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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7963451 | Antenna unit and noncontact IC tag An antenna unit by which a noncontact IC tag having different resonance frequencies can be easily manufactured, and the noncontact IC tag are provided. An antenna unit has an impedance matching wiring portion and an antenna, in which when an IC chip is electrically ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7944448 | Apparatus and method for socially intelligent virtual entity An agent that receives an input event and outputs Emotion_Response messages based on personality trait indices and emotional state indices is disclosed. The agent has a social response generator that receives an input event, an output from an emotional state registe... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943413 | Vibration sensor and method for manufacturing the vibration sensor A method for manufacturing a vibration sensor including forming a sacrifice layer at one part of a front surface of a semiconductor substrate of monocrystalline silicon with a material isotropically etched by an etchant for etching the semiconductor substrate, formi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7532637 | Synchronous controller A synchronous controller is formed with a cycle master module and one or more control modules doubly connected through a synchronous bus and an event bus. The event bus is used for transmitting data with a larger volume. The control modules each cyclically carry out... | 05/12/2009 |
| D592031 | Portable electric screwdriver | 05/12/2009 |
| 7526193 | Object determining device and imaging apparatus Face detection is executed only on an image imaged based on an arbitrary (predetermined) focal point information defined in advance. In face detection, the face of a person is detected based on a relative value of statistics in a plurality of characteristic regions ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522747 | Vehicle detection apparatus and method A front-going vehicle is recognized by using a camera image from a camera for monitoring the front of one's own vehicle and detection data from a radar for detecting position of an object in front of one's own vehicle and distance to this object. A front-going vehic... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7512260 | Substrate inspection method and apparatus Preparation steps are taken before a substrate with components is inspected and a whole image of a standard substrate is prepared preliminarily and inspection areas are determined for target portions to be inspected on this whole image. At the time of the inspection... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7510337 | Optical transmission component and production method thereof An aspect according to the invention provides a method of producing an optical transmission component in which peel-off and a bubble are not generated within a keeping temperature range in a bonding agent with which a space between an optical function portion and an... | 03/31/2009 |
| D589465 | Handy switch | 03/31/2009 |
| D589464 | Handy switch | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509440 | Programmable controller and communication unit therefor A programmable controller includes a CPU unit, a communication unit and peripheral units connected together through an internal bus. The communication unit has a bus master function, including a cache memory for recording IO data stored in the memory of an input-out... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508306 | Handheld RFID reader with display A handy terminal allowing an object of interest such as a cargo to be efficiently searched utilizing an RFID tag is provided. A detection unit detects the distance and direction of an RFID tag attached to an object of search from a point for observing the distance a... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508150 | Electric motor controller The rotational speed of a motor is detected, and stored in a rotational speed memory. The difference between the present rotational speed output and each of plural past rotational speeds stored in the rotational speed memory is calculated in a plural difference calc... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7507011 | Surface light source equipment and apparatus using the same A surface light source equipment includes a light source and a light conductive plate having a light outgoing surface from which a light introduced from the light source outgoes. The light conductive plate is configured so tat the outgoing light is spread across sub... | 03/24/2009 |
| D589207 | Light guiding member | 03/24/2009 |
| 7505875 | Monitor system, and monitor device and data collecting device therefor A monitor system is formed with a programmable controller for executing a user program, a data collecting unit connected to the programmable controller for collecting variable data of the programmable controller and a monitor device connected to the data collecting ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505149 | Apparatus for surface inspection and method and apparatus for inspecting substrate A target object has its surface condition inspected by having its image taken from above while being irradiated by red, green and blue light beams at different elevation angles. An inspection area is set on the image and a direction is extracted on the image in whic... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504597 | Key switch A key switch has a switch part and an operating part. The switch part is activated to switch contact points as an operating key is inserted. The operating part includes a driver cam that rotates as it is pushed by the operating key and to activate the switch part an... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7503684 | Planar light source and image display A plane source of light (back light) of the type of emitting light from both surfaces featuring a good light utilization efficiency and without permitting the external light to transmit through a display device even when it is combined with display panels of the tra... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7501241 | Method of transcribing biomolecular patterns, method of manufacturing chip boards, and method of manufacturing biochips A method of mass-producing minute structures such as biochips, protein chips, quantum dots, and quantum chips involves arranging an antigen two-dimensionally on a board and arranging probes two-dimensionally facing the same direction so that the binding sites of the... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7498912 | Electromagnetic relay It is intended to provide an electromagnetic relay which resolves problems of large base size and difference in spring constant. In a facing gap defined between a pair of electromagnet units disposed on a base in parallel to each other and with shaft lines being ori... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7497697 | PCB connector including plug and socket contacts for easy positioning A connector includes a socket in which first contacts are provided parallel to an opening edge portion and a plug which has a flat shape capable of fitting in the opening edge portion of the socket. The plug includes second contacts provided parallel to positions co... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496266 | Film waveguide, method of manufacturing film waveguide, and electronic device A method of manufacturing a film waveguide includes supplying a precursor consisting of monomer or oligomer of an elastomer having a flexural modulus after curing smaller than or equal to 1,000 MPa to a substrate; pressing a stamper on the precursor of the elastomer... | 02/24/2009 |
| D581367 | Contact for plug | 11/25/2008 |
| 7450406 | Power supply arrangement A power supply arrangement (1) has a first input for connecting to a first power source, at least one second input for connecting to at least one second power source and an output for connecting to a load. The arrangement (1) comprises at least two par... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7440594 | Face identification device and face identification method The present invention is to protect the right of portrait or privacy of people other than a specific person, and to enable easy recognition of information other than the face of the specific person and the situation around the specific person. Images videotaped by t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433676 | Charging method for use in service providing system, program, and storage medium When a service providing server receives, from a mobile phone or the like owned by a user, a request to modify a parameter defining the performance of a control device provided in an automobile, the service providing server transmits a requested modification command... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430906 | Pneumatic tire having accommodation tool of electronic component A pneumatic tire (1) has a tire cavity surface (HS) to which an accommodation tool (11) for accommodating an electronic component is bonded. The accommodation tool (11) includes an accommodation space (10) for accommodating an electronic ... | 10/07/2008 |
| D576613 | Antenna | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419101 | Physical distribution management apparatus, physical distribution management pallet and physical distribution management system The physical distribution management apparatus comprises a non-contact communication section for communicating out of contact with a non-contact IC tag, an information acquisition section for acquiring the information concerning a situation where it is placed, a con... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7411364 | Window opening and closing controller A window opening and closing controller for stably detecting jamming without having any influence on jamming load even when power voltage is changed is to be provided. In a window opening and closing controller for detecting jamming of a foreign substance on the bas... | 08/12/2008 |
| D574737 | Image analyzer | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409152 | Three-dimensional image processing apparatus, optical axis adjusting method, and optical axis adjustment supporting method The present invention provides a technique for enabling even a person having no expert knowledge to adjust the direction of an optical axis easily with high precision. In a three-dimensional image processing apparatus having plural image capturing apparatuses, optic... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404522 | Information carrier, information recording medium, sensor, commodity management method An information carrier in which the substrate, having a signal-forming portion for forming signals corresponding to specific information, is attached to a base material having a transfer portion for transferring signals. The specific information is recognized using ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7399108 | Light emitting source and a light emitting source array On the rear surface of a transparent molded unit is provided a reflecting member. In a central part of the molded unit are encapsulated light emitting devices. In the vicinity of the central part of the reflecting member is formed a reflecting area that is angularly... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7387420 | Surface light source device A surface light source device has a light-conductor plate operable to conduct light inside and allows the light to exit at a light-exit surface to outside, a light source that is small compared to a width of the light-conductor plate, having a first surface arranged... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7371000 | Surface light source equipment and apparatus using the same A light emission part in the form of a point light source composed of LED, etc., and a light conductive plate, and the light emission part is arranged in opposition to a light incident surface of the light conductive plate. First diffusion patterns and second diffus... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369328 | Optical path change type optical coupling element A resin molding body has two faces (front face 15 and lower face 19) perpendicular to each other, and also has a total reflecting face 23 approximately having an angle of 45° with respect to these two faces. Plural collimating lenses 16 ... | 05/06/2008 |
| D568242 | Power supply | 05/06/2008 |
