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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110042295 | Collapsible Core, Filter, and Method A collapsible winding core for a filter element is provided. A fluted filter media is wound about the collapsible winding core having a cylindrical shape. Subsequently, the collapsible winding core is collapsed into a generally flat shape to from the filter element havi... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041804 | Multiplexing Drive Circuit For An AC Ignition System A multiplexing drive circuit for an AC ignition system having a common leg that includes two switches coupled in series, and one or more dedicated legs, wherein each leg includes two switches coupled in series. The multiplexing drive circuit also includes a transformer ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110038745 | Balanced Pressure, Variable Displacement, Dual Lobe, Single Ring, Vane Pump A pump including a pressure plate having two inlets and outlets, wherein each inlet has an auxiliary intake port in fluid communication with the inlet, and each outlet has an auxiliary discharge port in fluid communication with the outlet, and a cam/rotor assembly attac... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110031718 | Trailer Coupling for Motor Vehicles In order to improve a trailer coupling for motor vehicles comprising a towing element for the attachment of a vehicle trailer or mounting of a rear load carrier, a cross member, with which a holding unit bearing the towing element is connected, and side members connecti... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029911 | Method for Configuring an Actuation System A method of configuring a linear actuation system that includes establishing a connection via an electronic communication network with a linear actuation system customer, and receiving data that includes customer requirements for a linear actuation system, the data tran... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026869 | Sagnac Interferometric Switch Utilizing Faraday Rotation A fiber-based, magneto-optic (MO) optical modulator or switch based on Sagnac interferometry is provided. The system uses a magneto-optic Faraday rotator (MOFR) to produce optical modulation with low magnetic fields. The Sagnac geometry allows for increased modulation a... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110023677 | ROTATING LOG CLAMP A rotating saw clamp for clamping a product roll to be sawn. The rotating log saw clamp includes a first portion disposed for rotation about an axis and a second portion disposed for rotation with the first portion and movable relative to the first portion between an op... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110021939 | Method and Device for the Determination of Murmur Frequency Band The present invention is related to a method for the determination of frequency band characteristic of a heart disease comprising the steps of: recording a first set of phonocardiograms from a first set of reference healthy patients, and a second set of phonocardiograms... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018307 | Drive Unit for a Wind Stop Device In order to improve a drive unit for a wind stop device for convertible vehicles, comprising a base part which can be mounted on a vehicle body and a wind blocker which can be pivoted relative to the base part between an active upright position and an inactive position ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110017886 | Ashford amp guitar stand One embodiment of a support for a musical instrument, specifically a guitar. The Ashford Amp Guitar Stand is a device designed to hold a guitar while it is not being played and to attach to a wooden-side of an amplifier so that it is kept secure when not in use. The gui... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110017381 | Visual Fiber Placement Inspection An apparatus and method are provided for performing, on-the-fly, real time inspection of a composite structure formed by an automated fiber placement machine, through comparison of a visual image of at least a portion of the composite structure to a virtual image of the... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110016858 | Latent Heat Storage Device The invention relates to a latent heat storage device for an exhaust system of a combustion engine, more preferably of a motor vehicle, with a storage body having a plurality of channels running parallel to one another, of which at least some contain a phase-changing ma... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110016847 | Latent Heat Storage Device and Associated Manufacturing Method The present invention relates to a latent heat storage device for an exhaust system of a combustion engine, more preferably of a motor vehicle, with at least one hollow space having a storage volume which contains a phase-changing material. | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110016768 | FISHING APPARATUS AND METHOD A method and apparatus are provided for attaching a bait fish and a fish hook to a fishing line, by operatively attaching the fish hook to the skin of the bait fish with a specially shaped tack which penetrates and locks into the skin of the bait fish.... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110013118 | OPTICAL SHEET AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME An optical sheet and a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) incorporating the same. The LCD includes a sheet-like transparent substrate made of a transparent material and a microscopic structure layer formed on one surface of the transparent substrate. The microscopic structure... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110008537 | Method for Producing an Enamelled Steel Substrate The present invention is related to a method for producing an enamelled steel substrate, said method comprising the steps of: providing a steel substrate, applying to a surface of said steel substrate a solution comprising a solvent, a polymer precursor, and at least on... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110006937 | Delta-Sigma-Delta Modulator An Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) is provided. An embodiment of the ADC includes a modified Delta modulator including a digital feedback loop, and a digital Sigma-Delta modulator configured within the feedback loop. Embodiments of the invention provide analog functio... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110006070 | Fluid Tank Having Integrated Shut-Off A reservoir is provided. The reservoir defines an internal storage cavity. A plurality of system connections extend through a sidewall of the reservoir defining channels fluidly communicating the internal cavity of the reservoir with the exterior of the reservoir. A val... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110005266 | Reciprocating Piston Compressor In order to improve a reciprocating piston compressor for a refrigerant circuit, comprising a crankcase, in which a collecting chamber for lubricant is arranged, a cylinder housing, in which at least one reciprocating piston is movable in an oscillating manner, a valve ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110003210 | Polyolefin Microporous Membrane Surface-Modified By Hydrophilic Polymer, Surface Modification Method Thereof And Lithium-Ion Polymer Battery Including The Same Disclosed herein are a polyolefin microporous membrane of which surface is modified by a hydrophilic polymer, a surface modification method thereof and a lithium ion polymer battery including the surface-modified polyolefin microporous membrane as a separator. | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110000431 | INDUSTRIAL VAPOUR GENERATOR FOR THE DEPOSITION OF AN ALLOY COATING ONTO A METAL STRIP The invention relates to a vapour generator for the deposition of a metal coating onto a substrate (7), preferably a steel strip, that comprises a vacuum chamber (6) in the form of a housing including a vapour deposition head or ejector (3) in tight... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110000193 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DIESEL PARTICULATE FILTER CONDITIONS BASED ON THERMAL RESPONSE THEREOF Systems and methods to determine conditions of a diesel particulate filter (DPF) based on correlation between predicted and actual thermal data of the fluid exiting a DPF are provided. Soot loading, ash loading, and/or DPF damage may be detected, and DPF operational mod... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100330422 | Unit Cell for Secondary Battery Having Conductive Sheet Layer and Lithium Ion Secondary Battery Having the Same Disclosed herein is a unit cell for a lithium ion secondary battery, which includes an electrode laminate formed in such a manner that a plurality of unit structures are stacked, each of which includes and least one electrode and at least one separation layer; and at le... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100327200 | Water Tight Valve Having Sealed Flying Leads A water tight valve with sealed flying leads is presented. The sealing is provided by an adhesive heat shrink collar that is affixed to the insulation of the flying leads. An overmolding is used to provide further protection of the terminal/wire contact interface and to... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100322776 | Method for Manufacturing Braided Preforms The present invention relates to an automatic method for manufacturing a stator or rotor blade preform for a turbine engine, comprising at least the following successive steps:
| 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322763 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VANES INTEGRATED INTO A RING AND RECTIFIER BY THE METHOD The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a turbomachine rectifier comprising an outer ring (5) and a plurality of stator vanes (2), said vanes comprising a platform (9) and a blade (12), wherein said method comprises at lea... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100319187 | Manufacturing Method of Stacked Electrodes By Winding Type Electrode Stacking and Stacked Electrode Thereby The present invention relates to a electrode stacking method, wherein electrodes are stacked in such a manner that the electrodes are disposed to face each other on both sides of a separation layer to which predetermined tension force is applied along the longitudinal d... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100316829 | Weld Seam For Ground Coating The invention relates to a heat-fusible weld seam for joining ground coating members, comprising a copolymer selected from the group of polymers containing acrylic acid, methacrylic acid or maleic anhydride, a polyethylene and a copolyamide.... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100314278 | Tamper-Evident Push-Through Packaging The present invention relates to a tamper-evident push-through packaging secured against fraudulent reuse comprising: —a polymer base web (1) comprising at least one pocket; —a multilayer lidding film (2) covering said pocket, said multilayer lidding f... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100314003 | Hinge And Strike Plate Mortise Kit A kit for forming mortises in door edges and door frames for flush-mounting door hinges, strike plates and latch plates is provided. The kit generally includes a template holder and a plurality of templates mountable to the template holder. The templates provide guides ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100313760 | MEMBRANE-FREE FILTER AND/OR INTEGRAL FRAMING FOR FILTER A filter for an electronics cooling unit of a telecommunications base station, the electronics cooling unit adapted to receive fresh air into a housing of the cooling unit through an opening communicating with the external environment. The filter includes a structural s... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100313757 | AIR COOLING SYSTEM INCORPORATING MEMBRANE-FREE FILTER AND/OR INTEGRAL FRAMING FOR FILTER A filter for an electronics cooling unit of a telecommunications base station, the electronics cooling unit adapted to receive fresh air into a housing of the cooling unit through an opening communicating with the external environment. The filter includes a structural s... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100300609 | METHOD TO PRODUCE A SURFACE COVERING The present invention relates to a method to produce a polymeric sheet comprising the steps of providing an acid-based polymer, providing a neutralizing agent, the neutralizing agent being selected from the group consisting of an organic metallic compound, a metallic sa... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100294325 | Metallic Layer-by-Layer Photonic Crystals for Linearly-Polarized Thermal Emission and Thermophotovoltaic Device Including Same Metallic thermal emitters consisting of two layers of differently structured nickel gratings on a homogeneous nickel layer are fabricated by soft lithography and studied for polarized thermal radiation. A thermal emitter in combination with a sub-wavelength grating show... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100290852 | Cutting Machine for Gears, Splines, & Other Shapes A cutting machine for gear shaping or the like is provided. The cutting machine includes a gear shaping head. The gear shaping head has a ram that is guided by and reciprocates along a linear guide mounted between a saddle of the gear shaping head and the ram. At least ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100285172 | Metered Conveyor Feed System For Gum Components Methods and apparatuses are provided for conveying gum components and for making chewing gum compositions, by conveying a substantially horizontally stratified flow of two or more gum components along a conveying path. Once the horizontally stratified flow of gum compon... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100282652 | FILTER END CAP ASSEMBLY WITH BYPASS VALVE A filter assembly, filter element and methods are provided. The filter assembly includes a filter base in which a filter element is mounted. The filter element includes a bypass valve carried by the filter element that operates independent of and free of interaction wit... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100279841 | Multi-Path Interfolding Apparatus and Method An interfolding apparatus and method, utilize, first and second sheet-cutting-and-overlapping arrangements and an interfolding arrangement simultaneously mounted and operatively interconnected in a common frame, for alternatively selectively forming a first or a second ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100274024 | A Compound Absorbing Sunlight And Converting The Sunlight Into Electrical Energy, And Method For Manufacturing The Same A compound for absorbing sunlight and converting the sunlight into electrical energy, which is formed by coupling a fullerene with at least one or more triarylamine derivatives. The fullerene is selected from among those having carbon numbers C60, C70 10/28/2010 | |
| 20100270301 | PLASTIC SPICE CONTAINER AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING SAME A spice container and method of making same is provided. The spice container includes a plastic container body and a plastic lid ultrasonically welded to an open end of the container body. The method of making the spice container includes molding the container body from... | 10/28/2010 |
