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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5368042 | Biofeedback device for monitoring muscular movement A swinging movement in an impact sport activity, such as golf, tennis, baseball or the like, can be monitored to analyze the skill of the player by a biofeedback mechanism which measures electrical impulses created by activated nerves as muscles tense. Th... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5184820 | Hockey puck A hockey puck having a conventional shape and opposite end surfaces, each formed with at least three symmetrically spaced projections preferably having a lower coefficient of friction than the body of the puck. A ring or band of material of a color differ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5149096 | Hockey puck An ice hockey puck has more uniform play during a period when provided with projections positioned circumferentially about the end surfaces which lift the puck from the surface to reduce the snow plowing effect, and the stability of the puck is maintained... | 09/22/1992 |
| 4865562 | Overmolded electrical contact for the manufacture of connectors Closely spaced electrical contacts are increasingly difficult to place in the manufacture of connectors and a strip molded onto stamped contact elements provide locating and alignment of the contact elements to make the same easily located in molded housi... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4860888 | Shipping and handling container for two part composition A shipping carton for containers having gabletops, wherein it is desired to maintain the containers in pairs, is provided with areas which receive the containers in pairs and support members are provided to support the gable tops from one side of the cart... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4859189 | Multipurpose socket A test socket for testing chips and chips on tape wherein the test socket is formed on a heat resistant dielectric film having contact pads and connector pads joined by metallic circuit traces and which film is wrapped on a compliant pad. The connector en... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4850887 | Electrical connector An electrical connector having terminals disposed in a body, which terminals have terminations in one face disposed in two rows and in columns and the terminals have tail portions which protrude from the other face with the terminal ends thereof disposed ... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4850904 | Connector for telephone cables A low profile socket connector for use in making connection with printed circuit boards utilizing a contact element having a female contact portion including a stepped portion extending substantially parallel to a body portion and a curved contact piece e... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4842303 | Repositionable advertising insert An advertising insert for ad signatures in magazines is convenient when comprised of a readily peelable and adhesively repositionable sheet bearing a coupon, phone number or the like which is part of a backer which can be removed along perforations from a... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4835854 | Cable splicing method Splices in multi-wire cables are orderly when wires of the same length, each affixed to a pluggable connector, are joined and the connectors are rotated 180 degrees to maintain the wire pairs orderly and are bundled.... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4836796 | Replaceable tube of conductive gel A wrist strap can be connected through the fabric of a cleanroom garment by means of an inexpensive, removable connector comprising two molded plastic parts that can be interconnected to entrap the fabric. Protruding from a reservoir in the first of the t... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4836800 | Electrical connector (with telescoping for sealing) A plugable connector for splicing telephone cables comprising a pair of connector bodies each having a plurality of contact elements, one body with a male terminal and the other with a female terminal and said female terminal being in a recess and each ma... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4836803 | Wire holding device in an electrical connector A wire holding device for locating wires in an electrical connector, comprising at least one passageway into which a connection wire to be held can be moved essentially normally of its length through an outwardly enlarging entrance slot toward a closed en... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4836292 | Method for cooling a nuclear reactor and a product therefor A method and product for use in smothering a nuclear fire resulting from an accident in a nuclear plant comprises the discharging onto the fire liquified inert gas, e.g. argon, so the gas will block the flow of oxygen to the fire. The liquified argon may ... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4828249 | Pocket sized exercising appliance An exercising device which fits in a hand for exercising the hand, wrist and arm muscles comprises an elastomeric polygonal body member having a plurality of holes such that it can be squeezed and compressed in the hand or stretched with the thumb and fin... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4824196 | Optical fiber distribution panel An improved fiber distribution panel including fiber connecting and splicing modules which are slidable into and out of a housing which is formed to support a plurality of said modules. Each module is provided with means for supporting a fiber connector a... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4822304 | EMI shielded electrical connector and cable assembly An EMI/ESD shielded D cable-connector assembly wherein the shielding between the cable shield and metal shell of the connector is afforded by a length of wire mesh surrounding the conductors and joining said shield to said shell. A shielding plate contact... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4818055 | Optical fiber splice connector A splice connector for making butt splices in optical fibers include an element formed of a deformable material and formed to define three surfaces for contacting the fibers to be spliced. The surfaces are formed between two levers of the element such tha... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4817282 | Cable splicing method while maintaining electrical connection A method of replacing a portion of an old telephone cable by a new cable portion without interrupting service to the line is handled by forming parallel circuits, redundant circuits and then disconnecting the old cable.... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4817281 | Flat cable branching and connecting process Making a branch connection with a flat cable and affording shielding is afforded by removing insulation at three longitudinally spaced locations transversely of the cable, folding the cable at the intermediate location, making connection to the signal lea... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4815988 | Two-step wire connection and cut-off terminal An electrical terminal having a supporting body, a tubular contact member having a bifurcate contact element and an elongated perforation generally diametrically aligned therewith, a cap enclosing the contact member with a wire receiving opening aligned w... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4815596 | Dip carrier A single dual in-line package integrated circuit component carrier adapted to provide mechanical and static shielding protection is box like with spaced pairs of walls to minimize the size of the carrier but accommodate the 300, 400 or 600 mil DIP compone... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4812948 | Shoe grounding strap A shoe ground strap which has a static dissipative exposed surface and offers protection against static charges building on the wearer and offers protection against electrical hazards if contacting a source of electrical power. The strap comprises a band ... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4805979 | Fiber optic cable splice closure A fiber optic splice closure for protecting the splice made into a transmission cable, containing a plurality of fibers which are to remain unsevered, comprises a base to which the cable is anchored and in which slack fibers in the uncut cable are looped ... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4796781 | Dispenser for a stack of notepaper A desk type dispenser for dispensing note sheets which are adhered together along opposite alternate edges by a narrow band of adhesive coated on one surface of the sheets comprises a base member and a body member. The body is preferably weighted and sits... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4795363 | Insulated terminal and module An electrical terminal having a supporting body, a tubular contact member having a bifurcate contact element and a cap enclosing the contact member with a wire receiving opening aligned with the contact element and a slotted opening aligned with a hole op... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4793758 | Cover for binding sheets A cover for the machine-less binding of pages into a booklet comprises a cover having a longitudinal edge of a strip of pressure sensitive tape adhered inside the cover along the central fold line to accept shingled edges of the pages.... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4789354 | Voice/data communication termination connector A connector for communication wire pairs has an insulating body formed with sinuous channels for capturing the insulated wire, U-slot contact elements for making contact with the wires and said contacts having spring elements formed by U-shaped cuts in th... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4781782 | Web applicator A taping head for applying a film of pressure sensitive adhesive to a receptor surface has a drive means for driving the adhesive to the applicating roller by driving a liner supporting the adhesive, and a dancing roll positioned between the apparatus for... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4781306 | Stack of sheet material A stack of flexible sheet material for use in a dispensing device for dispensing individual sheets. The sheets are stacked with alternately opposite edges of successive sheets coated along one edge with a narrow band of readily releasable repositionable p... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4770646 | High density electrical connector A high density electrical connector comprising a connector body containing insulation displacement contact elements and a cover assembly having a first cover portion and a second cover portion between which electrical wires are retained. The first cover p... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4768810 | Fanfolded tablet of a web which is separable into sheets each bearing a pressure-sensitive adhesive pattern A writing tablet is formed from a substantially continuous, fanfolded web of uniform width having transverse paths of weakness, along which the web can be torn evenly into individual sheets of uniform size. One face of the web bears a series of pressure-s... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4767352 | Integrally molded cable termination assembly, contact and method A cable termination assembly, and a mold and method of molding the same, includes an electrical cable including at least one conductor, at least one electrical contact, a support body for at least preliminarily supporting the electrical contact, the elect... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4762497 | Electrical connector for electrically connecting through a fabric A wrist strap can be connected through the fabric of a cleanroom garment by means of an inexpensive, removable connector comprising two molded plastic parts that can be interconnected to entrap the fabric. Protruding from a reservoir in the first of the t... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4762341 | Booklet cover A cover for protecting and supporting a plurality of sheets bound together with a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape and bound to the cover by the tape. The cover has a binding area and a protective coating in that area where the binding tape has an adhesio... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4756271 | Coating die A coating die is adapted to apply a number of materials onto a web from a single coating slot by the use of a movable cam in the die to alternately connect the coating slot to one or the other of a pair of inlet ports and seal the other port. A rotary cam... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4748043 | Electrospray coating process An electrostatic coating system for applying very thin coating to a substrate in air at atmospheric pressure comprises a plurality of spaced capillary needles positioned in at least two rows and fed with coating liquid via a manifold. The needles are disp... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4744768 | Coupling connector A connector with a base having a plurality of contacts that are operable and which can be closed, with opposing sides resiliently forced against device terminals which force can be supplemented by further force provided by an actuator.... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4742913 | Dispenser for predetermined lengths of tape A dispenser package for a stack of strips of pressure-sensitive adhesive tape. Each strip is formed with a tab at one end thereof and the strips of tape are aligned in the stack. The package comprises a support member supporting the stack of strips throug... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4741527 | Exercise arm for a stationary bicycle Weighted bars may be pivotally connected at one end outward of the pedals on a stationary bicycle exerciser and provided with hand grips at the opposite end to permit the exercise of the upper body as well as exercise of the lower body on the bicycle, the... | 05/03/1988 |
