Patents Issued in July 3, 2007
  • Patent number: 7237446
    Abstract: A system for measuring gait kinematics information during exercise of a subject comprising a fixing member adapted for fixing onto the trunk of the body of the subject; an acceleration sensor attached to the fixing member for sensing the vertical acceleration of the trunk of the body of the subject; and a microprocessor coupled to the acceleration sensor adapted to receive the vertical acceleration data from the acceleration sensor, and to compute and derive the speed and distance traversed by the subject, and to communicate the speed and distance information. In the preferred embodiment, a heart-rate monitoring device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventors: Raymond Chan, Mun Hoong Leong
  • Patent number: 7237447
    Abstract: An arrangement for starting an engine includes a torque coupler provided between a starter motor and the engine crankshaft. The torque coupler includes a gear mechanism arranged to allow a starter motor to rotate for a period of time prior to transferring rotational torque to the crankshaft to turn the engine over.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald Cilibraise
  • Patent number: 7237448
    Abstract: In a linear guide unit that has an elongated guide housing which limits a guide hollow space with a longitudinal opening, a wagon arrangement which is displaceably guided in the guide hollow space on guide rails, a connection part for connecting the wagon arrangement to an object to be guided, a cover element arranged between movement tracks of the connection part and covering the longitudinal opening, in accordance with the present invention forwardly of and/or rearwardly of the wagon arrangement, at least one support unit is arranged displaceably in direction of the longitudinal axis for supporting the cover element relative to the guide housing; also additionally or alternatively the support unit can support the cover element relative to the wagon arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Rexroth Star GmbH
    Inventor: Siegfried Bauer
  • Patent number: 7237449
    Abstract: A drive mechanism is interposed between two members to make the members move relatively with respect to each other. At least one of the two members is guided to move linearly. The drive mechanism comprises: cam followers that are rotatably supported on one of the two members, that are arranged in the linear moving direction, and that are spaced from each other; and a cam that is rotatably supported on the other one of the two members and that is provided in its circumference with a cam groove in which the cam followers engage, the rotation axis of the cam being arranged in the direction of the linear moving direction. The two members are made to move relatively with respect to each other by driving the cam to rotate and making the cam followers engage successively in the cam groove and move in the direction of the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Sankyo Seisakusho Co.
    Inventor: Heizaburo Kato
  • Patent number: 7237450
    Abstract: A vehicular automatic power transmission operating device includes an operating lever, a lever case, a torque sensor, a mounting member and a power assist unit. The operating lever creates operational force to shift into a position of an automatic power transmission. The lever case accommodates a lower end portion of the operating lever therein. The torque sensor detects operational force of the operating lever. An input shaft and an output shaft of the torque sensor serve as a rotary shaft of the operating lever. The mounting member is divided into first and second members by the input shaft and the output shaft of the torque sensor. Provided in the first and second members, respectively, are first and second fixing members by which the input shaft is fixed to the mounting member, and first and second bearing portions by which the output shaft is rotatably supported to the mounting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogasawara, Daisuke Kondo, Takeshi Satoh, Takanori Mori
  • Patent number: 7237451
    Abstract: A gear-changing device for a motor-vehicle gearbox, including a gear-changing lever which is pivotable arranged with respect to a support part about a bolt. The bolt is held in an axially nondisplaceable manner with respect to the support part. In order to provide a cost-effective and easy-to-install gear-changing device, the bolt is held by a catch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Dieter Junge, Armin Segeler
  • Patent number: 7237452
    Abstract: A throttle grip apparatus has a throttle grip rotatably mounted on the leading end of a handlebar of a vehicle; a case disposed on the handlebar at a position being adjacent to the throttle grip; a throttle opening angle sensor for detecting the rotation angle of the throttle grip and disposed in the case, an energizing unit for energizing the throttle grip in a direction to return to the initial position thereof, an engine of a vehicle being controlled in accordance with the detected value of the throttle opening angle sensor wherein the energizing unit includes a spiral spring mounted on the base end side of the throttle grip and having one end fixed to the base end portion of the throttle grip and the other end fixed to the case and the spiral spring is wound up as the throttle grip is rotated from the initial state thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Asahi Denso Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shozo Hanai
  • Patent number: 7237453
    Abstract: A power control device for drive motors in motor vehicles, in particular an accelerator pedal, includes an operating lever which may be operated by an operating force against a return force from a rest position on pivoting about a pivot axis. A damping device for damping the pivot motion of the operating lever is also included. The damping device is a friction device which includes a friction element. The friction element acts upon a component of the operating lever such that in addition to the return force a friction force is also overcome during a pivot movement of the operating lever in a direction away from the rest position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens AG
    Inventors: Peter Kohlen, Christian Reimann, Joachim von Willich
  • Patent number: 7237454
    Abstract: An any-gear-start horizontal engine for a motorcycle, including a crankshaft having a drive gear, a main shaft having a clutch platen, a clutch driven plate and a clutch housing, a clutch driven gear is mounted on the clutch housing, the clutch driven gear engaging with the drive gear, and a starting shaft extending into a right crankcase through a right crankcase cover. An idle gear rotates freely on right end of a countershaft, the idle gear, and engages with a starting gear which rotates freely on the starting shaft. The main shaft has a spline rotating freely thereon, the spline connects the clutch housing through a spline slot, and the spline engages with the idle gear. This type of engine can be restarted after being shut off without having to shift back to neutral, so it is more effort saving and convenient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Chongqing Lifan Industry (Group) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingshan Yin, Li Li, Bo Dai
  • Patent number: 7237455
    Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods for removing a stop from a bottle. In certain embodiments of the present invention, a stabilizer is provided to prevent the stop from being pushed into the bottle and insert members are provided for removing the stop without the outside of the stop adhering to the inner wall of the bottle. Such embodiments allow, among other things, removal of the stop from the bottle without destruction or partial destruction of the stop, as is sometimes the case with conventional corkscrews, yet without the risk of pushing the stop into the bottle as is sometimes the case with non-corkscrew bottle stop removers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Wining Taylors, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Kahn Taylor
  • Patent number: 7237456
    Abstract: A power tong 10 rotates a tubular during makeup or breakout of the threaded connection. A tong frame 12, a rotatable ring 20, and a cage plate assembly may each have an open throat for receiving the tubular. A plurality of dies 32 are preferentially manufactured from aluminum, and each have a knurled surface for engaging the tubular. A fluid powered cylinder 54 increases tension between the brake band 50 and the cage plate assembly. Neutral cam portions of the cam surface one positioned radially outward substantially from the makeup and breakout cam portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Eckel Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Billy W. Neves
  • Patent number: 7237457
    Abstract: A screw feeder adapter includes a housing having a first connecting portion for connection to a screw feeder, a second connecting portion, and a retaining portion connected between the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion, a coupling member connectable to a power screwdriver and coupled to the second connecting portion of the housing through a rotary motion, and two locking units respectively pivoted to the retaining portion of the housing at two sides and forced by a respective spring member to engage into a respective retaining hole at the housing and a respective retaining groove at the coupling member to lock the coupling member to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Mobiletron Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming-Hung Hsu
  • Patent number: 7237458
    Abstract: A ratchet screwdriver includes a screwdriver body, a magazine body journalled and disposed removably within the screwdriver body for receiving a plurality of bits, and a ratchet unit disposed on a front end of the screwdriver body. A driving rod is movable in the screwdriver body between a front limit position, where a selected one of the bits projects from the ratchet unit for performing a screw driving operation, and a rear limit position, where the magazine body can be removed from the screwdriver body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventor: Hsuan-Sen Shiao
  • Patent number: 7237459
    Abstract: A screwdriver includes a shaft fixed to a handle and having two first pawl-receiving grooves and two second pawl-receiving grooves. Two first pawl plates and two second pawl plates are disposed correspondingly in the first and second pawl-receiving grooves. Each of the first or second pawl plates has a swingable end movable between a first position, where the swingable end is biased to engage one ratchet tooth, and a second position, where the swingable end is released from the ratchet tooth. A switching ring sleeved on the shaft has actuators to move the respective first and second pawl plates to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventor: Hsuan-Sen Shiao
  • Patent number: 7237460
    Abstract: A reversible ratchet-type wrench includes a handle and a head extended from the handle and having a hole. A web is defined between the handle and the head, and a cavity is defined in the web and communicated with the hole. The web further includes a compartment having a first end communicated with the cavity and a second end communicated with outside, thereby leaving a bridge in the web. A drive member is rotatably mounted in the hole of the head. A pawl is mounted in the cavity and includes a first side with ratchet teeth for releasably engaging with teeth on an outer periphery of the drive member. A switch member includes a turn-piece for manual operation and an actuating plate extended from the turn-piece and rotatably received in the second end of the compartment of the head. The switch member is switchable between two positions for changing ratcheting direction of the drive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventor: Bobby Hu
  • Patent number: 7237461
    Abstract: A ratchet wrench includes a handle with a head portion at an end thereof, a ratchet wheel mounted in the head portion for rotation, and an operating device to be moved between a first position and a second position for change of a driving orientation of the ratchet wrench. The ratchet wrench of the present invention further provides a light and a battery. The light is turned on when the operating device is moved to the first position and is turned off when the operating device is moved to the second position. User may watch the light signal to identify the driving orientation of the ratchet wrench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Proxene Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Arthur Wu
  • Patent number: 7237462
    Abstract: A hand tool includes a handle made of a first material and at least one driving head connected to an end of the handle and the at least one driving head is made by a second material. A protection layer is coated onto the driving head and the handle. The first material can be Chrome-Vanadium alloy and the second material can be medium carbon steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventor: Jia-Guann Liau
  • Patent number: 7237463
    Abstract: A bendable wrench includes a handle, a head and a pivot. The handle includes a first ear formed thereon, a second ear formed thereon and a plurality of teeth formed on an internal side of the second ear. The head includes an ear and a plurality of teeth formed on an internal side of the ear thereof. The pivot is movably inserted in the ears so as to pivotally connect the head to the handle. The pivot includes a plurality of teeth that can be engaged with the teeth so as to firmly retain the angle between the head and the handle and disengage from the teeth of the head so that the angle between the head and the handle can be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventor: Yi Min Lee
  • Patent number: 7237464
    Abstract: Provided according to the invention is a fastening tool (10) for tightening/untightening screw threaded fasteners such as bolts or nuts (18). The bolts (18) comprise a head formed with a series of at least three cavities (18a) deployed therearound. The fastening tool (10) comprises at least three peanut-shaped displaceable locking bodies (16) having spherical portions (16a; 16b), and a restricted neck portion (16c) therebetween. The cavities (18a) of the bolt (18) are configured to receive the spherical portions (16b). A seat member (12) is provided, formed with a series of at least three cavities (22) configured to receive the spherical portions (16a). Further provided is a manipulator (14) for rocking the locking bodies (16) about their neck portions (16c) from a non-operative position wherein the spherical portions (16a) are seated in the cavities (22), into an operative position wherein the spherical portions (16b) are seated in the bolt cavities (18a), and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventor: Dan Mekler
  • Patent number: 7237465
    Abstract: A pressing board operation mechanism for paper cutter includes an eccentric driving rod to pivot a first link assembly composed of two pairs of triangular plates and the first link assembly is connected to a second link assembly which includes a rack member, two first links and two second links. The two first links are operationally connected to the rack member by two respective rack ends and the two second links are pivotably connected between the first links and the pressing board which is lowered or lifted by the pivotal movement of the first and second links. Two sensors are provided and activated when the first link assembly is moved to a pre-set positions and the sensors send commands to stop the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventor: Chien Kai Huang
  • Patent number: 7237466
    Abstract: A guiding device for a carrier braiding machine is mounted on a cover of the machine and comprises a center guide member and an outer guide member. The transfer plates are located between the center guide member and the outer guide member and the inner and outer guide members limit the support plates of the carrier so that the eccentric force cannot push the carrier away from the transfer plates. The contact between the support plates of the carrier and the guide members also reduces the torque and sped of the carrier so that the carrier is protected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventor: Ming-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 7237467
    Abstract: A sound suppressor for a firearm comprises a cylindrical housing having a proximal end with means for attachment to a firearm and to the cylindrical housing, and a distal end with means for attachment to the housing, and a plurality of baffle elements positioned within the housing between the proximal and distal ends of the suppressor. A plurality of spacer elements is positioned between the proximal and distal ends of the suppressor and between the baffle elements. The baffle element comprises a symmetrical conical baffle with a hemispherical shaped apex, with said apex being provided with a concentric hole. The symmetrical conical baffle is also provided with a plurality of steps or annular shoulders on the exterior of the conical baffle, and these annular shoulders increase in diameter with respect to their position on the exterior of the baffle and with respect to the distance from the hemispherical shaped apex of the baffle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventor: Douglas M. Melton
  • Patent number: 7237468
    Abstract: The invention relates to a projectile firing device used on a platform and comprising at least two tubes integral with a base. This device is characterized in that the base is mounted able to swivel on a turret around a first, substantially horizontal axis, such swiveling controlled by first drive means, the turret being able itself to pivot with respect to the platform around a second substantially vertical axis and being controlled by second drive means, the horizontal swiveling being made on either side of a median position in which the tubes are oriented with their axes substantially vertical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Giat Industries
    Inventor: Loic Laine
  • Patent number: 7237469
    Abstract: Firearms having a locked breech are disclosed. An example firearm includes a barrel; a bolt head; a firing pin having a bulge; a bolt head carrier having a forward position and a rearward position; a central force receiving component receiving a rear end of the barrel and defining a plurality of recesses; and a locking bolt penetrating the bolt head. The locking bolt is movable between: (1) a locked position wherein the locking bolt engages in the recesses of the central force receiving component to thereby lock the bolt head to the central force receiving component and (2) an unlocked position wherein the bolt head is free to move with the bolt head carrier. The locking bolt is pressed by the bolt head carrier into the locked position when the bolt head carrier is in the distal position. The locking bolt defines an oblong hole which is penetrated by the firing pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Heckler & Koch, GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Murello
  • Patent number: 7237470
    Abstract: A fluid power unit has a cylinder in a housing, a piston slidable in the cylinder and dividing the cylinder into a retract side and an extend side, and a two-position control valve. The control valve has a spool and first and second pilots. The position of the spool is responsive to the first and second pilots. There is a retract poppet valve in the retract side of the cylinder, and an extend poppet valve in the extend side. The retract and extend poppet valves are biased to a closed position. The retract poppet valve is in a fluid path between the retract side and the control valve; the extend poppet valve is in a fluid path between the extend side and the control valve. The alternate movement of the piston in the cylinder alternately opens and closes the poppet valves, The circuit connects the poppet valves to the pilots and alternately applies and releases pressure to the pilots, causing the spool of the control valve to shift and apply inlet pressure to the piston on alternate sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Burns Controls Company
    Inventor: Patrick J. Burns, Sr.
  • Patent number: 7237471
    Abstract: A continuously lockable adjustment device for immobilizing elements which are movable relative to each other includes a stepped cylinder having a first cylinder step and a second cylinder step, the second cylinder step having a larger cross-sectional area than the first cylinder step, a stepped piston having a first piston step guided in the first cylinder step and a second piston step guided in the second cylinder step, and a piston rod connected to the piston opposite the first piston step and extending sealed off out an end of the cylinder. The cylinder has a first working space and a second working space separated by the piston and filled with a working fluid in which the piston can be displaced axially, thereby displacing working fluid from one working space to the other working space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Stabilus GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Mintgen, Paul Muders, Wilhelm Schwab
  • Patent number: 7237472
    Abstract: The invention provides a choke system with hydraulic circuits which provide choke valve positioning that can be varied by the use of incremental steps. The incremental movement action in either the opening or closing direction is accomplished through the use of one of the two hydraulic slave cylinders which can either add or subtract a fixed volume of hydraulic fluid from the choke actuator. A series of check valves provides direction for flow in the hydraulic lines, locking of the choke actuator, and re-filling of the slave cylinders during operation. The system eliminates excessive lines or solenoid valves and avoids the need for mechanical locking mechanisms. Preferred embodiments include a “fast close” system which, instead of running through a series of steps to close the valve, provides valve control in a fast close line to move the choke actuator to the full closed position from anywhere in the travel over a shorter period of time than through normal stepping operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Master Flo Valve, Inc.
    Inventor: Harry Richard Cove
  • Patent number: 7237473
    Abstract: A pneumatic valve includes a housing having an inlet port and a delivery port and an exhaust port. A valve element is movable in the housing to control air flow between the inlet port and the delivery port and the exhaust port. The valve includes a rolling element actuator for converting a rotary actuation force to linear movement of the valve element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems
    Inventors: Robert J. Herbst, Travis Ramler
  • Patent number: 7237474
    Abstract: A piston pump for an electronically controllable vehicle brake system including a particularly simple, inexpensive, and space-saving throttle, and a filter hydraulically upstream of it, which prevents the throttle from becoming clogged with impurities. The pressure fluid outlet is routed at least partway along the circumferential surface of the bushing and, in the region of this section, the filter and throttle are embodied in one piece with the circumferential surface of the bushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Andreas Weh
  • Patent number: 7237475
    Abstract: This invention provides a brewing head unit of a coffee machine for inserting and locking the filter and the filter holder into the brewing head of a coffee machine. The filter and the filter holder can be inserted into the coffee machine visually. This invention further provides a simpler and easier method for inserting filter holder into a pressurized coffee machine. This invention also provides a cabinet filter holder which can be inserted or placed into the brewing head assembly/unit of a coffee machine by sliding the filter holder into the brewing head unit from front or side; by swinging the filter holder into the brewing head assembly/unit on a pivot; or by inserting the filter holder from the top. This invention further provides a brewing head assembly/unit wherein the locking mechanism is motor-driven. In one aspect of this invention, the method for opening and closing the brewing head assembly/unit of the coffee machine can be operated by remote control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Electrical and Electronics, Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Yuen Chin Chen, Sum Fat Poon
  • Patent number: 7237476
    Abstract: An improved outdoor cooking apparatus features a pot with multiple cooking inserts and burner frame that supports a burner element. One insert can be used for cooking an entire poultry carcass. Other inserts are perforated baskets that can be used to fry items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventors: Norman Bourgeois, Michael P. Bourgeois
  • Patent number: 7237477
    Abstract: A trash compactor is provided with a channel in the cavity of the trash compactor for allowing string to pass behind and below the compacted trash in the cavity of the trash compactor making it easy to secure the compacted trash in bales before removing the bale from the cavity of the trash compactor. The channels are inside of the bottom and back walls of the cavity and allow a strap therein to draw a string from the top back wall of the cavity to the front of the bottom wall of the cavity. The string can then be extended to circumnavigate the bale and be tied off before removing the bale from the cavity. The straps can be reinserted in the channels ready to pull string around the back and underneath the next bale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventor: Anthony Fox
  • Patent number: 7237478
    Abstract: An asymmetrical chute system is for use in a strapping machine of the type for feeding a strapping material around a load, positioning, tensioning and sealing the strapping material around the load. The strapping machine has a feed head, a strap chute defining a strap path through which the strapping material is passed and a sealing head. The chute system includes a base, a stationary guard having an inclined wall extending, at least in part, over the strap path and a movable guard. The movable guard is movable relative to the base and the stationary guard into and out of engagement with the stationary guard inclined wall to open and close the strap path. When the movable guard is open, the inclined wall extends over the strap path so as to form a blind portion intersecting a line normal to the strap path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoly Gosis, Thomas A. Powers, Frank Otte, Yury Shkolnikov
  • Patent number: 7237479
    Abstract: A device for successively transporting sheets in a platen press includes gripper bars with respective ends fixedly attached to two flexible of endless loop elements. Each loop element is engaged respectively with an intermittent drive wheel and at least one free wheel. A rectangular working chase and a movable platen arranged on both sides of the path of the grippers of the said bar. Nozzles are connected to a compressed air supply, for directing air jets towards the movable platen during a stopping phase of the gripper bars, in order to successively stop the sheets between the working chase and the movable platen. The nozzles are located below the transverse rear edge of the working chase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Bobst S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Pollien
  • Patent number: 7237480
    Abstract: A trash container cover has a pivotable lever arm which pivots vertically moving one or two compactor arms slidably connected to the handle. The compactor arm(s) force a horizontal compactor plate down onto the trash in the container to compact it. The lever arm, compactor arm(s) and compactor plate are pivoted into proximal parallel alignment with the cover and in proximity to the cover for storage and move together to open the trash container to deposit or remove trash. The lever arm may clamp down on the cover to serve as a handle for the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventor: Donovan Ruddock
  • Patent number: 7237481
    Abstract: A dampening system has at least one dampening ductor or roller; a dampening agent bin or trough, which holds a dampening agent, a feeding device, and a return device. The feeding device includes at least one dampening agent distributing pipe that has a number of spaced openings. A number of these dampening agent distributing pipes are assigned to the dampening ductor or roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Wolfgang Joos
  • Patent number: 7237482
    Abstract: An improved flexo processor and a method of using the improved flexo processor to increase the flexibility of both the type and the size of the flexographic printing element that may be processed. The novel thermal plate processor system is capable of processing both flat and round photosensitive printing elements with only minimal changes to the system. The thermal plate processor system may also include means for exposure and post-exposure/detack in the same system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventors: Ryan Vest, Gary T. Markhart
  • Patent number: 7237483
    Abstract: A dressing is guided onto a cylinder of a printing machine. At least one roller element is used to accomplish this dressing guidance. A support, which includes spaced first and second ends, is provided. The first end of the support is connected to a cross-piece that is running along parallel to an axis of rotation of the cylinder. The at least one roller element is situated on the second end of this support. The support is an elastically flexible body. An actuator is arranged between the cross-piece and the support. The actuator is operable to move the roller toward or away from the cylinder by flexing the elastic support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Robert Schäfer, Georg Schneider
  • Patent number: 7237484
    Abstract: A dressing is pressed onto a surface of a cylinder of a printing machine by the use of at least two pressing elements. These two pressing elements are separated from each other in a circumferential direction of the cylinder. A portion of each of the two pressing elements can be moved toward or away form the surface of the cylinder independently of each other. The pressing elements are preferably arranged on supports that are connected to each other. Each of the pressing elements is provided with its own independent actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kurt Johannes Weschenfelder, Karl Robert Schäfer, Georg Schneider
  • Patent number: 7237485
    Abstract: An identification card printer includes a card input, a card transport, a printhead, and a card output. The card transport is configured to feed a card from the card input along a print path. The printhead is positioned below the print path and is configured to print an image on a surface of the card. The card can then be discharged through the card output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Fargo Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: James R. Meier, Chadwick M. Johnson, Gary P. Countryman, Jr., Stacy W. Lukaskawcez, Gary M. Klinefelter, Ryan G. Park, Matthew K. Dunham, Jeffrey D. Upin, Gary A. Lenz, Martin A. Pribula, Thomas C. Platner, Leon Gershenovich, Jon J. Ibs
  • Patent number: 7237486
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shaped charge assembly for use in a perforating gun. The shaped charge assembly includes a shaped charge combined with a longitudinal spine extending along a portion of a perforating gun barrel. The shaped charge can be secured to the spine with a retaining shell. A bushing is included between the outer radius of the casing the retaining shell. The bushing serves to absorb shock during detonation of the shaped charge and to help in orienting the shaped charges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: William Myers, Jr., Timothy Sampson, James W. Reese, Avigdor Hetz
  • Patent number: 7237487
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reinforcing system for a shaped charge assembly for use in a perforating gun. The shaped charge assembly includes a shaped charge combined with a longitudinal reinforcing system extending along a portion of a perforating gun barrel. The reinforcing system comprises a spine with a recess formed to receive the shaped charge of a perforating gun. The reinforcing system further comprises a compression zone coaxially disposed around a portion of the shaped charge. The compression zone is formed between a bushing and a retaining shell that also coaxially circumscribe a portion of the shaped charge and on one of their respective ends connect to the spine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: William Myers, Jr., Timothy Sampson, Avigdor Hetz
  • Patent number: 7237488
    Abstract: A bottle rocket launcher comprises a long hollow tube barrel having an tube-axial sealing valve that has a rotary cylindrical or spherical valve member where the valve is attached at the breech end of the launcher barrel. The rocket launcher can be angled up to a near vertical position with support legs. In use, a bottle rocket can be partially inserted into the valve passageway that is held open. The flammable rocket fuse is lit and the bottle rocket is dynamically inserted by hand contact with the rocket stick into the barrel inside chamber body to a position that is beyond the valve member. The valve is rotated into a valve-closed position while the rocket fuse is burning. When the bottle rocket powder is ignited by the burning fuse, the burning exhaust gases thrusts the bottle rocket along the inside of the barrel tube and propels it into the sky in the direction that the launcher barrel is pointed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventors: Cameron Michael Duescher, Kent Wayne Duescher
  • Patent number: 7237489
    Abstract: A projectile head is provided for a training cartridge having a propulsion unit, with an integrated projectile tail section, which can be used equally for training cartridges as well as combat cartridges of the same caliber size, wherein the projectile tail section is connectable to the projectile head with the aid of an extension on the projectile tail section, the extension is insertable into a receptacle in the projectile head, and the extension contains a recessed area, open on the front, for receiving a warhead detonator. The projectile head has a receptacle in the projectile head for receiving the extension of the projectile tail section, and an end stop which extends into the receptacle. The end stop is for contacting a warhead detonator present on the projectile tail section during assembly of the propulsion unit and the projectile head to prevent the extension from reaching a fully assembled position in the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Naderhoff, Jürgen Kolodzev, Martin Berg
  • Patent number: 7237490
    Abstract: A close range munition for firing from a bore of a weapon. The munition includes a spherical projectile having a central core and a plurality of uniformly radially extending resilient filaments defining an outer diameter. The outer diameter of the projectile is greater than the diameter of the firing bore so as to compress the filament within the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventors: Neil Keegstra, Randy R. Fritz, Robin A. Fritz, Anthony Edward Kinchin
  • Patent number: 7237491
    Abstract: A winch assembly comprising a) a person lowering and raising winch component attached to a carriage component, the carriage component being configured for coupling to a carriage track of an overhead support for displacement thereof along the carriage track and b) a carriage displacement component for inducing displacement of the carriage component along the carriage track, the carriage displacement component comprising an electric motor element and a clutch coupling element the electric motor element being configured for providing driving effort for the displacement of the carriage component along the carriage track the clutch coupling element being configured for coupling and de-coupling the driving effort of the electric motor element such that when the driving effort of the electric motor element is coupled and the electric motor element is energised the carriage component may be urged along the carriage track by the electric motor element and when the driving effort of the electric motor element is de
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: BHM Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Faucher, Michel Corriveau
  • Patent number: 7237492
    Abstract: A railway car drive system comprising a first railway car mounting a power generator, a power converter, a driving motor and a power storage; a second railway car mounting a power converter, a driving motor and a power storage; and a power transmission connecting each of the power generators and power storage; wherein the system further comprises a power management unit for controlling the generated power of the power generator and the power storage quantity of the power storage, the power storage storing the power generated by the power generator and a regenerative power, the driving motor being driven via the power converter using as power source the power generator and the power storage to thereby run the train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoru Inarida
  • Patent number: 7237494
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a knife for and a method of zero till or minimum till seeding and fertilizing. The knife is particularly adapted for dry land conditions producing minimum solid disturbance and very shallow operation. The knife has a high penetration angle preferably of 45 degrees which permits the blade to enter high trash surface cover with little tendency to plug due to trash accumulation. The blade has a forward angle of attack, the lower cutting edge advancing before the upper cutting edge, serving to make a clean cut in the soil surface without accumulating trash. Seed and/or fertilizer conduits are attached to or incorporated in the trailing face of the blade in which the outlets may be spaced for controlled placement of the materials. By the method a furrow is cut having a substantial transverse component in an operation with a substantial forward component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: CNH Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Terry Emerson Summach, Bradley T Summach
  • Patent number: 7237495
    Abstract: A seed planting assembly is provided having a plurality of planting units that are connected to an air moving system for drawing air through an air metering assembly located in each planting unit via a conduit connecting each air metering assembly to an air mover unit. An air blocking system is provided for blocking airflow in the conduit associated with one or more predetermined planting units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventor: Travis Harnetiaux
  • Patent number: 7237496
    Abstract: An apparatus and manufacturing method in which from one to three hydraulic pumps are provided and installed near a front end of the implement, so that a first pump can be easily coupled to the power take-off shaft of the tractor by an operator. In an exemplary embodiment of a system for a planter apparatus, one pump supplies pressure and flow to a hydraulic circuit for operating the vacuum fan subsystem, and optionally a fertilizing subsystem. A second pump supplies pressure and flow to a hydraulic circuit for operating the seed drive subsystem. A third pump supplies pressure and flow to a hydraulic circuit for operating a bulk fill subsystem. A manufacturing method that provides multiple configurations is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: Leonard A. Bettin, Travis Lester Harnetiaux