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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7123262 | Method of animating a synthesized model of a human face driven by an acoustic signal The method permits the animation of a synthesised model of a human face in relation to an audio signal. The method is not language dependent and provides a very natural animated synthetic model, being based on the simultaneous analysis of voice and facial movements,... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7113791 | Method for assessing the characteristics of a network for mobile telecommunications apparatuses A method of assessing traffic and performance characteristics of a mobile telecommunications network in terms of the level of service has inputs as to performance requirements for voice traffic and voice loss, data traffic or data loss, information with respect to t... | 09/26/2006 |
| D527481 | Flashlight | 08/29/2006 |
| 7086996 | Balance re-trainer A balance training apparatus for supporting an individual with a limited liability to maintain his or her on balance has a pair of vertical support rods connected to a base by joints which include lower elastic parts tending to bias the user into an upright position... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7067043 | Coke oven door with gas channel A coke oven has a coke-oven chamber adapted to hold a mass of coke, defining above the mass of coke a gas-collecting chamber, and having a door opening. A door closes the door opening. A peripheral gas channel extends around the opening between the door and coke-ove... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7056723 | Method for the recovery and purification of poxviruses from infected cells The present invention relates to a method for the recovery of poxviruses, in particular modified Vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA), from infected cells. According to the present invention the virus-infected cells are subjected to a high-pressure homogenization to obtain a... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7055670 | Sorting apparatus An apparatus for sorting identical flat-bottomed objects has a vibratory conveyor defining a generally horizontal support surface. A plurality of the objects are supplied to an upstream end of the surface standing on their flat bottoms and the objects travel along t... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7052000 | Liquid distributor and method for operating the same A liquid distributor for packed or filled columns having a multiplicity of horizontal layers involved in heat transfer or mass transfer. At least one layer of the column has an increased density by comparison with the other layers and is designed specifically for fl... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054680 | Device for detecting electrical potentials in the forehead-area of a patient The invention relates to a device for detecting electrical potentials on a patient. The device comprises an electrode device that is applied in the area of the forehead, this electrode device being located on a forehead support element (6) which is connected ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053082 | 2,3-benzodiazepine derivatives The invention relates to new 2,3-benzodiazepine derivatives of general Formula (I), (wherein R1 stands for methyl, formyl, carboxy, cyano, —CH═NOH, —CH═NNHCONH2 or —NR5R6, wherein R5 and R6 ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049555 | Electrical sleeve heater A sleeve heater has an electrical and generally cylindrical heater coil centered on an axis and shaped to fit over a part to be heated, a radially compressible and generally cylindrical inner sleeve snugly coaxially surrounding the heater coil, and a radially genera... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7048547 | Plug A printed-circuit board is formed at a front edge with a cutout. A plug has a base body adapted to fit in the cutout and formed with a pair of shoulders bearing flatly on the board at edges of the cutout. A pair of wing-shaped connecting elements project oppositely ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7049506 | Conductor system A protected conduit for use in a downhole environment, e.g. in a well, which has first and second metallic impermeable layers and an extrudate layer between the impermeable layers. A conductor extends between the two metal impermeable layers and serves for the trans... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046990 | Method for detecting access to controlled areas and related system A controlled area (A) is configured as a telecommunications cellular system location area, connection of cellular system mobile terminals (T) to such location area (A) is checked. A detected connection indicates that the bearer of the terminal (T) accessed the contr... | 05/16/2006 |
| D520879 | Perfume bottle with bulb atomizer | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043843 | Device for cutting pastry The invention relates to a device for cutting pastry, with limbs (3, 4), connected to each other by means of a hinge point and a large opening angle between the limbs (3, 4). According to the invention the pastry should also be cut with little applicat... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040479 | Erecting box blanks on a conveyor A supply holds a flattened box blank above a conveyor passing having a succession of box seats, and a planet carrier is rotated by its own drive about a sun axis between the supply and the conveyor. A single planetary element on the carrier offset from the sun axis ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7041181 | Coated steel part with regions of different ductility A hardenable steel workpiece having two regions is first hardened so that both regions are of generally the same low ductility. Then only one of the regions is hot coated so as to increase the ductility of the one region while not heating and changing the ductility ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042567 | Imaging method and apparatus for the non-destructive analysis of paintings and monuments This invention refers to an imaging method and apparatus capable of performing non-destructive, in situ analysis of art-objects. The invention relays on the comparison of diffuse reflectance and/or fluorescence spectra (intensity vs. wavelength), of painting materia... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036866 | Retractable roof for passenger vehicles, especially a hard top two-seater convertibles roadsters, or similar A convertible motor vehicle has a seat, a trunk behind the seat, and a storage compartment extending transversely of the direction behind the seat and forward of the trunk and extending laterally of the seat in the direction forward past the seat. An arcuate and rig... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036552 | Method and device for hardening foundry cores The invention relates to a method for hardening foundry cores from sand-containing molding materials. The core, for the purpose of hardening it, is subjected to a catalyst vapor/gas mixture in a core molding tool (20). and then to a pressurized air flow, at a... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039401 | Physical private mobile telecommunications network A supranational and inter-PLMN physical private mobile telecommunications network includes at least one first (1) and one second (2) physical node that can cooperate with the respective different public mobile networks (PLMN1, PLMN2), , , ) referably l... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7033311 | Cleaning device for drum centrifuge A centrifuge having a drum rotatable in a predetermined direction about a drum axis has a cleaning device with a cleaning shaft extending generally parallel to the drum axis into the drum along a shaft axis. A pair of elongated slat-shaped cutters have inner ends fi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031704 | System for managing the identity of mobile stations roaming between mobile radio networks System for managing the identities of mobile stations roaming between mobile radio networks, operating within a private mobile radio network, constituted by one or more base transceiver stations (BTS; Node B) and by a reference base station controller (BSC; RNC), wh... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028523 | Rails for supplying media The invention relates to a device which enables the actuators and consumers provided on a roll stand for rolling metallic and non-metallic strips to be supplied with operating media. The inventive device comprises a self-supporting construction module consisting of ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028406 | Deburring tool with replaceable blade A knife body is formed with a front-end holding face and rearward therefrom with a transverse pivot and a longitudinal guide. A blade can fit with the body holding face and project from the body front end. A rocker on the pivot has another holding face and a pair of... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7029116 | Innovative minus power lens and processing methods thereof Innovative ophthalmic lens for nearsightedness, manufactured as a finished or semi-finished lens, lighter and thinner at the edges, with a wide visual field and cosmetically attractive, featuring a spherical centre and an aspherical periphery, both asymmetrical to t... | 04/18/2006 |
| D518879 | Rotary handle for a sanitary fixture water valve | 04/11/2006 |
| 7026591 | Device and procedure for cooking a food product with microwaves A utensil for cooking pasta in a microwave oven has an upstanding tubular central portion through which a drive shaft extends of a mixing member which fits over that central tubular portion and extends downwardly in the utensil. The drive shaft is driven by a motor ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7025203 | Portable carrying gun case with flexible holding tapes A portable gun case has a generally rectangular floor wall having two long side edges and two short end edges bridging the side edges, respective side and end walls projecting upward from the respective edges of the floor wall and forming an upwardly open cavity, an... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7025118 | Method and device for continuously casting ingots, slabs or thin slabs A continuously cast strand is subjected to soft reduction between the guide rollers below the mold and between the soft reduction stretch and the mold the strand is subjected to format or thickness reduction between at least one pair of position controlled guide rol... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024899 | Roll assembly for a rolling mill A roll shaft assembly especially for a planetary cross roll rolling mill for tubing and the like has the roll shaft and mill roll connected by a conical centering arrangement and a screw, preferably coaxial therewith with the torque transfer being effected by tooth ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7021972 | Miniplug connector assembly An electrical connector assembly has a socket body and a plurality of conductors having tips exposed at one side of the socket body. A dielectric plug body is formed with a row of straight and longitudinally extending guides open at a front side of the plug body. Th... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7021577 | Multi-roller crusher The invention relates to a multi-roller crusher for the comminuting of mineral mill-feed, whereby the crushing roll are provided with crushing teeth, extending in the circumferential and longitudinal axial directions. Viewed in plan, the crushing teeth are arranged ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7021029 | Method of wrapping an object stack with a stretchable flat tube A stack of object is wrapped by first transversely outwardly stretching a tube having open ends and then pulling the transversely outwardly stretched tube over the stack to a position with the tube extending generally a full length of the stack and one open end of t... | 04/04/2006 |
| D518403 | Necklace with pendant | 04/04/2006 |
| D518109 | Illuminated display panel | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017965 | Motor-vehicle cargo net A motor vehicle has a safety apparatus having an extensible safety net having an outer edge, a rigid end element provided on the outer edge and having a fitting, and a holder on the motor-vehicle body having a seat in which the fitting is engageable when the net is ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7018232 | Wiring module for automotive vehicle A wiring module for an automotive vehicle facilitates pulsed or continuous operation of a load from continuous positive or negative inputs or from inputs which can be connected to a positive type or negative type car alarm. The module has a sealed housing with a rel... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7018187 | Apparatus for smoothing and cooling a synthetic resin web produced by a slit nozzle An apparatus for smoothing and cooling of slit nozzle synthetic web passes the web following the smoothing gap between two rollers along a cooled surface and into contact with cold air introduced by cold air chamber open toward the roller surface. ... | 03/28/2006 |
