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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8034294 | Medical monitoring/consumables tracking device The present invention generally provides medical monitoring devices, and corresponding systems, that includes at least one sensor for detecting usage of at least one consumable, an electronic controller electrically connected to the sensor to receive a signal theref... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7942144 | Heating system and apparatus A heating apparatus and a system that utilize friction to generate thermal energy. The heating apparatus comprises a housing unit, a plurality of heating chambers for generating heat, an actuating unit, a shaft; and at least one blade unit. Each heating chamber comp... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7342935 | Method and apparatus for sending out multi-channel digital data, method and apparatus for programming the information and method and apparatus for managing multi-channel digital data An information source management system 11 performs inventory management for CDs and a material information management progress programming system 12 performs programming. An material information registration system 13 compresses the musical num... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7209425 | Drive apparatus for tape-like optical recording medium An apparatus for driving a tape-shaped optical recording medium, which comprises a supply reel (41) for supplying an optical tape (40), a take-up reel (42) for taking-up the optical tape (40), a friction capstan (43) for driving th... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7148655 | Electronic equipment, display control method, recording medium and program A communication portion of a video camera receives expected power information of a printer from the printer, and also receives battery power information from a battery pack. When a microcomputer judges that there is any shift to a state where the power consumption a... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139316 | System method and apparatus for seamlessly splicing data A plurality of bit streams are seamlessly spliced. Separate decoders decode each bit stream. A controller selects the decoded pictures according to a re-encoding range in the vicinity of a splicing point of the bit streams. Pictures presenting a reordering of the st... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133562 | Image processing apparatus A foreground extracting section extracts the foreground of each of the first to the N-th frames, and a foreground-accumulated-image configuration section configures a front accumulated image obtained by overlapping the foregrounds of the first to the N-th frames vie... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7092034 | Video signal processing device and method, recording medium, and program The present invention is related to a video signal processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program which are suitably for use in determining whether an input video signal is standard or nonstandard. In synchronization with the edge of an advance v... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7031781 | Recording apparatus, recording method and recording medium This invention relates to a recording apparatus for recording digital data compressively encoded by use of a predetermined scheme having: receiving means for receiving a transport stream from an external unit connected through a digital bus; extracting means for ext... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6852079 | Light guide and endoscope An object of the present invention is to make the light distribution by a light guide even. In the light guide, an amount of light emitted from the central region in the light emission end face is relatively small in comparison with an amount of light emitted from a... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6826132 | Data recording apparatus and method, and data recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method A data recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus. The apparatus may include one or more buffer memories, a recorder, a controller, and/or a reproducing unit. Continuous picture and/or speech data may be stored, recorded, and/or reproduced. The size of a reco... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6798756 | Data transmission system and method, and data receiving method and device A central broadcast station implements processing at a SDTI decoder unit 385, a MPEG decoder unit 387, a first editing system 389, and a MPEG encoder unit 373, etc. under control of a network computer 371 to SDTI bit stream obtaine... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6731858 | Device and method for acquiring model information of a module An electronic device has memory (configuration ROM) which is directly accessible from another electronic device. The memory has an area (for example, a “Model_ID” entry of a root directory) to store its own model information and another area (for example, a Mode... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6451863 | Use of water-insoluble poly(oxy-1,4-butanediyl)-containing polyoxyalkylene-polysiloxane block copolymers for defoaming aqueous media The invention relates to the use of water-insoluble poly(oxy-1,4-butanediyl)-containing polyoxyalkylene-polysiloxane block copolymers of the general average formula ##STR1## wherein the variables and indices are described herein as defoaming agents f... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6433028 | Use of water-insoluble polyoxyalkylene-polysiloxane block copolymers for defoaming aqueous media The invention relates to the use of water-insoluble polyoxyalkylene-polysiloxane block copolymers of the general average formula ##STR1## wherein the variables and indices are described herein as defoaming agents for aqueous media. This invention als... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6433079 | Aqueous anticorrosion primers based on polyvinylbutyral Water-dilutable polyvinylbutyral dispersions obtainable by a two-stage reaction in the first stage of which at least one tertiary alkanolamine A and at least one diisocyanate B are reacted to the theoretically calculated NCO content and the amounts of com... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6433253 | Debranching enzymes and DNA sequences coding them, suitable for changing the degree of branching of amylopectin starch in plants The present invention relates to DNA sequences which, on the codogenic strand, code plant debranching enzymes whose transcripts formed in transgenic plants code new proteins with the enzymatic activity of debranching enzymes which in transgenic plants red... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6395056 | Method for the heat treatment of iron ore lumps in a reduction system A method and apparatus for the production of prereduced iron ore, DRI, sponge iron or the like by the gaseous reduction of iron-oxide containing particles in a reduction system which comprises a preheating device for the iron ore particles. The preheating... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6117963 | Tetrahydrofuran-containing silicone polyethers Block copolymers of the general average formula ##STR1## where, A=radical R1, radical D, or radical E, D=radical of the formula --R2f --O--(C2 H4-g R5g O--)n (CH2 | 09/12/2000 |
| 6096856 | Polymer electrolytes and process for their production The invention relates to a process for the chlorosulfonation of polyarylene sulfide in which the polyarylene sulfide is completely dissolved in chlorosulfonic acid at a temperature of -10 to +20 C., then agitated at reaction temperatures in the +5 to +20 ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5763719 | Thermally stable fullerene derivatives and process for producing the same A fullerene derivative of the formula I ##STR1## where the symbols and indices have the following meanings: F is a fullerene radical of the formula (C20+2m), where m is a number from 1 to 50 R1 to R8 are identical or ... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5759506 | Process for preparing aerogels The invention relates to a process for preparing modified SiO2 gels, in which the gel is aged using a solution of a condensable alkyl and/or aryl orthosilicate, or using an aqueous silicic acid solution, in order to strengthen the structure of ... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5753591 | Aqueous suspension concentrates of endosulfan The present invention relates to liquid formulations of endosulfan in the form of suspension concentrates which comprise a surfactant combination of a phosphoric ester based on an ethoxylated alkylphenol and an ethoxylated alkylaryl- and alcohol phosphate... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5728480 | Poly(4,5,9,10-tetrahydropyrene-2,7-diyl) derivatives and their use as electroluminescence materials Poly(4,5,9,10-tetrahydropyrene-2,7-diyl) derivatives of the formula (I) ##STR1## where the symbols R1 to R4 have the following meanings: R1, R2, R3, R4 are identically or variously H, a str... | 03/17/1998 |
