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A microwave oven adapted for use within a motor vehicle dashboard area. The microwave oven has a removable storage cassette, and slidable platforms for securing and serving containers of beverages and foods.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7387431 | Sanitary steady bearing and method A sanitary steady bearing assembly and method provides for sanitary characteristics, easy cleanability, and easy replacement of wear parts without distributing the rest of the agitator, and can also support the agitator shaft during seal changes. The bearing assembl... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7258487 | Bearing unit, and motor and electronic apparatus having the bearing unit The bearing unit of the present invention has: a shaft; a radial bearing which supports the shaft in a circumferential direction of the shaft; a thrust bearing which supports an end of the shaft in a thrust direction of the shaft; a housing having a closed structure... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7176596 | Pivot joint structure for motor rotor The invention relates to a pivot joint structure of the motor rotor including a spindle and a snap ring. The spindle is centrally disposed in the rotor and the end thereof near the urging part has a scoop channel with smaller outer diameter. The urging part has at l... | 02/13/2007 |
| 6902323 | Locking device and its related assemblage A locking device and its assemblage are provided for confining an object such as a shaft of a motor. The locking device is used to confine the shaft having an end with a recess portion having a defining surface to prevent the shaft from being displaced in an axial d... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6695481 | Locking device and its related assemblage A locking device and its assemblage are provided for confining an object. The locking device is used to confine the object having an end having a recess having a defining surface to prevent the object from being displaced in a direction. The locking devic... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6138948 | Bearing and method of disassembling such a bearing A bearing arrangement is provided in which bearings (60) are held captive between opposing bearing surfaces of laces (24, 62). A closeable delivery hole (64) provides a route through which bearings can be inserted into or removed from the space between th... | 10/31/2000 |
| 5920137 | Brushless motor for driving washing machine A brushless motor for driving a washing machine includes a stator fixed to a frame and having a shaft holder with a hollow portion and a yoke wound by a coil; a rotor having a shaft rotatably supported within the hollow portion of the shaft holder; and a ... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5461498 | Light scanning device In a preferred mode of a light scanning device, a reflection mirror is designed in an inverted cup-shaped form and has a hexahedral means portion at the outer side thereof and a bearing at the bottom portion thereof. The bearing includes a pivot receiving... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5160238 | Shaft travel devices such as vertical lift arm devices A shift travel device, exemplified by a vertical lift arm device, is described which provides for free rotation of its cylinder and arm about its shaft and free travel along the shaft without transfer of twist imposed by the arm and load to its shaft, con... | 11/03/1992 |
| 4932787 | Steady bearing for mixers A steady bearing for supporting the extended end of an impeller shaft at the bottom of a mixing vessel provides adjustment for the alignment of the position of the shaft within the vessel and includes a bearing support stand with legs extending to the bot... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4872769 | Friction bearing system for a rapidly rotating shaft In a friction bearing system for a rapidly rotating shaft of an apparatus for measuring the optical absorption of a sample under analysis by way of an optical radiation source projecting a beam on the sample, the chopper system for the periodical interrup... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4391475 | Column insert bearing housing A column and bearing assembly having a column, a shaft in the column and a guide bearing means disposed in the column to support the shaft.... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4385845 | Flywheel apparatus for storing electrical energy A highly reliable device for stopping the operation of a flywheel apparatus for storing electrical energy in the event of interruption of power supply includes a thrust plate 11 connected to the rotatory part of the apparatus, and having a lower surface d... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4367501 | Bearing device for capstan shaft A bearing device of a capstan shaft for use in a tape recorder including a capstan shaft, a bearing member for supporting the capstan shaft, and a flywheel secured to the capstan shaft, a part of the secured portion being positioned in a tape cassette.... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4296912 | Magnetically actuated metering valve This invention relates to a shifting stem metering valve that is magnetically actuated. A driven magnet assembly is rotatably supported in a nonmagnetic pressurizable bonnet fixed to the main valve body. The driven magnet assembly preferably comprises rar... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4198104 | Adjustable stacked bearing assembly An adjustable stacked bearing assembly has a plurality of bearing sub-assemblies interposed between thrust shoulders on a housing and a shaft extending through the housing, each bearing sub-assembly being individually adjustable or assembled in a conditio... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4161237 | Vibration absorber for rotating body A vibration absorber for rotating body of this invention comprises a disc capable of moving only in the horizontal direction accompanying the vibration of a pivot and an annular plate placed on the disc and capable of moving only in the vertical direction... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4106825 | High pressure magnetic drive including magnetic thrust bearings A high pressure magnetic drive for autoclaves and the like having a novel structure including magnetic thrust bearings. The magnetic drive comprises a tubular nonmagnetic housing securable at an open end to an opening in a pressurizable vessel. A sheave o... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4084862 | Thrust support system for vertical shaft rotary machine The present invention is concerned with a thrust support system supporting on a stand the thrust of a rotator of a vertical shaft rotary machine. Said support system comprises a ring-like member for receiving thrust of the rotator, legs disposed at a give... | 04/18/1978 |
| 3982797 | Spring-loaded bearings for in-hole motors This invention relates to spring-loaded thrust bearings for shafts subject to a plurality of levels of thrust loads and in its preferred embodiment is applied to in-hole motors. The invention employs a plurality of spring systems, whereby the thrust load ... | 09/28/1976 |
