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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6133739 | Electric battery monitoring systems A method of monitoring electric battery capacity effects evaluation of battery capacity in terms of battery current and battery voltage in a succession of monitoring cycles, scales down an influence of battery current on the evaluation as the succession o... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6112962 | Hand weapon holstering systems Holstering systems for hand weapons comprise a track structure provided as a holster for such hand weapons. Each hand weapon may be provided with an adapter complementary with the track structure. The holster may be a standard holster for different types ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6065773 | Gas pressure restraint, sensing and release systems System for inflating a vehicular gas bag (10) with gas from a bottle of compressed gas (12) against an occupant (13) in an emergency include a gas pressure sensor (39) having a sensor input (20) coupled to compressed gas in the bottle prior to an emergenc... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6046572 | Battery operated appliance, flashlight and switching systems An electric appliance includes a first electric power supply of first batteries arranged in a first pattern, and alternatively a different second electric power supply of second batteries arranged in a second pattern. An electrical ON-OFF switch has an ON... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6006925 | Equipment rack system An equipment rack has horizontal frame structure, and vertical frame structure of sheet material, secured to that horizontal frame structure and having a bent cross-section and opposite ends. The bent cross-section has a square-wave configuration includin... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5975119 | Ice-proof fluid line assemblies Apparatus for conducting fluid and preventing its icing have a fluid line structure and a tubular fluid line element located in that fluid line structure and having a cross-section sufficient for a desired throughput of fluid. A heater element is located ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5973903 | Fuel line systems with electric charge buildup prevention Fuel lines aboard aircraft are safeguarded against buildup of electric charges. A series of metallic tubes each having opposite open metallic tube ends are prepared for such fuel lines. External metallic ferrules are prepared for the opposite metallic tub... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5960787 | Gas appliance combustion systems Required blower power in an induced draft combustion system is reduced by recovering pressure from dynamic energy of flow of combustion products. To this end, the outlet duct is diverged gradually, such as an included angle of less than fifteen degrees, a... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5851029 | Gas pressure restraint, sensing and release systems Apparatus for discharging gas from a bottle of compressed gas include a compressed gas release having on that bottle a compressed gas outlet having a closed position and an alternative open position. A shuttle has a first position spaced from that compres... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5835585 | Telephone on-hook and off-hook sensing systems Hook conditions of a handset of a telephone apparatus which includes a telephone apparatus base having an inside and an outside are sensed by providing a beam of radiation outside of that telephone apparatus base. The handset is placed in that beam of rad... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5788428 | Power tool driving systems Methods and apparatus for cutting a workpiece with a cutting tool rotated relative to the workpiece by an electric drive motor and advanced in that workpiece by an electric tool advance. These methods and apparatus sense obstacles to cutting in the workpi... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5697435 | Heat exchanger systems Heat is transferred from a first fluid to a cooler second fluid with a heat exchanger having heat exchanger tubes in which the cooler second fluid flows, preferably in a counterflow to the first fluid. The heat exchanger tubes are arranged in more than th... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5654594 | Ergonomic electrical current switching systems In order to enable switching electric currents with a part of a human hand for an accessory of a firearm having a firearm handle, that firearm handle is complemented with an arcuate member, which is formed in similarity to a portion of that human hand in ... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5651555 | Fluid-operated leveling valve systems A supported structure is leveled against positional variations relative to a supporting structure with a fluid suspension system between the supported structure and the supporting structure. The fluid suspension system has a first fluid leveling valve for... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5642724 | Fluid mixing systems and gas-fired water heater The disclosed methods and apparatus for mixing a secondary fluid with a primary fluid have utility in venturi and other fluid mixing systems in agriculture, fluid, fuel combustion and other fields where liquid or gaseous chemicals, liquid or gaseous fuels... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5642932 | Combat-oriented flashlight Flashlights are provided with a mode of operation enabling switching at a thumb area of a human hand while retaining that flashlight with fingers of that human hand during switching of that flashlight at that thumb area. The flashlight has a battery barre... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5629105 | Flashlights and other battery-powered apparatus for holding and energizing transducers A battery-powered apparatus for holding and energizing an electric transducer, includes a hand-held battery housing carrying the transducer mount, and first and second internal battery contacts. A first external battery charge terminal is on the transduce... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5593074 | Bidirectional holsters A holster for a flash light having a barrel and having a lamp housing wider than that barrel comprises a sheath for part of the flashlight having a first bore adapted to receive the lamp housing, and having a narrower second bore adapted to receive the ba... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5590951 | Switch-less flashlights Switch-less flashlights have a tube for housing the battery and a lamp assembly threaded or mounted on an end portion of that tube and having spaced first and second lamp terminals adapted to contact corresponding battery terminals upon rotation or moveme... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5574251 | Electrical and electronic cabinet systems A cabinet has a top, an opposite bottom, a front, an opposite rear, and sides extending between that front and that rear for containment of electrical equipment requiring different groups of electric conductors. One of these sides is segmented between the... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5556295 | Modular plug locking system A modular plug is locked in a modular receptacle by a frangible locking member disintegral from such modular plug. An internal first catch on that frangible locking member catches an inside of the modular receptacle. The internal first catch is rendered i... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5546831 | Gripping system for rotary objects Any one of several rotary objects of various diameters is gripped between a pair of joined jaws, without a need for manual adjustment of such jaws to any of the various diameters. To this end, the jaws are spaced at a taper to each other for all of the va... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5500269 | Honeycomb table manufacture and clean-room compatible honeycomb tables A method of manufacturing a honeycomb table having a table leaf with apertures suitable for mounting components in sensitive applications, attaches a supporting section to that table leaf, attaches a sealing sheet to that supporting section, attaches a se... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5476088 | Flue product exhaust and condensate collecting systems A methods and apparatus for exhausting flue products and removing condensate from a combustion of air/gas mixtures provide a condensate collecting pan for flue products. That pan is provided with an inlet for flue products and condensate, and with an outl... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5477150 | Electric arc and radio frequency spectrum detection A principal object of the invention is to detect sparks or arcs (12) in electric circuits (13) or otherwise to detect a spectrum of a broad band of distinct instaneous radio frequencies in radio frequency noise. The invention rejects extraneous narrow-ban... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5449909 | Tunnel effect wave energy detection Methods and apparatus for measuring gravitational and inertial forces, magnetic fields, or wave or radiant energy acting on an object or fluid in space provide an electric tunneling current through a gap between an electrode and that object or fluid in sp... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5431557 | Low NOX gas combustion systems Air pollution from combustion of air/gas mixtures is reduced effectively and reliably at a porous burner providing flames with a downstream reaction zone where the ignition of the air/gas mixture initiates. The porous burner is loaded with the air/gas mix... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5419945 | Simulated mechanic's creeper and oil and grease drip catching mat A method of simulating a creeper for mechanics servicing a vehicle spaced from a floor and for catching vehicle drippings provides a sheet of cellular material with a lower surface for contacting the floor therealong and with a parallel upper surface. Tha... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5418641 | Fabry-perot optical resonant cavity systems Resonant cavity apparatus comprise a Fabry-Perot optical resonant cavity of a type having families of transverse modes between longitudinal TEM00 modes. In such resonant cavity apparatus and in methods of minimizing the effect of transverse mod... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5380192 | High-reflectivity porous blue-flame gas burner The reflectivity of a porous burner matrix is enhanced in order to enhance burner performance, capacity and capability. More specifically, a porous matrix is coated with a layer of a material, such as gold, having a higher reflectivity than the porous mat... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5379980 | Stabilization systems for vibration isolators Intermittent stabilization of a load table supported by pneumatic vibration isolators is provided by determining a load shift condition, increasing passage of gas to the pneumatic vibration isolators and imposing external or internal damping on the load t... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5373241 | Electric arc and radio frequency spectrum detection A principal object of the invention is to detect sparks or arcs (12) in electric circuits (13) or otherwise to detect a signal having a spectrum of a broad band of distinct instantaneous radio frequencies in radio frequency noise. The invention rejects ex... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5363613 | Rigid supporting structures A supporting structure of one piece of sheet material constituting a top and several legs depending from that top in one piece has for each of these several legs an angled profile of that one piece of sheet material and in one piece with the top across th... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5356110 | Pneumatic isolation systems for damping vertical, horizontal and rotational vibrations Methods and apparatus for isolating a load structure from vertical, horizontal and rotational vibrations of a supporting structure operate with the aid of displacement of a pneumatic fluid from and to a fluid chamber of a pneumatic vibration isolation sys... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5320140 | Fluid valve systems A fluid valve has a valve housing defining a corner and having a valve housing cover opposite that corner. That valve housing and cover enclose a valve chamber therein. A fluid inlet or outlet is in the valve housing cover. First and second valve seats fo... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5315247 | Method and apparatus for measuring a magnetic field using a deflectable energized loop and a tunneling tip Methods and apparatus for measuring gravitational and inertial forces, magnetic fields, or wave or radiant energy acting on an object or fluid in space provide an electric tunneling current through a gap between an electrode and that object or fluid in sp... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5293781 | Tunnel effect measuring systems and particle detectors Methods and apparatus for measuring gravitational and inertial forces, magnetic fields, or wave or radiant energy acting on an object or fluid in space provide an electric tunneling current through a gap between an electrode and that object or fluid in sp... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5290102 | Tunnel effect measuring systems and particle detectors Methods and apparatus for measuring gravitational and inertial forces, magnetic fields, or wave or radiant energy acting on an object or fluid in space provide an electric tunneling current through a gap between an electrode and that object or fluid in sp... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5278934 | Throughput maximizing systems for substantially unimodal throughput profiles Throughput between two objects of light or another physical quantity having a substantially unimodal throughput profile in terms of relative orientation of said objects, is maximized. To this end, the physical quantity is initially transmitted between the... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5278455 | Spa and pool pump and heater control A control for a spa and swimming pool pump and heater assembly with diverter valves, includes a selectively actuable pump and spa heater actuator or relay having a first latching circuit, and having a separate first unlatching switch or relay contact, a s... | 01/11/1994 |
