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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7084877 | Global motion estimation for sprite generation A complete automatic sprite generation system uses first-order prediction for an initial estimation, delayed elimination for outlier rejection, and field-based sprite generation for an interlaced source. Optionally, higher-order prediction for the initial estimation... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7020198 | Rate control for an MPEG transcoder without a priori knowledge picture type A rate control system suitable for use with a digital video transcoder, such as one conforming to the MPEG standard. The proposed rate control system starts coding with any reasonable set of assumed Group of Pictures (GOP) parameters, thereby avoiding a processing d... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6904843 | Jam resistant printer bezel An anti-jam bezel is provided for dispensing a flexible substrate from an output slot. The output slot has a front portion for outputting the flexible substrate and a rear portion for receiving the flexible substrate from a transport. A guideway diverges away from t... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6901603 | Methods and apparatus for advanced recording options on a personal versatile recorder Advanced recording options are provided on a personal versatile recorder (PVR) or similar recording device. Television signals and associated electronic programming guide (EPG) data are received at a receiver (30). Recorded program material is stored in a sto... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6898948 | Screw compressor In order to provide a screw compressor comprising two screw rotors which are disposed in screw rotor bores in a compressor casing and which compress a refrigerant entering at a refrigerant inlet and discharge it at a refrigerant outlet, and comprising an inlet provi... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6898285 | System to deliver encrypted access control information to support interoperability between digital information processing/control equipment A system for streaming encrypted conditional access (CA) data, such as control words, from a primary or master conditional access provider (CAP) to one or more secondary CAPS. The primary CAP encrypts content (program data) that is to be access-controlled, such as a... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6892962 | Fuel oil atomizer and method for atomizing fuel oil The present invention provides specific design dimensions for a sprayer plate flow restrictor orifices of a fuel oil atomizer, and the resulting arrangement of the atomized liquid spray pattern. Specific depth to diameter ratios of the sprayer plate restrictor orifi... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6891874 | Laser amplifier system The invention relates to a laser amplifier system consisting of a solid body, which comprises a laser-active medium, of a pumping radiation source for generating a pumping radiation field, which repeatedly permeates the solid body, and of a focusing system. Said foc... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6891869 | Wavelength-selective photonics device A device comprising a number of different wavelength-selective active-layers arranged in a vertical stack, having band-alignment and work-function engineered lateral contacts to said active-layers, consisting of a contact-insulator and a conductor-insulator. Photons... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6891289 | Electric motor In order to design an electric motor with a housing, with a rotor and with a stator, each stator unit including pole shoes, formed as claw poles, as well as a coil positioned following the rotor in the direction of the rotor axis, by means of which the pole shoes ca... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6889700 | Method and apparatus for fluid flow control Methods and apparatus are provided for modulating a flow of fluid in a duct using a rotating member that rotates in the duct. A sensing unit senses the rotation speed of the rotating member and generates a rotation signal as a function of the sensed rotation speed. ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6889832 | Sterile container In order to design a sterile container for the accommodation and sterile storage, in particular, of surgical instruments or material, comprising a receiving area formed by a container base and container walls, such that it is easy and inexpensive to use it is sugges... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6888943 | Multimedia adaptive scrambling system (MASS) A system (300, 500) for scrambling digital samples (115, 200, 250, 260, 270) of multimedia data, including audio and video data samples, such that the content of the samples is degraded but still recognizable, or otherwise provided at a desired quality... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6887267 | Insertion catheter for vascular prosthesis With an insertion catheter for inserting a vascular prosthesis into a vessel, with an elongate, substantially tubular catheter cover having a proximal and a distal end, with an outlet for the vascular prosthesis provided at the distal end, in order to make insertion... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6884210 | Blood pump It is an object of the present invention to realize a small and light blood pump that can control thrombosis and moreover, endure a prolonged use. A blood pump comprising an impeller, a casing having a suction inlet and a delivery outlet and rotatably encasin... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6880803 | Closure device for the fluid delivery line of a high-pressure cleaning apparatus In a closure device for the fluid delivery line of a high-pressure cleaning apparatus having arranged in the fluid delivery line a closure member which is pressed with a closing force against a valve seat and thereby closes the fluid delivery line, and which is lift... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6882121 | Control device In order to improve a control device for operating a load circuit having at least one electric motor, this control device comprising a control stage which generates a pulse width modulated control signal, a power stage supplying the load circuit and having an electr... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6880813 | Outlet silencer for cooling tower, evaporator cooler or condenser A sound attenuating apparatus for mounting on a heat exchanging apparatus such as a cooling tower, this apparatus having an attenuator housing with vertically extending sides, a top cover and a bottom adapted for mounting on the tower. There is an annular air inlet ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6879404 | Device and method for checking bores in or edges on an object of measurement A method for checking bores in or edges on an object of measurement, and in particular for recognizing burrs. A prepared object of reference is scanned with a distance sensor in correlation with scanning the prepared object of reference with another distance sensor.... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6877239 | Method and device for checking a marking element for displacement To make available a method for checking a marking element for displacement in relation to a holding structure, in particular a bone, on which this marking element is fixed, said marking element being used for determining position in navigational surgery, and said ma... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6866483 | High-pressure cleaning device High-pressure cleaning device with an electric motor and a pump for conveying a cleaning fluid, with a plunger, which is displaceable by the cleaning fluid in dependence on its pressure or its flow rate, and with an electric switch, which is actuable by the plunger ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6863373 | Two-color point of sale printing A 2-color ink jet point of sale (POS) printer includes a converter for converting full color printing commands into commands for printing in two colors, a primary color and an alternate color. A three color image is possible when using the background color of the pa... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6862460 | Self-configurable multipurpose modular portable device and methods for configuring same A self-configurable multipurpose modular portable device and methods for configuring same are provided. Portable device 10 includes a transceiver 20 for wireless communication with a main consumer device 100. Portable device 10 also inclu... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6860114 | Cooling unit and container with this unit To provide a transportable cooling unit for maintaining a transport volume at a defined temperature, comprising a closed cooling circuit and a controller sensing a temperature present within said transport volume and controlling said cooling circuit so as to provide... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6859832 | Methods and systems for the provision of remote printing services over a network The present invention relates to methods and systems for providing printing services over a communications network. In particular, the present invention enables a user to obtain print jobs at an unspecified location which may be remote from the source of the print j... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6859494 | Methods and apparatus for sub-pixel motion estimation The methods and apparatus is for sub-pel motion estimation of a block of pixels. Search points which are redundant between the various full pel and sub-pel searches during the motion estimation process of a block of pixels are disregarded. Matching costs for the blo... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6859261 | Lithography exposure device A lithography exposure device for producing exposed structures in a layer sensitive to light includes an exposure unit with a movement unit for the relative movement between the optical focusing element and a mounting device. A controler is provided for controlling ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6854564 | Elevator system An elevator system is provided for the transport of loads and/or persons in an elevator shaft. At least two elevator cars can be moved in the elevator shaft and are connected to a counterweight. A drive is associated with each car. At least one common track section ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6848683 | Arm clamp In order to increase the utility of an arm clamp having a guide rail, on which a fixed transverse arm is seated, having a sliding arm which is displaceable on the guide rail and which can be tilted with the latter, and having a pressure application spindle with a pr... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6847659 | Methods and apparatus for reconfiguring protocol data when reducing multiplexed data streams The present invention provides methods and apparatus for reconfiguring protocol data for a multiplexed data stream which is reduced to carry fewer services for cable-side transmission in a cable television plant or the like. More particularly, the present invention ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6847656 | Statistical remultiplexing with bandwidth allocation among different transcoding channels An efficient statistical remultiplexer for processing a number of channels that include video data. In one aspect, transcoding of the video data is delayed while statistical information is obtained from the data. Bit rate need parameters for the data are determined ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6840743 | Plural fan installation for a cooling system for a motor vehicle, with a control unit, for controlling plural fan motors, mounted within one motor housing The present invention provides a fan installation for a cooling system of a motor vehicle, comprising at least two fans which respectively have an electric fan motor arranged in a separate housing and a fan wheel which can be driven by the fan motor. The fan install... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6837463 | Ram air inflated wing A wing for a traction kite, etc comprises a plurality of cells formed by chordwise-extending ribs (3), valved openings (6) to the cells allowing ram air to inflate the wing. By changing the initial cut-out of the material forming the cells near wing ti... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6839070 | Real-time display of bandwidth utilization in a transport multiplexer A feature-rich transport multiplexer and a number of associated methods, systems, subsystems, software features, graphical user interfaces and control systems are disclosed. The disclosure includes GUI's that enable operators to easily monitor and manipulate content... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6837895 | Instrument for placing surgical clips An instrument for placing U-shaped surgical clips comprising a magazine that has a distal and a proximal end in which several clips are arranged one behind the other in a guide that can be pushed in longitudinal direction. On the lower side of the magazine, a feedin... | 01/04/2005 |
| D500180 | Steam cleaner | 12/21/2004 |
| 6834384 | Methods and apparatus for upgrading firmware in an embedded system The present invention provides methods and apparatus for upgrading firmware in an embedded system, without impacting the system. More specifically, the present invention enables an embedded system to be upgraded without any system downtime, by providing two applicat... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6832323 | Object and feature authorization for digital communication terminals A system for security and authorization processing in digital terminals. The processing load of a security processor (250) at the terminal (150) is reduced by configuring a multiple applications manager (MAM) (240) to determine if frequently-tra... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6828780 | Position measuring system having an inductive element arranged on a flexible support In order to improve a position measuring system comprising a transmitter and a sensor which comprises at least one inductive element, to which the transmitter is coupled electromagnetically, wherein sensor and transmitter can be positioned relative to one another an... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6827008 | Non-washing rice manufacture apparatus and non-washing rice manufacture method The present invention intends to realize a non-washing rice presenting a good taste by performing the pressure rice washing under the most appropriate conditions in correspondence to the polished rice to be washed. Said problems are solved by a non-washing ri... | 12/07/2004 |
