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Patent No. 5871518

Smoking Cessation Lighter and Method

A lighter for tobacco products suppresses the urge to smoke by operant conditioning.

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Examiner: Garrett, Robert E.


Primary examiner statistics: 2392 patents; average approval time: 728 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 156 patents; average approval time: 694 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
5094081 Hydraulic brake system valved piston
5024578 Regenerative pump with two-stage stripper
5022821 Variable pitch fan
5022823 Rotor attachment assembly
4995304 Extendable cylinders of elastically variable length for use in a ...
4981414 Method and apparatus for producing fluid pressure and controlling...
4979875 Centrifugal pump for the delivery of hot liquids
4976587 Composite wind turbine rotor blade and method for making same
4971517 Turbine blade clearance controller
4966065 Multiplexed hydraulic control systems
4961678 Reactor coolant pump having double dam seal with self-contained ...
4958984 Fuel pump having improved shaft/impeller coupling
4957284 Apparatus and method for converting sheet folder to booklet maker
4957411 Turbojet engine with fan rotor blades having tip clearance
4957412 Apparatus and method for supporting the torque load on a gas turb...
4955787 Assembly for facilitating inservice inspection of a reactor coola...
4950129 Variable inlet guide vanes for an axial flow compressor
4949541 Apparatus for the feed and the speed and torque control of a hydr...
4950130 Pelton turbine
4949540 Hydraulic actuator system having non-cavitating flow equalizer
4948335 Turbine moisture removal system
4948333 Axial-flow turbine with a radial/axial first stage
4948111 Method and apparatus for incorporating backing boards in the prin...
4948112 Folding machine in a rotary press
4946152 Sorter-finisher
4946348 Centrifugal fan with airfoil vanes in annular volute envelope
4945723 Flow control valves for hydraulic motor system
4944502 Card webber
4942738 Pneumatic brake booster piston with sleeve defining quick-fill in...
4942803 Steering gear with pressure-balanced valve
4941397 Piston assembly for internal combustion engine
4941803 Airfoiled blade
4941650 Vacuum counter for stacked signatures
4941396 Reciprocating double-ended piston
4941801 Double water pump device
4941805 Device for centering a drive shart on a hub
4941320 Industrial hydraulic door operator
4941322 Tandem master cylinder with valved hydraulic power booster fluid ...
4941323 Hydraulic cylinder provided with a seal-less piston
4939901 Tandem master cylinder with piston stops and central valves

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
4086760 Gas turbine
4085583 Method for selectively switching motive fluid supply to an aft tu...
4078377 Internally vaporizing low emission combustor
4073137 Convectively cooled flameholder for premixed burner
4073138 Mixed mode rocket engine
4069661 Variable mixer propulsion cycle
4068471 Variable cycle engine with split fan section
4068469 Variable thrust nozzle for quiet turbofan engine and method of op...
4064692 Variable cycle gas turbine engines
4062183 Fuel supply system for a gas turbine engine
4062186 Apparatus for windmill starts in gas turbine engines
4062182 Combustion chamber for gas turbine engines
4062185 Method and apparatus for windmill starts in gas turbine engines
4060981 Diverter valve for coannular flows
4058977 Low emission combustion chamber
4055946 Twin-spool gas turbine power plant with means to spill compressor...
4055949 Multiflow gas turbine power plant
4055156 Rotary engine
4055041 Integrated gas turbine engine-nacelle
4055044 Rocket engine construction and connection for closed and opened f...
4054028 Fuel combustion apparatus
4054030 Variable cycle gas turbine engine
4052847 Gas turbine engine gas flow ducts
4052846 Baffled combustion chamber
4052844 Gas turbine combustion chambers
4052845 Variable ratio bypass gas turbine engine with flow diverter valve
4051671 Jet engine with compressor driven by a ram air turbine
4050238 Film evaporating combustion chamber
4050242 Multiple bypass-duct turbofan with annular flow plug nozzle and m...
4050243 Combination solid fuel ramjet injector/port cover
4050240 Variable air admission device for a combustor assembly
4047382 Thrust management control propulsion system
4047880 Fluids distributor for energized-fluid systems
4045957 Combined guide vane and mixer for a gas turbine engine
4045956 Low emission combustion chamber
4044552 Gas turbine engine synchronous speed detector
4043121 Two-spool variable cycle engine
4043509 Actuation system for a gas turbine engine exhaust device
4040251 Gas turbine combustion chamber arrangement
4040252 Catalytic premixing combustor
 
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