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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 |
| 7950366 | Engine control system An engine control device includes a governor lever, a centrifugal governor, a control lever operated to oscillate between a low-speed position and a high-speed position, and a governor spring expandedly provided between the control lever and the governor lever. An a... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7533654 | Adaptive gains for electronic air intake throttle control A method for determining a coefficient gain to a signal command to actuate an air intake throttle plate to ensure that the throttle plate responds in a desired manner within a desired responsiveness with relative conformity over the life of the air intake manifold w... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7395809 | Internal combustion engine and a method for such an engine A method for controlling a diesel engine in a vehicle is presented. The engine comprises at least one cylinder, a fuel injector for each cylinder for injecting fuel into the respective cylinder, and a throttle valve for controlling the flow of air into the cylinder.... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7373921 | Manually guided implement A manually guided implement having a motor unit and a tool unit driven by the motor unit. The motor unit includes an internal combustion engine having a carburetor, and a butterfly valve. A throttle acts upon the butterfly valve via a transfer mechanism. A speed reg... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7367314 | Governor system for gasoline powered vehicles A governor system is provided for limiting a degree of throttle travel of a throttle as a function of rotational speed of a drive axle. The governor system includes a governor shaft rotatably supported by the drive axle and operably interconnected to internal compon... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7357118 | Throttle body A throttle valve comprises an intake passage. A throttle shaft extends in a generally vertical direction. The lower end of the throttle shaft passes through the throttle valve and projects downward. A throttle lever is connected to the downwardly projecting lower en... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353802 | Governor with take-up spring A governor for an engine includes a speed sensor coupled to the engine that moves in response to changes in engine speed. The governor further includes a linkage coupled between the speed sensor and a throttle member to move the throttle member between a first posit... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7343898 | Air vane governor An engine includes a stationary member, a crankshaft supported for rotation by the stationary member, and a flywheel rotatable in response to rotation of the crankshaft. A fan has a plurality of fins and is rotatable in response to movement of the flywheel. A movabl... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340337 | Vehicle control system for detecting a short-circuit condition between redundant position sensors A control system includes a device having a position between minimum and maximum positions. First and second sensor modules sense the position of the device and generate first and second position values. A control module receives the position values and computes fir... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331326 | Carburetor automatic control system in engine A carburetor automatic control system in an engine includes, a temperature-sensitive operating device for operating a choke valve so that the choke valve is opened with a temperature increase of the engine and a governor for opening and closing a throttle valve to m... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7318407 | Governor with low droop having opposed spring A governor for an engine including a speed sensor, a throttle member, a linkage, a primary spring, and a secondary spring. The speed sensor moves in response to changes in a speed of the engine. The linkage is coupled between the speed sensor and the throttle member... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7303036 | Engine governor system A governor system for limiting the ground speed of a vehicle and maintaining an idle speed of the engine. The governor system includes a first feedback shaft operably coupled with a transmission of the vehicle to provide a first feedback torque in response to a grou... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7284535 | Motor driving type throttle apparatus An throttle valve is controlled by using an electric actuator. A cover for covering one end side of the throttle valve shaft is attached to a side wall of a throttle body. A throttle position sensor unit and an electronic control module for controlling the throttle ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278395 | Manually operated implement driven by an internal combustion engine A manually guided implement driven by an internal combustion engine having a carburetor that is actuated by a throttle lever arrangement, which includes a throttle lever that is mounted in the implement so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis, and also includes a t... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7270111 | Composite engine speed control A common engine speed control mechanism for small internal combustion engines, which may be configured to allow for actuation of the speed control mechanism between stop, idle, and various engine running speed positions by actuation of one of a selected plurality of... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267100 | Controller of internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine controller, is used with a fuel-based torque-on-demand control type, multi-cylinder, direct-injection internal combustion engine, to provide an air flow rate control that excels in response and convergence. The internal combustion engin... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7246794 | Carburetor throttle valve control system A carburetor valve control system for stabilizing engine warm-up operating conditions by automatically controlling the degree of opening of a throttle valve so as to be larger than a normal degree of opening for idling, without carrying out a special operation of ap... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7216006 | Control system for a plant including a slide mode controller A control system for a plant is provided. This control system can control the plant more stably, when the model parameters of the controlled object model which are obtained by modeling the plant, which is a controlled object, are identified and the sliding mode cont... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7165532 | Engine speed control with high speed override mechanism A secondary engine speed control mechanism for small internal combustion engines, including an operator control which is manually operable to override an engine running speed which is set by the engine's primary speed control mechanism and governed by the governor. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7162999 | Governor system for gasoline powered vehicles A governor system is provided for limiting a degree of throttle travel of a throttle as a function of rotational speed of a drive axle. The governor system includes a governor shaft rotatably supported by the drive axle and operably interconnected to internal compon... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7152580 | Engine speed control with high speed override mechanism A secondary engine speed control mechanism for small internal combustion engines, including an operator control which is manually operable to override an engine running speed which is set by the engine's primary speed control mechanism and governed by the governor. ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7150264 | Control device for internal combustion engine Deterioration of emission is restrained even if the actual control condition including the required torque is different from the set control condition. An ECU establishes a control amount of an EGR valve in such a manner that a condition amount, which is a control p... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7118097 | Device for controlling choke valve of carburetor A device for controlling a choke valve of a carburetor for an engine includes: a choke closed state hold device for holding, in a closing position, a choke lever urged by a spring in a direction for opening the choke valve, when the choke lever is turned to the clos... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7111699 | Engine governor system A governor system for limiting the ground speed of a vehicle and maintaining an idle speed of the engine. The governor system includes a first feedback shaft operably coupled with a transmission of the vehicle to provide a first feedback torque in response to a grou... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7104254 | Throttle control apparatus having plate-shaped inner connecting member A throttle body of an electrically controlled throttle apparatus is constructed with a bore wall part, a motor housing part receiving a heavy component such as a motor and a connecting member that connects the bore wall part and the motor housing part with each othe... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7104253 | Stratified scavenging carburetor In one presently preferred embodiment a stratified scavenging carburetor has a scavenging air passage with an air control valve and a fuel and air mixing passage with a throttle control valve, and a lost motion coupling associated with the valves to delay opening of... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103466 | Method and an apparatus for predicting intake manifold pressure of an internal-combustion engine A method and an apparatus for predicting intake manifold pressure are presented, to compensate for a large lag or a large time delay without producing an overshot or discontinuous behaviors of a predicted value. The method comprises the step of obtaining a differenc... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7097163 | Device for controlling choke valve of carburetor A device for controlling a choke valve of a carburetor for an engine, includes a choke closed state hold device for holding, in a closing position, a choke lever connected to the choke valve of a carburetor and urged by a spring in a direction for opening the choke ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093580 | Actuator for vehicle engine throttles An actuator is for a vehicle engine including a carburetor having a throttle plate moveable between a minimum open position and a maximum open position. The actuator includes an input member movably coupled with the vehicle so as to be displaceable between an initia... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7051708 | Accelerator opening degree detecting apparatus in throttle control apparatus for two-wheeled vehicle To provide an accelerator opening degree detecting apparatus for a two-wheeled vehicle, which is not damaged even if the two-wheeled vehicle takes a fall, and is excellent in waterproofness and weather resistance, a rotating shaft (11) is rotatably supported ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050864 | Control system for a plant using identified model parameters A control system for a plant is provided. This control system can control the plant more stably, when the model parameters of the controlled object model which are obtained by modeling the plant, which is a controlled object, are identified and the sliding mode cont... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7007665 | Outboard engine An outboard engine has an internal combustion engine as a prime mover, a throttle valve device including a valve element and a valve shaft supporting the valve element, and combined with the internal combustion engine, a driven unit combined with the throttle valve ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7000591 | Throttle assembly having deadband linkage An apparatus and method for adjusting a throttle plate of a throttle assembly of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. A throttle linkage mechanically connects a throttle actuator to the throttle assembly with a deadband therebetween. The deadband allows the t... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6983736 | Governor stabilizer A stabilizer system creates a temporary droop to stabilize a governor for an internal combustion engine and reduce permanent droop and hunting of the engine. The governor adjusts the position of a throttle in response to engine speed to achieve a desired engine spee... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6973915 | Device for controlling an engine The invention relates to a device for controlling an engine, in particular of an aircraft. The device has at least one throttle and a regulating device for additionally controlling the throttle automatically. A displacement of the throttle is transmitted permanently... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6971369 | Pressure assisted governor A governor for an internal combustion engine having an intake passageway and an engine throttle valve movable between an open position and a closed position, a throttle arm connected to the engine throttle valve to control movement of the engine throttle valve. A pr... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6957639 | Inclined engine In an inclined engine where a cylinder (2) projects from a crank case (1) obliquely and upwardly, when seen in a direction parallel to a center axis (3) of a crank shaft (10), under a specific observation condition in which the cylinder p... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6941914 | Internal combustion engine A twin cylinder engine, includes a pair of cylinder members mounted to mounting surfaces of a crankcase, and cylinder heads mounted to the cylinder members. The cylinder members are modular components, which may be pre-assembled with components of the valve train as... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6904883 | Modular internal combustion engines A line of small internal combustion engines, including twin cylinder engines and single cylinder engines. The engines each include a crankcase, and one or more cylinder members attached to the crankcase, the cylinder members being separate components from the crankc... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6874468 | Throttle valve control device An ECU 2 performs ON/OFF judgments on an ignition switch. When the ignition switch is OFF, a judgment is made whether or not voltage learning for a fully opened position of a throttle valve 34 is complete. If complete, an electric power for a DC motor ... | 04/05/2005 |
