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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179449 | Portable electronic apparatus including a display and method for controlling display content based on movement of the display and user position A portable electronic apparatus includes a display, a user position estimating unit and a display movement estimating unit. The user position estimating unit is for estimating the user position with respect to the display. The display movement estimating unit is for... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8136418 | Electromechanical actuating assembly An electromechanical actuating assembly (100), operable in a plurality of fault-tolerant modes to accommodate at least the most probable fault situations. In the M1D1-only mode, actuator-moving power is transferred only through the first drivetrain (400 | 03/20/2012 |
| 8109971 | Orthopedic fixation mechanism A fixation mechanism and method of fixation, such as the fixation of a facet resurfacing implant to an articular facet of a spinal vertebra. The fixation mechanism includes a securing mechanism having a socket configured to receive a knob of a biologic implant. The ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7988712 | Method for resurfacing a lumbar articular facet Methods for treating spinal pathologies, and more specifically methods for treating articulating surfaces of facet joints. The methods involve providing artificial articulating surfaces for facet joint articular facets. In addition, various types of rasps may be use... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7922150 | Solenoid valve A valve flow-directing vessel (42) comprising a sleeve (44) having a threaded installation portion (84) for connection to a receiving member, a plunger (46) movable within the sleeve (44) between a closed position and an opened pos... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7913389 | Method of making a flapper valve assembly A flapper valve assembly and a method of making the same. The flapper valve assembly is mountable to a manifold as a unit. The flapper valve assembly can include bearings that do not require assembly on a shaft of the flapper valve. More particularly, the flapper va... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7853058 | Determining a viewpoint for navigating a virtual camera through a biological object with a lumen A method of orienting a virtual camera for rendering a virtual endoscopy image of a lumen in a biological structure represented by a medical image data set, e.g., a colon. The method comprises selecting a location from which to render an image, determining an initia... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843333 | System, methods, devices and computer program products for controlling electronic appliances within a local area A system, methods, devices and computer program products for controlling the operation of at least one electronic appliance, e.g. a TV, a music system, a lighting system, a kitchen appliance or an alarm system, located within a local area. The system has a mobile te... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7836669 | Lid applying apparatus and method with lid orienting device An apparatus and method for applying threaded lids to threaded necks of containers, wherein a lid orienting device is disposed in the transport path of the lid for engaging a leading side surface of a projection on the lid to cause the lid, as it moves past the lid ... | 11/23/2010 |
| D626698 | Aquarium | 11/02/2010 |
| 7770592 | Valve with freeze-proof heated valve seat A valve comprises a valve body having a fluid inlet and fluid outlet, a valve seat located in the valve body between the fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a valve member movable towards and away from the valve seat for controlling the flow of fluid from the fluid inle... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7754133 | Rotational molding process and product using separation sheet A product and method where a multi-colored product is rotationally molded with no or essentially no blending of the colors. A separation sheet is positioned in the mold to separate relatively adjacent portions of the mold cavity that contain differently colored resi... | 07/13/2010 |
| D618656 | Mobile phone | 06/29/2010 |
| 7724296 | Device and method for adjusting image orientation A camera device (1) comprising a support structure (10), a primary camera (16) carried by the support structure, and a secondary camera (15) carried by the support structure. When the primary camera (16) is operated to capture an i... | 05/25/2010 |
| D616034 | Roll-up display cassette | 05/18/2010 |
| 7688483 | Document reading apparatus and method of calculating position adjustment amount A document reading apparatus including: a first scanning section that moves in a scanning direction along a document surface, for supporting a first mirror to reflect an image of a document in a direction parallel to the scanning direction; an intermediate scanning ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686363 | Container lift A container lift intended to lift two containers arranged longitudinally that comprises a primary frame (4), external transverse beams (7, 8) arranged on the primary frame (4) with external locking means (9) for locking the short sides of... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7684634 | System and method for adaptive non-uniformity compensation for a focal plane array A method of reducing an amount of fixed pattern noise from an image signal generated by an image sensor. The method includes, for each operational pixel in the image signal, applying a recursively updated offset term to generate a corrected image signal. The offset ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684299 | Control apparatus, a control method and an information access apparatus A control apparatus is provided for controlling a drive apparatus to access a rewritable information recording medium using a first file system. The control apparatus includes a first determination means for determining whether or not a matter which is not permitted... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7679367 | 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... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675290 | 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... | 03/09/2010 |
| D610719 | Barrier panel foot | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664417 | Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same A fixing apparatus and an image forming apparatus of the present invention are arranged so that a fixing control section causes a fixing roller to additionally rotate so that the additional rotation corresponds to a driving delay time also after turning OFF an exter... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7648378 | Pipestring comprising composite pipe segments A pipestring (12) wherein the leading coupling portion (221) of a first pipe segment (141) and the trailing coupling portion (242) of a second pipe segment (142) are coupled together. A l... | 01/19/2010 |
| D608019 | Barrier panel | 01/12/2010 |
| 7643266 | Trigger circuit for an electromagnetic actuator A trigger circuit comprises a first series circuit (16) defined by an electronic switch (17) and an electromagnetic actuator (10). A second series circuit (18) defined by a resistor (19) and a sensor (20) responding to dange... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7634122 | Registering intraoperative scans A system and apparatus for registering image data of a body, wherein the image data are captured in a detection range and the body is subsequently shifted relative to the detection range or vice versa. The image data are registered from the detected position of a fi... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7623900 | Method for navigating a virtual camera along a biological object with a lumen A method of navigating along a biological object with a lumen represented by a three-dimensional volume data set comprises generating a plurality of navigation segments connectable in a sequence, each segment having a start point within the lumen, a direction and a ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7606121 | Optical disk drive with target focus control An optical disk drive includes: a light source for producing a light beam; an objective lens for converging the light beam; an actuator for moving the objective lens with respect to an optical disk; a converging state detecting section for generating a focus error s... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7599362 | Method and device for communication channel selection A communication terminal and a method for initiating a communication link from a communication terminal to a remote party, where the method includes sensing input of an address number for the remote party. Upon sensing the input of an address number a plurality of s... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7591043 | Vacuum cleaner and device having ion generator When the electrically driven fan (14) of a vacuum cleaner is driven, air containing dust is drawn into the cleaner main body (1) through a hose (7) connected to a hose socket (8) and is exhausted into the outside of the cleaner main body ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7587966 | Web processing device and web processing method The present invention relates to a web processing device, comprising a plurality of pads Pi revolving around a axis X1, a cutter 30 for cutting a continuous web W, and a plurality of anvils Ai for receiving the cutter 30. T... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7543283 | Flexible instruction processor systems and methods The present invention relates to the design-time and run-time environments of instruction processors implemented in re-programmable hardware. In one aspect the present invention provides a design system for generating configuration information and associated executa... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7542851 | Electromagnetic surveying for hydrocarbon reservoirs A method of analyzing results from an underwater controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) survey of an area that is thought or known to contain a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir is described. The method is based on a wavefield extrapolation of narrow-band electro... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7541573 | Optical sensors for sensing the refractive index of fluid samples An optical sensor comprises a sensing element comprising a waveguide grating with a response that varies with an effective modal index experienced by light propagating in the grating and a sample window for receiving fluid which affects the effective modal index to ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7540206 | Self-cleaning sample extraction system A sampling apparatus for use with a sample analyzer comprises a sample probe insertable into a process stream, and an extraction cylinder including a variable volume chamber and a piston movable by an actuator back and forth in the cylinder to increase and decrease ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7524550 | Carbon-containing paper and panel The invention relates to a paper and panels made therefrom for flooring. ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523846 | Scribing method, cutter wheel, scribing device using the cutter wheel, and cutter wheel manufacturing device for manufacturing the cutter wheel In a glass cutter wheel where a blade edge is formed on a disk-shaped wheel, grooves having a predetermined shape are formed at a predetermined pitch in a ¼ or smaller or ¾ or smaller blade edge line portion of the entire perimeter of the blade edge. The ratio of ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7509909 | Support system and method for a screen printing unit A support system for and method of supporting a printing screen unit in a screen printing machine. In one aspect the support system includes a support assembly comprising: a support unit far supporting a printing screen unit (3) comprising a printing screen (... | 03/31/2009 |
| D587329 | Golfing aid | 02/24/2009 |
