Patents Issued in January 28, 2014
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Patent number: 8635937Abstract: Systems and methods for launching munitions are provided. In some embodiments, the system may include a launcher coupled to a vehicle and configured to retain a munition during transport by a vehicle and configured to route electrical signals from the vehicle to the munition. The system may also include a flexible, peel-away connector coupled to the launcher, the peel-away connector comprising an adhesive for coupling to at least a portion of the munition. The flexible, peel-away connector may be configured to route electrical signals from the launcher to the munition during transport and detach from the munition as the munition exits from the launcher during a launch.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Mark A. Angeloff, Roy P. McMahon
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Patent number: 8635938Abstract: The technology can include a retractable rotary turret system. The system includes a base comprising two support arms. The system further includes a turret platform that is a truncated sphere having a substantially flat side and a substantially spherical side. The turret platform includes a turret support ring rotary coupled to the two support arms and a turret device isolatively coupled to the turret support ring. The turret platform is rotatable along a first dimension for deployment of the spherical side and is rotatable along the first dimension for deployment of the flat side.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: William B. King, John D. Isker, Chaunchy F. Mckearn, Eric J. Griffin
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Patent number: 8635939Abstract: An apparatus comprising: a series of units, each being capable of producing a volume flow; a first channel for supplying hydraulic fluid into the apparatus; a second channel for supplying hydraulic fluid from the apparatus; a first series of valves comprising at least one controlled valve for each unit; a third channel for supplying hydraulic fluid from the apparatus; and several controlled auxiliary valves, each being provided for one unit. The control circuit also comprises: at least one actuator for converting hydraulic energy to mechanical energy, wherein said actuator is at least connected to either the second channel or the third channel; and a control device configured to synchronize the operation of the valves of the first series of valves and said auxiliary valves with the operation of said units, and to control the actuator by means of pressure and volume flow.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Matti Linjama, Jyrki Tammisto, Kalevi Huhtala, Matti Vilenius
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Patent number: 8635940Abstract: A solenoid valve including a spool received within a housing. The spool is configured to move to multiple positions within the housing. The housing includes supply ports, exhaust ports, and outlet ports. When the spool is in a specific location, two outlet ports are in fluid communication with each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2008Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Vanderbilt UniversityInventors: Michael Goldfarb, Xiangrong Shen
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Patent number: 8635941Abstract: An electro-hydraulic control system for pump control is disclosed. The hydraulic actuator is configured to control the inclination of a swashplate. The position of the hydraulic actuator is controlled by controlling the flow of pressurized fluid into and out of two pressure chambers, one on either side of the actuator. A fluid passageway is provided that selectively connects the passageway to tank. The passageway has an orifice for each pressure chamber, and the actuator is configured to selectively block all or a portion of one or more of the orifices, depending on the position of the actuator. The components of the control system are configured such that the actuator will return to a neutral or near-neutral position upon loss of electric power.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Hongliu Du
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Patent number: 8635942Abstract: A lifter structure applied to an internal combustion engine and is actuated by a cam, includes a cylindrical lifter guide, a lifter body reciprocally moved in the guide while sliding on an inner circumferential surface of the guide, with drive of the cam, a pair of opposed walls continuous to an end of the lifter body, a pin extending through holes of the opposed walls and having two ends swaged onto outer surfaces of the opposed walls respectively, a roller disposed between the opposed walls, plural swaging side regions located at the same sides of the outer circumferential surface of the lifter body as the outer surfaces of the opposed walls, plural swaging side opposite regions located opposite the swaging side regions respectively, and plural escape recesses formed in the swaging side opposite regions so as to be spaced from the swaging side regions respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: OTICS CorporationInventor: Manabu Shibata
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Patent number: 8635943Abstract: A piston and method is provided that inhibits the potential catastrophic damage to an internal combustion engine, thereby reducing the risk of costly damage to the engine. The piston includes a piston body having an upper combustion surface separated from an internal cooling chamber by a wall. The a pocket extends into the upper combustion surface to a closed bottom surface of the wall. A tubular member is disposed in the pocket. The tubular member extends upwardly from the upper surface. Should a valve head drop from its normal operating position, the valve head impacts the tubular member and forms a blow-by through passage extending from the upper combustion surface into the cooling chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Federal-Mogul CorporationInventors: Eduardo H. Matsuo, Kai Wang
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Patent number: 8635944Abstract: A method for producing a fresh, cold, coffee-based beverage using a predetermined amount of ground coffee, includes: feeding a predetermined amount of ground coffee into a brewing chamber; preparing a coffee concentrate with the supplied predetermined amount of ground coffee with a brewing operation in the brewing chamber, wherein the prepared coffee concentrate constitutes a specifiable multiple (VK) of a concentration (KN) for a normal drinking quality for filtered coffee at approximately 1.2 to 1.4% dry substance share; and mixing the prepared coffee concentrate with an amount of water which corresponds to a specifiable multiple (VM) of the amount of the prepared fresh coffee concentrate to prepare the fresh, cold, coffee-based beverage.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Melitta SystemService GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bernd Buchholz, Jens Schmalkuche, Peter Tintelnot
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Patent number: 8635945Abstract: A package for a portion of liquid foodstuff dilutable with a diluent includes a reservoir for containing a portion of liquid foodstuff dilutable with a diluent, a reservoir seal for closing the reservoir, a mixing element for mixing the dilutable liquid foodstuff with the diluent. The mixing element includes a mixing chamber having an outflow aperture for dispensing liquid foodstuff diluted with the diluent, a liquid passage for feeding dilutable liquid foodstuff from the reservoir to the mixing chamber, and a feed channel for feeding diluent to the mixing chamber. The feed channel has a first portion and a second portion, the cross section of the second portion being smaller than the cross section of the first portion and be so configured that when diluent is fed to the mixing chamber, a venturi effect occurs in the mixing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Cupsystem Company B.V.Inventor: Roland Waldemar Verbeek
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Patent number: 8635946Abstract: A coffee maker comprises a filter basket assembly that enables two coffee dispensing modes. The assembly comprises a filter basket, an actuator that cooperates with a carafe and a motor driven valve. The actuator stops coffee from dispensing when the carafe is removed, but can be defeated by the user to dispense into a cup or mug when the carafe is absent.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2008Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Breville Pty LimitedInventors: Gerard Andrew White, Daniel Serra
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Patent number: 8635947Abstract: A barbecue cooking apparatus is provided. The barbecue cooking apparatus includes a firebox comprising a housing having solid walls. A charcoal tray is disposed within the housing, and one or more vents are disposed in the housing above the charcoal tray. One or more vents are disposed in the charcoal tray. An upper interior chamber within the housing above the charcoal tray is configured to hold wood and charcoal. A lower interior chamber within the housing below the charcoal tray is configured to provide a volume for the collection of wood ash. A duct is attached to the housing and forms a passageway from the lower interior chamber for heated air and wood smoke.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Inventor: William H. Karau
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Patent number: 8635948Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a working unit or a device that includes a working unit of this type for processing foodstuffs. The working unit can be driven and made to rotate by means of a drive unit of said device. The working unit preferably has at least two working elements that are situated on a working axis and that act in the peripheral direction of said working axis. At least one of the working elements can be pivoted about the working axis in relation to at least one additional working element within a restricted pivoting angle. The pivoting mobility of the blades, which are preferably interspaced and positioned axially one above the other, permits said blades to be brought into a common radial resting position in order to fill the container with the product to be cut, in such a way that practically the entire container volume is exposed and can be filled.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2007Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: swizzzProzzz AGInventor: Bruno Herren
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Patent number: 8635949Abstract: A fruit coring system for a coconut having a central cavity in which the system includes a coring assembly and a corkscrew assembly. The coring assembly uses a pipe-like segment having a length proportioned to a depth sufficient to reach the central cavity of the fruit, the segment having a serrated first end and an open second end having internal threadings. Lateral arms extend from an outer surface of the pipe-like segment, for facilitating its selectable rotation after the corkscrew assembly has positioned the pipe-like assembly upon the fruit to be cored. The corkscrew assembly includes a corkscrew proper and a boss proportioned for threadable engagement with the threaded inner surface of the pipe-like segment. with a second end of the elongate member. A handle of the corkscrew assembly is integral to a side of the boss opposite the corkscrew proper elongate member.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2009Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Inventor: Sheldon S. Barrett
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Patent number: 8635950Abstract: A square baler weighing system weighs a bale during a weighing timespan when the rear portion pivots into the bale discharging position. The rear portion further having a brake for changing the speed of a bale moving along the rear portion. The brake is configured to exert an adjustable braking force.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: CNH America LLCInventor: Didier O. M. Verhaeghe
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Patent number: 8635951Abstract: A baler having a bale chamber comprising chamber doors pivotably connected to a fixed frame part. Upon obtaining at least one crop parameter, a door angle value between two side sections of a door is selected; and the position of one of the side sections with respect to the other one is adapted in accordance with the selected door angle value. A corresponding baler and a control system for such baler are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: CNH America LLCInventor: Dirk A. R. Vandamme
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Patent number: 8635952Abstract: The present invention provides a machine plate for a printer which can be readily and accurately attached to the printer. A machine plate 2 is characterized in that a rectangular sheet 19 of an elastic material is formed into a cylindrical shape with opposite end portions of the sheet 19 superposed on each other and joined together, thereby forming a cylindrical plate body 17; an end portion of the sheet 19 located on the inner side of a joint portion 20 is bent inward, thereby forming an engagement portion 21; and a form area 18 is provided at a predetermined portion of the outer circumferential surface of the machine-plate body 17 excluding the joint portion 20.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Inventor: Masayuki Izume
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Patent number: 8635953Abstract: A method and apparatus of securing and tensioning a printing form in an apparatus having a rotatable drum includes securing a first portion of the printing form to a first means for receiving that is coupled to a surface of the drum, and securing a second portion of the printing form to a second means for receiving that is disposed on a rotatable member that extends over a portion of the drum. The rotatable member is rotated so that the circumferential distance between the first receiving means and the second receiving means is about the same as a length of the printing form. A rotary torque means is coupled to the rotatable member to apply a substantially constant torque on the member and tension the printing form about the surface of the drum. The rotary torque means adjusts torque on the member which adjusts tension on the printing form.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Theodore William Frentzel, Jr., Carl Bernard Arnold
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Patent number: 8635954Abstract: A film F in the form of a belt which is provided in a manner to be fed out and wound up is wound on a trap roller 11 which is provided opposite to a blanket 4 of a blanket wheel 3 via a contacting and withdrawing mechanism 12. The film F is caused to contact the blanket 4 to remove surplus ink or blurring ink. By this arrangement, ink trap can be made by contacting an always clean film and ink trap can also be made with a simple mechanism for contacting and withdrawing the trap roller.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2007Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.Inventors: Nozomu Takahashi, Takekatsu Kobayshi, Tadayoshi Imai
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Patent number: 8635955Abstract: The invention concerns a method for regulating the concentrations of components of additives in a printing process liquid for maintaining predetermined desired concentrations of components of additives in a printing process liquid, wherein the actual concentrations of components are determined followed by redosing of measured components to a predetermined desired concentration. The method is characterized in that the components to be measured are spectroscopically detected. The invention also concerns a device for regulating the concentrations of components of additives in a printing process liquid comprising a measuring means for measuring the concentrations of at least part of the components in the process liquid, comprising a control loop and a means for redosing at least part of the components, wherein the measuring means comprises at least one spectrometer.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2006Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Inventors: Dirk Fey, Gunther Krieg
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Patent number: 8635956Abstract: A munition including: a power supply having a piezoelectric material for generating power from a vibration upon impact of the munition; a processor operatively connected to the power supply for initiating detonation time-out circuitry to disable detonation of the munition after a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2013Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Omnitek Partners LLCInventors: Jahangir S. Rastegar, Carlos M. Pereira, Richard Dratler
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Patent number: 8635957Abstract: An arrow-type warhead (100,200,300,400,500,600,700) comprises an envelope (102,202), a filling (108), a hardened head section (104) to promote penetration of the target and a stabilizing mechanism (106,210,302,402,502,602) to stabilize the warhead in flight, hi some embodiments the filling (108) is pyrophoric and undergoes an exothermic reaction with the envelope upon impact. In other embodiments the filling is incendiary and undergoes reaction with the envelope upon impact in an oxygen rich-environment. In yet other embodiments, the filling is explosive. In all embodiments, the warhead may be equipped with a mini-rocket propulsion mechanism (802) for propelling the warhead to the target.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2009Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.Inventors: Nahum Orlev, Amir Weitz
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Patent number: 8635958Abstract: A cableway system has a conveying cable and chairs, which can be coupled to the conveying cable and are coupled to the conveying cable along the path of the cableway system, are uncoupled from the conveying cable at the entrance into the stations, are guided through the stations, along guide rails, by way of control tires, and are coupled to the conveying cable again at the exit from the stations, furthermore the chairs are designed with at least one safety bar and a device for adjusting the safety bar, and for locking the same, and a device for checking the locking are arranged at the exit from the stations. A first device for adjusting and locking the safety bar and an associated device for checking the locking and a second device for adjusting and locking the safety bar and an associated device for checking the locking are provided at the exit from the stations.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Innova Patent GmbHInventor: Markus Beck
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Patent number: 8635959Abstract: A modular activity tray system is provided for elderly, infirmed and other users. The tray system consists in one embodiment of a cushioned base which is releasably fastened to a tray on which a variety of board tops can be easily affixed. In another embodiment the tray system includes a leg base having pairs of pivotal legs for containing the tray. In the method of use a variety of board tops can be interchangeably positioned on the tray and releasably affixed thereto for entertainment, crafts, hobby work, eating or other uses.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Inventor: Scott P. Silknitter
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Patent number: 8635960Abstract: A free ball bearing includes: a main body that has a ball retainer where a ball-retaining recess having an inner surface of a semi-circular recessed surface is formed; a plurality of retainer balls that is disposed on the semi-circular recessed surface of the main body and a main ball that has a diameter larger than the retainer balls and is rotatably supported through the retainer balls; a cover portion that surrounds the ball retainer of the main body while ensuring a predetermined internal space; a retained ball-pressing ring that has a ring-shaped pressing member that is inserted in between the semi-circular recessed surface of the main body and the main ball and presses the retainer balls, and is disposed to be movable in the internal space in the depth direction of the ball-retaining recess, between a pressing position where the retainer balls are pressed and a releasing position where the retainer balls are released; and a releasing mechanism that moves the retained ball-pressing ring from the pressingType: GrantFiled: April 14, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Iguchi Kiko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kaoru Iguchi
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Patent number: 8635961Abstract: A method and apparatus (10) for forming in a single pass operation, a profiled planting mound for growing of a crop from planted seeds or billets by using a pair of spaced tools (37) to displace soil inwardly towards each other. A central bed is formed between the displaced soil onto which billets or seeds may be deposited through a guide or chute (13). Covering discs (78,79) are provided to move soil to cover the billets or seeds and a press wheel assembly (81) is used for pressing the soil in the mound and form the desired profile in the mound.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2008Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Inventor: Daryl Morellini
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Patent number: 8635962Abstract: A depth adjustment assembly for a disc opener or other furrowing device has an eccentric cam with an outer surface that engages and thus prevents rotation of a gauge wheel arm. As rotation of the gauge wheel arm sets the relative position of a gauge wheel relative to the furrowing device, preventing rotation of the arm sets the cutting depth for the furrowing device. The eccentric cam may have a smooth outer edge defining an indiscrete range of positions or a profile outer surface that defines discrete depth setting positions. The eccentric cam is biased into engagement with a receiver by a pin and spring, but overcoming the bias allows the cam to be momentarily disengaged and rotated to reposition the eccentric cam.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: CNH Canada, Ltd.Inventor: Robin B. Schilling
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Patent number: 8635963Abstract: A method and system enables sectional control for an air seeding system of a farm implement by exposing a main header, or selected ports of the main header, to a purging air flow when product flow through the selected ports is stopped. A plenum of air is fluidly coupled to the main header and provides a purging air flow to any exit port of the main header that has been shut off from product flow. Valves are used to selectively flow couple the exit ports of the main header to the product flow and to the purging air flow.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: CNH Canada, Ltd.Inventor: Terrance A. Friggstad
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Patent number: 8635964Abstract: In an automated skip checker device for sewing machine 1, a detector device 8 detects a slack portion 3a of a predetermined length D. The slack portion 3a definitely corresponds to a skip of a stitch or a disconnection of a sewing thread so as to unerringly carry out the detection with a high accuracy. The detector device 8 of the skip checker device has an air stream provider 19 which transfers a tension to an upper thread 3 as a pneumatic pressure to energize an optoelectronic switch 23 so as to make the detector device 8 structurally compact and cost-saving.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Kinoshita Precision Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruhiko Kinoshita, Ryuzo Sugimoto
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Patent number: 8635965Abstract: A sail system comprising a substantially isosceles-triangle-shaped sail with two booms and an arc-shaped element. The two booms are arranged along substantially equal sides of the sail and articulated to one another with a joint that defines a vertex of the triangle. The arc-shaped element is coupled to a deck of a boat for pivoting about a transverse axis between a raised position and a lowered position on the deck. Each boom has a coupling element on the arc-shaped element, the coupling element being slidable both along the arc-shaped element and along the respective boom.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: SEAGATE S.r.l.Inventor: Marcello Segato
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Patent number: 8635966Abstract: This invention relates to the use of a venting assembly for conventional sails, comprising one or more aperture substantially perpendicular with the sail surface separating a fore and aft element of the sail. The aperture channels high energy air flow from the windward side of the sail through to the leeward side of the sail parallel to the sail surface, energizing the surface boundary layer and maintaining laminar air flow along the aft element of the sail.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2012Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Inventor: Helmuth G. Bachmann
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Patent number: 8635967Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing mixing between a first water-type and a second water-type and for increasing the efficiency of ballast water exchange procedures on a ship. The apparatus includes a plurality of ballast water tanks, each having an arrangement to reduce water-mixing. Each arrangement includes a horizontal flow restraining box and two anti-mixing brackets. The ballast water tanks are divided into a plurality of compartments including a main compartment. The arrangement to reduce the water-mixing is provided in the main compartment of each tank.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretarey of the NavyInventors: Peter A. Chang, III, Wesley M. Wilson
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Patent number: 8635968Abstract: A substrate subjected to back surface cleaning by a back surface cleaning processing unit is held by a hand of an interface transport mechanism and transported to a cooling unit. The substrate whose temperature has been adjusted by the cooling unit is held by a hand of the interface transport mechanism and transported to an exposure device. The substrate subjected to exposure processing by the exposure device is held by a hand of the interface transport mechanism and transported from the exposure device to a substrate platform.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Sokudo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Kaneyama
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Patent number: 8635969Abstract: A device for guiding a strip through a liquid contained in a tank, includes an immersed diverting roller, in particular a roller immersed in a bath of liquid metal such as zinc, mounted rotatably about an axis on two aligned supporting shafts extending through two respective side walls of the tank, and each rotating in a centering bearing positioned outside of the tank. Each bearing of one shaft of the roller includes two rotary supporting members mounted in a fixed housing and spaced apart from each other, namely an outer supporting member and an inner supporting member. The housing of the bearing is held against a support plane formed on the wall and perpendicular to the axis of a hole through which the shaft passes. The wall has measures for centering the housing on the axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2007Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Siemens VAI Metals Technologies SASInventor: Alain Challaye
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Patent number: 8635970Abstract: A mask includes a base board, a number of wing boards, and aluminum foil. The wing boards are detachably attached to the base board in pairs, in a certain disposition and order and are rotatable relative to the base board in a substantially coplanar manner. The aluminum foil wraps around the base board and the wing boards so as to achieve a contour that is cooperatively defined by the base board and the wing boards.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shao-Kai Pei
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Patent number: 8635971Abstract: A method of tuning the uniformity of a plasma with a large sheath potential by locally affecting the density of a plasma is provided. The method comprises illuminating a body exposed to the plasma with electromagnetic radiation from a source, wherein the body and the source are cooperatively configured such that the body will generate photoelectrons upon exposure to the radiation from the source. An example of such electromagnetic radiation is vacuum ultraviolet light, and an example of such a body is the edge ring surrounding a semiconductor substrate. Photoelectrons emitted from the edge ring, captured by the plasma, and accelerated into the plasma with sufficient energy to cause ionization, locally increase plasma density. The source of radiation can be a plurality of discrete sources or one or more extended sources.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventor: Eric Hudson
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Patent number: 8635972Abstract: A plasma excitation device is described for use in depositing a film on a substrate from a plasma formed by distributed electron cyclotron resonance. The device comprises a microwave antenna having an end from which microwaves are emitted, a magnet disposed in the region of the said antenna end and defining therewith an electron cyclotron resonance region in which a plasma can be generated, and a gas entry element having an outlet for a film precursor gas or a plasma gas. The outlet is arranged to direct gas towards a film deposition area situated beyond the magnet, as considered from the microwave antenna.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignees: Ecole Polytechnique, Dow Corning CorporationInventors: Pere Roca I Cabarrocas, Pavel Bulkin, Dmitri Daineka, Patrick Leempoel, Pierre Descamps, Thibault Kervyn De Meerendre
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Patent number: 8635973Abstract: An artificial mangrove assembly, including: a mounting assembly for attachment to a surface at least partially submerged in a body of water; and respective pluralities of first and second root elements. Each first root element is fixedly secured to the mounting assembly at a respective first connection point, extends downward in a first direction from the respective first connection point, and includes a respective first distal end arranged to contact a bottom of the body of water. Each second root element is fixedly secured to a respective first root element at a respective second connection point and includes: a respective first portion extending downward in the first direction with respect to the respective second connection point; a respective second portion extending outward with respect to the respective second connection point in the second direction; and a respective second distal end arranged to contact the bottom of the body of water.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Inventor: Lee C. Shepard, III
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Patent number: 8635974Abstract: A livestock production building includes an automatically controllable ventilation system which provides ventilation to livestock containment rooms. Incoming air may be heated, cooled and/or filtered, and is mixed and tempered before being delivered to livestock rooms. Substantially all exhaust air is filtered to mitigate environmental impact.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Whiteshire/Hamroc LLCInventors: Michael E. Lemmon, Charles E. Lemmon
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Patent number: 8635975Abstract: A poultry support and protection device includes a body portion shaped to cover a crop of poultry. The body portion has opposing top and bottom edges (defining a width) separated by opposing side edges (defining a length). First and second securing straps are attached respectively to the first and second side edges. Each of the first and second securing straps extend longitudinally along an entirety of the body portion length and have a strap length greater than the body portion length such that each securing strap extends beyond at least one of the top and bottom edges. The first and second securing straps are operable to be releasably secured at a back of the poultry to attach the device to the poultry such that the body portion substantially covers the crop and to provide a non-constricting and adjustably secure fit.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Crazy K Farm Pet and Poultry Products, LLCInventor: Tobi Kosanke
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Patent number: 8635976Abstract: An economizer arrangement particularly suitable for new or retrofit application to existing steam generators provides a water cooled stringer support tube system which can accommodate firing a wide range of fuels with varying characteristics in the steam generator. The economizer arrangement according to the present invention is particularly suited for retrofit applications to large supercritical steam generators. The use of water cooled stringer tube supports allows for higher flue gas temperatures in comparison to conventional non-cooled mechanical economizer supports. These features are provided in a design which fits within the existing economizer envelope of the steam generator.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2007Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc.Inventors: Jeb W. Gayheart, Donald E. Ryan, Robert M. McNertney, Peter W. Waanders, Geza G. Csatlos
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Patent number: 8635977Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for selectively storing gaseous reformate output by a fuel reformer for fueling an engine. Carbon monoxide produced by a fuel reformer may be continuously combusted in the engine and/or engine exhaust rather than being stored. In one example, reformate components produced by a fuel reformer, e.g., H2 and CH4, may be stored and buffered for use by an engine.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Gopichandra Surnilla, James Michael Kerns
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Patent number: 8635978Abstract: A rotor (1, 21, 41) for a camshaft adjuster (61), having a rotor base body (3, 23, 43) and a number of rotor blades (5, 25, 45) extending radially outwards and located on the rotor base body (3, 23, 43), each of the blades having a blade end (7, 27, 47). To reduce leakage, the blade ends (7, 27, 47) of the rotor blades (5, 25, 45) take the form of sealing fins (9, 31, 49) that can be deformed radially outwards. A rotor (1, 21, 41) of this type affords the possibility of reducing leakage in a camshaft adjuster (61) using simple engineering and without added costs. The invention also relates to a camshaft adjuster (61) for an internal combustion engine, including a rotor (1, 21, 41) of this type.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Armin Braun
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Patent number: 8635979Abstract: A drag lever for actuating a gas exchange valve of an internal combustion engine. The drag lever includes an oblong lever body formed of sheet metal material, wherein the lever body has a bottom and side walls integrally formed at an angle of about 90° onto the bottom on both sides. A first end section of the lever body includes a joint socket formed into the bottom between the side walls. The joint socket serves to pivotally moveably support the drag lever on a joint head mounted stationary in the internal combustion engine. A middle section of the lever body is provided with a cam gripping surface, and a second end section of the lever body has a contact surface extending on the bottom. The contact surface serves for actuating the gas exchange valve. The lever body is dimensioned so as to have essentially the same width in a cross section through the joint socket and in a cross section through the middle section.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Frank Himsel, Jochen Ott, Dirk Richter, Junichi Ichikawa
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Patent number: 8635980Abstract: A deactivating rocker arm for use with a cam having at least one no-lift safety lobe is provided. Safety lobe contacting surfaces on the rocker arm are configured for contact with safety lobes during abnormal operation of the rocker arm. When the rocker arm is deactivated, the safety lobe contacting surfaces may come into contact with safety lobes when excessive pump-up of a lash adjuster brings the rocker arm undesirably close to the rotating cam. This contact limits the range of motion of the rocker arm during certain instances of abnormal operation, promoting more effective transition between deactivated and activated states and preventing damaging contact between the rocker arm and the cam lobe.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventor: Kynan L Church
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Patent number: 8635981Abstract: Valve clearance compensation element (1) with mechanical, automatic readjustment for internal combustion engines, with an adjusting bolt (3) that is supported in a sleeve (2) arranged on a component of the internal combustion engine by a thread against the force of a spring (8), with a transfer element that is in active connection with a support head (4) of the adjusting bolt (3) and is further supported on a spring-loaded gas-exchange valve and on a cam of a camshaft driven by the internal combustion engine. The adjusting bolt (3) has two parts, the support head (4) and a threaded bolt (5), which are fastened to each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Mathias Boegershausen
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Patent number: 8635982Abstract: A method for producing a piston for an internal combustion engine, composed of first and second piston components, has the following steps: (a) providing a blank of the first piston component composed of a tempered or precipitation-hardened steel, having at least one joining surface, (b) providing a blank of the second piston component composed of a tempered or precipitation-hardened steel, having at least one joining surface, (c) tempering or precipitation-hardening the blanks, (d) friction-welding the joining surfaces of the blanks to produce a piston blank, with the formation of at least one friction-welding seam and a heat influence zone in the region of the at least one friction-welding seam, (e) annealing or low-stress annealing of the piston blank, thereby obtaining the heat influence zone(s), (f) re-machining and/or finishing the piston blank to produce a piston. A piston so produced is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Rainer Scharp, Klaus Keller
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Patent number: 8635983Abstract: An oil pan 1 includes: an oil pan body 2 having a reservoir 21 for storing oil circulated in an engine E and returned to the reservoir 21; and a separator 3 having a vertically extending sidewall unit 4 partitioning the reservoir 21 into a first reservoir 21a for storing high-temperature oil and a second reservoir 21b for storing low-temperature oil. The first reservoir 21a has a suction-member-placement region 22 in which a member for sucking oil is provided. The separator 3 has an inclined portion 61 extending, to the suction-member-placement region 22, from a portion below a downstream end of a return pipe Rt for allowing oil to return to the first reservoir 21a.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: DaikyoNishikawa CorporationInventor: Satoshi Enokida
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Patent number: 8635984Abstract: The invention relates to an oil module of a water-cooled internal combustion engine, comprising an oil filter, oil and water channels, a water pump and a thermostatic valve which opens various temperature-dependent water circuits. One water channel starts behind the thermostatic valve in the direction of flow and leads to the suction side of the water pump inside the oil module. The oil module has a housing to which at least one additional functional component is connected. The water channel extends along two sides of the housing which are oriented at an angle in relation to each other, both sides of said channel respectively opening on both sides on at least one sub-section of their length onto the surface of the housing and being closed, respectively by means of a cover to form a channel cross-section that is closed on all sides.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2007Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Hengst GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Wilhelm Ardes
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Patent number: 8635985Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to injectors with integrated igniters providing efficient injection, ignition, and complete combustion of various types of fuels. These integrated injectors/igniters can include, for example, insulators with adequate mechanical and dielectric strength to enable high-energy plasma generation by components that have very small dimensions, multifunction valving that is moved to injector multiple bursts of fuel and to induce plasma projection, a fuel control valve at the interface to the combustion chamber for the purpose of eliminating fuel drip at undesired times, and one or more components at the interface of the combustion chamber for the purpose of blocking transmission of combustion sourced pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2009Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: McAlister Technologies, LLCInventor: Roy E. McAlister
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Patent number: 8635986Abstract: Angle sensor device has magnetic force detectors detecting alternation of magnetic force caused by rotation of a throttle gear. The magnetic force detectors are buried in a molded body of the angle sensor device constructed of foamed resin. The magnetic force detectors each has a sensing unit detecting alteration of magnetic force and a computing unit computing based on signals from the sensing unit and outputting signals depending on the alteration of magnetic force and is formed in L-shape. Two of the magnetic force detectors are placed opposite each other such that one of the sensing units is disposed on the other sensing unit. The molded body has a cavity surrounded by the magnetic force detectors.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsutomu Ikeda, Katsumi Ishida, Makoto Mase, Shuji Yamamoto, Tetsuo Suzuoki, Masashi Ozeki