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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6032487 | Fabrication process of a gradient index type of optical element The invention provides a process of obtaining a gradient index type of optical element with profiles of first and second metal component concentrations by the sol-gel method. The process of fabricating a gradient index type of optical element comprises st... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032488 | Method of manufacturing a porous inhomogeneous material The invention is used to manufacture an inhomogeneous medium whose porosity and permeability undergo rapid transitions from one point to another of its volume, by juxtaposing different materials without creating a barrier. Such a transition is made by jux... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032489 | Method for manufacturing tempered glass sheet and apparatus for manufacturing the same A gas is supplied to the surface of the glass sheet transferred between a heating furnace and a cooling apparatus for tempering the glass sheet. The gas is supplied from the upstream side with respect to the direction of transfer of the glass sheet by an ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032490 | Mold for fabricating optical fiber guide block In a grindstone for fabricating a mold which has optical fiber engagement portions of an optical fiber guide block used for aligning optical fibers, two main grinding surfaces are provided to form the optical fiber engagement portions contacted with the s... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032491 | Apparatus for mold changing in heated glass sheet forming station Apparatus (32) and a method for heated mold changing at a forming station (24) in a heated chamber (22) where heated glass sheets are cyclically formed. A switching station (318) is located adjacent the forming station (24). An unloading station (320) and... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032492 | I.S. machine An I.S. glass forming machine is disclosed which has a plurality of individual sections each having a parison mold including a cavity having a first vertical axis. There is a trough assembly for each of the mold cavities which includes a deflector definin... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032493 | H-28 Glass forming machine An H-28 machine has a plurality of identical sections each processing a gob of molten glass into a parison and then into a piece of ware each complete revolution of the section. Each section includes a blank mold displaceable between a parison forming pos... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032494 | Drum type drying/washing machine A drum type drying/washing machine performs drying without the flow of cooling water during a predetermined period of time or a period of time determined in accordance with an amount of clothes. After the passage of the period of time, the machine starts ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032495 | Wash ball A wash ball comprises an upper and an lower case half both of which have a semi-spherical shell body with openings formed thereon. The connecting end of the upper case half is provided on the end surface with a plurality of cavities and on the peripheral ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032496 | Door lock arrangement for motor vehicles A door lock arrangement for motor vehicles with a closing cylinder arrangement (2) attached to outer sheet metal (1) of the body of a vehicle so as to be accessible from the outside and with a lock mechanism (5) attached in the body to be inaccessible fro... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032497 | Vehicle immobilizer with self-positioning tire shop A vehicle immobilizing device adapted for removable interconnection to a vehicle wheel assembly for temporarily immobilizing the vehicle. The vehicle immobilizing device utilizes an outer arm, an inner arm, an engagement dome, a self-positioning tire stop... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032498 | Security system for use on the beach A security system for securing personal property at a beach including two augers is provided. A pair of augers (15,16,50,100) are screwed into the sand. A crossbar (11,102) placed in loops (13,14,56) on the exposed ends of the augers. The crossbar is lock... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032499 | Device for lifting a ban on the opening of a conditional locking system A device for lifting, in particular in the event of a breakdown or failure, the ban on the opening of a conditional opening locking system. This device includes: driving means (MT); a transmission member (28); and a blocking member (PVI) connected to the ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032500 | Kit for retrofitting a door with a security lock system A kit for retrofitting a door with a remotely controllable locking mechanism having a combination key-operated deadbolt lock and door knob latching lock for a door. A housing for the operating parts is insertable in a mortised pocket or cavity in the latc... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032501 | Method of hydroforming multi-lateral members from round tubes A method is provided for forming an elongated multi-lateral member from a round tube. A die is provided having a first die member and a second die member movable relative to the first die member between open and closed positions. The first and second die ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032502 | Apparatus and method for necking containers A die assembly includes spinning pilot rollers for necking-in the open end of a container. The die assembly includes a cylindrical die for engaging the outside surface of a container. A tubular spindle is rotatably mounted along the axis of the die. One o... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032503 | Method and apparatus for roll forming a plurality of heat exchanger fin strips A method and apparatus are provided for roll forming a plurality of fin strips (10) from a single elongated strip of sheet material (20). The strip (20) includes a pair of adjacent, longitudinal rows (22, 24) of alternating crests (26) and valleys (28), w... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032504 | Draw stamping die for stamping body panels for motor vehicles A method and apparatus for forming an exterior body panel for a motor vehicle. The method comprises mounting a sheet of metal material in a die assembly, clamping first peripheral portion of the sheet of metal material between clamping surfaces of the die... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032505 | Tooling apparatus and method for high speed production of drawn metal cup-like articles The dynamic loading on a double action high speed mechanical cupping press is substantially reduced with multiple stage tooling which forms a batch of cups from a strip of sheet metal with each stroke of the press. Each tooling stage includes a plurality ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032506 | Improvment to the blank holder force regulating system in a press A stamping press comprising a blank-holder force-regulating system using fluid-operated compensating cylinders (5, 7). The variation in the force in the blank-holder pressure-regulating areas is thus compensated so as to maintain a predetermined constant ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032507 | Pre-bending of workpieces in dies in near net warm forging A female die of a closed die set for use in near net warm forging a part includes a cavity having a tapered upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion is configured to support a workpiece at a preliminary position in the cavity, and to cause the... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032508 | Apparatus and method for near net warm forging of complex parts from axi-symmetrical workpieces A female die and a punch for forming relatively complex parts from axi-symmetrical workpieces, and the method of using the female die and punch to form the parts from the workpieces are disclosed. The female die and punch are used in a forging apparatus t... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032509 | Press brake A press brake comprising a bed for supporting a lower mold on the upper surface thereof, a ram for supporting an upper mold in opposition to said lower mold a driver for causing either the ram or the bed to move for bending a workpiece between the upper a... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032510 | Blind rivet setting tool A blind rivet setting tool (10) includes a front end (2) having an outer support barrel (4), an inner pulling mandrel (6) and a rivet flange contacting face (8). A portion of the outer support barrel (4) and a portion of the inner mandrel (6) are cut away... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032511 | Three-dimensional simple flexible mould for bending pipes A three-dimensional simple flexible mould for bending pipes comprised of a plurality of arciform or half-circled spring elements, pins and chucking rings for being a protecting mould in a three-dimensional pipe bending process. The two ends of every sprin... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032512 | Wafer centering device and method of using A wafer centering device which includes a wafer centering chuck and a wafer calibration disk and a method for using such device are disclosed. The wafer centering chuck can be advantageously used to replace a vacuum chuck in a processing station that util... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032513 | Apparatus and method for measuring contaminants in semiconductor processing chemicals An trace analyzer apparatus and method useful in semiconductor processing for measuring trace impurities in gases and liquids comprising a gas chromatograph serving to replace a bulk gas in a composition of bulk gas including contaminants in a bulk gas st... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032514 | Gas measuring sensor A engine exhaust gas measuring sensor having a sealing device and having a sleeve suitable for connection to a housing including a sealing element which is arranged at an end of sleeve facing away from the housing so that a reference air chamber is formed... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032515 | Test system for fluid tight integrity of installed pipeline An improved system for the non-destructive testing of the fluid tight integrity of an installed fluid transfer line such as a drain pipe or vent and wastewater system of a building. A removable test baffle is installed in a seat extending radially into th... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032516 | Method and apparatus for determining gasoline characteristics by using ultrasonic wave The present invention relates to the measurement of gasoline volatility characteristics, and is directed in particular to the provision of an ultrasonic-type gasoline characteristic determination method and apparatus capable of determining the volatility ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032517 | Device and process for measuring the rigidity of flat mail An arrangement for measuring the rigidity of flat items with the aid of a conveying path in which the items are transported separately by means of conveying belts, wherein the conveying path has a straight section and a curved section and wherein the conv... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032518 | Scanning stylus atomic force microscope with cantilever tracking and optical access A scanned-stylus atomic force microscope (AFM) employing the optical lever technique, and method of operating the same. The AFM of the invention includes a light source and a scanned optical assembly which guides light emitted from the light source onto p... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032519 | Throttle opening degree detection apparatus A throttle opening degree detection apparatus installed to an engine of a vehicle comprises a idle-up section which directly changes a throttle value opening degree to improve an engine starting characteristic under an engine cold condition and a sensor d... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032520 | Device for measuring action force of wheel and device for measuring stress of structure Action force of a wheel is measured in order to measure the road surface frictional force, vertical drag, road surface friction coefficient, etc. Means for making these measurements can be constituents of an antilock brake system, traction control system,... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032521 | Position sensor A position sensor comprises a housing (10), a rotor (16) having brushes (36, 36) thereon rotatably mounted in the housing, a base plate (20) mounted to the housing, conductive members (48, 50, 52) on the base plate in electrical connection with the brushe... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032522 | Apparatus and method for inspecting inflation of and supported weight on vehicle tires A vehicle tire inspection apparatus includes a flat plate, a flexible bladder containing a quantity of fluid, and transducers on the plate. The plate is made of a transparent yieldable resilient bendable material capable of transmitting an inflated vehicl... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032523 | Golf wind sock assembly A golf wind sock assembly comprising a structure for visually indicating wind direction. A facility is for supporting the visually indicating wind direction structure in an elevated three hundred and sixty degree rotatable position, so that a person can s... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032524 | Method and apparatus for detecting p-static interference source The detection of components that cause p-static interference with communications and navigation equipment is essential to the maintenance of an aircraft. A p-static source locator uses two leads to supply a voltage between components of the aircraft. If t... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032525 | Thermosensitive flowmeter for detecting flow rate of fluid A thermosensitive flowmeter includes a first thermosensitive resistor "Rh" for detecting a flow rate of a fluid in a fluid passage 19, a second thermosensitive resistor "Rk" for detecting an atmospheric temperature in the fluid passage, a power supply 1 f... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032526 | Heating resistor type air flow-meter of ratio-metric output type and engine control system using said heating resistor type air flow-meter A heating resistor type air flow-meter has a ratio-meter circuit comprising a proportional circuit for outputting a signal Vout proportional to an input voltage Vin a multiplying circuit for outputting a multiplied signal Vm | 03/07/2000 |
