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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7942394 | Locking support fixture A pin locking apparatus (1) includes a housing, at least one pin (40) and at least one locking piston (11). The housing includes at least one locking bore (12) and at least one pin bore (14). The at least one pin is slidably contai... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941462 | Method and apparatus for classification of coronary artery image data A polyline tree representation of a coronary artery tree imaged in a volume data set is obtained, and its topology is extracted to give a topological representation indicating the relative positions of vessels in the tree. The topological representation is compared ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941357 | Trading system A trading system whereby a user device to input stock market technical analysis makes requests from a computer terminal, wireless device or other electronic medium with intent to receive stock market technical analysis alerts from a server through wireless or land-l... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941064 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method and developing bias voltage adjustment therein Provided is an image forming apparatus including a charging device for charging a photoreceptor drum, a developing device for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the photoreceptor drum, a developing bias applying device for applying a developing bias ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939178 | Shape-changing structure with superelastic foam material A shape-changing structure has a superelastic metal foam structural member that changes shape (morphs) to change configuration of the structure. The superelastic metal foam structural member changes shape while maintaining a continuous outer surface, with the contin... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939046 | Microporous graphite foam and process for producing same A process for producing a microporous graphite foam including a matrix of graphite fibers joined by a graphitized graphite-forming precursor. In one embodiment, the process includes providing a plurality of graphite fibers; mixing the graphite fibers with a graphite... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938398 | Paper feeding apparatus A paper feeding apparatus used in a state where the apparatus accumulates paper sheets for an image forming apparatus to form images thereon and the paper feeding apparatus is attached to a main body of the image forming apparatus, wherein an engaging-holding member... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938118 | Combination laryngeal mask airway with dual blocking and fluid removal features and method The present invention relates generally to the field of laryngeal mask airway devices. The invention provides for dual passageways in a laryngeal mask which permits a physician to effectively isolate the trachea from the esophagus. In one embodiment, the physician s... | 05/10/2011 |
| D637485 | Beverage container | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936645 | Optical disc device This optical disc drive can read and/or write data from/on an optical disc 20 with multiple information layers including first and second information layers. The drive includes: a light source 3, 4 that emits the light beam; an objective lens 1;... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936644 | Optical pickup device and information processing apparatus incorporating the optical pickup A highly reliable optical pickup which is not likely to collide with an optical disk is provided. Relative positions of two objective lenses 100 and 101 (along a focus direction) on a lens holder 102 are determined so that, while the objective l... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935734 | Catalytic reaction process using microchannel technology The disclosed technology relates to a process for conducting a chemical reaction between at least one liquid reactant and at least one gaseous reactant in a process microchannel containing at least one catalyst, the catalyst comprising a solid phase catalyst or a ho... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934755 | Omelet spatula and cooking method An omelet spatula includes a handle and a body. The body is attached to the handle and includes a surface in the shape of half of a cooking food, having an inner edge and an outer edge that meet at each end. The shape of the spatula allows the user to easily fold th... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934106 | Power control for fast initialization of recording apparatus A data processing apparatus according to the present invention is capable of writing video and/or audio data to a storage medium. The data processing apparatus includes: a power controller for controlling powering on or off; a signal processing circuit for generatin... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932715 | Inductive detector with variable width loops on first and second surfaces of substrate An inductive detector operable to measure relative displacement along a measurement path of a first body including an electrical intermediate device and a second body including at least three windings. At least one winding is a transmit winding and at least one othe... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931977 | Information storage media The present invention relates to information storage media, and more particularly, to ultra-high density magnetic information storage media which comprises a plurality of discrete islands of magnetic material. ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931396 | Backlight and display A backlight is provided for illuminating an at least partially transmissive display. The backlight includes a light source. A light guide receives the light from an edge surface and guides the light by total internal reflection. Groove structures which are located o... | 04/26/2011 |
| D636763 | Headset | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930010 | Automatic antenna identification and configuration, and device including the same An automatic antenna identification system is provided that includes a connector to which a plurality of different antennas tuned to different respective frequencies or frequency bands may be connected. In addition, the system includes circuitry that automatically i... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929981 | System and method for identifiable communication channel setup between terminals without previous contact A method for sending and receiving a virtual “shout” between two mobile terminals is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting mobile terminals in a near area of the sending terminal and presenting the detected terminals on a display on the sending te... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929825 | Data processing device The data processor of the present invention can play back video and audio synchronously from an optical disk, on which video and audio data are stored in different areas. Each area consists of one or more unit areas. The data processor includes: a playback control s... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929604 | Data processing device and data processing method A data processor is provided to compression-code moving picture data without decreasing coding efficiency even if the moving picture includes a picture with particularly violent motion. The moving picture is obtained by presenting a plurality of frame pictures, each... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929399 | Optical pickup device and optical disc device When recording on and/or reproducing from an information recording medium having a plurality of recording layers is performed, there has been a problem in appropriately detecting a control signal at the time of the recording and/or reproducing, since reflected light... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929395 | Multilayer information recording medium A multilayer information storage medium according to the present invention includes: a substrate; at least three information storage layers, which are stacked one upon the other on the substrate; a plurality of transparent layers, each of which is arranged between i... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929176 | Image processing apparatus The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which can verify whether or not an image has been able to be correctly read and easily correct an image which has not been able to be correctly read. The image processing apparatus has a reading section | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927604 | Method of preparing a seaweed degradation product and a composition for preparing a seaweed degradation product A method to prepare seaweed degradation product comprising contacting a bacterium having 16S rRNA sequence consisting of the nucleic acid sequence as recited in SEQ ID NO: 1 with a seaweed is provided. ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926483 | System for controlling pressure in defined environment and associated method A system and a method for treating pain in a patient suffering pain are provided. The method may include providing a system inhabitable by the patient in which pressure may be controlled. The patient may suffer from a pain inducing condition associated with a pressu... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925309 | Rotatable module with two input devices for a mobile communication apparatus A portable electronic device (1) comprising a first portion (3, 53) including at least one output device (2) for rendering output data and a second portion (4, 54) comprising at least two input devices (10, 11, 20, 30, 40) for manu... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925214 | Distributed bluetooth system Bluetooth standard provides the applications with different profiles which allow for example only a specific number of devices operable in one network using the same profile. Without changing the Bluetooth standards the described apparatus and method provide a solut... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925182 | Image forming apparatus A communication unit has a first conveyance part connected to a toner cartridge and provided with a feed port for a toner from the toner cartridge, and a second conveyance part connected to a developing device and provided with a replenishment port for a toner to th... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925108 | Encoding device and dynamic image recording system having the encoding device To always maintain good image quality no matter whether the target bit rate for encoding is high or low. An encoder 210 includes: a converting section 103 for converting picture data representing a moving picture into a coefficient including a p... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924695 | Information recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method, and reproduction method An information recording medium is provided, which comprises a plurality of recording layers and a first disc information area for storing parameters relating to access to the plurality of recording layers and formats relating to the plurality of recording layers. T... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924686 | Objective lens and optical pickup device An objective lens for converging light onto a recording surface of an optical information recording medium in order to perform at least one of recording, reproduction and deletion of information on the optical information recording medium. The objective lens is a bi... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924409 | Rangefinder and range finding method A rangefinder includes: a lens system (3) including multiple lenses (3a, 3b) arranged so that their optical axes are parallel to each other and integrated together; an imager (4) having image capturing areas (4a, | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924014 | Electromagnetic surveying for hydrocarbon reservoirs A method of electromagnetic surveying of an area of seafloor that is thought or known to contain a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir is described. The method includes broadcasting an EM signal from a horizontal electric dipole (HED) transmitter and obtaining vertic... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923899 | Ultrasonic actuator An ultrasonic actuator (3) includes an actuator body (4) performing a plurality of vibrations including a bending vibration, and a driver element (5) which is attached to a long side surface (40b) of the actuator body (4), a... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923894 | Actuator, image projection apparatus and production method for actuator The present invention is directed to a bi-axial pivoting type actuator having a first movable section, a second movable section supporting the first movable section, and backlining. A first conductive portion and a second conductive portion for independently applyin... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923869 | Power adapter A power adapter includes a primary side for receiving power from a mains power supply; a secondary side for providing operating and/or charging power, derived from the primary side, to an electronic device connected to the secondary side; presence logic for determin... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923592 | Process for making unsaturated hydrocarbons using microchannel process technology The disclosed invention relates to a process for converting a feed composition comprising one or more hydrocarbons to a product comprising one or more unsaturated hydrocarbons, the process comprising: flowing the feed composition and steam in contact with each other... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922391 | Determining calibration information for an x-ray apparatus A device and method are provided that enable calibration information to be determined for an x-ray apparatus that performs a three-dimensional x-ray scan. The calibration information is determined using an adapting method, wherein the adapting method is based on a p... | 04/12/2011 |
