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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4414576 | Housing assembly for electrical apparatus A housing assembly is provided for use with a remote electronic surveillance camera or the like, having a removable housing cover which permits rapid access to the interior of the housing assembly for service and adjustments. The cover is connected to the... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4383286 | Cooling and power input assembly A cooling and electrical control assembly is provided for an electrical equipment such as a computer which is normally provided with venting slots for the dissipation of heat by the normal flow of ambient air. The ventilation slots on certain computers, s... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4356531 | Computer mounting assembly A computer housing comprising spaced, parallel side walls containing grooves for slidingly receiving cards and spaced, parallel top and bottom walls to which the side walls are secured to provide, in conjunction with the side walls, a card cage and an enc... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4327398 | Cooling system for automatic bowling pin spotter A cooling system for the electrical components compartment of an automatic bowling pin spotter having a low power subcompartment and a high power subcompartment, includes an upwardly projecting chimney structure which supports a fan. The fan forces air fl... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4241380 | Housing for an electric circuit arrangement The invention relates to a housing assembly for electrical equipment which provides for the efficient removal of heat produced by high heat producing electrical components. A perimeter wall has the usual external cooling fins. A divider wall arrangement f... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4236055 | Microwave oven including a digital control system and a heater disposed in an oven cavity A microwave oven comprises a magnetron for microwave cooking purposes, a heater disposed in an oven cavity for electric heating cooking purposes, and a digital control system including a semiconductor microprocessor for controlling operation of the magnet... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4217952 | Energy saving system for retrieving heat loss from an electrical apparatus In a system having an electrical apparatus dissipating thermal energy, an apparatus compartment is provided to substantially surround the apparatus, and a blower, disposed in an inlet air compartment, forces air through the apparatus compartment to an exi... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4158875 | Air cooling equipment for electronic systems An air cooling equipment for use in electronic systems of the type having a plurality of printed circuit wiring boards with a plurality of heat-generating electronic components mounted thereon is disclosed. The air cooling equipment uses a double-walled d... | 06/19/1979 |
| 4147299 | Air flow system for a disk file An air flow system for a disk file is disclosed in which air is pumped under pressure past the disk surfaces to remove contaminants and past a voice coil actuator to cool the motor and returned to an inlet in the pump. A thermostatically controlled air di... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4142091 | Portable electric welder An electric welding apparatus designed for light arc welding work and specifically made of small size and lightweight for one man portability. To accomplish these functions, the welder uses a circuitry which converts standard 117 volt AC line power to low... | 02/27/1979 |
| 4126269 | Ventilated enclosure A ventilated enclosure is formed by an air duct, one end of which is closed ff by a partition pierced with ventilation apertures and the other end of which is closed off by a wall to which is attached at least two fans and which is provided with openings t... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4103737 | Heat exchanger structure for electronic apparatus A chassis for an electronic apparatus having heat generating circuit components attached to heat exchangers along its top and bottom walls. Each heat exchanger includes a base from which parallel fingers project toward a plane passing horizontally through... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4084213 | Portable keyboard/display terminal Apparatus for housing the electronic components, keyboard and display screen for a portable communications terminal wherein the terminal is completely self-contained, and the apparatus may be closed into a case for carrying and opened into a plurality of ... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4084250 | Modular assembly for an electronic computer An electronic computer includes a plurality of printed circuit boards that are slideably mounted in spaced parallel planes within a housing. The housing contains an input/output bus arrangement which is substantially open in the middle. A power supply is ... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4035711 | Rotary frequency-changer A frequency-changer comprising an air-cooled rotary frequency converter having a shaft which carries a rotor of a fan arranged to cool the converter by forced ventilation. The converter is located in a sound-proofed housing through which forced air flow p... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4026349 | Cowl for an industrial electric truck A cowl for an industrial electric truck formed in three compartments of which two are sealable and interconnected by conduits for conveying air therebetween. The first compartment is provided to contain the silicon controlled rectifier, the third is provi... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3967874 | Uniformly cooled printed circuit board mounting assembly Apparatus for uniformly cooling an array of printed circuit boards mounted in a card holding means includes a high velocity centrifugal fan which is in communication with a plenum chamber secured to the lower end of the card holding means. Disposed in the... | 07/06/1976 |
| 3962608 | Apparatus for holding and cooling electronic circuit boards in remote-controlled typewriters An arrangement for processing and modifying copy material for remote-controlled typewriters, in which a box-shaped frame holds the electronic circuit boards. The frame is provided with guides into which the circuit boards are inserted in a manner whereby ... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3942586 | Cooling arrangement for flat semiconductor components An improved cooling arrangement for flat semiconductor components such as disc-type thyristors in which the semiconductor component is clamped between two solid cooling elements with each cooling element carrying at least one heat pipe with attached cooli... | 03/09/1976 |
