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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7270297 | Hoist for aircraft cabin construction A device is provided for hoisting a module for mounting into an overhead space, such as the crown of an aircraft fuselage. The device includes a frame that supports the module, and a lifting device that lifts the first frame to properly place the module. The lifting... | 09/18/2007 |
| 6935244 | Transport system A transport system has at least one track, preferably hung on supports or hanging from cables, on which transport cars may travel, by at east one trolley. Several running wheels are provided in the trolley and the trolley may be actively rotated about the axis of th... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6917136 | Synchronous machine design and manufacturing Synchronous motors according to the invention operate at higher efficiency, with lower cost, reduced mass and reduced cogging. Magnet dimensions are selected that reduce cogging forces to a negligible amount even though there are fewer slots than normal. Optionally,... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6905509 | Selective organ cooling catheter with guidewire apparatus and temperature-monitoring device A catheter and method are provided for modifying a temperature of a patient. The catheter includes a heat transfer element (“HTE”) having surface irregularities shaped to create turbulence in a surrounding fluid. The catheter also includes a supply catheter to d... | 06/14/2005 |
| 4919056 | Shelf conveying system Shelf conveying system which is guided within one upper track system (8) and one ground track system (7), has driving bogies (3), which are supported by wheels (10) on two bearing surfaces of the track system (7) and are equipped with guide rollers (12), ... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4829631 | Suspended travel device for panels The suspended travel device for panels includes traveling rails, crossing rails provided where the traveling rails cross each other (in a cross-like manner), and suspended vehicles suspended from these rails and adapted to travel and turn along the rails.... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4555828 | Guiding system for movable suspended partition walls A guiding system for movable suspended partition walls comprising a main guide rail and two or more branch guide rails each extending from one side of the main guide rail to define two or more directional change points, a plurality of retainers movably di... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4532385 | Load transporting device and electric supply track therefor A transporting device having an overhead track arrangement with straight sections, curved sections, crossing sections and switching sections. A track carriage is movably mounted on the track. A wheeled transport carriage unit moves over a floor surface an... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4516504 | Cross-over track structure for wheeled pallets A conveying and storage system for wheeled pallets has tracks each formed by a pair of generally parallel rails. The pallet has grooved wheels at one side for riding on the upper edge of one rail and a roller on the other side for riding on the upper edge... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4290367 | Overhead conveyor The overhead conveyor comprises a main track and a branch track connected to the main track in a switch point, the tracks having a shape of a box-like beam with a longitudinal slit in its bottom flange for suspending a trolley carriage, the carriage suppo... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4068598 | Element of vehicle running on railway tracks The invention relates to an element of a vehicle which is part of a continuously moving train of similar vehicles, the element consisting, on the one hand, of two axles carrying wheels with solid tires and inner tubes and, on the other, of an on-board shu... | 01/17/1978 |
