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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7259003 | bacteria transformed with a yedA homolog to enhance L-amino acid producing activity, and methods for producing an L-amino acid using same A method for producing an L-amino acid, such as L-phenylalanine or L-threonine, is provided using a bacterium belonging to the genus Escherichia, wherein the L-amino acid productivity of said bacterium is enhanced by enhancing an activity of the protein encod... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7252972 | Methods for secretory production of proteins The object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a heterologous protein by making a coryneform bacterium to produce and efficiently extracellularly secrete (secreto-production) an industrially useful heterologous protein. According to the pres... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7246930 | Light source and vehicle lamp A light source for vehicles can include a base having a cavity formed on its upper surface, an LED chip mounted in the cavity of the base, a resin portion for sealing the LED chip in the cavity, an optical member disposed above the base and apart from the LED chip, ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244569 | Plasmid autonomously replicable in coryneform bacteria A plasmid isolatable from Corynebacterium thermoaminogenes, which comprises a gene coding for a Rep protein having the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 8 or an amino acid sequence having homology of 90% or more to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ I... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7244056 | Vehicle lamp A vehicle lamp can include a light source and a reflector whose first focal position lies in the vicinity of the light source, the reflector preferably includes a concave spheroidal surface that reflects light from the light source frontward. A projection lens can b... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242122 | Low speed discoidal electric motor An electric motor has a dimensional arrangement of both the rotor and stator even at high level of torques that eliminates a flip-flop effect, which is typical for conventional step motors. Stator segments (3), on which coils (4) are placed, making up ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241138 | Burner with stepped fuel injection In a burner (1) having an interior space (22) surrounded by at least one shell (8, 9) in which burner (1) fuel is injected through fuel nozzles (6) arranged at the burner shells (8, 9) into a combustion air stream (23... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240673 | Flange for flame observation A flange (1) for optical flame observation in a gas turbine includes at least one bore for optical observation, in which bore there is arranged at least one pane (9, 10) for separating the flame-side space, which is in substantially direct communicatio... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237385 | Method of using a combustion chamber for a gas turbine A combustion chamber 10 for a gas turbine that operates in a highly diluted mode of combustion has a substantially toroidal plenum 30. At least one combustion fluid injector is located at the periphery of the plenum. The shape of the plenum and the dis... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7235223 | Method for operating a flue gas purification plant In a method for operating a flue gas purification plant (10) including a plurality of parallel of absorber chambers (11), in which in each absorber chamber (11), CO and NO are simultaneously oxidized by a catalyst in a first absorber (15)... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7232308 | Method and device for affecting thermoacoustic oscillations in combustion systems The present invention relates to a method and a device (1) for affecting thermoacoustic oscillations in a combustion system (6) comprising at least one burner (7) and at least one combustor (8). In order to improve the action of af... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7232247 | Vehicle lamp A vehicle lamp can include a plurality of light source modules each having an LED as a light source, and optical systems for distributing light from each of the light source modules frontward toward predetermined areas or predetermined patterns that are different fr... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231713 | Method of reconditioning a turbine blade A method of reconditioning a rotating blade (1) with a shroud (8) following the operation in a gas turbine, includes the application of a barrier (14) placed on the edge of the shroud (8) facing the edge of a shroud (8) of an adjac... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7223572 | having enhanced dihydrodipicolinate synthase and/or aspartokinase activity for L-amino acid production An L-amino acid is produced by culturing a Methylophilus bacterium which can grow by using methanol as a main carbon source and has L-amino acid-producing ability, for example, a Methylophilus bacterium in which dihydrodipicolinate synthase activity an... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221003 | Light emitting device A light-emitting device can include a blue LED chip that is covered in a sealing resin composed of a filling resin mixed with a wavelength conversion material, such as a yellow fluorescent material. Light from the blue LED chip is mixed with a light from the yellow ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7220570 | Polynucleotides encoding polypeptides involved in amino acid biosynthesis in The present invention provides polypeptides and polynucleotides involved in amino acid biosynthesis in Methylophilus methylotrophus and methods of producing amino acids in microorganisms having enhanced or attenuated expression of these polypeptides and/or po... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7220099 | Sealing arrangement for a rotor of a turbo machine A sealing arrangement for a rotor of a turbomachine includes a blade (2), a heat shield (3, 4) and a sealing element (5, 6) for sealing between the blade (2) and the heat shield (3, 4) when the blade (2), heat shield (3, ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7217543 | Method for producing L-amino acid using methylotroph The present invention describes a method for producing an L-amino acid comprising culturing a microorganism having an ability to produce an L-amino acid in a medium, whereby the L-amino acid accumulates in the medium, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium,... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7217101 | Turbine rotor blade for gas turbine engine A rotor blade for a gas turbine engine includes a blade root (3) and an aerofoil projecting therefrom, the aerofoil having a leading edge and a trailing edge (5), a generally concave pressure surface (2) and a generally convex suction surface ( | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216486 | Method for operating a turbine group Relevant fuel-gas properties (XG) are measured on an ongoing basis while a gas turbine group is operating. The C2+alkane content of the fuel gas is of particular interest in this context, since it has a significant influence on the ignitability... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7214904 | Method and apparatus for laser drilling with a jet nozzle A drilling device (1) for placing a bore hole (2) in a workpiece (3), includes a drill laser (4) that generates a laser beam (6) suitable for placing the bore hole (2), and a jet nozzle (5) for producing a gas jet ( | 05/08/2007 |
| 7211421 | Gene encoding dihydrodipicolinate reductase from An Escherichia coli mutant strain deficient in dihydrodipicolinate synthase or dihydrodipicolinate reductase is transformed with a chromosomal gene library of Bacillus methanolicus, and a transformant strain which can grow on a minimal medium is select... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7211416 | Method for producing L-lysine using methanol-utilizing bacterium L-Lysine is produced by culturing a methanol-utilizing bacterium which requires L-methionine for its growth and has an ability to produce L-lysine in a medium containing methanol as a main carbon source to produce and accumulate L-lysine in culture and collecting th... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7205132 | L-glutamic acid-producing microorganism and a method for producing L-glutamic acid A coryneform bacterium which has an L-glutamic acid-producing ability and grows at least at the same growth rate as a non-mutated strain or a wild-type strain and has intracellular α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase activity which is less than half that of the non-mutat... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198483 | Burner unit and method for operation thereof Arranged upstream of each swirl-stabilized premix burner (1) of a burner system there is respectively an adjustable distributing device (5) with control valves (V1, . . . , V8) and/or on/off valves (V″1, . . . , V″ | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192748 | Isolated polynucleotides encoding phosphohexuloisomerase from The present invention provides polypeptides and polynucleotides involved in C1 assimilation in Methylophilus methylotrophus and methods of producing amino acids in microorganisms having enhanced or attenuated expression of these polypeptides and/or polynucleo... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7192747 | Methods for producing L-amino acids A methane-utilizing microorganism capable of producing L-amino acid, for example, bacteria belonging to type I, type X or type II in the taxonomic categorization methane-utilizing bacteria such as Methylomonas albus, Methylococcus capsulatus and Methylosin... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7192256 | Rotor end piece The invention relates to a rotor end piece (1) for rotors (2) of thermal turbomachines with a circumferential slot (3), consisting of two end piece halves (4, 4′) having side faces (5, 5′) opposite one another in the installed ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191665 | Support for a reflective target A support (1) for a reflective target to be mounted on a turbine casing, which is used in casing bending measurements. The support (1) comprises a tube (2), which was chosen to ensure a thermal expansion coefficient near zero at the operating te... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193247 | Gallium nitride compound semiconductor device A GaN compound semiconductor device can be capable of free process design and can have optimum device characteristics. The device can include a group III nitride compound semiconductor laminate structure including an n-type GaN compound semiconductor layer and a p-t... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7189543 | Method for producing cadaverine dicarboxylate Cadaverine dicarboxylate is produced by performing an enzymatic decarboxylation reaction of a lysine solution while adding a dicarboxylic acid containing 4 to 10 carbons to the lysine solution to maintain pH of the solution at a level sufficient for the enzymatic de... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7189073 | Burner with staged fuel injection A burner with staged fuel injection includes at least two separate stages (4a, 4b) for fuel injection arranged along the swirl body (1). The burner is distinguished in that, between the first and the second stage (4a, | 03/13/2007 |
| 7186531 | L-threonine producing bacterium belonging to the genus and method for producing L-threonine There is disclosed a method for producing L-threonine using bacterium belonging to the genus Escherichia wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance an activity of aspartate-β-semialdehyde dehydrogenase. ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7179623 | Method of producing amino acids using transformed with sucrose PTS genes Amino acids such as threonine, homoserine, isoleucine, lysine, valine and tryptophan are produced using a bacterium belonging to the genus Escherichia which has been constructed from a sucrose non-assimilative strain belonging to the genus Escherichia ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7179342 | Thermally loaded component, and process for producing the component A thermally loaded component (10), in particular a rotor for a steam or gas turbine, includes a plurality of component sections which, during operation, are exposed to different temperature levels, a first component section being designed for temperatures of ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7175387 | Seal arrangement for reducing the seal gaps within a rotary flow machine A seal arrangement for reducing the seal gaps within a rotary flow machine, preferably an axial turbomachine, has rotor blades and guide vanes, which are respectively arranged in at least one rotor blade row and guide vane row and have respective blade/vane roots ( | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177696 | Multiple selectable field/current-voltage pads having individually powered and controlled cells A method and apparatus for speeding the healing process of soft tissues, bone fractures, cancerous tissue, nerve pathways and other body tissues wherein a portable base comprising a plurality of cells is applied with the cells facing or encircling the wound. The cel... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176351 | Potatoes having an increased yield of starch per plant body and method for producing the same The present invention provides potatoes having a tuber yield of potatoes per plant higher than that of non-transformed potatoes cultivated under the same conditions, wherein a gene encoding DNA linking protein belonging to Dof family is introduced in the potatoes. T... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174075 | Integrated arrangement of optical fibers in a conductor An electrical conductor and in particular a conductor bar of an electrical machine, particularly a generator or transformer, in which an optical measuring device can be integrally arranged. A measuring unit includes an electrical conductor and an optical measuring d... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7169587 | Method for producing L-lysine or L-arginine by using methanol assimilating bacterium A DNA encoding a variant of a protein, having a loop region and six hydrophobic helixes and involved in excretion of L-lysine to outside of a cell, wherein the DNA encodes a mutant protein not containing the loop region that is contained in a wild-type protein and f... | 01/30/2007 |
