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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6888686 | Lens for image pickup A lens for image pickup is provided in which various aberrations are corrected satisfactorily, the optical length is at maximum approximately 6 mm, and moreover a sufficient back focus is secured. This lens for image pickup comprises a first lens, an aperture diaphr... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6723966 | PTC heater A PTC heater mainly comprises PTC ceramic sheets and cooling fins, and it comprises an inner support in which the PTC sheets are disposed, two electrode plates being disposed on both sides of the support and the PTC sheets to abut against the PTC sheets tightly, the... | 04/20/2004 |
| 7419153 | Method and apparatus for producing bound books, magazines or brochures A method for producing bound books, magazines or brochures by gathering printed sheets into non-bound book blocks along a conveying section that is supplied by at least one sheet feeder includes separating the lowest printed sheet from a stack of printed sheets by l... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417490 | Internal voltage generator of semiconductor integrated circuit The internal voltage generator of a semiconductor integrated circuit includes at least one variable reference voltage generating unit that generates a base reference voltage increased or decreased according to the variation in temperature, at least one level shiftin... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7372563 | Method and device for carrying out emission spectrometry The invention relates to a method and a device for carrying out emission spectroscopy, in particular laser emission spectroscopy. According to said method, a pulsed laser beam is automatically focussed on a workpiece to generate a laser-induced plasma, the radiation... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7272723 | USB-compliant personal key with integral input and output devices A compact, self-contained, personal key is disclosed. The personal key comprises a USB-compliant interface releaseably coupleable to a host processing device; a memory; and a processor. The processor provides the host processing device conditional access to data sto... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7198164 | Hot-fillable container with a waisted dome A hot-fillable blow molded plastic container having a finish with an opening; a base; a lower bumper transition; an upper bumper transition and a tubular dome. The upper bumper transition and lower bumper transition defines a label mounting region. The label mountin... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7139482 | Wavelength division multiplex transmission system There is provided a wavelength division multiplex transmission system with satisfactory transmission characteristics and extensive functions for avoidance of defects. Transmission signals to be transmitted by an optical transmission device are distributed among a pl... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7120464 | Call connection management equipment for wireless mobile communication network A call connection management equipment for decreasing the required time from a call connection request to a call connection establishment in a wireless mobile communication network. This call connection management equipment registers generated call connection inform... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116684 | Cell disassembly unit The present invention provides a cell disassembly unit which accurately reproduces the position of data on a time axis when ATM cells are converted into STM signals even if cell loss occurs in an ATM network. A cell loss detection circuit disassembles the ATM cells ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7105458 | Method of etching semiconductor devices using a hydrogen peroxide-water mixture The present invention is a method of producing semiconductor devices and an etching liquid with which the titanium nitride film can be removed without thinning of the CoSi layer. A hydrogen peroxide-water mixture is used for removal of the titanium nitride film in t... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7034988 | Wavelength conversion device A feature of a wavelength conversion device of this invention is the board range of selection of wavelengths which can be obtained by conversion. A wavelength conversion device of this invention comprises an SC light generation portion 12, which receives an e... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7017221 | Floor sweeping apparatus Floor sweeping apparatus (9) of the type having a rotary brush member (20), which in use is driven to rotate about a generally horizontal axis, the brush member (20) having bristle elements (22) that, as the brush member (20) rotat... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017763 | Base having a flexible vacuum area A non-round base structure for a hot-fill plastic container provides the container with enhanced structural integrity. The base structure is roughly rectangular and is composed of a flexible vacuum absorbing area and a bearing edge which support the container in an ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6993443 | Method for determining and tracking the position and orientation of a magnetic field sensor With a method for determining and tracking a changing, true position and orientation of a magnetic field sensor within a three-dimensional magnetic field space from the values measured by the magnetic field sensor, the magnetic field space is structured in a precedi... | 01/31/2006 |
| D510945 | Camera lens | 10/25/2005 |
| 6944400 | Optical path switching device An optical path switching device is provided whereby changeover of optical path can be achieved with higher speed than conventionally. In this optical path switching device, a plurality of despreaders and a plurality of spreaders are connected in a prescribed corres... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6939498 | Method of making crystallized bottlenecks A method for making a crystallized bottleneck of a polyester beer bottle is provided. The bottleneck has no machined screw threads and a length of 0.5-35 mm. To manufacture the crystallized bottleneck, an uncrystallized blank of the bottle is placed in an air-condit... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6931443 | Data communication system The present invention is provided with one main station and a plurality of substations. After transmitting data addressed to all substations, the main station transmits a message addressed to all substations to query whether reception was normal. When unable to rece... | 08/16/2005 |
| D505437 | Camera lens | 05/24/2005 |
| 6896147 | Base structure for a container A base structure for a blow-molded container having a sidewall is provided. The base structure comprises a support heel having an outer portion and an inner portion, the outer portion merging with the container sidewall. An inner projecting portion merges with the i... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898709 | Personal computer system and methods for proving dates in digital data files A personal computer (PC) system and methods for proving dates of digital data files, which are accessed, created, modified, received, or transmitted by the PC includes a trusted time source in a tamperproof environment, a first subsystem for saving the file at a mom... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6888509 | Tamper indicating radio frequency identification label A tamper indicating label is provided. The label may include RFID components and a tamper track coupled to the RFID components. The tamper track should be constructed from a destructible conducting path. Additionally, the tamper track can be formed such that it is d... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6889006 | Auxiliary lens for camera and the like An auxiliary lens for a camera and the like includes a washer to be mounted to a camera and an auxiliary-lens body to be joined to the washer to thereby be mounted to the camera. The auxiliary-lens body has an adhering section made of a permanent magnet, ferromagnet... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6885659 | Voice packet communications system with communications quality evaluation function A voice packet communications system which objectively evaluates the voice quality in real time. Voice packets received from a network are input into an adjustment circuit. The adjustment circuit evens out the periods of the voice packets, detects the drop-out of vo... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6837702 | Method of operating a combined cycle power plant A method of using internal combustion engine exhaust in a combined cycle power plant is disclosed, wherein the quality and distribution of exhaust to the boiler space of a steam generated electric power plant is controlled to achieve greater system efficiencies, and... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6835221 | Exhaust gas filtration device and auxiliary filtration device The present invention has an object to improve the efficiency of collection of solidification constituents and solids in exhaust gas and to prevent early blockage of the filter without damaging the vacuum pump. In an exhaust path 48a, a vacuum pump and... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6832740 | Missile system and method of missile guidance A missile system and a method of missile guidance in which a bus missile is launched from a launch station remote from a target with the bus missile carrying a plurality of sub-missiles. The sub-missiles are then launched from the bus missile during flight of the bu... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6834052 | Band management circuit The band management circuit of the present invention is utilized in a fiber-optic network that uses, for example, ATM-PDS, in order for an SLT to control the transmissions of a plurality of ONU, which are accommodated by this SLT. The band management circuit of the ... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6833968 | Image pickup lens An image pickup lens is provided in which various aberrations are satisfactorily corrected, and the optical length is not more than 6 mm, and moreover a sufficient back focus is secured. This image pickup lens is configured by arranging, in order from the object sid... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6825566 | Semiconductor device with reduced interconnection capacity This invention provides a semiconductor device that can ensure that stress on the nitride film is not increased or is reduced, and that can prevent an increase in interconnection capacity. The semiconductor device comprises a underlayer, a base oxide film that is fo... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6809890 | Method for manufacturing silicon wafer and silicon wafer An imaging lens comprising, in sequence from the object side to the image side: an aperture diaphragm, a first lens, a second diaphragm, and a second lens; the first lens consisting of a meniscus-shaped lens having positive power with a concave face oriented towards... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6800183 | Sputtering device The invention is intended to provide a sputtering device in which a single sputtering chamber is equipped with a plurality of supports and a target-positioning mechanism for rotating the supports to position the targets into film-forming position. Each support is pr... | 10/05/2004 |
| D496855 | Plastic container | 10/05/2004 |
| D496379 | Camera lens | 09/21/2004 |
| 6793488 | Flavivirus detection and quantification assay A fluorescent DNA probes specific to the conserved terminal 3′-noncoding region (nucleotides 10653-10678) of dengue virus and a pair of flanking primers are designed to formulate a dengue specific fluorogenic polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Optimal assay conditio... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6787873 | Semiconductor device for providing a noise shield A first guard ring formed by high concentration ion diffusion is established around the transistor formation region of the semiconductor substrate. A second guard ring is established around the first guard ring with a prescribed gap therebetween. A metal film is for... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6778603 | Method and apparatus for generating a pulse train with specifiable spectral response characteristics A system and method for shaping the energy spectrum of a pulse train used by a pulse transmission system. The initial temporal and non-temporal characteristics of pulses comprising the pulse train are established using a designed code or a pseudorandom code and the ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6738424 | Scene model generation from video for use in video processing A method of generating and utilizing a scene model from a sequence of video frames produces a three-dimensional scene model, useful for video processing. The method separates foreground and background data. It uses an estimate of relative motion of an observer to pr... | 05/18/2004 |
