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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7947339 | Process for producing electrophotographic roller member A process for producing an electrophotographic roller member comprising a roller base member having a conductive mandrel and an elastic layer, and a film on the elastic layer. The process comprises the step of forming the film by plasma CVD. The step comprises the s... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947125 | Fine particle dispersion liquid containing tantalum oxide fine particles, tantalum oxide fine particle-resin composite, and method of producing fine particle dispersion liquid Provided are fine particle dispersion liquid containing tantalum oxide fine particles each having a small crystallite size and uniformly dispersed in an organic solvent, a tantalum oxide fine particle-resin composite, and a method of producing the dispersion liquid.... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946843 | Method of and a plant for combusting carbonaceous fuel by using a solid oxygen carrier A method of and a plant for combusting carbonaceous fuel, the method including the steps of introducing particulate oxygen selective sorbent, such as a perovskite type material, into an adsorption reactor of the combustion plant to form a first particle bed in the a... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946568 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus having movable stopper with two conveyors A saddle stitching portion which can bind the center portion in the conveying direction of a sheet bundle by a stapler and fold it by a pair of folding rollers and a pushout member, includes an end stopper which receives the downstream end of a sheet conveyed by a f... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944137 | Electron source and image display apparatus There is provided an electron source according to the present invention, having a plurality of electron-emitting devices wherein each of the electron-emitting devices has a pair of electrodes, and a plurality of conductive films having respective electron emitting p... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943975 | Image pickup device A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a photoelectric conversion unit, an amplifying transistor, and a reset transistor. The photoelectric conversion unit is arranged in a well of a first conductivity type on a semiconduct... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943313 | Probe, probe set, probe-immobilized carrier, and genetic testing method A nucleic acid probe for classification of pathogenic bacterial species is capable of collectively detecting bacterial strains of the same species and differentially detecting them from other bacterial species. Any one of the base sequences of SEQ ID NOS. 70 to 72 a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942713 | Method of fabricating an electron-emitting device incorporating a conductive film containing first and second particles having different resistance values An object hereof is to provide a method of making, a gap, which can provide good electron-emitting properties, simply, with low electric power and in short time. A method of fabricating an electron-emitting device, including a process of flowing a current in electro... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942466 | Vehicle side fairing system A vehicle side fairing having a first fairing panel fixedly secured to the underside of a trailer box, and a second fairing panel slidably mounted to the first fairing panel. The second fairing panel is releasably secured to the wheel set so that the second fairing ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942407 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus The invention provides a sheet processing apparatus in which a controller transports a sheet, delivered to a process tray, by a predetermined distance by a transport member for contacting a stopper, and selects the distance according to a friction on the lower surfa... | 05/17/2011 |
| D638056 | Process cartridge | 05/17/2011 |
| 7549631 | Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus provided with a sheet stacking portion for supporting sheets thereon, a sheet feeding roller for feeding the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking portion, and a manually moving member for selectively moving the sheet stacking portion betwee... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7549629 | Image forming apparatus An air heating mechanism for heating the air which is blown from a loosening/separating nozzle toward the top sheet attracted to an attracting and conveying unit is provided. A control unit controls the air heating mechanism based on moisture content information fro... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7549623 | Image forming apparatus with paper feed direction specifying means There are provided an image forming apparatus, an image input/output apparatus, a paper feed control method, a memory medium, and a program, in which lengths of one side of sheets of image formed paper can be aligned, and even in case of outputting the image formed ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7549010 | Communication apparatus and method A communication apparatus communicates a first message via a network, extracts a difference between the first message and a second message that has been received, and applies the extracted difference to further communication. ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548916 | Calculating image similarity using extracted data Retrieval accuracy is improved by causing a difference in layout from document to document to be reflected in retrieval at will. To achieve this, there is provided an information processing method for a case having a plurality of retrieval steps (S1209, S1... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548841 | Method for logic checking to check operation of circuit to be connected to bus To check operation of a circuit to be checked connected to a bus to which at least one master circuit and at least one slave circuit are connected, a model is connected to a bus in place of a master circuit or a slave circuit and cause given signals to be outputted ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548708 | Power supply unit in image forming apparatus A power supply unit in an image forming apparatus is provided. The power supply unit includes a piezoelectric transformer, an output voltage detecting circuit which detects the output voltage of the piezoelectric transformer, an output voltage control circuit which ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548703 | Image forming apparatus administration system with developer density detection and developer lifetime information communication features An image forming apparatus including an electrostatic image forming device, which forms an electrostatic image on an image bearing member, a developing apparatus, which develops the electrostatic image by a development bias being applied to a developer carrying memb... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548633 | Data processing apparatus and method, data processing program, and storage medium The present invention has an object to provide a data processing apparatus which can perform digital watermark embedding/extraction in accordance with manipulation, editing, and compression. To achieve the object, the data processing apparatus for performing compres... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548615 | Rate validation system and method The present invention facilitates automated audits for systems storing travel services rates based on special or negotiated pricing structures. The invention provides a system and method by which a customer and/or broker of travel related services may invoke an audi... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548362 | Optical deflecting device and image forming apparatus using the same An optical deflecting device including a supporting member, an oscillating member, and a driving member for driving the oscillating member, wherein the oscillating member includes a first movable element and a second movable element torsionally oscillating about a c... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548347 | Image printing apparatus and image printing method This invention has as its object to realize multi-pass print control which requires a short processing time by a simple arrangement. To this end, a printer according to this invention attains multi-grayscale print control by changing the number of dots to be printed... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548346 | Image processing apparatus and method for performing error diffusion based on density values of different color components Image processing apparatus and image processing method for formation of high quality image by high-speed error diffusion processing by execution of more complicated threshold condition processing in a simple manner. When error diffusion processing is performed on mu... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548344 | Image processing apparatus, and method of controlling the same Two main-scanning-color-group recognition units, each for measuring a degree of continuity of chromatic pixels in a main scanning direction are provided. A degree of continuity in a sub-scanning direction is measured by the degree of continuity of chromatic pixels i... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548334 | User interface for creation and editing of variable data documents Methods and apparatus for variable document printing are disclosed in which a graphical user interface is configured to allow user manipulation of layout rules associated with content containers within a template for variable document generation. One method involves... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548333 | Data transfer method and image formation system The present invention aims to effectively perform image data transfer between an image generation controller and an image processing controller in either of color image printing and black-and-white image printing. Respective signal lines of Y, M, C and K are provide... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548330 | Image processing apparatus and its control method In the case of providing a variable data print, it is an object to provide an image processing apparatus in which the user can take a countermeasure against an error more rapidly. When a variable data printing process is started, whether or not image data is inacces... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548329 | Image formation apparatus, control method of image formation apparatus, storage medium of storing computer-readable program, and program In an image formation apparatus which includes a nonvolatile memory, the apparatus has a first mode of controlling so that a job does not remain in the nonvolatile memory after image formation is performed based on the job and a second mode of storing the job in the... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548247 | Image editing apparatus and control method for the same, computer program, storage media The present invention enables dust removal to be effectively performed even when using the operation history on images containing different pictures. An image editing apparatus includes a storage unit for storing a plurality of image data to be edited and a display ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548077 | Measuring apparatus and a measuring method for measuring a polarization characteristic of an optical system A measuring apparatus is disclosed which includes an interferometer for measuring a wavefront of light transmitted through a test object by interference between light under test passed through the test object and reference light, and measures a polarization characte... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548066 | Potential measuring device and image forming apparatus using the same A potential measuring device for measuring a potential of a measurement object, includes a detection electrode that faces the measurement object, a reference electrode disposed in a vicinity of the detection electrode that is electrostatically shielded by an electro... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548017 | Surface conduction electron emitter display The invention provides an image forming apparatus in which orbit shift can be prevented to perform good image display in an electron beam emitted from the electron-emitting device adjacent to the spacer when an antistatic spacer coated with a high resistance film is... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7547998 | Aligning apparatus including an attraction preventing plate provided between permanent magnet and magnetic member An aligning apparatus includes a moving member, a magnetic member arranged vertically above the moving member, a stator unit which is arranged vertically below the moving member and has a plurality of coils, a first magnet unit which is provided to the moving member... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7547890 | Image pick-up apparatus and manufacturing method thereof, radiation image pick-up apparatus, and radiation image pick-up system In an image pick-up apparatus, a plurality of pixels, each pairing a semiconductor conversion element for converting an incident electromagnetic wave to an electric signal and a thin film transistor connected to the semiconductor conversion element, is arranged in a... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7547871 | Photoelectric conversion device A photoelectric conversion device formed on a single semiconductor substrate, including: a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements; a read-out circuit including a switch for reading out analog signals from the photoelectric conversion elements; a buffer circu... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7547765 | Branched polyalkylene glycols The present invention provides a branched polyalkylene glycol wherein three or more single-chain polyalkylene glycols and a group having reactivity with an amino acid side chain, the N-terminal amino group or the C-terminal carboxyl group in a polypeptide or a group... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7547620 | Film pattern producing method, and producing method for electronic device, electron-emitting device and electron source substrate utilizing the same A method for producing a film pattern comprises a step of forming a resin film on a substrate surface; a step of incorporating into the resin film a constituent of a conductive film or a semiconductor film; a step of irradiating the resin film with an ultraviolet li... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7547503 | Photosensitive silane coupling agent, method of forming pattern, and method of fabricating device Provided is a photosensitive silane coupling agent for forming a low-defect microparticle pattern, dot array pattern, or hole array pattern with a smaller number of process steps, and a method of forming a pattern using such photosensitive silane coupling agent. Use... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7547240 | Method for manufacturing image display device By a method for manufacturing a flat image display device having a plate spacer, even if the center of the plate spacer is displaced from its initial assembly position, it can easily be corrected to the initial assembly position again, allowing stable production of ... | 06/16/2009 |
