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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110044562 | INTERPOLATOR AND DESIGNING METHOD THEREOF Interpolation of signed values A and B is efficiently performed by simple circuitry. To calculate an interpolated value C based on a 4-bit values A (bits a3a2a1a0) and B (bits b3b2b1b0 02/24/2011 | |
| 20110043250 | DRIVER CIRCUIT A level switch circuit receives a digital input signal, and generates a level signal having a voltage level that corresponds to the value of the input signal thus received. A buffer circuit receives a level signal, and outputs the level signal via an output terminal the... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042422 | CLOTHES HANGER A clothes hanger includes a hanger body for suspending clothes, a hook extending upwardly from the hanger body and having a latch-side end which is spaced apart from the hanger body to define an access opening, a latch movably disposed on the latch-side end and having a... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110037804 | INK SET, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, RECORDED MATTER, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS An ink set includes an oil-based ink composition containing a metallic pigment; and at least one oil-based ink composition selected from the group consisting of a chromatic color ink composition containing a chromatic color oil dye, a black ink composition containing a ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110026941 | VARIABLE DISPERSION COMPENSATION DEVICE A dispersion compensation device includes a variable dispersion compensator configured to subject an input optical signal to dispersion compensation, an optical receiver configured to convert an optical signal subjected to dispersion compensation into an electrical sign... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110024640 | DOSIMETRY APPARATUS , SYSTEMS, AND METHODS A direct ion storage (DIS) radiation detector or dosimeter has a design that is easy and low cost to manufacture using semiconductor processing techniques. The detectors include internal communications interfaces so they are easy to read. Different interfaces, including... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110020448 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF GLAUCOMA Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment and prevention of glaucoma, containing (a) a therapeutically effective amount of a compound represented by Formula 1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, solvate or isomer thereof, and (b) a pharmaceu... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110020000 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AT SUBSCRIBER HOME An MC-ONU is an ONU installed at a subscriber's home. The MC-ONU includes: a receiving unit which receives signals transmitted from an OLT at a telecommunications carrier site which has not established a link; a determining unit which determines the OLT, which has not e... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018626 | QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE DEMODULATOR AND DEMODULATION METHOD A quadrature amplitude demodulator demodulates a modulated signal on which quadrature amplitude modulation is performed. Oscillators generate an in-phase carrier signal having a rectangular wave, a trapezoidal wave or a waveform similar to these, and a quadrature carrie... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110016996 | ATTITUDE CONTROL DEVICE The present invention controls rolling motion of a vehicle by eliminating the detrimental influence of gyro moment on the motion of the vehicle and actively using gyro moment generated by a flywheel constituting an energy storing device. The invention relates to an atti... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110011820 | WINE BOTTLE CAP ASSEMBLY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF Disclosed is a wine bottle cap assembly. When a resealed wine bottle is stored standing upright, an oxygen absorbent is located below a lower part of a cap body while being distanced from the cap body. Thus, oxygen, which is heavier than nitrogen and sinking downward, i... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110008049 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION CONTROLLING METHOD, AND OPTICAL SUPERVISORY CHANNEL (OSC) PROCESSING APPARATUS An integrated transmission apparatus includes a plurality of optical supervisory channel (OSC) processing units for processing OSC signals contained in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) signal received from a WDM network and a switching unit for performing the pa... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110006879 | ELECTRONIC ACCESS SYSTEM Methods and systems are described herein for remotely or wirelessly controlling access to dwellings, buildings and/or properties. In one aspect, an electronic access system comprises: a plurality of independent access control devices (115, 125, 135, 145, 155, 165... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110005245 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR OPERATING HEAT PUMPS IN HOT WATER SYSTEMS A method for operating a heat pump (100) in low ambient air temperatures comprises periodically or temporarily halting flow of refrigerant through an evaporator (170) of the heat pump (100) and providing forced airflow across the evaporator (170<... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110002995 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF CARDIAC DISEASE Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment and prevention of cardiac diseases, containing (a) a therapeutically effective amount of a compound represented by Formula 1 or 2 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, solvate or isomer thereof, and (b... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100330323 | BUNDLING TAPE DEVICE WITH ELECTROSTATIC ADHESION A bundling tape device includes: a tape wound into a plurality of loops one around the other and having an electrostatic adhesion property. The tape includes a plurality of first tearing lines, and a plurality of bundling sections divided by the first tearing lines. Eac... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100327983 | RING OSCILLATOR Multiple multi-stage delay circuits each have n (n is an integer) output terminals. The multi-stage delay circuits each apply delay times to a corresponding input signal, and output, via n output terminals, n delayed signals to which different delay times have been appl... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325435 | Two-factor authenticated key exchange method and authentication method using the same, and recording medium storing program including the same A two-factor authenticated key exchange method. A subscriber station transmits a value generated by using an identifier and an authentication server's public key to the authentication server through an access point. The authentication server uses the value to detect the... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322633 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CORRECTING TILT OF THE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM A transmission system is provided with a transmission apparatus that outputs an ASE light from a transmission light amplifier and with a reception apparatus provided with: a tilt detection unit that detects the optical strength levels of at least two probe lights having... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321127 | TEST APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL MODULATED SIGNAL A test apparatus includes digital modulators provided in increments of multiple channels. A baseband signal generator performs retiming of data input as a modulation signal for the in-phase (quadrature) component, using a timing signal the timing of which can be adjuste... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100314417 | FOAM PRODUCTION PUMP NOT CAUSING CONTAMINATION OF CONTENTS A foam production pump includes a button (110) having an outlet port (112), a housing (120), a closure (130) for mounting the housing to a container, a stem (170) performing an up-and-down motion, a shaft (150) mounted in the lo... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100312802 | SHARED-MEMORY MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION Large-scale table data stored in a shared memory are sorted by a plurality of processors in parallel. According to the present invention, the records subjected to processing are first divided for allocation to the plurality of processors. Then, each processor counts the... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100310657 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF KIDNEY DISEASES Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment and prevention of kidney diseases, containing (a) a therapeutically effective amount of a compound represented by Formulae 1 or 2 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, solvate or isomer thereof, and (b... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100299398 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS The present invention provides a technique for outputting an appropriate message to a terminal. A communication control apparatus 10 includes: a message retaining unit 132 which retains a message to be transmitted to a user's terminal; a communication cont... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299354 | DETERMINING DEVICE AND DETERMINING METHOD FOR DETERMINING PROCESSING TO BE PERFORMED BASED ON ACQUIRED DATA The present invention provides a technique for determining processing to be performed at high speed. When processing to be performed is determined through multiple condition judgments and branches, a comparison target extraction circuit extracts from acquired data multi... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100297455 | PRECURSOR SOLUTION FOR POLYIMIDE/SILICA COMPOSITE MATERIAL, ITS MANUFACTURE METHOD, AND POLYIMIDE/SILICA COMPOSITE MATERIAL HAVING LOW VOLUME SHRINKAGE The present invention relates to a process for preparing a precursor solution for polyimide/silica composite material and a process for forming a polyimide/silica composite material film on a substrate, comprising adding a monomer of a silane compound to allow a poly(am... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100295652 | COIL DEVICE PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED A problem is to provide a sheet-like or thin plate-like coil device that can guarantee a high power transmission efficiency, that has quite little magnetic spurious radiation, that does not cause overheat even in the case of long charge, and that ca... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100289859 | SURFACE-TREATED PIGMENT, INK COMPOSITION, AND INK-JET RECORDING METHOD A surface-treated pigment is formed of a metal pigment including flat particles whose surfaces are treated with an alkoxysilane compound having a group having an unsaturated double bond between carbon atoms.... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100285221 | INK COMPOSITION FOR INK JET RECORDING An ink composition for ink jet recording, contains at least a dispersoid in which a pigment can be dispersed in water, and a polymer microparticle, in which an average particle diameter of the dispersoid is 20 to 300 nm, the polymer microparticle contains at least 70% b... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100282748 | HERMETIC CONTAINER A hermetic container includes a container body, a cap unit, and a control unit. The cap unit is disposed to cover a mouth of the container body, and has an outer cap, a mid cap, and an inner cap having a sealing ring that is movable toward and away from the mid cap and ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100278080 | TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE IN LONG TERM EVOLUTION TIME DIVISION DUPLEX SYSTEM A transmission method in a Long Term Evolution time division duplex system can carry out reconfiguration for half-frame structures. According to the coverage range requirements of the system, it performs flexible configuration of the number of special time slot areas an... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100274013 | DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE-IV INHIBITING COMPOUNDS, METHODS OF PREPARING THE SAME, AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THE SAME AS ACTIVE AGENT Disclosed herein are novel compounds of Formula (1) as defined in the specification having excellent inhibitory activity against dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPP-IV), methods of preparing the same and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same as an active agent.... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100271080 | DRIVER COMPARATOR CIRCUIT A first resistor is arranged such that a first voltage is applied to a first terminal thereof, and a second terminal thereof is connected to an input/output terminal. The first voltage is applied to a first terminal of a second resistor. A tail current source generates ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100271063 | TEST APPARATUS Multiple test pins receive, as input data, multiple data output from a DUT. Multiple multiplexers receive the multiple data input to the multiple test pins and selects one of the data thus input, and outputs the data thus selected. Multiple logical comparators are respe... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100268337 | MONOLITHIC ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT WITH AN ARTICULAR FINISHED SURFACE A monolithic material including a first region having a first variability of strength and a second region joined to the first region, the second region having a second variability of strength, wherein the monolithic material has a variability of strength less than the f... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100259435 | DELAY CIRCUIT A delay circuit includes a MOSFET and bias voltage sources. The bias voltage sources apply a voltage difference between the drain and source of the MOSFET. The bias voltage source supplies a source voltage to a source electrode of the MOSFET. The bias voltage source sup... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100258606 | ADHESIVE TAPE CUTTING DEVICE An adhesive tape cutting device includes a sleeve body having a top wall that has a tape slot defined by a slot-defining wall having a rear edge, front and rear end portions, and a protruded portion disposed between the rear edge and the front end portion. The tape slot... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100256758 | MONOLITHIC ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT WITH AN ARTICULAR FINISHED SURFACE A monolithic orthopedic implant including a porous region having a form of interconnected porosity similar to cancellous bone to promote skeletal fixation by bone ingrowth, a transition region adjacent to and integrally joined to the porous region, the transition region... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100256283 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING WATER-REPELLENT TREATED ALUMINUM PIGMENT DISPERSION, WATER-REPELLENT TREATED ALUMINUM PIGMENT, AND AQUEOUS INK COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME A method for producing water-repellent treated aluminum pigment dispersion includes (a) adding a polysilazane solution in which a polysilazane is dissolved in a second organic solvent to an aluminum pigment dispersion in which an aluminum pigment is dispersed in a first... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100253755 | PIGMENT DISPERSION, INK COMPOSITION, INKSET, AND RECORDING DEVICE A pigment dispersion containing a metal pigment, wherein the metal pigment contains plate-like particles, and in the case where the longitudinal diameter on the planar surface of the plate-like particle is X, the lateral diameter is Y, and the thickness is Z, the 50% av... | 10/07/2010 |
