Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5713703 | Pressure controlled cutter bit retainer with precision adjustable cutter bit A pressure controlled cutter bit or drill bit retainer in the form of a revolving drill head with hydraulic precision adjustment of the drill bit arranged at a central extension, which is displaceable from its original position by small amounts around a p... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5636913 | Projection-lens driving apparatus for use in a 3-beam projector The projection-lens driving apparatus for a 3-beam projector includes a housing, a triplet of cylindrical projection-lens holders, a pair of cam members, each of the cam members having a triplet of guide rails, a trifurcating member, a driving means provi... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5602679 | High efficiency light valve projection system A light valve such as an active matrix LCD between crossed polarizers, utilizing, for instance, individual transistors to control each "pixel area" of the LCD and storage elements to store video signal data for each pixel, with optically shielded "dead sp... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5580584 | Injection molding machine An injection molding machine which includes an injection molding unit, a plurality of electrical servomotors for driving components of the injection molding unit, and a plurality of power and control units corresponding to the plurality of electrical serv... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5577772 | Tank truck A tank truck including a horizontal support platform secured on the tank for supporting a suction hose, a boom secured to the support platform and supporting a free end of the suction hose, and a lead-in rotatably supported on the support platform and con... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5573364 | Automated parking system for motor vehicles A parking system for a motor vehicle formed as a high-level rack storehouse including at least one rack-operating device for transporting a car, which is loaded on a pallet at a parking station, to one of a parking spot and an unparking station, and an ar... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5569027 | Lobed rotor machine A lobed rotor machine including an annular cylinder chamber having inlet and outlet openings, four working pistons movable in pairs in the cylinder chamber, two piston carriers for supporting respective pairs of the working cylinder and rotatable about a ... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5568744 | Method and arrangement for manufacturing rolled wire or round steel sections in coils from carbon steels and/or high-grade steels A method and an arrangement for manufacturing rolled wire sections and round steel sections in coils from carbon steels or high-grade steels. The arrangement includes a wire production line with a multiple-stand wire mill and a round steel production line... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5566467 | Cyclone heat exchanger A cyclone heat exchanger including a plurality of arranged one above another cylone separators forming, respectively, a plurality of heat exchange stages, a first inlet for delivering raw meal to the heat exchanger, a first outlet for delivering the heate... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5564477 | Ribbon loom with a weft insertion needle A thread insertion needle for a ribbon weaving machine includes a needle body and a bracket, enclosing the needle body and having two parallel legs disposed on opposite sides of the needle body and forming with the needle body two slots, and a connector s... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5562212 | Container A container for receiving a plurality of elongate objects to be stored parallel to each other and including receiving and closure parts having each complementary two opposite spaced relatively large side walls having each an end section extending perpendi... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5561713 | Apparatus for scrambling and descrambling a video signal A scrambler for scrambling a composite video signal comprises a scrambling data generator for generating a number of scrambling data. Each of the scrambling data is added to each of a corresponding number of digitized video data samples converted by an an... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5561690 | High speed variable length code decoding apparatus A variable length code (VLC) decoding apparatus for decoding sequential variable length codewords includes a second barrel shifter cascaded to a first barrel shifter for providing a second table memory device with a decoding window output sequence which i... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5561683 | Circular grating surface emitting laser diode A surface emitting laser diode comprises a circular grating defined on the top surface of the diode for emitting a laser therethrough, an active layer for generating the laser in the region thereof under the circular grating, a reflection layer for preven... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5561475 | Variable block matching motion estimation apparatus An apparatus for detecting motion vectors between a current frame and a previous frame of video signals based on a block matching motion estimation approach comprises a variable block formation section for defining a variable search block from the current... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5561464 | Method and apparatus for encoding a video signal employing transform and classified vector quantization techniques A novel apparatus for improving the overall compression efficiency comprises: a transformer for transforming an input video signal into a plurality of subbands of transform coefficients, wherein one subband which exists in the lowest frequency band includ... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5561422 | Method and apparatus for variable length coding with reduced memory requirement An encoding apparatus having a 16-bit read-only-memory(ROM) and a general 16-bit microprocessor comprises: means for storing variable length code table data which is originally of 18 bit length in said ROM, means for processing a source code inputted from... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5560710 | Process for mixing gas jets or streams In a process for continuously mixing streams of at least two fluid media, in particular for use in reburning or progressive combustion and for secondary NO.chi. -reduction in flue gases from industrial furnace plants an auxiliary gas stream is ... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5560697 | Optical projection system An optical projection system comprises a non-point white light source, a source lens, a source stopper, an optical means, a first, a second and a third arrays of M×N actuated mirrors, a beam splitting means including a first and a second dichroic lens, a... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5560495 | Transporter for aggregate produced during reprocessing of residual concrete An apparatus for conveying the aggregate accumulated in the course of reprocessing of residual concrete in a bin is described which has a conveyance arrangement (10) of the type of a worm conveyor. The conveyor trough of this work conveyor (10) is configu... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5560380 | Method and apparatus for processing hollow bodies filled with metallic sodium A method for safely cutting hollow bodies filled with metallic Na for disposal comprises the steps of cutting the hollow bodies with plasma jet so as to oxidize metallic Na while conveying said hollow bodies in a hermetically sealed housing, throwing the ... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5560095 | Method of producing of hot rolled strips or profiles from a continuously cast primary material A method of producing hot-rolled strips and hot-rolled profiles from a continuous, continuously casted primary material, in which single slabs are transported from the buffer zone into a ferry which transports them by being transversely displaced from the... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5557056 | Performance evaluator for use in a karaoke apparatus A karaoke apparatus evaluates a singer's performance by employing: a microphone for converting the singer's voice into a electrical voice signal; a first analogue to digital (A/D) converter for converting the electrical voice signal into a digitized voice... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5555029 | Method and apparatus for post-processing decoded image data A post-processing filter apparatus for use in an image signal decoding system, capable of improving the image quality of the system, comprises a memory for storing decoded image data of a current frame; a controller for assigning each pixel value included... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5555028 | Post-processing method and apparatus for use in an image signal decoding system A post-processing filter apparatus for use in an image signal decoding system, capable of improving the image quality of the system, comprises a memory for storing decoded image data of a current frame; a filter for filtering target pixel data in the stor... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5553801 | Tape tension measuring device for use in a tape recorder including a guide pole with a piezoelectric coating A device for measuring tape tension for use in a tape recorder utilizes a guide pole having an external surface portion thereof coated with a piezoelectric material to detect the tape tension.... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5553682 | Rock drill A rock drill includes an axially elongated shank with a chucking shank part (1) at one end, a drilling shank part (2) extending from the chucking shank part and having at least four drilled material conveying flutes (4, 5, 6, 7) disposed next to one anoth... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5553649 | Blind apparatus A blind apparatus including head box, a bracket for mounting the blind apparatus on a window, a plurality of vertically spaced parallel slats supported by ladder cords connected to a rotary drum located in a head box, a tilter device for tilting the slats... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5553469 | Method of controlling thermally alterable profile of working rolls A method of controlling thermally alterable profiles of working rolls during hot rolling of strips having different width includes providing cover shells for the working roll, determining a position of edges of the rolling strip on the working roll, deter... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5552923 | Array of electrodisplacive actuated mirrors and method for the manufacture thereof An array of M×N electrodisplacive actuated mirrors for use in an optical projection system is assembled by way of: (a) preparing two identical ceramic wafers; (b) forming M identical trenches thereon; (c) interlocking and bonding together to form a ceram... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5552506 | Organopolysiloxanes, modified with acrylate groups in the presence of a rhodium catalyst Organopolysiloxanes, which terminally, laterally or both have at least one group of the formula ##STR1## well as at least one acrylate group, linked over a bridge element to this group, is obtained by hydrosilylation of organopolysiloxanes with at le... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5552031 | Palladium alloy plating compositions A palladium alloy plating composition comprising 4 to 20 g/l of palladium ion, 0.3 to 2.0 g/l of gold ion, 5 to 100 g/l of a conductive salt and 0.5 to 20 g/l of a complexing agent, and optionally 0.3 to 5 g/l of an alloying metal ion provides a plating w... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5551779 | Mixing apparatus for counterbalancing flowable masses An apparatus for mixing at least one flowable mass includes a rotatable support (2), a container carrier (1) and container (4) and a separate housing (3). The container carrier (1) and housing (3) each has a central axis inclined relative to the axis of t... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5550680 | Thin film actuated mirror array having an improved optical efficiency An array of M×N thin film actuated mirrors for use in an optical projection system, comprises an active matrix, an array of M×N actuating structures, an array of M×N mirror layers and an array of M×N supporting members. Each of the actuating structure... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5550644 | Video cassette recorder capable of automatically setting a television receiver A video cassette recorder ("VCR"), which is capable of automatically setting a television ("TV") receiver when the VCR is in a playback mode, comprises an A/V (audio/video) line connection detector for detecting whether the A/V signal output terminal of t... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5550368 | Method of detecting focusing error in an optical pickup system employing a reflective knife edge to separate the optical signal for comparison The optical pick-up system utilizing a knife edge method for a determining focusing error includes a light source, an optical detection unit, a beam splitter, an object lens, a knife edge, a pair of adders and a differential amplifier, wherein the optical... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5546235 | Astigmatic lens for use in detecting a focussing error in an optical pickup system A cylindrical astigmatic lens is used conventionally in detecting focussing errors in an optical pickup system. The inventive astigmatic lens is comprised of an orthorhombic base, made of a refractive material, provided with two parallel surfaces and a ce... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5546129 | Method for encoding a video signal using feature point based motion estimation A method for adaptively selecting feature points according to motions of objects between the current frame and the previous frame, comprising the steps of: subtracting a pixel value of the previous frame from a pixel value of the current frame to thereby ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5545364 | Process for the preparation of heat resistant polyester film A polyester film having excellent heat resistance and insulation property is produced by the inventive process which comprises: melt-extruding a polyester resin into a sheet, extending the sheet to shape it into a film and treating the film thermally to h... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5545260 | Pickling installation and method for operating this pickling installation A method operating a pickling installation for pickling rolled strips comprises several consecutively disposed pickling basins filled with a pickling agent containing acid, through which the strip 4 is passed. A pickling agent containing acid is injected ... | 08/13/1996 |
