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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6688670 | Convertible roof of a convertible motor vehicle A convertible roof (2) of a convertible motor vehicle with at least one front roof part which is movably supported on the body by a bearing (8), and a rear roof part (13) which can be moved over the front roof part (5) and can be lowered with it into a re... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6687460 | Focusing hood for use on a digital camera A telescopically extendible focusing hood which improves the viewing of the LCD screen of a digital camera in bright surrounding light. The focusing hood can be fixed to the rear wall of the camera, surrounding the LCD screen. The focusing hood preferably... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6686841 | Hanging device for establishing an electrically conductive contact with a hanging article and a monitoring system utilizing same The security system as presented is used preferredly to monitor paintings and other work of art. Essential component of the security system are suspending elements, for mounting e.g. paintings. The suspending elements also serve to transmit signals (data)... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6686677 | Optical device To provide an optical device in which fragments of a concave reflection mirror surrounding a discharge lamp and fragments of an optically permeable glass plate covering the aperture at the front of the concave reflection mirror do not fall and scatter, ev... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6609305 | Process and device for determining the axial position of two machine spindles A process and device are provided for determining the axial position of two spindles or shafts, for example on machine tools, with respect to parallel offset and angular offset. The process includes moving both an optical transmitting device and also an o... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6604782 | Openable motor vehicle roof A openable motor vehicle roof with at least one cover (10, 12) which can be moved out of a closed position in which it closes a roof opening along a roof guideway (14) to the rear into a deposited position in a rear gate (16) of the motor vehicle. The rea... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6605911 | Drive device and method for moving a vehicle part A process for adjusting a motor vehicle part between at least two positions and a drive device for executing this process. The motor vehicle part is driven by an electric motor. A pulse signal is generated according to the rotary motion of the electric mo... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6605906 | Light source device A light source device in which a discharge lamp, which contains greater than or equal to 0.15 mg mercury per cubic millimeter of the volume of the discharge space, and in which there is a pair of electrodes disposed opposite one another, is connected to a... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6605814 | Apparatus for curing resist A resist curing device including a workpiece stage with a plate adapted to support a silicon wafer laid thereupon, a workpiece retention device that vacuum adsorbs the silicon wafer laid upon the plate, a light source unit that provides ultraviolet irradi... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6605801 | Rod glow plug Rod glow plug with a plug body and an internal heating rod. Between the heating rod (1) and the plug body (7) in the area of a seal seat of the rod glow plug, an electrically insulating shaped part (3) securely adjoins the heating rod (1) supporting the c... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6604932 | Four-bar linkage for movably supporting an upper mold tool A device for supporting an upper mold tool (7) for movement with respect to a lower mold tool (25). Compared to known devices with simple pivoting supports, in which the space conditions for handling the workpieces with the mold tool opened are very restr... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6598516 | Apparatus for production of ice-cream In the production of ice-cream products which are continuously extruded after passage of a flowthrough freezer, it would be ideal if the ice-cream could hereby be brought down to a discharge temperature of -12 to -25 degrees centigrade, as the products co... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6600825 | Hermetically sealed hearing aid converter and hearing aids with this converter An electroacoustic converter for hearing aids including an electromechanical converter drive unit and a hermetically sealed metallic converter housing for enclosing the drive unit, the converter housing including one wall which is made as a bendable conve... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6600255 | Coil filament structure for an incandescent lamp In order to provide an incandescent lamp in which an unlit state of the lamp caused by a hang-out of the coil as well as a short lifetime thereof are prevented using a simple construction and its lifetime in practical application is long, a coil (21)-like... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6599148 | Strain relieved leading-in connection for signal cables with twisted wire pairs In the termination of signal cables with two or more wire pairs, it is customary to effect a clamping of the cable in order to relieve the strain on the wires themselves and the terminal connections. This, however, results in an uncontrollable re-arrangem... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6595081 | Drive for a displaceable motor vehicle part A drive for a displaceable motor vehicle part which comprises at least one drive cable (22, 24) and a driven output pinion (12). The output pinion (12) drives a drive unit (14, 16; 114, 115, 116, 117) which engages the drive cable or cables (22, 24) at le... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6597139 | Drive device and method for moving a vehicle part The invention relates to a process for adjusting a motor vehicle part between at least two positions and a drive device for executing this process. The motor vehicle part is driven by an electric motor, and a pulse signal is generated according to the rot... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6597118 | High-pressure mercury lamp luminescent device and means of ignition To provide a high-pressure mercury lamp capable of shortening the light output rise time and of preventing glow discharge that occurs when the lamp is lighted, a high-pressure mercury lamp (1) luminescent device with a pair of electrodes (6, 7) placed opp... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6597115 | Light source device A light source device for a video monitor including a concave reflector with a middle opening and an optical axis, said optical axis being positioned tilted obliquely and a discharge lamp including an emission part with a cathode and an anode located oppo... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6597114 | Lamp and lamp package made of functionally gradient material A lamp seal (10, 30) of functionally gradient seal material and a lead bar (13, 32) that is fixed to the seal piece (11, 31), which seal piece is formed an inorganic layer with insulative properties and a number of mixed layers that are each mixtures of c... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6595432 | Heating system for heating the passenger compartment of an automobile A heating system for heating the interior of a motor vehicle including a liquid circuit for dissipating engine heat and delivering heat to the vehicle interior, a valve block for controlling the liquid flow in the liquid circuit, and an electric heating d... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6595199 | Stove for solid fuel A stove for solid fuel, with sensor controlled, motor driven adjustment means for respective different types of intake air and with a control unit which is programmable for selective control of the adjustment means in order to optimise the combustion unde... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6592512 | At least partially implantable system for rehabilitation of a hearing disorder An at least partially implantable hearing system for rehabilitation of a hearing disorder, comprising at least one acoustic sensor for picking up an acoustic signal and converting it into an electrical audio sensor signal; an electronic signal processing ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6592178 | Openable motor vehicle roof and process for its operation An openable motor vehicle roof including a closing element adapted for movement into a position that closes or at least partially clears an opening in a fixed roof skin of the motor vehicle, and a cover element adapted to be positioned underneath the roof... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6591682 | Device and process for signal analysis A device for detecting or analyzing machinery damage is used preferably in the determination of defects in roller bearings. Pulse-like machinery or bearing noise acquired by a sensor is converted into special time signals. These time signals correspond to... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6591586 | Method and a system for filling goods in bags from a coherent series of bag members In connection with the packaging of items or loose material in sheet packings it is known to use a web of cohering flat bag members, which is successively conveyed to a filling station, in which the bag members are opened, one by one, for filling and subs... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6593694 | Discharge lamp with lower high temperature viscosity outer portion and method for making same The invention relates to a discharge lamp with a discharge vessel of silica glass which has a higher operating pressure than atmospheric pressure, where the high temperature viscosity (VA) in the outer surface area of the arc tube portion of the discharge... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6588833 | Motor vehicle roof with integrated fan A motor vehicle roof with an adjustable closing element for an opening in the fixed roof skin for alternatively closing or at least partially clearing the opening. The roof includes a sliding headliner located underneath the roof opening and the closing e... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6591218 | Process for determining the alignment of a cylindrical body with respect to a reference direction A process for determining the alignment of a cylindrical body (10) with respect to a reference direction (18), by a position measurement probe (14) which is calibrated to the reference direction, a first position measurement being taken in a first measure... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6590921 | Narrow beam ArF excimer laser device The invention relates to a semiconductor exposure ArF excimer laser device having a narrow line width containing 95% of the energy of 1.15 pm or less while using an optical system of prior art beam expansion prisms and a diffraction grating. The ArF excim... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6590494 | Electronic device An electronic device serving as a connecting component between a power supply and data transmission system and at least one of an actuator and sensor, and including a two-pole system and device terminal, a two-pole power supply output, a data processor co... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6590341 | Discharge lamp with foil-stiffening crease A discharge lamp having a pair of electrodes (2) within a light-emitting tube (30) with air-tight seals (31) formed covering a metallic foil (1) is bonded to each electrode (2). To stiffen the metallic foil, it is provided with a length-wise crease (M).... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6590185 | Glow plug with a uniformly heated control device Glow plug with a glow tube into which an inner pole projects and which is connected via heating and control spirals to the glow tube, the control spirals being located with respect to the heating spirals such that they are uniformly heated over a major po... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6583032 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor chips In a process of manufacturing semiconductor chips, first, the reverse of a wafer, on the obverse of which many chips are formed, is ground so as to shape the wafer with a predetermined thickness. Then, the reverse of the wafer is polished or etched so tha... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6584131 | ArF excimer laser device for exposure An ArF excimer laser device for performing an oscillating operation with a repetition rate of more than 3 kHz and an oscillating laser pulse width (Tis) of more than 30 ns. The laser operation is carried out in an initial half-period of an elec... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6583541 | Filament lamp with pinch-sealed base plate-shaped terminals connecting an outer lead to a feed line A filament lamp with bases in which the pinch seal areas are not damaged and no adhesive is used is achieved by the base of a filament lamp with bases having, in its front area, a holding part for holding a pinch seal area and a first opening into which a... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6583538 | Spark plug Spark plug with an electrically insulating ceramic insulator (1), a metallic spark plug body (2), a ground electrode (3) and a middle electrode (4) which is located centrally in a hole (5) of the ceramic insulator (1), around the ignition-side end area on... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6578475 | Method and device for labeling or printing stackable flowerpots A method and device for labeling or printing stackable flowerpots (2), wherein the flowerpots (2) are fed to a magazine feed device (3) so that a stack (4a) of flowerpots (2) to be labeled or printed is formed in the magazine feed device (3), wherein the ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6580059 | Control apparatus for a light radiation-type rapid heating and processing device There is provided a control apparatus for a light radiation-type rapid heating and processing device in which a power factor can be improved, the influence of a higher harmonics strain can be eliminated and a rapid temperature increase of a heated substra... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6580050 | Soldering station with built-in self-calibration function A soldering station with a control unit and a soldering iron having a replaceable soldering tip, the soldering iron being connected to the control unit by a power cord for receiving electrical power from said control unit is provided with an automatic cal... | 06/17/2003 |
