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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7562879 | Method and apparatus for creating an auger arm and bearing seal A seal mechanism for a transverse crop conveying auger in a header that incorporates a flexible-sealant-filled labyrinth at each end of a tube-like auger central core that allows rotation of the auger without allowing entry of dirt, debris, or other contaminants int... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7367566 | Metal gasket A metal gasket for sealing multiple cylinder bores includes one or more metal substrates, main sealing beads around each of the cylinder bores, and one or more sub-beads. The main sealing beads include meandering portions located in a sealing portion between the cyl... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7310872 | Computer enclosure A computing device having an improved enclosure arrangement is disclosed. One aspect of the enclosure pertains to enclosure parts that are structurally bonded together to form a singular composite structure. In one embodiment, structural glue is used to bond at leas... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7258017 | Industrial process pressure transmitter with field repairable remote seals A pressure measurement system includes a pressure transmitter and a remote seal assembly, and a capillary tube that connects a housing of the remote seal with a housing of the pressure transmitter utilizing at least one negligible-leakage quick connect coupling.... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7169214 | High pressure tank A high pressure tank has a cylindrical liner and a fiber reinforced plastic layer which covers the outer surface of the liner. At least one end of the liner is separable. The liner includes a cylindrical liner body and a lid. An O-ring is located between the contact... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7163376 | Controlled leakage pin and vibration damper for active cooling and purge of bucket slash faces Damper pins are disposed in circumferentially registering grooves of turbine bucket platform slash faces. The pins have a plurality of channels formed about peripheral portions thereof for flowing leakage cooling air from below the platform past the pin and groove i... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7114254 | Metal plate gasket A metal gasket assembly has a gasket plate and an annular grommet. The gasket plate is formed with an opening having opposing surfaces adjacent the opening to define a predetermined fixed thickness of a plate. The annular grommet has an elastically deformable U-shap... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7070187 | Gasket assembly A gasket assembly includes a plurality of carriers. Each carrier has at least one non-sealing aperture and at least one sealing aperture. The sealing aperture has a seal which extends around a perimeter of the sealing aperture and is attached to the carrier. The plu... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7063327 | Sealing element A sealing element, especially a flat seal, consisting of a metal-supported elastomer material, containing sealing profiles that are offset form one another, between which, at given intervals, elements that provide acoustic de-coupling, also made of elastomer materia... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7021898 | Damper seal A damper seal 7, 21, 31 is provided in order to act within a mounting platform structure 3 for turbine blades 1, 2. The damper seal 7, 21, 31 includes an entrant surface 8, 28, 38 incorporating a number of paths 22, 32 to en... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017917 | Seal structure in engine body A crankcase is coupled to a lower end face of a cylinder block of an engine and includes first and second case halves coupled to each other in a plane perpendicular to joint surfaces of the cylinder block and the crankcase. A U-shaped seal groove is defined in one o... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6994353 | Metal gasket A gasket is interposed at a joining portion between two members. The gasket includes a gasket base plate having an opening through which fluid flows and a plurality of annular beads formed in a wave shape over a predetermined area extending outwardly from a hole edg... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6978916 | Metering valve for aerosol container A metering valve assembly comprising a ferrule and a valve housing defining an internal cavity. The valve housing accommodates an annular flange and a compression spring therein with a valve gasket closing the internal cavity. The valve housing is attached to the fe... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6969072 | Cylinder head gasket with fold-over stopper A multi-layered cylinder head gasket for positioning between a cylinder head and a cylinder block of an engine includes upper and lower compression layers and a stopper layer. The compression layers and stopper layer all include apertures that mate together to defin... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6951338 | Cylinder head gasket A multi-layered cylinder head gasket for positioning between a cylinder head and a cylinder block of an engine includes a spacer layer and a stopper layer. The stopper layer includes either a wave or rigid stopper positioned at a periphery of an aperture of the stop... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6945538 | Cylinder head gasket and method of producing A cylinder head gasket that includes a body that has holes stamped through it and is then coated with an encapsulant before assembling armor to the body of the gasket. A topcoat is coated over the body and armor. The encapsulant is preferably an epoxy primer and the... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6913267 | Apparatus for aligning push rods A cylinder head gasket (211) includes one or more alignment holes (301) and one or more drain-back holes (303) disposed in an area of the cylinder head gasket (211). One or more push rods (211) are extendable through the alignment ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6893256 | Rotary kiln with annular, closed end seal, annular, closed seal for a rotary kiln, and method for the production of such a seal The invention is based on the problem of designing an endless sealing ring for the end wall seal of rotary kilns so that it guarantees a high degree of sealing effectiveness with simpler assembly. The most desired features are small tolerances for cross section and ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6893720 | Object coated with carbon film and method of manufacturing the same An object such as an automobile part, an image forming apparatus part, a bicycle part, other machine parts, a sport article or its part, a toy or its part, or a rain article or its part has a portion to be in contact with a contact object. The contact portion is mad... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6871580 | Gasket for sealing a heating chamber of an electronic coffee maker A gasket for sealing a heating chamber of an electronic coffee maker, the heating chamber comprises a lid, a tank, bolts and nuts. The lid comprises a base with holes at four corners, and the tank also has a base with four holes at four corners. A gasket also compri... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6840014 | Multi-pitch improved ridge-seal for tiled roofs A ridge seal molding has a back section for nailing to a ridge beam, and a front section formed at an angle to the back section and having a shape in the direction of the length to substantially continuously contact adjacent tiles along a front edge. In various embo... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6830021 | Engine camshaft driving arrangement Several embodiments of simplified structures for internal combustion engine timing drives that limit undesirable degrees of movement of a flexible transmitter pivotal arm by providing one or more projections on a removable component of the engine such as the cylinde... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6786490 | Metal gasket A metal gasket for a high performance of an engine includes two sheets of elastic metal substrates providing a bead on peripheral portion of a cylinder opening and an annular thin metal plate that is thinner than the elastic metal substrates and surrounds the cylind... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6746020 | Metal gasket A metal gasket is designed so that mounting and removal from a cylinder block using a bolt is easy regardless of the direction of the attaching surface and there is no risk of moving or drop off. The gasket is made of two laminated metal base plates. At a base plate... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6736406 | Self-adhesive gasket A self-adhesive gasket having a pressure sensitive adhesive on one side or on both sides can be used in place of plumbers putty to seal sinks to countertops, faucets to sinks, and strainers and pop ups to sinks and tubs. The gasket is preferably preformed from a fle... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6733015 | Gaskets with controlled flange surface adhesion properties An improved gasket (11) for sealing the joint between a pair of flange surfaces is provided. In one embodiment, the gasket (11) is an edge coated gasket and the edge coating (14) also exhibits surface adhesion to enhance the seal provided by the... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6734947 | Quick chamber seals A chamber seal device is provided to seal a wafer stage chamber assembly to isolate semiconductor substrates, a wafer stage device, and the process of making semiconductor wafers from an atmospheric condition, so that the resulted wafers have an improved quality and... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6719299 | Flap seal The invention relates to a flap seal in the form of a lamella seal, comprising at least three essentially flat individual rings (1, 10) lying one on top of another in a bundle-type form. Said individual rings (1, 10) comprise an inner part which is res... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6699173 | Canopy seal for infant care apparatus An infant care apparatus having a canopy movable vertically with respect to an infant platform. The canopy has a lower edge mating with upper peripheral edges of a plurality of vertical walls forming an infant compartment. At least one of the vertical wal... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6698765 | Metal laminate gasket with continuous bead A metal gasket is formed by a bead plate provided with a continuous bead, and an outer plate partly bent around combustion chamber holes to laminate the metal plates together. The bead has a linear common portion situated in an intermediate area between t... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6682079 | Metal plate gasket A metal gasket assembly has a gasket plate and an annular grommet. The gasket plate is formed with an opening having opposing surfaces adjacent the opening to define a predetermined fixed thickness of a plate. The annular grommet has an elastically deform... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6682075 | Cylinder head gasket The invention concerns a cylinder head gasket of an internal combustion engine with a gasket sheet that contains at least one combustion chamber passage opening and a sensor device for the registration of a measurement value that depends on the operating ... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6669204 | Cylinder head gasket having reinforced combustion seal A gasket body has a combustion opening and a coolant opening close to the combustion opening to define a narrow region of the gasket between the openings. An inner armor layer has an inner C-shaped section folded over an edge of the combustion opening adj... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6667435 | Magnetic gasket for fastening electronic components A magnetic gasket that fastens together components in an electronic device. An adhesive, such as a pressure sensitive adhesive, is attached to a magnetic strip. An electrically conductive gasket, such as a soft foam core with a conductive fabric wrap, is ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6624252 | Sealing device A sealing device equipped with a lip made of a rubber material composition wherein the rubber material composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a tetrafluoroethylene-propylene copolymer and 0.02 to 10 parts by weight of an ethylene-propylene-based cop... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6598353 | Multi-pitch improved ridge-seal for tiled roofs A ridge seal molding has a back section for nailing to a ridge beam, and a front section formed at an angle to the back section and having a shape in the direction of the length to substantially continuously contact adjacent tiles along a front edge. In v... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6550782 | Cylinder head gasket A cylinder head gasket adapted for being mounted on an internal combustion engine, and comprises an elastic metal sheet (1) having more than one combustion chamber opening and more than one passage hole, including a bead formed in the area surrounding the... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6547252 | Housing having a recess for locating part of a sealing material A housing (3), especially for the electromagnetically shielded location of electronic components, with a first and second housing part (1, 2) and a sealing profile (8) arranged between the first and second housing parts and sealing off the inner space of ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6533283 | Cylinder head gasket The invention concerns a cylinder head gasket of an internal combustion engine with a gasket sheet that contains at least one combustion chamber passage opening and a sensor device for the registration of a measurement value that depends on the operating ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6531209 | Suspension adhesive for bonding and sealing components in a light source A suspension adhesive comprised of a matrix material and a particulate filler material is useful for bonding, sealing, repairing, and modifying ceramic, glass, and powdered metal components in a light source. A method for making the suspension adhesive in... | 03/11/2003 |
