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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7365646 | Children's potty alarm A children's potty alarm is disclosed. The children's potty alarm includes a base. A simulated bedroom/bathroom setting which may include a dancing bear or other character is provided on the base. A microprocessor is provided in the base. A speaker is connected to t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362237 | Modular rearview mirror assembly A vehicle rearview mirror assembly including a mirror, an electronic component unit, a protective housing exposing the mirror through a viewing aperture and enclosing the electronic component unit, an RF antenna connected to the electronic component unit, and a supp... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7342807 | Modules for a measuring device and measuring device The invention relates to a module for a measuring device and to a measuring device. The inventive module for a measuring device is provided with a plug-in contact element for the electrical contact of the plug-and-socket plate of the measuring device which is used f... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339491 | Light-emitting diode backlight module An LED backlight module includes a substrate. An LED array, composed of a plurality of red, blue and green lamp LEDs, is mounted on the substrate. A light-mixing chamber is mounted on the substrate and is used to seal the LED array inside. A diffusion sheet is secur... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330129 | System and method for data retrieval in AC power tools via an AC line cord An apparatus and method for obtaining data stored in an electronic module within a power tool over a power line cord of the tool, and without any disassembly of the tool being required. An interface subsystem applies a high frequency, low power AC input signal to th... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7278766 | LED based light guide for dual mode aircraft formation lighting A lighting device (1) includes one or more diode light sources (32), which are configured to emit light into the peripheral edges of a light guide (20). The light guide (20) includes a set of diffusing elements (22) for scattering ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7242320 | Modular rearview mirror assembly A vehicle rearview mirror comprises a carrier plate, an electronic component unit mounted on one face of the carrier plate, and a mirror mounted on the other face of the carrier plate. A protective housing is supported by the carrier plate, the housing exposing the ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7180021 | LED illuminated door chime push button with adjustable task light An illuminated doorbell pushbutton assembly includes a pushbutton assembly that uses a light source, or a plurality thereof to illuminate the pushbutton. The assembly also includes a user-adjustable rotating task light that can be used to direct light to a door lock... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7095333 | Method and apparatus for enabling optical communication through low intensity indicators in an appliance that uses a vacuum fluorescent display An optical interface using indicator lights is provided for an appliance having a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) by mounting the indicator lights behind a VFD. In a VFD having a dark background, apertures are formed in the VFD so the indicator lights are enabled f... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7081829 | Mars unit lamp driver An apparatus for a model toy train includes a circuit configured to supply an output signal to energize at least one stationary light to simulate a light having movement like a mars unit light display. ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7039533 | Battery test module A storage battery includes a battery housing and a plurality of electrochemical cells in the battery housing electrically connected to terminals of the battery. A battery test module is mounted to the battery housing and electrically coupled to the terminals through... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034674 | Hour meter with incremental service indicator An hour meter having a display that provides a visual indication of a total time an engine has operated and a visual indication of engine operation time remaining in a predetermined service time interval. A plurality of segments on the display are selectively displa... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7030773 | System and method for communicating with an appliance through a light emitting diode An apparatus includes a controller for controlling operation of an appliance, an indicator light coupled to the controller to provide a visible indication of an operator selection in response to the controller energizing the indicator light, and a driver coupled to ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030779 | Cargo management system having user-selectable debug option A cargo management system is described in which a host computer system determines rejected freight shipment items and non-rejected freight shipment items based on one or more configurable parameters. A user interface module executing on a network interface computer ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7019631 | Indicator An indicator equipped with a polarized light splitter, which passes and reflects an un-polarized light irradiated from a light source and divides the polarized light into a p-polarized light whose oscillation direction of an electric field is parallel to an incidenc... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6992591 | Marker lights for wireless doorbell transmitters and other devices Battery powered LEDs operated at a small fraction of their rated capacity to provide a level of illumination useful as a marker for darkness adjusted vision. Long battery life is achieved using super bright, broad spectrum LEDs. ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6987461 | System and method for addressing optical emanations from an information processing device Various methods are disclosed relating to optical emanations from a light source or a first optical device that is intended to display a state of a serial data stream that crosses an interface that is associated with an information processing device. In one embodime... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6919815 | Appliance control communication methods and apparatus An apparatus includes an appliance control panel and a controller. The appliance control panel is disposed on an appliance. The appliance control panel has first and second optical communication devices that are in communication with an external surface of the appli... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6894623 | Display monitor for multi-optical-path photoelectric safety apparatus and multi-optical-path photoelectric safety apparatus including a display monitor A display monitor is provided for a multi-optical-path photoelectric safety apparatus including a plurality of multi-optical-path photoelectric sensor units. The user can determine whether a special function such as blanking is set for each optical path in a group w... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6816137 | Visual message display device An alphanumeric and graphic symbol display device in which an LED array is rotated and controlled to project a display onto a translucent surface. The electrical power for the array is provided by way of a rotating contactless transformer independently of the contro... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6741225 | Device for generating an image In order to provide a device for generating an image on an image surface with N×M image elements which can be illuminated individually, comprising a plurality of semiconductor radiation sources, each of which generates radiation with at least one color, an optical ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6504488 | Electronic device In an electronic device having a housing containing electronic components and a front part connected to the housing and having control elements, the connections between the electronic components and the control elements are made using a first transmitter ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6472995 | Vehicle surrounding viewing system In the vehicle surrounding viewing system 1A, the light shielding member 27, that is coated on the areas other than the effective area of the surface of the prism 4 provided in the case 3, can transmit only the ray of light 18L, that enters into the trans... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6441750 | Light alignment system for electronically steerable light output in traffic signals A solid state traffic control signal adapted to facilitate light alignment and viewing angles during installation. The traffic control signal includes a video camera or a detachable optical sighting system with a grid representing the various viewing angl... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6433703 | Fishing reel signaling device A signaling device includes a housing that may be releasably coupled to a fishing reel. The housing includes a transparent front wall defining an opening for receiving a fishing line of the reel therethrough. An incandescent light, battery, and light sens... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6323781 | Electronically steerable light output viewing angles for traffic signals An electrically steerable solid state light apparatus is ideally suited for traffic controls. There exist many applications where a driver wishes limited viewing angles of traffic signals for safety, one example being left hand turn arrows. Current state ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6020824 | Panel instrument A panel instrument apparatus of reduced size, comprising a printed circuit board on which light emitting elements and switches are mounted, and a panel cover to the rear of which the front face of the printed circuit board is attached. The panel cover com... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5930416 | Ambient light and dust protection for a mechanically operated optical switch An optical switch operating mechanism including a housing cooperatively preventing dust and light from easily reaching an optical switch supported within the housing. The housing includes integrally formed spaced apart slots for receiving the optical swit... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5819454 | Display device having triangular reflectors A display device in which the grid formed by rectangular reflector elements has each element divided by at least one diagonal into at least two triangular reflectors at the base of which at least one light source is provided and which is closed by a respe... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5682259 | Bus powered manually actuatable integrated pilot light/contact/communications module A manually actuatable integrated pilot light/contact/communications module connecting to an associated output device also having a communications module by means of a common communications link. The integrated pilot light/contact/communications module has... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5521578 | Display and control device for homes, apartments, and other buildings A combination address display device and doorbell control assembly are provided wherein the doorbell control assembly controls the supply of power to a backlighting assembly of the display device from existing wiring for the doorbell. The display device c... | 05/28/1996 |
| 4473870 | Lamp housing A switch case has a lens member pivotally mounted in it so that a lamp resistor circuit provided in the lens member are connected to one another without solder, and so that the circuit components themselves prevent movement of the lens member in its pivot... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4463398 | Intrinsically safe pilot light An intrinsically safe or an explosion proof pilot light having a cluster of light emitting diodes arranged in a pattern and visible through a lense cap located in a hazardous area. The pilot light has terminals connected through a rectifying bridge and a ... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4186386 | Instrument housing A segmented housing for electrical instrumentation particularly panel mounted meters of the electro-optical readout variety. The housing is formed in first and second halves separating the housing into substantially similar upper and lower portions which ... | 01/29/1980 |
