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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D658766 | Portion of an ultrasonic diagnosis device | 05/01/2012 |
| D658666 | Recording medium | 05/01/2012 |
| D658606 | Portion of a light-emitting diode | 05/01/2012 |
| 8159221 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method using SSFP having non-zero first moment gradients within the repetition time A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a data acquisition unit and an image generating unit. The data acquisition unit acquires MR data according to an imaging condition for obtaining a SSFP in flowing matter by applying excitation pulses having a same flip... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158472 | Structures of SRAM bit cells A SRAM bit cell and an associated method of producing the SRAM bit cell with improved performance and stability is provided. In one configuration, channel mobility of the transistors within the SRAM bit cell may be adjusted to provide improved stability. In order to... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154587 | Apparatus and method of displaying the three-dimensional image A three-dimensional image display apparatus displays element images each composed of a set of parallax component images. An exit pupil array is located opposite the display surface. Exit pupils of the array correspond to the respective element images. The horizontal... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148981 | MRI apparatus and MRI method for SSFP with center frequency and 1st order gradient moments zeroed A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an input unit, a data acquisition unit and an image generating unit. The input unit inputs information indicating a matter of which resonance frequency is a center frequency of an excitation pulse. The data acquisition... | 04/03/2012 |
| D656114 | Television receiver | 03/20/2012 |
| D656110 | Light-emitting diode | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131338 | MR imaging providing tissue/blood contrast image A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes an ECG detector for the patient object being imaged and an element for performing an MRI pulse sequence. An imaging unit defined by the pulse sequence is longer in temporal length than one heart beat represented by ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126237 | Magnetic resonance imaging and correcting device An image data correcting device has a movement information acquiring section, a correcting section and a synthesizing section. The movement information acquiring section acquires movement information showing a spatial distribution of the magnitude of a movement in t... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125222 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and scanning-condition creating method A storage unit stores a parameter list that defines a method of creating scanning conditions for a preparation scan from scanning conditions set for a main scan, with respect to each type of scanning. A scanning-condition edit/scan positioning unit receives an opera... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111070 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an imaging condition acquisition unit and an imaging unit. The imaging condition acquisition unit acquires at least one of optimum amplitude and optimum phase of a radio frequency transmission signal so as to reduce a ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110874 | Hybrid substrates and method of manufacture A hybrid substrate circuit on a common substrate is disclosed. A first circuit formed in a first semiconductor material is isolated via a buried oxide layer from a second circuit formed in a second semiconductor material. The first and second circuits may include CM... | 02/07/2012 |
| D652396 | Television receiver | 01/17/2012 |
| D652393 | Remote controller | 01/17/2012 |
| 8080997 | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus and method for reduced eddy current generation in the imaged object An MRI apparatus and method reduces eddy currents generated by changing gradient magnetic fields used to image an object. Positioning image data from a pilot imaging mode is used to set reference imaging conditions for a subsequent actual diagnostic imaging mode use... | 12/20/2011 |
| D650763 | Television receiver | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077955 | B1 mapping in MRI system using k-space spatial frequency domain filtering Frequency filtering of spatially modulated or “tagged” MRI data in the spatial frequency k-space domain with subsequent 2DFT to the spatial domain and pixel-by-pixel arithmetic calculations provide robust ratio values that can be subjected to inverse trigonometr... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077871 | Content processing apparatus and encryption processing method A content processing apparatus includes a read unit which reads encrypted key information from a recording medium, a decryption unit which decrypts the encrypted key information with a device key and dynamic information to obtain key information containing content k... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8076935 | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using SPIR and/or chess suppression pulses A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an imaging condition setting unit and an image data acquisition unit. The imaging condition setting unit sets an imaging condition applying first and second suppression pulses of which at least ones of types, center fr... | 12/13/2011 |
| D650346 | Television receiver | 12/13/2011 |
| D649964 | Portion of an electronic computer | 12/06/2011 |
| D649942 | Light-emitting diode | 12/06/2011 |
| D649128 | Television receiver | 11/22/2011 |
| 8040682 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device comprises: a plurality of semiconductor chip; a socket; and a mounting board equipped with the socket. Each of the semiconductor chips has a major surface, a back surface and a plurality of connection terminals on the major surface. The socket... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036021 | Semiconductor memory device A memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells arranged at intersections of bit line pairs and word lines. Each memory cell includes a first transistor having one main electrode connected to a first bit line, a second transistor having one main electrode c... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035385 | MRI system and RF coil with enhanced cooling in vicinty of included circuit elements When an RF coil in a magnetic resonance imaging system includes a plurality of conductive members and circuit elements connected to the conductive members, at least part of each of the conductive members is formed to a thickness so as to dissipate heat generated fro... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035380 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and image data generating method Some of plural coil elements or the sections which have received magnetic resonance image signals associated with first image data are determined to be target coil elements or target coil sections. Second image data is generated by combining a plurality of pieces of... | 10/11/2011 |
| D646312 | 3D glass | 10/04/2011 |
| D646244 | Television receiver | 10/04/2011 |
| D646243 | Television receiver | 10/04/2011 |
| D646242 | Television receiver | 10/04/2011 |
| D645401 | Display apparatus for photovoltaic power generation | 09/20/2011 |
| 8008918 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and scanning-condition setting method A Signal-to-Noise (SN) ratio maintained scanning-condition recalculating unit re-sets a value of a scanning parameter other than an SN ratio included in scanning conditions when the size of a Field Of View (FOV) to be set for a scan is changed, so as to make the SN ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8008915 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a data acquisition unit and an image generating unit. The data acquisition unit acquires echo signals by echo planar imaging which generates the echo signals by applying plural phase-encoding gradient magnetic field pu... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8008829 | Armature for a rotating electrical machine In an armature, the upper and lower coil pieces in one half of the parallel circuits are located at the 1st, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 12th and 14th positions, and the upper and lower coil pieces in remaining half of the parallel circuits are located at the 2nd, 3rd, 5th,... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004035 | Dual stress liner device and method A dual stress liner manufacturing method and device is described. Overlapping stress liner layers of opposite effect (e.g., tensile versus compression) may be deposited over portions of the device, and the uppermost overlapping layer may be polished down in a proces... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990142 | MRI apparatus generating deformed binomial pulse waveforms based on flip angle An MRI apparatus has a waveform setting unit, an applying control unit, a reconstructing unit, and a display control unit. The waveform setting unit sets an asymmetric RF pulse Waveform. The applying control unit controls an application of a pulse in accordance with... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990140 | MRI apparatus A flip-angle calculating unit calculates a flip angle of a fat-suppression pulse by inputting scanning parameters read from a scanning-parameter storage unit based on scanning conditions set by a scan-condition setting unit and a desired fat-suppression level, into ... | 08/02/2011 |
