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 |
| 7259646 | Electrical service device having an arc prechamber area, prechamber plates and a current-limiting arc-quenching device The invention proposes an electrical service device, in particular line circuit breaker or motor circuit breaker, having a housing having connection means (20, 21) for the purpose of connecting busbars and/or connection lines on at least one end side, having ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7145422 | DC relay A direct current relay includes a plurality of contact pairs, and a plurality of magnets (5). Each of the plurality of contact pairs is configured having contacts (21, 22, 31) with contact regions (21a, 22a, 31a | 12/05/2006 |
| 4375021 | Rapid electric-arc extinguishing assembly in circuit-breaking devices such as electric circuit breakers A rapid arc extinguishing assembly includes an arc chute comprising a large number of essentially parallel deionizing plates each in form of thin magnetically permeable, electrically conductive plates bent in U-shape, with the curve of the U facing the ci... | 02/22/1983 |
| 4021628 | Vacuum fault current limiter A vacuum current limiting circuit interrupter having rapidly separable contacts and magnetic field coils disposed to produce a magnetic field transverse to the arc formed during circuit interruption. The transverse magnetic field creates arc instability a... | 05/03/1977 |
