Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6696140 | Anti-glare film and process for producing same thereof Disclosed are an antiglare film having a high level of anti-scintillation properties, high sharpness of transmitted images, high light transmittance (total light transmittance), and a high level of external light reflection preventive properties, and a pr... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6692879 | Thermal transfer recording material There is provided a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which has dyeability high enough to realize high-speed printing and low-energy printing, permits a protective layer to be thermally transferred onto an image formed on the thermal transfer image-r... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6690441 | Multi-domain vertical alignment mode liquid crystal display having spacers formed over zigzag like alignment-controlling projection Disclosed herein is a multi-domain vertical alignment (MVA) mode liquid crystal display that can be produced with high reliability, that is free from lowering of luminance to be caused by disclination lines and that can display an image with high contrast... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6690405 | Thermal transfer printer, thermal transfer recording method and thermal transfer recording web roll A thermal transfer printer includes a thermal transfer recording web roll having a bore and obtained by rolling a thermal transfer web. The segment of the thermal transfer recording web forming the innermost layer of the thermal transfer recording web rol... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6682594 | Coating composition and use thereof A process for making a functional film by adding a magnesium alkoxide and a diethanolamine, which can dissolve or disperse the magnesium alkoxide, in an organic solvent followed by allowing hydrolysis of the magnesium alkoxide to proceed in a rate-control... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6677703 | Cover plate for display device, method of making the same, display device and reflection reducing structure A cover plate covering a display panel of a display device has a transparent base having a surface facing the display panel and provided with reflection-reducing minute irregularities. The reflection-reducing minute irregularities consist of numerous proj... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6673399 | Heat transfer white-image-printing sheet A heat transfer white-image-printing sheet comprising a substrate film, and a white ink layer comprising a resin as a main component of the binder thereof and fine hollow particles, provided on one surface of the substrate film. This printing sheet can pr... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6657649 | Method for image formation and intermediate transfer recording medium for use in the same The present invention to provide an intermediate transfer recording medium and a method for image formation using the same which, can prepare an object having whole plane image with no blank in the edge of the print, and can yield a thermally transferred ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6656985 | Coloring material and color filter There are provided a pigment-containing coloring material stably dispersible in a high concentration in various organic solvents, and a process for producing the same. The production process of the coloring material is characterized by comprising the step... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6656881 | Thermal Transfer image-receiving sheet The present invention is directed to the provision of a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which, even when used with various printers, can be carried with improved accuracy, can form color images without misregistration, and does not permit traces of... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6656546 | Transfer sheet, method of manufacturing the same and transfer printing method A transfer sheet comprises a base sheet, a thermal transfer layer having a plurality of YMC transfer region sets, each transfer region set having a plurality of transfer regions with functions different from each other, and identification marks formed in ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6650047 | Electroluminescent device and process for producing the same An EL device comprising a first electrode, an EL layer formed on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the EL layer, wherein at least one layer of a material whose wettability changes when light is applied thereto is formed. The invention ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6649004 | Optical disk, method of forming image on optical disk, image forming apparatus and adhesive layer transfer sheet An image forming method for forming an image on an optical disk includes forming the image on an intermediate transfer medium or on an image receptive layer separably formed on one surface of the intermediate transfer medium. The intermediate transfer med... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6648621 | Apparatus for forming pattern onto article during injection molding In the method, after the pattern-bearing film is fed to the female mold, the distal end of the film is fixed under a lower portion of the female mold, and at the same time the film is retreated by a force from the film supply portion. Thus, this tightens ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6644554 | IC card A use information judging means compares use information recorded in use information recording means with a predetermined condition value to judge whether or not the use information agrees with the predetermined condition value. When the use information j... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6639725 | Protective, diffusive film and process for producing the same There is provided a protective, diffusive film for use in a surface light source device provided with a lens film, said protective, diffusive film comprising: a transparent substrate layer; and a resin layer provided on the top surface and the under surfa... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6638606 | Hardcoat film A hardcoat for a plastic substrate film is provided which has good suitability for printing and satisfactory hardness, can prevent influence of the deformation of a plastic substrate film from extending to the hardcoat, and is resistant to cracking and pe... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6634564 | Contact/noncontact type data carrier module A contact/noncontact data carrier module applicable to a wide variety of purposes, and capable of satisfactorily meeting conditions on security. The contact/noncontact data carrier module includes a base member; a semiconductor chip mounted on the base me... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6632538 | Sheet for cell and cell device A battery packet (50) comprises a battery case (51) formed by processing a battery case forming laminated sheet (10), a battery 50a contained in the battery case (51), and tabs (59, 60) extending outside from the battery case (51). The battery case formin... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6624861 | Color filter subject to impurity extraction treatment and liquid crystal display device having high voltage holding ratio Disclosed are a color filter, which can prevent, on a higher level, a liquid crystal layer from being contaminated with ionic materials, and a liquid crystal display device having improved display quality. The color filter comprises at least a substrate a... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6623325 | Method of forming ribs of plasma display panel and rear plate unit of plasma display panel This invention is a method of forming ribs of a plasma display panel by transfer-printing a glass paste on a glass substrate. The method comprises; forming a recess having a configuration corresponding to ribs arranged in parallel with each other and a jo... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6620765 | Thermal transfer image-receiving sheet A thermal transfer image-receiving sheet is provided which, when a protective layer is formed by thermal transfer on an image formed of a chelated dye, can provide excellent adhesion of the protective layer onto the image and can realize good image qualit... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6616993 | Protective layer transfer sheet The present invention provides a protective layer transfer sheet which, when used to thermally transfer a protective layer onto an image-receiving sheet with an image formed thereon, provides a print that does not cause cracking of the protective layer an... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6617094 | Laser-marking laminated structure and laser-marked laminated structure A laser-marking laminated structure has at least a base layer (2), a masking layer (3) capable of being removed by irradiation with a laser beam, and an OP layer (4) formed in that order on a support element (1). The base layer and the masking layer are c... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6244442 | Package, method of manufacturing the package and packet of the package A package (10) has blisters (11) each having an embossed hollow (12) with an open end, for containing a tablet (15), and a flange (13) extending around the open end of the embossed hollow (12). The flanges (13) of the blisters (11) are bonded to a coverin... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6013602 | Thermal transfer image-receiving sheet A thermal transfer image-receiving sheet is provided which does not cause destruction of a heat-insulating, porous layer at the time of formation of a dye-receptive layer, has no fear of the dye-receptive layer being separated, and in addition can produce... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6013603 | Image-receiving sheet An image-receiving sheet having an opaque detection mark formed by coating a resin varnish comprising a resin, a low-boiling good solvent, and a high-boiling poor solvent, the detection mark being rendered transparent upon heating, the resin comprising a ... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5687001 | Halftone image ion printer The invention makes it possible to drive a halftone image device and achieve high halftone reproduction by allowing at least one of the leading and trailing edges of a pulse width-modulated signal applied to a recording head, or forming amplitude- and wid... | 11/11/1997 |
| 4136224 | Decorative laminated structures and method of making the same A decorative laminated structure having on its surface a pattern composed of concaves and convexes which are formed by local heat shrinkages of a layer of a heat-shrinkable resin sheet employed. Such decorative laminated structure can be obtained by layin... | 01/23/1979 |