Patents Issued in December 9, 2003
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Patent number: 6659319Abstract: A laptop computer transport and support system for a mobile environment such as an airplane, bus or train is embodied as a wheeled clamshell style backpack carrying case with a retractable handle. The system is employed by unzipping three case edges and lifting a hinged protective cover thereby exposing a computer. The backpack straps unhook from the cover and secure to a user's seatback or around a user's headrest while strap posts at an opposite backpack strap end extend from the case and prevent strap interference with the user. A foldable or detachable handle permits retractable handle posts to extend on each side of the user and support the system against the seatback instead of the user when the system is used. Optionally, computer peripherals within a compartmentalized base are connected within the base to a docking station port and provide the computer with quick access to the peripherals.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: William J. Purpura
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Patent number: 6659320Abstract: In combination a carrier pack, with an enclosure for a device comprising at least one of the following: a compact disc or discs, a compact disc player, a component or components related to a disc or a player, with attachment structure on the pack and on the enclosure whereby the enclosure can be removably attached to, or removed from the pack.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Scosche Industries, Inc.Inventors: Kasidy W. Alves, Michael J. Massett
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Patent number: 6659321Abstract: A tool pouch includes an internal tool receiving portion and an external tool receiving portion such that the internal tool receiving portion is insertable into the user pocket to provide a protective tool holder within the user pocket and the external tool receiving portion is positioned outside of the user pocket for receiving tools. The internal tool receiving portion has first and second internal members which are generally planar elements that are attached to each other to form an internal tool receiving cavity. The external tool receiving portion has first and second external members which are generally planar elements that are attached to each other to form a second tool receiving cavity. The internal and external tool receiving portions are connected at a bail. Any part of the internal or external tool receiving portions may be substantially formed from a multi-layered piece of material. An underlying stiffening element may be used to strengthen any portion of the tool pouch.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Ideal Industries, Inc.Inventors: Bruce W. Hartranft, John Zachary, David A. Trotter
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Patent number: 6659322Abstract: The invention relates to a tape dispenser for producing lengths of tape. The tape dispenser comprises a rotatable roller on which the tape is wound up and a rotatable take-off roller across which the tape to be taken off is guided. The take-off roller has at least one perforation element that is directed against the surface of support of the tape and that is used to perforate the tape. The dispenser is further provided with latch elements that block the take-off roller if the tape has covered a certain distance once it has been perforated. The latch elements release the take-off roller once the perforated section at the tape's end is separated from the tape.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Kel Development B.V.Inventors: Eelco H. De Man, Erwin Boes
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Patent number: 6659323Abstract: Methods and apparatus to reduce or eliminate misalignment, wrinkles, and creases in coated web product. A relationship between web outgassing pressure and surface roughness of the web and web transporting rollers is developed. This relationship allows for the control over the web outgassing pressure. The ability to adjust the web tension pressure, as well as the selection of web transporting rollers with prescribed surface characteristics, allows an operator to control the degree to which the web floats over or tracks the web transporting roller. A controller, in response to pressure and tension sensors, can also provide dynamic, closed-loop control of the entire system.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Presstek, Inc.Inventors: Nandakumar Vaidyanathan, Robert Bruce Lowd
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Patent number: 6659324Abstract: The invention relates to a single-firing trigger mechanism for a nailing machine with a receptacle for receiving a swiveling element pivotably on a second positioning shaft. The other end of the swiveling element with a torsion spring is pivotally connected to a contact element on a third positioning shaft and, in addition, the top end of the contact element is disposed at a height to be in contact with a safety lever. The safety lever should be extended into the inside of the trigger and pressed against the contact element so as to be shifted in the direction of the firing pin. Thereafter, the user can press down the trigger again, thereby causing the contact element to be in contact of the firing pin for the next single-firing operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2003Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Inventor: Chung-Ho Liu
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Patent number: 6659325Abstract: The setting tool comprises a housing (1), a firing device (2) and an axially displaceable piston guide (3). The simple assembly of the piston guide (3) in the housing (1) is made possible by a centering means acting between the piston guide (3) and the housing. Guidance elements (14, 22), by means of the centering means, are eccentrically arranged on at least one of the piston guide (3) and the firing device (2) and extend essentially parallel to the setting direction. The guidance elements (14, 22) are coaxially disposable on at least one of the piston guide (3) and the firing device (2) relative to corresponding receiving openings (23) on the piston guide (3) and the firing device (2).Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dionys Schalbetter, Johann Büchel
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Patent number: 6659326Abstract: A washer supply device includes a hollow tubular member connected to a side of a power nailer and an opening is defined longitudinally through the tubular member. A washer transferring member is connected to the power nailer a hole is defined through the washer transferring member. A plurality of washers each have a central hole and a flexible wire frictionally extends through the central holes to collect the washers together so that the washers are received in the tubular member via the opening. The wire is pulled out from the washers via the hole in the washer transferring member. A pushing rod movably connected to the tubular member compresses on the washers and includes an outer portion for pressing on a flange of each washer, and an inner portion which is engaged with an annular groove in each washer.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2003Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Besco Pneumatic Corp.Inventor: Chen-Fa Huang
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Patent number: 6659327Abstract: The present invention provides a method and end-to-side surgical anastomosis apparatus for stapling an end of a tubular tissue structure to a side of a luminal structure including an elongated housing defining a central bore extending longitudinally therethrough. The elongated housing further includes an eversion support surface extending circumferentially about the bore opening adjacent the distal end which is configured to retain and support an everted end of the received tissue structure thereon to face an intimal surface of the tissue structure in an outward direction. The anastomosis apparatus further includes an anvil having a fastener engaging surface, and a compression device having a shoulder portion formed for selectively compressing the everted end of the tissue structure and a surface of the luminal structure together against the fastener engaging surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Heartport, Inc.Inventors: Christopher F. Heck, Lee R. Bolduc
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Patent number: 6659328Abstract: A method and apparatus for depositing solder paste on a printed wiring board has a stencil with a pattern of multiple apertures. The pattern aligns with a through-hole in the printed wiring board when the stencil is in physical contact with the printed wiring board. A squeegee arrangement applies solder paste through the multiple apertures in the stencil through the through-hole of the printed wiring board to the upper surface of the printed wiring board for securely mounting electronic components to the upper surface of the printed wiring board, for providing a thermal path for the heat sinks of the electronic components and for providing a low inductance electrical path to ground for the electrical components.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Robert J. Dances
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Patent number: 6659329Abstract: A new soldering technique and solder alloy for wetting and joining hard-to-wet materials including titanium alloys such as nitinol uses a solder alloy containing tin and an active wetting promoting element such as aluminum in the presence of ultrasound. As shown in the Figure, molten solder alloy (10) is applied to the hard-to-wet material (18) with the application of ultrasonic energy (14) which removes coatings (20) such as tenacious surface oxides to leave the base material (18) which is readily wetted by the solder alloy (20).Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Edison Welding Institute, IncInventor: Peter Hall
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Patent number: 6659330Abstract: A cutting tool 60 cuts along the butted portion between two members 10, 20. A filling material 30 is inserted to the gap 40 formed by said cutting, and a roller 70 presses protrusions 12 and 22 to crimp said protrusions 12 and 22 so as to fix said filling material to position. Next, friction stir welding is performed to the protrusions 12, 22 and the filling material 30 using a rotary tool 80. In another example, instead of cutting, the filling material can be welded and filled to the gap. In yet another example, cutting can be performed so as to approximate the two members before performing the friction stir welding step.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masakuni Ezumi, Kazushige Fukuyori
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Patent number: 6659331Abstract: We have discovered a method of producing a complex-shaped aluminum alloy article, where welding has been employed to form the article, where an anodized aluminum coating is produced over a surface of the article including the weld joint, and where the anodized aluminum coating is uniform, providing improved performance over that previously known in the art for welded articles exposed to a corrosive plasma environment.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Applied Materials, IncInventors: Senh Thach, Jennifer Y. Sun, Shun Jackson Wu, Yixing Lin, Clifford C. Stow
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Patent number: 6659332Abstract: A directionally solidified nickel-base superalloy article has a defect therein extending parallel to the solidification direction. The article is repaired by removing any foreign matter present in the defect, and then heating the article to a repair temperature of from about 60 to about 98 percent of the solidus temperature of the base material in a chamber containing a protective gas that inhibits oxidation of the base material. The defect is filled with a filler metal while maintaining the article at the repair temperature. The filling is accomplished by providing a source of the filler metal of substantially the same composition as the base material of the directionally solidified article, and melting the filler metal into the defect progressively while moving the source of the filler metal relative to the article in a direction parallel to the solidification direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: General Electric Co.Inventors: Russell W. Smashey, John H. Snyder, Bruce L. Borne
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Patent number: 6659333Abstract: A metal foil connection of first and second metal foils having a thickness of less than 0.05 mm includes a connecting point in which the metal foils are brazed to one another. The connecting point forms a wedge which is filled with brazing medium. A mass of the brazing medium, and a mass of sections of the metal foils which the brazing medium contacts in the wedge, have a given ratio. A honeycomb body, a brazing medium particle fraction and a method for manufacturing metal foil connections with a thickness of less than 50 micrometers, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Emitec Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbHInventors: Ludwig Wieres, Ferdi Kurth, Helge Schlotmann
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Patent number: 6659334Abstract: There is provided a method for forming end-face electrodes in which the end-face electrode can be securely formed with solder at a position in which a side electrode is formed and it can be formed without being affected by a jig for fixing a solder solid. By forming linear gaps on a master substrate, module substrates and a waste substrate are formed. At the side end of the gap of the module substrate, a side electrode is formed. A solder solid is pressed into the part of the gap in which the side electrode is formed and a reflow jig is placed. The surface of the solder solid is coated with flux and the solder solid is melted by heating so as to form the end-face electrode protruding from the substrate surface in the side electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Mouri, Joji Shibata
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Patent number: 6659335Abstract: A soldering device and method includes the steps of forming a solder melting pot by assembling plural trowel members, supplying a solder tip to the solder melting pot, and sequentially repeating the operation for supplying the molten solder to the respective soldering point. In the improvement, an additional heating portion which comes close to the solder melting pot is formed near or with the trowel members, and the soldering point to which molten solder has already been supplied by the prior molten solder supplying operation is additionally heated during the supplying operation of the next soldering point. The trowel members are used to simultaneously perform the operation for supplying the molten solder and another operation for additionally heating the soldering point to which the molten solder has been supplied. A plurality of points to be soldered aligned at predetermined intervals are efficiently soldered.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Inventor: Eishu Nagata
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Patent number: 6659336Abstract: A horizontally extendable and contractible container for handling relatively flat objects. The container comprises a plurality of receptacles interconnected in series. A single receptacle has the capacity to store a relatively flat object or a plurality of flat objects. The receptacles are formed as open sided pockets, allowing for a wide range of object thicknesses to be contained. The facing walls of the receptacles are absent of any protrusions or holes that could inhibit an object during the insertion of the object. When transportation of the container is desired, a flap on the back most panel is wrapped over the top of the container and an elastic strap secures the container and the contained objects for transportation. A sliding mechanism, substantially isolated from the contained objects is fully integrated into the design of the receptacles and provides the necessary functionality to horizontally extend and contract the container.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Inventor: William J Brennan
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Patent number: 6659337Abstract: A universal mailbox signal device is provided to visually indicate mail is delivered. A detachable component is comprised of a wide flag element attached to a flat resilient nylon stem. Upon installation in a mailbox, the straight stem is bent and shaped as needed to conform to one of the many mailbox configurations available. The stem can also then be twisted to adjust the flag in a desired viewable direction. The other end of the stem will slide into a channel in an adhesively mounted base-plate on the inside of the mailbox door. The stem/flag assembly may be removed when absent to prevent an activated, non-attended flag posing a possible security problem. When mail is deposited the flag flips into view and is held firmly at the pre-adjusted viewing angle by the closed door. When mail is retrieved one hand is used to tuck in the flag and close the mailbox door.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Inventor: Michael B. Woelfel
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Patent number: 6659338Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for withdrawing biological samples. The device has a receptacle which can receive one or several covers for sample containers, another receptacle which can receive one or several sample containers, and a mechanism. Said mechanism joins the covers and containers together during a working cycle in which the biological sample is withdrawn either through the cover or the sample container to a test capsule.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2000Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Biopsytec GmbHInventors: Thomas Claus Dittmann, Ivo Glynne Gut, Arno Svend Heuermann, Alexander Olek
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Patent number: 6659339Abstract: A modular haircut working section arrangement allowing adjacent customers to have a haircut without facing each other, and assuring an effective and safe haircut in a relatively small space. The working section has (1) a working cabinet, comprising a front cabinet to which a chair is opposed and being provided with a mirror, a storage section and a card holder, and (2) a side cabinet where an information input terminal device, including a card reader for making the customer and staff information electronic, is provided. A dust box having an opening and shutting plate is also provided with an opening/closing switch for detection is arranged under the haircut chair. A controller connects the information input terminals of a plurality of working sections.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: QB. Net Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kuniyoshi Konishi
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Patent number: 6659340Abstract: A currency receiving device for receiving currency from a user, comprising a safe having a lockable access opening and a transfer slot, a local processor, operatively connected to the safe, the local processor having a user interface to communicate with the user, and being capable of communicating with a remote processor, a currency counter, operatively connected to the safe, to count the currency deposited by the user, and a removable currency receptacle, removably contained within the safe and operatively connected to the currency counter, to receive currency from the currency counter and to store the currency, the removable currency receptacle having a unique identifier, wherein, upon the currency receptacle being installed in the safe, the identifier is correlated with the count of currency deposited by the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2000Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Namsys Inc.Inventor: John Siemens
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Patent number: 6659341Abstract: An automated transaction machine has a document directing device. The document directing device enables the orientation of a document moving in a document path in the machine to be changed. An exemplary device enables a document to be simultaneously turned over and redirected in a direction generally normal to that in which the document is originally moved. The device may be used in a space-saving manner in association with a printer positioned behind a flat screen type display monitor. The device enables a printed document such as an account statement to be redirected toward a customer accessible opening in the customer interface of the automated transaction machine. The document directing device may also be used in the feeding of documents into an automated transaction machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Diebold, IncorporatedInventor: Zen Y. Wang
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Patent number: 6659342Abstract: A self-service terminal (10 or 110) is described. The terminal (10 or 110) includes a self-contained power supply (44 or 144) such as a battery so that the terminal (10 or 110) does not require any external power connection. The terminal may also have a wireless transceiver (42 or 142) so that the terminal does not require any external connections. In one embodiment, the terminal (10) is wearable so that a person can carry the terminal to a potential customer. In another embodiment, the terminal (110) has wheels and a motor so that the terminal is self-propelled and may be moved towards a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: NCR CorporationInventor: Steven Birnie
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Patent number: 6659343Abstract: Disclosed is a data communication system and method for communicating data between a first integrated circuit card having a first antenna and a first memory and a second integrated circuit card having a second antenna and a second memory, wherein the first antenna is magnetically coupled with the second antenna through a device having an antenna to transmit data from the first memory to the second memory.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Katsuyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 6659344Abstract: A system for gathering data on behavior of shoppers in a retail market. A scanner is attached to a shopping basket, and detects (1) removal of an item from a shelf, (2) the identity of the removed item, (3) insertion of an item into a shopping basket, which may be the identical item removed from the shelf, and (4) the identity of the inserted item. Repeated detection of this type of data for numerous items, and numerous shoppers, allows one to draw valuable inferences about the shoppers, such as how often comparison shopping occurs. This type of detection also allows one to take specific responses to the actions of the shoppers.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2000Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Jerome A. Otto, Dennis J. Seitz
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Patent number: 6659345Abstract: The invention provides a method that enables loading/unloading a plurality of types of games as part of an application program, typically, a game application program installed on a smart card system with high ability of storing information for which highly-reliable security is achievable, extending the use range of the card. Of a program to run on the card, the processing parts that can be executed in common are packaged as modules and game definitions described in scripts are loaded/unloaded into/from the card as required from a terminal operating with the card. In the program, a script interpreter that interprets and executes scripts, a controller that controls scripts loading/unloading, a controller that performs the management of point data and rights to play game are prepared, whereby dynamic loading/unloading of types of games is possible and one application can offer a plurality of types of games that can be selectively executed.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroko Sukeda, Yusuke Mishina, Masaru Ohki
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Patent number: 6659346Abstract: A semi-automated shopping system includes a main cart assembly that has a frame portion. The frame portion provides both horizontal and vertical support for the main cart assembly. The frame portion has a bottom section. A plurality of wheels is operationally coupled to the bottom section. The plurality of wheels facilitates transport of the main cart assembly. The main cart assembly has a storage portion designed for receiving multiple items to be purchased. A scanner assembly is designed for recognizing universal product codes applied to a surface of an item to be purchased. The scanner assembly is operationally coupled to the main cart assembly. A processor assembly is operationally coupled to the scanner assembly. The processor assembly provides a plurality of data items associated with the universal product code.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Inventor: Terrence R. Williams
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Patent number: 6659347Abstract: The present invention relates to a hand-held magnetic ink character recognition system 10 having an integrated position/speed feedback device 20, such as an optical encoder. The position/speed feedback device 20 is provided to compensate for variable speeds generated by manual operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Unisys CorporationInventors: Michael J. Moore, John Charles Gudenburr
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Patent number: 6659348Abstract: A manual IC card reader has a recess at a frame constructing a card insertion slot in the card insertion direction for inserting and removing a card. The card insertion slot is configured to project an IC contact block toward a card pathway as the IC contact block comes in and then let the card be removed after data communication rolling elements in a free rotational condition provided in a front vicinity of a card stop position in the card direction to reduce an insertion load on the IC card when the IC card projects the IC contacts block toward the card pathway.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Sankyo Seiki Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeyuki Nagata, Kazunori Takahashi, Toshio Tatai, Nozomi Watanabe
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Patent number: 6659349Abstract: In a device for identifying objects resting on a carrier that are being moved along a conveyor line by a conveyor system and which undergo various processing steps along the conveyor line, with a marking carrier connected to the object and with a fixed reading device for the marking carrier, the marking carrier is attached to the carrier and the reading device is located below the conveyor line.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1997Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Wolfgang Weber, Manfred Bachhuber
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Patent number: 6659350Abstract: These and other objects of the present invention are attained by apparatus for adjusting the position of a line of light in barcode space that includes a support frame having a rear housing containing a solid state imager and a pair of support arms extending forwardly from the front of the housing. An imaging lens is mounted between the arms for focusing an image of a target in barcode space upon the solid state imager along the optical axis of the imaging lens. Illuminating LEDs are mounted on either side of the imaging lens for illuminating the target. The illumination is passed through a pair of cylindrical lenses that are adjustably mounted upon the distal ends of the arm so that the light can be selectively positioned in barcode space.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Hand Held ProductsInventors: Eric D. Schwartz, Edward B. Hubben, Brian L. Jovanovski, Vivian L. Hunter, Melvin D. McCall, Gerard F. Beckhusen
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Patent number: 6659351Abstract: A security feature is provided for value and security documents in the form of piezo security particles. Electrical and mechanical properties of the piezo-security particles are utilized to detect and evaluate the security feature of the value and security document.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2000Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Bundesdruckerei GmbHInventors: Anett Bailleu, Frank Kappe
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Patent number: 6659352Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit which obtains a driving power from a carrier onto which data has been piggybacked, the semiconductor integrated circuit being characterized by demodulating data by correctly discriminating it even when the obtained power supply voltage has become overvoltage, and characterized by effectively using the power supplied by the carrier. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a two-voltage rectifier circuit as a power source circuit 111; a voltage regulator circuit 112 which exercises a control so that a power with a higher voltage (VDDH) used for demodulating data does not exceed a certain voltage value; a resistor 141; and a capacitor 142. With this construction, the voltage input to a regulator circuit 1121 as the reference voltage changes in correspondence to the change in voltage VDDH which is caused by the change in amplitude.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Asada, Joji Nakane, Tatsumi Sumi, Taketoshi Matsuura, Atsuo Inoue
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Patent number: 6659353Abstract: A method of checking sheets as to forgery thereof, the sheet being provided with an electronic circuit chip from which information can be read out or written and having visible information. The method includes a step of encrypting the visible information of the sheet and storing the encrypted visible information in the electronic circuit chip, and a step of determining discriminatively the authenticity of the sheet by comparing the visible information of the sheet with the information stored in the electronic circuit chip.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Research InstituteInventors: Chikashi Okamoto, Kazuo Takaragi, Kazutaka Tsuji, Mitsuo Usami, Chizuko Yasunobu, Asahiko Isobe, Yasuhiro Tsunemi, Hiroyuki Yagi
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Patent number: 6659354Abstract: A multi-application IC card system is disclosed having selective application loading and deleting capability. Prior to loading an application onto an IC card a test is conducted to determine if the card is qualified to receive the application using personalization data stored on the card and comparing it with permissions data associated with the application indicating one or more sets of cards upon which the application may be loaded. If the personalization data of the card falls within the allowable set of permissions for that application then the card may be loaded with the application. Preferably, the personalization data includes data representative of the card number, issuer, a product class and the date on which the card is personalized.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Mondex International LimitedInventors: David Barrington Everett, Stuart James Miller, Anthony David Peacham, Ian Stephen Simmons, Timothy Philip Richards, John Charles Viner
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Patent number: 6659355Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a chip card which is provided with a plastic card body (1) comprising several layers, an integrated circuit that is arranged in a chip module (2) and at least two additional electronic components (3,4) for producing an interactive chip card. The components and the chip module are connected to each other by means of strip conductors (4, 5, 9) which are arranged on a carrier layer (8) and metallic contact surfaces (7) which are connected to the conductors. According to the invention, several cover layers (10, 11) are mounted on the conductor carrier layer. Said cover layers are provided with recesses (15, 16, 15′, 16′) corresponding to the metallic contact surfaces (7).Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: ORGA Kartensysteme GmbHInventors: Dirk Fischer, Lothar Fannasch
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Patent number: 6659356Abstract: A hybrid IC card has an IC card and a housing. The IC card has a card member and an integrated circuit device fixed in a recess of the card member, and the integrated circuit device includes on one surface an antenna terminal and an external connection terminal while the opposite surface includes an integrated circuit element functioning as a contact type card and a noncontact type card, in which the antenna terminal and the external connection terminal are connected with the integrated circuit element. The housing includes an antenna and an antenna contact is connected to the antenna, to which the IC card is attached removably, wherein in a state that the IC card is attached to the housing, the antenna terminal of the IC card is in contact with the antenna contact of the housing so that they are connected electrically, and the IC card functions as a noncontact type IC card.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masanori Kashima
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Patent number: 6659357Abstract: The invention relates to a device for processing data carrier cards. Said device comprises a transport device (10) for retracting and dispensing a data carrier card (12), a read/write device (18) for exchanging data with the data carrier card (12), and a control device (42) for controlling the transport device (10) and the read/write device (18). The transport device is (10) is provided with a retractor/dispenser portion (16) and an adjoining intermediate storage (22) for cards.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Udo Tewes
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Patent number: 6659358Abstract: The air conditioner includes a surface temperature sensor for detecting a surface temperature of a clothes portion of a passenger. In the air conditioner, a thermal-feeling estimation value for the passenger is calculated based on the surface temperature of the clothes portion of the passenger, and air-conditioning operation of a passenger compartment is controlled based on the thermal-feeling estimation value. Accordingly, in the air conditioner, the thermal feeling can be always accurately estimated, and comfortable air-conditioning control can be performed using the thermal-feeling estimation value.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Toshifumi Kamiya, Takayoshi Kawai, Akira Ohga, Yuichi Kajino
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Patent number: 6659359Abstract: Disclosed is a grille controlling apparatus for an indoor ventilator that senses an indoor temperature in a building such that it can control the operation of the grille mounted on the indoor ventilator.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Inventor: Young-Yeal Kwak
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Patent number: 6659360Abstract: A method for adapting a vehicle climate control system to a user comfort preference includes performing an adjustment strategy in response to assertion of at least one user-generated signal at less than a predetermined level and during less than a predetermined time interval and performing at least one adaptive strategy in response to assertion of the user-generated signal at greater than the predetermined level during the predetermined time interval.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Eric Gerd Schaefer, Leighton Ira Davis, Jr., Gerhard A. Dage
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Patent number: 6659361Abstract: The controller 70 of the brine supply device 10 performs the PID calculation of the manipulated variable MV of the valve 14, calculates the compensated manipulated variable MV′ by compensating the manipulated value MV, and controls the operation of the valve 14 based on the compensated manipulated variable MV′. The variation &Dgr;MV of the manipulated variable MV becomes proportional to the variation &Dgr;PV of the brine supply temperature Pt1 as the operation of the valve 14 is controlled with the compensated manipulated variable MV′. This makes it possible to control temperature with a high accuracy using only one set of PID constants.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignees: Nishiyama Corporation, Aquatech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kuboyuki Sasayama, Kazuya Sato, Masahiro Kawai
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Patent number: 6659362Abstract: Railroad ties may be refurbished or have their usable life extended by overwrapping with fibrous reinforcement containing a cured matrix associated with the fibers. The ties may be machined prior to overwrapping, and are preferably sawn along their length, and conduit inserted into channels machined therein prior to adhesively bonding the sawn portions together. The conduits may be used to provide signal and power cable passages with lessened likelihood of damage thereto.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Inventors: Gerald Hallissy, William G. Higbie, Edward R. Fyfe
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Patent number: 6659363Abstract: A two-block concrete railroad tie for a fixed rail carriageway with an at least partially continuous reinforcement, which is exposed between the blocks and, after alignment, engages the sealing compound over a supporting layer, becoming anchored in it, the blocks being provided with a mounting surface, which is shortened in the longitudinal direction and from which slanting side surfaces extend upward at least at the front side.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Pfleiderer Infrastrukturtechnik GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Winfried Mohr
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Patent number: 6659364Abstract: A method of and apparatus for generating liquid droplets from an aperture in a membrane are disclosed in which the aperture has a diameter &phgr; at one face which is at most as large as its diameter at the other face, and a liquid is provided to the one face of the membrane adjacent the aperture. The liquid has a surface tension &sgr; and density &rgr;.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: The Technology Partnership, PLCInventors: Victor Carey Humberstone, David Mark Blakey
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Patent number: 6659365Abstract: An ultrasonic apparatus and a method for injecting a pressurized liquid fuel by applying ultrasonic energy to a portion of the pressurized liquid fuel. The apparatus includes a die housing which defines a chamber adapted to receive a pressurized liquid and a means for applying ultrasonic energy to a portion of the pressurized liquid. The die housing further includes an inlet adapted to supply the chamber with the pressurized liquid, and an exit orifice defined by the walls of a die tip. The exit orifice is adapted to receive the pressurized liquid from the chamber and pass the liquid out of the die housing. When the means for applying ultrasonic energy is excited, it applies ultrasonic energy to the pressurized liquid without applying ultrasonic energy to the die tip.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Lamar Heath Gipson, Bernard Cohen, Lee Kirby Jameson
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Patent number: 6659366Abstract: A novel hand held water-misting apparatus (8) comprising of a latex tubing (10) having a first end and a second end, a valve open-close type (12) having a first end and second end, a misting nozzle (14) having a first end and a second end having a small misting hole, a shrink sleeving (28) securely attaching said valve open-close type (12) and said misting nozzle (14), a water hose connector (16), a flexible strap (26) having a first end and a second end, a pinch clip (24) having an open position and a closed position, an expandable decorative enclosure (18) having a first end and a second end. Said first end of said latex tubing (10) securely attached to said first end of said valve open-close type (12) by a tie clamp (31). Said second end of said latex tubing (10) securely attached to said water hose connector (16) by a tie clamp (30).Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Inventor: Philip Todd Walters
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Patent number: 6659367Abstract: A device for spraying a liquid coating product includes a hub forming or accommodating a liquid feed pipe and a divergent centrifugal deflector having a distribution surface whose overall shape is that of a trumpet bell. Applications include electrostatic painting.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Sames TechnologiesInventor: Patrick Ballu
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Patent number: 6659368Abstract: An underground watering system including a reservoir having a water inlet and a water outlet, a float control connected to the water inlet for maintaining a water level in the reservoir, a fertilizer container supported on the reservoir having an opening therein communicating with reservoir by which fertilizer may be added to water within the reservoir, and at least one water soaking hose connected to the reservoir water outlet.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Inventor: Lloyd O. Capps