Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7125725 | Biaryl-type compounds, CD color fixing agent and method for determination of absolute configuration A novel achiral biaryl-type compound and a circular dichroism(CD) color fixing agent are provided. Furthermore, a method for determining an absolute configuration of a chiral compound is carried out by introducing the above achiral biaryl-type compound into the chir... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7038658 | Input device An input device includes a magnet to be worn by a user on one fingertip of either a right hand or a left hand, a first magnetic sensor to be worn by the user on a wrist of either the right hand or the left hand to detect a magnetic field generated by the magnet at a... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6727098 | Biaryl-type compounds, CD color fixing agent and method for determination of absolute configuration A novel achiral biaryl-type compound and a circular dichroism (CD) color fixing agent are provided. Furthermore, a method for determining an absolute configuration of a chiral compound is carried out by introducing the above achiral biaryl-type compound into the chi... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6448850 | Electromagnetic wave amplifier and electromagnetic wave generator An electromagnetic wave amplifier and an electromagnetic wave generator operate using electron beams in a vacuum environment. The amplifier, arranged in a vacuum environment, comprises an electron emitting section for emitting electron beams and an amplif... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6117944 | Curable composition A curable composition comprising a polyfunctional oxetane compound and a polyphenol compound or phenol resin, where a quaternary onium salt or Crown ether compound is preferably further contained as a curing catalyst, provides a novel use for reactions of... | 09/12/2000 |
| 5240382 | Converged magnetic flux type intense magnetic field electro-magnetic pump A converged magnetic flux type electro-magnetic pump in which plural circular conductor plates provided with slits reaching peripheries from central holes in the plates and plural exciting spiral coils are alternately stacked with respect to each other an... | 08/31/1993 |
| 4987398 | Multilayered eddy current type power-saved intense AC magnetic field generator A conventionally arranged multilayered eddy current type intense AC magnetic field generator is remarkably improved only by intercrossing frame-shaped iron cores with alternately multilayered structure of exciting coils and conductor plates for inducing e... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4933657 | Eddy current type multilayered coil for generating intense AC magnetic field In circular conductor plates having radial slits alternately stacked with spirally wound coils continuously connected in order and supplied with comparatively low frequency AC current, eddy currents generated in peripheral direction are concentrated along... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4901213 | Five-legged core type frequency triplo-multiplier A magnetic frequency triplo-multiplier for use as a power source for metal melting furnaces and the like. The frequency triplo-multiplier has Y-connected primary windings that are resonant with each phase of a three-phase alternating-current power source ... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4879539 | Laminated coil for an eddy-current type strong AC magnetic field generator The disclosed coil is for a strong AC magnetic field generator with coaxially laminated eddy-current carrying conductor disks each of which disks have a central hole and a radial slit. Each turn of the coil consists of an annular conductor plate disposed ... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4857874 | Multilayered-eddy-current-type strong magnetic field generator The disclosed strong magnetic field generator has a number of concentric conductor circular plates, central portions thereof being unified, each of which plates has a radial slit so as to have open sidewalls. Exciting coils are mounted between each of the... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4855703 | Multilayered-eddy-current type strong magnetic field generator The disclosed strong magnetic field generator has a number of concentric conductor cylinders, each of which has a longitudinal slit so as to have an open sidewall. Exciting coils are mounted on the cylinders to induce an eddy current in each cylinder in a... | 08/08/1989 |