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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6606942 | Die stamping method and die stamping device The invention relates to a die stamping method and to a device for performing the method. The problem of the invention is to reduce the production of waste during die stamping. This is brought about in that on supplying the foil web to the stamping statio... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6598520 | Hot pressing apparatus In a hot pressing apparatus, a hot-plate pressing cylinder is provided at the center of a moving plate, and a substantially central part of each of the materials to be laminated between hot plates, which are pressed by a fixed plate and a moving plate, is... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6592587 | Surgical screw and guidewire A fastening device and method for fastening at least two objects, such as bone portions, together in a desired alignment. The fastening device includes a securing member, such as a bone screw (10), having a head (11), a shank (12), and an end region (14) ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6586072 | Acoustically effective insulating lining for motor vehicles An insulating lining that is used as a floor covering and is especially useful in providing acoustic insulation. The insulating lining consists of a covering layer and a cell layer with a plurality of cells. The cells are defined by lateral cell walls and... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6578403 | Device for adjusting the height of a plurality of tool carriers for a bending press The present invention relates to a device for adjusting the height of a plurality of tool carriers connected to a top panel of a bending press, each tool carrier having a tool spacer, the adjustment device comprising, for each tool carrier, an adjustment ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6577025 | Electrical wiring system for the drive unit in vehicles The invention relates to an electrical wiring system for the drive unit in automobiles, especially for a combustion engine having a transmission, comprising a central distribution unit (1), first electrical connections (8, 9) between the vehicle and the d... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6576807 | Method and apparatus for incinerating and vitrifying of waste, in particular radioactive waste The present invention provides a method of processing organic waste (D) in divided solid and/or liquid form, the method being implemented in a single reactor (1) containing a bath of molten gas (V) surmounted by a gas phase (G), the method comprising inci... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6569509 | Ultralight, sound and shock absorbing component set The invention relates to an ultralight, sound and shock absorbing component set comprising at least one base layer (2), an intermediate layer (3) and a covering layer (6). The intermediate layer (3) consists of a plurality of hollow bodies (4) arranged ne... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6568043 | Clamping ring The collar is formed by rolling up a strip (10). First fastening means formed by a hook (14) projecting radially are located at a first end (10A) of the strip, while second fastening means comprising a retaining element (12) projecting radially and suitab... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6568494 | Cooling structure of motor-assist device for vehicle A first cooling system is formed in a motor-assist device for a vehicle such that a motor housing including a motor is provided with a cooling path communicating with a cooling path in an engine, and the former cooling path is connected to a radiator, a w... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6566234 | Semiconductor flip-chip package and method for the fabrication thereof A simplified process for flip-chip attachment of a chip to a substrate is provided by pre-coating the chip with an encapsulant underfill material having separate discrete solder columns therein to eliminate the conventional capillary flow underfill proces... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6561037 | Overload-proof pressure sensor The invention pertains to a pressure sensor for a pressure measuring transducer which contains a base body (3), and a pressure-sensitive measuring membrane (7). The membrane is located on the base body (3) and can be subjected to a measurable pressure. Th... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6557216 | Crimping ring, method for making same and manufacturing installation To connect a connection element (12) to one end (10A, 10B) of the strip (10) from which the swaging ring is made, the connection element is placed against said end in such a manner that at least one anchor edge (14) of the connection element (12) is in re... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6555246 | Method of producing a sound-absorbent insulating element and insulating element produced according to this method The invention relates to a method of producing a sound-absorbent insulating element with at least two metallic leaves or sheets (2, 3) in the form of films or sheets. According to said method, at least one of said elements is provided with knobs in such a... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6545556 | Oscillating element that can be piezoelectrically excited An oscillating element, particularly for a level sensor, comprises an oscillating diaphragm (3), a stack of piezoelectric elements (6, 7), and a tie bolt (4) connected to the diaphragm (3) for pressing the piezoelectric elements (6, 7) against the diaphra... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6532939 | Fuel injector fixing structure for use with an in-cylinder injection type engine A fuel injector fixing structure for use with an in-cylinder injection type engine is improved to reduce the number of processing man-hours and the number of parts as well as the number of assembling man-hours. In detail, each fuel injector is inserted in... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6530777 | Injection moulding machine with integrated hot channel system An injection moulding machine for producing small plastic components with a drive unit (6, 84), a plasticizing device (4, 42) and a hot channel nozzle (1) having a collection chamber (10) for the molten plastic. An injection ram (35) projects into the hot... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6530503 | Ink bottle set-up device An ink bottle set-up device having a bottle set-up body 2 formed with a bottle set-up chamber 3 and a projection-guide recess formed along a direction in which an ink bottle 100 having a positioning projection 103 is inserted. An ink bottle erroneous set-... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6520796 | Codable kink protection and coding means A codable kink protection is formed such that this forms an interference-fit connection with a coding sleeve. The coding means are provided with a through slot, thus allowing the coding sleeve to be pushed over the cable and the flexible bush. The coding ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6516999 | Method of protecting data stored in the memory device of a computer system and equipment to carry out this method A method of protecting data, stored in a memory device of a computer system connected to a SCSI interface, against, unauthorized access whereby access by the computer system to the memory device is either permitted or refused, depending upon the authoriza... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6511346 | Plug connection for a coffee making apparatus A plug for a power consumer is positioned centrally in a recess in a bottom of the power consumer and rests in a flange at an edge of the recess. The plug has a first portion and a second portion that can be rotated relative to each other about a common a... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6504793 | Method and device for range measurement The present invention pertains to a method for range measurement by means of a signal transmitted in the direction of an object to be measured, wherein an echo signal, on which is superimposed a first reference pulse, is received by a receive device, wher... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6491999 | Cabled covering part, a method for manufacturing such and means therefor The invention relates to a covering part with cable channels and a cabled covering part such as a carpet for vehicles, which is provided with several self-closing channels acommodating a cable network. These channels can be formed directly into the spring... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6484630 | Stencil printing machine A stencil printing machine 1 is provided with a stencil drum 16 and a opposite 17 which are a pair of cylindrical parts located with their external peripheral surfaces being close to each other, a stencil sheet 15 being detachably wound on the external pe... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6481705 | Method and device for detecting multiple feed A light emitting sensor emits light toward sheets carried along a carriage path and the quantity of light transmitted through each to the sheets is detected by a light receiving sensor. A predetermined number of samples of light quantities received by the... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6481758 | Connection device between a tube and a flexible pipe and method for making same A system for connecting a tube (10) to a flexible hose (14) having an endpiece (12). One of the two parts constituted by the tube and the endpiece is suitable for fitting in the other of said two parts in a coupling situation, in which first and second lo... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6481476 | Method of manufacturing artificially figured veneer or artificially figured board The present invention provides the method of manufacturing the artificially figured veneer or artificially figured board at high productivity with the expression of the grain and figure of natural wood in very similar form observed in natural woods, in ad... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6481859 | Radiant energy concentrator A receiving layer of a radiant energy concentrator has a set of collecting members arranged on a same level. In one embodiment upper edges of the members form a hexagonal honeycomb structure in a plane, and in another embodiment the members form an orthog... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6468656 | Extrusion profile for transport and drive belts Specified is an extrusion profile of a thermoplastic material for transport or drive belts. The extrusion profile is reinforced in that a content of approximately 0.5 to 40 percent by weight of glass fibers, aramide fibers, or carbon fibers are mixed with... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6469947 | Semiconductor memory device having regions with independent word lines alternately selected for refresh operation A semiconductor memory device is provided to reduce current consumption during a refresh operation by decreasing the number of wordlines activated at the same time, including a block set having a plurality of cell array blocks which are divided into a plu... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6456616 | System and method transmitting data Disclosed is a system and method to transmit data to a company's data system by a mobile phone connected to a mobile communications network, and receive an acknowledgment to the same mobile phone from the company's data system. A preset target number dial... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6454499 | Device and method for machining workpieces The invention relative to a device for machining workpieces comprising: a chip removing, rotating tool (2) configured substantially as a hollow body including at least one cutter (4), a portion of the tool adjoining the cutter (4) being penetrated by a ch... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6454048 | Acoustic insulating vehicle component A vehicle component has a vehicle body part in combination with an acoustic insulating structure which interacts therewith. The acoustic insulating structure has an outer covering having a shield. The shield is spaced at a distance from the vehicle body p... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6449519 | Audio information processing method, audio information processing apparatus, and method of recording audio information on recording medium A harmonic generation circuit compares audio data supplied from the outside every sample, detects a top-peak and an under-peak of the audio data on the basis of the comparison outputs, and detects patterns of the comparison output between continuous top-p... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6443776 | Plug connector part A plug connection part, in particular for RJ45 plug connectors, comprises a multiplicity of conductor paths which have at one end a contact spring and at the other end an output contact, where the contact springs starting from an end facing away from the ... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6441906 | Set-up of measuring instruments for the parallel readout of SPR sensors The invention relates to a set-up of measuring instruments for the parallel readout of SPR sensors. The aim of the invention is to provide a measuring arrangement for the parallel readout of a plurality of SPR sensors, wherein the readout process should b... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6435123 | High speed hybrid marine vessel A high speed hybrid marine vessel with integrated hydrodynamic lift-generating, roll stabilizing and pitch controlling wings, or hydrofoils, operable in two distinctly different modes, namely a hydrostatic stable low speed mode, featuring a positive GM-va... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6428688 | Oil path structure The oil filter 23 is situated downstream of the oil control valve 4 while extending in the axial direction of the advance-angle side oil path. Therefore, any foreign matter existing between the control valve 4 and the actuator 3 is removed by the filter 2... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6425341 | Boat hull A boat hull represented in a high speed attitude relative to a water surface-has a generally monohull section. A forward keel portion is flattened to form a plank-like planing surface having a replaceable shoe including stability extensions. Main bodies o... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6422576 | Transport mechanism A transport mechanism (104) for transporting a load-assembly (102), the transport mechanism comprising a closed flexible track (106) supported at an internal side thereof by at least two support rollers (108, 110), which at a first position one of the sup... | 07/23/2002 |
