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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7331056 | Data storage cartridge having baffles A media cartridge for use with data storage libraries. The cartridge includes a housing having an opening through which a carrier tray can be loaded and extracted to reveal a media element. A number of baffles are included to limit exposure of the media elements to ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7279733 | Dual damascene interconnection with metal-insulator-metal-capacitor and method of fabricating the same Provided are a dual damascene interconnection with a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor and a method of fabricating the same. In this structure, an MIM capacitor is formed on a via-level IMD. After the via-level IMD is formed, while an alignment key used for patt... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7227816 | Container for optical disks, tray and magazine type player therefor The invention refers to a container (1) for optical disks (25), a tray (5) for such container (1) and a magazine type player (39) adapted to be used with such container (1). Object of the invention is to provide a container ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7092320 | Medium handler and organizer A compact disc processing system allows for more efficient processing of compact discs. The system included a transporter mechanism that can grip and transport more than one compact disc at a time. As such, a second disc can be gripped while a first disc is being pr... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7072570 | Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus and control method thereof Provided are: a turn table for storing a disk shaped recording medium Dn to be vertically placed; a disk drive unit disposed at the center part of the table, the disk drive unit mounting a recording medium Dn to record and/or reproduce an information signal SIN; dis... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6941566 | Disc system A disk system miniaturized by sharing moving spaces of a disk clamper portion and a disk operating portion. The disk system includes a disk clamper portion (300) for holding a disk (R), the disk clamper portion (300) being provided in such a manner as ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6922379 | Disk changer apparatus Disk changer apparatus employs a commercially-available drive device that includes a sliding tray having an opening preformed therein. Disk elevator section has a portion movable through the opening of the sliding tray and thereby allows a disk to be transferred bet... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6452894 | Recording media library apparatus having a medium inversion unit separated from a transport mechanism The present invention provides a recording media library apparatus that includes an inversion unit for inverting a desired or designated recording medium of the double-side recording type so as to correspond to a predetermined driving direction of a drive... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6285648 | Device for turning double-sided information carriers in an apparatus The invention relates to a turning device for turning double-sided information carriers such as Compact Discs, in an apparatus having at least one tray carrying an individual information carrier and removable from at least one function unit such as a maga... | 09/04/2001 |
| 5787066 | Both-sided optical disc player capable of transferring a both-sided disc up and down about an optical pickup A both-sided optical disc player for recording/reproducing information on a both-sided disc includes a disc deck having a turntable being shaft-supported by a spindle motor to be rotated for driving the disc and an optical pickup slidably connected on the... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5682096 | Method and apparatus for monitoring operating positions of a media autochanger A monitor assembly for a media autochanger having a media holder assembly which is rotatable with respect to a media autochanger support frame about a media holder rotation axis. The media holder assembly includes first and second media engaging members. ... | 10/28/1997 |
| 4466028 | Device for reversing a recording medium for use with a recording and reproducing apparatus A device for reversing a recording medium such as a cassette tape or a record disc for use with a recording and reproducing apparatus which is equipped with an automatic cassette ejection mechanism is disclosed. The device includes a gripper which is adap... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4447900 | Automatic video disc inverting mechanism A video disc player having a base and a protective cover pivotally hinged on the base and adapted to be opened and closed to permit a disc to be inserted or removed from the rotary drive assembly is provided with a device for automatically turning over a ... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4399507 | Instruction address stack in the data memory of an instruction-pipelined processor An instruction pipeline for a data processor is disclosed, in which instruction execution is carried out in a sequence of phases which include fetching the instruction from an instruction storage, computing a data storage address from the fetched instruct... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4196907 | Record player A record player with a turntable mounted for rotation in a substantially fixed horizontal plane on a chassis and a tone arm for reproducing signals recorded on the surface of a record disc which faces upwardly when the disc is rotatably supported on the t... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4123066 | Device for automatically turning discs from side to side The device for automatically turning a disc over includes a disc grasping mechanism which comprises a main arm, sub-arms mounted on the main arm to grasp the disc by the circumferential edge with the aid of springs, and electromagnets disposed to control ... | 10/31/1978 |
