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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4758965 | Polygon fill processor Method and apparatus for filling convex polygons for display in a raster graphics system is described. Starting from the bottom of the polygon, horizontal lines are drawn to fill the polygon as y-value increments. A polygon-fill processor includes two mod... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4686639 | Free space microscope digitizing aid There is disclosed an inspection system which allows the visual inspection of an item and the automatic recordation of the position of a defect or other inspection characteristic in the plane of inspection. In the visual inspection of an electronic circui... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4685054 | Method and apparatus for outlining the environment of a multiarticular duty machine by means of a laser pointer A method and apparatus for outlining the manipulation environment of a duty machine automatically determines its working cycles. The method includes a laser pointer (2) which measures the direction and distance of the laser beam with respect to an object.... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4672562 | Method and apparatus for determining location and orientation of objects An orthogonally related target point array is provided in fixed relationship to an object. A photo detector image plane obtains images of the target points projected through a lens located a fixed distance from the image plane. Simple algebraic manipulati... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4649504 | Optical position and orientation measurement techniques A non-contact sensing system for monitoring the position and orientation of a rigid body in space having at least three distinct point light sources mounted on the rigid body. At least two position sensor heads are fixedly mounted within detection range o... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4642786 | Method and apparatus for position and orientation measurement using a magnetic field and retransmission Disclosed herein are method and apparatus for position and orientation measurement using a magnetic field and retransmission thereof. In a first embodiment, three coils are deployed as a three-axis antenna. A magnetic field is transmitted sequentially fro... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4628469 | Method and apparatus for locating center of reference pulse in a measurement system A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining the spatial coordinates of a workpiece including: a planar light source for illuminating the workpiece; an electronic imaging device adapted to view the intersection of the planar light and the workpiec... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4622644 | Magnetic position and orientation measurement system A system is disclosed which enables the measurement of the position and orientation of a permanent magnet within a three dimensional region in five degrees of freedom. In order to sense the position and orientation of the permanent magnet, three three-axi... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4611292 | Robot vision system A method and an apparatus for detecting the position and posture of an object (5, 9, 10) are characterized by two planar light beams (3a, 3b) alternately projected on the object (5, 9, 10) to be handled and intersection lines (A, B) formed between the two... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4593967 | 3-D active vision sensor This invention is to a three dimensional active vision sensor. This invention uses a multifacet holographic scanner to move a laser spot across an object at high speed in a raster pattern and a digital position detector to give a highly accurate, low nois... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4485453 | Device and method for determining the location and orientation of a drillhole A drillhole centerline determining interposer having a central cavity enables a robot to probe the interposer to learn the location and orientation of the desired drillhole. The interposer is a mushroom shaped device with a planar head and a stem dimensio... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4481563 | Automotive headlight having optics in the reflector An automotive headlight has a clear unfluted front cover and a reflector which directs light from a source through the front cover in a desired pattern. The reflective surface is smooth and continuous formed of two edge ellipsoids and a center ellipsoid j... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4408277 | Holographic imager A holographic apparatus uses electronically processed three-dimensional information about an object to produce a three-dimensional display of that object and its movement. A holographic screen has a plurality of angularly multiplexed holographic images wh... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4333154 | Device for determining the direction of a line of sight In a device for determining the direction of a line of sight, or the orientation of a sighting trihedron associated with said line of sight, defined by a magnetic azimuth angle, an elevation angle and an inclination angle determined in a reference trihedr... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4321683 | Measuring system for alignment and measurement with an electronic tachymeter A measuring system includes a tachymeter station and a reflector or evaluating station. The tachymeter station is provided with an electronic tachymeter, along with a calculating or computing device and a portable radio transmitter, for transmitting data ... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4263656 | Visual sighting system A visual sighting system, in which the attitude of a person's head facing to a target object is detected, and the position of the target object is calculated so that an external servomechanism, such as an artificial arm, is directed to the target object.... | 04/21/1981 |
| 4238828 | Position detecting apparatus Position detecting apparatus having a target comprising radiation emitting eans for emitting radiation to define four points in non-planar relationship such that a first set of three of the points lies in a first target plane while a second set of three of... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4146924 | System for visually determining position in space and/or orientation in space and apparatus employing same Visual system for determining position in space and/or orientation in three-dimensional space for purposes, for example, of directing or instructing an industrial robot to perform manipulative acts and apparatus employing the visual system. The system inc... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4137638 | Electromechanical survey vehicle and method A method and vehicle are disclosed for surveying terrain by providing data from which three-dimensional coordinates of the path of the vehicle on the terrain are calculated. The vehicle includes two members articulated to one another and each member is su... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4041285 | Bi-directional motion sensing and clocking system An electrical bi-directional motion sensing and clocking system is disclosed for identifying the relative sense and magnitude of movement experienced by a moving body. The corresponding relative motion of a target past a pair of sensor units produces a pa... | 08/09/1977 |
