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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 |
| 8140176 | Electronic component mounting system and electronic component mounting method In an electronic component mounting system constituted by interconnecting a plurality of mounting apparatuses, a board ID code attached by digital data to the board is read in a board supply apparatus located in the uppermost stream and transmitted to the mounting a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8086341 | Control system and method for a modular manufacturing chain A control system for a manufacturing chain having a plurality of modular manufacturing stations positioned in series includes a memory for storing a plurality of unique operation patterns thereon. The control system also includes at least one communications conduit ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7962236 | Method and apparatus for downloading data from a machine A device for downloading data from a machine having a touch screen or PLC to govern its operation, the device includes a handheld control unit that is operably associated with the touch screen or PLC such that the touch screen or PLC can be downloaded from the touch... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953511 | System and method for reducing processing errors during wafer fabrication employing a 2D wafer scribe and monitoring system A system and method is disclosed for reducing processing errors during the fabrication of integrated circuit wafers. A 2D dot matrix wafer scribe that contains coded information is placed on a wafer. The coded information contains wafer information such as the wafer... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953510 | System and method for semiconductor identification chip read out A system and method for semiconductor identification chip read out is presented. A user uses a stand-alone handheld device to extract product data, which includes manufacturing process attributes, from a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device couples to the ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945346 | Module identification method and system for path connectivity in modular systems A configurable self-identifying workpiece transport system is described for moving an associated workpiece relative to a plurality of associated workpiece functional units selectively performing operations on the associated workpiece. The transport system includes a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7860598 | Method, device, computer system and computer program product for controlling a material flow In a method for controlling material flow in production, or a consumable or replacement part maintenance, of a product comprised of a plurality of individual parts, the individual parts are delivered to a goods receipt of a logistic system, a transponder being assoc... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7698013 | Parts production management system and parts production management method A parts production management system includes: a first table in which a line cycle number representing a line cycle that is a process unit for processing a group of parts and a parent lot number of a part input for being processed in a line cycle represented by the ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7684889 | Cigarette production and packaging unit and method and device for control thereof A production and packaging installation with a control arrangement (33) and production units having respectively adjustable mechanisms, such as, a (cigarette-) production machine (maker 10), a packaging machine (packer 11), possibly a film-wrapp... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7657338 | Automation system with a connected sensor or actuator The invention relates to an automation system with a control unit, to which at least one sensor or actuator is connected. To connect it to the control unit, the sensor or actuator is connected to the connector which features an RFID chip with relevant data of the se... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653454 | Electronic parts installation device and cassette control device A cassette control device by which high-speed processing can be expected even by using an arithmetical unit with current processing capability, even when the number of cassettes increases simultaneously with an increase in the number of nozzles which can suck electr... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7489981 | Assembly line control system and immobilizer data protocol and communication process flow A method and related apparatus are disclosed of guaranteeing VIN registration to a vehicle's ECU. A vehicle identifier is entered into a production control system connected to a network. The entered vehicle identifier is compared with an expected vehicle identifier.... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7437212 | Location based programming and data management in an automated environment A method and system for providing information related to a set of automated resources that may cooperate in an environment to perform an automated process, the method comprising the steps of associating a specific environment location with the automated process, det... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7379788 | Manufactured article treatment processing system A manufactured article treatment processing method and system includes reading out from a manufactured article being subjected to treatment information of component parts of the article and specific properties of the component parts, extraction of the component part... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7367117 | Electronic component mounting apparatus and electronic component mounting method The invention prevents mismounting of an electronic component caused by missetting of a component feeding unit in an apparatus. A recognition process of an electronic component is performed according to component library data stored in a RAM. According to “normalâ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366338 | Automated document processing system using full image scanning A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past a full image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366580 | Production line control using shift registers for contact lens manufacture A method for controlling a production line for the manufacture and/or packaging of contact lenses which production line simultaneous by processes at least two lots, the method comprising dividing at least a portion of the production line into a series of cells throu... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362891 | Automated document processing system using full image scanning A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past an image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359870 | System design, proposal and programming method and apparatus A technique is provided or integrating system design, sales, and manufacturing functions. Systems including networked and programmable electrical components, such as motor control centers, and other electrical power control arrangements are designed, and a database ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359074 | Image forming apparatus associating with other apparatuses through network In an image forming apparatus, screen information for displaying a plurality of function options available for a predetermined process is generated. A screen generating program and option information showing the plurality of function options is transmitted in respon... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7346973 | Processing cell of automatic machining system and automatic honing system A processing cell of automatic machining system configured in that it is easy to decide or change the number of steps and to design, and to reduce the installation cost. The control unit of the processing cell comprises an operation data storing means for storing ev... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346410 | Method and system for manufacturing electronic device, electronic device, and electro-optical apparatus A system for manufacturing an electronic device having a processing unit which includes a timer that processes a plurality of lots each having a plurality of work pieces and measuring in units of lots a processing time of the work pieces constituting the respective ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340319 | Method and system for maintaining an aircraft engine A computerized method of assisting the routing of a part, comprising the steps of: providing at least one computer; receiving part identifier information; and generating a tag for affixing to the part. The tag has information thereon responsive to the identifier inf... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334205 | Optimization of die placement on wafers A method of optimizing production of semiconductor devices on a wafer comprises steps of characterizing at least one effect of at least one manufacturing component on at least one optimization criterion; inputting user optimization data; and, based on the at least o... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333873 | Method and device for providing cards to be applied to a carrier A method and a device for providing cards for processing first cause a drawing of a card from at least one card magazine. The cards are arranged in a plurality of card magazines and may be drawn from the same, and information regarding their card type is further ass... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324905 | Apparatus, system and method for automating an interactive inspection process An apparatus, system and method to automate an interactive quality control inspection process. The apparatus may query a user for a response to an audit question integral to a quality control inspection process, such as, for example, a regulatory compliance question... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319912 | Management system for semiconductor manufacturing equipment A management system for semiconductor manufacturing equipment in a manufacturing facility is provided. The system includes a host computer communicating with a tracking server, the tracking server communicating with a wireless network adapted to communicate with a r... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317962 | Methods and apparatus for managing information related to recyclable containers Methods and apparatus are provided for managing information related to recyclable containers. In one embodiment, an assembly is provided which comprises an intake port, a plurality of densification devices each configured to density a recyclable container, a compute... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314403 | Apparatus and method for fabricating liquid crystal display panel An apparatus and method for fabricating a liquid crystal display panel are disclosed. In case of the single mode that liquid crystal display panels are fabricated with the same size on a large glass substrate, unit liquid crystal display panels are kept and discarde... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7294039 | Polishing system with in-line and in-situ metrology A computer-implemented method for process control in chemical mechanical polishing in which an initial pre-polishing thickness of a substrate is measured at a metrology station, a parameter of an endpoint algorithm is determined from the initial thickness of the sub... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293705 | Radio frequency identification method and system of distributing products A method and system for vending products from a defined area, such as a micro-warehouse with a door. The method includes fitting each product with a radio frequency identification tag, positioning the plurality of products in a micro-warehouse, sensing opening and c... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7281107 | Storage system, data migration managing system, and data migration managing method A data migration management system for preventing alteration such as rewriting or deletion, and migrating data between storage systems during an alteration prevention term. This data migration management system copies data from a logical device of a source storage s... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277769 | Production system and method for a composite product To provide a production system which is constituted by a plurality of production facilities forming a production line, in which a work in process undergoes a plurality of processes to be completed as a product, and in which occurrence of a product defect or malfunct... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7258276 | Radio frequency identification method and system of distributing products A method and system for vending products from a defined area, such as a micro-warehouse with a door. The method includes fitting each product with a radio frequency identification tag, positioning the plurality of products in a micro-warehouse, sensing opening and c... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7249998 | Method for processing poultry A method is described for processing poultry, comprising the steps of supplying live poultry, stunning the live poultry in a stunning device, placing the stunned poultry into product carriers advanced along a conveyor, killing the poultry and removing the feathers f... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249356 | Methods and structure for batch processing event history processing and viewing A batch event historian gathers, stores and presents data regarding a batch process where relationships among the various elements of data are automatically derived by an executive program. A persistent store includes structure corresponding to the relationships def... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245980 | Method and apparatus for calculation of production quantities A method and apparatus calculates production quantities of a production system such as the throughput of a tool group, good unit equivalents of a tool group, number of units shipped and started for each step of the production system, process time of each step, avera... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245760 | Robot for making an interface surface A robot for marking an interface surface is provided. The interface surface has coded data identifying a plurality of locations on the interface surface printed thereon. The robot comprises: an image sensor for sensing at least some of the coded data; a processor fo... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239934 | System and method for delivering writing data of a semiconductor device and fabricating a semiconductor device A design system for delivering data via a network to a plant, which fabricates a semiconductor device by direct writing, includes: a data conversion unit generating the data specified by a product name of the semiconductor device, a layer name, and a machine type of... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7226349 | Process to electronically automate the sorting of chicken feet in the category of edible or inedible Photoelectric and inductive sensors are placed along a picking and eviscerating chicken lines. The sensors detect the location of a chicken bird in a shackle and its associated feet, also in a shackle. The sensors communicate this information to a programmable logic... | 06/05/2007 |
