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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| 7901638 | Oxidizing reactor for molybdenum sulphide and its associated process A reactor for molybdenum sulphide (MoS2), wherein MoS2 is ionized by an electric field generated by a first set of magnetrons at a frequency in the range of 2500-3500 MHz and heated by a variable magnetic field of 2500 Hz produced by a winding coil, resulting in the... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7780923 | Plasma reaction vessel, and method of producing the same In the plasma reaction vessel (1) of the invention, two or more laminate-structures (6) having ceramic formed bodies (3, 4) in which a plasma generating electrode (2) capable of generating plasma is formed in two-tape-form, and an electri... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7727487 | Plasma reaction vessel, and method of producing the same In the plasma reaction vessel (1) of the invention, two or more laminate-structures (6) having ceramic formed bodies (3, 4) in which a plasma generating electrode (2) capable of generating plasma is formed in two-tape-form, and an electri... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7704461 | Virtual sorbent bed systems and methods of using same Virtual sorbent bed systems and methods for receiving contaminants from a waste stream are presented. In an embodiment, the virtual sorbent bed system comprises an outlet for introducing into the gas stream a material capable of receiving contaminants, a first charg... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7625530 | Method for manufacturing isotope-doped carbon nanotubes A method for manufacturing isotope-doped carbon nanotubes (10) includes the steps of: (a) providing a carbon rod (209) connected with an anode (214) of an electrical source, the carbon rod including at least two kinds of carbon isotope segments ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7427351 | Water preconditioning system A water preconditioning system is provided. The system includes a circulating tank configured to receive therein water, an ozone machine in fluid communication with the circulating tank and configured to add ozone to the water as the water circulates through the ozo... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427353 | System for enhancing oxygen An apparatus for enhancing, structuring and/or pre-structuring oxygen includes a vessel having an inlet and an outlet so as to allow oxygen to pass therethrough, a pair of screens positioned within the vessel so as to form a gap therebetween, and a magnetic source c... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7371327 | Device for the immobilization of nano- and micro-sized particles in a solid-fluid contact vessel facilitating mass-momentum, and heat-transport at the solid-fluid interfaces What is presented is an innovative design of a chemical reactor for catalytic breakdown of halogenated hydrocarbons, the body of which acts as a specialized electromagnet capable of immobilizing and retaining very large quantities of non-magnetized ferro- dia- or pa... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7351337 | Magnetic fuel conditioning apparatus A fuel conditioning apparatus includes a housing having an interior chamber that extends between an inlet and an outlet. The chamber is surrounded by a threaded channel that is formed in an interior wall of the housing. A plurality of permanent magnets are carried w... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7267778 | Device and process for treating a liquid medium A device for treating liquid medium has an ultrasound emitter located relative to a compartment of a container holding a liquid medium and a microbubble emitter located relative to the compartment. The ultrasound emitter emits high-frequency ultrasound between about... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7258799 | Method and apparatus for magnetic separation of particles A magnetic circuit is shaped to generate an essentially uniform magnetic field parallel across the length of a container, and an essentially uniform magnetic field gradient along the length of the container as well. The dot product of the magnetic field and magnetic... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7223335 | Ion separation A device for separating ions from a fluid stream is disclosed. The device includes multiple chambers in fluid communication with one another. A first chamber has an inlet, and a last chamber has an outlet. The inlets and outlets of intermediate chambers are connecte... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7182861 | System for separating electrophotographic carrier compositions and recycling the compositions A method for use in two-components electrostatic image developers is disclosed, in which secure separation of a carrier coating resinous materials from a core magnetic material is achieved without affecting the properties of the core materials through process steps ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7160426 | Water treatment apparatus The present invention discloses a water treatment apparatus for treating a water flowing in a water pipe, the apparatus comprises an inductive coil, which is sleeved onto said water pipe, and a voltage signal unit, which is electrically connected to the inductive co... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7150780 | Electrostatic air cleaning device An electrostatic air cleaning device includes an array of electrodes. The electrodes include corona electrodes connected to a suitable source of high voltage so as to generate a corona discharge. Laterally displaced collecting electrodes include one or more bulges t... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7097676 | Process and device for producing hydrogen A process and a device are provided for producing hydrogen gas from water and carbon. The process includes introducing steam and powdered carbon in stoichiometric ratio of carbon to water into a preheated oxidization chamber in such a way that a gas plasma is produc... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7094381 | Device for destroying microbes in a fluid A device for destroying microbes in a fluid medium utilizing a housing. The housing possesses an exterior and a fluid passageway formed by an inner wall portion. The housing also includes a plurality of chambers positioned radially outwardly from the fluid passagewa... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7070743 | Induction-heated reactors for gas phase catalyzed reactions Elevated temperature, gas-phase, catalyzed processes for preparing HCN in which induction heating is used as a source of energy, and novel apparatus for carrying out said processes. ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7048862 | Free atom aqueous solution producing apparatus, free-atom aqueous solution producing method, and free-atom aqueous solution A free radical solution producing apparatus, which comprises: a feed port (6) in which water is drawn, a dechlorination processing section (1) which produces first water by decomposing chlorine compounds in said water, a magnetic processing section ( | 05/23/2006 |
| 7015047 | Microdevices having a preferential axis of magnetization and uses thereof This invention relates generally to the field of moiety or molecule isolation, detection and manipulation and library synthesis. In particular, the invention provides a microdevice, which microdevice comprises: a) a magnetizable substance; and b) a photorecognizable... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6939469 | Band gap mass filter with induced azimuthal electric field A band gap mass filter for separating particles of mass (M1) from particles of mass (M2) in a multi-species plasma includes a chamber defining an axis. Coils around the chamber generate an axially aligned magnetic field defined (B=B0... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6875360 | Water softening A method and apparatus for water softening utilising magnetic pulses is provided. The magnetic pulses are presented to a volume of water within a water conduit 6 or water container over a predetermined time period with a relaxation time period between success... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6814931 | Method and apparatus for treating an object with ozone A treatment system for treating objects (e.g., medical instruments) with ozone gas. The ozone treatment system includes a treatment tank wherein the objects are exposed to ozone. In a preferred embodiment, the ozone is generated within the treatment tank by exposing... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6805840 | Apparatus for integrated process of magnetic particles and method of controlling the same The present invention relates to an apparatus for an integrated process of magnetic particles and a method of controlling the same, for executing a process for magnetic particles incorporated in a fluid in an integrated state. The present invention aims to provide a... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6797970 | Device for disinfecting water flowing through a sanitary system A device for sterilizing water flowing through a sanitary appliance has a housing, which comprises an inlet and an outlet for the water; a UV lamp, which is disposed inside the housing and the radiation of which is directed towards the water flowing through; and a t... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6772584 | Apparatus for removing soot and NOx in exhaust gas from diesel engines A plasma system is provided for removing soot and nitrogen oxide (NOx) in the exhaust gas of diesel engines. The system is comprised of a diesel particulate filter for adopting a honeycomb type porous element and at least one pair of electrodes; a plasma ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6764657 | Apparatus for irradiating for fluoropolymer materials A source of radiation (10,12), particularly a pulsed accelerated electron beam, directs a beam of radiation through an irradiation chamber (14, 50). The irradiation chamber is depleted of oxygen and oxygen containing gases, such as being drawn to a vac... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6736979 | Device and process for treating a liquid medium A device for treating liquid medium has an ultrasound emitter located relative to a compartment of a container holding a liquid medium and a microbubble emitter located relative to the compartment. The ultrasound emitter emits high-frequency ultrasound between about... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6730231 | Plasma mass filter with axially opposed plasma injectors A device for separating the constituents of a multi-constituent material includes a substantially cylindrical plasma chamber and two, axially opposed plasma injectors. The injectors convert the multi-constituent material into a multi-species plasma and inject the mu... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6719909 | Band gap plasma mass filter A device and method for selectively establishing predetermined orbits, relative to an axis, for ions of a first mass/charge ratio (m1), requires crossing an electric field with a substantially uniform magnetic field (E×B). The magnetic field is oriented ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6716642 | Individually addressable micro-electromagnetic unit array chips in horizontal configurations The present invention provides electromagnetic chips and electromagnetic biochips having arrays of individually addressable micro-electromagnetic units, as well as methods of utilizing these chips for directed manipulation of micro-particles and micro-structures suc... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6689615 | Methods and devices for processing blood samples Approaches are described for separating plasma from whole blood samples and include the use of magnetically attractable particles associated with an agglutinating agent. The magnetically attractable particles bind the cellular components in a whole blood ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6632332 | Method of reinforcing catalyst reaction A method is provided for enhancing the catalytic reaction, by disposing a semiconductor catalyst in a fluid which includes charged particles and generating a magnetic field in the space where the semiconductor catalyst is disposed so as to impart electrom... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6585891 | Plasma mass separator using ponderomotive forces A device for separating high-mass ions (having cyclotron frequency Ωh) from low-mass ions (having cyclotron frequency Ωl) in a plasma includes a chamber. Coils are provided to generate a substantially uniform magnetic field in the ... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6576127 | Ponderomotive force plug for a plasma mass filter A plasma mass filter having features to prevent plasma loss through one end of the filter and thereby increase energy efficiency includes a cylindrical wave guide to surround a plasma. Coil(s) and electrode(s) are provided to establish crossed electric an... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6576126 | Device for magnetically modifying fluid An apparatus for magnetically modifying fluid, capable of uniformly forming high magnetic field over the interior of a pipe through which the fluid passes, to activate the fluid with a high efficiency. A ring-like magnetic block (13) includes a ring-like ... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6548311 | Device and method for detecting analytes The invention relates to a method for detecting analytes and to a device for carrying out the method, for use for analysis or diagnosis in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular genetics, food chemistry, biotechnology, the environment and medici... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6540922 | Method and device for treating a liquid medium A device for treating liquid medium has an ultrasound emitter located relative to a compartment of a container holding a liquid medium and a microbubble emitter located relative to the compartment. The ultrasound emitter emits high-frequency ultrasound be... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6506299 | Variable resonance descaling decalcifier device connected to a forced sequential rephasing transformer A variable resonance descaling decalcifier device for the treatment of hard, very hard and low hardness water is provided. The device works effectively and efficiently for line frequencies in the range between 30 hertz and 400 hertz. The device includes a... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6503463 | Process and apparatus for treating dioxins A process and apparatus assuring low costs and high efficiency in practicing refuse incineration. A applying electromagnetic wave of a frequency band resonant with rotation or vibration of a specific substance e.g., dioxins molecule, thereby to heat the d... | 01/07/2003 |
