...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7460506 | Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a cell identification code in a mobile communication system An apparatus and method for generating an octal code for identifying cells in a mobile communication system. In the octal code generating apparatus, a binary code generator generates a binary code with a predetermined minimum Hamming distance. A column permutator pe... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459745 | Methods of forming capacitors for semiconductor memory devices and resulting semiconductor memory devices Methods of forming capacitors include forming a first mold layer and a second mold layer on a substrate, forming storage electrodes through the mold layers, the storage electrodes arranged in rows extending in a first direction and spaced apart from adjacent storage... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459359 | Methods of fabricating vertical channel field effect transistors having insulating layers thereon A method of forming a field effect transistor includes forming a vertical channel protruding from a substrate including a source/drain region junction between the vertical channel and the substrate, and forming an insulating layer extending on a side wall of the ver... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7401968 | Backlight assembly with improved strength and display device having the same A backlight assembly having improved strength and a display device having the backlight assembly are provided. The backlight assembly includes a light source supplying light and a fixing member receiving the light source. A deflection preventing portion having a pre... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7376094 | Pattern forming method and device for an adaptive antenna array of a base station Based on a selected criterion, a BTS (Base Transceiver Station) for each mobile station (MS) determines an antenna pattern in a reverse channel, based on combined weight factors in weighed combining of signals from antenna array elements during MS signal receiving, ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7326608 | Fin field effect transistor and method of manufacturing the same In a fin field effect transistor (FET), an active pattern protrudes in a vertical direction from a substrate and extends across the substrate in a first horizontal direction. A first silicon nitride pattern is formed on the active pattern, and a first oxide pattern ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7179441 | Method for preparing barium-titanate based powder The present invention relates to a method for preparing barium titanate based powder. More particularly, the present invention provides a method for preparing barium titanate powder comprising the following steps of precipitation of barium titanyl oxalate (BaTiO(C | 02/20/2007 |
| D527397 | Refrigerator | 08/29/2006 |
| 4873454 | Power source switching circuit A new type of power source switching circuit is disclosed. In the device of the present invention, a relay is used instead of semiconductor elements which are used in the conventional types of power source switching circuit. Compared with the conventional... | 10/10/1989 |