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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185439 | Patronage incentive saving system and method for retail businesses A method of doing business in a retail environment employs a patronage incentive system incorporating a rounding up saving software program which provides a customer making a purchase at a point-of-sale terminal of participating retailers with an option to round up ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185358 | Apparatus for measuring distortion power quality index and method of operating the apparatus A method of measuring a power quality index. A total current waveform of an ingress from a customer, and a current waveform and a voltage waveform of each of at least one load installed at the customer are measured. A load composition (LC) of the customer using the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185089 | Communication system, storage medium having communication program stored thereon, and communication terminal A WEP key is generated from predetermined binary data and stored in an access point. The binary data is converted into an SSID using a predetermined conversion algorithm. The access point transmits the SSID in a beacon. A mobile game apparatus receives the SSID and ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184508 | Intelligent digital audiovisual reproduction system Payment-based audiovisual playback system characterized by comprising a microprocessor unit, primarily including storage means for storing inter alia in digital form the visual and sound information to be used, and associated, through a number of interfaces, with di... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183423 | Pyrolysis process for waste and old rubber This invention is about a cracking technology of waste rubber, and the content of this technology is as following: the rubber mass with the catalyst were added in the cracking chamber and the cracking process of the raw material is finished. The main contents and we... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182936 | Temperature control device for on-board battery pack A temperature control device has a heat exchanger recovering heat from exhaust gas of an engine, a water circulating passage in which a cooling water is circulated while receiving the recovered heat, an air conditioning unit heating air with the hot cooling water of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182449 | Kit for parenteral administration of medicaments The invention relates to a kit for parenteral administration of drugs, particularly a kit for the infusion of those medicaments dissolved in solvents that extract toxic components from PVC, which is also suitable for the infusion of highly active medicaments, said k... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181238 | Systems and/or methods for streaming reverse HTTP gateway, and network including the same In certain example embodiments of this invention, there is provided systems and/or methods for a streaming reverse HTTP gateway, and/or networks including the same. In such a network, a reverse HTTP gateway is located within a demilitarized zone (DMZ) disposed betwe... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180768 | Method for extracting, merging and ranking search engine results A method and a computer program product for identifying the domains, selecting for each domain one domain-specific search engine and data source to be involved, generating the domain-specific subqueries for each selected search engine, defining a strategy for sendin... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179013 | Stator for dynamoelectric machine and method of manufacturing same A stator for a dynamoelectric machine includes a stator core and a stator coil. The stator coil is made up of wave-shaped electric wires mounted on the stator core. Each of the electric wires has in-slot portions, each of which is received in one of slots of the sta... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178173 | Liquid crystal display panel A TBA-liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal medium with positive dielectric anisotropy, wherein the liquid crystal medium includes, in 100% by weight of the liquid crystal compounds identified by the compounds recited in formulas I through IX below... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177886 | Use of oxygen concentrators for separating Nfrom blast furnace gas A method of continuously removing nitrogen from a blast furnace exhaust stream containing oxygen, nitrogen and unburned hydrocarbons in order to form a supplemental feed to a gas turbine engine containing residual hydrocarbon fuel by first removing entrained solid p... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176741 | Local air conditioning system for vehicle and method of controlling local air conditioning unit A local air conditioning system for a vehicle includes a local air conditioning unit for performing one of a cooling operation and a heating operation for a predetermined portion of a seat of the vehicle. In the local air conditioning system, information regarding a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176092 | Consistency enforcement system for XML objects stored in an SOA-registry A consistency enforcement system includes an XML object of an SOA-registry. The XML object includes a plurality of processing task XML elements that define a processing task to be performed the SOA. An updated XML object is received through an interface. The updated... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175132 | Laser device and lasing method A laser device which causes lasing with a use of a semiconductor quantum dot is provided with: a laser member (11) in which the semiconductor quantum dot is formed; a resonator (14) for resonating light generated in the laser member (11); and a ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173933 | Method and apparatus for forming hole In a method of forming a hole on a work piece, a laser beam is directed from a laser head to a predetermined portion of the work piece to form a pilot hole having a first surface condition, and then the predetermined portion of the work piece is punched using a die ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171913 | Intake system for internal combustion engine An intake system for an engine includes a duct defining an intake passage therein, and a cantilevered valve including a valve main body opening/closing the intake passage, a shaft supporting the body, and a valve extension portion. The duct includes a reduced passag... | 05/08/2012 |
| D659166 | Rotation pump | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171492 | Systems and/or methods for end-to-end business process management, business event management, and/or business activity monitoring The example embodiments disclosed herein relate to application integration techniques built around the publish-and-subscribe model (or one of its variants). In certain example embodiments, application integration techniques for managing and/or monitoring a business ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170779 | Abnormality diagnosis device for exhaust heat recovery equipment An abnormality diagnosis device is for an exhaust heat recovery equipment including an exhaust heat absorption part absorbing exhaust heat from an engine, a heat release part releasing at least part of the heat absorbed by the absorption part to engine coolant, a ci... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170369 | Correlation between sets of data The present invention relates to a method to perform an accurate correlation between a first set of data (1), collected from a first source (A1), and a second set of data (2), collected from a second source (A2), in the presence of noise ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169948 | Code synchronization circuit, delay time measurement device, control method, control program, and computer-readable storage medium A code synchronization circuit for a delay time measurement device used in a low C/N environment is provided. The code synchronization circuit is capable of high precision timing phase measurement and stable operation against variations in the reception level. For t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168054 | Gas sensing element with increased response A gas sensing element is disclosed as having a measuring gas chamber to which measuring gases are admitted, a diffusion resistance portion for introducing measuring gases to the measuring gas chamber under diffusion resistance, a sensor cell for detecting a specifie... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168053 | Gas sensing member used for gas sensor and method of manufacturing the member A gas sensing member has a unit structure and a porous protective layer disposed on the unit structure. The unit structure has a solid electrolyte body, a gas measurement electrode disposed on a surface of the body and exposed to a measured gas entering at a gas inl... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167884 | System and methods for improved access to vertebral bodies for kyphoplasty, vertebroplasty, vertebral body biopsy or screw placement A method for providing access to the interior of a pedicle for a desired transpedicular procedure including the step of positioning a cannula through a drilled opening in the posterior cortex of the pedicle, the cannula having an inner section positioned in the open... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166937 | Valve timing control apparatus A vane rotor includes a vane to partition an advance chamber from a retard chamber. A valve element communicates a lock port with an exhaust port to drain a fluid from the lock port when moving in a first region including an end of a movable range in the first direc... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166936 | Valve timing adjusting apparatus A valve timing adjusting apparatus includes a housing, a vane rotor, and a spiral spring. The spiral spring has a most radially inward part engaged with a rotational shaft of the vane rotor in a state, where the most radially inward part is wound around the rotation... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166628 | Method of manufacturing coil for stators mounted in rotary electric machines In manufacturing a stator coil for rotary electric machine having phase windings, plural conductive shaped wire members are integrated mutually to form an integrated body. Each shaped wire member has plural straight portions and plural turn portions alternately conn... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166299 | Secure messaging A messaging method and system sends secure emails (14) by the email originator (10) removing the portion of the email (14) which is confidential (24) from the body of the email (14). The removed portion (24) is sent to a sec... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166142 | Inter-domain congestion charging A method and system to allow congestion charging signals to be generated and congestion charges to be applied on an inter-domain basis, on an aggregated basis and not on a per flow basis. Each network domain charges its neighboring domain for any ECN marks that it f... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165733 | Stall, buffeting, low speed and high attitude protection system A flight control system moves elevators according to a pilot command summed with an automatic command. The flight control system monitors a set of flight parameters to determine if the flight vehicle is operating inside a permitted envelope. The flight controls syst... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165565 | Method and system for recursive authentication in a mobile network Under a system referred to as GAA in the 3G protocol, authentication of devices in a network that is usually performed by a home subscriber server can be transferred to a third party element known as a bootstrapping server function. However, the use of a bootstrappi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165318 | Process for adjusting the sound volume of a digital sound recording The present invention relates to a process for adjusting the sound volume of a digital sound recording characterized in that it comprises: a step consisting of determining, in absolute values, for a recording, the maximum amplitude... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164540 | Antenna device An improved antenna device is has an external length compensation device, permitting a differing length expansion of the housing/radome relative to at least one of the at least two external mounting devices for fixing the antenna device. At least one of the two moun... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164311 | Control device for electric rotating machine A control device has a unit for selecting each of states of an inverter applying a voltage to a generator, a unit for predicting a first current of the generator, flowing at a second time elapsed by one control period from a first time, from a detected current and t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164310 | Battery temperature regulator incorporating casing or terminal temperature sensor A temperature regulator is provided for a battery which includes an electrode body, a terminal electrically connected to the electrode body, and a casing that receives the electrode body and supports the terminal with an end portion of the terminal protruding outsid... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161954 | Fuel supply control apparatus A fuel supply control apparatus for an engine includes an alcohol concentration detector and an engine temperature detector. The apparatus increases an amount of fuel supplied to the engine as the detected alcohol concentration becomes higher. The apparatus increase... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160298 | Display device A display device includes a display panel and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control a display condition of the display panel by successively switching a plurality of frames, thereby to display a pointer image indicating a pointer and a path image... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159790 | Method and apparatus for the prevention of electrostatic discharge (ESD) by a hard drive magnetic head involving the utilization of anisotropic conductive paste (ACP) in the securement to a head-gimbal assembly (HGA) A system and method for the prevention of electrostatic discharge (ESD) by a hard drive magnetic head is disclosed. The magnetic head is secured to a head-gimbal assembly (HGA) by anisotropic conductive paste (ACP) to provide an improved electrostatic discharge path... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159786 | Suspension with locally strengthened integrated trace connections A head gimbal assembly may comprise a slider, a micro-actuator attached to the slider, a flexure to mount the slider and the micro-actuator, and a suspension comprising a support region, a main portion, and a moving portion, wherein the flexure comprises a plurality... | 04/17/2012 |
