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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6370895 | Refrigerator with two evaporators A refrigerator includes a first compartment, a second compartment, a compressor compressing and discharging refrigerant, a first evaporator connected to the compressor to cool the first compartment, the first evaporator having an outlet, a second evaporat... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370896 | Hot water supply system A hot water supply system wherein a flow of a refrigerant on a high-pressure side of a supercritical heat pump cycle and a flow of hot water are oppositely directed, and wherein water heated by the refrigerant on the high-pressure side is stored in heat i... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370897 | Semiconductor manufacturing facility A cooling jacket unit (5) is provided to a periphery of a heating furnace of a heat treatment apparatus. A cooling unit has a double water jacket comprising an inner fluid passage (51) and an outer fluid passage (52), and cooling water supplied to the out... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370898 | Automotive climate control system An automotive climate control system is disclosed. As long as an ignition switch is off, a bypass (14) is closed (in this state, a ratio between warm air and cool air is a maximum when the automotive climate control system is activated.), the blowout is s... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370899 | Single package wall mounted HVAC unit A single package wall mounted HVAC unit comprising a cabinet assembly including a primary cabinet subassembly, a back panel subassembly adapted to close the open back of the back panel subassembly, and cabinet connection means for removably attaching the ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370900 | Dehumidifying air-conditioning apparatus and dehumidifying air-conditioning system It is an object of the present invention to provide a compact dehumidifying air-conditioning apparatus, and a dehumidifying air-conditioning apparatus and a dehumidifying air-conditioning system with reduced power consumed for delivering a heating medium ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370901 | Compound evaporation system and device thereof A compound evaporation device comprises a compressor, a heat discharge divider, a main liquid line, a re-condensed tube, a vapor divider, and a primary vapor tube. The compressor is for compressing a gaseous refrigerant therein. The heat discharge divider... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370902 | Apparatus for dehumidifying air An apparatus for dehumidifying air with a frame supporting a dehumidifying device for dehumidifying air and a collector for collecting condensate generated while dehumidifying the air, the collector has a discharge unit for discharging the condensate outs... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370903 | Heat-pump type air conditioning and heating system for fuel cell vehicles A heat pump type heating and air conditioning system is provided. The heat pump comprises a series of heat exchange relationships between an internal refrigeration circuit and at least one external coolant circuit. In a preferred embodiment, a fuel cell c... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370904 | Ice maker with improved harvest detection and thermal efficiency An ice maker includes a mold having at least one cavity configured for containing water therein for freezing into ice. An auger extends substantially vertically through the at least one mold cavity. The auger is configured for rotating to thereby push the... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370905 | Air mass isolation system In an exemplary configuration, an air container is placed in a vacant portion of a structure and substantially prevents convection between an air mass in that portion and an adjacent air mass of an occupied portion of the structure. By thus isolating the ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370906 | Wind inlet and outlet system for an air conditioner A wind inlet and outlet case for a blower of an air conditioning system is connected to an inner machine, including a body and a faceplate. The body is separated into a wind inlet room and a wind outlet room with a lengthwise vertical wall, and the wind i... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370907 | Air conditioner An air conditioner including a centrifugal blower disposed in a central portion within a casing of an air conditioner main body, a heat exchanger disposed around the centrifugal blower, a heat insulation material for forming blow-off air course disposed b... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370908 | Dual evaporator refrigeration unit and thermal energy storage unit therefore A low-cost and thermodynamically efficient implementation of a two-stage refrigeration system applied to a retail refrigerator. The invention includes a simple and easily manufactured thermally efficient and low-cost evaporation unit. The invention furthe... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370909 | Condenser and air conditioning refrigeration system using the same A condenser includes a refrigerant inlet, a refrigerant outlet, a core portion having a refrigerant passage for introducing refrigerant from the refrigerant inlet to the refrigerant outlet while condensing the refrigerant, and decompressing means provided... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370910 | Liquefying a stream enriched in methane Liquefying a stream enriched in methane comprising a) supplying a natural gas stream to scrub column, removing in the scrub column heavier hydrocarbons from the natural gas stream to obtain a gaseous overhead stream withdrawn from the top of the scrub col... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370911 | Nitrous oxide purification system and process Provided are a system and method for nitrous oxide purification, wherein the nitrous oxide product for use in semiconductor manufacturing. The system and process involve a first sub-system having a purification tank for holding a liquefied nitrous oxide, ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370912 | Vaginal jewelry and exercise device A piece of jewelry designed to adorn and decorate the pelvic region of a human female. The piece of jewelry comprises an anchor member which is worn within the vagina, a decorative charm and a connecting chain long enough to permit the decorative charm to... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370913 | Wedding ring with breaking device A device adaptable to any ring, wedding ring or band, wherein the band (wedding ring or the like) is bored with at least a hole right through the whole cross-section. The hole(s) is (are) bored such that the remaining thickness is slight whatever the dire... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370914 | Openable ring with cooperating tongue and groove members An openable ring that is arranged to be worn about a portion of a body of a person and that requires a minimal amount of force to close. The ring includes first and second arcuate sections that are pivotally interconnected at one end of the ring for permi... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370915 | Method for supplying glass molding material to molds, and method for manufacturing glass optical elements A method for supplying a glass molding material by dropping it from a higher level onto a molding surface of a lower mold of a mold constituted of an upper mold and the lower mold, in which a guide means is used for dropping the glass molding material and... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370916 | Flare manufacturing method It is an object of the present invention to reduce variations in dimensional accuracy such as the outer-diameter accuracy and roundness of a flare shape and the concentricity between the bulb portion and the flare portion. According to the present inventi... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370917 | Quenching method and apparatus for tempering a glass sheet A quenching method and apparatus for tempering a glass sheet. The method includes a step of transferring a heated glass sheet between quenching boxes which are provided with nozzles opposingly arranged near upper and lower surfaces of the glass sheet to b... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370918 | Press forming machine for optical devices A press forming machine for optical devices which manufactures, an optical device from silica glass with a high glass transition point. A transparent quartz tube surrounds an upper die unit, lower die unit, fixed shaft, and moving shaft to form an airtigh... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370919 | Method of setting parameters for welding optical waveguides by determining the reduction of a construction diameter A test optical fiber section (F) that resides under tensile stress (F) is heated in at least one longitudinal location so that a constriction (Ɗd) of its outside circumference forms thereat. This constriction (Ɗd) is acquired and utilized for setting we... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370920 | Apparatus to improve degree of cure for ultraviolet curable optical fiber coating by actively removing heat from the coating during irradiation An apparatus and method for curing a coating applied to an optical fiber. A water-jacketed UV lamp is provided adjacent a first reflector. An optical fiber is drawn between a second reflector opposite the first reflector and at least one quartz plate, whi... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370921 | Tubular knitting machine A device knits together a tubular structure of continuous fibers with a stitch yarn, to provide a reinforcing substrate, especially for use with roofing materials. The device brings together first and second sets of the continuous fibers at a cylinder wit... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370922 | Adjustable plating yarn carrier assembly for knitting plated fabric An adjustable plating yarn carrier (1) having two yarn guides (32, 34) allowing for the adjustment of the angle between two yarns (H, S) and the angles of both yarns to the needle (N), for the knitting of plated fabric, is provided.... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370923 | Method and apparatus for removing lints in circular knitting machine A method and apparatus for removing regular/reverse rotational type lints in circular knitting machine which is made to effectively remove not only lints already fallen and piled on needle portion (array of knitting station) but also even lints being fall... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370924 | Warp-knitted fabric for inflatable belt cover The invention is a warp-knitted fabric for an inflatable belt cover for covering an envelope-like belt which composes an inflatable belt that is folded into the shape of a band. The warp-knitted fabric comprises knitting yarns and insert yarns inserted am... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370925 | Fastening device with tape In a fastening device with tape, made of synthetic resin, the tape is composed of a warp knitting structure including an attachment area composed of one or more wales disposed at the right and left edge portions in a width direction of the tape, and a fas... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370926 | Washing machine A washing machine, provided with a twistable washing tub inside a perforated spin-drying tub for improving its cleaning effect, is disclosed. The twistable washing tub is repeatedly twisted and untwisted at its sidewall during a washing process, thus repe... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370927 | Security device for spare wheel winch A security device for spare wheel winch for preventing the spare wheel winch from being lowered beneath the vehicle. The security device for spare wheel winch includes a tubular member having a first open end and a second open end and also having a bore e... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370928 | Mechano-electronically operated cylinder-key unit for locks A mechano-electronically operated cylinder-key unit for locking including a cylinder unit and key. The cylinder unit having a cylinder portion, a pawl for operating a bar for locking/unlocking, an electrical energy generator for powering an electronic cir... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370929 | Apparatus for insertion of a key therein An apparatus for insertion of a key therein substantially prevents foreign matter from entering into a key insertion hole, and even if foreign matter does enter into the key insertion hole, discharges the foreign matter therefrom. A shutter is provided wi... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370930 | Continuous shear deformation device The present invention relates to a continuous shear deformation device. In order to occur shear deformation at the position at which a material is inserted into a molding path from a rotary guide apparatus for the purpose of solving the problem that the a... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370931 | Stamping die for producing smooth-edged metal parts having complex perimeter shapes A stamping die produces gears or other parts having quality tooth forms or the like from smooth edged metal blanks. A lower portion of the die includes a trim punch, whose perimeter shape corresponds to the shape of the desired part, and a vertically mova... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370932 | Folding apparatus for folding plates A folding apparatus (10) includes a pair of dies (20) defining a recess (20M) therebetween, a cushion pad (30) vertically movable in the recess, a pair of support blocks (40), a pair of pivoting blocks (50) rotatable about the dies, and a vertically movab... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370933 | Die and method for reducing controlling the formation of flash on parts A die for reducing the formation of flash on parts includes a first die section and a second die section defining therein a cavity. The first die section includes a pair of first surfaces and the second die section includes a pair of second surfaces which... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370934 | Extrusion tool, process for the production thereof and use thereof In an extrusion tool--in particular a disk-shaped pressing die with at least one shaping opening for the extrusion of metal such as aluminum or an aluminum alloy--comprising a steel material--in particular a low-distortion hot-working steel--with a surfac... | 04/16/2002 |
