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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6603340 | Delay circuit, voltage-controlled delay circuit, voltage-controlled oscillation circuit, delay adjustment circuit, DLL circuit, and PLL circuit An inverter type delay circuit, voltage-controlled oscillation circuit, and voltage-controlled delay circuit capable of realizing simplification of circuit configuration, reduction of an effect of power source noise, and reduction of jitter, wherein a del... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6603147 | Semiconductor light emitting device A semiconductor light emitting device using nitride III-V compound semiconductors is improved to reduce the threshold current density with almost no increase of the operation voltage. In a GaN semiconductor laser as one version thereof, the p-type claddin... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6598951 | Ink-jet printer The present invention provides an ink-jet printer having high resolution and image quality, low power consumption, low cost and containing line heads. The ink-jet printer emits droplets of ink arriving as ink dots forming images and letters recorded onto ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6596365 | Optical recording medium and method for producing the same An optical recording medium comprises a substrate having one principal surface on which uneven pattern is formed, and adapted so that light is irradiated onto the uneven pattern and recording/reproduction of recording signals are carried out by the irradi... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6594210 | Disc drive apparatus and method for generating wobble information An optical disc is irradiated with a main beam and a pair of side beams, and respected reflected beams of light are detected by a main detector and a pair of side detectors. A first push-pull signal is generated which includes wobble components obtained b... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6594097 | Reproduction amplifier circuit of hard disk drive The overvoltage applied on a head during switching of the head is prevented. At the time when the head switching signal changes, a switch S4 for turning on/off an operational amplifier Gm1 is turned off, and the operational amplifier Gm1 is turned off. Si... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6581843 | Record medium and data transferring method using nonvolatile memory A data transferring method for a nonvolatile memory composed of a flash memory. The flash memory allows a gaplessly read process to be performed unless a transfer error takes place. The flash memory comprises a first shift register, a second shift registe... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6581089 | Parallel processing apparatus and method of the same A parallel processing apparatus capable of flexibly solving at a high speed the problem of synchronization wait when a plurality of tasks are generated, wherein a processor element PE12 specifies pipe counters and calls up a plurality of tasks with respec... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6580233 | Cathode ray tube and intensity controlling method Disclosed is a cathode ray tube and a intensity controlling method achieving a reduced amount of factors for correcting intensity prepared and capable of performing proper intensity control so that the joint portion of split picture planes is inconspicuou... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6577285 | Gamma corrector and image display device using the same A gamma corrector inputs a primary color signal as an image signal to each of the differential amplifiers which are connected in parallel to each other and mixes a plurality of output signals which are outputted from the four differential amplifiers to ou... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6576938 | Image sensing array with sweep means for sweeping charges in non selected registers in the array An image input device or a solid-state image sensing device using a CCD linear sensor includes a main sensor array and a sub sensor array. A transfer register for the sub sensor array is provided with charge sweep means for sweeping away unnecessary charg... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6576377 | Photo mask pattern designing method, resist pattern fabricating method and semiconductor device manufacturing method For the purpose of a sufficient exposure tolerance and a sufficient lithographic process tolerance like the depth of focus while reducing the line width difference due to the pattern density of a resist pattern, correction is made to the overlapping width... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6576317 | Optical disc and injection compression molding die for producing the same An optical disc capable of preventing damages on a printing plate and an injection compression molding die capable of producing such optical disc substrate without raising the accuracy of the die are provided. An optical disc substrate according to one em... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6570828 | Optical pickup device having a movable-side member driven with a predetermined inclination A skew of an optical pickup device can be adjusted by a movable-side member itself which holds thereon an objective lens. A holder which holds an objective lens is supported by four spring wires such that it can be moved in the focusing direction and the ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6570729 | Recording medium and tape drive apparatus that calculates available partition recording area using maximum frame number information stored in a memory-in-cassette A tape cassette and a tape streamer drive for driving the tape cassette are provided. MAFN data and VMAFN data are defined so as to indicate the maximum frame number of all frames formed in a partition and the maximum frame number of frames in a valid are... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6570625 | Display apparatus and display method Anode voltages A' and B' corresponding to video signals A and B are switched by a first switch and supplied to an anode. Cut-off voltages A and B corresponding to the video signals A and B are switched by a second switch and added to a video signal by an ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6570098 | Printed wiring board and method for producing the same A printed wiring board reduced in weight by reducing the size and the thickness of a substrate in its entirety. The printed wiring board includes a rigid substrate 2, comprised of a core material 11 at least one side of which carries a land 23, and flexib... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6568815 | Picture projection apparatus An image projection apparatus according to the present invention includes a prime color component selection unit, made up of a temporal color separation sub-unit and a spatial color separation sub-unit, a modulation unit on which falls a light beam split ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6568289 | Planar shape characteristic measuring apparatus and planar shape characteristic measuring method A planar shape characteristic measuring apparatus and method, which can precisely and efficiently measure the characteristics relating to a surface shape of the measured surface of a disk such as a data recording surface of an optical disk including a las... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6567724 | Robot apparatus and method of controlling the posture thereof The CPU 102 detects that the posture of the apparatus main body has been shifted from the normal posture into an abnormal posture on the basis of the acceleration information obtained as detection output of the acceleration sensor 41. Then, it restores th... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6563728 | Semiconductor memory device and method for operation thereof A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cells each having, alternately provided in a word line direction, an active region (channel forming region) comprised of a first conductivity type semiconductor and impurity regions comprised of... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6563366 | High-frequency Circuit A high-frequency circuit, wherein there is provided a switching transistor connected between an input terminal and an output terminal, with a gate electrode connected to a control terminal via a resistance element, and with an effective gate portion of th... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6559983 | Holographic stereogram printing system, holographic stereogram printing method and holographing device A holographic stereogram printing system to print holographic stereograms with good efficiency and no drop in the operating rate of the imaging system and holographic printer. An imaging system control section of an imaging system comprises an operating s... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6556378 | Tape cassette having lid and slider overlapping portions In a tape cassette 10 in which a mouth portion 21 opened in forward and up-and-down directions is provided at the front portion of a cassette shell 20 accommodating therein tape reels 40 and 50 having a magnetic tape 30 wound therearound, a part of the ma... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6555594 | Photo-curable electrically conductive composition and plasma display panel having electrodes formed by use of the same There is provided a photo-curable, electrically conductive composition which is capable of forming a lower layer (black layer) electrode circuit satisfying both the sufficient conductivity and blackness after calcination in the formation of an electrode o... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6555158 | Method and apparatus for plating, and plating structure There is a method and apparatus for plating in which electroless copper plating is performed in a contact hole and an interconnect trench on a minute scale of a semiconductor integrated circuit device, and a plating structure. Organic material originated ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6554817 | Device for disposing excrement A device for disposing excrement is provided which can feed air to an interior of a diaper cup main body 2. The diaper cup main body 2 forms a space A as a passage for feeding the air from an air feed hose to air blow ports 2e, 2f, 2g of the diaper cup ma... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6551472 | Electroforming apparatus An electroforming apparatus comprising a container unit for storing the plating solution, a cathode part placed in the container unit and for holding an object to-be-plated and an anode part placed in the container unit face-to-face with the cathode part,... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6550051 | Lithographic data verification method and photo mask manufacturing method To reduce the time for verification in lithographic data and reduce the turn-around-time in preparation of lithographic data, a first lithographic input data and a second lithographic input data are compared in their data formats to extract data of the fi... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6549608 | Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and semiconductor device manufacturing method To provide a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and a semiconductor device manufacturing method able to form a sufficiently precise pattern by ablation. A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus comprising a light source emitting light of a first wavelen... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6549374 | Floating-type magnetic head with straddle-mounted spring-type flexure with pivot projection With the floating-type magnetic head, a load beam, working as an arm, and a flexure, working as a holder, are separately constructed. The flexure is attached to the base of the load beam by spot welding. An embossed (spherical concaved) portion is formed ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6548214 | Method of lithography utilizing orthogonal experiment to improve profile A method of lithography capable of optimizing its process condition more simply and precisely based on a limited number of experiments is provided. A line edge roughness of a resist pattern is obtained as a characteristic value for evaluation. The resist ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6546941 | Wafer cleaning device, wafer cleaning method and chemical mechanical polishing machine A wafer cleaning device is provided with a roll brush extending in an axial direction and having an end portion supported so that the roll brush can be rolled around its axis freely for performing cleaning by touching a rolled contact surface of the roll ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6545588 | Pager with rotating knob and character display for inputting messages A pager allows the input and transmission of a virtual unlimited range of messages. The pager comprises a character display control knob which controls the sequential display of alphabetic and numeric characters on a display. By rotating the knob, the dis... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6545435 | Cathode ray tube and signal detecting method in cathode ray tube A capacitor for outputting a reference signal is formed by using a part of an envelope. A reference signal according to an anode voltage is output from the capacitor for outputting a reference signal. An unnecessary signal component included in an index-d... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6541922 | Alternating current driven type plasma display device and method for the production thereof An alternating current driven type plasma display device having (a) a first panel comprising a first substrate; a first electrode group constituted of a plurality of first electrodes formed on the first substrate and a protective layer formed on the first... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6541913 | Flat display apparatus In a flat display device, display can be carried out with high definition and high density, and furthermore, driving power, that is, consumed power can be reduced. First and second substrates 1 and 2 are provided opposite to each other, the first substrat... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6541345 | Semiconductor device with SOI structure Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a SOI substrate having a SOI layer, in which a structure made from a semiconductor device is buried; a thick oxide film formed on the structure by selectively oxidizing the structure using as a mask an oxidati... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6539529 | Method and apparatus for designing integrated circuits and storage medium for storing the method Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for designing an integrated circuit, as well as a storage medium for storing the method, whereby repeaters are laid out automatically without overlapping with existing circuit blocks. A set of layout data is input t... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6538370 | Cathode-ray tube and electron gun having reduced radiation A cathode-ray tube electron gun can alleviate unwanted radiation caused when cathodes and a first electron gun constitute an antenna by increasing the number of conduction leads of a first electrode of a cathode-ray tube electron gun from one to a plurali... | 03/25/2003 |
