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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8001323 | Network storage system, management method therefor, and control program product therefor A storage system, a storage management method, and a control program product are provided. The storage system is improved in comfortability, convenience, and economy by reducing the amount of copies in a storage device in a network storage system, by heightening sto... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7865421 | Automated trading system An anonymous trading system is configured to receive a price stream from a bank or other institution. The price stream is converted into a quote stream and input into the trading system via an automated trading interface. The quote stream has its own deal code. The ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7863910 | Insulation resistance detecting apparatus There is provided an insulation resistance detecting apparatus that accurately calculates an insulation resistance value in real time. The insulation resistance detecting apparatus includes: pulse generator 10, comparator 11 to which reference voltage ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7830240 | Multilayer positive temperature coefficient thermistor A multilayer positive temperature coefficient thermistor includes a ceramic body having semiconductor ceramic layers and internal electrodes, the semiconductor ceramic layers being mainly composed of BaTiO3 and containing semiconductor-forming agents, the... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7822132 | OFDM communication system N sub-carriers are grouped in units of predetermined quantities in order beginning with the one exhibiting the highest communication channel quality to generate an optimal group pattern on the reception side. Then, communication channel information is calculated for... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7819968 | Stir-in pigment preparations for coloration of energy curable systems A dry colorant composition is disclosed and contains (a) pigment; (b) inert carrier; and (c) rheological additive having the structure: P—(U—Y)s wherein P is the residue of an organic colorant, Y is a polyalkylene oxide or polyalk... | 10/26/2010 |
| RE41891 | Cellular communication system, and mobile and base stations used in the same When a mobile station becomes a soft handover state, a reception quality monitor 104 measures reception quality of a pilot signal from each base station. Base station specifying means 105 generates a base-station select signal (BSse1) to specify base s... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809872 | Master and slave device for communicating on a communication link with limited resource A master device for communicating with a number of slave devices through a communication link having a limited resource. The master device comprises a transceiver adapted for communicating with the slave devices on the communication link and a controller adapted for... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809053 | Device and method for control scaling and quantization of soft output values from an equalizer A device for scaling and quantization of digital soft output values (sk) from an equalizer has a control loop for controlling a statistical parameter (θ) for the scaled and quantized soft output values (sD,k), which contains a calculation unit... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808155 | Monolithic piezoelectric element A monolithic piezoelectric element includes an element assembly in which internal electrode layers and piezoelectric ceramic layers are laminated alternately. The internal electrode layers contain an Ag—Pd alloy, which has an Ag content of 85 percent by weight or ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7801298 | Apparatus and method for detecting a potential attack on a cryptographic calculation An apparatus for detecting a potential attack on a crypto-graphic calculation performing a calculation with at least one parameter includes first means for providing a parameter masked according to a first masking algorithm, first means for performing the calculatio... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800539 | Null-fill antenna, omni antenna, and radio communication equipment A wide-angle null-fill antenna with no null in the depression angle range, an omni antenna using the same, and radio communication equipment. A null-fill antenna comprises a first antenna array including antenna elements arranged with a prescribed point as the cente... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800189 | Microfabricated capacitive ultrasonic transducer The invention relates to a microfabricated capacitive ultrasonic transducer (20) comprising at least one thin plate (21), provided with a metallization (24), suspended over a conductive substrate (23) through supporting elements integrall... | 09/21/2010 |
| RE41734 | Read-only memory having specially output circuits and word line connected to a group of memory cells A read-only memory having a multiplicity of memory cells whose contents can be read out with appropriate addressing by word, bit and source lines. The read-only memory is distinguished by the fact that the memory cells which can be addressed via an individual word l... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797496 | Multiprocessor system having a shared tightly coupled memory and method for communication between a plurality of processors A multiprocessor system comprises a first processor (P1) and a second processor (P2) each having an input/output set up for the connection of a tightly coupled semiconductor memory. Furthermore, the multiprocessor system comprises a shared tightly coup... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792181 | Linearity evaluation method using integrations weighted by probability density function, and circuit simulator, evaluation device, communication circuit, and program using the method An evaluation method for linearity evaluations neither performing calculations of error vectors at multiple sampling points nor using a demodulator corresponding to a desired modulation scheme. Measuring devices (164 and 165) measure the input signal a... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792079 | Communication system A mobile radio communication system, which has a communication network and at least one user terminal, which communication system has a memory apparatus which is set up to store, upon clear-down of a radio link using at least one physical channel between the user te... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7791532 | Radar A radar wherein, in response to an increase in the level of noise appearing in a frequency spectrum caused by interference being superimposed on a beat signal, peaks exceeding a threshold are extracted as target peaks in an ordinary state and a predetermined number ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7791405 | Method for controlling an output voltage and voltage controller A voltage controller for controlling an output voltage to a predetermined value. The voltage controller has a first terminal configured to connect a supply voltage, a second terminal configured to output the output voltage, a control voltage generating unit configur... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7790271 | Dielectric ceramic composition, ceramic substrate, and method for producing the same A dielectric ceramic composition includes about 10% to about 40% by weight of BaO, about 20% to about 65% by weight of SiO2, about 6% to about 40% by weight of Al2O3, about 1% to about 15% by weight of B2O3, abo... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7786621 | Circuit arrangement and method for reducing electromagnetic interference Circuit arrangement and method for reducing electromagnetic interference. The circuit arrangement includes a supply potential connection, a reference-ground potential connection, a controllable impedance element, a signal generator, and a circuit unit. The controlla... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782108 | Flip-flop device and method for storing and outputting a data value A flip-flop device for storing and outputting a data value includes a controllable memory element configured to be open as a function of a control pulse, a feedback means for comparing a data value present at the memory element and the data value output by the memor... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7781876 | Curing layers of a semiconductor product using electromagnetic fields A semiconductor product including a substrate, a semiconductor chip fitted to the substrate, and a layer, which contains coated particles, located adjacent to the semiconductor chip, wherein the coated particles have a ferromagnetic, ferrimagnetic or paramagnetic co... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7777398 | Piezoelectric actuator A piezoelectric actuator includes external conductors formed on an outer surface of a piezoelectric component. The external conductors each include a thick-film conductor and a conductive reinforcer. The thick-film conductor is provided with a first thick-film condu... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7776252 | Method for manufacturing multilayer ceramic electronic component A multilayer thermistor with a positive temperature coefficient is manufactured by step 41 of forming a green laminate having thermistor green layers and internal electrode layers, step 42 of heat-treating this laminate at a temperature in the range of... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774585 | Interrupt and trap handling in an embedded multi-thread processor to avoid priority inversion and maintain real-time operation A real-time, multi-threaded embedded system includes rules for handling traps and interrupts to avoid problems such as priority inversion and re-entrancy. By defining a global interrupt priority value for all active threads and only accepting interrupts having a pri... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7772909 | Supplying power to, and clocking, clocked loads A supply power can be fed in at a circuit arrangement for supplying power to, and clocking, clocked loads. The circuit arrangement provides a clock signal at a frequency and a supply voltage, the frequency and/or the supply voltage being able to be controlled by the... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7771552 | Method for manufacturing thin film capacitor A dielectric green sheet containing a dielectric ceramic powder, conductor green sheets containing a metal powder, and firing-assisting green sheets containing an inorganic oxide material powder are prepared, and the firing-assisting green sheet, the conductor green... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7770450 | Tuning bar vibrator and vibrating gyroscope using the same A tuning bar vibrator formed on a substrate and including a vibrating body. The vibrating body is formed into a meander shape as a whole, and a middle vibrating reed is used as a first detection unit. At one end side of the vibrating body, two sensing electrodes are... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769403 | Apparatus and method for requesting or allocating a push-to-talk right to talk and/or for requesting or communicating queuing information A push-to-talk communication system is described in which a decision unit (chair) and/or a queue are provided for allocating the right to talk during a push-to-talk communication, and corresponding control messages, request messages and information messages are tran... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7768862 | Memory arrangement A memory arrangement including a memory array, which has at least one memory block with a power supply device which can be activated, an address decoder, which is coupled to the at least one memory block in order to control access to the at least one memory block, a... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7768452 | Null-fill antenna, omni antenna, and radio communication equipment A wide-angle null-fill antenna with no null in the depression angle range, an omni antenna using the same, and radio communication equipment. A null-fill antenna comprises a first antenna array including antenna elements arranged with a prescribed point as the cente... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7767611 | Modified zeolite beta A modified zeolite beta having an anhydrous chemical formula, by weight % of the oxides, of (0-0.3)Na2O.(0.5-10)Al2O3.(1.3-10)P2O5.(0.7-15)MxOy.(70-97)SiO2, wherein M is one or m... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765661 | Method for manufacturing ceramic electronic component and planting bath A method for manufacturing a ceramic electronic component having excellent solderability is provided. In this method, the elution of barium from the ceramic electronic component and the adhesion of ceramic electronic components in tin plating are reduced. The method... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765197 | System and method for producing data replica In a method of producing a data replica, data processing requests are issued from application programs running in application servers. Data processing corresponding to each of the data processing requests is executed in each of database servers, and a result of the ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7764789 | Key bit stream generation A bit sequence which is generated by a feedback shift register is decimated with a variable decimation value m (mε|N) in a predetermined manner which is known on the decryption side, i.e. in that every mth bit of the bit sequence is picked out from the b... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7764102 | Pulse-generator circuit and circuit arrangement Pulse-generator circuit for generating an input signal for a flip-flop circuit from a clock-pulse signal and a data signal. The circuit includes a control unit for controlling a clock-pulse field effect transistor, a logic field effect transistor and a feedback fiel... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7763670 | Inks for in-mould decoration An energy-core ink or varnish composition is provided for use in an in-mold decoration (IMD) process, comprising an energy-curable resin, additional reactive monomers and/or oligomers and, optionally and in an amount not exceeding 10% by weight, a solvent, wherein t... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761714 | Integrated circuit and method for preventing an unauthorized access to a digital value An integrated circuit including a digital key provider comprising an output and an enable-input, wherein the digital key provider is configured to provide the digital key at the output only when an enable-signal is provided to the enable-input; and a fuse unit compr... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7760050 | Dielectric filter having tapered input/output electrodes A dielectric filter having inner-conductor holes penetrating through a dielectric block from a first surface to a second surface thereof. An outer conductor and input/output electrodes are formed on an outer surface of the dielectric block. A side of each of the inp... | 07/20/2010 |
