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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6882459 | Photoreactive devices, translucent members, ornaments, anticorrosive devices, devices for reducing oxygen and devices for controlling growth of microorganisms The inventive photoreactive device has a semiconductor and an oxidation-reduction material. The semiconductor has a conduction band with a potential and being capable of producing electrons under the irradiation of light on the semiconductor. The oxidation-reduction... | 04/19/2005 |
| 7180504 | Keyboard matrix data transfer A method of setting a key mapping used to generate key information from a keyboard responsive to manipulation of a key on the keyboard is described. A connected keyboard device having a programmable component is detected. A keyboard map usage corresponding to the de... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7146304 | Method and apparatus for lane and front-end planning and design analysis The Lane and Front-end Effectiveness Model (LFEM) is a self-contained PC desktop application that allows an analyst to quantitatively predict the impact of changes to their checkout operations. This application, according to the present invention, includes four simu... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7103155 | Notification of the presence of messages deposited in a voicemail server To relieve a user of a first fixed or mobile terminal from consulting messages deposited in a voicemail server, the voicemail server notifies the first terminal of the presence of a deposited message associated with the identifier of a second terminal, immediately a... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7093748 | Method and apparatus for tracking retail performance metrics during a transaction at a point of sale station The present invention provides a method of and apparatus for associating a retail performance metric with individual entries within a transaction and/or time type categories. The retail performance metric is determined by recording the time the system waited for and... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7053482 | Ceramic package with radiating lid A ceramic package with a lid attached thereon, which has radiating grooves at its upper surface and/or lower surface to radiate heat generated from a chip-type device is disclosed. The ceramic package includes a laminated ceramic substrate comprised of a plurality o... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054483 | Methods for selecting high visual contrast colors in user-interface design The invention relates to assessing the level of visual contrast between foreground and background in visually presented information, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for determining whether a given set of foreground and background colors creates suff... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6947987 | Method and apparatus for allocating network resources and changing the allocation based on dynamic workload changes A method of allocating and distributing processes to network resources. The amount of network resources is determined for each process or groups of processes to be executed on the computer network. A minimum source allocation is provided for one or more of the proce... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944864 | Dynamic architecture integration technique A hybrid technique for exchanging data files is described, i.e. dynamic architecture technique (DAT). Using the inventive technique, the producer and consumer applications work within the constraints of a “super schema”. Consumers and producers of data are not r... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6937802 | Telecommunication cable including optical fiber module A telecommunication cable includes a plurality of modules, each with a thin retaining sheath for clamping optical fibers together. Each retaining sheath contains plural respective modules and is mechanically coupled to the retaining sheaths of the respective modules... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6934687 | Computer architecture and method for supporting and analyzing electronic commerce over the world wide web for commerce service providers and/or internet service providers A computer system that supports and analyzes Internet and/or electronic commerce data includes at least one user station transmitting a user request, and at least one Internet server, connectable to the user station, and providing the user station access to external... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931577 | Bit error measurement apparatus and method, and recording medium It is an object to provide an apparatus in which measurement of a bit error rate of a transmission network that is used for digital broadcasting is capable of being executed during the time that actual broadcasting of the digital broadcasting is performed, namely th... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6913850 | Thin film modular electrochemical product and method of manufacture thereof A method of manufacturing a thin film electrochemical apparatus is disclosed. A near net shape ceramic element is molded including a planar base region and a plurality of tubular regions. The planar base region is infiltrated with a non-conductive material. Each of ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6903915 | Variable capacitor voltage-controllable by use of coulomb blocking phenomenon Variable capacitive device, such as a capacitor, controllable in voltage Vc including at least one first armature (L) and one second armature (R), the armatures being separated by an insulation layer (D) including several conducting aggregates separated from each ot... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6901373 | Method and apparatus for tracking customer purchasing habits A processor, bar code scanner, and a smart card interface at a checkout stand track customer purchase habits. The smart card includes memory storing accumulated values in each of several profit categories and a second processor for executing instructions. The first ... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6901029 | Towed low-frequency underwater detection system The invention relates to low-frequency underwater detection systems comprising a towed linear antenna (12, 13). It consists in producing the transducers of the transmission antenna (12) in the form of flextensional arrays of cylindrical type ( | 05/31/2005 |
| 6894253 | Device for controlling the service loads of an electric household appliance, in particular a refrigerator A control unit (3) for controlling an electric household appliance, e.g. a refrigerator, is connected in series with a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) resistive unit (4) which, when supplied with electric current, generates sufficient heat to ac... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6892423 | Cam-assisted lid hinge A hinge for a vehicle lid includes a main biasing element operable to urge the hinge into an open position, and a mechanism for assisting the initial opening of the hinge from a closed position. The mechanism includes a rotary cam engagable with another portion of t... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6895333 | High-precision 3D position-finding system A precise 3D position-finding system and method comprises at least the following elements: a set of beacons working on the basis of differential global positioning satellites (DGPS), the beacons being connected to one another and temporally synchronized, spread-spec... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6886363 | Ring A ring allowing a longer length of an arm attached to a ring main body is provided. The tilted ring is tiltingly attached to the ring main body. The tilted ring is in an ellipse shape, and the major axis of the ellipse projected on the plane where the ring main body... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6888493 | Multi-targets detection method applied in particular to surveillance radars with multi-beamforming in elevation A radar comprising transmitter means for generating bursts of radar pulses, each scan of a radar consisting of a number (Nb) of bursts, the method comprises, for each scan k: a first step, in which a radar cell is pre-se... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6885304 | Monitoring of crowd response to performances Monitoring apparatus and methods for monitoring the reaction of people to a performance use two or more monitoring devices of different types. Output signals from the monitoring devices are combined to produce at least one crowd reaction signal indicative of the rea... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6879090 | Acoustic transducer with prestressed ring The invention relates to acoustic transducers which comprise a ceramic ring formed from a pre-stressed set of segments. It consists in using, as screws for tightening pre-stressing wedges, screws with hexagonal heads and in placing on the inner face of these ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6879412 | Method for optimizing the best resolution of an optical scanning system and apparatus for the same The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for fast finding the best resolution of an optical scanning device during assembling steps. The present invention improves the graphics of the calibration device. Accompanying with calculation of an adjustment... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6875037 | Coupling mechanism for electrical connectors The present invention is directed to a structure for coupling a plug connector to a receptacle connector by simply pushing the plug connector to lock into place on a receptacle connector and pull the coupling nut to release. Although the action of the push to lock a... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6873907 | Navigation system with user interface A navigation system that includes a graphic user interface displaying a plurality of icons. An icon selectively activated by a user input device is enlarged, animated, and includes a text flag indicating what the icon represents. Some of the icons are associated wit... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6871972 | Light module for LCD panel A light module is disclosed with an LED light for a LCD panel. LGP or LGS have mixed with well-mixed fluorescent powders therein and the white light with triple wavelength is made by the light rays emitted from UV LED to excite the well-mixed fluorescent powders. Th... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6871730 | Rotation-retarding device with direct engagement The rotation-retarding device includes a first element and a second element having a rotary motion to be retarded relative to each other. The first element includes a block of flexible material (106), the second element (107) is able to locally deform ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6871973 | Light module for LCD panel A light module with LED light source for LCD panel. Light-receiving surfaces of LGP (light guide plate), light-receiving surfaces of LGS (light guide stick) or light-emitting surfaces of LGS are coated with the mixed fluorescent powder and the white light with tripl... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6869423 | Disposable diaper A disposable diaper includes a basic absorbent batt structure and a supplementary absorbent batt structure placed on the basic absorbent batt structure. The diaper is formed with a feces receiving space surrounded by the supplementary absorbent batt structure and bo... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6869113 | Security seal Security seals (1) are used to indicate that a closed container has remained closed throughout a journey or during transport to show that its contents have not been tampered with. Once fixed such seals can only be removed by destroying them. A padlock-type se... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6864967 | Optical characteristic measuring apparatus, method and recording medium An apparatus including a variable wavelength light source for generating a variable wavelength light, a first light modulator for inputting into a first optical fiber transmission line a first incident light obtained by modulating the variable wavelength light by a ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6864154 | Process for lapping wafer and method for processing backside of wafer using the same A process of lapping a wafer includes the steps of relieving adhesive stress of an ultraviolet tap attached to a first side of the wafer by irradiation of ultraviolet light, maintaining a lapping jig at a usable temperature of the ultraviolet tape to cause a binder ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6863241 | Control of an aircraft as a thrust-vectored pendulum in vertical, horizontal and all flight transitional modes thereof An improved aircraft includes a thrust source, a wing, and a boom functioning as a “free lever” and having a distal end upon which the thrust is acting and a proximal end about which the boom is freely rotatable to balance forces acting on the proximal and dista... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6862938 | Differential capacitive type MEMS sensor apparatus with capacitance compensator having MEMS structure Disclosed is a differential capacitive type MEMS sensor apparatus provided with a MEMS structure including a differential capacitive type MEMS sensor and a capacitance compensator having a MEMS structure. The differential capacitive type MEMS sensor apparatus includ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6861977 | Agile PRT deconvolution method and systems, and its uses This invention relates to radar signal processing. In particular, this invention concerns signal processing of agile Pulse Repetition Time (PRT) sampled signal transmitted using spread spectrum technique. This invention solves, in particular, the incompatibility bet... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6860659 | Traction device for heat-sensitive ink ribbon A recording deice includes a cylinder (1) of heat-sensitive ink ribbon (2), a rewinding cylinder (5), and a marking header (19). The device prevents unused segments of ribbon being left between markings. The device has a moving support ( | 03/01/2005 |
| 6860020 | Ultra-precision feeding apparatus Provided is an ultra-precision feeding apparatus. The feeding apparatus comprises an actuator horizontally positioned between a base and a motion stage movably provided to the top of the base, first hinge member which is fixed to the base and one end of the actuator... | 03/01/2005 |
