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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070256606 | Adjustable tray for vehicle An assembly includes a tray portion and a base. The base supports the tray portion. The tray portion may move within a substantially horizontal plane in an infinite number of directions. The base portion allows for the vertical movement of the tray. The assembly may als... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256607 | Rolling case for massage table A rolling case for a massage table comprises a substantially durable storage compartment which is sufficiently large to receive a folded massage table. In an exemplary embodiment, the storage compartment includes a bolster pillow pocket and a main pocket on the front si... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256608 | Foldable table with portable stereo system A foldable table that comes with a portable stereo system includes foldable supporting frames and a foldable tabletop. There are two mini boom boxes and an audio frequency receiver secured on the foldable tabletop. The two mini boom boxes are connected to each other thr... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256609 | Durable Pallet and Pallet Block The invention provides systems and methods of joining two or more pallet sections, including a top deck and a bottom deck. The top deck may include a portion of pallet blocks that project downwardly and include outer sleeves and bosses or posts. The bottom deck may incl... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256610 | FOLDING TABLE A folding table is disclosed. The folding table includes two top panels hingedly connected together to form a table top having a top surface and a bottom surface. The table top has a folding action about the hinged connection of the two top panels. Four leg panels depen... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256611 | Telescopic and foldable table A telescopic and foldable table comprises a table frame having two supporting posts at two sides thereof; each post having a liftable inner tube; each post being installed to a transversal leg at a bottom end thereof; an upper end of the inner tube of the post having a ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256612 | Deck and pier accessories and mounting assemblies A recreational accessory and corresponding mounting assembly is disclosed which is adapted and configured for use in combination with a substrate, such as a pier, dock, deck, porch, staircase, etc. The mounting assembly is secured to the substrate and the recreational a... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256613 | Connector for shelving A shelving system includes a post, a shelf, a first connector piece and a second connector piece. The post has a plurality of spaced-apart grooves. The first connector piece has a C-shaped section with an inner surface and an outer surface, the first connector piece fur... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256614 | Platform-Type Shelf and Assembling Method thereof A platform-type shelf includes at least two lengthways lattice beams, at least two transverse lattice beams, at least two lengthways frame beams, and at least two transverse frame beams. Each lattice beam defines downward engaging grooves and upward engaging grooves. Th... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256615 | System and method for unattended access to safe deposit boxes A safe deposit box access system is provided. A user provides biometric credential information such as a fingerprint scan to gain access to a vault storing a plurality of safe deposit boxes. Each of the safe deposit boxes is equipped with a sensor for detecting movement... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256616 | Device and method for reducing fireplace particulate emissions A fireplace afterburner is presented including a shell having a first open shell end for receiving fireplace emissions and a second open shell end for expelling fireplace emissions, a flue inside said shell having a first flue end which can be closed, and a second flue ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256617 | FLUID DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND APPARATUS A liquid manure distribution system where the manure is directed to an interior conduit within a distribution assembly or an outer rotating cylindrical member with tines attached thereto, creating crevice-like openings in the earth or a field and an internal timing memb... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256618 | Foot Controller for Sewing Machine and Sewing Machine A foot controller for a sewing machine includes a drive start switch (18) provided in a drive circuit (17) of a sewing machine motor (10) and a speed adjusting circuit (25) having a variable resistor (26) for adjusting a speed of the s... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256619 | Stitching method and apparatus employing thread longitudinal movement detection A method and apparatus for detecting longitudinal thread motion in a quilting/sewing machine for controlling the actuation of a fixedly located stitch head. A preferred detector comprises an optical sensor which directly senses the longitudinal movement of a thread as i... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256620 | Sailboat safety system for a person falling overboard A safety system, which stops the motion of a sail boat when a person falls off the boat, is comprised of a wireless transmitter carried by the person, a receiver-controller, an actuator, and a separable member which ordinarily holds a sail or a sail assembly in its work... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256621 | Apparatus and Method to Make a Sail and Relative Sail Made A sail having at least three tops and three corresponding edges opposite the tops and comprising a plurality of panels each of which in turn comprises two outer covering layers, between which a plurality of reinforcement elements are positioned which define, in their en... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256622 | Headlamp for personal watercraft A novel headlamp for installation onto a personal watercraft, such as a jet-ski, is disclosed and includes a housing, a lamp, and a wiring harness, for substantially watertight installation onto a cowling of a personal watercraft. The housing further includes a contoure... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256623 | Elasmobranch-repelling electropositive metals and methods of use Devices and methods are disclosed for repelling elasmobranchs with electropositive metals, including apparatuses and methods for reducing by-catch in commercial fisheries and protecting humans from attacks by elasmobranchs. ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256624 | Bookmark A bookmark that has a wire-like elongate member which forms a between-page portion, a top portion and a spine-adjacent portion. The between-page portion is a uniplanar bending of the wire-like elongate member which includes different subportions. The subportions extend ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256625 | Apparatus for pulling single crystal by CZ method In a Czochralski (CZ) single crystal puller equipped with a cooler and a thermal insulation member, which are to be disposed in a CZ furnace, smooth recharge and additional charge of material are made possible. Further, elimination of dislocations from a silicon seed cr... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256626 | Growth of Nitride Semiconductor Crystals A process for growing a crystal of a nitride semiconductor in which after the step of mounting a substrate (12) in a reaction tube (11), the step of feeding a first material gas containing a Group 3 element onto the substrate in the reaction tube and the s... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256627 | METHOD OF ULTRA-SHALLOW JUNCTION FORMATION USING SI FILM ALLOYED WITH CARBON A method for forming an ultra shallow junction on a substrate is provided. In certain embodiments a method of forming an ultra shallow junction on a substrate is provided. The substrate is placed into a process chamber. A silicon carbon layer is deposited on the substra... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256628 | Silica glass crucible The present invention provides a silica glass crucible for manufacturing a silicon single crystal, in which melt vibration can be controlled more certainly and a high yield of single crystal can be realized. A first substantially bubble-free layer 10a havi... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256629 | Direct pyrolysis route to GaN quantum dots Colloidal nanocrystals or “quantum dots” of GaN are directly produced by heating amidogallium dimer, i.e., (Ga2[N(CH3)2]6), in the presence of a functional amine. The GaN quantum dots obtained, which comprise isolated part... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256630 | Method and apparatus for aluminum nitride monocrystal boule growth A crystal growth setup within a physical vapor transport growth furnace system for producing AlN monocrystal boules at high temperatures includes a crucible effective to contain an AlN source material and a growing AlN crystal boule. This crucible has a thin wall thickn... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256631 | COATING DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WITH INLINE INJECTION OF ADDITIVES AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME Disclosed is coating distribution system with inline injection capability that permits a base coating material to be divided into a plurality of portions, separate treatment of each portion to form a plurality of final coating compositions and recovery of the untreated ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256632 | Systems and methods for clamping semiconductor wafers An apparatus for holding a rotatable wafer having a wafer side and a wafer edge includes one or more clamps proximally positioned around a wafer perimeter, each of said clamps including a clamp edge adapted to engage said wafer edge. ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256633 | Semiconductor apparatus and cleaning unit thereof A semiconductor apparatus for processing a wafer comprises a stage, a fluid supply unit, and a cleaning unit. The stage supports the wafer. The fluid supply unit provides a first fluid, wherein the fluid supply unit is moveable between a second position and a first posi... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256634 | Airflow masking of carbon-carbon composites for application of antioxidants Mask (10, 10′, 21, 22, 30) for use in coating a carbon-carbon composite brake disc (25) with anti-oxidant. The mask is composed of carbon-carbon composite material or nonreactive ceramic material. The mask is configured with edge ridges (11, 13, 34, 3... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256635 | UV activation of NH3 for III-N deposition Systems are disclosed for fabricating compound nitride semiconductor structures. The systems include a housing defining a processing chamber, a substrate holder disposed within the processing chamber, an NH3 source, a group-III precursor source, an ultraviole... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256636 | Gas preheater for chemical vapor processing furnace A gas preheater (10) that includes an exit plate (20) having first and second sides (22, 24) and a plurality of through holes (26) and at least one body (34) mounted adjacent the first side (22), the at least one body (34... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256637 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING A REINFORCED DIFFUSER IN SUBSTRATE PROCESSING The invention provides methods and apparatus for using a reinforced gas diffuser in substrate processing. A gas diffuser for use in a PECVD processes includes an aluminum plate with reinforcement material embedded within the aluminum plate. The reinforcement material is... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256638 | Electrode plate for use in plasma processing and plasma processing system The present invention is an electrode plate for use in plasma processing, to be placed in a plasma processing system so that it faces to a substrate to be subjected to plasma processing, characterized in that its resistivity is in the range of 0.01 mΩcm to 2 Ωcm. ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256639 | PROCESS FURNANCE OR THE LIKE A part of a CVI/CVD furnace in which a heating system for heating the furnace is located is isolated from a remaining part of the furnace exposed to a reactive gas present therein. The shell of the furnace may for example be provided with a dividing wall or the like to ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256640 | Birdfeeder and Seed Dispenser Therefor A birdseed dispenser and birdfeeder incorporating the same are provided. The dispenser has a base piece mounted to an opening in the sidewall of the birdseed reservoir and an apertured pied disposed therein. The apertured piece includes a first seed aperture having a fi... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256641 | DRINKING TROUGH FOR USE IN AVICULTURE Described herein is a drinking trough for use in aviculture, comprising a container having a flattened shape, provided at the top with an inlet opening for inlet of the drinking liquid and an attachment part for hanging it up, and the bottom of which has a plurality of ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256642 | Method and Apparatus for Socking Seed Molluscs and/or for Applying Support Devices to Mollusc Growing Lines The invention I is an apparatus (36) for socking molluscs (20) to produce at least one elongate mollusc growing line (24), including: (a) means (98) for supplying at least one elongate sock (18) for injection with molluscs (20);... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256643 | Remote animal cage environmental monitoring and control system A system provides for the automatic remote monitoring and control of the environment of ventilated racks of animal cages and corresponding equipment through wireless interfaces. The system has a query means for querying a plurality of status parameters of a ventilated r... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256644 | Tethering stakes Tethering stakes of the nature intended to be pounded flush with or below ground level. Certain of the tethering stakes include a cap on the pounding end which is adapted for ease of placement and release of a tethering line. Accordingly, the tethering line can be remov... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256645 | Newborn bovine ear protector The newborn bovine ear protector is protective apparel made of weather resistant, moisture resistant, man-made material, having openings for eyes and mouth, which fits securely onto and around the snout of the animal from nose toward neck over top of head, and ears. Its... | 11/08/2007 |
