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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 |
| 7517590 | Metal band as inlay for trim strips or sealing strips A metal band inlay for trim strips or sealing strips of flexible material that is bent to form a section. The metal band includes a plurality of edge slots in the longitudinal direction, which are guided inwardly from an edge of the metal band transversely to the lo... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7368175 | Metal band as an inlay for trim strips or sealing strips A metal band as an inlay for trim strips or sealing strips of flexible material, in particular of rubber or plastic, which is in particular bent to form a shape, having a plurality of slots, in particular periodically sequential slots in the longitudinal direction o... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364803 | High density dual helical gear and method for manufacture thereof The present invention relates to a low cost technique for manufacturing dual helical gears, such as herringbone gears, from powder metals. The dual helical gears made by this technique are of high density (greater than 92% of theoretical density) and offer superior ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7289337 | Electronic card with braced structure The field of the invention is that of electronic computers that have to operate in a harsh mechanical environment. One of the main fields of application relates to computers for on-board fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft avionics systems operating in a highly vibr... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7255929 | Use of spray coatings to achieve non-uniform seal clearances in turbomachinery The invention provides spray coatings to achieve circumferentially non-uniform seal clearances in turbomachines. In steam and gas turbines it is desirable to assemble the machines with elliptical seal clearances to compensate for expected casing distortion, rotordyn... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7255930 | Cap nut for envelopment casting, casting including the cap nut and method of enveloping the cap nut in casting A cap nut to be enveloped in a casting made of casting material includes a substantially cylindrical body. The body has a first end and a second end adjacent to a top end surface of the body. The body has a hole and an outer peripheral surface to be enveloped in the... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7195203 | Wing skin and method of manufacture thereof A simplified structure for a wing skin and wing box wherein the internal surface (2) of an aircraft wing skin panel (1) in the wing box includes a multiplicity of strips (3), each strip being associated with a stringer. The strips (3) hav... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7159822 | Structural panels for use in aircraft fuselages and other structures Structural panels for use in manufacturing aircraft fuselages and other structures are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a structural panel configured in accordance with the invention includes a skin having at least one offset surface. The structural panel can fu... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7134629 | Structural panels for use in aircraft fuselages and other structures Structural panels for use in manufacturing aircraft fuselages and other structures are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a structural panel configured in accordance with the invention includes a skin and at least first and second stiffeners. The first stiffener c... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7132778 | Surface acoustic wave modulator An acoustic wave identification transponder device, having a substrate, an electroacoustic transfer generating an acoustic wave in said substrate and a set of encoding elements disposed in a path of the acoustic wave for modifying the acoustic wave, having elements ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7093439 | Heat shield panels for use in a combustor for a gas turbine engine The present invention relates to heat shield panels or liners to be used in combustors for gas turbine engines. The heat shield panels each comprise a hot side and a cold side and at least one isolated cooling chamber on the cold side. Each cooling chamber has a plu... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7070617 | Stent with variable wall thickness A stent is made flexible along its length. The stent initially starts as a metal sheet. It is rolled in its central region to a specified wall thickness. Thereafter, the stent is photochemically etched to produce the desired cell pattern of the design of the stent. ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7041357 | Selective PCB stiffening with preferentially oriented fibers Apparatus and methods are presented for reinforcing and stiffening a printed circuit board (PCB) in selected locations by utilizing preferentially oriented fibers. Selected fibers within the polymeric material matrix of the PCB fiber-matrix layer are removed and rep... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7026056 | Multicompartment structure for insulation and other materials A structure for encapsulating and protecting fiber insulation material as well as other materials in multicompartment devices in order to provide unitized material which can be applied to any surface desired for insulation or other purposes. A first sheet of materia... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7014924 | Metal member to be cast-wrapped A metal member to be cast-wrapped by a metal cast article, a manufacturing method thereof and a metal cast article including the metal member cast-wrapped are provided. A hollow cylindrical metal member having an outer surface with projections to be cast-wrapped by ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6946721 | Leadframe of a conductive material and component with a leadframe of a conductive material A leadframe of a conductive material includes a central region to accommodate a chip and a plurality of connecting fingers extending at least from one side in the direction of the central region, a contact region being provided adjacent to the central region on at l... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6943292 | Printed circuit board stiffener A printed circuit board (PCB) assembly includes a stiffener member that eliminates the need for a separate PCB housing. The stiffener member is attached to the PCB at a first mount interface without the use of fasteners and is attached to a vehicle structure at a se... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6935072 | Weather strip having variable length holding lip A weather strip includes a trim body having a generally U-shaped cross section, a hollow seal portion that protrudes from an outside surface of the trim body, and a holding lip formed on the trim body so as to extend from an inside surface of the trim body toward th... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6911892 | Alloy type thermal fuse and fuse element thereof The invention provides a thermal fuse and a fuse element of the low-melting fusible alloy type in which the fuse element has an alloy composition of 37 to 43% In, 10 to 18% Sn, and the balance Bi. As a result, the operating temperature is in the range of 65 to 75° ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6907666 | Method of assembly of vehicle body structure A method of manufacture of a body assembly of a refuse vehicle includes forming a first, second and third components of the assembly. A first and second locating constructions are formed in the first component. The second component is formed so as to have a first ma... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6889985 | Core metal insert for weatherseals A core metal insert is provided for reinforcing a weatherseal. The core metal insert has a generally U-channel shaped cross-section and has first and second tines extending from a longitudinally extending backbone strip. The tines are bent to provide the U-channel s... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6880243 | Stiffener for stiffening a circuit board A printed circuit board stiffener is provided comprising a generally U-shaped elongated horizontal assembly having a substantially horizontal surface, an elongated vertical member extending downward from and rigidly coupled to one of the elongated horizontal assembl... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6824887 | Multicompartment structure for insulation and other materials A structure for encapsulating and protecting fiber insulation material as well as other materials in multicompartment devices in order to provide unitized material which can be applied to any surface desired for insulation or other purposes. A first sheet of materia... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6752308 | Diebond strip A titanium alloy strip which has a reduced cross section in the central region of the strip. By concentrating heat in this central region the process of bonding laser devices to a substrate is greatly improved. Furthermore, the titanium alloy strip allows for the po... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6733899 | Metal plate and method of shaping the same There are provided a step of forming a structure in which a first concave portion is formed in a predetermined portion on one surface of a metal plate and also a convex portion that protrudes from other surface of the metal plate is formed by formation of the first ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6727006 | Method for production and/or processing of plug parts in follow-on composite tools A method of production and/or processing of contact elements for electrical plug connectors is provided. The contact elements are fixed to a transport strip during the production and/or processing process. This transport strip is reduced in its material thickness af... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6607841 | Silicon steel sheet An improved silicon steel sheet has two lateral ends each having a side edge narrower than the width of the silicon sheet. The side edge has two end points linking respectively to two lateral sides of the silicon steel sheet to form two symmetrical slant ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6503639 | Press-formed product and press-forming method A press-formed product which is characterized by having a large number of linear concave portions 11 in the region (such as the side wall 31 of the press-formed product 30) which has undergone bending or bending-unbending deformation during press-forming,... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6447928 | Process of manufacturing a core metal insert A core metal insert for use in a sealing assembly is disclosed. The core metal insert is manufactured by a process which includes the step of cutting a plurality of left lateral outermost inboard slits and a plurality of right lateral outermost inboard sl... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6426154 | Ceramic circuit board The present invention provides a ceramic circuit board comprising: a ceramic substrate and a metal circuit plate bonded to the ceramic substrate through a brazing material layer; wherein the brazing material layer is composed of Al--Si group brazing mater... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6426152 | Salvaged castings and methods of salvaging castings with defective cast cooling bumps Castings for gas turbine parts exposed on one side to a high-temperature fluid medium have cast-in bumps on an opposite cooling surface side to enhance heat transfer. Areas on the cooling surface having defectively cast bumps, i.e., missing or partially f... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6401292 | Wiper blade with metal strip as tilting bar The invention relates to a wiper blade with a wiper head (1), wiper lip (2) and a connecting tilting bar. It is distinguished in that the wiper head (1) and the wiper lip (5) consist of at least one elastomer, and the connecting tilting bar is an elastic,... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6337142 | Elongate element for transmitting forces A hollow elongate element of elastic material for transmitting forces in which the walling comprises openings which reduce the bending resistance moment and are arranged such that the torsion resistance moment of the element essentially remains.... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6260265 | Circuit board stiffener A rigid bar of material is fastened to a circuit board to increase its stiffness. The bar is preferably a high modulus plastic such as liquid crystal polymer. Flexible fingers which surround a central opening are formed integrally with the bar and pop int... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6254999 | Plated product having recesses and anchor portions A plated product is provided which comprises a material of which the surface has many recesses, each having an opening of 5~100 μm and a depth of 0.2 d~d (d: the size of the opening of a recess, μm) and having an anchor portion. Further, a plurality of ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6170378 | Method and apparatus for defeating high-velocity projectiles A method and apparatus for defeating high-velocity projectiles. A plurality of disks of equal size and having a thickness greater than 0.100" are milled in a plurality of places. Each milled place having a radius of curvature approximately equal to the ra... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6114049 | Stent fabrication method A stent and a method for fabricating the stent are disclosed. The stent has an originally flat pattern and connection points where the sides of the flat pattern are joined. The method includes the steps of a) cutting a stent pattern into a flat piece of m... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6051613 | Nitrogen monoxide production suppressor A pharmaceutical composition containing an extract from inflammatory tissue inoculated with vaccinia virus may be used to suppress the death of cells caused by endotoxin, and suppress excessive production of nitrogen monoxide induced by endotoxin. The ext... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6048616 | Encapsulated quantum sized doped semiconductor particles and method of manufacturing same Doped encapsulated semiconductor nanoparticles of a size ( | 04/11/2000 |
| 5851685 | Rivet in a converted can end, method of manufacture, and tooling An easy open can end having an improved rivet structure integrally formed thereon for the attachment of a pull tab, a method of further forming a can end to incorporate the improved rivet, and tooling for accomplishing the method. The further formation of... | 12/22/1998 |
