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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5101681 | Interlocking-body connective joints These joints are particularly useful for transmitting a flux (electrical, optical, liquid or gaseous) either entirely across the joint, or from one side of the joint to devices mounted on the joint itself that use such a flux. Such devices can, for exampl... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5089055 | Survivable solar power-generating systems for use with spacecraft A survivable solar power-generating system for use with spacecraft is disclosed comprising optical means positioned to collect and concentrate solar energy flux, a flexible solar energy flux transmission line for conducting the concentrated solar flux tow... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5086993 | Airplane with variable-incidence wing The craft is for hovering flight, vertical takeoff and landing, and horizontal forward flight. It has a tail-sitting fuselage and a ducted fan mounted to the fuselage aft to provide propulsion in both (a) hovering and vertical flight and (b) horizontal fo... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5074605 | Duplex latch-bolt mechanism An improved duplex latch-bolt mechanism is composed of a latch-bolt head assembly and a latch-bolt transfer device adapted to make a selectable connection with a standard latch-handle assembly having a square transfer member and a pair of cylindrical supp... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5068840 | Pilot's wrist mount for carrying a timpepiece or the like vertically on the radial aspect of the wrist A is particularly useful in a specialized activity, such as piloting an airplane, in which a user's forearm is held vertical and with the radial aspect or "edge" of the wrist oriented toward the user's eyes. The mount is for use with a timepiece or other ... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5061255 | Exterior antimigration refinements for self-cleaning indwelling therapeutic articles External grooving on a catheter traps microorganisms nurtured by mucus in a patient's body. The grooving also traps contaminating debris, originating outside the body, that migrates into the body along the catheter exterior. Energy, which may be a propaga... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5051258 | Dietary supplement for children A dietary supplement is provided for children, consisting essentially of GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), Passion Flow Extract, L-taurine, and vitamin B6.... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5050883 | Self-contained competitive game for developing spatial sense in young children Electronics and a playing method stimulate abstract spatil-relations ability, particularly memory of abstract space, in youngsters--without requiring them to know or spell game commands, or to find keys on a typewriter-like keyboard. The game exploits the... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5048369 | Clipless pedal with fastening means A clipless pedal is disclosed herein which includes a mounting support fixed to a shoe sole and a pedal body which is rotatably mountable to a conventional pedal shaft for retaining the mounting support. The pedal body has a pair of rear jaw members which... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5043751 | Self-bracing credit-card-size camera for single-shot emergency use, and method for manufacture and distribution The camera body is of sheet material. When in a usage condition it has four intersecting panels, each in the form of an arched segment. The arched panels are in two pairs, each pair being mutually opposed. One opposed pair is outward-concave, and the othe... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5037195 | Sound-damping lens adapter for a motion-picture camera This adapter is interchangeable with standard nondamping lens-mounting adapters. It reduces the amount of vibration that is transmitted from the camera mechanism to the lens. It thereby reduces the amount of vibration that is retransmitted as objectionabl... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5038335 | Hierarchically multiplexed optical recording system for storage of digital data Apparatus and method for converting a series of discrete units of incoming digital data into a set of integer values and representing said values holographically, by dimensionalizing multiple aspects of reference laser signal, and multiplexing said aspect... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5032100 | Toy vehicle and launcher using contractive power of liquid expanded chamber to propel vehicle A toy vehicle and launcher combination apparatus. The illustrated toy vehicle has a rubber bladder or chamber member that is expanded by water or other liquid under pressing while the vehicle is held on the launcher. The launcher may include a reservoir a... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5027111 | Liquid-crystal display unit for electronic directory A liquid-crystal display, preferably twenty-five lines of eighty characters each, is mounted in a case. The temperature of the display medium is maintained within operating limits for the display--notwithstanding ambient temperature and humidity variation... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5019032 | Refined suspension procedure with implement for treating female stress incontinence The incision-free pubovaginal suspension due to Gittes and Loughlin is improved by simultaneous gas obturation and visual monitoring using a suprapubic endoscope, inserted with the aid of a urethral trocar. It is further improved by simultaneous manipulat... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5012666 | Crimp tool with adjustable jaw A crimp tool includes a first handle, a head member pivoted to the front portion of the first handle to serve as a clamping member, and a second handle pivoted to the head member. The second handle is connected to the first handle through a mechanism whic... | 05/07/1991 |
| 5009431 | Surprise action game A multiplayer surprise action game in the form of a central unit which defines a spiral pathway around its upper portion and a housing for an object-projecting mechanism in its lower portion. The housing has a plurality of openable doorways spaced around ... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4991836 | Dynamic game apparatus and method using multiple magnets and a magnetic manipulator below them Several permanent magnets are on a playing surface, with all the magnetic field vectors perpendicular to the surface and oriented in common (pointing in the same direction) relative to the surface. A player positions a magnetic manipulator below the surfa... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4979508 | Apparatus for generating phosphenes The apparatus and method produce visual sensations by applying low voltages through conductive electrodes to the outside of a person's head, for transmission by natural mechanisms to the nervous system--to entertain or inform a sighted person, or to help ... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4980168 | Dietary supplement for children A dietary supplement is provided for children, consisting essentially of GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), L-tryptophan, L-taurine, and vitamin B6.... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4976468 | Connective joint with interlocking ring structures, adaptable for water conduction This fluid-current-transmitting mechanical joint allows relative rotation of two articles (one may be a stationary fixture), on an arbitrary axis. The joint has as much angular-rotation range as a hinge, but as many degrees of freedom as a ball-and-socket... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4976541 | Automatic atomic-absorption spectrometry method Each sample is analyzed for all desired elements before starting the next sample, using thermal or nonthermal atomizing devices fro liquid or solid samples. Other new features include the grating drive, lamp-carousel alignment, pulsed atom source, lamp-dr... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4955605 | Home basketball apparatus An inexpensive home basketball shooting game apparatus comprising a basketball hoop for being releasably mounted atop a door, an elongated return net for extending from around and below the hoop area outwardly and downwardly to where its opposite end is c... | 09/11/1990 |
