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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8133612 | Negative electrodes for rechargeable batteries This invention relates to a negative electrode of a rechargeable battery. In particular, the active material for the negative electrode is a mixture of two types of graphite, graphite A and graphite B. Graphite A are of graphite granules having an average granule di... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8102197 | Digital phase locked loop An adaptive digital phase locked loop comprises: a digital configurable phase detector for receiving a reference signal and a feedback signal and for generating a detection signal indicative of a phase/frequency difference between the reference signal and the feedba... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8081013 | Digital phase and frequency detector A method for digital phase detection, comprises the steps of: providing a reference clock; receiving a feedback clock; determining a timing difference between the reference clock and the feedback clock; determining a polarity that indicates the leading or lagging re... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8075861 | Type of lithium iron phosphate cathode active material and its method of synthesis This invention provides a type of lithium iron phosphate cathode active material and its method of synthesis. Said cathode active material contains the sintering product of lithium iron phosphate and a mixture. Said mixture comprises of two or more metal oxides wher... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8040333 | Type of radial circuit used as LCD drivers This invention discloses a type of radial circuit for use in driving LCD monitors. The radial circuit includes an odd-even column data generator. The odd-even column data generator receives data from a modulation counter and divides the data into two groups of data ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8023597 | Methods for selecting a coarse frequency offset estimation for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modulated signal The present invention provides methods for selecting the coarse frequency offset estimation in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system that may include: searching within a predefined subset for a set of frequency offset candidates; selectively searching... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022748 | Power source circuits for driving liquid crystal displays This invention is suitable for use in the field of integrated circuits. It provides a type of power source circuit. Said power source circuit includes: a charge pump circuit used to operate the charge pump to produce driving voltages; a first control circuit, used i... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7999949 | Spectroscopic ellipsometers The present invention discloses an optical measurement and/or inspection device that, in one application, may be used for inspection of semiconductor devices. A method is disclosed for extracting information of a device-under-test for an ellipsometer, comprising the... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7989217 | Method for determining hCG levels in fluid samples The subject invention is an immunoassay for the semi-quantitative test kit for determination of human chrionic gonadtropin (hCG) in fluid sample (such as urine) as an aid in the diagnosis of a certain stage of pregnancy. The test device includes five strips having e... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7940257 | Methods for segment driver circuits and application specific SEG decoders in LCD driver systems This invention describes methods and circuits for the segment driver circuit in a LCD driver system as well as application specific SEG decoder. The methods include the following steps: the array signal undergoes an inversion process (from 1 to 0, or from 0 to 1); t... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7914921 | Enhanced separators for zinc negative electrodes The present invention discloses enhanced separators for storage batteries with zinc negative electrodes. These enhanced separators include a separator layer and one or more resistive layers on said separator layer. The dimensions of the one or more resistive layers ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7906233 | Lithium ion secondary battery A type of lithium ion secondary battery is disclosed; therein, the positive electrode 1 is formed by smearing an active material on the surface of an aluminum foil body, where said active material is compound oxide(s) comprising transition metals and lithium ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7892699 | Flow field plates for fuel cells This invention provides a type of cathode flow field plate for fuel cells. The cathode flow field plate comprises a cooling flow field and a reacting flow field, gas entrances, gas exits and plate ribs. Here, an end of said flow field is connected to the gas entranc... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7862923 | Polymers for proton exchange membranes, proton exchange membranes, and their fabrication methods The present invention relates to a proton exchange membrane having a polymer comprising of a main chain and a branch chain connected to said main chain wherein the chemical formula for said branch chain is and where n is an... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7851083 | Lithium ion secondary batteries The present invention relates to lithium ion secondary batteries that have an enclosure with an electrode core compartment for holding the electrode core and a separate protection circuit compartment for holding the protection circuits, and terminal leads connecting... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7834569 | Type of stepper motor driver integrated circuit This invention discloses a type of stepper motor driver integrated circuit, comprising of a control logic circuit module and a connected stepper motor driver circuit module. The outputs, in groups of two, of the stepper motor driver circuit module are connected to t... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7833661 | Electrolytes for lithium ion secondary batteries The present invention relates to additives for electrolytes of lithium ion secondary batteries that include one or more of the following: 1,3-propane sultone, succinic anhydride; ethenyl sulfonyl benzene, and halobenzene. It can also include biphenyl, cyclohexylbenz... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7833659 | Winding assembly type lithium ion secondary power batteries A type of winding assembly type lithium ion secondary power battery includes: winding assembly type electrode cores wound with positive electrodes, negative electrodes and a separation membrane, electrolyte, and a battery shell. Its characteristics are: the interior... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7808302 | Type of charge pump apparatus and power source circuit This invention discloses charge pump apparati, where a charge pump apparatus, including a positive charge pump circuit and a negative charge pump circuit, providing multiple positive and negative voltages, comprises: a capacitor set shared by said positive charge pu... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808055 | Methods and apparatus for semiconductor memory devices manufacturable using bulk CMOS process manufacturing The present invention discloses semiconductor devices that can be manufactured utilizing standard process of manufacturing and that can hold information. In accordance with a presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, one or more semiconductor devices ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7791661 | Circuits and methods for image signal sampling This invention discloses a type of image signal sampling circuits and methods. The circuit includes: a signal acquisition unit, a column read out unit, and a working module control circuit. The control circuit includes: a control unit, a source column switch group, ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7786757 | Integrated circuits with hybrid planer hierarchical architecture and methods for interconnecting their resources Methods for interconnecting base, switching and interconnect resources for configurable integrated circuits are provided, where these methods include the following steps: interconnecting base and switching resources with interconnect resources to form a hierarchical... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7785743 | Humidifying devices and methods for proton exchange membranes of fuel cells The present invention discloses methods and devices for humidifying the proton exchange membranes of fuel cells with water obtained from the exhaust of the fuel cells. Humidifying methods include the following steps: cooling the hot and humid exhaust of the fuel cel... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7771875 | Positive electrodes for rechargeable batteries Active materials for positive electrodes of rechargeable batteries and the methods of fabrication for the active materials as well as positive electrodes thereof are provided, where the active material comprises of a mixture of two components, A and B. A are compoun... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769962 | System and method for thread creation and memory management in an object-oriented programming environment A system and a method for thread creation where only copied threads share the same stack location for execution, so unrelated threads have individual stack space and can be executed concurrently in multi-processor system. Also, the copy operation of the stack frame ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7768539 | Method and system for color correction for a display terminal A method and system relating to color correction for the display terminal of a display device, such method includes a master control unit generating color adjusting ratios, a display driver using the color adjusting ratios to perform color calibration, and a display... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7768229 | Electric car charging systems This invention discloses a type of charging system for electric cars which includes an AC electric grid power supply system and an electric car charging equipment. The AC electric grid power supply system couples energy outputs to the electric car charging equipment... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7767189 | Methods for preparation from carbonate precursors the compounds of lithium transition metals oxide A method for preparing lithium transitional metal oxides, comprises the steps of: preparing a carbonate precursor using the following substeps: forming a first aqueous solution containing a mixture of at least two of the ions of the following metal elements (“Me | 08/03/2010 |
| 7755317 | Methods for electric vehicle motor control and rotor position detection fault-tolerant processing This invention provides methods for electric vehicle motor control and rotor position detection and fault-tolerant processing. The rotor position signal sampled by the system is compared with the previous rotor position θ0. When there is a sudden change,... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7749627 | Fuel cells and methods for operating said fuel cells A fuel cell that uses one or more types of fuel comprises a fuel cell stack, a reservoir connected to the fuel cell stack, and a supply valve that controls the supply of the fuel from its fuel source. Furthermore, methods for operating a fuel cell includes the steps... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7746395 | Color interpolation methods for correcting outlying values This invention of a color interpolation method for correcting color values of an image, comprising the steps of: constructing a color interpolation matrix having a plurality of points and a center point as an interpolation point, where each point being expressed by ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7732093 | Type of non-aqueous electrolyte This invention relates to non-aqueous electrolytes, in particular, a non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium-ion secondary batteries. The electrolyte comprises regular organic solvents and electrolyte saline. The special characteristics are: the electrolyte also compris... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725863 | Reverse routing methods for integrated circuits having a hierarchical interconnect architecture The present invention relates to methods for the global and detail routing of integrated circuits with hierarchical interconnect routing architecture. The methods includes the steps of: mapping routing resources of said integrated circuit to the nodes and edges of a... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7723881 | Flat type motorized vibrators with high vibration output The present invention involves a type of flat, motor-driven vibrator that does not increase the outer physical dimensions of the vibrator while increasing the amount of vibration by changing the mass and balance of the eccentric rotor. The base structure of the ecce... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7718285 | Type of fuel cell battery A fuel cell battery, comprising a chamber unit (1), an anode entrance (2) connected to the chamber unit (1), an anode exit (3), a cathode entrance (4) and a cathode exit (5). The anode entrance (2) is connected to a h... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7713661 | Negative electrodes for zinc nickel secondary batteries and their fabrication methods The present invention relates to negative electrode for zinc nickel secondary batteries and the fabrication methods. These negative electrodes contain hydrophobic porous conductive granules such as carbon black granules with a hydrophobic material adsorbed. The fabr... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7701176 | Protective circuits for secondary battery packs This invention discloses a charging/discharging protective circuit for a secondary battery pack, having an over-charging/discharging voltage comparator, a reference voltage source and a battery status decision circuit. There is also a sampling circuit having a seque... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7700242 | Type of mixed additives and electrolyte for lithium-ion secondary batteries using such mixed additives This invention discloses a type of mixed additives for electrolyte of lithium-ion secondary batteries, having the following characteristics: in weight percentage: biphenyl series: 0.5% to 95.4%; cyclohexylbenzene series: 1.1% to 93.8%; vinylene carbonate: 0.4% to 93... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7628252 | Drum brake apparatuses A type of drum brake for automobiles that is comprised of a brake drum, one or more brake shoes, and one or more brake cylinders. Its special characteristics are: the drum brake further comprises an ordinary gear train which comprises an annulus, one or more planeta... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7618736 | Stacked-type lithium-ion rechargeable battery A stacked lithium-ion rechargeable battery comprises a plurality of stacked positive and negative electrode couples forming a battery core, each of said couple having a negative electrode, a positive electrode, a separator, and non-aqueous electrolyte, all encased i... | 11/17/2009 |
