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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8094087 | Portable navigational antenna system A portable navigation apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a multi-antenna assembly configured for including an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration. The antenna assembly includes a master antenna, and at least two auxiliary antennas. The at... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8043810 | Analyte detection using autocatalytic chain reactions Compositions and methods for detecting the presence of analytes employing autocatalytic chain reactions (ACR) having super linear kinetics for amplification of signal are disclosed. ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043611 | Regulated nucleic acid expression system The present invention provides nucleic acid constructs, expression systems, and methods relating to the regulation of gene expression. The invention may be applied to regulate the expression of any coding sequence of interest, including those coding for viral compon... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035215 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same The invention is directed to prevent corrosion of a semiconductor device. In the semiconductor device manufacturing method of the invention, a semiconductor substrate is etched from its back surface in a position corresponding to a first wiring formed on the semicon... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028959 | Automatic recycling ice detector An automatic recycling ice detector includes a sensor for sensing the formation of ice on an aircraft surface and a heater for melting the detected ice. The detector also includes a timing circuit for indicating the time to melt any detected ice and automatically re... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7531370 | Light-emitting diode and its manufacturing method It is an object of the present invention to provides the light emitting diode having a light emitting part of an AlGaInP type, and having a current diffusion layer which includes In on a light emitting side of the light emitting part, so that the generation of hillo... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7527969 | RAAG10 cell surface target and a family of antibodies recognizing that target The invention provides the identification and characterization of disease and cancer-associated antigen, RAAG10. The invention also provides a family of monoclonal antibodies that bind to antigen RAAG10, methods of diagnosing and treating various human cancers and d... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527629 | Instrument set for fitting an intervertebral joint prosthesis Instrument set for fitting an intervertebral prosthesis, comprising a guide device (4) for an instrument or a prosthesis part, which guide device (4) is to be secured on at least one vertebral body (2). To be able to attach the guide device (... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526834 | Vacuum cleaning head A vacuum cleaning head includes a housing having an agitator in the form of a brush bar rotatably arranged in a chamber having an air inlet and an air outlet and also includes an air turbine for driving the brush bar is provided. The air turbine has its own air inle... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7422633 | Method of forming gallium-containing nitride bulk single crystal on heterogeneous substrate The present invention provides a process for forming a bulk monocrystalline gallium-containing nitride, i.e. GaN etc., on the surface of heterogeneous substrate, i.e. SiC etc., comprising the steps of forming a supercritical ammonia solvent containing ion or ions of... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7331992 | Anchoring device for an endoluminal prosthesis An anchoring device for incorporation into an endoluminal prosthesis to prevent migration thereof in a reliable way without the problems associated with intraluminal delivery of the prosthesis. The anchoring device allows smooth, efficient delivery of the prosthesis... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7301175 | Light emitting apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A light emitting apparatus comprising a light emitting device (101) disposed on a supporting body (105), and coating layers ((108, 109) that bind a fluorescent substance that absorbs light emitted by the light emitting device (101) and em... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7291486 | Genetically modified cells and methods for converting (R)-methylmalonyl CoA to (S)-methylmalonyl CoA Recombinant Escherichia coli host cells that comprise recombinant DNA expression vectors that drive expression of methylmalonyl CoA mutase from Propionibacterium shermanii or Streptomyces cinnamonensis as well as Propionibacterium shermanii | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291190 | Cyclonic separating apparatus A cyclonic separating apparatus includes at least one cyclone having a first end, a second end a longitudinal axis. An inlet is located at the first end for introducing a fluid flow into the cyclone, and a cone opening is located at the second end. At least part of ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283267 | Data processing device, data processing method, and data processing program for recognizing characters in a URL The digital copying machine (11) obtains an image data by reading a document, applies a character recognition process on its URL, and transmits an HTML file transfer request to the Web server (20) corresponding to said URL. If it receives an HTML file ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7282740 | Semiconductor light emitting device A light emitting element is die-bonded to a portion of a lead frame exposed at the bottom of an opening formed at a top face of a resin package. A reflector to direct light emitted from the light emitting element towards a predetermined direction is attached to the ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7282742 | Organic semiconductor material and organic semiconductor element employing the same including carbon nanotubes The present invention relates to an organic semiconductor material in which carbon nanotubes are dispersed in a conjugated polymer, and the weight fraction of the carbon nanotubes is 3 percent or less relative to the conjugated polymer. According to the present inve... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7241731 | Oligopeptides for promoting hair growth The present invention provides oligopeptides having morphogenesis promoting activity and in particular, hair promoting activity. The oligopeptides may be in monomer form, monomer having a reactive substance bound form or as a polymer, such as a dimer including a hom... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240680 | Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus includes a rotor 45 for rotating a plurality of wafers W paralleled each other at appropriate intervals. While rotating the wafers W by the rotor 45, a chemical liquid is supplied to the wafers W for their processing. T... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7206272 | Method for recording asynchronously produced digital data codes, recording unit used for the method, method for reproducing the digital data codes, playback unit used for the method and information storage medium A recording and reproducing system is broken down into a recording unit for producing a digital audio data signal from MIDI music data words asynchronously produced at irregular intervals and a playback unit for reproducing the MIDI music data codes from the digital... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7186825 | Conformationally restricted polyamine analogs as disease therapies Novel conformationally restricted polyamine analogs are provided, as well as compositions comprising these novel polyamine analogs. Methods of using the novel polyamine analogs in treatment of diseases such as cancer are also provided. Also provided is a method of d... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7067347 | Method of manufacturing optical semiconductor integrated circuit device In an existing optical semiconductor integrated circuit device, a silicon nitride film that is an anti-reflection film is used as an etching stopper film at the etching of an insulating film and by means of wet etching the insulating film is removed once for all. Ac... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063685 | Hemostasis valve for a catheter A hemostasis valve that is closed when not accessed, but which provides an unobstructed fluid pathway when accessed by a luer fitting/connector. An auto-closure valve within the hemostasis valve housing is flush with a top surface thereof, allowing easy cleaning (sw... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062278 | Method and arrangement for allocation of resources in a radio communication system A method and arrangement for fair control of resources amongst users with different instantaneous throughputs in a radio communication system such as a UMTS system. Respective indications of users among whom resources are to be allocated are placed in a ‘round rob... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7060902 | Bushing The invention relates to a bushing (1) for supporting electric conductors. Said bushing contains a flange section (2), a corrugated section (3), which projects above the flange section in the longitudinal direction of the electric conductor, in ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7051145 | Tracking deferred data transfers on a system-interconnect bus Systems and techniques to track deferred data transfers on a system-interconnect bus. A deferral response initiates storage of information corresponding to the response and tracking of progress for a requested data transfer. A master device, such as a bus adapter, m... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7014692 | Scrubber A scrubber for eliminating NO from air flowing through the scrubber, comprising a housing (1) having at least one inlet hole (2) and an outlet hole (4) and which is comprising filtering material (6). A second outlet hole (9) is pro... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010319 | Open-loop power control enhancement for blind rescue channel operation A method and apparatus for determining an efficient and reliable power level for the MS's transmitter for reverse link communications during a rescue procedure to rescue dropped calls quickly and with a high success rate is disclosed. A mobile station's mean rescue ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7007976 | Seatbelt lock casing with an integrated force-sensing device Seatbelt lock casing with an integrated force-sensing device for measuring a belt tensile force acting on a seatbelt lock, containing a moving anchor that protrudes through an opening formed in a front wall of the casing and has a stop that restricts the movement of... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7002068 | Method for making electronic tones close to acoustic tones, recording system for the acoustic tones, tone generating system for the electronic tones A grand piano generates acoustic tones through vibrations of strings and sound board so that the acoustic tones are converted to analog audio signals at recording points over the sound board, and a group of waveform data sets are produced from the analog audio signa... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6997294 | Electromagnetic clutch device An electromagnetic clutch 1 is disclosed having a magnetic flux loop 31 formed, in magnetic flux loop forming members 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 involving an electromagnet 5 and an armature 13, by the electromagnet 5 to allow the armat... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995308 | Electric keyboard assembly and method of manufacturing weight members provided in keyboard assembly There is provided an electric keyboard assembly having a construction which is capable of reducing a height of a keyboard and at the same time facilitating key scaling to key-touch response while maintaining the degree of freedom in designing the keyboard. A key is ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996391 | Forward-link rescue synchronization method and apparatus A method and apparatus are disclosed for efficiently synchronizing the transmission and reception of the rescue channel from the network and to the failing MS, respectively, to communicate the rescue channel to the failing MS and rescue the connection. The cycling t... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6992242 | Keyboard musical instrument equipped with automatic top board spacer A keyboard musical instrument such as a grand piano has a front top board and a rear top board with which an upper opening of a piano case is closed, and the rear top board is confronted with the front top board at the closing position; an automatic board spacer is ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6990988 | Substrate processing method and substrate processing system A liquid processing system of the present invention controls a temperature of a processing liquid being in a stand-by circulation line by control means for controlling the heaters to heat the processing liquid stored in the tank, while controlling the opening/closin... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6992241 | Automatic player musical instrument for exactly reproducing performance and automatic player incorporated therein An automatic player piano has a feedback control loop for each of the black/white keys; the controller firstly determines a reference trajectory, i.e., a target key position varied with time for each key to be moved in the play-back, and calculates a target key velo... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6959799 | Actuator and intermissive power transmission device therewith An actuator for engagement and disengagement operation of a power transmission device is provided with a first plate being fixed, a second plate being movable in a direction of the engagement and disengagement operation so as to be engaged with the first plate, a th... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6959383 | Method and device for incorporating additional information into main information through electronic watermaking technique Two data units are selected from main information, such as MIDI data, into which additional information is to be incorporated, to calculate a difference between respective values of the two data units. A particular data segment to be incorporated into one of the MID... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6950602 | Digital data reproducing and recording apparatus creating latent deterioration In a digital data processing apparatus, a storage section stores data representative of digital contents of audio or video. A reproduction section processes the data to reproduce the digital contents. A reading section reads out the data from the storage section and... | 09/27/2005 |
