An aircraft having vertical takeoff and landing capability provided with at least first and second laterally extending paddle wheels rotatable on a central axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft fuselage and between its nose and tail.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7562096 | Method for remotely accessing a computer The present invention is a portable device and system for remotely accessing a computer from a distant location and includes a keyboard processing unit having a keyboard processor with an ASCII encoder and decoder for receiving and transmitting ASCII data, a keyboar... | 07/14/2009 |
| 6978557 | Method for manufacturing shoes and shoes manufactured by the method A method for manufacturing shoes is provided. The method includes preparing an upper and an outsole, applying an adhesive agent to the outer surface of an upper seal portion and the inner surface of an outsole seal portion, stitching together the outer surface of th... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6916272 | Apparatus for preventing sudden acceleration of automobile fitted with automatic transmission The present invention relates to an apparatus for preventing sudden acceleration of an automobile fitted with an automatic transmission, including a first slider having one end thereof connected to a cable connected to an accelerator pedal, a second slider having on... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6858149 | Method for the treatment of tap water and drinking water A method is provided for the treatment of water so as to reduce or destroy micro-organisms therein as well as other causes of skin diseases or waterborne diseases in human beings and animals, wherein the water is passed through a magnetic field being presented by a ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6776209 | Adhesive tape dispenser The present invention relates to an adhesive tape dispenser which receives an adhesive tape coated with coating substance such as bonding substance in order to stick the same to a surface of a sheet. The adhesive tape dispenser includes a guide tip pivotally mounted... | 08/17/2004 |
| 7215093 | Motor drive circuit and motor drive method that can positively perform a brake operation A motor drive circuit includes a first transistor. The collector of a second transistor is connected to the emitter of the first transistor in series. A motor is connected to a connection point between the first and second transistors. A first brake control circuit ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7190662 | Information recording medium An information recording medium wherein an optically detectable information recording medium is comprised of at least a substrate, a recording layer, and a resin layer. The information recording medium has surface roughness Rσ on the surface of the recording layer,... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7165904 | Printer and medium transportation assembly A printer with an image scanning sensor for reading image data in confined spaces comprising a case unit 11 with a roll paper compartment 30 for holding roll paper P, a front cover unit 12 for forming a slip transportation path 21 for con... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7143942 | Card processing apparatus and system, POS terminal for card processing, and credit card processing control method To reliably process a card such as a credit card to acquire accurate card information in accordance with the present invention without lowering job productivity, magnetic data is read from the card and in the same operation the front of the card is scanned to secure... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7093268 | Flexible wiring plate and an electronic device for recording and/or playing back information using the flexible wiring plate A flexible wiring plate includes a first wiring plate connected to a connector of a member of a fixed side (chassis), a second wiring plate connected to a connector of a member of a movable side (slide), and a third wiring plate connecting the first wiring plate to ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7072276 | Disklike recording media, a method for detecting forged disks, an anti-forgery system for performing a true-false judgement based on information collected from the recording media, and a manufacturing apparatus for recording information in the disks A recording medium includes first information selected from a plurality of information patterns and second information selected from another plurality of information patterns for the true-false judgement. A true-false judging device performs a statistic analysis whe... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7038560 | Surface acoustic wave filter and surface acoustic wave resonator having bent electrode fingers A SAW filter including a piezoelectric substrate 11, an input electrode 12 and an output electrode 13 each representing an interdigital electrode disposed on the piezoelectric substrate 11 and two reflectors 14 and 14 dispos... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7028317 | Optical disc device having an inclined guided member to control the direction of light An optical disk device performing data reproducing and/or data recording of a disk with the disk being clamped and rotated. The disk device has a simple structure in which light emitted from an optical pickup can be securely made incident on the disk at right angles... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7020780 | Method apparatus and systems for producing and writing cipher keys, reproducing information with a cipher key, and for permitting reproduction of information with a cipher key, and permitting reproduction of information with a cipher key, and optical disc recorded with a cipher key Plural program information and a BCA (Burst Cutting Area) number of the optical disc 100 is previously recorded in the optical disc 100. A drive ID is stored in the nonvolatile memory 104a of the reproduction apparatus 104. A user ... | 03/28/2006 |
| RE39041 | Ammonia decomposition catalysts An ammonia decomposition catalyst wherein a first catalyst having a crystalline silicate which is represented by the formula in terms of molar ratio of oxides as dehydrated: (1±0.8)R2O.[aM2O3.bM′O.cAl2O3 | 03/28/2006 |
| 6974506 | Method of manufacturing a ferritic-martensitic, Oxide Dispersion Strengthened alloy This invention relates to a method of manufacturing an improved ferritic or martensitic alloy based on iron and chromium strengthened by a dispersion of oxides, commonly called an Oxide Dispersion Strengthened or ODS alloy, and, more particularly to a method of manu... | 12/13/2005 |
| D511154 | Combined digital audio disk player and radio receiver | 11/01/2005 |
| 6953154 | Card recording apparatus The present invention provides a card recording apparatus capable of printing in high speed as well as reducing overall dimensions of the apparatus. After a card is transported to an information recording section 200 in a lateral (short length) direction of t... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954409 | Ping-pong recording method and multi-track recorder apparatus A ping-pong recording method and apparatus is disclosed, which allows the mixing process to proceed while listening to the sounds for all of the parts. The ping-pong recording apparatus includes a hard disk-based multi-track recorder means 10, a first ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6922836 | Disk drive apparatus The present invention is directed to a disk drive apparatus in which a disk tray travels forward or backward in a chassis casing to load or unload the disk tray. The chassis casing is constructed with a base chassis 1 and/or cover chassis 2 having open... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6914874 | DISKLIKE RECORDING MEDIA, A METHOD FOR DETECTING FORGED DISKS, AN ANTI-FORGERY SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING A TRUE-FALSE JUDGEMENT BASED ON INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM THE RECORDING MEDIA, AND A MANUFACTURING APPARATUS FOR RECORDING INFORMATION IN THE DISKS A recording medium includes first information selected from a plurality of information patterns and second information selected from another plurality of information patterns for the true-false judgement. A true-false judging device performs a statistic analysis whe... | 07/05/2005 |
| D506207 | Memory cassette | 06/14/2005 |
| 6898165 | Reproducer capable of changing a reproducing speed in accordance with a scratch operation A reproducer can enhance detection accuracy with respect to a rotational motion according to a scratch operation and properly change a reproducing speed of a recording medium. A turntable of a scratch operating part comprises a disk-shaped mounting plate, which is m... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6894710 | Card recording apparatus The present invention provides a card recording apparatus capable of printing in high speed as well as reducing overall dimensions of the apparatus. After a card is transported to an information recording section 200 in a lateral (short length) direction of t... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6876707 | Signal processing circuit and signal processing method A signal processing circuit generating a digital signal based on an input pulse signal is provided, which circuit includes a clock pulse output circuit which outputs clock pulses having one of positive and negative polarities for a period which includes a pulse of t... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6868549 | Disk clamp apparatus A disk clamp apparatus, includes a disk mount surface part on which a record medium having a disk shape is mounted, the disk mount surface part including a part which faces an innermost circumference surface of the record medium, and a part which faces an outer circ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6861126 | Magnetic recording medium possessing a magnetic layer having plural oxygen-containing regions On a polymeric substrate 1, there is formed with a single magnetic layer 2 containing a ferromagnetic metal and oxygen. The magnetic layer 2 is divided into three regions equally in the depth direction from the polymeric substrate 1 to th... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6855416 | Thin film magnetic recording medium A thin film magnetic recording medium (30) is composed of an underlayer film (32), which is constituted by a nonmagnetic metal oxide film and formed on a nonmagnetic substrate (31), and a magnetic film (33) of Co system, which is formed o... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6849915 | Light sensitive semiconductor package and fabrication method thereof A light sensitive semiconductor package and a fabrication method thereof are provided in which a chip is mounted on a chip carrier and encompassed by a dam, and an infrared filter is attached to the dam to hermetically isolate the chip from the atmosphere. An encaps... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6849941 | Heat sink and heat spreader assembly A heat sink and heat spreader assembly including a solid member of a conductive material and a layer of a low melting alloy having phase change properties bonded to at least one surface of the solid member such that a welded joint is formed there between possessing ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6817023 | Disk device A disk device includes a housing in which a disk is provided, a disk support member for supporting the disk in the housing so that the disk can be rotated, and a driving part for rotating the disk support member, wherein the housing includes an air intake part for i... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6807135 | Tilt detection system, tilt detection method and tilt adjustment method A tilt detection system includes an optical disk having a series of data recorded therein, the series of data having a pulse width smaller than the minimum pulse width of data recorded in an ordinary optical disk; a reproducing part reproducing a signal from the opt... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6799322 | Disk loading device A disk loading device for loading a disk into a disk loading device frame and unloading the inserted disk from the disk loading device frame has a first arm having a contacting part for contacting an edge of the disk in a direction of insertion of the disk and movin... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6799230 | Peripheral device exchanging data with one of higher-order devices by switching interfaces A control unit of a peripheral device enables data to be exchanged between a unit of the peripheral device and one of a plurality of higher-order devices by using one of a plurality of interface units. Thus, the unit of the peripheral device is controlled by the hig... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6794922 | Signal processing circuit integrating pulse widths of an input pulse signal according to polarities A signal processing circuit outputs an output signal corresponding to a pulse width of an input pulse signal. This signal processing circuit comprises means for accumulating pulse widths of the input pulse signal for a predetermined period of time, and means for out... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6782786 | Electric punch An electric punch for automatically punching holes in documents and the like is provided that allows the spacing between the holes to be selectively set at either 70 mm (U.S. standard) or 80 mm (European and Japanese standard) by forming a bend midway of the length ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6784801 | Electric appliance monitoring system An electric appliance monitoring system that can report an operational state of an electric appliance includes a monitoring part and a transmission part. The monitoring part monitors the operational state of the electric appliance and outputs a detection signal to t... | 08/31/2004 |