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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6931902 | Tube flaring machine A tube flaring machine having a frame having an upper end and having a lower end; a tube clamp having a plurality of radially arranged clamping shoes; a collet ring and a gantry fixedly attached to and overlying the collet ring; a radially segmented anvil ring cumul... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931903 | Apparatus and method for roll forming shaped members Apparatus for roll forming shaped members from sheet material has a primary powered section that roll forms along a primary pass line and a secondary powered section. The secondary powered section is coupled to and powered by the primary powered section, and roll fo... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931904 | Method of forming a trailer receiver tube using hollow forward extrusion A method of forging a trailer receiver tube by providing a die having an inner surface defining a first portion and a second portion. Providing a hollow tube having an outer surface. Providing a punch having a body and a shaft extending therefrom sized to fit within... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931905 | Method and apparatus for forming container bodies A pressure sleeve for holding a container body blank in a die cavity at a redraw station in a press has a pair of notches formed in opposed side walls thereof. The notches provide clearance for a pair of opposed grippers of a transfer mechanism which moves container... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931906 | Method and apparatus for cold forging a trailer hitch receiving housing A cold forging process and apparatus for reinforcing an end of a rectangular tube, including a close fitting, rectangular upper mandrel that inserts into the tubing. The upper mandrel has flared corners at the end attached to the upper die. As the upper die is moved... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931907 | Curved building panel with stress-reducing apertures A longitudinally curved building panel, such as a wall or ceiling panel, comprising upstanding lateral side flanges having a plurality of stress-reduction apertures and a mounting bracket for suspending a pair of adjacent building panels. ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931908 | Tube-bending device A tube-bending device including a frame having a reciprocably mounted anvil and a coacting crossbar with tube-restraining blocks, together with a ratchet mechanism for driving the anvil toward the blocks to perform tube-bending operations, wherein the crossbar is re... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931909 | Punch press In a cube space having high rigidity, the following members are provided: a die holder (103) which can be pulled out forward, a punch holder (47) fixed to a separate bridge structure, a striker which can be positioned in an XY plane for selecting a des... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931911 | Dynamic calibrator A dynamic calibrator in an tire uniformity machine for testing a tire having a chuck assembly for receiving and chucking a tire load cell in sensing relation therewith, the load cell transmitting sensed information to a controller, the dynamic calibrator including a... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931912 | Road surface friction coefficient estimating method, signal multiplex transmission method and signal multiplex transmission device A method for directly and accurately estimating friction coefficient of a road surface independently from the slip rate is disclosed. The method measures tangential and vertical forces acting on an elastic body 3 of an elastic wheel 1, and calculates t... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931913 | Chemical agent detector A chemical agent detector utilizing surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors for detecting the presence of a multitude of chemical agents by sampling ambient air is provided. A pressure-differential manifold having an air intake port, an exhaust port, a valve and a pump ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931914 | Combustion condition detection apparatus for an internal combustion engine A combustion condition detecting apparatus for an internal combustion engine has a current distributor that distributes an ion current, a band pass filter which extracts a knock vibration component from a current distributor output, a knock determination section whi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931915 | Wide range dynamic rheometer A rheometer includes a holder assembly for coupling a test specimen to a motor assembly to effect rotational strain in the test specimen while enabling the determination of axial displacement effected by the test specimen normal to the direction of the rotational st... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931916 | Viscometer sag test shoe Methods and apparatus for measuring sag properties of a drilling fluid using a rotary viscometer. An insert, or shoe, is placed at the bottom of the heat cup containing the fluid to be tested. A rotating cylinder is disposed within the fluid and solid particles are ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931917 | System for sensing a sample A profiler or scanning probe microscope may be scanned across a sample surface with a distance between them controlled to allow the sensing tip to contact the surface intermittently in order to find and measure features of interest. The distance is controlled so tha... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931918 | Device and method for determining the rotary orientation of a motor through use of a resolver signal derived from the rotary orientation Described are methods and devices for determining the rotary orientation of a motor using a resolver signal derived from the rotary orientation of the motor. In particular, the methods and devices utilize a single control system that is arranged both for triggering ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931919 | Diagnostic apparatus and method for an evaporative control system including an integrated pressure management apparatus A diagnostic appartus and method for a fuel system that supplies fuel to an internal combustion engine. The fuel system includes a fuel tank that has a headspace and a filler occluded by a removable cap, a charcoal canister in fluid communication with the headspace,... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931920 | Tire monitoring system A tire monitoring system for a vehicle. The tire monitoring system includes a sensor assembly mountable on a wheel and has a first sensor for detecting a tire parameter and a second sensor for detecting proximity of the sensor assembly to the wheel. The sensor assem... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931921 | Tire air pressure monitoring device and pneumatic tire having the tire air pressure monitoring device A tire air pressure monitoring device includes a sensor which detects a physical quantity relating to tire air pressure, and a transmitter which sends signals detected by the sensor. The sensor is a sound pressure level sensor which detects a sound pressure level in... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931923 | Tire condition monitoring apparatus A tire monitoring apparatus includes transponders and a transmitter-receiver. Each transponder is provided in one of the tires of a vehicle, and the transmitter-receiver is mounted on the body frame of the vehicle. In response to a predetermined interrogating radio ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931924 | Method for testing the function of an electrohydraulically controlled automatic transmission The method for testing the function of an electrohydraulically controlled automatic transmission upon a testing stand by simulation of a vehicle operation provides that the output shaft of the transmission be connected with a stationary torque-measuring hub and be b... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931925 | Method for determining the current filling level of a liquid in a container The invention relates to a method for determining the current filling level of a liquid, preferably a calibrating, quality control, or cleaning fluid, or waste water, in a container, for example of an analyzer, where an immersion pipe is dipped into the liquid in th... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931926 | Liquid depth sensing system with liquid identification capability The present liquid depth sensing system with its liquid identification capability provides an economical device which may be installed in a multitude of different applications to perform multiple quantity measurement and detection functions. The present system inclu... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931927 | Tuning fork vibration gyro A tuning-fork vibration gyro including a ferroelectric tuning-fork vibration body generating a plurality of sensor signals and a sensor circuit to which the sensor signals generated by the tuning-fork vibration body are input. The sensor circuit includes a different... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931928 | Microstructure with movable mass A microstructure includes a mass; a base member in which the mass is movably contained. The mass includes a surface, which is exposed out of the base member, and a stopper wire, which is arranged above the surface of the mass so as to inhibit over move of the mass. | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931929 | Filler detection method and filler detection device A sine wave electric signal whose frequency continuously varies within a predetermined frequency range is applied to a piezoelectric speaker, whereby a vibration frequency characteristic of the piezoelectric speaker is detected. A change of the frequency characteris... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931930 | Method for determining the pressure present in the interior space of an air spring for a motor vehicle and apparatus for carrying out the method An ultrasonic pulse/echo measurement arrangement includes an ultrasonic transducer (12), which is mounted spatially fixed on an air spring cover plate (4). The arrangement further includes a fixedly mounted reference reflector (14), a target ref... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931931 | Device for ultrasonic weld seam testing of longitudinally welded pipes for longitudinal and transversal errors A device for ultrasonic weld seam testing of longitudinally includes two testing carriages swingably suspended and moveable on the pipe surface to the right and left of the weld seam for longitudinal flaw inspection, and one testing carriage swingably suspended in c... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931932 | Device for measuring the amplitude of the tip of an oscillating capillary A device for measuring the oscillation amplitude of the tip of a capillary by means of a light beam comprises a light source and an opto-receiver and two apertured diaphragms that are arranged between the light source and the opto-receiver and which lie on a common ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931933 | Pressure sensing apparatus A pressure sensing unit has a pressure responsive member, a pressure sensor, and a hydraulic connector hydraulically connecting the pressure responsive member with the pressure sensor to produce an indication of sensed pressure. The hydraulic connector includes a tu... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931934 | Sensor top hat cover apparatus and method A sensor apparatus and method are disclosed herein, including a sensor element located on a base and a cover located proximate to the base. The cover generally includes a sensor diaphragm and a dimple that can form a part of the cover. A flanged area or flanged port... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931935 | Surface-micromachined absolute pressure sensor and a method for manufacturing thereof A capacitive pressure sensor structure, in particular for measurement of absolute pressure, and a method for manufacturing the sensor. The sensor includes at least one fixed electrode, and at least one movable electrode electrically isolated from said fixed electrod... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931936 | Apparatus and method for determining pressure and vacuum An apparatus and method for determining pressure and vacuum comprising an adapter that links to a digital tester. The adapter is comprised of at least one pressure sensor, a power source, converter and an interface cable. The pressure sensor attaches to the system t... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931937 | Pressure sensor having diaphragm A pressure sensor includes: a casing; a sensor chip with a gauge resistor; a boss disposed on the gauge resistor; a metallic diaphragm capable of distorting in accordance with a pressure; and a load transmission member disposed between the metallic diaphragm and the... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931938 | Measuring pressure exerted by a rigid surface A means to accurately measure the pressure distribution across a rigid or semi-rigid surface, or between two rigid or semi-rigid surfaces with high special resolution is disclosed. The present invention relates to measuring a pressure distribution. The present inven... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931939 | Pressure transmitter A pressure transmitter for sensing a physical variable related to a process fluid of an industrial plant, includes: a main body, which comprises a containment enclosure and a base associated with the containment enclosure; a first connection element, which comprises... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931940 | Magnetostrictive strain sensor with hall effect A magnetostrictive strain sensor includes a Hall effect sensor for measuring the change in magnetic flux a magnetic circuit including a magnetostrictive element. A strain sensing apparatus includes one or more magnetic elements defining a magnetic circuit having a g... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931941 | Method and apparatus for fatigue testing A fatigue test system includes a frame having top, intermediate and bottom supports each operatively interconnected by at least one extension, and the intermediate support being disposed between the top and bottom supports. The fatigue test system further includes a... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931942 | Panel bending and testing device A panel testing device includes a frame, a first roller assembly pivotally mounted to the frame including a first roller and a second roller spaced apart from and substantially parallel to the first roller. The panel testing device also includes a second roller asse... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931943 | Permanent magnet flowmeter with noncircular sensing passage A passive flowmeter having an inlet, sensing passage and outlet in fluid communication with one another, the sensing passage having a noncircular cross-section having a minor axis generally aligned with a permanent magnetic field and a major axis generally aligned w... | 08/23/2005 |
