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A self defense weapon formed as a memo pad and which is easily held by a person's fingers, therefore making it possible to provide protection from a mugger and also to quickly and easily write a record or a message without failure of missing or forgetting significant information under a stressful situation.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7723581 | Canola cultivar DN040845 The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola cultivar, designated DN040845. Also included are seeds of canola cultivar DN040845, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN040845 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the c... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7661220 | Firearm trigger assembly A firearm trigger assembly for use with a firearm includes a trigger mounted to a forestock of the firearm so that the trigger is movable between a rest position and a triggering position by a forwardly placed support hand of a user. An elongated trigger member oper... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7634959 | Forwardly-placed firearm fire control assembly A firearm fire control assembly for disposition in a forwardly placed support-hand operative relationship within a firearm having a combination of a firing pin and a firearm hammer adapted to engage and fire a cartridge, a sear assembly to alternately engage and dis... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7620507 | Impedance-estimation methods, modeling methods, articles of manufacture, impedance-modeling devices, and estimated-impedance monitoring systems An impedance estimation method includes measuring three or more impedances of an object having a periphery using three or more probes coupled to the periphery. The three or more impedance measurements are made at a first frequency. Three or more additional impedance... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7611033 | Foam dispenser, housing and storage holder therefor A foam dispenser comprises a housing having an opening, a fluid reservoir placed in the opening of the housing, a plug connected to the fluid reservoir in the opening, and a foam pump, comprising an air pump, a fluid pump, a closable supply to the air pump, a nozzle... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7604072 | Method and apparatus for collecting drill bit performance data Drill bits and methods for sampling sensor data associated with the state of a drill bit are disclosed. A drill bit for drilling a subterranean formation comprises a bit body and a shank. The shank further includes a central bore formed through an inside diameter of... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7600589 | Rotary drill bits A shank configuration for rotary drill bits, is disclosed for positioning of the shank in relation to the bit body. A tapered surface or feature of the shank may be configured and sized to matingly engage a complementarily shaped surface or feature of the drill bit ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7594552 | Expandable reamer apparatus for enlarging boreholes while drilling An expandable reamer apparatus and methods for reaming a borehole, wherein a laterally movable blade carried by a tubular body may be selectively positioned at an inward position and an expanded position. The laterally movable blade, held inwardly by blade-biasing e... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7557452 | Reinforced, self-aligning conductive structures for semiconductor device components and methods for fabricating same A conductive structure configured to connect a contact pad of a semiconductor device with a corresponding contact pad of a substrate. The conductive structure includes two interconnectable members, one securable to each of the corresponding contact pads. Each member... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7552682 | Accelerometer mounting for a penetrator and method thereof A fuze for a weapon configured as a projectable device is provided to reduce the mechanical amplification of impact and penetration shock to a fuze-mounted accelerometer when a projectable device including the fuze encounters a target. The fuze includes a fuze housi... | 06/30/2009 |
| 6787429 | High-K dielectric materials and processes for manufacturing them High dielectric films of mixed transition metal oxides of titanium and tungsten, or titanium and tantalum, are formed by sequential chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of the respective nitrides and annealing in the presence of oxygen to densify and oxidize the nitrides... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6312957 | Genetic modification of primate hemopoietic repopulating stem cells Genetic modification of pluripotent hemopoietic stem cells of primates (P-PHSC) by transduction of P-PHSC with a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV). Tile genomc of the recombinant AAV comprises a DNA sequence flanked by the inverted terminal repeats... | 11/06/2001 |
