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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7745376 | Superconducting composite The invention provides a superconductor comprising particles made of a superconductive material, and a conductive material. The conductive material is selected to be driven to a superconductive state when in proximity to the superconductive material, and preferably ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7739274 | Methods and systems for providing a response to a query Methods and systems for providing a response to a query. Multiple users' search engine activity in regard to a query is correlated. A response is provided based upon this correlated search engine activity information. For one embodiment of the invention, in the cont... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7730405 | Method and system to present video content A method and system to preview video content. The system comprises an access component to receive a search request and a loader to simultaneously stream a plurality of videos associated with the search request. The system may further comprise a trigger to detect a p... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7458943 | Spine tilt monitor with biofeedback The present invention relates to a system and method for continually monitoring the spine of a user via device containing electromechanical transducer, processor, delay, transmitter, and a feedback component. Through the device and method of employing, the user will... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7281216 | Method and apparatus of selecting local or remote processing A user is provided with the choice of selecting either a client or a server for providing either local or remote services on a data file, respectively, if both the server and the client have the resources for the desired service. The user may select the client or th... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7257615 | Server side execution of application modules in a client and server system Methods, system, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for remote processing in a client/server system. A client has a first component of a service application and a server has a second component of the service application. The se... | 08/14/2007 |
| 6844712 | Multi-test circuit breaker locator having a transmitter and a receiver A system for locating a circuit interrupter associated with a selected branch circuit. The system includes a passive transmitter that creates a current spike at a predetermined frequency and a receiver broadly tuned about that predetermined frequency. The current sp... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6805994 | Solid electrolyte cell having a rolled electrolyte body A positive electrode has a strip electrode collector whose both sides are coated with a positive electrode active material layer and a negative electrode has a strip negative electrode collector whose both sides are coated with a negative electrode active material l... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6777445 | Fullerene pharmaceutical compositions for preventing or treating disorders The present invention relates to a method for treating a disease, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a fullerene. The diseases treated comprise bacterial and viral diseases such as those cause by Gr... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6748034 | Viterbi decoding apparatus and viterbi decoding method A register train is provided in addition to a train of memory cells as many as a cut length which are arranged in correspondence to each state. Outputs of selectors at respective stages in the register train corresponding to state 00 are inputted to a registe... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6698383 | Method for disposal of excrements of animals kept in a stable and device for implementing said method The invention relates to a method for the disposal of excrements of animals kept in a stable, wherein solid manure is separated from liquid manure in the stable and separately removed from the stable and separately stored and/or subjected to further proce... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6689408 | Method for deep-frying products to be deep-fried and device for carrying out this method The invention relates to a method and a device for deep-frying products to be deep-fried with hot fat. Fat that is conveyed in a circuit by a pump is heated, brought into contact with the product to be deep-fried and filtered. The quantity of fat circulat... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6651720 | Dual panel window shade apparatus A dual panel roller window shade apparatus includes an outer panel, an inner panel, a canopy, and a cord. The panels are radially spaced and rigidly attached to the spool at respective circumferential points. In operation, the spool is selectively operabl... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6648840 | Microcontroller based massage system A massaging system includes a pad comprising with multiple zones sand vibratory transducers in the pad for vibrating the zones. Each transducer includes a motor and a mass element eccentrically coupled to the motor. The massaging system also includes a mi... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6642555 | Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device provided with a plurality of memory cells each including first transistors having first conductivity type and second transistors having a second conductivity type, each memory cell comprising a first active region where chann... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6635137 | Closure seal for a container A seal for a container opening includes a backing layer and a seal layer for connecting to and covering an opening of the container. A pull-tab forming layer is sandwiched between the backing layer and the seal layer. The pull-tab forming layer has a heat... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6633597 | Semiconductor laser and method for producing same A semiconductor laser enabling a higher output without lowering the performance of the laser such as its reliability, that is, a Fabry-Perot type semiconductor laser having, successively grown on a substrate, a first cladding layer of a first conductivity... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6633122 | Electroluminescence device with multiple laminated bodies having common materials and process for producing the same An electroluminescence device has at least three kinds of laminated bodies, in each of which an emission region is independently present in each of a hole transfer layer and an electron transfer layer. The laminated bodies include the hole transfer layers... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6628713 | Method and device for data encoding and method for data transmission The present invention generates coded data having always high image quality irrespective of the change amount of a picture. When a difference between two adjacent frames in inputted picture data is calculated as well as a motion vector between the above f... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6623560 | Crystal growth method A crystal growth method includes forming a mask layer capable of impeding crystal growth on a substrate in such a way a first nitride semiconductor layer has irregularities at a surface thereof exposed at a window region opened at a part of the mask layer... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6625058 | Method for magnetic characteristics modulation and magnetically functioning apparatus A method of modulating magnetic properties of a magnetic film, and new magnetic devices that utilizes the method are set forth. The method works in a multi-layer structure consisting of two layers of low electrical resistivity separated by a spacer layer ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6624976 | Magnetic disc cartridge having a substrate with magnetized pit trains and a substrate with same coefficient of thermal expansion as hub A magnetic disc rotates causing an air flow that produces a floating force head unit which undergoes floating force by air flow produced as the result of the fact that the magnetic disc is rotated serves to selectively carry out loading of a first disc ca... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6621550 | Guest-host liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal composition suitable for low-voltage driving of a guest-host liquid crystal display device. The guest-host liquid crystal display device has a pair of substrates bonded with a predetermined gap therebetween,... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6622280 | Information processing apparatus and method and distribution medium It is an object to save a circuit scale and simultaneously improve sync-byte pattern detecting performance. A Viterbi detecting circuit executes first the detecting operation without relation to time limitation. A sync-byte detecting circuit detects the s... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6621634 | Antireflection filter for display device A display device antireflection filter 100 formed on a glass base material is comprised of an antireflection layer 102 of at least one layer containing SiO2 and a material layer 103 made of composition produced by adding compound whose interact... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6617236 | Fabrication method of wiring substrate for mounting semiconductor element and semiconductor device By adopting an electrolytic plating method in forming the bump, the drawbacks of the conventional electrolytic plating method should be avoided. For example, the necessity of adopting a lead wiring for each wiring or the like should be eliminated. On the ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6614820 | Semiconductor laser driving method and optical disc apparatus A semiconductor laser driving method, which is usable in an optical disc apparatus, for example, makes it possible to use a semiconductor laser in a low noise condition when the semiconductor laser is RF-modulated, by driving the semiconductor laser under... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6614479 | Solid-state image pickup device in-layer lens with antireflection film with intermediate index of refraction In a solid-state image pickup device including a light receiving sensor portion in a surface layer portion of a substrate, an in-layer lens disposed above the light receiving sensor portion, a color filter disposed on the in-layer lens, and an interlayer ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6614472 | Solid state image pickup device driving method, measurement method and measurement apparatus There has been raised a problem of how to make the measurement of characteristics of a solid state image pickup device easy to carry out, to shorten the measurement time and to increase the measurement accuracy. In order to solve the problem described abo... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6614411 | Plasma address display apparatus A plasma address display apparatus is composed of a flat panel, a scanning circuit, and a signal circuit. The flat panel has a layered structure wherein a plasma cell having scanning electrodes disposed in rows and a display cell having signal electrodes ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6614365 | Coding device and method, decoding device and method, and recording medium Coding is made possible with higher efficiency while the listener is prevented from feeling a sense of incongruity. An adaptive mixing section performs a mixing process on input signals on the basis of distortion factor information supplied from a distort... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6612024 | Method of mounting a device to a mounting substrate A semiconductor device with bump electrodes having acutely shaped tips and method of mounting same. The bump electrodes are brought into contact with respective portions of a conductive pattern of a mounting substrate without any foreign matter between th... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6611651 | Material for optical waveguide, and optical waveguide and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed are a material for an optical waveguide, which has high polymerizability and high solvent resistance, an optical waveguide made of the material, and a method for manufacturing the optical waveguide. When a material for an optical waveguide from ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6610548 | CRYSTAL GROWTH METHOD OF OXIDE, CERIUM OXIDE, PROMETHIUM OXIDE, MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE OF OXIDES, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF FERROELECTRIC NON-VOLATILE MEMORY AND FERROELECTRIC NON-VOLATILE MEMORY An epitaxial rare earth oxide (001)/silicon (001) structure is realized by epitaxially growing a rare earth oxide such as cerium dioxide in the (001) orientation on a (001)-oriented silicon substrate. For this purpose, the surface of the (001)-oriented Si... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6601390 | Method and apparatus for converting dissipated heat to work energy A method for enhancing natural convection and for converting lower temperature dissipated heat to other useful energy and apparatus therefor. Heat energy is transferred to a medium contained with a channel, and natural convection of the medium is utilized... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6602744 | Process for fabricating thin film semiconductor device A process of fabricating a thin film semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a semiconducting thin film on an insulating substrate; annealing the semiconducting thin film by irradiating a laser beam thereon, thereby crystallizing the semicondu... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6604069 | Signals having quantized values and variable length codes Efficiently encoded signals wherein the compression ration can be high without a corresponding degradation of signal quality. The range of values of subband-based signal components for quantization to zero, to which a short codelength is given, is set so ... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6599659 | Secondary cell and method for preparation thereof A secondary cell exhibiting superior flexibility and cell characteristics. This secondary cell has an anode, a polymer electrolyte layer and an anode, layered together. At least one of the anode and the anode is formed by a sheet-like electrode comprised ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6600714 | Optical recording medium, optical pickup and optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus An optical recording medium to which light for recording and/or reproducing is emitted, comprising one or a plurality of inorganic deelectric layers provided at an incident side to which light from an optical system is converged, and an amplitude transmit... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6600261 | Plasma light emitting device and display using same having an ultraviolet light leakage preventing means A display includes means for generating plasma; means, provided on a specific surface of the plasma generating means, for preventing ultraviolet light, produced when the plasma is generated by the plasma generating means, from leaking outside; a liquid cr... | 07/29/2003 |
