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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8037991 | Method for regulating a conveying stream composed of articles of the tobacco-processing industry between a tray discharger and a feed device with multiple feed units A method is provided to regulate a conveying stream composed of articles of the tobacco-processing industry between at least one tray discharger and connected to at least one feed device by a conveying element that conveys a mass flow of the articles. The feed devic... | 10/18/2011 |
| D646965 | Dispenser | 10/18/2011 |
| D645734 | Dispenser | 09/27/2011 |
| 8015543 | Hardware specific code generation A computer-implemented method for generating code based on a graphical model may include: translating the graphical model into a graphical model code, the graphical model code including a first graphical model code function; performing a lookup of the first graphica... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009708 | Optical amplification module and laser light source apparatus The present invention relates to an optical amplifier module, or the like, having a structure for enabling effective suppression of photodarkening and efficient optical amplification. The optical amplifier module comprises a first optical amplification waveguide whi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7971877 | Transfer out device A device to transfer printed products out of the transport channel of a gathering and collating machine in which the printed products are transported in a clocked flow comprises an arrangement for transferring the printed products in a downward direction out of the ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7968864 | Group-III nitride light-emitting device A group-III nitride light-emitting device is provided. An active layer having a quantum well structure is grown on a basal plane of a gallium nitride based semiconductor region. The quantum well structure is formed in such a way as to have an emission peak wavelengt... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962334 | Receiving device and method A receiving device receives a transmission unit signal that is sent from a sending end and accommodates a result of dividing, the result of the dividing being obtained by quantizing a value based on relative differences between a plurality of sampling values having ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953164 | System and method for performing LS equalization on a signal in an OFDM system A system for performing LS equalization on a signal in an OFDM system comprises a receiver stage for receiving a modulated signal, a demodulation stage for demodulating the received modulated signal to produce a demodulated signal, a channel estimation stage for pro... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949150 | Automatic camera calibration and geo-registration using objects that provide positional information A video sequence of a field of view within an environment is received. Targets are detected in the video sequence. Target geo-positional information is received. Correspondences between the targets detected in the video sequence and the target geo-positional informa... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7939354 | Method of fabricating nitride semiconductor laser A method of fabricating a nitride semiconductor laser comprises preparing a substrate having a plurality of marker structures and a crystalline mass made of a hexagonal gallium nitride semiconductor. The primary and back surfaces of the substrate intersect with a pr... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933908 | Computer-implemented processing of heterogeneous data A computer-implemented method for a computing environment employing a matrix-based mathematical programming language includes: generating a heterogeneous dataset in the computing environment, where the heterogeneous dataset embodies a plurality of variables for a pl... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932812 | Wide area and large capacity intelligent object tracking system and method A wide area object tracking system comprises a primary and two secondary base stations. Each secondary base station is coupled to the primary base station to define a tag detecting cell. Each station receives a signal from a tag attached to a tracked object, yieldin... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930160 | Electronic markup of executable models A computer-implemented method for marking-up an executable model includes: displaying the executable model; associating an electronic overlay with the executable model, the electronic overlay operating with the executable model without changing the contents of the e... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925536 | Intelligent video verification of point of sale (POS) transactions Non video data regarding a point of sale (POS) transaction is received. POS primitives are generated based on the received non video POS data. Video data regarding a corresponding POS transaction is received. Video primitives are generated based on the received vide... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916765 | Control circuit for a laser diode and a method to control a laser diode A control circuit for a laser diode is disclosed, in which the driving current may be suppressed even when the monitor PD breaks down to make the APC feedback control inoperable. The control circuit comprises an LD driver to supply the driving current to the LD, a m... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7904043 | Method for implementing continuous radio frequency (RF) alignment in advanced electronic warfare (EW) signal stimulation systems A method for using a “B” channel of a dual channel measurement receiver as a transfer standard for power measurement, which may include in an exemplary embodiment: correlating measurements made with an “A” channel to measurements made with an RF Power Meter ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7894497 | Driving circuit using probability density function The present invention provides a laser diode driving circuit that enables to precisely control the amplitude of the driving current with suppressing the overshoot and the undershoot appeared in the monitor signal of the optical output from the laser diode. The drivi... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7893794 | Branching filter package A branching filter package has a SAW filter chip housing area which houses a piezo electric base, on which a transmitting SAW filter and a receiving SAW filter having a different frequency passing band with each other, are formed, and an impedance matching circuit a... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7886808 | Heating and cooling apparatus, and vacuum processing apparatus equipped with this apparatus A substrate heating chamber and a substrate cooling chamber each capable of simultaneously holding a plurality of substrates are provided in a thermally separated state in a heating and cooling apparatus with a single vacuum processing chamber. The substrate heating... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7871840 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor optical device using inductive coupled plasma-enhance CVD The present invention provides a semiconductor laser diode prevents not only the adhesion of the upper electrode but the heat dissipation of the mesa from degrading. The laser diode includes a substrate, portion of which forms a mesa including an active layer, an in... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7859362 | Branching filter package A branching filter package has a SAW filter chip housing area which houses a piezo electric base, on which a transmitting SAW filter and a receiving SAW filter having a different frequency passing band with each other, are formed, and an impedance matching circuit a... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7815180 | Device for manufacturing thread-stitched book blocks which comprise folded printed sheets A device for manufacturing thread-stitched book blocks which comprise folded printed sheets has a conveying apparatus which transports the printed sheets astride a stitching saddle into a stitching position and to which the printed sheets are fed. A stitching appara... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809988 | Test environment having synchronous and asynchronous distributed testing In a computer-implemented method for running a test, the test to test a system under test is generated. At least a portion of the test is designated to be run as a distributed test. The designated test portion is selected to be run in one of a synchronous execution ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7806088 | Primate restraint device A restraint device for primates capable of providing accurate visual psychological results of experiment by reducing stress given to the primates as subjects and stabilizing the psychological state of the primates. A box-like body (12) formed of a transparent... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7801502 | Method for implementing continuous radio frequency (RF) alignment in advanced electronic warfare (EW) signal stimulation systems A method of providing an integrated approach to automated system alignment is set forth, which may include in an exemplary embodiment: providing amplifier compression alignment, (which may include characterizing and/or compensating for a parasitic effect); providing... | 09/21/2010 |
| D623054 | Dispenser | 09/07/2010 |
| 7755056 | Sensor with trigger pixels for imaging of pulsed radiation A radiation sensor 10 includes an array of imaging pixels 13 electrically connectable to a readout port. At least one first peripheral row of trigger pixels 11 is located at a first edge of the array, the trigger pixels also being electrically c... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7741595 | Light grid for detecting objects in a monitored zone A light grid detects includes a number of light emitting transmitters. The transmitted light rays of the individual transmitters are imprinted with a code that characterizes the transmitted light rays. The transmitters are activated cyclically and successively. Corr... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7712213 | Angular encapsulation of tandem stacked printed circuit boards A method is provided for making an encapsulated stack of circuit boards. The method includes assembling the stack of circuit boards from a plurality of circuit boards, the circuit boards being spaced apart from each other; inserting the stack into an internal volume... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7703409 | Device for use as a bookmark or for promotional purposes A bookmark or promotional device comprises a plurality of pockets aligned side-by-side with the opening of the pocket being at the edge of the bookmark. The pockets contain advertising or other promotional material as inserts. The devices are produced in different v... | 04/27/2010 |
| D614024 | Dispenser | 04/20/2010 |
| 7679472 | Branching filter package A branching filter package has a SAW filter chip housing area which houses a piezo electric base, on which a transmitting SAW filter and a receiving SAW filter having a different frequency passing band with each other, are formed, and an impedance matching circuit a... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7679377 | Measuring apparatus and method for determining a dielectric property, in particular moisture and/or density, in a product The application concerns a measuring apparatus for determining a dielectric property, in particular the moisture and/or density, of a product, in particular tobacco, Cotton or some other fibrous product, having a measuring capacitor, a device for generating a high-f... | 03/16/2010 |
| D611994 | Promotional device | 03/16/2010 |
| 7672320 | IP communications system for notifying a gateway controller of an IP address allocated to a gateway and a method therefor A gateway device in an IP communications system can be controlled by a gateway controller even when an IP address of the gateway device is not fixed. The IP communications system includes a gateway device having a subscriber terminal interconnected thereto, a gatewa... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7660536 | Optical modulating circuit and optical modulating method An optical modulating circuit realizing a PPM is constituted by circuit parts having a frequency band equal to a data rate to provide a technique which increase the data rate. A first light source generates a first single wavelength signal serving as a continuous li... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660325 | Communication control apparatus for adjusting a transmission timing with a timing variation, and method therefor A communication control apparatus is included in each of nodes constituting a telecommunications system and includes a communication timing signal transmitter/receiver for receiving a communication timing signal representative of a transmission timing of a data sign... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660262 | Network management method and communications network system This invention provides an improved data transferring method performed in a communication network comprising a management system M1 and a plurality of nodes K1-K3. Since the management system M1 collectively manages the algorithm informat... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7656917 | Circuit arrangement for generating light pulses A circuit arrangement for generating light pulses includes an electro-optical converter; a switching element; and a charge store. The electro-optical converter is connected to the charge store via the switching element. The closing of the switching element triggers ... | 02/02/2010 |
