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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8069764 | Shearing apparatus with clamps for carrying and locking the material A shearing apparatus (10) for material unwound from reels comprises a support frame (12) for a working table (14) whereon a moving tape (16) is wound; said apparatus is provided with means for the temporary stabilization along at least a ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8061555 | Automatic product vending machine An automatic product vending machine is provided where the user can withdraw the selected product directly from the machine, the storage area for the products is a rack and the dispensing device of the single product is a frame on which a pusher is mounted which cau... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8020420 | Apparatus for continuously performing localized and/or extended deformation on metallic conainers Apparatus (10) for continuously performing localized and/or extended deformations on metallic containers constituted by extruded or drawn and solid-drawn tubular bodies including: —A) interface module (1); —B) at least one work module (2, 2′, ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8017175 | Manufacturing multilayer conjugate polymer optoelectronics device by using buffer layer A highly stable, multilayer organic molecular photoelectric element without interlayer miscibility phenomenon during manufacturing process, and a method for producing multilayer organic molecular photoelectric elements with simplified solution process are disclosed.... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7997434 | Bottle, in particular adapted to contain beverages There is provided a bottle, adapted in particular for containing beverages, wherein its bottom is not integral with the rest of the bottle, but is fixable to the aforesaid by means of reversible fixing means; in particular, the bottom can be screwed to the rest of t... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7949190 | Real-time nighttime vehicle detection and recognition system based on computer vision The present invention relates to a real-time nighttime vehicle detection and identification system comprises an illuminant object image segmentation device 1, an illuminant object classifying device 2, a vehicle lighting object identification device | 05/24/2011 |
| 7919785 | Phosphor for white light-emitting diodes and fabrication of the same The present invention provides a light-emitting diode-converted phosphor compound having the following chemical formula: (M1-m-nCemEun)2BO3X wherein M is at least one element selected from th... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7891747 | Glass cabinet for storage and/or display of objects A glass cabinet for storage and/or display of objects includes a front, a rear (2), a right (3) and a left lateral surface (4), a bottom piece (5) and an upper piece (6) forming the top, at least one lateral surface, for example, t... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7874667 | Eyemask To attain the object of the invention to provide an eye mask of a simple structure that is easy to assemble using the integrally formed arc-shaped mask body, with the centrally located concave part abutting the nose of the wearer, the eye mask of the invention compr... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7865978 | Eyemask An eyemask is formed in such a structure that the protuberance shape of the coupling section (1A) of the first and second eyemask sections (2, 3) connected by the coupling section (1A) is made bigger, and that the light stopping walls (16... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7858138 | Method for decaffeinating tea The invention relates to a method for decaffeinating tea (Camellia sinensis). The method involves of using, as an extraction agent, a carbon dioxide which is compressed of a pressure greater than 50 and up to 100 MPa. ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857980 | Plant for filtering substances Plant for filtering substances to be cleaned of various kinds of semi-solid or liquid polluting substances, constituted by filtering devices (5) connected to each other, including a first circulation circuit of the substances to be cleaned introduced into eac... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7796558 | Capacity-based compressed mode control method for inter-system handover in universal mobile telecommunication system The Inter-System handover is one of the key features in the third generation cellular systems. The compressed mode, with variable transmission gaps and power levels, is standardized to support the inter-frequency system handover. To minimize the use of system resour... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792028 | Two-tier call admission control method in IEEE 802.11 WLAN The present invention discloses a two-tier call admission control algorithm in IEEE 802.11 WLAN. The two-tier call admission control algorithm is given to improve the overall system throughput and guarantee the quality of service of every single user in the WLAN. | 09/07/2010 |
| 7765633 | Broom provided with protective casing A broom (10) having a stick (20) insertable on a top side (11′) of a shaped batten (11) from the bottom side (11″) of which there extend bristles (12) adapted for sweeping surfaces. The broom (10) is provided with... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7762257 | Secure nano-mask A close-fitting face mask made of woven or non-woven material having a fitted nose area with a nose-bridge contact and a nose-bridge recess or space, a nose upper part extending from the nose-bridge contact at the mid point of the bridge of the wearer's nose to the ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7762095 | Showcase for storing and/or displaying objects A showcase for storing and/or displaying objects which require a protective gas atmosphere, the base and the cover construction of the showcase more or less surrounding the showcase interior which is sealed in an airtight manner as far as possible relative to the ex... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761528 | Method for processing multiple continuous Top-K queries A method for processing multiple continuous Top-K queries, which is performed between a master server and multiple of slave servers, including steps of: a first step, for arbitrarily selecting the multiple of slave servers and querying and counting up K of accumulat... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7758775 | Green-emitting phosphors and process for producing the same This invention relates to a green phosphor and a process for producing the same, wherein the phosphor is represented by a chemical formula: M(Tb1-xLax)4Si3O13, where M includes at least one of Ca and Sr, and 0 | 07/20/2010 |
| 7699391 | Bicycle saddle This relates to a bicycle saddle of the type that presents two identical portions (1, 1′) longitudinally symmetrical. Thanks to its special conformation, said saddle permits the cyclist to avoid the occurrence of pathologies normally caused by the use of a ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7699144 | Active brake release device driven by a second motor and attached to the exterior of a door controller An active break release device externally attached to a door controller. The door controller includes a housing for receiving a first motor which rotates a rotary shaft to reel the door; a braking device installed around the periphery of the rotary shaft. The active... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7678633 | Method for forming substrates for MOS transistor components and its products The present invention provides a method for forming substrates for MOS (metal oxide semiconductor) transistor, comprising the following steps: (A) In a reduced-pressure environment having a pressure lower than 1×10−6 Torr, a base for accomplishing the ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7664191 | Method of symbol detection for MIMO dual-signaling uplink CDMA systems The invention provides a block-wise successive interference cancellation (SIC) detection algorithm for a general multi-input multi-output (MIMO) CDMA system over the frequency-selective channels, in which each user's data stream can be simultaneously applied with or... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7653041 | Method for power-efficient transmission supporting integrated services over wireless local area network This invention provides a method for power-efficient transmission supporting integrated service over WLAN. The said invention combines the polling-based and the contention-based mechanisms, named on-demand polling (ODP). In the ODP scheme, a voice station is in the ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7631529 | Device for the selective and progressive locking of metal containers A device (10) for selective and progressive locking of metal containers (18) to be submitted to mechanical deformations along an extended part of side surface and provided at the bottom by a notch (20), the device having: a circular plan support... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7631250 | Method and apparatus for self-compensation on belief-propagation algorithm A self-compensation method includes: firstly using a min-sum algorithm to derive multiple output values in order to approach a operational result of the checking side of a belief-propagation; and then checking the present iteration number of decoding based on a chec... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7607675 | Suspension fork for bicycle A fixed member is non-rotatably attached to a suspension fork, and a rotatably installed movable member is attached to the fixed member so as to be operable in the up-down direction. An index mechanism enables the state of the movable member to be selected from eith... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7581878 | Measuring system and screening method for thermal conductive efficiencies of thermal conductive devices The measuring system generates a temperature difference between a heating terminal and a terminal conductive device by setting the temperature of a metal heated block at the heating terminal and the temperature of a heat dissipating water jacket at a heat dissipatin... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7578158 | Process for the shaping of the surface of a metal container A process for the shaping of the side surface of a metal body or container (10) such as an aerosol or a beverage bottle for food or technical use, obtained by progressive deformation operating steps of its side surface carried out in sequence on a machine hav... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7564202 | Door opener error-start prevention device A door opener error-start prevention device, the output shaft of the door opener is formed as a hollow accommodation portion, a pair of axial sliding slots are formed on the periphery, and a sliding pin radially inserted; a pair of elastic elements, abutting against... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7548190 | Obstacle sensor operating by collimation and focusing of the emitted wave An obstacle sensor operating by collimation and focusing of the emitted wave comprises: a device (I) for insulating the electromagnetic waves emitted by a generator (1); a device for the automatic control (12, 12′) of the transmitter and of the senso... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7543629 | Type of loop heat conducting device This invention relates to a type of loop heat conducting device, comprising an evaporator and a condenser which are connected together by means of a loop pipe, in order to form a cyclic loop for a liquid working medium, wherein the evaporator has a wick network core... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7537281 | Bicycle saddle The finding regards a bicycle saddle of the type which has two identical portions (1′, 1″), longitudinally symmetrical. Each of these two portions has a rear part (2), a part (5) of transversal middle plane as well as a front part (6)... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537038 | Release control mechanism for emergency exit A release control mechanism installed in a rolling door-controlled emergency exit, which includes a driving mechanism, a release control lever provided outside the driving mechanism for releasing a brake of the driving mechanism from a torsion spring member, and a r... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7532034 | Mixed voltage input/output buffer having low-voltage design A mixed-voltage input/output buffer having low-voltage design comprises a pre-driver, a tracking unit, a driving unit, and input/output pad, a floating-well unit and a transporting unit. The pre-driver receives first data signal and enable signal and outputs first a... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531887 | Miniature inductor suitable for integrated circuits A miniature inductor suitable for integrated circuits comprises a semiconductor substrate having a coplanar strip line and a plurality of metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors, wherein the plurality of MIM capacitors are connected between the transmission lines of ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7527860 | Vertical aligned nano-scale diamond structure and process for fabricating the same A vertical aligned nano-scale diamond structure comprising diamond nanotip or nanotube is provided. More particularly, apparatus and method are disclosed for depositing such diamond structure on a rugged polycrystalline substrate. ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527374 | Slim frame of spectacle having electronic device thereon, and spectacle having the same A frame of spectacle having electronic device thereon, comprising: a pair of eyewires, along the inside of each eyewire is formed with an engaging section for engaging with a glass, and a bridge section is interlinked between the pair of eyewires; a pair of temples ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7517543 | Process for the preparation of a vegetable yogurt There is described a process for the production of a vegetable yogurt formed by fermentation of vegetable products such as green vegetables and fruits under the action of lactic acid bacteria. In the first phase the vegetable substrate is prepared whereby the green ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515574 | Scheduling method for supporting quality of service (QoS) in wireless local area network (WLAN) A method for polling of stations in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), including the steps of: obtaining Quality of Service (QoS) information related to the stations; assigning two timers to each WLAN service requiring QoS guarantee, one for uplink transmission a... | 04/07/2009 |