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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185043 | Wireless communication method, relay station apparatus, and wireless transmitting apparatus A wireless communication method and the like for improving the system throughput. The wireless communication method is used in a mobile communication system having a base station apparatus (BS), a relay station apparatus (RS) (100) and a mobile station appara... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660206 | Brake friction pad | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175760 | Displaying method and device for an aircraft following a flight plan A device comprises means for computing the air-craft (A) current position, means for determining at least one maximum permitted deviation (E1) around a set position of the flight path of the flight plan according to accuracy and integrity performances of said... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175609 | Sequence allocating method, transmitting method and wireless mobile station device It is an object to provide a sequence allocating method that, while maintaining the number of Zadoff-Chu sequences to compose a sequence group, is configured to make it possible to reduce correlations between different sequential groups. This method comprises the st... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175604 | Efficient rise over thermal (RoT) control during soft handover The invention relates to a method for communicating information relating to the scheduling of uplink data transmissions for a mobile terminal transmitting data on the uplink to a plurality of base stations during soft handover of the mobile terminal in a mobile comm... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175298 | Audio output system control method and audio output system In an audio output system including a TV, an AV amplifier, a DVD player, and the like, a simple control program decides an audio output mode setting, i.e., whether to output audio from a built-in speaker of the TV or output audio from an external speaker connected t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175057 | Method and system for fast handovers using dynamic router advertisements The invention relates to a method for managing the movement of a mobile node from a first router in a first network to a second router in a second network, wherein the mobile node communicates with a corresponding node. In order to enable seamless communication betw... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172051 | Friction material for brakes A non-asbestos friction material includes at least one binder, fiber, lubricant, abrasive and titanate in a range of volume fractions in combination with other materials such as fillers and is substantially free of copper and asbestos. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170571 | Base station and mobile station communicating with OFDM system using a plurality of subcarriers and communication method with OFDM system using a plurality of subcarriers A multicarrier communication apparatus that is capable of suppressing interference of feedback information with other channels and alleviating a reduction in an uplink capacity. In PL signal reception section (260) of this apparatus, PL signal extraction sect... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170136 | Radio transmitting apparatus and radio transmitting method Disclosed are a radio sending device and a radio sending method for improving a throughput while keeping a receiving quality. In this radio sending device, an MCS switching control unit (102) applies an MCS parameter having a lower quality required than that ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170010 | Multiple interface mobile node with simultaneous home- and foreign network connection The invention relates to a method for node management in a packet-switched network, wherein a first node acts as a proxy for a second node, both nodes having network-layer addresses and link-layer addresses, the network-layer addresses at the network layer and the l... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165810 | System for assisting the ground navigation of an aeroplane in an airport A navigation system includes a display device displaying, on a cockpit pilot display unit, a set of indications including an aircraft symbol which illustrates the position of the aircraft and a map part which represents the airport and moves in relation to the aircr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165734 | Method and device for guiding an aircraft Disclosed is a method and device of guiding an aircraft along a flight trajectory to comply with a time constraint for arriving at a required arrival time at a waypoint of the flight trajectory. Speed setpoints are determined according to a speed profile that compli... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165729 | Method and device for estimating the forces exerted on a control surface of an aircraft Disclosed is a method and device for estimating forces exerted on at least one aircraft control surface. The method includes steps of, and the device includes components that carry out steps that include: generating current aircraft flight data; determining, from th... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165617 | Wireless communication apparatus and communication control method A wireless communication apparatus and a communication control method wherein even if there occurs a change in communication control information due to a function change, an appropriate correction is implemented to improve the communication quality. A wireless commu... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165248 | Wireless distance measurement system and wireless terminal A wireless distance measurement system and wireless terminal improve the accuracy of distance measurement when the UWB communication scheme is used. In wireless terminal 200, a route of signals varies between a distance measuring operation and a synchronizati... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165175 | Gap support measuring method Disclosed is a gap support measuring method which performs autonomous gap allocation without lowering the data transfer rate or the throughput. ST301 acquires various kinds of parameters decided by a network so as to execute a gap support measurement task. ST... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165054 | Multicast service provision in a mobile communication system having overlapping pool areas A method and apparatus for establishing a user plane between a user plane entity and different access nodes assigned to different pool areas simultaneously for multicast or broadcast service provision. The method includes receiving at a respective access node assign... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164380 | Discrete filter, sampling mixer and wireless device A sampling filter of such circuitry as not requiring a high frequency REF signal even if the number of decimation is decreased. In the sampling filter, the rotate capacitor in each switched capacitor circuit including Cr (7a-7d) arranged ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160770 | Method and device for detecting oscillatory failures in a position servocontrol subsystem of an aircraft control surface Disclosed is a method of detecting at least one oscillatory fault in at least one positional slaving chain for at least one airfoil of an aircraft. The method involves estimating a reference position of the airfoil in the absence of a fault, and calculating a residu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160756 | Method and device for generating a speed for an aircraft during a taxiing Disclosed is a system for generating a controlled speed for an aircraft along a ground trajectory. The system provides for receiving a ground trajectory of the aircraft and the speed profile of the aircraft. An interpolated speed of the aircraft is calculated on the... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160175 | Quasi-pilot symbol substitution To improve the reliability of channel estimation, data symbols at determined positions of the transmitted data stream are replaced by quasi-pilot symbols. The quasi-pilot symbols carry data modulated onto the carrier with a different modulation scheme than the origi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160170 | Signal space expansion for a 16 QAM scheme The invention relates to methods for transmitting and receiving a data bit stream in a communication system using a 16-QAM constellation. Further, an apparatus for performing the methods is provided. To provide a modulation and coding scheme using a signal space exp... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160167 | Radio transmitting apparatus, radio receiving apparatus and method therefor By assigning a plurality of subcarriers 31 to a data channel 33 and assigning fewer subcarriers 32 than the plurality of subcarriers 31 to a control channel 34 and, in addition, locating the control channel 34 at the center ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160087 | Receiver apparatus and communication method A receiver apparatus wherein the processing amount for CQI (Channel Quality Indicator) measurements in a communication system having a plurality of system bandwidths can be reduced. In this apparatus, a narrow band CQI measurement part (109) measures, as a na... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159973 | Ultra-scalable supercomputer based on MPU architecture The invention provides an ultra-scalable supercomputer based on MPU architecture in achieving the well-balanced performance of hundreds of TFLOPS or PFLOPS range in applications. The supercomputer system design includes the interconnect topology and its correspondin... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157269 | Gasket for sealing multiple fluids The subject invention provides a gasket for sealing multiple fluids and a method of forming the gasket. The gasket includes a carrier, a first elastomeric material, and a second elastomeric material different than the first elastomeric material. The first and second... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157204 | Double fuselage aircraft Symmetric external parts of a front lower aircraft wing sweep forward such that lift generated by a rear upper wing is greater than lift generated by the front lower wing. The rear upper wing is in direct contact with rear upper parts of fuselages. A propulsion syst... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157077 | Clutch device for electric winches A clutch device for an electric winch includes a ring gear that is settled in a gear box and is in communication with a gear mechanism of the electric winch. A plurality of braking recesses are provided on the outer periphery surface of the ring gear. A detachable c... | 04/17/2012 |
| D657798 | Valve cover | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155866 | Method and device for guiding an aircraft Disclosed is a method and device for guiding an aircraft flying along a flight trajectory. The flight trajectory has at least one constrained section, and the aircraft flies at a required speed within the constrained section to comply with a required arrival time at... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155803 | Device and method for assisting in the management of an engine failure on an aircraft A device and method for assisting in the management of an engine failure on an aircraft. The device automatically determines when an engine failure is detected, vectoring settings including speed, thrust and altitude settings designed to be implemented on the aircra... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155235 | Modulation device and demodulation device Provided is a modulation device which generates a phase modulation signal and an amplitude modulation signal and can correct an I/Q orthogonal shift and reduce degradation of the ON/OFF ratio. In the device, a phase shifter (174) controls voltage applied to a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155227 | Mobile station apparatus, communication method, and base station apparatus A mobile terminal device for performing multi-carrier communication with a base station device can improve communication quality while reducing the data amount without lowering accuracy of feedback information. In the mobile station device (100), a reception ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150564 | Method and device for providing an multi-engine aircraft pilot with data concerning said engines The invention concerns a device (1) comprising means (6A, 6B, 6n) which determine for each of the engines of the aircraft, an individual minimum flexible temperature and means (8) which determine a global minimum flexible te... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150471 | Network monitoring system In a network monitoring system according, first, a data acquisition section acquires a plurality of packets flowing on a network. Then, a data analysis section acquires action explanation information for explaining a single action from the plural packets acquired by... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149949 | Radio transmitter apparatus, radio receiver apparatus, and wireless communication system A wireless communication system capable of obtaining diversity gain without fail even when the distribution of the reception qualities is large. In a radio transmitter apparatus (100) of the wireless communication system, a repetition/constellation pattern ra... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149807 | Communication control method, communication system, home agent allocation server, and mobile node Disclosed is a technique for allowing a mobility service provider to allocate a home agent appropriate for each individual mobile node. According to the technique, an MN 10 notifies the domain name of an MSP 3 to an ASP 1, and in response to the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149772 | Channel quality information reporting method, base station apparatus, and communication terminal There is provided a base station device for suppressing increase of current consumption at a communication terminal by a line quality information report used for resource allocation of a downstream line and increase of interference of the upstream line traffic. The ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146868 | Pylon for suspending a turboengine Disclosed is a mast for the suspension of a bypass turbine engine beneath a wing of an aircraft in which the wing has at least one flap. The mast includes a rear fairing that protrudes rearward of a trailing edge of the wing and is mounted so as to tilt in a deploye... | 04/03/2012 |
