| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE38500 |
Polarizer, optical element, lighting device and liquid crystal display |
April 20, 2004 |
| Disclosed are (1) a polarizer having a function of separating incident light into polarized light through reflection and transmission, which has (a) a haze of 10% or less, or (b) a ratio of parallel transmitted light to incident light of 40 to 60%, (c) a ratio of mirror reflected light t |
| 7428511 |
Electronic business transaction system |
September 23, 2008 |
| A center site is disposed to intervene in a business transaction achieved through a network. The center site includes an open business information database in which open business information received from member sites connected to the network is accumulated to be opened to the sites and |
| 7412958 |
Internal combustion engine |
August 19, 2008 |
| A piston-crank mechanism links crankpins of a crankshaft with piston pins of pistons by using a plurality of links. The piston-crank mechanism allows an upward inertia force produced near a top dead center of each piston to be smaller than a downward inertia force produced near a bottom |
| 7412194 |
Developing apparatus |
August 12, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a developing apparatus that can effectively prevent generation of a ghost due to poor detachment of a developer after development, and generation of unevenness in density between a left part and a right part of an image region due to lack of an amount of th |
| 7403074 |
Oscillator |
July 22, 2008 |
| An oscillator, generating multiple phases of clock signals having a uniform phase difference with a high precision by a simple configuration, includes a plurality of NAND circuits ND1 to ND8 having the same number of input terminals connected in a ring. Eight NAND circuits are connec |
| 7401735 |
Commodity purchasing management system and method |
July 22, 2008 |
| An automated commodity customer delivery driven method/system to manage commodity sales by acquiring a chance of purchase of a selecting customer as well as another new customer for a relevant commodity by assuring availability of the inventory for both customers of the relevant comm |
| 7393570 |
Broad-band-cholesteric liquid-crystal film, process for producing the same, circularly polarizin |
July 1, 2008 |
| A broad band cholesteric liquid crystal film of the present invention is a cholesteric liquid crystal film obtained by coating a liquid crystal mixture containing a polymerizable mesogen compound (a), a polymerizable chiral agent (b) and a photoisomerizable material (c) on a substrate to |
| 7392781 |
Crankshaft of piston crank mechanism |
July 1, 2008 |
| A crankshaft mechanism is disclosed that takes advantage of component makeup and orientation to cancel out inertial force. A crankshaft of the crankshaft mechanism includes at least one counterweight that is arranged in combination with the rest of the mechanism to cancel out the inertia |
| 7363902 |
Engine overall height reduction |
April 29, 2008 |
| An internal combustion engine includes a piston (2) and a crankshaft (33). The crankshaft (33) includes: a journal (33A) as a rotation center; a crank pin (33B) that is located eccentrically with respect to the journal (33A) and rotates integrally with the journal (33A), the crank pin (3 |
| 7326451 |
Rotatory polarization plate, optical element, light condensation backlight system and liquid cry |
February 5, 2008 |
| A rotatory polarization plate capable of extracting an emission polarized light from an incident polarized light and rotating an azimuth angle of an polarization axis of the incident polarized light, wherein a rotatory polarization angle of the azimuth angle is changed by an incidence an |
| 7317498 |
Viewing angle magnification liquid crystal display unit |
January 8, 2008 |
| A viewing angle magnification liquid crystal display of this invention comprising: at least a backlight system containing a polarization element (A) obtained by disposing a retardation layer (b) between at least two layers, included in a reflection polarizer (a), and having respective |
| 7294303 |
Broad band-cholesteric liquid crystal film and process for producing the same, circularly polari |
November 13, 2007 |
| A broad band cholesteric liquid crystal film of the present invention comprises a cholesteric liquid crystal film obtained by polymerizing a liquid crystal mixture containing a polymerizable mesogen compound (a), a polymerizable chiral agent (b) and a photopolymerization initiator (c) |
| 7269381 |
Developing apparatus |
September 11, 2007 |
| The developing apparatus of the present invention includes a developer holding member for supplying a developer including a toner and a carrier onto the surface of an electrostatic latent image holding member; first developer transporter for transporting the developer in a first dire |
| 7255779 |
Indolecarboxylic ester trimer and electrochemical cell using the same |
August 14, 2007 |
| The present invention provides a novel indole carboxylic ester trimer which is characterized by being represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR00001## wherein R represents a straight or branched chain alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms; n is an integer of 1-4; X.sup.a |
| 7230069 |
Polymers and electrochemical cell therewith |
June 12, 2007 |
| This invention relates to a polymer having a chain structure of a repeating unit of a proton-conducting compound which causes an electrochemical redox reaction in a solution of a proton source to act as an electrode active material, and a heterocyclic compound structure; and an elect |
| 7191741 |
Pin connected link mechanism |
March 20, 2007 |
| A link mechanism usable for a variable compression ratio mechanism of an internal combustion engine includes first and second links pivotally connected by a pin inserted through cylindrical first and second pin boss portions of the first and second links. Each of the first and second pin |
| 7130077 |
Document-reading apparatus and method for the same |
October 31, 2006 |
| An apparatus for simultaneously reading images on both sides of the document sheet as the sheet having images on both sides is moved through the apparatus, one side read by a CCD sensor and the other side read by a contacted image sensor. An image synthesizing unit synthesizes image data |
| 7122259 |
Fuel cell startup method |
October 17, 2006 |
| Ice in a fuel cell (1) is thawed by passing a hot gas flow in a fuel gas passage, oxidizing agent gas passage and cooling liquid passage in the fuel cell (1), and the fuel cell (1) is started from a low temperature state. When startup processing begins, a gas flow comprising dry, hot gas |
| 7121251 |
Multi-link piston crank mechanism for internal combustion engine |
October 17, 2006 |
| A multi-link piston crank mechanism for an internal combustion engine, including a crankshaft having a crank pin, and crank webs connected with each other through the crank pin. A pair of thrust surfaces are formed on the crank webs so as to be opposed in a direction of a center axis of |
| 7117838 |
Internal combustion engine |
October 10, 2006 |
| In an internal combustion engine, a piston reciprocating in a cylinder and a crankshaft are linked with each other by a piston-crank linking mechanism. The crankshaft includes a counterweight. When the piston is located in the proximity of a bottom dead center, an outermost portion of |
| 7113297 |
Image inputting and outputting apparatus |
September 26, 2006 |
| An image inputting and outputting apparatus which permits registration and fetching of document image data and which is so configured that choices with regard to registration and fetching of document image data can be made in simple procedures. To be specific, when instructions for r |
| 7102786 |
Image reading apparatus and processing apparatus |
September 5, 2006 |
| In a sky shot, when a closing and opening detection unit detects the opening of a document cover, contour detecting means detects as a probable edge point a pixel thought to be a document edge point, a contour correction unit determines whether the probable edge point is a document e |
| 7100548 |
V-type 8-cylinder four cycle internal combustion engine |
September 5, 2006 |
| A V-type 8-cylinder four cycle internal combustion engine has a bank angle of 90 deg. and employs a double link type piston-crank mechanism for transmitting the force of each piston to a crankshaft. The double link type piston-crank mechanism comprises an upper link that has one end |
| 7095114 |
Semiconductor device with via hole group generating high frequency electromagnetic bonding, manu |
August 22, 2006 |
| An amplifier GaAs MMIC for microwave band applications includes a ground electrode 8 having a via hole group 12 composed of three via holes 11 filled with plated metals 10a that are formed adjacently. The interaction thereby generates high frequency electromagnetic bonding, which reduces |
| 7021269 |
Lower link of piston crank mechanism for internal combustion engine |
April 4, 2006 |
| A lower link of a double link type piston crank mechanism comprises a crank pin bearing housing portion that is adapted to receive a crank pin of a crankshaft and defines a first contour, an upper pin receiving bore portion that is adapted to receive an upper pin of an upper link and |
| 6970949 |
System method for replacing old device with new device in a layered structure and determining co |
November 29, 2005 |
| A computer program or the like is provided for reducing changes to the setting information by the computer. A management apparatus is provided for managing devices connected to a computer using a layered structure including a managing section for setting information associated with each |
| 6970213 |
Optical film and liquid-crystal display device using the optical film |
November 29, 2005 |
| An optical film constituted by a laminate of a polarizer and a reflective polarizing film through an acrylic-based pressure-sensitive adhesive agent, the polarizer having an anti-glare layer, wherein the optical film has a haze (H) in a range of from 5% to 30%. Preferably, a haze (H1) of |
| 6965457 |
Image processing apparatus, method, and program for image attribute determination based on ortho |
November 15, 2005 |
| An apparatus for image processing which determines such attributes as screen halftone area, character area and continuous tone area that appear in image data. A wavelet transform circuit wavelet transforms values of picture elements within a reference block selected from an image. Absolu |
| 6958797 |
Optical film having low chromaticity variation and quarter wavelength plate, and liquid crystal |
October 25, 2005 |
| An optical film in which a function of a brightness enhancement film is maintained and variations in brightness and chromaticity within a film plane are suppressed is provided. An optical film is a laminate of an absorptive dichroic polarizing plate and a brightness enhancement film. A |
| 6926875 |
Porous material process of producing the porous material, catalyst for purifying exhaust gas com |
August 9, 2005 |
| Disclosed are a porous material comprising particles without substantial fibrous structure and having pores, the pores having a mean pore diameter in a meson-pore region, sharp pore size distribution, and at least a part of the pores being connected three-dimensionally to form a thre |
| 6903833 |
Image data distribution system and the method thereof |
June 7, 2005 |
| An image data distribution system wherein an image server has information on destination group formed of members selected from among a plurality of image communication apparatuses. The information is memorized on a storage memory and the image data will be sent out to the respective memb |
| 6852665 |
Composite oxide, process for producing the same, catalyst for purifying exhaust gas, and process |
February 8, 2005 |
| A composite oxide includes agglomerated particles which have an average particle diameter of 20 .mu.m or less, which are composed of a plurality of metallic element oxides being in form of fine particles having an average diameter of 50 nm or less, and which have a surface and an inner |
| 6792547 |
Digital integrated apparatus, image input-output system, and user authentication method |
September 14, 2004 |
| The invention relates to a digital integrated apparatus capable of registering and fetching image data, and has an object to solve various problems resulting from the necessity of the user authentication at the time of using the apparatus. Specifically, it is arranged that, the displ |
| 6778235 |
Liquid crystal display apparatus having light pipe with reflective polarizer |
August 17, 2004 |
| A liquid crystal display apparatus has a light pipe for emitting an incident light coming from the light source from a lower surface via a light emitting means formed on an upper surface, a reflection type polarizer disposed on the lower surface of the light pipe, the reflection type |
| 6724446 |
Illumination device and/or a liquid crystal display device |
April 20, 2004 |
| There is provided an illuminator having a planar light source unit having reflectance of from 50 to 90% with respect to light in a state in which the light is emitted from a light source provided separately from the planar light source and incident on the planar light source unit, and a |
| 6717784 |
Rush current suppression circuit |
April 6, 2004 |
| A rush current suppression circuit is used with a power supply circuit which includes a common line and an input voltage detection circuit and supplies power from an input power supply via a switching circuit. There is provided a smoothing capacitor coupled to an output end of the power |
| 6700681 |
Image transmitting device |
March 2, 2004 |
| An image data communication apparatus for sending or receiving image data to or from the destination's or destination image data communication apparatus image data communication apparatuses connected thereto via telecommunication line, network or the like. The apparatus is so configu |
| 6661933 |
Apparatus and method for image data processing |
December 9, 2003 |
| When an image is to be filed in the storage means 105, an original copy size detection means 102b identifies the type (size and lay) of the original copy. A first positioning means 11a puts up a plurality of possible places on the printing paper to write the ID mark in, the plurality |
| 6661487 |
Laminated optical film, method for producing the same film and liquid-crystal display device usi |
December 9, 2003 |
| A method of producing a laminated optical film constituted by a laminate of a plurality of optical films different in area, the method including the steps of: laminating an optical film (B) having a plurality of rectangular holes parallel to one another, on at least one surface of an opt |
| 6654081 |
Optic element, illumination device and/or liquid-crystal display device |
November 25, 2003 |
| There is provided an optical element having: a laminate including a reflective type polarizer for separating incident light into polarized light components through reflection and transmission, and a dichromatic polarizer, wherein a variation of hue between two points calculated by the |
| 6649133 |
Catalyst for purifying exhaust gas, process for producing the same, and method for purifying exh |
November 18, 2003 |
| A catalyst for purifying an exhaust gas includes a support including rutile titania, an NO.sub.x storage material including at least on element selected from alkali metals, alkaline-earth metals and rare-earth elements and loaded on the support, and a noble metal loaded on the support. S |
| 6636649 |
Image processing apparatus and the method of correcting the inclination |
October 21, 2003 |
| It is possible for the present invention to carry out the inclination correcting by adding a simple constitution of shifting an image only in the main-scanning direction to that of the conventional image processing apparatus. The first line shifting means 65 shifts the image data in the |
| 6604218 |
Data encoding apparatus and data decoding apparatus |
August 5, 2003 |
| A data encoding apparatus is provided wherein, in one aspect, bit data are encoded by using at least one kind of error-correcting code out of two kinds of error-correcting modes--random error-correcting code mode and burst error correcting code mode. The encoded bit data are then arrange |
| 6529390 |
Switching power supply circuit |
March 4, 2003 |
| The present invention relates to a synchronous rectifying type power supply circuit as a switching power supply having a control circuit including a rectifying FET for synchronous rectifying operation in the secondary side of a transformer. A commutating FET can be structured by providin |
| 6511642 |
Porous material, catalyst, method of producing the porous material and method for purifying exha |
January 28, 2003 |
| Disclosed are a porous material comprising particles without substantial fibrous structure and having pores, the pores having a mean pore diameter in a meso-pore region, sharp pore size distribution, and at least a part of the pores being connected three-dimensionally to form a three |
| 6504454 |
Longitudinally coupled surface acoustic wave filter |
January 7, 2003 |
| In a filter in which first-order to third-order. double mode SAW filters each including three IDT electrodes having an electrode finger pitch L1 are cascaded, to flatten the passband of the filter and reduce the VSWR to 2 or lower, a pitch of electrode fingers of the IDT electrode in the |
| 6459461 |
Liquid-crystal display device |
October 1, 2002 |
| A liquid-crystal display device has a light pipe, a light source, a reflection polarizer, and a liquid-crystal shutter. The light pipe includes light output means formed on an upper surface of the light pipe. The light source is disposed near to an incident side surface of the light |
| 6455390 |
Method of manufacturing hetero-junction bipolar transistor |
September 24, 2002 |
| A method of manufacturing a hetero-junction bipolar transistor including a carbon-doped base layer includes the steps of (a) growing a base layer on an underlying layer through chemical vapor deposition, (b) forming at least one semiconductor layer over the base layer, and (c) then subje |
| 6433853 |
Cholesteric liquid crystal layer, optical element, lighting device, and liquid crystal display |
August 13, 2002 |
| A cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a helical pitch changing in the thickness direction and shows circular dichroism over a wavelength region having a width of at least 50 nm and including a wavelength of 520 nm, wherein the linearly polarized light obtained through a quarter-waveleng |
| 6391276 |
Titania-zirconia powder and process for producing the same |
May 21, 2002 |
| Disclosed are (1) a titania-zirconia powder having at least a part of the zirconia solid-dissolved in the titania crystalline phase or at least a part of the titania solid-dissolved in the zirconia crystalline phase, (2) a titania-zirconia powder containing 3 to 30 wt % of zirconia and 0 |
