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Napoleon Bonaparte ; When told of the Robert Fulton steamboat
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6840236 | Engine control device To accurately detect occurrence of erroneous detection of a crank pulse associated with dropout of a crank pulse or occurrence of noise. A cogless section is provided in cogs provided on an outer periphery of a crankshaft for transmitting a crank pulse. Occur... | 01/11/2005 |
| 4922198 | Displacement sensor including a piezoelectric element and a magnetic member In the embodiments described in the specification, a device having gear teeth to provide magnetic asymmetries rotates adjacent to a permanent magnet which is part of a mechanical mounting for a piezoelectric transducer. Relative motion between the gear te... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4677378 | Displacement sensor including a magnetically responsive member and a pair of piezoelectric elements A displacement sensor is provided with first and second piezoelectric elements, a pair of electrodes at one and the other ends of each of the first and the second piezoelectric elements; a permanent magnet mechanically fixed to one end of the first piezoe... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4416245 | Apparatus for distributing electrical signals A distributor for an ignition system that includes a plurality of optical switches (20) and a rotating member (40) having two windows (41, 42) spaced 180 degrees apart so that each switch is activated twice for each revolution of the distributor shaft. Th... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4275690 | Ignition distributor An ignition distributor is disclosed which comprises an input terminal, output terminals, a rotor adapted to rotate with rotation of an engine and provided at its one end with a magnet, a first electrode facing the rotor and coupled to the input terminal,... | 06/30/1981 |