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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7404252 | Method for fastening two coplanar edges without a weld A method and apparatus for fastening two substantially coplanar edges without a weld is disclosed. The method includes: configuring a dovetail feature on a first edge; configuring a complementary dovetail feature receptacle on a second edge to receive the dovetail f... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7357682 | Method and apparatus for fastening two coplanar edges without a weld A method and apparatus for fastening two substantially coplanar edges without a weld is disclosed. The method includes: configuring a dovetail feature on a first edge; configuring a complementary dovetail feature receptacle on a second edge to receive the dovetail f... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7342175 | Electrical connector A splice electrical connector for connecting core members of two cable conductors to each other is provided. The connector include two end members. Each end member comprises a first coupler end and a second wedge contact end. A splice coupler connects the first coup... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7290367 | Tear resistant gel articles for various uses A soft gelatinous elastomer composition and article useful as fishing bait, floss, liner and other uses formed from one or a mixture of two or more of a one or a mixture of two or more of a hydrogenated controlled distribution styrene block copolymer(s) and one or m... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7268444 | Feed line structure A supply line structure for supplying energy to the electrical components of an automotive vehicle and for transmitting information between at least some of the electrical components, the supply lines being disposed, in particular in a star structure having at least... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7261581 | Coaxial connector and method Disclosed is a coaxial connector consisting of a back nut, outer and inner terminals, and an insulator. The back nut is made of a single tubular piece and does not enclose any further parts. In connecting a coaxial cable to the connector, the cable is inserted throu... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7238543 | Methods for marking a bare semiconductor die including applying a tape having energy-markable properties A method used for marking a semiconductor wafer or device. The method and apparatus have particular application to wafers or devices which have been subjected to a thinning process, including backgrinding in particular. The present method comprises reducing the cros... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234560 | Inflatable restraint cushions and other uses A vehicular safety system comprising an inflatable restraint gel cushion having a gel rigidity of from about 50 gram Bloom to about 1,200 gram bloom. ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7226484 | Tear resistant gels and articles for every uses Soft, tear resistant gel, gel composites and gel articles for various uses formed from one or a mixture of two or more block copolymers with or without one or more selected other polymers and additives in combination with one or more selected plasticizers being in s... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222380 | Tear resistant gels, composites, and cushion articles SEEPS gel and gel foam molded shape articles for use in medical and sport health care, such use include therapeutic hand exercising grips, dental floss, crutch cushions, cervical pillows, bed wedge pillows, leg rest, cushions, mattress, bed pads, elbow padding, derm... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219425 | Arrangement in explosion joining of ends of wires and the like A method of joining the interfacing ends of cables, one to another, wherein each comprises a plurality of conductor strands, comprising (i) providing each of the ends with an enlarged terminal portion of greater diameter than the cable adjacent the end, (ii) inserti... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216719 | Field weldable connections An apparatus includes a weld coupling and a thermal insulator. The weld coupling is adapted to be welded to an outer housing of a first cable segment to couple the first cable segment to a second cable segment. The thermal insulator is adapted to prevent thermal dam... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7208184 | Gelatinous food elastomer compositions and articles for use as fishing bait A soft gelatinous food elastomer composition and article useful as fishing bait formed from one or a mixture of two or more of a thermoplastic elastomer block copolymers) and one or more plasticizers and a food or components of food. The plasticizers being in suffic... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7193002 | Adherent gels, composites, and articles Adherent gels and adherent gel composites which can be made by applying an adherent gel onto one or more selected substrates of foam, plastic, fabric, metal, concrete, wood, wire screen, refractory material, glass, synthetic resin, synthetic fibers, and the like. Su... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7143504 | Method of manufacturing a display structure A method of manufacturing a display structure includes the steps of arranging at least a display area, an extension area, and an IC mounting area on a display substrate, connecting a flexible tape substrate to the extension area of the display substrate, separating ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7134236 | Gelatinous elastomer compositions and articles for use as fishing bait A non-tacky fishing bait made from a soft gelatinous elastomer composition comprising one or more of a linear, radial or multiblock copolymer(s) and in combination with one or more of a low and high viscosity plasticizers in sufficient amounts to achieve a gel rigid... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7121001 | H-tap compression connector A compression connector for securing wires therein is disclosed. The compression connector comprises a first body portion connected to a second body portion, each of the first and second body portions having two pairs of leg portions extending therefrom to form two ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7108873 | Gelatinous food elastomer compositions and articles A soft gelatinous food elastomer composition and article useful as simulated food formed from one or a mixture of two or more of a thermoplastic elastomer block copolymer(s) and one or more plasticizers and a food or components of food. The plasticizers being in suf... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110534 | Terminal blocks and methods for making and breaking connections in a telecommunication conductor In embodiments of the present invention, telecommunications terminal blocks are provided for making and breaking connections between a first telecommunications conductor, a second telecommunications conductor and a service wire. The terminal block includes a housing... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7105607 | Tear resistant gels, composites, and articles Novel gelatinous compositions, composites, and articles are formed from an intimate melt blend admixture of one or more of a high viscosity poly(styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene), poly(styrene-ethylene-propylene-styrene), poly(styrene-ethylene-butylene)n... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7093316 | Gels for force gauging For effective plaque removal, a combination of a gel force gauging component and a plaque removing gel component are employed to prevent tooth and gum damage over gel rigidity range of from about 75 gram Bloom to about 300 gram bloom. ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7093599 | Gels, composites, and health care articles Gel and gel composites health care articles, including masks, pads, blood bags, tubings, male and female tubing connectors, and needle protector sheath. ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7094618 | Methods for marking a packaged semiconductor die including applying tape and subsequently marking the tape The present invention provides a method and apparatus for marking a semiconductor wafer or device. The method and apparatus have particular application to wafers or devices which have been subjected to a thinning process, including backgrinding in particular. The pr... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7067583 | Tear resistant adherent gels, composites, and articles Adherent gels and adherent gel composites which can be made by applying a tear resistant adherent gel of SEEPS onto one or more selected substrates of foam, plastic, fabric, metal, concrete, wood, wire screen, refractory material, glass, synthetic resin, synthetic f... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7032291 | Method of manufacturing stator winding of rotary electric machine A method of manufacturing a stator winding includes a twisting step of U-shaped conductor segments having a pair of straight portions by moving the straight portions in the circumferential direction while restraining the turn portions of the U-shaped conductor segme... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7007381 | Method of attaching an electric conductor to an electrically conductive terminal via a telescoping sleeve A method for attaching an electric conductor to an electrically conductive terminal. The electric conductor comprises a wire and a cladding surrounding the wire. The wire has an exposed end portion extending from an end of the cladding. The method comprises placing ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6981308 | Support members inside stator slots of a rotating electric machine and method of mounting these support members A rotating electric machine (1) has a rotor, a stator (2), and stator windings (3, 4). The windings (3, 4) include high voltage cable drawn through slots (5, 6) in the stator (2). Support members (8) are arranged insi... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6976889 | Method and structure for connecting a terminal with a wire In a method of connecting a terminal with a wire in which a core (2) of a wire is inserted into a tubular wire connecting portion (1) of a terminal, and the wire connecting portion is crimped in a radial direction of the wire, the wire connecting porti... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6971897 | Gel-filled telephone jack An improved gel-protected registered telephone jack includes a cavity in a housing, and a rear opening to the cavity that permits positioning an insert that connects permanent telephone wires to spring connectors. A front opening receives a plug to make contact betw... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6969804 | Connector for securing protection device to cable A connector for securing a protective sleeve about an electrical cable portion of an electrical cable assembly. The connector is formed of heat-shrinkable tubing and is slipped over the cuff of the sleeve and a portion of an adjacent plug of the cable assembly. Upon... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6954144 | Water pit transmitter assembly A water pit transponder assembly includes a housing with multiple sections including top, main and bottom sections snap latched together connected to a water meter. A circuit board transponder in the housing includes a controller, a transmitter, a receiver and tampe... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6918179 | Method of deforming flexible cable sections extending between rigid printed circuit boards A method for preforming of two or more flexible cables in an arrangement consisting of a combination of rigid printed circuit boards and flexible cable sections extending therebetween. Moreover, also provided is an apparatus for the preforming of two or more flexibl... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6904671 | Integrated circuit chip handling apparatus and method The present invention provides for an apparatus and method for handling integrated circuit (IC) chips such as thin small outline package (TSOP) IC chips. Embodiments of the invention are directed toward removal of TSOPs from device under test (DUT) boards. By use of... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6842977 | Method of manufacturing metallic wire segment One end of a metallic wire having a rectangular cross-section is widened by upsetting the end of the wire in its axial direction. At the same time, a swollen portion is formed at a position where the widened end portion is to be bent from a straight portion of the w... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6718815 | Crimping tool and device for flexible circuit and crimping station provided with such a device Tool, device and machine for crimping contacts 10 possibly arranged in a housing of connector 20 onto a flexible circuit 40. The tool principally has a solid block 1 provided with a plurality of stamps 3 for crimping. The device ha... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6658735 | Crimping terminal for connection between electric cables The present invention discloses a crimping terminal which can interrupt immersion of water in an electric cable and maintain a waterproof function of a mating member, thereby enhancing reliability of connection between electric cables. A crimping terminal... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6105247 | Method of making a cable joint The present invention relates to a method for making a cable joint between two polymer insulated power cables (1,2) including the steps of jointing the two bare cable conductors. (3,4) and placing a heat sink device (6) over the joint The method includes ... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5987745 | Method and devices for jointing cables Electrical cables are joined end-to-end within an elongate, imperforate, expandable jointing body. A tubular-shaped mounting tool is inserted into an end of the jointing body and supports at its forward end a separable, forwardly tapered extension cone wh... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5967829 | Waterproof connector A waterproof connector is low in manufacturing cost and has an enhanced waterproofness by complete prevention of the entry of water from a core wire being enabled. A cover portion is formed on an end portion of a housing and on the cover portion there is ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5864941 | Heater assembly method Various methods are described for assembling and/or coupling heater sections together for assemblage of heaters. The heater sections may be hot or cold heater sections having various geometries, dimensions, and specific electrical resistances. In one meth... | 02/02/1999 |