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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7974423 | Loudspeaker system A loudspeaker system comprises a cabinet, a speaker unit, a package body, a filler gas, and an absorbent. The speaker unit is mounted in the cabinet. At least one package body is disposed in a vacant space inside of the cabinet and is structured by a bag body for se... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974167 | Optical disc apparatus, optical information equipment with the optical disc apparatus, and focusing control LSI in the optical disc apparatus In the present invention, at the time of pulling a focus on an information recording surface of a disc, a focus servo is first pulled in a disc surface of the disc, and with the servo in a settled state, a driving signal necessary for following surface wobble is sto... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974024 | Lens driving device A lens drive apparatus includes a base, a lens frame, a nut movable with the lens frame while being threadably engaged with a lead screw, a main guide shaft for guiding the lens frame along an optical axis, an auxiliary guide shaft for guiding the lens frame along t... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973268 | Induction heating cooking device An induction heating cooking device has an inverter including a resonant circuit, and a heating output control part. The resonant circuit has a resonant capacitor and a heating coil that is magnetically coupled to a load. The inverter has first and second switching ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973176 | Process for production of aralkyloxypyrrolidine derivative The present invention provides a process for producing a 3-aralkyloxypyrrolidine derivative which is important for production of pharmaceutical products and the like. In the present invention, a N-protected-3-hydroxypyrrolidine is converted into a N-protected-3-aral... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7972674 | Information recording medium, its manufacturing method, and sputtering target for forming information recording medium A write-once information recording medium having a high recording sensitivity and reliability with respect to long-term storage is provided. The information recording medium has a recording layer on a substrate, to which information can be recorded and from which in... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7972582 | Method and apparatus for treating exhaust gas An apparatus for treating an exhaust gas that includes a pre-treatment section that removes a powdery component, a water-soluble component or a hydrolytic component from the exhaust gas. The exhaust gas contains a fluorine compound and CO. A heating oxidative decomp... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7972065 | Hydrodynamic bearing device, spindle motor, and recording and reproducing apparatus equipped with same A hydrodynamic bearing device includes a sleeve having a bearing hole, a shaft, and a flange cover. The shaft is disposed in the bearing hole of the sleeve in a state of being capable of relative rotation, and has a large diameter flange portion. The flange cover is... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971746 | Thermally insulated housing A back surface of an outer case is formed by mutually overlapping left and right back panels. The overlapping edges on the front side and backside of the panels may be bent toward the opposite side at a blunt angle. A joint between the back panels is established in ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971691 | Damper for movable furniture parts A danger for movable furniture parts includes a housing and a cylinder disposed in the housing, in which a piston with a piston rod is movably supported. At least one set of gears is supported movably on the housing, by which the cylinder and/or a stop for the pisto... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971627 | Device for producing metal sample and process for producing metal sample A process and a device for easily and rapidly producing a metal sample for analysis for determining the content of impurities in a molten metal with high accuracy. More particularly, according to the metal sample production process, a metal sample for high accuracy ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971484 | Method for evaluating reliability of steel and high-reliability steel obtained by the same A method for evaluating the reliability of steel in terms of inclusions is characterized in that the inclusions of approximately 100 μm or less in maximum inclusion size are evaluated by microscopy combined with the extreme-value statistical analysis; the inclusion... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971424 | Heat cycle system and composite heat cycle electric power generation system A high-efficiency heat cycle system including a compressor, a first turbine, first and second heat exchangers 7 and 8, a first pump, and an expander, and a composite heat cycle power generator using the high-efficiency heat cycle system. Working gas Fg... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971281 | Shock absorbent for protective pad and protective pad and protective clothes using the same A shock absorbent device capable of securely protecting physical parts such as the lumbar part and femur part from a shock even imparted intensively to a narrow area of the physical part to be protected. Also, the shock absorbent device or a protective pad and prote... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971280 | Socks The present invention provides a comfortable sock free from tightness in a sole portion. The sock is constructed so that a bottom extension portion 13, in which the number of courses on the side of a sole portion 8 is larger than that on the side of an... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971265 | Content management system A content management system constructed by a plurality of storage apparatuses that can communicate with one another. A 1st storage apparatus, which is one of the storage apparatuses, stores therein, in correspondence, a content and copy destination information and s... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7971233 | Communication device, communication method, communication program, storage medium thereof, and integrated circuit A communication device sends content or content identification information to another communication device and receives content or content identification information from another communication device. The communication device includes an evaluation value calculation... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970708 | Value information management system, recording medium, printer device, account adjusting device, electronic data printing method, and computer program The present invention provides a value information management system capable of printing electronic data (e.g. electronic receipt) representing value information while restricting the electronic receipt to one of printed form and unprinted form so as to prevent frau... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970602 | Data reproduction device A data reproduction device is provided for achieving seamless reproduction of a stream where a validity of a bandwidth extension function is switched in the stream. The data reproduction device includes an input frequency obtainment unit analyzing header information... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970205 | Iterative motion segmentation An image processing device which simultaneously secures and extracts a background image, at least two object images, a shape of each object image and motion of each object image, from among plural images, the image processing device including an image input unit ( | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970155 | Video/audio output device and external speaker control apparatus An external speaker control apparatus causes only one of an internal speaker and an external speaker to output audio when a power supply of the external speaker control apparatus which controls the external speaker changes from an off state to an on state, the exter... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970061 | Block distortion detection method, block distortion detection apparatus, block distortion removal method, and block distortion removal apparatus A video decoder is connected with a block distortion detector for specifying the boundary of blocks where block boundary occurs, using decoded image data and information of motion vectors, which are supplied from the video decoder; and a block distortion remover for... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970060 | Contents generator and method Time stamped streams respectively generated by an AV stream generating means and data stream generating means are combined by a time-stamped contents generating means. Consequently, a time-stamped contents stream is generated which synchronizes the processing of an ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970059 | Variable length coding method and variable length decoding method A variable length coding method is comprised of: a coefficient value scanning step in which an RL sequence generation unit 203, a reordering unit 202, and a binarization unit 203 scan coefficient values within a block in a predetermined scanning... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969700 | Electrical circuit for protecting photovoltaic systems The object of the present invention is to provide a structure for the electrical protection of photovoltaic facilities in the event a photovoltaic generator (G1-Gp) is connected with its polarity reversed, for what it includes a protection cell... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969388 | Plasma display device Initialization waveforms with different voltages are applied respectively to a predetermined subfield with a small number of sustain pulses, and a subfield with the smallest number of sustain pulses in subfields other than the predetermined subfield. This offers a p... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969322 | Processor A processing apparatus that is connected with another processing apparatus via a network, receives a request for a processing from the other processing apparatus, executes the requested processing while not performing an originally intended process of the processing... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969081 | Plasma display panel A plasma display panel includes: pairs of electrodes having first electrode and second electrode which are arranged in parallel with each other; first substrate having dielectric layer formed so that the dielectric layer can cover the pairs of electrodes; and second... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968854 | Device for sterilizing a fluid The invention relates to a device for sterilizing a fluid and includes a container provided for receiving the fluid, at least one UV light source for the sterilization of the fluid, and at least one measuring device for determining absorption properties and/or cloud... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968482 | Glass substrate Provided is a glass substrate, which has a substrate size of 1,100 mm×1,250 mm or more, and a transmittance at a wavelength of 500 to 800 nm and at a route length of 50 mm of 80% or more. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968098 | HLA-A24-binding KIF-derived peptide An object of the invention is to provide a peptide derived from a glioma-associated antigen being useful for the specific immunotherapy for glioma patients. The invention provides a KIF-derived peptide which is capable of binding to an HLA-A24 molecule and recognize... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967922 | Ferrous abrasion resistant sliding material A ferrous abrasion resistant sliding material capable of improving seizing resistance, abrasion resistance and heat crack resistance is provided. The ferrous abrasion resistant sliding material has a martensite parent phase which forms a solid solution with carbon o... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967796 | Adhesive for injection needle, a method for bonding injection needle, a syringe front-assembly and a syringe The present invention inhibits the occurrence of the foreign matters attributable to an adhesive for bonding an injection needle to a needle-base member so as to enhance the yield of a syringe when producing the same. A front-assembly (3) additionally provide... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967685 | Inner ring for constant velocity universal joint and manufacturing apparatus therefor An inner ring of a constant velocity universal joint includes ball tracks formed in an outer surface at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. Portions of side walls of the ball tracks that form edge lines with the outer surface are formed with a ch... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967665 | Substrate holding apparatus, polishing apparatus, and polishing method A substrate holding apparatus prevents a substrate from slipping out and allows the substrate to be polished stably. The substrate holding apparatus has a top ring body for holding and pressing a substrate against a polishing surface, and a retainer ring for pressin... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967660 | Polishing apparatus and polishing method A polishing apparatus is provided for polishing wafers at a high yield rate even if roll-off exists. The polishing apparatus polishes a wafer by applying a pressure between a polishing member (polishing pad) 201 and the wafer held by a holding member (top rin... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967478 | Device for redirecting the luminous flux emitted by one or more LED A device redistributes light emitted by one or more LEDs and constitutes a secondary optical component for the construction of sources, lamps, illuminating bodies, and solid state optical signaling apparatuses. In one of its basic forms the device comprises a main o... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967452 | Projection type display apparatus A projection type display apparatus is provided that is safe even when a person looks directly into a laser beam. A laser operation control unit sets the output power of at least one laser source so that intensity A (mW/mm2) of the laser beam on at least ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966854 | Clutch mechanism applicable to electromechanical cylinders for locks It comprises a carriage (4) displaceable forwards and backwards by means of a spindle (3) actuated by a motor (2), the carriage (4) containing clutch pins (12) so that in the forward displacement the engagement takes place with a c... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7949930 | Information recording medium, data sorting device and data reproduction device A stream including plural access units is recorded on an information recording medium. Each access unit has a first packet that includes basic data as well as a second packet which includes extension data related to the basic data. The basic data is data that is dec... | 05/24/2011 |
