Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
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| 20110023276 | Tool Support with Exchangeable Tool Holders and Tool Holder A tool support for a machine tool has a clamping surface. A positioning device for a tool holder is provided that is positioned at the clamping surface. The positioning device has at least one conical element wherein a longitudinal axis of the conical element extends or... | 02/03/2011 |
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| 20110017881 | Piece of Furniture Assembled in a Modular Way A modular piece of furniture has a base and a vertical cylindrical support column centrally and fixedly connected to the base. Clamp brackets are connected to the support column by a clamping action. Platforms are connected to the clamp brackets. Cable holding and guidi... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110005410 | Baling Press for Large Bales A baling press for producing large square high-density bales has a pick-up device picking up crop, a cutting device downstream of the pick-up device, a conveying device downstream of the cutting device, and a pressing channel disposed downstream of the conveying device ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110004395 | Method for Operating an Internal Combustion Engine In a method for operating an internal combustion engine for adjusting a desired fuel/air mixture, wherein the rotary speed is determined by an operating curve based on a fuel/air mixture composition, wherein the operating curve has ascending and descending branches and ... | 01/06/2011 |
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| 20100316294 | Method and Data Processing System for Creating Image Segmentation Models Image segmentation is realized from the actual image based on image features and a most similar case. The characteristic of the actual image is compared to characteristics of images of a case database. The most similar image in the case database is determined by a simil... | 12/16/2010 |
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| 20100311549 | Device for Training the Muscles of the Body The invention relates to a device for training the muscles of the body, comprising a stack of weights (1) disposed one over the other. In order to couple the weights (1) to a lifting device (2), each weight (1) is associated with a pin (3<... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100310320 | Laying Device A laying device simultaneous lays at least two substantially parallel and axially spaced apart groups of flexible media lines in at least one flat layer in the soil, wherein each group of flexible media lines has at least one flexible media line. The laying device has a... | 12/09/2010 |
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| 20100301652 | Back Rest for a Stool or a Chair, and Stool or Chair Provided with such a Back Rest The invention relates to a back rest for a stool or a chair, comprising two adjacent, spring-mounted back supports (3.1), each of which is fixed to a separate carrier part (4.1). Said back rest is characterised in that each carrier part (4.1) forms ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100285952 | Process for Producing Finely Divided, High-Surface-Area Materials Coated with Inorganic Nanoparticles, and also Use Thereof The invention relates to a process for producing finely divided high-surface-area materials coated with inorganic nanoparticles, and also the materials produced thereby, in particular catalysts for heterogeneous catalysis. The process according to the invention is chara... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100285505 | Device and Method for Detecting a Substance by Means of Particle Plasmon Resonance (PPR) or Particle-Mediated Fluorescence Based on Cell Surface Polarizations The invention relates to devices and methods for detecting a substance by cell surface polarizations and the detection thereof by means of PPR or particle-mediated fluorescence. The device for detecting a substance by cell surface polarization according to the invention... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100283161 | Carburetor for an Internal Combustion Engine A carburetor for an internal combustion engine has a carburetor housing and a mixture forming passage provided in the carburetor housing. A throttle and a choke valve are rotatably arranged in the mixture forming passage on a throttle shaft and a choke shaft, respective... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100282863 | Apparatus for Discharging Sprays or Mists, Comprising an Oscillating Fire Burner, and Mist Pipe for such an Apparatus Such apparatuses are used for discharging active substances along with various carrier media, water often being used as a carrier medium. In order to ensure that the water perfectly nebulizes together with the active substance, the mist pipe (10) comprises at lea... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100272653 | Contrast Medium for Use in Imaging Methods An imaging auxiliary for medical imaging methods contains stabilizer-free superparamagnetic particles such as metal oxides and metals. Preferred are γ-Fe2O3, Fe3O4, MnFe2O4, NiFe2O4... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100272649 | Bioactive Bone Cement and Method for Its Production A bioactive PMMA (polymethylmethacrylate) bone cement contains a powder component and a reactive monomer liquid, wherein the powder component and the reactive monomer liquid when mixed with one another react with one another and form a polymer-based solid material. The ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100272532 | System and Method for Marking any Non-Living or Living Objects, and Marking Element and Use of Same for Marking any Objects, in particular for Object Control and Object Management The invention relates to a system and a method for marking any non-living or living objects, in particular medical instruments, implants, structural parts, e.g. tools, machines, items of clothing, jewelry, and many others, and to a marking element and the use of same fo... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100267381 | Method and Arrangement for Using Certain Information Acquired Upon Registration at a Base Station Especially for Traffic Forecasting In a method and an arrangement for using certain data acquired upon registration of a mobile communication device of a mobile subscriber of a cellular provider at a switching center, in particular for traffic forecasting, wherein the acquired data comprise at least a nu... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100262211 | Use of a Coated, Transparent Substrate for Influencing the Human Psyche In order to influence the human melatonin reservoir, the invention proposes the use of bodies, particularly glasses, having a transmittivity for light waves of a wavelength of about 460 nm of at least 92%, preferably of at least 95% or even 99%, as window glazings, for ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100255048 | Web Material A web material encompasses a bonded fibrous material web of cellulose material that is made of a layer of cellulose fibers that are press-bonded in sections of the fibrous material web. One or several antimicrobial substances are contained in the fibrous material web. T... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100253475 | Device and method for monitoring a maintenance unit The invention relates to a method for monitoring a maintenance unit moving inside a pipeline, a state data signal generated by a first receiving and transmission unit due to a maintenance unit passing by being transmitted to at least one further receiving and transmissi... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100243690 | Weapon Holster with Adjustable Draw Angle, in Particular for Hand Firearms and Latching Joint Unit, in Particular for Weapon Holsters In a weapon holster with adjustable draw angle, in particular for hand firearms, comprising a holster web for fastening the holster to a belt, a coupling or the like and a holster receptacle for holding a weapon, in particular a hand firearm, wherein the holster web and... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100240764 | Use of S-Clenbuterol The use of S-Clenbuterol for restoring and/or maintaining the function of partially or completely damaged/degenerated cells in the central nervous system and/or other nerve cells is claimed. The use of S-Clenbuterol leads to activation of astrocytes and initiation of en... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100236456 | Shuttle Pallet for a Storage System The invention relates to a shuttle palette comprising three load-bearing bridges (3) and three longitudinal carriers (19). Said shuttle palettes are disposed below a conventional transport palette and said composite is stored in a high-shelf storage system... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100229443 | Handgun A handgun has at least one barrel; a cartridge chamber; a gun lock correlated with the cartridge chamber and provided with a hammer to be cocked against a spring force into a cocked position and with a trigger for releasing the hammer from the cocked position. First and... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100221817 | Whole-Cell Sensor The invention relates to whole-cell sensors for monitoring bioavailable nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur, individually or in at least one combination in a medium, and to the use thereof. The whole-cell sensors consist of genetically modified yeast cells which are immobi... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100221594 | Portable Hand-Guided Electric Device with Battery Pack A hand-held electric device has a device housing with a battery pack compartment. A battery pack is disposed in the battery pack compartment. The battery pack compartment has guide elements extending in the insertion direction of the battery pack. The battery pack has a... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100221591 | Battery Pack for a Hand-Guided Power Tool An exchangeable battery pack for an electric device has a housing with a first end face and a second end face opposite the first end face, wherein the first end is open. A housing cover closes off the first end face. Battery cells are disposed in the housing. Cell conne... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100221590 | Battery Pack for an Electric Power Tool A battery pack for an electric power tool has at least one cell arrangement with a plurality of individual battery cells that are arranged such in a predetermined total number of battery cells upright adjacent to one another for forming a cell container that cell axes o... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100221584 | Battery Pack with Electronic Monitoring Device Integrated in the Housing Cover A battery pack for an electric power tool has a housing and a housing cover that closes off the housing. Battery cells are arranged in the housing and electrically conductingly connected to one another. An electronic circuit for monitoring operating parameters of the ba... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100219837 | Method and Device for Measuring Cell Voltages in a Plurality of Series-Connected Accumulator Cells The invention relates to a method and a device for measuring cell voltages of accumulator cells (Z1, . . . Z10) in a plurality of series-connected accumulator cells especially of a so-called battery pack or cell pack (100), as for example described ... | 09/02/2010 |
