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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8123230 | Cylinder head gasket A cylinder head gasket includes a first gasket base plate at a cylinder head side, a second gasket base plate at a cylinder block side, a shim that adjusts the gasket thickness, and a pressure increasing plate that increases the surface pressure at the side of perip... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8075820 | Method for improving filament cohesiveness of chopped aramid fiber The invention pertains to a method for improving filament cohesiveness of chopped aramid fiber including the steps of impregnating a film-forming binding agent into the fiber, drying the fiber, optionally applying a finish to the fiber, and chopping the fiber to pie... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074696 | Automatic mask peeling apparatus An automatic mask peeling apparatus 10 includes: a brushing apparatus 30 for removing solidified plugging slurry attached to the mask 24; an air injection apparatus 36 for injecting, after the removal of the solidified plugging slurry, ai... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8052532 | Information processing method and server system A league is formed by a given number of teams formed by a plurality of players and having an identical team level, and the teams compete for league ranking based on team points obtained in a given period. A team level of each team is changed based on the league rank... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8015967 | Air-fuel ratio control apparatus An air-fuel ratio control apparatus is applied to an internal combustion engine including a variable lift mechanism which changes a lift amount of an intake valve. An oxygen sensor, which outputs a signal indicating an oxygen concentration in exhaust gas, is provide... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015269 | Node device, shared information update processing program, shared information update method, and information sharing system The present invention is to provide a node device, a shared information update processing program, a shared information update means, and an information sharing system, which can quickly and assuredly update the shared information in each of the node devices without... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7976661 | Bead member forming method and apparatus A method and an apparatus for forming bead members (D), capable of improving the working efficiency by allowing switching to the bead members with different widths in short a time. The apparatus includes sector segments (24) having first sidewalls (61-... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7968833 | Image sensor with optical and electrical measurement functions The uppermost metallic wiring layer in light-blocking layers constituted by multilevel metallic wiring that prevents light from impinging on areas other than the light-receiving area of a photodiode in each picture cell is used as a measurement electrode to be direc... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967519 | Device for packaging and applying a substance, the device including a wiper member A device for packaging and applying a substance includes: a receptacle for containing a substance; an applicator including an applicator element; and a wiper member for wiping the applicator element, wherein the wiper member includes a longitudinally split annular p... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7456622 | Circuit for starting up a synchronous step-up DC/DC converter and the method thereof The low voltage circuit for starting up a synchronous step-up DC/DC converter, which connects to a voltage source through an inductor, includes a P-type power transistor, an N-type power transistor and a controller. The P-type power transistor includes a body diode,... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7450355 | Power supply apparatus with function of detecting abnormality of current sensor A current detector (60) samples a motor current (MCRT_A) from a controlling sensor and a motor current (MCRT_B) from a monitoring sensor, and holds respective motor current maximum values (MCRT_Amax, MCRT_Bmax) at each prescribed operation cycle. An abnormali... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7418070 | Signal generator In a signal generator, a peak value/peak position detection section detects value and position of an amplitude peak observed in modulation data coming from an orthogonal modulation section, and a peak carrier extraction section extracts L subcarriers capable of mini... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7362588 | Flying capacitor type battery voltage detector In a flying capacitor type battery voltage detector on a circuit substrate, a large number of photo MOS switches having performance highly depending from temperature are dividedly disposed on front and back surfaces of the circuit substrate such that the photo MOS s... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7344750 | Electrophoretic display device An electrophoretic display device includes a display layer comprised of a binder having a multiplicity of individual cavities therein that contain a display medium, and conductive substrates, at least one of the conductive substrates being transparent, wherein the d... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7282779 | Device, method of manufacture thereof, manufacturing method for active matrix substrate, electro-optical apparatus and electronic apparatus A device includes banks formed on a substrate, a conducting film formed by droplet ejection onto a predetermined pattern formation region in a groove between the banks, and a second conductive film formed by droplet ejection disposed outside the pattern formation re... | 10/16/2007 |
| D540380 | Ink cartridge | 04/10/2007 |
| D537115 | Plate for print head | 02/20/2007 |
| 7166946 | Electrical machine, in particular for an elevator The present invention relates to an electrical machine, comprising: a supporting structure; a stator cantilevered-out from the structure; and a rotor mounted to rotate on the structure about an axi... | 01/23/2007 |
| D528153 | Printer | 09/12/2006 |
| 7073486 | Fuel pressure control device of internal combustion engine An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of, when it is necessary to calculate an integral term, employing an integral term for use when two pumps are operating for calculation of a duty when the number of operating pumps is 2 and storing the calculated ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7052141 | Projector with improved lens apparatus Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide an illumination optical device including a light source unit having an arc tube, an ellipsoidal reflector, and a collimator lens, a first lens array to split the luminous flux output from the light source unit i... | 05/30/2006 |
| D518485 | Facsimile machine | 04/04/2006 |
| 7015542 | MONOS memory device A semiconductor device having a memory region in which a memory cell array is formed of non-volatile memory devices arranged in a matrix of plurality of rows and columns. Each of the non-volatile memory devices has: a word gate formed above a semiconductor layer wit... | 03/21/2006 |
| D512092 | Toner cartridge | 11/29/2005 |
| 6920039 | Foldable keyboard A foldable keyboard includes first, second, and third keyboard units U1, U2, and U3 which are rotatably connected with one another by means of main links (4) and (5) disposed on side end surfaces of each unit. The first and second ... | 07/19/2005 |
| D503412 | Embroidery machine | 03/29/2005 |
| 6786041 | Exhaust gas purification method and exhaust gas purification apparatus A particulate filter (22) is arranged in an exhaust passage of an engine. When an amount of discharged particulate discharged from a combustion chamber (5) per unit time exceeds an amount of particulate removable by oxidation which can be removed by ox... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6784577 | Vehicular AC current generator rotor having field-coil winding finishing-end hook portions In a rotor for a vehicular alternating current generator, a field coil is wound around an insulating bobbin. A flange of the bobbin is formed with the first, second and third hook portions. A coil winding finishing end is wound around the first hook portion and is o... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6636787 | Apparatus, method, and program for drivingly controlling hybrid vehicles A hybrid vehicle drive controller, to improve driving comfort during running control, that detects the position of the vehicle and road-condition information, calculates a required deceleration, an optimal speed-change stage, and an adjustable torque. The... | 10/21/2003 |
| 5978721 | Steering control apparatus utilizing a hysteresis control of a steering torque A steering control apparatus which controls an amount of assist to a power assist mechanism so as to improve a steering characteristic of a vehicle. A steering torque detecting unit detects a steering torque transmitted to a steering mechanism and outputs... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5839368 | Ink supply source device for printers by collapsible ink container encased in reinforcing case with disk handle having press claws To remarkably decrease the amount of material for the manufacture of ink containers and the volume of the ink containers after use, so as to contribute to the economy of natural resource consumption and solving the problem of destruction of global environ... | 11/24/1998 |
