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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7293822 | Convertible vehicle A system for retraction and deployment of a covering over at least a portion of a vehicle interior is disclosed, such as might be employed in commercial or sport utility style vehicles to provide a convertible hardtop over a portion of the vehicle that can be retrac... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7271775 | Deployable compact multi mode notch/loop hybrid antenna An antenna formed with a number of notch antennas forming an sectional inner ring and a sectional outer ring. Each of the notch antennas having a pair of leaves with a throat end proximate the inner ring and a leaf tip end proximate the outer ring, wherein the leave... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7264058 | Arrangement and method for regulating bottom hole pressures when drilling deepwater offshore wells An arrangement and a method to control and regulate the bottom hole pressure in a well during subsea drilling at deep waters: The method involves adjustment of a liquid/gas interface level in a drilling riser up or down. The arrangement comprises a high pressure dri... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7264554 | Method and system for athletic motion analysis and instruction A system and method for analyzing and improving the performance of an athletic motion such as a golf swing requires: instrumenting a user with inertial sensors and video cameras and monitoring a golf swing or such other athletic motion of interest; drawing upon and ... | 09/04/2007 |
| D548085 | Bottle | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254000 | Over voltage protection scheme for synchronous buck converter An over voltage protection circuit for single phase and multiphase buck converters. According to one embodiment, upon the occurrence of an over voltage condition, the high side switch is turned Off and the low side switch is On. As the output voltage drops below a l... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249436 | Electric shock bird and animal deterrent An animal and bird deterrent apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a flexible dielectric material, and electrically conducting strips disposed on a top surface of the flexible material. In one embodiment the flexible material is secured to a structure by an... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248130 | High power combiner/divider A power combiner/divider is disclosed that employs triaxial transmission line structures operatively coupled to provide a desired number of input/output ports. A balun is operatively coupled to the triaxial transmission line structures, and is adapted to couple out ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245673 | Windowed multiuser detection Windowed multiuser detection techniques are disclosed. A window of data is established, and certain central bits within the window are selected as reliable, while other side bits are ignored. The selected bits are demodulated. The windowed multiuser detector moves a... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7238960 | QWIP with enhanced optical coupling A QWIP structure is disclosed that is configured with enhanced optical coupling to improve absorption capability and efficiency. A waffle-type light-coupling grating having a pattern of etched wells operates to improve absorption by preventing photons from bouncing ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239056 | Low speed canned motor A canned motor has an L3/D4 ratio of less than 50, with one bearing on one end of the rotor assembly configured to resist longitudinal displacement of the rotor as by an axial shaft load, and another bearing on the other end of the rotor assemb... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236139 | Low backscatter polymer antenna with graded conductivity Polymer antenna structures having low reflectivity and high efficiency are disclosed. Wire antennas can be configured from coaxial cable having center conductors and outer conductors made from conductive polymer. Fabrics can also be configured with conductive polyme... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236546 | Pipelined turbo multiuser detection A multiple access processing system for a plurality of users employing a multiuser detector processing partial blocks of data within a window. The multiuser detector processes the data for all users within a processing window and is interrupted at successive frame b... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236299 | Compact periscopic beam director A periscopic beam director is disclosed. The periscopic beam director can be configured with a hemispheric field of regard, in a volume that minimizes external structure or dome size when mounted on a host vehicle (e.g., airplane or UAV). One embodiment combines a R... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233620 | Bandwidth-efficient wireless network modem Wireless communication network dynamically assigning communicators to allocated channels by considering the interference and noise environment to maximize the number of communicators and effective bandwidth of the channel. The present invention provides a digital wi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7229745 | Lithographic semiconductor manufacturing using a multi-layered process Multilayer resist systems and techniques used for liftoff or planarizing topography wherein the dimensions and thicknesses of the layers are independently controlled. The undercut may also be independently controlled for precision structures. ... | 06/12/2007 |
| D544211 | Carrier strap | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231139 | Digital noise reduction for motors A system and method for reducing fan noise by controlling the drive current to the fan motor. In one embodiment the system approximates a linear drive using a number of transistors in parallel and sequentially deploying the transistors. In another embodiment, a sche... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228156 | RF-actuated MEMS switching element An RF-actuated microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) switch for use with switchable RF structures such as antennas and reflectors is disclosed. An antenna within each MEMS switch module is coupled to a circuit that provides a trigger voltage based on an RF control s... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218690 | Hybrid turbo-mud for multiple access systems The present invention is a high quality real-time Turbo-Mud processing system initially employing a high complexity multi-user detector that results in better estimates of the bit streams, and then the remaining iterations employing a computationally low linear-base... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218665 | Deferred decorrelating decision-feedback detector for supersaturated communications The present invention provides an efficient means of estimating symbols transmitted in a multi-user environment in overloaded or super-saturated conditions by employing a deferred decorrelating decision feedback detector. In one embodiment, the present invention com... | 05/15/2007 |
| D542222 | Bus bar power connector | 05/08/2007 |
| 7207965 | Shunt for the treatment of glaucoma A system is provided for reducing intraocular hypertension, the system having an implantable shunt, with a planar member having at least one microchannel disposed within the planar member. There is an inflow port disposed proximate to a first end of the microchannel... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7205563 | QWIP with electron launcher for reducing dielectric relaxation effect in low background conditions A QWIP structure is disclosed that includes a graded emitter barrier and can further be configured with a blocked superlattice miniband. The graded emitter barrier effectively operates to launch dark electrons into the active quantum well region, thereby improving r... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7195514 | Electrical connectors with multi-position, strain relief, cable clamp systems and methods thereof An electrical connector system includes a connector housing with at least one conductive member disposed in at least one passage in the connector housing, two or more clamps which are detachably connected together to the connector housing about the passage, and at l... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196349 | Resonant cavity enhanced multi-quantum well light modulator and detector Multi-quantum well (MQW) spatial light modulator devices are disclosed that are capable of achieving reasonable quantum efficiencies and high contrast ratios in order to close an optical communication link by resolving the logical on or off state. The device both mo... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7195510 | Electrical connector systems with latching assemblies and methods thereof An electrical connector system with a first connector housing with a first conductive member and a second connector housing with a second conductive member. At least one latch assembly is connected at each end to the first connector housing and has a beam between th... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191783 | System, method, and appliances for applying hair treatments A hair foil and hair holding system for applying hair treatments has a hair anchoring strip close to or aligned with the leading edge of a foil or hair holding appliance, by which it is adhered to the scalp in a hands-free, non-lifting relationship. The strip may be... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7192498 | Method for making adhesive fabric joints with heat and pressure by comparing actual joint parameters to pre-calculated optimal joint parameters A method for joining fabrics, particularly high strength fabrics such as airship hull fabrics, including the steps of: measuring selected parameters of two fabric layers to be joined and the adhesive and any tape or other materials intended to be included in the joi... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190747 | Frequency mismatch compensation for multiuser detection Techniques for compensating for frequency mismatch between transmitters and receivers of a multiuser communication system having a plurality of users are disclosed. In particular, the mismatch of carrier frequency estimates are estimated and compensated for each use... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7186927 | High frequency via with stripped semi-rigid cable A high frequency coax via structure is configured with a stripped semi-rigid cable (no shield), and an inductive compensation loop to mitigate transition discontinuity between that via structure's center conductor and the pad to which the center conductor is connect... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7180009 | Transmission line with stripped semi-rigid cable A high frequency coax transmission line structure is configured with a stripped semi-rigid cable (no shield). The stripped cable is inserted lengthwise into a metallized grounded slot formed in a printed wiring board. The dielectric barrel of the stripped cable cont... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178647 | Impact absorbing member for vehicle A system is disclosed for the absorption of an impact, that system comprises a blow molded thermoplastic energy absorbing member. The blow molded thermoplastic energy absorbing member provides opposing first and second walls defining a hollow space; according to one... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7175685 | Dry conversion of high purity ultrafine silicon powder to densified pellet form for silicon melting applications A bulk silicon material for making silicon ingots, consisting of silicon pellets, and a method for making the pellets from an agglomerate-free source of high purity silicon powder by feeding a controlled amount of silicon powder that is free of intentional additives... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7166877 | High frequency via Techniques that enable the transitioning of high frequency signals on a printed wiring board processed in accordance with industry standards (such as the IPC specifications) are disclosed. One embodiment provides a high frequency via structure for a printed wiring b... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7152681 | Method and arrangement for treatment of fluid A method utilizes the energy of water that flows out from a high-pressure reservoir. Water and hydrocarbons are separated in a down-hole separator and are brought separately to the seabed. In a first aspect the energy of the water is utilized to inject the water int... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7153152 | Electrical connector with planar contact engaging surface An electrical connector has a housing within which is mounted a genderless electrical contact. The electrical contact has a longitudinal axis, a proximal end and a distal end. The distal end has a planar electrical contact engaging surface with the plane thereof int... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151412 | Sliding cascode circuit Described techniques extend (e.g., by a factor of 2) the dynamic range of voltage swing for amplifiers and other integrated circuits (e.g., buffers) that are fabricated using lower voltage rated semiconductor processes. Such processes include, for instance, thin gat... | 12/19/2006 |
| D533502 | Single pole, angled power connector | 12/12/2006 |
| 7147268 | Recreational vehicle A motorized recreational vehicle of unibody construction having at least one expandable living compartment with flush floor and full ceiling and an disposed within the body of the vehicle, a storage area or garage disposed within the vehicle body between the bottom ... | 12/12/2006 |
