Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7940212 | Method of processing a digital signal derived from an analog input signal of a GNSS receiver, a GNSS receiver base band circuit for carrying out the method and a GNSS receiver An acquisition unit of a GNSS receiver base band circuit includes an integrator with a number of preprocessors where an incoming digital signal is mixed with different frequency signals to compensate at least in part for clock drift and Doppler shifts. The resulting... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937794 | Plastic object for use in personal hygiene A unitary two component article for personal hygiene, such as a toothbrush, wherein the same is formed by injection molding of two differing plastic materials. The plastics do not adhesively or chemically bond to each other. The two differing plastic parts of the to... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936801 | Two-dimensional photonic crystal surface emitting laser light source An objective of the present invention is to provide a surface emitting laser capable of selectively generating a laser oscillation in the fundamental mode and thereby emitting a single-wavelength laser light. In a surface emitting laser including an active layer and... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933128 | Electronic device, electronic module, and methods for manufacturing the same An electronic device includes: an outline configuration including a first surface, a second surface facing opposite from the first surface, and a mounting surface coupled to the first and second surfaces; a first substrate including a first electrode; a second subst... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932677 | Lamp, light-emitting device, and projector A lamp includes a light emitter enclosing a material emitting light upon receiving irradiation of microwave, and a coil formed on an outer side of the light emitter. In the lamp, a position of the coil with respect to the light emitter is changed in response to a te... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932322 | Amide or thioester pre-extended epoxy-terminated viscosifiers and method for producing the same The invention relates to viscosifiers, especially terminated polymers that have functional terminal groups, said polymers being pre-extended by polyamines, polymercaptans, (poly)aminoalcohols, (poly)mercaptoalcohols or (poly)aminomercaptans and being reacted to give... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931478 | Electrical junction box An electrical junction box comprising: a casing containing a circuit assembly therein; a connector housing disposed on a bottom of the casing and adapted to be coupled to a mating connector; a plurality of terminal metals connected to the circuit assembly and passin... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7928935 | Electric circuit, driving method thereof, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device includes a plurality of data lines, scan lines, and unit circuits. Each data line is supplied with a data potential corresponding to a gray scale, and each scan line is supplied with a scan signal defining a writing period. Each unit circui... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928635 | Package for electronic component and piezoelectric resonator A package for electronic component includes: a rectangular package body, a lid hermetically sealing the package body, an electrode pad provided in the package body, a mounting terminal provided at least near four corners of a bottom surface of the package body and h... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927913 | Electrolyte pattern and method for manufacturing an electrolyte pattern A method for manufacturing a gel electrolyte pattern is disclosed, the method comprising depositing an electrolyte precursor by inkjet printing onto a gelling agent layer. A gel electrolyte pattern is also disclosed, the gel electrolyte pattern comprising either a m... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924542 | Power supply controller and semiconductor device A voltage-dividing circuit 60, which is formed of serially connected voltage-dividing resistors R1, R2, R3, is disposed between the source terminal S of a power MOSFET 15 and the ground. The divided voltage Va at a connecting point... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924246 | Pixel circuit, method of driving pixel, and electronic apparatus A pixel circuit that makes an electro-optical element emit light includes a transistor inserted into a driving current path of the electro-optical element; a current value setting circuit that sets a current value of the driving current path; a level holding unit th... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923961 | Vehicle equipped with motor and inverter A vehicle includes a motor for driving wheels WH, an inverter to drive the motor, and a control device to perform PWM control of the inverter. The control device performs synchronous PWM control in a case where an electric current supplied to the motor by the invert... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923293 | Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device wherein the electrical connection between two components is provided by capillary phenomenon of a liquid conductor material in a cavity therebetween A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: (a) transferring an electronic component that has an electrode and formed on a first substrate from the first substrate to a second substrate; and (b) forming a wiring line electrically coupling the electro... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920295 | Image processing circuit, displaying apparatus, and printing apparatus An image processing circuit includes: a plurality of counters that extract image blocks each of which includes a predetermined number of pixels from input image data, count a number of pixels having a predetermined value for each of the image blocks, calculate a pix... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918549 | Ink cartridge and printing apparatus An ink cartridge filled with an ink added with an infrared absorption material with a function of absorbing an infrared ray to distinguish the ink from another ink of a same color, the ink cartridge used in a loaded state where the ink cartridge is loaded into a pri... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917279 | Method of controlling a mechanical compression ratio, a closing timing of an intake valve and air stream A spark ignition type internal combustion engine comprises a variable compression ratio mechanism able to change a mechanical compression ratio, a variable valve timing mechanism able to control a closing timing of an intake valve, and an air flow control valve cont... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7908027 | Sewing machine A sewing machine including a needle bar that has a sewing needle attached in a lower end thereof; a needle-bar vertical drive mechanism that vertically moves the needle bar by a sewing machine motor via a sewing machine motor main shaft; an imaging unit that capture... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907239 | Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus Aspects of the invention provide a transflective liquid crystal display device that prevents display failure, such as an afterimage and unevenness like stains, and achieves a bright display with a wide viewing angle in both transmissive display and reflective displa... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907156 | Display device and electronic paper A display device for an active matrix drive includes a plurality of pixels each having display retainability and including a first sub-pixel through an nth sub-pixel (n is a natural number greater than 1), a selection switching element provided correspondingly to ea... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907136 | Voltage generation circuit A voltage generation circuit includes a voltage divider circuit which generates first to Mth (M is an integer of two or more) divided voltages using a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage lower than the first power supply voltage and outputs ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7906899 | Organic EL device, line head, and electronic apparatus with light shield A top emission-type organic EL device includes a first electrode formed on a substrate, an organic function layer formed on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the organic function layer, wherein light generated from the organic function layer is e... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7905608 | Light source device and image display device having a wavelength selective element A light source device includes: a plurality of light emitting elements that emit laser light; and a wavelength selective element that includes a light selective region functioning as a resonator mirror of the light emitting element by selecting light of predetermine... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7905568 | Liquid property detection device, liquid container, image forming device, and liquid property detection method A liquid property detection device includes: an electromotive force obtaining unit that obtains an electromotive force which is generated between two electrodes in a liquid container, the two electrodes formed by metals having respectively different ionization tende... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903186 | Electro-optical device, method of manufacturing electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device includes, on a substrate, a plurality of pixel portions arranged in a pixel region; a peripheral circuit which is placed in a peripheral region located at a periphery of the pixel region, and controls the plurality of pixel portions; image ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902751 | Organic electroluminescent device, method for producing the same, and electronic apparatus An organic electroluminescent device includes a substrate; a plurality of light-emitting elements, each including an organic light-emitting layer held between a pair of electrodes; a display region which overlaps the substrate in plan view and in which the light-emi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902745 | Organic electroluminescent unit, method for manufacturing organic electroluminescent unit, and electronic apparatus An organic electroluminescent unit includes an anode, a cathode, a light-emitting layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, a hole transport layer disposed between the anode and the light-emitting layer, and a hole transport layer-protecting layer disposed b... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7901741 | Apparatus and method for producing color filters by discharging material The present invention provides a system which shortens the scanning time with an ink jet head for forming a pattern of filter elements of a color filter, picture element pixels of an electroluminescence (EL) device, or the like. An apparatus for producing a color fi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900533 | Control device for automatic transmission A controller of an automatic transmission can be set to be in a first control mode and a second control mode for controlling a transmission gear ratio of the automatic transmission. The controller in the second control mode automatically changes the transmission gea... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899588 | Externally chargeable electric/hybrid vehicle An object is to take measures to reduce engine exhaust gas of an externally chargeable electric/hybrid vehicle. An externally chargeable electric/hybrid vehicle comprises a battery for supplying electrical power to the motor, a generator that charges the battery wit... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898512 | Image display device and electronic apparatus An image display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixel display portions arranged in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction thereof, a plurality of slits arranged on the display panel so as to correspond to spaces between the pixel dis... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898208 | Control device and corresponding control method for a boost converter in a motor drive system A boost converter boosts a DC voltage of a DC power supply. An inverter converts the output voltage of the boost converter into an AC voltage. A control device that controls the boost converter reduces an output voltage instruction value of the boost converter when ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895894 | Driver device, physical quantity measuring device, and electronic instrument A driver device includes a gain control amplifier that causes a vibrator to produce driving vibrations by controlling an oscillation amplitude in an oscillation loop, a signal generation circuit that generates a signal having a given frequency, and a modulation circ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895887 | Method and apparatus for coaxially aligning tire with support rims The present invention aims to coaxially aligning a tire with support rims with high accuracy by eliminating an effect of a tread outer surface. A radial inner end position of the bead portion of the tire his detected by a photoelectric sensor at circumferenti... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895818 | Method for detecting ice ingestion in a gas turbine engine A method of detecting an ice shedding event in a gas turbine engine, the engine having a rotor comprising a compressor drivingly connected via a shaft to a turbine; the method for detecting an ice shedding event comprising the steps of measuring the temperature at r... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7891827 | Projector A projector, includes: a light source, an optical modulator that modulates a light beam emitted from the light source to form an optical image, a projection optical device that projects the formed optical image, an exterior casing that accommodates the light source,... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7886453 | Method for measuring a workpiece using a machine tool A method is described for measuring a workpiece on a machine tool using an analogue probe having a deflectable stylus. The method comprises the step of taking a workpiece having a nominal surface profile, the workpiece being located within the working area of the ma... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886037 | Information distribution system, registration apparatus, information processing apparatus, recording medium having registration program memorized in it, and storage medium having information processing program memorized in it An information delivery system or the like which autonomously distribute and arrange contents as many as a number necessary inside the delivery system at appropriate positions inside the delivery system without providing a server or the like which administrates ubie... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885777 | Probe calibration A method of calibrating a probe is disclosed said probe being mounted on a machine and having a stylus with a workpiece contacting tip, comprising calculating calibration information for the probe for a first orientation of the probe, and rotating the calibration in... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7884927 | Power transmission control device, non-contact power transmission system, power transmitting device, electronic instrument, and waveform monitor circuit A power transmission control device includes a power-transmitting-side control circuit that controls an operation of a power transmitting device, a driver control circuit that controls operations of a first power transmitting driver and a second power transmitting d... | 02/08/2011 |
