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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110045927 | Preformed Lacrosse Pocket and Packaging for Same A lacrosse product including a pocket for a lacrosse head. The lacrosse head includes a scoop, a throat, first and second sides, a front and a back. The pocket comprises a mesh material preformed to a desired shape so that when the pocket is placed on a stick, the locat... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045110 | Nutritional Compositions Containing Punicalagins The present invention relates generally to a nutritional composition comprising punicalagins.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043127 | LED ASSEMBLY AND CIRCUIT FOR USE IN FLUORESCENT LAMP FIXTURES An LED assembly has an AC voltage applied from a fluorescent lamp fixture via one or more power supply connectors belonging to a base which can be attached to the fluorescent lamp fixture, and the LED assembly includes a resistive circuit having impedance equivalent to ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042875 | WHEEL CLAMPING APPARATUS AND METHOD A wheel servicing machine provides a rotatable shaft having a retractable rod slidably disposed in a center bore of the rotatable shaft, wherein the retractable rod is longitudinally moveable relative to the shaft. A rotatable locking member is disposed on the distal en... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110040859 | Method for Assigning Addresses to a Plurality of Electronic Devices Connected to a Communication Channel A method is described for assigning addresses to a plurality of electronic devices connected to a shared communication channel, in which, upon being turned on, each device generates and assigns itself an address included in a set containing a number of addresses that is... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035004 | INTERFACED MEDICAL IMPLANT A medical implant assembly and method having a medical implant, e.g. a breast prostheses, affixed to a biological interface. The biological interface is comprised of a dermal material with capsular contracture inhibiting properties so that once the medical assembly is i... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110033599 | Process For Making An Alcoholic Gelled Food Product The present invention relates to an alcoholic gelled food product comprising; a gelling agent including at least one carrageenan, a thickening agent comprising sodium carboxyl methyl cellulose (CMC) and ethanol and methods for making such products.... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110028804 | Use of Heat Sensitive Color Changing Formula to Detect and Prevent the Onset of Decubitus Ulcers A method for diagnosing the onset of necrosis, decubiti, and/or decubitus ulcers in the skin of a patient. Included is a topical product accessed in liquid form and applied to the skin. The product displays thermochromic temperature change when the product comes into co... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110023759 | Blast Resistant Shelter A blast resistant shelter apparatus includes a framework having at least an upper metal rail. A plurality of metal panels each have a C-shaped cross-section defined by a central flat web and two channel arms on the opposite sides of the central flat web. The metal panel... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110020063 | Cutting Unit For Producing A Road Marking, And Road Marking The invention relates to a road marking having multiple depressions introduced into the road surface, the depressions comprising two lateral longitudinal walls, extending in the longitudinal direction of the road, that transition, proceeding from the road surface, conti... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018453 | HID LAMP BALLAST WITH MULTI-PHASE OPERATION BASED ON A DETECTED LAMP ILLUMINATION STATE An electronic ballast is provided for improved startup and powering of a high pressure discharge lamp. The ballast includes an inverter, a starting circuit for generating a high voltage to ignite the lamp, a controller for controlling an operating frequency of the inver... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110000405 | Portable Table Construction and Method for Making the same. Disclosed herein is a portable table having numerous favorable characteristics. The table comprises a tabletop, a column connection, and a column. The tabletop includes a core, a thickness, a perimeter section, and a bottom surface. The column connection is positioned w... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100329784 | Self-Propelled Road Construction Machine In an automotive road construction machine (1), with a working drum (6) for working a ground surface or traffic surface (3) mounted at a machine frame (4), a combustion engine (10) for driving the working drum (6), and a drive t... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100327856 | Security Device A security device for protecting stored sensitive data includes a closed housing including an array of conductor paths and tamper detecting means adapted to detect a change in impedance of the array of conductor paths above a predetermined threshold value.... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100320047 | Piece of Luggage In a piece of luggage, particularly a suitcase (1), comprising luggage parts which are connected to each other via a zipper (10), it is provided that the piece of luggage has a frame element (6), and that the frame element (6) on at least one... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100316619 | NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION WITH PREBIOTIC COMPONENT The present disclosure relates to nutritional compositions comprising a prebiotic component for inhibiting adherence of pathogens in the gastrointestinal tract of a subject and to the prebiotic component, which comprises galactooligosaccharide, polydextrose or any mixtu... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100314284 | Collapsible Container The invention relates to a collapsible container that presents the environmentally aware user with a reward on crushing. The invention further provides collapsible containers with a locking means to retain the container in a substantially crushed configuration.... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100295360 | Shank Chisel The invention relates to shank bit, in particular a road milling bit, having a carrier part (10) that comprises a shank (11), the shank (11) carrying a bit tip (18) made of hard material, the carrier part comprising, in the region between the... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100292643 | Autoinjector With Needle Depth Adapter An autoinjector useful for, inter alia, providing an injection of liquid medicament is uniquely capable of providing injections, utilizes a needle depth adapter to provide injection depths with a combination of accuracy and precision not heretofore seen. In addition, th... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100284980 | Nutritional Composition To Promote Healthy Development And Growth A nutritional formula which includes a lipid or fat; a protein source; about 5 to about 100 mg/100 kcal of a source of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids which comprises docosahexanoic acid; about 0.1 to about 1 mg/100 kcal of a prebiotic composition, wherein the pr... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100283325 | Delivery of Electric Power by Means of a Plurality of Parallel Inverters and Control Method Based on Maximum Power Point Tracking The system provides for one or more photovoltaic panels (3) or other energy sources, connected to a series of inverters (5) in parallel, the outputs of which are connected to a load (Z) and/or to an electricity distribution grid (7). One of the inve... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100282939 | Self-Correcting Conductor Positioning Bracket The invention relates generally to a bracket adaptable to mount upon a wall stud and resist displacement of the bracket in response to external forces, thereby maintaining one or more securely enclosed conductors at least a fixed distance from an installed sheet of dryw... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100276425 | Cap For A Port Of A Pressurized Container Or Conduit A system for sealing an access port of a pressurized container or conduit comprises a metallic cap 10 having a sealing surface 20 which forms a seal with a corresponding sealing surface 16 of a metallic access port assembly 2, when the surfac... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100275791 | Food Heating Arrangement A liquid distribution arrangement (11, 14, 32, 33, 38) is situated internally of a container (17, 31) for liquid and acts to raise the liquid held in the container (17, 31) to be distributed over a food heating zone from above. The arrangement defin... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100270949 | ELECTRONIC BALLAST WITH INPUT VOLTAGE FAULT CONTROL An electronic ballast includes circuitry to prevent a switch from being damaged in the case where an abnormality occurs in an output voltage of an input power supply. A DC power supply control circuit has a zero current detection circuit that, when a current through an ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100270938 | ELECTRONIC BALLAST FOR HID LAMPS WITH ACTIVE LAMP POWER CONTROL An electronic ballast includes a ballast control circuit controlling an inverter circuit to supply a rectangular wave AC power to a high-pressure discharge lamp. The ballast control circuit includes a load voltage detection circuit adapted to detect load voltages of bot... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100270932 | FAULT DETECTION AND SHUTDOWN CONTROL CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC BALLASTS An electronic ballast is capable of inhibiting ballast shutdown caused by erroneously determining a fault condition. The ballast includes a DC power supply circuit for outputting DC power, a power conversion circuit that appropriately converts DC power outputted by the ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100259195 | ELECTRONIC BALLAST FOR AN HID LAMP WITH LAMP RE-START CONTROL An electronic ballast for a high intensity discharge lamp includes a control circuit for switching between a first operation period to operate a starting voltage generating circuit to start the lamp and a second operation period to maintain a steady arc discharge after ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100257345 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPROGRAMMING APPLICATIONS IN EMBEDDED DEVICES A method for uploading and storing application code in a re-writable, non-volatile memory of an electronic device is carried out by means of a bootloader. The bootloader receives the application code transmitted by a master unit through a communication channel, writes a... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100252474 | Labels With Multiple Designs For Prescription Containers A system for labels that are positioned on a pharmaceutical container. The system can vary the choices for design and size of the labeling with respect to several types of container in which pharmaceuticals are positioned. The system increases the readability of informa... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100244716 | HIGH PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP BALLAST WITH ADAPTIVE FILAMENT HEATING CONTROL BASED ON LAMP AGE A high pressure discharge lamp ballast is provided with adaptive power control during a filament heating period. A starting circuit is coupled along with a high pressure discharge lamp to output terminals of a DC-AC power converter and generates a high voltage for diele... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100244544 | Ejector Unit For A Road Milling Machine Or The Like The invention relates to an ejector unit, in particular for a road milling machine, having an ejector that is replaceably mounted on a carrier. In one aspect the ejector is curved in a scoop-like fashion. In another aspect the ejector is reversible upon the carrier to a... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100237852 | Method for Determining the Phases in a Multi-Phase Electrical System and Device for The Implementation Thereof A method and device for determining the phases in a multi-phase electrical system includes detecting a first waveform on a phase of the multi-phase system In a first position of the multi-phase electrical system timed data is stored, synchronized with the first waveform... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100237794 | DISCHARGE LAMP BALLAST WITH FEEDBACK CURRENT CONTROL DURING AN ELECTRODE HEATING OPERATION A discharge lamp ballast is provided with a feedback control operation to provide optimal lamp current flow during an electrode heating operation. A startup circuit coupled together with a discharge lamp between output terminals of a DC-AC power converter having a plura... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100237793 | ELECTRONIC BALLAST WITH FEEDBACK CURRENT CONTROL FOR PREHEATING OF LAMP FILAMENTS A discharge lamp ballast is provided for powering a discharge lamp with feedback filament heating control. A startup circuit is coupled between output terminals of a DC-AC power converter together with a discharge lamp. A lamp current detection circuit and a lamp voltag... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100237691 | Road Construction Machine, Crawler Track Unit Of A Road Construction Machine, As Well As Method For Tensioning A Chain Of A Crawler Track Unit In a road construction machine, in particular a road milling machine (1), with a machine frame (2), and a chassis (4) with preferably several crawler track units (6), said chassis (4) carrying the machine frame (2), where the cr... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100237681 | Mining Machine, In Particular Surface Miner, As Well As Method For The Removal And Installation Of A Transport Device In A Mining Machine In a mining machine (1) for the processing of a ground (3), in particular surface miner, with a machine frame (2), a cutting drum (4) mounted in the machine frame (2), a first transport device (6), which accepts mining material ... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100231138 | LED POWER-SOURCE CIRCUIT AND ILLUMINATION FIXTURE USING THE SAME An LED power-source circuit includes an input filter circuit including noise prevention capacitors and a line filter, a diode bridge connected to the input filter circuit, a smoothing capacitor connected to an output of the diode bridge and having a capacitance of 1 μF... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100225241 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A COLOR TEMPERATURE OF IRRADIATED LIGHT An illumination device is provided for controlling a color temperature of light irradiated from a light source having a plurality of light-emitting elements of different light colors. A control setting module provides a control signal associated with a desired color tem... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100215765 | Antimicrobial Composition and a Method of Controlling Contamination and Infection Using Said Composition An antimicrobial composition having the empirical formula of C10H16N6O9.... | 08/26/2010 |
