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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D656875 | Vehicle floor tray | 04/03/2012 |
| D656874 | Vehicle floor tray | 04/03/2012 |
| 8136753 | Transporter for box of spooled wire or cable Apparatus for manually transporting cartons or reels of goods include a support structure that includes a horizontal support member having first and second components, first and second vertical support members, and first and second bushings attached to the vertical ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8116855 | Fetal surveillance The spatial position of a fetus within the womb is determined and monitored through analysis of ECG waveform data received from a set of electrodes that are attached to a maternal abdomen in a predetermined configuration. The waveform is compared with a set of prede... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113818 | Valve gate system A valve gate assembly comprises a piston that is actuable between a forward position and a rear position and has a piston stop surface and a forward pressure surface. A cylinder has a cylinder stop surface that is disposed to contact the piston stop surface when the... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8080302 | All vehicle mats A pair of cut-to-fit universal vehicle floor mats includes a driver's side floor mat and a passenger's side floor mat, each with a plurality of peripheral cells separated from each other and from a central area of the mat body by indented trim lines. The passenger's... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072801 | Method for creating nonequilibrium photodetectors with single carrier species barriers A method of forming a diode comprises the steps of forming an extraction region of a first conductivity type, forming an active region of a second conductivity type that is opposite the first conductivity type, and forming an exclusion region of the second conductiv... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8016508 | Discharge structure of the cosmetic brush As an inner moving body of a cosmetic brush is pushed, an upper cone type elastic part and a lower cone type elastic part are compressed, thereby opening an inner hole and discharging powder toward a brush. When the inner moving body is released, the inner moving bo... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016222 | Wire and cable dispensing container and systems A container for the dispensing of wire or cable has an external carton which receives a reel of cable as supported by two caddies. Each caddy has an inwardly extending substantially cylindrical bushing which is received in a central hole of a respective cable reel f... | 09/13/2011 |
| D641646 | Block M reflector | 07/19/2011 |
| 7976215 | Apparatus and method for measuring thermal diffusivity using the flash method The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for measuring thermal diffusivity using the flash method. The apparatus includes: a laser generator 60 for generating a flash beam 30; a measurement sample 10 having graphite layers 20 | 07/12/2011 |
| 7914046 | Vehicle mud flap with wheel liner attachment tab A mud flap is provided with an integrally molded upstanding tab which captures a free edge of a wheel liner or similar wheel well-forming vehicle body element. The upstanding tab may be combined with OEM screw holes or clamping members to affix the mud flap to the v... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7850895 | Sprue bar shutoff method A method for connecting and disconnecting an injection molding machine to and from a shutoff assembly includes the steps of mating a nozzle of the injection molding machine to a seat in an exterior wall of a chamber of the shutoff assembly, advancing an elongate ste... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7824245 | Automated chemical polishing system adapted for soft semiconductor materials At least one wafer is suspended on a respective jig shaft above a polishing platen. The degree of parallelism between the wafer and the polishing platen is controlled using a three-point suspension, which allows for planar pitch adjustments using vertical actuation ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7821807 | Nonequilibrium photodetectors with single carrier species barriers A photosensitive diode has an active region defining a majority carrier of a first conductivity type and a minority carrier of a second conductivity type. An extraction region is disposed on a first side of the active region and extracts minority carriers from the a... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7820971 | Photodetector with dark current reduction A detector of incident infrared radiation has a first region with a first spectral response, and a second region with a second, different spectral response. The second absorption region is stacked on the first and may be separated therefrom by a region in which the ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7784848 | Thermoformed vehicle floor tray with tread-containing reservoir A vehicle floor tray is molded from a thermoplastic polymer sheet such that it has high shear and tensile strength, an acceptable degree of stiffness and a high coefficient of friction on its upper surface. The floor tray has first, second, third, and fourth sidewal... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7775789 | Sprue bar shutoff device An injection molding shutoff assembly that includes a chamber containing a movable body movable between rear and forward positions. In the rear position, the movable body provides a seal and prevents flow of molten plastic out the chamber inlet, called drool. When t... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774917 | Forge welding tubulars Tubular ends are heated to a predetermined temperature above 1200 degrees Celsius and surrounded by a shield gas when the tubular ends are pressed together to form forge welded tubular ends. The forge welded tubular ends are then cooled down rapidly from said temper... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7766356 | Vehicle mud flap with fastening tab The drilling of new holes into a vehicle fender fold is avoided by providing a mud flap with at least one rotating clamping member that clamps to the wheel well fender fold and, spaced from this clamping member, a tab which captures the end of a wheel well fender fo... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7753241 | Hanger with double ratcheting sliding-jaw clamps A hanger for suspending multiple articles, such as automotive floor mats, is injection-molded in one piece from a suitable polymer. The hanger has at least four stationary article gripping members and four mobile article gripping members which are fastenable to resp... | 07/13/2010 |
| D617130 | Pair of floor mats | 06/08/2010 |
| 7717467 | Vehicle mud flap with sliding fender fold clamp The drilling of new holes into a vehicle fender fold is avoided by providing a mud flap with a sliding clamping member. When an attachment bolt is slid in a slot formed in the polymeric mud flap body, the sliding clamping member slides with it from a disengaged posi... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7686371 | Thermoformed vehicle floor tray with tread-containing reservoir A vehicle floor tray is molded from a thermoplastic polymer sheet such that it has high shear and tensile strength, an acceptable degree of stiffness and a high coefficient of friction on its upper surface. The floor tray has first, second, third, and fourth sidewal... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686370 | Vehicle foot well and floor tray system A three-dimensional digital model of a vehicle foot well is used to mold a vehicle floor tray such that large areas of at least two upstanding walls of the tray depart from respective surfaces of the foot well by no more than an eighth of an inch. ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7674105 | Multiple article injection molding system Principal components of injection molding apparatus include a U-frame, a carrier plate remotely affixable to the U-frame, preferably two cavity blocks remotely affixable to the carrier plate, a corresponding pair of core blocks, and a hot runner assembly remotely af... | 03/09/2010 |
| D608709 | All vehicle cargo mat | 01/26/2010 |
| 7636504 | Optical fibre alignment mechanism An alignment and fixing apparatus for positioning and securing an optical fibre in alignment with an optical source, in which the optical fibre is coupled, at two longitudinally separated points along the fibre, to respective ones of a pair of cantilever arms. Later... | 12/22/2009 |
| D603777 | Floor mat | 11/10/2009 |
| 7607713 | Close-conforming vehicle floor tray with reservoir A vehicle floor tray is molded from a thermoplastic polymer sheet such that it has high shear and tensile strength, an acceptable degree of stiffness and a high coefficient of friction on its upper surface. The floor tray design is digitally fitted to a foot well of... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7607248 | Vehicle license plate frame A transparent vehicle license plate frame has an annular elastomeric gasket. The frame includes a periphery and an inner side for disposal adjacent to a license plate. The elastomeric gasket is disposed on the inner side near the periphery of the frame and is inject... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7586115 | Light emission from semiconductor integrated circuits Structures and methods to inject electrons into an insulator from a semiconductor layer that are then collected in a thin layer of a direct semiconductor material which in turn emits light by bandgap recombination. ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7578527 | Vehicle mud flap with fender fold clamp The drilling of new holes into a vehicle fender fold is avoided by providing a mud flap with a rotating clamping member. A clamping arm of the rotating clamping member is rotated from a disengaged position to an engaged position behind the fender fold, and is then d... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7575465 | Wire and cable insulation markings for connector termination Insulated conductors, of either the wire or multistranded cable variety, are provided with a series of markings or visual indicators along their length on their insulation jackets. The markings include cut markings to show where the conductor is to be cut and, space... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7520772 | Compression snap electrical connector An electrical connector has a connector body with a bore and a cap through which a stranded insulated conductor is threaded. A ridge in the external surface of the cap engages with at least one groove in the bore to secure the conductor in place. Preferably, there a... | 04/21/2009 |
| D589501 | Cell phone repeater | 03/31/2009 |
| 7444748 | Close-conforming vehicle floor tray with reservoir A vehicle floor tray is molded from a multiple extrusion thermoplastic polymer sheet such that it has high shear and tensile strength, an acceptable degree of stiffness and a high coefficient of friction on its upper surface. The floor tray design is digitally fitte... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7409134 | Control of output beam divergence in a semiconductor waveguide device A semiconductor laser device incorporates a beam control layer for reducing far field and beam divergence. Within the beam control layer, a physical property of the semiconductor material varies as a function of depth through, the beam control layer, by provision of... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401837 | Vehicle foot well and floor tray system A vehicle floor tray is molded from a sheet of thermoplastic polymeric material of uniform thickness. The tray has a deep three-dimensional shape formed by a floor and at least first and second upstanding sidewalls. A reservoir portion of the floor has a general sur... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7389885 | Hanger with ratcheting sliding-jaw clamps A hanger is injection-molded in one piece from a suitable polymer. At each of a plurality of gripping locations, a stationary gripping member and a mobile gripping member are provided, each of which preferably terminate in inwardly directed article supporting finger... | 06/24/2008 |
