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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6775884 | Clip-type friction hinge device A clip-type friction hinge device comprises a hinge body having insertion grooves on both insides thereof, a shaft being inserted to the each insertion groove of the hinge body on one side thereof and defining a central shaft when a monitor is pivotally moved, stand... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775885 | Two way open-end zipper A two way open-end zipper formed of two zipper tapes, left and right top stops, a plug pin and a fixed pin and two slides is disclosed in which the fixed pin has a first upright sidewall, a second upright sidewall, a longitudinal sliding way defined between the firs... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775886 | Urn for ashes An urn for storing the ashes of cremated remains of a person or a pet includes a housing in the shape of a protective angel on a support having an outwardly extending shelf adjacent the angel, and on which a representation of the person or pet may rest. An outwardly... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775887 | System for the needle-treatment of a conveyable fiber bat A system for the needle treatment of a conveyable fiber bat is provided with at least one conveying device having a plurality of needles that can be inserted into and withdrawn from a fiber bat. At least one rotating cylinder is provided to make possible a high need... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775888 | Forming system and process A system for forming workpieces, has at least one forming tool has at least one machining device with a local energy feed. The local feed is provided for machining the workpieces as a separate station within the forming system. ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775889 | Roller turret including rollers mounted on support portions of roller shafts, which are eccentric with respect to stud portions fixed in holes in turret body A roller turret including a turret body having a plurality of mounting holes formed therein such that the mounting holes are arranged in a rotating direction of the turret body, a plurality of roller shafts each including a roller support portion and a stud portion ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775890 | Apparatus for urging two members apart or together An apparatus for urging two members apart or together that includes a first clamp adapted to be received by a first piece, a second clamp adapted to be received by a second piece and a plurality of power screws coacting with the first clamp and the second clamp, whe... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775891 | Table top apparatus for fitting grips to shafts The patent illustrates an apparatus for radially expanding an elastic handgrip on its axis of elongation to allow easier introduction of a shaft to the elastic handgrip by an open end of the grip. The main body of the apparatus provides support for the shaft and fix... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775892 | Retaining ring installation tool A tool to install a retaining ring into a groove in a cylinder has a handle lever which carries an adjustable gripper constructed to engage the cylinder and a compressing lever constructed to engage a portion of the retaining ring with the compressing lever pivotall... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775893 | Jigs for assembly of flexible support structures Devices and methods for assembly of flexible weight bearing structures such as mattress foundations using the composite material spring modules are described. The invention provides assembly jigs for dimensionally fixed attachment of spring modules to frame members,... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775894 | Casing patching tool An apparatus for sealing perforations, holes, cracks or the like in a tube or pipe and particularly in an oil well casing. The apparatus including a delivery tool for delivery of a coiled patch composed of spring-like material to the location of a damaged portion wi... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775895 | Optimized method for assembling two substantially planar parts Optimized method for assembling two substantially flat parts. To assemble two parts (10, 12) that are substantially flat using fixations (14) such as rivets or bolts, first the ratio R is calculated between tensile and bending stresses relating ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775896 | Method of securing complementary fastener strips A method of providing complementary fastener strips for securing one item to another item is disclosed. A dispenser allows for complementary fastener strips in a prebound configuration, to be dispensed and used in applications such as the manufacture of outdoor furn... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775897 | Versatile adaptable holding apparatus for holding large format workpieces and method An apparatus for holding a large format workpiece includes first and second sets of support units on opposite sides of the workpiece. Each support unit includes a support arm carrying individual mounting fixtures such as suction units for suction-holding the workpie... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775898 | Method for assembling a position measuring device and a positioning means for the assembly A positioning device for setting the scanning distance between a scanning element and a scale of a position measuring device, the positioning device including a first part that is fixed in at least one direction of motion along a scanning distance directly or indire... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775899 | Method for inspecting printing state and substrate A test printing portion with a pattern dimension smaller than a minimum printing pattern dimension is formed on a substrate, and a printing state of this test printing portion is inspected after printing. Based on inspection results of the test printing portion, acc... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775900 | Method of forming a stator A stator and a method of forming the stator comprises providing a stator frame having a frame plate, and connecting key bars to the frame plate at respective connection points, each of the key bars having a dovetail. The stator and method further includes providing ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775901 | Bonding wire inductor A vertical bonding wire inductor having a high quality (Q) factor and tunability, which can be manufactured using an existing wire bonding technology which is widely used for packaging integrated circuits, without an additional mask manufacturing process. The vertic... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775902 | Method of making a magnetic head with aligned pole tips A magnetic head is fabricated by providing a substrate with a planar surface, forming at least one cavity in the planar substrate, depositing a second yoke layer in the cavity, forming a second pole tip in the cavity in contact with the second yoke layer, patterning... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775903 | Method for fabricating a top magnetoresistive sensor element having a synthetic pinned layer A method for forming top and bottom spin valve sensors and the sensors so formed, the sensors having a strongly coupled SyAP pinned layer and an ultra-thin antiferromagnetic pinning layer. The two strongly coupled ferromagnetic layers comprising the SyAP pinned laye... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775904 | Supporting pin for supporting substrates in automatic equipment units Substrates are supported by height-adjustable supporting pins in automated equipping units. The supporting pins are composed of a tip and a foot part that is spring-borne relative to the tip. When the supporting pins are placed against an underside of the substrate,... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775905 | Method for forming an improved adaptor A method provides an improved adaptor. The method involves connecting a set of conductors to (i) a set of circuit board connector contacts of a circuit board connector and (ii) a set of switchbox connector contacts of a switchbox connector. The method further involv... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775906 | Method of manufacturing an integrated circuit carrier A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit carrier includes providing a substrate. At least one receiving zone for an integrated circuit is demarcated on the substrate. A plurality of island-defining portions is arranged about each of the receiving zones. Rigid... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775907 | Process for manufacturing a printed wiring board The present invention teaches a simplified process for fabricating high density printed wiring boards using a semi-additive process. Steps required to achieve this objective include adhering an electroless plated copper commoning layer to a surface roughened dielect... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775908 | Production method of cam lobe piece of assembled camshaft A method of producing a cam lobe piece of an assembled camshaft in a valve operating system for an internal combustion engine. The method comprises (a) forming a profile of the cam lobe piece by upsetting a material under forging to obtain an intermediately formed b... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775909 | Lining device for a plate heat exchanger The invention refers to a lining device (15) for a plate heat exchanger, a plate heat exchanger, and a method for manufacturing a plate heat exchanger with a package of heat transfer plates and an end plate (5), which has at least one porthole. The lin... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775910 | Segmented core A segmented core includes a plurality of integral core segments defined by a respective separation slot in the outer surface thereof. A sheet is wound around the core in a plurality of layers and is slit at the slot to simultaneously wind respective sheet ribbons on... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775911 | Cutting device with retractable blade The invention relates to a cutting device with a retractable blade comprising a blade and a sleeve into which it is adapted to be retracted. It comprises: a support (16) for the blade (12), having a drive abutment (36), adapted to slide along th... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775912 | Blade scraping tool A blade scraping tool including a hand gripping casing formed of a top covering and a bottom covering; a resilient plate mounted inside the casing; a blade; a blade mounting device; and an interlocking assembly. The resilient plate is slidably movable along a longit... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775913 | Battery operated circular saw A battery (4) driven circular saw includes a housing (1a) with a motor (3) for driving the circular saw blade (2). The circular saw blade (2) is fixed to a drive shaft (7) that runs transverse to the plane (E) of the ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775914 | Surface profiling apparatus A surface profiler comprises at least one mass resiliently supported in relation to the frame of the profiler to exert a downward force opposing upward movement of the frame when the wheels pass over an obstacle. Two such masses may be constrained for substantially ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775915 | Method and device for determining adequacy of space for television sets An article for determining the adequacy of space for a television set comprises a foldable generally rigid body, such as cardboard, having dimensions approximately equal to those of the television set. The article includes indicia indicating the diagonal screen size... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775916 | Framer's layout square A layout tool for laying out or “marking” positions at a predetermined spacing for the attachment of studs having a nominal thickness to a length of dimensioned lumber comprising a plate, when framing walls during construction of a building. The layout tool incl... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775917 | Adjustable angle cutting jig device and method of using An adjustable angle cutting jig device and associated method of using the device for use with a table saw having a circular blade, a rip fence and a miter groove is disclosed. The device comprising the interconnected elements of a rip fence guide, a first shank, a s... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775918 | Wafer cassette pod equipped with position sensing device A wafer cassette pod that is equipped with at least one position sensing device to avoid the accidental falling of a cassette pod door resulting in wafer breakage. The wafer cassette pod is provided with at least one position sensing device mounted in the sidewall o... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775919 | Radially relieved locating pin A precision, hardened, radially relieved locating pin (20) comprised of a pair of cylindrically ground radially opposed locating segments (22), a pair of radially opposed radial reliefs (26) adjacent to the locating segments, a chamfered lead po... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775920 | Method of fabricating semiconductor device comprising superposition inspection step A photolithography step is carried out for exposing/etching a resist film in an etching step. Thereafter a superposition inspection step employing a superposed layer superposition mark and a resist film superposition mark is carried out with a superposition inspecti... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775921 | Method for fabricating an annular scale In a method for manufacturing an annular scale from a measuring strip, the ends of a measuring strip are welded together, and the shortening of the scale-division marks in the joint region caused by the welding operation is compensated by a subsequent rolling operat... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775922 | Hair dryer and attachment system A hair dryer attachment system provides a dryer and a plurality of attachments. A fastening mechanism is provided so that multiple attachments are each securable to the generally circular or ovate dryer barrel using the same fastening technology. Each of the attachm... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775923 | Laundry drier control method A laundry drier control method is provided, by which drying time is dynamically controlled according to an amount and type of a drying object, using a calculated medium temperature to determine a medium temperature time. The method includes steps of initiating a dry... | 08/17/2004 |
