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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7367742 | Ball and socket joint A ball-and-socket joint for a motor vehicle, especially for the chassis of the motor vehicle has a ball-and-socket joint housing (i), which has a joint opening and in which a bearing shell (5) made of an insulating material is arranged. A ball pivot (4... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7308345 | Steering assistance method and device for a motor vehicle A method for the assisted steering, particularly the assisted maneuvering and parking, of a motor vehicle which includes determining a nominal driving path (X) with a starting point (S) and a destination point (Wnominal); providing an output of the nomina... | 12/11/2007 |
| 6963829 | Method and apparatus for interfacing a spectrum digital incorporated TMS470 evaluation board with a spectrum digital incorporated TMS320LC54X evaluation board A bridge board connects a TMS470 processor evaluation module and a TMS320C54XX processor evaluation module. The bridge board performs translation of signal formats on both of the boards and also synchronizes the signal formats on both boards so that both boards are ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6819231 | Parking and/or maneuvering assistance device A parking and/or maneuvering assistance device for a passenger vehicle or a commercial vehicle is provided with an image acquisition unit (01), e.g., a video camera, and a graphic display unit with which the image information recorded by the image acquisition... | 11/16/2004 |
| D497813 | Watch chronograph | 11/02/2004 |
| D491686 | Wall lamp | 06/15/2004 |
| 6745765 | Anesthetic container with metering elements A reusable anesthetic container (1) has an anesthetic reserve space (2), which is provided with at least one movable wall element (3). The wall element (3) can be caused to follow the liquid anesthetic volume. In one embodiment, the movab... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6731041 | Rotor for small motors and manufacturing method therefor Each of the rotor magnetic poles is composed of a winding around a laminated core and each of both ends of each wound wire is connected to a commutator leg part coupled with a tip of a corresponding commutator segment of the commutator unit. Each of the commutator l... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6681682 | Hydraulic cylinder A single-acting type hydraulic cylinder which is operated to be expanded and contracted by supply and discharge of liquid pressure from a so-called bottom side, in which the desired operation is permanently secured without bringing forth abrasion of a bus... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6655629 | Apparatus and method for preparing winding mandrels and cores for rewinding machines A description is given of a device for preparing winding mandrels for winding machines or the like, comprising, in combination: an extraction station (9) with an extractor mechanism for extracting a mandrel from one or more rolls of web material and for i... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6651965 | Rubber bearing having axial damping A rubber bearing with axial damping includes a multipart bearing inner part (1), an elastomer (9, 9'), which surrounds the bearing inner part (1) in some sections and is connected thereto by vulcanization, chambers (5, 5') for accommodating a damping agen... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6598494 | Selector device for a vehicle with an automatic gear system A shifting device of a motor vehicle automatic transmission has a selector lever (3) and a kinematics (4-9) for transmitting the selection movements to an automatic transmission. The selector lever (3) can be moved around a first shift axis (7) in an auto... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6578800 | Apparatus for fixing a cable guidance hose The invention relates to an apparatus for fixing a cable guidance hose to a device, such as in particular a robot. In order to ensure an optimum, damage-free fixing of a cable guidance hose and in particular the cables guided therein, the cable guidance hose (... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6568902 | Device for cooling a component subject to temperature stress of nonuniform intensity A symmetrical component of a turbine unit, whose wall is exposed to a hot medium on one side and is subject to nonuniform thermal stress over the circumference, is cooled by a flow of cooling air being guided along the other side of the component. A ring ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6513195 | Hinge for a container A hinge is provided at an edge of a container and a cover of the container. The hinge is designed such that the edge of the container can be both lifted off from the edge of the container and folded away. The pivoting movement of a second member (4) is li... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6431784 | Plug-in connector A plug-in connector for hollow sections of spacer frames for insulating glass panes is provided with at least two connector parts with an essentially U-shaped cross section and having an outside depression in the area of the connection point of the hollow... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6413915 | Lubricant The present invention pertains to a lubricant for a ball-and-socket joint, wherein spherical particles of two different sizes are introduced into an oil or a lubricating grease. The coarser particles act as spacers, which prevent the ball of the ball-and-... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6390506 | Fastening system for fixing a motor vehicle steering column assembly unit A fastening system for fixing a first assembly unit to a second component for use especially in the motor vehicle industry is presented, which has at least one fastening screw, a corresponding first preassembly thread on the first assembly unit, in which ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6378517 | Coupling for a breathing tube system A coupling between a breathing tube system is provided with an inner tube and an outer tube. A first connection part is provided with a first connection piece for the outer tube and with a first connection for the inner tube. The first connection is arran... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6376963 | Miniature motor and method for manufacturing the same A miniature motor includes: a plurality of magnets serving as stator poles and attached to an inner surface of a motor casing having a closed-bottomed cylindrical shape; a salient-pole rotor having a core mounted on a rotor shaft and windings placed on th... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6352504 | Patient monitoring device A device is provided for monitoring patients, which is used to detect and process physiological data of a patient, which are measured by sensors. To make possible the most flexible use possible in patient monitoring, especially the connection of additiona... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6350075 | Bellows seal A bellows seal (1) on a ball-and-socket joint provided with joint ball and ball pivot (2), especially on a ball-and-socket joint of a chassis bearing, with an elastic bellows has a pivot-side opening and a joint-side opening and axially surrounds the ball... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6228658 | Method of using a test strip for the immunochemical detection of substances A test strip for the immunochemical detection of substances after sampling from surfaces, with a conjugate zone (2) located between an eluent application zone (1) at one end of the test strip and a reaction zone (3) at the opposite end, the zones being in... | 05/08/2001 |
