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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178258 | Electrochemical device with a LSGM-electrolyte An electrochemical device including an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte membrane disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the electrolyte membrane has a material of formula La1−xSrxGa1−yMGyO3−0.5(x... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8076997 | Continously tunable waveguide delay line having a displaceable perturbing member A tunable delay line for radiofrequency applications includes a waveguide and a dielectric perturbing member that is displaceable relative to the waveguide for varying the delay imparted by the line. The waveguide is a ridge waveguide and the perturbing member is ar... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072296 | Delay element with a perturber displaceable between first and second microstrip circuits A differential delay element for use, e.g., in selectively delaying RF signals in telecommunication systems includes a first microstrip circuit and a second microstrip circuit arranged side-by-side in a facing relationship. The first microstrip circuit defines a fir... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8023822 | Optical band splitter/combiner device comprising a three-arms interferometer A three-arm-Mach-Zehnder interferometer for splitting/combining a first and a second wavelength band, wherein the optical device includes: a first and second optical splitting/combining element; a differential optical delay device comprising a first, a second and a ... | 09/20/2011 |
| D640453 | Shoe sole | 06/28/2011 |
| D639541 | Shoe sole | 06/14/2011 |
| D638210 | Shoe sole | 05/24/2011 |
| 7928321 | Current lead for superconducting apparatus An electric superconducting system having at least a superconducting apparatus, at least a current lead electrically connecting the superconducting apparatus and an electric network. An electrical conductor having at least a sheet, the electrical conductor defining ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925165 | Packet and optical routing equipment and method A packet and optical routing equipment exchanges multiplexed optical signals with other equipment in a network and exchanges branch non-packet and packet signals with client equipment. The entering branch non-packet signals are converted into electric signals by a n... | 04/12/2011 |
| D633700 | Shoe sole | 03/08/2011 |
| 7878134 | Method for controlling the deformation of a surface of a sail of a sailing boat during a direction change maneuver A method for controlling the deformation of a surface of a sail of a sailing boat during a direction change maneuver, includes arranging at least one inflatable batten into a respective seat formed on a side surface of the sail, the at least one batten being inflate... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7861484 | Method for making a sound-insulating load-bearing floor A method for making a sound-insulating load-bearing floor, includes the following steps: applying a sound-insulating material over a load-bearing floor as to form a continuous coating layer; allowing the continuous coating layer to harden; applying a covering floor ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861477 | Method for making a sound-insulating load-bearing floor A method for making a sound-insulating load-bearing floor, includes the following steps: providing a load-bearing floor; applying a sound-insulating material onto the load-bearing floor so as to form a substantially continuous coating layer; allowing the substantial... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7855003 | Ceramic and alloy anode solid oxide fuel cell A solid oxide fuel cell is provided. The solid oxide fuel cell includes a cathode, at least an electrolyte membrane, and an anode having a ceramic material and an alloy of nickel and at least a second metal, selected from aluminum, titanium, molybdenum, cobalt, iron... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7835768 | Antenna system and method for configuring a radiating pattern The radiation characteristics of an antenna are made configurable including in the antenna a plurality of radiating elements and associating to each of said radiating elements a respective chain for processing the signal in transmission and/or reception with a modul... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7829164 | Utility pole of thermoplastic composite material A utility pole includes a thermoplastic composite material including: (a) at least one olefin polymer; and (b) at least one reinforcing fiber material embedded in the at least one olefin polymer, the thermoplastic composite material having a specific tensile strengt... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7780936 | Process for manufacturing an electrochemical device Process for manufacturing an electrochemical device including a cathode, an anode and at least one electrolyte membrane disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein at least one of the cathode, the anode and the electrolyte membrane, contains at least a ceram... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7725001 | Method and device for optical fiber connection A device for coupling an optical fiber includes: a first surface and a second surface, including respective active surface portions; at least one optical fiber positioning element adapted to position at least one point of an optical fiber on a longitudinally median ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7722975 | Fuel cell and membrane-electrode assembly thereof A fuel cell having a membrane-electrode assembly including an anode, a cathode, and a polymer electrolyte membrane interposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the polymer electrolyte membrane is a sulfonated polysulfone polymer. ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7654477 | Pulverization process of a vulcanized rubber material A process for producing a rubber powder from a vulcanized rubber material by the steps of: a) feeding a grinding device with the vulcanized rubber material; b) contacting the vulcanized rubber material with at least one liquid coolant; c) introducing at least one gr... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7652101 | Thermoplastic material comprising a vulcanized rubber in a subdivided form A thermoplastic material has a) from 5% weight to 95% by weight, preferably from 10% by weight to 60% by weight, of vulcanized rubber in a subdivided form; b) from 5% by weight to 95% by weight, preferably from 40% by weight to 90% by weight, of at least one heterop... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7645076 | Coupling structure for optical fibres and process for making it A coupling structure for coupling optical radiation, i.e., light, between an optical fibre and an optical device, e.g., a laser diode or a photodiode. The coupling structure has an optical through-via which guides the optical radiation to or from the optical fibre. ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7598870 | System for and method of automating parking payment by using electronic tags A system for automating parking payment including user terminals having wireless communication equipment allowing access to a wireless communication network and including readers/writers of electronic tags, electronic tags to be carried by the users on their vehicle... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7588472 | Modular apparatus and method for data communication between a distribution network and a residential network A modular apparatus for data communication between a distribution network and a residential network is disclosed. The apparatus has a first device adapted to interface a distribution network, at least one second device adapted to interface a residential network and ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7530101 | Method and system for managing network access device using a smart card A method of operating via a smart card an access gateway between a local area network and a wide area network under the control of a management system includes the steps of providing in the smart card at least a first memory area containing configuration data for ac... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527433 | Connector for optical fibres A connector for optical fiber is described. The connector has a main body having a first fiber supporting element for supporting, within a fiber supporting seat, a first portion of at least one optical fiber and leaving an end portion of the at least one optical fib... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526157 | Point-to-point optical fibre link Point-to-point link for the transmission of digital signals includes two opto-electronic conversion apparatuses and an optical cable including at least one optical fiber having two terminal portions, each opto-electronic conversion apparatus including an opto-electr... | 04/28/2009 |
| D582133 | Shoe | 12/09/2008 |
| 7459320 | Method for producing a photovoltaic device Process for preparing a photovoltaic device including at least one semiconductive metal oxide with a major amount of a nanosized photo-catalytic crystalline phase, by depositing the oxide in the presence of a hydrosoluble organic polymer and a hydrolysable organic d... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457651 | Dual mode filter based on smoothed contour resonators A planar filter has a planar resonator including a conductive region having smoothed contours and supporting a first resonating mode propagating along a first conductive path and a second resonating mode propagating along a second conductive path perpendicular to th... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7403156 | Method and system for performing digital beam forming at intermediate frequency on the radiation pattern of an array antenna A method of performing digital beam forming on the radiation pattern of an array antenna using a plurality of antenna elements, each antenna element being coupled to a signal processing chain. A weighting phase is used in which at least a complex weight coefficient ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7362974 | Method for planning or provisioning data transport networks A tool for static or dynamic planning of a WDM network with dedicated protection. The WDM network is represented by a layered graph having image nodes for each node of the network and horizontal arcs for each link of the network, so as to replicate in each layer the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356219 | Integrated optical add/drop device having switching function An integrated optical add/drop device having switching function for use in wavelength division multiplexing optical communication systems, has first and second optical couplers between which first and second interferometric arms of an interferometer are extended. Th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346239 | Device for crossing optical beams, in particular in an integrated optical circuit A device for crossing optical beams. At least a first input optical waveguide is directed along a first axis, a second optical waveguide is directed along a second axis inclined with respect to the first axis, and a photonic crystal having a regular periodicity in a... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7324267 | Four-wave-mixing based optical wavelength converter device A wavelength converter device is provided for generating a converted radiation at frequency ωg through interaction between at least one signal radiation at frequency ωs and at least one pump radiation at frequency ωp, including an... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324721 | Optical communication line with dispersion intrachannel nonlinearities management An optical communication line of a communication system has a first processing station and an amplifying station. The line has a first optical connection having at least partially compensated accumulated dispersion and is placed between the first processing station ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7307722 | Polarization stabilization A polarization stabilizing device and method based on controlling the phase retardation of a pair of variable phase retarders with a controller such that the first of the variable retarders has its phase retardation switched between first and second values whenever ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302135 | Waveguide bends and devices including waveguide bends Waveguide bends are specially designed according to a matching condition in order to suppress mode distortion and other undesirable effects. The bend is structured having regard to its length and curvature to ensure that at its end the first and second bend modes ar... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302143 | Optical cable provide with a mechanically resistant covering An optical cable having at least one element for the transmission of optical signals and a structure that is able to protect the at least one element. The structure is a multilayer structure and is arranged in a position radially external to the at least one element... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292752 | Tuneable grating assisted directional optical coupler A tuneable grating assisted directional optical coupler to couple a transmission signal has a first waveguide including a first core and a first cladding, the first waveguide having a first effective refractive index. The coupler also has a second waveguide includin... | 11/06/2007 |
