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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174792 | Opening and closing mechanism for a removable storage medium receptacle An opening-closing mechanism for a record medium is arranged to include a moving body moves, on which an inserting slot and a revolving door are provided; a supporting means for causing the revolving door to support by the moving body in openable and closeable manne... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8096276 | Plasma ignition device A plasma power supply circuit includes a DC/DC converter connected to a DC power supply and outputting a DC voltage, a voltage limit circuit limiting an output voltage from the DC/DC converter to a predetermined value, a PJ capacitor connected to an output end of th... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7960889 | Split core and manufacturing method of the same, and stator core A first laminated body includes first and second laminated groups including respective convex parts alternately disposed. A second laminated body includes third and fourth laminated groups including respective concave parts alternately disposed. The convex part of t... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956967 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device related to the present invention can reduce a stress applied to a crystal liquid panel and prevent unevenness in a display of the liquid crystal panel. This liquid crystal display device includes the crystal liquid panel having an upp... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7240479 | Abnormality diagnosis apparatus for internal combustion engine In a system that executes air fuel ratio feedback control based on air fuel ratio signals of a pair of air fuel ratio sensors arranged at locations upstream and downstream of a catalyst of an internal combustion engine, an abnormality diagnosis apparatus can diagnos... | 07/10/2007 |
| 6891973 | Lossy/lossless region-of-interest image coding A method and apparatus for encoding digital image data wherein region of interest can be specified either before the encoding process has begun or during the encoding process (127), such that the priority of the encoder outputs are modified so as to place mor... | 05/10/2005 |
