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Edward F. Dreger, Burlington, CT US

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20100018316NSMS flight laser detector cooling system - A system includes a liquid cooling medium, a cooling plate having opposite first and second sides and at least one internal passage in which the liquid cooling medium flows, first and second lasers located adjacent to one another and positioned relative to the first side of the cooling plate, and a first Peltier device operably connected between the first side of the cooling plate and the first and second lasers for transferring thermal energy to the liquid cooling medium in the cooling plate.01-28-2010
20100018321NSMS flight laser detector system - A method includes rotating a rotor, measuring a rotor rotational time for the rotor to complete a revolution, determining a blade interval by dividing the rotor rotational time by a number of blades carried on the rotor, establishing an active hold-off time interval as a percentage of the blade interval time, directing a beam of light at the blades of the rotor using a laser, sensing light reflected from the blades, generating an output signal as a function of the sensed light, establishing a signal amplitude threshold, analyzing an amplitude of the output signal to trigger the active hold-off time interval when the amplitude reaches the signal amplitude threshold, and generating a blade arrival signal as a function of triggered active hold-off time intervals. The output signal is not analyzed within each active hold-off time interval.01-28-2010

Ingolf Dreger, Abensberg DE

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20120025415METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING PLASTIC MOLDED SKINS HAVING DIFFERENT SUBREGIONS - The present invention relates to a method and a device for producing plastic molded skins having different subregions. For this purpose, before melting the first plastic material, a region of the molding tool surface (02-02-2012

Jason Matthew Dreger, Livonia, MI US

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20120000952BIKE RACK - Apparatus for a bike rack for securing at least one bicycle are described herein. The bike rack is attachable to a vehicle receiver hitch. The bike rack includes a hub assembly, hitch insert assembly, and support wing assembly. The tub assembly includes a pair of hubs each having an arm. The hitch insert assembly includes a first end and a second end. The first end is located within the hub assembly and the second end is engageable with the receiver hitch. The hubs are rotatably adjustable about the first end of the hitch insert assembly. The support wing assembly includes a first wing engageable with the arm of the first hub and a second wing engageable with the arm of the second hub. The bike rack also includes an integral locking member and a pair of independently moveable cradles on each wing. Each cradle includes a bike support member.01-05-2012

Jeffrey S. Dreger, Lakewood, OH US

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20110253547Alkaline Electrochemical Cell with Reduced Gassing - Electrochemical cells including a casing or cup for direct electrical contact with a negative electrode or counter electrode and serving as the current collector for the electrode. The casing includes a substrate having a plated coating of an alloy including copper, tin and zinc, the coating having a composition gradient between the substrate and the external surface of the coating wherein the copper content is greater adjacent the substrate than at the external surface of the coating and the tin content is greater at the external surface of the coating than adjacent the substrate. Methods for forming a coated casing and an electrochemical cell including a coated casing are disclosed, preferably including providing an electrode casing with a coating utilizing variable current density plating that reduces discoloration of a surface exposed to the ambient atmosphere.10-20-2011

Katharina Dreger, Dusseldorf DE

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20110237742Liquid Two-Component Coating Compositions - The invention relates to two-component liquid coating composition comprising: 09-29-2011
20110293842WATER-BASED TWO-COMPONENT COATING COMPOSITIONS - The invention relates to a water-based coating composition comprising: 12-01-2011
20110305843PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE TOP COAT LAYER OF AN AUTOMOTIVE OEM MULTI-LAYER COATING - A coating process wherein a precoated automotive substrate is OEM top coated with an aqueous two-component polyurethane top coating composition prepared by static mixing a non-aqueous hydrophobic polyisocyanate crosslinker component and an aqueous binder component having a binder solids content comprising at least one water-dilutable hydroxyl-functional binder and 5 to 30 wt.-% of a urethane compound A with at least two terminal urethane groups (—NHC(O)OR; R hydrocarbyl residue of a monoalcohol) and having a number-average molar mass (Mn) of from 400 to 5,000.12-15-2011

Katharina Dreger, Wuppertal DE

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20100056706AQUEOUS COATING COMPOSITION - An aqueous coating composition comprising at least one aqueous binder latex, wherein the aqueous binder latex is prepared by (1) an aqueous phase polymerization of at least one olefinically monounsaturated, free-radically polymerizable monomer with at least one olefinically monounsaturated, free-radically polymerizable monomer with at least one acid group in organic solvent or in aqueous emulsion to form an acid functional (meth)acrylic resin, and neutralizing the acid groups of the formed polymer and (2) polymerizing in aqueous emulsion at least one olefinically unsaturated, polymerizable monomer with the resulting reaction product from (1) to form the aqueous binder latex, wherein the ratio by weight of the monomers of (1) to the monomers of (2) is in the range of from 10:90 to 90:10.03-04-2010
20100056724PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF AQUEOUS BINDER LATICES - A process for producing aqueous binder lattices comprising: 03-04-2010
20110020554AQUEOUS COATING COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF COATING LAYERS - Aqueous coating compositions with a resin solids consisting of 60 to 80 wt. % of binder solids and 20 to 40 wt. % of cross-linker solids, the binder solids consisting of 20 to 100 wt. % of binder C and 0 to 80 wt. % of one or more further binders and the cross-linker solids consisting of 80 to 100 wt. % of one or more aminoplast resins and 0 to 20 wt. % of one or more further cross-linkers, the sum of the respective wt. % equalling 100 wt. % and the binder C being produced by reacting a polyisocyanate A partially blocked by one or more monoalcohols A2 and having a content of free isocyanate groups of 0.5 to 10 wt. % with a resin B comprising a hydroxyl number of 50 to 250 mg KOH/g and a carboxyl number of 10 to 50 mg KOH/g at a molar ratio of hydroxyl groups of B to free isocyanate groups of A of at least 2:1.01-27-2011
20110151264AQUEOUS COATING COMPOSITION - The present invention refers to an aqueous coating composition comprising a binder combination A) comprising A1) and A2) wherein A1) comprises 60 to 90 wt % of at least one water-dilutable (meth)acrylate copolymer comprising; a) 10 to 80 wt % of at least one reaction product of a monoepoxyester and an unsaturated acid functional monomer, b) 0 to 40 wt % of at least one hydroxyl functional unsaturated monomer which is different from component a), c) 1 to 8 wt % of at least one unsaturated acid functional monomer, and d) 0 to 70 wt % of at least one other polymerisable unsaturated monomer, and A2) comprises 10 to 40 wt % of at least one water-dilutable epoxyester resin, and the awqueous coating composition further comprises B) at least one isocyanate compound as cross-linking agent. The aqueous coating composition according to the invention is particularly useful as top coat for direct coating of metal surfaces, particularly un-treated steel surfaces, providing high corrosion resistance and highly performed adhesiveness on the un-treated steel surfaces as well as high performance on appearance, e.g., gloss and flow.06-23-2011

Steven R. Dreger, Maplewood, MN US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110224918APPLICATION-SPECIFIC REPEAT DEFECT DETECTION IN WEB MANUFACTURING PROCESSES - Techniques are described for inspecting a web and controlling subsequent conversion of the web into one or more products. A system, for example, comprises an imaging device, an analysis computer and a conversion control system. The imaging device images the web to provide digital information. The analysis computer processes the digital information to identify regions on the web containing anomalies. The conversion control system subsequently analyzes the digital information to determine which anomalies represent actual defects for a plurality of different products. The web inspection system may preferentially apply different application-specific defect detection recipes depending on whether a given anomaly is a repeating or random anomaly09-15-2011

Timothy K. Dreger, Platteville, WI US

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20090152828Steering Assist For A Rear Caster Wheel On A Work Machine - A work machine includes a frame, at least one drive wheel carried by the frame, at least one caster wheel assembly carried by the frame, and at least one turn assist arrangement. Each turn assist arrangement is coupled between the frame and a corresponding caster wheel assembly. Each turn assist arrangement is configured to bias the corresponding caster wheel assembly during an operator commanded turn, and to be overridden by forces applied by the ground to the caster wheel assembly.06-18-2009