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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7228577 | Inflatable beach enclosure An inexpensive enclosure providing a protected space on a beach, lawn or the like. An inflatable tube forms a wall surrounding a space having an open end, so that a user is shielded from small kicked or thrown material or objects, running pets and the like. The tubu... | 06/12/2007 |
| 6317302 | Thin-film magnetic read head with locally reduced exchange coupling A thin-film magnetic read head device comprises an end face extending in a first direction, in which a magnetic information carrier is movable with respect to the magnetic head device, and in a second direction, perpendicular to said first direction. The ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6278690 | Local area network for reconfiguration in the event of line ruptures or node failure A local area network with a plurality of nodes for transmitting cells in the asynchronous transfer mode over a ring system having two opposite direction rings. In the event of a defect in a transmitting line from a node, or a defect in a neighboring node,... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6278588 | Magnetoresistive magnetic field sensor A magnetoresistive magnetic field sensor comprises a bilayer with a first soft magnetic layer and in direct contact therewith a second soft magnetic layer. The layers are exchange coupled to one another. The second soft magnetic layer is located below, on... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6217723 | Method of manufacturing a multilayer film In a method of manufacturing a multilayer film consisting of a stack of primary soft-magnetic layers and secondary non-magnetic layers on a substrate by way of reactive sputtering, use is made of one type of target at least as regards composition for alte... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6201951 | Telephone set with a detachable cordless control and display panel The control panel of a telephone set is detachable from a base station portion of the set. The control panel and base station can communicate mutually cordlessly, or the control panel can be connected for communication independent of the cordless facility... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6196723 | Dynamic groove bearing comprising a porous lubricant reservoir The invention relates to a dynamic groove bearing (9) comprising an internal bearing part (23) and an external bearing part (17) which are rotatable relatively to each other about an axis of rotation (7), a bearing surface (31, 35) of one of the bearing p... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6182043 | Dictation system which compresses a speech signal using a user-selectable compression rate A dictation system is disclosed comprising a hand held dictation device (1) for storing a speech signal in memory means (15,20), the device comprising data compression means (30) for data compressing the speech signal into a data compressed speech signal ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6169374 | Electronic ballasts with current and voltage feedback paths A power converter for providing high frequency current to a load such as a fluorescent lamp. A rectifier circuit provides DC power to a half-bridge inverter whose output is connected to one end of a resonant load circuit. One load connection is at the oth... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6163529 | Transmission system with line status determination independent of received packet order A transmission system comprises a plurality of network nodes which for receiving and transmitting packets which contain connection-related status information about the transmission system. A network node comprises at least one evaluation unit which stores... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6128297 | Packet switching system and network interface having a switching device The invention relates to a packet switching system comprising at least a coupling device which comprises a main memory for buffering packets arriving by auxiliary lines, a main memory controller for generating addresses for the packets to be stored in the... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6124975 | Lenticular sheet A transparent sheet is provided on both sides with a lenticular array (4,). The embossments (7) of at least one of the arrays (6) has a cross-section showing at least two bends (11-14), thereby improving the visibility of the Moire pattern formed by the t... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6118625 | Magnetic head with lateral shielding limbs and a common contact face A magnet-head device for a magnetic-tape apparatus having a rotatably supported head disc carrying magnetic heads (10) at its periphery. A magnetic head has lateral additional limbs (12) which extend into the path of the magnetic tape (14), so that their ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6091585 | Magnetic-tape-cassette apparatus with latched head plate The invention relates to a magnetic-tape-cassette apparatus having a loading mechanism for loading the magnetic-tape cassette from an eject position into a play position and having a magnetic head transport mechanism for moving a magnetic head. To guarant... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6064545 | Recording and/or reproducing system including a magnetic-tape cassette engageable by a tape pull-out element positioned by a movable holder A scanning device for a tape cassette having a coupling element at an end of the tape which can be pulled from the cassette in a pull-out direction by a pull-out element in the device. The coupling element couples to the pull-out element as a result of re... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6046880 | Device for blocking insertion of undersized objects A device such as a cassette recorder of a computer has a wall portion formed with a loading aperture for introduction of standard-type objects, such as a magnetic-tape cassette or a cassette for an optical or magnetic disc. To prevent damage or incorrect ... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6038112 | Cassette having at least one axially movable reel and having blocking means for blocking an axial movement of the reel A cassette having a reel which is movable axially away from the cassette bottom wall to a drive position against the force of a spring. When in a rest position the reel is locked against rotation by a latching device which is arranged completely inside th... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6028831 | Loading mechanism for loading and unloading an information disc into/from an information-technology apparatus Loading mechanism for loading and unloading an information disc into or from an information-technology apparatus in which first and second guides have respective first and second grooves each provided for engaging the edges of the information disc, and th... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6015234 | Non-contacting temperature measuring device A device (5) for measuring temperatures without mechanical contact comprises a bolometer with thermistors (201, 202, 203, 204) arranged as a Wheatstone bridge. Some of the thermistors (202, 204) are shielded and... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6016314 | Information transmission system comprising at least one base station and at least one satellite station The system is formed by a base station STB1 and two mobile stations STM1 and STM2. The information exchange between these stations is performed by means of two time multiplex signals which are transported by frequency channels with carriers F1 and F2. In ... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6011820 | Single frequency transmission network A transmission network having a plurality of transmitter stations receiving signals over different transmission links from a common source. The transmitter stations transmit frames including the same data packets, substantially simultaneously over the sam... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6000537 | Housing with readable side walls for a disc-shaped information carrier A housing for holding a disc-shaped information carrier having a bottom section including a holding device, and a cover section which is hingeably connected to the bottom section. The bottom section is box-shaped and has transparent front, side and rear w... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5996212 | Method of manufacturing a body having a structure of layers Method of manufacturing a multilayer structure, in which method gold is deposited on a basic layer (3, 11) for forming a gold layer (7, 13), whereafter aluminium oxide is deposited on the gold layer for forming an aluminium oxide layer (9, 15). Silicon ox... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5990945 | Encoded digital video transmission system Compressed digitally encoded video signals are transmitted over an asynchronous transfer mode network with varying grades of service dependent on bitrate requirements for a desired picture quality and the currently available network capacity. To maximize ... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5983078 | Channel spacing for distortion reduction Distortion or noise in detected signals, due to intermodular distortion in transmitting sets which transmit multiple channels simultaneously via the same element or component, is reduced by selecting carrier frequencies such that they are not all spaced b... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5982591 | Multichannel magnetic head with adjacent write gaps in different planes Integrated, juxtaposed head units of a magnetic head have transducing gaps directly adjacent a central plane transverse to the longitudinal direction of relative movement of a magnetic recording medium, adjacent transducing gaps being to opposite sides of... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5973889 | Single-channel magnetic head with magnetoresistive element in series with electrically conducting magnetic elements Single-channel magnetic head having a head face (1) which extends in a first direction (I) in which a magnetic record carrier (3) is relatively movable with respect to the magnetic head, and in a second direction (II) transverse to the first direction. Th... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5949793 | Transmission of digital and analog signals in the same band A combination of broadband program materials, such as TV, plus digital communications services of all types, are broadcast to a cell in the same frequency band, such as 27.5 to 28.5 GHz. The combination of all the transmitted channels have a combined band... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5936402 | Magneto-resistive magnetic field sensor with a constricted region Two magnetic layers are mutually interconnected by a constricted region also made of a magnetic material. The layers may be separated by an intermediate non-metallic layer having a hole filed with magnetic material to from the constricted region. Alternat... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5936692 | Multi-domain liquid-crystal display device The invention relates to a multi-domain liquid-crystal display device comprising two substantially parallel substrates which are provided with an electrode layer and an orientation layer. A layer of a nematically ordered liquid-crystalline material compri... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5933300 | Recording and/or reproducing device with a magnetic head having an optimized crystal orientation Recording and/or reproducing device (1) having at least one magnetic head (8, 9) provided for scanning a magnetic record carrier (6) and having a lead-in core limb (34) and a lead-out core limb (35) each consisting of a monocrystalline ferrite and constit... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5916463 | Method of laser adjusting the switch-gap in a reed switch A method of adjusting the mutual separation (g) of the two overlapping metallic cantilever members (9, 11) within the vitreous envelope of a reed switch, having a beam (21) of radiant energy to which the envelope is substantially transparent directed for ... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5912923 | System for transmitting coded speech signals Complex coding of speech signals, as this is used, for example, in the GSM half rate speech coder, requires the use of a signal processor. On the other hand, a hands-free facility requires an arithmetic unit which adaptively calculates filter coefficients... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5904996 | Method of manufacturing a magnetic field sensor A method of manufacturing a magnetic field sensor having a stacked structure of: an exchange-biasing layer (2) comprising nickel oxide on a substrate (1) and a magnetic layer (3) which is exchange-biased with the exchange-biasing layer (2), whereby at lea... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5897186 | Display device with discoloration--prevention electrodes Display device comprising an electro-optical medium, for example an LCD of the (super)twisted nematic type in which the capacitive influence on the switching behaviour of extra (dummy) electrodes employed to neutralize the difference in electro-optical be... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5890278 | Method of manufacturing a magnetic head having a structure of layers Method of manufacturing a multilayer thin film magnetic head having reproducibly narrow gap widths, by: providing a stepped non-magnetic basic layer; providing a stepped magnetically permeable layer on the stepped basic layer; providing a stepped non-magnetic ... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5890590 | Housing for a disc-shaped information carrier A housing for storing a disc-shaped information carrier, for example a DVD. The housing is provided with a bottom part (1) with a retaining device (7) for the information carrier and a lid part (3) which is connected with hinging possibility to the bottom... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5883686 | Liquid crystal display device The invention provides active-matrix display devices with non-linear two-pole switching elements such as MIMs or three-pole switching elements such as TFTs having a smaller difference in charge current at a different image content by using a suitable. ... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5841753 | Multi-layer information storage system with improved aberration correction An optical information storage system has a multi-recording-layer record carrier and a scanner device for the carrier. The scanner produces a radiation beam which is compensated for spherical aberration for a single height of the scanning spot with the st... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5811965 | DC and AC current sensor having a minor-loop operated current transformer Current is sensed by a circuit which provides a high frequency reversing voltage to a sensing winding on a current transformer, for driving the transformer into its linear region at least once per high frequency cycle. Current through the sensing winding ... | 09/22/1998 |
