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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7950269 | Control apparatus for internal combustion engine The control apparatus for the internal combustion engine includes: a unit for detecting the change in the alcohol concentration of a fuel supplied to the internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders; a unit for detecting an air-fuel ratio variation ... | 05/31/2011 |
| D638804 | Sockets for relays | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949939 | Document processing and managing system, document processing-managing apparatus, document processing apparatus, document processing-managing method, document processing method and computer readable medium A document processing and managing system is provided and includes a document processing apparatus and a document management apparatus including: an acquisition history holding unit that holds an acquisition history, the acquisition history including information for... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949571 | Electronic commerce system, electronic commerce supporting device, and electronic commerce supporting method The present invention provides a technique for establishing a new form of electronic commerce. An electronic commerce system includes a search engine, a payment system and a user terminal. The search engine crawls documents published as web pages by users at ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949350 | Mobile communication system for providing area information together with control information To provide a mobile communication system which can distribute area information from a radio Node to a mobile terminal in a unit of cell. A mobile communication system comprising: a radio Node having a plurality of cells; host apparatus connected to the radio Node so... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949197 | Method of and system for image processing and computer program In an image processing method for carrying out an image quality correction for correcting an image quality on each of a plurality of images in an image group to obtain corrected images, an image processing method includes the steps of carrying out a temporary image ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949046 | Signal compressing system A multi-scanner scans a signal according to several different patterns. A scanning pattern selector determines which scanning pattern produced the most efficient coding result, for example, for runlength coding, and outputs a coded signal, coded most efficiently, an... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948982 | Gateway controlling access to an active network An access control gateway (E) for controlling access to a first data network (D), which gateway includes a filter for filtering data coming from a second data network. The filter is adapted to decide whether to transmit the data to the first network as a function of... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948762 | Wiring system with integrated electronics Wiring system which comprises: a flexible printed circuit board (1) with a surface (2) in turn comprising one or more electrical circuits formed by conductive strips (4) and a plurality of electronic components (5) connected to said condu... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948666 | Method and apparatus for setting correction value At the time of setting a correction value for a certain density (subject density), a higher side density that is higher than the certain density and a lower side density that is lower than the certain density to be referenced according to the measured value of a reg... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948545 | Photoelectric conversion layer stack type solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device as defined herein, in which each of the signal reading circuits for reading the detection signals of the first-color pixels includes three transistors which are a reset transistor, a row selection transistor, and an output transistor; an... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948240 | Abnormality diagnosing apparatus for a glow plug An abnormality diagnosing apparatus for a glow plug 8 provided in an engine 1. The glow plug 8 is energized by power supply from a battery 7 during a glow period from starting of the engine 1 to completion of engine starting. First... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948095 | Semiconductor package and method of making the same The present invention relates to semiconductor devices comprising two or more dies stacked vertically on top of one another, and methods of making the semiconductor devices. The methods may comprise a combination of wafer-level through silicon interconnect fabricati... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947995 | Gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor light emitting device An object of the present invention is to provide a gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor light emitting device having superior light extraction efficiency and light distribution uniformity. The inventive gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor lig... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947815 | Diazenyl isothiazolo[3,4-B]pyridines as dyes An azo dye represented by the following formula (I): wherein, in formula (I), R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an aliphati... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947697 | 8-(3-pentylamino)-2-methyl-3-(2-chloro-4-methoxyphenyl)-6,7-dihydro-5H-cyclopenta[d] pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine methanesulfonate as a CRF antagonist 8-(3-pentylamino)-2-methyl-3-(2-chloro-4-methoxyphenyl)-6,7-dihydro-5H-cyclopenta[d]pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine methanesulfonate of the structural formula (I) has Corticotropin Releasing Factor (CRF) antagonist activity and i... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947421 | Positive resist composition for immersion exposure and pattern-forming method using the same A positive resist composition for immersion exposure comprising: (A) a resin having an alicyclic hydrocarbon structure, wherein the resin is capable of increasing a solubility of the resin (A) in an alkaline developer by an action of an acid; and (B) a compound capa... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947362 | Carbon fiber composite sheet A carbon fiber composite sheet obtained by combining a carbon fiber aggregate with a thermosetting resin component selected from the group consisting of thermosetting silicone-based gel components, thermosetting epoxy resin components and thermosetting silicone resi... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944563 | Sensing apparatus The sensing apparatus includes a measuring light emission device, a waveguide member including a sensing surface modified by a surface modification substance, a detection device and an analyzer. The measuring light of a predetermined polarized state is emitted from ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944554 | Inspection head supporting structure in surface inspecting apparatus and surface inspecting apparatus A pair of angular contact bearings 20A, 20B are disposed between a bearing house 16b of an inspection head 16 and a head supporting tube 8, and a spacer 25 and a spring bearing ring 26 are disposed between oute... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944510 | Broadcast receiving apparatus for capturing broadcast signal and method thereof A broadcast receiving apparatus, and method, for capturing a broadcast signal, the apparatus including a signal processor to receive broadcast signals and process the broadcast signals, a controller to capture a certain frame data from the broadcast signals processe... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944500 | Image processing system, image capturing apparatus, and system and method for detecting backlight status An image processing system for properly correcting brightness of a subject area and a background area of a captured image. The image processing system includes an image capturing apparatus, including: an image capturing instruction unit for generating a first instru... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944481 | Apparatus and method for processing 3D video signal Provided are an apparatus and method for processing a three-dimensional (3D) video signal which corrects first and second video signals to prevent a reduction in a 3D effect and a disparity estimation error due to a difference between the first and second video sign... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944444 | 3D image processing apparatus and method A three-dimensional (3D) image processing apparatus and method are provided for use with a 3D image divided into a left-eye image and a right-eye image. The apparatus includes a disparity estimation unit estimating disparities between the left-eye image and the righ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944399 | Antenna device for portable terminals and radio unit for receiving broadcast waves There is provided an antenna device for use with a portable terminal, which can be used in different frequency bands by combining antenna characteristics. Whip antenna is electrically connected to power feeder through contact member, and resonates in a UHF ba... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942075 | Gear selector fork for a motor vehicle gearbox The gear selector fork comprises a body forming a pair of support plates having respective coaxial through-holes for supporting the fork slidably along a stationary rod of the gearbox, a pair of prongs fixed to the body and forming at their distal ends respective ac... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942052 | Flow rate measuring apparatus including a recess for changing air flow direction An inflow port and an outflow port of a bypass passage have openings on a front surface near a projecting end and on a bottom surface, respectively, of a bypass passage forming member. A recess portion is disposed on the front surface of the bypass passage forming m... | 05/17/2011 |
| D638077 | Golf ball | 05/17/2011 |
| D638035 | Engine blower | 05/17/2011 |
| D638032 | Blu-ray home theater | 05/17/2011 |
| D638022 | Display | 05/17/2011 |
| D637919 | Wristwatch | 05/17/2011 |
| 7545545 | Fabrication process for cholesteric liquid crystal media having a volume hologram The invention provides a process capable of fabricating a cholesteric liquid crystal medium having a volume hologram with efficiency yet without recourse to complicated steps such as an alignment step. This is achievable as follows. A volume hologram layer is formed... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545532 | Image processing apparatus and image processing program storage medium An image processing apparatus has a color conversion section for applying a predetermined color conversion processing to an input image data to generate color conversion image data, a patch data generating section for generating patch data representative of a color ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545501 | Sensor unit for assay and prism A sensor unit is for use in a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) assay apparatus having an assay stage. A total reflection prism is supported on a stage surface of the assay stage, and has a sensing surface positioned on an upper surface thereof. The sensing surface re... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545320 | Method and device for acquiring signals in a global navigation satellite system A method is disclosed for acquisition by navigation terminals of navigation signals broadcast by satellites of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS). A communication channel enables nearby terminals to exchange information and to constitute a network to provid... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545315 | Satellite with multi-zone coverage obtained by beam deviation A telecommunication satellite with multi-zone coverage, including at least one transmission and/or reception antenna with at least one transmission and/or reception source (C, R), for the provision or reception of a beam in a selected direction, defined by a selecte... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545310 | In-vehicle mount radar device In an in-vehicle mount radar device which has a reception antenna array containing plural reception antennas and two transmission antennas and in which a transmission pulse is time-divisionally and alternately transmitted from each of the two transmission antennas, ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545246 | Piezoelectric MEMS switch and method of fabricating the same A piezoelectric Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) switch includes a substrate, first and second fixed signal lines symmetrically formed in a spaced-apart relation to each other on the substrate to have a predetermined gap therebetween, a piezoelectric actuator ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545241 | Nanoparticle transmission line element and method of fabricating the same A microstrip line element is composed of a first electrode layer (10) as a substrate which is more of a metal, a dielectric layer (20) formed by oxidizing, nitriding or oxiynitriding the first electrode layer (10), a conductor layer (30) ... | 06/09/2009 |
