Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7677384 | Apparatus for transporting containers to at least one processing station An apparatus for transporting containers to at least one processing station, in particular a filling and/or sealing station, having a number of container carriers that accommodate the containers and having two parallel guides spaced apart from each other and extendi... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7390991 | Horizontal carousel conveyor A horizontal carousel conveyor moves in a horizontal plane by using vertically-oriented conveyor links. When used with an oven, it continuously moves foods and other items in a closed, horizontal loop. ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7381927 | Oven for cooking cone-shaped foods A horizontal carousel conveyor carries cone-shaped foods and other specialty-shaped foods through an oven, rotating the food on a heating station as it passes by heating elements and through the oven. ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7337792 | Liquid processing apparatus and liquid processing method A cleaning apparatus 1 includes a foup loading/unloading part 2 for mounting foups F each accommodating a plurality of wafers W at intervals of a constant pitch (normal pitch), a rotor 34 capable of holding the wafers W at half the normal pitch ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7318254 | Fiber conveying and discarding device to be connected to a carder In a sliver conveying and depositing device, the sliver is guided from the carder through a draw frame to a can coiler. A first deflection device mounted on the free end of a pivotable arm is arranged between the last driven roller pair of the draw frame and the can... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7308757 | Intermediate product manufacturing apparatus, and intermediate product manufacturing method An intermediate product manufacturing apparatus for carrying intermediate products and processing the intermediate products with a plurality of processing apparatuses is provided, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of carrying means for carrying the intermediate ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7306088 | Assembly plant for assembling industrial products An assembly plant, in particular for assembling motor vehicles, which permits design of final assembly of motor vehicles so that it is as flexible as possible in terms of space. A central elongated assembly hall is provided in which essentially automated assembly re... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7303060 | Material conveying system without dust rising A material conveying system without dust rising, having a plurality of trays; a transmission mechanism, for carrying the trays and transmitting the trays in motion; and a controller, for controlling the transmission mechanism, is characterized in that the material c... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7281623 | Transport system including vertical rollers A transport system for conveying articles along conveyance paths including straight, curvilinear, horizontal, inclined and declined conveyance sections. The articles are conveyed between a pair of vertical belts while being supported by protrusions extending from th... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7270226 | Airport baggage handling conveyor system A system for handling baggage in airports, where the passenger hands over his baggage on check-in and collects it at the place of arrival. The system includes a check-in area for baggage where main baggage scheduled for a single flight and transit baggage scheduled ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263799 | Plant base The invention provides a plant base comprising a base section with a seat for a plant pot, in which a tail section extends in a horizontal direction from the rear of the base section. A groove/protuberance combination is provided at the front of the base section and... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258223 | Pallet conveyor with chain drive recirculating in a horizontal plane A conveyor using a drive chain to drive pallets along a closed loop path on a track lying in a horizontal plane through inside and outside turns so that the conveyor may transport parts along non aligned stations. An advance and a return run extend parallel to each ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7219793 | Apparatus, arrangement and method for braking A braking device for a pallet intended to run in a conveying track. The braking device includes a matrix and a braking element. The matrix includes the support service and exterior surface and a recess having various screws and openings. The braking element includes... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7210889 | Circulating storage system A circulating storage system (1) has at least two storage columns (4) of stored-goods carriers (5) that are arranged one above another and circulate during operation, at least one horizontal conveyor device (9) which, during operation, tr... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209540 | Vessel scanning system An inspection system allows scanning an entire vessel and its contents in a water-filled passage. A radiation source emits a beam of radiation across a radiation path between the radiation source and a radiation detector. An imaging subsystem creates an image of the... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7197810 | Transport system In a transport system for flow line production, especially in the car manufacturing industry, workpieces are movable along at least two first guides between working stations in transportation direction. At least one working station is configured as a screwing and/or... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7168556 | Curved assembly line and/or conveyor belt The invention relates to a curved assembly line and/or conveyor belt, especially for assembling and transporting motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts during production, said line or belt being formed by articulated carrier elements that positively engage in each ot... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7131523 | Transport system, in particular an airport luggage transport system A transport system, in particular an airport luggage transport system, and guide means for a transport system of this type, for transporting individual items, are disclosed. The items are transported along a transport path with at least one straight section, with su... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7123344 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method The invention relates to a lithographic apparatus including an illumination system for providing a projection beam of radiation, a support structure for supporting patterning means, the patterning means serving to impart the projection beam with a pattern in its cro... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7090068 | Palette conveyance mechanism and assembling line using it It is the pallet conveying mechanism to move a pallet P arrived at an end point 17b of a friction conveyer FC2 to a starting point 7a of a friction conveyer FC1 in just as it is the direction without turning. The pallet conv... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7074002 | Parts container with in and out conveyors driven in unison A container (10) includes a body that has a bottom wall (12), a top wall (20), a back wall (14), and first and second end walls (16), (18) wherein the walls (12), (14), (16), (18), and (20)... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7066318 | Transporting apparatus A transporting apparatus permits to intermittent indexing with freely and independently setting stop position of work tables and stopping period adapting to each individual work station. The transporting apparatus sequentially transports a work table across a plural... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063204 | Precision conveyor This document describes an apparatus and system for conveying components. The apparatus and system include several parts. The apparatus and system include a base that supports a rail. The apparatus and system also includes a pallet assembly that is capable of moving... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7059468 | Production line for food products A production line for food products includes a plurality of apparatus modules (1) arranged one after the other, each module being arranged to perform at least one manufacturing stage of the food product. The production line includes a frame (2), which ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7059464 | Manufacturing system A manufacturing system that includes a plurality of worktables detachably combined with each other, each of the worktables further includes a mainframe, a transport part provided in an upper part of the mainframe and transporting a product, and a control part provid... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7060138 | Methods for cleaning wafer containers A system and method for cleaning boxes used for handling flat media includes a rotor rotatably mounted within an enclosure, with spray nozzles in the enclosure for spraying fluid toward the rotor. The rotor has at least one box holder assembly for holding a box. At ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7048109 | Transport system for containers, in particular an airport baggage handling system, and incline conveyor for a transport system A transport system, in particular an airport baggage handling system, includes a container having an underside formed with a grooved recess which defines a leading edge and a trailing edge, as viewed in a transport direction of the container. The transport system ha... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7032739 | Intermediate product carrying apparatus, and intermediate product carrying method An intermediate product carrying apparatus is provided for loading a carrier, which is carried between a plurality of process systems and stores a plurality of intermediate products, into the corresponding process system, and then transferring the plurality of inter... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7014033 | Production plant for assembling and/or processing components transported on workpiece supports The invention relates to a production line (1) for assembling and/or processing components (3) transported on workpiece holders (2), incorporating several conveyor sections (5, 6a, 6b, 6c) disposed one a... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7004301 | Transport system for advancing containers, and curve section of such a transport system A transport system for advancing containers includes a curve section for defining a curved transport path which is defined by a curve radius, and a driving and guiding assembly for advancing and guiding a container along the transport path. The driving and guiding a... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6966421 | Apparatus for vehicle-body transport carriage A jig switching apparatus includes a locator jig slidably arranged on a transport carriage and having at a front end a locate pin with clamp function. The locator jig has two switching positions selectively switched in accordance with the type of a vehicle body to b... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6962249 | Conveying device A conveying device (10) for transporting transported goods includes at least one profile rail (12), at least one transported goods support (14) that is supported by the at least one profile rail and is moveable along the profile rail, and a driv... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6942480 | Apparatus for handling injection molded articles A method and apparatus for handling preforms from an injection molding machine whereby an array of molded articles received from the mold is reconfigured into a single row to assist in downstream auxiliary processing. ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6942738 | Automated semiconductor processing system An automated semiconductor processing system has an indexer bay perpendicularly aligned with a process bay within a clean air enclosure. An indexer in the indexer bay provides stocking or storage for work in progress semiconductor wafers. Process chambers are locate... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6889816 | Device for inserting and removing work stations circulating on chain A device for carrying out a sequence of working steps on travelling work station wagons comprising an oval track wherein said work station wagons are circulating, wherein said wagons comprise at least one detachable connection element connected to a circulating chai... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6889817 | Accumulation-capable curved element for a transfer system The present invention relates to a curve element (1) for a transfer system for transporting products, having a curve-going outer track (2) and an inner track. An outer guide (5) is disposed on the outside of the outer track (2). The outer... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6877944 | Configuration for transporting a semiconductor wafer carrier For bay type structures of semiconductor wafer transport systems, a configuration includes interbay rail tracks and intrabay rail tracks mounted on each other, vehicles of the interbay system and carrier transfer cars of the intrabay system moving freely bi-directio... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6837358 | Device for storage and conveyance of bulky holders The invention relates to a device for storage and conveyance of bulky holders (C), comprising at least one tier (32), each tier comprising at least one conveyance circuit (2) for the holders (C), and each conveyance circuit (2) comprising at lea... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6789662 | Modular track for sustaining and towing loads and the panel required to build it A modular and removable track placed on the ground, comprises a succession of panels, supplied with at least one longitudinal guiding, groove which allows at least one beak, tightly connected to the load to be dragged, to penetrate inside it, to interact with the se... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6755633 | Process for manufacturing resin-based composite material A process and apparatus for manufacturing fiberglass-reinforced panels are provided. The apparatus includes a guide mechanism and drive mechanism to drive individual elongate molds through a gel coating spraying section and thereafter through an oven to cure the gel... | 06/29/2004 |
