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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7242149 | Lamp driving circuit with floating power supply driver A lamp driving circuit with a floating power supply driver includes a microcomputing unit, a floating power supply driver, and a driving unit. The microcomputing unit and the floating power supply driver are independent integrated circuits and manufactured under a n... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7403274 | Equivalent time sampling system An equivalent time sampling system employs two clock frequency sources, phase locked, wherein an analog to digital converter sampling clock is derived from one source and a pulse generator clock is derived from the other. Choice of the clock frequencies determines m... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7394773 | Network bridge uplink port identification An ICMP ping is sent from a test instrument to all known bridges and switches on a network, which respond by populating the forwarding data base (FDB) tables with the MAC addresses of adjacent bridges. Then an SNMP query is sent to the FDB table of a selected bridge... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7377029 | Wire winding device for electrical components A wire winding device for electrical components has a transmission member, a wire feeding member, a wire winding member, a spool feeding member, and a driving member. Spools are respectively inserted into the wire winding member via the spool feeding member and rota... | 05/27/2008 |
| D569749 | Network test instrument | 05/27/2008 |
| 7357625 | Push rod in an electrical pump adapted for use with a piston rod in an air nozzle An electrical pump adapted for use with a piston rod in an air nozzle has an electromagnetic valve board with an electromagnetic valve thereon. A Z-shaped push rod is provided to be adapted to be driven by the electromagnetic valve so as to drive the piston rod to m... | 04/15/2008 |
| D564310 | Pruner | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342393 | Multimeter with filtered measurement mode A multimeter with a filtered measurement mode. By pressing a single button or key, a low-pass filter is switched into the signal path to filter voltage spikes, noise, and switching transients from pulse-width modulated pulses, or lower frequency sinusoidal signals w... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342400 | Method and apparatus for measuring employing main and remote units A test instrument employs main and remote test units at respective ends of a cable under test. The units operate in an active or passive measurement mode, wherein one of the units begins as the active unit, applying test signals to the cable under test to make a set... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340276 | System for downloading program to general-purpose subscriber identification module The invention provides a program-downloading system comprising a USIM (1) from and in which data can be read and written via a cellular phone terminal (2) and which holds a given program specification and encryption communication means, and a program s... | 03/04/2008 |
| D562649 | Pruning shears | 02/26/2008 |
| D562041 | Food carriage for show case | 02/19/2008 |
| D562317 | Digital multimeter case | 02/19/2008 |
| D561909 | Swimming pool seating | 02/12/2008 |
| D560937 | Food carriage for show case | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321091 | Supporting stand for a clarinet and the like A supporting stand includes a base, a connection joint having a connection hole, a supporting rod connected to the connection joint, a compressible spring mounted on a free end of the supporting rod and a conical covering movably mounted on top of the supporting rod... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320449 | Adjustable holding device for a musical instrument stand A holding device for a musical instrument stand has a lower retainer, a turning retainer, an upper retainer, a pivotal pin, a first screw member and a second screw member, and provide a capability of adjustable in length and at angle and retractable to the musical i... | 01/22/2008 |
| D559695 | Bottle | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318610 | Picking tool with changeable end effector A picking tool employs a changeable end effector having first and second operative portions. A changing member allows selection of the first or the second portions for deployment during picking, such that the picking tool can be changed to different configurations o... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318658 | High power LED color bulb with infrared remote function A high power LED color bulb with infrared remote function has a reflector having front and rear openings and a light guide hole, a light guide bar received inside light guide hole, an LED module with LED chips and a bulb cover with a controlling circuit board. The L... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318792 | Exercise machine An exercise machine that allows an exercise similar to push-ups to be performed safely and has a base, a lever, a pad, a leveling rod, and a resilient element. The base has at least one bracket. The lever is attached pivotally to the bracket and has a front end, a r... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318487 | Pneumatic tool with an adjustable clip A pneumatic tool has a body, a handle, a clip, a biasing member and a cap. The handle is formed on and extends from the body and has a free end and an annular shank extending from the free end. The clip is rotatably and slidably mounted on the shank and has a collar... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317318 | FEXT cancellation of mated RJ45 interconnect A network test instrument provides maximum compensation of FEXT by use of mutual inductance between one or more signals. The inductance is suitably formed as a PCB trace component, or as discrete components. ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314586 | Method for manufacturing a wax mold for a golf club head A method for manufacturing a wax mold of a golf club head includes steps of positioning a male die assembly in a first cavity of a first female die, injecting dissolvable wax into the first cavity to form a dissolvable wax mold, removing the first female die to take... | 01/01/2008 |
| D557957 | Food carriage for show case | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311306 | Extendable cylindrical jigsaw puzzle A cylindrical jigsaw puzzle includes a bottom rim having an outer flange, an inner flange and a first gap between the outer flange and the inner flange, a top rim having a ring body, a positioning flange extending from an inner face of the ring body and a second gap... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313339 | Image forming device and controlling method thereof The temperature âtâ sensed at the end in the longitudinal direction of a heater is compared with a threshold Th and, based on the comparison result, the print speed (throughput) is controlled. The threshold Th is switched according to a predetermined condition. ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302771 | Inflatable decoration An inflatable decoration has a body, an inflator and a rotary illuminant member. The body has a tower and a seat mounted on the tower. Multiple transparent windows are respectively provided on a periphery of the seat. The inflator is mounted in a lower end of the to... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301417 | Pulse width modulation method and apparatus Disclosed is a pulse width modulation method and apparatus capable of expressing as many values as possible in a pulse width modulation (PWM) period, while maintaining the center of pulse energy substantially equal to the center of the PWM period. For this end, prep... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301683 | Hologram and holographic viewing device incorporating it The invention relates to a hologram that enables two or more different images to be simultaneously reconstructed even in a state where the hologram is fixed in terms of relative position with respect to an eye, and a holographic viewing device that incorporates it. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295018 | Correction of loss and dispersion in cable fault measurements A method of correcting distortions resulting from loss and dispersion in cable fault measurements. A cable is measured in the frequency domain to obtain a reflected response. Fractional sinusoidal components of the reflected response having attenuated amplitude and ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286804 | Receiver digital-analog converter and tuning circuit An object of the present invention is to provide a receiver, a digital-analog converter and a tuning circuit in which temperature compensating components can be formed on a semiconductor substrate while reducing component costs. An FM receiver 100 is constitu... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286199 | Phase difference control component having columnar material The invention has for its object the provision of a phase difference control component that, albeit comprising a phase difference control layer formed of a polymerizable liquid crystal, enables a given spacing to be maintained between opposite substrates, etc. A pha... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278892 | Connector for a battery A connector for a battery has an insulative housing and a plurality of terminals. The insulative housing has a plurality of cavities and each cavity has a front opening and two inner sidewalls. Each inner sidewall has a rear mounting slot and a front mounting slot. ... | 10/09/2007 |
| D552496 | Network test instrument | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278846 | Vivid three-dimensional illustrated card tool set A tool set for bending a semi-finished decoration with a straight wire into a finished decoration with a bent wire and attaching the decoration to an printed ink layer on a base of an illustrated card has a die mold and a hand-held tool. The die mold has a top edge,... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280079 | Adapter device for car radio An object of the invention is to provide an adaptor device for a car radio capable of improving the receiving state. The adaptor device 20 for a car radio is connected to a vehicle-mounted antenna connection terminal 12 provided in an FM radio receiver... | 10/09/2007 |
| D551941 | Cam lock | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273358 | Air pump An air pump includes a body being composed of two semi-housings. A sleeve is received in an opening at a top of the body. A rim is formed at a top of the sleeve and an annular recess is defined at a bottom of the sleeve. By fasteners through the rim, the sleeve is s... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270557 | High-density storage device A high-density storage device has a housing and a memory and controller assembly. The housing has a plug part and a socket part receiving the plug part of other high-density storage device. The memory and controller assembly is mounted in the housing and has a circu... | 09/18/2007 |
