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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107332 | Drive apparatus for recording a write-once medium A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section performs a process including: determining a first track of the plurality of tracks, based on the physical address correspondin... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8085317 | Information process apparatus and method, program record medium, and program A data generation section generates an essence data file composed of a file header, a file body, and a file footer. A header size obtainment section obtains header size information of essence data file from the data generation section, and supplies the header size i... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8067132 | Photomask and exposure method To provide a photomask capable of preventing a foreign matter generation in using the photomask, and an exposure method using this photomask. The photomask includes a transparent substrate 2; a transfer pattern 4 formed in a main region 3 of a c... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8023473 | Multiple wireless networks management A multiple wireless networks structure comprising a plurality of beacon groups each comprising one or more devices communicating via an associated wireless network utilizing a superframe structure; wherein each device of each beacon group allocates a local control p... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7991803 | Navigating media content by groups Grouping media files via playlists on a computer-readable medium. One or more media files are selected according to a grouping criterion to define one or more playlists from the media files. A folder is associated with the playlists and stores values identifying eac... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7927386 | Method for manufacturing a battery pack A rechargeable battery (2) and a circuit substrate (3) are connected by lead plates (4, 5) and united by a primary mold (11) that is formed by filling resin therebetween, after which a secondary mold (12) is formed on the outer fac... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7911898 | Drive apparatus for performing a sequential recording and reproduction on a write-once recording medium, and method of reproducing same The drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section determines a physical address indicating a location at which data can be recorded next in the determined track of a write-on... | 03/22/2011 |
| D634296 | Telephone base unit | 03/15/2011 |
| 7894316 | Write-once recording medium, a recording apparatus and a reproducing apparatus for a write-once recording medium A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section performs a process including: determining whether or not replacement management information including a replacement physical a... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7882059 | Information process apparatus and method, program record medium, and program To smoothly reproduce data. A clip generation section 104 generates a clip information file that describes attribute information of each piece of essence data that are necessary to reproduce each piece of essence data generated by a data generation section | 02/01/2011 |
| 7872540 | Oscillator device and transmitter module using same An oscillator device includes a resonator including a coil and a capacitor connected to the coil in parallel; and an oscillator connected to the resonator. Electric waves are emitted from the coil to at least one receiving antenna of the receiver while the oscillato... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7860064 | Radio communication device and arrival direction estimation method A receiver having an array antenna estimates arrival directions of multiple paths that arrive with an angular spread. Consequently, arrival direction estimation accuracy can be ensured without increasing throughput even if the power every path is low by estimating a... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7813860 | Brake force detecting device A brake force detecting device for detecting strain in a caliper bracket. The brake force detecting device includes a sensor plate fixed to the outside surface of a brake load receiving portion of the caliper bracket in the circumferential direction of a brake disc ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813244 | Write-once recording medium, and a recording apparatus and a reproducing apparatus for a write-once recording medium A write-once recording medium recording/reproduction is carried out by performing a process including: determining whether or not replacement management information including a replacement physical address is found in the replacement management information list, the... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7802008 | Quality of service management in network gateways An apparatus for ensuring quality-of-service in a network is provided. A first stream sender having a flow control parameter and transmitting a first stream. A network interconnection receiving the first stream and a second stream. First stream being a non-realtime ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7793651 | Heat storage apparatus A heat storage apparatus includes heat storage panels having primary fluid passages formed therein; passage plates having secondary fluid passages formed therein; and heat reservoirs. The heat storage panels and the passage plates are layered alternately, and the he... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7786022 | Method for forming insulating film with low dielectric constant In the invention, a silica sol prepared by hydrolyzing and condensing a silane compound represented by the following formula: Si(OR1)4 or R2nSi(OR3)4-n wherein R1s, R2(s) and R | 08/31/2010 |
| 7760594 | Drive apparatus for performing a sequential recording and reproduction on a write-once recording medium, and method of reproducing same A drive device includes a recording/reproducing unit and a drive control unit. The drive control unit compares the physical address corresponding to the logical address contained in the recording instruction to the next recording-enabled address. When the physical a... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7751174 | Electronic part with external electrode The present invention is intended to solve the problem of a conventional thermosetting conductive paste with respect to bonding-property between an internal electrode(s) and an external electrode(s) so as to provide a multilayer ceramic electronic part suitable for ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7746180 | Phase-locked loop circuit and data reproduction apparatus This invention relates to a phase-locked loop circuit and a data reproduction apparatus, which can reduce a processing time that is required for initial adjustment in the data reproduction apparatus. In a digital data reproduction apparatus having two control functi... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7714512 | High red color rendition metal halide lamp An arc discharge metal halide lamp for use in selected lighting fixtures having a discharge chamber with light permeable walls of a selected shape bounding a discharge region of a selected volume through which walls a pair of electrodes are supported with ionizable ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7710311 | Short range radar small in size and low in power consumption and controlling method thereof A transmitter section radiates a short range wave to a space. A receiver section has a detector circuit composed of a branch circuit which receives a reflection wave of the short range wave radiated to the space by means of the transmitter section and branches in ph... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7640436 | Encryption device and method A device and method for encrypting content in an encryption device including a content-key storage section is disclosed. The method includes generating a content-key used for encrypting content based on random numbers and storing the generated content-key in the con... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7627647 | Information terminal The present invention provides mobile terminals with various types of services such as electronic commerce service, music delivery service, and position information service. User applications required for the electronic commerce service, music delivery service, and ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7598090 | Biosensor A biosensor is provided with an area in which a reagent having bleaching action is carried in a state where it can be dissolved, at least in a part of a sample application area to which an inspection target solution is applied or the downstream of the sample applica... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7591293 | Device for bonding a metal on a surface of a substrate A device and method for bonding objects to be bonded each having a metal bonding portion on a substrate, comprising cleaning means for exposing the metal bonding portions to a plasma having an energy enough to etch the surfaces of the metal bonding portions at a dep... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590659 | Adaptive menu system for media players Creating and displaying an adaptive menu structure for media files. The invention includes authoring software to create the menu structure to enable a user to navigate the media files using a media player. The invention also includes filtering software to adapt the ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7589543 | Probe card having a conductive thin film on the surface of an insulating film behind each of the alignment marks each marks comprises a plurality of second bumps A probe card for a wafer level test of electrical characteristics of a plurality of semiconductor integrated circuit devices formed on a semiconductor wafer. The card has a thin film with bumps on which a plurality of bumps to be respectively brought into contact wi... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7587125 | Reproducing/recording apparatus A playback unit (3) reproduces contents which are recorded on a video cassette tape (2), and a recording unit (6) records the contents on another video cassette tape (7) and, simultaneously, an erasing unit (5) erases the contents ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7580605 | Three-dimensional optical waveguide, method of manufacturing same, optical module, and optical transmission system A three-dimensional-optical waveguide is formed by laminating planar substrates such as a plurality of lens substrates and, an isolator substrate and a wavelength division multiplexing filter, the optical substrates at least include a waveguide substrate having a wa... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7579086 | Substrate for use in crystallization and method for producing the same A substrate for use in crystallization has a base member, and an organic molecular film on a surface of the base member. The organic molecular film has non-affinity to a liquid, and the surface of the base member and the organic molecular film are covalently bound t... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7559090 | Memory, information apparatus for access to the memory, and method for the information apparatus With commands from a terminal divided into a command to designate an access area and a command to gain access, the terminal adds verification data of the terminal to an argument of the command to gain access, and it is thereby possible to verify the identity of a te... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7548191 | Radar oscillator capable of preventing leak of oscillation output In order to enable intermittent output of an oscillation signal without essentially producing a leak in response to a pulse signal indicating a transmission timing of a radar wave, a radar oscillator is provided which employs a configuration in which an operation of... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7547278 | Tele-care monitoring device A scalable tele-care monitoring device has a plurality of physiological sensors adapted to collect patient physiological data. The device also has an interface adapted to connect with a personal computer, and an expansion module adapted to communicate patient physio... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7309534 | Group III nitride crystals usable as group III nitride substrate, method of manufacturing the same, and semiconductor device including the same The present invention provides a method of manufacturing Group III nitride crystals that are of high quality, are manufactured highly efficiently, and are useful and usable as a substrate that is used in semiconductor manufacturing processes. The method of manufactu... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301243 | High-reliable semiconductor device using hermetic sealing of electrodes The present invention relates to a high-reliable semiconductor device in which electrodes formed on substrates are prevented from deteriorating by sealing the electrodes with a frame member rather than a sealing material. The frame member in the present invention su... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7280385 | Semiconductor memory device A memory cell MC includes nMOS transistors for a transfer gate configured to be paired with each other, and one capacitor for data storage connected to the nMOS transistor. A gate electrode of the nMOS transistor is connected to a word line WL, and a drain is connec... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7255742 | Method of manufacturing Group III nitride crystals, method of manufacturing semiconductor substrate, Group III nitride crystals, semiconductor substrate, and electronic device The present invention provides a method of manufacturing Group III nitride crystals that are of high quality, are manufactured efficiently, and are useful and usable as a substrate for semiconductor manufacturing processes. A semiconductor layer that is made of a se... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7190188 | Signal transmission system, and signal transmission line To transmit a high-speed digital signal of several tens GHz via a differential line by connecting a differential line referring to the ground to differential lines not referring to the ground, there is provided a signal transmission system which transmits a digital ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7176115 | Method of manufacturing Group III nitride substrate and semiconductor device The present invention provides a manufacturing method that allows a Group III nitride substrate with a low dislocation density to be manufactured, and a semiconductor device that is manufactured using the manufacturing method. The manufacturing method includes, in a... | 02/13/2007 |
