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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8390234 | Method for the automated startup and/or for the automated operation of controllers of an electrical drive system with vibrational mechanics as well as an associated device A method for automated startup and/or for automated operation of controllers of an electrical drive system with vibrational mechanics with the following steps: (a) determining a preliminary value of at least one parameter; (b) determining a model of the electrical d... | 03/05/2013 |
| D674804 | Manual support for a tablet personal computer | 01/22/2013 |
| D673910 | Converter | 01/08/2013 |
| 8323550 | Method for constructing a bridge decking panel Bridge decking panels are cast in a form that has at least one and preferably two or more channel-forming sheets attached to the bottom wall of the form and extending from wall to wall. Each sheet is dimensioned to receive an anchor plate assembly and form a channel... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8316549 | Compound leverage hand tool with interchangeable tool head A compound leverage hand tool with an interchangeable tool head. The tool includes a pair of pivotably interconnected handles and a tool head defined by a pair of pivotably interconnected blade members. Each blade member terminates at one end in a mounting dowel tha... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8310113 | Multiple armature linear motor/alternator having magnetic spring with no fringe fields and increased power output An electromagnetic, reciprocating linear motor or alternator having at least two armatures that are adjacent along an axis of reciprocation. The armatures have gaps that are linearly aligned along a gap path parallel to the axis. Field magnets reciprocate within the... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8307700 | Internal position and limit sensor for free piston machines A sensor for sensing the position of a reciprocating free piston in a free piston Stirling machine. The sensor has a disk mounted to an end face of the power piston coaxially with its cylinder and reciprocating with the piston The disk includes a rim around its oute... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8241728 | Stone, metal and tar laminate for exterior cladding An exterior cladding that combines the benefits of stone, metal and tar in a laminate form that makes the most with the least expensive forms of each of these three base materials. A construction laminate having an asphaltic core body covered with a metallic facing ... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8173191 | Knotting system for a dough strand The invention relates to a device and a method for the automated production of knotted dough products, in particular pretzels. Said device comprises: a shaping table (2) for horizontally supporting a U-shaped bent dough strand (46); a shaping tool (... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8166595 | Bridge decking panel with fastening systems A bridge decking panel and structures for attaching the panel to supporting bridge beams and to other such panels at abutting ends. An anchor plate assembly is cast within a paving material and has a pair of parallel runner bars extending along the decking panel and... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8150606 | Ignition system, easy to start for internal combustion engines An electrical ignition method for a combustion engine employing the use of an arrangement of several coils and a magnet wheel or magnet generator which rotates synchronously with the combustion engine, wherein the magnetic field of the magnet generator intermittentl... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8124420 | Reagent, a kit, and a method for detecting and identifying a wide range of illicit drugs A reagent for detecting and identifying a chemical substance. The reagent is an emulsion including a cobalt salt dissolved in water which also includes at least one organic solvent that is at least partly water-miscible and also including an organic compound which s... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122843 | Vehicle fuel efficiency monitor and signalling device A fuel efficiency signal device intended to be interposed between the accelerator pedal of a vehicle and a floor below the pedal. The signal device has wedge shaped, flexible walled, self supporting air container having walls sealingly blended to adjacent walls to f... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8098031 | Active brake unit The invention relates to a circuit arrangement for recirculating the energy produced during the braking of electric motors into a supply system. The object of the invention is to implement the feeding of the energy that can be obtained when braking electric motors t... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8070184 | Supplemental automotive restraint for pregnant women A Supplemental Automotive Restraint System for Pregnant Women has a protective shell structure with integral “Pelvic Yoke and Crotch Post”, “Breast Plate”, structural “Abdominal Bridge/Shell” over the abdomen between the “Pelvic Yoke” and the “Brea... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069519 | Bridge decking panel with fastening systems and method for casting the decking panel A bridge decking panel and structures for attaching the panel to supporting bridge beams. An anchor plate assembly is cast within a paving material and has a pair of parallel runner bars extending along the decking panel and spaced apart by the width of a supporting... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8058700 | Surge overcurrent protection for solid state, smart, highside, high current, power switch An improvement for a smart, highside, high current, power switch module formed in an integrated circuit having at least one composite MOS/FET transistor switch connected to controlling and protection circuits. The power switch module has a load terminal (L), a batte... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8051984 | Windowed seed pack envelope with wrap around window A seed envelope having a window formed with an aperture extending not only through and entirely across the front panel of the envelope from one side edge to the laterally opposite side edge but also further extending beyond the side edges and onto the back of the en... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8032292 | Electrical ignition method for internal combustion engines An ignition procedure for internal combustion engines using multiple coils of a generator coupled to and turning synchronously with the engine. A magnetic field flows through the coils and generates a sequence of alternating current half waves induced in the coils. ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8011183 | Resonant stator balancing of free piston machine coupled to linear motor or alternator A beta-type free-piston Stirling cycle engine or cooler is drivingly coupled to a linear alternator or linear motor and has an improved balancing system to minimize vibration without the need for a separate vibration balancing unit. The stator of the linear motor or... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8008878 | System for seamless estimation of speed and/or position, including standstill of a permanent magnet rotor of an electric motor Procedure for determining the electrical drive speed (ωef) and/or position (φe) in a permanent magnet rotor of a brushless electrical linear or rotary motor from a measurement of a multi-phase stator current (i1,i2). Spe... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7999498 | System for estimation of position and speed in a permanent magnet rotor of an electrical motor Procedure for estimating the electrical drive speed and position of a permanent magnet rotor of a brushless electrical linear or rotating motor, especially for a drive control circuit, using multi-phase current measurements on the motor, whose measurement values, de... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7944158 | Controlled electric motor arrangement for a tension mechanism A field-oriented control method for an electric drive comprising a plurality of electric motors, for implementing a tension mechanism, especially for load cable and/or gearing means, using measurements of a polyphase motor actual current. The measured values are tra... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7920069 | Audible, piezoelectric signal with integral visual signal A combined and integrated audible and visual signal. A signal case is constructed of a light transmissive material and includes an exposed front end cover with one or more sound transmitting apertures and a tubular wall extending transversely from the exposed end co... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7911328 | Capture and remote reproduction of haptic events in synchronous association with the video and audio capture and reproduction of those events Method and apparatus for reproducing and applying reproductions of haptic vibrations that occur at a live activity to a remote video and audio viewer. In synchronism with sensing visible and audible stimuli to generate video and audio signals representing the video ... | 03/22/2011 |
| D634272 | Electrical motor | 03/15/2011 |
| 7894336 | Breakdown and decoupling tolerant communications network, a data path switching device and a corresponding method The invention relates to a method for tolerating the breakdown and/or decoupling of at least one network node in a communication network used for controlling and/or adjusting the movement of a plurality of machine parts, for example the rotation bodies in a printing... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7846740 | Method and kit for detecting explosive substances containing certain oxidants The invention relates to a method for detecting an explosive substance which contains chlorate, bromate and/or organic peroxide, wherein a suspect substance is contacted with a first reagent, which is a strongly acid solution of at least one primary or secondary aro... | 12/07/2010 |
| D628154 | Electrical motor | 11/30/2010 |
| 7785353 | Integral, articulated, pedicle screw and longitudinal member for spinal osteosynthesis A pedicle screw is pre-connected to a longitudinal member by an articulation joint. The articulation range is through an angle extending at least from a 90° angle between the longitudinal axis of the pedicle screw and the longitudinal axis of the longitudinal membe... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7784184 | Involute foil regenerator method A regenerator having a plurality of involute foils disposed in an annular gap between an inner cylindrical tube and an outer cylindrical tube. The involute shape of the foils provides uniform spacing throughout the entire regenerator and substantial surface area for... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7759527 | Microwave induced one pot process for the preparation of arylethenes The invention entitled “A Microwave Induced One Pot Process for The Preparation of Arylethenes” provides a method for the preparation of commercially important 2- or 4-hydroxy substituted arylethenes like styrenes or stilbenes in one pot utilizing cheaper substr... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7754694 | Pyrrolo[2, 1-C][1, 4]benzodiazepine-glycoside prodrug useful as a selective anti tumor agent The present invention provides pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzodiazepine-glycoside prodrug of general formula 1a-b, useful as selective anticancer agents. The present invention also provides a process for the preparation of pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzodiazepine-glycoside prodru... | 07/13/2010 |
| D619456 | Lid for tumbler or jar | 07/13/2010 |
| 7744133 | Jointed head with temporary clamp for stirling machine A clamping apparatus for allowing pre-close-out access to the head of a Stirling machine and facilitating subsequent close-out welding of the head. The head is axially separable into removable and fixed portions that engage each other. Each portion has an annular fl... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7701075 | Hybrid electrical power source combining stirling engine driven alternator with supplementing electrical energy storage An electrical power source including a free-piston Stirling engine driving an alternator to supply power through a bus to a user load and controlled by an engine/alternator controller. A bidirectional DC/DC converter is connected between a battery and the bus. The s... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7692339 | Stirling cycle engine To provide a less expensive and high-efficient free-piston Stirling cycle machine with an outer diameter of entire machine being relatively small. In a Stirling cycle cooler as a free-piston Stirling cycle machine including a cylinder 7, a piston 18 wh... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7685818 | Connection of a free-piston stirling machine and a load or prime mover permitting differing amplitudes of reciprocation The reciprocatable power piston of a free-piston Stirling machine is drivingly linked to a reciprocatable component body of an associated apparatus by at least one spring with no rigid connection linking the piston to the component body. The spring drive linkage all... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7672106 | Switching incandescent lamps and other variable resistance loads with a solid state, smart, high side driver having overcurrent and temperature sensing protection circuits A circuit and method for controlling a smart, high side driver with current and temperature sensing so that it can turn ON a relatively high current load of incandescent lamps or similar loads within a practical time. The output of the high side driver is sensed. In... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7657309 | Measuring human heart muscle viability using myocardial electrical impedance A method for detecting a quantitative measure of a physiologic state of a human myocardium or coronary artery. Implementations of the method detect the extent of change of myocardial electrical impedance from a mean baseline value to provide diagnosis of the extent ... | 02/02/2010 |
