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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7991860 | Method and apparatus for HBA migration In one implementation, a system includes multiple SCSI nodes configured to perform a SCSI target function. Each of the multiple SCSI nodes includes a host bus adaptor configured to connect the SCSI node with a Fiber Channel fabric. The host bus adaptor being assigne... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7788457 | Method of controlling storage device controlling apparatus, and storage device controlling apparatus A storage device controlling apparatus includes: a plurality of channel controllers having a circuit board on which are formed a file access processing section receiving requests to input and output data in files as units from an information processing apparatus and... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7751381 | Wireless base station using weighting elements of an array antenna To provide a wireless base station comprising an array antenna which transmits packets to terminals, a packet scheduler which determines transmission sequence of the packets, a modulator which generates modulated signals based on the packets, and a beam former for t... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7716417 | Method and system for controlling access to tape media from a plurality of virtual computers A tape library comprises: a plurality of tape media; a plurality of slots in which the plurality of tape media are respectively stored; a drive in which a tape medium extracted from any of the plurality of slots is set and which performs tape reading or writing in r... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711178 | Pattern inspection method and its apparatus A pattern inspection method including: sequentially imaging plural chips formed on a substrate; selecting a pattern which is suitable for calculating position gap between an inspection image of a subject chip and reference image stored in memory from an image of a f... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7710721 | Power inverter Water paths for feeding a coolant water through a power converter mounted on an automobile are arranged in parallel, openings are formed on the water paths respectively, heat radiating fins project from the openings, and the openings are closed by a base plate of th... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7702166 | Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image sequence is a set of coded frame information of a plurality of frames of an image sequence; wherein the coded... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701212 | Low temperature probe and nuclear magnetic resonance analysis apparatus using the same A low temperature probe having a coil used in an NMR apparatus includes an opposed heat exchanger cooling a cooling medium, and a cooling apparatus having a first cooling stage capable of cooling to no more than 10K and a second cooling stage capable of cooling to a... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698129 | Information processor, customer need-analyzing method and program The present invention enables analysis of customer needs with a high level of precision, not by indicating whether the customer opinions are positive or negative, but by quantitatively indicating their levels of importance. An information processor storing customer ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697386 | Optical recording equipment In a recording system in which linear velocity during the write operation changes, it is difficult to obtain write strategy parameters in every linear velocity with trial writing. The optimum write strategy condition under the high speed or low speed operation is ob... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697202 | Screen, fresnel lens sheet used for the same, and image display apparatus using the same An image display apparatus includes an image generation source, optics for projecting in an enlarged form the image generated by the image generation source, and a transmissive screen for displaying the image projected from said optics. The transmissive screen inclu... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697100 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display includes a pair of transparent substrates opposed to each other with liquid crystal therebetween, one of the pair of transparent substrates having a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of pix... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7696662 | High resistance magnet and motor using the same A magnet comprising grains of a ferromagnetic material whose main component is iron and a fluorine compound layer or an oxy-fluorine compound layer of fluoride compound particles of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and rare earth elements, present on the surface... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7696650 | Driving circuit for switching elements A level shifting circuit, satisfying a requirement of a high tolerated dV/dt level, and a highly reliable inverter circuit, wherein a set pulse signal and a reset pulse signal, both of which are level-shifted to a potential side taking as reference a reference poten... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7695838 | Fuel cell system and diagnosis system for the fuel cell system A part of cell stack portions constituting a part of a fuel cell stack is used as a voltage detection portion, the size of a frequency component belonging to a predetermined specific frequency range is extracted from a voltage signal detected and the existence/absen... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693885 | Computer system, management computer, storage system, and backup management method A computer system includes a host computer; a storage system for obtaining a snapshot, at a specific point in time, of a data volume, storing data written to the data volume after the specific point in time as a journal, and applying the journal to the snapshot for ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692779 | Apparatus and method for testing defects An apparatus for detecting defects on a specimen including an illumination optical unit which obliquely projects a laser onto a region which is longer in one direction than in a direction transverse to said one direction on a surface of a specimen, a table unit whic... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692609 | Active matrix type display An active matrix type display includes a light emission device having a transparent pixel electrode and a metal pixel electrode on both surfaces of a light emitting layer and a driving circuit controlling the driving current of the light emission device. The driving... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692445 | Output buffer circuit and differential output buffer circuit, and transmission method In an output buffer circuit including Inverter 1 to Inverter 3, Delay Circuit 1 to Delay Circuit 3 for delaying an input signal for a specific time, Buffer 1 to Buffer 3, and a function for transmitting a logic signal to a t... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692299 | Semiconductor apparatus having improved thermal fatigue life A semiconductor apparatus having improved thermal fatigue life is provided by lowering maximum temperature on jointing members and reducing temperature change. A jointing member is placed between a semiconductor chip and a lead electrode, and a thermal stress relaxa... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692144 | Electron beam exposure or system inspection or measurement apparatus and its method and height detection apparatus A method and apparatus for assessing a height of a specimen includes an electron beam unit having an electron beam source, lenses, a table for setting a specimen and controllable in a height direction, and a detector, and a height detection system for detecting heig... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7691625 | Cell cultural vessel, production process thereof and cultured cell An object of the present invention is to provide a cell culture vessel which is simple in structure and easy to handle, and is capable of preventing damage to the cells when separated, promoting transport of nutrients and excretion of effete matter, and elevating th... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7674430 | Automated analyzer The performance of an analyzer is checked on by use of a performance check cartridge which has the same external shape as a reagent cartridge for analyzing samples has; the performance check cartridge holds reagents for checking on the performance of the analyzer, a... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7609477 | Dish array apparatus with improved heat energy transfer In a disc array apparatus having a plurality of disc units, and a plurality of first connectors, each of which disc units includes a disc casing surrounding at least one recording disc rotatable therein on a rotatable axis, a casing holder on which the disk casing i... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7586446 | IC tag-bearing wiring board and method of fabricating the same To improve electronic part packaging efficiency without sacrificing the transmission distance of a radio IC tag, a recess is formed in the front side surface of a printed wiring board. An IC chip is placed in the recess so that the IC chip does not protrude from the... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7548996 | Data streamer In an information processing system which has plurality of modules including a processor, a main memory and a plurality of I/O devices, a data transfer switch for performing data transfer operations between the processor, main memory and I/O devices comprises a requ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7461135 | Computer and access control method in a computer A CPU 11 executes a management program B (Pb), from a management program A (Pa) receives authentication information, a request, and a program ID, and determines whether the authentication information is correct. If the authentication information is correct, t... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457890 | Integrated multimedia system An integrated multimedia system having a multimedia processor is disposed in an integrated circuit having a first host processor system coupled to the multimedia processor and a second local processor disposed within the multimedia processor for controlling the oper... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7386012 | Multiplex transmission apparatuses, multiplex transmission networks, and operation method therefor An overhead passing processing circuit in a synchronous multiplex network, with a circuit for extracting predetermined administration and maintenance operating information from multiplexed signals, a crossconnecting circuit for crossconnecting information extracted ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7378662 | Radiation detector, radiation detector element, and radiation imaging apparatus In a gamma camera, a plurality of radiation detector elements having a rod-shaped first electrode, a semiconductor device surrounds the first electrode to contact with it for entering a radiation, and a second electrode provided for the side surface of the semicondu... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372807 | Method and apparatus for multiplex transmission In a transmission network including multiplex transmission units A, F, G, D and E, when the line breakage has occurred on the OC-12 transmission path of the direction from unit A to unit F, the unit F detects the signal coming in from the OC-12 path indicative of th... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7339316 | Organic light-emitting devices and displays including a polarization separator, a phase plate, and a polarizer Light-emitting devices and light-emitting displays for realizing bright display by allowing light emitted from an emissive layer to efficiently contribute to a display. Polarization separators are arranged between the emissive layer and a phase plate. In the light o... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327339 | Image display apparatus and driving method thereof A display drive circuit has impedance converters between gray level voltage wires and a ladder resistor. At the time of writing analog image signal voltages onto signal lines, the writing can be done in three separate phases. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7316487 | Projector light source and projection type image display device using the same A projector light source which facilitates molding of a reflector for obtaining a complicated reflecting surface and provides an improved cooling efficiency, which is characterized by molding the reflector of the light source using heat resistant plastic mixed with ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7272134 | Internet telephone connection method, bandwidth controller and gate keeper In an Internet telephone connection method, a communication bandwidth is managed by using a bandwidth controller, gateway devices and voice relay routers to monitor communication quality under bandwidth reservation. A communication path under bandwidth reservation i... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269743 | Method and apparatus for secure data mirroring a storage system A secure data mirroring capability in a storage system includes encrypting data blocks in a primary volume in preparation for a data mirroring operation. The encrypted data blocks are mirrored to a secure secondary volume. Host systems provide keys from which encryp... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260502 | Diagnosis method for boiler degradation, diagnosis apparatus for boiler degradation, diagnosis system for boiler degradation and recording medium that records operation program One of the thermal transmission rates that represent thermal transmission from gas to steam in a heat exchanger constituting a boiler is calculated based on thermal conductivity rate of pipes and thermal transfer of steam and gas, and the other is compared with the ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254674 | Distribution of I/O requests across multiple disk units A method of respectively reading and writing data to and from a plurality of physical disk units in response to I/O requests from a host computing system includes establishing a logical disk group having a number of logical disk elements, mapping each of the logical... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7246262 | Storage subsystem and information processing system According to the invention, techniques for detecting and recovering from errors occurring in disk drive subsystems having a controller and drive units connected by a fibre channel loop. Specific embodiments can provide storage subsystems, methods and apparatus for u... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239261 | Electromagnetic wave absorption material and an associated device The purpose of the present invention is to provide an easy-to-manufacture electromagnetic wave absorption material usable from submillimeter wave region to millimeter wave region with an excellent radio wave absorbing performance and a variety of usage thereof. ... | 07/03/2007 |
