Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| 20110290000 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FUEL VAPOR CONTROL A method and system for fuel vapor control in a hybrid vehicle (HEV). The HEV fuel vapor recovery system includes a fuel tank isolation valve, which is normally closed to isolate storage of refueling from storage of diurnal vapors. The method for fuel vapor control incl... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110284027 | METHODS FOR GRANULAR SCAVENGER MATERIAL TRANSFER A method for cleaning a reactor, the method including circulating a fluid inside the reactor, pumping the fluid from the reactor into an inlet of a tank cleaner, and removing solids from the fluid to produce a clean fluid. The method further includes transferring the cl... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110277876 | PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSFERRING PARTICULATE SUBSTANCES FROM CONTAINERS Preferred processes are provided for unloading a particulate substance from a container using a cover system comprising a cover and a wand extending through the cover. The processes can include installing the cover system on the container so that the cover mates with th... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110277875 | COOLANT VACUUM FILL APPARATUS AND METHOD An apparatus, system, and method are provided for bypassing a coolant reservoir with a fill tool connecting a source of vacuum pressure and a source of coolant (e.g., a vacuum coolant filler) to a vehicular cooling system inlet port. The fill tool bypass allows the cool... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110240173 | METHOD FOR FILLING A MUFFLER CAVITY A method for filling a muffler with a fibrous material is disclosed. The muffler includes partitions which form a first chamber and second chamber, and a first muffler pipe having an outlet end. A filling aperture at one end of the second muffler pipe is positioned in t... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110030840 | Portable, Remote, Fast-Fill Inflator and Nitrogen Converter Unit A portable device for delivering nitrogen to multiple tires includes a gas source and supply line connected to a controller. The device also includes a gas delivery line comprising a manifold with a plurality of outlets in fluid communication with each other. A gas deli... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20090223594 | Reactive Gases With Concentrations Of Increased Stability And Processes For Manufacturing Same Methods of passivating a metal surface are described, the methods comprising the steps of exposing the metal surface to a silicon-containing passivation material, evacuating the metal surface, exposing the treated surface to a gas composition, having a concentration of ... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090194193 | REFRIGERATOR VACUUM STORAGE SYSTEM A vacuum storage system in a refrigerator includes a bin or drawer unit removably received in a housing. The vacuum storage system may be utilized in a storage configuration or in a vacuum sealing configuration to remove air from one or more food preservation containers... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090120530 | Container Handling System A system for processing a simplified plastic container (C) that is to be filled with a hot product includes the step of blow-molding parison to form a container body, where the container body has a neck, a base, a side surface relatively free of structural geometry that... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090032133 | GAS CHARGING DEVICE, GAS CHARGING METHOD AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING GAS EJECTION DEVICE A gas charging device includes a housing section (61), a gas charging section (62), a lid (64) and an opening member (65). The housing section houses a gas ejection device (1) provided with a gas container (5) and an operating m... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090025561 | CONTAMINANT CONTROL FILTER WITH FILL PORT Filters, methods, and an apparatus for filling housings and both encapsulated porous and non-porous spaces with contaminant control media for placement in electronic enclosures, such as disk drive enclosures, are disclosed. In one embodiment, a filter assembly includes ... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090000690 | Diffusion-aided loading system for microfluidic devices Microfluidic devices having a diffusion-aided system for loading samples into the microfluidic device are provided. Methods of gas-venting a microfluidic device through a non-porous, gas permeable material sealing cover layer, for example, during liquid sample loading, ... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080289719 | Storage Bag With Fluid Separator The storage bag includes an interior volume for containing food items and a one-way valve element through which air from the interior volume can be evacuated. To prevent fluids and juices from the stored food items from contaminating the valve element, a separator defin... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080190512 | Storage Bag with Evacuation Device A system includes a storage bag having an interior volume for containing food items and a one-way valve element through which air from the interior volume can be evacuated. The system further includes an evacuation device having an inlet opening. To evacuate storage bag... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080135126 | MOTORIZED VACUUM/PRESSURE MARINATING FOOD AND STORAGE CONTAINER A container for storing food at a predetermined vacuum or pressure condition. A lid includes a vacuum or pressure pump for removing or adding fluid, a controller and an electrical circuit including a normally-closed indicator contact which is opened by an indicator when... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080121304 | Method of Thermally Insulating Coaxial Pipes With a Particulate Insulating Material The present invention relates to a method of thermally insulating the annular space (4) in an element (1) of an assembly of two coaxial pipes (2, 3), the space being filled with a porous thermally insulating material (5), in which method the ... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080035233 | Apparatus and method for filling syringe barrels Apparatus for filling syringe barrels (1) with a product (A, B), includes at least one vacuum unit, at least one filling device, and a metering head (10) which can be moved with respect to the syringe barrel (1). The metering head (10) has a ... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070257972 | Apparatus and method for refurbishing used cartridges for ink jet type imaging devices A method and apparatus for refurbishing used ink jet cartridges. The apparatus utilizes an interchangeable cradle attachment arrangement that can hold virtually any type of ink jet cartridge. After the ink jet cartridge is placed in an ink jet cartridge cradle, a vacuum... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070006936 | Load lock chamber with substrate temperature regulation A load lock chamber and method for regulating the temperature of substrates positioned within a chamber are provided. In one embodiment, the load lock chamber is configured to remove gases heated during venting of the load lock chamber. In another embodiment, the load l... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20060021671 | Method and apparatus for fabricating liquid crystal display device and substrate base material for liquid crystal display device A plurality of liquid crystal cells are formed by encapsulating pieces of liquid crystal material with in a plurality of first sealing members, respectively, between a pair of flexible substrate base materials. Only respective parts of the pair of substrate base materia... | 02/02/2006 |
| 20050183789 | Substrate bonding apparatus for liquid crystal display device panel A substrate bonding apparatus for a liquid crystal display device panel includes an upper chamber plate, a lower chamber plate opposing the upper chamber plate, an upper low vacuum chamber provided on the upper chamber plate, a lower low vacuum chamber provided on a rea... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050161107 | Apparatus and method for loading concrete components in a mixing truck The present invention is directed to an apparatus used for loading concrete components through a loading hopper of a mixing truck. It comprises a substantially vertically-disposed cement discharge pipe substantially centered within the discharge hopper. A water inlet is... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050139283 | Apparatus and method for dropping liquid crystal A liquid crystal dropping apparatus (100) includes a vacuum chamber (80), and two liquid crystal dispensers (42, 52). The liquid crystal dispensers are installed in the vacuum chamber, and are adapted to release different desired amounts of liquid c... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050039816 | Vacuum powered method and apparatus for wirelessly handling and conveying granular material A method for supplying plastics-related granular material to a plurality of receptacles for subsequent processing, such as by molding or extrusion, including applying vacuum to granules of material in a supply depot to draw a granule stream therefrom, drawing said strea... | 02/24/2005 |
