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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7245031 | Generator with integrated powerswitch A generator having electronic circuit breakers as circuit breakers, whereby circuits comprising thyristors, IGBT elements and/or GTO thyristors are used, and whereby the circuit breakers are integrated into the generator, preferably in that the circuit breakers are ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7246069 | Method and apparatus for online health monitoring A method and system for providing online health monitoring and accumulating data from patients worldwide, wherein a database for storing a plurality of health statuses of a plurality of users is established, wherein the database is centrally-accessible from the Inte... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243390 | Cleaning unit for optical connector and cleaning tool for optical connector A join end face of an optical connector is easily and reliably cleaned when the optical connector has been inserted into a connector housing, by using an optical connector cleaning unit comprising a cleaning member which wipes clean a join end face of an optical con... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242796 | Certified paper and an apparatus for discriminating the genuineness thereof An apparatus for discriminating the genuineness of a security mark is provided having a first light detecting element for detecting a light emitted from a luminescent ink of the security mark placed in a specified environment and a second light detecting element for... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240813 | Top sizer for a hanger A top sizer for use with a garment hanger including a hollow body having an open bottom and a top wall that has a first opening formed therein that provides communication to the hollow interior. The top sizer includes a locking feature associated therewith that is c... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241051 | Radial capillary seal for fluid dynamic bearing motors A seal with a primary axis lying in the radial direction so that the fluid bearing is primarily extending in the axial direction between the rotating shaft and surrounding sleeve is disclosed. The capillary seal is positioned with an opening adjacent an end of the f... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241068 | Coupling structure of shaft body and shaft joint The coupling structure includes: a shaft body 1 having an engagement portion 11 with a slip-off preventing groove; a shaft joint body 2 having an engagement groove 21 with which the engagement portion 11 is engaged and bores 22 | 07/10/2007 |
| D546289 | Connector for memory cards | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241083 | Thread cutting insert A thread cutting insert includes main cutting edges that have a pair of thread cutting edges and wiper thread cutting edges for full profile on side edges of a rake face formed on the insert body respectively. The pair of thread cutting edges is formed in a convex V... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241356 | Composite structure with one or several polyurethane layers, method for their manufacture and use thereof A composite structure is disclosed. The structure includes one or several polyurethane layers, a support layer, in particular a textile support layer, as well as an optional adhesive layer placed between these layers. The composite structure is characterized in that... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241387 | Solids separator A solids separator including: an elongate tubular housing rotatable around a central axis; a fluid inlet at one end of said housing adapted to receive a flow of a fluid including entrained solids; a first and a second outlet at the opposing end of said housing, wher... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241609 | Soluble endoproteases for the in vitro processing of recombinant proteins The present invention relates to the expression and secretion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae of readily purifiable soluble variants of the Kex1 endopeptidase of Kluyveromyces lactis and the purification and use thereof for the in vitro processing of recom... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241711 | Water-disintegratable sheet and manufacturing method thereof Disclosed is a water disintegratable sheet of which fibers are hydroentangled about each other. The water disintegratable sheet includes: at least one kind of primary fibers having a fiber length of at most 10 millimeter; and bast/leaf fibers having a Canadian Stand... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242720 | OFDM signal communication system, OFDM signal transmitting device and OFDM signal receiving device An OFDM signal communication system used in broadband mobile communication, achieves stable operation under severe frequency selective fading environments, giving high quality. The OFDM signal communication system which transmits OFDM signals over the same radio fre... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7243051 | System for predicting three-dimensional structure of protein The present invention is to provide a system for measuring the similarity between protein profile matrices which is suitably used for predicting a protein three-dimensional structure. The present invention provides a system for measuring the similarity between prote... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241274 | Sanitary tampon Disclosed is a sanitary tampon including: an applicator composed of an outer tube having a front nose and a rear opening and a pusher inserted into the outer tube through the rear opening; and a tampon body contained in the outer tube and allowed to come out of the ... | 07/10/2007 |
| D545794 | Mobile phone | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240105 | Distributed multicast caching technique A caching arrangement for the content of multicast transmission across a data network utilizes a first cache which receives content from one or more content providers. Using the REMADE protocol, the first cache constructs a group directory. The first cache forms the... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237296 | Cleaning article There is disclosed a cleaning article including a brush portion. The brush portion has a plurality of strips and at least one layer of a fiber bundle. ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238477 | Methods to increase nucleotide signals by Raman scattering The methods and apparatus disclosed herein concern nucleic acid sequencing by enhanced Raman spectroscopy. In certain embodiments of the invention, nucleotides are covalently attached to Raman labels before incorporation into a nucleic acid. In other embodiments, un... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238725 | Tricyclic compounds useful for the treatment of inflammatory and allergic disorders: process for their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions containing them The present invention relates to novel tricyclic compounds useful for the treatment of inflammatory conditions, diseases of the central nervous and insulin resistant diabetes. ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239853 | Antenna switching circuit A switching circuit for use at the antenna of a multiband mobile cellular handset comprises an antenna port 10, a TX low band port 14, a TX high band port 12 and at least one RX port 16. A single pole, triple throw solid state voltage-con... | 07/03/2007 |
| D545987 | Trunnion-mount flood light | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237699 | Filter piston apparatus for dispensing pulverulent bulk material A filter piston apparatus that dispenses predetermined volumes of pulverulent bulk material has a metering chamber which accommodates in each case a predetermined volume of bulk material, which is present at the end of a circular-cylindrical bore and which has its b... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237915 | Catadioptric projection system for 157 nm lithography A photolithographic reduction projection catadioptric objective includes a first optical group G1 including an even number of at least four mirrors M1–M6; and a second at least substantially dioptric optical group G2 imageward than the ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237318 | Method for producing antenna components A method for producing internal antenna components for small radio devices. A radiator is supported by a flat-topped protrusion formed in a plastic blank—e.g., by pressing with a hot tool. The length of the protrusion sets the height of the planar antenna. The rad... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7235467 | Method for forming a semiconductor device having a structure of a single crystal scandium oxide film formed on a silicon substrate A method for forming a semiconductor device includes placing a Si substrate and an Sc2O3 powder source in an oxide chamber, and vaporizing the Sc2O3 powder source in the oxide chamber so as to form a single crystal Sc... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235965 | Motor bearing wear detecting device Reinforcing rings are provided around the cylindrical outer surface of a stator can of a canned motor, near the front and rear ends of a stator of the canned motor respectively. An axial position detecting coil A is wound around the cylindrical outer surface of at l... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236069 | Adjustable resonator filter An adjustable resonator filter (200), the operating band of which can be shifted by a one-time adjustment. The natural frequency of each resonator (210, 220) is affected, in addition to the basic tuning arrangement, by an adjustment circuit (ACI), whic... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7234194 | Cleaning article There is disclosed a cleaning article including a brush portion. The brush portion has a plurality of strips and at least one layer of a fiber bundle. ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7234458 | Laminated heating body A laminated heating body permits free adjustment of temperature to be felt on a user's skin by varying condition of a cover sheet on a surface thereof. The laminated heating body includes a heating body and a cover sheet covering the heating body. The cover sheet is... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7234193 | Cleaning article There is disclosed a cleaning article including a brush portion. The brush portion has a plurality of strips and at least one layer of a fiber bundle. ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235287 | Biodegradable laminated sheet The biodegradable sheet is a laminated sheet including at least two layers. Each of the layers forming the laminated sheet is a resin composition comprising 75 to 25% by mass of a polylactic acid resin, and 25 to 75% by mass of a polyester resin having a glass trans... | 06/26/2007 |
| D545472 | Arm-mount flood light | 06/26/2007 |
| D545480 | Glare stopper shade | 06/26/2007 |
| D545471 | Thirty degree wall mount floodlight | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235314 | Inter layers for perpendicular recording media A magnetic recording medium, the order of layers in which is the substrate, the soft underlayer, the seedlayer, the 1st RuCrx-containing interlayer, the 2nd RuCrx-containing interlayer and the magnetic recording layer with... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235402 | Scalable bioreactor culture process and system for the maturation of conifer somatic embryos A bioreactor culture system and process for producing conifer somatic embryos comprise a closed vessel, a biomass immobilization matrix, a liquid culture medium recirculating equipment, and a gas control equipment. The biomass immobilization matrix is installed in a... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7232422 | Steerable catheter A catheter includes a pull wire which extends through two different lumen and attaches to the distal end of the catheter at an off-axis location. By tensioning the pull wire, the catheter can assume various complex curves, depending on the respective lumen through w... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7232327 | Socket for attaching an electronic component An electronic part attachment socket includes a socket housing including an electronic part housing section with an open top into which all or part of an electronic part is housed; and contacts are supported by a socket housing and form an elastic contact with the t... | 06/19/2007 |
