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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6427341 | Cutting blade for vegetation trimming device A cutting attachment for use with a vegetation cutting device. The cutting attachment has a body with a generally planar coupling portion and a central axis of rotation. In one embodiment, the body further includes a conical central wall portion extending... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6375770 | Apparatus and method for forming an adhesively bonded seam between resiliently compressible fabric sheets An apparatus (21, 221, 231) for forming a butt seam (33, 233, 354) between opposed edges (32, 33, 231, 232) of resiliently compressible, fully cured, elastomeric, fabric sheets (28, 29, 228, 229, 351, 352), such as foamed neoprene for wet suits and dry su... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6302465 | Cargo restraining gate assembly and method A stowable cargo restraining gate assembly (10, 10', 10", 10'") for restraining cargo (100) in a cargo space (30) of a transport vehicle (40). The assembly preferably includes a bed liner structure (20, 20', 20", 20'")that may be positioned on the bed of ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6293306 | Throttle gate valve A throttle gate valve (10) including an upright, generally rectangular valve housing (12), in which is positioned a linearly movable gate valve (32) for closing off a thru-opening (15) formed in the lower part of housing (12). A pneumatic actuator assembl... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6241156 | Process and apparatus for individual adjustment of an operating parameter of a plurality of environmental control devices through a global computer network An apparatus and process for individual adjustment of an operating parameter of a plurality of environmental control devices, such as VAV devices (27, 29) in an HVAC system. The process includes the step of connecting at least one of computers (34) for in... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6229553 | Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor Three-dimensional computer graphics systems and methods and more particularly to structure and method for a three-dimensional graphics processor and having other enhanced graphics processing features. In one embodiment the graphics processor is Deferred S... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6226045 | Dot clock recovery method and apparatus The present invention overcomes the problem of image detail timing jitters in flat panel display devices by compensating for the phase difference between the dot clock derived by the Horizontal-sync signal and the display data. This is done by providing a... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6219727 | Apparatus and method for computer host system and adaptor interrupt reduction including clustered command completion The number of interrupts are controlled by delaying communication of the interrupt to the host computer or processor according to predetermined rules. This reduces the processing overhead and greatly increases system performance. Application of the invent... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6219753 | Fiber channel topological structure and method including structure and method for raid devices and controllers System, apparatus and method for interconnecting computer devices define an interconnect topology maximizing performance and device availability in the event of a communication channel failure. Structure and method are particularly relevant and beneficial... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6201322 | Brushless spindle DC motor used as an actuator to create radial force An apparatus for stabilizing the spin axis of a rotating system, the rotating system having a rotor and motor means to cause rotation of the rotor about the spin axis and a magnet, windings, a source of drive current and an actuator combined with the moto... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6192492 | Fast ATA-compatible drive interface with error detection and/or error correction An ATA-compatible drive interface with error correction and detection capabilities is disclosed. Being fully ATA backward compatible, this interface functions with the same physical cable and connectors as current ATA systems, employs bus drivers that are... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6182250 | Implementation of variable bit density recording in storage disc drives The present invention pertains to an apparatus and method for recording data in a data storage medium. The data storage medium includes a number of discs, each having at least one recording surface. Each recording surface is associated with a read/write h... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6177075 | Insect viruses and their uses in protecting plants The present invention relates to an isolated small RNA virus capable of infecting insect species including Heliothis species, and to the nucleotide sequences and proteins encoded thereby. The invention contemplates uses of the virus in controlling insect ... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6163274 | Remotely updatable PDA A PDA's calendar/agenda data are remotely updatable, preferably in real time. Data changes and or updates are input at a base computer station that includes a pager card with modem and preferably wireless transmission capability. The base computer station... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6157984 | Integrated controller/processor for disc drive having direct memory access A single chip integrated disc/servo controller and processor (CPU) for a disc drive reduces timing overhead associated with processor/controller/memory communication paths, increases speed, reduces the number of ASIC components, and increases reliability.... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6154339 | Centrifugal capillary seal for use with fluid dynamic bearings An improved capillary seal for use with a hydrodynamic bearing is disclosed, which provides a stronger or stiffer seal for a fluid dynamic bearing motor which is open at both ends, and is used with top cover attached motors utilizing fluid dynamic bearing... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6149159 | High pressure boundary seal A high pressure boundary seal adjacent at least one of the bearings of the spindle motor. The motor itself includes a shaft, typically a fixed shaft and a rotor supported by bearings and rotating outside the shaft. The high-pressure boundary seal comprise... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6151649 | System, apparatus, and method for automatic node isolating SCSI terminator switch System, apparatus, arid method for automatically detecting power-down, disconnection, or other failure of a SCSI bus connected device and isolating the SCSI node from the rest of the computer environment. Sensing a problem at the device node and substitut... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6145861 | Trailer hitch step A step assembly (10) including a top step plate (12) for mounting to a ball mount tongue (32), and clamped thereto by means of a pair of adjustable clamp plates (14) releasably secured to top plate (12) by four carriage bolt assemblies (20). Top plate (12... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6135509 | Safety collar and tendon assembly for threaded connections A safety collar and tendon assembly (24) for joining a female connector (22) and a male connector (20), comprising a collar member (26) having at least one tab (30, 32) with a radially inwardly projecting leg (35) which extends into an annular recess (39)... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6138089 | Apparatus system and method for speech compression and decompression The invention provides system, apparatus, and method for compressing a speech signal by decimating or removing somewhat redundant portions of the signal while retaining reference signal portions sufficient to reconstruct the signal without noticeable loss... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6123765 | Continuously fed single bubbler for epitaxial deposition of silicon A delivery system and method for providing a gaseous chemical is provided. The system comprises a single bubbler 12 having a chamber 13 for containing a liquid chemical, at least one inlet tube 14 for providing a carrier gas to said chamber, and one outle... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6115823 | System and method for task performance based dynamic distributed power management in a computer system and design method therefor In a computer system having a device and a communications link for communicating with the device. A method for dynamically managing power consumption by the computer system comprises associating a particular device identifier with the device. Communicatio... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6110130 | Exoskeleton device for directly measuring fingertip position and inferring finger joint angle An exoskeleton device is provided for measuring positions of links and angles of joints of an animate body, where the body comprises a plurality of links joined by intervening joints. The device is affixed at a first mobile terminus of said animate body a... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6108529 | Radio system including FET mixer device and square-wave drive switching circuit and method therefor A radio comprising an FET mixing device for multiplying a first-frequency signal with a second frequency signal to generate a third frequency analog mixer output signal. A local oscillator input port receives a periodic sinusoidal local oscillator signal ... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6104379 | Forearm-supported exoskeleton hand-tracking device A man-machine interface device is provided which employs rigid links interconnected by measured revolute joints to provide the position of a hand relative to a reference location, such as a desk, keyboard or chair. By proper selection of kinematic structu... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6102947 | Splint with flexible body for repair of tendons or ligaments and method A surgical repair splint (21,41,61,81,121) for use with a securement device such as a plurality of sutures (31,51,71,91,131) to hold together opposed ends of a member, such as a tendon or ligament (24,64,84,124), during preparing and healing of the member... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6089347 | Muffler with partition array A muffler (10) having a casing (21), an inlet opening (22) and an outlet opening (26). An initial partition (30) forms an expansion chamber (28). The casing (21) has mounted and formed therein a partition array (34) that includes a divider partition (36),... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6077304 | Verification system for simulator An electronic circuit verification system and method includes an HDL circuit simulator and a circuit simulation verifier that pass control back and forth between each other, and that cooperate so as to perform circuit verification tasks than would be very... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6072165 | Thin film metal/metal oxide thermocouple A thin film thermocouple having junctions (2, 7) of metal and semiconducting metal oxides such as tin oxide/silver, and used as surface temperature sensors in conjunction with thin film heating elements (1) to control temperature.... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6072745 | Method for operating a memory A memory system is able to simultaneously access multiple rows in page mode operation. The multiple page memory includes a memory array with multiple internal read registers to improve the effective page cycle time. The multiple page memory of this invent... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6068884 | Method of making low .kappa. dielectric inorganic/organic hybrid films A method of depositing a dielectric film exhibiting a low dielectric constant in a semiconductor and/or integrated circuit by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is provided. The film is deposited using an organosilicon precursor in a manner such that the fil... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6068549 | Structure and method for three chamber CMP polishing head The invention provides a polishing machine and a three-chambered polishing head structure and method that improves the polishing uniformity of a substrate across the entire surface of the substrate, particularly near the edge of the substrate that is part... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6064872 | Totem pole mixer having grounded serially connected stacked FET pair A high dynamic range mixer apparatus and mixing method where a wide high dynamic range is achieved in part due to the use of a series pair of switching devices that are matched so as to afford complete or substantial cancellation of nonlinearity distortio... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6064392 | Method and apparatus for generating non-homogenous fog The present invention simulates the effect of non-homogenous fog in computer graphics images. The non-homogenous fog visibility equation includes four parameters. A distance scaling parameter K1. A variable fog parameter K2. A normalization constant K3, a... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6061519 | Embedding multiple (non embedded) high level languages into an assembler code A novel method is taught to quickly and easily produce assember code from a single embedded file which can include high level language code written in any of a number of high level languages interspersed, if desired, among assembler code itself.... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6056769 | Expansile device for use in blood vessels and tracts in the body and tension application device for use therewith and method A device for expansion within a blood vessel having a wall defining a lumen in the body. A first elongate tubular member has proximal and distal extremities and has a longitudinal axis. An expansile member is carried by the distal extremity of the first e... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6056987 | Two-stage process for heating skins of fruit A two-stage steam peeler for peeling the skins of fruit, such as tomatoes, from the body of the fruit, comprising an infeed conveyor (10), a feed valve (12), a pressurized steam chamber (14), an outlet vacuum valve (16), a flexible cable peeler (20), and ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6057616 | Stator interconnect ring A spindle motor incorporates a hollow shaft and a prewound stator having an interconnect ring attached to one end of the stator assembly. The interconnect ring is preferably a printed circuit or flexible printed circuit; it is bonded to the stator stack b... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6056770 | Expansile device for use in blood vessels and tracts in the body and method A device for expansion within a blood vessel having a wall defining a lumen in the body. The device comprises an elongated tubular member having proximal and distal extremities and having a longitudinal axis. An expansile member is carried by the distal e... | 05/02/2000 |
