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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7538038 | Method of removing resist, semiconductor device thereby and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device Disclosed is a method of removing resist preventing increase of dielectric constant of low permittivity insulating films and preventing remains of resist. Using a resist mask, a protection insulating film, a MSQ film, and a silicon oxide film composing an ILD are RI... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537981 | Silicon on insulator device and method of manufacturing the same An isolated semiconductor device and method for producing the isolated semiconductor device in which the device includes a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) device formed on a substrate. A dielectric film is formed on the insulator and covers the SOI device. The dielectric... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537838 | Heat fixing roll and fixing belt A heat fixing roll or belt having a silicone rubber layer which is formed by curing a silicone rubber composition comprising (A) 100 pbw of an organopolysiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded alkenyl radicals in a molecule, (B) 20-500 pbw of a metallic silicon ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537833 | Pyrogenically produced silicon dioxide powder and dispersion thereof Pyrogenically produced silicon dioxide powder in the form of aggregates of primary particles having a BET surface area of 90±15 m2/g, wherein the aggregates display an average surface area of 10000 to 20000 nm2, an average equivalent circle di... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537752 | Use of a composition containing an effective quantity of at least one ion chelating agent for increasing the tolerance threshold of a sensitive or intolerant skin Use of a cosmetic and/or dermatological and/or hygiene composition containing an effective quantity of at least one ion chelating agent for increasing the tolerance threshold of sensitive or intolerant skin. ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537675 | Composite co-structured or co-adsorbed, mineral or organic filler or pigment compounds and the use thereof Composite compounds of co-structured or co-adsorbed organic or mineral fillers or pigments containing at least two organic or mineral fillers or pigments of a different nature and the use thereof in the paper industry for manufacturing paper, filling or coating or f... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537628 | Exhaust trap device Three exhaust trap units are arranged in series in an exhaust trap device for trapping substances solidified from exhaust gas and exhaust gas paths are formed inside the exhaust trap units. One or more collision plates are placed in each trap unit. The collision pla... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537505 | Manufacturing method for field emission display To provide a method of manufacturing a field emission display having an improved electron emission effect by means of laser irradiation and accordingly mitigating a luminance fluctuation among pixels, and other such techniques. Provided is a method of manufacturing ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537367 | Illumination device, image reading device, and image forming apparatus An illumination device that illuminates an original document by propagating an illuminating light beam output from each of a plurality of light emitting diodes from a first end surface of a light guide to a second end surface of the light guide. Assuming that A is a... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537126 | Crane A crane includes a boom and boom pivoting mast connected to a swivel body so as to be pivotable, a boom pivoting winch for pivoting the boom, and a main hoisting winch and auxiliary hoisting winch for hoisting up and hoisting down a hanging load. The main and auxili... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536944 | Air pressure cylinder for positioning control A slight-vibration-suppressing mechanism is attached to a piston rod 6 of an air pressure cylinder that stops the piston at a target position by means of a positioning control. The slight-vibration-suppressing mechanism includes a friction member formed of a ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536854 | Method for regenerating a motor vehicle particle filter and system for controlling regeneration of such a filter A method for regenerating a motor vehicle particle filter that uses a mechanism for regenerating the filter when a load value exceeds a predetermined threshold. Further, a parameter representing operating conditions of the regenerating mechanism is calculated, and t... | 05/26/2009 |
| D593137 | Traveling body for construction machine | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536589 | Processing apparatus A processing apparatus includes a plurality of operation units each of which performs a given operation for an input operand in accordance with an operating instruction and outputs an exception flag when a result of the operation is false, a first network which conn... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536272 | Method and device for estimating the total mass of a motor vehicle A method for estimating the total mass of a motor vehicle by a recursive least squares algorithm. The method involves a vehicle longitudinal acceleration computing according to a fundamental dynamic equation by analysing errors by an acceleration variation caused by... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536141 | Developing device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus A developing device of the present invention includes a photosensitive drum and a developing roller facing the drum. The developing roller accommodates a stationary magnet roller that forms on the surface of the developing roller a scoop-up pole for scooping up the ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536083 | 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 |
| 7536035 | Object velocity measuring apparatus and object velocity measuring method An object velocity measuring apparatus of this invention for measuring an object velocity in a photographic field from a plurality of photographic frames made up of a plurality of pixels comprises an object area extracting unit configured to extract, as an object ar... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535932 | Radio communications system, radio network controller and base station The present invention relates to a radio communications system which transmits same downlink information to a plurality of cells by using downlink common channels. The radio communications system includes a radio network controller and a base station. The radio comm... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535813 | Optical pickup and disc drive apparatus A plurality of light-emitting elements 9a, 9b, 10a each emitting laser beam of a wavelength of approximately 405 nm, approximately 660 nm or approximately 780 nm corresponded to each of a plurality of types of disc-formed me... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535688 | Method for electrically discharging substrate, substrate processing apparatus and program The present invention provides a substrate processing apparatus that executes electrical discharge processing before detaching a substrate held onto an electrostatic chuck of a lower electrode constituting a stage and undergoing a specific type of processing from th... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535595 | Image processing apparatus and method, and computer program product An image processing apparatus includes a communication unit configured to exchange data with an external device, an attribute determination unit, an embedding unit, and a storage unit. The attribute determination unit determines an image attribute of a first image s... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535495 | Digital camera, control method thereof and portable terminal The digital camera includes a CPU which controls the operation of the digital camera. The digital camera has an audio recording mode in which sound data can be continuously recorded. If this audio recording mode is under execution and if the CPU receives an instruct... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535318 | Dielectric device A dielectric device includes a dielectric substrate, a plurality of resonator units, and first and second terminals. The dielectric substrate has an external conductor film thereon. Each of the resonator units has a hole and an internal conductor provided inside the... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535128 | Temperature detector A temperature detector for outputting a temperature signal comprises: a temperature sensing diode formed on the same chip as a semiconductor switching device and having a specific temperature vs. voltage characteristic, wherein the temperature detector outputs the a... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535062 | Semiconductor device having SOI structure A plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of wiring layers connecting a supporting substrate having SOI structure and uppermost wire are formed along a peripheral part of a semiconductor chip together with the uppermost wire, to thereby surround a transistor ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534895 | Process for preparation of carvedilol The invention solves a new method of preparation of Carvedilol for pharmaceutical use. In the synthesis of Carvedilol a reaction of 4-(oxirane-2-ylmethoxy)-9H-arbazole (II) with 2-(2-methoxyphenoxy)ethylamine salts (IV) in the presence of a base, in an alcohol havin... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534815 | Preventive or remedy for hypertension Provided is a method of treating hypertension, which comprises administering an effective amount of a compound represented by the following formula (1) or (2): wherein, R1 and R2 are the same or differ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534517 | Fuel cell and method for manufacture thereof A fuel cell includes a solid polymer electrolyte membrane and cathode and anode catalyst layers held between a fuel electrode substrate having a surface area larger than that of the cathode catalyst layer and an oxidizer electrode substrate having a surface area lar... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534439 | Nucleic sequence and deduced protein sequence family with human endogenous retroviral motifs, and their uses The invention concerns a novel nucleic sequence and deduced protein sequence family with whole or partial human endogenous retroviral motifs. The invention also concerns the detection and/or the use of said nucleic sequences and said corresponding protein sequences ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534303 | Liquid absorption by metal-organic frameworks The present invention relates to a method for the absorption of liquids, which comprises the step of bringing the liquid into contact with at least one sorbent comprising a porous metal-organic framework, the framework taking up the liquid and comprising at least on... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533995 | Device for forming visible image in air The present invention relates to a device for forming a visible image which can draw a two-dimensional or a three-dimensional visible image without having a scanning locus of a laser beam recognized. The device for forming a visible image of the present inven... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533570 | Electrostatic-capacitance-type acceleration sensor In an electrostatic-capacitance-type acceleration sensor, water, etc. penetrating into a sealed space incorporating an acceleration detector having a movable electrode 6, and sticking of the movable electrode 6 to a cap 8 due to static charge ac... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533456 | Fabrication process for magneto-resistive effect devices of the CPP structure A free layer functions such that a magnetization direction changes depending on an external magnetic field, and is made up of a multilayer structure including a first Heusler alloy layer, and a fixed magnetization layer takes a form wherein an inner pin layer and an... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7505318 | Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device of the present invention is characterized in that, when data is written to a flag cell area, every other flag cell in the direction of one bit line BL among a plurality of flag cells 15 connected to the bit line BL is... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505307 | Semiconductor memory having resistance change element A semiconductor memory according to examples of the present invention includes a word line extending in a first direction, first, second and third bit lines extending in a second direction, a first cell unit connected between the first and second bit lines, a second... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505216 | Lens barrel A lens barrel, including, a moving frame (2) to hold a lens (8), a direct-advance ring (4) provided on an outer periphery of the moving frame and movable relative to the moving frame in an optical direction, a resilient member (6) provide... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505160 | Paper identification information management system A paper identification information management system includes a client apparatus that handles a sheet of paper bearing prescribed information, and a management server connected to the client apparatus via a network to comprehensively manage information about the pap... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504844 | Inspection apparatus and method An inspection apparatus for inspecting electrical characteristics of an inspection target object includes a movable mounting table for mounting the inspection target object thereon, a probe card disposed above the mounting table, and one or more displacement sensors... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504719 | Printed wiring board having a roughened surface formed on a metal layer, and method for producing the same The present invention has for its object to provide a multilayer printed circuit board which is very satisfactory in facture toughness, dielectric constant, adhesion and processability, among other characteristics. The present invention is directed to a multilayer p... | 03/17/2009 |