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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090143792 | Holding Device for a Membrane, Support for the Holding Device, and Method for Fixing the Membrane to an Eye by Means of the Holding Device The invention relates to a holding device (10) for an amnion membrane (20), wherein the amnion membrane can be mounted on the eye surface without a suture or any other securing means for medical application. For this purpose, the holding device comprises c... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090143676 | Ultrasonograph for Creating Elastic Image Based on the ultrasonic tomographic data measured by exerting the pressure to the tissue of a body of the subject 1, the elastic data such as the distortion or the elastic modulus of the tissue at the plural measurement points in the tomographic site of the subje... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090143609 | LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITIONS AND THEIR USE IN LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICES To provide a liquid crystal composition having low viscosity in a wide temperature range and to provide a liquid crystal device excellent in response speed in the wide temperature range, a compound represented by the following general formula (1) or (2) is contained in ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090143090 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND GATEWAY There is provided a communication system in which semi-duplex many-to-many multicasting service can be performed to both a mobile station and a base station by using a unified call control protocol such as SIP on an IP network, and can contain mobile stations and base s... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090143029 | Press-Talk Server, Transcoder, and Communication System When half-duplex many-to-many communication is performed among a plurality of mobile stations having different codecs in a single group, transcoding is performed with a small number of codec circuits. A transcoder manages an SSRC of a received RTP packet, detaches voice... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090142057 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT AND OPTICAL NETWORK In order to insert a regenerator into a wavelength cross-connect equipment, there is provided at least one port that demultiplexes one wavelength among the wavelength multiplexed signals that are input to a wavelength selective switch. An output of the port that demulti... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141847 | METHOD FOR OPERATING NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION PLANT AND NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION PLANT An method for operating a nuclear power generation plant, comprising the steps of:
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| 20090141763 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER There is disclosed a Be-containing II-VI group semiconductor laser that has a laminated structure formed on an InP substrate to continuously emit at room temperature without crystal degradation. A basic structure of the semiconductor laser is formed over the InP substra... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141671 | PACKET COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND SUBSCRIBER-ASSOCIATED-INFORMATION DELIVERY CONTROLLER In a packet communication network comprising an MNO network, and an MVNO network including an application server for providing an information service to wireless terminals via the MNO network, the MNO network includes a subscriber-associated-information delivery control... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141269 | Defect Inspection Method And System An inspection system includes: a facility that uses wide-band illumination light having different wavelengths and single-wavelength light to perform dark-field illumination on an object of inspection, which has the surface thereof coated with a transparent film, in a pl... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141254 | Projection Type Image Display Apparatus A projection type image display apparatus comprising a light source, an optical integrator, by which light outgoing from the light source is changed in distribution of illumination, a color separation optical system, by which light outgoing from the optical integrator i... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141220 | Liquid Crystal Display A liquid crystal display includes a pair of substrates having a polarizer, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates of the pair, a color filter layer sandwiched between one of the substrates of the pair and the liquid crystal layer, a light source for su... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090140674 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AC MOTOR It is attained by being provided with a motor constant calculation unit for calculating electric constants of a motor, and by correcting setting values of electric constants defined on one of the axes of two orthogonal axes, by a functional expression using a state vari... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090140349 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME A SRAM of complete CMOS type having its memory cell composed of six MISFETs, in which a pair of local wiring lines for connecting the input/output terminals of CMOS inverters are formed of a refractory metal silicide layer formed over a first conducting layer constituti... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090140342 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A VERTICAL MISFET AND A VERTICAL MISFET, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Vertical MISFETs are formed over drive MISFETs and transfer MISFETs. The vertical MISFETs comprise rectangular pillar laminated bodies each formed by laminating a lower semiconductor layer (drain), an intermediate semiconductor layer, and an upper semiconductor layer (s... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090140273 | Epitaxial Wafer for Semiconductor Light Emitting Diode and Semiconductor Light Emitting Diode Using Same An epitaxial wafer for a semiconductor light emitting device according to the present invention in which at least an n-type cladding layer formed with a mixed crystal made of an AlGaInP material, an active layer, a p-type Mg-doped cladding layer, and a p-type contact la... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090140202 | ANTIRUST AGENT The present invention provides a corrosion inhibitor for preventing rusting of metallic members during long-term storage thereof while maintaining cleanness of surfaces of the metallic members, as well as a corrosion inhibiting method. The ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090139835 | SORTING CONVEYOR SYSTEM A conveyor system for sorting items that are supplied in a random sequence via a feeding conveyor, and including sorting means (4) arranged in a row for directing the items to specific receiving positions at at least one side of the sorting means (4). The ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090139470 | ENGINE SYSTEM An engine system in which either hydrogen produced from a hydrogen containing medium in terms of reaction using a catalyst or a mixture of the hydrogen and the hydrogen containing medium is employed as a fuel, in order to restrict heat deformation of a reactor, the engi... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090139335 | Device and Method for the Material Testing and/or Thickness Measurements of a Test Object That Contains at Least Fractions of Electrically Conductive and Ferromagnetic Material The invention relates to a device and a method for testing the material of a test object (4) which contains at least electrically conductive and ferromagnetic material fractions and has at least one engineered surface (5), by means of at least one electrom... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090132680 | INFORMATION TERMINALS SHARING CONTENTS IN A NETWORK, INFORMATION SHARING METHOD AND P2P SYSTEM AND POINT SYSTEM USING THE SAME Information terminal and information sharing method are provided which consider survival time of contents at a transmission destination and propagate the contents widely so as to be suitable for contents sharing. In the information terminal and information sharing metho... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090132538 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD To keep data security in an information processing system, an information processing apparatus communicably coupled with a user terminal communicably coupled with a secret data management device managing secret data that a user intends to keep secret, includes a publicl... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090132095 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR PLANT, CONTROL DEVICE FOR THERMAL POWER PLANT, AND GAS CONCENTRATION ESTIMATION DEVICE OF COAL-BURNING BOILER A control device for a plant includes a manipulation signal generation section for generating the manipulation signal to the plant, a model adapted to simulate a characteristic of the plant, a learning section for generating an input signal of the model so that an outpu... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090129421 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DIODE In an edge emitting laser having a window region with a ridge-waveguide structure, particularly, in a short cavity type of a laser operated with a low current, there has been a problem of its operating current being increased due to current leakage of the window portion... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090129219 | Recording/Reproducing Apparatus In order to solve the above-described problems, in a camera using a BD as a recording medium, in order to prepare a menu compliant with a standard even when the finalizing is not required for the reproduction compatibility of a BD player, an application for a finalizing... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090128766 | Display Device A display device includes a substrate having display portion and peripheral portion, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines formed over the substrate, a plurality of switching elements connected to the plurality of gate signal lines and t... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090128507 | DISPLAY METHOD OF INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE The information display apparatus is equipped with: a display unit for displaying a plurality of choice items in the list form; a control unit for controlling an array of the choice items; and a track ball for instructing a coordinate signal. The choice items are displa... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090127975 | Method and device for eliminating vibrations of a mechanical structure The invention describes a device as well as a method for eliminating vibrations of a mechanical structure with at least one electromechanical converter material that is actively connected to the mechanical structure and connected to an electric circuit arrangement with ... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090126562 | COMBINED PISTON-EXPANDER COMPRESSOR The invention concerns a combined piston-expander compressor comprising a plurality of pistons (3, 14) which are mechanically coupled together by a piston rod (4), as well as a main slide (6), an auxiliary slide (7) and a control valve (9<... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090052303 | Objective optical element and optical head apparatus Two optical discs used with a laser light having the same wavelength but having different substrate thicknesses can be handled by a single optical disc apparatus and a multilayer optical disc can also be reproduced. A refractive lens unit and liquid crystal elements are... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090032287 | RESIN COATED METAL FOIL, METAL CLAD LAMINATE, PRINTED WIRING BOARD USING THEM, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF The present invention provides a metal clad laminate or a resin coated metal foil having a metal foil whose both surfaces are not substantially roughening-treated and an insulating resin composition layer using generally used insulating resin, and a printed wiring board... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031875 | Miter Saw A miter saw has a base unit, a cutting unit, and a supporting unit. The base unit supports a workpiece. The cutting unit has a rotary cutting blade having two side faces, a motor for driving the rotary cutting blade, and a housing having a blade cover for covering a par... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031822 | ROTATING BODY DYNAMIC QUANTITY MEASURING DEVICE AND SYSTEM A single crystal semiconductor including a Wheatstone bridge circuit formed of an impurity diffusion layer whose longitudinal direction is aligned with a particular crystal orientation is connected to a rotating body. A rotating body dynamic quantity measuring device an... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031819 | Load Sensor The invention provides a load sensor which is driven by a low electric power consumption, can measure at a high precision, and has a high reliability without being broken. The load sensor is structured such that a detection rod for detecting a strain is provided in an i... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090033852 | Liquid Crystal Display Device A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate which is placed nearer to a viewer than the first substrate, and which faces a viewer side of the first substrate; a liquid crystal sandwiched between the first substrate and the second subs... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090037123 | Energy Supply System Evaluation Device, Energy Supply System Evaluation Method and Energy Supply System Evaluation Program The present invention provides an energy supply system evaluation device evaluating a lifecycle of energy conversion processes to be implemented in a pre-determined order by an energy supply system, an energy supply system evaluation method and an energy supply system e... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090037014 | APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING DECISIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD An apparatus for assisting decisions for improvement of environmental loads has: environmental load per-process collecting means; proportional distributing condition per-parts storing means for storing conditions to proportionally distribute the environmental loads ever... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090036781 | EXTERNAL CONDITION CONTROL DEVICE BASED ON MEASUREMENT OF BRAIN FUNCTIONS The present invention is helpful in improving stability of repeated measurement and can be applied with high reliability for operations of devices for measurement based on brain functions. A module 801 (a sampler) receives measurement data at each of the measurin... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090036623 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CONJUGATED POLYMER An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing a conjugated polymer that enables a significant shortening of the reaction time. A process for producing a conjugated polymer according to the present invention is a process for producing a conjuga... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090035540 | Method for Forming Coating Film A method for forming a multi-layer coating film by forming an undercoating film, a glittering material-containing base coating film and a clear coating film in this order on a substrate to be coated, in which a glittering material-containing base coating material for fo... | 02/05/2009 |
