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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 |
| 5743219 | Four-stroke-cycle V-type engine of motorcycle A four-stroke-cycle engine of a motorcycle arranged between front and rear wheels thereof has a crank case in which a crank shaft is arranged and a plurality of cylinder assemblies operatively connected to the crank shaft and includes a front-side cylinde... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5699777 | Fuel supplying system for vertical engine with multiple cylinders A fuel supplying system for a vertical engine provided with multiple cylinders arranged in a vertical direction, respectively, in an installed state of the engine and a crankshaft disposed vertically therein, comprising a plurality of fuel supplying means... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5664976 | Outboard motor An outboard motor comprises, in an installed or mounted state, an engine holder, an engine located to an upper portion of the engine holder, a drive shaft housing located to a lower portion of the engine holder for housing a drive shaft extending downward... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5653303 | Exhaust system of motorcycle An exhaust system of a motorcycle has exhaust pipe arrangement in which four exhaust pipes connected to front sides of cylinder heads of respective four cylinders of an engine with a pair of two cylinders being arranged in parallel with each other extend ... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5467753 | Ignition timing control apparatus for internal combustion engine of vehicle An ignition timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle includes a detector connected to an internal combustion engine for detecting a revolution number of the internal combustion engine and a control unit operatively connected... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5465882 | Carrier for scooter-type vehicle A scooter-type vehicle, in which a fuel tank is arranged at a rear side portion of a rider's seat and a fuel inlet port of the fuel tank is positioned outside a rear side outer cover of a vehicle body, has a carrier on which baggage is to be mounted. The ... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5390699 | Reed valve assembly A reed valve assembly is mounted in a valve chamber formed in an intake passage of a crankcase of a two-stroke cycle engine and the reed valve assembly comprises a box-shaped valve body having a base end opened and secured to an intake pipe and a front en... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5341775 | Exhaust timing controller for two-stroke cycle engine An exhaust timing controller for a two-stroke cycle engine includes an exhaust timing control valve for changing a height of an open edge portion on a top dead center side of an exhaust port opening to an inside wall surface of a cylinder bore in the engi... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5291067 | Electric circuit system for motorcycle A motorcycle has an article storage box equipped with a lid member which is locked and unlocked and with a fuel tank having a gasoline injection port which is closed or opened by a lid member. The locking and unlocking of the lid members of the storage bo... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5227593 | Muffler assembly for engine Muffler assembly for an engine comprises an outer cylinder constituting a muffler body, an inner cylinder coaxially disposed in the outer cylinder, a connection cylinder disposed inside the inner cylinder having one end on an upstream side and another end... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5148783 | Valve actuating mechanism in four-stroke cycle engine A valve actuating mechanism is disposed within a four-stroke cycle engine and comprises a rotatable rocker shaft having eccentric large-diameter portions formed as bushings upon the rocker shaft, a rocker arm assembly including a first rocker arm rotatabl... | 09/22/1992 |
