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Article: German Inventors Develop Element Connecting Arrangement
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 23, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 23 -- Hansjo Schmieder of Oberkirch-Zusenhofen, Germany, and Hans Merkle of Endingen, Germany, have developed a component arrangement.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement has a first component, a second component, and a connecting element for connecting the first component to the second component at a distance from one another, the first component, at least at an end that is to be connected to the second component, being in profiled section, in particular tubular, form."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The connecting element has an axially moveable spacer piece for bridging the distance between that ...