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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6092479 | Trousers-fly-sewing apparatus In the apparatus, a lateral supply section is provided on one side of a fly-conveying passage, and an angle-changing member with a desired inclination angle is provided on the other side of the fly-conveying passage. A fly is supplied from the lateral sup... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6092398 | Driving mechanism of compound knitting needle in narrow width crochet knitting machine There is provided a driving mechanism of a compound knitting needle in a narrow width crochet knitting machine, which can highly accurately control an operation timing and stroke of a compound knitting needle comprising a hook-like knitting needle and a n... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6092278 | Method for manufacturing a pencil-shaped core In a method of making a pencil core having a plurality of substantially flat laminations wherein at least one lamination at the center of the core is wider than the other laminations, a flat strip of core steel is fed into a progressive die, and a plurali... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6092248 | Patient support apparatus with air cushion A patient support apparatus has a stationary lower part and a displaceable upper part carrying a patient. The upper part has a guide surface which is curved in sectional plane, and the lower part has a guide surface matched to this curve. Outlet nozzles f... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6094331 | Arrangement for connection of a module in an appliance The arrangement connects at least one module (M) to a power supply unit (SV) in an apparatus in such a way that a connection is provided when the power supply unit (SV) is switched on. In the apparatus is a contact element (KG, VE) which is located outsid... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6092136 | Multi-processor central processing unit Central processing units have two or more groups of in each case one processor, one memory and one coupler, the processor and memory are connected to exactly one coupler and the couplers are connected to one another. A memory area distributed uniformly ov... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6091982 | Diagnostic installation with a mobile signal pick-up unit and a stationary evaluation unit remote therefrom According to the invention, a mobile signal pick-up means (11) of a diagnostics installation comprises a radiation receiver (12) for generating electrical signals dependent on the radiation shadow of a transirradiated subject, an image acquisition system ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6091937 | Method and apparatus for the automatic adjustment of a switch means for automatic switching between a reception operating mode and a transmission operating mode in a hands-free means of a communication terminal equipment A method is disclosed for the automatic adjustment of a switch means for automatically switching between a reception operating mode and a transmission operating mode in a hands-free means of a communication terminal equipment comprising a reception signal... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6091799 | X-ray tube with means for magnetic deflection An X-ray tube with a cathode and an anode arranged in a vacuum housing has an electromagnet for deflecting the electron beam emanating from the cathode and proceeding to the anode, the electromagnet having a yoke with two legs connected to one another by ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6091763 | Method for increasing the range in a time-slot method In order to increase the range of a repeater in a DECT-TDMA system without shortening the time spacing between transmission and reception time-slots (TX, RX), the transmission time-slots (TX) with mobile part functionality (MT) are delayed in time by a bi... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6091689 | Optical pickup device with a plurality of laser couplers An optical pickup device with the capability to read data from and write data to different kinds of optical discs in different formats and a composite optical device used in the optical pickup device. An optical pickup device is made by combining two lase... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6091562 | Digital magnetic reproducing apparatus and digital magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus employing detection of second harmonic distortion and signal to noise ratio A digital magnetic reproducing apparatus comprises a reproducing head to reproduce data from a magnetic recording medium; an equalizer for shaping, by a partial response method, the waveform of the reproduced signal outputted from the reproducing head; an... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6091028 | Powder/chip weighing method This invention provides a method of weighing powder/chip, in which the powder/chip can be fed from the conduit into the weighing vessel accurately and efficiently without being affected by the state of the conduit, that of the weighing vessel and that of ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6090657 | Method of manufacturing capacitor having ferroelectric film for nonvolatile memory cell A capacitor in a ferroelectric nonvolatile memory (FERAM) comprising a lower electrode formed on a semiconductor substrate; a ferroelectric thin film formed on the lower electrode; an upper electrode formed on the ferroelectric thin film; a first protecti... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6090442 | Method of growing films on substrates at room temperatures using catalyzed binary reaction sequence chemistry The present invention provides a method for growing atomic layer thin films on functionalized substrates at room temperature using catalyzed binary reaction sequence chemistry. Specifically, the atomic layer films are grown using two half-reactions. Catal... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089998 | Center element for hockey puck A hockey puck for playing on a non-ice surface includes an outer ring within which is held a center element. The outer ring includes low friction sliding elements mounted therein. The center element is interchangeable to center elements of different weigh... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089937 | Cathode-ray tube dividing apparatus and cathode-ray tube dividing method Disclosed are a cathode-ray tube dividing apparatus and a cathode-ray tube dividing method intended to simply and stably divide a cathode-ray tube in a shortened time. The dividing apparatus includes a positioning means for fixedly positioning the used ca... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089877 | Plug connector A plug connector is disclosed for electrically connecting two printed boards consisting of a blade connector with a plurality of blade contacts arranged in a prescribed grid dimension and a spring clip adapted thereto with a plurality of spring contacts, ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089739 | Surface light source device As regards a surface light source device for use with back-light or the like of a transmissive display panel, the efficiency of the cooling structure for the device will be improved and dust and dirt will be prevented from adhering. The surface-light sour... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088900 | Apparatus for cutting light waveguide cables A method for cutting an outer cladding or tube of a light waveguide cable to form a gap includes removing material on the opposite lateral portions of the outer cladding to produce flattened areas, forming an annular cut on each end of the flattened area ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088888 | Separable bottom stop assembly of slide fastener The present invention provides a separable bottom stop assembly which can be easily operated by children or people who are handicapped with one of their hands. A coupling member and a locking member respectively provided at lower ends of left and right fa... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088339 | Apparatus and method for programming a hearing aid using a serial bidirectional transmission method and varying clock pulses In a data transmission method and circuit for communication between a programming apparatus and a user apparatus to be programmed, such as a hearing aid, data as well as clock pulses are transmitted by the programming apparatus to the user apparatus for t... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6088200 | Magnetic disc and magnetic disc drive Recording into and reproduction from the magnetic disc 3 is done a magnetic head installed on a head slider of which at least a portion is floated during the recording/reproduction. On the magnetic disc 3, there are formed a data zone 3a consisting of gro... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6087906 | Absorbent amplitude filter An absorbent amplitude filter for HF signals employs a reflective filter and an absorption circuit comprising a load resistor. The absorption circuit inventively comprises another λ/4 line upstream of the filter, which comprises, at the input side, a ser... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6087803 | Battery pack, electronic equipment system and method of detecting loading of battery pack technical field A battery pack 2 is detachably loaded with respect to an electronic equipment 1 through an electric connecting portion 3 to thereby deliver power. A CPU 2f of the battery pack 2 detects signal states of communication lines by using communication lines, e.... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6086763 | Disk, in particular the front disk of a filter element A combination disc and sealing ring for a filter assembly is provided. The disc is an annular thermoplastic disc having a central aperture. The disc includes an upper side and a lower side and the upper side of the disc includes an annular thickened area ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6086732 | Flock separating apparatus A flock separating apparatus, has an electrolytic cell (2) fitted with iron electrodes and a separating tank (3), wherein the flock is carried upwards by a hydrogen gas produced in electrolysis. The separating tank (3) has a substantially vertical pipe ha... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6086196 | Printing device A printing device according to the present invention assures stable mixing and ejecting operations without provision of complicated mechanisms such as valves. The printing device includes an ejecting nozzle with a first discharge opening and a metering no... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6086043 | Valve control apparatus with three-dimensional circuit board using MID technology The plug parts and also the associated terminal pins are fashioned in one piece with the circuit board in MID technology, whereby of each of the two main surfaces of the circuit board at least one plug part respectively extends away perpendicularly. In ad... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6085966 | Sputtering target assembly production method A method for producing a sputtering target assembly consisting of a target member used for sputtering and a backing plate bonded to the target member, which assembly has a high adherence strength and a high bonding strength as well as a sufficient tensile... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6085949 | Container with molded-in directional pour guide A container for holding and pouring semi-viscous or viscous liquids is disclosed and is particularly useful for holding and pouring condiments such as ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, relish or semi-viscous liquids such as salad dressing. The container inclu... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6085593 | Vibration damping element test apparatus The present invention relates to a testing apparatus for testing vibration damping elements of moving blades, with a mounting means to be attached to an oscillating apparatus, whereby a damping element to be tested is to be arranged between the mounting m... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6085551 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing high melting point glasses with volatile components In the manufacturing of high melting point glasses with volatile components, in particular of glasses from the group of boron glasses and borosilicate glasses, a furnace is provided that has a superstructure, fossil fuel burners, and a melting tank. In fr... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6086783 | Polymer electrolyte, a polymer aggregating agent prepared therefrom, and a disposal of waste water A polymer electrolyte which contains an inorganic pigment, having a sulfonated polystyrene resin as a principal ingredient, and is soluble to water.... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6087685 | Solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of sensor portions, and a vertical shift register corresponding to each of a series of sensor portions. A transfer electrode of the vertical shift register is formed of a first electrode and a second elect... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6085118 | Implantable multi-electrode device for electrically stimulating a physiological function with automatic selection of housing terminal-to-electrode connection dependent on a sensed signal An implantable cardiac stimulator has a connector with at least two terminals, each terminal being connectible to an implantable electrode for delivering stimulation pulses to a heart and/or for sensing cardiac activity signals. The stimulator also has a ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6085112 | Communication device A wide variety of components, such as speech input and output devices, image display devices and a computer are combined in one device. A plurality of methods of representing images are indicated. Preferably, the computer can be removed from the device an... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6085105 | Method for administering additional services in a mobile communication network For administering additional services, additional information about the allocation of additional services to service control units and about the status of the respective additional service are stored subscriber-associated in two memory units of the mobile... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6085089 | Method and arrangement for setting up a traffic channel connection in a mobile radiotelephone network For setting up a traffic channel connection between an originating mobile station and a destination mobile station of a mobile radiotelephone network, the network having at least two base stations, a base station control unit that controls these, and a mo... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6085060 | Fixing station for fixing toner images on a carrier material with a moveable flap device A fixing station for fixing toner images on a carrier material is provided in a printer or copier. A flap or shutter mechanism having a plurality of flaps or shutters that are pivotable into an open and into a closed position are arranged between a heat r... | 07/04/2000 |
