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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7536330 | Fixed rate financing instrument offering a dividend or partially guaranteed by third party to issuance, method for establishing a market for the same, method for directly public-offering the same on-line A fixed rate financing instrument issued by a corporation, government, or other organization which pays a fixed interest rate and/or dividend as secured by an issuing entity's promise to pay and partially guaranteed by a third party to issuance. An operation financi... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535640 | Imaging system for emulation of a high aperture scanning system An optical imaging system for inspection microscopes with which lithography masks can be checked for defects particularly through emulation of high-aperture scanner systems is provided. The imaging system for emulating high-aperture scanner systems includes imaging ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535141 | Motor with thrust bearing holder A motor includes a stator having a stator core, a rotor, a case, and a bearing. The motor may further include a bearing hold member provided with a through hole into which the bearing is inserted and which is disposed at one end side to the stator core and a spring ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533991 | Ophthalmological appliance comprising an eye tracker The present invention is directed to an arrangement and a method for eye examination and/or for determining biometric eye data in which the movement of the eyes is compensated through the use of an eye tracker unit. The arrangement comprises a controllable digital i... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533955 | Recording apparatus having radiator joined to common voltage wire A recording apparatus, including: a recording head including an actuator; a head holder holding the head; a circuit board disposed on the holder and configured to be connected to an external signal source; a drive circuit operable to drive the actuator; a flexible w... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7503555 | System for and a method of producing a book on demand A system for manufacturing a book on demand includes a first printing unit for printing a first component of the book (i.e. a cover), a second printing unit for printing a second component of the book (i.e. a text block), and a binding station for binding the first ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7503507 | Wireless IC tag and manufacturing method of the same A compact wireless IC tag incorporating a pressure sensor in an IC chip. The IC chip of the wireless IC tag has SOI structure comprising a silicon sheet layer, a silicon device layer which is formed on the upper side of the silicon sheet layer, and a thin silicon ox... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7503294 | Apparatus for controlling valve opening/closing timing A valve opening/closing timing controlling apparatus includes a housing member 3 rotatable together with a timing gear 110 (drive member), a rotor member 2 rotatably assembled with the housing member 3, a vane 70 portion of the rot... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502302 | Optical recording and reading equipment Disclosed herewith is a data recording and reading equipment capable of reducing laser noise easily. At first, a laser beam source that can reduce the laser noise when reading data from a subject optical disk is obtained. A modulator capable of varying laser attenua... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502189 | Apparatus, signal-processing circuit and device for magnetic recording system To effectively suppress a signal in a low frequency region in which the medium noise and the signal distortion are concentrated, and in order to effectively utilize a detected component of the reproduced signal in the low frequency region, a target of partial respon... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502165 | Arrangement for regulating the temperature of the sample space of a microscope The invention is directed to an arrangement for regulating the temperature of the sample space of a microscope, preferably for observing cells (live cell imaging) with an objective turret carrying objectives, a sample holder serving to receive a sample, a heating or... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502108 | Assembly and method for identifying coatings lying on the surface of components and for determining their characteristics The invention is directed to an arrangement for detecting coatings which are arranged on surfaces of structural component parts or objects and for determining the chemical characteristics and surface properties of these coatings. It comprises a light source for illu... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501877 | Superconducting single flux quantum modulator circuit Objects of the present invention are to provide an integration circuit which produces no integration leak so that the bit accuracy is improved in a sigma-delta modulation circuit or a delta modulator circuit, which is based on a single flux quantum circuit that uses... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501347 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same In a semiconductor device, capacitance between copper interconnections is decreased and the insulation breakdown is improved simultaneously, and a countermeasure is taken for misalignment via by a manufacturing method including the steps of forming an interconnectio... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501176 | Highly moisture proof film and method of manufacturing the same The present invention makes it possible to provide a film exhibiting an excellent oxygen-gas barrier properties and an excellent moisture proofness, the film containing at least a multivalent metal salt of a polycarboxylate-based polymer (A), the film having the den... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7500753 | Optical system for a fundus camera The invention is directed to an optical system for a fundus camera in which lens pairs are tilted relative to the imaging beam path to prevent flare. This tilting is carried out in two planes and these planes are preferably oriented perpendicular to one another.... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7500609 | Medium processing device A medium processing device is provided having a front panel which is formed with an aperture where a magnetic recording medium is inserted into or ejected from and which partitions an outside of a device from an inside of the device. A magnetic head is provided in t... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7500059 | Inter-processor communication method using a shared cache memory in a storage system When communications among a plurality of processors employed in a network storage system are required, any of the processors initiating a communication on the transmission side issues a request to an I/O processing apparatus, which is used for controlling a disk uni... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499678 | Antenna sharing device and wireless communication terminal using the same A compact, inexpensive antenna sharing device meeting requirements in terms of transmitter distortion characteristic and ESD characteristic is provided which separates and combines signals transmitted and received in first to third signal bands and which thereby ena... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499573 | Plant growing analyzing system and method There are provided an image acquisition system capable of storing high-accuracy measurement of changes in the shape of a plant growing process in image information with high accuracy and an analyzing method for analyzing an acquired image to analyze plant growing. | 03/03/2009 |
| 7498607 | Epi-structure with uneven multi-quantum well and the method thereof An Epi-Structure of light-emitting device, comprising: a first semiconductor conductive layer forming on a substrate; an active layer forming on a first semiconductor conductive layer with Multi-Quantum Well (MQW); and a second semiconductor conductive layer forming... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7498561 | Arrangement for the detection of illumination radiation in a laser scanning microscope An arrangement for the detection of the illumination radiation in a laser scanning microscope, wherein a portion of the illumination radiation is coupled out and detected at the main color splitter, wherein light transmitted through the main color splitter is advant... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7498076 | Methods for manufacturing porous dielectric substrates including patterned electrodes A method for manufacturing a porous dielectric substrate including patterned electrodes includes a patterned electrode-forming step of preparing a support plate having a releasable flat face and then forming the patterned electrodes on the flat face, a porous dielec... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7497960 | Method for manufacturing a filter A method for manufacturing a filter is provided which can easily manufacture the filter that has both excellent anti-corrosion properties and anti-abrasion properties. In the method, a first substrate is produced that has a plurality of holes, a ceramic layer will b... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7497558 | Piezoelectric actuator and liquid-droplet jetting head A piezoelectric actuator includes individual inner-electrodes arranged between stacked ceramic sheets, individual surface-electrodes arranged in a row in a row-direction on a top surface of the stacked ceramic sheets, and connection electrodes connecting the individ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7497165 | Blasting method by controlling oxygen supply A blasting method of blasting an explosive device at least containing an explosive and a chemical agent in a sealed pressure vessel that prevents soot generation during blasting and improves an efficiency of decomposing the chemical agent. First, a transported chemi... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496071 | Mobile node, server, and communication system Since, in Mobile IP, the correspondence of one Mobile Node home address and a care-of address is assumed to be one to one, it is not possible to associate multiple care-of addresses with one home addresses, select an appropriate care-of address from among these and ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7496025 | Optical disc drive apparatus with an indirect semiconductor laser containing an asymmetric quantum well structure An indirect semiconductor laser having an indirect semiconductor used as the material of an active layer is used, instead of a conventional direct semiconductor laser so as to obtain a reproducing optical source, in order to reduce optical interference noise of the ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495432 | Angle detecting apparatus An angle detection apparatus includes a rotation member including at least one north magnetic polar region and at least one south magnetic polar region alternately arranged around a rotation center, a magnetic field detecting portion having a magnetic plate and dete... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7493888 | Air intake control apparatus An air intake control apparatus includes a body forming an intake passage for an internal combustion engine, a bore member retained within the body to be movable relative to the body and having a bore being in communication with the body and having an internal perip... | 02/24/2009 |
| D587225 | Display | 02/24/2009 |
| 7492194 | Oscillator including phase frequency detectors for detecting a phase difference between two input signals and outputting a control command signal An oscillator includes phase frequency detectors, each detecting the phase difference between two input signals (output signal and external reference signal) and outputting a control command signal for controlling the output signal to achieve a desired frequency on ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493479 | Method and apparatus for event detection for multiple instruction-set processor A method and apparatus are provided for event detection for a multiple instruction-set processor. In one example of the apparatus, a data processing device comprises an instruction execution device configured to execute a first instruction set as specific instructio... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492433 | Display device having a board for mounting a connector for inputting of video data and a board for mounting a display control circuit and manufacturing method thereof In a display device forming a board for mounting a connector which allows inputting of video data thereon and a board for mounting a display control circuit to be connected to the connector thereon on a surface of a display module opposite to an observation side, th... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492531 | Apochromatic condenser The invention is directed to an optical system with reduced chromatic aberration, particularly for use in microscopes for imaging the light source in the aperture diaphragm of a condenser. According to the invention, an adapter assembly is associated with a collecto... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492577 | Display device convertible from two dimensional display to three dimensional display A display device includes a fixed first display element and a movable second display element, the first display element and the second display element assume a first state in which the first display element and the second display element are arranged individually an... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493443 | Storage system utilizing improved management of control information A storage system includes operational control information stored in RAID disk drives for higher access performance over the case where control information is stored in shared memory. The operational control information includes monitor information, log information, ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493432 | Storage system with memories each having DIMMs daisy-chain connected to one another and control method thereof A storage system with excellent failure tolerance is provided. The storage system has redundant controllers. A first controller has a first memory for storing the data read/written from/to a storage device and control information concerning the reading/writing of da... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7491946 | Electrostatic deflection system for corpuscular radiation The invention is directed to electrostatic deflection systems for corpuscular beams which can be used particularly in microstructured and nanostructured applications in lithography installations or measuring equipment. According to the proposed object of the inventi... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7489700 | Virtual access router Access routers making up a LAC device or LNS device are given virtual router functions. The virtual routers are associated with either physical interfaces or fixed logical interfaces, L2TP tunnels, or PPP sessions. This allows one LAC device or LNS device to ... | 02/10/2009 |
