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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE42374 | Mobile communication system enabling efficient use of small-zone base stations A mobile communication system includes a plurality of radio base stations forming respective radio zones and a mobile station selecting a wait zone and a base station to which a request for a message channel is to be issued. Each of the plurality of radio base stati... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941142 | Mobile switchboard, mobile unit, mobile communication system, and position-registration extending method A mobile unit transmits a request for position registration to a network when moving from a first area to a second area. When the number of incoming calls does not exceed a threshold and the number of movements between the first area and the second area exceeds a th... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940957 | Object tracker for visually tracking object motion A tracking start-and-stop determining unit of a tracking processing unit determines whether to start or stop tracking based on a predetermined condition. During tracking, a sampling unit 29 creates or eliminates particles using a probability density distribut... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940442 | Optical scanning device and component thereof To provide an optical scanning device capable of scanning with a simple configuration. It includes a laser unit 10 for emitting a light beam, a laser control unit 42 for adjusting the light beam emitted by the laser unit 10, first and sec... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939574 | Foamed isocyanate-based polymer having improved hardness properties and process for production thereof In one of its aspects, the present invention relates to foamed isocyanate-based polymer derived from a reaction mixture comprising an isocyanate, an active hydrogen-containing compound, a dendritic macromolecule and a blowing agent; wherein at least a 15% by weight ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937771 | Garment for motorcyclists with improved comfort Elastic inserts (15, 25) are incorporated in selected zones such as the legs and arms of an article of garment for motorcyclists, for example a leather suit, said inserts having a shape and manner of application such that the configuration of the garment in t... | 05/10/2011 |
| D637619 | Portion of a display screen with an icon | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937550 | Data recording device, data recording method, and recording medium A motion image processing device for producing a representative static image based on motion image data recorded on a recording medium, comprising; acquiring image acquiring position information for specifying an image acquiring position in the motion image d... | 05/03/2011 |
| RE42326 | Mobile communication system enabling efficient use of small-zone base stations A mobile communication system includes a plurality of radio base stations forming respective radio zones and a mobile station selecting a wait zone and a base station to which a request for a message channel is to be issued. Each of the plurality of radio base stati... | 05/03/2011 |
| D637368 | Bird toy | 05/03/2011 |
| D637367 | Pet toy | 05/03/2011 |
| 7932712 | Current-mirror circuit In a cascode current-mirror circuit which reproduces a reference current generated by a current source and outputs the reproduced reference current: the control electrodes of first and second transistors are connected; a third transistor is cascode-connected to the ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932088 | High efficiency transformation of by the lepidopteran transposon, The present invention provides molecular methods for efficiently transforming the genome of common disease-transmitting parasites, such as Plasmodium falciparum. The transformation efficiencies are improved up to 100 times over those conventionally known. The... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931370 | Eye movement sensor device The eye movement sensor comprises a helmet (1) adjustable to the head of a patient who is undergoing an ophthalmologic examination, in a unit with seat (10) and projection screen (11) of light spots in front, the same helmet (1) incorpora... | 04/26/2011 |
| D636945 | Pet bowl | 04/26/2011 |
| D636944 | Pet bowl | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929550 | Method for optimally routing specific service in network, and server and routing node used in the network Information (service information) about service contents provided by servers is registered or updated by each of routing nodes by exchanging said information through use of a routing protocol used in controlling a path among the routing nodes. The routing node selec... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929451 | Switch and packet forwarding method A switch that performs packet forwarding processing based on a label for a connection in which a communication path is specified by the label, includes a receiving unit that receives loopback information with a label of a first layer used for packet forwarding for a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928406 | Method and system for extracting ion beams composed of molecular ions (cluster ion beam extraction system) A new type of triode extraction system, a Cluster Ion Beam Extraction System, is disclosed for broad energy range cluster ion beam extraction applications while still being applicable to atomic and molecular ion species as well. The extraction aperture plate contour... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926379 | Gear pair consisting of a crown gear and of a pinion gear The invention relates to a gear pair consisting of a crown gear (1) and of a pinion gear (2) provided in the form of a spur gear with an axis crossing angle of 90°. According to the invention, the teeth (3) of the pinion gear (2), in ord... | 04/19/2011 |
| D636538 | Small animal habitat | 04/19/2011 |
| D636289 | Concaved medallion | 04/19/2011 |
| D636236 | Leaf tamper tool | 04/19/2011 |
| D636183 | Tool tray for interactive surface | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925534 | Incentivized advertisement information supplying system A server apparatus 10 for applying a point by which a service can be received in response to an amount of said point to be used in a Web site, comprises files 23/24 for storing a banner advertisement, and a point producing unit 14 for determinin... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924790 | Radio base station apparatus and base station controller The invention provides a radio base station apparatus forming a wireless zone in a mobile communication system and to a base station controller performing channel control over a terminal visiting a wireless zone. The radio base station apparatus has an identifying s... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924677 | Optical recording medium with power calibration areas and a recording method therefor with optimum power control In an optical recording medium having a plurality of recording layers on which information can be recorded by irradiating a laser beam from one side thereof, an optimum recording power to each of the recording layers can be determined. The optical recording medium h... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923682 | Fingerprint analysis using mass spectrometry The present invention is directed to a method for determining the presence of a residue on or within a fingerprint using matrix-assisted mass spectrometric techniques. The matrix-assisted mass spectrometric technique can be selected from Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorp... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923256 | Method for assaying coagulation in fluid samples This invention is a disposable cartridge for use at the patient side to perform traditional coagulation assays on fresh whole blood or blood derivative samples. The cartridge, in use with an electronic analyzer allows a fluid sample to be metered and quantitatively ... | 04/12/2011 |
| D636133 | Pet toy | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920573 | Data relay device, data relay method, and computer product A data relay device includes a plurality of transmission ports that constitutes a logical port, and stores therein a MAC learning table and a CoS distribution table. The data relay device reads a MAC address and a CoS value from a frame, and reads a logical-port ID ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920028 | Bias circuit and control method for bias circuit A bias circuit for applying a bias voltage to a nonlinear amplification circuit, including a constant-current source; and a first, second, third, and fourth transistors, wherein a current mirror circuit is configured by the first transistor and the second transistor... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918978 | Photoformed silicone sensor membrane A sensing device includes a sensing surface, and a matrix overlaying the sensing surface. The sensing device includes a photoformed membrane overlaying at least a portion of the matrix. The photoformed membrane includes a directly photoformed organosiloxane polymer ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916596 | Optical disc device, control method thereof, and computer-readable recording medium Provided is an optical disc device for reading a signal recorded on an optical disc medium, which detects surface reflection at a surface of the optical disc medium, a fake signal generated based on the surface reflection, and light reflected by a data recording lay... | 03/29/2011 |
| D635189 | Interactive display | 03/29/2011 |
| D635149 | Display screen with user interface | 03/29/2011 |
| D635148 | User interface for a display screen | 03/29/2011 |
| D635090 | Battery charger | 03/29/2011 |
| D635089 | Battery charger | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913257 | Scheduling method, scheduling apparatus and multiprocessor system A thread status managing unit organizes a plurality of threads into groups and manages the status of the thread groups. A ready queue queues thread groups in a ready state or a running state in the order of priority and, within the same priority level, in the FIFO o... | 03/22/2011 |
