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20100289448 | Induction Charging Device - An induction charging device for charging an energy accumulator of a mobile electric device is provided. The device includes a coil for energy transmission; and a control for energy transmission. The control is connected to a capacitor with a modifiable capacitance, and the capacitor is designed such that its capacitance changes as a function of whether the mobile electric device is in a charging position or not. | 11-18-2010 |
20110012432 | CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR INDUCTIVE ENERGY TRANSFER - A method and a circuit arrangement for the inductive transfer of energy with an oscillator and a device to detect the inductive load of the oscillator, and to modify a damping element in the oscillator depending on the load of said oscillator. | 01-20-2011 |
20110138551 | Electric Toothbrush - An electric toothbrush is disclosed. The toothbrush includes a housing; a brush; an electric motor for driving the brush; a power supply for providing the electric power required for operation of the toothbrush; a switch mechanism for turning the drive on and off; and an electronic circuit for adjusting the effective voltage (U | 06-16-2011 |
20110183553 | Battery Contact Springs - A battery contact spring with a spring body manufactured as a flexible wire part is disclosed. The battery contact spring has a first contact head section for contacting a first battery; a second contact head section for contacting a second battery, and at least one first spiral spring section that extends between a spring foot area and the first contact head section and which flexibly supports the first contact head section. The spring body is designed in such a way that a coil end of the first spiral spring section opposite the spring foot area crosses over into the first contact head section and attached to this first head section is a connection bridge that crosses over into the second contact head section. | 07-28-2011 |
20110273153 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT ARRANGED TO CONTROL VOLTAGE APPLIED TO A LOAD - The present invention is concerned with an electronic circuit that is connectable to a voltage source and a load. The circuit comprises a controllable load switch element that is arranged so that a supply voltage provided by the voltage source in a connected state is provided to the load when the load switch element is switched on and is not provided to the load when the load switch element is switched off and a voltage detection circuitry that in the connected state is coupled to the load so as to be energized by the voltage applied to the load. The circuit further comprises a switch-on circuitry that is coupled to the load switch element and is arranged to switch on the load switch element for a determined period of time after a switch arranged between the switch-on circuitry and the voltage source is closed. The proposed circuit allows for using a simple voltage detection circuit that is energized by the voltage to be measured by providing the switch-on circuitry. | 11-10-2011 |
20120105044 | Circuit Arrangement And Method For Inductive Energy Transfer - A circuit arrangement for the inductive transfer of energy is disclosed. The circuit arrangement includes an oscillator; a power supply for supplying the oscillator with energy and having a complex input resistance; and a device for detecting the inductive load of the oscillator and for modifying the complex input resistance of the power supply depending on the load of the oscillator. | 05-03-2012 |
20120112845 | Circuit Arrangement For Inductive Energy Transfer - A circuit arrangement for the inductive transfer of energy is disclosed. The circuit arrangement includes an oscillator; and a device for detecting the load of the oscillator and for setting the circuit arrangement into one of multiple operating states depending on the detected load. The device determines the load of the oscillator using an electrical variable occurring in the oscillator. | 05-10-2012 |
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20090121933 | PRECISION GPS DRIVEN UTILITY ASSET MANAGEMENT AND UTILITY DAMAGE PREVENTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and apparatus, including software, for the development and operational use of precise utility location and utility asset management information. Field-usable data sets may be produced that meet standards of accuracy and usability that are sufficient for use by field operations personnel participating in damage prevention activities associated with ground penetrating projects (e.g., excavating, trenching, boring, driving, and tunneling) or other asset applications. Some embodiments relate to integrating utility asset data including coordinate location, and geographical information data using a consistently available and accurate coordinates reference for collecting the data and for aligning the geographical information data. Some embodiments relate to managing projects with equipment that provides real time images and the updating of the data as required with this desired accuracy. | 05-14-2009 |
20100045517 | Precision GPS Driven Utility Asset Management and Utility Damage Prevention System and Method - A method and apparatus, including software, for the development and operational use of precise utility location and utility asset management information. Field-usable data sets may be produced that meet standards of accuracy and usability that are sufficient for use by field operations personnel participating in damage prevention activities associated with ground penetrating projects (e.g., excavating, trenching, boring, driving, and tunneling) or other asset applications. Some embodiments relate to integrating utility asset data including coordinate location, and geographical information data using a consistently available and accurate coordinates reference for collecting the data and for aligning the geographical information data. Some embodiments relate to managing projects with equipment that provides real time images and the updating of the data as required with this desired accuracy. | 02-25-2010 |
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20090121314 | Manufacturing method for forming an integrated circuit device and corresponding integrated circuit device - The present invention provides a manufacturing method for forming an integrated circuit device and to a corresponding integrated circuit device. The manufacturing method for forming an integrated circuit device comprises the steps of: forming a first level on a substrate; forming a second level above the first level; forming a cap layer on the second level which covers a first region of the level and leaves a second region uncovered; and simultaneously etching a first contact hole in the first region and a second contact hole in the second region such that the etching is selective to the cap layer in the second region and proceeds to a greater depth in the first region. | 05-14-2009 |
20120217582 | SOI Semiconductor Device Comprising a Substrate Diode with Reduced Metal Silicide Leakage - When forming substrate diodes in SOI devices, superior diode characteristics may be preserved by providing an additional spacer element in the substrate opening and/or by using a superior contact patterning regime on the basis of a sacrificial fill material. In both cases, integrity of a metal silicide in the substrate diode may be preserved, thereby avoiding undue deviations from the desired ideal diode characteristics. In some illustrative embodiments, the superior diode characteristics may be achieved without requiring any additional lithography step. | 08-30-2012 |
20120220086 | METHODS FOR FABRICATING A CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUIT HAVING A DUAL STRESS LAYER (DSL) - Methods are provided for fabricating a CMOS integrated circuit having a dual stress layer without NiSi hole formation. One method includes depositing a tensile stress layer overlying a semiconductor substrate. A portion of the tensile stress layer is removed, leaving a remaining portion, before applying a curing radiation. A curing radiation is then applied to the remaining portion; and a compressive stress layer is deposited overlying the semiconductor substrate and the remaining portion. | 08-30-2012 |
20120248551 | MOL INSITU PT REWORK SEQUENCE - The amount of Pt residues remaining after forming Pt-containing NiSi is reduced by performing an O | 10-04-2012 |
20120299160 | Method of Forming Contacts for Devices with Multiple Stress Liners - Disclosed herein is a method of forming a semiconductor device. In one example, the method includes performing a first process operation to form a first etch stop layer above a first region of a semiconducting substrate where a first type of transistor device will be formed, and forming a first stress inducing layer at least above the first etch stop layer in the first region, wherein the first stress inducing layer is adapted to induce a stress in a channel region of the first type of transistor. The method further includes, after forming the first etch stop layer, performing a second process operation form a second etch stop layer above a second region of the substrate where a second type of transistor device will be formed, and forming a second stress inducing layer at least above the second etch stop layer in the second region, wherein the second stress inducing layer is adapted to induce a stress in a channel region of the second type of transistor. In one particular example, the first and second etch stop layers may have the same approximate thickness. | 11-29-2012 |
20140264641 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE COMPRISING CONTACT STRUCTURES WITH PROTECTION LAYERS FORMED ON SIDEWALLS OF CONTACT ETCH STOP LAYERS - When forming semiconductor devices with contact plugs comprising protection layers formed on sidewalls of etch stop layers to reduce the risk of shorts, the protection layers may be formed by performing a sputter process to remove material from a contact region and redeposit the removed material on the sidewalls of the etch stop layers. | 09-18-2014 |
20150028431 | MOL INSITU PT REWORK SEQUENCE - The amount of Pt residues remaining after forming Pt-containing NiSi is reduced by performing an O | 01-29-2015 |
20150064872 | TOP CORNER ROUNDING BY IMPLANT-ENHANCED WET ETCHING - When forming metallization layers of advanced semiconductor devices, one often has to fill apertures with a high aspect ratio with a metal, such as copper. The present disclosure provides a convenient method for forming apertures with a high aspect ratio in an insulating layer. This insulating layer may have been deposited on the surface of a semiconductor device. The proposed method relies on an ion implantation step performed on the insulating layer, followed by an etch, which is preferably a wet etch. | 03-05-2015 |
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20110056785 | Vibration Damper - A vibration damper including a cylinder with a cylinder-side connection member. The at least one mounted component is fastened to the cylinder by a material bond. The cylinder and the mounted component are made of plastic. The mounted component and/or the cylinder are based on at least one ready-prepared semi-finished product that forms the surface of the vibration damper on at least one body side in the final state. Plastic supplemental volume fractions determine the finished body contour. | 03-10-2011 |
20110057369 | Plastic Spring For A Motor Vehicle Chassis - A plastic spring having a corrugated tubular body with connection surfaces at its ends for transmitting force between two structural component parts which are movable relative to one another. A connection surface of the plastic spring is constructed as a tubular body which engages in a cup element of one of the supporting structural component parts. The cup element can be filled with a displacement mass, and the tubular body accordingly carries out a displacing movement within the cup element for axially adjusting the preloading of the plastic spring. | 03-10-2011 |
20130113175 | Stabilizer bar of fiber reinforced plastic composite and method for its manufacture - A stabilizer bar or stabilizer link in fiber composite construction is of a monolithic construction without fiber interruption. The cross section geometry, the wall thickness, and the fiber orientation vary in axial direction and radial direction such that the requirements defined by the available construction space and the expected loads are fulfilled. The fiber orientation is adjusted axially and radially load-appropriately. The middle section of the stabilizer bar that is primarily torsion-loaded is reinforced with fibers oriented between +/−35° and +/−55° relative to the longitudinal axis and the end members that are primarily bending-loaded are reinforced with fibers oriented between +/−20° and +/−40° relative to the longitudinal axis. In the transitional areas between the middle section and the end members there are transitions between these fiber orientations relatively to the longitudinal axis. | 05-09-2013 |
20140321941 | DEVICE FOR INTRODUCING FORCE INTO A COMPONENT OF FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL - The invention relates to a device for introducing force into a component of fiber composite material by means of a screw connection having a bolt-like connecting element arranged in a passage of the component. The invention is based in particular on the problem of improving the durability of the screw connection on the component of fiber composite material. The object is achieved in that the screw connection has a two-part bush ( | 10-30-2014 |
20140333121 | WHEEL RIM WITH A RIM BASE MADE OF FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - The invention which relates to a wheel rim having a rim base ( | 11-13-2014 |
20140333122 | RIM WELL WITH INTEGRATED FLANGE MADE OF FIBER COMPOSITES AS WELL AS METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A rim well with integrated flange made of fiber composite as well as to a method for manufacturing same. The flange is formed by inwardly directed protuberances of fiber layers of the rim well, wherein the fiber layers transition to the flange from the rim well without interruption of the fibers. The manufacture is carried out by depositing fiber material on a mold, which corresponds to the contour of the rim well and has a radially circumferential or segmented groove. The fibers are deposited such that the fibers of at least one fiber layer have protuberances directed into the groove. A multipart mold, which makes it possible to reduce the width of the groove and thus a deformation of the protuberances, is preferably used. | 11-13-2014 |
20140346847 | WHEEL SPIDER - A wheel with a rim as well as a wheel spider, where the wheel spider has a hub and spokes. The wheel includes spokes including one or more linearly stretched textile strands as reinforcement material of a fiber composite and each linearly stretched textile strand runs at least once from the rim to the hub and back without interruption and thus forms at least one spoke. The textile strands are connected in a positive-locking manner and/or in substance with the hub and the rim. A process is provided for the manufacture of the wheel. | 11-27-2014 |
20140352880 | CONNECTING ARRANGEMENT FOR CONNECTING A FIBER COMPOSITE COMPONENT TO A SECOND COMPONENT - Disclosed are a connecting arrangement of a fiber composite component with a second component and a process for producing the arrangement. The second component comprises at least one flat section having one or more cut-outs which pass through the flat section. The flat section is arranged between at least two sublayers of the fiber composite component and at least one of the at least two sublayers with a layer thickness S | 12-04-2014 |
20140375112 | WHEEL MADE OF FIBER COMPOSITES AND PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A one-part wheel which is made of fiber composites without interruption of fibers with excellent mechanical properties and with low weight at the same time as well as a process for the manufacture thereof. The wheel has especially a rim well as well as a wheel disk passing over into a wheel flange of the rim well, where the wheel disk is formed at least partly by fiber layers, which run from the rim well over a wheel flange and the wheel disk. The wheel is manufactured by a multipart mold with parts displaceable at least in the axial direction. The mold is completely removed after the deposition of fibers or remains as a lost core in the wheel. | 12-25-2014 |
20150076896 | TWO-PART WHEEL - While specific embodiments of the invention have been shown and described in detail to illustrate the application of the principles of the invention, it will be understood that the invention may be embodied otherwise without departing from such principles. | 03-19-2015 |