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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6899925 | Environmentally protected outdoor devices An improved protective coating, for parking meters or other equipment that is subject to environmental deterioration and/or vandalism, having thereon at least a three layer coating of a composite thickness sufficiently thick to avoid pinholes and sufficiently thin t... | 05/31/2005 |
| 7264873 | Surface protecting film for polycarbonate The objective is to provide a surface protecting film for polycarbonate which is easy to laminate on polycarbonate and remove from the polycarbonate, the peel adhesive strength change to polycarbonate with times is small and there is no adhesive transferring to the ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261617 | Semiconductor wafer regenerating system and method A semiconductor wafer regenerating system is capable of easily and efficiently removing fabricating patterns formed on a semiconductor wafer to enable reuse of the semiconductor wafer. The system, which removes patterns of the semiconductor wafer in a dry manner by ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258180 | Rotary hammerdrill bit A rotary hammerdrill bit for use with a percussion drilling device or a hammer drilling device, with a shank and a drill head attached to or configured on the shank, wherein a front side pointing in the advance direction of the drill head has a main cutting plate fo... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7252657 | Disposable wearing article having waste-receiving pocket In a disposable wearing article, and area of a rear waist region in which a core is present is divided into a first area and a second area. The second area is formed in its transversely middle zone with a through-hole extending through the core. A transverse fiexura... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7204778 | Differential gear A differential gear arbitrarily produces difference in speed of rotation between output side rotary members. When a difference in speed of rotation occurs between drive shafts 3 and 4, if clutches 12 and 17 are disconnected, the drive sha... | 04/17/2007 |
| D536716 | Shuttle-type cutter disc for a paper shredder | 02/13/2007 |
| D535948 | Uninterruptible power supply | 01/30/2007 |
| 7169256 | Plasma processor with electrode responsive to multiple RF frequencies A plasma processor processing a workpiece includes sources having frequencies 2 MHz, 27 MHz, and 60 MHz, applied by three matching networks to an electrode in a vacuum chamber including the workpiece. Alternatively 60 MHz is applied to a second electrode by a fourth... | 01/30/2007 |
| RE39475 | Digitizer having flat tablet with magnetic shield plate A digitizer for determining coordinate value of a point designated on a given two-dimensional coordinate plane. A pointing instrument is manually operable to designate a point on the given two-dimensional coordinate plane of a tablet. The tablet includes a flat sens... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7137629 | Card games A gambling card game played in three main stages: initial betting and dealing, bet adjustment, and band checking and payouts. In the first stage, each player places an initial bet and is dealt a three-card hand, and the dealer is dealt a single card. In the second s... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7127212 | Method and apparatus for planning frequencies Frequencies are allocated to plural base stations for managing cells of a cellular wireless telephone network by a computer which for a given cell, allocates a frequency associated with an estimated minimal interference, and selects another cell of remaining cells t... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7107046 | Service transmission system related to relevant geographical zones and receiver designed to be used with said transmission system The present invention relates to a transmission system for services which are linked to relevant geographic zones. Said system comprises at least one set of transmitters (1,2,3,4) transmitting said services to said zones (11,12,13,14) and a receiver ( | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099448 | Identification of participant in a teleconference A contributor who is one of a number of participants divided into groups at telephone terminals is identified by recognizing the contributor voice during a teleconference managed by a conference device connected to the terminals. After the voice of the contributor r... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7090556 | Toy vehicle for guided motor-racing circuits A toy vehicle for a guided motor-racing circuit has a guiding groove and conductor rails adjacent thereto. A keel pivotably mounted on the vehicle engages the guiding groove to aid vehicle guidance. A magnetic device magnetically interacts with the conductor rails t... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089601 | Buttock form enhancement device The buttock form enhancement device includes a garment, two upper-buttock form pieces and two lower-buttock form pieces, wherein the garment is for covering the lower body portion of the person, and its rear side having two pockets positioned respectively adjacent t... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7079541 | System for access to a synchronous network of the type comprising transmitting equipment and receiving equipment A synchronous frame is formed by inserting data in virtual containers that are inserted in the fame. The containers are concatenated with each other. Each concatenated container indicates the total number of containers, and the order number of the particular contain... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079374 | Glass frit for dielectrics, dielectric ceramic composition, multilayer ceramic capacitor, and method for manufacturing the same A glass frit for dielectrics, a dielectric ceramic composition, a multilayer ceramic capacitor, and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The glass frit has a composition represented by the formula aSiO2-bB2O3-cLi2 | 07/18/2006 |
| 7070309 | Head lamp assembling device of front end module for vehicle The present invention relates to a head lamp assembling device of a front end module of a vehicle, which is capable of locating a head lamp of the vehicle in an exact position of a fender of the vehicle. The head lamp assembling device includes: a carrier assembling... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7057525 | One way automatic meter reading system A meter interface unit for use in a one way automatic meter reading system comprises first means for frequently transmitting a short burst transmission suitable for reception by a hand held or mobile receiver, and second means for transmitting narrow band data messa... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053855 | Structure of 3D inverted F-antenna Disclosed is a 3D inverted F-antenna for easy production, fast assembly, wider bandwidth that provides excellent capacity of radiating and receiving wireless signal inside wireless communication devices. The 3D inverted F-antenna includes a ground plate. A radiating... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049736 | Method of trapping accelerating electrons in plasma Background plasma electrons in a laser wake field are trapped and accelerated using a sharp downward density transition. A short and intense laser pulse travels through low density plasma with a sharp downward density transition. The density transition scale length ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7048156 | Liquid spray dispenser and suction tube therefor A liquid dispenser bottle includes a suction tube and a spray nozzle. An end of the tube abuts an intersection of the bottle base and wall when the bottle is in use. A screen extending between opposite sides of a wall of the tube at the end where the intersection is... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050554 | Payment to charities with prepaid card The balance or a portion of the balance associated with a prepaid card with or without a microcircuit is paid into a balance portion collection server, as a donations to charities, after setting up a call between a terminal and the server and after confirmation of t... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7044165 | Outflow regulator for a gravity-fed liquid outlet An outflow regulator for a gravity-fed liquid outlet of a liquid reservoir comprising a restriction plate mountable within the liquid outlet for limiting a flow rate of an effluent. The restriction plate allows a lower passage for the effluent when a first level of ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042236 | Measuring probe for measuring high frequencies The invention relates to a measuring probe (100) for measuring high frequencies, comprising a contact end (20) for contacting planar structures and a coaxial-cable end (18) for connecting to a coaxial cable (22), whereby a coplanar conduc... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036708 | Manufacturing method of piston for swash plate type compressor with variable capacity In a friction stir welding method of manufacturing a piston for a variable capacity swash plate type compressor, the welder is shifted from the welded portions to a predetermined position while maintaining contact between the welder and one of the piston members. Af... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038605 | Apparatus and method for measuring noise, and recording medium A noise measuring unit 24 measures a noise power based on an output from a digitizer 16 and the amplification factor of a limiter amplifier 12 when an output from a device under test 10 is supplied for the digitizer 16 through the ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036439 | Table top and process of making the same A process for making a table top includes the steps of (a) mounting a ring-shaped outer mold on a flat surface, (b) mounting decorative members arranged in a layer on the flat surface and within the outer mold, the decorative members being spaced apart from each oth... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7028379 | Hood latch assembling device of front end module for vehicle The present invention relates to a hood latch assembling device for assembling a hood latch to a position of a carrier which is the same as a hood latch part of the vehicle. The hood latch assembling device includes: a carrier assembling stand for fixing the carrier... | 04/18/2006 |
| D518729 | Liquid bottle | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023688 | Laminated ceramic capacitor, mounted structure of laminated ceramic capacitor, and capacitor module In this laminated ceramic capacitor, a heat radiation conductor is provided on a top face of a rectangular parallelepiped laminated chip where a plurality of first conductor layers and a plurality of second conductor layers are arranged alternatively through each ce... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023986 | Echo canceller in a communication system at a terminal A terminal in a communication system includes emitting and receiving transducers and an echo processor having an adaptive echo canceler that processes a residual echo output from the adaptive echo canceler. ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7011506 | Blower unit for air conditioner A blower unit for an air conditioner includes a case accommodating a blower wheel and a blower motor driving the blower wheel, a cover coupled to one side of a lower portion of the case to form a cooling path so that some of cooling air blown by the blower wheel is ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7008576 | Microporous ceramic materials and the producing method of the same Microporous ceramic materials used in structural materials, high-temperature filters, electrode materials or preform materials for infiltration by homogeneously mixing and molding a ceramic precursor powder polymer. The powder is saturated by introducing fluid to a ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010556 | Antenna treatment method and system The ratio of useful-signal power to the power of interference signals at an antenna (ANT) having plural sensors, and at least one sensor is obtained by filtering the antenna output signal with a filter having a transfer function (W(t), W(t, f)) equal to the ratio of... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7004066 | Table top and process of making the same A process for making a table top includes the steps of mounting a ring-shaped outer mold on a flat surface, mounting a plurality of decorative members which are arranged in a layer on the flat surface and within the outer mold, the decorative members being spaced ap... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003499 | Service activation by virtual prepaid card In order to prevent the use of a virtual prepaid card illegitimately acquired and transmitting only one identification code, for example read after the card has been scratched, to a service provision server, a second code is delivered on paying for the card, and the... | 02/21/2006 |
| D515277 | Pretzel cracker with one hole | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999025 | Clutter rejection in a passive radar receiver of OFDM signals with antenna array The invention concerns a passive radar receiver with an array of antennas for a OFDM received signal comprising frames of symbols each emitted on coded orthogonal carriers. After formatting received signals into digital symbols, dummy signals from dummy OFDM emitter... | 02/14/2006 |
