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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8173939 | Thermally conditionable light transmitting subassembly A non-film based, thermally conditionable light transmitting article is provided. The article includes an adhesively coated resistive wire and a substrate suitably selected for light transmittance. The adhesively coated resistive wire is solely and directly adhesive... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7781705 | Electrical connection to printed circuits on plastic panels A system for effectively defrosting a plastic window includes a transparent plastic panel, a heater grid having a plurality of grid lines that are integrally formed with the plastic panel, and equalizing means for equalizing the electrical current traveling through ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7700901 | Heated glass panels A glass panel assembly according to one embodiment of the invention may include a first glass sheet having an electro-conductive film provided thereon and a conductor positioned at a location on the electro-conductive film. A retainer engages an edge portion of the ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7514654 | Glass article with metal member joined thereto, and junction structure using the same The present invention is intended to provide a glass article with a metal member joined thereto in which an electroconductive coating film is formed on at least a part of the surface of the glass article by baking a silver paste that includes Ag particles and a glas... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7411158 | Heated laminated glazing A heatable composite pane having a trapezoidal outline, including a heating area having heating wires embedded in the composite and at least two main busbars. The two main busbars connect ends of a first group of parallel heating wires electrically in parallel. The ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7402776 | Device and system for heating a mobile electronic device Described is a device and system for heating an electronic mobile device. The system includes a mobile electronic device including a power supply arrangement and a removable heating arrangement detachably coupled to the mobile electronic device. When the heating arr... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7355148 | Temperature exchanging element made by extrusion, and its applications The invention relates to a temperature exchanging element made by extrusion and able to receive a heating element and/or heat conducting element, and radiation fins. It is constituted of a single-piece base incorporating an external face equipped with means to recei... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7327132 | Testing procedure for evaluating diffusion and leakage currents in insulators A method for predicting long-term electrical insulation properties of composite materials in a moist environment. The method including the steps of providing a specimen, and testing the specimen to determine moisture content values and leakage current values at pred... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7309848 | Sealing structure of ceramic heater A ceramic heater is provided which may be built in a gas sensor to heat a sensor element up to a desired activation temperature. The ceramic heater includes a pair of electrical conductors formed on a ceramic body. Each of the conductors is equipped with a terminal.... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301125 | Heater for optical gas sensor A heater for a window of an optical gas sensor is provided. The heater may be positioned over a portion of the window or may form at least a portion of the window. Alternatively, the heater may be separate from the optical gas sensor and positionable over the window... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297902 | High performance defrosters for transparent panels The present invention provides a window assembly having a transparent panel and a conductive heater grid formed integrally with the transparent panel. The conductive heater grid has a first group of grid lines and a second group of grid lines, with opposing ends of ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7291816 | Transparent electrothermal body and the method of making it A method for making a transparent electrothermal body includes: a) plating ITO (indium tin oxide) onto a surface of a transparent substrate to form an ITO film, and b) printing a conducting material onto a surface of the ITO film to form two connecting portions each... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7270548 | Electrical connector and method for connecting it to the glass pane of a motor vehicle An electrical connector for electrical devices such as heating panels, antennas, or the like that are provided on glass panes on motor vehicles, having at least one soldering area to be soldered onto the glass pane and having a connector area joined electrically con... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7265323 | Electrically conductive heated glass panel assembly, control system, and method for producing panels An electrically conductive heated glass panel assembly, control system, and method for producing panels are provided to warm objects and to insure unobstructed viewing through glass by removing moisture. An integrated connection circuit interconnects glass sheets, w... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265322 | Method for making a plastic pane with electrical conductor structure and plastic pane with embedded wires A process for manufacturing a plastic pane provided with embedded electrical conductors, in particular a window pane, in which the conductors are joined to a surface of a plastic sheet that subsequently receives another layer of plastic by injection molding from the... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262388 | Vehicle light heater The present invention is directed to a system for reducing condensation on the inner surface of a vehicle light cover, and preventing or deicing ice build up on the exterior of the cover. In an embodiment, a heater is mounted to a carrier and the heat produced by th... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259359 | Automated glass entrance door assembly for walk-in coolers An automated glass cooler entrance door assembly for an opening in a walk-in cooler comprising at least one fixed, stationary side door that defines a walkway about the opening for ingress and egress into the cooler, at least one opposing sliding door operatively su... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7246470 | Insulating glass element, especially for a refrigerated enclosure An insulating glazed element including at least two glass sheets, separated from each other by a space and joined at their periphery by a seal, and at least one section. The glazed element has at least one heating border on at least one face of at least one glass sh... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244912 | Vehicular mirror with heater circuit module A vehicular mirror system includes an exterior mirror assembly having a reflective element for providing a rearward view to an occupant of a vehicle and a power distributor for distributing power from a single electrical power connector to a plurality of functional ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7231727 | Apparatus and method for removing moisture The present invention relates to a moisture removal apparatus and method for accurately detecting moisture generation in an early stage and quickly removing it so as to prevent steam or frost from being formed on glass surfaces of vehicles and industrial devices, an... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227100 | Warmer for warming wiper and fluid container simultaneously or alternatively A warmer includes: a main casing adapted for storing a wiper box therein; a drawer casing slidably engaged in the main casing and operatively withdrawn outwardly for storing a fluid container including nursing bottle or beverage cup in the drawer casing; and a heati... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223940 | Heatable windshield An electrically heatable transparency has at least one substrate, a first bus bar spaced from a second bus bar, and a conductive coating formed over at least a portion of the substrate. The first and second bus bars are in electrical contact with the coating. At lea... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7214909 | Temperature sensor A sensor positioned between a heat source and a heating area in parallel relationship to the heating area, for determining a mean value of the temperature of the heating area, includes a ceramic element, and a temperature-dependent resistor web attached to the ceram... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7211768 | Heating line pattern structure of defogger A heating line pattern structure of a defogger comprising a meander shape heating line portion is provided, in which the local temperature rise of a glass panel may be suppressed and which has a good outward appearance. Two lateral heating lines each having a thick ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7205504 | Interlayer composite for a laminated transparency An interlayer composite includes a plastic sheet having a predetermined outer shape and a major surface; a pair of bus bars, and an adhesive layer securing the bus bars directly on the major surface of the plastic sheet in a fixed relationship to one another. ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7204520 | Device for joining components made of fusible plastic A device for connecting components (1, 2, 3) made of fusible plastic, especially pipes (12, 60) of a fuel pipeline or a fuel line to a fuel tank (8) of a vehicle. The device includes a heating element (4) having ends (44, 46) which... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203344 | Biometric imaging system and method A method and system of obtaining a ten-print plain impression fingerprint includes scanning a print image, processing the scanned image, separating the processed image into individual fingerprint images, and determining how many print images have been scanned. The m... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7195365 | Vehicle lamp Disclosed is a vehicle lamp that is designed to reliably remove snow, etc. adhering to a lens. A carbon-based heating element is mounted within a lamp body so that the heat rays radiated from the heating element irradiate a rear surface of the lens. ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7190893 | Fluid heater with low porosity thermal mass A fluid heater apparatus and method of making same includes a low porosity material, thermally conductive mass. A heat source is disposed in the thermally conductive mass for imparting heat to the mass. Fluid in a flow path through the mass absorbs heat from the mas... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7186952 | Heatable glazing panel with electrically conductive coating having both heatable and non-heatable coated zones The present invention relates to an electrically heatable glazing panel comprising a substantially transparent, electrically conductive coating layer which is adapted to be electrically heatable and is divided into a plurality of zones, some heatable and some non-he... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7179512 | Liquid crystal display and manufacturing method of same A liquid crystal display which has spacers reliably joined with a pair of substrates of the liquid crystal display by using spacers adapted to the purpose with respect to material, structure, method of joining with the substrates, etc. A pair of substrates can be re... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174692 | Blast resistant window A blast resistant window structure capable of withstanding typical car bomb blast pressures of 100 psi or more and of resisting leakage of chemical or biological agents is described, the window structure including a frame hermetically enclosing two glass panels in c... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7161117 | Window glass for vehicles equipped with a conductor and its production process A window glass for vehicles equipped with a conductor, which comprises a glass plate, a patterned conductor layer formed on the glass plate, and a covering layer formed to cover the conductor layer, wherein the covering layer comprises a fired product obtained by fi... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159756 | Method of soldering and solder compositions The invention relates to using the heat generated during thermal treatment of one or more glass sheets to melt solder. In one nonlimiting embodiment, a lead providing external access to an electrical conductive arrangement, e.g. a conductive member between and conne... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7149585 | Lead body and method of lead body construction A lead body and method for lead body manufacture are provided having at least one conductor positioned between an inner insulator and an outer insulator wherein the outer insulator is fused to the inner insulator by heating. Further, an insulating spacer may be prov... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7141760 | Covered conductor and heater formed therewith There is disclosed a conductor having a conductive element and a covering surrounding at least a portion of the conductive element. Preferably, the covering has an inner portion and an outer portion formed of different materials such that the melting point of the in... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7132625 | Heatable article having a configured heating member A heatable article, e.g. a heatable windshield, having a generally trapezoidal shape has a conductive member, e.g. a conductive coating, between and in contact with a pair of spaced bus bars having different lengths. Selected portions of the coating between the bus ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129444 | High performance defrosters for transparent panels The present invention provides a window assembly having a transparent panel and a conductive heater grid formed integrally with the transparent panel. The conductive heater grid has a first group of grid lines and a second group of grid lines, with opposing ends of ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7116501 | Optical element holder, exposure apparatus, and device fabricating method An optical element holder for holding an optical element includes a holding element to hold the optical element or a holding part provided to the optical element unitedly, wherein there is substantially no heat exchange between the optical element and the holding el... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7081602 | Fail-safe, resistive-film, immersion heater A heater comprising a conduit made of corundum (e.g. synthetic sapphire) and having a wall forming a closed cross-section with an interior surface, and an exterior surface. At least one of the interior and exterior surfaces may have a roughened portion comprising in... | 07/25/2006 |
