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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7955069 | Receiving jig To separate resin molded parts that are used for a push button switch member with less light leakage from the side faces and less trouble in key operation, easily, a resin molded body comprises one or more resin molded parts for a push button switch member, a frame ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7870065 | Money-transfer techniques A financial institution has a web-based server for use in transferring money between a customer and a beneficiary. A customer, having a client computer, and a credit card, opens a transaction web page provided by the server. The customer inputs transaction data into... | 01/11/2011 |
| D630794 | Cigar cutter | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864214 | Signal processing device A signal processing device includes a system of circuit processing in essence while avoiding large sized device under restoring fluctuated signals such as deterioration and the like. The signal processing unit includes a processing unit that restores one of a signal... | 01/04/2011 |
| D624695 | Lighter | 09/28/2010 |
| 7797194 | Method and apparatus for offering for sale collectibles on primary and secondary markets A method of preparing a server is disclosed that supports a plurality of purchaser systems to transmit over the Internet orders for collectibles being offered for sale on a primary and a secondary market. The method starts by constructing at the server a purchaser h... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7745751 | Member for push-button switch and method of manufacturing the same A member for a push-button switch has key top members positioned close to each other through a distance of 1.5 mm or shorter at low cost and with high yield. The member has multiple key top members having resin key top cores and thermoplastic films covering the key ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7720754 | Money-transfer techniques A technique for transferring money between a customer and a beneficiary comprises a financial institution, serving as a money-transfer company, a plurality of selling agents, paying agents and ATM (automatic teller machine) card distributors that communicate via a t... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7669266 | No shift chambered body pillow A body pillow includes an outer enclosure, first, second and third chambers disposed within the outer enclosure, the first and second chambers disposed adjacent to one another, and the second and third chambers disposed adjacent to one another, each of the first, se... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7665675 | Rolling watering system A watering system includes a watering can and a dispensing system. The dispensing system includes a cart for supporting the watering can, wheels coupled to a bottom of the cart and adapted to facilitate movement of the dispensing system on a surface, and a lever mov... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7656534 | System for automatic detection of forest fires through optic spectroscopy The present invention relates to a system for detection of forest fires, based on the chemical analysis of the atmosphere through optic spectroscopy. The smoke originated from a fire has a chemical composition different from that of a normal atmosphere. This chemica... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7621307 | Tape adhering apparatus and tape adhering method A device and a method for bonding a tape, by which a tape member may be preferably bonded to a work piece, and simplified processing, reduced cost, and improved bonding strength may be realized. A tape bonding device which bonds a tape member to a work piece include... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7604833 | Electronic part manufacturing method Provided is a method of manufacturing an electronic part in which a circuit element (3) is formed on a surface of a ceramic substrate (1) and conductive balls (2) are used as terminals of the electronic part. After the ceramic substrate (1 | 10/20/2009 |
| 7601920 | Surface mount composite electronic component and method for manufacturing same The present invention provides a surface mount composite electronic component which can be made compact. The structure of the surface mount composite electronic component is one in which a circuit element is formed on each of a set of opposing surfaces of an insulat... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7594977 | Tape bonder, tape bonding method, and process for manufacturing electronic component A tape bonding device for bonding a tape member to a work piece: having a rubber sheet on the upper surface of which the work piece is mounted, a first vacuum chamber located on the side of the upper surface of the rubber sheet, a second vacuum chamber located on th... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7588812 | Heat transfer labeling system A heat transfer label, a method of manufacturing a heat transfer label and a method of labeling untreated or minimally treated polyethylene, polypropylene polymers and polyethylene-polypropylene copolymer containers and sheets that are at room temperature or heated ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7586056 | Resin molded body, receiving jig and method for manufacturing push button switch member To separate resin molded parts that are used for a push button switch member with less light leakage from the side faces and less trouble in key operation, easily, a resin molded body comprises one or more resin molded parts for a push button switch member, a frame ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7585143 | Stocker apparatus A stocker apparatus includes a first tray stock section (70) for storing a plurality of empty trays (11a), a second tray stock section (80) for storing the plurality of empty trays (11a) loaded with products, tray supporting... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7563485 | Method of manufacturing a super high floating line Methods of manufacturing fly fishing lines with very low specific gravities entail adding polymer microspheres to a base coating and coating a core with the base coating containing the added polymer microspheres. To manufacture fly lines having multiple coatings, a ... | 07/21/2009 |
| D595098 | Spatula | 06/30/2009 |
| 7546644 | Protective glove The present invention provides a glove, in particular for housework, the glove being made integrally of silicone material comprising a main pocket designed to receive four fingers of a user, and a secondary pocket designed to receive the thumb, said secondary pocket... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7530462 | Wafer storage container A wafer storage container includes an outer peripheral portion located outside an outer peripheral edge of a wafer, and a placing portion which extends from a position lower than an uppermost surface of the outer peripheral portion to a radial inside of the wafer an... | 05/12/2009 |
| D580994 | Toy | 11/18/2008 |
| 7446640 | Leakage transformer A leakage transformer includes a primary winding; a secondary winding wound at a part on an extension of a winding part of the primary winding separately from the primary winding and having a coil sectional area smaller than that of the primary winding; a center cor... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7427963 | Antenna coil and antenna device An antenna coil includes: a core (3) formed by shaping a magnetic material into a bar-like configuration; a bobbin (1) having a through-hole (12) into which the core (3) is to be inserted; a connection section (15) fixed to the bob... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7419071 | Flexible mold with grasping handles A flexible, silicone mold having a bowl and a peripheral rim that defines an opening to the bowl. Two substantially flat grasping zones are disposed along substantially opposite ends of the rim and the grasping zones have sufficient dimensions to permit control of t... | 09/02/2008 |
| D575592 | Utensil rest | 08/26/2008 |
| D575118 | Ice shapes mold | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406797 | Super high floating line Fly fishing lines and methods for manufacturing fly fishing lines entail the use of polymer microspheres within the fly line coating to produce lines with very low specific gravities. The fly lines have single or multiple coatings. In fly lines having multiple coati... | 08/05/2008 |
| D572520 | Baking cup | 07/08/2008 |
| D569678 | Egg cooker | 05/27/2008 |
| D569679 | Cup for egg cooker | 05/27/2008 |
| 7362431 | Non-invasive identification of fluorescent dyes in historic textiles by matrix transfer-surface enhanced Raman scattering A new process is presented to non-invasively identify organic dyes in historic textiles and other works of art. A small gel bead loaded with a SERS substrate is used to gently extract microscopic amounts of dyes from works of art, without the need to remove a sample... | 04/22/2008 |
| D565830 | Apron | 04/08/2008 |
| D563718 | Cooker | 03/11/2008 |
| D557573 | Tongs | 12/18/2007 |
| D556521 | Whisk | 12/04/2007 |
| D554935 | Warmer steamer | 11/13/2007 |
| D551427 | Belt | 09/25/2007 |
| D551032 | Spoon | 09/18/2007 |
