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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7533185 | Data communication method, system and program using unicast and multicast communications In a data communication method, when packet data are sent and received among a plurality of computers connected each other via the network, communications are established by using a unicast connection. Then, the packet data are sent by selectively using a multicast ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7518195 | Field-effect microelectronic device, capable of forming one or several transistor channels The invention relates to a field-effect microelectronic device, and the production method thereof. Said device comprises a substrate (700) and at least one improved structure (702), capable of forming one or several transistor channels. Said structure,... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7507457 | Optical recording medium and method of manufacturing the same An optical recording medium includes a support substrate, and a light transmission layer 12 that is disposed so as to come in contact with the support substrate. At least one of a refractive index of the support substrate and a refractive index of the light t... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7481734 | Hydraulic control apparatus and hydraulic control method of vehicular automatic transmission A hydraulic control apparatus of a vehicular automatic transmission has a plurality of hydraulic friction engagement devices that are selectively engaged and released to establish a plurality of forward speed change stages of different speed change ratios. The forwa... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7470098 | Detecting apparatus and detecting method An optical sensor for detecting the housing state such as the thickness of a substrate in the present invention is provided at supporting arms. The supporting arms are attached to a supporting shaft. The supporting arms are in a vertical state in a state before dete... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7445690 | Plasma processing apparatus A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber for containing a substrate to be processed, a gas supply unit for supplying a processing gas into the chamber, and a microwave introducing unit for introducing plasma generating microwaves into the chamber. The microw... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7381855 | Process for producing adamantane An industrially advantageous process for producing adamantane by which high-purity adamantane reduced in coloration is efficiently produced while minimizing the loss. The process, which is for producing adamantane by isomerizing trimethylenenorbornane, includes (A) ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7317688 | Optical communication system with dynamic bandwidth allocation Dynamic up-link bandwidth allocation is realized in a optical communication system in which a plurality of subscriber devices with mutually different device configurations are connected to a station unit, by configuring the station unit to consider device configurat... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313599 | Process migration method computer and system Process migration method includes copying first process context indicative of first processing, transmitting process context to second computer, causing first computer to start generation of first execution record, causing second computer to receive process context,... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309900 | Thin-film transistor formed on insulating substrate There is provided a thin-film transistor that is formed on an insulating substrate, is capable of a high-speed operation, has small non-uniformity among devices, is hardly susceptible to device destruction due to high voltage, and is free from the effect of a parasi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305898 | Installation for non-destructive inspection of a part An installation for non-destructive inspection makes use simultaneously of sensors responsive to different physical characteristics. In an example, a sensor support, e.g. a kind of carriage having running wheels via which it comes into contact with the surface to be... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304932 | Data recording medium, and data recording method and device A recording method for converting m-bit data into n-bit (where n>m) bit data whose run length is restricted and recoding the converted data on a recording medium, the recording method comprising the steps of when at least preceded data is data containing a special d... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304968 | Ad-hoc established device network In an ad-hoc established device network, a profile based handover of the network control functionality is performed whenever a new device (15) requests association with the network and the central controller (16) does not support the profile of the new... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302019 | Maximum likelihood decoding method and maximum likelihood decoder A maximum likelihood decoder includes metric generators for generating metrics based on a plurality of partial responses and a Viterbi decoder for realizing maximum likelihood decoding by using a synthetic metric generated by synthesizing the metrics. A first partia... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7282529 | Coating liquid for an electrographic photoreceptor and a method of preparation using a ball mill An electrophotographic photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate, a photosensitive layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate, and optionally a protective layer overlying the photosensitive layer, wherein an outermost layer of the photorece... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7160569 | Acidic oil-in-water type emulsified compositions Provided is an acidic oil-in-water type emulsified composition, containing an oil or fat having a diglyceride content of 30 wt. % or greater an egg yolk, and a water soluble soybean polysaccharide. The acidic oil-in-water type emulsified composition of the pr... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7148521 | Semiconductor light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor light emitting device comprises: a substrate having first and second major surfaces; a light emitting layer provided in a first portion on the first major surface of the substrate; a first electrode provided above the light emitting layer; a second e... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7112626 | Polymer composition for use as aqueous floor adhesive An aqueous composition comprises a mixture of from 10 to 50% by weight of a polymer A) having a gel content of less than 40% by weight and a number-average molecular weight Mn of the soluble fractions of less than 30,000 and from... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7054540 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium An information processing apparatus comprising: a first recording controlling element for recording moving images; a first detecting element for detecting scene changes in the moving images recorded by the first recording controlling element; a second recording cont... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7001894 | Blood flow improvers and thrombosis preventives or remedies Glucosamine salts and derivatives are effective for the improvement of blood flow, and hence, for the prevention and/or treatment of diseases caused by blood flow disturbances, such as thrombosis. Use of glucosamine salts or glucosamine derivatives as active ingredi... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6958938 | Data writing method for semiconductor memory device and semiconductor memory device A data writing method for a semiconductor memory device includes writing data into the first memory cell, rewriting the data into the first memory cell when an insufficiency of the data of the first memory cell is determined as a result of verifying the data of the ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6950086 | Driving method for a cholesteric liquid crystal display device having a memory mode of operation and a driving apparatus A driving method for a liquid crystal display device with a cholesteric liquid crystal having a memory mode of operation including a first stage of applying a first voltage to change the state of the cholesteric liquid crystal to a homeotropic state, a second stage ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6916854 | Unsaturated compounds containing carbamate terminal groups or urea terminal groups The invention relates to a compound containing at least one unsaturated, radically or cationically polymerizable group and at least one carbamate terminal group or urea terminal group. ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6885575 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes connected TC unit type ferroelectric memory which includes series connected memory cells each having a cell transistor having a source terminal and a drain terminal and a ferroelectric capacitor inbetween the two te... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6865508 | Log analysis method and recording medium storing log analysis program One of log analysis methods of the present invention includes the step of executing a program a plurality of times; executing a program a plurality of times; the step of generating a plurality of logs, each log being recorded a plurality of events occurring upon the... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6863752 | Method of producing a superconducting tape A method and article for producing a high transition temperature superconducting tape or wire with a normal metal sheath and at least two surface layers, an inner electrically insulating layer and an outer low friction layer. The method includes mechanical deformati... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6857000 | Object-oriented data storage and retrieval system using index table A data storage and retrieval system includes a data space area where a set of data belonging to a predetermined category and definition data describing definition of the structure and the presentation form of the data are stored, a data space retrieval section for r... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6852462 | Toner, method of forming the toner, and image forming method and apparatus using the toner A toner comprising: a binder resin which is at least a resin selected from the group consisting of modified polyester resins and unmodified polyester resins; and a colorant; the product toner having a volume-averag... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6788082 | Probe card A balance resistance is connected to each probe pin and a probe card check wire is provided on each probe pin, and thus a wafer test and chip test with application of high current can be performed, and further, a maintenance of a probe card is facilitated. ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6781870 | Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes first and second CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) inverter circuits each having a latch structure and a control transistor which is connected between a storage node of the first CMOS inverter circuit and a bit lin... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6762477 | Semiconductor device Provided is a semiconductor device using an SOI substrate which can suppress a leakage current with the potential of a channel formation region fixed. Specifically, by an FTI (26) an SOI substrate (14) is divided into a PMOS formation region and an NMO... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6757509 | Image forming apparatus An electrophotographic image forming apparatus of the present invention frees images from various defects including the thinning of horizontal lines, the omission of the trailing edge an image, background contamination, granularity particular to a halftone image, ca... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6757863 | Read channel circuit and method for decoding using reduced-complexity error correction A decoding technique is disclosed for proving inexpensively a read channel circuit which has an error correction function and is applicable to high channel frequencies. In this read channel circuit, generating a reference slice level signal and a plurality of slice ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754719 | Functional electronic appliances network system Disclosed is an information network system which comprises a plurality of functional appliances, a plurality of relaying appliances each provided with respect to its corresponding functional appliance, a data transfer path for enabling the relaying appliances to be ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6747095 | Crosslinked rubber particles and rubber compositions An objective of the invention is to provide a rubber composition which has satisfactory processability and dimension stability, and the like, gives a vulcanized rubber exhibiting excellent wearing resistance and tensile strength, and the like, and thus is useful in ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6745885 | Power distribution control apparatus for four-wheel drive vehicle and a method for controlling the apparatus A power distribution control apparatus determines a command value that corresponds to the driving state of a four-wheel drive vehicle. The vehicle includes a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels, and a coupling device that changes the power distribution to... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6744547 | Laser wavelength converter A nonlinear optical crystal device, a wavelength conversion element, is surrounded with a heat sink having cooling fins. Cartridge heaters for uniformly heating the nonlinear optical crystal device are arranged in the heat sink, and the temperature of the cartridge ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6743407 | Hydrogen cyanide synthesis process A process for the production of hydrogen cyanide is provided, wherein hydrogen cyanide is synthesized by reacting methane or methane-containing natural gas, ammonia and oxygen-enriched air or oxygen in the presence of a catalyst comprising platinum or a platinum all... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6744908 | Traffic density analysis apparatus based on encoded video A traffic density analysis apparatus includes a video decoder configured to decode encoded video data obtained by encoding a video signal corresponding to an analysis region and to output a decoded video signal, and an analyzer configured to set a specific region in... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6740779 | Method for carrying out the catalytic gas phase oxidation of propene to form acrylic acid In a process for the two-stage catalytic gas-phase oxidation of propene to acrylic acid, the reaction gas starting mixture is passed, in a tube-bundle reactor, with a propene loading of ≧160 l (S.T.P.) of propene/l·h, first over a fixed catalyst bed 1 pres... | 05/25/2004 |
