Did You Know...
...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 |
| 6276936 | Dental separator for solids from a solids/liquid mixture For separating off solids from a solid/liquid mixture occurring in a dental treatment station, a housing has a sedimentation tank, in which two sedimentation zones are disposed one above the other. Both the mixture inlet and the liquid outlet are disposed... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6269929 | Coin guard and telephone face plate A coin guard to be installed in front of a coin slot of a coin evaluating mechanism of a coin operated vending machine. The coin guard providing a coin entrance separate from the coin slot in order to protect the coin evaluating mechanism from theft and v... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6250291 | Method for controlling an internal combustion engine equipped with a device for recycling exhaust gases Process for controlling an internal combustion engine equipped with an exhaust gas recirculation device (5) comprising a recirculation valve (51) and a device for regulating an air/fuel mixture injected into an inlet circuit as a function of the signal (L... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6202484 | Method and device for determining a liquid level with the aid of ultrasonic pulses A method for determining a liquid level with the aid of ultrasonic pulses improves the measuring accuracy of the liquid level in a container with an echo time measurement of ultrasonic pulses and a mean sound velocity. The mean sound velocity is extrapola... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6192837 | Once-through steam generator and method for starting up a once-through steam generator In a once-though steam generator having a double-flue configuration, a first gas flue is followed on the fuel-gas side, by way of a horizontal gas flue, by a second gas flue. In a once-through steam generator of this type, which is to have a particularly ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6157589 | Dynamic semiconductor memory device and method for initializing a dynamic semiconductor memory device A dynamic semiconductor memory device of a random access type has an initialization circuit that controls the switching-on operation of the semiconductor memory device and of its circuit components. The initialization circuit supplies a supply voltage sta... | 12/05/2000 |
