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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/738,975, filed Dec. 18, 2000, abandoned.
This application claims the priority of German Patent Application No. 199 60 626.9 filed Dec. 16, 1999, which is incorporated herein by reference.
... | A piston-type internal-combustion engine having at least one gas intake port ( 4 ) per cylinder, with the port discharging into the cylinder via at least one throughgoing opening ( 3 ). The port is subdivided, over at least a portion of its length, into at least two partial ports ( 4.1, 4.2 ) by at least one partitioni... | 5 |
BACKGROUND
Cube corner reflectors are well-known optical elements that are used in a variety of optical systems. A cube corner reflector 100 as illustrated in FIG. 1 has three planar reflective surfaces 110 , 120 , and 130 that intersect at right angles in the same manner as the intersection of faces at the... | A cube corner reflector is oriented so that incident and reflected beams either entirely miss the edges at the intersections of reflective surfaces or so that the beams have only peripheral portions incident on the edges. A symmetry plane of the cube corner reflector is midway between the incident and reflected beams o... | 6 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Conventionally, to utilize a field-effect liquid crystal display device where the liquid crystals are in the twisted nematic mode, nematic liquid crystals of high positive dielectric anisotropy are utilized. The interior surfaces of the plates constituting the cell which holds the liqu... | A liquid crystal display device utilizes birefringent liquid crystals in a twisted mode in combination with a pair of polarizing plates the system being so mounted that the ordinary beam provides the display. The absorption of short-wavelength light is less for the ordinary beam than for the extraordinary beam, resulti... | 6 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/381,405, entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURE PRINTING OF TONER-BASED IMAGES, filed May 16, 2002.
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention relates to systems and... | A system and method for printing documents that are difficult to forge and that are easy to visually verify are disclosed. The system includes a colorant for printing an image on a surface of a document and a dye for forming a latent version of the image underneath the surface and a substrate that includes a migration ... | 6 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention is an air intake system for use within residential buildings in conjunction with the existing air duct system.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Today residential homes are equipped with heating, ventilation and air conditioning uni... | For use in residential buildings, a device to draw in outside air and have it mix with the air inside the building to improve indoor air-quality through dilution and building pressurization. Pressurizing a building even slightly inhibits air infiltration of pollutants such as pollen, mold spores, and seasonal allergens... | 5 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATIONS
[0001] This patent application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/777,256, entitled, “Spectrally matched devices and coatings,” and filed on Feb. 27, 2006. The entire disclosure of the above-noted patent application is incorporated by ... | A decoy with a surface reflection which closely matches the spectral reflectance of the animal or object that it is designed to mimic, including both human-visible and ultraviolet wavelengths, with the intent of making the decoy appear more realistic to animals who can see in both the human-visible and ultraviolet spec... | 0 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to improvements in apparatus for severing running webs of paper, imitation cork or the like. More particularly, the invention relates to improvements in apparatus which can be utilized, for example, in filter tipping machines to subdivide webs of cigarette... | A running web of tipping paper in a filter tipping machine is attracted to the peripheral surface of a rotary suction conveyor constituting a counterknife for a set of equidistant knives which are radially movably mounted in axially parallel grooves of a rotary knife carrier. Each knife is adjustable radially of the ca... | 0 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of Invention
[0002] This invention relates to valves and, in particular, the field of pneumatic valves.
[0003] 2. Description of Related Art
[0004] It is well known in the field of valves to provide valve control signa... | A pneumatically actuated fluid control valve includes a piston and a piston actuator including a permanent magnet. First and second piston actuator positions for magnetically disposing the piston in valve open and valve closed positions are provided. A pneumatic actuator driving circuit pneumatically moves the piston a... | 5 |
BACKGROUND
[0001] Radio Frequency (RF) signals and components are employed in a variety of devices, including mobile communication devices such as mobile telephones. One type of commonly employed RF component is an RF attenuator, which is sometimes employed to control an RF signal level in a device that empl... | An attenuator includes one or more series attenuation branches including one or more series field effect transistors (FETs) each having a gate; one or more shunt attenuation branches including one or more shunt FETs each having a gate; and a bias control FET. The bias control FET receives at its gate a first bias contr... | 7 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
While building construction, as an art, has been well developed through the literature and in practice, specialized constructions continue to be developed. In the present invention, standard building construction techniques are blended with modern entertainment technologies to produce ... | The art of building construction, and more particularly with the design and implementation of a specialized room addition to a typical single family residence wherein the addition contains not only the room construction, but also a suite of entertainment systems integrally constructed therein. The primary system includ... | 4 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application is a continuation-in-part application that claims the benefit of U.S. patent Ser. No. 14/058,323 filed on Oct. 21, 2013, entitled “Dual Compartment Walk-in Bathtub,” which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/719,120 filed on... | A bathtub is provided of the walk-in type, wherein the bathtub includes an at least one internal dam element that allows a user to segment the bathtub into a two or more compartments and operably utilize the bathtub as a sit-down tub or as a standing shower. An entry door provides access into the bathtub without requir... | 0 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to earthworking apparatus and in particular to cutting bits for installation on the blade portions of such apparatus.
2. Description of the Prior Art
As disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 2,831,275 of Woodrow P. Kinsey et al, o... | A reversible bit for selective mounting to an earth-moving blade, such as a bulldozer blade, having opposite corner portions. The bit includes transversely extending cutting edge portions and a mounting portion adapted to be selectively mounted to opposite corners of the blade with one or the other of the cutting edge ... | 4 |
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 396,380, filed Aug. 18, 1989, which is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 162,046, filed Feb. 29, 1988, now both abandoned.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to BF 3 -etherate complexes useful for polymerization of 1-olefin ... | Disclosed herein are boron trifluoride etherate complexes in which the ether of the complex has at least one tertiary carbon bonded to an ether oxygen. The etherates are useful for polymerizing a one-olefin or mixtures thereof, preferably comprising isobutylene, whereby the resulting polymer contains a high percentage ... | 2 |
This application is a national phase of International Application No. PCT/CH2013/000054 filed Mar. 27, 2013 and published in the English language, which claims priority to Application No. GB 1205693.3 filed Mar. 30, 2012 and application No. GB 1209118.7 filed May 22, 2012.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present... | A method of and a system for generating an acoustic wave representing reverberations from a desired acoustic environment are described including having a recording surface ( 11 ) defined by a spatial distribution of recording transducers (o) and an emitting surface defined by a spatial distribution of emitting transduc... | 6 |
The present invention is directed to thermal printing and, more particularly, directed to a heat-sensitive transfer media to facilitate such printing.
Printing through the use of heat, rather than mechanical impact, has a number of advantages. Thermal printing, for example, eliminates the need for messy inks, or ... | A process is provided for the manufacture of heat-sensitive, heat-transferred media which includes a solid wax binder pigment and additives. The process provides for the mixing of molten wax binder with a mixture of pigment and water to transfer the pigment from the water into the molten wax binder as particulates. The... | 2 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to the fabrication of microminiature devices and, more particularly, to an apparatus and a method in which fine-line patterns for integrated circuits are precisely delineated by dry etching processes.
Considerable interest exists in employing dry processing... | In a plasma-assisted etching apparatus and method designed to pattern aluminum or polysilicon, surfaces in the reaction chamber are coated with a layer of aluminum oxide. Contamination of wafers during the etching process is thereby substantially reduced. In practice, this leads to a significant increase in the yield o... | 8 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention is a storage system for organizing containers and lids of varying sizes, depths and shapes through the use of compartments. The compartments are configured in a variety of practical dimensions such as square, circular and flat. Retractable legs and sliding ... | A storage system for organizing containers and lids of varying sizes, depths and shapes through the use of compartments. The compartments are configured in a variety of practical dimensions such as square, circular and rectangular. Retractable legs and sliding tracks offer additional storage capability and adaptability... | 0 |
RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The present application is a Division of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/549,478, filed Oct. 13, 2006, which application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/726,887, filed Oct. 14, 2005, which applications are incorporated herein in their entirety by reference.... | A device for material processing by laser radiation, including a source of laser radiation emitting pulsed laser radiation for interaction with the material, optics focusing the pulsed processing laser radiation to a center of interaction in the material, and a scanning unit shifting the positions of the center of inte... | 1 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a division of copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/140,862, filed Jun. 17, 2008, titled “Cardiomechanical Assessment for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.”
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The present disclo... | A first lead provides therapeutic stimulation to the heart and includes a first mechanical sensor that measures physical contraction and relaxation of the heart. A controller induces delivery of therapeutic stimulation via the first lead. The controller receives signals from the first mechanical sensor indicative of th... | 0 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A typical top loading automatic clothes washing machine operation will generally consist of the following cycles, when operating in the normal wash function:
1. Fill with Water
2. Wash and Agitate
3. Drain the Water
4. Spin and Drain
5. Fill with Water
... | The disclosure is of washing machine apparatus including a ring, within the clothes basket, and imbalance indicators coupled thereto and adapted to provide a visual indication to an operator when an imbalance occurs and provides problems in the spin cycles. The indicators show the operator where the imbalance is locate... | 3 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a ball bearing cage, to a ball bearing comprising such a cage, and to a process for assembling such a bearing.
2. Description of the Related Art
In the domain of ball bearings, so-called “rigid” bearings are known, co... | A ball bearing which includes a cage which defines recesses for receiving balls in a single row. The cage is in the form of a ring obtained by casting or machining and is intended to be interposed between an inner ring and an outer ring of the bearing. The cage includes recesses of a first group each having an opening ... | 5 |
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention is an improved device for transporting loads between various elevations and in particular to transporting handicapped persons in wheelchairs. Specifically, it relates to an improved device that serves a dual mission, first as a regular stairway facility for am... | The invention is an improved device for transporting loads between various elevations. Such loads may be handicapped persons in wheelchairs, wheeled truck loads of freight or materials, wheeled people carriers, or other similar loads that require transport from one elevation to another, either ascending or descending. ... | 4 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims priority of European application No. 03013173.4 filed Jun. 11, 2003 and which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
FIELD OF INVENTION
The invention relates to a method for alternately operating a terminal at at least two communi... | For alternate operation of a terminal (EG 1 ) at at least two communication nodes (GK 1 , GK 2 ), the terminal (EG 1 ) is first registered with a first of the communication nodes (GK 1 ). In this case, registration is followed by there being a logical connection between the terminal (EG 1 ) and the first communication ... | 7 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention pertains to loudspeaker enclosures. More particularly, it pertains to loudspeaker enclosures having enhanced freedom from resonance over a large range of frequencies generally in the bass frequency range.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Review of the Prior Art
L... | A loudspeaker enclosure comprises a housing defining therein a principal volume having a front wall and a substantially smaller minor volume. The minor volume has a rear wall common to the front wall of the principal volume. The common wall defines a port which communicates the minor volume to the principal volume. A s... | 7 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The field of the invention is subterranean tools that can drop multiple objects in a desired sequence from a location near the intended object landing location or locations.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Devices that drop balls and darts are used in a var... | A subterranean tool can drop multiple objects to landing locations in a tubular string. The tool can keep at least one ball out of the fluid stream until ready for release. A dart or wiper plug can be kept in the fluid stream with an open bypass until axial mandrel movement allows release of the plug or dart. The tool ... | 4 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from the prior Japanese Patent Application Nos. 2009-276930 filed on Dec. 4, 2009, 2009-276931 filed on Dec. 4, 2009, 2009-276932 filed on Dec. 4, 2009, 2009-276933 filed on Dec. 4, 2009, 2009-2769... | The present invention relates to a method for producing D- or L-tert-leucine or D- or L-tert-leucine amide by reacting DL-tert-leucine amide with a biocatalyst selected from the group consisting of an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing the DL-tert-leucine amide stereoselectively, cells of a microorganism having the enzyme, ... | 2 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation-in-part of our application, application Ser. No. 09/255,300, filed Feb. 22, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,162,949, which in turn is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/357,910 filed Dec. 16, 1994, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,889,186 all ... | Improved processes for preparation of sertraline or sertraline analogs in high enantiomeric purity centers on resolution using simulated moving bed chromatography of isomeric racemic sertraline or sertraline analogs. Resolution is effected with high enantiomeric purity, and the undesired enantiomer may be racemized and... | 2 |
BACKGROUND
One of the major problems in hypodermic syringe construction is the needle hub which forms a connecting unit between a hypodermic syringe barrel and a puncturing cannula. Numerous types of hub designs have been proposed to provide reliable and very firm connection between the cannula and the needle hub... | A hypodermic needle having a hub of polycarbonate which is extremely adherent to an epoxy for securing a cannula to the hub. A syringe barrel adapter of a material softer than polycarbonate; i.e., polypropylene, is wedge fitted to the hub and compressively cold flows slightly during storage to prevent long term crazing... | 0 |
RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a divisional of and claims the benefit of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/904,071, titled “HARVESTING VIBRATION FOR DOWNHOLE POWER GENERATION,” filed Oct. 21, 2004, the contents of which are herein incorporated by reference.
BACKGROUND
[00... | A system that is usable with a subterranean well includes a winding, a member and a circuit. The winding is located downhole in the well, and the member moves relative to the winding in response to vibration occurring in the well to cause a signal to be generated on the winding. The circuit is coupled to the winding to... | 4 |
RELATED APPLICATION
This patent application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/023,775 titled "Method For Cleaning Hydrocarbon-containing Greases And Oils From Fabric in Laundry Washing Applications" filed Feb. 13, 1998 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,080,713 which is a continuation-in-p... | This invention is directed to an improved method for removing hydrocarbon-containing greases and oils from fabrics. The invention consists of preparing a detergent composition and washing the fabric to be cleaned with the detergent composition. Broadly, the detergent composition consists of from about 10-50% by weight ... | 2 |
RELATIONSHIP TO PRIOR APPLICATION
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 714,696 filed Aug. 16, 1976, now abandoned, which in turn was a division of application Ser. No. 596,571 filed July 16, 1975, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,978,216, which in turn was a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 475,856, file... | A method for treating schizophrenia and a method and composition for potentiating the beneficial effects and reducing the side effects of neuroleptic drugs. Schizophrenia is treated with a GABA-like compound such as Lioresal. Neuroleptic drugs are potentiated by coadministering to a schizophrenic a neuroleptic drug and... | 0 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims the benefit under Title 35 U.S.C. §119(e) of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/884,269, entitled PASSIVE HEATER, filed on Jan. 10, 2007, the entire disclosure of which is expressly incorporated by reference herein.
BACKG... | A passive heater including a carriage actuatable to move along a cooking surface and a cover. In one exemplary embodiment, the carriage may be positioned on a guide bar to direct movement of the carriage along the cooking surface. The cover may be connected to the carriage and positionable near the cooking surface. Adv... | 0 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The invention concerns a cooling device for arrangement between two gradient coil windings of a gradient coil for dissipation of the heat (arising upon current being fed to the gradient coil windings) by means of a coolant flowi... | In a cooling device for arrangement between two gradient coil windings of a gradient coil for dissipation of the heat (arising upon feeding current to the gradient coil windings) by means of a coolant flowing through one or more coolant channels in the cooling device, two films made of thermoplastic material are connec... | 5 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/372,187, filed Dec. 7, 2016, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/187,456, filed Jun. 20, 2016, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/865,325, filed ... | A replacement light tube for replacing a fluorescent light tube includes a bulb portion extending between a first end and a second end, the bulb portion comprising a support structure, a plurality of white light emitting diodes (LEDs) and an elongate light-transmissive cover. The support structure has a first surface e... | 5 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a continuation application of U.S. application Ser. No. 13/064,987, filed Apr. 29, 2011, which was a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 12/801,952, filed Jul. 2, 2010, which was a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 12/659,980, ... | A drum type washing machine, including a housing, a spin tub to hold laundry to be washed, the spin tub rotating with respect to a horizontal axis of the washing machine, and a ball balancer coupled to the spin tub to compensate for a dynamic imbalance during rotation thereof, the ball balancer including a first plasti... | 3 |
RELATED FILINGS
[0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/698,960, filed Feb. 2, 2010, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/024,058, filed Jan. 31, 2008, which is a continuation of U.S. Pat. No. 7,337,650, Issued Mar. 4, 2008 Titled—SYSTEM AND ... | A vehicle sensor system consisting of video, radar, ultrasonic or laser sensors, oriented to obtain a 360 degree view around the vehicle for the purpose of developing a situation or scene awareness. The sensors may or may not have overlapping field of views, or support the same applications, but data will be shared by ... | 1 |
DEDICATORY CLAUSE
The invention described herein may be manufactured, used, and licensed by or for the Government for governmental purposes without the payment to us of any royalties thereon.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A basic problem of in-tube burning rockets is the temperature sensitivit... | A rocket motor that has a main exhaust nozzle area and a secondary exhaustozzle area with the secondary exhaust nozzle area being closed by burst discs that rupture and open secondary nozzle areas when predetermined temperatures and pressures are reached when propellant is burned inside the rocket motor. | 5 |
[0001] This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/081,005 entitled, “TECHNIQUE AND APPARATUS FOR COMPLETING MULTIPLE ZONES,” filed on Mar. 15, 2005 which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/905,073 entitled, “SYSTEM FOR COMPLETING MUTLIPLE WELL INTERVALS,” f... | An apparatus that is usable with a well includes a string and a plurality of tools that are mounted in the string. The string includes a passageway. The tools are mounted in the string and are adapted to be placed in a state to catch objects (free-falling objects and/or pumped-down objects, as just a few examples) of s... | 4 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a United States National Phase Application of International Application PCT/EP2015/077877, filed Nov. 27, 2015, and claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 of German Application 10 2014 225 707.7, filed Dec. 12, 2014, the entire c... | A longitudinal adjuster ( 3 ) for a vehicle seat ( 1 ) includes at least one rail pair ( 7 ), including a lower rail ( 9 ) and an upper rail ( 11 ), which can be moved longitudinally in relation to the lower rail ( 9 ). At least one locking unit ( 13 ) locks the upper rail ( 11 ). At least one actuating element ( 5 ) r... | 1 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a reverse power flow detector and more particularly to a solid state reverse power flow detector and control circuit.
Present day reverse power flow detectors make use of relay type devices, which, in general lack sensitivity and do not provide desired m... | A solid state, reverse power flow detector and control circuit which samples the line voltage and current, once each cycle. The voltage sampling circuit includes a pulse generator providing a voltage pulse of short duration at a given time or phase angle in each cycle. The voltage signals are applied to an SCR through ... | 7 |
BACKGROUND
[0001] 1. Technical Field The present disclosure relates to containers for plants, and in particular, retaining members for informational tags on planting pots.
[0002] 2. Description of Related Art
[0003] Planting pots are often provided with apertures, such as, for examp... | Methods and apparatus for retaining an informational tag to a container are provided. In some embodiments of the disclosure, a container is provided with a retaining member on a rim thereof. The retaining member can have in inlet opening, with an inlet channel having inwardly tapering walls that terminate at an outlet ... | 5 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a roller and cage assembly, and more particularly, to a roller and cage assembly having a favorable lubrication property and which is suitable for high-speed rotation.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Roller an... | Firstly, a roller and cage assembly is disclosed that achieves improved lubricating property while maintaining or increasing rigidity. While concave portions are formed so as to extend the width of the central portion of pockets to allow these to act as oil grooves, on the other hand, padding equivalent to lightening h... | 5 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/395,191 filed Mar. 25, 2003, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/236,991 filed Sep. 5, 2002, which is a continuation of the U.S. National Stage of International Application ... | A method for producing a beta-glucan from a non-pathogenic saprophytic filamentous fuingus or composition that contains it. Also, methods for providing this beta-glucan in a food product to improve structure, texture, stability or combinations thereof, in a food product to provide nutrition or in the manufacture of a m... | 2 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims the priority benefit of U.S. Provisional Applications No. 60/869,163 titled HIGH PERFORMANCE DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING WITH A FLAT-PANEL DETECTOR: IMAGING PHYSICAL FROM BLACKBOARD TO BENCHTOP TO BEDSIDE filed Dec. 8, 2006 in the names of VanMetter et al. a... | Methods are provided for cardiac gating of multiple-energy projection radiographic imaging utilizing an apparatus that measures the patient's peripheral blood perfusion. The choice of methods is dependant on the patient's heart rate and the delays inherent in the imaging system. A first method allows for imagin... | 0 |
REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is related to Ser. No. 08/172,184, filed Dec. 23, 1993, now abandoned.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a moving ornament. More specifically, it relates to a rotating ornament suitable for mou... | A spinning ornamental incandescent bulb cover has a shade portion and a spinning turbine vane portion formed from a single flat sheet of flexible material. Convective air currents, generated by the heat of the bulb, are passed over the turbine vanes to rotate the entire shade. No internal or external support frame stru... | 5 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to tunnel and like wall cleaning apparatus, and more particularly to readily portable wall cleaning apparatus for cleaning those portions of a tunnel wall or the like located behind railing means placed along the walkway typically ... | Cleaning apparatus usable to clean those portions of a tunnel wall or the like which are located behind railing means typically placed along a walkway beside the wall, such as in a freeway tunnel. A guidance carriage engages the railing and is movable therealong. A support carriage, which can be moved along the walkway... | 4 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to clamps. More particularly, the invention relates to bar clamps. Still more particularly, the invention relates to a coupling configured to connect a pair of bar clamps... | A method and an apparatus for use in coupling a pair of bar clamps. In one aspect, a coupling member for connecting a first clamp to a second clamp is provided. The coupling member includes a first member and a second member having an end pivotally attached to the first member. The coupling member further includes a co... | 8 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to photography, and more particularly to an apparatus for assisting a camera in photographing cylindrical objects.
2. DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
It is sometimes required to photograph a curved surface... | A photograph assistance device for assisting a stationary camera in photographing a curved surface of cylindrical objects, such as a finger print wrapped around a bullet casing or soda can. The cylindrical object is moved at a constant speed into a photograph area of the camera while rotated at a constant rotating spee... | 6 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This relates in general to security ventilating systems, more particularly as such systems are applied to residential and business premises having laterally rolling or sliding doors and/or windows.
In the present-day state of society, breaking and entering into residential and bu... | A security ventilating system for an arrangement of coordinated sliding doors comprising one or more lift-out metal grills each constructed to fit between one partially opened door or window and the door or window frame at each of several different openings. For a typical arrangement in which a left-hand door opens by ... | 4 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to radiation-curable compositions which are useful as laminating adhesives. More specifically, the present invention relates to a radiation-curable composition which is based on epoxy compounds and hydroxy-terminated polyurethanes and which exhibits excellent g... | A radiation-curable composition containing an epoxy compound, a hydroxy-terminated polyurethane, and a photoinitiator. The curable composition exhibits a high green strength and excellent overall bonding capability and is particularly useful in laminating adhesive applications. | 8 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 200710166419.4, filed Oct. 31, 2007, entitled “Method for Implementing Synchronization of Link State Database, Router, Line Card and Master Board,” the content of which is hereby incorporated by reference in... | A router is provided including a line card (LC), an active master board (AMB), a standby master board (SMB) and a LC for implementing a simple synchronization of a link state database (LSDB). | 7 |
RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application claims the priority benefit of U.S. application Ser. No. 13/113,574 filed on May 23, 2011, which claims the priority benefit of provisional application Ser. No. 61/347,391 filed on May 22, 2010. The disclosures of the foregoing U.S. patent applications are specific... | This invention relates to switching power saving modes and rescheduling communication frames for various periods of a beacon interval (BI) defined under WGA Draft Specification 0.8 for the personal basic service set (PBSS) and infrastructure BSS to achieve further power savings and other advantages. Stations can be awa... | 8 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims priority and benefits of U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/932,465 filed 28 Jan. 2014 and priority and benefits of U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/941,686 filed 19 Feb. 2014. U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/932,465 and U.S. Provisi... | In various aspects, the processes disclosed herein may include the steps of inducing an electric field about a non-conductive substrate, and depositing functionalized nanoparticles upon the non conductive substrate by contacting a nanoparticle dispersion with the non-conductive substrate, the nanoparticle dispersion co... | 2 |
This is a continuation of application(s) Ser. No. 08/729,120 filed on Oct. 11, 1996 now abandoned.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention is directed generally to safety devices and, more particularly, to a movable barrier for protecting an enclosed work area.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
... | A rolling barrier including a curtain formed of fabric or other material that rolls onto and off of a tube preferably disposed above a doorway or opening to, respectively, block and unblock the opening, the edges of the curtain are received within guideways disposed laterally of the curtain, and which guide the curtain... | 4 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to novel anticancer agents, their stereoisomers, their polymorphs, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and their pharmaceutically acceptable solvates. The present invention more particularly relates to novel derivatives of Andrographolide, their stereoisom... | The present invention relates to novel derivatives of Andrographolide, their stereoisomers, their polymorphs, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and their pharmaceutically acceptable solvates. The novel derivatives of Andrographolide have the general formula (I)
The andrographolid... | 2 |
RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent application No. 61/377,851 which was filed on Aug. 27, 2010.
BACKGROUND
This section provides background information to facilitate a better understanding of the various aspects of the invention. It should be ... | A subsea well safing method and apparatus adapted to secure a subsea well in the event of a perceived blowout in a manner to mitigate the environmental damage and the physical damage to the subsea wellhead equipment to promote the ability to reconnect and recover control of the well. The safing assembly is adapted to c... | 4 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application claims priority in U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/289,544, filed Feb. 1, 2016, which is incorporated herein by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] 1. Field of the Invention
[0003] The... | A functional ornamentation manufactured from a stamped metal plate which is twisted by a specified number of degrees to result in a shape that allows for unique reactions to flowing fluids such as air and water. Due to the shape and twist of the device, the device will spin along with the flowing fluid or when pulled t... | 0 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The present application is a National Stage entry from PCT Patent Application No. PCT/GB2008/001256, filed Apr. 10, 2008, which claims priority to United Kingdom Patent Application No. GB0706909.9, filed on Apr. 10, 2007, the contents of each one incorporated he... | A downhole apparatus is described comprising a main body coupled with a well tubing and a swellable mantle disposed on the main body. The swellable mantle expands upon contact with at least one predetermined fluid, and the main body comprises at least one opening for fluid flow between an exterior of the main body and ... | 4 |
PRIORITY
[0001] This application claims priority from application Ser. Nos. 10/195,924, 10/195,945 and 10/197,050, all of which claim priority from both the provisional application entitled “Tape Measure that Incorporates a Marking Device” filed by Dane Scarborough on Dec. 18, 2001, with Ser. No. 60/342,14... | A tape measure that incorporates a marking device for allowing an individual to measure and mark a wide variety of materials in a more efficient and economical manner, and for measuring and marking the beginning point of reference and the measured position point simultaneously. The tape measure has a housing, a coiled ... | 6 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to gain control circuits and is more particularly directed to a gain control circuit of the voltage-control type, wherein the gain thereof varies as an exponential function of a control voltage applied thereto.
2. Description... | A gain control circuit particularly suitable for compressing or expanding the dynamic range of an audio signal, and thereby reducing noise produced during recording and playback comprises an input circuit receiving an input signal, first and second differential amplifiers each supplied from the input circuit with a sig... | 7 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention pertains generally to solar panels and assemblies therefor, and more particularly to a solar heat collector panel and assembly coming under the general classification of solar heaters, and classified in a more particular sense as a solar he... | A solar panel has a series of channels through which water or other fluids may flow for exposure to and heating by solar radiation. Common to all the channels are inlet and outlet manifolds through which, respectively, the water is directed into and discharged from the channels. Construction of the panel is simplified ... | 8 |
The invention herein described may be manufactured and used by or for the Government for governmental purposes without payment to me of any royalty therefor.
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 158,977, filed Feb. 22, 1988, now abandoned, for HIGH-STRENGTH GRANULAR PARTICU... | The present invention teaches a technique and provides for apparatus eminently useful for producing closely sized, high-strength granular particulates from low-strength prills such as, for example, urea and ammoniu m nitrate which are nitrogen fertilizers, i.e., an essential plant nutrient. Advantages and benefits deri... | 2 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Self-watering flower pots, and the like, are well known in the art in relatively simply forms. U.S. Pat. No. 4,219,967 discloses a flower pot or plant holder equipped with a liquid storage reservoir in the base of said pot, which is connected by virtue of a relatively large wick throug... | An apparatus for the delivery of water, nutrients or other liquid materials to the growing medium of potted plants, including a refillable chamber for the storage of the liquid, and means for attachment of the chamber to the vessel in which the growing medium is maintained. The chamber is equipped with a rigidly suppor... | 0 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims priority of German application No. 102006047963.7 DE filed Oct. 10, 2006, which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
FIELD OF INVENTION
[0002] The invention relates to a method for operating a heari... | A “speech” operating mode is established by a signal processor of a hearing aid for tracking and selecting an acoustic speech source in an ambient sound. The electric acoustic signals are generated by the hearing aid from the ambient sound that has been picked up, from which signals an electric speech signal very proba... | 7 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/278,341 filed on Oct. 21, 2011, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/474,802 filed on May 29, 2009, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,088,130 issued on Jan. 3, 2012; which is a continuation-... | A method for coupling soft tissue to bone including: positioning a first anchor in a first bone bore, the first anchor having a first self-locking adjustable suture construct including a first adjustable loop, a second adjustable loop, and a pair of first ends; positioning a second anchor in a second bone bore, the sec... | 0 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to a transfer case for an all-wheel drive (AWD)/four-wheel drive (4WD) vehicle and, more particularly, to a transfer case for an AWD/4WD vehicle that employs a rear output shaft bushing that is cast with the transfer case hou... | A transfer case for AWD/4WD vehicle that employs a bushing positioned within a transfer case housing. The bushing is formed to the housing when the housing is cast. The bushing includes one or more axial notches formed in an outer surface of the bushing that fill with the housing metal during the casting process that p... | 5 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention is directed to a use billing system with an arrangement for identifying distances traveled by a moving object (e.g., a passenger automobile, motorcycle, truck, bus, ship, railroad train, aircraft, person, piece item) within a system of trav... | A use billing system with an arrangement for identifying distances traveled by a moving object within a system of traveled distances or for identifying fixed geographical zones entered by the object. In order to provide a billing arrangement which is universally applicable as far as possible and which requires little e... | 6 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method for processing a signal provided by a bidirectional sensor as well as to a device for the implementation of such a method.
The field of the present invention is more particularly the field of the management of... | A method and device for processing a signal (CRK) provided by a bidirectional sensor, the method includes the following steps:
generation of a first signal (CRK_CNT) utilizing all the slots of the signal provided by the sensor, generation of a second signal (CRK_FW) utilizing the slots corresponding to a first... | 5 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to devices and methods for pulling of metal fence posts or the like from the ground, and more particularly to a solution employing pivotal cam-shaped grippers that are actuated by application of an upward pulling force on the post puller by the liftin... | A post puller features a lifting member that is slidably disposed on a guide shaft and attachable to a lifting arrangement of a working machine. A pair of movable grippers are pivotally supported on the guide shaft at a fixed position therealong, and a pair of links are pivotally connected between the lifting member an... | 4 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to the art of medical systems, and more specifically to managing data communications between multiple independent subsystems forming a safety critical system.
2. Description of the Related Art
Today'... | A method and system of establishing communications between at least two independent software modules in a safety critical system, such as a medical system, is provided. The design comprises providing a media connection between software modules, wherein the software modules employ a communications protocol and participa... | 7 |
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/843,145 filed Sep. 8, 2006 and U.S. Provisional Patent Application. No. 60/764,842 filed Feb. 3, 2006, which are incorporated by reference as if fully set forth.
FIELD OF INVENTI... | A method and apparatus for dynamically configuring a memory for hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes in a receiving node to permit a more flexible H-ARQ memory configuration and improve the performance of H-ARQ processes. An H-ARQ memory in the receiving node is reserved for a plurality of H-ARQ processes.... | 7 |
This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/498,347 filed Jul. 5, 1995, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,562,775.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a plasma downstream processing apparatus and a plasma downstream processing method, and more particularly t... | A method for performing plasma downstream processing by generating plasma of an oxygen-containing gas with a microwave in a space having a thickness of 1/10, or less, of a wavelength λ of the microwave, deriving the generated plasma of the oxygen containing gas from such space through an opening formed around the centr... | 7 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to the control of a vehicle stopped on a hill, particularly to holding the vehicle against unintended rolling.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In micro hybrid vehicles where engine is shut down when the vehicl... | A method for controlling a vehicle on an uphill incline includes automatically shifting a transmission to first gear, automatically stopping the engine, using wheel torque to maintain a one-way clutch engaged and to hold a transmission component against rotation, preventing vehicle rollback by automatically engaging a ... | 8 |
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/961,523, filed Oct. 15, 1992, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,477,249.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
(1) Field of the Invention
This invention relates to an apparatus and method for forming images by jetting ink towards an image carrier.
... | An ink jet head for jetting ink onto an ink carrier and an ink jet recording apparatus for forming an ink image onto an ink carrier. The ink jet head has a first plate having a plurality of first portions, each first portion having a bottom hollowed from a first surface of the first plate; and a second plate, provided ... | 1 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally a safety device for elevators to prevent unintended elevator car movement.
For guiding the elevator car in the case of elevators with guide rails, guide shoes, which are arranged at the elevator car, are employed and such guide shoes are develo... | A safety device brakes an elevator car with a guide rail exhibiting an oblong guide flange. The safety device includes a base carrying a retaining element and an abutment with the guide flange positioned therebetween. A mechanism squeezes, when braking, a braking element blocking roller between the guide flange and the... | 1 |
BACKROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to a high-speed spindle unit for machine tools for machining workpieces.
[0003] 2. Discussion of Related Art
[0004] Modem high-speed spindles are driven with spe... | A high-speed spindle unit for milling and drilling machines. The spindle unit has a spindle housing on the front end portion of which a terminating ring detachably mounted and a rotationally driven tool spindle which is supported in at least a front roller bearing inside the spindle housing, a ring nut being attached t... | 5 |
This is a continuation of international application Ser. No. PCT/EP94/01352, filed Apr. 28, 1994.
This is a continuation of international application Ser. No. PCT/EP94/01352, filed Apr. 28, 1994.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a method for sealing natural or artificially hea... | The invention pertains to a process for sealing off ground sites in particular a waste dump, abandoned dumping grounds, pipelines or the like, or also excavated construction sites, using sealants, wherein a fully course-controlled boring technique is used to drive at least one bore underneath the ground site from the s... | 4 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention.
This invention relates to an adjustable weight exercise device used in weight lifting, body building or physical therapy and rehabilitation utilizing auxiliary weights.
2. Description of the Prior Art.
Heretofore attempts to add weight to ex... | A body building or therapy adjustable weight exercise device for use in strengthening hands, arms, chests and neck of a person using the same, wherein it is either a barbell or dumbbell including a central bar section to be gripped by a hand or hands with equal poundage weights at each end of the bar, and weights holdi... | 0 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Technical Field
The invention relates generally to polypropylene and materials or articles made from polypropylene.
2. Background of the Art
Polypropylene is used for a variety of different products or applications. These may include films, fibers or molded article... | A polypropylene material is provided having increased radiation resistance compared to solely isotactic polypropylene. The material is formed by utilizing a syndiotactic polypropylene. The isotactic polypropylene may be an isotactic metallocene or Ziegler-Natta catalyzed polypropylene and may include an amount of syndi... | 3 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention is related to the field of configuring cylindrical objects, and more specifically to forming an outwardly projecting bead on a spinning cylindrical object.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Cylindrical objects, such as containers and cans, are available in a variety of ... | A method and apparatus are disclosed for forming an outwardly projecting bead in the sidewall of a cylindrical object. The apparatus includes an inner forming member and an outer forming member having a leading forming surface, a trailing support surface, and a recess therebetween. The method includes forcing the sidew... | 1 |
This application is a continuation of co-pending Application No. 09/458,708, filed on Dec. 13, 1999, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference and for which priority is claimed under 35 U.S.C. §120; and this application claims priority of Application No. 1010798 filed in The Netherlands on Dec. ... | A printing apparatus including at least one ink duct provided with an electromechanical transducer, a driver circuit provided with a pulse generator and operatively associated with the transducer to energize the transducer, a measuring circuit operatively associated with the transducer for measuring an electrical signa... | 1 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/GB2004/001598 filed Apr. 13, 2004, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference, and which claimed priority to Great Britain Patent Application No. 0308912.5 filed Apr. 17... | A signal apparatus for a vehicle having at least one input at which signals are received from components associated with the vehicle. The received signals comprise an indication demand signal initiated by a driver of the vehicle and a lane detection signal produced by a lane detection apparatus indicative of the positi... | 1 |
FIELD OF INVENTION
[0001] This Invention relates to golf clubs and particularly to an improved golf club head that will enable the golfer to swing the golf club so that the club head has a greater velocity (as compared with the velocity of a generally similar conventional golf club). The present invention re... | A golf club includes a club head that has one or more air passages extending from its front face to its rear face, so that when the club is swung in a ball-striking action air in the path of the club head is transferred from a pressurized zone on the head front face through the air passages into a low pressure wake are... | 0 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention disclosed in this specification relates to a doping method using an ion doping apparatus which does not require mass separation of generated ions and a method of manufacturing a field effect transistor ... | A doping method comprising the steps of; obtaining a proportion X of ions of a compound including a donor or an acceptor impurity in total ions from mass spectrum by using a first source gas of a first concentration; analyzing a peak concentration Y of the compound in a first processing object which is doped by using a... | 7 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2007-0123375, filed on Nov. 30, 2007, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
BACKGROUND
[0002] 1. Fie... | An organic light emitting display and a driving method thereof capable of reducing power consumption. A driving transistor controls a current through an organic light emitting diode of the display. A voltage controller supplies a first voltage to the anode of the OLED of at least one specific pixel and controls the cat... | 6 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an adaptive echo canceller technique used in communications equipment. More particularly, the invention relates to a testing method and device which are preferable to make sure of a function of an echo canceller.
2.... | A communications system adaptive echo canceller integrally contains a test far-end talker signal generator, an echo signal generator for generating an echo signal with a simulated echo path, a residual echo detector for detecting a residual echo based on the output of a subtracter, and a switching unit for switching an... | 7 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Starches, and particularly potato starches, are often used commercially to prepare edible food products. Some of those products may, for example, include puddings, pie fillings, gravies, baby foods, salad dressings, and the like.
It is common when preparing such food products to ... | A method of preparing edible food product mixes that ordinarily require chemically cross-linked starch by preparing them from a major amount of Pontiac potato starch which has not been chemically cross-linked. | 0 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to offshore oil production apparatus and in particular to a connector for connecting a tieback conductor to a wellhead.
Offshore oil wells may be drilled from a floating platform and thereafter produced to a later constructed, fixed platform. Such a procedur... | A conductor tieback connector for connecting a conductor to a subsea wellhead includes a downwardly extending funnel. Two bearing rings within the funnel interact with the outside surface of the wellhead to generate bending forces to force the tool in alignment with the wellhead. Thereafter a separate lockdown nut secu... | 4 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims the priority of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2011-0049725 filed on May 25, 2011, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[000... | There is provided a method for providing information for diagnosing cancer using Real-Time RT-PCR, and a kit for diagnosing cancer for the method. | 2 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] This invention relates generally to the field of telecommunication data management. Specifically to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) networks and enabled devices. More specifically to secure communications over SIP networks and enabled devices.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTI... | In some embodiments, a call forking dynamic key exchange system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a memory comprising, (i) a dynamic key exchange program that allows a caller to initiate a call having a security request to multiple subscribers and selecting at least one subscriber who answers the c... | 7 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] The present U.S. patent application claims a priority under the Paris Convention of Japanese patent application No. 2006-24507 filed on Feb. 1, 2006, and shall be a basis of correction of an incorrect translation.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002... | Disclosed is an information processing device including a biometric authentication apparatus, including: an operation unit receiving an instruction from a user; a biometric reading unit reading biometric data; a verification data storage unit storing a plurality of pieces of verification data for verifying against the ... | 6 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 12/457,957, filed Jun. 26, 2009, which is an divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/175,281, filed Jul. 7, 2005 and claims priority to Finnish Patent Application No. 20045268 filed on Jul. 7, 20... | Feeder hopper for a movable mineral material processing device, whose walls are arranged to be turned upward to a working position, and which are locked into said working position. To lock the walls, there is at least one locking means in connection with them, said locking means containing at least a locking member and... | 1 |
This is a Division, of application Ser. No. 08/040,957 filed Mar. 31,1993, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,404,041.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention generally relates to semiconductor device design and more specifically to source contact placement for efficient ESD/EOS protection in grounded substrate MO... | An ESD/EOS protection circuit (100) for protecting an integrated circuit. A MOS transistor (102) is arranged in a multi-finger configuration having a plurality of drain regions (124), a plurality of source regions (122) and a plurality of gates (118). A first metal layer (162) substantially covers each of the drain reg... | 7 |
This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 to patent application no. DE 10 2010 028 751.2, filed May 7, 2010 in Germany, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
BACKGROUND
The present disclosure relates to a guide rail for a hand-held power tool.
Such a ... | A guide rail for a hand-held power tool includes at least two rail elements, which are to be joined together to form a common rail and which are held on one another by means of a releasable connecting device. The connecting device includes a joint device, by means of which the individual rails can be pivoted between a ... | 1 |
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 398,935 filed Aug. 16, 1973, and now abandoned.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a fuel control system for supercharged, fuel injected internal combustion engines, in particular diesel engine... | A fuel control system to provide an excess fuel quantity during engine acceleration and including manifold pressure actuated control units. The pressure increase in one control unit is delayed by throttling, resulting in net differential control forces tending to increase the fuel supplied to the injection nozzles of t... | 5 |
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] This invention relates generally to an electro-optical device and, more particularly, to a surface-emitting semiconductor laser.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Conventional vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELS) typically have two flat reson... | An active gain region sandwiched between a 100% reflective bottom Bragg mirror and an intermediate partially reflecting Bragg mirror is formed on a lower surface of a supporting substrate, to thereby provide the first (“active”) resonator cavity of a high power coupled cavity surface emitting laser device. The bottom m... | 7 |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for reproducing data from a signal read out from a recording medium or transferred by a communication means and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for reproducing data subjected to convol... | A data reproducing apparatus for reproducing data subjected to convolution by partial response, by using maximum likelihood, includes a memory including a plurality of memory arrays which respectively correspond to plural states that the data can take and each of which has a predetermined number of regions each corresp... | 7 |
This application claims benefit of provisional application Ser. No. 60/026,313, filed Sep. 18, 1996
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to the fields of molecular virology and immunology. More specifically, the present invention relat... | The present invention provides a composition of matter comprising a defective interfering virus particle, wherein said particle naturally occurs in a human infection and wherein said particles has a naturally occurring core antigen internal deletion. Provided is a pharmaceutical composition, comprising defective interf... | 0 |
PRIORITY INFORMATION
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/432,418 on Dec. 12, 2002.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The field of this invention relates to a method of cleaning a well bore with a tubular wiper and valve arrangement.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
During th... | Several well bore clean-out apparatus' are disclosed that provides a method of cleaning a well bore while the apparatus' are being deployed into a well forcing well bore fluid into a work string and for moving solids to the surface. A method of cleaning multiple diameters of well casings is also disclosed. A me... | 4 |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is the U.S. national phase of PCT Application No. PCT/CN2009/070699 filed Mar. 9, 2009, the disclosure of which is incorporated in its entirety by reference herein.
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a communication system, especial... | An apparatus and method for compensating for transmit power losses that are caused by the addition of a clipping or crest factor reduction module in the TX path of a communications system. The method includes applying a gain to a signal input into the crest factor reduction module, so that a power of a signal output fr... | 7 |
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