Patents Issued in January 3, 2006
  • Patent number: D513406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Thomas & Betts International, Inc.
    Inventors: Julio Rodrigues, Randy Ward
  • Patent number: D513407
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Scientific-Atlanta, Inc
    Inventor: Douglas L. Meister
  • Patent number: D513408
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Belkin Corporation
    Inventor: Mitchell Suckle
  • Patent number: D513409
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Belkin Corporation
    Inventor: Mitchell Suckle
  • Patent number: D513410
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Moriya, Minoru Ikeda, Yoshihiro Iwama, Yasunori Kawauchi
  • Patent number: D513411
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: General Instrument Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery R. Beasley, Christopher G. Franck, Matthew M. Julian
  • Patent number: D513412
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Kodera, Yuichiro Shibata, Takeshi Nakatani, Takayuki Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: D513413
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Areson Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Kuei-Lin Chung
  • Patent number: D513414
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayasu Nagao, Mitsuru Takami
  • Patent number: D513415
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Bomag GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Klein, Roland Loew
  • Patent number: D513416
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Paolo Pininfarina
  • Patent number: D513417
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Ishizawa, Takeo Seino, Hitotoshi Kimura
  • Patent number: D513418
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventor: Pauline E. Jackson
  • Patent number: D513419
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Nuvo Hodings, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher S. Morrison, Adam A. Studnicki
  • Patent number: D513420
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventor: Aisha Bailey
  • Patent number: D513421
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Cateye Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Nagano
  • Patent number: D513422
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventor: James Michael Cottrell
  • Patent number: D513423
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Christopher B. Best, Ryan L. Roach
  • Patent number: D513424
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Callaway Golf Company
    Inventors: Joel B. Erickson, Homer E. Aguinaldo, Garth W. Smith
  • Patent number: D513425
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventor: Harald Kohl
  • Patent number: D513426
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Shin Tai Spurt Water of the Garden Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chin-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: D513427
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Shin Tai Spurt Water of the Garden Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chin-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: D513428
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Shin Tai Spurt Water of the Garden Tools, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chin-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: D513429
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Thetford Corporation
    Inventor: Michael B. Fritz
  • Patent number: D513430
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventor: Frank Blateri
  • Patent number: D513431
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Kaz, Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Russak, Paul E. Cox, Stephen M. Gatchell, James J. Best, Steven Vordenberg, Boris Kontorovich, Kevin Lozeau
  • Patent number: D513432
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd.
    Inventor: Junji Nakamura
  • Patent number: D513433
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser France
    Inventor: Jermome Lemaire
  • Patent number: D513434
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: B.K. Rekhatex (H.K.) Ltd.
    Inventor: Ravin G. Melwani
  • Patent number: D513435
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Vornado Air Circulation Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Glen Wesley Ediger
  • Patent number: D513436
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Fanimation, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas C. Frampton, Tania N. Frampton
  • Patent number: D513437
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Lasko Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory S. Wilhelm
  • Patent number: D513438
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventor: Gregory McNeice
  • Patent number: D513439
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group LLC
    Inventor: Margaret L. Hetfield
  • Patent number: D513440
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventor: Pasquale Miranda
  • Patent number: D513441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Minka Lighting, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert De'Armond
  • Patent number: D513442
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Kai R & D Center Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Miyazaki, Takahiro Takeshita
  • Patent number: D513443
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Cosmopack Limited
    Inventor: Justin Chi Gong Ng
  • Patent number: D513444
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Novalabs, LLC
    Inventors: Marc L. Vitantonio, Renard J. Passerell, Robert Soreo, Daniel J. Wanhainen, John R. Nottingham, John W. Spirk
  • Patent number: D513445
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventor: Tsong-Yow Lin
  • Patent number: H2137
    Abstract: An insulated elastic cover that slips snuggly over interior or exterior door knob. It is constructed in a manner that allows locking and unlocking actions, as well as the ability to turn the door knob. Invention takes advantage of state-of-the-art materials to maximize insulating properties while minimizing bulk. Additionally, material is impregnated with anti-bacteriological medium that destroys hand-borne bacteria transferred from hand to door knob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: George H. Newman, Audree D. Newman
  • Patent number: H2138
    Abstract: A durable, lightweight carbon composite forearm crutch is described that in its essential components includes three graphite/epoxy composite tubes consisting of a main support tube, a handle tube and a cuff support tube, all adhesively bonded to a single central substantially T-shaped metallic, preferably aluminum, fitting configured to dispose the handle and cuff support tubes at a comfortable angle for the user greater than 90° and preferably about 101° to 103°, a cuff attached to the upper end of the cuff support tube for receiving the arm of a user, and a slip resistant foot member at the distal end of the main support tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: The United State of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: David Pullman, Vernon T. Bechel, Steven L. Donaldson, John D. Camping
  • Patent number: H2139
    Abstract: A pipeline for transmitting oil or other substance which forms a solid residue such as wax when the substance is cooled, as in a subsea oil pipeline. Pass a tube through the interior of the pipeline, e.g., at the wall of the pipeline. Transmit heated liquid or water through the tube for heating the material being passed through the pipeline to a temperature which avoids or eliminates the solid residue and for heating the pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Coflexip
    Inventor: Alexander Fraser Moore
  • Patent number: H2140
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process and apparatus for conducting bio-oxidation processes for the extraction of metals from metal containing materials in which aeration means, preferably a diffuser means, is employed within a bio-oxidation reactor to maintain bacterial viability and suspension of metal containing materials by introduction of an oxygen containing gas to a non-mechanically agitated reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventors: Mike Rhodes, Paul C. Miller, Richard Winby
  • Patent number: H2141
    Abstract: A ferrule assembly comprising: (a) an array of optical fibers each having a mating end face; and (b) a ferrule with the fibers disposed therein, the ferrule having a front and rear orientation and a front surface, the front surface having at least a mating surface and a non-mating surface, the mating surface extending forward beyond the non-mating surface and presenting the mating end face of at least one of the fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Kevern, Brian T. Patterson, Jeff Swartzbaugh, Antonius Bernardus Gerardus Bolhaar, Antonius Petrus Cornelius Maria Hultermans, Martijn Scholten
  • Patent number: H2142
    Abstract: A bodymaker coolant in an aluminum drawing-and-ironing operation often is a slurry in water of a predominantly organic “neat lube” that includes a boron-amine complex as one of its constituents. The neat lube is consumed during use and therefore needs to be replenished in the bodymaker coolant, but chemical analysis of the neat lube in bodymaker coolant has proved to be difficult in practice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventors: Edward Elizondo, George J. Beyer, Andrew M. Hatch
  • Patent number: PP16176
    Abstract: A new and distinct double-flowered Impatiens walleriana named ‘TiWhit’, producing white flowers that often show a light pink blush in temperatures warmer than 70° F. minimums; dark green foliage; medium vigor; fully double flowers held above or beyond the foliage on strong peduncles and pedicels; with a mounded growth habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventors: Harlan B. Cosner, Susan Cosner
  • Patent number: PP16177
    Abstract: A new and distinct grapevine variety characterized by medium-sized round, green-yellowish seedless grapes with mild muscat flavor and a crisp texture. The new variety is a mid-season variety, ripening before any other muscat flavored, seedless grape cultivars grown in California. The grapes of the new variety have medium sugar content and excellent eating quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Sun World International, Inc.
    Inventors: David W. Cain, Michael J. Striem
  • Patent number: PP16178
    Abstract: ‘Mainestream Spring’ is an interspecific Iris hybrid that exhibits the unique characteristic of having spring foliage that emerges gold in color and is further characterized by its violet blue flowers borne on branched flower stems combined with a vigorous growth habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventor: Mary S. Betts
  • Patent number: PP16179
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of peach tree (Prunus persica). The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on ‘Nemaguard’ Rootstock (non-patented), grown on Handford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., with standard commercial fruit growing practices, such as pruning, thinning, spraying irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following combination of desirable features: 1. Fruit with an attractive orange-red skin color. 2. Producing fruit ripening in the early maturity season. 3. Producing peento shaped fruit (saucer, donut or flat shape). 4. Fruit with firm, white flesh, good flavor and eating quality. 5. Having a moderate winter chilling requirement of approximately 500 hours. 6. Vigorous, upright growth habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventors: Gary Neil Zaiger, Leith Marie Gardner, Grant Gene Zaiger