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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7916529 | Pin diode device and architecture A memory architecture that employs one or more semiconductor PIN diodes is provided. The memory employs a substrate that includes a buried bit/word line and a PIN diode. The PIN diode includes a non-intrinsic semiconductor region, a portion of the bit/word line, and... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915301 | Inhibitors of cyclin dependent kinases and their use The present invention relates to novel compounds for the inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinases, and more particularly, to chromenone derivatives of formula (Ia), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7706076 | Optical system An optical system for arranging between a light source and a field diaphragm in an illumination beam path of a microscope comprises n imaging optical elements with focal lengths fi and Abbe numbers νi (i=1, . . . , n). The following relationsh... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7699444 | Liquid droplet-jetting apparatus and method for producing liquid droplet-jetting apparatus A channel unit has a first individual ink channel including a first nozzle and a first pressure chamber, and a second individual ink channel including a second nozzle and a second pressure chamber. The channels have a mutually identical channel structure. A piezoele... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7690770 | Sheet-member stacked structure, lead frame, lead-frame stacked structure, sheet-member stacked and adhered structure, and ink jet printer head A sheet-member stacked structure produced by a method including one or more of the following steps: stacking lead frames on each other, and stacking sheet members of one lead frame on sheet members of another or other lead frame or frames, each lead frame including ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7690769 | Inkjet printer head with ink-flow grooves on the wall of the common ink chamber A recording head for use in an inkjet recording device, the recording head including a cavity unit having a plurality of nozzles each of which ejects a droplet of an ink, a plurality of communication holes which communicate with the plurality of nozzles, respectivel... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7690753 | Recording apparatus and maintenance method for recording apparatus An ink which is supplied from an ink cartridge via an ink supply tube is stored in an ink tank, and is supplied to a recording head. The ink cartridge is detachably connected to the ink supply tube. At every predetermined time interval, a maintenance unit carries ou... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7687906 | Connecting structure, method for forming bump, and method for producing device-mounting substrate A connecting terminal provided on a substrate and a connector provided on an electronic device are connected via a bump formed of a first member, which is formed of an anisotropic conductive paste including particles of a conductive material, and a second member whi... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685048 | Electronic trading system for forwards spread trades A trading system and method for trading forwards among a plurality of parties is presented. Among the features that the system implements are the following: counterparty enablement by forward term and/or region; a user selectable area on the monitor for executing ag... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7417442 | Method and apparatus for testing tunnel magnetoresistive effect element, manufacturing method of tunnel magnetoresistive effect element and tunnel magnetoresistive effect element A method for testing a TMR element includes a step of measuring a plurality of resistances of the TMR element by feeding a plurality of sense currents with different current values each other through the TMR element, a step of calculating a ratio of change in resist... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7403352 | Acceleration sensor and magnetic disk drive apparatus An acceleration sensor includes a housing member, a spring member attached to the housing member, a magnetic field generation member fixed to the housing member, and at least one magnetic field detection sensor and a weight member, fixed to the spring member so that... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7392553 | Overflow drain assembly for sanitary vessels The present invention provides an overflow drain assembly for a sanitary vessel, wherein the vessel includes a bottom surface and at least one side surface depending therefrom, such that the surfaces together define a reservoir for receipt and storage of fluid there... | 07/01/2008 |
| D557617 | Travel alarm clock | 12/18/2007 |
| 7262214 | 1-N-arylpyrazole derivatives in prevention of arthropod-borne and mosquito-borne diseases This invention provides for a method for preventing or interrupting the transmission of anthropod and mosquito-borne diseases from a first actual or putative amplifying or incipient host to a second actual or putative amplifying or incipient host, which comprises ap... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7247483 | Method for determining the volume of a liquid sample A method, a device, and a test kit for performing this method for determining the volume of a sample of the liquid. In the method, a specific concentration of a chromophoric indicator is provided in this liquid, a sample is separated from the liquid, the optical abs... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7189772 | Polyurethane thickeners for aqueous systems The invention provides for thickeners for inks and coating materials, comprising polyurethanes, water, viscosity regulators, and, if desired, organic solvents, wherein said viscosity regulators comprise compounds of the general formula (I) R1—... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7163926 | Adjuvant-containing vaccines This invention provides a DNA vaccine which comprises a naked DNA incorporating and expressing in vivo a nucleotide sequence encoding an antigenic polypeptide, preferably a gene of a pathogenic agent, and at least one adjuvant compound chosen from the polymers of ac... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7144578 | Poxvirus-rabies recombinants and compositions and methods employing the recombinants Recombinant viruses containing DNA coding for a rabies virus antigen, such as rabies virus G are disclosed and claimed. The recombinant viruses can be NYVAC or ALVAC recombinant viruses. The recombinant viruses and gene products therefrom are useful for eliciting an... | 12/05/2006 |
| D531586 | Remote control press buttons | 11/07/2006 |
| 7134023 | Data transmission system A cipher key is generated by first information shared in secrete between a data transmitting unit 10 and a data receiving unit 20, second information derived from duplication control information of transmit data and third information which is time chan... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7098343 | Compound There is provided a compound of Formula I wherein each T is independently selected from H, hydrocarbyl, —F—R, and a bond with one of D, E, P or Q, or together with one of P and Q forms a ring; Z is a suitable atom ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7094391 | Compositions and methods for administering antigens Mucosal administration of OspA and compositions therefor are disclosed and claimed. More particularly, oral administration of OspA and compositions therefor for eliciting an immunological response against Borrelia burgdorferi, such as a protective response pr... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7089850 | Food holding cabinet assembly A holding cabinet assembly for holding pre-processed food products and a process for maintaining the product appearance of a pre-processed food product for a predetermined amount of time includes a steamer assembly and a cabinet housing coupled to the steamer assemb... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7082197 | Data multiplexing device, program distribution system, program transmission system, pay broadcast system, program transmission method, conditional access system, and data reception device In a data multiplexing device which multiplexes and transmits the transport stream packets of program data consisting of a plurality of data elements constructed in the form of transport stream packets, a program distribution system, a program transmission system, a... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7078395 | Methods for treating or preventing cancer by preventing, inhibiting or arresting cell cycling There is provided use of a cyclic compound or a pharmaceutically active salt thereof in the manufacture of a medicament to prevent and/or inhibit and/or arrest cell cycling, wherein the cyclic compound comprises at least one ring, ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7068823 | Fingerprinting of data A fingerprinting apparatus, comprising: a plurality of receiving units to receive a plurality of input datasets, each of the plurality of input datasets divided into a plurality of input segments, at least one of the plurality of input datasets uniquely marked; a se... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062170 | Optical communication system An optical communication system suitable for full duplex optical communication between a first and a second optical transceiver units. connected with each other by a single-core optical fiber. The first and second transceiver units may have different types of light ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050983 | Sales activity management system, sales activity management apparatus, and sales activity management method To automatically manage payment of charge produced between an apparatus manufacturer and an information provider, and to promote sales of an information processing apparatus and information contents. There are provided: a terminal device 11 to managed ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7026446 | Bifunctional molecules The invention relates to a chimeric antibody conjugate comprising an antigen binding region of a non-human antibody and an immunoglobulin constant region which comprises at least one CH domain or epitope thereof, with the proviso that the constant region ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7019122 | Unusual retrotransposon from the yeast TCa2 is a Tyl/copia retrotransposon from the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. In contrast to other retrotransposons it can appear as an abundant, extrachromosomal double-stranded DNA molecule, called pCal. The invention relates to the isolation and characte... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7001889 | Anthelmintic oral homogeneous veterinary pastes This invention provides for, inter alia, oral homogeneous veterinary pastes for the treating, controlling and preventing of endo- and ectoparasite infections in warm-blooded animals or birds, such as horses and household pets. This invention further provides for a p... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6998131 | Spot-on formulations for combating parasites In particular this invention provides for spot-on compositions for the treatment or prophylaxis of parasite infestations in mammals or birds which comprise: (1) a composition comprising (A) an effective... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6991797 | M. tuberculosis antigens The present invention is based on the identification and characterization of a number of novel M. tuberculosis derived proteins and protein fragments. The invention is directed to the polypeptides and immunologically active fragments thereof, the genes encodi... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6978296 | Method for registering a terminal with an internet service provider A terminal apparatus setting method is provided, comprising the steps of connecting a terminal apparatus to a setting server which is provided for registering with one or more Internet service providers associated with the setting server. The terminal apparatus rece... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6962713 | Spot-on formulations for combating parasites In particular this invention provides for spot-on compositions for the treatment or prophylaxis of parasite infestations in mammals or birds which comprise: (1) a composition comprising (A) an effective... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6962418 | Projection apparatus panel assembly A projector 10 projects an image onto a set of screens 14 for image formation. The set of screens 14 includes a first screen 50 and second screens 54 and 56. The projector includes a housing 20, a first screen fixture... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6955808 | Capsid-modified recombinant adenovirus and methods of use The present invention describes recombinant adenoviral vectors modified by incorporating targeting ligands or label into viral capsid or structural proteins. In one embodiment, single-chain antibody was introduced into the minor capsid proteins pIIIa or pIX so that ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6949597 | Composition There is provided composition comprising i) a thermoplastic polymer ii) a compound having the formula wherein R1, R2 and R3 are independently selected from an acyl group or a hydrogen a... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6946487 | Regulation of intracellular glucocorticoid concentrations This invention relates to the interconversion of inactive 11-keto steroids with their active 11B-hydroxy equivalents, to methods by which the conversion of the inactive to the active from may be controlled, and to useful therapeutic effects which may be obtained as ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6933362 | GENETIC SYSTEM AND SELF-CLEAVING INTEINS DERIVED THEREFROM, BIOSEPARATIONS AND PROTEIN PURIFICATION EMPLOYING SAME, AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CRITICAL, GENERALIZABLE AMINO ACID RESIDUES FOR VARYING INTEIN ACTIVITY A self-cleaving element for use in bioseparations has been derived from a naturally occurring, 43 kDa protein splicing element (intein) through a combination of protein engineering and random mutagenesis. A mini-intein (18 kDa) previously engineered for reduced size... | 08/23/2005 |
