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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8426773 | Dual power pin connector assembly for a MIG welding machine A dual power pin connector assembly for connecting both a MIG welding gun and a spoolgun to a welding machine. The dual power pin connector is comprised of a busbar portion that electrically and mechanically couples the positive output terminal of the welding machin... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8395085 | Wire feed speed referenced variable frequency pulse welding system A pulsed waveform welding operation is implemented by reference to a commanded wire feed speed set by an operator. The wire feed speed is set on a wire feeder, and a signal representative of the commanded wire feed speed is applied to a power supply. The power suppl... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8389900 | Method for welding a workpiece The invention describes a method for welding a workpiece (16) with a consuming welding wire (13), the latter being moved substantially towards the workpiece (16) by a wire feeder (11) during a welding process, wherein a process is started... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8373093 | Method and system to increase heat input to a weld during a short-circuit arc welding process A method and a system to increase heat input to a weld during an arc welding process. A series of electric arc pulses are generated between an advancing welding electrode and a metal workpiece using an electric arc welding system capable of generating an electric we... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8350189 | Method of making a metal art object A method of making a metal art object using a MIG welder to form small and large end puddles having a primarily gold or blue sheen or a center gold dot formed by using combinations of a strip of selected metal and a wire of a selected metal; selectively tilting a su... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8101886 | Welding article and welding method of carrying out an alternating current arc welding A welding method of carrying out an alternating current arc welding by switching polarities of a voltage applied between a wire and workpieces when weld-connecting the workpieces to each other by use of the wire, the workpieces including an aluminum cast material an... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8049140 | Pulse arc welding control method and pulse arc welding device Disclosed here is a pulse welding control method and a pulse arc welding device capable of improving arc stability, and decreasing the amount of spatters. The structure contains arc short-circuit judging section (13) for judging a welding state; setting secti... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7989732 | Method of AC welding using a flux cored electrode A method of AC welding that includes the step of supplying AC current with a given waveform from a power source to an advancing electrode and workpiece. The AC current is used to melt the electrode and to thereby deposit metal from the electrode onto the workpiece. ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7928340 | Control method for arc welding apparatus and arc welding apparatus A control method for an arc welding apparatus having a function of prohibiting detection of neck based on a change amount of welding voltage and an arc welding apparatus using the method. Thus, since neck determination can be carried out accurately by preventing wro... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7528345 | Power supply apparatus for welder A welder power supply apparatus (10) includes an inverter (20), which is driven intermittently when an electrode (34) and a workpiece (36) are separated from each other and no arc is being generated between them, whereby power loss genera... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7397015 | Metal cored electrode for open root pass welding A method and apparatus of forming a root bead in a gap between spaced ends of at least one workpiece. The gap includes an open root. A metal cored electrode having a metal sheath and core materials is used to for the root bead in the open root. The core materials in... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7371994 | Buried arc welding of integrally backed square butt joints Buried arc welding is employed to fuse together a first component, a second component, and a third component or an underlying portion of the second component, the first and second components in butting relationship along a butting joint and the third component or un... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372711 | Circuit and method for reducing voltage spikes due to magnetizing current imbalances and power converter employing the same For use in a power converter having parallel power trains, a circuit for, and method of, reducing voltage spikes due to magnetizing current imbalances in the power trains and a power converter incorporating the circuit or the method. In one embodiment, the circuit i... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7361441 | Color toner, and full-color image-forming method A yellow toner in which, in a spectral-distribution diagram in which the reflectance (%) is plotted as ordinate and the wavelength (nm) as abscissa, the reflectance determined for a toner in a state of powder ranges from 15% to 20% at a wavelength of 500 nm and rang... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360675 | Wire bonder for ball bonding insulated wire and method of using same An electrical contact device is provided for electrically grounding an uninsulated end-portion of insulated wire stored on a spool driven by a device comprises the following. An electrical connector fixes to the spool and is configured to receive an electrical conne... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358458 | Methods and apparatus for tactile communication in an arc processing system Systems and methods are presented for tactile communication with an operator in an arc processing system, in which a tactile device is mechanically coupled with a handheld torch to provide tactile messages to the operator according to information related to the syst... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7351933 | Method and apparatus for controlling a welding system A method and apparatus for controlling a welding-type power supply includes providing a current wave form having an arc current portion and a short circuit current portion. An arc state is entered by retracting a welding wire, and a short circuit state is entered by... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7335853 | Method for orbital welding using a pulsed current A method for the orbital welding of tubular elements held in abutment comprising the steps of striking an arc at a strike point with an orbital welder between an electrode and a seam formed by a first tubular element and a second tubular element, held in abutment wi... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7335852 | Method and apparatus for welding A method and apparatus for MIG welding is disclosed. When in an ac mode the output is unbalanced, or the balance may be controlled. The balance may be controlled to provide a desired deposition rate and /or to obtain a desired dilution. The frequency may be any freq... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7322507 | Transducer assembly, capillary and wire bonding method using the same A transducer assembly and wire bonding method has a vibration unit for generating an ultrasonic wave. A body section is coupled to the vibration unit for transferring the ultrasonic wave. A tapered horn is coupled to the body section for transferring and concentrati... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7301123 | Method for modifying or producing materials and joints with specific properties by generating and applying adaptive impulses a normalizing energy thereof and pauses therebetween A method of impulse treatment which modifies at least one specified property of a material or object (such as a welded joint), or produces a material or object with at least one specified physical, mechanical or structural property, by adaptively controlling an impu... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7288741 | Arc welder An arc welder comprising: a rectifier circuit 2 which rectifies an alternating current 1 to a direct current; an inverter circuit 3; a transformer 4; a second rectifier circuit 5 which rectifies an output of the transformer 4 | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288737 | Laser/MIG hybrid welding process with a high wire speed Methods for hybrid laser/MIG welding processes. A bevel formed between the edges of material to be welded together is partially filled with molten metal. The molten metal is delivered in the form of a filler wire, which is melted by a combined electric arc and laser... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7271365 | System and method for pulse welding Systems and methods are provided for pulse welding, in which a welding signal is provided to an electrode in series of pulse welding cycles, where the amount of energy applied to the electrode in each cycle is determined and a pulse is provided to initiate a transfe... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7265320 | Method and system for reducing spatter in short-circuit transfer gas shielded arc welding A method for reducing spatter in the short-circuit transfer gas shielded arc welding is disclosed. In this method, the resistance changing rate or the impedance changing rate of the welding circuit loop is detected for estimating the diameter of the short-circuit li... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256368 | Welding and tack welding method involving the use of a non-fusing electrode The invention relates to a welding method involving the use of a non-fusing electrode (12) according to which the electrode (12) is provided with power from a power source once the arc (11) between the electrode (12) and the workpieces ( | 08/14/2007 |
| 7244904 | Metal-protective gas-joint with changeable polarity A method of gas-shielded metal arc joining using a consumable electrode having an alternating polarity (GMA-AC). A shielding gas containing helium is used to improve process stability and working speed. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7235760 | AC pulse arc welding method In accordance with an AC pulse arc welding method, a periodic welding current is applied, that includes, for a pulse cycle, negative current in electrode negative polarity and positive current in electrode positive polarity. Then, a negative current rate is set by a... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7229727 | Color toner, and full-color image forming method A yellow toner in which, in a spectral-distribution diagram in which the reflectance (%) is plotted as ordinate and the. wavelength (nm) as abscissa, the reflectance determined for a toner in a state of powder ranges from 15% to 20% at a wavelength of 500 nm and ran... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227099 | System and method for improving the productivity of a welding shop Methods of controlling an arc welding shop. In the shop, several welding torches are used and each torch is supplied with consumable wire. The wire moves at a wire speed and is subjected to an electrical current. For each torch, either an average wire speed or an av... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7217904 | Electric arc welder and method for controlling the welding process of the welder An operating system is provided for an electric arc welder including a high switching speed inverter power source for creating an arc voltage and arc current between an electrode and a workpiece. This operating system regulating the arc voltage to provide a voltage ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7201179 | Modular fluid supply system A modular fluid supply system for use with a liquid supply source includes a plurality of container packs, a fluid delivery line in fluid communication with the containers of the packs, and a controller. Each container pack includes at least one container that conta... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7189941 | Process for making heterogeneous joints under shielding gas In joining heterogeneous materials that differ in their melting points, a shielding gas mixture with active gas content is utilized. In particular, the shielding gas mixture contains helium and active gasses in the vpm range (0.005 to 0.5% by volume). These shieldin... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187569 | Signal generation apparatus and method for seafloor electromagnetic exploration An apparatus for generating electronic signals for application in subsea electromagnetic exploration. A surface generated high-voltage low-current source signal stabilized at a first frequency is supplied to a deep-tow vehicle (18) via an umbilical cable (... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7176410 | Method of welding motor vehicle elements, in particular tailored blanks An electric-arc welding process for assembling parts that are components of a motor vehicle, in which a consumable wire is used that is subjected to a cyclic mechanical movement. The wire is moved closer to and then further away from the parts to be welded so as to ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7168165 | Fabrication of electrical medical leads employing multi-filar wire conductors During fabrication of an electrical medical lead, a cut end of a stranded wire conductor is subjected to electrical current sufficient to heat and weld the strands together upon discharge of a high voltage between the cut end and a ground metal plate formed of a mat... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166818 | Tandem electrode welder and method of welding with two electrodes An electric arc welding apparatus comprising at least a first consumable electrode and a second consumable electrode movable in unison along a welding path between the edges of two adjacent, mutually grounded plates, a first power supply for passing a first welding ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164095 | Microwave plasma nozzle with enhanced plume stability and heating efficiency Systems and methods for generating relatively cool microwave plasma. The present invention provides a microwave plasma nozzle that includes a gas flow tube through which a gas flows, and a rod-shaped conductor that is disposed in the gas flow tube and has a tapered ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7147980 | Toner and image forming apparatus A toner having toner particles each comprising at least a binder resin, a wax, and a colorant is used in an image forming apparatus which has a fixing means comprising a belt-shaped heating member and a pressurizing member. The binder resin contains a resin formed b... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7140106 | Process to restore and refurbish an engine turbo charger or exhaust part A process to restore and refurbish an engine part or accessory. The process includes the steps of visually inspecting the pair or accessory for cracks, erosion or broken areas. Selected areas of the part or accessory are then machined or drilled off. The selected ar... | 11/28/2006 |
