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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7054928 | System for viewing content over a network and method therefor A system and method for viewing content over the Internet wherein a user accesses a service provider server to view a character icon provided by the service provider to a user interface device. The user will select web site addresses of subscriber target sites where... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053602 | Rotation sensor and method for detecting a rotation angle of a rotating member A rotation sensor includes a rotor rotatable together with an automotive steering shaft, a conductive band formed on the rotor, a magnetic coil/core unit fixed near the rotor, the unit having a core body and an exciting coil, and a rotation angle detection circuit e... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7052217 | Multiple cutting edge rotary tool The invention relates to a multiple cutting edge rotary tool having a radial individual adjustment of each cutting edge or having a central adjustment for all cutting edges together. The multiple cutting edge rotary tool used for machining has a number of holders th... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051403 | Electromechanical swing leaf operator The invention relates to an electromechanical swing leaf operator having a door closer (1) with an eccentrically supported pinion (6) that presents a circular rolling curve and meshes with a toothed rack (5) being disposed at a piston (4)... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7048105 | Friction clutch A friction clutch includes a housing arrangement connectable to a drive element for rotation in common about an axis of rotation, a plurality of first friction disks connected to the housing arrangement such that the first friction disks are fixed with respect to ro... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050236 | Diffractive optical element and optical pickup apparatus The present invention relates to a diffractive optical element which has chromatic aberration capable of recording and reproducing without any problem even in the case of instantaneous wavelength change in a laser beam that cannot be followed by an actuator, and can... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7049267 | Heat-sensitive recording sheet and the use thereof A heat-sensitive recording sheet is formed as a laminate and includes at least a first and a second web material. The first web material has a substrate of paper with a watermark and the second web material has at least a substrate and a heat-sensitive recording lay... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7049093 | Method of classifying and counting nucleated bone marrow cells A method for classifying and counting nucleated bone marrow cells comprises the steps of: (1) mixing a sample of bone marrow fluid with an erythrocyte lysing agent to lyse erythrocytes in the sample and render leukocytic cells and erythroid cells in the sample suita... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047677 | Keepsake book A keepsake book such as a wedding guest book includes a fanfolded carrier sheet having a plurality of envelopes affixed to alternate sections of the sheet so that the envelopes overlap shingle fashion with a portion of each envelope exposed when the carrier sheet is... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7048100 | Piston/cylinder unit A piston/cylinder unit has a closed cylinder with a piston axially displaceably guided therein. The piston divides the cylinder interior into first and a second working spaces which are both filled with a fluid. A first nonreturn valve is arranged in the piston havi... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7048470 | Guide device in an offshore drilling installation A guide device suitable for use in an offshore drilling installation having at least one drilling riser extending from a floating support to the guide device on the seabed. The guide device includes a guide pipe in a buried position, wherein the guide pipe has a fro... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050471 | Semiconductor laser and optically pumped semiconductor device A semiconductor laser with a semiconductor body (1), which has a periodic arrangement of cutouts (2) or in which a period arrangement of semiconductor regions is formed, so that the radiation generated by the semiconductor laser is not capable of propa... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043995 | Pressure sensor with membrane and measuring elements arranged on the membrane A pressure sensor includes a membrane having a radially peripheral edge region fixedly arranged on a support. One side of the membrane can be acted on by a medium being measured and the membrane can be deflected in response to pressure of the medium. Measuring eleme... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7045036 | Method and apparatus for producing sized paper of board A method and assembly is disclosed for manufacturing a sized web of paper or paperboard, the method comprising the steps of first forming the web at a headbox (1) from a stock comprising at least water and fiber, then pressing the web for water drainage, and ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046953 | Image formation apparatus equipped with automatic document feeder In an image forming apparatus having a document feeder for taking up a document from a document bundle placed on a document tray, a controller has a normal mode to perform a normal-size conveyance control by taking up each document from a bundle of documents having ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042013 | Radiation-emitting semiconductor component A radiation-emitting semiconductor component having a layer structure which contains an n-doped cladding layer (18), a p-doped cladding layer (20), and an active layer (14) based on InGaAlP arranged between the n-doped cladding layer (18)... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7040269 | Method for operating a drive with an internal combustion engine and an electric machine The warm-up period of the internal combustion engine is reduced by operating an electric machine as an additional load of the combustion engine in order to obtain a specific excessive increase in the heat loss of combustion engine. To this end, the magnetizing curre... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042074 | Power semiconductor module and method for producing it A power semiconductor module and a method for producing it, wherein the module includes a substrate, with conductor tracks disposed on it to suit circuitry with which the module is used and with power semiconductor components disposed on the conductor tracks. Also d... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036977 | Precision regulating device A precision regulating device for the regulator pointer of a timepiece includes a balance cock and an index regulator mounted on the balance cock such that the index regulator is pivotable about a regulator axis. A hairspring key arranged on the index regulator at a... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039879 | Method and apparatus for scrollable cross-point navigation in a user interface Method and apparatus for controlling an electronic device by navigating through a hierarchy of groups of commands while continuously providing the current location and path in the hierarchical structure. A displayed scrollable cross-point navigation image has two ba... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039433 | Methods for determining times and changes of times of transmission, radio communications system and processor The invention relates to a method for determining transmission times of signals transmitted by at least one radio transmitter BTS. In order to enhance the accuracy and reliability of estimates of transmission times or of changes of the transmission time of signals t... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7037198 | Recording game information into a server A sport server includes a sport database for storing sport data. The sport server communicates with a variety of input devices for receiving the sport data. The sport server determines the type of input device and then communicates with the input device using approp... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7037696 | Truncated form of fibrobacter succinogenes 1,3-1, 4-β-d-glucanase with improved enzymatic activity and thermo-tolerance A truncated glucanase with an improved thermal stability and a higher specific enzymatic activity than the wild-type enzyme. The truncated glucanase is obtained by removing a number of amino acid residues from the C-terminal of the wild-type 1,3-1,4-β-D-glucanase o... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7037812 | Manufacturing method of circuit substrate, circuit substrate and manufacturing device of circuit substrate A manufacturing method of a circuit substrate, in which an electronic circuit is formed on a surface of a base member by a solution jetting device. The manufacturing method comprises: jetting liquid drops of a solution which is supplied into a nozzle having a discha... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036422 | Continuously lockable adjusting device The invention relates to a continuously lockable adjusting device 1, consisting of a fluid-filled cylindrical housing 2, of a piston 4 which is axially movable in the housing 2 and which subdivides the housing 2 into two pressure c... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036429 | Rubber blanket cylinder sleeve for web fed rotary printing machines A transfer cylinder sleeve is provided for an offset printing machine including an inner carrier layer, a compressible layer and a covering layer, where at least one of the layers has a joint or a gap and provided that when a joint or a gap is used in the covering l... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036802 | Self-pumping hydropneumatic suspension strut A suspension strut includes an outer tube having a first filling opening and a second filling opening, an intermediate wall received in the outer tube and separating a high pressure chamber from a low pressure chamber, a working cylinder located concentrically insid... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7037473 | Device for gasifying combustible materials, residues and waste materials containing carbon An appliance for the gasification of carbon- and ash-containing fuel, residual and waste materials using an oxygen-containing oxidizing agent at temperatures above the melting point of the inorganic fractions, in a reaction chamber which is designed as an entrained-... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032637 | Tire reinforced by an elongate composite element of the monofilament type, and such element A tire, in particular an elastomeric pneumatic tire, reinforced by lengths of a monofilament elongate composite element of long glass fibers impregnated in a thermoset resin having a glass transition temperature Tg greater than 130° C., in which the fibe... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032634 | Non-pneumatic resilient tire A non-pneumatic resilient tire which derives its capacity to bear a load from laminated elements capable of supporting bending moments. The laminated elements include a stack of resilient sheets superposed and separated by a layer of rubber adhering to the latter, f... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7033617 | Use of plant extracts and their derived fractions as herbal medicines or nutraceutical supplements for chemoprevention or treatment of human malignancies The present invention provides medicinally active extracts and fractions, and a method for preparing the same by extracting and fractioning constituents from the tissue of plant components of the Anoectochilus family. These active extracts and fractions are u... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7033381 | Photodynamic stimulation device and method A treatment device which uses cold red and infrared radiation for the photodynamic stimulation of cells, especially cells of human tissue. The described device produces a constant energy radiation by the use of semiconductor and/or laser diodes, which furthermore ra... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7033158 | Injection unit for an injection moulding machine An injection screw is rotationally driven by a rotating motor having a stator and a rotor and can be moved by a number of electrical linear motors, linear motor comprising a primary part, which functions as a stator, and a secondary part, which is linearly movable i... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032896 | Piston-cylinder assembly with a bellows Piston-cylinder assembly, comprising a container tube, in which a piston rod is guided with freedom of axial movement, which rod is at least partially covered by a sheath tube with at least one elastic fold, where a resilient stop pad is provided concentrically to t... | 04/25/2006 |
| D519468 | Remote control unit | 04/25/2006 |
| D519643 | Irradiation therapy applicator head | 04/25/2006 |
| 7030285 | Alkylation process A side-chain of a substituted aromatic compound is alkylated by reacting the aromatic compound with an alkylating agent in the presence of a catalyst. The catalyst comprises a restructured smectite clay to which basic ions are incorporated by ion-exchange. The restr... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030491 | Power semiconductor module with deflection-resistant base plate A power semiconductor module, having a metal base plate for mounting on a heat sink. The module comprises a framelike housing, a cover, terminal elements, leading to the outside of the housing, for load contacts and auxiliary contacts, and having at least one electr... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031701 | Delay control method The invention is directed to a method for controlling delays in a cellular telecommunications network. The delay control method according to the invention is based on a hierarchical structure of delay controlling entities, which preferably communicate only with enti... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031931 | Portable device attached to a media player for rating audio/video contents A portable rating apparatus for rating one of audio and video content. The apparatus includes a user-manipulable control dedicated for generating a signal indicating a rating of a media content. The rating corresponds to one of a plurality of categories of preferenc... | 04/18/2006 |
