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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6179063 | Impulse wrench The present invention relates to an impulse wrench for use in conjunction with a fastener engaging tool and a power supply to selectively rotate threaded fasteners. The wrench comprises a housing and an impulse manifold rotatably mounted within the housin... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6181475 | Optical system and image display apparatus An optical system which is compact, lightweight and satisfactorily corrected for aberrations and may be suitably used as an imaging optical system or an ocular optical system for a head- or face-mounted image display apparatus which forms no intermediate ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6179433 | Driving tool with illuminating capability A driving tool includes a handle having a tubular surrounding wall defining a torch receiving compartment. A front end wall is disposed at a front end of the surrounding wall, and has a drive shaft extending outwardly of the torch receiving compartment. T... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6177757 | Image display apparatus with integrally rear plate and support bodies An envelope of a cathode ray tube includes a substantially rectangular flat face plate, and a substantially rectangular flat rear plate opposed to the face plate with a side wall being interposed therebetween, a plurality of funnels extending from the rea... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6174437 | Water treatment system The water treatment apparatus utilizes membrane separation technology to separate clean product water from a contaminated water source. Chemical pretreatment of the raw feed water, chemical cleaning of the membrane separator(s), and chemical treatment of ... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6173627 | Steering wheels having covers A steering wheel has an annular steering grip, spokes extending radially inward from the steering grip, and a pad located at the center of the grip. A back cover is arranged below the spokes and the pad. The spoke located closest to the driver's position ... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6148209 | High-speed data transmission in a digital mobile communication system A data transmission in a digital mobile communication system employing a so-called multi-channel access technique, in which one or more traffic channels may be allocated to a mobile station for data transmission in accordance with the data transfer rate r... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6147753 | Multilayer, cushioned liquid drop detector A liquid drop detector which may be fixed or attached by a simple operation, without machining, to a window glass, includes a light emitting element, a light receiving element and light guiding bodies wherein the light emitted by the light emitting elemen... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6144784 | Optical input/output module and light-reflecting device The present invention relates to an optical I/O module and light-reflecting device comprising a structure excellent in expandability having a high degree of freedom in designing. The optical I/O module according to the present invention comprises a direct... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6143295 | Low- molecular active ingredient extract from yeasts and method for producing it The invention relates to low-molecular, metabolism-activating mixtures of active ingredients from yeast fungi of the order Saccharomycetes and is characterized in that they are obtained from yeasts of the said order of Saccharomycetes, which are cultivate... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6138561 | Composition and method for perforating heat-sensitive stencil sheet In a composition containing a photothermal conversion material, which is suitable for use in a method of perforating a heat-sensitive stencil sheet by ejecting a photothermal conversion material contained in a liquid from a liquid-ejecting means to transf... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6140295 | Perfumed laundry detergents containing lipase The invention relates to laundry detergents containing lipase and new perfumes and to the new perfumes themselves. Such new perfumes counteract residual malodors of lipase treated laundry. They comprise at least 25% by weight of one or more fragrance mate... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6141472 | Optical cable and optical cable chamber element An optical cable has a plurality of optical fibers. The optical fibers are contained in fiber containing cavities of chamber elements. Each chamber element has a bottom part and a pair of side wall parts, which defines a fiber containing cavity. The indiv... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6104164 | Cell voltage detecting device for combination battery A device for detecting a voltage of an individual unit cell included in a combination battery consisting of a number of unit cells connected in series. The unit cells are divided into several groups, and a voltage divider circuit having a cell-side resist... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6094944 | Cutting apparatus in a pile forming textile machine A pile forming textile machine (circular knit, tufting, raschel, stitch-bonding or needle punch machine) is equipped with a plurality of pile elements (1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71) drawing out pile loops from pile yarns or fibers incorporated into a gro... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6090943 | Preparation of opiates, intermediates and uses of salts A process for the preparation of thebaine, its salts such as the bitartrate, and analogues thereof, together with a novel intermediate useful in said process are disclosed. Thebaine bitartrate is itself useful in the preparation of oxycodone; analogues ar... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6086955 | Phthalocyanine compounds A compound of the Formula (1) and salts thereof: ##STR1## wherein: M is a metal or hydrogen; Pc is a phthalocyanine nucleus; R1 and R2 are each independently H or optionally substituted alkyl, aryl or aralkyl; R3 is an ami... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6085265 | System for handling an asynchronous interrupt a universal serial bus device A system and method for establishing communication between a host computer and a peripheral device. The host computer includes logic for associating an attached peripheral device with one of a particular peripheral device type, logic for associating the a... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6084720 | Small-sized real image mode zoom finder A real image mode zoom finder includes, in order from the object side, an objective optical system with positive refracting power having a first lens unit with negative refracting power, a second lens unit with positive refracting power, a third lens unit... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6080417 | Hand disinfectant The invention concerns a hand disinfectant based on lower alcohols and is characterized by an aqueous solution of lower alcohols with synergists, the solution having a flash point of more than 21° C.... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6071960 | Polyol succinates and their pharmaceutical formulation Compounds of general formula (I) in which Y and Q are the same or different and are hydrogen atoms or C1-6 alkyl groups, optionally substituted by 1-4 hydroxy or 1-4 R3 O2 CCH2 CH2 CO2 -- g... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6069743 | Zoom lens system The invention relates to a high-performance zoom lens system which can use a diffractive surface therein for use with an image sensor having a number of pixels. The zoom lens system includes at least a first lens group G1 having positive power and a secon... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6044080 | Scalable parallel packet router A scalable parallel packet router comprises a massively parallel computer 10 and a plurality of multiplexers 15, and is controlled by a disclosed packet routing algorithm, and a method of very high-speed packet routing. The method includes selection of an... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6024895 | Cross-linkable, electrically conductive composition, electric conductor and process for forming the same A cross-linkable, electrically conductive composition comprising (a) a soluble, electrically conducting polymer having a sulfonic acid group and/or a carboxyl group and (b) a thermally cross-linkable or ultraviolet- or electron beam-cross-linkable resin o... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6014688 | E-mail program capable of transmitting, opening and presenting a container having digital content using embedded executable software An E-mail message enhancement apparatus is preferably implemented through a sequence of program instructions. On the sender side, creation software implements a data format that allows for differing types of content, such as visual images, audio, multimed... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6007988 | Binding proteins for recognition of DNA Disclosed are libraries of DNA sequences encoding zinc finger binding motifs for display on a particle, together with methods of designing zinc finger binding polypeptides for binding to a particular target sequence and, inter alia, use of designed zinc f... | 12/28/1999 |
| 6005032 | Composition and use The use of a 2-(C3-5 -alkyl)-BIT or 2-aralkyl-BIT such as 2-phenylethyl-BIT as a fungicide for plastics materials. 2-n-Butyl-BIT is preferred.... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5998579 | Epimorphin antagonist and process for producing it This invention provides an epimorphin antagonist comprising part of the functional domain of epimorphin e.g., a polypeptide specified by the amino acid sequence: H-Ser(Asn)-Gly-Asn-Arg-Thr-Ser-Val-Asp-Leu-Arq-Ile-Arg-Arg-Thr-Gln-His-Ser -Val-Leu-OH (S... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5994786 | Starter having a vibration resisting magnet switch In a starter for an engine, a magnet switch attracts a plunger by a magnetic force generated by a solenoid coil wound around a sleeve, so that a pinion fitted on an output shaft of a starter motor is driven by movement of the plunger to engage with an eng... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5987217 | Robotic furniture texturing A programmable furniture texturing robotic system includes a programmable multiaxis robot fixed to a support frame and a table fixed to a support frame such that they form an integrated unit and the programmable multiaxis robot has a furniture texturing t... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5980898 | Adjuvant for transcutaneous immunization A transcutaneous immunization system delivers antigen to immune cells without perforation of the skin, and induces an immune response in an animal or human. The system uses an adjuvant, preferably an ADP-ribosylating exotoxin, to induce an antigen-specifi... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5977756 | Driving apparatus for an inductive load A first switching element opens or closes a power supply route of an inductive load in accordance with a first driving signal. A clamping element prevents a voltage ot the power supply route from exceeding a first clamp voltage when the power supply route... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5968614 | B-pillar covers for automotive vehicle Thin walled B-pillar covers for an automotive vehicle comprise a thin sheet of thermoplastic material of generally uniform thickness vacuum molded about a continuous body molding surface of a molding horn to provide a main body portion having a U-shaped m... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5970076 | Wavelength tunable semiconductor laser light source A wavelength tunable semiconductor laser light source, which has an external resonator semiconductor laser source unit; an optical filter for selecting an output beam of the external resonator semiconductor laser source unit in a single mode; a drive unit... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5970443 | Audio encoding and decoding system realizing vector quantization using code book in communication system An audio encoding-decoding system is constructed between a transmitting station and a receiving station which are connected together through communication lines. The transmitting station corresponds to an encoder which performs an encoding process on audi... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5967081 | Automatic milking apparatus An arrangement for the automatic application of milking apparatus to a milk animal including a milking apparatus store, a milking apparatus handling device including a milking apparatus carrier movable on the device and a teat sensor on the handling devic... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5966001 | Voltage regulating system for vehicle including alternator Battery voltage is compared by a comparator so that when the voltage of a normally-charged battery becomes higher than a normal reference voltage, it is regulated to be as high as a normal reference voltage. When an average value of the battery voltages i... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5965689 | Electrical and electronic components made of a polyamide composition The invention relates to electrical and electronic components made of a polyamide composition and possessing an improved resistance under soldering conditions, particularly when the surface mounting technique is used. This is achieved by using a polyamide... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5966204 | Near-infrared microscope A near-intfrared microscope has a light source device for illumination for emitting near-infrared rays, an illuminating optical system for illuminating a specimen with illumination light from the light source device for illumination, and an observing opti... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5959301 | Ultraviolet detector The ultraviolet detector in accordance with the present invention comprises a sealed vessel enclosing a discharged gas therein, and a metal anode and a metal cathode which are disposed close to each other within the sealed vessel so as to generate therebe... | 09/28/1999 |
