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 |
| 6676199 | Lightweight vehicle flooring assembly The invention provides a lightweight vehicle flooring assembly, wherein a carrier layer (1) has a layered structure. This structure comprises a honeycomb-like core layer (7) which can be made of a suitably impregnated cardboard material and which is conne... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6613174 | Process for the manufacture of an acoustically effective foil stack for a vehicle heat shield The method and the device for manufacturing an acoustically effective foil stack (9) made of embossed foil webs (5e, 5f, 5g, 5h) is characterised by the fact that at least two foil webs lying over one another (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d) are embossed at the same time... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6586072 | Acoustically effective insulating lining for motor vehicles An insulating lining that is used as a floor covering and is especially useful in providing acoustic insulation. The insulating lining consists of a covering layer and a cell layer with a plurality of cells. The cells are defined by lateral cell walls and... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6569509 | Ultralight, sound and shock absorbing component set The invention relates to an ultralight, sound and shock absorbing component set comprising at least one base layer (2), an intermediate layer (3) and a covering layer (6). The intermediate layer (3) consists of a plurality of hollow bodies (4) arranged ne... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6555246 | Method of producing a sound-absorbent insulating element and insulating element produced according to this method The invention relates to a method of producing a sound-absorbent insulating element with at least two metallic leaves or sheets (2, 3) in the form of films or sheets. According to said method, at least one of said elements is provided with knobs in such a... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6491999 | Cabled covering part, a method for manufacturing such and means therefor The invention relates to a covering part with cable channels and a cabled covering part such as a carpet for vehicles, which is provided with several self-closing channels acommodating a cable network. These channels can be formed directly into the spring... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6454048 | Acoustic insulating vehicle component A vehicle component has a vehicle body part in combination with an acoustic insulating structure which interacts therewith. The acoustic insulating structure has an outer covering having a shield. The shield is spaced at a distance from the vehicle body p... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6401961 | Fuel tank with integrated heat shield The invention relates to a blow molded fuel tank having a heat shield which is fixedly joined to the fuel container. The positive fit between the heat shield and fuel container is achieved by integrating by molding claw-like protrusions of the heat shield... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6352787 | Method for producing an insulating pack for an insulating part The invention relates to a method for producing an insulating pack (10), according to which a stack (9) of metallic lamellae is cold-welded simultaneously along a predefined contour and separated from a remaining area. The insulating pack produced accordi... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6302466 | Vibration-damping, noise-reducing, heat-shielding vehicle trim A vehicle lining is disclosed which is used in the area of curved body parts. The vehicle lining has a vibration-damping and heat-shielding action. The vehicle lining has a heat shield which is positioned on an exterior facing side of a vehicle and held L... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6167985 | λ/4 absorber with an adjustable band width λ/4-absorber with an adjustable band width comprising at least one λ/4-resonator (2) whose opening region (4) comprises a perforated head part (5). A further development of this λ/4-absorber is provided with a soft and/or heat exchanging material (7) i... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6070905 | Shock-absorbing inner lining Liner (1) with a plurality of shock absorbing elements (7) being distributed over the entire surface, said shock abosrbing elements (7) being decoupled from the vehicle bottom (3) with the aid of a decoupling layer (9). Between these light-weight shock ab... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5959265 | Lambda/4-wave sound absorber Sound absorber comprising a large number of tubular resonators (10) whose sound orifices Ao are adjacent to a common surface A and are distributed in such a way that the interaction zones Aw of these individual sound orifices Ao... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5741390 | Sound-insulating vehicle body part A method for the production of an inherently stable self-supporting composite part for engine hoods for acoustic screening of noises. A prefabricated outer membrane blank part is cut and trimmed to form an outside sheet. This outside sheet is bonded to a ... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5683764 | Insulating glass An insulating glass including at least two window panes (20, 21), which are placed at a distance from one another and encompass a sound absorber made of open-celled material, in particular made of sintered or foamed aluminum. The sound absorber increases ... | 11/04/1997 |
