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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7742027 | Pixel circuit and display apparatus Disclosed herein is a pixel circuit, including: three pixels to which three primary colors are allocated; and a power supply line. In the pixel circuit, each of the three pixels includes a sampling transistor configured to sample an image signal, a retaining capacit... | 06/22/2010 |
| 6811563 | Portable light delivery apparatus and methods for delivering light to the human body A device is provided for delivering light to the blood supply of a human body through a non-ocular skin area. The device has a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) spaced apart from each other and extending through apertures for emitting light to the body and a... | 11/02/2004 |
| 7445627 | Polyaxial pedicle screw assembly A fastener and a bone fixation assembly for the internal fixation of vertebral bodies such as a pedicle screw is provided which allows a detachable tulip to be provisionally locked to a pedicle screw, while separately, the rod securely locks to the tulip. According ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7437880 | Pump bypass control apparatus and apparatus and method for maintaining a predetermined flow-through rate of a fluid through a pump A bypass control apparatus is used with a pump pumping a fluid therethrough. A bypass flow line circulates fluid about the pump. A bypass valve is interposed in the bypass flow line and moves between an opened state to permit the fluid to circulate through the bypas... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7148853 | Recording/playback apparatus A recording/playback apparatus which accommodates in a cassette shell a recording medium and which performs recording and/or playback with respect to the recording medium cassette provided with a cassette-side antenna connected to an in-cassette memory recording inf... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7132992 | Antenna apparatus In order to have an antenna apparatus small in size and capable of switching its directivity pattern to be adaptive to multiple frequencies, the present invention provides an antenna apparatus having a first antenna element formed at an approximately center position... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130224 | Composite storage circuit and semiconductor device having the same composite storage circuit An object of the present invention is to provide a compound storage circuit that includes a storage circuit including a volatile storage circuit and a nonvolatile storage circuit connected in parallel to each other and that is arranged to be capable of an instant-on... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7131018 | Electronic apparatus and power supplying method A system LSI contains a main circuit and an eDRAM. The main circuit contains a standby controlling circuit and a CPU. Each circuit block receives power through independent power lines. Power is always supplied to the standby controlling circuit. When the system LSI ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7110901 | Correction method for sensor output Above a measuring object (2), an LEDs (4) for use in light irradiation and a CMOS area sensor (8) with an image-forming lens (6) interpolated in between are installed. In order to detect the quantity of light from the LEDs (4), a p... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7094049 | Quartz glass single hole nozzle for feeding fluid and quartz glass multi-hole burner head for feeding fluid The present invention provides a quartz glass single hole nozzle for feeding fluid capable of performing high-precision control of a flow rate, a burner for heat processing equipped with the quartz glass single hole nozzle, a quartz glass multihole burner head for f... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7078262 | Semiconductor wafer transport method and semiconductor wafer transport apparatus using the same A wafer formed thin through a back grinding process is placed on a support table included in an alignment stage. When a faulty suction is caused by a warp of the wafer, a surface of wafer is pressed by a pressing plate to be corrected and held by suction. The wafer ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7068431 | Optical device using photonic crystal and light beam deflection method using the same A compact, low-consumption optical device using a photonic crystal is provided. This optical device comprises a photonic crystal designed to have a shape of a dispersion surface with a strong direction dependence at a frequency, and light input means for allowing a ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7059105 | Continuous wrapping machine and continuous wrapping method of magnetic powder A compact and efficient continuous wrapping machine capable of measuring out certain amounts of a magnetic powder automatically and wrapping them in wrapping film, the continuous wrapping machine comprising a measuring drum, a sealing drum, and a sealing device. The... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7060220 | Metal melting furnace In a metal melting furnace, a separation wall 60 is provided between an inclined hearth 30 and a molten metal reservoir 35 to define a molten metal processing portion 65. The separation wall is provided with a connecting passage 61... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7060167 | Vacuum arc vapor deposition apparatus A vacuum arc vapor deposition apparatus can form a film of good quality without uselessly increasing a time from start of film deposition to completion thereof even when a trigger electrode induces vacuum arc discharge in response to turn-off of the vacuum arc disch... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058457 | Hot water supply system A hot water supply system operated by linking plural water heaters. A system controller is provided in every specific number of water heaters for centralizing controls thereof. A host system controller is further provided in every specific number of the system contr... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053507 | Linear oscillating actuator system A linear oscillating actuator system which is capable of canceling out the stator vibrations for driving a load with a minimum of vibrations. The system includes an oscillator carrying a permanent magnet as well as an output shaft for connection to the load. A stato... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053885 | Multi-directional input key and key input device Disclosed are a multi-directional input key and a key input device helping to suppress erroneous input through the input key and providing a satisfactory operability. The multi-directional input key has an operation portion, on which are formed rectifying protrusion... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050952 | Method of designing rubber composite Disclosed is a method of designing rubber composite executed as follows. A shape of the rubber composite, a shape of the each part (i) constituting the rubber composite and physical properties of a rubber material used for each part (i) are tentatively selected resp... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7049389 | Process for preparing of aromatic oligomers This invention relates to a process for preparing high-purity aromatic oligomers by effectively separating an organic layer containing aromatic oligomers or the reaction products of a polycyclic aromatic compound with formaldehyde from an aqueous layer containing an... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7041377 | Resin composition for vibration-damping material, vibration-damping material, and sound-insulating member The object of the invention is to provide sound insulating members exhibiting both high vibration damping performance and high sound insulation performance, a vibration damping material for affording such members and a resin composition for forming the vibration dam... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7020948 | Method for assembling a stacked core The stacked core assembly apparatus, which can perform assembly at a high speed while keeping strength of an angle indexing apparatus, comprises a press machine 1, a non-synchronous transmitting apparatus 10 and an angle indexing apparatus 7. Th... | 04/04/2006 |
| D517058 | Combined disc recorder and amplifier | 03/14/2006 |
| 6977996 | Fee collection system and method for call completion Methods and systems for administering calls on a voice network allow a user to selectively determine which calls will be accepted. The methods and systems may provide unwanted callers with an option to speak with the user for a fee. The methods and systems may provi... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6938051 | Method, storage medium and system for electronically viewing multi-page document while preserving appearance of printed pages An electronic Yellow Pages viewer shows the pages of a Yellow Pages directory as they appear in the bound version. The print queue used to print the bound version is intercepted, and each page is rasterized into a JPEG file or otherwise converted into an image file.... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6931001 | System for interconnecting packet-switched and circuit-switched voice communications A system and method for establishing voice communication between a packet-switched network and a circuit-switched network includes a network interface unit for coupling to the packet-switched network, a phone interface unit for coupling to the circuit-switched netwo... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6904054 | Support for quality of service and vertical services in digital subscriber line domain Offering vertical services to subscribers and service providers is an avenue to immediately improve the competitiveness of digital subscriber line access service, for example of the type offered by a local exchange carrier. To deliver high-quality vertical services,... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6895083 | System and method for maximum benefit routing A system and method for routing telephone calls is based on identifying caller goals, and maximizing the benefit of routing the call to the appropriate call center. The appropriate call center is identified as the call center best equipped to respond to the needs of... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6894991 | Integrated method for performing scheduling, routing and access control in a computer network An integrated highly adaptive method is presented to perform scheduling, routing and access control in a network. The network is made up of a plurality of nodes interconnected by links between at least some of the nodes wherein at least one path interconnects all of... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6885678 | Telecommunications network A system and method for controlling on a worldwide basis two or more telecommunications networks which are themselves capable of exercising a form of common channel signaling network control. The system uses an architecture in which a destination telecommunications ... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6882784 | Buffer tubes for fiber optic cables A communication cable for transmitting various communication signals. The cable comprises buffer tubes for optical fiber cables that are robust, crush resistant, flexible, and cost effective. To obtain these properties, the buffer tubes contain a polymeric mixture o... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6876855 | Use of land-based unit to provide delivery path optimization to wireless mobile unit A system for optimizing the routing of a call originated from a land-based terminal (43) to a wireless mobile terminal (47) utilizing the interaction between a server controlled Internet protocol network (45) and the home location register (5... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6870827 | Voice call alternative routing through PSTN and internet networks The advanced intelligent network (AIN) to determine routing of voice calls alternatively between the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and a data packet network, such as the Internet, in accordance with the quality of service existing in the data packet netwo... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6829250 | Automatic programming of customer premises equipment for vertical services integration A network architecture includes a switch that can examine and selectively forward packets or frames based on information encapsulated in layer-2 information in the protocol stack. The switch segregates upstream traffic by data type and aggregates downstream I... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6798868 | Call notification service for use with call waiting Using intelligent network processing, call notification allows a subscriber to determine the name and telephone number of one or more numbers of recent parties to call the subscriber. An incoming call to the subscriber's number activates a terminating attempt type t... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6755487 | Brake adjustment method and apparatus thereof A brake adjustment method and apparatus thereof are described which are capable of providing proper brake hydraulic pressure compensation without causing variations due to different adjusters and without lifting the vehicle. The apparatus comprises: (a) an adjustmen... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6757538 | Wireless mobile call location and delivery for non-geographic numbers using a wireline SSP+SCP/wireless HLR interface A system and method is provided for establishing a call to a wireless directory number that comprises either a non-geographic directory number or a non-diable directory number. A call is placed from a wireline telephone to a preselected geographic-based access direc... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6630993 | Method and optical receiver with easy setup means for use in position measurement systems Positions can be precisely and accurately fixed instantaneously within a three-dimensional workspace. A system of two or more transmitters each continuously sweep the workspace with two fanned laser beams which are preferably about 90 degrees apart on the... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6589647 | Thermoplastic elastomer composition In a thermoplastic elastomer having a matrix phase of a thermoplastic resin and a domain phase of rubber particles at least a part of which is crosslinked, use is made of rubber particles at least a part of which is conductive to provide a conductive ther... | 07/08/2003 |
