Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6587306 | Tape cassette of high transparency material In a tape cassette having sensor optical path holes provided on respective wall portions on a straight line coupling a position of a light emission element with a position of a light reception element so that light from the light emission element is intro... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6581514 | Print medium feed device and stencil printing machine A print medium feed device and a stencil printing machine employing the same are disclosed wherein a print medium as a print sheet, transferred with a pair of secondary paper feed rollers, is transferred through a pair of transfer guide members to a press... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6567554 | Data coding method and apparatus therefor A picture target amount-of-code calculating unit calculates a target amount of codes for each picture type that corresponds to an encoding rate that has been determined by an audio/video encoding rate determining unit. An amount-of-code controlling unit c... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6565077 | Paper feed apparatus A paper feed apparatus comprises primary paper feed device 3 sequentially transferring only an uppermost print sheet P on a paper feed tray, and secondary paper feed device 4 guiding a tip end of the print sheet P transferred by the primary paper feed dev... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6559886 | Video signal processing method and device In a video signal processing method of processing a luminance signal of a video signal generated by causing a CCD to receive light transmitted through color filters, a control signal yf1 is generated by calculating Cy/Y using a complementary color signal ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6550380 | Method for stencil plate making of stencil sheet for stencil printing A micro porous plastic sheet is stencil plate made by a method for stencil plate making of a stencil sheet for stencil printing under the following conditions: heat is provided to form a negative image with TPH at -30ࣘTp-Tmࣘ300° C. (Tp is heating pea... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6542195 | Image pick-up apparatus for outputting image frames by thinning out the same An invalid frame in 60P images supplied from a 60P camera head is delayed by a single frame by a 1-frame delay circuit. A differential between the delayed invalid frame and the valid frame is computed by a subtracting circuit. Of the differential signal, ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6538694 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH COMPATIBLE-WITH-ZOOMING TYPE CONTOUR COMPENSATION CIRCUIT, COMPATIBLE-WITH-IMAGE-PICKUP-CONDITIONS TYPE IMAGE OUTPUT CIRCUIT, AND COMPATIBLE-WITH-ALL-PIXEL-READOUT-SYSTEM-SOLID-IMAGE-PICKUP-ELEMENT TYPE ELECTRONIC ZOOM CIRCUIT A frame/field converter circuit addition-processes image data constituting respective fields in a ratio corresponding to an image pickup mode or the like and outputs the resulting image data. As a result of this, it is possible to perform addition process... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6536331 | Device and method for preparing hot beverages A device for preparing beverages of the type having a closed compartment, an open compartment, an ascension pipe connecting the two compartments and a location for a filtering device between the ascension pipe and the open compartment. The closed compartm... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6530706 | Paper feed unit A paper feed unit has a paper feed tray stacking sheets thereon, a primary paper feed roller and a secondary paper feed member, wherein an uppermost sheet among the sheets stacked on the paper feed tray is transferred toward the secondary paper feed membe... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6526881 | Stencil printing machine having sheet clamp guide member for guiding sheet to clamp section of pressure drum In a printing machine, a tip end of a print sheet 22, which is transferred from a paper feed section 5 synchronously with rotation of a printing drum 16 and a pressure drum 17, is clamped by a sheet clamp section 21 at a rotation clamp position upstream o... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6520474 | Vehicle seat slide device A vehicle seat slide device includes an elongated lower guide rail adapted to be secured to a floor panel of the vehicle body in its longitudinal direction, and an upper slide rail slidably fitted into the lower guide rail. The lower guide rail has a rail... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6516632 | Device for wet granulation of liquid-slag A simple and compact device for wet granulation of liquid slag, comprising a granulating basin with a water injection device and a decanting basin that is separate from the granulating basin. A distribution channel for the granulate-water mixture extends ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6512608 | Optical device There is disclosed an optical device in which a first light source for outputting a first wavelength light is apart from a second light source for outputting a second wavelength light by a predetermined distance. An information recording medium is irradia... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6510789 | Stencil printing machine and method for printing in one-sided and two-sided printing modes A stencil printing machine and a method carrying out a printing operation are disclosed wherein a print sheet is transferred through between an upstream printing drum and a press roller in a pressured state to transfer ink onto an upper surface of the pri... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6505231 | Software agent system for acquiring information from server arranged on network A plurality of information sources are arranged on a network. An agent program is self-transferred to access the plurality of information sources for executing an information acquiring process. An information service 1 is connected with the network to sto... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6502506 | Stencil printing machine having moistener mechanism A stencil printing machine is provided with a paper feed section feeding a print sheet, which is allowed to have paper dusts thereon, in a paper feed path, and a print section to which the print sheet is transferred, and including a printing drum carrying... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6492920 | Modulation method, modulator, transmission apparatus and recording medium A coding table portion includes six coding tables each storing a code word and status information indicating a coding table for use in modulating a next input data word in order to obtain a next code word which satisfies a predetermined run length restric... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6492065 | Hologram color filter, production method of the same hologram color filter and space light modulating apparatus using the same hologram color filter A thickness of each hologram lens for forming a hologram color filter is set so as to be smaller as the wavelength of light to be diffracted by each hologram lens is shorter. A thin plate glass layer is bonded to a surface of the hologram color filter suc... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6483944 | Data coding method and apparatus therefor A picture target amount-of-code calculating unit calculates a target amount of codes for each picture type that corresponds to an encoding rate that has been determined by an audio/video encoding rate determining unit. An amount-of-code controlling unit c... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6477946 | Stencil printing machine A stencil printing machine of the present invention has an inner press roller (47) arranged in the inside of a printing drum (16), an inner press mechanism (20) for shifting the inner press roller (47) between a pressure position (B) and a standby positio... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6477127 | Recording/playback apparatus capable of carrying out linking on optical disk, and optical disk recorded with linked data A video disk recorder has a function for carrying out a linking on an optical disk and contains a predetermined data building-in circuit for supplying a predetermined fixed data as a playback data. Upon linking, a linking point is placed in a CPM area on ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6474806 | Printing machine having print heads and control method thereof A printing machine includes a plurality of printing sections installed in a frame. Each printing section has a print head to print patterns on a print paper and a mechanism to feed print paper. The printing machine includes a print data input section conf... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6328759 | Spinal three-dimensional orthopedic equipment The object of the present invention is to provide a three-dimensional spine remedying apparatus, which offers more comprehensive functions and better curative effects, and frees the patient from discomfort during the process of treatment. The apparatus of... | 12/11/2001 |
