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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8011079 | Method of incorporating a tip into an endovascular device An endovascular device tip assembly and method of making the same, incorporating a tip device with a first and second flange, usable with catheters and other suitable endovascular devices is provided. The tip assembly incorporates a tip device by providing a counter... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7979973 | Method and apparatus for covering a container A method and apparatus for covering and identifying a container utilizing a thin film material and a frame. The thin film material covers a through hole in the frame and has a perforation that defines an outer detaching surface an inner covering surface commensurate... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7954224 | Method of joining composite honeycomb sections The invention includes a method of joining edges of adjacent honeycomb core panel sections. In one embodiment, the method includes forming a first edge along a first cellular core panel section. The first edge includes a first plurality of edge cell walls along the ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7918008 | Method of manufacturing column and bed of machine tool A technique of easy manufacture of a column and a bed of a machine tool in a short time is provided by having an assembly structure of sheet metal members. A column body of the machine tool is constituted by combining a front member with a rear member 130 and... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7891072 | Joining frame components with a Z connection A web truss and a chord truss are joined or connected to each other. Each truss has an extruded hole with flanges, collars and combinations of flanges and collars. When a tool placed against the flanges they are expanded to form Z configurations. When the tool is pl... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7748101 | Method and apparatus for forming a metallic container A method of forming a metallic container includes the steps of providing body and lid portions, placing the body and lid portions together, keeping portions of the body and lid portions in contact with one another, and reciprocally rotating the lid portion with resp... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7726000 | Method of securing first and second splined members together A method is provided for securing first and second splined members together, such as a midship tube shaft to an end fitting in a driveshaft assembly, to prevent relative axial movement from occurring therebetween. Initially, a first splined member is provided that i... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7721408 | Method and apparatus for covering a container A method and apparatus for covering and identifying a container utilizing a thin film material and a frame. The thin film material covers a through hole in the frame and has a perforation that defines an outer detaching surface an inner covering surface commensurate... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7681297 | Duct fastseam A seam for ductwork has a male end portion integrally formed at a distal end of a duct wall and a female end portion integrally formed at another distal end of the duct wall. The female end portion includes a first fold and a second fold which define a female groove... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7650680 | Method and apparatus for bundling objects An improved tool for locking a band clamp, and an improved lock for a band clamp is disclosed. The tool includes a knife body having a knife edge that progressively cuts the free end of the band over a period of time, rather than simultaneously cutting the entire ba... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7578042 | Method incorporating a tip into an endovascular device An endovascular device tip assembly and method of making the same, incorporating a tip device with a first and second flange, usable with catheters and other suitable endovascular devices is provided. The tip assembly incorporates a tip device by providing a counter... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7433176 | Method and apparatus for supporting a chassis cover A chassis cover supporting apparatus includes a chassis having a plurality of chassis sides and including a cover support receiving member positioned between the chassis sides. A cover is operable to couple to the chassis by sliding engagement with the plurality of ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7415765 | Flange coupling and manufacturing method for the same An object of the present invention is to provide a flange coupling in which the height of a horizontal portion of an L-shaped pipe is made as small as possible. The present invention provides a flange coupling having a flange formed with an attaching bolt hole and a... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416619 | Application of an alloy in kitchen utensil products The present invention relates to new kitchen utensils, in particular relates to an application of a material in kitchen utensils. The present invention solves the problems of long-term presence in the field. SUS436L is used for kitchen utensils. SUS436L chemical com... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7383624 | Self-piercing female fastener, method of forming a sealed female fastener and panel assembly and panel assembly Method of forming a sealed joint between a nut (20) having a cylindrical pilot (22), an annular flange portion (28) surrounding the pilot and a re-entrant groove (32) and a panel with a die having an annular lip (62) which deforms ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380327 | Tube interface and method of securing a first tube to a second tube A tube interface (53) includes a first tube (28) and a second tube (34). The first tube (28) has an oblong opening (54) exhibiting a first major dimension (58), and the second tube (34) has an oblong end (52) e... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7377214 | Apparatus and method for temporarily compressing loose, multiply bent, pieces of scrap sheet metal into compacted wafers The bulk volume of large numbers of loose, separated, multiply bent, irregularly shaped scrap sheet metal is temporarily reduced, for transportation and storage of the metal for recycling purposes, by compressing the metal into temporary, compacted wafers formed of ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7378623 | Double walled induction heated article of cookware A dual wall cookware article is formed by bonding a ferromagnetic metal base plate to an assembly that includes an inner vessel, a thermally conductive layer and an outer vessel frame. The outer vessel frame has upright walls that surround a bottom having plural per... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7377021 | Method, device and auxiliary joining element for joining at least two parts Two components are held in at least partially overlapping relation to each other between a hold-down device and an essentially flat lower tool and then are joined together by pressing an auxiliary joining element into one of the components a sufficient distance to p... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7353584 | Deck tool A tool that can be used to join adjacent deck sections along their side edges. The tool can include a handle portion that is used by the operator to maneuver the tool and a cutting and folding assembly that is at the base of the tool. The cutting and folding assembl... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7341099 | Metal plate for producing flat tube, flat tube and process for producing the flat tube A metal plate comprises two flat wall forming portions 89, 90 connected together by a joint portion 88, a plurality of reinforcing wall forming portions 83, 84 upwardly projecting from each of the wall forming portions 89, 90 integrally t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7334311 | Method of forming a nested can brush seal A method of forming a brush seal which includes placing a bristle hoop sandwiched by a sideplate and a backplate in the cavity of a forming die. The components are then die formed together into a unitized brush seal. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334315 | Method of servicing a channel bus splice assembly For use in switchgear equipment having channel bus bars joined together at a bus joint, there is provided a method of servicing and maintaining a channel bus splice assembly and method. The channel bus splice assembly comprises switchgear or switchboard equipment ha... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328493 | Self restrained fitting for PVC and ductile iron pipe A combination sealing and restraint system for an as-cast ductile iron fitting is shown for both sealing and preventing separation of an iron pipe fitting and a mating male pipe. The restraint system includes both a sealing ring and a combination gripping ring which... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7275295 | True vehicle running center shaft assembly system A system for assembling a vehicle drive shaft is provided with the steps of installing yokes on respective ends of a drive shaft tube, each yoke having first and second bores therethrough for receiving respective distal ends of respective spider arrangements, and ro... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263756 | Lance-tab mounting method A method for mounting a fingerstock EMI shielding gasket on a sheet metal structure includes the steps of forming tabs which protrude from the surface of the sheet metal structure. The shielding gasket, which has a generally D-shaped cross section with at least one ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7243523 | Metal unit nesting machine The invention is a machine, machine system, and method of using a machine that alters metal plates to enable rigid stacking of the metal plates. In a preferred embodiment, the machine system includes a machine cabinet, a first altering system secured in the machine ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7222676 | Well communication system A well system utilizes a control line system. The control line system is implemented with a completion of the type deployed in a wellbore. The control line system facilitates transmission of monitoring, command or other types of control and telemetry. It is emphasiz... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7188401 | Motor case In a motor case 1, recesses 8 are formed in inner surfaces of upper and bottom surface portions 2 and 3 (which are spaced from each other by a distance smaller than the distance between left and right side surface portions 4 and | 03/13/2007 |
| 7168151 | Method of manufacturing yoke of rotary electric machine A method of manufacturing a yoke includes a step of cutting a steel plate into a rectangular sheet having a plurality of first dovetail convexities at one end thereof and a plurality of second dovetail convexities at the other end, a step of rolling the rectangular ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165310 | Method for connecting two members A connecting structure includes a first member including a hole which has a narrower width at an opening portion than a width at a bottom portion and a projecting portion projected toward the opening portion at the bottom portion of the hole, and a second member wit... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165311 | Method for attaching filamentary members to a substrate An apparatus and a method for attaching filamentary members to a substrate are disclosed. The substrate includes a plastic layer and the apparatus includes an anvil, a needle and a swaging tool movable relatively to the anvil. The method includes the steps of penetr... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7162788 | Pot and pan washing machine A non-welded field joint for connecting two portions of a pot and pan washing machine together as a single unit is provided. ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7146703 | Low temperature sputter target/backing plate method and assembly A sputtering target and a backing plate are diffusion-bonded with or without an insert or inserts interposed there-between so as to have a solid phase diffusion-bonded interface. The sputtering target substantially maintains its metallurgical characteristic and prop... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143496 | Hot runner nozzle with removable tip and tip retainer An injection molding apparatus has at least a nozzle having a nozzle body and a nozzle tip. A securing device is used to secure the nozzle tip to the nozzle body via non-metallic threads or threads having a non-metallic coating that mate with complementary threads o... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7127792 | Method of manufacturing spring assembly A method of manufacturing a spring assembly, which includes two annular plates and compression coil springs, and which is adapted so that the compression coil springs are assembled to the annular plates by caulking projection portions formed on the two annular plate... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7124492 | Fastener, method of attaching a fastener to a panel and fastener and panel assembly A fastener element including a barrel portion, a first radial flange portion integral and coaxially aligned with the barrel portion and a second radial flange portion having a diameter greater than the first radial flange portion coaxially aligned with the first rad... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7117579 | Method for producing a combined packing container and a device for carrying out said method As part of a method for producing a combination packaging container (28), which combination packaging container (28) comprises a beaker-shaped plastic inner part (15) and a casing-type outer part (14) surrounding the plastic inner part ( | 10/10/2006 |
| 7119469 | Stator assembly with an overmolding that secures magnets to a flux ring and the flux ring to a stator housing A stator assembly for an electric motor includes a stator housing, a flux ring inserted into the stator housing after the stator housing is formed and a plurality of magnets on an inner surface of the flux ring. Overmold material is molded around the magnets in the ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117598 | Net-shaped gear and manufacturing method for forming net-shaped gear employing insert and preform A differential assembly for a motor vehicle includes a plurality of pinion gears in meshing engagement with a plurality of side gears. At least one of the pinion gears and side gears is formed from a tubular insert and a tubular preform forged together in a forging ... | 10/10/2006 |
