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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7343629 | Riding jacket A jacket that may be used in hot weather is disclosed. The jacket may be particularly useful for motorcycle and equestrian riders. The jacket is sufficiently fashionable and stylish such that it may be worn on other occasions as well. According to some aspects the j... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343630 | Shade curtain freely attachable to and detachable from a hat Disclosed is a shade curtain for screening a user's face from the sunlight or the insect, which gives a considerable reduction in costs and a considerable improvement in value of commodities. The shade curtain is freely attachable to and detachable from a hat or a s... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343631 | Goggles structure A goggles structure reduces its overall weight and rigidity to improve the comfort of wearing, which provides better ventilation and prevents its wearing without a lens. The goggles comprise a goggles frame including a frame and a connecting section, a lens, a pair ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343632 | Inflatable crash garment for non enclosed vehicle rider The crash garment comprises an inner suit to be worn by a person and associated therewith, an inflatable flexible member. The inflatable member has a gas producing device capable of releasing gas and inflating the inflatable member when the person is suddenly separa... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343633 | Transmission mechanism A transmission mechanism comprises a rotating shaft, a main column, a rotating column, a stick, a spring and a fixed column. The main column has a first axle hole receiving the rotating shaft. End of the main column has an O-shaped trench having a stop within. The r... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343634 | Foldable frame structure for a children's play-yard A frame structure for a foldable children play-yard adaptable to include a curve side rail to form at least a portion of its upper perimeter. The frame structure comprises a plurality of support members, an upper frame member and a lower frame member. The upper fram... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343635 | Modular multi-articulated patient support system A modular, multi-articulated patient support system includes independently adjustable columns connected by an adjustable base and supporting a patient support structure. Each column includes rotation, angulation, separation and lateral travel structure. The patient ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343636 | Combination cheering aid and seat cushion A combination cheering aid and a seat cushion has a first elongate polygonal clapper. The first polygonal clapper has two ends, a lower end, and an upper end. The lower end has a hand hold cavity therein for insertion of user fingers. An anchor is connected to the f... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343637 | Snow tool A snow tool for removing snow from vehicles having a telescopic handle and a brush disposable either longitudinally or transversally. The telescopic handle has first and second members connected in a sliding relationship and providing retracted and extended states o... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343638 | Connector structure for a pivotable head The structure of the present invention provides pivotable coupling of a head to a handle. The head may assume various pitch angles relative to the handle. Once place at a particular pitch angle the head is releasably fixed-in-place and opposes pitching of the head r... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343639 | Scraper device A scraper device for use on motor vehicle windshields and other surfaces that require the removal of unwanted adherent matter is provided. The scraper device includes an extremely durable, credit card-sized laminate body having scraping edge surfaces that provide su... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343640 | Automatic festooned hose apparatus for public transit vacuuming systems and methods for using same An automatic festoon hose handling system for mass transit vehicles such as buses or the like, includes a vacuum or pressurized fluid source, a hose connected to the source, and a lance portion disposed on a distal end of the hose. A festoon assembly is positioned f... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343641 | Dirt collection assembly with volcanic airflow A vacuum cleaner is provided including a housing, a nozzle inlet, a suction generator carried on the housing and a dirt cup carried on the housing. The dirt cup includes a bottom wall, a sidewall, a dirt collection chamber, an air inlet to the dirt collection chambe... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343642 | Vacuum cleaner with dirt vessel and separate filter assembly A vacuum cleaner includes a housing, a nozzle inlet, a suction generator carried on the housing and a dirt collection assembly carried on the housing. The dirt collection assembly includes (a) a dirt vessel having an outer sidewall, an inner sidewall, a bottom wall,... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343643 | Selective bag or bagless cleaning system A vacuum cleaner includes a nozzle assembly and a canister assembly connected to the nozzle assembly. The nozzle assembly includes an inlet. A suction generator is carried on one of the nozzle assembly and canister assembly. A cyclonic separation chamber is carried ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343644 | Hardware for a fully-glazed door A fitting for an all-glass door with an upper bearing which substantially includes a fitting body with a glass receptacle and/or a clamping device for a glass leaf and with a bearing pin for engagement in a counterbearing at an overpanel or in a frame. The bearing p... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343645 | Electronic apparatus having detachable display and mainframe An electronic apparatus, which has a first casing and a second casing, includes a first connecting unit, a second connecting unit, a covering unit and a linked unit. The first connecting unit is fixed on the first casing, and the second connecting unit is pivoted to... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343646 | Damper and door handle having the same A door handle includes a damper wherein a difference in torque changed according to a rotational direction becomes large. A rotor and a valve are completely separated and only the rotor rotates, so that it is possible to significantly reduce torque applied to the ro... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343647 | Device for holding and organizing items A device for holding and organizing items includes an anchor for fastening the device to an object; a strap adapted to secure the items to the device; and a connector, having an upper piece and a lower piece that pivot relative to one another, the upper piece being ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343648 | Securing strap arrangement and tensioner therefor A securing strap arrangement, typically for securing luggage or other items, has a resiliently extensible length portion, and a substantially non-resiliently extensible length portion including an arrangement for varying effective length of the non-resiliently exten... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343649 | Grease gun handle restrainer A strap having fasteners for securing the handle of a grease gun in the closed position has a first loop for wrapping around the barrel of a grease gun and a second loop for wrapping around the grease gun handle in the flexed position. ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343650 | Web adjuster and harness for child restraint seat The invention relates, generally, to a child restraint system and, more particularly, to an adjuster and harness for securing a child in a child restraint seat. ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343651 | Buckle A buckle is provided with a female member 5 having first and second engaging portions 13 and 14, and a male member 6 having first and second engagement pieces 20 and 21. By inserting the male member 6 into the female ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343652 | Lace adjuster An adjustable lace assembly includes a lace, a tubular member, two stop members, and two spaced apart inserting pins. The lace is composed of two separate lace segments each having a tagged end and an opposite bent end portion. The tubular member has a passage for r... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343653 | Funerary article having lighted ornament A funerary article comprises a container having a pair of side wide walls, a pair of end walls and a bottom wall. The container is adapted to contain remains of a deceased. A lid is closeable upon the container. The container has external surfaces defining an exteri... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343654 | Method of manufacturing a piezoelectric element and a liquid ink jet head Provided are a piezoelectric element, a method of manufacturing the same, and a liquid jet head, which can improve, and homogenize, characteristics of a piezoelectric layer. Included are: a step of forming a seed titanium layer interposed therebetween, the seed tita... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343655 | Manufacturing methods of micro electromechanical switch A method of fabricating a micro electromechanical switch on a substrate comprising piezoelectric layers, metal electrodes alternated with the layers and contact pads. Cross voltages are applied to the electrodes, in order to obtain an S-shaped deformation of the swi... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343656 | Multiple face three-axis CNC machine A CNC machine for automatically re-indexing and machining multiple faces of a workpiece includes a traditional three-axis CNC machine and a gripper tool. A bar stock defining a first and at least a second workpiece is loaded within a first and a second vice on the t... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343657 | Duct stretcher A duct stretcher that is used to conveniently bring the joining ends of a sheet metal air carrying duct system together so that the two ends can be joined and essentially sealed. ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343658 | Reinforcement member arrangement jig for concrete electric pole In a method of reinforcing an existing concrete electric pole having an annular side wall, an inner hollow portion provided therein and an opening portion formed to a position of the annular side wall to be penetrated therethrough, at least one of a predetermined am... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343659 | Method of making a medical device A method of making a medical device includes compressing a prosthesis, e.g., a therapeutic agent-carrying stent or stent-graft, to a catheter without contacting an outer surface of the prosthesis, e.g., by electromagnetically compressing the prosthesis. ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343660 | Machine tool system A machine tool apparatus is provided employing a plurality of tool heads which may be sequentially or simultaneously automatically controlled to perform preprogrammed operations on either the same or different workpieces. In one form, a plurality of tool heads are s... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343661 | Method for making condenser microphones A method for making condenser microphones includes: forming a fixed electrode layer structure of a plurality of fixed electrode units; forming a sacrificial layer of a plurality of sacrificial units on one side of the fixed electrode layer structure; forming a diaph... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343662 | Manufacturing method of stator coil composed of conductor segments In manufacturing a stator coil for a rotary electric machine, a U-shaped segment is deformed at the turn portion thereof so that one of two straight portions thereof moves against the other one in a direction generally perpendicular to a borderline which connects tw... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343663 | Integral center plane balancing of a rotating electric device Certain exemplary embodiments provide a rotating machine assembly comprising a rotor machine assembly including a shaft, a plurality of laminations shrink fit around the circumference of the shaft, and weights affixed therebetween the laminations for balancing the r... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343664 | Method of manufacturing a magnetic head with flux shaping layer A method for fabricating a magnetic head includes forming a first pole and a flux shaping layer in spaced relation to the first pole. A nonmagnetic layer is formed adjacent the flux shaping layer and positioned on an air bearing surface (ABS) side of the flux shapin... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343665 | Method of making current-perpendicular-to-the-plane structure magnetoresistive head The lower electrode is at least exposed at the surface of a substructure layer in a current-perpendicular-to-the-plane structure magnetoresistive element. A resist is formed to extend over the surface of the substructure layer. A patterning void is defined in the re... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343666 | Methods of making magnetic write heads with use of linewidth shrinkage techniques In one illustrative example, a method for use in making a magnetic write head includes the steps of forming a first pole piece layer of a first pole piece; forming a patterned resist over the first pole piece layer; electroplating a pedestal over the first pole piec... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343667 | Methods of making a side-by-side read/write head with a self-aligned trailing shield structure A side-by-side read/write head includes a self-aligned trailing shield, where a rear edge of the trailing shield is defined by the same lithography/etching process used to define a rear edge of a read sensor. A plurality of read sensor layers and a pole tip structur... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343668 | Method of manufacturing perpendicular magnetic recording head capable of highly precisely defining gap distance A method of manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording head is provided. The method accurately defines a gap layer. The method includes forming a lower gap layer made of a non-magnetic material on a main magnetic pole layer. An upper gap layer is formed on the... | 03/18/2008 |
