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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5816079 | Needle position detecting system for a circular knitting machine A needle position detecting system for a circular knitting machine inputs the needle position to a computer which controls the needles to perform jacquard knitting. The knitting machine includes a needle cylinder carrying a plurality of needles, a driven ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816080 | Refrigerator side-by-side door seal assembly A gasket assembly for use in side-by-side, or French doors for a refrigerator has door stops which bear the door closure forces by engaging the top and bottom walls of the refrigerator food compartment. The door stops form part of an edge flange of a reta... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816081 | Methods and apparatus for locking peripheral equipment to a computer housing A computer includes receptacles for receiving electric cables of peripheral equipment. A gate can be mounted to the housing to extend across the cables and form a gap small enough to prohibit the cable plugs from being separated from the housing. The gate... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816082 | Universal vehicular anti-theft device An anti-theft device (18) mounted to a wheel (90) or the like. Device (18) includes a shield (20) that mounts on top of a wheel (90), with adjustable links (63, 64) at one end (27) of device (18) thrust through voids (91) separating spokes (92) of the whe... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816083 | Electronic lock system In one preferred embodiment, an electronic lock, including: an enclosure; a barrel member rotatable between locked and unlocked positions; electronic circuitry disposed within the enclosure; the barrel member including communication apparatus in electrica... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816084 | Electronic combination lock with an arrangement for moving a locking lever both into and out of an "engage" position in which lock may be opened A user of a self-powered electronic combination lock rotates an outer dial to cause generators to generate energy for storage in a capacitor bank. The user then rotates an inner dial to cause a microcontroller to sequentially display a combination of numb... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816085 | Remote entry knobset A knobset comprising a latch mechanism including an extendable deadbolt, a lock housing, a first spindle, a slide actuator, a slide housing mounted on the first spindle for supporting the slide actuator for linear displacement, spring means interconnectin... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816086 | Axial moving pushbutton for a lock having rotary locking and release motions A door lock device has an inside handle assembly and an outside handle assembly. A latch is positioned between the two handle assemblies and there is a spindle which is in rotatable engagement with both handle assemblies and in operable engagement with th... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816087 | Method for producing a seamless steel tubular product A seamless steel tubular product is produced by hot-piercing an alloy-steel billet with a piercing plug to produce a hollow shell and then rolling the hollow shell. Prior to the hot-piercing, a steel sheet is joined to an end surface of the billet into wh... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816088 | Surface treatment method for a steel workpiece using high speed shot peening Fatigue-resistance is significantly increased by performing shot peening using fine shots. A plurality of particles of hard metal having a diameter ranging from 20 to 100 micrometers are ejected onto a surface of a steel workpiece at an impinging speed gr... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816089 | Hydroforming apparatus having in-die hole piercing capabilities and a slug ejection system using hydroforming fluid A hydroforming apparatus having in-die hole piercing capabilities and a slug ejection system is disclosed. The slug ejection system uses the pressurized hydroforming fluid as the motive force to eject the slug of material created by the in-die hole pierci... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816090 | Method for pneumatic isostatic processing of a workpiece A pneumatic isostatic forging process for densification of near net shape workpieces is disclosed. In the process, a workpiece is heated prior to the forging process, such as from a previous processing step. The workpiece is loaded into a pressure vessel.... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816091 | Wire shaping apparatus, in particular universal spring winding machine, with cutting device In order to obtain better noise protection, longer service life of machine and tools, and to increase the productivity of wire shaping apparatuses, in particular, a universal spring winding machine with a cutting device (16) consisting essentially of a mo... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816092 | Roll pass design for a pipe reducing rolling mill A roll pass design for the sets of rolls of a non-mandrel type multiple-stand pipe reducing mill, each set of rolls having three rolls. In order to improve the roll pass design so that the flow of material in the pipe is acted upon locally in such a way t... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816093 | Method and tool for forming a tapered hole in a cylindrical work by punching extruding This invention provides a forming method capable of forming tapered through holes at once with a single pressing operation. A hole is formed in a work with a piercing punch 1 mounted on a press by using a small-diameter punching portion 1a formed on the d... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816094 | Apparatus for swaging a ferrule onto wire rope The invention relates to a swaging method and apparatus for swaging flemish eye splices. In particular, the invention concerns the production of swaged joints in which, by virtue of providing ferrules (5) and swage blocks (16, 17) of a particular construc... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816095 | Bending tool A bending tool for use with a human hand for bending the distal extremity of a guide tube of a medical device having a needle assembly slidably mounted in the guide tube. The distal extremity of the guide tube has a tip. The bending tool is comprised of a... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816096 | Calibration frame A calibration frame for a non-contact measurement system includes a frame structure (12); a plurality of targets (14) which may be light emitting diodes supported by the frame structure for viewing by the measurement system; control means for activating e... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816097 | Position control apparatus for gyroscope A position control apparatus for a gyroscope mechanically controls a setting position of the gyroscope. The position control apparatus for a gyroscope includes a circular mount for adjusting a setting position of the gyroscope in a predetermined direction... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816098 | Method and system for controlling attitude of lifting load utilizing gyro effect A lifting load attitude controlling system includes a lifting load pivoting clutch (20) provided between a gyro frame (1) and a gimbal frame (6) for connecting and disconnecting therebetween. Also, a resetting rotating clutch is provided between a resetti... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816099 | Motorcycle windshield wiper drive assembly A motorcycle windshield wiper drive assembly that includes a mounting bracket having a central motor support portion, a first bracket end connecting portion having a first mounting aperture formed therethrough, and a second bracket end connecting portion ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816100 | Skip shift selection control system and method A control system and method for an automated mechanical transmission system (10) is provided for allowing operator request for a direct skip shift in at least one of the upshift or downshift direction, and for a direct shift into the selected ratio. Retai... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816101 | Transmission and shift mechanism A manual transmission comprising a first pivot member operatively connected to a first coupling unit on an output shaft and is selectively rotatable to drive the first coupling unit between first, neutral and second positions. A second pivot member is ope... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816102 | Engine-generator set with integral gear reduction In an engine-generator set, the generator has a first shaft driving a generator armature and also has a second shaft in spaced relationship to the first shaft. The second shaft is coupled to the engine and there is a gear on each of the shafts which provi... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816103 | Ball worm and worm gear device The present invention is a ball worm and worm gear device which is a ball worm structure consisting of an arbor, a helix body and a housing where the said helix body further consists of a back-flow socket pipe that encase the arbor and a helical socket pi... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816104 | Hydrostatic feed screw mechanism and movable body using the same A feed screw mechanism includes a nut having a female thread, and a feed screw shaft having a male thread screw-engaged with the female thread. A thrust pocket is formed along a flank of the female thread of the nut, and pressurized fluid is supplied ther... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816105 | Three degree of freedom parallel mechanical linkage A three degree of freedom parallel mechanism or linkage that couples three degree of freedom translational displacements at an endpoint, such as a handle, a hand grip, or a robot tool, to link rotations about three axes that are fixed with respect to a co... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816106 | Column shifter linkage for robotic control of vehicle A device for coupling a robot to a column-mounted shift lever of a vehicle includes a line extending between the robot and shift lever for holding the shift lever in an unlocked position. An adapter is attached to the lever, and an actuator is coupled to ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816107 | Joint for industrial robot A swinging base 12 is provided on top of a stationary base 11 such as to be capable of rotating by means of a bearing 13. A reduction gear 15 is provided in a depression portion 14 formed on the top surface of the stationary base 11. A motor 16 having a r... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816108 | Assembled wrist for industrial robot including a protective member A assembled wrist for use on an industrial robot having a final-axis arm (2) includes passage (45) formed by first, second and third spaces arranged in series. The passage extends from a third driver tube (9) in the final-axis arm (2) to one end surface o... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816109 | System and device for connecting and adjusting two cables A system and device for connecting and adjusting at least two cables is disclosed. The device includes a first elongate cavity with an upper portion having a cable receiving aperture disposed therein, a lower portion having a bracket disposed therein, and... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816111 | Actuator for a hand brake of a motor vehicle An actuator for a cable-controlled hand brake of a motor vehicle including a ratchet carrier attached to the vehicle body, a brake actuating lever hingedly supported on the ratchet carrier, a spring-biased drive pawl formed as a rocker and having a circum... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816112 | Steering wheel A steering wheel assembly having a slidably mounted locking system of the boss plate to connect the steering wheel onto a steering shaft. The lock system comprises a fixing device slidably mounted on an upper surface of a boss plate. The fixing device inc... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816113 | Attachment device for a vehicle steering wheel A device for attaching a steering wheel on a steering shaft by a connecting sleeve, which is attached to the hub of the steering wheel. At its end, the steering shaft has a section with exterior splines, which are complementary to interior splines in the ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816114 | High speed flywheel A method of operating a flywheel (10) includes the provision of a central shaft (12) defining an axis of rotation; providing a disk-shaped hub (22) joining drivingly with both the shaft and with a rim portion (34); and which hub portion has a shape when t... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816115 | Weight compensating method and apparatus A guide member is located circumferentially around a rotating member. A plurality of movable weights are mounted on and guided by the guide member. The guide member may have the shape of an I-beam.... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816116 | Universal mount housing construction for right angle gearboxes and gearmotors A universal mount housing construction for right angle gearboxes and gearmotors that allows a wide variety of mounting and torque support configurations. The housing includes a generally cubic-shaped cast housing body having an input opening in a first si... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816117 | Dual inputs and dual outputs harmonic drive apparatus The present invention comprises a harmonic drive transmission for the simultaneous production of a first and a second rotary output. The invention includes a primary housing, a first flexspline may be hermetically secured within the housing with a first w... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816118 | Chain saw sharpening bench A chain saw stabilizing bench is disclosed which permits the sharpening of chain saw cutting teeth under field conditions. The bench consists of an extended planar platform for holding the weight of the saw and an upright holder for securing the saw bar a... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816119 | Tightening tool, especially screwdriver A tightening tool which includes a driving part forming a grip of a handle of the tool and a driven part which includes a blade holder and is a complementary distal part of the handle. These two parts have, in a first position of use, a common axis of rot... | 10/06/1998 |
