Quotables
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore ; The basis for the later misquote by US Republicans that Gore had "invented" the Internet. Gore was the leading political champion of the modern-day Internet.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7538041 | Magnetic recording medium, method of manufacturing the same, and intermediate for magnetic recording medium A magnetic recording medium is provided in which a magnetic recording layer 5 is provided in a predetermined concavo-convex pattern on a substrate 1A, a concave portion in a concavo-convex pattern is filled with a non-magnetic material, and a non-magne... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537987 | Semiconductor device manufacturing method In a semiconductor device manufacturing method of the invention, a metal film, for forming a gate electrode, is formed on a gate insulating film. Subsequently, when the metal film is processed, part of the metal film is removed by a wet etching process using a given... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537872 | Image bearing member with charge blocking layer and moire prevention layer, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge using the same An image bearing member including an electroconductive substrate, a charge blocking layer disposed overlying the electroconductive substrate, a moire prevention layer disposed overlying the charge blocking layer, and a photosensitive layer disposed overlying the moi... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537835 | High friction sliding member Under wet sliding conditions using drivetrain system lubricating oils, a high frictional sliding member exhibiting a high friction coefficient, a favorable μ−v characteristic stably, excellent wear resistance, and low mating-member aggressiveness is provided. The... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537812 | Aligning agent for liquid crystal and liquid-crystal alignment film obtained with the same To provide a liquid crystal aligning agent which gives a coating film with good uniformity regardless of drying temperature after coating, and a liquid crystal alignment film having good coating film uniformity. A liquid crystal aligning agent comprising at l... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537703 | High-endurance packing material for liquid chromatography The present invention provides a highly durable packing material for liquid chromatography that is excellent in acidic resistance and alkalic resistance. Such a packing material for liquid chromatography can be obtained by chemically modifying silica gel with a bifu... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537660 | Crystallization apparatus, optical member for use in crystallization apparatus, crystallization method, manufacturing method of thin film transistor, and manufacturing method of matrix circuit substrate of display A crystallization method includes wavefront-dividing an incident light beam into a plurality of light beams, condensing the wavefront-divided light beams in a corresponding phase shift portion of a phase shift mask or in the vicinity of the phase shift portion to fo... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537544 | Control device for vehicle A cruise control device executes a program including the steps of: when shift information transmitted from an ECT-ECU changes from fifth gear to fourth gear, and the time T (1) from a change in the shift information has elapsed, determining that down shifting... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537371 | Backlight device and liquid crystal display device The backlight device includes a plurality of packages, and a light guide plate. The package includes a housing for package, and a plurality of light sources. The housing for package includes a tubular part having a wall surrounding the circumference, a bottom wall p... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537201 | Thermal separating process A separating column containing a sequence of mass transfer trays that are supported by at least one covered double-T support and/or covered U-shaped support. ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537028 | Device for fluid processor and its fluid flow path setting device, fluid processor, and fluid processing method A device for fluid processor comprises a plate-shaped base material, a micro conduit network formed in the base material and formed of a first micro conduit and second micro conduits intersecting with the first micro conduit, a valve provided in each of conduit port... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536866 | Magnetic refrigerator A magnetic refrigerator has a housing, heat exchangers filled with magnetic particles having a magnetocaloric effect, a rotary drive, a rotating shaft, a magnetic field generator fixed to the rotating shaft which applies a magnetic field to or eliminates a magnetic ... | 05/26/2009 |
| D593184 | Faucet | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536657 | Information equipment remote operating system An information equipment remote operating system includes an operated-side information equipment and an operating-side information equipment. The operated-side information equipment includes a view region storing unit for storing view information regarding a view re... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536284 | Electrical wire interconnect system risk assessment tool A system, method, and computer program product for assessing risk to an aircraft electrical wire interconnect system (EWIS). Information describing an aircraft EWIS, historical failure information, and expert opinion information is populated in a database. The EWIS ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536212 | Communication system using short range radio communication headset In a short range radio communication headset, signals transmitted by the short range radio communications are received while direct sounds propagated from an external are detected. Then, a digital signal adaptation processing using either received signals or the dir... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536084 | Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of repro... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536058 | Imaging apparatus and imaging method for compressing image data to a fixed length An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging device to take an image, a device to create a main image by resizing a main image before compressing imaged by the imaging device, and then by compressing to a fixed length, a device to create a reduced image for display by ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535941 | Drive current control circuit for laser and optical disk device A laser-drive-current control circuit outputs a drive current indicating signal for indicating a laser drive current for driving a laser light emitting element that emits a laser beam to an optical disk and controls the output of the laser drive current based on a l... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535852 | Information-processing device, information-processing method, and information-processing program product An information-processing device for communicating with a communication device includes a RTT measurement unit configured to measure a round trip time between the information-processing device and the communication device, a RTT judgment unit configured to determine... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535745 | Ferroelectric memory device and method of manufacturing the same A ferroelectric memory device, which includes a vertical ferroelectric capacitor having an electrode distance smaller than a minimum feature size of lithography technology being used and suitable for the miniaturization, and a method of manufacturing the same are di... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535598 | Image recording apparatus and image processing system An image processing system (200, 201) (image recording apparatus (100, 101)) including: image data keeping structure (image recording device (4, 20)/image producing device (57, 80)) for having image data and process information added to t... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535559 | Object digitizing device using integrating sphere wave source An object image digitizing device using an integrating sphere wave source is provided which makes the degree of spatial uniformity and temporal stability of the spatial uniformity of the wave irradiation distribution over the output port surface of the integrating s... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535329 | Permanent magnet structure with axial access for spectroscopy applications A magnet structure or instrument for spectroscopy including a plurality of magnetic flux sources disposed along a common axis. The plurality of permanent magnetic flux sources include a first magnet flux source having a first through-hole body, and include second an... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535143 | Electromagnetic coupler An electromagnetic coupler for a motor vehicle. The coupler includes a first electric machine having an axis and including a first stator bearing a first coil, an input rotor and a first part of an output rotor, and a second electric machine including a second stato... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535064 | Semiconductor device having a fin and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a Fin, a source region and a drain region, a first extension region, a second extension region and a channel region. The Fin is formed on a major surface of a semiconductor substrate. The source region and drain region are formed at b... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534898 | Process for producing monatin or salt thereof To provide a process for producing monatin where steric configuration of 2-position is in an R configuration or a salt thereof by isomerization of 2-position of monatin where steric configuration of 2-position is in an S configuration. A process for producing... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534824 | Polymer composition and process for producing the same A polymer composition which comprises a polymer, a phosphorus compound (a), and a phenol compound (b). The phosphorus compound (a) is, e.g., at least one member selected from compounds represented by the following formula (1). The phenol compound (b) is, e.g., at le... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534538 | Coating liquid for intermediate layer in electrophotographic photoconductor, electrophotographic photoconductor utilizing the same, image forming apparatus and process cartridge for image forming apparatus A coating liquid for an intermediate layer of an electrophotographic photoconductor comprises at least one of alcohol solvents; and N-methoxymethylated nylon, in which the N-methoxymethylated nylon has solution viscosity within a range from 43 mPa·s to 50 mPa·s wh... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534467 | Reduced-pressure drying unit and coating film forming method The invention includes a hermetic container provided with a substrate mount; a vacuum exhauster connected to the hermetic container; a current member; and a current member raising and lowering mechanism. When the current member is raised and lowered as a function of... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534340 | Process for the preparation of middle distillates and lube bases starting from synthetic hydrocarbon feedstocks Process for the contemporaneous production of fuels and lubricating bases from synthetic paraffinic mixtures, which includes a hydrocracking step in the presence of a solid bi-functional catalyst comprising: (A) a support of an acidic nature consisting of a catalyti... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534027 | Planar light source and liquid crystal display using the same A planar light source of the present invention includes a light source part, a light guide part for guiding light emitted from the light source part to form planar emission of the light, and a reflector for reflecting light emitted from the light source part to allo... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533592 | Sleeve spline structure of synchronizer A sleeve spline structure of a synchronizer capable of lowering contact pressure in synchronization action is provided. The sleeve spline structure of a synchronizer has a first tooth portion for synchronization in acceleration, a second tooth portion for synchroniz... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533517 | Exhaust nozzle for an engine of a flying craft Exhaust nozzle 14 for an engine of a flying craft, comprising a tubular body with two outlet ducts 16, 18 and boxes 26, 28 for injecting gas into the outlet ducts for the purpose of thrust vectoring, these boxes having windows 38 aligned ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7505324 | Semiconductor memory device with a stacked gate including a floating gate and a control gate A semiconductor memory device comprises a first to a fourth semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type which are formed in a fifth semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type in such a manner that they are isolated from one another, memory cells each of ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505311 | Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array with electrically rewritable and non-volatile memory cells arranged therein, and a bit line control circuit connected to a bit line of the memory cell array to control and detect the bit line voltage in acco... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505234 | Magnetoresistance effect element, magnetic head, magnetic reproducing apparatus, and magnetic memory A magnetoresistance effect element comprises a magnetoresistance effect film and a pair of electrode. The magnetoresistance effect film having a first magnetic layer whose direction of magnetization is substantially pinned in one direction; a second magnetic layer w... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505167 | Information processing apparatus, method, and computer product, for file naming An information processing apparatus includes a character identifying unit that performs character identification with respect to an image in an image data. A file name setting unit sets a file name of the image data based on a character or a character string obtaine... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504924 | Inductive device and method for manufacturing same An inductance element (1) comprises a core (2) having a multilayer body (6) composed of magnetic alloy thin ribbons (5) and an insulating coating layer (7) which covers the peripheral surface of the multilayer body without being bo... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504724 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device comprises: a plurality of first wiring lines formed in a first layer with a first wiring width and a first wiring space; a plurality of second wiring lines formed in a second layer different from the above-described first layer with a second w... | 03/17/2009 |
