Vertically Manipulated Patents (Class 172/348)
  • Patent number: 9165487
    Abstract: A backlighting system for a cabinet sign may include a plurality of panels. Each panel includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (“LEDs”) attached to the panel. The diode has a box sign depth factor of less than about 1.4. An integrated circuit may also be located on the panel. A wire physically connects adjacent panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: GE Lighting Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Marc Nall, Kevin Carpenter, Koushik Saha, Chenyang Li, Ronald K. Brengartner, Jr., Xin Wang, Tamislav J. Stimac
  • Publication number: 20140033603
    Abstract: Apparatuses and techniques for subterranean placement or positioning of one or more items are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus is configured to form a hole in the ground and subsequently provide a pathway for positioning one or more items in the hole. In one form, the items that may subterraneously placed or positioned using the apparatus may include agricultural products such as seeds or delivery vehicles that include one or more fertilizers or pesticides or combinations of these materials, just to provide a few non-limiting examples. Further embodiments, forms, objects, features, advantages, aspects, and benefits shall become apparent from the description and drawings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventor: Ronald L. Cassell
  • Patent number: 6854526
    Abstract: A walk-behind working machine has a machine body and a wheel mounted on the machine body for undergoing rotation to move the walk-behind working machine along a ground surface. A cultivator device is mounted on the machine body for cultivating the ground. A working device attachment is removably connected to the machine body for working the ground. A connection mechanism removably connects the working device attachment to the machine body. The connection mechanism has a pair of link members each pivotally connected at a first end portion thereof to the working device attachment and a control unit for controlling a position of the working device attachment with respect to the ground surface so that when the working operation, the first end portions of the link members are disposed closer to the ground surface than the second end portions of the link members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Yamazaki, Hironori Nishie
  • Patent number: 5265681
    Abstract: A landscape leveling and raking apparatus has a frame, a handle protruding upwardly from the frame, a rake pivotally coupled to the frame to protrude downwardly and rearwardly therefrom, a screed fixed to the frame forwardly of the rake, a plurality of tiller blades rotatably mounted along a forward, open end of the frame, a motor which rotatably drives the tiller blades, and a mechanism for raising or lowering the tiler ,blades relative to the frame. As the blades rotate, they till the soil and propel the apparatus forward. The frame is open along its front edge. This allows soil to accumulate within the frame as the apparatus moves forward. The soil gradually escapes from the frame by passing beneath a screed fixed along the lower rear edge of the frame. The screed levels the soil before it is raked by the tines of the rake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Inventor: Frank Kincses