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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184360 | Wavelength converting devices A harmonic wave oscillating device having a supporting body, a wavelength converting layer, a lower side adhesive layer that adheres the wavelength converting layer and the supporting body, an upper side substrate provided on the side of an upper face of the wavelen... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182260 | Apparatus and method for forming tapered products The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for forming molded tapered products, such as masonry blocks, whereby high quality finished products are removed from their mold without the need for complex machinery for demolding. The mold may include one or... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182119 | Lighting devices and methods of installing light engine housings and/or trim elements in lighting device housings A lighting device, comprising a housing and at least one mounting clip. The housing comprises an electrical connection region engageable in an electrical receptacle. The mounting clip is pivotable from a first position, where an end region of the mounting clip does ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181750 | Floating-disk type brake system A floating-disk type brake system that includes floating disk assemblies placed in spaces between a rotating member, such as a wheel of a transportation machine or a rotating shaft of a machine tool, and a stationary member to reduce differences in the rotating spee... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8178815 | Molding die machining electrode, fabricating method of molding die, and molding die In a molding die machining electrode, slit grooves of a molding die are machined with a slit groove forming part having a substantially circular outer circumference by arranging hexagonal erected wall parts in a row; while the inner circumference of a slit groove fo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178807 | Electrical switch The invention relates to an electrical switch, in particular in the form of a microswitch and/or snap-action switch, having a housing which comprises a base and a cover. The switch has a contact system, which comprises a movable switching contact and at least one st... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178455 | Alumina sintered body, method for manufacturing the same, and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus member A method for manufacturing an alumina sintered body of the present invention comprises: (a) forming a mixed powder containing at least Al2O3 and MgF2 or a mixed powder containing Al2O3, MgF2, and MgO ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178285 | Method for manufacturing piezoelectric/electrostrictive film type element A manufacturing method for a piezoelectric/electrostrictive film type element and a film constituting a laminated vibrator made of laminations of an electrode film and a piezoelectric/electrostrictive film in a plane position. The piezoelectric/electrostrictive film... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178192 | Ceramic green sheet, ceramic green sheet laminate, production method of ceramic green sheet, and production method of ceramic green sheet laminate The present invention provides a ceramic green sheet with a thin flat plate shape obtained by molding and solidifying a ceramic slurry, which contains a ceramic powder, dispersion medium, and gelling agent, into a thin flat plate. The ceramic green sheet partially i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176768 | Particulate matter detection device A particulate matter detection device 100 includes a first electrode 1 whose one surface is covered with an inter-electrode dielectric material 4; a second electrode 2 disposed on the side of the one surface of the first electrode 1 | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176618 | Method for producing gas sensor A solid electrolyte body is placed on and fixed to an upper plate of a press jig such that a major surface (an upper surface) of the solid electrolyte body faces one major surface of a guide plate having an open space. The upper plate is rotated by a transfer mechan... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174689 | Apparatus for inspecting defects of honeycomb structure According to an apparatus for inspecting defects of a honeycomb structure that is provided with a current plate and an air current formation means (air source and a header tube), fine defects or defects taking place in the vicinity of an outer periphery of the honey... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174205 | Lighting devices and methods for lighting A lighting device comprises groups of solid state light emitters, a sensor and circuitry. If the emitters are illuminated, the sensor is exposed to combined light from the groups, and senses only a portion of the combined light. The circuitry adjusts current applied... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173054 | Silicon carbide based porous material and method for production thereof A silicon carbide-based porous material is provided, including silicon carbide particles as an aggregate, metallic silicon and an oxide phase containing Si, Al and an alkaline earth metal. The silicon carbide-based porous material is high in porosity and strength an... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171824 | Vehicular power transmission control apparatus An apparatus comprises a changeover mechanism which is able to change a connection state to any one of three states, i.e., “an IN-Connection State” in which a power transmission path is provided between a transmission input shaft and the electric motor output sh... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169323 | Noncontact IC tag label, airline baggage tag label, and manufacturing method for noncontact IC tag label A noncontact IC tag label includes: a band-shaped label base material inclusive of a release surface formed at least at one end of the base material and releasably treated in advance, and a non-release surface; an electroconductive layer formed on the non-release su... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168926 | Heating device A first heating element and a second heating element, which are capable of individually controlling temperatures thereof, are embedded in a ceramic base. Each of the first heating element and the second heating element is formed into a spiral shape so as not to cont... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168478 | Method for producing a matrix of individual electronic components and matrix produced thereby The invention relates to a method for producing a matrix of electronic components, comprising a step of producing an active layer on a substrate, and a step of individualizing the components by forming trenches in the active layer at least until the substrate emerge... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165715 | Substrate processing system, substrate detecting apparatus, and substrate detecting method A substrate processing system 1 comprises a first detecting part 40 configured to detect unprocessed wafers W, and a second detecting part 50 configured to detect processed wafers W. The first detecting part 40 is configured to detect whe... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163393 | Anti-dazzling optical laminate An anti-dazzling laminate which is an optical laminate comprising a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer provided on the light transparent base material. The outermost surface of the anti-dazzling layer has a concavoconvex shape, and the optica... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163372 | Anti-dazzling optical laminate Disclosed is an anti-dazzling laminate which has anti-dazzling properties and can realize excellent glare preventive properties and black color reproducibility (gradation rendering of black color at low brightness). The anti-dazzling laminate is an optical laminate ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163148 | Gas sensor element A gas sensor element including: a sensor layer in which at least one pair of electrodes are provided in a solid electrolyte for measuring an electromotive force based on a difference in an oxygen concentration between atmospheres; and a heater layer which includes a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162231 | Noncontact IC tag label and method of manufacturing the same This invention provides a thin type of noncontact IC tag label that allows materials costs to be reduced without using an antenna-supporting base film. The noncontact IC tag label includes an electroconductive layer of a required antenna pattern shape, an IC chip mo... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161807 | Devices for detecting accumulation amount of particulates A device for detecting particulates includes: a filter; a filter container; an upstream pipe; a downstream pipe; an upstream detecting unit; and a downstream detecting unit. The upstream detecting unit has a branch flow route for receiving gas from the upstream pipe... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159385 | Conductive line communication apparatus and conductive line radar system and method A conductive line radar comprising at least one signal surface wave launcher, which comprises a signal surface wave transceiver, which is physically attached to a power line. The signal surface wave transceiver transmits a wave signal along the power line with anoth... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158942 | Device and method for detecting infrared radiation through a resistive bolometer matrix A device for detecting infrared radiation including a matrix of resistive imaging bolometers above a substrate, a read circuit forming an analog electrical signal constituting an image of the infrared radiation impinging on the matrix, a probe for measuring the temp... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158255 | Plate-like polycrystalline particle, method for producing plate-like polycrystalline particles, and method for producing crystallographically-oriented ceramic A plate-like polycrystalline particle is produced by forming inorganic particles into a self-supported, sheet-like shaped body with a predetermined thickness, firing the shaped body, and crushing and classifying the fired shaped body by passing through a mesh having... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157977 | Gas sensor A protective cover of a gas sensor includes an inner protective cover which covers at least an end portion of a sensor element, an outer protective cover which covers the inner protective cover, and an intermediate protective cover which is installed between the inn... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157488 | Rotating shaft tool Shaft tool with an adjustable cutting diameter, which permits improved handling. A rotating shaft tool, in particular a multi-stage reamer, with a first shaft part, equipped with a first cutting head comprising e.g. several cutting blades and a recess in the first s... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152320 | Surface light source device A surface light source device including a light source unit having a plurality of light-emitting sources in a two-dimensional direction, and a lenticular lens sheet having a plurality of unit lenses, each of which is a part of a substantially elliptic cylinder, such... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152282 | Droplet discharge device and method of manufacturing droplet discharge device A droplet discharge device including a plurality of vibrators arranged on an upper surface of a substrate. The substrate has a cavity, discharge hole and supply hole, which serve as a liquid flow path, formed inside a plate including flat upper and lower surfaces. A... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150558 | Temperature control method and temperature controller The temperature of an object is controlled by a feedback control algorithm based on the temperature control characteristics of a homeothermic plant. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148709 | Magnetic device with integrated magneto-resistive stack This magnetic device integrates a magneto-resistive stack, the stack comprising at least two layers made out of a ferromagnetic material, separated from each other by a layer of non-magnetic material; and means for causing an electron current to flow perpendicular t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147952 | Coating material for honeycomb structure There is provided a coating material for a honeycomb structure, the coating material including inorganic particles or organic particles having D90/D10 of 5 to 50 with D10 of 50 μm or less and D90 of 4 μm or more (wherein D10 and D90 are values of 10% diameter and ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145415 | Automatic determination of aircraft holding locations and holding durations from aircraft surveillance data A method using airport surveillance data to output a location of a delay and an amount of time a vehicle is subjected to the delay during a movement of the vehicle between two locations, the delays being observed in the surveillance data as a knot of several data po... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142934 | Positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolytic secondary cell and non-aqueous electrolytic secondary cell A positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolytic secondary cell and a non-aqueous electrolytic secondary cell are provided, which exhibit a high potential in a 4 V region, and have a high capacity, safety, excellent cycle characteristics, and satisfactory high-te... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141787 | Contactless communication device The invention relates to a device comprising a first inductive antenna and a plurality of chips, each comprising an integrated circuit and a second inductive antenna used to power and communicate with said integrated circuit. According to the invention, one chip amo... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141520 | Livestock sterilizing method, livestock sterilizing apparatus, and livestock or livestock meat By effectively inhibiting ozone escape from ozonized water, a livestock sterilizing method which does not have the possibility of having an adverse effect on man and livestock is provided. Sterilizing of livestock is performed by including an ozonized water producin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139341 | Film capacitor A film capacitor comprises a wound body, a first terminal part electrically connected to one end of the wound body, and a second terminal part electrically connected to the other end of the wound body. The wound body is structured by winding into a laminate a first ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138986 | Dipole array with reflector and integrated electronics A dipole antenna array comprising a ground plane, at least one dipole antenna including an active antenna element and a grounded antenna element, at least one reflector and integrated electronics, wherein the active antenna element is isolated from the ground plane ... | 03/20/2012 |
