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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7130141 | Assembly for thermal and/or thermally-assisted information processing An information processing assembly includes at least one heater suitable for information processing, and a controller for controlling the at least one heater by at least one of adjusting a power to the at least one heater to match a target power level, and changing ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123323 | Liquid crystal display device with conductive light shielding film and contact holes In a liquid crystal display device having a pixel board on which light shielding film 3, first insulating film 10, semiconductor layer, second insulating film 11 serving as a gate insulating film and gate wires 4 are formed, a source regi... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121925 | Method for dicing semiconductor wafer into chips A method for dividing a semiconductor wafer into chips according to the present invention is a method for dividing a semiconductor wafer into a large number of semiconductor chips, the semiconductor wafer having a semiconductor layer formed on a substrate. A first m... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7084421 | Light-emitting device using group III nitride group compound semiconductor A light-emitting semiconductor device provides an active layer which comprises thirteen (13) layers that includes six (6) pairs of quantum barrier layers made of Al0.95In0.05N and quantum well layers made of Al0.70In0.30N,... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085109 | Spin valve type transducer capable of reducing reproducing gap In a spin value type transducer including two magnetic shield layers, a patterned magnetoresistance element is in direct contact with one of the magnetic shield layers. A permanent magnet layer and an electrode layer are formed on the sides of the patterned magnetor... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7078980 | Voltage controlled oscillator with switched tuning capacitors The LC-VCO is provided with two negative resistance units and an LC circuit unit. The LC circuit unit has two output terminals. An inductor is connected between the output terminals, and a series of variable capacitors is connected in parallel with the inductor. In ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076242 | Mobile station and communication system A mobile station includes a wireless communication unit and Web function unit. The wireless communication unit wirelessly communicates with a mobile communication system network. The Web function unit is connected to a content in the mobile communication system netw... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071755 | Clock control circuit and method A clock controlling circuit and method for eliminating the delay difference in the entire clock propagation line. Circuit scale is reduced as compared to a case of using a PLL or DLL circuit. A timing averaging circuit 10 is fed with clocks from a position on... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7067886 | Method of assessing potential for charging damage in SOI designs and structures for eliminating potential for damage A method and structure alters an integrated circuit design having silicon over insulator (SOI) transistors. The method/structure prevents damage from charging during processing to the gate of SOI transistors by tracing electrical nets in the integrated circuit desig... | 06/27/2006 |
| D521534 | Sewing machine | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050761 | Mobile communication system, transmission mode switching method, and recording medium having transmission mode switching method recorded thereon To provide a mobile communication system capable of easily performing selection of an optimal transmission mode. Upon receiving a receiving error notice from a mobile station, a transmission mode switching selecting portion of a base station forwards an instruction ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7045829 | Light-emitting semiconductor device using Group III nitride compound A Group III nitride compound semiconductor includes a multiple layer structure having an emission layer between an n-type cladding layer and a p-type cladding layer. The n-type cladding layer may be below the emission layer, having been formed on another n-type laye... | 05/16/2006 |
| D520865 | Band for binding electric wires | 05/16/2006 |
| D520525 | Wheel loader | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035699 | Qualified and targeted lead selection and delivery system The present invention comprises a system dedicated to computerized information management. In particular, the system is efficiently targeted for employment by industries such as insurance and financial services where it is of interest to effect integrated prospect s... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034697 | Awakening level estimation apparatus for a vehicle and method thereof An awakening level estimation apparatus for vehicle has: a signal processing part; a frequency component amount calculation part for calculating an average value of the frequency component powers and calculating a maximum value of the frequency component powers; a c... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027475 | Tailored index single mode optical amplifiers and devices and systems including same A semiconductor laser device includes a tailored index single mode power amplifier. A high-power laser system can be produced by connecting several of the tailored index single mode power amplifiers in parallel. In an exemplary case, a phase shifting device can be o... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024512 | Compression store free-space management An improved method, system, and a computer program storage device (e.g., including software embodied on a magnetic, electrical, optical, or other storage device) for management of compressed main memory allocation and utilization which can avoid system abends or ine... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7016860 | Honoring of electronic coupons An electronic coupon, an electronic commerce system, and a method for the honoring of electronic coupons utilizing computing equipment are disclosed. In the method, an issuing party issues an electronic coupon to a customer. The customer presents the coupon for rede... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016167 | Spin valve transistor with stabilization and method for producing the same A method and structure for a spin valve transistor (SVT) comprises a magnetic field sensor, an insulating layer adjacent the magnetic field sensor, a bias layer adjacent the insulating layer, a non-magnetic layer adjacent the bias layer, and a ferromagnetic layer ov... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012665 | Liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the same In a provided LCD device, a common electrode and a picture element electrode which make up the main portion of a unit picture element of the LCD device are both made up of one thin conductive layer made of a Cr layer, while a common electrode wiring line and a data ... | 03/14/2006 |
| D514175 | Stretching exercise device | 01/31/2006 |
| 6990358 | System and method for monitoring receiving portion in wireless base station system, and recording medium on which monitoring program is recorded A noise figure (NF) of an outdoor receiver amplifier and a loss in a feeder are automatically computed to report a correct level of received total wideband power (RTWP). A received signal code power (RSCP) value and a bit error rate (BER) value are computed by demod... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6988421 | Rotation angle detecting device and torque detecting device A rotation angle detecting device and a torque detecting device, which can prevent waveforms to be outputted from a plurality of semiconductor MR elements, from dispersing due to the material difference of a semiconductor wafer. A plurality of semiconductor MR eleme... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6987414 | High frequency switch circuit A high frequency switch circuit including high frequency terminals which input/output a high frequency signal, high frequency semiconductor switch sections which are arranged on lines coupling the high frequency terminals, a DC potential isolating circuit which isol... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6987289 | High-density FinFET integration scheme The invention provides a method of manufacturing a fin-type field effect transistor (FinFET) that forms a unique FinFET that has a first fin with a central channel region and source and drain regions adjacent the channel region, a gate intersecting the first fin and... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6987050 | Self-aligned silicide (salicide) process for low resistivity contacts to thin film silicon-on-insulator and bulk MOSFETS and for shallow junctions A method (and resulting structure) for fabricating a silicide for a semiconductor device, includes depositing a metal or an alloy thereof on a silicon substrate, reacting the metal or the alloy to form a first silicide phase, etching any unreacted metal, depositing ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6987411 | Clock control circuit and method A clock controlling circuit and method for eliminating the delay difference in the entire clock propagation line. Circuit scale is reduced as compared to a case of using a PLL or DLL circuit. A timing averaging circuit 10 is fed with clocks from a position on... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6986109 | Practical method for hierarchical-preserving layout optimization of integrated circuit layout The invention provides a method of modifying a hierarchical integrated circuit layout wherein the locations of hierarchical layout elements are represented with variables and formulae using these variables, which produces a formula-based hierarchical layout. These v... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6983664 | Rotation angle detecting device, and torque detecting device The rotation angle detecting device includes a target of a spur gear shape made rotatable together with a rotary member and having a plurality of teeth of magnetic members protruding at a substantially equal pitch in the circumferential direction of the axis of the ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6985988 | System-on-a-Chip structure having a multiple channel bus bridge A system-on-a-chip integrated circuit structure includes a bridge having a plurality of channels, a processor local bus connected to the bridge (wherein the bridge includes a first channel dedicated to the processor local bus), at least one logic device connected to... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6982460 | Self-aligned gate MOSFET with separate gates A structure and method of manufacturing a double-gate integrated circuit which includes forming a laminated structure having a channel layer and first insulating layers on each side of the channel layer, forming openings in the laminated structure, forming drain and... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6979856 | Semiconductor memory device and control method and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor memory device includes a first insulating film provided on a semiconductor substrate between first and second diffusion regions, a first gate electrode provided on the first insulating film, a second insulating film provided on the semiconductor subs... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980009 | Structure for measurement of capacitance of ultra-thin dielectrics Disclosed is an on-chip test device for testing the thickness of gate oxides in transistors. A ring oscillator provides a ring oscillator output and an inverter receives the ring oscillator output as an input. The inverter is coupled to a gate oxide and the inverter... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980271 | Semi-transmissive LCD device having a reflector with irregularity pattern and method of fabricating same A reflective or semi-transmissive type LCD device reduces a moiré generated by the irregularity pattern of the reflector plate of the LCD panel. A front light has an optical guide plate in which prism grooves are arranged in an arrangement direction. The pattern of... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978685 | Steering state detecting apparatus In a detecting apparatus for detecting a steering state at a steering member (1) by respectively providing targets (34 and 35) in the shape of a spur gear having teeth portions (34a and 35a) to an input shaft (32 | 12/27/2005 |
| 6975591 | Methodology for improving TCP throughput over lossy communication links A method for improving TCP throughput over lossy communication links without affecting performance over non-lossy links comprises determining lookahead-loss which is the number of lost packets in a given loss-window; using the loss-window and lookahead-loss to detec... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6976001 | Method and apparatus suitable for demand forecasting Method and apparatus suitable for demand forecasting. The invention can enable sales forecasting “by item, by size, by location”. The invention features combining a demand profile and a demand model into a single encompassing model which is capable of projecting... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6976005 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically bidding in and conducting multiple simultaneous online auctions located across multiple online auction sites The use of software-based agents to act on behalf of human bidders for dynamic participation in multiple simultaneous online auctions is disclosed. The software-based agents may reside on computer systems or on any type of stationary or mobile terminal. On the basis... | 12/13/2005 |
| D512627 | Seal plug | 12/13/2005 |
