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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4180410 | Method for producing a silicon nitride base sintered body A silicon nitride base sintered body having high strength and high density is formed by a normal sintering, namely by sintering without pressure. The sintered body is produced of silicon nitride and the metal oxides yttrium oxide and cerium oxide. A silic... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4177631 | Small-sized quartz crystal wristwatch A small-sized electronic wristwatch assembly, wherein a support plate is constructed and arranged to position the operative elements of the wristwatch to reduce the size thereof is provided. The electrical components of the wristwatch include a battery, a... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4176391 | Shock isolating lamp assembly A shock isolating lamp assembly for a vehicle lamp including an improved shock isolating mounting is provided. The assembly includes a lamp housing for receiving a lens and a shock isolating mount of a resilient material including a central body portion f... | 11/27/1979 |
| 4175603 | Grass bag clamp and spreader A waste bag for use with lawn mowers and other gardening machinery having a sleeve formed with first and second openings on opposed sides thereof, a first fixed frame in the first opening and a second selectively closable and openable frame in the second ... | 11/27/1979 |
| 4174779 | Carrying case for bottles A lightweight case for carrying bottles comprises a rack member having bottom and apertured side faces of a rigid but flexible plastic for engaging the bottom and side portion of each of a plurality of bottles. The case also includes a clip for gripping t... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4174567 | Apparatus for storing and supplying parallel lead electronic circuit elements An apparatus for storing and supplying parallel lead circuit elements that are secured to an elongated web is provided. The apparatus is adapted to supply the parallel lead circuit elements to a mechanism particularly adapted to process and secure the par... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4173183 | Line printer character belt In a line printer character belt in which characters are mounted on flexible fingers which are struck by printing hammers toward a platen in the printing operation, the fingers are flexed toward the platen by a projection on the fingers or on a character ... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4172908 | Quartz crystal vibrator A flexural mode tuning fork quartz crystal vibrator having two vibrator tines including first and second opposed substantially planar surfaces, the thickness of the plate between said opposed surfaces being no greater than 0.2 mm is provided. Both surface... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4170937 | Miniaturized printer control assembly A miniaturized printer wherein the duration of each print cycle, the sequence of printing operations performed in each print cycle and the time between each print cycle is controlled by a detecting arrangement. The detecting arrangement is adapted to dete... | 10/16/1979 |
| 4170861 | Method and apparatus for filling petri dishes A method and apparatus for filling petri dishes include the features of situating a stack of empty petri dishes at a dish-drop station where the stack rests with the lowermost petri dish of the stack on a stationary support. A moving structure engages thi... | 10/16/1979 |
| 4170299 | Rack and tie-back clip assembly In a rack and tie-back clip assembly, the clips are joined in pairs by a cord and are held in a linear array on the rack. The clips can be disengaged in pairs from the rack, the mounting arrangement of the clips on the rack being such that entanglement of... | 10/09/1979 |
| 4168724 | Valve arrangement for distributing fluids An improved valve arrangement for distributing liquid and/or gaseous subsces from a plurality of substance storing vessels to a processing vessel utilizing fluidic pressure control valves. A common conduit line runs through a block and has an output end ... | 09/25/1979 |
| 4168498 | Digital display drive and voltage divider circuit An improved interfacing circuit that is readily adapted to be integrated into the same circuit chip as the remaining circuitry in an electronic instrument having a digital display formed of passive display elements, and is adapted to deliver a plurality o... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4168421 | Voltage compensating drive circuit for a thermal printer A voltage compensating drive circuit for a thermal printer is provided. The thermal printer includes a power supply for producing a supply voltage of varying magnitude. A plurality of exothermic printing elements are disposed on a substrate for recording ... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4166312 | Apparatus for re-forming an axial lead of an electronic component into U-shape and affixing said component to elongated support tape An apparatus re-forms the axial lead of an axial-lead type electronic component into the shape of a U and affixes the electronic components with U-shaped leads to a support tape so as to form a continuous web-carrier carrying a series of electronic compon... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4165807 | Tape-mounted electronic component package A package for storing and feeding electronic components having parallel leads mounted equidistantly by the leads on tape is provided. The tape is wound in a spiral and packaged in the box prepared from a box blank. The box has a removable side face which ... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165687 | Printing equipment and method of operation thereof A small-sized printing apparatus which operates at a low noise level and provides good printing quality includes a plurality of printing rings, each having type characters on the peripheral surface thereof. The printing rings are mounted on a shaft which ... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165557 | Apparatus for trimming and securing electronic components inserted into a printed circuit substrate An apparatus for trimming and securing parallel lead electronic components inserted in a printed circuit substrate is provided. The apparatus includes a selectively rotatable driving assembly selectively displaceable towards an electronic component insert... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165494 | Bi-state linear amplifier A bi-state linear amplifier is provided which, in response to a first state of a control signal, functions as a linear amplifier, and in response to a second state of a control signal, is cut off to define a high output impedance. The amplifier includes a... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4164843 | Metallic lead plate and circuit structure for an electronic watch and method of assembly A circuit structure for an electronic watch including a metallic lead plate which is overlapped on a circuit base plate and circuit case is provided. The metallic lead plate and circuit base plate are formed with receiving openings in regions of the circu... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4164181 | Printer An improved printer comprising a plurality of character rings provided with a plurality of characters on the respective peripheries thereof and corresponding pluralities of ratchet wheels and pawls. Each ratchet wheel is radially mounted on a character ri... | 08/14/1979 |
| 4162608 | Electronic timepiece frequency regulating circuit An electronic timepiece including a phase circuit for advancing and/or delaying the phase of the frequency signals to thereby regulate the frequency thereof is provided. The electronic timepiece includes an oscillator for producing a high frequency time s... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162176 | Method for forming floating gate semiconductor device by selective ion-implantation A semiconductor device for use as a non-volatile semiconductor memory is provided with a floating gate formed by ion implantation.... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4161912 | Miniature printer A miniature printer especially suitable for use in a small calculator or the like, utilizes the energy released from a spring storage means to power the printing, paper feeding, and inking operations. The energy is stored by the spring from either manual ... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4161042 | Adjustable prosthetic limb A light-weight, universally sized prosthetic applicance for supporting a person having a residual limb. The prosthetic limb includes a socket adapted to define a selectively adjustable sleeve for receiving and securing a residual limb therein. The adjusta... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4159622 | Electronic timepiece having a main oscillator circuitry and secondary oscillator circuitry An electronic timepiece having a main oscillator circuit and also having a secondary oscillator circuit for reducing the effect therefore of temperature on the accuracy of the timepiece is provided. The main oscillator circuit includes a first time standa... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4159047 | Liquid oil feeders A liquid-oil feeder is provided for supplying various metered amounts of oil to a plurality of regions. The feeder has a tank of oil and an oil pick-up chamber reciprocating in and out of the supply of oil. The chamber contacts a transfer plate and a long... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4156400 | Animal feces disposal device An animal feces disposal device is provided. The device includes a thin flexible sheet of water repellent material which has a stiffening member centrally mounted to it. A drawstring running about the periphery of the sheet serves to close the sheet after... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4153106 | Parallel flow type evaporator The 1st type of parallel flow evaporator, comprising an upper tank and a lower tank, a plurality of flat pipes communicating said upper and lower tanks, fins inserted between each of said flat pipes, having an outlet pipe and an inlet pipe respectively, s... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4152982 | Miniature printer A miniature printer especially for use in a small calculator or the like, of the type in which a plurality of character wheels are carried on a rotating drive shaft. The speed of rotation of the drive shaft can be varied so that its speed during character... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4152768 | Electronic apparatus with calendar An electronic apparatus with calendar is provided incorporating calculation circuitry and a display portion for displaying the up to thirty-one dates in a month and a day of the week so that a user is provided with a visual indication representative of th... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4150761 | Bottle closure-cup assembly A cup for use with a bottle to cover a threaded bottle cap having a roughened outer surface is formed with a plurality of inwardly projecting ribs which force-fit into engagement with the roughened surface of the bottle cap. At least two of the ribs are f... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4150265 | Hinge-activated switch A self-closing hinge with a concealed switch is provided. The hinge has a cam follower formed on a movable member which rides on a cam formed in a stationary member, causing the movable member to move up and down with respect to the stationary member, as ... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4149610 | Acoustic headsets An acoustic headset having a pair of elongated channel structures for carrying sound tubes which are provided with ear pieces situated adjacent upper end regions of the channel structures. These channel structures have distant from their upper end regions... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4149356 | Method and apparatus for filling envelopes with finished disc records and stacking the filling envelopes A method and apparatus for placing finished disc records in envelopes and stacking the thus-filled envelopes include pushing, by a suitable push pin, a finished record along a predetermined substantially straight path into an empty envelope which is held ... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4149156 | Window alarm employing a releasably mounted plunger switch A plunger switch is releasably held against the inner surface of the outer section of a double-hung window or sliding door; by a suction cup, in an exemplary embodiment. Movement of the inner section with respect to the outer section dislodges the suction... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4149093 | Battery protection device A device for providing protection to a battery utilized as an auxiliary and starting power source for a motor-generator. The device includes a switch positioned intermediate the battery and the load and circuit means for integrating current flow from said... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4148184 | Electronic timepiece utilizing main oscillator circuit and secondary oscillator circuit An electronic timepiece having a main oscillator circuit including a first quartz crystal vibrator as a time standard and also having a secondary oscillator circuit including a further quartz crystal vibrator as a time standard for reducing the affect of ... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4148180 | Electronic timepiece circuit for automatically displaying the day of the week An electronic timepiece circuit for automatically changing the day of the week by utilizing the timekeeping signals produced by the day counter, month counter and year counter is provided. Remainder circuitry is coupled to the respective day, minute and y... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4144675 | Apparatus for treating top ends of flexible cords The present invention provides an apparatus for treating the top ends of flexible cords or filaments. It comprises holding means for holding articles having flexible cords, delivery means for delivering said holding means in a predetermined direction, cyl... | 03/20/1979 |
