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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5837730 | Treatment of negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia with glycine uptake antagonists A glycine uptake antagonist is administered for augmenting NMDA receptor-mediated neurotransmission treating symptoms of psychosis and of schizophrenia.... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5831327 | Differential circuit with a dynamic bias current for producing an exponential or a square-law transfer characteristic In a differential circuit including first and second transistors, a constant current circuit causes a constant current to flow through the first transistor. A variable current circuit causes a variable current to flow through the second transistor. A diff... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5827435 | Plasma processing method and equipment used therefor A plasma processing method is provided which suppresses the charge accumulation on a processing object such as a semiconductor substrate. An alternating excitation signal in the form of pulses for exciting the plasma is supplied to a reaction gas containe... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5827381 | Pneumatic radial tires including a tire component containing groups of reinforcing elements A tire component used in a pneumatic radial tire is a rubber-coated layer comprised of a given number of reinforcing elements separately arranged in parallel with each other, in which the reinforcing elements corresponding to at least 30% of all reinforci... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5822169 | Contact charging device A contact charging device includes: a member to be charged rotatably provided; a conductive member having a soft endless thin film shape, for charging or discharging the member to be charged such that the conductive member is electrostatically attracted t... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5808030 | hTFIIIA gene An isolated hTFIIIA gene having a nucleotide sequence coding for the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, as disclosed, and in particular the hTFIIIA gene having the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:2. The gene can be used to express a corresponding hTFIII... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5793947 | Programmable controller for synchronously tracing the execution of operation blocks and SFC program execution method using the programmable controller The present invention provides a programmable controller for executing an SFC program. The programmable controller has a memory which stores a step trace program for storing and tracing a history of execution statuses of active steps of a plurality of blo... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5770340 | Image formation method using scanning exposure A method for forming an image using scanning exposure of an electrophotographic lithographic printing plate comprising an electrically conductive support having thereon a photoconductive layer containing an inorganic photoconductor, a chemical sensitizer,... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5762944 | Antithrombotic resin, antithrombotic tube, antithrombotic film and antithrombotic coat The invention presents an antithrombotic resin which is prepared by blending at least one type of antithrombotics, in polyurethane or polyurethane urea polymerized by using at least one type of polyether diol selected from the group consisting of polyol c... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5756313 | Albumin gene-containing plasmid, transformant carrying same, production of such transformant and production of albumin A plasmid for a yeast host, the plasmid comprising in sequence: (1) a yeast derived promoter, (2) an albumin-encoding region placed under control of the yeast-derived promoter, (3) a transcription terminator and (4) a sequence homologous to a part of the ... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5754076 | Differential circuit having a variable current circuit for producing an exponential or a square transfer characteristic In a differential circuit including first and second transistors, a constant current circuit causes a constant current to flow through the first transistor. A variable current circuit causes a variable current to flow through the second transistor. A diff... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5754912 | Camera with cassette ejector A camera has a cassette containing chamber and a bottom lid. A photo film cassette is inserted in the cassette containing chamber in an axial direction. The bottom lid closes the cassette containing chamber light-tightly in openable fashion. A key shaft i... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5743697 | Automatic wheel chock A system for restraining a vehicle, such as a truck having a pair of separated tires mounted on an axle, positioned at a loading dock. A member is movable from a stored position near or under the loading dock to an operative position under the vehicle and... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5711556 | Lock assembly A lock assembly (1) including first and second components (2,3) adapted to be releasably engaged, the first component including an element (8) having a latch portion (7) for interlocking with a keeper means (22), the latch portion being held in an unlocke... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5712781 | Programmable controller and exclusive control communicating method therefor In the programmable controller and the exclusive control communicating method therefor according to the present invention, a program devices is connected to each of the bus-extended and distributed sections by an extension cable and an extension I/F units... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5712594 | Operational transconductance amplifier operable at low supply voltage An OTA capable of low-voltage operation at a voltage as low as approximately 1 V while restraining the circuit scale increase and keeping approximately the same input voltage range as that of the conventional one. This OTA has a differential pair of first... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5712149 | Chimeric receptor molecules for delivery of co-stimulatory signals The present invention is directed to novel chimeric co-stimulatory receptor proteins and DNA sequences encoding these proteins. The chimeric receptors comprise at least three domains in a single chain molecule: an extracellular ligand binding domain, a tr... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5706567 | Method of surface finishing of metal moldings A method for producing a vehicle wheel having a polished design surface coated with a transparent coating, comprising the following steps of: producing a vehicle wheel having a design surface thereon; and coating said design surface with transparent compo... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5708586 | Computerized numerical control apparatus for correcting dynamic error and method therefor In the numerical control system according to the present invention, analysis data from an analyzing means is given to a distributing means, at least one of addition for a positional instruction, addition for a speed instruction, and addition for a current... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5704258 | Bottle opening device A bottle opening device includes a flat base member which is adapted to be secured to a counter top or the like by suction cups on an under surface of the base member. A support member is secured to an upper surface of the base member and is provided with... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5706362 | Image tracking apparatus An image tracking apparatus includes a video camera 10 for forming an image of a target vehicle and for producing image signals at predetermined time intervals, a first memory 5A for storing image signals, a window setting switch 9 for setting a tracking ... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704593 | Film carrier tape for semiconductor package and semiconductor device employing the same A film carrier tape for a semiconductor package comprises a tape base film having a signal plane with leads disposed thereon and a ground plane on the surface opposite the signal plane. The ground plane has ground plane leads projecting into a device hole... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704367 | Respiration monitor for monitoring respiration based upon an image signal of a facial region A respiration monitor of the invention includes: an infrared camera for forming an image of a face; an operation section for selecting an imaging temperature to be set for the infrared camera out of a predetermined temperature range and setting the select... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5702698 | Methods of use of IL-1 Methods are disclosed for promoting production of colony stimulating factor and inhibiting growth of Meth A tumor cells comprising administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of modified IL-1 to a subject.... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5703572 | Informing device for a radio receiver When a switch for manually terminating an informing operation of a call informing device is not depressed during an informing operation, the informing operation is automatically halted after a first set time of a first timer. After a second period of time... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5701602 | Frequency control apparatus for base station in satellite communication system A frequency control apparatus for compensating frequency fluctuation in an input received signal from a satellite station of a satellite communication system, comprises a PLL arrangement for generating a frequency converting signal in response to the freq... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5701590 | Radio communication system for performing multi-channel access A radio communication system includes a plurality of mobile stations and a base station for selecting a plurality of radio channels whose frequencies are different from each other to perform radio communication with the mobile stations. The base station i... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5701554 | Fixing apparatus having controller for setting a target temperature and for estimating the amount of heat transferred to a pressure roller A fixing apparatus including a heating member and a pressurizing member that are in contact with each other under pressure to define a nip through which a sheet carrying an unfixed toner image is passed and a temperature sensor for sensing the temperature... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5701319 | Method and apparatus for generating ultrashort pulses with adjustable repetition rates from passively modelocked fiber lasers The generation of ultrashort pulses with adjustable repetition rates from passively modelocked fiber lasers is demonstrated. By inserting semiconductor saturable absorbers with life-times of the order of 10 nsec into fiber lasers with cavity round-trip ti... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5701306 | Semiconductor integrated circuit which can be tested by an LSI tester having a reduced number of pins An LSI (10) to be tested includes a high speed interface (50), a FIFO buffer (16) for temporarily storing data supplied from a high speed interface (50) to an internal circuit (11) of the LSI (10), a selector (24) outputting a selected one of an output of... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5701303 | Asynchronous time-division multiplex packet transmission link control information transmission method In a method of transmitting asynchronous time-division multiplex transmission link control information the control information produced by the control process is transmitted in the form of control cells. At the transmitting end the control cells conform t... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5701299 | Method of and apparatus for switching multi-slot time division signals To reduce memory space of a speech path memory in a switching circuit for a multi-slot time division signal, only data in effective time slots of an input signal are stored one after another in a speech path memory to be switched into different time slot ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5701286 | Super-resolution optical head device which produces side spots without side lobes A super-resolution optical head device includes a diffraction grating having central and peripheral areas. The central area suppresses zero order diffracted light and produces &#b1;1th order diffracted light. The peripheral area produces both zero order d... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5701284 | Disk rotation control apparatus and method An apparatus and method for rapidly controlling the disk rotation by detecting a high speed rotation and a reverse rotation of a disk. The disk driving apparatus for controlling rotation of a disk in a normal mode includes a spindle motor for driving the ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5701190 | Laser scanner and scanning lens Rays of light from a laser light source are permitted to form a line image at a reflecting face of a rotating polygonal mirror via a line image forming optical member and the rays of reflected light from the reflecting face are focused by a scanning lens ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5701004 | Driving circuit for electron multiplying devices A driving circuit for an electron multiplying device is provided which provides sufficient dynamic range and input-output linearity characteristic and reduces power loss to a greater extent. A cathode is set to a voltage substantially equal to the housing... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5700529 | Seamless can and a method of producing the same A seamless can obtained by forming a laminated material of a metal and a polyester film into a cup such that a final draw ratio defined by H/D (H:height, D:diameter of the bottom portion) is not smaller than 1.5, wherein a polyester (A) on the bottom port... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5701588 | Pictorial display apparatus for receivers for implementing the pictorial display In selecting at least one of plural informing mechanisms as a selected informing mechanism, a waveform symbol is displayed on an LCD representing the selected informing mechanism. The waveform symbol expresses the sound pattern for indicating reception of... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699325 | Transparent scratchproof closure element for a watch case and watch case provided with an element of this type The invention concerns a transparent scratchproof watch case closure element, characterized in that it is realized by sintering a pressed part or a injected part having a general shape similar to that of said closure element, said part being essentially f... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5699321 | Annual calendar mechanism for a timepiece A timepiece such as a watch carries a date ring with a window display. The ring carries an engaging system capable of driving at the end of each month an annual ring having twelve or twenty four external teeth and five internal teeth. A calendar driving w... | 12/16/1997 |
