3m Innovative Properties Company

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Innovative Properties Company

Ching-Long Tsai

Chester Piotrowski

Edward D Goff

Norman L Koning

Rita M Lunderville

John G Fitzgerald

Bernard A Gonzalez

Richard J Scherer

Craig S Chamberlain

Walton J Hammar

Rocky D Edwards

Steven A Neu

Gerald L Karel

Robert A Sainati

Dan L Fanselow

James G Vana, Jr

Daryl D Dressler

Charlotte M Palmgren

Jon M Nornberg

John W Benedict

Mark T Palmer

Raymond L Ferguson

John H Ko

Robert Travis Smith

Duane T Smith

Lester B Odegaard

Kirk A Halliburton

A flat electrical cable is described. The cable includes a plurality of equally spaced substantially parallel electrical conductors lying in a same plane and extending along the length of the cable. Each conductor has a same diameter D. The cable further includes a common unitary electrically insulating layer encapsulating the plurality of conductors. The insulating layer includes a plurality of cover portions where each cover portion is concentric with a corresponding conductor and has a radial thickness t. t/D is in a range from about 0.50 to about 1.25.

Electrical cable

Antenna shelf tape is disclosed for use with items having radio frequency identification elements or tags associated with items of interest.

Application for a radio frequency identification system

A combination tag is disclosed, including a magnetically-responsive element and a radio frequency-responsive element. In one embodiment, the magnetically-responsive element also functions as an antenna for the radio frequency-responsive element.

Identification tag with enhanced security

An electronic article surveillance marker is disclosed, including a signal producing layer and a signal blocking layer. The signal producing layer includes flux collection portions joined by magnetic switching sections each having a major axis A, and the signal blocking layer comprises signal blocking elements overlying each flux collection portion. The elements each have at least one boundary that overlies a magnetic switching section and preferably has a tangent T that is not perpendicular to the major axis A of that magnetic switching section. Methods of making the inventive marker are also disclosed.

Electronic article surveillance markers for optically recorded media

A furcation apparatus for a multi-conductor cable of the type having reinforcing fibers for longitudinal strength. The furcation apparatus includes a furcation spacer having a plurality of passages extending through an interior of the furcation spacer from a first end to a second end. Each passage is of a size sufficient to receive a furcation tube having reinforcing fibers, and each furcation tube is of a size sufficient to receive one of the plurality of conductors of the cable. The furcation tube reinforcing fibers approach the furcation spacer from the second end and are anchored adjacent the first end, and the cable reinforcing fibers approach the furcation spacer from the first end and are anchored adjacent the second end, such that tensioning the furcation tube reinforcing fibers and cable reinforcing fibers places the furcation spacer under compressive stress.

Furcation apparatus for optical fibers

An Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) marker is adapted for direct application to optically recorded media such as compact disks, CD-ROM's, laser disks, digital video disks, and the like. The marker includes a support sheet and one or more marker elements which are positioned such that the mass distribution of the marker is symmetrically disposed about the center of the marker. This ensures that when the marker is properly positioned on the optically recorded media, the marker does not adversely affect the mechanical balance of the media.

Electronic article surveillance markers for direct application to

Multilayered film and film based assembly which are environmentally-compatible, and which exhibit one or more desirable characteristics of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) film and film based assemblies, such as clarity, flexibility and toughness, but without the environmental and health hazards associated with PVC materials, are provided. Also provided is a method of preparing such film and film based assembly.

Thermoset adhesive having susceptor particles therein

Medical device assemblies constructed from multilayered films

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Woodbury, MN, United States of America

Ching-Long Tsai