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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7299685 | Golf ball equator locating apparatus An apparatus for locating and marking an equator of a golf ball is provided and includes a rotation plate shaped to support a golf ball is provided in a housing. The housing encloses a motor and the motor is attached to the rotation plate and is capable of imparting... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7294204 | Apparatus for painting traffic marks on road surface An apparatus for painting traffic marks on a road surface without requiring any professional painting skills. The apparatus having: a first support and second support being parallel to each other and a coupling unit to couple the supports. There is also a gantry uni... | 11/13/2007 |
| 6980417 | Meter with concealed probe receiving deck A meter provided with a concealed probe receiving deck includes a body of the meter, a housing, one end of the lid is pivoted to the body of the meter, a space of accommodation defined between the lid and the body when the former covers upon the bottom of the body, ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6785597 | Hydraulic stabilizer system and process for monitoring load conditions A process for monitoring load conditions on a lifting machine having a rated load moment includes determining an actual load moment of the lifting machine due a weighted load. The actual load moment may be determined by measuring a tilt pressure within a hydraulic t... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6668646 | Gravity meter A gravity meter comprises a casing, a vacuum tube mounted in the casing in a vibration-free manner, a sensor mechanism mounted within the vacuum tube, the sensor mechanism comprising two masses of different size acting on the respective arms of a beam bal... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6367314 | Functional status assessment scale A system and a method of objectively assessing the functional status of a subject utilize a functional status scale to extract objective measures that are indicative of the subject's functional status. The objective measures are extracted from center-of-w... | 04/09/2002 |
| 5705740 | Method and apparatus for measuring dynamic imbalance of sphere A sphere is supported in a floating condition by a pneumatic bearing so as to be rotated by compressed air sprayed from a nozzle. The sphere has a single point magnetized on its surface, and is placed on its rotating axis. If the sphere has a dynamic imba... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5574216 | Rotary drum centering method and apparatus A rotary drum centering method and apparatus with which it is possible to precisely perform the drum centering of a rotary drum necessary for adjusting magnetic heads thereon and accurately obtain a reference in the height direction of the magnetic heads.... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5561242 | Apparatus for locating wheelsets An apparatus for locating the center of rotation of a wheelset. The apparatus contains two movable roller assemblies each designed to establish circumferential contact with a wheel at a different location on the wheel periphery, a movable lifting device c... | 10/01/1996 |
| 4817610 | Method of determining center of gravity and body weight Disclosed is a system, apparatus and method for gathering physiological data. Basic to the system of the present invention is a rigid body mold having preferably a negative impression of the dorsal half of the body. By connecting and/or embedding sensors ... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4644792 | Method and apparatus for determining the mass center of a body A mass centering method and apparatus for ascertaining and marking the location of the axis of inertia of rough or premachined rotating article, allowing the marked axis to be used as a centerline in further processing in order to keep the remaining unbal... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4627011 | Vehicle monitoring device A vehicle monitoring device 10 consists of a damped-pendulum transducer 12 coupled to a potentiometer 14. The analog output of the potentiometer 14, following a braking test with the vehicle concerned, is sampled in a peak/trough detector 16. A microproce... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4428225 | Device for measuring the imbalance of an object A device for measuring the imbalance of a disc-like object has at least three load sensors having cantilevers for supporting the object at their corresponding measuring points selected, with a same angular distance therebetween, on a measuring circle whic... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4215965 | Apparatus and method for loading a floating vessel with flowable material A water borne barge or other floating vessel is loaded automatically with flowable material from end-to-end with a proper predetermined level of material without dependency on inaccurate human observations. The automatic load-out is terminated with the ve... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4202205 | Integral torquer for mass measurement system A mass properties measurement system including a test object support table mounted to a bearing means for supporting the table for rotation about an axis of rotation substantially perpendicular to the plane of the support table; means for measuring overtu... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4149140 | Method and means for detecting change in tire pressure A novel method is disclosed for determining the change in tire pressure of a dual wheel tire by detecting a change in the axle housing moment arm supported by the wheel assembly. The preferred apparatus for carrying out the invention comprises one or more... | 04/10/1979 |
