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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050183462 | Circular knitting machine for hosiery or the like, with device for actuating the knockover sinkers A circular knitting machine for hosiery or the like, with a device for actuating the knockover sinkers, comprising a sinker cover, arranged in an upward region and coaxially to the sinker ring and supporting at least one cam and one complementary cam arranged outside th... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183463 | Method to make circular-knit elastic fabric comprising spandex and hard yarns Circular-knit, elastic, single-knit jersey fabric, of spun and/or continuous filament hard yarns with bare spandex plated in every course, has a cover factor in the range of 1.3 to 1.9, a basis weight from 140 to 240 g/m2, an elongation of 60% or more and low... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183464 | Method of knitting knit-wear A method for seamlessly knitting knitwear having a broad neckline with a flat knitting machine is provided. A neckline is formed by a first step in which a breast is knitted by branching off into right and left breasts from its front neckline forming portion, all knitte... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183465 | Method of knitting knit-wear having front neck and knit-wear having front neck The knitted loops of one neckline of a right breast or left breast knitted dividing a breast are transferred to a needle bed where a back is retained, and a front collar knitting portion is knitted on the other neckline. The front collar knitting portion is cast off fro... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183466 | Weft knitting machine with movable sinker device A weft knitting machine with a movable sinker device capable of preventing yarn from being worn caused by repeatedly striking the yarn with a sinker energized by a spring to push down knitting fabric, wherein a stroke to which a yarn locking part (2a) at t... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183467 | Module for textile machines, especially stitch-forming machines A module for textile machines has a plurality of tools (2) with retention portions (6). The retention portions are grasped in a plastic body (7), which reaches out or embraces the retention portions (6) at one or more recesses (15, 27, 28<... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183468 | Durable knitted net The present invention is directed to a net, and more specifically to a knitted net comprising a plurality of chain and fill yarns comprising mono-filaments that decreases the overall mass of the net, yet increases the durability of the net. In accordance with the presen... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183469 | Control panel assembly for washing machine Disclosed is a control panel assembly for a washing machine, capable of making possible replacement of an information sheet. The control panel assembly includes a control panel configured to allow a user to operate the washing machine, a window which covers the control ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183470 | Washing machine A washing machine prevents a user from getting burned. The washing machine includes a housing; a tub, installed in the housing, for preliminarily storing washing water and heating the stored washing water; a drum, rotatably installed in the tub, for receiving laundry; a... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183471 | Control panel assembly for washing machine A control panel assembly for a washing machine is disclosed. The structure of the control panel assembly provided with a decoration member is greatly simplified. The control panel assembly includes a control panel mounted on an outer case of the washing machine, a first... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183472 | Damper assembly and washing machine using the same A damper assembly and washing machine using the same, by which a damper pin configured to facilitate assembly is provided and by which a damper pin is configured to avoid breaking, are disclosed. The damper assembly includes a base having a first connecting portion, a d... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183473 | Pelting system The present invention relates to a fur-pelt system adapted to maintain the highest in pelt quality in relation to industry standards. The pelt system comprises: a stretch board having a generally rectangular form and a planar surface through which a plurality of evenly ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183474 | KING PIN LOCK DEVICE An embodiment of the present invention is a king pin lock device that prevents theft of trailers and other objects equipped with a king pin trailer hitch. The lock device has a lock body with a first end and a second end. The second end has a moveable lock bar to engage... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183475 | Cable lock A cable lock includes a body, a cable, a tubular cover fitting around the cable and consisting of plural metal rings continually connected with one another, a fix bolt attached with one end of the cable, and a removable bolt attached with the other end of the cable. The... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183476 | Steering column lock apparatus and method Some embodiments of the present invention have a lock bolt extendible and retractable by movement of a power transmission assembly driven by an actuator and having a cam thereon which cams against the lock bolt to retract the lock bolt and unlock the steering column. In... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183477 | Latch A latch is disclosed that can be applied to doors in a variety of orientations and/or with keepers in a variety of orientations without any modifications to the latch being necessary. The latch includes a first module that carries a handle and an actuating member, and t... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183478 | Latch A latch is disclosed that can be applied to doors in a variety of orientations and/or with keepers in a variety of orientations without any modifications to the latch being necessary. The latch includes a first module that carries a handle and an actuating member, and t... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183479 | Lock device with shape memory actuating means A lock (1) comprises at least a bolt (7) actuated by means of a flexible shape memory element (14), which can take an extended and a shortened configuration as a result of heating. Constraint means (P, 10, 17) cause the arrangement of at leas... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183480 | Electric lock An electric lock includes a bolt capable of being disposed in an extended, locked position and a retracted, unlocked position. The electric lock also includes an electric actuator for displacing the bolt between the locked and unlocked positions and latching elements to... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183481 | Lock and a two step method to open the lock A lock includes a cylinder, a cylinder plug and a locking pin assembly. The cylinder plug is rotatably mounted in the cylinder and has a dummy keyhole and a cylinder plug keyhole defined completely through the cylinder plug. The locking pin assembly has multiple locking... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183482 | CHANGEABLE LOCK ASSEMBLY A lock assembly has a housing, a cylinder, a main adjusting pin assembly, a sub-adjusting pin assembly and multiple locking pin assemblies. The housing has multiple sets of pin holes, two main adjusting holes and two sub-adjusting holes. The three holes of the sets of p... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183483 | Composting of organic waste The process of the subject invention may be carried out by means of two or more vessels. The vessels are arranged in succession such that the outlet of one vessel is located above the inlet of the next vessel in succession. At the bottom of each vessel is a moving floor... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183484 | Spinning method and apparatus A spinning method which makes it possible to control the pressing force of a roller tool with satisfactorily high responsiveness and have the roller tool press work following the contour of a forming die even if the die may have its radial length vary at a high speed re... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183485 | Roll preshaping A preshaping method for massive forming processes is proposed in which a fixed blank is deformed by at least one roll moving continuously forward along a predetermined contour. ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183486 | Surgical needle manufacturing process A process for manufacturing a surgical needle incorporates at least one pressing operation which, preferably, in conjunction with a trimming and/or etching process, ultimately forms the sharpened needle end. The grinding operation in the preferred process does not produ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183487 | Sheet metal section The present invention relates to a method for cutting a continuous strip of sheet metal, comprising the step of feeding out a continuous strip of sheet metal, cutting the continuous strip into sections of finite lengths, wherein the cutting step further comprises cuttin... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183488 | Plate and tube bending device A plate and tube bending device in which a workpiece is held between the forming die and the secondary clamp block of a plate and tube bending fixture. When the primary clamp block of the plate bending fixture is rotated to achieve a bending moment in the workpiece, the... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183489 | Method for continuous sensor self-test A method and device for self-test of a sensor. The method includes stimulating the sensor with signals that generate sensor outputs at a frequency that differs from the frequency of expected sensed parameter signals. The sensor output is filtered to remove the effects o... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183490 | Systems and methods for detecting contaminants The present invention relates to a system and method for sampling a gas flow to measure one or more contaminants within a semiconductor processing tool. The system includes a portable unit containing one or more dry traps, Tenax traps and, if desired, wet impingers. The... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183491 | Gas monitor using electrochemical cell and method of operating A method and apparatus for gas detection uses a sensor such as an electrochemical (EC) cell and includes a feedback control loop to control a pump to establish a first predetermined gas flow rate to the EC cell. The concentration of the gas at the first predetermined fl... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183492 | Carbon nanotube based resonant-circuit sensor Disclosed are resonant gas sensors and methods for forming and using the disclosed sensors. The sensors include a resonator including a layer comprising adsorptive nanostructures, for example carbon nanotubes, activated carbon fibers, or adsorptive nanowires. The dielec... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183493 | Apparatus and methods for dynamically pressure testing an article The dynamic pressure tester includes a first cylinder and a first piston movable relative to the cylinder. The piston may have one or more weights applied thereto. The cylinder is vibrated by a shaker table and pressure pulses in the fluid are transmitted to a stationar... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183494 | Device having a flow channel containing a layer of wicking material A device having a flow channel, wherein a layer of mesh is adhered to a surface forming a wall of a flow channel, but the layer of mesh is of such dimensions that the layer of mesh does not contact those portions of the device where electrochemical reactions occur and e... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183495 | Scientific phenomena evaluation device, diffusion velocity measurement experimental device, and manufacturing method of the device According to the present invention, a continuous layer liquid used as a continuous layer of a diffusion phenomenon is injected into the first reservoir, and passed through the channels to the second reservoirs to fill the plurality of radially formed channels with the c... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183496 | Micro slit viscometer with monolithically integrated pressure sensors An improved micro slit viscometer includes a combined micrometer depth rectangular slit flow channel with monolithically integrated multiple pressure sensors in the flow channels and a pumping system that injects a test sample to the channel at a desired flow rate. Pres... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183497 | Strip planarity measuring method and apparatus A method and a surface evenness measuring roller for determining surface evenness measurement errors in steel and metal band comprising at least one measuring head having part measuring heads which part measuring heads are integrated respectively offset by 180° into th... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183498 | Film sticking/testing equipment A film sticking/testing equipment mainly includes a transmission mechanism, a film sticking apparatus and a test apparatus. The transmission mechanism is used for delivering at least a touch pad. The film sticking apparatus has a film release base to allow a protect fil... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183499 | Method and device for measuring a path that has been covered A displacement measuring device for measuring a path that has been covered by a moving object that can be displaced in a direction has at least one first component that is allocated to the moveable object and a second, stationary component. The components are interlinke... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183500 | Split-flow-type flow sensor device A split-flow-type flow sensor apparatus includes a main flow passage and a bypass flow passage, wherein a thermal flow sensor is placed on the wall face of the bypass flow passage. A first rectification member is placed upstream from a diversion part to the bypass flow ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050183501 | Inertia sensor unit An inertia sensor unit having a detecting element, a signal processor being constituted as an element separate from the detecting element, for at least amplifying signals output from the detecting element, and an inertia sensor mounted to a detection object for detectin... | 08/25/2005 |
