3M employee and church chorister Art Fry needed something to temporarily mark pages in his hymnal. He was in luck because his colleague, Spencer Silver, accidentally developed a glue that was too weak for other purposes. After initially discouraging consumer response, Post-it Notes became a hit in 1979.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8097665 | Cationic electrodeposition coating composition A cationic electrodeposition coating composition including amino group-containing modified epoxy resin (A), blocked polyisocyanate curing agent (B), metal compound (C), and nitrogen oxide ion (E), wherein metal compound (C) is contained in an amount of 10 to 10,000 ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8097664 | Cationic electrodeposition coating composition A cationic electrodeposition coating composition including amino group-containing modified epoxy resin (A), blocked polyisocyanate curing agent (B), phenol resin (C), metal compound (D), and nitrogen oxide ion (E), wherein the metal compound (D) is contained in an a... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8076413 | Aqueous metallic coating composition and method for forming a multilayer coating film The present invention provides an aqueous metallic coating composition comprising: (A) an aqueous film-forming resin; (B) a curing agent; (C) a phosphoric acid group-containing resin having an acid value of 10 to 200 mg KOH/g and obtained by copolymerizing a phospho... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8056502 | Film forming equipment The present invention provides film forming equipment that can reduce the space necessary for coating. The film forming equipment has an object conveyor for moving an object (50); a spray gun conveyor (41) for moving a spray gun (30) that sprays... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8053084 | Aqueous coating composition The present invention provides an aqueous coating composition that can form a coated film having excellent appearance, in which a change in the color of the coating composition during the storage of the coating composition is prevented or suppressed, excellent stora... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8012599 | Surface-treated steel sheet with excellent corrosion resistance and method for manufacturing same The surface-treated steel sheet has a zinc-based plated steel sheet, a surface-treatment coating being formed on the surface of the zinc-based steel sheet by applying and drying a surface treatment coating composition thereon, and a top coating being formed by apply... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7964116 | Aqueous primer composition and coating method using the composition An aqueous primer composition comprising (A) a modified polyolefin aqueous dispersion, (B) an aqueous urethane resin and/or aqueous acrylic resin, (C) a conductive metal oxide and (D) aluminum flakes, characterized in that the solid mass ratio of component (A)/compo... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7935764 | Composition of carboxyl acryl resin and epoxy acryl resin The present invention provides a curable resin composition comprising: (A) an acryl resin having (a) a carboxyl group originating in a carboxyl group-containing polymerizable unsaturated monomer selected from acrylic acid, methacry... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7897677 | Water-based primer compositions This invention provides a water-based primer composition comprising (A) an aqueous dispersion of modified polyolefin, which is prepared by dispersing a modified polyolefin (a) in an aqueous medium, the polyolefin (a) being produced by modifying an unsaturated carbox... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7838592 | Starch-based coating composition There is provided a starch-based coating composition with excellent storage stability as a one-pack type paint, which can form coating films with excellent drying property, finished appearances, pencil hardness, mar resistance, adhesion, alkali resistance, solvent r... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7838076 | Thermosetting aqueous paint composition The present invention discloses a thermosetting aqueous paint, comprising an oligomer (A-1), having a specific acid value, hydroxyl value and number average molecular weight, and obtained by reacting a compound having at least one hydroxyl group and at least one car... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7714042 | Coating composition for cans The present invention provides a coating composition for cans comprising 100 parts by mass of a neutralized acrylic resin-modified epoxy resin (A), and from 1 to 50 parts by mass of anionic polymer crosslinked fine particles (B), (A) and (B) being dispersed in an aq... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7649050 | Two package type clear coating composition and method for making multilayer coating film A two package type clear coating composition which can form cured coating film excelling in all aspects of scratch resistance, acid resistance, stain resistance and finished appearance such as coated surface smoothness, comprising a hydroxyl-containing acrylic resin... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7649027 | Polymer and process for producing polymer A process for producing a polymer, characterized in that a polymer having juts is produced by carrying out photopolymerization of at least one photopolymerizable polymerization precursor containing a photocurable compound having two or more unsaturated bonds by irra... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7618181 | Method for dispersing pigment in liquid medium The present invention provides an apparatus for dispersing pigment in a water-based or oil-based intermediate mixture for producing a coating composition comprising a mixer and a dispersing device, the mixer having a vacuum pump and capable of conducting a primary m... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7544461 | Near infrared ray activation type positive resin composition A near infrared ray activation type positive resist composition comprising (A) a vinyl-based polymer having a monomer unit having an alkali-soluble group blocked by an ether having an alkenyl group next to an ether oxygen, ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7479524 | Process for producing aqueous resin dispersions This invention provides a process for producing an aqueous resin dispersion in which the average particle diameter of the dispersed resin is not more than 500 nm, comprising finely dispersing a monomeric mixture (I) containing (A) fatty acid-modified polymerizable u... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7466893 | Curable resin composition for light guide formation, curable dry film for light guide formation, cured resin and light guide Disclosed is an optical waveguide-forming curable resin composition and optical waveguide-forming curable dry film which are capable of forming cured resin articles that have high heat resistance, excellent mechanical strength and high transparency, and possess prop... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7291402 | Surface-treated steel sheets of good white rust resistance, and method for producing them The invention is to provide a surface-treated steel sheet of good white rust resistance with no chromium in its surface treatment film, and it has realized a surface-treated steel sheet of higher-level corrosion resistance by forming a reaction layer of plating meta... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7172950 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor chip In manufacturing thinned semiconductor chips by grinding a semiconductor wafer supported on a rigid support substrate, in order to remove the semiconductor wafer or semiconductor chips from the support substrate without damage to the semiconductor wafer or semicondu... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7100851 | Method and apparatus for dispersing pigment in liquid medium The present invention provides an apparatus for dispersing pigment in a water-based or oil-based intermediate mixture for producing a coating composition comprising a mixer and a dispersing device, the mixer having a vacuum pump and capable of conducting a primary m... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7077941 | Multi-layer electrodeposition coating film-forming method and coating product formed by the same A multi-layer electrodeposition coating film-forming method which comprises subjecting a cationic electrodeposition coating composition containing at least two emulsions to an electrodeposition coating, said cationic electrodeposition coating composition being such ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7045004 | Coating composition The present invention relates to a coating composition containing 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of (A) an organosilicate and/or its condensates per 100 parts by weight of a resin solid content in the coating composition, and 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of (B) an acid surf... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7035464 | Method for identifying brilliant material in paint Characteristic parameters of brilliant materials used for a paint color whose composition is unknown are visually extracted, an image database is retrieved by using the extracted characteristic parameters as keywords, the image of a closest single brilliant material... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7026392 | Resin for pigment dispersion This invention relates to the use of a copolymer of polymerizable unsaturated monomer containing at least one kind of ionic functional group selected from the group consisting of quaternary ammonium salt group and sulfonic acid group, nonionic polymerizable unsatura... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6994745 | Pigment dispersing resin This invention provides both a pigment dispersing resin which is a copolymer of: (A) polymerizable unsaturated monomer containing at least one kind of ionic functional group selected from the group consisting of tertiary amino grou... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993231 | Covering composition for optical fiber and covered optical fiber According to the present invention, there is provided a covering composition for optical fiber comprising (A) an unsaturated polyester oligomer having substantially two or more (meth)acryloyl group in a molecule wherein a glass transition temperature of a cured subs... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6992277 | Method for classifying and arranging metallic paint colors Metallic paint colors are classified and arranged by determining the representative color of any metallic paint color; calculating the hu-tone value of said representative color; generating coating color computer graphics indicating optical properties of said metall... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6977012 | Painting facility management system A coating equipment managing system for controlling and monitoring a coating equipment of an automobile manufacturing line, comprising local installations which are provided in the manufacturing lines at a plurality of localities, and a central installation for rece... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6959111 | Computer color-matching apparatus and paint color-matching method using the apparatus A computer color-matching apparatus includes a colorimeter, a micro-brilliance-feeling measuring device, and a computer in which a plurality of paint blends, color data and micro-brilliance-feeling data corresponding to each of the paint blends, and the color charac... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6942922 | Cationic paint composition The present invention provides a cationic paint composition containing, as a vehicle component, a xylene-formaldehyde resin-modified amino group-containing epoxy resin obtained by reacting an epoxy resin having an epoxy equivalent of 180 to 2,500 with an alkyl pheno... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6932882 | Coated film and method of laminating the same A multi-layer application film formed by laminating at least two resin films, a top layer film (I) being formed from a crosslinkable resin coating composition (A), an under layer film (II) being formed from a thermoplastic resin (B), showing practically no stickines... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6921028 | Dispersing apparatus Disclosed is a dispersing apparatus comprising a container body; a sealable lid detachable from the container body; a mixing shaft supported by and extending from the lid and having a mixing member; an enclosing member supported by the lid or the mixing shaft and su... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6913815 | Plastics-covered metal plate for car The present invention provides a plastics-covered metal plate excellent in chipping resistance, corrosion resistance etc. made by covering one surface or both surfaces of a metal plate with at least two kinds of plastics layers whose rates of elongation are differen... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6894124 | High solid paint compositions This invention provides high solid paint compositions comprising as the basic components a hydroxyl-containing compound having a weight-average molecular weight of not more than 1,000 and a hydroxyl value of 200-800 mgKOH/g, and a polyisocyanate compound, and a proc... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6887909 | Processes for producing aqueous alkyd resin dispersions The present invention provides production processes of aqueous alkyd resin dispersions, said processes comprising a step of synthesizing alkyd resin by dissolving polyester resin whose chief component is terephthalic acid and which has been recovered from waste mate... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6884570 | Positive type actinic ray-curable dry film and pattern-forming method by use of the same A method of forming a resist pattern film. A positive type actinic ray decomposing and developing dry film is applied onto a surface of a coating substrate so that the surface of the coating substrate may face to the urethane resin layer of the dry film. Then, the d... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6881254 | Coating material for inorganic-film formation and method of forming inorganic film from the coating material An inorganic film-forming coating composition prepared by adding a basic compound (B) to a titanium-containing water based solution (A) obtained by reacting a hydrogen peroxide water with at least one titanium compound selected from the group consisting of a hydroli... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6855746 | Process for the production of molded particles for enzyme- or microbial cell-immobilization This invention provides a process for the production of molded particles for enzyme- or microbial cell-immobilization which is characterized in that: an aqueous liquid composition which comprises: (A) an unsaturated group-containing ureth... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6855430 | Parts for car body The present invention relates to parts for car body comprising plastic-covered metallic material prepared by sticking a plastic film having a topcoat finishing property on one side or both sides of a molded and electrodeposition coated metallic material and to a coa... | 02/15/2005 |