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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6412653 | Plastic moulded container with detachable eating utensil The invention relates to a moulded plastic container which defines at least one receptacle for receiving a food material or the like, the container further including a utensil such as a spoon which is frangibly detachable from the container when the utens... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6298499 | Removable, pressure-adjustable, shock absorbing cushion device with an inflation pump for sport goods A shock absorbing cushion device removable, pressure-adjustable for sports goods, comprising a cover and an air cushion enveloped in the cover, said cushion made as a hollow flat bag whose upper and lower sheets are provided and adhered with round recesse... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6297399 | Indane compounds with smooth muscle relaxing and/or mast cell stabilizing and/or anti-inflammatory activity Indane compounds of general formulas (7) and (8) and their pharmaceutical use particularly to achieve smooth muscle relaxing activity and/or mast cell stabilizing activity and/or anti-inflammatory activity as described, wherein in formula (7) R2 | 10/02/2001 |
| 6286771 | Two-stage micronizer for reducing oversize particles Integrated first stage and second stage reduction mechanisms reduce coal, minerals, biomass, and other materials. A portion of the reductive work is done in the first stage by passing centrally fed feed material centrifugally from rotating rings to counte... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6285633 | Multiple disc changing apparatus A multiple compact disc player, particularly although not necessarily solely, directed towards an audio compact disc player. The turntable for supporting two or more compact discs is provided with connected or associated releasable clamps to engage the co... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6280358 | Gate drive assembly A drive, preferably a gate drive with a belt transmission encompassing a drive pulley and an output pulley. According to the invention the drive pulley consists of at least one cylinder with inwardly tapering flanges at its ends. A round belt, rope or sim... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6280601 | Electrolytic method for sterilization of microorganisms and/or mineralization of organic and/or inorganic substances in ground soil This invention relates to a method for sterilizing microorganisms and/or decomposing organic and inorganic pollutants in a region of ground soil by passing a specified direct current through the contaminated soil region with a controlled voltage applied b... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6281841 | Direction determining apparatus A system for determining the direction that an object is pointing is disclosed. The pointing direction is calculated by determining phase differences between signals arriving at different positions on the object from a single source. Preferably the signal... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6277615 | (1.fwdarw.3, 1.fwdarw.4)--ଲ-glucanase of enhanced stability This invention relates to a (1.fwdarw.3, 1.fwdarw.4)-ଲ-glucanase (glucanase EII endohydrolase) enzyme, whose amino acid sequence has been modified in order to provide an enzyme whose three-dimensional structure confers improved thermostability and/o... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6277648 | Process and a device for the isolation of cell components such as nucleic acids from natural sources Described is a method of isolating cell components, such as nucleic acids, from natural sources by filtering a sample of the digested natural sources such as cells or cell fragments. The method is characterized in that the sample is passed through a filte... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276261 | Piston assembly of a hydraulic radial piston-type machine A piston assembly of a hydraulic radial piston-type machine, an essential characteristic thereof being the arrangement of a roller element in a piston head. The portion of contact surface of the roller element lying close to a crown of the piston is alway... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6275588 | Apparatus and method for performing and controlling encryption/decryption for data to be transmitted on local area network A technique for performing compression, encryption and transmission, and reception, decryption and decompression, respectively, of data communication packages on an area network.... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6269601 | Glazing assembly A lazing unit (1) comprises two sheets of glass (2,3) which are separated by a spacer bar (5). An outer secondary seal (10) extends around the periphery of the glazing unit. The seal (10) has a number of peripherally spaced-apart fixing inserts (50) exten... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6272059 | Bit line sense-amplifier for a semiconductor memory device and a method for driving the same A bit line sense-amplifier for a semiconductor memory device and a method for driving the same do not apply a bit line precharge voltage by a switch in an equalization operation, perform an equalization operation by interconnecting a plurality of sense-am... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6267531 | Paving assembly A paving assembly including a plurality of paving elements interconnected by a joining mesh. The mesh has a number of spaced-apart flat portions between the paving elements and a number of reinforcing portions of generally triangular shape extending into ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6264886 | Sintered metallic alloy, method of manufacturing the sintered metallic alloy, and sintered alloy gear employing the sintered metallic alloy There is provided a sintered metallic alloy having toughness capable of supporting stress at a point by distributing structure portions having different values of rigidity approximately uniformly without separation of layers different in brashiness. A met... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6263720 | Method for making wing-shaped parts and resulting parts A method including the following successive operations carried out on a tube section: a) swaging one end to form at least two longitudinal strips folded down edge to edge and radially projecting outwards; b) cutting out the external projection of the stri... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6266546 | System for noninvasive hematocrit monitoring A system for determining the hematocrit transcutaneously and noninvasively. Disclosed are a finger clip assembly and an earlobe clip assembly, each including at least a pair of emitters and a photodiode in appropriate alignment to enable operation in eith... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6263825 | Boat with convertible rear cabin area A boat including a hull with a cockpit section, and a rear cabin section normally concealed by a horizontally extending cushioned deck element located adjacent the stern. The deck element is hinged along its rear edge so as to be elevatable to expose a su... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6264212 | Vehicle suspension system A vehicle suspension system (1) which provides roll control comprises a pair of hydraulic actuators (2, 3) mounted at wheels on opposite sides of the vehicle chassis, each hydraulic actuator (2, 3) being connected between the wheel and the chassis. Each h... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6261578 | Cosmetic composition containing a polysaccharide and an acrylic terpolymer, and use of this composition for the treatment of keratinous material The present application relates to cosmetic compositions containing, in a cosmetically acceptable aqueous medium, at least one polysaccharide and an acrylic terpolymer, as well as to the use of these compositions for treating the skin or the hair. The acr... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6258552 | Estimation of change in bone mineral density and diagnosis of osteoporosis A method for estimation of change in bone mineral density or a method for diagnosis of osteoporosis, comprising the step of measuring change in a concentration of soluble interleukin-6 receptor in a blood sample, by for example, sandwich assay or competit... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6257107 | Manufacture of composite material hand tool A manufacturing method for a composite material hand tool. Its long and short fiber layers filling is covered with a metal interface ring at one side. The handle can be encircled into a cone shape. A center layer can be a short fiber honeycomb layer. The ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6257303 | Rack and pinion door drive system A drive for a tracked door which utilises a drive pinion which engages a tracked rack that in turn moves the door as it is moved track-wise under the action of the pinion. A flexible rack able to travel on a curved locus is preferred.... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6256260 | Synchronous semiconductor memory device having input buffers and latch circuits A synchronous semiconductor memory device having a plurality of external signal input buffer and a plurality of latch circuits, includes: a clock buffer for receiving an external clock signal to generate a buffered clock signal; a chip select buffer for r... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6254266 | Floating ring mixer for extruder An extruder-mixer has a plurality of rotor rings provided on the downstream end of a motor driven extruder shaft mounted for rotation in a conventional heated barrel or stator. The rings comprise a plurality of spaced driven rotor rings spaced apart from ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6255870 | Apparatus for compensating locking error in high speed memory device with delay locked loop An apparatus for compensating a locking error in a high speed memory device includes a division unit for dividing a buffered external clock signal into a first clock signal, a second clock signal, and a third clock signal having twice the low level width ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6252704 | Microscope A microscope including a support section for supporting a viewing section and an objective lens section and slidably supporting a stage section and a lighting section. The objective lens section includes a plurality of objective lenses having different ma... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6250262 | Axial piston machines An engine/pump having a crank shaft with a shaft axis and a crank axis oblique to the shaft axis which intersect with each other. Piston/cylinder assemblies rotate about the shaft axis and have a reciprocal axis between its top dead center and bottom dead... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6253192 | Method of personal financial planning A method of financial planning in which a financial model is created from data relating to a subject's income, expenses, assets and liabilities. A planning rules database is created from data relating to a preferred financial strategy. First, an unplanned... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6249515 | Multiple access control method for guaranteeing QOS requirement A multiple access control method for guaranteeing a QoS requirement is disclosed. The method includes the steps of a first step in which the random access channel is separated into a plurality of sub-slots, and one of the thusly separated sub-channels is ... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6249494 | Disk type determining apparatus, optical disk reproducing apparatus and tracking error signal generating apparatus The present invention measures first and second detection signals respectively obtained at two focuses during a focus search by means of an optical head 2. Then, a type of a disk-shaped optical record medium is determined by a microcomputer in a system co... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6248757 | 3-(Pyrrolidin-3-yl)-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2(3H)-one derivatives and their use as 5-HT4 ligands Compounds corresponding to the general formula (I) ##STR1## in which R1 represents hydrogen or an alkyl or cycloalkylmethyl group, X1 represents hydrogen or a halogen or an alkoxy group, or alternatively OR1 and X1 | 06/19/2001 |
| 6246894 | System and method for measuring blood urea nitrogen, blood osmolarity, plasma free hemoglobin and tissue water content Systems and methods are provided for noninvasively measuring the levels of urea, blood osmolarity (or Na+), plasma free hemoglobin and tissue water content in a patient's blood or tissue. Light of selected wavelengths is passed through blood or... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6246727 | Method and system for tuning resonance modules A method and a system for tuning a resonance module in e.g. a radio base station are disclosed. The resonance module has tuning means, a transmitter connection, and an antenna connection. First frequency input and output signals on the transmitter and ant... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6246495 | Phase-shift digital holographic apparatus A phase-shift digital holographic apparatus shifts the phase of a reference wave by a phase shifting means, produces holographic image data by a holographic image pickup means having an image forming surface on which an object wave and the reference wave ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6246371 | Wide band antenna means incorporating a radiating structure having a band form An antenna means (2) for transmitting and receiving RF signals, comprising: a ground plane (11) arranged to be connected to ground of the circuitry of a radio communication device and a conductive radiating structure (20) in the form of a band. The radiat... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6246028 | Device for heating a blown film web, inflated into a blown film bubble between a pair of forward draw rolls and a pair of take off rolls Device for heating a blown film web, inflated into a blown film bubble between a pair of forward draw rolls and a pair of take off rolls, comprises a frame mounted, driven pair of forward draw rolls and an opposite, stationarily mounted, driven pair of ta... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6245812 | Treatment of hot flashes (flushing) using leucine alone or in combination with other branched chain amino acids A method for treating flushing caused by other means than normal estrogen decreases associated with normal or natural menopause. Specifically, the method comprises administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of leucine, or leucine in co... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6245114 | Athletic equipment attachment An athletic equipment attachment for use by persons having a stump arm, such as amputees and persons having congenital birth defects, is described and claimed. The inventive athletic equipment attachment includes a body having a top end with an adjustable... | 06/12/2001 |
