Bizarre Patents
A Receptacle for supporting, rotating and sculpting a portion of ice cream or similarly malleable food while it is being consumed.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185136 | Mobile communication device capable of functioning in transmitter disabling state A mobile communication device, such as a cellular phone, for example, is capable of functioning in a transmitter disabling mode and is set to the transmitter disabling mode in automatic response to a power-on operation and then automatically changed to a transmitter... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184424 | Multilayer electronic component including a counter diffusion layer A multilayer electronic component includes a laminate including insulating layers that are laminated to each other and internal electrodes provided along interfaces between the insulating layers, edges of the internal electrodes being exposed at a predetermined surf... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184291 | Method for detecting edge on transparent substrate, apparatus for detecting edge on transparent substrate, and processing apparatus An apparatus for detecting an edge of a transparent substrate includes a light source provided on a rear side of the edge of the transparent substrate, a first polarizer provided between the transparent substrate and the light source and arranged to convert light fr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184240 | Backlight for liquid crystal display, including lamp clip which is reversible to accommodate different lamp spacings Light source lamps can be held at different intervals by a single kind of lamp clip. A straight tube light source lamp (3) arranged on the surface of a backlight chassis (1) is held by a lamp clip (20) fixed to the backlight chassis (1). ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184234 | Optical-sheet supporting structure, lighting device and display device In a backlight device, a diffuser plate and a plurality of optical sheets are disposed above a base tray that includes a plurality of cold-cathode tubes therein. The diffuser plate is sandwiched in between a base member, which holds the bottom surface thereof, and a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184233 | Backlight chassis for liquid crystal display panel A backlight chassis is constituted by combining a right end chassis plate, a left end chassis plate, and an intermediate chassis plate obtained by cutting a metal sheet into a predetermined shape and pressing. A trough portion is formed in each chassis plate at a po... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184145 | Display device and electronic apparatus In a SW-LCD, an orienting film is divided into first and second regions having different directions of orientation, and a transparent electrode film is also patterned so as to be divided into regions respectively corresponding to the first and second regions. In the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183958 | Elastic-wave ladder filter An elastic-wave ladder filter significantly reduces loss within a passband while also increasing the passband and attenuation. The elastic-wave ladder filter includes a series arm that connects an input end and an output end and a parallel arm that connects the seri... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183737 | Surface acoustic wave device including electrode fingers partially disposed in grooves in a piezoelectric substrate An elastic wave device has a low temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF), a low insertion loss, a high electromechanical coupling coefficient (k2), and an increased pitch of the electrode fingers. The elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric compon... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182619 | R-F e-B rare-earth sintered magnet and process for producing the same First, an R—Fe—B based rare-earth sintered magnet body including, as a main phase, crystal grains of an R2Fe14B type compound that includes a light rare-earth element RL, which is at least one of Nd and Pr, as a major rare-earth element R i... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182618 | Rare earth sintered magnet and method for producing same A sintered rare-earth magnet includes an Nd2Fe14B type crystalline phase as its main phase and Al as an additive. The magnet includes at least one light rare-earth element LR selected from the group consisting of yttrium and the rare-earth elem... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182117 | Light emitting element, light emitting element array, backlight unit, and liquid crystal display device A light emitting includes a bump-shaped slug having a support plane at the top of the bump-shaped slug. The slug includes side planes arranged to function as optical action planes arranged to receive and reflect a portion of the light from the light emitting chip. | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182105 | Optical member, light source device, and display device An optical member, a light source device, and a display device, which can prevent or reduce luminance irregularity on the screen of a display panel, include a sheet or plate shaped optical member located between the display panel which displays an image and a plural... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181733 | Motorcycle equipped with an exhaust gas purifying apparatus with improved layout An exhaust pipe includes a catalyst housing portion arranged to be at least partially positioned in a space disposed between a shock absorber and a rear wheel, and a catalyst is disposed in the catalyst housing portion. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179703 | Power factor correction converter A power factor correction converter includes an output voltage error amplifier which functions as a proportioning device in a low-frequency range in order to stabilize the output voltage by feedback control and obtains a reference current amplitude value vm by multi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179515 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing liquid crystal display panel In a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel, a sealant having a cut-out formed at least on the other end side of a display region is provided on one film substrate. A liquid crystal material is supplied to one end side of the display region in the o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179332 | Antenna coil and antenna device An antenna device is constructed such that an antenna coil including a magnetic core and a flexible substrate is mounted to a circuit board. A first coil portion having a coil axis parallel or substantially parallel with a main surface of the magnetic core includes ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179329 | Composite antenna A composite antenna achieves favorable radiation characteristics and favorable communication performance, and can be used in short distance communication as well as long distance communication. The composite antenna includes a dipole antenna having an elongated shap... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179285 | Marine vessel theft deterrent apparatus and marine vessel including the same A theft deterrent apparatus in a marine vessel having a propulsion device includes a key unit arranged to transmit a user authentication code, a first authentication unit disposed apart from the propulsion device, a second authentication unit, and an operation contr... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179207 | Resonator device, filter including the same, and duplexer A resonator device includes a plurality of resonators which are connected in series. An inductor and a capacitor are connected in parallel with at least one of the plurality of resonators. At least another one of the plurality of resonators has no inductor or capaci... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179206 | Low-voltage control high-frequency switch and composite high-frequency component In a transmission/reception selection switch, a first diode is arranged in series with a transmission signal line and a second diode is arranged in shunt with a reception signal line. A first current route where a direct current passes through the first diode is con... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179017 | Boundary acoustic wave device having three-medium structure A boundary acoustic wave device that has a three-medium structure and that prevents a high-order mode spurious response includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric layer laminated on the piezoelectric substrate, a second dielectric layer laminated on the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178282 | Heat-sensitive imaging element A heat-sensitive imaging element includes an IR dye, and more particularly a heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor includes the IR dye. A method for making the lithographic printing plate produces a print-out image of high contrast upon exposure to IR... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177922 | R-Fe-B anisotropic sintered magnet An R—Fe—B based anisotropic sintered magnet according to the present invention has, as a main phase, an R2Fe14B type compound that includes a light rare-earth element RL (which is at least one of Nd and Pr) as a major rare-earth element R, ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177921 | R-Fe-B rare earth sintered magnet An R—Fe—B based rare-earth sintered magnet according to the present invention includes, as a main phase, crystal grains of an R2Fe14B type compound that includes Nd, which is a light rare-earth element, as a major rare-earth element R. The ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177684 | Gear change control device and method A gear change control device is provided for a straddle-type vehicle having a clutch and a transmission. The device includes a clutch actuator configured to engage and disengage the clutch. A transmission actuator is configured to change a gear of the transmission. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177593 | Outboard motor An outboard motor includes an engine, an exhaust passage, an idle exhaust passage, a contraction portion and an expansion chamber, a bypass passage, and a check valve. The bypass passage includes an upstream end connected to the idle exhaust passage at a downstream ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177138 | Radio IC device A radio IC device that is highly efficient in transmitting signals from a radio IC to a radiation pattern includes a radio IC chip arranged to processes radio signals, an auxiliary electrode pattern that is connected to the radio IC chip and includes a loop-shaped e... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177043 | Steering damping method for vehicle and steering damping device for vehicle A steering damper can generate a smaller damping force according to a first damping force characteristic or a larger damping force according to a second damping force characteristic by controlling a flow of hydraulic oil during a steering operation of a steering mem... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177015 | Motorcycle The motorcycle is provided in an embodiment with a vehicle body frame, an engine, and an exhaust pipe connected to the engine. The vehicle body frame has a front frame supporting at least a part of the engine, a left rear frame connected to the front frame and exten... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177008 | All-terrain vehicle with improved power steering unit A vehicle is provided with a front hood 33 that covers, from above, the front of the front panel 5, a battery 49 provided below the front hood 33, where at least the top of the battery is positioned above the top 3a of the f... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176315 | Gateway device, controlling method of the same, and program record medium storing controlling method A method of controlling a gateway device includes the steps of converting a plain text mail received from a client device to an encrypted mail; transmitting the encrypted mail to a mail transmission server; and notifying a transmission error to the client device whe... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174815 | Monolithic ceramic electronic component and method for manufacturing the same In a method for manufacturing a monolithic ceramic electronic component, when an inner conductor is formed by printing an electrically conductive paste, a smear may be generated in an opening of the inner conductor at a side of the opening near to a position from wh... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174666 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing display panel, and display panel manufactured by the method A liquid crystal display panel manufacturing apparatus for successively bonding a pair of film substrates, each having a plurality of display regions defined at least along a longitudinal direction, along the longitudinal direction through a sealant formed in every ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174447 | Concept for localizing a position on a path An apparatus for localizing a position on a path, radio signals of fixedly positioned radio transmitters being receivable along the path, the apparatus including a determiner for determining properties of the radio signals of the fixedly positioned radio transmitter... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173884 | Device and method for generating a note signal upon a manual input An embodiment of a device for generating a note signal upon a manual input includes an operator to enable a user of the same as an input to define one or several points as an input signal, and a controller which is implemented to receive the input signal and to gene... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173565 | Sintered body of low temperature cofired ceramic and multilayer ceramic substrate In a sintered body of low temperature cofired ceramic constituting ceramic layers of a multilayer ceramic substrate provided with external conductor films, which is obtained by sintering a non-glass low temperature cofired ceramic material, respective crystalline ph... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172524 | Fan including specific stationary vane arrangement A fan includes an impeller rotatable about a rotation axis and having a plurality of rotating vanes, and a plurality of stationary vanes connecting an outer casing to a supporting body which supports a motor rotating the impeller. At least in a portion of each stati... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172269 | File including a curved retaining portion enabling an edge of a binding body to curve A file includes a binding body which is superimposed with a plurality of binding sheets, a curved retaining portion which is curved in a direction in which the binding body extends when the cover is opened, a curved subsidiary portion arranged to fix a back portion ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170735 | Marine vessel maneuvering supporting apparatus and marine vessel including the same A marine vessel maneuvering supporting apparatus is used in a marine vessel which includes a propulsion system and a steering mechanism. The marine vessel maneuvering supporting apparatus includes a first operational unit arranged select a forward drive position for... | 05/01/2012 |
