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 |
| 7160796 | Method for manufacturing wiring board and semiconductor device Pads to be used for flip chip bonding and wire bonding are pattern-formed on a surface of a substrate. The pads to be used for flip chip bonding are shielded. Plating is applied to each of the pads to be used for wire bonding. Bonding pads for wire bonding is shield... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7028414 | Device for continuous drying of material The invention relates to a device for device for continuous drying of material, particularly sewage sludge, which has a belt 2, particularly a filter belt, on which the material is conveyed. It is characterised by a distribution screw 4 being mounted a... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6941676 | Apparatus for freeze-drying foodstuffs and medicaments Disclosed is a freeze-drying apparatus for foodstuffs, medicaments, etc., wherein liquid material is directly and distributively poured into upright cylindrical tubes, then, in its isolated state from external atmosphere for perfect sterilization, the liquid materia... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6745490 | Distributive ejection device for liquid material to be used in freeze-drying apparatus for foodstuffs, medicaments, and so on This invention is concerned with a distributive ejection apparatus for liquid material in a freeze-drying apparatus for foodstuffs, medicaments, etc., wherein the liquid material adjusted from the starting material for foodstuffs, medicaments, etc. is caused to free... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6470592 | Method and apparatus for freeze-drying of foods, medicaments, etc. A process is provided for freeze-drying medicaments and foodstuffs comprising dissolving the foodstuffs or medicaments in a solvent, introducing the solution formed into a shell comprising a desiccating chamber of a shell-tube freeze-drying device to caus... | 10/29/2002 |
| 5964043 | Freeze-drying process and apparatus A process and apparatus for freeze drying of liquid material in a vessel in which the vessels are moved automatically through various stages including loading vessels onto racks, washing vessels in an inverted position, sterilizing vessels and racks, fill... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5327660 | Drum drying of acrylonitrile production wastes A process for deliquifying a solid particulate containing liquid waste stream including organic contaminants produced during the production of acrylonitrile comprising feeding the waste stream onto the outer surface of a heated drum(s) rotating the drum(s... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5036599 | Method of concentrating slurried kaolin An aqueous beneficiated clay slurry is concentrated from a lower solids content to a higher solids content by evaporating water therefrom by passing the aqueous clay slurry through one or more non-contact evaporative heat exchangers in indirect heat excha... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4590684 | Continuous freeze drying Apparatus and method for continuous freeze drying in which a slurry of material to be freeze dried is provided. The slurry is advanced along a predetermined path having a freezing area in which one or more plugs of frozen slurry are provided to afford a p... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4561191 | Method and apparatus for continuous freeze drying A method and apparatus for freeze drying heat sensitive aqueous products on a continuous basis, utilizing molecular sieves to sequester the sublimating water vapor, is described. At least two beds of sieve are used sequentially, one being heat regenerated... | 12/31/1985 |
