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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7930950 | Motor-driven steering assist apparatus In a motor-driven steering assist apparatus, a gear train transmitting a rotation of an electric motor to an output shaft comprises a single unit body surrounded by housings, and an attaching boss to a vehicle body side bracket is provided in a lower surface of the ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7909129 | Steering shaft support structure of motor-driven steering assist apparatus A steering shaft support structure of a motor-driven steering assist apparatus is disclosed in which a steering shaft supported to a vehicle body side is connected to an input shaft of the motor-driven steering assist apparatus supported to the vehicle body side, an... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908696 | Swimming pool cleaning device A swimming pool cleaning assembly that has at least one ultrasonic generator, a swimming pool cleaning machine including a support frame, a housing shell provided with a bottom wall and arranged around the support frame, a driver located in the housing shell, advanc... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7900511 | Device for locking-unlocking tired wheels of vehicles on a mandrel of a maintenance machine A locking device for a maintenance machine such as a balancing machine, of a rotating body (5), having a fixed portion comprising a hollow fixed support element (2) borne by the maintenance machine, and a control system (59), and a movable porti... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7893580 | Positioning mechanism of resolver and electrically-driven power steering apparatus In the power steering apparatus, of the present invention, bobbins and a bus ring holder are coupled and fixed to a stator so as to be positioned at constant circumferential positions with respect to the stator, and a resolver stator is held by a groove portion of a... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7833372 | Method and device for assembling insulating glass panes filled with a gas different from air A method for assembling insulating glass panes filled with a gas different from air, by Arranging a first glass sheet and second glass sheet, provided with a spacer, in a vertical or inclined position so one is opposite to the othe... | 11/16/2010 |
| D627369 | Engine air intake | 11/16/2010 |
| 7822520 | Motor-driven power steering apparatus In a motor-driven power steering apparatus, there are provided a reference output characteristic memory previously storing a reference output characteristic expressing a corresponding relation between a driving current of an electric motor and an output torque corre... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7815511 | Automotive shock absorbing propeller shaft apparatus In an automotive shock absorbing propeller shaft apparatus, when a first yoke stub provided in an end portion of a first propeller shaft, and a second yoke stub provided in an end portion of a second propeller shaft are coupled with each other by a cross pin so as t... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7807003 | Method and device for filling insulating glass panes with a gas other than air A method for assembling insulating glass panes from two or more glass sheets filled with a gas other than air, two plates facing each other, arranged parallel to each other vertically to inclined with adjustable mutual distance, a horizontal conveyor arranged near t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7765674 | Magnet cover caulking method of electric motor In a magnet cover caulking method of an electric motor, the method achieves caulking and fixation by forming a taper-shaped outer peripheral portion, a diameter of which is reduced toward an outer side in an axial direction, in an outer periphery of a magnet holder,... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7743523 | Arrangement for determining thicknesses and thickness variations The device claimed by the invention is characterized essentially in that during the transport of a flat object, in particular, a banknote, through guide elements the deflection of one or two second guide elements from a first guide element is detected via an electri... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7741743 | Feeder line drawing structure of motor for ship propeller In a feeder line drawing structure of a motor for a ship propeller, a guide portion detachably retaining a feeder line drawn out from a grommet in a drawing direction is provided in a lower end side of a housing in accordance with an integral molding, a bracket conn... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7726376 | Locking device for a tire mounted on a wheel rim to optimize dynamic balancing of a tired wheel The present invention relates to a locking device design to act between a tire and its respective wheel rim for dynamically balancing a tired wheel. The locking device is arranged to be installed on a tired-wheel maintenance machine having a support frame and a rota... | 06/01/2010 |
| D616760 | Packaging container | 06/01/2010 |
| 7717225 | Motor-driven steering assist apparatus A motor-driven steering assist apparatus includes a single unit body covered by first to third housings, an upper end portion of an input shaft and a torque sensor are supported to the first housing, an upper end portion of an output shaft, an electric motor, a worm... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7691345 | Sterilizing and disinfecting apparatus An apparatus for sterilizing and disinfecting a target space by spraying a chemical including alcohol includes a spray gun 4 to which a chemical container 7 containing a sterilizing and disinfecting chemical including alcohol is attachable, a gas cylin... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7678310 | Block tool for surface finishing operations and method of obtaining the same A block tool for surface finishing operations, which has a support and coupling member (2) for connection to a machine tool, and an abrasive block (3) held by the support member (2), the abrasive block being obtained from a solution or emulsion ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7662211 | Dehumidification method and plant, particularly for granular materials The present invention relates to a granular-material dehumidification plant including at least one silo or hopper arranged to receive granular material to be dehumidified at the top thereof and provided with a controlled lower delivering mouth, at least one feeding ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7661506 | Motor-driven steering apparatus In a motor-driven steering apparatus in which a handle stay provided with a steering handle is fixed to a steering shaft, and a motor-driven steering assist unit is interposed between the steering shaft and a tire wheel side steering member, and a taper coupling por... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7654890 | Device for de-rinding trimming a piece of meat or a piece of slaughtered animal A device and a method are proposed for de-rinding or trimming a piece of meat or piece of a slaughtered animal, in which an arrangement device for the arrangement of the piece, an industrial robot with a manipulator arm and a sensor system, which detects the part th... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7654360 | Motor-driven steering apparatus In a motor-driven steering apparatus structured such that a motor-driven steering assist unit is interposed between a steering shaft in a handle side and a wheel side steering member, and an input shaft connected to the steering shaft of the motor-driven steering as... | 02/02/2010 |
| D604994 | Picnic cooler | 12/01/2009 |
| 7611000 | Damping force adjusting structure of hydraulic shock absorber In a damping force adjusting structure of a hydraulic shock absorber in which a part of an oil liquid is introduced to a back pressure chamber provided in a back surface side of a damping valve from a back pressure introduction path, a pressure within the back press... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7604087 | Motor-driven power steering apparatus In a motor-driven power steering apparatus which converts a rotation of an electric motor into a linear stroke of a rack shaft by a power transmission mechanism, and steers a wheel coupled to the rack shaft, there is provided an automatic neutral restoring means for... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7571590 | Apparatus and method for transporting and depositing items into a package An apparatus and method for the controlled depositing of pliable items in a package are hereby proposed. In this process, the items are conveyed to the packing zone on a conveyor belt. The items are captured on the conveyor belt and moved to the edge of the conveyor... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7540511 | Support structure of motor-driven steering assist apparatus In a support structure of a motor-driven steering assist apparatus interposed between an upper steering shaft in a steering wheel side and a lower steering shaft in a tire wheel side, a steering angle regulating means for limiting a maximum steering angle of the upp... | 06/02/2009 |
| 6980625 | System and method for generating microfocused laser-based x-rays for mammography The present invention concerns x-ray sources for mammography. A microfocused x-ray source of small size (30 μm and smaller) with x-ray spectrum optimized for enhanced mammography is obtained with a method and system according to the invention. The proposed x-ray so... | 12/27/2005 |
| 7497761 | Tool for automatically assembling-disassembling a tire to/from a wheel rim The present invention relates to a tire assembling-disassembling tool for use in a tire assembling-disassembling machine arranged to rotatable support a tired wheel or wheel rim, said tool being cantilever supported on a respective guide member of the tire assemblin... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7425009 | Front fork apparatus in two-wheeled vehicle or the like In a front fork apparatus of a two-wheeled vehicle or the like in which left and right front fork constituted by vehicle body side tubes and tire wheel side tubes which are slidably fitted to each other, are provided in both left and right sides of a front wheel, an... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421324 | Drive system switching control method In a drive system switching control method of an automotive four-wheeled vehicle for switching two drive systems comprising a two-wheel drive and a four-wheel drive. The method has a step of detecting a steering angle, and a step of inhibiting the drive system switc... | 09/02/2008 |
| D575335 | Pen | 08/19/2008 |
| 7401769 | Gas spring A method of manufacturing a gas spring including the steps of fitting and inserting a first seal member, an annular space member, a second seal member, and a rod guide, to an outer periphery of a piston rod in accordance with this order from a side of a piston, a st... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7392741 | Supporting and releasably holding device for a printing cylinder hub A printing machine color assembly presenting a main or cliché-carrying cylinder (2) and an interlocking or screened cylinder (3), each carried at its hubs (2a, 2b; 3a, 3b) by first (4a | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392879 | Motor-driven power steering apparatus In a motor-driven power steering apparatus, the main coil winding and auxiliary coil winding are wound around the same slot of a stator core in a parallel manner, a motor drive means has a main driver feeding at least to the main coil windings, and an auxiliary driv... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7377355 | Motor-driven power steering apparatus for a vehicle In a motor-driven power steering apparatus for a vehicle in which a worm wheel of a worm gear type speed reduction mechanism is fixed to a pinion shaft of a rack and pinion mechanism, a direction of a torsion angle β of a helical pinion provided in the pinion shaft... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375642 | Method and device for identifying and localizing a fire The invention relates to a method and a device for detecting and localizing sources of fire in one or more monitored areas (R1, . . . , Rn) utilizing a suction pipe system (3) connecting the plurality of monitored areas (R1, .... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370724 | Motor-driven steering assist apparatus A motor-driven steering assist apparatus is structured such that a single unit body covered by housings has an input shaft, an output shaft, a torque sensor, an electric motor and a gear train built-in, and elastic members are interposed between an attaching portion... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367421 | Rack and pinion type power steering apparatus A rack shaft is supported at three positions including a gear housing receiving an engagement portion between a rack gear and a pinion near one end in an axial direction with respect to a rack housing corresponding to a support body thereof, a housing near the other... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364000 | Suspension apparatus of vehicle The invention provides a suspension apparatus of a vehicle comprising a base end portion of a swing arm pivotally attached to a vehicle body so as to freely oscillate, and a wheel which is rotatably supported to a leading end portion of the swing arm. A first link i... | 04/29/2008 |
