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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 |
| 8036439 | Size measurement apparatus, image display unit, computer-readable size measurement program storage medium, and computer-readable image display program storage medium A size measurement apparatus comprises a designation section that designates parts in images of two or more medical images acquired through image taking for a subject; a first measurement section that measures a size of an image on a part designated by the designati... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7807958 | Switch for an illumination device, and projection system including the same An illumination device and a projection system including the same are disclosed. The illumination device can implement a small-sized and high-efficiency projection system, and the projection system includes the illumination device. The projection system generates a ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7743871 | Anti-tilt apparatus and frame structure of tilting vehicle using the same An anti-tilt apparatus is provided in the present invention, in which a frame of a vehicle is locked or released for tilt by a locking mechanism controlled according to the vehicle moving status. In addition, the present invention further provides a frame structure ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7720369 | Image taking apparatus According to an aspect of the present invention, once the mode setting device sets the person photographing mode, and the face zooming instruction device instructs zooming to the face of the person, the detection device detects the size of the face of the person cap... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7662781 | Immunopotentiating agent Satisfactory effects have not always been attained by immunotherapy having been tried, and reliance upon direct attack on cells by anticancer agents, radiation, etc has been inevitable. The present invention intends to provide a therapeutic method that ensures less ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7584071 | Remote-controlled motion apparatus with sensing terrestrial magnetism and remote control apparatus therefor A remote-controlled motion apparatus is controlled by a remote control apparatus. The remote control apparatus transmits a target motion signal by radio. The remote-controlled motion apparatus includes a communication module, a terrestrial magnetism sensing module, ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7569987 | Light emitting apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a light emitting apparatus that allows it to easily control the driving of LED and has high color rendering properties. The light emitting apparatus comprises the first light emitting device 108a ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7434240 | Spindle motor including a ball cover having decelerating portion Provided is a spindle motor comprising a stator and a shaft provided in the stator. A rotor is coupled with the shaft, and a turntable is connected with the shaft. The turntable has a ball container for receiving a plurality of ball, and the ball container has an in... | 10/07/2008 |
| D573549 | Light emitting diode (LED) | 07/22/2008 |
| 7367041 | Information compressing and recording device When TV images are inputted as video data through a channel selected by the first inputting means, the video information including audio information is compressively encoded at a specified compression coding ratio by a compression coding portion, provided with a com... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7328993 | Printer A printer including a printhead which is displaceable at the level of a print surface in a main scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction with respect to a substrate situated in the print surface, and a supply unit for storing the substrate which is dispose... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7203205 | Polling device and communication apparatus A polling device of the present invention performs communication control such that frame synchronous transfer modes and frame asynchronous transfer modes are used so as to perform a communication operation, and includes: a polling counter section for reading all com... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7183283 | Piperidinyl-alkylamino-pyridazinone derivatives, a process for the preparation thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing said compounds The invention relates to new piperidinyl-alkylamino-pyridazinone derivatives of the general Formula (I) (wherein R is hydrogen or C1-4-alkyl; one of X and Y stands for hydrogen and the other represents a group of the general Formula (II) Hal stands for ha... | 02/27/2007 |
| D526374 | Head for golf club | 08/08/2006 |
| 6865773 | Steam cleaning device with a built-in storage for power cord and brushes and conversion connectors A steam cleaning device with a built-in storage for a power cord, brushes and conversion connectors can change steam output devices by switching a first conversion connector with a second conversion connector to achieve multiple function with the same device. The de... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6838172 | Sea-island typed conjugate multi filament comprising dope dyeing component and a process of preparing for the same The present invention relates to a dope dyed sea-island type conjugate multifilament. In the dope dyed sea-island type conjugate multifilament, which comprises easy soluble polymer as a sea component and polyester as an island component, the island component contain... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6830430 | Fan with a separable flying disc A Frisbee™ fan comprises a fan body made from a fabric bordered by a flexible strip on the peripheral rim thereof and a folding plate clamping the fan body for generating a strong air flow. The fan body may be printed with a selected pattern. The fan body may be s... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6424302 | Simplified dual-frequency antenna for mobile phone A simplified dual-frequency antenna for mobile phone includes an integrally stamped thin metal conductor to function as a frequency-control structure of the antenna. An upper end of the stamped thin metal conductor is a curved wave coil and a lower end th... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6337330 | Antitussives An antitussive agent containing an octahydroisoquinoline derivative represented by the following compound or pharmacologically acceptable acid addition salt thereof: ##STR1## The compounds of the present invention have the significant antitussive act... | 01/08/2002 |
