...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179126 | Hall rotary transformer and hall rotation angle encoder made of it A hall rotary transformer comprises a rotary transformer stator (1), linear Hall components (3), a PCB (4) and a permanent magnet magnetic ring (5). A ring shape soft iron core (2) is installed on the PCB (4). Plural grooves... | 05/15/2012 |
| D659929 | Steam iron | 05/15/2012 |
| D659928 | Steam iron | 05/15/2012 |
| 8168924 | Overheat protection control component for liquid heating vessel The invention provides an overheat protection control component for a liquid heating vessel which includes a control body (1); a single-integrated dual-actuation thermally sensitive bimetallic actuator (2) is provided on the upper face of the control b... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166687 | Electric fireplace with flame curtain The invention relates to a An electric fireplace with a flame curtain comprises a housing, a light source, a flame curtain with integral structure being disposed on the electric fireplace and in front of an electric fireplace flame generator, an imaging mechanism an... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658690 | Pipe for making chair frame | 05/01/2012 |
| D658689 | Pipe for making chair frame | 05/01/2012 |
| D658006 | Drinking ware with multi-media module | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161181 | Content delivering method and system for computer network A content delivering method for computer network and system are provided. The present invention classifies nodes participating in content transmission into a transmitting group and a receiving group, and uses the groups to manage the nodes dynamically entering or qu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159460 | Four axles center wheel module for mouse A four axles center wheel module for mouse comprising a coder assembly for outputting a encoded pulse electronic signal, a center wheel, and a mouse circuit board, the coder assembly is set on the center shaft of the center wheel; a swing component is installed in a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152478 | Compressor with controlled capacity A double cylinder compressor with controlled capacity having a capacity switch device, and a reservoir having an inlet and two outlets which are connected with an upper and a lower cylinder of the double cylinder compressor through the capacity switch device. The ca... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8137095 | Device and method for forming ceramic ferrule blank A device and a method for forming a ceramic ferrule blank are provided. A shaped wire (2) is disposed in a mold cavity (1) for form a blank, a knock pin mold (4) is disposed in a lower opening of the mold cavity (1), an axle hole (5 | 03/20/2012 |
| D654159 | Heater | 02/14/2012 |
| D654158 | Heater | 02/14/2012 |
| D653865 | Music rocking chair | 02/14/2012 |
| D653864 | UFO rocking chair | 02/14/2012 |
| D653845 | Hanging parasol | 02/14/2012 |
| 8110703 | Retinoid derivative and pharmaceutical composition and use thereof The invention relates to a retinoid derivative and pharmaceutical composition and use thereof. The compound of the invention is capable of preventing or treating hematological tumors, such as acute leukemia, chronic leukemia, multiple myeloma and lymphoma, solid tum... | 02/07/2012 |
| D653464 | UFO rocking chair | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107809 | Camera bellows of rotating-mirror framing camera without principle error A new camera bellows of a rotating-mirror framing camera, without principle errors such as defocusing error of imaging points, non-uniform photographic frequency and each axial chief ray of exit-pupil and the corresponding relay lens being different with a correspon... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107664 | Cap with bluetooth headset The invention discloses a cap with a bluetooth headset which is in the technology field of daily supplies, including a cap body. The cap body has a bluetooth headset which comprises a transceiver and two acoustic generators on the right and left respectively, the tr... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101008 | Anode refinement method for high-sulfur content coarse copper An anode refinement method for high-sulfur content coarse copper: while high-sulfur coarse copper liquid from a flash converting furnace flows to the anode furnace through a chute, inert gas is continuously added, to stir the copper liquid and improve discharging of... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100060 | Dual-purpose table with revolving top This invention relates to the technical area of sports and recreational apparatus, which reveals the dual-purpose and turnover ping-pong table. This dual-purpose table includes the table support and table surface, two sides of which are different tables. The center ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099838 | Fastening belt with rotatable drag hooks This invention is about the fastening belt with freely rotatable drag hooks, which includes two drag hooks. The said drag hooks have an upper cover and a bottom cover, with the hook fixed in the front of the drag hooks; one elastic rope to link the two drag hooks, w... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8096497 | Power assembly and a coaxial twin propeller model helicopter using the same A coaxial twin propeller model helicopter comprises a power assembly, a twin propeller rotation assembly, a tail rotation assembly, a motor assembly and a gear assembly. The twin propeller rotation assembly comprises a main rotation assembly and a minor rotation ass... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096346 | Method for casting high-power wind turbine base with ductile iron A method of casting a base of high-power wind turbines with low-temperature nodular graphite iron, using furan resin sand as the mold sand and having no risers or chills in the mold. The mold undergoes microseismic compaction and has no chills risers. The parting fa... | 01/17/2012 |
| D651882 | Electric circular saw | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089192 | Three-phase square-wave permanent magnet brushless DC motor This invention relates to a three-phase square-wave permanent magnet brushless DC motor for solving problems of the existing square-wave permanent Magnet Motor and sine-wave permanent magnet motor. In this invention, the number 2P of magnetic poles on the said rotor... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8088436 | Method of coating graphite particles with metallic catalyst layer This invention relates to a preparation method and equipment of graphite and catalyst composite for a kind of synthetic diamond. Firstly, graphite particles shall be placed into the heating chamber for pre-heating; secondly, the heated graphite particle will be fed ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8084621 | 3-Pyrrolo[]cyclohexylene-2-dihydroindolinone derivatives and uses thereof 3-pyrrolo[b]cyclohexylene-2-dihydro-indolinone derivatives of formula (I) or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and uses thereof. The intermediates of formula (II) for preparing the above compounds. The bioassay shows that the above compounds and their pharmace... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8083208 | Gas rotary valve A gas rotary valve comprises a valve body (1), a valve core (2), a valve cover (3), an actuating shaft (4) and a regulator positioning pin (6). The valve core (2) has a large through hole (22), a first small through h... | 12/27/2011 |
| D651300 | Heater | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082343 | Method and device for making clients rapidly access to the peer-to-peer network A method and device for making clients rapidly access to the peer-to-peer network comprise that the accessed clients, which are separated into one or more normal state groups; the clients that intend to log in are separated into one or more login groups; and the req... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081300 | Apparatus and method for laser ranging The present invention relates to a method for laser ranging with high precision and high efficient, a method for identifying distance mode automatically during laser ranging process, and a laser ranger with high precision, high efficient and low power waste. The acc... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079300 | Automatic ejecting device for capsules in coffee machine The invention relates to an automatic ejecting device for capsules in a coffee machine comprising a housing, a first frame, a second frame and a driving system; two jaws movably jointing with two sides of said second frame respectively, and the front portion of each... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8069902 | Aluminum alloy vacuum casting equipment An aluminum alloy vacuum casting equipment comprises a high pressure casting tank, in which a guard is equipped. The high-pressure casting tank is connected with a booster jar through a compressed air pipe. A first casting window and second casting window which are ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8062524 | Integrated oxidation ditch An integrated oxidation ditch comprises a number of oval channels. There are two or more circular zones in the central island of the oxidation ditch, wherein, the two circular zones are tangential to the inner wall or share the inner wall with an adjacent channel. W... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050791 | Method of fabricating color jacquard fabric This invention discloses a method of fabricating color jacquard fabric, comprising the processes of design and fabrication of pattern card, loom preparation, looming and weaving. The steps of design and fabrication of pattern card are: reading target image for jacqu... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8047821 | Ring rack oil pumping machine The Ring Rack Oil Pumping Machine is comprised of: a base, a frame mounted on the base, a roller mounted at the frame top, a sprocket case connects to the middle of the frame; a input shaft having a lower sprocket and a drive shaft having an upper sprocket are insta... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8024877 | Electric fireplace flame curtain with flexible simulated carbon bed The present invention relates to an electric fireplace flame curtain with flexible simulated charcoal bed, the flame curtain is a structure of vessel, comprises a front wall and a rear wall with transparent structure, an imaging mechanism disposed on the front wall ... | 09/27/2011 |