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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| 7876188 | Green technologies: the killer application of EMI-free on-chip inductor The EMI-free planar inductor is the core technology of the green technology. The EMI-free planar inductor adopts the structure of the closed magnetic field flux IC inductor (CMFFICI). All the magnetic field is confined in a small volume. The magnetic field is parall... | 01/25/2011 |
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| 7511589 | DFY of XtalClkChip: design for yield of trimming-free crystal-free precision reference clock osillator IC chip A Design For Yield (DFY) of Crystal Chip (XTALCHIP (Trademark for a chip equivalent to a crystal resonator)) is to have the high yield of high quality high accurate clock chip to be able to integrated in the SOC environment to save the production cost and board spac... | 03/31/2009 |