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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150258533 | COMPONENT FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS, METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF, AND USE THEREOF - The invention relates to a component for high-temperature applications, to a method for the production thereof and to a use thereof. In this respect, an electrical conductivity and a catalytic effect should be achievable with a simultaneous chemical and thermal resistance under different conditions and also at temperatures above 700° C. The component in accordance with the invention is formed from a body which is formed from Ce1-x-yLnxMeyO2. In this respect, Ln is a rare earth metal and Me is a transition metal, where x=0.01 to 0.25 and y=0.05 to 0.2. Particles having a mean particle size in the range from 5 nm to 500 nm, preferably in the range from 10 nm to 300 nm, and formed using transition metal, are present in a distributed arrangement on at least one surface. | 09-17-2015 |
20140370309 | HARD-MATERIAL-COATED BODIES COMPOSED OF METAL, CEMENTED HARD MATERIAL, CERMET OR CERAMIC AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING SUCH BODIES - Hard-material-coated bodies composed of metal, cemented hard material, cermet or ceramic, coated with a TiSiCN composite layer or with a multilayer layer system which contains at least one TiSiCN composite layer. The TiSiCN composite layer is a nanocomposite layer which has been produced by a thermal CVD process without additional plasma excitation and contains a nanocrystalline phase composed of TiC | 12-18-2014 |
20130321152 | SECURITY TAG FOR A CONTAINER SEAL AND CONTAINER SEAL INCLUDING A SECURITY TAG - A security tag for being mounted to a container seal includes a sensor element having a sensor volume which is filled at least partly with an indicator material, an indication area arranged at the sensor volume, and a manipulator element configured to cause, with an abrupt mechanical deformation at the container seal, when opening same, an irreversible, physical and/or chemical alteration of the indicator material which may be perceived visibly or in a tactile manner in the indication area. | 12-05-2013 |
20130241750 | SIGNAL PROCESSOR, WINDOW PROVIDER, ENCODED MEDIA SIGNAL, METHOD FOR PROCESSING A SIGNAL AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A WINDOW - A signal processor for providing a processed version of an input signal in dependence on the input signal includes a windower configured to window a portion of the input signal, or of a pre-processed version thereof, in dependence on a signal processing window described by signal processing window values for a plurality of window value index values, in order to obtain the processed version of the input signal. The signal processor also includes a window provider for providing the signal processing window values for a plurality of window value index values in dependence on one or more window shape parameters. | 09-19-2013 |
20130236192 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, EXTERNAL BASIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR COUPLING THE PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO AN EXTERNAL BASIC DEVICE AND USING THE EXTERNAL BASIC DEVICE FOR COUPLING THE PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A portable electronic device includes a functional processor for providing an electronic functionality, an optical data transmitter for conductor-less, optical data communication with an external basic device and an energy supplier for an energy absorption by means of an inductive coupling from a magnetic field emitted by the external basic device and for supplying the functional processor and the data transmitter with energy based on the energy absorbed from the external magnetic field. | 09-12-2013 |
20130220919 | Method for recovering phosphate salts from a liquid - The invention relates to a method for completely separating phosphate from a liquid and for recovering phosphate salts in a reactor, which is equipped with two groups of electrodes having differing polarities, wherein the sacrificial electrodes consist of a magnesium-containing material, and wherein said method comprises the following method steps: the application of a voltage to the electrodes; the continuous flow of the liquid through the reactor; the precipitation of phosphate salts from the liquid; and the settling of the crystals in the cone-shaped bottom of the reactor. For a galvanic procedure, no voltage is applied to the electrodes. | 08-29-2013 |
20130182329 | Plastic Substrate having a Porous Layer and Method for Producing the Porous Layer - A plastic substrate has a porous layer on a surface. The porous layer is formed at least partially from a material of the plastic substrate and has pores. The proportion by volume of pores is greater in a first region of the porous layer than in a second region of the porous layer. The second region follows the first region, as seen proceeding from the plastic substrate. The porous layer can be produced by a plasma process that simultaneously effects structuring of the plastic substrate by ion bombardment and coating of the plastic substrate. | 07-18-2013 |
20130164775 | MONITORING CELL AND METHOD OF ANALYZING CELL AND TISSUE GROWTH - The invention relates to a monitoring cell for analyzing a cell and tissue growth, in which a carrier object ( | 06-27-2013 |
20130128876 | CONCEPT FOR COMBINING CODED DATA PACKETS - Concept for transmitting payload data from a transmitter to a receiver via a communication channel within a time interval, wherein channel-coded data packets are generated from the payload data, wherein each of the channel-coded data packets has packet core data corresponding to a packet identification of the respective channel-coded data packet, and wherein the packet core data is coded with a channel code of higher redundancy than the payload data. The channel-coded data packets are sent without any return channel to the receiver, which decodes packet core data of a first received channel-coded data packet of the time interval. If error-free decoding of the first channel-coded data packet fails, packet core data of at least one second received channel-coded data packet of the time interval are decoded to determine a suitable further channel-coded data packet for combination with the first channel-coded data packet to acquire, on account of the combination, an increased code gain for decoding of the payload data. | 05-23-2013 |
20120325295 | Photoelectric device and a method for manufacturing a transparent electrode - An arrangement includes a transparent substrate, at least one transparent electrically conductive layer on the substrate. At least one photoelectric device for converting radiation energy into electrical energy can be arranged on the at least one transparent electrically conductive layer. The at least one transparent electrically conductive layer includes at least one first transparent electrically conductive layer and at least one second transparent electrically conductive layer. | 12-27-2012 |
20120230380 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING BEAMFORMING PARAMETERS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TO A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for determining a beamforming vector or a beamforming channel matrix in a communication system including a transmitting station and a receiving station, and a communication system are described. The transmitting and receiving stations include respective antenna groups and respective codebooks include a plurality of predefined beamforming vectors for the antenna group. | 09-13-2012 |
20110122907 | Edge Emitting Semiconductor Laser Having a Phase Structure - An edge emitting semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor body, which has a waveguide region. The waveguide region has an active layer for generating laser radiation. The active layer is arranged between a first waveguide layer and a second waveguide layer. The waveguide region is arranged between a first cladding layer and a second cladding layer. The semiconductor body has a main region and at least one phase structure region in which is formed a phase structure for the selection of lateral modes of the laser radiation emitted by the active layer. The phase structure region is arranged outside the waveguide region or formed by a region in which a dopant is introduced or an intermixing structure is produced. | 05-26-2011 |
20110082250 | Silane and Silicic Acid Polycondensates with Radicals Containing Branched-Chain Urethane, Acid Amide and/or Carboxylic Acid Ester Groups - The invention relates to silane of formula (Ia), wherein the radicals and indices have the following meaning: R is an alkylene, arylene or alkylenearylene group that can be interrupted by one or more oxygen or sulfur atoms or carboxyl or amino groups or can carry said atoms/groups on their ends opposite the silicon atom; R | 04-07-2011 |
20110050529 | ANTENNA DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING ELECTROMEGNETIC SIGNALS - An antenna device for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals. The antenna device includes a ground plane and a radiator arranged at an radiator distance above the ground plane. In addition, the antenna device includes a plurality of parasitic elements arranged, on the ground plane, around the radiator in a radially symmetric manner, the parasitic elements being electrically connected to the ground plane. | 03-03-2011 |
20110019833 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING FILTER COEFFICIENTS FOR ECHO SUPPRESSION - A preferred embodiment of an apparatus for computing filter coefficients for an adaptive filter for filtering a microphone signal so as to suppress an echo due to a loudspeaker signal includes an extractor for extracting a stationary component signal or a non-stationary component signal from the loudspeaker signal or from a signal derived from the loudspeaker signal, and a computer for computing the filter coefficients for the adaptive filter on the basis of the extracted stationary component signal or the extracted non-stationary component signal. | 01-27-2011 |
20100217556 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING, SECTION AFTER SECTION, A PARAMETER-DEPENDENT CORRECTION VALUE APPROXIMATION COURSE AND SENSOR ARRANGEMENT - An embodiment of a method for a determination, section after section, of a parameter-dependent correction value approximation course includes determining a first measurement signal value with a first parameter value associated with a sensor arrangement when the first parameter value fulfils a predetermined condition or a trigger condition is fulfilled, changing the first parameter value to obtain a second parameter value, determining a second signal value with the second parameter value and determining a second partial section of the correction value approximation course for a second parameter range based on a functional connection describing the second partial section, the first parameter value, the second parameter value, the first measurement signal value, the second measurement signal value and an initial correction value. | 08-26-2010 |
20100198586 | AUDIO TRANSFORM CODING USING PITCH CORRECTION - A processed representation of an audio signal having a sequence of frames is generated by sampling the audio signal within first and second frames of the sequence of frames, the second frame following the first frame, the sampling using information on a pitch contour of the first and second frames to derive a first sampled representation. The audio signal is sampled within the second and third frames, the third frame following the second frame in the sequence of frames. The sampling uses the information on the pitch contour of the second frame and information on a pitch contour of the third frame to derive a second sampled representation. A first scaling window is derived for the first sampled representation, and a second scaling window is derived for the second sampled representation, the scaling windows depending on the samplings applied to derive the first sampled representations or the second sampled representation. | 08-05-2010 |
20100040140 | VIDEO FRAME ENCODING AND DECODING - A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current block based on the attribute of which the assignment of a context model is conducted, and when the neighboring block lies beyond the borders or circumference of the current macroblock containing the current block, it is important to make the determination of the macroblock containing the neighboring block dependent upon as to whether the current macroblock pair region containing the current block is of a first or a second distribution type, i.e., frame or field coded. | 02-18-2010 |
20090139690 | HEAT SINK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A HEAT SINK - A heat sink includes a base body of an electrically insulating material and one or several metallic molded parts having a mounting portion and a heat-transfer portion, wherein the heat-transfer portion is mechanically connected to the base body. The heat sink can be inserted on a printed circuit board having several heat sources that can be at different electrical potentials, wherein the mounting portions of the molded parts are soldered to respective heat sources or close to the respective heat sources. | 06-04-2009 |
20090053465 | SCRATCH RESISTANT, REFLECTION REDUCING SURFACE HAVING ANTI-FOGGING PROPERTIES - An optical element or component having excellent anti-fog effects as well as excellent scratch resistance and/or reflection reducing effects and optionally also hydrophobic and/or oleophobic properties, and a method for producing such an optical element or component. The element or component includes, in the following order, a glass substrate, a water-absorbing first layer, and a second layer selected from (i) an anti-reflecting coating; a mirror coating and a hard layer; (ii) a compound and/or combination of a hard layers and anti-reflecting coatings; and (iii) a compound and/or combination of hard layers and mirror coating. Blind holes or bores are introduced into the second layer and the water-absorbing first layer with the holes opening out from the second layer and extending completely through the second layer, and at least partially through the water-absorbing first layer. | 02-26-2009 |