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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6182552 | Holding device for a cage for roll bodies on a pillar of a tool A holding device for a cage for roll bodies of longitudinal leaders on pillars of a tool, in particular a blanking or punching die or a mould, the tool consisting of a plurality of assembled plates, and having at least a first part and a second part. The ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6157104 | Electronic component cooling apparatus An electronic component cooling apparatus capable of permitting a sufficient amount of air to be fed to an electronic component to be cooled. An impeller which includes a plurality of blades for sucking air from one side in an axial direction of a revolvi... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6154921 | Vacuum cleaner This invention relates to a vacuum cleaner having a vacuum cleaner housing and a pivotable handle with a grip portion. The handle is pivotably secured to the vacuum cleaner housing in such a manner that the turning axis of the handle is generally horizont... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6122973 | Electrostatic capacity-type pressure sensor with reduced variation in reference capacitance A capacitance-type pressure sensor capable of reducing a variation in reference capacitance. The capacitance-type pressure sensor includes insulating spacer (3b) arranged between a main capacitive electrode (4) and a reference capacitive electrode (5) to ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6121783 | Method and apparatus for establishing electrical contact between a wafer and a chuck A needle is pressed into the backside oxide of a semiconductor wafer and a voltage applied to the wafer greater than the breakdown voltage of the oxide in order to make an electrical contact with the bulk material of the wafer. A capacitor plate is provid... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6116095 | Apparatus and method for measuring air flow from a duct system A method and apparatus for selectively predicting the air flows from a duct system that would be produced by environment conditioning plants. The apparatus includes a measurement duct connected to a blower. A restrictor plate is movably mounted over an in... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6118994 | Portable communications device capable of autodialing truncated received telephone number A processor extracts a numeral string from a pager message which has been received via a pager antenna and a pager-signal receiving unit, and retrieves a telephone number including that numeral from a built-in telephone directory memory. The retrieved tel... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6115405 | Method and an arrangement for determining the height position of an electrode An arrangement and method for determining the height position of a vertically movable electrode (2) in an arc furnace (1). The arrangement includes an elongated, flexible element (9), preferably a heavy chain, whose one end is attached to a first attachme... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6114861 | Apparatus for and method of evaluating the polarization characteristic of a ferroelectric capacitor Described herein is an apparatus for evaluating the polarization characteristic of a ferroelectric capacitor. The apparatus includes a ferroelectric capacitor, a first pulse generator, a second pulse generator, a reference capacitor of a known capacitance... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6111390 | Magneto-equipped power device A power device including a magneto and a rectification circuit for rectifying an output of the magneto is provided which is capable of adjusting an output of the magneto without any specific control circuit. A field adjusting excitation coil is arranged o... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6108864 | Vacuum cleaner having a reusable dirt cup A vacuum cleaner assembly including a motor housing, a motor and fan assembly mounted in the motor housing, and a dirt containment chamber having an air intake at one end. An apertured wall is provided at one end of the motor housing so that the fan is cl... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6103792 | Non-phenolic rubber tackifier A non-phenolic tackifier compound which includes starch and asphalt, and is substantially free of cross-linked fatty acids. Preferably, the tackifier compound further includes a hydrocarbon tackifying resin, and a binding resin composed of a styrene copol... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6099339 | Connector plug-locking mechanism A lock mechanism by which a mating connector socket to be mounted on a printed wiring board of an electronic equipment can be formed into a small size, and even if the direction of mounting of the connector socket is inverted, or if the electronic equipme... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6098912 | Winding machine having freely positionable nozzle A winding machine is provided, by which it is possible to cope with various kinds of shapes of the winding section, to realize stable winding, and to perform an operation of connecting the end of the wound wire to a terminal and a winding operation in a s... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6100965 | Laser speed measurement and range finding device The purpose of this invention is a laser speed measurement and range finding device, with coherent detection comprising: a microlaser (10) with continuous emission comprising an active laser medium (10) and a microlaser cavity (16, 18), means (20, 22, 24) for ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6095307 | Method and apparatus for detecting press tool failure A tool support and monitoring assembly for a press. The tool includes upper and lower die shoes, back-up plates, and upper and lower die tooling. The die tooling is secured to the back-up plate and includes a first surface facing the back-up plate and an ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6095221 | Awning extension and retraction mechanism An awning includes a roller assembly having a torsion spring, a canopy connected between a wall the roller assembly, and a pair of "four-bar" arm assemblies supporting opposite ends of the roller assembly. The arm assemblies move the roller assembly betwe... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6094011 | Discharge lamp lighting device driven by internal combustion engine A discharge lamp lighting device driven by an internal combustion engine is disclosed which is capable of lighting a discharge lamp without using a ballast constituted by a leakage transformer. The device includes a generator which is driven by the intern... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6089003 | Bale push-off device A bale push-off device is provided for pushing bales off from a bale wrapping machine for wrapping bales end to end in a row. The bale push-off device comprises a bale push-off member which in use faces a bale discharging side of a bale wrapping device of... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6092228 | Message receiving apparatus and message transmitting and receiving method A signal 101 from a transmitting station includes: an address 102 specific to a message receiving apparatus; a specific message 103 that is an advance notice indicating receipt of a large-volume message; and a message main body 105. The message receiving ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6091257 | Vacuum activated backside contact An apparatus for making and verifying electrical contact with the backside of a semiconductor wafer having a bulk portion covered with an insulating layer of oxide includes a contact probe, a wafer chuck having at least one probe vacuum groove and a probe... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089088 | Vibrating microgyrometer The invention relates to a vibrating microgyrometer incorporating a seismic mass (16) placed above a surface of a substrate (15) and attached to the surface by elastic supports arranged so as to enable the seismic mass (16) to move with respect to the sub... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089044 | Process for making preforms for multicore optical fibers Process for making preforms for multicore optical fibers. According to this process, several elementary preforms are made, a first machining is performed on them such that a chosen geometric model will be obtained after they are assembled, a second machin... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6086649 | Holder for a vacuum cleaner dust bag A holder (10) for a vacuum cleaner dust bag which is removably arranged in the vacuum cleaner and includes a sleeve (14) on which an open end (13) of the bag (11) is received. Two or more clamping blocks (17) at least partly surround the sleeve and can be... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6085382 | Air filtrating self-propelled upright vacuum cleaner Disclosed is a unique and novel air filtrating, self-propelled upright vacuum cleaner. The filtration system utilizes a HEPA-rated air filter as a final filtering element. The disclosed vacuum cleaner contains numerous other features including a self-prop... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6082641 | Dross processing Apparatus and method for concentrating metallic aluminum from dross comprising a system in which dross is repeatedly and continuously passed through an impact type mill to mill the material and to enable the metallic aluminum concentrates to be separated ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6082272 | Safe for supporting a bed Two enclosure are secured together to provide a safe the size and shape of a box spring for supporting a mattress. Wheels and handles are provided for transport. Fasteners for the enclosure, wheels, and handles are accessible only from the interior of the... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6082376 | Method of operating a wet extractor A method for operating an upright wet extractor having a base and a handle. The base includes a floor cleaning tool and has a hand held cleaning tool permanently attached thereto. A motor fan unit is operated to generate a suction force and this suction f... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6081627 | Two-dimensional code reader A two-dimensional code reader for precisely and fast reading a two-dimensional code image containing luminance unevenness caused by variations in illumination, etc. To binarize cells, first the gray levels of the pixels at the center points of the cells a... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6081585 | Interactive control electronic directory Electronic directory comprising: a data base (16) with at least one file (18a, 18b, 18c), each file having informations corresponding to alphanumeric characters and respectively associated with a plurality of references of the directory, at least one input int... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6077568 | Method of coating elongate objects Paint or varnish is applied to the exterior of elongate elements such as pencils, by passing the pencils(3) through a receptacle(12) containing the paint or varnish(13), causing the pencils(3) to leave the receptacle(12) through a washer(17) which permits... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6075360 | Magnetoresistive component having a multilayer strip with a geometrical pattern A magnetoresistive component and transducer for use therewith. The magnetoresistive component has a multilayer-type magnetoresistive strip bent in accordance with a repeated geometrical pattern (7a,7b). The pattern has at least one series of substantially... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6073624 | Supporting arrangement, for ovens or the like, suspended on parallel links A swing-out supporting arrangement (7) primarily intended for a wall-mounted oven (1) of domestic type comprises a bottom plate (6) supported by link arms (9, 10), said bottom plate (6) and an insert (8), possibly associated with said bottom plate, being ... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6073292 | Fluid based cleaning method and system A method for cleaning or sterilizing objects in a liquid fluid cleaning system comprising a high-pressure storing/working vessel, a cleaning chamber, and a low-pressure supply vessel, the method comprising the steps of loading the cleaning chamber with ob... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6075446 | Tank with alarm device The invention concerns a tank with means for detecting its condition by sending signals to an alarm device emitting light signals, in which are provided means for converting the light signals of the alarm device into transformed signals capable of being r... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6072320 | Product wafer junction leakage measurement using light and eddy current A method for measuring junction leakage in a semiconductor product wafer while applying varying light to the wafer. A surface photovoltage characteristic for the wafer and an eddy current characteristic for the wafer in response to the light are measured.... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6071310 | Spinal implant A spinal implant including a hollow, generally tubular shell having an exterior lateral surface, a leading end, and a trailing end. The shell has a helical thread projecting from its exterior surface. The thread includes a plurality of pillars. Each pilla... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6070653 | Cylindrical vessel for separation A separation device comprises a vessel (1) having an essentially circular cylindrical shape around a center axis (2), a first passage (4) provided in the cylindrical wall of the vessel and a second passage (5), provided in the cylindrical wall of the vess... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6071872 | Cable cleaning solution comprising a brominated hydrocarbon and an ester A cleaning solution including a brominated hydrocarbon and an ester. The cleaning solution is especially useful for cleaning high-voltage power cables prior to splicing.... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6068362 | Continuous multicolor ink jet press and synchronization process for this press This invention relates to a continuous multicolor ink jet press comprising a substrate driven by a motor and passing under at least one print head associated with a sensor and supplied by an ink circuit, a synchronization circuit, connected to a process c... | 05/30/2000 |
