Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7014884 | Coated film forming method and apparatus therefor A coated film forming method is capable of readily forming a coated film of a thermoplastic material on a coated region of an inner peripheral surface of a cylinder. A nozzle, through which a molten paste of a thermoplastic material kept molten is discharged, is dis... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015512 | High power flip chip LED A high power flip chip LED has an n-doped semiconductor layer formed on the sapphire substrate, with a plurality of first regions and a second region of intersecting lines for separating the first regions from each other. P-doped semiconductor layers are on the firs... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013243 | Multiplexed signal quality display, method, and program, and recorded medium where the program is recorded Since a multiplexed signal quality display system according to the present invention is provided with a memory means which stores measurement results obtained by measuring electric powers of signals present in all of channels within a band used and a display means w... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012284 | Nitride semiconductor light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed herein is a nitride semiconductor light emitting device. The nitride semiconductor light emitting device comprises an n-type nitride semiconductor layer on a substrate, an active layer formed on the n-type nitride semiconductor layer so that a portion of t... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7011121 | End piece for a fuel filler pipe of a vehicle It comprises a protection assembly comprising two latches mounted on a shutter and two mortises, each latch having a catch and, when the shutter is in an obturating position, being able to assume an operating position in which its catch is engaged in a respective on... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012821 | Flyback converter with synchronous rectifier Disclosed herein is a flyback converter with a synchronous rectifier which is applied to a power supply of a portable computer such as a notebook PC. The flyback converter is operated in a critical conduction mode to turn on/off a main switch at a zero crossing poin... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7008408 | Disposable body fluid absorbent wearing article A disposable body fluid absorbent wearing article includes a body fluid absorbent pad. A crotch region of the pad is formed on its transversely opposite sides with a pair of darts extending in a longitudinal direction of the article. The pad has a liquid-absorbent c... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010274 | Antenna switching module having amplification function Disclosed herein is an antenna switching module having an amplification function, in which the power amplification of a transmission signal is performed together with the switching of transmission/reception signals to an antenna, using a basic antenna switching cons... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010161 | Image processing device, image processing method, and computer readable medium storing program for image color correction with priority to one of color reproduction and brightness An image processing device 20, which provides an image input signal having been subjected to a desired color correction using a color correction table to an image output device, stores in a color correction LUT storage section 20c a color correc... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010287 | Quadrature signal generator with feedback type frequency doubler Disclosed is a quadrature signal generator for generating an in-phase signal and a quadrature-phase signal, which is capable of generating a quadrature signal having the same frequency as a differential oscillating frequency, using a feedback control system. The qua... | 03/07/2006 |
| D516055 | Media center extender | 02/28/2006 |
| 7004024 | Horizontal and tuning fork vibratory microgyroscope A horizontal and tuning fork vibratory microgyroscope is provided for detecting angular velocity and angular acceleration of an inertial object when the inertial object is rotated, wherein resonance directions of the microgyroscope are on the same horizontal plane i... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006207 | Polarization mode dispersion measuring device, method, recording medium A device for measuring τPMD includes a polarization controller (12) that allows first (second) incident light, in a synthetic incident light to an object to be measured (30), to be in line with a p-polarization (s-polarization) axis in a po... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7004028 | Capacitance z-axis accelerometer Disclosed is a capacitance accelerometer comprising a fixed electrode, a movable electrode and support beams. The fixed electrode has rectangular fixed electrode plates arranged parallel with a top surface of an insulation board. The fixed electrode plates are place... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002522 | Chip antenna for terrestrial DMB Disclosed herein is a chip antenna for terrestrial DMB. The chip antenna comprises a dielectric block, a main antenna device formed with conductive patterns in the dielectric block such that a plurality of unit lamination structures of the conductive patterns having... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002380 | Frequency divider with funnel structure In a frequency divider enabling the division by N of a frequency Fe and comprising at least one prescaler followed by a division chain, the prescaler has at least one input for the frequency signal Fe to be divided, one input for a command NA of the basic division r... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000764 | Packaged diapers assembly A packaged assembly includes a package formed of in a rectangular hexahedron having first and second side walls opposed to each other and third and fourth side walls opposed to each other and a plurality of disposable diapers, each including a main body having an ab... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7001368 | Disposable pull-on wearing article A disposable pull-on wearing article folded along a folding zone extending across a crotch region in a transverse direction so that the inner surface of the article comes in contact with itself. The folding zone is formed at a position displaced toward a front waist... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000420 | Compressor A compressor that sucks refrigerant gas from an external refrigerant circuit, compresses the sucked refrigerant gas and discharges the compressed refrigerant gas, comprising a cylinder having a plurality of bores, a front housing coupled to the front side of the cyl... | 02/21/2006 |
| D515378 | Cordless drill | 02/21/2006 |
| 7001126 | Rivet provided with elastic feet A rivet (1) includes a bearing head (2), a pulling stem (3) and an insertion body (4). The insertion body (4) includes at least two longitudinal flat surfaces (13) interrupting a notched portion (14); and at least two... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999085 | Consecutive reading method for a computer game A consecutive reading method for a computer game comprising the steps of reading as a plurality of segments field data to be resident in memory and displayed on a monitor screen and deleting field data in segments resident in memory and reading new field data into m... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999772 | Channel assignment method for multi-FA CDMA cellular systems A method for assigning a channel in multi-FA CDMA mobile communication system according to the received power prevents communication quality of a FA from being inferior to that of the others by managing the interference level of the FA. The method comprises the step... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996857 | Swimming goggles Swimming goggles includes a pair of lens portions, a peripheral wall portion extending rearward from a periphery of each of the lens portions, a nose belt portion, and a strap. The peripheral wall portion includes an inner peripheral wall portion which comes in cont... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6997435 | Valve assembly A valve assembly to avoid or minimise the effect of “compression setting” which occurs when valves control the flow of some hazardous and/or corrosive fluids, especially when at en elevated temperature. The valve assembly includes a valve stem having a head port... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6997720 | Interconnecting module for the base of electronic equipment casing This interconnection module for the base of an electronic device casing carries out the transfer, at the faces of the printed circuit boards (4, 5) supporting the components of the device housed in the casing, of a field of connection points with the external... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6998002 | Method of manufacturing ceramic package sealing structure and ceramic package having said sealing structure The invention provides a ceramic package, a ceramic package having such a sealing structure and a fabrication method of thereof. In the ceramic package, a wall layer made of a plurality of laminated ceramic sheets and having a cavity formed in a central portion ther... | 02/14/2006 |
| D514816 | Combined brush and holder | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995746 | Method for controlling the movement of a cursor on a screen This is a method of processing the movement of a cursor over a screen (12) which comprises one or more cursor activatable zones (10), at least one activatable zone (10) being surrounded by an attraction zone (11) which is associated there... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6992567 | Electronic label reading system An electronic label reading system includes an interrogator including a transmitter and a receiver. The system also has a transmitter antenna connected to the transmitter for generating an interrogation electromagnetic field through which objects possessing code res... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6992740 | Transflective LCD device This invention relates to a transflective LCD device using different common voltages in the transmissive and reflective regions to present the same gray scale performance on the transmissive and reflective regions. The liquid crystal display device includes a first ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6992420 | Film bulk acoustic resonator and method of forming the same A film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) includes an insulation layer on a substrate to prevent a signal from being transmitted to a substrate. The FBAR includes a portion of a membrane layer corresponding to an activation area to adjust a resonance frequency band and ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6992633 | Multi-band multi-layered chip antenna using double coupling feeding Disclosed herein is a multi-layered chip antenna using double coupling feeding. The multi-layered chip antenna comprises a first feeding radiation element including a first feeding electrode connected at one side of the first feeding electrode to a feeding line and ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6988863 | Fastener for connecting and spacing parts Fastener (1) includes a head (2) and a body (3). The head (2) has a transverse stop (5) able to bear on the first piece (23). The body (3) has a first spacer (10) and a second spacer (11), coaxial and di... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6989793 | Patch fed printed antenna The disclosure relates to a printed antenna fed by a patch. The printed antenna includes at least one ground plane with a radiating opening in it, this radiating opening being arranged to radiate into the space situated above said ground plane, and a conductive feed... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6989591 | Method for making an integrated circuit of the surface-mount type and resulting circuit The invention relates to a method for making an integrated circuit (40) of the surface-mount type the comprising, first of all, manufacture of a package having a rear face and a pin grid array extending under this rear face perpendicular thereto, and a ball (... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6990234 | Correction curve generating method, image processing method, image display unit, and storage medium In an image display unit which applies a desired image processing to inputted image data and then displays the processed image, reflection characteristics for each color component of an output provided from the image display unit and reflected by a predetermined pro... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6987680 | Series chopper with synchronous switching The invention relates to a series chopper comprising: a pair of input terminals A and B for connecting a DC input voltage Vin, a pair P of breakers SB, ST in series connected by the breaker SB to the input terminal B, ST comprising a control input Cm1 for set... | 01/17/2006 |
