Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7384484 | Substrate processing method, substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing system After subjected to a developing process, a rinsing process and a replacing process in this order in a developing unit 10A, 10B, a substrate W wet with an anti-drying solution is wet-transported to a supercritical drying unit 20 by a primary tran... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7363907 | Control device for a motor vehicle An automotive vehicle, such as a motorcycle, has an electric ignition system for igniting fuel delivered to the engine of the vehicle, and a rotatable handle which the driver holds in one hand when driving the vehicle and rotates to control the power output of the e... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7077574 | Seal arrangement with encoder and magnetization head for the encoder The invention relates to a seal arrangement for sealing off at least one radial interspace between at least one bearing ring which can rotate and at least one rotationally fixed bearing ring. The seal arrangement is provided with at least a first carrier, the first ... | 07/18/2006 |
| H2139 | Active heating system for oil pipeline A pipeline for transmitting oil or other substance which forms a solid residue such as wax when the substance is cooled, as in a subsea oil pipeline. Pass a tube through the interior of the pipeline, e.g., at the wall of the pipeline. Transmit heated liquid or water... | 01/03/2006 |
| D489577 | Cup holder | 05/11/2004 |
| 6678087 | Optical amplifier and optical fiber communication system using the amplifier An optical amplifier is implemented which can reduce its size and cost by using a smaller number of components. Signal light coupled by an optical combiner with pump light fed from a pumping light source is incident on an EDF (erbium-doped fiber) to be pu... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6603009 | Method for oxidizing a thioether group into a sulfoxide group The present invention relates to a procedure for the oxidation of a thioether group to a sulfoxide group, with aqueous sodium percarbonate in the presence of a molybdenum salt as a catalyst. The procedure is of application to oxidize the thioether group o... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6593320 | Flocculated suspension of megestrol acetate A novel oral pharmaceutical composition in the form of a stable flocculated suspension in water is described as comprising: megestrol acetate; at least one compound selected from the group consisting of polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol, glycerol, and... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6579579 | Container made of a light metal alloy and process for its manufacture A container, in particular a container with a tube-shaped wall, made of a light metal alloy for use as a reaction chamber in a process for manufacturing wafers. The container wall is made by way of extrusion or ring-rolling, and the container wall is made... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6534698 | Snare strainer for a snare drum To adjust the tension on the snare of a drum head, one end of the snare is supported to an adjustment device, including a base on the drum trunk, a slide guided for movement vertically along the base and the snare is attached to the movable slide. First a... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6518547 | Heat treatment apparatus A substrate heat treatment apparatus irradiating a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer with light and performing heat treatment is provided. 19 lamps 82 are arranged on a plane in the form of a honeycomb to form a lamp group 81. The lamp group 81 has ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6488157 | Stand for supporting a motorcycle A stand includes a leverage base, two vertical rods, and a wheel supporting unit that is attached to the vertical rods and that is adapted to support a wheel thereon. The base has two fixed posts, which have upper ends that are connected respectively and ... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6472644 | Grill device with a safety unit for ensuring electrical disconnection when two grill units are separated A grill device includes a horizontal upper grill which is superposed on a lower grill unit and which has an upper cooking member and an insulated terminal-mounting seat. The terminal-mounting seat has first and second terminals electrically coupled with t... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6446663 | Device for holding and storing at least two distinct spoolable pipes It is of the type comprising a first cylindrical structure and a second cylindrical structure with different diameters (1, 2), the main first flexible pipe (8) being held and stored in a first cylindrical structure (1), the two cylindrical structures (1, ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6416150 | Ink jet printer and method for printing in the ink jet printer An ink jet printer includes a switch board for specifying a type of a recording sheet, printing speed and a resolution, a mode selection section for selecting a printing mode based on the input from the switch board. The driving pulse for driving the piez... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6410318 | Antibodies directed against binding-associated epitopes Binding of two members of a binding couple reveals epitopes which are revealed only after binding and the monoclonal antibody secreted from the hybridoma cell line CG-10 directed against these epitopes bind to the bound couple at a significantly higher af... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6396845 | Hierarchically interconnected routers for exclusively polling low activity network nodes to reduce polling traffic In a communication network, routers are interconnected in a hierarchical tree structure and local network nodes are connected to each of the routers located at the lowest level of the tree structure. A network monitor is connected to one of the routers wh... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6388186 | Thermopile-type thermoelectric sensor It is made possible to adjust the output of a thermopile-type thermoelectric sensor in such a way that a thermoelectric pattern for sensitivity adjustment is connected in series to a plurality of thermoelectric patterns constituting a thermopile short-cir... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6384694 | Dielectric line converter, dielectric line unit, directional coupler, high-frequency circuit mobile, and transmitter-receiver A dielectric line converter which includes a dielectric stripline; an upper conductor surface and a lower conductor surface sandwiching the dielectric stripline; the upper and lower conductor surfaces having a first spacing in a first region along the die... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6384837 | Symbol color compensating method for color display system A symbol color compensating method for a color display system includes the steps of detecting colors of a plurality of pixels from an image being displayed, calculating an entire frequency number of flesh tone, blue and green colors from the detected colo... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6383953 | Apparatus for fabricating semiconductor device and method for fabricating semiconductor using the same An apparatus for fabricating a semiconductor device includes: a plasma torch having a hollow convey tube of which one end portion is made of a conductor so as to serve as an inner electrode, for injecting plasma generating gas through one end portion, con... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6369669 | Rare-earth ceramic filter High frequency dielectric ceramic compositions having a dielectric constant (.di-elect cons.r) of 30 to 50, a Q value of 15,000 or more at 1 GHz, and a temperature-dependent factor of resonant frequency (͌f) which can be arbitrarily controlled... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6361593 | Lustrous interference pigments with black absorption color A lustrous interference pigment with a black absorption color is obtained by forming a mica coated with hydrous titanium, iron and cobalt or chromium oxides, calcining the coated mica and then coating the resulting product with hydrous titanium and/or iro... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6363412 | Wireless communication method permitting efficient use of system resources A communication method for a wireless transmission network having a plurality of terminals and a central server, disclosed in the context of an E-mail system. The source terminal sends only a mail header identifying the message source, the destination and... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6358432 | Composite magnetic material and inductor element A composite magnetic material comprises a ferrite powder and a resin, in which the ferrite powder comprises a cobalt substituted Y type hexagonal ferrite (2BaO.2CoO.6Fe2 O3) or cobalt substituted Z type hexagonal ferrite (3BaO.2CoO.1... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6355188 | Resistive material, and resistive paste and resistor comprising the material An organic vehicle is added to and kneaded with a solid component comprising from 5 to 65% by weight of a resistance material having a composition of Cax Sr1-x,RuO3 (x is from 0.25 to 0.75 moles) and from 35 to 95% by weig... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6346867 | Dielectric waveguide resonator, dielectric waveguide filter, and method of adjusting the characteristics thereof A conducting film is formed on a dielectric block in a dielectric waveguide resonator, and a through-hole is formed in the dielectric block. The unloaded Q is set by selecting the outside dimensions of the dielectric block. The resonance frequency is set ... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6339617 | Moving picture compressing apparatus and moving picture compressing method Disclosed is a moving picture compression apparatus for performing intra-frame or inter-frame compression every block in frames in a moving picture, which comprises: means for detecting scene change in a moving picture; means for generating code containin... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6332827 | Apparatus for machining glass lenses The present invention relates to an apparatus for machining glass lenses, wherein said apparatus comprises the following members: a housing; a machining chamber located in said housing; a shaft for maintaining a glass lens and a machining device both arra... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6313835 | Simplified on-line preparation of dynamic web sites A method for creating a Web page component, including opening a remote connection to a server provided with a plurality of basic animation sequences having variable attributes associated therewith, and choosing, via the connection, at least one of the bas... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6295196 | Monolithic ceramic electronic component A monolithic ceramic electronic component includes a laminate including a plurality of ceramic layers obtained by sintering a ceramic raw material powder, and a plurality of internal electrodes located between the ceramic layers and obtained by sintering ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6280675 | Grouting method for rigidly connecting two elements using a binder, and in particular for anchoring one element in another A method of grouting which permits the joining together of two parts by means of a binder and, more particularly, the sealing of one part in another, in particular the sealing of a prosthesis in a bone cavity. The method includes producing in the part to ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6278156 | Dielectric separate type semiconductor device An SOI substrate is formed by bonding first and second semiconductor substrates of p- type through an insulating film interposed in between the substrates. In an SOI layer of a p type at the surface side of the two, a trench isolation region is... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6277222 | Electronic component connecting method An electronic component connecting method of connecting a first electronic component and a second electronic component via a connecting structure like a bump electrode in which a thermosetting conductive adhesive is applied on connecting electrodes on an ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276491 | Regulator for adjusting the fluid flow in a hydrostatic or aerostatic device A controller for controlling a medium flow fed from a supply to at least one hydrostatic or aerostatic pocket of a bearing, a threaded spindle nut or a guide, having a housing and having pressure chambers which are separated by a control element, movable ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6250204 | Compressor, in particular for a vehicle air conditioning system A compressor, in particular for a vehicle air conditioning system, with a housing, which contains a device for conveying a compressed medium driven by a drive shaft, designed as an axial piston machine and having at least one piston reciprocating in a cyl... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6227860 | Dental implant A dental implant that includes a cylindrical body which can be positively secured against micromotion within a bore in a jawbone by a spindle-shaped expansion mechanism and further secured against the contamination by microorganism through a gap in an int... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6224284 | Metallic ink composition for wick type writing instruments An ink composition or system for writing instruments constructed with a polyester fiber reservoir and a porous oriented fiber nib. This ink system will write on both black and white surfaces. On black surfaces, it will reveal itself as being opaque and me... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6216464 | Process and unit for the combined production of ammonia synthesis gas and power A process for the combined production of synthesis gas and power, comprising the steps of primary and secondary steam reforming of a hydrocarbon feedstock, wherein part of the synthesis gas being withdrawn from the secondary steam reforming at high pressu... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6161965 | Optical coupling circuit A low-cost optical coupling circuit that enables high-efficiency coupling between an optical transmission line 4 and a photodetector element 2 is provided with an optical transmission line 4 and a photodetector element 2, both located on a substrate 1. Th... | 12/19/2000 |