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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127838 | THERMALLY-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD A thermally assisted magnetic recording head includes a magnetic recording element part for writing, a main waveguide for assistance for receiving light, and a dummy waveguide component part provided in parallel to the main waveguide. The dummy waveguide component part ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127610 | MAGNETIC RECORDING METHOD USING MICROWAVE ASSISTED HEAD A magnetic recording method for a recording layer of a magnetic recording medium uses a thin film magnetic head with a sub-coil or a microwave radiator. In the method, a microwave spread spectrum (SS) signal is applied to the sub-coil or the microwave radiator, the micr... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120103675 | LAMINATED ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME A laminated electronic device comprises two or more wiring layers including a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer, an insulating layer interposed between the first wiring layer and second wiring layer, and a through conductor extending through the insulating la... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120103095 | PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATION TYPE YAW RATE SENSOR A piezoelectric vibration type yaw rate sensor including driving arms and detection arms. A detection sensitivity spectrum of the detection arms has a first peak with a first resonance frequency in a first detection vibration mode, in which the driving and detection arm... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083402 | HEXAGONAL TYPE BARIUM TITANATE POWDER, PRODUCING METHOD THEREOF, DIELECTRIC CERAMIC COMPOSITION, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND PRODUCING METHOD OF THE ELECTRONIC COMPONENT A hexagonal type barium titanate powder comprising barium titanate as a main component shown by a generic formula of (Ba1-αMα)A(Ti1-βGaβ)BO3 and having hexagonal structure wherein; | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082844 | POWDER MAGNETIC CORE A powder magnetic core having a high electrical resistivity and a high magnetic flux density, including at least a composite magnetic particle the composite magnetic particle including: a core particle containing iron as the main component; and an insulating passivation... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082016 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND THERMALLY-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD THEREWITH An optical waveguide of the invention includes a core that is a waveguide through which light propagates; and a cladding that surrounds the core. The core has a plate shape and includes a wide core base part onto which the light is incident, a taper part that is connect... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120080636 | PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMIC, PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT COMPRISING IT, AND PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE COMPRISING PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT According to a preferred embodiment, the piezoelectric ceramic includes a complex oxide having the composition represented by formula (1) or (2), and Mn at 0.2-1.2 mass % or 0.2-3 mass %, respectively, in terms of MnCO3.
| 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069615 | BRIDGELESS POWER FACTOR CORRECTION CONVERTER A bridgeless power factor correction converter is configured such that a gate driver controls the ON ratio of a booster converter switch so that the ON ratio is gradually increased from 0, i.e., performs soft start control, every time the voltage polarity of an AC input... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120067999 | TAPE REEL AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM A tape reel includes a first flange, a cylindrical body, and a second flange formed separately. The first flange, the cylindrical body, and second flanges are joined with inner surfaces of the first and second flanges contacting the cylindrical body. Joining pins are er... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120053865 | ROTATING FIELD SENSOR A first detection unit has first and second detection circuits. A second detection unit has third and fourth detection circuits. Output signals of the second and fourth detection circuits differ from output signals of the first and third detection circuits in phase, res... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051871 | LOAD PORT APPARATUS Provided is a load port apparatus having a structure capable of resisting against a moment generated at a time of driving of a door increased in weight owing to upsizing. A pair of rectangular main bases, which project perpendicularly to an attachment surface of the loa... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050941 | DIELECTRIC CERAMIC COMPOSITION AND CERAMIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE A dielectric ceramic composition comprising a compound expressed by a formula of ABO3, where “A” is Ba alone, or Ba and at least one selected from Ca and Sr, and “B” is Ti alone, or Ti and Zr, and having a perovskite-type crystal structure, and an oxi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120049981 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, FILTER, AND INTER-SUBSTRATE COMMUNICATION DEVICE A signal transmission device includes substrates and resonance sections resonating at the predetermined resonance frequency. At least one of the substrates is formed with two or more resonators in the second direction, and the remaining one or two or more of the substra... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120049649 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, FILTER, AND INTER-SUBSTRATE COMMUNICATION DEVICE In a signal transmission device, first open-ended resonators include a first first-open-ended resonator and a second first-open-ended resonator, in which open ends of the first first-open-ended resonator face a central portion of the second first-open-ended resonator, a... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120049302 | MAGNETO-RESISTANCE EFFECT ELEMENT, MAGNETIC HEAD, MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE AND MAGNETIC MEMORY A magneto-resistance effect element includes: a first magnetization layer of which a magnetization is substantially fixed in one direction; a second magnetization layer of which a magnetization is rotated in accordance with an external magnetic field; an intermediate la... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044790 | HEAD GIMBAL ASSEMBLY WITH TWO WIRING LAYERS COMPRISING THERMALLY-ASSISTED HEAD Provided is a head gimbal assembly (HGA) in which the electrodes for a thermally-assisted magnetic recording head comprising a light source, a photodetector and a magnetic head element, can be reliably electrically connected to wiring members by solder ball bonding (SBB... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044652 | TERMINAL STRUCTURE, PRINTED WIRING BOARD, MODULE SUBSTRATE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE The present invention relates to a terminal structure. The terminal structure includes: a terminal having: a conductor layer containing at least one metal selected from gold, silver, and copper; a first layer containing nickel and phosphorus, laid on the conductor layer... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044651 | TERMINAL STRUCTURE, PRINTED WIRING BOARD, MODULE SUBSTRATE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE The present invention relates to a terminal structure and an electronic device having the terminal structure. The terminal structure includes: a terminal having: a conductor layer containing at least one metal selected from gold, silver, and copper; a first layer contai... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120043826 | COIL APPARATUS AND NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS A coil apparatus and a non-contact power transmission apparatus having improved power transmission efficiency are provided. A power transmission side coil apparatus comprises: an excitation coil (second winding section) which transmits AC power supplied from a power sou... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039016 | MULTILAYER FEEDTHROUGH CAPACITOR AND MOUNTED STRUCTURE OF MULTILAYER FEEDTHROUGH CAPACITOR A multilayer feedthrough capacitor has a capacitor element body of a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, a signal internal electrode, a ground internal electrode, first and second signal terminal electrodes, and a first ground terminal electrode. The capacit... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038359 | ROTATING FIELD SENSOR A field generation unit generates a rotating magnetic field including a first partial magnetic field in a first position and a second partial magnetic field in a second position. The first and second partial magnetic fields differ in direction by 180° and rotate in the... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038355 | MAGNETIC SENSOR AND MAGNETIC DETECTION APPARATUS A magnetic sensor is provided with a channel of a semiconductor, a first insulating film and a metal body arranged opposite to each other with the channel in between, a ferromagnet provided on the first insulating film, a first reference electrode connected to the metal... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038351 | ROTATING FIELD SENSOR A field generation unit generates a rotating magnetic field including a first partial magnetic field in a first position and a second partial magnetic field in a second position. The first and second partial magnetic fields differ in direction by 180° and rotate in the... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033534 | MICROWAVE ASSISTED MAGNETIC HEAD A microwave assisted magnetic head is formed to include a main pole magnetic layer including a main pole; a shielded magnetic layer including a shielded pole; a recording coil that is formed to generate a writing magnetic field from a tip of the main pole; and a microwa... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120028109 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE In an electrochemical device having an element main body 1A enclosed in an exterior package 1B, a peripheral region of the exterior package 1B is provided with an elastic structure or a plurality of elastic structures R1, R2 having an ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026846 | Thermally-Assisted Magnetic Recording Head Comprising Characteristic Clads Provided is a thermally-assisted magnetic recording head with improved light density of near-field light (NF-light) with which a medium is irradiated. The head comprises: a magnetic pole; a waveguide for propagating light for exciting surface plasmon; a surface plasmon ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026642 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT Disclosed is a multilayer ceramic electronic component, comprising an element body obtained by stacking dielectric layers (thickness t1) and electrode layers (thickness t2). The dielectric layer (2) includes a compound expressed by ABO3 (A includes Ba,... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026629 | MAGNETIC HEAD, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, HEAD ASSEMBLY, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS The present invention relates to a magnetic head, a manufacturing method therefor, a head assembly, and a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus. According to the present invention, it includes a magnetic pole layer, a non-magnetic layer, a trailing gap layer, and a t... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025926 | MIXER AND FREQUENCY CONVERTING APPARATUS A mixer includes an adder that inputs a first high-frequency signal and a second high-frequency signal for local use, adds the first high-frequency signal and the second high-frequency signal, and outputs as an addition signal; a magnetoresistive effect element that inc... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120024429 | RARE EARTH SINTERED MAGNET A rare earth sintered magnet includes a main phase that includes an R2T14B phase of crystal grain where R is one or more rare earth elements including Nd, T is one or more transition metal elements including Fe or Fe and Co, and B is B or B and C; ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110283052 | MEMORY CONTROLLER, FLASH MEMORY SYSTEM WITH MEMORY CONTROLLER, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING FLASH MEMORY The object of the present invention is to efficiently perform access to a physical block corresponding to a logical block often designated by an access request. To realize it, predetermined number of pieces of logical block information each for access to a physical bloc... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279923 | MAGNETORESISTIVE ELEMENT HAVING A PAIR OF SIDE SHIELDS An MR element includes an MR stack disposed between first and second main shield portions, and a pair of side shields disposed on opposite sides of the MR stack in the track width direction. The first main shield portion includes a first exchange coupling shield layer t... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279211 | COIL COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COIL COMPONENT To provide a coil component that can adequately ensure component accuracy even when miniaturization is pursued. A coil component includes a main body portion structured with green compact containing magnetic material, a coil arranged inside the main body portion, a pair... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20120020147 | MAGNETIC MEMORY ELEMENT, MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS A magnetic memory element includes a pair of electrodes, a junction layer, at least one carbon nanotube, and at least one nanowire. The at least one nanowire is made of a ferromagnetic material and extends through a hole of each the at least one carbon nanotube with bot... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019108 | PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMIC COMPOSITION AND PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT A piezoelectric ceramic composition including a perovskite-type oxide, wherein the perovskite-type oxide has Na, K, Li, Ba and Sr at the A site and Nb, Ta and Zr at the B site, and has a crystal phase transition in a temperature range of −50 to 150° C., the crystal p... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120018191 | COATING AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT The present invention provides a coating 10 provided on a conductor 20, the coating 10 has a first layer 12 containing palladium and a second layer 14 containing gold from the conductor 20 side, the first layer 12 has a f... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110266692 | LAYERED CHIP PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME A layered chip package includes a main body and a plurality of through electrodes. The main body includes a plurality of layer portions stacked and a plurality of through holes that penetrate all the plurality of layer portions. The plurality of through electrodes are p... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110262632 | Magnetoresistive Effect Element, Thin-Film Magnetic Head, Method for Manufacturing Magnetoresistive Effect Element, and Method for Manufacturing Thin-Film Magnetic Head A magnetoresistive effect (MR) element, a thin-film magnetic head having the MR element, a method for manufacturing the MR element, and a method for manufacturing the thin-film magnetic head are disclosed. The MR element, which uses electric current in a direction perpe... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261185 | CHIP COMPONENT CARRYING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND VISUAL INSPECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM A method and a system for stabilizing the sight line of a chip component being carried on two discs, for stabilizing delivery of the chip component between the two discs, and improving and stabilizing the inspection accuracy in the visual check of the chip component. Th... | 10/27/2011 |
