Famous Patents
In 1608, Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lipperhey filed the first patent for a working telescope. The patent was denied.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7522476 | Calendar mechanism for displaying the date and the day of the week in one timepiece The invention is a timepiece calendar mechanism for displaying the date and the day of the week, including a date indicator in the form of an internally toothed crown. The date indicator is driven by a first drive wheel having an external toothing so as to be able t... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7520242 | Micromotor arrangement for driving a pointer-type indicating device The present invention concerns a micromotor for an indicator device comprising a hand of the type generally used in the instrument panels of motor vehicles. More specifically, the present invention concerns a micromotor of this type comprising a case wherein the thi... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7509804 | Turbocharger with variable nozzle A turbocharger with a variable nozzle has a turbine impeller, a compressor impeller, a shaft coupling the turbine impeller and the compressor impeller, a bearing housing rotatably supporting the shaft, and a turbine housing accommodating the turbine impeller. The tu... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7471842 | Method and apparatus for dynamically detecting pixel values A pixel value array is provided, which includes an examined pixel value. Several reference pixel values are each subtracted from the examined pixel value to obtain several differences. The sampling pixels of these reference pixel values are spatially adjacent to the... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7403449 | Watch movement including a display ring holding plate The movement (10) includes at least one display ring (12, 14) which is rotatably mounted on a bottom plate (16) and which carries markings that will appear in a display zone (22). The ring (12, 14) is fitted with an inner periphera... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7359289 | Watch provided with push-buttons comprising a mechanism for actuating delocalised control elements of a clockwork The invention concerns a watch including a case having a middle part and housing a watch movement having a time-setting stem in a first peripheral region, said movement further including a first and a second control member which are arranged on either side of the ti... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352077 | Motor-driven supercharger There are provided with a motor rotor (22) fixed to a turbine shaft (12) and rotating together with the turbine shaft, a motor stator (24) surrounding the motor rotor and fixed within a bearing housing (16), an inverted (26) conver... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7287901 | Reverser mechanism for uni-directional rotational driving of a wheel set The mechanism includes, mounted to rotate freely on an arbour 6, a driving wheel (5) driven by an oscillating drive pinion (3) and a driven wheel (7) meshed with the first wheel set (1) of a kinematic chain and comprising a dome ( | 10/30/2007 |
| 7035169 | Event planner timepiece The present invention relates to an electronic timepiece, of the wristwatch type, for providing information relating to an event comprising a plurality of scheduled events, like for example the Olympic Games, the football World Cup, or the public holidays across the... | 04/25/2006 |
