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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7944116 | Drive circuit A drive circuit for a high-frequency agitation source includes a signal generator generating a train of low voltage square-wave pulses at a drive frequency, a booster including a boost inductor generating a back EMF and configured to produce a high-voltage pulse tra... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944017 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same An n type impurity region is continuously formed on the bottom portion of a channel region below a source region, a gate region and a drain region. The n type impurity region has an impurity concentration higher than the channel region and a back gate region, and is... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944015 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same The invention provides a semiconductor device having high reliability and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device of the invention has pad electrodes formed on a semiconductor die near the side surface portion thereof and connected to a semicond... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943946 | Light emitting device A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element; and a substantially rectangular package body in which the light emitting element is contained and a concave portion is formed. The concave portion has a bottom surface on which the light emitting element is... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943843 | Reactive force control apparatus for pedal of electronic keyboard instrument Reactive force control apparatus for a pedal comprises: a movement detection section that detects movement of the pedal; a solenoid that produces a reactive force in response to operation of the pedal; a reference reactive force impartment table defining intensities... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943841 | High-hat type electronic pad A hi-hat type electronic pad capable of detecting, with reality, an up-and-down motion of a movable pad body that operates similarly to a top cymbal of an acoustic hi-hat, and capable of accurately detecting the operation by one of operation switches which is depres... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943573 | Methods for treatment of distraction osteogenesis using PDGF The present invention relates to compositions and methods for use in osteodistraction procedures. In one embodiment, a method of stimulating osteogenesis during and/or following bone distraction comprises providing a composition comprising a PDGF solution disposed i... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943385 | Methods for assaying percentage of glycated hemoglobin The invention provides enzymatic methods for direct determination of percentage of glycated hemoglobin in blood samples without the need of a separated measurement of total hemoglobin content in blood samples. The methods utilizes one or two different types of oxidi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943323 | Methods for differentiating and monitoring parathyroid and bone status related diseases The present invention relates to novel methods and devices for differentiating in a patient parathyroid diseases, such as hyperparathyroidism and related bone diseases, from normal or non-disease states. One detects whole or non-fragmented (1 to 84) parathyroid horm... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943230 | Easy tear biaxially stretched polyester based film An easy-to-tear biaxially-stretched polyester film having easy cut property and adhesiveness, as well as superior properties of polyester film, such as heat resistance, moisture-proof property, transparency, aroma retention and the like is provided. The polyester la... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943168 | Nanoparticle delivery systems comprising a hydrophobic core and a lipid/surfactant layer comprising a membrane-lytic peptide Compositions which comprise emulsions of nanoparticles for delivery of membrane-integrating peptides are described. The nanoparticles comprise a liquid hydrophobic core coated with a lipid/surfactant layer which contains the membrane-integrating peptides. Methods to... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942934 | Osteoinductive calcium phosphates The invention relates to a porous osteoinductive calcium phosphate material having an average grain size in a range of 0.1-1.50 μm, having a porosity consisting essentially only of micropores in a size range of 0.1-1.50 μm, and having a surface area percentage of ... | 05/17/2011 |
| D599901 | Ceiling fan blade iron | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583131 | Charge pump circuit In a charge pump circuit provided with a positive electric potential generating charge pump circuit that generates a positive electric potential and a negative electric potential generating charge pump circuit that generates a negative electric potential, a parasiti... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7582971 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same The invention is directed to a semiconductor device having a penetrating electrode and a manufacturing method thereof in which reliability and a yield of the semiconductor device are enhanced. A refractory metal layer is formed on a pad electrode formed on a semicon... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7582821 | Electronic musical instrument keyboard apparatus Key is pivotably supported by a key frame, and the front end of the key is normally urged upward by a pivot lever. Load member drivable by an actuator is provided rearwardly of a mass body of the pivot lever. Key switch and proximity sensor detect a pivoting positio... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7582448 | 84P2A9: a prostate and testis specific protein highly expressed in prostate cancer A novel gene (designated 84P2A9) and its encoded protein is described. While 84P2A9 exhibits prostate and testis specific expression in normal adult tissue, it is aberrantly expressed multiple cancers including prostate, testis, kidney, brain, bone, skin, ovarian, b... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7582311 | Injection vehicle for polymer-based formulations The invention provides injection vehicles suitable for administering particulate suspensions, such as polymer-based formulations, as well as associated pharmaceutical formulations, articles of manufacture, and kits. Other aspects of the invention included methods fo... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7581628 | Electromagnetic clutch An electromagnetic clutch 1 is disclosed having first and second relative rotary members 3, 5, an electromagnet 11 having a coil 7 and a yoke 9, a rotor 13 placed in close proximity to the electromagnet 11 and permeat... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7581551 | Cleaning apparatus The invention provides a cleaning apparatus which can remove an organic material for an organic EL element attaching to a mask made of a thin metal film. The cleaning apparatus of the invention includes first and second cleaning tanks cleaning a mask with a predeter... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7581285 | Surface treating appliance A surface treating appliance, such as a vacuum cleaner, includes a main body, a surface treating head and a support assembly. The support assembly is rollably mounted to the main body for allowing the main body to be rolled along a surface. The support assembly also... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7581284 | Surface treating appliance A surface treating appliance, such as a vacuum cleaner, includes a main body, a surface treating head and a support assembly. The support assembly is rollably mounted to the main body for allowing the main body to be rolled along a surface. The support assembly incl... | 09/01/2009 |
| D599514 | Tool for a domestic appliance | 09/01/2009 |
| D599513 | Tool for a domestic appliance | 09/01/2009 |
| D599493 | Ceiling fan light kit | 09/01/2009 |
| D599470 | Ceiling fan blade iron | 09/01/2009 |
| D599469 | Ceiling fan blade iron | 09/01/2009 |
| D599468 | Ceiling fan motor housing | 09/01/2009 |
| D599461 | Ceiling fan | 09/01/2009 |
| D599460 | Ceiling fan | 09/01/2009 |
| 7581102 | Certificate confirmation method, certificate confirmation program and certificate that can readily and more positively confirm authenticity of certificate A method of confirming a certificate by using a management computer that issues the certificate is disclosed. The management computer is coupled to an application terminal for applying for issuance of the certificate and to a confirmation terminal for reading a disp... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7581006 | Web service A system for serving web pages manages a plurality of web servers. The system provides an operator with features and tools to coordinate the operation of the multiple web servers. The system may manage traffic by directing web page requests to available web servers ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7580670 | Broadcast data receiver An object of the present invention is to provide a broadcast data receiver which is able to easily receive information about predetermined person. An address book 120 holds the personal identifying information for identifying person. The BML document extracti... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7580650 | Image forming device and image forming method including formation of a toner patch An image forming device including: an image carrier, being an endless belt, on which a toner image is to be formed; a resistance measuring unit operable to measure a distribution of electric resistances on a surface of the image carrier; a toner patch forming positi... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7579671 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof Disconnection and deterioration in step coverage of wirings are prevented to offer a semiconductor device having higher reliability. A pad electrode is formed on a surface of a silicon die. A via hole penetrating the silicon die is formed from a back surface of the ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7579629 | Light-emitting apparatus package, light-emitting apparatus, backlight apparatus, and display apparatus A light-emitting apparatus package of the present invention includes (i) an electrically insulated ceramic substrate, (ii) a first concave section formed in the direction of thickness of the ceramic substrate so as to form a light exit aperture in a surface of the c... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7579627 | Nitride semiconductor light-emitting device, method of fabricating it, and semiconductor optical apparatus A nitride semiconductor laser device has a nitride semiconductor substrate that includes a dislocation-concentrated region 102 and a wide low-dislocation region and that has the top surface thereof slanted at an angle in the range of 0.3° to 0.7° relative t... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7579555 | RF shielding cover for RF radiating applicator A disposable cover for electromagnetic treatment applicators prevents undesired exposure to potentially harmful radiation. The cover is a pouch-like structure having a back surface constructed from RF shielding material, such as metallized polyethylene, which back s... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7579545 | Apparatus and method for synthesizing a plurality of waveforms in synchronized manner A plurality of blocks of waveform data are stored in a memory, which also stores, for each of the blocks, synchronizing information representative of a plurality of cycle synchronizing points that are indicative of periodic specific phase positions where the block o... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7579148 | Methods and compositions for diagnosing or monitoring autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases Methods of diagnosing or monitoring an autoimmune or chronic inflammatory disease, particularly SLE in a patient by detecting the expression level of one or more genes or surrogates derived therefrom in the patient are described. Diagnostic oligonucleotides for diag... | 08/25/2009 |
