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 |
| 6867681 | Circuit protection device A current control device is described wherein a pressure conduction composite is compressed and decompressed to alter its conductivity and thereby current conduction through the device. The pressure conduction composite is composed of a nonconductive matrix, a condu... | 03/15/2005 |
| 5616978 | Electroconductive article, having portions with variable resistance and a rotor produced therefrom An electroconductive material has at least one portion in which the electrical resistance varies continuously along a gradient. Accordingly, since the material is not formed by directly bonding different elements, it does not have a weak joint portion. Fu... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5364705 | Hybrid resistance cards and methods for manufacturing same A hybrid resistance card (R-Card) is manufactured using a two-step process wherein an electrically conductive ink layer and an electrically resistive ink layer are printed onto a surface, which may be either a substrate or the part on which the R-Card is ... | 11/15/1994 |
| 4487270 | Electric tool, particularly a handtool, with torque control A power tool has an electric motor with a motor shaft having a spiral gear through which the motor drives the tool. A pressure sensor is disposed so as to be subjected to the axial thrust of the motor shaft created by the spiral gear during operation of t... | 12/11/1984 |
