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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE38990 | Magnetically-actuated coupler for model railroad cars A magnetically actuated coupling and uncoupling system for model railroads comprised of a drawbar pivotally-mounted to one end of a railroad car, wherein the drawbar contains an integral leaf spring extending from the first end of the coupler to tend to center the d... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6963270 | Anticollision protocol with fast read request and additional schemes for reading multiple transponders in an RFID system Arbitration of multiple transponders, such as RFID tags, occurs in an interrogation field. The arbitration process is custom-tailored for individual applications, under software control, by the transponder reader or tag reader. Different wake-up slots are calculated... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6879129 | Brushless motor control method and controller In a brushless motor control method and a brushless motor controller in accordance with the present invention, a rotor rotation position detection means detects the time of the intersection of a detected induced voltage and an induced voltage reference value. In add... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6865189 | Minimal latency serial media independent interface to media independent interface converter A method for reducing latency in conversions from a SMII (Serial Media Independent Interface) to a MII (Media Independent Interface). The method involves generating receive and transmit clock signals from a physical layer device; generating receive and transmit cloc... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6817207 | Device to produce ice-cream Device to produce ice-cream wherein there is an outer container (11), a cover (26), an inner container (14), a mixing blade (20), and an evaporator coil (21) located in cooperation with the bottom (17) of the inner container... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6805995 | Sealed cylindrical nickel-metal hydride storage battery The present invention provides a high-capacity sealed nickel-metal hydride storage battery superior in high-current discharge, without extending the injection time of an electrolyte. This battery includes an electrode group, a metal case for accommodating the electr... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6753648 | Cesium dispensers and process for the use thereof Cesium dispensers are produced based on the use of a mixture of at least one reducing agent and at least one cesium compound selected among molybdate, tungstate, niobate, tantalate, silicate and zirconate. The cesium dispensers are useful in the production of OLED-t... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6744721 | Optical disk drive An optical disk drive reads and/or writes data from/on an optical disk on which a pre-pit has been formed on at least one side edge of a data recording track. The disk drive includes light-emitting element, photodetector section, subtractor and amplifier. The light-... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6744657 | Read only data bus and write only data bus forming in different layer metals A semiconductor memory device that enables data buses to operate at high speed by reducing wiring capacitance and interference noise between data bus lines is provided. A semiconductor memory device includes a read-only data bus which is formed in a first metal laye... | 06/01/2004 |
| D490184 | Capsule | 05/18/2004 |
| 6722647 | Paper transporting apparatus A medium transporting apparatus transports a medium along a predetermined transport path. A medium-transporting section is movable between a loading position and an unloading position and has a first transport path. A medium-holding section is movable between the lo... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6720300 | Liquid cleaning agent or detergent composition A liquid cleansing agent or detergent compositions which separates into at least two aqueous phases contains at least one surfactant in a concentration or less than 10% and at least one electrolyte in the concentration of less than 15%. Optionally, the composition c... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6711997 | Device to produce electronic circuits Device to produce electronic circuits of the type comprising at least a base support (12) on which electrically conductive material is deposited able to embody the conductor tracks, said device comprising at least a printing station (13) able to deposi... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6714493 | Optical disk apparatus An optical disk apparatus of the present invention includes: a light irradiator operable to converge a light beam and to irradiate an information carrier (a recording medium) with the converged light beam; a moving means operable to move a converging point of the li... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6711116 | Balanced disk drive apparatus To provide a disk drive apparatus that suppresses undesirable vibrations due to the unbalance of a loaded disk and achieves high-speed data transfer, the disk drive apparatus of the present invention comprises a hollow ring member (23) that contains therein a... | 03/23/2004 |
| D487601 | Dishwasher cage | 03/16/2004 |
| 6705426 | Acoustic diffuser and method of production Acoustic diffuser comprising a containing element able to contain at least a loudspeaker, wherein the containing element is formed by a monocoque made with granules of solid mineral held together by a cohesion material. ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6697602 | Talking book A talking book is combined with a talking, animated toy figure. Each includes a sound synthesizer, a digital memory including at least some speech data to be used by the synthesizer to produce speech and a processor to control the operations of the synthe... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6697942 | Method for remotely managing a remote device using an electronic mail message A data formatting method for embedding diverse data types in an electronic mail message includes the step of forming a network compliant electronic mail message header. Command blocks representing diverse data types are also generated. The command blocks ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6680571 | Device for introducing small amounts of mercury into fluorescent lamps A device and a method are disclosed for introducing into the fluorescent lamps small amounts of mercury. The device is formed of a metallic container which is capable of containing powders of one or more compounds having the general formula Tix... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6678770 | PCI bus control system having intelligent devices that own and manage non-intelligent devices for relaying information from non-intelligent devices In a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus system in which both intelligent and non-intelligent devices are connected to the PCI bus, each non-intelligent device is owned and managed by an intelligent device. The intelligent device owning a non-inte... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6676080 | Composite airfoil assembly A composite blade assembly comprises a root portion and blade portion that is connected to the root portion. The root portion comprises inner and outer rings and the blade portion comprises at least one layer of composite material that is folded to form a... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6673836 | Vehicle for applying chemical compounds on wood A vehicle for applying chemical compounds to wood comprises the following components in the indicated approximate percentages by weight of the total: toluene (40-70%), xylene (6-40%), benzophenone (3-18%), butyl glycol (2-9%), cetyl acetate (1-7%) and met... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6668693 | Mechanism for paper towel dispensers Mechanism for cutting and distributing portions of sheet, particularly paper towels, comprising at least one cylinder (9) which can rotate around its axis in a supporting structure (1, 2, 3) and drag an end portion (8) of at least one sheet, inside said c... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668389 | Vacuum toilet A vacuum toilet comprises a toilet bowl (1) and a vacuum pipeline (3) which opens out into said toilet bowl. In the region of the opening (2), the vacuum line (3) has a cross-sectional narrowing in the form of a foreign-body barrier (5) which projects rad... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6670762 | Magnetron apparatus In a magnetron apparatus in accordance with the present invention, a first notch 17, a second notch 19 and a third notch 20 are formed in each of anode segments 15 disposed radially inside an anode cylinder 6, whereby the passage of high-frequency current... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6666598 | Ribbon cassette, ribbon cartridge using ribbon protector, and printer using ribbon cassette and ribbon cartridge A ribbon protector is attached to a ribbon cartridge to prevent an ink ribbon from being soiled. The ribbon protector includes mounting portions, a protecting portion, and a paper guide. The ribbon protector is mounted to the ribbon cartridge by means of ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6666440 | Rotary clamp A housing (3) has an upper end wall (3a) and a lower end wall (3b) which support an upper slide portion (11) and a lower slide portion (12) of a clamp rod (5) vertically movably, respectively. The rod (5) is moved downwards for clamping through a clamp sp... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6667050 | Chewable oral contraceptive The present invention relates to a chewable, palatable oral contraceptive tablet, comprising an oral contraceptive agent, a chewable carrier suitable for human consumption, and not comprising a ferrocene compound, as well as use of these tablets in a meth... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6664801 | IDDQ test methodology based on the sensitivity of fault current to power supply variations A method for testing integrated circuits is provided. The method includes providing an excitation voltage to a device, such as a MOSFET. A power supply voltage is also provided to the device, such as a drain to source voltage or VCC. The quiescent power s... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6663464 | Toy car wash play set A toy car wash play set including a toy vehicle car wash station, including a conveyer belt for transporting a toy vehicle from a first position to a second position, scrubbing rollers for simulating scrubbing rollers used in car washes for full-scale veh... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6663463 | Sound activated toy vehicle A sound activated toy vehicle includes a body, a chassis, and a motor. The chassis accommodates the body and has at least a front wheel and a rear wheel. The motor is drivingly connected to at least one of the front wheel and the rear wheel. The toy vehic... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6663093 | Rotary clamp A clamp rod (5) is inserted into a housing (3) rotatably around an axis and movably downwards for clamping. The clamp rod (5) has an outer peripheral portion formed with three guide grooves (26) which are arranged peripherally at substantially the same sp... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6660704 | Composition for use in a washing machine Composition for use in a washing machine, characterized by a basic composition evolving its function essentially in the main washing cycle of the washing machine and in the form of a tablet, and at least one particle with at least one core comprising at l... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6660431 | Hydrogen absorbing alloy electrode, electrode producing method and alkali storage battery The present invention relates to a hydrogen storage alloy electrode composed of a hydrogen storage alloy having a CaCu5 region and a Ce2 Ni7 region in the crystal structure and satisfies the relational formula: p:q=1:(4+a)... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6656702 | Biosensor containing glucose dehydrogenase A biosensor that enables rapid and simple quantitation of a substrate with high accuracy and demonstrates an excellent preservation characteristic by best retaining enzyme activity is disclosed. The biosensor comprises an electrically insulating base plat... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6658060 | Digital data transmission apparatus and method for multiplexing different rate digital data within active video periods of a television signal A digital data transmission apparatus and a transmission method thereof in accordance with the present invention includes a reproduction section reproducing digital data of at least one channel from a recording medium, a multiplexing section for dividing ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6654321 | Stepping motor control method and disk drive apparatus In a method of the present invention for controlling stepping motor, the stepping motor driving current is increased or reduced at a fixed inclination in proportion to the time to control the stepping motor effectively, and, a stepping motor driving curre... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6651505 | Pressure detecting apparatus A pressure detecting apparatus includes: a housing (11) for forming fluid chambers (21A and 21B) into which external fluid pressures are imported respectively; a pressure-receiving member (31) slidably provided in the housing (11) for receiving the fluid ... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6648722 | Three wheeled wireless controlled toy stunt vehicle A three wheeled wireless controlled toy stunt vehicle capable of both highly elastic impact and less elastic impact with obstacles struck while the vehicle is in motion is disclosed. Two wheels are separately driven, and have tires with interiors that are... | 11/18/2003 |
