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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6538913 | Method for operating a ferroelectric memory configuration and a ferroelectric memory configuration The invention relates to a method for operating a ferroelectric memory configuration in the VDD /2 mode. The memory configuration has a large number of memory cells which each have at least one selection transistor, one storage capacitor with a... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6520085 | Device for tensioning a cylinder dressing on a printing machine-cylinder A device for positioning and tensioning a cylinder dressing on a printing-machine cylinder, wherein both a leading dressing end and a trailing dressing end of the cylinder dressing are tensioned, includes, in a first step, tensioning both dressing ends, a... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6471581 | Method and apparatus for ventilating at least one window in a vehicle A method and an apparatus for ventilating at least one window in a vehicle by blowing and extracting air in a region of the window is described. The airflow blown against the window is substantially laminar and the air is extracted in an upper region of t... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6470801 | Configuration for triggering a restraining device in a motor vehicle A configuration for triggering a restraining device has firing elements that are optically fired by an associated triggering device. In addition, an optical check signal can be transmitted to the firing element by the triggering device. An evaluation circ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6471304 | Brake value signal transmitter for an electrically controlled and activated brake system A brake value signal transmitter that is to be connected to a brake pedal of a motor vehicle senses activations of the brake pedal with a plurality of sensors and converts them into electrical signals. The brake pedal is connected via a rotatably mounted ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6434949 | Method and treatment device for the cooling of highly heated metal components A method for cooling metal components highly heated in a chamber includes effecting a uniform cooling of an entire metal component. The metal component has regions each with a given mass, some of the regions having a larger mass than others of the regions... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6429774 | EVALUATING UNIT FOR A DEVICE FOR DETECTING OBJECTS, IN PARTICULAR FOR MONITORING THE INTERIOR OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, AS WELL AS A DEVICE FOR DETECTING OBJECTS HAVING SUCH AN EVALUATING UNIT AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SUCH A DEVICE A demodulator of an evaluating unit for a device for detecting objects derives a useful signal from a supplied input signal with the aid of a carrier signal. The demodulator further derives a test signal with the aid of a modulated carrier signal. An eval... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6427026 | Video decoder and corresponding method A decoder has a first memory for storing a coded first image. The image is stored in the first memory until it has been decoded at least twice. The results of the decoding operations can be supplied to a playback device. The invention makes it possible to... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6418208 | Method for controlling the statutory monitoring of telecommunication traffic In order to control the statutory monitoring of telecommunication traffic, provision is made in a network component essential for this monitoring of a data base in which it is stored for subscribers to be monitored which communication-relevant data are to... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6418399 | Method for executing individual algorithms using a reconfigurable circuit, and apparatus for carrying out the method At least two algorithms are assigned to at least one defined algorithm. Each of these two algorithms has a different probability of being the next algorithm to be executed during and/or after execution of the defined algorithm. Of the two assigned algorit... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6412170 | Method of manufacturing a control flap A first sleeve and a second sleeve are put onto the shaft at a predetermined axial distance apart and are pressed radially. The shaft is encapsulated between the first and the second sleeve with a thermoplastic in such a way that a vane body, which has at... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6411167 | Amplifier output stage An amplifier output stage is described containing a preliminary stage, a final stage and a control device. The quiescent current that flows through transistors of the final stage is adjusted by the preliminary stage. For this, a current that is proportion... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6408619 | Method and device for reducing the nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas of a combustion system When determining the amount of a reducing agent solution to be introduced into the exhaust gas of a combustion system, in particular of a diesel engine, for catalytically reducing the nitrogen oxides by the SCR process, the concentration of the reducing a... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6406983 | Process for the thermal annealing of implantation-doped silicon carbide semiconductors A process for the thermal annealing of implantation-doped silicon carbide semiconductors in a gas stream brings practically no carbon to the silicon carbide semiconductor. In one embodiment, a container, a carrier, radiation shields and a baseplate are co... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6405520 | Gas and steam turbine plant and method for cooling a coolant of a gas turbine of such a plant A gas and steam-turbine plant includes a waste-heat steam generator connected downstream of a gas turbine on the flue-gas side. The waste-heat steam generator has heating areas connected in a water/steam circuit of a steam turbine. A heat exchanger is pro... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6403039 | Catalytic converter for a small engine and method for manufacturing the same A catalytic converter for a small engine and a method for manufacturing the same include a honeycomb body coated with catalytically active material and made from at least partly structured layers of sheet metal with channels for the passage of exhaust gas... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6403440 | Method for fabricating a stacked capacitor in a semiconductor configuration, and stacked capacitor fabricated by this method A method for fabricating a stacked capacitor in a semiconductor configuration, in which one electrode of the stacked capacitor is connected via a terminal region of a first conductivity type to a source or drain of a transistor. The semiconductor configur... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6404041 | EMC-optimized power switch The power switch has considerably reduced common-mode interference and relatively reduced circuit complexity. The power switch is formed of a semiconductor chip on a leadframe. A first terminal of the semiconductor chip is connected to the active potentia... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6404699 | Integrated circuit having a command decoder The integrated circuit has an activation decoder whose outputs are connected to the inputs of a command decoder. When an activation signal is at a first logic level, the activation decoder produces at its outputs a command supplied to it from command inpu... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6403473 | Process for producing metal-containing layers A process for producing metal-containing layers, in particular metal-containing diffusion barriers, contact layers and/or antireflection layers. The process according to the invention has a first step in which a metal layer having a predetermined thicknes... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6400961 | Method and apparatus for reducing the power consumption of mobile multimode communication terminals A method and an apparatus for saving current in mobile multi-mode communication terminals, in which the frequency of searching (scanning) for available communication networks is varied as a function of information about the local availability of the commu... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401224 | Integrated circuit and method for testing it A test method suitable for testing at least one integrated circuit which, on a main area, has contact areas that serve to transfer signals during a first operating mode of the circuit. Only some of the contact areas are contact-connected to test contacts ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6395454 | Integrated electrical circuit with passivation layer The invention relates to an integrated electric circuit comprising a metal layer provided with a passivation layer. The passivation layer is made of a monomolecular film which is placed on the surface of the metal layer. The monomolecular film is formed p... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6393798 | Heat-insulating wall A heat-insulating wall has two spaced-apart, at least essentially vacuum-tight cover layers, between which an evacuable heat-insulation material is provided and which are connected to one another by a vacuum-tight connecting profile which runs along the f... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6396802 | Data transmission method with a plurality of frequency bands The invention relates to a data transmission method in which the data to be transmitted are divided into a plurality of subchannels each with a normal component and a quadrature component that is orthogonal to the normal component. The divided data are tr... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6396678 | Capacitor A capacitor having a signal electrode connected to a signal conductor, a ground electrode connected to a ground conductor and a dielectric disposed between the two. In the capacitor, delay-time-dependent limits are moved to higher frequency ranges in orde... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6393922 | Pressure sensor component with hose connection The invention relates to a pressure sensor component comprising a base body and a pressure connection element. The base body comprises a chip carrier, onto which a semiconductor chip with an integrated pressure sensor is mounted. Contact is made with the ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6393075 | Method and device for source-controlled channel decording using kalman filter Data are received by a receiver in a frame by frame transmission. The received data are processed in a maximum a posteriori probability algorithm using metric increments. In order to calculate the metric increments, use is made of reliability values which... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6392918 | Circuit configuration for generating a reference voltage for reading a ferroelectric memory A circuit for generating a reference voltage for the reading out from and the evaluation of read output signals which are read out with a constant plate voltage from storage cells of a ferroelectric memory via bit lines. In the circuit, a reference voltag... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6392583 | Method and configuration for processing at least one analog signal containing a number of frequency ranges A method and a configuration are provided for digitally processing an analog signal, especially of output quantities of an optical transducer. The analog signal is divided into a number of partial analog signals having in each case different frequency ran... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6392440 | 5V compliant transmission gate and the drive logic using 3.3V technology The logic gate has at least one input terminal in which a digital input signal is applied having two possible logical signal values and at least one output terminal to output an output signal having a logical signal values. Two different logical voltage l... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6392259 | Semiconductor chip with surface covering A semiconductor chip with a surface covering includes circuits which are produced in at least one layer of a semiconductor substrate and disposed in at least one group. Supply and signal lines extend in at least one interconnect plane over at least one ci... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6392203 | Baking oven with baking oven muffle A baking oven includes a metallic baking oven muffle that can be closed off on a front side by a door. The muffle walls have heating elements for heating the cooking chamber to over approximately 180° C. and/or for heating the food disposed therein to be... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6390498 | Configuration for triggering restraining devices in a motor vehicle A configuration for triggering restraining devices in a motor vehicle. The configuration has a sensor device with two acceleration sensors with differently orientated sensitivity axes and with a rotational movement sensor for detecting rotational movement... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6389902 | Micromechanical sensor and method for its production The invention relates to a micromechanical sensor and to a corresponding production method that includes the following steps: a) preparing a doped semiconductor wafer; b) applying an epitaxial layer that is doped in such a way that a jump in the charge ca... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6389282 | Operation and maintenance system for a mobile communications network An operation and maintenance system for a mobile communications network allows to execute a network configuration centrally from a maintenance device of an operation and maintenance center and allows to execute a network configuration peripherally with th... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6389086 | Digital circuit having a filter unit for suppressing glitches A digital circuit has a signal input terminal and a signal output terminal. The digital circuit additionally has a logic circuit unit, whose input is connected to the signal input terminal and whose output is connected to the signal output terminal via a ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6388944 | Memory component with short access time A memory chip with a short data access time limits the propagation time of a bit on local data line strips which are far away from output amplifiers by centering switches with respect to a center of the cell array strips, wherein the switches are junction... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6388917 | Method for nondestructively reading memory cells of an MRAM memory A method for nondestructively reading memory cells of an MRAM memory, which includes steps of: determining a standard resistance of a memory cell at a voltage at which a resistance of the memory cell is independent of a stored content of the memory cell; ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6388271 | Semiconductor component The power semiconductor components in prior art high-voltage smart power ICs frequently take up more than half of the total chip surface. To be able to produce the ICs more economically, the material consumption must be reduced, and hence, in particular, ... | 05/14/2002 |
