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 |
| 8181617 | Laser ignition for gas mixtures An ignition device for the ignition of a gas mixture in a main combustion chamber (1), in particular of an internal combustion engine, is proposed, wherein the absorber body (5) is heated by means of a laser (8). A prechamber (10) is loca... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8167285 | Spring latching connectors radially and axially mounted A spring latching connector includes a housing having a bore therethrough, a piston slidably received in said bore, circular groove formed in one of said bore and piston and a circular coil spring disposed in said groove for latching said piston and housing together... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162539 | Sensor arrangement for temperature measurement In a sensor arrangement (1) for measuring the temperature of a surface, in particular of a pane (2), comprising a temperature sensor (3) that is disposed on a circuit board (4) and positioned at a front end of the circuit board (4)... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8148969 | Circuit arrangement for the regulation of a current through a load A circuit arrangement (1) for the regulation of a current (IL) through a load (RL) comprises: a resistance (RS), through which a load current (IL) flows and across which a voltage (VS) drops, which serves... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146431 | Method and system for non-destructively testing a metallic workpiece The invention relates to a method for nondestructive testing of a metallic workpiece (11) using an ultrasonic transducer testing head having the following steps: to generate an ultrasonic wave, an excitation pulse is transmitted using the ultrasonic transduce... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143831 | Regulating device for regulating the voltage on a high-side load The invention to an electronic control system, controlled by a pulse width-modulated signal (SG) related to earth, for regulating the voltage (Umot) across a high-side load (M), in particular a fan control unit for motor vehicles. The circuit part that converts the ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141571 | Supplemental medical gas system A supplemental medical gas system and method utilizes a wheeled handcart, a reel disposed thereon having a length of the hose disposed thereon and extendable therefrom. Couplings are provided and disposed on opposite end of the hose for establishing connection with ... | 03/27/2012 |
| D656300 | Pants | 03/27/2012 |
| 8128222 | Multifocal diffractive contact lens with bi-sign surface shape A contact lens for placing over the eye is described. The lens has at least one non-spherical shape surface configured with bi-sign profile to maintain lens optical advantage as compared with equivalent far power spherical lens within common clinical condition of le... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125649 | Scanning sensor system for noncontact optical scanning of object surfaces A scanning sensor system for noncontact optical scanning of object surfaces having a sensor head (2) and an optics unit (3) as system components matched to one another. The optics unit (3) can be attached and positioned with high precision on th... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122526 | Adjustable universal flapper A toilet flush flapper valve includes a flapper and a ballast with a vent hole for enabling air to escape from the ballast, the ballast is rotatably fixed to the flapper for enabling positioning of the vent hole for controlling buoyancy of the ballast in order to co... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8104738 | Concrete shell system including clamping devices having diagonally guided wedges A turnbuckle device (12, 13, 14; 20; 35a, 35b, 35c; 44a, 44b, 44c) for clamping concrete shell elements (1, 2), having two claws (15a, 15b, 15 | 01/31/2012 |
| 8100622 | Articulated lift arm An articulated lift aim assembly for a refuse receptacle generally includes an engaging device for releasably grasping the receptacle, an extendable boom along with an articulated arm mechanism interconnecting the book and the engaging device. A gear arrangement pro... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8092674 | Traveling band screen machine A traveling band screen machine (1) is proposed with a careful fish return. To this end, the screen panels (4) each have a fish lifting channel (26) in which fishes (28) in a liquid-filled collecting recess (27) are lifted out of t... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8083402 | Sensor arrangement for temperature measurement In a sensor arrangement for measuring the temperature of a surface with a temperature sensor provided on a circuit substrate, which is attached on a front side of a tongue-shaped projection of said circuit substrates and can be positioned in the direct proximity to ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8083398 | Sensor arrangement A sensor arrangement comprises a dew point sensor for measuring the dew point characteristic in a room, and a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature characteristic on a wall surface of the room, means being provided for evaluating and/or storing the measur... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8050544 | Electronic device for regulating the voltage across a high-side load The invention relates to an electronic control device for regulating the voltage across a high-side load, especially for regulating a fan in a motor vehicle, with a control voltage (V1) which is referenced to system ground and which is mirrored to the positiv... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8032517 | Method for the automatic evaluation of the similarity of two character strings that are stored in a computer The invention describes a computer-aided method for automatically valuating the similarity of two character strings which are stored in a computer or to which the computer has access via an interface. First of all, associations which are present in the character str... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8029453 | Apparatus and method for reduction, correction and/or reversal of aberrant cervical, cervico-thoracic, thoracic, thoraco-lumbar, lumbar and lumbo-sacral/pelvic postures An orthopedic device includes at least one torque band disposable around a users' body and having opposing ends extending outwardly from the users' body and generally transverse to a user's spine along with apparatus applying counteracting forces to the ends in orde... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026684 | Electronic control system The invention relates to an electronic control system for controlling a voltage across a load, in particular across a fan motor of a motor vehicle, as a function of a control signal, comprising: a setting transistor, a transistor, which activates the control channel... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8025805 | Device for reducing bitterness and astringency in beverages containing polyphenols and tannins A method of treating an orally ingestible item having an original taste to be enhanced or reduced without imparting bitterness to the item, includes exposing the item to a magnetic field and oxygen. ... | 09/27/2011 |
| D645657 | Dispenser cartridge | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018230 | Sense shimming (SSH): a fast approach for determining B0 field inhomogeneities using sensitivity encoding The pursuit for ever higher field strengths and faster data acquisitions has led to the construction of coil arrays with high numbers of elements. With the SENSE technique it has been shown, how the sensitivity of those elements can be used for spatial image encodin... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8006907 | Card reader with locking device In accordance with the invention, in a card reader comprising a pivot arm that engages behind an inserted card, a locking element that can be displaced in the insertion direction of the card and, in a locking position, blocks a pivoting motion of the pivot arm out o... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006359 | Machine tool for processing tooth formations of workpieces A machine tool for processing tooth formations of workpieces, includes a rotary holder which can be rotated about a main axis A, two workpiece spindles which are arranged on the rotary holder, with the workpiece spindles having spindle axes (Sa, Sb | 08/30/2011 |
| 7984796 | Motion retarding system and method A motion retarding system includes a linear array of permanent magnets for providing a magnetic flux along with a diamagnetic member for engaging the magnetic flux and producing eddy currents in the diamagnetic member which results in the braking force between the l... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7950339 | Pyrolysis apparatus with transverse oxygenation Apparatus for the pyrolysis of solid waste material includes a thermal reactor including an elongate hollow housing with a reaction chamber disposed within the housing. The thermal reactor is vertically oriented in order to cause solid waste material fed thereinto t... | 05/31/2011 |
| D638917 | Universal flapper | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949235 | Electronic module and arrangement for signal transmission with the former The invention concerns an electronic module for a motor vehicle, in particular a fan regulator (4″) with a control input (S) for a signal, in particular a pulse width modulated signal, transmitted via a signal line (3). The electronic module is desig... | 05/24/2011 |
| D637663 | Student exercise desk | 05/10/2011 |
| 7922964 | Ceramic hollow fibers made from nanoscale powder particles The invention relates to a method for producing ceramic hollow fibers from nanoscale particles and to hollow fibers produced in such a manner. The inventive method is characterized in that the ceramic material has a solids content of >25% by volume, preferably >30% ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7909509 | Sensor configuration for temperature measurement A sensor configuration (1) for measuring the temperature of a surface, in particular of a screen (2), comprises a temperature sensor (3) which is disposed on a circuit board (4) and is positioned in the area of a front face (4′) ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7906968 | NMR tomography method based on NBSEM with 2D spatial encoding by two mutually rotated multipole gradient fields A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging method in which, with the aid of a gradient system, a spatially and temporally variable magnetic field Bgrad is generated, for the at least two-dimensional spatial encoding of NMR measurement signals in a measure... | 03/15/2011 |
| D633291 | Push button dispenser | 03/01/2011 |
| 7883379 | Battery post clamp A battery post connector and harness in accordance with the present invention includes a pair of generally rectilinear jaws with each jaw having a peripheral notch sized and shaped to fit against a battery post. The jaws are abuttable with the notches facing one ano... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881851 | Method of operating glow plugs in diesel engines The invention describes a method for operating glow plugs in a diesel engine that comprises a housing and a heater element projecting beyond that housing which interacts with an engine control unit and a glow plug control unit which, following a preheating phase, co... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7879372 | Method and composition for treating ear inflammation caused by dry ear A method of treating diseases and conditions associated with dry ear comprising topically applying to the ear canal of a subject that is suffering therefrom a liquid composition comprising an anti-irritant agent, a wound healing agent; and an anti-inflammatory agent... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7860381 | Heating device for diesel fuel and heatable diesel filter system The invention relates to a heating device for diesel fuel comprising at least one PTC heating element (8), at least two contact sheets (7) each comprising a front face (10) by means of which they contact the PTC heating element (8) electr... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7858892 | Ball holding, latching and locking applications using radial and axial springs by incorporating electrical conductivity and electrical switchings A latching and electrical switch mechanism includes an insulated housing having a cavity therein with an opening thereto along with an electrically conductive ball disposed therein. The ball includes a stem with a smaller diameter than the ball and extends therefrom... | 12/28/2010 |
| D629839 | Labeling machine | 12/28/2010 |
