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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6600285 | Actuating system comprising a piston-cylinder assembly together with a driving device An actuating system includes a driving device fixed to a base part and operatively connected to a movable part. A sensor detects the rotational speed of the movable part at a reference measuring location, and a control system forms a differential of the r... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6286586 | Torsion bar clamp apparatus and method for improving thermal and mechanical contact between stacked electronic components A torsion bar clamp device and method for mounting a heat sink to an electronic component comprising a torsion bar having a longitudinally extending bar and at least one integral lever adapted to engage a heat sink and mounting legs which couple forces im... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6242275 | Method for manufacturing quantum wires A method for manufacturing quantum wires is provided in which a stacked structure having AlAs layers and GaAs layers alternatively is formed, V-grooves are formed beside the GaAs layers and the quantum wires are formed using the V-grooves. The method for ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6221962 | Liquid crystal polymer blends, process for the preparation thereof and products manufactured from the blends A polymer blend, a process for the preparation thereof and products manufactured from the polymer blend. The polymer blend contains 95 to 50 parts by weight of a polyolefin- or polyester-based polymer matrix, 5 to 50 parts by weight of an aromatic main-ch... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6050190 | Device for moving two doors of a side wall of a printing group A device for reliably and economically moving two doors that are movably mounted on a side wall of a printing group in a rotary printing machine for closing openings in the side wall that are proximate printing group cylinders mounted in the printing grou... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6029735 | Clutch mechanism for manual roller door operation A clutch mechanism adapted to facilitate disengageable manual operation of a roller door or shutter comprising a chain pulley wheel journalled for rotation about the axis of a first shaft permanently engaged with or common with the main shaft about which ... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6024015 | Inking device for a rotary printing machine An inking device for inking a screen roller of a printing machine includes an ink supply device with an ink reservoir that are removable as one unit from the printing machine easily and without tools. The ink reservoir is separable from the ink supply dev... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5971117 | Piston-cylinder aggregate with displacement-dependent dampening force field A piston-cylinder aggregate comprising a cylinder in which an axially movable piston rod is arranged is provided. The piston rod has two pistons, which are separated from each other and which produce a damping force of a variable magnitude depending on th... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5950847 | Railborne mobile crane with an auxiliary car coupled to the crane vehicle A railborne mobile crane with an auxiliary car which is coupled to the crane car and has a supporting device for the head of the boom during transport, wherein the boom lies essentially horizontally and is articulated at the boom base at the pivoting fram... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5952091 | Web printing paper coated on both sides and process for its manufacture A web printing paper, including a coating base paper which contains mineral filler and at least one of wood pulp and cellulose as fiber components. The coating base paper has a grammage of 30 to | 09/14/1999 |
| 5949158 | Method and arrangement for controlling the output of electrical consumers connected to an AC line voltage A method for controlling the output of electrical consumers connected to ac voltage, especially ohmic loads such as hot-plates, fans, hot-air blowers, electric heaters and the like, wherein an electric or electronic circuit component which conducts ac vol... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5949089 | Organic light emitting diode having thin insulating layer An organic light emitting diode having a lower electrode formed on a glass substrate, and an emissive layer and an upper electrode formed atop each other on the lower electrode. A thin insulating layer is disposed between the emissive layer and the lower ... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5889556 | Method of automatically dividing domain of motion picture using time space slope information A method of automatically dividing the domain of a motion picture is disclosed including the steps of: quantizing at least two sequential picture frames, and simplifying the shapes of the quantized picture frames; obtaining time space slope information fr... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5888192 | Control device for endocscopes A control device serves the steering of the distal end of an endoscope, this being by operating control cables running to the distal end of the endoscope by way of a handle. The control device is accomodated by a control housing at the proximal end of the... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5887566 | Gas engine with electronically controlled ignition oil injection A gas engine with electronically controlled and/or regulated injection of relatively small quantities of injection oil in such a way as to improve the metering accuracy of the injection oil quantity, the flexibility with which the required ignition oil qu... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5887103 | Nonlinear grating coupler using a tapered or stepped nonlinear thin film A structure for a nonlinear grating coupler which is capable of providing a structure that a tapered nonlinear thin film and a linear waveguide grating structure are combined and a nonlinear grating coupler that a stepped nonlinear thin film and a linear ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5875821 | Housing for receiving individual components of a heating or cooling installation A housing for receiving individual components of a heating or cooling installation is formed of at least two shells of thermally insulating plastic which enclose the components between themselves. The shells are provided at their respective facing edges w... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5867426 | Method of programming a flash memory cell A method of programming a flash memory cell which increases programming efficiency and characteristics. A depletion area formed at a source region is extended from a surface portion of a silicon substrate to the bottom portion of the silicon substrate. A ... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5848452 | Roll cleaning apparatus An apparatus for cleaning the surface of a backing roll in a coater or a calender roll, wherein the roll is cleaned by spraying water on it and then scraping the water away from the surface or the roll with a doctor blade. Splashing of the water accumulat... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5839503 | Method and continuous casting facility for guiding continuously cast metal A continuous casting having a mold for producing strands in the form of slabs, thin slabs, blooms, and billets which results in a central running of the strand in the entire strand guide and in highly reliable casting at casting speeds of up to 6m/min. As... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5823766 | Furnace installation as intermediate storage downstream of a thin-slab casting installation A furnace installation as an intermediate storage between a mandrel-free coiling mechanism for strip-shaped cast billet, which is arranged downstream of a thin slab casting installation, and an uncoiling mechanism communicating with a downstream rolling m... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5821474 | Muffler with variable damping characteristics A muffler and an actuating cell provided so that the acoustic properties of the muffler can be changed. The pressure drop in the muffler is fed to the actuating cell as a control pressure. The actuating cell has a plurality of chambers which are separated... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5819384 | Heat exchanger tubing production plant A plant for producing metal heat exchanger tubes with spiral heat exchanger ribs secured to the exterior surface from smooth tubes and strip-form flat material for the ribs. In order to allow ribbed tubes to be economically produced at any desired locatio... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5818185 | Process and device for monitoring and controlling the speed of rotation of an electric drive with frequency converter for hoisting gears A process and a device for monitoring and/or controlling the speed of rotation of an electric drive having an asynchronous motor equipped with a braking device (11) and connected via a frequency adapter (13) to an alternating current system (12), e.g. thr... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5817215 | Assembly for a paper web coating line and a method for tail threading An apparatus to facilitate tail threading of a paper web and a method of threading the tail of a paper web (1) to be coated through a coating line during startup or web break, in which an edge strip is slit from the web to act as the tail of the web which... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5812069 | Method and system for forecasting traffic flows A method and system for forecasting traffic flows at selected locations or in selected sections of road network, which method includes continually determining actual location positions of a plurality of vehicles of a spot check vehicle fleet, storing on t... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5812056 | Child locating and monitoring device A wireless child monitoring and location device consisting of a device pair having a guardian unit and a child unit, both of which are operable in the 900 MHz frequency band and in the presence of other wireless devices transmitting and receiving within t... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5810144 | Clutch actuator for a motor vehicle friction clutch A clutch actuator for a motor vehicle friction clutch has a drive, a gear unit which converts the movement of the drive into a substantially translatory movement of an output member, the excursion of this gear unit being definable with respect to every wo... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5809890 | Arrangement for fastening a cover on a printing cylinder An arrangement for fastening a covering on a cylinder of a printing machine, the arrangement including a cylinder having at least one axially extending cylinder groove which defines a groove wall at an acute angle to an outer surface of the cylinder, and ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5812449 | Flash EEPROM cell, method of manufacturing the same, method of programming and method of reading the same The present invention relates to a flash EEPROM cell, method of manufacturing the same, and method of programming and reading the same and, more particularly, to a flash EEPROM cell constructed in such a way that two floating gates are formed on top of a ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5809055 | Metallurgical vessel heated by direct current and having a bottom electrode A metallurgical vessel heated by direct current, particularly for the production of ferroalloys, including a metallic jacket lined with refractory material and a bottom electrode. A bottom electrode (22) is located within the interior of the vessel and ar... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806646 | Friction clutch with mechanically-operated concentric disengagement device A friction clutch with a mechanically-operated disengagement device that includes two elements that can be turned relative to one another, which are arranged concentric to the rotational axis and are supported on the clutch housing, on the one hand, and o... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5800834 | Liquisolid systems and methods of preparing same Liquisolid systems are acceptably flowing and compressible powdered forms of liquid medications. According to the concept of liquisolid systems, liquid lipophilic drugs, or water-insoluble solid drugs dissolved in suitable non-volatile solvents, may be co... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5799762 | Hydrokinetic torque converter with bridge coupling A hydrokinetic torque converter with a housing (23, 26) connected to an internal combustion engine; a turbine (21); and a bridge coupling or lock-up clutch (45) which has a plurality of friction linings (1, 7; 31, 39, 40; 54, 57) that can be brought in a ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5797542 | Longitudinally-opening tubular container having split end caps A longitudinally-opening container having a faceted tubular body is disclosed. The tubular body is formed by splitting a tube longitudinally, or from a single sheet of paperboard folded to form two end openings. End caps that cover each end opening are sp... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5797366 | Toroidal internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine comprises a toroidal combustion chamber housing within which slides at least one piston. The combustion chamber housing has a circumferential longitudinal slot sealed by a ring seal to which the pistons are rigidly attached. ... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5799205 | Transfer system for data exchange using two active central processing units directly connected together parallel to serial system bus directly connecting CPUs to dispersed devices A transfer system for the exchange of data between dispersed devices in stored program controls with feedback over the process that is to be controlled. For the real time data transfer between a plurality of central processing units as well as between I/O... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5797479 | Loading/unloading method and apparatus for a crane-assisted storage A method and apparatus for transporting paper rolls to a pickup point (8) of a crane of a crane-assisted storage area and for transferring a roll from the storage area from the pickup point (8). An upright-oriented roll is centered by a centering conveyor... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5794840 | Process for the production of pipes by the UOE process A process for the producing of pipes, in particular large pipes, by the UOE process, in which the pipes are sized by cold expansion after internal and external seam welding. In order to render the strength characteristics and deformation characteristics s... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5795003 | Apparatus for gripping and weight-different clamping of workpieces, bar guides and the like to be held or moved relative to a location An apparatus for gripping and weight-dependent clamping of workpieces, bar guides and the like that are to be held or moved relative to a location, particularly in connection with a hand-guided handling device that has a control switch. The apparatus incl... | 08/18/1998 |
