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Microwave Oven With Removable Storage Cassette in Dashboard of Motor Vehicle
A microwave oven adapted for use within a motor vehicle dashboard area. The microwave oven has a removable storage cassette, and slidable platforms for securing and serving containers of beverages and foods.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7947635 | Hydrodynamic bearing device and spindle motor using the same A hydrodynamic bearing device being low in torque, low in power consumption, high in reliability and best suited for miniaturization and a spindle motor using the same. The hydrodynamic bearing device in accordance with the present invention, dynamic pressure... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947291 | Modified surface antigen Novel proteins that constitute modified forms of a Neisseria meningitidis surface antigen and encoding nucleic acids are provided. The modified surface proteins are characterized by having deletions of non-conserved amino acids, and thereby being capable of e... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947257 | Method of intranasal administration of granisetron Compositions are provided for the intranasal administration of granisetron or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Preferred compositions are in the form of an aqueous solution. Optionally, the compositions comprise chitosan, a salt or derivative thereof or a... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946902 | Articulated walking toy An articulated walking device, configured for movement across a surface, includes a frame and a plurality of leg assemblies movably coupled with the frame so as to at least partially support the frame for movement across the surface. Each leg assembly includes a leg... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946776 | Medium feed control method for preventing overlap-feed of recording media A sheet feeding procedure supplies recording media from a medium enclosing portion to a medium conveying path. An overlap-feed detecting procedure monitors a thickness of recording media supplied to the medium conveying path, thereby detecting the overlap-feed media... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946039 | Hand-held ratchet tool for moving a pair of jaw members toward and away from each other A ratchet tool has a first jaw member pivotally mounted on a first handle. An elongate linkage has a first end pivotally mounted on a second handle and a second end pivotally connected with a second jaw member on the first jaw member. The second jaw member includes ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944018 | Semiconductor devices with sealed, unlined trenches and methods of forming same A semiconductor device includes unlined and sealed trenches and methods for forming the unlined and sealed trenches. More particularly, a superjunction semiconductor device includes unlined, and sealed trenches. The trench has sidewalls formed of the semiconductor m... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943224 | Endless belt, belt device and image forming apparatus An endless belt includes base resin, polyaniline, and alkyl imide acid. Alternatively, the endless belt includes base resin, polyaniline, and alkylsulfonic acid. With such an arrangement, it becomes possible to keep constant the electric resistance of the endless be... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942779 | Turning portion structure of industrial robot To facilitate an integrating operation and to make fabricating cost inexpensive. An idle gear for transmitting rotation of an input gear of a drive motor to a cylindrical gear is rotatably supported by an input side end portion of a specific one crank pin, and there... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942570 | Blender for blending foodstuff A blender for blending foodstuff comprising a motor housing that encloses an electric motor and has a first end and a second end. An upper housing is attached to the first end of the motor housing. The motor housing includes a fan driven by the motor controlled by a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7531674 | Process for producing propylene oxide A process for producing propylene oxide, includes the steps of reacting propylene with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a crystalline titanosilicate catalyst having a pore structure of a 12-oxygen-membered ring or more in an organic solvent as a medium capable o... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531042 | Methods for cleaning and maintaining membrane surface during filtration A method is provided for cleaning a membrane surface or maintaining a clean outside surface of a membrane during a process of outside-in membrane separation to remove suspended solids from a liquid phase. The method involves applying pressurized gas pulses to the me... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7530510 | Storage food processor A food processor for processing foodstuffs includes a housing with a motor disposed therein. The motor causes rotation of an output shaft extending outwardly from the housing. At least one food processing tool is removably engageable with the output shaft to rotate ... | 05/12/2009 |
| D591971 | Collapsible rocker frame | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529500 | Image forming apparatus and mounting member for the image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus having an image reading unit for reading optically an image on an original document and an image forming unit for forming the image on a recording medium based on image information read with the image reading section includes a mounting me... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529167 | Optical disk having wobble patterns representing control information On an optical disk medium according to the present invention, address information is recorded along a wobbling track groove 2. The track groove 2 is made up of a plurality of unit sections 22, 23. Each of these unit sections 22, 23 has si... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529155 | Wristwatch with earphone function A wristwatch comprising a main unit associated in removable manner with a seating prepared on a support and/or positioning element, which is in turn associated with an attachment element to attach it to the user's wrist. The main unit incorporates both the normal fu... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528458 | Photodiode having increased proportion of light-sensitive area to light-insensitive area A photodiode having an increased proportion of light-sensitive area to light-insensitive area includes a semiconductor having a backside surface and a light-sensitive frontside surface. The semiconductor includes a first active layer having a first conductivity, a s... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528081 | Fabric protectant A fabric protectant which is an ester compound given by formula (1): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, methyl group, methoxy group or methoxymethyl group, and R2 and R3 independently... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527738 | Method and apparatus for oil spill containment An oil spill containment system for containing oil spills or leaks from an oil containing vessel. In one embodiment, the oil spill containment system comprises a geosynthetic material defining a number of cells, with an oil absorbing material and an oil adsorbing ma... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527542 | Toy play set A toy play set for use in a vehicle having a beverage cup holder includes a body having first and second opposing ends and a side wall extending therebetween defining an at least partially hollow cavity within the body. The body has in a closed configuration at leas... | 05/05/2009 |
| D591553 | Skillet | 05/05/2009 |
| 7525203 | Back-up electric power generator for electronic components attached to automatic firearms A firearm improvement taking the form of a mechanical dynamo installed in an automatic firearm. Several components either replace certain parts of the firearm or are added to the firearm. In conjunction with the operation of the firearm, the components generate elec... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7524666 | Reductase gene and use thereof Provided are genes coding a protein having an ability of asymmetrically reducing a 2-oxo-4-phenylbutyrate to produce a (R)-2-hydroxy-4-phenylbutyrate advantageously from the industrial standpoint, the protein, and methods of producing a (R)-2-hydroxy-4-phenylbutyrat... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523726 | Air-cooled V-shaped engine An air-cooled V-shaped engine comprises a throttle body (10) and a flow-dividing plate (9) arranged ahead of a central cooling-air passage (8). The flow-dividing plate (9) is provided in a fan case (5) at a position forwardly of th... | 04/28/2009 |
| D591365 | Remote controller | 04/28/2009 |
| D591265 | Speaker | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523110 | High availability designated winner data replication Collisions are resolved in a database replication system. The system includes a plurality of nodes arranged in either a master-slave or network configuration. Each node includes a database, wherein changes made at the databases of each node are replicated to the dat... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521779 | Roughened printed circuit board A multi-layer structure including a base insulating layer and a thin metal film layer (seed layer) is prepared. A plating resist layer is formed to have a prescribed pattern on the upper surface of the thin metal film layer. A metal plating layer is formed on the th... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7520453 | Safety actuator for a food processor having a visual indication A food processor for countertop foodstuff preparation comprises a receiving base that encloses an electric motor. The receiving base has a shaft driven by the motor. A pedestal extends generally upwardly from the outer periphery. The pedestal includes an actuator. T... | 04/21/2009 |
| D590894 | Toy vehicle | 04/21/2009 |
| D590812 | Speaker | 04/21/2009 |
| D590782 | Two-step push switch | 04/21/2009 |
| D590776 | Electrical connector | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519661 | Adjunct use of instant messenger software to enable communications to or between chatterbots or other software agents A user's chatterbot participates in a chat session with other users and the other users' chatterbots. The originator of an incoming instant message is identified to such a degree that a buddy on a buddy list is able to determine that the instant message was sent by ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7516633 | Electric lock An electric lock includes a manual operation mechanism and an electric control mechanism. The manual operation mechanism includes a rotary knob unit, a first attracting member mounted fixedly to the rotary knob unit, a key-operated lockset, and a lock-connecting rod... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7516500 | Combined fabric wrap and carry bag A combined fabric wrap and carry bag is disclosed. The combined fabric wrap and carry bag includes a first piece of fabric and a second piece of fabric affixed to the first piece of fabric to form a first pocket. In a first configuration, the second piece of fabric ... | 04/14/2009 |
| D590209 | Glass | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515847 | Image forming apparatus with additionally installable apparatus having a positioning member To provide an improvement capable of simplifying an operation for installing an additionally installable apparatus. An image forming apparatus comprises a apparatus main body 11 and at least one additionally installable apparatus, in which one additionally in... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515840 | Image forming apparatus including a counting section for counting the toner image An image forming apparatus in which a toner layer is formed onto a developing roller which is restricted by a toner restricting member and rotated, toner is supplied to a photosensitive drum by the toner layer, and a toner image is formed onto the drum and transferr... | 04/07/2009 |
