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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7633173 | Electronic controller matching engine power to alternator power and maintaining engine frequency for a free-piston stirling engine driving a linear alternator A feedback control method and circuit for inclusion in a control system of an electrical power generating source that comprises a free piston Stirling engine driving a linear alternator. An instantaneous value of a variable, Vinternal, is continuously der... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7631469 | Spacing device Spacing device has a body (2) and at least two guiding flanges (3, 4) which extend from the upper surface (5) of the body. The flanges are spaced approximately the width of the support means and are configures to locate the support means and the... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7625297 | Golf club shaft with adjustable stiffness A golf club shaft having adjustable stiffness. An elongated tensioning member extends through the shaft and is mounted to both ends of the shaft. A tensioner assembly is mounted to the shaft and is connected to the tensioning member for allowing manual adjustment of... | 12/01/2009 |
| PP20489 | plant named ‘Nedsyelo’ A new plant variety of Juniperus chinensis that is distinguished from its parent and all other varieties of Juniperus chinensis by having bright yellow-green needles combined with unusually slow growth and compact habit. ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7600464 | Multi-piece piston for a free piston machine The concentricity and coaxiality of a central bore through a piston for a free piston Stirling machine is improved with a piston that has a sleeve with a core constructed from at least two, separate, axially-engaging core components sealed within the sleeve. During ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7576458 | Dipping varnish-coated cooling shell of a housing for an electric machine A coolable housing shell for an electric machine, which is produced as a cast part, accommodates a concentric interior rotor/stator arrangement, coils, and end windings, and comprises a clear, open, through passage that is embodied in a symmetric, concentric, and/or... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7511459 | Controller computing a virtual tuning capacitor for controlling a free-piston stirling engine driving a linear alternator A feedback control circuit and method for a control system used to control an electrical power generating source that comprises a free piston Stirling engine driving a linear alternator. A switching mode rectifier connects the alternator winding to an output circuit... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7505600 | Processor control of an audio transducer A controller, either a microprocessor or finite state machine, is used to generate a pulse train whose frequency and duty cycle can be varied to alter the frequency and amplitude of the output of a driven audio transducer. The ability to control both frequency and a... | 03/17/2009 |
