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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7331963 | Drill head for use in placing an intervertebral disc device A drill head for preparing the bone of two opposing vertebral bodies to accept the concaval-convex shape of an endoprosthesis includes a form cutter having at least one predetermined milling surface, drive means, and a housing. The form cutter has a profile allowing... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7290964 | Drilling/tapping/unscrewing apparatus A drilling/tapping/unscrewing apparatus including a transmission shaft of a power source on which a drilling ratio gear, a tapping ratio gear and an unscrewing ratio gear are mounted for transmitting the power of the power source to a bit. The apparatus further incl... | 11/06/2007 |
| 6594619 | Apparatus and method for predicting failures of spinning disks in turbo-machinery An apparatus is described for detecting the early signs of cycle-induced fatigue and thereby predicting failure of the rotating disk in turbo-machinery. It identifies asymmetrical growth of hub-blade diameter as a predictor of incipient crack growth. Tip ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 4781072 | Mechanism for converting unidirectional rotative movement into alternating bidirectional rotative movement A drive shaft continuously rotating in a single direction operates to drive a driven shaft with alternating bidirectional rotative movement through a gear transmission which includes a first gear mounted on the drive shaft and second and third gears mount... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4653338 | Apparatus for driving a member The preferred embodiment can be incorporated into a powered instrument which rotates a tool. The preferred embodiment permits changing the direction of rotation of the tool without using the hand that does not grip the instrument housing to operate the to... | 03/31/1987 |
