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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| 6456677 | Synchronization equipment The synchronizing apparatus includes a block for detecting a code from an input signal, a block for detecting from the code the variable points of the code at several times as high as the symbol rate, a block for calculating a histogram of the detected va... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6430178 | Internet telephone apparatus, communication system utilizing wide area data communication network, and terminal adapter To prevent a calling party from paying an Internet connection fee when a called party is busy, in an Internet telephone, a call setting message including a sub-address to the called party is used to notify the called party of an incoming call which can be... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6397272 | Interruption processing circuit for receiving and storing data associated with an event An object of the present invention is to provide an interruption processing circuit which can send out an interruption information correctly to a data processor even when timing of occurrence of an interruption event is overlapped with that of its reading... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6377569 | Talking system using internet phone server devices and data communication line An Internet phone server device includes a database storing users' telephone numbers and nearby ISPA information, a telephone number acquiring unit for acquiring the telephone number of the other party in response to user's call origination, an ISPA acqui... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6278719 | Lasers, optical amplifiers, and amplification methods An optical amplification medium doped with Er3+ ions is selected from the group of a fluoride glass, a chalcogenide glass, a telluride glass, a halide crystal, and a lead oxide based glass. The Er3+ ions are excited by light of at le... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6256762 | Semiconductor disk device In a semiconductor disk unit, one sector data to be stored in a memory part is divided into a plurality of banks, and ECC data is prepared every bank so as to enhance the function of correcting errors even if there occur many error bits.... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6205164 | Lasers, optical amplifiers, and amplification methods An optical amplification medium doped with Er3+ ions is selected from the group of a fluoride glass, a chalcogenide glass, a telluride glass, a halide crystal, and a lead oxide based glass. The Er3+ ions are excited by light of at le... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6122332 | Apparatus for reducing impulse noise in high-frequency digital receivers A high-frequency radio signal receiving apparatus for digital communication includes a receiving antenna for receiving a high-frequency radio wave, a frequency converter for converting a signal supplied from the receiving antenna through a wide-band bandp... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6080491 | Substrate for electrophotographic photoconductor and electrophotographic photoconductor using the same A substrate for an electrophotographic photoconductor having an anodic oxidation film on the surface is subjected to two-step sealing treatment in which the substrate is sealing treated with nickel fluoride as a sealing agent, and then with nickel acetate... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6081607 | Animal body identifying device and body identifying system An animal body identifying device of the present invention includes a camera for photographing an eye of an animal, a body data capturer for capturing body data for the photographed animal from an image photographed by the camera, a body data registry for... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6054724 | Light-emitting diode, light-emitting diode array A compound semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type is formed on a substrate, and a diffusion region of a second conductivity type is formed on the compound semiconductor layer. The light-emitting diode has a high emitted light power, using a larg... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6054351 | Method of evaluating a tunnel insulating film The present invention provides a method of evaluating a tunnel insulating film of a first MOS FET having a semiconductor substrate, a control gate, a floating gate and a tunnel insulating film formed between the semiconductor substrate and the floating ga... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6027701 | Ozone generator An ozone generator includes a vessel provided at one end with a feed gas chamber for receiving a feed gas through an inlet and at the other end with an ozonized gas chamber, communicating with an outlet, for receiving an ozonized gas, a cylindrical tube g... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6023104 | LED array alignment mark, method and mask for forming same, and LED array alignment method An alignment mark on a light-emitting diode (LED) array chip is formed together with the light-emitting areas of the diodes in the array, by use of a combined mask having a first part and a second part. An impurity is introduced through windows in the fir... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6013345 | Card, bonding jig, and card reader-writer Display functions are added freely to a card a with high printing quality by bonding a rewrite tape 7 onto a specified position of the card 1, i.e., at a position where the rewrite tape 7 is bonded onto a back area of a face of the card on which an IC car... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5970794 | Shock sensor A shock sensor detects shocks from all directions in a plane. A coil produces a magnetic field. A magnetic fluid is sealed in a closed container located in the magnetic field. A magnetoresistive effect element is also is located in the magnetic field and ... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5943586 | LED array alignment mark, method and mask for forming same, and LED array alignment method An alignment mark on a light-emitting diode (LED) array chip is formed together with the light-emitting areas of the diodes in the array, by use of a combined mask having a first part and a second part. An impurity is introduced through windows in the fir... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5940548 | Guided-wave circuit with optical characteristics adjusting plate, method for producing it, and apparatus for producing optical characteristics adjusting plate A guided-wave circuit with a phase adjusting plate which adjusts optical path length errors, occurring during the manufacture of PLC, by an additional processing performed after the production of the PLC; and a method for producing the guided-wave circuit... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5896567 | Telephone system having disconnection information outputting function A wireless telephone system including a communication controlling unit for performing the line connection and line disconnection between personal stations, a timer setting unit for setting a timer to predetermined times in accordance with the line connect... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5881925 | Atomizer of reciprocating pump type In the reciprocating pump P, the pressure chamber 30 is formed by an atomizing tube 15, a piston 28, and a cylinder 20. The pressure chamber 30 has a check valve 24 that opens and closes the inlet of the said pressure chamber 30 and a ball-shaped stirring... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5872369 | Solid-state antenna switch and field-effect transistor A field-effect transistor has a covering electrode overlying at least part of the transistor's channel. The covering electrode is formed on an insulating layer that covers the source, gate, and drain of the transistor. One voltage is applied to the coveri... | 02/16/1999 |
