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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7942111 | Method and device for vacuum-coating a substrate A method is proposed for vacuum-coating a substrate using a plasma-CVD method. In order to control ion bombardment during the vacuum coating, a substrate voltage, produced independently from a coating plasma, is applied to the substrate. The substrate voltage is mod... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942039 | Method and engine control unit to detect combustion misses in part-engine operation In a method for detecting combustion misses in cylinders of a combustion engine in part-engine operation in which only some of the cylinders are operated by the injection of fuel, a positional angle of the crankshaft is assigned to an angle segment; each angle segme... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941936 | Garment drying apparatus A garment drying apparatus including upper and lower housings with an expandable and collapsible wall extending therebetween. The apparatus may include at least one support pole and/or bracket to support the upper housing to expand the wall. The upper and lower hous... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941544 | Session manager for web-based applications A communication manager for web-based applications receives indications of application time outs via a callback mechanism. During session initiation, the communication manager provides a termination address to an application along with a session ID. If the session t... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941483 | Low latency display methods for thin client devices Control techniques support low latency display operations on thin client devices. In response to a request to render a page in a user interface, the control may distinguish fields that likely have immediately displayable content from fields that are unlikely to have... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941335 | System and method for performing conjoint analysis In a system and method for conjoint analysis, corresponding utility values are determined for a plurality of individual concept elements and for combinations of multiple concept elements, e.g., pair wise combinations of concept elements. A regression technique, e.g.... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941259 | Vehicular drive system Vehicular drive system which is small-sized and/or improved in its fuel economy. A power distributing mechanism 16, which is provided with a differential-state switching device in the form of a switching clutch C0 and a switching brake B0... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940409 | Data exchange in an exchange infrastructure An exchange infrastructure (XI) system provides for the receipt, storage and transmission of limited data to uniform user interfaces to provide an improved exchange of data thereacross. In operation with corresponding processing systems, there is a reduced amount of... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940048 | Locating device A locating device, in particular a hand-held locating device, for detecting objects enclosed in a medium, having a housing and at least one sensor system provided in a housing, as well as an opening penetrating the device. The opening in the measuring device and pen... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939937 | Chip housing having reduced induced vibration A premold housing for accommodating a chip structure includes a first part of the housing which is connected to the chip structure as well as connected in an elastically deflectable manner to an additional part of the housing which is fastened to the support structu... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939795 | Encoder device and gapping and centering device for an encoder device An encoder device includes: a housing; a hub arranged in the housing, the hub arranged to carry an encoder disk, the hub rotatable in the housing; a cover that is axially movable between a first position and a second position; and a gapping and centering device arra... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939213 | Fuel cell system and electric vehicle including the fuel cell system In a fuel cell system in which load electric power is supplied from a fuel cell and a secondary battery, intermittent operation is performed, that is, operation of the fuel cell is stopped and the load electric power is supplied from the secondary battery in a low l... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939208 | Fuel cell system Fuel cell system comprising impurity adsorbing means for adsorption of impurities contained in oxidation gas fed to fuel cell; impurity emitting means for emission of impurities adsorbed by the impurity adsorbing means from the impurity adsorbing means; impurity out... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939174 | Heat-shrinkable polyester film roll and a process for producing the same A film roll of a heat-shrinkable polyester film characterized in that the heat-shrinkable polyester film meets the following requirements (1) and (2). (1) When samples are cut off therefrom at an almost equal interval along the longitudinal direction, and imm... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939054 | Compositions for removing hair The invention encompasses a composition for hair removal comprising at least one organic hair follicle penetrating agent and at least one enzyme inhibitor for the purpose of achieving permanent hair follicle inactivation, and methods for hair removal using the same.... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938917 | Method for controlling cooling of steel sheet A method for controlling the cooling of a steel sheet characterized by controlling the end-of-cooling temperature in a cooling process from the Ae3 or above temperature of the steel sheet, during which; preliminarily obtaining enthalpies (Hγ and Hα) of ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938750 | Method and device for operating a drive unit In a method and a device for operating a drive unit, e.g., of a vehicle, to provide improved diagnosis of a state of a power transmission unit, the power transmission unit in the engaged state transmits an output power of an engine to a drive train, the state of the... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938691 | Contact element having a snap-on lance for a plug connector Unipolar or multipolar electrical plug connectors include contact carriers having contact chambers, into which contact elements can be inserted. These contact elements latch with so-called snap-on lances. In the present SYSTEM, the latching is produced by a part of ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938208 | Power output apparatus and hybrid vehicle A hybrid vehicle includes an engine, motors, and a power distribution and integration mechanism that are coaxially arranged with respect to each other. The hybrid vehicle also includes a transmission including a transmission differential rotation mechanism that is a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937988 | Method and device for checking for leakage in a fuel injection valve of an internal combustion engine In a method and a device for testing for leakage in a fuel injection valve of an internal combustion engine, a temperature quantity is determined that characterizes the temperature of at least a part of the fuel injection valve. On the basis of this temperature quan... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937941 | Method for operating an internal combustion engine A method for operating an internal combustion engine in which fresh air, under ambient pressure, is compressed with the aid of a compressor, in particular an exhaust gas turbocharger, and supplied to a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine via a throt... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937303 | Grants management system A system and method for managing grants received from one or more sponsors is proposed. The grants management system receives a transaction request and retrieves data associated with the transaction request from a data cube. The grants management system then determi... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937210 | Device for controlling an internal combustion engine A device for controlling an internal combustion engine has sensors That measure the operating states of the internal combustion engine. The sensor signals are used for determining control signals for the internal combustion engine. Furthermore, testing means are pro... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936297 | Analog to digital converter An analog to digital converter comprising an Nth analog to digital converter and an N+1th analog to digital converter arranged in series such that a residue signal from the Nth analog to digital converter is provided as an input to the N+1th analog to digital conver... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936148 | Battery-operated screwdriver and charger shell therefor A battery-operated screwdriver has a housing with a handle, a rechargeable battery, charge contacts for charging the battery on a charger shell having at least one detachably mounted bit holder for storing tool inserts of the battery-operated screwdriver in captive ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936092 | Method and device for providing a supply voltage by means of generator units connected in parallel A method and a device are provided for providing a supply voltage for the consumers of a vehicle electrical system, using generator units connected in parallel. The measurement voltage inputs and the monitor outputs of the controllers of the generator units are used... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935928 | Device and method for producing images A method and a device for generating images in a motor vehicle are provided. An infrared-sensitive camera generates images of the surroundings of the motor vehicle. An emission source emitting in the near infrared spectral region is used for the pulsed illumination ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935021 | Controller apparatus for vehicular device system A vehicle-starting-engine-torque restricting device is provided to restrict engine torque upon starting of a vehicle with an engine used as a vehicle drive power source, so that a required output of a first electric motor which generates a reaction force correspondi... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934779 | Vehicle and control method of vehicle In the hybrid vehicle of the invention, when the sum of a regenerative braking force BFr produced by a motor and an operational braking force BFpmc based on a master cylinder pressure Pmc is insufficient for a braking force demand BF* required by the driver in respo... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934573 | Method for regulating the state of charge of an energy accumulator in a vehicle having a hybrid drive unit A method for regulating the state of charge of an energy accumulator in a vehicle having a hybrid drive unit, a motor vehicle in particular, including an internal combustion engine and at least one electrical machine which can be coupled or are coupled to a power tr... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934371 | Internal combustion engine system and control method of internal combustion engine system Under the condition that a catalyst temperature Tc of a purification catalyst reaches or exceeds a preset reference temperature Tcref, when a cooling water temperature Tw of an engine is not lower than a preset reference temperature Twref, the internal combustion en... | 05/03/2011 |
| D637369 | Garment drying apparatus | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934219 | Process agents for process integration The addition of process agents into an application system allows a much simpler integration between business objects by placing the integrating components into separate, independently updateable process agents. Process agents observe business objects with which they... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7934148 | Systems and method for storing, delivering, and managing messages Systems and methods are provided for storing a mark-up language file and delivering the file from a network server to a user's computer via a packet switched data network using a hyper-text transfer protocol (HTTP). The mark-up language file is stored in a storage a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933702 | Method for activating a restraint system in a vehicle A method for activating a restraint system in a vehicle, in which the restraint system is activated as a function of a speed, an activation characteristic, and at least one quantity derived from an acceleration signal, and in which the at least one quantity exceeds ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933105 | Switching element driving device and switching element driving method A switching element driving device has a first transistor that decreases the gate voltage of a power element at a faster rate than during a normal turn-off, and a second transistor that decreases the gate voltage of the power element at a slower rate than during a n... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932765 | Digital delay lines Some embodiments provide real-time variable delays in a delay line. In some of these embodiments, the real-time variable delays may be enable without producing clock glitches. In an embodiment, delay cells in a delay line may be coupled together in a chain to form a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932724 | Circuit assemblage and method for functional checking of a power transistor A circuit assemblage for functional checking of a power transistor includes a power transistor having an insulated gate, a first power electrode configured as a drain or as a collector, and a second power electrode configured as a source or an emitter, the first and... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932629 | Method for controlling a generation of an alternating current in a vehicle In a method for controlling a generation of an alternating current in a vehicle equipped with a battery and an inverter, the inverter is electrically connectable to the battery in order to generate an alternating current from a direct current of the battery for elec... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932624 | Semiconductor module, and hybrid vehicle drive device including the same A bus bar constitutes a power line and another bus bar constitutes an earth line. The bus bars are layered in the normal direction of an insulating substrate via an insulating member. Here, the bus bar positioned at the upper side is formed by a metal member and the... | 04/26/2011 |
