Bizarre Patents
A forehead support apparatus for resting a standing users forehead against a wall above a bathroom commode or urinal or beneath a showerhead.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7190097 | Cross plane wide-gap motor system for gimbal An apparatus for the control and alignment of a sensor on a moving vehicle is provided that includes a gimbal ball supported by an outer axis structure and adapted to pivot about an outer elevation axis and about an outer azimuth axis. The outer axis structure is mo... | 03/13/2007 |
| 6980228 | Monitoring buoy system A buoy system for observing and monitoring the surface of a large predetermined area of water including a flotation device; a waterproof imaging device attached to the exterior of the flotation device, the imaging device operable for obtaining continuous real-time i... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6145393 | Floated gimbal optical platform The invention is a floated gimbal instrument platform that provides a stable optical path for optical instruments. The instrument platform has an outer vessel with a transparent viewing port, an inner vessel also with a transparent viewing port, a transpa... | 11/14/2000 |
| 4553440 | Limit means for air jet responsive gyroscopes An improved air valve limit for an attitude gyro unit including a flexible strand fastened at its ends to the gyro housing and at midpoints to the gyro and valves.... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4527439 | Gyroscope erection system An erection system (22) which is responsive to the flow of air for erecting a gyroscope (1) is diclosed. The erection system includes a plurality of channels (26,28,30,32) having balls (42) disposed therein. The balls (42) are responsive to the gyroscope ... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4297905 | Gyroscopic vertical reference system A vertical gyroscopic reference system consists of a gimballed platform solid with a stator in the form of a hollow spherical chamber in which a substantially spherical gyro rotor revolves, the rotor being both driven and supported by air pressure, and ha... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4291849 | Reaction-jet torquer A reaction-jet torquer system carried in a projectile to aim the projectile o a target. The torquer system uses the thrust of sonic nozzles to control a gyro rotor inertial frame of reference. The reaction force applied to the gimbal gives the rotor the ca... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4158312 | Method and apparatus for gyro erection A gyro system employing the pickoff synchros as erection sensors and as torquers to erect the gyro.... | 06/19/1979 |
| 4150579 | Hydraulic torquer device for floated inertial platform A fluid floated inertial platform is inertially stabilized by means of a plurality of hydraulic torquers which operate in response to electrical stabilization signals which may be generated in response to gyro pickoffs on stabilizing gyros for each of the... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4147066 | Means and method for uncaging a gyroscope rotor A gyroscope rotor uncaging apparatus is disclosed having a housing, a bearing structure supporting the rotor and permitting rotation of the rotor about its spin axis and about at least one other axis, and a constraining mechanism mounted on the housing at... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4088031 | Air erected gyro An air erected gyro includes an erection-force producing air stream and gravity-responsive valve means whose gate portion is movable across the air stream so as to vary the erection force magnitude. Also included is a compensator means connected for movem... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4069990 | Ring-wing canard spin-up control mechanism Apparatus of the present invention requires a very short spin-up wheel mot arm compared to a large wheel diameter. Such a requirement demands good wheel control during low rpm and excellent stability for high rpm in order to avoid uncontrollable wheel os... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4046316 | Snap ring magnetic stopping system for an air driven centrifuge A stopping member located within an air driven rotor and designed to respond to a magnetic field generated within the rotor housing, causing the completer stoppage of the rotor subsequent to its high speed centrifugation. The stopping member is comprised ... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4000660 | Drift-compensated free-rotor gyro A fluidic/pneumatic, two-axis, free-rotor gyro in which the free-inertia or is gas bearing supported on a spherical portion of a rotatable gas bearing rotor, both rotors being connectable to controllable sources of drive fluid pressure for separate drive... | 01/04/1977 |
| 3933096 | Gyroscopic rate switch A gyroscopic rate switch is held in an open position by a torsionally resined gimbal in a pressurized compartmentalized housing. Run-up of the rotor, uncaging of the gimbal, and actuation of electrical switches is accomplished by controlled release of pr... | 01/20/1976 |
