Felix Hoffmann, a German chemist, was searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis. In doing so, he "rediscovered" acetylsalicylic acid and in 1900, patented a stable process for developing it. Hence, we have aspirin.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7455531 | Flexible board, electrooptic device having a flexible board, and electronic device The disclosure is directed to flexible boards, electrooptic devices having flexible boards, and electronic devices. In one example, wires are disposed longitudinally along the length of a flexible board. Terminals are arranged laterally across the width of the flexi... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7293864 | Liquid container with mounting and removal operation guide groove regulating movement A liquid container includes a container body (2) formed with a liquid supply port (3), and a container-side fixing structure (7) which releasably regulates movement of the liquid container in an outward pulling direction in cooperation with appa... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7237047 | Data transfer control device, electronic equipment, and data transfer control method A data transfer control device including a buffer is provided which includes an EP2 area (a data storage area set to FIFO) and a CSW area (a randomly accessible status storage area), when data and a CSW are allocated as information to be transferred through o... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7204577 | Waste liquid treating device and liquid ejecting apparatus incorporating the same A liquid ejecting head is operable to move in a first direction. A platen is opposed to the liquid ejecting head to support an object to which a liquid droplet is ejected from the liquid ejecting head and to define a gap between the liquid ejecting head and the obje... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7183582 | Electro-optical device and method of manufacturing the same, element driving device and method of manufacturing the same, element substrate, and electronic apparatus In a circuit to drive driven elements such, as electro-optical elements, an electro-optical device has an element layer, a wire-forming layer, and an electronic component layer in order to suppress variation in characteristics of active elements. The element layer h... | 02/27/2007 |
| 5610647 | Image forming apparatus including a plural laser beam scanning apparatus An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a charging unit, a laser beam scanning apparatus and a developing unit. The laser beam scanning apparatus includes a semiconductor laser array for emitting laser beams, a collimator lens for co... | 03/11/1997 |