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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5538172 | Explosive powder charge operated setting tool An explosive powder charge operated setting tool contains a channel (7) located between an inner piston guide (2) for a piston (1) and an outer housing part (6). At the rear end of the tool, the channel (7) continues in a carrier (3) and can be in communi... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5537761 | Washing machine and method for controlling the drying process thereof A method for controlling the drying process of a vortex-type washing machine capable of accommodating a laundry article for drying therein comprises the steps of (A) heating an ambient air by a heater, (B) driving a motor in a forward direction, (C) drivi... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5539469 | Apparatus for determining motion vectors through the use of an adaptive median filtering technique An apparatus for determining motion vectors for pixels of a current frame which includes a number of processing blocks comprises a motion estimator for providing motion vectors for the pixels in the current frame, an edge detector for detecting edge posit... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5539421 | Planar antenna with helical antenna array and waveguide There is provided an improved planar antenna, for use in satellite communication, capable of providing higher aperture efficiency, improved circular polarization and increased production tolerability. The antenna comprises a waveguide and an array of M×N... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5538894 | Agent for stabilizing blood The present invention relates to an agent for stabilizing blood and comprises an aqueous solution of methacrolein and formaldehyde.... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5537169 | Projection-lens driving apparatus for a 3-beam projector The projection-lens driving apparatus for use in a 3-beam projector comprises an upper plate, an upper projection-lens holder, a pair of cross links, a pair of lower projection-lens holders, a guide member, and a driving means for driving the guide member... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5535957 | Reel table driving apparatus for a video cassette recorder A video cassette recorder is provided with a reel table driving apparatus for preventing slackness of a loaded magnetic tape in the switching of the operating mode, which comprises a pair of idlers disposed between a supply reel table and a take-up reel t... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537510 | Adaptive digital audio encoding apparatus and a bit allocation method thereof A novel apparatus, capable of adaptively encoding an input digital audio signal, comprises a subband filtering device for receiving the input digital audio signal and filtering the received digital audio signal, on a subband-by-subband basis; a first esti... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537170 | Projection-lens driving apparatus with a timing belt The projection-lens driving apparatus having a housing with a top and a bottom faces for use in a 3-beam projector includes an upper plate, an upper projection-lens holder, a pair of cross link, a pair of lower projection-lens holders, a guide bracket, a ... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5533660 | Expansion dowel and expansion dowel setting tool An expansion dowel is formed of an axially extending sleeve (1) with a cylindrically-shaped outside surface. A setting tool for expanding the sleeve includes an axially extending handle part (2) holding an axially extending striking part (3). The handle p... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5533233 | Spring hinge A spring hinge including a hinge member with a spring member mounted on the hinge member, and a housing for receiving the hinge and spring members, and having an abutment against which the spring member is supported and which insures preloading of the spr... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534930 | Method for constructing a quantization pattern codebook A quantization pattern codebook is prepared by way of: merging each pair of pattern clusters into a merged pattern cluster until all combinable pairs of the pattern clusters are merged to derive a set of merged pattern clusters; calculating the rate of bi... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534215 | Process for the preparation of biaxially oriented polyester film A biaxially oriented polyester film with excellent levelling property is produced by the inventive process which comprises: (a) melt-extruding and extending biaxially a polyester resin to shape it into a film; (b) treating the film thermally under a condi... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534155 | Method for purification of cooling agents and/or lubricants used in rolling mills For purification of liquids used for cooling and/or lubrication interspersed with metallic and/or other materials contaminations, especially for separation of rolling scale and of substances containing oil or grease from the industrial process water in op... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5533861 | Apparatus for and method of palletizing unit loads An apparatus for palletizing unit loads including an input roller conveyor, a guide displaceable between the driven rollers of the input roller conveyor and having a plurality of stirrup-shaped elements liftable above and sinkable below the upper surface ... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5531259 | Method for intermediate cast type welding of finely pearlitized rails Method for intermediate cast type welding of finely pearlitized rails by pouring steels produced by the Thermit fusion process into a casting mold, which surrounds the two rail ends 13 separated from each other by an intrinsic gap L1, wherein the actual r... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5531131 | Device for adjusting correction factor of a plunger lift pipet A plunger lift pipet for a slip-on pipet tip which includes adjusting mechanism for changing the travel of the plunger, display mechanism for the liquid volume pipetted each time, disengageable coupling mechanism between the adjusting mechanism and the di... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5532834 | Video cassette recorder capable of automatically removing interferences between a recording signal and a broadcast signal A recording apparatus, for use in a video cassette recorder ("VCR") equipped with a timer recording feature is capable of eliminating an interference between a first broadcast signal selected by a VCR tuner and a second broadcast signal captured by a tele... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5532747 | Method for effectuating half-pixel motion compensation in decoding an image signal A method for decoding an encoded image signal supplied in the form of a series of encoded image frames, each of the encoded image frames being divided into a multiplicity of macroblocks of pixels, each of the macroblocks having an associated half-pixel re... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5532187 | Process for sealing apertures in glass-silicon-glass micromechanical acceleration sensors A method for sealing apertures caused by manufacturing processes in micromechanical acceleration sensors is disclosed whereby apertures or recesses, serving for leading the conductor paths out of the oscillation space of an acceleration sensor without cau... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5531968 | Catalytic converter for the catalytic treatment of exhaust gas The catalytic converter has an axis and a housing having an inlet and an outlet. The housing contains hollow cylindrical catalyst means having an inner surface, an outer surface and passages for the exhaust gas which run from the inner surface to the oute... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5531546 | Mortar composition For fastening anchoring means, such as anchor rods, in solid accommodating materials without expansion pressure, mortar compositions are used, which consist of a hardener and a resin. To improve the strength properties, vinyl ester urethane resin is emplo... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5529444 | Tool bit and tool bit chuck for manually operated tools A tool bit for insertion into a tool bit chuck in a manually operated tool used for chiseling and/or percussion drilling has an axially extending chucking shank (1). The chucking shank has two axially extending rotary entrainment grooves (2) open at its e... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5529435 | Internal vibrator An internal vibrator comprises a vibrator pipe, attached a transverse pipe transversely to the vibrator pipe at a bottom end region thereof, a vibrator drive, and an imbalance driven by the vibrator drive, wherein the vibrator drive and the imbalance are ... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5529445 | Tool bit and tool chuck for manually operated tools A tool bit for insertion into a tool bit chuck on a manually operated tool used for cutting and/or percussion drilling includes an axially extending chucking shank (1). The chucking shank has two axially extending rotary entrainment grooves (2, 3) open at... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5526706 | Sealed encoder A sealed encoder for measuring a relative position of two objects movable relative to each other and including a housing connected with one of the objects, an entrain member, which is located in a slot formed in the housing, for supporting a position-meas... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5526810 | Intraventricular mapping catheter A intraventricular multielectrode catheter for mapping an activation sequence of a ventricle of a person's heart includes a plurality of solid mapping catheter elements, which have first expandable distal end portions, with a plurality of leads arranged a... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5528311 | Complex filter apparatus for use in an equalizer A complex filter apparatus for correcting a complex valued input television signal Y having the real and the imaginary parts Yr and Yi to produce a complex filtered output television signal Z having the real and the imaginary parts Z... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5528300 | Coding mode control device for digital video signal coding system An encoding apparatus for coding digital video signals describing a scene having at least one moving object and a stationary background, the digital video signals being represented by a series of video frames, each video frame being divided into a plurali... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5524520 | Briccialdi B flat thumb key mechanism for a woodwind instrument A Briccialdi B flat thumb key mechanism for a woodwind instrument having a B key including a cup part and a lever part and movable around an axle, and a lever rockingly movable around the same axle for transferring a rocking motion to the B key for closin... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5524062 | Speaker system for a televison set A speaker system comprises a speaker for reproducing a sound, a main acoustic radiation housing for transferring the reproduced sound forwardly radiated from the speaker toward a listening location, and an auxiliary acoustic radiation duct attached to a r... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5523373 | Polymethacrylate ester/polysiloxane block co-polymers method for theirsynthesis and their use as modifiers and as lacquer and varnish additives The invention relates to polymethacrylate ester/polysiloxane block copolymer of the ABA or AB type, A being a polymethacrylate ester block and B a polysiloxane block. The invention furthermore relates to a method for the synthesis of such block copolymers... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5520319 | Tool for manually anchoring expansion dowels A tool for anchoring expansion dowels has a handle (1) with two receiving mounts (2, 10) into which a setting drift (8, 13) can be fixed. Each receiving mount (2, 10) has an axis corresponding to the axis of the setting drift (8, 13). The axes of the rece... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5519990 | Round baling press A round baling press for agricultural stalk grains is disclosed which comprises revolving pressing elements wherein the revolving pressing elements include at least one of rollers, conveyors belts, conveyor bar chains and similar items, and further wherei... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5521918 | Adaptive bit stream demultiplexing apparatus in a decoding system An apparatus for adaptively demultiplexing an input bit stream for use in a decoding system includes a buffer module having a plurality of buffers for temporarily storing the bit stream, a flag state detector for detecting the number of the buffers that e... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5521273 | Waterproof, moisture vapor permeable polymers, films and coated textiles and other materials A water vapor-permeable, waterproof adhesive polymer and a linear polyurethane-urea polymer, either alone or in combination with one another, are utilized to coat various textile materials. The compositions of these polymers as well as various methods of ... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5520534 | Heating apparatus including plurality of regenerative burner units and operating method A heating apparatus includes at least a pair of regenerative burner units having a fuel injection nozzle and a heat regenerator provided for a combustion air supply path. One regenerative burner unit is supplied with fuel through a fuel shut-off valve and... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5520488 | Tool bit and tool bit chuck for manually operated tool A tool bit for insertion into a tool bit chuck in a manually operated tool, used for cutting and/or percussion drilling, has an axially extending chucking shank (2) with a free end. The chucking shank (2) has two locking grooves (6, 7) located diametrical... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5520242 | Metal mold for continuous casting of steel bands A metal mold for continous casting of steel bands and including wide side walls and opposite narrow side walls extending parallel to each other between the wide side walls, and displaceable toward each other and away from each other for adjusting a distan... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5518345 | Tool bit and tool bit chuck for manually operated tools A tool bit for insertion into a tool bit chuck in a manually operated tool used for chiseling and/or percussion drilling includes a chucking shank (6). The chucking shank has two rotary entrainment grooves (7) located diametrically opposite one another an... | 05/21/1996 |
