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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7018923 | Composite material for producing an electric contact surface, in addition a method for creating a lubricated, corrosion-free electric contact surface A modification of frictional state and surface condition of an electrical contact surface to reduce the insertion forces for establishment of an electrical plug connection and also to achieve protection from oxidation and fretting corrosion is provided. BY controlle... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7018297 | Tripod joint Tripod joints have a joint outer part and a joint inner part which are in driving connection to each other with cylindrical rolling bodies being connected in between and axial displacement and pivotability being ensured. The longitudinal axes of adjacent rolling bod... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020550 | Vehicle electronic controller A vehicle electronic controller for checking a control microcomputer with a common monitoring IC, which is used in different vehicles. The vehicle electronic controller includes a control microcomputer, which calculates control data to control an actuator installed ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7013691 | Peripheral length adjusting apparatus and peripheral length adjusting method for endless metallic ring In a peripheral length adjusting apparatus and a peripheral length adjusting method for an endless metallic ring, an endless metallic ring is wound on plural rollers, and an interval between the plural rollers is enlarged such that the endless metallic ring is stret... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7014474 | Electrical connection and component assembly for constitution of a hard disk drive An electrical connection and a method of electrically coupling are disclosed. In one embodiment, a circuit substrate with a first set of circuitry has a bonding pad mounted to a surface of the circuit board. The bonding pad is electrically coupled to the first set o... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7014689 | Body for isolating a constituent contained in a gas mixture The invention relates to bodies for separating out a component contained in a gas mixture. The gas mixtures may, for example, be crude gases which contain hydrocarbons, such as natural gas, or exhaust gas. According to the object which is set, the bodies according t... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015205 | Melanoma vaccine and methods of making and using same An immunotherapeutic vaccine providing antigen presenting cells that have been pulsed with a disrupted cell preparation which includes enucleated cytosol and cell membranes of cancer cells infected with a recombinant vaccinia virus encoding at least one immunostimul... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015671 | Circuit for operating an electric motor A circuit configuration for operating an electric motor is described, the circuit configuration containing a timer. As a function of a first differential signal between a setpoint signal and an actual value signal, a regulator supplies a first switch signal for feed... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7017026 | Generating lookahead tracked register value based on arithmetic operation indication Apparatus and methods to track a register value. A microprocessor can include a first register, a control circuit, and an adder. The first register can store a tracked register value. The control circuit can include an instruction input to receive at least a portion... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7017083 | Method and device for testing the inhibit function of a network component transmission inhibiting device A method and a device are described for testing the inhibit function of a network component transmission inhibiting device that allows a transmission line from the network component to the network to be inhibited by an inhibit function which causes a logical signal ... | 03/21/2006 |
| D517644 | Aquarium filter | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016780 | Method, computer program, and open- and/or closed-loop control unit for operating an internal combustion engine, and internal combustion engine In an internal combustion engine, fuel is injected directly into a combustion chamber by an injector that has a piezoactuator. An electrical charge conveyed to and/or removed from the piezoactuator is ascertained by a method that is calibrated at least once during a... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015805 | Method and device for automatic controlling of the deceleration of a vehicle A method and a device for controlling deceleration devices of a vehicle during a braking operation, e.g., a vehicle which is equipped with a sensor for adaptive cruise control. During the braking operation, risk dimensions are determined on the basis of driving dyna... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015444 | Optical-scanning examination apparatus The invention provides an optical-scanning examination apparatus with a simple configuration, in which the resolution of acquired images can be freely changed and in which the fluorescence image intensity and examination depth can be adjusted to suit the purpose of ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016200 | Module support for electrical/electronic components In a module frame for electronic components, having a conductor structure having a metallic conductor, at least one contact segment of a metallic conductor, the at least one contact segment of the metallic conductor uncovered by the insulation sheathing and conducti... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016424 | Method and circuit layout for the transmission of messages by means of approximating hermitian functions A method and circuit arrangement for transmission of messages in which a number of L components (m0, . . . , mL-1) are coded by means of orthogonal functions to a signal (s(t)), and in which approximations of hermitic functions are used as orth... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016431 | Transmitter for transmitting signals over radio channels and method for transmitting signals over radio channels A transmitter for sending signals over wireless channels and a method of sending signals over wireless channels are described. The transmitter and the method are used to determine a transfer characteristic of an amplifier (8) in the transmitter. Test signals ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016763 | Method for track control A method for continuous-path control includes predefining at least two global tolerances to a numerical control and predefining, to the numerical control, a tool path including support points, a non-continuously differentiable corner of the tool path being situated ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016769 | Control device for controlling/regulating the operational sequences in a motor vehicle, and a method of starting such a control device A control device and a method for controlling and/or regulating the operational sequences in a motor vehicle, and a method for starting such a control device, which provide a program in a storage medium of the control device that is able to be executed independently... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015330 | Sulfonation method for zonisamide intermediate in zonisamide synthesis and their novel crystal forms The present invention relates to a novel sulfonation of an intermediate of zonisamide. The sulfonation processes using chlorosulfonic acid as well as acetic anhydride and sulfuric acid in an organic solvent are disclosed. Crystalline forms of benzisoxazole methane s... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7014746 | Capillary electrophoretic instrument and capillary array assembly The troublesomeness during the setting of a plurality of capillaries is eliminated by composing pairs of electrodes, which are electrically connected to the common electrode, and capillaries. By bringing electrodes installed in the vicinity of each capillary ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7014195 | Sealing profile for a motor vehicle A sealing profile between the body of a motor vehicle and a moveable window includes a receiving groove into which an edge side of the window, which side interacts with the sealing profile, enters during closure of the window, a profiled section forming the groove b... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7014167 | Control apparatus and method of electromagnetic valve A control apparatus of electromagnetic valve includes a valve body functioning as an intake valve or an exhaust valve of an internal combustion engine and an electromagnet for affecting an electromagnetic force relative to an armature provided on the valve body for ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013554 | Wireless suspension salvage method The invention is a method to salvage suspensions from defective head gimbal assembly units. At present the hard disk industry is undergoing rapid product cycles. The products are being upgraded faster and faster, and the ability for sliders to meet higher density re... | 03/21/2006 |
| D517603 | Book cover | 03/21/2006 |
| 7014129 | Fuel-injection valve A fuel injector for fuel-injection systems of internal combustion engines includes an actuator, a valve needle, which is able to be activated by the actuator to actuate a valve-closure member, which, together with a valve-seat surface formed at a valve-seat member, ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013266 | Method for determining speech quality by comparison of signal properties In a method for determining speech quality using an objective measure, in order to enhance prediction reliability of the evaluated quality parameters, distortions of the mean spectral envelope are extensively corrected with a weighting function WT(f) befo... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7013420 | Coded modulation method, which takes tailbits and their coding into account A method is presented for the coded modulation of digital data, a modulation being carried out that is coded in multiple stages. In this context, the useful bits for the coded modulation are divided into parallel signal streams, and each signal stream is fed to a sp... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012569 | Antenna assembly The present invention provides an antenna array for ascertaining the distance between vehicles and their speed, which includes devices for receiving or transmitting signal waves, a multi-layer carrier situated underneath the devices, a first potential surface, which... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012560 | Object sensing apparatus An object sensing apparatus for driver assistance systems in motor vehicles, including at least two sensor systems which measure data concerning the location and/or motion status of objects in the vicinity of the vehicle, and whose detection regions overlap one anot... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012395 | Method for continuous-path control In a method for continuous-path control in at least two linear axes and at least one angle axis, the movement of a tool relative to a workpiece is predefined by a parts program for a numerical control. The velocity control in the numerical control is performed separ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012252 | Method and an apparatus of an inspection system using an electron beam Problems encountered in the conventional inspection method and the conventional apparatus adopting the method are solved by the present invention using an electron beam by providing a novel inspection method and an inspection apparatus adopting the novel method whic... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012171 | Modification of plant metabolism A transgenic plant is prepared by a method in which a plant cell is transformed with a chimaeric gene comprising a promoter and a gene encoding a polypeptide which displays the activity of an enzyme which regulates the amount of a metabolic intermediate in glycolysi... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012026 | Method for producing defined polycrystalline silicon areas in an amorphous silicon layer A method of producing well-defined polycrystalline silicon regions is described, in particular for producing electrically conducting regions, in which a substrate is provided with an insulating layer and a layer of doped amorphous silicon, electromagnetic irradiatio... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7011897 | Organic light emitting materials and devices An organic light emitting device is provided. The device has an anode, a cathode, and an emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, the emissive layer further comprising an emissive material having the structure: ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7011735 | Arrangement for wiring an electrochemical sensor An electrochemical sensor, in particular for determining the oxygen content in exhaust gases of internal combustion engines, has a solid electrolyte element having at least one first electrode, at least one second electrode, and at least one heating element. The sec... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7011257 | Fuel injection valve A fuel injector for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines having a magnetic coil, a valve needle, which is in operative connection with the magnetic coil and acted upon in a closing direction by a restoring spring to actuate a valve-closure member, w... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7011218 | Vibratory screen assemblies A screen assembly which includes a frame, a plurality of openings in the frame, a screen overlying the openings, a plurality of spaced tapered ribs on the opposite side of the frame from the screen, a first end on the frame with a depending lip, and a second end on ... | 03/14/2006 |
| D516929 | Authentication device | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012740 | Optical parametric circuit An optical parametric circuit including an optical coupler including a first output port and a second output port, and a nonlinear loop mirror on which an optical path which connects the first output port and the second output port is formed, in which the nonlinear ... | 03/14/2006 |
