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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8164426 | System and method for producing and distributing digital images including data identifying subjects being photographed A system and method is provided for taking digital photographs of subjects and for distributing digital images from the photographs according to subject identifiers transmitted from RFID tags held with the subjects. With a first embodiment, data from photographs tak... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8052696 | Suture tensioning device A suture tensioning apparatus for tightening the suture used to tie a tissue of a patient to the bone of the patient so that the tissue will cinch to the bone. A lever is mounted on a stub shaft that is supported to a base member and is movable in a lateral position... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8047200 | Hybrid solar heating system A hybrid solar heat collector within a translucent dome structure includes a tubular frame, forming a first fluid path, and a transverse hose winding in a spiral inside and outside alternating legs of the frame to form a second fluid path. The first fluid path is co... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7971728 | Bone fragment collector A filtration system for collecting bone fragments during surgery performed on a patient includes a cylinder having a rotating disk with circumferential arms extending radially in the cylinder to define pockets. The rotating disk includes a longitudinal hub that carr... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7870855 | Solar heat collecting apparatus A solar heat collecting dome includes a frame having an odd number of frame elements extending upward and inward from a floor structure to a disk at the top of the dome. A dome shaped helical structure including two flexible tubes is woven to extend along and around... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7621730 | Surgical pneumatic motor A modular constructed surgical motor with an outer cylindrical case used as the handle, and a spaced inner motor case resiliently mounted thereto forms an air gap for reducing vibrations and heat, a separate module houses the chuck, a ball coupling made from an elas... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7614793 | Needle/roller bearing A needle bearing is designed for a high speed drill or MDA surgical instruments that include alternate rollers made from metallic and plastic or synthetic material mounted in the bore of the housing of the drill or MDA and the shaft being supported by the needle bea... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7537524 | Coupling of driver/driven shafts of a motor and thrust isolation The rotary motion created by a motor is transmitted from the drive shaft of the motor to the driven shaft through a pair of diametrically opposed balls fitted into a coupling mechanism attached to the drive shaft and through a pin fitted into holes formed in the opp... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7527486 | Surgical pneumatic motor for use with MRI A surgical pneumatic motor is designed to be used with or without an MRI machine without affecting or influencing the magnetic characteristic of the MRI machine. The motor includes an improved vane motor with undercuts in the spindle to increase the power faces of t... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7458979 | Internal tip seal for attachment/motor for surgical instruments A seal for an attachment to a surgical motor is provided by cutting threads into the inner surface of the nose cone of the attachment whereby the helical wound threads are in a direction opposite to the direction of the rotating shaft of the instrument being support... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7399159 | Detachable leading edge for airfoils The airfoil of fan/compressor and turbine rotors is constructed to include a leading edge that is detachable. The leading edge includes an airfoil section and an attachment that is adapted to fit into a complementary groove formed in the rotor disk. The detachable l... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7374071 | Backpack, pouch or clothing with integral raingear In one embodiment the raingear is housed in a pocket located on the top of the backpack so as to allow the wearer to reach over his shoulders to grab hold of a portion of the raingear and lift it out of the pocket and allow it to drape over the entire body of the we... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7357619 | Cross over flow diverter for noise reduction A cris-cross pattern of flow channels serves to divide the flow of fluid and then cross the flow to cause an impact between the flow in each channel to impact against each other to reduce the decibels and noise level created by the flowing of the fluid. In a pneumat... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7293414 | High performance method for throttling of closed gas turbine cycles A closed cycle recuperator microturbine and an open cycle heat generating system for supplying heat for driving the turbine includes a pair of valves fluidly connected to the compressor inlet and compressor outlet for bleeding air therefrom when the microturbine eng... | 11/13/2007 |
| D553738 | Handle for medical instruments | 10/23/2007 |
| 7261526 | Cylinder for a vane motor A cylinder to a vane motor is designed to include cylindrically shaped inlet and outlet holes, an axial passage that includes a blocked upstream portion that bypasses the upstream inlet holes, spaced circumferentially slots for leading a portion of the pressurized a... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7255546 | Spindle for a vane motor The spindle of a vane motor is designed to enhance the power, speed and torque by undercutting the spindle adjacent to the vanes on the power stroke side to increase the working area of the vanes and by adding slots intermediate the vane formed in said spindle and e... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7217090 | Seals A seal for a rotating machine is designed to be operable when set and cured in situ and one seal arrangement includes a washer having a beveled face and a nut having a beveled face axially spaced therefrom and mounted in a housing, the one seal arrangement is mounte... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7217363 | Filtration system A filtration system for cleaning a fluid, typically water, that is contained in a tank having a rounded base and which cleans, during the backwash cycle, the filter media and, in particular, cleans the media in a usually stagnant area found in the rounded base of th... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7192152 | Actuated battery operated lighted garment An outer garment or vestment comprising a front panel and rear panel that includes an electrical circuit of neon wire, a battery operated power pack and toggle switch so as to be illuminated to allow play, such as touch football, tag and the like, in the darkness wh... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7175171 | Support for parallels for vises used in manufacturing Support mechanism for supporting parallels in a vise that includes an elongated flat base member having a magnet mounted on the bottom thereof in conjunction with the springs, hold one of the parallels against the solid jaw of the vice. Each of a pair of arms pivota... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7147493 | Connector for an igniter cable A connector within an igniter cable, configured for attachment to the high voltage terminal of an exciter, includes a contact terminal attached to the wire within the cable, having a number of flexible contact members to engage a pin within the high voltage terminal... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7144415 | Anchor/suture used for medical procedures For suture tying in a medical procedure including the use of an anchor that includes a suture locking device that includes a sliding pin guided by axial side slots formed in the locking device that forces the suture where the two ends thereof are inserted into the i... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7128544 | Crescent seal for the cylinder of a vane motor A vane motor is modified to increase the sealing effectiveness of the gap made at the interface of the spindle and cylinder by undercutting the cylinder a predetermined amount and distance so as to increase the effectiveness of the spindle to cylinder gap and to dec... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129987 | Method for converting the resolution and frame rate of video data using Discrete Cosine Transforms The resolution, in terms of numbers of pixels in horizontal and vertical directions, and frame rate, in terms of frames per second, of video data are converted by assembling a group of the frames within an input buffer, by applying a direct DCT to data from each lin... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7124716 | Internal combustion engine using opposed pistons An internal combustion engine having a cylindrical outer housing with inner cylindrical cylinders defining power cylinders circumferentially spaced in the engine. Each of the cylinder(s) has opposed intake and exhaust pistons. The intake and exhaust pistons use air ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7104752 | Braided wire damper for segmented stator/rotor and method The segments of the vanes of a stator and the blades of a rotor for a gas turbine engine are dampened by utilizing braided wire cable that is affixed to adjacent segments such that each of the wire strands forming the cable is allowed to move relative to each other ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7080971 | Cooled turbine spar shell blade construction A blade for a rotor of a gas turbine engine is constructed with a spar and shell configuration. The spar is constructed in an integral unit or multi-portions and includes a first wall adjacent to the pressure side and a second wall adjacent to the suction side, a ti... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7053590 | Power generating system including a high-frequency alternator, a rectifier module, and an auxiliary power supply A power generating system includes a high-frequency alternator, a rectifier, a capacitor in each phase line extending between an output terminal of the alternator and the rectifier, and an auxiliary power supply, providing auxiliary power for use within the power ge... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7036546 | Stamp/label dispenser A stamp/label dispenser generally kidney shaped that includes a circular pocket for holding a roll of stamps/labels and an interconnecting passage so that one end of the roll can be withdrawn through the mouth or end. The roll is of the type that includes a surface ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6994521 | Leading edge diffusion cooling of a turbine airfoil for a gas turbine engine A plurality of double rows of orifices sandwiching a plenum formed in the wall of the leading edge of an airfoil diffuses the coolant that feeds a plurality of columns and rows of grooves formed in the leading edge of the airfoil so as to diffuse the coolant and def... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6981846 | Vortex cooling of turbine blades A near wall cooling technique for cooling the pressure and suction sides of a turbine airfoil that includes a matrix of cells oriented chord-wise and extending longitudinally having vortex chambers with vortex creating passages feeding coolant from interior of the b... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6979775 | Security apparatus and method A security apparatus for enclosing the branch connections of a cable-TV aerial tap unit to prevent unauthorized used thereof including a box like structure mounted on the bottom of the tap unit to enclose the cables and connections thereof and providing a keyed hing... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6969368 | Suction and directional irrigation apparatus A hand-held directional irrigation tube and a suction tube surgical instrument includes a finger or thumb operated aperture on the suction tube communicating with the lumen thereof that serves to selectively by-pass and connect the suction pump with the surgical sit... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6966173 | Heat transfer apparatus The annular recuperator for use with a microturbine includes an involuted shaped inner member with a portion thereof being corrugated and an involuted shaped outer member also with a portion thereof being corrugated and spaced therefrom to define a cell. The end por... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6966520 | Line tensioning and coupling apparatus A rope or line tensioning and/or coupling apparatus for tensioning a rope or coupling two ropes that is formed from a planar member having judiciously located slots and a drilled hole that allows the rope to be inserted into the drilled hole, looped with a knot for ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6921120 | Cargo extension apparatus for motor vehicle The load carrying capability of a bed of a truck or the back of an SUV is increased by length and weight of the load by including a platform that is movable to the height of the wheel well so that a load that measures say, 4′×8′ fits above the wheel well so tha... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6877323 | Microturbine exhaust heat augmentation system The microturbine engine that is typically utilized to power an electrical generating system and/or boiler, chiller and the like includes a second boiler and a by-pass system for providing heated water at two different levels or where one of the boilers provides stea... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6877952 | Passive clearance control The clearance between the tips of the rotor blades and the segmented shroud of a gas turbine engine is controlled by a passive clearance control that includes a support ring made from a low thermal expansion material supporting a retainer for the blade outer air sea... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6863509 | Split seal plate with integral brush seal A segmented seal plate supporting a brush seal mounted in the space between the compressor and turbine and bearing against the shaft of a microturbine engine form a barrier in this cavity and serves to control flow in this space. A plurality of circumferentially spa... | 03/08/2005 |
