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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181903 | Aircraft having the ability for hovering flight, fast forward flight, gliding flight, short take-off, short landing, vertical take-off and vertical landing Aircraft having two, preferably four or more, rotors (20) in wing hatches (10) which can be closed. The closure mechanism has, at the top, individually curved elements on a rollshutter (scroll/roller blind) (40) and, at the bottom, a set of long... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181353 | Encoder An encoder for detecting measured values dependent on the rotation angle of the shaft of a motor includes a rotor, which can be fixed on the shaft, and a stator housing, which can be fixed by a bearing surface on an attachment surface of the motor and has a scanning... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180086 | Speaker A speaker includes a box-shaped enclosure, a speaker unit and a sounding board. A pair of side plates, a bottom plate, a top plate, a back plate and a baffle are assembled into the enclosure. The speaker unit is attached to an opening portion of the baffle. The soun... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179367 | Electronic appliance having a display and a detector for generating a detection signal An electronic appliance includes detectors that are assigned to detection zones defined on a display. The detection zones correspond to push buttons that are arranged in an operation menu displayed on the display. Each of the detectors includes a temporal difference... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178183 | Formable core material The present invention relates to a flexible and drapeable core material for use in a laminate or a sandwich construction comprising at least one exterior of an at least partially permeable material, which exterior forms at least one space into which a filler of free... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177517 | Blade for a wind turbine rotor A blade (1) for a rotor of a wind turbine having a substantially horizontal′ rotor shaft, said rotor comprising a hub, from which the blade extends substantially radially from said rotor when mounted. The blade (1) has a chord plane (K) extending bet... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177509 | Lightning protection system for a wind turbine blade The invention relates to a lightning protection system for a wind turbine blade, where the blade is a shell body made of a composite material and comprises a root area and a tip end. The lightning protection system comprises at least one lightning receptor arranged ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175336 | Target tracker For a tracking of a target object in a time series of frames of image data, a tracking object designation acceptor accepts a designation of a tracking object, a target color setter sets a color of the designated tracking object as a target color, and a particle filt... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174805 | Residual current device A residual current device for an AC electricity supply comprises a housing (10) and a first load conductor (L) inside the housing connected in series between the supply and a load and including a set of contacts (18) by which an electrical connection b... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172352 | Printing apparatus having line-type ink jet head and method of printing images by line-type ink jet head A printing apparatus is provided with a line-type ink jet head having a plurality of blocks on each of which a set of ink ejection elements are arranged. A drive signal generating unit is configured to generate a drive voltage signal including a prepulse to be appli... | 05/08/2012 |
| D659030 | Optoelectronic sensor | 05/08/2012 |
| 8168027 | Fibre-reinforced joint The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a fiber-reinforced laminate (101), which laminate comprises at least one area on the surface of the laminate configured with projecting fibers for being joined to one or more other elements. This is a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167379 | Round toothbrush bristles and processing method thereof Disclosed herein is a method of processing rounded toothbrush bristles using synthetic bristles. The method includes cutting one end of a filament bundle of synthetic bristles, mechanically polishing the cut end of the filament bundle of synthetic bristles, heat tre... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658630 | Headphone | 05/01/2012 |
| D658629 | Headphone | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165336 | Voice coil and speaker A voice coil includes a cylindrical bobbin formed of a first material; a coil which surrounds on an outer circumferential surface of the bobbin; and a plurality of reinforcement members formed of a material having a propagation speed faster than the first material a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162474 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a circulating transfer path for transferring a sheet. The image forming apparatus is capable of forming images on both surfaces of the sheet by: transferring the sheet having an image formed on a first surface thereof along the ci... | 04/24/2012 |
| D658055 | Package | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160291 | Voice coil and speaker A voice coil includes a bobbin formed of a wooden sheet obtained by slicing natural wood to a predetermined thickness and a coil that surrounds an outer circumference of the bobbin. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| D657779 | Earphone | 04/17/2012 |
| 8153543 | Method for preparing composites of zeolite-fiber substrate A method for preparing a composite of zeolite-fiber substrate includes the steps of reacting a fiber substrate or a zeolite with a linking compound to form an intermediate of linking compound-fiber substrate or zeolite-linking compound, and preparing the composite o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152857 | Tension-free elastic tape A tension-free elastic tape is used for the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence. The tape has a textile structure that allows ingrowth of the tape into the connective tissue. On its longitudinal edges, the tape has edge threads (2, 4, 6, 8) that... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152317 | Light source device, lighting device and image display device A light source device includes an optical element 22 having a first face 1 opposed to a solid light emitting element 21. The optical element 22 includes second and third faces 2, 3 opposing in parallel to each other and both substa... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151636 | Device for measuring the axial position of a piston rod relative to a cylinder housing Device for measuring the axial position of a piston rod (18) relative to the cylinder housing (10) of a cylinder-piston unit that is actuated by fluid pressure, with structures having elevations or indentations formed in the jacket surface of the pisto... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150200 | Apparatus and method for reducing image noise with edge tracking and computer readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing the method A method for reducing image noise with edge tracking comprises receiving input of an object image data for conversion and a size data of a matrix, namely, a conversion area of the image data; calculating a statistical difference value between each pixel of the image... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144121 | Method and apparatus for controlling electronic appliance An apparatus for controlling an electronic appliance having a display is provided. A plurality of control buttons are displayed on the display. An operator in front of the display is photographed with a video camera and is displayed on the display. The operator hold... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141872 | Printing apparatus having discharge speed control A printing apparatus comprises: a first paper discharge roller unit 411 and a second paper discharge roller unit 412 which are configured to transport a print sheet to a discharge port; a upper transportation roller unit 401 configured to transp... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141304 | Prefabricated container house A prefabricated container house includes a container type main frame member when on a chassis capable of being pulled by a trailer truck; and dwelling forming members which can be housed in the main frame member, and which can be drawn out of the main frame member a... | 03/27/2012 |
| D656491 | Earphone | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139210 | Real-time monitoring apparatus for biochemical reaction The present invention relates to an apparatus for real-time monitoring chemical reaction between various biomaterials. More particularly, the present invention directed to a real-time monitoring apparatus for biochemical reaction, which comprises parabolic mirror an... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139204 | Distance-measuring optoelectronic sensor A distance-measuring optoelectronic sensor for the monitoring of a working zone is provided which is located within a detection zone of the sensor and at a first distance from the sensor, wherein the sensor has a lighting unit having a light source to illuminate the... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139149 | Still image acquisition device, still image acquisition method, and image fluctuation correction device A still image acquisition device includes: a fluctuation detection unit (5) for detecting a horizontal or a vertical fluctuation generated in an imaging device; light refraction means (10A, 10B) for refracting light into an arbitrary direction; ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136376 | Electric lock device An electric lock device including a movable member, a cam plate (5) rotated in an unlocking direction and a locking direction by the driving of a drive source, and a lock member (8) including a cam contact surface (10) in contact with a sliding ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136308 | Wedge set, especially for use in fastening floor joists A wedge set for use in fastening floor joists consists of two interslidable wedge members (1, 2) adapted to abut each other along cooperating first abutment surfaces (3, 10), each wedge member (1, 2) having a second abutment surface (4, 11 | 03/20/2012 |
| D656120 | Sound amplifier for vehicle | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135977 | Process for digital, bidirectional data transmission The invention relates to a process for digital, bidirectional data transmission between a processing unit and a position encoder, as based on the transmission of frames of a predetermined bit length, such that each frame is provided with at least an initial bit leng... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134262 | Kit servomotor A kit servomotor consists of an electromotor and a rotary encoder. The electromotor has a motor stator (3, 8) and a rotor (1), which is positioned in unsupported fashion in the motor stator. The motor stator (3, 8) and the rotor (1) can b... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132029 | Method for managing the power transmitted from a central network component to a decentralized network component via a line Disclosed is a method for managing the power transmitted from a central network component to a decentralized network component via a line, said method determining the ultimately available power in a simple manner. In said method, a respective decentralized network c... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131135 | MPEG picture data recording apparatus, MPEG picture data recording method, MPEG picture data recording medium, MPEG picture data generating apparatus, MPEG picture data reproducing apparatus, and MPEG picture data reproducing method Executes a re-encoding after decoding data of a connection section A of a first MPEG picture data. This re-encoding is executed based on a control such that a transition of a VBV buffer occupation value starts from a VBV buffer occupation value at a position a and e... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130595 | Control device for electronic appliance and control method of the electronic appliance An electronic appliance includes a microphone which detects a clapping sound, an edge signal extractor, an edge pulse generator and a judgment processing circuit. The judgment processing circuit generates a first gate having a first time width to detect whether or n... | 03/06/2012 |
