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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5983817 | Sewing machine control system A control system for a sewing machine, which is operable in a simulation manner as if the control system is connected to the sewing machine. When a sewing-machine control system starts a main control process, a status of its connection to a sewing machine... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5953796 | Slide zipper assembly A slide zipper assembly comprising an interlocked zipper and a slider is provided. The zipper has a first profile and a second profile. The profiles have arms ending in hooks that are engaged when the zipper is in a closed position. The slider is disposed... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5939097 | Food-like medicine In a food-like medicine comprising a seamless capsule enclosing effective ingredients and at least one of a gel and a high viscous liquid, the seamless capsule has: a diameter (d) within a range of 0.5-5 mm, a relation of a membrane thickness (θ) of the ... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5921545 | Automatic sheet feeding apparatus An apparatus for automatically feeding sheets to an image forming device such as a copying machine is provided with a sheet register means formed of one or more outside rollers movable into and out of contact with one or more feed rollers in rotation and ... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5907891 | Tree fastener with split wings The tree fastener includes a shank, a head and wings on first and second opposed sides of the shank. The wings are split along the tool parting line into wing portions which extend from the shank at different angles so that the spacing between wing portio... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5907733 | Exposing aperture device for a camera In an exposing aperture device having a pair of exposing diaphragms which are moved in opposite directions while being guided by guide members formed on a base plate, the guide members are each formed of a vertical rising part with a first contact protrus... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5902005 | Locking armrest support assembly The apparatus provides a locking mechanism for an armrest of an automobile or similar motor vehicle to a structural pin or post. The mechanism includes a cap with a lateral slit into which a button and spring are assembled. The spring outwardly biases the... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5901123 | Method and apparatus for recording information, including control information, onto an information record medium By the control information recording method, control information to control at least one of recording and reproducing operations of record information on an information record medium is recorded onto a guide track of the information record medium. The con... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5895313 | Method for manufacture of ink jet nozzle Abrasive blasting of fine particles is used to remove flash, burrs and dust from a nozzles in a nozzle array plate formed by injection molding. The abrasive blasting is applied from the entry side of the nozzles to remove the flash and roughen the interio... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5875611 | Offset sealing method for plastic films A reclosable package includes two sheets of a first polymeric resin material facing one another and forming a package opening having an inside and an outside. A first zipper strip having a male zipper profile and a first flange area, and a second zipper s... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5868663 | Front end structure of side-view type endoscope In a front end structure of a side-view type endoscope in which a treatment tool raising piece is swingably held in a raising piece receiving groove formed in the front end body, a bridge is provided on the front end surface of the front end body and exte... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5866349 | Method for determination of glucose in whole blood and cuvette and photometer for carrying out said method A sample of whole blood is contacted with a reagent which by chemical reaction with glucose in the sample brings about a detectable dye concentration change (10) the size of which is determined as a measure of the glucose content of the sample. The sample... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5865726 | Front end structure of side-view type endoscope A front end structure of a side-view type endoscope includes a metal front end body on the side face of which a view window is provided, and an end cap of a resilient material in the form of a cylinder with a closed bottom. The end cap is detachably attac... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5857892 | Toy element A toy element composed of a rolling body having a body surface, with at least four apertures provided in the body surface, and at least two movable members. Each of the members consists of a first and a second oppositely arranged element interconnected by... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857242 | Control knob The control knob includes an aperture with a D-shaped cross section. The aperture is formed by a relatively rigid planar portion and an arcuate portion which further includes a relatively flexible inner concentric portion and a relatively rigid flexible o... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857065 | Optical data communication system and printer An optical communication system for a printer includes an infrared light emitting diode for emitting a radiation for transmitting a printing data, an infrared receiver for receiving the printing data transmitted with the radiation, a printer body to which... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5846113 | Toy Building element and a toy building set comprising toy building elements The invention relates to a toy building element (1,8) for use in a toy building element system comprising a number of toy building elements with coupling studs for coupling with other toy building elements with complementary coupling sockets, the coupling... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5846039 | Positive lock rivet A positive lock rivet for joining a plurality of panels is composed of resilient plastic material and has a pin and a body having an axial bore. The pin has a head and a shank, the pin shank having a locking means, a break joint adjacent to the locking me... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5846017 | Sidewinder clip A routing clip for fixing at least one conduit to a support is integrally molded from a plastic material and includes U-shaped channels, each having two substantially parallel walls extending therefrom. One of the walls has an inwardly curving projection ... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5836638 | Fuel door assembly A fuel door assembly comprises a housing having an open main compartment, a door covering the main compartment when in a closed position with respect thereto, and a push-push lock engagable with the door by means of a latch on its inner surface. The push-... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5833480 | Standoff ground connector A standoff ground connector for mounting a circuit board to a chassis in a piece of electronic equipment in a standoff grounded position relative thereto includes two pre-load form members, each including two opposed shanks with support portions for the c... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5832570 | Peel seal zipper tape A peel seal zipper tape for reclosable plastic bags or packages includes a first and a second mutually interlocking zipper profile disposed on a top surface of a laminated film strip. The top surface is formed by a layer of a sealant material. The laminat... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5830121 | Endoscopic apparatus having an endoscope and a peripheral device wherein total usage of the endoscope is quantified and recorded An endoscope apparatus for counting a total number of times each endoscope, of a plurality of endoscopes, is connected to a peripheral device includes a connector on the peripheral device, a switch for detecting the connection of an endoscope to the conne... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5823667 | Mixer having a segmented helical mixing blade A mixer is disclosed which allows more effectively mixing and easy maintenance. The mixer can positively and effectively mix different kinds of concrete. an inside mixing blade 18 includes first and second mixing blade elements 19, 19each provided with a ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5809750 | Method of sealing containers with peelable, heat sealable foil A peelable, heat-sealable foil for closing containers, for example cups, of synthetic plastics material, in particular polystyrene, consists of one single, biaxially oriented layer of impact-resistant polystyrene, and in particular of impact-resistant pol... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5807018 | Sidewinder clip A routing clip for fixing a conduit to a support is integrally molded from a plastic material and includes a U-shaped channel having two substantially parallel walls extending therefrom. Each of the walls has an inwardly curving projection, perhaps reachi... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806999 | Double-side printing system A double-side printing system has a printer section for printing images on the obverse side of a card, and a turning section for turning over the card sent out from the printer section and sending back the inverted card to the printer section so as to pri... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5805198 | Laser drawing apparatus and method for adjusting the same A laser drawing apparatus is provided including a splitting means for splitting laser light emitted from a laser source into at least two groups of drawing beams, the beams of each group being aligned in a common plane; a scanning means for scanning a dra... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5798784 | Laser drawing apparatus featuring a beam separator supported by an adjusting means swingable about a rotating shaft A laser drawing apparatus is provided including, a first beam splitting element for splitting laser light emitted from a laser source into a plurality of beams, a second beam splitting element for splitting the beams split by the first beam splitting elem... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5791271 | Embroidery data processing device and method Disclosed is an embroidery data processing device. First image data representative of two-dimensionally extending areas, and second image data representative of linearly extending areas are extracted, and then processed in accordance with different algori... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5775969 | Toy element comprising a holder and a thin flexible material A toy element having a thin, flexible material as well as a holder for it is provided. The toy element may be used in the construction of a doll house for which it constitutes a curtain and the suspension, in the form of a rod, for the curtain. An elongat... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5768143 | ID card issuing system and method A system for issuing ID cards to which personal information data such as a personal identification number are written and verifying whether or not the information data are successfully written to the ID card. When the information data are confirmed to be ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5767895 | CATV telephone system A CATV telephone system includes a center device and a plurality of terminal devices connected by wired communication lines. The center device receives a request data from the terminal device, examines the frequency bands and the time slots currently occu... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5765496 | Embroidery data processing device and method Provided is a method of changing an embroidering order of a plurality of embroidering areas. According to the method, a selected embroidering area and the other areas are displayed on a display in different displaying conditions. With a certain operation,... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5764388 | Method and device for converting color signal Described is a method and a device for converting a color signal consisting of a plurality of chromatic color components into another color signal consisting of the plurality of chromatic color components and an achromatic color component. Firstly, an ach... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5762229 | Apparatus for preventing wet damage caused by dew-drops inside container An apparatus for preventing wet damage caused by dew-drops inside a hexahedral container, comprising: a plurality of suspending rings attached onto inner wall surface portions of the container; an inner bag constituted by a ceiling face, a bottom face, tw... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5761164 | Gain control device for servo control An automatic gain control device includes: reading unit for reading information signal from a recording medium; servo loop including servo control unit for controlling position of the reading unit with respect to the recording medium; mixing unit for mixi... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5759657 | Optical recording medium and device for reproducing the same An optical recording medium includes: a substrate on which information is recorded as phase pits, and a polarization state varying layer for rotating a polarization state of a light beam irradiated thereon in accordance with a temperature distribution cau... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5752912 | Manipulator for flexible portion of an endoscope A manipulator for a flexible portion of an endoscope includes a rotatable pulley provided in an operating portion of the endoscope, and a pliable pull rope which is wound about the pulley. One end of the pull rope is connected to the pulley. The flexible ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5752759 | Illuminated knob assembly The control knob includes a chamber into which a translucent polycarbonate jewel light pipe assembly of a first color, such as blue, and a translucent polycarbonate jewel cap of a second color, such as white, are inserted. The jewel cap is engaged against... | 05/19/1998 |
