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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5419303 | Roller arrow guide and bow sight The present invention includes an arrow guide and bow sight adaptable to right-handed or left-handed archery bows. The arrow guide including a vertical support wheel with a V-shaped groove running along its circumference in which an arrow may rest when sh... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419304 | Mounting jigs for turkey calls Mounting jigs removably couplable to a hunting bow and adapted to removably receive a turkey caller comprising a support plate having a primary rectangular component with an upper horizontal surface adapted to receive thereon a turkey caller, the support ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419305 | Automatic bimetal safety latch for self-cleaning oven doors An oven safety door latch has a pair of elongated latch arms pivotably connected to each other and to a base at a point intermediate their length. The arms project beyond the base and have end portions with opposed latching noses. A pawl is rotatably moun... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419306 | Apparatus for heating liquids An apparatus which uses friction to generate heat for heating liquids. The apparatus includes a cylindrical rotor disk housed inside a close-fitting housing structure. The rotor disk is connected to the shaft of a motor which turns the rotor disk at high ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419307 | Draft hood assembly A draft hood assembly and method are provided for installation of a gas fireplace insert to the flue pipe of a fireplace chimney. The insert is for connection between a gas fireplace insert and a chimney flue pipe, the gas fireplace insert having an expli... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419308 | Gas-using water heater having a water pressure-controlled gas general switch a gas-using water heater having a water pressure-controlled gas general switch, wherein the water pressure-controlled gas general switch is disposed outside the water heater and is combined with the original manually operated gas general switch to form a ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419309 | Tip cleaning accessory for rigid endoscopic instrument A tip cleaning accessory for enhancement in the utility of rigid endoscopic instruments is hereinafter disclosed. This accessory includes a complimentary tubular member adapted for use with a rigid endoscope. The endoscope contemplated for use with such a... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419310 | Partially inflated protective endoscope sheath A partially elastic protective sheath surrounding the insertion tube of an endoscope. The sheath is partially inflated while being installed on the endoscope and remains partially inflated during endoscopy. The sheath has an end cap with a gasket shaped t... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419311 | Endoscope apparatus of a type having cover for covering the endoscope An endoscope apparatus of a type having a cover for covering the endoscope composed of a cover for an insert, a cover for a control unit, and a universal-cord cover, and the endoscope which uses the endoscope cover to cover the control unit having a handl... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419312 | Multi-function endoscope apparatus A multi-function endoscope capable of insertion within a body cavity for treatment/diagnostic purposes. The endoscope includes a flexible probe having an optical fiber connected to a laser light source, an optical fiber bundle connected to an illuminating... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419313 | Microwave sterilizable and reusable endoscope An endoscope has an objective arranged at its distal end, the image of which a relay-lens system conveys to the proximal end of the endoscope a light guide at least partially surrounds the relay-lens system and the objective, and conveys illumination ligh... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419314 | Method and apparatus for weaning ventilator-dependent patients A method and apparatus for weaning a ventilator-dependent patient employs a transtracheal catheter that is inserted through the patient's tracheostomy tube to continuously augment the flow of oxygen to the lungs as the patient breathes spontaneously. In p... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419315 | Intrapulmonary delivery of hormones A method of treating human patients is provided by the intrapulmonary delivery of a pharmaceutically active hormone formulation. The formulation is automatically released from a hand-held, self-contained, portable device comprised of a means for automatic... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419316 | Anesthesia evaporators Anesthetic agent positioning and conduit means are provided for anesthesia evaporators to position prepackaged, anesthetic agents, with respect to the anesthesia evaporator and to facilitate movement of the anesthetic agent from its package when so positi... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419317 | Inhalation apparatus A face mask includes a cup-shaped body for enclosing an external respiratory organ, such as the nose, of a patient. Flow of a respirable gas into the body and exhaust of expired gas from the body are unidirectional controlled by respiration check valves. ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419318 | Breathing mask A breathing mask is disclosed which features a soft, flexible face contacting member and an outer shell member fastened thereto to form a mask. The face contacting member is formed in an arctuate shape that provides a cup in which the chin of the mask wea... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419319 | Variable position endotracheal tube holder A variable position endotracheal tube holder includes a face piece having an arcuate transverse portion adapted to pass between the nose and upper lip of the patient, and a pair of downwardly extending wings at either end of the transverse portion. The la... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419320 | Method and apparatus for obtaining an image indicating metabolism in a body An X-ray tomography scanner and an optical tomography scanner are combined to obtain an optical image indicting metabolism in the body. Optical projection data indicating light pulse transmissions in the body are compensated by using a light scattering co... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419321 | Non-invasive medical sensor Apparatus 1 for non-invasive quantitative measurement of a substance in living tissue, the apparatus comprising an electromagnetic radiation emitter 5 to contact a patient's skin, tissue or organ 6, first radiation detector 3 spaced from the radiation emi... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419322 | Internal apparatus for continuous electrical and oximetric intrapartum monitoring of the fetus An internal apparatus for continuous electrical and oximetric intrapartum fetal monitoring includes a base assembly containing a photodetector and a single spiral probe extending from the base assembly, which probe penetrates a fetal scalp. The probe cont... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419323 | Method for laser induced fluorescence of tissue A method for laser induced fluorescence of tissue in which laser radiation is used to illuminate and induce fluorescence in the tissue under study to determine the chemical composition or pathologic condition of tissue. The laser radiation and the retriev... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419324 | Radiological marker board with movable indicators A system is disclosed for locating positions in the vasculature of a human patient for the purpose of rendering treatment or making a diagnosis therein during a catheterization procedure, such as a procedure to implant an intraluminal arterial graft. The ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419325 | Magnetic resonance (MR) angiography using a faraday catheter A magnetic resonance (MR) angiography system employs a Faraday catheter for generating MR angiograms of selected blood vessels. A subject is first placed in a polarizing magnetic field. The Faraday catheter is then inserted into a selected blood vessel of... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419326 | Spirometer, more particularly an ultrasonic spirometer The invention relates to a spirometer, more particularly an ultrasonic spirometer, in the case of which a pair of cells, of which one is a transmitter cell and the other is a receiver cell, are arranged in a test section with an oblique or perpendicular a... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419327 | Acoustic therapy means A therapy system for treatment of a subject with focused acoustic waves has a source of focused acoustic waves, equipment for displacing the focus none of the focused acoustic waves and the subject to be treated relative to one another, and a locating sys... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419328 | Mean squared speed and myocardial performance A method and system of monitoring performance of a heart include echocardiographic transmission and reception to form time series of frames containing mean squared difference data. Mean squared signal change, mean squared speed or root mean squared speed ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419329 | Optoelectronic transmitters for medical ultrasound transducers Disclosed is an ultrasonic diagnostic device which uses an optoelectronic transmitting circuit to trigger the voltage input to the 2-D array transducer elements located in the probe adjacent to the patient. The transmitting optoelectronic circuit disclose... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419330 | Ultrasonic diagnostic equipment In an ultrasonic diagnostic equipment for performing synthetic aperture, deterioration of picture quality produced by the movement of an object is prevented, thereby to provide an excellent image. Arrayed piezoelectric transducers are driven by a transmit... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419331 | System for estimating target velocity from pulse echoes in response to their correspondence with predetermined delay trajectories corresponding to different distinct velocities In order to avoid the use of complex transform and correlation techniques for estimating the velocity of a target from which ultrasonic RF bursts are received as return echoes, the time of occurrence of successive returns are compared with a plurality of ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419332 | Mapping of flow parameters Automatic mapping of flow parameters in a ultrasound diagnostic imaging system including the steps of: selecting a region of interest (ROI), transmitting ultrasound signals along at least one line traversing blood vessels in the ROI, applying a train of p... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419333 | Ultrasonic doppler blood flow meter apparatus An ultrasonic Doppler blood flow meter apparatus includes a wall filter for eliminating clutter from an echo signal of an ultrasonic pulse signal sent to a living being under test. The wall filter includes a switch for cutting a part of input data and a c... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419334 | Ultrasonic probe An ultrasonic probe for observing an object by emitting an ultrasonic wave to the object and detecting another ultrasonic wave reflected from the object comprises: a flexible tube; an ultrasonic transducer disposed within the tube rotatably about an axial... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419335 | Acoustic lens An acoustic lens having a variable focal length for employment in an acoustic propagation medium has two lens walls, namely an entry wall and an exit wall at least one lens wall being deformable for varying the focal length, a lens liquid located between ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419336 | Heart beat monitoring An infra-red transmitter comprising transducer means (10) for sensing heart beat and producing a detectable electrical signal (10P); infra-red transmission means (28) that is energisable from a battery (30); signal processing means (14-20) that is respons... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419337 | Non-invasive multi-electrocardiographic apparatus and method of assessing acute ischaemic damage An apparatus for the detection, recording and analysis of the electrical activity of a cardiac comprises an array of from 40 to 100 electrodes each capable of detecting an electrical signal associated with the ST component of a heartbeat. The array is con... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419338 | Autonomic nervous system testing by bi-variate spectral analysis of heart period and QT interval variability Apparatus and method for testing the autonomic nervous system of a mammal through bi-variate analysis of heart period (RR) and QT interval variability obtained through data processing of electrocardiographic data. The method and apparatus enables both the... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419339 | Flexible microsurgical instrument having ground distal coil portion A flexible microsurgical instrument having a distal portion which is ground to a reduced diameter and covered with a stiffening sleeve is disclosed. The instrument includes a proximal actuating handle coupled to a flexible coil containing at least one con... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419340 | Guidable catheter assembly using coated deflector wire and method of using same A specialized control wire for use in the guidance of catheters includes a stainless steel core wire having a ball formed on the distal tip of the wire. The control wire is resiliently biased into a linear orientation for the purposes of selectively defle... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419341 | Complementary product for a condom having a closure flap An apparatus (10,110,210) for facilitating the removal of a condom (12,112,212) from a penis (14,114,214) and for preventing the entanglement of the condom (12,112,212) with pubic hair (16,116,216) located on the penis (14,114,214) and on the pubic area (... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419342 | Adjustable radiation shield assembly for protecting the breast of a patient An adjustable shield assembly for protecting the breast of a patient from radiation during the radiographic examination of the spinal column is provided. The breast shield assembly includes a right side shield assembly and a left side shield assembly. The... | 05/30/1995 |
