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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D511983 | Security device | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968682 | Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine with an exhaust treatment system In a method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine having an exhaust treatment system, a quantity characterizing the status of the exhaust treatment system is determined on the basis of at least one operating parameter of the internal combustion en... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970391 | Semiconductor device incorporating internal power supply for compensating for deviation in operating condition and fabrication process conditions A semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a semiconductor chip, a power supply terminal provided on the semiconductor chip for receiving a voltage from an external power supply source, an internal circuit provided on the semiconductor chip, a power supply circuit... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970253 | Optical measuring device An optical measuring device includes a 3-D measuring set-up for measuring the shapes of test object surfaces in three dimensions, and projection optics including an objective optics, the test object being illuminated by a light source via an illuminating beam using ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968829 | Method, computer program, memory medium, and control and/or regulating device for operating an internal combustion engine, and an internal combustion engine in particular for a motor vehicle A method for operating an internal combustion engine is described, in which fuel is injected by an injector into a combustion chamber. The injector has an activatable piezoactuator. In the method, a precontrol setpoint for activating the piezoactuator is generated. ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968817 | Valve timing controller for internal combustion engine A controller for a lock mechanism of an engine valve that readily performs unlocking. A VVT changes the rotational phase of a camshaft relative to a pulley in accordance with the difference between the hydraulic pressure of an advance pressure chamber and the hydrau... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970894 | Method for extracting information from a file using a printer driver A method and apparatus for extracting information from a file. A file is processed through an owning application with a printer driver to generate a representation having a modified format. Information is then extracted from the representation. The extracted informa... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6971040 | Method and system for reducing the effects of simultaneously switching outputs A delay element is coupled to a first interface, which is coupled to a second interface via interconnect. Traces in the interconnect for propagating output signals from the first interface to the second interface have varying lengths. In order to reduce undesirable ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6969907 | Cooling structure for multichip module A first electronic device, a second electronic device which generates less heat than the first electric device, and an electrode are connected by a heat leveling plate formed of an electrically conductive material having high thermal conductivity. A heat radiation p... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970807 | Diagnostic system and method for electric leak detecting device A power supply unit includes a battery, a motor which is driven by the battery, an electric power converting device which is provided between the battery and the motor, a simulated electric leak generating device which generates an electric leak state between the ba... | 11/29/2005 |
| D511910 | Armoire | 11/29/2005 |
| D511920 | Floor covering | 11/29/2005 |
| 6969371 | Lateral needle injection apparatus and method A device and method for delivering and injecting fluid into heart tissue utilizing a laterally directed needle to increase injectate (fluid) retention in the heart tissue. The device may comprise a catheter having a shaft wherein the distal end of the shaft includes... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968689 | Method and device for regulating the boost pressure of an internal combustion engine A method and a device for regulating the boost pressure of an internal combustion engine having a multiflow air system, which enables both rapid regulation and limitation of the exhaust gas back pressures. The multiflow air system includes a multichannel air supply ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967723 | Interferometric measuring device An interferometric measuring device includes a reference arm having a reference surface and a measuring arm having lighting optics for deflecting measuring light onto a measuring surface of an object to be measured, and having an image recorder connected to an analy... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967209 | Processes for preparing 6-hydroxy-3,4-dihydroquinolinone, cilostazol and N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-3-chloropropionamide A process for preparing 6-hydroxy-3,4-dihydroquinolinone by intramolecular Friedel-Crafts alkylation of N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-3-chloropropionamide in which an equivalent of N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-3-chloropropionamide is contacted with a Lewis acid in DMSO or a high boili... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6966801 | Compact coupler plug, particularly for a planar broadband lambda probe, having an integrated secondary locking To make possible a very small and compact embodiment of a coupler plug, especially for use for a planar broadband lambda probe having an adjusting unit, a coupler plug is configured in accordance with the following features: a coupler plug, especially f... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6966347 | Method and device for tank leakage diagnosis at elevated fuel degassing A method for operating a tank leakage diagnosis device, especially of a motor vehicle, volatile fuel (to be degassed) being temporarily stored using an adsorption filter of known absorption capacity or absorption characteristics, and the adsorption filter being rege... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968452 | Method of self-synchronization of configurable elements of a programmable unit A method of synchronizing and reconfiguring configurable elements in a programmable unit is provided. A unit has a two- or multi-dimensional, programmable cell architecture (e.g., DFP, DPGA, etc.), and any configurable element can have access to a configuration regi... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967074 | Methods of detecting immobilized biomolecules Devices and methods for performing assays on materials, particularly biological materials, are provided. The devices and methods make use of self-sealing members, which can be applied to a flat surface to form wells to facilitate immobilization of materials on the f... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6966978 | Sensor element of a gas sensor A solid electrolyte-based sensor element of a gas sensor for determining a gas component in a gas mixture is described, in particular for determining the concentration of oxygen and/or nitrogen oxides in exhaust gases of internal combustion engines. The sensor eleme... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6966866 | Power outputting apparatus and vehicle equipped with same A power outputting apparatus determines whether a parking gear and a parking lock pole of a parking lock mechanism are engaged. When they are engaged, a second motor outputs a torque which is the sum of a pushing torque that is slightly greater than torque pulses ge... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6966504 | Fuel injector A fuel injector, in particular for the direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, includes a valve needle that has at its injector end a valve-closure member that works together with a valve-seat surface formed on a valve-se... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968474 | Generating and recovering clock signals based on differential scheme A method for recovering a clock signal communicated on a system bus. The method includes receiving at a receiver a first signal having a first polarity and receiving at the receiver a second signal having an opposite polarity to the first signal. The method also inc... | 11/22/2005 |
| D511631 | Cabinet | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967724 | Wavefront measuring apparatus and wavefront measuring method A wavefront measuring apparatus and a wavefront measuring method are capable of performing optical measurement on a test optical system, including an immersion optical system, with comparable ease of handling to that of the conventional measuring method using a conc... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965981 | Processor including a plurality of computing devices As far as multimedia processing is concerned, a plurality of computations of a same type are often executed concurrently and hence a plurality of computing units having a same function are used and mode information for controlling the plurality of units by an instru... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965736 | Method for monitoring the transmission quality of an optical transmission system, in particular of an optical wavelength-division multiplex network A method for monitoring the transmission quality of an optical transmission system, such as, for example, an optical wavelength division-multiplex network. An amplitude histogram of an optical signal (transmission signal) transmitted over the transmission system may... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6964383 | Fuel injector A fuel injector, in particular for direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, is equipped with a valve-closure member which together with a valve-seat surface that is formed on a valve-seat body constitutes a sealing seat,... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965911 | Efficiently exporting local device access onto a system area network using a direct-call interface A novel module system solution is provided for direct, transparent access to I/O storage devices connected to a host server within a system area network cluster for efficient sharing of resources and databases among all clustered servers. An exemplary driver system ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965824 | Power output apparatus and automobile with power output apparatus mounted thereon The control technique of the invention sets smaller values to an engine stop reference value and an engine start reference value in the state of use of a regular fuel, compared with values in the ordinal state. When a calculated engine power demand Pe* is less than ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965970 | List based method and apparatus for selective and rapid cache flushes An apparatus and a method for rapidly flushing a cache memory device, including a list structure to track changes in a cache, which may be implemented on the processor die separate from the cache memory. The list structure allows for access to a relatively small sto... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6964733 | Planar sensor element A planar sensor element for determining gas components, which includes a layer structure with a heating element integrated therein with a layer-shaped heating conductor. The heating conductor is arranged in a layer plane of the layer structure so that an at least ap... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6964649 | Needle-less injection apparatus and method A device and method for delivering and injecting fluid into heart tissue utilizing high pressure injection to increase injectate (fluid) retention in the heart tissue. The catheter includes a shaft having an infusion lumen extending therethrough, wherein the proxima... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6964646 | Device and method for autologous blood transfusion A device for autologous blood transfusion includes a centrifuge unit with an autotransfusion set rotatably mounted thereto. The autotransfusion set includes a separation unit for concentrating a cell fraction by centrifugation and a tubing system for providing a con... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6964257 | Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine A method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine. A first variable is predefined on the basis of a signal of a combustion chamber pressure sensor or a structure-borne noise sensor. This first variable characterizes the combustion process in the comb... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6964188 | Method and device for determining the offset value of a longitudinal acceleration sensor A method and device for determining the offset value of a longitudinal acceleration sensor, a first inclination variable representing the road surface inclination being determined from the output signal of the longitudinal accelera... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6962396 | Method and device for controlling a brake system for a vehicle A method and a device for controlling a brake system of a vehicle, with an automatic braking action being triggered when a threshold value is exceeded. The threshold value is varied as a function of a quantity derived from the distance to an obstacle located in fron... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963183 | Control circuit for a direct current motor The invention relates to a control circuit for a direct current motor with a reverse pole protection device, which is connected to the electric circuit of the electrolytic capacitor and the free-wheeling diode in order to reduce losses in the reverse pole protection... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963013 | Method of making fluorovinyl ethers and polymers obtainable therefrom A process for making fluorovinyl ethers having the formula CFX═CXOCF2OR, wherein R is a C2-C6 linear, branched or C5-C6 cyclic (per)fluoroalkyl group, or a C2-C6 linear, branched (per)flu... | 11/08/2005 |
