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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7082064 | Individual I/O modulation in memory devices A DRAM circuit with reduced power consumption and in some circumstances faster memory array access speed. Input/output lines connected to a memory array are sensed according to their capacitance/length in comparison to a threshold capacitance/length. The input/outpu... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6931749 | Apparatus and methods for measuring the pin diameter of a crankshaft at the place of grinding An apparatus for checking diametral dimensions of crankpins and main journals in the course of grinding is provided. The apparatus includes a head with a Vee-shaped reference device and an axially movable feeler that contacts the surface of the pin to be checked, an... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6868182 | Picture feature extraction device, picture retrieving device, and methods thereof for picture feature extraction and retrieving picture In a picture feature extraction device, picture data having been determined as a moving picture by a picture data identifying section is subjected to being taken out the data corresponding to the entire frames or a part of the frames by a feature data extracting fra... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6671244 | Information detecting circuit including adaptive equalizer and reproducing apparatus In an information detecting circuit, an equalizer equalizes an output from an A/D converter as an A/D converting information. A first interpolation circuit generates an interpolating value. A delay circuit delays the A/D converting information with a dela... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6647661 | Method and system for exterminating pests, weeds and pathogens The method and the system are applicable in household activities, healthcare, industry, agriculture, forestry, etc. for exterminating pests, weeds and pathogens. The system performing the method comprises a source of lethal impact which is a microwave gen... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6645171 | Reconstituting device for injectable medication A device for reconstituting liquid for medical use by bringing together a first liquid medium contained in a first vessel in the form of a cartridge (3) and a second medium, such as a drug in solid form, contained in a second vessel in the form of a vial ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6642167 | Dielectric ceramic composition, monolithic ceramic substrate, ceramic electronic component, and monolithic ceramic electronic component A dielectric ceramic composition comprises 100 parts by weight of major component represented by the formula BaO-×{(1-y)TiO2.yZrO.sub.2 } wherein 3.5ࣘ×ࣘ4.5 and 0ࣘyࣘ0.2, and auxiliary components added to the main component. The auxilia... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6636346 | Optical amplifier and optically amplifying method Disclosed is an optical amplifier, comprising: at least one optically amplifying unit having: a forward excitation light source for generating a forward excitation light; a forward excitation light coupler for coupling the forward excitation light with an... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6620219 | Metal powder, method for producing the same, and conductive paste A method for producing metal powder which involves the step of making an alkaline hydroxide, hydrazine or a hydrazine hydrate, and a metallic salt co-exist in a solvent comprising an alcohol, at least a portion of each being dissolved; wherein, in the ste... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6620753 | Dielectric ceramic, process for producing the same and multilayer ceramic capacitor A dielectric ceramic includes ABO3 as a major component and R and M as accessory components, where A is at least one of Ba, Sr and Ca; B is at least one of Ti, Zr and Hf; R is at least one of La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6616873 | Process for making macro porous ceramic spheres Process for making thermally stable macro porous spheres with or without central core cavity includes steps of homogenizing dry pulverized selective constituents with or without burnable core particles and with | 09/09/2003 |
| 6611192 | Voltage-nonlinear resistor, method for making the same, and varistor using the same A varistor includes a voltage-nonlinear resistor and varistor electrodes provided on the upper and lower surfaces of the voltage-nonlinear resistor. The voltage-nonlinear resistor is primarily composed of SiC (silicon carbide) particles which are doped wi... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6580105 | Solid-state imaging device In a solid-state imaging device, an insulation film is used to fill a separating region that divides a charge transfer electrode in the row direction, thereby achieving flattening, after which an interlayer insulation film and a metal light-shielding film... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6581031 | Speech encoding method and speech encoding system In this speech encoding system, the limiter circuit is input with the delay of adaptive codebook obtained for the previous subframe, and the pitch cycle search range is limited so that the delay of adaptive codebook obtained for the previous subframe is n... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6553084 | Digital automatic gain control linearizer and digital automatic gain control circuit using the same A digital automatic gain control linearizer for controlling a variable gain control element for automatically controlling gain, using an analog signal obtained by converting input digital data includes a memory an average calculation unit. The memory outp... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6549036 | Simple output buffer drive strength calibration An output buffer driver calibration circuit and method are disclosed. Pull-up and pull-down devices of the output buffer driver circuit are simultaneously driven and the resulting output voltage is compared to a predetermined reference voltage, and a cont... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6539490 | Clock distribution without clock delay or skew The present invention provides a method and apparatus, for integrated circuits, that is able to generate clock signals at different destination points with little or no clock signal delay or skew. A slow rising input clock signal is propagated across a lo... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6539001 | Visual telephone apparatus and data compression multiplexing method therefor as well as recording medium on which data compression multiplexing control program is recorded The invention provides a visual telephone apparatus which can assure a high speed of response of a user data application. An image compression section compresses an image signal imaged by a video camera with an image compression ratio based on control inf... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535079 | Dielectric filter, dielectric duplexer, and communication apparatus A dielectric filter, a dielectric duplexer, and a communication apparatus using them allow balanced input and/or output to be implemented without requiring a balun. Using a dielectric block, two λ/2 resonators are individually formed using either inner-c... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6529660 | Optical multiplexer/demultiplexer and its manufacture method An optical multiplexer/demultiplexer has: a substrate having a principal surface on which the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer is formed; a first waveguide unit having a plurality of first waveguides; a first slab waveguide connected to the first wavegui... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6524693 | Ceramic slurry composition, ceramic green sheet and multilayer ceramic electronic part A ceramic green sheet is formed from a ceramic slurry composition comprising a ceramic powder such as BaTiO3, a vehicle in the state of emulsion in which an organic binder consisting of polyurethane resin particles having an average particle si... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6516205 | Portable terminal with bus manager switching function A portable terminal, includes a host detector, a hub circuit and a bus manager circuit. The host detector detects whether a host operates as a bus manager. The hub circuit has a hub function and is connectable to an external device. The bus manager circui... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6509991 | Infrared communicator In a disclosed infrared communicator, in order to receive infrared rays transmitted from a communication-end infrared communicator without being influenced by an obstacle, a plurality of light receiving elements are provided, a light receiving element is ... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6503416 | Piezoelectric ceramic composition and piezoelectric ceramic element using the same A piezoelectric ceramic composition is provided that does not contain Pb, and yet has a large electromechanical coupling coefficient in comparison with a bismuth layered compound, as well as a piezoelectric ceramic element using the composition. This piez... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6500362 | Conductive paste and ceramic electronic component A conductive paste containing no Pb and able to suppress heat generation in a sintered ceramic body, and a medium and high voltage ceramic capacitor with thick film electrodes formed thereof, are provided. The conductive paste containing substantially no ... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6502080 | Automatic lease residual management system A method of predicting a net reserve for a vehicle leased by a lessee from a lessor in accordance with a lease, the method comprising the acts of: predicting a market value loss of the vehicle at a scheduled maturity date of the lease, the predicted marke... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6497761 | Apparatus and method of growing single crystal of semiconductor An apparatus for growing a single crystal of semiconductor is provided, which makes it possible to grow a heavy single crystal of semiconductor of 100 kg or greater in weight even if a growing single crystal contains a neck. In the apparatus, the first an... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6498536 | Oscillating circuit for producing an output signal synchronous with an input signal An oscillating circuit removes a phase difference from between an input signal variable in frequency and a free-running oscillation signal through a two-step voltage-to-frequency control, wherein a frequency comparator, a detector, a flip flop circuit coo... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6484005 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus having a spacer that maintains a given clearance between a cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the squeezing roller and a cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the cleaning roller.... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6471874 | Effluent treating method, an effluent treating apparatus, and a cleaning apparatus using the same An effluent treating method, comprising the steps of: vaporizing effluent containing chlorine-based organic matter and producing vaporized gas containing chlorine-based organic gas; reacting said vaporized gas with photocatalytic material, with irradiatin... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6458734 | Dielectric ceramic composition A dielectric ceramic compact is provided which can be obtained by sintering at a low temperature of 1000° C. or less, can be obtained by co-sintering a dielectric ceramic composition with a metal having superior electrical conductivity, such as Ag, and h... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6445215 | Logic circuit with single charge pulling out transistor and semiconductor integrated circuit using the same A logic circuit performs a predetermined logic operation by supplying charge to an external load or pulling out charge therefrom according to a combination of the states of a plurality of externally inputted binary signals. The logic circuit includes a fi... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6446132 | Radio data communication system and method for carrying out data communication through a radio channel In a radio communication system for transmitting data transmission through a current path between a radio client terminal and an information server connected to a wire communication network, the current path is switched to an alternative path which is con... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6446147 | Wired-or connection in differential transmission environment A method and circuit for performing a wired-or function in a differential transmission environment are disclosed. The wired-or function is realized by enabling the differential driver portion of the differential transceiver when the signaling path is to b... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6438827 | Ceramic electronic part and method for producing the same A ceramic electronic part includes at least one chip ceramic electronic part body having terminal electrodes and terminals provided on both sides. Each terminal is composed of a metal plate bent into a u shape. The outer face of a first leg of each bent t... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6440208 | Alloy color effect materials and production thereof A color effect material is composed of a plurality of encapsulated substrate platelets in which each platelet is encapsulated with copper, zinc, an alloy of copper, or an alloy of zinc first layer which acts as a reflector to light directed thereon, a sec... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6437225 | Compact stand for musical instrument A high hat stand has a foot pedal connected to an extension rod slidable inside of a telescopic guide for crashing a top cymbal connected to the extension rod against a bottom cymbal connected to the telescopic guide, a foot member is located in an area o... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6428671 | Method and apparatus for electro-coagulation printing and electrode control unit An electro-coagulation printer uses an electrode control unit to drive electrodes which are aligned in proximity to a rotation drum having a conductive ink film on its surface. The electrodes are respectively electrified to partially coagulate the conduct... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6406990 | METHOD OF MOUNTING A SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP, CIRCUIT BOARD FOR FLIP-CHIP CONNECTION AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE READABLE DATA CARRIER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MODULE FOR AN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE READABLE DATA CARRIER To provide a semiconductor chip mounting method by a flip-chip connection method in which a semiconductor chip can be mounted on a circuit board promptly, electrically and mechanically surely and further at a low cost, a process for pushing a melted therm... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6400714 | Method and apparatus for dynamic time slot assignment A three stage method and apparatus for performing dynamic time slot assignment on both 2-bit and 8-bit information is disclosed. In the first stage, 2-bit packets undergo a 2-bit time slot assignment prior to being sent to a conventional time slot interch... | 06/04/2002 |
