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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6458061 | Cable crossover exercise apparatus A highly versatile exercise apparatuses is disclosed. More particularly, the invention relates to a cable crossover exercise apparatus including a central weight stack and opposed extension arms. The invention also relates to a functional lift exercise ap... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6447424 | System and method for selective adjustment of exercise apparatus A display controller system for use with a selectively adjustable exercise apparatus is disclosed. The hiking display controller system comprises a display device, a controller, and a selectively adjustable exercise device. The controller enables adjustme... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6443987 | Spinal vertebral implant A spinal vertebral implant includes a substantially rectangular shaped base section made from a solid piece of bone. A nose section extends integrally from the substantially rectangularly shaped base section and preferably has a generally tapering shape t... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6228003 | Adjustable dumbbell and system A weight lifting system features (i) one or more weights; and (ii) a weightlifting bar configured to selectively engage the one or more weights. A weight of the present invention has an upstanding first end, an upstanding second end, and a cross member ex... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6144387 | Guard region and hither plane vertex modification for graphics rendering Performing graphics rendering without the computational expense of hither plane clipping and with only a minimum of display image clipping. Where a three dimensional polygon crosses to both sides of a hither plane, any vertices on the back side of the hit... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6086574 | Fluid delivery systems with diptube connector A fluid delivery system includes a flexible media bag having an outlet spout projecting therefrom. A passageway longitudinally extends through the outlet spout and communicates with the interior of the media bag. A diptube connector is mounted to the outl... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6084050 | Thermo-optic devices In a digital thermo-optic switch and an optical ADM filter of the present invention, functional components such as a splitter and a grating structure part formed in the course of an optical circuit as a component are composed of silicone materials which a... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6036451 | Shaft assemblies for lineshaft turbine pump A lineshaft turbine pump includes a packing container having a passageway longitudinally extending therethrough. Rotatably disposed within the passageway is a packing sleeve having a channel longitudinally extending between a threaded first end and an opp... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5990011 | Titanium aluminum alloy wetting layer for improved aluminum filling of damescene trenches The novel process forms a first recess, such as a contact hole, within a first dielectric layer upon a semiconductor substrate. At least one diffusion barrier layer, selected from a group consisting of ceramics, metallics, and intermetallics, is formed wi... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5974987 | Seed drilling implement There is disclosed a seed drilling implement (10) which comprises a frame (11), a coupling device (12) at the forward end of the frame (11), drilling elements (13) mounted on the frame (11) at or near the rear end of the frame, coulters (14) mounted on th... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5899702 | Methods for measuring surface area Methods for measuring the surface area of a top region of a silicon wafer by initially depositing a monolayer of hexamethyldisilizane over the surface area of the silicon wafer. The silicon wafer is then positioned within a vacuum environment. Next, oxyge... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5802704 | Hooping machine A safe, efficient hooping machine preferably driven by pneumatic power comprising an adjustable hoop push plate, an angle head which is for inserting an inner ring into an outer ring and a safety feature which allows hoopers to keep their hands from becom... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5783126 | Method for manufacturing articles having inorganically filled, starch-bound cellular matrix Compositions, methods, and systems for manufacturing articles, particularly containers and packaging materials, having a particle packed, highly inorganically filled, cellular matrix are disclosed. Suitable inorganically filled mixtures are prepared by mi... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5681397 | Methods for high temperature water rinsing and drying of silicon wafers after being cleaned in hydrofluoric acid Methods are disclosed for rinsing and drying of a silicon wafer. The methods involve cleaning the silicon wafer with hydrofluoric acid, immersing a silicon wafer in either boiling deionized water or a boiling hydrochloric acid solution, and then drawing t... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5658438 | Sputter deposition method for improved bottom and side wall coverage of high aspect ratio features A method of sputter deposition for improved side wall and bottom coverage of high aspect ratio features on a substrate includes alternatingly exposing the substrate having high aspect ratio features to a collimated sputtered particle flux and a less-colli... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5652170 | Method for etching sloped contact openings in polysilicon Disclosed is a vertically oriented capacitor structure, which is of particular usefulness in MOS DRAM memory modules. The structure has upper and lower polysilicon capacitor plates separated by a dielectric layer, each of the plates and dielectric layers ... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5651856 | Selective etch process Disclosed is an etch process wherein hydrogen monoiodide (HI) ions are employed to bombard a patterned film, thereby creating geometric features in the patterned film with substantially anisotropic sidewalls. The etch process has a high selectivity to oxi... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5644153 | Method for etching nitride features in integrated circuit construction A process for etching nitride layers in three steps is disclosed. The process comprises selecting a process chemistry of CF4 to CHF3 to set a predetermined critical dimension bias; conducting a primary etch of the process chemistry w... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5644166 | Sacrificial CVD germanium layer for formation of high aspect ratio submicron VLSI contacts A high aspect ratio submicron VLSI contact and corresponding method of manufacture is disclosed. The contact is formed through an insulative layer, such as silicon dioxide, to an underlying active region on a substrate of silicon wafer. The contact compri... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5388725 | Fluid-driven apparatus for dispensing plural fluids in a precise proportion A fluid-driven proportioning pump for dispensing precise volumes of at least three different fluids includes a drive cylinder housing a correspondingly formed drive piston which divides the drive cylinder into first and second drive fluid chambers and is ... | 02/14/1995 |
