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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128024 | TEMPERATURE MEASURING DEVICE In order to improve precision in measuring a deep body temperature by suppressing a heat flux in a plane direction while achieving satisfactory contact between a temperature sensing element and a skin, there is provided a temperature measuring device (1) includin... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120068609 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE In a light source device for combining light waves with at least three wavelengths and outputting thus combined light waves, an optical system element and an electrical system element are formed on a semiconductor substrate, thereby eliminating the necessity of optical ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120045619 | SUBSTRATE PROVIDED WITH OPTICAL STRUCTURE AND OPTICAL ELEMENT USING THE SAME The present invention provides a substrate provided with an optical structure which can correctly transfer the jagged shape of a mold and guarantee a lens surface that has favorable quality, and provides an optical element which uses such a substrate. A manufacturing me... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20110182082 | LASER LIGHT SOURCE A laser light source includes a laser element that outputs a fundamental wave; a wavelength conversion element to which the fundamental wave is input and that wavelength-converts at least a portion of the input fundamental wave to a converted wave having a wavelength sh... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181678 | THERMAL PRINTING MECHANISM, THERMAL PRINTER, AND THERMAL PRINTING METHOD A thermal printing mechanism includes a head unit having a heating element; an energizing unit that energizes the heating element; and an energizing control unit that controls the energizing unit to energize the heating element for a total energization time set accordin... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110173364 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE An electronic device includes a first opening disposed in a casing; a power source connector disposed opposing the first opening and to which a detachable power supply plug that supplies power from a power supply unit is attached; a second opening disposed in the casing... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110164913 | PRINTER APPARATUS A printing apparatus 100 includes a detecting unit, which detects that a core part at a center portion of a recording medium 202, in a rolled state, has reached a predetermined position accompanying the consumption of the recording medium 202 in a r... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110122481 | INTEGRATED DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD An integrated device includes an optical element and an electrical element that are implemented on a substrate. The optical element and the electrical element are bonded by surface-activated bonding technology to a bonding portion that is formed on the substrate and mad... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110090557 | LASER SOURCE A laser source includes a laser device configured to emit laser light at a given angle with respect to a normal of an output end face; and an optical device configured to include an optical waveguide that guides and outputs the laser light. The output end face of the la... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20100310294 | NEAR-END OF ROLL DETECTING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING NEAR-END OF ROLL OF RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PRINTER To improve precision in identifying the amount that remains of a recording medium, an apparatus includes a paper holder that supports an outer circumferential surface of a recording medium that is biased downward in a vertical direction by the weight of the recording me... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100284194 | LENS MEMBER AND OPTICAL UNIT USING SAID LENS MEMBER A plate-shaped lens member has concentric annular prisms each including an inner annular surface divided from a light-entrance surface of a conventional TIR lens and an outer annular surface divided from a light-reflection surface of the TIR lens in which the light-entr... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100247221 | PRINTER A printer includes a fixed blade attached to a cover unit; a movable blade that faces a fixed blade, freely reciprocates relative to the fixed blade when the cover unit is closed and cuts the recording medium together with the fixed blade by overlapping the fixed blade ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100247217 | PRINTER A recording medium accommodating unit 301 that accommodates a recording medium 202 wound in a roll includes a first detecting unit that detects that a core part in the center of the recording medium 202 has reached a predetermined position in conseq... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100247215 | NEAR-END OF ROLL DETECTING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING NEAR-END OF ROLL OF RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PRINTER A printer includes a recording medium accommodating unit that holds an outer circumferential portion of a recording medium wound in a roll, a printing unit that prints on the recording medium fed from the recording medium accommodating unit, a first detecting lever that... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100231817 | PHASE MODULATOR AND OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE An optical modulator 100 includes an input unit 110, a splitter unit 120, a first waveguide 131, a second waveguide 132, a directional coupler unit 140, a first output unit 151, a second output unit 152, a first li... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100225641 | FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL DRIVING METHOD AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE The present invention relates to a method for driving a ferroelectric liquid crystal panel. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a ferroelectric liquid crystal panel having a ferroelectric liquid crystal provided between a pair of ... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100214521 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL PRODUCTION METHOD An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal panel wherein provisions are made to effectively prevent the infiltration of gas from an end portion of a liquid crystal cell or from areas near cut portions of the liquid crystal cell, and a method for f... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100018250 | Decorative Article Having a White Coating A personal ornament having an ornament base article made of a metal or the like; an underlayer, preferably nickel-free, formed on the base article; and a coloring layer constituted of an abrasion-resistant layer of 0.2-1.5 μm thick formed by dry-plating on the surface ... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100007640 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE A scanning electrode driving circuit (32) and a signal electrode driving circuit (31) of a driving circuit (30) applies, to scanning electrodes of a liquid crystal panel with a memory effect (40), a scanning voltage (TPV) in a voltage wavefor... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090324448 | CASSETTE AND MEASURING APPARATUS An object of the invention is to provide a cassette and a measuring apparatus that can filter a sample for the optical measurement of an optically active substance and clean a sample flow channel by using a simple configuration. More specifically, the invention is direc... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090297246 | PRINTER The present invention provides a printer that prints on a rolled recording paper, cuts the printed recording paper to a predetermined length, and ejects the cut recording paper. The printer includes storage means 30b that stores a print status wherein, at ... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090268566 | Instrument Display Board and Process for Producing Instrument Display Board [Problem] An instrument display board is provided which does not need troublesome work for preparing plural plate members, can adopt a great variety of designs, can present a stereoscopic feeling and a high-class feeling, brings about unprecedented color tone variation,... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090232574 | PRINTER A printer, which prints by repeatedly reciprocating a rolled recording paper and ejects a printed recording paper, has therein a recording paper storage unit in which the recording paper is temporarily stored. The recording paper storage unit has a configuration formed ... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090198367 | Work Machining Apparatus Control Program and Work Machining Apparatus Control Device For Executing The Control Program A control system is provided for each pair of a work fixing part and a work machining part. In each control system, a work receiving program block, a work machining program block and a work discharge program block are provided, and the work machining program block start... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090156948 | HEART RATE METER AND HEART BEAT DETECTING METHOD A heart rate meter includes a heart beat detecting unit for detecting a heart beat waveform of a living body and a signal processor 4 for detecting a heart beat from the heart beat waveform. The signal processor 4 includes a heart beat signal generating pr... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090129210 | Display Plate for Solar Cell Apparatus and Method of Producing Display Plate for Solar Cell Apparatus A display plate for a solar cell device provided with a solar cell on the bottom surface side includes a light transmission substrate, a light transmission reflecting plate that is disposed on the bottom surface side of the light transmission substrate, and a decorative... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090087634 | Golden Ornament and Process for Producing the Same A golden ornament includes a base material; a Ti coating film which is formed on a surface of the base material in an atmosphere of an inert gas other than nitrogen and whose Ti atom content is constant in the thickness direction; a TiN gradient coating film which is fo... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090021766 | PRINT SYSTEM A print system is provided that has a plurality of printer units for print processing on a print medium basis and that ejects printed materials, printed by the plurality of printer units, according to a pre-set order. Each printer unit includes peak current calculation ... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090002331 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE A liquid crystal display panel having a liquid crystal between two flexible substrates, a light guide sheet of a lighting device capable of emitting lights of a plurality of colors to illuminate the liquid crystal display panel, and a switch sheet which senses a press t... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080244629 | MEDIUM IDENTIFICATION DEVICE According to the present invention, during identification of recording medium type, positioning of a recording medium at a measurement position for measuring the recording medium is facilitated, and the number of sensors for measuring the recording medium is reduced. In... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080243011 | BLOOD PRESSURE MONITOR The blood pressure monitor 100 includes plural case members 111 to 116 that are rotatably connected with one another to form a housing unit housing a cuff. The plural case members 111 to 116 are connected with plural torque hinges 1... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080100789 | DISPLAY DEVICE The present invention provides a laminated liquid crystal display device having a configuration in which substrates for both panels can be electrically connected easily. The display device, which is implemented by multiple-layered liquid crystal cell panels configured b... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080056767 | IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD When forming an image by developing a color development layer that reacts to a light, the image formation processes (color development, color erasure, and/or fixing) that can be performed simultaneously with information recording are performed in the same period as that... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080010389 | Communications device, method for communications control, and printer comprising this communications device A communications buffer and control unit that configure a USB connection endpoint are provided connected by a USB bus to a host device. The control unit changes the receive buffer size of a receive buffer where the communications buffer stores receive data, based on an ... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20070268417 | Automatic focusing apparatus Predetermined voltage is applied to a liquid crystal lens by a liquid crystal lens driver. Image signals are generated based on an optical image passed through the liquid crystal lens during transient response operation caused by application of the predetermined voltage... | 11/22/2007 |
