Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6146004 | Vehicle lamp A vehicle lamp has a housing, a light-transmissive shield covering the housing that extends across a corner area of the vehicle, at least one lamp chamber in the housing in which a light source is positioned, and a Fresnel lens having concentrically arran... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6125620 | Broken flight auger with anti-bridging device In an agricultural harvester a characteristic of crop material is monitored or measured as the crop material is conveyed through a feed tube by an auger. To obtain a more uniform packing density of the crop material in a sensing region where the measureme... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6120170 | Mounting device for a vehicle lamp An auto rear lamp has at least one mounting lug (1) formed on a back thereof that can be inserted into a mounting hole (3) for locking the rear lamp to an edge area (5) defining the mounting hole via a spring mounted locking element (2) on the mounting lu... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6118258 | Electrical apparatus supplied by a photo-voltaic power source An autonomous low power consumption electrical apparatus that has a supply device (8) comprising a single photo-voltaic cell, an electrical accumulator (7), and a voltage booster (10, 11, TR1, TR3) connected between the power source (9) and the accumulato... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6107916 | Signal lamp for vehicles A signal lamp for vehicles, specifically motor vehicles, has a housing in which at least one light source is positioned, and a light guide from which light is directed in a predetermined light exit direction, whereby the light guide is structured as a lon... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6102869 | Process and device for determining the cardiac output Procedure and device for determining cardiac output volume which involves applying an electrical potential to create a current flow through tissue of the patient's heart, placing a first measuring electrode on skin of the patient near the heart and insert... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6098268 | Assembly workshop, in particular for assembling together sheet metal parts An assembly workshop for assembling together sheet metal parts, the workshop including preparation stations for putting parts in place relative to one another, assembly stations for fixing the prepared parts together, and finishing stations serving to fin... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6096754 | N-3 substituted pyrimidin-4-ones with AII antagonistic activity N-3-substituted pyrimindin-4-ones with angiotension II (AII) antagonistic activity are characterized by the presence of a heterocyclic moiety bound to the 3-position of the pyrimidinone ring and a biphenylmethyl moiety bound to the 5-position of the pyrim... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6092622 | Thermal and acoustical insulating shield A flexible, adhesively attachable, thermal and acoustical insulating shield has a needled, flexible, fibrous batt (40) having an insulating layer (43) of insulating fibers (44) disposed between opposite binding layers (41, 42) of binding fibers (45). Bind... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6093662 | Method for generating water for semiconductor production Process for generating moisture for use in semiconductor manufacturing, the process comprising feeding hydrogen and oxygen into a reactor provided with a platinum-coated catalyst layer on an interior wall, thus enhancing the reactivity between hydrogen an... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6087663 | Segmented scintillation detector for encoding the coordinates of photon interactions Light guides (1) capable of encoding the transverse and longitudinal coordinates of light emission induced by the interaction of photons in an array of a plurality of the light guides. Each light guide has at least two discrete crystal segments (4) adjace... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6085613 | Crankset with no neutral position The crankset for the driving of bicycles and other vehicles or machines by muscular force includes two coaxial crank spindles (8, 9), mounted in a bottom bracket tube and each provided with a radial arm (20, 22) beside one or more toothed chain rings driv... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6084303 | Integrated circuit comprising connection pads emerging on one surface The printed circuit has connection pads emerging in a face of the integrated circuit, which face is covered in an insulating layer (5) having openings in register with the connection pads, and at least one conductor track (7) extending over the first insu... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6083103 | Sensor apparatus with butterfly valve for maintaining packing density of moving material In an agricultural harvester, a characteristic of crop material is sensed as the crop material is moved through a feed tube by an auger having flighting which terminates upstream of a sensing region. The auger flighting conveys crop material into the sens... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6076321 | Flat-mount louver assembly A flat-mount louver assembly (9) includes a plurality of slats (10) mounted in a louver jamb subassembly (40). The subassembly includes C-shaped jamb segments (20') joined together at a mitered joint (44) with their open faces facing one another and holdi... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6074224 | High voltage electrical coupling having outer elastic protective sleeve An electrical coupling part comprising a conductive coupling member, an inner conductive layer surrounding the coupling member, an insulating layer surrounding the conductive layer, and an elastic protective sleeve which comprises at least one cylindrical... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6072364 | Adaptive digital predistortion for power amplifiers with real time modeling of memoryless complex gains In an adaptive method and device for predistorting a signal to be transmitted, supplied by a signal source to an input of a power amplifier having a output for delivering an amplified output signal, the following steps are conducted: predistorting the sig... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6070738 | Dynamic monitoring and control of jigs The monitoring and control of jig separators is effected by monitoring the time variation within a jig cycle of at least one operating parameter of the jig, and manipulating the operating parameter(s) to produce the sought after form of the time variation... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6070989 | Structure for supporting a globe used for a portable gas lantern There is provided a globe supporting structure that supports a globe of a gas lantern which burns combustible gas discharged from a gas cartridge containing the combustible gas by means of a burner head located inside the globe, including a ventilator pos... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6068611 | Catheter having centering means A catheter comprising an elongated tube having a first channel for the guiding of a radioactive element and a second channel for the passage of a guide wire for the catheter, in which the elongated tube is provided on its outer circumference near its dist... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6068898 | Sheet films, packaging materials, and packaging using the same having pressure control valve A film sheet having a pressure valve portion with one or more holes passing partially through the sheet film on one side of the sheet film, and a thin portion covering each of the one or more holes. The thin portion is preferably constructed to rupture wh... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6066945 | Method and device for automatically switching three-phase voltage for power saving transformer An electric power saving transformer for three-phase current with an automatic voltage transferring device, in an autotransformer of a three-phase three-wire system or a three-phase four-wire system, has phase-winding of one set or plural sets of main coi... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6066813 | Switch insert for rotary switches Most prior-art switch inserts for rotary switches of a type including wiped segments and a switch wiper have a tall construction, and are unsuitable for carrying high current loads. In a switch insert of this invention, wiped segments (5) are arranged ins... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6065200 | Method for assembling bodywork parts A method for assembling body parts wherein at least two originally separate elements are brought to an assembly station, where they are held stationary with respect to one another and with reference to the assembly station. Supports, uniquely adapted to h... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6063513 | Specular-surface body A specular-surface body (1) which has a sufficient resistance against irradiation of high energy beams--such as X-rays, SOR beams, laser beams, etc.--can be suitably used as reflecting mirrors, diffraction gratings, etc. for such high energy beams. The sp... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6063480 | Artificially patinated copper material An artificially patinated copper plate in which a copper sulfide layer 2 is formed on the surface of a copper base plate 1 by sulfiding for coating the same, and the copper sulfide layer 2 having an artificially patinated layer 3 is formed distributed and... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6059009 | Device and technique to hang decorative of functional panel with grommets A device and method for hanging decorative or functional panels with grommets involves prefabricated textile tape with built in grommets and a ring for covering each grommet for an aesthetic look and cost efficient fabrication. The tape with the grommets ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6056449 | Frame assembly for supporting a camera A frame assembly for supporting a portable video or other camera. The assembly comprises a rigid frame, having a front, and a rear. A pair of shoulder rests are connected to the frame and constructed to rest on the shoulders of an operator. A pair of hand... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6056629 | Free form machining tool In a free form machining tool 10 for machining a surface to be machined while bringing the lower end into contact with the surface to be machined by a rotation around an axis z, the tool comprises a spherical tool 12 having a spherical surface machining s... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6052836 | Electric toilet An electric toilet comprising a cabinet or housing (10), an opening (16) in the top side of the cabinet, a lid (14) assigned to the opening (14), an upper bowl (18) arranged inside the opening, which bowl is openable downwards, a combustion chamber (32) a... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6052339 | Watch with touch reading and setting of time functions Watch with visual and touch horometric functions, including: a case (1) sealed by a crystal (4) arranged above an analogue dial (5) surrounded by a fixed bezel (8) a time-keeping circuit (10), a stepping motor (11); a non-acoustic vibration generating device (20); ... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6051685 | Peptide derivatives A peptide derivative having analgesic activity represented by the following Formula I: ##STR1## wherein Q represents D-Arg or L-Arg; and X represents for example NR6 --CHR7 R8. Typical compounds include H2 ... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6050772 | Method for designing a multiblade radial fan and a multiblade radial fan Specifications of the impeller and the scroll type casing of a multiblade radial fan comprising an impeller having numerous radially directed blades circumferentially spaced from each other and a scroll type casing accommodating the impeller are determine... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6050057 | Packing apparatus Packing apparatus for packing mail items, magazines, books, CDs and like products composed of one or more layers, comprising a product-assembling path, a folding station, and a separating station, the folding station comprising a first conveyor belt on wh... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6052501 | Cable comprising optical fibres enclosed in an outer sheath The cable includes optical fibers (1) enclosed in an outer sheath (2) having elongate reinforcing members (4) embedded therein, disposed in two diametrically opposite groups (3) each comprising a plurality of mutually tangential reinforcing members (4).... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6046533 | Discharge cell for ozone generator A discharge cell for use in an ozone generator is provided which can suppress a time-related reduction in ozone concentration without adding a catalytic gas such as nitrogen gas to oxygen gas as a raw material gas. The discharge cell includes a pair of el... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6045563 | Artificial chamber for extracting a corneal graft An artificial chamber for a corneo-scleral disk for the purpose of taking a graft therefrom, the chamber comprising a stand, a cornea support carried by the stand, having a vertical axis, and possessing a head having a supporting top face into which there... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6042337 | Sealing system for a hydraulic machine A Kaplan turbine or similar hydraulic machine has a hub body (1) fixed to the turbine shaft with radial blades attached to the hub body. The blades are fitted with oil lubricated bearings in the hub body. A sealing arrangement for the oil system has first... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6040579 | Thermoelectric sensor Thermoelectric sensor (12) formed by a membrane (14) including a plurality of thermoelectric elements (20) formed of a plurality of thermoelectric couples and forming a plurality of elementary cells. Each elementary cell is thermally insulated from adjace... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6040562 | Structure for uniform heating in a heating device There is provided a uniform heating structure in the heating device formed in the shape of a hollow block made of a heat-resistant metal, in which the surface of the heating device is used as a heat transfer surface, and a high thermal-conductivity materi... | 03/21/2000 |
