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Microwave Oven With Removable Storage Cassette in Dashboard of Motor Vehicle
A microwave oven adapted for use within a motor vehicle dashboard area. The microwave oven has a removable storage cassette, and slidable platforms for securing and serving containers of beverages and foods.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8068065 | Concentric ring log-periodic slot direction finding antenna A concentric ring, log-periodic slot antenna used for direction finding is disclosed. There are a number of continuous, circular slots nested inside of each other. A cover over the slots cavities has excitation plates and conductors thereon. There are four excitatio... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8047589 | Apparatus for maintaining filtered swimming pools and spas Apparatus is disclosed for performing tasks during maintaining filtered swimming pools and spas. The apparatus can perform a number of such maintenance tasks simultaneously, without having to kneel down, and comprises a number of individual tools for performing such... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8047397 | Storage container holder A holder for to hold storage container(s) therein is disclosed. Each storage container has a lid with locking tabs or locking extension that hook underneath a protrusion around and near the top edge of the container to lock the lid to the container. The holder has a... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8011734 | Variable rolling resistance wheel for rolling vehicle A wheel for an in-line skate or other wheeled vehicle is disclosed that may be modified to alter the rolling resistance of the wheel. The wheel may be disassembled to change a tire on the outer surface of the wheel to one made of a harder or softer material, and to ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8006388 | Combination retractable knife and saw utility tool A combination retractable saw and knife utility tool is disclosed that can be actuated and used by a person using only one hand. The tool has a lock to assure that an extended knife blade or saw blade will remain extended until the user of the tool releases the lock... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7972207 | Dynamic assignment of pay lines in a game of chance A game of chance is disclosed that looks like a multi-line gaming machine having a matrix of rows and columns of positions for displaying slot symbols or cards to a player. A player wagers to play one or more games but the actual pay lines are dynamically determined... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7922608 | Tennis ball retrieval, storage and dispensing device A tennis ball retrieval, storage, and dispensing device is disclosed having a hollow tube with a diameter that may be larger than balls that are to be picked up and stored within the tube. With the larger diameter tube the balls are staggered therein so more balls m... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921535 | Method of setting up a machine for die cutting A method for improving die-cutting involving first creating a back plate footprint, possessing impressions of the imperfections found in the cutting surface of a die-cutting machine. This method provides die-cutters a simple, inexpensive way to dramatically improve ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7815048 | Poker chip cup holder A gaming chip holder and cup holder in one integrally molded device. A generally cylindrical center cup holder section surrounded by semi cylindrical poker style chip holders placed about the circumference of the cup holder area. An area without the chip holders is ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7774871 | Personal hygiene cleansing and irrigation device A personal hygiene cleansing device is disclosed which attaches to the wall of a shower or bath stall and to the water supply at a shower head in the stall. The device is adjustable to meet the height and other personal requirements of the user. Two generally vertic... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7733926 | Thulium laser pumped Mid-IR source with broadbanded output A Thulium laser (15) is used to directly drive a ZnGeP2 optical parametric oscillator (30) with a nominal 2 μm output to generate the 3-5 micron wavelengths. In one embodiment, the ZGP OPO is configured as a linear resonator and in another ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7726072 | Adjustable plant hanger An adjustable plant hanger is disclosed having straps that support a pot in which plants are placed. The straps comprise two or more loops that are not fastened to a ring by which the plant hanger may be hung from an overhead hook. The loop straps pass through the a... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7685781 | Mobile home skirt guard A skirt guard for a mobile home skirt having a skirt base on the ground and in a channel of which the bottom of the skirt sits. The skirt guard is formed of a flat elongate panel with a top and bottom edge and having a groove near and parallel to its bottom edge. In... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7678402 | Animal chew A novel dog chew is disclosed made of raw hide which has a large plurality of closely spaced perforations cut there through during manufacture of the dog chew. Typically the perforations are created in first rows that are generally parallel to each other and in seco... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677600 | Roller ski In-one aspect, a leg activated brake for a foot supporting rolling device, such as a roller ski. Roller skis generally have one wheel mounted to each end of the foot supporting frame which houses a ski binding for the skier's boot. The brake system mounts to the fra... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7539273 | Method for separating interfering signals and computing arrival angles A method is disclosed for processing all types of received, interfering radio frequency signals corrupted by noise to extract the individual signals without having any a priori knowledge about them. Received signals are converted for eigenspace processing and are su... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7506873 | Method for playing poker The novel video draw poker game disclosed utilizes a nine position card matrix in which two through four cards are initially dealt and displayed in one row at the start of game play. Pay lines pass through the nine positions. The player selects and holds ones of the... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7495835 | Display novelty There is provided a face mask with two eye holes, having a lighting display unit located inside a housing on the front of the forehead area of the mask and having a reflective, transparent sheet attached to the front of the mask between the eye holes and the housing... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7484629 | Sanitizing toothbrush holder A sanitizing toothbrush holder is described for sanitizing one or more toothbrushes in a household dishwasher. The holder is designed so as to fit in a space in the dishwasher rack used typically for holding a dinner plate, and has one or more holes in a top surface... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7453400 | Multiplatform TDOA correlation interferometer geolocation A radio geolocation system is described in which a plurality of moving platforms such as aircraft concurrently receive a signal from a remote transmitter and the geolocation of the transmitter is determined. At each platform every thirty seconds a plurality of sampl... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7436351 | Multipath resolving correlation interferometer direction finding Apparatus and a method utilizing correlation interferometer direction finding for determining the azimuth and elevation to an aircraft at long range and flying at low altitudes above water with a transmitting radar while resolving multipath signals. The signals from... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432444 | Temporary protective cover for an electrical box A temporary protective cover for an electrical outlet box is disclosed which is attached to the outlet box after wiring is installed but before wallboard is hung over the box. The protective cover has a protruding pin mounted in a keyhole shaped hole through the cov... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7358891 | Multipath resolving correlation interferometer direction finding Apparatus and a method utilizing correlation interferometer direction finding for determining the azimuth and elevation to an aircraft at long range and flying at low altitudes above water with a transmitting radar while resolving multipath signals. The signals from... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7322301 | System and method for processing sewage sludge and other wet organic based feedstocks to generate useful end products A system and method are disclosed for processing sewerage sludge and other organic based feedstocks, in an energy efficient manner that minimizes or eliminates unwanted byproducts, including pathogens, and generates useful environmentally safe products. The sewage s... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7310024 | High stability double oven crystal oscillator A double oven crystal oscillator (DOCXO) is disclosed which is highly stable by incorporating means to reduce the effects of ambient pressure changes on the frequency of the oscillator. The oscillator crystal is mounted in a temperature controlled inner oven to redu... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7286587 | Holmium doped 2.1 micron crystal laser A Ho:YAG crystal laser is disclosed which is doped with less than 2% holmium to reduce the lasing threshold and up-conversion, thereby increasing the operating efficiency of the laser. The laser does not need sensitizer ions so energy mismatches introduced by the se... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7268728 | Moving transmitter correlation interferometer geolocation A Moving Transmitter Correlation Interferometer Geo-Location (MT-CIGL) system is disclosed that permits locating both moving and stationary transmitters from moving DF equipment. A conjugate gradient based search routine is utilized which solves for the location of ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7244043 | Method and system for a processor controlled illumination system for reading and analyzing materials A method and system are described for illuminating a document, such as passports, identity documents or other types of documents, using illumination means under control of a processor to effectively control the angle and direction of light on such documents to expos... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7233285 | Correlation interferometer geolocation Correlation Interferometer Geo Location (CIGL) uses DF antenna array movement on an aircraft while taking a Plurality of sets of transmitted signal Measurements. Each measurement set is stored as data in a covariance matrix, and the matrices are each decomposed to y... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7222856 | Method for playing poker with additional card draws An improved poker game is disclosed that provides a player with an initial five card poker hand plus an indication of additional nudge cards. Four cards in a deck having the same face value, but not suit, are the nudge cards. For each nudge card that a player is ini... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7190743 | Method and apparatus for optimizing tree pruning in a multiuser detector A multi-user decoder is disclosed in which interfering users are assigned to levels of a decoding tree constructed in the decoder dependent on the power levels of the user's received signals and for each symbol interval. By building the decoding tree in this manner ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7185898 | Load leveler for a cart A load leveler is disclosed that is used with a nesting type cart having a basket with a tapered front to provide a level surface for safely carrying loads that are longer than the length of the cart basket and must sit on top of the cart basket in order to be trans... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7170909 | Low quantum defect holmium fiber laser A directly pumped, un-sensitized, holmium, quasi-two level fiber laser is disclosed that is doped with Holmium active ions between 0.1 and 2.0 percent by atomic weight. This yields greater energy efficiency from the laser because up-conversion losses are minimized, ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7119739 | Near field to far field DF antenna array calibration technique A technique is disclosed for calculating the phase and amplitude weighting factors for use with a specific compact antenna range that synthesize an in phase, constant amplitude planar wave front that appears to have been transmitted from the far field. The weighting... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7111812 | Fastening device A fastening device is disclosed for attachment to a pole without the need for tools and without the need for excessive force to mount or remove the device from the pole. The device has an interior channel that is open along a side of the fastening device. The openin... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110573 | Validation and verification apparatus and method Apparatus and a method are disclosed for automatically identifying and validating a document, for validating the identity of a bearer of a document, for verifying that the bearer has authorization to participate in an activity represented by the document, and for co... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7019644 | Mobile object monitoring system A security monitoring system providing security for mobile objects in any location, including children in a dining and child entertainment facility. The location of each object or child in the facility is tracked using a transmitter attached to the object or child w... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7003669 | Document and bearer verification system Apparatus and a method are disclosed for verifying the identity of applicants applying for documents, issued documents, and the identity of bearers of documents by obtaining information from the applicants, the documents and/or their bearers, identifying which of a ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6981203 | Method and apparatus for random shuffled turbo multiuser detector A multi-user turbo decoder combining multi-user detection and forward error correction decoding is disclosed in which randomly ordered indices are assigned to interfering users before a decoding tree is constructed in the multi-user decoder for each symbol interval ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6920709 | Sports memorabilia articles having collectable attractiveness attributes An article of sports memorabilia having collectable attractiveness attributes is disclosed wherein common and personalized attributes are displayed on an article such as a home plate, tee shirt, glass or picture. The common attributes indicate the name of a stadium ... | 07/26/2005 |
