Patents Examined by Nichols D. Lucchesi
  • Patent number: 6835168
    Abstract: An exercise ball device has an elastic cable, two end hooks disposed on two ends of the elastic cable, a ball having a retainer ring to receive one of the end hooks, a treadle having a hole, and a soft cushion having a retainer ring to receive the other one of the end hooks, which penetrated a hole on a treadle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Inventor: Yang-Chin Huang
  • Patent number: 6805658
    Abstract: A skateboard simulator provides a stable platform for wheeled skateboard-type actions. The simulator has a pair of spaced truck-like elastomeric support means mounted to a deck to simulate the response of a conventional skateboard to user actions. Spaced contact lobe elements provide a frictional contact with the ground while flexing in response to user action to simulate the response of wheeled skateboard. The support means are preferably of a unitary urethane construction with the contact lobe element portions being of a hollow configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Garage Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Desberg, Joseph Raia
  • Patent number: 4917605
    Abstract: The dental locking clasp member comprises a U-shaped piece having twin arms with substantially flat parallel opposing inner surfaces connected to an anchor portion having a plurality of anchor grooves. The twin arms have twin opposing locking recesses adjacent the free ends. Additional auxiliary parts may be part of the locking clasp member and include a bar portion with a curved spur, a receptacle portion which has locking projections which engage in the locking recesses in the case of a labial locking clasp and a clasp stem also with locking projections with a stop in the case of a buccal locking clasp. When the additional auxiliary parts are made of wax the entire locking clasp member may be used with a wax pattern to produce a completed partial casting with the appropriate locking clasp in a single casting operation which does not require reworking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1990
    Inventor: Ralph Hallmark