Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183650 | MEMS device and MEMS spring element A micro electromechanical system (MEMS) spring element is disposed on a substrate, and includes a fixing portion and a moveable portion. The fixing portion is fixed on the substrate, and includes an insulating layer, a plurality of metal-fixing layers and a pluralit... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183103 | Integrated circuit structure including schottky diode and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing an integrated circuit structure is disclosed. First, a dielectric layer is formed on a substrate, the substrate has a transistor region and a diode region. Next, a contact hole and an opening are formed in the dielectric layer, a size of t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182283 | Built-in USB3.0 receptacle connector A build-in USB 3.0 receptacle connector is disposed for a main board located within a computer, the build-in USB 3.0 receptacle includes an insulated housing, a plurality cavities, a plurality set of circuit boards, a plurality set of connective terminals and a plur... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660229 | Power supply | 05/22/2012 |
| D660128 | Door lever | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181007 | Electronic device and method for secure operating system update in embedded system An electronic device and method for secure embedded operating system update within embedded system. The embedded system includes a random-access memory, a non-volatile storage unit and a processing unit. The non-volatile storage unit defines a boot sector, a first s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179485 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first vertical electrode, a second vertical electrode, a first pixel electrode, a first counter electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The second substrate is disposed to be opposite t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179222 | Transformer with conductive plate winding structure A transformer with a conductive plate winding structure includes a hollow core pillar, a partition, a conductive plate winding structure, and an insulating layer. The partition is fixed at the hollow core pillar for partitioning the hollow core pillar into two windi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177482 | Wind power conversion apparatus driven by fly wheel A wind power conversion apparatus driven by a fly wheel includes a wind channel, a fly wheel and a rotating shaft. The wind channel is configurated into a long hollow tapered tubular shape with both ends open. One end, which being larger is cross section, serves as ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176907 | Projectile-loading assembly for air-powered gun A projectile-loading assembly (1) for an air-powered gun is configured to load projectiles (3) in a barrel (4) and includes a magazine module (10) and a slider module (20). The magazine module (10) includes a projectile cham... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174754 | Display method applied to electrophoretic display An electrophoretic display includes a plurality of pixels. A display method applied to the electrophoretic display includes the following steps. Firstly, a first frame is displayed on the pixels at a first time. Next, a difference amount between the pixels at the fi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172405 | Lamp and optical projector A lamp includes a lampwick, a reflector, and a shade. The reflector has an opening and a bottom portion opposite to the opening. The lampwick is disposed at the bottom portion and passes through the bottom portion and at least one part of the lampwick is disposed in... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169291 | Combination-type fuse A fuse includes an insulating base and a conducting terminal installed in the insulating base, and the insulating base is integrally formed and includes a groove and two concave pits interconnected to the groove. The conducting terminal is accommodated in the groove... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167663 | Laterally-plugged power connector The power connector includes a plug assembly and a casing with a plug seat. The plug seat is formed with a room. There is a pair of rails in the room. Two electrode pins are separately mounted in the rails with exposed flexible contact portions. The plug assembly is... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658688 | Punching machine | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164411 | Fuse structure with power disconnection light indicating function A fuse structure includes a casing, a fuse component and a light emitting element having pins. The casing includes a top plate, a containing space disposed below the top plate and two openings formed on the top plate. The fuse component includes two electrically con... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164237 | LED lamp with flow guide function An LED lamp with a flow guide structure guides external air to dissipate heat from the LED lamp includes a lamp base, a heat dissipating body, a heat dissipating plate and an LED module installed in the lamp base, and heat dissipating holes formed on the lamp base. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164219 | Portable electronic device A portable electronic device includes a main body and a power supply module. The main body includes a main circuit, a power input port, and a housing. The housing defines a receiving space at a side surface thereof. The main circuit is disposed in the housing; the p... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162718 | Bra pad A bra pad includes a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) film, a silicone gel layer and a cloth layer. The silicone gel layer is formed in a concave shape. On the edge of the silicone gel layers is attached to TPU films and the cloth layers. The silicone gel layers is ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162691 | Modular electrical connector A modular electrical connector includes a base and at least one adaptor. The base is provided with at least one first assembling port and an insertion port. An insertion slot is provided between the first assembling port and the insertion port. The insertion slot ha... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162345 | Foldable bicycle A foldable bicycle includes a frame, gears and two wheels. The frame includes a front vertical tubular portion, a front horizontal tubular portion, a hinge, a rear horizontal tubular portion and a seat-supporting tubular portion. A lopsided portion is disposed above... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162195 | Trigger valve controlling device for pneumatic nail gun A trigger valve controlling device for a pneumatic nail gun includes a main air passageway, a valve sleeve and a main air valve opening. The valve sleeve separates the main air passageway into a front passageway, a middle chamber and a rear passageway. After hitting... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161644 | Leveling method for burying evaporating section of heat pipe into thermally conductive seat A leveling method for burying an evaporating section of a heat pipe into a thermally conductive seat is provided for an assembly of heat pipe and heat-conducting seat by simultaneously making the evaporating section of heat pipe partially formed into a flat surface ... | 04/24/2012 |
| D658326 | Desk lamp | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159845 | Current-sharing power supply apparatus A current-sharing power supply apparatus is applied to regulate voltage level of an input DC voltage, and the regulated DC voltage is stabilized in a predetermined voltage to be used on rear-end circuits. The current-sharing power supply apparatus includes a square-... | 04/17/2012 |
| D657880 | Steam foot spa machine | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152564 | Connector having protection components A connector having protection components includes an insulation body, a signal transmission module provided in the insulation body, a first protection component set and a second protection component set both electrically connected to the signal transmission module. ... | 04/10/2012 |
| D657365 | Flash drive | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151221 | Method to compensate optical proximity correction A method to compensate optical proximity correction adapted for a photolithography process is provided. An integrated circuit (IC) layout firstly is provided. The IC layout includes active regions and a shallow trench isolation (STI) region. The STI region is a regi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150322 | Slave device complying with bluetooth communication protocol and related method for establishing bluetooth communication connection A slave device that complies with Bluetooth communication protocol includes a communication module, a memory and a RF output module. The communication module can be operated to generate a driving signal. The memory stores an access code that complies with Bluetooth ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149373 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a mesh spacer, and a liquid crystal. The first substrate includes a black matrix. The mesh spacer is formed by a plurality of longitudinal strips and a plurality of transverse strips, and... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148908 | Power supply control device for lamp A power supply control device for lamp includes a control unit, the control unit receives a forward voltage signal and a reverse voltage signal simultaneously from a zero-crossover sampling circuit and determines if a connected load is an LED lamp, then the control ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147116 | Safety lamp bulb connector assembly A safety lamp bulb connector assembly includes a lamp socket with a bottom flange, retaining blocks located on the periphery of the lamp socket and spaced above the bottom flange of the lamp socket, a screw holder disposed adjacent to the bottom flange of the lamp s... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147114 | Backlight module A backlight module includes a light guide plate and a flexible illuminating bar. The light guide plate has a light emitting top surface and a plurality of light incident side surfaces. Each of the light incident side surfaces is connected to the light emitting top s... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147097 | Angle-adjustable aroma-diffusing night lamp system An angle-adjustable aroma-diffusing night lamp system includes an electrical plug unit, a lamp socket unit, a collar coupled to a front coupling neck of the housing of the electrical plug unit and affixed to the housing of the lamp socket unit for allowing rotation ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146580 | Structure for opening grip cover of toy gun A structure for opening a grip cover of a toy gun includes a bottom cover assembly and a rear cover assembly. The bottom cover assembly has a bottom cover covering a bottom surface of the grip and a pivot penetrating the grip and the bottom cover. One end of the bot... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146440 | Stress sensor and assembly method thereof A stress sensor includes a circuit board having a stress sensitive structure, a pointing stick and a metallic back plate. The stress sensitive structure includes a stress deformation region and multiple resistors located on the stress deformation region. The pointin... | 04/03/2012 |
| D657086 | Desk lamp | 04/03/2012 |
| D657085 | Desk lamp | 04/03/2012 |
| D657084 | Desk lamp | 04/03/2012 |
