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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070255930 | Processing a Data Word in a Plurality of Processing Cycles The invention relates to a processing of a data word in a plurality of processing cycles. In order to improve the efficiency of the processing, the data word is divided for each cycle into a plurality of successive data blocks. The blocks are shifted by one block from o... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070254271 | Method, apparatus and software for play list selection in digital music players An apparatus, method, and software product are used to sense a repetitive motion, such as walking, running, or tapping. Thus, a rate of the repetitive motion is determined. A piece of music is then selected in response to the determined rate, and the piece of music is p... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070252673 | High precision voltage measuring passive network A voltage divider for high precision voltage measurement has one or more pair of potentiometers. The wipers of each pair of potentiometers are ganged so that the sum of their resistances relative to a first end of the respective potentiometer is a constant. An output po... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070253476 | Reduced Complexity Frequency Domain Equalization of Multiple Input Multiple Output Channels A method for equalizing a frequency-selective transmission channel (103) with N inputs and MR outputs is shown, the transmission channel representable in a transformation domain based on N orthogonal sub-carriers, and wherein the transmission character... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070254588 | Supporting use of connection via electrical interface An accessory device 300 includes a wireless communication interface 320 and an electrical interface 310. In order to hide a wireless communication protocol used for data received via the wireless communication interface 320 from a device 1... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070251950 | Dispenser and Counter The dispenser has a body (1), with a mouthpiece cover (2). Opening of the cover urges a junction member (3) towards a source (4) of a medicament to be released as a dose by pressing a spout (5) of the source inwards of the source. The ... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070254129 | Reusable storage patch The present invention relates to a reusable storage patch that includes a storage device with at least one compartment, and a plurality of adhesive layers coupled to the storage device. Each adhesive layer of the plurality of adhesive layers may be reusably affixable to... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070253282 | Mixer apparatus Apparatus and an associated method is disclosed for mixing material in a container in response to an applied rotational force at one end of a shaft protruding through an aperture in a skirted lid placed over the open end of the container imparting a rotating motion to a... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070247216 | Adaptive Voltage Adjustment A method, system, module, apparatus, use, and computer program product are shown for determining a supply voltage level for operating an integrated circuit. To allow exact voltage level calibration, a high load condition is provided to the integrated circuit, a first vo... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070248342 | Image quality in cameras using flash The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for using a flash light with, e.g., light-emitting diodes (LEDs) or other light sources of a camera of an electronic device for improving quality of images provided by the camera. The fl... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070248260 | Supporting a 3D presentation For supporting a three-dimensional presentation on a display, which presentation combines at least a first available image and a second available image, differences between a first calibration image and a second calibration image are detected. At least one of a first av... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070247438 | Sensor arrangement A sensor arrangement for an electronic device with user input means comprises a sensor. The sensor is adapted to generate an electric field in an area of the user input means and to enable a detection of a change in the electric field. The sensor arrangement further com... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070246336 | Illuminating of an electrical device Present invention enables to illuminate an artwork or alphanumerics of related key(s) of an electrical device from above with illumination module situated in the vicinity of the artwork or alphanumerics. Present invention also enables the use of opaque material in the k... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070245056 | Processor Component A chip arrangement comprising a first chip having at least one first signal interface with first coupling elements arranged along a first line in a first number density and at least one second chip with at least one second signal interface with second coupling elements ... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070242374 | Kit for extending a holder of a side mirror mounted to a vehicle A mirror extension kit providing a mirror extension bracket (10) for holding a mirror structure (31) to the side of a vehicle (41) at various possible lengths from the vehicle. ... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070241705 | METHOD & ARRANGEMENT FOR SENSORLESS OPERATION OF AN ELECTRONICALLY COMMUTATED MOTOR An improved electric motor has a rotor (124), a stator (125) having at least one phase winding strand (126), an output stage (122) for influencing the current flow in said phase winding strand, a DC link circuit (170) for supplying the... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070242233 | Relating to image projecting A projector screen is shown comprising one or more markers arranged to be used by projection processing circuitry to calculate a user perceived distortion in an image to be projected on the projector screen. A related method, computer program and projection processing c... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070242949 | Actuator mechanism and a shutter mechanism In one example, an actuator mechanism comprising: one or more coils for establishing a magnetic field; a rotating permanent magnet, which has at least one extreme position depending on the magnetic field; and driving members, which are coupled to the permanent magnet an... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070241021 | Thermoformed cover for electronic device and method for forming A thermoformed cover and related method for forming the thermoformed cover for an electronic device including at least one body element is made from a thermoplastic sheet having characteristics and properties to accommodate the mechanical requirements of the cover for t... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070241946 | Circuit and apparatus for reducing interference of digital signals A circuit for rounding the edges of a digital pulse so as to reduce interference has a first rounding block, a second rounding block and an output stage. The first rounding block rounds the second and fourth pulse edges so as to prolong rising and falling time of the di... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070242009 | Liquid crystal display with sub-pixel structure A liquid-crystal display wherein each color sub-pixel is divided into at least a first region and a second region, each region having a pair of electrodes and a storage capacitor. The lower electrode in each region is connected to the same gate line via a different TFT.... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070235469 | Dispenser and Reservoir A dispenser (1) has a source (2) of medicament with a transparent reservoir (3) of glass sheathed in a transparent plastics material shrink wrapping (4), which provides an enclosure against explosion of the glass in the event of accidental br... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070238437 | Delayed host wakeup for wireless communications device A new and unique method or apparatus for power savings in a node, point, terminal or device in a wireless local area network (WLAN), or other suitable network, featuring one or more steps for delaying forwarding one or more data packets from a WLAN chipset to a host pro... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070237098 | Classified Media Quality of Experience A method for reporting a streaming quality is shown, wherein at least one continuous media stream is streamed to a client (601), and wherein said streaming is controlled by a protocol (109) that is operated between said client (601) and a server ( 10/11/2007 | |
| 20070239462 | Spectral parameter substitution for the frame error concealment in a speech decoder A method for use by a speech decoder in handling bad frames received over a communications channel a method in which the effects of bad frames are concealed by replacing the values of the spectral parameters of the bad frames (a bad frame being either a corrupted frame ... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070237423 | Constructing image panorama using frame selection The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for constructing by an electronic device an image panorama from a plurality of images based on their visual quality. The same portion of a panoramic image scene is typically capt... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070234521 | Double-axis hinge for use in electronic devices A hinge has two hinge arms for rotatably mounting a lower part of an electronic device of a clamshell design at a first rotational axis and for rotatably mounting an upper part of the electronic device at a second rotational axis. When the angle between the lower and se... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070236975 | Method and apparatus for balancing energy between portable devices A method comprises the steps of determining values of one or more parameters of a first energy reservoir in a first device and corresponding parameters of a second energy reservoir in a second device, and setting a direction for transferring energy between the first ene... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070238462 | HARQ-aware CQI reporting The invention provides a method or system where the UE sends the CQI to the base station (Node B) based on whether a HARQ retransmission is expected. For example, if a HARQ retransmission is expected, then the UE can reduce the CQI information to sending less (or no) bi... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070237126 | Generic Service Request Procedure in a Multimode System Generic service request signalling is defined where a multimode terminal is allowed to request any service that it supports in any of the modes (e.g., access technology like GERAN/UTRAN/CDMA2000/BlueTooth/WLAN/. . . ) supported by the terminal. The network may then deci... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070237258 | Measurement method and arrangement for amplitude and phase synchronization in a polar transmitter A method and arrangement is shown for measuring an indicator of delay mismatch between a phase information path and an amplitude information path of a polar modulator. In the solution according to the invention a substantially sinusoidal measurement signal (301, 302<... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070240188 | Datacasting A datacast operator's main page (36) is transmitted to receivers. The datacast operator's main page (36) may include links to services and include information specific to the datacast operator and the network area it serves. ... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070236962 | Method and Circuit Arrangement for Optimising Maximum Current Limitation in the Primary Switch of a Switched Mode Power Supply, and a Power Supply A power supply converts an input voltage to an output voltage. A primary cur-rent path comprises a primary coil (105, 601), a primary switch (104, T1) and a resistive path portion (109, 301, 302, 401, 402, 501, R4, T3, R15 | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070233280 | Automatic control system generation for robot design validation The specification and drawings present a new method, system and software product for and apparatus for generating a robotic validation system for a robot design. The robotic validation system for the robot design of a robotic system is automatically generated by convert... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070229844 | Method of and apparatus for measuring layer thicknesses and layer homogeneities in containers The invention concerns a method of measuring layer thicknesses and layer homogeneities in transparent, internally lubricant- and water-repulsion-coated containers, wherein a lens (2) focuses polychromatic light on to the internal coating (1B) of the contai... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070229456 | Dual mode input device When the user depresses a freely rotating input device, it engages a spring-cantering mechanism and enables the user to move the pointer quickly with a velocity control pointing method. The spring-centering provides the user haptic feedback of the pointer speed. When th... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070226893 | Flange fitting for bathtubs and spas A fitting arrangement is provided for coupling to a tub or spa wall featuring a wall fitting for inserting through a mounting opening in the tub or spa wall and having one or more corresponding rotational locking members; and a jet body having one or more rotational loc... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070230418 | Triggering rule for energy efficient data delivery A new and unique method or apparatus for implementing an unscheduled automatic power save delivery (U-APSD) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) terminal, comprising maintaining a timer for defining a triggering interval between sending of subsequent trigger frames t... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070233337 | Semi-autonomous guidance system for a vehicle A system (and corresponding method) by which a number of trailing vehicles follows (more or less in line, one behind the other) a lead vehicle, and so forms a convoy, with each of the trailing vehicles receiving a guidance signal from the vehicle ahead of it in order to... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070232096 | Arrangement With a Contract Element A circuit board (20) is equipped with at least one conductor path (22) and a contact element (44). The latter is adapted to mechanically engage and electrically contact an electrical conductor (66). In the region of a conductor path (22 | 10/04/2007 |
