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...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 |
| 7337687 | Starter having pinion-rotation-restricting mechanism for use in automotive vehicle A starter for cranking an internal combustion engine is composed of an electric motor, an output shaft driven by the electric motor, a pinion gear unit helical-spline-coupled to the output shaft, and a magnetic switch for supplying electric power to the electric mot... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7305899 | Starter with stopper on clutch inner portion of one-way clutch In a starter, a one-way clutch that transmits rotation of a motor to an output shaft has a clutch inner portion. The clutch inner portion has female helical splines in an inner periphery. Also, the clutch inner portion has a stopper at a front end of the female heli... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302870 | Motor vehicle starter with improved starter drive assembly Motor vehicle starter comprising a starter head provided with a pinion (1), a driver (2) and a coupling device with a conical clutch for coupling the pinion to the driver (2), in which the conical clutch comprises a first frustoconical friction ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7285883 | Drive system for linear and rotary movements A drive system includes a rotary drive unit for rotating a shaft and a linear drive unit for moving the shaft in a linear direction. To improve efficiency and shelf life, an energy storage is mechanically connected to the shaft for biasing the shaft to seek a linear... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7279783 | Partitioned integrated circuit package with central clock driver Disclosed are IC partitioned packaging and interconnection constructions that provide for improved distribution of power, ground, cross chip interconnections and clocks. ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7219569 | Integral one-way overrun clutch with epcicycle gear system A starter motor for an internal combustion engine having an integral one-way roller clutch and epicycle gear train unit is provided. The integrated unit includes an integrated gear support/clutch barrel which, on one side, houses the roller and spring elements of th... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7145259 | Engine starting motor anti-milling device A power module is connected to the starter, alternator, and battery for an internal combustion engine. The power module includes one or more capacitors and delay timer. When the ignition switch closes, the battery of the starting system provides current to the start... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7135795 | Insert molded end bell for a submersible motor and method of manufacture thereof An end bell for a motor has a base plate, a bearing and a molded insert to couple the bearing to the base plate. The end bell with molded insert is durable, light weight and has good anti-corrosion properties. The bearing is held in relation to the base plate while ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7101299 | Starter with planetary reduction gear device In a planetary reduction gear device of a starter, a planet carrier forms gear shafts and planetary gears are rotatably supported by the gear shafts through bearings. The planet carrier further forms waste shafts projecting in a direction same as that of the gear sh... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7053510 | Electrical actuator An electrical actuator has a DC motor which is provided with a rotor having a permanent magnet for forming a plurality of magnetic poles around a periphery thereof and a stator having a plurality of energizing coils and being disposed around a periphery of the rotor... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7028386 | Rotor body and production method thereof A rotor body according to the present invention comprises an annular laminated core of electromagnetic steel sheets defining therein a plurality of apertures in which permanent magnets are to be fixed, respectively, and a cylindrical core support to support the core... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7018314 | Engine starter with impact absorber An engine starter equipped with an impact absorber. The impact absorber is arranged between a planetary gear train and an overrunning clutch of the starter. The absorber includes a friction plate which is disposed between a clutch outer and a carrier plate of the ov... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7004134 | Engine generator A positioning pin is knocked onto a crankshaft of an engine and a key way is formed in a boss of a first flywheel. When an outer rotor type generator is connected with the engine, the boss of the first flywheel is fitted over the crankshaft so as to adjust the posit... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6969924 | Starter control apparatus There is provided a starter control apparatus including a control circuit board which can reduce the number of parts and prevents erroneous fitting. An earth pattern is formed in the vicinity of an attachment hole of the control circuit board and only on a one surfa... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6965172 | Starter for cranking internal combustion engine A starter for cranking an internal combustion engine is mainly composed of an electric motor and a magnetic switch having a battery bolt connected to an on-board battery and a motor bolt connected to the electric motor. When the magnetic switch is closed, electric p... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963144 | Starter having pinion-rotation-restricting member for use in automotive vehicle A pinion gear of a starter is engaged with a ring gear of an internal combustion engine by restricting rotation of the pinion gear while driving a motor at a low speed. After the engagement is established, the motor is driven at a full speed by supplying a full curr... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6937122 | Starter motor A starter motor for an internal combustion engine has an inertia type pinion mechanism and an axial solenoid 34 which is arranged to prevent pump out of the pinion 48 during start up of the engine. ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6932042 | Starter having pinion-rotation-restricting member for use in automotive vehicle A pinion gear of a starter is engaged with a ring gear of an internal combustion engine by restricting rotation of the pinion gear while driving a motor at a low speed. After the engagement is established, the motor is driven at a full speed by supplying a full curr... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930430 | Armature support structure of starter for automotive engine A starter for an internal combustion engine is provided which includes a pair of angular contact ball bearings used to support an armature shaft. The bearings are disposed close to opposed ends of a core of an armature. The core has disposed thereon coils which defi... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6888329 | Control method of dynamo-electric machine for vehicle A method of controlling an electric rotating machine for a vehicle includes an electric rotating machine (1) including a rotator having a field winding (5) and a stator having an armature winding (3), a field current controller (9) for co... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6870278 | Starter for internal combustion engines A starter for an internal combustion engine produces less noise and has a longer life and includes a transmission element for actuating an electric motor. The transmission element has two independently coaxially seated components—a stop pin and an engaging bar. Th... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6834630 | Starting system for an internal combustion engine The invention relates to a starter system for an internal combustion engine, in particular in motor vehicles, having a starter motor, a reduction gear, and a pinion-engaging assembly. The primary components of the starter system (10) are embodied as in... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6791201 | Starter having pinion movement restricting member In a starter, a pinion is fitted on a pinion shaft such that a rear end surface of the pinion is pressed against a thrust receiving wall provided on the pinion shaft, while a front end surface of the pinion is pressed backward by a detent ring. The detent ring has a... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6791204 | Torque generation for salient-pole synchronous machine for start-up of a prime mover A system and method to provide an improved power electronics starting system (100) in which starting torque is delivered by a salient pole synchronous machine (102), while associated power electronics (110) and (118) utilization is maximi... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6759756 | Starter for cranking internal combustion engine having main and auxiliary switches A starter includes an electric motor, a pinion gear driven by the electric motor and a magnetic switch having a plunger driven by a magnetic coil. Electric power to be fed to both the electric motor and the magnetic coil is supplied from an on-board battery through ... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6753621 | Starter for internal combustion engine A starter for an internal combustion engine is comprised of an armature, a motor case, a planetary gear speed reduction mechanism connected to an armature shaft, a frame and a partition plate disposed between the motor case and the frame. The partition plate has an ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6731037 | Housing assembly structure of starter motor for vehicle The present invention relates to a housing assembly structure of a starter motor for a vehicle which is capable of implementing an easier assembling operation of a magnet switch and a lever in a finished assembling line of a starter motor based on a shape change of ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6720669 | Starter for aircraft piston engines A starter for a piston aircraft engine is constructed by placing the pinion-gear and drive clutch, the engagement solenoid and the driving motor in a linear arrangement, the motor driving the clutch via a geared shaft passing by the engagement solenoid. Such constru... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6593713 | Control apparatus for hybrid vehicle A control apparatus utilizes an electric motor to initially start-up an engine. In an engine restart under certain conditions, the control apparatus sets a motor output value for the electric motor to a value exceeding the rated performance. Thus, when st... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6443023 | Starter having improved electromagnetic switch An electromagnetic switch for controlling an electric power supply to a starting motor is located in the periphery of one side of an output shaft in a radial direction thereof and coaxially with the output shaft. The electromagnetic switch has a motor con... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6369532 | Control system for an electric motor having an integral flywheel rotor A control system for an electric motor having an integral flywheel rotor. The motor includes a stator mounted co-axially with the engine crankshaft and a rotor surrounding the stator. A sensor is positioned near the rotor for sensing its rotational speed.... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6274945 | Combustion control method and system A multi-injector combustion system in which a brake resistor is utilized to provide a minimum load for the combustor system during idle or low power operation of the permanent magnet turbogenerator/motor and also to absorb power during transients to preve... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6225718 | Starter To prevent powder caused by wear of brushes from entering a contact chamber, a first stationary contact is electrically connected to a battery and a second stationary contact is connected to positive brushes, wherein a contact bracket is provided to hold ... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6201311 | Vehicle starter with separate terminals for the motor and the excitation coil A starter in which a terminal is each provided for a motor side fixed contact point and an excitation coil separately, and the terminal of the motor side fixed contact point and the terminal of the excitation coil are of a snap-on type. Therefore, the wor... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6114772 | Starter having pinion rotation restricting member and plunger movement restricting member In a starter, a plate that turns with a pinion moving body is disposed behind the pinion moving body. The plate has a receiving part that engages with the lower extension of a rotation restricting member for restricting the rotation of the pinion moving b... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6040634 | Electric motor/thermal engine drive for a vehicle in which the electric motor functions as a flywheel, starter motor, and generator The engine unit for a vehicle comprises a thermal engine (1) and a coaxial relatively flat electric motor (2) which can operate up to, at least, the maximum operating speed of said thermal engine. Said electric motor is constructed and arranged to provide... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6008606 | Starting assistance device for a vehicle with a motor and dog-clutch control for transmitting a torque to idler wheels A starting assistance device for a vehicle has an electric motor and a dog clutch which is switched on at the time of starting of the vehicle to thereby transmit a torque to idler wheels. A sensor is provided to detect the switching on and switching off o... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5998895 | Seal for starter motor drive An improved drive arrangement for a starter motor includes a rubber cushion between a drive plate and a pinion gear. The rubber cushion has seals at inner and outer locations which seal against the drive plate. In this way, the area between the drive plat... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5945755 | Starter with housing for cantilever-mounting on engine A starter has a housing formed with a fitting part and a flange on the outer periphery thereof. The fitting part is in circular shape when viewed in the axial direction and is press-fitted, in the socket-and-spigot joint manner, into a fitting hole of an ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5937696 | Starter for an internal combustion engine In an engine starter according to the present invention, an annular stopper disposed between the pinion unit and the solenoid device so as to determine the rest position of the pinion unit is formed with a tongue projecting radially outwardly from its out... | 08/17/1999 |
