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...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185765 | Storage apparatus and its power saving control method Provided are a storage apparatus and its power saving control method capable of performing sufficient power saving to multiple memory devices without deteriorating the response performance to a host system. If multiple logical volumes formed in disk drives configuri... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185570 | Three-term input floating-point adder-subtractor The adder-subtractor includes a pre-processing circuit which divides three inputted terms into a mantissa having an exponent of maximum value, mantissa having an exponent of intermediate value and mantissa having an exponent of minimum magnitude and outputting a man... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185216 | Plant controlling device and method, thermal power plant, and its control method A controlling device that includes a model that predicts the value of a measured signal obtained when an operation signal is given to a thermal power generation plant, a function that learns a method of generating a model input such that a model output satisfies the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184976 | Passive optical network system and operating method thereof The passive optical network includes a master station and slave stations connected via an optical fiber network including an optical splitter and a plurality of optical fibers. The master station includes a bandwidth control unit which decides a volume of a transmis... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184975 | Passive optical network system and optical line terminator In a passive optical network system in which signals from a master station to plural slave stations are time-division multiplexed and transmitted, the slave stations different in transmission speed are mixedly contained. The master station (OLU) performs ranging for... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184957 | Video recording method and video recording device An increase in the number of files to be managed is suppressed as much as possible even if the number of video recording is increased when the video is recorded on a recording medium. A file is produced according to a format based on a BDMV-s standard that is so def... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184950 | Recording apparatus optical disk and computer-readable recording medium Arrangements including a specifying unit for specifying a local recording time in a location where the data has been recorded, in accordance with in accordance with the data recording time information (REC_TM), the time zone information (TM_ZONE), and the recording ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184949 | Recording apparatus optical disk and computer-readable recording medium A reproduction apparatus includes a specifying unit for specifying a local recording time in a location where the data first or last recorded on the data group has been recorded while the data is reproduced, and wherein the specifying means calculates, by (REC_TM)âˆ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184948 | Recording apparatus optical disk and computer-readable recording medium Data management information includes: recording time zone information (REC_TM_ZONE) at a time of recording data, indicating a time difference between the world standard time (Greenwich Mean Time) and a standard time in a location where the data of the group data for... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184700 | Image decoder The present invention relates to an image decoder which implements high speed image decoding with a low cost and simple configuration. By a stream dividing module, an input video stream is divided in units of frames as a plurality of frame rows for distribution. Eac... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184634 | Packet transfer method and node apparatus In a L2VPN, where Ethernet frames are encapsulated and transferred, when an edge node disposed at an entrance of the L2VPN encapsulates an Ethernet frame, the data type of the payload of the Ethernet frame is checked. If the payload data type includes time-to-live (... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184575 | Packet communication network and subscriber-associated-information delivery controller In a packet communication network comprising an MNO network, and an MVNO network including an application server for providing an information service to wireless terminals via the MNO network, the MNO network includes a subscriber-associated-information delivery con... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184518 | Optical disc apparatus and method for controlling the same In recording or reproducing data on or from an optical disc with recording multi-layers, the focusing is likely to be out of control when an inter-layer jumping is carried out for changing a recording layer on or from which data is to be recorded or reproduced to an... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184514 | Signal quality evaluating apparatus and method, and information recording medium A signal quality evaluating method necessary for a signal quality evaluation index and a margin design is provided for an apparatus utilizing hologram recording techniques. An evaluation index is used being obtained by dividing root sum square of standard deviations... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184509 | Optical pickup device and optical disk device using the same Of the beams reflected by an optical disk, only peripheral beams excluding the push-pull region are used to generate a DPD signal in order to optimize internal wire connections among the light receiving areas of the optical detector and thereby reduce the amplificat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184252 | Image display device An image display device includes a display panel having plural pixels and a second board having a transmitting electrode, the display panel having a first substrate that is disposed so as to overlap the second board, each pixel having a pixel electrode and a counter... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184090 | Display device A display device which incorporates a touch panel function therein can reduce the number of elements which constitute a photo sensor circuit and can accurately detect an input coordinate position without requiring a particular coordinate arithmetic circuit. In a dis... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184035 | Insulated ultrafine powder and high dielectric constant resin composite material The present invention provides an insulated ultrafine powder containing electrically conductive ultrafine particles coated with an insulation coating, characterized in that the electrically conductive ultrafine particles are formed of a carbon material which is in t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183770 | Light emitting display A color light emitting display includes light-emitting devices of a plurality of red, green and blue pixels disposed in a matrix form. The light-emitting display takes out light from a side opposite to a substrate on which the light-emitting devices are formed. A wa... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183758 | Liquid crystal display device with the mixture of the plural kinds of green phosphors An object of the present invention is to provide a moving picture displayable liquid crystal display device capable of attaining satisfactory moving picture characteristics, color reproducibility and reliability at the same time. A liquid crystal display device acco... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183681 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device which includes a semiconductor chip; an electrically conductive base electrode bonded to the lower surface of the chip by a first bonding member; an electrically conductive lead electrode bonded to the upper surface of the chip by a second bon... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183607 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device features a semiconductor chip including a MOSFET, a first electrode of the MOSFET disposed on an obverse surface of the chip, a second, control electrode of the MOSFET disposed on the obverse surface, a third electrode of the MOSFET disposed o... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183091 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device and process for manufacturing the same A semiconductor IC includes grooves formed in a substrate to define a first dummy region and second dummy regions formed at a scribing area, and third dummy regions and a fourth dummy region formed at a product area. A width of the first dummy region is greater than... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182957 | Fuel cell, polymer electrolyte and ion-exchange resin for the same A fuel cell includes an electrode assembly, current collectors, and electroconductive separators. The electrode assembly includes an anode, a cathode, and a polymer electrolyte membrane arranged between the anode and cathode. The current collectors are arranged adja... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182610 | Cleaning equipment and cleaning method of deposition mask Equipment is realized which is capable of increasing the frequency of use of a deposition mask of an organic EL element and the recycle of an adhesive agent by efficiently cleaning the deposition mask with little damage and efficiently collecting the adhesive agent.... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182097 | Projection type image display apparatus A projection type image display apparatus includes an image display element, a projection unit including a first lens group and a second lens group formed with a plural number of lenses, a reflection mirror configured to reflect light emitted from the second lens gr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181844 | Method for the permanent connection of two components by means of glass or metal solder The invention is a method for permanent connection of two components by soldering employing a glass or metal solder as the solder material. A layer system providing adhesion is applied to both components, between which the solder material is introduced. the layer sy... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660335 | Fixation device for a sample case for an electron microscope | 05/22/2012 |
| D660323 | Engine cover for construction machine | 05/22/2012 |
| D660192 | Airflow sensor | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181190 | Optical disc apparatus In an optical disc apparatus, convex portions are provided on the inner surface of a top cover that covers the top surface side of the apparatus such that the convex portions are directly opposite or directly above a flexible printed circuit board during the slide-i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181024 | Data processing apparatus In the configuration performing a data processing by a hardware processing circuit (accelerator), to provide a technology capable of improving a poorness of processing efficiency by multiple accesses to the data, the following solving means are provided. A network d... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180962 | Performance managed computer, program and method for a storage system Since the threshold excess is judged by a value of high-workload IO of backup that is designed on the assumption that the workload of storage is high, whether the performance limit has been reached remains uncertain. Furthermore, although an optimistic prediction tr... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180197 | Method and apparatus for recording/reproducing digital video signal or audio signal, and optical disk apparatus A disk-like recording medium recording/reproducing method or apparatus for performing a data recording operation and a data reproducing operation to the disk-like recording medium alternately. The recording operation is performed at a constant linear velocity, and w... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179620 | Optical module An optical module according to the present invention comprises an optical element; and a multilayer insulating substrate which is a lamination of a plurality of single-layer insulating substrates and has a light transmission hole for passing light emitted from the o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179497 | Liquid crystal display device An object of the present invention is to provide a simply configured liquid crystal display device capable of providing a high front luminance when light obliquely enters a micro lens array. The liquid crystal display device comprises: a pair of polarizing plates wh... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179249 | Air compressor In an air compressor which can cope with an item to be replaced which is not a manufacturer's recommended item so as to enhance the safety, there is provided, as an example, an air compressor comprising a compressor body for compressing air, an item to be replaced (... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179218 | Magnetizing system and superconducting magnet to be magnetized therewith A magnet magnetizing system and a superconducting magnet to be magnetized, for magnetizing a superconducting magnet to be magnetized, comprises: a magnetizing magnetic field generating means for generating and distinguishing a static magnetic field; a cooling means ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178716 | Method of crystallization The present invention relates to a multi-stage crystallization process which comprises the steps of feeding a solution of terephthalic acid or a slurry (raw slurry) containing terephthalic acid partially precipitated to a first crystallization vessel to precipitate ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178305 | Method of analyzing biochemical A method of highly sensitive and quantitative luminescent analysis with the use of a detection device using a micro-channel and carrying a molecule which is capable of capturing a substance to be detected and bonded to a solid phase. A biochemical to be detected is ... | 05/15/2012 |
