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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a polypeptide containing at least a specific antigenic region of a human centromere antigen recognized by a human anti-centromere antibody, a gene encoding the polypeptide, a plasmid or a phage containing the gene, a transforman... | The present invention provides polypeptides composing epitopes of human centromere protein B, genes encoding therefor, plasmids or phages containing the genes, transformants obtained by introducing the plasmids or phages containing the genes, a method for producing the human centromere antigen polypeptide using the tra... | 2 |
RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/847,111, filed Aug. 29, 2007, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,892,479 which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/721,581, filed Nov. 24, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,264,673 which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. p... | Methods of forming a shaped article having a matrix that contains sintered fly ash are disclosed that include forming a fly ash dough that includes fly ash and water. In one form a superplasticizer is added in the dough. A green article is formed in a desired shape from the fly ash dough that is subsequently fired so t... | 2 |
CLAIM OF PRIORITY
This application claims priority from U.S. provisional patent application “METHOD OF GENERATING UNIQUELY IDENTIFIABLE WORKS OF ART,” Application No. 60/355,264, filed Feb. 8, 2002, incorporated herein by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
... | What is disclosed is a method of creating and distributing works of art that takes advantage of the possibilities of duplication and distribution offered by modern computing and telecommunication, while preserving the rights of the authors. Unique versions of a work of art are generated from a source variable work of a... | 6 |
The present application is a 37 C.F.R. §1.53(b) continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/267,457 filed Nov. 7, 2008, currently pending, which is a 37 C.F.R. §1.53(b) continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/461,451 filed Jun. 16, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,533,548 B2, which claims priority to Korea... | A drum type washing machine is provided. The drum type washing machine may include a cabinet, a tub fixed to an inner side of the cabinet, a drum rotatably arranged in the tub, and a driving motor positioned at a rear side of the drum for generating a driving force that rotates the drum. The washing machine may also in... | 3 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims the priority of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2009-0123272 filed on Dec. 11, 2009, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Inv... | Disclosed is a motor. The motor includes a rotor case, a ring member mounted on the rotor case and including an encoder on a bottom surface thereof extending outside of the rotor case, and an encoder sensor detecting speed information of the rotor case from the encoder such that the rotor case rotates at low speeds ena... | 7 |
This is a division of application Ser. No. 07/096,953, filed Sept. 15, 1987, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,832,864.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to the manufacture of clothing from dyed cellulosic fabrics. More particularly, the invention relates to pumice-free compositions and processes use... | Denim having a stone washed appearance is produced without stones by treating with a cellulase enzyme. Unsewn dyed denim fabric or a newly manufactured garment made of dyed denim fabric is contacted with an aqueous composition containing at least about 2500 CMCS units of cellulase per liter, and subjected to mechanical... | 3 |
This is a division of application Ser. No. 178,176, filed Apr. 6, 1988, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,897,987.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to processes for preparing bicyclic compounds and intermediates thereof. Such compounds are useful as anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory and/or cy... | The process for making certain bicyclic compounds and intermediates which are useful as anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory and cytoprotective agents. | 2 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] This invention relates generally to compositions useful for development of muscle mass in animals, and specifically relates to such compositions, particularly dietary supplements, which contain well-tolerated and ingestible ... | Compositions containing nicotine and/or nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonists are provided for administration in therapeutically effective amounts to enhance muscle development in animals, the nicotine and/or nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonists being particularly derived from natural sources that produce bene... | 0 |
RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/434,509, filed on Dec. 18, 2002, hereby incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The present invention relates genera... | The oil deflector apparatus can be installed in an internal combustion engine to deflect oil from gaskets mounted between an upper deck assembly and the engine block. The apparatus has a first portion that extends lengthwise along the upper deck assembly and includes mounting holes that accept mounting hardware to coup... | 5 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present application is a continuation in part application of application Ser. No. 07/856,639, filed Mar. 24, 1992, U.S. Pat. No. 5,307,598.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention related to adjustable mounting systems and in particular to tube mounting systems ... | A cantilever mounting system for mounting a tube to a post to extend at approximately a right angle from the post that is maintained in a vertical attitude to the ground. The erected post can be utilized as a fences post, sign post, mail box post, or the like, and can be used for mounting the tube, or the like, that ma... | 4 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates broadly to textile machine lubricating apparatus and more particularly to a device for supplying oil to shearing blades attached to a rotating cylinder of a textile material shearing machine.
When processing napped and pile fabrics, the upstanding fa... | A shear roller lubricating apparatus for textile shearing machines having cylindrically oriented rotating shearing blades includes an oil delivery pad, an oil application pad, and an airflow-blocking plate sandwiched therebetween, the pads and the plate being mounted to an oil distribution header with the outer termina... | 3 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The increase in the power requirement for hydraulically controlled mobile equipment requires a corresponding increase in the valve required to control the flow of hydraulic fluid to such equipment. The increase in size of the directional control valve makes the valve more difficult to ... | A power assist remotely controlled servo controller for proportionally controlling the operation of a directional control valve, the controller including a servo-controlled force amplifying piston assembly to operate the directional control valve and a pilot pressure balanced piston connected to the servo-controlled pi... | 8 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 13/686,372 filed Nov. 27, 2012, which is incorporated herein by reference, and which claims priority on Russian patent application 2011149370, filed Dec. 5, 2011, which priority claim is repeated here.
... | A method for the dietary management of anxiety includes administering to a subject in need thereof water containing from 0.0002 to 0.0278 mol. % of isotopologue HOD, preferably, from 0.0178 to 0.0278 mol. % of isotopologue HOD. | 0 |
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The present invention relates to a process for producing fluorine-containing olefin.
BACKGROUND ART
[0002] Fluoroolefins represented by the formula: CF 3 (CX 2 ) n CF═CH 2 , the formula: CF 3 (CX 2 ) n CH═CHF, or the like, are compounds that have a useful structure a... | The present invention provides a process for producing a fluoroolefin by reacting, in a gas phase, a fluorinating agent and a chlorine-containing alkene or a chlorine-containing alkane in the presence of at least one catalyst selected from the group consisting of chromium oxide, at least part of which is crystallized, ... | 8 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The application is a non-provisional, and claims priority benefit, of U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 61/630,358 file Dec. 9, 2011 which is incorporated herein by specific reference.
STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPME... | The invention being designed in this application relates to a radial drilling method. Boreholes are placed into oil and gas formations to provide openings for the removal of the product.
Oil and gas wells extend to different depths and downhole well conditions. The radial system has been designed to accommodate t... | 4 |
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The present invention relates, in general, to handwriting, and in particular, to a method and a device for inputting handwriting character.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Today a writing input device is becoming more and more popular. Users can easily make an inp... | A method and an electronic device for inputting handwriting character are provided. The electronic device comprises a touch screen, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to perform the functions of the method. The method comprises steps of: adding a handwriting input on the touch screen; detecting a po... | 6 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to novel benzoylpiperazine esters and to a process for producing such esters.
More particularly, the invention is concerned with a benzoylpiperazine ester represented by the following formula (I): ##STR3## wherein A... | A benzopylpiperazine ester of the following formula: ##STR1## wherein A represents a single bond or an alkylene group, vinylene group, --O--alkylene group or methine group, R 1 represents a bicyclic carbon ring residue which may be substituted with a lower alkyl group, lower alkoxy group, oxo group or nitro group or a... | 2 |
This application is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 602,173, filed Apr. 19, 1984, now abandoned.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a heavy duty "draw" or clamping type cabinet lock for securely releasably retaining a closur... | A clamping type cabinet lock that is mounted on a cabinet door includes a link-and-lever type of operating assembly which moves a vertical bar. End regions of the vertical bar are connected to pivotally mounted latch members. The latch members have latch formations that enter between and move behind keeper formations t... | 4 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention is directed to an improved digital display driving circuit for driving digital display cells, and in particular, to a digital display driving circuit for only effecting AC driving of liquid crystal display cells in order to avoid deterioration thereof.
Due to the m... | An improved digital display driving circuit for driving digital display cells forming a ditigal display is provided. The driving circuit includes an interfacing circuit that in response to being energized receives a first data signal for selectively energizing certain of the display cells and a second drive signal for ... | 6 |
CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a U.S. National Stage application of International Application PCT/FI00/00129 filed Feb. 21, 2000 and claims priority on Finnish Application Nos. FI 990370, filed Feb. 22, 1999, and FI 19991908, filed Sep. 8, 1999.
STATEMENT AS TO RIGHTS TO INVENTIO... | A web ( 16 ) running from an opening nip (K 1 ) between a cylinder ( 10 ) and a supporting fabric ( 18 ) toward a roll ( 14 ), is supported by a negative pressure created by a blow box ( 30 ). In an intensified negative pressure region ( 34 ′), i.e. close to the disengaging point ( 40 ) between the supporting fabric an... | 3 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Serial No. 60/344,835, filed Dec. 21, 2001. This application is related to co-pending application 10/290,118, entitled PANEL FORMING SYSTEM AND COMPONENTS, filed Nov. 7, 2002.
... | A pre-cast panel forming system. The system includes one or more bulkheads to constrain the flow of uncured panel-forming material. The bulkhead is made up of an upstanding form and a base clip to secure the upstanding form to a panel-forming surface. The base clip is configured to promote ease of attachment to the pan... | 4 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Within the last hundred years there have been numerous attempts to develop collapsible crutches. For the most part, these crutches while collapsible require significant time and effort to reduce them in elongation. Some of these feature a telescoping tubular lower member wherein the in... | A self-adjusting crutch containing a central portion having both a fixed and a moveable central post, one of which nests within the other. A prepositionable height fastener cooperates with a coupling collar, both of which are disposed on the central portion to predetermine the amount of extension. When the fastener and... | 0 |
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/698,971, filed on Aug. 16, 1996; now abandoned, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/138,552, filed on Oct. 15, 1993, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,713, 892 which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/746,446, filed on Aug. 16, 1991, now abandoned.
... | A method for performing concurrent spherical and cylindrical corrections to the corneal surface of the eye to reduce myopia and astigmatism. A laser beam irradiates the corneal surface via a variable diameter iris and a slot produced by a pair of translatable blades. The width of the slot and the diameter of the iris a... | 0 |
RELATED APPLICATION
This application claims priority to and is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/339,977, filed Jan. 26, 2006, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,485,740 the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present inven... | A polycarbodiimide polymer that is reversibly switchable between two distinct optical orientations is described. The polymer is useful in forming devices such as filters, storage media, actuators, and displays. Methods of making and using such polymers are also described. | 8 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] The application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/915,129 filed on Aug. 10, 2004, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/494,420 filed on Aug. 11, 2003, which is incorporated herein by reference
... | The invention is a chewing tobacco substitute made from natural leaves and additives which simulate the taste and consistency of chewing tobacco to which a nicotine compound is added. The invention allows those addicted to chewing tobacco to chew and receive nicotine without incurring the other harmful side effects of ... | 0 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to the field of illumination, and, more particularly, to a submersible color light. Although the present invention is subject to a wide range of applications, it is especially suited for use in a pool lighting system, and will be particularly describe... | An underwater lighting fixture adapted for installation in a lamp receiving recess in the wall of a swimming pool. The fixture includes a lamp housing having a pair of reflector-mounted incandescent lamps mounted therein. A plate having a pair of a apertures is mounted in the housing with the apertures mounted in align... | 5 |
RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The present application claims benefit to provisional U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 60/341,407 entitled “Electromechanical Locking Mechanism”, filed Dec. 14, 2001. The entire disclosure of this application No. 60/341,407 is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety fo... | A locking mechanism is provided. The locking mechanism includes a mounting plate that carries a locking hook. The locking hook is pivotal with respect to the mounting plate and may be pivoted from an unlocked position to a locked position. A motor is in communication with a locking hook, and is capable of causing the l... | 4 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The digestion of titaniferous materials with sulfuric acid is one of the two processes to produce titanium pigment. The raw materials used in the sulfate process are essentially ilmenite ores and titaniferous slags produced by electric furnace smelting of ilmenite ores. Ilmenite ores a... | The invention relates to the sulfuric digestion of titaniferous slags and more specifically to a method to decrease the reduced titanium concentration in the resulting sulfate liquor. The process uses lignin products to assist in the oxidation of the Ti +3 content of the slag. | 2 |
This application is a continuation of Ser. No. 08/786,325 filed Jan. 23, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,746,334.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates in general to techniques for arranging and supporting modular, cooperating components such as, for e... | An apparatus for supporting modular and cooperating components which includes a base member, a vertical support pole extending upward from the base member, at least one bushing concentrically engaging the vertical support pole at a particular axial location, at least one support arm extending radially outward from the ... | 0 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A number of common physical, mental and psychological disorders have been associated with states of psychoneuroses or anxiety. Such states typically result in feelings of apprehension, uncertainty or fear, without apparent stimulus or objectively out of proportion to any apparent cause... | Anxiolytic and antipsychotic treatment is provided to patients by administering therapeutically effective amounts of N-[2-(diethylamino)-ethyl]-2-methoxy-4-[(1-H-4,5-dihydro-2-immidazolyl)-amino]-5-chlorobenzamide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 8 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] In hydrocarbon reforming, a hydrocarbon feedstock and steam is reacted catalytically in a reformer furnace to form a synthesis gas comprised of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide. The reforming furnace is a critical component of hydrogen production facilities a... | The invention provides a process which facilitates high incremental capacity expansion of existing syngas-based plants by providing an adiabatic prereformer and an independent heater which is configured to (1) receive a prereformed and preheated mixed feed stream from the prereformer, (2) heat the prereformed and prehe... | 1 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] Vitamin K controls the formation of prothrombin, factor VII, factor IX, and factor X by acting as a substrate for the enzyme γ-glutamyl carboxylase. This enzyme catalyzes the addition of carbon dioxide to the γ-carbon of protein-bound glutamic acid in the gla regions of ... | Use of factor XIII for treating coumarin-induced hemorrhage or bleeding. The coumarin may be warfarin or dicoumarol. A patient having coumarin-induced bleeding is treated with factor XIII alone or in conjunction with vitamin K. | 0 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims the benefit of priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/554,187 filed Nov. 1, 2011, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The present invention relates... | A reconfigurable element based on nonlinear (chaotic) dynamics is adapted to implement the three different multivibrator configurations. A nonlinear dynamical system, under parameter modulating control, operates as a tunable oscillator with different dynamical regimes which in turn provide the different multivibrator c... | 7 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates in general to catheters having inflatable balloons and in particular to a balloon catheter wherein the balloon is fabric reinforced.
2. Background of the Prior Art
Catheters having inflatable balloons affixed thereto ar... | A balloon catheter having an expandable and collapsible elastic balloon is shown, wherein the balloon is reinforced by knitted fabric such that the balloon can not expand beyond a predetermined diameter regardless of the internal pressure applied to the balloon. The knitted construction permits the balloon to expand in... | 0 |
BACKGROUND
[0001] 1. Field of Invention
[0002] This invention relates to medicine and dentistry, specifically to desensitization of tissues required in association with traumas.
[0003] 2. Description of Prior Art
[0004] In medicine and dentistry, tissues are frequently ... | A method and device for controlling the pain of a periodontal ligament injection, and other minor medical and dental procedures. The device desensitizes the tissues utilizing cold, vibration, or both. The method is useful for injections, small biopsies, intraosseous drilling, blood sampling, and so on. | 0 |
GOVERNMENT RIGHTS
[0001] This invention was made with Government support under Contract R01 DK063158 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The Government has certain rights in this invention.
[0002] Cytochrome P450 enzymes are a heme-containing family that play central roles in ... | The response of a patient with an enteropathic disease to therapy, particularly a candidate therapy in a clinical trial setting, is assessed by detecting the ability of the patient to metabolize an orally administered CYP3A substrate. The CYP3A metabolism may be monitored in a variety of ways. Conveniently, the appeara... | 6 |
CROSS-REFERENCE To RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims priority to commonly owned U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/281,056 filed Jan. 20, 2016; which is hereby incorporated by reference herein for all purposes.
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0002] The present disclosur... | Systems and method for a time-triggered communication channel in a synchronous network are disclosed. The systems and methods may include communicating in a repeated cycle wherein each of the plurality of nodes has a dedicated slot, wherein a cycle comprises n subsequent slots, and wherein each slot comprises a plurali... | 7 |
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a silica slurry in water. It specifically relates to such a method to be applied in the context of making a slurry of silica in particular silica gel, to be used for coating formulations particularly for offset papers. It... | A method for the preparation of a silica slurry in water is described. The proposed silica slurry can be advantageously used as a constituent of a coating formulation for a paper comprising precipitated silica and/or silica gel as well as at least one further fine particulate pigment, in particular for an offset paper.... | 3 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to dryers in papermaking machinery in general, and to single tier dryers in particular.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the paper manufacturing industry, a critical factor controlling the production of a cost effective paper product is the ability to... | The dryer of this invention employs a vacuum chamber interposed below and between first and second heated dryer rolls. The vacuum chamber has two sides and a top which overlies two grooved reversing rolls. The vacuum chamber controls all flow of air in the gap between and below the dryer rolls. The dryer-fabric-backed ... | 3 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The present Application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/223,647 that was filed Jul. 7, 2009 and from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/254,567 that was filed Oct. 23, 2009, which applications are expressly incorporated by... | A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a hardware mechanism arranged to ensure that associations between instructions and data are enforced so that a processor cannot execute an instruction that is not authorized. A Command Filter Matrix stores entries comprising instructions and associated data memory ranges. A h... | 6 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATION
This application is the National Stage entry of PCT/US2008/055962 filed Mar. 5, 2008 and claims the benefit of provisional patent application No. 60/904,999, filed Mar. 5, 2007, having the title “Method of local electro-magnetic field enhancement of terahertz (THz) ra... | A method and apparatus for enhanced THz radiation coupling to molecules, includes the steps of depositing a test material near the discontinuity edges of a slotted member, and enhancing the THz radiation by transmitting THz radiation through the slots. The molecules of the test material are illuminated by the enhanced ... | 6 |
[0001] This application claims the benefit of the Provisional application No. 60/323,824 filed Sep. 21, 2001.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The present invention is directed to fire suppression systems, in general, and more specifically to a fire suppression system and a plurality of ae... | A fire suppression system for a substantially enclosed area comprises: a plurality of solid propellant aerosol generators disposed about the enclosed area for exhausting a fire suppressant aerosol that is substantially void of an ozone depleting material into the enclosed area. Each aerosol generator including an ignit... | 6 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional application 61/408,920 filed Nov. 1, 2010 hereby incorporated by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates generally to cheese processing equipment and in particular to a cuttin... | A string cheese-forming machine provides for extrusion of cheese into control volumes, for example, implemented with tubes each movably blocked with a piston having a stop. Complete filling of each tube is detected before ejection of the cheese from the tubes is undertaken, thereby ensuring consistent product volume an... | 0 |
RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/729,914, filed Nov. 26, 2012, titled “Cosmetic Applicator,” the content of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
FIELD
[0002] The present disclosure relates gene... | An applicator apparatus comprising a container comprising an opening, a wiper element coupled to the container, the wiper element comprising a passage, a non-circular applicator stem removably coupled to the container, the applicator stem configured to be slidably engaged in the passage of the wiper element such that r... | 0 |
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention relates to solar cell technology and in particular to maximum power tracking converters. The present invention has particular but not exclusive application for use in vehicles that are at least in part electrically powered by solar cells. Reference to solar powered vehicle... | A system for providing power from solar cells where each cell or cell array is allowed to produce its maximum available power and converted by its own DC/DC converter. In one form the system includes: one or more solar generators, each of which has at least one solar cell; a maximum power tracker operatively associated... | 8 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention relates to improved methods and apparatus involving the integrated use of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Specifically, this invention relates to AEDs and methods that quickly and reliably determine the pres... | An automated external defibrillator (AED) and methods for reducing the delay between termination of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and administration of a defibrillating shock, among other disclosed apparatus and methods. In one embodiment, the AED includes an ECG sensor that obtains an ECG signal corresponding to... | 0 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention relates to rail crossings and turnouts and more specifically to an improved frog particularly suitable for mine use.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Rail crossings and turnouts are points where two sets of track cross. The center ... | The present invention relates to an improved railway frog having opposite side flangeways, each flangeway comprising a channel with an ending width greater than a corresponding channel width of a conventional frog. The improved frog further comprising a segment with an outside wall angle greater than a corresponding se... | 4 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention relates to a game controlling method, and more particularly, to an interactive game controlling method for use in a touch panel device medium.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART
[0002] With the development of touch control technology, it is n... | The present invention relates to an interactive game controlling method for use in a touch panel device medium. The game includes a virtual hot zone, a virtual display range, at least one self-acting virtual object displayed on the touch panel device. An interactive program that allows users to interact with the virtua... | 0 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] This invention relates to a video signal recording apparatus which records, along with a video signal, some data signals relative to the video signal on recording means such as a recording medium.
[0003] 2.... | A recording apparatus for recording a video signal on a recording medium together with data signals relative to the video signal comprises a first signal processing channel in which the data signals are supplied to a monitor in a state of being superimposed on the video signal; and a second signal processing channel in... | 6 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The subject matter of the invention relates to a system or device for the centrifugation of samples comprising a rotor and at least one carrier having several uptakes for samples.
Dosing, mixing, tempering, filtering, closing, opening, washing, numbering, coding, retrieving, arra... | A system for centrifugation of samples includes at least one carrier, which is provided with a plurality of elements connected with each other by joints and having each an uptake for receiving a sample to be centrifuged, and a rotor for supporting the carrier, with the elements being arranged, in a centrifuged position... | 1 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to the field of cranes and particularly to a novel type of kingpost crane.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Kingpost cranes have long been known in the art. See for instance Purdy, GB Patent No. 10730, AD-1894. Pedestal crane systems, in which a crane upper wor... | An inverted kingpost crane is disclosed, the crane including an upperworks supporting a crane boom, the upperworks supported on a rotating kingpost, the kingpost supported in a sleeve, an upper radial bearing structure intermediate an upper section of the kingpost and the sleeve, a lower bearing structure comprising a ... | 1 |
RELATED APPLICATIONS
This patent application is a Continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/987,086, filed on Nov. 15, 2004 entitled “DEBIT PURCHASING OF STORED VALUE CARD FOR USE BY AND/OR DELIVERY TO OTHERS”, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/441,067, filed on May 20, 2003, ... | A method of issuing a purchase card is provided. The method includes the steps of presenting a purchaser with the opportunity to buy the purchase card, determining whether the purchaser has sufficient funds to pay for the purchase card, creating a purchase card account for a recipient designated by the purchaser, and i... | 6 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The invention is concerned with a glazing comprising filaments, for example an automotive glazing comprising heating filaments.
[0002] It is well known that parallel straight heater wires integrated into a glazing and viewed in transmission against a bright lig... | A glazing comprising a transparent substrate, a plurality of electrically conductive filaments extending over the transparent substrate, wherein the filaments are shaped into a sequence of portions of the perimeters of ellipses, wherein ellipse axial ratios of the ellipses are in the range 1.1 to 4.0 and are selected s... | 7 |
PRIORITY
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/683,844 filed on Nov. 21, 2012, entitled KEYSEAT WIPER, which claims the benefit of United States Provisional Patent Application No. 61/562,272 filed on Nov. 21, 2011, entitled KEYSEAT WIPER, the disclosures of which are in... | Exemplary drill tools for placement in a drill string may include a body; a plurality of reamer cutters; and a plurality of ball and socket connectors configured to attach the plurality of reamer cutters to the body. Each of the plurality of reamer cutters may be replaceable by removing at least one of the plurality of... | 4 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
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STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT
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THE NAMES OF THE PARTIES TO A JOINT RESEARCH AGREEMENT
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INCORPORATION-BY-REFERENCE OF MATERIAL SUBMITTED ON COMPACT DISC, OR AS TEXT ... | Provided is a household appliance, in particular dishwasher, tumble drier or the like, having a primary circuit which has a hygroscopic liquid, in particular brine solution, for extracting moisture from drying air, and a secondary circuit for drying wet articles by drying air, wherein a contact chamber is provided whic... | 3 |
REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/615,943 filed 6 Oct. 2004 which is hereby incorporated by reference.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0002] This invention relates to a liposome drug loading meth... | The present invention relates to the use of copper ions to achieve enhanced retention of a therapeutic agent within a liposome. The invention may be employed to more effectively deliver a liposomally encapsulated therapeutic agent to a target site in vitro and in vivo for anti-cancer or other therapy. The liposome may ... | 0 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims priority of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/334,490 filed Dec. 30, 2002 which in turn claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/392,200, filed Jun. 28, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,093,180 which is incorporated by reference as if fu... | A stopping rule for Turbo decoding that is applied for both good and bad code blocks is disclosed. If the iteration either converges or diverges, decoding is terminated. In an alternative embodiment, the result of the stopping rule testing may be used for hybrid automatic repeat-request (HARQ) acknowledgement generatio... | 7 |
This application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 10/368,014, filed Feb. 19, 2003 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,773,468, which claims the benefit of Provisional Application No. 60/357,128, filed Feb. 19, 2002, the entire contents of which is hereby incorporated by reference in this application.
FIELD OF TH... | The invention relates to a double layer capacitor comprising:
at least a pair of current collector plates that are placed in parallel to each other,
flat electrodes containing aqueous electrolyte printed on opposing faces of said current collectors, such that a peripheral region is defined on each of said f... | 8 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] This invention relates to medical uses of radiopharmaceuticals. Specifically, the present invention relates to the use of radioisotope complexes to treat osteomyelitis.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Osteomyelitis is infection in the bones. Often,... | This invention relates to medical uses of radiopharmaceuticals. Specifically, the present invention relates to the use of radiopharmaceuticals to treat osteomyelitis. The present invention provides improved system and methods of for the direct delivery of radiopharmaceuticals to the site of osteomyelitis. | 0 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention is in the field of flame-retardants. More particularly, it relates to fire-retardant polyolefin compositions.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Brominated organic compounds are commonly used as additives for retarding and slowing the flammability of plastic compounds th... | The present invention relates to A flame-retardant polyolefin composition or to a fiber that are comprised of (i) at least one polyolefin; (ii) a tris(tribromoneopentyl) phosphate; and (iii) afree radical source. The composition may further comprise an additional flame-retarding compound, which may be selected from an ... | 2 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a multipath noise reducer, an audio output circuit including a multipath noise reducer, and a frequency-modulation (FM) radio receiver including a multipath noise reducer.
Radio receivers are afflicted by various types of electromagnetic noise. Radio bro... | A multipath noise reducer detects and removes the individual noise spikes occurring in an interval of multipath noise, thereby reducing the multipath noise with relatively little distortion of the output signal. The threshold signal used to detect multipath noise is varied depending on reception conditions. The gate pu... | 7 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] The present application is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/216,639, filed Mar. 17, 2014, which in turn claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/801,831 to the inventors, ... | A child-resistant closure system for a container comprises a protective cap, a dispensing tip, and a cylindrical base. The dispensing tip includes a pair of buttons adapted to control whether the dispensing tip is in a locked condition so as to prevent actuation or an unlocked condition so as to permit actuation, via t... | 1 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
I. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a cyclized rubber-type negative-working photoresist coating composition which provides high resolution.
II. Description of the Prior Art
ICs are currently being packed at higher densities to form LSIs or VLSIs... | There is proposed a negative-working photoresist coating composition of an improved resolution, which comprises a cyclized polyisoprene having a weight-average molecular weight of 10,000 to 100,000 and a molecular weight distribution of not more than 1.9, an organic solvent of the cyclized polyisoprene, and a bisazido ... | 2 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This case is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 947,963, by Jacob Crane, Eugene Shapiro, Stanley Shapiro and Brian Mravic for HIGH CONDUCTIVITY HIGH TEMPERATURE COPPER ALLOY, filed Oct. 2, 1978, now abandoned, which in turn is a continuation of U.S. ... | A high conductivity high temperature copper alloy containing mischmetal, phosphorus and magnesium with specific ratios among them. The alloy is free from internal copper oxides and may be annealed at elevated temperatures in hydrogen atmospheres without embrittlement. Strengths on the order of 80 KSI and conductivities... | 2 |
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/786,001 filed on Oct. 31, 1991, now abandoned, which was a Continuation-in-Part application of Ser. No. 07/527,915, filed on May 24, 1990, now abandoned.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention ... | The present invention is directed to bistriazene compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing effective anti-cancer amounts of these compounds, a method for treating cancer comprising administering to affected subjects an anti-cancer effective amount of a bistriazene compound, and the use of bistriazene compounds ... | 2 |
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 10/271,053, filed Oct. 15, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,770,048 B2, issued Aug. 3, 2004, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/952,093, filed Sep. 11, 2001, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,475,176 B2, issued Nov. 5, 2002, which is a continuation of application Se... | A combined device having a reservoir for venous blood and a reservoir for cardiotomy blood is disclosed. The device is characterized in that the venous reservoir is separated from the cardiotomy reservoir by a partition which includes a plurality of apertures. The apertures are in fluid communication with a plurality o... | 6 |
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/525,298 entitled “THREE DIMENSIONAL RF SIGNATURES” to Ashwood-Smith et al., filed Sep. 22, 2006.
BACKGROUND
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to Radio Frequency (RF) tags and, more particularly, t... | Method and systems to detect tampering in a physical article are described herein. A method includes receiving, at a first point in time, at least two response signals from at least one RF tag in a set of RF tags associated with the physical article; forming a first response signature for the physical article based on ... | 6 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates generally to communications. Particularly, the present invention relates to frequency discrimination in a communications environment.
[0003] 2. Description of the Related Art ... | A cross product is determined for a received signal. A dot product is also determined for the received signal. If the cross product is greater than a predetermined threshold, the cross product is decremented by the product of the dot product multiplied by a constant value. If the cross product is greater than or equal ... | 7 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Various systems have been developed for dispensing measured quantities of liquids by many different means. The most precise types use a positive displacement pump, usually with a controlled stroke piston, to fill and empty a container of the required volume with each stroke. The piston... | A beverage dispensing system which will deliver a precise, pre-set quantity of a selected beverage at each actuation. The system is operated by low pressure gas from a quickly replaceable source, and utilizes a controlled stroke piston pump which is driven and returned by the pressurized gas. All the valves for automat... | 1 |
[0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/557,852, filed Mar. 30, 2004, and to co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/055,794 from which this application claims priority as a divisional application.
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0002] This invention r... | A cotton receiver for a cotton harvesting machine and a method of operation of the same. The receiver includes a cotton compacting chamber, A precompacting area above the chamber, and an accumulator deployable upwardly from the precompacting area to increase the cotton holding capacity thereof. Compactor apparatus is l... | 0 |
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to a faucet mixer valve for liquids incorporating a ball valve element and more particularly to a ball valve mechanism that has pivotable motion about a fixed longitudinal axis of the valve body and shaped ports to provide a desirable flow pattern based on the position of th... | A mixing valve for a faucet has a ball valve (16) mounted for pivotable motion about a longitudinal axis (76) and a second perpendicular axis (86) that is fixed with respect to the pin (84) that extends through the spherical section (42) of the ball valve. Distal ends of the pin are connected to a collar (46) that is f... | 8 |
The present invention relates to thermoplastic molding compositions which are based on an intimate admixture of a copolymer of a vinyl aromatic compound and an α,β-unsaturated cyclic anhydride and a grafted, copolymerized or blended impact modifier, with or without a polyphenylene ether resin and optionally a liquid po... | Thermoplastic molding compositions are disclosed which comprise an intimate admixture of (a) a copolymer of a vinyl aromatic compound and an α, β-unsaturated cyclic anhydride, including rubber-modified copolymers thereof, and (b) impact modifiers comprising graft copolymers, copolyesters, and rubber-modified homopolyme... | 2 |
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The present invention relates in general to intra-board, chip-to-chip and to inter-board communications, at high bit rates and high data throughputs, using electro-optical interfacing and optical data communications.
BACKGROUND
[0002] Increasing bandwidth requirement... | An intra-board chip-to-chip optical communications system has a high bit rate and high data throughput based on the use of a silicon photonic interposer. The system includes a multi-substrate electro-optical structure for communications with CMOS and/or BiCMOS IC chips of a PCB. The structure includes a multi-chip modu... | 8 |
CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. ______ (EastIP Ref. No. 05NI2753-1365-SMY), filed Jun. 20, 2005, entitled “System and Method of Electrostatic Discharge Protection for Signals at Various Voltages,” by Inventors Zhiliang Chen,... | System and method for protecting an integrated circuit. The system includes a first transistor coupled to a first voltage and a second voltage, a second transistor coupled to the gate of the first transistor and the first voltage, a third transistor coupled to the gate of the second transistor and the first voltage, an... | 7 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This case claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/633,943, filed Dec. 07, 2004, and is related to the companion case, U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/633,889, filed Dec. 07, 2004, entitled “Snap Fit Sealing Gasket with Precisely Located Internal Re... | A pipe sealing gasket is shown which is designed to be received within a groove provided within the belled, socket end of a plastic pipe. The sealing gasket has a body formed of resilient material and has a retainer ring embedded therein which circumscribes the gasket body. The groove in the plastic pipe is preformed d... | 8 |
FIELD
The present invention relates generally to vehicle occupant restraints, in particular to a mounting system for a seat-mounted emergency locking retractor.
BACKGROUND
Vehicle occupant restraints, including seat belt devices, are important and well-known components of vehicle safety systems. If a vehicl... | A seat belt retractor mounting system for a vehicle seat includes a bracket having a first sidewall and a second sidewall. A generally planar plate is located generally parallel to and spaced apart from the first sidewall of the bracket. The plate is coupled to the second sidewall. In addition, at least one of the brac... | 1 |
FIELD OF INVENTION
[0001] This invention relates to apparatus and method for protecting the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) in software video players.
DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART
[0002] The Advanced Access Content System (AACS) is a standard for content distribution and digital rights... | A method for protecting a software video player having Advanced Access Content System (AACS) includes reading segments of an encrypted first key from noncontiguous regions of memory, assembling the segments to form the encrypted first key, decrypting the encrypted first key with a second key to form a first key, extrac... | 7 |
[0001] Systems that process large volumes of data, such as search engine websites, are typically constrained by response times for their clients. As such, it is useful to organize these large volumes to facilitate accesses that meet these constraints.
[0002] In some systems, the large volumes of data ma... | The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method for moving large volumes of data. An exemplary method comprises receiving a request to transfer a plurality of rows from a first table to a second table. The first table may be determined to be associated with a same file group as the second table. The plural... | 6 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method for servicing and maintaining heat supply equipment provided with a boiler or the like.
The heat supply equipment is provided with such equipment units as a water treatment unit, a fuel supply unit, and a wastewater treatment unit in addi... | In heat supply equipment provided with a plurality of maintenance object units, secure and prompt servicing and maintenance is implemented and a burden on a person in charge of managing the heat supply equipment is decreased. In a method for servicing and maintaining heat supply equipment based on a servicing and maint... | 5 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates generally to the field of semiconductor processing; and more particularly, to the field of nitride film deposition on semiconductor substrates.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Recently, a process for the low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) of silicon nitri... | A method is provided for obtaining stable and elevated deposition rates in a reaction chamber, following the cleaning of the chamber. The method involves cleaning of the chamber, pre-coating the interior surfaces of the reaction chamber with an inorganic composition, and then, using the pre-coated chamber to deposit an... | 2 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The invention relates generally to a surface treatment for a casting surface, to make the casting surface more suitable for wire bonding and other processes.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Circuit assemblies have different components that are assembled usi... | A method of removing material from a surface, which includes the steps of providing a base layer, at least one layer attached to the base layer, an intermediate finish surface, and a bonding interface surface. The intermediate finish surface is formed by removing the at least one layer and a portion of the base layer d... | 7 |
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/776,102, filed Oct. 15, 1991, now abandoned.
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates in general to electronic power devices, and more particularly to a lateral double-diffused insulated gate field effect transistor and a... | A transistor has a JFET gate region of a first conductivity type formed at the face of a semiconductor layer to laterally and downwardly surround a drift region of a second conductivity type. A thick insulator region is formed on a portion of the drift region at the face. A IGFET body of the first conductivity type is ... | 7 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A toy vehicle is provided with a specially constructed support member on the upper body shell of the toy vehicle to receive and removably support a weighted member such as a coin of monetary value of a predetermined weight. The toy vehicle, when propelled forward, provides an impressio... | A toy vehicle assembly that can be self-propelled by a spring motor and is designed to permit the front wheels to be lifted off of the traveling surface by the addition of a weighted member. The weighted member is positioned on a pivotable bracket which is adjustable relative to the main frame of the vehicle to thereby... | 0 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a process for the production of activated carbon fibers.
Activated carbon fibers are generally produced from polyacrylonitrile fibers, cellulose fibers, cured novolak resin fibers and carbonaceous pitch fibers. Because of their high adsorption power and ... | Carbon fibers with a large specific surface area are obtained by a process which comprises the steps of:
(a) providing cured novolak resin fibers;
(b) impregnating the novolak resin fibers with a polymerizable vinyl monomer;
(c) polymerizing the vinyl monomer; and
(d) carbonizing the novolak res... | 3 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the manufacture of wet laid facial tissue, bathroom tissue, or paper towels it is necessary to crepe the dried fibrous web in order to impart to the web the desired feel characteristics, such as softness and bulk. The creping process involves adhering the web to a rotating creping c... | A creping adhesive comprising an aqueous admixture of polyvinyl alcohol and a water-soluble, thermosetting, cationic polyamide resin provides increased adhesion in the manufacture of creped wadding. | 3 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The invention relates to a rolled product, in particular a rolled product made of a metallic material for use as a reflector material in lighting engineering, comprising a first surface and a second surface, in which the surfaces of the two sides exhibit a dispersive refl... | A rolled product, especially a rolled product consisting of a metallic material, such as an aluminium sheet, for using in lighting engineering as a reflector surface, the surfaces on both sides of the rolled product displaying essentially the same reflective properties. One such rolled product is especially suitable as... | 2 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to processes for preparing crystalline moricizine in ethanol hydrochloride from moricizine using hydrochloric acid, wherein the crystalline moricizine hydrochloride so obtained is substantially free of occluded water.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Pharmaceut... | Processes are provided for preparing crystalline moricizine hydrochloride from moricizine using hydrochloric acid, wherein the crystalline moricizine hydrochloride so obtained is substantially free of occluded water. | 2 |
This invention relates to the field of plumbing accessories and is particularly concerned with a drain flushing device for allowing a user to unclog a drain in either of two modes. The user is given the option to either use the device as a liquid column guide or as a pump.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Water ... | A drain flushing device for allowing a user to unclog a drain in either of two modes. The user is given the option to either use the device as a liquid column guide or as a pump. | 4 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention pertains to slat-type conveyors for movement of a load More particularly, the present invention pertains to a liquid-tight reciprocating floor construction for load movement.
Conveyors having interleaved slats in general are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,534... | A liquid-tight reciprocating floor construction includes a plurality of slats slidable on a plurality of stationary bases, with each base supporting an individual slat. Each of the bases is unitary in construction such that liquid leaking through the points of contact between the slat and the base cannont reach the flo... | 1 |
FIELD OF INVENTION
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/386,883 filed Aug. 31, 1999 and relates to a low viscosity filler composed of boron nitride agglomerated particles of spherical geometry, a process for forming a low viscosity filler of boron nitride agglomerated ... | A low viscosity filler boron nitride agglomerate particles having a generally spherical shape bound together by an organic binder and to a process for producing a BN powder composition of spherically shaped boron nitride agglomerated particles having a treated surface layer which controls its viscosity. | 2 |
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are becoming increasingly widely used in automobile design because of their longer lives and lower cost compared to the incandescent bulbs they replace. Present day automotive designers are specifying LEDs not only for indicator lamps and alphan... | The principles of non-imaging optics, rather than imaging optics, are used to provide a high power LED illumination lamp that has a specified limited viewing angle. A compound parabolic flux extractor extracts and concentrates light emitted by an LED chip and a light pipe continues the concentration into the specified ... | 5 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to papermaker's fabrics for supporting and conveying a paper web through the papermaking process. More particularly, the present invention relates to a papermaker's fabric formed from a plurality of tessellated eleme... | A tessellated papermakers fabric and elements for making the fabric are disclosed. The elements are formed so as to have male or projection members which interlock with female or recess members. In alternative embodiments, interlocking elements which further utilize pintles for reinforcement of the connection are discl... | 8 |
This application claims priority to Dutch Application No. 1029190 filed on Jun. 6, 2005 in Dutch Patent Office, the entire contents of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to an inkjet printhead comprising two substantially closed ink chamb... | A inkjet printhead containing two substantially closed ink chambers separated by a wall, each of the chambers having associated therewith an electro-mechanical converter, where actuation of the converter corresponding to a first chamber of said printhead will lead to a volume change in a second chamber due to cross-tal... | 1 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
The present application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application No. 970,968, now abandoned which was a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 835,970, also now abandoned.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates t... | A wear resistant alloy having the composition of 30%-60% Ni, 6%-10% Si, 0.5%-3% B, 0.5%-2% C, 2%-8% carbide and boride forming element selected from Cr, Mo, and W, and 30%-60% Fe, wherein Si and B form silicides and borides, respectively, of Ni and Fe of the desirable density to provide a good balance between hardness,... | 2 |
This is a continuation of co-pending application Ser. No. 257,108, filed Oct. 13, 1988, abandoned.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an electric motor drive for a spindle of a spinning machine. More particularly, the present invention relates to an electric motor drive f... | An electric motor drive for rotatably driving a spindle of a spinning machines has a resilient member positioned between an interconnecting member and a sleeve mounted to the spindle bank of the spinning machine. The resilient member is partially received in a recess in the interconnecting member, the sleeve or both to... | 3 |
RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application, Ser. No. 09/350,722, filed Jul. 9, 1999.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an automatic shut-off device for a valve for compressed or liquefied gases comprising a valve body desi... | The shut-off device is intended for refillable gas cylinders. In order to be sure that only authorized persons can refill the cylinder, the filling device comprises a non-return valve element ( 16 ) which prevents filling and which can only be neutralized using a special magnet ( 18 ). | 8 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to fishing. Particularly, embodiments of the present invention relate to ice fishing. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention relate to utilities to make ice fishing more enjoyable.
BACKGROUND OF THE I... | In some embodiments, a portable floor may include one or more of the following features: (a) a frame having a top surface and a bottom surface, (b) a pre-cut hole in the floor adapted to allow a ice-fishing auger, (c) a plug to cover the at least one hole, (d) a container which is attachable to the floor, the container... | 0 |
The present invention relates to the use of iron salts as retention agents in the manufacture of paper, the primary purpose of which is to retain rosin size and thereby to cause the paper to become water repellent. The iron salts of the present invention also advantageously act as retention agents for other chemical ad... | Iron salts hydrolyzable to ferric hydroxide are provided as retention agents for size in the production of paper and paperboard to aid in water repellence, reduce pollutants, and create other beneficial effects. | 3 |
The U.S. Government has a paid-up license in this invention and the right in limited circumstances to require the patent owner to license others on reasonable terms as provided for by the terms of Contract No. DAAH01-03-C-0035 awarded by the U.S. Government.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION ... | An electrical connector that avoids some of the disadvantages associated with electrical connectors in the prior art. In particular, the illustrative embodiment of the present invention uses spring-loaded contacts to maintain connection in the presence of the vibration associated with a rocket launch, and also includes... | 5 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2007-0096570, filed on Sep. 21, 2007 which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety as if fully set forth herein.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] 1. Field of ... | The present invention is related to a home appliance such as a dish washer, a laundry machine, a refrigerator, etc. One embodiment of a home appliance according to the present invention comprises a control panel and a controller. The controller panel may include a power switch which allows a user to input a command for... | 3 |
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