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Mountable Printable Placard With Headband
A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6958703 | Drill string enabling information to be transmitted The present invention relates to a drill string fitted with information transmission means. The hollow rods of conductive material have their inside faces covered in an insulating material. The transmission means comprise a first electrical unit having at least a fi... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6958692 | Personal organizer equipment Location-dependant personal organizer apparatus for operation with a memory for storing a plurality of appointment entries, each appointment entry including data specifying a time and a place; the personal organizer comprising: a locating unit capable of determining... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6958534 | Power semiconductor module A power semiconductor module has a base plate comprising a framelike housing, a cap, and at least one electrically insulated substrate disposed inside the housing. The substrate comprises an insulation body with a plurality of metal connection tracks located thereon... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6957721 | Hydraulic elevator with an accumulator A pump is situated between the hydraulic drive and the accumulator, this pump being driven by a motor and conveying hydraulic oil from the hydraulic drive to the accumulator and vice versa without the presence of control valves which influence the flow of hydraulic ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6957530 | Hydrodynamic torque converter A hydrodynamic torque converter which has at least a hydrodynamic circuit including at least one pump wheel and one turbine wheel, wherein each of these wheels is provided with an outer shell to accept a set of vanes which form flow chambers, the inner edges of the ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6959090 | Content Protection scheme for a digital recording device A recording device for digital data streams, such as digital TV broadcasts or digitized music, stores copies of program content encrypted by a key unique to the recording device. Distribution of program content is thus discouraged, since intelligible playback of pro... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6957342 | Security module, security system and mobile station A security module, a security system and a mobile station for utilizing and use with the module and system enable ready implementation of services and devices that afford a high level of data security using standard devices without required modifications of the stan... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6957051 | Apparatus for local reduction of electromagnetic field using an active shield and method thereof An apparatus and method for shielding an operator from electromagnetic fields emitted from an antenna in a portable communication device. A plurality of active shields are placed between the operator's earpiece and the antenna to dampen the effects of the electromag... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6956881 | Stacked semiconductor laser diode The present invention relates to an arrangement of semiconductor diode lasers stacked on top of one another, which is arranged on a substrate (1). A first diode laser (12) is arranged on the substrate (1), and a second diode laser (13) is... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6956613 | Photographing device CPU 10 generates memory card loading/unloading information, based on memory card loading/unloading detection signals inputted from memory I/O 16. Memory I/O 16 works even when the power supply is in the OFF condition. CPU 10 also generate... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954443 | Short range RF network with roaming terminals A short-range RF network deployed at a site larger than the coverage area of a single short-range RF transceiver includes a plurality of short-range RF transceivers deployed with overlapping coverage areas and accessible through a gateway, and accommodates terminal ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954479 | Optically pumped, surface-emitting semiconductor laser device and method for the manufacture thereof The invention is directed to an optically pumped surface-emitting semiconductor laser device having at least one radiation-generating quantum well structure and at least one pump radiation source for optically pumping the quantum well structure, whereby the pump rad... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6951526 | Motor vehicle comprising a drive train having a multiple clutch drive A power train for a motor vehicle includes a drive unit, a gearbox having first and second input shafts, and a clutch having first and second multi-disk clutch arrangements assigned to respective input shafts for transferring torque between the drive unit and the ge... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6952390 | Optical pickup apparatus, condensing optical system, and optical element This invention is directed to an optical pickup apparatus, condensing optical system, and optical element which can at least reproduce and/or record information from/on a first optical information recording medium having a protective substrate thickness t1 by... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6952630 | Method and apparatus for facilitating ease of viewing and interpretation of data concurrently presented to the flight crew on a multifunction flat panel display in an aircraft A flat panel display for presenting graphical renderings of aircraft flight, operation and system status data to an aircraft pilot renders the data at various predetermined brightness levels depending on the category of data assigned to that data. Primary data appea... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6951455 | Gas burner A method and a system for implementing a burner for burning ignitable gas mixed with air for providing heat. Pressurized ignitable gas and forced air are conducted from inside a distribution chamber through minor and major channels running through a burner head of t... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6949062 | Apparatus for adjusting pull rollers and/or cutting knives in folders An apparatus for adjusting pressure rollers and/or cutting knives includes driven pull rollers or driven pull and knife rollers extending over the web width arranged opposite the pressure rollers and/or cutting knives and at least two threaded spindles, which are us... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6946805 | Controller for a light display A controller for controlling decorative light displays includes plural outlet ports for providing power to a plurality of decorative light strings. The controller alternately illuminates and dims the different lights strings according to a variety of synchronized pa... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947091 | Focussing and focal length adjusting device for a video camera A focussing and focal length adjusting device for an optical lens system in the camera head of an endoscope. This device includes a focussing device which has several piezoelectric bending actuators attached along and symmetrically to the optical axis of the focussi... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6945169 | Apparatus for producing printing plates Apparatus for producing printing plates in particular a blank sleeve-like printing plate, includes a cylinder carrier for receiving a printing plate, the cylinder carrier being held in cantilever fashion at one end in a frame in a mounting and is driven by a motor, ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6945126 | Rotation sensor A rotation sensor functioning as both a rotation-angle sensor and a torque sensor is provided which, when applied to a steering sensor for an automobile, for example, permits reduction in the number of components and thus in the weight of the automobile and contribu... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947464 | Semiconductor laser device, and method for producing it A semiconductor laser device, having an epitaxial semiconductor body (40) with a waveguiding layer (22), which contains an active radiation-generating layer (20), a laser-active emitter region (12), disposed in the epitaxial semiconductor... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947404 | Automatic WAP login A system for connecting wireless terminals to a WAP gateway and thence to the Internet for providing content to the wireless terminals from Internet web servers includes an AutoLogin proxy and an AutoLogin database associated with the WAP gateway. On an initial logi... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944639 | Hardware context vector generator for JPEG2000 block-coding A hardware context vector codec/generator which can be used in the block coder of a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) codec. The context vector codec/generator consists mostly of three columns of context vector registers where the context vectors move in parallel fro... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6944502 | Method and apparatus for picking up auditory evoked potentials The present invention relates to a device for picking up biological electrical signals, and more precisely auditory evoked potentials generated by acoustic and/or electrical and/or mechanical stimulation of the cochlea, or of a portion of the auditory system in man ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6944467 | Method and system for routing of short messages in a telecommunication system A system for transmitting short messages between mobile communication systems includes a first mobile communication system which is based on a first mobile communication standard, a first short message service centre connected to the first mobile communication syste... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6944426 | Method and a mobile station for configuring a base station The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for configuring an indoor base station for a cellular mobile telecommunications network. According to an advantageous embodiment of the inventive method, a mobile communications means is used to scan possible tran... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6943566 | Method and device for measuring levels A sensor is applied to the wall of a container or is integrated into the wall. An alternating voltage is applied to the sensor in order to measure the level of the contents of the container, the capacitance or the electrical field produced being a measure for the fi... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6942084 | Clutch release mechanism for compensating for misalignments in a friction clutch of a motor vehicle A release mechanism for actuating a friction clutch between an internal combustion engine and a transmission of a motor vehicle that is designed for concentric assembly on a guide sleeve mounted on a transmission shaft in order to bear against a release spring of th... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6938563 | Grate furnace A grate furnace with a grate includes grate steps made of grate elements lying next to one another. Every second grate step in the longitudinal direction of the grate can be driven for carrying out stoking movements and the grate steps in each case lying therebetwee... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6941190 | Apparatus for positioning a carriage for loading or unloading a wound reel, such as printing material webs for web-fed rotary presses In combination with a transport mechanism that includes a plurality of conveyor rollers, an apparatus is used to position a carriage loadable with a wound reel at a desired location on the transport mechanism. The apparatus includes a rotary pulse generator associat... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6938780 | Centrifugal separator in particular for fluidized bed reactor device A centrifugal separator for separating particles from gas uses a separator chamber having an upper potion with at least three substantially vertical planar walls with perpendicular inner faces, and a lower portion, for defining in the chamber a vertical gas vortex. ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6934968 | Absorbent neck shield A wrap-around absorbent shield forms a semi-tight seal with the flesh of a subject, where at least a part of the shield at the semi-tight seal is made of an absorbent material. The combination of the absorbent material and the semi-tight seal substantially prevents ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6936111 | Method and device for washing a rubber blanket During a washing cycle of a rubber blanket on a blanket cylinder some revolutions of the blanket cylinder are initially performed during which the cleaning element is lifted off the blanket cylinder temporarily when the clamping channel passes under the cleaning ele... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6936119 | Method for producing metallic, non-rotationally symmetrical rings with a constant wall thickness over their circumference The invention is directed to a method and a device for producing metal, non-rotationally symmetric rings with a constant wall thickness along their circumference, particularly cam rings, starting from a hot-rolled pipe from which individual portions are severed, mec... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6936826 | Vibration-isolating coupling including an elastomer diaphragm for scanning electron microscope and the like A coupling in a metrology system for placement between a floating inspection chamber and a fixed transfer chamber. The coupling prevents transfer of vibrations between the chambers and seals a passage between the chambers. The coupling includes a first flange attach... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6936853 | Light-emitting semiconductor component In a light-emitting semiconductor component having a thin-film stack (30) having an active layer (34) and front- and rear-side contact regions (40, 42), which are formed on a front side (60) and a rear side (62) of the thin-film st... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937792 | Method and apparatus for wavelength switching of a laser source A method and apparatus for wavelength switching a laser source. An external cavity (2) having a Bragg grating (5) is provided in an optical fiber (4). Space division switching is performed in the external cavity between a plurality of optical fi... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6936144 | High frequency plasma source A high frequency plasma source includes a support element, on which a magnetic field coil arrangement, a gas distribution system and a unit for extraction of a plasma beam are arranged. Additionally a high frequency matching network is arranged within the plasma sou... | 08/30/2005 |
