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Examiner: Crane, Daniel C.


Primary examiner statistics: 2742 patents; average approval time: 2740 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 268 patents; average approval time: 656 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7448243 Swaging technology
7444851 Hand tool providing double compound leverage to the jaws
7444848 Process for milling metal parts
7441434 Channel letter machine and method thereof
7434437 Method of making a metallic thin wire for a medical tool
7434440 Heavy-duty PEX clamp installation tool
7434438 Folding brake
7430889 Device for forming protruding parts on the carrier plate of a bra...
7426846 Automatic bending machine for manufacturing of steel rule cutting...
7418851 Device for crimping a contact on a cable
7415858 Grindless surgical needle manufacture
7415859 Method and apparatus for forming blind holes in sheet material
7415861 Tissue prosthesis processing technology
7415856 Method and device for shaping and then lifting a workpiece
7412865 Method for forming sheet material with bend controlling displacem...
7412862 Sheet bending brake
7409847 Method and apparatus for securing connecting ferrules
7409846 Pair of pressing jaws for hydraulic or electric pressing tools, a...
7409844 Apparatus for thinning upstanding sides of metal sheets
7401487 Apparatus and methods for material fabrication
7395688 Hog ring fastening device
7389670 Stent crimping system
7387009 Automated bending machine
7383709 System and process for crimping a fitting to a fluid conduit
7383711 CNC leveler
7383714 Crimp machine with quick release pushers
7373797 Method for bending workpieces
7370505 Method of forming blind holes in a sheet of material
7367210 Punch press and deburring device for the punch press
7363795 Guided punching apparatus
7360390 Method for securing corner connectors within a duct section
7360386 Sweep unit assembly
7357012 Methods and assemblies for bending strands of material
7353682 Pipe flaring tool
7353679 Coldforming machine
7353683 Surgical needle manufacturing process
7350393 Hand tool for wires
7350389 Method and device for reshaping a work piece with automatic handl...
7350390 Sheet material with bend controlling displacements and method for...
7347074 Drawbench of a wire

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
4192053 Method for retubing a steam generator
4184238 Method of making an extendible/expandable nozzle for rocket engin...
4182028 Hermetically sealed button-type electrochemical cell and method f...
4179789 Process for producing a piston-type safety lock device
4178665 Method of making a fabricated gate valve
4177552 Method of making laminar batteries
4176433 Method of remanufacturing turbine vane clusters for gas turbine e...
4174565 Method of precharging rechargeable metal oxide-hydrogen cells
4174557 Method of mounting valve seats in a butterfly valve
4173066 Methods for making laminar cells
4172315 Method of manufacturing a magnetic field sensitivity indicator ap...
4172316 Process for hingedly connecting a pair of pieces of furniture
4172310 Improvement in assembling a centrifugal pump
4172311 Process for manufacturing solar collector panels
4171850 Method of and machine for manufacturing pipe cleaners
4171564 Method of manufacturing electric batteries with heat embedded int...
4169365 Needle for pressing internally-finned pipes
4167807 Improvement in making electrochemical cells employing an alkali m...
4165560 Method for manufacturing a diamond stylus for video disc players
4164068 Method of making bipolar carbon-plastic electrode structure-conta...
4164073 Apparatus for feeding and bending seed plate lug strips
4164071 Method of forming a circuit board with integral terminals
4164061 Method of making rotor blades of radial-axial hydraulic machines
4164070 Method of making a lithium-bromine cell
4162566 Method and coupling for severing and rejoining sealed tubing
4162567 Method for making a sheet metal pulley
4161809 Method of fabricating a solar absorber panel
4161815 Methods for making electrical cells and batteries
4161063 Method of making a cathode for an electrochemical cell
4158255 Cable net cooling tower jacket installation method
4157607 Method of manufacturing an internal combustion engine cylinder he...
4155158 Apparatus for winding tubes around a core
4155151 Heavy duty impeller and method of fabricating the same
4155152 Method of restoring the shrouds of turbine blades
4153985 Method of looping armature coil leads about commutator tangs
4152816 Method of manufacturing a hybrid turbine rotor
4150558 Method for forming a variable restrictor
4148120 Method of manufacturing a catalyst for catalytic purification of ...
4148137 Apparatus for use in making electrical interconnections
4148121 Method and apparatus for manufacturing rotationally symmetrical ...
 
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