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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8096731 | Modular hot stab with improved connection flange A connection assembly for connecting sub-sea lines and devices includes a stab receptacle assembly and a stab assembly. The stab receptacle assembly includes a receptacle body and an outlet assembly, which in turn, includes an adapter nipple configured for attachmen... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8011144 | System for forming and insulating concrete slab edges The slab edge forming and insulating system includes edge members and support braces. The edge members include an elongated shell having an upright portion with an insulated inside surface, an upper portion and a lower portion. Each of the upper and lower portions h... | 09/06/2011 |
| D627919 | Night light | 11/23/2010 |
| 7823360 | Open core building blocks system A system for utilizing building blocks to build a corrugated structural section that incorporates continuous longitudinal reinforcement with an offset joint pattern. The system includes building blocks whose shapes include open-core units. The use of the system resu... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7744407 | Modular circuit boxes and associated components Disclosed is a modular circuit system for use in a wiring system. The modular circuit system includes a circuit box and a fitting. The circuit box includes fitting prong receptacles that are in electrical communication with ground, neutral and hot wires from the wir... | 06/29/2010 |
| D617400 | Exercise apparatus | 06/08/2010 |
| 7699078 | Thermally insulated ductwork and method of manufacture A method for manufacturing an insulated duct segment includes the step of forming an inner duct that has an inner duct cross-sectional area and an inner duct length. An outer duct with an outer duct cross-sectional area and an outer duct length is also formed. The m... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7670098 | Machine to unload ties off of railroad cars An attachment used in conjunction with a backhoe or track hoe to convert it into a machine to unload ties off of railroad cars. Two pins on an upper end of the attachment secure it to the distal end of the working arm of the backhoe or track hoe so that a front edge... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7624795 | Bottom mount auxiliary pumping system seal section Disclosed is a submersible pumping system that includes a motor, a production pump and a seal section disposed between the motor and the production pump. The pumping system further comprises an auxiliary pump disposed below the motor and an auxiliary adapter connect... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7622600 | System and method for the continuous production of bio-diesel A continuous biofuel production process includes the steps of introducing a feedstock containing fatty acids and triglycerides into a first reaction vessel, in which alkyl esters are produced through esterification of free fatty acids. The alkyl esters and triglycer... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7621551 | Trailer hitch adaptor assembly An adaptor assembly for attaching a gooseneck assembly to a hitch plate preferably includes a hitch connection tool having a body with a first end and a second end; an adaptor plate connectable to the hitch plate, the adaptor plate having a knob; a safety chain adap... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7587326 | Pipeline pool balancing method In accordance with a first aspect of the instant invention, there is provided a method of gas pool balancing which provides a method of simultaneously and systematically balancing an entire gas transmission network. In a first embodiment, the instant method operates... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7380606 | Composition and process for well cleaning Disclosed is a microemulsion well treatment microemulsion that is formed by combining a solvent-surfactant blend with a carrier fluid. In preferred embodiments, the solvent-surfactant blend includes a surfactant and a solvent selected from the group consisting of te... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7140153 | Synthetic roofing shingles Disclosed is a coated synthetic shingle that exhibits increased resistance to ultra-violet radiation. The shingle is useable for roofing applications and includes a substrate having a substrate surface and a base coat that is applied to the substrate surface. The ba... | 11/28/2006 |
| 6868767 | Flexible manufacturing press assembly A flexible manufacturing press assembly for the processing of sheet material through punching and forming operations having a plurality of tool assemblies of which each, in turn, group and support a plurality of processing tools. Each tool assembly has a punch magaz... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6480299 | Color printer characterization using optimization theory and neural networks A color management method/apparatus generates image color matching and International Color Consortium (ICC) color printer profiles using a reduced number of color patch measurements. Color printer characterization, and the generation of ICC profiles usual... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6469863 | Active magnetic bearing system for improved servo control Apparatus and method for improved servo control in a disc drive. The disc drive includes a rotatable disc, a moveable actuator which supports a head adjacent the disc, and a stationary active magnetic bearing assembly which uses bearing coils to levitate ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6468058 | Submersible concatenated system A system for pumping fluid from a well-bore that includes a pump assembly driven by a first motor module assembly via a continuous rotatable shaft. The first motor module assembly includes an induction motor having a multi-phase stator and a wound rotor. ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6462902 | Independent clamping spacers in a disc drive assembly Apparatus and method for individually clamping discs in a disc stack assembly to improve mechanical shock resistance of a disc drive. A clamping spacer includes a circumferentially extending body portion having a hub contact surface rigidly affixable to a... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6457531 | Water separation system with encapsulated electric submersible pumping device The present invention provides a downhole water separation system with an encapsulated electric submersible pumping device for the separation and transfer of different density fluids in downhole applications. The encapsulated device works in conjunction w... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457522 | Clean water injection system The present invention provides a clean water separation system with an electric submersible pumping device and a surface separator and pumping device for the separation and transfer of different density fluids and solids. The electric submersible pumping ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6456452 | Feed forward compensation for repeatable head position error in a disc drive Method and apparatus for reducing repeatable runout signals in a servo position error (SPE) signal of a disc drive actuator. During track following, a measurement estimate is obtained through the sampling and accumulating of data from the SPE over a mecha... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6450782 | Pump-motor assembly having a motor mount A pump-motor assembly having a base, a horizontal pump, a pump bracket to attach the pump to the base, a motor to energize the pump and a motor mount with a motor table and a motor platform to support and position the motor. The motor platform has a stand... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6449120 | Reducing bearing contaminant migration from a hard disc drive cartridge bearing assembly Apparatus for reducing bearing contaminant migration from a cartridge bearing assembly of a hard disc drive actuator assembly. The cartridge bearing assembly includes a stationary shaft, a bearing assembly and a cartridge bearing sleeve. The bearing assem... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6449117 | Reducing acoustic noise using a current profile during initial stages of a disc drive seek Apparatus and method for reducing the generation of acoustic noise in a disc drive. A seek is carried out to move a head from an initial track to a destination track on a corresponding disc surface using a servo circuit which outputs a series of current c... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6445525 | Disc drive performance by reducing areal data storage density Method and apparatus for improving disc drive performance by reducing areal data storage density while maintaining data storage capacity. A total user data storage capacity is selected for a disc recording surface. A total number of user data fields is se... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6445530 | Class AB H-bridge using current sensing MOSFETs An apparatus and method for supplying bi-directional load current to a load device. Four current sensing metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors are operably configured to form an H-bridge with the load device, each transistor having separately... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6424488 | Peripherally extending disc ring to limit disc deflection and to provide disc stack balancing Apparatus and method for balancing and limiting deflection of a disc of a disc drive. A disc stack comprises a spindle motor hub rotatable about a central axis, a disc mounted to the spindle motor hub, and a circumferentially extending peripheral disc rin... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6424487 | Energy absorbing disc travel limiter with multiple adjacent cantilevered arms to limit disc deflection An energy absorbing disc travel limiter which not only mechanically defines a limit to the extent to which a disc in a disc drive can be axially displaced in response to applied mechanical shocks, but which also acts to damp the shock-induced motion of th... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6421197 | Optimal reader/writer offsets and write fault thresholds in a disc drive A method for optimizing data transfer performance in a disc drive through selection of optimal reader/writer offsets and write fault thresholds. An initial offset for a selected track is determined as the radial distance between read and write elements of... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6418612 | Dynamic disc pack balance correction A method for automatically correcting the dynamic imbalance of a disc pack of a disc drive, the disc pack conveyed to a first selected position in a balance correction assembly station where a rotary positioner lifts and rotates the disc pack to a referen... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6414817 | High friction disc support member to increase disc drive mechanical shock resistance Apparatus in a disc drive for improving resistance of a disc drive disc stack to radially directed mechanical shocks. A disc is disposed about a rotatable spindle motor hub. Opposing first and second disc support members (such as a disc clamp, disc spacer... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6404582 | Robust index reference position detection using a sequence of successively disposed index fields Apparatus and method for improving index reference position detection on a disc of a disc drive. The disc includes servo fields used by a servo circuit to control position of a head adjacent the disc and data fields used to store user data, with at least ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6404580 | Writing servo data on stationary discs Apparatus and method for writing servo data to a disc of a disc drive. A disc pack comprising a disc and a spindle motor is mounted in a stationary disc servo track writing (STW) fixture, which maintains the disc in a nonrotating, stationary relation whil... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6400524 | Acoustic isolator for a disc drive assembly Method and apparatus for reducing acoustic noise emission in a disc drive assembly. A housing of the disc drive includes first and second plates and side walls which cooperate to form an enclosure for an excitation source disposed within the housing. At l... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6392833 | Reducing self-excited mechanical resonances in a disc drive Apparatus and method for improved operational performance of a disc drive by temporarily decreasing disc rotational velocity to reduce self-excited mechanical resonance established within the drive. The disc drive is first initialized by applying current ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6388830 | Head switching operation utilizing an automatic dummy load Apparatus and method for a head switching operation utilizing an automatic dummy load in a disc drive. A preamplifier circuit sequentially selects head positions and applies corresponding bias currents. A sequence control circuit automatically diverts the... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6389384 | Servo processor code evaluation using a virtual disc drive Method and apparatus for evaluating programming used by a programmable processor device in a disc drive to carry out servo control of a head with respect to a rotatable disc. The programming is first generated as a series of instructions executable by the... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6373649 | Reduced head population detection in a disc drive An apparatus and method for determining the configuration of a disc drive head-disc assembly (HDA). The HDA includes an array of rotatable discs and an actuator adjacent the discs, with the actuator supporting a maximum number of heads in a fully populate... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6366432 | Actuator arm with tapered trailing edge and recessed head conductor Apparatus for providing nominally laminar flow of air currents in a disc drive. An actuator supports a head adjacent a rotatable disc and includes a rigid actuator arm with opposing planar top and bottom surfaces and a pair of opposing tapered surfaces wh... | 04/02/2002 |
