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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185583 | Visualization enhanced presence system An originating endpoint supports visual presence indications. The originating endpoint determines a destination endpoint with which to establish a desired communication session. A network communicates a notification message to the destination endpoint regarding the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185474 | Image processing apparatus, image outputting method, and image outputting program embodied on computer readable medium In order to enable a still image to be checked while preventing leakage of confidential information contained in the still image, an MFP includes: an image acquiring portion to acquire a still image; an encoding portion to generate encoded data by encoding the acqui... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185031 | Fixing device and image formation apparatus Disclosed is a fixing device that easily suppresses an excessive temperature increase in a guide plate without extending a warm-up period, the device comprising: guide plate 156 that includes a low-resistance, electrically conductive layer, and guides fixing ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185011 | Cleaning device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A first roll brush is formed from material having the positive triboelectric charge polarity against toner. A positive bias is applied to the first roll brush through a first collection roller by a first bias application device. A second roll brush is formed from ma... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184614 | System and method for automatic voice over IP endpoint configuration A telecommunications system includes a packet network; a plurality of VoIP endpoints; and a plurality of VoIP feature servers. The VoIP endpoints are able to send configuration request messages to the feature servers. The feature servers respond with information ind... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184317 | Internet facsimile apparatus, communication processing method and communication processing program An Internet facsimile apparatus includes a network communication unit for communicating with an external apparatus in direct SMTP via a network; a printing unit for printing image data received through the network communication unit from the external apparatus; and ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184247 | TN-mode liquid crystal display device, optical compensatory film for use therein and method for producing optical compensatory film, and polarizing plate An optical compensatory film of a laminated structure comprising a first optically anisotropic layer having an Re(550) of 20 to 100 nm wherein retardation at a wavelength of 550 nm is never 0 nm along any direction and the direction along which the absolute value of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184246 | Transparent film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display device A transparent film is disclosed. The film comprises a domain in which the Nz value in the normal direction of the film surface shows monotonous increase from 0 to 1 or monotonous decrease from 1 to 0, and having an in-plane retardation Re at a wavelength of 550 nm f... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184245 | Optical compensation film for VA-mode liquid crystal display device and VA-mode liquid crystal display device An optical compensation film to be used in a VA mode liquid crystal display device, having retardation in plane at a wavelength of 550 nm, Re(550), falling within the range from 20 to 100 nm, and retardation along thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm, Rth(5... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183430 | Absorbent article An absorbent article, especially an incontinence pad, having a length and a width extension, the length being greater than the width, and including absorbent core material, wherein the absorbent core material forms a central portion (6) and a pair of longitud... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183407 | Process for production of isocyanate, isocyanate produced by the process, and use of the isocyanate An isocyanate has been widely used as a starting material for the production of a polyurethane material, a polyisocyanurate material or the like which is suitably applicable to the field of optical materials. Disclosed is a process for producing an isocyanate which ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183404 | Process for producing dicyanonorbornane and zerovalent nickel complex catalyst The present invention is to provide a process for producing dicyanonorbornane characterized by causing hydrogen cyanide to undergo addition reaction with cyanonorbornene (bicyclo[2.2.1]-5-heptene-2-carbonitrile) in the presence of a zerovalent nickel complex catalys... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183261 | Microorganism control agent and stabilizing method Disclosed is a microorganism control agent containing not less than 1% by weight but less than 10% by weight of N,N′-hexamethylenebis(4-carbamoyl-1-decylpyridinium bromide), not less than 35% by weight but less than 60% by weight of at least one alcohol having 2 o... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183068 | Nitride-based semiconductor light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same A nitride-based semiconductor light emitting device having an improved structure in which light extraction efficiency is improved and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The nitride-based semiconductor light emitting device comprises an n-clad layer, an... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182736 | Apparatus and method for forming air-laid absorbent cores An apparatus for forming air-laid absorbent cores, having a first and second mat-forming wheel. Means are also provided for applying a first and second web of casing material onto the peripheral surface of the first and second mat-forming wheel, respectively, for pr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182735 | Apparatus and method for forming air-laid absorbent cores An apparatus for forming air-laid absorbent cores, having a first and second mat-forming wheel, each of the mat-forming wheels having a series of moulds along its peripheral surface, air-laying means for supplying air-entrained fibrous material to the moulds, suctio... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182481 | PFO closing device A PFO closing device includes a suction and hold portion at a distal portion of a catheter for sucking and holding biological tissue of a foramen ovale valve and an atrial septum secundum from one side, an electrode portion on the side contacting the biological tiss... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182468 | Connector and infusion tube set A connector includes a male connector section having a male-side cavity, a female connector section having a female-side cavity to which another male connector section the same as the male connector section can be connected, a seal member formed from an elastic mate... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182132 | Multistage-mixing microdevice A microdevice for multistage-mixing of process fluids which has plurality of freely-detachable units connected to each other without using pipes, wherein a microchannel for flow of the process fluids and a channel for flow of a heat-exchange medium are formed in the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181820 | Mechanism for opening and closing an opening portion A mechanism for opening and closing an opening portion is disclosed. The mechanism can simply and reliably open and close the opening portion without requiring a spring but using a simple mechanism and can stably maintain the closed state of the opening portion. Whe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181633 | Intake manifold An intake manifold includes: an EGR inlet for discharging exhaust recirculation gas toward a cylinder side; and a tumble control valve switchable between an open position and a close position, and has an indentation forming a gap between the tumble control valve and... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181416 | Mechanical locking system for floor panels Floor panels with a flexible tongue in an insertion groove, the flexible tongue is designed to cooperate, in a connected state with a tongue groove of another panel, the panels are adapted to be locked together by vertical folding, the flexible tongue has a projecti... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181334 | Method for producing windings for a dry-type transformer A method is provided for producing windings for a dry-type transformer with in each case one winding for the low voltage (LV winding) and one for the high voltage (HV winding). The LV and HV windings are each electrically insulated from one another and have layers w... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660253 | Pole part | 05/22/2012 |
| D660083 | Beverage container | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180850 | Data transmission device, data transmission system and address registration method A data transmission device receives an instruction from a user via a user interface to search for address information registered in an LDAP server. An address management module of the data transmission device acquires the address information from the LDAP server, an... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180542 | Vehicle speed control system A vehicle speed control system starts an automatic decelerating operation with a maximum permissible decelerating physical amount “Gmax”, when an electronic control unit determines that a necessary decelerating physical amount for decreasing a vehicle... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180253 | Image forming apparatus collecting and distributing untransferred developer An electrophotographic image forming apparatus has an electrostatic latent image bearing members, developing devices each including developer and capable of developing corresponding electrostatic latent images on the electrostatic latent image bearing members into v... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179077 | Frequency converter The present invention relates to a frequency converter comprising electric power supply devices for supplying electric power to an electric motor (26) to be connected to the frequency converter, a controller configured to control the electric power supply. In... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178746 | Delivery device A delivery device for a sanitary article includes an encapsulating material with a first layer and a second layer, enclosing an additive in a space formed by these layers of encapsulating material. The delivery device also includes a third layer, positioned above th... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178605 | Tread for tire Tire tread comprising a rubber composition, the said composition comprising at least one diene elastomer, one reinforcing filler and one plasticizing system, characterized in that the said plasticizing system comprises, in combination: ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178601 | Polymer film, polarizing plate protective film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device A polymer film includes: a wavelength dispersion regulator represented by formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an ary... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178035 | Apparatus and method for forming air-laid absorbent cores An apparatus for forming air-laid absorbent cores, having a first and second mat-forming wheel, means for transferring a core element on the first mat-forming wheel onto a core element on the second mat-forming wheel while the latter core element still is maintained... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177280 | Vehicle seat device A vehicle seat device is designed to perform tilt adjustment of a seat cushion in a construction which is high in rigidity, downsized and high in the quality of external appearance. The device comprises rotational links; floor attached front brackets and front swing... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177214 | Sheet processing apparatus A sheet processing apparatus including: a stapler capable of performing a staple processing for sheets with plural staple modes; and a control section that determines a maximum number of sheets that can be processed in single staple processing with one staple mode o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176923 | Smoking articles and method for treating tobacco material with a suspension containing bismuth containing compounds and optionally glycerin Provided is a method for reducing TPM cytotoxicity, mutagenicity, and/or phenolic compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the particulate phase of mainstream smoke. Also provided is a smoking article including tobacco material treated with a bismuth contai... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176571 | Pair of pants with the L pocket The cotton pants 1 as a pair of pants with the L pocket is that the front and the reverse edge 3Ab of the storing part 3A is perpendicular against the length direction of the belt part 3, therefore all the sewing process can be done by se... | 05/15/2012 |
| D659750 | Operation panel for an electronic copying machine | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176537 | Image formation apparatus, function extension method, and a computer readable storage medium having function extension program stored therein An image formation apparatus: previously stores first information allowing functions that a plurality of users are authorized to use, respectively, to be determined; receives second information input to determine a user, the second information allowing that user to ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176009 | Performing a pre-update on a non volatile memory A method of updating an original version of content to a new version of content, in a non-volatile memory storage device, the method includes: providing a non-volatile content memory storage area arranged to accommodate a full version of content; providing an auxili... | 05/08/2012 |
