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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D646823 | Spotlight | 10/11/2011 |
| 8006109 | Information processing apparatus and power supply control method According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a housing, a power supply incorporated in the housing, a conversion unit which converts a voltage supplied from the power supply, a detection unit which detects a voltage supplied from the pow... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7719800 | Magnetoresistive effect element and manufacturing method thereof, and magnetic head, magnetic reproducing apparatus, and magnetic memory using the same An example magnetoresistive effect element includes a magnetoresistive effect film including a magnetization pinned layer, a magnetization free layer, and an intermediate layer interposed therebetween and having a magnetic region and a nonmagnetic region whose elect... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7714221 | Booklet page turning apparatus A page turning apparatus having a vacuum pad to vacuum suck the uppermost page of a booklet, a drive link plate to move the vacuum pad to pick up the uppermost page of a booklet at a predetermined angle in the direction of opening around a bound edge, a pinch-roller... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7709413 | Solid catalysts and fuel cell employing the solid catalysts A solid catalyst has a close-packed structure and has a first surface layer and a second surface layer, wherein the first surface layer includes platinum as a main component and the second surface layer contains PtaXb (wherein X is one element ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7697353 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes plural memory cell blocks, each having a memory array of plural memory cells. Plural control circuits are provided in correspondence with each of the memory cell blocks, for writing information to the memory cell blocks and for readin... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7680667 | Interactive robot, speech recognition method and computer program product An interactive robot capable of speech recognition includes a sound-source-direction estimating unit that estimates a direction of a sound source for target voices which are required to undergo speech recognition; a moving unit that moves the interactive robot in th... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675975 | Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, ge... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7674548 | Fuel cell A fuel cell comprises a single cell including a membrane assembly electrode unit comprising a fuel electrode to which an aqueous methanol solution is supplied as a fuel, an air electrode to which an oxidizing gas is supplied, and an electrolyte membrane interposed b... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672375 | Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, ge... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7663247 | Semiconductor intergrated circuit device A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor chip, a memory cell array arranged on the semiconductor chip and first and second decoder strings arranged along both ends of the memory cell array. The arrangement position of the first decoder stri... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7652315 | Spin transistor, programmable logic circuit, and magnetic memory A spin transistor includes a non-magnetic semiconductor substrate having a channel region, a first area, and a second area. The channel region is between the first and the second areas. The spin transistor also includes a first conductive layer located above the fir... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7646727 | Retransmission method for digital broadcast and its broadcast receiving device An IP broadcast transmitting device comprises means for acquiring and collecting channel tuning information and program-related information from broadcast signals of each broadcasting station from which the broadcast signals are distributed, means for updating and m... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7632359 | Cleaning liquid and nozzle plate cleaning method A weakly alkali cleaning liquid suitable for use in the case of cleaning and removing inks adhered to a nozzle plate, in an ink jet printer using inks in which inorganic pigments and metal oxides are mixed into polymers, is provided. In the cleaning liquid, carbonat... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7619914 | Semiconductor memory device A memory cell includes an antifuse device that is capable of having data written thereto by breakdown of a gate dielectric film by application of a high voltage. A data inversion portion generates, according to a relationship between the sense amplifier's determinat... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7598658 | Ultrasonic probe An ultrasonic probe includes piezoelectric elements each including grooves parallel to each other and arrayed in a direction substantially parallel to the grooves, and a mixed member which is to fill the grooves and obtained by mixing in a nonconductive resin member... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596496 | Voice activity detection apparatus and method A voice activity detection method comprising the steps of (a) Estimating in a noise power estimator the noise power within a signal having a speech component and a noise component, and (b) Calculating a likelihood ratio for the presence of speech in the signal from ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7570908 | Image forming device and image forming device control method A technique capable of preventing deterioration of image quality resulting from a band-shaped toner image created on a photosensitive surface in order to prevent so-called carrier attraction is provided. An image forming device in which, on a photosensitive s... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7541965 | Appliance control apparatus An appliance control apparatus including an acceleration sensor which senses an acceleration resulting from a user motion; a recognition unit which recognizes a control-object apparatus and a control attribute set to the control-object apparatus from the acceleratio... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7537981 | Silicon on insulator device and method of manufacturing the same An isolated semiconductor device and method for producing the isolated semiconductor device in which the device includes a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) device formed on a substrate. A dielectric film is formed on the insulator and covers the SOI device. The dielectric... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7535090 | LSI package provided with interface module A LSI package encompasses: an interposer having board-connecting joints, which facilitate connection with a printed wiring board, and module-connecting terminals, part of the module-connecting terminals are assigned as interposer-site monitoring terminals; a signal ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7521999 | Differential amplifier and sampling and holding circuit Disclosed is a differential amplifier including: first and second transistors each having a first gate, a second gate, a source, and a drain open to a drain side, the first gate and the second gate being controlled independently, a differential input being supplied ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7518510 | Information processing apparatus and antitheft method for the apparatus An information processing apparatus includes a main body; an input unit for inputting information; an information processor for processing the information input with the input unit; a movement detecting sensor, provided in the main body, for detecting a movement of ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7510081 | Electronic component tray and identification method of similar electronic component tray An electronic component tray includes: a tray main body housing an electronic component; and a mark provided by the tray main body to represent mass of the tray main body. ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7105783 | Fixing device using induction heating In a fixing device according to this invention, coils are formed on a coil bobbin having a predetermined shape at an induction heating portion including a plurality of coils. In order to minimize the temperature difference of a heating roller in the axial direction,... | 09/12/2006 |
