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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154280 | Thin film lamination, thin film magnetic sensor using the thin film lamination and method for manufacturing the thin film lamination Relating to a thin film lamination and a thin film magnetic sensor using the thin film lamination and a method for manufacturing the thin film lamination that realizes a thin film conducting layer having high electron mobility and sheet resistance as an InAsSb opera... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8114248 | Roll-to-roll method and system for micro-replication of a pattern of large relief three-dimensional microstructures A method and system referred to as PALM (Patterning by Adhesive of Large Relief Three-Dimensional Microstructures) with large reliefs exceeding 1 μm and being as large as 100 μm. The microstructures can be either deterministic (such as microprisms), or random (suc... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8101252 | Air bag An air bag which is light and pliable to be compactly housed and excellent in durability against a load applied thereto, upon the actuation of air bag, and long term aging, which is formed of two woven fabrics interwoven with each other to be a bag-shaped body, each... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099282 | Voice conversion system A voice conversion training system, voice conversion system, voice conversion client-server system, and program that realize voice conversion to be performed with low load of training are provided. In a server 10, an intermediate conversion function ge... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8097311 | Seamless master and method of making same Hollow, cylindrical, seamless metal master for producing seamless diffuser sheets of preselected length and width. Additional aspects of the invention include a hollow cylindrical seamless invertible elastomeric master and method of making the same and an apparatus ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8033705 | Backlight assembly with thin film light pipe A backlight assembly is provided. The backlight assembly includes a light pipe assembly having a thickness of about 90 microns, a light source and a coupler that receives light from the light source and diffuses the received light from the light source into the firs... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7939101 | Cellulose powder Cellulose powder having an especially excellent balance among moldability, fluidity and disintegrating property is provided. Cellulose powder having an average polymerization degree of 150-450, an average L/D (the ratio of the major axis to the minor axis) value of ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7926995 | Backlight assembly with thin film light pipe A backlight assembly is provided. The backlight assembly includes a light pipe assembly having a thickness of about 90 microns, a light source and a coupler that receives light from the light source and diffuses the received light from the light source into the firs... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7846614 | Electrode for solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell An electrode for solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell comprising a catalyst layer comprising at least electrocatalyst particles (3), a supporting substance therefor (4) and proton-conductive polymers (1) and (2), wherein the proton-conduct... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7863408 | Body fluid compatible and biocompatible resin A body fluid compatible and biocompatible resin for use in a medical treatment involving a contact of said resin with at least one member selected from the group consisting of a body fluid and a biological tissue, which comprises at least one substituted oxyalkylene... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7838461 | Catalyst for exhaust gas purification A mesoporous catalyst for purifying lean burn NOx emission including a mesoporous material, which substantially has pores with a diameter of 2 to 50 nm and a specific surface area of 100 to 1,400 m2/g, selected from the group consisting of mesoporous sili... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7767721 | Copper oxide ultrafine particles A soft agglomerate of copper oxide ultrafine particles which has an average primary particle diameter of not more than 100 nm and an average secondary particle diameter of not less than 0.2 μm and of producing the soft agglomerate by (1) forming ultrafine co... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7700199 | Seamless master and method of making same Hollow, cylindrical, seamless metal master for producing seamless diffuser sheets of preselected length and width. Additional aspects of the invention include a hollow cylindrical seamless invertable elastomeric master and method of making the same and an apparatus ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7674401 | Method of producing a thin conductive metal film The present invention relates to a metal oxide dispersion, which can form a metal thin film onto a substrate by heat treatment at a low temperature, wherein a metal oxide having a particle diameter of less than 200 nm is dispersed in the dispersion medium. By heat t... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7645838 | Conjugated non-aromatic diene or dienophilic compound-modified polyphenylene ethers A modified polyphenylene ether resin is provided which is a product of the reaction of 100 parts by weight of (A) a polyphenylene ether having a main chain structure of the following formula (1): (wherein R1 and ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7625760 | Analyzing cartridge and liquid feed control device An analyzing cartridge and method for using it to analyze a sample having a plurality of reservoirs and capillaries connected for communication between these reservoirs and is provided therein with a reagent required for analysis. The reservoirs are provided with op... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7615347 | Method for trapping nucleic acids using divalent metal ions A method for trapping nucleic acids on a surface of a solid phase substrate, which comprises the step of contacting a sample containing nucleic acids and having a pH of 12 or higher with the surface of the solid phase substrate on which divalent metal ions are immob... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7579385 | Dried porous crumbs of hydrogenated block copolymer Disclosed are dried porous crumbs of a hydrogenated block copolymer which is obtained by hydrogenating a block copolymer comprising (a) at least one polymer block composed mainly of aromatic vinyl monomer units and (b) at least one polymer block composed mainly of c... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7548651 | Data process unit and data process unit control program To provide a data process unit and data process unit control program that are suitable for generating acoustic models for unspecified speakers taking distribution of diversifying feature parameters into consideration under such specific conditions as the type of spe... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7544379 | Composite containing fine cellulose A fine-cellulose-containing complex comprising 60 to 80 wt % of fine cellulose, 2 to 12 wt % of locust bean gum, 0.5 to 8 wt % of xanthan gum and 0 to 37.5 wt % of a hydrophilic material(s), the complex being a powder wherein the average particle size of particles f... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7531495 | Cleaning agent, cleaning method and cleaning apparatus A cleaning agent or a rinsing agent having no flash point which comprises a chlorine-free fluorine-containing compound having a vapor pressure at 20° C. of 1.33×103 Pa or more and one or more components having a vapor pressure at 20° C. less than 1.33Ã... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7498463 | Oxide catalyst for oxidation or ammoxidation Disclosed is an oxide catalyst for use in catalytic oxidation or ammoxidation of propane or isobutane in the gaseous phase, which comprises a composition represented by the Mo1VaSbbNbcZdOn (wherein: Z... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7491771 | Olefinic rubber composition A process for producing a partially or completely crosslinked olefinic rubber composition which comprises (A) 1 to 99 parts by weight of an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer having ethylene units and C3-C20 α-olefin units, and (B) 1 to 99 parts by ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7488776 | Thermoplastic crosslinked rubber composition A thermoplastic crosslinked rubber composition comprising (A) from 1 to 99 parts by weight of a hydrogenated rubber obtained by hydrogenating not less than 50% of total double bonds of at least one homopolymer rubber of a conjugated diene type monomer or a random co... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7487091 | Speech recognition device for recognizing a word sequence using a switching speech model network A speech recognition device which can preferably be used for reducing the memory capacity required for speaker-independent speech recognition is provided. A matching unit loads speech models belonging to a first speech model network and a garbage model in a RAM, and... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7485720 | Cellulose-type material A spherical cellulose material wherein the cellulose material is a water-insoluble polysaccharide formed by β-1,4-type sugar chain linkages, the degree of crystallinity is 70% or greater, and macrofibrils are formed radially from the center to the periphery. ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7485696 | Oxytetramethylene glycol copolymer and method for producing the same Disclosed is an oxytetramethylene glycol copolymer, which is obtained by copolymerizing tetrahydrofuran and neopentyl glycol and which has a specific number average molecular weight Mn, a specific molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn, a specific neopentyl glycol copo... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7478363 | Method for translating a given source program into an object program containing computing expressions A compiler capable of facilitating calculation description in a source program and simplifying the source program description so as to reduce generation of bugs in calculation according to the block floating method by software. When a source program is given with de... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7473748 | Vinyl monomer with superacid ester group and polymer of the same A superacidic ester group is useful in the production of ionomers for polymer electrolyte fuel cells. A polymer is produced from said vinyl monomer. A process produces a polymer containing a superacidic group. The vinyl monomer contains a haloalkyl ester group of a ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7440891 | Speech processing method and apparatus for improving speech quality and speech recognition performance A speech processing apparatus which, in the process of performing echo canceling by using a pseudo acoustic echo signal, continuously uses an impulse response used for the previous frame as an impulse response to generate the pseudo acoustic echo signal when a voice... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7425455 | Biosensor, magnetic molecule measurement device A biosensor not requiring washing of an unbonded label molecular by analyzing an object to be measured such as an antigen, an antibody, a DNA, and an RNA through magnetic field sensing. The biosensor is small in size, low in price, and high in sensing accuracy. Semi... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7378541 | Oxide catalyst for oxidation or ammoxidation Disclosed is an oxide catalyst for use in catalytic oxidation or ammoxidation of propane or isobutane in the gaseous phase, which comprises a composition represented by the Mo1VaSbbNbcZdOn (wherein: Z... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7364628 | Solid material for magnet A solid material for a magnet, comprising a rare-earth/iron/nitrogen/hydrogen system magnetic material. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7323512 | Styrene copolymer composition Disclosed is a styrene copolymer composition having: (I) a styrene/n-butyl acrylate copolymer having styrene monomer units and n-butyl acrylate monomer units in a ratio from 80/20 to 89/11, and (II) a block copolymer having a block configuration having (A) at least ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7282534 | Polyphenylene ether resin composition A resin composition comprising a polyphenylene ether produced by polymerizing a monomer component consisting of 100 parts by weight of 2,6-dimethylphenol and 0.5 to 7.5 parts by weight of o-cresol in the presence of both a catalyst and an oxygen-containing gas and a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7282554 | Low molecular weight polyphenylene ether A low molecular weight polyphenylene ether having a reduced viscosity of 0.04 to 0.18 dl/g as measured at 30° C. in a 0.5 g/dl chloroform solution, and a molecular weight distribution of 1.5 to 2.5; or a low molecular weight polyphenylene ether powder comprising th... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272561 | Speech recognition device and speech recognition method Each word to be recognized is represented by gender-specific hidden Markov models that are stored in a ROM 6 along with output probability functions and preset transition probabilities. A speech recognizer 4 determines an occurrence probability of a fe... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257559 | Material sales system A computer (10) of a material supply company calculates a sales price of a material according to a state of production of a product, which is produced using a material supplied from the material supply company, and informs a computer (30) of a result o... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253265 | Antibody and a method for producing an antibody that specifically binds to a full length amino acid sequence of human Delta-1 An antibody and a method for producing an antibody that specifically binds to a full length amino acid sequence of human Delta-1. ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247678 | Rubbery polymer composition A vulcanized rubbery polymer composition comprising a component (A) and a thermoplastic resin (B), wherein the component (A) comprises a hydrogenated copolymer (A-1), which is obtained by hydrogenating a copolymer comprising a conjugated diene monomer unit and an ar... | 07/24/2007 |
