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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5862553 | Dynamic balancing method for a washing machine A clothes washing machine is provided with an oscillating washing assembly including a rotating drum capable of being driven at various rotating speeds and provided with a plurality of annular hollow bodies secured to the drum. A plurality of moving masse... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5846323 | Crystal manufacturing apparatus A crystal pulling apparatus is designed to generate a thermal gradient across the melt surface to prevent nucleation of stray crystals and production of floating debris to produce a high quality crystal, and has special provisions for observing the growth... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5830307 | Production method for substrate having projecting portions A method for manufacturing a substrate having a surface with projections. A printing plate, with a least one part formed from a ferromagnetic material, and which has viscous material penetrating portions for forming projections on a flat surface, is broug... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5829171 | Custom-fitting footwear Footwear such as a shoe or boot has an upper, an outsole and an insole. The insole comprises a layer of thermoplastic material and a heater member. The heater member is capable of generating heat by being energized by electrical energy and is capable upon... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5818244 | Brazed solid material specimen holder for apparatus that measures dielectric and magnetic parameters Process for measuring dielectric and magnetic parameters of a solid material using a brazing or hard soldering of said material to a sample or specimen holder and apparatuses for performing said process. According to the invention, a sample or specimen (2) of ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5817930 | Process for measuring at least one element chosen from among PU (IV) PU (VI), uranium and nitrates present in a solution by liquid phase chromatography The invention concerns a chromatographic measurement. The aim of the invention is to measure at least one of the elements chosen from among Pu (IV), Pu (VI), uranium and nitrates, present in a solution by liquid phase chromatography. This aim is attained ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5813253 | Arrangement for balancing of a body rotatable about an axis In an arrangement for balancing of a main mass (14) having an imbalance and rotating about an axis (18) balancing masses (23; 24) are used which are relatively freely movable with respect to the main mass (14) and disposed in at least one closed path (22)... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5813245 | Pressure relief circuit for refrigerator contained water filter A refrigerator having a water filtration and dispensing system including a first control valve for unfiltered water, a household water supply line for fluidly connecting the first control valve to a source of household water, a water filter assembly dispo... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5806942 | Dishwasher door and decorator panel assembly Disclosed is a dishwasher door and panel assembly including one or more decorator panels that are retained between two vertical flanges along the front of a dishwasher. The assembly includes a brace member and a trim piece that extend along the bottom per... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806064 | Method for multi-field ordering of data base records with sequence variables A status variable and a sequence variable is associated with each field of a set of fields for multi-field ordering. The data base is ordered according to the sequence variables. The status variables are used to check for valid sequence variables. The seq... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5799504 | Refrigerator system with float valve flow control A vapor compression refrigeration system having a condenser, a regulating device, and a capillary tube. The regulating device has a housing defining an inner chamber for receiving refrigerant from the condenser. A float is disposed within the chamber and ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5797996 | Method for controlling the amount of water filled in a dishwashing machine A method for controlling the amount of water filled in a dishwashing machine through a normally closed valve (18) to carry out a duty cycle of the machine in which the water is sprayed onto the washload items by a circulation pump (10) driven by an electr... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5797164 | Dovetail refrigerator door handle lock An improved handle assembly for a refrigerator door including a mounting button secured to a face of the refrigerator door, a mounting block secured to a first or lower end of a door handle, and a mounting bracket integrally formed with a second or top en... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5794134 | Receiving circuit for a portable telephone set An unnecessary wave suppressing means suppresses unnecessary waves included in a reception high frequency signal in a frequency band that is changed in accordance with a switching signal. The unnecessary wave suppressing means changes the pass band by ins... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5791405 | Heat transfer tube having grooved inner surface The present invention has the object of increasing the heat exchanging performance of heat transfer tubes having grooved inner surfaces. In order to achieve this object, the heat transfer tubes having grooved inner surfaces according to the present invent... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5787653 | Sheet-shaped solar module mounting structure In a sheet-shaped solar module mounting structure, rail members include locking members to which the end portions of sheet-shaped solar batteries are locked, so that, in mounting the sheet-shaped solar batteries to a roof bed, it is unnecessary to nail th... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5785712 | Reconstruction bone plate An elongated bone plate having an upper surface and a lower surface is provided along its length with at least a pair of spaced apart screw holes extending therethrough from the upper to the lower surface. The plate is provided, on at least a selected one... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5785459 | Prefabricated form for molding a footing of a settable structural material A prefabricated form for molding a footing of a settable structural material at the bottom end of a tubular form for a structural pillar is disclosed. The form is preferably constructed from a thermoplastic such as a high density polyethylene or ABS and i... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5784896 | Freezer or refrigerator construction suitable for food service use A refrigeration unit for storing items to be refrigerated. The refrigeration unit includes an insulated enclosure defining a compartment, and has a top wall, a rear wall, and opposing side walls. An evaporator is disposed within the compartment and is sec... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5784755 | Wet extractor system An upright wet extractor includes a base assembly, a manipulative handle pivotally attached to the base assembly, and a motor driven agitator brush. A cleaning solution dispensing tank is removably attached to the handle assembly by a pivotable latch memb... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5781960 | Nozzle arrangement for a self-guiding vacuum cleaner A self-guiding vacuum cleaner having a chassis (10) supporting a brush nozzle (50) facing the floor and having a nozzle opening (51) communicating with a chamber (16) in which a dust container (17) is arranged, the chamber being connected to the inlet sid... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5781264 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device comprising a multilayer printed wiring board having an insulation layer of glass fiber woven fabric impregnated with a resin and having a coefficient of thermal expansion of 15 ppm/°C. or less, which is provided by a glass... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5780845 | Optical current transformer In an optical current transformer, an optical sensor is made up of two optical sensor units which are independent of each other. Incident light beams are applied to the optical sensor units, and the emergent light beams from the latter are subjected to ad... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5779745 | Adaptor for a vacuum cleaner An adaptor for a vacuum cleaner having a vacuum source (21) and an inlet tube (18) communicating with a nozzle opening (11) and ending in a chamber (15) which has an opening closed by a cover (17). A dust container (16) is normally placed in the chamber a... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5779579 | Pulley assembly for driven shaft A pulley assembly for a driven shaft is disclosed. The pulley assembly includes a pulley to which a turning force is transferred from a driving unit; a sleeve fixedly mounted to a casing of the driven unit through which the driven shaft passes with a clea... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5777908 | Comb filter with a smaller number of delay elements A stage associated with a factor Nk of a 1/N (N=N1 . . . Nk . . . NL) thinning filter is constituted of a digital integrator which is cleared at every period of Nk+1 samples, and a transposed comb fil... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5776520 | Shell molded article stripping machine An automatic glove stripping machine is disclosed comprising a drive unit that distributes power to one or more stripping assemblies, each comprising a conveyor unit, a plurality of dipping molds, a pressurized air distribution system, a brush set, a plur... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5776418 | Automated analysis apparatus having fixed cells An apparatus is proposed making it possible in automated manner to perform several analyses on the same sample. For this purpose several fixed, chemical preparation cells (10) can separately receive several fractions of the same sample. Reagent injection ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5775815 | Ball and socket swivel bearing A ball and socket swivel bearing is disclosed. The bearing comprises a rod end having a shank portion and a metallic socket portion. The socket portion has a continuous toroidal inner periphery and has outer walls defining circular side openings. A metall... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5775587 | Portable handheld drinking water fountain This invention is a handheld drinking water device which converts a standardized water faucet to a laminar fountain, and more particularly to a device that accommodates and seals with a faucet aerator to convert a flow of water from a faucet into a drinki... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5775138 | Arrangement for mounting the motor in a clothes washing machine An arrangement for mounting the motor in a clothes washing machine for the purpose of reducing the noise produced by the machine during operation thereof. The electric motor (10) is fixed to the tub of the machine on brackets (12) provided with seats (13)... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5774932 | Vacuum cleaner assembly An upright vacuum cleaner having a separable handle for compact shipping is disclosed. The separable handle includes a lower handle portion pivotally attached to a floor engaging unit and is joined to an upper handle portion at a parting plane. A dust bag... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5772871 | Coolant reconditioning system A reconditioning system which withdraws coolant from a machine tool sump, filters solids from the coolant, removes tramp oil from the coolant, kills bacteria in the coolant, and returns the reconditioned coolant to the machine tool sump. The reconditionin... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5772761 | Crystallization furnace for material with low thermal conductivity and/or low hardness The invention concerns a crystallization furnace for a material with low thermal conductivity arid/or low hardness. This furnace can obtain high quality single crystals. This furnace comprises a heating chamber (1), heating means (13) to create a temperature p... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5772470 | Coaxial connector In a coaxial connector, a casing, which is connected to an outer conductor of a horizontally-extending coaxial cable, and holds an insulator in surrounding relation thereto, comprises an inner casing and an outer casing connected together through engageme... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771112 | Reconfigurable device for insertion-extraction of wavelengths This device includes optical add-drop multiplexers (M1 to M2) each having a band-pass filter. An optical switch (C1) has outputs connected to the multiplexers. An optical coupling (C2) has inputs connected to the multiplexers. The device is useful in opti... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5767693 | Method and apparatus for measurement of mobile charges with a corona screen gun The surface of a wafer is charged with corona passing through a screen. The screen is part of a feedback loop that forces a constant corona current. This results in the potential of the wafer surface following the potential of the screen. This allows cont... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5765393 | Capillary tube incorporated into last pass of condenser A multipass evaporator for an air conditioner includes a pair of spaced-apart and parallel headers, a plurality of microchannels extending between and connected to the headers, at least one throttling microchannel extending between and connected to the he... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5765384 | Evaporator with an electric heating cable for defrosting An evaporator (10) having an electric heating cable (20) for defrosting the evaporator comprises a tubular element (12), through which a refrigerant flows. The element (12) is constituted by an inner pipe (16) and an outer pipe (22) arranged on the outsid... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5765241 | Fitted sheet for a mattress, and method of making it A sheet is provided for dressing a mattress. The sheet may be formed from a tube of knit fabric having spaced apart ends closed by end seams normal to the longitudinal axis of the tube. The tube is longitudinally open, from end to end, to provide an openi... | 06/16/1998 |
