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A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7516723 | Double piston cycle engine A Dual Piston Cycle Engine utilizes a unique dual piston apparatus that includes: a first cylinder housing a first piston therein; a second cylinder thermally isolated from the first cylinder and housing a second piston therein; an intake valve coupled to the first ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7383797 | Double piston cycle engine A Dual Piston Cycle Engine utilizes a unique dual piston apparatus that includes: a first cylinder housing a first piston therein; a second cylinder thermally isolated from the first cylinder and housing a second piston therein; an intake valve coupled to the first ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380527 | Internal combustion engine The invention concerns an internal-combustion engine, the engine comprising a first combustion chamber, a first piston displaceably guided in the first combustion chamber, the first piston facing the first combustion chamber with a first piston surface in a first di... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7360511 | Opposed piston engine A two-cycle, opposed piston engine with side-mounted crankshafts and cylinders isolated from mechanical stresses of the engine includes tailored cooling of cylinders and symmetrical cooling of the interior surfaces of piston crowns. Each opposed piston includes a co... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7337869 | Hydraulic hybrid vehicle with integrated hydraulic drive module and four-wheel-drive, and method of operation thereof A vehicle includes an integrated drive module coupled to an axle thereof. The module includes a hydraulic motor configured to provide motive power at an output shaft, and a differential for distributing the motive power to right and left portions of the axle. The hy... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7304398 | Spring activated energy transducer generating A/C electricity from natural forces-frictionless magnetic plate A spring activated energy transducer is provided. The energy transducer of the current invention generates alternating current (A/C) electricity from abundant external natural forces. The energy transducer is comprised of an upper part and a lower part. The upper pa... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293534 | Premixed charge compression ignition engine and reciprocating generator having the same The object of the present invention is to provide a premixed charge compression ignition (PCCI) engine. The PCCI engine has a fuel injector (22) in a suction manifold (8) to prepare a premixed charge of fuel and air and induces a natural ignition of th... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7270108 | Opposed piston, homogeneous charge pilot ignition engine An engine of the opposed piston, two-stroke, compression ignition type includes provision for injection of a main charge of liquid fuel into the bore of a cylinder between opposed pistons early in a compression stroke to permit the fuel to evaporate and mix with air... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7234423 | Internal combustion engine In accordance with the invention, an internal combustion engine having reciprocating piston sleeves is realized comprising an engine block with a pair of cylinders, each cylinder having an intake port, an exhaust port and two linearly opposing pistons connected to t... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7156056 | Two-cycle, opposed-piston internal combustion engine In a two-cycle, opposed-piston internal combustion engine with optimized cooling and no engine block, the opposed pistons are coupled to a pair of crankshafts by connecting rods that are subject to substantially tensile forces acting between the pistons and the cran... | 01/02/2007 |
| 6250263 | Dual piston cylinder configuration for internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine 10 is provided having at least one pair of cylinders 30, 31 which overlaps to form one enclosure 20. The two cylinders 30, 31 have central axes 2, 4 which are offset. The reciprocally-offset cylinders 30, 31 are joined to for... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6234120 | Two-stroke engine The two-stroke internal combustion engine has a cylinder, a piston, a connecting rod connected between a crankshaft and the piston. The engine has an inlet defined at a crankcase for conveying a fuel mixture from a carburetor. The engine includes a cylind... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6182619 | Two-stroke diesel engine A two-stroke, opposed piston, diesel engine is provided herein. The engine includes a thermal shield and a fluid gap which surround the exhaust ports to shield the engine block from an exhaust fluid from the cylinder assembly. Additionally, a cooling flui... | 02/06/2001 |
| 5713314 | Dual piston internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine (1) comprising at least two cylinders (4,8) meeting to form a combustion space (12) therebetween, a first piston (3) adapted to reciprocate within the first cylinder (4) and a second piston (7) adapted to reciprocate within t... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5383427 | Two-cycle, air-cooled uniflow gasoline engine for powering a portable tool A flexible line trimmer is powered by a two-stroke internal combustion engine. The engine is scavenged in a uniflow fashion and has a scavenging cylinder and an exhaust cylinder connected by a common combustion chamber. Each cylinder has a piston turning ... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5289802 | Internal combustion engine having opposed pistons An opposed piston internal combustion engine comprises an output shaft, at least one cylinder, at least one pair of first and second opposed pistons slidable in said cylinder, a first cam connected to the output shaft and a first cam follower assembly con... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5213067 | Internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine is provided having opposed pistons operating in axially spaced relation within common power cylinders. Opposed heads of the pistons define a space within which occurs a cycle of compression, ignition, combustion, and expansio... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5133306 | Horizontally opposed internal combustion engine Presented is an internal combustion engine that utilizes horizontally opposed pistons operating in direct opposition to one another in axially aligned open ended cylinders suspended below a base plate and arranged generally symmetrically on opposite sides... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5058537 | Optimized high pressure internal combustion engines An improved high pressure, high r.p.m. engine having a single cylinder with opposed pistons reciprocating in the cylinder and each piston being connected to dual connecting rods that are connected to counterrotating crankshafts, the cylinder having a cent... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5058536 | Variable-cycle reciprocating internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine having a pair of opposed pistons in a block has a piston connected to a respective crankshaft. A gear train synchronizes the speed and relative angular relationship between the crankshafts. A timing actuator, connected to and... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5042441 | Low emission combustion system for internal combustion engines A combustion system for internal combustion engines having a cylinder, at least one piston reciprocal in the cylinder and a combustion chamber with three regions for improving the combustion process, the piston having a piston head with an outer perimeter... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4981114 | Stratified charge internal combustion engine Each main cylinder (10) of an internal combustion engine is provided with a smaller idle cylinder (12). Pistons (14, 20) in the cylinders (10, 12) are operated substantially in unison and are driven by crank shafts (18, 24) which are mechanically connecte... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4964275 | Multicylinder compound engine A compound rotary-reciprocal engine with multiple cylinders of a reciprocator component coupled to a positive displacement, rotary compressor-expander, with systems for coordinating the cycle timing of each cylinder with the timing of the rotary compresso... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4856463 | Variable-cycle reciprocating internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine having a pair of opposed pistons in a block has a piston connected to a respective crankshaft. A gear train synchronizes the speed and relative angular relationship between the crankshafts. A timing actuator, connected to and... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4843821 | Multicylinder compound engine A compound rotary-reciprocal engine with multiple cylinders of a reciprocator component coupled to a positive displacement, rotary compressor-expander, with systems for coordinating the cycle timing of each cylinder with the timing of the rotary compresso... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4834032 | Two-stroke cycle engine and pump having three-stroke cycle effect A multi-cylinder gas engine featuring a unique method of gas fuel intake and cylinder exhaust gas scavenging and recharging. It is a three cylinder opposed piston two-stroke cycle engine combined with a three cylinder opposed piston, sequentially ported, ... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4791787 | Regenerative thermal engine An internal combustion engine having a cylinder, a piston reciprocally movable in the cylinder, the cylinder and piston defining in part a chamber for combustion, intake means for introducing air into the cylinder at predetermined intervals, exhaust means... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4565165 | Internal combustion engine A hyper-expansion internal combustion engine operable using a cycle having expansion, exhaust, intake and compression phases comprising at least one pair of opposed pistons which reciprocate in cylinder portions which are in fluid communication with each ... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4526141 | Drive arrangement for internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine including: a cylinder, a combustion chamber in the cylinder, two opposed pistons within the cylinder and relatively movable towards and away from each other. The combustion chamber is defined between the two pistons. Each pis... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4480597 | Two-stroke cycle gasoline engine A two-stroke cycle gasoline engine, comprising a power cylinder-piston assembly having a scavenging port configuration including a first scavenging port configuration first uncovered by the power piston as it moves along the power cylinder from its top de... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4391232 | Internal-combustion engine with opposed pistons Each cylinder is surrounded by four annular channels. The first three annular channels are in communication with the interior volume of the cylinder through a plurality of spaced apart openings and with a transfer channel connecting the opposite ends of t... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4375792 | Asymmetrical internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine adapted to be powered by a burnable gaseous fuel includes one cylinder, first and second pistons reciprocally movable in the cylinder substantially in opposite directions, inlet and outlet valves for controlling the flow of t... | 03/08/1983 |
| 4363295 | Movable head engine An internal combustion engine utilizing either an Otto or a Diesel cycle contains two opposed pistons in each cylinder. The first piston drives a crank arm which drives a crankshaft. The crankshaft, through a timing means, drives an eccentric positive-mot... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4357916 | Two-stroke cycle gasoline engine A two-stroke cycle gasoline engine including at least one two-stroke cycle power cylinder-piston assembly incorporating uniflow scavenging and two horizontally opposed pistons and two crankcases to perform crankcase compression, and at least one scavengin... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4352343 | Constructional improvements in a two-stroke opposed piston engine operating with stratified charge The invention relates to an improvement in a two-stroke internal combustion engine with opposed cylinders of different diameters which communicate by way of a combustion chamber of bell configuration for radially stratifying the rich mixture charge fed ta... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4312305 | Two-stroke cycle gasoline engine A two-stroke cycle gasoline engine including at least one two-stroke cycle uniflow scavenging power cylinder-piston assembly which has a scavenging port configuration which consists of first, second, and third scavenging port configurations which are succ... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4312306 | Flexible cylinder-head internal combustion engine In an internal combustion engine, two opposed pistons of equal radius are slidably mounted in a cylinder and respectively connected to cranks of unequal throws mounted for rotation at oppositely disposed cylinder ends in a common crankcase. The pistons ar... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4287859 | Two-stroke cycle gasoline engine A two-stroke cycle gasoline engine including at least one two-stroke cycle power cylinder-piston assembly adopting uniflow scavenging and incorporating two horizontally opposed pistons, and at least one scavenging pump cylinder-piston assembly of the reci... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4285303 | Swash plate internal combustion engine A two-cycle internal combustion engine has a plurality of parallel cylinders supporting a central drive shaft, a piston in each cylinder having an outer extension connected to a swash plate rotatably mounted on an inclined portion of the drive shaft. The ... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4258669 | Two-stroke cycle gasoline engine A two-stroke cycle gasoline engine including at least one two-stroke cycle power cylinder - piston assembly incorporating uniflow scavenging and two horizontally opposed pistons, and a scavenging structure which gives zero or a relatively weak swirl to th... | 03/31/1981 |
