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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6902631 | Air-hardening, low to medium carbon steel for improved heat treatment A steel to be air-hardened as part of heat treatments such as hardening-and-tempering, induction hardening, carburizing, carbonitriding or nitriding comprising, in weight %: | 06/07/2005 |
| 6786682 | Cutting insert for turning The cutting plate in the form of a polyhedron comprises a front surface (1) and a rear surface (2) at an angle to it, cutting edges (3), strengthening facet (4), inclined to the plane of the cutting edges, and a swarf-breaking groove (... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6773925 | Detector agent for halogen compounds and method for detecting halogen compounds There are provided a detector agent which is effectively discolored at a lower concentration for various halogen compounds and a method for detecting halogen compounds by use of said detector agent. A detector agent for halogen compounds, which contains curcu... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6570857 | Central multiple access control for frequency hopping radio networks A system comprises a wireless master unit and one or more wireless slave units, each having a unique identifier. When a wireless slave unit is active, it is addressed by one of a limited number of temporary addresses. A PARK mode enables a wireless slave ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6492434 | Methods for inhibiting skin ulceration by use of cyanoacrylate adhesives A cyanoacrylate adhesive is applied onto intact surface skin areas prone to ulceration so as to inhibit formation of surface skin ulcers.... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6330515 | Method for protecting against vibrations in rotary machines In a method for initiating protective measures on rapidly running rotary machines upon the occurrence of impermissible vibrations, or other disturbances which cause vibrations, the vibrations are measured as measured variables essentially at the bearings ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6326843 | Analog reflective predistorter for power amplifiers A reflective predistorter compensates for phase and amplitude variations imposed on an input signal by one or more non linear transfer characteristics of, for example, a power amplifier operating at or near saturation. The predistorter includes a hybrid h... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6326680 | Injection of encapsulating material on a optocomponent In manufacturing an encapsulated optocomponent, the optocomponent is embedded in a plastics material. The optocomponent has guide grooves on one of its surfaces in which guide pins are to extend so that the encapsulated optocomponent will obtain an optica... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6323986 | Radio frequency input device of superspeed optical communications module A super radio frequency (RF) input device of a superspeed (2.5 Gbps or 10 Gbps) optical communications module, which controls the performance of the module, is provided. In the super RF input device of a super RF optical communications module, microstrip ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6218445 | Stable polyorganosiloxane based compositions with cross-linkable functional groups and their use for producing antiadhesive coating The invention concerns a composition cross-linkable under radiation. The composition includes at least one polyorganosiloxane with cross-linkable functional groups, a stabilizing amino agent, and an initiator system for hardening under radiation. The comp... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6214306 | Composition based on zirconium oxide and cerium oxide, preparation method therefor and use thereof The invention relates to a composition based on zirconium oxide and comprising cerium oxide which has a specific surface of at least 30 m2 /g after calcination for 6 hours at 900° C. and which is provided in the form of a pure solid solution o... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6206047 | Flow duct for the passage of a two-phase flow A flow duct for the passage of a two-phase flow which has a liquid and a gaseous phase is described, comprising an inner wall completely enclosing the two-phase flow radially to the direction of flow. The invention is distinguished by the fact that raised... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6199362 | Method of controlling and regulating a power plant, and power plant for implementing the method In a method of controlling and regulating a power plant (50), in which power plant (50) thermal power is generated in a combustion chamber (35) from a gaseous fuel and the thermal power is at least partially converted into electrical power in conversion e... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6182519 | Method for qualifying the cylinder valve on gas cylinders Provided is a safe method for qualifying the cylinder valves on gas cylinders, which method can also clean the cylinder valve when necessary. Compressed gas residing in a gas cylinder is discharged through the flow path of a cylinder valve with the cylind... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6174905 | Cell differentiation inducer The novel benzamide derivative represented by formula (1) and the novel anilide derivative represented by formula (13) of this invention has differentiation-inducing effect, and are, therefore, useful a therapeutic or improving agent for malignant tumors,... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6002858 | Cycle time optimization for self-timed read only memory compilers The present invention, generally speaking, takes into account the programming of a particular ROM in order to calibrate and more nearly optimize the timing of the ROMs timing unit. In one embodiment of the invention, a dummy line is less than fully popula... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5992216 | Method to analyze particle contaminants in compressed gases A system and a method for analyzing impurities in compressed gas, a method for controlling the particle growth in the monitored gas and a method for determining the optimum monitoring temperature for an individual gas are disclosed.... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5977079 | Compositions for attenuating antibody- mediated xenograft rejection in human recipients Antibody-mediated xenograft rejection is attenuated by (1) removing preformed antibodies to various identified carbohydrate xenoantigens from the recipient's circulation prior to transplantation by extracorporeal perfusion of the recipient's blood over a ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5959220 | Apparatus and method for testing belt tension of a belt drive An apparatus and a method for testing belt tension of a belt drive for a product such as a washing machine or the like, and more particularly to an apparatus and a method for automatically testing initial belt tension of the belt drive on an assembly line... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5949476 | Television system distributing a dynamically varying number of concurrent video presentations over a single television channel A method and system for providing, in a television system, the combination, transmission, and reception of multiple video presentations over a single channel of a television distribution system. Presentations may be concurrently broadcast for viewing by m... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5924114 | Circular buffer with two different step sizes A control unit (112) makes different judgments on the end address, depending on whether 1-word access or 2-word access, based on a post-update signal (507) and a 2-word access signal (508) which are internally generated and a coincidence signal (511) on t... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5905737 | Test circuit In a normal mode, a logic test signal (LOGTEST), a RAM test signal (RAMTEST), and a shift mode signal (SM) are set to "0". A RAM core (91) is synchronously written and asynchronously read. In a logic test mode, the RAM test signal (RAMTEST) is set to "0",... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5900327 | Polyfluorenes as materials for photoluminescence and electroluminescence Fluorenes and polyfluorenes having one or two polar-group-containing alkyl substituents on their "9" carbon methylenes are disclosed together with the polymers' use as luminescent materials in organic light-emitting diodes and light-emitting electrochemic... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5865946 | Arrangement in a drive unit for an ultrasound sealing unit An ultrasound sealing unit includes a drive unit and a body. The drive unit consists of a number of piezoelectric ceramic plates with interjacent, conductive metal sheets connected to an a.c. source. The drive unit further consists of a counterweight and ... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5827016 | Octagonal milling insert with anti-rattle configuration and strengthened cutting edges A cutting tool, for milling, comprises a holder and a cutting insert. The cutting insert has a generally octagonal basic shape and has at least two cutting edges created by a transition between an upper face and an edge face of the cutting insert. The upp... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5800792 | Exhaust gas treatment unit and method The present invention relates to an exhaust gas treatment unit which possesses a stable treating capacity, with a reduced running cost. The exhaust gas treatment unit removes noxious gases such as monosilane contained in an exhaust gas by thermal decompos... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5766356 | Coating apparatus A coating apparatus including a slit die 4 for applying a liquid to a surface of a resin film. The slit die 4 ha a die body which is rotatable between an operating position whereat an injection nozzle 13a of the slit die 13 faces a back-up roller 2 for fe... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5755845 | Method and apparatus for bending and tempering glass sheets The invention relates to the press bending and tempering of glass sheets, especially for use as glazings in vehicles. When the press bending system is not located in a heated environment such as a furnace, it is important to maintain the glass sheets at a... | 05/26/1998 |
