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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7780143 | Gate valve An object is to provide a gate valve capable of preventing operational deficiencies caused by particulate materials accumulating in a valve box, thus providing superior sealing properties and high durability, having a simple structure, and allowing inspection and ma... | 08/24/2010 |
| 6815948 | Method of detecting tension wire break in concrete pole A method and apparatus for the nondestructive detecting of tension wires in a concrete pole from a single test location without requiring scanning along the length of the pole and without requiring direct contact to the wires. The method and apparatus utilize longit... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6768946 | Lighting strike position locating method, apparatus, system and program The present invention provides a method and apparatus for locating the position of a lightning strike free of topography-dependent error by calculating a ground point having a difference in propagation distance at receiving stations (R1, R2 and R3 | 07/27/2004 |
| 6529849 | Thermal efficiency diagnostic method and apparatus of a combined power generation plant A thermal efficiency diagnostic of a combined power generation plant is performed by using measurement data relative to energy input/output of the respective equipment of the combined power generation plant, recording the design values of heat balance, us... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6521293 | Method for producing a ceramic-coated blade of gas turbine A ceramic-coated blade of a gas turbine and a method of producing the same, in which the thickening of an Al2 O3 layer at the interface between a ceramic layer and a primary layer is sufficiently prevented for a long period of time, ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6522099 | Elevator apparatus with rechargeable power supply and discharge control An elevator control apparatus includes a converter, an inverter, a controller for controlling a motor based on AC power having a variable voltage and a variable frequency supplied from the inverter and operating an elevator; a power storage unit for stori... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6460422 | Device for calculating a torque of a rotating member A torque measuring device including a light irradiation element for irradiating a light, and a control unit operatively connected to the irradiation element so as to branch the light into a plurality of lights as beams and control a beam diameter of the r... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6457565 | Elevator apparatus with rechargeable power supply and discharge control An elevator control apparatus includes a converter, an inverter, a controller for controlling a motor based on AC power having a variable voltage and a variable frequency supplied from the inverter and operating an elevator; a power storage unit for stori... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6435313 | Controller for dynamically allocating regenerative power to a rechargeable power supply of an elevator An elevator controller for stably controlling charging and discharging of a power accumulating device by using a cheap secondary battery having a low capacity, without damaging energy saving effects obtained by charging. The controller of the elevator inc... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6435311 | Elevator control calculating power consumed and power generated by a controlled elevator An elevator control device includes: a convertor which rectifies a.c. power and converts the a.c. power into d.c. power; an inverter which converts the d.c. power into a.c. power having a variable voltage and a variable frequency; an electric motor which ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6431324 | Controller scheduling constant current charging of a rechargeable power source of an elevator system A controller of an elevator for reducing the number of execution times of uniform charging of a power accumulating device and having higher energy saving effects. The controller has a converter, an inverter, a power accumulating device arranged between DC... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6271474 | Methods of manufacturing oxide superconducting stranded wire and oxide superconducting cable conductor, and coated wire, stranded wire and cable conductor An oxide superconducting stranded wire having inter-strand insulation and high critical current is provided. A wire including an oxide superconducting material and a matrix covering the material and consisting essentially of silver or a silver alloy is co... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6042951 | Ceramic-coated blade of gas turbine and method of producing same A ceramic-coated blade of a gas turbine and a method of producing the same, in which the thickening of an Al2 O3 layer at the interface between a ceramic layer and a primary layer is sufficiently prevented for a long period of time, ... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6005213 | Insulated type switchgear device In an insulated type switchgear device in which a pair of arc electrodes are separably disposed in an opposing manner in a vacuum tube, and having a movable conductor extending from a back face of a movable one of the arc electrodes to the outside of the ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5952636 | Vacuum type switch gear device having L shaped stationary and movable conductors arrangement In a vacuum type switch gear device an L shaped stationary and movable conductors arrangement, a transitive portion from one spiral arc groove to a neighboring another spiral arc groove on the surface of a movable electrode defined by the terminating end ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5929385 | AC oxide superconductor wire and cable Disclosed is an AC oxide superconductor round wire including a metal matrix, and a plurality of superconductor filaments embedded in the metal matrix, wherein the superconductor filaments are twisted at a twist pitch Lp satisfying the following... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5892645 | Protection system for power receiving station A protection apparatus for a spot network substation has a plurality of receiving lines connected between a network bus and a plurality of power sources. Each receiving line is connected to a primary switching device, a network transformer and a protector... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5808449 | Method and apparatus for detecting islanding operation of dispersed generator A method for detecting islanding operation of a rotating-machine type dispersed generator. The dispersed generator is interconnected with a main electric source through a circuit breaker to constitute an electric power system. The estimating method is imp... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5767996 | Optical transmission system There is provided an optical transmission system that can identify any transmitting stations generating optical beats found within the transmission band being used for optical signals so that any degradation in the quality of the signals being transmitted... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5714665 | Method and apparatus for the decomposition and re-use-as-resource treatment of ozone layer-depleting substances by application of UV light A method for continuously decomposing ozone layer-depleting substances which comprises adding air serving as a photolytic reaction promoter to at least one member selected from the group consisting of CFCs, HCFCs, halons and halogen-containing organic sol... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5663863 | Line arrester An improved line arrester is disclosed that includes a non-linear resistor. The arrester includes a pair of arcing horns are respectively provided on an earth side and a line side of the arrester, with an aerial discharge gap being provided therebetween. ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5585915 | Light detecting device A light detecting device for reliably detecting weak luminescing at a random position in a predetermined spatial area. The light detecting device has a fluorescent fiber containing a fluorescent coloring matter and a flat or curved concentrator having a p... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5448696 | Map information system capable of displaying layout information A method for displaying information and system includes the steps of displacing map data on the screen of a display unit, displaying layout data representing one or more segments of a certain floor in each of the one or more structure elements of the map ... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5333991 | Thermal fatigue prevention apparatus for high temperature pump A thermal fatigue prevention apparatus for a high temperature pump which includes an impeller in a high temperature pump casing, a pump shaft rotatably supported by a journal of a submerged bearing and projecting from a shaft through hole of a casing cove... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5317525 | Electric power system simulator An electric power system simulator comprising first calculator which calculates a generator dynamic characteristic, second calculator which calculates a load dynamic characteristic and third calculator which calculates power transmission condition of an e... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5305235 | Monitoring diagnosis device for electrical appliance A monitoring diagnostic device for an electrical appliance such as gas insulated switchgear includes a sensor, such as an acceleration sensor, and a neural network including an input layer, an intermediate layer, and an output layer, each consisting of a ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5278778 | Decentralized simulator A decentralized simulator according to the invention has each processing unit arranged to each vertex in the hypercube structure and each communication line arranged to each side in the hypercube structure. Each component of the system to be simulated is ... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5261152 | Method for manufacturing amorphous magnetic core An amorphous magnetic core is arranged to be obtained by cutting a plurality of amorphous sheets to have a predetermined cut length by a cutter device and supplying the cut sheets to a rectangularly forming device, the sheets being supplied from an uncoil... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5252315 | Process for producing lithium aluminate powder having large specific surface area A lithium aluminate powder having a large specific surface area can be produced by contacting a raw material powder of lithium aluminate with water singly or in the presence of an organic solvent having one or more hydroxyl groups to form a hydrate, follo... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5217945 | Oxide superconductors and method for producing same The present invention provides an oxide superconductor which has a relatively high transition temperature Tc. This superconductor has the chemical formula (R1-x Cax)(Ba1-y Sry)2 Cu3 | 06/08/1993 |
| 5217932 | Sintered ceramic composite body and method of manufacturing same A sintered ceramic composite body is manufactured by preparing a powdery mixture composed of a base material composed of either one of oxide ceramic such as alumina, mullite, magnesia, or the like, and nonoxide ceramic such as silicon nitride, sialon, or ... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5210868 | Database system and matching method between databases In a database system for map information, matching and retrieving operations are carried out between an attribute database associated with a business and a map database. A matching key word is separated into a common noun part and a proper noun part, a sy... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5202746 | Method and apparatus for identifying an optical transmission medium A technique for identifying an optical transmission medium from a plurality of single-mode-type optical transmission media by using longitudinal middle portions of the media as an identification section by first exciting a particular optical transmission ... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5186906 | Apparatus for mounting a honeycomb structure impregnated with a catalyst in a flow tube A catalytic combustion apparatus for gas turbine or an exhaust gas purifier apparatus comprises a honeycomb structure disposed in a flow tube. A ring-shaped fringe region of the lower-course end face of the honeycomb structure abuts against a ring-shaped ... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5187148 | Apparatus for preparing oxide superconducting film In order to enable formation of a smooth and dense oxide superconducting film with no clear appearance of grain boundaries in a fine structure even at a high film forming rate, a laser ablation method is employed to apply a laser beam 2 to a target 1 cont... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5172544 | Method for power generation with gas turbine using gasified fuel of inferior quality Power generation with a gas turbine using a gasified fuel of inferior quality is accomplished with high efficiency by a method which comprises bleeding part of highly compressed air emanating from an air compressor driven by a gas turbine and introducing ... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5170308 | Method and system of transformer protection and method and system of detecting a defective winding A method and system of transformer protection in which parallel admittance currents indicative of the apparent excitation state of a transformer to be protected are evaluated from the transformer terminal voltages and currents sampled at a proper interval... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5153427 | Optical d.c. voltage transformer An optical d.c. voltage transformer having an electrooptic medium to which a d.c. electrical field or voltage to be measured is to be applied. The electrooptic medium affects the polarized light from the polarizer by an electrooptical effect to a degree p... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5149683 | Method for producing oxide superconductor A method for producing an oxide superconductor formed according to a chemical composition formula (R1-x Cax)(Ba1-y Sry)2 Cu4 O8 and having a transition temperature of 77K or abov... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5145280 | Water disaster prevention water curtain forming apparatus A disaster prevention apparatus is adapted to intercept and disperse gas leaking from a disaster ship offshore. The apparatus includes a marine mover and a water curtain forming device for forming a water curtain on the lee of the disaster ship. Pressuriz... | 09/08/1992 |
