Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7694533 | Method for the refining of glass A method for the refining of glass by means of high temperatures in a skull crucible is provided. The method includes introducing a glass melt in the skull crucible through an inlet disposed at an upper region of the skull crucible, heating the skull crucible by irr... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7406841 | Glass-ceramic product with variably adjustable zero crossing of the CTE-T curve The present invention relates to a process for producing a glass-ceramic with a defined zero crossing of the CTE-T curve (CTE: coefficient of thermal expansion), and glass-ceramic products produced using the process according to the invention. ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7377131 | Method for producing a glass body The present invention relates to a method for producing a glass body with at least one inner tube which is closed off on one side and one outer tube which is closed off at least on one side, with the inner tube being connected not coaxially with the floor of the out... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7326443 | Method and device for heating and fixing an inking, particularly a toner powder on a plate-shaped support A method for heating and fixing an inking, particularly a toner powder on a plate-shaped support. Heat is applied and fixes the inking to a coated upper side of the support. The method of this invention can be used to fix and adhere toner inkings on thick-walled sup... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7271911 | Method for the quantitative measurement of the pulse laser stability of synthetic fused silica glass The present invention refers to a method for the quantitative measurement of the pulse laser stability of synthetic fused silica, whereby this method avoids time-consuming and demanding measurements and saves material. First, the absorption of fused silica is measur... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7162894 | Method for charging quartz glass objects with hydrogen The invention relates to the loading of quartz glass objects with hydrogen in an annealing process in a furnace for improving the homogeneity of the refractive index and the laser resistance while, at the same time, maintaining a specified stress birefringence of ea... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7157392 | Alkali-free aluminoborosilicate glasses, and uses thereof An alkali-free aluminoborosilicate glass having a coefficient of thermal expansion α20/300 of between 2.8×10−6/K and 3.8×10−6/K, which has the following composition (in % by weight, based on oxide): silicon dioxide (SiO2 | 01/02/2007 |
| 7153797 | Alkali-free aluminoborosilicate glasses and uses thereof The invention relates to an alkali-free aluminoborosilicate glass having a coefficient of thermal expansion α20/300 of between 2.8 and 3.9·10−6/K, which has the following composition (in % by weight, based on oxide) : SiO2>58–6... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7141521 | Flat float glass This invention relates to a flat float glass that can be prestressed or transformed into a glass ceramic with high quartz mixed crystals or keatite mixed crystals. To eliminate undesirable surface defects during floating and to achieve superior characteristics of th... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7109070 | Production of a composite material having a biodegradable plastic substrate and at least one coating To improve a biodegradable plastic substrate by applying a coating, the invention provides a process for producing a composite material in which a biodegradable plastic substrate is provided, which is coated on at least one surface with at least one barrier layer, t... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7087446 | Method of mounting optoelectronic devices on an optical element and article A method of mounting electro-optical devices on an optical element using an auxiliary substrate is provided herein. Electro-optical fiber optic assemblies are also described herein. ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7074732 | Zinc-containing optical glass materials Zinc-containing optical glass materials with a refractive index nd between 1.52 and 1.66, an Abbe number νd of between 35 and 54 and a composition (in % by weight based on oxide) of: SiO2 38–58, ZnO 0.3–42, PbO 0– | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072562 | Optical fibers made from multicomponent glass The stepped optical fiber has a core glass member and a surrounding cladding glass member. It has a high numerical aperture (NA)≧0.50. The core glass member preferably has a zinc-containing composition including, in % by weight, SiO2, 42 to 53; ZnO, 16 ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7067007 | Process and device for growing single crystals The process for growing single crystals, wherein crystal material is melted in a crucible and a crystal nucleus is immersed in the molten crystal material and slowly pulled out, wherein the crystal formed during the pulling is kept at a temperature close to melting ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064483 | Process for producing organic light-emitting diodes, and organic light-emitting diode The invention provides a process for producing an improved organic light-emitting diode (1) with a structured luminous area and a substrate (2), which comprises the steps of: applying a first conductive electrode laye... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7041612 | Lead-free and arsenic-free special short flint glass The invention describes a lead-free and arsenic-free special short flint glass with a refractive index 1.60≦nd≦1.65, an Abbe number of 41≦νd≦52, a relative partial dispersion 0.551≦PgF≦0.570 in the blue spectral region, ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7041342 | Thin-film solar cells and method of making There are now provided thin-film solar cells and method of making. The devices comprise a low-cost, low thermal stability substrate with a semiconductor body deposited thereon by a deposition gas. The deposited body is treated with a conversion gas to provide a micr... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7024888 | Method for changing glass compositions in melting installations, and corresponding melting installation The invention relates to a method for changing glass compositions in continuously operated melting installations which has a significantly shortened melt changeover time and therefore lower costs and in which the glass quality is not adversely affected. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7018760 | Ceramic toner for electro-photographic printing A ceramic toner which is transferable to a high-temperature resistant glass, glass ceramic or ceramic substrate by electrophotographic printing and which can be fired in a subsequent temperature process, containing color pigment particles in addition to special glas... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6992031 | Method for producing aluminosilicate glass The invention relates to a method for producing aluminosilicate glass that is devoid of alkali and that has a B2O3 content of between 0 and | 01/31/2006 |
| 6969502 | Method and device for growing large-volume oriented monocrystals In the method for growing large-volume monocrystals crystal raw material is heated in a melting vessel with heating elements to a temperature above its melting point until a melt is formed. A monocrystal is then formed on the bottom of the melting vessel by lowering... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6960545 | Preferably Pb-free and As-free optical glasses with Tg≦500° C. The present invention relates to preferably lead-free and arsenic-free optical glasses, having a refractive index of 1.48≦nd≦1.56, an Abbe number of 64≦νd≦72, a low transformation temperature (Tg≦500° C.) and good ion exchange properties, as w... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958097 | Device for holding and vacuum-sealing a container having an opening A device for holding and vacuum-sealing a container as used in particular in the internal and/or external coating of containers. The device holds and vacuum-seals at least one container and has a sealing device for sealing the pouring opening in a defined end state ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6932864 | Method and apparatus for measuring the position of a phase interface during crystal growth In the method and apparatus for measuring the position of the phase interface during growth of a crystal from a melt in a crystal growth container according to the VGF method an incident optical signal is propagated to the phase interface between the melt and the cr... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930289 | Cooking stove and method for production and components thereof A cooking stove having a cook top, or hob, for cooking food, components thereof, and method of production. The stove has a stove body, a smooth-top cook top with a cooking surface to cook food thereon, and a heat source disposed adjacent to the cooking surface. The ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6916512 | Method and device for coating substrates The method for coating plural surfaces on multiple sides of a substrate, especially a lens, includes launching microwave outputs into a microwave reactor at respective microwave launch sites; selecting respective microwave outputs to be greater than or equal to thre... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6912874 | Device and process for introducing gases into a hot medium This invention relates to a device and a process for introducing gases into a hot medium, whereby device (1) contains a pipe (2) for introducing gas and a cooling jacket (3) that encases pipe (2). ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6911392 | Process for making contact with and housing integrated circuits The invention proposes a process for producing electrical contact connections for at least one component which is integrated in a substrate material, the substrate material having a first surface region, and at least one terminal contact being arranged at least part... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6903314 | Work surface arrangement with a cooking cell A work plate arrangement (1) including a work plate (2) and a hot plate (3), the hot plate (3) being inserted in a recess (4) of the work plate (2). In order to provide a work plate arrangement (1) which also enables ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6899451 | Optical system for a fresnel lens light, especially for a spotlight or floodlight The optical system for the Fresnel lens light has an ellipsoidal reflector (1), a light source (2) and a Fresnel lens (3). The distance (a) between the Fresnel lens (3) and the reflector (1) is changeable but is related to the chan... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6894358 | Process for producing microelectromechanical components and a housed microelectromechanical component A microelectromechanical component is produced from a substrate having a first side and a second side which is substantially opposite from the first side, at least the first side having at least one microelectromechanical element, by introducing at least one conduct... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6891980 | Method and apparatus for analysis of schlieren The method for evaluating schlieren in glassy or crystalline optical materials includes irradiating a test sample of the optical material with light and producing a shadow image of the test sample on a projection screen. The shadow image of the test sample is receiv... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6889527 | Skull pot for melting or refining inorganic substances, especially glasses and glass ceramics The invention relates to a skull pot (1) for melting, crystallizing or refining inorganic substances. Said pot comprises a pot wall (1.1), a pot bottom (1.2), an induction coil (2) which surrounds the pot wall (1.1) and by means of... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6882782 | Photonic devices for optical and optoelectronic information processing The invention concerns a photonic device comprising a first section including a material adapted to interact with photons, a second section including a material adapted to interact with photons, with an area of said first section and an area of said second section a... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6877431 | Hermetically sealed electrical feed-through device with a bent isolated pin in a circular glass seal The hermetically sealed electrical feed-through device has a circular metal disk (11) with a conductive angular or bent isolated pin (13) hermetically sealed in an oval or elliptical through-going opening (O) whose center coincides with the center of t... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6875079 | Methods of working, especially polishing, inhomogeneous materials An inhomogeneous glass ceramic material having a ceramic phase and a glass phase is polished by a method that reduces surface roughness at a preselected temperature to values less than 2 Å. The method includes polishing the surface of the glass ceramic material at... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6874422 | Hermetically sealed electrical feed-through device with an oval-cross-sectioned isolated pin in a circular glass seal The hermetically sealed electrical feed-through device has a circular metal disk (11, 21) with a conductive isolated pin (13, 23) hermetically sealed in a through-going circular opening (O, O′) by a glass seal (17, 27) and a conductive ground ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6874423 | Hermetically sealed electrical feed-through device with a straight isolated pin in an offset oval glass seal The hermetically sealed electrical feed-through device has a circular metal disk (11) with a conductive straight isolated pin (13) hermetically sealed in an oval or elliptical through-going opening (O) positioned offset from the center of the circular ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6871514 | Method of making glass, a method and device for the control and setting of the redox state of redox fining agents in a glass melt There is now provided a method and a device for the control and setting of the redox state of redox fining agents in a glass melt, in which method, during the melting process, essentially oxygen gas is blown through the glass melt. ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6870129 | Method and device for cutting a flat glass plate into a number of rectangular plates The cutting of the flat glass plate (1) into rectangular plates with a predetermined edge length is performed by forming initial cracks at the beginning of cutting lines on the glass plate and moving a laser beam along the cutting lines followed by a cooling ... | 03/22/2005 |
