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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 |
| 7066078 | Piston for internal combustion engine By casting a preformed member composed of a fiber reinforced material into a base material of a piston, a pair of crown reinforcing portions corresponding to respective pin boss portions are formed on a crown portion, and the pair of crown reinforcing portions are c... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6240828 | Piston of internal combustion engine A piston of an internal combustion engine, comprises a skirt portion in sliding-contact with a cylinder wall, an inner crown-plus-boss portion having a crown portion and piston-pin boss portions, and a stay portion interconnecting the skirt portion and th... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6112802 | Process for producing an intermetallic join The aim is to improve the strength of an intermetallic bond between engine component made from an aluminium alloy and a reinforcing element made from austenitic cast iron. For that purpose, the reinforcing element is annealed in a decarbonising atmosphere... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5251540 | Piston having an aperture with an insert secured therein A piston, e.g. for an internal combustion engine, comprises a crown (16) and a skirt (12). The skirt (12) has an aperture (22) in which an insert (14) of a different material from the remainder of the skirt is secured. The insert (14) may be of plastics m... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5158008 | Light plunger piston for internal combustion engines A piston having a head with ring grooves, a skirt having hub bores, and a pin, with the following dimensions: L/D=0.45-0.8 H/D=0.25-0.5 A/D=0.3-0.5 T/D=0.45-0.8 where L=maxium length of the piston D=maximum diameter of the piston H=compression height A=maximum skir... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5054375 | Piston for internal combustion engine A piston comprises a crown part, a piston under part, a first shoulder at a thrust side formed between the crown part and the piston under part, a second shoulder at an anti-thrust side formed between the crown part and the piston under part, a first in-l... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5048398 | Single, light-weight and low friction light-metal piston for internal-combustion engines The technical problem is to reduce the operating noise of such a piston. It is solved by means of a piston having the following dimensions: a) A=(0.45-0.65) D; b) H=(0.25-0.4) D; c) A=(0.3-0.4) D; d) A greater than or equal to B; e) T=(0.45-0.8) D; f) the... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4890543 | Light metal piston for internal combustion engines and method of making the same A light metal piston for internal combustion engines has a pair of inserts on the inside of upper piston skirt made of a material of lower thermal expansion coefficient than that of the light metal, such as steel. Each insert has a pair of bands which are... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4887519 | Expansion-controlled light alloy piston In expansion-controlled light alloy pistons for internal combustion engines, expansion control elements made of steel are bonded to the carrying portions of the cast skirt on the inside peripheral surface thereof and are embedded in the hubs of the piston... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4730548 | Light metal alloy piston A light metal alloy cast piston comprises a thermal strut provided in the shoulder portion of the piston skirt. The thermal strut is composed of a fiber reinforced metal portion containing high tensile strength fibers integrally molded in the matrix metal... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4669366 | Aluminum plunger piston with thermal expansion regulating strip, for internal combustion engines In a plunger piston for internal combustion engines, having a regulating strip in the piston body, the regulating strip is arranged in the axial middle third of the height of the piston body and the regulating effect is designed so that the piston body po... | 06/02/1987 |
