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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7940845 | Motion vector calculating method When a block (MB22) of which motion vector is referred to in the direct mode contains a plurality of motion vectors, 2 motion vectors MV23 and MV24, which are used for inter picture prediction of a current picture (P23) to be coded, are d... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7886078 | Connection support server and communication apparatus A low cost communication apparatus enables detection of an apparatus present on a different network in a router multistage network having a plurality of routers. When a communication apparatus cannot detect, on a network thereof, a desired apparatus, the communicati... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7883523 | Lancet assembly The present invention provides a lancet assembly which eliminates the need to remove a resin cover encapsulating a pricking element. Upon inserting a lancet structure into a lancet holder, a force which separates a lancet cover encapsulating the sharp tip portion of... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7880153 | Extreme ultra violet light source apparatus An EUV light source apparatus capable of preventing deterioration and/or breakage of a filter for filtering EUV light. The EUV light source apparatus includes an EUV generation chamber in which EUV light is generated; a target material supply unit for supplying a ta... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7879124 | Air cleaner and method of manufacturing the same There is provided an air cleaner in which an adsorption element for adsorbing vaporized fuel is surely fixed to a housing without additionally providing a special step, and moreover the performance of element and the performance of an air cleaner itself can be maint... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7878349 | Profile shape for a crane boom The invention relates to a crane jib for a crane, having a longitudinal axis and an imaginary contour line that extends in a transversal plane relative to an axis of symmetry in an at least approximately mirror-symmetric manner. The contour line has an at least appr... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7878144 | Electroless plating apparatus and electroless plating method An electroless plating apparatus can form a protective film on exposed surfaces of embedded interconnects stably with good selectivity for thereby protecting the interconnects. The electroless plating apparatus includes a magnetic removal portion for magnetically re... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7878041 | Dynamic verification method for a riveting process with blind rivets carried out with an automatic riveting apparatus, and verifying device for carrying out the verification A method and device are provided for verification of the quality of placing of blind rivets. The verification method involves successively carrying out, during the application of traction force to a stem, initial measurements in an initial state of the application o... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7854819 | Multilayer information recording medium and production method therefor A method for producing a multilayer information recording medium the method including: holding a substrate; feeding a resin onto the substrate; and removing the excess resin by moving a squeegee throughout the entire surface of the substrate. The substrate may have ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7842924 | Infrared detector, infrared detecting apparatus, and method of manufacturing infrared detector An infrared detector comprises: a reflection portion transmitting far- and middle-infrared rays and reflecting near-infrared and visible rays; a photo-current generating portion having a quantum well structure in which electrons are excited by the far- and middle-in... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7818090 | Method of controlling movement of mobile robot A method of controlling movement of a mobile robot for realizing safe and appropriate accompanying behavior to follow an accompanied target includes detecting at least a position of the accompanied target, and controlling the movement of the mobile robot, based on t... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7816912 | Angle detector including distinct magnetic stator portions An angle detector includes a magnetic rotor and a plurality of magnetic stator portions. The magnetic stator portions are arranged separately in an annular stator frame and each magnetic stator portion includes a pair of magnetic stator strips. The periphery of the ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7816526 | Condensed heterocyclic sulfonyl urea compound, a herbicide containing the same, and a method for weed control using the same The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula: wherein Q represents a fused heterocyclic group, X and Y are the same or different and each represent an optionally halogenated lower alkyl group, an opt... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7816420 | Radiation curable low gloss powder coating compositions A radiation curable powder coating composition for preparing low gloss coatings, comprises as a binder a mixture of 30 to 90 weight % of one or more (meth)acryloyl group containing amorphous polyester resins having an unsaturated equivalent weight of more than 700 g... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7815800 | Refuse/oil removing device and refuse/oil recovery bag A refuse/oil removing device and a refuse/oil recovery bag are provided which can remove refuse and oil contained in drainage discharged from a restaurant in a simple manner without contact with the refuse and oil. A support base of a support unit is disposed in the... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7814406 | Display apparatus and display method Provided is a display apparatus by which a user can immediately browse necessary information in a large schedule table, and can browse also distributed information such as electronic mail at the same time, without being prevented from browsing the schedule table. Th... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7807257 | Ceramic sheet and method of producing ceramic sheet The present invention relates to a ceramic sheet having uniform quality over its entire surface with a decreased number of detects such as foreign matters and flaws. When the ceramic sheet was divided into sections of 30 mm square or smaller, each divided section ha... | 10/05/2010 |
| RE41805 | Moisture curable composition A moisture curable composition excellent in transparency, operating efficiency and storage stability, and is suitable for use as an adhesive and a sealing material is provided. The moisture curable composition produced by blending 100 parts by weight of a mixture (A... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7800462 | Printed board and filter using the same A printed board is mounted with a chip-type solid electrolytic capacitor of a four-terminal structure where a pair of positive electrode terminals are disposed at opposite positions and a pair of negative electrode terminals are disposed at opposite positions on a m... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796324 | Wavelength converting apparatus and image displaying apparatus A wavelength converting apparatus comprising: a laser resonator; a first wavelength converting element that converts a fundamental wave outputted from the laser resonator into a harmonic wave; a first temperature control element that controls the temperature of the ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792084 | MIMO antenna apparatus controlling number of streams and modulation and demodulation method A MIMO antenna apparatus receives a plurality of radio signals modulated and transmitted by a sender-side radio station apparatus using a MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) communication method with a number of data streams and a modulation and demodulation method. The... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7790914 | Method for dimethyl carbonate synthesis There is provided a catalyst for dimethyl carbonate synthesis which has a high conversion rate under the supercritical condition of CO2 and can be handled easily. The catalyst for dimethyl carbonate is obtained by loading SO42− or ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7785529 | Method and apparatus for sintering of inorganic materials as well as resulting objects The invention refers to a method and an apparatus for fabricating a tridimensional solid object by sintering inorganic particles of controlled size distribution. The particles are directed onto a target area in a powdery stream in the shape of a conical surface whic... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7776484 | Separator for fuel cell, method for producing separator, and solid oxide fuel cell Gas discharge ports are provided in almost the entire area of a layer surface of a separator, and a gas for reaction is discharged like a shower from the separator toward a power generation cell. The separator is constructed by layering plate-shaped members containi... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7756218 | Wireless transmission system and wireless transmission method and wireless station and transmitting station for use therein A wireless transmission system exerts a maximum path diversity effect even if the maximum number of effective branches is limited to a small number. A transmission timing control section determines a transmission start timing to be a timing obtained by delaying a re... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7753185 | Shift device with synchronizer adapted for transmission A shift device includes a hub, a sleeve splined with the hub, and a pair of speed gears sandwiching the hub. Thrust pieces are respectively inserted in the concave portions of the sleeve and movable in the notches of the hub in an axial direction, and formed with sl... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7752655 | Access control device and electronic device An access control device controls an access right with respect to a plurality of electronic devices in a network for each combination of electronic devices. An authority information generating section generates authority information which is used when an electronic ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7748463 | Cementing valve A cementing valve for conducting cementing operations in a wellbore comprises a casing, wherein the cementing valve comprises an inner sliding sleeve which in a closed position covers a number of openings through an outer pipe surrounding the inner sliding sleeve, a... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7748249 | Workpiece conveyance device for pressing machine A work conveyance device for a pressing machine, consuming less energy and enabling reduction in production costs. The workpiece conveyance device has a pair of transfer bars provided in parallel to a feed direction, support members for moving each of the transfer b... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7744339 | EOLIC energy transformation tower The present invention allows for the exploitation and transformation of eolic energy into mechanical or electric energy by means of coupling it to a fixed generator. The tower is a vertical structure that houses a vertical axis rotor and makes better use of the wind... | 06/29/2010 |
| D618582 | Ornamental object made of glass | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742543 | Transmission circuit by polar modulation system and communication apparatus using the same A transmission circuit alleviates the frequency characteristics of a group delay and an attenuation amount in a transmission signal band and expands a dynamic range to a high frequency band. A ladder-type resistance-type attenuator includes switching elements, 2R re... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7741549 | Method of producing parts for woodwind and brass musical instruments using briarwood The invention relates to a method of producing parts for woodwind and brass musical instruments using briarwood, either from the root or branch thereof, said wood being kept moist from the moment it is cut until it is boiled in water for 16 hours, dried in anaerobic... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7740407 | Hydrodynamic bearing type rotary device and recording and reproduction apparatus including the same To prevent air from being trapped inside a bearing and causing the bearing to have oil film rupture and NRRO to deteriorate. In a hydrodynamic bearing, a first lubricant reservoir is provided in a gap between a lower surface of a hub and a sleeve, and a second lubri... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7731239 | Card forming sheet A card forming sheet includes an opaque printing sheet and a transparent film placed over the printing sheet, so that the transparent film can be peeled away from the printing sheet and cannot be re-bonded to the printing sheet. Moreover, the card forming sheet incl... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7731235 | Steering column for a motor vehicle Steering column for a motor vehicle with a rotatably supported steering spindle (1), a supporting unit (4) supporting the steering spindle (1) and a mounting unit (5) fo... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7731207 | Mobile transport platform for the handling of aeronautical parts A mobile transport platform for the handling of aeronautical parts with a frame has an array of telescopic actuators vertically arranged in rows and columns, each telescopic actuator is coupled by one end to the frame, and has a coupled head (2c) at it... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730732 | Refrigerating storage cabinet A storing section stores data of a pull down cooling characteristic indicative of a time-varying mode of reduction in a target temperature drop. For example, when this is a linear function line, a target internal temperature drop degree takes a constant value, irres... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7728257 | Method of forming embrittled areas inside wafer for division A method of forming embrittled areas in multiple layers inside a wafer so as to enable the wafer to be divided correctly even at areas where embrittled areas intersect. In a first direction embrittling step an embrittled area is formed as a bottom layer, in a second... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7722581 | Crystalline lens drug delivery A method of delivering a drug or other compound to the lens of the eye. A conduit through which a drug is introduced penetrates at least the outer lens capsule for drug delivery. When withdrawn, the aperture is self-sealing, thus minimizing trauma and minimizing the... | 05/25/2010 |
