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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6896255 | Sheet extracting device with a cassette for receiving a stack of sheets The invention relates to a cassette for receiving a stack of sheets, with a pressing element which bears against a first end face of the stack of sheets and is movable in the pressing direction, with a drive motor for displacing the pressing element so that a second... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6072208 | Dynamic random access memory fabricated with SOI substrate In a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a step produced by forming a stacked capacitor can be prevented from being produced and increased, thereby facilitating the patterning of an upper layer (wiring, etc.). Further, the pattern layout can be made with... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5967108 | Rotary valve system A complete rotary valve assembly and system is disclosed. The rotary valve includes a generally elongated valve body having first and second ends and a longitudinally extending axis of rotation. The rotary valve is mounted in a housing positioned above a ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5907311 | Electrode structure for plasma chamber of plasma addressed display device A liquid crystal cell and a plasma cell are layered together with a dielectric sheet in between. Data electrodes (column electrodes) are constructed to form parallel columns on the underside of an upper substrate in a display cell. Discharge channels fill... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5857359 | Knit slide fastener In a knit slide fastener in which a continuous fastener element row is knitted in a fastener element attaching marginal portion of each of fastener tapes simultaneously with the knitting of the fastener tape, the fastener element attaching marginal portio... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5846264 | Back-up pulse generator A back-up pulse generator for a pacemaker having a first energy storing component for storing energy to be delivered in a stimulation pulse and connectable to means for conducting the stimulation pulse to the heart, the back-up pulse generator including a... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5842240 | Fitting for an appliance such as a sink A fitting for an appliance such as a sink extends between an anchor means (16,112) on the appliance and another anchor means (32,114) on a worktop. The appliance can be fitted easily to the worktop, and can aslo be removed quickly.... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5839172 | Hook structure for molded surface fastener A surface fastener molded of synthetic resin, comprises a substrate sheet, and a multiplicity of hook elements molded on at least one surface of the substrate sheet, each hook element having a hook body having a stem and a curved portion. Each of the hook... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5840155 | Blower arrangement for detaching a metallized belt from a sheet and for providing a braking force on a sheet in a platen press A blower arrangement for detachment of a metallized belt from a sheet and for creating a braking force on a sheet, which belt and sheet are situated between platens of a press in a machine for printing sheet elements which comprises a bar arrangement near... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5839675 | Shredder support assembly and housing A housing including a support arm arrangement for a basket mounted paper shredder wherein the support arms have curved or rounded outside perimeters and at least one of the support arms has a curved or rounded inside support rib arrangement to more closel... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5836375 | Continuous casting mold A continuous casting mold for casting a strand has side walls defining an open-ended mold cavity. In order to increase the casting speed while maintaining a simple mode of construction of the continuous casting mold, the latter has the following character... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5830803 | Method for filling contact holes using a doctor blade The method produces liquid contacts in contact holes on a top side of a semiconductor component. The top side is not wettable by material provided for the liquid contacts. The walls and edges of the contact holes are wettable by the material. The contact ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5828090 | Charge transfer device A charge transfer device comprises a quantum wire and a one-dimensional quantum dots array extending helically, for example, and including quantum dots which are aligned in close relation to couple with each other and to surround the quantum wire. By appl... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5828086 | Semiconductor light emitting device with a Mg superlattice structure A semiconductor light emitting device ccomprises a first cladding layer, an active layer and a second cladding layer which are stacked on a semiconductor substrate. At least a part of the first cladding layer and the second cladding layer has a superlatti... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5824885 | Method intended for use in anaesthetic systems for identifying anaesthetics In order to keep a patient from being administered an incorrect anaesthetic, an erroneous concentration of an anaesthetic or a mixture of anaesthetics, an anaesthetic system can be equipped with a device for identifying anaesthetics in anaesthetic system.... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5823690 | Printer apparatus A printer apparatus in which a multi-nozzle print head can be produced at low cost and which can deal with changes caused with lapse of time. With the printer apparatus, effective resolution can be improved and a more accurate gradation level in picture p... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5819391 | Surface fastener and method of manufacturing the same A surface fastener comprising: a substrate sheet; a multiplicity of engaging elements projecting from on surface of the substrate sheet; and an elastic member laying over the one surface of the substrate sheet. The elastic member has an upper surface norm... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5816144 | Precision roll stand A precision roll stand includes a roll housing absorbing the rolling forces. In the roll housing rolls constituting a roll pair with their roll chocks are mounted so as to be rotatable and mutually adjustable by an adjustment device which changes the axia... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5818075 | Charge transfer device A charge transfer device comprising charge transfer means for transferring charges, a floating diffusion layer for accumulating the charges transferred from said charge transfer means, a floating gate electrode formed on said floating diffusion layer via ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5813380 | Suction control device for multiple cylinder internal combustion engine A suction control device for a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine comprising a shell body presenting a suction path communication to each cylinder in a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine, a rotary shaft (21a) penetrating and born by th... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5813514 | Automated end loading pallet system An automatic pallet changing system for an automatic machine that has at least two pallet extenders which can be operated to place and remove pallets on a receiver moved by the carriage of the automatic machine so that the pallets can be changed when mach... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5813572 | Toothpaste dispenser A dispenser particularly useful for dispensing toothpaste includes a tubular body closed at one end and having an opening for receiving the neck portion of a toothpaste tube extending therefrom, the dispenser includes an arrangement for squeezing the cont... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5812677 | Acoustic signal processing method and apparatus Main voice processing is performed on an acoustic signal at a basic sampling frequency fs within one period of the basic sampling frequency fs to allow the main voice processing implemented acoustic signal to undergo down-sampling for implementing voice p... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5811019 | Method for forming a hole and method for forming nozzle in orifice plate of printing head A method for a hole inclined relative to the direction of thickness of a workpiece by light energy. A groove is formed in an energy-concentrated portion of a plate as a workpiece for opening on a major surface of a plate operating as a light energy irradi... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5810233 | Device for separating blanks from a sheet of cut blanks A device for removing blanks which have been cut into a sheet of paper or cardboard and are separated from each other by intermediate strips and are surrounded by a crosswise frontal and a crosswise back strip and two lengthwise side strips. The device in... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5808868 | Electronic module with power components The protective housing (11) of the module IS placed in the manner of a cap on the outer edge (3) of a cooling body (1), on whose heat contact surface (5) facing the protective housing (11) lie the power components (9) or the circuit bearer (6) of a hybrid... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5808533 | Modular relay The modular relay has a base (1) on which a relay system (2, 3, 4) is constructed, as well as a printed circuit board (6) which stands upright on the base. Contact elements (41c, 42c, 43) of the relay are directly connected to flat connectors in the base,... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5807521 | Method and apparatus for cleaning and sterilizing a dental apparatus A method and apparatus for cleaning and sterilizing all parts of a dental apparatus head exposed to contamination in a practical and economical way includes a cleaning chamber, which may be either a separate unit or an integral part of an apparatus head w... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5803963 | Smart-fiber-reinforced matrix composites A system is provided including smart fibers which are employed to deliver agents or components to a matrix before or during cure to affect matrix cure or shaping reactions and final cured structures. The delivered agents may be reactants or catalysts to i... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5803934 | Method of producing an electrode layer on a solid oxide electrolyte of a solid state fuel cell Vanadium doping has been found to increase the sinterability of Lax Cay CrO3 (x+y=1) while retaining its high temperature electrical and chemical properties. Specimens of Lax Cay CrO3 with ... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5803768 | Plug-type connector for backplane wirings The invention is directed to a plug-type connector for backplane wirings, composed of a blade connector portion and a metal spring clip portion. Individual contact springs are surrounded by electrically conductive shielding plates that are connected to co... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5805744 | Magneto-optical pickup device having phase compensating circuitry Even when manufacturing of a waveguide is fluctuated and an optical parameter is fluctuated or a wavelength of emitted light is fluctuated, a phase difference between two intrinsic modes can be compensated (positive integral multiple of π). Thus, it is p... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5804454 | Insulation film-forming method for semiconductor device manufacturing wherein SiOx (Oࣘxࣘ1.8) is evaporated An insulation film-forming method comprising the steps of: (A-1) heating and evaporating silicon raw materials comprising SiOx (provided that 0ࣘXࣘ1.8); (A-2) vapor phase reacting the evaporated silicon raw materials and a gas including oxygen, and generati... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5801850 | Linear sensor having a plurality of sensor rows A linear sensor for sampling vertically opposed pixels of a plurality of vertically arranged sensor rows substantially at a time. A plurality of horizontal transfer registers and a plurality of shift gates are provided to oppose the plurality of sensor ro... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5795825 | Connection layer forming method A method of forming a connection layer by filling an Al-based material wherein planarization of an entire surface of a substrate is achieved. 1 Al-based material 10 is deposited and filled in concave sections 4,8 formed in a substrate 1 under a high tempe... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5796564 | Magnetic head having a recessed portion corresponding to a magnetic path and method of manufacturing the same This invention has a principal object to eliminate, in a magnetic head and a method of manufacturing the same, the necessity of filling glass, etc. onto a magnetic film to thereby improve reliability of the magnetic head. This invention resides in a method of ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5788123 | Dispenser for the controlled discharge of a fluid medium A dispenser for paste compositions is formed of a housing having an inside wall formed about a longitudinal axis for containing said compositions and being open at one end. A piston is arranged to move axially within the housing to urge the compositions t... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5789695 | Method and apparatus for disassembling and reassembling projectiles A method and apparatus are provided for dismantling and reassembling projectiles which contain a plurality of safety-activatable bomblets in one or more cluster layers. The method and apparatus are particularly useful for disassembling bomblets from a pro... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5789965 | Driver circuit Circuit arrangement of a driver using bipolar NMOS technology for generating fast high/low edges with a low bias current requirement.... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5790924 | Multi-functional printer device having modular structure An electrophotographic printer device for both-sided printing of a tape-shaped, narrow recording medium (10) and for single-sided printing of a wide recording medium or a plurality of parallel, narrow recording media (10/1,10/2,10/3) contains a printer mo... | 08/04/1998 |
