Yet another new Minelab patent

[Qiaozhi]

Have fun ...

http://images3.freshpatents.com/pdf/US20140062488A1.pdf

[Davor]

OK, so now they discovered a bridge. Good for them.
The next will be a more fundamental one where they'll discover a linear relationship of current through a resistor with a voltage applied on it. Or something. Guess Georg Ohm never patented it and they'll grab their chance.

[Aziz]

Where is the fun factor?
Well, ok, I'll start....ing.
Oh, I obviously need more:

And this finally:


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[Paul99]

The next will be a more fundamental one where they'll discover a linear relationship of current through a resistor with a voltage applied on it. Or something.

Gee Davor, have you already forgotten being dropped on your behind because of your criticisms resulting from your lack of understanding of the effect ferrites have on eddy currents in coils?? You seem to be disposed toward a problem with foot in mouth because of your closed mind. It must be a ***** to not have the ability to think before opening your mouth.

[deemon]

OK, so now they discovered a bridge.

.... and trying to invent a mono coil inductive balance

The next will be a more fundamental one where they'll discover a linear relationship of current through a resistor with a voltage applied on it. Or something. Guess Georg Ohm never patented it and they'll grab their chance.

Faraday's law is the next ...

[Qiaozhi]

Gee Davor, have you already forgotten being dropped on your behind because of your criticisms resulting from your lack of understanding of the effect ferrites have on eddy currents in coils?? You seem to be disposed toward a problem with foot in mouth because of your closed mind. It must be a ***** to not have the ability to think before opening your mouth.

When I said "Have fun ...", I didn't mean that you should start bashing each other. I simply meant, "Have fun reading it".
Let's not start the abusive posts, otherwise some of you may need to take a sabbatical.

[Aziz]

Ok guys,

this is my experience in inventing a bicycle.

But I had to invent the appropriate two wheels for it first.
I have tried a two corner wheel. Unfortunately, it failed totally and I have delicately hit my balls rolling down the hill with my new bicycle. Ouch!, ouch!, ok, ok, back to the black board. Ouch! Ouch!

I had the genius idea of adding one corner to the wheel. Oh man!, I'm really smart!
So a 3 corner wheel was born.
Unfortunately, it wasn't quite comfortable to roll down the hill.
Ok I said, back to the black board.

I had another genius idea of adding one additional corner to my wheel. I must be a genius!
So a 4 corner wheel was born.
Well, it was really an improvement. But still not comfortable to roll down the hill. I had back pain in rolling down the hill with my bicycle. Ok I said, back to the black board.

A smart guy came and said: "Why don't you try a 6 corner wheel?"
I said, oh man!, what a genius idea!
So a 6 corner wheel was born.
That's it I said. What a comfort now!

Ok, I'm still working on the improvement.
My ultimate bicycle could be much more comfortable however.
I think I still have to go back to the black board!

^sif

[robby_h]

Sorry to have to tell you this Aziz but the following patent has already been granted for a "circular transportation facilitation device" and has priority over yours. Read it and weep!!!!!

http://www.tuv.com/media/germany/50_...ion_device.pdf

The story behind this marvelous invention is here, ie, it attempts to show how silly these innovation patents are....

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...australia.html

[Aziz]

Sorry to have to tell you this Aziz but the following patent has already been granted for a "circular transportation facilitation device" and has priority over yours. Read it and weep!!!!!

http://www.tuv.com/media/germany/50_...ion_device.pdf

The story behind this marvelous invention is here, ie, it attempts to show how silly these innovation patents are....

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...australia.html

WTF!!!!, the wheel has absolutely no corners at all!!!!
(A mathematician would probably say, it has infinite number of corners! )

BTW, a nice patent! But I don't mean the ML's!

Cheers,
^sif

[Qiaozhi]

Sorry to have to tell you this Aziz but the following patent has already been granted for a "circular transportation facilitation device" and has priority over yours. Read it and weep!!!!!

http://www.tuv.com/media/germany/50_...ion_device.pdf

The story behind this marvelous invention is here, ie, it attempts to show how silly these innovation patents are....

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...australia.html

That's funny.

The expression: "Not worth the paper it's written on" springs to mind.

[WM6]

Back-improved wheel patent:

[Koala]

Back-improved wheel patent:

I want one

[rubydarlene]

I had to enquire about this patent, it is not Candy's.

[Davor]

It is an US patent so "only in Australia" does not apply here.

Fun part is that I played with a HP-IB interface for a very similar assembly sensor and a PDP-11/4 for my graduation paper some 30 years ago. At that time HP-IB was old school, let alone a bridge. Heck, Wheatstone bridge came to existence some 170 years ago, and its AC variants in form of of Maxwell-Wien bridge not long after that. In terms of electronics it is an equivalent of a wheel.

This in fact speaks volumes about a broken patent system and abysmal state of patent examining process.

[Paul99]

This in fact speaks volumes about a broken patent system and abysmal state of patent examining process.

Don't forget Davor, eddy currents have been around for a while and so has ferrite.

"There's none so blind as those who will not see." .... Or perhaps that should be "cannot see".