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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080037137 | LENS UNIT, LENS BARREL, OPTICAL DEVICE, SCANNER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A lens barrel includes a communicating passage that communicates between a space inside the lens barrel and outside of the lens barrel. The communicating passage includes a through hole, a circumferential groove, and a vertical groove. Light from outside the lens barrel... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080038656 | DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD USING THE DEVELOPER A negatively-chargeable non-magnetic one-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image using a contact DC-bias development method, having a capacitance of 1.05×10−12 to 1.25×10−12 F, a volume resistivity of 5.0×10 02/14/2008 | |
| 20070268372 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image processing device and method, where the image processing device includes a continuity region detector configured to detect a region having data continuity within image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cast up... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070264218 | Reducing Composition for Permanent Wave or Straight Permanent The present invention relates to a hair reducing composition having the composition pH in a range of 8 to 10, containing (A) 0.039 to 0.39 mol/L of one or more keratin reducing substance not having a mercapto group selected from a sulfite, a hydrogen sulfite, or the lik... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070256711 | SUBSTRATE CLEANING APPARATUS AND METHOD A cleaning apparatus to remove organic substances deposited onto a substrate, the apparatus includes a transport unit configured to transport the substrate, a water steam ejection unit configured to eject a heated water steam to a face of the substrate to be transported... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070258311 | MOS ELECTRIC FUSE, ITS PROGRAMMING METHOD, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME A programming method of a MOS electric fuse including preparing, as a fuse element, a MOS transistor which has a first impurity region and a second impurity region, both of a second conductivity type, formed to face with each other on an upper surface of a well of a fir... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256427 | THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE In order to provide a highly reliable thermoelectric device, in a thermoelectric device, a plurality of heat-radiating-side electrodes, arranged in accordance with positions where respective thermoelectric elements are to be arranged, are arrayed in an array fashion on ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070259303 | Orthodontic Bracket and Process for Producing the Same Provided is an orthodontic bracket with high strength and high translucency, which can be processed into a complicated shape, which can be made in a shape closer to that of a metal bracket, and which maintains excellent translucency. The o... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070257376 | SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE A semiconductor module comprises a mounting board. A plurality of power switching device chips are mounted on the mounting board by flip-chip bonding. The chip has an upper surface and a lower surface and is configured to face the upper surface toward the mounting board... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070257761 | Inductor and electric power supply using it An inductor embedded in a printed wiring board includes a conductor extending in the thickness direction of a printed circuit board and a magnetic body that is in contact with the conductor with no gap therebetween. For example, the magnetic body is composed of ferrite ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256294 | Piston for Automatic Speed Changer A piston for an automatic transmission including a cylindrical portion and a bottom portion formed integrally with one of opposite axial end portions of the cylindrical portion and being formed by a press-forming operation, including a lug formed on the cylindrical port... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070259528 | Method for Providing Mixed Stacked Structures, with Various Insulating Zones and/or Electrically Conductiong Zones Vertically Localized The invention relates to a method for producing a semiconducting structure on a semiconducting substrate, one surface of which has a topology, this method including:
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| 20070256297 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRINTED WIRING BOARD WITH COMPONENT MOUNTING PIN The present invention is to provide a method of manufacturing a printed wiring board with a component mounting pin to connect a printed wiring board and an electronic component A method of manufacturing a printed wiring board (1) with a component mounting pin ( 11/08/2007 | |
| 20070260767 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD A disclosed information processing apparatus is equipped with a built-in display unit and a built-in input unit. A display signal supplied from an external information processing apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus is combined with a display sign... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256804 | LIGHT-COLOURED TO WHITE WOODEN MATERIAL PANELS Light to white wood-base boards which are produced from bleached wood fibers and/or beater dyed with a white pigment. ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070259475 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ORGANIC FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS A method for producing an organic field-effect transistor, comprising the steps of:
| 11/08/2007 |
| 20070257600 | Organic Electroluminescent Device Organic electroluminescent device (100) having a multilayer structure including at least emitting layer (15) and electron-transporting layer (16) between cathodes (17) and (18) and anode (12), the triplet energy gap (EgT 11/08/2007 | |
| 20070259782 | REVERSIBLE THERMOSENSITIVE COLORING MATERIAL AND REVERSIBLE THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MATERIAL USING THE REVERSIBLE THERMOSENSITIVE COLORING MATERIAL A reversible thermosensitive coloring material which can reversibly achieve a relatively colored state and a relatively discolored state depending on a temperature to which the coloring material is heated or a cooling speed at which the coloring material is cooled after... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070259588 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME In one mode of the present invention, there is provided an organic EL display device, which includes an organic light emitting layer provided between sets of electrodes, comprising color filters 22 and an overcoat layer 23 provided on a substrate 21... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070257117 | Non-contact IC apparatus and control method A non-contact IC apparatus is provided in a simple configuration with a plurality of IC chips, while enabling reliable communication. A non-contact IC apparatus 1 has a plurality of IC chips 30, 50, an antenna 11 for receiving a radio wave for non-c... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070260094 | Method for Producing Polyoxymethylene Dimethyl Ethers A process for preparing polyoxymethylene dimethyl ether of the formula H3CO(CH2O)nCH3 where n=2-10, in which methylal and trioxane are fed into a reactor and reacted in the presence of an... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256741 | Bimanual Control Valve In a control valve for use in both-hand operation provided with an AND valve (20) and a shuttle valve (21) connected to a main input ports (11a and 11b), a main switching valve (23) connected between the AND valve (20<... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070259587 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS FOR IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE After sealing layers are formed on peripheral edge parts of a front substrate and a rear substrate, the front substrate and the rear substrate are disposed to be opposed to each other. Current paths are formed in the sealing layers, and power supply is begun. An electri... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070260004 | Polypropylene Resin Composition And Process For Producing The Same The invention is to provide a talc-containing polypropylene resin composition by an in-line compounding, capable of solving a drawback where a reduced compression level for avoiding white spots caused by insufficient dispersion of inorganic filler increases the amount o... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070259695 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, METHOD OF DISPLAYING APPLICATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A wireless communication terminal that performs wireless communication with a predetermined base station includes: a storage unit, an operation unit, a control unit and a display unit. The storage unit is configured to store information indicating correspondence between... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256598 | NOVEL RHEOLOGY REGULATORS SUCH AS GROUND NATURAL CALCIUM CARBONATES OPTIONALLY TREATED WITH A FATTY ACID OR SALT AND THEIR USE The invention relates to the selection of a natural calcium carbonate crushed to a high degree of fineness, possibly treated with one or more fatty acids or one or more of their salts or mixtures thereof, and its use as a rheology regulator for polymeric compositions. <... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070259987 | Low Water-Absorption Plastisol Polymers The invention relates to pulverulent core/shell polymers for the preparation of a plastisol, which have surprisingly low water absorption. The invention further relates to the plastisol pastes which are prepared from these polymers and likewise have low water absorption... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070259213 | MAGNETORESISTANCE EFFECT ELEMENT, MAGNETIC HEAD, AND MAGNETIC REPRODUCING APPARATUS A magnetoresistance effect element comprises: a magnetoresistance effect film, a pair of electrodes, and a phase separation layer. The magnetoresistance effect film includes a first ferromagnetic layer whose direction of magnetization is pinned substantially in one dire... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070259148 | ADHESIVE COMPOSITION AND OPTICAL FILTER To provide an adhesive composition which is prevented from change in color and color degradation after the moisture resistance test in a state where a copper mesh is bonded. Further, to provide an optical filter which is excellent in moisture resistance and which is pre... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070257372 | Method for Forming Ti Film and Tin Film, Contact Structure, Computer Readable Storing Medium and Computer Program A cleaning process is performed on the surface of a nickel silicide film serving as an underlayer. Then, a Ti film is formed to have a film thickness of not less than 2 nm but less than 10 nm by CVD using a Ti compound gas. Then, the Ti film is nitrided. Then, a TiN fil... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070259176 | Metal Oxide Sol, Layer Produced Therewith and Shaped Article Process for the preparation of a binder-free metal oxide sol, comprising the steps: a) initial introduction into a vessel of a metal oxide dispersion, wherein the metal oxide powder in the dispersion has an average, number-related aggregate diameter of less than 200 nm,... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070258303 | Semiconductor Memory Device A semiconductor memory device including a memory cell array which has a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix form, a plurality of bit line pairs which transfer data among the memory cells, a sense amplifier bank which includes a plurality of sense amplifiers, ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070258294 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE APPARATUS A semiconductor storage apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprising: memory cells which need refresh operation; and a refresh control circuit which suspends the refresh operation when external access for reading out from or writing into th... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070259693 | METHOD TO ESTIMATE MULTIPLE ROUND TRIP DELAYS ATTACHED TO CELLULAR TERMINALS FROM A RACH SIGNAL RECEIVED WITHIN A DEDICATED TIME SLOT MULTIPLEXED ONTO AN UPLINK TRAFFIC MULTIPLEX FRAME The method for estimating a propagation round trip delay, existing between a base station and a terminal, and comprised within a predetermined round trip delay range, comprises the following steps: transmitting from the base station on a do... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070257599 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE An image display device includes a front plate and a rear plate opposing the front plate, the front plate being provided with phosphor film segments, resistance layers provided between the phosphor film segments, metal back layer segments provided on the phosphor film s... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070258877 | Surface-Treated Calcium Carbonate Particles The particles comprise a core of calcium carbonate and a coating covering at least part of the surface of the core, the coating being carried out in at least two distinct consecutive steps, each step using a different coating agent. The coating agent used in the first s... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256999 | CRANE AND BOOM HOISTING DEVICE THEREOF A boom hoisting device comprising a mast having a pivotable front end portion connected to a front end portion of a boom through a guy line, a mast-side spreader provided at the front end portion of the mast, a frame-side spreader removably mounted to an upper rotating ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070257085 | HEAT PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND HEAT PROCESSING APPARATUS In the present invention, a plurality of suction ports are provided in a heating plate of a heat processing apparatus. The suction ports are provided at a central portion, an intermediate portion, and a peripheral portion of a substrate mounting surface of the heating p... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070258921 | PROCESS FOR DEPIGMENTING THE SKIN Process for depigmenting and/or whitening human skin by the application of at least one compound of formula (I): ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070258225 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRINTED CIRUIT BOARD A chip capacitor 20 is provided in a core substrate 30 of a printed circuit board 10. This makes it possible to shorten a distance between an IC chip 90 and the chip capacitor 20 and to reduce loop inductance. Since the core substrate ... | 11/08/2007 |
