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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7648597 | Method for manufacturing high tensile strength steel plate The present invention provides a method for manufacturing high tensile strength steel plate having 570 MPa (N/mm2) or larger tensile strength and having also extremely superior balance of strength and toughness both before PWHT and after PWHT to that of t... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7648307 | Underground structure cover An underground structure cover comprises a cover body (10) and a receiving frame (20) arranged so that the cover body is fitted in and supported by the receiving frame in the manner that an inclined surface (11) of the outer circumference of the... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7648091 | Mobile wood crusher A movable wood crushing machine according to the present invention comprises a vehicle body 2 with a travel device provided therein; a rotary crushing device 6 provided at an edge of this vehicle body in the traveling direction for crushing the wood in... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647807 | In-line torque transducer unit A torque transducer unit for in-line calibration measurement of the output torque of a power wrench (S) includes a torque transferring spindle provided with a torque sensing device, two constant velocity universal joints, for instance Rzeppa-type couplings, and two ... | 01/19/2010 |
| D608338 | Voice recording/reproducing device | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647006 | Image forming apparatus having endless belt An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of rotors, and an endless belt that is supported with tension by the plurality of rotors and rotated by the rotors. Herein, at least one of the plurality of rotors is provided, at a first end, with a belt restraining m... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7645630 | Manufacturing method for thin-film transistor It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic thin-film transistor exhibiting high carrier mobility and a manufacturing method thereof. Disclosed is an organic thin-film transistor possessing a film having a contact angle against pure water of a sur... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7645332 | Non-aqueous ink composition for inkjet A non-aqueous ink composition for inkjet which comprises a pigment, a dispersant, and a non-aqueous solvent is disclosed. The non-aqueous solvent comprises 50 to 90% by weight of a first liquid paraffin, and the balance of a second liquid paraffin, which is characte... | 01/12/2010 |
| D607821 | Controller of electrical actuator | 01/12/2010 |
| 7643816 | Messaging system for managing communications resources Embodiments of the present invention relate to a messaging system for managing communications resources and are particularly suitable for providing a means for subscribers of a telecommunications network to continue participating in a communications service that wou... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643742 | Electronic camera, image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing computer program An electronic camera detects a person's face image from an object image obtained by photographing an object, executes an enlarging process on the detected face image so as to obtain a face image whose face size is suitable, and displays the face image which is enlar... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643739 | Image pick-up apparatus having function of detecting shake direction An object is shot continuously at such a high shutter speed that blur is not caused due to camera shake, and plural shot images are combined such that object images in the plural shot images coincide with each other, whereby one sharp image of the object is obtained... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643701 | Imaging apparatus for correcting a distortion of an image A document camera (1) detects a figure of a known shape on a stage (13) and acquires the coordinates of the figure, and acquires image processing area and projection correction parameter. The document camera (1) extracts image data of the image ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643520 | External cavity resonator type tunable light source which can be easily manufactured and which is capable of wavelength sweeping at high speed A collimator lens converts light beams emitted from a low reflectance facet of a semiconductor laser into parallel light beams. A diffraction grating receives and diffracts the light beams at a predetermined incident position and a predetermined angle of a diffracti... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643380 | Receiving circuit and time piece A receiving circuit is provided with an amplifier circuit for amplifying the electric signal received by an antenna circuit, a frequency converter/detector circuit for converting a frequency of the electric signal amplified by the amplifier circuit to acquire an int... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643083 | Imaging apparatus and emission control method for use in imaging apparatus The data of each pixel of a CCD, acquired from double pre-emissions performed in accordance with a shutter operation, is estimated to determine appropriate luminous energy for actual photography. Specifically, in each frame between the shutter operation and emission... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643082 | Imaging apparatus having an autofocus function A scan representation position table to which three points of focus positions which become scan representation positions are recorded respectively is stored in advance based on the lens position of the zoom lens 2b and the type of priority focus. | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643080 | Image pick-up apparatus and computer program for such apparatus A second-frame is displayed while a through image is displayed for a reviewing purpose immediately after the photographing operation is performed. The user is allowed to combine an object image of ID photograph with the second-frame. The user obtains plural ID photo... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643050 | Optical signal generating apparatus, optical signal generating method, and image forming apparatus An information recording apparatus for recording image information on an image forming body, the apparatus including: a light source for emitting light; a light valve of diffraction grating type, for modulating the light emitted from the light source according to th... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7642543 | Semiconductor light emitting device having metal reflective layer A semiconductor light emitting device including: a support substrate; a composite connection layer formed above the support substrate, the composite connection layer including a first connection layer and a second connection layer; a diffusion barrier layer formed a... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7642525 | Microscope objective and fluorescent observation apparatus therewith An immersion type microscope objective is configured by, in order from the object side to an image side, a positive lens group Ga including a cemented lens obtained by cementing a plano-convex lens whose plane surface faces the object side to a meniscus lens whose c... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7642274 | Inhibitor of pain threshold decrease The invention aims to provide a drug having an activity on inhibiting a decrease in pain threshold. Since a κ-opioid receptor agonist effectively inhibits the decrease in pain threshold, it is useful as an inhibitor of pain threshold decrease. ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7641837 | Production method of rolled optical film having coating layer, rolled optical film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display A method for producing a roll film provided with a coat layer comprising the steps of: (i) producing a roll film; (ii) applying a first embossing treatment along a longitudinal direction of the roll film on a part of a lateral direction of the roll film; (iii) apply... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7641407 | Prevention of damage to an optical disk in a printer due to inadvertent handling A printer for printing character information on an optical disk using an ink cartridge. The printer comprises a printer cover for opening/closing a cartridge receiving section into which the ink cartridge will be loaded. When the ink cartridge is loaded into the car... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7641062 | Wire gripper and article suspension system A wire gripper having a gripping mechanism capable of gripping two wires at a desirable position thereof for suspending a heavy article without a rotation of the article around an axis of each wire is provided. The wire gripper (1) has an inner sleeve (10 | 01/05/2010 |
| 7640997 | Breaker tool with vibration damped handle device A breaker tool has a chassis carrying a motor, an impact mechanism operating in a certain working direction, an enclosure rigidly connected to the chassis and surrounding at least the motor, and a handle device including two handles protruding from opposite sides of... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7640785 | Device for test running power nut runners A device for test running of power nut runners comprises a main body (10;50) with a nut (11;54), a screw (12;52) with a nut runner engaging head (13;55), a clamping element (14;56) co-operating with the screw (12;52), and sp... | 01/05/2010 |
| D607480 | Digital camera | 01/05/2010 |
| D607478 | Digital camera | 01/05/2010 |
| 7639569 | Equipment case, wrist watch case, and radio controlled watch An equipment case for use in an electronic device such as a radio wave wrist watch case comprises a metal case body, a metal back cover, a spacer member, and a ring member. The case body has an opening and houses an antenna inside the case body. The back cover cover... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7639183 | Circularly polarized antenna and radar device using the same A circularly polarized antenna has a dielectric substrate, a ground conductor piled up on one surface side of the dielectric substrate, a circularly polarized antenna element formed on an opposite surface of the dielectric substrate, a plurality of metal posts whose... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7638551 | Amino alcohol compounds or phosphonic acid derivatives thereof A method for the prevention or treatment of an immunology-related disease, which is not rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis, in a mammal in need thereof which involves administering to the mammal a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound, a pharmacologically a... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7637834 | Transmission To provide a transmission capable of: reducing horsepower loss by reducing the amount of lubricating oil for a power transmission system including speed gears when the present speed gear is a specified gear of the speed gears; and securing the lubricating oil amount... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7637435 | IC tag, reader/writer for the IC tag and system using the IC tag An IC tag has a layer of heat sensitive color developing material (I), a layer of material absorbing light and converting absorbed light into heat (II) and a protective layer (III) laminated on the surface of the support successively from the surface, or (II), (I) a... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7637039 | Method and apparatus for controlling hydraulic pump for working machine of working vehicle A hydraulic pump displacement control apparatus for a working vehicle capable of reliably detecting the working vehicle under excavating operation and reducing loss in power is provided. For this purpose, the control apparatus includes a bottom pressure detector ( | 12/29/2009 |
| 7636366 | OFDM radio communications system A transmitter forms each subcarrier group of only frequency locations of subcarriers to which at least one pilot signal is allocated, and conducts transmission by allocating a macro-diversity signal into the subcarrier group and allocating a non-macro-diversity sign... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7635940 | Ultrasonic motor and microscope stage An ultrasonic motor includes a vibrator formed by stacking a plurality of rectangular piezoelectric plates in a thickness direction, a driving circuit for applying a driving signal to a piezoelectric plate, and a detection circuit for detecting an electromotive forc... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7635506 | Stretched cellulose ester film, hard coat film, antireflective film, and optical compensation film, and polarizing plate, and display device using them In a stretched cellulose ester film containing a plasticizer, the plasticizer includes at least an aromatic terminal ester type plasticizer expressed by the following general formula (1): and stretched cellulose ester film includes a cellulose ester having a total a... | 12/22/2009 |
| D606699 | Led luminaire with light sensor | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634815 | Signal generator provided with license control function and license control method thereof A signal generator has a signal creating and supplying unit which creates a test signal to be transmitted to a measurement object and a license management unit which manages a license of waveform data for use in creating the test signal by the signal creating and su... | 12/15/2009 |
