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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7232167 | Cam-action pipe puller A cam-operated pipe puller for pulling and extracting a pipe through a conduit wherein the pipe puller has members for grasping the inner sides of the pipe and apparatus attached to the grasping members for holding the grasping members in a retained position as they... | 06/19/2007 |
| 6856060 | Super conductive bearing A method and apparatus for supporting a rotor in a free state with respect to a stator with superconducting bearings. The apparatus has a rotor with closed rotor loops mounted on the rotor shaft and which are formed of a material having zero electrical resistance at... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6770994 | Super conductive bearing A method and apparatus for supporting a rotor in a free state with respect to a stator with superconducting bearings. The apparatus has a rotor with closed rotor loops mounted on the rotor shaft and which are formed of a material having zero electrical resistance at... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6703737 | Super conductive bearing A method and apparatus for supporting a rotor in a free state with respect to a stator with superconducting bearings. The apparatus has a rotor with closed rotor loops mounted on the rotor shaft and which are formed of a material having zero electrical re... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6608417 | Super conductive bearing A method and apparatus for supporting a rotor in a free state with respect to a stator with superconducting bearings. The apparatus has a rotor with closed rotor loops mounted on the rotor shaft and which are formed of a material having zero electrical re... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6113048 | Candle cradle Apparatus for cradling a candle formed with a base member having a bottom surface for mounting the apparatus on a structure and an upper surface positioned and inclined at an angle with respect to the bottom surface for receiving a base of the candle. A s... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5673431 | Face mask safety shield A face mask safety shield structure having a shield support formed of a fire-retardant material with an adjustable head band for adjusting the structure to fit various sizes of user heads. A visor is attached to opposite sides of the shield and enables a ... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5579750 | Projectile launcher for launching and rotating a disk projectile Apparatus for launching a disk-like projectile from a catapult with an aperture formed adjacent one end to receive structure of the catapult to configure the catapult to propel the apparatus forward. A channel in an opposite end is configured to receive t... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5418504 | Transmission line A thin film flexible multi-conductor transmission line having a ground plane deposited on one surface of a flexible thin film insulating member and an array of conductors and pairs of conductors deposited on another surface of the insulating member opposi... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5289694 | Circuit card mounting assembly An assembly for mounting circuit cards having high power electrical and optical alloy MCM chip devices installed thereon. The assembly has a central vertical coolant supply pipe extending from a pump to a heat exchanger unit through a refrigeration unit s... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5280551 | Backplane optical spine Optical spine backplane apparatus for interconnecting circuit cards. The apparatus comprises a central spine structure formed of a bundle of optical fibers extending between circular collars each positioned along the spine and formed around the optical fi... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5263865 | Personal learning system A personal learning system comprising a base structure with a base member for mounting a pair of training manuals and audio/visual apparatus having prerecorded instructional information for instructing a student in use of training manual course material. ... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5240090 | Apparatus and method of lubricating component leads Apparatus and method of lubricating leads for installation of a component on a circuit board. In the process, a strip of conductive foam is compressed and inserted into a solution of solvent and lubricant operation. The compressed form is permitted to exp... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5226073 | Telephone network credit card calling apparatus and method of telephone network operation with credit card companies Apparatus for enabling a telephone network to establish connections between calling and called telephones in accordance with called telephone numbers identified with ones of a plurality of calling party credit cards. The apparatus is connected by data lin... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5212754 | Optical laser connector Connector apparatus for coupling an optical fiber cable with laser devices. The apparatus comprises a receptacle terminating aligned fibers of the optical cable in a planar surface perpendicular to a central axis of the receptacle. A plug mounts a plurali... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5208809 | Communication network node A node for use with asynchronous and synchronous communication networks to interconnect data systems with networks having transmission paths interconnecting network nodes. Apparatus interconnects pulse controlled components of the node with network transm... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5163086 | Telephone network credit card calling apparatus and method of operation to determine validation and fraudulent use of credit cards in placing telephone calls Apparatus and method of controlling a telephone network to establish connections between calling and called telephone stations in accordance with dialed telephone numbers identified by ones of a plurality of calling party credit cards. The apparatus respo... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5074727 | Threaded device retainer Apparatus for retaining a threaded device in association with an article when the article is disengaged from another. The apparatus is intended for mounting on the article and has a center section formed with a center aperture sized for receiving the thre... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5063503 | Information control system for selectively locking an entity with requested intermediate reserve exclusive and share locks Apparatus and method for controlling process operations against conceptual structures formed of entities embodied on a complex infrastructure comprising tree structures of complex object nodes. The apparatus and method responds to a process request by sel... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5063502 | Information control system for counting lock application against composite information infrastructure Apparatus and method for controlling concurrent process access of infrastructures comprising tree structures of complex object nodes. Apparatus associated with each complex object node records an accumulate count of each type of lock applied by concurrent... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5063501 | Information control system for selectively transferring a tree lock from a parent node to a child node thereby freeing other nodes for concurrent access Apparatus and method for controlling concurrent process access of infrastructures comprising tree structures of complex object nodes of information. The apparatus and method respond to a request of a computer process by selectively applying a tree lock to... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5063504 | Information control system for reserve locking infrastructure nodes for subsequent exclusive and share locking by the system Apparatus and method for controlling concurrent process access of infrastructures. The apparatus and method selectively locks nodes and tree structures to reserve lock a node and tree structure for subsequent exclusive and share locking by a process. Curr... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5062038 | Information control system Apparatus and method for controlling concurrent process access of infrastructures. Apparatus and method responds to a process request by selectively locking ones of the nodes and enables other processes to concurrently lock ancestral and child nodes locat... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5003574 | Voice capture system A voice capture system for use with a telephone switching system and transcribing terminals to record calling party generated information in predefined formats. The system digitizes and records messages generated by calling parties served by the telephone... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4953203 | High capacity information forwarding system A high capacity information forwarding system for use with originating screening offices of a telephone network. Apparatus periodically accesses a centralized data base within the telephone network and translates a predefined telephone number dialed by a ... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4941795 | Component insertion machine apparatus A component insertion machine having apparatus for mounting component magazines and arranged for loading components therefrom into the component insertion machine. Shuttle apparatus transversely positioned on th e mounting apparatus is arranged to receive... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4905274 | Key telephone management system A key telephone management controller system enabling telephone customers to control and implement changes to customer key telephone systems served by a telephone switching system. Apparatus and a method interactive with telephone customers records custom... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4896346 | Password controlled switching system A password controlled switching system and method of operation for enrolling and storing passwords identifying lines and trunks of the switching system denied access thereto by other lines and trunks and which is operable upon a match of a calling party c... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4894633 | Fuse Apparatus An electrical fuse for mounting on a circuit board. The fuse has a housing member with terminal members engaging a fuse element intended to interrupt an external electrical circuit coupled with the terminal members upon an occurence of a fault condition i... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893270 | Medical information system A medical information system (1) for use in a hospital environment. The system comprises clinic and department computer terminals (1000) of the hospital interconnected with a message network (19). A computer terminal (10010, 10011, 10022) is arranged to e... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4873762 | Component insertion machine apparatus Apparatus for loading components into a component insertion machine. The aratus comprises structure releasably mounted on component magazine loading apparatus to retain components in component magazines received by and aligned in the component magazine l... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4866763 | Interexchange carrier automatic route selection system A system for selecting multiple interexchange carriers serving telephone switches interconnecting user telephone lines. Apparatus and a method interactive with telephone users creates data base records of user selected interchange carrier resources and en... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4860284 | Method and apparatus for identifying location of a lost token signal in a data communication network Apparatus and method for identifying the location of a lost token signal continuously transmitted on transmission paths interconnecting nodes of a network to sequentially enable the nodes to write data onto the network. The arrival of the token signal at ... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4831696 | Component insertion machine apparatus Apparatus for loading components into a component insertion machine. The apparatus comprises structure releasably mounted on component magazine loading apparatus to retain components in component magazines received by and aligned in the component magazine... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4812794 | Electrical relay apparatus A relay (1) having terminal members (15) and a contact assembly (13) for selectively establishing electrical paths between the terminal members. The relay comprises structure (11, 12) mounting the contact assembly and arranged for slidably receiving the t... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4807108 | Product realization method A method for controlling a process of realizing a product. The method defines activities of the process, their precedence relationships and the flow of information among the interconnected activities required to create the product. Resources are allocated... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4805170 | Data communication network A network for data transmission between nodes interconnected by transmission paths on which a predefined data signal is continuously transmitted to sequentially reach each node. Data traffic is controlled by apparatus responsive to receiving the predefine... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4784613 | Apparatus for joining conductors to circuit boards Apparatus for terminating conductors on circuit boards. The apparatus comses an insulator member having electrical conducting contacts embedded therein each with a bifurcate portion extending from the insulator member. The bifurcate portion consists of a... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4779350 | Conveyor gage apparatus An alignment gage (1) for use in aligning rails (2) of conveyor systems. The apparatus comprises a pair of plate members (10) each configured for mounting on and riding finger members (21) attached to a moving carrier (20) positioned in a channel (22) of ... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4752924 | Ring packet switch A data communication network comprising a plurality of nodes interconnecting transmission paths in a ring structure arranged to propagate data messages between data systems coupled to the network by the nodes in opposite directions around the network ring... | 06/21/1988 |
