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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120083409 | TIO2 NANOPARTICLES Disclosed is a TiO2 nano particle exhibiting a strongly activated catalyst function. The TiO2 nano particle is created by a step of mixing Ti powder and metal powder M (M is Ni, Cr, Pt, Rh, Ru or Cu), a step of generating heat plasma, and a step of... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069723 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM DRIVE DEVICE AND RECORDING METHOD An optical recording medium drive device including: a combining prism for combining a recording first laser beam emitted from a first light source with a recording second laser beam emitted from the first light source so as to coaxially guide them; an objective lens for... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20110158078 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND FOCUS JUMP METHOD In an optical pickup device and a method of a focus jump, in order to make optimum correction of spherical aberration responsive to the position of a recording layer at one end nearer a target recording layer than a current in-focus recording layer, the recording layer ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110069859 | SPEAKER DEVICE A flat speaker device capable of emitting loud reproduced sound with a relatively simple configuration is provided. The speaker device includes a diaphragm, a frame supporting the diaphragm vibratably in the vibration direction, a magnetic circuit disposed in the frame,... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110033070 | SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OTHERS A sound image localization processing apparatus is provided, in which a surround system is realized by a front speaker with a simple signal process, and the same side localization effect can be given to a plurality of listeners. A sound ima... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110013798 | SPEAKER FRAME AND SPEAKER HAVING THE SAME A speaker frame, including: a vibration support portion supporting a vibrating body of a speaker; a magnet support portion arranged inside of said vibration support portion and supporting a magnetic circuit portion of said speaker; and a plurality of connection beams co... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100309759 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD, RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE AND RECORD CARRIER A recording and reproducing method for recording and/or reproducing information from a record carrier that comprises a plurality of recording layers layered in its film thickness direction and a guide layer having a plurality of tracks carrying tracking servo informatio... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100243992 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE [Problem to be Solved by the Invention] An organic electroluminescence device having a longer drive life is provided. [Means for Solving the Problem] An organic electroluminescence device comprises, between a pair of electrodes composed of ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100238775 | RECORDING MEDIUM REPRODUCING DEVICE, A METHOD FOR REPRODUCING A RECORDING MEDIUM, A PROGRAM FOR REPRODUCING A RECORDING MEDIUM, AND A RECORDING MEDIUM Problems In a recording medium such as DVD, for example, when groups having the same title or the same song and different numbers of channels are recorded, all the groups are reproduced, further, when a DVD author mistakes, contents which are not needed to be reproduced... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100231234 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DIRECTION OF POLARIZATION OF FERROELECTRIC MATERIAL A device for detecting polarization direction of a ferroelectric is provided. From a measurement signal provided through a probe disposed in contact with or near the surface of a ferroelectric, a demodulation means generates a detection signal having a signal level corr... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100228863 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND ITS CONTROL METHOD A content distribution system in which, when it is detected that an incommunicable area is present in a moving direction of a client terminal, the client terminal transmits a change request signal, requesting an increase of the confirmation interval of a keep-alive sign... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100220576 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCTION DEVICE The present invention makes possible a compact optical pickup device that eliminates effects due to the position where a sub beam is projected during tracking compensation, and provides for stable tracking compensation. A diffraction gratin... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220569 | FINAL AREA RETRIEVING APPARATUS, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, FINAL AREA RETRIEVING METHOD, AND FINAL AREA RETRIEVING PROGRAM A final area retrieving apparatus, an information reproducing apparatus, a final area retrieving method, and a final area retrieving program are provided, which are capable of decreasing a period of time necessary for acquiring information necessary for reproduction of ... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100211857 | ERROR CORRECTION DECODING DEVICE AND REPRODUCTION DEVICE A decoding device which performs error correction decoding of encoded data formed from a combination of an outer code for first error correction and an inner code for second error correction is disclosed. The decoding device has: a demodulator for creating a data series... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100208934 | SPEAKER DEVICE Objects are to make a speaker device smaller than heretofore in size, in profile, and in weight, and to reproduce sound in high quality. The speaker device includes: a diaphragm which has an inner rim connected to a voice coil bobbin and an outer rim connected to a fram... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100195863 | SPEAKER A speaker having a drive cone and a diaphragm which can deal with higher output. The speaker comprises a frame, a magnetic circuit section, and a vibrating section. The magnetic circuit section is fixed to the frame. The vibrating section is housed in the frame and incl... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100189415 | RECORDING MEDIUM REPRODUCING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING METHOD [Problems] An object of the present invention is to perform switching of audio and subtitle and so on automatically or by simple operation when a recording medium such as a DVD, on which a plurality of streams of audio and subtitle are recorded, is reproduced. | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100187516 | ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE An organic semiconductor device of preventing invasion of hydrogen or hydrogen ion into the device and having a long-term reliability, and a method of manufacturing thereof are provided by giving a hydrogen absorbing layer which absorbs hydrogen or hydrogen ion, and whi... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100177619 | PICKUP DEVICE A pickup device which, focusing a ray bundle on a track of a recording surface of an optical recording medium to form a light spot, comprises a detection optical system including a photo detector to receive return light reflected from the light spot via an objective len... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100172222 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, SERVO ADJUSTING METHOD, AND THE LIKE The present invention provides an information processing apparatus, a servo adjustment method, and the like realizing reduced time required for servo adjustment. An information reproducing apparatus according to the present invention is for... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100166906 | INPRINT EQUIPMENT An imprinting apparatus which includes a mold having a recess/protrusion pattern formed on a surface thereof and a pressure-applying piston that makes the mold and a transfer substrate having a transfer layer thereon come into close contact and that applies pressure to ... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100141646 | ACTIVE MATRIX DISPLAY DEVICE A display device that includes: first and second drive circuits which are provided in each of the plurality of pixels, and connected to a scanning line and a data line of the display panel, to drive the display element; a scan driver which sequentially scans each scanni... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100128333 | HOLOGRAM RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SYSTEM A hologram recording and reproducing system for recording information to or reproducing information from a recording medium which stores an optical interference pattern of a reference beam and a signal beam as a diffraction grating, the system comprising: a light source... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100116122 | HARMONIC SOUND GENERATOR AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING HARMONIC SOUND Problems To provide a harmonic sound generator and a method for generating harmonic sound so as to obtain frequency components of non-integer multiples shifted back and forth from the frequencies of odd multiples and even multiples with a simple configuration. | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100105994 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASURING APPARATUS There is provided a biological information measuring apparatus, which permits to release constriction of capillary vessels a human body to provide stable measurement results of biological information and a proper S/N ratio. The biological information measuring apparatus... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100087717 | BIO-INFORMATION MEASURING APPARATUS A bio-information measuring apparatus is provided, which suppresses pressure on a capillary vessel of body, stabilizes a measuring result of bio-information, and obtains a good S/N ratio. In an bio-information measuring apparatus 1 i... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100087032 | METHOD FOR PATTERNING OF ORGANIC FILM A main subject is to provide a novel method for patterning of organic film which is suitable for manufacturing various organic devices. In a method for patterning of an organic film formed at a prescribed region, an organic covering layer f... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100084578 | ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND STAGE MECHANISM THEREOF A stage mechanism which comprises a positioning mechanism including a rotating stage and a linear movement stage, the positioning mechanism being housed in a vacuum chamber, and pipes leading from the outside of the vacuum chamber to the positioning mechanism. In the va... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100072665 | THERMAL IMPRINTING DEVICE AND THERMAL IMPRINTING METHOD A thermal imprinting device, including: a mold on the surface of which is formed a concavity and convexity pattern to be formed in a transfer layer; a pressing mechanism which brings the mold into close contact with the transfer layer and performs pressing; and a pair o... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100063817 | ACOUSTIC MODEL REGISTRATION APPARATUS, TALKER RECOGNITION APPARATUS, ACOUSTIC MODEL REGISTRATION METHOD AND ACOUSTIC MODEL REGISTRATION PROCESSING PROGRAM An acoustic model registration apparatus, an talker recognition apparatus, an acoustic model registration method and an acoustic model registration processing program, each of which prevents certainly an acoustic model having a low recognition capability for talker from... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100027975 | PLAYBACK DEVICE AND PLAYBACK SYSTEM The present invention enables to limit playback of content recorded on a recording medium without fail. A playback system includes a recording medium 11 containing a plurality of pieces of actual data to play back a corresponding plurality of pieces of content, a... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100012620 | WET-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF FABRICATING DISPLAY PANEL The wet-processing apparatus includes a wet-step bath in which a wet-step is carried out, and a vibration-type film separator for separating impurities out of a solution used in the wet-step. The wet-processing apparatus further includes a re-supply path through which t... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090317066 | CONTENT PURCHASING AND DISTRIBUTING METHOD The content reproducing apparatus (100) includes an acquiring unit (101), a requesting unit (102), and an accepting unit (103). The acquiring unit (101) acquires information concerning purchase target content. The requesting unit (1... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090316558 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL DEMODULATION METHOD, TWO-DIMENSIONAL DEMODULATION APPARATUS AND HOLOGRAPHIC APPARATUS A two-dimensional demodulation method for reproducing a data page by means of decision feedback Viterbi detection processing from a recording medium on which a data page has been recorded as a set of a plurality of two-dimensional modulation pattern symbols each of whic... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090315043 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING TRANSISTOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE An organic light-emitting transistor having a source electrode layer; a drain electrode layer facing the source electrode layer; an organic light-emitting layer formed between the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer; a semiconductor layer formed between... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090311815 | MULTI-WAVELENGTH INTEGRATED SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME An object is to provide a multi-wavelength integrated semiconductor laser device which can reduce variations in emission point distance, can be formed by simplified manufacturing processes, and can provide improve electric characteristics. ... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090310466 | OBJECTIVE LENS DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD FOR THE SAME [Problems] In an objective lens driving device used for an optical disc and the like, a moving speed of the objective lens is changed corresponding to amount of vertical deviation of the optical disc, and when the vertical deviation is small, time for aligning the focus... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090305033 | FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME A highly transparent fiber composite material is provided that can be manufactured through a simplified process using reduced amounts of raw materials and that has high flexibility and low thermal expansivity and retains good functionality of the fiber material. The fib... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090279406 | HOLOGRAM RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SYSTEM A hologram recording and reproducing system for recording or reproducing information to or from a hologram record carrier that stores an optical interference pattern of a reference beam and a signal beam therein as a diffraction grating, includes: light producing means ... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090274307 | AUDIO SYSTEM Disclosed is an audio system including a group of loudspeakers that form a sound field by delivering into a single space sound signals passed through respective ones of a plurality of sound signal channels. This audio system is comprised of two characteristic-variable e... | 11/05/2009 |
