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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7204559 | Device for locking the legs of a passenger in a seat The device, intended in particular for a seat on an installation for amusement parks, has two flaps (10, 10′) mounted for articulation at the end of the support (6) of the base (7) of the seat. ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7001311 | Playground equipment Playground equipment comprising a revolving ring for standing or sitting on is according to the invention composed of ring segments (1) which are connected by means of connecting pieces (2) for forming a closed ring. The revolving ring is mounted somew... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6606953 | Amusement ride A roller coaster ride comprising a carriage adapted for travel along a track in a predetermined direction and a plurality of seats interconnected to and positioned exteriorly from the carriage. The seats are capable of 360 degree rotation about a longitud... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6477961 | Amusement ride An amusement device comprising a modularized pod at least one of which are attached to each side of a carriage that travels along a track. The pods are each mounted to the carriage for 360° that are interconnected to the side walls of a carriage that rid... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6386115 | Modularized amusement ride and training simulation device An amusement device comprising a modularized pod, in which one or more riders sit and are restrained, and which spins under power about a horizontal axis according to the passenger's active control. The riders control the spinning of the pod, either forwa... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6360143 | Error recovery methods for controlling robotic systems A method of controlling a dispensing system, having a robot that moves along a motion segment and applies a material to a workpiece, automatically determines a backup distance for the robot after an error has occurred during the dispensing of a first port... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6227121 | Modularized amusement ride and training simulation device An amusement device comprising a modularized pod, in which one or more riders sit and are restrained, and which spins under power about a horizontal axis according to the passenger's active control. The riders control the spinning of the pod, either forwa... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6098549 | Modularized amusement ride and training simulation device An amusement device comprising a modularized pod, in which one or more riders sit and are restrained, and which spins under power about a horizontal axis according to the passenger's active control. The riders control the spinning of the pod, either forwa... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5791254 | Full range of motion roller coaster A roller coaster or amusement park ride. The roller coaster comprises a track system capable of any directional travel, including horizontal, vertical, angled, curved, curvilinear, and retrograde directions. A carriage in which passengers reside is rotata... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5061211 | Amphibian air car An amusement ride car is disclosed as having a pair of driving propellers mounted at the rear of the car operating in the manner of an air boat. The propellers are driven individually, and each is arranged for forward and reverse directional rotation ther... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4693186 | Funicular railway car having compartment suspended above chassis A car of a funicular railway with track sections of different gradients, having a compartment suspended from a hanger arm supported by a carriage. A jack keeps the compartment horizontal, whatever the gradient.... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4603638 | Train system with variably tilting rail A train system includes (a) a train car, (b) a support for the car adapted to be guided along a rail having variable angular tilt along its length and relative to horizontal, whereby the support assumes the tilt of the rail, and (c) a gimbal coupled between th... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4491073 | Train system with variably tilting rail A train system includes (a) a train car, (b) a support for the car adapted to be guided along a rail having variable angular tilt along its length and relative to horizontal, whereby the support assumes the tilt of the rail, and (c) a gimbal coupled between th... | 01/01/1985 |
| 3985352 | Rider propelled rotatable riding device An amusement device comprises a rider propelled rotatable riding device, such as a roundabout or merry-go-round, on which one or more riders propel themselves in a circular path. The device has two concentric vertically undulating tracks of different radi... | 10/12/1976 |
