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Patents Published on 02/22/2005


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6857375Traction pins for railway cars
A one-piece, cast traction pin for use with railway cars. The traction pin is used to connect the railcar cab with the railcar truck assembly. The traction pin includes a mounting plate cast integral with the pin, thereby eliminating the use of multiple welded plate...
02/22/2005
6857376Vehicle carrying rail road car
A rail road car has a deck for carrying wheeled vehicles. The rail road car can be coupled to other rail road cars of the same type. Bridge plates are provide that permit wheeled vehicles to be conducted between adjacent rail road cars. The bridge plates have one en...
02/22/2005
6857377Load bearing structure for a shipping pallet
A shipping pallet that has a load bearing deck with a plurality of domes that provide high strength, stiffness, and rigidity to the deck, and an undercarriage for supporting the deck and for receiving a forklift, palletjack, hand truck, or other automated machinery....
02/22/2005
6857378Table with adjustable support
A table has an adjustable support wherein the ratchet mechanism that locks the position of the tray with respect to the base may be moved to the unlocked position with the user's leg while the tray of the table is held by the user's hands. The table may also have a ...
02/22/2005
6857379Method and device for incinerating organic waste material
According to a conventional method for incinerating organic waste material, a fluidization device causes an oxygenous fluidizing gas to flow through the waste material, which is located in an incineration chamber, from underneath while forming a fluidized particle l...
02/22/2005
6857380Sailboat spinnaker bowsprit
A retractable bowsprit for a sailboat is suitable for use with an asymmetrical spinnaker. A support element and a bowsprit positioner such as a track mounted within a hull of a sailboat allow the bowsprit to assume either an extended or retracted position. The bowsp...
02/22/2005
6857381Cam cleat with automatic fairlead
A cam cleat has at least one cam mounted on a base. The cam has a fairlead projection that is spaced from the base and that rotates with the cam. When the cam is in its idle position with no line gripped by a jaw of the cam, the fairlead projection is rotated out of...
02/22/2005
6857382Magnetic docking apparatus and method for using the same
A magnetic docking apparatus includes a support member having an electromagnet attached thereto. The support member includes a fastener for attaching the magnetic docking apparatus to a vessel. The support member and the fastener cooperate to position the electromag...
02/22/2005
6857383Convertible anchor
A convertible anchor capable of being converted between a first position usable on sandy bottom floors and a second position usable on debris laden bottom floors, such as reefs. The convertible anchor may include an elongated shank and one or more flukes rotatably c...
02/22/2005
6857384Gas tank shade system
A first strip of a fastener is securable to the vertical rear wall in a horizontal orientation at an elevation above the container and parallel with a horizontal platform. A shading member fabricated of a flexible material is in a rectangular configuration. The shad...
02/22/2005
6857385Foldable road warning device
A road warning device includes a board having a lower housing, a casing rotatably secured to the housing with a shaft and rotatable into and out of a chamber of the housing. A plate is selectively and detachably attached to the casing and moveable in concert with th...
02/22/2005
6857386Flag fastening assembly
Flag fastening assembly for fastening the upper and lower portion of the leading edge of a flag to a flag supporting member in a manner that balances the weight of the flag about the axis of the flag supporting member and prevents furling. Each flag fastening assemb...
02/22/2005
6857387Multiple frequency plasma chamber with grounding capacitor at cathode
An apparatus and method for fabricating an electronic workpiece in which first and second electrodes within a plasma chamber are respectively connected to low frequency and high frequency RF power supplies. At least one capacitor is connected between the first elect...
02/22/2005
6857388Cold wall chemical vapor deposition apparatus with a heater control unit
A cold wall chemical vapor deposition apparatus includes: a chamber; a susceptor movable up and down in the chamber by a driving means, the susceptor including a heater and an internal electrode; a heat reflector over the susceptor, the heat reflector reflecting a h...
02/22/2005
6857389Teat cup system
A teat cup system including a tubular sleeve, a milk receiving cup having a portion configured to be operatively coupled to a lower end portion of the tubular sleeve, and a liner member including a head portion and a tubular elongate inflation portion and wherein th...
02/22/2005
6857390Strip dispenser rearing hatchlings
Hatchlings are raised initially on a strip of sheet material which is laid on the floor of a containment pen by a vehicle having a support on the vehicle for receiving a roll of a sheet material and a hopper on the vehicle for receiving a feed material for the hatch...
02/22/2005
6857391Animal toilet enclosure
The animal toilet enclosure has a bottom section removably coupled to a floorboard section, a cover section removably coupled to the floorboard section, and a controller for the enclosure. The bottom section has a bowl with an outlet in fluid communication with a gr...
02/22/2005
6857392Aquarium pumping and airing apparatus
An aquarium includes a pump disposed in a chamber of a container to circulate water and having a spindle. An air supplying device is coupled to the spindle of the pump and driven by the spindle of the pump, to pump air into the water contained in the chamber of the ...
02/22/2005
6857393Cheshire cat house
Habitats for housing and displaying animals having compartments stacked and/or side-by-side. Walls and doors can be plastic, acrylic, laminate, and glass. Doors walls, and floors can be see-through, and/or colored allow. Letters can spelling “CATS” can be mounte...
02/22/2005
6857394Window seat perch and protector for domestic birds
An article for a domestic bird is provided with a perch rod surrounded by protective base, window wall, and side walls for mounting inwardly of a window of a building. A domestic bird free-flying in the building, or a clipped bird climbing a ladder or braided rope, ...
02/22/2005
6857395Animal ear holder apparatus
A pair of ear retaining members designed to hold the ears of an animal in a substantially forward position to control undesired behavior. A Strap attaches both ear retaining members together and further holds the ears in the ear retaining members. The ear retaining ...
02/22/2005
6857396Heating device for hydrogen storage canister
A heating device for a container in which a hydrogen storage canister is disposed. The hydrogen storage canister supplies hydrogen to a fuel cell including a discharge port, and the heating device includes a water jacket and a seal member. The water jacket is dispos...
02/22/2005
6857397Hydrogen generation apparatus for internal combustion engines and method thereof
A system and method are provided for generating hydrogen for use with an internal combustion engine. The system includes a venturi device coupled with an exhaust stream from the internal combustion engine. The venturi device creates a gas flow through a condenser to...
02/22/2005
6857398Cooling system for internal combustion engine
A cooling system for an internal combustion engine includes a radiator provided in a coolant circulation path of the internal combustion engine, and an actuator that controls a flow rate of a coolant that passes through the radiator. In the cooling system, the actua...
02/22/2005
6857399Air cleaner assembly for internal combustion engines
An air cleaner for small internal combustion engines, including a removable or replaceable air cleaner element detachably mounted within an air cleaner cavity which is defined at least on part by the shroud of the engine. The air cleaner element includes engagement ...
02/22/2005
6857400Method for controlling the compression ratio of an internal combustion engine
A method for controlling the compression ratio ε in a supercharged combustion engine. The latter is provided with a control device in which a maximum final compression temperature T2,max is ascertained, and, within the framework of a precontrol, an optim...
02/22/2005
6857401Variable compression ratio sensing system for internal combustion engine
A sensing system for an internal combustion engine having variable compression ratio connecting rods includes a connecting rod sensor which outputs digital signals having characteristic values corresponding to the compression ratio state of the connecting rods. ...
02/22/2005
6857402Two-stroke engine
A two-stroke engine, (1) is disclosed which includes (I) transfer channels (15, 15′, 15″, 16, 16′, 16″) which open into the crankcase (8) and fluidly connect the crankcase (8) to the combustion chamber (3) at specific posit...
02/22/2005
6857403Hydraulically controlled actuator for activating a valve
An hydraulically controlled actuator for activating a valve, especially for activating a gas-exchange valve in a combustion cylinder of an internal combustion engine, which includes two fluid-filled pressure chambers having controllable chamber volumes and a movable...
02/22/2005
6857404Hydraulic engine valve actuator
An integrated hydraulic valve actuator for use in a camless internal combustion engine. The valve actuator includes a separate bolt-on housing defining a through opening receiving a cylindrical liner. The liner internally defines an internal cylinder providing a rid...
02/22/2005
6857405Valve timing control for marine engine
An engine has a combustion chamber. An air induction system communicates with the combustion chamber through an intake port. An exhaust system communicates with the combustion chamber through an exhaust port. Intake and exhaust valves move between an opening positio...
02/22/2005
6857406Valve driving device for an engine
A valve driving device including a tappet assembly adapted to slide in a tappet guide hole to drive a valve and including a high-speed center tappet and low-speed side tappet; and a high-speed center cam and a low-speed side cam provided corresponding to the center ...
02/22/2005
6857408Internal combustion engine provided with decompressing mechanism
A decompressing mechanism included in an internal combustion engine has a flyweight supported for swinging motion by a pin on the camshaft of the internal combustion engine, a decompression cam and an arm connecting the flyweight and the decompression cam and having...
02/22/2005
6857409Air intake system for engine
An air intake system which includes a first member, a second member connected to the first member for forming an air intake passage for introducing an intake air from an upstream mechanism of an engine to cylinders of the engine, a first convex portion provided on e...
02/22/2005
6857410Engine control system
A small internal combustion engine having user interfaces which are located proximate to one another and within a centralized portion of the engine which is easily accessible by a user, such that the user may readily identify and manipulate the user interfaces. The ...
02/22/2005
6857411Lubricating oil supply system for the connecting rod bearings of a crankshaft of a multi-cylinder internal-combustion engine
A lubricating oil supply system is provided for the connecting rod bearings of a crankshaft of a multi-cylinder internal-combustion engine. Oil ducts extend from the bearing journals to the crank pins of the crankshaft. Oil supply takes place by way of the main bear...
02/22/2005
6857412Motor with rotary connecting rod bolt
The motor according to the present invention consists of a piston (1), cylinder (2), connecting rod (3), connecting rod rotary bolt gear wheel (4), connecting rod rotary bolt (5), crank shaft (6), crank shaft bolt (7)...
02/22/2005
6857413Power working machine with internal combustion engine having spark plug
A spark plug guard can be switched between a spark-plug covering position to protect a spark plug and a spark-plug opening position. An operator displaces the spark plug guard from the spark-plug covering position to the spark-plug opening position, thereby obtainin...
02/22/2005
6857414Control system and method for internal combustion engine
There is provided a control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of matching an output torque of the engine with a demanded torque excellently when the combustion mode is switched, thereby enhancing drivability. A demanded fuel amount and a dem...
02/22/2005
6857415Control system for internal combustion engine
A bypass passage for bypassing a check valve is connected with a vacuum introducing passage of a brake booster. The bypass passage is provided with a switching valve. Just before the start of an engine, the switching valve temporarily opens the bypass passage whereb...
02/22/2005
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