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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7699417 | Image recording unit and image recording apparatus A recording unit according to the present invention includes a holding member, a recording element held on the holding member, an ink supply section held on the holding member, and a guiding portion provided in the holding member. The guiding portion guides a record... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698969 | Nut runner mounting structure A nut runner mounting structure for supporting one or more nut runner spindles includes a spindle supporting base plate, and at least one support pillar extending in parallel with the spindles and secured at its forward end to the base plate and at its rear end to a... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698296 | Content-reproducing apparatus A content reproducing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a play list and candidate contents able to be added to the play list, a selection unit configured to select, from the candidate contents, an undesired content which a user does not want to... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697944 | Method and apparatus for distributing messages to mobile recipients For processing digital communication traffic in a network comprising a central communication processing structure (402, 403; 502, 503) and a number of separate devices (401, 405; 501, 505) of users designed for communication with the central communicat... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697830 | Digital camera that performs focus detection using phase difference and contrast value A digital camera includes a phase difference AF sensor unit, phase difference AF detection unit, contrast AF detection unit, lens driving unit which focuses a taking lens, shading determination unit which determines based on lens information of the taking lens wheth... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697119 | Range image generating apparatus A range image generating apparatus capable of preventing or reducing generation of range images with interference, which contain e.g., pixels with erroneous distance values is provided. The range image generating apparatus includes: a light source radiating a light;... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697034 | Moving image playback device with camera-shake correction function When a blurring correction is performed when shooting a moving image, a digital camera performs blurring correction on the picked up frames and successively records the frames. Then, when generating a moving image file, the digital camera records information stating... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7696996 | Laser scanning microscope apparatus A laser scanning microscope capable of quickly and accurately setting control values of control items for a microscope apparatus is provided. The control items and a time line are displayed along a vertical axis and a horizontal axis, respectively. The laser scannin... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7696991 | Method and apparatus for analyzing twinned crystal A method and an apparatus for analyzing a twinned crystal can display three-dimensionally the real space unit lattice, the reciprocal space primitive lattices and the reciprocal lattice points of each component of the twinned crystal. Respective crystal orientation ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7696944 | Antenna apparatus Disclosed is an antenna apparatus including: an antenna element including a receiving unit to receive an electric wave; a circuit substrate including a circuit surface on which a circuit amplifying an input from the antenna element is formed; a shield cover covering... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7696734 | Multiphase DC-DC converter Disclosed is a multiphase DC-DC converter including a plurality of DC-DC converter circuits connected in parallel to one another; an output section to add up outputs of the plurality of DC-DC converter circuits to obtain one output; a timing generating circuit to ge... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7695944 | Method for producing phosholipid A method for producing a phospholipid using transphosphatidylation, which comprises homogenizing a mixture of a raw material phospholipid, a hydroxyl-containing acceptor, phospholipase D, and water in the absence of an organic solvent to obtain a homogenized mixture... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7695759 | Display device and manufacturing method thereof A bank for defining the regions in which pixels are formed has a stacked structure including: a base layer on the low level which also serves as an interlayer insulating film between the pixel forming regions; a middle bank layer on the middle level which serves to ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7695311 | Connector A connector which is improved in electrical characteristics thereof. A plurality of contacts which are held in a housing of the connector where an FPC is inserted include at least three supporting contacts each having a supporting portion that pivotally supports an ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693391 | Video playback device, playback method and video playback program When an album mode is selected by a predetermined operation, thumbnail image data is acquired corresponding to saved video files which are retrieved from a thumbnail image data storage area (1495) and a list display of the thumbnail images is shown in the mai... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693350 | Pixel interpolation device and camera adapted to perform pixel interpolation of captured image A camera includes an image capture unit which captures the image of a subject to obtain image data, a pixel interpolation unit which, on the basis of pixel data from multiple pixels arranged on a line in the image data obtained by the image capture unit, creates ima... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693038 | OFDM radio communications system, transmitter and receiver Each of a general chunk to which pilot signals are allocated at a general density, and a high-density chunk to which pilot signals are allocated at a higher density than the density of the general chunk, is transmitted in a frequency band common to OFDM transmitters... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692733 | Surface light source capable of varying angular range for diffusing emitted light and liquid crystal display apparatus capable of displaying selectively with wide view angle and narrow view angle by using same A liquid crystal display apparatus comprises first and second light emitting sections for emitting light with respective spreading angles that are different from each other and a liquid crystal display device arranged at the viewing side of the apparatus. The first ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692725 | Television receiver and control program for the television receiver A display controller displays an image of a high resolution output from 13-Segment decoder on a main screen area of a display unit and displays an image of the standard resolution output from a single-Segment decoder on a subsidiary screen area of the display unit. ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692701 | Image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus has an image sensing device. The image sensing device includes a photoelectric conversion element that photoelectrically converts an optical image to acquire image data, and a readout control unit that reads out, in accordance with a suppl... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692282 | Semiconductor device including semiconductor element surrounded by an insulating member wiring structures on upper and lower surfaces of the semiconductor element and insulating member, and manufacturing method thereof A first semiconductor element is mounted on a base plate, and is in a sealed state by the periphery thereof being covered by an insulation member, and the upper surface thereof being covered by an upper insulation film. An upper wiring layer formed on the upper insu... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7691483 | Resin-coated metal sheet The resin-coated metal sheet is composed of: a metal sheet; a lower resin layer containing a hydrophilic copolyester, formed on at least one side of the metal sheet; and an upper resin layer containing a polyester containing a diol component composed of a diol deriv... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7691358 | Nanocarbon solubilizer, method for purifying same, and method for producing high-purity nanocarbon A water solubilizer for nanocarbons contains a surfactant which can form a spherical micelle vesicle having a diameter of 50-2,000 nm in a water solution or a water-soluble polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 10,000-50,000,000 as an active constituen... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7691213 | Case hardened gear and method of producing the same There is provided an inexpensive rolling element used under high interface pressure such as induction hardened gears, the rolling element being improved in the seizure resistance of its tooth flanks and having a temper hardness of HRC 50 or more at 300° C. To this ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7691212 | Rolling element and method of producing the same Various inexpensive rolling elements for use under high interface pressure such as induction hardened gears are provided, which have improved seizure resistance at tooth flanks and a temper hardness of HRC 50 or more at 300 ° C. To this end, a rolling element is ma... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7690646 | Sheet storing device, post-processing apparatus equipped with the device and image forming system equipped with the apparatus A sheet storing device having a conveyance device that converts the conveyance direction while holding the sheet and a storing section that has the first support member supporting the surface of the sheet substantially vertically, the second support member supportin... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7690238 | Work carrying device of pressing machine A transfer feeder 41 has a lift/clamp device 80 moving a bar 14 in a lift direction and a clamp direction, a plurality of feed carriers 52 installed on the bar 14, and feeding linear motors 53 driving the feed carriers 52... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689114 | Imaging device, imaging method and program An imaging device equipped with an imaging system includes an imaging lens optical system which images an object, a flash emitting unit which synchronizes imaging in the imaging system to emit a flash having not less than a prescribed luminance in a charged state no... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689108 | Imaging apparatus, data extraction method, and data extraction program When a camera shake correction function is set to “on”, a control unit exposes a CCD. Simultaneously during the exposure, the control unit generates a CCD drive signal for changing relative positions of the CCD and a lens in accordance with a shake detection sig... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688933 | Shift register circuit and display drive device A shift register circuit includes plural stages of signal holding circuits which are cascade-connected to hold a signal based on a supplied input signal, to output an output signal based on the held signal, and to supply the output signal as an input signal to a sub... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688893 | Video encoder and portable radio terminal device A prediction mode determining unit of a video encoder comprises a primary evaluative value calculating unit which calculates each primary evaluative value of a plurality of primary evaluative values corresponding respectively to a plurality of 4×4 intra-prediction ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688305 | Information inputting tool, storage device, information inputting device, and information processing equipment The present invention provides, among other things, an information inputting tool that can be made space-saving and places small constraint on key touch actions. For that purpose, an information inputting tool of the present invention is provided with a reflection p... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7687491 | Heterocyclic compound A compound having immunosuppressive activity with low toxicity or a pharmacological salt thereof. The compound has a general formula (I) shown below or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, or a pharmacologically acceptable prodrug thereof ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7687178 | Fuel container A liquid fuel is contained in a fuel container, and the liquid fuel is discharged from a fuel outlet. Further, a water is contained in a water containing pipe provided in the fuel container, and the water is discharged from a water outlet to the outside. Air taken i... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7687035 | Reaction apparatus A reaction apparatus includes: a chemical reaction unit for causing a reaction of a reactant by being set to a predetermined temperature and by being supplied with the reactant, a heat insulation package for housing the chemical reaction unit therein, an abnormality... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7687030 | Hydrogen gas visualization device A hydrogen gas visualization device comprises a hydrogen sensor having a thin film layer formed on the surface of a substrate and a catalyst layer formed on the surface of the thin film layer which, when contacted by hydrogen gas contained in an atmosphere, hydrogen... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686992 | Interior member for cab of work vehicle and method for forming same, as well as wall member An object is to enhance the sound absorbing functions of an interior member, and furthermore, to increase ease of assembly of the interior member, and the interior member for the cab is integrally formed so as to have a laminated structure where a sound absorbing ma... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686524 | Image pick-up device unit having a dust-proofing member that is vibrated to remove dust, the dust-proofing member being pressed by a spring pressing member toward a sealing structure that seals an interval between the dust-proofing member and an image pick-up device A camera includes a dust-proofing member which has a transparent portion through which a visible light component is transmitted. The transparent portion is opposed to the front of an image pick-up device at a predetermined interval. A vibration member is arranged at... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686241 | Jaw crusher and self-traveling crusher In a jaw crusher, cheek plates are mounted on side wall plates of a crusher frame by mounting bolts, and the mounting bolt adjacent to the outlet of the jaw crusher can be covered with the swing jaw by adjustment of an outlet gap-adjusting link mechanism. When the j... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685900 | Vehicle mounted with continuous stepless transmission A vehicle mounted with a continuous stepless transmission having a continuous stepless transmission and a controlling section for performing speed-changing operation of the continuous stepless transmission, the speed change ratio of the continuous stepless transmiss... | 03/30/2010 |
