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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7049287 | Nociceptin-based analgesics The invention relates to a family of hexapeptide compounds exhibiting activity with regard to the ORL-1 receptor. The compounds share a general formula of Arg-Tyr-Tyr-Arg-Trp-Arg, and may be constructed having modifications or substitutions at any position, and may ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7018828 | Microbial culture medium containing agar and iota carrageenan Media and kits are disclosed for use in processes requiring microbial culture. More specifically, the invention provides carrageenan-stabilized agar-based microbial culture media and kits constructed using the media. The media and kits of the invention may allow the... | 03/28/2006 |
| D516986 | Vehicle wheel | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010707 | Physical layer device with output buffer for link pulse generator connected to cascaded power sub-circuts that receive a series of disabling signals A method for saving electrical power for a physical layer (PHY) device including a plurality of sub-circuits is disclosed. The method includes the steps of outputting a plurality of link pulses, asserting a plurality of disabling signals between two adjacent link pu... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7008937 | Porphyrins and metalloporphyrins for inhibiting heme iron uptake The present invention provides a class of porphyrins and metal chelated porphyrins for use as inhibitors of heme iron uptake. The porphyrin/metal chelated porphyrin molecules of the invention are tetra-positively charged porphyrins based on meso-tetra(4-pyridyl)porp... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009204 | Thin film transistor with self-aligned intra-gate electrode A thin film transistor for use in an active matrix liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a source and a drain regions, and at least a gate electrode. The substrate includes therein a plurality of intrinsic regions, at least one first doped region and two seco... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7007610 | Inflator An inflator (1) is disclosed for use in a safety device within a motor vehicle, for example, for inflating an air-bag. The inflator comprises at least one gas outlet (23) having an initial predetermined gas flow area. The or each gas outlet incorporate... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009547 | Current steering folding circuit A current steering folding circuit is provided. The current steering folding circuit includes a load and at least one current source for drawing a current from the load. The current steering folding circuit also includes a first output signal terminal for providing ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010043 | Resolution scalable video coder for low latency A method in a scalable encoder for reducing the average latency associated with randomly accessing an encoded digital video signal is disclosed. This method may include converting a digital video signal into a first layer having a first degree of quality and a secon... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7005883 | Battery ground fault detecting circuit A battery ground fault detecting circuit applied to an uninterruptible power system is disclosed. The uninterruptible power system has a controller and is connected to a battery box having a ground terminal. The battery ground fault detecting circuit is employed for... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7004677 | Enhanced irrigation valve platform assembly A valve containment assembly for an irrigation system may have a first side wall unit, a grate, a second side wall unit, and a lid. The first side wall unit may be disposed on the floor of a hole. The grate may be positioned in the first side wall unit to support a ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006112 | Method for scaling image frame A method for scaling an image frame by an off-screen technology is provided. An image frame consisting of n rows and m columns of data is stored into a storage device. The image frame is divided into a plurality of image portions. Then, the plurality of image portio... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7001941 | Elastomeric composition and process for producing glove having interpenetrating network structure An elastomeric composition includes a base latex and a thermoplastic ethylene-vinylacetate (EVA) copolymer latex. The base latex includes one or at least one of a styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) latex and a carboxylated styrene-butadiene rubber (C-SBR) latex. A proce... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000705 | Hydraulic setting tool with pressure multiplier A hydraulically operated setting tool for use in setting a plug or other component in a wellbore, and which is responsive to a supply of input actuating pressure to actuate the tool. An elongate tool housing has an inlet to receive the supply of actuating pressure, ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7001194 | Electric power connector and electric power connector assembly A connector is provided. The connector comprises a casing having an open end defined by a first cavity and a second cavity adjacent to the first cavity, wherein a cross-section area of the first cavity is bigger than that of the second cavity, a first retaining plat... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002634 | Apparatus and method for generating clock signal A clock generating apparatus is provided for producing an output clock signal responsive to a source clock signal with a source frequency and a reference clock signal with a reference frequency. The clock generating apparatus includes a counting sequence generator, ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002331 | Modular power supply system including a power status signal generator to perform fast sag detection to input peak voltage A modular power supply system incorporating a power status signal generator circuit to detect the voltage sag of the input peak voltage within a short period is proposed. The power status signal generator circuit mainly includes a peak detector that detects a peak v... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002458 | Vehicular turning indicator A vehicular turning indicator is used for automatically showing a turning degree of a vehicle. The vehicular turning indicator includes a sensor sensing a turning angle of the vehicle; a control device asserting a control signal according to the turning direction, t... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002808 | Assembling structure of electronic apparatus and assembling method thereof An assembling structure of an electronic apparatus and the assembling method thereof are disclosed. The assembling structure of an electronic apparatus comprises a casing having a receiving space, a plurality of conductive terminals, a printed circuit board and at l... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6997387 | Apparatus and method for calibration of projected target point within an image The present invention provides a novel optical reader device and method for calibrating the device. The device executes a calibration module that locates the actual coordinates for a targeting symbol in a captured image. The coordinates are stored as calibration coo... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994971 | Particle analysis assay for biomolecular quantification A method is provided for carrying out multi-step separations of objects bearing at least two binding sites. In the first step, a first binder/bead composition is bound to objects that bear the first binding site, and then unbound objects, i.e. objects not bearing th... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6992954 | Method for determining DC level of AC signal and DC offset of the same A method for determining a direct current (DC) level involved in an alternating current signal is provided. The alternating current signal is transmitted from an amplifier to an A/D (analog-to-digital) converter. When any of the extreme values of the alternating cur... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6988577 | Safety arrangement for a motor vehicle A safety arrangement in a motor vehicle includes a sensor (10) and a component (17) of the suspension of the vehicle of adjustable length between a front wheel (16) and a fixed part (14) of the vehicle. The component of adjustable length ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6985850 | Communication processing system A method and apparatus are described for automatic processing of electronic communications in a networked computer environment. The invention facilitates the appropriate form of translation of the communication to suit the circumstance. The communication is identifi... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6983996 | Safety headrest for a motor vehicle A vehicle seat (1) as a head-rest (5) which is mounted for movement about a horizontal axis defined by a bar (7) depending arms (12) extend downwardly into the back of the seat and carry a pressure plate (13) at a position behind t... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6982515 | Dual position linear displacement micromechanism An apparatus (1) that is capable of a first stable configuration and a second stable configuration is disclosed. The bistable mechanism (10) has a leg (30, 32) that is coupled on one end by a base member (22, 24) and on the other end by a... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6982881 | Current detecting circuit and power converter having the same A current detecting circuit for use in a power converter having a control circuit, a switching circuit, a transformer and an energy storage element is disclosed. The current detecting circuit comprises a filter, a rectifier and a differentiator. The filter is electr... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6980449 | Voltage detecting circuit and power converter having the same A voltage detecting circuit including an impedance converter, an energy storage element, a current source and a comparing circuit is disclosed. The impedance converter is used for converting a high impedance voltage signal into a low impedance voltage signal. The en... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978504 | Multifunctional irrigation tool A multifunctional hand tool is disclosed having multiple tool components for use to service and repair sprinkler and irrigation systems. The hand tool includes eight tool implements positioned on four reversible tool couplings. Each one of the four tool couplings ar... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978038 | Systems and methods for pixel gain compensation in machine-readable graphical codes A method for increasing the readability of a machine-readable graphical code on a printing surface is provided. The method includes receiving a graphical code image. The graphical code image is an electronic representation of a graphical code. The graphical code ima... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977826 | Voltage regulator and method for regulating voltage A voltage regulator for use in a charging device of a portable electronic apparatus is disclosed. The voltage regulator includes a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, a switch circuit being controlled via a control end thereof so as to resu... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975510 | Ventilated housing for electronic components A structure for vertically housing an electronic component is disclosed as including a bottom support member and a top support member. The top support member is substantially parallel to the bottom support member. An open space is formed between the top support memb... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6972763 | System and method for dynamically generating a textual description for a visual data representation A system and method for dynamically generating a textual description for a visual data representation is provided. The method accesses a data set and visual template associated with a visual data representation. A textual description template is also accessed. The v... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6971188 | Brine shrimp egg processing apparatus and method An enhanced apparatus and method for cleaning, drying, and disinfecting brine shrimp eggs is provided. The apparatus may have a blower and a furnace that provide pressurized, dry air to a screening device. The screening device may include a vibrating screen designed... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6971170 | Method of manufacturing printhead A method of manufacturing a printhead for raising its product acceptance rate and improving its quality is provided. The method of manufacturing printheads includes steps of providing a base layer, forming a pattern layer on the base layer by a semi-conductor manufa... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6966247 | Cutting apparatus A cutting apparatus for cutting a sheet material includes a platform; a rail structure secured onto the platform; a sliding member sliding along the rail structure; a pressing plate disposed under the rail structure and engaging with the sliding member for pressing ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968150 | Systems and methods for adding post-collation operations and interleaved imaging jobs to an imaging job A system for adding a post-collation operation to an imaging job is disclosed. The system includes a computing device with executable instructions. The executable instructions are executable on the computing device and are configured to implement a method for adding... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6960046 | Permeable and elastic pavement blocks Permeable and elastic pavement blocks comprising waste-polyurethane chips, which use a binder specially developed to secure the binding between an upper polyurethane-chip layer and a lower permeable-concrete layer as well as the binding among the waste-polyurethane ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6960423 | Preparation of gravure and intaglio printing elements using direct thermally imageable media A gravure printing element is fabricated using a negative-working thermally-imageable coating that is exposed using commercially available diode lasers, the coating being insensitive to ultraviolet light, daylight or visible light, and developable using aqueous medi... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961003 | Electronic messenger An apparatus for taking an electronic message from a user and actively notifying a receiver is disclosed. The apparatus includes a message input device for receiving the electronic message from the user, a message storing device for storing the electronic message th... | 11/01/2005 |
