Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8011688 | Air bag door, method of controlling breakage of fracture lines, and method of deploying air bag An air bag door in which the remaining thickness of a substrate at a centerline of a fracture groove formed into the shape of an air bag door on a back surface of the substrate is set to be smaller than other portions, and dotted fracture perforations for braking th... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7954873 | Lock structures for stowable vehicle seats A striker is supported by and coupled to a seat body and is held in a rotated position where the striker is lowered to a position along the shape of the seat body. When the seat body is moved and stowed, the striker is raised to and held at a rotated and raised posi... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7837252 | Power back door for vehicle An opening, through which a connection section between a drive arm and a rod of a power back door enters and exits, is covered with cover members to improve external appearance, and interference between the connection section and the cover members is eliminated when... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7399035 | Seat for vehicle The present invention provides a mechanism that can release the rotation lock mechanism without using an actuator. In the present vehicle seat, a nut (73) is moved upon rotation of a screw shaft (72) so that the seat body is moved in the lateral... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7316441 | Seat moving device for vehicle It is one object of this invention to provide a technique that is effective in diminishing the range of fluctuation of a load applied to a drive source when a seat main body in a vehicle seat moving apparatus is moved between a raised position and a lowered position... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7268296 | Slide wiring apparatus A slide wiring apparatus is provided with a linearly-moving device. The linearly-moving device includes a casing portion, a rail and a protector. The casing portion is mounted on a floor serving as a vehicle body. The rail is accommodated within the casing portion, ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 6759003 | Blow molding method, blow molded product and blow molding mold Blow-molding molds 10 and 20 having parison shutters 31 and 32 for preventing an inflation of the parison 3 toward the outside of the molds 10 and 20 are used in a blow-molding method of the present invention. In othe... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6543848 | Vehicular turning seat A rotating vehicle seat allows space close to an occupant's feet to be used efficiently. The rotating seat has a seat body 2 supported by a rotary disc 13. The rotary disc 13 is mounted at a position that is displaced to a door opening side with respect t... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6255618 | Method and apparatus for spot welding a work having a plurality of welding materials placed on top of each other by boring a hole to release vapors A plasma arc welding for effectively letting gases of low boiling point substances for coating a steel sheet escape, ensuring the escape of a molten metal into gaps between the steel sheets and eventually accomplishing satisfactory plasma arc welding. A h... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6110547 | Method of molding automobile outer trim part, laminated film or sheet for use therein and automobile outer trim part Disclosed is a method of molding an automobile outer trim part, including the steps of: (1) providing a film or sheet comprising a colored layer composed of a propylene polymer composition and, laminated thereto, a clear layer composed of a propylene homo... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5718455 | Energy absorbing seat belt webbing A vehicle occupant-restraining webbing is used in a seat belt apparatus of a vehicle in which an air bag apparatus is provided as an auxiliary occupant protecting apparatus, and comprises a webbing length increasing section in which a folded portion of th... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5547223 | Webbing for restraining a vehicle occupant A webbing for restraining a vehicle occupant, having a webbing length increasing device which is folded over and sewn together along a transverse direction of the webbing, and when a load applied between a vehicle occupant and the webbing length increasin... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5075583 | Brushless DC linear motor A brushless DC linear motor includes a coil unit in which electric flow terminals of each of three flat coils are connected with a star connection or with a delta connection; and the three flat coils have the same shape whose empty core section and windin... | 12/24/1991 |
| 4462185 | Door operating device for a slide door unit A door operating device for operating by means of a DC motor the slide door of a slide door unit including an opening formed in the exterior panel of an automobile, the door designed to be arranged flush with the exterior panel when closed, guide rails ex... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4203499 | Apparatus for preventing or damping vibrations and noise in a vehicle An apparatus for preventing or damping vibrations and noise in a vehicle, in which the vibration-transmitting characteristics of two or more mount units in an engine mounting member and/or a body mounting member of a vehicle are changed relatively, so tha... | 05/20/1980 |
