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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180569 | Car information system, map server and on-board system The present invention discloses highly accurate driving control of a vehicle using map data. A car information system for controlling a driving control unit group is located in a vehicle. The car information system includes a map database for storing map data, a sup... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8142025 | Projection type image display apparatus According to the present invention, a projection type image display apparatus enables control of a large amount of light masking through a light-masking unit while maintaining a uniform illumination distribution in an area to be illuminated by the illumination light... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8120549 | Method for driving a plasma display panel The present method is to drive a plasma display panel which displays a frame composed of a plurality of sub-fields having different weights of luminance. The method comprises using plural kinds of application voltage waveforms different in light emission luminance, ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117387 | Storage system and method of managing a storage system using a management apparatus A storage system has NAS apparatuses each including virtual file servers to be provided to host apparatuses, a storage apparatus including logical units, and a management apparatus for managing the NAS apparatuses and the storage apparatus. The management apparatus ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108646 | Storage system and storage control method that compress and store data elements A pool is formed based on a plurality of storage devices. This pool is constituted by a plurality of real pages. Real pages of different lengths are included in this plurality of real pages. Among a plurality of virtual pages which make up a virtual volume, a contro... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8095676 | Mediating system and method to establish communication session, allowing private information to be protected The present invention is to prevent user's attribute information from being distributed, in the case where it is to be determined whether or not the attribute information (for example, age, address, and the like) of the user satisfies a service providing condition, ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8020998 | Projection type image display apparatus According to the present invention, a projection type image display apparatus enables control of a large amount of light masking through a light-masking unit while maintaining a uniform illumination distribution in an area to be illuminated by the illumination light... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8004941 | Optical disk apparatus and test writing method Test writing is executed while skipping areas where deviations are present on an optical disk to thereby improve accuracy and reliability of an optimum recording condition to be derived. A deviation detecting unit detects the deviations of a guide groove on the opti... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7987206 | File-sharing system and method of using file-sharing system to generate single logical directory structure The file sharing system is able to provide a client with a single logical directory and reproduce the single logical directory in a remote site when the local site has stopped in use of a remote copy that is made between the local site and remote site. The first sit... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7912481 | Receiver, receiver for positioning system using the same, and positioning method An invention for estimating the first path of an arrival signal by a method and device with a simple structure and lower power consumption. In this method, the nominal pulse repetition frequency or its integer multiple are A/D converted at a frequency less than the ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911915 | Optical pickup and optical information recording apparatus using the same An optical pickup includes a diffraction grating partitioned into three areas, in which the phase of periodic grating groove structure in an area is successively shifted from that in the adjacent area by 90°. In the generation of a differential push-pull signal, an... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7855384 | SIC semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A SiC semiconductor device includes: a SiC substrate having a drain layer, a drift layer and a source layer stacked in this order; multiple trenches penetrating the source layer and reaching the drift layer; a gate layer on a sidewall of each trench; an insulation f... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7852758 | Route control method of label switch path In generation of an MPLS path which extends over plural routing areas or generation of a GMPLS path of a single routing area, a path originating node cannot conduct route computation of the whole path. Therefore, where plural paths are generated, there is a problem ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7814241 | Storage system with free ports where logical connections via physical paths connecting free ports are controlled A first free port present in a controller or a switch device is physically connected to a second free port present in a switch device (switch device in another storage device unit) other than the controller or switch device comprising the first free port. The possib... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7798653 | Projection display and optical aperture unit A gear portion meshing with the first step of a pinion gear at the side of a motor, which is a driving unit of optical aperture mechanism, is designed to be a two-gears composition of a gear portion abutting on one side surface of the channel of the pinion gear, and... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7782729 | Digital data recording method and data recording/reproducing apparatus The object of the present invention is to curtail the time required from the receipt of a demand for certification processing of a rewritable optical disk from an apparatus of the higher order to the receipt of a demand for recording processing. In order to achieve ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7753535 | Projection type image display apparatus According to the present invention, a projection type image display apparatus enables control of a large amount of light masking through a light-masking unit while maintaining a uniform illumination distribution in an area to be illuminated by the illumination light... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7664089 | System and method for using an adaptive hybrid coordination function (HCF) in an 802.11E wireless LAN A system comprises a network congestion monitoring module for monitoring a congestion-related metric of a wireless medium, the congestion-related metric being based on traffic class, e.g., average contention window; a contention-period/contention-free-period (CP/CFP... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7634048 | Radiological imaging apparatus A radiological imaging apparatus of the present invention comprises an image pickup device and a medical examinee holding device that is provided with a bed. The image pickup device includes a large number of radiation detectors and radiation detector support plates... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7624238 | Memory controller and data processing system A memory controller and data processor have their operation mode switched from the page-on mode for high-speed access to a same page to the page-off mode in response to consecutive events of access to different pages, so that the memory access is performed at a high... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7572302 | Sheet-like chemical cell, fuel cell and methods for manufacturing thereof Disclosed is a sheet-like chemical cell including a plurality of unit cells each of which comprises an electrolyte membrane, a plurality of anode plates on one surface of the electrolyte membrane, and a plurality of cathode plates on the other surface of the electro... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7539695 | Pointer compression/expansion method, a program to execute the method and a computer system using the program A pointer field compression/expansion method is provided for a computer system having a data structure reference function using a pointer. The pointers in data structure which a program refers to are classified into pointers to be frequently referred to and those no... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7505299 | Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device that can achieve high-speed operation or that is highly integrated and simultaneously can achieve high-speed operation is provided. Transistors are disposed on both sides of diffusion layer regions to which capacitor for storing informa... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7476872 | Method and apparatus for observing inside structures, and specimen holder An object of the invention is to provide a method and apparatus for observing inside structures and a specimen holder, wherein aging degradation of a good sample to a bad sample can be tracked in the same field of view, using the same specimen in order to determine ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7470918 | Method and apparatus for processing a micro sample An object of the invention is to realize a method and an apparatus for processing and observing a minute sample which can observe a section of a wafer in horizontal to vertical directions with high resolution, high accuracy and high throughput without splitting any ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7462830 | Method and apparatus for observing inside structures, and specimen holder An object of the invention is to provide a method and apparatus for observing inside structures and a specimen holder, wherein aging degradation of a good sample to a bad sample can be tracked in the same field of view, using the same specimen in order to determine ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7447832 | Automated on-line capacity expansion method for storage device A volume provider unit in a computer system that detects a logical block address of a read or write I/O accessing a logical volume of a storage device from a host. According to the logical block address fetched, a storage domain of the logical volume is dynamically ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447256 | Receiver for receiving a spectrum dispersion signal A receiver for the CDMA system which reduces power consumption during a suspension period of intermittent receiving operation by monitoring a suspension period by a low-power timer so that a VC-TCXO, reference signal group generation and receiving units are turned o... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7445701 | Capillary array unit and electrophoresis based thereon A capillary array includes multiple capillaries and two holding substrates for arranging the aforementioned multiple capillaries in a substantially plane surface by sandwiching at least some of these capillaries mutually. One of the holding substrates has a detectio... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7441029 | Storage system managing data through a wide area network In a storage system, a server apparatus and a storage apparatus are provided, while the server apparatus is connected via a LAN to one, or plural sets of computers so as to accept an access request of file data issued from the computers, whereas the storage apparatu... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439697 | Motor driving device and automobile using the same As a boosting-type motor driving device using no reactor, a motor driving device capable of controlling boosting operation and motor driving at the same time is provided, and an automobile using the motor driving device is also provided. The motor driving device is ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437723 | System for managing distribution of programs In an environment in which programs are executed on a plurality of computers connected to a network, a program distribution managing system facilitates, when a reference relationship exists between programs on mutually different execution computers, management for d... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7418685 | Layout method for miniaturized memory array area Bit lines and a pair of two tungsten wires having the same widths are formed at a portion where a through-hole is to be formed such that the bit lines and the tungsten wires are arranged at regular intervals. A through-hole for connection to another wiring layer is ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409591 | Method and system for managing programs for web service system A program managing method in a web service system for providing a web service for testing a message which has been changed in response to a change made in interface definition information comprises steps for judging as to whether or not an error occurs when an acces... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401167 | Disk array apparatus and data relay method of the disk array apparatus A disk array apparatus of the invention improves the quality of Fiber Channel signals corresponding to mounting positions of disk drives. The disk array apparatus comprises first to fourth groups of a plurality of disk drives each of which stores data; a first data ... | 07/15/2008 |
| RE40386 | Chrome plated parts and chrome plating method Using a chrome plating bath containing organic sulfonic acid, plating is conducted by application of a pulse current to thereby form a crack-free lower chrome layer on a steel substrate. The lower chrome layer has a compressive residual stress of 100 MPa or more and... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7371094 | Aligned contact group and electrical connector for flexible substrate An electrical connector includes contacts each having a junction to be electrically connected to another substrate and a pair of contact portions bifurcated and extending from the junction to form a bearing space therebetween, and an array plate for forming thereon ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366065 | Optical disk apparatus and an optical disk recording and reproducing method An optical disk apparatus and an optical disk recording and reproducing method are provided in which an actuator can be controlled in stable fashion at the time of high-speed recording operation. Before performing the high-speed recording operation under servo contr... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356640 | Storage apparatus and storage system The present invention manages the information of storage apparatuses inside a single storage apparatus in an integrated fashion, under a heterogeneous storage environment in which a variety of storage apparatuses are distributed and deployed on a plurality of sub-ne... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349049 | Liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer arranged therebetween, a plurality of electrodes formed on one substrate for applying an electric field substantially in parallel to a face of the substrate, a plurality of acti... | 03/25/2008 |
