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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6755844 | Ligator A ligator comprises a ligation member formed of a bar-shaped body having a constant thickness in a region extending by at least prescribed length from one end of the ligation member. The ligation member has a front hole and a pair of side holes. The front hole is fo... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6722554 | Soldering apparatus Soldering apparatus designed to apply soldering, by means of jetting out streams of molten solder, which is gathered in a solder bath, to a piece to be soldered carried in a predetermined direction. While jetting out molten solder from the solder bath, a drive means... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6693674 | Solid-state image-pickup device and method of mounting solid-state image-pickup device A pilot opening to the outside is formed at one side end of a package for a solid-state image-pickup device and a guide opening to the outside is formed at a side end opposite to and approximately in parallel with the one side end of the package. The pilo... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6690362 | Touch switch with thermo-chromatic layers An input device and an electronic apparatus using such an input device capable of providing visual amusement at the time of operating thereof and allowing the down sizing and thinning are provided. The input device has a reversible chromatic layer exhibit... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6681033 | Capacitance detecting apparatus and its inspecting method and fingerprint checking apparatus When a current charge method is used as a method of detecting capacitance, there poses a problem in which S/N is deteriorated by a dispersion in element characteristics of a cell to be detected and when a voltage charge method is used, since parasitic cap... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6677822 | Transconductor and filter circuit using the same A filter circuit is provided for suppressing an increase of circuit area, enabling easy circuit design, realizing a reduction of power consumption by a common control voltage operation, and able to stably control the cut-off frequency. The filter circuit ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6673526 | Pattern formation method and method and apparatus for production of a semiconductor device using said method A pattern formation method and method and apparatus for production of a semiconductor device using that method which irradiate light from a light source to a phase shifting mask through a fly's-eye lens comprised of an assembly of a plurality of lenses, t... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6668905 | Aluminum nitride/aluminum base composite material and method of producing the same A method for producing an aluminum nitride/aluminum base composite material comprising the steps of; (A) charging aluminum nitride powder into a container provided in a molten metal pressure apparatus, (B) applying pressure to the aluminum nitride powder ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6658267 | Interoperable am/fm headset wireless telephone device An AM/FM radio receiver is integrated with a wireless phone unit. Preferably, a wireless headset communicates with the integrated unit to selectively provide both commercial radio audio and wireless telephony. A microphone unit allows the user to conduct ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6653179 | Method for manufacturing a thin film semiconductor device, method for manufacturing a display device, method for manufacturing a thin film transistors, and method for forming a semiconductor thin film For manufacturing a thin film semiconductor device, first conducted is a film-making step to make a non-single-crystalline semiconductor thin film (4) on an insulating substrate (1). Next conducted is an annealing step to irradiate laser light (50) for on... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6647045 | Semiconductor laser device and method of manufacturing the same There is provided a long-life and highly reliable air ridge type semiconductor laser device having a multi-layer structure including a first cladding layer of n-Al0.7 GaInP, an active layer of AlGaAs, a second cladding layer of p-Al0.7 | 11/11/2003 |
| 6642702 | Detection circuit for maximum value of three phase signal and detection method of the same A detection circuit for a maximum amplitude value of a 3-phase signal wherein the three phase-signals having a phase difference of 120° from each other is converted to sampling data of digital values by an A/D converter circuit in every sampling period p... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6637105 | Method of manufacturing a multilayer printed wiring board The invention provides a high-density multilayer printed wiring board and a method for manufacturing a multilayer printed wiring board having high-density wiring that is formed easily. A method for manufacturing a multilayer printed wiring board formed by... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6638140 | Method and apparatus for polishing In a Chemical Mechanical Polishing flattening processing against a surface with minute bumps and dips in a semiconductor process, this invention provides a method of polishing to be able to perform selective polishing of the bumps. A laser beam is irradia... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6636157 | Wireless remote control system for controlling an appliance A remote control system included a remote commander and a control apparatus. The remote commander includes a first transmitting unit for transmitting a first command signal modulated based on a first carrier frequency by a first radio transmission medium ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6633731 | Electronic view finder apparatus Provided is an electronic view finder for use in a video camera apparatus that by making the relative position between an LCD and an ocular lens unit proper can decrease the rotatory polarization characteristic and can thereby enhance the contrast of the ... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6631963 | Method of driving print head in ink jet printer and ink jet printer An ink jet printer (100) ejects ink drops from a plurality of nozzles and drops the ink drops on paper P, thus recording information including a character and/or an image in the form of dots based on the ink drops. The ink jet printer (100) has a line hea... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6631552 | Apparatus for and method of correcting component holding position An electronic component mounting apparatus uses sensors and a controller to correct the position at which a component holder, generally a suction nozzle, captures a component, thus avoiding component capture errors and failures. More specifically, sensors... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6632711 | Process for producing thin film semiconductor device and laser irradiation apparatus A polycrystalline thin film of good quality is obtained by improving a crystallization process of a semiconductor thin film using laser light. After conducting a film forming step of forming a non-single crystal semiconductor thin film on a surface of a s... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6630920 | Pel drive circuit, combination pel-drive-circuit/pel-integrated device, and liquid crystal display device To readily realize a reduction in pel pitch and an increase in the number of pels, a V shift register is configured such that one pulse transfer stage is provided so as to correspond to two horizontal pel lines constituting a pel section of a liquid cryst... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6630636 | Inhibitor switch To enable to provide an inhibitor switch capable of maintaining an accurate ON/OFF state for a long period of time regardless of wear of a moving contact and having high durability. The inhibitor switch includes a fixed contact and a moving contact; a bas... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6625880 | Method for producing printed wiring board A multi-layer printed wiring board is manufactured by forming a wiring pattern and a component mounting portion on a first substrate. An insulating spacer, formed with a first opening, is stacked over the first substrate with the first opening in registra... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6628822 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, PICTURE PROCESSING SYSTEM, PICTURE PROCESSING METHOD, PICTURE DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, PICTURE DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND FURNISHED MEDIUM In the present invention, RGB data outputted by a transmission side CRT monitor 3 is converted by a profile P1 stored in a converter 11 into XYZ data which is corrected in agreement with the viewing conditions on the transmitting side by having... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6628077 | Alternating current driven type plasma display An alternating current driven type plasma display comprising a first panel having electrode groups formed on a first substrate and a dielectric layer formed on the first substrate and on the electrode groups, and a second panel, the first and second panel... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6628065 | Anti-reflection member and cathode ray tube The present invention relates to an anti-reflection member and a display. The anti-reflection member includes a light transmittable substrate and an anti-reflection film. The anti-reflection film includes a first film formed from a light transmittable mat... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6624062 | Wiring structure in semiconductor device and method for forming the same A method for forming a wiring structure in a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of: (a) forming an insulating layer of a low dielectric constant material having a relative dielectric constant of 3.5 or less and a pyrolysis initiation temperatu... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6624822 | Data conversion apparatus and image generation apparatus A data conversion apparatus for converting index data to real data and an image generation apparatus for converting index texture data to real texture data by the data conversion to make it possible to suitably carry out texture mapping. A data conversion... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6624746 | Musical event information pager and paging system A pager and paging system are adapted to provide music enthusiasts with information regarding musical events which is otherwise generally available. A subscriber of the musical information service provides the service provider with an interest profile det... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6624676 | Asymmetry detection circuit and detection method of same An asymmetry detection circuit having a simple circuit configuration capable of realizing reliable detection without dependence on the signal level and capable of realizing high precision asymmetry detection almost completely free of any influence from a ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6621666 | Magnetoresistive-effect element having electrode layers oppositely disposed on main surfaces of a magnetoresistive-effect thin film having hard magnetic bias layers with a particular resistivity A first ferromagnetic layer is made to show a single magnetic domain to prevent any magnetic walls from appearing. A pair of bias layers 4 are made of a hard magnetic material showing a high resistivity are arranged at opposite ends of a TMR thin film 3. ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6621982 | Error correction apparatus and disk player using the same An error correction apparatus comprises a buffer memory for successively storing ECC error correction blocks included in the reproducing signal read from the optical disk in units of a row including a corresponding inner code parity, and an error correcti... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6621775 | Optical head, optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and tracking error signal detecting method An optical head comprises a first optical system which irradiates a light of a first wavelength towards the information recording medium and detects a return part of the light reflected by the information recording medium, and a second optical system whic... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6618336 | Reproducing apparatus In a reproducing apparatus of the present invention, an input audio signal is divided into bands and an envelope value of each band is measured. Based on a change of the envelope value, a predetermined sound source is superimposed. Further, according to t... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6618448 | DC recovery circuit capable of receiving ECL signal even under low power supply voltage When an input unit amplifier is employed in which transistors are longitudinally stacked in order that an input amplitude of a quantizing feedback circuit is made coincident with an output amplitude thereof, this quantizing feedback circuit cannot receive... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6618175 | Holographic stereogram preparation apparatus A bright holographic stereograin having a high diffraction efficiency can be prepared by restricting vibrations. The apparatus comprises: an optical system 15 for letting an objective laser L2 beam subjected to image-modulation based on each image of a pa... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6613497 | Light exposure method A light exposure method for ultra-fine processing for a semiconductor in which light transmittance of a resist layer in a wavelength range of the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light is improved to enable ultra-fine processing more elaborate than is possible w... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6610945 | Seesaw type switch A seesaw type switch is provided having a light permeating indicator capable of being illuminated, and at the same time preventing ingress of dust. The switch includes a switch knob supported on left-to-right walls on both sides of a cylindrical knob fixt... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6552863 | Optical element, its manufacturing method and optical element manufacture metal die An optical element having a complex structure of diffraction grating, an inclined surface, a difference in level and the like and of good optical characteristics, its manufacturing method, and an optical element manufacturing metal die capable of injectio... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6533473 | Imaging apparatus with exposure controlling mechanism An imaging apparatus with an exposure controlling mechanism being made to define an iris aperture by moving iris blades on surfaces perpendicular to an optical axis, wherein the exposure controlling mechanism includes a first iris blade to which a first N... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6525947 | Power supply apparatus and power supply system Providing a power supply system having a plurality of power supply apparatuses connected in parallel to each other, each of which is not affected by a voltage fluctuation of a reverse flow-preventive diode provided in an output line thereof, and can provi... | 02/25/2003 |
