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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185449 | System and method of providing fuel Disclosed is a computer implemented method comprising the steps of calculating a fuel entitlement price, which is valid for a first order time period; receiving within the first order time period an order signal representing a first order by a customer for a fuel en... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185170 | Portable electronic apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a cellular telephone terminal in which intuitive operation is possible, by providing a rotary dial portion. A cellular telephone terminal 1 is provided with: a body that includes an operation unit side body ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185095 | Method and apparatus for tracking version of digital content A system and method for live data versioning is provided. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184922 | Digital filter configuration A digital filter configuration for the filtration of a digital video signal, wherein the functions of a zoom filter, in the form of a low-pass filter, which is a polyphase filter, and of at least one peaking filter, in the form of a high-pass filter, are realized, w... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184733 | Radio reception device, radio transmission device, radio base station, reception method, and transmission method An OFDM radio reception device 100 with multiple antennas 110-1 to 110-K removes a guard interval CP from each received signal, and performs S/P conversion, FFT, and channel estimation, on each received signal. The OFDM radio reception de... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184332 | Image forming apparatus and method for correcting density irregularities An image forming apparatus includes an image processing unit that has line heads that include a plurality of light sources disposed in a line shape in a main scanning direction, causes each light source to emit light onto image data to form pixels on an exposed surf... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184330 | Image processing controller and printing apparatus Provided is an image processing controller for controlling a line head having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a non-linear shape, the image processing controller including: a plurality of memory regions which stores raster data; an acquiring secti... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184140 | Line head and image forming apparatus An optical system of a line head images light emitted from first and second light emitting elements and includes a rotationally symmetric lens having a lens face. A first region of the lens face includes an intersection point of the lens face with the symmetry axis ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183959 | Variable capacitance circuit The invention relates to a variable capacitance circuit which achieves reduction in both of distortion and current consumption and furthermore achieves requirements of high power handling capability, cost reduction, and downsizing of the circuit. The variable capaci... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183256 | Remedy or preventive for integration dysfunction syndrome A method of treating schizophrenia, which method can treat especially positive symptoms of schizophrenia and does not cause impaired information processing related to cognitive deficiencies or the like which is a symptom of schizophrenia. The method of treating schi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183236 | Compounds with HIV-1 integrase inhibitory activity and use thereof as anti-HIV/AIDS therapeutics Pharmacophore models to be used in drug design and discovery are provided. An in silico protocol and in vitro assays are presented. Compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts with HIV-1 integrase inhibitory and anti-HIV activity and use thereof in the tre... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182911 | Cutting tool, manufacturing method thereof and cutting method Disclosed is a cutting tool having excellent wear resistance. Specifically disclosed is a cutting tool having a substrate and a coating layer formed on a surface of the substrate. The cutting tool is characterized in that the substrate contains at least cobalt; the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182621 | Method of hot-rolled thin steel sheet with excellent formability and excellent strength and toughness after heat treatment A method of manufacturing a hot-rolled thin steel sheet includes: hot-rolling a steel base material having a composition containing, as mass %, C: 0.10 to 0.20%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.5 to 2.0%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.10%, N: 0.005% or l... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182559 | Fuel reformer housing container and fuel reforming apparatus There are provided a fuel reformer housing container and a fuel reforming apparatus, which are capable of maintaining a level of vacuum inside the fuel reformer housing container favorably and which have less power generation loss. A fuel reformer housing container ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182309 | Toy with interchangeable parts A toy with interchangeable parts is provided. The toy is comprised of a plurality of first and second enclosures that each contain unique indicia and are attachable and detachable. In one form, the enclosures are each one-half of a first toy form, such as a heart. A... | 05/22/2012 |
| RE43405 | Method of displaying measurement result in inspection process and system thereof, and computer program A method of displaying a measurement result in an inspection process using network, the method includes a first step that a host, which intensively controls and manages a device for inspecting a lot to be processed in one or a plurality of steps, transmits to the de... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181267 | Scanning-type probe microscope To provide a scanning probe microscope wherein the scanning means is not damaged by fluids, the scanning probe microscope 30 comprises a cantilever support part 2 for supporting a cantilever 1; displacement measurement parts 3, 4, 5 and | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180996 | Distributed computing system with universal address system and method A distributed computing system that incorporates enhanced distributed storage and a universal address system and method are provided. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180719 | Printer A printer includes a use status computation section which collects statistics of a use status of an analyzed print job and computes a use frequency and an execution interval of a language translation program based on a result of the statistics, and a resident mode s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180390 | Mobile communication terminal, mobile communication managing apparatus, mobile communication system, computer readable medium for mobile communication and mobile communication method It is an object of the invention to realize effective communication by a mobile communication terminal having a plurality of communication interfaces. When transmitting data, a mobile communication terminal (100) selects a communication interface (1... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180315 | Mobile terminal and functional operation control method of the same A mobile terminal includes: a battery supplying electric power; a voltage detection portion which detects the voltage of the battery; a function activation control portion which activates a predetermined function at a preset time; and a warning portion which, in ref... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180237 | Image forming apparatus, developing method, and image forming method An image forming apparatus and method charges and exposes a latent image carrier to form a latent image. Bias is applied to liquid developer on a developer carrier, and liquid developer collected by a developer carrier cleaning member is stored in a collected develo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179823 | Communication control method, base station device, terminal device, and communication control system using TDD-OFDMA communication method In a communication system and a communication method using a TDD-OFDMA communication method, inter-carrier interference due to delay dispersion is prevented by suppressing the delay time within a guard interval. In a base station device 10, based on a ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179601 | Cooling device for a Faraday rotator of an opto-isolator in a laser processing apparatus A Faraday rotator of an opto-isolator in a laser processing apparatus includes a crystal cylinder that causes the Faraday effect, an enclosing tube, cooling tubes, and a magnet. The enclosing tube encases the crystal cylinder. The cooling tubes are sandwiched betwee... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179416 | Line head and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a line head that performs exposure on a latent image carrier to form a latent image. The line head includes first and second light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; and an optical system that images light emitted fr... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179415 | Exposure head and image forming apparatus An exposure head includes: a group of light emitting elements in which light emitting elements are arranged in a first direction; a light emitting element substrate in which the group of light emitting elements is arranged in the first direction and in a second dire... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179413 | Image forming device that detects a moving time of a latent image carrier An image forming device includes: an exposure head having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a first direction, a first imaging optical system adapted to image light emitted from the light emitting elements, and a second imaging optical system dispos... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179306 | High-frequency circuit board, high-frequency circuit module, and radar apparatus The invention relates to a high-frequency circuit board that can efficiently radiate heat generated in a mounted electronic component without reducing the degree of freedom in design, a high-frequency circuit module including the high-frequency circuit board, and a ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179304 | Direct-current blocking circuit, hybrid circuit device, transmitter, receiver, transmitter-receiver, and radar device The invention relates to a direct-current blocking circuit, and a hybrid circuit device, a transmitter, a receiver, a transmitter-receiver and a radar device that have the direct-current blocking circuit. A dielectric substrate (2) is provided with a conducto... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178778 | Photovoltaic conversion element and manufacturing method therefor, and photovoltaic conversion module using same A photovoltaic conversion element includes a one conductivity-type crystalline Si semiconductor; an opposite conductivity-type semiconductor which is joined to the crystalline Si semiconductor to form a pn junction therebetween; an electrode provided on the opposite... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178116 | Methods and compositions for treating ectoparasite infestation Compositions and methods for killing ectoparasites on a subject. Compositions containing a fatty acid ester, e.g., isopropyl myristate, effective for killing ectoparasites is described. Also described are compositions containing a fatty acid ester and a siloxane (e.... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178087 | Process of production of bacteriophage compositions and methods in phage therapy field A method for producing bacteriophage stock compositions including (a) incubating a culture medium including at least one bacterial strain, at least one bacteriophage strain that can infect the bacterial strain, and at least one antibiotic, wherein the concentration ... | 05/15/2012 |
| D659847 | Digital test device | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176353 | Method for the data transfer between at least two clock domains The invention describes a method for transferring data between a first clock domain having a first clock rate (CLK1) and at least one additional clock domain having a second clock rate (CLK2), comprising the following for the transfer of data from the ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176182 | Portable terminal, program installed therein, communication method, and communication apparatus A portable terminal includes an access request receiving section for receiving an access request for accessing an IP push server via a communication apparatus which is installed as an external device at the portable terminal, wherein the access request is sent from ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175931 | Product customization system and method A product customization system and method are provided in which a consumer can insert user content, such as images or text, onto a product, such as a shoe, and then view the customized product before purchasing the customized product. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175887 | System and method for improving recognition accuracy in speech recognition applications A speech recognition system and method are provided to correctly distinguish among multiple interpretations of an utterance. This system is particularly useful when the set of possible interpretations is large, changes dynamically, and/or contains items that are not... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175504 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries an electrostatic latent image on a surface thereof, a toner carrying roller that is disposed to face the image carrier and rotates in a predetermined rotation direction with charged toner carried on a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175498 | Image forming apparatus and method that charges latent image carrier An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image carrier; a first charging unit which charges the latent image carrier; a second charging unit which supplies a charge having a reverse polarity of the charged polarity of the toner; a toner carrying roller which ca... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175497 | Image forming apparatus applying protective agent Provided is an image forming apparatus including: a rotatable image carrier; a protective agent supplying unit supplying a protective agent to the image carrier; a first charging unit charging the image carrier to the same polarity as a regular charging polarity of ... | 05/08/2012 |
