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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8173722 | Adhesive compositions for use in surgical therapy An adhesive composition for use in surgical therapy includes at least the following components a) and b): a) a liquid mixture including cyanoactrylate monomers and at least one plasticizer, where the proportion of the at least one plasticizer in component a) is grea... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8075612 | Textile vascular prosthesis with a coating Textile vascular prostheses having a coating include an absorbable polymer in the form of a three-armed polyester having terminal hydroxyl groups from hydroxy acids polymerized onto a central trifunctional hydroxy compound, the three arms being tetrapolymers of lact... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7594933 | Method and apparatus for positioning a bone prosthesis using a localization system Methods and apparatus using a surgical navigation system during hip joint replacement surgery without separately affixing a marker to the femur. The navigation system acquires the center of rotation of the hip joint as well as at least one point on the femur in the ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7492930 | Method and apparatus for capturing information associated with a surgical procedure performed using a localization device A method and apparatus for capturing information associated with a surgical procedure performed using a localization device. The localization device includes sensors that define a field of view in which a marker associated with a surgical tool is tracked. The locali... | 02/17/2009 |
| 5843097 | Surgical applicator In a surgical applicator for U-shaped clips comprising a handle, a tubular shaft adjoining the handle, a forceps-type applicator tool at the free end of the tubular shaft and a clip magazine in the tubular shaft, a closing mechanism arranged in the tubula... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5807252 | Method and apparatus for determining the position of a body part To improve the reliability of a process for determining the position of a body part in which bone screws are screwed into the bone of the body part in question, each bone screw is provided with a radiation emitter or radiation receiver. A number of fixed ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5176884 | Sterilizing container In a sterilizing container with a perforated zone which can be covered over in relation to the interior of the container by a filter designed so that it can be displaced and covered over, in order to improve the protection of the filter, on the one hand, ... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5169400 | Bone screw In order to reduce the risk that a bone screw, in particular one made of resorbing plastic material, with an externally threaded shaft will be destroyed by high screw-in torques, it is proposed that an insertion channel open at the top, arranged concentri... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5108400 | Striking tool for surgical instruments In a striking tool for surgical instruments with a sleeve-shaped gripping part, a tool holder which is slidingly displaceable in the latter in the longitudinal direction thereof, and an oscillatingly driven piston which is slidingly displaceable in the gr... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5035232 | Retractor In a retractor with a retractor blade, a handle, a fiber-optical light guide for illuminating the point of engagement of the retractor and a connector for connecting a fiber-optical cable to the fiber-optical light guide, with the fiber-optical light guid... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4952771 | Process for cutting a material by means of a laser beam In a process for cutting a material by means of a laser beam, in order to avoid accidental injury to the operator or damage to the material to be cut, it is proposed that there be generated before the exiting point of the laser radiation from a light guid... | 08/28/1990 |
