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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7931507 | Conductive terminal assembly and electrical connector with the conductive terminal assembly An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a contact retaining member fixed to the insulative housing and a contact partly extending through the contact retaining member. The contact retaining member is fixed in a passageway defined in the insulative ho... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7900195 | System for boundary trace with reproduction facility Disclosed herein is a data processing system-implemented method, a data processing system, and an article of manufacture for investigating computer software. The data processing system-implemented method includes capturing tracing information at one or more boundary... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7811434 | Gas sensor A gas sensor including a gas detecting element extending in a longitudinal direction and in which a plurality of ceramic layers are stacked, and wherein a detecting portion is provided at a leading end side of the gas detecting element, the gas detecting element inc... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7735115 | System which enforces policy for virtual private organization and method thereof System formed of a group of management entities including an enforcement environment of a policy description program, and service, data, software and hardware, in which the enforcement environment of the policy description program correlates resources to be managed ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725996 | Method for producing actuator device A method for producing an actuator device, comprising the steps of: forming a vibration plate on a substrate; and forming a piezoelectric element composed of a lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and an upper electrode on the vibration plate, wherein in the step... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7722518 | Process for production of a bobbin tube for yarn, device for embodiment of such process, bobbin tube obtained and mode of utilisation of said bobbin tube A cardboard tube, with respect to a narrow marginal end area of the same provided with a hollow interior roll, is applied against a rotatory die which has a concave surface suitable for forming an entrant perimetric step by means of constriction of the narrow margin... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7705992 | Optical coherence tomography system A polarization maintaining optical fiber, for guiding a measuring light beam, is provided within a probe. The probe is configured to be rotatable in the circumferential direction of the polarization maintaining optical fiber. A polarization direction rotator, for ro... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7700350 | Recombinant vector containing infectious human cytomegalovirus genome with preserved wild-type characteristics of clinical isolates A recombinant vector containing infectious genome of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and being useful for the production of reconstituted HCMV virus retaining phenotypic characteristics of a clinical virus isolate including the ability to grow on endothelial cells and ... | 04/20/2010 |
| D613620 | Wristwatch | 04/13/2010 |
| 7678808 | 5 HT receptor mediated neurogenesis The instant disclosure describes methods for treating diseases and conditions of the central and peripheral nervous system by stimulating or increasing neurogenesis. The disclosure includes compositions and methods based on use of a 5HTR agent, optionally in combina... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7674883 | Antibodies against cancer antigen TMEFF2 and uses thereof Described herein are methods and compositions that can be used for diagnosis and treatment of cancer. ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7662384 | Use of anti-α5β1 antibodies to inhibit cancer cell proliferation The present invention provides methods for direct killing of cancer cells using anti-α5β1 antibodies. Generally, the method comprises contacting a cancer cell that expresses α5β1 on its surface with an anti-α5β1 antibody, and thereby inducing the death of the ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7659347 | Fluorine-containing elastomer composition and molded article comprising the same The present invention provides a fluorine-containing elastomer composition excellent in heat resistance, comprising a fluorine-containing elastomer containing a vinylidene fluoride unit, which is capable of a crosslinking reaction, and a crosslinking agent. The pres... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7619661 | Camera system A camera system has an optical unit including: an optical system forming subject light into an image; a shooting section receiving the subject light formed into the image through the optical system, taking the image in a shooting mode selected from plural types of s... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7614277 | Knock sensor A knock sensor includes: a base made up of a flange portion, and a tube portion; a sensor main body including a piezoelectric element that is fitted over an outer peripheral portion of the tube portion; and a stopper ring that is fitted over the outer peripheral por... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7583028 | Mercury free arc tube for a discharge lamp A mercury free arc tube for a discharge lamp has a closed chamber filled with rare gas and a metal halide containing at least Na halide, Sc halide and In halide, and electrodes. A ratio of a filled amount of the In halide to a total filled amount of metal halide is ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7576767 | Panoramic vision system and method A distortion corrected panoramic vision system and method provides a visually correct composite image acquired through wide angle optics and projected onto a viewing surface. The system uses image acquisition devices to capture a scene up to 360° or 4π steradians ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7569609 | Pentanoic acid derivatives Formula (I) compounds: wherein R1 is alkyl substituted by fluorine(s); R2 is hydroxy, alkoxy, alkoxy substituted by phenyl, NR3R4, in which R3, R4 is (i) hyd... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7568031 | Printing method and device for receiving data from a plurality of data source apparatus A printing device for receiving data from a data source apparatus via a communication interface in which one of two connected communication apparatuses is a communication master and the other is a communication slave, the communication master being able to connect t... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7546757 | Method of working small recess portion The invention is directed to a method of working a small recess portion. In the method, prior to press-forming small recess portions arrayed in a row by pressing a predetermined number of pieces of aligned male dies to a metal base plate, the metal base plate is pre... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7544536 | Metal oxide dispersion for dye-sensitized solar cells, photoactive electrode and dye-sensitized solar cell (1) A metal oxide dispersion for a dye-sensitized solar cell, which contains metal oxide fine particles, a binder composed of a polymer compound having an action to bind to the fine particles and a solvent; (2) a method for producing a photoactive electrode for a dy... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7248998 | Method and system for the statistical control of industrial processes A method for controlling an industrial process including: producing a pilot sample including n exemplars of the product, acquiring measured data (X1, . . . , Xn) for an observed variable relating to that sample having a distribution Fn | 07/24/2007 |
| 7538523 | Control apparatus-integrated generator-motor The control apparatus-integrated generator-motor has: a generator-motor; and a control apparatus that is constituted by an inverter, a control circuit, a temperature sensor, etc. The control circuit determines whether or not switching element temperature will exceed... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7299987 | Portable handset having a radio frequency identification(RFID) function and method using the same In receiving information on an item by use of electromagnetic waves propagating from the item in which a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip is embedded, a portable handset requests the information on the item that is stored in the RFID chip to the RFID chip-... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299749 | Lithographic printing plate support and production method thereof A lithographic printing plate support comprising a substrate having thereon a porous layer comprising metal oxide particles bound by a compound containing a metal atom and a phosphorus atom. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292282 | Digital camera employing multiple light shielding walls A main frame of a camera body has a CMOS image sensor and an eyepiece of an optical finder, and the lens unit popped up from the camera body has a taking lens and an objective lens of the optical finder. Light shielding walls are formed on the main frame, and light ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288360 | Image recording material The infrared laser-compatible positive-type image recording materials according to the present invention include a support and a photo/thermosensitive layer formed on the support; and the photo/thermosensitive layer contains an alkali-soluble resin (A), a phototherm... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7276210 | Stripping apparatus and process A stripping apparatus for desorbing gases from solid particles through which flows counter-currently a stripping fluid is described, which comprises a series of sets of at least two parallel, segmented, baffle plates each, with the segmented baffles being oriented s... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269494 | Method and system for recognizing the sign of the velocity of a vehicle and for estimating the road slope A method of estimating the slope of a road surface on which is positioned a motor vehicle. The slope is determined by measuring the velocity and longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle by means of a mathematical model based on the relation Ax={dot over (... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268890 | Device and method for wavefront measurement of an optical imaging system, and a microlithography projection exposure machine A device and a method for wavefront measurement of an optical imaging system, and a microlithography projection exposure machine that is equipped with such a device. The device has a wavefront generating unit that includes an optical element (1) with an objec... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268537 | Rotation angle detection device that converts m-phase windings into two-phase windings and dynamo-electric machine using the same Disclosed are a rotation angle detection device including: a stator provided with a one-phase excitation winding and two-phase output windings; and a rotor having salient poles, and a dynamo-electric machine using the same. The two-phase output windings are wound ar... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7267989 | Method and device for measuring sulfur compound and/or ammonia based on a sensory unit coated with at least one novel peptide A peptide compound for measuring sulfur compound and ammonia and measurement method and device using the compound. The method comprises contacting an analyte with a sensory device coated with the peptide compound to produce a signal, processing the signal to produce... | 09/11/2007 |
