Abstract: The present invention relates to retroreflective elements and retroreflective articles such as pavement markings comprising retroreflective elements, methods of making retroreflective elements, and laminates.

Abstract: The present invention relates to retroreflective elements and retroreflective articles such as pavement markings comprising retroreflective elements, methods of making retroreflective elements, and laminates.

Abstract: The present invention relates to retroreflective elements and retroreflective articles such as pavement markings comprising retroreflective elements, methods of making retroreflective elements, and laminates.

Abstract: A hermetically sealed implantable medical device is provided with a multi-pin arrangement including selected glass to metal or ceramic to metal seals for a feedthrough of the compression seal or matched seal type.

Abstract: A hermetically sealed implantable medical device is provided with a multi-pin arrangement including selected glass to metal or ceramic to metal seals for a feedthrough of the compression seal or matched seal type.

Abstract: A hermetic, leak-proof, corrosion resistant electrical feedthrough especially for use with implantable pulse generators. The feedthrough includes a titanium or niobium ferrule, an alumina insulator with a niobium braze area thereon positioned within the ferrule and sealed to the ferrule by a braze of gold at the braze area, electrical lead wires of niobium, tantalum, tungsten, molybdenum or alloys thereof extending through corresponding openings in the insulator, and a body of fusible glass joining and sealing each lead wire to the insulator.

Abstract: The present invention describes a pre-treated recording media capable of receiving a high resolution aqueous-based ink jet printed layer as well as a method of preparing the same, wherein the method comprises the steps of: printing a recording media with an oil-based printing ink; drying the oil-based ink layer; coating over the oil-based ink layer with a water-soluble adhesive-like substance; drying the coating of adhesive-like substance; ink jet printing an aqueous-based ink layer onto the adhesive-like substance; and, drying the aqueous-based ink jet printed layer.

Abstract: A modified chess game which can be played by two, three or four players simultaneously. The game apparatus includes a chess board, four different colored sets of chess pieces and four strategy blinders. The chess board has 100 squares and is divided into four colored sections which match the colors of the chess sets. Each section includes 25 squares, 9 alternating black and white squares along its frontier borders and 16 alternating colored and white squares in its interior. At the corner of each section are four gold stars in four squares. Along the outer borders of the sections are colored numbers which match the color of the sections to which they adjoin.Each set of chess pieces includes 16 conventional chess pieces. They are positioned on the inner 16 squares of the corresponding colored sections by a player in accordance with the strategy agreed on beforehand. All of the chess pieces, except the pawns, are moved as in conventional chess.