...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| 7654308 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger which has a base plate and several carrier plates projecting from the base plate. At least one cooling element is located on each carrier plate. The cooling elements have a substrate with an underside and an upper side. Webs project from the upper s... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7458416 | Heat-exchanging device A heat exchanger comprising a substrate that comprises a bottom side and a top side; a unit for generating a directed fluid stream with a flow direction that is tangential to the bottom side and to the top side of substrate; webs projecting from the top side of subs... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7374672 | Filter device comprising integral centrifugal separation A filter apparatus having a filter membrane, a main body, a supply channel running perpendicular to the surface of the filter membrane and a gap running between it and the filter membrane, for the formation of a tangentially directed transverse flow, a return channe... | 05/20/2008 |