Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7211174 | Method and system to provide electrical contacts for electrotreating processes Systems and methods to provide electrical contacts to a workpiece to facilitate electrotreating processes, including electroplating and electroetching processes are presented. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 6926812 | Electric feeding method and apparatus for a continuous plating apparatus To avoid the formation of undesirable plating on electric supply rollers, there is provided a continuous plating apparatus in which a planar article to be plated is vertically clamped on both sides by electric supply rollers and the article to be plated is moved hor... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6544301 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing solid electrolytic capacitor (a) supplying a capacitor element manufacturing apparatus, in which the capacitor element manufacturing apparatus includes a polymerization tank, a polymerization solution contained in the polymerization tank, and a negative electrode put in the polymeriz... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6143156 | Electroplating method and apparatus The present invention provides an improved method for electroplating metallic ions onto a conductive substrate. In one embodiment, the method comprises at least partially covering a selected surface of the conductive substrate with an electrode wrap that ... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5610366 | High performance thermoelectric materials and methods of preparation Transition metals (T) of Group VIII (Co, Rh and Ir) have been prepared as semiconductor alloys with Sb having the general formula TSb3. The skutterudite-type crystal lattice structure of these semiconductor alloys and their enhanced thermoelect... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5481788 | Apparatus for producing welding rod A method and apparatus for producing high quality welding rod including a first forming of an ingot under vacuum forming techniques; a continuous mechanical de-scaling at all stages, including, but not limited to, final drawing; an unusual electrolytic pu... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5167792 | Master holder of stamper electroforming apparatus and electroforming method Disclosed are a master holder of a stamper electroforming apparatus and an electroforming method using this master holder. The master holder is for use in a stamper electroforming apparatus that forms a metal film by electroforming on a conductive film fo... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5092975 | Metal plating apparatus In arrangement of high speed plating system, a number of sequential treatment bath units are arranged side by side along an arcuate path at equal intervals, a rotatable transfer unit of workpieces is arranged at the center of the arcuate path to concurren... | 03/03/1992 |
| 4409082 | Method and apparatus for the galvanic deposition of metal onto objects, cleaning off and recovery of adherent surface treatment agents Apparatus for the electrolytic deposition of metal onto metallic or appropriately pre-treated non-metallic objects and cleaning these objects of adhering surface treatment agents after further treatment as well as recovery of these treatment agents, with ... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4399018 | Device for electrodeposition of aluminum A device for electrodepositing aluminum from an aprotic oxygen-free and water-free aluminum-organic electrolyte which comprises an annular electroplating tank which is subdivided into concentric sub-cells with each cell having electrolyte and anode plates... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4363712 | Device for galvanic precipitation of aluminum An improved galvanizing device for the galvanic precipitation of aluminum from an anhydrous, aprotic, and oxygen-free aluminum-organic electrolyte is provided. The original device having an annularly shaped galvanizing trough, which is sealed from the atm... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4257853 | Metal plating process A metal plating process and apparatus is disclosed and includes a plurality of pre-plating stations comprising tanks or reservoirs containing various cleaning and rinsing solutions. A pulse plating or gold flash station including a plating tank is provide... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4176034 | Apparatus for the electrodeposition of aluminum Above the electroplating trough, a lock chamber is arranged which can be flooded with protective gas and is subdivided by means of an intermediate door into an outer chamber and a main chamber. The outer chamber has an outer lock door while the main chamb... | 11/27/1979 |
