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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120026953 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD Disclosed are a wireless communication base station device, a wireless communication terminal device, and a wireless communication method with which the amount of signaling is reduced while maintaining a high scheduling gain. A judgment unit (117) stores in advan... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110280410 | ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL APPARATUS An active noise control apparatus includes a control frequency detector for determining a control frequency which is a frequency of a noise to be controlled, a sine-wave generator for generating a reference sine-wave signal having the determined control frequency, a cos... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20120019166 | POWER SOURCE UNIT FOR LED LAMPS, AND LED LAMP SYSTEM A dedicated power source for LED lamps capable of reliably detecting attachment of an LED lamp is provided. A dedicated power source has a DC power source portion, and includes a lighting circuit which receives power supplied from the DC po... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110263058 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT A method of manufacturing the semiconductor light emitting element comprises a semiconductor layer forming step of forming the multilayered nitride semiconductor layer on the first wafer having a transparent property; a bonding step of bonding the multilayered nitride s... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20120014789 | AIR BLOWING DEVICE An air blowing device includes a housing with a suction port and a blow-off port, and a fan placed in the housing. The fan includes a fan case with a tongue section, an impeller, and a motor. The fan case includes an inlet and an outlet, and is shaped such that a space ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120009471 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND CATHODE OF THE LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY To provide a lithium secondary battery which has high capacity while maintaining excellent cycle characteristic. The lithium secondary battery cathode of the present invention includes a cathode collector formed of a conductive substance, and a cathode active material l... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120009470 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND CATHODE OF THE LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY To provide a lithium secondary battery which has high capacity while maintaining excellent cycle characteristic. The lithium secondary battery cathode of the present invention includes a cathode collector formed of a conductive substance, and a cathode active material l... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110316445 | LED LAMP SYSTEM An LED lamp system which suppresses flickering of an LED element is provided. The LED lamp system includes straight-tube type LED lamps each having LED elements and a dedicated power source for lighting the LED elements. The dedicated power... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110292479 | OPTICAL REFLECTION ELEMENT An optical reflection element includes a mirror portion and an oscillator coupled to the mirror portion. The oscillator includes a base, an insulating layer, a drive element, and a monitor element. The insulating layer is formed on the base. The drive element and the mo... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110256739 | RECEPTACLE, PRINTED WIRING BOARD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE A receptacle includes a signal terminal, a ground terminal, and a signal terminal. A second portion of the ground terminal is distanced from a first portion of the signal terminal in an extension direction. A third portion of the signal terminal is distanced from the fi... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110254094 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device 20 formed on a semiconductor chip substrate 30 has a plurality of circuit blocks made up of circuits each containing at least a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor 36, the circuit blocks being covered on top with a prot... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110248337 | Field effect transistor A material of a gate electrode is a conductive oxide having a higher work function than that of conventionally used Pd and so on, thereby achieving a normally-off transistor without reducing the sheet carrier concentration of a heterojunction. It is thus possible to ach... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110228401 | OPTICAL FILTER AND DISPLAY DEVICE A body antireflection layer is provided on a display surface of a display device body. A first antireflection layer and a second antireflection layer are provided on both sides of an optical filter that is opposed to the display surface by a predetermined gap. A light-b... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110215481 | Semiconductor device In a semiconductor device, a pad metal has at least a portion located immediately under a probe region, and the portion is divided into a plurality of narrow metal layers each arranged in parallel with a traveling direction of a probe. Thus, it is possible to enhance su... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110215343 | Semiconductor device and optical pickup device By increasing the width of a lead terminal 2 connected to a die pad 1 in the vicinity of the die pad 1 and forming a slit 9 and a projecting plate in the lead terminal in the region where resin 5 is formed, it is possible to ensure the... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110206562 | HYDROGEN GENERATOR AND STARTUP METHOD THEREOF A hydrogen generator is described, which comprises: a material supply device (4); a water supply device (5); an evaporator (10); a reforming catalyst layer (1) for generating reformed gas; a CO removing catalyst layer (2) configured to... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110192838 | INDUCTIVE HEATING DEVICE Disclosed is an inductive heating device which can lower losses in the device and readily provide cooling, wherein a controller is operated in a first control mode which controls the operation so that a unipolar first switching element and a unipolar second switching el... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110178732 | FLOW RATE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND FLUID SUPPLY SYSTEM On occasion of provision of a technique for identifying an appliance, an attempt can be made to enhance computing speed and the accuracy of identification of an appliance while the amount of memory required for an apparatus is reduced. In a gas meter 100, an ultr... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110169046 | Lateral insulated gate bipolar transistor having a retrograde doping profile in base region and method of manufacture thereof In a semiconductor device of the present invention, a first base region 16 is extended to a part under a gate electrode 7 while having a vertical concentration profile of an impurity that increases from the surface of a semiconductor layer 3 and bec... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110168699 | MICROWAVE HEATING APPARATUS In a microwave heating apparatus of the invention, microwaves from oscillation parts 1a, 1b are divided into a plurality of microwaves by power division parts 2a, 2b and inputted to amplification parts 4a... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110151622 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device in which a plurality of wires are connected to the same electrode on a semiconductor chip, the method making it possible to inhibit an increase in electrode area. First, ball bonding is perf... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110143230 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM An object of the invention is to provide a fuel cell system capable of performing a stable start-up operation with stable combustion in a burner unit. At the star-up operation of the fuel cell system, an amount of combustion air delivered to a burner unit 12 by a... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110123888 | FUEL CELL STACK AND FUEL CELL USING THE SAME In a fuel cell stack, a cell stack is formed by laminating membrane electrode assemblies and a separator, and sandwiching them with a pair of end plates from the both sides in the laminating direction, and the cell stack is tightened and fastened in a laminating directi... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110119563 | Semiconductor memory In order to correct an error in input data to thereby obtain write data, in a memory core, an EXOR element performs arithmetic processing based on an output result of an output data latch for latching read data and a result of inputted array input data, and a selector s... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110117461 | HYDROGEN GENERATION DEVICE AND FUEL CELL SYSTEM PROVIDED THEREWITH A hydrogen generation device or a fuel cell system of the present invention can prevent deterioration or breakage of portions of the hydrogen generation device, which is caused by thermal stress attributable to repeated operation and halt. Thus, it is possible to increa... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110108957 | Semiconductor substrate, semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor substrate (1) includes a plurality of semiconductor elements (2) in which functional elements are constructed and which is formed in a grid pattern, wherein continuous linear grooves (3) are formed on longitudinal and lateral separat... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110101323 | ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTORS A method of forming an organic thin film transistor comprising source and drain electrodes with a channel region therebetween, a gate electrode, a dielectric layer disposed between the source and drain electrodes and the gate electrode, and an organic semiconductor disp... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110079592 | HIGH FREQUENCY HEATING DEVICE WITH HEATER A system for blowing heated air flows from behind a heating chamber has tended to induce non-uniform burning of cooked foods and has involved long cooking times. There is provided a structure including upper blow-off ports, lower blow-off ports and blow-in ports which a... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110073588 | INDUCTION HEATING COOKING APPARATUS An induction heating cooking apparatus includes a magnetic flux-shielding plate 28 to restrain magnetic flux leakage from a heating coil 24 and define a cooling air trunk 33, through which cooling air from a fan 32 passes. An infrared sensor ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110065011 | HYDROGEN GENERATOR AND FUEL CELL POWER GENERATOR There is provided a hydrogen generator that prevents supply of droplets to a reforming catalyst layer and that exhibits stable performance. The hydrogen generator includes a water evaporation unit 7 to which a raw gas and water is su... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110064563 | HERMETIC COMPRESSOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A hermetic compressor includes a hermetic container arranged to store lubricating oil, a motor element accommodated in the hermetic container, an oil-feeding mechanism arranged to carry the lubricating oil, and a centrifugal pump arranged to carry the lubricating oil to... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110037423 | INVERTER CONTROLLER, COMPRESSOR, AND ELECTRIC HOME APPLIANCE An inverter controller reduces a conduction angle of inverter circuit (204) within a range greater than 120 degree in electric angles when a time difference between intervals between each of position sensing and a total time of a time from an occurrence of a posi... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110036825 | HEATING DEVICE The present invention provides a heating device including a heating compartment for holding an object-to-be-heated, an oven heater for heating the heating compartment, a circulation fan for supplying the heat of the oven heater to the heating compartment as hot air, a d... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110029137 | MOTOR DEVICES, AND MOTOR DRIVING SYSTEM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME A motor device comprising a motor, and a drive control circuit for driving and controlling the motor, in which the drive control circuit includes a control unit for generating a control signal for controlling the rotation of the motor, a drive unit for driving the motor... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110012738 | APPLIANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND GAS SUPPLY SYSTEM It is an object to acquire in real time information about the type of an appliance used at home, a cumulative time elapsed from installation of the appliance, and the like; preliminarily acquire inspection timing; and prevent occurrence of a problem in the appliance. Th... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110009893 | Puncture instrument set and puncture needle disposal instrument A puncture instrument set is constituted by a puncture instrument which includes a cylindrical body, plural puncture needles to be held in a state where the puncture needles are connected in series in an axis direction, a puncture needle cartridge for linearly arranging... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110007437 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE A semiconductor device which can achieve high breakdown voltage and high ESD tolerance of a current drive output terminal at the same time, and can quicken the response speed of a current flowing through the current drive output terminal. The inventive semiconductor dev... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110000801 | ELECTRIC POWER EQUIPMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND POWER SUPPLY ELEMENT INSPECTION EQUIPMENT USING SAME An electric power equipment has a main body case, a plurality of power supply elements provided in the main body case, and a fire-extinguishing agent discharge space disposed facing the plurality of power supply elements. The fire-extinguishing agent discharge space inc... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100330515 | GAS SHUTOFF DEVICE AND ALARM-COMPATIBLE SYSTEM METER An object of the invention is to appropriately control the use limit function of an appliance according to the concentration level of CO gas. A gas shutoff device is made up of a flow rate registration unit 28 for registering as an appliance flow rate, an average... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328209 | INPUT DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC APPARATUS In a case where a user carries out input operation by use of a touch panel, operability can be improved even if the operation target is small, efficient input operation is enabled by the user in various situations. The screen generation unit 200 generates screen ... | 12/30/2010 |
