Patents Issued in January 2, 2007
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Patent number: 7156099Abstract: A nostril filtering system is described for providing clean, filtered air for breathing in through the nose. The filtering system includes a soft, pliable filter material held in a flexible frame that can be inserted into each nostril of a user. In the case of foul odors or noxious fumes, for example, the filter can include an activated charcoal filter portion. The device can be offered in several sizes to accommodate adults and children.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventor: Cloytillia M. Jenkins
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Patent number: 7156100Abstract: A modified laryngeal mask airway device (LMA-device) is provided with means to improve ease of insertion, reliability of function and higher seal pressure (i.e., cuff pressure ratio). The LMA-device includes an indented section of the airway tube to offer locating means and purchase for the inserting finger, and extended mask aperture bars to increase the effective ventilating area of the mask and reduce the possibility of epiglottis displacement occasioned by mask insertion. The LMA-device further includes a modification of the airway tube angle of attachment to the mask, and provision of a posterior or back-cushion covering the entire posterior surface of the mask.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1999Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: The Laryngeal Mask Company Ltd.Inventor: Archibald I. J. Brain
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Patent number: 7156101Abstract: A method of restoring the vision of an eye having an impaired lens with an artificial lens implant includes replacing the lens by a polymerizable material injected into the emptied lens capsule and thereby providing a new lens implant with a predetermined refractive value, while admitting the possibility of controlling and adjusting the refractive value of the eye during the surgical process.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.Inventors: Thomas Henricus Marie Terwee, Hendrick Albert Weeber, Patricia Ann Piers
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Patent number: 7156102Abstract: A comb for the hair including a body having a lengthwise axis (X). At least one first gap is defined between two teeth of a first pair of teeth, with this first gap having a first height. At least one second gap is defined between two teeth of a second pair of teeth, with this second gap having a second height lower than the first height. In a preferred form of the teeth defining the first and second gaps, only the teeth defining the second gap are arranged to hold a lock of hair between them. At least one of the teeth defining the second gap includes a projection extending into this second gap. In a preferred form, all of the teeth defining the first and second gaps are located on the same side of the body of the comb.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: L'OrealInventor: Marc Ramet
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Patent number: 7156103Abstract: A bead, a tool and a method are provided for applying the bead to hair. The bead may be constructed from a pliant and/or soft and/or resilient material, such as for example, rubber, foam, or the like. The bead may be placed around the tool which may hold one or more strands of the hair in a position for placement of the bead onto the hair. The bead may then be moved along a body of the tool until the bead is placed onto the strands of hair. The pliancy and/or softness and/or resiliency of the bead may enable the bead to be worn adjacent to the scalp without causing discomfort to a user. The bead may also be worn by a user during activities, such as, for example, running or like activity.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventor: Dorothy Coleman
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Patent number: 7156104Abstract: A hair coloring applicator (10) for applying a hair coloring material to one or more strands of hair using a rotating brush (12). The hair coloring applicator may include a housing (24) and a supply of hair coloring material (44) positioned so as to contact the brush (12). The housing (24) may include at least one opening for receiving at least one strand of hair and placing the at least one strand of hair in contact with the brush (12). The hair coloring applicator (10) may simultaneously apply one or more colors of hair coloring material (44) to strands of hair. The brush (12) may include bristles, a napped material, and/or an absorbent material.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignees: Kennedy/Matsumoto Design LLC, Longoria Design LLC, Spectrum Associates LLCInventors: Melvin R. Kennedy, Jose Longoria, Robert G. Robbins
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Patent number: 7156105Abstract: An applicator for applying a product to hair may include a support not including a twisted wire and at least one through hole extending through the support. The at least one through hole may have a non-constant cross-section. The applicator may also include a tuft of bristles held in the at least one through hole. The tuft of bristles may be configured to apply the product to hair.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2001Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: L'OrealInventor: Jean-Louis H. Gueret
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Patent number: 7156106Abstract: This invention discloses an inexpensive, foldable, decorative hair band, which can be worn like sunglasses, pushed up above the wearer's forehead, comprising two sunglasses temple earpieces attached by folding sunglasses hinges to the opposite ends of a slightly outwardly bowed bridging strip section, that fits across the wearer's forehead, and a detachable decorative plate, instead of lenses, which fits onto and over this bridging strip, and which has a design on its outer surface. This decorative plate section can be easily connected and disconnected, from the bridging strip, so that the decorative plate can be replaced with another, having a different decorative design, as the wearer desires.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventor: Deborah Lawson
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Patent number: 7156107Abstract: A teeth cleaning brush structure including a cleaning brush, a cover, a stick sleeve, a cleaning rod, and a control device. The cleaning brush has bristles and a flexible insert rod extending from an end of the bristles. The cover has an open receiving groove located at one end forth stick sleeve with a cleaning stick disposed at one end to be inserted. The cleaning is equipped with a hollow retaining chamber located at a first end and coupling section extending from a second end matching a pivot section of the control device. The control device is mounted to the coupling section of the cleaning rod via the pivot section. The flexible insert rod of the cleaning brush is inserted through a through hole of the control device, when the control device is pivoted upwardly and locked in position when the control device is rotated downwardly.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Welter's Co., Ltd.Inventor: Walter Hsu
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Patent number: 7156108Abstract: A multifunction dental cleaning device is disclosed. The device includes a housing and a drive mechanism disposed within the housing. The drive mechanism includes a driven gear having eccentrically disposed thereon a pin. A reciprocator is coupled to the drive mechanism and includes a U-shaped body having a bridge end and a housing end. The reciprocator further includes a reciprocating bridge slidingly disposed between a pair of supports formed at the bridge end of the reciprocator, the reciprocating bridge including a slot adapted to receive the pin. The reciprocator is rotatably attached to the housing at the bridge end for rotation between a vertical mode motion position and the horizontal mode motion position. A rocker arm is coupled to the reciprocator, and one of a flossing head and a brushing head are coupleable to the rocker arm.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventor: Alfred Xueliang Xin
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Patent number: 7156109Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved combination tooth pick/dental floss appliance, with the addition of, a food and or medicament pad. The tasks carried out by the invention are beyond basic flossing to include the delivery system of an attached medicament such as or combination of, nicotine, breath fresheners, antacids, fluoride, and teeth brighteners. This invention is most valuable to a person on the go, who does not have easy access to facilities to brush their teeth as desired. This combination dental tool with the accompanying medicament gives one the ability to cleanse one's teeth as well as freshen one's mouth whether it be after eating or smoking.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventor: Mark A. Sampson
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Patent number: 7156110Abstract: A hand-held dental floss holder, dispenser, floss tensioning, and floss advancing device. The device is configured with one end being a handle and the other being a pair of tips across which dental floss is spanned for presenting to inter-dental spaces. An internal supply of dental floss is housed inside the handle. The floss passes from the supply, moves around floss guides, wraps one or more times around a free spooling clutch spool, exits the body of the device through an opening and is directed to and across the tips of the device and is guided back to a collection spool rotationally connected to a manually-activated one way thumbwheel. In a first position, the gearing of a gear assembly and an internal clutch spool assembly causes the floss to tension when the thumbwheel is turned. In a second position, the disengagement of gearing allows the clutch spool to spool freely, allowing fresh floss to be substituted for used floss, when the thumbwheel is turned.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventor: David H. Landry
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Patent number: 7156111Abstract: A method and system for the megasonic cleaning of one or more substrates that reduces damage to the substrate(s) resulting from the megasonic energy. The substrates are supported in a process chamber and contacted with a cleaning solution comprising a cleaning liquid having carbon dioxide gas dissolved in the cleaning liquid in such amounts that the carbon dioxide gas is at a supersaturated concentration for the conditions within the process chamber. Megasonic energy is then transmitted to the substrate. The cleaning solution provides protection from damage resulting from the application of megasonic/acoustical energy. In another aspect, the invention is a system for carrying out the method. The invention is not limited to carbon dioxide but can be used in conjunction with any gas that, when so dissolved in a cleaning liquid, protects substrates from being damaged by the application of megasonic/acoustical energy.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Akrion Technologies, IncInventors: Cole S. Franklin, Yi Wu, Brian Fraser
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Patent number: 7156112Abstract: A solvent flush cleaning system for a paint supply system. The cleaning system includes an air injection system that injects air directly into the pumping chambers of the solvent pump to entrain air within the solvent. The cleaning system preferably includes a dedicated double diaphragm pump that circulates the solvent. The air injection system preferably includes a pair of injection valves that cooperate to selectively supply pressurized air to each pumping chamber. The air injection system further includes an actuation assembly that times the injection valves so that pressurized air is supplied to each pumping chamber as that chamber expands. The actuation assembly includes actuation valves that are operated by pressure within the air chambers of the pump. When pressure builds in one air chamber, it opens the corresponding actuation valve, which in turn actuates the injection valve causing pressurized air to be supplied to the opposite pumping chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Filter and Coating Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey C. Ullrey, Michael L. Piper, Richard J. Tice
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Patent number: 7156113Abstract: A washing container for a dishwasher having several parts joined together, including a frame with walls, a base, and/or a cover attached thereto. The container can easily be adapted to varying predefined requirements according to the design of the dishwasher.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Helmut Jerg, Michael Rosenbauer, Bernd Schessl
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Patent number: 7156114Abstract: An angle adjusting device for the canopy of a hang umbrella includes a cantilever divided into a left-sectional cantilever and a right-sectional cantilever, with a connecting plug inserted in between the interiors of the left-sectional and the right-sectional cantilever. The left-sectional cantilever is secured with one end of the connecting plug and the right-sectional cantilever fitted around the other end of the connecting plug by a tightening bolt. By so designing, the outer portion of the cantilever, which is connected with the canopy, can be rotated and adjusted in different angles. Thus, the canopy of the hang umbrella can be adjusted and turned forward and backward as well as leftward and rightward.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
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Patent number: 7156115Abstract: A flow control system (10) is provided in which a flow control valve (12) is controlled by a control system (14). The control system (14) measures a flow rate or temperature of a fluid flowing through the flow control valve (12) and adjusts the flow control valve (12) to achieve a desired flow rate. The flow control valve (12) includes an electromagnetically adjustable spool (26).Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventors: William F. Everett, David C. Sudolcan
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Patent number: 7156116Abstract: A method, system, and computer program are provided for operating a valve using a cushion filter. The method, system, and computer program receive a process variable signal associated with operation of a valve. The method, system, and computer program filter the process variable signal to produce a filtered process variable signal using a cushion filter. The cushion filter implements a cushion in a bias used by the cushion filter. The method, system, and computer program generate an output signal for adjusting the valve based at least partially on the filtered process variable signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Joseph Z. Lu
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Patent number: 7156117Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods of controlling the flow of fluids through a microfluidic circuit and, more particularly, to methods of controlling the movement of fluid through a microfluidic circuit using one or more triggerable passive valves. In one embodiment of a method of controlling the flow of fluids through a microfluidic circuit according to the present invention, the microfluidic circuit includes a triggerable valve in series with a passive valve. In a further embodiment of a method of controlling the flow of fluids through a microfluidic circuit according to the present invention, the microfluidic circuit includes first and second triggerable valves in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Lifescan Scotland LimitedInventor: Sebastian Bohm
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Patent number: 7156118Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of microfluidic channel structures. The invention discloses a microfluidic channel system with a high aspect ratio as well as a process for producing the microfluidic system. The process according to the invention enables the production of channel structures with aspect ratios of any magnitude without the process being limited by the manufacturing conditions to certain materials for the channel system. The channel system can thus be optimally adapted to a desired field of application.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Gregor Ocvirk, Carlo Effenhauser, Karl-Heinz Koelker
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Patent number: 7156119Abstract: A hydrant knock-off combination flow stop valve and backflow check valve, mountable between water system riser and a wet-type hydrant having a breakaway flange ring. The vertical valve has a bulbous, cylindrical outer wall having an upper flange connecting to a wet-type hydrant by a break ring and a lower flange connecting to a system riser pipe. One embodiment has radial vertical vanes defining a central cylinder coaxial with the valve and acting as guides for a movable valve element to travel vertically up and down. The lower flange a seat, acting as a check valve with the valve element. The valve has a restraining cage keeping the valve element from engaging an upper seat. Once the break ring is ruptured the valve element seals against the seat, stopping water flow. The preferred valve element is a plastic coated ball. Another embodiment has a double mushroom, spring loaded valve element.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventor: Erling A. Freudendahl
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Patent number: 7156120Abstract: An inline liquid flow control valve includes an intake fitting member with a bottom portion having a bottom portion threaded section and a liquid flow section having apertures. The valve further includes an outlet fitting member with a top portion having a liquid outlet section with apertures. A top portion threaded section of the outlet fitting member engages a bottom portion threaded section of the intake fitting member with a compression member disposed therebetween. The compression member engaging a piston disposed internally within the intake fitting member. The apertures in the intake fitting member, apertures in the piston, an annular sleeve and the plurality of apertures in the outlet fitting member define a liquid flow chamber. A flow rate of liquid through the liquid flow chamber is inlinely adjustable and maintainable using an internally disposed compression member.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: CCT Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Raymond C. Cherfane, Lloyd W. Hitt
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Patent number: 7156121Abstract: A valve system includes a valve assembly, and an actuator for operating the valve assembly. The actuator includes a housing and a shaft extending through the housing. The shaft is moveable within a range of motion during operation of the valve assembly. The valve system also includes a valve position monitor for monitoring the position of the valve assembly. The valve position monitor includes at least one trigger and a corresponding stationary stop. The trigger is moveable with respect to the stationary stop within a range of motion. The range of motion of the trigger corresponds to at least a portion of the range of motion of the shaft. At least a portion of the range of motion of the trigger extends into the housing of the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventors: Christopher L. Cox, Wayne R. Houck
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Patent number: 7156122Abstract: A method of forming a ball valve element for a rotary ball valve assembly, the method comprising the steps of: (a) inserting an impedance element through an insertion opening of a ball valve element into a bore; (b) forming a fluid opening in the ball valve element which is non-rectilinearly aligned with the insertion opening and which communicates with the bore; and (c) sealing the insertion opening. A ball valve element for a rotary ball valve assembly formed using such a method; and a rotary ball valve assembly comprising a ball valve element formed using such a method are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Mogas Industries, Inc.Inventors: Cynthia Christenson, Jamee Mohrfeld, Kevin Jackson
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Patent number: 7156123Abstract: When sample collection cylinders get full, they need to be switched out with empty sample collection cylinders. The connection between the sample cylinder and a piping system is often a quick-connect which typically has a high pressure rating when closed and a lower pressure rating when opened. The bleeder valve of the present invention, when installed in the piping system between the quick-connect and the sample cylinder can be used to reduce the pressure in the system and the quick-connect to rated pressures before the quick-connect is opened. In an alternative embodiment intended for service with hazardous materials, the bleeder valve and seals are formed from resistant materials and the vent is connected to a flare or other suitable point of disposal.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Welker Engineering CompanyInventors: Brian H. Welker, Tracy Dean Peebles
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Patent number: 7156124Abstract: A segment for rehabilitating an existing pipe has an integral structure comprised of an inner plate having an inner circumferential surface that is planar or curved with a prescribed curvature, two side plates provided upright on each side edge of the inner plate, and two end plates provided upright on each end edge of the inner plate. At least one rehabilitating plate comprising a resin sheet covers one of an outer circumferential part of the segment facing the existing pipe and the inner circumferential surface of the inner plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Shonan Gosei-Jushi Seisakusho K.K.Inventors: Takao Kamiyama, Koji Kaneta, Kenji Fujii
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Patent number: 7156125Abstract: The present invention, there is provided a hose assembly having a tubular first layer containing therein multiple compartments 11 for carrying fluids in an automobile. Also disclosed is a method of making a hose assembly by forming a multiple compartment first layer for carrying fluids in an automobile.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Teleflex Fluid Systems, Inc.Inventors: Norman S. Martucci, Rich Hahn
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Patent number: 7156126Abstract: A synthetic resin pipe insert for insertion in an existing pipe or for use in the manufacture of new pipe to form a multi-channel pipe. The insert has a curved cross sectional configuration which defines a segment of a circle with a convexly curved radially outer wall and a concavely curved radially inner wall and a plurality of radial walls extending between the curved, radially inner and outer walls to form at least two linear channels. A curved inner pipe member may optionally be fitted against the concavely curved radially inner wall. The pipe insert of the invention facilitates multiple utility connections, such as cable TV and sewer, in a single pipe assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventors: Philip R. Topek, Newell J. Rollins
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Patent number: 7156127Abstract: An improved flexible hose for carrying fluids is disclosed. The hose has a first end and a second end, and is typically in a retracted position when no tensile force placed on an end of the hose and in an extended condition when a tensile force of a pulling nature is placed on an end of the hose. The hose has a thermoplastic cover on its outer surface. The thermoplastic cover has an interior surface and an exterior surface. On the interior surface there is a helical member adhered thereto this helical member being comprised of a material capable of carrying a current of electricity. The hose of the present invention stretches at least 100 percent over its at rest position when a pulling force is placed on one end of the hose.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2001Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Flexible Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Moulton, Roy Herron, Stephen Mountford, Thomas Dove
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Patent number: 7156128Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a synthetic resin pipe configured to perform water stop accurately by forming a part connecting convex portions of an outer pipe to be flat without reducing flexibility in order to compose a synthetic resin pipe having flat inner and outer surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Kanaflex CorporationInventor: Shigeki Kanao
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Patent number: 7156129Abstract: A system is disclosed allowing non-invasive, continuous local and remote sensing of the internal environmental characteristics of transportable containers. The system utilizes a variety of sensors inside the container to sense internal environmental conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Entegris, Inc.Inventors: Jerry A. Speasl, Edward Dante
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Patent number: 7156130Abstract: There is provided a toner container filling device and a toner production management system. The toner container filling device is installed at a toner container filling base and is able to fill a toner container with toner automatically, and obtain information about the toner container filling process while filling the toner container with toner. The toner production management system receives the information from the toner container filling device, and determines the amount of toner to be produced at a toner production base and time of delivering toner to the toner container filling base according to the received information.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hirosato Amano, Tetsuo Noji, Hidenori Minowa
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Patent number: 7156131Abstract: A filling device for use to manually or automatically refill a fuel cartridge using a separate fuel container or a second fuel cartridge is disclosed. The filling device provides for the sharing or fuel among numerous fuel containers and fuel cartridges in various consumer electronic devices. Fuel cartridges can be filled in-situ using an adapter for connecting the fuel container to the fuel cartridge. The adapter includes an input connector and an output connector arranged to adapt various fuel containers and fuel cartridges together. The adapter can be arranged as a passive device or as an active device and can include pumps, valves, power sources and control units as desired.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Societe BICInventors: Paul Adams, Andrew J. Curello
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Patent number: 7156132Abstract: The present invention is a collapsible fluid container for handling liquid. The collapsible fluid container has an interior volume for storing the liquid, which defines a main chamber and an auxiliary chamber connected to the main chamber. The auxiliary chamber is positioned to receive a substance. A fitment is sealed to the collapsible fluid container that defines a port communicating with the interior volume of the fluid container.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Advanced Technology Materials, Inc.Inventors: Kevin O'Dougherty, Robert Andrews, John Titus
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Patent number: 7156133Abstract: Apparatus is provided for controllably delivering liquid, preferably foam producing liquid, from a remote supply tank to a holding tank for replenishment of liquid in the holding tank. The apparatus utilizes a pressurized air source of a vehicle to supply the energy to move the liquid. A liquid level sensing, signaling element is adapted to automatically control the filling of the holding tank and terminating operation when the holding tank is no longer being replenished.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventors: John E. McLaughlin, Neocles G. Athanasiades, Toh M. Meng
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Patent number: 7156134Abstract: A portable system for transferring liquids, such as diesel fuel, from a first tank, such as a railcar, to a second tank, such as on a transport truck. The system is self-contained and comprises a pump driven by an engine fueled by the liquid being transferred. A meter measures the amount of liquid being transferred. An inlet hose is used to connect the system to the railcar, and an outlet hose is used to connect the system to the transport truck. The inlet and outlet hoses may be stored in hose storage tubes. A throttle of the engine may be actuated from a rear portion of the system. A sample line is provided through which a sample may be taken of the liquid being transferred. Air from the truck may be used to blow any liquid out of the outlet hose after a transferring operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Musket CorporationInventors: Michael C. Brakefield, Steven K. Olive, Steven C. Strobel
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Patent number: 7156135Abstract: A quick-release connector structure for an air tank includes a connector body incorporated with an air tank and a seat block. The seat block is secured to the air tank and comprises a valve having a post extending forwardly. The valve is acting as a switch to turn the air tank on and off. The connector body comprises a first passage and a second passage. The first passage comprises an air release hole and a through hole. A thimble is disposed in the first passage. A quick-release wrench is provided in a recess disposed on the connector body. The quick-release wrench corresponds to the through hole and is secured by a fastener. By turning the quick-release wrench, the high-pressure air remaining in the pipe is released.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2006Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Sunworld Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hsin-Cheng Yeh
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Patent number: 7156136Abstract: The present invention relates to devices facilitating the addition of items into containers. In particular, the present invention relates to devices configured to assist in supplying food items into mixing containers.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2006Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventor: Tim Kulas
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Patent number: 7156137Abstract: The invention relates to a rubber composition which contains starch/plasticizer composite, precipitated silica and carbon black reinforcement together with a coupling agent wherein the coupling agent is an organosilane polysulfide having an average of from about 2 to about 2.6 connecting sulfur atoms in its polysulfidic bridge. The invention provides for a chemical reaction between a coupling agent and silica which is substantially decoupled from a reaction between a coupling agent and starch/plasticizer to form a filler reinforcement network in situ within the elastomer host followed by a subsequent phase mixing of the carbon black therewith. The invention further relates to the resulting rubber composition and articles of manufacture, including tires, having at least one component comprised of said rubber composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce, Fernand Antoine Joseph Fourgon
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Patent number: 7156138Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a carcass extending between bead portions through a tread portion and sidewall portions and a belt disposed radially outside the carcass in the tread portion, the belt constituting at least one belt ply made of parallel cords embedded in a composite topping rubber layer, the composite topping rubber layer formed from at least two kinds of topping rubbers having different complex elastic moduli, and the topping rubbers alternately disposed in a a circumferential direction of the tire.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Kazuya Suzuki
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Patent number: 7156139Abstract: A system and method to control the head suspension assembly static attitude during the manufacturing process are disclosed. A loading fixture loads and supports a head suspension while a slider is attached. A pitch static attitude and roll static attitude (PSA/RSA) monitor takes a first measurement of the pitch static attitude and roll static attitude of the head suspension. A rotatable positioning tool holds the slider in a position relative to the head suspension for attachment and to adjust the position of the slider in response to the first measurement.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.Inventor: Ming Gao Yao
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Patent number: 7156140Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for forming a sleeve from a flat tube and applying the sleeve to a container. A length of flat tube is advanced from a supply to a position between a pair of movable grippers. The grippers are extended to contact and hold the tube, and a cutter severs the length of flat tube from the supply. A vacuum is applied to the grippers, and the grippers are retracted to open the cut flat tube into a round configuration. A second length of flat tube is advanced, pushing the open cut length tube onto a container that is being moved therebeneath on a conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Axon CorporationInventor: Sainguen Houatchanthara
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Patent number: 7156141Abstract: A tire demounting tool for demounting a second bead of a tire from a rim having a flange, the tire demounting tool including a handle; a head extending radially outward as it extends axially outward from the handle; a bill extending axially outward from the head, wherein the bill includes a tip insertable between the second bead and the rim and wherein the head extends radially outward relative to the bill to capture the second bead when the bill is inserted between the rim and the second bead.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2006Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Summit Tool CompanyInventor: Roger Kliskey
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Patent number: 7156142Abstract: A partition wall, upwardly movable into storage position and downwardly movable into vertical, down position. The wall comprises a plurality of similar trains of elongated members. The members of each train are arranged to form a single pantograph forming longitudinally aligned rows of diamonds. The trains are spaced laterally to form a wall plane and oriented so that the diamonds of the pantographs operate in a plane at a 90° angle to that wall plane. A plurality of panels are provided, each panel being secured to a pair of corresponding members in adjacent trains. The panels are secured to corresponding pairs of opposed sides of the diamonds. Means are provided to raise and lower the trains at a similar rate. The pantographs are contracted when the wall is in a storage position and the elongated when the wall is in down position. The panels form a vertical wall when the pantographs are elongated in down position.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Railtech Ltd.Inventor: Miles E. Peterson
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Patent number: 7156143Abstract: A shade apparatus, attached to a sunroof apparatus, including a transparent window, the transparent window being supported by a window supporting member so as to be attached to a vehicle roof, and also capable of being opened and closed, comprises a winding-type roof shade apparatus provided inwards of the transparent window so as to enable a shade cloth, which blocks light from entering therethrough, to be pulled in and pulled out, a lock mechanism attached to a side portion of the winding-type roof shade apparatus for maintaining the winding-type roof shade apparatus in a closed state, a first unlocking portion for manually unlocking the lock mechanism and a second unlocking portion for unlocking the lock mechanism by means of a movement of the window supporting member.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignees: Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd., Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naochika Katada, Shinji Sakai, Kazuki Sawada
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Patent number: 7156144Abstract: A spray head for a spraying tool for spraying the halves of a casting tool is described, in which the connection is made to a traveling arm provided with the media-carrying passages through distributing blocks disposed one under the other, from which the connection is made to spray bars through cross connections. The new configuration is selected such that the connection of the spray bars can be made selectively to the one or other of the media passages. By arranging a plurality of distributing blocks together, the addition of spray bars can also be performed stack-wise at varying distances from the particular distributing block.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Oskar Frech GmbH +Co. KGInventors: Norbert Erhard, Hubert Pschenitschni
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Patent number: 7156145Abstract: A dispensing arrangement for inserting a part into a cast iron mold includes a dispenser apparatus configured to dispense a predetermined number of parts, a staging apparatus configured to position the parts in a selective orientation and a jig apparatus configured to grip and lift the parts from the staging apparatus and position the parts in a die of a mold. The apparatus may be located adjacent the mold in use.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North AmericaInventor: Christopher E. Ulerick
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Patent number: 7156146Abstract: A feeder insert is provided for a mold utilized for pouring metal. The insert includes a feeder body having a feed volume, in the form of an inner space, delimited by side walls and a top portion. A feed opening is provided in the base region for communicating with a hollow mold space. A domed feeder cap is displaceably disposed on a feeder body, surrounds the side walls of the feeder body to form an insulating gap, and is fixed in position relative to the feeder body prior to molding of the insert. At least one spacer of flexible material is disposed between the top portions of the feeder body and feeder cap such that during molding of the insert, and placement of the feeder body on the mold surface, due to molding pressure that occurs the feeder cap is displaceable relative to the feeder body while leaving an insulating gap between the top portions of the feeder body and feeder cap.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: GTP-Schafer Giesstechnishe Produkte GmbHInventors: Jürgen-Michael Schäfer, Thomas-Michael Schäfer
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Patent number: 7156147Abstract: An apparatus for guiding a moving, flexible, tensed casting belt on a continuous metal casting machine along a substantially oval path. The continuous metal casting machine having an entrance-end, an exit-end and a moving-mold casting region extending from the entrance-end to the exit-end. The apparatus includes a non-rotating fluid pillow structure at the entrance end of the machine. The fluid pillow structure supports the mold-width of the casting belt. The apparatus includes two narrow shoulder-pulleys at the entrance end of the casting machine which are adjacent to opposite sides of the entrance-end fluid-pillow structure. Each pulley supports a portion of the belt outside of the moving-mold casting region. Each pulley guides the belt around the fluid-pillow structure as the belt revolves along its substantially oval path. The apparatus also facilitates the sealing, controlled-venting and recovery of pressurized fluids used to levitate the belt about a fluid-pillow structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Hazelett Strip Casting CorporationInventors: J. F. Barry Wood, R. William Hazelett
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Patent number: 7156148Abstract: A manufacturing method for a continuously cast product of steel includes the steps of detecting a position of a crater end of the product by a method for measuring a solidification state of the continuously cast product using a sensor arranged so as to be in non-contact with the product, and controlling at least one condition selected from the conditions of the casting speed and the quantity of secondary cooling water based on the detected position of crater end.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: NKK CorporationInventors: Yukinori Iizuka, Yutaka Awajiya, Masayuki Nakada, Makoto Suzuki, Koichi Tsutsumi