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 |
| 6173665 | Sewing machine control system In an embroidery sewing machine, a value setting screen on a display indicates parametrical items about the movement of an embroidering frame, i.e., "sewable area" and "stand-by position", as well as parametrical items about the sewing operation, i.e., "t... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6110469 | Hybrid plasmid for 38 kDa antigen of M. tuberculosis The invention concerns a hybrid plasmid for the expression of unfused 38 kDa antigen of M. tuberculosis in E. coli, E. coli with the plasmid, an 38 kDa antigen and a protein of about 33 kDa useful for diagnoses.... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6053237 | Bump-resistant door The present invention relates to a door of the type having two parallel guide rails, a plurality of guide means (10, 50), which are adapted, when the door moves, to be guided by and run along the guide rails, a plurality of neighboring door leaf panels (2... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6028829 | Information reading device for optical disk with unrecorded region detector An information reading device for an optical disk has a peak level detector, a coupling capacitor, a comparator, and a resetting circuit. The comparator produces an on-track signal based on a detected peak signal from the peak level detector. Information ... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5992939 | Head rest sleeve A head rest sleeve for receiving a head rest support rod having a diameter within a known tolerance range is formed of a resilient material and has a body having an axial bore. Integral with the inside of the body and disposed thereabout are at least two ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5988492 | Pleated package having a reinforced central region with pre-expanded pleats A package made from a flexible pleated sheet with a central region reinforced by the addition of a second pleated sheet. Folding and unfolding is made easier by having a central area with semi-extended pleats with a side area having flattened pleats.... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5987148 | Driver for a horn radiator A driver for use with a horn radiator includes a heat conductive hollow base that confines an upwardly opened cavity for receiving a yoke. The yoke has an outer wall surface that defines a first clearance with the base, and an inner wall surface which is ... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5984756 | Toy construction system The invention relates to a toy construction system comprising building elements of a first type having a pair of opposed walls that define a space between said opposed walls, wherein the space has, at the free edges of the opposed walls, an open end and t... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5985311 | Transdermal hormone patch A transdermal therapeutic system (TTS) which contains as the active ingredients an oestrogen and a gestagen or a gestagen or androgen as well as an acrylate adhesive and, as resorption promoters, the two substances oleic acid and 2-(2-ethoxyethoxy)ethanol... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5974992 | Production management system for managing sewing operations of a plurality of embroidery sewing machines A lot sewing time required for sewing a lot of embroidery patterns is calculated based on data of the embroidery pattern to be sewn and on data indicating the number of times the embroidery pattern is to be sewn in the lot. After data for the calculated l... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5974758 | Reinforced chamber with a hollow cross section The apparatus includes a hollow chamber, preferably made from a synthetic material, such as PVC or other plastic, with an insertable reinforcement piece suitable for connecting to window, door or other configurations, such as abutment and frame profiles. ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5975820 | Two-piece pin and grommet The fastener includes a pin and a grommet for attaching a primary panel to a secondary panel. The pin includes two dual-height finger assemblies and a circular flexible flange or umbrella head. A primary panel through a first range of thicknesses is seali... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5973710 | Method and apparatus for printing on passports and the like Graphic matter, such as words and images, is printed on a document in bound form, such as passport, by forming the graphic matter by laser printing steps on a temporary substrate and provisionally setting the graphic matter thus formed on the temporary su... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5970711 | Master cylinder having double structured seal ring A main object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of improving the assembling performance of a double seal ring. According to the first embodiment of the invention, on the piston 31 side to which a seal ring is attached, there are p... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5971721 | High pressure pump having an eccentric transmission An energy efficient high pressure pump system includes a drive motor driving an eccentric transmission, which drives a reciprocation pump having a number of cylinders. The eccentric transmission transmits a torque demand from the reciprocating pump, which... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5967969 | Endoscopic apparatus having a peripheral light source An endoscope apparatus includes at least one endoscope, a peripheral device having a light source, and a detachable connecting device to connect the endoscope to the peripheral device. The emission time or illumination duration of the light source is meas... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5967143 | Surgical instrument for emergency medicine The invention relates to a surgical instrument, especially for emergency medicine, in particular a so-called coniotomy device with which access to the lung is created for supplying air to the lung in cases in which breathing is hindered in the larynx, whi... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5964635 | Toy construction system The present invention relates to a toy construction system comprising building elements of a first type that has a pair of opposed walls that define a space between said opposed walls, wherein those sides of the walls that face towards the space are provi... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5965208 | Coater belt and a coating station including such a coater belt A coater belt for carrying and supporting a web through a coating station on a paper or board machine, or an off-line coater, said belt comprising an endless base member and at least a first surface layer. Said surface layer is an impermeable coating comp... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5961364 | Building set for a toy building A building set for a toy building comprising a number of building module frames (1,1a,1b,2) and a plurality of fittings (10,17,18), and wherein each of the building module frames (1,1a,1b,2) comprises a bottom plate (3,4,19) with a superstructure that def... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5958327 | Tobacco smoke filtration material The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the downstream handling of water soluble polysaccharide-containing extruded tobacco smoke filtration material. During conveying of the extrudate from the extruder die of an extruder to a cutter, the extr... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5959278 | Information card producing device Recording units including a printer for printing information data on at least one surface of a recording medium card are arranged vertically one over another in an information card producing device. Card turning portions are disposed confronting the respe... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5957139 | Method of producing a wig for a toy figure Threads of hair are embroidered in loops on a flat, flexible base, for example, a textile base, in an area bounded by a desired wig contour. Individual threads or tufted multiple threads are embroidered in loops. Thereafter, the embroidered area is remove... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5953308 | Disc player with alternating ascending/descending guide devices A disc player includes: a plurality of pickup devices for reading information from a disc and a plurality of guide devices arranged radiately from a center of the disc, each for radially transferring one of the pickup devices. The guide devices are arrang... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5951823 | Velocity induced drainage method and unit A drainage device and method which provides for drainage from paper or pulp stock on a fabric in a sheet or mat making machine which includes a primary blade and trail blade with a gap therebetween for drainage wherein the size of the gap controls drainag... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5951762 | Apparatus for housing and dispensing hygienic applicators An apparatus for housing a plurality of applicators in a hygienic cavity and dispensing said plurality of applicators from said cavity. The apparatus includes a container for holding said plurality of applicators, a support structure for the plurality of ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5951313 | Discharge lamp lighting device and lamp socket The purpose of the invention is to prevent an occurrence of high voltage when a lamp 10 is not yet attached in a more reliable manner. In this invention, there is a provision of switch means 70 for turning on/off an electrical connection between a ballast... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5950551 | Sewing machine system having data editing device Disclosed is a sewing machine system, including an electronically controlled sewing machine, and a data editing device. In a sewing machine, a plurality of sewing programs stored in a data recording medium are read, and image data indicative of a sewing p... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5951726 | Modular filter bag cage The disclosed apparatus is a filter bag cage which is modularly constructed from end caps, circumferential rings (circular or other shapes), and longitudinal wires which are individually manufactured with fastening joints to allow for later assembly. Thes... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5946725 | Adult infant bonding garment An article of clothing such as a shirt or blouse which allows for Kangaroo Care by providing skin to skin contact between a person and infant which includes a pouch or pouches on the inside of the shirt centrally located thereon in which the infant may be... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5947846 | Hockey goal--"the judge" A score-indicating hockey goal assembly provides a television-viewable visual signal when a score is indicated.... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5938354 | Image forming apparatus Disclosed is an image forming apparatus for forming an image on roll paper. The image forming apparatus is provided with a printing head to form an image in accordance with an image data, a sheet feed mechanism to feed the roll paper, and a cutter which c... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5939176 | Warp loop seam An on-machine-seamable multi-axial press fabric for the press section of a paper machine is made from a base fabric layer assembled by spirally winding a fabric strip in a plurality of contiguous turns, each of which abuts against and is attached to those... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5938139 | Manually operated screen reeling device A screen reeling device includes a frame, an axle, a driving member, an elongated roller, and a biasing member. The frame includes left and right bracket members. The axle has a proximate end mounted to the right bracket member, and a distal end. The driv... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5934908 | High-powered automatic electromechanical toothbrush A sonic toothbrush and method produces acoustic pressure. A predetermined bristle tip velocity is generated under applied load. A predetermined acoustic pressure is produced under applied load. A predetermined shear stress is produced and predetermined me... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5936653 | Thermal transfer printing mechanism and facsimile device A thermal transfer printing mechanism for use in a facsimile device includes a separating guide surface that is formed having a curve having a radius of curvature of not more than 1.2 mm. Consequently, the acceleration in a separating direction of an ink ... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5931464 | Sheet sorting device having sheet pressure members In a sheet sorting device for distributing sheets consecutively fed from an image forming device such as a copying machine to sorting trays aligned in multiple stages at high speed, there are disposed sheet pressure members for pressing down preceding she... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5932072 | Paper forming activity blade with mounting buttons A papermaking apparatus such as a Fourdrinier table which includes a long blade and a trail blade. In the first aspect of the invention, the long blade includes an upper undulated surface with vents passing from the upper undulated surface to the lower su... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5927056 | Shaker head for harvester A shaker head for a harvester of plant produce comprises jaws 1, 2 pivotally connected together at 3 and having resilient clamp pads 6 adjacent the free ends thereof. A shaking mechanism is housed in a space in one or both jaws behind clamp pad 6. Jaws 1,... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5926929 | Venting system for above ground casket A one-way valve is mounted on a wall of a casket for venting gas and vapor pressure build up interiorly of the casket incident to body decomposition.... | 07/27/1999 |
