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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7123444 | Tape cassette having an optical signal receiver and a memory for storing information optically transmitted into the cassette A tape cassette has a housing which contains at least one magnetic tape wound on a tape hub, and a semiconductor memory which contains memory data. The tape cassette also includes at least an optical transmitter, and a circuit which has access to the memory contents... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6853701 | Computed tomography scanning method and apparatus wherein exposure of an examining person to scanning radiation is avoided In a CT scanning method and apparatus wherein a radiation source is displaced around a system axis and a ray bundle therefrom strikes a detector system that supplies scan data on the basis whereof two-dimensional scan images of the examination subject are determined... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6849295 | Method for producing a winding protection for tape-wound cores For manufacturing a winding protection for tape-wound cores that are surrounded with a winding, a polymer film is provided that is deposited onto the tape-wound cores from a vapor phase at room temperature in a drum process. Due to the end face penetration of the po... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6841997 | Magnetic resonance method and apparatus for generating respective images from spin ensembles exhibiting different chemical shift In a nuclear magnetic resonance tomography apparatus and a method for the operation thereof, on the basis of the 3-point Dixon method, spin collectives having different chemical shifts are separated by means of information maximization despite great field inhomogene... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6838739 | Component with a label For labeling a component provided with a metallic cover layer, it is proposed that at least one additional contrast layer is arranged over the cover layer. The contrast layer produces an optical contrast with the metallic cover layer and is capable of being eroded b... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6788235 | A/D converter having signaling and requesting capability The disclosed A/D conversion system is designed to signal the beginning or the impending beginning of an A/D conversion and/or to request the implementation of an A/D conversion from another A/D converter. As a result, it is possible to have a plurality of A/D conve... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6754535 | Method and apparatus for verifying evoked response in the atrium In a method and an apparatus for verifying the occurrence of an evoked response in the atrium, following emission of a stimulation pulse to the atrium, an impedance signal is measured in a time window following the emission of the stimulation pulse. The impedance si... | 06/22/2004 |
| D491954 | Graphic user interface for a medical monitor | 06/22/2004 |
| 6745771 | Anesthetic filter arrangement with variable retention of gas by the filter An anesthetic filter arrangement has a filter housing with openings disposed to delimit a gas flow path inside the housing for gas passing to and from a patient, and having disposed within the gas flow path a filter element formed of an adsorption material for the a... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6748273 | Method and circuit for determining the battery status in a medical implant In a method and an apparatus for detecting the status of a battery in an implantable heart stimulator, the battery impedances measured and an increased value of the measured impedance is detected, from which an impedance based value of the remaining battery capacity... | 06/08/2004 |
| D489700 | Telephone station | 05/11/2004 |
| 6726360 | Intensity modulated fiber optic temperature switching immersion probe The present invention provides an intensity modulated optical fiber temperature switching immersion probe for remote temperature monitoring and switching of an industrial process. The present invention also provides a method for remote sensing of temperature. ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6722030 | Process for manufacturing an electronic component, in particular a surface-wave component working with acoustic surface waves A method is provided for manufacturing a saw filter in which a carrier plate 10 that can be separated into base plates 2 is respectively provided with interconnects in the base plate regions A and these are contacted to the active structures of SAW chi... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6716673 | Two-pole SMT miniature housing for semiconductor components and method for the manufacture thereof In a two-pole SMT miniature housing in leadframe technique for semiconductor components, a semiconductor chip is mounted on one leadframe part and is contacted to a further leadframe part. The further leadframe part is conducted out of the housing in which the chip ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6717701 | Signal processing method In a method for processing signals in an electronic engraving machine for engraving printing forms, engraving control signals for guiding the stylus of an engraving element are obtained from engraving data representing predetermined tone values between “light” (... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6714093 | Dynamics compressor for an analog signal to be compressed In a dynamics compressor, an analog signal to be compressed is supplied to a first amplifier stage as an input signal, and the output signal thereof is supplied to the next amplifier stage as an input signal, and so on for a number of successive amplifier stages. Ea... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6710686 | Method for the fast acquisition of a magnetic resonance image In a method for the fast acquisition of a magnetic resonance image, magnetic resonance signals from an imaging region are conditioned with magnetic gradient fields that define a spatial frequency space so that the spatial frequency domain is occupied with magnetic r... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6709711 | Method for producing an adhesive layer for a heat insulating layer The invention is directed to a method for producing a corrosion-resistant and oxidization-resistant layer that is applied onto a component part, whereby the method can be simply and cost-beneficially implemented in fabrication-oriented terms and comprises the steps:... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6709156 | Cooling device and computed tomography apparatus employing same A cooling device for an X-ray source arranged at a gantry rotatable around a rotational axis has a ring-like heat exchanger that is arranged at the gantry and is thermally conductively connected to the X-ray source. The cooling device is useable in a computed tomogr... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6710996 | Surge arrestor The invention is directed to a surge arrestor having a middle electrode and at least one outer electrode, in which an electrically conductive spring clip is secured to the middle electrode and exerts a spring power on the outer electrode; in which an electrical comp... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6707881 | X-ray diagnostic installation having a planar solid state X-ray image converter An X-ray diagnostic installation has an X-ray tube, a voltage generator, a planar solid state X-ray image converter for generating raw images, an image system and a playback device. The image system has a device for offset correction that acquires an offset image an... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6700373 | Method for operating a magnetic resonance apparatus employing a superimposed anatomical image and functional image to designate an unreliable region of the functional image In a method for the operation of a magnetic resonance apparatus an anatomical image of a region of an examination subject to be imaged is generated with a prescribable resolution and quality, a functional image of the region to be imaged is generated, the... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6698953 | Print image with print elements having different security levels assigned thereto, and an apparatus and storage medium for producing such a print image A print image, such as for a franking apparatus, is composed of a number of elements to which different security levels are assigned. In a storage medium, and in a franking apparatus containing such a storage medium, for the print image, the image data ar... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6697599 | Device for removing a coating adhering to an intermediate carrier in an electrophotographic printer or copier device In order to strip a film-like coating having toner residues, abrasion and paper dust from an intermediate carrier (for example, a photoconductor), a cleaning unit is provided that is planarly executed and bent such that first and second surfaces and a rou... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6697672 | Implantable heart stimulator An implantable heart stimulator comprises a pulse generator (3) for delivering stimulation pulses to the heart of a patient. An IEGM means (5) registers electric signals associated with the patient's heart. A classifier means (6) classifies received elect... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6694978 | High-frequency oscillation patient ventillator system A patient ventilator system has a high-frequency oscillation ventilator connectable to a patient circuit and operable to induce oscillations within gas in the circuit at a predetermined high-frequency and a gas supply connectable to the patient circuit fo... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6696836 | Method for the operation of a magnetic resonance apparatus and magnetic resonance apparatus for the implementation of the method In a method for operating a magnetic resonance apparatus, and a magnetic resonance apparatus for implementing the method, the magnetic resonance apparatus having a gradient system containing at least one gradient coil for generating a gradient field at le... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6696904 | Duplex/diplexer having two modularly constructed filters A duplexer/diplexer comprising at least a transmission branch and a reception branch. The transmission branch and the reception branch are modularly connected by shielding, and are arranged such that the two branches are matched to an identical value of r... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6696913 | Ferrite core for a transformer A ferrite core, such as for transformers, has a middle bleb with an oval cross-section or flattened oval cross-section, whereby the longitudinal axis of the middle bleb is oriented parallel to the attachment plane of the transformer and the longest axis o... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6691552 | Method and apparatus for monitoring the composition of a binary breathing gas mixture In a method and apparatus for monitoring the composition of a breathing gas mixture having a first gaseous component and a second gaseous component, a data processor is supplied, either as an input value or as a measured value from associated humidity sen... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6691550 | Estimator for determining resonant frequency and Q The resonant frequency of a device is determined by energizing the device with a short burst of energy to produce a decaying sinusoidal output, determining coefficients of a linear difference equation characterizing the decaying sinusoidal output by use o... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6693427 | Head coil for a magnetic resonance apparatus A head coil for a magnetic resonance apparatus has a mirror device for the stimulation of one or both eyes with first light in a first wavelength range and for simultaneous acquisition of a eye movement with second light in a second wavelength range in a ... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6690964 | Method and device for visualization of positions and orientation of intracorporeally guided instruments during a surgical intervention In a visualization system and method for visualization of data that relate to a medical intervention at a patient, a surgeon has no visual contact with a surgical instrument but can visualize in the form of a projected geometrical shape by a visualization... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6690479 | Process and circuit for initalizing a printer or copying machine A process and circuit for a printer or copier has control data loaded into a working memory of a control unit. The control data is compared to predetermined values which correspond to a predetermined acceptable control data range. An error signal is gener... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6689490 | Display element for employment in a magnetic anti-theft security system Display Element for Employment in a Magnetic Anti-theft Security System A semi-hard magnetic alloy for activation strips in magnetic anti-theft security systems is disclosed that contains 8 to 25 weight % Ni, 1.5 to 4.5 weight % Al, 0.5 to 3 weight % Ti a... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6689059 | Apparatus for the implementation of a physiologically controlled measurement at a living subject An apparatus for the implementation of a physiologically controlled measurement at a living subject has a signal acquisition arrangement for acquiring a physiological signal of the subject, a display for the graphic display of a time curve of the physiolo... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6687021 | Method for digitally rasterizing half-tone images with rasters of any width and angle In a method for digital rastering of a half-tone image with rasters having arbitrary screen widths and screen angles, the rastering occurs by reading out a threshold matrix and comparing the thresholds that are read out to the color values of the half-ton... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6687526 | Method for operating a magnetic resonance apparatus having an active shim system In a method for operating a magnetic resonance apparatus with a gradient coil system and an active shim system, shim currents of the active shim system and/or offset currents of the gradient coil system are adjusted corresponding to at least one subject-s... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6685168 | Surface acoustic wave component An electronic component such as a surface acoustic wave component has a chip a piezoelectric substrate with electrically conductive structures thereon and a base plate having external electrical terminal elements that are contacted to the electrically con... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6686739 | Method for operating a magnetic resonance device for producing a magnetic resonance spectrum In a method for operating a magnetic resonance device, a magnetic resonance signal is recorded over a span of time, and in order to produce a magnetic resonance spectrum, the magnetic resonance signal in the time domain is subjected to a Fourier transform... | 02/03/2004 |
