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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7107887 | Rotary knife having vacuum attachment A rotary knife having a ring blade that defines a closed loop cutting surface for cutting material which the ring blade contacts during rotation. Materials cut using the blade such as meat cut from a carcass or trimmed from a piece of meat are suctioned away from th... | 09/19/2006 |
| D527400 | Cutting insert | 08/29/2006 |
| 7064340 | Method and apparatus for ion beam profiling An ion beam current density profiler includes a pair of counter-rotating cylindrical masks each featuring a helical slot. The intersection of the slots forms an aperture that scans the width of a ribbon ion beam to allow discrete portions of the beam to impact an in... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7038853 | Athermalized plastic lens A plastic lens includes refractive and diffractive optical apparatus configured to produce optothermal changes substantially canceling each other over a predetermined working temperature range to render the plastic lens substantially athermalized over the range.... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7026581 | Apparatus for positioning an elevator tube A wafer support position control mechanism selectively positions a semiconductor wafer along an axis of excursion within a process chamber. An elevator tube protrudes through an orifice in the chamber surface and is connected at a first distal end to the wafer suppo... | 04/11/2006 |
| D518876 | Upper housing for a water treatment system control valve | 04/11/2006 |
| 7000325 | Low friction rotary knife A power operated knife comprises a blade supporting structure supporting an annular blade for rotation about a central axis. The blade and blade supporting structure are engagable along bearing contact locations that are spaced apart in a direction parallel to the a... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6994794 | Media with germicidal properties Filtration media having germicidal for use in filtering particles and deactivating, removing and/or destroying microorganisms from a feed liquid passing through the media. The filtration media includes an effective amount of at least one germicidal agent associated ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6978548 | Power operated rotary knife A rotary knife comprising, an annular blade having a central axis, a blade supporting head assembly supporting the blade for rotation about the axis, a manually grippable handle assembly connected to the head assembly, and a flex shaft drive transmission for driving... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6948662 | Two-dimensional optical code scanner with scanning pattern having region of greater apparent brightness for assisting alignment of scanning pattern An alignment indication is provided in an optical scanner for reading a two-dimensional optical code by varying the scanning beam to provide a region of apparent greater brightness. In the case of a PDF417 bar code symbol, an elongated brighter region may be oriente... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947665 | Radiant heating source with reflective cavity spanning at least two heating elements A radiant source for heating a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer includes a plurality of radiant heating elements, arranged in an array that is generally concentric about a source center axis. A reflector has a reflecting surface that bounds a cavity or channe... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6913375 | Lamp masking method and apparatus A motor vehicle lamp assembly having a light source for emitting light and a source enclosure having a light transmissive portion for transmitting light from the light source to an illumination zone. The enclosure is affixed with a material which covers a selected r... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6826898 | Knittable yarn and safety apparel A cut-resistant, machine knittable, composite yarn that utilizes a yarn or fiber strand or component of normal strength (no greater than 10 grams per denier tenacity) liquid crystal polymer, to provide a composite yarn of comparable high cut-resistance to composite ... | 12/07/2004 |
| D497335 | Bumper for an over the highway truck | 10/19/2004 |
| D496620 | Fairing for an over the highway truck | 09/28/2004 |
| 6797356 | Reflective insulation A reflective insulation system. The reflective insulation system includes a reflective layer such as aluminum, a layer of fiberglass, and a layer of vapor retarding material. A first side of the layer of fiberglass is bonded to the reflective layer by a deposit of h... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6793225 | Torque rod bracket A bracket formed from a single piece of sheet material for use in suspension of a vehicle for inhibiting relative lateral movement between and axle and a frame of the vehicle. The bracket includes a first portion bent to form a sleeve for insertion of a first fasten... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6793272 | Highway vehicle platform A platform, such as a deck plate or step, for attachment to a support on an over the highway truck or tractor. The platform includes a plate having an upper surface and a lower surface. A plurality of elongated members extend from the lower surface. A plurality of h... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6767039 | Bumper assembly A bumper assembly of an over the highway vehicle. The bumper assembly includes first and second mounting flanges coupled to a chassis component of the over the highway vehicle. A first bumper section is connected to the first mounting flange. A second bumper section... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6764358 | Amphibious vehicle Amphibious vehicle (40, FIG. 7) comprises engine (2) with its crankshaft aligned with front and rear axis (X) of the vehicle; transmission (3); and differential (4) offset from the transmission. The differential has front and rear ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6763117 | Speaker enclosure An enclosure assembly for use in an audio speaker includes a driver support, a plurality of cavity forming layers disposed rearward of the driver support, and an end piece disposed adjacent a rearward most cavity forming layer. The driver support includes a front an... | 07/13/2004 |
| D492921 | Hood for an over the highway truck | 07/13/2004 |
| D492628 | Bumper | 07/06/2004 |
| 6758294 | Laterally damped panhard rod cab suspension A suspension for a cab of an over the highway truck or tractor. The suspension includes a pair of spaced apart springs and a pair of spaced apart motion dampers interposed between and connected to the cab and a frame of the truck or tractor. A third spring is mounte... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6755478 | Combined device for a frontally hinged wheelbarrow and gardening cart A combined device is designed for multiple purposes including: hauling and dumping, bagging lawn and garden debris, and simultaneously carrying gardening tools and supplies. The device includes a wheelbarrow device with a container that lifts from its rear and flips... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6755446 | Waste pipe connector An under-sink waste pipe system comprises first and second waste pipes telescoped together, a softly resilient seal ring that adapts a smaller pipe for coupling to a larger pipe, seals the waste-pipe juncture, and secures the waste pipes together, a locking ring for... | 06/29/2004 |
| D491862 | Fairing for an over the highway truck | 06/22/2004 |
| D491851 | Air dam | 06/22/2004 |
| 6754657 | Time stamping of database records A method of assigning timestamps to data items processed by a transaction. The method sets initial upper and lower limits for a transaction timestamp that will be applied to data items processed by the transaction if the transaction does not abort. The upper and low... | 06/22/2004 |
| D491508 | Fairing for an over the highway truck | 06/15/2004 |
| 6735589 | Method of reducing dimensionality of a set of attributes used to characterize a sparse data set A dimensionality reduction method of generating a reduced dimension matrix data set Dnew of dimension m×k from an original matrix data set D of dimension m×k wherein n>k. The method selects a subset of k columns from a set of n columns in the original data set D w... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6728991 | Caster assembly with sliding side support piece The present invention is directed to a caster assembly for supporting an object. The assembly includes a caster wheel, a support member rotatably supporting the wheel and first and second side support pieces mounted on the support member. The support member includes... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6722728 | Highway vehicle platform A platform, such as a deck plate or step, for attachment to a support on an over the highway truck or tractor. The platform includes a plate having an upper surface and a lower surface. A plurality of elongated members extend from the lower surface. A plurality of h... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6718235 | Route control system A method and apparatus for detecting conditions that indicate unauthorized usage of a vehicle and for responding to the conditions that indicate the vehicle is being used in an unauthorized or unintended way. A vehicle computer is used to monitor conditions of a dri... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6708384 | Notched muntin bars having two finishes An apparatus for making notched muntin bars. The apparatus includes an uncoiler or support for a supply of ribbon stock, a notching device, a roll forming machine and a severing device. The ribbon stock has a surface with first and second finishes. The notching devi... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6710325 | Light curtain mounting system wherein housing and mounting bracket include curved surfaces A mounting apparatus for mounting optics of a light curtain. The apparatus includes a light curtain optics housing and a mounting bracket. The housing includes a curved mounting surface that extends along a portion of a length of the housing. The mounting bracket is... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6708201 | Goal-directed asynchronous messaging system A method of facilitating a discussion consisting of an exchange of electronic messages between members of a team including a team leader in a computer messaging system having messages that are arranged into a message hierarchy wherein related messages are represente... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6705669 | Energy absorber An impact energy absorber. The impact energy absorber is a flexible pipe made from a metal foil. The flexible pipe is provided with a substantially sequential spiral shaped concavities and convexes about the periphery of the pipe along a length of the pipe. The pipe... | 03/16/2004 |
