Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6769370 | Incinerator with a bowl-shaped grate An incinerator includes a peripheral wall having a top end and formed with an inlet at the top end and an outlet below the inlet, a bowl-shaped grate disposed between the inlet and the outlet, a plurality of laterally extending baffles extending from a bottom end of... | 08/03/2004 |
| 7145843 | Optical disk having wobble patterns representing control information An optical disk comprises a track groove on which positional information indicating a physical location on the track groove is represented by a wobble shape of the track groove. The optical disk includes a plurality of positional information units that are arranged ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7086605 | Toy vehicle slot track A toy vehicle slot track is disclosed with at least a pair of toy racing vehicles and at least a pair of guide slots, each guide slot in turn having a pair of exposed power supply rails. The toy vehicles are guided about the track by guide pins affixed to the toy ve... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6991041 | Compressed air foam pumping system A compressed air foam system for use in extinguishing fire includes a conduit, a water flow sensor, a foam proportioning apparatus, an air conduit, an air flow sensor, an air flow control valve and a system controller. The water flow sensor is configured to sense a ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6962131 | Water cooling device of vertical multi-cylinder engine A water cooling device of a vertical multi-cylinder engine includes a cylinder block (1) one side wall of which is provided with a side water passage (3) running along a longitudinal direction of the cylinder block (1). The cylinder block (1 | 11/08/2005 |
| 6952418 | Conditionally nonblocking switch of the upturned expander type Broadband switching including the implementation of and control over a massive sub-microsecond switching fabric. To effect the attributes of the switching fabric, conditionally nonblocking components are used a building-blocks in an interconnection network which is ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6940101 | LED Lamp An LED lamp includes at least one LED chip and a wavelength converting portion including a phosphor for transforming the emission of the LED chip into light having a longer wavelength than that of the emission. The LED lamp further includes filtering member. The fil... | 09/06/2005 |
| D507677 | Capsule | 07/19/2005 |
| 6917282 | Touch pad scoring apparatus for dart games A touch pad scoring apparatus for a dart game includes a touch pad mounted on a housing. The touch pad is has a plurality of segments. Each touch pad segment has a pressure-sensitive sensor operatively connected to a controller. A user applies pressure, for example ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6911008 | Compound ultrasound imaging method A compound ultrasound imaging method includes the steps of acquiring component frames with different scanline properties, such as different angles, scanline durations, control voltages, etc., and compounding them in real-time. ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6911804 | MOBILE INFORMATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR OPTIMIZING THE CHARGE STATE OF THE APPARATUS, AND BATTERY MANAGEMENT SERVER, METHOD AND PROGRAM USING THE SERVER TO OPTIMIZE THE CHARGE STATE OF BATTERY-POWERED ELECTRICAL APPARATUS A schedule recording section (4) records a user's schedule. A SOC (state-of-charge) optimization planning section (5) plans the SOC of a rechargeable battery (21) based on the user's schedule. The planned control target SOC is optimized through ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6910219 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge includes: a cartridge body including a disc storage portion storing a disc, having first and second sides, therein so that the disc is rotatable there and that the first side is exposed and chucking and head opening formed on the bottom of the stora... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909841 | Infrared emitter element with cooling tube covered by reflector An infrared emitter element includes: at last one emitter tube made of silica glass, which has two ends; at least one electrical conductor arranged in the emitter tube as a radiation source; a cooling tube made of silica glass, which surrounds the at least one emitt... | 06/21/2005 |
| D506140 | Bottle | 06/14/2005 |
| 6902158 | Rotary clamp A housing (3) has an upper end wall (3a) which supports an upper slide portion (11) of a clamp rod (5) vertically movably. The housing (3) has a lower end wall (3b), a support cylinder (13) of which supp... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6896574 | Magnetically coupled toy vehicles A magnetic coupling for toy vehicles includes a stationary protruding member and a retractable member, each having a rounded end piece. One of the end pieces is at least partially formed of a magnetic material and the other is at least partially formed of a non-magn... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6880974 | Linear guide A linear guide comprises a linear guide comprises a rail having a plurality of running tracks, a carriage having at least one sliding element positioned opposite at least one of the running tracks, and an adjuster positioned between the at least one sliding element ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6879528 | Control method of nonvolatile memory A control method of nonvolatile memory is provided, wherein it does not happen that data which ought to have been erased are not erased, or data which ought to have been written are lost even if a forced interruption takes place due to shutdown of a power source for... | 04/12/2005 |
| D503927 | Electrical connector | 04/12/2005 |
| 6879964 | Investment company that issues a class of conventional shares and a class of exchange-traded shares in the same fund An investment company is administered by issuing one or more classes of shares that are bought from and redeemed with the company at a net asset value, issuing one or more classes of shares that are listed for trading on a securities exchange and that are bought and... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6860191 | Waffle baker A waffle baker grill for producing a waffle product, including a first heating plate having a first surface and a first peripheral wall extending from the first surface to a predetermined distance. The first peripheral wall includes a first side and a second side. A... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6860635 | Sensor and housing with adjustable spacing element A sensor, especially a temperature sensor, has a measuring resistor (7) including a substrate with an electrically insulating surface and a resistor layer situated thereon, which is enclosed by a housing (6) having current lead-ins to a plug system ( | 03/01/2005 |
| 6858347 | Paste type positive electrode for alkaline storage battery, and nickel-metal hydride storage battery The paste type positive electrode of the present invention contains a first active material and a second active material. The first active material comprises X parts by weight of particulate nickel hydroxide with aX/100 parts by weight of cobalt oxyhydroxide carried... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6856779 | Toner cartridge with a toner-discharging mechanism and printer to which the toner cartridge is removably attachable A toner cartridge is removably attached to a printer and discharges toner into a hopper of the printer. When the toner is to be discharged into the hopper for a first time after the toner cartridge has been attached to the printer, the toner cartridge discharges a c... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6847829 | Multiband high-frequency switch A multiband high-frequency switch that is mainly used for mobile phones, comprising a strip line formed of the series connection of first and second strip lines. A second transmitting port is connected to the connection point of the strip lines connected in series v... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6844693 | Position control apparatus for motor An electric motor position control apparatus in accordance with the present invention has a plurality of sets of control parameters including at least the proportional gain of a position control section and the proportional gain of a speed control section beforehand... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6841528 | Method for the production of liquid cleaning agent or detergent compositions containing at least two separate aqueous phases A method is provided for the production of liquid cleaning agent or detergent compositions which are ready to use and packaged. In rest (quiescent) condition the compositions exist separately in at least two aqueous phases. At least two separate preliminary mixtures... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6842395 | Semiconductor memory card, method of controlling the same and interface apparatus for semiconductor memory card A semiconductor memory card is provided that includes: a data storing part; a control part writing and reading data into and from the data storing part; an interface circuit; and a plurality of input and output terminals, wherein data input and output terminal pairs... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6837426 | Method and system for account activation A method of activating a prepaid account uses an existing electronic funds transfer network which includes a point-of-sale (POS) terminal, debit/credit card processing infrastructure and an account issuer authorization center. The method includes obtaining identific... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6839149 | Preparation of production data for a print job using a still image proxy of a page description language image file A process is provided to prepare production data for a print job. In one embodiment of the present invention, the production data includes an electronic document defined by a page description language (PDL). The electronic document is stored in a PDL image file, suc... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6835432 | Optical disc and method for manufacturing the optical disc An optical disc comprises a first base plate having a surface in which a recess is formed and a multi-layer structure disposed over the surface. The multi-layer structure includes a reflection layer, a recording layer, and a transparent member. The reflection layer ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6834166 | Image forming apparatus with image distance interval controller An image forming section forms images, which are transferred onto a primary medium. A medium cassette holds a stack of print medium. A remaining-medium detector detects the number of pages of remaining print medium held in the medium cassette. The image on the prima... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6832707 | Refractory nozzle for a metallurgical vessel A refractory nozzle is provided for a metallurgical vessel, in particular for steel melts, wherein the nozzle has a flow-through opening with an upper end, a lower end, and an inner wall laterally enclosing the flow-through opening. In order to improve known dischar... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6832211 | System and method for producing technology-based price targets for a company stock Target valuations for company stocks are produced based on the strength and quality of their technology. The valuations are derived from a combination of indicators that measure the quality of companies' patented technology, and their commitment to research and deve... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6831448 | DC-to-DC converter In order to increase the transient response speed of a DC-to-DC converter capable of voltage step-up and voltage step-down, to which a DC voltage is input from a battery or the like and from which a controlled DC voltage is supplied to a load, a first voltage E1 ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6830328 | Combination input and output tray assembly for a printing device A combination input and output tray assembly for supplying and receiving elongated sheets of media for use with a printing device includes a first tray generally aligned with an input port of the printing device, the first tray receiving and supporting at least one ... | 12/14/2004 |
| D499741 | Selective portions of a internal combustion engine | 12/14/2004 |
| 6820553 | Holder for an article to be decorated A holder is provided for holding an article in a machine for decorating articles, the holder including a base member, a format plate arranged releasably above the base member with an opening in the format plate for receiving the article, and an intermediate plate be... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6820745 | Package of cylindrical article and production method therefor To retain the virginity of cylindrical articles packed in a cylindrical article package, the present invention provides a package of a novel structure and a fabrication method for the same. More specifically, the present specification discloses a package wherein a f... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6820526 | Automatic device for finishing and cutting multiple or single images on paper and other graphic and photographic substrates in reels or single sheets An automatic device for cutting paper and other graphic and photographic substrates in reels or single sheets through optical reflection recognition of complex marks includes at least a pair of rollers (2) for feeding the substrate, a motor (3) for dri... | 11/23/2004 |
