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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7524273 | Portable rehabilitation and exercise equipment An exercise system uses a definable planar platform surface on which an exercise mat can be placed, multiple resistance tubings with attachment mechanisms at each end, a pair of grips that can be attached to resistance tubings, a pair of anklet bracelets that can be... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7520830 | Game ball A ball with a hollow inner core filled approximately 50% or less by volume with a fluid (which can include metallic spheres), a ball shell and struts (six or more) attached to the core and connected to an inner surface of the ball in such a way so as to maintain the... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7494251 | Lighting fixture with thermal isolation An outdoor lighting fixture is disclosed including a first housing containing the fixture ballast or power supply, a second housing enclosing a lamp. Each of the housings is sealed. A support stem joins the two housings and defines a thermal air gap between the two.... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7473113 | Electrical connection for high humidity and low temperature environments A plug and socket electrical connection for environments with high humidity and low temperatures has a socket with female connections (holes with an electrical terminals), a circular recess for receiving a mating part and tabs and a plug with a male connection (elec... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7460777 | Covert wide-angle camera adapter A reflective tube centered on a lens of a camera is used in covert wide-angle photography in which and at least one reflected annular image is rotated by 180° to register it with the open-hole (zero-order) image to obtain a wide-angle corrected image. Any exposure ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7446436 | Waveform correction filters A number of wave correction filters are disclosed which respond to power surges or spikes outside the intended frequency and/or voltage for a load device. The circuits respond to such undesired frequencies and voltage levels by sensing and separating them from the d... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7438494 | Tool coupler/adaptor A coupling apparatus, or adaptor, releasably secures a tool such as a bucket to the linkage of a tractor such as a backhoe in a direction opposite the normal, rear-facing direction. ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434807 | Taraccab or Baccarat table card game with Chinese deck A game uses a deck of cards having three sets of cards with designations 1 through 9, five cards with a Feng Shui designation, four cards with a Green Dragon designation, four cards with an East Wind designation, four cards with a South Wind designation, four cards ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7422214 | Methods for Chinese radical games A method for playing language puzzle games involving a unit of meaning in the Chinese language made up of a string of characters in which each character in the string is decomposed into radicals having from one to four strokes and all of the radicals are combined, a... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415204 | Photo booth and method for personalized photo books and the like A photo subject station used to capture information regarding a subject suitable for integration into a personalized, printed product and method of using same with children so that a personal identification of a child need not be saved to deliver a customized produc... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409764 | Cake cutter and server A utensil for cutting and serving pastry or similar goods has operating handles made in form of tabs similar to ordinary scissors for fitting in operator's fingers, a spatula simultaneously used for cutting pastry or similar goods and holding a sliced piece and rigi... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7400378 | Dual sprocket contact motion picture film printer A dual sprocket contact motion picture film printer maintains film steadiness when running a film negative in contact with an unexposed raw stock film by tensioning perforations along one film side against sprocket teeth of a full fitting sprocket and a shrinkage sp... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7393223 | Electrical mounting connector for a bi-pin fluorescent bulb An electrical mounting connector for a bi-pin fluorescent bulb has a lamp holder with two terminals and a cap with two pin guiding openings that snaps into the lamp holder such that two pins held in the two pin guiding openings will be held in contact with the two p... | 07/01/2008 |
| D570612 | Frame with rectangular columns | 06/10/2008 |
| 7371389 | Methods and products for enhancing energy and nutrition in human beings Methods for increasing energy in men and women include ingesting internally, twice a day, products that include, for women, multivitamins, multiminerals, high-calcium bone support products, high-ORAC super food products, and enzymes, and, for men, multivitamins, mul... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7358489 | Ultra low cost NDIR gas sensors The concentration of a gas species is detected by using a single beam NDIR gas sensor in which an infrared source element is driven at two different temperatures, a feed back loop senses an operation voltage of the source, a differential gain amplifier creates a hig... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357148 | Prefabricated in-wall water service box A prefabricated in-wall water service box with a five sided deep drawn stainless steel enclosure that has an open side with a reservoir lip and three closed sides integral with a top and bottom so that a reservoir is formed that is drained through a drain hole into ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7335885 | Ultra low power NDIR gas sensor fire detector A fire detector and method for generating an alarm signal in response to a fire uses an NDIR sensor to generate a detector signal based upon one or more absorption bands selected from the 15.1μ absorption band of CO2, the 6.27μ absorption band of H2O and the 4.67... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7329870 | Simple multi-channel NDIR gas sensors Concentrations of N gas species can be detected from a single beam NDIR gas sensor having a differential infrared source and an (N+1)-passband filter (having a neutral passband and N absorption passbands for N gases) mounted at a single infrared detector by driving ... | 02/12/2008 |
| D561829 | Egg pen | 02/12/2008 |
| 7284382 | Apparatus and method for controlling a fan, cooling unit and a fresh air damper of an air conditioner through use of a Capno-Switch A fresh air controller interfaces directly with the electromechanical circuit of an air-conditioner to control its operating settings based upon detected Carbon Dioxide (CO2) level in Parts-Per-Million (PPM) using a “Capno-Switch” which is in essence a specially... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275967 | Portable power supply system and connectors therefor A system and components for interconnecting low power-to-power consuming electrical systems, such as emergency communications equipment, is disclosed. The system includes polarized, genderless, and color-coded connections for cabling, power splitting to sub cables, ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7239625 | Low-cost noise-immune wireless methodology for demand control ventilation (DCV) Applications A method for reducing the cost of demand control ventilation applications deploys wireless CO2 sensors inclusive of relative humidity and temperature throughout an indoor space without the need for wiring while utilizing the license-free 902-908 MHz ISM band by use ... | 07/03/2007 |
| D545506 | Fish tank stand | 06/26/2007 |
| 7214939 | Ultra low power NDIR carbon dioxide sensor fire detector A fire detector and method for generating an alarm signal in response to a fire uses an NDIR CO2 sensor to generate a detector signal based upon a 15μ absorption band of CO2 and generates an alarm signal when a signal processor receives the de... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212620 | System and method for providing an anti-telemarketing feature in a telephony network An anti-telemarketing program uses the calling party identification of an incoming call to determine if the call is a telemarketing call by accessing a telemarketing database. The incoming call can be identified as a telemarketing call by direct correlation with a k... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7186979 | Passive NDIR carbon dioxide sensor fire detector A fire detector with a passive CO2 sensor generates a detector signal based upon a 15μ absorption band of CO2 and a signal processor generates an alarm signal when a preselected criterion is met. The passive CO2 sensor has a passive... | 03/06/2007 |
