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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5538493 | Centrifugation system with a rotatable multi-element carrier A system for centrifugation of samples includes at least one carrier, which is provided with a plurality of elements connected with each other by joints and having each an uptake for receiving a sample to be centrifuged, and a rotor for supporting the car... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5469449 | FIFO buffer system having an error detection and resetting unit A FIFO buffer system has an error detection and resetting unit for resetting the FIFO buffer system at the occurrence of errors therein. The system comprises M number of data storage circuits arranged in parallel for temporarily storing the N-bit input di... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5370282 | Advancing mechanism for a dispensing tool A tool for dispensing a single component or a multi-component mass by pressing the mass out of a foil bag (3) includes a piston rod (7) and a piston rod advancing mechanism (6). The advancing mechanism (6) has two pivotally movable clamping levers (12, 13... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5335963 | Attendant passenger seat row including assist space An attendant-passenger seat row is disclosed comprising at least one passenger seat and one flight attendant seat. At least one adapter is in the region of the flight attendant seat and is connectable with a junction coupling in the region of the passenge... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5322115 | Installation for energy exchange between the ground and an energy exchanger A heat exchanger is connected via an insulated flow pipe (26) to a pump (28) arranged in a borehole. The flow pipe and the pump are surrounded in the borehole by a protective tube (34) open at the bottom adjacent to a return region (38) which extends radi... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5294227 | Self-tapping screw A self-tapping screw has a cutting thread formed by two separate threads (3, 4). An imaginary envelope (5) defines a annular space (5) laterally enclosing the screw shank and has a section (5a) tapering inwardly along an inwardly tapering leading end sect... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5251550 | Apparatus with rapid magnetic field compression The invention is directed to apparatus whose weapon efficiency is effected in cooperation via a highly compressed magnetic field, wherein the base magnetic field is maintained or increased beforehand by magnetohydrodynamic generator stages which are opera... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5246607 | Methylpolysiloxanes with quaternary ammonium groups as corrosion inhibitors for preparations consisting predominantly of water Methylpolysiloxanes are disclosed which have quaternary ammonium groups linked to silicon atoms via carbon atoms, wherein the ratio of the number of dimethylsiloxy groups to the number of quaternary ammonium groups has a value of 0.5 to 1.5. The methylpol... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5234181 | Safety belt A seat belt for a pilot seat or flight attendant seat in an aircraft includes a belt tightener with a reversible energy storage member in the form of a helical compression spring and a rod-shaped energy converter coupled to the energy storage member. The ... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5226256 | Window system for a building A window system is proposed in which windows (41) which can be both locked and tilted mechanically are connected via microprocessors (43) to a monitoring center (49) which can display the locking and closure status of the individual windows (41) via visua... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5225509 | Method for deodorizing sic-linked polyethersiloxanes A method for deodorizing polyoxyalkylene polysiloxane mixed block polymers wherein the polysiloxane blocks are linked to the polyether blocks through SiC linkages is disclosed. Hydrogen is allowed to act on the mixed block polymers in the presence of hydr... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5211516 | Cutting tool A cutting tool for expanding or opening up the diameter of boreholes includes at least one reversible knife plate with a front surface. The knife plate can be clamped with at least one clamping shoe into a recess provided in a cutter head. The front surfa... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5211099 | Slave cylinder for a hydraulic actuating system of a motor vehicle friction clutch A slave cylinder of the annular cylinder type is proposed, whereof the annular piston (45) able to slide axially between an outer cylinder wall (29) and an inner cylinder wall (33) is sealed by a grooved sealing ring (53) with respect to the pressure cham... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5209631 | Arrangement for flooding high speed vacuum pumps The invention describes an arrangement for optimum flooding of high speed vacuum pumps. The actuation of the flood valve (6) is controlled by the forces, which, among other things, are exerted upon the rotor by the flooding process. These forces are deter... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5195355 | Apparatus for connecting a pressing die to a support in an upsetting press An upsetting press for width reduction of rolled stock, in particular slab width reduction in hot-rolled wide strip mills, includes supports (2) for pressing dies (1) located along opposite slab edges. The pressing dies (1) are detachably connected to the... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5185114 | Method for producing processed wood material panels The production of wood material particles into board or panels, such as chipboard, fiberboard, OSB panels, MDF panels and the like, involves coating the particles with a binder free of any hardener. The coated particles are deposited on a support surface ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5182931 | Method for continuous tension stretching of thin strips, particularly metal strips A method and an arrangement for continuous tension stretching of thin metal strips. The strip is conducted through a set of brake rollers and a set of pull rollers and the strip is subjected to a stretch-forming or stretch pull operation between the two s... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5178713 | Method for the preparation of workpieces of composite fiber materials In a method for the preparation of surfaces of workpieces of composite fiber materials, which are to be subjected to a subsequent gluing or coating process, a wet chemical pretreatment of the surface in question is carried out with a solution, which conta... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5176470 | Water-tight bore shaft foundation The lower end of an outwardly tight shaft structure (3) for a bore shaft (1) rests on a tilting joint arrangement (15, 20). This arrangement includes a hydraulic thrust bearing (15) at the end face of the shaft structure (3) and a hydraulic annular cylind... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5167583 | Tripod joint having an inner part with spherical journals provided with roller members guided in an outer part A constant velocity universal joint of the tripod type having an outer joint part provided with three circumferentially distributed, axially extending longitudinal recesses with circumferentially distributed opposed running faces, an inner joint part prov... | 12/01/1992 |