Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941255 | Process and apparatus for detecting damper damage In a method and apparatus for detecting shock absorber damage, features of a shock absorber are determined by analyzing a signal of an antilock braking system rotational wheel speed sensor. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941076 | Rotor driving force transmission device and image forming apparatus having the device A driving force transmission device superior in reliability with suppressed rotation fluctuation. The driving force transmission device has gearing reception portions, three arm portions and a press member. The gearing reception portions are formed in the inner circ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940941 | Effect adding method and effect adding apparatus An effect adding method, includes: applying different gains to a positive side waveform portion and a negative side waveform portion of an audio signal respectively when absolute values of input levels of the positive side waveform portion and the negative side wave... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940428 | Image generating apparatus A push-up member of this image generating apparatus includes a first push-up member integrally having a first assembly engaging portion provided between a first spring clip portion and a first engaging portion and a second push-up member integrally having a second a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940203 | Electromagnetic wave absorption board to be used in wireless LAN In a double glazing where a pair of transparent glass sheets are arranged at an interval by having a spacer at the circumferential end portion and where a hollow layer sealed between the pair of glass sheets is formed, there is provided an electromagnetic absorption... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938914 | Workpiece surface treatment system A workpiece surface treatment system (1), which obtains a surface-treated workpiece by sequentially carrying a treatment cell (9) containing a workpiece to a series of apparatuses for operations in the respective apparatuses, is characterized by includ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938617 | Pressure test method of double suction volute pump According to the present invention, along the right and left sides of a rotary shaft, flat faces that serve as sealing faces are formed at the circumferential edges, on the suction chamber side, of semicircular division plates, which define suction chambers and a di... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938219 | Method for damping axial shocks onto a driver's lower extremity A method of damping axial shocks which affect a driver's lower extremity situated on an accelerator, when the vehicle impacts on an obstacle is provided. In this case, by way of a device for generating an adjustable restoring force applied to the accelerator, in res... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937995 | Method for monitoring an exhaust gas purifying component In a method for monitoring an exhaust gas purifying component with gas storage capability for purifying exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas purifying component comprises a gas storage material which changes from a first state into a sec... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937219 | Steering assist system and vehicle mounted with the same An object of the present invention is to provide a steering assist system capable of showing a driver an appropriate direction of steering operation in advance and correctly, and without impairing safety, and shortening an operation time during collision avoidance, ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936904 | Image recognition device for vehicle and vehicle head lamp controller and method of controlling head lamps This device includes an input unit for inputting an imaging signal sent from a camera for imaging an area around a vehicle in which the device is loaded, a coordinate area extracting unit for extracting predetermined continuous coordinate areas from the imaging sign... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936573 | Bi-directional DC-DC converter and control method A bi-directional DC-DC converter uses a transformer for both step-down and step-up operations. A switching frequency for operating a switching device is set separately for the step-down and step-up operations. When, for example, the switching frequency during the st... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936566 | Electronic control unit and waterproof case An electronic control unit has a respiratory filter mounted on a waterproof case. Raised protective walls formed in the case surround the portion of the case at which the respiratory filter is arranged. At least two concave portions are provided for drainage that ea... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936302 | Unwrapping of phase values at array antenna elements A method and apparatus are described for the unwrapping of a set of phase values observed for an incoming signal on a phased array antenna. The difference between values observed on adjacent elements in the array forms a first data set. The differences between adjac... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936100 | Stator for rotating machine and rotating machine using the same The stator includes a plurality of concentrated winding coils disposed coupled into an annular form through yokes, and a plurality of conductors that couple the coil ends of the concentrated winding coils to each other in a multi-phase connection fashion. Conductors... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935989 | Single-electron transistor, field-effect transistor, sensor, method for producing sensor, and sensing method A single-electron transistor comprising at least a substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on top of the substrate opposing to each other, and a channel arranged between the source electrode is disclosed wherein the channel is composed of ultra fi... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934492 | Method and device for improving a recirculation of exhaust gas in an internal combustion engine A method and apparatus for improving recirculation of exhaust gas in an internal combustion engine having an exhaust-gas turbocharger, in particular in a diesel engine, determines operation parameters of the engine in order to determine exhaust gas pressures, suppli... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934312 | Production method of an electronic circuit device An electronic circuit device comprises: a printed circuit board mounted with electronic components; a resin-molded portion formed of resin so disposed that the electronic components are covered therewith; a convex connector that has metal terminals for connection an... | 05/03/2011 |
| D637127 | Decorative element for a vehicle | 05/03/2011 |
| D637124 | Front bumper for a vehicle | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934246 | Broadcast receiver Disclosed is a broadcast receiver that can automatically enable input of a predetermined signal from external device, when there is no broadcast of program that is receivable at the broadcast receiver. The broadcast receiver 100 detects non-broadcasting time ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933971 | Method for secure communication over a public data network via a terminal that is accessible to multiple users There is described a method of communicating over a public data network, for example the Internet. A user of a public PC, for example one located in an Internet café, uses the Internet browser provided on the public PC to downloaded from a remote trusted web site a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933675 | Machining apparatus for drilling printed circuit board A machining apparatus in which the machining efficiency can be improved even if characters are machined in a printed circuit board. A coordinate transformation unit is provided for transforming central coordinates of each dot d of each character of a character strin... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932348 | Fluorine-containing polymerizable monomer and polymer compound using same Polymers made by polymerization or cyclization condensation of a fluorine-containing polymerizable monomer represented by the formula [1] wherein “a” represents an integer from 1 to 4. The monomer contains a plurality o... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930992 | Plasma processing equipment Resonance can be surely provided under any plasma condition in such a manner that an antenna (3) is arranged in an opening of an upper part of a chamber (1) to produce an electromagnetic field generated by a microwave, a top plate (4) for sealin... | 04/26/2011 |
| D636715 | Wheel or wheel cover | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930151 | Method for calculating an individual progressive lens A method of calculating an individual progressive lens creates one or more basic designs for lenses based on theoretical specifications, and then creates starting designs from these basic designs. Individual progressive lenses are calculated from the starting design... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930146 | Errors-in-variables data processing including essential weighting of mapped path-oriented deviations with normal component discrimination Representations of data inversions are generated by alternate forms of maximum likelihood estimating which are rendered in correspondence with dependent coordinate mappings of path-oriented displacements. The dependent coordinate mappings are alternately considered ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929799 | Deformation of mask-based images An image processing method is described that allows a user to manipulate regions of interest (ROIs) in a mask based image. The user defines a stretch vector for example by ‘clicking and dragging’ a mouse pointer and an algorithm deforms the ROI according to a ro... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929709 | Sound image localization apparatus A sound image localization apparatus comprises an L direct output section that produces an output signal by inputting an audio signal of a rear left audio input channel to a filter having a characteristic obtained by dividing RLD by LD, an L cross output section tha... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928908 | Apparatus and method for determining receiver performance in a multilateration system In a multilateration system receivers are grouped into two groups. The first group is used to determine a position of a signal source, for example, an aircraft equipped with a SAR transponder. From the determined position, predicted time of arrival values are produc... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928898 | Method for determining the kinematic state of an object, by evaluating sensor measured values In a method for determining the kinematic state of an object by evaluating a sequence of discrete polar measured values of a sensor, the polar measurements rm, αm are converted to Cartesian coordinates and subsequently scaled to Cartesian pseu... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928879 | Audio processor An audio processor is provided which includes a digital signal processor for processing a digital audio data in an inputted digital audio file and a digital analog converter for converting the digital audio data processed by the digital signal processor into an anal... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927721 | Window glass for automobile The present invention relates, in an automotive window glass having a ceramic color layer formed thereon, to the automotive window glass being characterized in that a ceramic color layer is formed on an entire surface or part of the automotive window glass by using ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927709 | Wear-resistant coating and a component having a wear-resistant coating A wear-resistant coating, in particular an erosion-resistant coating for a component that is exposed to fluidic loads, is disclosed. The wear-resistant coating has one or more multilayer systems applied repeatedly to the surface to be coated, where each of the appli... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926626 | Adjusting device for a pneumatic disc brake An adjusting device for adjusting the wear of the friction surface on the brake lining and brake disc of a pneumatic disc brake having a clamping device that is actuated by a rotary lever is provided. The device preferably can be inserted into a rotary spindle of th... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926288 | Reformed-fuel-burning gas turbine system and method of operating the same The present invention provides a reformed-fuel-burning gas turbine system that constantly generates good-quality reformed fuel even when heavy fuel has a different composition. The reformed-fuel-burning gas turbine system according to the present invention co... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926271 | Fresh gas supply device for a turbocharged piston internal combustion engine A fresh gas supply device for a turbocharged piston internal combustion engine having fresh gas conduction elements is described. The device includes a compressed air connection operatively connected to a tubular interior chamber of the fresh gas conduction elements... | 04/19/2011 |
| D636319 | Front face of a vehicle wheel | 04/19/2011 |
| D636311 | Side mirror for a vehicle | 04/19/2011 |
