...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100277816 | FISHEYE LENS Disclosed is a fisheye lens comprised of the first through the seventh lens elements: wherein a field of view is larger than 180° a calibrated distortion is 10% or less, a relative illumination is 80% or more, all the refractive surfaces of the lens elements are spheri... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100053774 | SMALL PROJECTION LENS AND PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME A small projection lens includes a first lens, which is a biconvex lens, an aperture, an aperture diaphragm (or an aperture), a second lens, which is a negative meniscus lens having a concave surface facing a magnification side, a third lens, which is a positive meniscu... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20090321396 | Method And System For High-Speed Precise Laser Trimming And Scan Lens For Use Therein A method, system and scan lens for use therein are provided for high-speed, laser-based, precise laser trimming at least one electrical element along a trim path. The method includes generating a pulsed laser output with a laser, the output having one or more laser puls... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090273851 | LENS SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE WITH LENS SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LENS SYSTEM A lens system comprises, on a side closest to an object, a first lens component having a positive refractive power and a second lens component having a positive refractive power in order from the object; and on a side closest to an image, a cemented lens constructed by ... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090161087 | PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM, ALIGNER, AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING DEVICE A refractive projection optical system in which a large image side numerical aperture can be ensured by interposing liquid in the optical path to the image plane, and an image having good planarity can be formed while suppressing radial upsizing. The projection optical ... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090052059 | WIDE-ANGLE LENS MODULE AND ENDOSCOPE A wide-angle lens module includes a first lens and a second lens with negative refracting power, a third lens with positive refracting power, a fourth lens with negative refracting power, a fifth lens with positive refracting power, a sixth lens with positive refracting... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20080049336 | Projection optical system and method for photolithography and exposure apparatus and method using same An immersion optical system includes a plurality of lenses disposed along a light beam path of the immersion optical system. The plurality of lenses include a liquid immerged lens which is contactable with a liquid layer. An optically conjugate point of an object surfac... | 02/28/2008 |