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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 |
| 6176105 | Widening method for a rib knitted fabric and a widened rib knitted fabric thereby For preventing holes from occurrence at an internally widened area of a rib knitted fabric, at the area, two needles, one on the front needle bed, the other on the back needle bed, are made empty. Then, a stitch held by an adjacent needle to one of the tw... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6166904 | Heat generating element cooling device A heat generating cooling device including a heat sink with a plurality of fins and a cooling fan unit mounted on and above the fins and having a motor. At least one auxiliary blade is provided on the bottom surface of the motor and extends in toward the ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6157701 | X-ray generating apparatus and X-ray microscope An X-ray generating apparatus in which X-rays are emitted from laser plasma, the X-ray generating apparatus including a strong magnetic field generating device for generating a magnetic field component substantially parallel with the target surface in the... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6155717 | Linear movement device and lubricant supplying device used therefor The present invention relates to a linear movement device, for example, a linear guide device, a ball screw, a ball spline or the like in which a track shaft and a slide member is engaged movably relative to each other via a rolling element of a ball, a r... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6137054 | Wire-circuit sheet and electric junction box thereof A wire-circuit sheet includes: a resin sheet with circuit connecting holes, wires lying across the circuit connecting holes , and at least on cutting hole to punch the resin sheet so as to cut simultaneously the wires. Further, a wire-circuit sheet and it... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6124592 | Ion mobility storage trap and method An apparatus and method to separate and store ions by exploiting mobility characteristics of the ions. A sample is introduced into a trap volume and ionized. The ions are separated according to their mobility characteristics by applying an electric field ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6120760 | Growth/differentiation factors of the TGF-ଲ family The invention provides DNA sequences encoding novel members of the TGF-ଲ family of proteins. The TGF-ଲ family comprises proteins which function as growth and/or differentiation factors and which are useful in medical applications. Accordingly,... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6116783 | Ball chain The present invention relates to a ball chain used by being integrated to, for example, a ball endless track of a linear guide device for endless sliding in which a number of balls are arranged in one row and rollably held, particularly to a ball chain wh... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6108671 | Virtual database space system and computer-readable recording medium recorded with database program A virtual database space system realizable with a database program makes it possible to obtain a maximum throughput of database manipulations even when different types of transaction are mixed; can be started normally after a failure and thus eliminates t... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6105772 | Artificial aquarium plant package A plant package for an artificial aquarium plant including a card member having a front face and a shaped shell member affixed to the front face by a peripheral bonding flange. The shell member has an upper section including a plant base holding pocket wi... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6102820 | Auto-tensioner An auto-tensioner that inhibits the generation of heat in an insert bearing made of a synthetic resin. An outer shell of an arm member is swingably supported on an inner shaft of a base member through an insert bearing made of a synthetic resin, and a ten... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6098587 | Oil supply method for an internal combustion engine A method of controlling the oil flow rate for an internal combustion engine including: a) defining a break-in period of the engine; b) determining whether the engine is running within the break-in period; and c) varying the oil flow rate for the engine if... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6098866 | Diffusion bonding apparatus for pipes A diffusion bonding apparatus for pipes that are supplied downward from above comprising a lower block for holding a lower pipe and an upper block for holding and pressing an upper pipe against the lower pipe. In the apparatus, three or more hydrraulic cy... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6097989 | Adaptive controller with parameter adjustment law expressed in recurrence formula An adaptive controller using an adjustment law expressed in recurrence formula, including a plant, a controller which controls an input to the plant, and a parameter adjuster which adjusts a parameter of the controller. In the controller, an input to the ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6096970 | Clamp for overhead line having expansion means and cam means A clamp for an overhead line including a clamp body in which a first gripping groove for gripping the overhead line is formed; a clamp cap in which a second gripping groove for gripping the overhead line is formed and which is pivotably attached to the cl... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6093943 | Semiconductor device and method of producing the same A method of producing a semiconductor device includes the steps of (a) preparing a substrate having a semiconductor element formed in a predetermined region of a surface of the substrate, (b) forming a first layer on the substrate, where the first layer i... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6093511 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a step of exposing a resist by use of an exposure mask. An object of the present invention is to facilitate a level adjustment of the reticle and thus automaticall... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6089682 | Antilock brake control system for vehicle An antilock brake control system for a vehicle includes a control start determining device for determining that an antilock brake control should be started, in response to a slip rate calculated based on a wheel speed and a presumed vehicle speed exceedin... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088458 | Vibration inhibiting structure in device cover In a device cover fastened to a casing of a vibration generating source to cover a device mounted on an outer surface of the casing, an elastic member having a natural frequency different from that of the device cover, is mounted in a mounting bore provid... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6083329 | Gas shielding apparatus and gas shielding method A gas shielding apparatus comprising a main gas jacket having induction heating means, and front gas jacket and rear gas jacket integrally disposed at supply side and discharge side of a member to be bonded or a member to be heated of the main gas jacket,... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6080154 | Locating anchor A locating anchor for a replacement ligament is described. The anchor comprises a bar which is operable to extend across the opening of a bone tunnel through which the replacement ligament passes. The bar has a number of characterising features. The bar m... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6079232 | Widening method A widened loop is formed by using a flat knitting machine which has at least a pair of needle beds and one of the needle beds can be moved sideways. A widening needle is made to be empty, and yarn is fed from one end of the knitting range to a needle shor... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6070521 | Slide control device of press Learning control is adopted in slide control of a press, and the actual behavior pattern of the slide is converged to the optimum pattern thereby breakage of a metal mold or the like can be prevented. The slide control device is provided with a linear mot... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6064314 | Inspecting system for welding apparatus An inspection system for a welding apparatus for performing welding by supplying electric power outputted by an inverter based on a command from a welding control unit, through a welding transformer to a welding gun. The inspection system includes a first... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6057126 | Mammalian EDG-5 receptor homologs The present invention describes a nucleic acid sequence and an amino acid sequence for novel mammalian, including human, EDG-5 receptor homologs.... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6055849 | Gas detector and its adjusting method A metal oxide semiconductor gas sensor S is connected to a ladder resistance R, and the output voltage is subjected to logarithmic transformation at plural points on a waveform of temperature change by LnR=2-4 V R1/Vc+LnR1 ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6055615 | Pipeline memory access using DRAM with multiple independent banks A memory system using at least one DRAM chip and equipped with an interface for transferring input/output data in a packet format includes a plurality of banks within each of the at least one DRAM chip. The memory system further includes a control circuit... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6054861 | Apparatus for monitoring power of battery to supply electric power to load A micro discharge detection current which is obtained by reducing a discharge current of a battery at a predetermined ratio is detected by a current amplifying circuit and an integration voltage showing a discharge charge amount is formed by charging a ca... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6055060 | Analytical system with means for detecting too small sample volumes Analytical system for evaluating test elements having means of determining whether a sufficient amount of sample liquid was evenly applied to an application zone comprising in a first embodiment of the invention at least two sources of light which illumin... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6049424 | Three dimensional display device The present invention is directed to a three-dimensional display device so adapted that an uncomfortable feeding in a case where a right eye image and a left eye image on a screen are replaced with each other in correspondence to the position of the head ... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6047570 | Yarn feeding system for a flat knitting machine releasibly engaged with reciprocating shifting members A yarn feeding system of a flat knitting machine having needle beds. Each needle bed having a plurality of needles. A plurality of yarn carrier rails extend in parallel to the needle beds in a longitudinal direction of the needle beds. A cam carriage reci... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6046172 | Hydrolytically processed oligodeoxyribonucleotides and their pharmaceutical compositions The invention discloses new oligodeoxyribonucleotides of animal origin, having a molecular weight comprised between 4000 and 10000 daltons, that can be obtained by fractionation of polydeoxyribonucleotides or otherwise by chemical or enzymatic depolymeriz... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6045481 | Control system for a toroidal continuously variable transmission A control system for a toroidal continuously variable transmission which can control the transmission ratio without installing a position detection device or an angle detection device on trunnions and secure a sufficient control response to prevent huntin... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6041279 | Fuel metering control system for internal combustion engine A fuel metering control system for an internal combustion engine including a feedback loop having an adaptive controller and an adaptation mechanism that estimates controller parameters θ. The adaptive controller corrects the quantity of fuel injection t... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6038767 | Method and apparatus for assembling piston assembly A method and apparatus to permit automatic installation of pistons and shoes on a swash plate, for reducing in costs and improving the quality of a swash plate type compressor. A slide table 52 is provided which is movable in a direction perpendicular to ... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6039826 | Method of forming green tire with strip winding A method of forming a green tire according to the present invention comprises winding a rubber strip on an adjusting drum while extruding an unvulcanized rubber from an extruder in a form of the rubber strip in a length corresponding to the rubber quantit... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6037847 | Surface acoustic wave device using a leaky surface acoustic wave with an optimized cut angle of a piezoelectric substrate A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate of a single crystal LiTaO3 and an electrode pattern provided on the piezoelectric substrate. The electrode pattern contains Al as a primary component and has a thickness in a ran... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6036334 | Illuminating apparatus and frame to which the illuminating apparatus is attached An illuminating apparatus is formed with an ultraviolet lamp and at least one incandescent lamps that repeat a predetermined illumination pattern in which the lamps are turned on, gradually brightened within a predetermined period, gradually dimmed out wi... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6035825 | Control of fueling rate of an engine A method of controlling the mass of fuel delivered to a direct injected engine subject to a change with time in engine load demand. A rate of change of fuel required per cycle of the engine in response to the change in engine load demand is determined. A ... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6037698 | Acoustic surface wave device This invention relates to an acoustic surface wave device suitably used in a high-frequency circuit, in which high attenuation characteristics are provided. The present invention includes an acoustic surface wave element, a ceramic package having a cerami... | 03/14/2000 |
