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...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7528926 | Printing bead spacers on LCD substrates An apparatus for printing spacers on a substrate of an LCD includes a spacer supply roller having a plurality of recesses formed in its exterior surface. A plurality of uniform volumes of an ink containing the spacers is loaded into the recesses and then transferred... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7504342 | Photolithography method for fabricating thin film A method of fabricating a thin film transistor array substrate for a liquid crystal display includes the step of forming a gate line assembly with gate lines, gate electrodes and gate pads. After laying a plurality of layers on the substrate, a photoresist film is d... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7440311 | Single-poly non-volatile memory cell A non-volatile memory cell includes a floating gate transistor having a floating gate coupled to a metal layer capacitor defined in one or more metal layers. Within each metal layer, the metal layer capacitor includes a first plate coupled to the floating gate and a... | 10/21/2008 |
| D578688 | Flashlight body portion | 10/14/2008 |
| 7414680 | Liquid crystal display apparatus and tablet personal computer having the same A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel, a driver printed circuit board, a backlight assembly and a receiving container. The driver printed circuit board is electrically connected to the liquid crystal display panel to provide the ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7348885 | Capacitively-coupled RFID encoder In one embodiment, a capacitive encoding system is provided that includes a pair of capacitive elements formed from an arrangement of stripline conductors. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337452 | Tilt focus mechanism for an optical drive An apparatus for dynamically positioning a rotary actuator that positions an objective lens in three dimensions relative to the surface of an optical disk. A first voice coil motor positions the actuator generally in two dimensions parallel to the surface of the dis... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337097 | Dynamic modeling technique for the deployment of large satellite antennas A method for modeling a structure deployed on a spacecraft. The method includes determining a geometric shape that resembles the structure in a fully deployed configuration; generating time functions for a change in shape of at least one structural component of the ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7321411 | Liquid crystal display including compensation film A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a first panel; a second panel facing the first panel; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first panel and the second panel; a biaxial compensation film disposed on an outer surface of the first panel; a... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7312569 | Flat panel display apparatus A flat panel display apparatus includes a main plate, an organic light emitting element, a protecting layer and an attachable-detachable layer. The organic light emitting element includes a first electrode, a second electrode corresponding to the first electrode, an... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7303987 | Contact structure of a wires and method manufacturing the same, and thin film transistor substrate including the contact structure and method manufacturing the same In a method of fabricating a thin film transistor array substrate for a liquid crystal display, a gate line assembly is formed on a substrate with a chrome-based under-layer and an aluminum alloy-based over-layer while proceeding in the horizontal direction. The gat... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7297979 | Thin film transistor array panel for a display A thin film transistor array panel comprising: an insulating substrate; gate lines formed on the insulating substrate; data lines defining a display region by intersecting the gate lines while being insulated; an electrostatic dispersion line intersecting the gate l... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7193595 | Liquid crystal display A gamma voltage generator of a liquid crystal display (LCD) capable of removing residual images by compensating a gamma voltage. The gamma voltage generation apparatus adjusts the common voltage by the kickback voltage for the intermediate gray level, and tunes the ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7148104 | Fabrication of conductive lines interconnecting first conductive gates in nonvolatile memories having second conductive gates provided by conductive gate lines, wherein the adjacent conductive gate lines for the adjacent columns are spaced from each other, and non-volatile memory structures In a nonvolatile memory, the select gates (144S) are formed from one conductive layer (e.g. polysilicon or polyside), and the wordlines (144) interconnecting the select gates are made from a different conductive layer (e.g. metal). The wordlines overli... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145487 | Signal processing providing lower downsampling losses Methods and devices for processing GPS signals are provided. The device includes: a memory for storing one or more lookup tables, each lookup table including a plurality of entries, each entry including an input segment and an output segment, wherein the output segm... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133109 | Liquid crystal display comprising the spacers disposed near the liquid crystal inlet, wherein the spacers have prism shapes or elliptical column shapes A liquid crystal display apparatus includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer, a sealing member, and first and second spacers. The first substrate includes a first display part having a pixel electrode formed thereon. The second substrate includes ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 6908149 | Anti-submarine vehicle seat device Provided is an anti-submarine vehicle seat device which can reliably prevent submarining without complicating the assembling of the seat assembly, and is adapted to be retrofitted. Major parts of the device are incorporated into a subassembly which comprises a casin... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6819011 | Switching power converter controller with watchdog timer A switching power converter controller controls a plurality of switching power converters which provide power to a host microprocessor. A watchdog timer in the switching power converter controller counts down a timer unless it receives reset signals from the host mi... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6803555 | Two-stage auto-zero amplifier circuit for electro-optical arrays Two-stage auto-zero amplifier circuits are disclosed, along with methods of auto-zeroing such amplifier circuits. The two-stage auto-zero amplifier circuit may be part of an electronics signal chain coupled to a detector element to process an electronic signal induc... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6700260 | Rotor structure of motor A rotor structure of a motor is provided. The rotor structure includes a magnet having a first annular wall, a magnet holder having a base and a second annular wall connected with the first annular wall of the magnet for fixing the magnet, a shaft having ... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6695498 | Printer compact coil winding system An impact printer having one or multiple lines of hammers on a hammerbank for impacting a print ribbon against a print media after release by one or more electrically energized coils in a magnetic circuit with one or more pole pieces retaining the hammers... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6687215 | Low profile and medium protecting cartridge assembly Various configurations of cartridges for optical disks, particularly first-surface optical disks, are provided. The cartridges include a plurality of protectors for use in safeguarding the optical disk when certain conditions are present or certain events... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6678341 | Multimode radio communication system Like a conventional one-way pager system, a two-way pager system is provided in which a message is received by paging from a base station and a message responding to the received message is returned to the base station. In this system, direct communicatio... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6644723 | Vehicle occupant side crash protection system A vehicle seat is mounted on a floor in a laterally inwardly moveable manner, and is accelerated by a crash load input member, which is more rigid than the remaining part of the vehicle body, inwardly upon occurrence of a vehicle side crash. The vehicle o... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6621943 | System and method for converting analog data to digital data An improved system and method for obtaining data related to the operation of a processing system which converts from analog measurement data, usually obtained from meters and gages, to digital data. Visual images of various types of measuring instruments ... | 09/16/2003 |
