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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6776044 | Ultrasonic device for inspection The invention is based on the problem of providing an inspection device and an inspection method, which recognise the defective lenses, which are difficult to detect with conventional optical methods, with a high degree of reliability. According to the invention, th... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776045 | Bragg grating pressure sensor for industrial sensing applications A fiber grating pressure sensor for use in an industrial process includes an optical sensing element 20,600 which includes an optical fiber 10 having a Bragg grating 12 impressed therein which is encased within and fused to at least a portion of... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776046 | Pressure sensor with foresighted maintenance control and monitoring for diaphragm fracture and to a method for monitoring for diaphragm fracture A pressure-measuring device with monitoring for diaphragm fracture comprises a housing with a passage whose two openings at the end faces of the housing are closed by a first deformation body and a second deformation body. The passage is completely filled with a tra... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776048 | Tribological test apparatus A tribological test apparatus has a supporting structure, to which are fitted a central shaft rotating about a respective axis, and three peripheral shafts rotating about respective axes equally spaced angularly about the axis of the central shaft; the central shaft... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776049 | System and method for measuring stress at an interface A stress sensor is provided that is suited for measurement of stress between adjacent mated bodies, such as at an interface. The stress sensor permits measurement of stress, preferably a shear component of the stress substantially exclusive of the normal component. ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776050 | Support for bending test of flexible substrates A support for facilitating the bending test of flexible substrates is disclosed. The support includes a plastic or adhesive plastic applied on the substrate to keep the shards together after breakage, thereby eliminating the process of collecting the shards and fitt... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776051 | Ultrasonic transducer and ultrasonic flowmeter using same It is an object of the present invention to provide an ultrasonic transducer, which is so configured as to reduce the variations in characteristics, thereby to enable the stabilization of the precision, as well as to enable the improvement of the durability, and the... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776052 | Coriolis flowmeter having a reduced flag dimension for handling large mass flows A Coriolis flowmeter sensor capable of handling large mass flow rates and having a reduced flag dimension. In order to have a reduced flag dimension, each of the flow tubes forms a semicircle between an inlet and an outlet. Brace bars, connected to the flow tubes pr... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776053 | Flowmeter for the precision measurement of an ultra-pure material flow A Coriolis flowmeter for the measurement of a process material requiring an ultra high level of purity. This is achieved by forming the entire Coriolis flowmeter of a PFA plastic material that does not transfer ions from the Coriolis flowmeter to the process materia... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776054 | Flow meter for multi-phase mixtures A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining the flow rates of fluid phases in a pipe containing multiple fluid phases. A Venturi is provided to measure total volumetric flow rate measurement and a holdup measurement is taken approximately 3-10 pipe diameters... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776055 | Measurement of fuel flow A fuel mass flowmeter 10 includes a rotatable drum 22 through which fuel to be metered may pass and an impeller 24 mounted within the drum such that it may rotate relative thereto but is biased against such rotation by a spring 26. The dr... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776056 | Seat belt tension sensor A seat belt tension sensor for measuring the magnitude of tension in a seat belt. The seat belt tension sensor has a housing with a cavity. An anchor plate has a portion located in the cavity. The housing moves relative to the anchor plate between a first position a... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776057 | Magnetized transducer element for torque or force sensor A magnetic transducer element for use in sensing torque in a contactless transducer system for rotating shaft comprises an annular region of magnetization induced in the shaft by rotating it about its axis with respect to a magnetizing source oriented to create long... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776058 | Digital magneto-sensitive torque sensor A digital torque sensor employing a torsion bar, a target wheel at each end thereof, and at least two magnetosensitive (galvanomagnetic) sensors, in the form of magnetosensitive arrays, one for each target wheel, respectively, to precisely determine the angle of twi... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776059 | Method and device for sampling and storing urine specimen A method and a device for sampling and storing a urine specimen capable of recovering a sampled urine specimen to a recovery container (5) through a filter (2) by the sucking pressure of the decompressed and enclosed recovery container (5); the ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776060 | Electronic component sucking device and electronic component testing apparatus having the same Disclosed are an electronic component sucking device and an electronic component testing apparatus using the same, the sucking device comprising a suction head having at its extremity an opening arranged to suck an electronic component when a negative pressure is ap... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776061 | Shock-absorbing screw module An apparatus for guiding a threaded spindle in rotation, which spindle is used to ensure the displacement in translation of a mobile element connected to a threaded female piece engaged on this threaded spindle, which threaded spindle has a certain length and is con... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776062 | Power transmission system A power transmission system capable of preventing a feeling of inertia travel caused by torque transmission interruption, without increasing the axial length of a transmission, thereby improving the speed position-shifting performance of the transmission, includes a... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776063 | Ball screw In the ball screw, a ball circulation tube 20 is formed to have such a shape that the movable amount of balls 15 in a first direction (X) intersecting at right angles to the axis of the tube 20 is larger than the movable amount of the balls 1... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776064 | Double flank worm gear mechanism A worm/worm gear assembly comprises a worm having teeth defined by at least one thread disposed thereon and a worm gear having teeth protruding from a surface thereof. At least one of the worm and the worm gear is fabricated from a resilient material. The teeth of t... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776065 | Lockable elastic joint for anthropomorphous robot serving industrial machines, particularly for sheet metal machining machines A lockable elastic joint for anthropomorphous robot with a wrist and a handling organ, having a first part that is fastenable to the wrist of the robot and a second part that is fastenable to the handling organ of the robot. A first coupling is provided between the ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776066 | Hand lever A hand lever includes a sleeve-shaped member having an inwardly protruding projection, a fastening element having a stop interacting with the projection, wherein the fastening element is mounted in the sleeve-shaped member so as to be longitudinally slidable to a li... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776067 | Harmonic drive and internal geared wheel for a drive of this type The invention relates to a harmonic drive (12) which can be provided with overload protection that is easy to influence constructionally and a free-wheeling characteristic. To this end, the spokes (21) of the internal geared wheel (15) are speci... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776068 | Valve operator Valve operator having a weighted powering assembly that is substantially supported and balanced on a generally upright elongated key that drivingly engages a rotatable valve nut. ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776069 | Battery powered screwdriver and screw starting device A power tool comprising a housing having a member disposed therein and a spindle for receipt of a tool bit wherein the spindle is retained on a shaft. The spindle and shaft define an axis of rotation relative to the housing. The power tool further comprises a collet... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776070 | Iron roughneck An iron roughneck has a pair of upper jaws carrying pipe gripping dies for gripping tool joints. The jaws have recesses formed on each side of the pipe gripping dies to receive spinning rollers. By positioning the spinning rollers in the upper jaws at the same level... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776071 | Stepless ratchet wrench structure A stepless ratchet wrench structure includes a wrench body having a through hole at the center thereof for holding individual components and the bottom of the body being an integrally formed stepless circular disc seat, wherein a frictional slanting face of the circ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776072 | Adjustable pliers wrench An adjustable pliers wrench including a fixture having a handle and an opposing stationary jaw, a co-acting jaw pivoted to the fixture and a lever pivoted to the co-acting jaw. A guide is attached proximate the handle and a locking element is arranged on the guide f... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776073 | Hand pliers A pair of non-conductive substantially buoyant-in-water hand pliers comprising a pair of non-conductive lever members each having a handle portion and a jaw portion and formed of material having a density greater than water. The lever members are pivotally connected... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776074 | Apparatus and method for handling flexible tubes Apparatus for and a method of handling flexible tubes, for example in the production of a liner for a cargo container to provide a tubular attachment on the liner. A tube 16 in the form of a web of flexible material is drawn over a support 39 mounted o... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776075 | High-speed shear for transverse cutting of a thin rolled strip A high-speed shear for transversely cutting a rolled ship having a small thickness and including at least one blade provided on one of two oppositely located drums, and a controllable device for displacing the two drums between a cutting position, in which the strip... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776076 | Angle gauge An angle sensor has a miter bar, a fence, a rotary sensor, a display, and a processing system and may additionally have a head plate, an auxiliary fence, means for detachably affixing the miter bar to a saw blade, and a power source. The miter bar has a longitudinal... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776077 | Roller blade cutting device A cutting device includes a main board having a pressing member pivotably connected between two frames pivotably connected on two ends of the main board. A cutting mechanism is movably engaged to a side of the pressing member and has a roller blade therein. The pres... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776078 | Cutting machine A cutting machine comprising a chuck table for holding a workpiece, a spindle unit having a rotary spindle for mounting a cutting blade which cuts the workpiece held on the chuck table, and a spindle unit support mechanism for supporting the spindle unit in such a m... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776079 | Asymetrically contoured elastomeric disk An elastomeric disk for use in an elastomeric ejection system in which a thickened curvature protrudes from both sides of a central plane of the disk. Integral to each curvature is an annulet which dovetails from the curvatures to a periphery of the disk. The thickn... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776080 | Hydraulic pressure intensifier A hydraulic pressure intensifier includes a supply connection, a return connection, and a high-pressure connection. An intensifier piston assembly includes a high-pressure cylinder with a high-pressure piston displaceable therein and a low-pressure cylinder having a... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776081 | Pneumatic actuator system A pneumatic actuator system is provided which includes one or more piston-cylinder type actuators (14) intended for crust breaking operations at electrolytic alumina reduction baths. Each actuator (14) includes a working piston (21), and a pisto... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776082 | Fluid powered rotary indexer A fluid powered rotary indexer includes a housing with a piston rotatably mounted therein. The housing includes ports providing fluid communication to opposing compartments within the housing so as to rotate the piston clockwise or counterclockwise upon the introduc... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776083 | Membrane actuator The present invention relates to a diaphragm actuator for control valves, wherein the gear rack is arranged so that the points of contact of the gear rack/gear wheel system are situated on the straight line connecting the centers of the movable walls of the pressure... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776084 | Grill The invention is a barbecue consisting of a base with an extension at its top side, a hollow-cylindrical center part attached to the base, one or several rests attached to this hollow-cylindrical center part and several coal pans inserted in the rests. Furthe... | 08/17/2004 |
