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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6306072 | Method and system for production and decentralized delivery of printed products The inventive method bases on a consequent realization of the following two conditions: firstly on the consequent separation of the "immaterial or virtual sphere" of information from the "material or real sphere" of the paper and secondly on the consequen... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6307389 | Test device for flat electronic assemblies A test device for testing an electronic board assembly with an exposed surface area with electrical connection locations to be contacted for testing includes a probe (32, 45) and a drive system for positioning the probe in orthogonal X and Y directions pa... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6274209 | Semipermeable venting closure A venting cap (1) has a cavity (7), at least one first passage (4) for fluids connecting the cavity (7) with the inside of the container, at least one second passage (5.1, 5.2, 5) for fluids connecting the cavity (7) with the outside of the container, and... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6217207 | Current creating device and method for liquefaction of thickened crude oil sediments Liquefaction of sludgy to compact sediments (3) in vessels (1) in which crude oil (2) is stored and/or transported uses injecting a liquid above the sediment surface with nozzles (11) so that the sediment is at least partly liquified or dissolved in the l... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6192192 | Instantaneous water heater A continuous flow heater has an elastic, flexible or rigid pipe (10) which is movably mounted and a heat source (6). When a liquid flowing through the pipe is heated in the pipe interior (1), undesired scale tends to be deposited on the interior of the pi... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6188235 | System and method for verifying proper connection of an integrated circuit to a circuit board A test method for verifying proper connection of a CMOS IC uses measurements of a transistor within the IC which can be done with a conventional transistor tester. The transistor has its base connected to a ground pin of the IC, its collector connected to... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6126078 | Identification medium with passive electronic data carrier storing a plurality of independent applications An identification medium with passive electronic data carrier and contactless, encoded communication with an associated read and write station (WR) has in a memory (42) a data organization with a common data field (CDF), with invariable, uncopiable master... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6095510 | Method for binding a plurality of groups of sheets A printed product (70) is produced from a plurality of product parts (71, 73, 75) consisting each of a plurality of sheets folded inside each other, by collating the folded product parts in a stack and by stitching the stack along a stitching line running... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6092766 | Process for forming a surface for contact with a flowing fluid and body with such surface regions A surface for contact with a fluid, flowing in a flow direction (A) over the surface, is provided with grooves (1) to prevent flow separations at low, local Reynolds numbers. The grooves extend between an upstream-directed, closed groove entrance and a do... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6073316 | Watchstrap clasp A clasp fastener having a clasp (1) is designed to be snapped into engagement by exerting a closing force. A locking device (4) for locking the clasp (1) is placed by the closing force in an engaged position in which it is in a first snap engagement with ... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6070391 | Method for producing printed products and products produced thereby In a method for producing a predetermined sequence of printed products with varying contents and varying numbers of pages, the pages of a printed product of the sequence are printed onto both sides of a quasi-endless paper web [P] in the form of at least ... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6068743 | Brain-pO2 measuring device A measuring device for determining the oxygen partial pressure in human brain tissue has a probe (5) with a tube (7) of tissue-compatible plastic material in a measuring region surrounding an electrolyte-filled volume (8). Immersed in the electrolyte, whi... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6064202 | Spinning current method of reducing the offset voltage of a hall device The method serves for dynamically compensating the offset voltage of a Hall device. The Hall device can have either a platelike structure with at least two contact pairs, or any other arrangement deriveable by conformal mapping. The contact pairs are angl... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6063086 | Bipolar endoscopic instrument A bipolar endoscopic instrument has a tubular stem fitted at its distal end with two arms pivotally supported on a shaft. The arms are pivoted by actuating an axially displaceable push/pull element mounted in the stem. The arms are connected through mutua... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6053631 | Plastic case with a support body for an electronic device A plastic case for an electronic device such as a wrist or pocket watch, has a bottom (1), a cover glass (2) and a support body (3), as well as a dial (6). The support body (3) serves as a base for the dial (6). The bottom (1) and cover glass (2) are fixe... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6033404 | Endoscopic surgical device An endoscopic surgical device has a tubular shaft and an instrument carrier inside and moveable relative to the tubular shaft. A switch mechanism with which the device may be selectively switched into different operational states is coupled to movement of... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6029819 | Arrangement for feeding flat sample bags into further processing Discrete lengths of a web (1) of sample bags are each arranged in a container in an ordered manner such that each web can be removed from its container (13) without additional aids by pulling on a head end (A) of the web length, and so that the tail end (... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6029968 | Method for producing multi-leaf printed products consisting of sheets folded inside each other A method with which multi-leaf printed products (50) are produced which printed products consist of a plurality of sheets folded inside each other. Especially if this kind of printed products are to be produced from a plurality of product parts, groups of... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6023528 | Non-edit multiple image font processing of records A sequence of documents is delivered to an optical scanner in which each document is scanned to form a digital image representation of the content of the document. The image representation is automatically examined by data processing apparatus to select s... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6015518 | Method of making a device for conducting a fluid between a space bounded by a fixed surface and a duct The device according to the invention is used for conducting a fluid between a space at least partly bounded by a solid surface through which a fluid can flow and a duct, a high surface continuity of the fluid flow through the surface being achieved with ... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6009823 | Marine scoop strainer with cleaning access A scoop strainer has a rim to attach the strainer to an outer surface of a hull of a marine vessel over a through-hull fitting intended to admit water to the interior of the hull. The strainer has small openings therethrough to pass water but not large un... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5999344 | Endoscopic telescope with rod lenses spaced by spacer tubes An endoscopic telescope has a system tube in which spacer tubes are alternatingly stacked with rod lenses each having an external diameter smaller than the inside diameter of the system tube and which have convex end faces supported against the axial ends... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5992739 | Movable object carrying electronically stored data to be read and or/overwritten by a non-contact reading/writing device The invention concerns a movable object, e.g. a roll of printed products (1) with a winding core (2) onto which printed products are wound with the help of a winding tape (3). The inventive movable object carries data stored in an integrated circuit (23) ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5993213 | Superstructure for an endosteal dental implant A superstructure (1) for an endosteal dental implant (2) has a longitudinal axis (11) and an outer surface (12), which has buccal, lingual, mesial and distal regions, and an annular surface (8) which is intended for the connection to a dental implant (2) ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5987049 | Mode locked solid-state laser pumped by a non-diffraction-limited pumping source and method for generating pulsed laser radiation by pumping with a non-diffraction-limited pumping beam A pulsed solid-state laser comprises an optical resonator and a solid-state laser medium placed inside the optical resonator. A saturable absorber, such as a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror device for passive mode locking is placed inside the opti... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5979308 | Flat embossing machine with a foil loop store A flat embossing machine for flat material (5) to be embossed has a flat press (2), an embossing table (3) and a tool plate (4). At least one foil web (6) passes through foil loop stores (10, 20) each with a differential pressure device (30) for shaping a... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5976077 | Surgical endoscopic instrument A surgical endoscopic instrument for surgery in a region directly underneath a layer of tissue covering a body cavity and traversed by the instrument which has a tubular sleeve with an operating duct and an optical system. The optical system image guide e... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5971908 | Laboratory centrifuge with electric motor A laboratory centrifuge has a centrifuge rotor supported on a stator and rotatable on a bearing about an axis of rotation. An electric motor drives the rotor and has pole pieces at a stationary part mounted on the stator and a rotatable part directly atta... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5971540 | Magnifying spectacles with variable focus, variable magnification factor and automatic parallax compensation Magnifying spectacles for surgical use have an automatic focusing device, a device for automatically altering the magnification factor and a device for automatic parallax compensation corresponding to the current focal length. During surgical operations, ... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5971631 | Optical windows A surveillance camera assembly has an apparatus (9-15) for providing a rotatable field of view in a plane with a tilted mirror (15) rotatable about an axis normal to the plane, and a window (5) subtending at least a 90° field of view and as much as a sub... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5961758 | Process for manufacturing booklets For manufacturing printed products such as books or booklets consisting of a stack of paper sheets adhesively joined together and folded along a middle line, a plurality of paper webs are brought together to form a stack of paper layers moving continuousl... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5961268 | Method and device for adhesive binding of printed products According to the inventive method for joining product parts by means of a glued spine, the juxtaposed edges of the stacked product parts which form the spine area (2) of the product in process are pre-treated with a tearing tool (4) e.g. with a rotating b... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5947760 | Contacting arrangement for multicore flat cables A contacting apparatus for interconnecting first and second groups of conductors has a first group of conductors lying in a plane parallel with a longitudinal axis. A first conductor is spaced a first distance from the axis. A second conductor has a first... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5944189 | Sample bags having thickened regions Sample bags are produced from webs of film material by forming longitudinal seams and longitudinally spaced transverse seams and by filling the bags with a sample product between forming the transverse seams. In order to make the bags easier to handle, th... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5933554 | Compact optical-optical switches and wavelength converters by means of multimode interference mode converters New, compact optical--optical switches and/or wavelength converters manufacturable with good tolerances and evincing all or some of the following properties, compactness good ON/OFF switching ratios possibility of cascading and bidirectional operation polariza... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5926565 | Computer method for processing records with images and multiple fonts A sequence of documents is delivered to an optical scanner in which each document is scanned to form a digital image representation of the content of the document. The image representation is automatically examined by data processing apparatus to select s... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5921541 | Suction device with bending template A suction device for handling light, flat and bendable articles has a suction line and a sucker at an end of the suction line. The sucker has a suction lip made of an elastically deformable material for individually contacting and lifting articles. A lip-... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5911724 | Instrument for adjustment osteotomy of a lower extremity An instrument for performing a correctional osteotomy of a lower extremity of a patient has a securing frame (1), fixation elements (7, 8) for attaching the frame to the skeleton of the lower extremity of the patient, and securing components (6, 9) adjust... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5892212 | Nomographic computing device A nomographic apparatus for providing solutions to a mathematical relationship has a panel and several scales along three axes on a surface of the panel, the scales being arranged and calibrated in a nomographic relationship so that values on a straight l... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5891100 | Securing device for brain scan probes A device for inserting holding and sealing a brain scan probe in a cranial opening has a screw in the cranial opening, an insertion catheter with a probe therein extending through a bore in the screw and a pinch seal in the screw for hermetically sealing ... | 04/06/1999 |
