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...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 |
| 7717856 | Non-toxic liquid column sphygmomanometer A sphygmomanometer having an elongated tube, an air chamber coupled to a first end of the tube, and a liquid chamber coupled to a second end of the tube. The liquid chamber is partially filled with fluid and is couplable to a source of external pressure. An offset r... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7181973 | Air pump with a manometer received therein An air pump includes a cylindrical casing, a manometer movably received in the cylindrical casing to be selectively extended out of the cylindrical casing, an air duct securely received in the manometer to be firmly engaged with an inner face defining the reduced bo... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7000483 | Inflatable manometers An inflatable air cell pressure transducer. The air cell has a concavity formed therein. The concavity has two edges, wherein increased pressure within the air cell causes contraction of the concavity moving the two edges closer. ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6752764 | Pocket sphygmomanometer A sphygmomanometer with an air reservoir connected above a tube for a mercury column and a selectively openable and closeable valve to the air reservoir. With the valve open, first blood pressure measurements can be made by pressure rising in the mercury reservoir. ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6413224 | Blood pressure measuring apparatus An apparatus for measuring a blood pressure of a living subject, including a blood pressure measuring device which measures a blood pressure value of the subject, a first memory which stores a plurality of blood pressure values measured by the blood press... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6332869 | Superior-and-inferior-limb blood-pressure index measuring apparatus An apparatus for measuring a superior-and-inferior-limb blood-pressure ("BP") index of a living subject, including an inferior-limb BP measuring device which includes a first inflatable cuff adapted to be wound around an inferior limb of the subject and w... | 12/25/2001 |
| 5632278 | Device for automatically measuring the blood pressure A blood pressure measuring device comprises a sphygmomanometer cuff, a pressure generation device, a pressure sensor, a valve for controllably venting the cuff, and a control unit for controlling the valve. In order to achieve, using only one single valve... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5201320 | Blood pressure measuring device In combination with a conventional sphygmomanometer, a solenoid, an air release valve connected to the solenoid for the release of air from the cuff bladder of the sphygmomanometer, a pressure transducer for determining air pressure in the cuff bladder an... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5172697 | Cuff inflation system A cuff-inflation system for inflating a blood pressure cuff is provided with an activating and control assembly. The activating and control assembly includes a first connector port with an attached internal tube and a second connector port with an attache... | 12/22/1992 |
| 4942879 | Mercury sphygmomanometer A mercury sphygmomanometer has an air pump connected to the top of a mercury passage through a tube so that the pump is activated in response to an operation of closing a cover. Accordingly, it is possible to return the mercury left in the mercury passage... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4919142 | Mechanism for opening and closing mercury sphygmomanometer A mechanism for opening and closing a mercury sphygmomanometer having a set of blood pressure measuring means mounted on the inner side of a cover pivotally attached to a casing and a lever actuated in response to an operation of pivoting the cover such t... | 04/24/1990 |
