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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8022338 | Heating element for a filter press The invention relates to a heating element for a filter press, that can be supplied with a fluid heating medium and comprises at least one heating plate consisting of a heat-conducting material and extending essentially over a plane. Said heating plate is fixed to a... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7482557 | Lamella type radiator element having foldable projections and a notch A radiator element for an air heating device, and a corresponding heating device and manufacturing method are provided which reveal improved assembly properties. The radiator element comprises at least one lamella element and one radiator sheet, wherein the radiator... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7439473 | Method and arrangement for supporting vertically depending electrical resistance elements A method of supporting vertically hanging electrical resistance elements for heating furnaces or ovens in industrial operations. Each resistance element includes current-conducting legs that extend downward and upward a number of times, and the element includes alon... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7361868 | Electrical heating device, especially for motor vehicles This disclosure relates to an electrical heating device, especially for motor vehicles, including a closed frame (2) which include rails (3, 4) and cross rails (5, 6), heating elements (7) which include elements made of electrically condu... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355148 | Temperature exchanging element made by extrusion, and its applications The invention relates to a temperature exchanging element made by extrusion and able to receive a heating element and/or heat conducting element, and radiation fins. It is constituted of a single-piece base incorporating an external face equipped with means to recei... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7335855 | Electric PCB heating component, electronic circuit board and heating method An electric PCB heating component for a heating electric component is coupleable to an electronic circuit board. The PCB heating component includes a fastening element, a heating element for generating thermal energy, and a heating body. The heating body emits therm... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332693 | Tube and method for bracing functional elements in the same Functional elements, particularly PTC heating elements, are braced in a hollow reception means, such as a profile tube. The reception means have two at least partly concave top wall areas facing one anther and flat sides of the functional elements and in this way pe... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7326885 | Hot plate with stainless steel top A hotplate with a stainless steel top plate to support a vessel. The stainless steel top plate has an upper surface with a substantially centrally located depression having a depth and area generally sufficient to absorb upward crowning of the top plate when heated.... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7309141 | Air actuated decoration system and device The invention is a system that provides a means to using passing air to turn on an electronically powered device that is removably attached to an exterior portion of a vehicle as the vehicle travels betweens two locations. The invention is also embodied as a device ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7288748 | PTC electrical heating devices PTC electrical heating devices are disclosed which are suitable to vaporize air treatment chemicals from an impregnated slab, such as insect repellents. In one form an electrical contact to a PTC heater element is provided with a bowl-shaped contact head to reduce t... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7282678 | Electric heating module An electric heating module includes an electric heater (10), a heat pipe (20) having an evaporating section (22) thermally attached to the electric heater and a condensing section (24), and at least one heat radiator (30, 40) therm... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7244913 | Temperature regulator for microchemical chip A temperature regulator regulates a temperature of a microchemical chip that has chemical reaction sections. The temperature regulator includes a temperature measuring unit and a thermoelectric element corresponding to each chemical reaction section. The temperature... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242583 | System for loading a heat sink mechanism independently of clamping load on electrical device A system for coupling a heat sink to an electrical device independently of a clamping member that is used to place a coupling force between the electrical device and a substrate to which the electrical device is to be electrically connected. The system includes a cl... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237574 | Controlled dispersion multi-phase nozzle and method of making the same A nozzle design and method for designing such a nozzle being adapted for three phase slurry flow from the choke into the flash tank during pressure let-down in autoclave mining operations that uses a selection of the expansion ratio in the choke to select a nozzle d... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7230215 | Heat generating device formed of heat generating diaphragm plates Disclosed herein is a heat generating device formed of heat generating diaphragm plates comprises an electrically conducting supporting frame and a plurality of heat generating diaphragm plates. The supporting frame consists of two coupled supporting plates facing a... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7204297 | Plate-type heat exchanger with double-walled heat transfer plates The invention relates to a plate-type heat exchanger comprising a stack of double-walled heat exchanger plates (30–32) which are permanently interconnected and each include two plate members (33, 34) having a central heat transfer portion (35)... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200327 | Electric heating device, in particular for a vehicle heating and/or air-conditioning apparatus Electric heating device comprising an electric radiator (10) for heating the air passing through it, said radiator comprising a casing (12), at least one resistive element mounted in the casing and constituted by at least one zigzag metal strip (22 | 04/03/2007 |
| 7189943 | Heated motorcycle handgrips A heated motorcycle handgrip is securable to a motorcycle handlebar and includes a grip housing that has a first end adapted to receive the handlebar, and a second end opposite the first end. The grip housing includes a heating element that is operable to provide a ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7176421 | Straight ribbon heater A heater for heating a rigid fluid line or hose for freeze protection. The heater has a base made of an outer base layer, a middle base layer attached to the outer base layer; and an inner base layer attached to the middle base layer. The inner base layer can be unc... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164103 | Electrical heating resistance element An electrical resistance heating element having a glow zone and two power supply terminals. The glow zone of the element is tubular. A tubular union is provided between each of the power supply terminals and a respective end of the glow zone, wherein the inner diame... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7148453 | Control unit with thermal protection and an electrical heating device comprising the control unit An overheating protection system for a control unit includes an interrupter element, which, in its initial position defined with respect to a circuit board, electrically connects the opposite facing ends of at least one track on the circuit board, and an actuating e... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7132627 | Electric heating unit housed in a calorie accumulator block Heating device having an electric heating body arranged within an accumulator block. The electric heating body includes an insulated flat resister. The accumulator block is structured and arranged to store calories. The heating device is adapted for use in a heating... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131815 | Inlet guide vane A vane provided with at least one spindle, the at least one spindle configured to engage in operation with a support such that in operation the vane pivots about the at least one spindle. The vane is further provided with an electrically operable heater which is com... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7120353 | Infrared sauna A portable compact sauna wherein a user's body is warmed to sweating primarily by direct absorption of infrared radiation. Broad infrared radiation emitters or sources are placed around the inside of a narrow cabinet so as to be in close proximity to various parts o... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7114556 | Burn-in oven heat exchanger having improved thermal conduction A heat exchange system that can accommodate a high power integrated circuit chip for burn-in temperature stressing includes a heat sink having a chip engaging surface that is adapted to engage a surface of the chip. A liquid layer fills a heat exchange gap between t... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7102102 | Heater assembly including thermal fuse A heater assembly heats media substrate in a printing system prior to imprinting a desired image on the substrate. A plate member engages the substrate and communicates thermal energy thereto for the heating. A laminar assembly is adhered to the plate member and inc... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7098426 | Electric heating device with heating zones An electric heating device is adapted to be used in particular as an auxiliary electric heating for motor vehicles. The heating device comprises a plurality of PTC heating elements arranged in a plane of said heating device. The PTC heating elements are in electric ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098429 | Heat exchanger, particularly for a heating or air conditioning unit in a motor vehicle The invention relates to a heat exchanger, particularly for a heating or air conditioning unit of a motor vehicle, comprising several flat pipes which are arranged parallel to each other and are penetrated by a heat-transmitting medium. An electrically operated heat... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7086452 | Method and an apparatus for cooling a computer A heat exchanging system that includes a tube coupled to an electronic component in a first part of a computing device and to a heat transfer plate in a second part of the computing device, where the system includes a pump coupled to the tube, and a temperature sens... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7078654 | Hail curler heater device with heater elements on heat-conducting supports A heater device for hair curlers has an upper hood and a lower casing forming a disposing space for hair curlers. A disposing seat is installed inside the disposing space and multiple heater supports having the same number as the hair curlers are installed on the di... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075771 | Apparatus and methods for compensating plasma sheath non-uniformities at the substrate in a plasma processing system Apparatus and methods to compensating for radial non-uniformities in the plasma sheath at a substrate held by an electrostatic chuck in a plasma processing system. The substrate is held by a substrate-supporting surface of the electrostatic chuck. The substrate-supp... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071492 | Thermo-optical device A polymer well may be formed over a thermal oxide formed over a semiconductor substrate in one embodiment. The well may include a waveguide and a pair of heaters adjacent the waveguide. Each heater may be mounted on a platform of insulating material to reduce heat l... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7038169 | Electric heater for the coupling head of a central buffer coupling The invention relates to a heater for an electric central buffer coupling in which at least one heating element (3) is placed in a recess of the coupling head (1) and is covered toward the outside. To improve the transfer of heat from the heating eleme... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034254 | Heated delivery system A heated delivery system for pizza and the like including a thermally insulated receptacle, an electrical resistance heating unit having a heat storing shell molded from thermosetting resin, and an electrical resistance heating member within the shell, the member ha... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7026056 | Multicompartment structure for insulation and other materials A structure for encapsulating and protecting fiber insulation material as well as other materials in multicompartment devices in order to provide unitized material which can be applied to any surface desired for insulation or other purposes. A first sheet of materia... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023172 | Motor controller An electric motor control apparatus of this invention estimates changes in temperature of a semiconductor device to compute temperature change amplitude 108 based on an output current signal 105 computed from a current flowing through the semiconductor... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7012225 | Electric heating apparatus with housing Electric heating apparatus and manufacturing method for an electric heating apparatus, wherein prefabricated constructional units are used. The prefabricated constructional units consist of PTC heating elements fastened to contact sheets by means of a lacquer. This ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7005617 | Apparatus and method for thermally cycling samples of biological material with substantial temperature uniformity An apparatus for thermally cycling samples of a biological material including a thermal block assembly including a plurality of sample holders for receiving samples of biological material; a heat sink thermally coupled to the thermal block assembly, the heat sink tr... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6998586 | Device for heating article to be treated The present invention provides heating equipment of a treated substance designed so as to be equipped with any foil of a metallic material or non metallic material for heating the treated substance, and a heating mechanism for heating the foil to a temperature where... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6955741 | Semiconductor-processing reaction chamber The present application provides a PECVD reaction chamber for processing semiconductor wafers comprising a susceptor for supporting a semiconductor wafer inside the reaction chamber wherein the susceptor comprises a plurality vertical through-bores, a moving means f... | 10/18/2005 |
