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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8162819 | Method and device to provide penis enlargement A penis tensioning device effecting penis tissue modeling and penis enlargement, the device comprising an elongate tensioning, biasing member having a first portion (14) and a second portion; first retaining means connected to the first portion (14) an... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8152204 | Flared brake tube connector A fluid connector assembly comprising (a) a connector body having an inner concave seat having a portion defining a frustoconical surface; (b) an elongate tube having a flared end; and (c) a nut; wherein the connector body is adapted to receive the elongate tube and... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8128358 | Low mass fan shroud with integrated membrane barrier An engine cooling fan shroud structure (20) for a vehicle includes a skirt (12′) defining a frame. The frame has a certain wall thickness and defines an opening (22) therein constructed and arranged to permit air to pass through the skirt. The... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8091494 | Liquefied gas tank with a central hub in the bottom structure The present invention comprises a tank for liquefied gases or a so-called cryogenic tank (1) with a tank bottom structure (10) and a tank wall structure (11) arranged around a circumference of the tank bottom structure (10). The tank bott... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8063530 | Permanent magnet rotor with projections for fixing the permanent magnets of the rotor packet A permanent magnet rotor includes a rotor shaft, a rotor packet that is secured to the rotor shaft and that has a radially inner region and a radially outer region, reception pockets provided in the rotor packet between its radially inner region and its radially out... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8056935 | Interface between a stiff piece and a composite material, a method for the formation of such an interface and a stiff piece therefore An interface is provided between a stiff piece (1) and a composite material (2), the composite material (2) including fibres (3), the stiff piece (1) including two or more vanes (4a, 4b, . . . ) protrudi... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8040015 | Rotor for an electric motor The invention relates to a rotor for an electric motor, comprising a rotor shaft, a rotor core stack that is attached to the rotor shaft, a ring member which surrounds the rotor core stack, and a gap located between the rotor core stack and the ring member. Adhesive... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8026682 | Circuit arrangement The invention specifies a circuit arrangement (1, 20) for controlling a brushless electric motor (37) with a control chip (2), particularly a microcontroller, which has a number of PWM contacts (8), which can be used to output a PWM signa... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018188 | Method and device for determining the position of a rotor of a brushless and sensorless electric motor The invention relates to a method carried out with simple means for determining the position of the rotor in a sensorless and brushless multi-phase electric motor (1) in addition to a device particularly suitable for carrying out said method. According to sai... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8011189 | Retrofit of simple cycle gas turbine for compressed air energy storage application having expander for additional power generation A Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) system includes a first combustion turbine assembly (42) having a shaft (52) coupled to a motor (54), a compressor (44) and a debladed turbine element (46). A second combustion turbine assembl... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7982356 | Electric motor and method for manufacturing an electric motor for a motor vehicle actuator drive The invention relates to an electric motor and a method for manufacturing an electric motor for a motor vehicle actuator drive. The electric motor has a motor housing, a rotor assembly and a stator assembly. The stator assembly has stator teeth which are each provid... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7977835 | Electric motor cooling module having bearing structure nested directly in a brush and connector unit that is mounted directly to a cover of a shroud A cooling module includes a shroud (38) having an integral cover (42). The cover receives a bearing structure (40). A fan (36) is provided for moving air. A rotor and stator assembly (30) has an opened end and includes a stator ( | 07/12/2011 |
| 7947905 | Method and apparatus for joining ends of wires and the like A joined wire fastener combination includes an outer sleeve having a pre-mounted implosive charge layer. A pair of enlargement members is provided. Each enlargement member is configured to be individually inserted into an adjacent, respective end of an associated st... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944101 | Brush system with a suppression board The invention relates to a brush system for a motor-vehicle actuating drive, having a base body, a board on which interference-suppression components are mounted, and electrically conductive plug contacts. The plug contacts each have an accommodation slot. The board... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7900845 | Composite magnetic cards A composite magnetic card for bearing printed data and suitable for mailing purposes comprising (a) a first planar sheet of paper cardstock having a first face and second face; (b) a second planar sheet comprising a magnetic material having a first face and a second... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7868498 | Motor stator assembly mounting features for radial mounting to a shroud and assembly method A motor case assembly 20 a permanent magnet D.C. electric motor includes a motor case 24 having a generally cylindrical wall 25, a closed end 21, and an open end 23 opposite the closed end, defining an interior 27. Permanent... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7839038 | Electric motor case with folded out mounting tabs and economical motor-fan module packaging A cooling module 67 includes a motor assembly 42 having a motor case 24 having at least one open end and including mounting brackets 30 integral therewith. Each bracket has only a bottom portion 32 connected with the motor case. An... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7834499 | Motor assembly for window lift applications A motor assembly (10) includes a permanent magnet DC motor (16) having a shaft (24) mounted for rotation with a face gear pinion (26) associated with the shaft. A jack shaft and clutch assembly (18) is associated with the face gear... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831430 | Application server providing personalized voice enabled web application services using extensible markup language documents A unified web-based voice messaging system provides voice application control between a web browser and an application server via an hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) connection on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The application server, configured for executing... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827903 | Fluid operated device with improved seal valve A seal valve arrangement is provided for a hydraulic device (10). The hydraulic device has an inner bore (14). The seal valve arrangement includes an element (45) disposed in the bore. The element is constructed and arranged to define a fluid pa... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7822815 | Unified messaging feature that plays greetings based on the received calling party number A messaging system is provided for playing a messaging prompt in response to a request for execution of a messaging operation. The request contains calling party number information. The messaging system includes an application runtime environment configured for retr... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7812245 | Self powered heat transfer fan A self-powered fan for circulating air for use in cooperation with a heat source, such as a wood stove, and having a first heat transfer member thermally and physically connected with the heat source. The fan blades operably create a first or warm air flow and a sec... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7810281 | Electric motor drive system assembly with vibration dampening A window lift system includes a motor drive assembly (10) constructed and arranged to control movement window glass of a vehicle, and a door module (35) to which the drive assembly is coupled. The door module has surface features (36) disrupting... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7743456 | Microfiber cover for cleaning tool A cleaning tool cover configured for removable application to a cleaning tool in order to provide a microfiber cleaning surface on the cleaning tool. The cleaning tool may include, for example, a sponge mop or a dust mop and the cleaning tool cover may be used wet o... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7707758 | Composite magnetic advertising mailing cards A composite magnetic card for bearing printed data and suitable for mailing purposes comprising (a) a first planar sheet of paper cardstock having a first face and second face; (b) a second planar sheet comprising ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7695389 | Conductive polymer drive for actuating eccentric members of a motor A gear drive assembly (33) includes a housing (24), an external base (28) movable with respect to the housing, and an external gear member (12) associated with the external base. The assembly includes an internal gear member (14) s... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7687953 | Totally integrated engine cooling module for D.C. motors employing fan hub and shroud hub as motor covers An engine cooling module includes a shroud structure 12 having a shroud hub 46 constructed and arranged to receive a portion of a motor 16. A DC electric motor 16 has first and second ends and a rotatable shaft 40. The second end o... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7678322 | Method of producing manufactured aggregates The invention relates to a method of fabricating manufactured aggregates (10), characterized in that the following steps are performed: supplying a first material (12) comprising particles; supplying ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7669423 | Operating method for CAES plant using humidified air in a bottoming cycle expander A power generation system includes a combustion turbine assembly (11) having a main compressor (12) receiving ambient inlet air, a main expansion turbine (14), a main combustor (16), and an electric generator (15) for generating el... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668919 | Scalable IP-based notification architecture for unified messaging A notification architecture utilizes multiple processes configured for managing notification operations based on reception of SMTP-based messages within IMAP based message stores. The notification architecture enables use of multiple instances of a notification proc... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7657690 | Control of PCI memory read behavior using memory read alias and memory command reissue bits A method of controlling memory read behavior in PCI devices includes connecting a master PCI device to a PCI bus. The master PCI device is constructed and arranged to issue a Memory Read Line or a Memory Read Multiple initial command. A target PCI bridge device is c... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653981 | Method of providing a housing for a permanent magnet electric motor A method of providing a housing assembly for a permanent magnet electric motor provides a frame holder having external surface features at an end thereof defining bearing support features. A plastic frame is provided over a portion of the frame holder. The plastic f... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7640643 | Conversion of combined cycle power plant to compressed air energy storage power plant An apparatus and method converts a power generation combined cycle (CC) power plant to a load management compressed air energy storage (CAES) power plant. The CC power plant includes at least one combustion turbine, a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) to receive ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7614237 | CAES system with synchronous reserve power requirements A CAES system (10) includes an air storage (18), a compressor (20) supplying compressed air to the air storage, a power generating structure (11, 102), a heat exchanger (24), an auxiliary combustor (27), an air expander (... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613237 | Built-in test feature to facilitate system level stress testing of a high-speed serial link that uses a forwarding clock A method of ensuring robust operation of a differential serial link is provided. The method provides a first integrated circuit having 1) a phase generator constructed and arranged to provide a programmable shift of a clock signal based on selective interpolating be... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7565224 | Energy distribution network A hydrogen fuel supply system includes a hydrogen generator for generating hydrogen from an energy source at an outlet pressure. An outlet conduit feeds the hydrogen to a user. A controller controls the hydrogen generator to produce hydrogen at the outlet pressure. ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7536927 | Window lift drive for raising and lowering windows in a vehicle door A window lift system (10) includes a support bracket structure (12) including gear structure (18, 20). A fixed rack structure (22, 24) is associated with the gear structure. A motor (16) is carried by the support bracket structure ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7532780 | Method for locating and measuring deformations in a work of civil engineering A process for locating and measuring deformation in a civil engineering structure wherein at least one geosynthetic fabric (1) containing a plurality of optical fibers (2a to 2e) in parallel and capable of transmitting signals is a... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7519453 | Energy distribution network A hydrogen energy system for a facility that is disposed off-board a vehicle. The system includes a hydrogen generator disposed at the facility for generating hydrogen by water electrolysis, a hydrogen storage apparatus for storing at least some of the hydrogen gene... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7511223 | Method and apparatus for joining ends of wires and the like A connector for joining the interfacing ends of cables, one to another. Each cable includes a first plurality of conductor strands with each of the ends having an enlarged terminal portion of greater diameter than the cable adjacent said end. The connector includes ... | 03/31/2009 |
