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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5232390 | Action amusement set with multi-purpose doll The present invention provides an action amusement set having as a primary member a self-propelled, multi-purpose doll that can be disassembled to reveal a gameball usable with various sporting accessories included with the amusement set. The multi-purpos... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5229922 | Electrical junction box with stacked insulating plates and bus-bars with stepped tabs An electrical junction box is constituted by accommodating bus-bar circuit board composed of a plurality of bus-bars and an insulating plate in a case member composed of upper, lower and side cases. The bus-bar has a terminal for a connector vertically er... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5225660 | Consumable-electrode AC gas shield arc welding method and apparatus therefor In a consumable electrode gas shielded arc welding system, alternating current power is applied across the electrode and the base metal. The period during which the electrode is kept negative is varied to correspond to the electrode feeding rate. In addit... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5217334 | Annular hole cutter An annular hole cutter has a radially inner cutting tooth portion and a radially outer cutting tooth portion. Each of the inner and outer cutting tooth portions is formed with a flute for ejecting cut chips on the outer periphery of the cutter, and a cutt... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5190020 | Automatic control system for IC engine fuel injection An automatic control method and system for internal combustion (IC) engines fuel injection systems are described. This automatic control method is a nonlinear and global method, that applies directly to automotive engines whose dynamics are highly nonline... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5143111 | Multifluid flow control unit A system is described that combines two or more fluids in fixed proportions over a wide range of flow rates, in which said proportions are independent of the rate of flow of the fluids, by causing each of said fluids to experience a drop in pressure which... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5140959 | Method and apparatus for operation of a dual fuel compression ignition combustion engine A system for fueling a compression ignition engine that minimizes the quantity of ignition fuel required by controlling the quantity of combustible mixture, rather than the fuel to air ratio.... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5124791 | Frame-to-frame compression of vector quantized signals and other post-processing Post-quantization processing is disclosed in which frames of data are organized into frames of input vectors. For each input vector, the quantizer identifiers a closely matching codebook vector. The quantizer generates a compressed signal by replacing eac... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5121038 | Window regulating apparatus A vehicle window regulating apparatus is designed to move a window glass in a door on the side of a passenger seat up and down by operations of a remote contol switch installed on the door on the side of a driver seat. A relay is provided on a power suppl... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5119851 | Equipment to carry out maintenanace operations, particularly washing, on insulator chains of high voltage electric lines The invention relates to an equipment for the maintenance and particularly for the washing of insulator chains supporting high voltage electric lines, which allows operation on a live line. The washing of the insulator chain is performed through jets of w... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5117802 | Dual fuel system for combustion engines A system is described that extends the driving range provided in prior art by compressed gas fuel systems and that thereby reduces the need for bi-fuel operating capability in most applications. The system can typically more than double the energy density... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5119457 | High-performance electric power cable and connector system A cable and connector system comprises a cable having a plurality of conductors for carrying electric current. The conductors are surrounded by a plurality of aramid fiber tension members that carry tensile loads that are applied to the cable. The conduct... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117329 | Mounting structure for flexible printed wiring board having holding ribs and auxiliary ribs protruding therebetween A mounting structure for a flexible printed wiring board arranged such that the portion of the printed wiring board protruding from the rear surface of a casing such as, for example, an instrument casing is bent along the side wall of the instrument casin... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5108638 | Absorbent solution for use with absorption refrigeration apparatus An absorbent solution for an absorption refrigeration apparatus is composed of water as a refrigerant and an absorbent. The absorbent is a mixture of at least three lithium compounds selected from the group consisting of lithium bromide, lithium iodide, l... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5106427 | Process and apparatus for washing insulators Process for washing insulators supporting the conductors of an overhead electric live line, with the line energized, by means of a washing head (T) connected to means feeding a detergent fluid to a plurality of spray nozzles (14, 114) carried by the washi... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5104070 | Structural latch for vehicle coupling mechanisms A structural latch is provided for mechanically joining vehicle coupling mechanisms such as spacecraft coupling and berthing mechanisms. The structural latch is manually operable to join the coupling mechanisms. Each structural latch is configured to be r... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5103413 | Travel detecting apparatus A travel detecting apparatus is disclosed which generates a pulse signal in response to vehicle motion and detects the actual rate of vehicle travel in accordance with the pulse signal. The apparatus comprises a speed or RPM sensor coupled to an automotiv... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5095266 | Cross-coil type indicating instrument An indicating instrument having a cross coil comprising a pair of mutually perpendicular coils wound on a coil bobbin for passing therethrough current changing with changes in the quantity to be measured, a magnet rotor disposed inside the coil bobbin for... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5094410 | Capture/berthing system for spacecraft A method and apparatus for joining vehicles such as spacecraft is disclosed that utilizes a capture and berthing technique. The coupling apparatus comprises a first coupling unit having a generally rigid extensible structure that is mountable to a first s... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5090311 | Machine for silk-screen printing, in particular for multi-color printing A machine for silk-screen printing, in particular for multi-color printing, comprises a plurality of support tables for supporting an article to be printed, which are intermittently sliding and can be positioned in correspondence to fixed stations; the ma... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5080554 | Windscreen washer pump for vehicle Disclosed herein is a windscreen washer pump, which is suitable for use with a vehicle, of a type wherein washer fluid is forcibly pressurized by means of an impeller, to be supplied to a vehicle windscreen or the like. A plurality of supplemental vanes a... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5079980 | Method and apparatus for accumulating, cutting and stacking a continuously moving supply of material Methods and apparatus are provided for the accumulation, cutting, and stacking of continuously moving web material such as fabric tape that is to be printed and cut by appropriate processing apparatus into a plurality of discrete labels. The method and ap... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5040749 | Spacecraft berthing mechanism with discrete impact attennation means A spacecraft berthing mechanism comprises a peripheral flange adapted for attachment to a spacecraft port, an impact receiving member pivotably attached to the peripheral flange, and a motion damping device connected between the impact receiving device an... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5036523 | Automatic frequency control of satellite transmitted spread spectrum signals Automatic frequency control is provided in a satellite-based spread spectrum radio communication system by employing a pilot signal as a frequency reference. A transmitter inserts the pilot signal at a null point in the power versus frequency spectrum of ... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5031037 | Method and apparatus for vector quantizer parallel processing An electronic circuit for quantizing vector signals is provided. The circuit compares input vectors with codebook entries that are representative of a vector space. Processors simultaneously compute the distance between the image vectors and the codebook ... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5025745 | Boat hull A boat hull for an air thrust propeller driven boat is provided that includes a double hull construction along at least a portion of the length of the hull. The lower member of the double bottom portion of the hull is provided with a plurality of aperture... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5018901 | Ring latched coupler A ring latched coupler includes a male assembly having a plurality of grooves and a female assembly having a plurality of slots. The female assembly is configured to receive the male assembly. A latching ring is rotatably carried by the female assembly. T... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5012654 | Means for cooling drinks, especially in cans, in correspondence of air gratings of motor-vehicle passenger compartments Means for cooling drinks, especially soft drinks and beer contained in cans, aboard a running motor vehicle, in correspondence of air gratings of the passenger compartment of said motor vehicle. It comprises, on the one hand, a support (1) consisting of a... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4995818 | Bus bar interlayer connector structure in junction box A bus bar interlayer connector structure for use in a junction box comprises a bus in one layer having a tab formed with a longitudinal slit and bent at the central part of the slit at right angles to the bus bar body, and another bus bar in another layer... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4992062 | Electrical connection device An electrical connection device comprises a terminal connector (1d) including a terminal guide (4d), a resilient strip (3d) formed continuous to the terminal guide to be located opposite to one of the surfaces of the terminal guide and a terminal support ... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4984782 | Magic card The present invention refers to a magic card formed of blanks and provided with a cover and with a slide member, which is guided in said cover and which is adapted to be pulled out of said cover at least partially, said cover having a front wall and a rea... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4982753 | Wafer etching, cleaning and stripping apparatus A wafer stripping, cleaning and etching apparatus includes a bowl, a table in the bowl carrying cassette of wafers, and a spray post with multiple fluid passages and ports directing fluid spray against the wafers.... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4983795 | Slide switch Disclosed is a slide switch comprising an insulator, at least one stationary contact member fixed in an upper surface of the insulator, a contact holder slidable on the insulator, movable contact members connected by a connecting member and mounted on the... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4976349 | Aerofoil/hydrofoil An aerofoil or hydrofoil (1) has a vessel (2) for providing a high velocity jet of fluid directed from a nozzle (3) in a direction having a component of velocity in the same direction as the required direction of lift (L). The aerofoil or hydrofoil (1) al... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4975077 | Electrical connector A pressure contact electrical connector adapted to connect an electric wire by inserting it in a slit of a terminal thereof comprises stripper portions formed on the inlet side of the slit and adapted to strip the insulating coating of the wire; a wide po... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4969650 | Game machine with automatic judging function A game machine with an automatic judging function according to the present invention is used to play a game in which a winner is determined according to predetermined rules of the game by moving pieces having their own characters across a game board, e.g.... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4967510 | Closure device A closure device for opening and closing an opening by moving a closure member substantially vertically has a motor for driving the closure member. The motor is secured to a lower portion of the closure member and within substantially the same plane as th... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4967181 | Fuel level gauge provided with an apparatus for issuing a warning on the amount of remaining fuel A fuel level gauge provided with a remaining-amount warning apparatus is arranged so that an indicating needle for indicating the amount of fuel remaining in a fuel tank operates in accordance with a change in the resistance of a resistor device consistin... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4964340 | Overlapping stage burn for multistage launch vehicles The invention relates to a multistage launch vehicle and method of multistage launch vehicle operation in which at least one subsequent motor stage is ignited following lift-off in partially overlapping relationship with its immediately preceding motor st... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4960250 | Energy desaturation of electromechanical actuators used in satellite attitude control In an attitude control system for a spacecraft having a frame which is to be maintained in a desired orientation relative to a selected set of reference axes, which system includes an electromechanical actuator mechanically coupled to the spacecraft frame... | 10/02/1990 |
