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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7883247 | Truss with lighting track A lighting truss system uses metal truss sections with at least one powered main truss chord between end flanges. A fixture slot is disposed along an outside length of the powered main truss chord. Inside, an extruded aluminum support is positioned inside the powere... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7842885 | Simplified truss assembly and lighting track interconnection A simplified assembly truss system rivets each power track inside one chord of each truss span so that the electrical components cannot be misaligned inside the chord during final assembly. The chord is slotted to receive lighting heads in its mid-sections, and shor... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7836618 | License plate security frame A license plate security frame comprises a solid inner back plate that is secured to a vehicle and a outer front rim hinged to it that traps the license plate and covers the mounting screws. Hinges at the bottom allow the inner back plate and outer front rim to open... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7802338 | Rain-gutter cleaning system A rain-gutter cleaning system has an agitator head that is mounted to the top end of a long suction tube and pole and supported aloft by them. A vacuum pump on the ground is connected to bring rain-gutter debris down the suction tube and into a collection bag. The a... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7703740 | Clog resistant pilot valve A clog resistant, pilot operated pilot valve having two fluid paths, one path for fluid flow from the valve input to the valve output, and the second path for fluid flow through input and output pilot apertures. The opening and closing of the pilot apertures control... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7494079 | Refuse recycling plant A recycling plant comprises a main conveyor that rotates horizontally near ground level. Collected mixed refuse is brought in by trucks on a driveway surrounding the main conveyer. Loaders or dozers are used to move the refuse onto the main conveyer where it will en... | 02/24/2009 |
| D575891 | Stage light | 08/26/2008 |
| 7391362 | Linear FM radar A FM-CW radar system comprises a frequency modulated continuous wave digital generator that produces both in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) outputs to orthogonally oriented transmitter antennas. A linearly polarized beam is output from a switched antenna array t... | 06/24/2008 |
| D563693 | Tiltable swivel stand | 03/11/2008 |
| 7170440 | Linear FM radar A FM-CW radar system comprises a frequency modulated continuous wave digital generator that produces both in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) outputs to orthogonally oriented transmitter antennas. A linearly polarized beam is output from a switched antenna array t... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7150124 | Rabid animal control method A method is disclosed for luring attack-prone, rabies-infected mammals (e.g., carnivores, bats) into restraint and/or euthanasia but not luring normal, uninfected animals. ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7150361 | M-divider material-bay restraining cable system A restraining cable and rack system comprises material-bay dividers with cable restraints that can be laced-through, end-attached, and adjusted to a variety of heights on vertical bars. Long sticks or sheets of material are stood on-end inside the bays for retail di... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7082959 | Shutoff valve system with leak detector A pilot operated shutoff valve system with leak detector for automatically shutting off a water supply to appliances such as a clothes washing machine, dishwashing machine, sink, toilet, or refrigerator equipped with an ice maker, comprising a sealing member movable... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7073634 | Automated warehouse row cart and lift An automated warehouse system row cart includes a lifter that uses cams to raise and lower pallets. Three symmetrical cam lobes are cut into a hollow cylinder. Three matching cam lifters ride these lobes and are attached to an elevator plate. A stepper motor running... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7059573 | Offset bracket A material-rack system comprises an offset safety netting, a perimeter cable suspension system for the netting, offset brackets to anchor the perimeter cable suspension system away by adjustable amounts, and vertical extension posts that bolt to the face of the uppe... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7056092 | Modular propeller A modular propeller comprises a center hub with an integrated front cap and an aluminum core encapsulated with fiber-reinforced composite polymer resin. A set of replaceable blades have bases that slip into and interlock with corresponding slots in the center hub. A... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7014053 | Warehouse pallet-rack safety netting system A pallet rack safety net system comprises two parallel horizontal wire ropes that are stretched along the top and bottom edges of a shelf opening. A pair of hung left and right screens of flexible netting are attached between the top and bottom wire ropes so that th... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6897616 | Slow-wave induction plasma transport A plasma transport system uses a slow-wave power signal in external radio-frequency (RF) inductors to force plasmas to flow through ducts, such as from a plasma generator to a point of use. A magneto-hydrodynamic force is deliberately created by the RF inductors to ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6837388 | Warehouse pallet-rack safety netting system A pallet rack safety net system comprises two parallel horizontal wire ropes that are stretched along the top and bottom edges of a shelf opening. A pair of hung left and right screens of flexible netting are attached between the top and bottom wire ropes so that th... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6835880 | Guitar fretboard capo A C-clamp capo comprises a string press for clamping down on the strings of a string-instrument against a front side of a fretboard. An extension arm curves behind and has an idler clamp with a first pivot attachment. Such enables a clamping action against a backsid... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6802863 | Keeled prosthetic nucleus A prosthetic nucleus replacement embodiment of the present invention comprises a rounded shaped ceramic domed body with a receptacle in its bottom side. A keeled base of biocompatible metal is press-fit into the receptacle at any relative angle to complete a two-pie... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6792967 | Shutoff valve system with leak detector A latched, spring loaded valve having a water sensor and an activation mechanism shuts off water supply, when a water leak is detected, to specific application as cloths washing machines, dishwashing machines, sinks, toilets, and refrigerators equipped with ice make... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6753023 | Rice-flour hydrolysates fat substitute A starch hydrolysis food making process comprises mixing rice flour and rice syrup or honey in equal parts, adding amylase enzymes to the mixture, and extruding for a few seconds at an elevated temperature. Water may be added to the rice flour mixture to adjust the ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6672546 | Warehouse material-bay safety-cable system A safety cable and rack system comprises tubular material-bay dividers with wire-rope safety-cable gates and easy-to-release cable clips. Long sticks or sheets of material are stood on-end inside the bays for retail display. The cable clips are mounted on... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6652213 | Automated warehousing system and method An automated warehouse system for a building has elevators for automatically accepting incoming material on pallets. A rotating forklift mounted inside the elevator extends its forks to reach out and bring in the pallets. Once inside, the rotating forklif... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6626335 | Comfortable guitar shoulder strap A guitar shoulder strap incorporates thickened, rolled edges along the length of the strap. The strap webbing between is generally about two millimeters thick and fifty millimeters wide. The thick, rolled edges are almost four millimeters thick and about ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6626682 | Integrated circuit device socket An integrated circuit device socket is spring-loaded to accept and capture a semiconductor device. As the frame springs relax, a device nest and capture arms lower the device down onto a grid of pogo-pins that probe the contacts underneath. Such pogo-pins... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6619490 | Warehouse material-rack safety netting system A warehouse material-rack safety-netting system comprises left and right vertical extension posts that bolt to the face of the top bay of an open material rack. A two-part curtain netting that parts in the middle is supported between horizontal, parallel ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6591564 | Ground-anchor brace system for modular buildings A pier support system comprises a support pier with a load-spreading plate that is laterally braced at the top to an anchor plate pinned to the ground just under the periphery of a modular building. The support pier is placed directly under the support gi... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6577921 | Container tracking system A container tracking system comprises a dispatcher workstation with a graphical user interface and a database. These are used to track the whereabouts of shipping containers in a storage and transfer yard. A mobile unit in the yard is attached to containe... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6556476 | Non-volatile memory data protection A write-protected memory device has two write modes. Such memory device has many memory cells organized into pages. A normal write mode checks a one-bit flag collocated with every memory cell to see if writes are allowed. If the flag indicates a write ope... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6474028 | Deadman ground-anchor A deadman ground-anchor comprises a heavy steel rod with several inches of machine threading at a back end, and an arrowhead with a pair of wedge-shaped wings at a front end. The wedge-shaped wings are welded to the steel rod. A pivotable fluke is hinged ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6423071 | Surgical tool and method for passing pilot-line sutures through spinal vertebrae A method for installing spine-stabilization components comprises directing a long plastic flexible tool through a sublaminar space of a human spine vertebrae inside the spinal canal. Such tool enters the sublaminar space of a particular one of the human s... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6414230 | Jazz drumming ride pattern flip chart tool A jazz drumming ride pattern flip chart tool comprises at least one ride pattern card and a notation card beneath and extending beyond the ride pattern card. A sliding dowel moved to a place on the notation card indicates which drum should be struck. Each... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6402167 | Pallet-cart transporter A pallet cart comprises four corner adapters that lock on to respective corners of an ordinary wooden pallet. A pair of ladder frames have vertical posts that fit at the bottom into each of the four corner adapters. The ladder frames support a system of w... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6389509 | Memory cache device A memory cache device for a CD-ROM for use with a host computer capable of initially filling a clone area of the hard disk with data from the compact disc using a sequential striped fill process for copying a plurality of blocks of data from the compact d... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6277120 | Cable-anchor system for spinal fixation A spinal-fixation system comprises a dual parallel bridging that runs along a posterior length of the spine and is anchored with cables looped through a dorsal corner of the spinal canals of respective adjacent vertebrae.... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6260296 | Photograph display system A photograph display and organizer comprises a central post that can freely rotate on a base. The post is square or hexagonal or octagonal in cross-section to provide either four, six, or eight sides to which panel pivots are mounted. Each side has a top ... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6205719 | Easy-to-install roof screen system A roof screen system comprises a number of triangular frames assembled from aluminum beams held together with pivotable clamps. Such clamps also bolt down onto roof footers with flashing boots that prevent roof leaks. A number of clips are attached to the... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6185782 | Rain-gutter cleaning system A rain-gutter cleaning system has an agitator head that is mounted to the top end of a long suction tube and pole and supported aloft by them. A vacuum pump on the ground is connected to bring rain-gutter debris down the suction tube and into a collection... | 02/13/2001 |
