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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8162037 | Device for generating a pulsed magnetic field A pulsed magnetic field is generated by a device having a magnet to be operated in pulse operation which contains at least one superconductive refrigerant-free winding that is disk-shaped or saddle-shaped. Also included is a refrigerating unit which has at least one... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8154400 | System comprising a plurality of electrical switches, especially for a magnetic levitation railway line A system includes a plurality of electrical switches. Every switch is associated with at least one monitoring device for detecting the respective switching condition of the switch. All of the monitoring devices are interconnected through a data connection through wh... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8035053 | Sorting installation and sorting method for letters and large letters A sorting installation for letters of a first kind and letters of a second kind includes circulating stacking locations for receiving the letters of the first kind delivered in any desired sequence, and circulating end locations ordered by destination addresses. A f... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8020863 | Method and device for transporting a flat object A method and a device transport a flat object, especially a mail item, over a conveyor path. The transport device has two conveyor elements, a thickness sensor and a gap-altering device. With the aid of the thickness sensor the thickness of the object is measured, b... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7953419 | Method for integration of network nodes In a data communications network building automation system, integration of wirelessly communicating network nodes is visualized in a process environment on an output unit of a commissioning device. The current spatial position of the commissioning device is detecte... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7902951 | Hermetically sealed electrical apparatus An electric apparatus, preferably a transformer, is hermetically sealed and filled with a dielectric liquid. Devices for recording heat-related volume variations of the dielectric liquid are contained in the apparatus. Volume variations are compensated with the aid ... | 03/08/2011 |
| D633403 | Electricity meter | 03/01/2011 |
| 7884691 | Electrical component with a cooling circuit for underwater operation An electrical component with winding conductors, particularly a transformer, includes a cooling circuit with a heat exchanging unit. Cooling elements of the heat exchanging unit can be flowed around by a first liquid, particularly seawater, thus enabling an effectiv... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881078 | Twelve-pulse HVDC transmission A device for transmitting electric power between alternating voltage networks includes converters interconnected by direct current lines and provided each with several six-pulse conversion bridges. The six-pulse conversion bridges of one same converter are capable o... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7875121 | Method for maintaining a pipe comprising a particle trap system extending along the pipe, and devices for carrying out the method A pipe maintenance method and device is particularly suited for maintaining a pipe of a gas-insulated high-voltage line with a particle trap system extending along the pipe. The novel method enables poorly accessible sections to be reached. To this end, a maintenanc... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7863773 | Apparatus for the redundant power supply of at least one load In order to provide an apparatus for the redundant power supply of at least one load having a first converter, which can be connected to a first AC voltage system via a first connection, a second converter, which can be connected to a second AC voltage system via a ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7825637 | Method and device for controlling a capacitive load A capacitive load is controlled by charging and respectively discharging by way of a load current, which is allowed to oscillate between a maximum default and a minimum default. The maximum default increases monotonously in a first step, remains essentially constant... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7817049 | Combined scattered-light and extinction-based fire detector A fire detector has at least two sensor units for monitoring a confined space for the occurrence of a fire. A first fire parameter is monitored according to the scattered light method, using a first sensor unit located at or in the vicinity of the ceiling. At least ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7816603 | Capsule housing extending in an essentially tubular manner comprising at least three housing sections A capsule housing has at least three housing sections, extends along an axis, and has a substantially tubular-shaped frame. The housing sections are connected together on the front side thereof and they surround a receiving chamber on the inside. The inside has an e... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7812708 | Manipulation protection for a fire detector A method for differentiating between a fire and the manipulation of a fire detector. The fire detector has at least two sensor units, each of which contains a light source and a light collector. A cover plate is formed with at least two light exit and entry windows.... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7810712 | Method and device for transporting items by means of identified containers A method and a device transport multiple items, in particular mail items, to predefined destination points. The respective destination point and a value of a predefined feature of each item are measured and stored. The item is transported together with other items i... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7804392 | Switching resistor for an electric switching device A switching resistor for an electric switching device having an electrically conductive resistive material. The resistive material is a resistive material on a synthetic material basis. ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7788418 | Measurement or protective device with independent software modules A measurement or protective device has a terminal for establishing a connection to a data bus. A control device determine the mode of operation of the measurement or protective device, and the mode of operation can be changed from the outside using the terminal. The... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7751906 | Method and automation system for operation and/or observing at least one field device The object is to provide a method for operating and/or observing at least one field device in the simplest possible manner. A first central control device which executes the automation engineering software generates a first command to control the at least one field ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7737686 | Distance sensor arrangement for a magnet of the levitation magnet of a magnetic levitation transport system A distance sensor configuration for a magnet of the levitation magnet of a magnetic levitation transport system equipped with a number of distance sensors. Each distance sensor has a distance measuring coil acted upon by an operating frequency and can be placed in a... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734357 | System for operating an installation by editing graphic objects A system is used to operate partial units of a technical installation by editing graphic objects, the system contains a graphic editor and a data editor. During the selection of a graphic object by the graphic editor, the data editor, which produces or modifies the ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725229 | Method and device for detecting a rollover situation of a motor vehicle A rate of rotation around the longitudinal axis of a motor vehicle and the lateral inclination thereof are determined as state variables. A rollover situation is detected when the state variables are greater than the characteristic curve of a minimum triggering thre... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7723977 | Optical sensor arrangement for electrical switchgear An optical sensor configuration contains an optical current sensor and/or an optical voltage sensor. The sensor configuration further contains a first and a second hollow member, preferably ring shaped profiles, which are together disposed to form a hollow section. ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7707043 | Method to input and store data for a clinical study A method provides for inputting and storing data for a clinical study in a uniform manner by different study locations. Accordingly, the method comprises generation of an input platform program for an input of data of a clinical study, distribution of the input plat... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7646751 | Interface, apparatus, and method for communication between a radio equipment control node and a remote equipment node in a radio base station An interface, apparatus, and method are described for communication between a radio equipment control (REC) node and a radio equipment (RE) node in a radio base station that tranceives information over radio interface using multiple antenna carriers. The REC node is... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7574371 | Medical diagnosis management system A computerized medical diagnosis management system includes a central computer system comprising a data processor; at least one data interface operatively coupled to the data processor and configured to receive data from two or more diagnosis instruments, wherein ea... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7539215 | Subscriber device for a high-performance communication system A subscriber in a communication system (102) for transmitting and receiving data telegrams, wherein a data telegram includes reference data or user data and an identifier. The control of transmitting and receiving data telegrams is based on check data sets ( | 05/26/2009 |
| 7530018 | Method of generating pages in a markup language for selecting products and a software tool A software tool for selecting products and a method of generating pages in a markup language for selecting products. The method includes: inputting attribute groups (2) into a databank (1), inputting attributes (3) into the databank, each attrib... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7519361 | Method for checking the quality of data transmission between a read/write device and at least one mobile data memory, and read/write device and mobile data memory for using the method A method and associated apparatus for checking the data transmission between at least one read/write device (SLG) and at least one mobile data memory (MDS), in particular in an identification system having at least one mobile data memory (MDS) which is fitted to obj... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7493189 | Method for sorting mailings according to the distribution sequence Method for sorting mailings according to the distribution sequence in a sorter unit with circulating pouches, the number of pouches in a pouch circuit being less than the number of mailings for sorting in said sorting run. After all pouches are loaded, the separatio... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492056 | Electrical locking system In an electric locking system, a controllable switching device is disposed in connection cables between the driver module for triggering an electric motor of a central locking system and a supply voltage. The controllable switching device is opened in a standby mode... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7489676 | Communication method of exchanging real-time data in a collision recognition-based communication network, corresponding memory medium and communication network A method for exchanging data in a collision-recognition based communication network, for example, the Ethernet, whereby, before a cyclic repeating real-time data exchange, a routing of the real-time data exchange onto the most economical data path occurs, followed b... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7486681 | Scheduling of realtime communication in switched networks A method and a switching router for simple scheduling of realtime data telegrams with calculable load-insensitive cycle times. A transmission cycle (4) is subdivided into three phases. In a first phase (1), only realtime data telegrams are sent; in a s... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7477952 | Method and device for displaying information pertaining to an installation part of an industrial installation on a mobile display A method and a device for displaying information pertaining to an installation part of an industrial installation on a mobile display device. Each installation part of the industrial installation has a transmitter, which transmits a signal that identifies the instal... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7457308 | Method and data processing system for transmitting data via a data transmission unit A method for transmitting data (D) on one and the same data transmission unit (4) in a particularly simple, secure and rapid manner in accordance with various requirements. For transmitting the data (D) between data processing units (2) of a data proce... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7444188 | Method and human-machine-interface (HMI) system for controlling and monitoring a technical installation A method and associated system for controlling and monitoring a technical installation (M1, M2), which is assigned at least one regional control area (OA1, OA2), uses a universal, mobile control and monitoring module (MU) and includes thr... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443853 | Method for transmitting ethernet frames A network system and method thereof is provided in which messages conforming to different protocols can be transmitted via an Ethernet enabled system. Appropriate sequences of data packets conforming to a protocol other than Ethernet are provided in Ethernet frames ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444617 | Programming tool and programming method In the field of automation technology, processes, which are controlled by stored program controllers (2), are divided into modules, which are also known as function blocks. If possible, these function blocks should be used universally. The interfaces of these... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7400641 | Bus master for a bus for connection of sensors and/or ignition means A bus master for a bus for connection of sensors and/or an ignition means device, which has at least two bus driver arrangements allowing data to be received independently of one another. For this purpose a polling operation, specifically using a multiplexer or a de... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7386735 | Method for securing the authenticity of hardware and software in a networked system The invention relates to a method for securing a networked system comprising system components having hardware and software modules connected via a system bus. According to the invention, the system components each comprise an authentication feature for the hardware... | 06/10/2008 |
