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A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6552304 | Temperature control method and system for thermal fixing unit, and image forming apparatus Method and apparatus for controlling a temperature of a thermal fixing unit which is for the purpose of maintaining the balance between a fixing rate and the occurrence of wrinkles even if a distance between paper sheets greatly varies within a printer. W... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6550657 | Apparatus and method of paper separation for image formation apparatus A method and an apparatus of paper separation are provided which permit a secure and reliable auto-loading operation of paper separation with a less complex mechanism of the apparatus. The paper separation apparatus has a paper separation body for separat... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6481215 | Sealing device for gas compressor-expander In a gas compressor-expander according to the invention, a partition wall 19 between a space 21 in the rear of a piston and a crank chamber 12 has a piston rod 22 slidably extending therethrough and a seal device 9 surrounding the piston rod 22. The seal ... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6472703 | Semiconductor memory device and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor memory device comprises a silicon layer having a first diffused region and a second diffused region formed therein, a gate electrode formed through an insulating film on one side of the silicon layer between the first and the second diffus... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6471418 | Optical connector An optical connector consists of a ferrule unit including an optical fiber, a ferrule rigidly fitted to one end of the optical fiber, and a spring placed around the optical fiber which abuts at one end against the ferrule, a plug housing which receives th... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6467726 | Aircraft and torque transmission An aircraft including an airframe having a fuselage which extends longitudinally, and having fixed wings including a main wing, a horizontal tail wing and a vertical tail wing. A propeller-rotor torque transmission has a bevel gear which transmits the rot... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6432806 | Method of forming bumps and template used for forming bumps A method of manufacturing a template having through-holes for attracting and supporting electrically conductive balls by vacuum suction is disclosed. The through-holes are formed by etching and the side walls of the through-holes are smoothed by irradiati... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6426772 | Video encoder A next input image selector 8 specifies a time at which an input image to be processed next is to be input immediately after finishing an encoding of one image. An input video capture 1 obtains an image of which input time has been specified and sends thi... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6427136 | Sound device for expansion station A sound device includes a silent state detecting unit for detecting a silent state in a sound signal supplied by a personal computer; and a sound production preventing unit for preventing a sound from being produced from the sound signal supplied by the p... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6424715 | Digital content management system and apparatus There are provided a digital content management apparatus which further embodies a digital content management apparatus used with a user terminal, and a system which protects the secrets of a digital content. The system and the apparatus are a real time o... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6423028 | Process for generating a pulsatile stream of a pulsed-suctioned sterile fluid jet and resulting pulsed jet for a handpiece, in particular for surgical use The process consists in generating a firing pulse pattern characterized in that it implements a pressurized liquid channel and a pneumatic aspiration channel and in that the periodic firing of the pressurized jet is controlled during the periodic applicat... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6414743 | Exposure apparatus, exposure method using the same and method of manufacture of circuit device An exposure method for irradiating a mask with an illumination light through an illumination optical system and exposing photosensitive substrate to the illumination light through a projection optical system including the steps of supplying gas having les... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6414375 | Semiconductor device with metal silicide film on partial area of substrate surface and its manufacture method First and second regions are defined in a principal surface of a semiconductor substrate. Two projected structures are disposed on the principal surface of the first region and spaced apart by a certain distance. The two projected structures run on a firs... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6410773 | Sulfonic acid ester derivatives, method for production thereof and use thereof Novel and useful optical active 2-aralkyl-3-sulfonyloxy-1-propanol and 2-aralkyl-3-sulfonyloxypropionic acid are provided by using an optical active 2-aralkyl-3-acyloxy-1-propanol as a starting material. Furthermore, an optical active 2-aralkyl-3-thioprop... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6406800 | Bent pipe for passing therethrough a material containing solids A bent pipe for use in piping arrangement for transporting materials conaining solids, the bent pipe being prepared by subjecting to high-frequency bending work a straight blank pipe prepared by centrifugal casting and having a plurality of layers. The st... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6404640 | Liquid-cooled electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus including a motherboard, a plurality of multi-chip modules mounted to the motherboard and cooling members for cooling the multi-chip modules. A refrigeration unit is arranged to deliver cooling water to the cooling members. A conne... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6404332 | Shift position indicating device for hybrid vehicle Disclosed herein is a shift position indicating device for indicating a recommended shift position to a driver of a hybrid vehicle having an engine for driving a drive shaft of the vehicle, a motor for assisting a drive force applied to the drive shaft by... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6404623 | Portable electronic apparatus A portable electronic apparatus includes a main unit, a cover rotatably attached to the main unit, the cover having a main display unit, an auxiliary display unit displaying auxiliary information provided on the main unit, and an angle changing mechanism ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6398072 | Cup dispenser In order to offer a cup dispenser which does not require to change cylinders to meet with different cup sizes and allows to change cup sizes easily by adjusting a stopper means in accordance with various sizes of cups to be stored, and the cup dispenser i... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6395807 | Fine spherical silica and liquid sealing resin composition containing same The fine spherical silica having a particle size distribution in which maximum particle diameter is 24 μm, average particle diameter is 1.7 to 7 μm, and the proportion X1 of particles having a particle diameter of 3 μm or less in the total p... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6394061 | Lubricating system in a 4-cycle engine An oil reservoir chamber, a crank chamber and a valve-operating chamber are provided in an engine body. The oil reservoir chamber and the crank chamber are in communication with each other through a through-hole, and the crank chamber and the valve-operat... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6395599 | Method for fabricating semiconductor storage device The semiconductor storage device comprises memory cell transistors formed on a semiconductor substrate 10; first insulation films 42 covering the top surfaces and the side surfaces of gate electrodes 20 of the memory cell transistors; through-holes 40 ope... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6388720 | Liquid crystal display including signal electrodes connected to each other by first anode oxide electrode and auxiliary electrode connected to second anode oxide electrode A first electrode 1 comprises an anode oxide electrode 5, a lower electrode 2 and signal electrodes, wherein the signal electrodes are connected to each other by the anode oxide electrode when the anodic oxidation treatment is performed, while a second el... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6388599 | Reference voltage generator circuit using pairs of fine and rough resistor banks A reference voltage generator circuit generates a stable reference voltage that may be used by other circuits, such as an A/D converter and a D/A converter. The reference voltage generator circuit includes a rough resistor bank having a pair of first resi... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6382991 | Low insertion force connector A low insertion force connector with a downsized and simple structure and high reliability is provided, wherein coupled connectors are capable of sufficiently moving in the uncoupling direction. The low insertion force connector includes: a first connecto... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6379125 | Linear compressor A linear compressor according to the invention is for generating compressed gas and includes two pairs of pistons 608a, 608b and cylinders 607a and 607b coaxially provided and facing opposite to each other, a shaft 603 having pistons 608a and 608b at its ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6376921 | Semiconductor device, method for fabricating the semiconductor device, lead frame and method for producing the lead frame A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a resin package sealing the semiconductor element, resin projections protruding downward from a mounting surface of the resin package, metallic film portions provided to the resin projections, and c... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6376048 | Lamination structure, wiring structure, manufacture thereof, and semiconductor device A first layer is disposed on the principal surface of a substrate. An adhesive layer made of Si containing fluorocarbon is disposed on the first layer. A second layer is disposed on the adhesive layer. One of the first and second layers is made of a mater... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6374690 | Gearshift In a transmission which incorporates a plurality of speed change gear trains, a plurality of clutches to select one of the gear trains for power transmission and a plurality of shift forks to selectively activate one of the clutches, a gearshift coveys a ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6377528 | Information reproducer, information recorder and reference mark detection circuit Information reproduction apparatus of the present invention is directed to realize data reproduction properly and reliably from an optical disk, including a wobble detection circuit (130) to detect a wobble signal read out by an optical head (500), a PLL ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6371807 | Rear cover and process for forming resilient seal member therein A rear cover for use in waterproof connectors and a process for forming a resilient sealing member molded in one piece in the rear cover are provided. The rear cover, in which an electric wire is inserted through a base wall, has a hollow holder pattern o... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6368537 | Laminated plate and method for making the same A laminated plate comprising a glass layer located in front and formed from a glass sheet and a resin layer located at the back of the glass layer and molded from a molten thermoplastic material spread at a low pressure over the glass layer, the glass lay... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6362713 | Chip inductor, chip inductor array and method of manufacturing same A chip inductor is made up of a coiled conducting wire and a magnetic member which is formed by sintering and in which the coiled conducting wire is embedded. Both end portions of the coiled conducting wire are exposed to both end surfaces of the magnetic... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6359368 | Surface acoustic wave reflector A surface acoustic wave reflector includes a piezoelectric substrate and a plurality of perturbation members arranged at a first period on the piezoelectric substrate. A plurality of free-surface regions where no perturbation members exist are formed in a... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6357598 | Paper sheet manipulating apparatus and paper sheet transaction apparatus A paper sheet manipulating apparatus and a paper sheet transaction apparatus for manipulating paper sheets such as bills has an inlet/outlet port allowing input and output of paper sheets and rotating between the paper sheets inlet position and the paper ... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6358180 | Engine control system and method An engine control system and method is disclosed, which reduces driver's feeling of unease relating to the operation of driving a vehicle which is idle-controlled so as to reduce the exhaust gas discharge, thereby improving the driving operability. The me... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6354524 | Mobile crushing machine A self-propelling crushing machine comprises a machine body (2) provided with a travelling body (1); a hopper (4), a feeder (5), a selective feeder (6) and a crusher (3) which mounted to the machine body; a conveyer (7) disposed below the machine body; an... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6356272 | Texture information giving method, object extracting method, three-dimensional model generating method and apparatus for the same The present method represents a three-dimensional shape model by polygons according to a plurality of object images information picked up by rotating a real object for every arbitrary angle to assign texture information on each polygon from object image i... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6356343 | Mark for position detection and mark detecting method and apparatus A mark for position detection formed on a substrate has a first pattern disposed near the center of the mark and having periodicity in a Y-axis direction, and second patterns respectively disposed near both sides of the first pattern in an X-axis directio... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6352254 | Paper sheet manipulating apparatus and paper sheet transaction apparatus A paper sheet manipulating apparatus and a paper sheet transaction apparatus for manipulating paper sheets such as bills includes an inlet/outlet port allowing input and output of paper sheets and rotating between the paper sheets inlet position and the p... | 03/05/2002 |
