Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8445901 | Manufacturing method of semiconductor device In view of the problem that an organic semiconductor layer of an organic TFT is likely to deteriorate due to water, light, oxygen, or the like, it is an object of the present invention to simplify a manufacturing step and to provide a method for manufacturing a semi... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8445338 | Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, by which a transistor including an active layer, a gate insulating film in contact with the active layer, and a gate electrode overlapping the active layer with the gate insulating fil... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8443777 | Oil pan An oil pan made of resin includes an oil reservoir. The oil reservoir includes a bottom wall and a peripheral wall rising from a periphery of the bottom wall and having an opening at a top of the oil reservoir. A rib is provided in the oil reservoir. ... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8440548 | Manufacturing method of microcrystalline silicon film and manufacturing method of thin film transistor An object is to provide a manufacturing method of a microcrystalline silicon film with improved adhesion between an insulating film and the microcrystalline silicon film. The microcrystalline silicon film is formed in the following manner. Over an insulating film, a... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8437194 | Driving method of semiconductor device It is an object to reduce defects caused by reading wrong data by judging whether a storage state held in a non-volatile memory element is correct or not in the case where accumulation or discharge of electrons in/from a charge accumulation layer. A semiconductor me... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8436965 | Semiconductor device External light is reflected due to a difference in refractive indices of a black matrix and a glass substrate. When the black matrix is a black resin, there is a difference in refractive indices of the black resin and a first substrate. Also, there is a difference i... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8436792 | Spontaneous light emitting device and driving method thereof A counter 102 counts the accumulated lighting time or the accumulated lighting time and the intensity of lighting of each pixel by a first image signal 101A and stores them in a volatile memory 103 or a nonvolatile memory 104. A correctio... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8435892 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device comprising the step of doping semiconductor film through contact hole It is an object of an invention disclosed in the present specification to provide a transistor having low contact resistance. In the transistor, a semiconductor film including an impurity element imparting P-type or N-type conductivity, an insulating film formed the... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8432505 | Display device and manufacturing method thereof It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device that has a structure of an electrode where a residue of a transparent conductive film is not generated when a weak acid solution is used in etching, which is particularly appropriate for an electro... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8428761 | Production system and production method A production system and a production method, which can change a period to delivery of products flexibly depending on a change of demand, in the case of producing a plurality of products having different specifications by mixing. A production system of plural kinds o... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8426945 | Semiconductor device, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, and electronic appliance To provide a semiconductor device in which a channel formation region can be thinned without adversely affecting a source region and a drain region through a simple process and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device. In the method for manufacturing a se... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8425016 | Method of manufacturing a light emitting device A printing apparatus including an ink head having a pathway in which an ink in a liquid state is capable of flowing, the pathway being provided in the ink head and having a first end point and a second end point; a discharge port for discharging the ink, the dischar... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8420462 | Display device and manufacturing method thereof A display device including a thin film transistor with high electric characteristics and high reliability, and a method for manufacturing the display device in high yield are proposed. In a display device including a channel stop thin film transistor with an inverte... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8420456 | Method of manufacturing for thin film transistor An object is to provide a semiconductor device with improved reliability in which a defect stemming from an end portion of a semiconductor layer provided in an island shape is prevented, and a manufacturing method thereof. Over a substrate having an insulating surfa... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8415669 | Semiconductor display device It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor display device having an interlayer insulating film which can obtain planarity of a surface while controlling film formation time, can control treatment time of heating treatment with an object of r... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8415660 | Light emitting device The present invention has an object of providing a light-emitting device including an OLED formed on a plastic substrate, which prevents degradation due to penetration of moisture or oxygen. On a plastic substrate, a plurality of films for preventing oxygen or moist... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8409905 | Method of forming display device that includes removing mask to form opening in insulating film To improve the use efficiency of materials and provide a technique of fabricating a display device by a simple process. The method includes the steps of providing a mask on a conductive layer, forming an insulating film over the conductive layer provided with the ma... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8407374 | Intelligent resource state memory recall Intelligent resource state memory recall techniques, and associated apparatus and methods, are disclosed. States of one or more video switcher resources in a resource state memory may be recalled to the same or different resources, depending on resource availability... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8406509 | Three-dimensional surface generation method The present invention provides a three-dimensional surface generation method that directly and efficiently generates a three-dimensional surface of the object surface from multiple images capturing a target object. The three-dimensional surface generation met... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8404001 | Method for manufacturing positive electrode and power storage device To suppress decomposition of lithium cobalt oxide and formation of a decomposition product. To suppress the reaction between oxygen in lithium cobalt oxide and a current collector. To obtain a power storage device having high charge and discharge capacity. In a meth... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8403427 | Vehicle air supply system The invention relates to a vehicle air supply system adaptable to occasionally supply large volumes of air at relatively low pressure for purposes such as tire inflation. The system has a compressor, an air dryer, a reservoir adapted to receive air from the compress... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8400590 | Liquid crystal display device To provide a liquid crystal display device having high visibility and high image quality by relieving color phase irregularity. A light-shielding layer is selectively provided so as to overlap with a contact hole for electrical connection to a source region or a dra... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400428 | Touch panel and method for driving the same A touch panel having high reading accuracy of an object to be detected is provided. In a method for driving a touch panel which is provided with a photo sensor in a pixel, an image is displayed in a display portion of a touch panel, a detection region is determined ... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8399313 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device having first conductive layer including aluminum A gate electrode is formed by forming a first conductive layer containing aluminum as its main component over a substrate, forming a second conductive layer made from a material different from that used for forming the first conductive layer over the first conductiv... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8397838 | Rotary roller reamer A bore hole rotary reamer includes a body having cutters rotatably mounted by one or more respective spindles. A bearing region is formed on the spindle. At least one annular seal prevents ingress of contaminant to the bearing region. A circumferential void is forme... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8395745 | Semiconductor device When a columnar spacer is provided in a region overlapping with a TFT, there is a concern that pressure will be applied when attaching a pair of substrates to each other, which may result in the TFT being adversely affected and a crack forming. A dummy layer is form... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8395740 | Liquid crystal display device having blue phase liquid crystal and particular electrode arrangement In a liquid crystal display device including a blue phase liquid crystal layer, first and second common electrode layers, which are positioned to face each other, sandwich the blue phase liquid crystal layer therebetween and have opening patterns (slits), and a pixe... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8395201 | Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device The invention relates to a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including a semiconductor layer which has a source region, a drain region, and a channel forming region which is provided between the source region and the drain region; and a first insulating layer,... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8395156 | Display device An object is to provide a display device whose frame can be narrowed and whose display characteristics are excellent. The display device includes a driver circuit and a pixel portion. The driver circuit and the pixel portion are formed using a dual-gate thin film tr... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8394541 | Lithium secondary battery and non-aqueous electrolytic solution The sudden generation of heat being frequently caused in the case of the overcharge of a lithium secondary cell which have a positive electrode comprising a composite metal oxide of lithium and cobalt or a composite metal oxide of lithium and nickel, a negative elec... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8389993 | Display device having a buffer layer formed over a channel protective layer A display device including a thin film transistor with high electric characteristics and high reliability, and a method for manufacturing the display device with high mass-productivity. In a display device including an inverted-staggered channel-stop-type thin film ... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8389342 | Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device A purpose of the invention is to provide a method for leveling a semiconductor layer without increasing the number and the complication of manufacturing processes as well as without deteriorating a crystal characteristic, and a method for leveling a surface of a sem... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8389004 | Process for producing protein microparticles The present invention relates to a process for producing protein microparticles in dilute organic acid solutions and in the absence of an alcohol such as ethanol. The microparticles are formed by dissolving a cereal prolamin protein in a concentrated organic acid so... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8388915 | Basic magnesium sulfate granule having high crush strength and process for production thereof A method for producing basic magnesium sulfate granules, by heating a water-containing granular composition to a temperature of 50-250° C. to dryness. The granular composition has a water content of 10-60 wt. % and comprises fibrous basic magnesium sulfate particle... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8388749 | Strontium carbonate micropowder and process for production A fine strontium carbonate powder having a BET specific surface area of 20 to 150 m2/g, which comprises spherical particles having a mean aspect ratio of 2.0 or less shows high dispersibility in liquid media and is of value for producing dielectric cerami... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8385604 | Rock core logging The invention is provides a method of logging rock core. A digital photograph of core from a borehole is taken and the image is first processed. This involves calibration and correction, or un-distortion, of the digital image. A reference frame is included in the ph... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8385595 | Motion detection method, apparatus and system A motion detection method, apparatus and system are disclosed in the present invention, which relates to the video image processing field. The present invention can effectively overcome the influence of the background on motion detection and the problem of object â€... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8383704 | Process for producing molded propylene polymer product containing fibrous inorganic filler A molded propylene polymer product improved in flexural properties and/or impact resistance is prepared by a process comprising the steps of blending fibrous inorganic filler-containing pellets with a propylene polymer-containing matrix resin composition, in which t... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8383434 | Thin film transistor and manufacturing method thereof A method for manufacturing a thin film transistor having high electric characteristics with high productivity. In the method for forming a channel region of a dual-gate thin film transistor including a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode which faces the... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8373171 | Light-emitting device having a triple-layer wiring structure A multi-layered gate electrode of a crystalline TFT is constructed as a clad structure formed by deposition of a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode and a third gate electrode, to thereby to enhance the thermal resistance of the gate electrode. Additionall... | 02/12/2013 |
