The ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis Worlds Fair by Ernest Hamwi in 1904. His waffle booth was next to an ice cream vendor who ran short of dishes. Hamwi rolled a waffle to hold ice cream and the cone was born.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7622883 | Controller for motor There is provided a controller for a motor capable of changing the phase difference between two rotors that can prevent demagnetization of permanent magnets or the rotors. The motor has two rotors each having a permanent magnet and phase difference changing driving ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7294949 | Single-phase induction motor A single-phase induction motor comprises a stator having a stator coil; an induction cage rotor rotatably inserted into a receiving groove of the stator, having a rotation shaft at a center thereof, having a plurality of first conductor bars at an outer peripheral p... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7173356 | Independent direct drive for paper processing machines The present invention provides an electric drive, including a stator (4) and a rotor (3), for a paper processing machine, in particular a printing press having at least two rotary subassemblies (1, 2), the stator (4) and the rotor (3 | 02/06/2007 |
| 6952068 | Fabricated components of transverse flux electric motors Transverse flux electric motors are made using a unique process where individual components are premade and then assembled together. A stator portion is made by nesting a coil between two stator core portions. The stator core portions are made from laminations or si... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6867560 | Drive of rotary electric machine A rotary electric machine having a plurality of rotors is driven by a compound current. A voltage to be applied to a stator of the rotary electric machine is in the form of a compound rectangular or stepwise voltage composed of a plurality of superposed components e... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6774591 | Motor/generator A motor/generator comprises a stator (2) having plural coils (C1-C14), and plural rotors (3, 4) disposed coaxially with the above-mentioned stator and driven by a compound current. The phase difference between the currents (70, 71)... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6472845 | Motor/generator device An inverter (23) generates a composite current comprising an electrical current for a first rotor (4) and an electrical current for a second rotor (3). A microprocessor (22) controls the inverter (23) so that the average value of the composite current is ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6204627 | Motor control apparatus A transformer outputs different (high or low) secondary voltages. A switch outputs high or low secondary voltage according to a mode signal. An electric power converter including a rectifying circuit and a switching circuit either charges a smoothing capa... | 03/20/2001 |
| 4755700 | Variable speed AC motor In a first type of variable speed electric motor, two coaxial shafts are mounted in a housing. Two rotors are mounted on each shaft. Two stators are mounted in the housing. Each of the stators is in operative association with a rotor mounted on a differen... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4503377 | Variable speed rotary electric machine A variable speed rotary electric machine comprises a stator composed of a stator core and first and second stator windings wound on the stator core, and a cage rotor mounted rotatably within the stator and composed of a rotor core and rotor conductor disp... | 03/05/1985 |
| 3939370 | Variable speed three-phase motor The disclosure is of a variable speed three-phase motor with a intermediate rotor and inner rotor, where the pack of laminations of the main rotor is prolonged as an annular pack of laminations in the direction of the longitudinal axis with short-circuit ... | 02/17/1976 |