Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7054355 | Spread spectrum signal processing apparatus and spread communication system In a spread spectrum communication using a long spreading code, a spread spectrum signal processing apparatus is provided, which is suitable for performing communication by using a correlator having a size mountable on a portable equipment. The spread spectrum signa... | 05/30/2006 |
| D543037 | Play pen | 05/22/2007 |
| D540044 | Printed pattern for an absorbent article | 04/10/2007 |
| 7145171 | Probe unit and its manufacturing method A probe unit comprises a flexible substrate made of an inorganic substance and having an almost straight edge, an electro conductive film formed on a surface of the substrate and having a plurality of contact parts aligned on a surface of the edge and can contact wi... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133472 | High-speed turbo decoder A high-speed turbo decoder using a BCJR (Bahi, Cocke, Jelinek, and Raviv) algorithm or a BCJR algorithm which makes approximation by ACS computation (Add-Compare-Select computation) includes a supplier for supplying a plurality of pipelined stages of gamma metrics a... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7105646 | Mono- and bis-hydrazone pigments Mono- and Bis-Azo/Hydrazone Pyrrole Pigments and Methods for preparing same. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7097109 | Contactless data storage medium and method for operating contactless data storage medium A contactless data storage medium having a principal circuit component and a coupling element, with a controllable load provided for performing offloading modulation. A drawn-current controller is able to reduce the current drawn by the principal circuit component a... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099324 | System and method for processing packets A searching system allowing high-speed data searching and operation is disclosed. A search table is provided which stores a copy of an entry that has been retrieved from a database to retrievably store a plurality of retrieved entries. Further, an address pointer ta... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098296 | Preparation of polymeric aryl sulfonamide A method of preparing a polymeric aryl sulfonamide is described which consists of reacting aryl sulfonyl with a polymeric amine in the presence of an acid acceptor. Also, another method of preparing a polymeric aryl sulfonamide is disclosed and consists of: reacting... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093832 | Conversation generator A plate or other utilitarian object for generating conversations is provided comprising a substantially flat central portion for holding on object and a raised side surface positioned coaxially with the substantially flat central portion. A circular perforation is f... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095853 | System and method for preventing an illegal copy of contents The method of preventing illegal copy of contents encrypts a header using a key generated from the previous sector, performs variable-length coding to the encrypted header to shorten its length, and stores the decoded header into the recording medium as well as cont... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095795 | Multi-rate transmission apparatus A multi-rate transmission apparatus wherein components operate with a single clock from the outside and, even if the modulation system and the coding rate are varied arbitrarily by switching of the modulation operation mode similarly from the outside, transmission d... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095672 | Semiconductor memory device and method of controlling the same A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks formed of a flash memory. The semiconductor memory device further includes a rewriting monitor circuit for memorizing the number of times of data rewriting in each of the memory blocks, and a switch... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095366 | High-frequency oscillation apparatus, radio apparatus, and radar A high-frequency oscillation apparatus wherein an oscillation signal output from a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is transferred through a transfer line to a resonator and the resonator is excited. The resonator is coupled with a second transfer line and an RF ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095301 | Resonator device, filter, duplexer and communication device A resonator device including a plurality of resonance units formed on a dielectric substrate, each resonance unit having a plurality of conductor lines forming a capacitive area and an inductive area in a ring shape. ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7094448 | Spray pack Disclosed is a spray pack for use in forming a uniform, stable spray coating, comprising a spray container device and, packed therein, a spraying composition comprising a liquid dispersion medium and, dispersed therein, particulate cellulose having an average degree... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7094189 | Apparatus for fitness stretching A fitness stretching apparatus comprising a base and a cage structure surrounding the base. The cage structure includes at least a first stretching station for performing stretching of a muscle. A second stretching station is located on the base and within the cage ... | 08/22/2006 |
| D526444 | Tweezer | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088309 | Lens antenna A lens antenna including a lens body and/or a matching layer. In the lens antenna, lens body may be formed by a material containing thermoplastic elastomers. When a matching layer is formed on the surface of the lens body, at least one of the lens body and the match... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088050 | Display device and portable terminal using the same An object is to narrow the width a frame part provided to a display device. The display device of the present invention comprises: a main substrate having display pixels being arranged in matrix, a scanning line electrode array, a signal line electrode array, and a ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088006 | Integrated circuit arrangement Integrated circuit arrangement, in which bearing areas of mutually opposing sides of a carrier and of a substrate layer, which carries circuit structures, are bonded by means of an adhesive layer. The adhesive bond is produced from adhesives forming at least two adh... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7087501 | Manufacture of probe unit having lead probes extending beyond edge of substrate A sacrificial layer is formed in a recess of a substrate, and leads extending from the substrate into an area of the sacrificial layer are formed. A cut is formed from the bottom surface of the substrate, the cut extending from the bottom surface to the area of the ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7087357 | Photoreactive resin composition, method for making circuit substrate using same, and method for making ceramic multilayer substrate using same A photoreactive resin composition contains (a) a powdered base metal, (b) an organic binder, (c) a photosensitive organic component, and (d) a polycarboxylic acid-based dispersing agent with a molecular weight of about 1,500 or less. Also disclosed is a method for m... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085538 | Portable communication terminal with image transmission function The invention provides a portable communication terminal with an image transmission function which can convey a reception electric field intensity state of and generation of a communication quality alarm in the portable communication terminal itself in the form of a... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084502 | Microelectromechanical device and method for producing it A microelectromechanical device and a method for producing it having at least one layer on a substrate, in particular a thermoelectric layer on a substrate, the thermal expansion coefficient of the at least one layer and the thermal expansion coefficient of the subs... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084231 | Polyarylene compounds, polymers thereof, and electroluminescence element using the same Disclosed are a polyarylene compound and polymers thereof, which can be used as core materials for an organic or polymeric electro-luminescence (EL) element or for other optical devices, a preparation method thereof, and an EL element using the same. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084338 | Lug fixing structure for drum A hollow cylinder of a drum is equipped with a lug fixing structure for detachably attaching a lug thereto by using a lug fixing member, which projects externally from the hollow cylinder and engages with an engagement hole of the lug. Herein, the lug fixing member ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7081677 | Thermoelectric module A thermoelectric module is constituted by a pair of substrates having electrodes, which are arranged opposite to each other with a prescribed space therebetween, in which a prescribed number of thermoelectric elements are arranged in such a way that a p-type and an ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081495 | Cationic compounds and their use as macro molecular carriers Dendrimers comprising a dentritic polypeptide with one dendron having terminal cationic groups and a lipidic anchor, preferably comprising C6-24-alkyl group containing α-amino acyl groups, preferably joined to the focal group, are used to assist transfec... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079833 | Mobile radio terminal and network commerce system using the same A mobile radio terminal comprises a key which has a fingerprint detecting function and operates to input an instruction in correspondence with a pushing position, a memory for registering a fingerprint detected by the key, a fingerprint collating portion for collati... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079502 | Packet communication system, mobile communication system, and addressing method for communication A broadcast group managing router (1) transmits a broadcast packet by attaching thereto a calculation type address which allows to arithmetically obtain a delivery destination by calculation, and each calculation type address calculating router (2 to | 07/18/2006 |
| 7078801 | Thermoelectric module package A thermoelectric module package stores a thermoelectric module for controlling temperature of a semiconductor element (e.g., a semiconductor laser) having high output power, wherein it is constituted by a frame member and a base member, on which various electrode pa... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7077331 | Chip card having a projection mirror A chip card for generating an image projection includes a substrate, a mirror which is held movable with reference to the substrate, an actuator for moving the mirror with reference to the substrate and a processor for processing image information for driving the ac... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076424 | Speech coder/decoder A coding parameter control circuit 31 computes frame length from bit rate and coding delay, and provides the computed frame length data to a CELP coding circuit 32. On the basis of the computed frame length, the coding parameter control circuit 32 | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075970 | Method of decoding turbo-encoded data and receiver for decoding turbo-encoded data A method of decoding turbo-encoded, received data in CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) system which carries out closed-loop control to electric power of a data transmitter, based on a signal to interference ratio, includes the steps of (a) weighting reverse-diffu... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075404 | Porcelain composition for varistor and varistor A varistor is provided which can be driven at a low voltage, has a small leak current, and can realize a high ESD resistance and a high surge resistance. The varistor is formed using a ceramic composition for a varistor which contains zinc oxide as a primary compone... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075121 | Magnetic tunneling junction element having thin composite oxide film A tunneling junction element comprises: a substrate; a lower conductive layer formed on the substrate; a first oxide layer formed on the lower conductive layer and having a non-stoichiometric composition;a second oxide layer formed on the first oxide layer and havin... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7074844 | Adhesives An adhesive, comprising (A) a polymeric MDI, (B) modified polyvinyl acetate emulsion, (C) aqueous polyvinyl alcohol solution, and (D) a filler. Preferably, a mass ratio of A:B:C:D is 30:(60–160):(50–160):(10–140) provided that the aqueous polyvinyl alcohol sol... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7073069 | Apparatus and method for a programmable security processor A digital logic circuit comprises a programmable logic device and a programmable security circuit. The programmable security circuit stores a set of authorized configuration security keys. The programmable security circuit compares the authorized configuration secur... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072467 | Electronic apparatus and waterproof structure therefor A waterproof structure for an electronic apparatus of the present invention includes keybuttons positioned such that their ends appear via holes formed in the casing of the apparatus. A circuit board is loaded with switches configured to selectively open or close wh... | 07/04/2006 |
