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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100273420 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR SYSTEM A communication device includes a communication unit wirelessly communicating with another communication device in a connectable area; an acquiring unit acquiring a state of the communication device; a setting unit making a setting as to whether a connection is permitte... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100272425 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM An imaging device equipped with an imaging system includes an imaging lens optical system which images an object, a flash emitting unit which synchronizes imaging in the imaging system to emit a flash having not less than a prescribed luminance in a charged state not le... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100272385 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE Residue is prevented from being generated in a groove on a substrate. An optical waveguide device is provided with the substrate (10) having a V-groove (11) for attaching optical fibers (41-45); a lower clad layer formed on the substrate (... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100271622 | Optical time domain reflectometer and method for testing optical fiber using optical pulse When a measurement position is specified by a marker during real time measurement, a marker level acquisition unit acquires a waveform level from waveform data stored in a waveform memory. A level comparison unit judges whether the waveform level acquired by the maker l... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100270502 | ACRYLIC RESIN CONTAINING FILM, AND POLARIZING PLATE AND A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE EMPLOYING THE SAME This invention provides an acrylic resin containing film, which is transparent and highly heat resistant and has significantly improved brittleness, and a polarizing plate using the acrylic resin containing film. Further yield in punching work and laminating work of the... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100267287 | CONNECTOR UNIT A connector unit which is capable of suppressing lowering of a clicking feeling, even if the fitting and removing of connectors to and from each other is repeated. A spring portion that receives a contact portion of each of plug contacts of a plug connector when a recep... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100266441 | High carbo hot-rolled steel sheet A high carbon hot-rolled steel sheet which is a hot-rolled spheroidizing annealed material, including 0.2 to 0.7% C, 2% or less Si, 2% or less Mn, 0.03% or less P, 0.035 or less S, 0.08% or less Sol.Al., and 0.01% or less N, by mass, which contains carbide having a part... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100265574 | IMMERSION MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE AND MICROSCOPE WITH IT An immersion microscope objective comprises, in order from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power comprising a cemented lens composed of a piano-convex lens whose plane surface faces the object side and a meniscus lens whose concave surfac... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100265452 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer which is arranged between first and second aligning films formed on inner sides of first and second substrates, has liquid crystal molecules twist-aligned in a direction from the first aligning film toward ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100265437 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer which is arranged between first and second aligning films formed on inner sides of first and second substrates, has liquid crystal molecules twist-aligned in a direction from the first aligning film toward ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100265337 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM When an instruction of shooting a moving image is given in a mail writing mode, a mobile communication terminal detects the instruction, controlling an image pick-up unit 10 and image pick-up controlling unit 12 to continuously shoot images for a certain p... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100265269 | PORTABLE TERMINAL AND A DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD FOR PORTABLE TERMINAL A portable terminal includes: a display unit configured to display data on a screen; a rotation detecting unit configured to detect rotation of the portable terminal; a touch detecting unit configured to detect touch of the screen of the display unit; and a display cont... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100261911 | THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR TRPV1-MEDIATED DISEASE An object of the present invention is to find a novel pharmacological action of a urea compound having a structure represented by the general formula [I]. The urea compound having a structure represented by the general formula [I] or a salt thereof has an excellent ther... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100261290 | Method of reaction in flow channel of microchip and analysis device In the case of passing a reagent in a reaction channel in a microchip, which carries a reactant capable of reacting with the reagent on the wall thereof, and bringing the reactant into contact with the reagent so as to carry out a reaction, the reagent is efficiently pa... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260948 | DECORATION BODY A decoration body for various objects such as wreaths, Christmas trees, bouquets, and feng shui goods, which are rationally and beautifully decorated with small decoration members such as natural stones or glass sculptures is provided. The decoration body includes: a pl... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260581 | Sheet finisher and image forming system provided therewith In a sheet finisher including an adhesive coating section, a movement mechanism, a control section that controls actions of the adhesive coating section and of the movement mechanism, is capable of multiple coating on a spine of a sheet bundle by causing the movement me... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100259905 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR MAKING ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT An electronic circuit having a circuit board, a shield frame and a shield cover is provided. The shield frame is provided on the circuit board along a fringe of an area of the circuit board. The shield frame is discontinuous at a portion on the fringe. The shield cover ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100259650 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM An image processing device includes an image data input unit that receives image data; a pixel extracting unit that extracts a pixel area including a pixel of interest to be processed and peripheral pixels located around the pixel of interest from the image data; a pixe... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100259582 | INKJET HEAD AND ELECTROSTATIC ATTRACTION TYPE INKJET HEAD The inkjet head has a first silicon substrate 10 having ink ejection ports 11 formed, a glass substrate 20 bonded to the first silicon substrate 10, having ink channel holes 21 formed thereon, and a second silicon substrate 30 h... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100259399 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE CONFIGURED TO SENSE EXTERNAL CABLE A mobile communication device configured to be connected to a first external cable is provided. The mobile communication device has a connector configured to be connected to the first external cable, and has an interface and a controller. The interface has a first sensi... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100259050 | WIND TURBINE ELECTRICITY GENERATING SYSTEM System for producing electricity from wind energy includes a shaft, at least two turbines rotatably mounted to the shaft and arranged to rotate independent of one another and in opposite directions when subjected to the same wind, and one or more generators that convert... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100258796 | ZINC OXIDE BASED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a ZnO-based semiconductor device, the method includes a first metal layer formation step of forming a first metal layer on a p-type ZnO-based semiconductor layer in island-form and/or mesh-form; a heat treatment step of performing ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100258795 | ZINC OXIDE BASED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a ZnO-based semiconductor device having at least p-type ZnO-based semiconductor layer, which includes a step of forming a contact metal layer on the p-type ZnO-based semiconductor layer wherein the contact metal layer contains at l... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100256497 | OSCILLATOR FOR ULTRASONIC WAVE RECEPTION, ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD, ULTRASONIC WAVE PROBE AND ULTRASONIC WAVE MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SYSTEM The present invention is to provide an oscillator for ultrasonic wave reception which is excellent in piezoelectric characteristic and thermal resistance and is suitable for high frequency and broad band, a manufacturing method of the oscillator, an ultrasonic wave prob... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100255893 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND ANTENNA STRUCTURE A mobile communication apparatus configured to be provided with an extra antenna has a printed board provided with an antenna feed point, an antenna having a spring-like contact and provided on the printed board, and a housing constituted by a first case and a second ca... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100255731 | CONNECTOR A connector capable of suppressing crosstalk between adjacent different pairs of signal lines on a printed circuit board, and facilitating impedance matching. The connector includes first signal contacts each including a signal terminal portion, second signal contacts e... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100255480 | COMPOSITION FOR ANALYZING NUCLEIC ACID The present invention provides a firefly luciferase for inexpensive, highly accurate and highly sensitive nucleic acid analysis that uses dATP instead of an expensive reagent having low reactivity to DNA polymerase in the manner of dATPĪ±S, a method of analyzing nucleic... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254741 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Disclosed an image forming system including: an image forming apparatus to form an image on a sheet conveyed from a feeding section to eject the sheet; and a plurality of finishers each including one or a plurality of ejection trays, which finishers are connected to the... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254349 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD TO PERFORM HANDOVER OF COMMUNICATION USING DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Disclosed is that when the first wireless communication apparatus is connected to a terminal apparatus such as a wireless access point wirelessly, the second wireless communication apparatus performs the communication with the first wireless communication apparatus by a... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254224 | ANALOG TYPE ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE An analog type electronic timepiece including a plurality of hands for displaying a time; a driving unit for electrically driving the hands; a receiver for receiving and demodulating a radio wave containing a time code signal; and a second synchronization determination ... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254101 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING STRUCTURE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE An electronic component mounting structure includes: a casing provided with an accommodating portion, an insertion opening formed at outside of the accommodating portion, and a threaded hole to which a screw is fastened; an electronic component including a contact termi... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100253811 | MOVING IMAGE NOISE REDUCTION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER- READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH MOVING IMAGE NOISE REDUCTION PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED, AND MOVING IMAGE NOISE REDUCTION PROCESSING METHOD There is provided a moving image noise reduction processing apparatus for reducing noise in a digitalized time-series image signal, including: a spatial noise reduction unit applying spatial noise reduction processing to the image signal; a previous buffer unit storing ... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100253246 | DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGE LAMP CONFIGURED AS A DOUBLE TUBE The invention relates to a dielectric barrier discharge lamp in a coaxial double-tube arrangement, comprising an exterior electrode (6), and interior electrode (7), and an auxiliary electrode (8). The interior electrode (7) is designed as an ... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100253206 | ELECTRODE ROD HOLDER IN A HIGH-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP The invention relates to an improved electrode rod (1) holder with the aid of a metal tube piece 5 and a metal plate 6 connected in a fixed manner to the metal tube piece for a mercury ultra-high pressure discharge lamp.... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100248796 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS An electronic apparatus includes: a first casing; a second casing; a coupling mechanism for coupling the first and second casings while allowing the first and second casings to slide and rotate with each other in a state where the first and second casings being overlapp... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100248756 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS A mobile communication apparatus having a first housing section, a second housing section movably connected to the first housing section, an open/close sensor, an email saving controller and an email sending controller. The second housing section is configured to be ope... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100247429 | MICROCHIP, MICROCHIP DEVICE AND EVAPORATION METHOD USING MICROCHIP Provided is a microchip capable of integrating liquid evaporation as an operation on the microchip. In the microchip 10 having a gas flow path 13 inside, liquid is dispersed by capillary action and pooled in a pool portion 12 at a bottom of the gas ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100247084 | IMAGING DEVICE, FOCUSING METHOD AND PROGRAM An image processing circuit/CPU performs AF processing in response to a halfway shutter operation and upon confirmation of a shooting shutter instruction causes a light emitting unit in a flash circuit to emit light, and decides an amount of light to be emitted at a sho... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100246991 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGING SYSTEM A number of invalid pixels at an outer peripheral part is reduced while suppressing an influence on an image quality such as discontinuity by pixel expansion, and suppressing increase in a number of processing pixels. When sequentially generating a plurality of reduced ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100246968 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM An image capturing apparatus 100 comprises an electronic image capture subunit 2, a determiner 8a, an image acquisition control unit 8b and a subject image extractor 8c. The determiner 8a sequentially... | 09/30/2010 |
