US Applications Published on 24-Dec-2009

A baseball batter's improved grip enhancing Pow'rPad™ device providing therapeutic vibration sting-absorption, which in critically configured for use upon one's upper/batting-hand, while primarily employing the forefinger but optionally including the...

A sleeve holder for maintaining a garment sleeve in a rolled or gathered condition on the wearer's forearm above the wrist, is disclosed. The sleeve holding device comprises an elongated body of a truncated cone shape having opposite ends. The...

Wearing apparel which helps to manage autistic children by preventing them from removing the wearing apparel once they are placed in the wearing apparel. The wearing apparel is made from a soft cotton material and has an opening through which the...

According to an exemplary embodiment, an article of clothing comprising pants having a waistband and at least one front pocket is provided. The article of clothing includes a saggy pants control system having a pocket handle affixed and concealed...

Disclosed is a face protector (100) configured to be rotated upward and downward while being coupled to coupling pieces (12) provided at opposite sides of a helmet (10), so as to protect the wearer's face. The face protector includes a body (120) for...

The submarine escape suit has a hood (14) covering the head of a wearer during ascent from a submarine. In order to allow the wearer to expose his/her face, the hood (14) is provided with a portion (21) overlying the face of a wearer that is...

The E-Z Lift is designed to provide consumers a convenient, hands free method of lifting and lowering the toilet seat. Manufactured of heavy duty injection molded plastic, sleek stainless steel, or fancy polished wooden material. The E-Z Lift is a...

A thermal spa cover assembly [1000] includes an improved thermal spa cover [1100] having a first part [1111] and a second part which is held together with a hinge [1150], for sealing and retaining heat from a tub [130]. Cover [1100] is made of...

A hydraulically or pneumatically powered toilet assist lift device for use by disabled persons is described that includes a frame having a forward end and a rearward end for placement around a toilet commode, the frame having a lower frame portion...

A mesh crib bumper enclosure having four connected vertical mesh fabric panel sections installed in a crib by suspending it from the top and bottom corners and securing it to the crib's four corner posts, the same way ropes are suspended in a boxing...

A harness system (20) comprising an endless loop (10) of material and a harness for holding a person in fixed position with respect to the endless loop of material. In use, the harness system is fitted around a mattress with the harness located on a...

A rescuing and carrying device comprises a supporting portion (1) made of flexible materials, handhold belts (2) made of flexible materials, safety belts (3) made of flexible materials and shoulder belts (5) made of flexible materials. The handhold...

A method and device for developing a positional orientation sleep aspect (POSA) to enhance individual awareness of sleeping position to enable the individual located on a bed of fixed width to assume at least one preselected side-sleeping orientation...

The present invention relates to a bed system that inflatably frames an inflatable mattress, to provide improved firmness, privacy, storage and bed-linen retention.

A self defense tool comprising a generally S-shaped tool having at one end thereof a ring portion for finger placement. The handle portion is used for holding the S-shaped tool and the handle portion is located between the ring portion and a blade...

A cordless handheld steamer comprising an interior chamber containing a steam generation unit and a water reservoir. The water reservoir generally encompasses the steam generation unit and the steam generation unit contains a heating element. A...

The invention relates to a dyeing composition comprising a fluorescent disulphide dye and to a method of dyeing keratin materials, with a lightening effect, that employs said composition. It likewise relates to new fluorescent disulphide dyes and to...

One bridge pier, two bridge girders and two supporting rods are manufactured in an approximately vertical position. The supporting rods are connected to the top of the pier and to the bridge girders. The bridge girders are brought into the horizontal...

An electric toothbrush in which the brushing head moves in an elliptical motion such that, on the brushing stroke, the bristles are proximate the teeth, and in the recovery portion of the cycle the bristles are pulled away from the teeth. A position...

The invention relates to a grains-removing device for a lauter tun on which at least one grains-removing member is provided which can be adjusted between a raised neutral position and a lowered grains-removing position, wherein the spent grains can...

An oral care implement or toothbrush 100 includes a head 104, a tooth cleaning element region 116 and a tissue cleaning element region 114. The tissue cleaning element region 114 includes a plurality of flexible, angled projections 120. The...

A toothbrush with a cleaning zone with bristles, and with a deformable element by which the cleaning zone can be adapted to the shape of the tooth surface by the cleaning force, where the deformable element comprises flexible wings tapering in a...

A force reducing bladed hand tool designed to allow the tool's blade to rotate so that the working edge of the blade is continuously aligned for optimal cutting or scraping with each arm movement. In the first embodiment, the hand tool is a knife...

A vacuum cleaner is disclosed, and this cleaner maintains sucking power at a high level while it resists lowering the suction force although it sucks dust. The vacuum cleaner includes a cylindrical dust collecting case which takes air in sucked by an...

Vacuum cleaner including a container (1, 101) provided with a suction mouth (8, 108), motor elements (2, 20) and at least one suction fan (3, 103), in which the vacuum cleaner includes at least one additional machine (4, 10, 104) connected to the...

A castor includes a castor body, two rollers rotatably mounted on the castor body and each having an annular toothed locking section, a locking member movably mounted on the castor body and having two locking flanges each having a toothed engaging...

A furniture hinge has a door stop part, which includes an insertion cup and is attached on a furniture door, at least one pivoting arm that is connected to a furniture body being supported on the door stop part. A damping device including at least...

Mobile power generator apparatus includes: upper and lower pivoting links vertically pivotably connected at their one end portions to a frame; and a handle mounted to the frame for pulling the generator apparatus and connected at its proximal end...

A zipper head includes a puller, a hook, a pulling piece, an elastic piece and a cap. The puller forms guiding grooves therein, and a top of the puller has a through hole communicating with the guiding grooves. The hook is disposed on the top of the...

A reclosable locking tape for releasably attaching a fabric add-on to a foundation includes: (a) a substantially planar tape base to which is affixed at least one male locking portion that is generally mushroom-shaped and includes a stem affixed to a...

There is disclosed a method and apparatus for mounting a leadless semiconductor chip on a header. The semiconductor chip has contacts on a surface and the chip is of a specified geometric shape. The header has a contact surface for receiving the chip...

a sleeve puller for pulling out a sleeve inserted in a panel, the sleeve having an inner wall that defines a hole, the sleeve puller including: a sleeve-engaging rod having a distal end and integrally including a sleeve-engaging portion, a screw rod...

An oral care implement comprises a head and a body provided with a three-dimensional surface feature on the body that is generally undecorated. A cover is applied to the body and includes a decoration that is associated with the three-dimensional...

In order to form a reliable, process-safe pressout- and twist-safe press-in connection between a joining element and a workpiece, the joining element is pressed with a shank region into a hole in the workpiece, with shank material of the shank region...

A compactor tip assembly for a landfill or soil compactor comprises a base and a tip that are formed from dissimilar materials. The tip may be formed from high carbon steel for wear resistance, while the base may be formed from low carbon steel for...

This invention allows people to upgrade cooking top of an existing electronic kitchen range to easy to clean, energy efficient glass, ceramic, or stainless steel flat cooktop, while keeping most other features of the old range.

A handling member is prepared that provides a channel that can withstand subsequent back face processing as to a substrate having elements made up of a substrate and a membrane, and the handling member is fixed to the substrate so that at least a...

In a manufacturing process of a head slider according to one embodiment, a flare point height of a main pole is estimated according to the following procedure. Magnetic field intensity is measured by a sensor, and a maximum point of the magnetic...

A method is provided for producing a functional membrane having a structure in which pores of a porous substrate are filled with a functional polymer, the method having improved productivity and improving the stability of performance. The method for...

An element mounting apparatus includes a movable arm, an electromagnet, a first controller and a glue dispenser. The glue dispenser includes a plate body and a second controller. The plate body includes an inner space containing glue, a through hole...

A sensor module. One embodiment provides a cap whose perimeter defines a rim. A first semiconductor chip is attached to the cap. The first semiconductor chip includes first connection elements. The rim and the first connection elements define a...

Devices capable of protecting electronic components during the occurrence of a disturbance event using printed circuit board manufacturing techniques. A three (3) layer structure is formed comprising a polymer-based formulation sandwiched between two...

At the time of manufacturing an inflator, a blocking body is first disposed at an opening so as to allow the interior and the exterior of a housing to communicate with each other. The blocking body is abutted against a peripheral edge of the opening...

A gas turbine engine airfoil is repaired by machining away airfoil material along at least a portion of at least one of leading and trailing edges and a radially outer tip forming at least one cut-back area and forming a weldment by welding...

A gas turbine exhaust component, such as an exhaust nozzle, is provided that includes circumferential ribs arranged along a longitudinal axis. Longitudinal strakes are supported by the circumferential ribs and arranged about the longitudinal axis....

A method and a tool for manufacturing heat radiators are used to assemble a plurality of radiating fins to a heat transferring base. The method includes the steps of putting the radiating fins on the heat transferring base, putting blades between the...

The present invention provides panels for a microchannel heat exchanger core wherein the panels may have greater than about 36 fins per inch of the panel. The microchannels of the panels may have an aspect ratio of at least about 10. Panels are also...

A power saw including a body housing enclosing a motor, a saw blade operatively coupled to the motor, and a cutting head at least partially covering the saw blade, wherein the cutting head is rotatable relative to the body housing and is configured...

A material trimmer for trimming sheet material having a blade slidingly engageable with the sheet material along a cut line and a cut line projector operable to create a cut line indicator indicative of the approximate location of the cut line. The...

A hand-held ratchet tool has first and second elongated handles with free first ends and second ends pivotally coupled together. A first jaw member is pivotally mounted on the second end of the first handle. An elongate linkage has a first end...