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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7478598 | Oscillation damping means for magnetically levitated systems The present invention presents a novel system and method of damping rolling, pitching, or yawing motions, or longitudinal oscillations superposed on their normal forward or backward velocity of a moving levitated system. ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478599 | Railroad car having cold formed center sill A railroad car having a center sill formed by cold rolling a flat sheet of steel into a rectangular configuration. One of the embodiments includes strengthening flanges and another includes ribs. The cold formed center sill may be formed of a single cold formed sect... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478600 | Temperature controlled railway car A composite box structure mounted on and attached to a railway car underframe to form a temperature controlled railway car. The composite box structure defined in part by an exterior metal surface, interior side stakes and at least one layer of fiber reinforced mate... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478601 | Robotic turntable A robotic turntable includes a first rotating table, a second rotating table, and a workpiece table. A motor rotates the first rotating table. The second rotating table is coaxial with the first rotating table and rotationally positionable relative to the first rota... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478602 | Fold-away game table A game table is disclosed having a support structure including a large normally horizontal tabletop and legs that are adapted to allow the tabletop to be quickly and effortlessly repositioned into a vertical storage position where the legs are disposed parallel to a... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478603 | Seed meter monitoring system A detector is supported adjacent the seed cells within a seed meter housing and provides an indication of the presence or absence of seeds in the cells. A processor receives the seed presence indications and provides an operator readout to facilitate adjustments to ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478604 | Apparatus and process for improving fertility of a soil, to help detoxify hazardous chemicals in the soil, and to reduce erosion of the soil A process and apparatus improves the fertility of soil, helps detoxify hazardous chemicals in the soil, and reduces erosion of the soil. The system provides implantation apparatus for injecting or implanting water and earthworm cocoons in the soil. The depth at whic... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478605 | Carpet making machinery The specification discloses carpet making machinery (10) with at least one needle head (26) and an associated loop forming head (27) disposed on either side of a pile forming station (28) through which a backing material web (29) i... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478606 | Sewing machine The present invention relates to a sewing machine comprising a needle bar mounted with a needle reciprocating within a predetermined sewing work section, and a needle bar driver to drive the needle bar to reciprocate, the sewing machine further comprising a lifting ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478607 | Three-dimensional camouflage fabric and method for making same A camouflage material comprises a plurality of parallel strips of camouflage fabric attached side by side laterally across a substrate and extending longitudinally along the substrate. The strips have a plurality of longitudinally spaced edge strips extending latera... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478608 | Auxiliary vessel lifting, launching, and carrying system A system for launching or retrieving an auxiliary vessel, using at least one support frame, with a connected auxiliary vessel support platform, mounted for rotational and translational movement in Cartesian coordinate directions. The support platform may be inclined... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478609 | Plasma process apparatus and its processor A plasma processing apparatus and a processing apparatus having a widened process condition range allowing plasma generation are obtained by increasing microwave propagation efficiency. The plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber where plasma proce... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478610 | Cat litter A cat litter product is provided and includes manufacture primarily from modified corn starch which is processed through mash distillation. The litter product is pelletized via an extrusion technology process so as to form particles the size of wheat grain. The litt... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478611 | Pipe joint A pipe joint for a radiator includes a connector portion, a pipe portion, a radiator hose fitting portion, and a radiator cap. The connector portion is connected to a coolant water introducing pipe of the radiator. The pipe portion extends upward from the connector ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478612 | Engine cooling apparatus An engine cooling apparatus includes a cooling water outlet communicating with a water jacket provided in a cylinder block and a cylinder head provided on an intake port side of the cylinder head. A thermostat switches a path for cooling water discharged from the co... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478613 | Arrangement in air-cooled internal combustion engine Arrangement in an internal combustion engine, said arrangement comprises a fan for supplying combustion air to a carburetor. The fan comprises a fan housing (11) and a fan wheel (12) provided with a number of wings (13) extending in substantiall... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478614 | Variably operated valve system for compression ignition engine In a variably operated valve system for a compression ignition engine, an adjustment mechanism is controlled by means of a control section to detach an intake valve closure timing from a bottom dead center in accordance with an engine driving condition, and an engin... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478615 | Axial fixation of a spring support part of a switchable tappet The invention relates to an axial fixation (17) of a spring support part (9) of a switchable tappet (1) for direct transmission of a cam stroke to a tappet push-rod (7) of a valve drive of an internal combustion engine. The tappet (1 | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478616 | Conduit enclosure system for enclosing an engine wiring harness A conduit enclosure system for enclosing an engine wiring harness includes a conduit manifold configured to removably enclose a manifold portion of the engine wiring harness, the conduit manifold having a manifold outlet for each corresponding harness branch of a pl... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478617 | Hand-free starter for power generator A power generator includes a supporting frame, a generator supported by the supporting frame, and an engine mechanism including an engine driving the generator and a recoil starter for starting the engine via starter cable. The power generator further includes a han... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478618 | Engine balancer system An engine balancer system is provided in which a balancer housing disposed so as to face an oil pan beneath a crankshaft is formed by joining an upper housing and a lower housing via mating faces, and the height of the mating faces is lower on a vehicle front side t... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478619 | Rotary engine for motor vehicles with very low consumption and pollution rate An internal combustion rotary engine is described, adapted to be used both for motor vehicles and ground machines (alternators, compressors, pumps and the like) or water craft or any type. The used fuels are the same of the presently used reciprocating engines. This... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478620 | Method and apparatus to control a transition between HCCI and SI combustion in a direct-injection gasoline engine A method to operate a multi-cylinder direct-injection engine in one of a controlled auto-ignition and a spark-ignition combustion mode is described. Engine operation and an operator torque request are monitored. Fuel delivery to a portion of the cylinders is selecti... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478621 | Method of compensating for engine speed overshoot A method for controlling the speed of internal combustion engines in heavy duty trucks and the like compensates for the overshoot, i.e., the difference between a targeted or commanded engine speed and a transient overspeed or underspeed. The method comprehends execu... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478622 | Device and method for determining knocking of internal combustion engine An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: calculating a magnitude value LOG(V) by logarithmically converting a magnitude V of vibration occurring in an engine, calculating a median V(50) and a standard deviation σ of magnitude values LOG(V); a... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478623 | Control device of hybrid vehicle An engine ECU executes a program including a step of detecting an opening degree of an accelerator pedal and a state of a power generation command to MG, if a KCS feedback execution condition is met, and a step of detecting a KCS feedback correction amount eakcs, if... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478624 | Ignition timing control device of internal combustion engine An engine ECU executes a program including a step of calculating intensity values LOG(V), a step of detecting vibration waveforms, a step of calculating a correlation coefficient K based on vibration waveforms, a step of preparing frequency distribution of intensity... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478625 | Engine cranking system with cylinder deactivation for a direct injection engine An engine cranking system includes fuel injectors that are associated with multiple combustion chambers of an engine. The fuel injectors include a first fuel injector that is associated with a first combustion chamber. A second fuel injector is associated with a sec... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478626 | Method for producing an injector A first module (1) has an injector housing (4) and a lifting actuating drive. A second module (2) has a nozzle body (16), an injection needle (18), and a restoring means. At least one value of at least one characteristic number for... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478627 | Fuel control apparatus for internal combustion engine When a combustion feedback correction coefficient to which a predetermined value is added in correspondence to half miss firing judgment exceeds a heavy fuel judgment value (K0), heavy fuel judgment is made, and heavy fuel corresponding control for increa... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478628 | Vapor and liquid fuel injection system A fuel delivery system and method in an internal combustion engine including directing fuel in thermal contact with an exhaust system of the engine to vaporize the fuel, using liquid fuel when vaporized fuel is not available, and controlling the temperature of the v... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478629 | Axial flow supercharger and fluid compression machine A compression and vacuum-producing machine includes a housing, at least one rotating disk having a plurality of blades rotationally supported within the housing, and at least one stationary disk having a plurality of blades fixedly attached to the housing. A drive s... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478630 | Device and method for cooling exhaust gas A device for cooling exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine comprises a plurality of flow ducts which are connected to an exhaust gas recirculation system of the internal combustion engine, a heat exchanger for a coolant to flow around the flow ducts in orde... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478631 | PZEV exhaust gas recirculation valve with activated carbon An exhaust gas recirculation valve includes a body including a passageway extending between an inlet and an outlet. The passageway communicates a flow of the exhaust gases. A bearing, disposed in the body, has a bearing passageway. A valve member is located in the p... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478632 | Compact paintball marker A compact paintball marker having an internal paintball holding mechanism, internal compressed gas holding mechanism and distributed striker mechanism. The strike mechanism is divided between two compartments with the striker in a proximal compartment and a biasing ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478634 | Respiratory booster machine and method for enhancing ventilation The respiratory booster machine is configured to generate and transmit particularly designed and timely delivered vibrations to the lungs of a subject to improve ventilation, augment diffusion of gases across alveolar membrane, facilitate pulmonary blood perfusion, ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478635 | Breathing assistance apparatus The present invention may include an integral, separable or separate humidifier (100) which may be selectively configured to an inoperative or operative state. The switch over is dependent on the user or the seller having access to an actuation tool to activa... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478636 | Multilumen tracheal catheter to prevent cross contamination A multilumen tracheal tube or catheter is disclosed. The tube has a plurality of ingress and egress lumens, each having a suction or discharge port as appropriate. At least one rotatable collar is provided. The collar overlaps each port and is capable of selecting v... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478637 | Continuous process for surface modification of cigarette filter materials Process and apparatus are provided for depositing target materials onto the surface of a moving substrate which may be used in the preparation of composites, cigarette filters, cigarette wrapper, bandages, biomedical applications, cosmetic and cleaning materials, an... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478638 | Machine for manufacturing tobacco products Tobacco products are manufactured by an automatic machine presenting a number of working parts, certain of which consisting in rollers rotatable about mutually parallel axes and carried by a substantially vertical bulkhead of the machine frame, equipped with a prote... | 01/20/2009 |