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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5292162 | Receptacle carrying device A carrying device is provided for a bucket-type receptacle having an open upper end with an outstanding rim thereabout. The carrying device consists of a ring which encompasses the bucket-type receptacle under the outstanding rim, a U-shaped handle to be ... | 03/08/1994 |
| 4941137 | Timepiece with mobile decorations A timepiece with mobile decorations includes a casing incorporating a timepiece movement; a drive motor encased in the casing and functioning at arbitrarily set hours; a dial disposed in front of the casing and bilaterally openable and closable about a fi... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4853679 | Method and apparatus for detecting surface discontinuities Grooves can be detected on both sides of non-magnetic materials, preferably in terry fabric, carpets, blankets, or the like. A sensor is provided, which can be either inductive or capacitive, and is positioned on one side of the material opposite a rotata... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4717315 | Small size axial-flow molecular pump using a magnetic bearing An axial-flow molecular pump has a first active magnetic bearing for axially supporting and controlling a pump member comprised of a set of permanent magnets on the upper end of the pump member cooperating with a set of permanent magnets fixedly mounted a... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4710908 | Servo apparatus for compensating for warp and deflection deviations on optical discs Apparatus for compensating for physical deviations due to warp and surface deflections in optical discs during optical recording and reproducing operations. Focus error signals are developed corresponding to the individual addresses of the physical deviat... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4682196 | Multi-layered semi-conductor photodetector A semiconductor device, which is formed by a sequential lamination of a first semiconductor layer having a carrier concentration more than 1017 cm-3, a second semiconductor layer having a carrier concentration less than 1016 | 07/21/1987 |
| 4678277 | Method of discrimination in spectrometry The invention relates to a method of discrimination in spectrometry, particularly of eliminating phenomena of fluorescence in Raman spectrometry. According to the invention, a sample (6) is excited by a luminous pulse (5) generated from a laser (1). The l... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4677988 | Method and apparatus for measuring microwave noise The invention relates to an impedance adaptation control process in low noise reception chains and a miniature microwave thermometer of application of the said process. The process is used mainly in order to measure internal temperature by microwave therm... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4677213 | 2,5-diamino-1,4-dioxane derivatives and process for production thereof Dioxane derivatives are disclosed which are represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein, R stands for a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic residue having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; R1 and R2 stand for a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4677479 | System for re-quantization of coded picture signals A coded picture signal re-quantization system, in which a parameter such as a variance or a mean value of picture element values in a region to be re-quantized is calculated on the basis of sub-sampled picture element values and, according to this paramet... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4674071 | Data recording area signal generating method and apparatus The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for generating a data recording area signal in order to define an appointed data recording area on a data storing medium which has a multitude of sectors with high information density recorded by means of... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4669471 | Forceps device for use in an endoscope A forceps device for use in an endoscope is described. The device comprises a pair of forceps cups capable of closing and opening, a link member, an operating wire, and a flexible tube. Pivot pins for connecting the forceps cups to the link, the link to t... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4668068 | Automatic focus adjustment apparatus An automatic focus adjustment apparatus adapted for use with cameras includes an automatic focusing means for shifting an imaging objective for automatic focusing in response to an output signal from a pair of photo-detectors which receives light radiated... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4667977 | Method of manufacturing laminated skis with built-in metal blades, and skis thus obtained This method of manufacturing laminated skis by the so-called wet process consists in incorporating at least one metal blade or a sheet of high-strength fibres among the strata, the width of the blade or sheet being inferior to that of the ski, and the wid... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4666312 | Table clock A table clock characterized in that two pendulum rods are swingably supported on either side of a support body in symmetrical positional relation, bobs are attached to the lower ends of the respective pendulum rods, the upper end portions of the two pendulum rods a... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665527 | Distributed feedback semiconductor laser A distributed feedback semiconductor laser, in which a DFB region is formed by a plurality of first semiconductor layers and a plurality of second semiconductor layers larger in energy gap than the first semiconductor layers which are alternately arranged... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4662488 | Control system for a clutch interposed between input and output shafts of hydrodynamic power transmitting device An automatic transmission for a vehicle change-speed gear mechanism connected to an output shaft of a hydro-dynamic power transmitting device, and a clutch capable of connecting the input and output shafts of the hydro-dynamic power transmitting device, a... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4662721 | Ferro-electric liquid crystal electro-optical device A ferro-electric liquid crystal electro-optical device comprising two plates having electrodes, and ferro-electric liquid crystals, for example, chiral smetic crystals, sandwiched between the plates. The inner surface of one of the two plates has a uni-ax... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4660885 | Adjusting mechanism for the step-wise locking height adjustment of backrest of work chair Adjusting mechanism for the step-wise height adjustment of the backrest of a work chair comprises two U-form guide bars embracing side edges of a rectangular support arm extending up from the seat of the chair. A C-form slide, on which the backrest is mou... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4660949 | Automatic film sensitivity setting device for cameras An automatic film sensitivity setting device for cameras in which film sensitivity indicated in coded form on a loaded film package is automatically read in by electric signal terminals and introduced to an exposure control circuit as a parameter for the ... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4660934 | Method for manufacturing diffraction grating A method for manufacturing diffraction grating, in which after forming, on a substrate, one of a negative type photoresist film (an N film) and a positive type photoresist film (a P film) to cover a first region A and the other of the negative type photor... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4661457 | Method for cultivation of pseudomonas bacteria Cells of Pseudomonas bacteria having a high nitrile hydratase activity can be obtained in a high yield by adding to a culture medium cysteine and (or) cystine in the preparation of cells of bacteria having nitrile hydratase activity by cultivating under n... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4661456 | Method for cultivation of pseudomonas bacteria Cells of Pseudomonas bacteria having a high nitrile hydratase activity can be obtained in a high yield by adding to a culture medium at least one -amino acid, except for cysteine or cystine alone and a combination of these -amino acids alone... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4661062 | Dental handpiece contra-angle head This contra-angle head of a dental handpiece comprises means for axially locking the dental instrument, in the form of a hollow guide member enclosing the upper portion of the driving pinion inside the head casing, this guide member being mounted for axia... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4658944 | Disc clutch mechanism for a magnetic disc apparatus of cartridge type A magnetic disc clutch mechanism comprises a housing for receiving a cartridge in which a magnetic disc is rotatably disposed. The housing has a base, an opening, and a door movable to close and open the opening. A spindle assembly is slidably mounted on ... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4659971 | Robot controlling system A robot control system comprises a hand movable along a plane according to position command data determined based on an absolute coordinate system arranged along the plane, and rotatable around an axis vertical to the plane according to angular command da... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4657404 | Alarm signaling time indicating mechanism for an alarm clock An hour detection wheel and a minute detection wheel for detecting an alarm signaling time are provided in combination with an hour time wheel and a minute time wheel respectively. An alarm signaling time indicating block having a minute indication drum c... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4657049 | Tubular body composed of reinforced thermosetting polymer A reinforced composite tubular body comprises a metallic reinforcement of helical convolutions completely embedded in a tubular body of thermosetting polymer which has a coefficient of elongation at rupture less than 15%. The reinforcement comprises at le... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4657427 | System of coupling of the head of a counter-angle to the body of counter-angle System of coupling of the head of a drive unit to the body of a driven unit, characterized in that, the head bears a longitudinal key having two slopes inclined in relation to the axis of the head, and the body has a guiding or key-way groove for this key... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4656458 | Motion sensor Disclosed is a motion sensor for sensing movement of an object to be monitered, the motion sensor comprising a support disk having a concave upper surface, a ball rotatably put on the support disk, and a piezoelectric element attached on the support disk.... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4655979 | Process for production of cellular concrete A novel process is provided for producing prefoam type cellular concrete articles, which uses a foamed slurry (E) consisting essentially of an aqueous slurry (A) of a calcium silicate-based cement compound, an aqueous slurry (B) of a calcium aluminate-bas... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4655692 | Ejector pump having pressure operated motive fluid valve and electromagnetic change-over valve Herein disclosed is an ejector pump which can be used favorably with a sucking disk for carrying an article. In the bore of a pump body, there are fitted a nozzle block having a nozzle hole and an ejector block which has an ejector hole aligned with the n... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4655678 | Combined turbo-molecular pump A turbo-molecular pump has a housing containing a plurality of stationary plates which are alternately arranged with respect to a plurality of rotary plates connected to a rotationally driven rotor. Spiral flow grooves all having the same winding directio... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4655635 | Sand scattering device for artificial lawn A device for scattering and simultaneously filling sand into turf spaces of an artificial lawn spread on a base comprises a truck caused to run on the artificial lawn by a drive source, a hopper mounted on the truck for storing sand, and a rotary brush fo... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4655618 | Needle bearing and in particular a needle sleeve having a reinforced seal A needle bearing, and in particular a needle sleeve, comprising an outer ring (1) in which are mounted needles (2) contained in a cage (3), sealing means being provided at the ends of the outer ring, wherein said sealing means comprise a sealing element (... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4655568 | Automatic film sensitivity setting device for camera An automatic film sensitivity setting device uses part of electrical contacts provided on a film patrone of CAS system to produce from two-bit information a voltage signal indicating the film sensitivity index for the exposure control circuit of a camera.... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4655266 | Beverage vending machine A beverage vending machine having a cup magazine for delivery of cups individually to a readiness position for receiving a metered amount or quantity of a beverage ingredient, either in liquid or solid form, for formulation of a beverage. A metering devic... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4653846 | Optical fiber hermetic fixing structure of feedthrough for optical submarine repeater An optical fiber hermetic fixing structure of a feedthrough for an optical submarine repeater in which at least one optical fiber is introduced into a fluid-tight pressure-resistant housing of an optical marine repeater. Optical fibers are introduced and ... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4654883 | Radio transmitter and receiver device having a headset with speaker and microphone A radio transmitter and receiver device in which a head band has a transmitting microphone at one end and a receiving speaker at the other end. This microphone comprises a bone transmission type microphone for detecting aural oscillation of an external au... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4652935 | Graded facsimile image signal coding system A graded facsimile image signal coding system is disclosed which is provided with means for distributing a multi-graded facsimile picture signal, represented by 2n gradation levels, into n bit planes corresponding to n digits; initial encoding ... | 03/24/1987 |
