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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181480 | Refrigeration device A refrigeration device includes a compression mechanism, a radiator, a first expansion mechanism, a second expansion mechanism, an evaporator, a first internal heat exchanger, a branch pipe a third expansion mechanism, and a second internal heat exchanger. The first... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179016 | Motor and compressor A motor includes a rotating shaft, a rotor fixed to the rotating shaft and first and second stators facing each other on opposite axial sides of the rotor with a gap in between. Each of the first and second stators includes a back yoke, teeth circumferentially arran... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177484 | Impeller of multiblade blower and method of manufacuturing the same An impeller of a blower is disposed with circular support plates that are made of a resin and rotate about an axis of rotation and a plurality of blades that are made of a resin. The blades are disposed on outer peripheral portions of the circular support plates so ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176743 | Refrigeration device A refrigeration device includes a control unit, and a refrigerant circuit in which a compression mechanism, a radiator, a refrigerant cooling unit, a first expansion mechanism, a liquid receiver, a second expansion mechanism, and an evaporator are connected in seque... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174639 | Electronic device An electronic device includes a cabinet, a device main body, a printed wiring board, an electric terminal, and a holder plate. The electric terminal is disposed on a first face of the printed wiring board. The electric terminal includes a terminal body and a connect... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172560 | Fluid machinery having annular back pressure space communicating with oil passage A fluid machinery includes a rotary mechanism, an annular back pressure chamber and an oil passage. The rotary mechanism includes first and second cooperating members, each including an engaging member extending from an end plate, with the cooperating members being ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171747 | Refrigeration device A refrigeration device includes a compression mechanism, a radiator, a first expansion mechanism (15), a liquid receiver (16), a second expansion mechanism, an evaporator, a temperature detector, a first pressure storing unit (23a), and a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8167596 | Compressor and manufacturing method thereof The compressor includes a first constituent element and a first slider. The first constituent element is capable of being laser welded. The first slider is composed of cast iron capable of being laser welded and having a carbon content of from 2.0 wt % or more to 2.... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166335 | Specific-equipment management system, specific-equipment management program, and specific-equipment management method in which question information regarding a question estimating a specific-error cause is generated, the error regarding the specific-equipment and including human error regarding the human operation A specific-equipment management system is equipped with a question generator, a display unit and an input unit and manages a water heater. The water heater is equipment that requires human operation in the vicinity when used. The question generator generates questio... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162386 | Cab for construction machine A cab for a construction machine includes hinges that swingably mount the door to the wall. Each of the hinges includes a first member secured to a first cut-out portion of the wall, a second member secured to a second cut-out portion of the door, an interposed memb... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8157899 | Particulate material processing apparatus and particulate material processing system A particulate material processing apparatus has a vessel and a processing tank. The vessel has a charging port for charging a particulate material into the vessel. The processing tank receives the particulate material charged from the charging port. The processing t... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156756 | Fluid machine A fluid machine includes a casing, a compression mechanism for compressing refrigerant, an expansion mechanism for expanding refrigerant, and a rotary shaft connecting the compression mechanism and the expansion mechanism. The compression mechanism, the expansion me... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156752 | Air conditioning system An air conditioning system includes a compressor, a first heat source-side heat exchanger for heating or cooling a refrigerant, a second heat source-side heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the refrigerant and a heat delivery medium, a first utilization-side ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154668 | Television receiver A television receiver includes a liquid crystal module, a control board, a jack holder, a cabinet and a plurality of spacers. The control board has a jack. The jack holder is mounted to the control board to hold the jack. The cabinet houses the liquid crystal module... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152225 | Roof panel and cab with the same, and method of manufacturing cab A roof panel of a cab installed on a work vehicle includes a planar portion and a plurality of bent portions. The planar portion serves as the roof surface of the work vehicle cab. The bent portions are formed on the outer periphery of the planar portion. The bent p... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151286 | Disk device A disk device includes a loader chassis, a control board, an optical pickup, a flexible flat cable, and a guide member. The loader chassis has a bottom plate with a through hole. The control board is fixedly attached to a lower face of the bottom plate of the loader... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150093 | Display device A display device includes a display unit, a sound unit, a speaker positioning mechanism and a speaker attaching mechanism. The display unit is configured to display images. The sound unit is configured to output audio. The sound unit has top and bottom left speakers... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147376 | Construction vehicle A construction vehicle includes a control unit configured to shift gear after performing pre-shifting to couple a target speed-change gear that corresponds to a target speed with a target speed-change shaft in non-transmitting state of rotation of the input shaft wh... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147220 | Compressor having compression element welded to closed container at three or more welding points and suction tube neither parallel nor perpendicular to a straight line connecting any two of the welding points A compressor includes a closed container and a compression element welded together at least three, preferably six, welding points. A suction tube for sucking refrigerant gas is attached to the closed container. A first direction and a second direction that are assoc... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144492 | Current controlled power converter A current controlled power converter includes a converting part configured to convert a three-phase ac voltage into a dc voltage or converts a dc voltage into a three-phase ac voltage, ac side current detection portions configured to detect an ac side current of the... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144471 | Cable routing structure A cable routing structure includes a flexible flat cable and a wiring board. The wiring board has a first side and a second side that is opposite the first side. The wiring board includes a cable attachment component, a first access component and a second access com... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144268 | Display device A display device includes a display screen, a front cabinet, a rear cabinet and a switch member. The front cabinet has a pair of front supporting portions. Each of the front supporting portions has a threaded hole. The rear cabinet has a pair of rear supporting port... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139997 | Image formation device An image formation device includes an image formation unit, a paper feed unit, a paper discharge unit and a guide unit. The image formation unit prints an image on a recording paper conveyed along an image formation path. The paper feed unit feeds the recording pape... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137015 | Image forming method for determining a position of an ink ribbon with a boundary line A method of forming an image on a transfer sheet based on electronic data uses an image forming device and an ink ribbon cartridge. An ink ribbon of the ink ribbon cartridge has a plurality of ink films formed thereon with boundary lines being provided between the i... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132853 | Cab and construction machine A cab includes left and right rear pole members having internal spaces and prescribed shapes in cross-section. The right rear pole member includes a first hole portion that extends along the longitudinal direction of the right rear pole member and penetrates the rig... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8129933 | Motor controlling method and apparatus thereof A voltage detection section and current detection section detect a voltage and current supplied to a motor, and the detected voltage and current are supplied to a position detection section. An angular speed output from the position detection section is supplied to ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126621 | Engine load control device of work vehicle In an engine load control device of a work vehicle, an output of an engine is transmitted to a hydraulic actuator via a variable displacement type hydraulic pump. A controller is configured to calculate, based on a target rotational speed of the engine detected by a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125877 | Optical pickup An optical pickup includes a light emitting component, an optical component and a base component. The light emitting component has a laser diode, a package and a holder. The package has a positioning recess formed in an outer peripheral face of the package. The hold... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122462 | Panel attachment structure for disk tray A panel attachment structure for a disk tray includes an attachment frame, a decoration panel, a spring body, a restricting mechanism and a positioning mechanism. The attachment frame is non-movably coupled to a front end portion of the disk tray. The disk tray is m... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121735 | Control device A control device is configured to control an air conditioner that includes an air conditioner outdoor unit and an air conditioner indoor unit. The control device includes a microcomputer and a storage element. The microcomputer causes a signal to be transmitted and ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118471 | Connecting structure, cable and liquid crystal module A connecting structure for connecting a cable and a light source includes a wound part and a pin-shaped terminal. The wound part is formed at a distal end of the cable by bending an exposed end of a lead wire of the cable in a spiral shape. A direction of a center a... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8105059 | Compressor with screw rotor and gate rotor with inclined gate rotor center axis A compressor includes a screw rotor and a gate rotor arranged to form a compression chamber. The screw rotor has an outer circumferential surface with at least one groove portion. The gate rotor has a plurality of tooth portions. Preferably, a first plane contains t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104303 | Branching refrigerant relay unit and method of manufacturing the same A branching unit has a refrigerant pipe that is branched into a plurality of branching refrigerant pipes, and includes an insulation material resin casing and an expanded insulation material casing. The insulation material resin casing encloses branching portion whi... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104299 | Air conditioner An air conditioner includes an indoor heat exchanger (radiator) and a controller. The radiator causes heat radiation to be performed with respect to air from a supercritical refrigerant during heating operation. The controller controls a room temperature by causing ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103374 | Processing apparatus, center-hole working system, center-hole position deciding program, and center-hole position deciding method A processing apparatus includes a three-dimensional shape data acquiring section, a tentative center-hole position determining section, a shape simulating section, a balance deciding section, and a center-hole deciding section. The tentative center-hole position det... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8092181 | Resin cross flow fan and manufacturing method thereof A resin cross flow fan and a method for manufacturing a resin cross flow fan are provided in which an annealing step can be omitted and the number of circular disks can be reduced, and which provides improved fan strength and air blowing performance. A resin cross f... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085362 | Liquid crystal module A liquid crystal module includes a rear frame, a U-shaped cold cathode tube and a cold cathode tube support member. The U-shaped cold cathode tube has a first straight tube portion, a second straight tube portion and a curved end portion that connects the first and ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085361 | Liquid crystal module A liquid crystal module includes a rear frame, a light reflecting sheet, a plurality of U-shaped cold cathode tubes, an optical sheet and a liquid crystal panel. The light reflecting sheet is disposed on the rear frame. The U-shaped cold cathode tubes are disposed a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8083631 | Planetary gear type gearbox A planetary gear type gearbox includes a front-stage transmission section and rear-stage transmission section. The front-stage transmission section is for transmitting power from an input shaft to an intermediate shaft. The front-stage transmission section includes ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082082 | Engine-load control device for working vehicle An engine load control device is adapted to a working vehicle in which output of an engine is transmitted to drive wheels and to hydraulic actuators including a working equipment hydraulic actuator via a plurality of variable capacity hydraulic pumps. The control de... | 12/20/2011 |
