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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6518248 | Method of treating gastric or colon cancer by administration of a sulfoquinovosylacylglycerol ester An anticancer drug includes a compound represented by Formula (1): ##STR1## where R101 represents an acyl moiety of a saturated higher fatty acid, and R102 represents a hydrogen atom or an acyl moiety of a saturated higher fatty acid... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6503587 | Oxygen-absorbing multi-layer laminate, production method thereof and packaging container An oxygen-absorbing multi-layer laminate suitable for preserving food, etc. due to its excellent ability of retaining flavor and taste of food, a method of efficiently producing the oxygen-absorbing multi-layer laminate and a packaging container made of t... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6501410 | Signal analyzing apparatus An A/D converter converts a to-be-measured analog signal to digital data while being sampled with a predetermined sampling frequency. A data sorting circuit sorts the digital data which is outputted from the A/D converter alternately into two signal paths... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6451766 | Neuraminic acid derivatives, their preparation and their medical use Compounds of formula (I) or their salts or esters: ##STR1## [wherein R1 is alkyl or haloalkyl; R2 and R3 each represents hydrogen or aliphatic acyl; X is hydroxy, halogen, alkoxy, or a group of formula Ra O--, w... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6444795 | 1-0-(2-propenyl)-6-0-sulfonylpyranosides 1-O-(2-propenyl)-6-O-sulfonylpyranoside represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R1, R2 and R3 each independently represents an alkyl or substituted silyl group, and R4 represents an alkylsulfonyl or arylsulf... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6437253 | Terminal structure to which an electronic component is to be bonded Connection terminals are provided on the upper surface of a film substrate. Each terminal comprises an electrodeconnecting part and a circular reinforcing part connected to the distal end of the electrode-connecting part. Connection electrodes are provide... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6436519 | Cutting tool with multilayer, wear-resistant coating For coating a cutting tool with an aluminum oxide layer, a bonding layer has been provided that is preferably formed by aluminum titanate and has a flake-like crystal structure. This bonding layer improves the adherence of an aluminum oxide layer, in part... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6435640 | Ink-jet printer An ink-jet printer includes a print head for printing a plurality of dots as an image by ejecting ink onto a paper sheet while the paper sheet is moving in a predetermined direction, and a print control section which stores a plurality of dot data assigne... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6433986 | Device having electrical board mounted thereon and method for manufacturing apparatus having the device An electrical board is provided which includes a switch pattern disposed in a device or apparatus such as a camera, for example, for receiving an operation input in response to an operation from the exterior, and a connection land portion formed to be con... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6432159 | Magnetic mixture A magnetic mixture comprising at least two kinds of powders which are uniformly mixed with each other. Each powder exhibits a significant magnetic property when its constituent elements have a predetermined composition ratio. Magnetic properties of each p... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6427806 | Food and drink conveying system A conveying container includes an input means for inputting a specified table number, a food and drink detecting means for detecting presence of the food and drink in the container, a conveying-container-side transmitter for sending out information that i... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6426835 | Confocal microscope In a confocal microscope, a beam of light from a light source is lead to a rotary disk by way of an optical lens and a half mirror, and made to strike specimen by way of an objective lens. The rotary disk has random pin hole pattern sections where pin hol... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6426122 | Method for hot-dip galvanizing The method for hot dip galvanizing comprises the steps of: dividing a plating vessel holding a molten metal into a plating tank and a dross removing tank; conducting hot dip galvanizing to a steel strip by immersing thereof in the molten metal bath; then ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6425907 | Ultrasonic medical instrument A hand-piece comprises an arm main body which moves relative to a grip section, and an arm section having a clamp member openable and closable with respect to a probe section. As a result of movement of the arm main body relative to the grip section, the ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6421544 | Radio communication system, control method thereof, and radio communication terminal A CPU built in a portable telephone (or a PHS terminal), receiving the control signal from a doorway base station, detects the present operation mode. If the present mode is the call enable mode, it is assumed that the user has entered a use inhibit area ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6420057 | Organic electroluminescent element An organic electroluminescent element comprising a light emission layer comprised of single or plural thin layers of an organic compound put between an anode and a cathode facing to each other is disclosed. At least one of the thin layer of the organic co... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6419334 | Ink-jet printer A nozzle unit having a plurality of nozzle heads is vertically moved by an elevating mechanism between a printing position where it prints on a printing surface, and a non-printing position above the printing position and separate from the printing positi... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6415049 | Apparatus for detecting and processing a radiation image In an apparatus for processing a radiation image provided with a detector having a plurality of detecting elements which are arranged in two dimensional arrangement, for acquiring the radiation image, for converting the acquired radiation image into elect... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6414854 | Driving device and method of switching element in power conversion apparatus using current-controlled semiconductor switching element In a power conversion apparatus using a semiconductor switching element, a collector-emitter voltage detecting device is provided to detect the collector-emitter voltage in the semiconductor switching element in the power conversion apparatus in order to ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6414805 | Reflected-light type fluorescence microscope and filter cassette used therefor In a reflected-light type fluorescence microscope having a turret type filter cassette capable of switching a plurality of excitation filters, a plurality of barrier filters, and a plurality of dichromatic mirrors and selecting a desired set of excitation... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6414209 | Catalyst for converting paraffinic hydrocarbon into corresponding olefin The invention relates to a calcinated catalyst for converting paraffinic hydrocarbon into corresponding olefin through dehydrogenation. The catalyst is an oxidic, heat-stable carrier material and contains a catalytic active constituent, which is applied o... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6412620 | Coin discriminating apparatus A coin discriminating apparatus includes light emitting elements for emitting light toward one surface of a coin being transported, a line sensor for photoelectrically detecting light reflected by the one surface of the coin and producing image pattern da... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6411937 | Terminal for communication in an urban environment A communications terminal for communicating in an urban environment. The communications terminal includes a parking meter with a printer and a payment device. The terminal also is provided with a CPU, a modem for communicating with at least one informatio... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6411780 | Camera having electronic image-pickup capability and capable of performing self-timer photography A camera comprises an electronic image-pickup apparatus and a silver-salt photography apparatus for recording a subject image on a silver-salt film. The electronic image-pickup apparatus comprises an area sensor for converting a subject image to an electr... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6411433 | Micromanipulator A micromanipulator having a high-stiffness manipulation probe capable of carrying out a manipulation process in the view range of a microscope without modifying an existing observation optical system. The micromanipulator comprises a manipulation probe pr... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6410613 | Phosphate compound and preparation process thereof, phosphate copper compound and preparation process thereof, near infrared ray absorber, and near infrared ray-absorbing acrylic resin composition Disclosed herein are a novel phosphate compound by which a copper ion can be dispersed in a high proportion in a synthetic resin, thereby providing excellent visible ray-transmitting property and performance that near infrared rays are absorbed with high ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6405998 | Method for installing cables in tubes and apparatus for practicing this method A method and apparatus for installing a cable in a tube is provided wherein the cable is installed by the combination of a pushing force and a pressurized fluid drag force. In particular, the pressurized fluid drag force is applied by alternately passing ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6405490 | Double hinged door system Each of the hinges 30, 30 is positioned at upper and lower positions of the hinge-side vertical member 20 correspondingly, wherein each position is symmetrical relative to the horizontal plane which divides the hinge-side vertical member 20 in halves. A l... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6404449 | Color image forming apparatus performing an exposure scanning operation onto a photoreceptor by means of a laser beam reflected by a rotating mirror A color image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor and a plurality of exposure-scanning sections, one of which outputs a reference horizontal-sync. signal. The color image forming apparatus also includes a synchronizing section to synchronize a hori... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6403940 | Turntable drive mechanism in a cooking oven A turntable drive mechanism in a cooking oven. A driver unit is arranged outside a cooking chamber for rotationally driving a turntable, and a magnetic coupling is arranged between a revolving shaft of the turntable and another revolving shaft of the driv... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6402441 | Burr removing method and apparatus In a burr removing method and apparatus of the present invention, a burr located at an edge of a steel piece is cut with a cutter by disposing the cutter such that the flank of the cutter is substantially in parallel with the surface of the steel piece on... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6402416 | Waterproof structure of connecting portion A waterproof structure includes a first member (front cover) having an elastically-deformable projection at one end and a second member (rear cover) having a contact surface capable of contacting outer and inner surfaces of the projection. When the first ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6402343 | Lighting device A lighting device equipped with an aperture lamp (1) includes two optical means (8, 9) disposed in series, wherein at least the first means (8) viewed in a sectional plane perpendicular to the lamp's longitudinal axis, is curved. The first means (8) bundl... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6400941 | Mobile information device capable of obtaining user information relating to local area Each time a mobile terminal enters a service area of an information providing device and its location is registered by the information providing device, the area code and local code of telephone numbers and addresses associated with the service area are s... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6400501 | Optical microscope An optical microscope has a revolver for selectively inserting a plurality of objective lenses including a low-magnification (very-low-magnification) objective lens on an optical axis for observation light. In fluorescence observation using the low-magnif... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6400473 | Image reader This invention provides an image reader which simply fetches a film image as an image of substantially the same size and the same image quality irrespective of issuance of a trimming command. In the image reader, information related to a trimming area can... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6400402 | Highly precise image pickup apparatus with apertures offset from a lenter An imaged pickup apparatus wherein the light projected position in which light representing sample points of the image of an object to be photographed is projected is changed, and any light receiving element of a light receiving section sequentially detec... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6400390 | Image recording method and apparatus with a beam incident angle changing device An image recording apparatus having a laser beam source which emits a laser beam, and an incident angle changing device for changing an incident angle, in a sub scanning direction of the laser beam emitted from the laser beam source, onto a light sensitiv... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6400061 | Surface acoustic wave device and substrate thereof The present invention provides a piezoelectric substrate for a surface acoustic wave device which has high electromechanical coupling coefficient and low SAW velocity, and a surface acoustic wave device using the same. The present invention applies a sing... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6398721 | Surgical microscope apparatus A surgical microscope apparatus incorporating a frame portion placed on a floor, a microscope body for stereoscopically observing a portion to be operated, an arm portion supported by the frame portion and arranged to suspend the microscope body, and an e... | 06/04/2002 |
