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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7000371 | Large round baler combined with a bale processing arrangement located for receiving a formed bale A large round baler is equipped with a bale processing arrangement in the form of a bale wrapping arrangement. A wrapping table is mounted to a guide arrangement for guided movement between a bale-receiving position and bale wrapping and bale discharge positions. Th... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000372 | Method and system to control weeds A weed control system for a body of water which includes a weed contacting member suspendable within the body of water proximate a bed of weeds and a drive member for automatically moving the weed contacting member repeatedly over the bed of weeds such that the weed... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000373 | Introducing/removing device of the end in an open-end spinning rotor Introducing/removing device of the end of the thread for an automatic service trolley for spinning units of open-end spinning machines comprising a moving structure, capable of taking a gripping member into various working positions and equipped with a gripping memb... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000374 | Tire for a vehicle wheel including at least one breaker layer A vehicle wheel tire includes a carcass, a tread, a pair of side walls ending with beads for mounting the tire on a rim, a belt structure, and at least one breaker layer. The belt structure includes first, second, and third belts strips. The first and second belt st... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000375 | Polyester false-twist yarn and method of manufacturing the yarn A polyester false-twist textured yarn, useful as a yarn for woven or knitted fabrics having excellent water-absorbing and quick drying properties, satisfies all of the requirements (1) to (3) shown below: (1) the cross-sectional pr... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000376 | Gas turbine control system A control system for a gas turbine, wherein a number of regulators generate respective control signals selectable to regulate fuel supply to a combustion chamber of the gas turbine. The regulators include at least one speed/load regulator, wherein a first and a seco... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000377 | Super-staged and continuously staged rocket A super-staged rocket includes at least approximately 50 rocket engines, where the engines are distributed according to at least one of: at least five multi-engine stages connected in series, each stage including at least ten engines connected in parallel; and at le... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000378 | Gas turbine engine exhaust nozzle having a noise attenuation device driven by shape memory material actuators A gas turbine engine exhaust nozzle arrangement for the flow of exhaust gases therethrough between an upstream end and a downstream end thereof comprising a nozzle and a plurality of tabs which extend in a generally axial direction from a downstream portion of the n... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000379 | Fuel/air ratio feedback control with catalyst gain estimation for an internal combustion engine A system and method for controlling an internal combustion engine for low emissions include an inner feedback control loop to control the engine fuel/air ratio with feedback provided by a first exhaust gas sensor and an outer feedback control loop that modifies the ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000380 | Controller of cylinder injection type internal combustion engine The present invention is intended to provide a control system for an direct injection internal combustion engine capable of effectively reducing the amounts of both HC and NOx exhausted from a combustion chamber during a period from the start of the engine operation... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000381 | Device for exhaust gas after treatment of motor vehicles, in particular, diesel engine vehicles A device for exhaust gas after treatment of motor vehicles has a pump device for supplying a solution to the exhaust gas manifold. The pump device is a metering pump having a connecting part that opens into the exhaust gas manifold. The pump device has a piston and ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000382 | Partial oxidation of alcohols A method of partially oxidizing an alcohol to an aldehyde or ketone comprises contacting a gas containing the alcohol with a solid catalyst containing molybdenum, preferably in a +6 oxidation state, and having a surface area of 10 m2/g or higher, preferab... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000383 | Diesel aftertreatment systems A method and a system for improved reductant delivery to an exhaust gas aftertreatment device for a lean burn internal combustion engine exhaust are presented. The system includes a heated evaporator unit into which a mixture of reductant and air in injected, wherei... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000384 | Exhaust emission control device of engine An exhaust emission control device comprises a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of exhaust gas directly on the upper-stream side of a diesel particulate filter. An ECU adjusts a compulsive regeneration interval in accordance with a cumulative history... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000385 | Exhaust gas purification apparatus and method for internal combustion engine An exhaust passageway of an engine is provided with a NOx storage-reduction catalyst for trapping and storing NOx from an exhaust gas lean of a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio. When the storage of the NOx in the catalyst becomes large, the engine is operated at a rich... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000386 | Hydraulic intensification circuit with rotary flow devider and bypass valve A hydraulic drive circuit comprises a source of fluid flow, at least one hydraulic actuator and a rotary flow divider which operates in conjunction with valve means to provide intensified flow to the at least one hydraulic actuator. ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000387 | Hydraulic spool valve for use in a hydraulic vehicle drive A hydraulic spool valve is provided in which two inlet bores and an outlet bore lead into a housing. A spool-valve piston which is under the influence of compression springs on both sides can be displaced longitudinally in the housing. When a difference in pressure ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000388 | Hydraulic continuously variable transmission A hydraulic continuously variable transmission includes an axial plunger pump including a pump cylinder provided with pump plunger holes, and pump plungers fitted in the pump plunger holes. The transmission also includes an axial plunger motor including a motor cyli... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000389 | Engine for converting thermal energy to stored energy The engine for converting thermal energy to stored fluid energy includes expansion cylinders (61a–f) with expansion chambers (62a–f) and flexible membranes (63a–f). Heating and cooling of working fluid inside the cylin... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000390 | Stirling cycle engine or heat pump with improved heat exchanger A Stirling cycle machine heat exchanger and a method for making the heat exchanger including, forming an annular ring of a solid heat conductive mass, the annular ring having a central axis and having axially opposite faces. A plurality of passages are drilled throu... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000392 | Vane control An exemplary controller includes a control valve that includes an electric actuator operatively coupled to a valve stem, a piston operatively coupled to one or more hydraulic fluid paths controlled by the control valve and including a piston shaft, a rotatable shaft... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000393 | System and method for relieving engine back-pressure by selectively bypassing a stage of a two-stage turbocharger during non-use of EGR A valve (50) selectively shunts exhaust gas around a stage (20T) of a turbocharger turbine (20) under control of a control system that selectively renders an EGR system (38) active and inactive and that develops a value for a set-point of... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000394 | Rankine cycle device A Rankine cycle system is provided in which, with regard to a given relationship between the pressure (Pevp) and the temperature (Tevp) of a vapor that is taken into an expander (4) that includes a cylinder chamber in a first stage and a vane chamber in a sec... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000395 | Hybrid clean-energy power-supply framework A hybrid clean-energy power-supply framework integrates a fuel cell, solar cell, and wind energy, applies a max power tracking rule, raises the output power of a solar cell and wind energy to supply a power load and transfer the surplus electrical energy to a water-... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000396 | Concentric fixed dilution and variable bypass air injection for a combustor A combustor for a gas turbine includes a combustor body having an aperture and a casing enclosing the combustor body and defining a passageway therebetween for carrying compressor discharge air. There is at least one injection tube for supplying an amount of the com... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000397 | Combustion apparatus A wall element for use as part of an inner wall of a gas turbine engine combustor wall structure is of cast construction and includes a plurality of cooling apertures provided therethrough and formed during the casting process. The cooling apertures may be located i... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000398 | Ramjet engine combustion chamber and ramjet engine equipped with same The invention concerns a combustion chamber whereof the inner wall (17)is made at least partly of a thermostructural composite material, which is porous to the fuel passing through the double wall (14); and the porosity of said inner wall (17) i... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000399 | System for warming pressurized gas A plurality of vessels contains pressurized gas. Each vessel fluidly communicates with an adjacent vessel through a line. A heat exchanger is positioned in a heat conducting relationship with each line. The system includes an exhaust valve communicating with lower p... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000400 | Temperature variance reduction using variable penetration dilution jets A variable penetration dilution jet array for a single can and scroll assembly includes a plurality of differentially sized dilution openings around the circumference of the combustor can. The alternating smaller and larger openings provide for circumferential and r... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000401 | Method for operating a steam power plant and steam power plant for carrying out said method The invention relates to a method for operating a steam power plant comprising a steam generator and a combustion chamber associated therewith, wherein pre-warmed combustion air is guided therein in addition to a fossil fuel. According to the invention, said plant c... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000402 | Compound gas turbine engines and methods of operation thereof The engine (10) has a compressor (12) for compressing air, a plurality of combustion chambers (22a–f) in which fuel mixed with the compressed air combusts, and a turbine (16) which is driven by the products of combustion. Each co... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000403 | Primary fuel nozzle having dual fuel capability A fuel nozzle and gas turbine combustor capable of operating on multiple fuels with reduced carbon build-up to the fuel nozzle and adjacent combustor components is disclosed. The fuel nozzle incorporates a reconfigured gas fuel assembly and mixing tube to eliminate ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000404 | Heat exchanger on a turbine cooling circuit The invention relates to a method of supplying cooling air to the hot portions of a turbojet that comprises, from upstream to downstream: a compressor; a diffuser; a combustion chamber; a distributor; and a turbine driving said compressor, in which method a flow of ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000405 | Gas turbine apparatus and a starting method thereof A gas turbine starting method, comprising the steps of rotatively driving a turbine by a motor coupled to the turbine, while at the same time supplying a compressed air to a combustor by an air compressor operating in interlocking motion with the turbine, starting a... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000406 | Gas turbine combustor sliding joint An assembly for a gas turbine engine, the assembly comprising a combustor and a vane assembly downstream from the combustor. The vane assembly includes at least one airfoil radially extending between an inner and outer platform defining an annular gas path therebetw... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000407 | Methods and apparatus for controlling refrigerators A refrigerator including a refrigerator compartment, a refrigerator door coupled to the refrigerator compartment, the refrigerator door has an inner surface. The refrigerator further includes a bin for storing items therein mounted to the inner surface of the refrig... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000408 | Superconducting magnet apparatus and maintenance method of refrigerator for the same A superconducting magnet apparatus includes superconducting coils in a vacuum vessel. The vacuum vessel is provided with a refrigerator for cooling the superconducting coils. The refrigerator includes a motor drive, displacers, and a cooling cylinder accommodating t... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000409 | Use of flow through capacitor in the recovery and purification of water from exhaust gases of internal combustion engines A process for recovering potable water from the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. In this process the exhaust gases are cooled causing water to condense out, and the water formed is passed through particulate filters, activated carbon filt... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000410 | Apparatus and method for producing water from air An apparatus and method are extracting water from the ambient air comprising drawing air through an particle ionizer grid, evaporator plates of a refrigerant system the system and recirculating the ionized air and mixing said ionized air with ambient air and recycli... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000411 | Apparatus for controlling outdoor unit's louver blades and its method An apparatus and method for controlling louver blades of a compressor/condenser unit are provided which can improve efficiency of the compressor/condenser unit based on a position of the louver blades and peripheral conditions. The apparatus includes louver blades w... | 02/21/2006 |
