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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6347267 | On-vehicle controller failure diagnosing method and apparatus Even if a power source is cut OFF while a failure is present and then the power source is turned back ON with the failure uncorrected, the details of the same failure will not be recorded as failure history data, thus permitting correct failure history da... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6332170 | Printing apparatus with job interrupt capabilities and control method thereof A printing environment is provided, in which the user can obtain prints of special print jobs without stagnation of ordinary print jobs which otherwise might be caused by the loading of a special print job requiring manual sheet feed or sheet change. A co... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6322185 | Inkjet printing device An inkjet printing apparatus having a print head and a control system to control the discharge of variable size ink drops from the print head. The control system controls a print operation to divide the printing of an image into steps, wherein at least a ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6306581 | Diagnostic assay method and kit for the detection of HHV-8 infection A method establishes for the first time a HHV-8 producing immortalized lymphoma cell line, which is free of EBV, CMV, and HIV. Large quantities of uncontaminated HHV-8 are produced by the cells, and the virus or immunogenic fragments thereof are used to o... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6288732 | Information processor In an information processor which stores and manages objects with attribute information added to the objects, an object is selected and attribute information of the object is stored in a storage medium. Then, in response to a command issued for copying th... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6285420 | Edge illuminated display device with light guiding member An illuminated display system having a display member and a light guiding member faces and extends in parallel with the display member. The display member includes a displaying element and a structural element. A light source illuminates the side ends of ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282035 | Image forming optical system in which the effects of ghosting are minimized An image forming optical system minimizes the effects of ghosts in an image. In one embodiment of the present invention, light is at an intermediate point of the optical system. Introducing light in this manner can result in ghosts being produced in the i... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6278526 | Image processing system for enabling setting of operation mode from external computer An external computer is connected to a main control unit of a copying machine via a control unit. The external computer starts a mode setting application and transmits various commands to the control unit. A ROM of the control unit stores a translation pr... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6274208 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal composition which contains a liquid crystal tolan compound, a liquid crystal ester compound, a liquid crystal phenylcyclohexane compound and at least one chiral agent. A reflective type liquid crystal display has the liquid crystal compos... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6272334 | Call management for a multi-site mobile radio dispatch network A multi-site dispatch communication network includes a hub controller programmed to expedite the connection between multiple radio cells to accomplish a broadcast of the radio transmission. A routing table is employed to provide an association between the... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6260973 | Projector The present invention is a projector having a photosensing means for detecting light entering the optical system from outside the optical system, wherein the photosensing means is capable of detecting only the light reflected from within a predetermined a... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6259569 | Zoom optical system An objective optical system has at least three lens units having positive, negative, and positive optical powers. A fourth lens unit can have either negative or positive optical power. The system satisfies at least one of: (A) 0.15ࣘ댤W/FLWobjࣘ0.28, w... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6257656 | Vehicle body panel mounting system A body panel mounting system for a vehicle has a hinge bar (30), a hinge bracket (32), a hinge pivot stop (34), longitudinal positioning collars (36), a latch bar (38), latch bar fasteners (40), and latch brackets (42). The hinge bar (30) is adapted to re... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6260000 | Three-dimensional shape data processing apparatus When the user inputs at least four points that designates the path on the surface of a three-dimensional shape represented by three-dimensional shape data, groups of three points in which two points are commonly included in two groups are formed from the ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6259539 | Facsimile device capable of properly recording halftone image and text image A facsimile device having a copy mode includes an image reader and a recording device and forms an image with the recording device based on a received signal from a communication network or a read signal from the image reader. In the copy mode, data proce... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6253595 | Automated pipe bending machine A pipe bending system employing a feedback and control system that provides continuous data to a programmed processor. The processor is programmed to automatically carry out an incremental bending cycle in which the pipe is clamped by a predefined pressur... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6256411 | Image processing device and method for detecting objects in image data An image processing device and method recognizing and deleting extraneous objects in image for data based on analysis of the image data. An object detection means detects an object region such as a finger or the like in a document image, and an image proc... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6249093 | Drive mechanism employing electromechanical transducer, photographing lens with the drive mechanism, and its drive circuit A driving apparatus, employing a piezoelectric element, for smoothly and silently driving a focus lens of a camera over a wide range of its driving speed. The driving apparatus includes a control system for controlling the piezoelectric element in such a ... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6247689 | Apparatus for a vehicle suspension system An apparatus and method for mounting a leaf spring suspension system to a vehicle is provided comprising three spring pins, two shackles, four wear washers, and four fastening bolts, wherein one spring pin and two fastening bolts mount and secure a first ... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6246151 | Drive device and apparatus incorporating the device The drive device has a detection circuit (15) to which drive signals are input from a drive circuit (14) that drives a piezoelectric linear actuator (12) and that detects the characteristic of the drive signals regarding a prescribed factor and outputs de... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6247031 | Image filing system for memorizing images read from a given document together with small characterizing image An image filing system which uses, in addition to main document identification data in the form of a keyword assigned to a given document, auxiliary document identification data formulated to be representative of a characterizing portion of the image read... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6244138 | Torque reaction device A torque reaction device (16, 90, 110, 130, 150) is disclosed which can be used with a power wrench (14) to open and close a valve (10) in a valve assembly (12) which absorbs the shock of opening and closing the valve. The torque reaction device includes ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6242204 | Methods of detecting non-small cell lung carcinoma and ovarian cancer Hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies specific for an epitope found in the amino acids of LCGA associated with non-small cell lung carcinoma protein have been found. The monoclonal antibodies produced by these hybridomas can be used in in vivo and in... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6240886 | Stratified scavenging two-cycle engine The present invention is a stratified scavenging two-cycle engine which can make exhaust gas cleaner. For this purpose, in a stratified scavenging two-cycle engine, which includes a scavenging flow passage (3) to connect a cylinder chamber (4a) and a cran... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6242248 | Bioreactor and related method A bioreactor (10) has arranged within its internal chamber (14) a bundle of liquid-impermeable hollow tubes (16), which are used to freeze or vitrify a biologically active material seeded within the internal chamber. When the bioreactor is ready for use, ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6237414 | Elastic surface wave gyroscope An elastic surface wave gyroscope includes two transducers attached on a piezoelectric substrate to generate elastic surface waves having different frequencies on the piezoelectric substrate, and two pair of reflectors for reflecting the different elastic... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6238066 | Two-dimensional area tilted illumination system having curved reflecting mirror A two-dimensional area tilted illumination system has a long light source for emitting a light flux and a reflecting mirror having a generating line generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of the light source. A surface of the reflecting mirror has a fi... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6237479 | Servo press controller The present invention relates to a servo press controller which can prevent the servo runaway caused by the malfunction of CPUs, the faults of a position sensor, or other troubles to thereby increase the safety of the servo press. For this purpose, first ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6239920 | Zoom lens system A zoom lens system capable of macro-photography having, in the order from the object side, a first lens unit that has positive optical power and is fixed during zooming; a second lens unit that has negative optical power and moves along the optical axis d... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6236892 | Spinal cord stimulation lead The present invention relates to an epidural laminotomy stimulation lead having at least first and second electrode arrays. To enable a greater effective stimulation length, the longitudinal spacing between the various electrode arrays is greater than a s... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6236389 | Image editing apparatus capable of setting image processing region on display screen An image editing apparatus includes an image display apparatus for displaying a read image. An area of an image region displayed in the image display apparatus is determined by the size of the read image. For an image editing process, a frame which indica... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6233363 | Image reading apparatus for a document placed face up having a function of erasing finger area images An image reading apparatus reads out images from above a document table on which a document is placed face up, wherein the apparatus detects pixels which compose a letter lying into a shadow of a finger in a finger area from a finger boundary, by starting... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6231192 | Projecting optical system A projecting optical system has a plurality of display panels, a color integrating mirror, a projection optical system, a correcting member, and a lens member. The color integrating mirror, disposed at an angle to any of the display panels, integrates the... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6231151 | Driving apparatus for inkjet recording apparatus and method for driving inkjet head An inkjet printer according to the present invention records images by expelling ink droplets by applying a pulse voltage to a piezoelectric element for driving the same. In the inkjet printer, the waveform of a pulse voltage applied to the piezoelectric ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6232700 | Electromechanical actuator that compensates for an applied load and apparatus employing the same An actuator using an electromechanical transducer suitable for an apparatus where the magnitude of the load differs depending on drive directions. An apparatus using the actuator in which the actuator is arranged such that a direction of a further advanta... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6228883 | Seed treatment fungicides for control of plant diseases A method for combatting plant fungi in a plant, which comprises applying to the seeds or tubers of the plant, an effective amount of a fungicidal composition comprising a fungicidally effective amount of a 2-alkoxyiminoacetamide compound, optionally in ad... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6227189 | Air delivery means for convection oven or cooling apparatus A gas delivery assembly for a heating or cooling apparatus. The system includes a blower and a duct in fluid communication with the blower (and preferably a plenum in communication with the blower and duct). The duct has a proximal end and a distal end wi... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6228125 | Image processing apparatus for parallel image processing and method therefor An image reading apparatus reads every picture element of an original image, converts the as-obtained analog signals of the respective picture elements into image data which are multilevel digital signals, image-processes the converted image data, and out... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6226067 | Liquid crystal device having spacers and manufacturing method thereof Disclosed is a liquid crystal light modulating element comprising a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal modulating layer interposed between the substrates. The liquid crystal modulating layer mainly comprises (1) a liquid crystal material for light mo... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6223747 | Condoms A condom has a ring (6) adjacent the open end (1) for expanding the condom to a maximum diameter to maintain the open end outside the vagina, and a tubular portion (3) extending between the ring and the closed end is of a size to form a loose fit around t... | 05/01/2001 |
