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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166625 | Continuous diorama and method of making the same Diorama having a focal zone and a plurality of inclined panels on which different areas of the image are displayed disposed about the focal zone, with the image flowing continuously between the panels and no physical seams between areas of the image displayed on adj... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8152200 | Heavy equipment trailer with deck extension Heavy equipment trailer and deck extension. The trailer has an elongated main deck with longitudinally extending frame members on opposite sides thereof, and ground engaging wheels toward the rear of the main deck. The extension has longitudinally extending frame me... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8146949 | Mud flap Mud flap having a plurality of laterally spaced, vertically extending vanes defining a plurality of vertically extending channels on the front side of the flap for directing water and debris from a wheel in a downward direction toward the roadway and not to the rear... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8089735 | Hybrid power relay with thermal protection Hybrid power relay for making and breaking an electrical circuit which includes electromagnetically operated contacts for making and breaking the circuit, a solid state switch connected across the contacts, a control circuit responsive to a control signal for actuat... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8080925 | Inertial sensor with dual cavity package and method of fabrication Inertial sensor having a body with first and second cavities on opposite sides thereof, a sensing element in the first cavity, electronic circuitry in the second cavity, electrical conductors interconnecting the sensing element and the circuitry, and leads connected... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8046894 | Diorama and method of making the same Diorama made from a two-dimensional image having a background panel in which a background section of the image appears and a plurality of additional panels on which additional sections of the image appear. The additional panels extend forwardly from the background p... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7973923 | Multi-port inline flow cell for use in monitoring multiple parameters in a sanitary process line Inline flow cell for use in monitoring multiple parameters in a sanitary process line, comprising a body with opposing end walls, a flow passageway extending along an axis between the end walls, and a plurality of side walls disposed tangentially about the axis, inl... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7905204 | Internal combustion engine and method with improved combustion chamber Constant pressure internal combustion engine having compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, an elongated combustion chamber of substantially constant volume between the compression and expansion chambers, and a fuel inlet for introducing fuel into the... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7775234 | Valve-to-fitting converter for process piping systems Valve-to-fitting converter that mounts on the body of an existing valve in a piping system in place of the actuator for the valve and has a dam that mates with a weir in the valve body to block flow between sections of piping connected to the valve body, and ports t... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7757644 | Internal combustion engine and method with improved combustion chamber Constant pressure internal combustion engine having compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, an elongated combustion chamber of substantially constant volume between the compression and expansion chambers, and a fuel inlet for introducing fuel into the... | 07/20/2010 |
| D620058 | Wrist wrap | 07/20/2010 |
| 7748352 | Internal combustion engine and method with improved combustion chamber Constant pressure internal combustion engine having compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, an elongated combustion chamber of substantially constant volume between the compression and expansion chambers, and a fuel inlet for introducing fuel into the... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7748351 | Internal combustion engine and method with improved combustion chamber Constant pressure internal combustion engine having compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, an elongated combustion chamber of substantially constant volume between the compression and expansion chambers, and a fuel inlet for introducing fuel into the... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7731639 | Compact weight bench with lifting assistance Weight bench having a frame that rests on the floor, a seat mounted on the frame, a backrest pivotally mounted on the frame to the rear of the seat for movement between horizontal, inclined, and declined positions relative to the seat, a plurality of resilient eleme... | 06/08/2010 |
| D616276 | Scribe strip holder | 05/25/2010 |
| 7718488 | Process of fabricating flash memory with enhanced program and erase coupling Self-aligned split-gate flash memory cell array and process of fabrication in which erase and select gates are positioned on opposite sides of stacked floating and control gates, with source regions in the substrate beneath the erase gates, bit line diffusions which... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7718068 | Wastewater treatment system and process utilizing solids based bacterial colonization (SBBC) Wastewater treatment system and process in which the influent is passed through a mixing chamber and then through a series of filters of progressively smaller size to separate the materials carrying the colonized bacteria from finer solids in the influent and separa... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7708509 | Locking retainer for threaded fasteners Retainer for threaded fasteners such as the cap screws that secure the end caps of roller bearing assemblies to railroad axles. A locking plate is constrained against rotation relative to the fastener, a lock ring having a plurality of openings disposed along a circ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7658169 | Internal combustion engine and method with improved combustion chamber Constant pressure internal combustion engine having compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, an elongated combustion chamber of substantially constant volume between the compression and expansion chambers, and a fuel inlet for introducing fuel into the... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7651455 | Method for making paper dunnage Dunnage making machine and method in which a web of paper is drawn across a forming bar with curved end sections to roll the edge portions of the paper, then drawn through a first throat section to urge the rolled edge portions toward each other and cause them to ga... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7646641 | NAND flash memory with nitride charge storage gates and fabrication process NAND flash memory cell array having control gates and charge storage gates stacked in pairs arranged in rows between a bit line diffusion and a common source diffusion, with select gates on both sides of each of the pairs of stacked gates. The gates in each stacked ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7631897 | Vehicle leveling device Vehicle leveling device having a stand which, in use, is positioned on the ground next to a wheel of a vehicle, a lever beam which extends laterally from the stand and beneath the wheel with a proximal end portion of the lever beam being mounted on the stand for mov... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7604814 | Method of removing ticks from the epidermal tissue of humans and other mammals Provided are compositions and an article for manufacture with an associated writing comprising the composition for the removal of ticks embedded in the skin or tissues of a human or animal host. Moreover a method is provided for removal of ticks embedded in the skin... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7598561 | NOR flash memory Semiconductor memory array and process of fabrication in which a plurality of bit line diffusions are formed in a substrate, and memory cells formed in pairs between the bit line diffusions, with each of the pairs of cells having first and second conductors adjacent... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7594881 | Compact weight bench Weight bench having a horizontally extending seat, an upstanding post at one end of the seat, a swinging arm pivotally connected to the upper portion of the post for movement between raised and lowered positions, a pair of leg rests extending laterally from the uppe... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7594492 | Rotary valve system and engine using the same Rotary valve system for controlling communication with a port in an internal combustion engine which, in one disclosed embodiment, has a crankshaft, compression and expansion pistons connected to the crankshaft for reciprocating movement within compression and expan... | 09/29/2009 |
| D599118 | Inflatable packing material | 09/01/2009 |
| 7552703 | Internal combustion engine and method Internal combustion engine and method with compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, a combustion chamber, a variable intake valve for controlling air intake to the compression chamber, a variable outlet valve for controlling communication between the c... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7548318 | Dithering mechanism for eliminating zero-rate bias in a gyroscope Dithering mechanism and method for eliminating the effects of zero-rate bias in a rate sensor or gyroscope. Both continuously moving and indexing embodiments are disclosed. The mechanism includes a first part mounted in a fixed position centered about a dither axis ... | 06/16/2009 |
| D591805 | Table tennis racket | 05/05/2009 |
| 7523537 | Method of manufacturing a tuning fork with reduced quadrature errror and symmetrical mass balancing Tuning fork and method in which a pair of elongated tines having front and rear surfaces are disposed symmetrically about an axis, and balancing masses on the front surface of one tine and on the rear surface of the other tine are trimmed to reduce quadrature error ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7520840 | Portable step exerciser Portable machine for doing stair climbing exercises which has a base movable between horizontal and upright positions, a wheel mounted on the base for rolling engagement with the floor when the base is in the upright position, a first step movable between an operati... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7509857 | Inertial measurement system and method with sensor bias cancellation Inertial measurement system and method in which a gyroscope is periodically dithered about an axis perpendicular to its input axis, a signal from the gyroscope is delayed to provide a delayed signal which lags the gyroscope signal by one-half of the dithering period... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7505140 | Indexing dithering mechanism and method Dithering mechanism and method for eliminating the effects of zero-rate bias in a rate sensor or gyroscope. Both continuously moving and indexing embodiments are disclosed. The mechanism includes a first part mounted in a fixed position centered about a dither axis ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7501321 | NAND flash memory with densely packed memory gates and fabrication process NAND flash memory cell array and fabrication process in which cells having memory gates and charge storage layers are densely packed, with the memory gates in adjacent cells either overlapping or self-aligned with each other. The memory cells are arranged in rows be... | 03/10/2009 |
| D586641 | Pry bar holder | 02/17/2009 |
| 7487748 | Internal combustion engine and method Internal combustion engine and method with compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, a combustion chamber, a variable intake valve for controlling air intake to the compression chamber, a variable outlet valve for controlling communication between the c... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7481109 | Inertial measurement system and method with bias cancellation System having one or more inertial sensors in which one or more of the sensor input axes are modulated in orientation about an axis substantially perpendicular to the input, or sensitive, axis of the sensor and, in some embodiments, by also enhancing the accuracy of... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7481189 | Internal combustion engine and method Internal combustion engine and method with compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, a combustion chamber, a variable intake valve for controlling air intake to the compression chamber, a variable outlet valve for controlling communication between the c... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7461552 | Dual axis rate sensor Angular rate sensor for detecting rotation about first and second mutually perpendicular axes which has first and second masses coupled together for torsional drive mode oscillation of equal amplitude and opposite phase about third axes which are perpendicular to th... | 12/09/2008 |
