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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6151284 | Disk device having a flexible printed circuit cable providing a small-height structure A disk device includes a chassis having a printed circuit board provided therein. A moving unit on which a recording disk is held has a sub-chassis and electrical parts on the sub-chassis, the moving unit being movably supported on the chassis so that the... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6151285 | Disc device having a chassis and movable tray part including a turntable and pickup means with a disc overhanging the tray perpendicular to the disc insertion direction A disc device has a movable mechanism used for moving a carriage carrying a disc so that the carriage either projects from an apparatus or is inserted into the apparatus. The disc carried by the carriage is exposed for an operator to handle the disc when ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6129773 | Fuel blends A fuel additive composition containing ethanol, n-propanol or mixtures thereof together with a non-hydroxy fatty acid and organic ester is described. A miscible fuel blend composition containing the fuel additive composition and diesel oil, gas oil or a m... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6127633 | Multilayer print circuit board having a blind hole in an insulation layer with a roughened surface formed by application of an oxidizing agent and method of production The present invention provides a multilayer print circuit board having at least an inner print circuit pattern and an outer print circuit pattern which are laminated on a substrate through an insulation layer and being electrically connected to each other... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6124984 | Variable magnification optical zoom lens system A variable magnification zoom lens system comprising: in order from the object side, a first lens group having a negative refractive power and a focal length f1; a second lens group having a positive refractive power; and a third lens group having a posit... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6115202 | Digital signal recording method and recording apparatus for searching each recorded program An encoder demodulates an input signal of a program. Main data of the program are recorded in a recording medium as main information in the form of data blocks. Auxiliary information of the program are recorded in the recording medium as packs having a fi... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6111837 | Disc device with a turntable being able to extend into an opening in a top plate connected to a lid A disc device has a movable mechanism used for moving a carriage carrying a disc so that the carriage either projects from an apparatus or is inserted into the apparatus. The disc carried by the carriage is exposed for an operator to handle the disc when ... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6098393 | High strength steel cord for pneumatic tire The present invention relates to a high strength steel cord(1) for pneumatic tires, which is produced by the process of drawing high strength carbon steel with carbon content of 0.91~2.0% by weight, plating brass on the surface of the carbon steel so that... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6097814 | Method and apparatus for controlling the reproduction of data stored on a storage medium method 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 of the reproduct... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6097576 | Magnetic head A miniaturized magnetic head which can reduce running torque of a disk driving motor while head-touch and penetration margin of the magnetic head remain effective. The magnetic head comprises a slider which slides on a flexible magnetic disk, a head core,... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6093486 | Magnetic recording medium and magnetic paint therefor Magnetic paint for producing a magnetic recording medium, the magnetic paint comprises at least ferromagnetic powder, binder, -Fe2 O3 powder, and alumina powder. A relationship between an additive amount (A) of the -Fe | 07/25/2000 |
| 6084737 | Magnetic playback system A magnetic playback system wherein, during high-speed playback, the speed of rotation of a drum motor is controlled so that the data rate of the playback signal from that one of two rotary heads for which the scanned area on the magnetic tape from which a... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6052246 | Method and apparatus for recording digital signals in the form of primary data plus auxiliary information Additional information of multi-programs can be recorded using a source pack which indicates channel numbers and the like in multi-channel or single-channel recording. An additional flag AF in this pack indicates whether the pack is auxiliary information ... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6051509 | Semiconductor integrated circuit manufacturing method and device A manufacturing method produces a semiconductor IC device which can maintain a low power consumption for electronic circuits and form gate-isolation layers of different thicknesses without increasing the manufacturing cost. The semiconductor IC device has... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6049147 | Motor, structure of stator of the motor and assembly method of the stator The present invention provides a motor and a stator structure of the motor and an assembly method of the stator structure and a method of installing the motor. The stator structure of the motor contains a stator substrate having a double-layer structure o... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6046538 | Deflection yoke and yoke core used for the deflection yoke The present invention provides a deflection yoke for deflecting an electron beam emitted from an electron gun of a CRT (cathode ray tube). The deflection yoke is mounted on the CRT at a position between a neck tube having a small diameter section and a fu... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6028156 | Process for the preparation of poly-(halobenzyl acrylate) A process for the preparation of thermally stable polymers of the formula I: ##STR1## wherein n+m=1 through 5, and x denotes the degree of polymerization, comprises polymerizing monomers of the formula Ia: ##STR2## wherein n+m=1 through 5, ... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6022470 | Electroanalytical, dropping mercury electrode cell The electroanalytical, voltammetric cell includes a cell body housing, in addition to a reference electrode, a working electrode and, in its lowermost portion, a counter-electrode. An arrangement for deoxygenating the sample solution includes feeding the ... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6014351 | Controlling method and apparatus for integral personal computer and CD-player A CD replay device, which includes an ejection button for controlling the ejection of a CD and which reads data on a surface of the CD. A disk ejection operation is performed when the ejection button has been depressed for a period of time that is less th... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6014094 | DSV control system A DSV (Digital Sum Value) control system for use in conversion of a sequence of m-bit digital data codes into at least first and second sequences of n-bit digital modulation codes using a plurality of modulation tables under the DVD (Digital Video Disc) s... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6011167 | Polyorganosiloxazanes and process for the preparation thereof Polyorganosiloxazane is provided which is capable of being converted into a ceramic material having low dielectric constant. The polymer according to the present invention is characterized by comprising the main repeating units of --(RSiN3)--, ... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6010610 | Method for electroplating metal coating(s) particulates at high coating speed with high current density The electroplating process of the present invention is a cyclical operation having at least three essentially independent steps in each cycle of operation with the independent steps carried out in sequence and consisting of stirring, sedimentation and ele... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6002189 | Stator core and wire winding method for the same A stator core has 3N salient poles arranged circularly where N is a natural number of four or more but except a multiple of three. Coils are formed around the salient poles where winding directions of the coils is the same for the salient poles. A first, ... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5999282 | Color filter and color image display apparatus employing the filter An improved color filter and a color image display apparatus employs the filter, the color filter has a hologram device for spectrally diffracting an incident light into plural light beams of different wavelength regions and selectively converging the plu... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5992421 | Alternate cigarette and method for preparing the same An alternate cigarette is in a form of cigar or cigarette with a moisture content of 12-13%, which is prepared from a composition comprising a herb medicinal mixture of Artemisia vulgaris Linne, Morus bombycis Koidzumi, Ziziphus jujuba Miller, Polygala te... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5989175 | Method and apparatus for conveying sheet etc. for a folding machine In the present invention, when a signature is formed with a chopper folding device, the conveying force of a sheet etc. conveyed to a position for sheet positioning is reduced, and the sheet etc. is released from restraint of the conveying force, by which... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5990977 | Picture switching apparatus for executing a fade-out/fade-in processing A picture switching apparatus for executing a fade-out/fade-in processing between adjacent video recording files includes a multiplier for multiplying a decoded video data with a multiplication coefficient (1-km), a multiplier for multiplying an output da... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5985927 | Medicaments for the selective treatment of tumor tissues Medicinal products for the selective control of tumor tissue and a method for control of such tumor tissue by administration of such product to a host. The products comprise: (a) two different compounds having a pH below 7 when the compounds are present i... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5982590 | Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus with tilting head drum for dynamic tracking A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a tape guide drum (10) composed of a lower stationary drum (10A) supported integrally with a drum shaft (18) and an upper rotary drum (10B), a lead member (12) provided separately from the lower drum... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5981901 | Method and device for gas shielding laser processed work pieces On an apparatus (10) for laser processing workpieces (18), and whereby a laser beam (11) is directed on to a portion (13) of a substantially perpendicular work surface (14), a jet (21) of shielding gas is fed over the work surface portion (13) crosswise i... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5982557 | Ocular optical system for a viewfinder with variable visibility An ocular optical system for a viewfinder in a camera for observing object image which is formed on focusing glass or its vicinity via eye point. The ocular optical system includes, in order from the focusing glass side, a negative meniscus lens, which ha... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5974816 | Temperature-control method and apparatus A method and apparatus for cooling different media which separately control the temperature of a plurality of chambers. A common refrigerant is used for cooling the different media.... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5973814 | Optical document scanning method and apparatus with adjustable scanning magnification An optical document scanning method and apparatus having a driving system which drives each of the lens groups collectively forming the optical scanning apparatus in an optical axis direction to lens positions corresponding to a given designed-scanning ma... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5972493 | Microcapsules for magnetic display and magnetic display sheet comprising such microcapsules Gelatin microcapsules for magnetic display enclosing therein dispersion medium, magnetic powder and nonmagnetic powder, characterized in that that the dispersion medium in the microcapsules is composed of at least low boiling point solvent, particle diame... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5963515 | Optical pickup device for detecting a tracking error of a main spot on an optical disk An optical pickup device includes a light source which emits a light beam. A beam converting system converts the light beam emitted by the light source into a main beam and four side beams so that a main spot and first through fourth side spots are provid... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5960251 | Organic-metallic composite coating for copper surface protection Copper-containing surfaces of substrates such as laminated electronic circuit boards are protected by organometallic coatings comprising organic compounds selected from the group consisting of benzimidazoles, alkylimidazoles, benzotriazozles and alkyltria... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5930217 | Optical information recording/reproducing system, optical information storage medium, and manufacturing method thereof An optical information storage medium is provided which may be employed as a prepaid card usable as money in limited stores. The optical information storage medium includes a function writable chip which consists of a plurality of memory areas each includ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5805120 | Head-up display apparatus A head-up display apparatus includes a display device for displaying various items of information and a combiner provided in front of an eye of a viewer in a visual field of the viewer, which combiner allows an outside image lying in the visual field to b... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5395180 | Boron nitride vaporization vessel The vaporization vessel includes a body of substantially rectangular configuration having an upper relatively flat surface and a recessed cavity formed in the body with said cavity having a lateral cross sectional geometry which forms an included angle at... | 03/07/1995 |
