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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185170 | Portable electronic apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a cellular telephone terminal in which intuitive operation is possible, by providing a rotary dial portion. A cellular telephone terminal 1 is provided with: a body that includes an operation unit side body ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184733 | Radio reception device, radio transmission device, radio base station, reception method, and transmission method An OFDM radio reception device 100 with multiple antennas 110-1 to 110-K removes a guard interval CP from each received signal, and performs S/P conversion, FFT, and channel estimation, on each received signal. The OFDM radio reception de... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184428 | Dielectric ceramic and capacitor A dielectric ceramic comprising a barium titanate as a main component and a capacitor comprising the dielectric ceramic are disclosed. The dielectric ceramic has a high dielectric constant that is stable over temperature, and has a small spontaneous polarization. Th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184093 | Mobile terminal device A device and method for selecting one option from a plurality of options is disclosed. A sequential selection of one option from the plurality of options proceeds when a detecting unit detects an operation associated with movement. A selecting unit sequentially sele... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183959 | Variable capacitance circuit The invention relates to a variable capacitance circuit which achieves reduction in both of distortion and current consumption and furthermore achieves requirements of high power handling capability, cost reduction, and downsizing of the circuit. The variable capaci... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182911 | Cutting tool, manufacturing method thereof and cutting method Disclosed is a cutting tool having excellent wear resistance. Specifically disclosed is a cutting tool having a substrate and a coating layer formed on a surface of the substrate. The cutting tool is characterized in that the substrate contains at least cobalt; the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182559 | Fuel reformer housing container and fuel reforming apparatus There are provided a fuel reformer housing container and a fuel reforming apparatus, which are capable of maintaining a level of vacuum inside the fuel reformer housing container favorably and which have less power generation loss. A fuel reformer housing container ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180390 | Mobile communication terminal, mobile communication managing apparatus, mobile communication system, computer readable medium for mobile communication and mobile communication method It is an object of the invention to realize effective communication by a mobile communication terminal having a plurality of communication interfaces. When transmitting data, a mobile communication terminal (100) selects a communication interface (1... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180350 | System and method of controlling code division multiple access registration on a multi-technology handset Embodiments of the present invention are directed to controlling CDMA registration on a multi-technology handset. By controlling CDMA registration on a multi-technology handset, efficient handoffs between different technologies can occur. In one embodiment, the mult... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180343 | Detection of wireless communication devices in systems having cells with different pilot signal frequencies An originating transceiver node sends a search message to an alternate transceiver node in response to receiving a pilot signal report message from a wireless communication device detecting a pilot signal from a detected transceiver node. The wireless communication ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180323 | Non centralized security function for a radio interface A module dual mode device architecture and method of use is disclosed. The system architecture provides a distributed design of an IEEE 802.11i compliant supplicant module that provides security to data/voice packets sent over the wireless local area network (“WLA... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180315 | Mobile terminal and functional operation control method of the same A mobile terminal includes: a battery supplying electric power; a voltage detection portion which detects the voltage of the battery; a function activation control portion which activates a predetermined function at a preset time; and a warning portion which, in ref... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179823 | Communication control method, base station device, terminal device, and communication control system using TDD-OFDMA communication method In a communication system and a communication method using a TDD-OFDMA communication method, inter-carrier interference due to delay dispersion is prevented by suppressing the delay time within a guard interval. In a base station device 10, based on a ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179334 | Electrical connector with frequency-tuned groundplane An electrical connector with a frequency-tuned groundplane is disclosed. The connector includes a signal medium to communicate an electrical signal and a frequency-tuned groundplane medium to communicate a reference voltage (i.e., ground). The groundplane medium dif... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179306 | High-frequency circuit board, high-frequency circuit module, and radar apparatus The invention relates to a high-frequency circuit board that can efficiently radiate heat generated in a mounted electronic component without reducing the degree of freedom in design, a high-frequency circuit module including the high-frequency circuit board, and a ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179304 | Direct-current blocking circuit, hybrid circuit device, transmitter, receiver, transmitter-receiver, and radar device The invention relates to a direct-current blocking circuit, and a hybrid circuit device, a transmitter, a receiver, a transmitter-receiver and a radar device that have the direct-current blocking circuit. A dielectric substrate (2) is provided with a conducto... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178778 | Photovoltaic conversion element and manufacturing method therefor, and photovoltaic conversion module using same A photovoltaic conversion element includes a one conductivity-type crystalline Si semiconductor; an opposite conductivity-type semiconductor which is joined to the crystalline Si semiconductor to form a pn junction therebetween; an electrode provided on the opposite... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177107 | Belt clip attachment apparatus and method for mobile phone or the like A retractable belt clip button is slidably engaged in a recess in the rear face of the housing of a mobile phone or other portable electronic device for movement between an extended position projecting out of the rear face of the housing and a retracted position in ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176182 | Portable terminal, program installed therein, communication method, and communication apparatus A portable terminal includes an access request receiving section for receiving an access request for accessing an IP push server via a communication apparatus which is installed as an external device at the portable terminal, wherein the access request is sent from ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175536 | Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus and communication control method A channel estimation and prediction unit 18 estimates a channel and predicts a plurality of channels for a next transmission slot. An SVD unit 19 performs singular value decomposition on a plurality of channel prediction values. An eigenvalue calculati... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173283 | Ceramic substrate A ceramic substrate according to one aspect of the invention comprises a main surface wherein a diameter of a first imaginary circle inscribed in a circumference of the main surface is represented by C (m), a thickness of the ceramic substrate is represented by h (m... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173281 | Ceramic sinter, magnetic head substrate using the same, magnetic head and recording medium drive unit A ceramic sintered body contains Al2O3 crystal grains, internal TiC crystal grains existing in the Al2O3 crystal grains and external TiC crystal grains other than the internal TiC crystal grains. The Al2O3 ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170626 | Portable electronic device and display control method employed in the same Provided is a portable electronic device which can equalize deterioration of a display device and reduce a deterioration speed, even during a time when a user is performing input operation. When the user is continuously using (operating) keys other than call start a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170573 | Base station apparatus and wireless communication method A base station apparatus which conducts a packet communication with a wireless communication terminal includes: a retransmission request detection unit which detects a retransmission request from the wireless communication terminal; a bandwidth assignment unit which... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170561 | Method and system for performing a handoff in a wireless communication system A system for maintaining wireless communication with a plurality of base stations in a communication network is disclosed. A portable terminal having a communication unit is configured to measure signal strength of a transmission signal for neighboring base stations... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166422 | System and method for arranging and playing a media presentation The system enables a user to select and order media objects, such as sound files, image files, animations, and text into a media presentation. The media presentation is then associated with a trigger or other interrupt event. Upon an occurrence of the event, the sys... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165606 | Apparatus, system, and method for location information management in a portable communication device An apparatus, system, and method for managing geographical location information of a portable communication device by determining and storing the geographic location information while registered on a cellular communication system in response to detecting an availabl... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165577 | Pilot signal transmission management A base station is configured to reduce interference with other base stations and/or devices in a multi-cell wireless network. The base station includes a wireless interface, detector and controller. To reduce interference, the wireless interface may provide services... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161196 | Communication apparatus with exchangeable recording medium A mobile terminal capable of displaying data of e-mail etc. stored in an internal memory derived from usage by each user so that the difference of the users when acquiring the data becomes clear, wherein data of received mail acquired along with processing for recep... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160658 | Cellular phone To aim to provide a mobile telephone capable of reducing a physical space necessary for providing a reflector compared with that in conventional mobile telephones, and reducing the SAR by securing a distance between an antenna and a passive element operating as a re... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160510 | Transmitter/receiver circuit and transmission/reception method There are provided a transmitter/receiver circuit and a transmission/reception method that can reduce the insertion loss of a circuit in a hybrid operation and are suitable for reducing the cost, size, and power consumption. An antenna switch 119 includes att... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160099 | Radio communication terminal, radio base station, and packet communication method A radio communication terminal according to the present invention transmits and receives multiple types of packets including a RTP packet to and from a communication destination device. The radio communication terminal sets an auxiliary service instance used for tra... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159316 | High-frequency transmission line connection structure, circuit board, high-frequency module, and radar device The invention relates to a high-frequency transmission line connection structure, a circuit board having the connection structure, a high-frequency module having the circuit board, and a radar apparatus. A first laminated waveguide sub-line part (21) includes... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159110 | Fluid actuator, and heat generating device and analysis device using the same A fluid actuator includes a piezoelectric body (31), a fluid channel (2) having the piezoelectric body (31) on a part of the inner wall thereof and enabling a fluid to move inside, and a surface acoustic wave generation portion (101) for ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159059 | Microelectromechanical device and method for manufacturing the same The present invention relates to a microelectromechanical device having a simple structure in which strains of the semiconductor substrate can be reduced. Both a semiconductor substrate 17 and a second substrate 14 are disposed to face a first main sur... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158248 | Porous ceramic for slide member, method for preparing the same, and mechanical seal ring In porous ceramic for slide member including independent pores having a pore size of 5 μm or more, the independent pore is flattened body having minor axis in a direction perpendicular to a sliding surface, and a cross sectional area (S1) of an independent p... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157411 | Illuminating device An illuminating device includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes, a plurality of first light-reflecting parts, and a plurality of second light-reflecting parts. Each of the plurality of first light-reflecting parts has a first light reflecting surface surroundin... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155884 | Bearing display apparatus and bearing display method A bearing display apparatus provided with a geomagnetic sensor for detecting earth-magnetism, a display unit, and a control unit for calculating a geographical bearing based on detection values of the geomagnetic sensor and making the display unit display the inform... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154851 | Dielectric ceramic, manufacturing method thereof, and multilayer ceramic capacitor A dielectric ceramic includes primary crystal grains. The primary crystal grains include a composite oxide of Ti and at least one kind of alkaline earth metal element selected from Ca, Sr and Ba. The primary crystal grains contain metal compositions of Mg, Mn and a ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150469 | Adaptive array base station device and adaptive array base station device control method An array antenna forming unit (22) combines at least two transmission/reception devices (40) to thereby sequentially form one array antenna. Every time an array antenna is formed, an array antenna transmission/reception control unit (25) sends a... | 04/03/2012 |
