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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7410077 | Storage container and dispenser for rolled web products A container is disclosed for storage and dispensing of web roll products such as gift wrap. The container includes an elongated housing. A cylindrical barrel assembly is rotatably supported within the housing, and includes a plurality of roll storage cavities each h... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7369247 | Sensing coil assembly and method for attaching a sensing coil in a fiber optic gyroscope A sensing coil assembly and method for attaching a sensing coil to a support structure are provided for a fiber optic gyroscope. The method comprises affixing a preformed adhesive to a mating surface of a mounting structure, and coupling an inner surface of the sens... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7357252 | Protective device for spooled and/or reeled materials A reusable device for protecting spooled materials such as wire, cable, fiber or others during their transport, storage, and warehousing. The device is wrapped circumferentially around the spooled material, secured, and is sufficiently impact resistant to prevent un... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7293652 | Methods and systems for packaging a product An assembly for packaging a product includes a carton having a top, a bottom, and a side extending between the top and the bottom. At least one of the top, the bottom, and the side includes a movable section that is movable between a first position and a second posi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7275875 | Universal interface for single-handed insertion of cables A method and apparatus for a universal single handed light cable receptive port is disclosed. In one embodiment, a jaw assembly is coupled to a base. A latch is coupled to a base to hold the jaw assembly open and to define an aperture. When a cable is inserted into ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7252194 | Trash container liner dispenser box including a reinforcing insert A dispenser for trash container liners including a rigid box containing a supply of liners in the form of a cylindrical roll of a continuous strip of liners. The liners extend through an open slot in the top of the box and the innermost liner of the roll is securely... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7252193 | Storage Portable container apparatus and method for co-storing work articles including working implements and their associated elongated elements such as cable, power cord, hose, wire, string, thread, yarn, rope, bridle or leash elements. The container retains a collection ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7246703 | Guitar string case A packaging system for musical instrument strings comprising: a cylindrical disk-shaped casing comprising a top casing member and a mate-able bottom casing member; and at least one insertable string module, said module comprising a flat disk for supporting a wound s... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7168681 | Fuel injection valve having small sized structure A fuel injection valve includes a valve member, a movable core, a fixed core, and a coil. The valve member opens and closes a nozzle hole. The movable core reciprocates with the valve member in a substantially axial direction of the movable core. The fixed core is a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168646 | Trapezoidal coil for fiber optic gyroscopes A trapezoidal bobbin for providing a foundation for a coil of optical fiber comprises an elongated hub, an upper flange and a lower flange. The elongated hub includes a longitudinal axis, a first end, a second end and an exterior surface. The hub is symmetrically di... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7152735 | Cover for a recyclable container A removable cover for a container and a container having the removable cover. The cover may be adapted with an opening to enable wire to pass through the cover with the cover disposed on the container. The container may be adapted to be lifted by inserting a fork, o... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7114227 | Structure yarn cylinder An improved structure yarn cylinder that is an improvement of “Yarn Cylinder with Trench” (Taiwan P/N 201810) accomplished by extending the circumferential length of the trench, disposing numerous teeth at differing angular orientations along the two lateral wal... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7074709 | Localized doping and/or alloying of metallization for increased interconnect performance Methods and compositions are disclosed for modifying a semiconductor interconnect layer to reduce migration problems while minimizing resistance increases induced by the modifications. One method features creating trenches in the interconnect layer and filling these... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7053515 | Rotor for dynamo-electric machine The present invention provides a rotor for a rotary electric machine that suppresses the occurrence of winding disturbances in the process of winding a coil wire and has a coil field having a uniform outside diameter that is less likely to collapse. A coil fi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7017244 | Beam winding apparatus An apparatus and method for winding a sheet of aligned parallel yarns onto a beam is described. The beam winder utilizes a circularly arced yarn spool rack that feeds each yarn to an alignment comb through associated guide tubes. The distance between each spool of y... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6968112 | Compact packaging of multiple fiber lasers A compact fiber packaging system for fiber lasers is provided that comprises a series of spools nested inside one another for efficient volume utilization. The spools comprise an inner spool nested inside at least one outer spool to form a module. Generally, the fib... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6923401 | Method for unwinding elastomeric yarn from coiled packages A method for unwinding tacky elastomeric yarn from one or multiple coiled yarn packages includes the steps of (a) removing tubular cores from each yarn package to expose the beginning end of the yarn strand at the inner diameter of the yarn package; (b) forming a te... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6922515 | Method and apparatus to reduce variation of excess fiber length in buffer tubes of fiber optic cables The present invention provides a method for reducing and/or controlling the variations of excess fiber length along the length of reeled fiber optic buffer tubes during the manufacture of the buffer tubes. The present invention varies any number, or combination, of ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6918232 | Packaging a strip of material in side by side stacks spliced end to end A package of a strip of material is formed by slitting or perforating a web to separate the web into side by side strips and fan folding the web to form a plurality of side by side stacks of the strips. The strip of each stack is spliced to the strip of the next sta... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6774064 | Elastane package An elastance spool is described which comprises a winding of elastane threads having a titre of greater than 160 dtex, particularly from 160 dtex to 1400 dtex, and a bobbin weight of elastane threads of at least 1.5 kg, in which the elastane threads have a ribbon-sh... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6744959 | Method of winding optical fiber on reel A method of winding an optical fiber on a reel, utilizing the optical fiber having the following characteristics: effective area is larger than 50 μm2, zero dispersion wavelength is outside a range of 1530-1565 nm, absolute va... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6600866 | Filament organizer A filament organizer comprises a support having a first surface opposite a second surface and further includes a lockable spool and a rotary spool adjacent to the first surface of the support. The organizer has a tensioner attached to the second surface o... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6586062 | Device for rolling out on the floor a rolled stored temporary surface covering The object of the invention is a device for deploying on the ground a temporary surface covering (1) stored rolled, characterized by the combination, on the one hand, of the temporary surface covering (1) and, on the other hand, by at least one flexible t... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6315227 | Bobbin cores for sideless pre-wound sewing thread bobbins and methods of winding the same Cylindrical bobbin cores have at least one radially oriented slot formed in at least one end thereof. The slot is sized and configured to mate with a radially extending blade associated with the drive head of the winder so as to achieve positive rotationa... | 11/13/2001 |
| 5759470 | Method for creating embedded crossover pattern baselayer The invented methods provide a means for reducing or eliminating manual astments that are required during the fabrication (winding) of fiber optic dispensers. This reduction is accomplished through the use of a fiber placement pattern that is permanently... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5750215 | High speed process for making fully-oriented nylon yarns and yarns made thereby A coupled spin-draw process for making a fully-oriented nylon yarn including extruding molten nylon polymer with a selected RV through a spinneret and cooling to produce a yarn. The yarn is withdrawn from the quench zone with a feed roll rotating at a spe... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5703991 | Optical part module reduced in size and printed board package having such an optical part module An optical part module has an optical amplification fiber in a small space without damage or losing its optical characteristics. An optical amplification fiber connects optical parts in the case. The optical amplification fiber has a predetermined length ... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5695138 | Winding fixture for surgical suture package A suture winding fixture has a base plate. Fixedly mounted perpendicular to the base plate is a pivot shaft. Rotatably mounted to the pivot shaft is a cam housing frame member. A first opposed cavity in the frame member has a first cam shaft and first set... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5622324 | Spool having a filament wound onto a bobbin and method for manufacturing same A spool is produced by winding a filament, particularly an optical fiber, onto a bobbin by forming a first layer wound in a helical pattern, forming a transition at a predetermined angle from each successive odd layer to the following even layer and creat... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5553173 | Faraday-effect sensing coil with stable birefringence and method of making same A fiber optic, Faraday-effect sensing coil has very low linear and circular birefringence, which remains stable over a wide range of temperatures. The coil is fabricated from a spun fiber having an effective linear beat length of 100 meters or more, and i... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5528715 | Trimming of fiber optic winding and method of achieving same In a optical fiber coil arrangement for use in rotation sensors, for example, axial and/or radial errors can be reduced or substantially eliminated by employing trimming lengths of the first and second ends of the optical fiber used to wind the coil. The ... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5506923 | Apparatus and method for trimming of fiber optic winding In a optical fiber coil arrangement for use in rotation sensors, for example, axial and/or radial errors can be reduced or substantially eliminated by employing trimming lengths of the first and second ends of the optical fiber used to wind the coil. The ... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5492281 | Base layer of coated glass fiber for a bobbin A bobbin for holding a filament pack having a base layer wound of optical waveguide fiber. A method for winding the base layer on the bobbin base is disclosed. The optical waveguide base layer closely matches the properties of the glass and coating of the... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5480279 | Gripper for handling and storing products in roll form A gripper for handling printed product rolls and empty roll cores is used for intermittently storing printed products wound on roll cores. The gripper has a central piece (10), which is fixed to a conveying or transporting device and which carries a gripp... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5475774 | Optical fiber sensor coil using reverse quadrupoles and method of winding same In a optical fiber coil arrangement for use in rotation sensors, for example, errors resulting from axial and/or radial time varying temperature gradients can be minimized or substantially eliminated by employing reverse quadrupoles for the sensor coil. O... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5407071 | Package for an elongated flexible fiber and method of use A package for an elongated flexible fiber. The package comprises a pair of package portions which define a fiber receiving cavity therein. Lips around the perimeter of the package allow a fiber to be wrapped thereon and passed between the lips into the fi... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5371593 | Sensor coil for low bias fiber optic gyroscope A sensor coil for a fiber optic gyroscope. The coil is formed on a spool of carbon composite material or of another material whose coefficient of thermal expansion approximates that of the overlying windings of the glass optical fiber. The windings are po... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5364489 | Apparatus for applying adhesive to an optical fiber during winding In-line application of liquid adhesive to an optical fiber (10) while it is being wound onto a drum (14) is accomplished by a tube (58) interconnected with a pressurized adhesive source of supply (70). An end (60) of the tube provides adhesive in a beadli... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5335874 | Connectorized optical fiber cable reel Disclosed is an improved cable reel having a dismountable end flange mounted on the same side of the hub as a fixed annular flange. The reel can be rolled on the annular flange when the dismountable flange is removed.... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5303323 | Method and apparatus for making arbitrarily shaped fiber optic backlighting substrates Fiber optic backlighting substrates having a predetermined shape are manufactured by a special rotating fixture having a deep, narrow peripheral groove in which several windings of the fiber may be stacked on top of one another, to provide a closely packe... | 04/12/1994 |
