Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7370447 | Display device A display device comprises a flexible body portion including an upper portion, a lower portion and a base portion. The upper and lower portions adjoin one another by a periphery adapted to permit pivoting of the upper and lower portions so as to be generally folded ... | 05/13/2008 |
| D567981 | Photographic light | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364147 | Workpiece support device A projection amount of rod can be adjusted, and workpiece with various shapes or easily deformable workpiece can be stably supported. When an opening/closing valve is switched to an opening position and a working medium flows and is injected from one medium chamber ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365466 | Rotor for an electrical motor The invention provides a rotor for an electrical motor, a tool for making a rotor core and a method of making the rotor. The rotor could be incorporated e.g. in a line-start motor and comprises a squirrel cage and magnet located in a rotor core. The magnets are, in ... | 04/29/2008 |
| D567961 | Tube for chemical supply pump | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360582 | Flow distributing unit and cooling unit having bypass flow A cooling unit for cooling in particular power semiconductors contains a distributor for guiding liquid across a surface to be cooled. The distributor comprises an inlet manifold (8) and outlet manifold (9), whereby the inlet and outlet manifolds are c... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362031 | Electric motor An electric motor has an armature rotatably accommodated inside a motor housing and a pair of magnets fixed to an inner surface of the motor housing so as to face the armature. The armature has an armature core 17 fixed to a rotating shaft 16, and ten ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357202 | User input for vehicle control A user input for controlling acceleration of a vehicle. The user input has a movable member capable of deflection by a user such that a degree of deflection corresponds to a specified velocity commanded by the user. The correspondence between the degree of deflectio... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356858 | Sit to stand support apparatus A rolling chassis supports dual lifting beams pivotably mounted on adjustable supporting pins. The beams are pivoted by rollers raised by dual driving piers. Each beam carried a pair of blocks for a rope running from a locking system on the chassis to one side of an... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353744 | Hydraulic control The invention concerns a hydraulic control (1) with a supply connection arrangement (7) having a high-pressure connection (P) and a low-pressure connection (T), a working connection arrangement having two working connections (A, B) connectable with a c... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354637 | Damper and process thereof A fitting type damper and a process thereof being capable of increasing largely slipping torque in strength are ones that the large slipping torque can be increased not only when the damper is a new product but also after a heat aging test and/or a durability test a... | 04/08/2008 |
| D565697 | Nozzle | 04/01/2008 |
| 7345859 | Method and a control system for starting a motor A method for starting a battery driven motor, wherein an input voltage is measured continuously. In case the input voltage becomes smaller than a predefined minimum voltage the attempt to start the motor is stopped and the maximum permitted current level to be suppl... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7344387 | Board-to-board connector A board-to-board connector includes a receptacle and a plug for inserting into the receptacle. The receptacle includes a receptacle insulator including two opposed side walls and opposed receptacle contacts symmetrically arranged and supported by the two opposed sid... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346635 | System and method for transferring a database from one location to another over a network A client-server system for transferring a database from a server to a client across database types, vendors and without development effort. The system providing a server having access to a source database to be transferred to a client. The source database having met... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7344119 | Solenoid valve A solenoid valve includes a poppet formed by a valve body and a supporting plate, the supporting plate having a front surface which the valve body is firmly fixed and a rear surface contacting a tip surface of a plunger. The solenoid valve further includes a cap hav... | 03/18/2008 |
| D564012 | Snare drum throw off | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342397 | Magnetic resonance imaging method A novel magnetic resonance imaging method is described, wherein undersampled magnetic resonance signals are acquired by a receiver antenna system having spatial sensitivity profiles and the image being reconstructed from the undersampled magnetic resonance signals a... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339788 | Cooling unit and flow distributing element for use in such unit A liquid-cooled power semiconductor unit has components to be cooled arranged on the upper side of a plate. The bottom side of the plate is cooled by liquid, which is guided along the plate by means of a distributing element, and the liquid inlet and the liquid outl... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339139 | Multi-layered radiant thermal evaporator and method of use The present invention provides a system and method for uniform coating of a substrate at high deposition rates by evaporating a coating material in a vacuum chamber. The system includes an evaporator having a heating crucible for containing a coating material to be ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337888 | Cash dispenser The invention relates to a cash dispenser comprising a plurality of banknote compartments (20), disposed one after the other in a vertical position in a horizontal row, for receiving banknotes to be dispensed, wherein the banknote compartments (20) are... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339287 | Power converter A power converter for converting energy from a green power unit as e.g. a solar cell into energy fed into the commercial grid is described. The object is to provide a versatile modularized power converter with eased access to control of the power switches. Another o... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7328593 | Refrigerant valve arrangement A refrigerant valve arrangement is described, having a housing which has a first functional space, in which there is arranged at least one functional element, which co-operates with a first annular contact surface formed in an internal boundary wall. It is desirable... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328645 | Compensation system for a firearm A compensation system for a firearm includes a barrel having a longitudinal bore that defines a firing axis. A compensator assembly is also included and has an attaching mechanism for releasably attaching the compensator assembly adjacent a muzzle end of the barrel.... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328646 | Hydraulic valve arrangement The invention concerns a hydraulic valve arrangement (1) with a control valve module (2) comprising a supply connection arrangement with a high-pressure connection (P) and a low-pressure connection (T) and a working connection arrangement with two work... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328934 | Sliding door opening and closing device There is provided a sliding door opening and closing device that improves layout flexibility of a driving unit in a self-propelled sliding door opening and closing device in which the driving unit is disposed on a sliding door side and that can protect a cable membe... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330027 | System and method of magnetic resonance imaging for producing successive magnetic resonance images This invention describes the combination of SSFP, a method for accelerating data acquisition, and an eddy current compensation method. This synergistic combination allows acquisition of images with high signal-to-noise ratio, high image contrast, high spatial and te... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328510 | Elbow rotator An elbow rotator apparatus for rotating an integrally formed section of an elbow workpiece includes a pair of gripping arms which are selectively positionable in a first position displaced from the elbow workpiece, and a second position in which the gripping arms ar... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7329293 | Disposable filtration system for bagless vacuum cleaners According to the present invention, a bagless vacuum cleaner includes a dust chamber, a primary filter and a second filter. The dust chamber includes an entrance and an exit. The primary filter is disposed in the dust chamber between the entrance and the exit and th... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327451 | Test strip system The present invention provides a test field system, including a test strip with a test field, and a measuring device having a test strip receiver for measuring the test field. The test strip receiver inducing a support surface for the test strip and positioners for ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327950 | Semi-instantaneous water heater system A water heater system includes a boiler having a supply port, an output port and a recirculation input port. A heat exchanger includes first input and output ports, and second input and output ports. An averaging tank has an inlet and an outlet. A first fluid flow s... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326473 | Organic electroluminescent devices An organic electroluminescent (EL) device comprising at least one luminescent layer of an organic compound, the luminescent layer being positioned between a cathode electrode and an anode electrode opposed to the cathode electrode, and an organic layer positioned ad... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324006 | Remote display ammeter for power plug or power strip A power strip is providing including a housing coupled to a first end portion of a power supply cord, the housing having an electrical receptacle mounted thereto and connected to the power supply cord, the power supply cord having a second end connectable to a power... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320456 | Valve device A valve element for opening and closing a flow path can be reliably set to an opening position and a closing position. The valve element for opening and closing a communication opening portion communicating with an inflow hole and an outflow hole is provided in a va... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318678 | Self locking ergonomic support assembly for optical devices A support assembly for supporting an optical recording device about an operator includes a shaft having a first distal end for mounting the optical recording device, and a second distal end for bearing against the back of the operator. A friction plate arm is slidab... | 01/15/2008 |
| D559796 | Electronic device mounting plate | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316291 | Suction muffler for a hermetic refrigerant compressor The invention concerns a suction muffler for a hermetic refrigerant compressor with a housing having an inlet and an outlet and limiting at least one muffling chamber, and a gas supply channel located in the muffling chamber between the inlet and the outlet. It is e... | 01/08/2008 |
| D558796 | Twin compressor | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311036 | Pneumatic cylinder A pneumatic cylinder has a shaft member having a piston and a piston rod combined with each other in an axial direction, a cylinder body supporting the shaft member with the piston rod protruding outwardly therefrom so as to freely reciprocate linearly, and porous a... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311007 | Pressure sensor The invention provides a pressure sensor with a housing for a pressure sensing arrangement, e.g. a semi-conductor arrangement. The housing consists of a bottom part and an intermediate member with a through hole forming a sidewall of a cavity for the pressure sensin... | 12/25/2007 |
