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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7057532 | Road safety warning system and method An in-vehicle system for tracking events that occur at specific locations of a transportation route and alerting a driver of an impending significant event includes a location determination unit for determining an instantaneous location of the vehicle, and an event ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7242276 | Method and system for unlocking doorway An unlock system does not use a key that might be copied so that only a correct person can unlock a door and security is enhanced. Unlock records of door-lock are stored in a limited memory capacity in volume. Fingerprint data input to a fingerprint input sec... | 07/10/2007 |
| D544647 | Set of illuminating tweezers with container | 06/12/2007 |
| D542819 | Camcorder | 05/15/2007 |
| D541795 | Disc player with radio tuner | 05/01/2007 |
| D540786 | Microphone holder and windcover | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198460 | Hydraulic or pneumatic machine with tilting blades This invention refers to a hydraulic or pneumatic machine with tilting blades, running either as an engine on a fluid flow or on pressure fluid or as a pump or a compressor. The hydraulic or pneumatic machine on a fluid flow according to the invention consists of a ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7198371 | Image displaying apparatus An image displaying apparatus employs quartz wave plates and displays images of high contrast. The quartz wave plates in the image displaying apparatus are each arranged between a polarizing beam splitter of a color separating-combining unit and a reflective spatial... | 04/03/2007 |
| D538569 | Front panel and master control module for movable modular high density storage system | 03/20/2007 |
| D538780 | Combined tape and disk player | 03/20/2007 |
| D538798 | Disc player with radio tuner | 03/20/2007 |
| D538354 | Game apparatus | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188101 | System and method for retreiving database items with increased diversity A data processing method and system for retrieving a subset of k items from a database of n items (n≧k) firstly determines a limited set of bk items (b>1) in the database which have the greatest similarity to an input query t according to a given similarity functi... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7182621 | Protection device for a plug-in connection The protection device (6) for a plug-in connection comprises a coupling part (1) and a housing (2) for a plug (3) arranged therein: The coupling part (1) has an opening (1b) for the plug (3). The opening (1 | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180845 | Optical pickup An optical pickup having a simple structure and that is capable of recording using a plurality of wavelengths is provided, comprising a primary laser light source for emitting a primary laser light having a first wavelength and that is of sufficient power for record... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180832 | Media driving apparatus A screw axis and a guide axis are provided in parallel in a base plate, and both sides of an optical pickup are supported by the screw axis and the guide axis. The base plate is provided with a first supporting portion for supporting one end portion of the screw axi... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171779 | Tool to remove soil obstructing the entrances to gopher and mole burrows A device for locating and obtaining access to subterranean rodent burrows as an aid to the field of pest extermination. The device allows the user to probe the ground with one end of the tool in order to locate the burrow and determine depth and direction of said bu... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173948 | Optical transmission/reception system for various video signals A special-code encoding circuit generates a first special code to be added to a video signal and a second special code to replace a synchronous signal. A multiplex circuit multiplexes the video signal and first and second special codes. An encoding circuit for code ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168315 | Level meter The invention relates to a level meter (1) with an outer oscillating body (3) and an inner oscillating body (4), which bodies are coaxially positioned relative to a longitudinal axis (X), with a drive and reception device (7) for exciting... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170678 | Optical color separation and synthesis system, and method of constructing optical color separation and synthesis system An optical color separation and synthesis system is constructed according to a method, in which four first to fourth polarization beam splitters are arranged in such a manner that polarization separating surfaces of the polarization beam splitters form an X-shape, a... | 01/30/2007 |
| D535958 | Disc player | 01/30/2007 |
| 7160248 | Optical device for viewing of cavernous and/or inaccessible spaces An optical device for viewing an object at a range of working distances. The device comprises a slender tube of a certain length and having a distal end and a proximal end. The device further comprises an imaging system disposed at the distal end and having a wide v... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7160107 | Method and system for assessing the outcome of an orthodontic treatment The present invention provides a virtual orthodontic treatment method, comprising, providing a virtual diagnostic setup model of teeth of at least one jaw of an individual, associating virtual orthodontic appliances with all teeth in the model to obtain a first comp... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154835 | Digital signal processing method, data recording and reproducing apparatus, and data recording medium that are resistant to burst errors With two consecutive product-coded ECC blocks, EB1 and EB2, as a set, the rth row of first ECB block EB1 is followed by the rth row of second ECC block EB2 in such a way that the first row of first ECC block EB1 is followed by the ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155011 | Encryption method, decryption method, and recording and reproducing apparatus The present invention relates to an encryption method for encrypting information including a series of multiple unit blocks, one at a time, a decryption method for decrypting multiple encrypted unit blocks, one at a time, and a recording and reproducing apparatus th... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7150841 | Injection molding machine and method of controlling the injection molding machine An injection molding machine comprises a pre-pressure addition means 2 adding a pre-pressure B acting in the opposite direction of a molding material pressure A received by a screw 1 to a detection means 3 and/or the screw 1, the detectio... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7147464 | Placing an orthodontic element on a tooth surface A method for for comparing between an orthodontic element's actual position on the surface of a tooth and a proper position comprise monitoring the element, the tooth or both once the element and the tooth are proximal to one another by an image acquisition unit whi... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148478 | Electrical measurements in samples A method and device are presented for measuring the electrical properties of a specimen. The specimen is excited with high energy radiation to cause emission of internal charged particles from the specimen. Electrical power is supplied to a circuit, that is formed b... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7147716 | Roof lining of a vehicle and a method for producing same A multifunctional, lightweight and acoustically optimized interior lining for the roof of a vehicle is disclosed. The inventive lining comprises an air permeable core layer, a first stiffening layer, a second stiffening layer and a decor layer. Said layers are conne... | 12/12/2006 |
| D533478 | Pendant | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149768 | 3-input arithmetic logic unit A 3-input adder/subtractor unit, having a first input for receiving a first operand A, a second input for receiving a second operand B, and a third input for receiving a third operand C. An add/subtract unit includes a control input for receiving a user-specified op... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143646 | Sensor The invention relates to a sensor, with a sensor housing (8) whose through-hole is intended for a connecting cable (1) that is attached to the sensor (11, 12), such that the connecting cable (1) is surrounded by a pressure spring element ... | 12/05/2006 |
| D533101 | Pendant | 12/05/2006 |
| 7137239 | Prickle chain link A cast prickle chain link element, and a prickle chain made by interconnecting a plurality of these links. Each link element includes a body, the body having at least one hole, and at least one hook formed into it, and at least one ground engaging finger projecting ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7140030 | Disc drive apparatus with loading mechanism for different sized discs A disc drive apparatus is comprised of an opening portion which can insert/eject a large disc shaped medium and a small disc shaped medium, a feeding roller which pulls in a disc shaped medium being inserted to the opening portion, oscillating links which have conve... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136576 | Method of and apparatus for recording search information simultaneously with encoding of data able to undergo special reproduction Video and audio data is packed as defined in the MPEG and is stored into within a video object unit as a row of packs to be reproduced within a prescribed period of time. Data cells each consisting of a plurality of units are arrayed to constitute a video object. A ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136913 | Object oriented communication among platform independent systems across a firewall over the internet using HTTP-SOAP A system for communication over the internet and through a firewall utilizing a single communications protocol. A simple object access communications protocol (SOAP) is utilized. This protocol is an XML/HTTP based protocol for sending messages from one object to ano... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134727 | Sofa lovers' sofa In some embodiments of the sofa lover's sofa, a sofa or the like can have an end cushion comprising a lower stationary member approximating the height of an armrest of the sofa and a rotatable upper member that may be rotated to overlie an armrest of the sofa. Thus,... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131729 | Projection display apparatus A projection display apparatus that is lightweight and provides bright, high quality images is provided. The projection display apparatus comprising a color separation and synthesis optical system 4, that performs color synthesis, generating an image, after s... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131326 | Level meter, oscillating bodies, and equalizing body for a level meter, as well as a drive and/or receiving device for the same The invention relates to a level meter with two oscillating bodies (2, 3) positioned one inside the other. An equalizing body (5) is positioned in the interior (32) of the inside oscillating body (2). The equalizing body (5) exhibi... | 11/07/2006 |
