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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090144135 | Methods for the management and protection of electoral processes, which are associated with an electronic voting terminal, and operative module used The inventive method is characterised in that, following a voting option selection step (201), a verification module (102), which is associated with a voting terminal (101), is used to perform the following steps: reception (202) of digital d... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090142703 | Display Member Exposing Method and Plasma Display Member Manufacturing Method A manufacturing method for a plasma display member wherein generation of defects such as interruption and short-circuit of a pattern obtained after exposure and development is suppressed and yield is improved, even when a foreign material is adhered on a photomask or ph... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090142652 | EXPANDABLE BATTERY COMPARTMENT In a battery-powered electrical device, an expandable battery compartment for accommodating batteries of varying size, and a method for altering the size of the battery compartment, is disclosed. The battery compartment includes a battery casing defining a substantially... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090142072 | OPTICAL INTERFACE BETWEEN TWO SECTIONS OF AN INTEGRATED CHIP An integrated electronic chip including: a first section formed on a first substrate; a second section formed on a second substrate; and a chip package. The first section including a first electronic circuit electrically coupled to a first optical transmitter and a firs... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141686 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS A mobile communication apparatus includes a registration request part (47) requesting a correspondent node to make location registration, a BU list memory (45) keeping a list of the correspondent nodes which have made the location registration, a handover ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141525 | POWER SOURCE DEVICE A power source device includes an input terminal, a first switching element connected to the input terminal, a second switching element connected to the first switching element, a transformer having a primary coil connected to a connecting node between the first and sec... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141456 | MULTILAYER, THERMALLY-STABILIZED SUBSTRATE STRUCTURES A multilayer, thermally-stabilized substrate, including: a thermally-conductive core structure, including a central section located horizontally between two edge sections; a top multilayer circuit board connected to the top surface of the central portion of the core str... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141371 | COLLIMATED OPTICAL SYSTEM WITH CLIP RING ECCENTRIC LOCKING MECHANISM An optical system includes a lens cell having a generally cylindrical lens cell body. The lens cell body has a lens cell central longitudinal axis and a lens cell optical axis eccentrically offset from the lens cell central longitudinal axis. A sleeve includes a general... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090140901 | RISA CONTROLLER FOR AN RF INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (RFIC) HAVING IMPROVED EXECUTION SPEED An RFIC controller configured for executing multiple tasks. A serial interface is included having a serial bus for receiving a data stream having control bits and data bits. One or more registers are coupled to the serial bus for storing the control bits and data bits a... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090140816 | SYNTHESIZER CHARACTERIZATION IN REAL TIME A frequency synthesizer includes a phase locked loop (PLL) for generating a desired frequency. The PLL includes two loop filters. A characterization circuit is included, which is configured to receive a digital word for characterizing the PLL and provide a pre-charge va... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090139761 | MULTILAYER PRINTED WIRING BOARD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF A multilayer printed wiring board is characterized in that the interlayer connection material in the via holes has a lower coefficient of thermal expansion in the thickness direction than the electrically insulating substrate made of insulating material; the interlayer ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090139419 | Printing Plate Attaching Device A tensing means for a tensing channel of a cylinder body comprises a clamping piece for clamping a first cover end and for clamping a second cover end between the clamping piece and a tensing piece, wherein at least one contact region of the clamping piece and/or tensin... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090138939 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFERRING ACCESS POLICIES FROM ACCESS EVENT RECORDS A method of security gateway policy definition to quickly infer a new policy based on event data extracted and analyzed using business logic and workflow from a gateway event log or behavior log. The method includes reading the components of a log record, translating th... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090138901 | OPTICAL PICKUP, OPTICAL ELEMENT, OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, COMPUTER, OPTICAL INFORMATION MEDIUM PLAYER, CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM, OPTICAL INFORMATION MEDIUM RECORDER AND OPTICAL DISK SERVER An optical pickup includes: a laser light source which outputs an divergent beam having an elliptical far-field pattern; a beam shaping element having at least one cylindrical plane and which shapes the divergent beam outputted from the laser light source into an diverg... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090138067 | Expandable supportive branched endoluminal grafts An endoluminal graft which is both expandable and supportive is provided in a form suitable for use in a branched body vessel location. The graft expands between a first diameter and a second, larger diameter. The support component is an expandable stent endoprosthesis.... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090137174 | FLAME-RETARDANT POLYMERIC COMPOSITIONS A flame-retarded polymeric composition is provided which contains a) a polyolefin, b) a mixture of a halogenated flame-retardant and zeolite, and optionally c) a synergist. Also provided is a flame and smoke-retarded polymeric composition containing a polyolefin and a m... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090137148 | Universal Insert A molded plastic insert having a socket and groove formed on an outer surface to cooperate with spring loaded plungers on one of a pair of mating parts to couple the mating parts. A pair of indentations formed on the outer edge of the insert to accommodate any electrica... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090136555 | PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A HOT-MELT EXTRUDED LAMINATE A process for the preparation of a bioadhesive laminate comprising a hot-melt extruded reservoir layer and a hot-melt extruded backing layer is provided. The reservoir layer comprises a thermoplastic bioadhesive composition containing an active agent. An active agent-co... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090136105 | RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND RETRIEVAL METHOD FOR RETRIEVING MEDICAL IMAGES A retrieval system for retrieving medical images is provided. The retrieval system includes an archive for storing medical images, a routing device for determining selected medical images stored in the archive and for routing the selected medical images based on routing... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090136093 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THERMAL ANOMALIES A system and method for detecting a thermal anomaly in humans and/or livestock. In one embodiment, the system includes an image capturing component that captures a visual image of incident light in a screening area, the image capturing component further operable to dete... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090136065 | COMPOSITE SPEAKER AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD A composite loudspeaker has a first loudspeaker and a second loudspeaker. The first loudspeaker has a first frame and a first voice coil, and the second loudspeaker has a second frame stacked on the first loudspeaker and a second voice coil. The first frame has first ex... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135974 | IMPULSE WAVEFORM GENERATING APPARATUS AND RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE WAVEFORM GENERATING APPARATUS An impulse waveform generating apparatus includes a multistage delay pulse signal generating part for generating a plurality of delay pulse signals by a timing signal; a signal source signal generating part for generating a signal source signal indicating the frequency ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135760 | MULTIMODE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD A multimode wireless communication apparatus that supports plural wireless communication systems and switches wireless communication systems to communicate. The apparatus includes a signal processor capable of switching wireless communication systems by plural manners; ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135687 | OPTICAL HEAD, CONTROL METHOD FOR OPTICAL HEAD, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS An optical head includes a hologram which extracts, from a luminous flux of reflected light from an optical disk, at least a first luminous flux branch which does not include the optical axis of the luminous flux; and a photodetector which receives the reflected light f... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135507 | TILT ADJUSTMENT LOCKING MECHANISM FOR A HEAD-MOUNTED NIGHT VISION DEVICE A mechanism for permitting selective adjustment of the angular position of a head-mounted night vision device is provided. The mechanism comprises a housing positioned adjacent the night vision device. A shaft defining a longitudinal axis is at least partially positione... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135506 | SCREW ACTUATED NIGHT VISION GOGGLE TILT MECHANISM A mechanism for adjusting the angular position of an optical device with respect to a field helmet is disclosed. The mechanism includes an optical device mounting component for coupling to the optical device. A field helmet mounting component is provided for coupling to... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135505 | MECHANISM FOR TRANSLATING A NIGHT VISION GOGGLE A mechanism for adjusting the position of an optical device with respect to a field helmet along an axis of translation is provided. The mechanism comprises an optical device mounting component for coupling to the optical device. A field helmet mounting component for co... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135453 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE READING DEVICE There is provided an image sensor in which an enlargement of a substrate width is not caused even in a case that a rod-shaped light source is provided on both sides of a resin lens plate, respectively, and in which a positional accuracy of component is superior. The ima... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135317 | ADDRESSABLE BACKLIGHT FOR LCD PANEL A display unit includes an LCD which receives an array of pixel data for displaying an image at a first dynamic range. A projector projects colored light of the image at a second dynamic range. The LCD combines the array of pixel data with the colored light to display t... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135246 | STEREO CAMERA It has a right camera, a left camera, a camera stay which holds the right camera and the left camera at predetermined positions, and an attachment portion having openings for fixing the camera stay to a vehicle, in which the openings are positioned at a plurality of vir... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135172 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA-DISPLAY-PANEL DRIVING METHOD In a plasma-display-panel driving method, a field period is divided into a plurality of sub fields, each of which has an address period for allowing discharge cells to selectively generate an address discharge and a sustain period for allowing the discharge cells having... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135004 | RECEIVING APPARATUS A receiving apparatus includes a receiving section for receiving a broadcast. The apparatus further includes a location detector for detecting the location of the receiving apparatus, a moving direction calculator for calculating a moving direction of the receiving appa... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090134738 | MOTOR AND APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE SAME In a stator core having “N” slots, a tooth-width centerline of a linear yoke and a first extension line extended horizontally from a center of rotary shaft toward the linear yoke form a first angle. Assume there are first point on the first extension line at a first... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090134735 | MOTOR HAVING TWIN-ROTOR AND APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME A motor includes a stator which includes a stator core having an annular stator yoke, a plurality of outer teeth projecting outward from the stator yoke and a plurality of inner teeth projecting inward from the stator yoke, and a plurality of windings wound on the stato... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090134312 | SLOTTED MICROCHANNEL PLATE (MCP) A microchannel plate (MCP) for an image intensifier includes an active portion having an input surface area for receiving electrons and an output surface area for outputting multiplied electrons. The input and output surface areas are oriented horizontally with respect ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090133179 | Helmet Mount for Night Vision Goggles A helmet mount for night vision apparatus wherein night vision goggles can be coupled and uncoupled to its power pack without the use of tools and wherein the power pack can be coupled and uncoupled to a helmet without the use of tools. When an aviator wearing a helmet ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090133178 | Night Vision Goggle Mount With Retractable Stops A helmet mount for night vision apparatus including a night vision goggle rotatable between operative and inoperative positions. Retractable stop means are included on the mount for obstructing the rotation of the goggle from its inoperative to operative position withou... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090132776 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING THE DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM AND INTERGRATED CIRCUIT A data processing device for processing stream data composed of a plurality of frames generated with encoded contents data, which includes a protected storage unit for storing data, being protected from external access, a non-protected storage unit for storing data, a r... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090131739 | EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD STIMULATION OF THE SPG Apparatus is provided for treating a condition of a subject, including a coil, which is configured to be positioned in a vicinity of a site selected from the group consisting of: a sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG), a greater palatine nerve, a lesser palatine nerve, a sphen... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090130276 | Polymeric Film Packaging A method of packaging ovenable fish or meat and which comprises the steps of providing a dual-ovenable thermoformable polymeric receiving film having a first and second surface and a dual-ovenable polymeric covering film having a first and second surface, wherein said r... | 05/21/2009 |
