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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184771 | Radiation phase contrast imaging apparatus A radiation phase contrast imaging apparatus, including a radiation emission unit having a plurality of electron sources for emitting electron beams, and a target for emitting radiation through collision of electron beam emitted from each electron source, a first gr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182450 | Label, syringe body and syringe arrangement with label The label is executed as strip-shaped and adhered as directed in a self-overlapping fashion to a syringe body (1) which is inserted in a syringe protector formed from an insert (5) and a receiver (4). In the longitudinal direction of the strip i... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181571 | Printing device and printing method A printing device capable of improving the printing accuracy by preventing positional displacement of a stencil applies paste on a stencil onto a substrate by spreading the paste by sliding a squeegee along a surface of the stencil disposed on the substrate. Outer a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8178947 | Semiconductor device There is provided a semiconductor device in which an amount of fluctuations in output capacitance and feedback capacitance is reduced. In a trench-type insulated gate semiconductor device, a width of a portion of an electric charge storage layer in a direction along... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176885 | Cooling system with fouling reducing element A system and method for reducing fouling. In one embodiment, the system includes a housing and a plurality of channels contained within the housing. The system also includes a fouling reduction element that passes through at least one channel of the plurality of cha... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175431 | Multi-core ferrule and optical fiber connection structure An optical fiber connection structure includes a single-core plug holding a single-core ferrule, a multi-core plug holding a multi-core ferrule, and an adaptor having a tubular sleeve. The single-core ferrule made of zirconia (ZrO2) has a cylindrical shap... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175176 | FFT window spread generating method The present invention provides an FFT window spread generating method used in the modulation of an OFDM system. When OFDM-modulated received signals each having a time length greater than or equal to an effective symbol length are demodulated by FFT processing using... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175048 | Multi-hop wireless communication system A multi-hop wireless communication system which synchronizes a time signal generated by a timer device included in each of the wireless terminals and sets a different active timing to a wireless terminal connected to each of a plurality of multi-hop routes. The wire... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173775 | Collagen-like protein CLAC, a precursor thereof, and genes encoding the same A novel human collagen-like protein CLAC occurring in brain amyloid and its precursor CLAC-P; genes encoding the same; cDNA of mouse CLAC-P and its deduced amino acid sequence; antibodies specific to these proteins; and methods of diagnosing treating and preventing ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172303 | Link mechanism A link mechanism capable of setting any desirable speed of opening/closing a lid during a series of the opening/closing operation and capable of exerting a strong driving force is provided. A lid (6) is attached to a lid bracket (31). The lid bracket (... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171922 | Blow-by gas recirculation system for internal combustion engine The invention relates to a blow-by gas recirculation system for an internal combustion engine. An oil separation cover 10 has a surge-tank mounting portion 400 integrally formed therewith in a columnar shape having a cam-shaped cross-section and a heig... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171620 | Component supplying apparatus and surface mounting machine A component supplying apparatus and a reel can be easily and integrally managed when not supplying components, and the component supplying apparatus can be made to be compact when the component supplying apparatus and the reel are not integrally managed. The compone... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170205 | Processor apparatus The control unit includes a CPU which generates an access signal for performing writing or reading on the external memory, encryption/decryption means which, when the access signal is used for writing, encrypts an address designated by the CPU to generate a write ad... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167749 | Belt tensioner and belt exchanging method of belt tensioner A tensioner arm comprises a tool-engagement portion for engaging with a tensioner-arm rotation tool, and a jig-holding portion which has a through hole for accepting a tensioner-arm fixation bar jig being inserted thereinto from above at a portion of the tensioner a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166089 | Sampled data averaging circuit A sampled data averaging circuit which comprises sampling means for sampling input data at predetermined timing by a number of sampling times set, division means for dividing the sampled data by the number of sampling times for each time the input data is sampled, a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165225 | Image data transfer circuit An image data transfer circuit and an image data transfer method capable of exception processing without affecting image data of normal frames when an error is detected in image data. Image data applied to an input processing section is filtered by a filter, stored ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164847 | Fall detection device, magnetic disk device, and portable electronic apparatus By detecting that a differentiation value of the absolute value of acceleration is lower than a negative threshold value DAth1 in a negative direction from a first stage (S1: Stationary state) where the differentiation value of the absolute value of ac... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162360 | Door structure of automotive vehicle A handle knob to conduct an opening/closing operation of a front door is provided on an outer-face side of an outer panel, and a handle base to pivotally support the handle knob is provided on an inner-face side of the outer panel. A beltline reinforcement to reinfo... | 04/24/2012 |
| D658321 | Rear light for an automobile | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160523 | Channel detecting method for digital broadcast and receiver using the same A channel detecting method executes a process for instructing a broadcast wave scan start, a process for performing tuning control, a process for starting initialization/operation of an OFDM demodulation section and starting the counting of a synchronous establishme... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159509 | Color display device and method for reproducing color with an increased number of gradation levels A color display device has a display screen having pixels arrayed, each of which is composed of primary color sub-pixels capable of reproducing respective primary colors and at least one subsidiary color sub-pixel capable of reproducing gray. While gradation signals... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159322 | Laminated coil A laminated coil includes a laminated body insulating layers and coil patterns are integrally stacked in a desired order, a coil formed by connecting the coil patterns, a pair of external electrodes provided at opposite ends of the laminated body, and an insulating ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157142 | Feed amount data setting system for tape feeder, tape feeder, mounter A mounter is operable to sequentially detect feed amounts of a motor at respective times when respective electronic components held by a tape reach a pickup position, while rotating a sprocket 52 of a tape feeder 50 360 degrees or more, and store the f... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156830 | Photostability test system A plurality of fluorescent lamps 30 are in a decentered layout so as to be placed in a peripheral part of an upper space of an environmental test chamber 11 above a sample loading surface 21. The irradiance distribution of light from the fluores... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155396 | Method, apparatus, and program for detecting faces An apparatus detects a predetermined number of facial images from detection target images. An inclination order setting means utilizes the correlative relationships among correlative data obtained by a correlative data obtaining means and the inclinations of faces t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154944 | Semiconductor memory device Disclosed herein is a semiconductor memory device which prevents the voltage of a select bit line from being reduced due to the action of coupling capacitance between the select bit line and a non-select bit line, reduces current consumption, and enables high speed ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154659 | Mobile communication terminal To perform operation check self-diagnosis of a digital terrestrial television broadcasting reception function of a multifunctional mobile communication terminal in any place without requiring addition of a special additional circuit component, or the like. When perf... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151762 | Direct-injection spark-ignition engine Disclosed is a direct-injection spark-ignition engine designed to promote catalyst activation during cold engine operation. A fuel injection timing for a fuel injection period in an compression stroke (second fuel injection period F2) is set to allow a first fuel sp... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8147379 | Shift control device of automatic transmission A control device, in which a shift-up control is automatically executed when an engine's over revolution with a turbine speed for a shift gear set by a manual shift mode exceeding a preset limit speed A is executed, is configured such that a controller detects an en... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147365 | Drive belt A drive belt includes an endless belt body made of an ethylene-α-olefin elastomer composition and a cord embedded in the belt body to form a spiral at a specified pitch in a widthwise direction of the belt. The drive belt has a bending stiffness not larger than 0.0... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143989 | Multilayer inductor This disclosure provides a multilayer inductor that has a built-in coil composed of coil conductors each having a length of one turn and that can suppress the occurrence of delamination. The inductor includes plural laminated magnetic layers. Coil conductors loop al... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143988 | Multilayer inductor This disclosure provides a multilayer inductor that includes a coil formed from coil electrodes each looping through a length of one turn and that is capable of preventing the occurrence of delamination. Each of a plurality of coil electrodes loops through a length ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142239 | Power supply terminal structure A contact terminal which prevents a load from being concentrated on the contact terminal portion thereof when a part is disposed on a substrate, to prevent contact terminals from being short-circuited even if stacked, thereby reducing the overall space requirement. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139911 | Light-illuminating probe and fundus observing apparatus, fundus surgery apparatus, endoscope, and catheter using the light-illuminating probe A light-illuminating probe with increased spatial spread of an external illumination light and a fundus observing apparatus, a fundus surgery apparatus, and an endoscope using the light-illuminating probe are provided. The light-illuminating probe includes a light-t... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139712 | Radiation imaging apparatus and method for breast A radiation imaging apparatus in which early recognition of breast cancer can be made possible by acquiring both a radiation tomographic image that accurately displays a tumor mass and a radiation planar image that accurately displays calcification. The apparatus in... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139615 | Data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus includes a channel demultiplexing circuit, a bus, a memory controller and a memory. The channel demultiplexing circuit has a first delay circuit which delays first channel data only of multi-channel data by one cycle and outputs first del... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139053 | Arrangement for canceling offset of driver amplifier circuitry In an offset canceling arrangement, an offset of an operational amplifier may be canceled even in case capacitive or resistive element is connected outside of the operational amplifier per se, and a signal may be output even during the offset canceling operation. IC... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135873 | Information processing device for performing information exchange between a PCI express bus and a non-PCI express bus interface An information processing device includes: an address converter including a base address register in which address conversion information is stored and a conversion circuit that converts a PCI Express standard bus address of an inputted packet to a non-PCI Express s... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134626 | Solid-state imaging device, method of driving a solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus A solid-state imaging device includes, on a substrate, a lower electrode, a photoelectric converting layer that is disposed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode that is disposed on the photoelectric converting layer. The device further includes: a boosting... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130906 | Radiation imaging and therapy apparatus for breast A breast radiation imaging and therapy apparatus for performing radiation imaging of a breast and having a therapy function of applying radiation to an affected part in the breast. The apparatus includes: (i) a table formed with an opening for allowing a breast of a... | 03/06/2012 |
