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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7875798 | Rain shielded box for exiting through siding A mounting box for installation on an exterior wall of a building. The mounting box has a box-shaped structure having a substantially horizontally disposed top surface when in situ, a nailing flange around a perimeter of the box-shaped structure, a downwardly and ou... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7866196 | Tank wall and method and system for making A method for manufacturing a circular metal tank, from an elongated sheet of metal. The upper and lower longitudinal edges of the metal sheet are bent to produce a first “L” bend and a second “chair” bend, respectively. The sheet of metal is moved in a helic... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7857740 | Bench platform with multiple functions A bench platform assembly, which has a rectangular deck having a plurality of spaced apart holes therein for permitting the free passage therethrough of an elastic cord or tubing or rope; and a semicircular rocker assembly affixed to a central bottom portion of said... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7053867 | Moveable image display system The present invention relates to a moveable image display system comprising a plurality of moveable display frames, capable of displaying images, a power transmitter and a data transmitter. There are no electrical connections between the moveable display frames and ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7500284 | Turf sweeper and debris removal machine A turf sweeping machine having a frame, front and rear wheels coupled to the frame and an elongated chute mounted to the frame, the chute having an exit and an entrance at a level proximate to the grass of the turf. Rubber skirts are affixed to the chute and extend ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7473094 | Multiple plate combustor The invention consists of a pulse combustor, comprising two spaced apart outer plates, the outer plates having flat outer regions, conical regions inside of the flat regions and central hubs, where the volume between conical regions of the plates defines a combustio... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7460250 | Laser triangulation system A method for measuring the range to multiple points on a surface by projecting a line of light onto the surface, imaging said line of light onto a photodetector, computing the centroid of said line of light, computing quality factors for each computed centroid and e... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7382771 | Mobile wireless hotspot system The invention relates to wireless Internet access points, and in particular to providing a mobile wireless access point for use with high-speed wireless devices. In particular, the system allows client devices configured for short-range, high-speed wireless Internet... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7357744 | Hydro-mechanical continuously variable transmission The invention comprises a hydro-mechanical continuously variable transmission (HMCVT) that uses a planetary gear system to provide a combination of hydraulic and mechanical power for a vehicle or stationary equipment. The invention further comprises various ancillar... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7300624 | Method of disinfecting a building air supply According to the invention there is provided a method of reducing microbial levels in the interior of a building, including vaporizing an anti-microbial essential oil to produce vaporized anti-microbial essential oil, entraining the vaporized anti-microbial essentia... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7066188 | Interior sewer pipeline scarifying apparatus This application discloses an apparatus for scarifying the interior surface of a sewer pipe, which can remain in the sewer under active flow conditions. The apparatus includes at least one scarifying head, which may transverse back and forth along a rail assembly, w... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6984767 | Sonication treatment of polychlorinated biphenyl contaminated media The invention consists of a method for treating polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contaminated media by: a) combining the media with a fluid containing one or more liquid hydrocarbons to form a media/fluid mixture; b) sonicating the mixture at audio frequency to extrac... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6896274 | Ramp board A skateboard having a deck with an arched center, two bumper regions, one at either end of the deck, each of the bumper regions extending above and rigidly affixed to the deck. Truck and wheel assemblies mounted beneath respective ones of the bumper regions. ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6870273 | High speed I/O pad and pad/cell interconnection for flip chips Gridded I/O pads for flip-chip packages in which a coaxial-like solder bump pad configuration is used in which the I/O pads closest to the signal or bump pad are power or ground pads. The ground pads surrounding the signal pad form a coaxial-like pad configuration f... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6850523 | Interface between a link layer device and one or more physical layer devices A bus interface for exchanging packets within a communication system between a single data link layer and a physical layer device which includes a link transmit interface on the link layer device, a PHY transmit interface on the physical layer devices electrically c... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6808692 | Enhanced mercury control in coal-fired power plants A method of treating a coal combustion flue gas, which includes injecting a molecular halogen or thermolabile molecular halogen precursor, such as calcium hypochlorite, able to decompose to form molecular halogen at flue gas temperature. The molecular halogen conver... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6298564 | Portable hand saw The present invention is a lightweight collapsible hand saw for use when camping, hiking or otherwise. The saw breaks down and can be consolidated into a single tubular shape, with all of the components fitting inside the tube. In the functional configura... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6301137 | Three-phase current sensor and estimator In a three-phase DC-to-AC inverter including, for driving each leg of the load, a controlled power driver such a pulse-width modulated field-effect transistor (FET) or insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) pair, an estimator for estimating the current ... | 10/09/2001 |
