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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7286870 | Optical system for measuring metabolism in a body and imaging method In an optical measurement system and imaging method adapted to measure in vivo information in a living body without harming the living body, light rays of a plurality of wavelengths which are modulated in intensity with a plurality of different frequencies are irrad... | 10/23/2007 |
| RE39823 | Vacuum processing operating method with wafers, substrates and/or semiconductors This invention relates to a vacuum processing apparatus having vacuum processing chambers the insides of which must be dry cleaned, and to a method of operating such an apparatus. When the vacuum processing chambers are dirty-cleaned, dummy substrates are transferre... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268760 | Emissive display using organic electroluminescent devices An emissive display having pixels delimited by a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of signal lines intersecting with each other. Each pixel includes a memory circuit having at least a first inverter circuit including an electroluminescent device and including ... | 09/11/2007 |
| RE39824 | Vacuum processing apparatus and operating method with wafers, substrates and/or semiconductors This invention relates to a vacuum processing apparatus having vacuum processing chambers the insides of which must be dry cleaned, and to a method of operating such an apparatus. When the vacuum processing chamber are dry-cleaned, dummy substrates are transferred i... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263216 | Pattern inspecting method and apparatus thereof, and pattern inspecting method on basis of electron beam images and apparatus thereof A pattern inspecting method and apparatus for inspecting a defect or defective candidate of patterns on a sample includes picking up an image of a sample by shifting a sampling position on the sample, measuring geometric distortion in an image of a standard sample, ... | 08/28/2007 |
| RE39776 | Vacuum processing apparatus and operating method with wafers, substrates and/or semiconductors This invention relates to a vacuum processing apparatus having vacuum processing chambers the insides of which must be dry cleaned, and to a method of operating such an apparatus. When the vacuum processing chambers are dry-cleaned, dummy substrates are transferred ... | 08/21/2007 |
| RE39775 | Vacuum processing operating method with wafers, substrates and/or semiconductors This invention relates to a vacuum processing apparatus having vacuum processing chambers the insides of which must be dry cleaned, and to a method of operating such an apparatus. When the vacuum processing chambers are dry-cleaned, dummy substrates are transferred ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7249707 | Bill depositing/dispensing apparatus A bill depositing/dispensing apparatus convenient to use and capable of readily adapting itself to operations to handle many denominations and/or a large number of bills or operations to sort and handle a small number of bills is to be provided. Storing boxes differ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245336 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes an illumination device, a light control element arranged at a projected light side of the illumination device, a reflective polarizer arranged at an upper portion of the light control element so that the transmission axis of ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239013 | Multilayer wiring board, method for producing the same, semiconductor device and radio electronic device A multilayer wiring board exhibiting excellent moldability and having a capacitor where variation of capacitance is suppressed, its producing method, a semiconductor device mounting a semiconductor chip on the multilayer wiring board, and a radio electronic device m... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237492 | Railway car drive system A railway car drive system comprising a first railway car mounting a power generator, a power converter, a driving motor and a power storage; a second railway car mounting a power converter, a driving motor and a power storage; and a power transmission connecting ea... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233304 | Liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal display apparatus comprises a liquid crystal display unit including a pair of substrates, at least one of which is transparent, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the pair of substrates, a plurality of electrodes for applying an electric field to ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7234087 | External storage device and memory access control method thereof High speed memory access and transparent error detection and correction using a single error correcting means are obtained. A host computer writes sector data in one of the first memory and second memory, and next sector data in the other of the first and second mem... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7224886 | Method of using AV devices and AV device system A plurality of devices and a device system are disclosed, in which a plurality of input devices generate an input AV signal, a related device records and reproduces the AV signal, and a display device displays the AV signal. The input devices, the related device and... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225122 | System and method for computer analysis of computer generated communications to produce indications and warning of dangerous behavior The present invention is a system and method for computer analysis of computer generated communications to produce indications and warnings of dangerous behavior. A method of computer analysis of computer generated communications in accordance with the invention, in... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225315 | High read performance file system and program To provide a file system including: a storage system having a plurality of volumes; a volume allocation table adapted to set the plurality of volumes for each directory; a file allocation table that stores attributes and divided block information of the file; a bloc... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218732 | Folding portable terminal In a folding portable terminal equipped with the imaging camera, in order to prevent deformation-induced damage to an imaging camera when the folding portable terminal is dropped and gets a strong shock, each face of a camera module housed in an imaging camera casin... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7214622 | Manufacturing method of semiconductor device In the assembly of a semiconductor device, improvement in the reliability of flip chip bonding is aimed at. By forming a dummy terminal in the end portion of the row of a plurality of terminals for a flip chip in the package substrate, the flow of flux or solder can... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7207083 | Electric vacuum cleaner The electric vacuum cleaner is disclosed which includes a main body within which an electric blower and cyclonic separation cylinder are provided. A dust collecting case is provided in communication with the cyclonic separation cylinder to receive dust that has been... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7208113 | Sealing material tablet method of manufacturing the tablet and electronic component device To provide a method of producing an encapsulating molding material tablet by which adhesion of an encapsulating molding material to the punch surface of a tablet forming machine can be reduced, an encapsulating molding material tablet produced by this method, and an... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209309 | Magnetic disk apparatus and method of controlling the same A magnetic disk apparatus includes a rotation mechanism for driving a magnetic disk, a magnetic head slider being floated in close proximity to a surface of the magnetic disk, a recording/reproduction element for performing recording and playback of information, a d... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209328 | Magnetic read head and hard disk drive A magnetic head using a tunneling magnetoresistance effect realizing both high output and wide bandwidth. By providing a magnetic read head and magnetic reading/playback apparatus related to the present invention characterized by comprising: a lower magnetic shield,... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204962 | Production apparatus for polybutylene terephthalate Polybutylene terephthalate having good heat stability and excellent hydrolysis resistance is continuously produced in a series of a first reactor for reacting an aromatic dicarboxylic acid comprising terephthalic acid as a main ingredient or a derivative thereof wit... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203101 | Semiconductor memory device and defect remedying method thereof A semiconductor memory device formed on a semiconductor chip comprises a plurality of first memory arrays, a plurality of second memory arrays, a first voltage generator, and a plurality of first bonding pads. The semiconductor chip is divided into a first rectangle... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7202570 | Circuit tape having adhesive film semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device having a superior connection reliability is obtained by providing a buffer body for absorbing the difference of thermal expansion between the mounting substrate and the semiconductor element in a semiconductor package structure, even if an org... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7202283 | Method for dissolving saturated polyester solution for decomposing saturated polyester and method for decomposition using the same The present invention provides a dissolution method for saturated polyester capable of recycling saturated polyester used in fibers, a film, a bottle and others with ease and a low cost, a solution decomposing saturated polyester and a decomposition method using the... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201551 | Vacuum processing apparatus and semiconductor manufacturing line using the same A vacuum processing apparatus is composed of a cassette block and a vacuum processing block. The cassette block has a cassette table for mounting a plurality of cassettes containing a sample and an atmospheric transfer means. The vacuum processing block has a plural... | 04/10/2007 |
| D540320 | Computer | 04/10/2007 |
| 7202842 | Display apparatus The present invention comprises: a display unit having a plurality of display elements arranged in a matrix; a drive voltage generating circuit for generating a drive voltage for driving the plurality of display elements; a dataline drive circuit for generating a si... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200725 | Storage remote copy system In the conventional storage system, consistency is ensured only for writing from a single storage. Asynchronous remote copying and local replication are also alternately suspended in the conventional system, so that the suspension time increases and the volume in wh... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200470 | Train detection system and a train detection method A train detection system includes transmitters receivers connected to a track circuit for transmitting and receiving a train detecting signal to and from the track circuit, and a control device on the ground, which transmits the train detecting signal to the transmi... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200274 | Encoding and decoding method and apparatus using plus and/or minus rounding of images An image decoding method is utilized to obtain high quality images without error accumulation. Such an image decoding method comprises receiving an encoded bitstream including information of P and B frames, and executing motion compensation by synthesizing a predict... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200054 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device A semiconductor integrated circuit device with reduced consumption current is provided. A first step-down circuit stationarily forms internal voltage lower than supply voltage supplied through an external terminal. A second step-down circuit is switched between firs... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199955 | Decoding apparatus and decoding method In a coding method which does not restrict a run length of “1” while data is recorded/reproduced, there are such a drawback that when an error correction is carried out, a total number of error data to be corrected is increased, and also errors of not-detectable... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199871 | Refractometer and method for measuring refractive index The invention relates to a refractometer and to a refractive index measuring method. The invention directs an incident light ray onto an interface of a medium of known refractive index and of the medium studied, then measuring the intensity of the reflected light ra... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199714 | Verification method of goods using IC tags and equipment using the method In goods genuineness/counterfeit discrimination using IC tags, contradictory problems of the reliability and lifetime of the IC tags and the accuracy of goods genuineness/counterfeit discrimination are solved and circulation of goods mounted with defective IC tags i... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199648 | Semiconductor integrated circuit including first and second switching transistors having operation states corresponding to operation states of first and second logic circuits A semiconductor integrated circuit is provided having first and second logic circuits coupled to first and second sub-power supply lines, respectively. First and second switching transistors are also provided to connect the first and second sub-power supply lines to... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199432 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device Interconnections are formed over an interlayer insulating film which covers MISFETQ1 formed on the principal surface of a semiconductor substrate, while dummy interconnections are disposed in a region spaced from such interconnections. Dummy interconnections ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7198601 | Ultrasonic contrast medium imaging apparatus and method An ultrasonic enhanced-contrast imager includes an ultrasonic probe for transmitting an ultrasonic wave to an organism and receiving an ultrasonic wave from the organism, a transmitting section for transmitting an ultrasonic signal to the ultrasonic probe, a receivi... | 04/03/2007 |
