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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941093 | Spurious-free flexible frequency converter and a satellite communication repeater architecture A method for frequency conversion within a satellite-based repeater system. An uplink radio frequency signal having a frequency fRF is received. A first and at least a second local oscillator signal having frequencies fL01 and fLO2, ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940817 | Method for organizing a mode-locked pulse train by pump modulation A method to stabilize the repetition rate in a passive harmonic mode-locked fiber laser employing semiconductor saturable absorbers. The pulse organization is accomplished by electrically modulating the amplifier pump source that in turn optically modulates the satu... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939993 | Micromechanical Hf switching element and method for the production thereof The present invention relates to a micromechanical HF switching element, in which a freestanding movable element is situated above a metallic surface on a substrate in such way that it is drawn to the metallic surface, to which a dielectric layer is applied, by appl... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939752 | Elongated member and use thereof An elongated member including an outer sleeve-like rigid insulator shell surrounding a high voltage conductor extending in the longitudinal direction of the shell and a gap inside the shell next to an internal wall of the shell at least partially surrounding the con... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939751 | Land electrode A return path between a first HVDC station and a second HVDC station. A first electrode is connected to the first station and a second electrode is connected to the second station. The return path includes a first part including a first low resistive zone through th... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939557 | Vascular endothelial receptor specific inhibitors The present application describes isoindoles and derivatives thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms thereof, which are useful inhibitors of VEGFR. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939354 | Method of fabricating nitride semiconductor laser A method of fabricating a nitride semiconductor laser comprises preparing a substrate having a plurality of marker structures and a crystalline mass made of a hexagonal gallium nitride semiconductor. The primary and back surfaces of the substrate intersect with a pr... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938391 | Apparatus for feeding print products in a conveyed flow to a processing device An apparatus for feeding print products, conveyed in a flow, to a processing device. The apparatus includes a feeding device including a first conveyor and a downstream-connected second conveyor. A guide arrangement is provided with side-adjustable guide members hav... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937811 | Apparatus for the fibre-sorting or fibre-selection of a fibre bundle comprising textile fibres, especially for combing In an apparatus for the fibre-sorting or fibre-selection of fibre material which is supplied by means of a supply device to a fibre-sorting device, mechanical means are present which generate a combing action to remove non-clamped constituents such as short fibres. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937629 | Semiconductor memory apparatus having noise generating block and method of testing the same Disclosed are a semiconductor memory apparatus and a method of testing the same. The semiconductor memory apparatus includes memory banks, each of which includes a plurality of memory cells, a peripheral circuit unit that includes a plurality of circuit groups aroun... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937236 | Method and a system for adaptive compensation of the temperature drift of a sensor A method for adaptive compensation of a temperature drift of a sensor, designed to measure the torque of a shaft or a drive train or the force in mechanical equipment during operation. A sensor signal is recurrently measured. An associated temperature is determined.... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937191 | Termination secured route planning A method of forming a safe termination operation volume, and an aircraft provided with a system using such a volume to plan a flight route and/or an emergency route. The volume indicates the lowest allowable flight altitude to achieve a glide path of a vehicle to a ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937165 | Method and device for tuning and control A method and a device for tuning and control of industrial processes having varying material flow rate. An adder is configured to add excitation signals to the controller output signal. A measurement system is configured to measure a property in response to the exci... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936930 | Method for reducing the amount of data to be processed in a visualization pipeline A method for reducing an amount of data to be processed in a visualization pipeline. The visualization pipeline includes data capture, data compression, data storage, data decompression, and data rendering including the use of a transfer function. The data is divide... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936779 | System of intelligent devices, a method for providing such a system and a computer data signal A system including a number of intelligent devices connected to each other through a network. The devices are adapted for interacting with each other and automatically discovering new devices by sending and receiving messages over the network. Each intelligent devic... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936633 | Circuit and method of generating voltage of semiconductor memory apparatus A circuit for generating a voltage of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a control unit that outputs a driving control signal in response to an enable signal and a burn-in signal, a first voltage generating unit that generates and outputs a first voltage in r... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936620 | Receiver of semiconductor memory apparatus A receiver of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a first input transistor configured to be turned ON when an input signal is equal to or more than a predetermined level; a second input transistor configured to be turned ON when the input signal is equal to or... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936091 | Energy supply system and method related thereto An energy supply system adapted for supplying energy to equipment on a high voltage platform. The system includes a fuel cell and an effectuating capacitor. The system also includes an intermediate storage and supply unit. This unit stores energy from the fuel cell ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934712 | Device for collecting printed products on a collecting cylinder A device for collecting printed products includes a rotating collecting cylinder to and a controllable holding device that holds and releases the printed products collected in a peripheral area of the collecting cylinder. A diverter includes an exposed end and a sup... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934562 | Hybrid control system and method A hybrid process control system including electrical transmission of power to a sub-sea hydraulic power unit, which in turn provides hydraulic power for control of hydraulic actuators. A circulation system using small bore tubing in the umbilical cord in combination... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934355 | Device for automatically equipping substrates with medical and/or pharmaceutical and/or food supplementing products and system for automatically producing packaging for medical and/or pharmaceutical and/or food supplementing products An apparatus for automatically mounting substrates with medical and/or pharmaceutical and/or food-supplementing products, including at least one magazine to store blister strips rolled up on rolls or the like, each magazine having at least one holding position for t... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934295 | Apparatus and method for the fibre-sorting or fibre-selection of a fibre bundle comprising textile fibres In an apparatus and a method for the fibre-sorting or fibre-selection of a fibre bundle comprising textile fibres, especially for combing, which is supplied by means of supply device to a fibre-sorting device, especially a combing device, and which is removed by a t... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933908 | Computer-implemented processing of heterogeneous data A computer-implemented method for a computing environment employing a matrix-based mathematical programming language includes: generating a heterogeneous dataset in the computing environment, where the heterogeneous dataset embodies a plurality of variables for a pl... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933667 | Industrial robot system with a portable operator control device An industrial robot including a manipulator, a control unit for controlling the manipulator, a portable operating unit for teaching and manually operating the robot, which operating unit is adapted for wireless communication with the control unit and including an op... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933303 | Group-III nitride semiconductor laser device, and method for fabricating group-III nitride semiconductor laser device Provided is a group-III nitride semiconductor laser device with a laser cavity allowing for a low threshold current, on a semipolar surface of a support base in which the c-axis of a hexagonal group-III nitride is tilted toward the m-axis. First and second fractured... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932812 | Wide area and large capacity intelligent object tracking system and method A wide area object tracking system comprises a primary and two secondary base stations. Each secondary base station is coupled to the primary base station to define a tag detecting cell. Each station receives a signal from a tag attached to a tracked object, yieldin... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931827 | Mixture and method for imprinting textiles The invention relates to a mixture and a method for imprinting textiles. The mixture used for the imprinting of textiles, includes: A) at least one pigment; B) at least one dispersing agent on the basis of oxalkylated linear or branched alk... | 04/26/2011 |
| D636711 | Steering wheel for a motor vehicle | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930160 | Electronic markup of executable models A computer-implemented method for marking-up an executable model includes: displaying the executable model; associating an electronic overlay with the executable model, the electronic overlay operating with the executable model without changing the contents of the e... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927651 | Biosensor having nano wire for detecting food additive mono sodium glutamate and manufacturing method thereof There is provided a biosensor capable of increasing a detecting sensitivity of a target substance of glutamate, by using a nano wire having excellent electrical characteristics and by immobilizing a receptor of glutamate to be detected on a substrate which is dispos... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927194 | Device for extracting the flank bones of beheaded, slaughtered fish having open abdominal cavities and filleting machine for filleting beheaded, slaughtered fish having open abdominal cavities comprising such a device An apparatus to cut free flank bones of a beheaded, slaughtered fish having an open abdominal cavity includes a transport saddle to transport the fish in a direction of fish travel. The saddle includes an upper bone guide and a lower bone guide. The apparatus additi... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926623 | Hand controlled stopping device for a camera dolly A braking system allows for smooth and accurate stopping of a camera dolly operating on tracks. A pair of caliper brake modules attached to the dolly frame are sized so that they fit over and at least partially surrounds the track. When the caliper brakes are activa... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926148 | Apparatus for the fibre-sorting or fibre-selection of a fibre bundle comprising textile fibres, especially for combing In an apparatus for the fiber-sorting or fiber-selection a fiber bundle which is supplied by means of a supply device to a fiber-sorting device in which clamping devices are provided which clamp the fiber bundle at a distance from its free end, and in which a mechan... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926147 | Apparatus for the fibre-sorting or fibre-selection of a fibre bundle comprising textile fibres, especially for combing In an apparatus for the fiber-sorting or fiber-selection of a fiber bundle comprising textile fibers, especially for combing, fiber is supplied by a supply device to a fiber-sorting device, especially a combing device. Clamping devices clamp the fiber bundle at a di... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925536 | Intelligent video verification of point of sale (POS) transactions Non video data regarding a point of sale (POS) transaction is received. POS primitives are generated based on the received non video POS data. Video data regarding a corresponding POS transaction is received. Video primitives are generated based on the received vide... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923630 | Sealed and cooled enclosure with voltage isolation An enclosure (4) for electrical apparatus (6) has a sealable outlet (8) for partially evacuating the enclosure and a sealable inlet (9)for partially filling the enclosure with a liquid (7) having a vapor pressure at operating tempe... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922436 | Apparatus for applying adhesive to the outside surfaces of a book block to be encased in a book casing inside a casing-in machine An apparatus for the application of adhesive to the outside surfaces of book blocks to be encased in a casing inside a casing-in machine, includes an adhesive application device having two application rollers arranged opposite each other in an adhesive application a... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922266 | Chain tensioning device A device for tensioning chains on crawler-type or tracked vehicles, in particular the chains of hydraulic excavators, comprises a first cylinder arranged in an area of the chassis for the tracked vehicle, and operatively connected via a piston rod to a guide wheel t... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921520 | Apparatus for the fibre-sorting or fibre-selection of a fibre bundle comprising textile fibres, especially for combing In an apparatus for the fiber-sorting or fiber-selection of a fiber bundle comprising textile fibers, especially for combing, clamping devices are provided which clamp the fiber bundle at a distance from its free end, and a mechanical arrangement is present which ge... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921519 | Apparatus for the fibre-sorting or fibre-selection of a fibre bundle comprising textile fibres, especially for combing In an apparatus for the fiber-sorting or fiber-selection of a fiber bundle comprising textile fibers, especially for combing, which is supplied by a supply device to a fiber-sorting device, especially a combing device, having clamping devices which clamp the fiber b... | 04/12/2011 |
