3M employee and church chorister Art Fry needed something to temporarily mark pages in his hymnal. He was in luck because his colleague, Spencer Silver, accidentally developed a glue that was too weak for other purposes. After initially discouraging consumer response, Post-it Notes became a hit in 1979.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100138091 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ENERGY FEEDBACK FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for controlling energy feedback for electric vehicles. The method includes: acquiring an accelerator-pedal travel value, a brake-pedal travel value and a current vehicle speed value; determining whether the brake-p... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100082189 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ACCELERATOR FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES The present invention provides an apparatus and method for controlling an accelerator for electric vehicles. The method comprises steps of: acquiring an actual accelerator pedal depth value and a current vehicle speed; determining a maximum output torque of motor under ... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100057284 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MOTOR FOR SKID MODE OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for controlling a motor for an electric vehicle. The method and apparatus calculates the current acceleration a of the motor according to the detected rotor position values in real-time, and if the current accelerat... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100004808 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING OUTPUT TORQUE OF A MOTOR FOR AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE IN DOWNHILL MODE A method and an apparatus for controlling output torque of a motor for an electric vehicle in downhill mode comprises following steps: detecting a tilt angle value θ, a current vehicle speed value V and an accelerator-pedal travel value Gain of the vehicle, determining... | 01/07/2010 |