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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8002405 | Progressive power lens manufacturing method and progressive power lens A method provides for manufacturing progressive-power lenses in a manner in which an inventory burden of semis can be reduced. A progressive-power lens is designed by arranging a progressive-power surface on a convex surface and combining the convex surface with a c... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002399 | Solid inks incorporating a polyhydroxyalkanoate compound for enhanced properties A solid phase change ink composition that includes at least one colorant and an ink vehicle. The ink vehicle further includes at least one polyhydroxyalkanoate compound of the below formula wherein R is independently select... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002350 | Convertible passenger seat assembly A passenger seat assembly and method for converting the seat assembly between a three-seat configuration and a two-seat configuration includes a seat assembly base and first, second, and third seats mounted on the seat assembly base. The first and third seats define... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002218 | Combination ventilation and overhead stowage bin system A combination ventilation and stowage bin system including at least one support duct defining an inlet for receiving conditioned air from a supply duct and an outlet for directing air into a passenger compartment, and a stowage bin for stowing luggage mounted to and... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002122 | Apparatus for vehicle wheel maintenance A vehicle wheel rotation apparatus including a base defining first and second flanges, first and second rollers cooperatively supported between the flanges and defining a longitudinal axis of rotation, a stationary loading bar cooperatively supported between the fir... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002071 | Passenger's weight measurement device for vehicle seat To realizes an easy maintenance of the load sensor. A passenger's weight measurement device 1 comprises a left and right pair of fixed lower rails 3 which are fixed on the vehicle floor, a left and right pair of movable upper rails 4 whic... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002057 | Hybrid drive system A hybrid drive system includes an input member connected to an engine; an output member connected to a wheel; a first rotating electric machine; a second rotating electric machine; a differential gearing; a controller that controls the first rotating electric machin... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002055 | Power output apparatus, control method of power output apparatus, and vehicle equipped with power output apparatus The drive control process of the invention sets minimum and maximum control rotation speeds Necmin and Necmax to a minimum engine speed Nemin and a maximum engine speed Ncmax of an engine. When output of a torque demand Tr* to a driveshaft is attainable, the drive c... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001982 | Makeup compact The present invention relates to a makeup compact including a base, a cosmetic, and/or an applicator contained in the base, a support connected to the base via a hinge, a lid that turns relative to the support and a mirror carried by the lid, the lid turning relativ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001947 | Piston for internal-combustion engines Disclosed is a piston for internal-combustion engines, which includes a low thermal-conductive member disposed at the top portion thereof, the low thermal-conductive member including an alloy containing Fe and Mn. The low thermal-conductive member includes a sintere... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001854 | Analytical sample drying method and drying apparatus A soil for metal analysis having a high water content of 40% or more is dried up to 20% or less in water content within a short period of time. A filter paper 5 is laid over an inner bottom surface plate 2 of a nutsche 1. Powder of a supe... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001786 | Combustor of a gas turbine engine A combustor of gas turbine engine, including: a fuel spray portion that sprays fuel to create a diffusion combustion region in a combustion chamber, the fuel spray portion including a fuel atomizing portion that atomizes the fuel, and a diffusion passage portion dis... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001698 | Digital displacement measuring instrument A digital displacement measuring instrument detects a displacement of a spindle by an encoder and then displays the displacement on a digital display unit. With an imaginary base line centered along an axial direction of an outer circumference of a sleeve, a millime... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001677 | Automated tracking and storage system for use with an automated thermal battery manufacturing system The present invention is directed at a system for automatically manufacturing thermal batteries. In the present invention, thermal batteries are manufactured using a press system, a stacking system and an enclosing system. The present invention uses a tracking, stor... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001670 | Method for assembling at least two elements by means of a crimping rivet A method for assembling at least two elements by a crimping rivet including a head and a stem, and an associated fitting tool including a traction rod. The method includes the following successive steps. A securing step that secures a part of the stem of the rivet b... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001648 | Device for cleansing the skin, a kit including such a device, a method of making such a device and a method of using such a device A skin cleanser device may include a cleanser member including a cleanser surface configured to be moved in contact with skin. The cleanser surface may be defined by an elastically deformable synthetic material other than a foam, and may include cavities that includ... | 08/23/2011 |
| RE42631 | Method of controlling air fuel ratio learning for dual injection internal combustion engine in hybrid vehicle In a hybrid vehicle driven by a dual injection internal combustion engine including an injector for in-cylinder injection and an injector for in-intake air path injection, and assistive dynamic, to control learning of the internal combustion engine's air fuel ratio ... | 08/23/2011 |
| D643924 | Dental instrument | 08/23/2011 |
| D643809 | Battery pack | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001301 | Semiconductor device and electronic instrument A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor chip, and a second semiconductor chip which includes a high-speed serial I/F circuit which transfers serial data between the high-speed serial I/F circuit and an external device through a serial bus and is stacke... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001157 | Method, apparatus, and program product for developing and maintaining a comprehension state of a collection of information Aspects of the disclosed technology enable a knowledge worker to easily and efficiently develop and maintain a comprehension state of a document collection. One aspect of the technology includes a methods, apparatus, and program products that alter a relationship da... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000881 | Internal combustion engine control device The present invention provides an internal combustion engine control device which is capable of implementing a plurality of functions desired to the internal combustion engine. An adder unit determines a total energy E_total that should be generated by the engine by... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000858 | Vehicle mounted with an electric storage device, and electric apparatus for supplying and receiving electric power to and from the vehicle A charger can read an ID code from a transponder key of an immobilizer system of a contract vehicle. When an owner of the vehicle connects a vehicle and charger with a charging cable and brings the transponder key close to a reading portion, the read ID code is tran... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000852 | Vehicle preferential treatment system, electrically powered vehicle, server used for vehicle preferential treatment system, and vehicle preferential treatment method A vehicle preferential treatment system includes a controller mounted in a hybrid vehicle, and a server performing wireless communications with the controller. The controller estimates an SOC of an electric storage (not shown) and transmits the SOC to the server. Wh... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000521 | Stereoscopic image generating method and apparatus To mitigate binocular rivalry involved in stereoscopic vision, and to alleviate the fatigue of an observer. In binocular vision, a fused point corresponding to a point b in a left visual image 320 is a point a of a right visual image 321. Since the lef... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000516 | Manufacturing method of plugged honeycomb structure A manufacturing method of a plugged honeycomb structure including attaching a transparent sheet to an end face of a honeycomb structure; picking up an image of the end face; with respect to cells positioned at other than outermost peripheral portion of a honeycomb s... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000175 | Thermally assisted magnetic head having a semiconductor surface-emitting laser A thermally assisted magnetic head includes: a slider having a medium-facing surface; and a surface-emitting semiconductor laser. The slider has: a slider substrate, on which part of the medium-facing surface is formed; and a magnetic head portion, on which another ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000065 | Magnetoresistive element and thin-film magnetic head A magnetoresistive element includes: a detection surface that receives a magnetic field to be detected; a free layer made of a ferromagnetic material, having an end face located in the detection surface, and exhibiting a change in magnetization direction in response... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000064 | Thin-film magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording and method of making the same A perpendicular recording thin-film magnetic head comprises a main magnetic pole having a tip main magnetic pole part extending in a height direction from a medium-opposing surface and a base main magnetic pole part connected to the tip main magnetic pole part on a ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999997 | Electrophoretic display device, method of manufacturing electrophoretic display device, and electronic device An electrophoretic display device is provided. The electrophoretic display device comprises a first electrode provided on a surface of a first base member; second electrodes provided on a surface of a second base member so that the second electrodes are placed in a ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999980 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for binary and multivalue halftoning An image processing apparatus for converting a multiple gradation image into a binary or multivalue image by use of an area gradation method according to a screen cell is provided. The apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives an input pixel value of each pi... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999975 | Analog front-end circuit and electronic instrument An analog front-end circuit includes an analog processing circuit, an A/D converter, a calculation circuit, and a target register in which a black level target value is set. The analog processing circuit includes a clamp circuit that performs a line clamp operation,... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999957 | Input position setting method, input position setting device, input position setting program, and information input system An input position setting method of setting an input position for an instruction position by an instruction section on the basis of a pickup image data obtained by picking up an image of a display area when an operator instructs a predetermined position of the displ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999918 | Movable body system, pattern formation apparatus, exposure apparatus and exposure method, and device manufacturing method A laser beam emitted by an encoder main body enters a wafer table via a PBS from the outside, and reaches a grating at a point that is located right under exposure area, and is diffracted by the grating. Then, by receiving interference light of a first polarized com... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999854 | Digital camera for outputting image data according to application program, and peripheral for carrying out application program The object of the present invention is to provide a digital camera system capable of transmitting image information suitable for the purpose of image usage in a peripheral. Special information in connection with an application program used in the peripheral is outpu... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999826 | Color conversion device, color conversion method, color conversion program, recording medium recording color conversion program, image processing device, and image display device A color conversion device that color-converts colors of input image data into colors used in a display unit for displaying images using at least white includes: a ratio calculating unit that calculates a lightness ratio and a saturation ratio between a color reprodu... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999786 | Electrophoretic display and method of manufacturing the same To reduce or prevent metal wirings formed on one substrate and electrodes formed on the other substrate from being shorted. An electrophoretic display in which, a display part including electrophoretic particles electrophoresed by application of an electric field, a... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999770 | Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus The present invention provides a technique to improve the display quality of an electro-optical device using an electro-optical element which emits light with a brightness corresponding to a driving current. Each pixel can include an organic EL element OLED which em... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999680 | Safety equipment for freight loading and unloading docks To inform warehousemen that a vehicle that has arrived at a dock is situated so as to allow loading or unloading operations, the dock is equipped with a series of radio identification tags placed in succession along an access lane to the dock and it is verified by a... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999654 | Remote control method and system, vehicle with remote controllable function, and control server A remote control method for remotely controlling the operation of equipment furnished in a vehicle in response to a remote control request generated by a remote controller is provided. The method comprises the steps of (a) acquiring vehicle status information from t... | 08/16/2011 |
