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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185451 | Turn-around time information management system, storage medium, and turn-around time information management method An order data obtaining device displays a list of components on a Web page, and recognizes components selected on the Web page, thereby obtaining order data of a product that is formed of a plurality of components. A turnaround time display control device obtains tu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185300 | Safe driving evaluation system, method, and program Systems, methods, and programs input a current drive condition of a vehicle at a predetermined location before a predetermined temporary stop position, determine whether there is a possibility that the vehicle will not be able to safely stop at the temporary stop po... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185296 | Driving assisting apparatus and driving assisting method A driving assisting apparatus and driving assisting method for predicting the state of a traffic light at the time when a vehicle enters an intersection includes predicting vehicle speed change of a vehicle in front of an intersection. The driving assisting apparatu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185002 | Image forming apparatus including belt surface state detection An image forming apparatus includes; an image forming unit; an annular belt that moves circularly; a detection unit that detects a state of a surface of the belt; and a tension increase unit that increases a tension of the belt, at a detection position by the detect... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184968 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus having a light receiving element having a micro lens array provided with a plurality of micro lenses, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, and outputting a light receiving signal obtained by receiving a light beam from an optica... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184915 | Device and method for fast computation of region based image features A device and method for efficient computation of statistical information, such as a mean, co-variance, or histogram of the image pixels, over discrete image regions. The computation employs integral computations to determine the statistical information over image re... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184861 | Feature information management apparatuses, methods, and programs Apparatuses, methods and programs store a plurality of target types, each target type having recognition attribute information indicating the likelihood that the target type will be recognized based on a type of road or a type of area. The apparatuses, methods and p... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184529 | Communication apparatus, method, and program for transmitting and receiving packet data A communication apparatus that includes a media processing device that includes at least one codec and that encodes data, a packet processing device that transmits and receives packet data, a correlation value computation device that computes a correlation value bet... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184521 | Optical pickup lens An optical pickup lens for focusing a light beam from a laser light source on an optical information recording medium is a single lens. The optical pickup lens has two surfaces, and a surface R2 opposite to a surface R1 closer to the laser light source... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184398 | Magnetic head that suppresses protrusion of medium facing surface caused by heat of coil A magnetic head includes a coil, a pole layer, and a coil adjacent layer. The coil includes a winding portion having two side surfaces. The coil adjacent layer is adjacent to at least part of the whole of the two side surfaces of the winding portion. The coil adjace... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184319 | Print management apparatus, print apparatus, print system, computer readable medium and computer data signal that notify specific print information A print management apparatus includes a detection unit, a determination unit and a notification unit. The detection unit detects a specific print command. The determination unit determines a second person who gives another print command. The second person is differe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184205 | Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device includes configuration to apply, to a plurality of the data lines through capacitors, inverted data signals that are generated by inverting voltage levels of data signals supplied to image signal lines with respect to a predetermined electr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184082 | Liquid crystal display and method of driving liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display selectively operates in one of a full screen display mode, in which the full screen of the display panel is set as a display area, and a partial display mode, in which a partial area in the full screen is set as a display area and a remainin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184008 | On-board warning apparatus and warning method An on-board warning apparatus of the invention includes an inattentive time measuring device that measures a duration of an inattentive state of a driver; a dozing time measuring device that measures a duration of a dozing state of the driver; a first warning output... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183969 | Coil component A coil component which can secure the insulation and strength of a ferrite core and reserve a winding region sufficiently is provided. By coating a surface of an Mn—Zn-based ferrite core with a glass film, this coil component can secure the insulation between the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183945 | Oscillator based on series of four nanowires The oscillator comprises at least a first series of a multiple of four sub-assemblies each of which comprises an excitation terminal and an output terminal. The sub-assemblies are arranged in series in a closed loop. The output terminal of each sub-assembly is conne... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183897 | Integrated circuit device and electronic apparatus An integrated circuit device includes: an internal circuit; a ground terminal; a first terminal that is provided with a first signal that becomes to be a ground level during at least a portion of a period in which the internal circuit is operating; a detection circu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183837 | Control device and control method for electric system In an electric system including a first converter and a second converter connected in parallel, an ECU executes a program including a step of selecting a charging mode for a first battery pack connected to the first converter and a charging mode for a second battery... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183796 | Stepwise repairing for electrode of discharge lamp A drive device that drives a discharge lamp including first and second electrodes includes a lighting circuit, a current control unit, a deformation detection unit, a current modulation unit, and a modulation enhancement unit. The lighting circuit supplies alternati... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183750 | Resonator, conductive film layer and oscillator A resonator element includes: a resonating body having a first region and a second region, the first region receiving a compression stress or an extension stress by a vibration, the second region receiving an extension stress responding to the compression stress in ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183749 | Electronic device and method of making same The present invention provides an electronic device with improved characteristics and a method of making the electronic device. In a method of making an electronic device (piezoelectric device) 74 according to the present invention, an outer edge R1 of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183594 | Laminar structure on a semiconductor substrate An object of the present invention is to provide a ferroelectric element having excellent properties, which includes a monocrystalline film of γ-Al2O3 formed as a buffer layer on a silicon substrate. The monocrystalline γ-Al2O film... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183527 | Gas detecting method and gas detecting apparatus A concentration of ethanol is detected without using any light source such as a lamp by utilizing a face of a human being as a light source. The gas detecting apparatus has an optical filter for ethanol which allows to transmit an infrared light having a predetermin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183463 | Plating film, printed wiring board, and module substrate The present invention provides a plating film 50 including a nickel plating layer containing phosphorus and a gold plating layer formed on the nickel plating layer, wherein the nickel plating layer has a phosphorus content of 11 to 16 mass %, and wherein (3×... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183171 | Dielectric ceramic composition To provide a dielectric ceramic composition which is free from variation in breakdown voltage, and has excellent electric properties. The dielectric ceramic composition according the present invention includes: as a main component, a component represented by a compo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182973 | Electrostatic-image-developing toner, process for producing electrostatic-image-developing toner, electrostatic image developer, image-forming method, and image-forming apparatus An electrostatic-image-developing toner is obtained by aggregating: resin particles, each of which has a core-shell structure, in which a difference in glass transition temperature between a resin constituting the core and a resin constituting the shell is about 20Â... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182934 | Secondary battery A secondary battery comprises a power generating element, a battery case including a gas release hole, and a valve safety device configured to close the gas release hole and release gas out of the battery case when inner pressure in the battery case exceeds a predet... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182915 | Spinning method A method is provided for spinning a multifilament thread from a thermoplastic material, including the steps of extruding the melted material through a spinneret with a plurality of spinneret holes into a filament bundle with a plurality of filaments, winding the fil... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182875 | System and method for protecting a print A system and a method to protect an image on a substrate. The method includes applying a coating to the surface of a substrate having an unspread ink image thereon, wherein the image is formed by droplets of solid ink, and wherein the coating interacts with the ink.... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182774 | Eu(III) complex and nanosized EuSe crystal obtained therefrom A method to easily manufacture a nanosized EuSe crystal which has been conventionally difficult to be manufactured. Heating an Eu(III) complex whose general formula is represented by the following formula generates an EuSe crystal having a particle size correspondin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182727 | Carbon-based material and method of producing the same, and composite material and method of producing the same A method of producing a carbon-based material includes steps (a), (b) and (c). In the step (a), an elastomer and at least a first carbon material is mixed and the first carbon material is dispersed by applying a shear force to obtain a composite elastomer. In the st... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182704 | Thin-film magnetic head structure, method of manufacturing the same, and thin-film magnetic head A thin-film magnetic head structure has a configuration adapted to manufacture a thin-film magnetic head configured such that a main magnetic pole layer including a magnetic pole tip on a side of a medium-opposing surface opposing a recording medium, a write shield ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182397 | Hydraulic control apparatus for automatic transmission A hydraulic control apparatus for an automatic transmission includes a first solenoid valve, a second solenoid valve, a third solenoid valve, a preliminary shift speed switch valve, and an oil pressure supply switch valve, which is switched between a normal-state po... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182366 | Golf club head A golf club head according to one or more aspects of the present invention may include a heel, a toe, a crown, a sole, a strike face, and a lower transition region between the strike face and the sole. The lower transition region may have a plurality of nadir angles... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182285 | Elbow coaxial electric connector and method to assemble such a connector The present invention concerns a connection assembly comprising: an elbow coaxial electric connector (2) configured to be mounted on a coaxial cable, the connector comprising: a central contact (7) provided with at least one crimping portion (11... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182233 | Component with a damping filler A component (10) and method for manufacturing a component. The component comprises first and second panels (16, 18) spaced apart from each other, the first panel (16) having at least one protrusion (20) extending therefrom towards the sec... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182172 | Feeder hopper, a method for locking the walls of a feeder hopper and a locking means Feeder hopper for a movable mineral material processing device, whose walls are arranged to be turned upward to a working position, and which are locked into said working position. To lock the walls, there is at least one locking means in connection with them, said ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182058 | Double-sided record apparatus and double-sided record method A double-sided record apparatus for forming images on both sides of a recording medium. The double-sided record apparatus includes: a print head that moves relatively to the record medium and ejects ink onto a face of the record medium; a counting unit configured to... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181895 | Wobble stroke adjustment of a cone crusher A crusher comprising at least a main shaft having an axial line and being mounted on the inner frame of the crusher, an eccentric comprising at least a first eccentric bushing and a second eccentric bushing, a first crushing blade, and a second crushing blade. The f... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181715 | Power tool A power tool according to the invention includes a dynamic vibration reducer having a body, a weight and elastic elements. The body is formed by a plurality of cylindrical members which are coaxially disposed to face each other. The elastic elements exert biasing fo... | 05/22/2012 |
