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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7909185 | Wrap and roll light cord holder A lightweight storage device for objects strung on a cord or cords includes an elongated rod having two ends and being made of lightweight material, a foot on each end of the elongated rod; and a plurality of separating elements spaced along the elongated rod where ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7905592 | Rimless eyeglasses Rimless eyeglasses are provided, which do not produce loosening in a connecting area between an eyeglass lens and a lens fixing portion, and which also allows for the easy attachment or removal of a lens. The rimless eyeglasses include eyeglass lenses and as eyeglas... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7901308 | Pulley for a continuously variable transmission A pulley for a continuously variable transmission is provided with a fixed half-pulley fitted on a supporting shaft and a mobile half-pulley, which is able to slide towards the fixed half-pulley under the thrust of a spring, so as to define a V-shaped race of variab... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7897990 | Semiconductor light emitting element mounting member, and semiconductor light emitting device employing it A semiconductor light-emitting element mounting member with an improved effective light reflectivity in a metal film serving as an electrode layer and/or a reflective layer, in which the metal layer has improved adhesion to a substrate, mechanical strength, and reli... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7891992 | Press-fit contact A press-fit contact including a contact body with a square cross section and including a connecting region, a press-in region, and a tip region. Two legs are integrally formed within the contact body. The two legs originate at the connecting region and extend to the... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7891649 | Sheet feeder for supplying a conveying arrangement with folded signatures A sheet feeder for supplying a conveying device with folded signatures from a stack of folded signatures, the sheet feeder including a gripper drum. The gripper drum includes at least one gripper to individually remove respective signatures and a stopping device. Th... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7887194 | Simplified planetarium apparatus and simplified image projecting apparatus Light emitted from a light source passes through a stellar base plate, a fixed aperture, and a wide-angled projection lens via a condenser lens and projects a starry sky on a screen. The stellar base plate is a light-shielding disk having a number of through holes w... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886490 | Strand There is provided a strand that can reduce the trouble in constructing an object to which compression force is applied by the strand and that can keep the construction cost down. A strand 1 is placed in a bore hole provided in a wall or roof surface, a... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7875906 | Photodetector and production method thereof The invention offers a photodetector that has an N-containing InGaAs-based absorption layer having a sensitivity in the near-infrared region and that suppresses the dark current and a production method thereof. The photodetector is provided with an InP substrate ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7874046 | Apparatus on a spinning preparation machine for monitoring and/or adjusting clearances at components An apparatus on a spinning preparation machine for monitoring and/or adjusting clearances at components has a clothed, high-speed roller located facing at least one clothed and/or unclothed component and the clearance between the components facing one another is alt... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7869373 | High-availability network systems One aspect of the invention comprises a method of operating a network for providing services to subscribers, the network including a configuration system comprising: a core system comprising primary and secondary cores, each core being separately capable of controll... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7862244 | Optical module providing a sleeve burying a tubular member An optical module with a sleeve assembly is disclosed. The sleeve assembly, which receives a ferrule secured in an end of the optical connector and is primarily made of resin material, provides a buried member made of a material, typically meal, having a polygonal c... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7851392 | Lightweight nonwoven fire retardant barrier A non-woven flame retardant barrier can be prepared from low denier, charring fibers and substantially free of polymers made from halogenated monomers. The charring fibers can be modified viscose fibers, for example Visil®. The blend of low denier fibers can be, fo... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7830933 | Optical transmitter providing a plurality of transmitter units each having a thermo-electric cooler connected in series to each other An optical transmitter with a plurality of transmitter units each providing a Peltier device is disclosed. The Peltier devices of the invention are connected in series with respect to the driver, accordingly, even when the Peltier devices show a relative low impedan... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7812853 | Device for setting up, adjusting and/or controlling an apparatus for processing printed products A device is provided for setting up, adjusting, and/or controlling an apparatus that cyclically processes printed products. The device includes a lighting unit having at least one light source directed toward a processing area of the apparatus. The light source is c... | 10/12/2010 |
| D624495 | Inverter | 09/28/2010 |
| 7788771 | Apparatus on a spinning room machine, especially a spinning preparation machine, for depositing fibre sliver In an apparatus on a spinning room machine for depositing fiber sliver, a stationary delivery device for delivering fiber sliver and a substantially flat receiving support surface for receiving and collecting the fiber sliver as a can-less fiber sliver package are p... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7784784 | Method and apparatus for transferring printed products conveyed in an shingled flow to a transporter with circulating clamps An apparatus and method for transferring printed products conveyed in a shingled flow in a conveying direction by a conveyor to a transporter positioned above the conveyor. The shingled flow is conveyed with circulating clamps. Each printed product respectively proj... | 08/31/2010 |
| D620655 | Vacuum cleaner apparatus | 07/27/2010 |
| D620428 | Tire tread for off-road tire | 07/27/2010 |
| 7753372 | Apparatus for opening and depositing a signature An apparatus for opening and depositing a signature onto a transporting device includes a continuously rotating gripper cylinder having a first shaft and carrying at least one signature. First and second opening cylinders are arranged below the gripper cylinder to o... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7748315 | System and method for packaging cotton sliver A can-free system for handling fiber sliver includes a sliver delivery device which deposits fiber sliver in the form of a free-standing sliver pile in a depositing area. A sliver receiving device is disposed in the depositing area to receive and collect the free-st... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747081 | Identification of a photoelectric sensor array A photoelectric sensor array is labelled by accumulating charge, preferably charge from a dark current, in at least a portion of the sensor array and reading out the accumulated charge to form an image to determine locations of atypical pixels in the portion of the ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7739774 | Apparatus on a spinning preparation machine, for example, a draw frame, flat card, combing machine or the like, having at least two driven drafting systems In the case of an apparatus on a spinning preparation machine, e.g. a draw frame, flat card, combing machine or the like, in particular a double-head draw frame, with at least two driven drafting systems having force-transmitting means for driving drafting rollers o... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7737649 | Apparatus on a spinning room machine for monitoring an electric drive motor An apparatus on a spinning room machine, especially a spinning preparation machine, is arranged for monitoring an electric drive motor, which is connected to an electronic speed-setting and/or regulating device, a rotating operating element being connected to the dr... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7730591 | Apparatus on a flat card or roller card for textile fibres, such as cotton, synthetic fibres or the like, for removing short fibres An apparatus on a carding machine has a covering comprising work and cover elements lying opposite the clothing of a high-speed cylinder. There is, in succession, an air exhaust opening for the exit of air and an opening for entry of air, past which openings a flow ... | 06/08/2010 |
| D616971 | Sink | 06/01/2010 |
| 7718937 | Steering of missiles A beam-riding missile (10) has a freely rotating control portion (11) forming its nose and carrying a pair of fixed ailerons (13) and a pair of fixed elevators (14). Detecting means (not shown) gather information indicative of the locatio... | 05/18/2010 |
| D615173 | Toilet bowl | 05/04/2010 |
| 7691033 | Method for conducting a targeted training and a corresponding training device The invention relates to a method for a targeted training of the human body as well as a corresponding training device for realizing said method. The training device is used for the training of the body region (vertebral column) between shoulder girdle and pelvic gi... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7673374 | Apparatus at a spinning room machine, especially a flat card, roller card, cleaner or the like, for drawing a clothing onto a roller In an apparatus at a spinning room machine, especially a flat card, roller card, cleaner or the like, for drawing a clothing onto a roller using a drawing-on device, the spinning room machine has an electronic control and regulation device. In order to provide an ap... | 03/09/2010 |
| D611231 | Sports climbing shoe | 03/09/2010 |
| D610982 | Battery charger | 03/02/2010 |
| 7665188 | Apparatus on a carding machine for cotton, synthetic fibres and the like, in which at least one flat bar with a flat clothing is present In an apparatus on a carding machine for cotton, synthetic fibers and the like, in which at least one flat bar with a flat clothing is present, in which a clothing strip having a flat clothing, preferably wire hooks, arranged in a strip-form support element, is secu... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7658373 | Method for producing multi-part print products A method for producing multi-part print products includes supplying a folded main print product fold first to respectively one pouch of successively following pouches on a conveying device for a production line that includes a plurality of feeders. The folded main p... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7654789 | Apparatus for forming stacks with print products with ejection groove and lifting plates An apparatus for forming stacks with print products includes a platform on which respective stacks are formed. A lift comprised of two lift parts is arranged on the platform to lift up the print products. ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7614122 | Apparatus on a spinning preparation machine, especially a flat card, roller card, cleaner or the like, with a cooling system An apparatus on a spinning preparation machine, especially a flat card, roller card, cleaner or the like, with a cooling system, a roller has a cylindrical peripheral surface and a casing opposite to and spaced from this peripheral surface, a carding region where ca... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613204 | Communication timing control method and apparatus, node, and communication system Each node in a communication system transmits and receives state variable signals indicating internal node states or timings, generates transitions in its internal state or timing at a basic rate but at timings adjusted according to the received state variable signa... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7612879 | Method and device for three-dimensionally determining the refractive index of transparent or partially transparent layers The present invention relates to a method and a device for three-dimensionally determining the refractive index and, if necessary, the layer thickness of transparent or partially transparent layers in which the layer (1) is irradiated at different angles of i... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7611555 | Vacuum cleaner bag A vacuum cleaner bag includes a bottom part having a substantially rectangular base section. A projecting section is disposed proximate to at least one side of the base section. The projecting section, when folded up for the storage position, rests on the base secti... | 11/03/2009 |
