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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8158390 | Method for the fermentative production of L-valine and suitable microorganism The invention relates to a method for producing L-valine and to a suitable microorganism. The inventive method is characterized by preferably enhancing the transaminase C activity of a coryneform bacterium, especially Corynebacterium glutamicum. The or... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8119374 | Nucleotide sequences of coryneform bacteria coded for proteins participating in L-serine metabolism and method for microbial production of L-serine This invention relates to the nucleotide sequence of coryneform bacteria coding for proteins which are involved in L-serine metabolism with reduced and switched off L-serine dehydratase activity. The invention also relates to microorganisms used in methods for produ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8110246 | Method for producing a thin-film solar cell by use of microcrystalline silicon and a layer sequence The invention relates to a method for production of a thin-layer solar cell with microcrystalline silicon and a layer sequence. According to the invention, a microcrystalline silicon layer is applied to the lower p- or n-layer in pin or nip thin-layer solar cells, b... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8048220 | Method for producing a strained layer on a substrate and layered structure The invention relates to a method for producing a strained layer. Said method comprises the following steps: placing the layer on a substrate and straining it, structuring the strained layer, relaxing the layer, producing directional off-sets in the layer to be stra... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7981776 | Method for depositing silicon The inventive method for depositing silicon onto a substrate firstly involves the introduction of a reactive silicon-containing gas and hydrogen into the plasma chamber and then the initiation of the plasma. After initiating the plasma, only reactive silicon-contain... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7951914 | Genetically modified cyclic-nucleotide controlled ion channels A genetically modified cyclic-nucleotide controlled ion channels where the subunits thereof are altered in such a manner that they have a higher sensitivity for cAMP in relation to cGMP in comparison with the Wildtype according to Seq ID No. 1 and 2. ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7927907 | Method of making silicon solar cells containing μC silicon layers The invention relates to a method for producing solar cells comprising at least one p-i-n layer sequence containing micro-crystalline layers with the aid of a PECVD method. Said method is characterised in that all layers of the p-i-n layer sequence are deposited in ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917221 | Device for the desynchronization of neuronal brain activity The invention relates to a device for desynchronizing neuronal brain activity. According to the invention, the activity in at least two partial zones of a brain area or at least two functionally related brain areas is reset by means of two electrodes, surprisingly r... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915592 | Dual-sided microstructured, position-sensitive detector The invention relates to a detector for determining the position and/or energy of photons and/or charged particles. Said detector comprises a plurality of diodes made of a semi-conductor material, n-contacts (1) and p-contacts (4), the n-contacts being... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915148 | Method of producing a tensioned layer on a substrate A silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate is converted into a strained SOI substrate by first providing an SOI substrate having a thin silicon layer and an insulator and at least one first epitaxial relaxing layer on the SOI-substrate. Then a defect region is produced ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7872553 | Magnetic bearing element The invention relates to a magnetic bearing element having at least one annular permanent magnet (2, 3) that is surrounded by an annular binding band (5), which element is characterized in that the permanent magnet (2, 3) is divided at least one... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7850791 | Protective layer for an aluminum-containing alloy for high-temperature use Alloys containing aluminium are characterised by an outstanding oxidation resistance at high temperatures, that is based on, inter alia, the formation of a thick and slow-growing aluminium oxide layer on material surfaces. If the formation of the aluminium oxide lay... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7754167 | Method for separating trivalent americium from trivalent curium A method is disclosed for separating trivalent americium from trivalent curium, coming from an aqueous solution containing at least these cations, wherein, at an acid concentration of 0.01 mol/l-0.3 mogl/l, the aqueous solution is brought into contact with an organi... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7732176 | Nucleotide sequences that encode deregulated phosphoglycerate dehydrogenases of coryneform bacteria and method for producing L-serine The invention relates to nucleotide sequences of coryneform bacteria that encode proteins that are involved in the biosynthesis of L-serine and to a method for producing L-serine. According to the invention, at least 79 amino acids at the C terminus of the wild-type... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7691433 | Method for structured application of molecules to a strip conductor and molecular memory matrix The invention relates to a method for a structured application of molecules on a strip conductor and to a molecular memory matrix. The inventive method makes it possible, for the first time, to economically and simply apply any number of molecular memory elements on... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7638225 | Cathode for a direct methanol fuel cell and method for operating the same In low-temperature fuel cells according to prior art, the problem often arises that the diffusion layer of the cathode is filled by water which is permeated or produced on the cathode, such that oxygen can no longer be transported to the catalyst layer of the cathod... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7632670 | Fet sensor with specially configured gate electrode for the highly sensitive detection of analytes Disclosed is a sensor comprising a substrate, a source contact region, a drain contact region, and the gate oxide of a transistor. A gate electrode is disposed between the gate oxide and a detection electrode made of a nonconducting material. The contact area A... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7627460 | Method for the modeling of material and/or heat exchange process in a device and device for carrying out said method Mass transfer and/or heat transport processes in a fuel-cell stack are controlled by first modeling a selected region of the stack with at least two fluid components separated from one another by solid material. Each fluid component of the selected region is then tr... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7619268 | Fast remanent resistive ferroelectric memory Memory element consisting of an electrode (2), a ferroelectric layer (3) adjoining the latter, a layer (4) made from non-ferroelectric material adjoining the ferroelectric layer (3) and an electrode (5) adjoining the layer (4 | 11/17/2009 |
| 7618911 | Heat-insulating material, production method and use thereof A heat-insulating material has a first phase with the stoichiometric composition of 0.1 to 10 mol-% M12O3, 0.1 to 10 mol-% Li2O, and as the remainder M22O3 with possible impurities. M1 is selected from the eleme... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7618465 | Near-field antenna The invention relates to a near-field antenna comprising a dielectric shaped body having a tip. The shaped body is characterized in that at least the surface of the tip is metallized, thereby enhancing the sensitivity of devices comprising the near-field antenna, fo... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7615471 | Method for producing a tensioned layer on a substrate, and a layer structure The invention relates to a method for producing a tensioned layer on a substrate involving the following steps: producing a defect area in a layer adjacent to the layer to be tensioned, and; relaxing at least one layer adjacent to the layer to be tensioned. Addition... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7585575 | Heat-insulating layer made of complex perovskite A heat-insulating layer has a melting point above 2500° C., a thermal expansion coefficient in excess of 8×10−6 K−1, and a sintering temperature greater than 1400° C. This material has a perovskite structure of the general formula A... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7582374 | Method for producing a layer system comprising a metallic carrier and an anode functional layer The aim of the invention is to produce complete high temperature fuel cells by means of thermal injection processes (e.g. atmospheric plasma injection, vacuum plasma injection, high speed flame injection). The production method is especially simplified and is econom... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7557574 | Imaging method based on fractal surface-filling or space-filling curves The present invention relates to an imaging method and device for nuclear magnetic resonance. On the one hand, the method provides an image coding by means of an additional field which has, for each point of a two-dimensional grating surface within the sample, a dif... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7554582 | Digital image processing method and device for CMOS camera images A digital image in CMOS camera images is processed by first generating an output signal g from a CMOS camera. Then its spatio-temporal gradient (gx, gy, gt) is derived from the output signal. A time constant c and a local object shif... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7541806 | Method for molecule examination by NMR spectroscopy The invention relates to a method and a device for examining molecules by means of NMR spectroscopy. It is the object of the invention to be able to characterize a sample with a high resolution and comprehensively. The object is solved by a method and an associated ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7511491 | Imaging procedure and magnetic-resonance imaging system for the acquisition of the longitudinal spin-lattice relaxation time An MR image imaging procedure for the acquisition of the longitudinal spin-lattice relaxation time has a data-acquisition module with a slice-selective α-high-frequency impulse as well as magnetic gradients (Gx, Gy, Gz) for slice se... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7468213 | Heat-insulating layer made of complex perovskite A heat-insulating material has a melting point above 2500° C., a thermal expansion coefficient in excess of 8×10−6 K−1, and a sintering temperature greater than 1400° C. It has a perovskite structure of the general formula A1+r | 12/23/2008 |
| 7461618 | Reformer mixing chamber and method for operating same Liquid fuel is evaporated and mixed with an oxidizing agent in a mixing chamber of a reformer by first introducing substantially only the liquid fuel in an axial downstream direction into a first upstream zone of the mixing chamber via a nozzle so as to atomize the ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7459229 | Reactant sealing for fuel cell stack The invention relates to a fuel cell stack in which, according to the invention, several elements of the fuel cell stack are advantageously sealed by a seal in order to form a continuous operating material channel. The inventive fuel cell stack can be provided with ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7442657 | Producing stress-relaxed crystalline layer on a substrate A stress relaxed monocrystalline layer structure is made on a nonlattice matched substrate by first applying to the substrate epitaxially a monocrystalline layer structure comprising at least one layer, the monocrystalline layer structure forming with the substrate ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7420736 | Method for determining optimum grating parameters for producing a diffraction grating for a VUV spectrometer A method for determining a set of grating parameters for producing a diffraction grating for a vacuum-ultraviolet spectrometer, the parameters used being the small and large radius of the toroidal grating substrate, the two distances between the two holographic illu... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7416965 | Method for producing a strained layer on a substrate and corresponding layer structure The invention relates to a method for producing a layer structure comprising a strained layer on a substrate. The inventive method comprises the steps of producing a defect area in a layer adjoining the layer to be strained, and relaxing at least one layer adjoining... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417117 | Genetically modified cyclic-nucleotide controlled ion channels and the use thereof The present invention relates to genetically modified cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels whose subunits have been altered so as to have higher sensitivity to cAMP and/or higher selectivity for cAMP compared to cGMP in comparison with the wild type according to SEQ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7407717 | Protective coating for substrates that are subjected to high temperatures and method for producing said coating A method is disclosed for producing a protective coating on a chromium oxide-forming substrate, which comprises the steps of: (a) applying on the chromium-oxide-forming substrate having at least one alloying addition selected from ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7390582 | Method for producing a protective coating for substrates that are subjected to high temperatures and form chromium oxide A method is disclosed for producing a protective coating on a chromium oxide forming substrate, in which on a surface of the chromium oxide forming substrate, a mixture of CoO, MnO, and CuO in suspension is applied, or a powdered CoO, MnO, and CuO is applied to said... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7351371 | Method for the production of near net-shaped metallic and/or ceramic parts A porous near-net-shape metallic parts with an open porosity of at least 10% by volume is made by first forming an injectable mass of a metallic powder of stainless steel, Ti, NiTi, or a titanium alloy, at least one thermoplastic binder, and at least one place holde... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349517 | System for measuring burn-out of fuel elements of a high-temperature reactor The burnout of a fuel element in a reactor is determined by first transferring a fuel element from a reactor to a measuring position and then subjecting the transferred fuel element at the position to a neutron flux. A first detector measures the total γ radiation ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7338829 | Semiconductor structures having through-holes sealed with feed through metalization The invention relates to a method for producing a detector for determining the energy of photons and charged particles; to be precise, a so-called ΔE detector or transmission detector. The invention also relates to a detector that can be produced by using said meth... | 03/04/2008 |
