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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6490463 | Method for the parametrization of a mobile telephone In a mobile telephone, it is planned to divide the functions usable by this mobile telephone into basic functions and comfort functions. It is planned that access to the comfort functions should be possible only if, in a test of comparison, an operator co... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6484950 | Expansion valve To provide an expansion valve which permits both the assembling cost and the cost of parts to be effectively reduced by a large margin and thus is highly economical. A high-pressure refrigerant pipe, a valve casing and a low-pressure refrigerant pipe are ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6484024 | Method for the programming of an instrument, especially a mobile telephone To facilitate the customization of instruments, especially mobile telephones whose operation is validated by a chip card, it is planned to use a cargo chip card provided in its memory firstly with complementary function elements and, secondly, with unload... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6464113 | Container with a threaded cap having a spring-loaded self-closing cover A container with an integrally molded flap for covering an opening has a top that is deflected during cooling to provide a self-closing capability. This capability is provided by causing the top to cool to room temperature when the flaps are closed into a... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6462888 | Diffuser master A diffuser master is provided which is manufactured mechanically instead of holographically. The master can be made from a suitable substrate including relatively hard materials such as plastic, glass or metal. A substrate having a first side is worked to... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6460718 | Container with a threaded cap having a stepped sealing ring with a plurality of narrow sealing surfaces A plastic cap has one or more hinged flaps that cover openings in the cap, as well as a stepped sealing ring against which the top of a plastic bottle seals. The sealing ring is stepped, much like the rows of seats in a circular stadium. This stepped arra... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6444987 | Gamma camera usable in two positions of a patient A gamma camera is made with two rings, each ring bearing a detector. A flap of a support of the detector can be unfolded or folded against a front face of the machine. In the folded position, the machine can be used to carry out tomography scans or standa... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6442463 | Fuzzy steering controller A fuzzy steering controller for wheel-type agricultural vehicles with an electrohydraulic steering system is disclosed. The fuzzy controller was developed based on a common-sense model of agricultural vehicle steering. The controller implements steering c... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6425569 | Gate valve A gate valve including a valve disc for opening and closing an opening formed in a partition wall for separating a processing chamber from an other chamber, a valve seat formed on the wall around the opening, and a block provided on a side surface of the ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6421594 | Method for heating the paving screed of a road finisher and electrical heating means According to the method for heating the paving screed of a road finisher, said paving screed including a heating means with several heat elements being supplied with electric power from a rotary current generator and being switched on and off by means of ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6411907 | Accurate tissue injury assessment Systems and methods using a spectrometer system for real-time automatic evaluation of tissue injury are described. A method of assessing an injury to tissue comprises reflecting an electromagnetic signal from the tissue to produce a reflected electromagne... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6394761 | Capacity controller of capacity variable compressor In a capacity control apparatus of a variable capacity compressor 10 a chamber 30 between a valve seat 26 and diaphragm 24 communicates with a pressure control chamber 12 of the compressor 10. Said valve seat 26 communicates outside said chamber 30 with a... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6390441 | Solenoid operated pilot valve In a main valve having a solenoid pilot operated valve, a movable core and a hollow plunger are movably received in a sleeve extending from a pressure control chamber through an electromagnetic coil. The plunger is structurally separated from a main valve... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6389886 | Method and system for increasing the accuracy of a probe-based instrument measuring a heated sample A method of operating a probe-based instrument comprises placing a probe of the probe-based instrument in an operative state in which the probe interacts with a heated sample, measuring a parameter of probe operation indicative of a characteristic of the ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6386721 | Light pipe having one or more integral diffusers A light pipe for a backlight assembly has a front surface and a back surface. The back surface includes an integral surface diffuser microstructure formed thereon. The front surface may also have an integral surface diffuser microstructure formed thereon ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6380843 | Secured access checking system enabling the automatic transfer of entitlement to produce keys A secured system of access checking using a portable storage carrier (C) on which there is recorded an electronic key (CL), a digital data processing instrument (LE) for the production of keys, and an electronic lock (L) function capable of authorizing ac... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6375105 | Jaw crusher toggle beam hydraulic relief and clearing A jaw crusher having a stationary jaw and a movable jaw which define a variable crushing gap (or closed side setting), a toggle beam, and a toggle between the toggle beam and the movable jaw, and a toggle seat between the toggle and each of the beam and m... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6369925 | Beam combiner A nonimaging beam combiner and collimator. The nonimaging beam combiner and collimator can include at least two light sources that emit light of the same wavelength through a focus point and a nonimaging element that receives the light of the same wavelen... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6362257 | Pavement patch material The pavement patch composition of the present invention comprises a lightweight aggregate and highly modified polymer asphalt binder. The composition is formed by heating the binder to a flowable state, mixing the flowable binder with a lightweight aggreg... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6357285 | Method and apparatus for the quantitative and objective correlation of data from a local sensitive force detector Local sensitive force detector output data, acquired from a cellular and sub-cellular structures ("biological structures"), are quantified in an objective format. Data are acquired from two axes of the biological structure at scan positions along a third ... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6359453 | Vertical probe card for attachment within a central corridor of a magnetic field generator A vertical probe card assembly containing a plurality of vertical probe cards is mounted within a central corridor or opening within a magnetic field generator. Each of the vertical probe cards has a multiplicity of probe needles extending downwardly ther... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6353673 | Real-time opto-electronic image processor A system and method for real time optical processing of images by simultaneous combining the variable set of images in selected spectral intervals. Spectral images at a plurality of spectral intervals are collected if needed. According to criteria establi... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6352359 | Vehicle light assembly including a diffuser surface structure A vehicle light assembly includes a lens cover from which light emanates. A light shaping surface microstructure is carried in a portion of the light assembly. The microstructure can be incorporated into many different surfaces of the light assembly such ... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6346809 | Method and apparatus for testing disk drive read/write heads by oscillating a recordable medium A method comprises manufacturing a read/write head for a disk drive; then testing the read/write head; and then mounting the read/write head to a suspension only after the testing step indicates that the read/write head is not defective. The testing may b... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6334318 | Automatic ice making apparatus An automatic ice making apparatus having a sensor which can detect continuously a temperature of an ice making tray is used as a temperature sensor. The temperature and a temperature variation rate of the ice making tray are detected by an electronic cont... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6323483 | High bandwidth recoiless microactuator The bandwidth of a microactuator for a surface modification instrument or a surface measurement instrument is improved by inertially-balancing the microactuator to prevent the transfer of any net forces from the microactuator to its support structure by c... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6320347 | Method of driving directly a rotary drum in a reproducing machine by a prime mover A rotor composite type three-phase stepping motor having a stator consisting of two stator elements each having 6 n pieces of stator magnetic pole with Ns pieces of pole tooth formed on the tip end of each stator magnetic pole piece, and a permanent magne... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6315058 | Soil-working implement having quick-change sweep design An improved soil-working implement. The implement comprises a shank having a free-end portion; a one-piece adapter defining a recess, wherein the adapter is removably affixed to the shank free-end portion; a one-piece shovel; and an elastomeric element fr... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6315266 | Pilot-operated flow regulating valve In a silently operating pilot-operated flow regulating valve, a main valve element is not allowed to vibrate freely, e.g., in lateral direction in an opened state and cannot constitute a noise source because while the main valve element is brought into it... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314212 | High precision optical metrology using frequency domain interpolation The present invention provides a method and apparatus for high precision image metrology. A feature dimension from the image is determined by measuring corresponding features in the Fourier power spectrum of the image with substantially improved precision... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6312541 | Method and apparatus for repairing concrete A method and apparatus for repairing concrete structures utilize a generally flat composite material insert. The insert is inserted into a slot formed in a preexisting section of concrete and bonded to the preexisting section using an adhesive. The insert... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6303276 | Method and apparatus for making optical master surface diffusers suitable for producing large format optical components An improved method for generating masters having a plurality of randomly distributed speckle suitable for making seamless light shaping diffusers of virtually any size and at low cost is disclosed herein. The method utilizes incoherent light to record a d... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6299740 | Sputtering assembly and target therefor A cathode assembly includes a monolithic target having a first surface and a center region. In addition, a sculpted section is formed in the first surface, and the sculpted section is generally recessed from the first surface and extends around the center... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6295405 | Light pipe for a backlighting system A non-scattering light pipe includes a transition surface between a first side wall and an input surface and a second side wall and the input surface. The transition surface is arranged to substantially obscure the corner interfaces between the first and ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6287880 | Method and apparatus for high resolution profiling in semiconductor structures A method for determining the characteristics of a doped semiconductor substrate is disclosed, wherein a scanning probe microscope, preferably an atomic force microscope, is used to move a probe across a sample surface gathering electrical measurements at ... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6280939 | Method and apparatus for DNA sequencing using a local sensitive force detector DNA sequencing is performed in real time using an atomic force microscope (AFM). The AFM's probe detects motions that occur when a polymerase incorporates nucleotides into a growing polynucleotide chain and a newly formed double-stranded polynucleotide he... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279389 | AFM with referenced or differential height measurement Thermal drift and acoustic vibrations in the AFM are reduced using a probe-based detection device that references the topography measurement of the AFM to the sample surface in the proximity of the measurement probe. A differential measurement is made bet... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6272130 | Time division multiplexer-demultiplexer and method of operation thereof Systems and methods for time division multiplexing are described. A time division multiplexer-demultiplexer system includes I) a signal transmitting system for transmittal of a serialized signal including A) latency free continuous data and B) at least on... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6267562 | Variable displacement compressor At the suction side of a variable displacement compressor a valve structure is provided which either responds to a relative differential pressure value or a relative pressure value or a relative temperature value of the refrigerant processed by the variab... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6262140 | Composition for use in making optical components Compositions for producing replicated optical components are disclosed. A composition for making a large scale submaster optical component includes a mixture having an acrylated aliphatic urethane oligomer/monomer blend and a tripropylene glycol diacrylat... | 07/17/2001 |
