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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177546 | Furnace using plasma ignition system for hydrocarbon combustion An apparatus and method for the creation, placement and control of an area of electrical ionization within an internal combustion engine combustion chamber or a fuel burner for a furnace is disclosed. A furnace includes a fuel source, a fuel burner, a plasma nozzle ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8162411 | Integrally forged link for endless track An endless track link that is able to reduce stress concentrations and to improve efficiency of an assembling process of the endless track link is detailed. A stress reinforcing part is formed in the region in which stress concentrations are generated in a window ar... | 04/24/2012 |
| D657520 | Bag holder | 04/10/2012 |
| 8146464 | Machine tool and workpiece inner surface machining method using the machine tool To provide a machine tool not only capable of machining an inner surface of a workpiece into a spherical surface but also capable of machining a bearing surface including a flat surface and machining the combination of a spherical surface and a flat surface, and to ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139862 | Character extracting apparatus, method, and program The present invention provides a technique of accurately extracting areas of characters included in a captured image even in a case where noise or dirt of a relatively large area occurs in a background image. An integrated pixel value is obtained by integrating pixe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139861 | Character extracting apparatus, method, and program The present invention provides a technique of accurately extracting areas of characters included in a captured image even in a case where noise or dirt of a relatively large area occurs in a background image. A pixel value integration evaluation value is obtained by... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136174 | Urinal An object is to provide a urinal which prevents offensive odors, reduces the consumption of urinal cleaning water and prevents clogging of the urinal drain pipe line. The urinal of the present invention includes a human body sensor (7), a control unit (11 | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134821 | Static eliminator and discharge electrode unit built therein There is provided a static eliminator capable of weakening an electric field between a discharge electrode and a ground electrode, to generate a strong electric field between the discharge electrode and a workpiece, in which a first-stage circumferential chamber, a ... | 03/13/2012 |
| D655096 | Driver seat for a truck | 03/06/2012 |
| 8118181 | Rack assembly An assembly shelf includes a post that includes two main post sections and a connection section that connects the main post sections a plurality of through-holes being formed in the connection section along a longitudinal direction, a pair of connection members, eac... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8110848 | Substrate for epitaxy and method of preparing the same The substrate is used for opto-electric or electrical devices and comprises a layer of nitride grown by means of vapor phase epitaxy growth wherein both main surfaces of the nitride substrate are substantially consisting of non N-polar face and N-polar face respecti... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107818 | Tunable filter A light is incident on a refractive diffraction grating 13, and is distributed for each of wavelengths at different angles to be outputted. A lens 14 converts the distributed lights into belt-shaped lights, and the belt-shaped lights are incident on a ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8096737 | Spindle device of machine tool It is an object to provide a spindle device of a machine tool which has a simple structure and is capable of having high suction efficiency of cutting chips. A draw bar bringing engaging claws into engagement with a tool holder or releasing the engagement includes a... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8089093 | Nitride semiconductor device including different concentrations of impurities A nitride semiconductor device having a substrate electrode establishing an excellent ohmic contact with a nitride semiconductor substrate is provided. The nitride semiconductor device includes a substrate having an electrode formed on at least one main surface. The... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8083842 | Aqueous solution of chromium salt and method for producing same Disclosed is an aqueous solution of a chromium salt, in which the oxalic acid content is 8% by weight or less relative to chromium. In the aqueous solution of the chromium salt, the total organic carbon content is 4% by weight or less relative to chromium. The chrom... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8083445 | Holder main body There is provided a holder main body which has a simple structure, allows automatic tool change, and has high suction efficiency of cutting chips to be capable of preventing internal deposition. There is provided a holder man body having a mounting hole in which a c... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078759 | Method for prefetching of structured data between a client device and a server device The invention relates to a method of more efficient data transmission, in particular transmission of structured data, such as web pages, in a system comprising a server means and a client means which are interconnected via a plurality of proxy means, including a ser... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077300 | MTF measuring system, MTF measuring method, MTF measuring unit and MTF measuring program A MTF measuring system includes measurement result screen data indicative of an object image and an MTF curve image are generated in accordance with the object image data obtained by photographing the object and the MTF curve image data indicative of the MTF curve g... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8075932 | Fermented food and its preparation A method of manufacturing yeast fermented food such as bread, noodle and pasta, comprises the steps of preparing a starting cooking composition contains as main component bran powder and/or soy bean protein powder, gluten powder for binding the main powder and milk ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8075529 | Indwelling needle assembly An indwelling needle assembly usable in combination with an infusion system for infusion into a patient's body is disclosed. The indwelling needle assembly is comprised of a needle having a needlepoint insertable into the patient's body; a sleeve slidably fitted on ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072731 | Static eliminator and discharge electrode unit built therein There is provided a static eliminator capable of improving a sheath effect exerted by shielding a leading end of a discharge electrode by a clean gas so as to prevent the leading end of the discharge electrode from being contaminated, in which a first-stage circumfe... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069306 | Data area managing method in information recording medium and information processor employing data area managing method Area management information is cached in a cache memory by controlling the access size when an information processor accesses the area management information in an information recording medium. When the processing content of the information processor is to retrieve ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065988 | Four-cycle engine An average pressure P12 in an exhaust port at an overlap period T12 during which a period T1 during which an exhaust valve of a first cylinder unit is in an EGR opening state overlaps with a period T2 during which an intake valve of the f... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8061294 | Temperature-sensitive indicator To provide a temperature-sensitive indicator which, when using the temperature-sensitive indicator having a capsule packed with a heat-sensitive material, enables easy rupture of the capsule, without being affected by the temperature of a finger of a user. The indic... | 11/22/2011 |
| D648351 | Engine cover for a truck | 11/08/2011 |
| 8047750 | Bearing unit and main spindle device of machine tool provided with bearing unit A bearing unit capable of withstanding a large axial force based on a simple structure including: a bearing 10 having an internal ring 13 fitted to an inside member 2, an outer ring 14 fitted to an outside member 6, lots of rolling... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8047042 | Press forging method The present invention is a press forging method by which porosities in a raw material are removed and mechanical properties such as ductility and toughness of a steel product are at a required level in a case that a steel ingot is treated as a raw material in press ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8036463 | Character extracting apparatus, method, and program The present invention provides a technique of accurately extracting areas of characters included in a captured image. A character extracting device of the present invention extracts each character in an image with compensated pixel values. In more detail, the charac... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035118 | Semiconductor light-emitting device, method for manufacturing the same, and light-emitting apparatus including the same A nitride semiconductor light-emitting device includes a layered portion emitting light on a substrate. The layered portion includes an n-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer. The periphery of the layered portion is inclined, a... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8029527 | Device for local puncturing of skin A device for locally puncturing skin is disclosed, especially for applying permanent make-up or a tattoo, comprising a housing, a needle guided in the housing for movement between extended and retracted positions, and a diaphragm made of an elastically extensible ma... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028870 | Eyeless sewing needle and fabrication method for the same In an eyeless sewing needle, a periphery of an axial hole at the base end is heated to make a fibrous structure be a granular structure without directionality, and at least a part of a heat-affected zone made between the fibrous structure and the granular structure ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8015902 | Machine tool and workpiece inner surface machining method using the machine tool To provide a machine tool including a workpiece inner surface machining tool which is not only capable of machining an inner surface of a workpiece into a spherical shape but also capable of machining a bearing surface which is a flat surface and machining the combi... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8003256 | Positive electrode active material having magnesium atoms and sulfate groups, method for manufacturing the same, and lithium secondary battery having the same A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery according to an aspect of the present invention is a lithium-transition metal compound oxide which is produced by mixing a lithium compound, a transition metal compound, a magnesium compound, and a... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995321 | Ionization device An ionization device with increased rigidity of a coupling portion is provided. The ionization device includes a casing member for applying high voltage to each needle electrode; a coupling member for mechanically coupling a plurality of casing members in a longitud... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987314 | Non-volatile memory device and write method thereof It is possible to eliminate the defect that a long time is required for writing into a semiconductor memory card by resulting from the fact, with enlargement of its capacity, that the external data management size is different from the internal data management size ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984687 | Temperature-sensitive indicator To provide a temperature sensitive indicator that is capable of easily control the temperature of the temperature sensitive indicator itself and is not affected by the temperature of a finger when the temperature sensitive indicator is operated. In the temperature s... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7973992 | Imaging device for avoidance of an obstacle or an optical phenomenon which distorts quality of image A method for avoiding an obstacle or an image-quality-degrading optical phenomenon in an image recognition unit is provided. The method includes the steps of providing at least an optical shutter array in the image recognition unit, detecting the obstacle or the opt... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971266 | Method for providing a probe for a probe-microscopic analysis of a test sample in a probe microscope and arrangement with a probe microscope The present invention relates to a method for providing a measuring probe (1, 1a, 2) for a probe microscopic examination of a sample in a probe microscope, in particular a scanning probe microscope, in which the measuring probe (1), which... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968980 | Support member for mounting a semiconductor device, conductive materials, and its manufacturing method A semiconductor device comprises a support member having a pair of first conductive materials and a pair of second conductive materials on an insulating substrate, and a sealing member covering a semiconductor element arranged on the support member, wherein the supp... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962824 | Memory controller, nonvolatile memory device, nonvolatile memory system and data writing method With nonvolatile memory device employing a nonvolatile memory suc h as multiple-valued NAND flash memory or the like in which each memory cell holds data in a plurality of pages, there is such a problem that, if an error occurred under writing data, data stored in o... | 06/14/2011 |
