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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7927974 | Method of forming a modified layer in a substrate First, mapping data storing interrupted areas is obtained. In a first modified-layer forming step, before a stacked article is stacked on a front surface of a substrate, a laser beam is directed to the interrupted areas based on the mapping data to form modified lay... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7915698 | Nitride semiconductor substrate having a base substrate with parallel trenches The present invention relates to a nitride semiconductor substrate such as gallium nitride substrate and a method for manufacturing the same. The present invention forms a plurality of trenches on a lower surface of a base substrate that are configured to absorb or ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7903210 | Reflection type liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof The present invention is a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device, wherein light having an exposure energy is irradiated on the surface of a photo-sensitive resin layer having a predetermined film thickness, and a distribution of thermal deformation... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7889296 | Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method for the same On a glass substrate, gate bus lines, data bus lines, and TFTs are formed. Then, on the substrate, an insulating film, covering the gate bus lines, data bus lines and TFTs, is formed, and a positive type photoresist film is further formed thereon. Next, through expo... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7888239 | Semiconductor device manufacturing method In a semiconductor device manufacturing method in which a wafer formed with devices in a plurality of areas sectioned by a plurality of streets formed in a lattice-like pattern on the front surface is divided into the individual devices along the streets, when the w... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7861755 | Pneumatic tire with tread having middle rib, middle lateral grooves, assistant grooves and lateral narrow grooves A pneumatic tire includes a tread surface having a middle rib defined by a first circumferential groove and a second circumferential groove in its center region. Middle lateral grooves, that obliquely extend in the widthwise direction of the tire, are disposed at pr... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7859975 | Hologram recorder and hologram recording method A hologram recorder includes a light source for emitting a laser beam, a polarizing beam splitter for splitting the laser beam into a recording beam and a reference beam in accordance with a state of polarization, and a rotary polarizer located between the light sou... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856608 | Method and apparatus for generating current source noise model for creating semiconductor device model used in power supply noise analysis A model generation method for generating a semiconductor device model used for power supply noise analysis, is performed by, calculating noise values for various circuit elements based on current source noise waveforms calculated in accordance with a current flowing... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7819999 | Method and device for manufacturing double-glazing panel with glazing gasket A method and a device for directly molding a glazing gasket by extruding a molding material from a molding die to a peripheral edge part of a double-glazing panel in which a space layer is formed between two adjacent glass sheets with a spacer interposed in between.... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7767596 | Wafer support pin for preventing slip dislocation during annealing of water and wafer annealing method using the same A wafer support pin has a front end contacted with a wafer such that the front end is flat or rounded. Thus, gravitational stress is minimized during annealing the wafer, thereby minimizing slip dislocation. This wafer support pin is suitably used for annealing of a... | 08/03/2010 |
| D620238 | Shoe | 07/27/2010 |
| 7735532 | Low noise pneumatic tire Disclosed is a low noise pneumatic tire having a configuration where, while installation work of a strip-shaped sound absorbent is simple, it is possible to simultaneously reduce cavity resonance and high-frequency noise, and thereby to effectively reduce noise when... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7731567 | Semiconductor wafer processing method In a semiconductor wafer processing method of forming a semiconductor wafer having a desired thickness by grinding a rear surface of the semiconductor wafer having a plurality of devices formed on a front surface thereof, the rear surface of the semiconductor wafer ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730742 | Accelerated heat exchanger A heat transfer device includes a tube with a first fluid inlet and outlet and is arranged to form a plurality of parallel elongated segments. An enclosure defines a second fluid flow path over an exterior surface of the tube from a second fluid inlet to a second fl... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7719735 | Hologram recorder A hologram recorder (A) records holograms in a selected unit recording area (B1) of a hologram recording medium (B) by interference between a recording beam (Lr) which is applied vertically to the unit recording area (B1) and a reference beam (Lr) whic... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7719646 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device of the present invention is composed of a λ/4 plate 1, a λ/2 plate 2, and a polarizing plate 3 which are provided in this order from the side of a liquid crystal layer 10. Here, an angle formed between an... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7712612 | Fluid filter for an internal combustion engine The invention relates to a fluid filter including a filter socket with a mounting flange that can, in a sealing manner, be connected to a companion flange on an associated apparatus, wherein at least one fluid duct for supplying fluid to be filtered and one fluid du... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7703494 | Apparatus for manufacturing bonded substrate The present invention provides an apparatus for manufacturing a bonded substrate that suppresses a defect in the bonded substrate. When the pressure in a vacuum chamber is at the atmospheric level, upper and lower chuck units respectively attract substrates through ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702954 | Data storage apparatus having error recovery capability A stored data processing apparatus comprises: a calculation section that performs calculation for each bit position using data of all first blocks in a second block that has been specified as an update target on a storage medium and outputs a result of the calculati... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7690063 | Random tumbling washing machine wash chamber for improving cleaning while minimizing mechanical damage to clothes Methods and apparatuses consistent with the present invention provide for improved cleaning while minimizing mechanical damage to clothes in automatic washer cycles using time-varying wash chamber oscillations. An automatic washer has a wash chamber with a central a... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7661183 | Blade changing tool A blade changing tool for use in a cutting device including a chuck table for holding a workpiece and a cutting device including a blade mount for rotatably supporting a cutting blade for cutting the workpiece held by the chuck table. The blade changing tool include... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7630155 | Eccentricity correction method, signal processing circuit, magnetic storage apparatus and perpendicular magnetic recording medium A magnetic storage apparatus has a reproducing head to reproduce information from a perpendicular magnetic recording medium that is recorded with servo information, eccentricity correction data and read/write data. The apparatus further has a filter part to filter a... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7623314 | Head control device, storage device, and contact detection method A head control device for controlling, through thermal expansion of a heater, a position of a head for reading and writing data from and to a storage medium, includes a heater control unit that increases a current supplied to the heater stepwise; and an external-for... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7621475 | Mechanism for shaving ice in a refrigeration appliance An ice shaving mechanism may include a blade arranged with an edge to engage an ice mass to shave a layer of ice from the ice mass. A support may be provided upon which the blade may be mounted. An opening may be arranged adjacent to the edge of the blade to permit ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7618875 | Marking method for product information A product information marking method including a back side grinding step for grinding the back side of a wafer having a plurality of devices formed on the front side so as to be partitioned by a plurality of separation lines, thereby obtaining a desired thickness of... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7608483 | Method of machining wafer A method of machining a wafer, wherein a wafer provided with devices each having a low dielectric constant insulating film (low-k film) stacked on the face side thereof is divided into the individual devices, the devices thus divided are mounted on a wiring board, a... | 10/27/2009 |
| D601663 | Ball valve | 10/06/2009 |
| 7593081 | Liquid crystal display apparatus having alignment control for brightness and response A liquid crystal display apparatus including a pair of substrates having electrodes and vertical alignment layers. A liquid crystal having a negative anisotropy of dielectric is inserted between the substrates. Each substrate has linearly arranged alignment control ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7589929 | Servo pattern writing apparatus, servo pattern writing method, servo pattern reading apparatus, and servo pattern reading method There is provided a technique capable of eliminating the need to create data for compensating the displacement of a servo pattern occurring at the time of writing the servo pattern using an amplitude method and thereby of significantly reducing the production time o... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7589926 | Methods and apparatus for formatting memory media At least one rotating memory medium such as a hard disk is installed in a hard disk drive or the like. The disk drive has a controller, controller memory and one or more heads for writing and reading to and from one or both sides of the disk. The disk is scanned for... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7588843 | Magnetic recording medium and method of making the same A magnetic recording medium includes a continuous recording layer, and a seed layer including a surface held in contact with the recording layer. The seed layer includes an oxidized region and a non-oxidized region in the surface held in contact with the recording l... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7584902 | Method and device for creating marking lines A device carried on a moving vehicle for creating marking lines, which are a plurality of elements and are made of a highly viscous marking material, on a surface that is to be marked. The device includes a housing formed by walls and a discharge slot formed in at l... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7553392 | Method of manufacturing liquid crystal display device and one drop fill apparatus used for the same A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device in which liquid crystal is sealed between substrates using a one drop fill method. Dropping of liquid crystal is controlled so that the dropping quantity of the liquid crystal is reduced in an area including ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7553271 | Two-part rotor for a centrifuge with a connecting and unlocking mechanism The invention relates to a rotor for a centrifuge for cleaning a liquid, in particular the lubricating oil of an internal combustion engine, wherein the rotor is designed in two parts, namely, on the one hand, a drive part and, on the other hand, a dirt-collecting p... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7549452 | Pneumatic tire Disclosed is a pneumatic tire provided with an elastic fixing band having excellent durability and enabling stable attachment of a member, which is independent from the tire, to an inner surface of a tread thereof. The pneumatic tire of the present invention include... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548495 | Optical storage device, recording method of optical storage medium and program A write retry processing unit repeats a write retry operation of a write and a verify, while performing a setting change of a focus offset for recording a data on an optical storage medium in case a verify error occurs in executing the write and a verify try fails. ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7541723 | Backlight having a polarization separating element A display device includes a backlight having a discharge tube and a reflector. A heat conduction member is attached to the reflector in contact with the discharge tube, so that a part of the discharge tube is locally cooled by the heat conduction member. Liquid merc... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7237707 | Handle for trigger operated tool A handle for attaching to a trigger operated hand tool, the handle including a shaft adapted so as to be attachable at one end thereof to the hand tool, a hand grip located at the other end of the shaft, and a trigger activator positioned near the hand grip capable ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7189212 | Orthopedic polycentric hinge A hinge for orthopedic braces includes a pair of support arms, a pair of pivot pins and a hinge plate. The arms are coupled to the hinge plate through the pivot pins and are rotateable between an extension position and a flexion position. The hinge plate has a plura... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7090226 | Gasket for sealing between glass panels An insert, or gasket, intended to be used at a joint between two panels. The insert is preferably pre-formed into a particular cross-sectional shape such that it can be easily, and securely, installed between two panels. Preferably, the insert is shaped, in cross-se... | 08/15/2006 |
