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Banana Protective Device

A banana protective device for storing and transporting a banana carefully.

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Number of applications: 837
Last date: December 02, 2010

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Application No.Application TitleIssue Date
20100304762INDOOR TRACKING SYSTEM
A system and method for indoor tracking that includes a tracking device with a cell modem and a neural network program. The tracking device is placed in known positions within an indoor area to be tracked. The tracking devices requests RF data from reporting cell towers...
12/02/2010
20100281651Handle Shell for Clipping into a Cutout Section in a Thin Wall
The description relates to a handle shell to be installed in an opening in a thin wall such as a sheet-metal door leaf, a side wall of a sheet-metal cabinet, or the like, with a flange part, fastening elements proceeding from or being received in the flange part for fas...
11/11/2010
20100207405Adjustable Bar Guide
A bar guide for guiding locking bars on sheet metal cabinet doors, or the like, comprises a carrier which can be secured, e.g., spot welded, to the inside surface of the door leaf and a guide element which can be mounted on the carrier and which has a guide surface whos...
08/19/2010
20100201136Adjustable Bar Guide
A bar guide for guiding locking bars on sheet metal cabinet doors, or the like, comprises a carrier which can be secured, e.g., spot welded, to the inside surface of the door leaf and a guide element which can be mounted on the carrier and which has a guide surface whos...
08/12/2010
20100178082Developing Device and Process Cartridge and Imaged Forming Device Provided with them
Object: To prevent trailing and leading to enable excellent development with a simple constitution.

Solving Means: A maximum value F0 of a magnetic attractive force near a main magnetic pole S1 of magnetic poles formed by a ma...

07/15/2010
20100143066FASTENING ELEMENT FOR A THREADED BOLT
Disclosed is a fastening element (10) for a threaded bolt (14), particularly a stud bolt, comprising a plastic or metal block (10) that has a threaded bore (18) and can be screwed onto the bolt (14). Said fastening element (10) ...
06/10/2010
20100115104COOPERATIVE NETWORK FOR MOBILE INTERNET ACCESS
A method and system for connecting mobile users to the Internet using cooperative interconnection. A node consists of a network element that has two connections methodologies—typically a node will have a radio link and a wired link to the Internet. To obtain a connect...
05/06/2010
20100115103COOPERATIVE NETWORK FOR MOBILE INTERNET ACCESS
A method and system for connecting mobile users to the Internet using cooperative interconnection. A node consists of a network element that has two connections methodologies—typically a node will have a radio link and a wired link to the Internet. To obtain a connect...
05/06/2010
20100103215JETTING TIMING DETERMINING METHOD, LIQUID-DROPLET JETTING METHOD AND INK-JET PRINTER
In a liquid-droplet jetting apparatus such as an ink-jet head having a plurality of nozzle rows formed therein, an ink is jetted from one of the nozzle rows and the ink is jetted from another nozzle row concurrently while changing delay times by each of which a jetting ...
04/29/2010
20100092369METHOD FOR ENHANCING GROWTH OF CARBON NANOTUBES
A method for fabricating a plurality of carbon nanotube structures having enhanced length is disclosed. Several steps are involved in this method. First, a substrate is provided. Next, a non-catalytic metal layer is formed on the substrate. Then, a catalytic metal layer...
04/15/2010
20100091287Method for Imaging a Sample Using a Microscope, and Microscope and Data Storage Center
The invention relates to a method for imaging a sample using a microscope, in particular a scanning microscope, in which the sample is illuminated with excitation light via an illuminating beam path, and light emitted from the sample is recorded via a detection beam pat...
04/15/2010
20100090195QUANTUM DOT OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH ENHANCED PERFORMANCE
An optoelectronic device is disclosed which includes a quantum dot layer including plurality of quantum dots which do not have capping layers. This optoelectronic device may be a quantum dot light-emitting device, which includes (1) a substrate which is transparent or t...
04/15/2010
20100090145VACUUM VALVE
A vacuum valve including a valve body with a valve orifice, a closure member for closing the valve orifice, a first piston-cylinder unit, a second piston-cylinder unit, a first control element, and a second control element. When opening the vacuum valve, a pressure medi...
04/15/2010
20100079520DEMODULATOR FOR RECORDING HEAD, DATA TRANSFER UNIT FOR RECORDING HEAD AND RECORDING APPARATUS
A demodulator for recording head includes a reference-clock input section to which a reference clock is inputted; a modulated-signal input section to which a plurality of types of modulated signals generated by modulating a plurality of types of recording signals corres...
04/01/2010
20100079519Liquid Droplet Jetting Apparatus
A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes a nozzle which jet the liquid droplets in a plurality of types of jetting modes; a liquid droplet jetting head which has the nozzles; a signal generating section which generates a plurality of types of jetting signals, each of...
04/01/2010
20100078361Method for Isolating Aleurone Particles
The invention relates to a method and device for separating a mixture made of particles of a first particle type and a second particle type, especially aleurone particles and shell particles made of comminuted bran, said particles being scarcely distinguishable in terms...
04/01/2010
20100067104SAMPLE HOLDER FOR A MICROSCOPE
The invention is directed to a sample holder for a microscope. The sample holder comprises a sample chamber which is filled with an immersion liquid and in which a sample is located. The sample chamber has an upper opening. It further comprises means for translating the...
03/18/2010
20100066100FASTENING DEVICE FOR A FITTING, E.G. A LOCK CASE, BAR GUIDE, OR SIMILAR
The description is of a fastening device for securing a fitting such as a lock case, bar guide, or the like, to the back of a thin wall such as a sheet metal cabinet door which is provided, if necessary, with an opening for the fitting. According to the invention, a pro...
03/18/2010
20100061572Capacitve Sound Transducer Having a Perforated Attenuation Disk
A capacitive sound transducer provided with a perforated attenuation disk. The invention further relates to a capacitive sound transducer and a condenser microphone having such a sound transducer. The sound transducer comprises a diaphragm and a counterelectrode which i...
03/11/2010
20100060728METHOD FOR PRODUCING HIGH-QUALITY REPRODUCTIONS OF THE FRONT AND/OR REAR SECTIONS OF THE EYE
The present invention makes it possible to make high-quality recordings of the anterior and/or posterior segments of the eye as an individual image or also as a sequence of images without increasing the radiation load on the eye to be examined. In the method according t...
03/11/2010
20100060693PRINTER
There is provided a printer including: an ink-jet head; a first rotatable body; a first attaching mechanism attaching a printing medium to the first rotatable body; a separating mechanism separating the printing medium from the first rotatable body; and a control mechan...
03/11/2010
20100060692PRINTER
There is provided a printer which includes two rotatable bodies, two rotational drive mechanisms which drives the two rotatable body, respectively, two attaching mechanisms which attach a printing medium to the two rotatable bodies, respectively, an ink-jet head arrange...
03/11/2010
20100053257Liquid Droplet Jetting Apparatus
A printer controls a suction pump such that a difference in a discharge amount of an ink and a flow speed of the ink discharged from each nozzle is small between a complete purge in which all ink supply portions connected to a second head communicate with an atmosphere,...
03/04/2010
20100045735Liquid Droplet Jetting Apparatus
A printer includes a first ink-jet head which is fixed, and a second ink-jet head which is movable selectively to a first position which is opposite to an upper surface of a recording paper by an reversing-mechanism, and a second position which is opposite to a lower su...
02/25/2010
20100045716LIQUID DROPLET JETTING APPARATUS
There is provided a liquid droplet jetting apparatus which jets liquid droplets on to an object, including a transporting mechanism which transports the object along a transporting path extended in a predetermined transporting direction, two heads, each having a plurali...
02/25/2010
20100033537Liquid Discharge Head and Printer
A plurality of pressure chambers are arranged in two arrays in a direction intersecting an extending direction of a common liquid chamber. First pressure chambers of one array and second pressure chambers of the other array are disposed in a staggered arrangement. First...
02/11/2010
20100027108CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPE
A confocal laser microscope has at least one laser whose illumination light is transmitted in direction of the microscope objective by at least one light-conducting fiber. The light-conducting fiber can be plugged in at a housing which preferably comprises the scanning ...
02/04/2010
20100026755Liquid Droplet Jetting Apparatus
A liquid droplet jetting apparatus is capable of carrying out selectively a first purge mode and a second purge mode. In the first purge mode, a first air discharge purge of discharging air in an ink storage chamber is carried out while maintaining a meniscus of the ink...
02/04/2010
20100020124Liquid Droplet Jetting Apparatus
A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes a jetting head unit which jets liquid droplet from nozzles, and which is displaced in a jetting direction in which the liquid droplets are jetted and in an opposite direction opposite to the jetting direction, a capping mechan...
01/28/2010
20100014157MULTISPECTRAL LIGHTING APPARATUS
The invention is directed to a multispectral illumination device for a microscope or for a reader. According to the invention, the illumination device comprises at least three receptacle positions for lighting modules and at least one receptacle position for coupling mo...
01/21/2010
20100014052OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR A FUNDUS CAMERA
The invention is directed to an optical system for a fundus camera for reflection-free opthalmoscopy having a beam path with refractive and reflective optical elements which are used substantially in common for illumination and observation or recording. An imaging mirro...
01/21/2010
20100007878HIGHLY SENSITIVE SPECTROSCOPIC UNIT
The invention is directed to a highly sensitive spectrum analysis unit with a diffraction grating, wherein a parallel light bundle having a wavelength range impinges on a diffraction grating which splits the different wavelengths into spectra by diffraction in first dir...
01/14/2010
20100003360DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE EXTRUSION OF VISCOELASTIC MATERIALS
The invention is directed to a device for extruding viscoelastic matter, in particular pastas. This device has a filling area for introducing matter or constituents of the matter into the device, a conveying area for conveying and processing the flow of matter conveyed ...
01/07/2010
20090315982Arrangement and method for the recording and display of images of a scene and/or an object
The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for the recording and display of images of a scene and/or an object. They are suitable especially for the spatially perceived display of the recorded images. The problem of finding a new way of recording, with the lea...
12/24/2009
20090305831Hubs incorporating a variable ratio transmission system
A hub comprises a cylindrical, hollow hub member (2), which is mounted to rotate about its axis and in whose interior is a transmission system having an input (10), which is mounted to rotate about the axis, and an output connected to rotate with the hub m...
12/10/2009
20090303584METHOD FOR LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY AND BEAM COMBINER
A method for laser scanning microscopy is characterized by the use of encapsulated fiber multiplexers from the telecommunications field for combining the beams of a plurality of lasers of different wavelengths and coupling them together into a laser scanning microscope ...
12/10/2009
20090298668OPTICAL GLASS, GLASS MATERIAL FOR PRESS MOLDING, OPTICAL ELEMENT BLANK, OPTICAL ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF
A fluorophosphate glass containing: P5+ in an amount of 20 to 45 cationic %; Al3+ in an amount of 15 to 35 cationic %; Ba2+ in an amount of 20 to 50 cationic %; F in an amount of 20 to 50 anionic %; and O2− in ...
12/03/2009
20090292438Circuit Detecting Combustion-Related Variables
In a circuit for and a method of detecting combustion-relevant variables in an internal combustion engine an ionization signal is determined in dependence on the flame. To improve the accuracy of detection the ionisation measurement circuit is connected to the ignition ...
11/26/2009
20090291803Vehicle Propulsion Systems Using Motor/ Generator In Transmission For Powering Electric Supercharger
An automotive propulsion system includes an internal combustion engine (6) with an inlet air duct (66) and an output shaft (10), which is connected to the input shaft of a transmission system (58) of continuously variable transmission ratio. ...
11/26/2009
20090260930CLUTCH ARRANGEMENT FOR A WEAR ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR A DISK BRAKE
The description relates to a clutch arrangement for a wear adjustment device for a disk brake in vehicles, in which wear adjustment device a rotating lever which is actuated during braking acts on at least one displaceable element which actuates at least one adjusting s...
10/22/2009
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