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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090204771 | DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS FROM A PLURALITY OF MASTERS TO SHARED MEMORY COMPOSED OF A PLURALITY OF BANKS EACH HAVING A PLURALITY OF PAGES The memory access device includes: a plurality of command division sections provided for a plurality of masters; a plurality of inter-master arbitration sections provided for a plurality of banks; and a memory control section. Each of the command division sections divid... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090204568 | DECODING DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE When an external recording medium connected to an interface is removed therefrom and a new external recording medium is connected to the interface, a processor selects either first file analysis information read from a memory or second file analysis information generate... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090204254 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVING, INSERTING AND SECURING RECEPTACLES IN A RECEPTACLE TRAY A method and apparatus for controlling removal of one or more receptacles from a receptacle tray are described herein, in which a removal indicator indicates which of the one or more receptacles to remove. Thereafter, the indicated one or more receptacles may be manuall... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090203552 | METHOD OF TWO-DIMENSIONALLY ARRAYING FERRITIN ON SUBSTRATE A novel method for two-dimensionally arraying ferritin on a substrate is provided which obviates the need for a metal ion that permits linking between adjacent two ferritin particles. In a method of two-dimensionally arraying ferritin on a substrate, the surface of the ... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090203179 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF In this invention, the semiconductor device is provided with a gate electrode formed on a gate insulating film in a region sectioned by an element isolation formed on a semiconductor layer of the first conduction type, and a source region and a drain region of the secon... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202908 | CURRENT COLLECTOR, ELECTRODE, AND NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY An electrode capable of effectively dispersing or relieving the stress generated in association with expansion and contraction of an active material is provided. The electrode is produced by forming an active material layer on a predetermined current collector. This cur... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202907 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRODE OF NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising a positive electrode 5, a negative electrode 6, a separator 7 and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein a material mixture layer containing an active material and a binder is formed on a surface of a... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202889 | Protection Circuit And Battery Pack A secondary battery is protected from overcharging and excessive discharge current by a simple circuit. A comparator (CMP1) detects overcharging by comparing a charging voltage. (Vc) of a secondary battery (6) with a reference voltage (Vref1). A tra... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202882 | POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL AND FUEL CELL SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME A polymer electrolyte fuel cell includes a cell stack (51) formed by stacking cells (11), each of which includes: an MEA (5) having a polymer electrolyte membrane (1), and an anode (4a) and a cathode (4b) sandwichi... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202707 | Method and apparatus for applying electrode mixture paste A method for applying electrode mixture paste in which a strip of core material (1) made of porous metal sheet is driven to run along its lengthwise direction, is turned around part of the outer surface of a roll (8) immersed in the electrode mixture paste... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202314 | BORING TOOL AND HOLDER FOR THE SAME One object of the present invention is to increase stability for fixing a cutting tool with a holder formed of a sleeve, and to improve machining accuracy of a boring tool using the holder and prevent chipping of a cutting edge. In a holder for a boring tool holding a b... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202312 | SURFACE-COATED CUTTING TOOL A surface-coated cutting tool according to the present invention includes a base material and a coating film formed on the base material. The coating film includes one or more hard layer and one or more oxygen-rich hard layer. The hard layer is crystalline in its entire... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202271 | PHOTOSENSITIVE-MEMBER UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A pressing member applies a pressing force to a trailing end in a direction which intersects a predetermined reference direction, allowing the pressing force to have both a first component in the predetermined reference direction and a second component perpendicular to ... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202166 | SCANNING MICROSCOPE A method which, while displacing the field-of-view, allows the image in a target area to be acquired without degradations such as out-of-focus of the image. Plural pieces of images are acquired before and after a target area while displacing the field-of-view. Next, the... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202142 | CIRCUIT BOARD, METHOD FOR TESTING CIRCUIT BOARD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CIRCUIT BOARD A circuit board according to the present invention comprises an insulating layer, a first electronic component mounted on the insulating layer, and a solder marker provided on the insulating layer. A first solder having a first melting point constitutes the solder marke... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202139 | PATTERN GENERATING APPARATUS AND PATTERN SHAPE EVALUATING APPARATUS Although there has been a method for evaluating pattern shapes of electronic devices by using, as a reference pattern, design data or a non-defective pattern, the conventional method has a problem that the pattern shape cannot be evaluated with high accuracy because of ... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202138 | INSPECTION APPARATUS The present invention provides an inspection apparatus having a high throughput and high sensitivity with respect to a number of various manufacturing processes and defects of interest in inspection of a specimen such as a semiconductor wafer on which a pattern is forme... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090202137 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE GENERATION The present invention provides a technique to generate an accurate connected image even in a monotonous pattern using design data as constrained conditions. A reference position is roughly determined through matching between the design data and image data, matching betw... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201962 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE A semiconductor laser device 100 having a ridge stripe structure comprises: an n-type clad layer 105 having a protrusion; and an n-type current block layer 107 covering the clad layer, except the upper surface of the protrusion. When the width of th... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201878 | Low latency handover between wireless communication networks using different radio access technologies A communications system for providing a user's mobile station (MS) with an Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity, has an IP network gateway for allocating an IP address to the MS to enable it to access an IP network. First and second base stations are respectively configu... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201745 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell having a circuit configuration in which a potential supplied to sources of load transistors 108 and 111 included in a latch section is different from at least one of a potential supplied to a word line <... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201668 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS A light source includes a plurality of light emitting elements, and each light emitting element is disposed in such a manner that a direction of an optical axis of the light emitting element having a highest luminance is disposed at a predetermined inclination angle rel... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201657 | WIRING SUBSTRATE FOR USE IN SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS, METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS USING THE SAME On a printed-wiring board 1-1, a conductor layer 2 is laminated to both the top surface and the bottom surface of a substrate core 7 so as to pattern the substrate core, and a solder resist 4 is laminated to the substrate core. The sol... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201628 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME In a multilayer ceramic capacitor including: a laminated body layer formed by alternately laminating dielectric layers made of ceramic particles and internal electrodes; and a pair of external electrodes provided on at least both end surfaces of the laminated body layer... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201574 | OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION MODULE AND LASER LIGHT SOURCE DESIGNED TO SUPPRESS PHOTODARKENING The present invention relates to an optical amplification module having a construction which effectively suppresses photodarkening, and to a laser light source including the same. The laser light source comprises a light source for outputting light to be amplified, and ... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201371 | ON-VEHICLE IMAGING DEVICE A vehicle-mounted imaging device that is mounted in an automobile and performs color imaging has been provided with a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged pixel cells. In each of the pixels, a color filter separates incident light by a multilayer interference filter.... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201279 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE Provided is a plasma display device including a plasma display panel having a plurality of first and second electrodes extending in the horizontal direction and a plurality of third electrodes extending in the vertical direction, and first electrode driving circuit subs... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201276 | DRIVING METHOD OF A PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND A PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE At an on-cell reset, a positive ramp wave of an ultimate voltage, which is larger than a maximum voltage of a sustain pulse, and smaller than an ultimate voltage of a positive ramp wave applied to a Y electrode at an all-cell reset, is applied to the Y electrode to make... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201252 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALPHANUMERIC DATA ENTRY USING A KEYPAD A keypad for inputting alphabetical characters for use in an electronic device comprises an array of keys, each of which is assigned to one of elements of alphabetical characters. Each element is a portion of an alphabetical character and combination of the elements for... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201226 | DRIVING METHOD FOR PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE A driving method for a plasma display panel is disclosed in which sustain pulses are alternately applied to a pair of display electrodes of plural discharge cells provided in the plasma display panel to generate a sustain discharge, thereby causing an image to be displa... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090201213 | VERSATILE WIDEBAND PHASED ARRAY FED REFLECTOR ANTENNA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VARYING ANTENNA SYSTEM BEAMWIDTH An antenna system includes a reflector having a focal point, and a phased array having feed elements. Each feed element is disposed a same distance from the focal point of the reflector. A method for varying the beamwidth of an antenna system includes providing the ante... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090200942 | Plasma display panel and plasma display apparatus A plasma display panel capable of reducing further a surface discharge voltage without additionally providing a process leading to cost increase, and contributing to the reduction in address discharge delay. The plasma display panel comprises an electrode group of an X ... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090200677 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE A semiconductor device includes at least three or more wiring layers stacked in an interlayer insulating film on a semiconductor substrate, a seal ring provided at the outer periphery of a chip region of the semiconductor substrate and a chip strength reinforcement prov... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090200615 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF An element larger than silicon is ion-implanted to a contact liner in an N-channel region to break constituent atoms of the contact liner in the N-channel region. An element larger than silicon is ion-implanted to the contact liner in a P-channel region to break constit... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090200610 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF An N− layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate, with a BOX layer interposed. In the N− layer, a trench isolation region is formed to surround the N− layer to be an element forming region. The trench isolation region is formed to reach the BOX layer, from the s... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090200582 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH AN IMPROVED OPERATING PROPERTY The semiconductor comprises an n-channel transistor forming region and a p-channel transistor forming region, which are disposed while being sectioned by an element isolation region. The stress caused by contact plugs in the n-channel transistor forming region and the s... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090200565 | GaN-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE There is provided a GaN-based semiconductor light emitting device including: a substrate; and an n-type GaN-based semiconductor layer, an active layer and a p-type GaN-based semiconductor layer sequentially deposited on the substrate, wherein the active layer includes: ... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090200232 | Process for absorption-based separation of bioparticles from an aqueous suspension A process for adsorption-based separation of bioparticles from an aqueous suspension containing such bioparticles is disclosed which process comprises a) bringing said aqueous suspension into contact with a macroporous cryogel monolith carr... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090200169 | CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS DEVICE An object of the present invention is to prevent a variation in heat dissipating effect of a capillary between a holder part and an oven, to improve reproducibility of migration time, and to reduce a variation of migration time among capillaries in a single electrophore... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090199411 | SCRAPER A scraper is provided with a first member having an upper housing and a lower jaw, a second member having a lower housing and an upper jaw, and a slide latch for clamping the upper housing to the lower housing. The first and second members are pivotally connected to eac... | 08/13/2009 |
