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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4583709 | Valves An electrically operated valve assembly comprises a valve, an electrical device 18 to operate the valve in one direction, and means 19 to prevent reverse current flow if the valve should drive the electrical device in reverse when the valve moves in a dir... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4579261 | Room spray dispenser The room spray dispenser (1) holds a container (29) that is provided with a valve element (27) which also works simultaneously as a pump. Above the valve element (27) the operating end (25') of a pressure lever (25) is located. It is loaded in the directi... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4577077 | Surface smoothing method for disk-like recording medium A double-faced disk-like recording medium comprising recording layers containing a dielectric binder is supported under pressure between a pair of electrodes having highly planished surfaces, and a high frequency is applied from the electrodes to both sur... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4576283 | Bag for vacuum packaging of articles Within a bag for vacuum packaging of articles there is created, by means of a separately attached sheet, an auxiliary chamber which is evacuated when the bag is manufactured. This chamber may be placed in communication with the interior of the bag, after ... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4576204 | Laminar flow element A laminar flow element for use in a cylindrical fluid flow passage for restricting the flow of fluid through that passage to a constant volume flow rate. The element comprises a body portion having a cylindrical peripheral surface of predetermined length ... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4574328 | Sensor for capacitively measuring the level of material in a container A sensor for capacitively measuring the level of material in a container where the sensor extends through an opening in the container and is connected to measuring circuitry. The sensor includes an electrically conductive, tubular member aligned with the ... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4574195 | Radiation image storage panel A radiation image storage panel comprising a support, a phosphor layer provided on the support which comprises a binder and a stimulable phosphor dispersed therein, and a protective film provided on the phosphor layer, characterized in that said support h... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4574102 | Radiation image storage panel A radiation image storage panel comprising a support, a phosphor layer provided on the support which comprises a binder and a stimulable phosphor dispersed therein, and a protective film provided on the phosphor layer, characterized in that a mixing ratio... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4573717 | Toggle clamp A toggle clamp having first and second clamping members pivotally connected together for receiving objects to be clamped therebetween; a handle pivotally mounted with respect to one of the clamping members; a bail including a force generating member where... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4572955 | Radiation image storage panel A radiation image storage panel comprising a support and a phosphor layer provided thereon which comprises a binder and a stimulable phosphor dispersed therein, characterized in that a friction-reducing layer having a surface of a friction coefficient of ... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4572855 | Label tape The invention relates to a label tape of successive individual labels which are to be appended to articles for sale and which are separated from one another by separating cuts extending transversely with respect to the tape length direction, said tape con... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4572399 | Plastic container having inwardly formed flange A plastics container has a side wall and a rim portion moulded in one piece with the side wall. The rim portion is joined to the side wall by an integral hinge portion on which it can be folded inwardly of the container. Thereby a container having an inwa... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4571140 | Extracting device for extracting contents from bag-like container A flexible bag-like container holding contents is placed on a setting table. The setting table is provided with an extracting gear and is movable with respect to a housing between a bag placing position and an extracting position. The housing is provided ... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4569865 | Bumper fascia and process to bond ionomers to metal A construction is disclosed for a component for an automotive bumper selected from the group consisting of an automotive bumper, a bumper fascia and a bumper guard, said construction comprising a laminate construction of a thin substantially rigid metal o... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4567057 | Method of making magnetic recording medium A magnetic coating composition comprising a binder dissolved in a solvent and magnetic grains dispersed therein is applied onto a surface of a non-magnetic substrate continuously moved. The coating film thus overlaid on the non-magnetic substrate is subje... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4566003 | Display element and display panel using the same A display element is formed by a four-sided right prismatic block member which is rotatable about the axis of its own, has embedded therein first and second magnetic pieces to extend along edges lying on the same diagonal line and has two display surfaces... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4565734 | Magnetic recording medium A magnetic recording medium comprises a non-magnetic substrate, a thin magnetic metal film layer overlaid on the substrate, a metallic oxide layer formed on the surface of the thin magnetic metal film layer, and a polymer film formed by plasma polymerizat... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4564760 | Radiation image read-out apparatus A radiation image read-out apparatus comprises a stimulating ray optical system for exposing a stimulable phosphor carrying a radiation image stored therein to stimulating rays, a photodetector for detecting light emitted by the stimulable phosphor upon e... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4563580 | Radiation image storage panel A radiation image storage panel comprising a support, a subbing layer and a phosphor layer which comprises a binder and a stimulable phosphor dispersed therein, superposed in this order, characterized in that said subbing layer comprises a synthetic resin... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4560662 | Streptomyces antibioticus ATCC 31771 and process for obtaining same The fermentation of a substrate selected among erythronolide B, erythronolide A and erythronolide A oxime with a novel mutant, Streptomyces antibioticus ATCC 31771, obtained from an industrial stock for the production of oleandomycin, said novel mutant be... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4557812 | Purifying mixed-cation electrolyte An electrolyte containing 65 g/l zinc and 150 g/l Cu is purified in zinc, that is, the copper is removed, by causing the electrolyte to fluidize a bed 8 of 1/2 mm copper particles. The bed is fluidized by 25% to make it 42 cm deep. An anode 11 is disposed... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4556330 | Resistance thermometer and linearization circuitry The resistance thermometer comprises a temperature dependent measuring resistor (10) and a measuring circuit (11) for measuring the voltage drop at the measuring resistor which is produced by a current (I) flowing across the measuring resistor (10). The m... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4553993 | Moisture eliminator Means for removing liquid droplets from a gaseous stream, in particular a drift eliminator for an evaporative cooling tower, comprising a duct formed with a generally V-shaped relatively large depression which extends along the duct and which is formed in... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4553978 | Process for converting ligneous matter of vegetable origin by torrefaction, and product obtained thereby The present invention relates to a process for converting ligneous matter of vegetable origin by torrefaction, and to the product obtained. Wood or any other ligneous matter is subjected in a neutral atmosphere to a treatment of torrefaction at a temperat... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4552355 | Penetration-through-wall magic set A penetration-through-wall magic set comprising a hollow tube opened at the opposite ends thereof and having formed therein a pair of slots opposite to each other with the tube bore between them, a gimmicked panel including a solid piece as wide as the le... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4552300 | Method and apparatus for soldering and desoldering leadless semiconductor modules for printed wiring boards A method and apparatus is disclosed for soldering leadless semiconductor modules having contact pads on the bottom thereof to and desoldering them from leaded terminal pads on a printed wiring board. The device includes a housing having a bore in which is... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4552239 | Four-wheel steering device for vehicle In the four-wheeled vehicle, both the front and rear wheels are turned in response to operation of the steering wheel. The turning angle of the rear wheels is controlled in accordance with a turning angle ratio characteristic curve defined on a θF-θR pl... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4551645 | Disc type brushless motor A disc type brushless motor comprising a rotor provided with a field magnet having two or more poles, and a stator on which loop-like armature windings are flatly positioned opposite to the field magnet in quantity of two or more in the circumferential di... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4550994 | Focusing control device An automatic focusing device for a cine camera operates so that the speed at which the lens is moved to its optimum focusing position decreases as a perfect focus is reached. A comparator determines how far out of focus the system is, and a pulse width mo... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4550423 | Stereo MPX circuit A stereo multiplex circuit which can reduce a distortion of an FM demodulated signal to be generated due to nonlinearity of the frequency vs. amplitude/phase characteristics of a band-pass filter at an intermediate frequency amplifier stage of an FM recei... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4549193 | Field effect transistor device utilizing critical buried channel connecting source and drain The invention provides a new structure for a subsurface junction field effect transistor (SJFET) and a new process for its fabrication, the process being especially compatible with existing processes for the fabrication of bipolar devices. Spaced zones of... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4547672 | Radiation image storage panel A radiation image storage panel having a phosphor layer comprising a binder and a stimulable phosphor dispersed therein, in which said stimulable phosphor has such a particle size distribution that phosphor particles having a diameter of not less than 100... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4544433 | Device for intermittently transporting a label bearing tape in a manually operated labeler An apparatus is described by which a label bearing tape can be transported intermittently in a manually operated labeler. The device contains a transporting carriage (19) reciprocable along the label bearing tape (5). In the carriage a latch (22) with a c... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543480 | Radiation image recording system In a radiation image recording system in which a radiation image is once recorded on a stimulable phosphor sheet and then read out and reproduced into a visible radiation image, a high-power light source is built in the system to erase the noise due to th... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4543479 | Radiation image recording and read-out system In a radiation image recording system in which a radiation image is once recorded on a stimulable phosphor and then read out to reproduce a visible radiation image, at least one recording material formed of a phosphor layer and fixed on a supporting mater... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4543267 | Method of making a non-single-crystalline semi-conductor layer on a substrate A multi-layer semiconductor manufacturing method which employs a plurality of sequentially arranged, adjacent reaction chambers and a plurality of normally closed shutter means respectively separating the reaction chambers. The reaction chambers are each ... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4542529 | Preionizing arrangement for transversely excited lasers The specification describes an improvement in transversely excited lasers having a laser discharge channel in which a pair of opposed, elongated main discharge electrodes are longitudinally disposed in transversely spaced relation, the improvement compris... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4541904 | Method of manufacturing a moisture sensor A moisture sensor is manufactured by applying a thin layer of tantalum oxide to a moisture insensitive substrate and placing at least two electrodes on the tantalum oxide layer. The tantalum oxide layer comprises the oxide of a highly resistive low densit... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4541208 | Insulating cover for pull down stairs An insulating cover is disclosed for enclosing an opening in a building floor containing a folding stairs which has a pair of tracks mounted adjacent the opening. An inverted box-like structure of sufficient size to cover the opening has sides which fit a... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4541166 | Method of making semiconductor deivce using a conductive layer as mask A semiconductor device which is provided with a surface channel type or bulk channel type MIS FET. The MIS FET comprises at least a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a layer member formed in a predetermined pattern on the major surface... | 09/17/1985 |
