Did You Know...
...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7922248 | Seating structure and methods for the use thereof A seating structure has an articulated seat and back. A rear portion of the seat is automatically pivotable relative to a forward portion of the seat as the seat is tilted between upright and reclined tilt positions. An upper portion of the back is pivotable relativ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7840818 | System, method, and device for playing back recorded content A secure software package for original equipment manufacturers to run in electronic devices in order to access and dynamically decrypt encrypted audio video or other content from a memory storage device such as a memory card, optical or hard disk such that the user ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7680096 | System for configuring switches in a network A network is set forth that comprises a plurality of multiple port switches, a plurality of endpoint devices connected to the ports of the plurality of switches, and an enumerating endpoint device that is connected to at least one of the multiple port switches. The ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7363227 | Disruption of speech understanding by adding a privacy sound thereto A privacy apparatus adds a privacy sound into the environment, thereby confusing listeners as to which of the sounds is the real source. The privacy sound may be based on the speaker's own voice or may be based on another voice. At least one characteristic of the sp... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7284391 | Pump assembly for an ice making machine An ice making machine has a mechanical compartment and a water compartment that houses a water system, and a pump assembly. The pump assembly includes a motor and a pump housing connected to the motor. The pump assembly is mounted to a base between the machine compa... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7165932 | Fuel pump having dual single sided impeller A fuel pump includes a housing, and a motor. A single sided impeller has first and second impeller flow channels each including a plurality of vanes. The impeller defines a flow passageway extending therethrough. A cover is attached to the housing and has a cover su... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7124963 | Low pressure fuel injector nozzle A nozzle for a low pressure fuel injector that improves the control and size of the spray angle, as well as enhances the atomization of the fuel delivered to a cylinder of an engine. ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7114008 | Edge adapter architecture apparatus and method An architecture for intercepting and processing packets from a network is disclosed. The architecture provides both stateful and stateless processing of packets in the bi-directional network flow. Further, stateless processing is provided by a parallel arrangement o... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7046178 | Method and device for the calibration of a weighted network Improved methods for the calibration, in particular for self-calibration, of an A/D or D/A converter with weighted network (CN) are proposed. Only a relevant part of the weights (C0, C1, C2, Cn) is calibrated by measurement. In addition, by iter... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6885124 | Stator winding having radial aligned wraps An electric machine stator having end loop segments includes a multi-phase stator winding having a plurality of radially aligned partial wraps, wraps, and wrap sets, that are adapted to be placed in a plurality of circumferentially spaced axially-extending core slot... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6686805 | Ultra low jitter clock generation device and method for storage drive and radio frequency systems A clock generation device includes a delay-locked loop and a plurality of programmable counters. The plurality of programmable counters are coupled to delay-locked loop. Each of the programmable counters has a separate output. The delay-locked loop is con... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6647452 | Automatic recovery of non-responsive peripheral device by apparent disconnect and reconnect A change-over switch is disposed on a line of a peripheral device. The change-over switch is controlled by a control unit provided within a USB controller. When a host discontinues a polling operation to the peripheral device, the peripheral device first ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6641258 | Intermediate transfer recording apparatus for retransferring primary transfer image on disk-like transfer medium A dummy image is formed on a periphery of a retransfer image region on a transfer medium where a primary transfer image is not retransferred on the transfer medium when the primary transfer image is formed on the intermediate transfer film. As the result,... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6622517 | Condenser assembly having readily varied volumetrics A condenser assembly for a vehicle air conditioning system. The condenser assembly includes a core comprised of a plurality of parallel tubes between which are located a plurality of fins. A pair of headers are located on opposite ends and in fluid commun... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6285950 | Vehicle navigation system A vehicle navigation system estimates a travel time to a destination. Estimation of a travel time to a destination includes two steps of calculation. First, a travel time to an intermediate point forward of the present vehicle position is calculated based... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6243458 | Method and system for call tracing The present invention is drawn to a call trace system and method that is simple to establish in a short amount of time. The call trace is implemented through a Web browser page which remotely programs central offices to trace calls to particular number. W... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6072126 | Printed wiring board with grounding lines arranged between wiring lines A circuit board comprises: a plurality of solder lands, a wiring pattern having a plurality of wiring lines connected to the solder lands, respectively, an output terminal formed at one end of each of the wiring lines of the wiring pattern, an integrated ... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5886859 | Magnetic disc cartridge A magnetic disc cartridge has a magnetic disc medium contained for rotation in a casing having a magnetic head insertion opening for giving a magnetic head access to the magnetic disc medium and a shutter member for opening and closing the magnetic head i... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5773048 | Retainer for injection molding machine components A cylindrical retainer assembly for an injection molding machine includes a cylindrical body having a diametral through channel with a curved wall for receiving a complementarily configured end of an actuator. A spacer disc having a diameter substantially... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5664770 | Apparatus for delivering printed products to a further-processing location Folded printed products are conveyed in a first imbricated formation up to a stop by a first conveying device. In the first imbricated formation each printed product rests on the following printed product with its leading bottom edge formed by its folded ... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5628453 | Cup with thermally insulated side wall An insulated cup includes a tapered side wall that defines an array of spaced, parallel ridges separated by grooves. A label is supported by the ridges around the exterior of the cup to define an array of air gaps in the grooves between the ridges. These ... | 05/13/1997 |
