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 |
| 7970269 | Image acquisition apparatus The invention relates to an image acquisition apparatus, in particular a camera, for the identification of objects, comprising a focusable optical receiving system and an illumination unit including an object illumination and/or positioning illumination, wherein the... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7950616 | Form fitting connection between spindle and spindle holder of SLV gear The invention relates to a holding device (5) of a seat slide drive for a motor vehicle, wherein the holding device (60) is designed as a metallic block, wherein the holding device (60) is provided with a through-bore (61), in which one e... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7946195 | Steering apparatus for vehicle A steering apparatus for a vehicle capable of executing a steer-by-wire (SBW) mode of steering road wheels by a steering mechanism mechanically disconnected with a steering device. The steering apparatus includes a clutch which is composed of a shaft that rotates to... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7918572 | Indicator device An indicator device includes a light emitting element for emitting light, and a light conducting plate having a light incidence surface for conducting light from the light emitting element inside thereof and a light output surface, for a lighted indication by the li... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7862382 | Memory card connector A memory card connector is able to insert and remove a memory card (200) without leaving marks of insertion and removal on the memory card (200), prevent the memory card from popping out when the memory card is inserted and removed and enable miniaturi... | 01/04/2011 |
| D623519 | Jar venting disc | 09/14/2010 |
| 7761868 | Information recording method and optical disk A once-recordable optical disk has a data recorded area in which application software for creating an information group and a first file system are prerecorded. The application software is readable with the first file system and is used to select desired ones from a... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7703727 | Universal adjustable spacer assembly In a universal, adjustable spacer assembly, first and second opposed wedges have faces that are inclined with respect to a longitudinal axis. As the wedges translate along the longitudinal axis with respect to one another, vertical distance between an upper face and... | 04/27/2010 |
| D613351 | Abdominal exercise device | 04/06/2010 |
| 7667869 | Image processing device, image processing method, and printer driver An image processing device (140), which converts multivalued pixel values of an RGB color space corresponding to original colors of a multicolor original image into multivalued pixel values of a CMY color space corresponding to color inks used for printing in... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7650613 | Disc drive A disc drive comprises an enclosure, a disc carrying unit, a pair of rotating members, and a pair of light sources. The enclosure has an opening for insertion and ejection of the disc. The disc carrying unit carries a disc having been inserted into the opening to th... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7631724 | Sound-wave path-length correcting structure for speaker system A sound-wave path-length correcting structure for a speaker system includes a sound source and a horn. The horn has a sound-wave path-length correcting throat portion. The sound-wave path-length correcting throat portion corrects a sound-wave path-length of a sound ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7598858 | Methods, apparatuses, and systems for monitoring environmental parameters within an enclosure An apparatus for monitoring environmental parameters within an enclosure includes a power source; a communication device electrically connected to the power source and attachable to a cover of the enclosure; and a sensor suspended away from the cover of the enclosur... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7591772 | Exercise device including collar coupling An exercise device comprises a bar, pairs of weights comprising weight collars which can be removably secured to either end of the bar, and a coupling for each weight collar. One of the bar or the weight collar has means for receiving a detent, e.g., a circular groo... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7589630 | Remote sensing and communication system A remote sensing system and method for instrumenting the entries to manhole enclosures, in order to provide a platform and means for sensing environmental parameters within and around the enclosures and wirelessly transmitting those parameters to a distant site. The... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7540508 | Submersible on-shore scuba mobility device and system A scuba tank mobility device and a system comprise a cup member that may be fitted directly over the scuba tank or over a scuba tank boot. A roller member is mounted to rotate with respect to the cup member and positioned vertically with respect to bottom of the cup... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7531809 | Gamma ray detector modules A radiation detector assembly has a semiconductor detector array substrate of CdZnTe or CdTe, having a plurality of detector cell pads on a first surface thereof, the pads having a contact metallization and a solder barrier metallization. An interposer card has plan... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7520695 | Water provisioning device A water provisioning device for use with an irrigation channel for providing water into an irrigation pipe. The water provisioning device comprises a primary reservoir adapted to maintain water up to a predetermined level and comprising a primary outlet adapted for ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7413824 | Direct oxidation fuel cell with a divided fuel tank having a movable barrier pressurized by anode effluent gas The present invention provides improved, low-cost fuel cells having reduced fuel crossover, reduced sensitivity to metal ion impurities and ability to operate under a broad range of temperatures. The invention further provides improved methods for catalyst preparati... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7393039 | Energy absorbing device for a vehicle seat An energy absorbing device for reducing acceleration transmitted to a seated occupant in a vehicle as a result of a high energy impact. The device comprises a first energy absorbing mechanism having a first dimension in the impact direction and capable of undergoing... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391391 | Display apparatus A display apparatus divides each frame period of an input image signal into a plurality of subframes and selects the subframes according to a gray-scale level of the input signal, to display a gray-scale image. The display apparatus alternately employs two sets of t... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391960 | DV format capable recording and reproduction device and method Audio DIF blocks containing audio data and video DIF blocks containing video data are extracted by an audio/video extracting unit and respectively recorded in separate storage areas of an HDD. System data and audio auxiliary data are extracted by a system data recon... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7385904 | Optical pickup device A phase shift element has a tiered phase difference pattern portion, in which an inner circular side tiered phase difference pattern portion is continuously connected with an outer circular side tiered phase difference pattern portion based on a phase function curve... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7370127 | High-speed internal bus architecture for an integrated circuit An internal bus architecture capable of providing high speed inter-connection and inter-communication between modules connected in an integrated circuit such as an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The internal bus architecture includes multiple interf... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363855 | Process progress display device A process progress display device includes a stencil making block which displays a progress status of a stencil making process, a printing block which displays a progress status of a printing process, a stencil making stop bar which displays whether or not an entire... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360479 | Non-explosive energetic material and a reactive armor element using same The present invention provides elements for making a protective reactive armor to be fitted on the outside of an enclosure liable to be exposed to attack by shaped-charge warheads and other threats, such as kinetic energy projectiles and fragments, to thereby enhanc... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359596 | Micro lens array and a method of manufacturing a replication mold for the same The micro-lens array in which a plural of convexly-protruded micro-lens are closely arranged two-dimensionally and a plural of convex sub-lenses having a curvature-radius smaller than that of the micro-lens are protrusively formed on the surface of each micro-lens h... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7340359 | Augmenting semiconductor's devices quality and reliability A method for augmenting quality or reliability of semiconductor units, including providing few populations of semiconductor units that are subject to quality or reliability testing. The populations include few quality or reliability fail candidate populations and ot... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339158 | Rotary encoder A rotary encoder is clamped coaxially with its pickup shaft (14) on a drive shaft (12) which is to be measured. Two collet chucks are provided for this purpose. The one collet chuck is constructed as a clamping sleeve, which penetrates the pickup shaft... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336205 | Rotary encoder A rotary encoder exhibits a shaft, which can be coupled in torque-proof fashion to a rotating object to be measured. The shaft is connected at a true angle of rotation to a material measure and is divided axially into a drive section (10), which can be couple... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334543 | Coolant pump, especially electric convection-cooled coolant pump with integrated directional control valve, and corresponding method A coolant pump and method thereof for a coolant circuit of the internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle including at least a radiator circuit and a bypass circuit is disclosed. The coolant pump contains a coolant pump housing (14) which is provided with ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331812 | Connector for connecting electronic component An electronic-component connector forms a secure detachable connection and is packaged in a small space even when the electronic component is a module that is linked to an optical waveguide, and transmits and receives a signal such as an optical signal via the trans... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328861 | Particulate material spreader An electrically powered hand-held material spreader for spreading particulate material comprising: a hopper; a dispensing mechanism disposed below the hopper; an aperture disposed at a bottom of the hopper and above the dispensing mechanism; an electric power assemb... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7299480 | Loading disc optical detection apparatus A disc drive apparatus includes a tray member, on which a bare disc, or a cartridge accommodating a disc therein is placed, and a disc drive device, into or from which the tray member is loaded or ejected by a drive unit. A medium detection system includes detection... | 11/20/2007 |
| 6934514 | System for transmitting digital signals with FM signals A system for transmitting digital signals in the same band and on the same channel with FM signals is disclosed. The design of the system according to the present invention includes a coupler, which may be a +3 dB hybrid quadrature coupler, and circularly polarized ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6917264 | Coaxial line phase stabilization assembly and method An apparatus and method stabilizes a pair of parallel coaxial lines for an antenna having a tower. An upper portion of each coaxial line is suspended from the tower. A lower end of the coaxial lines is free to move vertically relative to the tower. The apparatus has... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914579 | Apparatus and method for isolating in-channel FM antennas sharing common aperture space Each of a pair of antennas for broadcasting has multiple elements arranged vertically on the same tower. The antennas transmit circularly polarized signals of opposite polarization. The opposite circular polarization of the radiated signals increases their mutual is... | 07/05/2005 |
