| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE33219 |
Clamp valves |
May 22, 1990 |
| A clamp valve is made which comprises a hollow member open at one end and which has a pair of apertures through side walls thereof. A slide is movable in the hollow member and has a transverse aperture therethrough so that a conduit which has a pliable resilient wall can in use be passed |
| D467691 |
Dishwasher |
December 24, 2002 |
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| D465072 |
Front of a dishwasher |
October 29, 2002 |
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| D460224 |
Front of a dishwasher |
July 9, 2002 |
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| D459843 |
Front of a dishwasher |
July 2, 2002 |
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| D457694 |
Dishwasher |
May 21, 2002 |
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| D456571 |
Dishwasher |
April 30, 2002 |
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| D436931 |
Control console |
January 30, 2001 |
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| D418498 |
Icon for a display panel of a medical apparatus, humidifier, or respirator |
January 4, 2000 |
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| D414554 |
Healthcare apparatus |
September 28, 1999 |
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| D404856 |
Dishwasher control keypad |
January 26, 1999 |
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| D403471 |
Dishwasher |
December 29, 1998 |
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| D400320 |
Dishwasher |
October 27, 1998 |
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| D356734 |
Packaging element |
March 28, 1995 |
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| 6864647 |
Linear motor |
March 8, 2005 |
| The present invention provides an improved design of linear motor as well as an improved control strategy. The design allows for a shorted stator, where the armature magnets are controlled to reciprocate to a greater maximum displacement that for a equivalent conventional linear motor. T |
| 6820617 |
Breathing assistance apparatus |
November 23, 2004 |
| A mouthpiece for oral delivery for oral delivery of CPAP treatment has a vestibular shield for location between the teeth and lips/cheeks of a wearer. The vestibular shield is formed from a very supple material and is dimensioned to extend laterally into the buccal vestibule and vertical |
| 6815847 |
Linear motor |
November 9, 2004 |
| An electric linear motor for driving a reciprocating load includes a stator, a coil, an armature and a commutation circuit. The stator has a magnetically permeable core with an air gap. The coil is wound around a portion of the stator and energized with a non-constant voltage for pro |
| 6811236 |
Door opening and closing system |
November 2, 2004 |
| An apparatus assists a user to move a door between closed and open states. The apparatus includes a permanent magnet provided on the door. An electromagnet is located on the door frame adjacent thereto when the door is closed and is energizable to provide a magnetic field which reinforce |
| 6809434 |
Linear motor |
October 26, 2004 |
| The present invention provides an improved design of linear motor as well as an improved control strategy. The design allows for a shorted stator, where the armature magnets are controlled to reciprocate to a greater maximum displacement than for a equivalent conventional linear motor. T |
| 6802314 |
Respiratory humidification system |
October 12, 2004 |
| A flow probe for use in a humidification system is disclosed. The flow probe is adapted to be positioned in a humidified gases flow (for example oxygen or anaesthetic gases) such as that which is provided to a patient in a hospital environment. The flow probe is designed to provide both |
| 6794621 |
Cook top status indicator |
September 21, 2004 |
| A status indicator (4) for a transparent ceramic glass cook top is disclosed which is able to display a range of colors. Typically such indications are used with red or smoked glass cooktops and are limited to red. The present invention is positioned directly underneath the transpare |
| 6776015 |
Perforation of laundry machine drum |
August 17, 2004 |
| A laundry machine drum has a sheet material skin including an arrangement of a plurality of perforations therethrough. Each of one or more of the perforations includes a shear cut in the sheet material. The sheet is deformed in the region of the shear cut such that the edge of the sheet |
| 6748618 |
Top loading washing machine and method of braking same |
June 15, 2004 |
| A spin tub of a washing machine is driven by an electronically commutated DC motor. The commutation devices are connected to a DC power supply and have free-wheeling diodes connected in parallel therewith. The washing machine includes other components having inductive windings. A control |
| 6719780 |
Warming methods and apparatus |
April 13, 2004 |
| Apparatus and method for raising or maintaining the core temperature of a mammal during surgery is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a infrared radiant element with a double reflector design to provide a very narrow beam of radiation. In this fashion the apparatus is able to direct radi |
| 6694974 |
Respiratory humidification system |
February 24, 2004 |
| A flow probe for use in a humidification system is disclosed. The flow probe is adapted to be positioned in a humidified gases flow (for example oxygen or anaesthetic gases) such as that which is provided to a patient in a hospital environment. The flow probe is designed to provide both |
| 6679257 |
Breathing assistance apparatus |
January 20, 2004 |
| A mouthpiece for oral delivery for oral delivery of CPAP treatment has a vestibular shield for location between the teeth and lips/cheeks of a wearer. The vestibular shield is formed from a very supple material and is dimensioned to extend laterally into the buccal vestibule and vertical |
| 6619287 |
Filter |
September 16, 2003 |
| A filter for a respiratory circuit has a housing with an inlet port and an outlet port for connection to respective breathing tubes. A gases space lies between the inlet and outlet ports and gases pass across the gases space from the inlet port to the outlet port in use. A filter media s |
| 6598604 |
Fault protection system for a respiratory conduit heater element |
July 29, 2003 |
| A fault protection circuit for a respiratory conduit heater element in a respirator humidification system is disclosed. The circuit includes a spark detector as well as overcurrent detector. Several variations are included for the spark detector including a two winding transformer, a |
| 6584972 |
Respiratory humidification system |
July 1, 2003 |
| A flow probe for use in a humidification system is disclosed. The flow probe is adapted to be positioned in a humidified gases flow (for example oxygen or anaesthetic gases) such as that which is provided to a patient in a hospital environment. The flow probe is designed to provide both |
| 6582198 |
Control strategy for a thermally activated diverter valve used in a washing appliance |
June 24, 2003 |
| A washing appliance having a thermally actuated diverter valve to allow for the diversion of water through the water holding receptacle of the washing appliance, where control means controls the turning on and off of an inlet valve and energizing of the thermally actuated diverter valve. |
| 6578391 |
Top loading washing machine |
June 17, 2003 |
| A laundry washing machine has a cabinet 2 and a drum 1 suspended within the cabinet for rotation about a horizontal axis. The drum 1 includes a pair of drum ends with a pair of vanes 110, 111 extending between the drum ends 11, 12 rigidly connecting the drum ends together. The drum 1 has |
| 6571808 |
Dishwasher |
June 3, 2003 |
| A washing appliance such as a dishwasher where a top-loading wash chamber is slidable out of cabinet for loading and unloading has a cabinet-mounted chamber lid which is power driven down onto the open top of the wash chamber during the washing cycle. Linear actuators or motors mounted i |
| 6536428 |
Ventilation system and/or breathing tube |
March 25, 2003 |
| A breathing tube for humidified gases ventilation system has an internal conduit and a surrounding conduit within which the internal conduit is disposed. A connector at one end of the internal conduit and the surrounding conduit has an inhalation gases port for connection to an inhal |
| 6520021 |
Pressure measuring device |
February 18, 2003 |
| A connector is formed to connect with the outlet of a humidification chamber. A calibrated tube extends through the connector to be retained in use in at least a substantially vertical direction. A bias flow outlet also extends through the connector. In use the connector of the measuring |
| 6500111 |
Infant care enclosure |
December 31, 2002 |
| The present invention provides an enclosed humidified environment for an infant positioned on the mattress of an infant warmer open care bed. It includes an "A" frame structure which supports a flexible and transparent cover similar to a tent, which may be folded substantially flat when |
| 6499321 |
Laundry machine and/or methods |
December 31, 2002 |
| A laundry machine has a wash enclosure to which a supply of water is admitted through a hot water valve and a cold water valve. A temperature sensor senses the temperature of the combined water flow from the hot and cold valves or the temperature of the water collected in the water e |
| 6492758 |
Polyphase transverse flux motor |
December 10, 2002 |
| A tranverse flux motor having multiple stator phase windings which are electronically commutated to produce a rotating flux to drive a permanent magnet rotor located externally of the stator. The stator is formed by two complementary facing pieces each carrying half the stator poles, the |
| 6481035 |
Top loading washing machine |
November 19, 2002 |
| A method of operating a horizontal axis laundry machine through a drum opening operation is provided. The laundry machine includes a cabinet and a drum mounted in the cabinet. The drum has a drum skin including a cover section and a remainder. An edge of the cover section is connected to |
| 6477867 |
Laundry appliance |
November 12, 2002 |
| A balancing system for a laundry appliance is disclosed, which is particularly suited to horizontal axis washing machines. The system includes force and acceleration transducers at each end of the drum, to detect the imbalance. Several algorithms are disclosed, which calculate the co |
| 6469920 |
Inductorless variable voltage appliance power supply |
October 22, 2002 |
| A transformerless non-switched mode power supply for use with whiteware appliances having a water heating element. A high power voltage dropping resistor is used in series with a rectifier and a switching device phase controls the mains half waves to produce a variable voltage direct cur |
| 6460955 |
Cabinet, parts thereof and associated methods |
October 8, 2002 |
| A cabinet for a refrigerator is formed from a twin sheet thermoformed panel (1) divided into a plurality of wall sections, (8, 9, 10) by seams (6) where the twin sheets (2, 3) contact. The panel is folded to form the rear (10) and two side walls (8, 9) of a refrigerator cabinet, and top |
| 6447081 |
Dishwasher |
September 10, 2002 |
| A dishwasher having a cabinet and wash chambers in the form of drawers which slide in and out of the cabinet. Rigid and flexible closures are disclosed for sealing off the wash chambers when retracted into the cabinet. A detergent dispenser for the dishwasher is provided in one wall |
| 6409885 |
Pulp forming machines |
June 25, 2002 |
| A pulp forming machine includes a forming head including a platen and plurality of mould carriers. The mould carriers are connected to the platen by mould carrier support means which allow the mould carrier and the platen to transmit forces perpendicular to the general plane of the p |
| 6398495 |
Dishwasher |
June 4, 2002 |
| The present invention provides a drain pump for a washing appliance. The pump includes a motor having a drive shaft, a drain pump impeller mounted on the shaft, and a pump casing having a side wall which is co-axial with the motor and the impeller, which is adapted to receive water from |
| 6398197 |
Water chamber |
June 4, 2002 |
| A water chamber has a horizontally orientated gas inlet with an elongate flow tube extending into the water chamber from the inner periphery of the gases inlet. An inlet end of the elongate flow tube covers the inlet and an outlet end of the flow tube is spaced from the wall of the chamb |
| 6363756 |
Top loading laundry appliance |
April 2, 2002 |
| A laundry appliance such as a washing machine (2, 300) or a clothes drier (200) where user access to the clothes containing vessel (1, 201, 301) is facilitated by supporting the vessel in a structure (105, 205, 305) which may be tilted or slid out of the front of the appliance cabinet. W |
| 6351950 |
Refrigeration system with variable sub-cooling |
March 5, 2002 |
| A vapor compression refrigeration system using a capillary as an expansion device has a liquid refrigerant subcooler between a condenser and the capillary which is controlled to vary the refrigerant flow. |
| 6349722 |
Respiratory humidification system |
February 26, 2002 |
| A flow probe for use in a humidification system is disclosed. The flow probe is adapted to be positioned in a humidified gases flow (for example oxygen or anaesthetic gases) such as that which is provided to a patient in a hospital environment. The flow probe is designed to provide both |
| 6343603 |
Connector |
February 5, 2002 |
| A connector has a main body with a breathing gases passageway extending therethrough. A connection at one end of the passageway is configured to engage with the expiratory tube connection of a ventilator. The other end of the passageway is connected to the expiratory arm of a breathing |
| 6343492 |
Top loading washing machine |
February 5, 2002 |
| A laundry washing machine has a cabinet 2 and a drum 1 suspended within the cabinet for rotation about a horizontal axis. The drum 1 includes a pair of drum ends with a pair of vanes 110, 111 extending between the drum ends 11, 12 rigidly connecting the drum ends together. The drum 1 has |
