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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7531146 | Synthesis furnace A synthesis furnace has a furnace chamber surrounded by a circumferential furnace wall, in which burners are disposed essentially in one plane, with burner exit direction directed downward, and reaction tubes are disposed essentially vertically and parallel to one a... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531091 | Hollow fiber membrane filter with a supporting structure The invention relates to a membrane filter for operating while submerged, with a frame (1), which can be lowered into the liquid to be purified, and with modules (2) adjacently arranged in a row. The modules (2) each have a base element (3 | 05/12/2009 |
| 7530897 | Sliding articulation A sliding articulation includes an outer hub wherein is housed an inner hub. The outer hub and the inner hub include corresponding respective raceways wherein are housed balls which are guided by a cage arranged between the outer hub and the inner hub. The inner hub... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7530879 | Apparatus for reworking a steel edge of a ski An apparatus is described for reworking a steel edge of a ski (1), comprising at least one grinding apparatus (16) made of a cup-like grinding wheel (18) which is driven by a motor (17) and comprises a rotational axis extending transversa... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529576 | Device and method for measuring blood flow in an organ A device has a source for emitting near infrared radiation into cerebral tissue, a sensor for detecting radiation exiting from the tissue, and an evaluation unit which detects the exiting radiation as an input signal having pulsatile and non-pulsatile components and... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528533 | Vibratory gyroscope A vibratory gyroscope including a vibrator (10) integrally having a plate-like body portion (11) spreading along a reference plane, three drive arms (12, 13, 14) extending in a first direction from the body portion along the reference plane, and... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527848 | Laminate material for hook-and-loop closures A laminate material for hook-and-loop closures, comprising a carrier film and a textile substrate laminated onto the carrier film. The textile substrate has loops on its surface that are suitable for connecting with hook-and-loop hooks, wherein the carrier film and ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527533 | Press-fit contact A press-fit contact for a plug-in connector, a conductor bar or the like, has a press-in pin at its rear end. A slot is provided in lengthwise direction of the press-in pin. At least one projection is disposed on at least one boundary face of the slot, and a recess,... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526844 | Representative storage device for a deceased animal A container for housing an urn. The container comprises a body section and a representative covering which is disposed over the body section. There is an opening in the body section wherein there is a cavity disposed in the body section. This cavity is for receiving... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7525326 | Test apparatus capable of accurately connecting a test object to a substrate In a test apparatus for testing a test object, a connector is held by an inner frame of the test apparatus and electrically connected to a substrate. A pusher is slidably held by the inner frame. The pusher has an insertion slot for receiving the test object. The pu... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7524193 | Connector excellent in high-frequency characteristics In a connector for connecting two connection objects, a connection member is coupled to a housing which holds contacts to be connected to one of the connection objects. The connection member includes a plurality of terminals to be connected to the other connection o... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523877 | Device for shredding wornout tires Method and device are for recycling wornout tires and other industrial and domestic wastes. According to a method for shredding wornout tires a package of wornout tires is formed as a number of closely compacted layers. The package is subjected to primary destructio... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523841 | Tray for storing and individually dispensing tablets A magazine (3) for a tablet dispenser (1) for receiving and sequentially dispensing tablets (T) consists of a housing (4) which is substantially cuboid and is open on the longitudinal side (5), receives a longitudinally guided slider (... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523831 | Classification of splinters and wood chips A method and a device classifies splinters and wood chips. The device includes a centrifugal classifying unit, a countercurrent classifying unit, a separating funnel for the coarse fraction and a separating cyclone for the fine fraction. A gas or a gas mixture is ci... | 04/28/2009 |
| D591038 | Umbrella handle | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522052 | Installation and method for monitoring the transfer of goods that comprise identification carriers Described are an installation and a method for monitoring the transfer of goods that comprise identification carriers, across a loading interface between a mobile transporter and a storage area, or between two mobile transporters. On the loading interface a reading ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521633 | Device for guiding at least one line The invention relates to a device for guiding a power supply chain (30). Said device includes a distribution trough (4), which has a distribution surface (6) and lateral guides (8), for distributing the power supply chain (30). Acc... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521022 | Receiving device comprising an adjustable covering element The invention relates to a holding device (1) with a holding container (2) for a holding vessel, in particular a blood sample collecting tube, in which the holding container (2) surrounds a holding chamber (7) with a container wall (6 | 04/21/2009 |
| 7520221 | Device for securing a turning axle of a type unit A device for securing a turning axle (9) of a type unit (3) to an actuating bow (5) of a self-inking stamp (1) having a turning mechanism (2), with at least one bushing-shaped axle-securing member (12) which, in the mounted ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7518083 | Spot-welding tool A spot-welding tool having at least one electrode for resistance welding of workpieces such as metal sheets. The spot welding tool has a pressure element for holding down the workpieces arranged on the electrode in a region of the electrode cap to prevent process-de... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7516857 | Crane with boom and running track for a cable carrier A crane with a boom, on which running tracks for cable carriers are disposed, having two running tracks for the cable carriers, which engage into one another with a positive lock. One running track is connected with the crane or the boom, and the other running track... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7516702 | Track renewal machine A track renewal machine is equipped with a ballast conveyor band extending in the longitudinal direction and arranged between upper and lower tie transport units and between ballast receiving means and ballast distributing means. The ballast conveyor band has a disc... | 04/14/2009 |
| D590271 | Potato bag | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515645 | Method for dividing the bit rate of QPSK signals into two or several subchannels The invention relates to a method for dividing the bit rate of QPSK signals by splitting the spectrum of said QPSK signals into at least two channels having band-limited filters in the modulator and demodulator. The prefiltered QPSK signal is split into at least one... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515030 | Fuse insert having a flat insulating body The invention relates to a fusible element provided with a flat insulating body and a pair of contacts which are projected therefrom and whose sections receivable in the reception areas of the insulating body are connected to each other by a fusing conductor wherein... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7514696 | Method for eliminating airborne microorganisms A method for eliminating airborne microorganisms in an air duct comprises placing a device containing at least one light emitting diode (LED) in the air duct so that the air flow passes through the beam emitted by the LED. ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7514133 | Label having transparent and opaque areas A strip-shaped label has a transparent plastic film layer partially covered by an opaque film layer. A window area not covered by the opaque film layer remains. The film layers are bonded to one another using an adhesive layer. Before attachment, the label is positi... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7513913 | Hobble turning method and preferred applications for said method A process for hobble lathing, and preferred process applications, for the cutting of workpieces with non-circular or discontinuous contours on programmable lathes. The use and combination of a special program e.g. of thread cycles and hobble values for the diameter ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7513802 | Lamp base adapter A lamp adapter can adapter a mogul base lamp holder to accept a medium base lamp. The lamp adapter can accommodate only open fixture rated lamps. An open end of the lamp adapter into which a lamp is inserted has an elongated flange which allows only an open fixture ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7513783 | Connector with a rotatable lever with a recess with a spring In a connector including a housing to be fitted to a mating connector and a lever rotatable to the housing between a first and a second position, a main body of the lever has a generally flat shape and provided with a recess recessed from a principal surface of the ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7513733 | Torque generator The invention relates to a generator for obtaining energy, in particular a torque comprising at least two elastic buoyant bodies which are moved around at least two deflection elements, and in the process pass a liquid-filled container through an inlet opening, whic... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7513569 | Synchronous office chair A synchronous office chair comprising a support (1) firmly connected with a supporting column, a seat base (2) articulated on a tilting axis (4) support with a flange (5) and a backrest (3) with a back bracket (6). The back ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7513232 | Adjustable camshaft, in particular for internal combustion engines for motor vehicles having a hydraulic adjusting device An adjustable camshaft has at least one adjusting element of an adjusting system fixedly connected to inner and outer shafts that is at least partially in tight contact at the end with a connection surface which is formed by a mounting ring of the outer shaft with r... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7511587 | Oscillator comprising two one-port surface wave resonators The invention relates to an oscillator containing two one-port surface wave resonators as frequency-determining elements. The aim of the invention is to modify known oscillators such that the variable /S21/ for the oscillator frequency, that is adapted according to ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511244 | Resistance-welding method A method for resistance welding for welding two workpieces to one another using spot-welding tools. In the method, two electrodes of the spot welding tool are pressed against each other, and the electrodes are powered with energy. The workpieces are interposed and c... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7510445 | Connector with high connection reliability In a connector adapted for connection to a mating connector, each contact includes a holding portion held by the housing, a contact receiving portion extending from the holding portion and adapted to contact a contact portion of a corresponding one of contacts of a ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7510207 | Ski binding with a positioning and fixing mechanism for the jaw bodies The invention describes a ski binding (1), with guide elements (8, 9) which can be mounted or pre-fitted on a ski (3) in the binding longitudinal direction (10), for a front and a rear jaw body (4, 5). A first coupling element (... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509928 | Suspended steam boiler Suspended steam boiler, in which the steam boiler lower portion (5), having inclined tubes, is suspended from the steam boiler upper portion (1), having vertical tubes exclusively from the vertical tubes of the latter without additional external tensil... | 03/31/2009 |
| D589315 | Pliers | 03/31/2009 |
| 7507548 | Multidimensional detection of aberrant phenotypes in neoplastic cells to be used to monitor minimal disease levels using flow cytometry measurements A method for detecting aberrant phenotypes expressed by neoplastic cells includes the steps of: 1) staining one or more normal/reactive samples and one neoplastic sample with multiple combinations of monoclonal antibodies, 2) measuring fluorescence emissions associa... | 03/24/2009 |
