Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7648658 | Alternate polymer extrusion method with reduced drool An alternate polymer extrusion method and system reduces “drool” effects that detract from precise control over the content of two or more materials in an extrudate along its length. In the system, two or more extruders direct melt to two or more gear pumps. Con... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7627633 | Proxy email method and system A system and method of proxy (60) domain name registration permits a would-be domain name registrant anonymity. A registrar (24) affords customers (20) the opportunity to use the proxy registration. If the customer seeking registration of a doma... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7558082 | Method and apparatus for controlling a synchronous rectifier The present invention is directed to a switch mode power converter for supplying an output power to a load, which includes a switching device having a switching input, a switching output, and a control input for enabling or disabling the switching device from conduc... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7532921 | Measuring electrode system This invention relates to a measuring electrode arrangement (1), in particular for electroimpedance tomography, having at least one measurement object (5) for electric motor contacting of a measurement object (2). It is proposed that a storage s... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7482705 | Generator support plenum A generator support plenum for a engine-generator set for installation on a pickup truck in an RV or on a boat, for example, sits in or under or forms a part of an enclosure for the engine-generator set and defines cool air flow paths into the set for cooling the en... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7467583 | Toaster with mini cooker A compact combined toaster and cooker includes in a single housing a toaster and a cooker that has first and second food-heating locations. The toaster is in most ways conventional, having at least one slot and at least one electrical heating element. The cooker has... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7468648 | Magnetic device A magnetic device to be surface mounted on a substantially planar thermally conductive surface comprises a circuit board containing a winding pattern having at least one winding and a magnetic core that is at least partially encompassing the winding pattern. On a bo... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7450402 | Soft switching high efficiency flyback converter DC-DC converters such as flyback converters achieve self-regulation by communication information between primary and secondary circuits through the power transformer. Operating in accordance with a generalized concept or algorithm, the converter can be bi-directiona... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7429908 | Coil form A coil form for forming an inductive element (10) includes a coil body (2) and at least one, for example three separating plates (3). The coil body (2) has an opening (4.1) and includes two portions, a coil portion (6) and a... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7423871 | Electric device with improved cooling and casing therefor The casing of a power supply includes a bottom and a cover. Both of them have a U-like shape. Since the cover is slightly wider than the bottom two air ducts are provided between the side plates of the bottom and the corresponding side plates of the cover respective... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7408793 | Active snubber An improved snubber is electrically switched to close a current path to a capacitor (C) in a series connected RC circuit at the onset of an abrupt voltage change otherwise producing ringing in a resonant circuit to which the snubber circuit is connected. The current... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401514 | Asymmetric torsion balance gravimeter The invention relates to a gravity measurement apparatus comprising a torsion balance bearing a test mass. The torsion balance has a predetermined center of mass and is rotatable around a predetermined rotation axis, wherein the torsion balance is asymmetric in such... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7360670 | Under counter dispenser A dispenser for liquid consumables locates a store of the particular liquid at a location remote from the dispensing location. The dispensing location is typically located above a counter and may include a relatively narrow stem that brings a flexible liquid deliver... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7347665 | Rubber-elastic assembly frame for an axial ventilator The invention relates to a rubber elastic assembly frame for affixing an axial ventilator, which is provided with a mounting flange, to the wall of a housing of a device which is to be cooled. The assembly frame has formed locking elements for receiving the mounting... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7317174 | Reconfigurable food heating apparatus A food heating or cooking appliance has at least one electrical heating element within its interior that is adjustable in position so as to be able to be moved close to thin or small food items under the control of a manually actuated control. A separator plate that... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7303398 | Educational game An instructional board of computer game defines a path of movement for a number of game “pieces” that are moved along the path a number of “stops” as determined by a die or other random device. Associated with the stops and color or otherwise visually coded ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296571 | Electrical cautery-oxygen safety device Operating room fires are prevented by a safety interlock that disables instrumentalities (such as an electrical cautery device) capable of igniting a fire in the presence of oxygen and a fuel source or combustible material such as skin, hair and/or prep agents conta... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295094 | Low profile magnetic element A low profile magnetic element used in cooperation with a multilayer printed circuit board has two or more core arms penetrating the board from one outer surface to the other and a series of magnetic core elements, at least one on each side of the board, bridging pa... | 11/13/2007 |
| D547107 | Toaster with mini cooker | 07/24/2007 |
| 7238949 | Conductor crossover for a semiconductor detector The invention relates to a conductor crossover for a semiconductor detector, particularly for a drift detector for conducting X-ray spectroscopy. The conductor crossover comprises at least two doped semiconductor electrodes (2), which are placed inside a semi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7218198 | Coil form A coil form for forming an inductive element (10) includes a coil body (2) and at least one, for example three separating plates (3). The coil body (2) has an opening (4.1) and includes two portions, a coil portion (6) and a... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7130203 | Switching power supply with a snubber circuit A DC/DC power supply with two transformers (10, 20), which for example are connected in parallel on the primary and in series on the secondary side, comprises two passive, non-dissipative snubber circuits (1.1, 1.2). Each snubber circuit comprises a se... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130878 | Systems and methods for domain name registration by proxy A system and method of proxy domain name registration permits a would-be domain name registrant anonymity. A registrar affords customers the opportunity to use the proxy registration. If the customer seeking registration of a domain name requests, the registrar obta... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7098519 | Avalanche radiation detector The invention relates to an avalanche radiation detector comprising a semiconductor substrate (HK) with a front side (VS) and a back side (RS), an avalanche region (AB) which is arranged in the semiconductor substrate (HK) on the front side (VS) of the semiconductor... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7086566 | Under counter dispenser A dispenser for liquid consumables locates a store of the particular liquid at a location remote from the dispensing location. The dispensing location is typically located above a counter and may include a relatively narrow stem that brings a flexible liquid deliver... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7067293 | Nanoengineered biophotonic hybrid device An improved method for the design and development of high performance hybrid devices having biological and nonbiological components. A figure of merit is developed for the biological component or components. The component is subjected to various environmental variab... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7018191 | Plastics extruder dimension and viscosity control system An extrusion control system that controls the cross section and viscosity during extrusion of even hard to control plastics like polyurethane. Cross section, A, is determined by measuring volumetric rate of deliver of melt through a gear pump V/t and the speed of th... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012820 | Forward converter with controlled reset A power device such as a forward converter employing a main switch in series with a power transformer coupling an input, primary circuit and an output, secondary circuit has its transformer reset from a reset capacitor that is switched. Switching of the reset capaci... | 03/14/2006 |
| D516759 | Steam cleaner | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009850 | Soft switching converter using current shaping A converter topology that eliminates reverse recovery losses in its output rectifying semiconductor devices employs an AC injection voltage source in series with a power transformer primary winding. Input semiconductor switches in the converter's primary circuit are... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6980074 | Low noise full integrated multilayers magnetic for power converters A multilayer structure in which all the magnetic elements have the windings edged in the inner layers and the magnetic core which surrounds the winding has the legs penetrating through the multilayer structure. The interconnection between the magnetic elements and t... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980716 | Coherent evanescent wave imaging Methods and apparatus for gathering image information from nanostructures includes a composite waveguide of conductive nanoparticles in a dielectric medium. The waveguide is irradiated with preferably coherent blue light to form a slow surface wave. The evanescent w... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6957204 | Oscillatary neurocomputers with dynamic connectivity A neurocomputer (50) comprises n oscillating processing elements (60A, 60B, 60C, 60D and 60E) that communicate through a common medium (70) so that there are required only n connective junctions (80A, 80... | 10/18/2005 |
| D509701 | Espresso maker | 09/20/2005 |
| 6917862 | Singularity escape/avoidance steering logic for control moment gyro systems A new steering logic based on a mixed weighted two-norm and least squares optimization solution overcomes a deficiency of being trapped in the momentum saturation singularities. The new steering logic utilizes an additional weighting matrix, W, in conjunction with d... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6862201 | Method and circuitry for active inrush current limiter and power factor control A power supply circuit comprising an active power factor correction circuit. The active power factor correction circuit comprises a controller for controlling both the power factor correction and the inrush current control circuit. The inrush control circuit compris... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6859474 | Long wavelength pseudomorphic InGaNPAsSb type-I and type-II active layers for the gaas material system The invention discloses improved structures of light-processing (e.g. light-emitting and light-absorbing/sensing) devices, in particular Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs), such as may find use in telecommunications applications. The disclosed VSCAL de... | 02/22/2005 |
| D499849 | Vacuum cleaner canister | 12/14/2004 |
| 6819124 | Detection of electromigration in integrated circuits A method and apparatus for detecting electromigration at its outset includes a pair of conductive traces deposited on a substrate in an integrated circuit. A multiplicity of conductors are connected along the length of the traces. Current is passed through the trace... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6814876 | Versatile, modular, multi-stage water purification system Water may be purified and treated to kill and/or remove various harmful contaminants and microorganisms with a method and system including ozone treatment and oxygenation. In the present system and method, the ozone treatment and oxygenation process is carried out i... | 11/09/2004 |
