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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8442123 | Device, signal generation/decoding device, video transmission device, video reception device, and video transmission/reception system By generating a transmission signal containing information on a video signal containing information on a video signal encoded in units of a video signal of a predetermined number of vertical periods and adding a flag indicating the header of the transmission signal ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8440915 | Device mounting board and semiconductor module A semiconductor device is of a PoP structure such that first electrode portions provided on a first device mounting board constituting a first semiconductor module and second electrode portions provided in a second semiconductor module are joined together by solder ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8440364 | Membrane electrode assembly and fuel cell A membrane electrode assembly includes an solid polymer electrolyte membrane, an anode, and a cathode. The cathode has a stacked body of a catalyst layer and a gas diffusion layer. The catalyst layer has platinum-cobalt-supporting carbon particles and an ion conduct... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8438724 | Method for producing substrate for mounting device and method for producing a semiconductor module Methods for producing a substrate for mounting a device and for producing a semiconductor module are provided. The methods comprise preparing a metal plate on one major surface of which a plurality of projected electrodes are provided. An insulating resin layer is f... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8436588 | Method of charging a battery array The method of charging a battery array performs constant current, constant voltage charging of a battery array while detecting the voltage of each battery. The battery array is a plurality of series connected batteries. The charge method detects the voltage of each ... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8436585 | Power supply device When remaining capacity estimated by a calculator is higher than a control upper limit, a charge-disabled mode is selected in which charging operation is disabled. When remaining capacity is lower than a control lower limit, a discharge-disabled mode is selected in ... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8436576 | Substitute battery pack including a case to accommodate a smaller battery type with an induction coil to facilitate charging A battery pack, instead of size AA batteries, is loaded in a battery storage compartment of an electronic device. The battery pack includes a battery casing, a plurality of size AAA batteries, a battery holder, a circuit board, and an induction coil electromagnetica... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8435664 | Battery system having temperature equalizing walls in ducts A battery system including battery blocks (3) having a plurality of battery cells (1) stacked with cooling gaps (4) established between the battery cells to pass cooling gas; ventilating ducts (5), which are supply ducts (6) and ex... | 05/07/2013 |
| D681740 | Signage display | 05/07/2013 |
| 8429681 | Optical disc apparatus which includes an optical pickup apparatus that includes an optical member driving apparatus An optical member driving apparatus comprising: a holding member configured to have an optical member mounted thereon; a driving unit assembly configured to be capable of driving the holding member; a connecting member configured to connect the holding member and th... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8427924 | Optical pickup apparatus An optical-pickup apparatus includes: a three-wavelength-laser diode including first-, second-, and third-laser elements to emit first-, second-, and third laser beams having first, second, and third wavelengths, respectively, the three laser elements housed in the ... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8426079 | Car power source apparatus A case (20) of each battery cell (1) houses a current interrupt device (30) that cuts-off current when internal pressure exceeds a set pressure. The case has a rectangular outline with a pair of opposing planar surfaces (20A). An electrod... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8420275 | Composite membrane, fuel cell, and method for fabricating the composite membranes Electro membrane assemblies are formed respectively in openings provided in a substrate. Each membrane electrode assembly is provided with an electrolyte membrane, an anode catalyst layer, and a cathode catalyst layer. A protective layer is provided on the substrate... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8417024 | Method and apparatus for processing three-dimensional images A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax cont... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8410751 | Device housing a battery and charging pad A device housing a battery (50) includes a receiving coil (51), and a charging pad (10) includes a transmitting coil (11) that magnetically couples with, and supplies charging power to the receiving coil. The device further includes a mod... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8409743 | Battery system with battery cells arranged in array alignment A battery system includes a battery block, a cooling pipe, and a coolant feeding device. The battery block includes a plurality of rectangular batteries that have a width greater than a thickness and are securely arranged in array alignment by a battery holder. The ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8404586 | Manufacturing method for semiconductor device A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device includes: the step of preparing a semiconductor chip which is provided with a functional element formed on a front surface side of a semiconductor substrate, a feedthrough electrode which is placed within a through h... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8401581 | Communication method and radio apparatus using the communication method A control unit allocates sequentially a channel for use in data transmission and a channel for use in channel estimation used to acquire channel characteristics between a radio apparatus and another radio apparatus to be communicated with, to the another radio appar... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400900 | Lens, lens mounting method and optical pickup device A lens includes a lens portion which condenses light; a reflecting flat portion which is formed in a periphery of the lens portion and reflects parallel light to be irradiated to the reflecting flat portion in a direction opposite to the irradiation direction; and a... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8398726 | Battery pack and method for manufacturing the same A method including the steps of assembling a battery pack core; holding the core in a mold that forms a molded resin region; closing a cavity of the mold; injecting synthetic resin into the closed cavity; and ejecting the battery pack from the cavity to configure th... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8395983 | Optical pickup apparatus An optical-pickup apparatus configured to prevent noise caused by return light by superposing a high-frequency signal, generated from a high-frequency signal generation circuit, on a driving signal to be supplied to a laser diode, the optical-pickup apparatus includ... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8391113 | Optical disc for tuple-speed recording and optical disc device for tuple-speed recording An optical disc has a read-only system lead-in area and a recordable data area. Disc boundary information representing a boundary in a radial direction of an area on which capability of recording at a predetermined recording speed is guaranteed is recorded on the sy... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8387080 | Optical pickup apparatus having a heatsink for dissipating heat generated by a laser diode An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a housing configured to include an optical component including a laser diode emitting a laser beam, the housing being made of metal; and a heatsink configured to dissipate heat generated from the laser diode, the heatsink bein... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8385180 | Optical pickup apparatus An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a laser diode; an objective lens made of a synthetic resin configured to focus laser light emitted from the laser diode to a signal recording layer of an optical disc; and a collimating lens having a diffraction grating and ar... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8384267 | Electrostatic generator comprising an electret film An electrostatic generator includes a substrate, an electrode formed on or in a surface of the substrate, an electret film provided so as to be opposed to the electrode and an insulating film on an electrode side formed on a surface of the electrode on a side oppose... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8384208 | Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device capable of improving a mechanical strength of a porous silica film while inhibiting a film located on a lower layer of the porous silica film from deterioration is obtained. This semiconductor device includes an organic film formed on a semico... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8384101 | Semiconductor light-emitting device Such a semiconductor light-emitting device (10, 30, 40) that emitted light has small directivity of light intensity and a color tone and a light output is hardly reduced is obtained. This semiconductor light-emitting device includes a semiconductor light-emit... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8378229 | Circuit board and method for manufacturing semiconductor modules and circuit boards A circuit board includes a substrate made principally of metal. An opening is provided on the substrate. A first wiring layer is provided on one surface of the substrate via a first insulating layer, and a second wiring layer is provided on the other surface of the ... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8377808 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same In the substrate and the epitaxial layer, isolation regions are formed to divide the substrate and the epitaxial layer into a plurality of element formation regions. Each of the isolation regions is formed by connecting first and second P type buried diffusion layer... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8374779 | Navigation device and image management method A navigation device which stores a captured image of an area ahead of user in a moving direction after turning at an intersection and displays the captured image before turning at the intersection, includes: a first storage unit (HDD recording/playback unit 14 | 02/12/2013 |
| 8369689 | Information recording/reproduction device and information recording medium There is provided an information recording medium that reduces operation of shifting information backward or putting information forward closer together upon recording/deleting/dividing information to facilitate processes of recording/deleting/dividing information. ... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8369607 | Method and apparatus for processing three-dimensional images A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax cont... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8369202 | Objective lens for optical pickup and optical pickup device An objective lens for an optical pickup device is provided with a light-source-side lens surface by which laser light is converged, and a disc-side lens surface by which the laser light converged on the light-source-side lens surface is converged. In this arrangemen... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8369193 | Optical pickup apparatus and manufacturing method of optical pickup apparatus An optical-pickup apparatus includes: a first-objective lens; a second-objective lens; a lens holder including a first-lens barrel having the first-objective lens mounted on an end face thereof and a second-lens barrel having the second-objective lens mounted on an ... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8368874 | Beam irradiation device and laser radar system A beam irradiation device includes: a laser light source for emitting laser light; an actuator which scans a targeted area with the laser light; a servo optical system which changes a propagating direction of servo light in response to driving of the actuator; a pho... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8367453 | Method of manufacturing solar battery When a layered structure of a transparent electrode layer and a metal layer is formed as a back side electrode layer over a surface on a side opposite to a side of incidence of light of a thin film solar battery, a time when formation of the transparent electrode la... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8366888 | Water treatment apparatus A water softening module has a case body which includes cover members secured to their respective ends of a cylindrical case. A pair of electrodes are provided in the case body. A fibrous medium is located in contact with a water-outlet-side face of the electrodes. ... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8363533 | Optical pickup apparatus An optical pickup apparatus includes an objective lens having a numeric aperture and an incident face. An antireflection coating is formed on the incident face. A collimating lens converts laser light from a laser diode into parallel light, and causes the parallel l... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8363527 | Disc apparatus A disc apparatus is disclosed that includes a jitter-value detection unit configured to detect a jitter value based on a signal to be read from a medium. A detrack-value setting unit is configured to set a detrack value for focusing an objective lens in the medium b... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8363526 | Optical pickup apparatus An optical pickup apparatus, which reads signals recorded on first and second signal recording layers of an optical disc, includes: a laser diode; an objective lens to condense a laser beam to the first and second signal recording layers; and a collimating lens disp... | 01/29/2013 |
