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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7614416 | Process for producing a throttle-valve housing and a throttle valve The present invention is related to a method for the production of a throttle valve connection piece housing and a throttle valve as molded injection parts. The throttle valve connection piece housing is provided with a throughflow opening which can be sealed by the... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7321586 | Method for establishing communication links in an exchange in a switching system The present invention relates to a method wherein communication links between subscriber access lines of subscriber access units of an exchange in a switching system comprising a number of exchanges are established within the exchange concerned either directly in th... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7273309 | Display device comprising a luminous element with an emission characteristic of controllable solid angle The invention relates to a display device including a luminous element and a light guide which has coupling locations and decoupling locations and transports a light signal that is emitted by the luminous element. The inventive luminous element has a radiation chara... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7263909 | Drive device The present invention is electronically driven locking device for a locking element of a motor vehicle. The device has a motor, a gear wheel including a gear ring, a hub, and an elastic intermediate element, and a control disk. The motor is linked to the gear ring v... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7230362 | Brush holder for an electric-motor driven actuator and an electric-motor driven actuator An electric-motor driven actuator has a housing, in which a motor and a carrier plate are arranged and the carrier plate is connected in a fixed manner to a brush holder. The brush holder has a first brush holder which is rigidly connected to the carrier plate. A se... | 06/12/2007 |
| D543139 | Instrument cluster for a vehicle | 05/22/2007 |
| 7207239 | Cover unit for an actuator The present invention relates to a cover unit which includes a cover made of an aluminum alloy. The cover has a wall thickness of 1 to 2 mm and has at least one hollow pin on one side as well as an aperture. A plate-shaped plastic part provided with holes and a plug... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201277 | Device for automatically merging manually processable mail flats with a flow according to the distribution sequence of sorted mail items Movable containers are provided over one part of the section conveyor on which the mail items are filed according to the distribution sequence, said moveable containers circulating in an enclosed transport path and each having several compartments controlled to open... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197376 | Mail processing system and method of delivering mail items to delivery location therein In a mail processing system that delivers articles to delivery locations a first transport vehicle at a first loading point is loaded with a first article, and guided along a first delivery path to a first delivery location. A second transport vehicle at a second lo... | 03/27/2007 |
| D538719 | Instrument panel | 03/20/2007 |
| 7182331 | Input unit of a letter sorting system and method for loading the input unit The present invention relates to an input unit of a letter sorting system which comprises separable first and second conveyor lines. The first line is positioned proximate to an isolating device which processes letters. The first line comprises a conveyor surface an... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7178714 | Container for flat objects in a vertical position The invention relates to a container for flat objects in a vertical position, comprising a base, two lateral longitudinal sides and two front sides, the flat objects being aligned with their largest surfaces facing the front sides. At least one front side consists o... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181045 | Method and device for reading the addresses of items of mail The invention relates to a method and a device for reading the addresses of mailings with an OCR device and a video coding device. On an ambiguous reading result from the OCR device an extract is automatically generated with specified extraction rules from address a... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7165327 | Method for installing a valve member in an auxiliary control valve device A method for arranging a valve element in an additional control valve device includes provides that, after a first position has been set, a valve plate is pushed onto the stem until the valve plate contacts the stop of a trapping magnet. The valve plate is then conn... | 01/23/2007 |
| D534907 | Faceplate for a vehicle information and entertainment system | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159844 | Two-part flap valve A valve having a housing with a valve seat for a two-piece flap which is rotatably mounted on a drive shaft. An annular piston seal and an adjacent cover disk are disposed between the first part and the second part of the two-piece flap so as to revolve there-around... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159847 | Supplementary control valve device for the inlet channel of a reciprocating internal combustion engine The additional control valve device has a valve element which is guided between a gantry magnet and a trapping magnet in a reversibly movable manner in the direction of the longitudinal axis. An encircling seal is arranged on that side of the housing, in which the g... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159722 | System and method for item handling A system and method are set out for automatically extracting pods from a carousel shaped casing tower which include elements for engaging and moving the pods within the carousel while the carousel maintains its place. The pods travel on a track within the carousel w... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154060 | Parcel dispatch manager system and method A system and method are set out for automating the sorting and loading of parcels into a delivery vehicle. While being conveyed from a customer, parcels to be delivered are scanned and information obtained therefrom. The information may be the parcel either or both ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151663 | Attachment and contacting of a metal housing of a display The present invention relates to a housing assembly and method of making it. The housing assembly may be used for housing electronic apparatus requiring protection from external corrosive forces including blunt shocks, humidity and so forth. The present housing make... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7145094 | System and method for processing flat mailings The invention relates to a method and a device for processing flat mailings, according to which two or more piles of mailings, the destination addresses of which are known and which are sorted according to the distribution order, are separated by a separating device... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143996 | Throttle connection fitting for an internal combustion engine A throttle valve connection piece for an internal combustion engine is disclosed, the piece including a housing and a throughflow opening in which the valve is pivotably mounted around a pivot axis. The pivot axis extends in a perpendicular manner with respect to a ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7144043 | Seat belt The present invention relates to a seat belt including a function for ensuring a minimum tension, a function for taking up superfluous seat belt slack during a crash and a function for limiting a user friendly seat belt force that has an optimum effect on the person... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145279 | Mount part for commutator brushes of an electric motor The invention relates to a support element on which the commutator brushes are each disposed on one curved spiral spring each. Said spring, on its side facing away from the commutator brush in the area of the end of the coil is trapezoid and is braced between an out... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7136504 | System for processing postal items The present invention relates to a method of processing postal matters in an automatic address-reading system, an image of the surface of each article of mail having address information being obtained and delivered to a first automatic evaluation system, and incorpo... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7120616 | Method for specifying, executing and analyzing method sequences for recognition A method for specifying, executing and analyzing method sequences for the recognition of dispatch labels and form entries. In the specification phase, the method sequences are input in graphical form into a computer system as flowcharts with attributes and function ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7114486 | Subunit of a throttle valve housing The dividing unit comprises a metal throttle valve shaft and of a plastic throttle valve. The throttle valve shaft is mounted so that it centrally passes through the throttle valve and the maximum acute angle alpha between the longitudinal axis of the throttle valve... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7108524 | Chipcard housing with an ejector and at least one locking arm coupled thereto The invention relates to a chipcard housing with an ejector and at least one locking arm coupled thereto. A gearwheel is provided for control of the locking arm which engages in a section of the locking arm resembling a toothed rack such that the drive of the gearwh... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7108258 | Apparatus for feeding flat items The invention relates to a device for the delivery of flat objects to a friction/suction picking device with a suction head, the objects standing in a stack on a thin edge thereof on a support surface arranged on a stop surface and transported in the direction of th... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7100568 | Direct electromagnetic drive for a throttle valve shaft in a throttle valve connector The direct drive for a throttle valve shaft in a throttle valve manifold comprises a coil and a rotor arranged directly adjacent to the coil. The rotor is made from a steel ring inside which a first inner magnetic shell and a second inner magnetic shell lie opposite... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7100950 | Connecting element The connecting element for transporting gaseous, liquid or solid substances include a tubular coupling which has on the inside a cylindrically running first recess, in which a corrugated tube is arranged, and which has a cylindrically running second recess which adj... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7089911 | Throttle body and electronic module The present invention relates to a throttle-valve housing having a continuous throttle opening for a throttle-valve which is arranged on a throttle-valve shaft, and a housing having a housing cover and a housing body. An electric drive and a first electronic mechani... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7086598 | Chipcard-accommodating unit The present invention relates to a chipcard housing unit having a locking element which may be displaced parallel to the displacement plane of a chipcard. Individual locking elements are provided, mounted such as to be displaced between a cardholder and a control sl... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7084784 | Means of mounting a toll calculator in a motor vehicle It is proposed to assign a mounting arm to a toll calculator which is embodied as a surface-mounted device and which is connected in an articulated fashion to the toll calculator and can be mounted on the windshield of the motor vehicle. The toll calculator itself t... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7070180 | Method and device for stacking flat mailings The present invention relates to a method and a device for stacking flat mailings, in which the thickness of each individually conveyed mailing that is to be stacked is detected within a main control loop. The underfloor belt is displaced away from the stacking loca... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7066049 | Wear-free accelerator pedal kick-down switch The present invention relates to an accelerator pedal for a motor vehicle, especially one with an automatic gearbox. The pedal includes a pedal arm which in one end area thereof is pivotally mounted about a pivoting axis and which in the other end thereof is provide... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7060928 | Method for sorting in a distribution order In the present invention a sorting machine in a distribution order is made to process a substantially higher number of distribution order points, within a sorting process, than necessary for sorting in one or several real distribution orders based on the available p... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7051997 | Valve The present invention relates to a valve which includes a housing made from aluminum and a valve seat made from aluminum, for a flap which is mounted such as to rotate on a drive shaft and a peripheral piston seal. The valve seat includes a metallic coating on the s... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7042121 | Cooling fan with electric motor The invention relates to a cooling fan for use in a motor vehicle. To achieve improved cooling of an electric motor it is proposed that the motor housing enclosing the electric motor be used as a heat sink for emitting waste heat into a cooling air flow. The cooling... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7032877 | Actuator for reversibly displacing a valve flap of a valve An actuator has a drive shaft connected to a valve flap. A toothed quadrant is mounted to be rotatable about the first axis of rotation of the drive shaft. A further quadrant is arranged in parallel with the toothed quadrant and is fixedly connected to the drive sha... | 04/25/2006 |
