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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7198738 | Cesium-lithium-borate crystal and its application to frequency conversion of laser light The present invention provides a cesium-lithium-borate crystal, which can be used as a high-performance wavelength converting crystal, having a chemical composition expressed as CsLiB6O10, and substituted cesium-lithium-borate crystals expressed by the following for... | 04/03/2007 |
| 6797334 | Method for forming gas cluster and method for forming thin film In order to deopsit a high-grade and extra-thin film without causing damage to the substrate at a relatively low temperature, the present invention provides a method for forming a cluster which is a lumpy group of atoms or molecules of a reactive substance at... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6797339 | Method for forming thin film with a gas cluster ion beam A method of forming a thin film on the surface of a substrate such as silicon, in which a gas cluster (which is a massive atomic or molecular group of a reactive substance taking the gaseous form at room temperature under atmospheric pressure) is formed and then ion... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6770330 | Method for producing a continuous, large-area particle film A method of forming a particle film on a surface of a solid or liquid substrate involves contacting the substrate, in the presence of a gas, with a liquid medium containing a plurality of particles suspended therein. A liquid meniscus is thereby formed between the s... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6485721 | Biologically active substance-secreting hybrid gel The present invention provides a biologically active substance secreting hybrid gel, which consists essentially of a biopolymeric gel and cells containing an expression vector with a gene encoding the biologically active substance to produce the substance... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6333151 | Nucleic acid markers for rice blast resistance genes and rice blast resistance genes isolated by the use of these markers The present invention provides nucleic acid markers for rice blast resistance genes Pi-ta and Pi-ta2, which hybridize with any RFLP probes isolated from rice genomic DNA and are located within a distance of 2.0 cM from rice blast resistance gen... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6331454 | Atomic-level electronic network and method of fabrication An insulated lattice is prepared with a plurality of lattice oriented atoms to create a substantially planar surface having a lattice arrangement. Any unsatisfied chemical bonds are terminated along the substantially planar surface by placing atoms at the... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6296784 | Cesium-lithium-borate crystal and its application to frequency conversion of laser light The present invention provides a cesium-lithium-borate crystal, which can be used as a high-performance wavelength converting crystal, having a chemical composition expressed as CsLiB6O10, and substituted cesium-lithium-borate crystals expressed by the fo... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6020131 | Nucleic acid polymer/intercalator monolayer and methods of using and making thereof The present invention has an object to provide an easy method for detecting a nucleic acid polymer in aqueous phase. The present invention provides a method for detecting the amount of nucleic acid polymer, which comprises the steps of modifying an intercalato... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6004810 | Liver parenchymal cells having clonal growth ability, method for obtaining same, method for subculturing same, and subculturing system of primary hepatocytes The present invention provides liver parenchymal cells having a clonal growth ability, which possesses at least one of the cell biological properties such as: presence of peroxysome; being positive to hepatocyte-markers; being partially positive to neopla... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5981316 | Method of fabrication of atomic chain circuit network An insulated lattice is prepared with a plurality of lattice oriented atoms to create a substantially planar surface having a lattice arrangement. Any unsatisfied chemical bonds are terminated along the substantially planar surface by placing atoms at the... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5945176 | Graphite intercalation compound and production method thereof An onion-like graphite 2 is produced by irradiating an electron beam to an amorphous carbon 3 under an active aluminum nanoparticle 1. By further irradiating the electron beam to the onion-like graphite 2 to intercalate aluminum atoms constituting the alu... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5928866 | Method for preparing mutant genes This invention provides A method for preparing mutant genes, which comprises the steps of constructing a recombinant plasmid DNA by inserting a gene fragment into a plasmid DNA having a unidirectional origin, introducing the recombinant plasmid DNA into h... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5880100 | Method for inhibiting binding of human lens cells The present invention provide a method of inhibiting an irregular binding of human cells caused by specific adhesion of Lewisx glycolipids by administering any of an oligosaccharide having a Lewisx sugar chain structure, CMP-sialic a... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5871915 | Method for detecting nucleic acid polymer The present invention has an object to provide an easy method for detecting a nucleic acid polymer in aqueous phase. The present invention provides a method for detecting the amount of nucleic acid polymer, which comprises the steps of modifying an intercalato... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5869400 | Method for dry-etching using gaseous bismuth halide compound The present invention provides a method for dry-etching a solid surface with a gaseous bismuth halide compound, which permits achivement of a simple and perfect dry-process for manufacturing of electoric devices, quantum devices etc., giving a high reprod... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5862167 | Light-emitting semiconductor device using gallium nitride compound A light-emitting diode or laser diode is provided which uses a Group III nitride compound semiconductor satisfying the formula (Alx Ga1-x)y In1-y N, inclusive of 0ࣘxࣘ1, and 0ࣘyࣘ1. A double hetero-junctio... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5833610 | Magnetic resonance imaging of cerebral blood flow and diagnosis of diabetes A method of magnetic resonance imaging of cerebral blood flow uses a pulse sequence of a rapid gradient-echo method, wherein the pulse is an RF pulse having a slice gradient, a read gradient and a phase-encode gradient. The RF pulse is provided with a fli... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5814194 | Substrate surface treatment method Cluster particles including a plurality of molecules or atoms are prepared by a gas cluster method, are accelerated, and are then irradiated onto a diamond in a low pressure atmosphere, so that the unevenness surfaces of the diamond are smoothed with no d... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5811805 | Charged particle guide apparatus and image viewing apparatus for charged particle microscope using the same An electron-microscope image viewing apparatus capable of measuring of a moving speed or a vibration frequency of an atomic structure, a magnetic structure, an electric structure or the like of a specimen even when the structure changes at a high rate. Th... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5811974 | Tectonic activity monitoring equipment The present invention relates to realize a tectonic activity monitoring equipment providing apparatus and method to detect a feeble electromagnetic wave occurred by the tectonic activity with a high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) and to predict earthquake an... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5808311 | Method for detecting displacement of atoms on material surface and method for local supply of heteroatoms Atomic displacement on a material surface is detected by, in a system comprising the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and a material in question, upon an atomic displacement operation comprising extraction of atoms on the material surface and ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5803996 | Rod-shaped or tubular amorphous Zr alloy made by die casting and method for manufacturing said amorphous Zr alloy An alloy material 4 received in a melting hearth 1 is melted by high-density energy supplied from a heat source 5. The molten alloy is transferred to a forced-cooled die 3 having a cavity 2 defining the profile of a product, and quenched to an amorphous s... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5777094 | cDNA of DOCK180 gene and DOCK180 protein The present invention provides a cDNA of DOCK180 gene, which has a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and of which translation product binds to the proto-oncogene product CRK, a recombinant vector containing this cDNA, a DOCK180 protein expressed from th... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5763662 | Method for producing formic acid of its derivatives Formic acid or derivatives thereof are produced from non-toxic carbon dioxide in the supercritical state, using it as raw materials, without using solvents, and at a high efficiency owing to a high reaction velocity, by reacting said carbon dioxide and an... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5762898 | Graphite intercalation compound An onion-like graphite 2 is produced by irradiating an electron beam to an amorphous carbon 3 under an active aluminum nanoparticle 1. By further irradiating the electron beam to the onion-like graphite 2 to intercalate aluminum atoms constituting the alu... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5763238 | Boronic acid compound having a binaphthyl group This invention relates to novel chiral boronic acid compounds which are capable of binding to polyols, particularly to saccharides and are useful in the analysis or separation of diols.... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5736399 | Medium-penetrating cell culture carrier, a culturing method and a device using this carrier The present invention provides a medium-penetrating culture carrier comprising a plurality of natural or synthetic threads or the woven body thereof, a method for adhering cells onto this carrier to allow them to be proliferated, and a device which is phy... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5704974 | Growth of silicon crystal from melt having extraordinary eddy flows on its surface When a Si single crystal 8 is pulled up from a melt 6 received in a crucible 2, the state of eddy flows generated in the melt 6 is judged from the temperature distribution of the melt at the surface. According to the result of judgement, the gas, i.e. N | 01/06/1998 |
| 5700320 | Growth of silicon single crystal having uniform impurity distribution along lengthwise or radial direction When a B or P-doped Si single crystal is pulled up from a B or P-doped melt by the Czochralski method, an element such as Ga, Sb or In having the effect to reduce the heat expansion coefficient of said melt at a temperature near the melting point is added... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5683504 | Growth of silicon single crystal When a single crystal is pulled up from a melt, the difference ƊT between temperatures at the bottom of a crucible and at the interface of crystal growth is controlled so as to hold the Rayleigh constant defined by the formula of: R a=g.multidot.ଲ.... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5674993 | Nucleic acid markers for rice blast resistance genes and rice blast resistance genes isolated by the use of these markers The present invention provides nucleic acid markers for rice blast resistance genes, which are isolated from the rice genomic DNA, are DNA sequences having a total length of up to 2 kb, with two identical sequences of at least ten bases at the both ends t... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5670624 | Two-dimensional aggregation and fixation of protein by injection into a substrate solution having higher surface tension and specific gravity Protein is two-dimensionally aggregated and fixed to produce a functional thin film. A denatured film of a first protein is formed on the surface of a substrate solution such as an aqueous sugar or salt solution. A solution of a second protein which may b... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5650043 | Etching method using NH4 F solution to make surface of silicon smooth in atomic order A silicon substrate is etched by dipping it in a NH4 F solution while charging it with a potential more negative than an open-circuit potential. The NH4 F solution preferably has NH4 F concentration of 10M or less. The pot... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5648056 | Fullerene composite A fullerene composite comprises a matrix formed of ultrafine fullerene such as, for example, C60 crystallite having diameters in the range of from 5 to 50 nm and a reinforcing member formed of a mixture consisting of carbon nanotubes, carbon na... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5644588 | Microfine light source A microfine light source is provided by a non-spherical particle containing a dye, which is irradiated with a laser beam under conditions that the particle emits light at a plurality of frequencies. A micromemory sensor which employs the light confinement... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5639910 | Method for producing formic acid or its derivatives Formic acid or derivatives thereof are produced from non-toxic carbon dioxide in the supercritical state, using it as raw materials, without using solvents, and at a high efficiency owing to a high reaction velocity, by reacting said carbon dioxide and an... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5633043 | Process for fabricating thin films A process for producing thin films includes a step of dissolving one or two or more thin film materials into solutions or dispersions that are sprayed respective spray nozzles provided for each component onto a substrate in a high vacuum vessel. The compo... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5610392 | Method to observe film thickness and/or refractive index by color difference To observe film thickness and/or refractive index of a sample, light beams from a white light source are irradiated onto the surface of the solid or liquid sample such that the reflected light beams are colored by partial extinction of the reflected light... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5587593 | Light-emitting semiconductor device using group III nitrogen compound A light-emitting semiconductor device includes a sapphire substrate whose main surface orientation is tilted by 1 to 4 degrees from its axis "a" , and layers epitaxially formed thereon. Tilting the surface orientation of the sapphire substrate enabl... | 12/24/1996 |
