (10 and 14) is provided with a gas pipe (13) is located on the outer bottom wall of the chamber (1) and is separated from the chamber (1) by the inner lifting closure (11).Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventors: Ota Rejc, Jiri Riha, Eduard Gutfreud, Jan Jenicek, Petr Lukesch, Jaroslav Sus
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Patent number: 6581862Abstract: A horizontal shaft impact rock crusher having breaker plates which are coupled to a shaft or pins which rest in voids along an edge of the crusher and are held in place by a retainer device, such that the breaker plates with the shaft or pins still attached can be removed from the crusher by releasing the retainer devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Cedarapids, Inc.Inventors: Gregory A. Young, Michael P. Stemper, Albert D. Botton
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Patent number: 6581863Abstract: A transmission structure of a fishing reel includes a housing, a gear transmission set, and a slide block. The gear transmission set includes a handle for rotating an actuating gear which rotates an idler which rotates a drive gear. A locking column is secured in the housing to function as a guide member for guiding movement of the slide block. The slide block is juxtaposed to the actuating gear and the drive gear, thereby reducing the volume. The slide block is secured on the distal end of the spindle of the fishing reel, thereby reducing the volume.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Han-Chi Lu
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Patent number: 6581864Abstract: In a baitcast type fishing reel, there is provided a unitary cylindrical ceramic member secured about the crankshaft of the reel, the ceramic member having a sleeve portion extending through a one-way clutch. The ceramic member may include one or more substantially planar surfaces extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve portion to affect operation of a drag mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: W. C. Bradley/Zebco Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Christopher S. Littau
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Patent number: 6581865Abstract: A retracting door assembly that overcomes the requirement for providing excessive area within the tape drive for the retracting door to open and close and for the retracting door during operation. When the tape cartridge is inserted into the tape drive, an engaging apparatus pivotally attached to the retracting door makes contact with the indentation in the tape drive. As the tape cartridge is inserted further into the tape drive, the engaging apparatus is pushed into the tape cartridge and draws the pivotally attached retracting door into the tape cartridge. Drawing the retracting door into the tape cartridge while it is opening reduces the arch the retracting door travels internal to the tape drive as it is opening, thus reducing the area within the tape drive required for operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Quantum CorporationInventors: James Zweighaft, David T. Hoge
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Patent number: 6581866Abstract: A magnetic tape cartridge is equipped with a cartridge case in which a single reel with magnetic tape wound on the outer periphery of a reel hub is rotatably housed. The cartridge is further equipped with a locking member, and a plurality of ribs extending in the axial direction and formed in the inner periphery of the reel hub. The locking member is provided within the reel hub so that it is movable between a locking position and an unlocking position in the axial direction of the reel. The locking member locks the reel to restrain rotation of the reel when not being used. A first radial clearance between the locking member and the ribs at the locking position is set to a value smaller than a second radial clearance between the locking member and the ribs at the unlocking position.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Tsuyuki, Hideaki Shiga, Daisuke Takahashi
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Patent number: 6581867Abstract: A reel braking apparatus for a tape recorder selectively brakes a reel disk assembly, which includes a reel disk and a reel gear installed on a deck, according to an operational mode. The apparatus includes a clutch member supported by a rotation shaft installed on the deck, a gear member installed coaxially relative to the clutch member so as to rotate by being engaged with the reel gear, and a clutch spring installed between the gear member and the clutch member for restricting rotation of the gear member so that the gear member can rotate in one direction according to a rotational direction of the reel gear. The clutch member and the clutch spring are coupled to each other, and this allows the gear member installed for engagement with the reel gear of the reel disk assembly to rotate in one direction only.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-kab Seo, Bong-joo Kim, Hyeong-seok Choi
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Patent number: 6581868Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for the transferring of a web onto a reel spool in the reel-up of a paper web having an empty reel spool (2) that is introduced into a contact with the web (W) running on the reeling cylinder (1) and being still unreeled, to make the transfer possible, and a turn-up blow is used to help the web (W) to break and to be guided on to the empty reel spool (2). The turn-up blow is brought from beneath a horizontal plane passing through the central axis of the reeling cylinder (1) into a location on the mantle of the reeling cylinder that is located after the reel spool (2) in the direction of rotation of the reeling cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.Inventors: Petri Enwald, Seppo Luomi, Kaj Fabritius
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Patent number: 6581869Abstract: Apparatus for facilitating scrolling of a scrollable document on and off at least one roller fixed to a respective edge of the document, comprising a pair of tracks each for supporting a respective end of each roller, and for each roller, a corresponding pair of sliders at least one pair of which is adapted for sliding movement along a respective one of the tracks and each being adapted for rotatably supporting a corresponding end of the roller.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Shesh Moshzar, Ltd.Inventor: Yehuda Arrane
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Patent number: 6581870Abstract: In a method and apparatus for reducing pressure and temperature on the front of a missile at ultrasonic speed a spike with a spherical, ellipsoidal, or drop-shaped mounted is used on the front end. In contrast to conventional shapes, the sensitive nose of the missile is protected from damaging pressure and temperature, even at high angles of incidence.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2000Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: LFK Lenkflugkoerpersysteme GmbHInventors: Kay Runne, Julio Srulijes
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Patent number: 6581871Abstract: The apparatus of the invention allows flight vehicle and/or guided munition wings and control surfaces to be secured in a retracted and locked position prior to the launch by a control surface retainer. An electro-mechanical differential control system preferably releases the control surface retainer, extends the control surfaces, and servo controls the control surfaces subsequent to launch. The invention also provides a method for guiding a flight vehicle and/or guided munition by releasing the flight vehicle's and/or guided munition's control surface from a control surface retainer, extending the flight vehicle's and/or guided munition's wing/control surface assembly using a wing/control surface actuation system, and controlling the flight vehicle's and/or guided munition's control surfaces using a wing/control surface actuation system.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Smiths Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Pijaca, William J. Schellens
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Patent number: 6581872Abstract: A circular VTOL aircraft with a central vertically mounted turboprop engine (14), driving contra-rotating co-axial propellers (24), above a central jet engine, or engines (12), horizontally mounted on a turntable pod (11) which is steerable through 360 degrees. The turboprop provides vertical thrust from contra-rotating propellers compressing air from an upper circular intake (5) downward through a funnel-shaped rotor-chamber (6) to a circular vent (10) at the base of the craft. The resulting column of compressed air supports the craft during take-off, hover and landing operations and provides a cushion of air in normal flight. The horizontally mounted jet turbine provides main thrust for horizontal flight and vectored thrust for VTOL. The passenger cabin (21) is circular and is situated in the main body of the disc-shaped craft. Fuel tanks are situated around the circumference of the craft to maximise fuel capacity.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Eric Ronald Walmsley
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Patent number: 6581873Abstract: A winged hybrid airship (dynastat) combining the advantages of lighter-than-air (LTA) and heavier-than-air (HTA) aircrafts is disclosed. By combining the dynamic lift of low drag, high aspect ration airfoils (e.g., length over chord >10) with the static lift of low drag, laminar-airflow airships, a platform is formed which is capable of prolonged high altitude flight, maintaining station over a given point on the earth, carrying a payload of communications, reconnaissance or meteorological equipment. Solar collection cells and microwave antennas allow for recharging of on board batteries/fuel cells for powering both the airship and on board avionics computers and reconnaissance or meteorological equipment. An alternate embodiment, having strengthened structural members, is able to provide low altitude heavy cargo lift in remote regions regions or cross country transport of goods.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Patrick P. McDermott
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Patent number: 6581874Abstract: A system for supporting an auxiliary power unit in an aircraft tailcone wherein the auxiliary power unit is supported by a focalized suspension system supporting the power unit, the focalized suspension system having a plurality of support means each having a line of action, the lines of action intersecting at the focal point. The support system simplifies removal and installation of the auxiliary power unit from and into the aircraft's tailcone.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Lord CorporationInventors: Jacques Lemire, Kirk W. Olsen, Francis J. DePriest, Thomas R. Law, Gerald P. Whiteford, Paul J. Bachmeyer
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Patent number: 6581875Abstract: Anchoring systems for aircraft arresting nets utilize frangible anchor links around lower horizontal straps of each net element of a composite arresting net. Each anchor link may be formed from flexible plastic sheet material, with openings through which an anchor cable passes and is secured to a runway surface by an anchor retainer. The anchor links provide ease of anchoring system assembly in the field and retain the bottom of the arresting net in proper position prior to engagement of the arresting net by an aircraft overrunning the runway. When an aircraft engages the net, the anchor links break to permit the net to conform to and safely stop the aircraft. Each anchor link may be perforated in its central portion or otherwise formed or specified to provide suitable frangibility in an arresting incident.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Engineered Arresting Systems CorporationInventor: David K. Colarik
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Patent number: 6581876Abstract: An access module for an aircraft for enabling access to an overhead area of said aircraft, as well as providing a changing room for a crewmember. The access module has dimensions comparable to a standard lavatory module and includes a ladder that may be moved from a stowed position, in which it takes up substantially no interior area of the module, to an extended position, which allows a crewmember to easily gain access to the overhead area.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Kwun-Wing W. Cheung
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Patent number: 6581877Abstract: According to the invention, fitted into the slot (20) between the suction face side (32) of a wing (6) and said ventral fairing (10) is a seal (22), the internal face (26) of the free end (28) of the lip (24) of which comprises at least one boss (30) able to keep said lip locally away from said suction face side (32) to form a controlled leakage of air passing through said slot (20).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Airbus FranceInventor: Bernard Pauly
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Patent number: 6581878Abstract: System and method for pressurizing and dispersing fire retardant from an aircraft, particularly aircraft structured and equipped for retarding or extinguishing forest fires, that includes a small power pack having a plenum operatively interconnecting a plurality of individual solid propellant gas generator devices each containing solid propellant materials that react pyrotechnically when initiated electrically to generate large quantities of high-pressure gas in a few seconds for discharging a liquid retardant reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventor: Joseph M. Bennett
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Patent number: 6581879Abstract: Systems, including apparatus and methods, for controlling a power kite. The systems may include a variable-line kite controller with a rotatable spool bar carrying plural spools, or a fixed-line controller. The systems also may include deployment mechanisms, sheeting mechanisms, cleating mechanisms for the sheeting mechanisms, safety releases, line protectors, and kiteboards, among others, for use with variable- and/or fixed-line controllers.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: John D. Bellacera
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Patent number: 6581880Abstract: An electric propulsion (EP) device is used to enable, a stationkeeping satellite to track a prescribed stationkeeping Earth orbit. EP propellant and electric power are throttled to vary the thrust and specific impulse of the EP device. A solar array provides electrical power during each Earth day cycle with excess power above that needed by the spacecraft stored by a battery. Software control manages the voltage, current and burn time to minimize propellant usage and impact to the system.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Space Systems/Loral, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Randolph, David Oh, Fischer Guenter
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Patent number: 6581881Abstract: The invention relates to a space-rocket technology and can be used for placing both a pilot-controlled and unpiloted space craft in the earth's orbit. The inventive method consists in igniting-up cruising liquid-fuel rocket engines (LRE) of all assembly units, when the propulsion power of LRE of the side units is set to maximum and the LRE of the central unit is set relatively low.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Gosudarstvenny Kosmichesky Nauchno-Proizvodstvenny Tsentr IM. M. V.Inventors: Anatoly Ivanovich Kiselev, Alexandr Alexeevich Medvedev, Vladimir Konstantinovich Karrask, Gennady Dmitrievich Dermichev, Igor Sergeevich Radugin, Sergei Alexandrovich Petrokovsky, Evgeny Ivanovich Motorny, Vasily Jurievich Juriev
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Patent number: 6581882Abstract: The cryogenic propulsion module comprises a main cryogenic thruster (10), two attitude-controlling secondary thrusters (21, 22), tanks (31, 32, 33, 34) for feeding cryogenic propellants, a device for intermittently pressurizing the tanks (31, 32, 33, 34), and a device for initiating firing of the main cryogenic thruster (10) in intermittent manner while the tanks (31, 32, 33, 34) are intermittently pressurized. The device for intermittently pressurizing a tank (31, 32, 33, 34) comprises a heat exchange circuit associated with a heat accumulator (61, 62) and a device (71, 72) for putting a predetermined quantity of a propellant into circulation in the heat exchanger circuit. The module also comprises a device for heating the heat accumulator (61, 62) in the periods between two consecutive firings.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: SNECMA MoteursInventor: Dominique Valentian
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Patent number: 6581883Abstract: A solar cell array assembly that is configured to be stowed in the payload bay of a low earth orbit space vehicle utilizes hinged panels comprising foldable outboard panels and inboard panels. The inboard panels are connected along their respective facing edges to an elongated structural boom one end of which is affixed to a deployment arm. The deployment arm has a shoulder connected to the payload bay, an upper arm, an elbow joint and a fore arm. The fore arm provides two rotational drives having respectively orthogonal axes. The panels are shaped to conform to the shape of the hinged payload bay doors which load the panels in the stowed configuration. The Complete Solar array assembly is a six degree of freedom mechanism that articulates the cell substrates out of a stowed volume (payload bay) to a selected orientation for solar array articulation relative to the sun, optimum power generation, and mission operations.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Billy W. McGee, Bryan V. Keeler, James Q. Pfister
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Patent number: 6581884Abstract: A one-piece threaded rod cable support including a cable-holding portion and two arms extending in a perpendicular plane from the cable-holding portion. The arms include claw-shaped ends to accommodate and snap-fittingly engage a rod. Upon engagement of the arms with the rod, an integral brace, provided on the exterior of the cable-holding portion between the two arms, is deflected inwardly toward the cable-holding portion. Deflection of the brace puts pressure on the interior sides of the claw-shaped ends, thereby bracing the cable support on the rod and providing resistance to disengagement caused by loading or bending of the cable-holding portion. A snap-lock arrangement may be provided on the cable-holding portion to allow easy opening and closing of the ring.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Arlington Industries, Inc.Inventor: Thomas J. Gretz
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Patent number: 6581885Abstract: An adjustable, removable, strap device primarily for use in bundling and holding electrical cords and cables, such as from office equipment or kitchen appliances, in a compact position above the floor or kitchen counter. Such compact, elevated position in an office helps to prevent tripping and in a kitchen keeps the cords off of the wet counter to reduce the risk of electrical shock, and which also provides a neat, tidy appearance. The device includes a flexible strap member having a plurality of headed pins at a top end and a plurality of mating holes in a bottom end thereof. A transverse slot is disposed adjacent the pins toward the bottom end of the flexible strap member. The strap device is used by doubling over on itself and inserting the bottom end through the transverse slot forming a cable support loop. The pins are engaged into the holes to secure the loop around the cables. The strap device is attached to a wall or other such vertical surface using a nail, double-sided adhesive tape, or adhesives.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Arthur A. Polad
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Patent number: 6581886Abstract: An adjustable baby bottle holder for hand crib includes a clipping member. A flexible attaching member accepts the clipping member. The flexible attaching member has a partially open base, a centerline, a first extension and a second extension. The partially open base forms an interior channel that accepts the handle of a hand crib. The teeth on the first extension form valleys between each tooth that are separated from the centerline by a distance ‘d1’, which gradually decreases.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: E-Z Baby Products LLCInventor: Simon Suh
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Patent number: 6581887Abstract: The present invention 10 discloses a device for rotatably holding a television therein having a base unit 32 that could be mounted to a wall 20, ceiling 18, table 16 or other such stable structure and a rotative mounting assembly 30 for retaining the television 14 therein. The base unit 32 comprises a base plate and a vertical support post 36 extending perpendicularly therefrom. The rotative mounting assembly 30 comprises two cross members 42, 43 that are connected by a central lap joint 24 to form an x-brace having four arms with each arm having a bracket member 42 extending from the distal end thereof. A pivoting bolt 22 assembly passes through recesses in the cross members at the lap joint 24 and through corresponding recesses in the vertical support post 36 of the base unit 32 thereby connecting the rotative mounting assembly thereto.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Mark R Lapidez
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Patent number: 6581888Abstract: An apparatus for the stabilization of a drinking vessel such as a glass, coffee mug, or a piece of stemware that is placed on a flat or irregular or sloping surface includes a base portion having a flexible outer covering that surrounds a flexible weighted mass. An elastomeric member that includes an opening is attached to the base portion. The elastomeric member is urged into an open position which requires expanding the opening a sufficient amount to permit the bottom portion of the drinking vessel to pass through the opening and rest on top of the base portion. The elastomeric member is then allowed to retract into a closed position in which elastomeric tension secures the bottom portion of the drinking vessel to the top of the base portion. The apparatus is then placed on the desired surface where the drinking vessel is supported and thereby prevented from tilting or tipping.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2000Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Kenneth Antonio Castillo
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Patent number: 6581889Abstract: A flexible stabilizer arm assembly is provided that can be positioned in a desired three-dimensional attitude and then fixed in place to forceably hold an object against an undulating surface. In one embodiment, the invention assembly comprises a mounting base for attachment of the arm to a stationary fixture, a flexible arm of multiple articulated elongate links rotatably joined to adjacent links, a freely rotatable turret joint at the distal end of the arm that is adapted to attach an appendage in freely rotatable fashion to the distal end of the arm. Once positioned, a tightening mechanism is actuated to fix the attitude of the arm with respect to the mounting base. Optionally, the appendage is a two-tined foot adapted for holding a surgical instrument, such as a suction body, against a beating heart. The flexible arm, which ranges up to 12 inches in length, can withstand an undulating force exerted against the distal end of up to 20 pounds while remaining in the fixed position.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Medivas, LLCInventors: Kenneth W. Carpenter, Michelle Fourmont, Kazuo Sasamine
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Patent number: 6581890Abstract: A stand for holding hair stylist tools with an adjustable height work table and a power strip on the upper end of the support column. An electrical power supply cord extends from the power strip through the hollow support column.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventors: Regina P. Johnson, Marcus F. Johnson
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Patent number: 6581891Abstract: According to the invention there is provided a system for supporting fixtures such as birdhouses, lanterns and feeders from differentiated supports. The apparatus includes a mounting board having front and back major surfaces. At least a first and preferably first and second horizontal rows of a plurality of slots pass through the backplane member from the back to the front major surfaces. A retainer strap is fitted through a pair of slots in each row and is closable to form a circuit, which may be sized to fit around a post, branch or trunk abutting the back major surface of the backplane. A support is pivotally attached to the front major surface and is positionable to provide a ledge.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: David A. Byrd
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Patent number: 6581892Abstract: A multi-positionable mounting device that provides a substantially stable, load-bearing but relatively adjustable ball and socket mounting device. An interior surface of the socket is formed of first and second opposing part hemispherical socket portions that are relatively orientable with one another for forming therebetween a part spherical cavity. The interior surface of one socket portion is formed with multiple facets at a predetermined radial distance from a spherical center point of the cavity. The first and second opposing part hemispherical socket portions are securable in a relationship which forms the part spherical cavity therebetween. A part-spherical coupler substantially fills the spherical cavity. The mechanical securing means applies clamping force that acts between the first and second opposing socket portions and secures the coupler therebetween in fixed orientation with one of the faceted socket portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Jeffrey D. Carnevali
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Patent number: 6581893Abstract: A stand for an LCD monitor with a back is composed of a locking member, a first pivoting member, a second pivoting member, a monitor bracket, a base and two base brackets. The monitor bracket is attached to the back of the LCD monitor. The pivoting members are securely attached to the base brackets on the base. The monitor bracket can be pivoted relative to the base by using the pivoting members, so that the LCD monitor is folded to reduce its overall volume for packing, storing or transporting.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Shin Zu Shing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sheng-Nan Lu
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Patent number: 6581894Abstract: A display device includes a housing for engaging into an article and having one or more projections formed in the outer peripheral portion for engaging into the article and for locking the housing to the article. A casing is secured on the housing. A hanger device has a block rotatably received in the casing, a board secured on the block, and an actuator attached to the block and engageable into the housing and rotatable force the projections to lock the block to the article. The board has an edge to be engaged into the casing and to be locked to the casing.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Hui Lin Tong
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Patent number: 6581895Abstract: Display stands (20-1, 20-2, 20-3) readily adaptable for target shooting or other useful display purposes, formed and fabricated in their corresponding. patterns (P-1, P-2, P-3) formed from corresponding sheets (S-1, S-2, S-3) of corrugated paper or cardboard. Their corresponding facing members (24, 55, 72) are supported by corresponding flaps or panels (28, 54, 77) while their respective stands (20-1, 20-2, 20-3) are stabilized in a stationary manner by application of wings or straps (30), by wings or straps (58), or by struts or braces (70), respectively. The pairs of wings (30, 58) are fastened together by their respective tabs (36, 65) inserted through corresponding holes (34, 64) in their corresponding wings (30, 58) in the assembling of stands (20-1, 20-2). Niches (78) at the terminal ends (74) of struts (70) in stand (20-3) engage edges (79) of a slot (80) in FIGS. 11-17.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2000Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Rodney W. Pleasant
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Patent number: 6581896Abstract: The apparatus is a clamp to hold flagpoles, plant support rods, and other items on rod-like structures, vertical posts (balusters) of stair or porch railings, and fences. The preferred embodiment is a large plastic split bolt with a knob-like head, structure on one end and a through slot, in the split bolt forming two separated sections with exterior threads. The slot is dimensioned so that a rod-like item fits within it. A threaded nut screws onto the threaded split sections of the bolt and tightens the clamp onto the rod-like structure. The head structure has a hole within it which is oriented at an angle to the vertical, so that a pole can be inserted into the hole and will support a container or a flag-extending up and away from the clamp and rod structure on which it is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Inventor: Steven Olexovitch
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Patent number: 6581897Abstract: A mounting bracket is provided for coupling a fracture frame to a patient-support apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey A. Ruschke
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Patent number: 6581898Abstract: Modular concrete form components which, when assembled into large wall form assemblies are sufficiently strong to resist the bending forces applied during picking and placing of the wall form assemblies without the need for the attachment of additional or external stiffening members. A bearing block is secured to a stiffener that runs along the back side of the form component adjacent a perimeter flange of the form component.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Wilian Holding CompanyInventor: Robert McCracken
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Patent number: 6581899Abstract: A valve for use in microfluidic structures. The valve uses a spherical member, such as a ball bearing, to depress an elastomeric member to selectively open and close a microfluidic channel. The valve may be operated manually or by use of an internal force generated to shift the spherical member to its activated position.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Micronics, Inc.Inventor: Clinton L. Williams