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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20060278041 | Method for producing improved coal for use in metallurgy, and method for producing reduced metal and slag containing oxidized nonferrous metal The present invention provides a method for upgrading low-rank coal unsuitable for production of a reduced metal by a conventional carbon composite method to produce an upgraded coal suitable for the carbon composite method. The prevent invention also provides a method ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278042 | Method of producing stainless steel by re-using waste material of stainless steel producing process A method of producing stainless steel includes the steps of melting a raw material in an electric furnace to form molten steel, and then refining the molten steel by a refining furnace to produce stainless steel in a stainless steel producing process. In the method, a c... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278043 | Tool for hose clamps A tool for releasing hose clamps. Also, methods for installing a hose to a device with the tool to release a clamp from an expanded state to a relaxed state. The tool has a curved end having an arcuate convex curved section with an arcuate surface having an uppermost po... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278044 | TOOL FOR HOSE CLAMPS A tool for releasing hose clamps. Also, methods for installing a hose to a device with the tool to release a clamp from an expanded state to a relaxed state. The tool has a curved end having an arcuate convex curved section with an arcuate surface having an uppermost po... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278045 | Wire stripper system A wire stripper having at least two resiliently flexible blades each of which terminate in an insulator stripper disposed in opposed relation operably responsive to a slidly engaged insulated wire to release the insulator from the wire. ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278046 | Flooring installation pull bars and methods Pull bars for the installation of flooring materials, especially tongue-and-groove flooring materials, having a removable anvil cap. In especially preferred embodiments, the pull bars of the present invention have an elongate tail piece, a header bar attached rigidly to... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278047 | Multiple purpose plumbing tool The invention is a portable hand held plumbing tool designed for use in the installation, repairing, and servicing of plumbing fixtures. The invention contains a plurality of open-ended socket wrench heads which are joined via a hollow shaft which holds and stores a dou... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278048 | Flange wrench A plumbing flange wrench designed to engage with a conventional plumbing flange. The flange wrench includes an elongated body that is configured in a substantially planar manner. The body has a first end and a second end. Positioned at the second end of the body is a ha... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278049 | Medical fastener and tool A drive system for a surgical fastener is composed of a drive tool with a drive tip that mates closely with the recess formed in the head of a threaded fastener. The surgical fastener has a head with a quadrilobe fitting therein which closely mates with the quardilobe t... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278050 | Holding chuck for fastening tools A holding chuck for fastening tools includes a spindle in the center that has one end coupling with a fastening tool to receive a rotational driving force and another end coupling with a screw head of a screw to perform fastening or unfastening. The spindle is coupled w... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278051 | Torque-limiting mechanism A torque-limiting mechanism is provided for use in a variety of torque-applying tools. The mechanism includes a handle defining a housing in which are disposed a slip gear and a fixed gear. The fixed gear is attached to the housing while the slip gear is attached to dri... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278052 | Feeder tube for bar feeder For use in a bar feeder, a feeder tube is disclosed to include a holder base and a plurality of support members. The holder base has two hinged holder members each having retaining portions. Each support member has positioning portions respectively detachably engaged wi... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278053 | Cutting device for cutting a curtain fabric and method for cutting a curtain fabric In a method for cutting a curtain fabric, the said curtain fabric is positioned on a supporting surface and the curtain fabric is cut. After the curtain fabric has been positioned on the supporting surface, the supporting surface is moved into a virtually vertical posit... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278054 | Dual ratio drive for rotary shear A dual ratio drive for a rotary sheer comprises a parallel pair of first shafts carrying freely rotatable first gears. A pair of second shafts are rotatable about axes parallel to the axes of the first shafts. Each second shaft carries a shear blade, and a second gear i... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278055 | MACHINE TOOL A machine tool, especially a band saw, with a support and a machining table which forms a work rest surface and which is supported on the support, the machining table being pivotabe out of a base position around a virtual pivoting axis defined by an arc-shaped link slot... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278056 | Paper punch A desk-top paper punch includes a drawer for removable insertion into the base of the paper punch, the drawer serving as a collection receptacle for paper punches to be discarded. Once the drawer is near its capacity, the drawer is pulled out of the base for emptying. M... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278057 | Rotary wire cutter A continuous wire cutter for cutting and shaping products, particularly foam products. A frame supports a work piece movable along an x axis. A cutting head is movable along a y axis to and from the work piece. The head contains a continuous wire that drivingly engages ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278058 | Frameless musical keyboard Embodiments of an electronic, frameless, musical keyboard with the ability to couple to other frameless musical keyboards are described. In one embodiment, a first musical keyboard section includes an arrangement of black and white keys, similar to a layout of a piano k... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278059 | Combination end pin and output jack for musical instruments An end pin/electrical output jack assembly which can be fitted (with no modification to the instrument) to acoustic guitars, mandolins, violins, and other musical instruments which are equipped with a traditional tapered pin type of end pin inserted into a tapered hole ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278060 | Foot pedal for drum The present invention provides a foot pedal for a drum that can clamp a hoop regardless of a board thickness of a hoop, improves an operability, handling and moreover, appearance, and increases a freedom of a setting the angle of a foot board. A pedal frame provides a h... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278061 | Method of improving the acoustic characteristics of resonant wood for musical instruments Method of improving the acoustic characteristics of resonant wood for musical instruments, characterised in that during a limited period of treatment the resonant wood is exposed to the action of a type of fungus which decomposes wood, wherein the type of fungus and the... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278062 | Musical instrument display A visual display mounted on a musical instrument for use as a teaching aid, for teaching fingerings and chords, a performing aid for displaying information relevant to a user's performance, and a visual effects aid, for displaying visual effects to an audience while a u... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278063 | Violin practice reminder A violin practice reminder includes restriction rods, fixtures, touch rods and a warning unit. The restriction rods, the touch rods and the warning unit are disposed on the fixtures. The restriction rods and the touch rods are made of electric material. Each of the rest... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278064 | Data management and distribution Data management and distribution are described, including a memory configured to store data, the data being stored in a file and the file is downloaded in response to a signal, and downloading is performed based on a parameter determined by a provider of the file or the... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278065 | System and method for providing haptic feedback to a musical instrument A system and method for generating a haptic feedback signal correlated to a music signal and providing the haptic feedback signal to a musical instrument. The music signal can created by the musical instrument or from a file, e.g., a MIDI file. A processor can generate ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278066 | Sound panel for playing sounds and music, and method for manufacturing such panel A sound panel for playing sounds and music, comprising a substantially flat soundboard made of wood, at least one tie which is fitted to the soundboard in order to subject the soundboard to a mechanical tension, an electromechanical transducer which is mounted on the so... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278067 | Apparatus and method for installing unit on a stringed musical instrument An apparatus for mounting a control unit on a stringed musical instrument. The apparatus is designed such that the control unit can be easily mounted on and removed from the stringed musical instrument. The apparatus provides more stable and more firm mounting of the co... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278068 | Guitar pedal The present invention relates to a sound controller system including at least one distance sensor provided to establish at least one distance representing signal, at least one mapper provided to map values of at least one of the distance representing signals into values... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278069 | System for neutralizing a concealed explosive within a container A system for neutralizing an explosive device concealed within an object by focusing a plurality of energies or fields including electromagnetic, electrostatic, magnetic, or acoustic toward the object thereby inducing detonation. A blast containment enclosure has means ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278070 | Automatically firing weapon An automatically firing weapon, in particular for caseless ammunition, which has an improved hit probability so that a saving of ammunition is possible. For that purpose the weapon (10) is linearly movably guided in a housing (12) in the axial longitudinal... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278071 | Internal combustion engine In an internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle, having a piston bearing surface divided into regions of different loading and having recesses for retaining lubricant arranged at distances which are shorter in regions of high loading than in regions of lower loadin... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278072 | System and method for attaching a substantially three dimensional structure to a substantially two dimensional structure A method and system for transporting a fluid, gas, semi-solid, cryogen, or particulate matter, or combination thereof, between a three-dimensional structure and a substantially two-dimensional structure is disclosed. A system and method for electrically coupling a three... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278073 | Fuel deoxygenation system with non-planar plate members A fuel system for an energy conversion device includes a multiple of fuel plates, oxygen permeable membranes, porous substrate plates, and vacuum frame plates which define a wave pattern configuration. The wave configuration enhances deoxygenation by increasing the effi... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278074 | Electrostatic air purifier with a laterally removable collection grid module An air purification system includes an electrostatic collection grid module inside the housing of the system to remove particulate matter from the air flowing through the housing. The collection grid module is removable from a side of the housing. The collection grid mo... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278075 | Air purifier and related methods for residential dwellings Cost-effective and efficient filtration technology is disclosed by which airborne pollution and contaminants are significantly removed from air circulated through furnaces and/or air conditioning systems in residential dwellings. Filters comprising both an anti-microbia... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278076 | Methods and systems for cooling a chromatographic column Systems and methods for cooling a chromatographic column is disclosed generally, comprising heating a chromatographic column, supplying fluid into the column via the inlet end of the column at an inlet pressure, decreasing the temperature of the column, thereby causing ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278077 | Gas separation method using adsorbent A gas separation method for separating a specific component gas from a mixed gas using an adsorbent comprises (1) a contact step of bringing a mixed gas into a vessel to contact at a first pressure the mixed gas with an adsorbent whose adsorption property with respect t... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278078 | Methods and systems for generation of gases A method of operating a nitrogen generator is provided, wherein the method includes providing a source of compressed air and operating a plurality of pneumatic valves with the compressed air. The method also includes operating at least one pneumatic timer to toggle the ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278079 | Isothermal gas-free water distillation The present invention provides a method of and apparatus 1 for water desalination comprising transferring water vapour from salt-water in a vapourization zone 7, via a water vapour transfer zone 12, to a condensation zone 11, and condensing said wat... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060278080 | Negative ion air purifier The utility model discloses a negative ion air purifier, comprising an electrostatic field-generating module and a voltage boost circuit. The voltage output end of the voltage boost circuit connects with the voltage input end of the electrostatic field-generating module... | 12/14/2006 |