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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8003427 | Tunable cavity resonator and method for fabricating same An example tunable cavity resonator for filtering radiation in the optical and IR wavelengths and an example method for fabricating same. The example resonator includes a pair of reflectors, one in fixed relationship to a substrate and the other formed upon a suspen... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7985408 | Tenocyte cell culturing method The present invention relates to a method for culturing tenocytes. In particular the present invention relates to a method for culturing tenocytes comprising the step of incubating tenocytes in a culture medium comprising insulin or functional derivative. ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7560253 | HLS-5 tumor suppressor factor A tumor suppressor gene, termed HLS-5 and the amino acid sequence that it encodes is used in regulating cell growth. An HLS-5 polynucleotide selected from polynucleotides comprising the nucleotide sequence set out in SEQ ID No. 1 or SEQ ID No. 3, or a fragment there... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7541584 | Resonant cavity enhanced device and a method for fabricating same A detector device for detecting incident radiation at particular wavelengths is disclosed. The device includes a base layer comprising a substrate. A resonant cavity is formed on the base layer between a pair of reflectors. One reflector is formed by a first reflect... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7046099 | Temperature compensated oscillator An oscillator having a desired output frequency, comprising a cavity resonator 102 loaded with an anisotropic dielectric material and an oscillator circuit 100 including the cavity resonator 102 as a frequency determining element, the oscillator... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7037275 | Methods and devices for obtaining samples from hollow viscera A gastrointestinal sampling device that increases the number of epithelial cells removed from the stomach lining without causing additional discomfort to the patient, and which is particularly useful for obtaining samples from the gastric mucus and between the epith... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6882252 | Multi-layer microwave resonator A multi-layer microwave resonator (10) comprises a cavity (12) having an inner surface formed from an electrically conductive material. Pieces (16a-16e) of dielectric materials stacked on top of each other form a conriguous ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6602296 | Chemical supplementation of bone Disclosed and claimed is bone or bone tissue supplemented with a therapeutically effective compound and methods for supplementing bone or bone tissue with the therapeutically effective compound.... | 08/05/2003 |
| 5668315 | Gravity gradiometer with flexural pivot bearing A gravity gradiometer for measuring off-diagonal components of the gravitational gradient tensor includes a housing having a pair of electromagnetic shield enclosures (22, 23) arranged one inside the other, and a body (25) including superconducting materi... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5505555 | Flexural pivot bearing A flexural pivot bearing includes a pair of members with opposed close-spaced faces which are joined by a web (29), of microscopic thickness, in a plane intersecting the faces. These members and the web are comprised of an integral body (27) of substantia... | 04/09/1996 |
| 4983914 | Proximity measurement by inductive sensing using single turn UHF energized coil sensors incorporated into cutter head of sheep shearing device An inductive sensing arrangement enables the distance of the cutting head of an automated sheep shearing apparatus from the skin of a sheep to be determined. Sensors on the cutting head include a coil, the inductance of which varies in accordance with the... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4892062 | Sheep handling and manipulation for automated shearing A system for handling sheep during automated shearing comprising a multiplicity of trolley/cradles T including rollers 16 and 17 for supporting the sheep, and front leg clamping bars 11 and 12, a head clamping bar 13 and rear clamping bars 20 and 21, each... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4887553 | Animal head restraint A head restraint for animals such as sheep, comprising a support carrying arms for engaging the bridge of the snout and the lower jaw to clamp the jaws in a closed position, arms carried by the support, the arms carrying caps which in use cover the eye of... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4862759 | Wrist mechanism for robotic manipulations A wrist mechanism suitable for robotic manipulators comprising a first actuator for rotating a first yoke about a first axis, a first crossed shaft carried by the yoke, a second actuator for pivoting the first crossed shaft about a second axis, a second c... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4305399 | Miniature transducer A pressure or force transducer capable of miniaturization. Preferably, the transducer takes the form of a "contact lens" and is applied to the eyeball to permit intra-ocular pressure to be measured.... | 12/15/1981 |
| 3958077 | Picture transmission systems In a television or other picture transmission the picture is scanned in a random or pseudo-random manner enabling picture analysis and transmission within band widths considerably smaller than with conventional sequential lexicographic scans with eliminat... | 05/18/1976 |
