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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6129093 | Method of removing frozen material from a wiper Various embodiments of a wiper assembly are disclosed which facilitate the removal by complete release or shattering of a frozen mass of ice or snow which has become merely trapped beneath a wiper blade during its movement. In particular, there is describ... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5895544 | Method of controlling distance between members during article manufacture and article made thereby A method of providing a predetermined set distance apart between two members in article manufacture. This involves clamping the members together with a mixture of an adhesive and glass microspheres between opposing surfaces of the members, the microsphere... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5881676 | Animal living structure A pet animal living structure with an upward extending body and floor surfaces at different heights. The latter are arranged in two pluralities with a second plurality being disposed in a different vertical plane from the first. Floor surfaces of the seco... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5867858 | Wiper assembly Various embodiments of a wiper assembly are disclosed which facilitate the removal or shattering of ice or snow debris lodged and trapped beneath a wiper blade during its movement. Embodiments of the invention are disclosed which provide means to overcome... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5838551 | Electronic package carrying an electronic component and assembly of mother board and electronic package Electronic package with an electronic component mounted upon a PCB or ceramic substrate by first level interconnects and housing second level interconnects on the other side of the PCB. The component is protected by an EMI shield which is grounded to a gr... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5832876 | Pet animal living structures The invention is concerned with a pet animal structure for insertion into a transparent tank. The structure is in a single piece with upper and lower body parts. The lower body part has floors for movement of the animal and the upper body part has a shoul... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5828965 | Wireless telephone handset Portable wireless telephone handset with a flap movable upon a housing. In a first position the flap is close to a speaker to enable the flap to be disposed near to a user's ear for the user to receive personal low volume sound from the speaker. In a seco... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5809137 | Telephone liner connector A telephone line connector for location between a telephone and a plurality of outlet sockets and in which the connector is connectable to a power cable. The connector has a plurality of input signal sockets and a common signal and power output socket. A ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5796582 | Printed circuit board and heat sink arrangement Making an assembly of a printed circuit board structure and heat sink structure by locating a thermally conductive surface release agent upon a side of one of the structures and causing a flowable thermally conductive material to flow through a hole in th... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5796583 | Circuit pack and environmental protection assembly An assembly of a circuit pack and an environmental protection in which the protection is a heat conductive and fluid-tight cover surrounding the pack and sealed to an electrical cover at one end of the pack. The cover is heat conductively connected with t... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5769644 | Shelf for housing printed circuit boards A shelf for housing printed circuit boards in which a back plane has an extension in the form of a back plane extender printed circuit board electrically connected to the back plane and extending forwards from the back plane at one side of the shelf. In a... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5770320 | Assembling sheet metal members A sheet metal member with a securing arrangement to securely attach the member to another sheet member. The securing arrangement is an elongate structure with two ends integral with an edge of a body of the sheet metal member. The elongate structure exten... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5761612 | Wireless receiver A wireless receiver having a first and second housings one of which contains a wireless signal transmission and receiving means. The other housing preferably contains a power supply and possibly a battery back-up for use in the event of a cut in the power... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5731956 | Electronic devices for connection into back planes An electronic assembly of two planar electronic devices for insertion into a shelf for back plane connection. Each device may be a printed circuit board or a circuit pack incorporating such a board. A flexible flat cable extends between front ends of the ... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5722845 | Electrical connectors An electronic shelf having a back plane and side walls which are themselves printed circuit boards in communication with the back plane. Each side walls has connectors which may be opened for the sliding reception of an edge card into the shelf, the conne... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5721670 | Electronic equipment having air flow cooling passages Electronic equipment having a fan cooling arrangement with a fan structure mounted at the rear of the housing. The fan structure is mounted vertically in operational position. An access opening at the front of the housing is of lesser height than the fan ... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5721776 | Telephone line connector A telephone line connector for location between a telephone and a plurality of outlet sockets and in which the connector is connectable to a power cable. The connector has a plurality of input signal sockets and a common signal and power output socket. A ... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5708742 | Combinations of printed circuit boards and face plates A printed circuit board with a face plate having a connector support located behind it and being movable for access to the connector support. The connector support has a connector mounting for connecting two fiber connectors, the geometry being such that ... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5704117 | Method of assembling an EMI shield around an electronic component An EMI shield for a component mounted upon a printed circuit board. The shield is an open sided box made from plastic insulating material supporting an electrically conductive shield layer. A surrounding flange is provided by the plastic at the open side ... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5668911 | Storage holders for optical fibers A storage holder for optical fibers, the holder having a base and a movable lid for opening or closing an access side to a storage chamber provided within the base for storing the fibers. The chamber has an inlet and an outlet for the fibers. The base and... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5661902 | Methods of making printed circuit boards and heat sink structures A method of making a printed circuit board and heat sink structure by initially providing the board with a heat conductive layer oh each of its two sides, the two conductive layers thermally interconnected by heat conductive material extending through hol... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5649727 | Contact lens handling device A suction cup for a contact lens holding device in which an inner curved surface of the cup has an outer continuous wall and a projection arrangement between the continuous and a centrally located aperture provided for air suction purposes. The projection... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5646826 | Printed circuit board and heat sink arrangement Making a heat sink and printed circuit board assembly by providing a heat exchange element on the heat sink which lies in heat exchange contact with the heat sink and passes therethrough. After locating the board and heat sink in relative positions apart ... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5632641 | Electrical connector Electrical connector having a latch to hold it to a support in working position. Included is a pivoted handle which normally lies close to the connector body, but which is accessible to allow it to be moved to a position for gripping to allow for connecto... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5596670 | Optical fiber cable enclosure Optical cable enclosure for connecting a supply optical cable to a customer cable having respective storage regions for optical fibers of both cables and an interconnection region for the fibers. The optical fibers of the customer cable extend either to t... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5593378 | Centrifugal separator for flowable mixtures and having magnets and housing scrapers A centrifugal separator for a flowable mixture having a housing rotatable defining a separation chamber. At least one magnet is carried by the housing and is rotatable therewith to create a magnetic field within the housing with the magnetic lines of forc... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5581683 | Light diffusing apparatus with U-shaped light guide A light diffusing apparatus, which may be used as an elongate visual indicator in telephone sets, video cassette recorders etc, provides very even illumination (i.e., evenly diffused light without any discernible bright spots) when illuminated by spot lig... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5576938 | Electronic circuit pack and mounting frame combination Electronic circuit pack and mounting frame in which a drawing device is provided to draw the pack into the frame to mate connectors of the pack and frame. A guide arrangement of slots and received guide pins is provided to hold the pack in correct orienta... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5566052 | Electronic devices with electromagnetic radiation interference shields and heat sinks An electronic device with an EMI shield surrounding an electronic component on a substrate. A heat sink extends through an opening in the shield from heat conductive contact with the component to a position outside the shield. The heat sink operates also ... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5562846 | Method of making a mold part having a cooling passage Making a mold part by a growth process in which polymerizable plastic material is converted into polymerized plastic material at selected regions and, during the growth process, cooling passages are formed. The growth process is provided by polymerizing s... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5552961 | Electronic unit Electronic unit in which a printed circuit board is located within a housing which includes a heat sink. The board is normally urged out of heat conductive relationship with the heat sink. As temperature increases the circuit board and heat sink are cause... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5548643 | Wireless base station-having cooling passages An outdoor wireless base station having a housing and a circuit pack extending upwards in the housing with electronic components extending into a forward air flow passage. The forward air flow passage is interconnected for air circulation with a rearward ... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5548090 | Heat sink and printed circuit board combination A heat conductor has a plurality of resilient elongate elements, each being connected to a surrounding base of the conductor through two neck portions and being pivoted about its common axis. Two end portions of each elongate element are curved. When the ... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5545494 | Environmental protectors for electronics devices An environmental protector for electronics devices in outside terminal boxes. The protector has a laminate wall which provides a moisture barrier, penetration resistant surface and EMI shield. The protector may be flexible or substantially rigid and is in... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5539620 | Electronic modules, circuit packs and sealing arrangements In an electronic module two or more circuit packs are included in a housing and are connected to a printed circuit board extending laterally of the circuit packs and also within the housing. The housing is an electromagnetic radiation shield. The printed ... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5521793 | Wireless base station An outdoor wireless base station with a circuit pack within a housing. A printed circuit board of the pack has opposite edges formed with spaced projections and the housing has spaced guide elements to receive the projections for mounting purposes. To mou... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5510576 | Telecommunications cable enclosure Transmission cable enclosure with a resiliently flexible cable sealing member within an inlet passage of a housing of the enclosure. The sealing member surrounds the cable when installed and a device is provided to apply a constant compressive force axial... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5467251 | Printed circuit boards and heat sink structures Printed circuit board and heat sink assembly in which heat conductive elements are provided to distribute heat across the board before transferring heat into the heat sink. Also in other structures, heat is conducted directly into a heat sink from surface... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5450272 | Telecommunications equipment A telecommunications shelf module is provided having electronic circuit packs and conductors extending from the circuit packs to an interface station for connection to conductors exterior of the pack, the module detachably mountable in a frame. The module... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5430933 | Method of manufacturing a multiple layer printed circuit board A multiple layer printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing multiple layer printed circuit boards which incorporate integral edge shielding in combination with top and bottom shielding to effectively provide a sandwich arrangement within a Farada... | 07/11/1995 |
