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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6915532 | Powered toilet seat positioner A powered toilet seat positioner in which a reversible electric motor drives a lift member pivoted to the toilet seat. In one embodiment, a double shafted electric motor drives a pair of curved lift arms each connected at on outer end to one side of the toilet seat.... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915533 | Foot assisted plunger construction An improvement for a plunger construction (10) having one of a variety of standard configuration deformable plunger cup members (40) provided with a mounting receptacle (43) where the improvement includes an elongated D-shaped handle member (... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915534 | Insulated cover and method for using same A cover for a pool includes a plurality of panels joined together by welding one another together to form a single blanket. The blanket is in covering relation over the fluid within a pool basin and a plurality of holes formed in the lateral layers of each panel wit... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915535 | Sanitary tub A sanitary tub has a tub body with a tub edge on the perimeter of the tub body that has been turned towards the outside. The tub edge has a substantially vertical collar on its circumference. A carrier secured to a tub edge covering is attached to the collar. The ca... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915536 | Inclination adjusting means for backrest of bassinet An inclination adjusting means for the backrest of a bassinet is provided, which comprises a bedplate, a backrest, a supporting rod and a band. The bedplate and the backrest are integrally formed in one component and are connected together via plastic hinges. The su... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915537 | Frame member and attached membranes A collapsible apparatus includes a frame member being formed from a flexible twistable material, a first membrane and a second membrane, and an inflation member. The second membrane is attachable to the first membrane. ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915538 | Smooth start system for power chair An apparatus, method and program product gradually and automatically accelerates or decelerates chair motor speed to achieve a smooth, nearly imperceptable movement of the chair. To this end, voltage is apportioned to the motor according to an acceleration profile. | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915539 | Pillow A pillow includes a first body portion and a continuous second body portion that extends from the first body portion. The first body portion includes a top edge and a bottom edge connected by a first side edge and a second side edge. The second body portion extends ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915540 | Bayonet with insulated extension rod The invention provides bayonet or survival knife 100 that insulates the user from electric shock. With the insulated bayonet or knife, the user can safely cut a wire regardless of whether the wire is electrified or not. As a further improvement, the invention... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915541 | Water-operated wash brush A water-operated wash brush which includes a casing that supports a rotary brush and an impellor which drives the rotary brush through a gear train as an incident to direction of wash liquid into the casing from a tangential nozzle. The casing has a clear plastic co... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915542 | Sweeping and wringing apparatus A sweeping and wringing apparatus comprises a cleaning head, a squeezing head, a main rod, a wringing rod, two connecting rods, two transverse bars, and two squeezers. The two transverse bars are symmetrically fastened to front and rear parts of the squeezing head a... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915543 | Ultimate brush A cone hair care brush is provided which enables multiple curls of varying diameters within each lock of hair. Also, the cone hairbrush allows for a root lifter to achieve more body to the overall look of the hair by applying the smallest end of the cone brushhead i... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915544 | Agitator drive system with bare floor shifter An upright vacuum cleaner includes a housing, a nozzle opening in the housing and a dust collector carried on the housing. A suction fan is also carried on the housing. The suction fan draws air, dirt and debris from a surface to be cleaned through the nozzle openin... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915545 | Playyard latch mechanism A latch mechanism positioned at the intermediate extents of the adjacent rail components to hold such components in an aligned orientation including a saddle having opposed parallel faces and a central aperture defined in between the opposed faces. Each opposed face... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915546 | Plastic fastener with slider and bag body with plastic fastener A plastic zipper equipped with a slider, and a bag body equipped with the plastic zipper, the plastic zipper having a strong opening force despite its miniaturization. The hermetically sealing plastic zipper is equipped with a slider for opening and closing the zipp... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915547 | Piezoelectric/electrostrictive device and method of manufacturing same A piezoelectric/electrostrictive (P/E) device includes at least one actuator section secured to thin plate sections with an adhesive. The actuator section includes a multilayered member including at least three actuator films, each of which include a P/E layer and e... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915548 | Method for manufacturing quartz crystal tuning fork resonator, quartz crystal unit having quartz crystal tuning fork resonator, and quartz crystal oscillator having quartz crystal unit In method for manufacturing a quartz crystal tuning fork resonator capable of vibrating in a flexural mode, a quartz crystal wafer is etched in a first etching process to form a quartz crystal tuning fork base and quartz crystal tuning fork tines connected to the qu... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915549 | Tool for installing communication cable in a cleft A tool is disclosed for installing communication cable. The tool has a handle, a first arm extending from the handle, and a second arm extending from the handle. The first arm has a wheel rotatably mounted to the first arm, and the wheel includes a circumferential g... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915550 | Device and method for eliminating front and end trimmings from series of rolls The device includes at least one continuous flexible suction conveyor which is equipped with openings and which conveys articles along a transfer path from an article feeder to an article received. A discharge point for the trimmings is provided along the transfer p... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915551 | Multi-barrel die transfer apparatus and method for transferring dies therewith A method and system for transferring a plurality of integrated circuit dies from a first surface to a second surface is described. Each hollow barrel of a plurality of hollow barrels is applied to a respective die residing on the first surface. The respective die is... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915552 | Porcelain oven rack A porcelain coated steel wire oven rack. The preferred coated steel wire oven rack includes a plurality of elongated steel wire members joined together to form an oven rack having an outer surface. The plurality of elongated steel wire members are made from a steel ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915553 | Seaming apparatus and method for cans Seaming apparatus and method for seaming ends to cans are described. The seaming apparatus includes a seaming chuck received by the can end. The chuck includes an anvil portion and a peripheral upper anvil wall. The upper anvil wall is inclined at an angle α of gre... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915554 | Process of molding and assembling three-dimensional ornaments In a process of molding and assembling a three-dimensional ornament, a mold having a recess in which is formed an opening is provided. A molding pattern is located inside the opening. A first material fills in the molding pattern to form a plurality of protruded dec... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915555 | Method for manufacturing speaker A method of manufacturing a loudspeaker comprises: continuously forming diaphragm portions and alignment portions on a band resin film; positioning one of a frame and a protector at an upper die or lower die; aligning other alignment portions formed on the frame, th... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915556 | Method for assembling conductive segments of a rotor winding or stator winding in a rotary electric machine This process for assembling conductive segments (16) of a rotor or stator winding of a rotary electrical machine comprises the stages consisting in inserting the conductive segments (16) in slots arranged in a core (12) of the rotor or of the st... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915557 | Method of assembling rotor structure A method of assembling a rotor structure for a spindle motor for use in an information recording and playback apparatus is provided in which pollution of the recording medium due to gases emitted from adhesives and the like used in the manufacturing process can be p... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915558 | Method of assembling separable transformer A stator core (11) is mounted to a stationary member (22) and electric wiring on the stator side is carried out, to thereby assemble a first sub-module (20), and a rotor core (12) is mounted to a rotary member (21) and electric wir... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915559 | Method of manufacturing a read head A method of manufacturing an active element for use with a magnetic head includes depositing a magnetic material to form a magnetic member, and nitriding the magnetic member after the depositing step. Preferably, the depositing step comprises depositing nickel-iron ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915560 | Apparatus for contracting, loading or crimping self-expanding and balloon expandable stent devices An apparatus for manipulating a medical device is formed of at least three coupled movable blades which are disposed about a reference circle to form an aperture whose size may be varied. The aperture capable of being sized to contain a medical device. Each blade is... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915561 | Electronic component mounting apparatus This invention relates to an electronic component mounting apparatus. In the apparatus, a rotary body for changing the direction of a component mounting section is fixed to a hollow rotary shaft with a flange. The hollow rotary shaft is provided in a hollow motor an... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915562 | Device for the insertion and extraction of a plug-in module A device for the insertion and extraction of a plug-in module into a module frame which has at least one front module bar, contains a swivel-mounted lever which is located in the front area of the plug-in module and whose short lever arm has at least one lever cam a... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915563 | Apparatus for removing attached die An apparatus for removing attached die having a pivoting means, having a pivot point and first and second sides, the pivot point having a corresponding first y coordinate, the first and second sides positioned opposite to one another, said pivoting means capable of ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915564 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing coaxial cable with composite inner conductor A method of making a coaxial cable includes forming a conductive tube and setting a settable material therein to define an inner conductor. Forming may include advancing a conductive strip and bending it into a tube having a longitudinal seam. The settable material ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915565 | Method of detecting position of rotation axis of suction nozzle A method of detecting a position of a rotation axis of a suction nozzle of an electric-component mounting apparatus, the suction nozzle holding, by suction, an electric component, and being rotated about the rotation axis thereof to rotate the electric component hel... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915566 | Method of fabricating flexible circuits for integrated circuit interconnections A method for the fabrication of a double-sided electrical interconnection flexible circuit (200) particularly useful as a substrate for an area array integrated circuit package. A copper matrix with studs (203) is pressed through a dielectric film (... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915567 | Method of wiring for motorcycles An housing of a meter unit is inserted from above into a meter unit support hole which is provided in the rear handle cover. Engagement claws of the housing are engaged with claw receiving portions of the rear handle cover, thereby prevent the housing from coming ou... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915568 | Method of manufacturing connecting rods A streamlined method for the mass production of connecting rods is disclosed, with particular applicability for anticipated in the production of rods made from powdered metal materials. The method contemplates the rough grinding of a work piece, followed by the use ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915569 | Method of manufacturing an anilox roller for a flexographic printing press A method of manufacturing an anilox roller, in particular for a flexographic printing press, the anilox roller comprising a cylindrical core and a sleeve detachably held on the core and having at its surface an anilox layer with a grid pattern of pits, including the... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915570 | Resin roller and device and method for manufacturing the resin roller A resin roller (10) is produced by disposing a core body (21) in a forming metal mold (1) having a cylindrical metal mold (13) and core supporting members (14) furnished at both edge parts of the cylindrical metal mold (13) ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915571 | Automobile assembling system and method of assembling automobiles An automobile assembly system 1 for assembling plural types of automobiles including a type equipped with a slide door and/or a tailgate, comprising: a front door sub-line 7 for assembling front door assemblies; a rear door sub-line 8 for assemb... | 07/12/2005 |