Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| 7322333 | Internal combustion engine air intake structure An air intake structure is provided with an air intake control valve disposed in the air intake passage. The air intake control valve has a valve element pivotally mounted at one end adjacent to a passage wall of the air intake passage. The air intake control valve ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7299787 | Internal combustion engine intake device An internal combustion engine intake device is configured to improve the uniformity with which purge gas or other introduced gas is distributed to the cylinders of an engine. The intake device basically has a throttle chamber, an intake air collector, an air inducti... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7290519 | Air intake apparatus An air intake apparatus configured to combine air filtered separately through a plurality of air cleaners and lead it to a single throttle body suppresses or prevents variation in the pressure of airflow introduced from a plurality of intake paths to the single thro... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7111607 | Air intake device of internal combustion engine An air intake device of an internal combustion engine comprises a cylinder head having therein two intake ports that are adapted to connect to a cylinder of a cylinder block; and a single partition plate that extends across both the two intake ports so that each of ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7104256 | Throttle body fixing structure A throttle body fixing structure adapted to firmly fix a throttle body to the engine under a simple structure, wherein the throttle body connects to a surge tank made of a plastic material. The vehicle weight is reduced, and maintenance and assembly are simplified. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7089921 | Intake manifold for internal combustion engine An intake manifold (1) of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine comprises a single pipe portion (4), a collector (5) connected to the pipe portion (4), and a plurality of branch pipes (6) branching from the collector (5 | 08/15/2006 |
| 6889672 | Air intake arrangement for an internal combustion engine An air intake apparatus for supplying air to an internal combustion engine, comprises a unitary hollow enclosure, a motor vehicle battery, an air filter and an air compressor which when activated compresses air supplied to the engine. The enclosure houses the batter... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6805087 | Variable air intake mechanism of engine An air intake structure of an engine has a first intake air passage and a second intake air passage provided independently and having downstream end portions branched into a plurality of intake ducts connected to a plurality of cylinders of the engine. The neighborh... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6776400 | Air intake deflector for twin carburetors An air intake deflector to deflect air towards twin carburetors including a specifically sized and configured element inserted inside an existing air intake adaptor and the air intake deflector being situated between two separate spaced apart holes leading to two se... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6619267 | Method and system for providing smooth mode transitions in a variable displacement internal combustion engine An engine having a plurality of cylinder banks, each one of the banks having at least one cylinder. Each one of the banks is fed air through a corresponding one of a pair of manifold plenums. A main throttle body is provided having an outlet for feeding a... | 09/16/2003 |
| 5103777 | Fuel injection type multiple cylinder engine unit A fuel injection type multiple cylinder engine unit includes an oil lubricating device including an oil tank and the oil in the oil tank is pumped up by a pump having an oil drain side to which pipes are connected for supplying the oil near the injectors.... | 04/14/1992 |
