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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110045217 | DUNNAGE CONVERSION MACHINE WITH TRANSLATING GRIPPERS, AND METHOD AND PRODUCT A dunnage conversion machine for converting stock material into a dunnage product includes a forming assembly and a pulling assembly. The pulling assembly includes at least two grippers movable together through a transfer region in opposition to one another and cooperat... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044889 | DOPED HYDROGEN STORAGE MATERIAL The present invention relates to a doped hydrogen storage material according to the general formula: MgxByMzHn wherein: (i) the ratio of x/y is in the range of from 0.15 to 1.5; (ii) z is in the range of from 0.005 to 0.35; (i... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044341 | METHOD FOR DATA PACKET CLASSIFICATION IN A DATA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK The present invention pertains to a method for performing specific data forwarding actions depending on the nature of data traffic comprising data packets, which method comprises the steps of: —receiving incoming data traffic of a specific nature, belonging to at leas... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042988 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RADIANT HEATING AND COOLING FOR VEHICLES The passenger compartment of a vehicle, e.g., an automobile or other automotive vehicle, train, aircraft or watercraft, is heated or cooled using radiant heating or radiant cooling. As another option the automobile or other vehicle is heated using a low velocity blower.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042648 | RECONFIGURABLE LOGIC DEVICE USING SPIN ACCUMULATION AND DIFFUSION A logic device includes: a substrate having a channel layer; two input terminal patterns of ferromagnetic material formed on the substrate and spaced apart from each other along a longitudinal direction of the channel layer so as to serve as the input terminals of a log... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041716 | WORKPIECE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD A workpiece processing system and method, the workpiece processing system comprising at least one workpiece processing module (3), each workpiece processing module comprising: a workpiece processing unit (11) for processing workpieces (W); and a feed unit ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041464 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEALING PACKING CONTAINERS A method for clearing stalled containers in a taping or other container sealer includes the steps of (i) conveying a container to a sealing station, (ii) sealing the container with a sealer at the sealing station as the container travels through the sealing station, (ii... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041416 | RAINWATER DIVERTER Rainwater diverter comprises a base member and a sleeve member. The base member includes a tubular conduit having an upper end and a lower end sized to closely fit within an upper end of a lower downspout section. Surrounding the tubular conduit is a fluid chamber havin... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041278 | WIPER BLADE HOLDER FOR USE IN A SCREEN PRINTING MACHINE AND WIPER BLADE THEREFOR A wiper blade holder for holding a wiper blade (103) for use in a screen printing machine and a wiper blade therefor, the wiper blade holder comprising: a body unit (101) comprising a body member (107) which includes a mounting surface (123) ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041227 | PROTECTIVE GEAR Protection for a body part of a user, such as a leg protection for a football player, comprising a stiff protective plate with a shape being adapted to the body part. This protective plate, which preferably is fiber reinforced, displays an outer surface arranged to be t... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110039509 | WIRELESS RECEIVER A wireless receiver designed to conform to the standard IEEE 802.15.4. The receiver comprises an analog front-end and a digital decoder. The analog components of the front end include one or more amplifiers and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The digital decoder r... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110036234 | PROTECTION ARMOR The present invention relates to improved protection armor for providing protection against high impact projectiles, said armor having improved resistance at a reduced overall weight. The invention further relates to methods of producing such armor and to objects protec... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035956 | TREATMENT OF ORGANIC MATTER A method for treatment of organic matter, and inorganic matter that has been biologically contaminated, such as human cadavers, animal carcasses and clinical waste, to prepare the matter for burial or other disposal is disclosed. The method involves freeze-drying the si... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110034311 | TOP-FILLING DUNNAGE CONVERSION MACHINE AND METHOD A dunnage conversion machine (10) and method for providing strips of dunnage that better fill a void in a container are characterized by means (24) for separately guiding at least two sheets of stock material (14 and 16) to respective lateral... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034110 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MARRING FIBER OPTIC SUBSTRATES Methods and systems for marring fiber optic substrates may include rollers with abrasive surfaces that press lengths of the substrates against elongated supports, which may be tapered, during relative lengthwise movement between the rollers and supports; abrasive sheets... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032597 | ELECTRIC FIELD POLING OF FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS A method of inducing a periodic variation of nonlinearity value in a sample of ferroelectric material comprises arranging a pair of electrodes on opposite faces of the sample, one electrode defining a desired pattern of nonlinearity variation, applying a pre-bias voltag... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110030235 | METHOD FOR CONTINUOUSLY DRYING BULK GOODS, IN PARTICULAR WOOD FIBERS AND/OR WOOD CHIPS The invention proposes a method for drying bulk goods, in particular wood fibers and/or wood chips, wherein the bulk goods is continuously dried in a dryer (1), in particular a drum dryer. The vapor-gas mixture flows through the drum dryer (1) in a dryer c... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029423 | SECURITIES MARKET AND MARKET MAKER ACTIVITY TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD A method, system and computer program to monitor securities market activity to seek out imbalances in market activity that could lead to a price change in a particular security. Level 1 and/or level 2 data is analyzed to track the activity of market makers and to derive... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025351 | COMBINED ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL SENSOR FOR FLUIDS The present invention relates to a sensor for the detection of an analyte, comprising a fluid holder (8), an optical detection system (3, 9) for carrying out an optical detection at the fluid holder (8) and an electrical detection system (4) ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110024026 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN IMPROVED HULL The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a hull for vessels, containers or equivalents. The method comprises the steps: preparing an elastic or viscoelastic glue through mixing of at least two components; monitoring and/or controlling the mixing for d... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110022771 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ALARM NOTIFICATIONS ON AN ON-SCREEN DISPLAY A Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) switch that includes one or more input ports to receive events, notifications and/or alarms generated by an external device. The KVM switch receives the events, notification and/or alarms in the form of an external signal. The KVM switch p... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022650 | DIGITAL OPTIMAL FILTER FOR PERIODICALLY ALTERNATING SIGNALS A digital optimal filter having an especially sinusoidal pulse response uses a filter structure with a recursive and a transversal portion. The transversal portion comprises filter coefficients for the representation of scan results of half a period of the sinusoidal pu... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110021340 | REFRACTORY The disclosed invention relates to a refractory made from an as-batched composition comprising alumina, a rare earth oxide, and optionally an oxide of a transition metal comprising Sc, Zn, Ga, Y, Cd, In, Sn, Tl or a mixture of two or more thereof, the refractory being c... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018525 | AUTONOMOUS SYRINGE AND GRID SYSTEMS A syringe and grid interface (10) provides for improved wear and performance characteristics by providing compliant contacts on the grid. Also disclosed is a grid (1) design that can provide continuous electrical contact between the grid and a syringe as t... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018482 | TWIN MOTOR ACTUATOR A twin motor actuator includes a pair of motor controllers for controlling respective motors according to commands received by each motor controller, and a communication link for communicating the commands received by each motor controller to the other motor controller.... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110017495 | METHOD FOR PREPARING A PATTERNED ELECTRIC CIRCUIT The invention provides a method for preparing a pattern for an electric circuit comprising the steps of: (a) providing a substrate; (b) providing a pattern of an inhibiting material for an electrical circuit onto said substrate by i) applying a layer of the inhibiting m... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110016833 | PACKAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH CONTROLLED DUNNAGE DISPENSING A packaging method includes the steps of (a) detecting whether a height (104) of contents (105) in a container (106) exceeds a predetermined height (112), and (b) indicating how much dunnage to dispense based on predetermined criteria, includ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110016139 | PRINT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTER A print apparatus includes a non-volatile memory retaining stored content even when power is not supplied to the print apparatus, the non-volatile memory having areas for a plurality of data, key codes specifying each of the plurality of data, and the amounts each indic... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110014281 | DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR ADMINISTRATION OF POORLY WATER SOLUBLE PHARMACEUTICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES This invention relates to a drug delivery system for administration of poorly water soluble pharmaceutically active substance, a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a drug delivery system, and a method for the preparation of such a drug delivery system. The inven... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012901 | METHOD, COMPUTER GRAPHICS IMAGE RENDERING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE DATA STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTING OF INDIRECT ILLUMINATION IN A COMPUTER GRAPHICS IMAGE OF A SCENE Method for real-time computing of indirect illumination in a computer graphics image of a scene, comprising: defining a light propagation volume as a three-dimensional grid consisting of a plurality of grid cells; allocating a plurality of secondary light sources to gri... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110005221 | HYDRAULIC PRESSURE SUPPLY UNIT FOR A POWER SCREWDRIVER The pressure supply unit has a pressure generating aggregate (10), which generates a supply pressure (PL) for the intermittent operation of a power screwdriver (11). So as to allow also a tensioning cylinder unit (33) to be operated alternatively to... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110004928 | PASSWORD INPUT SYSTEM USING ALPHANUMERIC MATRICES AND PASSWORD INPUT METHOD USING THE SAME The present invention relates to a password input algorithm, more particularly to a password input system and method using alphanumeric matrices. An aspect of the invention can provide a password input system and method using alphanumeric matrices that can defend agains... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110004769 | PASSWORD INPUT SYSTEM USING AN ALPHANUMERIC MATRIX AND PASSWORD INPUT METHOD USING THE SAME The present invention relates to a password input algorithm, more particularly to a password input system and method using an alphanumeric matrix. An aspect of the invention can provide a password input system and method that can defend against keylogging attacks and sh... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110003984 | BISPIDON LIGANDS AND THE METAL COMPLEXES THEREOF The present invention relates to novel bispidon ligands, a method for the production thereof, and the use thereof as a ligand in metal complexes and the selective separation of metals, metal complexes comprising said ligands, method for the production thereof, and the u... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002902 | INHIBITOR FOR BLOOD PHOSPHORUS LEVEL ELEVATION The present invention provides an inhibitor for blood phosphorus level elevation comprising a lactic acid bacterium as an active ingredient. The inhibitor for blood phosphorus level elevation of the present invention is highly safe, is readily administerable, and can su... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110001157 | LIGHT EMITTING MODULE WITH OPTICALLY-TRANSPARENT THERMALLY-CONDUCTIVE ELEMENT A light emitting module with improved optical functionality and reduced thermal resistance is described, which comprises a light emitting device (LED), a wavelength converting (WC) element and an inorganic optically-transmissive thermally-conductive (OTTC) element. The ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100329864 | PLACEMENT OF STRAIN SENSORS IN WIND TURBINE BLADE A method of monitoring strain on a wind turbine blade that has several structural components comprises locating at least three strain sensors (2a, 2b, 2c) on one of the structural components of the turbine blade, the positions o... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100326021 | MANUALLY-ASSISTED VOID-FILL DUNNAGE DISPENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD A packaging system 100 includes a controller 102, an input device 104 in communication with the controller 102 that identifies one or more characteristics of the container, and a manual input device 106 in communication with the contro... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325937 | FISHING APPARATUS A bait assembly for fishing, e.g. leisure fishing, is described. The bait assembly comprises a hook coupled to a rearward end of a line. A bait body is slideably or detachably mounted with respect to the line so that in normal use a flexible section of the line extends ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100324510 | DEVICE FOR TREATMENT OF WOUNDS WITH REDUCED PRESSURE Device for treating wounds with reduced pressure. The device comprises a sealing film, which is placed sealingly around the wound to cover the latter, an underpressure source, as well as a tube, which connects a space over the wound and beneath the sealing film to the u... | 12/23/2010 |
