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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 |
| 5680779 | Washer with a wash plate Described is a washer having a driving unit which is installed at the lower portion of a rotation axis and rotates the rotation axis, a feed unit which is axially connected to the rotation axis and moves up and down as the rotation axis rotates, and a was... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5662357 | Car height control apparatus A car height control apparatus comprising: a weight sensing section for sensing a rear shaft force of a car; a bellows in which one end is fixed at the lengthwise frame, and the other end is adhered closely to a leaf spring that supports the lengthwise fr... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5660464 | Halogen lamp protection device A halogen lamp comprises a lamp casing, a lamp disposed in the lamp casing, a halogen tube disposed in the lamp, and a halogen lamp protection net covering the lamp. A protection plate covers the halogen tube. A first press plate has a first proximal end ... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5658011 | Air bag apparatus of a tire's air pressure sensing system for a vehicle An air bag apparatus in a tire air pressure sensing system for a vehicle capable of reliably protecting passengers of the vehicle from accidents regardless of the pattern of the accident which includes a collision sensing section, a pressure sensing secti... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5634227 | Washing-time compensating method of a washing machine A washing-time compensating method compensates for the washing time of a washing machine according to a water supply time during executing a washing operation. After setting a speculative total washing time required for the washing in accordance with a pr... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5633853 | Optical pickup with two optical systems each generates a laser beam An optical pickup device for reading a multitude of disks. A first optical system for reading a first optical disk by generating a first laser beam, exposing the first laser beam on the first optical disk and receiving a first reflected light from the fir... | 05/27/1997 |
