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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5528021 | Automatic system for the printing of an official medical form To simplify the printing of medical forms, provision is made for a reader of chip cards and a set of chip cards comprising doctor chip cards and patient chip cards. According to the principle of the system, it is provided that the doctor's card will be in... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5516752 | Thallim, bismuth and lead containing oxide superconductor Superconducting oxide material containing compound represented by the formula: (Tl.sub.(1-p-q) Bip Pbq)y γz (.sub.(1-r) ଲr)s Cuv Ow in which each of ""... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5507546 | Underride protection bumper A vehicle and vehicle bumper provide protection against other vehicles underriding the vehicle. The bumper uses breakable links which break at a predetermined force. The bumper structure has a pivoting arrangement such that, upon breakage of the breakable... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5502782 | Focused acoustic wave fiber optic reflection modulator An improved optical fiber modulator producing a focused acoustic wave propagating from an acoustic transducer surrounding an optical fiber having an in-fiber reflection grating changes the core refractive index in proportion to the induced strain at the c... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5485387 | Method and apparatus for performing cup earing test An apparatus and method for testing a drawn metal cup for earing, including using a sensing device operable to obtain a first data set representing the height of the rim portion of the cup by rotating the cup relative to the sensing device and recording r... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5480196 | Ductile iron pipe joint employing a coupling and coupling therefor A pipe joint capable of transmitting high axial compressive loads includes a reduced wall thickness section at the ends of the pipe to be joined and a coupling sleeve supported in telescoping relation with the reduced wall thickness section. Shoulders for... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5465177 | Method and device for the projection of a color image resulting from a modulation by optical valves The modulation by optical valves of three beam coming from a main or auxiliary primary beam of depolarized and collimated white light is achieved by means of two secondary beams of white light that are linearly polarized and perpendicular to each other. T... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5454999 | Composite silicide/silicon carbide mechanical alloy A method of producing a composite powder by providing particles of, e.g., molybdenum, silicon and carbon, in a proportion relative to each other so as to possess an overall chemical composition in that segment of the ternary diagram of FIG. 1 designated A... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5447510 | Apparatus comprising an ultrasonic probe for removing biologic tissue Apparatus for ultrasonically removing biological tissue using an axially vibrating probe, and method of making same, including a housing having an outer portion forming a handle, wherein the housing has a sleeve therein supporting a piezoelectrical transd... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5438644 | Translation of a neural network into a rule-based expert system A rule-based expert system is generated from a neural network. The neural network is trained in such a way as to avoid redundancy and to select input weights to the various processing elements in such a way as to nullify the input weights which have small... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5432077 | Enhanced adsorbent materials and method of manufacture and use thereof A method of modifying the adsorptive characteristics of an adsorptive surface comprising the in situ precipitation of a polyvalent metal salt from a solution in contact with the adsorptive surface; the adsorptive product produced thereby and methods for t... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5426842 | Method of assembling bell and spigot pipe joints A method of and rounding devices for inserting an out-of-round pipe spigot into a pipe bell by installing the rounding devices on the open end of the pipe bell. The rounding devices have cam surfaces for engaging the end of the out-of-round spigot and hav... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5416991 | Apparatus for feeding flatwork articles to a laundry processing unit An apparatus for feeding flatwork articles to a laundry processing unit, comprising a conveyor belt, at the front end of which flatwork articles can be transferred from a spreading arrangement comprising a pair of carriages running transversely to the lon... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5410949 | Automatic breadmaking machine An automatic breadmaking appliance has an outer housing containing a baking chamber for receiving a mold in which the bread ingredients are mixed, kneaded and baked. A heating element located in the baking chamber supplies heat as necessary throughout the... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5401546 | Pouch for storage and dispensing of lubricating oil The present invention relates to a pouch for storage and dispensing of lubricating oil and comprises a back sheet heat sealed along the vertical ends to a front sheet, a base sheet heat sealed to said back and front sheets. Each of said sheets comprises a... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5400546 | Precision twist drill sharpener/point splitting machine A twist drill sharpener employing a pair of rotary grinding wheels has three primary drill chuck receiving openings, one for alignment of the twist drill and cams on the twist drill chuck; a second receptacle for grinding the end of a chucked twist drill;... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5396629 | System architecture, and use of this architecture in a method for replacing boards The present invention relates to a system architecture and to the use of this architecture in a method for replacing boards. Architecture enabling remote control of an application, including a first service processor connected via a network and a maintena... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5396580 | Translation of a neural network into a rule-based expert system A rule-based expert system is generated from a neural network. The neural network is trained in such a way as to avoid redundancy and to select input weights to the various processing elements in such a way as to nullify the input weights which have small... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5394586 | Ballast sweeper dust control A railroad ballast sweeper controls dust by use of a double segmented skirt arrangement. Segments of elastic, flexible material extend downwardly from a housing in which a rotary broom is disposed. The skirts prevent leakage of dust-laden air out from the... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5393757 | Polyamines and anti-diarrheal and gastrointestinal anti-spasmodic pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment Anti-diarrheal, anti-secretory, nitric oxide agonist, nitric oxide synthase activating or gastrointestinal anti-spasmodic compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R1 and R6 may be the same or different and are H, alkyl or ara... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5393547 | Inactivation of enzymes in foods with pressurized CO2 A method for inactivating enzymes in food products comprising exposing the food to pressurized CO2 to produce a carbonic acid solution therein having a pH sufficiently low to irreversibly inactivate the enzymes.... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5391563 | Anti-neoplastic, anti-viral and ribonucleotide reductase activity affecting pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment A method for treating a human or non-human animal afflicted with malignant cells sensitive to parabactin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or complex thereof comprising administering to the animal an amount of parabactin effective to inhibit the proli... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5387973 | Detector apparatus for detecting coherent point-source radiation Detector apparatus includes a diffraction grating (11) having a period such that the incidence of coherent point-source radiation upon it produces a number of spaced self-images of the grating behind it. A Moire grating (12) is placed to coincide with one... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5387351 | Lubricating grease composition and process for preparing same Lubricating grease compositions based on titanium complex soap thickener in mineral and synthetic base oils have been prepared for the first time. Tentative methods for preparing lubricating grease from this new type of titanium complex soap thickener hav... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5386535 | Protected electronic mass memory unit including first and second buses of the parallel type A dual-access protected electronic mass memory unit, the various elements of which comprise a plurality of logic boards connected to at least one peripheral controller (CNT1, CNT2) of the information processing system (H) to which th... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5385242 | Screening arrangement The invention provides for a support member for a screen support frame for supporting thereon removable screening panels, the support member including securing formations which are removably inter-engageable with complementary securing formations on a scr... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5383232 | Rotating anode for composite X-ray tube Disclosed is a rotating anode for a composite X-ray tube formed by two half-anodes, each being in the form of a disk, one face of which is flat and the other face of which is cut out into radial notches that join their indented circumference to the center... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5380177 | Positive displacement machine with planetary motion and hypertrochoidal geometry A positive displacement machine with planetary motion and hypertrochoidal geometry, including an enclosure arrangement essentially constituted by a cylindrical piston (11), and a cylindrical enclosure (10) and by a third device in rotoidal connection with... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5378066 | Opening device for flexible packaging An opening device for flexible packaging and a package having an opening device bonded thereto are provided, wherein the opening device concentrates tearing forces and provides increased tearing leverage, facilitating the opening of the packaging without ... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5378148 | Model holding means and articulator for use with dental models and apparatus for adjustment of the articulator Articulator for dental modelling, such as restoration of individual teeth and the manufacture of bridges or the like, comprising an upper part and a lower part mutually connected by a hinge, which makes it possible to simulate a movement approximately cor... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5376400 | Combined plasma and gamma radiation polymerization method for modifying surfaces A method for modifying the surface of a material by: a. exposing the surface to a glow discharge plasma to activate the surface; b. exposing the surface to an ethylenically unsaturated monomer or mixture of monomers; and c. irradiating the activated surface with ga... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5375640 | Pneumatic tire for offroad vehicles An all terrain vehicle tire has an improved tread including primary lugs arranged in sets equally spaced around the periphery of the tire on each side of the tire centerline with each set including a long lug and a short lug, with the sets on opposite sid... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5372992 | Superconducting thin film A superconducting thin film of a compound oxide represented by YBa2 Cu3 Oy in which "y" is a number of 6 | 12/13/1994 |
| 5373161 | Gamma camera with gain compensation A gamma camera includes means for the localization of scintillations produced under the effect of a gamma radiation in a scintillator crystal, the localization means including an array of photomultiplier tubes with gain control obtained by means of calibr... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5371740 | Method for data transmission over an internal bus of a workstation, apparatus with an internal bus for implementing the method, and an adapter circuit for the internal bus A method of data transmission over an internal bus of a workstation, effecting communication of an interface coupler and a telephone line and devices adapted for various communication functions. The method employs the synchronization signal of a voice net... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5367113 | Method for synthesis of desferrioxamine B, analogs and homologs thereof Synthesis of desferrioxamine B and analogs and homologs thereof beginning with O-protected, N-protected hydroxylamine, which is N-alkylated to produce a protected N-4-cyanoalkylhydroxylamine which is acylated with a suitable anhydride. The resulting half-... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5367408 | Fastening and connecting device, more particularly for a light intensifier assembly on an image generator of a pilot's helmet viewfinder This device is characterized in that it includes removable indexing and locking devices of the light intensifier assembly on the stationary imager operating in combination with opening and closing control devices of a light shutter of said stationary imag... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5367693 | System for dialog among processors and dispatching processes to processors which monitors the number of acknowledgements to processing requests For certain operations executed in a multiprocessor system, the processors communicate with one another by exchanging requests and acknowledgements. To improve performance, the invention proposes a method by which the operations which require sending of m... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5367646 | Universal device for coupling a computer bus to a controller of a group of peripherals An universal device (GPUI) for coupling a computer bus (PSB) to a controller (DEA) of a group of peripherals connected to one another by a specific link (FDDI) to which the controller is physically connected, includes a microprocessor (CPU) associated wit... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5365466 | Method for generating a random number in a system with portable electronic objects, and system for implementing the method A method for generating a random number in a system utilizing portable objects, such as cards with electronic memories and data processing circuits, wherein the data processing circuits (TC) of the portable object are operable to generate a random number ... | 11/15/1994 |
