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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6857416 | Knocking detecting device for automobile A knocking detecting device executes A/D conversion of a knock sensor signal every constant time ts and executes filter processing of the converted digital signal. The knocking detecting device determines whether the knocking arises or not according to the filter pr... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857417 | Fuel injection nozzle having coating layer and manufacturing method thereof A coating layer made of a lipophobic material is provided in a distal end of a nozzle needle of a fuel injection nozzle. The coating layer is formed by soaking the distal end of the nozzle needle in a liquid state lipophobic material. ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857418 | Fuel injection timing compensation based on engine load An apparatus for and method of providing improved engine performance during a change in engine load conditions reduces or eliminates engine stumbling or hesitation and/or reduces emissions levels. When an engine load change is detected (201), a compensation f... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857419 | Fuel vapor separator for internal combustion engine A fuel separator is disclosed having a hollow interior in which a tubular coiled heat exchanger is positioned to receive a coolant liquid therethrough. Fuel is fed into the chamber through a fuel inlet and pumped out of the chamber by a high pressure pump into the f... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857420 | Ignition coil having a connecting device for contacting a spark plug An ignition coil includes a connecting device for contacting a spark plug of an internal combustion engine, the connecting device being designed to have a sleeve made of insulating material. The sleeve is able to be connected at a first end section to a high voltage... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857421 | Method for operating a diesel engine, and diesel engine In a method for operating a diesel engine and a diesel engine, wherein engine emission control is provided by switching between a lean mode with superstoichiometric combustion air ratio λ>1 and a rich mode with substoichiometric combustion air ratio λ | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857422 | Portable electric driven compressed air gun A portable electric motor driven air gun powered by a power source. The motor is coupled to a lead screw, which drives a piston. The piston compresses air in a chamber producing high-pressure air. When sufficient energy is stored within the air stream by the piston ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857423 | Paintball marker and kit of parts therefor A paintball marker is provided including a body, a bolt and an actuator. The body defines a chamber having a paintball inlet. The bolt is slideable within the chamber between an open position wherein the bolt permits the entry of a paintball through the paintball in... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857424 | Adjustable pitching platform Adjustable pitching platform allows for users such as coaches to automatically and selectively adjust trajectories of balls being pitched by ball dispensing machines. The platform can be positioned beneath a stand for supporting machines for dispensing balls, such a... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857425 | Solar energy collector system A solar energy collector system for reducing heating, air conditioning and power consumption of a building structure. The solar energy collector system includes a housing structure, a collector plate, an insulating sheet positioned between the collector plate and a ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857426 | Absorber element for solar high-temperature heat generation, and a method for its production The present disclosure relates to an absorber element for solar high-temperature heat generation. The absorber element includes a light focusing unit, an outer tube composed of a translucent material and an absorber which is arranged in the absorber element. The abs... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857427 | Interactive character for use with an aerosol medication delivery system An interactive character associated with a metered dose inhaler that includes a medication dispensing canister and a canister holder. The interactive character includes a base portion adapted to be coupled to a canister such that actuation of the canister to dispens... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857428 | Custom fitted mask and method of forming same According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of forming a custom fitted mask includes transitioning a mask blank including a thin sheet of deformable material from a non-deformable state into a deformable state. The mask blank is applied against at least a... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857429 | Oral appliance for maintaining stability of one or more aspects of a user's masticatory system In one embodiment, an oral appliance includes a first arch adapted to receive at least some of a user's teeth and a second arch adapted to receive at least some of the user's teeth. The first arch includes an one or more substantially planar regions, such as a singl... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857430 | Restraining harness A restraining harness for use in land vehicles including a torso binder and an anchor assembly for securing the torso binder adjacent a seat so as to restrain a handcuffed prisoner. A number of releasable fasteners associated with the torso binder and the anchor ass... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857431 | Nanocomposite copper-ceria catalysts for low temperature or near-ambient temperature catalysis and methods for making such catalysts Nanocomposite copper-ceria catalysts are provided, which comprise copper oxide nanoparticles, copper nanoparticles, or a mixture thereof combined with ceria nanoparticles. Methods for making such catalysts are also provided, which involve the steps of (i) combining ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857432 | Cosmetics product and marketing system A method involves making available a cosmetic product and a non-cosmetic product and offering one or more of the products for sale. The non-cosmetic product may have a visible portion including a first material chosen from fabric, facsimile of fabric, animal skin, a... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857433 | Process for cleaning a glass-coating reactor using a reactive gas A process for cleaning a glass-coating reactor includes: (a) providing the reactor to be cleaned, wherein the reactor contains a glass substrate within a chamber and the chamber has an internal surface coated with at least one substance selected from the group consi... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857434 | CMP slurry additive for foreign matter detection A method and structure polishes and cleans silicon wafers by mixing a marker with a slurry to form a slurry mixture, performs chemical mechanical polishing on a silicon wafer using the slurry mixture, rinses the slurry mixture from the silicon wafer, checks the sili... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857435 | Method and apparatus for cooling a resonator of a megasonic transducer A method for cleaning a semiconductor substrate with a sonic cleaner is provided. The method initiates by introducing a cooling fluid into an inner jacket region of a sonic cleaner to cool a sonic resonator positioned within the inner jacket region. Then, a cleaning... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857436 | Method of cleaning passageways using a mixed phase flow of a gas and a liquid A method of cleaning surfaces using a mixed phase cleaning mixture of an aqueous solution and a flow of gas sufficient to produce droplets of the liquid which are entrained by the gas for a time sufficient to clean tubing of various lengths and geometries and porous... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857437 | Automated dense phase fluid cleaning system Initially, process parameters for dense phase fluid cleaning are determined. Thereafter, a cleaning chamber containing a substrate is pressurized with a dense phase fluid, based on these process parameters. The substrate is then cleaned with the dense phase fluid, a... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857438 | Vehicle washing machine An automotive vehicle washing system includes a frame comprising a bridge member end opposed and support sections mounted for linear reciprocating movement on spaced apart support rails. Pivoting washing nozzle support arms are mounted on the bridge section and are ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857439 | Washing agents dispenser for a domestic washing machine, namely a dishwasher A disperser of washing agents is described, for a household washing machine, in particular a dishwasher, said dispenser (10) comprising a tank (12) for containing a liquid washing agent to which a visual control device (17-18) is associated, of ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857440 | Safety valve In a method for a safety valve plus such a safety valve, the safety valve has the form of a valve body axially displaceable in a cavity with an inlet on either side of which are arranged outlets, whereby liquid and/or gas flow takes place from the inlet and past the... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857441 | Fluid metering device A fluid metering device that preferably includes a substantially linear series of intermeshing gears. The fluid metering device includes an inlet port adjacent the intermeshing portion of each pair of gears within the series adjacent the point at which the pair of g... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857442 | Freeze protection device for wall hydrants/faucets A freezeless wall hydrant has a normally horizontal fluid inlet tube with an interior end and exterior end. A hollow valve fitting is rigidly secured to the interior end of the inlet tube for a connection to a source of pressurized fluid. A movable ball is located w... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857443 | Electronic gas blender and gas flow control mechanism therefor A gas flow control mechanism for a gas blender comprising: a voltage sensitive orifice defining a passage for each gas to be controlled and having an inlet port in fluid communication with a gas source and an outlet port in fluid communication with a plenum for mixi... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857444 | Flow-actuated trapped-pressure unloader valve The invention recites an unloader valve operable to direct a flow of fluid. The valve includes a housing having a bypass opening, an inlet opening, an outlet opening and an internal chamber between the inlet opening and the outlet opening. A shuttle valve is dispose... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857445 | Float valve for pulsating flow A float bell for use in a condenser comprising a center sleeve extending along a centerline comprising a first and second perimeter, an outer sleeve comprising a first and second perimeter encompassing the center sleeve, a top in contact with the second perimeter of... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857446 | Flow controlling dual hydrant In a dual hydrant, the combination comprising two spaced apart tubular bodies to receive in-flow of fluids A and B, a fluid mixing zone to receive fluids A and B from said bodies, manually operable flow control valves in the two tubular bodies, a primary check valve... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857447 | Pressure-based gas delivery system and method for reducing risks associated with storage and delivery of high pressure gases Apparatus and method for dispensing a gas using a gas source coupled in selective flow relationship with a gas manifold. The gas manifold includes flow circuitry for discharging gas to a gas-using zone, and the gas source includes a pressure-regulated gas source ves... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857448 | Air bleed apparatus for a burner unit A control apparatus simultaneously controls flow rates of a first fluid and a second fluid. The apparatus comprises a control valve for controlling the flow rate of the first fluid and a bleed device for bleeding the second fluid. The control valve is operatively co... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857449 | Multi-layer microfluidic devices The present invention provides multi-layer microfluidic systems, by providing additional substrate layers, e.g., third, fourth, fifth and more substrate layers, mated with the typically described first and second layers. Microfabricated elements, e.g., grooves, well... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857450 | Hydropneumatic pressure reservoir A hydropneumatic pressure reservoir (1) forms a housing from at least two housing shells (3, 5) connected together. At least the end region of the one housing shell (5) includes an outwardly-extending, funnel-like guide surface between its free ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857451 | Rehabilitation of water supply pipes A water supply pipe has a tubular liner of a polyolefin elastomer/plastomer installed therein. To install it, a messenger pig is attached to a line that pulls the liner through the pipe. The liner is produced by extrusion and die drawing during extrusion. ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857452 | Composite spoolable tube A spoolable composite tube capable of being spooled onto a reel for storage and for use in oil field applications. The spoolable tube exhibits unique anistropic characteristics that provide improved burst and collapse pressures, increased tensile strength, compressi... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857453 | Rotary weight filler A plurality of vessel receptacles and load cells are mounted along the outer periphery of a revolving body at an equal circumferential spacing. A filling device is disposed above each of the vessel receptacles. In a first operational mode for filling the receptacles... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857454 | Evaporated-fuel storage system A fuel tank and a canister are connected to each other by a first evaporated-fuel passage and a second evaporated-fuel passage, and a valve chamber of a float valve separate from the fuel tank is disposed at an intermediate portion of the first evaporated-fuel passa... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857455 | Continuous strip bag feeder and loader with integrated printer assembly A continuous strip bag feeder and loader that includes an integrated printer assembly for printing information on each individual bag of the continuous strip. The printer assembly is mounted to a support frame and receives a continuous strip of bags from a feed asse... | 02/22/2005 |
