Geometrical instruments inventions 08/07

20070193043 - Device and method of measuring a personalized lens-orientation value: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include devices and/or methods of measuring a personalized lens-orientation value for a spectacle frame supporting a pair of lenses. The device, according to some demonstrative embodiments, may include a pair of orientation-measuring mechanisms, each mechanism adapted to measure a value corresponding to an orientation... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070193044 - Viewing and display apparatus position determination algorithms: Celestial object location devices with sensor arrays of having less that one sensor for each of three orthogonal components of gravity and magnetic field vectors. The accuracy of position sensing is enhanced by estimating “missing” sensor input based on input from two orthogonal sensors provided, or determined with limitations from... Agent: Crockett & Crockett

20070193045 - Device and method for display of azimuthal and other information: Embodiments of the inventive display device for indicating of azimuthal and other information are provided, comprising at least one preferably circular configuration of light emitting elements, control unit, magnetic sensor. An imaginable straight line, extending from the device display's center to an actuated element, determines azimuthal direction. One uniquely shaped... Agent: Salim E. Kahil

20070193046 - Digital spirit level: A digital spirit level for displaying inclination measurements of vertical surfaces upright relative to 0° horizontal for facing a user holding the digital spirit level against a vertical surface for facilitating straight on reading of its inclination measurement. The inclination measurements are preferably displayed relative to 0° vertical as opposed... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070193048 - Laser activated audible signal emitting leveler: This invention pertains to the leveling device applying the optical interaction between a laser beam and a freely floating air bubble confined in a transparent, liquid-filled vial. When the air bubble is impacted by the laser beam, the curved surface of the air-bubble deflects the beam toward the end of... Agent: Joseph Molitorisz

20070193049 - Craft board assembly and method of use: A craft board assembly is described. Embodiments of the craft board comprise a base having a self healing mat coupled thereto. A square frame rule is provided that defines an interior work area having predetermined dimensions. A piece of paper, such as a scrapbook page, that is the same size... Agent: Leyendecker Lemire & Daley, LLC

20070193050 - Apparatus for dimensional and/or geometric checking of mechanical parts: A checking apparatus, for example a plug gauge, for checking diameters and/or geometrical features of mechanical parts includes a support structure (1) and checking means (20,21) coupled to the support structure, with mutually movable feelers (36) for contacting the surface of the part and transducer means for providing electrical signals.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070193051 - Template for cutting material for an endless chain quilt: A cutting template is provided. The template includes a guide surface with a plurality of parallel first marking lines and a plurality of first grooves in the guide surface. The grooves form a substantially zigzag pattern across pathways defined by the first plurality of marking lines. A plurality of second... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070193052 - Method for reinitializing count of thread reel length: This method is distinctive in that: the rotation speed (Vo) obtained with the reel empty is recorded beforehand; and after start-up, the rotation speed (Vd) of the reel that is being wound is measured. The latter speed corresponds to the maximum speed reached at the end of a start-up acceleration... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20070193053 - Phreatic surface measurer terminal: A terminal, for use with a phreatic surface measurer having a measuring component with at least one sensor at one end of the measuring component, includes a flexible protection element that substantially surrounds the measuring component, and a coupler between the flexible protection element and the sensor, where the flexible... Agent: George F. Wallace, Esq.

20070193054 - Device to measure axial displacement in a borehole: A device to measure minute displacement in rocks, including anchor deployment means, anchor registration means, and frame release means.... Agent: Stephen R. Chapman Clemson University

20070186426 - Robotic system with traction drive: A robotic system including at least one support that supports a carriage for movement. The support may include a drive surface that is a “net shape” surface, i.e., is formed without machining. The carriage may have a traction drive that engages with the drive surface to move the carriage relative... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070186427 - Inclination sensor: Is disclosed an inclination sensor for detecting a tilted state of a case by detecting by a magnetic sensor a magnetized portion of a pendulum type movement mounted rotatably on a shaft in accordance with inclination of the case, wherein the shaft fitted with a clearance in a rotation shaft... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20070186428 - Tool for qualitatively measuring a feature of a skate blade: A tool for qualitatively measuring a feature of a skate blade.... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070186429 - Method and device for determining a person's motions: A sensor worn by a person measures movements of the person. Movements of orientation are not expressed by rotations leading from a stationary reference point to a reference point associated with the sensor, but by angles separating axes or planes of the stationary reference point and axes associated with the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070186430 - Device for mounting a position measuring device onto a machine tool, and position measuring system: A bracket set is for mounting an encoder device to a machine tool. The bracket set includes a first connector connectable to the machine tool; a first member adjustably connected to the first connector, a longitudinal axis of the first member arranged transverse to a longitudinal axis of the first... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070186432 - Measuring device for linear position recording: The measuring device (5), for a linear non-contact recording of the position of a movable object, comprises a field device (6), generating a magnetic field, which undergoes a displacement (x), from a reference position (xo), along a measuring run (2), corresponding to the movement of the object. The measuring run... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070186433 - Ratchet lock for automatic tape measure: An automatic tape measure having a tape retraction prevention device to prevent unintended retraction of the tape into a housing caused by increasing the strength of a return spring. A tape assembly is received in the housing and includes a tape selectively received on a reel, the return spring and... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070186434 - Measuring probe, especially for a device for the measurement of the thickness of thin layers: The invention relates to a Measuring probe for a device for the measurement of the thickness of thin layers, with a housing (14) comprising at least one sensor element (17), which is accepted along a longitudinal axis (16) of the housing (14) at least slightly movable to the housing (14)... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20070180714 - Device for measuring the position, the path or the rotational angle of an object: A device for measuring the position, path, or rotational angle of an object exhibits a dimensional gauge that is connected to the object and that can be scanned. The dimensional gauge assigns measured values to the object's positional range, and these measured values repeat themselves cyclically in the object's successive... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070180715 - Scribe head and scribe device: A scribing head according to the present invention includes: a scribing line forming means (29) structured so as to form a scribing line on a substrate; and a moving means (502, 503) for moving the scribing line forming means such that the scribing line forming means presses the substrate with... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070180716 - Surveying instrument with compensation for mechanical errors: The invention relates to a method of operating a surveying instrument (10) placed in a orthogonal XYZ-system at (0,0,0) having a movable unit (20), said instrument defining a sight line (128) that is controllably rotatable around a first axis (50), essentially horizontal, and around a second axis (90), essentially vertical,... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20070180718 - Method for entering commands and/or characters for a portable communication device equipped with a tilt sensor: The disclosure relates to a method for entering commands and/or characters for a portable communication device equipped with an input device comprising a tilt sensor, including the steps of determining a motion of the portable communication device through measurements of the tilt sensor calculated in reference to a neutral position... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070180720 - Cross level: A cross level comprising a base having a first arm, a second arm, a third arm and a fourth arm; said first arm, said second arm, said third arm and said fourth arm extend along a common plane; said first arm is perpendicular to said second arm and said fourth... Agent: Law Offices Of Alozie N. Etufugh, PLLC

20070180721 - Concentricity measuring apparatus and method, squareness measuring apparatus and method, and concentricity-squareness measuring apparatus and methdo: An apparatus for measuring concentricity of two holes at both ends of a cylindrical member includes a rotation unit supporting and rotating the cylindrical member about one of the holes, and an unit measuring the concentricity by measuring a relative position of an inner circumferential surface of the other hole... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070180722 - Sensor module for a probe head of a tactile coordinated measuring machine: A sensor module for a probe head of a tactile coordinate measuring machine has a frame forming a stationary module base, thereby defining a first measurement plane. A moving part is connected to the frame via webs. Each web has a thick-material web portion arranged between two thin-material web portions,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070180723 - Punch press alignment instrument: A punch press alignment instrument has upper and lower cylindrical components that are associated for vertical displacement relative to one another. Both components have outer tool holder engaging surfaces which are to be aligned with one another so as to in turn align the tool holders of the punch press... Agent: James V. Harmon US Bank Plaza

20070180725 - Position measuring system: A position-measuring system is for measuring the position of an object, movable in several degrees of freedom, relative to a stationary object. The position-measuring system includes at least one measuring graduation that is joined to one of the objects, as well as a plurality of scanning units which are joined... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070180726 - Tape measure holster system and method: A tape measure and a holster system and method, where the holster is made from a generally rectangular strip of durable material formed into a loop on an upper end for attachment to a user's belt, and formed into a pocket on a lower end to receive the clip member... Agent: Thomas L. Moses Monahan & Moses, LLC

20070175052 - Non-slip measuring tool and method of making: A tool for measuring, marking, or cutting material, the tool formed of a rigid sheet of transparent material having a plurality of lines formed thereon, and a transparent, non-removable, slip-resistant coating applied to a working surface of the rigid sheet to resist slipping of the tool when applied to the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070175053 - Gooseneck quickie: A device to hasten the process of attaching a trailer, primarily a gooseneck variety, to a towing vehicle. The invention temporarily snaps on the towing ball of the vehicle and, when contacted with the trailer tongue, is activated and partially lowered. This action is observed by the vehicle driver and... Agent: John E Seely

20070175054 - Studfinder and laser line layout tool: A layout tool includes an object detector constructed and arranged to detect the location of a vertically extending edge portion of an object hidden from view behind a generally vertically extending wall surface, a light source that is capable of projecting a line of light along the wall surface, and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070175055 - Gyroscopic steering tool using only a two-axis rate gyroscope and deriving the missing third axis: A two-axis gyroscope used on a bottom hole assembly can be used for determining a rate of rotation about the rotational axis of a BHA. The method takes advantage of possible misalignment of at least one axis of the two axis gyroscope from orthogonality with respect to the rotational axis... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20070175056 - Level: A level having a body with first and second operative walls interconnected by a web. The first wall having a first exterior operative surface and the second wall having a second exterior operative surface. The first surface and the second surface facing in opposite directions and being generally parallel to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070175057 - Pipefitting instruments and related methods: A pipefitting instrument includes a main body member, a carriage slidably connected to the main body member, and a protractor member pivotally connected to the carriage. The protractor member includes a protractor scale operable to measure an angular orientation of the protractor member relative to the main body member. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070175059 - Pipe guide: A pipe guide includes a pipe receiving body comprising two sections. The two sections are joined by a hinge to allow the pipe-receiving body to be opened and closed about a pipe. The pipe-receiving body circumferentially surrounds a pipe in a closed position. The pipe receiving body includes one or... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20070175060 - Method for inspecting honeycomb structured body and method for manufacturing honeycomb structured body: A method for inspecting a honeycomb structured body of the present invention is a method for inspecting a honeycomb structured body comprising a pillar-shaped honeycomb fired body having a multitude of cells placed in parallel with one another in the longitudinal direction with a cell wall therebetween, the method comprising:... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP