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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D557167 | Ring | 12/11/2007 |
| D555770 | Oval faucet | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295891 | Method and device for controlling movements in the case of manipulators In a method for controlling the movement of a manipulator associated with an interpretation of a given point sequence of poses (positions and orientations) by splines, the motion components are separately parameterized. Thus, marked, subsequent changes to the orient... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7287414 | Process for measuring the concentration of gases A process is provided for measuring a gas concentration with at least one thermal measuring element. The thermal measuring element is operated by pulses. A measured value of the gas concentration in the environment of the measuring element is obtained from the evalu... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287951 | Device and method for the harmonized positioning of wafer disks A device for aligning a plurality of vertically arranged (upright) disks (20), especially wafer disks during the fabrication of semiconductor chips. Two mounting or bearing elements (30, 32) respectively have individually mounted guide rollers (34 | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284650 | Mobile conveying and stacking system for multilayer dumping and process for operating the system To leach the metal, crushed ore must be dumped in relatively thin layers of a height of approx. 5 m to 10 m. A conveying and stacking system, including a movable conveyor belt system, traveling tripper and stacker is used for this. The movable conveyor belt system i... | 10/23/2007 |
| D547485 | Table lamp | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244931 | Ion mobility spectrometer with parallel running drift gas and ion carrier gas flows An ion mobility spectrometer is provided including at least one ionization chamber (1), which can be passed through by analyte-containing gas and at least one radiation source (2), from which ionizing radiation which is suitable for at least partially ... | 07/17/2007 |
| D545989 | Table lamp | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234704 | Wiping and/or sealing element as well as process for sealing a piston and clamping and/or support element The present invention pertains to a wiping and/or sealing element for sealing a piston (11) guided movably in a housing (10) with a seal held in a groove (21, 30). The present invention pertains, furthermore, to a process for sealing a movable p... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7225918 | Transport device for transporting goods, preferably on pallets, comprising two laterally peripheral traction elements, especially transport chains A transport device for transporting goods, preferably on pallets or the like, along a transport path has at least two lateral peripheral traction elements (2), especially transport chains. To this end, support elements (3) are fixed, preferably articul... | 06/05/2007 |
| D533088 | Watch | 12/05/2006 |
| 7097381 | Joint A joint for the movable connection of two components of a motor vehicle, which are movable in relation to one another, with a housing (1) and with a bearing shell (2) accommodated in the housing (1) for the slidingly movable mounting of a mount ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7097471 | Anisotropic electrical connector with attaching part and method for manufacturing the same An anisotropic connector part (2) made of a rubber elastic element having a conductive part formed by orienting a desired place of a conductive medium by means of a magnetic force and an attaching part (4) having engaging parts (3) to be attache... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096615 | Container for small sized objects such as candies, chocolates, cosmetics, fragrances and small gifts A container for small sized objects such as candies, chocolates, cosmetics, fragrances and small gifts which comprises: a first element (1) having a first and a second apertures (2) symmetrically disposed with respect to a hinge axis (140) and w... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7086327 | Press forming method A press forming method is disclosed, wherein press forming can be effected at high speed while maintaining the horizontal state of a slide plate in press-forming work by a press machine. A press machine is used in which the slide plate is pressed by a plurality of s... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7086563 | Dispensing carton for bandages and the like The parallelepiped-shaped carton made of paperboard or the like, for packaging and dispensing bandages or other products, comprises in at least one B of the two main faces one or two windows B1, B2 and in the internal volume of the carton a wall F with... | 08/08/2006 |
| D522163 | Light | 05/30/2006 |
| D519669 | Ceiling lamp | 04/25/2006 |
| 7018067 | Flexible decoration lamp tube and a method for manufacturing the same This invention relates to a flexible decoration lamp tube, which can be formed into any shape freely, comprising a lamp string formed by a plurality of lighting elements connected in series by wires; and a transparent support body made by hollow tubular flexible ins... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7013738 | Flow sensor A flow sensor is provided with an obstruction (8) projecting into a flow and at least one measuring probe (10) for measuring a vortex produced by the obstruction (8). The measuring probe (10) includes at least one membrane (12) and... | 03/21/2006 |
| D517239 | Table lamp | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009702 | Wide-band spectrometer with objective comprising an aspherical corrector mirror The spectrometer comprises at least a first optical path for a beam of electromagnetic radiation, along which the following are set: a beam-entry slit (1) for an incoming beam; a collimator (5) comprising a convergent spherical mirror for collimation o... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010390 | Method and system for controlling robots The invention concerns a method and a system for controlling a first robot and at least one other robot, the at least one other robot being calibrated relative to the first robot by the determination of at least one coordinate transformation of the first robot relat... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7008152 | Machine tool for processing work pieces on at least three axes A machine tool for at least triaxially machining work pieces (15) comprises a work spindle (10) and a working area (14) before the work spindle (10). A z skid (23), which is displaceable in the direction of the spindle (10),... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6996992 | Gas collection pipe carrying hot gas A gas collection pipe (1) carrying hot gas establishes the connection between the combustion chambers (9) of a gas turbine plant and the flow channel (13) of the gas turbine. The gas collection pipe (1) has two inlet pipe connections (... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6929006 | Device and process for metering breathing gas A respirator with a tidal volume-measuring device (6) between a respiration bag (8) and a patient adapter (2) provides accurate metering of the tidal volume. The device includes a first pressure-measuring device (4) and a breathing gas in... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6918983 | Adhesion method and electronic component The present invention provides an adhesion method of improving the heat conduction in a fixed direction by using a heat conductive adhesive made by blending boron nitride powder and adhesive polymer and adhering by orienting boron nitride powder in the heat conducti... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6807193 | Cable modem with dribble grant access system and method A modem, communications system and method are provided with a transmitter and a receiver connected to a modem termination system (CMTS) by a medium. The modem has a memory forming a transmit queue including voice and video. The modem has a controller for sending dat... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6725771 | Rotary press synchronous controller for selecting control subject based on print image information To provide a synchronous controller of a rotary press for selecting a control subject based on print image information, wherein the rotary press of a multicolor printing unit has a printing division for printing a print image on the plate cylinder onto continuous pa... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6711946 | Method for testing the brake of an electric motor For monitoring the state of a motor brake, the invention provides a method by means of which in a measuring sequence in speed-regulated operation, the brake is applied for a short time and over this time a motor current is measured and the brake torque determined on... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6711098 | Device displaying calendar date Date display device, intended to be fitted to a timepiece provided with a movement, a dial 10 and hands 12, 14 driven by said movement and displaying the time. A date mechanism, drives first 32 and second 34 display members, mounted to mo... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6589558 | Photoablatable lenticular modulator Photoablatable modulator for use in Laser ablation processes on the cornea consisting of a mixture of collagen and vegetable gelatins which is formed in situ on the corneal surface to be treated. A small quantity of a solution at a temperature higher of t... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6409653 | Treatment unit for the intensive care unit A treatment unit with at least two heat sources and a lying surface (4) for a patient (2) is provided such that the ratio of the heat outputs of the heat sources in relation to one another can be set in a simple manner. A heater (5) with a first temperatu... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6262979 | Telecommunication conferencing system and method A telecommunication conferencing system and method are described. Three or more telephone sets connected to one of the networks can concurrently participate in a conference call. Each telephone set engaged in the conference call receives a list of partici... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6142381 | Contact or contactless chip card with brace A chip card for contact access and contactless access to a chip arranged in a chip module, wherein the chip module is arranged in a recess (59) of a card body (49) such that outer contact surfaces (51) of the chip module are arranged at the surface (60) o... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6112891 | Object and audio medium arrangement and formation process An audio medium and candle arrangement includes a candle having an outer contour and a first end and a second end. An audio medium is provided having an outer contour which generally corresponds to the outer contour of the candle. The audio medium is posi... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6096150 | Automatic paper-web splicing system and method An automatic paper-web splicing system rotates a new paper roll being spliced, causes the peripheral speed thereof to agree with the traveling speed of a traveling web, and splices the start end of the new paper roll to the traveling web. The automatic pa... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6092848 | Pneumatic parallel or radial gripper A pneumatic parallel or radial gripper or air gun having two or more gripping jaws, wherein at least the gripping jaws their connection to the controlling piston are pre-assembled on a support that is made of plastic material. This allows for the subseque... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6086251 | Process for operating a thermocouple to measure velocity or thermal conductivity of a gas A process for operating a thermocouple (2), which is arranged in a gas atmosphere and is maintained at a working temperature that is increased compared with the gas temperature by means of an a.c. power source (11). The determination of the thermal power ... | 07/11/2000 |