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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7942345 | Sprinkler with nutating mechanism and optional weight A rotary, nutating sprinkler head includes a housing supporting a nozzle tube extending in a downstream direction, concentric with a vertical center axis of the sprinkler head; a spool assembly loosely supported on the starter tube, the spool assembly including a do... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940833 | Transmitter with intelligent preconditioning of amplifier signal A transmitter (20) for a code division multiple access radio access network intelligently preconditions a channel-merged signal which is applied to its amplifier (22) so that the amplifier does not experience, e.g., precipitous power changes. The trans... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939275 | Methods for detection of chlamydia in samples This invention relates to assays for Chlamydia which include the step of inactivating lipid oxidation activity in a biological sample, such as a blood or serum sample. This inactivation improves the detection of Chlamydia antigens or anti-Chlamydia ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939077 | Humanized antibody against fibroblast growth factor-8 and antibody fragment thereof The present invention relates to an antibody against FGF-8, particularly a humanized antibody against FGF-8 and the antibody fragment thereof, a DNA sequence encoding the above antibody or the antibody fragment, a vector comprising the DNA sequence and a host cell t... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938721 | Game apparatus, game program, storage medium storing game program and game control method A game apparatus (10) includes an LCD (12) and an LCD (14), for example, and the LCD (14) is provided with a touch panel (22). On the LCD (12), a first game image is displayed, and on the LCD (14), a second game image... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938379 | Three axis adjustable mounting system A mount assembly for securing a machine base to a foundation including: a first block secured to the machine base; a second block secured to the foundation wherein the first and second blocks are configured for mating engagement that permits adjustment of the machin... | 05/10/2011 |
| D637595 | Combined printer and display | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934316 | Charging roller, process cartridge and image forming apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a charging roller (i) which includes a rubber member whose surface is subjected to a hardening treatment using a solvent containing at least an isocyanate compound and (ii) which can prevent leakage of an ionic conduc... | 05/03/2011 |
| D637168 | Television set | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933549 | Method and architecture for wireless communication networks using cooperative relaying The present invention relates to wireless networks using cooperative relaying which in a communication session involve more than one relay station. In the method according to the present invention, a transmitter 210′, a receiver 220′ and at least o... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932422 | Use of chlorine guanabenz derivatives for treating polyglutamine expansion associated diseases The invention relates to chlorine Guanabenz derivatives for treating Huntington's disease and other polyglutamine expansion associated diseases. More specifically, it relates to the use of the molecule of formula (I) wherein R═H or Cl and the phenyl group is at le... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931907 | Hepatitis B virus DNA polymerase and surface antigen variants and methods of using same The present invention relates generally to viral variants exhibiting reduced sensitivity to agents and in particular nucleoside analogues. More particularly, the present invention is directed to hepatitis B virus variants exhibiting complete or partial resistance to... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930225 | Synchronizing real-time and off-line accounts for communications Synchronization is provided between a real-time charging system (22) and an off-line billing system (24) of a communications network. The synchronization is facilitated by the real-time charging system (22) preparing a reporting record which inc... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927455 | Plasma processing apparatus A plasma processing apparatus including a sealable chamber that is sealable, a gas supply section that supplies a reactive material gas into the chamber, and a plurality of cathode and anode electrode pairs provided within the chamber, connected to an external power... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927216 | Video game system with wireless modular handheld controller A home entertainment system for video games and other applications includes a main unit and handheld controllers. The handheld controllers sense their own orientation by detecting illumination emitted by emitters positioned at either side of a display. The controlle... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925467 | Orientation calculation apparatus, storage medium having orientation calculation program stored therein, game apparatus, and storage medium having game program stored therein An orientation calculation apparatus obtains data from an input device comprising at least a gyro sensor, an acceleration sensor, and an image pickup device, so as to calculate an orientation of the input device. Firstly, the orientation calculation apparatus calcul... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924949 | Advanced multi-sensor processing Each receiving node (120) of a plurality of receiving nodes (120-1, 120-2 and 120-3) in a wireless network converts a superposition of signals received from a plurality of transmitting nodes (10) to produce soft compl... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924731 | Method and apparatus for handling out-of-sequence packets in header decompression Header compression repair techniques are accomplished, in various aspects, modes, embodiments, and implementations, by a remote terminal (40), by a header decompressor (46) for use at a remote terminal (40), and by methods of operating the remot... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922455 | Steam-cooled gas turbine bucker for reduced tip leakage loss A bucket for a steam turbine includes an airfoil portion having a radially outer tip, the radially outer tip having a thermal barrier coating applied thereto, and wherein the thermal barrier coating is resurfaced to form at least one ridge along the radially outer t... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921542 | Manufacturing method of a disk drive unit Certain example embodiments relate to a manufacturing method for a disk drive unit. At least one head gimbal assembly having first terminal pads is provided. A controlling circuit for controlling the at least one head gimbal assembly is provided, with the controllin... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920346 | Method for testing performance of a magnetic head slider A method for testing performance of a magnetic head slider includes the steps of: (1) rotating the disk and positioning the slider over the rotating disk at an initial fly-height; (2) exciting the fly-height actuator to make the slider touch the disk and recording a... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918433 | Transition piece mounting bracket and related method A mounting bracket assembly includes: a first bracket component having a first pair of laterally spaced securement tabs; a second bracket component having a second pair of laterally spaced securement tabs; wherein said first and second bracket components are engagea... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918416 | Ducted fan vehicles particularly useful as VTOL aircraft A vehicle, including a vehicle frame, a duct carried by the vehicle frame with the longitudinal axis of the duct perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle frame, a propeller rotatably mounted within the duct about the longitudinal axis of the duct to for... | 04/05/2011 |
| D635391 | Cooking oven | 04/05/2011 |
| 7911804 | Circuit board and method of manufacturing same The present invention provides a circuit board and a method for manufacturing the circuit board, the circuit board and method allowing a further shorter connection distance between electrodes of a semiconductor device, and also allowing a sufficient thickness of a s... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7909288 | Crashworthiness structure and method What is described is a locally yielding structure (1) with high energy absorption for aeronautical applications, the said structure being substantially closed and substantially rigid, characterized in that at least one wall (3) of the said substantiall... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908209 | Means and a method relating to optimization of network operation and planning The present invention relates to a means and a method for operator support in a network comprising a number of domains and pieces of equipment and wherein agreements (SLAs) are established between the network operator and customers. It comprises means for selecting ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907241 | Liquid crystal display device To provide a liquid crystal display device capable of improving display characteristics. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a structure in which the first substrate including a reflective layer, a ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904093 | Method and apparatus for allocating a pilot signal adapted to the channel characteristics A set of different pilot structures are designed for use in different environments and/or different user behaviours that are expected to occur in a cell. The radio conditions for a user are estimated. Each user is then assigned an area (108A-E) in resource sp... | 03/08/2011 |
| D634056 | Ceiling light | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899484 | Power control method Methods for downlink power control in wireless communication systems are provided. In response to a transmitter power change request from a mobile terminal (110) over a wireless connection, a base station (122) determines a power control parameter base... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899342 | Image forming apparatus When forming an image, if there are not enough sheets remaining in a paper feed cassette to satisfy the image forming request, the image forming operation is not executed, and along with prompting the user to refill the paper, the paper feed cassette is pushed out t... | 03/01/2011 |
| D633527 | Digital video disk player | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895343 | Method and apparatus relating to retransmission of data between different protocol layers The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for improving the procedures for error detection and recovery in data communication systems and thereby facilitating a better use of data transmission resources. According to the invention, different protocols ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7892604 | Heat treatable coated article with diamond-like carbon (DLC) and/or zirconium in coating In certain example embodiments, a coated article includes respective layers including diamond-like carbon (DLC) and zirconium nitride before heat treatment (HT). During HT, the hydrogenated DLC acts as a fuel which upon combustion with oxygen produces carbon dioxide... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890029 | Image forming apparatus There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of realizing improvement of an image density by improving dot reproducibility and reducing fog at the same time. An alternating voltage is applied to a development sleeve so that a first period during which a firs... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889365 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section; a manual setting mode for enabling a user to provide instruction of timing for executing a process control of the image forming section; a cumulative operation information management section for calculat... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889289 | Liquid crystal display device having particular prism sheet In a liquid crystal display device having a light diffuser, a desired luminance distribution is realized and displaying with a high contrast ratio across a broad angle range is performed. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885561 | Electric charging device, image forming apparatus, electric charging method, and manufacturing method of electric charging device A needle electrode having a pointed section is provided so as to face a charge-target object, and a voltage to be applied to the needle electrode is set so that 2≦(E2·S2)/(E1·S1)≦5 is satisfied, where an ionization area A1 in... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7884802 | Information selecting apparatus and storage medium storing information selecting program An information selecting apparatus includes a computer, and makes a user select an arbitrary item from a plurality of items by a direction input of the user. Each of the items is assigned to a direction based on an input frequency, for example. In a case that a dire... | 02/08/2011 |
