Patents Issued in December 27, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070295298
    Abstract: The invention relates to a work implement including a drive which can be started by a cable pull starter, wherein the cable pull starter has a starter handle which is located in a holder in a rest position and which can be removed from the holder by a user for starting the drive. The work implement also includes a starting brake for a tool which prevents tool movements hazardous to the user directly after starting the drive, wherein a tripping mechanism disposed on the holder is provided for the starting brake, which by removing the starter handle from the holder automatically tightens the starting brake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: DOLMAR GMBH
    Inventor: Jesse Mark
  • Publication number: 20070295299
    Abstract: A piston for a combustion engine has a basic element and a ring carrier element held on the basic element with a top land all around its circumference and a ring belt all around its circumference. The ring carrier element grips around the basic element at least partially and is held on the basic element by a press fit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Lapp, Valerian Ioja, Grace Zhao
  • Publication number: 20070295300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spatial cam power transmitting mechanism for the conversion between linear movement and rotary motion. Several transmitting mechanisms for the conversion between reciprocating motion of a roller shaft and rotary motion of an internal groove cam are provided, which do not have a piston and a piston bore. A roller shaft 16 is provided on a upper portion of internal groove cam 6 in a cam casing 15, and rollers are mounted to the outer end of the roller shaft. The rollers roll in a circumferential direction on the contour line of the groove of the internal groove cam 6. At the position of fixed rails 4 opposing to the roller shaft 16, guiding rollers or slide blocks 27 are provided, wherein the fixed rails 4 are provided axially in a lower portion of a cover 1 of the cam casing. The guiding rollers or slide blocks 27 can move up and down respectively in the fixed rails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Qum Zhao
  • Publication number: 20070295301
    Abstract: An energy transfer machine, for example, a positive displacement internal combustion device, has a fixed or rotating outer housing, an internal rotating carrier and one or more inner rotors with rotational axes which are offset from the inner rotor carrier rotational axis. Circumferentially expandable projections from the outer housing and rotor mesh with each other to define variable volume chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: JAMES KLASSEN, DAVID BOEHM
  • Publication number: 20070295302
    Abstract: A variable flow control method and device between an air intake and a throttle comprise at least one one-way valve with suitable restoring function between the air intake and the throttle, especially for a car. Corresponding functions can be generated among the one-way valve, an air intake manifold and the throttle to adjust and control an engine so that the engine can rapidly get various rotating rates corresponding to various degrees of vacuum respectively as natural or original air taking can be effectively and rapidly accelerated when the accelerator is trampled rapidly, and reflect the improvement on performances responding to torsion and acceleration of the various rotating rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Chun-Hsiung Chang
  • Publication number: 20070295303
    Abstract: A vehicular ejector system having an ejector that generates a negative pressure that is greater than the intake manifold negative pressure that is to be extracted from an intake manifold, a VSV that causes the ejector to function or stop functioning, and an ECU that controls the VSV. The ECU includes a control device that controls the VSV so as to cause the ejector to function if an ISC request amount for controlling, during idling, a throttle valve that adjusts the intake air flow amount supplied to the internal combustion engine is greater than a predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigemasa Hirooka
  • Publication number: 20070295304
    Abstract: An electronic throttle control housing structure (10) for a vehicle includes an upper housing (12), a lower housing (14) mating with the upper housing, and a sensor assembly (20) clamped between the upper housing and the lower housing. One of the upper housing or the lower housing has surfaces defining slot structure (22, 24) therein. A portion of the sensor assembly is received in the slot structure in interference fit relation with the surfaces defining the slot structure. Thus, no screws or glue is needed to mount the sensor assembly in the housing structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: Siemens Canada Limited
    Inventor: Nathan Cowan
  • Publication number: 20070295305
    Abstract: Super retard combustion is performed in which an ignition timing is set to be after a compression top dead center and fuel is injected before the ignition timing and after the compression top dead center, at cold start or the like which requires early warming-up of a catalyst. During an idle operation without the super retard combustion, a first ISC control is executed in which a feedback control is provided for the degree of opening of a throttle and the ignition timing so that an engine speed corresponds to a target idle speed (S14). On the other hand, during the super retard combustion, a second ISC control is executed in which the control of the degree of opening of the throttle is inhibited, but the ignition timing is advanced because a catalyst may be thermally damaged when the amount of intake air is increased in accordance with an increase in load of an auxiliary device and the like (S15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Tomohiko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20070295306
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve element, an actuator, a control chamber, and a nozzle. The valve element is provided in a valve chamber. The control chamber is always communicated with the valve chamber. S3>S1>S2 is satisfied in a condition, where the followings are satisfied. S1 is a passage area of a high-pressure seat portion of the valve chamber, which area is a product of a peripheral length of the high-pressure seat portion multiplied by a lift amount of the valve element in a state, where the valve element is disengaged from the high-pressure seat portion. S2 is a passage area of the high-pressure restrictor. S3 is a passage area of the high-pressure fuel passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yoshimura, Keisuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20070295307
    Abstract: A system for an engine of a vehicle traveling on the road, comprising of a first fuel injector coupled to a cylinder of the engine, a second fuel injector coupled to said cylinder of the engine, a compression device for compressing intake air delivered to said cylinder, a fuel tank configured to store a fuel, the fuel tank coupled to the first and second injectors, a fuel vapor purge system for delivering vapors of the fuel to said cylinder of the engine and a controller configured to vary an amount of injection of the fuel from at least one of the first and second fuel injectors as a concentration of said vapors varies, and further to vary said amount of injection based on operation of the compression device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: James Kerns
  • Publication number: 20070295308
    Abstract: A common rail fuel system essentially comprising at least one rail, at least two injectors, and a respective supply line of a definite length between the rail and each injector. In order to prevent oscillation-generated movements of one supply line from being transmitted to the adjacent supply lines, the respective adjacent supply lines are embodied with different natural frequencies as a result of the supply lines of a rail being of different dimensions, for example different lengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Holger Rapp, Marcus Schilling
  • Publication number: 20070295309
    Abstract: A fuel delivery system in accordance with the present invention comprises a fuel rail having an outlet opening and an outlet cup that is insertable into the outlet opening. The cup includes a flange. The flange includes at least one tab extending therefrom. The cup further defines a vertical axis extending therethrough. The system further includes a fuel injector with an inlet insertable within the cup. The system still further includes a retention clip. The clip includes an inner peripheral surface, at least a portion of which is configured for engagement with the injector when the clip and injector are assembled together. The clip further includes at least one arm, the arm further including a finger configured for spring engagement with the tab of the cup. The clip is operative to limit the movement of the fuel injector when it is assembled with the clip and inserted in the cup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Zdroik, Robert Doherty
  • Publication number: 20070295310
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine comprising a fuel supplying device. Said fuel supplying device comprises a low-pressure circuit provided with a low-pressure pump and a high-pressure pump that is coupled to the low-pressure circuit on the input side and transports fuel into a fuel accumulator. A fuel transporting flow of the low-pressure pump is corrected according to an actual and a previously pre-determined nominal value of the fuel pressure in the fuel accumulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Erwin Achleitner, Martin Cwielong, Gerhard Eser
  • Publication number: 20070295311
    Abstract: The present invention provides a constant flow fuel injection system for an engine, the system comprising an engine control unit, a variable DC brushless motor fuel pump, and a constant orifice fuel injector, wherein the engine control unit drives the fuel pump to provide fuel pressure to the fuel injector by modulating the fuel pump pressure to vary the fuel flow rate to the fuel injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Matthew R. McCue, Don Schafer
  • Publication number: 20070295312
    Abstract: In a fuel cutoff valve of the invention, an opening at a lower end of a cylindrical bottom member defines a full level of fuel. The opening of the cylindrical bottom member has a flange that is protruded in a horizontal direction. This structure of the invention effectively interferes with invasion of the air into a casing of the fuel cutoff valve in the course of fuel supply to the full level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kaneko, Shoji Horiba
  • Publication number: 20070295313
    Abstract: A fuel vapor treatment apparatus includes a first canister purges fuel vapor into an intake passage of an engine through a purge passage, which communicates with a first detection passage having a throttle. A second canister is located on an opposite side of the purge passage with respect to the throttle, and communicates with the first detection passage. A gas flow generating unit generates gas flow by reducing pressure in a second detection passage communicating with the second canister. A pressure detecting unit detects pressure correlated with the throttle and the gas flow generating unit. An exhaust detecting unit detects exhaust of fuel vapor from the second canister to the second detection passage. A purge control unit controls purge of fuel vapor from the purge passage to the intake passage in accordance with detection results of the pressure detecting unit and the exhaust detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicants: Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Amano, Shinsuke Takakura, Masao Kanoh, Terutoshi Shiokawa
  • Publication number: 20070295314
    Abstract: A fuel saving heater, powered by electrical energy from a battery in an automobile, may be disposed at any convenient position preferably as close to the engine of the automobile as possible. The device is operative without any necessary alteration or modification to the original design of the automobile. The device has a housing means that further defines an inner chamber, inlet end, and outlet end. An infrared annular member made of heat retaining materials is disposed in the center portion of the inner chamber. A spirally electrical heating pipe, made of heat conductive materials, wraps firmly around the outside surface of the annular member. Within the heating pipe, there are not only stuffing gauzes with thermally conductive, electrically insulating nature, but also at least two sets of electrical heating elements. The heating elements are to generate sufficient heat to elevate the temperature for the heating pipe, the annular member, and filling metal gauzes stuffed within the inner chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Naiqiang Dong
  • Publication number: 20070295315
    Abstract: The inventive oil separator provided for de-oiling a gas exhausted from a crankshaft case (1) comprises oil collecting means (11) associated with a siphon (12) whose inlet inside the oil separator (7) is encompassed by an oil recovery chamber (13) provided with a perforated wall, at least a small oil recovery hole (14) arranged in the lowest part of the chamber (13) at the exit of the collecting means (11) and at least one depressurising small hole (15) which is arranged in the highest part of the chamber (13) above a clarified oil surface and is connected to the chamber (13) at a depressurising point (16). Said invention is usable for internal combustion engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Pascal Guerry, Richard Emmanuel, Herve Martinengo, Hippolyte Mounier, Anthony Nollevaux, Emmanuel Aubry, Sonia Elfakir
  • Publication number: 20070295316
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for operation of a multiple fuel engine, which runs on a combination of two or more fuels. An electronic control unit (ECU) may be connected to the existing components of an engine system in order to control operation of the multiple fuel engine. The engine system may be mechanically governed or electronically controlled. The ECU inputs operating characteristics of the engine system, determines governing characteristics for multiple fuel operation based on the operating characteristics, and controls the amounts of fuel delivered to the engine based on the governing characteristics. In a preferred embodiment, a dual fuel engine operates using diesel as a first fuel and natural gas as a second fuel. The operating characteristics may include engine speed, throttle position, engine exhaust temperature, gas pressure of the second fuel, gas temperature of the second fuel, boost pressure of an intake manifold, or engine coolant temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Frank Davis, Jozef Turlej
  • Publication number: 20070295317
    Abstract: A toy for use in forming and throwing snowballs and including an interiorly patterned cup portion to loosen packed snowballs that could injure a person targeted with the discharging snowball; a smooth inner bore adjacent the discharge end of the cup; a hollow handle with control holes to be opened and closed to increase throwing accuracy, and for use in bugling; a handle knob to provide for better grasping of the toy during throwing of a formed snowball, and including an open end to serve as a mouthpiece when the toy is used as a bugling-type noise maker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Duane Erickson
  • Publication number: 20070295318
    Abstract: A baseball and softball practicing apparatus includes a stand, a housing mounted on the stand, a ball throwing wheel mounted in the housing, and a feeding member mounted on the housing. Thus, the hooks of the feeding member are hooked onto the transverse stubs of the housing, the movable plate of the feeding member is inserted into the slideway of the housing, and the threaded rod is screwed into the housing and extended through the movable plate of the feeding member to secure the feeding member to the housing, so that the feeding member is mounted on and detached from the housing easily and quickly by rotation of the threaded rod, thereby facilitating the user assembling and disassembling the feeding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Sheng-Hsiao Lu
  • Publication number: 20070295319
    Abstract: A quick load paintball device, and quick load hopper device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Scott A. Carter, Jeffrey D. Cook
  • Publication number: 20070295320
    Abstract: In a paintball gun (10) the valve member (17) which controls communication between the gas canister (13) and the barrel (11) of the gun is balanced by a piston (23). When the chamber (21) is pressurised. the piston (23) helps to unseat the valve member (17) when the latter is struck by a hammer (15), thus reducing recoil and permitting use of lighter, less robust materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: BLACK MARKET SPORTZ LIMITED
    Inventors: Martin Carnall, Paul Garry
  • Publication number: 20070295321
    Abstract: A barrel attachment for a paintball gun is provided to impart spin onto a paintball exiting the barrel of the paintball gun thereby providing projectile drop compensation. The attachment is made up of a structure having an elongated aperture with a first end that attaches over the barrel of a paintball gun thereby extending the barrel. A second end of the attachment has an open passage that is disposed at an angle to the centerline of the barrel so that a spin is imparted onto a paintball fired from the gun as it passes through the open passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: KEE ACTION SPORTS I LLC
    Inventor: Mark Finstad
  • Publication number: 20070295322
    Abstract: A convection heating apparatus capable of providing effective, high speed cooking without the assistance of microwave energy. The oven apparatus includes an exterior cabinet, a door, and a cooking chamber having interior side walls, a back wall, and a lower jet plate. The oven further includes a blower for circulating gas through the lower jet plate into the cooking chamber. In addition, the oven includes a product support disposed within the cooking chamber above said lower jet plate. The product support is disposed on a rail that is positioned to hold the lower jet plate in place when air is circulated therethrough. Optionally, the oven further includes an upper jet plate disposed within the cooking chamber above the product support. Temperature controlled gas is circulated through the upper jet plate toward the product support and any food product disposed on the product support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Dobie, Carlos Bacigalupe, Russell Rose
  • Publication number: 20070295323
    Abstract: A safety device for covering a hot cooktop surface includes a bottom layer with a plurality of at least one pad that is placed directly on at least one cooktop burner. A top layer is provided above a middle insulating layer that is located between the bottom layer and the top layer. The device may also include a vent located on the top layer for releasing heat from the cooktop surface and channels or conduits to help air circulate over the cooktop burner and base pad. In application of the device over a hot cooking surface, the middle layer prevents the top layer from becoming excessively hot thereby preventing burn injuries and damage to food or cookware set upon the top surface of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: David R. Delzell
  • Publication number: 20070295324
    Abstract: An extraction unit for ventilating a cooking surface is provided that includes a retractable device permitting an extraction component of the extraction unit to be extended and retracted, a control unit comprising at least one actuating component, which is used to trigger the retractable device by a manual user entry, and a fan unit. The fan unit can also be controlled by the control unit, by means of the manual user entry for the actuating component. In addition, the actuating component can be configured as a rotary component, allowing at least one additional function of the extraction device to be controlled by the user by the rotation of the actuating component. The actuating component can also adopt a lowered position when the extraction unit is inactive and a position, in which it protrudes from the control unit, when the extraction unit is active.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Egon Feisthammel, Petra Holzer, Dieter Rosmann
  • Publication number: 20070295325
    Abstract: A food tray and tray insert are provided that are particularly adapted for use in a heated food holding compartment. Methods of storing cooked food are also provided using such devices. The devices and use thereof allows cooked food such as hamburger patties to be stored at elevated temperatures for extended periods of time without a significant deleterious effect on the organoleptic properties of the cooked food.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Fernando Esparza, Tim Traylor
  • Publication number: 20070295326
    Abstract: Methods are provided for the extraction of wax esters from sugar cane mud, isolation of the wax, saponification of the wax, either after isolation or in an intermediate un-isolated form to provide higher primary aliphatic alcohols (HPAA's) and fatty acids having nutritional and medicinal uses. The solid waste resulting from the process can be disposed of or utilized as a soil substitute following an optional water wash. Additionally, methods are provided for providing modified forms of the sugar cane mud or cachaza having reduced volumes and/or water content that require less storage space and capable of being stored for long periods of time with little or no biological degradation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Rafael Almagro
  • Publication number: 20070295327
    Abstract: Use of stimuli in order to provide association with a training regime or other behavior modification technique is known. With regard to olfactory stimulation it will be appreciated that it is necessary that the olfactory is actively provided in the sense the it is not a continuous stimulation but provided in pulses for regular association. Without such distinct presentation of the olfactory stimulus a user may become desensitized. In order to achieve this the present olfactory stimulator comprises a regulator and specific delivery techniques such as the use of a fan or piston to direct the olfactory towards the user's nose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: CAN-DO CORPORATION LTD.
    Inventor: Paul Bottomley
  • Publication number: 20070295328
    Abstract: A nebulizer apparatus according to the present invention has an enclosure including a primary chamber of ambient air, a medicant chamber and a secondary chamber. The secondary chamber is for containing water and includes an ultrasonic transducer and is in communication with the primary chamber. The apparatus further has a first switch for activating pump means for evacuating air from the primary chamber after which the transducer is activated for a predetermined time. The pump stops after a predetermined pressure is achieved. The apparatus has a valve that opens allowing a dose of powdered medicine in the medicant chamber to move into the vapor-rich primary chamber to seed and form a cloud laden with medicine. A mouthpiece is attached to said primary chamber to allow the patient to suck and inhale the cloud. The mouthpiece may further include a one way valve that seals the mouthpiece during evacuation and upon the patient sucking the tubing of the mouthpiece the valve opens to allow the cloud to be inhaled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Puthalath Koroth Raghuprasad
  • Publication number: 20070295329
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for tracking the amount of medicament remaining with a metered dose inhaler. A dose indicator for a metered dose inhaler includes a housing having an upper portion and a lower portion, a spring element structured to moveably connect the upper portion with the lower portion, and a control module received within the housing and adapted to index a count representative of the number of doses of medicament remaining within the metered dose inhaler each time the dose indicator is cycled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Eric Lieberman, Erick Rios, Devin Moore
  • Publication number: 20070295330
    Abstract: A snorkel comprising a breathing tube and a retaining device formed on the breathing tube. The retaining device includes an elongated fastening strap having a bottom end formed integrally with the breathing tube, and a top end formed with a large first hole and a small second hole being in communication with the first hole; and a button formed integrally with the breathing tube and disposed in a position about flush with the top end of the fastening strap. The button is adapted to secure to the fastening strap by passing through the first hole and locking in the second hole in response to passing a mask strap through a gap between the fastening strap and the breathing tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Chih-Cheng Shiue
  • Publication number: 20070295331
    Abstract: Improved respirator fit-test methods and apparatus featuring an automated, respirator wearer-controlled, air-leak measurement system. For fit testing of a respirator positioned on a test subject's face and connected to a controlled negative pressure testing apparatus, the test subject simply holds his breath and then activates a switch in electrical connection with said apparatus, which results in the automatic closure of the breathing port on the respirator and the initiation of a complete fit-testing protocol. The fit-testing apparatus includes a single, self-contained, automated unit that includes a vacuum source (30), an air-flow measuring device, and an air-pressure transducer (32) for connection to a respirator (10) being tested. By measuring the rate of air exhausted from the respirator in order to maintain a constant challenge pressure, an air leakage rate is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Clifton Crutchfield
  • Publication number: 20070295332
    Abstract: An inhaler device (1) for powdered medicaments. The device (1) has a body (5) that has a recess (50) for holding a capsule containing a powdered medicament to be inhaled, at least one air passage (90) that is tangentially disposed to the recess (50) , and a mouthpiece (30) that includes a coaxially disposed inhalation passage (70) that communicates with the recess (50) of the body (5). The body (5) has a pair of opposed spring (105) biased push-buttons (40) that each include at least one piercing element (95) for piercing the capsule when loaded in the recess (50). The medicament is released from the pierced capsule when air is drawn through the air passage(s) (90) into the recess (50) and swirled about therein. The mouthpiece (30) is pivotally attached to the edge of the body (5) so that it is pivotable between an open loading position and a closed dispensing position about an axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the inhaler (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Dominik Ziegler, Grant Smetham, Mauro Citterio
  • Publication number: 20070295333
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser device comprising: at least one predosed reservoir (10) that is hermetically sealed and that contains a single dose of powder; an expulsion channel (20) that is terminated by a mouthpiece; and a reservoir opening system (30), each reservoir (10) including a closure layer (12) that is suitable for being pierced and/or torn by said opening system (30) so as to enable the powder that is contained in said reservoir (10) to be expelled through said expulsion channel (20), said reservoir opening system (30) comprising at least two piercer elements (31) that are actuated so as to create at least two distinct openings (25, 26) in said closure layer (12), forming at least one inlet passage (25) for the flow of gas, in particular air, and at least one outlet passage (26) for the powder entrained by said flow of gas, and said device including an inhalation trigger system (50) that creates a flow of gas in said expulsion channel (20) only when a user inhales at or above a predetermined inhalation thresh
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: VALOIS SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Fourment, Pascal Bruna
  • Publication number: 20070295334
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mask, suitable for wearing, that inhibits the passage of viruses and germs there through. Briefly, the mask comprises a number of individual layers. Each of these layers is treated with a compound designed to destroy viruses and germs, thus retarding the passage of viruses and germs to the next layer, and ultimately to the user. In one embodiment, a layer of acidic material and a separate layer of basic material are utilized in a form suitable to be placed over the user's nose and mouth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Arthur Nonomura
  • Publication number: 20070295335
    Abstract: A disposable anesthesia face mask suitably sized and configured to engage the nose portion, mouth portion and chin portion of a patient's face comprises a cup-like shell or receptacle member and a flexible inflatable hollow sealing cushion attached to the shell member on a flange thereon and wherein the shell member includes first passageway means for coupling to a breathing circuit, and a second passageway for connection to a flexible tube which, in turn, is adapted to be connected to a CO2 monitoring machine or capnograph. The face mask shell nasal portion has a first width, the face mask shell mouth portion has a second width greater than the first width, and the face mask shell chin portion has a third width greater than the second width. The nasal, mouth and chin portions are continuous and form the cup-like extent of the shell or receptacle member giving it a characteristic “pear” shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Ramses Nashed
  • Publication number: 20070295336
    Abstract: An inflatable balloon cuff may be adapted to seal a patient's trachea when associated with an endotracheal tube. Configurations of these cuffs that include tapered regions with certain characteristics, such as cuff wall diameter and thickness, may provide improved sealing of the trachea.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Donald S. Nelson, Dhairya Mehta
  • Publication number: 20070295337
    Abstract: An inflatable balloon cuff may be adapted to seal a patient's trachea when associated with an endotracheal tube. Configurations of these cuffs that include tapered regions with certain characteristics, such as cuff wall diameter and thickness, may provide improved sealing of the trachea.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Donald S. Nelson, Dhairya Mehta
  • Publication number: 20070295338
    Abstract: Described herein are nasal respiratory devices, in particular, nasal respiratory devices configured to achieve positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) in a subject wearing the device. PEEP devices may have a threshold pressure for opening during expiration. In some variations, these devices have a threshold pressure for closing during expiration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: VENTUS MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Bryan Loomas, Rajiv Doshi, Ryan Pierce, Robert Howard, Motohide Hatanaka
  • Publication number: 20070295339
    Abstract: A loading/unloading unit is formed with an oblique surface and an upper surface having contact areas to come into contact with a cared person, and the oblique surface and the upper surface of the loading/unloading unit are vibrated in a load direction and an unload direction upon loading the cared person on the loading/unloading unit or unloading the cared person from the loading/unloading unit. Therefore, a transfer apparatus can safely transfer the cared person while preventing an occurrence of the entanglement of the hair and the like of the cared person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Osamu Mizuno, Tohru Nakamura, Soichiro Fujioka, Hideo Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20070295340
    Abstract: A patient's obstructive sleep apnea is treated by placing a fibrosis-inducing agent is placed within the tongue in a region extending substantially from a hyoid bone rearward toward a back surface of the tongue and upwardly along the back wall toward a free end of a soft palate of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Paul J. Buscemi
  • Publication number: 20070295341
    Abstract: A surgical drape with a functional interface for engaging surgical instruments, including a flexible, tube-like sleeve for creating a sterile barrier around a non-sterile holding arm. The drape is open at a proximal end, and has a hub at a distal end for connection to a distal end of the holding arm. The hub has sterile external surfaces that allow surgical instruments to be easily removably attached in a variety of directions and orientations, providing sufficient mechanical strength to transmit forces from the instruments to the holding arm. The hub includes an externally accessible, sterile actuator for actuating an electronic circuit local to the holding arm on the non-sterile side of the barrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Christopher Scott, Anthony La Rosa
  • Publication number: 20070295342
    Abstract: The present invention is an oral device comprised of two main components, a U-shaped lower bite plate and a U-shaped upper bite plate, which are molded to fit the front teeth of a wearer with a soft flexible contact surface. The oral device of the present invention comprises an upper bite plate and a lower bite plate each having a generally U-shaped appearance. The upper bite plate removably fits over the upper teeth of a person and the lower bite plate removably fits over the lower teeth of a person. Each bite plate includes a U-shaped buccal side and a U-shaped lingual side connected by a U-shaped top portion. The U-shaped top portion is further comprised of an exposed surface and an attaching surface where the exposed surface is the surface that contacts a penis, clitoris, or other body part while the attaching surface contacts the wearer's teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Harry Engel
  • Publication number: 20070295343
    Abstract: A cigarette-making machine comprises a casing, a tobacco slot in the casing, and a nipple for retaining a cigarette tube outside the casing. A handle/handle drive is accessible from an exterior of the casing to be manually handled. An internal mechanism has a compactor to compact tobacco inserted into the machine through the tobacco slot, and a spoon to eject the compacted tobacco into the cigarette tube through the nipple. The internal mechanism is operatively connected to the handle/handle drive so as to be actuated by manual handling of the handle/handle drive to compact and eject tobacco into the cigarette tube. A cigarette receiver supports a filled cigarette released from the nipple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Yopie Susanto, Bambang Soeprapto
  • Publication number: 20070295344
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for the process of applying palladium salts to tobacco cut filler and other smokable products so that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can be reduced in both mainstream (MS) and sidestream (SS) cigarette smoke. The reduction in PAHs is observed in the total particulate matter (TPM) of the mainstream (MS) and sidestream (SS) smoke. Additionally, substantial reductions in heavy metals and Ames biological activity can be achieved when the palladium salt solution is applied and processed in accordance with the present invention. The present invention provides these improvements by using a preferred ratio of palladium (Pd) salt to Chloride (Cl) that is specifically designed to allow for high palladium solubility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen G. Zimmermann, James D. Baggett
  • Publication number: 20070295345
    Abstract: A smoking article filter having a porous resin with a high surface area to mass ratio comprised of a chitosan derivative. Preferred embodiments include chitosan cross-linked with glutaraldehyde and chitosan cross-linked with glyoxal. The chitosan derivative provides for the selective filtration of cigarette smoke, particularly for the removal of aldehydes, hydrogen cyanide, heavy metals and carbonyls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: John Caraway, Thaddeus Jackson
  • Publication number: 20070295346
    Abstract: A tobacco smoke filter containing a high activity activated carbon impregnated with a metal impregnant. The use of a relatively low level of impregnant, in combination with a base carbon having higher activity than that use in standard cigarette filters, is highly effective in removing HCN from cigarette smoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Anthony McCormack, Michael Taylor, Andrew Warburton, Thomas Ryan
  • Publication number: 20070295347
    Abstract: The surfaces of porous sorbent materials are chemically modified to specifically target the adsorption of select gas phase constituents. More specifically, a functionalized cobalt (II) phthalocyanine-modified porous substrate capable of nitric oxide adsorption from a gas stream is provided. A soluble cobalt (II) phthalocyanine compound can be incorporated in a porous substrate by grafting soluble cobalt (II) phthalocyanine molecules onto a functionalized substrate. In an exemplary case, a cigarette filter element comprises the substrate, which can be an imidazole-functionalized silica gel or an activated carbon of high surface area and permeability, and the gas stream is the mainstream smoke of a cigarette.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: John Paine, Jay Fournier, William DeSisto, Robert Cashon, David Cassidy