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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7938273 | Magnetic clamping assembly A vibratory separator including a screen having a filter element and a center screen disk. The vibratory separator also including a magnet disposed on top of the center pedestal support, wherein the center screen disk and the magnet are configured to magnetically in... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938200 | Apparatus and method for a hydraulic diaphragm downhole mud motor A downhole motor to drill a wellbore including a pumping apparatus having a first chamber configured to receive a first fluid and a second fluid, and a first flexible diaphragm disposed with the first chamber configured to separate the first and second fluid, wherei... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936253 | Remote control system Source of input of an instruction to a remote controller is switched between manipulation on hand and external manipulation. A remote controller includes an instruction input portion accepting input of an instruction for controlling equipment, a supply accepting por... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936107 | Drive wave generation circuit To generate a drive wave for driving a piezo-actuator. Drive data concerning the number of drive waves supplied through a serial bus is stored in a drive data storage unit. A comparing circuit detects whether or not the number of drive waves have been generated, the... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935946 | Ion implantation method and apparatus Using a beam current of an ion beam, a dose amount to a substrate, and a reference scan speed, a scan number of the substrate is calculated as an integer value in which digits after a decimal point are truncated. If the scan number is smaller than 2, the process is ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935945 | Ion implantation method and apparatus Using a beam current of an ion beam, and a dose amount to a substrate, and an initial value of a scan number of the substrate set to 1, a scan speed of the substrate is calculated. If the scan speed is within the range, the current scan number and the current scan s... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934304 | Method of manufacturing lined tubing A method to manufacture tubing includes co-forming a base material strip and a liner material strip into a string of internally-lined tubing and joining edges of the base material strip to form a seam therebetween. ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934054 | Re-fetching cache memory enabling alternative operational modes A re-fetching cache memory improves efficiency of a system, for example by advantageously sharing the cache memory and/or by increasing performance. When some or all of the cache memory is temporarily used for another purpose, some or all of a data portion of the ca... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933166 | Autonomous depth control for wellbore equipment A method for tracking a wellbore tool includes: obtaining a first image of the wellbore using an imager associated with the tool; obtaining a second image of the wellbore using the imager after a selected time period; matching the first image with the second image b... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932811 | Remote controller and remote control system A remote controller that can infer the intention of a user and that can control a plurality of devices based on the inferred intention is provided. A remote controller includes memory, a control circuit, and a transmission portion. The memory stores in advance, in a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932795 | Silent electromagnetic relay A silent electromagnetic relay in which a predetermined degree of silencing effect can be maintained regardless of a change to the specification, a higher silencing effect can be obtained at the time of return, the parts control is easy, and the cost of manufacturin... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930614 | Test apparatus and test method A test apparatus is provided for testing memory under test which stores a data string including an error correction code in the form of additional data. The test apparatus comprises: a logic comparator which compares each of the data sets included in a data string r... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928996 | Contact pressure analysis tool A method for improving load balance involves obtaining a graphical representation of a load distribution for contacts in an integrated circuit stack, analyzing the graphical representation of the load distribution to determine contact loads, where a contact load cor... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928681 | Disk apparatus capable of determining failure of spindle motor A control portion instructs supply of an offset voltage while a disk remains stopped at the time of start. While the disk remains stopped at the time of start, a differential operational amplifier detects a voltage difference between a first voltage supply line and ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926596 | Drag bit with utility blades A drill bit comprises a bit body and a plurality of cutting blades extending radially from the bit body, the plurality of cutting blades further comprising cutting elements disposed thereon. The drill bit also comprises a plurality of utility blades extending radial... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7923653 | Key switch sheet and key switch module A key switch sheet has a pressure sensitive adhesive layer for holding a contact spring by adhering to an apex portion of a dome-shaped contact spring at a back surface of a base material sheet. A thickness of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer at a region to be ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922003 | Magnetic screen clamping A magnetic claiming system for a shale shaker including at least one screen having at least two side ends extending between a first side and a second side and at least one attachment surface, at least one mating surface of a shale shaker configured to receive at lea... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921730 | Downhole rock scratcher and method for identifying strength of subsurface intervals Disclosed are a tool and method for identifying the relative strength of subsurface intervals through which a borehole has been drilled. The tool includes a tool body capable of being moved through a borehole. The tool body has pads mounted on movable arms. Preferab... | 04/12/2011 |
| D635960 | Earphones | 04/12/2011 |
| 7918943 | Dish washer In this dishwasher 1, a spring 33 utilized for moving a door 7 up and down is accommodated within a column 6 of a washer body 2, so as to be confined within the column 6, whereby the appearance becomes better while the sprin... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918573 | Light guide device and light guide apparatus An aspect of the present invention provides a compact light guide device and a light guide apparatus having high productivity and an even light emission property. A light guide device is made of a translucent material, and LED is disposed in a notch step portion for... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917331 | Deterministic component identifying apparatus, identifying, program, recording medium, test system and electronic device A deterministic component identifying apparatus identifies a distribution shape of a deterministic component included in a probability density function supplied thereto. The apparatus includes a standard deviation calculating section that calculates a standard devia... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913002 | Test apparatus, configuration method, and device interface A test apparatus includes a bus switch unit capable of switching the output ports to select which of the output ports an input signal is output from, a control unit for inputting a plurality of control signals, according to a test program for testing the electronic ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912011 | Radio communication system, base station, mobile station and wireless communication method In a radio communication system including a plurality of base stations and a plurality of mobile stations, a base station includes a reception timing difference report unit measuring a reception timing difference of reference signals transmitted from neighboring bas... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911411 | Projection apparatus A projection apparatus for inexpensively adjusting the irradiating region of light on an image forming device to irradiate the light to the entire image forming surface of the image forming device is provided. The projector including a light tunnel for passin... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907802 | Optical transmission module An optical module has an optical element which transmits or receives an optical signal, an optical transmission line optically coupled to the optical element to transmit the optical signal, and a board to which at least one end portion including an incident and outg... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907261 | Optical axis inspection method and optical axis inspection apparatus An optical axis inspection apparatus is provided with: a camera for capturing a light distribution pattern of a light source device projected on a screen; an image processing device for finding a cutoff line in the light distribution pattern; an acceptance reference... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904776 | Jitter injection circuit, pattern generator, test apparatus, and electronic device Provided is a jitter injection circuit that generates a jittery signal including jitter, including a plurality of delay circuits that are connected in a cascading manner and that each sequentially delay a supplied reference signal by a preset delay amount and a sign... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903776 | Jitter measurement apparatus, jitter calculator, jitter measurement method, program, recording medium, communication system and test apparatus A jitter measurement apparatus that measures timing jitter of a signal under measurement having a prescribed repeating pattern includes a sampling section that coherently samples the signal under measurement within a prescribed measurement duration; a waveform recon... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902960 | Door lock mechanism controller and method of controlling door lock mechanism A door lock mechanism controller includes a first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device transmits a first radio signal to a first communication terminal through a first antenna so as to receive authentication informat... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7901123 | Light emitting module and vehicle lamp A light emitting module includes a semiconductor light emitting element disposed on a rectangular board, and a pair of plane-shaped electrode portions formed on the board and coupled to the semiconductor light emitting element. The pair of plane-shaped electrode por... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900700 | Method and system for cleat characterization in coal bed methane wells for completion optimization The invention generally relates a method of determining completion criteria for a coal bed methane reservoir having a plurality of coal seams. The method involves obtaining an acoustic log and a resistivity image log for each of the plurality of coal seams, determin... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900504 | High pressure fracture tester A system for testing a drilling fluid including a vessel having a fluid inlet, a filtrate outlet, a fluid outlet, and at least one permeable media disposed within the vessel. The system further including a base fluid container in fluid communication with the fluid i... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900350 | Method of manufacturing a wiring board A circuit element comprises a wiring board; the wiring board comprises a substrate and a wiring formed on the substrate, and a lid joined on the substrate containing a part of the wiring with a binder and making a sealed space above the substrate, wherein if a spot ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899658 | Method for evaluating and improving drilling operations A method for improving drilling performance of a drilling tool assembly is disclosed. The method includes identifying a drilling performance parameter to be improved. One or more potential solutions are defined to improve the drilling performance parameter. A drilli... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898161 | Diamond electron radiation cathode, electron source, electron microscope, and electron beam exposer An object is to provide an electron emitting cathode achieving high luminance, low energy dispersion, and long life. It is therefore an object to provide a diamond electron emitting cathode graspable on a sufficiently stable basis, sharpened at the tip, and improved... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7896675 | Connector connection terminal comprising a pointed portion formed through Electroforming and connector incorporating the same A connector connection terminal has a fixed piece to be inserted to a base of a connector, a coupling portion extending from the fixed piece, and a movable piece extending in parallel to the fixed piece to both sides from a free end of the coupling portion and being... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7892019 | SAS panel mount connector cable assembly with LEDs and a system including the same A SAS panel mount cable assembly for providing access of target hard-drive resources to an initiator-host includes an initiator-side connector, two target-side connectors, and a wire-harness. Each of the two target-side connectors includes a power-link portion, a si... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7891497 | Peripheral sealing system for pre-tensioned screens A system including a first screen having a first frame and a first sealing element attached to an outer perimeter of the first frame, and a second screen disposed adjacent the first screen, the second screen having a second frame and a second sealing element attache... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890307 | Method and apparatus for drilling waste disposal engineering and operations using a probabilistic approach A method for determining distribution data for a disposal domain parameter to increase assurance in a cuttings injection process, including performing a fracturing simulation using a site specific datum to obtain a fracturing result, determining a probability of cre... | 02/15/2011 |
