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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7359437 | Encoding method and system for reducing inter-symbol interference effects in transmission over a serial link A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link, in which encoded data (e.g., encoded video data and encoded auxiliary data) are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver. The serial link can but need not be a TMDS or TMDS-like l... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7257163 | Method and system for reducing inter-symbol interference effects in transmission over a serial link with mapping of each word in a cluster of received words to a single transmitted word A system in which encoded data (e.g., encoded video and auxiliary data) are transmitted over a serial link. Other aspects of the invention are transmitters for use in encoding data for transmission over a serial link, receivers for receiving such data, and methods f... | 08/14/2007 |
| 6367289 | Actuator system for knitting machines An actuator system for activating a latch needle, which latch needle has a shaft, comprising: a flat planar extension of said shaft having first and second parallel planar surfaces; at least one piezoelectric micromotor having a first surface region for t... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6244076 | Optical position monitor for knitting machines An optical position monitor for determining the position of a latch needle (104) in a knitting machine is provided that comprises: at least one fiducial (102) at a known fixed cation on the body of the latch needle; a fiducial imager that produces at leas... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6199407 | Method and device for production of knitwear A method and device for knitting of hosiery eliminates disadvantages of the conventional techniques. With this method of knitting, the number of loop-formation steps are reduced and loop transfer does not depend on loop formation, both stops being perform... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6158250 | Flat-bed knitting machine and method of knitting A flat bed knitting apparatus and method of knitting are provided in which needles movably carried in opposing needle beds are selected and actuated for movement between various positions required for stitch formation independently of any other needles wh... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6105397 | Method for producing a knitted article on a flat knitting machine A knitted article is produced on a flat knitting machine with a carriage and at least one cam system, wherein the carriage speed is controlled within a knitting row in dependence on pattern types produced by individual needles or needle groups, as well as... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5987929 | Method and apparatus for fabrication of composite and arbitrary three dimensional objects The invention's object generator utilizes two frames, a y-frame that is atop an x-frame. The y-frame (or the x-frame) is divided into two halves. Each half of the y-frame (or the x-frame) contains a number of needles and latches. The needles in one half o... | 11/23/1999 |
| 4423606 | Method for mechanical stitch formation as well as knitting machine for carrying out the method A knitting machine comprising a needle bed and a plurality of grooves in the needle bed for receiving knitting needles with a hooked knitting needle positioned in each of the grooves. Each of the knitting needles has an associated plate guided in the same... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4287728 | Thread guidance in mesh-forming machines with rotating thread guides An apparatus for feeding a plurality of threads to a knitting machine wherein the thread guides are moving in endless path about the needle bed one after the other in one direction.... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4127012 | Stitch selector control means A knitting machine having a plurality of knitting tools for producing fabrics in accordance with a pattern comprising: a plurality of eccentric cam discs which are arranged with an angular staggered relationship on a driving shaft; a plurality of driving ... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4100766 | Flat knitting machine having four opposed needle beds A flat knitting machine based on a flat Vee-bed arrangement has four opposed needle beds comprising front and back main needle beds and front and back auxiliary needle beds located above the main beds. A carriage traversible the length of the beds include... | 07/18/1978 |
