Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6155202 | Plasma processing apparatus, matching box, and feeder In a plasma processing apparatus, in a matching circuit intervening between a high-frequency power source and a plasma excitation electrode for achieving impedance matching between the high-frequency power source and the plasma excitation electrode, one o... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6148762 | Plasma processing apparatus A plasma processing apparatus for stably and uniformly performing various kinds of processing by preventing unnecessary plasma discharge in the processing comprises a susceptor pin for supporting a substance to be processed, the susceptor pin being dispos... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6121770 | Magnetic sensor using magnetic impedance of magnetic wire within biasing coil In a magnetic impedance device according to the present invention, an approximately uniformly biased magnetic field is applied to a sensing part of a magnetic wire in a longitudinal direction by setting the range of winding of a coil. The sensing part is ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 5982462 | Inverse stagger or planar type thin-film transistor device and liquid-crystal display apparatus having floating gate electrode which is capacitively coupled with one or more input electrodes A thin film transistor device with its leakage current being controlled is provided. With such a thin film transistor device incorporated, a liquid crystal display apparatus presents a high-contrast image at a reduced power consumption. The thin film tran... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5978058 | Thin film transistor liquid crystal display with a silicide layer formed inside a contact hole and fabricating process therefor There are provided a thin film transistor liquid crystal display device in which an aluminum layer and an ITO layer can be connected with simplicity and certainty and a fabricating process therefor. A thin film transistor liquid crystal display device comprisi... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5953092 | Liquid crystal device with split pixel electrodes and with intermediate electrodes used for bisecting each of the pixel regions A liquid-crystal display device having liquid crystal provided between a pair of opposed substrates includes a common electrode formed on a surface of one substrate facing the liquid crystal; surrounding electrodes formed on a surface of the other substra... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5888357 | Apparatus and method for producing ionic water and system and method for producing electrolytic ionic water The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for producing ionic water which are capable of producing ionic water containing a low concentration of electrolyte with high reproducibility. The present invention also provides an apparatus and a m... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5879958 | Method of producing an electro-optical device A method for producing an electro-optical device comprising a first photolithographic step of forming a transparent pixel electrode, a second photolithographic of forming a gate electrode and a gate wiring, a third photolithographic step of forming a cont... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5609737 | Film manufacturing method using single reaction chamber for chemical-vapor deposition and sputtering A method for manufacturing thin films in which a first film is formed on a substrate using chemical-vapor deposition (CVD), and a second film is formed on the substrate using sputtering, wherein the processes are sequentially performed in the same deposit... | 03/11/1997 |
