Patents Issued in July 13, 2004
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Patent number: 6761010Abstract: An improved medication organizing system for allowing patients to rapidly and easily prepare hermetically sealed dosage packages to set up their medication regime for a week, month, or longer period of time. The device includes seven hoppers to allow the patient to prepare a set of hermetically sealed medication packages for a given time for each day of the week. After being filled, each package in the set of seven packages is hermetically sealed simultaneously by simply loading the set into a sealing unit and pulling a lever. Sealing of the packages does not require manual manipulation of the individual packages by the user, such as would be required for medication organizers utilizing individual packages with zip-lock seals. The medication organizing system allows patients who lack manual dexterity, such as elderly patients, to easily prepare medication dosages for an extended period of time.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2001Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventor: James B. Gibson
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Patent number: 6761011Abstract: A method for providing a decorative covering for a floral grouping. The method includes the step of providing a decorative covering assembly comprising a header assembly and at least one sheet of material detachably connected to the header assembly. The header assembly is secured to a holder assembly such that the decorative covering assembly is supported by the holder assembly and at least one sheet of material can be detached from the header assembly. At least one sheet of material is detached from the header assembly and is disposed about at least a portion of the floral grouping to provide a decorative covering for the floral grouping.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Southpac Trust InternationalInventors: Donald E. Weder, Sonny K. Burnside
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Patent number: 6761012Abstract: A pre-prepared mesh-film web is used on a conventional vertical form-fill-seal packing machine to form a plurality of mesh-film bags.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Atlanta Nisseki CLAF, Inc.Inventors: Craig R. Rusert, Warren H. Debnam
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Patent number: 6761013Abstract: The present invention provides an article and method for packaging an array of flexible absorbent articles compressed or uncompressed. Absorbent articles have a front face, a back face, a top face, a bottom face, and a pair of side faces. An upper section and a lower section have mutually different calipers. Absorbent articles are placed in a configuration such that front faces are in a contacting relationship with the front faces of adjacent absorbent articles. A flexible outer casing over the array of absorbent articles having a first region and a second region and the upper and lower sections of the absorbent articles are distributed over the first and second regions of the array. A difference in the sizes of the first and second regions is at least about 10% smaller than when all of the upper sections of the absorbent articles are located in the same region of the array.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Darold Dean Tippey, Nefetari Bordain Murph
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Patent number: 6761014Abstract: An apparatus for wrapping articles comprising a clamp for pulling a film, a first conveyor for moving an article to a second conveyor, a second conveyor, an opening between the first and second conveyor to allow the clamp to pull the film through the opening. A shear located below the first and second conveyors. Feeding an end of the film to the clamp and seizing the end of the film by the clamp below the conveyors. Pulling the film by moving the clamp with the seized end of the film through the opening to a position above the conveyors that would allow the film to wrap the article with an overlap. Cutting the film with the shear after the clamp reached in the position above the conveyors. Wrapping the article by moving the clamp with the seized film from the position above the conveyors through the opening to a second position below the conveyors and releasing the seized film, and overlapping the cut end and the released end of the film wherein the overlap is between the conveyor and bottom of the article.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventor: Alain Cerf
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Patent number: 6761015Abstract: A high speed straw insertion machine has a device which feeds a straw, feeds a lifter and then engages the straw with the lifter. This assembly is transported to a mechanism which secures the lifter to the straw and then puts the straw and the float into a container. The container with the straw and the float is transported to an anchoring machine which engages the straw and the container to trap the straw and float entirely within the container. In one embodiment, the straw is positioned between a corner and a shoulder defined by the container and is retained in this position due to the flexibility of the straw. In another embodiment, the straw is positioned below a rib formed in the body of the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2001Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: The KeyStraw Company, LLCInventors: Peter F. Murphy, James H. Kurtz, Jr., Clifford Marritt
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Patent number: 6761016Abstract: A high speed vertical form, fill and seal packaging machine has a dual pump pouch-filling system, adjustable packaging material roll holders and side-seal jaws that are longer than pouches being formed in the machine, and which move with the packaging material traveling through the machine. Packaging material is moved in a semi-continuous manner and has side seals formed therein that are slit by a slitter system and pulled downwardly by a multi-jaw, rotary cross-seal system. After being completed, the formed pouches are cut off by a reciprocating or rotary cut-off system.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventor: Richard A. Soleri
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Patent number: 6761017Abstract: An apparatus for holding and cutting film (1) comprises a unit (6) for gripping and tearing the film (1), located outside the profile of the platform (2) and designed to enable a portion of film of width (L1) between a stack (3) of products on the platform (2) and a film feed reel (4) to be intercepted after the stack (3) has been wrapped and to subsequently tear the portion of film (1) thus intercepted, acting in conjunction with a partial rotation of the platform (2).Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Robopac S.A.Inventors: Bruno Rossi, Rodolfo Bettini
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Patent number: 6761018Abstract: A bit having selectably adjustable rotation about the axis of the shank post and the mouth piece as well as vertical adjustable shank location for use with a variety of animals and mouth pieces.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: TLB, Inc.Inventor: Tom L. Balding
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Patent number: 6761019Abstract: An equestrian riding aid is disclosed which includes a girth strap which surrounds the girth of a horse, and a back strap which surrounds the back of a rider. The girth strap passes along the thighs of the rider and promotes the rider to learn and maintain the correct riding posture on the horse. The straps are connected by a quick-release buckle which allows the straps to be released from one another quickly and easily by the rider.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventor: Eileen Earnhart
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Patent number: 6761020Abstract: A delineator pole (10) and a mower attachment (100) for turning the delineator pole is described. The delineator pole includes a top portion (10A), a center portion (10C) and a bottom portion (10B) and is intended to be rotatably mounted in the ground (50) adjacent a road. The mower attachment is mounted on the mowing vehicle (150). The mowing attachment includes a bracket (102) and a bumper (110) connected to the bracket by first, second and third connector rods (104, 106 and 108). The connector rods are flexible and resilient such that when the bumper contacts the delineator pole to rotate the delineator pole, the connector rods flex to enable the bumper to turn the delineator pole.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventor: Donald F. Behrens
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Patent number: 6761021Abstract: A sand rake for grooming sand comprising a head portion having a lead edge and a drag edge; a handle extending from the head portion at an acute angle in the direction of the lead edge; a tine assembly having a plurality of tines and extending downwardly from the head portion proximate the lead edge, wherein the spacing between adjacent tines is adjustable and the depth to which the plurality of tines extends downwardly from the head portion is adjustable, the tine assembly serving to break-up and aerate sand; a brush extending downwardly from the head portion proximate the drag edge and in substantial alignment with the tine assembly, the brush serving to smooth out sand; and an entanglement material positioned between the tine assembly and the brush, and serving to remove debris from sand. Also provided is a rake receptacle in combination with the sand rake.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventor: Russell L. Snyder
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Patent number: 6761022Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus to monitor a yarn piecing joint on a spinning machine with a plurality of piecing stations to which a piecing robot equipped with a yarn piecing apparatus with adjustable yarn piecing speed can be presented, whereby each spinning station or the piecing robot is provided with a yarn monitoring apparatus to monitor the yarn quality. The piecing robot and the yarn monitoring apparatus of the spinning station are connected via a communication system through which the piecing parameters of the piecing robot are transmitted to the yarn monitoring apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2001Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Rieter Ingolstadt Spinnereimaschinenbau AGInventor: Martin Zipperer
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Patent number: 6761023Abstract: An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle. In the internal combustion engine, fuel is injected directly into a combustion chamber and is burned during an intake phase in a first mode of operation and during a compression phase in a second mode of operation. Exhaust gas formed by combustion may be sent to a catalytic converter. A controller may cause additional fuel to be injected following combustion in the second mode of operation. The controller may also cause the temperature of the exhaust gas to be measured in or downstream from the catalytic converter and compared with a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eberhard Schnaibel, Andreas Koring, Holger Bellmann
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Patent number: 6761024Abstract: When determining a maximum storable oxygen amount of a catalyst disposed in an exhaust passage, a target air-fuel ratio of the gas upstream of the catalyst is set to a predetermined lean air-fuel ratio upon determining that the output of a downstream-side air-fuel ratio sensor indicating a lean air-fuel ratio has changed to indicate a rich air-fuel ratio. Then, a feedback correction amount is calculated such that the air-fuel ratio detected by an upstream-side air-fuel ratio sensor matches the target air-fuel ratio, and a feed-forward amount required for the gas, to be supplied into the internal combustion engine, to become lean is determined. A final injection amount is determined by correcting the feed-forward amount by the feedback correction amount.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takahiro Uchida
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Patent number: 6761025Abstract: A selective catalytic reduction emissions control system of a compression ignition engine is provided with enhanced ammonia feed control for improved emissions control performance. The reduction agent is provided in two doses, and the reactor is provided with two reacting beds. The second dose of reactant is provided between the first and second reacting beds.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: John R. Gladden
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Patent number: 6761026Abstract: A fluid pressure driven generator which includes a generator housing and a rotor positioned within the generator housing. The rotor will have an internal offset gear which is engaged by a spur gear on a power shaft. A high fluid pressure inlet will be formed in the housing and connected to a source of high pressure fluid. The housing will also have low pressure outlet which will feed a source of low pressure fluid.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventor: Michael G. Hogan
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Patent number: 6761027Abstract: A fluid system includes first and second control valves that control fluid communication with first and second actuators. The first control valve may combine fluid flow from a second end port of the first actuator with fluid flow from a pressurized fluid source when providing a supply of fluid to a first end port of the first actuator. The first and second control valves include first and second signal ports in fluid communication with the supply of fluid to the first and second actuators. A resolver outputs a resolved signal pressure equal to the greater of a first signal pressure output by the first signal port and a second signal pressure output by the second signal port. A compensator in fluid communication with the first control valve and the first actuator controls fluid flow from the first control valve to the first actuator based on the resolved signal pressure.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Caterpillar IncInventors: Michael Anthony A'Hearn, Daniel J. Mather, Srikrishnan Tirumalai Kumara Tolappa
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Patent number: 6761028Abstract: A drive device includes ceramic pumps which alternately pressurize and depressurize fluid within a fluid chamber on opposite sides of a movable body, to thereby move the movable body within the flow chamber. The flow chamber is connected via micro flow passages to an internal-pressure buffering chamber, which accommodates a compressible gas. When the pressure of the fluid is increased and decreased at high speed by the ceramic pumps, the micro flow passages exhibit a high passage resistance, so that the pressure within the channel does not escape to the internal-pressure buffering chamber, and the movable body moves freely. When the pressure of the fluid increases slowly due to the expansion of the fluid, the micro flow passages exhibit a low passage resistance, so that the fluid is led to the internal-pressure buffering chamber, and the pressure increase of the fluid is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Yukihisa Takeuchi, Nobuo Takahashi, Yuki Bessho
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Patent number: 6761029Abstract: A fluid control system may comprise a pump, a tank, and an actuator including a working chamber. The system may be operative to control rotational movement of a swing structure and movement of an least one implement. A valve assembly may be configured to control fluid communication between the working chamber and the tank and to control fluid communication between the working chamber and the pump. An input device may be operative to selectively control movement of the swing structure. The system may include a controller in communication with the valve assembly and the input device. The controller may be configured to control a flow condition of the working chamber through a sensed pressure condition of the working chamber and a command from the input device.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignees: Caterpillar Inc, Shin Caterpillar Mitsubishi LtdInventor: James D. Linerode
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Patent number: 6761030Abstract: A waste heat recovering device for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine, wherein among a plurality of exhaust pipes extending from cylinders of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine, a plurality of exhaust pipes unlikely to cause exhaust interference are collected to form one or more collecting pipes. A heat exchanger for recovering heat of exhaust gas is provided in the one or more collecting pipes. Therefore, a waste heat recovering device can be provided, in which the number of heat exchangers is reduced compared to the number of cylinders of the multi-cylinder internal combustion engine to reduce rest periods of the heat exchanger and reduce spaces occupied by the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Niikura, Tsuneo Endoh, Yuichi Itoh, Naoki Ohta
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Patent number: 6761031Abstract: A connector segment for connecting a combustor liner and a transition piece in a gas turbine has a substantially cylindrical shape and is of double-walled construction including inner and outer walls and a plurality of cooling channels extending axially along the segment, between the inner and outer walls. The cooling channels are defined in part by radially inner and outer surfaces, wherein at least one of the radially inner and outer surfaces is formed with an array of concavities.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Ronald Scott Bunker
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Patent number: 6761032Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel supply system (1) that supplies a fuel to a burner arrangement (8) with at least one burner (7), in particular a gas turbine (10). The fuel supply system (1) has at its input a control valve (3) that feeds the fuel into the fuel supply system (1) as a function of its actuation. As a function of a requested burner output, a first setpoint is determined for a fuel mass flow with which the burner arrangement (8) must be supplied in order to be able to furnish the required burner output. As a function of this first setpoint of the fuel mass flow a second setpoint is determined for the fuel mass flow, which is fed into the fuel supply system (1) by an actuation of the control valve (3). The second setpoint of the fuel mass flow is selected such that the fuel supply system (1) fed therewith supplies the burner arrangement (8) with the first setpoint of the fuel mass flow.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Alstom Technology LTDInventor: Ulrich Moser
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Patent number: 6761033Abstract: The purpose is to improve the mixture ratio of a pre-mixer by a simple arrangement to form a more uniform premixed gases so as to materialize low NOx combustion. Two fuel nozzles disposed circumferentially of a pre-mixer are combined with a single air intake window to make a set, which set is used to produce swirls in a pair, thereby expediting mixing. Further, the inlet window is shaped such that its circumferential width is changed axially of the combustor, thereby changing the strength and size of the swirls to achieve the greatest effect. By reducing both the pre-mixer inlet windows and the partition walls in number, the manufacturing cost can be reduced, and by strengthening and optimizing the swirls, a combustor with superior low NOx performance can be provided, while it is possible to reduce the length of the pre-mixer necessary to obtain the same mixture ratio, leading to a cost reduction.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Tomomi Koganezawa, Nariyoshi Kobayashi, Masaya Ohtsuka, Kazuyuki Ito, Isao Takehara
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Patent number: 6761034Abstract: A method enables a structural cover for a gas turbine engine to be manufactured. The method includes forming a torroidial body including an integrally-formed windage cover portion and a seal flange portion, and forming a plurality offastener openings extending from a forward side of the torroidial body to an aft side of the torroidial body, such that when installed in the gas turbine engine, the windage cover portion facilitates shielding the fastener openings from a gas flow path.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: General Electroc CompanyInventors: David Andrew Niday, Scott Patrick Ryczek, James Patrick McGovern, Gary Charles Liotta, Gianni Busso
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Patent number: 6761035Abstract: A fuel nozzle for a gas turbine engine includes a fuel tube enclosed by a housing. The fuel tube and housing are connected by a movable joint including a tubular seat formed on the housing and a boss formed on the fuel tube so as to be disposed within the tubular seat. The boss includes a contact surface that is in sliding engagement with the tubular seat and is rotatable about an axis that is perpendicular to the seat's longitudinal axis. The fuel nozzle further includes a fixed joint that connects the housing to the same section of the fuel tube as the movable joint.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1999Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Peter W. Mueller
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Patent number: 6761036Abstract: A dispenser for soft-drinks and ice has an integral ice maker. The compressor and condenser for the ice making refrigeration system are located remotely from the ice making apparatus. Thus, the dispenser with an integral ice maker does not emit noise and heat from the compressor and condenser in the customer service areas where ice and soft drinks are dispensed. Refrigerant vapor is drawn from a receiver and is used for defrosting in the harvest portion of the ice making cycle. The dispenser also has an internal heat exchanger for cooling carbonated water and syrup prior to dispensing a soft drink. There is also an ice maker and dispenser, having a refrigeration system in which ice-making components and an ice dispenser are located near a customer-service area, while the hot and noisy refrigeration components are located remotely.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Manitowoc Foodservice Companies, Inc.Inventors: Merritt T. Teague, Richard K. Renken, Jerry L. Landers
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Patent number: 6761037Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle uses a hybrid compressor (4) including a first compression mechanism driven by a first drive source (2) and a second compression mechanism driven by a second drive source (5), and a single discharge port connected to the first and the second compression mechanisms. The operation of the hybrid compressor is controlled by a controller (15) in accordance with a control mode. The controller has a first operation mode in which the first compression mechanism alone is driven, a second operation mode in which the second compression mechanism alone is driven, a third operation mode in which the first and the second compression mechanisms are simultaneously driven, and a fourth operation mode in which the first and the second compression mechanisms are simultaneously stopped. Depending upon various conditions, the controller selects, as the control mode, one of the first, the second, the third, and the fourth operation modes.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Sanden CorporationInventors: Masato Tsuboi, Atsuo Inoue, Kenichi Suzuki, Tomonori Imai
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Patent number: 6761038Abstract: A module is provided for attachment to the roof of a bus and includes all of the necessary components for conditioning the return air from the passenger compartment and delivering conditioned air thereto. A plurality of modules can be mounted in various relationships to collectively provide the total capacity required by the bus. Each module includes an evaporator section, a condenser section and a power section including a compressor and an inverter. The evaporator sections have a return air compartment that extends a substantial distance across the roof of the bus such that a single design can meet the needs of various return air duct installations of various types of buses. Provision is made for the selective mixing of return air with fresh air, with the mixture then being passed by the evaporator blower through the evaporator coils and into the supply air ducts.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: Peter R. Bushnell, Stephen Stopyra, Robert C. Reimann, Belin Czechowicz
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Patent number: 6761039Abstract: An air conditioner condensing coil cooling system comprising an evaporating unit inside a house having an evaporating coil for evaporating a refrigerant liquid and a condensing unit remote from the evaporating unit located outside the house having a condensing coil for cooling refrigerant gas into liquid refrigerant. A condensate collector included in the evaporating unit for collecting condensate that condenses on the evaporating coil. A drain line extending from the condensate collector out of the house and connecting to a pump outside the house for drawing the condensate through the drain line. A manifold positioned adjacent the condensing coil connected to the pump for receiving condensate from the condensate collector through the drain line. The pump forcing condensate through spray holes in the manifold to provide a pressurized spray of condensate being applied onto the condensing coil.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventor: Jimmy C. Gray
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Patent number: 6761040Abstract: Cross flow fan, and air conditioner fitted with the same, the cross flow fan including a plurality of annular rims arranged at regular intervals along a horizontal direction, and a plurality of blades on a side surface of the rim vertical thereto, and along a circumference direction of the rim, wherein pitch angles between two adjacent blades are not regular, the pitch angle taking a center of the rim as an apex, and a number of blades are 32 or 35. The pitch angles of the blades are designed by a computer optimization method taking a number of the blades and the like as parameters.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Cheol O Ahn, Sim Won Chin, Chang Seon Lee, Mun Kee Chung, In Cheol Yun, Dong Soo Moon, In Hwa Jung
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Patent number: 6761041Abstract: A thermal energy storage container which includes a first panel having a container attachment element located around a periphery thereof. The container attachment element is adapted to engage a complementary lid attachment element. The thermal energy storage container includes a container compartment adapted to store a thermal energy storage material. A thermal energy storage lid which includes a lid attachment element located around a periphery thereof. The lid attachment element is adapted to engage a complementary container attachment element.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventors: Henry Roth, Donna Roth
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Patent number: 6761042Abstract: Portable refrigeration devices (1) including methods for preparing evaporator chambers (10) for use in such devices, and the evaporator chambers (10) prepared in this way. The methods relate to the dispersion of refrigerant for the maximization of efficiency of vaporization of refrigerant vapor from the evaporator chamber (10) of such refrigeration devices (1).Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Tempra Technology, Inc.Inventor: Martin W. Sabin
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Patent number: 6761043Abstract: In an apparatus for cooling food products in a container a device for supplying liquid carbon dioxide into the container and withdrawing from the container is movable between an inoperative position in which it is located outside said opening of the container and outside of the container and an operative position in which it is located inserted in the opening of the container.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1999Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventors: Lev Reznikov, Zachary Schulman
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Patent number: 6761044Abstract: A novel gemstone cut comprising a crown, a girdle, and a pavilion, wherein the gemstone includes precious gemstones (such as diamonds) and semi-precious gemstones. The crown includes an octagonal table, which is surrounded by eight triangular star facets. Eight table bezels are disposed in-between the star facets and eight mid-bezels are disposed in-between the table bezels. Furthermore, the gemstone's pavilion has eight concentrically arranged culet pavilion facets, a girdle pavilion facet and a bottom small break facet that are disposed in-between the culet pavilion facets. The gemstone's girdle has eight left top half facets and eight right top half facets (located in-between the girdle bezels of the crown), and eight left bottom half facets and eight right bottom half facets (disposed in-between the girdle pavilion facets and bottom small break facets).Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Premier Gem CorpInventor: Stuart Samuels
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Patent number: 6761045Abstract: Polarized glass articles having a wavelength range that is broadened for high contrast-ratio applications. A method that imparts to a glass article a high contrast ratio of at least 40 dB for use as dichroic glass polarizers over a wavelength range of 880 nm to 1,690 nm while keeping a high transmission value. The method comprises the step of heating the glass article at a temperature ranging from 400 to 450° C. in a reducing atmosphere for a period of time ranging from 12 to 30 hours. Preferably, the reducing atmosphere is hydrogen at atmospheric pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2000Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventor: Kenjiro Hasui
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Patent number: 6761046Abstract: A method and apparatus for making cylindrical glass preforms with convex, optical quality convex end surfaces is taught. A glass ball preform is placed on a heated lower platen. The temperature of the glass ball preform is raised to a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the glass ball preform. The glass ball preform is engaged with an upper platen. At least one of the upper platen and the lower platen is moved vertically to cause the gap between the upper platen and the lower platen to narrow to a predetermined dimension. Simultaneously, at least one of the upper platen and the lower platen is moved horizontally relative to the other platen to cause the glass ball preform to roll between the upper platen and the lower platen and form a cylindrical preform having a predetermined diameter, the cylindrical preform having convex, optical quality end surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2001Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventors: Jayson J. Nelson, Eugene G. Hill, Michael K. Budinski, James M. Warner
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Patent number: 6761047Abstract: The apparatus for melting off a glass top part from a hollow glass blank has individual burner sections (3) each containing at least one burner nozzle. The individual burner sections (3) are held in a cutting plane and movably connected with each other. A control device (4a, 4b, 5) controls the respective positions of the burner sections (3) so that they fit any arbitrary outer contour of the hollow glass blank (1). The control device (4a, 4b, 5) holds and maintains the burner sections (3) at a constant distance from the exterior surface of the hollow glass blank (1). The burner device with the burner sections (3) is mounted on two half frames pivotally connected with each other for better access to the glass object (1). This apparatus separates the glass top part from oval or triangular glass objects, which should be cut at an inclined orientation, in a single step.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2000Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Schott GlasInventors: Wolfgang Fischer, Alois Christ, Heiner Muehl
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Patent number: 6761048Abstract: A loop of a row of binding-off loops is formed with finer yarn than yarn used in a rib knitted fabric part. Also, a binding-off loop of the row of binding-off loops formed following a final loop of an odd wale of a knitted fabric at an end thereof and the binding-off loop of the row of binding-off loops formed following a final loop of an even wale of the knitted fabric are overlapped with the adjacent final loops on the underside thereof and also the binding-off loop formed following the final loop of the odd wale and the binding-off loop formed following the final loop of the even wale are intersected with each other. This can prevent the binding-off loops different in orientation from coming out in the bound off part, thus enabling the bound off part to be formed in a similar appearance to the set-up part.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuyoshi Okamoto
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Patent number: 6761049Abstract: A sealing sleeve seals joints in household appliances, especially the joints between the suds container and the front wall of the housing or the upper part of the suds container and the top frame in washing machines, and can be secured to the appliance by a substantially annular clamping element. The clamping element can be molded into the interior of the section (which can be a beading) of the sealing sleeve to be secured.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Kai Nitschmann, Wolfgang Proppe
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Patent number: 6761050Abstract: A kingpin lock device generally including a lock housing, a selectively engageable lock, and a sliding member. The lock housing can include a kingpin receiving aperture, a lock receiving channel, and a sliding channel. The sliding member can include a concave portion at one end for engaging the surface of the kingpin, a slot portion intermediate the sliding member for receiving the selectively engageable lock, and a stop lip/flange portion at the end distal the curved portion. The stop flange portion includes at least one lip for engaging the outer surface of the lock housing upon positioning of the sliding member within the sliding channel. As such, movement of the sliding member within the sliding channel is limited and the introduction of a substantial longitudinal force on the sliding member will not bring the lock into damaging forceable contact with the slot portion of the sliding member.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Cargo Protectors, Inc.Inventor: Avron S. Rosenberg
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Patent number: 6761051Abstract: In an electric padlock, a lock casing is formed with first and second shackle insert holes. A shackle member has a longer leg portion that is movably disposed in the second shackle insert hole and that is biased upwardly. A latch member is received in the lock casing, and is movable between locking and unlocking positions for engaging and disengaging a shackle groove in a shorter leg portion of the shackle member. An electric operating unit includes a drive motor mounted in the lock casing and engaging the latch member. The drive motor is operable for moving the latch member from the locking position to the unlocking position. A remote controller is operable so as to provide an electric signal to the drive motor for controlling operation of the drive motor.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: EZ Trend Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hung-Cheng Tsai
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Patent number: 6761052Abstract: A device for actuating a lock on a door or hinged lid, particularly for a vehicle, includes a momentary contact switch and a lock cylinder having tumblers which are transferred between a blocked position and an unblocked position by a key. In the locked position, the tumblers interact with a locking edge which is released only in the unblocked position. The travelling motion of the momentary contact switch is transferred to an entry element of the lock only in the unblocked position. The lock cylinder is arranged in a manner that prevents it from twisting, and the blocking edge is configured to move transversely in relation to the tumblers. This transverse motion is caused by the traveling motion of the momentary contact switch. The blocked position of the tumblers prevents the transverse movement of the blocking edge. The traveling motion of the momentary contact switch is then only transferred to the lock when the transverse motion of the blocking edge is possible.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Gerd Buschmann
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Patent number: 6761053Abstract: A material 1 to be shaped is reduced and formed by bringing dies with convex forming surfaces, when viewed from the side of the transfer line of the material 1, close to the transfer line from above and below the material 1, in synchronism with each other, while giving the dies a swinging motion in such a manner that the portions of the forming surfaces of the dies, in contact with the material 1, are transferred from the upstream to the downstream side in the direction of the transfer line.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignees: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., NKK CorporationInventor: Nobuhiro Tazoe
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Patent number: 6761054Abstract: A method and apparatus for the precise manufacture of high quality, four-sided electrical contacts by means of a closely controlled material skiving process. The apparatus is designed so that the starting material from which the four-sided electrical contacts are made is closely constrained in the area of the shear boundaries so that predictable and precisely controlled shearing of the material can repeatedly be achieved to initially form four precursor sides, two of which are arcuate. The apparatus also includes sequentially operating forming mechanisms for precisely forming the precursor sides of the precursor contact into a final end product configuration.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventor: Stephen Andersen
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Patent number: 6761055Abstract: A drive for use in the manufacture of cans comprises a hydraulically powered guide pod to which a hold down assembly is attached. The guide pod slides along a guide rod which is fixed in the bodymaker. Forward and rear hydraulic chambers are defined between the pod and the guide rod by means of bushings and a seal. Passage of fluid through ports to and from the hydraulic chambers causes the pod and hold down assembly to move forward and backward. The length of the stroke can be set by the distance between the ports. A rotary valve is used to control the timing of the drive and control flow of hydraulic fluid, which is typically obtained from the bodymaker coolant supply.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies CorporationInventors: Ian Scholey, William Woulds
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Patent number: 6761056Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a device for producing a gas mixture which contains at least one gaseous trace component, in particular for producing a calibration gas, in which a matrix gas stream is conveyed continuously with a predetermined quantitative flow, and at least one calibration component is introduced into the matrix gas stream in a predetermined quantity per unit volume of matrix gas, the at least one calibration component being introduced in the form of microdroplets of substantially identical size and being evaporated in the matrix gas to form the calibrating gas mixture, the microdroplets being delivered by nozzles which are in each case made to contract by means of a piezoelement which is triggered by metering pulses which are generated according to the intended delivery quantity.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Gerstel Systemtechnik GmbH & Co.Inventors: Jurgen Schram, Thomas Albinus
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Patent number: 6761057Abstract: A method of detecting errors in air data sensing systems having multi-function probes being used in combinations to define probe systems includes a step (A) of, for each probe system, making a first prediction of an aircraft parameter as a function of local angles of attack at two member probes of the particular system, and making a second prediction of the aircraft parameter as a function of local pressure ratios at the two member probes of the particular system. A step (B) is performed in which, for each of the probe systems, the first and second predictions of the aircraft parameter are compared to determine whether the first and second predictions are within a predetermined threshold of each other. Then, a step (C) is performed in which, for each of the probe systems, if the first and second predictions of the aircraft parameter are not within the predetermined threshold of each other, then the particular probe system is identified as having a malfunctioning member probe.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2001Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace Inc.Inventors: Dennis J. Cronin, Thomas D. Amerson, Roger D. Foster, Steve F. Alwin, Mark C. Skarohlid
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Patent number: 6761058Abstract: There is provided a leakage determination system for an evaporative fuel processing system, which, even when pressure within the evaporative fuel processing system is temporarily increased e.g. due to an increase in the amount of generation of evaporative fuel in a fuel tank, is capable of performing an accurate leakage determination by eliminating the influence of the temporary rise in the pressure within the evaporative fuel processing system on the leakage determination. A pressure sensor detects pressure within the evaporative fuel processing system. Negative pressure is introduced from the intake system into the evaporative fuel processing system, whereby the pressure within the evaporative fuel processing system is reduced until the detected pressure becomes equal to a predetermined negative pressure. After the pressure reduction, the negative pressure is introduced from the intake system into the evaporative fuel processing system under predetermined conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2001Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Yamaguchi, Takashi Isobe
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Patent number: 6761059Abstract: A diagnostic tool (10) for testing fuel injectors (50) and their driver circuits (IDM), including associated wiring harnesses, in a fuel injection system of an engine in a motor vehicle. The tool has a driver-connection port (16) for connection to the driver circuits and an injector-connection port (18) for connection to the fuel injectors via jumper wiring harnesses. The tool can perform 1) a fuel injector test, by connecting an ohmmeter to the tool to measure injector coil resistance, 2) a driver-injector test, by connecting an oscilloscope to the tool to observe traces of electric current waveforms applied to the fuel injector, 3) a driver circuit test, by connecting the respective driver circuit to a load that simulates the load imposed by the respective fuel injector, and 4) a cylinder contribution test, by selectively disconnecting certain fuel injector actuators from their driver circuits while leaving the remaining fuel injector actuators connected to their driver circuits.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLCInventors: David Hsia, Radek Oleksiewicz