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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6668419 | Wiper blade for glass surfaces of motor vehicles The invention relates to a wiper blade (10) for motor vehicle windows. The wiper blade includes a rubber-elastic wiper strip (20) stretched out long in the manner of a band that can be placed against the window with a wiper lip, the two side walls of whic... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668420 | Brush assembly removal device for a floor cleaner A cleaner for cleaning a surface is provided comprising a main body and a brush assembly for engaging the surface being cleaned. An engaging member on the main body or brush assembly and a retaining portion on the other main body or brush assembly. The en... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668421 | Motor brush dust removing filter for use in vacuum cleaner A motor brush dust removing filter for use in a vacuum cleaner in which the vacuum cleaner includes a cylinder-shaped canister, a supporting portion having wheels and attached to a lower portion of the canister, an air outlet formed in a cover so as to di... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668422 | Safety device to prevent the unintentional closing of a vehicle's trunk or hood lid A device used to safely secure a vehicle's trunk or hood lid, hereafter called lid or lids, in an open position is disclosed. The preferred device comprises a .hoarfrost. formed fork, which is housed in a vehicle's existing lid support arms, with two ends... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668423 | Control device of a luggage pull rod A luggage pull rod control device comprises a locating member in one end of a drive rod and an extension rod. The locating member is formed of a main body, a locating body, and a driven member.... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668424 | Snap-in assist grip and assembly method A handle assembly and method of assembling a grip handle to a vehicle. The handle assembly includes two base unit and each include a primary and auxiliary projection that are press fit into an opening formed in a structural part of a vehicle. Detents are ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668425 | Device on a carding machine for cleaning and opening fiber material A fiber cleaning device is provided for use with a carding machine having a rotating clothing cylinder, a housing surrounding the cylinder, and an opening in the housing for removing impurities. The device has a separating knife with a knife edge for loca... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668426 | Guided insert hat fasteners for eye glasses Safety glasses holders and eye glass holders for securing to hats or fabric comprising a fixed fastener design, wherein said fastener design has a broad Y-shaped insertion point, a rigid or resilient serrated tooth or ratchet type interference eyeglass ho... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668427 | Ball lock cable tie having an aggressive ramp A metal cable tie is disclosed. The cable tie includes an elongate metallic strap, a metallic locking head, and metallic roller means. The strap has a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The head is secured to the first end of the strap for... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668428 | Fasteners incorporating a whistle This invention relates to a device to be used for tending straps and also to be used as a whistle. More particularly, this invention relates to a device for tending straps with a whistle integrated within the device where both the whistling and strap-tend... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668429 | Deep-groove fastener The invention is a deep-groove fastener which securely retains a seat cover within the groove of a deeply contoured seat bun. The fastener comprises an elongated body generally concave in cross section and having an interior cavity. A plurality of notched... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668430 | Clip for attaching a cover member and a structure for attaching the same In a clip for attaching a cover member of the invention, a base plate of the clip is bonded to and fixed at a bottom of a concave section formed in a vehicle. The base plate is provided with a holding section for holding a holder for attaching the cover. ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668431 | Easily removed heatsink clip A clip is disclosed which is capable of applying significant retention force via a rotatable cam arm while being easily removable due to the cam arm and a separate removal arm. A method of using the clip is also disclosed which uses the advantages of the ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668432 | Belt guide for clothing articles A device for guiding and preventing the upward movement of a belt worn by a person, the device having a first portion for fastening to a garment, such as a pair of pants or a skirt, and a second cantilevered flange or loop portion extending from an upper ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668433 | Shield for quick release fastener A shield for covering and preventing undesirable disengagement of a fastener including a female element having opposing notches, the female element for receiving the outwardly biased prongs of a male element. The shield includes a pair of opposed side rai... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668434 | Harness buckle and method of making same A buckle has a first outer plate, a second outer plate, and at least one intermediate plate sandwiched therebetween. Opposing first and second pawls are pivotally mounted between the first outer plate and the second outer plate, with respective force rece... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668435 | Loop pile fabrics and methods for making same A lightweight loop pile fabric having improved particle pick-up is described. In addition, a patterned loop pile fabric is described. The fabric has a plurality of multifilament loops extending from at least one of its surfaces, with at least some of the ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668436 | Device for treating sheet-like material using pressurized water jets A device for treating sheet-like material using water jets/needles. The device comprises a pressurize water supply body consisting of a feed chamber extending along the entire length of the body and inside which pressurized water is guided through a filte... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668437 | Method for producing a stacked piezoelectric element A method for producing a stacked piezoelectric element alternately stacks a plurality of layers of an electrode material and piezoelectric layers having an electric mechanical energy converting function and provided with penetrating electrodes, obtained b... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668438 | Production of vehicles A compact vehicle production line is disclosed. The production line comprises a floor process of assembling floor constituent parts. Each is an aluminum alloy extrusion die cast product, which has been made, in an extrusion die casting process, by forcing... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668439 | Apparatus for an improved gasketed aerosol mounting cup An apparatus for forming a double-segment overlapping gasket material for the mounting cup of an aerosol container comprising a punch mounted on a reciprocating ram having a central opening for the body of the mounting cup and a nose portion adapted to ex... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668440 | Control system for adjacent pitch in press cured positive drive belts A method for sequentially forming teeth in a belt that is supported on two cylinders. The method avoids having to measure the neutral plane radius by dividing the uncured belt into discrete molding sections and adjusting the length of each section prior t... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668441 | Screw mounting installation method A method is described for installing a stud to extend above a surface of a composite portion of a tank or other structure subject to the pressure of cryogenic fluid, so that another structure can be attached to the stud. The method includes drilling a thr... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668442 | Method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic head When manufacturing a thin film magnetic head, a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole are magnetically coupled and face each other in a recording-medium-facing surface. A gap layer is in between the first and second magnetic pole. A thin film coi... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668443 | Process for manufacturing a spin valve recording head The possibility of shorting between a spin valve and its underlying magnetic shield layer can be largely eliminated by choosing the bottom spin valve structure. However, doing so causes the hard longitudinal bias that is standard for all such devices to d... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668444 | Method for manufacturing a wound, multi-cored amorphous metal transformer core The present invention relates to improved transformer cores formed from wound, annealed amorphous metal alloys, particularly multi-limbed transformer cores. Processes for the manufacture of the improved transformer cores, and transformers comprising the i... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668445 | Method of increasing tab bond strength using reactive ion etching A method of tape automated bonding a heater chip of an ink jet printer to a flexible circuit includes the step of attaching an electrically conductive bonding pad to a first portion of a surface of the heater chip. A mask is applied to a second portion of... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668446 | Recuperator duct assembly line An assembly line for economically and efficiently assembling a core into a recuperator. The assembly line has an inlet end, an assembly station, a welding station, a control station and an outlet end. The inlet end has a plurality of the cores to be used ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668447 | Multilayered board comprising folded flexible circuits and method of manufacture An easier and cheaper way to obtain multilayer circuit board is by using a flexible circuit board and folding it in an organized pattern. Flexible circuit has the unique property of being a three-dimensional circuit that can be shaped in multiplanar confi... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668448 | Method of aligning features in a multi-layer electrical connective device A method of constructing an electric apparatus, comprising the following steps. First, a set of dielectric layers is provided. Next, a set of conductive features and at least one fiducial marking are formed on a first one of the dielectric layers, in mutu... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668449 | Method of making a semiconductor device having an opening in a solder mask The present invention features a novel design for a fiducial and pin one indicator that utilizes a single solder resist opening in a die mounting substrate to perform the combined functions of prior art fiducials and pin one indicators. Methods of fabrica... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668450 | Method for the production of an electrotechnical device The invention relates to a method for the production of an MID device. Proceeding from a conductor track sheet, which comprises a support sheet as well as conductor tracks arranged thereon, a plastic body is injection-molded onto this conductor track shee... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668451 | Methods for trimming electrical parameters in an electrical circuit Electrical circuit trimming methods. In one aspect of the invention, a trimming method includes assembling one or more components of an electrical circuit onto a printed circuit board having one or more electrical connections coupled to the said one or mo... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668452 | Piston-rod scraping ring accommodated in a groove in a dashpot cap, and method of inserting such a ring in such a groove A piston-rod scraping ring (7) of elastic material accommodated in an inward opening groove (9) in a dashpot cap (2) and especially intended to scrape water and dirt off a piston rod (1). The object is to allow the ring to be easily inserted into the groo... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668453 | Method for manufacturing ink jet recording head A method for manufacturing an ink jet recording head comprising a discharging orifice for discharging an ink, a discharge pressure generating element for generating energy for ink discharge, and an ink flow path communicating with the discharging orifice,... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668454 | Method for manufacturing a liquid-discharging recording head A method for manufacturing a liquid-discharging recording head can prevent deviation in the dimensions and the pitch of grooves, serving as liquid channels, and holes, serving as discharging ports, and generation of burrs around discharging ports while ma... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668455 | Method for preparing a multi-layer metal tube A method for preparing a multi-layer metal tube, comprises the steps of breaking the adhesion between at least a portion of a polymeric layer and an outer surface circumference of a metal tube having a corrosion resistant layer applied thereto, thereby ca... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668456 | Method for manufacturing a display element for a timepiece and display element manufactured in accordance with such method In order to manufacture the display element intended for a timepiece, a sheet of plastic material shaped in a tape (3) is provided. The sheet is then deformed using tools (4, 6) by thermoforming to give it a profile (10, 11, 13, B) corresponding to the ou... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668457 | Heat-activated structural foam reinforced hydroform A reinforced hydroform member having an outer structural member reinforced by a structural foam supported by the outer structural member. The structural foam extends along at least a portion of the length of the outer structural member. The structural foa... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668458 | Automatic field cable stripper The automatic field cable stripper is a three-part device attachable to a hand-held power drill which is used to remove the outer insulation jacket from the end of a cable to a desired length. The three parts of the stripper are: a cylindrically shaped cu... | 12/30/2003 |
