Patents Issued in July 26, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070169594
    Abstract: A fish tape pliers is formed with opposed planar and curvilinear edges that form or channel disposed distally from the pliers' pivot connection axis. In one operable embodiment, the edges frictionally engage the fish tape within the channel. The fish tape in pulling an electrical wire through a conduit, is directed away from the handles and the users' grip hand. The jaws may have differently contoured or cross-ridged surfaces to provide the desired frictional engagement without damaging the fish tape. The fish tape pliers includes diverse complementary features for crimping, stripping, bending and/or cutting an electrical wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Harry Reckhart
  • Publication number: 20070169595
    Abstract: A hand tool comprises a handle having an enclosed chamber defined therein, and the handle including a recess defined in the end thereof; and a hole defined in a second end of the handle and being in communication with the chamber, a bolt seals the hole; and the hole being at a lowest end of the handle; and a shank connected to a first end of the handle; and an end of the shank being fixedly inserted in the recess; the recess being an L-shaped recess and the end of the shank being an L-shaped end; and a fluorescent layer being coated on an outer periphery of the handle. Furthermore in another design, the recess being a T-shaped recess and the end of the shank is a T-shaped end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Chine-Te Chen
  • Publication number: 20070169596
    Abstract: A collet chuck comprises a rotating cylinder block defining a cylindrical axis and an exterior cylindrical surface with first and second annular grooves. A collet and collet sleeve are at least partially surrounded by the rotating cylinder block. A piston slides within an annular interior space in the rotating cylinder block. A stationary port block has an interior cylindrical surface adjacent the exterior cylindrical surface of the rotating cylinder block and connects a first inlet port with a first annular groove and a second inlet port with the second annular groove. Switching pneumatic pressure between the first and second inlet ports moves the piston and collet sleeve between the clamping and unclamping positions and the gap between the rotating cylinder block and the stationary port block provides a frictionless seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: AEROTECH, INC.
    Inventor: Brian O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20070169597
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention is to provide a method and a apparatus for adjusting suction of a cutting machine capable of cutting even an elastic sheet material in an appropriate compression state by suppressing fluctuation in the degree of compression of the sheet material. A set value of a suction pressure is set such that an absolute value of the suction pressure, which is a negative pressure lower than the atmospheric pressure, becomes larger as a numerical value thereof becomes larger. For one-piece cutting as shown in FIG. 1B, the set value of the suction pressure is increased since the cutting distance of an already-cut portion is increased as cutting progresses. For stacked cutting as shown in FIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Toshiaki Morita
  • Publication number: 20070169598
    Abstract: Safety chain and rotatable devices, used on saws or other machines for cutting or abrading material, include a plurality of holding members on which replaceable teeth are retained. Safety lobes prevent the teeth from being dislodged during operation of the saw. The safety lobes may be disposed on a link located upstream of the holding member or disposed on a link located downstream of the holding member, or both. The teeth can include sharp edges adapted for cutting various materials including wood, plastic and metal and can be formed with abrasive surfaces for abrading materials including brick and concrete. The teeth are quickly removable from the saw without the need for fasteners. While the teeth may be retained by engagement between the teeth and holding member, the chain and rotatable devices may retain the teeth on the holding members using only the safety lobes or safety surfaces. The rotational device can include two blades each including holding members and safety lobes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: David Szymanski
  • Publication number: 20070169599
    Abstract: A trimmer having first and second cutting blades. The first cutting blade has a generally flat first surface residing in a first plane and a first cutting edge. The second cutting blade has a generally flat second surface residing in a second plane and a second cutting edge. The first and second cutting blades are mounted so that the first and second flat surfaces face and are substantially parallel to each other. A drive causes at least one of the first and second cutting blades to move relative to the other of the first and second cutting blades to thereby produce a repetitive cutting action between the first and second cutting edges. At least one fastening assembly has first and second facing shoulders between which the first and second cutting blades reside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: William Mace, Ronald Carlson
  • Publication number: 20070169600
    Abstract: Methods of forming, and the intermediate substrate products formed, are disclosed whereby a via is formed in the substrate, followed by a second via. The second via is formed such that it overlap the first via, and may remove a first portion of any via distortion residing within the first via. A third via is then formed in the substrate to at least overlap the first via. The third via may remove a second portion of any via distortion within the first via. The second and third vias are formed on opposite sides of the first via, such that the first, second and third vias together form a symmetrically extended via within the substrate. Optionally, a rigid support film may be provided under the substrate prior to forming the extended via.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Govindarajan Natarajan, Michael Cranmer, James Humenik
  • Publication number: 20070169601
    Abstract: A cutting machine for window shades comprising a head rail, a bottom rail, and a plurality of light blocking sections. The cutting machine comprises a body with a platform for supporting the window shade, a clamp mechanism for securing the window shade, a blade rotationally connected to the body for cutting the window shade, and an actuating mechanism. The actuating mechanism is operatively connected to the blade, causing the blade to move in a rotational movement for cutting the secured window shade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Fu-Lai Yu, Chin-Tien Huang
  • Publication number: 20070169602
    Abstract: The present invention is a device for manipulating sheet material having a base, a rail assembly pivotally mounted to the base, and at least one carriage having a protrusion for scoring or cutting sheet material. The rail assembly allows for the storage of at least one carriage while a user operates the trimmer using another carriage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Peterson, P. Gu
  • Publication number: 20070169603
    Abstract: A hole punch having one or more punch elements located above a base and having substantially upward opening slot(s) to hold a stack of papers or sheet media to be punched, and an L-shaped handle pivoting at the elbow in the L on the base, wherein one or more of the handle connectors extend in between, underneath, or along the outside of the punch elements. The punch elements include a horizontally translating punch pin having a notch hooked by an actuating end of the pivoting handle to produce the punching action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Joel Marks
  • Publication number: 20070169604
    Abstract: A counter rotational package wrapping removal system and method of operation for cutting wrapping from a wrapped product has a transport for continuously moving the wrapped product in a downstream direction as the wrapping is cut. The system has a first cutter located at a distal end of a pivoting arm and preferably a second cutter located at the distal end of a second pivoting arm. Both cutters cut at least a portion of the wrapping along a leading side face of the wrapped product and each cutter cuts the wrapping at respective flanking side faces as the wrapped product move along the transport. The arms pivot in opposite directions and about respective pivoting axis orientated substantially parallel to one another and preferably perpendicular to the transport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: ADCOR INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventor: Michael J. Brown
  • Publication number: 20070169605
    Abstract: Safety chain and rotatable devices for saws include a plurality of base members on which sharp members are retained. The sharp members include sintered particulate material such as tungsten carbide, which has high particle hardness. The base members are formable from sintered particulate material. The sharp members to be formed by powder metal molding, metal injection molding or investment casting to provide the protrusion and recess with a final net shape. The cutting member is one, two or more pieces, and is permanently bonded to or removably disposed on the base member. Bonding material or fasteners can connect the cutting member to the base or a tip to an insert body; bonding material includes cement, solder, braze and polymer. Safety lobes prevent the teeth from being dislodged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: David A. Szymanski
  • Publication number: 20070169606
    Abstract: A power tool comprising a reciprocating cutting blade is disclosed which has an improved dust or debris extraction arrangement and method. A motor fan is arranged to blow air into a conduit which has an outlet on one side of the power tool. The resulting air stream from the outlet is directed towards the area of a workpiece where the blade interacts with the workpiece. The air stream is off-axis with respect to the intended line of cut of the power tool. As a result, debris ejected on the workpiece is blown by the air stream away from the cut line to leave the cut line visible to the saw's operator during use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Graham Bone
  • Publication number: 20070169607
    Abstract: Disclosed is a music jukebox which is configured for storing a music library therein. The music jukebox includes a housing, audio input structure on the housing for receiving audio signals, audio output structure on the housing for outputting audio signals, and a data storage structure in the housing for storing audio signals. The music jukebox is configured such that a music library of sound tracks is storable in the data storage structure. The music jukebox includes means for selecting a sound track from the music library stored in the data storage structure to play through the audio output structure, and the housing includes a display thereon which identifies sound tracks in the music library. Preferably, the music jukebox is configured such that the sound tracks stored in the data storage structure are editable before being played through the audio output structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Peter Keller, Michael Kelley
  • Publication number: 20070169608
    Abstract: An automatic player piano is a combination between an acoustic piano and an automatic playing system, and a grand piano and an upright piano are used as the acoustic piano; the grand piano has action units prompter than action units of the upright piano so that a half-stroke recorded through the grand piano is not reproducible by the upright piano; the automatic playing system causes the hammers to rotate toward the strings without any escape thereby compensating the poor promptness with the short keystroke of the keys until the rotation of hammers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20070169609
    Abstract: An improved tremolo mechanism for a guitar. The tremolo mechanism for a guitar includes a rotary assembly. The rotary assembly includes a main rotor that includes an arcuate shaped surface defining holes through which a plurality of guitar strings exit the main rotor when the tremolo mechanism is installed on a guitar, resilient means coupled to said main rotor to bias said rotary assembly to a first position at which no tremolo effect is provided and away from a second position at which a tremolo effect is provided and fixing means on the main rotor for securing one end of each of the plurality of guitar strings to the rotary assembly. The tremolo mechanism also includes a plurality of tension rollers for providing rotational tension to said guitar strings. Said arcuate shaped surface directionally guides said strings transverse of said rotary assembly to the tension rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Philipp Hubert Gawenda
  • Publication number: 20070169610
    Abstract: An acoustic percussion instrument and percussion set containing the instrument. The instrument includes a hollow cylindrical shell having a first end and a second end and an inside cylindrical surface. A first substantially rigid plate having an outside surface and an inside surface is attached adjacent to the first end of the hollow cylindrical shell. A first resilient pad, that provides a percussion surface that does not require periodic adjustment, is attached adjacent to the outside surface of the first substantially rigid plate. A raised rim circumscribes the first resilient pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Keith Pickens
  • Publication number: 20070169611
    Abstract: An adjustable drum pedal assembly has a pedal assembly, a drive device and a return device. The pedal assembly is used to operate the adjustable drum pedal assembly and has a pedal, a rotating shaft and a drum hammer. The drive device is connected to the pedal and is mounted on and rotates the rotating shaft. The return device is mounted on the rotating shaft, attached to the pedal assembly, returns the drum hammer and has a rotating bracket, a rotating connector, a spring, a stationary bracket and a pivoting connector. The rotating bracket and connector are attached to the rotating shaft. The spring is connected to the rotating connector. The stationary bracket is attached to the pedal assembly. The pivoting connector is mounted pivotally in the stationary bracket and connects to the spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Kuo-Chang Chen
  • Publication number: 20070169612
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a tuning device, a keyboard, a tone generator, a microphone, a measurement unit, and a display attached to the backside of the housing. The tone generator generates a plurality of reference tones in response to the operation of the keyboard, while the microphone receives a plurality of musical tones, which are generated by at least one musical instrument subjected to tuning. Different tone colors can be applied to the reference tones. The measurement unit measures a plurality of pitch differences between the reference tones and the musical tones subjected to tuning, so that the display displays the pitch differences in comparison with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20070169613
    Abstract: A similar music search method, including: extracting an audio feature value from a compression zone of a music file and generating a music content summary using the extracted audio feature; classifying a mood and a genre of the music file by using the generated music content summary; extracting a similarity feature for a similarity retrieval from the music content summary; storing an information on the classified mood and a genre and the extracted similarity feature information in a database; receiving a query music; detecting the mood and the genre of the query music; measuring a similarity between the query music and music files having a mood and a genre identical to the query music by referring to the database; and retrieving the similar music with respect to the query music based on the measured similarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyoung Kim, Ki Eom, Ji Kim
  • Publication number: 20070169614
    Abstract: In order to reproduce music suitable for a situation where a user listens to the music while performing repetitive exercise, if a walking tempo value sensed by a walking tempo sensing portion 3 falls outside a certain range defined on the basis of a music tempo value of a music data file currently being reproduced by a music data reproduction portion 6, a music tempo specifying portion 4 specifies a music tempo value agreeing with the walking tempo value. A reproduction control portion 5 selects a music data file having a music tempo value corresponding to the music tempo specified by the music tempo specifying portion 4 from among a plurality of music data files stored along with data on music tempo of the respective music data files in a data storage portion 2, and causes the music data reproduction portion 6 to start the reproduction of the selected music data file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Michihiko Sasaki, Shinichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20070169615
    Abstract: An audio effects control for and method of controlling the application of special audio effects applied to an audio signal, comprises a sensor configured to sense movement associated with the generation of the audio signal, wherein the sensor produces a control signal in response to detecting the movement, and the control signal is transmitted to an audio effects unit to control application of an audio effect on an audio signal
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Robert Chidlaw, Jesse Remignanti
  • Publication number: 20070169616
    Abstract: A system has a containment blanket. The system further has a launcher configured to launch the containment blanket and logic configured to deploy the containment blanket. The containment blanket is configured to encompass an incoming projectile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Samuel Vickroy
  • Publication number: 20070169617
    Abstract: The characteristic of one or more of the gas springs themselves used in a revolver cannon or breech cannon is adjusted while the system is in operation. This is done by a separate, self-contained system, which can adjust the gas spring from hard to soft, for example, and back to harder/hard and can thus adjust the characteristic of the gas spring without the loss of gas. In the simplest embodiment, this system has two additional elements, preferably a reserve tank and a connecting line that connects the reserve tank to the gas spring via a valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Marcos Trigo, Michael Gerber
  • Publication number: 20070169618
    Abstract: A hydraulic drive including a hydraulic motor, a position sensor, which allows for the detection of an actual value of a position of the hydraulic motor, a valve, which allows for a pressure medium path between the motor and a pressure medium source to be controlled, and a control electronics, which can be supplied with a position setpoint value signal and the actual value of the position of the motor and which allows for the valve to be triggered by an actuating signal in the sense of controlling the position of the motor. An event occurring prior to the hydraulic motor having reached a specified position is detected, and the actuating signal is limited as a function of the detection of this event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Stefan Scheller
  • Publication number: 20070169619
    Abstract: A pump primarily for liquid paint comprising first and second pistons (19, 21) reciprocable rectilinearly in respective first and second cylinders (17, 18), said first and second pistons being moved relative to their respective pistons by operation of an A. C. electric motor (13) the rotary output shaft of which is coupled to said first and second pistons by means including a constant velocity cam (31) and cam follower (32, 33) mechanism converting rotary motion of the output shaft into reciprocatory motion of said first and second pistons 180° out of phase with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: ITW LIMITED
    Inventor: Alan Smith
  • Publication number: 20070169620
    Abstract: On a work appliance, an extension arm is held rotatably, and a scoop is held rotatably on the extension arm. The actuation of the extension arm and of the scoop takes place in each case by means of a hydraulic cylinder. Each cylinder is assigned a valve which controls the flow of pressure medium from a pump to the cylinder and from the latter to the tank. A rotational movement of the extension arm entails a change in the angular position of the top edge of the scoop, this change having an adverse effect during the raising of the extension arm, particularly when the scoop is full.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kauss, Frederic Lamarche
  • Publication number: 20070169621
    Abstract: A high performance sealing device having an excellent pressure resistance and realizing a prevention of damage. The sealing device usable at a working pressure of 0 to 2 MPa, and not damaged even if the pressure of high-pressure fuel of 5 MPa or higher is applied thereto, wherein high pressure fuel on the high pressure side H is sealed by a first seal part 2, oil from a cam side on a low pressure side L is sealed by a second seal part 3, and the fuel slightly leaked due to failure of scraping at the first seal part is sealed by the second seal part to form a dual seal structure, and a resin ring 21 coming into slidable sealing contact with a shaft 10 is used in the first seal part 2, whereby abnormal abrasion does not occur even when fuel having less lubricity is used, and the durability of the seal is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Masatoshi Okada, Iwao Taira, Tadashi Abiko, Yosuke Kondo, Kazuki Takeno, Ichiro Yamane
  • Publication number: 20070169622
    Abstract: Spacers for use with actuator casings are disclosed. An example spacer includes a ring-shaped member defining a central opening and configured to form a part of an actuator casing and to space first and second actuator casing portions a predetermined distance when the first and second casing portions are coupled to the ring-shaped member. The ring-shaped member includes a first surface surrounding the central opening configured to engage the first casing portion and a second surface surrounding the central opening configured to engage the second casing portion. Each of the first and second surfaces includes a plurality of apertures configured to receive threaded fasteners to attach the first and second actuator casing portions to the ring-shaped member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Ernest Souliere, Kenneth Blade, Dennis O'Hara
  • Publication number: 20070169623
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and process of oxygen concentration system to make it possible to produce a highly purified concentrated oxygen,with modifying the structure of the adsorption bed and it achieves evenness of the first and second upper portions and controls to make simultaneous evenness of the first and second upper/lower portions together and thus increases purity of the oxygen produced and reduces mechanical energy and consumption of electricity of the air compressor, then it is about the oxygen concentration apparatus to make it possible to promote pure oxygen enrichment and its recovery rate and the oxygen concentration method to use it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Tae Soo Lee, Yoon Sun Choi, Yong Duck Kim
  • Publication number: 20070169624
    Abstract: A carbon dioxide adsorption element rapidly adsorbs a large amount of carbon dioxide, and regenerates amine groups for carbon dioxide adsorption rapidly and uniformly with high-temperature air. The carbon dioxide adsorption element 110 for adsorbing carbon dioxide in air comprises a foil-like or plate-like support member 111, a porous aluminum oxide film 112 covering the support member 111, and the amine groups 113 clinging to the inner surface of each pore 112a of the film 112 for carbon dioxide adsorption. The film 112 is formed by oxidation of aluminum or aluminum alloy. The depth direction of each pore 112a of the film is the thickness direction of the support member 111.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicants: SHIMADZU CORPORATION, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidefumi Saito, Yoshihiko Takemura, Takatoshi Shoji
  • Publication number: 20070169625
    Abstract: A novel method and system of separating carbon dioxide from flue gas is introduced. Instead of relying on large temperature or pressure changes to remove carbon dioxide from a solvent used to absorb it from flue gas, the ion pump method, as disclosed herein, dramatically increases the concentration of dissolved carbonate ion in solution. This increases the overlying vapor pressure of carbon dioxide gas, permitting carbon dioxide to be removed from the downstream side of the ion pump as a pure gas. The ion pumping may be obtained from reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, thermal desalination methods, or an ion pump system having an oscillating flow in synchronization with an induced electric field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Roger D. Aines, William L. Bourcier
  • Publication number: 20070169626
    Abstract: An air conditioning system uses microwaves to effectively destroy airborne contaminants. In one mode, air (8) is passed through a microwave-transparent tube (6) and is subjected to microwaves in the presence of one or more of water, water vapor, steam or hydrogen to cause destructive dipole polarization, electrical coupling, hydrolysis, and/or interfacial polarization of the contaminants or impurities found in the air (8). In another mode, solids or liquids are decontaminated by subjecting the objects to microwaves. Paramagnetic dust particles in the air, especially underground railway air, can also be removed using an electromagnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Thomas Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20070169627
    Abstract: Various compressed air systems for commercial vehicles are disclosed. In one embodiment, a compressed air system is provided that includes a compressor, an air dryer apparatus, a purge reservoir, and an indicator device. The indicator device comprises a moisture-indicating material that is in contact with the purge air within the purge reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: William Fornof
  • Publication number: 20070169628
    Abstract: A gas purifier includes an air passage. An adsorption removal device, which includes a regenerable adsorbent for adsorbing chemical contaminants from non-purified air and separating the adsorbed contaminants through a regeneration process, and a gas purification unit, which performs gas-liquid contact with a porous film to separate and removes contaminants from the non-purified air into a liquid, are arranged in an air passage. The chemical contaminants are adsorbed and removed by the adsorption removal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tetsuya, Masao Ohno, Yoshi Sahara
  • Publication number: 20070169629
    Abstract: This invention is in technical field of electric heating, and relates to a kind of kettles for beverage, electric water kettles and cableless electric kettles for beverage. Its aim is to solve the problem appearing at existing kettles for beverage, i.e. Vapor and water generated in existing kettles for beverage flies out through top port of funnel. This may not only go through the lid of inner vessel, but also reach onto the lid of kettle body. As result, inner side of the lid of kettle body would be with tea or coffee stains, and its surface will be very hot to make its use difficult and there is sanitary problem due to contamination on surface of the lid. Kettles of this invention contain an inner vessel fixed on bottom of the kettle body inside the kettle. A funnel is provided at top opening of the inner vessel. There are two separate filtering layers inside the funnel: an upper and a lower filtering layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Zhicheng Shao
  • Publication number: 20070169630
    Abstract: A thermal processing chamber having an endless conveyor belt providing a level surface for placement of products for thermal processing in the chamber. Thermal processing is completed through a combination of convection from impingement by a stream of thermally charged gas against the product and conduction between the conveyor belt and the product. The endless conveyor belt comprises a plurality of plates forming a flat, horizontal surface, each plate having a set of male and female linking elements, for linking with an adjacent plate so as to prevent misalignment of the plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: David Auyoung
  • Publication number: 20070169631
    Abstract: It is an interpolation filter for press coffee pots. It is formed as two upper and lower clips made of nontoxic plastic clamping in-between a holed sheet metal hold by a rubber ring. With the present invention, it is convenient to install and remove the filter and the filter will not slipping and scratch inner wall of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Zhengdong Lian
  • Publication number: 20070169632
    Abstract: A dual use pour and dispensing carafe and coffee maker includes a carafe device, configured to contain a beverage, removably disposable on a base of a beverage maker. A handle is disposed on a side of the carafe, and an outlet and a valve are disposed near a bottom of the carafe. Thus, the carafe can be removed from the base by grasping the handle on the side of the carafe and the beverage can be poured from a top of the carafe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Brian Beesley, Claude Brandt, Kelly Harvard, Eric Hales
  • Publication number: 20070169633
    Abstract: A method for making and selectively dispensing a beverage includes making the beverage in a base and storing the beverage in a carafe removably disposed in a carafe receptacle of the base. The carafe is selectively laterally removed from a lateral opening in the base; the carafe is tipped and the beverage poured from a top of the carafe; and the carafe is laterally replaced into the lateral recess of the base. The carafe is selectively retained on the base and the beverage dispensed from a downward facing outlet on a bottom of the carafe by selectively displacing a valve disposed in the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Brian Beesley, Claude Brandt, Kelly Harvard, Eric Hales
  • Publication number: 20070169634
    Abstract: A beverage infuser for holding tea leaves and the like having a main body, a handle region, an upper sliding region, a scooping region and a barb region. An end piece is secured to a bottom portion of the main body proximate to the barb region and a plug is located within the upper sliding region. A sleeve that is formed from a perforated material slides back and forth across the main body while retaining contact with the sliding region between an open scooping position and a closed locking position. A friction enhancing element is formed in the sleeve for creating a positive lock between the sleeve and the main body to keep the tea leaves securely inside the scooping region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Aly Khalifa
  • Publication number: 20070169635
    Abstract: A process and machine for preparing an infused beverage in which a pump conveys infusion water from a reservoir, through a heater and then through a packet containing a product to be infused. The beverage is prepared by a first step of placing the pump in operation, when the heater has reached a first assigned temperature, in order to deliver to the packet a first quantity of hot water for infusion, and at least one operating sequence of halting operation of the pump and generating, in the heater while the pump is halted, steam that passes through the packet, then bringing the heater to a second assigned temperature and restarting the pump in order to deliver a second quantity of infusion water once the heater has reached the second assigned temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Denis Bienvenu, Alain Millot
  • Publication number: 20070169636
    Abstract: An apparatus for at least one of supporting and containing a preselected food product to be at least one of baked, cut and served. The apparatus comprises a first member having a first predetermined shape and a first predetermined size, such first member having a plurality of projections extending upwardly. There is a second member having a second predetermined shape and a second predetermined size for engagement with the first member. The second member has a plurality of apertures formed therein for permitting the plurality of projections to extend therethrough when the second member is placed on top of the first member. There are also a plurality of grooves disposed adjacent an upper surface of the second member extending from an outer edge of the second member to an axially opposed outer edge of the second member for enabling a cutting means to pass completely through such preselected food product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Edward Scott Carlson, Donald V. Edwards
  • Publication number: 20070169637
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for sealing a pressure container that is characterized in that a handle body is positioned at the top of a lid and has a safety valve and a pressure automatic adjusting valve at left and right sides, and in an on and off push button installed at an upper center of the handle body, a plate operation gear having an operation gear spring is engaged to a fixture at a lower side of the push button that fixes the pinion gear and a latchet using a fixing screw, and a reverse rotation prevention pole and a pole spring are fixed at the push button using a fixing screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Dong Lee
  • Publication number: 20070169638
    Abstract: A bread maker to perform a bread making process including a main body forming an oven compartment; upper and lower kneading drums spaced apart from each other inside the oven compartment, each kneading drum having a holding part holding opposite ends of a mixing bag filled with dough; a drum driving part rotating the kneading drums in clockwise and counterclockwise directions to knead the dough contained in the mixing bag; an auxiliary power supply to supply power when power supply of a primary power supply is cut off; a rotation sensing part sensing rotation position of the kneading drums; and a controller which receives power from the auxiliary power supply, measures a time interval from interruption to resumption of the power supply, determines whether the measured time exceeds a predetermined limit of power-interruption time, and ends the bread making process when the measured time exceeds the predetermined limit of power-interruption time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-ryong Park, Yong-hyun Kwon, Chul Kim, Tae-uk Lee, Han-jun Sung, Jang-woo Lee, Dong-bin Lim
  • Publication number: 20070169639
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooking element which is intended for a steam cooker. The inventive element consist of a tubular lateral wall (1) and a removable perforated base (2), said tubular lateral wass (1) comprising an inner shoulder (10) which is designed to receive the perforated base (2). According to the invention, the perforated base (2) comprises an openwork plate (3) which is obtained by means of coated or non-coated metal sheet deformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Philippe Dumoux
  • Publication number: 20070169640
    Abstract: The invention provides a beverage extractor permitting extraction of a beverage of high quality irrespective of its type. The extractor is provided with a first extraction channel for letting the beverage extracted in a cylinder flow into the extraction pipe via beverage outlet holes of a second piston having a prescribed first bore and a second extraction channel via a communication hole having a prescribed second bore, which is smaller in bore than the outlet holes, for letting the beverage extracted in the cylinder flow into the extraction pipe, and the first and second extraction channels are switched over between each other by the movement of the second piston. This makes it possible to select an extraction channel suitable for the type of beverage, whether regular coffee or espresso coffee, and accordingly to extract a beverage of high quality irrespective of the type of beverage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Sato, Takashi Nagasawa, Takeshi Onda
  • Publication number: 20070169641
    Abstract: Bellows structure for a cotton module builder or packager, for enclosing or covering slots or passages through walls of a cotton module builder, for preventing entry of cotton into the slots or passages, to allow free movement of cross members therethrough of apparatus for distributing and compacting cotton within the module builder. The bellows can include telescoping rigid members below the cross members, and more flexible bellows thereabove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Covington, Timothy Meeks, Gary Gallens, George Hale
  • Publication number: 20070169642
    Abstract: A printing method for window blind slats includes three blind slats situated side by side before three printing rollers that are equidistantly spaced out in a transverse direction with one growth-ring printing area and two fine-texture printing areas alternatively arranged and precisely formed at corresponding lengthwise and widthwise positions of the sequentially aligned printing rollers thereon. Via the printing operation of the alternatively-arranged growth-ring printing areas and the fine-texture printing areas of the three printing rollers, the three blind slats thereof can be synchronically printed with complete wood grain pattern and finished with growth-ring pictures and fine-texture pictures disposed thereon, efficiently providing a speedier printing method for the blind slats and ensuring an accurate control of the quality of each blind slat to achieve a standardized manufacturing thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Wen Liang, Sheng Hsu
  • Publication number: 20070169643
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include ink stamp dies, ink stamps and methods of manufacturing the same. Embodiments of the ink stamp dies may include two different materials. The first material may be opaque and the second material may be substantially transparent and adhered to the first material. The second material may be configured to be softer than the first for better adhesion properties to its base and/or to better deform to uneven surfaces when applying the stamp to a particular substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: M. Merrill, Joyce Leung, Eddy Chik