Patents Issued in May 29, 2007
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Patent number: 7222552Abstract: A controller for a transmission capable of preventing an occurrence of a gear squeak caused by a malfunction of a synchronization mechanism. The voltage determination section 24 performs a shift operation of a transmission by determining a control input Vin to a shift motor 13 so as to match an actual position Psc of a coupling sleeve 6 grasped by an actual position grasping section 21 with a target position Psc_cmd of the coupling sleeve 6 set by a target position setting section 22.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshikazu Kouno, Eijiro Shimabukuro, Yuji Yasui, Junya Tachikawa
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Patent number: 7222553Abstract: The invention provides a ball screw apparatus which suppresses abrasion and damage by competition of balls, controls spaces between retaining pieces and balls, and prevents retaining pieces from falling, thereby enabling to more improve operating ability. The retaining pieces are positioned between the balls running in a ball rolling path, such that a sum total of the spaces between the retaining pieces and the balls is 50% or less of an outer diameter size of the retaining piece, and at the same time a contact angle between the retaining piece and the ball is 25° or above to 40° or below.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2002Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Okita, Tsutomu Ohkubo, Daisuke Maruyama
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Patent number: 7222554Abstract: A shift actuator for a transmission for turning, in a direction of shift, a shift lever support mechanism mounting the shift lever of the transmission, wherein it comprises an operation lever coupled, at its intermediate portion, to said shift lever support mechanism, the first electromagnetic solenoid and the second electromagnetic solenoid which are each coupled to both ends of said operation lever so as to operate in the upward and downward directions; and an operation rod of said first electromagnetic solenoid is coupled to one end of said operation lever and an operation rod of said second electromagnetic solenoid is coupled to the other end of said operation lever.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Isuzu Motors LimitedInventors: Masahiko Hayashi, Yasushi Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Iwao
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Patent number: 7222555Abstract: A method for manufacturing a handsaw capable of cutting a glass bottle. The method includes cutting a steel strip to a predetermined length to form a handsaw substrate. A portion of the handsaw substrate, other than a cutter blade forming portion formed on at least one edge of the handsaw substrate in a widthwise direction is masked. A hard abrasive is applied onto the portion of the handsaw substrate other than the masked portion. The handsaw substrate, to which the hard abrasive has been applied, is dipped in an electrolytic solution tank to deposit a metal layer in which the hard abrasive is embedded.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Funasaw Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masayoshi Funakubo
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Patent number: 7222556Abstract: The shingle removing machine includes a frame supporting a power source, which, in turn, drives a lateral axle with a wheel at each end thereof, with each wheel having an eccentric pin driving a blade drive arm. Separate wheels support the frame. Each blade drive arm extends forwardly and has a relatively wide shingle removal blade at its forward end. The blades extend substantially the width of the machine. The forward ends of the blade drive arms are interconnected and include rollers riding on sloped ramps on the forward end of the frame. Rotation of the blade arm drive wheels reciprocates the blade drive arms forwardly and rearwardly, with the blades also lifting and lowering during the cycle as the forward ends of the arms ride up and down the ramps. The blade drive arm assembly may be quickly and easily disassembled for maintenance and repair in the field.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: Robert C. Tyler
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Patent number: 7222557Abstract: A ratcheting tool driver has a handle and a ratcheting body that includes a plurality of recesses for receiving a plurality of pawls having teeth formed thereon. A cover is axially secured to the ratcheting body and rotates relative to the body over a limited distance. The cover is formed so that it interacts with the plurality of pawls, which are operatively received in the body recesses so that they engage and disengage teeth formed on a socket ring. The socket ring contains a plurality of teeth on its outer circumference, is received in an axial bore formed in the ratcheting body, and operatively engages the pawl teeth.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Easco Hand Tools, Inc.Inventors: Peng Li, Zhihong Fu, Kean-Tuan Tan, John Michael Underbrink
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Patent number: 7222558Abstract: Gripping pliers consisting of a jointed clamp and handle. The clamp contains a longitudinal slot with longitudinal apertures defining first and second detent positions. In the first position, the joint is movable whereas in the second position, the joint is locked. The handle is rotatably mounted on a bearing ring which permits fine adjustment of the opening width of the pliers.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Eduard Willie GmbH & Co KGInventors: Lothar Schmitt, Hans-Joachim Chniel
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Patent number: 7222559Abstract: A screwdriver comprises a torque setting mechanism including a torque adjustment ring, an actuation rod threadedly secured to the upper torque adjustment ring and a lower torque adjustment nut, a spring biased sleeve with the actuation rod passed, and a clutch ring snugly put on two opposing intermediate flats of the actuation rod and having an upper surface engaged the torque adjustment ring and a lower surface formed with recesses engaged with steel balls on an upper surface of a support ring in the sleeve. Turning a rotatable handle will turn the sleeve. The clutch ring will disengage with the steel balls if the torque exceeds a set value. Thus, the torque exerted on the handle will not transmit to a shank secured to the actuation rod so as to prevent a screw from being over-driven by the shank.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: Chun Fu Wang
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Patent number: 7222560Abstract: A miter saw includes a base, a table rotatably attached to the base, a support housing connected to the table, a saw assembly connected to the support housing, the saw assembly comprising a pivot arm, an upper blade guard connected to the pivot arm, a motor attached to the upper blade guard, and a blade driven by the motor, and a dust collector having a main body, wherein at least one slot is disposed on the main body.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: James R. Parks, Brian P. Wattenbach, Steven McKeithen, James H. Stiles, III
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Patent number: 7222561Abstract: A pyromechanical cutting element has a housing (2) in which an electrical conductor (3) is arranged, a cutting plunger (5) with a cutting tool (8) to cut through the electrical conductor (3), and pyrotechnic charge (13) to drive the cutting plunger (5), with the cutting tool (8) bending over the electrical conductor (3) after cutting through it and forming a bending tongue (18) that sticks out from the conductor (3) in a way that interrupts the conductor (3). The electrical conductor (3) has a cross-sectional area reduction in the longitudinal direction (4) consisting of two transverse sides and two longitudinal sides. The cutting tool (8) first cuts through the cross-sectional area reduction (4) just on one transverse side and upon further advancement bends over the longitudinal sides at least in part, and, upon further advancement, the cutting tool (8) clamps the bending tongue (18) thus created.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Uwe Brede, Gerhard Kordel, Jurgen Knauss, Reinhold Meisinger
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Patent number: 7222562Abstract: A multi-layered protective cover (10) for the exterior of a vehicle, held in place over the hood by means of a main strap (12), a main strap lock (14), and an underside lock (16). Rounded pad (20) forms a frame along the perimeter of a vehicle. For easy entry or exit, latch on rounded pad (22), Velcro.RTM cover (24), zipper (26), and fasteners (28) are provided. Along an upper frame (34), insulated wire (36) is connected from panel to panel by an electrical plug (30), and an electrical socket (32). Electromagnets, consisting of an iron bar (38) and an iron head (40) are inlaid in a rubber layer (42). A lower frame (44) provides support for a bullet-proof layer (46) and a water-proof layer (48). When current flows to the electromagnets, the cover is affixed to a body of vehicle (50).Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: Gary LeRoy Smiley
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Patent number: 7222563Abstract: The steam generating assembly of the present invention subjects a food product, such as a sandwich bun, to a controlled burst of low pressure steam in order to quickly and uniformly raise the temperature of the food product to its desired serving temperature or higher. By raising the temperature to above the desired serving temperature, the storage time of a pre-assembled food product, such as a fast food sandwich may be extended without sacrificing the quality or freshness of the product. The invention claims a steam generating assembly for steam heating a pre-processed food product.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2003Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Burger King CorporationInventors: John Reckert, Jeff Cook, Duane Crisp, Terry Peter, Rhonda Sward, Robert Wenzel
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Patent number: 7222564Abstract: A roasting apparatus for cooking skewered food constituted by food and a skewer skewering the food includes a main apparatus body having a wall member forming a cooking space maintained within the food during cooking, a heater provided in such a manner that a heat-emitting section is positioned at an upper part of the cooking space, and a food holding mechanism for positioning food downwards from the heat-emitting section and being capable of holding horizontally laid skewers in a manner enabling free rotation about a center axis of the skewers, so as to enable heat from the heating means to be used effectively and enable the skewered food to be effectively cooked.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2003Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Forming Food's Trading LimitedInventor: Masayuki Sekiya
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Patent number: 7222565Abstract: A device and method for changing the orientation of an object. One such device includes a twist neck that is used in strapping machines. The twist neck includes an ingress portion, which includes an ingress opening formed therein, and a middle portion. The middle portion includes a pathway formed therein. The pathway has a cross-sectional shape that is substantially similar to the cross-sectional shape of a strap that is used in the strapping machine. A strap is urged into the ingress opening in a first orientation and into the pathway, which itself is in a second orientation. When the strap exits the egress opening, it will be in the second orientation. A user can manipulate the orientation of the associated strap by changing the orientation of the pathway.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Calvin E. Kasel
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Patent number: 7222566Abstract: A rotary baler having a variable size baling chamber for the formation of a cylindrical bale. The baler is configured to measure diameter and the shape of the bale. To measure the shape of the bale, the baler is provided with at least one sensor arranged to generate information regarding the diameter of a bale formed in the baling chamber. The sensor is a non-contacting sensor and is arranged to detect the position of the outer surface of the bale or the surface of an endless conveying element located about the bale.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventor: Stéphane Biziorek
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Patent number: 7222567Abstract: A juice extractor includes a juice extraction assembly having a wall surface and fluid outlet thereon. At least one tapered spray nozzle is mounted flush on the wall surface at the fluid outlet for receiving and discharging fluid and configured for preventing build-up on the spray nozzle of product material during extractor operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: FMC Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gregory W. Schrader, Kevin G. Socha, Mark R. Jackson, Michael L. Suter
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Patent number: 7222568Abstract: A method for flexographic multi-color printing, wherein a print medium web is passed continuously through a flexographic printing press having at least two ink units, each ink unit including a printing cylinder, an anilox roller and an ink sup-ply system adapted to supply liquid ink of a specific color to the anilox roller, wherein the inks supplied in the different ink units differ in both, color and mass density, the method including the steps of mounting, in at least one of the ink units, an anilox roller having a larger diameter than the anilox roller of another one of the at least two ink units, and during printing, supplying the ink with the largest mass density to the anilox roller having the larger diameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Fischer & Krecke GmbH & Co.Inventors: Ron Shemesh, Bodo Steinmeier, Wolfgang Brusdeilins, Gordon Whitelaw, Andreas Kückelmann
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Patent number: 7222569Abstract: An oscillation amount adjusting device for an oscillating roller has a sleeve detent plate for restraining the rotation of a sleeve. An operator manually loosens a sleeve locking bolt to render the sleeve rotatable relative to a rotating shaft supporting the sleeve. The rotation of the sleeve is restrained by the sleeve detent plate. In this state, the rotating shaft supporting the sleeve is rotated by an oscillation drive motor to adjust the oscillation amount of oscillating rollers.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Komori CorporationInventors: Akehiro Kusaka, Takashi Fuseki
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Patent number: 7222570Abstract: A planographic printing plate supply unit comprising: carrying rollers rotating while pressing a stacking bundle, in which planographic printing plates and covering papers are stacked alternately, so as to carry the planographic printing plate and covering paper at the top of the stacking bundle, wherein convex portions which are elastically deformed when pressing the stacking bundle and whose contact area with the planographic printing plate is larger after being elastically deformed than before are provided on the outside periphery of the carrying roller.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Yoshinori Kawamura, Kikuo Matsuba, Kazuoki Komiyama, Yoshihiro Koyanagi
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Patent number: 7222571Abstract: The present invention describes an assembly to control fan-out on a multi-color offset printing press. The assembly includes an arm that pushes the paper into proper alignment before the printing of a succeeding color. The assembly may be fitted to existing presses and may be adjusted to accommodate papers of various widths and moisture content.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: Bradley Susen
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Patent number: 7222572Abstract: This printing apparatus comprises a support tray provided with a rotatable base, and an optical disk as a printing object is mounted on the rotatable base. A control section of the printing apparatus selectively operates rotation drive means for driving the rotatable base to be rotated and print means for printing predetermined data on a surface of the optical disk, thereby executing printing to a plurality of portions of the optical disk.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2003Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshiaki Mochizuki
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Patent number: 7222573Abstract: A projectile for an air arm is integrally formed from a single piece of dense malleable material formed as a body of revolution about a longitudinal axis having a head portion dimensioned for free sliding in the bore of an air arm and a skirt-like portion of frusto-conical form. The rearward end of the skirt portion is dimensioned to be in slight interference fit with the bore and the forward end is joined with the head portion to define a reduced diameter waist. The frustum is shell-walled, having a central recess opening to the rear and extending forwardly into the head portion. The head portion has a parabolically shaped outer surface which transitions smoothly into a hyperbolically shaped outer skirt surface for aerodynamic efficiency. Vanes are formed on the head portion to enhance in-flight spiraling rotation.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: James M. Pontieri
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Patent number: 7222574Abstract: Treatment agents are provided for cell seedlings. Each treatment agent comprises water, a dispersant, and activated carbon finely dispersed with the dispersant in the water. Potted seedlings can be treated by dipping them in the treatment agent and/or by irrigating them with the treatment agent. In this manner, cell seedlings can be pre-treated before planting. The thus-planted seedlings may be irrigated with the treatment agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2002Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Hattori, Shigeo Sasaki
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Patent number: 7222575Abstract: An apparatus for preparing soil for the placement therein of at least one of seed and fertilizer. A frame is provided with there being first structure on the frame for penetrating the soil to create an opening for at least one of seed and fertilizer as the frame is advanced in a travel direction. A second structure is provided on the frame at least partially downstream of the first structure for at least one of a) stripping soil clods from the first structure and b) loosening soil downstream of the first structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: James H. Bassett
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Patent number: 7222576Abstract: A gated looper apparatus has an array of individually mounted pressurizable air cylinders with piston rods acting against biased slider bars in communication with looper gates. Baising elements are mounted external of pneumatic cylinders about slider bars with protective ferules to provide greater responsiveness and ease of maintenance.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2006Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Tuftco CorporationInventor: Michael Kilgore
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Patent number: 7222577Abstract: A system for controlling a marine vessel having at least first and second steering nozzles and corresponding first and second reversing buckets is disclosed. The system comprises a processor configured to receive a first vessel control signal and to provide a first set and a second set of actuator control signals. The first set of actuator control signals are to be coupled to and control the first and second steering nozzles and the second set of actuator control signals are to be coupled to and control the first and second reversing buckets. The processor is configured to provide the second set of actuator control signals so that the first reversing bucket and the second reversing bucket are each positioned in one of two discrete positions, in response to receipt of a translational thrust command having least one component in an athwart ship direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: Robert A. Morvillo
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Patent number: 7222578Abstract: An apparatus for removing attachments deposited on a surface of an underwater structure and preventing that such attachments be deposited thereafter. The apparatus is floated on the water surface or underwater and with the aid of a natural force repeatedly impinges upon the surface of the structure to remove attachments deposited thereon. The apparatus has a first rope being provided around the surface of the structure at the water surface level, and at least one or more rotating members threaded with said first rope and being freely rotatable about the rope. The rotating members impinge upon the surface of the structure when the apparatus floats on the water surface level or underwater shaving off attachments deposited on the structure, and preventing any further attachments from being deposited thereafter. It is preferred to provide some protruding portions on the surface area of the rotating members where the rotating members impinge upon the surface of the structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Ecoguard Systems Ltd.Inventor: Shuichi Kaneko
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Patent number: 7222579Abstract: A method of controlling a streamer positioning device (18) configured to be attached to a marine seismic streamer (12) and towed by seismic survey vessel (10) and having a wing and a wing motor for changing the orientation of the wing. The method includes the steps of: obtaining an estimated velocity of the streamer positioning device, calculating a desired change in the orientation of the wing using the estimated velocity of the streamer positioning device, and actuating the wing motor to produce the desired change in the orientation of the wing. The invention also involves an apparatus for controlling a streamer positioning device including means for obtaining an estimated velocity of the streamer positioning device, means for calculating a desired change in the orientation of the wing using the estimated velocity of the streamer positioning device, and means for actuating the wing motor to produce the desired change in the orientation of the wing.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: WesternGeco, L.L.C.Inventors: Oyvind Hillesund, Simon Hastings Bittleston
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Patent number: 7222580Abstract: An enclosure is removably securable to a support member including a first part of a releasable fastener. The enclosure includes a panel of material sized to enclose the support member. A flexible flap is affixed to the panel, and a second part of the releasable fastener is affixed to the flexible flap. The second part of the releasable fastener is positioned for engagement with the first part when the panel encloses the support member. By affixing the second part of the releasable fastener to the flexible flap, the position of the fastener is adjustable to accommodate panel shrinkage, manufacturing tolerances and the like.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Taylor Made Group, Inc.Inventors: Robert R. Shearer, Pat Madden
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Patent number: 7222581Abstract: A transition device for providing a smooth corner of a pair of angular oriented interconnected windshields on a boat, the boat having a forward facing or front windshield and a side facing windshield, both the windshields being mounted in a formed aluminum molding. The transition device comprises a first element attached to the molding of the forward facing windshield at an upper end of the joint and terminating at the joint in a ball and a second element attached to the molding of the side facing windshield at the upper end of the joint and terminating in a socket. The ball and the socket are shaped and sized to fit together to form a smooth transition at the upper end of the joint so that the corner joint appears to have a ball and socket joint.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Water Bonnet Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Ernest Mayo Smith, David Gregory Chapman
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Patent number: 7222582Abstract: In some embodiments, an accessory retainer apparatus for a vehicle may include one or more of the following features: (a) a handle member, (b) a shaft pivotally coupled to the handle member at the proximal end, the handle member pivotally rotatable between an open and closed position to move the shaft in an axial direction, (c) a grommet located on the shaft at the distal end, (d) a fastener coupled to the shaft at the distal end, whereby the accessory retainer is adapted to retain an accessory to a mounting aperture located on the vehicle, (e) a spacer member located proximal of the grommet, (f) a second grommet located between the handle member and the spacer, and (g) a bracket member coupled at the proximal end of the shaft between the handle member and the spacer member.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.Inventors: Mike Whiting, Steve Erickson, David Foss
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Patent number: 7222583Abstract: A broadcast feeder for projecting food aggregate or pellets directionally into an area up to, for example, sixty or more feet away from the feed container. The action is controlled to provide a predetermined quantity of aggregate at a predetermined time. The velocity of the feed as it exits the feeder is such that the area directly surrounding the feeder is free of feed particulate. A modular design affords the ability to operate as a self-contained unit with its own storage hopper or as a retrofit module added to existing conventional barrel type scatter type feeders. The projection of the feed is accomplished by propelling the feed pellets with a center intake centrifugal air blower assembly designed such that no special feed gates, baffles or chutes are required.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Texas Hunter ProductsInventors: H. Dell Foster, Paul B. Sides
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Patent number: 7222584Abstract: A rake shield apparatus used for preventing urination onto the tines of a rake and the rake itself of an automated litter box comprising: a shield, and at least one cord; the distal end of the cord is affixed to the tine of a rake and the other distal end of the cord is affixed with the shield.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: William T. Rodgers
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Patent number: 7222585Abstract: A method suitable for commercial aquaculture, the method comprising the steps of: (a) at least partially filling a tank (3) with an aqueous medium (13), the tank (3) being adapted for control of the quality of the aqueous medium (13), (b) locating one or more supports (2, 4) in the tank (3), each support (2, 4) being adapted to vertically hold multiple cells (1) containing marine or fresh water organisms, (c) removing one or more supports (2, 4) from the tank (3) to harvest the marine or fresh water organisms wherein a cell (1) is a self-contained unit including a barrier such as a wall to enclose marine or fresh water organisms in a volume of aqueous medium (13) and includes one or more apertures or interstices to facilitate free flow of the aqueous medium (13) between the interior and exterior of the cell (1). Each cell (1) further includes a port for insertion of the marine or fresh water organisms, the port being blocked or restricted when the cell (1) is held by the support (2, 4).Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2001Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: Viktor Jablonsky
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Patent number: 7222586Abstract: A fluid delivery adapter for use with a wire bar lid. Embodiments can comprise a support base having an aperture defined therein, the aperture being shaped and dimensioned to accept a fluid delivery valve. The support base can be adapted to be disposed on top of the wire bar lid to facilitate providing fluid from a fluid bag supported by the wire bar lid. The fluid delivery adapter can further comprise one or more side portions extending away from the support base, the side portions providing lateral support for the fluid bag.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Hydropac/Lab Products, Inc.Inventors: George S. Gabriel, Neil E. Campbell, Chinsoo Park, Dale Murray, Lynn Irwin, Frank Gianni
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Patent number: 7222587Abstract: A housing structure that includes a transparent opening in one wall thereof, the opening being covered with a transparent material such as PLEXIGLAS®. This opening allows a user to view the interior of the structure and ascertain the welfare of any animals within or check for pests without opening the birdhouse and risk frightening or harming the animals. In addition, the housing structure may also include a light within such that a user can illuminate the interior thereof. This allows the user to inspect the interior of the structure when it is too dark to do so without the help of an artificial light source. Moreover, the structure may include a removable roof or side wall for easy access to the interior of the birdhouse for the purpose of cleaning and the like, or access ports that may be used to access the structure without opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: Dennis Todd Hagel
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Patent number: 7222588Abstract: A pet grooming tool, for use with a furry pet such as a dog or cat having loose hair and non-loose hair, is adapted for removing the loose hair from the pet. The grooming tool comprises an elongate handle portion extending generally along a handle axis, and a pet engageable portion secured to the handle portion. The pet engageable portion includes a blade portion and a plurality of teeth. The blade portion includes a blade edge. The teeth extend from the blade edge. The blade edge is adapted to engage the loose hair of the pet and pull it from the pet without cutting or pulling the non-loose hair from the pet.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: FURminator, Inc.Inventors: Angela L. Porter, David R. Porter
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Patent number: 7222589Abstract: A bark control device (10) for deterring a dog from barking. The bark control device (10) includes a housing (12) carried by the dog, the housing having a vibration dampening surface (13) covering at least a portion of the exterior of the housing (12). The device (10) also includes a bark detection mechanism (18), a stimulus delivery system (26) for delivering a stimulus to the dog to dissuade the dog from barking, and circuitry (22, 24) for activating the stimulus delivery system (26) in response to the detection by the bark detection mechanism (18) of a bark by the dog. The vibration dampening surface (13) of the housing (12) inhibits the delivery of false correction stimuli to the dog as the result of vibrations emanating from a source other than a bark by the dog.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Radio Systems CorporationInventors: Albert L. Lee, IV, William S. Groh
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Patent number: 7222590Abstract: A pet tether including a ground fixation device; a base attached to a ground fixation device, the base being disposed above the ground, a coupling on the base, the coupling being disposed above the ground, a leash bracket, the leash bracket having a leash attachment and the leash bracket having a handle, the handle being constructed to couple and uncouple with the coupling, a housing attached to the leash bracket; and a light mounted in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: John A. Haddad
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Patent number: 7222591Abstract: A radiant burner within the combustion chamber of a fuel-fired water heater is supplied with primary and secondary combustion air from outside the combustion chamber. A flame-holding mesh section of the burner is protected from becoming unacceptably clogged by particulate matter in the primary combustion air by causing the incoming secondary combustion air to flow sequentially through a finer mesh section and a tapered duct which increases the velocity of the secondary combustion air before causing it to impinge upon and cool a temperature sensor connected to a controller. Clogging of the finer mesh section decreases the cooling of the temperature sensor, thereby causing the controller to terminate operation of the burner before it becomes unacceptably clogged.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2006Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Jacob A. Peart, Hector J. Donastorg
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Patent number: 7222592Abstract: A water out-let box comprising a regulating thermostat principally made up of a valve to block an opening of a passage emerging in the box, the valve being stressed against its seat, formed by the peripheral edge of the above-mentioned opening, by an elastic loading means and moved away from the seat by a pressure means that reacts to heat, the means with opposed actions resting, directly or indirectly, on a stress-absorbing clamp which also ensures that the thermostat is mounted and positioned in cooperation with an opposed bearing. Box is produced in a thermoplastic material and comprises, on the internal face of its constitutive wall (1?), at least two internal protrusions (10, 10?) providing permanent support surfaces (10?) for the clamp (9) of the thermostat (2), before and after installation of the box (1).Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2003Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Mark IV Systemes MoteursInventors: David Guyon, Claude Vallet, Richard Komurian
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Patent number: 7222593Abstract: An adjusting device for the rotational position of the camshaft of a reciprocating piston engine relative to the crankshaft, has an actuator for adjusting the rotational position that is connected into a control circuit. The control circuit has a controller, which is linked to a data memory, in which controller coefficients for a transfer function of the controller are stored. The data memory has at least two memory areas in which various sets of controller coefficients are stored. The control circuit is connectable with the aid of a mode selector, optionally or alternately, in such a way to one of the data memory areas that the controller coefficient set stored in the particular data memory area is used for the control. A device for ascertaining the operating state of the adjusting device and/or of the reciprocating piston engine is connected to the mode selector in such a way that the controller coefficient set used in the particular case for the control is dependent on the operating state.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Luk Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KGInventors: Holger Stork, Heiko Dell
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Patent number: 7222594Abstract: A variable valve mechanism performs a valve lift switching operation for an intake valve. ECU defines valve lift switching characteristics corresponding to the engine operating region and executes the valve lift switching operation based on the switching characteristics. ECU calculates a parameter fluctuation amount of an engine occurring in response to the valve lift switching operation, and corrects the valve lift switching characteristics when the calculated parameter fluctuation amount exceeds a predetermined judgment value.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2006Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Keiji Hoshino
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Patent number: 7222595Abstract: A valve system of an internal combustion engine mounted on a vehicle comprises a valve characteristic varying mechanism for controlling valve operation characteristics of an engine valve, and an electric motor of the valve characteristic varying mechanism is disposed in the exterior of a valve chamber defined by the cylinder head. The cylinder head is provided with a duct, for guiding a running airflow therethrough, between a combustion chamber and the valve chamber. The electric motor is laid out at a position which is adjacent to the valve chamber in the radial direction with respect to the cylinder axis and at which the running airflow having flowed in via an inlet portion and having passed through the duct collides on the electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Inomoto, Kosuke Tsunashima
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Patent number: 7222596Abstract: A valve drive for charge-cycling valves of internal combustion engines, which are held in the closed position by means of spring force, and can optionally be activated by a main cam or additionally by a secondary cam of a camshaft, in which connection the main cam with its elevation curve and angle setting is adapted to the crankshaft of a charge-cycling process to be controlled, and the secondary cam operates separately from the main cam. The drive variably controls an additional opening procedure of a charge-cycling valve, separate from the charge-cycling stroke to be controlled directly, in order to sensitively regulate the exhaust gas feed-back in this manner. The drive has two engagement surfaces for introducing movements on a pivot lever mounted on the cylinder head, which activates at least one charge-cycling valve.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: IAV GmbH Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und VerkehrInventor: Lutz Stiegler
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Patent number: 7222597Abstract: A hydraulic device for adjusting the rotation angle of a camshaft relative to a crankshaft in an internal combustion engine. The device has a rotor, with blades arranged around its periphery. A stator is connected in a rotationally secure manner to a drive wheel. The rotor and the stator together form pressure chambers, which can be filled with hydraulic fluid via a hydraulic fluid system, in which there is disposed a volume accumulator.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: INA-Schaeffler KGInventors: Jochen Auchter, Andreas Strauss, Lutz Witthöft, Michael Busse, Dirk Heintzen, Jürgen Plate
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Patent number: 7222598Abstract: A vane rotor, a bush, and a press-fitting member are connected with a camshaft of an engine. The bush is supported by an inner surface of a front plate of a shoe housing. The press-fitting member is contact with an end surface of the camshaft. The bush and the press-fitting member are respectively press-fitted into both end surfaces of the vane rotor. Due to a press-fitting force difference between the bush and the press-fitting member, the vane rotor is slightly warped in a press-fitting direction of the bush to rotatably slide on an inner surface of the front plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: DENSO CorporationInventor: Masashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 7222599Abstract: A rocker arm includes: a body that is made of sheet metal and includes a pair of side walls; and a pair of axial holes that are respectively formed through the pair of side walls and have a first diameter and through which an axis is inserted. The pair of axial holes include thickened portions formed partially or overall of circumference of the pair of axial holes, and the thickened portion is formed by expanding a hole that has a second diameter smaller than the first diameter and is formed in a pre-arranged range for forming the axial hole in a blank material so as to causing plastic flow in a metallic material of the circumference of the hole.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshitaka Waseda
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Patent number: 7222600Abstract: An intake system of a V-engine provided with a surge tank arranged at a position higher than a cylinder head of the V-engine when attached to the V-engine and divided in internal space into a top part and a bottom part and a plurality of intake tubes communicating the surge tank and intake ports of the V-engine, wherein intake tubes communicated with one cylinder bank of the V-engine are connected to the top part of the surge tank and intake tubes communicated with the other cylinder bank are connected to the bottom part of the surge tank and the surge tank is formed so that a front end of the top part is positioned further toward a rear side of the vehicle compared with the front end of the bottom part when the intake system is mounted to a V-engine mounted in the vehicle, whereby the height of the engine hood can be effectively lowered.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2006Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuyoshi Abe
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Patent number: 7222601Abstract: A rotatably alternating air or water cooled two-stroke internal combustion engine comprising a cylindrical casing, and a rotor comprising two radially extending vanes affixed to a shaft rotatably mounted within the casing upon two end plates. Two longitudinally extending walls affixed to the casing. Sealing strips provided between said walls, the shaft, the vanes, the casing and the end plates respectively. The casing and/or the end plates equipped with plurality of ports which communicate with interior chambers formed between the vanes and the walls, allowing for intake of combustible air-fuel mixture and exhaust thereafter. Ignition means delivering a spark at the end of each working cycle. An extendable and adjustable connecting rod assembly converting the oscillating bi-directional rotary motion of the output shaft into a continuous unidirectional motion of the main shaft. A self lubricating mechanism incorporated into the engine.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Inventor: Kamen George Kamenov