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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7921811 | Selective access electronics pet door Described is an electronic pet door for automatically granting a selected animal access to a through-way defined by the electronic pet door and denying a non-selected animal access to the through-way. The selected animal carries a transmitter. The electronic pet doo... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7918190 | Electronic animal containment system with direction of approach determination An electronic animal containment system with direction-of-approach determination, or direction-sensitive animal containment system. The direction-sensitive animal containment system generally contains a transmitter unit connected to a wire loop bounding a containmen... | 04/05/2011 |
| D625124 | Shoe and accessory rack | 10/12/2010 |
| 7798118 | Method and apparatus for incorporation of a flame front—type ignition system into an internal combustion engine A method and apparatus for installation and functioning of a flame front type ignition system in a throughbore through the wall of the head of an internal combustion engine. The flame front ignition system employs a flame cone which is thread ably inserted within th... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7779788 | Animal training system with multiple configurable correction settings A receiver for an animal training system which includes a stimulation unit for providing at least one stimulus having a quantity of energy pulses and a stimulus pulse width; and a controller connected to the stimulation unit. The controller receives at least one tra... | 08/24/2010 |
| D612896 | Exercise platform | 03/30/2010 |
| 7637239 | Method and apparatus for enhancing the efficiency of operation of an internal combustion engine Method and apparatus useful in simultaneously enhancing the fuel consumption efficiency of an ICE, with concomitant enhancement of the power delivered by the engine, and reduction of undesirable exhaust emissions. One embodiment of the method of this invention inclu... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7631473 | Cutter-sealer for cutting and sealing polymer sheets A cutter-sealer (10) and a method (300) for cutting and sealing layers of film (70) together. The cutter-sealer (10) provides a heated blade (20), part of which moves through sheets of tautly held layers of film (70) into a ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7621815 | Flexible clutch A clutch is provided for releasably coupling an axially rotatable driving shaft to a coaxial driven shaft. The clutch comprises a gear, having a plurality of cogs, coaxially secured to one of said driving shaft or said driven shaft; and a receptor coaxially secured ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7621374 | Sectional overhead ladder with a fold assist feature A sectional overhead ladder with a fold assist feature for controlling the extension of the sectional overhead ladder. The fold assist feature of the sectional overhead ladder limits the possibility of free extension of the extendable overhead ladder by preventing g... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7604696 | Method of making a solar grade silicon wafer A method of making a solar grade silicon wafer is disclosed. In at least some embodiments of this invention, the method includes the follow steps: providing a slurry including a liquid that essentially prevents the oxidation of silicon powder and a silicon powder th... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7604420 | Gun and bow camera mount A gun and bow camera mount providing an apparatus capable of mounting a conventional hand-held camera to any of various hunting weapons. The gun and bow camera mount includes a camera support having a camera mount resiliently biased against a carriage. The camera su... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7597037 | Method of enhancing the external ballistics and ensuring consistent terminal ballistics of an ammunition projectile and product obtained A method for geometrically enhancing of the flight of a projectile fired from a weapon to an intended target, including development of a flat annular face on the outermost end of the ogive portion of the projectile, such flat annular face being oriented in a plane t... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7249649 | Occupant sensor for a vehicle restraint system An apparatus for sensing an occupant in a vehicle seat for a vehicle occupant restraint system is provided. The apparatus uses sensors to measure seat deflection to determine the presence, weight, and seated location of the occupant. The sensors are connected to a p... | 07/31/2007 |
| D592438 | Pillow | 05/19/2009 |
| 7420473 | Pet alert collar A pet collar for alerting others as to the location of a pet is provided. The pet collar is provided for announcing the presence, audibly and visibly, of a pet such as in a burning structure or otherwise when the pet cannot be found. The pet collar is adapted to wor... | 09/02/2008 |
| D575734 | Guardian battery door | 08/26/2008 |
| 7404379 | Receiver collar An animal collar assembly including a wireless receiver and a collar. The wireless receiver having a pair of first attachment features. The collar having a pair of ends, each end having a second attachment feature, each second attachment feature coupled with a corre... | 07/29/2008 |
| D573564 | Portable communication device housing | 07/22/2008 |
| D570464 | Air and surface purifying device | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382328 | Antenna enclosed within an animal training apparatus An animal training apparatus including an electrical conductor embedded within a flexible member, and a housing having a through-opening for receiving the electrical conductor therethrough. The flexible member is molded around the electrical conductor and the antenn... | 06/03/2008 |
| D570237 | Remote beeper locator for dog collar | 06/03/2008 |
| 7377234 | Portable animal tracking system A portable animal tracking system. The portable animal tracking system provides two-way communication between a first unit carried by an operator and a second unit carried by an animal. The first unit allows an operator to issue warnings or corrections to an animal ... | 05/27/2008 |
| D569753 | Collar saddle | 05/27/2008 |
| 7360505 | Rising stimulation modification An animal behavior modification apparatus including a stimulation device for applying a stimulation having a current stimulation level associated with one of a plurality of stimulation levels including a minimum level. The stimulation device including control logic ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7346956 | Automatic cart wash apparatus An automatic cart wash apparatus. The automatic cart wash apparatus provides improved cleaning of stock carts on a regular basis over manual cleaning by store employees. The automatic cart wash apparatus includes three main stages: a debris removal (vacuum) stage, a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345588 | Receiver collar An animal collar system including an animal collar, a housing mounted to the animal collar and an electrical circuit. The electrical circuit is enclosed in the housing and a built-in-test circuit is electrically connected to the electrical circuit. ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7328121 | Vibration data collection method and apparatus The present invention relates to a vibration data collection method and apparatus. The invention includes processes of receiving electrical vibration signals from at least one vibration sensor, digitizing the electrical vibration signals to obtain digitized vibratio... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322246 | Pressure sensor with pressure translation A pressure sensor integrated onto an electronic circuit substrate. The pressure sensor measures the effect of the ambient air pressure on a characteristic of the pressure sensor that can be translated into a variable pressure measurement. Another embodiment of the p... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319939 | Predictive maintenance and management of aging of installed cables A system and method for verifying the performance and health of wire systems and end devices, including instruments and processes. A computer runs software that collects data from sampled sensors, stores the data, screens the data for outliers, analyzes the data, pe... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7312457 | Spectrometer with charge-carrier-trapping correction A spectrometer having improved energy resolution by correcting for error introduced by charge carrier trapping. By monitoring the shape of the pulses produced by the detector, a digital filter is adjusted to improve the energy resolution. The adjustment is performed... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7296540 | Insulated probe device Described is an insulated probe device of adjustable axial length for delivering an electroshock stimulus to an animal. The insulated probe device includes an electrode that is positioned in contact with the animal's skin and is disposed within an electrically non-c... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7291163 | Inflatable thermal blanket having air flow channels for directing a conditioned gas An apparatus for providing conditioned air to a patient while maintaining a low profile over the patient. The therapy blanket has an inflatable portion that includes air channels with a constriction in the area where the blanket covers the torso of the patient; ther... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7279676 | Position sensitive radiation spectrometer A position sensitive radiation spectrometer for identifying, quantifying, and locating a radioactive source in a target. The position sensitive radiation spectrometer includes an array of gamma-ray detectors arranged along one or more dimensions of a container to be... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278692 | Bit block with shroud protector A bit block for use in excavation and mining. The bit block is adapted to receive a bit and to be welded to equipment utilized for boring, drilling, trenching and mining. The bit block is designed to secure and protect the bit while it is penetrating rock and harden... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275502 | Portable animal containment device A portable animal containment device for confining an animal to a defined area. The portable animal containment device includes a flat and a correction unit. The flat is adapted to be portable and defines the area within which an animal is confined. The flat has an ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7267081 | Housing for a collar-mounted pet accessory and associated collar mounting system A housing (10) for a pet accessory, and an associated collar mounting system for mounting the housing (10) on a pet collar (12). The housing (10) includes a casing (14) for housing at least certain components of the pet accessory. ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263951 | Self cleaning litter box mechanism An apparatus for a self-cleaning litter box having a control system for a mechanical self-cleaning mechanism. The litter box has a turret carrying a rake. Limit switches indicate the location of the rake and the turret. The box includes an animal sensor that detects... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261058 | Self cleaning litter box An apparatus for a self-cleaning litter box having a control system for a mechanical self-cleaning mechanism. The litter box has a turret carrying a rake. The box includes an animal sensor that detects the presence of an animal in the box. A specified time after the... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7256336 | Stringed instrument and associated fret mapping method A stringed instrument and associated fret mapping method. The instrument includes a neck having a fret board provided with a plurality of frets having offset string contact regions along their length, whereby accurate intonation of a note is achieved when a string i... | 08/14/2007 |
