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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7077835 | Reconstituting device for injectable medication A device for reconstituting liquid for medical use by bringing together a first liquid medium contained in a first vessel in the form of a cartridge (3) and a second medium, such as a drug in solid form, contained in a second vessel in the form of a vial (... | 07/18/2006 |
| D519835 | Glass plug for wine bottles | 05/02/2006 |
| 7026480 | Organometallic light-emitting material Disclosed herein are novel light-emitting materials of Formula I and II below. These new complexes are synthesized and found to be sufficiently stable to allow sublimation and vacuum deposition. These new emitters are electrophosphorescent and can be used in organic... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7012178 | Compact musical instrument equipped with automatic player A music box includes a daisy reed wheel having reeds radially projecting from a hub for generating tones and solenoid-operated player's fingers arranged around the daisy reed wheel; the tips of the reeds are widely spaced from one another by virtue of the radial arr... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6960967 | Dielectric resonator device, filter, duplexer, and communication apparatus Ceramic cavities 1a and 1b have upper and lower open faces and contain dielectric cores 2a and 2b formed integrally therein. The ceramic cavities 1a and 1b are sandwiched between upp... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958831 | Image scanning method and apparatus thereof At a conventional image scanning method, it takes long time to transfer an image data of whole image, consequently it takes long time to display the whole image on a display. Therefore, an image scanning method and an apparatus thereof, with which a user can recogni... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6936588 | Method of production of an isomaltulose-containing enteral nutrient The present invention relates to a method for the production and use of enteral nutrients, particularly an enteral solution, wherein this method is distinguished by a particularly gentle processing, particularly of the carbohydrate components contained in the soluti... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6925302 | Mobile communication method In a mobile terminal communication method, when a zone in which a mobile terminal is positioned becomes in a congestion state, a calling channel having high emergency can be secured. A connection priority rank is given to each mobile terminal. When an area in which ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6914915 | OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIER THAT CAN ATTAIN SUFFICIENT GAIN SHIFT EFFECT, SMALL NOISE PROPERTY AND HIGH OPERATION EFFICIENCY AT THE SAME TIME EVEN IN TWO-WAVELENGTH EXCITATION TM DOPANT OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIER, AND OPTICAL AMPLIFIER HAVING THE SAME A laser amplifier includes a gain medium of a glass fiber, a first exciting light source, a second exciting light source, and another first exciting light source. The gain medium of the glass fiber includes rare earth dopant in a host medium. Ions of the rare earth ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6908872 | Transparent ceramic and method for production thereof, and optical element A ceramic material powder for a translucent ceramic is molded with a binder, and the resulting green compact is embedded in a ceramic powder having the same composition with the ceramic material powder. After removing the binder, the green compact embedded in the ce... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6907256 | Mobile terminal with an automatic translation function A mobile terminal of the invention includes a language translation unit and stores in advance a language used in the mobile terminal. When the mobile terminal calls or receives a call, the mobile terminal recognizes a country ID corresponding to a people who is call... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6890391 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and apparatus for cleaning substrate The stripping agent is sprayed from the tip of the nozzle 33 onto the wafer surface, while the first supply nozzle 33 is actuated to scan from the central portion of the wafer to the outer portion thereof. This operation provides the situation, in whic... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6883367 | Method for measuring elastic properties This invention relates to a method for measuring elastic modulus of a sample object. This invention also relates to a method for correcting creep effects in the modulus measurement. The error due to creep in the apparent contact compliance is equal to the ratio of t... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6879500 | Apparatus for noise current reduction in power converters An apparatus for reducing electromagnetic interference due to common mode current in power converters is disclosed. Common mode current flowing through high parasitic capacitance on the load side typically contributes significantly to the electromagnetic interferenc... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6870574 | Method and apparatus for enhanced puppetry or similar types of performances utilizing a virtual set An improved method for enhanced puppetry or similar types of performances utilizing a virtual set having a key-color screen behind the set to do live action filming. All objects on the set, except for the performing puppet, or other objects which are to appear in th... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6860222 | Convertible deck yacht A yacht includes a lower area (1), an upper area (2) or deck, a vertically moveable roof (3) forming part of the craft and drive means for covering or uncovering said upper area (2), e.g., hydraulically driven telescopic bars (4). ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6855740 | Foamed molded bodies made from silicon and use of said produced products Molded foam bodies made of silicone can be produced in large series by means of known injection molding machines for liquid silicone by virtue of the fact that mixtures of ammonium carbonate, and/or ammonium carbaminate, and/or ammonium hydrogen carbonate, in powder... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6856608 | Method and base station for allocating pseudo noise code To prevent degradation of transmission quality due to interference between scramble codes, under such a situation as soft hand over, when the number of mobile stations connected with a base station exceeds the number of the orthogonal codes. The base station decides... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6847275 | High-frequency circuit board unit, high frequency module using the same unit, electronic apparatus using the same module, and manufacturing method for the high-frequency circuit board unit A ground electrode and a terminal electrode are formed on a first main surface of dielectric substrate forming a circuit board. Wiring electrodes are formed on a second main surface of the dielectric substrate. A semiconductor device and a filter are mounted on the ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6838604 | Wooden bars arranged for percussion instruments A prescribed number of bars are arranged in a percussion instrument such as a xylophone and marimba, wherein each bar is formed by a base layer, a fiber reinforced plastic layer, and a surface layer that are combined together using an epoxy adhesive therebetween. Bo... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6836668 | Portable communication apparatus with voice/character conversion direction switch A portable communication apparatus allowing increased flexibility and convenience is disclosed. A switch is provided to select one of a voice-character conversion communication mode and a character-voice conversion communication mode depending on a setting instructi... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6804159 | Semiconductor device having fuse and its manufacture method A semiconductor device has: a fuse having one end applied with a first voltage, and a MOS transistor having source, gate and drain and a connection point between the other end of the fuse and one of the source and drain, a second voltage lower than the first voltage... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6803841 | Dielectric line, having a dielectric strip fitted in a groove between two contacting conductors A dielectric strip is located in a space formed by facing grooves in two conductors. A corner of the groove bottom surface Gb has a sectionally substantial arc form. A groove side surface Gs is tapered such that a gap can be provided between the groove side surface ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6790907 | Ceramic slurry composition and manufacturing method therefor A ceramic slurry composition is obtained by mixing a ceramic raw material powder, a water-soluble acrylic binder and water, wherein the water-soluble acrylic binder has a weight average molecular weight of from about 10,000 to 500,000, and has an inertial square rad... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6784015 | Solid state image sensor and method for fabricating the same In a solid state image sensor, tranfer electrodes are formed by selectively etch-removing a single layer of conducting electrode material at a plurality of first regions which divide the single layer of conducting electrode material in a row direction for each one p... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6765141 | Foot pedal for drum A foot pedal for a drum (e.g., a bass drum) is constituted by a pedal frame, a rotation shaft, a rocker, a beater rod having a beater, a foot board, a depression transmission member, and a base plate whose front portion is affixed to a frame body by use of a screw a... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6735177 | Multicast communication device and method In a multicast communication network, each of the nodes stores a table containing distances between each of the multicast communication nodes and the other multicast communication nodes. When receiving a destination list, the node sequentially selects a node having ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6683358 | Silicon integrated accelerometer In an accelerometer, the stress is detected through electric amplification with the use of detecting elements 411-434 having an amplification function arranged on beams 3 and, with the use of a differential amplifier circuits 510 formed on the support bas... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6667363 | Materials for liquid keeping containers A material for liquid keeping containers comprising a resin composition which contains a syndiotactic polystyrene resin and a polypropylene resin and includes a compatibilized structure of the syndiotactic polystyrene resin phase and the polypropylene res... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6660071 | Electroless copper plating bath, electroless copper plating method and electronic part An electroless copper plating bath containing a cupric compound, a cupric ion complexing agent, a reducing agent, and a pH adjusting agent is provided, in which a carboxylic acid is added as a reaction accelerator to accelerate the oxidation reaction of t... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6580338 | Dielectric filter, dielectric duplexer, communication apparatus, and method of designing dielectric resonator apparatus A dielectric filter, a dielectric duplexer, a communication apparatus are capable of arbitrarily determining the coupling degree of an external coupling without changing the intensity between resonators and miniaturization. Resonator holes are aligned in ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6575748 | Dental tool A dental root canal file (1) has a drilling end (5) and a shank (7) formed of a hollow, substantially closed, helix (16), and openings (14) are defined between the adjacent windings (8a, 8b, 8c) by spacers (13).... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6560272 | Decode circuit for code division multiple access receiver To improve a capacity of coherent detection of the spread spectrum (SS) signal, when interference and noise can not be neglected. Amplitude phase estimation unit outputs transmission line estimation value including fluctuations in the transmission lines, ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6553173 | Installation structure for optical fiber An installation structure for positioning and holding an optical fiber by means of a V-shaped groove formed on a substrate is disclosed. The V-shaped groove is divided into a positioning section and an alignment fixing section. The positioning section has... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6548941 | Piezoelectric element A piezoelectric element includes a plurality of piezoelectric layers which contain a bismuth layer compound as the main component of the piezoelectric ceramic composition. The piezoelectric layers are provided with electrodes containing Pd as a main compo... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6538790 | Optical receiver array An optical receiver array includes a plurality of light-receiving elements, a plurality of amplifiers, and a plurality of low-pass filters. The light-receiving elements convert optical signals of a plurality of channels into electrical signals, respective... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6531920 | Differential amplifier circuit The differential amplifier circuit of the invention comprises operational amplifiers 3 and 4 having the negative inputs connected to input terminals 1 and 2 respectively, transistors 21 and 22 having the bases connected to each of the outputs of the opera... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6496555 | Phase locked loop A PLL comprising a VCO, a phase comparator, a frequency comparator and a filter realizes an enlarged pull-in frequency range and increased operating frequency. The VCO generates a first clock signal and a second clock signal whose frequency is the same as... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6496513 | Traffic priority control system for a concentration-type ATM switch An ATM concentrator connects (m×n) input highways to n output highways and performs a full priority control. The ATM concentrator has output cell buffers for respective quality classes. Cells are read from the output buffers of the quality classes and th... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6480314 | Optical transmitter Part of output light of an LD 11 issuing a signal light 10 depending on a driving current is received by a photo diode 13, and the current corresponding to the reception power is converted into a voltage in a current-voltage converting circuit 14, and an ... | 11/12/2002 |
