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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7960898 | Driving apparatus, lens driving apparatus and image pickup apparatus A driving apparatus comprises an actuator, the actuator comprising an electromechanical conversion element and a driving shaft attached to the electromechanical conversion element, wherein the driving apparatus expands and contracts the electromechanical conversion ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960865 | Apparatus and method for controlling the motor power The invention concerns a power control apparatus and a method for supplying power between an electric machine and an energy source. The power control apparatus contains at least two converters comprising a plurality of switches, at least some of which switches belon... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960773 | Capacitor device and method for manufacturing the same This invention provides a capacitor device with a high dielectric constant material and multiple vertical electrode plates. The capacitor devices can be directly fabricated on a wafer with low temperature processes so as to be integrated with active devices formed o... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960750 | Light emitting diode package A light emitting diode package including a substrate; a plurality of electrodes on the substrate; a light emitting diode on the substrate; at least one wire connecting the light emitting diode and at least a first electrode of the plurality of electrodes; a reflecti... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960646 | Silicon-based thin-film photoelectric converter and method of manufacturing the same In order to improve photoelectric conversion properties of a silicon-based thin-film photoelectric converter to which a conductive SiOx layer is inserted to obtain an optical confinement effect, the silicon-based thin-film photoelectric converter accordin... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960604 | Process for production of an absorbing sanitary article comprising lactic acid producing bacteria The present invention relates to a process for the production of an absorbing sanitary article comprising lactic acid producing bacteria. The process comprises dispersion of lactic acid producing bacteria in a carrier, and application of the resulting dispersion of ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960561 | 2-(phenylamino) benzimidazole derivatives and their use as modulators of small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels This invention relates to novel 2-(phenylamino)benzimidazole derivatives useful as modulators of small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels (SK channels). In other aspects the invention relates to the use of these compounds in a method for therapy... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960543 | Nucleoside or nucleotide derivative and use thereof The object of the present invention is to provide a nucleoside or nucleotide having a 5-substituted-2-oxo(1H)pyridin-3-yl group as a base, as well as a method using the same. In one embodiment, the nucleoside or nucleotide of the present invention has a fluor... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960508 | Peptide having cytotoxicity inhibitory activity and method of screening these peptide having cytotoxicity inhibitory activity A peptide fragment or a series of peptide fragments containing one or more selenocysteine that has a lowered toxicity than selenocystine and that exhibits a cytotoxicity-inhibitory activity. The peptide fragment or a series of peptide fragments according to the pres... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960476 | Acrylic resin composition An acrylic resin composition containing the following acrylic resins (1) and (2): an acrylic resin (1) containing a structural unit (a) derived from a monomer (a) and a structural unit (b) derived from a monomer (b); | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960412 | Selective estrogen receptor modulator The present invention provides a compound represented by the following formula (I); [wherein T represents a single bond, a C1-C4 alkylene group which may have a substituent and the like; (I-1) form... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960154 | Polyester-based-plastic-degrading bacteria, polyester-based-plastic-degrading enzymes and polynucleotides encoding the enzymes The present invention relates to a novel microorganism and a method for degrading plastics or for collecting monomers through biological treatment using the microorganism. The present invention also relates to a novel polyester-based plastic-degrading enzyme and a p... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960040 | Organic electroluminescence device An organic electroluminescence device comprising at least an organic layer between a pair of electrodes, wherein the organic electroluminescence device further includes at least an interlocked compound. An organic electroluminescence device exhibiting a high light e... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959956 | Method for treating diabetic complications The present invention relates to a method for treating diabetic complications, which comprises administering an extract obtained by: crashing and drying any one selected from Euphorbiae radix, gingered Magnolia bark, parched Puerariae radix and Glycyrrhizae r... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959823 | Piezoelectric ceramic composition and piezoelectric ceramic A piezoelectric ceramic composition including potassium-sodium-lithium niobate, bismuth-sodium titanate and bismuth ferrate is provided. A piezoelectric ceramic obtained by firing the piezoelectric ceramic composition, wherein the electromechanical coupling factor i... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959728 | Mesoporous silica particles and production process thereof A process for wet pulverizing mesoporous silica particles while a surfactant exists in mesopores, and mesoporous silica particles having an average particle diameter of 1 μm or less, wherein the volume of mesopores having a diameter of 2 to 50 nm is 0.7 mL/g or mor... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959413 | Fan and impeller thereof A fan includes an impeller and a motor. The impeller includes a hub and a plurality of blades. The hub has a top portion, a connection portion, and at least one airflow-guiding portion. The top portion is connected to the connection portion. The blades are disposed ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958964 | Power steering system for vehicle A power steering system for a vehicle includes a steering shaft with its rear end in connection with a steering handle and with its axis inclined forwardly downwards. An electric motor is disposed with its axis orthogonal to a plane containing the axis of the steeri... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958914 | Liquid crystal dropping apparatus for liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal dropping apparatus is used in the manufacture of liquid crystal display devices, which is designed to apply vibration energy to liquid crystal charged in a liquid crystal container, thereby allowing the liquid crystal to be dropped as a spray. The l... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958894 | Drape for clean operation A drape for clean operation is a flexible bag-shaped structure for maintaining a substantially closed operating space around an operation site. The bag-shaped structure comprises a bottom wall 1 and a transparent top wall 2 and has a closed proximal en... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958842 | Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus comprising: a processing chamber which is to accommodate at least one substrate; a gas supply system which is to supply processing gas into the processing chamber; an exhaust system which is to exhaust atmosphere in the processing ch... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958760 | Lock and key system with improved tumblers in the lock A lock and key system is disclosed including locks of the kind comprising a cylindrical key plug (203) with locking tumblers (205) having a body part (206a) and an integral key sensing part (206b) for engagement with an asso... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958743 | Refrigerator A refrigerator including a bulkhead partitioning an inner space of the refrigerator, a duct part provided to the bulkhead to guide a cold air to the inner space of the refrigerator, at least one rack configured to divide the inner space partitioned by the bulkhead i... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958608 | Process for manufacting a piezoelectric device The piezoelectric device includes a substrate, a first electrode formed on the substrate, a piezoelectric film formed on the first electrode and a second electrode formed on a second side of the piezoelectric film which is away from a first side where the first elec... | 06/14/2011 |
| D639856 | Electronic eraser | 06/14/2011 |
| D639788 | Wireless hearing device docking station | 06/14/2011 |
| D639765 | Mobile phone | 06/14/2011 |
| D639763 | Mobile phone | 06/14/2011 |
| D639758 | Audio-visual apparatus | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958056 | Content data creating device, control method thereof, program for creating content data, and content data display device A contents data creating device is configured by equipping a computer with a contents creating software. In this contents creating software, a license information file stores license information containing information describing the permitted range of input data or ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957918 | Member designing method and apparatus A computer performs press forming analysis based on a shape of a formed product or of a member, a blank holder force, a friction coefficient, a tensile strength of a material, a yield strength, a stress-strain relation, and a sheet thickness, as press forming condit... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957821 | Systems and methods for statistical process control A system for performing statistical process control. A storage device stores a plurality of SPC charts, specifying data collected from a system during testing. A controller categorizes the SPC charts into a plurality of groups based on characteristics thereof. A det... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957778 | Folding portable communications device A folding mobile phone (folding portable communications device) includes a first housing including a liquid crystal display part (display part) provided at a surface thereof, a second housing including an operating part provided at a surface thereof, and a hinge con... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957632 | Mobile device A mobile device includes a camera module and a magnetism generating part that is different from the camera module. The camera module includes: a movable portion that corrects camera shake; a magnetism detecting element that detects a position of the movable portion.... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957555 | Method and apparatus for localizing an object part in digital image data by updating an initial position estimate based on a displacement of the object part A method and an apparatus localize an object part location in a digital image. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data containing an object part; obtains an initial position estimate for object part location of the object part; extracts a ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957543 | Listening device In a listening device such as for example a hearing aid (1) where an input signal (10) is received by a microphone (2), converted from analog to digital (3), digitally processed (4) including a conversion from a time domain into a ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957329 | Method of performing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in wireless communication system A method of performing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving downlink assignments in a first subframe, a downlink assignment being transmitted based on ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957074 | Imaging lens system and imaging apparatus using the imaging lens system An imaging lens system is provided an includes: in order from the object side, a first lens which has a negative power; a second lens which has a negative power; a third lens; a fourth lens which has a positive power; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens which has a posit... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956954 | Optical sheet, backlight unit, and liquid crystal display An optical sheet, a backlight unit including the optical sheet and a liquid crystal display including the backlight unit are disclosed. The optical sheet includes a reflective polarizing film, and a first diffusing layer on the reflective polarizing film. The first ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956933 | Tuner circuit and digital broadcast receiver with low distortion performance and low power consumption In a tuner circuit, an automatic gain control circuit generates an RF-AGC voltage for automatically controlling a gain of an RF-AGC amplifier in accordance with a level of a signal output from an IF amplifier. An emitter follower circuit includes a transistor for cu... | 06/07/2011 |
