Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7443143 | Controller of AC generator for vehicle A controller of a generator for a vehicle in the invention includes a battery voltage detecting circuit and an output terminal voltage detecting circuit of an AC generator. A value of a detected voltage of the output terminal voltage of the AC generator is set to be... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441401 | Control apparatus for internal combustion engine The present invention provides a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine which can make a determination on fuel property with high accuracy without causing a cost increase. The control apparatus for the internal combustion engine includes: an intake air ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7414342 | Rotor of rotating electric machine and method of assembling rotor of rotating electric machine A magnet-mounting member for holding permanent magnets against side faces of each claw-shaped magnetic pole has pairs of extreme-end and basal-end hooking tabs for preventing displacement of the permanent magnets in either a basal-end or extreme-end direction. The m... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412895 | Semiconductor pressure sensor and die for molding a semiconductor pressure sensor A semiconductor pressure sensor is provided with a semiconductor pressure sensor part that converts a pressure to an electrical signal, a sensor module in which said semiconductor pressure sensor part and a terminal of which part is extended to the outside are inser... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7402930 | Magnetoelectric generator A magnetoelectric generator according to the present invention includes: a bowl-shaped flywheel that rotates around an axis of rotation; a permanent magnet unit that is fixed to an inner circumferential wall surface of the flywheel and in which adjacent permanent ma... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400070 | Rotating electric machine for vehicles A rotating electric machine for vehicles is capable of improving a cooling performance of switching elements forming an inverter module, and small-sizing the entire rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine includes: a stator; a rotor, a cooling fan; ... | 07/15/2008 |
