Patents Issued in August 12, 2008
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Patent number: 7411100Abstract: In a process for the preparation of ring compounds via a combinatorial synthesis, the reaction procedure is based on a Suzuki coupling, subsequent halo-demetallation and finally a further Suzuki coupling. The Suzuki couplings are each carried out with a boronic acid or a boronic acid ester. The reaction procedure uses provides novel ring compounds and uses novel synthesis units used for this purpose. The novel ring compounds are suitable for use as constituents in liquid-crystalline mixtures.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Merck GmbHInventors: Detlef Pauluth, Peer Kirsch, Peter Baeuerle, Oliver Deeg
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Patent number: 7411101Abstract: A process for producing a monoalkylation aromatic product, such as ethylbenzene and cumene, utilizing an alkylation reactor zone and a transalkylation zone in series or a combined alkylation and transkylation reactor zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2002Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Shiou-Shan Chen, Henry Hwang
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Patent number: 7411102Abstract: Transalkylation catalysts comprising acidic molecular sieve, palladium and germanium have good activities and attenuate aromatic ring saturation and lights co-production provided that sufficient palladium is contained in the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Maureen L. Bricker, Frank S. Modica
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Patent number: 7411103Abstract: A process for catalytic isomerisation of alkyl aromatic compounds in a hydrocarbon process stream comprising contacting the alkyl aromatic compound-containing hydrocarbon stream under isomerisation conditions with a crystalline zeolite catalyst consisting of individual, primary crystals having an intracrystalline, non-crystallographic mesopore system and a mesopore volume of the zeolite crystals above 0.25.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2004Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/SInventors: Ivar Schmidt, Christina Hviid Christensen, Michael Brorson, Erik G. Derouane, Claus Hviid Christensen, Eric G. Derouane
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Patent number: 7411104Abstract: A method for producing high reactive polybutene (HRPB), in which carbon-carbon double bond is positioned at an end of polybutene, is disclosed. The high reactive polybutene having 300˜5000 of number average molecular weight (Mn) can be produced from a raw material containing isobutene, wherein a polymerization reaction of the isobutene is carried out in the presence of a catalyst system including secondary alkylether, tertiary alcohol, and boron trifluoride, the amount of boron trifluoride is 0.05˜1.0 weight part per 100 weight part of isobutene, the mole ratio of a co-catalyst including secondary alkylether and tertiary alcohol:boron trifluoride is 1.0˜2.0:1, and the mole ratio of secondary alkylether:tertiary alcohol is 0.5˜1.2:1.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun-Ki Yun, Byeong-Gyu Lim, Myeong-Seog Kim, Se-Saeng Oh, Jae-Hoon Uhm
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Patent number: 7411105Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the oligomerization of olefins that have 2 to 6 carbon atoms comprising at least: a) One reaction stage in which a first effluent that comprises oligomers, paraffins and olefins that have not reacted is recovered, b) A separation stage that makes it possible to separate a portion of the oligomers that are contained in the effluent from a mixture that comprises oligomers, paraffins and the olefins that have not reacted, c) A recycling of a portion of said mixture in the reaction stage, and d) A stage for membrane separation of another portion of said mixture so as to draw off a permeate that comprises at least 70% by weight of olefins and a retentate that comprises paraffins and oligomers, e) A stage for recovery of oligomers on the retentate.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Institut Francais du PetroleInventors: Alain Forestiere, Frederic Favre, Arnaud Baudot, Laurent Bournay
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Patent number: 7411106Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst composition, a method of making the same and its use in the conversion of a feedstock, preferably an oxygenated feedstock, into one or more olefin(s), preferably ethylene and/or propylene The catalyst composition comprises a molecular sieve and at least one metal oxide, such as a magnesium oxide that, when saturated with acetone and contacted with said acetone for 1 hour at 25° C., converts more than 80% of the acetone.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Teng Xu, Stephen N. Vaughn, Richard B. Hall, Doron Levin, James Clark Vartuli
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Patent number: 7411107Abstract: A process for the oxidation of a C2 to C4 alkane to produce the corresponding alkene and carboxylic acid which process comprises separation of the alkene from a mixture of the alkene, the alkane and oxygen by absorption in a metallic salt solution, and recovery of an alkene-rich stream from the metallic salt solution. Integrated processes for the production of alkyl carboxylate and alkenyl carboxylate, which processes comprise oxidation of a C2 to C4 alkane to produce the corresponding alkene and carboxylic acid, separation of the alkene from a mixture of the alkene, the alkane and oxygen by absorption in a metallic salt solution, and recovery of an alkene-rich stream from the metallic salt solution for use in production of alkyl carboxylate or alkenyl carboxylate.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2003Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: BP Chemicals LimitedInventor: Andrew Richard Lucy
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Patent number: 7411108Abstract: A method for removing conjugated olefins from a composition comprising contacting the composition with a Diels-Alder dienophile to convert conjugated olefins to a Diels-Alder adduct and arresting the Diels-Alder adduct. A method comprising confining a Diels-Alder dienophile to a first side of a selectively permeable barrier wherein the barrier is more permeable to conjugated olefins and less permeable to Diels-Alder dienophile and Diels-Alder adduct, and contacting a composition comprising mono-olefins and conjugated olefins with the Diels-Alder dienophile to form Diels-Alder adduct, wherein the contacting reduces the concentration of conjugated olefins in the composition. A method for removing conjugated olefins from a composition comprising bubbling the composition through a liquid comprising Diels-Alder dienophile to form a liquid comprising Diels-Alder adduct.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2004Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LPInventors: Saleh A. Elomari, Richard N. Reynolds, Jr., Steven J. Herron, Eduardo J. Baralt
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Patent number: 7411109Abstract: A method for making a perforated silicone gel layer includes providing a perforation device having a generally planar surface with a plurality of discrete perforating elements extending therefrom, placing a layer of uncured silicone gel on the planar surface of the perforation device with the perforating elements extending through the silicone gel layer, and peeling the silicone gel layer away from the perforation device when at least a surface of the silicone gel layer adjacent the planar surface has at least partially cured.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2003Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Ossur HFInventors: Gudmundur Fertram Sigurjonsson, Thordur M. Elefsen
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Patent number: 7411110Abstract: A thin, flexible, high capacity absorbent pad and a method of making such absorbent pads. The absorbent pad contains high levels of superabsorbent material homogeneously mixed with cellulose pulp fluff. The absorbent pad is subjected to high density compaction to achieve the thinness and high absorbent capacity of the invention. The absorbent pad can be used in absorbent articles, such as diapers, training pants, feminine hygiene products, incontinence products, and swim wear.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2001Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Lawrence Howell Sawyer, Michael John Niemeyer, Lori Tassone Holmes
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Patent number: 7411111Abstract: The invention relates to a method for cloning in the rat by nuclear transfer. The invention further relates to the rats obtained thus, in the foetal or adult state, as well as use thereof for the production of molecules of interest or as study models.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2004Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Institut National de la Recherche AgronomiqueInventors: Jean Cozzi, Qi Zhou, Jean-Paul Renard
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Patent number: 7411112Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a root-preferred promoter for the gene encoding CRWAQ81. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the root-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2004Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, New York UniversityInventors: Scott Diehn, Albert Laurence Lu, Steven W. Ritchie, Lynne Sims, Kim R. Ward, Philip Benfey, Jee W. Jung
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Patent number: 7411113Abstract: Compositions and methods for modulating MIOX activity are provided. Such compositions include nucleotide sequences for novel MIOX sequences obtained from maize, amino acid sequences for the proteins encoded by the nucleotide sequences of the invention, and variants and fragments thereof. Methods of the invention involve introducing into a plant a nucleotide construct comprising a MIOX nucleotide sequence operably linked to a promoter that drives expression in a plant. Expression of the novel nucleotide sequences disclosed herein confers advantageous agronomic properties on a plant. Transformed plants, plant cells, and seeds are additionally provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Matthias Liebergesell, Jinrui Shi, George W. Singletary
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Patent number: 7411114Abstract: The present invention is in the field of soybean variety S07-02KG294307 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety S07-02KG294307 and its progeny, and methods of making S07-02KG294307.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Inventors: Glenn R. Bowers, Karen M. Gallo
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Patent number: 7411115Abstract: A transformed tuberous plant cell or a transgenic tuberous plant containing a heterologous nucleic acid that includes a sweet potato sporamin promoter operably linked to a sequence encoding a polypeptide.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2004Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Academia SinicaInventor: Su-May Yu
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Patent number: 7411116Abstract: Broadly this invention provides an invention which is an inbred corn line G5205. The methods for producing a corn plant by crossing the inbred line G5205 are also encompassed by the invention. Additionally, the invention relates to the various parts of inbred G5205 including culturable cells. This invention relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line G5205 with at least one other corn line.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: Arturo Baletka
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Patent number: 7411117Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated BE9515, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line BE9515, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line BE9515 with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line BE9515 with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BE9515, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BE9515 and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Dow AgroScience LLCInventor: Kermit Berg Bohning
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Patent number: 7411118Abstract: A novel inbred maize line designated PHB00 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize line PHB00 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHB00 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the inbred line PHB00 or a trait conversion of PHB00 with another maize line. Inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PHB00, methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PHB00 and the inbred maize lines and their parts derived by the use of those methods.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Edwin Michael Grote, Joesph Kevin Gogerty
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Patent number: 7411119Abstract: Basically, this invention provides for an inbred corn line designated G07-NP2457, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line G07-NP2457 with plants of another corn plants. The invention relates to the various parts of inbred G07-NP2457 including culturable cells. This invention also relates to methods for introducing transgenic transgenes into inbred corn line G07-NP2457 and plants produced by said methods.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: Lee Stromberg
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Patent number: 7411120Abstract: An orchestral string instrument, comprising a resonant chamber and housing defined by a back member, curved sides and a front member having a pair of f holes positioned on opposing sides of a bridge support location on the front. The housing also includes a sound peg disposed between the front and back and a central axis extending between the f holes from an upper end of the housing to an opposing lower end. A fingerboard and neck are attached to the upper end of the housing and include a longitudinal central axis in a laterally offset position from the central axis of the housing. A nut is provided for supporting strings of the instrument above the fingerboard, wherein the nut is coupled to a distal end of the fingerboard and neck. A tail piece is attached to a lower end of the housing in a comparable offset position with the offset position of the fingerboard and neck, the tail piece being configured for supporting lower ends of the strings.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Inventors: Chung-Ji Dai, Chung-Chu Dai
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Patent number: 7411121Abstract: A guitar or applicable musical instrument is improved to enhance string energy through integration of side materials and structural spanners to maintain the integrity of the instrument under load of string tension. The invention improves ampliphonic efficiency by protecting the resonating surface of the instrument's soundboard from compression and distortion, stabilizes the harmonic mode of the neck as it rocks in and out of the sound hole area, and decreases loss of string energy. By stabilizing the neck and body structure, a long-term consistency in the neck alignment to the body is preserved. The soundboard efficiency is improved by extending the string load on the structure to the butt end of the instrument, allowing for a greater portion of soundboard area to be de-stressed when under string load.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2002Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Inventor: Paul McGill
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Patent number: 7411122Abstract: There is provided a keyboard device for a keyboard musical instrument, which is capable of enhancing the key touch feeling sensed when each key is depressed, and durability of stoppers. Keys each open downward, and have side walls and an abutment portion provided inside the side walls. The abutment portion has a lower end located at approximately the same height as lower ends of the side walls. The keys each perform downward pivotal motion when depressed. Stoppers are arranged under the keys in a manner associated therewith, respectively, for abutment of the side walls and the abutment portion of the associated key thereagainst, for stopping downward pivotal motion thereof. The stoppers have a shock-absorbing property.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2003Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki SeisakushoInventor: Tsutomu Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 7411123Abstract: The invention is a method for transforming image into music, more particularly, is a method for transforming image into sound at first and then editing the sound into music. In the method, the dynamic image or static image is captured by using the image capture apparatus. An image datum is obtained from the dynamic image or the static image and the image datum is compared with a plurality of standards stored in the memory to obtain a first music, wherein the image datum may be a brightness value or a pixel value. Then, the first music is transferred into a plurality of the third music with various styles by performing a function transferring process and a randomly selecting music notes process. The third music is broadcasted.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2004Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Compal Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Chia-Kai Chang
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Patent number: 7411124Abstract: A self-calibrating key sensor system is constituted by an optical modulator, optical position transducers, a data accumulator and a data analyzer, and the optical modulator has a gray scale section to produce a key position signal varied together with the keystroke and an absolute data section to produce a calibration signal representative of a strictly adjusted distance between transparent areas of the absolute data section; the data accumulator accumulates discrete values of the calibration signal and discrete values of the key position signal together with the sampling time, and the data analyzer determines the gradient of the key position signal on the basis of peaks of the calibration signal produced at both ends of the strictly adjusted distance so as to estimate the true distance between the rest and end positions.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Shigeru Muramatsu
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Patent number: 7411125Abstract: A chord estimation apparatus includes: frequency-component extraction means for extracting a frequency component from an input music signal; scale-component information generation means for mapping the frequency component extracted by the frequency-component extraction means onto each tone and generating scale-component information including each tone and loudness thereof; folding means for folding the scale-component information generated by the scale-component information generation means for each two octaves to generate scale-component information including 24 tones; and chord estimation means for inputting the scale-component information including 24 tones into a Bayesian network in order to estimate a chord.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Keiichi Yamada, Tatsuki Kashitani
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Patent number: 7411126Abstract: Systems and methods for covering a trough member. A system can include a hinge clip coupled to a sidewall of the trough member and having arms creating a socket. The system can include a cover including a pivot member and a groove at one end. The pivot member can be received in the socket to allow the cover to pivot about the pivot member from open to closed positions, and one arm of the socket can be received in the groove in the open position. A capture clip including a ramp portion and a seat can be coupled to the other sidewall, and another pivot member at the other end of the cover can ride along the ramp and drop into the seat as the cover is pivoted from open to closed positions. The cover can also be two cover portions, each extending partially over the trough member and creating a slot therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Daniel M. Herzog, Chad J. Sjodin, David E. Rapp
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Patent number: 7411127Abstract: An electrical wire has a central electrically conductive member such as copper, aluminum, gold or silver or admixtures or alloys thereof, coated by a photoresistive insulator, preferably of a negative photoresistive material such as polyimide. A non-mechanical method of stripping a desired portion of the length of the insulator from the electrical wire comprises exposing the desired length of the electrical wire to a source of UV light. The UV light then “softens” the insulator which either evaporates or can be dissolved by immersing it in a solvent.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2003Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Medconx, Inc.Inventor: Michael C. Viguerie
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Patent number: 7411128Abstract: A cable feed-through with an elastic sealing element having at least one cable feed-through channel is provided. The elastic sealing element is assembled from two sealing element parts separated by a dividing surface and has a feed-through member which comprises the at least one cable feed-through channel and inner sealing surfaces which can abut sealingly on at least one cable sheath. At least one holding element is provided, with which the two sealing element parts can be acted upon in such a manner that the inner sealing surfaces abut sealingly on the cable sheath and the sealing element parts abut sealingly on one another with their contact surfaces respectively bordering on the dividing surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Lapp Engineering & Co.Inventors: Rolf Drotleff, Martin Zankl
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Patent number: 7411129Abstract: The present invention includes a cable having reduced surface friction and the method of manufacture thereof having steps in which a conductor wire is coated with a mixture of a plastic material and lubricating material and in which the coated conductor wire is cooled. The cable includes at least one conductor core and at least one coating of plastic material and incorporates a lubricating material in and/or on the plastic material. The equipment for the manufacturing of electrical cable includes a reel for supplying a conductor wire to an extruding head, which is connected to tanks containing plastic material and lubricating material for coating the conducting wire, and a reel for taking up the cable.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2004Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Southwire CompanyInventors: Randy D. Kummer, David Reece, Mark D. Dixon, John R. Carlson, Hai Lam, Philip Sasse
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Patent number: 7411130Abstract: The invention is a conveying wire (2) with disc-shaped conveying members (8) for use in endless tube conveyor systems. The wire (3) consists of a number of twisted strands (4) that each are made of thin threads or fibers, and including an outer jacket (6) to which the conveying members (8) are fastened directly by injection molding, where the outer jacket (6) consists of a polymer with a melting temperature which is lower than the melting temperature of the plastic material from which the conveying members are injection molded. The wire (3) is, for example, made as a balanced (torsionally neutral) wire consisting of at least three strands that each are made of very thin synthetic fibers which are individually surface treated with a polymer, providing great bending wearability to the fibers and good adhesion to the outer jacket (6) which consists of a polymer.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: DALTEC A/SInventor: Thøge Hellesøe Dall
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Patent number: 7411131Abstract: A multi-pair cable having a plurality of twisted conductor pairs and a shielding arrangement. The shielding arrangement including at least one shielding component. The shielding component including a length of tape encased by a dielectric material.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventor: Spring Stutzman
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Patent number: 7411132Abstract: An electrical cable for shipboard use that can block water is disclosed. The electrical cable includes conductors, water swellable tapes, water swellable yarns, solid fillers, and a jacket. Each conductor is substantially wrapped with water swellable tape. The conductors are disposed adjacent to each other thereby forming interstitial voids between each of the conductors. Solid fillers and water swellable yarns are alternatively disposed in each interstitial void. Additional water swellable tape substantially envelopes the conductors, water swellable yarns, and solid fillers. The jacket is disposed on the outermost peripheral surface of the electrical cable.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: General Cable Technologies CorporationInventor: Christopher T. Medling
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Patent number: 7411133Abstract: A cord management system operable to reduce or eliminate various forces exerted on a vacuum cleaner power cord. The system includes a swiveling strain relief incorporated into the vacuum handle and collars, used to connect sections of dirty air conduit, having exterior portions that enable the power cord to be retained in a secure manner.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Oreck Holdings LLCInventors: Charles Jeff Morgan, Christopher M. Paterson, Steven Philip Irby, Paul A. Moshenrose
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Patent number: 7411134Abstract: Electrical mounting boards and methods for their fabrication and use are disclosed herein. In particular, such mounting boards embodiments utilize hybrid ground lines interconnected through a substrate core to form multilayer ground grids. Such hybrid ground lines include groups of substantially parallel ground lines configured such that the groups of ground lines are positioned in transverse arrangement with other groups of ground lines formed on the same level. Such implementations have many uses, including, but not limited to, the ability to more efficiently route signal lines and connect electrical components on a circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Robert Steinfeld, Cheung-Wei Lam
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Patent number: 7411135Abstract: An integrated circuit has a wiring layer below an insulator layer. A pad comprises a conductive material that is on the insulator layer. The pad has a wirebond connection region and a probe pad region. An inspection mark is between the wirebond connection region and the probe pad region. The inspection mark comprises an opening in the insulator layer that is filled with the conductive material. In addition, a contact that is through the insulator layer is adapted to electrically connect the conductor wire in the wiring layer to the pad. The contact is formed of the same conductive material used for the pad and the inspection mark.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2004Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Timothy H. Daubenspeck, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Christopher D. Muzzy, Wolfgang Sauter
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Patent number: 7411136Abstract: Multiple-batch train loading systems and methods, for example for loading coal, which are capable of accommodating railcars of a wide range of capacities and designs. Each railcar is loaded with at least a relatively large initial weighed batch having a weight at least approximately equal to the maximum available capacity of a weigh bin, and a relatively small final weighed batch. The initial weighed batch and the final weighed batch are both made up with precision. If required, one or more intermediate weighed batches are loaded into the railcar. The intermediate batches, if required, are made up rapidly, but not necessarily with precision.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Inventor: Harold A. Walker
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Patent number: 7411137Abstract: A sealing arrangement is provided for a product weigh scale for a food processing apparatus the weigh scale including a support for supporting a product, a member that carries the support, and a weight sensor that senses vertical load on the member. The sealing arrangement includes a seal surrounding the member beneath the support, the seal having a first sealing surface configured to be sealed against a cabinet, and a second sealing surface. The seal is movable between an inactive position wherein the second sealing surface is out of contact with the support and a sealing position wherein the second sealing surface seals against the support. The seal includes a stationary part having the first sealing surface and a sliding part having the second sealing surface. A plurality of springs urge the sliding part toward the sealing position and a source of pressurized fluid is injected between the sliding part and the stationary part to urge the sliding part toward the inactive position.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Formax, Inc.Inventors: Glenn Sandberg, David Hansen
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Patent number: 7411138Abstract: A weighing system that operates according to the principle of electromagnetic force compensation, having two connecting rods (2, 3) which are fashioned as a parallel guide and connect a load receiver (4) to a base area (1) fixed to the housing, and having an angle lever (5) mounted on the base area. The force due to weight that is transmitted by the load receiver acts upon the short lever arm (5?) of the angle lever via a coupling element, and a coil projecting into the air gap of a permanent magnet system (7) is fastened to the long lever arm (5?). The weighing system occupies only a small area since the long lever arm takes the form of a vertical lever arm and extends, at least in part, in the area underneath the connecting rods of the parallel guide. The permanent magnet system is likewise arranged underneath the connecting rods of the parallel guide.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Sartorius AGInventors: Fabian Walter, Otto Kuhlmann, Peter Fleischer, Wilfried Langner
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Patent number: 7411139Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a breaker interlock device adapted to mechanically resist switching a handle of a first circuit breaker from an OFF position to an ON position when a handle of a second circuit breaker is in an ON position, wherein the first circuit breaker is adjacent to the second circuit breaker.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc.Inventor: Brian Timothy McCoy
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Patent number: 7411140Abstract: An inertial mass detection device. An illustrative embodiment of the device includes a generally elongated ball track, at least one pair of spaced-apart switch contacts provided on the ball track, a battery connected to a first one of the at least one pair of spaced-apart switch contacts, at least one inertia indicating device connected to the battery and to a second one of the at least one pair of spaced-apart switch contacts and an electrically-conductive contact ball rollably provided on the ball track.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Inventors: Muriel G Davison, Thomas Delor, Francoise S Delor
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Patent number: 7411141Abstract: A combination switch includes a combination switch body 1 fixed to a steering column of a vehicle, an operating lever 2 swingably mounted on the combination switch body 1, and a wiper switch for operating a wiper of the vehicle in accordance with a swing movement of the operating lever 2 relative to the combination switch body 1. An A/C switch 4, a fan switch 5 and a temperature control dial 6 for operating an air-conditioner are mounted on the operating lever 2.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Asahi Denso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Tsuchikiri, Yujiro Mizuguchi
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Patent number: 7411142Abstract: Disclosed is a keypad which can realize uniform and bright illumination, small power consumption and low manufacturing cost. The keypad includes a light guide layer through which light travels, at least one key button disposed on an upper surface of the light guide layer, a lower elastic layer disposed on a lower surface of the light guide layer, located opposite the upper surface, and at least one reflective pattern formed on the light guide layer and partially reflecting light traveling through the light guide layer toward the key button.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sun-Tae Jung, Joo-Hoon Lee, Kyoung-Youm Kim
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Patent number: 7411143Abstract: A flexible EL dome sheet uses a polymer insulation layer having a thickness of 5 to 50 ?m as a substrate, and therefore, the thickness of the flexible EL dome sheet is 50 to 150 ?m. The flexible EL dome sheet comprises a flexible EL sheet having key patterns formed thereon and metal or poly domes attached to the EL sheet. Since the flexible EL sheet and the metal or poly domes are used, the flexible EL dome sheet has excellent flexibility and durability, and an additional process for silicon molding is not necessary. Furthermore, the tactile feel of the flexible EL dome sheet keypad is improved. Electric connection between an EL driver of a flexible printed circuit board and the flexible EL sheet is achieved using a contact pad terminal structure, whereby no additional connector is necessary, and therefore, an FPC connecting process is not required.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: ELK CorporationInventors: Dong Hyuk Shin, Kwang Hyuk Bae
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Patent number: 7411144Abstract: An electric tool is provided, including an electric tool housing, an electric motor located in the electric tool housing, and an energy store, particularly a battery, for supplying the electric motor with energy. An actuating member for actuating a switching means for supplying the electric motor with energy is arranged in and/or on the electric tool housing. The energy store has an energy store housing, which can be fastened in and/or to the electric tool housing. The switching means is located in the energy store housing, and a transmission means which interacts with both the actuating member and the switching means, is arranged in the electric tool housing such that the movement of the actuating member is transmitted to the switching means.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Marquardt GmbHInventor: Peter Broghammer
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Patent number: 7411145Abstract: A decoupling assembly structured to decouple the charging motor and the charging assembly cam shaft is provided. The decoupling assembly includes a lifter pin assembly and an elongated second end to a link member in the over-running clutch assembly. The link member supports a pawl which engages an over-running clutch assembly sprocket. The pawl is disposed on one side of a link member that is pivotally attached to an over-running clutch assembly hub assembly. The link member is structured to pivot in a “see-saw” like manner and thereby move the pawl between a first position, wherein the pawl engages the sprocket, and a second position, wherein the pawl does not engage the sprocket. The lifter pin assembly includes a spring loaded lifter pin that is structured to engage the link member second end and thereby move the pawl between the first position and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventors: William J. Jones, Erik R. Bogdon, Craig A. Rodgers, Paul R. Rakus, James M. Smeltzer
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Patent number: 7411146Abstract: A method and system using a single pass sequencer having a transport system for transporting the mail pieces to a transport system having a moveable carriage system and a stationary carriage system with a plurality of holders slidable between the moveable carriage system and the stationary carriage system. The plurality of holders hold a mail piece of the mail pieces received from the transport system. The mail pieces are sequenced as they are transported or moved from the stationary carriage to the moveable carriage.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Bruce H. Hanson, J. Edward Roth
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Patent number: 7411147Abstract: A gas bottle for welding-type devices, a shielding gas system, and a method for providing shielding gas to a weld are disclosed. The gas bottle has a valve constructed to be connected to a welding-type device and is preferably formed to fit within a cavity of a welding-type device. The gas bottle is constructed to provide shielding gas to the welding-type device immediately upon connection of the gas bottle to the welding-type device thereby eliminating a manual valve.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2004Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Kenneth A. Stanzel, Ronald Woodward, John Breitbach
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Patent number: 7411148Abstract: A plasma generation apparatus includes: a chamber having a chamber lid and defining an airtight reaction region; a susceptor in the chamber; a gas supplier supplying a process gas to the chamber; and a toroidal core vertically disposed with respect to the susceptor through the chamber lid, including: a toroidal ferromagnetic core combined with the chamber, the toroidal ferromagnetic core having a first portion outside the chamber and a second portion inside the chamber, the second portion having an opening portion; a radio frequency (RF) power supply connected to the chamber; an induction coil electrically connected to the RF power supply, the induction coil rolling the first portion; and a matching circuit matching an impedance between the RF power supply and the induction coil.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Jusung Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gi-Chung Kwon, Sang-Won Lee, Sae-Hoon Uhm, Jae-Hyun Kim, Bo-Han Hong, Yong-Kwan Lee
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Patent number: 7411149Abstract: A lightweight and compact plasma cutting system includes a power source having an inverter and a non-adjustable regulator enclosed within the power source. The inverter is configured to generate a power signal suitable for a plasma arc process and the non-adjustable regulator is preconfigured to deliver a fixed gas flow to a plasma torch for the plasma arc process.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Illinoise Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Joseph C. Schneider