Patents Issued in May 14, 2013
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Patent number: 8438852Abstract: A combustor section is provided and includes one or more annular quaternary fuel manifolds mounted within an annular passage defined between a casing and a cap assembly of a combustor through which air and/or a fuel/air mixture flows upstream from a fuel nozzle support, the manifold including a body to accommodate quaternary fuel therein, the body defining injection holes through which the quaternary fuel is injected into a section of the passage at a location upstream from the fuel nozzle support.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Almaz Valeev, Chunyang Wu, Leonid Borisovich Zvedenuk
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Patent number: 8438853Abstract: A combustor end cap assembly having an improved cooling configuration is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention are directed towards an apparatus and method for cooling an effusion plate of the combustor end cap assembly. The combustor end cap assembly also incorporates an impingement plate having a plurality of cooling holes with the impingement plate positioned a predetermined distance from the effusion plate. The cooling fluid passes through the impingement plate and is directed towards and onto the effusion plate for cooling of the effusion plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.Inventors: Andrew Green, Peter Stuttaford, Yan Chen, Hany Rizkalla
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Patent number: 8438854Abstract: A diffuser system for a compressor for a gas turbine engine, the compressor having an impeller and the gas turbine engine having a combustor and a fuel injector proximate to the combustor, includes a first diffuser and a second diffuser. The first diffuser is configured to receive compressed air from the impeller. The second diffuser is coupled to receive the compressed air from the first diffuser. The second diffuser comprises a housing comprising a first wall and a second wall. The first and second walls form a diffuser flow passage therebetween. The first wall or the second wall, or both, further form an opening through the first and second walls for the fuel injector to pass through when removed from the combustor.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Nick A. Nolcheff
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Patent number: 8438855Abstract: A compressor diffuser for a gas turbine includes: a compressor diffuser having an upstream end and a downstream end, the downstream end defined by a peripheral annular edge, the annular edge formed with a plurality of substantially axially-oriented slots extending from an opening at the downstream edge in an upstream direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Carl G. Schott
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Patent number: 8438856Abstract: A combustor for an industrial turbine includes a single transition piece transitioning directly from a combustor head-end to a turbine inlet. The transition piece includes an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface bounds an interior space for combusted gas flow from the combustor head-end to the turbine inlet. The outer surface at least partially defines an area for compressor discharge air flow. The transition piece includes a plurality of apertures configured to allow compressor discharge air flow into the interior space. Each of the plurality of apertures extends from an entry portion on the outer surface to an exit portion on the inner surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ronald James Chila, Kevin Weston McMahan
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Patent number: 8438857Abstract: An inlet assembly for an aircraft engine nacelle includes an inner barrel, an outer barrel radially spaced from the inner barrel, and a rear support for supporting the outer barrel relative to the inner barrel. The rear support includes at least one radially extending stiffener and at least one energy absorber defining a zone of deformation adjacent the inner barrel. The rear support is deformable in the zone of deformation in response to forces applied during a fan blade-out event to prevent fracture of the rear support.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Rohr, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey D. Shutrump
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Patent number: 8438858Abstract: A rotational system for a miniature gas turbine engine includes a rotor shaft rotationally mounted to a forward bearing and an aft bearing. The rotor shaft is located axially with a single threaded rotor nut which provides an axial preload maintained by a fixed compressor wheel and spacers. A preload spring provides dynamic compensation for tolerance variation and undesirable axial movement during rotation of the shaft. A permanent magnet generator is mounted to the rotor shaft behind the forward bearing to generate electrical power for the engine and other accessories. The rotor shaft is inertia welded to a turbine wheel to form a cavity which provides a thermally conductive path away from the aft bearing. A seal ring mounted within a groove within the rotor shaft provides a pneumatic seal to further protect the aft bearing from thermal transfer between the turbine section and the compressor section.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2003Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Anthony Jones, Mark Harris, Eric Alexander, Patrick Lydon
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Patent number: 8438859Abstract: One form of the present invention contemplates an apparatus including a gas turbine engine core, wherein a gearbox accessory is mounted to the engine core and is substantially enclosed by an inner fairing. The apparatus can further include a nacelle having a plurality of panels, wherein the nacelle panels substantially enclose and overlap at least a portion of the inner fairing. The apparatus can further include a bypass duct defined between an exterior surface of the inner fairing and an interior surface of at least some of the nacelle panels. In additional and/or alternative forms a number of frame rods can also be used internal to the nacelle or nacelle panel. In some forms the frame rods can be connected between a front and rear frame.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Daniel Kent Vetters
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Patent number: 8438860Abstract: A heating apparatus including at least two thermoelectric modules connected in series, and at least one switching arrangement connected in parallel with one of the at least two thermoelectric modules such that electrical current flows via the at least one switching arrangement in an event of a failure of the one of the at least two thermoelectric modules.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2007Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Hasan Gökcer Albayrak, Klaus Grunert, Reinhardt Ruhm, Edmund Seiffert, Günter Steffens, Andreas Stolze
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Patent number: 8438861Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for heating and cooling an object in a controlled manner permitting a good thermal contact between the thermal block, the element for heating and cooling and the heat sink without the need for using a thermal interface material, an instrument comprising such a device and a method for conducting a thermal profile using the device.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Inventor: Herbert Harttig
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Patent number: 8438862Abstract: A thermal-protection apparatus disposed in a vehicle cabin or storage compartment includes a housing enveloping a chamber in which a thermally-sensitive consumer electronic device is received, a thermoelectric module mounted in a wall of the housing, and a remote electronic controller and power source coupled to the housing via an electrical cable for activating the thermoelectric module, and optionally the consumer electronic device, in a manner to prevent the temperature in the chamber from exceeding a prescribed maximum operating temperature of the consumer electronic device or falling below a prescribed minimum operating temperature of the consumer electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Todd P. Oman, Craig A. Tieman, Michel F. Sultan, Dale L. Partin, Bruce A. Myers
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Patent number: 8438863Abstract: A cooling system comprises a container that is conductively coupled or convectively coupled to a thermoelectric device to selectively cool and/or heat the container. A climate controlled container system for a vehicle includes a container or cavity and a conduction element configured to cool the cavity. In some embodiments, the cooling system comprises a housing, a housing inlet, a fluid passage and one or more thermoelectric devices and fluid transfer devices positioned within the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2012Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Gentherm IncorporatedInventor: John Lofy
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Patent number: 8438864Abstract: A method for increasing efficiency of a transcritical heat pump water heater system is provided, as well as the corresponding system. The refrigerant, such as CO2, is compressed to a supercritical point and passed through a gas cooler that is wrapped at least partially around a water storage tank, wherein the refrigerant transfers heat to water stored in the tank. The hot water is discharged from the storage tank proximate to a top of the tank, and cold water is introduced into the tank proximate to a bottom of the tank. The supercritical refrigerant is directed to flow through the gas cooler from a top point to a lowermost point in a flow direction such that the refrigerant exits the gas cooler proximate to the bottom of the tank at a location of the coldest water within the storage tank.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Joseph Roetker, Jonathan Charles Crosby
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Patent number: 8438865Abstract: A cooling system (10) for cooling an aircraft device (12) comprises an evaporator (14, 16, 18) for receiving a fluid (F) which is to be evaporated, a first adsorber (24) which contains a medium (28) for the adsorption of the fluid (F) which is evaporated in the evaporator (14, 16, 18), as well as a second adsorber (26) which contains a medium for the adsorption of the fluid (F) which is evaporated in the evaporator (14, 16, 18). A control system (22) is adapted to establish or to interrupt a fluid connection between the evaporator (14, 16, 18) and the first and/or the second adsorber(s) (24, 26).Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Andreas Frey, Ahmet Kayihan Kiryaman, Carsten Colberg, Peter Schwebke, Markus Kerber, Michael Dreyhaupt
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Patent number: 8438866Abstract: A defroster is provided in a refrigerator, in which a damper mounted to an inlet to a circulating duct controls air to flow in a reverse direction toward an evaporator to maximize a defrosting efficiency by using not only radiant heat but also convective heat. The defroster includes the evaporator, a heater that defrosts the evaporator by radiation, and a flow controller that controls air circulated by a fan to flow in a reverse direction toward the evaporator in defrosting.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Kyeong Yun Kim, Nam Soo Cho, Su Nam Chae, Jang Seok Lee, Youn Seok Lee
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Patent number: 8438867Abstract: A personal or spot area environmental management system has a low pressure air supply in fluid communication with an air nozzle and a water supply in fluid communication with a water nozzle. The air nozzle and water nozzle are arranged that the water nozzle includes a vortex in the air stream from the air nozzle reducing the pressure. The low pressure facilitates drawing water from the water supply through the water nozzle. The water exiting the water nozzle has an average diameter of 60 microns or less, which facilitates complete evaporation and effectively produces a cool, dry air stream.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Inventor: David Colwell
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Patent number: 8438868Abstract: A refrigerator includes an ice maker to make pieces of ice and an ice storage bin to receive the pieces of ice made by the ice maker. A plurality of blades is rotatably disposed at a bottom portion of the ice storage bin and an ice separating device to separate clumped pieces of ice discharged from the ice maker is disposed in the ice storage bin between the ice maker and the plurality of blades, where the ice separating device is disposed on at least a rear wall, a front wall, or a side wall of the ice storage bin.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Dong Hoon Lee, Kyung Han Jeong, Wook Yong Lee, Joon Hwan Oh, Il Wook Joung
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Patent number: 8438869Abstract: Disclosed herein is a refrigerator having an ice-making chamber, and the refrigerator may include a refrigerator body and an ice-making chamber, and the ice-making chamber may include an ice-making chamber body one side of which is opened, a connecting duct provided in a first sidewall of the ice-making chamber to be connected to the refrigerator body, an ice-making chamber door provided at a second sidewall of the ice-making chamber to open and close the ice-making chamber, and a protrusion portion formed to be protruded at the first sidewall. Accordingly, the thickness of the ice-making chamber door can be secured without changing a cool air channel of the ice-making chamber, thereby increasing a cooling chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Dongjeong Kim, Wookyong Lee, Changho Seo
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Patent number: 8438870Abstract: A refrigerator includes a hands-free vacuum preservation system mounted on a door of the refrigerator comprising a main body portion having a slot therein for receiving an open end of a plastic bag. Sensors within the slot detect the presence of the bag and a retaining device is actuated to punch holes in the bag and retain the bag in position for a vacuum sealing event. An intake port within the system communicates with a vacuum source to remove air from the bag, and a heat sealer seals the bag closed. In a preferred embodiment, once sensors located on the main body portion detect the presence of a consumer's hand, the retaining device releases the bag. The resultant vacuum sealed bag can be stored in a conventional manner, or by hanging the bag from hooks extending through the holes formed therein by the retaining device.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Douglas David Leclear, Michele E. Wilcox, John J. Vonderhaar, Paul B. Allard, Kelly M. Hanson, Andrew Michael Tenbarge, Karen J. Querfurth
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Patent number: 8438871Abstract: A refrigerator door having a dispenser is disclosed. The refrigerator door includes an outer case forming a front appearance of the refrigerator door, an inner case forming a rear appearance of the refrigerator door, and an insulation layer disposed between the outer case and the inner case. First and second mounting frames are installed at both side ends of the refrigerator door and have first and second mounting slots longitudinally formed in the first and second mounting frames in opposition to each other. The dispenser is detachably coupled to a front surface of the outer case and includes a housing, which forms an external appearance of the dispenser and is formed with a recess section. An external plate section is coupled to the front surface of the outer case except for an area in which the dispenser is installed, forming an external appearance of the refrigerator door.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Yong-Chol Kwon
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Patent number: 8438872Abstract: A refrigerator and its operation method are disclosed. Cool air ducts guide cool air from a freezing compartment to an ice compartment that is positioned at a refrigerating compartment door. At least a portion of the cool air ducts are located at a barrier that separates the freezing compartment and the refrigerating compartment.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Young-Hoon Yun, Bong-Jin Kim, Sang-Heon Lee, Seong-Jae Kim
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Patent number: 8438873Abstract: Methods and apparatus for separating fluids are disclosed. We have discovered that, surprisingly, providing an open pore structure between a wick and an open flow channel resulted in superior separation performance. A novel and compact integrated device components for conducting separations are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Ward E. TeGrotenhuis, Paul H. Humble, Dustin D. Caldwell
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Patent number: 8438874Abstract: Motive power supply equipment for a natural gas liquefaction plant includes gas turbine equipment having a compressor for compressing air, a combustor for generating combustion gases by burning a fuel and the compressed air from the compressor, and a turbine rotated by the combustion gases from the combustor. A low-temperature heat source supply system is provided which, during rated load operation of the gas turbine equipment, supplies carbon dioxide as a cooling medium to the gas turbine equipment in order to cool the gas turbine equipment. The carbon dioxide supplied is generated by separation from the natural gas in the natural gas purification equipment.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tomomi Koganezawa, Hidefumi Araki, Shinichi Higuchi, Yasuhiro Horiuchi, Mutsumi Horitsugi
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Patent number: 8438876Abstract: As a precursor to forming a glass sheet, a soot layer is formed on a deposition surface using a roll-to-roll glass soot deposition process. A soot layer-separating device is configured to bring a stream of gas into contact with at least a portion of a free surface of the soot layer. The impinging gas stream affects local thermal expansion stresses at the soot layer/deposition surface interface, which separates the soot layer from the deposition surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventor: Douglas Miles Noni, Jr.
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Patent number: 8438877Abstract: A knitting device (10) comprising a needle bed (12) and knitting tools (16), wherein the needle bed (12) is designed so as to be without joints and seams in view of the configuration of its channel walls (18, 19) as well as perpendicularly to the floor (23) of the channel through the base body (20) of the needle bed (12). The channel depth of the individual guide channels (13, 14, 15) is preferably less than three times the channel width. Consequently, in particular in the case of extremely fine needle divisions, the resultant channel walls (18, 19) are robust and stable and can be subjected to a hardening or coating treatment. The reduced overall weight, the smaller friction surfaces, and the sturdier design of the knitting device enable the operation at greater knitting speeds and with greater rotational accelerations, in particular in reciprocating mode, and an overall savings of lubricants and energy.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Groz-Beckert KGInventors: Hans-Jurgen Haug, Eric Jurgens, Johannes Bruske, Jorg Sauter, Martin Wornle, Frank Durst, Eckard Fehrenbacher
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Patent number: 8438878Abstract: A control unit of a laundry treatment apparatus is provided in which shaking of a knob may be reduced or prevented and a tactile manipulation response of the knob may be improved. The control unit may include a board provided in a control panel of the laundry treatment apparatus, an encoder mounted in the board and having a projected rotation shaft, a supporter mounted in the board or the control panel and having a hollow unit disposed outside the rotation shaft, a knob having a connecting shaft coupled to the rotation shaft, and a bushing mounted in the hollow unit and rotatably supporting at least one of the connecting shaft or the rotation shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2006Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Cheol U. Choi, Dong Woo Kang
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Patent number: 8438879Abstract: The present invention relates to a household appliance (1), constituting a display (3) which enables the user to observe the performance state of the household appliance (1) and one or more input units (2) that enable the user to make visual or audio data entries.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Arcelik A.S.Inventors: Eyyup Gokceimam, Sertac Yilmaz, Cigdem Erbug, Aydin Oztoprak, Ali Emre Berkman
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Patent number: 8438880Abstract: A detergent dispensing unit is provided that includes a dispensing shell; a dispensing connection permitting the entry of fresh water into the dispensing shell; and a trap being located fluidly between an interior of the detergent dispensing unit and an opening that leads to the exterior, the opening which leads to the exterior being an overflow. The trap is positioned in the dispensing shell downstream of the dispensing connection, a maximum filled level of the trap lies below a lower edge of the overflow and the trap is adapted to be filled by liquid from the dispensing shell.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2006Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Edwin Bolduan, Horst Wiemer
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Patent number: 8438881Abstract: A laundry treating appliance and method for dispensing treating chemistry, where the laundry treating appliance includes a treating chamber, a single use dispenser and a bulk dispenser. Water may be supplied to the single use dispenser through a first water flow path, which directs a dose of treating chemistry dispensed from the single use dispenser into the treating chamber. Water may be supplied to the bulk dispenser through a second water flow path, which is configured to spray a dose of treating chemistry dispensed from the bulk dispenser into the treating chamber. The laundry treating appliance may determine the presence of treating chemistry within at least one of the single use dispenser and the bulk dispenser, and, based on this determination, supply water to the flow path associated with the dispenser which contains treating chemistry.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Sarah Ihne, Alvaro Vallejo Noriega
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Patent number: 8438882Abstract: An arrangement for treating objects with a treatment agent in a household device, includes a household device for treating objects with the treatment agent, a packaging for a dosing device for dosing the treatment agent, a first part of an identification system that identifies data of a second part of the identification system, the data of the second part of the identification system including information on the dosing device, and the data of the second part of the identification system being associated with a packaging for the dosing device, and a device for adapting one of the treatment of objects by the household device and the dosing of the treatment agent based upon the identified data.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventor: Michael Georg Rosenbauer
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Patent number: 8438883Abstract: Disclosed herein is a washing machine that is capable of preventing the deformation of laundry due to spin-drying holes, increasing friction between the inner surface of a washing tub and laundry to improve the washing efficiency, and reducing wash water consumption. The washing machine includes a water tub, a washing tub mounted in the water tub, a drive unit to rotate the washing tub, and a wash water circulation unit to supply wash water in the water tub into the washing tub. The washing tub has a plurality of depressions formed therein and depressed outward from the inner surface thereof in the shape of a polygonal pyramid, and a plurality of spin-drying holes formed in a deep area of the respective depressions.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2012Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Ryong Park, Sang Yeon Pyo, Sung Hoon Kim, Eun Suk Bang, Jee Hun Fark
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Patent number: 8438884Abstract: A protective cover for an outdoor padlock or another lock which secures a hasp to a door, has a base, a housing dimensioned to accommodate the lock and the hasp, and a flexure hinge, preferably a living hinge. When the base of the protective cover is attached to the door protected by the padlock, the housing abuts and presses against the door.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2012Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Inventor: Carl Bertrand
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Patent number: 8438885Abstract: The present invention, relates to an apparatus for securing cassettes housed within an automatic teller machine (ATM). The apparatus comprises at least one barrier and a supporting structure for supporting at least one barrier. Each barrier is formed and arranged to be associated with a pair of adjacent cassettes and to be movable between a first position in which the barrier prevents removal of a pair of adjacent cassettes in use of the apparatus along their respective removal paths. The barrier is moveable to a second position in which the barrier prevents removal of one cassette of the pair of adjacent cassettes along its removal path and to a third position in which the barrier prevents removal of the other cassette of the pair of adjacent cassettes along its removal path. In use, only one cassette of a pair of adjacent cassettes is removable along its removal path when the barrier is in the second or third position.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Scotia Safes LimitedInventor: Paul Robert Calder
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Patent number: 8438886Abstract: The invention provides a showcase having at least two glass doors, a first door being fastened to a front ferrule and a second door being fastened to a rear ferrule, each of the ferrules moving along a respective rail, said locking device comprising a lock for locking the two doors together, wherein the showcase includes a locking device comprising a slider mounted to move in said front ferrule transversely relative thereto, and having a rotor of the lock installed thereon, wherein said rear ferrule includes an opening that comes into line with said rotor in a position for locking the two doors together, and that is suitable for receiving a bolt mounted at the end of said rotor, and wherein said slider includes a relatively flat face plate coming substantially flush with said ferrule in the locked position of said doors.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Adler S.A.S.Inventors: Eric Bourgain, Jean-Jacques Masson, Christophe Martin
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Patent number: 8438887Abstract: A door lock assembly for a door. The door lock assembly includes a handle assembly, a latch bolt assembly disposed within a portion of the handle assembly and a mounting assembly that movably couples the handle assembly to a door panel member. The latch bolt assembly includes a movable latch bolt that translates relative to the handle assembly between an extended position and a retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2007Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: C.R. Laurence Company, Inc.Inventor: Gary Sprague
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Patent number: 8438888Abstract: A door lock device includes a lever mechanism which carries out lock/unlock operation in response to turn operation of a key cylinder. The lever mechanism includes a key rotor which includes a coupling hole to which an inner end of a rod is coupled in a torque transmittable manner and is rotatably assembled to a housing, and a key lever which includes a hub which is coupled to the key rotor in a torque transmittable manner and is arranged in the housing. The key lever includes a first arm which extends to radial outward direction from the hub and is capable of engaging with a first engagement portion of the active lever, and a second arm which extends to radial outward direction from the hub and is capable of engaging with a second engagement portion of the active lever.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryujiro Akizuki, Takashi Nishio, Nobuko Watanabe, Kazunori Kojima, Sho Sannohe, Yusuke Yamada, Yasuhiko Sono
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Patent number: 8438889Abstract: The present invention provides a pin and tumbler cylinder lock and a retrofitted cylinder lock which minimizes unauthorized openings of the lock by bumping. The cylinder lock utilizes specially designed driver pins which are correlated in size to the largest possible stack height of the tumbler pins with a bump key inserted in the plug portion of the lock and the shear line height of the lock. All the driver pins are about the same height and preferably symmetrical with a lip on each end. The invention also provides a method for retrofitting existing locks by removing at least one of the driver pins and replacing the removed driver pin or pins with the driver pins of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2007Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Sargent Maufacturing CompanyInventors: Darren C Eller, Ryan Piantek, Evaldas Malinauskas, James Galarneau, David Steele, Christopher Hill
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Patent number: 8438890Abstract: A cylinder lock includes elongated elliptical-shaped accommodation holes for accommodating auxiliary tumblers formed on an inner cylinder, and a set/reset member which is capable of freely sliding in the inner cylinder and which is pushed by two control members each having a respective stroke length, so that the auxiliary tumblers are interposed between upper tumblers and lower tumbler and moved aside from between the upper and lower tumblers, thereby enabling changing of keys for locking and unlocking the cylinder lock. Minutely, for the setting operation, the set/reset member is pushed into by a short stroke to cause the auxiliary tumblers to be accommodated into the accommodation holes and moved along the accommodation holes and held there. For the reset operation, the set/reset member is pushed into by along stroke to move the auxiliary tumblers to the side of the upper tumbler bores of the outer cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Goal Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mitsunori Miyake
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Patent number: 8438891Abstract: The invention deals with a rolling mill (1) for metallic products comprising at least one pair of work rolls and at least one cooling device (2) projecting a plurality of cooling jets under pressure on at least one work roll, the cooling device projecting also at least one scraper jet between the cooling jets and the metallic product to be rolled, the scraper jets being oriented in the desired flow direction following a re-entrant angle towards the perpendicular to the surface of the work roll, as well as with a rolling process using said rolling mill (1).Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: ArcelorMittal FranceInventors: Dirk Vanderschueren, Patrick Van Poecke
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Patent number: 8438892Abstract: A stem slide apparatus comprises a stem slide base (73) with a stem (6) horizontally mounted thereon to press a billet (B) mounted on a container (5), a slide guide member (72, 72a, 72b) mounted on a vertical stem move support member (71) and formed with guide grooves in which the side end portions of the stem slide base are fitted and vertically slid, and a lock means (77a, 77b) arranged on the slide guide member to press the side end portions of the stem slide base. The stem slide apparatus further comprises a drive mechanism (10) having an electric motor (11) to move the slide base in the sliding direction. Therefore the indirect cause of a fire is removed and the maintenance work simplified.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2007Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Ube Machinery Corporation, Ltd.Inventors: Takeharu Yamamoto, Yasuo Katoh
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Patent number: 8438893Abstract: A two-dimensional sheet material is provided that is suitable for bending along a bend line to form a three-dimensional object. The sheet material is provided with a plurality of displacements in a thickness direction of the sheet material on one side of the bend line. A portion of the displacements shear adjacent the bend line and define an edge and an opposed face. The edge and opposed face configured to produce edge-to-face engagement of the sheet material during bending. Alternatively, sheet material is provided with a plurality of displacements in a thickness direction of the sheet material on one or both sides of the bend line, and with a plurality of corresponding and cooperating protrusions to improve structural integrity and/or to improve electromagnetic and radio frequency shielding. The sheet material may also be provided with a self-latching structure. A method of preparing and using these sheet materials is also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Industrial Origami, Inc.Inventors: Max W. Durney, Radha Vaidyanathan, Ryan Lam
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Patent number: 8438894Abstract: The present invention relates to a bending press comprising an upper table (130) and a lower table (132) placed edge-to-edge in the vertical direction, with one of the tables being movable relative to the other in the vertical direction, and with one of the tables presenting slots (134, 136) that are placed symmetrically relative to the midplane (P?P). Each slot has an open outside end and comprises a first slot portion (135a, 137a) and a second slot portion (135b, 137b) that is situated on the inside relative to the first slot portion and that is connected thereto, the shapes of said slot portions being such that the stiffness of the table portion situated between the slot and the tool fastener is greater between the first slot portion and the tool fastener than between the second slot portion and the tool fastener. At least one element (180) for adjusting the flexing of said table is disposed in the first slot portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Amada Co., Ltd.Inventor: Bjarne Hansen
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Patent number: 8438895Abstract: Crimping apparatuses for reducing the diameter of an intraluminal medical device from a first diameter to a second diameter prior to loading the medical device into a catheter delivery system and loading apparatuses for introducing the medical device into a catheter delivery system, the devices constructed and arranged for matingly engaging one another, combinations thereof, and methods of using the devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Perreault, Mark Edin, Bruce Asmus
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Patent number: 8438896Abstract: A method of manufacturing an endoscopic insertion portion with high manufacturing efficiency is provided. The endoscopic insertion portion includes a plurality of bending parts provided side by side with each other, a protruding portion provided in one of each two adjacent ones of the bending parts, and a receiving portion provided in the other of each two adjacent ones of the bending parts and into which the protruding portion is inserted rotatably. The method includes forming, in at least one plate material, a first bending part preparation portion for the formation of the one bending part and a second bending part preparation portion for the formation of the other bending part, connecting the first bending part preparation portion and the second bending part preparation portion by press processing, and forming the first and second bending part preparation portion into a cylindrical shape by press processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Hideya Kitagawa, Shunichi Imai
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Patent number: 8438897Abstract: A forming device for cup-shaped hollow bodies, including a machine frame, a drive device, a workpiece turntable and a tool holder, wherein the drive device (15) is designed to provide a rotational step movement and a cyclic linear movement between the workpiece turntable and the tool holder, and wherein the workpiece turntable is assigned at a locking position a first actuating means for triggering a locking movement on the respective workpiece holder and at an unlocking position a second actuating means for triggering an unlocking movement on the respective workpiece holder.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Hinterkopf GmbHInventors: Helmut Aichele, Thomas Pfluger
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Patent number: 8438898Abstract: Methods and systems for preparation of calibrant infusion fluid sources are disclosed. In one embodiment, a precise volume of glucose is injected into a saline-solution filled calibrant infusion fluid source proximate in time to conducting a calibration procedure. The glucose concentration in the calibrant infusion fluid source is subsequently calculated based on the measured weight of the saline-solution, as determined prior to glucose injection, and the volume of glucose injected. This method provides a highly accurate and convenient manner for use in a hospital environment, for example, with an intravenous blood glucose sensor system. In another embodiment, a premixed calibrant infusion fluid source is provided that includes saline solution and a predetermined concentration of glucose. In such embodiments, shelf life problems related to water evaporation are mitigated by hermetically covering or otherwise hermetically containing the calibrant infusion fluid source up until the point of use.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences CorporationInventors: James R. Petisce, Michael J. Higgins, Kristie Trinh, Todd Abraham
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Patent number: 8438899Abstract: A system for improving operation of an engine having a particulate matter sensor is presented. The system may be used to improve engine operation during cold starts especially under conditions where water vapor or entrained water droplets are present in vehicle exhaust gases. In one embodiment, degradation of a particulate matter sensor is indicated after a temperature of a substrate of the particulate matter sensor exceeds a threshold temperature and an output of the particulate matter sensor is below a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Garry Anthony Zawacki, Robert F. Novak, Roberto Teran, Jr., Dave Charles Weber, Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt, Michael Hopka, William Charles Ruona
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Patent number: 8438900Abstract: An electronic phantom and method for electronically controlling a phantom for a quantitative ultrasound device are provided. The electronic phantom includes a housing, a first transducer element within the housing configured to receive an ultrasonic signal from a quantitative ultrasound device and a second transducer element within the housing connected to the first transducer element. The second transducer element is configured to transmit a modified ultrasonic sound wave to the quantitative ultrasound device based on the received ultrasonic signal. The first and second transducer elements are positioned in a back to back configuration within the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Franklin Morris, Steven Taylor Morris
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Patent number: 8438901Abstract: An apparatus for producing stress on a surface, comprising one or more service assembly and one or more cleaning assembly. The service assembly comprises one or more means for applying dirt to said surface, or one or more means for scuffing said surface, or one or more means for dragging a test material across said surface, or a combination thereof. The cleaning assembly comprises one or more scrubber, or one or more burnisher, or a combination thereof. Also provided is a method of testing a surface with such an apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: Walter Jay Gregory, Nilesh Shah, Theodore Tysak
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Patent number: 8438902Abstract: An apparatus for sensing analyte is provided. The apparatus may include a plurality of sensor array columns, each sensor array column including a plurality of sensors, each sensor being adapted for sensing one or more parameters in reaction to the presence of one or more analytes and output a current therefrom in accordance with level of the sensed parameter, a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) array including a plurality of VCOs, each VCO adapted to receive an output current from one of the plurality of sensors from each of the plurality of sensor arrays and for and generating an output oscillation frequency in accordance with the level of the received output current, and a counter array including a plurality of counters, each counter adapted to receive an output from a corresponding VCO and count a number of oscillations over a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Sensorbit System, Inc.Inventors: Klaus Dimmler, Thomas Moss, III