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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7975367 | Method of manufacturing a thin-film magnetic head A method of manufacturing a magnetic head that includes a reproducing head, a recording head, and an isolation film for magnetically isolating the reproducing head and the recording head from each other. The method includes the steps of: forming the reproducing head... | 07/12/2011 |
| RE42547 | Navigation apparatus, navigation method, and navigation program Navigation apparatus, methods, and programs merge and correct a plurality of types of past traffic information. The apparatus, methods, and programs may store a plurality of types of past traffic information, each type of past traffic information having a priority a... | 07/12/2011 |
| D641472 | Dental rotary instrument | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975218 | Apparatus and method for forming document group structure data and storage medium The apparatus for forming a document group structure data contains a base document specifying section that specifies plural documents to be positionally fixed on the tree structure as base documents based on an input from a user, an upper tree structure forming sect... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974959 | Map update data supplying apparatus, version table, map data updating system, and map update data supplying method Map updating systems, methods, and programs that extract update requiring sections with respect to an update requesting section that is one of the sections being a target of an update request requesting that the target map data should be updated, obtain the informat... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974784 | Collision predicting apparatus and collision predicting method A collision predicting apparatus detects subject targets present in the traveling course of the own vehicle by using the relative distance and the relative velocity, etc. The apparatus also calculates the predicted collision time of each subject target on the basis ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974781 | Navigation apparatuses, methods, and programs for generation of a 3D movie Navigation apparatuses, methods, and programs set a reference point at an intersection and set a region extending ahead of the vehicle in a direction in which the vehicle enters the intersection, the region including the reference point. Then, the apparatuses, metho... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974780 | Route navigation systems, methods, and programs Navigation systems, methods and programs detect the current location of a vehicle and search a route to a destination based on the current location. The systems, methods, and programs set a guidance intersection based on the searched route, set a route guidance poin... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974699 | Vision regeneration assisting device A vision regeneration assisting device for regenerating vision of a patient, comprising: a plurality of electrodes which are stuck and placed into an optic disc of the patient; a storage unit which stores a generation position of a phosphene specific to the patient ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974557 | Carrier replenishment and image mottle reduction system A replenishment and image mottle reduction system for adding carrier particles to a developer housing in a two-component developer toner imaging machine. The replenishment system includes (i) a carrier-only hopper for receiving and containing a first quantity of car... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974550 | Image forming apparatus, image forming structural body, method of mounting image forming structural body and method of pulling out image forming structural body The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including: a conveyer that conveys a developer image or a transfer medium to which the developer image is transferred; an image carrier that carries the developer image transferred to the conveyer or the tran... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974546 | Systems and methods for outputting finished medium in an image forming device A system and method for outputting finished image receiving medium in an image forming device are provided. The systems and methods include receiving an image forming operation in an image forming device. The image forming operation is evaluated to determine a numbe... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974469 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program for superior image output An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. An image data obtaining unit obtains image data. A sampling unit samples the image data. A statistic value determining unit determines a statistic value based on statistic information in a histogram with... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974412 | Communication system, transmission device, reception device, and communication scheme A communication system includes a transmission device that transmits an information signal having information defined as a binary state value, the transmission device including a signal generation unit that generates an information decryption signal to transmit the ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974320 | Method for having laser light source in standby status When the laser light source is caused to standby, the temperatures of semiconductor laser 1 and semiconductor laser 9 are changed by approximately 3° C. from the temperature when the laser light source is always being used. With a temperature change o... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974318 | Infra-red multi-wavelength laser source The present invention relates in particular to the field of lasers and in particular to a laser source having a neodymium-doped crystal (2; 23) or fiber and pumpable by pumping means (3; 25) and a non-linear Raman effect converter stimulated in methane... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974071 | Multilayer capacitor A multilayer capacitor includes a dielectric body 12 formed by stacking a plurality of dielectric layers 12a; a first internal conductor layer 21 led out straddling three side faces 12A, 12C and 12D of said dielectric... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974070 | Multilayer ceramic device and mounting structure therefor An NTC capacitor comprises a capacitor body having a plurality of insulator layers laminated therein, first to third inner electrodes arranged within the capacitor body, and first to third terminal electrodes arranged on outer surfaces of the capacitor body. The fir... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974046 | Thin-film magnetic head with heating portion and protrusion adjustment portion, head gimbal assembly equipped head, magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus equipped HGA, and manufacturing method of head The present invention provides a thin-film magnetic head which surely improves the writing and reading characteristic with reducing the flying height and surely handles the contact or collision with the magnetic recording medium. A thin-film magnetic head is ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974043 | Thermally assisted magnetic head A thermally assisted magnetic head has a slider having a medium-facing surface, and a light source unit having a light source support substrate, and a light source disposed on the light source support substrate; the slider has a slider substrate and a magnetic head ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973980 | Document discarding system, document discarding device, document managing device, computer readable medium, and document discarding method A document discarding system includes: a document discarding device that discards a document; an image reading device that is used by a client requesting to discard the document; and a document managing device that can communicate with the document discarding device... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973972 | Halftone dot formation method and apparatus, and image forming apparatus An image processing method generates a halftone image by forming a halftone dot represented by a set of one or plural output dots corresponding to an intensity of an input image signal while making a part of the dots constituting the halftone dot to be an actual non... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973959 | Document administration system and document destruction apparatus A document administration system includes a document administration apparatus and a document destruction apparatus. The document administration apparatus includes a document administration information storage section that stores administration information containing... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973928 | Spectroscopic instrument, image producing device, spectroscopic method, and image producing method The spectroscopic instrument includes a plurality of first lenses arranged one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally; an aperture opening provided near a focal plane of each of the plurality of first lenses; a spectroscopic unit that spectrally distribute the light tha... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973910 | Stage apparatus and exposure apparatus A stage apparatus includes: a moving stage, which moves along a movement plane; a first moving table, which holds a specimen while being able to move with respect to the moving stage; and a second moving table, which is provided on the moving stage and, when the fir... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973906 | Exposure apparatus, exposure method, method for manufacturing device An exposure apparatus has a projection optical system configured to project a pattern of a reticle onto a substrate, and exposes the substrate to light via the reticle and the projection optical system with a space between the projection optical system and the subst... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973850 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes a discriminating unit that discriminates a color component originating in an image structure in an image captured through an optical system from a color component attributable to a chromatic aberration of the optical system, an... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973809 | Electro-optical device, driving circuit and driving method of the same, and electronic apparatus A driving circuit of an electro-optical device wherein one field is divided into p (p is an integer that is equal to or more than two) groups and each group is divided into two sub-fields. The p groups each are set to have the length of a time period that is equal t... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973781 | Image display device and projector There is provided an image display device with a two-modulation optical system for displaying an image corresponding to input image signals. The image display device includes a first optical modulation element for turning on or off pixels every subfield in the unit ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973755 | Data driver and electro-optical device A data driver drives comb-tooth distributed data lines of an electro-optical device in units of a predetermined number of data lines. The data driver includes first and second divided gray-scale buses, a gray-scale bus to which gray-scale data is supplied correspond... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973753 | Image display device, image display method, image display program, recording medium containing image display program, and electronic apparatus An image display device corrects image data, which are used for displaying an image, using a gray scale value assigned to each pixel and also controls the amount of source light emitted from a light source. The image display device includes a source light amount con... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973750 | Projector with dual image formation units and greyscale A projector includes a lighting device, a first image forming unit including first through third light modulation elements, a second image forming unit including fourth through sixth light modulation elements, a polarization combining optical system, a projection op... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973686 | Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument An integrated circuit device includes a plurality of data line driver circuits, a first correction D/A conversion circuit, and a plurality of D/A conversion circuits. Each of the data line driver circuits includes an operational amplifier, an input capacitor, and a ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973630 | Thin film magnetic device and method of manufacturing the same A thin film magnetic device is provided, in which magnetic permeability in a high frequency range can be easily improved. Scratch-like grooves extending along an extending direction of a coil (for example, a Y-axis direction being an extending direction of a second ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973623 | Starter for engines and its starting circuit The starter has a system of pushing the pinion gear in the direction of the anti-motor side by using the attracting power of the electromagnetic switch via the shift lever. The switch coil of the electromagnetic switch is constituted of one coil that is electrically... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973615 | RF module The present invention provides an RF module capable of converting electromagnetic waves in the TE mode to balanced electromagnetic waves in the TEM mode without adjustment and outputting the balanced electromagnetic waves while easily realizing miniaturization. The ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973505 | Electric vehicle control device When an electric vehicle outputs a torque instruction, firstly, a request torque is acquired and a judged whether the acquired request torque is positive or negative (S10) Regardless of the sign of the request torque, it is judged whether the eco-switch is ON... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973502 | Drive unit and manufacturing method thereof A drive unit includes a rotating electrical machine; a rotation sensor that detects a rotational position of a rotor of the rotating electrical machine, and a storage medium. In an inspecting step of measuring a counter electromotive force by mechanically driving th... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973500 | Control apparatus for motor A normal revolution number calculation unit calculates a normal revolution number of a driving motor generator in every control period, based on a signal from a rotational position sensor. A moving average calculation unit calculates a moving average revolution numb... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973438 | AC generator for vehicles AC generator for vehicles is provided with a frame that supports a rotor and a stator, a rectifier that rectifies an output of the stator and has an output terminal, and a rear cover that covers electric parts including the rectifier. The rear cover is provided with... | 07/05/2011 |
