Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7183486 | Liquid-tight connector with deformable o-ring A liquid tight connector for terminating one end of an elongate electrical conductor includes a connector body having a rearward conduit receiving end, an opposed forward end and a central bore therethrough. A gland nut is movably secured to the rearward conduit rec... | 02/27/2007 |
| 6674013 | Bushing capable of serving as watertight packing and watertight structure using the bushing A bushing is provided for placement on a cable to be held between an upper cover and a lower cover of an apparatus. The bushing has a flange on an outer peripheral surface thereof, and the flange extends perpendicular to the cable on which the bushing is ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6457228 | Method for sealing liquid coolant into module A module is placed inside a chamber that can be sealed hermetically. The module includes a substrate incorporating a plurality of electronic circuit parts, a frame connected to the substrate so as to enclose the plurality of electronic circuit parts, and ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6362951 | Container for use in a communication apparatus having a plurality from one another in waterproof level of independent chambers which are different A container box for use in a communication apparatus. The container box has a container case defining an internal space; partitions connected to the container case for partitioning the internal space to have at least two accommodating chambers; and a cont... | 03/26/2002 |
| 5866853 | Liquid-tight, strain-relief connector for connecting conduit and the like There is provided a strain-relief, liquid tight for connecting conduit or the like to a bulkhead such as an electrical box, with the connector having a body having front and rear portions, and a substantially hollow inner throughbore formed along a longit... | 02/02/1999 |
| 4670342 | Method of making electrical inductive devices for use in hermetic refrigerant atmospheres A method for making an electrical inductive device for use in hermetic atmospheres which incorporate refrigerants such as halogenated methane compositions, for example refrigerant R-22, monochlorodifluoromethane. The device may be a wound coil device form... | 06/02/1987 |