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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5942905 | Contact arrangement A connecting device is described for use in a test clip whose multiple contacts engage multiple leads of an IC (integrated circuit) device, which can be constructed reliably and at low cost. The test clip includes a flat flexible cable (54, FIG. 7) mounte... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5897323 | Shoelace tying helper A combination of a shoe device (12, FIG. 4) and shoelace (14) for use by young children and the handicapped to learn to tie a shoelace bow, is of simple construction and provides simple guidance. The shoe device is in the form of a plate of cardboard or t... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5887293 | Simplified dump bucket toilet A dump bucket apparatus is described for use in a toilet of conventional shape and appearance, which is of simple construction and operation. The apparatus includes a bucket (50) that lies in a conventional tank (44) of long lateral (L) length and short f... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5882230 | Card connector with stabile contacts A card connector has a dielectric support (12) and card-engaging contacts (14), wherein the contacts can be easily mounted on the support and are stably held in position thereon. Each strip-shaped contact has a contacting front end portion (44) that proje... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5833473 | Cardbus Bridge An IC card is provided, of the type that has a cardbus shield (30) with a shield plate (132) mounted on the top of a front connector (12) and with shield tails (36) extending rearwardly and downwardly to secondary ground traces (50) on a circuit board (34... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5823830 | Tailess compliant contact An electrical contact is provided for press-fit insertion into a circuit board, which has a minimal antenna effect in radiating or receiving high frequency signals, while providing a large retention force (resistance to pullout). A compliant section (20, ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5816182 | Tension mooring system An offshore system is described that minimizes mooring loads attributable to oscillating wave drift. A tension member (24, FIG. 1), such as a chain, has a lower end (32) fixed to the seafloor and has an upper end portion (40) coupled to the vessel (12), s... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5811742 | Dual earplug An elongated earplug of slow recovery material has one end portion (14) for use in large ear canals to effectively block noise therein and an opposite end portion (16) for use in small diameter ear canals to block noise while maintaining a moderate comfor... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5807122 | Adaptor for mounting on a circuit board An adapter (1, FIG. 1) is provided for the connection of an optoelectronic component such as an LED (light emitting diode) (2) to a circuit board (8) that lies in a case (34), wherein the adaptor positions the LED close to a window (32) in the top wall (3... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5803117 | Multi-route full sweep selection valve A single selection valve allows the selection of three or more alternate flow routes without any unswept volume along any of the routes. The selection valve has a rotor (22) that can pivot about an axis (30) on a stator (12), the stator having ports (1-8)... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5797413 | Offshore fluid swivel spare A fluid swivel arrangement comprising a vertical stack of fluid swivels mounted on a turret of a weathervaning ship, enables a spare fluid swivel to be provided without requiring an additional pipe and consequent larger diameter of fluid swivels. A pair o... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5797635 | Latch A latch is provided for holding a pair of case parts together, of a type that includes a frame (40) having a dish (42) that can mount in a hole of a first case part and a hasp (20) that can engage a strike (16) on the other case part. A slide (70) that ca... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5794700 | CAM fluid transfer system An offshore fluid transfer system (10) is provided, of the type that includes a riser (32) having an upper end (34) connected through a universal joint (36) to a turret (22) on a vessel and having a lower end (36) anchored by catenary chains (40), and tha... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5788524 | Test clip with standard interface A test clip is described with contacts (50) for engaging leads (26) of an IC (integrated circuit) device, wherein the contacts have lower lead-contacting parts (56) arranged in a single row (62) at a predetermined lead spacing S, and have header pins (60)... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5782197 | Offshore turret lower bearing A bearing assembly that mounts the lower portion of a rotatable large (at least 4 meters diameter) turret in a moonpool near the center of a vessel, avoids damage resulting from turret and/or vessel deformation in heavy seas, while facilitating initial al... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5775937 | Card connector with switch A connector is provided for use with a microcircuit card that has contact pads on its lower face, which assures that connector contact blades fully engage the card pads when full insertion of the card is detected. The connector includes a body with a cont... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5778121 | Connector with optic fiber terminal A system includes mateable connectors (12, 14) with mateable optic fiber termini, which provides for precision alignment of the termini and which facilitates installation of an insert whose front end must be of rectangular shape. Two mating sets of optic ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5775949 | Compact smart card receiver The invention provides a receiver for a smart card (C) that has contact pads (P), including a printed circuit board (10), an electrical connector (14) mounted on the circuit board and holding contacts (18) for engaging the contact pads on the card, and a ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5769111 | Leak detector Leak detector apparatus (40) is provided for use with a toilet inlet valve assembly (12) that includes a float (30) slidable along a vertical post (32), which can be easily installed by a handyman. The leak detector apparatus includes a buoyant body (42) ... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5768110 | Plug-in card for electronic data processing equipment and a process for its manufacture and assembly A plug-in card (10) for electronic data processing equipment in approximately longitudinal, rectangular, flat form has a housing (11), at lent one printed circuit board (16) and at least one edge connector (17, 18) at one transverse side. Such a plug-in c... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5752857 | Smart card computer adaptor Apparatus is described for coupling the contact pads (116, FIG. 4) of a smart card (30) to a computer device (10) that has a slot (12) for receiving an IC card, which provides a small but reliable card receiver to be stored outside the computer device. Th... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5754404 | IC card rear board-connector support A frameless IC card is provided, with front and rear support structures that each includes an electrical connector, with a sheet metal cover mounted on the front and rear board supports without requiring a separate plastic frame to tie the components toge... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5746607 | Smart card electrical connector An electrical connector (16) is provided for mounting on a circuit board (10) to connect contact pads (100) of the card to conductive traces (102) on the circuit board. The connector includes a body (20) that carries sheet metal strip contacts (26, 26') t... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5745127 | Chart recorder transport A chart recorder of simple construction is provided for moving a strip of chart paper past a marker, the recorder providing a final marked chart strip which is not tightly rolled so it can be easily handled and viewed, with the recorder constructed so the... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5739895 | Film saving system A new 35 mm motion picture film is described which minimizes the amount of film stock that is used, and which facilitates industry acceptance by assuring at least present image quality. The new motion picture format (12) has film frames (20) of a size (22... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5739516 | Circuit board-mounted card receiver A single card receiver assembly is easily mounted on and connected to a circuit board, in a compact arrangement. The circuit board is formed with apertures (200, 202, 88) that respectively receive a connector (34) with card-engaging contact blades (36), a... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5739697 | Locking mechanism for IC test clip A mechanism is provided as part of a test clip for locking the clip to the body of an integrated circuit device, at the corner regions of the IC body. The mechanism includes locking fingers (62, FIG. 4 ) that are formed of metal spring wire, with each fin... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5736727 | IC communication card Apparatus for infrared communication between a first electronic device (10, FIG. 7) such as a notebook computer which has a slot (84) for receiving an IC card, and a second electronic device (104) such as a computer, printer, etc. that has an infrared tra... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5730624 | Secondary contact lock arrangement A secondary lock is provided to prevent deflection of a tine and therefore prevent loss of a contact, which can be used in miniature connectors having a large number of contacts and corresponding miniature tines. A first tine (71, FIG. 6 ) at each contact... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5727566 | Trackable earplug An earplug is described, which includes an elastic earplug body (12) and a metal part (14) mounted to the body to form an earplug that can be detected by a metal detector. The metal part (14) is in the form of a band that is clamped around the body. Where... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5724119 | Earmuff-eyeglass combination A combination of earmuff and eyeglass assemblies (12, 14) are provided, that facilitate adjustment of the position of the eyeglass (40) on the wearer and the raising and lowering of the eyeglass, in a construction that avoids interference with movement of... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5716221 | Stacked IC card assembly for insertion into stacked receivers A new IC card is described, which can fit into standard card-receiving hosts that each has a host connector with 68 contact positions; however, the new IC card has more than 68 card contacts that can mate with more than 68 host connector contacts. The new... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5716233 | Contact position assurance device A contact position assurance device is provided that indicates incomplete installation of a contact and that also prevents loss of a fully installed contact. Contact-receiving passages (12, FIG. 3) are arranged in groups of three that are clustered about ... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5711313 | Discoverable earplug An earplug is described, with a metal insert that enables the earplug to be detected if it falls in a vat of food or other material during industrial processing, wherein the insert can be very easily attached, with or without a cord, to even an earplug bo... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5703346 | Card receiver case A case is provided for receiving an electronic card (C), which includes a one-piece molded housing (10) that forms a pair of slideways (12, 14) that guide opposite side portions of the card and that includes upper and lower crosspieces (46, 20) that conne... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5699563 | Float-controlled dual flush valve A dual flush valve that can be operated in a partial flush mode to release only about half of the tank water to the toilet bowl, or in a full flush mode to release almost all of the tank water, is of simple and reliable construction. For a partial flushin... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5689405 | IC card rear board support A frameless IC card is provided, with a rear board support (26) to hold the rear of a circuit board, wherein a single design of rear board support can hold circuit board rear ends (24A, 24B, 24C) at a selected one of a plurality of different heights. The ... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5667407 | Shielded cable plug A cable plug is described for connecting a cable to the rear of an IC (integrated circuit) card of the PCMCIA type, which makes a simple ground connection between the cable shield and the card cover. Case shells (31, 32, FIG. 2 ) of the plug connector hav... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5666674 | Dump bucket toilet A dump bucket toilet is described, with an improved support for the bucket, a manual control that can save water, and an outlet region which efficiently directs dumped water into the toilet bowl. A support (60, FIG. 1) for the bucket has a mount portion (... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5660272 | Laterally actuated electrical switch A miniature electrical switch, of the type that includes a snap dome or tripping member (36) lying over a pair of contacts (30, 34), includes a small and effective actuator arrangement (41). The actuator arrangement includes a sheet metal force transfer m... | 08/26/1997 |
