Patents Issued in July 29, 2014
  • Patent number: 8789431
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mettler-Toledo AG
    Inventors: Peter Alfred Blacklin, Wayne Fowler, Jr., Joel Michael Hawkins, Howard William Ward, II
  • Patent number: 8789432
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Markus Wiesendanger, Wolfgang Fischer
  • Patent number: 8789433
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mack Trucks, Inc.
    Inventors: John Jerwick, Michael E. Kahl
  • Patent number: 8789434
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Tejinder Singh, Patrick S. Portell
  • Patent number: 8789435
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Southwest University
    Inventors: Rongsheng Xue, Yupei Lin, Yunzhi Hao
  • Patent number: 8789436
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hiwin Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Che Kang Chang, Zong Sian Jiang
  • Patent number: 8789437
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Closed Joint Stock Company “Technology Market”
    Inventors: Viktor Vladimirovich Stanovskoy, Sergey Matveevich Kazakyavichyus, Tatiana Andreevna Remneva, Vladimir Mikhajlovich Kuznetsov, Alexandr Viktorovich Stanovskoy
  • Patent number: 8789438
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: South China University of Technology
    Inventors: Yangzhi Chen, Zhen Chen, Jiang Ding
  • Patent number: 8789439
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Johannes Tovar, Ulrich Beierlein
  • Patent number: 8789440
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Seung Jong Kim, Chang Hyun Cho, Jeong Soo Choi, Kyung Geune Oh, Chan Yul Jung
  • Patent number: 8789441
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Adil Khan, Dan Gabor, Mark Muddiman
  • Patent number: 8789442
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Kawano, Satoru Masuda
  • Patent number: 8789443
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Dennis Reid
  • Patent number: 8789444
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: William B. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8789445
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Charles Burridge Hawley, III
  • Patent number: 8789446
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Komgrit Sungkhaphong, Tirasak Nakpoom, Yuranan Rattanaphanna, Seksan Foythong
  • Patent number: 8789447
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Eazypower Corporation
    Inventor: Burt Kozak
  • Patent number: 8789448
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: HJR Equipment Rental, Inc.
    Inventor: Harold F. Ross
  • Patent number: 8789449
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Hirofumi Saito
  • Patent number: 8789450
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Scheppach Fabrikation von Holzbearbeitungsmaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Scherl
  • Patent number: 8789451
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Corrada S.p.A.
    Inventors: Massimo Negrello, Dario Muti, Maurizio Perucchi, Mario Checchin
  • Patent number: 8789452
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Insera Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Vallabh Janardhan, Vikram Janardhan
  • Patent number: 8789453
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Matthew MacDonald Morrison, Robert Harry Schilder
  • Patent number: 8789454
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Charles M. Roland, Daniel M. Fragiadakis, Raymond M. Gamache
  • Patent number: 8789455
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Josep Galceran Sole
  • Patent number: 8789456
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignees: Kyushu Institute of Technology, HMD Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Mito, Masayoshi Hamada
  • Patent number: 8789457
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Stefano Tonelli, Cristiano Castelli
  • Patent number: 8789458
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Jeremy J. Kuempel
  • Patent number: 8789459
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventors: Terry Tae-Il Chung, Loren Veltrop, Brian Hee-Eun Lee, Donald Van Erden, Christopher B. Lyons
  • Patent number: 8789460
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Elizabeth Smith
  • Patent number: 8789461
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Bai Win Mercantile Corp (H.K.) Ltd.
    Inventors: Faye Angevine, Qi Ming Zhang, Li Mei Tai
  • Patent number: 8789462
    Abstract: A method and system for maintaining a substantially uniform pressure between a pair of rollers is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Martin Chauvin, Elad Taig, Michel Assenheimer, Haggai Abbo, Gilad Tzori
  • Patent number: 8789463
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Colop Stempelerzeugung Skopek Gesellschaft m.b.H. & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ernst Faber
  • Patent number: 8789464
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Tagawa, Hirokazu Sawada, Atsuo Nishino, Shinya Kurokawa, Yuya Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 8789465
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ronen Novak, Oren Wilde, Vadim Genkin
  • Patent number: 8789466
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bernd Bruchmann, Daniel Schoenfelder, Frank Dietsche, Eva Wagner, Robert Feuerhake, Juergen Kaczun
  • Patent number: 8789467
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald L. Crawford
  • Patent number: 8789468
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Eric Bleicken
  • Patent number: 8789469
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Matthew Evangelisti, Steve Kotefski
  • Patent number: 8789470
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Olin Corporation
    Inventor: Ben N. Frank
  • Patent number: 8789471
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Daicel Corporation
    Inventors: Teppei Hanano, Shinichiro Ukita
  • Patent number: 8789472
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Serise Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Serge Mai
  • Patent number: 8789473
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Electro-Motive Diesel Inc.
    Inventor: Jerry Van Polen
  • Patent number: 8789474
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventors: Sung Yoon Kim, Chong Jae Kim
  • Patent number: 8789475
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Safe-Strap Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Giampavolo, Christopher M Johnson
  • Patent number: 8789476
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: KCH Corporation
    Inventor: Jacob Kryman
  • Patent number: 8789477
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sellex, S.A.
    Inventors: Miguel Jimenez Mangas, Carlos Tiscar Ribeiro
  • Patent number: 8789478
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Kinsei Sangyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masamoto Kaneko
  • Patent number: 8789479
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Terutoshi Uchida, Toru Ishii, Toshihiko Yamada, Shuzo Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Iso
  • Patent number: 8789480
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Symbiotic Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Robert L. Kohnen, Dale Van Fossen, Michael Linton