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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7299516 | Construction of a corrosion-resistant tension member in the area of a rerouting point arranged on a support, particularly an inclined cable on the pylon of a cable stayed bridge A corrosion-resistant tension member, particularly an inclined cable of a cable stayed bridge, is comprised of a bundle of individual elements, for example, steel wire strands, which in the open area is encapsulated by sheathing, and which in the area of a rerouting... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7279969 | Signal amplification method and amplifier array An amplifier array includes a servo amplifier, which has a reference signal input, a return signal input, and an output signal connection, which supplies an output signal path, a reference signal generator, which supplies reference signals with different level heigh... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7268880 | Method and device for determining the dispersive effect on a measurement Provided are methods and devices for measuring the dispersion along a line of sight, using spectral narrow-band light sources with multiple wavelengths, and atmospheric structures, both in the absorptive (imaginary refractive index) and in the dispersive region (rea... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268511 | Control for servo motors A drive arrangement for positioning a positioning element is disclosed that includes an electric servo motor for driving the positioning element, a potentiometer for presetting a setpoint, an actual value sensor disposed at the servo motor, and a motor driver with a... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265300 | Next high frequency improvement using hybrid substrates of two materials with different dielectric constant frequency slopes A connector is provided for simultaneously improving both the NEXT high frequency performance when low crosstalk plugs are used and the NEXT low frequency performance when high crosstalk plugs are used. The connector includes PCB substrates made of materials having ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256385 | Display device with combined light guide An indicating instrument including a light guiding system having at least a first and second light guides, a sensor disposed at a first end of the first light guide and configured to receive incident ambient light that has traveled through the first light guide, a l... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7239761 | Method for calibrating a measuring instrument Calibration of measuring instruments resides in measuring external references which themselves have been measured with other devices and contain positioning errors. A method/system/apparatus is disclosed for calibration of a measuring instrument using at least two p... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231876 | Projectiles possessing high penetration and lateral effect with integrated disintegration arrangement A highly effective and also inert active penetrator, an active projectile, an active airborne body or an active multipurpose projectile with a constructively adjustable or settable relationship between penetrating power and lateral effect. The end ballistic total ef... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233044 | MOS transistor and method for producing a MOS transistor structure A MOS transistor, and a method for producing the same, is provided with a source region, a gate-region, a drain region, and a drift region in an SOI wafer. The SOI-wafer has a carrier layer, which carries an insulating intermediate layer, and whereby the insulating ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7209010 | Oscillator with tunable diffusion capacitance as resonant circuit capacitance An oscillator includes a resonant circuit of at least one inductance device and at least one tunable capacitance. The tunable capacitance is implemented through diffusion capacitances of at least one current-carrying transistor. The tunable capacitance has a first d... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203065 | Heatsink assembly A heatsink assembly is disclosed that includes a holder slidably engaging a circuit board component to be cooled and a heatsink secured to the heatsink holder. A method of cooling a circuit board component is also disclosed that involves the steps of providing a bra... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200886 | Construction of a corrosion-resistant tension member in the area where it enters a structure, particularly an inclined cable on the pylon of a cable stayed bridge A corrosion-resistant tension member, particularly an inclined cable of a cable stayed bridge, is comprised of a bundle of individual elements, for example, steel wire strands, which in its open area is encapsulated by sheathing, and which within the structure exten... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7199601 | Method and testing apparatus for testing integrated circuits method for testing integrated circuits comprises: generation of a change in an input signal of the integrated circuit, detection of a change in the output signal of the integrated circuit, the change triggered by the change in the input signal when a predetermined c... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7189619 | Process for manufacturing vertically insulated structural components on SOI material of various thickness Vertically insulated active semiconductor regions having different thicknesses in an SOI wafer, which has an insulating layer, is produced. On the wafer, first active semiconductor regions having a first thickness are arranged in a layer of active semiconductor mate... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190594 | Next high frequency improvement by using frequency dependent effective capacitance A connector is provided for simultaneously improving both the NEXT high frequency performance when low crosstalk plugs are used and the NEXT low frequency performance when high crosstalk plugs are used. The connector includes a first compensation structure provided ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188189 | System and method to improve the resiliency and performance of enterprise networks by utilizing in-built network redundancy The present invention is a system and method to improve the reliability and performance of existing enterprise IP networks which have dual-homed (or multi-homed) network architectures. In one aspect of the invention packets related to a selected category of transmis... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7181890 | Anchoring device for a corrosion-resistant tension member, particularly an inclined cable for a cable-stayed bridge An anchoring device for a corrosion-protected tension member includes an anchor body, which is provided with bores for the passage of the tension elements. Sealing discs, which can be compressed by means of a pressure plate and threaded bolts, are provided on a face... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7179115 | Alien next compensation for adjacently placed connectors A connector is provided for compensating crosstalk with respect to an adjacently placed connector. Each of the connectors includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a plurality of pairs of contacts on the PCB, a plurality of pads disposed at edge portions of the PCB fo... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177236 | Optical disc head including a bowtie grating antenna and slider for optical focusing, and method for making A slider system have been developed to aid in the spacing between read/write heads and the storage medium, and a grating antenna amplifier has been developed to improve illumination spot size and polarization characteristics. The grating antenna can be attached to a... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174684 | Corrosion-resistant tension member, particularly a tendon for prestressed concrete A corrosion-resistant tension member, particularly a tendon for prestressed concrete, comprising a bundle of tension elements arranged inside a sheathing, has at its ends anchoring devices each with an anchor plate. On the side of the anchor plate facing away from t... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164983 | Switching device for detecting a voltage interruption A switching device for detecting a voltage interruption at a control unit in a motor vehicle, with a nonvolatile memory for storage of calibration data for an actuator that can be adjusted by the control unit and a drive unit. The control unit is supplied with an in... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164679 | Scalable abstraction of topology across domain boundaries Methods and systems are disclosed for scalable advertising of an abstracted form of an arbitrary network of nodes and links to external nodes or networks. One or more phantom hub nodes can be used that are connected to at least one node, forming one or more virtual ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7156168 | Method for controlling an air conditioning unit for an automobile An intensity of solar radiation is determined in a vehicle based on an absolute position of the sun, a spatial orientation of the vehicle, and a measured intensity of the sun. A position of the sun relative to the vehicle is determined on the basis of the orientatio... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154340 | Circuit for increasing the unity gain crossover frequency of an amplifier element A circuit having an input amplifier and a second amplifier that provides the circuit with a unity gain crossover frequency that is higher than a unity gain crossover frequency of the input amplifier is provided. The circuit has a control input coupled to a control i... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7146723 | Method of improving connection of contacts The mechanical connection of contacts through induction soldering is improved. To which end, a plastic dome is produced through preliminary encapsulation by injection molding of at least one contact and subsequent final encapsulation, where the two contact geometrie... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145721 | Anti-reflective structures An anti-reflective structure is formed on a surface to transmit incident light with minimal losses. The anti-reflective surface has a plurality of protrusions having a feature size smaller than the wavelength of incident light. The protrusions increase in height in ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7134642 | Vacuum gate valve The invention provides a vacuum gate valve for closing off an opening. The vacuum gate valve can have a valve plate that can be turned so that the alignment of the valve plate will adapt to a valve seat when the valve plate is pressed against the valve seat. ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134463 | Apparatus for chipping material An apparatus and a tool for chipping material are provided. The apparatus includes chipping tools arranged relative to one another inside a housing, whereby the chipping tools are constructed planiformly, and are arranged on carrier elements along a drum-shaped, dis... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7130255 | Method of CD/DVD vibration detection by monitoring motor conditions This invention describes a method and apparatus to determine a safe rotational speed for a CD/DVD drive by detecting the amount of vibration of the disk by measuring the operating conditions of the spindle motor. A disk drive includes a motor for rotating the disk a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7101169 | Method and device for producing pouch-shaped or pot-shaped parts and use of the parts for accommodating samples or the like The production of pouch-shaped or pot-shaped parts is undertaken in two steps. In the first step, a film located above a die is pressed by a stamp into a cavity that reproduces the part and is subsequently pressed apart in the lower region of the cavity by deformati... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7084640 | Operating and evaluation circuit of an insect sensor An operating and evaluation circuit of an insect sensor is provided, which has a resistor that is dependent on insect infestation, whereby the circuit during stimulation via a transponder generates a current flow through the resistor, detects a change in the resisto... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7083650 | Artificial expansile total lumbar and thoracic discs for posterior placement without supplemental instrumentation and its adaptation for anterior placement of artificial cervical, thoracic and lumbar discs A total artificial expansible disc having at least two pairs of substantially parallel shells, which move in multiple directions defined by at least two axes, is disclosed. Several methods for implanting the total artificial expansile disc are also disclosed. The to... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7070278 | Autostereoscopic 3-D display A lenslet array having variously shaped and sized lenslets, where the lenslets are rotated and/or tilted, reducing gap images in an image formed by pixels/subpixels, where the pixel/subpixels have gaps between each other forming the gap images. ... | 07/04/2006 |
