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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110011584 | Produced water disposal Offshore hydrocarbon (e.g. oil) production units that produce considerable contaminated water (produced water), are able to repeatedly dispose of the produced water so each production unit requires only a moderate-sized tank to hold the produced water, and most of the t... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110005385 | TWO PORT - THREE POSITION ACTUATOR An hydraulic actuator with a housing having two ports (A, C) that selectively receive pressured fluid to move a piston (12) to a forward position (12F) or to a rearward position (12R), wherein the piston can be moved to a third, or neutral position ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100314871 | Environmental electrical generator An electricity generator having variable capacitors that each includes a repeatedly stretched and relaxed sheet (20, FIG. 3) of SM (stretchable material) and electrodes (22, 24) lying against opposite faces of the sheet, which includes a power extra... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100276422 | ENHANCED SECURE CONTAINER A container of sheet plastic reveals when it has been opened after a clerk loaded it with food. The container has a base (12) and lid (14) that remain latched together until they are separated at an initial opening region (40) where the lid has a ra... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100261387 | Electrical connector An electrical connector comprises a dielectric spacing element having elongate through holes and a forward end surface; a plurality of parallel, elongate conductive contacts arranged in respective through holes of the spacing element, the conductive contacts providing e... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100176129 | Enhanced container system Food containers formed of sheet plastic are latchably stackable on one another. Each container has base (14) and lid (16) elements, with one of them having an outer rim part with a pair of long handle sections (80, 82) that can be pivoted up to form... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100175884 | Offshore gas recovery During an Extended Well Test or Early Floating Production at an offshore hydrocarbon production site, where oil and gas hydrocarbons are produced by a production vessel, applicant stores the natural gas as pressured gas in a storage tank and occasionally transfers the p... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100172206 | ENHANCED WIDE AREA SEABED ANALYSIS A seabed region (18) that lies under a seabed surface area of at least one square meter, is analyzed by an acoustic analysis of the region. Locations of the generation and detection of sound are precisely correlated to the location of a vertical drill hole in the... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100140128 | Interconnecting food container system A container which includes a base (4) with an upper end forming a base rim (16), and a cover (2) which can lie right-side-up or upside-down on the base. In the cover upside-down position, a cover channel (14) opens downwardly and closely rece... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100108680 | Enhanced tamper evident container with tear-apart parts A container clearly indicates that it has been opened after a store clerk loads food into the base of the container and closes a covering of the container onto the base. The covering (16) includes a peripheral cover portion (22) that becomes fixed to a per... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100099290 | Axial anti-rotation coupling A mechanism of low cost and easy mounting, provides resistance to rotation of a coupling nut (14) of an electrical connector about the barrel (12) of the connector, and provides a higher resistance to rotation in one direction (U) than the opposite directi... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100065721 | Enhanced glare reduction The driver of a vehicle (10) is protected from glare caused by the bright lights of an oncoming vehicle at night, or by the Sun lying low in the sky. The vehicle windshield (20) is divided into pixels (42) whose transparency can be reduced. The tran... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100065562 | Detachable food package A food tray system comprises a single plastic sheet that forms a row of width-spaced and elongated trays (12, 14, 16) that each has a cavity (30) and a flange (32) at the top. Each flange is joined to the flange of an adjacent tray by a tear line (<... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100065140 | PIGGABLE WYE Apparatus is described for diverting a pig (62) from one pipeline (42) to a selected one of two or more other pipelines (44, 46), which is of compact and lightweight construction. The apparatus includes a pipe arrangement that includes an inlet (... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100055410 | MOLDING ARTICLE WITH REINFORCED PASSAGES An article (10) such as a grid fin that controls the direction of flight of a vehicle, has precisely formed passages (14) with porous locating walls (52A, 52B) and a layer of fibrous material (86) such as graphite cloth lying against o... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100045056 | Scooper with pusher plate A scooper apparatus (10) for removing feces (44) from the ground, of the type that includes a scooper (11) with a cardboard closing plate (12) that is moved horizontally to move an open bag end (30) so it receives the feces, the cardbo... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100031829 | Food container liquid isolation Apparatus (10) for holding food includes a food container (12) with a bottom wall and a plurality of support ribs (20) that extend up from much of the bottom wall and form recess regions (22) between ribs for holding liquids that drip off the... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100019498 | WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER Systems are described for obtaining energy, especially electrical energy, from sea waves. An elongated elastic tube (12) floats at the sea surface (20) (or at a shallow depth under it) and extends at least partially parallel to the direction of wave propag... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090297256 | Antirotation coupling for connector A mechanism (20) for connecting the coupling nut (14) and barrel (12) of an electrical or optical connector to resist but not prevent their relative rotation, includes a clicker ring (22) that has forward-projecting teeth (36) and that... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090223619 | Edge-tearing tamper-evident container A food container formed from plastic, can be loaded with food and then closed by a clerk, and thereafter cannot be opened without tearing apart first sides (24, 26) of the base (12) and lid (16). The container is formed by a single sheet of plastic ... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090217861 | CONSTRUCTION OF FPDSO VESSEL A vessel with drilling and workover capability is constructed rapidly in a shipyard or dry dock by using an existing vessel that has most of the required hull. Bow and stern sections of the existing vessel are separated to leave them at opposite ends of a shipyard space... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090202303 | Enhanced wave power generators Systems are disclosed for generating electricity from sea waves, that include a float (12) that lies at the sea surface (14) and moves up and down with the waves. A motion resist element (30) moves horizontally with the float but resists vertical mo... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090194544 | Fluid retention package system A food bowl assembly includes a bowl (12) and a food platform (14) that lies in a lower portion of the bowl. The platform supports solid food and allows grease and other fluids to flow to a lower compartment (34) that lies under the platform. The pl... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090186538 | STEEL PIPELINE FLUID TRANSFER SYSTEM A steel pipeline (22) extends in a shallow catenary curve between two floating structures (12, 14). The pipeline is connected to each floating structure in a joint (60, 60B) that has a center lying on or very close to the pitch and roll axes (54,... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090165468 | Enhanced regas system Liquefied hydrocarbon gas carried by a tanker (78) is transferred to an import terminal (10) where the liquefied gas is heated to vaporize it and to heat the cold gas to at least −30° C. but preferably about 0° C., with the warmed gas transferred to a ... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090163072 | PLUG CONNECTOR A plug connector (11, 12, FIG. 1) has insulators (16,26) that hold male or female contacts (13, 14, FIG. 3) received in boreholes (19, 29, FIGS. 4A, 4B)). A rear insulator holds a male or female contact (13, 14<... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090156033 | Connector arrangement A connector arrangement comprises a rigid inner conductor (107), a dielectric sleeve (111) arranged around the inner conductor and a rigid outer conductor (109) arranged around the sleeve. A surface of at least one of the inner conductor, the sleeve... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090145908 | SMART DISPENSER PACKAGING SYSTEM A food package having a base (12) forming a cavity (16) for holding a first food such as a salad, and having a cover or dome (14) that covers the base and that has recess walls that form a recess (32) in the cover top. The recess holds a flui... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090144889 | Pressurized trap water saver toilet A toilet that applies pressured air between an upper trap (30) that connects to the toilet bowl and a lower trap (32) that connects to a drain (16), includes a pressured air source (42) that holds a large volume of pressured air equal to at l... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090142950 | CABLE CONNECTION TO A SUBMERSIBLE PUMP A device (10) for supplying electrical power and signals to a submersible pump (15) in such a way that it is sealed from liquids via an external electrical cable (11) extending through a opening (49) within the head (48) of a pump hous... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090139892 | STACKABLE TWIST-TOP CONTAINER SYSTEM Food containers formed of sheet plastic are latchably stackable on one another. Each container has base (14) and lid (16) elements, with one of them having an outer rim part with a pair of long handle sections (80, 82) that can be pivoted up to form... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090120937 | Double ribbed secure container A container comprising a base (12) and lid (14) each formed of sheet plastic, wherein after food is loaded into a base cavity (20) and the lid is closed, the lid resists opening. To open the lid, a move-away tab (64) lying along the base rim ... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090107153 | PRESSURE RELIEF OFFSHORE SYSTEM An offshore hydrocarbon transfer system (10) wherein a conduit (24) connects a floating structure (12) to a second structure (22) to carry hydrocarbons between them, and one of the structures has a shutoff valve (30) that produces a pr... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090104801 | Grounded connector Ground connections are made between first and second electrical connectors (1, 27). The first connector has a first sleeve (5) and has contact elements (23) mounted on the first sleeve. The second connector has a second sleeve (31) with slots... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090090712 | Dip packaging system A food container arrangement formed of plastic sheeting, includes a cup (12) and a cover (14) for holding foods. The cup can be held in an auto cup holder (E) while part of the cover lies over the cup and part lies beyond the cup rim. The cup and cover can... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090084302 | ANCHOR MONITORING SYSTEM A system wherein a vessel (12) is moored by catenary mooring lines (14, 15, 16) that include polymer cable lengths (30) that can stretch under tension, which indicates the amount of polymer stretching. In the absence of polymer line stretching, a me... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090071712 | Explosion containment vessel An enclosure (10) that contains a switch (40, 42) and that is surrounded by an explosive or flammable environment that could be ignited by a spark from the switch, includes a body (52) that guides a flat cable (16) through a body bore (56<... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090065514 | Invertible tray A container (10) with lower and upper parts of formed plastic sheeting, is constructed of two identical elements (12, 14) that can close and latch to each other to form a closed container by turning a second of the elements upside down to make it the upper... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090047822 | Push lock connector A plug connector (11, 12), having a body (13, 16) with boreholes containing contacts (14, 15), and a detent (23-26) that protrudes into the boreholes (21, 22) behind a contact collar (65). To make possible the locking ins... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090039555 | Foam earplug extrusion Foam earplugs (90) are produced by extruding foamable material through a nozzle (12) having a throat (30) where the nozzle diameter is smallest, to produce an extrusion (34) that expands in diameter along an expansion zone (D) as the extrusio... | 02/12/2009 |
