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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070062457 | Device and method for animal tracking The present invention provides devices and methods for tracking animals. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide a method of tracking an animal that includes assigning an animal identification to a first animal, collecting a biological sample fro... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062458 | Method of supplying a decor piece for a pet habitat A décor piece for a pet habitat is formed from a semiprecious gemstone or mineral such as calcite or amethyst which is mined and processed to provide a shiny (polished) piece having at least one characteristic dimension of between 3 and 20 inches. The décor piece is s... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062459 | Pet toy A pet toy is provided that is especially adapted for tug-of-war play between a pet owner and animal. The pet toy includes a pair of halves or parts with a handle on each part. A hinge interconnects the pair of parts. The hinge is configured in a shape and made of a mate... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062460 | Swine saliva sampling method A method and device for obtaining livestock saliva samples is described. An absorbent material is mounted in an animal pen such that the animal voluntarily mouths the material, thereby depositing saliva in the material. The saliva can then be extracted from the absorben... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062461 | Dog Toy Dog toys, some of a type including a rope and others not including a rope, include a biting object with a hollow interior cavity within a bounceable shell made of a tough resilient material, the biting object having at least one squeaker device within the cavity. The sq... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062462 | Animal noise protector An animal noise protector is disclosed, suitable for placement on the animal's head, over the ears. Two noise-blocking members, suitably sized so as fit comfortably and snugly over the animal's ears and against the sides of the animal's head, are joined by at least one ... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062463 | Fuel-fired dual tank water heater having dual pass condensing type heat exchanger A fuel-fired commercial water heater has upper and lower communicated tank portions which are separated by a plenum forming a vertically intermediate portion of a dual pass condensing type heat exchanger. A lower portion of the heat exchanger is defined by a series of v... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062464 | High efficiency tank type continuous flow and self cleaning water heater A water heater comprising a closed tank having a water inlet for connection with a water supply, and a hot water outlet connected to the tank interior; a flue pipe extending vertically through the tank and having an upper portion for connection with a vent pipe; a cylin... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062465 | Methods of operating a liquid vaporizer The present invention is generally directed to a vaporizer with positive liquid shut-off. In one illustrative embodiment, the vaporizer is comprised of a body, a liquid inlet and a carrier gas inlet coupled to the body, a nozzle positioned within the body, the nozzle ha... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062466 | Coolant circuit for a coolant-cooled internal combustion engine In a coolant circuit for an internal combustion engine having two cylinder banks, a radiator for cooling the engine coolant, a pump and a thermostatic valve including a mixing chamber and first and second flow control valves, wherein the pump is connected to the radiato... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062467 | Generator cooling system of engine The present invention provides a generator cooling system of an engine which can supply a sufficient cooling oil to a generator even at a time of a low speed operation, without complicating an oil passage formed within a wall of a crank case. In the generator cooling sy... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062468 | ENGINE COOLING FAN SHROUD A fan (16) draws air through a core (14) of a radiator (10) to which coolant from coolant passages in an engine (12) rejects heat. A shroud (28) having first and second parts (30, 32) in axial succession channels air that has be... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062469 | Rotary radial internal combustion piston engine The engine comprises a housing, a rotor having a driven shaft fastened thereon, which is mounted on the bearings spaced coaxially apart in the opposite sides of the housing and rotates about its axis of rotation and has a pair radially opposite cylinders spaced in the b... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062470 | Direct-injection internal combustion engine and method of controlling the direct-injection internal combustion engine A direct-injection internal combustion engine includes a variable-exhaust-valve control device for controlling value timing of a variable exhaust valve through which the combustion chamber of an engine cylinder communicates with an exhaust path. The variable-exhaust-val... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062471 | Controller for plant using PWM algorithm A controller for a plant that can compensate for non-linear property and reduce oscillation of output of a controlled object even when the controlled object has high non-linear property is provided. The present invention provides a controller for a plant that uses PWM a... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062472 | Variable valve operating device The present invention provides a compact variable valve operating device that is capable of mechanically changing the operating characteristic of a valve. The rotation motion of a camshaft is input to the valve via a swing member. A slide surface is formed on the swing ... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062473 | Variable valve apparatus of internal combustion engine In a variable valve apparatus according to the present invention, a direction of a maximum load generated during valve lift at an oscillating fulcrum of a transmission arm with respect to a control shaft and a rotating direction when the control shaft is varied from the... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062474 | Locking pin mechanism for a vane-type cam phaser A rotor-locking mechanism for a vane-type camshaft phaser. A locking pin is disposed in the rotor and is permitted to travel into a well in either the rear cover or the front cover of the phaser. The pin is urged into the well by a return spring, and the end of the pin ... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062475 | Ina-schaeffler kg, industriestrasse 1 - 3, 91074 herzogenaurach anr 12 88 48 20 The invention relates to a device (101) for varying the control times of gas exchange valves of an internal combustion engine, with a hydraulic actuation device (102) and with a control valve (103). The device (101) according to the invention... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062476 | METHOD OF STARTING SPARK IGNITION ENGINE WITHOUT USING STARTER MOTOR There is provided a method of starting a spark ignition engine having multiple cylinders. The method comprises supplying air and fuel for restart into a first cylinder before the engine completely stops, and igniting the mixture of the air and the fuel in the first cyli... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062477 | Engine control device An engine control device that controls, using a microprocessor, a fuel injection device including an injector and a fuel pump, and a starter motor that starts an engine, including: first fuel pump driving means for driving the fuel pump only during set time at power-on ... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062478 | Cylinder head structure for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine A cylinder head structure for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine that is mounted on a vehicle so that a cylinder alignment direction goes along a front-rear direction of the vehicle comprises a cylinder head side wall, an upper deck, and a rib. The cylinder hea... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062479 | Piston for internal combustion engine A piston for internal combustion engine has both fatigue strength and wear resistance without increased production cost. At least one of a combustion chamber surface, a skirt rib, a pin boss rib which connects a pin boss and a crown, a lower portion of the pin boss cast... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062480 | Engine for vehicle The invention provides an engine for a vehicle which can easily execute a replacing work of an oil filter or an oil cooler. The vehicle engine is provided with a crank case, a cylinder head having an exhaust passage outlet in a front face, an oil pan being independently... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062481 | Procedure to operate a combustion engine in the event of damage and a device to perform the procedure Procedure to operate a combustion motor in the event of damage, whereby the thermoelectric voltage of a lubricant interruption on parts moving relative to each other and made of different, electrically conducting materials, is used to initiate an alarm signal, in that u... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062482 | Orbital engine/pump with multiple toroidal cylinders The orbital engine or pump comprising of drive train, having several elliptical gears each rotating around focal point with focal distance defined as function of minimum vanes opening, and toroidal cylinders each having inside two impellers with radial vanes continuousl... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062483 | Transition strategy for engine operation with spark ignition and homogeneous charge compression ignition modes A method of operating an internal combustion engine having a combustion chamber with a piston and a spark plug, when transitioning between spark ignition combustion and autoignition combustion, creating a first mixture of air and fuel, adjusting an operating condition o... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062484 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENGINE OPERATION WITH SPARK ASSISTED COMPRESSION IGNITION A method of operating an internal combustion engine having a combustion chamber with a piston, comprising of adjusting an operating parameter of the engine so that a mixture of air and fuel in the combustion chamber approaches, but does not achieve, an autoignition temp... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062485 | Apparatus and method for controlling internal combustion engine A control apparatus of an engine having a compression ignition combustion mode and a spark ignition combustion mode selects the spark ignition combustion mode when operation conditions fall within a spark ignition operation area set in a spark ignition operation area/co... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062486 | System and method for engine operation with spark assisted compression ignition A method of operating an internal combustion engine having a combustion chamber with a piston is disclosed. The method comprising during a first mode, adjusting an operating condition of the engine so that a first mixture of air and fuel in the combustion chamber attain... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062487 | Method for operating an internal combustion engine during engine braking The invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle in engine braking mode, in which the internal combustion engine is operated with at least one unfired cylinder, and the internal combustion engine has variably controllable ... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062488 | Knock control apparatus for an internal combustion engine and control method thereof In addition to a knock detection filter, a plurality of optimal knock frequency detection filters (digital filters: BPFs) are provided which filter the signals output from a knock sensor and has mutually different filtering frequency bands. A presently optimal frequency... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062489 | Controller of an internal combustion engine When the first fuel injection is performed after reversion from the fuel cut, the fuel pulse width Ka·INJ.PW is set so that a fuel supply amount is greatly increased in relation to an intake air amount, and the ignition timing is set to the first retarded ignition timi... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062490 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING HEATED INTAKE AIR A system for an internal combustion engine, the engine having an intake and exhaust manifold, the system comprising a heat exchanger configured to extract energy from at least a heat source that heats a first portion of intake air, a spark plug coupled to the engine, an... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062491 | Method of feeding fuel to an engine, fuel feed amount control system of an engine, and motorcycle comprising fuel feed amount control system A method of feeding fuel to an engine, comprising the steps of determining whether or not the engine is decelerating based on a time-lapse change rate of an engine speed of the engine, and reducing an amount of the fuel to be fed to air taken into the engine from outsid... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062492 | Transfer jet pump prime reservoir with integrated anti-siphon valve feature A movable fuel valve lies within a housing at an end of a housing fuel passage. A fuel tube has a nozzle end inserted within a first end of the housing fuel passage while the movable valve element is situated at a second end of the housing fuel passage and controls fuel... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062493 | FUEL SUPPLY MODULE A fuel supply module may include a reservoir and a fuel filter carried by the reservoir. In one implementation, the filter assembly may be pivoted relative to the reservoir when the fuel pump module is inserted through an access opening of the fuel tank. Thereafter, whe... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062494 | Recirculating valve A recirculating valve according to the present invention comprises a fuel supplying passage in fluid communication with a fuel tank and an engine, a return passage in fluid communication with the engine and the fuel tank, a communication passage in fluid communication w... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062495 | Evaporative fuel treatment system An evaporative fuel treatment system is disclosed that includes a canister, a detection passage having a reduced area portion, and switching device that switches fluid communication. Also included is a depressurizing device for depressurizing the detection passage coupl... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070062496 | System and method for operating a motor A system and a method operate a first motor of a vehicle which is fueled by a gellable fuel. The system and the method have a tank for storing the gellable fuel. One or more wires heat the gellable fuel to a temperature prior to injecting the gellable fuel into the firs... | 03/22/2007 |
