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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184506 | Near-field optical head with inclined magnetic poles and information recording/reproducing device A near-field optical head has a slider with first and second inclined surfaces that confront a magnetic recording medium during recording and reproduction of information. A recording element is formed on one of the first and second inclined surfaces and includes mai... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183582 | Bare die semiconductor device configured for lamination A bare die semiconductor device, e.g., a bare die LED, includes a substrate having a bottom face and a bottom die electrode. There is also a top face having a top face edge, a top face area, a top face periphery and a top die electrode. A semiconductor material prov... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174659 | Color filter substrate and color display device including the same A color filter substrate has unit pixels each having an area of 0.1 mm2 or more. Each unit pixel is formed of sub-pixels having a different color from one another and having areas that are substantially equal to one another. Each sub-pixel is formed of a ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172166 | Roll mill with automatic control of roll-to-roll distance and inter-roll pressure A roll mill for a milling-dispersing treatment has a fixed roll fixed to a frame, and a transfer roll displaceable into and out of contact with the fixed roll in a direction perpendicular to the fixed roll by a servomotor and a ball screw. A laser sensor disposed be... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171979 | Method for producing carbon nanocomposite metal material and method for producing metal article molded therefrom A method for producing a carbon nanocomposite metal material with increased carbon nanomaterial dispersibility and increased binding between carbon nanomaterial and matrix metal stock is disclosed. A preform obtained by mixing a matrix metal stock and microparticula... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169452 | Thermal head and printer A thermal head has a heat storage layer bonded onto a surface of the substrate, a heating resistor provided on the heat storage layer, and a pair of electrode portions connected to the heating resistor. The heating resistor has a heating portion which does not overl... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162459 | Ink cartridge and residual amount display method An ink cartridge has an ink bag which changes in thickness in accordance with a change in an amount of ink. The bag is accommodated in a housing having a guide groove and a window portion. A plate is mounted on the bag for movement therewith and has a pin undergoing... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162451 | Pressure buffer, ink-jet head, and ink-jet recording apparatus A pressure buffer is disposed in an ink supply path that connects an ink supply source to an ink-jet head to suppress pressure fluctuations due to vibrations created by movement of a carriage. The pressure buffer includes a chamber having an ink flow inlet through w... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161568 | Self displacement sensing cantilever and scanning probe microscope A cantilever has a probe portion and a cantilever portion having a free end portion from which the probe portion extends. A displacement detecting portion detects a displacement of the cantilever portion according to an interaction between a sample and the probe por... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157354 | Head chip, liquid jet head, and liquid jet device A head chip has an actuator plate having a plurality of grooves, a drive electrode formed on each of the side walls of the grooves, and a cover plate which has an introduction aperture. A nozzle plate is fixed to an end surface of the actuator plate through an adhes... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8153320 | Pressure regulating valve, fuel cell system using same, and hydrogen generating facility A pressure regulating valve comprises a first pressure deformation portion which receives a pressure on a fuel demand side, a second pressure deformation portion opposed to the first pressure deformation portion and which receives a predetermined pressure, first and... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152394 | Printer with a cutter having a pushing portion for moving the fixed blade away from the movable blade In order to reliably and promptly release bite of a fixed blade and a movable blade with a simple manipulation without being influenced by a state of paper jam of a recording sheet, provided is a printer capable of performing printing on a recording sheet and then c... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152266 | Inkjet recording apparatus To provide a method of effectively reducing the amount of ink droplets remaining on a nozzle surface after a cleaning operation, and an inkjet recording apparatus capable of shortening an entire processing time of an initial filling operation and a cleaning operatio... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8139445 | Stepping motor control circuit and analog electronic watch A stepping motor control circuit includes a rotation detecting means which detects an induced signal generated by rotation of a rotor of a stepping motor, and detects a rotation state of the stepping motor according to whether the induced signal exceeds a predetermi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134173 | Lighting device having light emitting element mounted in glass substrate A lighting device has a glass substrate and a lead frame embedded in the glass substrate. The glass substrate has a front surface, a side surface and a rear surface, the front surface having a recess portion with a bottom surface. The lead frame has a portion expose... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131500 | Pedometer To be able to measure a step number without carrying out an operation processing for selecting a walking sensor in a pedometer using a plurality of walking sensors having sensitivity axes different from each other. OR means converts walking signals inputted in paral... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131202 | Image forming apparatus having spur unit for regulating conveyance of sheet An image forming apparatus has an image transferring portion for transferring an image onto a sheet, an image fixing portion for fixing the transferred image to the sheet, a sheet conveyor portion arranged between the image transferring portion and the image fixing ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129820 | Semiconductor device A bipolar transistor for semiconductor device has a collector region having a first conductivity type disposed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate having the first conductivity type. A base region having a second conductivity type is disposed in the collector ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129730 | Solid state light sheet and bare die semiconductor circuits with series connected bare die circuit elements An electronically active sheet includes a bottom substrate having a bottom electrically conductive surface. A top substrate having a top electrically conductive surface is disposed facing the bottom electrically conductive surface. An electrical insulator separates ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129066 | Fuel cell exhibiting enhanced hydrogen distribution density This invention provides a fuel battery comprising a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, an anode-side catalyst body and a cathode-side catalyst body disposed respectively on both sides of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane, and a fuel guide part in which the ano... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129063 | Hydrogen production apparatus with solution feed control to eliminate build-up of products on a solid reactant A hydrogen production apparatus 1 is constructed in which when work 3 is close to a supply hole 7, a strut 22 is pushed to open the supply hole 7, and when erosion of the work 3 progresses to cause the strut 22 to pro... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128207 | Head chip, liquid jet head, liquid jet recording device, and method of manufacturing the head chip A head chip for a liquid jet recording device has a pair of piezoelectric elements that form a liquid jet channel therebetween, a common electrode formed on a surface of each piezoelectric element on the liquid jet channel side, and a drive electrode formed on an op... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127427 | Quartz crystal unit, quartz crystal oscillator having quartz crystal unit, and electronic apparatus having quartz crystal oscillator A quartz crystal oscillator has an amplifier, a capacitor, a resistor and a quartz crystal unit comprised of a case, a quartz crystal tuning fork resonator vibratable in a flexural mode and a lid connected to the case. At least one groove with a first surface opposi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127426 | Electronic apparatus having quartz crystal oscillating circuits An electronic apparatus has a display portion, and first and second oscillating circuits each having a quartz crystal resonator, the quartz crystal resonator of each of the first and second oscillating circuits vibrating in a different mode from each other. One of t... | 03/06/2012 |
| D655425 | Retaining wall corner block | 03/06/2012 |
| 8124932 | Charged particle beam apparatus and method adjusting axis of aperture A charged particle beam apparatus includes a charged particle source, an aperture, an object lens, an observing unit, an aperture driving portion, and a control portion. The control portion includes a spot pattern forming portion that forms a plurality of spot patte... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122591 | Manufacturing method for a heating resistor element component In order to provide a manufacturing method for a heating resistor element component, with which an insulating film (undercoat) can be easily handled, damage caused in the insulating film can be reduced, and a high yield can be ensured, the manufacturing method compr... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122587 | Manufacturing method of quartz crystal unit A method for manufacturing a quartz crystal unit comprises the steps of adjusting an oscillation frequency of a quartz crystal tuning fork resonator that is vibratable in a flexural mode of an inverse phrase and that has first and second quartz crystal tuning fork t... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8119312 | Manufacturing method for a semiconductor device In a manufacturing method for divisionally exposing a wafer, a focus correction processing is performed after a shot is moved to a position where the focus correction processing for all foci is enabled when the shot is at a wafer outer periphery, and a portion overl... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8113656 | Ophthalmic photography apparatus A monocular image of a fundus of an eye under examination is captured via a photographic stop for monocular photography, and two stereographically viewed images are captured with a parallax via two photographic stops for stereographic photography that are decentered... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111587 | Watch with calendar mechanism equipped with month indicator and date indicator The present invention aims to provide a watch with a calendar mechanism which allows a reduction in the thickness of a date feeding mechanism and a month feeding mechanism. In a watch with a calendar mechanism according to the present invention, a date indicator inc... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111274 | Thermal printer A thermal printer has a thermal head pivotally mounted on a main body frame to pivot toward and away from a platen roller. The platen roller has shaft bearings at opposite ends thereof that are removably inserted in two spaced-apart opposed slots formed in the main ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111273 | Thermal head, printer, and manufacturing method for thermal head To achieve improvements in heating efficiency and strength against external load, provided is a thermal head (1), comprising: a supporting substrate (3) having a surface in which a concave portion (2) is formed; a heat storage layer (5) b... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111079 | Conductivity measuring apparatus and conductivity measuring method A conductivity measuring apparatus includes a probe base having a pair of electrodes disposed on respective opposite surfaces of a portion of the probe base. Observing and grasping probes are supported by the probe base in a cantilever state and are arranged adjance... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111033 | Stepping motor control circuit and analog electronic timepiece The present invention aims to prevent a nonrotation state from being brought about even when a drive allowance is changed by variations in a stepping motor or the like. A pulse down counter circuit outputs pulse down control signal for subjecting main drive pulse to... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110288 | Carbon nanocomposite material comprising a SiC film coating, and method of manufacturing the same A carbon nanocomposite material comprises a carbon nanomaterial and Si powder having an average particle diameter of 10 μm or less vacuum-vapor deposited on a surface of the carbon nanomaterial as a film of SiC. The film of SiC has an average thickness in the range... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106668 | Proximity detector and proximity detecting method A proximity detector detects the approach of an object based on a stray capacitance. A differential electrode has an apparent stray capacitance that varies in response to an approaching object. An individual capacitance detector detects an individual stray capacitan... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102163 | Voltage regulator Provided is a voltage regulator which can achieve high-speed response and is not susceptible to a ripple. An amplifier (19) and an amplifier (23) provide push-pull output to an output transistor (14). Therefore, even when an idling current is sm... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098267 | Thermal printer apparatus and printing method To provide a thermal printer apparatus and a printing method that can be adapted to different types of thermal paper having different thermal conductivity characteristics, a dot data memory 3 stores dot data for each line in synchronization with line sequenti... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096953 | Organism information detecting apparatus An organism information detecting apparatus includes a detector that detects organism information of a subject for a predetermined sampling time period, determines a motion state of the subject when the organism information is detected, and outputs an organism signa... | 01/17/2012 |
