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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D682539 | Backpack | 05/21/2013 |
| 8442260 | Ribbon transducer A ribbon transducer (101) is disclosed, comprising: a ribbon made of conductive material (2), a damping system (4) arranged at least at one end of the conductive ribbon (2), and two rigid supports (103) where the ends of the ribbon... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441124 | Cu pillar bump with non-metal sidewall protection structure A sidewall protection structure is provided for covering at least a portion of a sidewall surface of a bump structure, in which a protection structure on the sidewalls of a Cu pillar and a surface region of an under-bump-metallurgy (UBM) layer is formed of at least ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8418490 | Controlling method of air conditioning system for vehicles A method for controlling a vehicular air conditioning system including: setting up a target indoor temperature of a vehicle determined by a user; inputting inside and outside temperatures of the vehicle and solar radiation with reference to a sensor mounted on the v... | 04/16/2013 |
| D679247 | Cover for cooler top of nacelle | 04/02/2013 |
| 8407268 | Method for determining an optimum sampling frequency, and a power analyzer performing the method A method for determining an optimum sampling frequency to be performed by a power analyzer includes the following computer-implemented steps: sampling a time domain signal to obtain a sampling signal according to a predetermined sampling frequency; obtaining two ref... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8402658 | Manufacturing method of compressor pulley A compressor pulley having a partially cold forged base of improved strength and a bridge of improved strength is easily manufactured. Metal is heated to a predetermined temp and then hot forged into a pulley shape. A piercing step then forms a through hold in a cen... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8398127 | Opening and closing device for lids The present invention relates to an opening and closing device of push-push type for lids, with particular reference to the lids of fuel tanks in cars and motorcycles, which uses a mechanism comprising a heart-shaped cam (6) and a roto-translating pin (3 | 03/19/2013 |
| 8398048 | Structure for mounting an object on a vertical surface and method of making same A picture hanger has a base portion having a hole for an elongated fastener (nail or screw). The base portion carries a member enclosing a front face or the entire base portion. The member has a through hole aligned with and on one or both sides of the fastener hole... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8397325 | Air cell cushion This air cell cushion has a pair of side air cells extending upwardly from the upper surface side of the base member at both end sides in the lateral direction of the base member. The side air cells have a larger front-rear direction size than in the lateral directi... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8394505 | Building and construction element For a production of building and construction elements with utilization of municipal wastes there is designed an element provided with at least one basic layer of pressed pulp of laminated foodstuff packages, covered at least at one side by a plastic sheet and havin... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8393941 | Abrasive tool The present invention relates to an abrasive tool, of the type suitable to be mounted on a machine tool, comprising at least a bearing structure with abrasive material, the said bearing structure being provided with at least a grid (6) with abrasive material,... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8388218 | Replaceable decorative cover for watches with digital display The present invention relates to a replaceable decorative cover adapted to be snap-coupled with one of those watches formed of a monolithic rubber bracelet provided in the center with a tapering enlarged section that contains the display of the watch. ... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8373354 | Backlight unit driver There is provided a backlight unit driver capable of driving multi-channel lamps of a backlight unit, especially LED lamps, by supplying a driving power to the lamps using a single transformer and maintaining the current balance of the driving power supplied to each... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8371532 | Aircraft joint A method of joining a wing to an aircraft fuselage by forming a series of pinned lug joints between a fuselage side and a wing side of a wing box structure. The joint forming process includes providing a single row of lugs on one side of the joint to be formed, and ... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8366056 | Winglet A winglet comprising a root connected to a distal end of a wing; an upwardly angled section; a tip; and a transition between the upwardly angled section and the tip at which an outboard cant angle of the winglet decreases relative to a reference plane of the wing. I... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8365861 | Muffler unit for fume extractor hood A muffler unit for a fume extractor hood includes an active noise suppression system, at least one loudspeaker, and at least two microphones connected to a control unit, and a passive noise suppression system having sound-absorbent material disposed between the micr... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8363841 | Method for managing and controlling the access keys to services in a communication system A method for managing keys making it possible for a user to access one or more given services S in a communication system, in which the user is not able to be continuously connected to this service. A key K(t) is generated, which provides access to the service of da... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8363032 | Image display system and method for determining input position thereon The present invention provides an image display system including a capacitive touch panel. The touch panel includes a plurality of groups of capacitor, and each group includes a number of capacitor modules. The touch panel also includes a processing circuit, a first... | 01/29/2013 |
| D675038 | Stand | 01/29/2013 |
| 8358261 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is provided. The LCD device includes a LCD panel, which further includes a plurality of scan lines, a gate driving circuit, a clock circuit. The clock circuit includes a clock generator and an adjusting circuit. The clock genera... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8357022 | Manufacturing apparatus for liquid crystal panel A manufacturing apparatus for liquid crystal (LC) panels, including a temperature control device, an LC status monitor, a backlight source and an ultraviolet set. The temperature control device, on which an LC panel is placed, provides temperature control and is per... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8355460 | Radio transmitter system and method A radio transmitter system responsive to a binary signal drives a narrow bandwidth VLF or LF antenna. A generator derives a first variable frequency wave frequency coded based on bit values of a binary signal. An arbitrary impulse response signal processor responsiv... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8354943 | Display device for an aircraft for displaying a piloting symbology dedicated to obstacle avoidance The general field of the invention is, within the framework of the terrain anti-collision systems for aircraft, the presentation on the displays for aiding the piloting and the navigation of a simplified symbology suited to these critical situations. More precisely,... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8353330 | Heat exchanger The present invention relates to a heat exchanger and, more particularly, to a heat exchanger which is provided with a discharge part formed by opening of some portion of a partition wall, thereby capable of facilitating discharge of oil, air and foreign substances.... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8351471 | Satellite communications system having transmitting station diversity The invention relates to a method for transmitting signals termed useful signals via a satellite by means of connection stations. To this end, a first connection station (CNX1) carries out the generation of a first service signal on a service carrier frequenc... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8351179 | Solar generator with concentrator of primary electric arcs A (GS) for an equipment (EQ) including an electrical reference (ME) and including an area provided with at least two photoelectric cells (C) electrically connected and each covered by a protective window that can become electrostatically charged. This solar generato... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8350482 | Hybrid lighting device A hybrid lighting device is described. The hybrid lighting device comprises a solar panel arranged to generate electric power; a wind turbine arranged to generate electric power; an energy storage device electrically connected with the power controller and arranged ... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8349914 | Biodegradable polymers and compounds A method of biodegrading polymeric products is disclosed, which provides for addition of brewer's yeast or yeast mother or a mix of the two in the polymers or compounds that form said polymeric products. ... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8348464 | Gravity controlled lighting device A lighting device having a housing incorporating an electrical circuit, a light source and a source of power with a gravity controller. The gravity controller regulates the power applied to the light source in response to the relationship between the position angle ... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8344708 | Switching mode power supply circuit for plasma display panel Provided is a switching mode power supply circuit for plasma display panel, which includes an EMI filter unit, a PFC unit, an output unit, and a standby unit. The EMI filter unit may include a first line filter connected to a commercial line input power, a first cap... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8342413 | Method for enhancing document security and device for implementing said method The present invention relates to a method of enhancing document security for documents of the type each comprising a print medium on which is printed personalizing information, this printed medium being laminated between two laminates that are at least partially tra... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8339699 | Method for amplification by spatio-temporal frequency conversion and device for carrying out said method The present invention relates to a method of amplification based on spatio-temporal frequency drift for a pulse laser comprising a so-called CPA (Chirped Pulse Amplification) frequency-shift amplifying chain, the various spectral components spatially spread. The var... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8332003 | Device providing biological protection against the electromagnetic waves emitted by a mobile telephone A device providing biological protection against the electromagnetic waves emitted by a mobile telephone. A protective element against electromagnetic waves, arranged so that the user is able to protect himself or herself from the electromagnetic waves emitted by th... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8327522 | Process for the collective fabrication of calibration-free sensors based on acoustic wave devices The invention relates to a process for the collective fabrication of a remotely interrogable sensor having at least one first resonator and one second resonator. Each resonator exhibits respectively a first and a second operating frequency. A first series of first r... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8327036 | Method of passing instructions between a host station and a portable electronic device, and device for implementation The method includes in placing an instruction presence parameter in the “argument” field of a binary word defining a read/write command generated by generic management programs (drivers) for removable data storage units. This makes it possible to circumvent the ... | 12/04/2012 |
| D672112 | Shopping trolley | 12/04/2012 |
| 8316798 | Individually mixed pet feed supply system It used to be difficult to automatically mix—together with ordinary pet foods—nutrients and medications as additives based on a prescription from an animal hospital according to the condition of a pet. Also, it was not easy to submit from a personal computer or ... | 11/27/2012 |