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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7163621 | Fluidizable device A device for the treatment of an influent with a nonbonded media, and when the media becomes spent, the media is fluidized with a backwash fluid. Concentric inner and outer perforated cylinders contain a column of media therebetween. The influent is passed radially ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7156403 | Motorcycle towing dolly for low trucks A motorcycle towing device (12) for flat bed tow trucks (6) and wheel lift tow trucks (8) has a front wheel support plate (44) having a front wheel lateral support member (48), and a rear wheel support plate (100) having rea... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7037037 | Interlocking erosion control block with diagonal cable channels An erosion control block having male tab members and female socket members providing an interlocking relationship with neighbor blocks so that lateral removal therebetween is prevented. The erosion control block includes cable channels formed therein from respective... | 05/02/2006 |
| D517194 | Tear drop shaped housing for a ceiling fan | 03/14/2006 |
| 6995682 | Wireless remote control for a winch A wireless winch control system having a wireless remote transmitter for transmitting AM/PWM modulated signals. A processor in the wireless remote transmitter periodically transmits control signals while a forward or reverse button remains pushed. Once the button is... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6994223 | Diagnostic readout for operation of a crane A programmable control system for a crane that senses a hydraulic pressure of the lift mechanism, and controls the movements of the crane apparatus as a function of the magnitude of the hydraulic pressure. As the status conditions of the crane change, sense switches... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6980647 | Primary telephone line protector with failsafe Disclosed is a module (10) having pins (16-24) connected to respective conductor tower strips (46, 48, 50, 52). Pairs (46, 50 and 48, 52) of the conductor tower strips are spring biased toward each other to capture therebetween res... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6966443 | Paraffin filter element A paraffin filter for a paraffin spa includes a first end cap and a second end cap with a filter medium sandwiched therebetween. Each end cap is disk-like body having a respective tubular connection for the input or output of melted paraffin, thus providing a low pr... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6956248 | Semiconductor device for low voltage protection with low capacitance A semiconductor thyristor device that incorporates buried region breakdown junctions laterally offset from an emitter region. By spacing the buried regions around the emitter region, current carriers emitted from the buried regions are distributed over a large area ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6955500 | Method of forming a mat of erosion control blocks A method of cabling erosion control blocks of a mat together. The blocks have formed therein cable channels in a cris-cross manner, diagonally between the corners of each block. Cables are threaded through the blocks in a zig-zag manner, from the top of the mat to t... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6941654 | Vehicle service body A service body for a vehicle includes side packs, each of which is formed with a multi-panel face which includes a side panel, a front panel and a back panel. The panels of the multi-panel face are formed integral by laser cutting the face from a single sheet of met... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6901271 | Determining the last digit of a dialed number A technique for determining the last digit of a dialed sequence. Different interdigit time-out periods are pre-assigned to each digit received. If the time-out period expires, it is considered that a full complement of digits has been received, whereupon the receive... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6872125 | Tool for smoothing a workpiece A tool for abrading a workpiece to smooth the surface thereof. The tool has a shank portion and a working portion. The working portion has a smooth and non-abrading surface, with one or more depressions formed therein. Each depression includes an abrading mechanism.... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6862162 | Thyristor circuit providing overcurrent protection to a low impedance load A thyristor provides overcurrent protection to a low impedance load, such as a transformer, by adding a resistance in series with the transformer winding. As overcurrents attempt to pass through the transformer winding, a sufficient voltage is generated in the trans... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6856505 | Molded cable management arm for a server system rack A drawer (20) of a server system rack (12) includes a flexible cable management arm (114) which is molded of plastic for securing cabling (34) between a moveable tray (38) and an electronic switch (30). The molded cable mana... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6852232 | Down flow radial flow filter A method of coacting a fluid with a media, such as granular particles. The media is moved to an upper portion in an upright media container, and held there during a treatment cycle in which the fluid is coacted with the media. When the media requires regeneration, t... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6840768 | Dental device A dental device for removing an onlay or crown from a patient's tooth. The device includes pliers-type handles for operating a corresponding pair of tips. The tips are equipped with grips adapted for holding an onlay or crown therebetween. The grip edges have a numb... | 01/11/2005 |
| D500832 | Molded worm fishing lure | 01/11/2005 |
| D500187 | Headgear having regular bill and rear tie enclosure | 12/28/2004 |
| 6788953 | Wireless local loop communication system using SLIC module A telephone communication system having a cordless telephone operating in conjunction with a cellular transceiver. A subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC) is controlled by a microprocessor in the cellular transcriber. The SLIC can be controlled to provide standar... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6781161 | Non-gated thyristor device A semiconductor device with two epitaxial layers formed on a substrate. The middle layer of epitaxial material can be formed thin and with an appropriate doping concentration to provide a low avalanche breakdown voltage with a negative resistance characteristic. The... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6746252 | High frequency compression mount receptacle with lineal contact members A compression mount receptacles (16) is provided for mounting test and burn-in sockets (14) to surface mount pads of circuit boards (18). The receptacle (16) includes coil spring contacts (52) having active portions provided by loo... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6739797 | Interlocking erosion control block with integral mold A block (11) formed with a mold (10) integral thereto. The mold (10) is constructed as a mold top half (12) and a mold bottom half (14) and filled in situ with cement (16). The mold halves (12,14) are constructed with... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6726531 | Abrasive tool having safe and active areas A tool for abrading a workpiece to smooth the surface thereof. In one embodiment, the tool is an ultrasonic tip (12) having plural grooves (16) formed in a smooth surface (14) thereof. Each groove (16) includes an abrasive material (24... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6696709 | Low voltage protection module A semiconductor thyristor device incorporates buried regions to achieve low breakover voltage devices, and the buried regions are offset laterally with respect to the emitter regions. The low voltage thyristor devices can be incorporated into five-pin pro... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6671959 | Tool for extracting a bearing A tool for extracting a bearing race from a bearing support structure. The tool is sufficiently narrow for sideways insertion into the bearing race. The tool can then be rotated within the race so that the tool engages with an annular flange of the bearin... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6640715 | Wearing apparel with scented ink A process in which a scented ink is applied to an article. An oil-based scent is mixed with a plastisol-type ink and applied to an article, such as a t-shirt. All layers of the ink forming the design, including the base layer, the color layers and a top s... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6631886 | Winch housing with integral fairlead A winch constructed with a fairlead frame providing a mounting base for the winch and providing a rotational support for a cable drum. Loads exerted on a cable and through the fairlead rollers and cable drum are transferred to the unitary fairlead frame m... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6627072 | Filter system for a paraffin spa A paraffin filter system (10) includes an in-line low-profile particulate filter (20) connected to a suction tube (14) which is used as an inlet to the paraffin filter system (10). A paraffin pump (54) pumps the melted paraffin from a paraffin spa (12) th... | 09/30/2003 |
