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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5804308 | Heat lag media Provided is a cellulosic substrate which is impregnated with a polymeric binder, preferably a latex, and a metal containing fatty acid compound. The cellulosic substrate is excellently suited as cushion stock to be used as heat lag media in the manufactur... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5770761 | Process for ethyl acetate production Oxidation of liquid ethanol in the presence of excess liquid ethanol and a supported oxidation catalyst provides a one step process for production of ethyl acetate. The acetic acid produced in the oxidation is absorbed by the excess liquid ethanol, which ... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5739005 | Use of polymeric films for delivery of nematode eggs and ecological evaluations Provided is a polymer film useful in the delivery of biological agents, as well as a method for making such a polymer film. The polymer film comprises a transparent, gelled water-soluble polymer supported by a mesh. The polymer film also contains a biolog... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5698215 | Chewing gum composition with fluoride and citric acid This patent deals with a chewing gum which possesses fluoride and citric acid for improved dental health. The incorporation of fluoride and citric acid into our gum product is for the citric acid to provide a means by which fluoride can be absorbed into t... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5683000 | Sorting apparatus A sorting apparatus for sorting material into desired and undesired pieces or portions includes a moving reflective surface such as a rotating cylindrical drum which is interposed between an illuminated background and a viewing system so that the backgrou... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5665894 | Instrument calibrating demand flow regulator An instrument calibrating demand flow regulator for providing a demanded amount of calibration gas from a calibration gas source to an instrument to be calibrated to permit calibration of the instrument includes a housing having an interior, an inlet for ... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5611914 | Method for removing sulfur from a hydrocarbon feed Provided is a method for removing residual sulfur from a hydrotreated naphtha feed. The process comprises contacting the naphtha feed with massive nickel catalyst in the presence of hydrogen. The contacting is generally accomplished in the temperature ran... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5601698 | Process for reforming hydrocarbon feedstocks over a sulfer sensitive catalyst Provided is a process for catalytic reforming a hydrocarbon feedstock containing at least 20 ppbw sulfur. The process comprises passing the hydrocarbon feedstock through at least two serialy connected reforming zones, with each zone containing a highly su... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5592526 | Rotary cathode x-ray tube equipment The rotary cathode X-ray tube equipment of the present invention is constructed so as to permit radiation of X-ray from all directions with respect to the whole circumference of a subject, and is used for x-ray CT. The equipment of the invention is constr... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5580040 | Document feeding apparatus for separating document sheets A pickup member forwards a document at a forwarding position where the pickup member is brought in contact with a bunch of stacked sheets, and is retracted from the forwarding position after the leading end of the document is forwarded. Before the rear en... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5530563 | Process and apparatus for the determination of halftone percentage values The invention relates to the use of a spectrophotometer connected with a computer to measure and store a solid color atlas in the computer. The halftone percentage values necessary for the adjustment of a given color are calculated by determining the desi... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5529660 | Method of reducing fluorescence in deinked pulp by treating pulp with ozone and a bleaching agent Provided herewith is a process for reducing the fluorescence of pulp fibers. The process comprises contacting the pulp fibers with ozone in two or more stages, with an intermediate washing stage or bleaching stage preferably being conducted in between the... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5521492 | Analog input method An analog input method comprises the steps of correcting a measured value with the digital value output when voltage at either middle point of a bridge circuit is fed into both input terminals of a differential analog amplifier or feeding two middle-point... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5520320 | Process for wave soldering components on a printed circuit board in a temperature controlled non-oxidizing atmosphere The present invention relates to a wave soldering process wherein an inert gas atmosphere is injected inside the wave soldering machine, the inert gas atmosphere having a temperature which might be controlled. Particularly, the atmosphere can be heated at... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5518965 | Process for producing a structure integrating a cleaved optical guide with an optical fibre support for a guide-fibre optical coupling In a process for producing integrated structures having at least one cleaved optical guide, the following are successively epitaxied onto a planar surface of a monocrystalline substrate parallel to a plane of the substrate having crystal orientation | 05/21/1996 |
| 5516764 | Anti-inflammatory agent An anti-inflammatory drug comprising as the effective component at least one compound selected from the group consisting of colominic acid, partial hydrolysis products of colominic acid and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The drug is used as a ... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5506208 | Method for using synthetic analogs of thrombospondin for inhibiting angiogenesis activity Methods of use of compounds and compositions comprising fragments and synthetic analogs of human thrombospondin are provided for promoting or inhibiting thrombospondin-like activity.... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5503849 | Conductive base sheets utilizing conductive bentonite clays in the fiber matrix Provided is a conductivized cellulosic sheet material and a method for making the same. The conductivized sheet material comprises a fibrous matrix of cellulosic material and conductive clay intimately and uniformly dispersed throughout the cross-sectiona... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5500381 | Fabrication method of field-effect transistor A fabrication method of a FET that enables to realize a shorter length between a source-side edge of a recess and an opposing edge of a gate electrode at a higher accuracy than the accuracy limit of the present lithography technique, i.e., about &#b1;0.1 ... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5498314 | Process for making a paper based product containing a binder Provided is a process for making a paper based product which comprises first preparing a slurry of a cellulosic pulp, a particulate binder, and an emulsion comprised of lecithin and a fatty acid or derivative thereof. This slurry is then drained of liquid... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5498785 | Continuous process for the aminolysis of ethylene copolymers A continuous process for the aminolysis of polymers produced from ethylenically unsaturated structural units comprising contacting, in a reaction vessel, (a) a molten polymer containing structural units produced from alpha-olefins having from 2 to 8 carbo... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5480935 | Cyanoacrylate adhesive compositions Alkyl cyanoacrylate compositions comprising at least one alkyl cyanoacrylate, a biocompatible plasticizer (preferably dioctyl phthalate), and SO2 as an artionic polymerization inhibitor are provided. These compositions are suitable for topical ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5481469 | Automatic power vector generation for sequential circuits A method for automatic power vector generation for sequential circuits produces input vectors for a power simulation required for accurate calculation of power dissipation of logic elements. More particularly, a worst-case-power-consumption logic vector p... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5468167 | Life raft utility tether A utility tether for a life raft, includes a tether having a plurality of links for securing a person to the tether. The tether is stored outside the canister of the inflatable raft to be accessible before deployment of the life raft. The tether includes ... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5457708 | Method and apparatus for signal modulation and detection The disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for separating radio signals arriving from different directions and for multiplexing signals intended for receivers dispersed in different directions. The methods and apparatus employ a plurality of antennas... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5444008 | High-performance punchthrough implant method for MOS/VLSI A method of making high performance MOSFETs uses image reversal lithography to make punchthrough implants.... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5434577 | Signal modulation methods and apparatus The disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for facilitating the accurate measurement of Doppler frequency shift induced on a one-way-propagated signal wave either by deliberate on-platform controlled actual or simulated motion of a receiving antenna ... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5411886 | Xylose isomerase gene of Thermus aquaticus A xylose isomerase gene from Thermus bacteria, such as Thermos aquaticus (ATCC 27634) and a gene having 60% or more of homology to the nucleotide sequence of Thermus aquaticus xylose isomerase gene of FIG. 1-3. A xylose isomerase from Thermus aquaticus ch... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5405678 | Ink jet recording sheet Provided is an ink jet paper comprised of a substrate coated with a composition comprised of a latex film which has not been fully coalesced. The coating on the ink jet recording sheet is obtained by coating a composition comprised of a hydrophobic polyme... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5382690 | Method for preparing aromatic secondary amino compound Disclosed are (1) a method for preparing an aromatic secondary amino compound which comprises reacting an N-cyclohexylideneamino compound in the presence of a hydrogen moving catalyst and a hydrogen acceptor by the use of a sulfur-free polar solvent and/o... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5381209 | Process and apparatus for processing strips of photographic tape material A process and apparatus for processing strips of a photographic tape material whose surface is at least partially coated with, for example, an emulsion. In an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes means for determining the position of the side of t... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5303483 | Air diffusers An air diffuser for attachment to a handheld hairdryer includes a diffuser neck and an angled diffuser head. The diffuser neck is provided with air vents. If a back pressure builds up in the diffuser with a consequent risk of overheating the hairdryer, th... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5294666 | Polymer for optical products and process for preparation thereof A polymer used for optical products wherein the polymer comprises 2,5-dimethyl-1,4-dithiane skeletons represented by formula (1): ##STR1## and 1,3,5-trimethylcyclohexane skeletons represented by formula (2): ##STR2## and a part of or all of bond... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5264567 | GM3 analogous compound GM3 analogous compound (I) below: ##STR1## wherein one of R2 and R3 represents a neuramic acid group represented by general formula (V): ##STR2## R5 represents ##STR3## or hydrogen; R6 | 11/23/1993 |
| 5256031 | Device and method for reducing one or more resonant vibrations of rotor blades in turbomachines In a device for reducing resonant vibrations of rotor blades in turbomachines, cavities for the selective disturbance of the flow are arranged between the rotating blade tip and that wall of the casing which bounds the flow duct. These cavities are arrang... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5216487 | Transmissive system for characterizing materials containing photoreactive constituents A transmissive system for characterizing the photochemical reactivity and solubility properties of materials, such as photoresist, that contain one or more photo-active constituents and that can be formed as films on optically-transparent substrates. The ... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5215601 | Additive for fluxes and soldering pastes An additive contains a silicone resin as a deactivation agent which functions at soldering temperature. This novel additive is used for fluxes and soldering pastes. In the course of soldering, the silicone resin in the additive deactivates an activator su... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5164704 | System for transmitting alarm signals with a repetition System for transmitting alarm signals, comprising at least one portable transmitting unit and one central receiver, the transmitting unit comprising a control circuit which is connected to an activation device and a transmitting circuit, the control circu... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5141743 | Method for isolating and purifying transferrin and lactoferrin receptor proteins and vaccines containing the same The present invention relates to a method for isolating and purifying transferrin and lactoferrin receptor proteins from bacterial pathogens by affinity chromatography and to vaccine antigens containing the purified receptor proteins.... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5130956 | Clock A driving mechanism is arranged in a hand for relatively rotating the hand in relation to a shaft which supports the hand, and clocking is thereby performed.... | 07/14/1992 |
