Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| PP19377 | Nectarine tree named ‘Nectarexquise’ A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, denominated ‘Nectarexquise’, has fruit of very long shelf life without alteration after harvesting, a semi-sweet white flesh of high eating quality and an attractive, very high percentage red skin. The tree is of lar... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443585 | Polarizer, polarization light source and image display unit using them A polarization component, capable of efficiently reflecting an obliquely transmitted light beam toward a light source without degrading the transmission-polarization property of a perpendicular incident light beam, is provided. A C-plate having an oblique retardatio... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443942 | Receiving device and receiving method A receiver for CDMA enables a reduction in a circuit scale including a matched filter and lessening of loads stemming from despread processing. A speed conversion section 10 down-samples a received signal which has been over-sampled at a ratio of four times a chip r... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444024 | Image compression method To provide a technology of increasing coding efficiency for an isolated column which appears with a high frequency. Bit map data which indicates an image by an array of pixels of main scanning and subscanning directions is scanned in the main scanning direction, the... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444163 | Mobile digital devices A mobile digital device comprises a ten-key pad being comprised of a key mat 21 on which ten-key buttons 21a-21c with respective projections 21aa-21cc on the under surfaces thereof are laid out and a key... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443516 | Optical-distortion correcting apparatus and optical-distortion correcting method A reference-height calculating unit calculates an original height of a distortion detecting mirror when a distortion detecting mirror and a reference mirror are set in parallel to each other. A height measuring unit measures mirror heights when the distortion detect... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439502 | Electron beam apparatus and device production method using the electron beam apparatus The purpose of the invention is to provide an improved electron beam apparatus with improvements in throughput, accuracy, etc. One of the characterizing features of the electron beam apparatus of the present invention is that it has a plurality of optical systems, e... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439464 | Waterproof switch Enhancing efficiency in assembling a waterproof switch, and enhance flexibility of seal design. The waterproof switch 7 includes a plunger 11 accommodated in a cylindrical case 10 capable of moving in the longitudinal direction, and to which a s... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439317 | Amorphous polyester chip and method for production thereof, and method for storage of amorphous polyester chip An amorphous polyester chip having superior processing ability is characterized by a moisture content of not more than 300 ppm and a fine particle content of not more than 500 ppm. A preferred embodiment is a copolymerized polyester chip comprising a main repeating ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439199 | Capacitive element, method of manufacture of the same, and semiconductor device A capacitive element is characterized by including: a base (12); a lower barrier layer (13) formed on the base (12); capacitors (Q1 and Q2) made by forming a lower electrode (14a), capacitor dielectric layers ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439010 | Alkali-soluble siloxane polymer, positive type resist composition, resist pattern, process for forming the same, electronic device and process for manufacturing the same A positive type resist composition having an alkali-soluble siloxane polymer expressed by the following Formula (1), a photosensitive compound, and a 1 μm thick resist film formed of the positive type resist composition which has 5% to 60% of transmittance to i-lin... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438991 | Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell and method for charging same The invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell that has high capacity and excels in cycle characteristics. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell functions stably at a high potential of from 4.4 to 4.6 V with respect to lithium and inhibits the ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438831 | Zirconium or hafnium and manganese-containing oxides Oxo-acid salts, halogenated oxo-acid salts, double oxides or complex oxides contain 0.001-10 atom % of Zr or Hf and 0.001-5 atom % of Mn. They emit radiation in the visible range of 390-750 nm when excited with vacuum-ultraviolet radiation. ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437999 | Overhead traveling vehicle system A side buffer 40 is provided on a side of a traveling rail 6 of an overhead traveling vehicle 8. Multiple levels of racks 41, 42 are provided. The overhead traveling means 8 has elevating and lowering means including components suc... | 10/21/2008 |
| D578939 | Front bumper for an automobile | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437834 | Method of processing substrate and substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus 10 including a vapor generating unit 371 which generates a mixed gas consisting of an organic solvent vapor and an inert gas by bubbling the inert gas in the organic solvent; support means for supporting a pl... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437868 | Core yarn manufacturing apparatus A core yarn manufacturing apparatus includes a draft device that drafts sheath fibers of a core yarn and a core fiber supply device that supplies core fibers of the core yarn, wherein a feed-out path of the core fibers in the core fiber supply device is inclined abo... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437881 | Control valve for variable displacement compressor To provide a control valve for a variable displacement compressor, which is capable of stably operating in a pressure control area, and causing the compressor to quickly shift to operation with the minimum displacement. The control valve for a variable displacement ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438738 | Air cleaner device for motorcycle An air cleaner device for a motorcycle including a cylindrical filter element disposed in a box of an air cleaner, wherein air purified by the element is sent to an air-intake system. Further, a rectifying member is disposed around the outer periphery of the cylindr... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438197 | Combined module of folding container In a combined module of a folding container, long-side bank portions 1a of a bottom 1 of a large folding container Cb are configured to be higher than short-side bank portions 1b of the bottom 1. Since the long-side bank por... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438073 | Air assistance apparatus for computing the airflow provided by only means of pressure sensors An apparatus (1) to assist a patient's respiration by delivering air to a patient through a mask, the mask designed to be connected to a first extremity of a tube, the apparatus including: a control unit (2) to adjust the pressure delivered by a blower... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440267 | Electronic apparatus The present invention relates to various types of electronic apparatus having a folding structure via hinges and aims to help further enrich and compact functions. The apparatus includes: a first enclosure having a circuit component; a hinge unit rotatably connected... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439968 | Display device In a display device comprising a cooling suction fan and an air filter arranged on the suction side of the cooling suction fan, there are provided first means for measuring the value of a current flowing through a power supply line to the cooling suction fan for eac... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439693 | Anomaly detection method and motor control device A control unit of a motor driver performs feedback control to supply current to a linear motor based on a detection value of a linear encoder. An anomaly detection unit monitors the supply current to the linear motor, and the anomaly detection unit detects anomaly o... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439631 | Hybrid power supply system It is an object of the present invention to provide a high efficiency hybrid power supply system that permits a power type power supply device such as a capacitor to be utilized effectively, and that makes it possible to even the burden on an energy type power suppl... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439758 | Display apparatus and method of inspecting the same Provided are a detection element Em used for controlling a value of a drive voltage for each light emitting element constituting a display pixel, and a leakage detection circuit 4 which separates the detection element Em from a current source I1 when t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437621 | Rack management system, management terminal, configuration retaining apparatus and rack apparatus In order to rapidly specify a failed apparatus in such an environment at a data center that handles a large number of electronic devices exemplified by servers with ease so that maintainability can be improved, when each configuration retaining apparatus receives in... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437285 | Adaptive media encoding and decoding equipment An encoding unit encodes data at a first rate during an initial predetermined section of uncompressed data (a), and encodes data at a second rate after the initial predetermined section (where the first rate | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436983 | Image recognition apparatus and image recognition program An image recognition apparatus is configured to recognize movements of players in a sport match or game from contents recording a sport match or game wherein the players match against each other between domains partitioned with such an obstacle as net, the image rec... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436890 | Quantization control system for video coding The present invention provides a quantization control system for video coding, for optimizing bit allocation based on visual priority which expresses at high precision human visual characteristics for videos, thereby improving subjective image quality of the whole i... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436805 | Method for call establishment over a packet exchange network The present invention provide a method for call establishment over a packet exchange network which is capable of saving the time required for a call establishment of the PPP by reducing redundant steps for authentication in a SIP call, and to reduce the incoming dat... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436679 | Radio-frequency module for communication A communication radio-frequency module is provided that has a semiconductor device to which an antenna element is connected. This communication radio-frequency module includes: a supporting body that has a waveguide formed therein; a wiring board that is fixed onto ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436548 | Printer controller, printing system, and recording medium therefor The invention provides a printer controller capable of ensuring printing data without deteriorating a performance of the printer without provision of a storage means for storing printing data in the controller. The controller receives printing data for each p... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436496 | Distance image sensor A distance image sensor for removing the background light and improving the charge transfer efficiency in a device for measuring the distance to an object by measuring the time-of-flight of the light. In a distance image sensor for determining the signals of ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436062 | Semiconductor chip element, semiconductor chip element mounting structure, semiconductor chip element mounting device and mounting method An apparatus and method for improving the underfill filling of a semiconductor chip element 100 which is ultrasonically bonded to and mounted on a circuit board. A semiconductor chip element 100 includes a silicon chip 101 and a group of stud bu... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435938 | Optical packet communication device with an applied negative voltage for canceling an offset voltage There is provided a PD-TIA module that can be used for recognition of an address of an optical packet signal in a system having variation in mark rate all the time, such as an optical packet communication system. An optical communication module comprises a photoelec... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435656 | Semiconductor device of transistor structure having strained semiconductor layer The semiconductor device comprises a p type Si substrate 10; a SiGe buffer layer 12 formed on the p type Si substrate 10 and having element isolation grooves 16 formed in the surface, which define an active region 18; a SiGe regrow... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435305 | Cast aluminum alloy compressor wheel for a turbocharger A compressor wheel made of a cast aluminum alloy, wherein the cast aluminum alloy contains Cu 1.4 to 3.2 mass %, Mg 1.0 to 2.0 mass %, Ni 0.5 to 2.0 mass %, Fe 0.5 to 2.0 mass %, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti 0.01 to 0.35 mass %, Zr 0.01 ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434879 | Structure for attaching spring A structure for attaching a frame-like spring being capable of effectively reducing the number of parts, is provided. According to this structure, a reaction force frame element which is a frame-like spring is attached via a lower frame portion and an upper frame po... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434855 | Stay structure A stay structure includes a stay main body having a ball-like portion at one end, and a base member configured to hold the ball-like portion. The base member includes a first base portion and a second base portion detachably attached to first base portion. The first... | 10/14/2008 |
