Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7676954 | Drying method for a household appliance and household appliance for carrying the drying method A drying method for a household appliance such as a dishwasher comprises a Peltier-element in addition to a heat-emitting part and also a heat-absorbing part for drying the washed items in the treatment area of the dishwasher. The heater-absorbing part cools a later... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7425688 | Heating assembly for a tumble dryer A heating assembly for heating a hot air stream flowing in a flow passage of a tumble dryer. The heating assembly is configured for installation in the flow passage and comprises at least one heating element and at least one temperature sensor. The heating element i... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7356438 | Method and device for temperature monitoring along a measuring line The present invention relates to a registering device for registering a location along a measuring line, at which location a temperature change takes place. In an advantageous way, according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, by means of the FMCW ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353624 | Clothing drying machine and method for sensing dryness level using the same A clothing drying machine, which terminates drying operation when a dryness level of the drying machine reaches a target level desired by a user, and a method for sensing the dryness level using the same. The method includes counting the frequency of a case, in whic... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7322126 | Apparatus and method for controlling a clothes dryer A clothes dryer has a degree of dryness control system that is responsive to moisture level of clothing articles tumbling in a drum and a target moisture value to control the drying cycle of the clothes dryer. The clothes dryer has a load size parameter producing mo... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7263283 | Electronic thermostat for liquid heating apparatus An electronic thermostat (20) has a mechanical switch (22) and a solid-state switch (24). The electronic thermostat (20) is suitable for use in a liquid heating apparatus, such as a coffee maker or any other apparatus that dispenses heate... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7134825 | Device for handling substrates inside and outside a clean room A device (10) for handling substrates (11) inside and outside a clean room (15) is provided with a locking transfer device (17), by which means a substrate cassette (12) that is accommodated in a box (13) in clean-room condi... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127832 | Control method of clothes dryer and apparatus thereof Disclosed are a control method of a clothes drier capable of preventing a laundry damage due to an over-drying and capable of decreasing a power dissipation, and an apparatus thereof. The control method of a clothes drier comprises the steps of: dividing a section t... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7086410 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A common solvent vapor supply source 41 and a common processing gas supply source 42 supply ozone gas and steam to a plurality of processing vessels 30A, 30B. Pressures in the processing vessels are regulated by adjusting the openings of ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7082695 | Power-saving drying machine control A power-saving drying machine control method used in a drying machine is disclosed to include the steps of (a) enabling the temperature (or relative humidity) control unit of a central control unit to start working and to detect the temperature (or relative humidity... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7017280 | Clothes dryer apparatus and method A method of controlling the operation of a dryer including both a variable heat source and a variable speed blower includes varying only one of the variable heat source and the variable speed blower, while maintaining the other one in a fixed state. ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6931759 | Apparatus for sensing dryness degree in exhaust type clothes dryer and control method using same An apparatus for sensing a dryness degree in an exhaust type clothes dryer and a control method using the same, includes an electrode sensor for sensing a clothes drying state based on the humidity of the clothes in the drum, and a thermistor for sensing the tempera... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6918192 | Substrate drying system A substrate drying system for drying substrates after the substrates are washed typically using deionized water, is disclosed. The substrate drying system comprises a substrate cleaning tank in which the substrates are washed. A dry pump is provided in fluid communi... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6907680 | Method for drying laundry and machine implementing such a method Method for drying laundry and a machine able to implement such a method, which provides for the use of only one electric resistance for heating the air utilized for drying purposes. According to the invention, during the starting phase of the drying process, ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6751888 | Clothes dryer adaptive heater control A control system for a clothes dryer including a temperature sensor and a thermostat for regulating at least one dryer heating element is provided. The control system includes a microcomputer programmed to compensate for a conflict between the thermostat temperature... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6662466 | Method for two dimensional adaptive process control of critical dimensions during spin coating process A process for drying a polymeric material present on a substrate is provided. Temperatures of the polymeric material is measured and the ambient temperature in the vicinity of the substrate. A temperature of the substrate is also measured. A variation in ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6470597 | Process and apparatus for removing water from materials using oscillatory flow-reversing gaseous media A process and an apparatus for removing water from a material are disclosed. The material can be selected from the group consisting of fibrous webs, textiles, plastics, non-woven webs, building materials, or any combination thereof, and may comprise an ag... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6425192 | Clothes drying and dewrinkling cabinet A cabinet for clothes drying and dewrinkling which comprises a main enclosure that defines an inner area for housing clothes, a fan for supplying air to the inner area, a steam generator for supplying steam to the inner area, a controller for regulating t... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6327793 | Method for two dimensional adaptive process control of critical dimensions during spin coating process A process for drying a polymeric material present on a substrate is provided. Temperatures of the polymeric material is measured and the ambient temperature in the vicinity of the substrate. A temperature of the substrate is also measured. A variation in ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6308436 | Process for removing water from fibrous web using oscillatory flow-reversing air or gas A process and an apparatus for removing water from a fibrous web are disclosed. The process comprises providing a fibrous web having a moisture content from about 10% to about 90%; providing an oscillatory flow-reversing impingement gas having frequency o... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6230419 | Apparatus and method for drying relatively small lots of products An apparatus and method for drying small lots of product, for example ear corn. The method includes simultaneously directing air flow through the product while weighing the product from time to time to derive moisture content to the product. Air temperatu... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6216362 | Method and apparatus for control of the cooling rate of cast steel railway wheels The disclosure provides an apparatus for controlling the rate of heat transfer from as-cast railroad wheels after their removal from the mold utilizing a plurality of vertically adjustable caps with a cap positioned over each wheel to control the rate of ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6199300 | Method for energy efficient control of a dryer of clothes A method and apparatus for controlling the heat input of a dryer where the initial heat input to a clothes load is set at full power until a first predetermined temperature or time condition occurs. The heat input of the dryer is then reduced to in order ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6131307 | Method and device for controlling pressure and flow rate A pressure and flow rate of a gas flowing into or out of a processing chamber are controlled, so as to decrease or increase an atmosphere in the processing chamber higher or lower than a target pressure to obtain a target pressure. During a first period, ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5673497 | Clothes dryer temperature control system A clothes dryer temperature control system or circuit is provided with a thermally biased thermostat adjacent to the air outlet of the drying drum. Further, a thermally biased control thermostat is provided adjacent the air inlet of the dryer drum. The tw... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5555641 | Device and method for controlling drying period of time of a laundry dryer This invention relates to a control of drying period of time of a laundry dryer which is provided to use the microwave generated from a magnetron and the heat generated from a heater efficiently, and allows to dry every nook and corner of laundry within a... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5444924 | Electronic control of clothes dryer A control system for a clothes dryer is disclosed. A microprocessor monitors the heated inlet air temperature and the exhaust temperature. If the inlet temperature exceeds a high limit value a given number of times, an air blockage indicator is activated.... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5443541 | Dual element electrical clother dryer with single element interrupt circuit This invention relates to a clothes dryer which can successfully cope with operation when the air circulation path is partially blocked. The dryer is of a type having dual heating elements and during conditions where blocking exists, the heat generation i... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5428884 | Yarn conditioning process An automated yarn conditioning apparatus and process is provided. This apparatus and process allows for unconditioned yarn packages to be brought from a source to a yarn conditioning station where they are conditioned and then ejected onto a takeaway conv... | 07/04/1995 |
| 4713894 | Automated dryer control system A system for automatically controlling the operation of a dryer, periodically produces signals representative of the present temperature of a load to be dried. Heat is applied to the load in response to the signals representative of the present temperatur... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4587743 | Method of controlling temperature of drying machine A method of controlling the temperature of a drying machine by controlling the heat medium supply thereto in response to a signal representative of the temperature generated by a temperature detector for detecting the temperature of the drying machine com... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4580354 | Method and device for measuring humidity For determining the relative humidity of a highly moist gas, particularly air exiting from a wood-drying apparatus, there is used a humidity sensing arrangement having a capacitive sensor, whose capacitance varies with changes in the relative humidity of ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4543735 | Method and apparatus for the accelerated adjustment of water activity of foods and other materials Disclosed herein is an accelerated method of achieving a desired moisture content or water activity in a standard sample of biomaterial comprising the steps of (a) placing the sample in the headspace of an equilibration chamber; (b) establishing in the he... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4531305 | Method and apparatus for controlling a clothes dryer In a clothes dryer, the electrical resistance of wet articles and the temperature of exhaust air are monitored. At the instant the monitored electrical resistance reaches a predetermined value, the time-varying rate of change of the monitored temperature ... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4397101 | Automatic dryer control A microcontroller based control system for an automatic clothes dryer of the type having dry cycle time-drum outlet air temperature function which reflects an initial warm up period of relatively rapidly rising temperature; followed by a period in which t... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4272894 | Drying step in a method of producing ceramic articles A method of drying green ceramic articles with a hot air stream in a drier, wherein the green articles, immediately or soon after entering the drier, are heated to 100° C. while the moisture content thereof is maintained equal to that of the green articl... | 06/16/1981 |
