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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6134522 | Signal processing method and arrangement for substitution or erroneous signals in a block-coded audio signals of an audio communication system In order to improve the transmission quality of block-coded audio signals in audio communications systems, for example in DECT cordless telephones, when transmission errors occur, in such a manner that the requirement for computation power and thus the co... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6134293 | Image reconstruction method for computed tomography In an image reconstruction method for computed tomography the reconstruction of an image from datasets is accelerated so that, with adequate image quality, dynamic studies of moving organs or monitoring of moving therapeutic instruments are possible. To t... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6134208 | Optical pickup device with a plurality of laser couplers An optical pickup device with the capability to read data from and write data to different kinds of optical discs in different formats and a composite optical device used in the optical pickup device. An optical pickup device is made by combining two lase... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6133813 | Electromagnetic relay A relay has a leaf spring that is secured to a planar seating section of a yoke leg and/or to the planar seating section of the armature and has an unsecured spring section extending beyond the free end of the yoke leg or, respectively, the armature. In o... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6133737 | Circularly polarizing antenna for a magnetic resonance apparatus A circularly polarizing antenna for a magnetic resonance apparatus is formed by a first linear antenna subsystem and a second antenna subsystem arranged so as to be rotated 90° relative to each other. On the side of the signal terminals and each antenna ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6133729 | Side looking hall-effect vehicle speed sensor with an alignment positioning system A speed sensor for sensing rotating speed of a wheel having projections. An elongated tubular sensor body connects to a flange, the flange being adapted from mounting in a housing wall in proximity to the wheel. A Hall-Effect sensor is provided within the... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6133603 | Memory device and memory array It is made possible to conduct writing and erasing information at high speed and with a low gate voltage, attain high integration with reduced power dissipation, and retain information accurately. It is also made possible to change the conductivity of a c... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6134683 | Method for monitoring virtual connections within a digital telecommunication network using error recognition code words In a telecommunication network of ATM exchanges (V1, Vn) via which information transmitted in the STM mode can also be switched, error-detecting code words (EDCE) are respectively derived at an exchange input (EVi) from the content of information parts (P... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6133579 | Method and apparatus for slanted attitude testing and/or for co-planarity testing of a contact for SMD components An entire contact row of an SMD component is illuminated by a light source direction in the direction of the contact row, and a shadow of the entire contact row is directed by a linear sensor. A shift of the contact row perpendicular to a contact surface ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6133574 | Radiation-electrical transducer A transducer is composed of a scintillator and a c-Si photodiode chip with the scintillator or luminophore serving directly as a carrier for the photodiode chip, whose active side is electrically contacted via contact runs on the scintillator.... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6132891 | Amorphous soft magnetic material There is disclosed an amorphous soft magnetic material represented by a composition formula: Cox Zry Pdz Ma wherein M denotes at least one element selected from a group consisting of niobium, chromium, vanadium, tant... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6132862 | Magneto-optical recording medium A magneto-optical recording medium comprising a light-transmitting substrate 1 on which a dielectric layer 2, a memory layer 3 having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, an intermediate layer 4 having in-plane magnetic anisotropy or slight perpendicular ma... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6132516 | Vacuum deposition apparatus Disclosed herein is a vacuum deposition apparatus including a vacuum chamber having an opening, a substrate to form a thin film thereon provided in the vacuum chamber, an evacuating device connected to the vacuum chamber for evacuating the vacuum chamber,... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6132508 | Device and method for liquefying and crystallizing substances A multi-shelled melt container is disclosed for liquefying and crystallizing substances which comprises at least an inner shell and a bearing shell. While the inner shell--which has a thin wall in comparison to the wall of the bearing shell--consists of a... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6132121 | Document-printing arrangement with document-collection station Document-printing arrangement (8) having a cutting arrangement (16) and a document collection station (22), which is designed as a drum (40) equipped with clamping elements (44). Starting from a rest position (-x°), the drum (40) is accelerated in such a... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6132087 | Medical apparatus having a carrying device for at least one component A medical apparatus has a carrying device for at least one component, wherein the carrying device is adjustable relative to a holding mechanism and is formed of plastic. Rollers at least partly formed of plastic are provided for the adjustment of the carr... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6131396 | Heat radiation shield, and dewar employing same A heat radiation shield has an electrically insulating support on which a mosaic of electrically conductive elementary layers is arranged on at least one side.... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6131249 | Belt connecting device The present invention provides a belt connecting device which can be applied to various uses, has an excellent design property, and can be safely and easily operated even by elderly people and infants. The belt connecting device comprises a belt connectin... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6134510 | Method for detecting synchronicity between several digital measurement series with the aid of a computer The method makes it possible to determine synchronicity of several measurement series which consist of binary frequency data, in order to detect redundancy between several neurons. In this case, every possible combination of synchronicity has its own occu... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6130982 | Cable sleeve for light waveguide cables A cable sleeve for light waveguides is constructed as a flat plate member in which a circular groove extends and has inlets extending tangentially from the groove. The cable sleeve can receive excess lengths of the cable as well as splices which excess le... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130950 | Hearing aid which allows non-computerized individual adjustment of signal processing stages A hearing aid has a microphone, a signal processing chain having a series of signal processing levels, a signal output transducer, a memory in which at least one set of parameters allocated to a hearing situation is stored that enables matching of the par... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130825 | Current-resonant switching power supply In a switching power supply, primary-side MOS transistors are alternately turned on, so that a resonant current flows into the primary winding of a transformer and an alternate power is transferred to the secondary side. The alternate voltage generated at... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130810 | Magnetic reluctance effect magnetic head with the connection length of the forward electrode less than the facing length of the magnetic gap A magnetic reluctance effect magnetic head in which a forward side electrode is stacked on at least the surface of a magnetic reluctance effect element facing a magnetic recording medium, and in which an upper magnetic pole is stacked on the forward side ... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130808 | Hovering-type head slider and magnetic disc device Disclosed is a hovering-type head slider in which the variation in static hovering distance is reduced as much as possible, thereby making it possible to obtain a hovering distance which is constant with respect to variation in the skew angle and in the l... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130681 | Printer device A printer device for realizing correct representation of the gradation. After oozing a quantitation medium 45 from a quantitation medium nozzle 53, the printer device causes an emission medium 49 from an emission medium nozzle 54 for mixing with the quant... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130658 | Back light assembly for flat panel display Disclosed is a flat display allowed to facilitate a maintenance work for a back light unit contained in the flat display. The flat display includes a frame, display unit, back light unit, and chassis. The frame is positioned on the front side and has a wi... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130497 | Liquid cooling type cathode-ray tube for a projector A liquid cooling type cathode-ray tube for a projector comprising a coupler (43) mounted on the front surface (42a) of a cathode-ray tube body (42), which coupler serves as a cooling liquid sealing member and which is sealed with a cooling liquid (46) the... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130478 | Polymer stud grid array for microwave circuit arrangements A polymer stud grid array for microwave circuits is proposed which includes an injection-molded, three-dimensional substrate that is fabricated from an electrically insulating polymer. The substrate includes a plurality of polymer studs which are arranged... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130451 | High dielectric constant material containing tantalum, process for forming high dielectric constant film containing tantalum, and semiconductor device using the same A high dielectric constant material containing tantalum expressed by chemical formula Tax Oy Nz, where x, y, and z are each a value which in total yield 1, z is 0.1 or higher but 0.625 or lower, y is 0 or higher but 0.6 or... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130420 | Solid state image sensing apparatus, camera using the apparatus, and method for driving the apparatus A solid state image sensing apparatus comprising: a solid state image sensing device operated selectively either in an all-pixel read-out mode in which signal charges of all pixels represented by the devices are read therefrom individually at the same tim... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130143 | Quantum wires formed on a substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and device having quantum wires on a substrate While a silicon substrate is heated, gold is evaporated thereon at a thickness of 0.6 nm, whereby melted alloy droplets are formed on the substrate surface. Then, the silicon substrate is heated to 450°-650° C. in a silane gas atmosphere of less than 0.... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130142 | Quantum wires formed on a substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and device having quantum wires on a substrate While a silicon substrate is heated, gold is evaporated thereon at a thickness of 0.6 nm, whereby melted alloy droplets are formed on the substrate surface. Then, the silicon substrate is heated to 450°-650° C. in a silane gas atmosphere of less than 0.... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6129752 | Distal end device for an implantable electrical conductor and an electrical conductor equipped with such an end device A device for preventing an anchoring element disposed at the distal end of an implantable electrode cable from coming into contact, during introduction of the cable into a body cavity, with a cavity wall and thereby damaging the cavity wall, as a protecti... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6129747 | Connector assembly for producing a multipolar pin connection between an electrode cable and an implantable medical device A connector assembly for an implantable medical device such as a heart stimulator having a hermetically sealed enclosure containing electrical circuits and a power source, is affixed to the enclosure of the stimulator or is incorporated therein for produc... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6129525 | Speed control for fluid powered diaphragm pumps A governor for fluid powered diaphragm pumps is shown and described. At least one pump member or oscillatory member moves in response to the varying pressures in the inner chambers of the diaphragm pump. Thus, each pump member or oscillatory member moves ... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6129349 | Reversing mechanism for sheet-like items An active switching mechanism is used for diverting paper sheets from a first area (A) to either possible paths (ab or ac). The sheets along the first path (ab) can be directly conveyed to a second area (B), and the sheets along the second path (ac) can b... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6129084 | Intra-oral appliance for the prevention of snoring An intra-oral appliance is disclosed for repositioning the user's mandible anterior to the user's maxillary teeth thus opening the user's oral and pharyngeal passageway and preventing snoring and sleep apnea. The appliance is two U-shaped plates joined to... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6128846 | Length shotgun choke tube An improved shotgun choke tube or fixed shotgun shot choking system is provided in which the 3-dimensional tightness or compactness of the pattern is achieved by the placement of radial projections within the choke tube at a selected distance from the muz... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130817 | Holding system for electronic modules A holding system for electronic modules, particularly for magnetic disk drives the holding system a withdrawable frame which can be inserted into a drive bay of an electronic data processing device, particularly a PC, and whose length corresponds to the d... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6128367 | X-ray tube An x-ray tube has a cathode and an anode which are arranged in a vacuum housing, with an electromagnet for deflecting the electron beam traveling from the cathode to the anode. This electromagnet is formed by a C-shaped yoke with two legs that are connect... | 10/03/2000 |
