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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7875190 | Combination physical separator and filter device to remove contaminants from stormwater runoff An input chamber receives runoff water to be cleaned. Part of the way up the chamber wall is a restricted outlet which feeds a system for cleaning the water. At a still higher elevation another opening allows runoff water to flow to an extended detention chamber. Ne... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7875174 | Apparatus for separating a light fluid from a heavy one and/or removing sediment from a fluid stream An input chamber receives runoff water to be cleaned. Part of the way up the chamber wall is a restricted outlet which feeds a system for cleaning the water. At a still higher elevation another opening allows runoff water to flow to another cleaning system. Near the... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7128702 | Ab volley An exercise machine designed to exercise the upper body, focusing particularly on the core abdominal muscles but also on the arms, shoulders and chest. The machine comprises a structural frame with an adjustable seating mechanism, a handlebar and one or more positio... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7090427 | Bar connecting clamp A clamp for connecting together a set of structural bars having a body defining at least one pair of prismatic guides for positioning one of the bars within the clamp and a locking mechanism for securing the bars inside the guides. The body is defined by four sheet ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7048517 | Pump as a pressure source for supercritical fluid chromatography The invention is a device and method in a high-pressure chromatography system, such as a supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) system, that uses a pump as a pressure source for precision pumping of a compressible fluid. The preferred exemplary embodiment comprise... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7040221 | Method of producing paste container for screen printing apparatus To keep a printing paste, which is most influential to a printing performance, always in a uniform state, carry out printing at a high accuracy and in a stable manner, and use an expensive paste with no waste, there is provided a printing paste automatic supplying a... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6981939 | Forming machine for producing articles of sheet material from flat blanks In a machine for forming articles of sheet material, an orderly succession of flat blanks is fed along a forming path on a roller conveyor having powered rollers equally spaced with a given spacing; on the roller conveyor, the blanks are maintained contacting the ro... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6873528 | Supplemental heat conduction path for card to chassis heat dissipation A heat dissipation element which can be shaped as a flat plate for transfer of heat to the opposite side of a mounting channel in a chassis for holding circuit cards. Circuit cards are typically held in place in channels in a chassis by an expansion type retention d... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6868828 | Idle speed control apparatus in throttle body An idle speed control apparatus which improves freedom of selection in an opening degree characteristic of a throttle valve is structured such that an intake passage of a throttle body is opened and closed by a throttle valve, a cam lever is attached to one end of a... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6851836 | Collapsible lampshade A lamp shade which can be folded to reduce its size for shipping, display and storage, having an upper ring, a lower ring, and a number of supports interconnecting, separating and supporting the upper and lower rings. In one embodiment, the supports are separate tra... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6843112 | Throttle opening degree sensor A throttle opening degree sensor with an excellent mounting property to a small and middle size motor cycles, and with a less manufacturing cost of a throttle body including a throttle opening degree sensor, constituted such that a casing (5) has a single mou... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6843223 | Tandem valve type throttle body To improve freedom of mounting to a motor cycle, a tandem valve type throttle body is provided with a throttle valve (4) in the downstream side of an intake passage (2) and a sub throttle valve (9) in the upstream side thereof, a sub throttle va... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6839235 | Embedded heat pipe for a conduction cooled circuit card assembly One or more heat pipes are connected between a component on a circuit card and the frame of a circuit card assembly for transfer of heat to the frame of the circuit card assembly. Circuit cards are typically held in place in channels in a chassis by an expansion typ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6831985 | Piezoelectric speaker To provide a piezoelectric speaker in which a breakdown of an electric lead terminal due to a large amount electric current flow is prevented an electric accident due to hand touch to an electrode and a frame is prevented, the precision of position and shape of the ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6810798 | Screen printing process including vertically moving squeegee to open and close paste supply port To keep a printing paste, which is most influential to a printing performance, always in a uniform state, carry out printing at a high accuracy and in a stable manner, and use an expensive paste with no waste, there is provided a printing paste automatic supplying a... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6811568 | Artificial joint The present invention provides an artificial joint which can be rapidly, securely and easily fixed while being suited to an inner surface of a bone marrow hole by a novel structure absolutely different from the conventional one. An artificial joint is provided with ... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6774797 | Wireless tag and monitoring center system for tracking the activities of individuals A tracking tag worn by an individual which cooperates with a monitoring center to monitor the location of individuals. The tracking tag has a number of location determination features, including GPS and cellular geolocation methods. The tag includes a processor, fla... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6739584 | Float apparatus of carburetor To prevent a fuel liquid surface within a float chamber from rising when a liquid surface change occurs to make a float rotate so that a float valve opens a valve seat hole, a first float (F3) is arranged in one outer side from one end (F4) of the bear... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6428702 | Method of sample introduction for supercritical fluid chromatography systems An improved method and apparatus for safely introducing sample into a flow stream of a supercritical fluid chromatography system is described. The sample injection method improves safety of injection by eliminating the risk of injecting sample into a high... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6424643 | Method of modeling a CDMA cellular telephone system A computer implemented process which utilizes actual received signal level data gathered from closely spaced locations covering an entire CDMA system to calculate interference levels at each location, determines those base stations which most probably com... | 07/23/2002 |
