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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6992008 | Method of making a substrate having buried structure and method for fabricating a display device including the substrate A method of making a substrate having a buried structure includes the steps of preparing a glass substrate having a principal surface, forming a groove on the principal surface of the glass substrate by a wet etching process, and depositing a first material over the... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6815720 | Substrate having buried structure, display device including the substrate, method of making the substrate and method for fabricating the display device A method of making a substrate having a buried structure includes the steps of preparing a glass substrate having a principal surface, forming a groove on the principal surface of the glass substrate by a wet etching process, and depositing a first material over the... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6741549 | Optical recording medium and optical recording and reproduction apparatus An optical recording medium in accordance with the present invention is provided with a substrate, a mask layer, provided on the substrate, whose index of refraction changes due to light or heat of the substrate, and a recording layer that is provided away from the ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 7071581 | Uninterruptible power supply system using a slip-ring, wound-rotor-type induction machine and a method for flywheel energy storage Several embodiments of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system, which system provides highly reliable output power to a load using a slip-ring induction machine and a flywheel combination, are disclosed as well as methods relating thereto. In a preferred embodi... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7038144 | Electronic component and method and structure for mounting semiconductor device An electronic component having an electrode structure to increase an allowance positional deviation in a mounting process as well as a method and a structure for mounting a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes, on electrodes, connecti... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7006171 | Light-control device and method of driving An optical control device in accordance with the present invention includes a substrate (1) with light output layers (4); a substrate (2) with a light transmitting function, positioned opposite to the substrate (1); and a liquid crystal (... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002878 | Objective lens driving device and optical pickup device using the same An objective lens driving device includes: a movable section 8 for collecting light of a light source onto an optical disk 2; and a driving section for driving the movable section 8 (i) in a direction of a light axis of an objective lens 1 | 02/21/2006 |
| 6992701 | Reusable digital camera that prevents unauthorized use A reusable digital camera includes a memory storing a picked-up image, and a phototransistor provided in the camera to detect disassembly of the camera. When the user disassembles the digital camera in an unauthorized manner, the phototransistor detects outer light,... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6980186 | Liquid crystal display having a staggered structure pixel array A liquid crystal panel having pixel-forming portions that are assigned dispersedly to two mutually adjacent rows of pixels sandwiching the scanning signal line Lg from above and below, in a horizontally periodical pattern having a cycle of “up down, up” or “do... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6967917 | Optical disk and optical disk apparatus using spatially separated grooves and lands for recording tracks An optical disk using both grooves and lands as a recording track is provided with {circle around (1)} a data area for recording/reproducing data and {circle around (2)} DMAs (Data Management Areas) for managing a defective sector in the data area. The DMAs include ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965696 | Image processing device for image region discrimination An image processing device of the present invention is provided with four kinds of sub masks in total including two kinds in a main scanning direction and two kinds in a sub scanning direction, in a main mask constituted by a plurality of pixels including a target p... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961952 | Disk cartridge A disk cartridge having a small size and a sufficient portability. The disk cartridge has a size of 58 mm (L1)×54 mm (L2)×4 mm (L3), a thickness less than 5 mm and a small area less than a square of 65 mm. The disk cartridge has a notch 10 for... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6957022 | Image forming apparatus A plurality of photosensitive drums are disposed in a sheet transport direction so as to be in contact with a transfer belt and a transfer voltage for transferring toner images on the photosensitive drums onto a sheet transported by the transfer belt is applied ther... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6941087 | Image forming apparatus and initialization control method therefor An immediate printing type image forming apparatus is provided of which the warm-up time is sufficiently shortened without causing any trouble to occur in the execution of image reading processing and/or image forming processing. The image forming apparatus is confi... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6927766 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus comprises a display section including picture elements for modulating light transmission or reflection, a driving section for performing an addressing scan of the picture elements in such a manner as to successively change light modulation... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6920295 | Image forming apparatus An object of the invention is to provide a display device of an image forming apparatus capable of displaying information that the user wants to obtain in a visually easy-to-recognize manner. In a compound image forming apparatus provided with: one of original readi... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6903322 | Solid-state imaging device and method for producing the same A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate, a light shielding section having an aperture for partially shielding light incident on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, a light reception section for converting the light which is incident on ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6897838 | Memory-integrated display element In each pixel of a display element, a memory circuit is made up of two complementary inverters which are connected to each other in a loop manner, and stores whether or not to light an Organic Emission Diode, according to a potential which is given via a select circ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6891594 | Printing device and photograph processing apparatus equipped with such a device In a printing device which prints a color image on a photosensitive material by allowing an exposing head to modulate light from a light source for each pixel in accordance with image information, the exposing head is constituted by superposing three LCS's in the li... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6888939 | Circuit for joint transmitting voice and data over a telephone line The invention relates to an SLIC circuit (1), which is connected directly to a telephone line (2), for joint transmission of voice and data via the telephone line (2), with adequate echo attenuation achieved even at high data frequencies in that... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6883888 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method The present invention, in the context of trial printing operation(s) for image formation, is an image forming apparatus and image forming method causing only the minimum required image forming operation(s) to be executed. In the event that image data acquired is suc... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6883634 | Tractor The present invention provides a tractor 1 constructed so that an engine 2 is mounted on the front portion of a traveling vehicle body having front wheels 19 and rear wheels 11, a transmission case 3 is provided at the rear portion... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6882822 | Platen cover open/close mechanism for image forming apparatus The invention provides a platen cover open/close mechanism for an image scanning device including platen glass, a platen cover for pressing an original against the platen glass and an optical scanning unit for scanning an image on the original. In one form of the in... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6876611 | Optical recording method and optical recording device A reverse pattern is formed in a track adjacent to a specified track on an optical recording medium with a predetermined light beam capable of writing large recording marks. Thereafter, a normal pattern is formed in an area, of an adjacent track, which is adjacent t... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6876820 | Image forming apparatus A plurality of photosensitive drums are disposed in a sheet transport direction so as to be in contact with a transfer belt and a transfer voltage for transferring toner images on the photosensitive drums onto a sheet transported by the transfer belt is applied ther... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6873370 | Method and circuit arrangement for picture-in-picture fade-in A method and a circuit arrangement for picture-in-picture insertion are described, in which, in order to prevent a write operation from being overtaken by a read operation and also to avoid the associated picture disturbances, a field is stored under an address whic... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6873034 | Solid-state imaging device, method for producing same, and mask The present invention provides a solid-state imaging device comprising: a transparent substrate transmitting light therethrough; a first chip including a solid-state imaging element having a light receiving portion; a first resin providing airtight sealing between t... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6870572 | Method and circuit for picture-in-picture superimposition A method for picture-in-picture insertion is described, which is distinguished in particular by the fact that the inset pictures are written to a memory device (2) in a circulating manner under continuously incremented write... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6867735 | Adaptive antenna array system and weighting coefficient computation control method An adaptive antenna array system includes an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements, the antenna array synthesizing received signals received by each of the antenna elements by weighting them according to a weighting coefficient and outputting a synthe... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6864936 | Active matrix substrate, method of manufacturing the same, and display and image-capturing devices utilizing the same An active matrix substrate includes: electrode wires constituted by gate electrodes 2 and source electrodes 6 that are arranged in a lattice; an insulating protection film provided at least on the electrode wires so as to have openings 11a | 03/08/2005 |
| 6865029 | Imaging device and method for producing the same An imaging device includes a convex mirror for reflecting incident light representing an object, the convex mirror having a shape of solid of revolution; an imaging mechanism for taking an image represented by reflected light from the convex mirror; and an optical m... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6862104 | Information transmitting apparatus An information transmitting apparatus includes: a job status management unit (e.g., a controller made up of a micro computer and other components) for managing the job statuses of transmitting information of the first and second information transmitting devices (e.g... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6862114 | Image data transmitting apparatus and image data receiving apparatus The invention provides an image data transmitting apparatus and functions which eliminate needs of troublesome handling of documents without reducing utilization efficiency of the apparatus in retransmitting document data. The image data transmitting apparatus compr... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6845182 | Image recording system and method for controlling the image recording system A CPU detects the available space A of a first recording medium, the available space B of a second recording medium and a preprogrammed image information amount C necessary for preprogrammed recording by first and second recording medium space managing portions and ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6826769 | Recording and reproducing device having a stabilizing board and vertically-oscillating slider A recording and reproducing device of the present invention is provided to achieve the object of realizing stable and desirable recording and reproducing of information by suppressing fluttering of an optical disk by way of suppressing pressure fluctuation which is ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6822630 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device is arranged so that an effective value of an OFF voltage and an effective value of an ON voltage applied to a liquid crystal layer at a whole screen display time and at a partial screen display time substantially coincide with each ot... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6822752 | Color image forming method and color image forming device In a copier, a specific pattern being hardly recognizable by human eyes but recognizable by a recognizing means is added onto a color image to be printed on a recording medium in order to clearly indicate that the printed image is a copy image. RGB-color image data ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6819561 | Finned-tube heat exchangers and cold plates, self-cooling electronic component systems using same, and methods for cooling electronic components using same The present invention provides a heat exchange system for conducting heat away from high-power, heat-producing electronic components by conduction and convection. The heat exchange system comprises a metal tube that has been forged and drawn so as to define a flow c... | 11/16/2004 |
