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Control system for internal combustion engine

Method for engaging the starter pinion of a starter with the starter ring gear of an internal combustion engine during the running-down of the internal combustion engine

Method and system for providing a linear signal from a mass airflow and/or liquid flow transducer

Tire pressure detection side receiving circuit and tire monitor system provided therewith

Offline teaching apparatus for robot

Voltage regulation unit with zener diode and voltage regulation device thereof

Torque limiting driver and assembly

Motor vehicle seat assembly

Electroplated three dimensional ink jet manifold and nozzle structures using successive lithography and electroplated sacrificial layers

Single-channel comprehensive protection circuit

Flat panel display concealment and viewing apparatus and method

Method and apparatus to handle parity errors in flow control channels

Method and device for operating an internal combustion engine

Method and unit for grouping products

Resilient switch

Locking device

Method for programming an electronically programmable semiconductor fuse

Self-tuning settle controller in hard disk drives

Ferroelectric memory device

Multi-user transformable water cooler

Auxiliary lighting system for vehicles

Apparatus for mounting removably a disk drive in an electronic device

Read-out circuit in semiconductor memory device

Electronic candleholder

Stator of a high-pressure turbine of a turbomachine, and a method of assembling it

Method of controlling vibration damping in a helicopter, and apparatus implementing the method

Fixing device and image forming apparatus

Vertical handover control algorithm for WLAN and UMTS

Apparatus and method for manufacturing fuel injection control systems

Policy analysis framework for conversational biometrics

Data processing apparatus

Tiny air-pressure balance device between an ink cartridge and an ink bottle

Jet-propelled watercraft

Process for defatting coconut meat

Spun-dyed polyurethaneurea fibres, a process for their production and their use for producing fabrics

Element substrate, test method for element substrate, and manufacturing method for semiconductor device

Flash memory device

Depth sounding by acoustic pingers in a seismic spread

Navigation device with control feature limiting access to non-navigation application

Speech displaying system and method

Creating permanent storage on the fly within existing buffers

System, computer program and method for 3D object measurement, modeling and mapping from single imagery

Achieving perceived reliability for repairable systems

Correction of static mismatch errors in a D/A converter

Progressive track width head and method

Method for optimizing a valve-lift changeover on spark-ignition engines

Method and system for geo-referencing and visualization of detected contaminants

High-impedance level-shifting amplifier capable of handling input signals with a voltage magnitude that exceeds a supply voltage

String of light with matched light bulbs and sockets

Solid-state image-taking apparatus, solid-state image-taking system, and apparatus and method for driving the solid-state image-taking apparatus