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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8158275 | Fluorine-containing compound and method for producing same, fluorine-containing polymer, organic thin film, and organic thin film device Fluorinated compounds of the invention are represented by the following general formula (I): (in formula (I), Ar1 and Ar2 each independently represent a C10 or great... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8140467 | Quantum state estimation method, quantum state estimation device and computer program A control section virtually divides a surface of an adsorbing material into a plurality of regions (cells) in accordance with a computer program. Further, the control section-allocates a normal distribution function to each of the divided cells, and sets a linear co... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137964 | Method of producing three-dimensional tissue and method of producing extracellular matrix used in the same The present invention provides a novel method of producing a three-dimensional tissue by which cell lamination can be carried out easily. According to the method, a three-dimensional tissue in which cell layers are laminated with an extracellular matrix intervening ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8123856 | Method and apparatus for producing group III nitride based compound semiconductor In the flux method, a source nitrogen gas is sufficiently heated before feeding to an Na—Ga mixture. The apparatus of the invention is provided for producing a group III nitride based compound semiconductor. The apparatus includes a reactor which maintains ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8089222 | Fast electromagnet device A fast electromagnet device (140) receives a high voltage from a pulse power supply through a coaxial cable and excites an electromagnet at high speed, so as to bend a charged particle beam. The fast electromagnet device (140) includes a kicker magnet ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8068523 | Laser gain medium and laser oscillator using the same A laser gain medium includes an optical medium configured to transmit a laser beam and having an incident face, a first face, a second face opposing to the first face; and gain media configured to amplify the laser beam while reflecting the laser beam. At least one ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8055135 | Dispersion compensator, and dispersion compensating method A dispersion compensator (10) that compensates dispersion occurring in an optical pulse includes a spatial filter (100) from which a pulsed light having a single peak is emitted as an autocorrelation light when a light having a strong correlation with ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8038047 | Method for welding metal material Metallic materials having a melting point of at least 2000° C. are caused to abut against each other in a welding part. The rear face side of the welding part is covered by a backing member having a thermal conductivity of 30 W/mK or lower, and then a columnar prob... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8017119 | Antibody against periostin, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising it for preventing or treating a disease in which periostin is involved The present invention provides an antibody against a periostin isoform having anti-cell adhesive activity, especially an anti-periostin antibody having the ability to neutralize anti-cell adhesive properties, as well as a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for perios... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8005279 | Capsule endoscope image display controller The present invention discloses a capsule endoscope image display controller (26) including: an image-to-image similarity calculating unit (36) that calculates, for each image included in an image sequence captured by a capsule endoscope which moves wi... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8003781 | Composition for suppressing the expression of fucosyltransferase Disclosed is a means for reducing the expression amount of a FUT8 gene, reducing the expression amount of a FUT8 protein, and/or reducing the expression amount of a product produced by the action of FUT8. ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8003607 | HGF precursor protein variant and active protein thereof An HGF precursor protein variant, in which a peptide structure comprises a sequence including a peptide chain X inserted between an α chain of HGF or a polypeptide where 1 to 20 amino-acid residues from the C-terminus of the α chain are deleted, and a β chain of ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7989588 | Cell permeable peptide The number of peptides having an ability to bind to a cell or penetrate into a cell is narrowed down by being selectively enriched from a random peptide library with a diversity of not less than one hundred millions of peptides using a phage surface display techniqu... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7977486 | Quinolinium ion derivatives, process for the production of the derivatives, products made by using the same, and reduction and oxidation methods with the derivatives An electron donor-acceptor dyad is provided that can provide a charge-separated state with longevity and not only high oxidizing power but also high reducing power. A compound of the present invention is a quinolinium ion derivative represented by the following form... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975316 | Atomic force microscope and interaction force measurement method using atomic force microscope A frequency shift Δf obtained by an FM-AFM can be expressed by a simple linear coupling of a ΔfLR derived from a long-range interaction force and a ΔfSR derived from a short-range interaction force. Given this factor,... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7959729 | Method for producing group-III-element nitride single crystals and apparatus used therein A production method is provided in which Group-III-element nitride single crystals that have a lower dislocation density and a uniform thickness and are transparent, high quality, large, and bulk crystals can be produced with a high yield. The method for producing G... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7952915 | Core-rotating element of ferromagnetic dot and information memory element using the core of ferromagnetic dot A novel element capable of simply controlling an in-plane rotational motion of a core (a rising spot of a magnetization) generated in the center of a ferromagnetic dot made by forming a ferromagnetic material into a nanosized disk shape is provided. In addition, a b... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7947365 | Mesoporous thin film and method of producing the same An electroconductive porous film high in the porosity and strong in the mechanical strength is provided. A mesoporous thin film of the invention, in which a crosslinking structure having a metal phosphate (M—POx) skeleton is arranged so as to sur... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7943793 | Optically active organic acidate-bridged dinuclear platinum(II) complex The present invention is an optically active organic acidate-bridged dinuclear platinum(II) complex represented by the general formula (I): or the general formula (I′): (wherein... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7939461 | Catalyst for decomposition of formic acid, method for decomposing formic acid, process for producing hydrogen, apparatus for producing and decomposing formic acid, and method for storing and generating hydrogen A catalyst for the decomposition of formic acid including a dinuclear metal complex represented by a formula (1) below, a tautomer or stereoisomer thereof, or any of their salts, where M1 and M2 are tran... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936512 | Optical gating system using moiré effect To provide an optical gating system capable of performing single-shot, parallel, and ultrafast gating equal to or less than a subpicosecond, without depending on coherence. The optical gating system converts signal light to spatial characteristic signal light whose ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7928418 | Extreme ultra violet light source apparatus In an extreme ultra violet light source apparatus of a laser produced plasma type, charged particles such as ions emitted from plasma are promptly ejected to the outside of a chamber. The extreme ultra violet light source apparatus includes a chamber in which extrem... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7922655 | Endoscope attachment and endoscope An endoscope attachment enables an endoscope to capture images of areas in front and at the sides of the endoscope. The endoscope attachment has a transparent attaching part which is used to attach the endoscope attachment to a probe of the endoscope and has two thr... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922652 | Endoscope system An endoscope that is free from a dead area and capable of preventing the physician from overlooking any nidus is an endoscope for taking the inside of digestive organs, and the endoscope is provided with an omnidirectional camera (32), a light (34), a ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7919366 | Laser crystallization method for amorphous semiconductor thin film A laser crystallization method in which an amorphous silicon thin film 2 formed on a substrate 1 is irradiated with a laser beam, the method including the steps of providing the amorphous silicon thin film 2 with an absorbent to form an absorben... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918379 | Process for working metal material and structures In a first step, friction stir welding is performed, while supplying a filler into a joining portion, in order to prevent the coarsening of crystal grains of metal materials in a subsequent fusion processing. Then, a fusion processing such as MIG welding is performe... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7907332 | Wide-band ultrashort-pulse optical oscillator utilizing chirped pulse amplification A wide-band ultrashort-pulse optical oscillator includes: an optical amplification medium 1 that optically amplifies an incident light having a wide band or a plurality of bands so as to be converted into an oscillation light emitted from an optical resonator... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7885387 | Extreme ultraviolet light and X-ray source target and manufacturing method thereof The present invention is made to provide an extreme ultraviolet light source target or an X-ray source target having a good operationality. An extreme ultraviolet light source target in accordance with an aspect of the present invention is obtained by including a he... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7880144 | Liquid medium for preventing charge-up in electron microscope and method of observing sample using the same An object of the present invention is to provide a medium; a specimen; a method for preparing the specimen; a method for observing the specimen; a sample cell; and an electron microscope capable of easily solving the problem of charge-up and further capable of obser... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7846972 | Multimeric oleamide derivative having connexin-26 inhibiting potency and use thereof in cancer therapy, etc The present invention relates to multimeric oleamide derivatives having connexin 26 inhibitory activities and embraces the dimer oleamide derivatives represented by the following formula (1) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof: | 12/07/2010 |
| 7860577 | Intracranial electrode and method for producing same With use of three-dimensional data of a brain shape, a mold for forming a sheet-shaped structure having a three-dimensional shape of the gyrus or sulcus surface, or the interhemispheric fissure or interlobar fissure surface is formed. With use of the mold, a sheet-s... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7855790 | Dimension measuring apparatus A dimension measuring apparatus includes a light beam splitting element for splitting light emitted from a white light source into measuring light flux and reference light flux, a reference light scanning optics for varying optical path length of the reference light... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7816517 | Saccharide fluorescence labeling method and saccharide fluorescence labeling apparatus In one embodiment of the present invention, a first test tube including therein a dehydrated sample containing a sugar chain and a labeling agent solution made of 2-aminopyridine/acetic acid are stored in a well-closed container with the first test tube and the labe... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7807628 | Therapeutic agent for dentin-pulp complex regeneration The present invention provides a therapeutic agent for regenerating a dentin-pulp complex, containing a basic fibroblast growth factor and/or a homolog thereof as an active ingredient. The present invention also provides a pulp-capping agent containing a basic fibro... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7683195 | Silver β-ketocarboxylate, material comprising the same for forming silver metal, and use thereof It is an object to provide a novel material that can quickly form metal silver even at a low temperature of approximately 210° C. or less. This serves as a metal silver forming material that includes a silver β-ketocarboxylate. By heating this forming material, it... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7651625 | Catalyst-aided chemical processing method and apparatus A catalyst-aided chemical processing method can process hard-to-process materials, especially SiC, GaN, etc. whose importance as electronic device materials is increasing these days, with high processing efficiency and high precision even for a space wavelength rang... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7605371 | High-resolution high-speed terahertz spectrometer The mode-locking frequencies of two femtosecond laser light sources are controlled so that they are stabilized at high degree and the difference between the mode-locking frequencies is constant. The output of the laser light sources are used as a pumping light for g... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7597278 | Method of producing medicinal nanoparticle suspension A method of producing a medicinal nanoparticle suspension is provided, wherein a medicinal ingredient added in a suspending solution is ground to form nanoparticles of the medicinal ingredient by irradiating the suspending solution with a laser. The process is imple... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7521702 | Extreme ultraviolet light source and extreme ultraviolet light source target An object of the present invention is to provide an extreme ultraviolet light source target which can emits extreme ultraviolet light with high emission efficiency. A solid target made of heavy metal or heavy-metal compound and having a density 0.5 to 80% that of th... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7501620 | Laser irradiation mass spectrometer The present invention provides a laser irradiation mass spectrometer capable of analyzing components of living tissue or living cells with high accuracy. It includes a laser unit for irradiating a sample with a beam of laser light and controlling the irradiation spo... | 03/10/2009 |
