Patents Issued in July 29, 2014
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Patent number: 8789431Abstract: An sampling device for capturing a material sample and a method of using said device to process said material sample in situ within the device. Embodiments of the invention may be disposed as elongate probes having extendable sample capture elements. A sample capture element of such a device may include a sample capture pocket located near a distal end thereof for capturing and trapping a sample of material. The sample capture pocket may be provided with a port for receiving material therein and a port for expelling material therefrom. These ports may be placed in communication with corresponding material transfer channels extending through the sample capture element to allow for the in situ processing of a material sample, and the subsequent discharge of the sample to an analyzer or another downstream location.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Mettler-Toledo AGInventors: Peter Alfred Blacklin, Wayne Fowler, Jr., Joel Michael Hawkins, Howard William Ward, II
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Patent number: 8789432Abstract: An inspection vehicle (24) for inspecting an air gap (14) between the rotor (11) and the stator (12) of a generator (10) includes drive elements (26, 27) for the independent progressive movement in the air gap (14). A particularly compact construction and flexible application is achieved by the drive elements (26, 27) being formed as elongated, flexionally elastic, torsionally rigid, magnetic rolls.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: ALSTOM Technology LtdInventors: Markus Wiesendanger, Wolfgang Fischer
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Patent number: 8789433Abstract: A transmission capable of triple overdrive includes a main box section connected to a first input shaft. The main box section comprises clutch collars which are connected to the main shaft and axially movable by an operator to selectively couple one main shaft gear to a main shaft via a countershaft gear fixed on a countershaft. An auxiliary section is connected to the main box section and contains a splitter section and a range section. An output shaft is connected to the auxiliary section The transmission is selectively configured Io operate in a plurality of gear combinations. At least three of the gear combinations are configured for overdrive. The main box section is connected directly to the splitter section.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Mack Trucks, Inc.Inventors: John Jerwick, Michael E. Kahl
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Patent number: 8789434Abstract: A transmission connectable to an input member and having an output transfer gear, first and second transmission input shaft members, first and second countershaft members, an idler shaft, a plurality of co-planar gear sets, and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. The torque transmitting devices include a plurality of synchronizer assemblies and a dual clutch assembly. The transmission is operable to provide at least one reverse speed ratio and a plurality of forward speed ratios between the transmission input members and the output member.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, LLCInventors: Tejinder Singh, Patrick S. Portell
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Patent number: 8789435Abstract: A cam self-adaptive automatic speed shift hub comprises a left hub frame (7), a right hub frame (18), a case body (4), a power input device, a drive shaft (1), a wheel (14) and a brake device (20). The hub further includes a low-gear drive shaft (12), a low-gear transmission mechanism positioned on the low-gear drive shaft (12), and a cone-disc clutch cam self-adaptive speed shift assembly positioned on the drive shaft (1), in which the low-gear drive shaft (12) positioned in the case body (4) is in rotation fit with the case body (4) and in parallel with the drive shaft (1). Such a cam self-adaptive automatic speed shift hub can allow the motor/engine output power and vehicle running condition always in an optimal matching state, to achieve balance control between the vehicle driving torque and the comprehensive driving resistance.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Southwest UniversityInventors: Rongsheng Xue, Yupei Lin, Yunzhi Hao
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Patent number: 8789436Abstract: A ball screw device includes a screw engaged into a nut member for forming an endless ball guiding passage and for receiving bearing members, the nut member includes a thickness reduced barrel for forming a peripheral surface in the nut member, a tubular member is engaged onto the barrel of the nut member, a number of bearing elements are engaged onto the nut member and the tubular member, a sleeve is engaged onto the nut member and includes an inner peripheral protrusion having two curved side surfaces for engaging with the bearing elements and for solidly and stably anchoring and retaining the bearing elements between the sleeve and the tubular member and the nut member.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Hiwin Technologies Corp.Inventors: Che Kang Chang, Zong Sian Jiang
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Patent number: 8789437Abstract: An eccentrically cycloidal gear engagement of tooth profiles having curvilinear teeth is disclosed. One of the engaging profiles represents a gearwheel with at least two helical teeth. The flanks of each tooth of the first tooth profile are outlined, in a principal cross-section of the gearwheel, by corresponding arcs of circular curves, eccentrically shifted from a center of rotation of the gearwheel. The second tooth profile, which is conjugated with the first tooth profile, has helical cycloidal teeth. The teeth of the second tooth profile are outlined, in the same cross-section, by segments of front edges of intersecting cycloidal curves. Tips and troughs between teeth can have any shape, not intersecting with the gearwheel teeth.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Closed Joint Stock Company “Technology Market”Inventors: Viktor Vladimirovich Stanovskoy, Sergey Matveevich Kazakyavichyus, Tatiana Andreevna Remneva, Vladimir Mikhajlovich Kuznetsov, Alexandr Viktorovich Stanovskoy
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Patent number: 8789438Abstract: A space curve mesh driving pair and a polyhedral space curve mesh transmission are disclosed. Said space curve mesh driving pair consists of a driving wheel and a driven wheel. Axes of the driving wheel and the driven wheel are intersected at an angle of 0°˜180°, and power transmission is realized by continuous mesh between the driving tines and the driven tines; a number of driving tines are provided on said driving wheel, and a number of driven tines are provided on the driven wheel; the driving tines are uniformly arranged on an end face of a cylinder of the driving wheel, and the driven tines are uniformly arranged on the circumference of a cylindrical surface of the driven wheel. Said polyhedral space curve mesh transmission consists of an above-mentioned space curve mesh driving pair. Motion is input from an input end, and is passed through a number of pace curve mesh driving pairs to realize the speed change, then is output from one or more output ends.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: South China University of TechnologyInventors: Yangzhi Chen, Zhen Chen, Jiang Ding
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Patent number: 8789439Abstract: A device for operating functions of a motor vehicle has an operator control element which serves to control a transmission of the motor vehicle. A switching element for activating and/or releasing a parking brake of the motor vehicle is arranged on the operator control element.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Audi AGInventors: Johannes Tovar, Ulrich Beierlein
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Patent number: 8789440Abstract: This disclosure relates to a face robot which is operated similarly to the motion of a human head and a multi-joint manipulator which supports a robot's face, and more particularly, to a structure which may compensate an influence caused by the gravity and exerted on rotation parts rotating about its axes. A manipulator with a weight compensation mechanism of the disclosure is provided, the manipulator having rotation parts connected to a plurality of axes rotating about their axes, the manipulator including: a weight compensation mechanism that supports wires connected to the rotation parts receiving gravity in a rotation state by a spring and compensates an influence of gravity exerted on the rotation parts.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Seung Jong Kim, Chang Hyun Cho, Jeong Soo Choi, Kyung Geune Oh, Chan Yul Jung
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Patent number: 8789441Abstract: A system and method for simulating pedal feel. The system includes a brake pedal having a support, a brake pedal arm pivotably attached at a pivot connection to the support, and a torsion spring mounted at the brake pedal arm pivot connection. In addition, a compression spring, spaced apart from the pivot connection, is connected to the support and to the brake pedal.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Adil Khan, Dan Gabor, Mark Muddiman
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Patent number: 8789442Abstract: An assembled structure of brake release knob that assures a predetermined anchoring force, and reliable anchoring with no damage being caused in assembling. A cap (80) is fixed in a brake lever distal end part (11); a brake release knob (20) is inserted into the cap (80); a flange part (23) formed on a leg part (22) extending from a head part (21) of the brake release knob is engaged with an innermost end (85) of the cap; in the brake lever distal end part (11), a distal end part taperedly extending from a shoulder part (72) of a release rod (70) is inserted closer to the center of the cap (80) than the leg part (22) of the brake release knob; and between the shoulder part (72) and the innermost end (85) of the cap, the flange part (23) of the brake release knob is sandwiched under pressure.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Kawano, Satoru Masuda
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Patent number: 8789443Abstract: A transmission housing, or transmission including a transmission housing, having a plurality of oil pan access ports positioned on the housing for receiving in each access port, or one of the access ports, a transmission fluid indicator that is used to monitor a level of transmission fluid in an oil pan mounted to a bottom of the transmission housing. The transmission fluid indicator may be a manual indicator, such as a dipstick, or an automated indicator, such as a sensor that is configured to generate one or more electrical signals indicative of a level of the transmission fluid in the oil pan.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Inventor: Dennis Reid
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Patent number: 8789444Abstract: A method of producing an endodontic file that involves grinding in a plane substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of a rotating dental instrument blank. By grinding the dental instrument blank in this manner, the torsional strength of the resulting endodontic file is not eroded during its production, thereby providing a file that is less susceptible to breakage during its use.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Inventor: William B. Johnson
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Patent number: 8789445Abstract: An air driven nut rotation device to rapidly advance a nut along a threaded rod. An apertured engagement disk is registerable about a nut threadably positioned on a rod. A plurality of radially positioned drive arms extend from said disk providing multiple spaced air impingement surfaces which when driven by a stream of air rapidly rotate the disk and nut engaged thereby advancing it along the threaded shaft in selected directional rotation depending on airstream directional engagement.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Inventor: Charles Burridge Hawley, III
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Patent number: 8789446Abstract: Disclosed is a screw feeding apparatus to deliver a screw from a screw feeder having a vibrating rail to a screw guide tube. The screw feeding apparatus comprises a first actuator having a pocket and a second actuator having a screw pickup. The first actuator is moveable between a detection position and a retracted position, wherein the first actuator is configured to detect a screw in the pocket received from the vibrating rail of the screw feeder in the detection position and to then move to the retracted position. The second actuator is moveable between a pickup position and a drop position, wherein the screw pickup of the second actuator is configured to pick up the screw from the pocket of the first actuator in the pickup position and to move to the drop position to drop the screw into the screw guide tube.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Komgrit Sungkhaphong, Tirasak Nakpoom, Yuranan Rattanaphanna, Seksan Foythong
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Patent number: 8789447Abstract: A tool having a flexible extension shaft, a first end and, a second end and capable of being bent about its axis. The tool transfers rotary motion from a device to an implement. Both of the ends may be capable of independently being bent about the axis. The shaft may include a male member and a female member for a kit. Further, one end of the tool may include a rotatable member having a first and second implement.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Eazypower CorporationInventor: Burt Kozak
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Patent number: 8789448Abstract: One embodiment relates to an apparatus for configuring a wheel associated with a train. The apparatus comprises a tool configured to engage the wheel a compound slide system for positioning the cutting tool in at least two axes and a computer control coupled to control the compound slide system. The compound slide system is controlled so that the wheel is configured in accordance with a profile. An alignment device can be utilized to align the apparatus. The apparatus can have a low profile.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: HJR Equipment Rental, Inc.Inventor: Harold F. Ross
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Patent number: 8789449Abstract: A piercing apparatus is provided, including a piercing die including a first section and a second section, the first section having a top surface for a workpiece to be placed on and internal surfaces surrounding a first hollow formed vertically, the second section placed in the first hollow and having an internal side surface surrounding a second hollow formed vertically, a piercing punch having a tip portion for punching the workpiece to cut off a scrap piece to produce a hole in the workpiece, and a scrap removing unit that is formed to be planar and fixed horizontally between the first section and the second section. The scrap removing unit is configured for the tip portion attached with the scrap piece after the punching to move through while the tip portion is lowered, and is further configured to scrape off the scrap piece from the tip portion while the tip portion is lifted through the scrap removing unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Inventor: Hirofumi Saito
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Patent number: 8789450Abstract: A rip fence module for positioning workpieces with their edge facing away from a tool on a machine table at a certain distance to the tool, comprising: a superstructure overlapping the machine table presenting a workpiece stop for the workpiece to be treated extending in a longitudinal direction, at least one guided portion which is insertable and guidable in an allocated guide groove provided on the machine table side extending in an extension direction transversely to the longitudinal direction, and by which the superstructure is supported movably in the guide groove in the extension direction relatively the tool, and a locking device shiftable between a locking position and a release position in order to lock the rip fence module in the locking position at a guided portion defined relatively the guide groove, and to permit in the release position a shifting of the guided portion in the guide groove.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Scheppach Fabrikation von Holzbearbeitungsmaschinen GmbHInventor: Thomas Scherl
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Patent number: 8789451Abstract: A sheet metal blanking die assembly is described. The assembly has a lower and an upper part and guide columns to maintain the parts aligned during the movement of the upper part relative to the lower part. The upper and lower part present flat parallel mutually opposing horizontal portions. The lower flat portion receives the sheet metal, while the upper flat portion presents a plurality of punches projecting downwards from it when the die assembly is closed by the action of a press. Blanking recesses are present in the flat lower portion to receive the respective punches. The die assembly presents a differential rotation device for a blanking unit positioned to correspond with at least one blanking position.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Corrada S.p.A.Inventors: Massimo Negrello, Dario Muti, Maurizio Perucchi, Mario Checchin
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Patent number: 8789452Abstract: Vascular treatment and methods include a plurality of self-expanding bulbs and a hypotube including interspersed patterns of longitudinally spaced rows of kerfs. Joints between woven structures and hypotubes include solder. Woven structures include patterns of radiopaque filaments measurable under x-ray. Structures are heat treated to include at least shapes at different temperatures. A catheter includes a hypotube including interspersed patterns of longitudinally spaced rows of kerfs. Heat treating systems include a detachable flange. Laser cutting systems include a fluid flow system.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Insera Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Vallabh Janardhan, Vikram Janardhan
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Patent number: 8789453Abstract: A dispenser pod, which includes a dispenser chassis with a first chassis end, a second chassis end and a chassis chamber, a first chassis end cover for covering the first chassis end, a second chassis end cover for covering the second chassis end, a launch system, and at least one sway brace. The first chassis end cover has at least one expendable passageway for accepting an expendable launch canister such that the expendable launch canister can enter the chassis chamber. The launch system is for expelling the expendable launch canister from the chassis chamber and through the expendable passageway. The at least one sway brace is for securing the expendable launch canister within the chassis chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Matthew MacDonald Morrison, Robert Harry Schilder
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Patent number: 8789454Abstract: An armor system with a composite laminate having at least four alternating layers (two bi-layers) of a first material and a second material, the first material having a lower acoustic impedance than the second material. The first material is a viscoelastic polymer with a glass transition temperature less than the expected operational temperature range, and the second material can be a hard material such as steel, aluminum, or ceramic. The laminate can include many alternating layers of elastomer and hard material, and can be adhered or affixed to a thicker armor substrate. Additional protective elements such as corrugated metal-ceramic panels and armored glass cylinders can be added to improve resistance to armor piercing rounds, explosively formed penetrators, or other threats.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Charles M. Roland, Daniel M. Fragiadakis, Raymond M. Gamache
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Patent number: 8789455Abstract: Drive mechanism for the conversion of oscillatory motion into rotating motion or vice versa by means of a non-circular gear train, in a system composed of arcuate pistons solidly fixed to a rotor which is able to oscillate about its axis inside a stator. The mechanism comprises a set of non-circular internal and external toothed gears coupled in a fashion similar to that of two epicyclic gearings joined by their respective planet gears, although there are not any sun gears in the present arrangement. All the gears cooperate so as to produce the sought motion conversion between the pistons and the planet carriers and the drive shaft attached thereon. Its field of application includes therefore any device that uses variable volume chambers as a means to transmit energy to, or obtain energy from, a working gas, such as compressors, pneumatic motors or internal combustion engines.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Inventor: Josep Galceran Sole
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Patent number: 8789456Abstract: A cylinder portion is divided into a cylinder main body, and two side cylinders coupled to opposite ends of the cylinder main body. The cylinder main body is configured so that a sample-enclosing capsule in which a sample and a pressure medium are enclosed can be disposed inside the cylinder main body. Pistons for load transmission are disposed at opposite ends of the interior of the cylinder portion; and locking nuts are provided on the outer sides of the positions. The pistons are moved in an axial direction by screwing the locking nuts. With this configuration, a piston cylinder-type high-pressure generating device in which a cylinder having a small outer diameter is formed of a non-magnetic material can generate a high pressure while securing a sample space having a predetermined effective volume.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignees: Kyushu Institute of Technology, HMD CorporationInventors: Masaki Mito, Masayoshi Hamada
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Patent number: 8789457Abstract: A holder includes a grid and a tray below to collect any liquids flowing through the grid. The grid and the tray are mutually constrained magnetically.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Stefano Tonelli, Cristiano Castelli
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Patent number: 8789458Abstract: The system includes a vertically-oriented cylinder sized to receive a selected amount of water and a substance such as coffee to be brewed. A plunger is slidingly received within the cylinder. A filter assembly separates the grounds from the brewed drink. A heating element is wrapped around the cylinder to maintain a selected temperature within the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventor: Jeremy J. Kuempel
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Patent number: 8789459Abstract: In one embodiment, a food heating device includes a first platen and a first conveyor arranged and spaced to transport a food product between the first platen (501) and the first conveyor (503). A second platen (501) and a second conveyor (503) arranged and spaced to transport the food product (203) between the second platen (501) and the second conveyor (503). A first end of the first platen (501) is disposed near a first end of the second conveyor (503) and a first end of the first conveyor (503) is disposed near a first end of the second platen (501) such that the food product (203) is automatically transferred from the first platen (501) to the second platen (501).Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Inventors: Terry Tae-Il Chung, Loren Veltrop, Brian Hee-Eun Lee, Donald Van Erden, Christopher B. Lyons
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Patent number: 8789460Abstract: A divided cake pan and a method enable simultaneous baking, in a single unitary cake pan, of at least two varieties of cake in corresponding complementary cake segments for presenting a single predetermine cake configuration in the at least two varieties. A single batch of cake batter is divided into sub-batches, each having different ingredients, and the sub-batches are baked simultaneously in the unitary cake pan to establish the complementary cake segments with complementary faces. The complementary cake segments are removed from the cake pan, joined at complementary faces, and presented as a single integrated predetermined cake configuration including at least two varieties of cake. A preferred cake configuration is a simulated bundt cake configuration wherein the cake segments have a substantially arcuate configuration for presentation in a completed integrated ring-like configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Inventor: Elizabeth Smith
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Patent number: 8789461Abstract: A double-sided embossing folder includes a first embossing plate having a first plurality of positive embossing features disposed thereon in the shape of a first image and a first plurality of negative embossing features formed on an opposite side thereof. A second embossing plate has a second plurality of positive embossing features disposed thereon in the shape of the second image configured to mate with the first plurality of negative embossing features and a second plurality of negative embossing features formed therein in the shape of the first image configured to mate with the first plurality of positive embossing features. At least one living hinge is interposed between and integrally formed with the first and second embossing plates. Each living hinge is formed from at least one V-cut formed between the first and second embossing plates to form inwardly tapered sides.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Bai Win Mercantile Corp (H.K.) Ltd.Inventors: Faye Angevine, Qi Ming Zhang, Li Mei Tai
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Patent number: 8789462Abstract: A method and system for maintaining a substantially uniform pressure between a pair of rollers is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Martin Chauvin, Elad Taig, Michel Assenheimer, Haggai Abbo, Gilad Tzori
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Patent number: 8789463Abstract: An ink-storage unit (5) for a hand stamp (1), including a retainer (12) in which a storage body (6) is arranged, and a frame (13) in which a printing plate (7) is arranged, wherein the frame (13) sits in a provisional mounting position on the retainer (12), in which position the storage body (6) and the printing plate (7) are held at a distance from each other, and the frame (13) can be moved into a final mounting position on the retainer (12), in which position the storage body (6) and the printing plate (7) lie against each other, wherein the storage body (6) is fixed in the retainer (12) by at least one engaging part (20); and a hand stamp including such an ink storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Colop Stempelerzeugung Skopek Gesellschaft m.b.H. & Co. KGInventor: Ernst Faber
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Patent number: 8789464Abstract: The lithographic printing plate support includes an aluminum plate and an anodized film formed on the aluminum plate and micropores extend in the anodized film in a depth direction from its surface opposite from the aluminum plate. Each of the micropores includes a large-diameter portion having a predetermined shape and a small-diameter portion having a predetermined shape. The lithographic printing plate support has excellent scratch resistance and is capable of obtaining a presensitized plate which exhibits excellent on-press developability and enables a lithographic printing plate formed therefrom to have a long press life, and excellent deinking ability in continued printing and after suspended printing.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoshiharu Tagawa, Hirokazu Sawada, Atsuo Nishino, Shinya Kurokawa, Yuya Miyagawa
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Patent number: 8789465Abstract: A method, at least partially implemented by means of processor-executable instructions, for exchanging colors within a color station of a printing press is disclosed. In one implementation of the method, a cleaning tank is operated within the color station, thereby cleaning the color station. Additionally, a new color of ink is built within the cleaned color station.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Ronen Novak, Oren Wilde, Vadim Genkin
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Patent number: 8789466Abstract: In a method for printing substrates with a printing ink and/or a printing varnish at least comprising solvents and binders, at least one of the binders comprises a polyetheramine polyol.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Bernd Bruchmann, Daniel Schoenfelder, Frank Dietsche, Eva Wagner, Robert Feuerhake, Juergen Kaczun
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Patent number: 8789467Abstract: An explosive tool comprises a body structure, a charge, a detonator to ignite the charge via propagation of thermal energy, a pressure actuated safety to prevent propagation of sufficient thermal energy to ignite the charge when the pressure actuated safety is subjected to a surface pressure and to not prevent propagation of sufficient thermal energy to ignite the charge when the pressure actuated safety is subjected to at least a predefined pressure threshold, and a temperature actuated safety to prevent propagation of sufficient thermal energy to ignite the charge when the temperature actuated safety is subjected to a surface temperature and to not prevent propagation of sufficient thermal energy to ignite the charge when the temperature actuated safety is subjected to at least a predefined temperature threshold. The charge, the detonator, the pressure actuated safety, and the temperature actuated safety are contained within the body structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Donald L. Crawford
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Patent number: 8789468Abstract: A breaching device that may be used to create a linear and, if desired, continuous, cut or breach in a metal structure. The cut or breach created may be non-linear in shape and not deviate from the functionality of the device. The device includes a plurality of containers joined together, such as by a metal wire or the like to form a series of cutting charges. One or more of the containers includes Reactive Material (RM) that may be ignited electronically or some other activation mechanism. The containers that do contain RM are sealed with the RM therein and preferably fabricated to be sufficiently heat resistant so that the RM is only ignited intentionally. The RM that is contained in the containers may be fired simultaneously, sequentially or in a programmed pattern, depending on the requirements of the application.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Inventor: Eric Bleicken
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Patent number: 8789469Abstract: A grenade fuze assembly includes a fuze body, a striker lever pivotally mounted to the fuze body, and a pull pin assembly. The pull pin assembly includes a pull pin attached to a pull ring and a pull pin retainer fixed to the pull pin on a side of the striker lever opposite the pull ring. The pull pin retainer includes a through hole. The two legs of the pull pin are disposed in the through hole and deformed around the retainer to fix the retainer to the pull pin. The retainer includes a pair of nest areas on opposing sides of the retainer. The free end of each of the two pull pin legs is disposed in a respective nest area.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Matthew Evangelisti, Steve Kotefski
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Patent number: 8789470Abstract: A segmenting slug has a body having a generally dome-shaped forward portion, a generally cylindrical rearward portion, and an opening in the rear of the body forming an interior chamber. There are a plurality of generally radially extending notches in the dome-shaped forward portion of the slug, and a longitudinally extending groove in the wall of the interior chamber substantially aligned with each notch.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Olin CorporationInventor: Ben N. Frank
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Patent number: 8789471Abstract: A seal tape, a gas generator for a restraining apparatus using the seal tape, and a method for manufacturing a gas generator are provided. The seal tape closes, from an outside of the gas generator housing, a gas discharge port in a housing. The seal tape includes, a rupture portion for forming a door portion, and including a fragile portion and a rupture blocking portion at a tip of the fragile portion, a fixing support portion remaining attached to the housing, and the door portion bounded by the rupture portion and the fixing support portion being adjusted such that the gas discharge port is entirely open in a case where the door portion is opened.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Daicel CorporationInventors: Teppei Hanano, Shinichiro Ukita
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Patent number: 8789472Abstract: Disclosed is a system of energy storage and electrical motorization to be installed on a towed car of a convoy. The system includes an energy storage module having the capacity to receive energy, to accumulate the energy over time and to restore the energy upon request in electrical form; a motor/generator transforming electrical energy into mechanical energy and vice versa. An acceleration detector is configured to generate a first signal, the first signal indicating an acceleration undergone by the car. A controller establishes for establishing commands and provides control signals to different system components according to the first signal energy storage module accumulating or restoring the energy to the electrical converter. The controller is configured to cause the motor/generator to progressively apply a tractive force in response to the first signal, the tractive force being an increasing function of the acceleration indicated by the first signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Serise Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Serge Mai
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Patent number: 8789473Abstract: A flow battery system may include at least one electrolyte tank for storing electrolytes. The system may also include a plurality of reaction cells, each having an output current. The system may further include a plurality of pumps, each associated with one of the plurality of reaction cells, for pumping the electrolytes into the reaction cell at a flow rate. The system may also include a pump sensor configured to monitor the flow rate of at least one of the plurality of pumps. The system may also include an output sensor configured to monitor an output current of at least one of the plurality of reaction cells. The system may further include a controller configured to control the flow rate of at least one of the plurality of pumps based on the output current of the reaction cell associated with the at least one of the plurality of pumps.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Electro-Motive Diesel Inc.Inventor: Jerry Van Polen
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Patent number: 8789474Abstract: A desk according to one embodiment of the present invention includes an upper panel, a support leg, a support member, a movable panel and a vertical panel. The upper panel is coupled to an upper end of the support leg. The support member extends from the upper panel. The movable panel has an upper end movable along the support member and a lower end movably placed on the upper panel. The movable panel is movable between a first position inclined with respect to the upper panel and a second position vertical to the upper panel and between the first position and a third position parallel to the upper panel. The vertical panel is rotatably joined to the support member. A lower end of the vertical panel is movably placed on the movable panel. The vertical panel moves along with the movement of the movable panel.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Inventors: Sung Yoon Kim, Chong Jae Kim
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Patent number: 8789475Abstract: A terminator for a pallet guard assembly is composed of a thin panel portion that can enclose a portion of a pallet directly adjacent another structure without spacing the pallet substantially from the structure. The pallet may be enclosed on one or more sides by a pallet guard assembly, with the terminator permitting an open or free side that can be placed directly adjacent a structure while maintaining the pallet guard assembly in position around the pallet. The pallet guard terminator may be constructed to have multiple orientations to permit attachment to the pallet guard assembly members having different orientations. The pallet guard terminator may be constructed to have a single orientation to interfit with specific members of a pallet guard assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Safe-Strap Company, Inc.Inventors: Paul Giampavolo, Christopher M Johnson
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Patent number: 8789476Abstract: A disposable food contact article includes a food-contact member having a food surface for contacting food. A peripheral border extends from the food surface, and the peripheral border includes a plurality of design elements which are more light-reflective than a remainder of the peripheral border.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: KCH CorporationInventor: Jacob Kryman
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Patent number: 8789477Abstract: Table frame that can be adapted to table tops of different dimensions and shapes, of the type that comprise a structure formed by a plurality of cross members supported by a plurality of supporting legs on which the table top is mounted, which comprises a first cross member and a second cross member joined together at an intermediate point of intersection that comprises an joint, said joint allowing the rotation of the first cross member and of the second cross member with respect to the point of intersection in a horizontal plane of rotation parallel to the surface of the table top, it being possible for said frame to adopt a position that may be selected from: a closed position in which the first cross member and the second cross member are positioned in parallel; and an open position in which the first cross member and the second cross member are positioned in the shape of a cross.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Sellex, S.A.Inventors: Miguel Jimenez Mangas, Carlos Tiscar Ribeiro
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Patent number: 8789478Abstract: Provided is a dry distillation and gasification typed incinerator capable of saving time and fuels required for combustion aid. In a first phase when a waste material A stored in a dry distillation furnace 1 is ignited till a fire bed is formed, the dry distillation and gasification typed incinerator supplies air to the dry distillation furnace 1 through an air supply passage 13. When the waste material A is in a continuous combustion state (a second phase), the oxygen supply to the dry distillation furnace 1 is switched from the air supply by the air supply passage 13 to the concentrated oxygen supply by an oxygen supply passage 15.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Kinsei Sangyo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masamoto Kaneko
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Patent number: 8789479Abstract: In an oxygen mixer for an oxygen combustion boiler, circulating exhaust gas heated in a rotary preheater is mixed with oxygen. Resultant mixed gas is guided to a boiler furnace through a combustion gas duct having bends. At the bend closest to the rotary preheater in the combustion gas duct, an oxygen injection nozzle is arranged to have a plurality of injection ports for injection of oxygen into circulating exhaust gas.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Terutoshi Uchida, Toru Ishii, Toshihiko Yamada, Shuzo Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Iso
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Patent number: 8789480Abstract: An energy and steel recovery system has a suspension column and a plurality of suspension supports operably disposed therein wherein the supports are spaced from one another along the length of thereof. The suspension column includes a mechanism for receiving tires and other wastes with an energy value onto one of the supports and feeding the tires to an adjacent downwardly disposed support to further gasify the same under low oxygen to preclude combustion. The column is configured to provide for a number of zones including heating, drying, volatizing, and fixed carbon formation which are collectively referred to herein as a “fractionation process.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Symbiotic Technology, LLCInventors: Robert L. Kohnen, Dale Van Fossen, Michael Linton