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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184323 | Print job delivery system An image delivery system includes an image delivery server, a plurality of image processors, and an information processor, which are connected by a network. The image delivery server delivers a print job to the image processor. The image delivery server includes a d... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180772 | Electronic data retrieving apparatus An electronic data retrieving apparatus is provided that increases the retrieval accuracy without deteriorating the retrieval efficiency by reflecting differences between the numbers of word appearances due to genres of electronic data in the setting of the retrieva... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8168159 | Compounds for tumor diagnosis and therapy The present invention discloses a method for the enzyme-mediated, site-specific, in-vivo precipitation of a water soluble molecule in an animal. The enzyme is either unique to tumor cells, or is produced within a specific site (e.g., tumor) at concentrations that ar... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8129636 | Weighing apparatus comprising a product transport surface comprising grooves A weighing apparatus is described having a product transport surface (24) for transporting products thereon in a transporting direction (26). The product transport surface (24) has a plurality of grooves (28) which extend substantially pa... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129316 | Method of creating a carbon dioxide hydrate A method of creating a carbon dioxide hydrate is disclosed. The preferred steps include supplying liquid carbon dioxide and a dissociation agent to a hydrocarbon hydrate, decomposing the hydrocarbon hydrate by the dissociation agent into a hydrocarbon gas and liquid... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127230 | Display control device, image forming apparatus, method for controlling display device, and storage medium A display control device controls an image display device capable of displaying a preview of an output image that is to be subjected to an output process, before the output image is subjected to the output process. The display control device refers to a storage sect... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124192 | Layer application device for an electrostatic layer application of a building material in powder form and device and method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object A device and a method for applying powder onto an application surface has a powder container (35) and a voltage source (32) for applying a voltage between the powder container and the application surface, wherein the powder container (35) at lea... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116984 | Software integrated cytometric assay for quantification of the human polymorphonuclear leukocyte FcγRI receptor (CD64) The invention relates a method of quantifying CD64 and CD163 expression in leukocytes and, specifically to a kit for use with a flow cytometer including a suspension of quantitative fluorescent microbead standards, fluorescent labeled antibodies directed to CD64 and... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8072538 | Solid-state image pickup device including lens unit held by holding section included in same lens unit, and electronic apparatus including same solid-state image pickup device A camera module 100 of the present invention is arranged such that a lens barrel 32 is provided with an internal screw thread 32a on its internal side, and that a holding section 41, which is a portion of a lens holder 4, th... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8067298 | Relaxation of a strained material layer with application of a stiffener The invention relates to methods of fabricating a layer of at least partially relaxed material, such as for electronics, optoelectronics or photovoltaics. An exemplary method includes supplying a structure that includes a layer of strained material situated between ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064297 | Electromagnetic field generating element, information recording and reproduction head, and information recording and reproduction device An electromagnetic field generating element includes a conductor that generates near-field light when irradiated with light and generates a magnetic field when a current flows through the conductor. The electromagnetic field generating element further includes a sof... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8036073 | Storage medium managing device, storage medium managing program, and computer-readable medium A storage medium managing device is provided which can employ a set of management information containing suitable information from a plural sets of management information contained in the storage medium. An optical disc apparatus (1) manages an optical disc (... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8014335 | Wireless network system, relay terminal and program A wireless network system relays a broadcast signal in multiple stages and distributes data to terminals there around, and relay terminals determine whether to relay broadcast packets according to the direction vector and the position information, specified by the i... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7984025 | Method for reencryption of a database The present invention relates to a method for encryption of the content in a database, for accomplishing increased protection against unauthorised access to the data. The method assures that every row and item is re-encrypted with a valid key. More specifically this... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7963888 | Sports device Sports equipment or a sports device is described. It has an elongated body equipped with two handles, which are configured to accommodate hands and/or feet. The elongated body can be elastically flexed in a longitudinal direction. In a preferred embodiment of the sp... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7931876 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing developer, and developer The invention provides a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a developer, which can manufacture a developer having a uniform and fine particle shape in a narrow particle size distribution and having a coloring agent highly dispersed therein at the primary part... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7901604 | Process for producing a three-dimensional object A process is provided for producing a three-dimensional object having the steps forming the object (3) in a container (1, 200) arranged within a process chamber (100) on a carrier (4) which can be displaced in the container by sequential ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7889309 | Manufacturing method of liquid crystal display panel and manufacturing apparatus of liquid crystal display panel A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display panel includes: a sealant arranging step of arranging a sealant on a main surface of one of or each of two substrates to be bonded to each other; a liquid crystal dropping step of dropping liquid crystal on one of t... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7833614 | Biaxially stretched polyester film The present invention relates to a biaxially stretched polyester film comprising a polyester layer A which comprises polybutylene terephthalate and at least one of a copolyester and an amorphous polyester, said biaxially stretched polyester film satisfying any one o... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7733534 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and recording medium In an image processing apparatus that performs a dither processing using a dither matrix based on the result of determination of the segmentation class to which the pixel to be processed belongs, to perform the dither processing, any of a plurality of pairs of thres... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7660003 | Image processing method, image processing system, and image forming apparatus An image processing system according to the invention comprises a valuable information processing apparatus which manages valuable information equivalent to money, and an image forming apparatus which is connected to the valuable information processing apparatus and... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7611849 | Enhanced cellular assay method for use in flow cytometry or similar instruments using optically resonant particles This invention relates to the field of biological assays where cells can be classified and enumerated using flow cytometry optical instrumentation. The invention combines information from multi-angle, light scatter from the cell itself and multi-angle light scatter ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7594266 | Data security and intrusion detection Systems and methods are provided for the detection and prevention of intrusions in data at rest systems such as file systems and web servers. Item requests are examined to determine if the request and/or the result violates an item access rule. If either the request... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7582261 | Electricity supplying device, electricity supplying apparatus, sample detection device, and sample detection apparatus A sample detection device includes a disk substrate which allows a light beam to be transmitted, and the substrate has flow paths each of which allows polymers to be injected therein, wherein the substrate further includes a guiding groove, provided in a perpendicul... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7553478 | Methods for diagnosing and monitoring treatment ADHD by assessing the dopamine transporter level A method of diagnosing attention deficient-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a human patient by assessing the level of dopamine transporter in at least one region of the patient's central nervous system, where an elevated level of dopamine transporter in the patient ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7542101 | Dioptric element array substrate, image display device and image display apparatus A dioptric element array substrate 10 includes: a first dioptric element array 2 having a plurality of first dioptric elements 2a arranged two-dimensionally; a second dioptric element array 4 having a plurality of second dioptric e... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7514067 | Methods for tumor diagnosis and therapy The present invention discloses a method for the enzyme-mediated, site-specific, in-vivo precipitation of a water soluble molecule in an animal. The enzyme is either unique to tumor cells, or is produced within a specific site (e.g., tumor) at concentrations that ar... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7502060 | Solid-state imaging device providing wide dynamic range and high low-illuminance sensitivity There is provided a solid-state imaging device capable of achieving both of a wide dynamic range and a high low-illuminance sensitivity. A photodiode and a first transistor are provided in series between the ground and a drain of each of pixels, and a signal corresp... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501286 | Absolute quantification of proteins and modified forms thereof by multistage mass spectrometry The invention provides reagents, kits and methods for detecting and/or quantifying proteins in complex mixtures, such as a cell lysate. The methods can be used in high throughput assays to profile cellular proteomes. In one aspect, the invention provides a peptide i... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501156 | Pattern formation substrate and method for pattern formation A pattern formation substrate comprising a substrate having thereon a hydrophobic region exhibiting repellency to liquid drops and a hydrophilic line exhibiting affinity with liquid drops. The hydrophilic line has such a surface treatment that upon landing of a liqu... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7494637 | Thermal conversion of biomass to valuable fuels, chemical feedstocks and chemicals A continuous process for the conversion of biomass to form a chemical feedstock is described. The biomass and an exogenous metal oxide, preferably calcium oxide, or metal oxide precursor are continuously fed into a reaction chamber that is operated at a temperature ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7490248 | Method for reencryption of a database A method for encryption of the content in a database, the method including the steps of detecting that a predetermined time period has elapsed, generating an unexpired encryption key, associating the unexpired encryption key with expiration information, scanning the... | 02/10/2009 |
| D583838 | Grinding chamber side liner | 12/30/2008 |
| 7453130 | Semiconductor apparatus and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor apparatus comprises: a light input/output portion provided in an upper portion of a semiconductor substrate, the light input/output portion having an opening region for light associated to the light input/output portion to pass through; a transparent... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7439264 | Therapeutic compounds This invention to antagonists that inhibit transporters and receptors. The invention also relates to partial inhibitors of transporters and receptors that allow partial transport or partial binding of a compound to the transporter or receptor. The invention also rel... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438846 | Apparatus and method for the non-destructive separation of hardened material layers from a flat construction plane An apparatus and a method for the separation of a material layer (4) hardened on a flat plane (2) serving as a reference by means of a flexible, elastic separating layer (1) arranged between plane and material layer and designed in the form of a... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439554 | Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor device comprises a photoelectric conversion portion formed on a semiconductor substrate, a first transparent film provided on the photoelectric conversion portion, and an interlayer lens provided on the first transparent film at a position correspond... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7426591 | Information communication device and condition setting method A multifunctional device extracts identification information items from received device-cloning file data items and determines whether a data restoration process is a backup process or a cloning process based on whether or not a serial number in the identification i... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424726 | Mounting mechanism for mounting a cartridge or an optical disc to the tray of an optical disc device An optical disc device is provided with a tray for mounting a disc or a cartridge thereon, a chassis that is laid out under the tray, and a top plate that is laid out above the tray. The optical disc device comprises two types of holding mechanisms that form either ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419632 | Method and device for the production of a three-dimensional object by means of sintering A process and a device for producing a three-dimensional object is provided, with which process or device the object is produced by layer-wise solidification of a pulverulent material by sintering of the material at the points corresponding to the cross-section of t... | 09/02/2008 |
