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A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| 8108087 | Sequencing, merging and approach-spacing systems and methods An aircraft control system is delineated for a host aircraft, the system comprising a processor for executing one or more instructions that implement one or more functions of the aircraft control system, a transceiver for transmitting information from and receiving ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098195 | Pulse transmitters having multiple outputs in phase relationship and methods of operation A transmitter provides a plurality of output signals. The transmitter includes a processor, a modulator, a first circuit, and a second circuit. The modulator provides a modulated signal responsive to the processor. The modulated signal includes an amplitude modulate... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7532892 | Method and device for controlling admission of users to a cellular radio network The present invention relates to a method and a cellular radio network device (3) for controlling the admission of user (4, 6) to a cellular radio network (1). In order to determine how much traffic is allowed in a cell (2), threshold val... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532092 | Grounding strategy for filter on planar substrate The invention provides a grounding strategy for electronic components. In particular, the present provides ground connections in thin-film electronic components by connecting one group of one or more resonators to one ground connection and connecting a second group ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531755 | Trimming of embedded structures The idea of the invention is to form a cavity in a multilayer substrate at the point of the structure to be trimmed. This enables the embedding of tolerance critical components inside substrates, such as printed circuit boards, modules, and sub-systems. Trimming is ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7530923 | Shift control apparatus for automatic transmission A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission having an automatic shift mode and a manual shift mode. The shift control apparatus includes a shift characteristic changing unit for changing the first shift characteristic to a second shift characteristic suc... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7530410 | Legged mobile robot and control system thereof The legged mobile robot the foot comprises a foot main body connected to each leg, a toe provided at a fore end of the foot main body to be bendable with respect to the foot main body, and a bending angle holder capable of holding a bending angle of the toe in a ben... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529845 | Compressing, filtering, and transmitting of protocol messages via a protocol-aware intermediary node Methods, apparatuses, and a system for compressing, filtering, and transmitting of protocol messages to be transmitted from a transmitting side via a protocol-aware intermediary node to a receiving side, the compressing method comprising the steps of: detecting a ty... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529839 | Request redirection handling in IMC An apparatus and method of processing a service request in an IP multimedia core network is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a service request initiated by a first user, for a second user, forwarding the received service request to a unit for pro... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529504 | Organic photoconductor, process cartridge and image forming apparatus both employing the same An image forming apparatus has an organic photoconductor having a surface layer containing fluorine-containing resin particles whose number average primary particle size is not less than 0.02 μm and is less than 0.20 μm; a charging device to charge by bring an cha... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529354 | Method of managing a connection release, corresponding system and device The present invention relates to a method usable for managing a connection release of an established connection between two or more parties via a communication network. When the reason for terminating a connection/session between at least two parties is caused by ci... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528772 | Provision of location information A method of providing information regarding the location of a mobile user equipment (1) in a system wherein the location is determined based on information signalled from entities (10) of a positioning system and assistance data signalled from a statio... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526281 | Method and device for establishing a conference call between a plurality of user terminals of a communication network A method of establishing a conference call in a communication network between a plurality of user terminals each having an identifier. The method comprising receiving a first list of identifiers corresponding to the user terminals with whom the conference call is to... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7524601 | Toner and method of manufacturing the toner A toner is disclosed, comprising a resin (A), a colorant (B) and an alkylidenecarboxylic acid (C). ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7519860 | System, device and method for automatic anomaly detection A method and system for monitoring the behavior of at least one observable object, e.g. a network element, of a network, wherein at least one parameter of the observable object is repeatedly detected. An actually detected parameter is input to a learning process and... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519740 | Server A server suitable for a vehicle having a first wireless interface providing a connection on a customer basis for local user terminals to the server, to enable access to local content on the server, and a second wireless interface providing a connection to an externa... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519738 | Method for moving of flows in communication networks The invention relates to a method, system, electronic device, network node and computer program for moving flows in a communication network, which comprises at least a first node, a second node, a third node and a content source node. The address of the first node i... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519530 | Audio signal processing A processor for processing an audio signal can have a receiving unit configured to receive an audio signal, an expansion unit configured to expand a bandwidth of the audio signal, and a processing unit configured to process the audio signal having an expanded bandwi... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519457 | Path generator for mobile object A path generator includes a map generator for generating a map for a movement space based on information on the position and shape of a mobile object, an obstacle, and a target object. It also includes a composite potential generator for calculating an attractive po... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7517629 | Image forming method A method of forming a toner image employing a photoreceptor is described. The photoreceptor comprises a photosensitive layer on a cylindrical conductive substrate, Formula (1) and Formula (2) are held, 0 | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515097 | Pulse transmitters having multiple outputs in phase relationship and methods of operation A transmitter provides a plurality of output signals. The transmitter includes a processor, a modulator, a first circuit, and a second circuit. The modulator provides a modulated signal responsive to the processor. The modulated signal includes an amplitude modulate... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7514122 | Method and apparatus for spray processing of porous medical devices Thermal spray processing and cold spray processing are utilized to manufacture porous starting materials (such as tube stock, wire and substrate sheets) from biocompatible metals, metal alloys, ceramics and polymers that may be further processed into porous medical ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512099 | Method, system and transmitting side protocol entity for sending packet data units for unacknowledged mode services A method, system and transmitting side protocol entity is disclosed for sending packet data units for unacknowledged mode services in a mobile communication network. A retransmission parameter is set to a desired value in order to prevent retransmission of packet da... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7510809 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor with two layer charge transfer layer, and apparatus utilizing the same An electrophotographic photoreceptor including a charge generating layer and a charge transfer layer accumulated on a support member, the charge transfer layer including at least two layers of a support side layer and a surface side layer, wherein the support side l... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509652 | Event related communications A method in a communication system wherein a requestor (18) signals a request (1) for a service associated with an event. The request includes a first identifier for identifying the requested event and a second identifier for identifying the origin of ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7504125 | System and method for coating implantable devices A method and system of coating an implantable device, such as a stent, are provided. ... | 03/17/2009 |
| D587717 | Game controller cover | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496804 | Communications system, receiver, and method of estimating received signal quality by using bit error rate There is provided a receiver comprising a processing unit, a communications unit for receiving frames including training sequence symbols or pilot symbols, the processing unit being configured to use Cyclic Redundancy Check for detecting errors in the received frame... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7496427 | Molding machine and molding machine management system A molding machine includes a control part incorporating a specific server program and a memory part saving internal data of the molding machine. The specific server program transmits the internal data, which is converted into a predetermined format and stored in the... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7491233 | Purified polymers for coatings of implantable medical devices A coating for a medical device, particularly for a drug eluting stent, is described. The coating includes a purified polymer such as a polyacrylate. ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493393 | Apparatus and method for security management in wireless IP networks According to one embodiment of the invention, a distributed routing device for routing subscriber traffic flow between at least two wireless access networks and an IP network is described. The distributed routing device includes at least one instance for executing a... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492837 | Parameter estimation for adaptive antenna system There is proposed a technique for determining parameters, especially channel estimation, in the receiver of a communication system utilising adaptive antenna techniques. The technique uses information transmitted in the antenna signals and in the beam signals to det... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493207 | Control apparatus, control method, and engine control unit A control apparatus which is capable of compensating for a control error properly and quickly even under a condition where the control error is temporarily increased e.g. by degradation of reliability of the detection results of reference parameters other than contr... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492740 | Method of adjusting the capacity of a cell The invention proposes a method for controlling a network comprising at least one cell served by a first type network device, wherein the first type network device is adapted to serve second type network devices, the method comprising the steps of detecting (S1 | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492534 | Imaging optical system including optical element having discontinuous plane An imaging optical system capable of moving a meridian image plane further closer to an ideal imaging plane vertical to an optical axis with the number of lenses kept constant. At least one plane of at least one optical element and including at least one optical ele... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7462959 | Linear motor and stage device using the linear motor A linear motor can include a coil part having a plurality of coils forming a coil line; a magnet yoke part having a plurality of permanent magnets facing the coil line; and a coil cooling part configured to cool the coil part. The coil cooling part can include a coo... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463948 | Robot control apparatus A robot control apparatus allows a plurality of mobile robots to carry out tasks at a reduced or minimized cost as a whole with consideration given to costs derived from an encounter with an obstacle is provided. An action optimization controller provided in the rob... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463787 | Picture editing A method of inserting an object into an image, the method comprising the steps of assessing the homogeneity of the image; identifying one or more areas of the image having similar homogeneity according to the assessed homogeneity; and selecting a homogeneous area in... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461037 | Clustering technique for cyclic phenomena A data processing system processes data arrays that collectively describe cyclic behavior of at least one variable in several entities in a physical process. Each cycle comprises several time slots. An input routine (2-4) receives multiple data arrays,... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460956 | Systems and methods for time corrected lightning detection A lightning detection system provides an estimated location of a lightning stroke. The system includes sensors, and an analyzer. Each sensor provides messages having sensor identification, an amplitude responsive to the lightning stroke, and a time of detecting the ... | 12/02/2008 |
