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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5831714 | Photographic processing system and collating system A photographic processing system. On a photographic film used for photographing images, an ID for specifying the photographic film is recorded in advance by codes which are mechanically and visually readable. On an accommodating case for accommodating the... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5749752 | Electrical connector A connector in which the longitudinal displacement of connection terminals is positively prevented even if electric wires are pulled rearwardly by an external force, so that the fitting property of the connector to a partner connector can be improved. In ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5693240 | Surface layer forming apparatus using electric discharge machining An apparatus and process for forming surface layers on electrodes by electric discharge machining. A machining gap, between an electrode and a workpiece is filled with a dielectric mixture containing metallic or submetallic powder. The apparatus uses a sw... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5689811 | Communication system for communicating information ascertaining why reply information was not transmitted An information communication system including an order station for transmitting a command signal to a mobile station, the mobile station including a memory for storing information representing that it has received the transmitted command signal from the o... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5687272 | Segmented optical waveguide suitable in particular for being included in a semiconductor device An optical waveguide includes, in monolithic manner, a rear segment, a transition segment, and a front segment extending and succeeding one another along the length of the waveguide. A lateral confinement factor and a width the waveguide are respectively ... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5687101 | Digital filter circuit and signal processing method for the same In a digital IIR filter having a predetermined transfer function, a transfer function of an all-pass filter having the same amplitude as a first pole coefficient of the transfer function and the opposite sign is set. By synthesizing the transfer function ... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5683369 | Bellows type container charged with liquid medicine A bellows type container charged with liquid medicine widens a range of use. In a bellows type container (1) charged with liquid medicine, a bellows type body (11) is provided on its one end with an outlet portion (12) for liquid medicine and on its other... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5683556 | Discharging and dust removing method and discharging and dust removing apparatus The invention provides a discharging method by which charges can be removed readily, uniformly and efficiently from a surface of a working object even where the surface has a complicated charge pattern of a large number of small positive and negative char... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5681495 | Alternator power-supply type electric heating control apparatus An alternator power-supply type electric heating control apparatus, comprising (1) a switch for switching an output of an alternator including a field coil, a stator coil, and a rectifier to a first state where the output is connected to a battery and veh... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5681649 | Footwear member A shoe member is formed of a polymer composition comprising (A) a composite material having a low molecular weight material retained in a medium material and (B) a polymer material. The low molecular weight material has a viscosity of up to 5×105 | 10/28/1997 |
| 5682417 | Power saving mobile data communication system using adaptors In a cellular mobile communication system, a first adaptor is connected to a data terminal to convert the output of the modem of the data terminal to a baseband data signal, and determines the absence or presence of the baseband data signal and produces a... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5681488 | Electrical discharge machine which uses voltages of opposite polarity An electrical discharge machine for applying a pulsed voltage to a machining gap between an electrode and a workpiece disposed opposite thereto. An insulating dielectric fluid, including either oil or water with a compound additive, is disposed in the gap... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5680088 | Disconnection mechanism for a dark current fuse A disconnection mechanism for a dark current fuse provides a connecting terminal connecting the dark current fuse, a fuse block body receiving the connecting terminal, and a fuse holder slidably engaged with the fuse block body in a direction of connectin... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5680002 | Multi-polarity type spark plug for use in an internal combustion engine In a multi-polarity type spark plug for an internal combustion engine, a tubular insulator is supported within a cylindrical metallic shell through which a spark plug is to be attached to an internal combustion engine. A center electrode is placed within ... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5680499 | Time-lapse video cassette recorder A time lapse video cassette recorder (VCR) includes a video head, a control head for selectively recording and reproducing a control pulse, a capstan motor moving a magnetic tape at a predetermined speed, a video signal processing circuit processing a vid... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5680469 | Method of insertion of noise and apparatus thereof Improvements of a method and apparatus for insertion of a pseudo noise into a silent period between an audible period and a next audible period in digital audio communication between a transmitter 10 and a receiver 11. In the transmitter 10, level measuri... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5680115 | Remote controlling method A remote controlling method including the steps of storing the remote controller code of respective television brands in a first memory of a transmission IC, checking the input of dual keys for appliance brand selection to access the remote controller cod... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5676129 | Dosage counter for metered dose inhaler (MDI) systems using a miniature pressure sensor A method and apparatus for directly counting the number of doses expended from a Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI) medicinal delivery system. A miniature pressure sensor and microprocessor is used to detect the pressure pulse in the transfer channel of the mouth... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676808 | Electrolytic cell using gas diffusion electrode An electrolytic cell for obtaining a caustic alkali by closely contacting a gas diffusion electrode comprising a gas-liquid permeable metal substrate and a gas-liquid permeable collector connected to the substrate to a cation-exchange membrane while suppl... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676864 | Electrode for plasma arc torch An electrode for supporting an arc in a plasma arc torch. The electrode includes a metallic holder having a front end, and a cavity in the front end, the cavity having an enlarged outer end portion. An insert assembly is mounted in the cavity and includes... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5677053 | Acrylic plastisol adhesion structure An adhesion structure in which the gel of an acrylic plastisol is strongly adhered to the metallic base material, featuring excellent resistance against corrosion and exhibiting small whitening tendency even under severe conditions for treatment with hot ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5677055 | Thermoplastic polyester resin stretched film A stretched resin film having as a base material a resin composition composed of the following components (A), (B), (C) and (D): (A) a thermoplastic polyester resin 100 parts by weight; (B) a modified olefin based resin obtained by graft polymerizing 0.01 to 20 ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5677083 | Non-aqueous lithium ion secondary battery In a non-aqueous lithium ion secondary battery comprising a positive electrode sheet which comprises a lithium-containing transition metal oxide film, a negative electrode sheet which has a film of material capable of receiving and releasing a lithium ion... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5677242 | Process of fabricating semiconductor integrated circuit device having small geometry contact by using spacer on photoresist mask A first opening formed in a photo-resist layer is topographically covered with a spacer layer of silicon oxide so as to define a second opening narrower than the first opening, and the spacer layer and a target layer of silicon oxide therebeneath are anis... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5677300 | Pyridothiazineacetic acid compound, production thereof and use thereof A pyridothiazineacetic acid compound of the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, production thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition, an aldose reductase inhibitor a... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5678056 | Method and apparatus for control of serial communication by changing address conditions during and after communication start up In a serial communication control device comprising first active and second reserved function blocks and a CPU section for delivering to the function blocks a serial datum comprising an address and a data value, an address giving arrangement gives a commo... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5677660 | Electromagnetic device An electromagnetic device has a group of coils which are concentrically wound and used for generating a main magnetic field, and magnetic shims for correcting the uniformity of the main magnetic field in a uniform magnetic field region to be set in the vi... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5674446 | Method for extracting molded product from injection molding die A method and apparatus for extracting a molded product wherein the molded product, specifically, a shutter molded of a synthetic resin with a very small thickness, from an injection molding die at a high speed without malfunction or deformation of the mol... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5674398 | Composite reverse osmosis membrane A composite reverse osmosis membrane comprising a thin film and a microporous substrate as a support therefor, said thin film mainly comprising a crosslinked polyamide obtained by the interfacial polymerization of (a) an amine component comprising at leas... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5673825 | Holder for holding a deodorant bottle therein A holder includes a casing, a timer-controlled press device, a holding frame, and a locking device. The casing is adapted to keep a deodorant bottle therein and has an opening formed therethrough. The timer-controlled press unit is installed in the casing... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5675144 | Apparatus for verifying the correct formation of the two opposite ends of cigarettes in a cigarette magazine The ends of cigarettes (10) are verified in a cigarette magazine (12) by testing units (24, 25) coordinated with the ends of cigarettes (10) at a testing level (20). The testing units (24, 25) consist of mutually adjacent and removable testing elements (3... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5675202 | Generator having pulley with one-way clutch Irregularities on the face of the pulley groove of the pulley for driving the rotor shaft of the generator through the one-way clutch are positively extended and a frictional force between the face and the belt is increased, so that a higher torque than t... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5675332 | Plural-step chunk-at-a-time decoder for variable-length codes of Huffman type All except possibly the shortest code words in variable-length coding of Huffman type supplied in a codestream having data segments in which each successive code word comprises a pointer code segment followed by a target code segment are decoded in a plur... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5675484 | Wide input voltage range power supply with auto-transformers and piezoelectric transformer N-channel enhancement type switching transistors complementarily turn on and off in response to pulse signals complementary to each other so as to cause two auto-transformers to alternately supply secondary potentials to primary electrodes of a piezoelect... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5675072 | Combustion condition detector for internal combustion engine To correctly sense combusting conditions of an internal combustion engine, an ion current caused by combustion is detected. A combusting condition detecting apparatus for an internal combustion engine comprises a bias voltage generating circuit for applyi... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5675031 | 4-hydroxy-2-cyclopentenone derivatives and anticancer agent and bone formation accelerator containing the same Specific optically active 4- hydroxy-2-cyclopentenone derivatives and mixtures thereof having the formula (I): ##STR1## and an anticancer-agent and a bone formation accelerator containing the same as effective active ingredients.... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5675535 | Sense amplifier having a high operation speed and a low power consumption In a sense amplifier for use in a semiconductor memory having a plurality of memory cells, comprising first and differential amplifiers receiving a potential signal read out from a selected memory cell and a reference potential, and having an output for r... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5674527 | Infusion preparation comprising phospholipid Disclosed is an infusion preparation for nutrient supply use. It comprises a sugar, amino acids, electrolytes and a fat emulsion. It has an excellent shelf life without causing precipitation, denaturation and the like in spite of the simultaneous presence... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5675605 | Semiconductor surface-emitting optical device having light emitting layer of ordered crystal structure sandwiched between bragg reflectors An active layer incorporated in a semiconductor surface-emitting optical device is formed of the ordered crystal of GaInP or AlGaInP so that unisotropical photoluminescent characteristics take place in the light generation, and the semiconductor surface-e... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5675698 | Automatic head switching control method and apparatus for multi-modal video cassette recorders An automatic head switching control method and apparatus in a multi-modal VCR for allowing automatic switching between a first and a second video modes (e.g., NTSC and PAL) without manual adjustment. The invention generates a head switching signal of whic... | 10/07/1997 |
