...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| 7419579 | Method for manufacturing a ferroelectric film A method for manufacturing a ferroelectric film includes the steps of causing, in a solution containing sol-gel raw materials, hydrolysis and polycondensation to the sol-gel raw materials to form a liquid containing particulate gels dispersed therein, and forming a ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7413643 | Treating an electrocoat system with a biosurfactant A method of treating an electrocoating process by exposing at least a portion of the process to a biosurfactant admixed in a solution. Methods of treating a surface of an apparatus within an electrocoating operation using a biosurfactant to remove or prevent sessile... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7179358 | Method for forming electrodeposition coating film A method for forming an electrodeposition coating film, comprises a step of subjecting a steric metal article to be coated to electrodeposition coating, and a step of selectively heating/drying the resultant coating film by a plurality of induction heating devices. | 02/20/2007 |
| 7067047 | Electro-dip coating method Use of water-insoluble organic nitrites and/or nitrates as additives for electrodeposition coating compositions, and process for the production of an electrodeposition lacquer with improved adhesion for subsequent coats in which one or more water-insoluble organic n... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7037418 | Wear and thermal resistant material produced from super hard particles bound in a matrix of glassceramic electrophoretic deposition A substrate coated with a deposited composite comprising uniformly dispersed hard martial particles in a glassceramic matrix. The deposited bulk composite may comprise uniformly dispersed hard material particles in a glassceramic matrix or hard material particles un... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7008522 | Method of locally repairing parts covered with a thermal barrier A method of locally repairing parts coated with a thermal barrier including a ceramic outer layer and a metal underlayer of alumina-forming alloy for protecting the substrate against oxidation and for bonding with the ceramic outer layer, includes: defining the zone... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6736950 | Method for electrophoretically immersion-enameling substrates that have edges Method of electro-dipcoating while reducing edge migration on stoving by 1) electro-deposition of a coating layer from an electrically depositable coating composition containing a heat-curable binder system having a content of olefinically unsaturated double ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6607645 | Production of hollow ceramic membranes by electrophoretic deposition The present invention provides methods for producing hollow ceramic membranes by electrophoretic deposition. The hollow ceramic membranes may have a small cross-sectional area of about 1.0×10-5 mm2 to about 25 mm2. The cr... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6589411 | Electrodeposition coating process An electrodeposition coating process consisting of the successive process steps: 1) electrodeposition of a coating layer of an electrodeposition coating agent that contains a thermally curable binder system onto the surface of an electrically conductive s... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6508922 | Process for multi-layer coating A process for the production of a multi-layer coating, wherein a primer layer which is electrically conductive in the at least partially cured state is applied by electrodeposition from an electrodeposition coating agent (I) to an electrically conductive ... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6248225 | Process for forming a two-coat electrodeposited composite coating the composite coating and chip resistant electrodeposited coating composition A process for applying two electrodeposited coatings, one on top of the other, to an electrically conductive substrate is provided. An electrically conductive first coating is applied to provide for corrosion resistance and a second polyurethane-based coa... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6162339 | Two coat E-coat process for automotive bodies A method for priming an object with through electrodeposition. The object is initially immersed into a first tank having a first primer bath and a first primer layer is electrodeposited onto the object. The object is removed from the first primer bath and... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6113764 | Processes for coating a metal substrate with an electrodeposited coating composition and drying the same A process for drying a liquid electrodeposited coating composition applied to a metal substrate is provided. Infrared radiation and warm air are applied simultaneously to the electrodeposited coating composition for a period of at least about 1 minute, th... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6103306 | Super-antirust composition and antirust treating methods Disclosed are a super-antirust coating used for a vehicle, which comprises 5 to 45% (by weight, hereinafter the same) of petroleum sulfonate and/or a metal salt thereof, 0.5 to 35% of lanolin fatty acid and/or a metal salt thereof, 0.5 to 35% of hardened ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6090253 | Electrodeposition method A work is dipped in electrodeposition paint, and then the work is baked. Between the dipping step and baking step of the work, there is provided a step for spraying hot water mist to the work. It is preferable that the temperature of the hot water mist is... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6054033 | Cathodic electrodeposition paint A cathodic electrodeposition paint composition for one or two coats finish comprises (a) an amine-modified polyphenol epoxy resin, (b) an acrylic copolymer having ionizable groups, and (c) resin particles having a particle size of less than 1.0 μm compri... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6004716 | Method of forming an electrophotographic transfer image A method of forming an electrophotographic transfer image is disclosed which provides color images free from color shear, by which toner images are completely transferred onto a receiving material without being accompanied by degradation of image quality ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5928730 | Processing for forming cured paint film A process for forming a cured paint film from a paint containing, as a binder, a resin containing a carbonyl group, or a resin, or a resin mixture containing a carbonyl group and a carboxyl group or a paint containing, as a binder, a resin containing a re... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5902473 | Cathodic electrodeposition coating with carbamate-functional crosslinking agents An electrodeposition process using an aqueous coating composition comprising a carbamate-functional crosslinking agent and at least one principal resin is described. The carbamate-functional crosslinker is formed by first reacting a polyamine having at le... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5830340 | Method for making a composite filter A method for forming filtration members using an electric potential to control the migration of electrically charged particles and hence to control the formation of a membrane layer on a substrate. In one embodiment, electrophoresis and electrodialysis pr... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5747727 | Method of making a thermocouple A metal oxide layer is provided around a thermocouple element. The metal oxide layer is formed by preparing a sol, in which particulates of a metal oxide are dispersed, by a sol-gel method, dipping the thermocouple element in this sol, energizing the ther... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5693205 | Process for coating electrically conductive substrates, an aqueous coating composition, process for the preparation of an adduct containing urethane groups and an adduct containing urethane groups The invention relates to a cathodic electro-dipping process, which comprises a procedure in which the electro-dipping primer used contains an adduct containing urethane groups which is obtainable by reacting with one another a polyester-polyol or polyethe... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5616384 | Recyclable polymeric label paper An in-mold label material is a nonwoven mat of fibers having one side fused with the outer surface of a polymeric container and the other side coated with a pigment-containing latex suitable for printing thereon. The label paper is manufactured from comme... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5609741 | Method of manufacturing a composite material A method of manufacturing a composite material in which a fibre matt is placed adjacent a plate electrode in ceramic sol. The application of an electric field to the sol via the electrode results in the deposition of sol particles on the electrode which s... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5554271 | Method of manufacturing a composite material A method of manufacturing a composite material which comprises ceramic fibers in a matrix of a ceramic material. A woven mat of ceramic fibers having an electrically conductive coating thereon is immersed in a sol. The sol comprises surface-charged cerami... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5531880 | Method for producing thin, uniform powder phosphor for display screens A system and method for producing thin, uniform powder phosphors for field emission display screens wherein a planarization of the phosphor powder layer is accomplished by placing the deposited phosphor layer in an anode plate between two optical flats, w... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5279511 | Method of filling an electrophoretic display The present invention is a method of filling the interstice between the anode structure and the cathode structure of an electrophoretic image display (EPID) with a fluid dispersion containing solid pigment particles. And more specifically, a method of fil... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5211822 | Process for the production of a semipermeable membrane on a porous conductive support by electrophoresis The invention relates to a process for the production of a semipermeable membrane on a porous conductive support. The process involves the stages of finely dispersing in an aqueous or hydroorganic medium, insoluble solid mineral products in the presence o... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5063089 | Hydroxylamine or amine oxide containing polyphenolic compounds and uses thereof A metal treatment solution comprising an effective amount of a soluble or dispersible compound which is a derivative of a polyphenol. The present invention comprises novel derivatives of polyphenol compounds useful in the treatment of the surface of metal... | 11/05/1991 |
| 4107016 | Method and apparatus for electro-phorectic coating Method and apparatus for electrophoretically coating a surface of an electrically conductive work piece having a selected linear dimension including the steps of: establishing the work piece at one electrical potential, flowing an electrophoretic coating ... | 08/15/1978 |