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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350403 | Method and apparatus for determination of food quality and authenticity A method for analysis of a multi-component fluid is provided based on the features of the dynamics of the self-organization processes in drying drops. An electro-acoustic resonator is utilized, with a drop of multi-component fluid placed on one end of the resonator.... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350402 | Method and apparatus for determination of medical diagnostics utilizing biological fluids A method for measuring changes in the composition of fluids, for medical diagnostics or quality control of fluids, comprising: One) placing a drop of fluid upon a quartz crystal; Two) generating ultrasonic vibratio... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7234355 | Method and system for inspecting flaws using ultrasound scan data A method and system for detecting weld signatures from an ultrasound scan data obtained from scanning a pipeline is provided. The method includes a step for mapping multiple amplitude responses from the ultrasound scan data, each amplitude response being representat... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7165457 | Pressure sensitive sensor, object detecting device and opening, attachment structure thereof and opening-and-closing device A pressure sensitive sensor provided in at least one of an opening section and an opening and closing section for opening and closing the opening section and serving to detect pinching of an object between the opening section and the opening and closing section base... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7154211 | Electrically connecting structure of piezo-electric plates An electrically connecting structure of piezo-electric plates includes a circuit board and a plurality of piezo-electric plates disposed on and electrically connected to the circuit board. Anodes of power input of the piezo-electric plates of the present invention a... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7107159 | Systems and methods to determine elastic properties of materials The present invention provides systems and methods to used a measured driving-point response of a nonlinear material to determined one or more elastic properties of the material. The present invention takes advantage of the full information represented by the transi... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6997035 | Method and device for evaluating restitution characteristics of a golf club head A method for evaluating restitution characteristics of a golf club head with ease and high accuracy compared to conventional methods and devices. The method first acquires a resonance frequency of the impact surface in a mass added state, which is obtained by affixi... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6954328 | Multi-layer housing structure with tuned layers using hypothetical modeling Apparatus and method for reducing generation of acoustic noise in a disc drive. A multi-layer disc drive housing structure includes a housing layer, a plurality of rigid damping layers and a corresponding plurality of interposed visco-elastic damping layers. Charact... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6948356 | Viscoelasticity measuring instrument A viscoelasticity measuring instrument for measuring a viscoelasticity of a sample has a temperature detection control unit for obtaining, prior to a practical measurement operation, a measurement executable temperature range for the sample by an experimental temper... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6935206 | Vibration control by confinement of vibration energy A method of producing an optimized structure design incorporating vibration confinement is provided. The method includes providing structural specifications and vibration confinement specifications for the structure. The method includes selecting a confinement regio... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6874357 | Method for studying liquid and device for carrying out said method The present invention relates to physical chemistry and can be used for a quality test of liquids, in particular, multi-component liquid products, to ascertain the conformity of various process liquids, pharmaceutical preparations, foodstuffs, biological liquids to ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6845671 | Inverse method to estimate the properties of a flexural beam and the corresponding boundary parameters A system and method is used for estimating the properties of a flexural beam. The beam is shaken transverse to its longitudinal axis. Seven frequency domain transfer functions of displacement are measured at spaced apart locations along the beam. The seven transfer ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6843128 | Method for determining automotive brake structure vibration damping and friction material bonding A method and apparatus for determining the vibration damping characteristics of an automotive brake structure measures the vibration response of a brake structure during application of random-frequency wide spectrum excitation, followed by measuring vibration of the... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6745629 | Method and apparatus for the production and quality testing of a bonded wire connection A method of producing a bonded wire connection between an electronic component or a subassembly and a carrier by introducing energy from an ultrasound transducer into a wire that is to be bonded. According to this method, during the introduction of energy the impeda... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6561031 | Prodder with force feedback A detector equipped with force feedback for detecting detonatable devices such as land mines is disclosed. The detector includes a rod having a tip for placing beneath the surface of the ground and for contacting unknown objects. The tip ultrasonically pr... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6536062 | Prodder with force feedback A detector equipped with force feedback for detecting detonatable devices such as land mines is disclosed. The detector includes a rod having a tip for placing beneath the surface of the ground and for contacting unknown objects. The tip ultrasonically pr... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6386036 | Prodder with force feedback A prodder with force feedback for detecting an object buried beneath the ground is disclosed. A probe is provided including a rod having a prodding end for prodding the object, there is also a transducer coupled to a non-prodding end of the rod for provid... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6155116 | Acoustic treatment performance testing A method and system for acoustic treatment performance testing in a free-ld acoustic environment is provided. A sound source directs a gated acoustic pulse at an acoustic treatment. Acoustic pressures of the gated acoustic pulse and reflected energy from... | 12/05/2000 |
| 5625146 | Method and system for determining axial modulus A method is provided for determining the axial modulus of an elongate matal sample of mass density .rho. and length L. The first end of the sample is driven longitudinally at a frequency of excitation ω. The second end of the sampl... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5365457 | In situ dynamic material property measurement system Material is periodically indented by a probe driven at an oscillation frency by a shaker regulated by an analyzer to which input measurement data is fed from a sensing head connecting the shaker to the probe for in situ measurement of material resistance... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5363701 | Material characterizing system A plurality of elongated test specimens undergo vibrations induced by ran noise within an acoustical frequency range establishing standing waves therein having resonant frequencies at which the collection of measurement data through accelerometers mounte... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5345825 | Material characterizing system A plurality of elongated test specimens undergo vibrations induced by ran noise within an acoustical frequency range establishing standing waves therein having resonant frequencies at which the collection of measurement data through accelerometers mounte... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5205296 | Uterine contraction detection A system for tracing uterine contraction is disclosed. The system comprises a probe and an electronics module. The electronics module includes a drive circuit and an output section having a frequency counter. The output section also includes a strip-chart... | 04/27/1993 |
| 4928965 | Golf club and method of designing same A golf club comprising a club head having a mechanical impedance with a primary minimum value in a region of frequency in which the mechanical impedance of a ball to be struck takes a primary minimum value. Mechanical impedance is defined as the ratio of ... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4775960 | Method and device for measuring vibrational stresses and velocities of waves propagated within formations surrounding a wellbore A method for measuring vibrational stresses and velocities of waves propagated within formations surrounding a wellbore essentially consists in simultaneously measuring the vibrational stress and vibrational velocity produced by propagation of the vibrati... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4750157 | Seismic vibrator earth impedance determination and compensation system An earth impedance determination and compensation system for use with a seismic vibrator utilizes output signals from accelerometers on the baseplate and reaction mass portions of the vibrator to create a signal indicative of the near-surface weathered ea... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4502329 | Method for checking insulative condition of insulated windings used in electrical appliances The disclosure describes a method for checking an insulative condition of an insulated winding used in an electrical appliance comprising applying an external mechanical force to said insulated winding to give vibrating frequency to the same for its exami... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4428235 | Non-destructive inspection by frequency spectrum resolution A method of inspecting non-destructively a specimen for examining the presence or absence of a defect in the specimen, in which an ultrasonic wave is emitted from a probe and a reflected wave from the specimen is received by the probe whose output signal ... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4418573 | Method for measuring material characteristics A fast and reliable method is disclosed for measuring the dynamic mechanical properties of a material, particularly its modulus of elasticity and loss factor. By this method the acoustic characteristics of a material can be determined. An elongate strip o... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4391125 | Method and apparatus for testing and/or adjusting vibration absorber for suspended cables A pendulum type vibration absorber tester/adjuster, which enables vibration absorbers to be set to a desired damping in the factory. The test/adjustment is effected by mathematically determining the pendulum weight and arm length, setting the pendulum int... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4358959 | Method and device for measuring the parameters of a damped, spring-supported mass A method of measuring the rigidity, the damping coefficient and the inertia of a system consisting of a damped, spring-supported mass, particularly, the manually operable member of the control-system of an aircraft or a flight simulator, in which method t... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4355532 | Apparatus for testing damping forces of shock absorbers A damping force produced by a shock absorber being tested is detected and converted into an electric analog signal for deciding whether the damping force is acceptable or not. The shock absorber is mounted between a slider operatively connected to a motor... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4352292 | Instrument for measuring dynamic viscoelastic properties A method and apparatus for measuring the dynamic material constants of rur compounds. The rubber compound is tested in strip form by attaching one end of the strip to an electromechanical shaker while the opposite end of the strip is suspended under cons... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4217912 | Device for determination of the mechanical characteristic frequency of blood vessels, tendons, bones or similar organs in a body A transmitter for mechanical oscillations of variable frequency and an oscillation pickup for determination of the mechanical characteristic frequency of blood vessels, tendons, bones or similar organs in a body, by which these organs act as coupling memb... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4159786 | Periodically excited level control probe A copy machine having a decorator for applying toner to a latent image is disclosed. The decorator is fitted with a control for sensing the level of toner in the decorator sump which control automatically maintains the amount of toner in the sump at the d... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4143737 | Rotating eccentric weight seismic sources and a seismic exploration method Compact, lightweight, rotating eccentric weight seismic sources and a seismic exploration method particularly suitable for use in relatively inaccessible onshore regions. The source includes an eccentric weight rotatable about an axis and a sensor to dete... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4141236 | Hydraulic shock absorber with out-of-limit indicator A hydraulic shock absorber incorporates a piezoelectric pressure sensor and an electromagnetic velocity sensor coupled to an integrated circuit to measure the force/velocity characteristic of the shock absorber. When the characteristic falls outside prede... | 02/27/1979 |
| 4094304 | Method and apparatus for measurement of acoustic impedance transitions in media such as human bodies Acoustic impedance transitions in human or animal bodies or other media are measured for identification and diagnostic purposes by exposing the body to acoustic energy pulses to produce echo pulses which are detected. The echo pulses are processed to indi... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4072046 | Acoustic pycnometer An improved pycnometer in which the sample whose volume to be measured is put in a closed chamber to which an electro-mechanical transducer is coupled. The transducer is excited at a constant frequency. The change in impedance of the transducer is then re... | 02/07/1978 |
| 4063549 | Ultrasonic method and apparatus for imaging and characterization of bodies Method and apparatus are provided for the determination of the Raylographic information of a body part which is ensonified by acoustical energy pulses by a particularly precisely focused acoustical focusing system to produce acoustical energy echo pulses ... | 12/20/1977 |
