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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7964810 | Electrically conducting contact and method for production thereof A contact element for the intermittent contacting of conductor tracks on a circuit board, in particular, for flexible touchpads, for example for flexible input devices in the automobile industry, is made from a metal foam. The metal foam may be at least partly infil... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7115825 | Low cost key actuators and other switching device actuators manufactured from conductive loaded resin-based materials Key actuators and other switching devices are formed of a conductive loaded resin-based material. The conductive loaded resin-based material comprises micron conductive powder(s), conductive fiber(s), or a combination of conductive powder and conductive fibers in a ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7022213 | Gas sensor and its method of manufacture The invention relates to a gas sensor and its method of manufacture. Electrochemical gas sensors usually comprise an external housing, which acts as a reservoir for electrolyte; a wick to keep electrodes wetted with the electrolyte and external electrical ter... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6649516 | Method for manufacturing a composite member from a porous substrate by selectively infiltrating conductive material into the substrate to form via and wiring regions Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a composite member comprising a porous substrate, a via, and a wiring. The method comprises exposing a first region and a second region in the porous substrate to a exposure beam through a mask, the second region ex... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6210809 | Contact material The contact material of the present invention comprises: an anti-arcing constituent consisting of at least one TiC, V and VC of which the content is 30~70 volume % and whose mean particle (grain) size is 0.1~9 μm; C whose content is 0.005~0.5 weight % wi... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6027821 | Contact material for vacuum interrupter and method for producing the same A contact material for a vacuum interrupter including, a conductive component including at least Cu, and an arc-proof component including at least one selected from the group consisting of carbides of W, Zr, Hf, V and Ti. An amount of the conductive compo... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5853083 | Contact material for a vacuum circuit breaker and a method for manufacturing the same Interrupting and chopping characteristics of a Cu--Cr contact alloy are improved by rounding Cr particles to be spherical in the alloy. The Cr particles are rounded in the alloy by sintering raw Cr powder particles having an average particle diameter of l... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5701993 | Porosity-free electrical contact material, pressure cast method and apparatus A 100% dense, porosity free copper-chromium contact has been prepared in which deleterious porosity has been eliminated. This copper-chromium contact has been produced by pressurizing liquid copper to infiltrate an evacuated chromium based, lightly sinter... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5698008 | Contact material for vacuum valve and method of manufacturing the same A contact material for a vacuum valve including, a conductive constituent including at least copper, an arc-proof constituent including at least chromium and an auxiliary constituent including at least one selected from the group consisting of tungsten, m... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5422452 | Movable electrical potentiometer contact assembly A movable electrical contact assembly forms a potentiometer and includes at least one strip of electrically conductive material having a significant resistance, a conductive rolling contact device in contact with the strip, a mechanism for moving the roll... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5420384 | Contact material for a vacuum interrupter A contact material for a vacuum interrupter includes: (a) from 25 to 70% by volume of a highly conductive component selected from the group consisting of Ag, Cu and combinations thereof, and (b) from 30 to 75% by volume of an arc-proof component comprisin... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5409519 | Contact material for vacuum valve A contacts material for a vacuum valve including an arc-proof constituent having at least one component selected from the group consisting of tantalum, niobium, tungsten and molybdenum and an auxiliary constituent having at least one component selected fr... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5112236 | Electrical contact An electrical contact comprising a male element and a female element in which the male element is mounted for sliding with a tight fit, an air chamber being formed between an end of the male element and a bottom of the female element, the male and female ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5045281 | Contact forming material for a vacuum interrupter A contact forming material for a vacuum interrupter comprising: from 25% to 65% by weight of a highly conductive component comprising Ag and Cu, and from 35% to 75% by weight of an arc-proof component selected from the group consisting of Ti, V, Cr, Zr, M... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4892986 | Vacuum circuit breaker An electrode of a vacuum circuit breaker includes a support electrode, an auxiliary support electrode of Co soldered to the support electrode, and an electric contact portion composed of a sintered porous body of Co sintered to the auxiliary support elect... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4790968 | Process for producing pressure-sensitive electroconductive sheet A process (I), for producing a pressure-sensitive electroconductive sheet by (A), forming conductive circuits or electrodes in a flexible porous substrate and (B), applying, followed by curing a pressure-sensitive conductive paste to either or both sides ... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4777335 | Contact forming material for a vacuum valve A contact forming material for a vacuum valve or vacuum circuit breaker comprising (a) a conductive material consisting of copper and/or silver, and (b) an arc-proof material consisting of chromium, titanium, zirconium, or an alloy thereof wherein the amo... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4707576 | Arcing contact tip and method for producing such an arcing contact tip or a comparable component The arc withstanding electrodes in an electric circuit breaker for switching high voltages attain greater mechanical strength and improved arc withstanding capabilities by forming the arc withstanding electrodes of a carbon-fiber-reinforced-graphite mater... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4686338 | Contact electrode material for vacuum interrupter and method of manufacturing the same A novel contact electrode material for vacuum interrupters is disclosed, by which the chopping current value inherent in contact material can be reduced so that it is possible to stably interrupt small lagging current due to inductive loads without genera... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4640994 | Electronic apparatus with a flat panel keyboard unit A flat panel keyboard unit comprises a first flexible member having a key symbol printed thereon, a second flexible member having electrodes aligned with the kay symbol, a pressure sensitive conductive element provided at a position corresponding to the e... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4551596 | Surge-absorberless vacuum circuit interrupter A small-sized, light weighted vacuum circuit interrupter is provided. The interrupter comprises a vacuum container confining a vacuum atmosphere of a pressure less than 10-5 mmHg and a pair of electrodes at least one of which is a movable elect... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4503010 | Process of producing a compound material of chromium and copper In the method according to the invention, Cr powder is poured into a degased mold, which can be made of graphite. On this Cr powder a piece of low-oxygen copper is placed. Subsequently, the mold is closed with a porous cover, which can also be made of gra... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4468543 | Ignition distributor An ignition distributor is disclosed for use in an internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders each fitted with an ignition plug. The distributor includes a plurality of fixed electrodes disposed in circumferential spaced relationship an... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4430124 | Vacuum type breaker contact material of copper infiltrated tungsten This invention provides a vacuum type breaker contact material prepared by infiltrating copper into a sintered tungsten matrix, wherein elementary particle size and the growth of the particle size by heat processing are controlled in such a manner that th... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4424429 | Contactor for vacuum type circuit interrupter A contactor for a vacuum type circuit interrupter having a pair of detachable electrodes in a vacuum chamber comprises an electrode obtained by melting or sintering a composition of an electric conductive metal of copper or silver as a main component and ... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4399339 | Electrical contact In one aspect of the invention, a sintered electrical contact having a contacting surface defining a plurality of voids is disclosed. The voids contain a corrosion retarding fluid which passes onto the contacting surface upon being worn down upon repeated... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4372783 | Electrical contact composition for a vacuum type circuit interrupter A vacuum type circuit interrupter contact comprises a principal phase material selected from the group consisting of copper and solid solutions of chromium copper, iron copper and cobalt copper, and a second phase material selected from the group consisti... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4311769 | Mercury contact The mercury contact comprises a solid metal base of antimony, wetted with mercury. The method of manufacturing the mercury contact includes preparing the solid metal base by electrolytic deposition of antimony onto the substrate, and subsequently coating ... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4180715 | Vital movable electricl contact arrangement A fail-safe multiple transfer contact assembly including a plurality of front, back and heel contact elements. The contact elements include elongated leaf spring members which are fixed to a molded insulative contact block. A silver contact button is rivo... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4166201 | Ignition distributor electrode for suppressing radio frequency interference An ignition distributor for an internal combustion engine is provided with a novel rotor electrode which substantially reduces radio frequency interference generated by spark discharges across the rotor gap. At least the tip segment of the rotor electrode... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165452 | Ignition distributor electrode for suppressing radio frequency interference An ignition distributor for an internal combustion engine is provided with a novel rotor electrode which substantially reduces radio frequency interference generated by spark discharges across the rotor gap. At least the tip segment of the rotor electrode... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4162160 | Electrical contact material and method for making the same An electrical contact material which is particularly well suited for use in circuit breaker switches consisting essentially of silver in the amount of about 20% to 50% by weight, nickel in the amount of about 2% to 13% by weight, phosphorus in the amount ... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4153755 | Impregnated sintered material for electrical contacts and method for its production An impregnated sintered material for making electrical contact members which have a low fusing force and little burning in which a powder mixture of W, Ag and/or Cu, a wetting promoting metal, and 2 to 5 percent by weight graphite is granulated thermicall... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4137076 | Electrical contact material of TiC, WC and silver An electrical contact suitable for use in high-current switching or circuit breaking, comprising a mixture of silver or copper with an alloy of tungsten carbide and titanium carbide. The contact material preferably uses from about 10% to about 90% silver ... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4088480 | Process for preparing refractory metal-silver-cadmium alloys This application describes a method of preparing cadmium-containing refractory metal-silver alloys by using a liquid phase sintering technique featuring a cadmium vapor over-pressure. The resultant alloys are useful as electric contacts in high electric c... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4067379 | Method for the manufacture of multilayered contacts for medium-voltage vacuum power circuit breakers A method for producing multilayered contacts for medium-voltage vacuum power circuit breakers is provided comprising impregnating under vacuum with oxygen-free, liquid copper, a composite body of metal powders consisting of at least 35% by volume of a met... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4032301 | Composite metal as a contact material for vacuum switches A contact material for vacuum switches comprising a composite inclusion metal of at least two metal components in which a first component has an electric conductivity of at least 10 m/ohm mm2, the share of this component being between 35 and 60... | 06/28/1977 |
| 4008520 | Contact member and method of manufacture A contact member for high electrical loads has a plurality of component parts. One of these parts is made of a non-welding material resistant to burn-off and another part is made of a solderable material having electrically conductive properties. The mate... | 02/22/1977 |
| 3985512 | Telluride containing impregnated electric contact material Electric contact material having good solderability, consists of a porous matrix of sintered powder particles of a refractory metal, such as tungsten or molybdenum, with its pores impregnated with a metal alloy consisting of a telluride-forming metal, suc... | 10/12/1976 |
