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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7127803 | Device for handling an elastic protective bellows and mounting process for arranging a protective bellows on a component A mounting device and process are provided for arranging a protective bellows on a component. The device includes a basic body, a mounting head, which is displaceable at the basic body, an adjusting device for providing an adjusting action and including an electrome... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7086293 | Method for monitoring a machine and such a machine, particularly a robot In order to improve the monitoring of a machine with movable parts, such as in particular an industrial robot, and for increasing safety, the invention provides a method for monitoring movable parts of a machine, such as an industrial robot, in which at least two di... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6144164 | Dynamic EL lighting with a single power source An EL lightening device which can individually switch the luminescence brightness of a plurality of ELs by a single inverter. In this device, a plurality of ELs (3) are connected to the output side of an inverter (1) through AC switches (2) A stabilized D... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6015040 | Transfer device A device for transferring objects, especially hollow bodies, such as cans, tubes and the like, from an arriving conveying device to an exiting conveying device. At least one rotatingly driven rotor is provided. At least one holding device, for the objects... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6013874 | Arrangement of contact pairs of twin conductors and of conductors of a multi-core cable for the purpose of reducing crosstalk An arrangement of contact pairs of twin conductors and of conductors of a multi-core cable for the purpose of reducing crosstalk, in which the contact pairs of the twin conductors or the conductor pairs define mutually parallel, non-congruent areas F... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5993197 | Combustion chamber of a burner for a vehicle heater or an exhaust gas particle filter A combustion chamber of a burner for a vehicle heater or for thermal regeneration of an exhaust gas particle filter having a frontal boundary wall, a circumferential boundary wall, a connector for fitting a glow plug and a connector for conveying combusti... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5976749 | Metal compound of aromatic hydroxycarboxylic acid, charge control agent, toner, and powdery paint Metal compound of formula [I] which is excellent in charge control or charge-enhancing property, and toner for developing electrostatic images and powdery paint for electrostatic painting incorporating thereof: ##STR1## wherein R1, R2... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5942016 | Moving cleaner The invention relates to a travelling cleaner (1) for textile machines, in particular spinning and weaving machines, which has a blowing and sucking device (3) and also a filter device (4). The filter device (4) has a tubular filter cartridge with at leas... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5934870 | Steam turbine control utilizing a water hydraulic drive A steam control valve is provided with a valve core arranged in the valve housing (10), with an upper valve spindle (5) guided in a sealing packing (12), with a valve cone (1) sliding in a lower and upper valve core (3b) and (3a), and with a valve diffuso... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5927275 | Valve for a respirator A valve for a respirator with a closing member, which is located at a valve seat 6 and is actuated by an electric drive 12, is improved in terms of its dynamic properties. A detector for detecting a first electric signal present at the moving drive a simu... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5928411 | Device for absorbing a gas mixture consisting of laughing gas and anesthetic vapor A device for removing at least laughing gas and anesthetic vapor from a gas sample based on a molecular sieve shall be improved such that it possesses good adsorption properties for both gas components. A molecular sieve arrangement is provided, which is ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5926463 | Method and apparatus for viewing and managing a configuration of a computer network A method and apparatus for viewing a configuration of a computer network by polling a plurality of switches and routers present in the network to obtain copies of information stored in databases on the switches and routers. The present invention determine... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5922986 | Armor plate for vehicles An armor plating for vehicles has at its outer side a layer (13) of plastics material bound explosive containing radar absorbing materials.... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5918593 | Ultrasonic atomizer for respiration systems An ultrasonic atomizer for respiration systems, which is integrated in the breathing gas line from and to the patient via two connections. The ultrasonic atomizer is in a gas flow connection with the atomizer chamber to which an aerosol is admitted by a p... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5907134 | Air gap-insulated exhaust pipe and process for manufacturing same Air gap-insulated exhaust pipe (2) with a sliding fit (16) between two inner pipe sections (12, 14) in a middle area of the length of the exhaust pipe (2). A radial mounting (26) of the inner pipe (6) in the outer pipe (4) is provided in the area of a ben... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5904319 | Guided missile with ram jet drive A guided missile with ram jet drive, with an engine occupying the airframe cross section, with two outer air intakes in the lower area of the airframe, which lead to the tail with wake shafts, with a tail plane including four separately pivotable vanes in... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5899096 | Device for needle-by-needle selection in circular stocking knitting machines A device for needle-by-needle selection in circular stocking knitting machines is disclosed. An elastic lock pin or segment (19) is provided for each lower needle (13) of the type having an elastic deflection tail. The segment is carried by a crown (22) f... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5894988 | Burner for a vehicle heater or a particle filter regenerator A burner for a vehicle heater of a particle filter regenerator including a combustion air blower, a combustion chamber with a fuel evaporator, a fuel supply with a fuel metering pump by which the fuel is proportionately fed to the evaporator, a glow-plug ... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5893482 | Product-dispensing device of a vending machine A rocker, which is pivotable for dispensing products and has a lower product support part, is arranged at the bottom of a product shaft in a product-dispensing device of a vending machine. To achieve trouble-free dispensing even in the case of bottles or ... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5893710 | Fuel-operated heater, especially an auxiliary heater for a motor vehicle A fuel-operated heater, especially an auxiliary heater for a motor vehicle, with a fuel feed pump and/or with a combustion air fan, is provided with a combustion control circuit. The control circuit acts to maintain a predetermined air-to-fuel ratio at a ... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5891083 | Suction lipolysis A compound, solution of carrier and the compound and a medical procedure is provided for suction lipolysis. The compound is preferably either one or more enzymes and/or emulsifying agents and/or detergents which digest or dissolve fat in the subcutaneous ... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5890304 | Device for lifting, lowering and leveling booms of strip mining equipment A level boom is provided for a piece of strip mining equipment traveling on caterpillar-type chassis, which piece of equipment is temporarily moved on oblique roadways during operation. The position of the boom in relation to the skeletal structure is cor... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5889195 | Measuring arrangement for determining the concentration of gases from liquid media A measuring arrangement for determining the concentration of gases dissolved in a liquid is proposed, which has a simple design and makes possible the use of known gas-measuring apparatus based on color reaction tubes or color reaction capillaries. A pref... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5887526 | Shaft encoder for a cylinder of a printing press A process and device for synchronizing a cylinder of a printing press, which is pivoted up to its countercylinder, and to a shaft encoder suitable for carrying out this process.... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5885366 | Method for washing oily soil from objects A washing method for removing oily soil from an object stained therewith by contacting the object with a non-flammable washing agent composition comprising 0.001 to 30 parts of a fluorine-free absorbent which can absorb and capture oily soil and not less ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5884529 | Shifting device for an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle A shifting device for an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle is presented, which has two shift gates, wherein the first shift gate is an automatic shift gate and the second shift gate is a step-by-step shift gate. A selector lever support is mounted... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5881662 | Sewing or embroidering machine A sewing or embroidering machine with an electronic control device including a microcomputer. Access authorization for the individual modes of operation of the sewing and embroidering machine can be changed by the buyer of the machine. The assignment of a... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5882137 | Process for preparing a low-friction ball joint, as well as low-friction ball joint A process for preparing a low-friction ball joint and a ball joint prepared according to this process are presented, wherein a ball pivot with a joint ball made integrally in one piece with it is fitted into an insert ring via the intermediary of a bearin... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5881767 | Modular piezo valve arrangement A piezo valve arrangement for gas mixers or respirators, which is built up modularly from individual valve elements. At least one individual valve element, which is provided in its housing with a pressurized gas channel and a gas discharge channel, is arr... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5879527 | Filter for an electrochemical measuring cell A filter for an electrochemical measuring cell with a filter housing and a filter material contained therein is improved, with a simple design, such that interfering gas components cannot reach the measuring cell from the gas mixture. This is accomplished... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5876033 | Device to stack and collect banknotes with the possibility of returning them A device to stack and collect banknotes with the possibility of returning them. It comprises conveyors (18) to take every banknote at the level of the inlet (12) and to drag the buntnote and spread it on a support surface (14) over a central opening (14')... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5876111 | Decorative lighting string with expandable, shrinkable and three-dimensional unit An expandable and shrinkable decorative lighting string arrangement with a plurality of lamp bulbs, lamp bases, lamp holders, all connected by wires to form a lighting string. The lighting string is connected to a plurality of stands by a clamp. An axis c... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5876202 | Stagger cut teeth The flutes of a drill bit (1) are constituted by helical portions (4) and rectilinear portions (5).... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5876784 | Treatment device, particularly for a transverse sizing machine The present invention pertains to a treating device 1, especially a rotating transverse gluing mechanism for high-speed, register mark-related paper or film webs 2. The movements of the transverse gluing mechanism 1 are synchronized with the web 2, and th... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5875309 | Arbitration system using linked table A computer network system containing a concentrator with a backplane that has a plurality of lines. The backplane contains data lines and control lines for managing and organizing the transfer of data between modules in the concentrator. The system contai... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5873965 | Process and device for carrying out a welding process on thermoplastic material webs In a process and a device for carrying out a welding process on thermoplastic material webs, the value of the pressing force (Fi) of a pair of pressure rollers is determined as a measured value representing the weld seam thickness and is used a... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5873454 | Sheet type key top A sheet type key top of a push button switch which is disposed over a switch contact used for the input portion of a portable electric appliance or a machine control portion or the like, and through which the underlying switch is depressed to turn it on o... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5873329 | Refractory lining in the transition of a gasifier to the waste heat boiler A refractory lining in the transition section of a gasifier to the waste heat boiler with claws/brackets for supporting refractory shaped bricks. Each claw is suspended on hooks in a pipe branch and is protected from overheating by cooling tubes. The refr... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5874897 | Emergency-reporting system for rescue operations A personal emergency-reporting system for recognizing the site of an emergency with simultaneous warning of the nearest emergency physician/medical personnel. A portable patient data unit is provided which contains a satellite-supported global positioning... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5872336 | Device for the protection of cables laid in switch cabinets or other equipment A device for the protection of cables laid in switch cabinets, other equipment or the like, in order to prevent bends below a minimum bending radius at the exits of cable ducts or similar equipment and that prevents corresponding damages. At the exit open... | 02/16/1999 |
