Did You Know...
...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 |
| 8181763 | Window winder drive A window winder drive functions with a freewheeling coupling, which has an outer coupling part and an inner coupling part, which is concentric thereto, and comprises clamping bodies arranged between a clamping face of the outer coupling part and a clamping face of t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177562 | Socket arrangement A socket arrangement having a housing, in particular a built-in housing, bearing at least one socket, preferably a plurality of sockets, the socket having an electrically conductive flange inserted into a housing opening, and a contact carrier which is inserted into... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177054 | Method of conveying material A method for conveying material wherein a conveyor belt is guided over head drums so as to form a forward travelling and returning stretch. The conveyor belt is guided in such a way that the forward travelling and returning stretches intersect each other as seen in ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176886 | Camshaft adjusting device A camshaft adjusting device for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle. The camshaft adjusting device has a stator which is driven via a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine and a rotor which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the camsh... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176718 | Cable, combined cable made of plastic fibers and steel wire strands, and combined strands made of plastic fibers and steel wires A combined cable comprising a core cable of high-strength synthetic fibers, which take the form of a twisted bundle of monofilaments or a plurality of twisted bundles of monofilaments, and comprising an outer layer of steel wire strands, is characterized in that the... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8172922 | Method and device for the continuous production of steel using metal charge material A method for the continuous production of steel using metal charge material that is preheated in an upper part of a melting vessel, is then melted in a lower part of the melting vessel with fossil fuels and the molten material is continuously discharged into a treat... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172583 | Distributor arrangement for electrical lines, in particular signal lines A distributor arrangement for electrical lines, having a housing and a multiplicity of sockets, situated on the housing and each having a contact carrier that has two or more electrical contact elements and an angle encoding feature for inserting plugs in an orienta... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172059 | Clutch system The clutch system relates to an automatic friction clutch with a hydrostatically actuator-controlled clutch withdrawal. In such clutch release systems, a slave cylinder pressurized by a master cylinder in an engaged state is in connection with a reservoir (tank) via... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170811 | Drive device comprising a drive shaft and a device for detecting torque A drive device, which has a drive shaft mounted in such a way as to rotate about an axis, two driving cranks which are connected to the drive shaft in an angularly rigid manner in relation to the axis in the peripheral direction, and an output element which is conne... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167812 | Device and method for detecting obstructive events In a method for detecting a physiological signal at least one ventilation parameter is measured. The device for detecting a physiological signal has at least one sensor for measuring a ventilation parameter and a control unit for the ventilation pressure. A device f... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167607 | Apparatus for blow molding containers, comprising transport elements with two gripper arms The apparatus serves for blow molding containers. Preforms of a thermoplastic material are heated in the region of a heating zone and subsequently transferred to a blow molding device. The blow molding device is provided with at least one blow molding station for tr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167492 | Lubricating device for a linear rolling bearing A lubricating device for a linear rolling bearing which has a guide rail and a carriage that is longitudinally moveable on the guide rail and supported on the guide rail by rolling bodies. The rolling bodies are guided in longitudinal grooves along the guide rail, a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167491 | Hydrostatic mounting A hydrostatic mounting of longitudinally displaceably arranged machine parts, which have pressure pockets for hydraulic fluid for building up a hydrostatic pressure between two machine parts, gaps connected to the pressure pockets and delimited by gap faces of the t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167018 | Device for separating labels stacked in a feeder A device for separating labels (4) or the like stacked in a feeder (2), includes a transport device (6) which draws the labels (4) individually from one end of a stack, and a cassette (1), which holds the extractable labels (4 | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166934 | Device for the combined locking and rotation angle limitation of a camshaft adjuster A locking and rotation angle device for locking and setting maximum rotational adjustability of a drive part fixed to the crankshaft and a driven part fixed to the camshaft of a camshaft adjuster. The driven part is pivotably adjusted to the drive part, which has a ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162030 | Mold for casting metal The invention relates to a mould for casting metal, having a plurality of temperature measuring devices (300) that are arranged in a wall (100) of the mould in order to detect the temperature distribution at that location. In order to make it easier to... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162019 | Method and device for attaching a supplementary product that is at least approximately flat to a side of a printed product For attaching at least one flat supplementary product to a printed product, one leaf of the printed product is brought from a folded configuration into an essentially horizontal orientation. A supplementary product is attached, especially by an adhesive, to this hor... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8157884 | Method for the continuous or discontinuous extraction of a metal or several metals from a slag that contains the metal or a compound of the metal The invention concerns a method for the continuous or discontinuous extraction of a metal or several metals from a slag that contains the metal or a compound of the metal, in which the liquefied metal-containing slag is heated in a primary or secondary smelting unit... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152885 | Air passage device having improved accessibility of the filter mat An air passage device, in particular a filter fan or outlet filter for installation in a mounting opening in a wall or in a housing of a switch cabinet, which is essentially formed by a ventilation grating and a main housing, and a filter mat is insertable between t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152434 | Double infeed stacking table with centering and method for transferring stacks to a gripper with an infeed station of this type An infeed station has a stack feeder and a first and second chamber, which can each receive stacks from the stack feeder. The stacks can be conveyed in the chambers and can be transferred to a stack gripper with the conveyors assigned to the first chamber and the se... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8146910 | Conveying device for feeding printed products to a processing unit A conveying device for feeding printed products to a processing unit in which the printed products are conveyed along a conveying path by a first conveyor, from a stack in which the printed products are arranged vertically, to a second conveyor which has a higher ci... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146504 | System for protection in particular of large flying platforms against infrared and/or radar-guided threats A protection system (10) is proposed which comprises a storage container (1), a transport unit (2), an activation unit (3), an ejection unit (4), a monitoring/control unit (5) and a user unit/interface (6), as well as... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146255 | Razor blade unit with cutting edge support A razor blade unit including a blade housing to hold at least one blade with a cutting edge, and a cover connected to the blade housing. The cover faces the back edges of the blades, i.e., the edges opposite from the cutting edges. The blade housing has positioning ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140243 | Method for controlling a V-type internal combustion engine A method for controlling a V-type internal combustion engine with a separate common rail system on an A side and a separate common rail system on a B side of the internal combustion engine, in which a set injection quantity is computed at least as a function of an a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139707 | Device for counting printed products of an imbricated stream of products A device for counting printed products of an imbricated stream includes a first measuring unit for detecting a printed product edge directed transversely of the conveying direction of the imbricated stream and with an evaluating unit which receives signals of the fi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136570 | Tarpaulin mounting frame A tarpaulin mounting frame for tightening a tarpaulin includes a frame profile having at lease one groove. A anchor profile having a rounded-off foot on its edge facing the tarpaulin, wherein the rounded-off foot is insertable into the groove of the frame profile an... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8117752 | Method for producing a rotary joint A method and an assembly device for producing a rotary joint between a drive element and a flange are defined. The drive element and the flange are screwed together by a nut and a bolt of the drive element. The bolt is drawn axially in to a bore in the flange by the... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8109168 | Converter gearing having eccentric bushes The invention relates to a converter gearing, comprising a gear rim (7), which is connected to the pivoting axis (6) of a converter box, said gear rim being engaged with at least one drive pinion (8) of the converter gearing (9) and at le... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8105516 | Method and apparatus for producing a coal cake for coking The invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing a coal cake for coking, in which a bed (3) of coal is compacted in a mold (2) by pulses of hammers (19) which act on the bed, and is solidified to form a block. In accordance with the... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104314 | Device for actuating the lock in the door or flap of a vehicle A construction unit (35) comprising a support (30) and a locking cylinder (20) is present in the device and is secured from the inner door side (11) behind the outer door lining (15). Those parts of the locking cylinder which proje... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8100688 | Device for blow molding containers The invention relates to a device for blow molding containers. The temperature of parisons, which are made of a thermoplastic material, is adjusted and the parisons are then molded in a blow mold under the effect of a pressurized medium to give containers. The blow ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100166 | Continuous casting plant and method of operating a continuous casting plant A continuous casting installation, which has a vertically oriented strand guide arranged below a mold, wherein a drive for driving the cast strand and bending it into the horizontal direction are arranged below the strand guide. A drive that serves exclusively for d... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100096 | Method for automatically controlling an internal combustion engine The invention concerns a method for automatically controlling an internal combustion engine, wherein, in a first controller mode, a charge air temperature controller is set as dominant for a map-controlled thermostatic valve, and, in a second controller mode, a cool... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100053 | Method for manufacturing bound printed products such as books, journals, magazines and the like, performed at least partially dependent on a working cycle In a method for at least partially cycle-dependent manufacturing of bound printed products by adhesive binding printed sheets in a spine area of an book block or by stitching with staples folded edges of printed sheets collected astraddle, a sequentially double-side... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099987 | Locking device for functions which can be carried out in particular on vehicles A locking device contains a locking cylinder with a freewheeling sleeve (11), cylinder core and tumblers (27). The cylinder core can be rotated by a matching key because the tumblers (27) which lock the cylinder core release the freewheeling sle... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099893 | Method for permanent disturbance/destruction of electronics, in particular of a blast case or the like In a first step, it is proposed that tunable transmitters and detectors (receivers) be included in a detection system and that a narrowband, preferably variable frequency signal be used in order to determine the frequencies for optimum injection into the electronics... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099881 | Boots To provide boots which have hygienic and health advantages such as the ability to effectively deodorize the inside of the boots. The entire outer surface excluding the sole of the boot is made of a material which is formed into an integrated body by continuously kni... | 01/24/2012 |
| D652704 | Laminate cutter | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099222 | Method for automatically controlling the charge air temperature of an internal combustion engine A method for automatically controlling the charge air temperature of an internal combustion engine, in which a coolant flow upstream of a recooler is distributed as a function of the position of a characteristic diagram-type thermostat valve between a recooler coola... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096168 | Container for accommodating media, and method for the production and verification of the leakproofness of said container The invention relates to a method for verifying the leakproofness of a container used for accommodating preferably liquid media as well as a plastic container that is composed of several segments (22a, 24). The invention further relates to a met... | 01/17/2012 |
