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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5282684 | Device for monitoring the temperature of cooled or deep-frozen products An indicator used for monitoring whether or not a cooled or deep-frozen product has exceeded a preset critical temperature. The indicator includes a hollow shape which is symmetrically divided by separating walls. This structure allows the indicator fluid... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5173404 | Immunoassay for follicular regulatory protein A protein having a molecular weight of from about 10,000 to 18,000 daltons, isoelectric points of from about pH 4.0 to 6.5 and having the reversible biological effect of inhibiting aromatase activity in a biological system, and antibodies to the protein, ... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5156189 | High flow control valve A control valve including a second stage spool for controlling flow of fluid from a source thereof to a load. The valve includes one additional pressure slot and one additional return slot on each side thereof and separated by a land on the spool from the... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5142853 | Tool drive assembly and related tool drive linkage, tool work implement assembly and tool A landscape care tool can take the form of a vegetation-cutting tool incorporating circular-shaped blades having teeth or an earth-working tool incorporating hoeing tines. Drive linkage for such tool forms, as well as other tool forms, imparts linear move... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5128755 | Wireless real time video system and method of making same A wireless, real time video system provides a low power video transmitter wherein the base band video signal generated by the video camera directly modulates a radio frequency carrier signal to produce a very narrow band transmitter signal that is transmi... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5121986 | Method and apparatus for determining composition of fuel mixtures Apparatus and methods for determining the composition of a fuel mixture comprising hydrocarbons and oxygenates, wherein more than one measurement is made of the interaction of light passing through a light guide and the fuel mixture in which the light gui... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5119295 | Centralized lottery system for remote monitoring or operations and status data from lottery terminals including detection of malfunction and counterfeit units Remotely located lottery terminals, for operation by purchasers of lottery tickets, are adapted to be coupled by telephone to each other and to a central host computer as for verification of tickets by storing backup lottery data. Individual terminals are... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5109404 | Telephone call processor with select call routing A central processing system interfaces remote terminals through a dial-up telephone facility to complete various communication formats selectively involving either an audio response unit (ARU) or a telecommunications service representative station (TSR st... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5103268 | Semiconductor device with interfacial electrode layer A semiconductor device having a thin film silicon-containing active layer and a metallic first electrode is provided with an interfacial metallic layer at an inner surface of a second electrode to increase electrical resistance and thereby reduce shunts a... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5097396 | Fiber optic backlighting panel A fiber optic panel provides backlighting in devices such as rubber keypads, membrane switches, liquid crystal displays, rigid panels, or the like. The fiber optic panel comprises a light source for emitting light and a fiber optic cable which transmits t... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5097112 | Oven An oven with an oven chamber (2) provided at a front opening with a door (3) which can be opened and closed. The oven chamber (2) is provided with a halogen lamp (4), which halogen lamp (4) is arranged such that the output thereof reduced upon opening of ... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5096586 | Membranes having selective permeability Dopable, fully dense polymer membranes are used to form membranes having selective permeabilities. To improve selectivity, the membranes may be subjected to chemical or electrochemical treatment with electron donors or acceptors to alter the doping level ... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5094139 | Desoldering braid A desoldering wick which comprises a small number (e.g., three) of strands of a thin wire (i.e., having a diameter less than about 0.002") braided together to form a hollow tube which is subsequently flattened. Such a wick is suitable for use in desolderi... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5089961 | Apparatus and method for vascular examination of a limb An apparatus and a method are provided for vascular examination of a limb by inflation of a flexible-walled pneumatic chamber mounted to the limb and calibration of the pressure within the chamber in units of volume. Calibration is accomplished by inflati... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5089123 | Apparatus for continuous removal of materials from a liquid Methods and apparatus for continuous separation and optional recovery of one or more contaminants from a liquid, and in particular, for isolation of one or more specific elements, isotopes, ions, complexes and/or compounds from mixtures of similar or diss... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5088526 | Method for disposal of aerosol spray containers A method for disposal of aerosol dispensers and the contents thereof, which comprises cooling of the aerosol dispenser and its residual contents to a temperature below which the propellant exhibits a substantial vapor pressure (i.e., below the boiling poi... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5087082 | Rotary joint This invention is directed to a novel rotary joint or coupling which is useful for coupling a rotating element to a non-rotating element. More particularly, this invention is directed to a novel rotary joint or coupling which couples a rotating element to... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5085571 | Mold containing an adjustable key A mold for forming a container from a sheet of deformable material has upper and lower mold parts with die surfaces in conforming relation to one another. Upper and lower keys, each having a shear surface, are mounted in said upper and lower mold parts, r... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5083698 | Vacuum tip surmo-wick removal system An effective, convenient, economical and safe system for installing and removing multi-sided gull-wing semiconductor devices from circuit boards without damaging the semiconductor device is provided. The solder removal system is formed by the combination ... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5082929 | Immobilization of glycocompounds and glycoconjugates A method for attachment of glycocompounds and glycoconjugates to hydrazide gels, wherein a solution of glycocompound or glycoconjugate containing a suitable oxidizing agent is brought into contact with the hydrazide gel without prior removal of the oxidiz... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5080610 | Apparatus for fixing a halogen lamp There is disclosed an apparatus for fixing a halogen lamp (1) characterized in that a spacer (11) of fluorocarbon resin is mounted on an insulator portion of the halogen lamp (1) and that the halogen lamp (1) is fixed to a metallic fixing member (10) thro... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5078803 | Solar cells incorporating transparent electrodes comprising hazy zinc oxide Transparent conductors for use in a variety of different photovoltaic devices are disclosed, comprising at least one ZnO transparent conductor layer having a predetermined level of haziness achieved, e.g., through appropriate variation in the parameters e... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5078119 | Chain saw cutting assembly A chain saw cutting device and method for flush and square cutting walls and other flat concrete surfaces is disclosed. The chain saw cutting device is typically used in conjunction with a track-mounted circular saw cutting assembly, each being removably ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077509 | Multiple windings electrical motors controllers A circuit for recovering electromagnetic energy from multiple windings electrical motor open circuit armature windings when interrupted while contacted through coupled commutator segments by brushes of the two groups. This energy recovery circuit includes... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5072010 | Transmetalations from zirconium to copper intermediates Higher order cuprate complexes are prepared by means of a transmetalation from a corresponding zirconate intermediate. This process is particularly valuable with respect to the preparation of vinylic side chains such as are present in prostaglandins, as i... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5070454 | Reference marker orientation system for a radiographic film-based computerized tomography system An object is exposed to penetrating radiation at each of a plurality of partial rotations of the object. Radiation transmitted through the object strikes a separate sheet of radiographic film for each exposure to record an entire radiographic image of the... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5068555 | Dust exhauster for a vacuum cleaner having improved cooling A dust exhauster is described whose electric motor is designed as a commutatorless dc motor. The electrical and electronic components of the dust exhauster are positioned according to the invention within the motor cooling air intake channel. Consequently... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5066371 | Removal of contaminants and recovery of metals from waste solutions A method for removal of at least one contaminant from a liquid is described, wherein a first step in liquid is introduced into a first of a plurality of liquid treatment containers and brought into contact in a liquid-medium suspension with a first quanti... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5066002 | Portable exercise device A lightweight exercise device utilizes a hollow barre, a t-clamp, a support member and a support clamp to provide a portable barre which may be used under diverse circumstances and mounted on a wide variety of already existing foundations. The barre may b... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5065291 | Marking light A self-contained solar powered marking light. The marking light may be utilized to delineate certain predetermined boundaries without effectively illuminating the areas. The marking light automatically illuminates when output power from the photovoltaic c... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5064820 | Alkyl substituted phosphates and phosphonates as disruptants of insect sex pheromone-mediated behavior Compounds of the general formula I ##STR1## wherein R1 represents --R3, --OR3 or --N(R3)2, in which R3 is alkyl of 1 to about 18 carbon atoms; R2 represents alkyl of 1 to about 18 carbon atoms; and X represents --OR3, halogen, --CN, --SR4 or --... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5063026 | Egg collecting apparatus A collecting apparatus for the collection of pinworm eggs incorporates a shaft surrounded by an adhesive strip. A tab is disposed at the free end of the adhesive strip. The shaft is attached to a gripping member by a connecting member. The gripping member... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5061919 | Computer graphics dynamic control system For a raster-scanned, video display apparatus, individual pixel display data is stored in a double image frame buffer. A valid count buffer then holds a count for each pixel. Current valid counts are stored, as at times of image buffer updating which upda... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5062028 | Self-contained solar powered lamp A self-contained photovoltaic powered light which is a stand alone unit. The solar cells which power the light are assembled and maintained within the top, or upper, portion of the self-contained unit. The solar cells are encapsulated within a resiliently... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5060630 | Valve seat for automatic control system for water heaters A control valve for limiting the passage of water between a water source and a hot water tank within an automatic control system for water heaters. The control valve contains a sensing means for determining pressure differentials between the hot water tan... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5052441 | Direct drive servovalve having bearing-located motor housing A direct drive servovalve wherein rotational motion of a drive motor rotor is converted into linear motion of a spool valve. The drive motor is mounted upon the valve housing through utilization of the outer surface of a bearing which supports the rotor s... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5053585 | Multipurpose keyboard using digitizer pad featuring spatial minimization of a pressure contact area and method of making same A multipurpose keyboard incorporating an electronic pressure sensing device, a digitizer pad featuring spatial minimization of a pressure contact area capable of locating the leading and trailing edges of the pressure contact area is described. A processo... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5051352 | Apparatus and method of preserving the viability of animal organs An apparatus and method of maintaining the viability of animal organs, and in particular human organs, by controlling the storage temperature of the organ and providing the organ with sufficient nutrients and oxygen, while also monitoring and maintaining ... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5049047 | Infusion pump with means for measuring the tube internal diameter An infusion pump system comprising means for measuring internal diameter of an associated pump supply tube formed from a flexible material, such as plastic or rubber. The means for measuring internal diameter may comprise an ultrasound system including at... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048075 | Telephonic-interface statistical analysis system A system D interfaces with a multiplicity of individual terminals T1-Tn of a telephone network facility C, at the terminals callers are prompted by voice-generated instructions to provide digital data that is identified for positive association with a cal... | 09/10/1991 |
