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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7347593 | Giclee printed lamp shade, method of making the same, and do it yourself lamp shade kit A Giclee printed lamp shade and method of making the same which includes a lamp shade having a frame having a top and bottom of the same geometric configuration and dimensions to provide flat sides thereto. A Giclee printed fine art canvas material is permanently ad... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7326381 | Applications of photocurable pre-ceramic polymers A process for fabricating ceramic composites employs a thermoplastic photo-curable pre-ceramic polymer in which the component is shape by a variety of standard composite fabrication techniques, such as filament winding, tape winding, and woven cloth winding. The pro... | 02/05/2008 |
| RE39736 | Wireless telephony for collecting tolls, conducting financial transactions, and authorizing other activities The following procedures describe the use of cellular telephones and other analog or digital wireless communication devices to conduct transactions and activities. These procedures effectively allow such devices to function as an electronic wallet, a wireless PIN Pa... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241782 | Polymorph V of torasemide The invention relates to a novel polymorph V of torasemide, to a process for its preparation, to its use as a raw material for the preparation of crystalline modifications I and III of torasemide, to amorphous torasemide modifications and to pharmaceutically accepta... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7174822 | Efficient food slicer A food slicer comprises a fan-cooled electrically powered motor driving a slicer blade. The motor is mounted within an enclosure which comprises at least one air intake port and at least one exhaust port on opposite sides of one nominally air-tight first partitionin... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7169301 | Installation for water treatment by flotation A water purification installation includes a coagulation area, a flocculation area, an area for mixing, in an upflow, the flocculated water with pressurised water which is delivered by a microbubble-generating pressurisation-pressure reduction system, and a flotatio... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7150096 | Universal tool for uniformly applying a force to a plurality of components on a circuit board A method for applying pressure to circuit components during a manufacturing operation. The method utilizes a plurality of compressed air pressure cylinders which are supported on a plurality of horizontal arms along different axes over a circuit board. Compressed ai... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7119018 | Copper conductor A conducting material comprising: a conducting core region comprising copper and from 0.001 atomic percent to 0.6 atomic percent of one or more metals selected from iridium, osmium and rhenium; and an interfacial region. The interfacial region comprises at least 80 ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7102426 | Audio reproducing device and method, audio amplifier, and integrated circuit for audio amplifier A digital ΔΣ modulated signal produced by a quantizer (1c) in a ΔΣ modulation processing unit (1) is put in to a feedback loop before inputted to a power switch (2) and converted into an analog signal by a D/A converter (1d | 09/05/2006 |
| 7091813 | Integrated circuit transformer for radio frequency applications An integrated circuit transformer. A substrate supporting multiple layers of materials of an integrated circuit is provided with a first metallization layer comprising a first set of turns of a primary winding of a transformer, and a second set of turns of a seconda... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089129 | Electromigration check of signal nets using net capacitance to evaluate thermal characteristics A method for performing an electromigration check and detecting EM problems in a device or circuit. The method uses the capacitance and resistance of the conductors of the device or circuit as parameters in determining a power limit that maintains a required tempera... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7063735 | Coating composition A coating composition comprising an aqueous mixture containing inorganic particles, a catechol compound, and one or more fluoroacids. The preferred fluoroacids are selected from fluorotitanic acid, fluorozirconic acid, fluorosilicic acid, fluoroboric acid, fluorosta... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064029 | Semiconductor memory device and method of producing the same A semiconductor memory device has access transistors with a gate and a pair of impurity diffusion layers formed on a semiconductor substrate and memory capacitors with a storage node electrode and a cell plate electrode. The electrodes are connected to each other vi... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064416 | Semiconductor device and method having multiple subcollectors formed on a common wafer A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device having multiple subcollectors which are formed in a common wafer, in order to provide multiple structures having different characteristic and frequency response are provided. The subcollectors... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057883 | Conducting element for shunting an electric power supply A conducting element for shunting an electric power supply from a main conductor to an accessory device operatively associated with a circuit breaker, whose particularity consists of the fact that it comprises a contoured body that is meant to be arranged in a seat ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7051362 | Method and system for operating a network server to discourage inappropriate use A method and system for operating a network server to discourage inappropriate use are disclosed. The method provides for altering files on the server in such a way so as essentially not affect acceptable, desired file types in any noticeable way, and to substantial... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7048541 | Implant having attachment and hole-insert parts, and method for producing such an implant An implant (1) has attachment and hole-insert parts (2, 3) with an outer surface or outer surfaces having external layer arrangements (6, 7). The implant can be provided in a known manner with threads (3a, 3b) on cyli... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046531 | Transformerless static voltage inverter for battery systems A static inverter for a battery of elementary, current sources or cells electrically in series and a number N of intermediate voltage taps along the chain of elementary DC current sources, wherein the number of elementary cells comprised between an intermediate tap ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7045733 | Low-voltage circuit-breaker and corresponding positive-opening-operation device Described herein is a low-voltage circuit-breaker, which comprises at least one mobile contact and a corresponding fixed contact, and a positive-opening-operation device. The positive-opening-operation device in turn comprises: a moving element associated to the mob... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7044496 | Stretcher carrier A stretcher carrier is provided for transporting and stabilizing sick and injured patients. The carrier can be quickly converted between a folded, storage configuration and operational configurations. The carrier includes a folding foot prop and a foot prop locking ... | 05/16/2006 |
| D520849 | Handlebar grip | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040642 | Cover for a wheel chair grip ring Covers for a grip ring of a wheel chair are disclosed. According to certain embodiments of the invention, a two-piece cover is provided. The two-piece cover includes a soft, resilient inner pad and an outer sleeve enclosing the inner pad. According to other embodime... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7041600 | Methods of planarization A method of planarization allows for the use of chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) in starting structures having films not generally suitable for CMP processes. Two material layers are formed over a starting structure, and the upper layer is planarized in a CMP pro... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7021205 | Production line for bread preforms A production line for bread blanks comprising a dough dispenser unit with a first rolling unit for preparing a dough sheet; a first conveyor receiving the dough sheet; at least one spreading/rolling unit operable in conjunction with the first conveyor, each unit hav... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024325 | Time calibration method for security system using sensors Among multiple surveillance devices for mechanical security monitoring provided in a security system using sensors at least one of the multiple surveillance devices is equipped with a receiver for receiving standard time data and the standard time data received by t... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7013184 | Fieldbus device A field device that enables display of information corresponding to a Fieldbus network. The field device provides the capability to take over a Link Active Scheduler function on the Fieldbus network. The field device comprises means far connection to a Fieldbus netw... | 03/14/2006 |
| D515966 | Elastic clip assembly for money and/or cards | 02/28/2006 |
| 7004707 | Movable bulk charging/discharging equipment The invention relates to a charging/discharging equipment movable on a quay for charging of bulk (13) into a ship's hold (11), respectively for discharging therefrom, comprising—a first conveyor for transferring a batch of bulk (13) from a qua... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7005458 | Static dissipative polyurethane foams A static dissipative flexible polyurethane foam is formed under free rise expansion conditions from a polyether graft polyol and an isocyanate, wherein one or more anti-static additives are incorporated into the reaction mix in an amount from 0.10 to 20 parts by wei... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6997124 | Device for generating a loop or file in the embroidery frame and an embroidery frame employing the same The present invention provides a device for generating a loop or a file used in an embroidery frame and the device comprises a fore-back driving part including a fore-back driving motor, a first gear driven with said motor, a second gear driven by a means coupling w... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6968738 | Acoustic fluid-gauging system An aircraft ultrasonic fuel-gauging system has a processing unit that energizes probes and receives signals from transducers arising from energy reflected back from the fuel surface. In addition to determining the time between transmission of a signal from the trans... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6958184 | Fire-resistant sheetlike molding, fire-resistant laminate for covering steel, fire-resistant structure for wall, and method for constructing fire-resistant steel and fire-resistant wall A fire-resistant sheet-like molded article comprising a resin composition and having the relationship between the initial thickness t (mm) and temperature difference ΔT(° C.) between one side and the reverse side after heating of said one side at 500° ... | 10/25/2005 |
| D509372 | Stadium seat | 09/13/2005 |
| 6939424 | Method of making a spirally-wound tube This invention concerns a method and an apparatus for making a spirally-wound tube from a hollow thermoplastic profile (1) having a substantially rectangular cross-section, which method comprises the steps of: winding the thermoplastic profile (1) arou... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6937728 | Verifiable anonymous channel Two El Gamal ciphertexts, which are input to a two-input two-output unit switching gates SW forming a permutation network, are randomized with a random number and randomly permuted, and a zero-knowledge proof, which proves the correspondence between the inputs and o... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6930746 | Method of scattering fine particles, method of manufacturing liquid crystal display, apparatus for scattering fine particles, and liquid crystal display The present invention has its object to provide a method of spraying particles by which predetermined quantities of particles can be disposed on specified electrodes, in particular a method of spraying particles by which spacers can be sprayed in interelectrode gaps... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6918766 | Method, arrangement and use of an implant for ensuring delivery of bioactive substance to the bone and/or tissue surrounding the implant In connection with implants for bone or tissue, delivery of bioactive substances to the bone or tissue is ensured. The implant is designed with an internal space, and one or more bodies comprising the bioactive substance are designed to cooperate with the bone and/o... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6915616 | Frame member for electrical distribution cabinets A frame member for electrical distribution cabinets, whose particularity consists of the fact that it has a substantially triangular transverse cross-section and that it has two ribs, which are arranged longitudinally along the extension of the frame member and are ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6913973 | Semiconductor device including transistor with composite gate structure and transistor with single gate structure, and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device comprises a first transistor having a composite gate structure containing a lamination of a first polycrystalline silicon film, an interlayer insulating film, and a second polycrystalline silicon film; and a second transistor having a single g... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6911998 | Automatic conformal window sizing in a video imaging system An apparatus and method for generating a conformal window in a video tracking system. Each of the lines within the conformal window comprises a sub-window which is resized for each frame of video signal. The composite window comprising all the sub-windows is also re... | 06/28/2005 |
