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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110202964 | TELEVISION BROADCASTING RECEIVER A television broadcasting receiver includes a function of the Internet connection, and a display signal generating unit. The display signal generating unit generates a display signal for displaying information about content that is provided by a VOD service and is the s... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110200887 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode (1), a negative electrode (2) containing a negative electrode active material, a separator 3 interposed between the electrodes (1) and (2), and a non-aqueous ele... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110200880 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY USING THE SAME A positive electrode active material for lithium secondary batteries having a lithium-containing transition metal oxide having a layered structure and represented by the general formula Li1+xMn1-x-yMyO2, where 0<x<0.33, ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110200879 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery has a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode active material includes a lithium-containing oxide obtained by ion exchangi... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110200877 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery has a positive electrode (17) containing positive electrode active material, a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material, a non-aqueous electrolyte, and a separator (18) disposed between ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110200862 | BATTERY MODULE A battery module including at least one assembled battery that has a cooling face and includes an assemble of a plurality of electric cells and separators each of which has an insulating property and is interposed between adjacent electric cells of the plurality of elec... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110200082 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNALS, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING THE SIGNALS A storage unit stores a preamble signal defined in a legacy system and a preamble signal defined in a MIMO system. A monitoring unit in a transmitting apparatus monitors the existence of any communication apparatus which is not compatible with the MIMO system but accept... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199886 | Optical Pickup Apparatus An optical pickup apparatus includes: a circuit board; a laser diode mounted on one face of the circuit board; and a high-frequency superimposition integrated circuit arranged on the other face of the circuit board, the high-frequency superimposition integrated circuit ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199567 | VERTICALLY ALIGNED LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY A vertically aligned type liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal layer disposed between pixel electrodes and a common electrode and containing vertically aligned liquid crystal molecules, the orientation of the liquid crystal molecules being controlled by an e... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199494 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS An imaging device includes an imager, with which an optical image of an object scene is repetitively captured. A first movement detector detects, as to each of a plurality of object scene images according to a time series output from the imager, a movement of a first fe... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110195336 | COMPOSITE MEMBRANE, FUEL CELL AND METHOD OF MAKING OF COMPOSITE MEMBRANE A fuel cell includes membrane electrode assemblies disposed in a planar arrangement. Each membrane electrode assembly includes an electrolyte membrane, an anode catalyst layer, and a cathode catalyst layer disposed counter to the cathode catalyst via the electrolyte mem... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110195309 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY A positive electrode active material of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is improved by using an inexpensive lithium transition metal oxide containing nickel and manganese as main components. Output characteristics of the battery under various temperature cond... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110195301 | PRISMATIC CELL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF, AND ASSEMBLED BATTERY USING THE SAME The present invention aims to provide a method for insulatively covering the side surfaces and bottom of a prismatic outer can in a simple manner. This can be realized by adopting the following configuration: a prismatic cell including a prismatic outer can having an op... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110195287 | PRISMATIC SEALED SECONDARY CELL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME The present invention provides a prismatic sealed secondary cell that is excellent in current collection efficiency and current collection stability, and capable of high output discharge. In the prismatic sealed secondary cell in which a la... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110193986 | IMAGE SENSING DEVICE An image sensing device includes: a subject detection portion which detects a specific subject from a preview image; a state determination portion which determines the state of the specific subject detected by the subject detection portion; a sound output portion which ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110193861 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110192449 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE This invention provides a photovoltaic module for preventing insulation failure between an outer frame and connection leads. The photovoltaic module comprises: a photovoltaic submodule including a plurality of solar cells interposed between two light-transmitting substr... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110191794 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS An optical-pickup apparatus includes first and second objective lenses that focus first and second laser light on information-recording layers of first and second optical discs, the second optical disc having an information-recording format different from that of the fi... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110190945 | AIR-CONDITIONING CONTROL APPARATUS An air-conditioning-control apparatus of an air-conditioning system, which includes a plurality of air conditioners respectively provided in a plurality of sections obtained by virtually dividing a space to be air-conditioned, the conditioners configured to set the sect... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110189938 | VENTILATION CONTROL APPARATUS A ventilation control apparatus of an indoor ventilation system including an intake device configured to take outside air into an indoor space, the intake device capable of changing an intake amount of the outside air, the ventilation control apparatus includes: a peopl... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110189765 | INCUBATOR An incubator including a cultivating chamber for cultivating cultures, a water supply control unit for supplying water into the cultivating chamber through a water supply passage and adjusting the humidity of the inside of the cultivating chamber, and a filter provided ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110188008 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS A projection display apparatus for projecting an image light onto a projection plane, includes: a detector configured to detect a state of the projection display apparatus with respect to the projection plane; and a controller configured to control a state of the image ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110187935 | Video Information Processing Apparatus and Recording Medium Having Program Recorded Therein A video-information-processing apparatus comprising: a smoothing unit to smooth input video information of a plurality of pixels and generate smoothed video information; a subtraction unit to calculate a gradation difference between the input and smoothed video informat... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110186644 | AIR-CONDITIONING CONTROL APPARATUS An air-conditioning control apparatus for controlling an air conditioner configured to supply conditioned air into a space to be air-conditioned so that a temperature of a predetermined section in a plurality of sections in the space to be air-conditioned becomes a set ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110183217 | NONAQUEOUS SECONDARY BATTERY A positive electrode active material has an average particle diameter of 4.5 to 15.5 μm and a specific surface area of 0.13 to 0.80 m2/g. A positive electrode mixture layer contains a silane coupling agent and/or at least one of aluminum, titanium, or zircon... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110183214 | NONAQUEOUS SECONDARY BATTERY A positive electrode active material has an average particle diameter of 4.5 to 15.5 μm and a specific surface area of 0.13 to 0.80 m2/g. A positive electrode mixture layer contains at least one of a silane coupling agent and/or at least one of aluminum, tit... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110183212 | LITHIUM ION POLYMER BATTERY The lithium ion polymer battery includes a positive electrode plate formed with a positive electrode mixture layer having a lithium composite oxide as a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode plate, a separator, and a gel nonaqueous electrolyte, the po... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110182567 | STROBE DEVICE A strobe device according to the present invention includes a support portion connected to an apparatus body, and a movable portion having a strobe light emitter and rotatably supported on the support portion, wherein the movable portion includes a rotating member rotat... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110182261 | COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MULTIPLE PACKET SIGNALS, AND RADIO APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME A radio apparatus communicates with a plurality of terminal apparatuses by using a packet signal composed of at least one stream. A control unit divides a certain period into a plurality of partial periods and assigns respectively the plurality of partial periods to the... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181847 | PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE A projection display device includes a projecting portion which enlarges and projects light modulated by an imager; a projection port which is formed in a main body cabinet, and passes light emitted from the projecting portion; and a cover which covers the projection po... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181844 | PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE A projection display device includes a main body cabinet; a shield member which is disposed in the main body cabinet, and shields an electromagnetic wave; an air inlet which is formed in the main body cabinet; and a filter device which removes unwanted matters from an a... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181843 | PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE A projection display device includes an imager portion which modulates light based on an image signal; a projection lens unit which includes a resin lens and projects the light modulated by the imager portion; a projection port which is formed in a main body cabinet, an... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181734 | CALIBRATION PARAMETER CREATING APPARATUS A calibration parameter creating apparatus includes a first reproducer. A first reproducer reproduces a reference image representing a state in which a plane is overlooked, along an X axis and a Y axis orthogonal to each other. A first acceptor accepts a first designati... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181733 | CALIBRATING APPARATUS A calibrating apparatus includes a first reproducer which reproduces a reference image representing a state in which a plane is overlooked, along an X axis and a Y axis orthogonal to each other. A second reproducer reproduces a scene image outputted from a camera that c... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181714 | CONGESTION DEGREE MEASURING APPARATUS A congestion degree measuring apparatus includes a reproducer. A reproducer reproduces a reference image representing a state in which a plane is overlooked. A taker repeatedly takes a scene image outputted from a camera having an imaging surface that captures the plane... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110177688 | PACKAGING BOARD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND PORTABLE DEVICE A method for manufacturing a semiconductor module includes: a first process of forming a conductor on one face of an insulating layer; a second process of exposing the conductor from the other face of the insulating layer; a third process of providing a first wiring lay... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110177364 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using lithium-manganese composite oxide as positive electrode active material, having superior high-temperature charge storage characteristics and charge-discharge cycling characteristics and enhanced safety in the ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110176691 | SOUND CONTROL APPARATUS, SOUND CONTROL METHOD, AND SOUND CONTROL PROGRAM A sound control apparatus includes a direction accepting portion to accept designation of any one of a plurality of predetermined directions, a display control portion to allow a display portion to output a plurality of direction marks respectively indicating the plural... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110175940 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE ADJUSTMENT METHOD A projection display apparatus includes: an imager configured to modulate light emitted from a light source; a projection unit configured to project light coming from the imager on a projection plane; a detection unit configured to detect a projection frame provided on ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110170485 | RADIO APPARATUS A control unit, in cooperation with an interface (IF) unit, a modulation unit and a baseband processing unit, produces a packet signal composed of a plurality of streams. While using as a reference a first known signal assigned to one of the plurality of streams and per... | 07/14/2011 |
