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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154145 | Flow energy installation A flow energy installation with a roller-like rotor (1) is presented. The roller-like rotor (1) rotates about an axis (A1) and has a plurality of rotor blades (2). One of the rotor blades (2), a plurality of the rotor blades (2 | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153940 | Flat heater including conductive non-woven cellulose material The invention relates to a flat heater, which is used for applications in the range of heating voltages of up to 1000 V, produces attainable powers of up to 2 kW/m2 and is characterized by the fact that the electrical resistance required for the heating i... | 04/10/2012 |
| D657443 | Combustion tube | 04/10/2012 |
| D657442 | Combustion plate | 04/10/2012 |
| 8136706 | Screw feeder Screw feeder (1) for transporting and/or metering pulverulent or granular material, having a rotatably mounted feeder screw (3) for the transport of material from a storage vessel (2) to a discharge opening (6), and having a variable-spee... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8020603 | Blocking element, particularly for a gate used as a checkpoint A blocking element for a gate used as a checkpoint includes a housing having a height, a support having a second height and arranged in the housing, a horizontally directed pivot axis furnished on the support, and a pair of blocking vanes each of which are in a form... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7988056 | Code carrier and codecarrier-set The invention relates to a code carrier that has a code carrier coil, whereby the code carrier coil is configured as a ring shaped like a triangle or the projection of the code carrier coil in the direction of the coil axis is shaped like a triangle. The code carrie... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7985141 | Universal double-jointed coupling for railway vehicles A universal double-jointed coupling for railway vehicles with two joint levels comprises two coupling joints which are interconnected via a shaft that is surrounded by a hollow pinion shaft in order to transmit torque by means of said hollow pinion shaft. One joint ... | 07/26/2011 |
| D641913 | Plain lamp | 07/19/2011 |
| D641912 | Lamp with decoration | 07/19/2011 |
| 7958900 | Scrubbing machine for cleaning instruments The invention relates to a cleaning machine (MA) comprising a vessel (VE) having a stirring member (BA) mounted therein, the stirring member carrying a load of utensils of a first type. The stirring member also carries a load of utensils of a second type. The invent... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7948203 | Device for the control of a smooth starting or ending of a three phase current motor, so-called soft starter An arrangement for the control of a soft starting or stopping of a three phase current motors (1), a so-called soft starter, is furnished for starting of heavy mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic drives. In order to obtain a space savings with individual or ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7939737 | Body support for a guitar or similar musical instruments The body support (2) for a guitar (1) or similar musical instruments can be removed and is shaped like a frame. It comprises a single bass clef-shaped body, the two ends (3,4) of which are attached to the guitar body (5) at a distance fro... | 05/10/2011 |
| D637648 | Box for business cards | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936798 | Nitride based laser diode and method of manufacturing nitride based laser diode The laser diode comprising crystalline substrate (1) where set of subsequent n-type layers, set of optically active layers (5) and set of p-type layers is deposited. The set of n-type layers comprise at least one buffer layer (2), bottom n-type ... | 05/03/2011 |
| D637232 | Business card box | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930454 | Thin-client terminal and client/server-system having such a terminal A thin-client terminal (1,1′) according to the invention serves for use in a potentially explosive area (ExB) and has at least the following components: an EDP device (11,11′), which can be programmed using software, has graphics capabilities, has ... | 04/19/2011 |
| D633974 | Golf divot tool | 03/08/2011 |
| D633973 | Golf divot tool | 03/08/2011 |
| D633587 | Golf divot tool | 03/01/2011 |
| D633586 | Golf divot tool | 03/01/2011 |
| 7891243 | Sensor for the contactless detection of the level of a liquid and adhering high-conductivity medium, especially blood, through a non-metal wall of a container The invention relates to a sensor for the contactless detection of the level of a liquid and adhering high-conductivity medium, especially blood, through a non-metal container wall. The sensor has a pulse generator (1) that generates brief pulses which, via a... | 02/22/2011 |
| D633161 | Golf divot tool | 02/22/2011 |
| 7888658 | Zirconium dioxide luminescence oxygen sensor A method of measuring oxygen partial pressure in gases, such as hot engine exhaust gases, uses a calibrated luminescence sensor and comprises the steps of bringing nanocrystalline zirconium dioxide ZrO2 (2) in said sensor into contact with a gas to be measure... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7847136 | Device and method for recovering fractional hydrocarbons from recycled plastic fractions and/or oily residues Fractional hydrocarbons are recovered from reclaimed plastic materials and/or from oily residues. The reclaimed plastic materials and/or residues are sorted according to type and compacted using a feed system (1,2,3,4) in the absence of air. Thereafter the co... | 12/07/2010 |
| D631631 | Trolley | 01/25/2011 |
| 7854159 | Sensor and methods for measuring of concentrations of components in a liquid A sensor for measuring the concentration of components in a liquid, exhibiting a base body with a deformation body, and a hollow chamber. The hollow chamber is on the one side deformable through the deformation body and on the other side rigidly closed. The hollow c... | 12/21/2010 |
| D624990 | Faucet set | 10/05/2010 |
| 7781194 | Method for using biomass in biogas process The invention relates to a method for using biomass in a biogas process. The aim of the invention is to use substrates having a high nitrogen and solid content, and which using a small amount of water, has very good energy balance and is particularly environmentally... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779731 | Power assisted lever arm ratchet An improved power assisted lever arm ratchet which has a 6″ to 30″ extension and drive shaft between the ratchet handle and the ratchet head. ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7777721 | Computer pointing device The Invention relates to a computer input pointing device which comprises its casing (2), an upper movable steering element (3), steering element's movement detector (5a), and the system transmitting information about such movement to the... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7756377 | Waveguide comprising a channel on an optical substrate The invention provides a waveguide comprising a channel 12 on an optical substrate 11, the refractive index of the channel being higher than that of the substrate. The waveguide includes at least one guide layer 13 arranged on the channel, the i... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7753665 | Screw compressor for working pressures above 80 bar On screw compressors for extremely high discharge pressures, e.g. for application in refrigeration systems operating with CO2 in a transcritical process, featuring two rotors, a male rotor and a female rotor having a ratio of male-to-female rotor lobes of... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7740422 | Method for producing large surface area geogrids with high tensile strength and large surface area geogrids The invention provides large surface area geogrids with a high tensile strength, a method and apparatus for producing them, and their use as drain and reinforcement grids and as fences. The method for the continuous production of geogrids which have a large surface ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7740042 | Apparatus for vibration welding of sheet materials The invention provides large surface area geogrids with a high tensile strength, a method and apparatus for producing them, and their use as drain and reinforcement grids and as fences. The method for the continuous production of geogrids which have a large surface ... | 06/22/2010 |
| D616697 | Electric nut warmer | 06/01/2010 |
| 7711084 | Processes and a device for determining the actual position of a structure of an object to be examined A CT scanner is employed having a first coordinate system called the CT coordinate system related to the CT scanner for determining an actual position of a structure of an object to be examined. A coordinate measuring instrument (MI) is employed which is either a ta... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7621512 | Steam injection module for heating pumped products The invention relates to a steam injection module (1), suitable for a unit for the pasteurization or sterilization of liquid to highly viscous food products. A steam tube (2) passes through a product line section (3), transverse to the longitudi... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7621416 | Cover of a container, especially of a vacuum receptacle for storage of foodstuffs The cover of the container has the hollow (2) with an elliptical outline pointed towards the inside of the container; the hollow has the spherical projection (3), pointed upwards, and the projection has the cylindrical cavity (4) with the openin... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7618248 | Screw compressor with intermediate plate The invention relates to oil-flooded screw compressors having a male rotor and female rotor each featuring preferably a ratio of male-to-female rotor lobes of 4:6, 5:6 or 5:7. In order to decrease the bearing load at higher working pressures, the profile sections of... | 11/17/2009 |
