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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6857536 | Support device and method for a rotary closure assembly A closure arrangement comprises a hub 314, a head 320 adapted to be disengage able from the hub 314. A davit arm 300 is mounted on a swivel mount 316 provided on the hub 314, and the swivel mount 316 is arranged to al... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857537 | Heat insulation plate mounting structure on fuel tank A resin member has a first barrel member 30, which can be welded to the fuel tank, and a second barrel member having a higher melting temperature than the first barrel member. The first barrel member is joined to the outer circumference of the second barrel m... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857538 | Garbage bin with cover A cover assembly includes a ring mounted on a garbage bin, a cover mounted on the ring and a slow pivot device for slowly pivoting the cover relative to the ring. The slow pivot device includes a slow pivot element installed between the ring and the cover. The slow ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857539 | Blister hook display A blister pack hook display case with a manual security dispensing system comprised of a display case with a transparent door and lock that has a blister pack dispenser on each hook, wherein the dispenser dispenses a blister pack each time the pulley located in the ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857540 | Interfolded tissue sheet dispenser with adjustable attaching mechanism A dispenser is provided for simultaneously storing and dispensing premoistened tissue sheets and dry tissue sheets. The dispenser includes a housing having a compartment configured to retain a supply of tissue sheets. An adjustable support mechanism is disposed on a... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857541 | Drink supply canister for beverage dispensing apparatus The present invention provides a drink supply canister for beverage dispensing apparatus for a residential refrigerator. The beverage dispensing apparatus includes a drink supplier including a drink supply canister holder for holding a plurality of the drink supply ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857542 | Orifice reducer for container neck An orifice reducer with crumple zones well suited for use with an extrusion blow molded bottle having an uneven surface finish. The device includes a circumferential wall having a number of vertically extending reduced thickness regions, preferably spaced symmetrica... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857543 | Low volume dispense unit and method of using A method for dispensing a chemical solution in the small-scale manufacture of semiconductors is provided. The method includes associating a dispensing unit with a semiconductor coat/develop track machine and a pneumatic syringe of a chemical solution with the dispen... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857544 | Beverage bottle carrier A beverage bottle carrier apparatus for enabling an individual to carry one or more beverage bottles. The beverage bottle carrier of the invention includes an elongated generally rectangular flexible strap having a handle portion in the approximate middle thereof fo... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857545 | Bike carrier A bike carrier which includes a U-shaped frame structure having an intermediate section and first and second leg sections. A first rail is supported by the frame structure and laterally spans between said first and second legs and extends out past at least one of sa... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857546 | Tape feeder In a double type tape feeder in which two tape feed mechanisms that pitch-feed carrier tapes holding electronic components are arranged in parallel and two carrier tapes can be simultaneously supplied, sprockets in the tape pitch feed mechanisms are arranged so that... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857547 | Triggering device of nail driver with single shooting mode and continuous shooting mode A triggering device of a nail driver has a single shooting mode and a continuous shooting mode. The triggering device is installed between a safety bar and a trigger of a driver body of the nail driver. The safety bar has an push sleeve extending out of a beating op... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857548 | Power actuated tools An explosively operated tool (1) for driving a fastener into a substrate such as steel or concrete has a resetting mechanism (12) for resetting a piston (10) of the tool into a rear part of a barrel assembly (8) of the tool after each fir... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857549 | Nail driving gun with a shock-absorbing member A nail driving gun includes a gun housing, a solenoid mounted in the gun housing and including a coil member and a magnetic core which are magnetically attracted to each other in such a manner that the magnetic core is movable in a frontward direction and the coil m... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857550 | Optically baffled solder sleeve heating station An optically baffled heating station for joining wire connections by using a solder sleeve includes: an outer housing; a reflection block where said reflection block includes a reflection chamber where the reflection chamber forms the shape of two overlapping ellips... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857551 | Auto-feed terminal wire clamping machine and its terminal structure An auto-feed terminal wire clamping machine and its terminal structure. This invention can automatically sieve and randomly arrange the disordered terminal inner molds and feed them in an ordered direction to the feeding groove of such terminal wire clamper and auto... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857552 | Method and apparatus for making smart card solder contacts A method and apparatus for soldering terminal ends of an antenna embedded in a plastic smart card to contact terminals of an IC module disposed on the card are shown. The enamel coated antenna terminal ends are pre-coated with solder with a heater having horizontal ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857553 | Method and apparatus for in-process sensing of manufacturing quality A method for determining the quality of an examined weld joint comprising the steps of providing acoustical data from the examined weld joint, and performing a neural network operation on the acoustical data determine the quality of the examined weld joint produced ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857554 | Method and device for determining the vectorial distance between the capillary and the image recognition system of a wire bonder To determine the vectorial distance D between the tip of a capillary and an optical axis of an image recognition system of a Wire Bonder, a glass fibre supplied with light is used as a reference point and as a sensor. On the one hand, the glass fibre serves as a ref... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857555 | Method and apparatus for friction stir welding Two members 10 and 20 are welded together by cutting a groove 41 having a determined cross-sectional shape using a cutting tool 60 along the abutted portion between the two members 10 and 20, inserting a filler member 30 ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857556 | Method for bonding different members and composite members bonded by the method A bonding method for bonding one member having a dented portion and a second different member having an engaging protruding portion with an adhesive composition having a controlled coefficient of expansion and the resultant composite product. Three alternative techn... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857557 | Low temperature microelectronic die to substrate interconnects Methods are provided for interconnecting two electronic components having surface mount technology interconnects. In one embodiment, a reflowable electrically conductive first interconnect material is reflowed onto the land pads of a microelectronic die. A reflowabl... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857558 | Metal lamination method and structure A method of forge welding laminates of titanium and titanium alloys includes interleaving first and second pluralities of metal pieces in an enclosure, filling the enclosure with an inert gas, heating the enclosure and the first and second pluralities of metal piece... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857559 | System and method of soldering electronic components to a heat sensitive flexible substrate with cooling for a vector transient reflow process A method of soldering electronic components to a heat sensitive flexible substrate with cooling for a vector transient reflow process is disclosed. The method comprises applying solder paste to the substrate and placing electronic components to the substrate to form... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857560 | Collapsible container with bottom discharge A fibrous collapsible shipping container for transporting small articles and particulate material and discharging the same under gravity through a bottom wall opening after the horizontal movement of a sliding door. The container may include a liner element to provi... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857561 | Composite container with membrane and bead closure system A composite container of paperboard has a polymeric film barrier layer on the inner surface thereof. A rolled bead is formed at a top end of the container and a membrane closure is bonded to the bead by a first heat seal material on the bead and a second heat seal m... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857562 | Electronic money system of token and value mixed type An electronic money system of a token and value mixed type includes an electronic money card of a type in which a token type for preferentially paying the coin money and paying the bill money when a coin money balance is insufficient for payment, and for recording i... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857563 | Transaction card system having security against unauthorized usage A system having a host having information regarding at least one transaction card account. The host functions to transfer card data to a drone card carried within the host. The host includes a biometric sensor or other suitable identification means for authenticatio... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857564 | Information providing system, apparatus for producing a medium for providing the information, apparatus for restoring the provided information, computer product, a medium for providing the information An information providing system comprises a two-dimensional encoding section which converts at least the information to be provided to the user into two-dimensional codes, a printed sheet producing section which prints the two-dimensional codes on paper, an image re... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857565 | Electronic traveler's checks An electronic traveler's check system and method comprising an electronic travelers check card which is useable to retrieve money from point of service locations and banks. The system has a database of user information such as a pin number and the user's passport nu... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857566 | Method and system for conducting transactions using a payment card with two technologies A system for conducting financial transactions is provided wherein payment cards have stored account information including a first portion readable by a first machine-readable technology and a second portion readable by a second different machine-readable technology... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857567 | System and method for training and monitoring data reader operators A scanner or other data reader is equipped with means for determining characteristics of an operator's scanning technique. In a preferred configuration, the scanner is integrated with a weigh scale for obtaining a dynamic weight of an item as the item is moved acros... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857568 | Terminal for libraries and the like A library terminal permits a user to execute a loan transaction without assistance. The library terminal (i) provides a visible scan line from a bar code reader indicating the correct positioning of the bar code on a circulating item, (ii) leads a user through a loa... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857569 | Data storage card having a non-magnetic substrate and data surface region and method for using same A data storage card includes a glass substrate having first and second edges. A data storage surface region is located on the glass substrate between the first and second edges. The data surface region includes a magnetic storage medium having at least one layer of ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857570 | METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE TEMPORAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING TEMPORAL FREQUENCY MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET A planar laser illumination and imaging (PLLIM) based camera system capable of producing digital images with reduced levels of speckle-pattern noise. The PLIIM based camera system comprises a planar laser illumination any (PLIA) including a plurality of laser diodes... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857571 | Method for surface printing A generic data package template is described that allows data to be encoded and printed in any arbitrary shape using an arbitrary encoding scheme. The template comprises an arbitrary shaped constant background pattern that is read to locate and orient a data area. T... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857572 | Automatically-activated hand-supportable laser scanning bar code symbol reading system with omnidirectional and unidirectional scanning modes in addition to a data transmission activation switch A hand-supportable bar code symbol reading device having a laser scanning engine that is controlled to selectively operate in either an omni-directional scan mode or a single line scan mode. In the single line scan mode of operation, symbol character data produced b... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857573 | Method and apparatus for reading invisible symbol An article including a substrate and an invisible symbol on the substrate is disclosed. The invisible symbol is formed by a compound which includes a cyano group and has an infrared absorption wavelength apart from that of the substrate when heated. ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857574 | Loading mechanism of storage device A loading mechanism of a storage device includes a loader tray into which cartridge is loaded. A stopper spring is arranged on an opening of the loader tray. One side of the stopper spring is attached onto the loader tray, and the stopper spring is bent so as to inc... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857575 | Optical business card An optical storage system capable of use as a business card or a credit card of a rectangular card lying flat against an optical storage medium which can have a circular track for the optical storage of data. Symmetrical fastening elements around the whole optical s... | 02/22/2005 |
