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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7950132 | Method for manufacturing liquid crystal device Disclosed is an integrated device which can peel a protective film from a board assembly and mount the board assembly on a backlight unit. The integrated peeling and mounting device includes: an index rotary unit having a shaft for rotating heads facing in different... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949897 | Optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus A predetermined power failure recovery process is carried out when power failure recovery data is determined to be present in a flash ROM when a power supply is turned on after a power failure. However, when a tray opening and closing key is pressed before completio... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949714 | System and method for targeting advertisements or other information using user geographical information A request for information items may include content information associated with one or more electronic messages and geographical information associated with the requesting user. A set of information items is identified based on the user geographical information and ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949448 | Calibration apparatus for airbag inflator resistance Disclosed is a calibration apparatus for an airbag inflator resistance. The calibration apparatus for an airbag inflator resistance includes: an airbag inflator unit for applying a deployment signal for deployment of an airbag; a resistance detection unit for detect... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948599 | Liquid crystal display device having patterned spacers and method of fabricating the same A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a black matrix on the second substrate, the black matrix including a plurality of open portions corresponding to pixel regions and a plurality of holes disposed adjacent to the plurality of open p... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948506 | Method and apparatus for defect correction in a display A full-color display device, comprising: a) a display having a plurality of sub-pixels formed in rows or columns in a first dimension including at least three different color sub-pixels forming a color gamut, and grouped into pixels within each row or column, each p... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948465 | Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a timing controller, N source drive integrated circuits (ICs), where N is an integer equal to or greater than 2, N pairs of data bus lines, each of which con... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948363 | Method and system for radio-frequency signal coupling to medium tension power lines with auto-tuning device In one aspect, the present invention comprises a method for tuning a power line communication inductive signal coupling device comprising a coupler and a plurality of capacitors, the method comprising: passing a carrier frequency signal through the coupler; sensing ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948178 | Hermetic seal Hermetic seal for a device includes a substrate. A first strip on the substrate has a first surface wettability and a second strip on the substrate has a second surface wettability different from the first surface wettability. The seal further includes a first cover... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948172 | LED device having improved light output A thin-film, white-light-emitting diode device includes a reflective, conductive thin-film structure and a semi-transparent, conductive thin-film structure. One or more thin-film layers are formed between the reflective and semi-transparent conductive thin-film stru... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948165 | High-performance tandem white OLED A tandem OLED device having two spaced electrodes comprising: first and second light-emitting units that produce different emission spectra disposed between the electrodes, the first light-emitting unit produces light that has multiple peaks at wavelengths longer th... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948043 | MEMS package that includes MEMS device wafer bonded to cap wafer and exposed array pads A package of a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) device includes a cap wafer, a plurality of bonding bumps formed over the cap wafer, a plurality of array pads arrayed on an outer side of the bonding bumps, and an MEMS device wafer bonded to an upper portion o... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946897 | Dual panel type organic electroluminescent display device and method of fabricating the same An organic electroluminescent device includes first and second substrates spaced apart from each other, the first and second substrates including a first region and a second region, the second region outside the first region and including a concave portion, an array... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946834 | Balance shaft module equipped with oil pump A balance shaft module according to the present invention includes a first balance shaft equipped with a first eccentric balance weight, a second balance shaft equipped with a second eccentric balance weight, and a hydraulic pump that is operated by the first balanc... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946747 | Backlight unit A backlight unit is disclosed. The backlight unit includes a light source unit generating light, a beam profile changer at the side of the light source unit, a reflective plate under the beam profile changer, and an optical film positioned on the beam profile change... | 05/24/2011 |
| D637983 | Home theater receiver | 05/17/2011 |
| 7536641 | Web page authoring tool for structured documents A web page is composed using a browser that displays an authoring web page containing an authoring tool embedded in the authoring web page. The authoring web page, as displayed in a browser window, includes a web page editing region that displays a web page under co... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536494 | Expandable slave device system with buffered subsystems A system includes a first bus, a master device coupled to the first bus, and one or more subsystems coupled to the first bus. A respective subsystem includes a second bus, one or more slave devices coupled to the second bus, a write buffer to receive incoming signal... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536146 | Flash fixing device, image forming device using the same, and flash lamp light emission control method A flash fixing device comprises a first and second flash lamps that emit flashes of light that fix a toner image transferred onto a recording medium and a light emission control unit that controls the light emissions of the first and second flash lamps so that the l... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536134 | Image holding member and image forming apparatus The invention provides an image holding member including at least a surface that has, after a predetermined discharge stress that is conditioned so that a sine-wave alternating-current bias of a peak-to-peak bias having 1.5 KV and a frequency 8 time S (Hz) is applie... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536116 | Image forming apparatus with a plurality of development devices An image forming apparatus includes a rotary unit that has a rotary shaft, and a plurality of development devices each of which has a constituent unit, the development devices provided around the rotary shaft; and a plurality of state detection units that detects at... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535933 | Calibrated data communication system and method A system includes a first integrated circuit device and a second integrated circuit device. The first device transmits a data sequence to the second integrated circuit device, and the second device samples the data sequence to produce receiver data. The second devic... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535242 | Interface test circuit An integrated circuit is described. The integrated circuit includes an interface circuit that includes a transmitter and a receiver. A generator in the integrated circuit is selectively coupled to the transmitter. The generator is to provide a test sequence that is ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534877 | Non-M, non-O HIV-1 strains, fragments and uses Retroviral strains of the non-M, non-O HIV-1 group, in particular a strain designated YBE30, its fragments and also its uses as a diagnostic reagent and as an immunogenic agent. The HIV-1 viruses which differ both from the M group and the O group exhibit the ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534501 | Precision-folded, high strength, fatigue-resistant structures and sheet therefor Precision-folded, high strength, fatigue-resistant structures and a sheet therefore are disclosed. To form the structures, methods for precision bending of a sheet of material along a bend line and a sheet of material formed with bending strap-defining structures, s... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534331 | Use of microfluidic systems in the electrochemical detection of target analytes The invention relates generally to methods and apparatus for conducting analyses, particularly microfluidic devices for the detection of target analytes. ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534076 | Core bit In a core bit formed with a drill portion in a cylindrical shape formed with a boring blade on one end side thereof and a mounting portion in a cylindrical shape mounted to a chuck portion of a concrete drill on other end side of the drill portion, formed with an en... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534024 | Optical deflector element and light source device An optical deflector element has a light incoming surface (41) in which light enters and a light outgoing surface (42) located opposite the light incoming surface and from which light exits. In the light incoming surface (41) are arranged elonga... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533913 | Front structure for car body A front structure for a car body that reduces time and cost to repair a car body after a collision by localizing damage in low-speed collisions to a crash box mounted in a space between a front bumper and a side member and making the car body deform always in a pred... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7505378 | Disk reproducing apparatus and disk reproducing method A disk reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing data that is recorded on a DVD-Audio, includes a data reproducing unit which reproduces the data, a displaying unit, and a controlling unit which controls the data reproducing unit and the displaying unit. Preferab... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504409 | Mucin synthesis inhibitors The claimed invention relates to methods of modulating mucin synthesis and the therapeutic application of compounds in controlling mucin over-production associated with diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) including asthma and chronic bronc... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504397 | mTOR inhibitor compounds Compounds of formula I: A-B-C (I) and isomers, salts, solvates, chemically protected forms, and prodrugs thereof are provided, wherein variables A, B and C are defined herein and wherein such compounds act as mTor inhibitors. ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502544 | Recording and reproduction apparatus Scene change information is included in the header of an I picture, while the data is stored on a hard disk. For a skip search performed during the reproduction of moving picture data, a microcomputer reads the positioning information or the differential information... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502090 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a first substrate having a plurality of column spacers fixed thereto, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and having a plurality of projections at portions corresponding to the column spacers, the projections... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501556 | Nutritionally enhanced plants The present invention relates to the field of improving nutritional content and more particularly the isoflavone content in plants. The invention provides a process for increasing the content of the isoflavone daidzein in selected plants, novel plants produced by th... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501135 | Gastric acid secretion A method of reducing gastric acid secretion in animals including humans comprising administering an extract of a plant of the genus Hoodia or Trichocaulon to animals, generally mammals. ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7500404 | Mass flow meter Strain gauges A, B for a bending portion cross each other and are stuck to a strain gauge sticking portion 7 for a bending portion located in a portion applying centrifugal force or centripetal force of a fluid thereto in a bending portion 4 in a bendi... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499996 | Systems and methods for detecting a memory condition and providing an alert The invention detects a full browser cache using multiple requests for the same page from a known URL. A request to the URL returns a page with a randomly or pseudo-randomly generated number. A request and then a re-request is made for the same page. If the cache is... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499826 | Method of estimating mass for vehicle safety A method of estimating a mass of a vehicle. If a yaw rate is smaller than a reference value, a straight direction model algorithm is applied to obtain an estimated mass. If a measured speed and a measured steering angle are larger than reference values, a lateral di... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499014 | Driving circuit of liquid crystal display device for generating ramp signal and method for driving liquid crystal display for generating ramp signal A driving circuit of a liquid crystal display device including: a timing controller to output control signals and video data; a ramp signal generator to receive the ramp control signal output from the timing controller, and to generate and output a ramp signal by co... | 03/03/2009 |
