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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6687203 | Optical recording medium, optical recording and reproducing device, and recording and reproducing method for the optical recording medium In an optical recording medium, a groove G and/or a land L composing a recording track includes an interrupted portion of a predetermined length in a direction of the recording track, and the interrupted portion is a clock mark to obtain a clock signal. W... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6606465 | Function display method and multi-functional apparatus having display embodying such method When any of the functions: copier function, printer function and facsimile function, are not being performed, the function information display portion provides display messages `Copier available`, `Printer available` and Fax available`, using the display ... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6601946 | Image forming apparatus in which toner is removed by changing electric field between opposing electrode and control electrode An image forming apparatus capable of forming an image with a uniform density includes a toner carrier, an opposing electrode, a high voltage power source for supplying a voltage to generate potential difference between the toner carrier and the opposing ... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6600813 | Personal communication system with automatic functions In a communication apparatus having a recording function and a reproducing answering function, a message can be always recorded and reproduced in an optimum setting with requiring no cumbersome operation by a user. When a telephone number coincident with ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6583774 | Display device A display device controls a signal applied to the n dots such that a sum of luminance of n dots (n is an integer of 1 or more) is virtually equal to an original luminance of the defective dot on the assumption that the n dots, which are adjacent to an ele... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6570551 | Method of driving liquid crystal display device As a method of driving a liquid crystal display device, the average voltage of reference line drive voltages Vcom for AC-driving a liquid crystal is set higher than the average voltage of signal line drive voltage V0. Moreover, when displaying a plurality... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6545396 | Image forming device using field emission electron source arrays Featured is an image forming device for driving field emission electron sources capable of low-vacuum operation, high in ion impact resistance, and controlled in orientation, under X-Y addressing through electrode lines of simple and low-cost configuratio... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6537077 | Training aid for skaters and methods related thereto Featured is a device and a method using such a device for training skaters, particularly ice skaters. According to the method for training a skater there is provided a support frame and a harness that is secured to the support frame. The skater is secured... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6532888 | Fuel spillage containment device and methods related thereto Featured is a fuel spill containment device that collects fuel being spilled from the vent of a fuel tank. The fuel spill containment device includes a first member having a through aperture, a flexible container being attached to the first member so an i... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6530598 | Anti-tip devices for wheeled conveyances including wheelchairs and method related thereto Featured is an anti-tip device for regulating the amount of allowable tilting for an apparatus, such as a wheeled conveyance including a wheelchair, in one of a backward, forward or sideways direction. The anti-tip device includes a housing that is secure... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6532208 | Optical recording medium having prepits deeper than grooves In an optical recording medium in which marks are allowed to be written at grooves and information has been recorded beforehand in the form of prepits, the depth of the grooves, Dg, and the depth of the prepits, Dp, satisfy the following relationships, re... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6525296 | Method of processing and optical components There is featured a processing method for processing a target body that includes setting a beam area formed by a laser beam on the organic insulating film so as to be larger than an area formed by projecting a target part of an organic insulating film ont... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6525351 | Solid-state imaging device capable of improving sensitivity without causing rise in depletion voltage and shutter voltage A high-concentration light-receiving N-layer 32 is formed by ion implantation in a region near a substrate surface, and a low-concentration N-type epitaxial layer 25 is formed by epitaxial growth in a deeper region. The depletion layer of a photodiode is ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6519179 | Magnetic tunnel junction device, magnetic memory adopting the same, magnetic memory cell and access method of the same A closed magnetic circuit layer is formed on a ferromagnetic layer serving as a memory layer of a magnetic tunnel junction device, in such a manner that a closed magnetic circuit layer is formed via a metal layer with a spacing at a central portion. With ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6516178 | Image forming apparatus having the capability to adjust for non-standard size input document and recording medium The image forming apparatus includes an original document size detector device for detecting a size of an original document to be processed and a non-standard size input instruction screen for inputting a size of an original document to be processed. Norm... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6504521 | Method of driving liquid crystal display device As a method of driving a liquid crystal display device, the average voltage of reference line drive voltages Vcom for AC-driving a liquid crystal is set higher than the average voltage of signal line drive voltage V0. Moreover, when displaying a plurality... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6496249 | Exposure apparatus The present invention aims at preventing deterioration of flatness of a substrate and contamination of a substrate-holding surface of a substrate holder, which are caused by a resist leaking into the back surface of the substrate. A substrate-holding surf... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6406238 | Earth nut The present invention has been accomplished to provide an earth nut which has an excellent grounding performance, and which is free from the possibility of losing a grounding function even upon application of a high axial force and is low in cost, said ea... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6400428 | Liquid crystal device/display utilizing a plurality of adjoining display panels to form single display screen and methods related thereto A display device of a multi-panel system is composed of plural liquid crystal panels which are jointed together by means of a bonding agent, and offers an image displayed on a large screen, wherein at least one edge portion of an end surface of a connecte... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6400429 | Method for producing a liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes: a pair of substrates; polymer walls; and a display medium interposed between the pair of substrates, including a liquid crystal region partially provided with or completely surrounded by the polymer walls. The liq... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6392965 | Optical pickup device An optical pickup device comprises a semiconductor laser, an optical system which converges light projected by the semiconductor laser onto an optical disk and directs reflected light from the optical disk to a photoreceptor element, and a photoreceptor e... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6388822 | Optical pickup device and optical recording medium An optical pickup device which includes an objective lens having a numerical aperture of 0.7 or more collects light emitted from a light source and irradiates an optical recording medium. The objective lens and an antireflection film formed thereon are se... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6368311 | Hanger/hanger system for a device such as a device for draining a body cavity Featured is a device for draining fluids and/or gas from body cavities, including at least a pressure control chamber and a collection chamber being fluidly coupled by a one-way valve thereby establishing a waterless seal between the collection chamber, i... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6359607 | Display device and display method In the display device and the display method of the present invention, a scanning signal line driving circuit controls falls of a scanning signal line, so as to make level shifts occurring to pixel potentials substantially uniform throughout display plane... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6359491 | Voltage level shifter and poly-silicon display A voltage level shifter comprises complementary transistors T1, T2 connected between a supply line vdd and an inverting input !IN. The gates of the transistors T1 and T2 receive a shifted version of the direct input signal IN from a source-follower compri... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6352765 | Magneto-optical recording medium and reproducing device A magneto-optical recording medium includes at least a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer and a third magnetic layer which are layered in this order, the first magnetic layer being formed of a perpendicularly magnetized film having a relatively... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6347925 | Flywheel system with parallel pumping arrangement A flywheel energy storage system, including a plurality of pumps arranged in parallel for simultaneously drawing-off and absorbing substantially all of the gases that evolve from a flywheel assembly during high-speed operation, is disclosed. The plurality... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6346322 | Magneto-optical recording medium and reproducing device A magneto-optical recording medium includes at least a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, a third magnetic layer, a non-magnetic intermediate layer and a fourth magnetic layer which are layered in this order, the first magnetic layer being for... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6339422 | Display control circuit and display control method A display control circuit of the present invention includes: a clock generator for generating a first clock signal having a single frequency; a frequency divider for dividing the frequency of the first clock signal generated by the clock generator, thereb... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6327012 | Method for manufacturing liquid crystal display An orientation film is formed over an electrode substrate via external connection terminals and a surface of the orientation film is processed by the rubbing method. The orientation film on the external connection terminals is irradiated with an ultraviol... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6317280 | Thermomagnetic recording and reproducing head having a heating head with a width narrower than the magnetic heads, a recording and reproducing device with such a heating head and methods related thereto A thermomagnetic recording and reproducing head includes a floating slider, and a heating head, a reproduction-use magnetic head as an MR head and a recording-use magnetic head as a thin-film inductive head mounted on the floating slider in this order fro... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6309525 | Sputtering apparatus capable of changing distance between substrate and deposition preventing plate used for film formation A sputtering apparatus for forming a sputtered film on a substrate held on a substrate holder in a vacuum chamber includes a target, a deposition preventing plate provided between the target and the substrate holder, a substrate holder carrying mechanism,... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6296122 | Packaging tray Position determining concave portions for determining, when a plurality of packaging trays are stacked, a stacking position of each packaging tray with respect to at least another packaging tray placed above or beneath are provided. Each bottom portion of... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6295271 | Optical recording medium having tracks, each track having a plurality of wobble sections/one-side wobble regions An optical disk has address recording sections each of which has a wobbled part of one of side walls of a groove. Each address recording section is formed by providing convexes of a groove in an adjacent land so as to widen the groove. With the wobbles th... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6293541 | Sheet feed unit having guide with sheet guide surface placed at confluence of two transport paths Featured is a sheet feed unit including a first transport path in which is transported a first sheet, a second transport path and a protrusion. A second sheet is transported in the second transport path and guided at a prescribed angle relative to the fir... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6292609 | Optical components including an optical element having a surface that is tapered There is featured a processing method for processing a target body that includes setting a beam area formed by a laser beam on the organic insulating film so as to be larger than an area formed by projecting a target part of an organic insulating film ont... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6290358 | Polarized-light converting optical system, a polarized-light converting elemental device, a polarized-light converting elemental device array and a projection-type display device using any one of those components A polarized-light converting elemental device which can produce an accurately unidirectionally and circularly polarized light with a minimized loss of light and a projection-type display device using said unidirectionally-polarized-light converting elemen... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6288760 | Front illumination device mounted between an illuminated object and a viewer and a reflection-type liquid crystal display device incorporating same A front-light system for mounting on the front of a reflection-type LCD, etc., which serves as auxiliary illumination when surrounding light is insufficient, is provided with a wedge-shaped light-conducting body having a light-entry surface through which ... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6283583 | Image forming apparatus having float electrode provided to make uniform electric field An image forming apparatus capable of forming an image with uniform density includes a toner carrier for carrying a toner, an opposing electrode arranged opposing to the toner carrier, a high voltage power supply unit for supplying a voltage to generate a... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6272261 | Image processing device The present invention provides an image processing device capable of performing high-resolution conversion, enlargement processing, etc. which, even with images including both text images and photographic images, satisfies both sharpness of text areas and... | 08/07/2001 |
