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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8071892 | Electromagnetic isolation chamber for accurately manipulating devices therein An EMI shielded isolation chamber is provided, having an integral manipulator for manipulating electronic devices such as cell phones within the chamber, whereby a probe can be precisely positioned to selectively and directly actuate controls, switches, and keypads ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8070903 | Molded fabric and methods of manufacture A novel molded fabric is made by bringing a first patterned group of numerous discrete disjoint elements positioned on a first side of a contact boundary extending throughout the thickness of the fabric being molded, together with a second patterned group of numerou... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8021085 | Engraving tool with a very strong cutter tip to reduce breakage A conical shaped engraving tool has a tip configuration for increased strength that is especially desirable when engraving stainless steel. The improved conical tip consists of a thin V or U shaped slot or channel that touches the central axis of the tool and provid... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8011648 | Clamp for holding work-pieces of any size upon a pallet support table An elongated clamping member upon a conventional pallet support table extends its clamping range by providing several screw-head receiving portions for receiving a conventional clamping screw that presses against a selected screw-head receiving portion to cause the ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7992508 | Remotely operated watercraft docking mechanism having fuel saving and theft thwarting attributes A docking mechanism comprises first and second units, operative to firmly attach and release a watercraft such as a ferry boat to a dock. This action can be produced by actuators that may be hydraulic or pneumatic actuators, or by other means such as manually actuat... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7887762 | Pulsed ozone sparging for injecting a high volume high-concentration of ozone An ozone gas source supplies a high pressure ozone gas mixture of an oxygen carrier gas having a high ozone gas concentration of 5-14% of ozone gas to a pulse storage tank. A programmable controller causes a valve means to open and transport the ozone gas mixture wi... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7875869 | Apparatus for sanitizing feet of persons entering a home Apparatus is provided, for sanitizing feet of persons entering a particular area, such as a residential area, having a platform for transmitting sanitizing ultraviolet light to feet of persons standing upon upper portions of the platform, a germicidal light source f... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7874235 | Game field dressing safety tool The right handed hunter uses a special safety tool having a pistol grip handle firmly gripped by the hunter's left hand and having a slot formed in a forward portion of the safety tool for receiving a knife blade with its cutting blade up during dressing of the game... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7806485 | Vehicle wheel accessory capable of displaying different designs A vehicle wheel accessory includes a hub, a plurality of blades having ornamental designs on opposite surfaces thereof, a plurality of radially extending spokes, coupled to said hub by a hinged spoke coupler; a biasing device contained within each blade for biasing ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7748282 | Aviation fuel sampler device and method An aircraft fuel contaminant tester has an upper transparent chamber for viewing a first sample of aviation fuel, a lower chamber, a fuel cell drain valve actuating device for loading the upper transparent chamber. A thumb actuated valve halts flow of fuel from the ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7706953 | Speed stabilizer for automatically turning conventional cruise controls on/off in dense low speed traffic to save fuel The stabilizer works with any conventional cruise control (CC) and permits automatic CC in slower heavy traffic as it eliminates laborious frequent manual actuation of CC control buttons otherwise needed in such heavy traffic. More frequent automatic CC operation at... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7661307 | Low manufacturing cost printed ink liquid level sensors First and second elongated flexible insulated substrates have patterns of resistive liquid level sensor sections along the substrate lengths, each pattern comprising printable resistive ink of the same resistivity (ohms-squared), wherein the patterns can be simultan... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7637266 | Convoluted hair band for creating many varying hairstyles A convoluted internally stressed rubber member forms several twisted crossover loop portions. The user's fingers force open one or more loop portions to insert varying hair lengths, separate hair-pieces and/or decorative objects such as jewelry or strips of fabric, ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7607871 | Spring loaded tool with floating depth control for countersinking holes or engraving A floating tool-bit depth controlling nosepiece for a spring loaded tool holder is used to countersink holes of equal size when the height of the work piece material changes. The floating tool-bit depth controlling nosepiece, driven by a cnc machine, is rigidly coup... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7575320 | Novelty frameless eye wear for promoting sociability A double sided adhesive eye patch, bearing a new or old outdated corrective lens, is placed over the eye of the participant on the singles scene such as in nightclubs or while bathing on beaches, and the wearer can thus see clearly, or fairly clearly if an outdated ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7439457 | Apparatus for determining relative density of produce using weighing and size measuring The higher the reading of relative density, liquid weight per unit volume, of pieces of produce such as fruits, the juicier the piece of produce is. By comparing a number of pieces of produce of the same type and species and ranking them, the juiciest pieces of prod... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7376068 | Nano-scale resolution holographic lens and pickup device An extremely high resolution holographic lens is provided, comprising an interference pattern between light emitted from at least one tiny point source of light such as the tip of an optical fiber, having a diameter in the nanoscale region, and at least one plane or... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374566 | Surgical knives for large, self-sealing corneal incisions coupled to a universal intraocular lens (IOL) injector A lens injector includes a thin sheet-like lens glide member, mounted upon a tapered knife, that maintains a wedge-shaped opening in the cornea upon withdrawal of the knife. The lens is thereafter advanced under the cornea by a plunger in the injector that maintains... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7237390 | Compact portable beverage cooling system A cooling sink is positioned within a cooling chamber having a 0.75-1.50 gallon capacity, for directly contacting pressurized beer therein, the cooling sink having a substantial surface portion in contact with the beer for enabling heat extracted from said beer to b... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7175500 | Yo-yo having a concave bearing surface for performing string layering maneuvers A yo-yo is disclosed with a substantially frictionless freely rotatable ball bearing, positioned upon a spindle between two separate halves of rotatable yo-yo members, such ball bearing having a smooth, continuous, outer concave surface. The smooth concave surface c... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7175793 | Lamps within full bodied exact replicas of natural objects A realistic three-dimensional replica casting of naturally occurring samples of wood, rock and marine specimens produces realistic appearing landscape or indoor light modules that can simulate flickering candles in nightclubs and restaurants. The method employs a tw... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7093368 | Engraving tool depth control nosepiece for enhancing line uniformity Engraving tool bit depth controlling nosepiece adjustment devices establish a precise protrusion distance that an engraving tool bit protrudes from the end of the nosepiece of a spring loaded engraving tool, that is in turn inserted within and driven by a standard m... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092150 | Optically compensated infrared zoom lens having a single movable lens carriage and no aspheric lenses An infrared zoom lens having no aspheric lens elements comprises, six distinct lens groups each having two or less spherical lens elements. The first group has a positive power, the second group has a negative power, the third group has a positive power, the fourth ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7068583 | Nano-scale resolution optical pickup for reading/writing ultra-high density data on CD and DVD data storage elements A single high resolution holographic pickup, for reading/writing both a CD and DVD optical recording medium, has an electrical tuning control for applying a DC and AC signal to a tunable Bragg cell, which AC is phase locked with respect to the fundamental repetition... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7021137 | Apparatus for rapidly measuring liquid levels and volume of groundwater within wells that eliminates cross contamination between wells A dedicated liquid level detection method having a sensor positioned into the casing of a groundwater well. The detector is in the form of an elongated thin film sensor tape that extends along the full length of the well casing which detects the level, thickness and... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6997332 | Firewood rack needing no fasteners to assemble A four piece firewood rack has left-hand and right-band end sections, each section including a horizontal cross-beam welded between lower portions of a vertical beam to be positioned at the front of the rack and lower portions of a second left-hand beam at the rear ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6971574 | Method of accurately verifying election results without the need for a recount Hash numbers are assigned to each individual ballot choice made by a particular voter and a hash total, establishing the voter's set of ballot choices, is recorded and a printed receipt is issued to the voter, bearing the voter's identification number, to assure him... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6959521 | Method of creating a watertight basement stairway simultaneously with forming a building foundation A concrete basement stairway is created, by positioning a stairway form 1 between a first pair of concrete receiving foundation channels 9 and a second pair of concrete receiving foundation channels 9a of any size foundation, the stairway... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6918862 | Hand strength exerciser and progress indicator for both strong and weak hands An exercising device for strengthening hands or limbs has first and second bladders containing fluid with first and second valves that couple the bladders to a fluid pressure gage. Squeezing the first bladder by the left hand causes easy flow through the first valve... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6876781 | Micro-nano scale hetrodyne wavelength division demultiplexing for microscopy/tomography having parallel data acquisition An oscillating microscopic or tomographic optical input image is directed at a tunable Bragg cell and a tuning control device applies a fluctuating AC hetrodyne signal to the cell, such signal having a phase locked template with respect to oscillation of the optical... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6849844 | 2-D microscopic tomographic systems utilizing 2-D deflection sensors A high resolution, non-scanning system for microscopy and/or tomography whereby a broad non-focused input image transmitted through a medium such the human body is processed, in contrast with a focused scanning beam. A high pass filter provides high sensitivity, and... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6829928 | Method of accurately gauging groundwater and nonaqueous phase liquid contaminants which eliminates cross contamination between wells A dedicated liquid level detection method having a sensor positioned into the casing of a groundwater well. The detector is in the form of an elongated thin film sensor tape that extends along the fill length of the well casing which detects the level, thickness and... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6786601 | Method of conveniently thwarting infant amblyopia after cataract removal A flexible transparent mask having a vision blocking portion is positioned over the infant's “good” eye to prevent amblyopia and a large plastic corrective lens is positioned over the eye under correction, and is heat laminated to the mask during manufacture. Si... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6681063 | Low voltage micro-mirror array light beam switch A micro-optical light beam switch comprises a MEMS (Micro-Electromechanical Systems) mirror array with packaged CMOS driving circuitry. Each movable mirror is coupled to orthogonal pairs of thin unimorph PZT capacitor actuators about peripheral mirror por... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6669582 | Glove mounted target device and method for aiding a player in accurately throwing a baseball A generally circular, thin, laminated, high color contrast, flexible target sheet member is affixed to a central pocket portion of a baseball glove by a peel-away pressure sensitive formed upon the backing of the target member. This simple and inexpensive... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6638134 | Vertical boarding toy having a thin flat-faced track jumping spinner A rotating spinner travels down a number of track segments by the force of gravity, the spinner jumping across gaps separating the track segments and yet remaining in an upright position to enable reliable transfer of the spinner across the gaps. This is ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6631017 | Matched amplification and switch joint transform correlator A matched amplification correlator transforms input images projecting a real time hologram upon a holographic storage device and a spatial light modulator, optically coupled to the storage device, modulates the hologram with a correlation filter, and the ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6618138 | Scanning fluorescent systems for various diagnostic An angularly multiplexed store contains filters derived from prior examination of input image reference samples, a spectrum analyzer produces spectral data representing the frequency spectrum of the input image under examination, a computer produces an en... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6599064 | Combined dowel-hole and pocket-hole drilling apparatus A combination dowel-hole and pocket-hole drill comprising a motor/handle assembly, a pivoting platform, a fence system, and a base assembly. The motor/handle assembly includes a shoe structure enabling the motor/handle assembly to slide along grooves in t... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6577417 | Heterodyne-wavelength division demultiplexing for optical pick-ups, microscopy, tomography telecommunication and lidar A single tunable filter WDM Bragg cell is employed to both wavelength demultiplex and detect incoming light beams by the application of a DC tuning signal for wavelength selection, together with an AC component for facilitating detection of data impressed... | 06/10/2003 |
