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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050166697 | Gearing element and motor vehicle gear unit In a gearing element with at least first and second adjacent coaxial gear structures formed thereon for at least two different transmission gear sets, specifically a reverse gear and a first forward gear, the gear structures are formed so as to change one into the other... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166698 | Single-shaft switching device In a shifting system (2) for a vehicle transmission which comprises a shifting shaft (6), at least one gear change hub (18) is movably placed in a transmission housing (4) upon the shifting shaft (6). The shifting shaft (6) has ... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166699 | Horizontal multiple articulation type robot A horizontal multijoint type robot is so constructed that it comprises a first arm connected through a first joint shaft to a base, a second arm connected through a second joint shaft to the first arm, and a working shaft provided rotatably and movably up and down on th... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166700 | Steering column device for vehicle In a tilt and/or telescopic type steering column apparatus for a vehicle, in which a column sided bracket attached to a steering column is so provided as to be swingable and/or slidable on a car body sided bracket attached to a car body, a fastening bolt is inserted thr... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166701 | Bowden cable with a curved guide part Bowden cable is provided with an interchangeable curved guide part which is detachably connected to a fastening element. Due to the detachable fastening of the curved guide part to the fastening element, a modular design of the Bowden cable is achieved, necessitating on... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166702 | Adjustable pedal assembly with step-over control An adjustable pedal assembly for controlling step-over between pedal levers (16, 24) is provided. A first pedal lever (16) is supported for rotation about an operational axis. A first adjustment mechanism (20) adjusts the first pedal lever (16 | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166703 | Variable rate control pedal A control pedal assembly includes an eccentric curve as an actuator surface at one end of a pedal arm and a control member includes a first lobe with a roller that rides on the actuator surface and a second lobe that receives a connector rod to a control device to be co... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166704 | Bicycle handlebar clock mounting structure A bicycle handlebar clock mounting structure installed onto the bar member comprising various different model handlebars. The clock mount is an inverted U-shaped construct and, furthermore, an end section extends inward from each of its two lateral extremities, an elong... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166705 | Reversible driving apparatus for PCU pumps An accessory driving apparatus for an aircraft system is connected to an accessory unit to be driven, such as a PCU pump. A gear set for transferring rotational power from the driving shaft to the driven shaft is provided for selective arrangement in first and second co... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166706 | Thermal and electrochemical process for metal production A system for purification of high value metals comprises an electrolytic cell in which an anode formed of a composite of a metal oxide of the metal of interest with carbon is electrochemically reduced in a molten salt electrolyte. ... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166707 | Method of recovering platinum group element and apparatus therefor A method for recovering platinum group elements comprises charging into a closed electric furnace and melting, together with flux components and a reducing agent, a platinum group element-containing substance to be processed and a copper source material containing coppe... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166708 | Metal-ceramic composites for tribological uses and defined sliding/friction pairs based on said materials The friction heat generated between both sliding pairs and friction pairs has to be swiftly dissipated in older to maintain a lubricant film or ensure constant coefficients of friction. The invention consequently relates to metal-ceramic composites for friction/sliding ... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166709 | Metal powder for powder metallurgy and iron-based sintered compact Provided is metallic powder for powder metallurgy having iron as its principal component and containing indium soap, or metallic powder for powder metallurgy further comprising at least one type selected among bismuth soap, nickel soap, cobalt soap, copper soap, mangane... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166710 | Method for treating alloyed carbonic iron smelts used for the production of steel In a method of treating alloyed carbon-containing iron melts for the production of steel, whereby a carbon-containing iron melt is subjected in a metallurgical vessel to a decarburization by addition of oxygen and a part of the metallic alloying elements is slagged, whe... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166711 | Ink container opener An ink container opener has first and second portions approximately perpendicular to each other to form an L-shaped opener. The first portion has an opening having a plurality of ridges extending along opposite sides of the opening. An ink container is received within t... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166712 | Insulation stripping tool A pliers-type stripping tool includes a base (4), a pair of pivot levers (19, 20) pivotally connected with the base, a pair of clamping members (26, 37) connected for relative longitudinal displacement on one of the pivot levers, a pair of cutting m... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166713 | Nail holders and methods Nail holders, and related methods, self-biasing one or more nails in a ready-to-be-nailed position adjacent to a workpiece, without using a manually-created clamping force against the nail with the thumb and index finger remote from the nail, are disclosed. Force applie... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166714 | Sprocket drive wrench The SPROCKET DRIVE WRENCH is a mechanical hand tool to be used in the tightening or loosening of nuts, bolts, fasteners, and component securing devices where lever arm sweep is limited by existing non-movable structure. ... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166715 | Tong assembly A tong assembly comprising a power tong and a backup assembly. The backup assembly comprises a pair of rotating jaws, each of which carries a jaw die which is rotated into and out of engagement with a tubular being gripped by the backup. The jaw die has a base portion a... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166716 | FLUID-OPERATED POWER TOOL A fluid-operated power tool has a drive including a fluid-operator cylinder-piston unit, a first housing accommodating the drive, a lever-drive mechanism connected with the drive and powered by the latter and also engageable with a fastener for bolting applications, a s... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166717 | Compact ratchet wrench with adjustable jaws The ratchet wrench of this invention includes a jaw adjustment assembly connected with a jaw and gear assembly carried by a wrench head. Components of the jaw adjustment assembly include a scroll plate inside a cap operated by a jaw adjustment disk located above the cap... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166718 | Wrench having a ratchet head able to vertically and horizontally rotate for 360 degrees A wrench having a ratchet head able to vertically and horizontally rotate for 360 ° includes a tang having a longitudinal slit of predetermined length in the center a tong at front end composed of a pair of symmetrical prongs for rotatably engaging with a drum-shaped r... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166719 | Wrench A wrench includes a body, a control device, a pawl and a joint. The body includes a handle, a ring formed at an end of the handle and with an internal face and a plurality of teeth formed on the internal face of the ring. The control device includes a disc pivotally rec... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166720 | Wrench Open-end symmetrical wrenches retain fasteners fully seated in the jaws of the wrench. The jaws have fastener-engaging surfaces with substantially planar and parallel sections that extend past the front side corners of the fastener when it is fully seated in the wrench ... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166721 | Open-ended slot wrench An adjustable open-ended wrench having a first section and a second section that are spaced apart a distance and forming an opening therebetween. Receivers are located on one or both of the sections. One or more mounts are sized to fit onto the sections and mate with th... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166722 | Gripping tool In a gripping tool a first body member defines a first jaw portion and a first handle portion. The second body member defines a second jaw portion and a second handle portion. The first and second handle portions being coupled to one another at distal ends for movement ... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166723 | Basin wrench extension handle A basin wrench extension handle which is a tubular member, either straight elongated or elongated with a 40 to 50 degree bend at about the midpoint, and under 16 inches in length. The tubular member is closed at one end and has a threaded bore near the open end, in whic... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166724 | Twisted and tapered driver for a threaded fastener A driver includes a polygonal cross-sectional shape which is both tapered and twisted by a defined degree so that in an end view the largest polygonal cross-sectional shape circumscribes the smallest polygonal cross-sectional shape such that the corners of the smallest ... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166725 | Fastening component assistive positioning device A fastening component assistive positioning device comprised of a coupling rod, the coupling rod having a tool head disposed at one end, and an assistive device that is a tubular member movably sleeved on the coupling rod which has a magnetic element in one extremity. G... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166726 | Rotary fast tool servo system and methods A high bandwidth rotary fast tool servo provides tool motion in a direction nominally parallel to the surface-normal of a workpiece at the point of contact between the cutting tool and workpiece. Three or more flexure blades having all ends fixed are used to form an axi... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166727 | Method for indexing a rotating tool and a tool for machining A method of indexing a rotating cutting tool, and a tool for machining. The tool comprises a body, and one or more cutting parts, of which cutting parts at least one can be moved relative to the body at least into a first position and a second position. The cutting part... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166728 | Lathe spindle unit and lathe apparatus A lathe spindle unit is provided with: a rotatable spindle having a cam follower, and a holding section for holding a work piece; a drive source for rotatively driving the spindle; and a driven rotation shaft that has a cam and that is rotatively driven by the drive sou... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166729 | Method of manufacturing honeycomb structural body A method of manufacturing a honeycomb structure of the present invention is a method of obtaining a honeycomb structure 10 having a predetermined shape by processing a peripheral portion of a crude honeycomb structure 2, the method being characterized in t... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166730 | Roller sheet material dispenser There is disclosed a film dispenser comprising a housing adapted to receive and hold a roll of film and having a dispensing opening through which a layer of film may pass, the dispenser being provided with a movable cutting unit having a blade mounted therein, the dispe... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166731 | Rotary saw table and method for adapting various rotary saws to rotary saw table A rotary saw table and method for adapting various rotary saws of the subject invention provides for greatly improved ease in cutting, sawing, and sanding in a multitude of applications. The rotary saw table and method for adapting various rotary saws allows for the cut... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166732 | Insulation cutting apparatus Cutting apparatus for cutting insulation including a rigid base defining an elongate slot extending from an upper surface thereof to a lower surface thereof and a handle arranged in connection with the base to enable the base to be manually placed over the insulation ma... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166733 | Rotary web cutting system with resilient mounting assembly for shaped knife blades A knife holder mounted on the periphery of a knife roller in an apparatus for cutting lengths of webs such as paper is disclosed. The knife holder in the system disclosed is formed of an elastomeric material. The knife blades have shaped configurations in order to cut c... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166734 | Portable shear A portable shear comprises at least two shear blades. The shear blades are in close proximity with one another, and each shear blade has a cut-out. A force apparatus applies a force to at least one of two blades such that the blades move relative to each other. In a fir... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166735 | Page indexing system and apparatus for forming page shapes of system A finger-operated page turning device for stacked sheets, with methods, apparatus forming the device as sets of offset voids or notches in alternating pages of a stack. The device is operated by simple movements of the thumb and/or fingers of a user's one hand while hol... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050166736 | Table saws with safety systems and systems to mount and index attachments Improved table saws and table saws designed to implement safety systems that detect contact between a person and a dangerous portion of the saw are disclosed. Table saw components, mounting systems for table saws, and table saw attachments are also disclosed. ... | 08/04/2005 |
