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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090285486 | Method for identifying postal mailings A method for identifying postal mailings includes registering the mailings by means of at least one recognizable pictorial feature and at least one external information item, or both. Further, the method includes carrying out recognition of the pictorial feature to iden... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090285352 | Readout Chip for Single Photon Counting A readout chip for single photon counting has a plurality of N individually working channels each assigned to a respective detector diode. Each channel has a counter designed as a binary counter having a length of M bits and a number of programmable bits. Further, the r... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090252415 | Method for retrieving text blocks in documents To classify text blocks in printed material which is part of bulk postal items structure-related characteristics of one of the text blocks of a postal item are extracted, wherein the characteristics are characterized by graphical properties of the overall text block. Th... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090213751 | Optimum Selection of a Communication Network in the Location Area of a Terminal In a method of selecting a communication network and connecting a mobile station into a communication network in a coverage area of which it is located, a mobile station is temporarily connected to a network unit of a first communication network, and sends a request rel... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090189332 | Separating Distance for Overlapping Flat Parcels in a Vertical Position An apparatus for separating overlapping parcels in a vertical position has separating sections arranged along a transport path immediately behind one another, and a drive controller for the separating sections. Drives of those separating sections, in which the most adva... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090165522 | Method of Managing Cylinders in a Rolling Facility and Installation for Implementing Same In a method to replace a pair of rolls of a rolling mill stand during a downtime period, worn rolls fitted with chocks are extracted from the mill stand and positioned on means of displacement that bear a pair of new rolls without chocks. The method sets the means of di... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090161910 | Method and Device for Reading Addresses of Mail Items In a method of reading addresses of mail items, images of mail item surfaces are recorded, and subjected to video encoding at video encoding stations of a video encoding facility. Distributing corresponding encoding tasks to the video encoding stations occurs in a job d... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090160279 | Magnetic Levitation System A magnetic levitation system for supporting an object against gravity by a supporting force includes a permanent-magnet dipole aligned in a vertical position and coupled to the object, a supporting-field generator and a stabilization system. The supporting-field generat... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090136007 | Emergency Call System Between a Telecommunication Device and an Emergency Call Center For implementing an emergency call system between a telecommunication device and an emergency call center, the telecommunication device includes a log-in and log-out state via a switchable log-in function at a VoIP telecommunication service provider via an IP infrastruc... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090134548 | Method for Producing a Signal Plate and Traffic Signal With Such a Signal Plate To produce a signal plate for a railway signal, a casting mold corresponding to an external form of the signal plate is provided. At least one luminous point is inserted into the casting mold, and the casting mold is filled with a free-flowing curable plastic to create ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090133885 | Propulsion device for an agent contained in a cavity A propulsion device for an agent, such as an extinguishing or cooling agent, contained in a cavity has at least a cap and a port configured to open above a calibrated pressure inside the cavity. A pressure generator is fastened to the cap and triggers the propulsion of ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090127202 | Fast Reduction of Iodine Species to Iodide In a method for a retention of iodine species which are comprised in an aqueous solution a nucleophilic agent or a mixture of a plurality of nucleophilic agents is added to the aqueous solution. Further, a soluble ion-exchanger agent or a mixture of a plurality of solub... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090126274 | Process for Generating Methane and/or Methane Hydrate From Biomass To generate methane from biomass, a biomass pulp is produced from the biomass with a desired dry mass content being set, and the biomass pulp is placed under pressure. The biomass pulp is heated under pressure in order to liquefy the solid organic components of the biom... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090121829 | Method, Electronic Cover, and Access Unit for Providing Access to a Zone by Means of a Card An access system includes a portable pouch and an access unit. The pouch has an inserted electronic card, a card receive module and a send/receive module. The access unit is assigned to a transit region of the zone and has a send/receive unit for a communication with th... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090103519 | Method and Computer Product for Switching Subsequent Messages With Higher Priority Than Invite Messages in a Softswitch A method for switching invite messages and subsequent messages in a softswitch directing the invite messages to a first list, and the subsequent messages to a second list. The method processes the subsequent messages of the second list with a higher priority than the me... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090092227 | Interferometer for quantitative phase contrast imaging and tomography with an incoherent polychromatic x-ray source An interferometer for X-rays, in particular hard X-rays, for obtaining quantitative phase contrast images, includes a standard polychromatic X-ray source, a diffractive optical beam splitter other than a Bragg crystal in transmission geometry, and a position-sensitive d... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090091148 | Chip card receiving device comprising a carriage for holding a chip card A chip-card-receiving device has a carriage for holding a chip card, means for fixing and releasing a chip card, and a clamping element. The carriage is displaceably mounted between an insertion/removal position and a reading/writing position on a carrier. The clamping ... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090088139 | Method, network unit and system for providing subscriber information of a group call to an interception unit To provide at least one piece of subscriber information regarding at least one group call to an interception unit from a network unit by way of a communication network, the network unit receives at least one piece of subscriber information regarding at least one group c... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090063700 | Communication system between a vehicle network and a wayside network A system for communications between a vehicle network and a wayside network includes a router in the vehicle network configured to manage routing of data over one of at least two clients, and a radio-frequency based communication network for providing a connection betwe... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090060698 | Pile Transfer Device and Method In a mail processing system, a support element has a flat floor with elements spaced from each other so that a comb-type or fork-type structure is produced, wherein the elements have front section extending upwards. A first transport device has a number of bands equippe... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090053611 | Method for Preparing a Membrane to Be Assembled in a Membrane Electrode Assembly and Membrane Electrode Assembly A membrane electrode assembly includes a cathode layer, an anode layer, and a polymer electrolyte sandwiched between the cathode layer and the anode layer. The polymer electrolyte layer is a polymer film having a plurality of sections. The sections are radiation grafted... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090050541 | Post Processing System and Method An apparatus for arranging flat mail items into a sequence of delivery points has a singling device having a device for determining address information located on the mail items. A temporary storage device has pouches that open downward and are connected to a circulatin... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090045105 | Method and facility for transporting bulk consignments A method for transporting a set of items includes predetermining a destination point for each item of the set and for each further item which passes through the sorting system, generating for each item a current image of the item from a predetermined viewing direction, ... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090008863 | Device for the Withdrawal of Individual Flat Mail From a Thinning Section A device for withdrawing flat items of mail from a decollating section includes conveyor belts, and guide rollers. The conveyor belts extend around guide rollers and act unilaterally upon upright items of mail. The guide rollers are individually mounted, and, at an exit... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090012645 | Mail Processing System and Method of Loading Articles with Reduced Speed A mail processing system has an infeed line coupled to receive a first article from a feeder. A loading device is coupled to receive the first article from the infeed line at a first speed, and a transfer unit is coupled to receive the first article from the loading dev... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090006504 | Method and file system In order to face fragmentation, a method for storing and organizing files on a storage medium via a file system reserves on the storage medium a non-fragmented segment for taking up a file by storing within the file system an identification of an address range of the se... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20090006339 | Programmer interface for manufacturing execution system In order to accelerate the analysis of the structure of a data source of the manufacturing execution system a programmer interface for analyzing a data source of a manufacturing execution system includes a query browser having query building means for generating a query... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20090005895 | Method to imporove the performance of a distrubuted scheduler To improve the performance of a distributed scheduler for a manufacturing process comprising activities including a production resource management, a production definition management, and a detailed production scheduling, a method provides a decision and prediction func... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080318089 | Fast Locally Resolved Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells A fuel cell, such as a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, includes an anode reactant supply plate, an anode current collector, a cathode reactant supply plate, and a cathode current collector. At least one of the anode reactant supply plate, the cathode reactant supply plat... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080319574 | Method and device for transporting objects to distribution points An apparatus for controlling transportation of objects provided with machine-readable codes to specified distribution points by means of a transport vehicle includes a reading device and a determination unit. The transport vehicle has a rack module for accommodating the... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080314411 | Reactor for Direct Utilization of External Radiation Heat for Thermal or Thermochemical Material Processes A reactor for direct utilization of external radiation heat includes a containment can having a longitudinal axis, an external driving mechanism for controllable rotating the containment can and a cavity having a cylindrical shape. The cavity is partially lined with an ... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080317023 | Method and Device for the Configuration of New and Modified Services in a Switching Unit of an Ip Multimedia Subsystem A switching unit in an IP multimedia subsystem includes at least one operator service list. A new service and/or a modification in an existing service is configurable in the at least one operator service list by means of an administration unit. The services configured i... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080294377 | Method for Automatic Detection of Operational Performance Data of Reading Systems To detect operational performance data of reading systems images of the delivery surfaces featuring the delivery addresses are stored together with associated reading results. Relevant delivery address the images stored in the performance data memory under the respectiv... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080291907 | Data-Transmission Device and Method for Transmitting Data with a Reduced Outage Risk The invention relates to a data transmission device having a number of N uplink interfaces (E1, UP) that can be directed via a processing line (A, B) provided with a data processing component (T, LIC) to a starting element (F). The invention is characterized in that a f... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080294279 | System and method for handling a production disturbance/opportunity event in a production execution system A system for handling a production disturbance/opportunity event includes a network having data processing units running a MES software for controlling/monitoring a production process operating production components. A production modeler defines a plant model of the pro... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080285456 | Method for Selective Load Compensation A method for distributing a traffic load on several ports of a switch involves reading traffic information from the switch, and passing the read traffic information to a processor. The processor executes an algorithm that initiates a precise examination of criteria of t... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080279670 | Method For Depositing a Freely Moving, Flat Object In a method for depositing a flat object dropping freely into a lower compartment, a wall of the compartment at an angle in relation to a vertical is used as a flat deposit point for a flat side of the flat object. During passage of the flat object into the lower compar... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281503 | Regulator Device for Compensating for Dispersions of Injectors Injectors each having a piezo actuator are assigned to cylinders of an internal combustion engine. A regulator device is configured for furnishing a cylinder-specific controlled variable and a command variable to a controller whose primary manipulated variable is a vari... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080264835 | Method for Sorting Unaddressed Mail Items In a method for sorting mail items which are unaddressed and held in a number of batches each batch is obtained and registered by recording at least one graphical feature of a mail item which uniquely describes the batch (i.e. clearly identifies the batch from other bat... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080260506 | Device for unloading a container A device for unloading a container having a removal opening has a rotatably mounted supporting surface mounted to turn around a first turning axis, a rotatably mounted retaining means, and a synchronizing means. The unloading device causes a container on the supporting ... | 10/23/2008 |
