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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7721687 | Non-reciprocating, orbital, internal combustion engine A combustible fluid operated engine free of lost momentum during piston reciprocation has respective series of cylinders and pistons on counter-rotating carrier wheels. Fuel is injected into the cylinders from the pistons. The carrier wheels are variably spaced rela... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7531019 | High air flow/power ratio, small footprint, household room air purifier A maximum air flow, minimum space requirement household room air purifier comprising an enclosure arranged to stand on a room floor in a room corner formed by room walls and having a face opening toward the room, an arcuate air purifying HEPA filter, a motorized fan... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7392909 | Pool leafing tool with stay-open basket feature An increased efficiency, more durable pool leafing tool, and method, for gathering leaves and other pool debris from a pool bottom wall has a handle, a handle-controlled basket of a water-pervious and leaf and debris-impervious plastic mesh pocket having a closed en... | 07/01/2008 |
| D538631 | Kite reel | 03/20/2007 |
| 7121840 | Suspension with no-solder, no-resin conductor extending through insulator-spaced metal layers A resin free and solder free electrical connection in a disk drive suspension interconnect is provided including an electrical connection between conductive traces of a first metal layer and a second metal layer with a conductor pin having electrical connection with... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7099116 | Disk drive suspension with second spring function A disk drive suspension comprising a metal member having a base portion, a distal portion and a spring portion therebetween is provided with a second spring of usually greater thickness that is parallel with and spaced from the first spring, and supported in place b... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7079357 | Additive-process suspension interconnect with controlled noise A disk drive electrical interconnect assembly and additive method therefor. The interconnect assembly has a supporting or fifth layer of metal, a fourth layer of a polyimide precursor or a polyimide with a first face directed away from the fifth layer, a third layer... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7067044 | Multi-unit, distributive, regenerable, in situ desalination method Cultivated field water is desalinated by a series of independent units that float on the water surface, taking up the saline water with a wick, evaporating the water from the wick in desalinating relation by concentrating incident solar radiation with a combination ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7034372 | HGA dynamics testing with shear mode piezo transducers An HGA dynamics tester and method are provided in which a shear mode piezo actuator having a dimensional change responsive to an input voltage while supported on a mass is coupled through an HGA support to impart movement to the HGA responsive to the actuator dimens... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035051 | Low stiffness, high torsion suspension for disk drives A low stiffness, high torsion disk drive suspension having reduced gram load change after backbending includes a laminate of a metal layer, a plastic film layer and a plurality of conductors, a spring portion, a base portion and a distal portion with contiguous disc... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035050 | Flexible circuit laminate shunt for disk drive suspensions A disk drive suspension interconnect of a flexible conductive laminate with an electrically insulative layer and a pair of trace conductors supported thereon is shunted by having an insulative layer first portion supporting the trace conductors oppose a deflectable ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7006333 | Suspension with flexure mounted microactuator The invention provides a disk drive suspension. The suspension has a load beam and a flexure having a frame and a tongue portion having a base and a tongue. The flexure mounts one or more microactuators in opposed or offset relation for shifting the base of the flex... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6995954 | ESD protected suspension interconnect ESD is prevented in a disk drive suspension electrical interconnect having plural pairs of conductive traces supported by an insulative film by disposing a material having a lower resistivity than the insulative film but not so low that the conductive traces are shu... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6990728 | Method of assembling in a predetermined alignment a load beam and flexible circuit Disk drive suspension load beam and flexible circuit components are juxtaposed and properly located relative to each other before welding by a series of areally distributed locator structures that intersect across the common plane between the components in aligning ... | 01/31/2006 |
| D513281 | Kite | 12/27/2005 |
| 6975488 | Suspension interconnect with controlled noise A disk drive suspension and method has a metal load beam and an electrical interconnect assembly. The interconnect assembly has an insulative layer, a read pair of forward and return path conductive traces, a write pair of forward and return path conductive traces t... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6970328 | Low stiffness, high torsion suspension A low stiffness, high torsion disk drive suspension having reduced gram load change after backbending and method includes a laminate of a plastic film layer and a plurality of conductors in which the spring portion, the base portion and/or the distal portion are pro... | 11/29/2005 |
| D511797 | Kite | 11/22/2005 |
| 6955325 | Delta kite with flight stabilizing, air-passing ring structure A kite has a generally delta shaped sail and supporting frame and has increased flight stability through locally increased drag realized by providing an air-passing ring structure in a plane adjacent the kite sail. The ring structure is formed from continued extents... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6956721 | Suspension having spring with preferential bending in weldment-free zone A disk drive suspension has a load beam with a base portion, a spring portion and a rigid portion to carry a flexure and slider in operative association with a disk. The spring portion is normally bendable between the base portion and the rigid portion. Welding of t... | 10/18/2005 |
| D510110 | Kite | 09/27/2005 |
| 6945572 | Sliding door latch assembly A sliding door has a latch assembly and a vertically disposed pull handle that would normally interfere with convenient operation of the latch lever. A rotatable latch lever is located beyond the handle and a rotatable latch is located opposite the handle. A 4-bar c... | 09/20/2005 |
| D509420 | Handle | 09/13/2005 |
| D509260 | Pirate ship kite | 09/06/2005 |
| 6935662 | One-touch-actuated multipoint latch system for doors and windows Plastic window and doors are effectively latched to surrounding plastic frames by a distributed series of latches pins that are carried on a common carrier opposite and coaxial with a like series of apertures for simultaneous shifting between latched and unlatched c... | 08/30/2005 |
| D507308 | Kite | 07/12/2005 |
| 6910365 | Suspension shock characteristic test method and apparatus An apparatus and method for determining the shock characteristic of a suspension having a proximate portion, a distal portion and a spring portion therebetween has a rotatable structure having a mount for the suspension base portion such that the suspension distal p... | 06/28/2005 |
| D506513 | Kite | 06/21/2005 |
| 6905096 | Kite with planar aerodynamic surface A kite system including a base, a substantially exposed substructure coupled to the base to flex the base, and one or more masts and sails coupled to the base. ... | 06/14/2005 |
| D506229 | Airplane kite | 06/14/2005 |
| 6900967 | Trace flexure suspension with differential insulator and trace structures for locally tailoring impedance A novel flexure or interconnect for a disk drive suspension having a locally different thickness and/or width of insulative layer and a locally different thickness, width and/or relative spacing in its trace conductors to vary capacitance and circuit impedance value... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6896225 | Kite with movable figure A flying toy system including a kite portion, and a figure coupled to the kite portion that moves with respect to its coupling with the kite portion. ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6894876 | Microactuated suspension with shear transmission of force A microactuator suspension assembly has a load beam structure with at least three layers of material in certain portions of the proximal area between the baseplate area and the spring area, the first and third layers comprising substantially inextensible metal, the ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6885523 | Actuator-arm free, flexible circuit suspension assembly for disk drives A low cost, simplified disk drive suspension not requiring an actuator arm for movement is provided comprising a load beam having at its proximate end attachment structure comprising a mounting hole fixed to an actuator spindle and at its distal end terminal structu... | 04/26/2005 |
| D503753 | Dragon boat kite | 04/05/2005 |
| 6866229 | Kite with durable light display feature An illuminated kite comprises a frame and a sail, a plurality of distributed light elements, an electrical power supply carried by the kite for illuminating the light elements, elongated electrical conductors electrically communicating the power supply and the light... | 03/15/2005 |
| D502745 | Kite | 03/08/2005 |
| 6854690 | Aircraft kite A kite in the shape of an aircraft having one or more wings. The number of wings can vary due to novel V-shaped connection members employed together with strut rod members cut to predetermined lengths. The connection members are preformed V-shaped connectors slidabl... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6856487 | Suspension with minimized second torsion gain A disk drive suspension having a minimized 2nd torsion characteristic includes a load beam having a given side profile and centerline rotation axis. The load beam has a base portion, a spring portion, and a beam portion. The beam portion has a distal sect... | 02/15/2005 |
| D500815 | Kite | 01/11/2005 |
