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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5407264 | Drive mechanism for moving a horizontal shelf in a vending machine A drive mechanism for movement of a horizontal shelf in a vending machine includes first and second spaced apart rotatable sprockets. A continuous chain engages and extends around the first and second spaced apart sprockets. A plurality of brackets are at... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5393935 | Portable scale A portable patient scale has a flexible carrier which may be placed under a hospital bed mattress. Pockets in the carrier hold weighing slats. Each slat has an upper beam and lower beam, with load cells interconnecting the beam on opposite ends of the sla... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5392492 | Air-floated apparatus The present invention describes an air-floated vacuum cleaner comprising a housing having an air inlet opening, an open bottom and an inner wall, an impeller for pressurizing air within the housing to float the housing above a support surface, and a novel... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5385540 | Cardioplegia delivery system A cardioplegia system for delivering cardioplegic solution to the heart during open heart surgery in cooperation with an extracorporeal blood circuit employing a heart/lung machine, includes a conduit diverting a portion of the blood flow from the heart/l... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5381569 | Patent turning and positioning device and method A device for moving a patient in a bed includes a base member adapted to be supported by the bed. The device further includes a patient support member interconnected to and supported by the base member. The patient support member is rotatable with respect... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5377179 | Method and apparatus for enhancing the utility of a photopolymer recording media for holographic data recording A holographic storage media (10) is fabricated from a thin layer of photopolymer recording media. The photopolymer recording media is disposed between a substrate (48) and a capping layer (56). The media (10) is divided into a plurality of storage regions... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5377176 | Method and apparatus for isolating data storage regions in a thick holographic storage media A holographic storage media for storing digital data in the form of an interference grating is provided which includes a plurality of slabs of photorefractive material (72) arranged in a stack, with one edge thereof comprising an incident face (74). A dat... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5373497 | Compact disc with synchronizing header A synchronization system for multiple CD players (12), (14), (16) and (18) includes a controller (20) that generates four separate sampling frequencies for input to the word clock inputs of the CD players. A master word clock provides a master clock signa... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5373202 | Three state input circuit for an integrated circuit A three-state input circuit operable to sense three separate logic states on an input pad (10) is operable to sense whether the current is sourced to the pad from a positive source or sinked from the pad to a negative source to provide two logic states. A... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5366312 | Surgical saw blade attachment assembly A universal attachment assembly for securing saw blades of different mounting configuration to the actuator shaft of an oscillating surgical saw. The blade is held firmly between a fixed receptor plate on the shaft and the selected surface of a selected p... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5363801 | Enclosure system for animals and plants An enclosure for animals and plants includes a bottom, first and second end walls, and first and second side walls. The walls and bottom are interconnected to form a unitary structure. A top for the structure extends between the walls. Structure is provid... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5363755 | Combination of utensils A combination of utensils including a table defining an upperside and an underside. The upperside of the table defines a first recess, a second recess, a cutout being in communication with the first and second recesses, a third recess and two shaft-receiv... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5359880 | Fiber micronaire measuring apparatus and method A micronaire testing apparatus includes a vertically movable carriage for receiving a test chamber formed by two telescoping cylinders. A scale is positioned below the carriage so that the chamber may be automatically weighed. Based on the weight informat... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5358293 | Removable refrigerator door restraint device A restraint device for preventing access to a compartment having a door includes a plate. The plate includes first and second ends, the second end thereof including an aperture. Structure is provided for mounting the plate to the compartment. A closure de... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5357203 | Battery monitoring circuit for operating with high battery discharge rates A battery detect circuit (32) is connected to the battery with the current input to the battery and extracted from the battery measured with a sense resistor (50) and then converted to charge and discharge pulses with a V/F converter (52). A microcontroll... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5355529 | Paging system with satellite time base A satellite (26) is operable to transmit timing information to a plurality of paging sites having towers (10) associated therewith and satellite receivers (48) associated therewith. This provides a simulcast transmission of the timing information such tha... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5353207 | Residual activation neural network A plant (72) is operable to receive control inputs c(t) and provide an output y(t). The plant (72) has associated therewith state variables s(t) that are not variable. A control network (74) is provided that accurately models the plant (72). The output of... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5352970 | Power resource management system A power resource management system includes a battery charging system (20) that is connected between a positive voltage terminal and a voltage sense terminal (15). An operating system (10), that in one mode operates off of the battery and in a second and ... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5351949 | Putter-mounted holder for golf ball position marker A putter handle grip end mounted holder designed to accept a wide range of commercial plastic golf ball position markers having dimensional differences, and adaptable to putter handle grips with different end contours and circumferential shapes. The holde... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5351895 | Separating device for cellulosic and thin plastic materials A method for recycling waste plastic material, from polymeric film or hydropulper waste, including plastic and cellulosic fiber or organic contaminants. The method includes the steps of introducing the waste plastic material into a size reduction unit, an... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5351753 | Leak containment system for a stuffing box A containment device is provided that includes a bottom tray (20) that is of cylindrical shape having a lower surface and one open end. The lower surface has a hole (26) disposed therethrough which is operable to be disposed about a flange on a wellhead w... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5351726 | System and method for compressing natural gas and for refueling motor vehicles A system and method for refueling vehicle storage tanks with compressed natural gas (CNG) are provided that utilize a single stage compressor operable at suction pressures ranging from about 330 to about 3600 psig and discharge pressures ranging from abou... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5344389 | Combination seal and constricting device A combination seal and constricting device and method of use for the external treatment of impotence is provided. The subject device is made of a pliable elastomeric material and is characterized by a centrally disposed cylindrical collar connected at one... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5343906 | Emisson validation system An emissions validation system is comprised of a plurality of sensors (42), (36), (26) and (34) for monitoring the various emissions and diagnostic aspects of a vehicle (10). An emissions validation system (18) is operable upon refuelling through a refuel... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5341034 | Backup battery power controller having channel regions of transistors being biased by power supply or battery A power control circuit (10) is operable to select between a backup battery (14) on a terminal (16) and a primary power supply voltage on a terminal (12) to output a voltage to a powered device (20). The two voltages are compared by a comparator (28) that... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5340189 | Bulletproof leg protection device for a vehicle door A protective panel for a vehicle door includes a bullet resistant sheet having first and second portions. The first portion is adapted to be attached to the interior of a vehicle door. The second portion is interconnected to the first portion and is opera... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5339638 | Thermoelectric cooler container with cigarette lighter support jack A thermoelectrically controlled cavity (22) is provided in a body (13) that is adaptable to be inserted into a cigarette lighter socket (14) with a jack (12). The cavity (22) has disposed therein thermoelectric cooling elements (26) that are operable to p... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5335292 | Document processing system and method A document processing system for processing documents having data printed thereon including markings visible to the eye, but which are not to be read by the system and characters which are to be read by the system includes structure for scanning a documen... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5333181 | System for accessing amenities through a public telephone network An amenity accessing system is provided that includes an access telephone (10) with a plurality of access keys. The telephone includes a line powered card reader (62) that interfaces with a CPU (60). Information stored in a memory (70) can then be output ... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5331568 | Apparatus and method for determining sequential hardware equivalence A method for determining sequential hardware equivalence between two designs and whether one design can replace another design is disclosed whereby the designs are compared utilizing OBDD representations of the designs. The set of states in each of the de... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5327599 | Hospital bed with bed pan insert A bed includes a mattress having a head section, foot section, and a medial section disposed between the head and foot sections. A frame supports the mattress sections. A plate is disposed within the frame for supporting the mattress medial section. The p... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5321349 | Rechargeable/portable multi-voltage dc power supply A rechargeable/portable multi-voltage DC power supply includes an Ni-Cd rechargeable battery set connected to a switching power supply converting circuit, a pulse width modulation circuit, and a filter circuit for providing a regulated output voltage from... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5321505 | Computer scalable visualization system A scalable visualization system includes a plurality of scalable tiles (10) that each comprise a display portion (18) and a processing portion (20). Each of the display portions (18) define a portion of a physical display space. Each of the processing sec... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5319343 | Integrated magnetic inductor having series and common mode windings An integrated magnetic filter inductor having series and common mode windings includes a magnetic core (44) having a first leg (46), a second leg (48), and a third leg (50). The first leg (46) is connected to the second leg (48) with bridging structures (... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5311843 | Water heating apparatus A radially fired water heating apparatus (10) having a plurality of stacked segments of multiple-loop, finned coiled tubing (58) separated by inner and outer support baffles (86, 88), all contained within a cylindrical baffle (20) which cooperates with th... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5297335 | Method for repairing electrical cable in nuclear power plant A quick disconnect system and method for repairing and preventing further damage to cables, conductors, or wiring, such as control cables in a nuclear power plant extending from a control room to numerous motor operators for valves located within a radioa... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5297733 | Flame spray gun A flame spray gun comprising a trigger-operated valve for selectively controlling the flow of conveying air to an eductor disposed in the powder flow nozzle, thereby providing the operator with substantially instantaneous control over the powder feed rate... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5294166 | Protective liner for vehicle interior A protective liner (10) for a vehicle interior that comprises seat and floorboard portions (12, 14) that are preferably releasably connected by hook and loop fastening means (34A, 34B). The floorboard portion (14) of the subject liner (10) preferably furt... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5293437 | Fiber optic display with direct driven optical fibers An image transfer system includes a display (10), which has associated therewith a plurality of pixels formed by optical fiber ends (12) which provide the terminating end of a plurality of optical fibers disposed in a fiber optic bundle (14). The opposite... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5291230 | Ophthalmic device includes a detachable nosepiece An ophthalmic device for use with an ophthalmic eyeglass frame includes a detachable nosepiece designed to permit vertical and angular adjustment to fit the bridge of a user's nose and to permit the adjustment of the level of the eyeglass lens in relation... | 03/01/1994 |
