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A self-righting hand-arm configuration which is adapted to pivot when struck by a user, thereby simulating a "high five."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6607226 | Toilet-disposable bag for aqueous disposal A multiple layered bag comprising such materials that one surface of the bag degrades when it comes in contact with water, for example polyvinyl alcohol, while the other surface is water resistant, such that the bag can be used to collect moist materials,... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6587508 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for transcoding a coded moving picture sequence An apparatus for transcoding a coded moving picture sequence according to the present invention comprises a rate controller for adapting the scaling factor to perform the rate control over the coded moving picture sequence signal having a desired target b... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6560546 | Remote analysis system Spectrographic instruments at remote site locations measure near infrared absorbance spectra for unknown materials and transmit the absorbance spectra to a central web site where, the measurements are standardized to be the same as if they were measured b... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6558107 | Robot arm mechanism A robot arm mechanism includes a handling member for supporting and handling an object, a robot arm made up of at least four arm links, and a robot arm driving mechanism for driving the robot arm to assume its contracted and extended position. The robot a... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6540485 | Linear compressor A linear compressor, comprises a fixed member formed with a hermetically sealed compression chamber, a movable member axially movably received in the compression chamber of the fixed member, a plurality of resilient members each intervening between the fi... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6532311 | Image browser In an image browser for browsing a deck of hyperspectral images, the images of the deck are divided into square blocks each containing 25 pixels. The images are browsed by selecting foci of attention in selected images in sequence. Each time a focus of at... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6516097 | Image segmentation system In a system for segmenting a pixel based image, pixels containing image boundaries are identified. The image boundaries are then fattened by repeatedly adding fattening rows of pixels to the pixels containing boundaries to separate the remaining pixels in... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6499972 | Linear compressor A linear compressor, comprises a retaining member, a fixed member supported by said retaining member and formed with a hermetically sealed compression chamber to receive a working fluid therein, a pair of pistons axially movably received in said compressi... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6498580 | Missile launch point estimation system In a system for estimating the launch point of a missile, Doppler shifted signals reflected from the missile as it travels from its launch point are used in a Kalman filter to estimate the missile position, velocity and acceleration, in earth centered fix... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6471588 | Game machine and method that adjusts stop instructions of reels with random numbers A game machine comprises a plurality of cylindrical reels each provided with various kinds of symbols on its outer surface. The reels are axially aligned and independently rotatable about an axis in first and second directions. Part of symbols of the resp... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6399188 | Sintered porous plastic material Porous products of thermoplastic polymers and the like are formed by sintering pellets, especially micropellets and/or pellets made by rapid water quenched pelletizing of the polymers, such as by underwater pelletizing or water ring pelletizing. The pelle... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6379264 | Putter In a putter, adjustable weights are provide which can be moved to different positions longitudinally along the putter head. The putter head is provided with a channel and the adjustable weights include a slide which slides in the channel. The channel comm... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6367560 | Wet sprinkler system for cold environments In a sprinkler system for warehouse freezers or other cold environments, a sprinkler system piping connected to a water supply through a check valve and extends through a freezing cold environment to sprinkler heads positioned to discharge extinguishant. ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6351545 | Motion picture enhancing system In the motion picture display system, successive frames of a motion picture are compared to determine the dense motion vector fields representing the change of position of image elements in the images represented by the frames. Interpolated frames are gen... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6348946 | Video conferencing with video accumulator array VAM memory In a video conferencing system, digital data representing pixels of a selected scene are stored in a Video accumulator Array Memory cells (VAM), each cell having memory with several register structures and having the capability of processing the digital d... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6137439 | Continuous wave doppler system with suppression of ground clutter In a continuous wave Doppler system in which a fixed transmitter transmits a continuous wave signal to be reflected by moving targets and by fixed structure, an aircraft receives the reflective signals at two spaced apart antennas. The signals reflected f... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6137108 | Instrument and method for spectroscopic analysis by reflectance and transmittance A probe for a spectrometer has a slot for receiving a sample, an illuminating fiber optic bundle directing light to the sample in the slot, and first and second collecting fiber optic bundles transmitting light from the sample to the spectrometer, wherein... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6131644 | Heat exchanger and method of producing the same A heat exchanger comprises a gas casing formed with a gas chamber filled with a refrigerant gas, and a heat exchanging unit received in the gas chamber of the gas casing. The heat exchanging unit has a plurality of regenerative plates each made of a mater... | 10/17/2000 |
| 4717082 | Fixed roller pulverizing mill A fixed roller pulverizing mill wherein there is comparatively little wear, vibration or other adverse characteristics and wherein a uniform fineness of the ground material is maintained. The rollers, which do not move substantially in a horizontal direct... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4596014 | I/O rack addressing error detection for process control In an industrial process control system, in which the process is controlled via multiplicity of I/O data points communicating with a computer system controller, errors in the addressing signals selecting the I/O data points are prevented from causing the ... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4520390 | Burner monitoring system A burner monitoring system in which an array of burners are viewed by a video camera adapted to produce a video signal representing the infrared image of the burner array. The video processing electronics processes the video signal to determine which of t... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4443861 | Combined mode supervisory program-panel controller method and apparatus for a process control system A combined mode program-panel controller method for a distributed industrial process control system permits a system operator to configure the overall system architecture to control the sequential operation of the entire system or a sub-portion thereof. T... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4413314 | Industrial process control system An industrial process control system in accordance with the present invention includes a plurality of device controllers connected together through a common buss with each device controller connected to an associated controlled device(s) that effect proce... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4410983 | Distributed industrial control system with remote stations taking turns supervising communications link between the remote stations A control system for controlling an industrial process includes a plurality of remotely located process control units (remotes) each coupled to an associated input/output device(s) and adapted to communicate with one another through a dual channel communi... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4402082 | Automatic line termination in distributed industrial process control system A control system for controlling an industrial process includes a plurality of remotely located process control units (remotes) each coupled to an associated input/output device(s) and adapted to communicate with one another through a dual channel communi... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4396977 | Industrial process control system An industrial process control system in accordance with the present invention includes a plurality of device controllers connected together through a common buss with each device controller connected to an associated controlled device(s) that effect proce... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4386232 | Multiplexed touch sensitive screen system In a system employing a plurality of touch sensitive screens which generate analog signals representing the coordinates of a position touched, a selection means is provided to select the screens rapidly in sequence with the analog output signals from the ... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4365297 | Industrial control system with distributed computer implemented logic An industrial control system is disclosed in which various on/off or other binary functions of an industrial process are each controlled by a separate single board computer. Each single board computer is provided with a simplified system whereby the user ... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4352103 | Industrial control system A control system for controlling an industrial process includes a plurality of remotely located process control units (remotes) each coupled to an associated input/output device(s) and adapted to communicate with one another through a dual channel communi... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4335683 | Fluidized bed heat exchanger with control to respond to changes in demand In a fluidized boiler system, the rate of fuel flow and bed depth are simultaneously controlled in response to variations in a load demand signal representing the need for steam output from the system. When the load demand changes, the rate of fuel flow i... | 06/22/1982 |
