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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8151497 | Identification device for electrical conductors An identification device adapted for attachment to an insulated electrical conductor includes a pair of generally-rectangular marking plates having planar first longitudinal horizontal surfaces. A plurality of laterally-spaced resilient tension members connect toget... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8147273 | Connector for high electrical power applications A connector assembly includes a preassembly frame to which the ends of a number of high-voltage transmission lines are connected, whereupon the preassembly frame is mounted in an open-ended chamber contained in a connector housing. The frame includes a first end wal... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147257 | Apparatus for mounting electrical and mechanical components on a support body An electrical, electronic, fiber-optic, hydraulic, or pneumatic component is mounted upon a rectangular support body having an upper surface containing at least one linear groove, wherein a first connector is mounted in protectively concealed relation adjacent a giv... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8117769 | Cushioned shoe construction including toe and heel plates A shoe sole construction includes a sole member formed from a synthetic plastic material having a first durometer value of hardness and including toe, ball, arch, and heel portions. Relatively rigid toe and heel plates are secured to bottom surface of the sole membe... | 02/21/2012 |
| D652161 | Boat running light | 01/10/2012 |
| 8084903 | Connection arrangement for supplying power to an electric motor A connector arrangement is provided for supplying electric power to a three-phase motor to produce motor operation in either a delta mode or a star mode, use being made of modular units that are removably mounted within a chamber contained in an outer frame that is ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8075350 | Connector apparatus with code means, and method of assembling the same A plug connector and a method of coding of same is characterized by first and second coding elements that are pre-mountable as a unit on at least one of a pair of plug connector components. The other plug connector component is configured so that when the connector ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8056218 | Crimping apparatus for cables, particularly shielded cables Crimping apparatus for crimping separate parts of a metal sleeve arranged concentrically about the junction between a shielded cable and a plug connector, including a pair of colinearly arranged annular crimping dies that are operable by an annular operating member ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8002573 | Connector arrangement for braided conductors An electrical connector for electrically connecting a hollow bus bar member with an insulated multi-wire or braided conductor inserted axially therein, including a conductive contact screw that is threadably connected within a first opening contained in the bus bar ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7997915 | Pin or socket contact with resilient clip An electrical pin or socket terminal includes a vertical tubular body portion, and a spring clip portion connected with the upper end of the body portion. The spring clip portion includes two opposed electrical contacts at least one of which is resiliently biased to... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7987744 | Hand grip operating means for an insulation-stripping tool A pliers-type gripping tool includes a pair of gripping jaws, a pair of pivotally connected hand grip levers for operating the gripping jaws between an open separated condition and a closed gripping condition, and an adjusting device for varying one of the physical ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7955117 | Connector arrangement for flat conductors A connector arrangement includes a flat conductor component having a flat engagement portion, a conductive bus bar component having a flat engagement portion, and a conductive contact screw connecting the conductor and bus bar flat engagement portions in contiguous ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7913588 | Insulation stripping tool with striker means An insulation stripping tool of the pliers-type includes an adjustable pull rod stop device for limiting the extent of travel of the longitudinally displaceable pull rod and the cutting and stripping blades connected thereto, thereby to produce only partial removal ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7900537 | Knife assembly for insulation stripping tools A pliers-type insulation stripping tool includes a releasable fastening device for fastening a knife cassette to at least one of the knife carrier members that are longitudinally displaced by the pivotally connected tool handle members to remove a severed length of ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7891273 | Insulation stripping tool A pliers-type insulation stripping tool includes an adjusting device for adjusting the cutting profile provided by the knife edges of a stack of parallel lamellar cutting blades pivotally connected at one end with a knife holder for independent pivotal movement abou... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7864340 | Wavefront analysis method involving multilateral interferometry with frequency difference The method comprises positioning a diffraction grating with a two-dimensional meshing on the path of the beam to be analyzed and processing at least two interferograms of at least two different colors, each interferogram being obtained in a plane from two sub-beams ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7841719 | Method and apparatus for determining the shape, distance and orientation of an object A method of determining the external three dimensional external contour of a curved object in one step, which produces and processes a single composite en-face OCT image (a C-scan), which involves generating and processing a set of two dimensional image contours of ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7841260 | Insulation stripping tool with displaceable knife carrier means A pliers-type insulation stripping tool includes a pair of blade holders that are removably connected with the pull rod that longitudinally displaces the blades relative to the handle shell when a severed length of insulation is stripped from the insulated conductor... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7826066 | Compact achromatic optical interferometer of the three-wave lateral shearing type A method and a system for analyzing the wavefront of a light beam, wherein a diffraction grating is arranged in a plane perpendicular to the light beam to be analyzed and optically conjugated to the analysis plane. Different emerging beams of the grating interfere t... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7824190 | Connector for connecting conductors of a cable to flat conductors of a photovoltaic cell A connector arrangement connects the flat conductors that extend upwardly from a horizontal photovoltaic cell panel with the insulated conductors of a cable via the circuits of a printed circuit board, respectively. A flat conductor support member is adhesively secu... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7810686 | Watercraft carrier The invention is a watercraft carrier that can be easily loaded and secured. The carrier has a base and an arm with a belt that runs the length of both the base and the arm. A watercraft is placed within upon the base and against the arm. Then the belt is extended u... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7806533 | Optical system alternating image capture and image projection An optical system comprises a first image capture device for capturing an image of an observation area, a first display device, a semi-reflecting plate, a concave mirror disposed facing the first display device, and a second display device for displaying a backgroun... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7781684 | Insulating gasket means for supporting a cable in a housing opening A compressible sealing gasket for supporting a cable in a wall opening contained in a housing wall includes a pair of gasket sections each having a planar surface that contains a recess, and at least one integral compressible sealing projection extending from the pl... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7775806 | Electronic housing with a conductive plate A printed circuit board arrangement and method includes a planar generally-rectangular vertically-arranged printed circuit board having front and rear surfaces terminating in a peripheral edge, at least one of the front and rear surfaces having a conductive printed ... | 08/17/2010 |
| D621901 | Fishing lure | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774838 | Thorough operation restriction A thorough method for restricting which operations (processes) can be run by a user on a single workstation computer or by a user on a session in a multi-user environment, such as Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services. By default, all applications (processes) are... | 08/10/2010 |
| D620855 | Fender for automotive vehicle | 08/03/2010 |
| D618507 | Utility lighter with flexible tube | 06/29/2010 |
| 7738501 | Method of recovering timing over a granular packet network A method is disclosed for recovering timing information between master and slave nodes interconnected over a packet network having an underlying time grid with a distinct granularity. A series timing packets are exchanged between said master and slave nodes to measu... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7736161 | Stackable electronic housing with male or female connector strips A connector assembly for printed circuit board terminal blocks and the like includes a housing having spaced side and end walls defining a chamber, and a first connector component mounted in the chamber adjacent an access opening contained in the housing walls. A se... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7735228 | Insulation stripping tool An insulation stripping tool for flat cables includes a clamping device adapted to be clamped to a flat cable and to provide a linear guide edge for guiding a knife holder to accurately sever the outer insulation sheath of the cable in a transverse direction. Upon r... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7732510 | Barrier based fuel resistant binder A fuel resistant binder is characterized by the addition of a carrier curing agent to a modified, unmodified or emulsified asphalt material formed of a mixture of hot, cold or emulsified asphalt and carrier and activator materials. The carrier curing agent preferabl... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7728634 | Flexible waveform generator with extended range capability A frequency synthesizer includes a first clock running at a frequency fCLK1, a second clock running at a frequency fCLK2, wherein frequency fCLK2 is higher than frequency fCLK1, the frequencies having a fixed ratio QF... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7727074 | Stamped cardan joint yoke member for an automotive vehicle steering column The yoke member of Cardan joint is made in one unitary part of one piece and includes a pivot fork including two pivot arm portions each comprising a crossing hole, the axis of which is the pivot axis of a cross-piece, and a connecting element for the motion transmi... | 06/01/2010 |
| D616143 | Lamp stand | 05/18/2010 |
| 7712998 | Flood wall A portable, inflatable flood wall is characterized by a sheet of synthetic plastic material which is folded back on itself to define a chamber between bottom, rear and front portions of the sheet and within which at least one inflatable bladder is secured. When the ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7708158 | Calf bottle A calf bottle is characterized by an improved neck design which prevents deposits and microbes from collecting therein. The bottle is in the form of a hollow container having top, side and bottom walls which define a chamber for receiving formula for feeding calves.... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707329 | Method of securing radiolink for remotely programmable devices A remotely programmable device includes a message store for receiving messages over a radiolink from a controller and forwarding the messages to a local application resident in the device, writable registers for controlling operation of the device, a command interpr... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7690791 | Method for performing micro-perimetry and visual acuity testing A visual acuity examination is performed on a patient by bringing a confocal imaging apparatus up to a patient's eye. Stimuli at various points in the patient's field of view are generated while the patient fixates on a point. The patient's responses to the stimuli ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7690618 | Position adjustment mechanism The present invention relates to a position adjustment mechanism, comprising two cylindrical portions, a first one of the portions being slidably disposed inside a second one of the portions. One of the portions has at least three detents and the other portion has a... | 04/06/2010 |
