Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8153271 | Article with a coating of electrically conductive polymer and precious/semiprecious metal and process for production thereof The invention relates to a coated article which has (i) at least one electrically non-conducting base layer, (ii) at least one layer of copper and/or a copper alloy, and (iii) a layer which contains at least one electrically conductive polymer, wherein the copper or... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7989533 | Chemical compound comprising an indium-containing intrinsically conductive polymer The invention relates to a composition which comprises an intrinsically conductive polymer and indium and which is particularly suitable for producing puncture injection layers in light emitting diodes. Methods for producing and using the inventive composition and e... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7947199 | Conductive polymers consisting of anisotropic morphology particles The present invention relates to a conductive polymer or organic metal which is characterized in that nanoscopic particles formed from same with a particle size of less than 100 nm have an anisotropic morphology which is not spherical and has a length-to-diameter (â... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7683124 | Dispersions of intrinsically conductive polymers, and methods for the production thereof The invention relates to a dispersion which contains particles of at least one intrinsically conductive polymer, wherein the particle size is on average (weight) less than 1 μm, and which is characterized in that the dispersant is a liquid at room temperature, and ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7547479 | Tin-coated printed circuit boards with low tendency to whisker formation A coated article, which contains (i) at least one electrically non-conductive base layer, (ii) at least one layer of copper and/or a copper alloy, and (iii) a tin-containing layer, wherein the layer (ii) is positioned between the layer (i) and the layer (iii). The a... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7396596 | Article with a coating of electrically conductive polymer A coated article, which has (i) at least one electrically non-conductive base layer, (ii) at least one layer of copper and/or a copper alloy, and (iii) a layer which contains at least one electrically conductive polymer. The article is characterized in that the copp... | 07/08/2008 |
