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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5892290 | Highly reliable and planar ball grid array package The invention is directed to a BGA package and method for making a BGA package in which warpage, delamination and package cracking are reduced. The inventive BGA package has a die attached to one surface of a substrate. The substrate may terminate at its ... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5882463 | Method of applying a security element to a substrate In a method of transferring a security element which is in the form of a laminate with a carrier foil and with a thermally activatable adhesive layer for connection to a substrate onto a document the adhesive layer is brought into contact with the substra... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5875018 | Process and device for the projection of image information for persons with visual impairment caused by deviation of the position of their optical axis A process and device for the projection of image information before at least one eye (A1,A2) of a person having a visual impairment is disclosed. The visual impairment is caused by a deviation of the angular position of the optical axis of one eye (A2) in... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5815099 | Method and apparatus for differentially decoding signals The present invention relates to a method and apparatus in which a differentially coded signal having forward error correction added to the encoded data can be decoded with an improved bit error rate performance Apparatus for decoding a differentially encoded ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5801779 | Rate control with panic mode A rate control algorithm for an MPEG-2 compliant encoder is described. The rate control algorithm has embodiments useful for constant bit rate and variable bit rate encoding. In particular, the invention relates to rate control with panic mode.... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5792885 | Preparation of 3-amino-1-hydroxypropane-1, 1-diphosphonic acid A preparation of 3-amino-1-hydroxypropane-1,1-diphosphonic acid includes the steps of: mixing N-alkoxycarbonyl-ଲ-alanine, phosphorous chloride and phosphorous acid in the ratio of 1:1:1~1:3:3 in a reaction solvent, xylene at 70°-140° C.; hydrolyzi... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5790662 | Data carrier and write/read device therefor A data carrier with an electronic circuit for storing and processing data is provided with an information strip with optically readable markings, and preferably a test field and an authentication feature. An optical interface, for example, can be provided... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5784460 | Secured electronic information delivery system having a three-tier structure A system is provided for retrieving a selected one of a plurality of encrypted software products stored in at least one storage device, such as a CD-ROM. Each software product is decryptable by a unique decryption key. The CD-ROM storage device is coupled... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5782541 | Pressure control process and apparatus A process and an apparatus for pressure control, in particular, to adjust braking pressures in a utility vehicle, are proposed. Two individual controllers (10, 11) are assigned respectively to an inlet valve (2) and to a discharge valve (3). A pilot contr... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5780732 | Method for the verification of electrical connections for an antilock braking system of a vehicle A process for the verification of an antilock braking system (ABS) in a vehicle to check for correct connection of the component wheel sensors (3, 4, 17, 18, 19, 20), braking pressure modulators (7, 9, 12), and brake cylinders (5, 6, 10, 11, 13, 14) is pr... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5779898 | Control device for filters in at least two partial fluid streams A control device for at least two partial fluid ducts comprises a common fluid supply duct and a common fluid removal duct. The fluid supply duct is connected with the fluid removal duct by at least two partial fluid ducts. A filtering device, a valve dev... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5775847 | Flotation system for buildings A flotation system for a building (300) is disclosed including a watertight basement (540) having a unitary piece of concrete forming the floor and walls (615) of the watertight basement (540). Rollers (610) are attached to the watertight basement (540). ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5763020 | Process for evenly depositing ions using a tilting and rotating platform A process for depositing a layer of uniform thickness on an uneven surface of a substrate is disclosed. The layer could be deposited by plasma or chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The uneven surface of the substrate has horizontal surfaces and vertical sid... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5761423 | Scalable picture storage access architecture for video decoding A memory architecture is disclosed for storing macroblocks of an anchor picture. Each macroblock is an i×j matrix of p blocks of n×m pixels, where i,j,m,n and p are integers, p>1 and p=i.multidot.j. The blocks of each macroblock are consistently ordinal... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5760961 | Optical information carrier having diffractive features and diffraction modulation layers An information carrier is in the form of a composite laminate with a first, a second and a third layer having refractive indices n3, n4, n5 respectively. The second layer forms structures by only partially covering the first layer. The third layer covers ... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5756729 | Process for the manufacture of 8-chloro-6 (2-fluorophenyl)-1 methyl-4H-imidazo 1,5a! 1,4! benzodiazepine (midazolam) A multistep process for producing 8-chloro-6-(2-fluorophenyl)-1-methyl-4-H-imidazo1,5a!1,4! benzodiazepine (midazolam) comprises treating a compound of Formula II with a lower alkyl dithiol to produce a compound of Formula III, wherein n=2 or 3, conve... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5754520 | Optical data carriers and reading devices therefor An optical data carrier for use as a WORM memory contains memory cells where each memory cell is physically represented by a diffraction pattern. The content of each memory cell is a one bit information having a binary value "0" or "1". If a memory cell i... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5746117 | Deep fryer A deep fryer includes a fryer body containing therein frying oil and a basket movably received within the body to be lifted/lowered down. An L-shaped base member is fixed on top rim of the fryer body, having a vertical section received within the body and... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5745158 | Indication apparatus of paper amount within a cassette An indication apparatus of paper amount within a paper cassette is provided. The paper amount varies due to consumption and has a corresponding variable weight. The cassette has a paper guiding apparatus for positioning the papers and the paper guiding ap... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5743916 | Drill guide with removable ferrules A drill guide is disclosed including a sleeve mounted on a handle. The sleeve of the drill guide has a bore which is dimensioned for slidably receiving a bit sizing ferrule therein. The bit sizing ferrule has a sized bore for demountably inserting a drill... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5728590 | Small organometallic probes Small organometallic probes are disclosed which include a core of metal atoms bonded to organic moieties. The metal atoms are gold, silver, platinum, palladium, or combinations thereof. In one embodiment, a multifunctional organometallic probe is disclose... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5728401 | Effervescent ranitidine formulations An effervescent pharmaceutical composition for oral use in the treatment of a condition mediated through histamine H2 receptors contains a therapeutically effective amount of ranitidine or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof, about 25-70%... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5721154 | Method for fabricating a four fin capacitor structure A unique DRAM structure has increased capacitance by using a four parallel fin capacitor structure. A preferred method for fabricating the DRAM is disclosed. DRAM cell is formed on a silicon substrate having a first conductivity type. Field oxide (FOX) re... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5712765 | Housing for printed circuit board An electronics module, such as those used in vehicles, comprises a cuboid housing box which is open on one side, a cover with connection plugs to cover the open side of the housing box, and at least one printed circuit board within the housing box and att... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5710573 | Scaled video output overlaid onto a computer graphics output A display control apparatus is provided to generate a scaled video output overlaid onto a computer graphics output. The display control apparatus includes a timing generator, adapted to receive a horizontal synchronization signal of the computer graphics ... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5708386 | CMOS output buffer with reduced L-DI/DT noise An output buffer is provided with a terminal, a first driver, a second driver and enable circuitry. The first driver is for driving the terminal to a voltage corresponding to a logic value of the output signal. The second driver is for driving the termina... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5700063 | Pressure medium actuated vehicle braking system A pressure medium actuated braking system comprises at least first and second braking circuits, and a multi-circuit braking power imparting device, such as a motorcar brake valve. The first braking circuit assigned to, e.g., the rear axle, has a first pre... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5696275 | Process for the manufacture of pharmaceutical grade ranitidine base A process for the manufacture of pharmaceutical grade ranitidine base(N-2-5-(Dimethylamino)methyl!-2-furanyl!methyl!thio!ethyl-N'-methy l-2-nitro-1, 1-ethenediamine), is described. In-vitro and in-vivo pharmacological studies and acute toxicity stu... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5694378 | Time display apparatus The invention relates to a time display apparatus consisting of at least two partly transparent discs (A, B, C) which are arranged concentrically and axially displaced with respect to one another, with each of the discs (A, B, C) being rotationally driven... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5689206 | Sc-integrator with switchable polarity An SC-integrator comprises an amplifier connected to a circuit network, which includes an integrating capacitor and a storage capacitor. The storage capacitor is connected via a first switch to the output of the amplifier and via a second switch directly ... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5685512 | Display device capable of supporting an article of different size thereon A display device with article support device thereon is provided. The article support device is elongatable to cope with different size of the article. The display device has a casing which defines an inside which is space within the casing and an outside... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5685148 | Drive apparatus A drive apparatus for reversible movements of an actuator is provided with a drive element made from a shape memory alloy with one-way effect. The drive element acts upon a lever rotatable about an axle in opposition to the force of a resetting element, w... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5650960 | Polysilicon programming memory cell A method for programming a memory cell is disclosed. The state of the memory cell is determined by the presence or absence of a spacer short. A memory cell has a floating gate, a control gate and an insulating layer separating the floating gate and the co... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5650067 | Supporting plate for a filter A supporting plate is described for a filter in a fluid filter device, said filter being essentially perpendicular to the flowing direction of the fluid, said supporting plate containing a large number of holes which pass from the front side of the plate ... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5648311 | Catalyst for hydrorefining The invention relates to a catalytic hydrorefining of mixtures of hydrocarbons which contain hetero atoms such as nitrogen, sulphur, halogens and/or oxygen. The characterizing feature of the invention is that nickel or a nickel-molybdenum alloy containing... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5644445 | Cartridge library apparatus A cartridge library apparatus that is capable of reducing the workload of an operator who has to handle a high volume of cartridges. The apparatus comprises racks for accommodating a plurality of cartridges, a transport mechanism for transporting cartridg... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5644367 | Color tracking method of a display device when brightness level thereof is varied The invention is provided to automatically track the color regardless of the adjustment of the brightness level of a display device. The method provided comprises the first step of calculating a bias voltage, Rb, Gb, Bb, for the Red, Green and Blue cathod... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5641177 | Internal cladding member The invention relates to an internal cladding member, more particularly a motor vehicle dashboard comprising a support which is lined with a foil coated with cellular material and which has for the emergence of an airbag on its release a flap integral wit... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5636293 | Multiple module architecture for implementing full search block matching A circuit implementation of a block matching algorithm includes a plurality of modules. Each module is a one-dimensional systolic array. The modules can be connected in tandem to increase the power of computation so that the best match of a current block ... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5627091 | Mask ROM process for making a ROM with a trench shaped channel A memory cell, and process for making it, having a long channel and narrow buried bit line is disclosed. The memory cell is formed in a substrate having a first dopant type. A trench is defined in the substrate. Source/drain regions of a second dopant typ... | 05/06/1997 |
