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A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6890679 | Dual-porosity ribbed fuel cell cathode A fuel cell cathode comprising a cathode body having rib regions and base regions which connect the rib regions, the rib regions being of greater thickness and of less porosity than the base regions. ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6884269 | Continuous method for manufacture of uniform size flake or powder A method and apparatus for continuous fabrication of homogeneous thin flake or powder electrolyte material from inorganic salt, metallic or similar materials or from mixtures of such materials for use in Carbonate Fuel Cell (“CFC”) power plants. Electrolyte prec... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6850375 | Lighting apparatus and image pickup apparatus The present invention discloses a lighting apparatus including a light source, an optical member that is placed in front of the light source and provided with a reflecting surface for reflecting light from the light source or prism sections each made up of a refract... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6839442 | Audio signal processing apparatus In an audio signal processing apparatus for recording a plurality of kinds or systems of audio signals on a recording medium and for reproducing a plurality of kinds or systems of audio signals recorded on the recording medium, in a state where a mixing output mode ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6817787 | Shutter apparatus and camera The present invention discloses a shutter apparatus including a base plate, a plurality of blades which run between a superposed state and a spread state for opening and closing a shutter aperture and two arms, each of the arms pivotably supported on the base plate.... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6797425 | Fuel cell stack compressive loading system A compression system is described for use in conjunction with a fuel cell stack having first and second ends and contained within a vessel. The system includes members connecting the first and second ends of the stack, a compression plate at the first and second end... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6796727 | Camera including barrier mechanism The present invention relates to a barrier member slidably movable along the surface of a camera to a closing position for covering a lens barrel of a camera body and to an opening position for letting the lens barrel be exposed. The camera includes a pressing membe... | 09/28/2004 |
| D496075 | Car including toy-car, motor-car, replica-car and scale-model car | 09/14/2004 |
| 6788339 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus is capable of accurately performing white balance control by accurately detecting color temperature without depending on a luminance signal level. In the image pickup apparatus, a color evaluation value is obtained by computation from color... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6788878 | Reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus is arranged to reproduce from a recording medium a data string including image data and motion data indicative of motion of an image related to the image data, and to control the speed of reproduction of the image data according to the motion... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6788877 | Recording and reproducing apparatus A recording and reproducing apparatus includes a recording block for recording, on a recording medium, image data and error information indicative of presence or absence of any error in the image data, a reproducing block for reproducing the image data and the error... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6785468 | Distance measurement and photometry apparatus Provided is a distance measurement and photometry apparatus used in a camera or the like, which sets a distance between distance measurement sensors and distance measurement light receiving lenses and a distance between a plurality of photometry sensors and photomet... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6781772 | Driving apparatus, light-amount regulating apparatus, and lens driving apparatus A driving apparatus includes a rotatable rotor with a ring shape, a first magnetic pole portion, a second magnetic pole portion, and a coil for magnetically exciting the first magnetic pole portion and the second magnetic pole portion. The rotor has magnet portions ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6778767 | Shake correcting device, image pickup apparatus, shake correcting method, program for implementing the method, storage medium storing the program There is provided a shake correcting device that can prevent white defects of an image pickup unit from moving around on a display screen, thereby eliminating unsightliness of displays in correcting shakes of subject images, according to image signals that are outpu... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6776540 | Shutter device A shutter device of the invention includes: a shutter base plate having a shutter opening; a first arm member which rotates with a first shaft as a rotation center relative to the shutter base plate; a second arm member which rotates with a second shaft as a rotatio... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775476 | Camera system, vibration correction unit interchangeable lens unit and camera A camera system is disclosed, which comprises a camera having a vibration detection unit which detects vibration, and a vibration correction unit which is attachable to the camera and has a vibration correction optical system which corrects image vibration and a dri... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6771310 | Image pickup apparatus with optical beam shifting with independently controlled optical elements An optical apparatus includes an optical element for shifting an incident position of a light beam on an image forming plane, a plurality of restricting portions for controlling an inclination position of the optical element with respect to an optical axis by respec... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6771897 | Lens barrel and camera The present invention discloses a lens apparatus that can switch the aperture diameter of the light-blocking member using a body structural member constituting a portion of the lens apparatus. The lens apparatus includes a lens unit that is moved in a direction of a... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6757488 | Control apparatus for image blur correction An optical apparatus is disclosed, which comprises a detecting unit which detects a vibration to output a vibration signal, an amplifying circuit which amplifies the vibration signal and has a changeable amplification factor, a driving member which drives a lens uni... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754444 | Camera with vibration isolation function There is disclosed a camera including a correcting optical unit for correcting a camera movement, a calculation circuit for calculating a drive target value of the camera movement correcting optical unit based on a camera movement signal, a computation circuit for c... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6754039 | Cassette loading apparatus A cassette loading apparatus includes a holder arranged to hold a cassette, and a link mechanism arranged to support the holder with a plurality of levers in such a way as to allow the holder to ascend and descend between an ascended position and a descended positio... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6753984 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus is arranged to illuminate a transparent or transmissive original with light fluxes emitted by a plurality of light emission parts which differ in wavelength characteristic from each other, to select by means of a reflection mirror the wave... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6753779 | Electronic article surveillance marker assembly An electronic article surveillance assembly comprises a housing defining an interior compartment, an electronic article surveillance marker secured in the interior compartment, and a securement device insertable in the housing and having securement structure extendi... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6750908 | Image processing apparatus using recording medium which needs data erasing processing before recording of data A recording system comprises a non-volatile recording medium, a recording device for recording information data on the recording medium, the recording medium including a first recording area in which to record the information data, a second recording area in which t... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6748205 | Integrated circuit In an integrated circuit, a time-axis expanding circuit is provided in addition to a driver circuit for outputting a signal outside. The time-axis expanding circuit has an equivalent receiver circuit similar to an ordinary receiver circuit, and a D-type flip-flop ci... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6742941 | Camera A camera includes a lens holding member for detachably holding a lens device, an image taking device for taking an image formed by the lens device, a front main body member forming a front portion of the main body of the camera, a rear main body member which forms a... | 06/01/2004 |
| D490863 | Car including toy-car, motor car, replica car and scale-model car | 06/01/2004 |
| 6744468 | Lens control device for moving range correction A lens control device comprising a variator lens, a compensation lens for compensating for the displacement of the focal plane associated with the movement of the variator lens, a conversion lens disposed in an optical path in a detachable manner for limiting the ar... | 06/01/2004 |
| D490344 | Car | 05/25/2004 |
| 6741014 | Light emitting device and camera having the same There is provided a light emitting device that is capable of changing the illumination angle in the transverse and vertical directions. An emission unit includes at least an arc tube being elongated in a longitudinal direction thereof, and a reflection umbrella. A l... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6737190 | Electronic apparatus In an electronic apparatus in which a battery or a battery pack having a battery cell and a protection circuit packed therein is loaded, as a driving electric power source, in a battery chamber of the body of the electronic apparatus, a DC coupler having the shape s... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6731871 | Photocoupler driving system and camera using system A camera includes a first power supply output circuit which outputs a first stabilized power supply voltage, a second power supply output circuit which outputs a second stabilized power supply voltage lower than the first power supply voltage, a photocoupler which h... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6731339 | Lens control device with operator and signal control An image pickup apparatus has a lens unit detachably mounted on a camera body. A zoom ring is rotatably arranged on the lens unit. A magnification varying action of a zooming lens is controlled by a lens microcomputer according to the rotation of the zoom ring detec... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6727949 | Image pickup apparatus with moving image and still image focus control based on changing threshold value In an image pickup apparatus which permits switching between a moving-image shooting mode and a still image shooting mode and is provided with an automatic focusing device for focus adjustment by detecting a high frequency component of a video signal to use it as a ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6727940 | Image distributing system This invention allows a user to simultaneously control geometric parameters for a camera and suppresses a deterioration in the image quality of distributed video images while keeping the cost low. The invention includes an image sensing area calculation unit for cal... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6728481 | Apparatus provided with image blur prevention function There is provided an apparatus provided with an image blur prevention function, including: a blur correction driving means for performing correction of image blur; an actuator separate from the blur correction driving means, consuming energy of the actuator changing... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6722796 | Camera A camera equipped with an accommodating chamber which constitutes a periphery including a film spool spindle and which accommodates a film cartridge having a recess at one longitudinal end thereof, includes: a protruding surface portion which is provided in the acco... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6719463 | Drive apparatus, light quantity adjusting apparatus, and lens drive apparatus A feature of the present invention resides in that when a value of a ratio of a central angle of an outer magnetic pole portion to a central angle of each magnetized pole of a magnet portion is referred to as Y, and a value of a ratio of a thickness of the magnet po... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6720995 | Optical apparatus with a voltage controlled variable density element An optical apparatus capable of performing an image-taking operation in a plurality of image-taking modes includes a selecting part for selecting one image-taking mode from among a plurality of image-taking modes, a variable density element, and a density control pa... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6719946 | Anode support for carbonate fuel cells An anode support formed of a three-dimensional interconnected porous nickel plaque fabricated by sintering a bed of pure metallic nickel powder particles. ... | 04/13/2004 |
