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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6504159 | SOI plasma source ion implantation A well-defined buried layer is developed in a body of semiconductor material such as a wafer at high throughput and without developing non-annullable crystal lattice defects at a surface of the body of semiconductor material using a broad, substantially u... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6320278 | Power supply circuit A power supply device of the present invention includes an electric double layer capacitor connected to, e.g., an HDD (Hard Disk Drive), CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory) drive, floppy disk drive or similar motor-driven equipment, and another electri... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6204959 | Signal light monitor and optical amplifier using the same A signal light monitor having a first optical branching coupler disposed in an optical fiber transmission line for branching a part of an inputted signal light and outputting a first branched light, a first wavelength tunable filter for transmitting a fir... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6157897 | Apparatus for monitoring ventilation of integrated circuits in electronic apparatus A temperature IC is mounted to a card mounted within an electronic apparatus for monitoring airflow rate around the card to provide an alarm signal. The temperature IC includes a first IC including a temperature sensor and a second IC disposed downstream ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6145735 | Thin film solder paste deposition method and tools Solder is deposited on chip elements or other potentially irregular surfaces by applying solder paste to a thin porous sheet such as cotton twill cloth so that the solder paste fills open areas therein. The solder volume is thus regulated by the texture a... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6147694 | Slow motion replay system having simple structure A slow motion replay system comprises a data transmitting section which adds null data to picture data at every predetermined unit to make transmission data which has N (Nࣙ2, N: integer) times length of the picture data. A decoding section receives the ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6144224 | Clock distribution network with dual wire routing A new clock distribution network design for VLSI circuits which effectively reduces skew without the area and power penalty associated with prior clock designs. Two wires emanating from the clock in opposite directions or, alternatively, two wires connect... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6134774 | Clamp for clamping coaxial cable connectors to coaxial cables A coaxial cable connector includes a housing made from an electrically conductive material and a hollow, cylindrical sleeve extending from a first end of the housing. The sleeve is constructed from a material which is deformable onto a coaxial cable. An i... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6132226 | Structure and method for mounting an electronic part A structure for mounting a semiconductor device or similar electronic part to a printed circuit board and a method therefor are disclosed. Electrodes are formed on the front of the circuit board while electrodes are formed on the electronic part. The circ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6133948 | Automatic identification of articles having contoured surfaces An automated identification system comprises a first classification station which uses two laser sources and video imaging techniques to identify and distinguish between similar items such as, for example wooden cabinet doors and drawer fronts. Each laser... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6129743 | Optimized ventricular defibrillation apparatus and method An apparatus and method for defibrillation utilizes a ratio of short and long window moving averages to provide optimum selection of the time for shock delivery.... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6123465 | Optical module The optical module has a semiconductor light emitting device, a lens, a holder for the device and the lens, and a receptacle core onto which a ferule of a counter optical plug is to be fitted. When the optical plug is connected, the semiconductor light em... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6122496 | Device and method for controlling frequency characteristic of a filter When the frequency band of an intermediate frequency (IF) signal input to a filter rises due to temperature variation, the center voltage corresponding to the IF signal also rises. As a result, a difference occurs between the center voltage and a preselec... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6118992 | Mixer circuit in CATV UP/DOWN converter This mixer circuit is configured so that a second capacitor (C10 and C11) having capacitance smaller than that of a first capacitor (C1 and C3) is connected in parallel with the first capacitor (C1 and C3), the first capacitor (C1 and C3) being connected ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6117891 | Compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof for eliciting analgesic effects The present invention relates to treatment of pain with a new class of analgesic compounds. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for reducing pain of a patient involving administering to a patient an effective amount of an aryl sub... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6118788 | Balanced media access methods for wireless networks Fairness algorithms and access methods enable non-zero channel access for wireless communication systems operating in a random access channel environment. Fair access to a random access channel for each station in a wireless network is assured by each sta... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6114099 | Patterned molecular self-assembly A patterned molecular self-assembly is provided. The patterned molecular self-assembly comprises a support having an exposed patterned surface and a non-patterned surface. A compound is selectively adsorbed on the exposed patterned surface. The compound m... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6113619 | Two stage releasing interlocking system A two stage releasing interlocking system for mounting a medical device tool which includes a jaw head having an aperture. A collet having an upper portion and a lower portion is rotatably mounted within the jaw head. The upper portion of the collet has a... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6113219 | Electrostatic ink jet recording apparatus capable of realizing stable ejection of ink A recording head includes an ink chamber storing ink containing electrified toner particles and having an ejection opening 7 at one end and an ejection electrodes for ejecting the toner particles from the ejection opening. A counter electrode 6 faces the ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6112514 | Fan noise reduction from turbofan engines using adaptive Herschel-Quincke tubes An array of adaptive or fixed Herschel-Quincke tubes aligned in a circumferential or helical array about an inlet of a turbofan engine. The array of tubes effectively divide the acoustic energy generated by the engine. One of the energy components propaga... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6113934 | Platinum complexes with anti-viral activity and method of using same The present invention relates to treatment of viral infections, such as HIV, with a new class of anti-viral platinum coordination compounds having the general structural formula [PtXAm B3-m ] where X is an anionic ligand, A is an acy... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6111686 | Optical fiber amplifier An optical fiber amplifier includes an input side wavelength combiner and an output side wavelength combiner arranged at an input side and an output side, respectively. An input optical signal is supplied from a transmission line to the input side wavelen... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6109815 | Joint mechanism In an angularly adjustable, releasably lockable ball joint, the ball has a surface covered with polygonal patterns of spaced apart protuberances, the protuberances define concavities. An actuator tip is provided to penetrate at least one concavity and sim... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6110174 | Method of fixating bone by driving a wire through oscillation A method and/or apparatus is provided for bone fixation which includes oscillating a wire about a longitudinal axis, advancing the oscillating wire into the bone tissue, and leaving the wire in the bone tissue as a fixation element. The apparatus in the p... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6106624 | Tipper apparatus and card-issuing system The present invention relates to a tipper apparatus for pigmenting the embossed section (raised characters for copying) of a card used to perform transactions by a customer at financial institutions or the like. The tipper apparatus comprises a card feede... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6102491 | Multi-function end of train device for electrically controlled pneumatic freight brake system A multi-function EOT, or universal EOT (UEOT), may function conventionally for those trains not equipped with an ECP power line transceiver but which can automatically change its mode of operation to the ECP EOT function when mounted on trains so equipped... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6101677 | Carrying handle mechanism for a portable equipment Disclosed is a carrying handle mechanism for a portable equipment which has a shaft disposed on a body of the portable equipment and having a first engageable portion and a second engageable portion, the shaft arranged to be forwardly/backwardly slidable ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6104848 | WDM optical transmitter It is the object of the invention to provide a WDM optical transmitter, in which levels of optical signals transmitted therefrom is increased and equalized. Optical amplifiers, which are provided with rare metal doped optical fibers and laser diodes for p... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6104613 | VME eurocard double printed wiring card host circuit card circuit (module) assembly A dual-board host or main printed wiring structure of a circuit module with increased component mounting area is made plug-compatible with a VME or VME64X backplane to which single-board host or main boards may be attached with connectors of differing dim... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6103971 | Cleaner hose with internal spiral wound steel and resin fibers Two hard steel wire-made reinforcing wires and two synthetic resin wires which are harder than a soft synthetic resin pipe wall are alternately wound spirally on an inner side of the synthetic resin pipe wall while keeping predetermined intervals.... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6103052 | Pipe lining method A pipe lining method is provided for accurately cutting or punching out a pipe liner bag after being lined on an inner wall of a pipe with a good operability while preventing an operation environment from being contaminated. A fluid pressure is applied to... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6101010 | Pass-monitoring apparatus of optical network system It is the object of the invention to detect and locate fails in the optical network by superposing monitoring signals on respective WDM optical signals in the transmitter part of the pass-monitoring apparatus and detecting the monitoring signals on the ou... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6100329 | Reversible, mechanically interlocked polymeric networks which self-assemble Polymeric structure involving a first polymer having a linear segment and a second polymer having a macrocyle which is threaded onto said linear segment to form a rotaxane complex. The rotaxane complex is capable of reversibly dissociating back into the i... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6101297 | Waveguide type polarization scrambler A waveguide type polarization scrambler is provided with; a Mach-Zehnder interferometic waveguide having the first input and output optical waveguides and second output and output waveguides on a dielectric substrate, a phase modulator having the third in... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6097952 | Mobile communication termination controlling method and mobile communication termination controlling system A mobile communication termination controlling method for controlling each of a plurality of mobile stations to which a call is transmitted from a public telephone network connected to a base station, the mobile stations being connected to the base statio... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6097874 | Optical attenuator An optical attenuator is provided with a metal-doped optical fiber having a core doped with a transition metal that absorbs light, and a connector that connects this metal-doped optical fiber to an outside transmission line. The core is doped with a trans... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6097420 | Method and apparatus for marking patterns by a scanning laser beam, a mask applied to the same apparatus Energy distribution at a section of a laser beam is leveled by causing the laser beam, emitted by a continuous wave Q-switch pulse from a laser oscillator having an acousto-optic Q-switch element, to pass through a mask having a mask pattern. The laser be... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6097094 | Semiconductor device having wiring layers and method of fabricating the same There is provided a semiconductor device including a lower wiring layer including a first layer containing aluminum therein and a second layer formed on the first layer, the second layer having an extended portion extending beyond an outer surface of the ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6096572 | Manufacturing method and semiconductor device with low contact resistance between transparent electrode and pad electrode In a semiconductor device such as a thin film transistor, a semiconductor region is formed and an insulating film is formed on the semiconductor region to have a contact hole extending to the semiconductor region. An electrically conductive metal layer is... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6098193 | Data-reproducing device that detects equalization in the presence of pre-equalization data variation A data-reproducing device is provided that, even when pre-equalization characteristics are varied, conducts an equalization detection operation. The device comprises a subtraction absolute value circuit for calculating a subtraction absolute value, a comp... | 08/01/2000 |
