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Vancouver, Wash., Inventor Finally Finds Success with High-Tech Thermometer.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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March 21, 2002
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By Mike Rogoway, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 21--In 1989, Vancouver inventor Ray Dils took the temperature of his business and concluded it was stone cold.
Dils had invented a high-tech thermometer for use in the semiconductor industry. But the thermometers sold poorly, so Dils sold his company and gave up.
Six years later, a group of Japanese investors talked Dils into trying again. They felt the market had heated up in the intervening years, and helped him start a new Vancouver company, called Sekidenko.
"They convinced me that this time it would work, and this time they were correct," Dils said. The thermometers ...