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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184395 | Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus with thin-film magnetic head having microwave magnetic exciting function A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a metal housing, a magnetic recording medium having a magnetic recording layer, and a thin-film magnetic head having a write magnetic field production unit and a resonance magnetic field production unit. The ap... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183969 | Coil component A coil component which can secure the insulation and strength of a ferrite core and reserve a winding region sufficiently is provided. By coating a surface of an Mn—Zn-based ferrite core with a glass film, this coil component can secure the insulation between the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183749 | Electronic device and method of making same The present invention provides an electronic device with improved characteristics and a method of making the electronic device. In a method of making an electronic device (piezoelectric device) 74 according to the present invention, an outer edge R1 of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183463 | Plating film, printed wiring board, and module substrate The present invention provides a plating film 50 including a nickel plating layer containing phosphorus and a gold plating layer formed on the nickel plating layer, wherein the nickel plating layer has a phosphorus content of 11 to 16 mass %, and wherein (3×... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183171 | Dielectric ceramic composition To provide a dielectric ceramic composition which is free from variation in breakdown voltage, and has excellent electric properties. The dielectric ceramic composition according the present invention includes: as a main component, a component represented by a compo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182705 | Method for producing thin film magnetic head having magnetoresistive effect element A method for producing a thin film magnetic head including a magnetoresistive effect element (MR element) that has a magnetic sensor multi-layered film with a polygonal shape such that a vertex angle faces an air bearing surface (ABS) and a tip of the vertex angle i... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181340 | External electrode forming method A method of forming an external electrode of an electronic component involving: a paste preparation step, a removal step, an element preparation step, a contact step, and a formation step. A jig with a groove into which an element forming the electronic component ca... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179747 | Thermally assisted magnetic head A thermally assisted magnetic head includes a slider and a light source unit. The light source unit includes a semiconductor laser diode. The semiconductor laser diode includes an n-type (Alx1Ga(1-x1))0.51In0.49P cladding ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179666 | Multilayer electrolytic capacitor and method for manufacturing the same A multilayer electrolytic capacitor has a laminated body in which anode foils and cathode foils are alternately laminated with separators in between, and a lead member connected to corresponding electrode foils among the anode foils and cathode foils. Each of the an... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179642 | Magnetoresistive effect element in CPP structure and magnetic disk device An MR element in a CPP structure includes an MR part configured with a nonmagnetic layer, a first ferromagnetic layer that functions as first free layer and a second ferromagnetic layer that functions as a second free layer, and first and second ferromagnetic layers... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179225 | Ceramic electronic component, manufacturing method of ceramic electronic component, and packaging method of ceramic electronic components A ceramic electronic component has a chip element body having a conductor arranged inside, external electrodes, and a discrimination layer. The chip element body has first and second end faces facing each other, first and second side faces being perpendicular to the... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176236 | Memory controller, memory system with memory controller, and method of controlling flash memory Access to flash memories is controlled so that efficiency of data writing and effective utilization of storage area go together. In the access control, priority order, for physical blocks each storing effective data, is managed so that a position of a physical block... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174937 | Thin-film magnetic head having microwave magnetic exciting function and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus A thin-film magnetic head having microwave magnetic exciting function includes a write magnetic field production means for producing, in response to a write signal, a write magnetic field to be applied into a magnetic recording medium, and at least line conductor of... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174793 | Thin film magnetic head and magnetic disk device and electronic component A thin film magnetic head has a plurality of electrode terminals formed on substantially the same surface as the head formation surface on which magnetic head element is laminated. The plurality of electrode terminals is arranged in an array near and along the secon... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174349 | Electronic component and manufacturing method of electronic component A manufacturing method of electronic components includes forming a first insulation layer on a substrate, forming a plurality of passive elements on the first insulation layer, forming a second insulation layer on the passive elements, forming a plurality of conduct... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171964 | Apparatus and method for opening/closing lid of closed container, gas replacement apparatus using same, and load port apparatus The invention provides a purge apparatus that purges the gas in the interior of a FOUP with a high purging efficiency and an apparatus for opening/closing the lid of a FOUP for use in the purge apparatus. The purge apparatus has a cabinet having an opening portion t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170389 | Optical waveguide, and thermally-assisted magnetic recording head including the same An optical waveguide includes a core and a clad. The core includes first to third propagation parts, and a coupling part that couples the first to third propagation parts together. The first propagation part has a first incidence end face on which part of incident l... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169861 | Thermally-assisted magnetic recording head comprising plasmon generator Provided is a thermally-assisted magnetic recording head in which NF-light with sufficiently high light density can be applied to a medium while a write-field generating point and a near-field light (NF-light) generating point are close to each other. The head compr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169742 | Magnetic recording medium, magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus, method for manufacturing magnetic recording medium, and method for checking magnetic recording medium A magnetic recording medium is provided, which has recording layers having concavo-convex patterns formed on both sides of a substrate and can easily distinguish one face from the other face. A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus having the magnetic recordi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169731 | Near-field light transducer comprising propagation edge with predetermined curvature radius Provided is a near-field light transducer with a propagation edge in which the generation of defects is suppressed. The transducer is formed of a Ag alloy and comprises an edge, the edge comprising a portion to be coupled with a light in a surface plasmon mode, the ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166815 | Angular velocity sensor element An angular velocity sensor element is provided which is capable of preventing even transmission of sudden externally-applied vibration to an element portion by absorbing the vibration. An angular velocity sensor element 2 according to the present embodiment h... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164989 | Information recording method and information recording apparatus A recording method for irradiating a multi-layered optical recording medium with a laser beam to record information thereon. The optical recording medium can form a first information recording layer that is the farthest from a light incident surface, a second inform... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164986 | Thermally-assisted magnetic recording head and thermally-assisted magnetic recording method A magnetic recording head capable of a satisfying thermally-assisted magnetic recording without depending on the use of a near-field light generator is provided. The head comprises a waveguide and a main magnetic pole having a main pole tip. Further, at least a port... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164946 | Magnetic memory element, magnetic memory device, information recording/reproducing apparatus A magnetic memory element includes a pair of electrodes, a junction layer, at least one carbon nanotube, and at least one nanowire. The at least one nanowire is made of a ferromagnetic material and extends through a hole of each the at least one carbon nanotube with... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164853 | Perpendicular magnetic write head with side shield saturation magnetic flux density increasing away from magnetic pole A perpendicular magnetic write head is provided with a magnetic pole and a pair of side shields disposed on both sides of the magnetic pole in a cross track direction with side gaps in between. Each of the pair of side shields is configured in such a manner that a s... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164409 | Coil component A coil component ensuring adhesive bonding between first and second cores. The coil component also includes an inductive component and a pair of terminal electrodes. The first core has a first adhesion surface. The second core is connected to the first core by an ad... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164331 | Magnetic field measurement method and magnetic sensor The magnetic field measurement method has: a step of preparing a magnetic sensor which includes: a magneto-resistive effect element having a magnetization-free layer and a magnetization fixed layer, and having a longitudinal direction; and magnetic field application... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164330 | Magnetic sensor and magnetic field strength measurement method saturating magnetization of magnetization-free layer The magnetic sensor according to the present invention includes: a magneto-resistive effect element which has a stacked body in which a magnetization-free layer, a nonmagnetic layer, and a magnetization fixed layer are stacked in this order, and the longitudinal dir... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163332 | Electrode manufacturing apparatus and electrode manufacturing method An electrode manufacturing apparatus comprises a conveying section for conveying a current collector sheet having a plurality of through holes; a backup roll for guiding the conveyed current collector sheet; an applicator for supplying a coating liquid to the curren... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159782 | Thin film magnetic head having heating element A thin film magnetic head is provided, in which the amount of protrusion in the periphery of an element portion can be reduced or a local temperature increase of electrode leads of a heating element can be prevented. The thin film magnetic head includes a playback e... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159132 | Organic electro-luminescense display apparatus An organic EL display apparatus includes a display unit having a plurality of organic EL elements two-dimensionally arranged on a substrate, where the organic EL elements provide pixels, a sealing plate configured to be adhered to the substrate with an adhesive to c... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157927 | Raw material alloy for R-T-B system sintered magnet, R-T-B system sintered magnet and production method thereof It is an object of the present invention to obtain a highly coercive R-T-B system sintered magnet by making the crystal microstructure of a raw material alloy prepared by strip casting more uniform, thereby making the crushed powder obtained from such raw material a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154828 | Magnetoresistive effect element in CPP-type structure and magnetic disk device An MR element in a CPP structure includes a spacer layer made of Cu, a magnetic pinned layer containing CoFe and a free layer containing CoFe that are laminated to sandwich the spacer layer. The free layer is located below the magnetic pinned layer. The free layer i... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154826 | Thin-film magnetic head with variable-volume cavity in medium-opposed surface Provided is a thin-film magnetic head in which the magnetic spacing can be appropriately controlled by dynamically and accordingly, by adjusting the pressure working between the thin-film magnetic head and the magnetic recording medium according to the change of con... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154359 | Thin film balun The present invention provides a thin film balun includes: an unbalanced transmission line 2 including a first coil portion C1 and a second coil portion C2; a balanced transmission line 3 including a third coil portion C3 and a fou... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154116 | Layered chip package with heat sink A layered chip package includes: a plurality of layer portions stacked, each of the layer portions including a semiconductor chip; and a heat sink. Each of the plurality of layer portions has a top surface, a bottom surface, and four side surfaces. The heat sink has... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153097 | Method for manufacturing ferrite powder, ferrite powder, and magnetic recording medium A method for manufacturing ferrite powder comprises a step (a) of causing a precursor, obtained by a liquid-phase reaction method, to pass through a sieve with openings of 2 mm or less, and a step (b) of causing free fall, through the interior of a furnace tube heat... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149654 | Wave guide that attenuates evanescent light of higher order TM mode A waveguide has a core through which laser light can propagate in a TM mode, that has a rectangular cross section perpendicular to a propagative direction of the laser light, and through which the laser light can propagate in a fundamental mode in which only one por... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149653 | Light source unit for thermally-assisted magnetic recording capable of monitoring of light output Provided is a light source unit that is to be joined to a slider to form a thermally-assisted magnetic recording head. The light source unit comprises: a unit substrate having a source-installation surface; a light source provided in the source-installation surface ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149584 | Electronic component and electronic component module In a dielectric element, the angle θ made by either the top face or the bottom face and the side faces is either 0° | 04/03/2012 |
