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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7478197 | Adaptive mechanisms for supplying volatile data copies in multiprocessor systems In a computer system with a memory hierarchy, when a high-level cache supplies a data copy to a low-level cache, the shared copy can be either volatile or non-volatile. When the data copy is later replaced from the low-level cache, if the data copy is non-volatile, ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7113814 | Tissue interrogation spectroscopy In an emergency medicine patient, accurate measurement of change or lack thereof from non-shock, non-ischemic, non-inflammation, non-tissue injury, non-immune dysfunction conditions is important and is provided, as practical, real-time approaches for accurately char... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7068808 | Method and apparatus for alignment, comparison and identification of characteristic tool marks, including ballistic signatures Systematic use of infrared imaging characterizes marks made on items and identifies the particular marking tool with better accuracy than use of visual imaging. Infrared imaging performed in total darkness eliminates shadows, glint, and other lighting variations and... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7027002 | Planar wideband antennas Wideband antennas with omnidirectional coverage have both military and commercial applications. In one embodiment, the Planar Inverted Cone Antenna (PICA) is composed of a single flat element vertically mounted above a ground plane. A geometry of Planar Inverted Con... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027621 | Method and apparatus for operator condition monitoring and assessment A system using passive infrared imaging of the face and other body parts of an operator to obtain observables by automatically extracting features from a sequence of images, analyzing the extracted features, and then assessing the results for indicators of performan... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024149 | Surface treatment apparatus and image-forming apparatus The present invention aims to provide a surface treatment apparatus which can modify the surface qualities of different parts of image prints obtained by various image-forming methods, and an image-forming apparatus. For this purpose, it provides a surface treatment... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020228 | DLL circuit A DLL (delay locked loop) circuit for outputting a phase lock signal having a predetermined phase relationship with an input signal. The DLL circuit has: a functional block having a constant-current source; and bias generator for generating a constant current source... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016203 | Self-driven circuit for synchronous rectifier DC/DC converter A power converter having a primary circuit (e.g. full bridge) and a secondary circuit (e.g. current doubler) has switches in the secondary circuit that are controlled by a drive circuit. The drive circuit is connected to a swing node in the primary circuit, and is p... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010334 | Folding portable radio communication device A folding portable radio communication device has a plurality of bodies, one or more hinges for connecting the plurality of bodies so as to be mutually swingable. A first body in the plurality of bodies houses therein a microphone and a circuit board and, further, m... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010703 | Bus power-supply device and node A bus power-supply device structured to supply power from a power-supply voltage of a node to a serial bus connected to the node through a physical layer and a plurality of connectors conductive to each other of the node, which device, when none of a power-supply vo... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7007512 | Method for machining glass substrate In the present invention, a surface 7 of a glass substrate 1 is irradiated with a laser beam 2 to thereby form a V-shaped groove 6. At that time, the laser beam 2 is condensed outside and above the glass substrate 1. The dis... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009701 | Optical element and spectroscopic device using the same An optical element according to the invention constituted by a multilayer structure having a periodic structural portion as at least one region constituted by repetition of a predetermined period, wherein an end surface of the multilayer structure not parallel to la... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006621 | Portable telephone terminal with toll number retrieval function A portable telephone terminal with toll number retrieval function which enable either corresponding name of municipalities or toll number to be retrieved to telephone number or to name of municipalities respectively. The portable telephone terminal is provided with ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006291 | Optical device and method for fabricating the same The optical device having a predetermined surface profile of the invention is fabricated by forming a multi-layered dielectric film on the surface of a solid composition layer having a glass transition temperature of not lower than 100° C. The solid composition lay... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002323 | Switching power supply circuit capable of reducing switching loss and control method used therein When a switching element (33) changes from ON state into OFF state, a capacitor (35) is charged. The rising of the voltage of the switching element becomes dull relative to the falling of the current flowing in the switching element. When the switching... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7001266 | Rooftop vent for reducing pressure under a membrane roof Membrane roofs are susceptible to damage in high winds. Wind can lift a membrane roof from a building and cause it to tear or become damaged. The present roof vent prevents liftoff and damage by reducing the air pressure under the membrane during high winds. The pre... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999428 | CDMA transmitter/receiver A CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) transmitter/receiver of the present invention includes a SIR (Signal-to-Interference Ratio) calculator for calculating SIRs of a received signal slot by slot. A command generating circuit generates, when the SIR decreases or in... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995325 | Controller operating portion structure Bosses 7a and 7b are formed on spacers 5a and 5b provided between a top rubber 4 and a top hoop 3. Guide holes 8a and 8b for respectively guiding the movements of the b... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6991809 | Particles with improved solubilization capacity A particle is disclosed that comprises a first volume of hydrophobe-rich material with tunable dissolution and solubilization characteristics and a distinct second volume of nanostructured nonlamellar liquid crystalline material, said second volume containing said f... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6987906 | Optical connection device An optical connection device according to the invention is an optical connection device for optically coupling light propagated through an optical waveguide to an optical element arranged outside the optical waveguide and with the following configuration. Part of th... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6984794 | Switch device A switch device includes a base member which includes a containing portion, the containing portion having a bottom face, side faces and upper opening, a switching unit which is slidably provided on the bottom face, a cover member which is attached to the base member... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6984436 | Graded material and method for synthesis thereof and method for processing thereof In homogeneous materials, etching characteristics depend on properties inherent in these materials regardless of whether they are isotropic or anisotropic, and there have been limitations in realizing various desired shapes. A subject for the invention is to provide... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6984266 | Fiber preparation system The invention relates to a system for producing and preparing fibers. The system provides a first separator that is connected downstream of a tubular dryer, a fiber outlet of said separator being connected to a second separator by a connecting conduit. A size applic... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6982828 | Microscope slide having a marking region The invention relates to a microscope slide formed from a transparent glass plate on which a first coating (3) and a second coating (4) contrasting therewith are located aligned one above another in a marking region (1b), the second coati... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6979403 | Grease interceptor (trap) and servicing method A grease trap and management tank is disclosed herein. The trap has two compartments, a forward and rear compartment separated by two baffles so that grease and oils may rise and solids and sludge settle out and not be introduced into a sewer line. An ultra sonic mo... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980798 | Automatic e-mail transmitting method and mobile terminal apparatus and radio mobile terminal apparatus for the same In an e-mail transmitting method, a radio mobile terminal apparatus and a mobile terminal apparatus are connected to establish a communication channel. Transmission scheduled e-mails produced in the mobile terminal apparatus are automatically transmitted from the mo... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978235 | Speech coding apparatus and speech decoding apparatus A speech coding apparatus includes a spectrum parameter calculation section, an adaptive codebook section, a sound source quantization section, a discrimination section, and a multiplexer section. The spectrum parameter calculation section receives a speech signal a... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6974264 | Optical module and method for producing the same In a small-sized optical module, opposite side surfaces of a collimator lens (2) and opposite side surfaces of a polarization compensating filter (5) are fixed to opposite side surfaces of a rectangular frame (4). Two open surfaces are provided ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6976256 | Pipeline processing type shaping apparatus and its method A pipeline processing type shaping apparatus and method in which strict shaping processing can also be implemented for a connection at various speed by adding a simplified circuit configuration. A cache portion is provided that links with the processing of a pipelin... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973622 | System and method for design, tracking, measurement, prediction and optimization of data communication networks A system and method for design, tracking, measurement, prediction and optimization of data communications networks includes a site specific model of the physical environment, and performs a wide variety of different calculations for predicting network performance us... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6967776 | Polarizing filter and optical device using the same A polarizing filter has a laminate structure: wherein one to four layers of first dielectric thin films 1 and one to four layers of second dielectric thin films 2 are alternately laminated on a transparent flat substrate 10 to form the laminate ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968199 | Schedule notifying system capable of correcting schedule date and time Operable in synchronism with a current set date and time set by a user, each mobile communication terminal (101–104) has a registering function of registering schedule data (601–604) including a received schedule date and time received from base st... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6964469 | Liquid droplet ejection apparatus and ink jet recording head The liquid droplet ejection apparatus includes a substrate for holding on a surface thereof liquid to be ejected and liquid droplet ejection units provided on the substrate, for pushing the liquid to be ejected by a pushing stroke higher than a height of a liquid su... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965596 | μ-Law-to-a-law translating equipment and a-law-to-μ-law translating equipment μ-law-to-A-law translating equipment is used for plural PCM telephone lines installed between countries different in a conversion law. This translating equipment is provided with plural μ-law signal receiving circuits, a multiplexer, a μ-law-to-A-law converter, a... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6962910 | Supramolecular complexes as photoactivated DNA cleavage agents The invention provides supramolecular metal complexes as DNA cleaving agents. In the complexes, charge is transferred from one light absorbing metal (e.g. Ru or Os) to an electron accepting metal (e.g. Rh) via a bridging π-acceptor ligand. A bioactive metal-to-meta... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6964057 | Case for disk device for reproducing or recording information A case of a disk device includes a case body, having a bottom plate and a pair of side plates extending upright respectively from opposite side edges of the bottom plate, a lid member, provided substantially parallel to the bottom plate, and is connected to the two ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963332 | Letter input method and device using the same A method for inputting Japanese letters and a device with which the method is carried out are provided. The method involves prearranging predetermined letters and symbols in a matrix array of M columns and N rows, and inputting a desired letter or symbol by designat... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961998 | Method for producing a hollow shaft, in particular a camshaft and a camshaft produced according to said method Hollow shafts, and particularly camshafts, are produced using an internal high-pressure forming (IHF) process. Cams and/or machine elements are mounted at intervals onto the outer surface of the hollow shaft, depending on the use of the latter, by a non-positive and... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6954309 | Optical component An optical component for effecting frequency selective reflection in the gigahertz and terahertz frequency ranges and for effecting wave permeability includes at least one first layer (1, 3, 5) made of a first material (m1). The first material is optic... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6953607 | Polar ordering of reactive chromophores in layer-by-layer nonlinear optical materials Thin films exhibiting second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties, as well as materials and methods for producing such films, are provided. The films are formed by depositing, on a substrate, alternate layers of a polyelectrolyte and a low molecular weight chrom... | 10/11/2005 |
