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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6746040 | Retractable and expandable trailer The trailer comprises a rectangular framework, a loading box fixedly mounted on the framework and including a horizontal platform, and a group of freely rotatable carrying wheels which allow the trailer to be pulled. The trailer is characterized in that two frames a... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6965870 | Method and system for activity responsive telemarketing A method of alerting a telemarketing agent of a promotion opportunity in response to activity of a potential customer browsing a public server and an apparatus for monitoring the customer activity and alerting the telemarketing agent includes a telemarketing analysi... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6959552 | Gas turbine inlet flow straightener A radial inlet assembly comprising a radial inlet adapted to be in fluid communication with a compressor, and a restricting member covering the radial inlet and receiving a circumferentially asymmetric airflow, the restricting member partially blocking the airflow a... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6954663 | Continuous wave optical imaging assuming a scatter-law There is provided a method and a system for determining the concentration of chromophores and reconstructing images in turbid media, such as animal tissues, using a continuous wave optical approach. In particular the approach is based on measurements of attenuation ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6942237 | Hitch assembly A hitch assembly comprises a mounting bracket defining a horizontal through for receiving a drawbar. A pin projects downwards into the through for engagement in a pin slot defined in the drawbar. A wedge is axially insertable into the through for wedging the drawbar... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6918743 | Sheet metal turbine or compressor static shroud A static shroud for ducting an axial gas flow past an array of blades rotating about an axis, made of a sheet of metal bent to form a contiguous shroud body having a substantially uniform sheet thickness and a uniform axial profile, initiating with an upstream flang... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6910236 | Mattress leg rest section for an articulatable bed convertible to a chair position An articulated bed convertible to a chair position is described. The bed comprises a mattress formed by a backrest section, a seat rest section and a leg rest section. The mattress backrest section and seat rest section are secured to a support frame. Articulating l... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6899513 | Inflatable compressor bleed valve system A compressor bleed valve system for bleeding air from a gas turbine engine compressor comprises a bladder inflatable between at least a collapsed position and an expanded position for selectively opening and closing a compressor airbleed passage. ... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6895741 | Differential geared turbine engine with torque modulation capability A method and apparatus for controllable distribution of power from a turbine of a gas turbine engine between two rotatable loads of the gas turbine engine, comprises transferring a shaft power of the turbine to the respective rotatable loads using differential geari... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6895844 | Laser-based calibrating method and apparatus A method and apparatus for identifying a place where a saw may be performed. An oscillating laser beam is provided to a target according to a user preference. The user selects at least one characteristic of the oscillating laser beam in order to identify the target ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6878026 | Amphibious table with seats attached A device to be used for sitting at a table in a water filled area, such as a water pool. The device comprises an upper rigid, flat, floating body made of buoyant material and defining a table top, at least one lower seat member and a connecting member for rigidly at... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6873071 | Method, apparatus and system for controlling an electric machine The invention includes, among its various aspects, an apparatus, method and system in which an electric machine includes at least a portion of a magnetic circuit composed of an electromagnetic material having a Curie temperature, and further includes a heating appar... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6871488 | Natural gas fuel nozzle for gas turbine engine A gas fuel nozzle for mounting in a combustor wall of a gas turbine engine, with an at least partially radially-directed array of gas fuel outlets extending beyond an air flow head having an array of compressed air jet apertures around the gas fuel outlets. The air ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6868558 | Outerwear garment An outerwear garment comprises an inner shell having first closure means at first front edges thereof and first fastening means spaced from the first front edges on an outer surface of the inner shell. The inner shell is adapted for removable engagement with an insu... | 03/22/2005 |
| D502989 | Bathing tub | 03/15/2005 |
| 6856828 | CAS bone reference and less invasive installation method thereof A surgical bone reference assembly is communicable with an image guided surgical system such that position and movement of a bone element are monitorable. A bone anchor member comprises a trackable member and teeth engageable with the bone element. The trackable mem... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6855089 | Reduced twist carrier An epicyclic gear train includes a sun gear rotatable about a central axis, a concentric outer ring gear, and a plurality of gears mechanically intermediate the sun gear and the ring gear, and which are in meshing engagement therewith. An epicyclic carrier assembly ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6854846 | Fundus photographic technique to determine eye refraction for optic disc size calculations The determination of magnification in an ophthalmic fundus camera image is achieved by detecting the focusing mechanism position, and using a calibration function to calculate the magnification from the focus position. ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6848973 | Method for blast cleaning using ilmenite tailing particles The invention relates to a method for blast cleaning using ilmenite tailings particles between 10 mesh and 250 mesh as impact abrasive material. Ilmenite tailing particles are a waste product obtained in a beneficiation plant of an ilmenite ore (FeTiO3) m... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6843947 | Method for roughing surfaces of concrete casted blocks A method for roughing surfaces and edges of concrete casted blocks, comprising a block support surface having a plurality of surface sections. A first of the surface sections has a rear end thereof above an adjacent front end of a second of the surface sections to c... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6837686 | Blade retention scheme using a retention tab A blade retention system for retaining blade roots in slots of a rotor hub disk, the rotor blade having a radially outward blade tip requiring surface material removal by grinding to acquire a finished ground surface, having a blade root retention tab with an elonga... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6827618 | Safety boom A buoyant boom having: an elongate band extending across a water surface; floats rotatably mounted to the band with rotary bearings between each float and the band; and anchors securing the band at its ends or middle portion to a support, such as a river bed or a ri... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6826201 | Multiplexing SONET /SDH data streams using independent encoding schemes A system for transparently transporting m synchronous data streams as an aggregate data stream on a single channel of a Wave Division Multiplexed (WDM) optical link without pointer processing uses m unique encoding schemes to enable recovery of the respective m data... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6824104 | Under floor remote seat cluster and integrated housing system for aircraft passenger entertainment systems and the like A remote cluster system for providing a number of passenger seats with passenger services within an aircraft passenger cabin. The cluster includes a motherboard, having a power input connection in communication with an aircraft electrical power source; a signal inpu... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6823317 | Urban parking system A wireless network covering a large local geographic area is used to link a large number of payment terminals provided in the same area. Each payment terminal is located near a plurality of parking spaces, either at the curbside or in municipal lots. Parking data is... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6814881 | Polyamide fiber substrate having stain resistance, composition and method Semi-bleached to bleached sulfonated aromatic condensation resin alone or in combination with a semi-soluble methacrylic polymer of high molecular weight provides improved resistance to staining by acid colorants in a fibrous polyamide or wool substrate. ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6812416 | Circuit breaker module safety device and method A device and method for deactivating a circuit breaker having an actuating lever and forming part of an electronic module. The electronic module is electrically connected to a power source and is inserted within a housing structure. The deactivating device comprises... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6810011 | Protection switching within an OP-n layer A protection switching technique associated with an OP-n sublayer of a communications network is presented. Among the advantages presented by this protection switching technique of the present invention are the ability to provision logical protected subnetworks that... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6807925 | Explosion-proof hot water heater with unsealed fuel combustion chamber An explosion-proof hot water heater of the type having a gas-fired combustion chamber at a lower end of the inner tank is described. The combustion chamber is an unsealed chamber and has a sealed bottom wall and a fuel burner in the combustion chamber. Combustion ai... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6798412 | Occlusion reducing transformations for three-dimensional detail-in-context viewing In a data processing system that executes a program of instructions, a method for generating a detail-in-context presentation of a three-dimensional information representation comprising the steps of selecting a object-of-interest in the information representation; ... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6793002 | Multiple-slide die-casting system A multiple-slide die-casting machine is equipped with improved mechanical structure and unique injection control system to improve the quality of molded products, to achieve flash free castings of improved surface finish. The clamping assemblies are mounted on one s... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6768497 | Elastic presentation space A method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising the steps of scaling the visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on the display screen the scaled representation containing the entire content of the visual... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6766556 | Apparatus for cleaning surfaces with automatic water supply and drain An apparatus for cleaning floor surfaces and the like includes a cleaning head and a vacuum head to apply water on the surface for a continuous cleaning and vacuum operation. A single water passage of the apparatus is adapted to be connected to an automatic central ... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6763140 | Method and apparatus for focusing a micro-imaging system onto a tilted or uneven sample to acquire images of the sample A mesh is created from selected focus points having locations on a surface of interest of a sample being micro-imaged. The mesh and associated focus settings of the focus points are used to define adjacent focus facets forming a focus surface substantially coinciden... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6758605 | Cleaning device and method for optical connectors A method and device for cleaning at least an end face of an optical device retained within an optical connector using a cleaning fabric, comprises, alone or in combination, a) preventing the cleaning fabric from contacting the connector prior to contacting the end f... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6751924 | Stress distributing hole for window sash A windowed sash of the type having a window pane supported in a window sash. The window sash includes of elongated profiled polymeric members interconnected by weld seams at joints therebetween. The window sash is adapted to be mounted in a frame. Holes are provided... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6745571 | Method of combustor cycle airflow adjustment A method of combustor cycle air flow adjustment for a gas turbine engine according to the present invention solves the problem of a higher flame temperature in the combustor, thereby affecting the emission levels when a heat-recuperated air flow cycle is used to inc... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6742175 | Component-based source code generator The component-based source code generator uses a set of generation instructions and a set of parameters to generate nearly-repetitive and repetitive source code. The developer specifies to the code generator what to generate through the use of generation instruction... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6740305 | Assessment of gastric emptying disorders Methods of measuring gastric emptying time comprising providing to a patient a meal comprising a breath test food additive substrate, wherein the substrate is a linear or cyclic acyl aminoacid peptidomimetic that includes a radioactive or non-radioactively labeled c... | 05/25/2004 |
