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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184207 | Image signal input circuit An image signal input circuit includes an input terminal configured to receive an image signal, a clamp circuit configured to hold a sink chip voltage contained in the image signal to be a constant value, a level shift circuit that includes a first emitter follower ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183835 | Battery pack A battery pack including a protection circuit configured to detect over-charge, over-discharge and over-current of a rechargeable battery to turn off a switch element, the switch element provided at a wire provided between the rechargeable battery and a load circuit... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183464 | Substrate pad structure A substrate pad structure for connecting a lead connecting portion of an electronic device to a substrate is disclosed. The substrate pad structure includes a first pad portion and a second pad portion that are arranged on the substrate at corresponding positions of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179692 | Board having connection terminal A board includes a board body; a first conductor provided at a first surface of the board body; and an electrically conductive connection terminal having a spring property. The connection terminal includes a first end part fixed to the first conductor; a second end ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179689 | Printed circuit board, method of fabricating printed circuit board, and semiconductor device A printed circuit board has capacitors, a grounding wiring pattern having a bonding surface on which a semiconductor device is bonded, and a contact surface located opposite from the bonding surface thereof and coupled to first electrodes of the capacitors, and a po... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179411 | Printer module and electronic apparatus A printer module for a clam-shell type printing apparatus having a lid that opens and closes with respect to a housing, includes a head assembly including a head and mounted on the housing, a platen roller mounted on the lid, and a main assembly including a frame an... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177321 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having function to drive transport belt based on charge leak An image forming apparatus includes a voltage applying unit to apply a voltage to and charge a surface of transport belt, a leak judging unit to judge a charge leak on the surface of the transport belt, and a recovery operation unit to perform a charge leak recovery... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177320 | Carriage and image forming device including carriage In a carriage of a liquid drop discharging device, an encoder sensor is arranged to read slits on a linear scale at a slit reading position. The carriage includes a stain detection part that detects a stain on the linear scale based on position information output fr... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176025 | Information processing apparatus for storing documents with partial images An information processing apparatus includes a partial image extracting unit configured to extract partial images from input documents, a meta information setting unit configured to associate a given one of the input documents with the partial images of the given on... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174109 | Electronic device and method of manufacturing same An electronic device includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device includes a first electronic component, a first sealing resin, and a first multilayer interconnection structure including a first interconnect... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173022 | Method for manufacturing packing material, packing material, and column A method for manufacturing a packing material includes a first step of reacting an inorganic particle having a hydroxyl group with a silane coupling agent including a silane coupling agent having an alkenyl group with a carbon number of 2 or more and 8 or less and/o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169072 | Semiconductor device, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic device A disclosed semiconductor device includes a reinforcing board having first and second faces, an electronic part accommodating portion penetrating the reinforcing board, a through hole, an electronic part having a front face on which an electrode pad is formed and a ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168946 | Charged particle separation apparatus and charged particle bombardment apparatus A charged particle separation apparatus that separates ionized gas clusters is disclosed. The charged particle separation apparatus includes an electric field applying part including two electrodes across which electric voltage is applied in order to generate electr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168452 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor device A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device including an integrated circuit having plural connection terminals arranged on a predetermined local region of the integrated circuit, plural metal bumps, and a wiring layer connected to at ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160468 | Image forming apparatus, memory management method, memory management program product An image forming apparatus includes a storage area used as a work area of programs for implementing functions, the programs including a basic function program configured to implement a basic function and an extension function program configured to implement an exten... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159656 | Method and apparatus for evaluating ultraviolet radiation protection effect A first step of measuring a change over time in the spectral transmission spectrum of a measurement sample by its exposure to the light of a light source including an ultraviolet radiation for a preset light exposure time, a second step of performing a correction ac... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159653 | Substrate position detection apparatus, and method of adjusting a position of an imaging component of the same A method is disclosed for adjusting an arrangement of coordinates in an imaging area of an imaging component in a substrate imaging plane in a substrate position detection apparatus that detects a position of a substrate in accordance with an image taken of a circum... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157592 | Connector for transferring high frequency signals A connector includes a first connector member configured to arrange a plurality of plane first boards with gaps in a thickness direction of the first boards, the first board including a conductive layer and an insulation layer, the insulation layer having a surface ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157590 | Jack side connector and connector set having the jack side connector A jack side connector configured to be connected to a plug side connector, the plug side connector including a plug side signal contact and a plug side ground contact extending from a holding part, the jack side connector includes a jack side signal contact and a ja... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154759 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method and computer readable information recording medium An image forming apparatus transfers plot data stored in a first storing part of a side of a controller to a side of a writing engine. A second storing part temporarily stores the plot data from said first storing part. When data stored in the second storing part re... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152548 | Connector apparatus A connector apparatus includes first and second connectors that can be engaged with each other. The first connector includes a first contact and a first main body that supports the first contact. The first connector is conductive. The first main body is insulative. ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152535 | Socket having two relay boards and a frame for holding a terminal to connect an electronic device to a mounting board A socket includes a first relay board provided above a mounting board; a second relay board detachably provided above the first relay board; and a frame part provided at side parts of the first relay board and the second relay board, wherein the frame part is config... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149451 | Information processing device, information embedding method, and program In an information processing device which embeds a number of partial information items produced from predetermined information in an image, an image dividing unit divides an image into a number of division images in a lattice formation to generate the division image... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149019 | Chopper type comparator and A/D converter A chopper type comparator including a first power supply line to which a first power source is supplied, a second power supply line to which a second power source having lower voltage than the first power source is supplied, a reference voltage input part to which a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148946 | Battery pack having protection circuit for secondary battery A battery pack has first through third external terminals connected to positive and negative power supply terminals and a voltage detection terminal, respectively. A secondary battery is connected between the first external terminal and the third external terminal. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147274 | Connector A connector to be connected to a counterpart connector includes a circuit board having a ground layer, an insulating layer, and a first conductive layer successively stacked, the first conductive layer including a signal circuit and a ground circuit; and a second co... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144346 | Apparatus and method for controlling a device with a device driver A data processing apparatus having a device driver part for controlling a device includes a storing part configured to store device capability data, a receiving part configured to receive a designation of a PrintTicket having setting data indicating control settings... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144128 | Touch panel and coordinates detecting method using touch panel A touch panel includes a lower conductive film, four electrodes disposed in edge portions of four sides of the lower conductive film, and an upper conductive film disposed over the lower conductive film so that the upper and lower conductive films are opposed to eac... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138609 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device In a semiconductor device, a substrate includes a plurality of line conductors which penetrate the substrate from a top surface to a bottom surface of the substrate. A semiconductor chip is secured in a hole of the substrate. A first insulating layer is formed on th... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138018 | Manufacturing method of semiconductor device having underfill resin formed without void between semiconductor chip and wiring board A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes a film state underfill resin adhering step wherein film state underfill resin in a semi-cured state is adhered on the first surface of the board main body without forming a gap between the first surface of th... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134444 | Inductor and manufacturing method thereof An inductor includes a core substrate including minute column-like electrical conductors extending between a front surface and a back surface of the core substrate. Each column-like electrical conductor is insulated from adjacent column-like electrical conductors by... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133660 | Method of manufacturing a coordinate detector A method of manufacturing a coordinate detector having a resistive film and a common electrode for applying a voltage to the resistive film is disclosed that includes the steps of (a) applying a photoresist onto the resistive film formed on a substrate formed of an ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133066 | Connector apparatus and receiving connector of the connector apparatus A connector apparatus includes a receiving connector connected to a power source and including first and second power jack terminals, a control jack terminal, a control switch including first and second contact points, and an insulative spring positioned below the c... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131027 | Finger contact detecting apparatus, finger contact detecting method, fingerprint reading apparatus and computer-readable recording medium A finger contact detecting apparatus, which detects a finger being swept on a fingerprint sensor of the finger contact detecting apparatus, the finger contact detecting apparatus including, a pixel data averaging unit calculating an average value of pixel data colle... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130500 | Thermal conductive member, manufacturing method of the thermal conductive member, heat radiating component, and semiconductor package A thermal conductive member includes linear high thermal conductivity materials; a first solder layer provided at first end sides of the linear high thermal conductivity materials; and a second solder layer provided at second end sides of the linear high thermal con... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130158 | Antenna apparatus and communication system including the same An antenna apparatus is disclosed that includes a feeding portion; a looped antenna element connected to the feeding portion; and a resistor inserted into the looped antenna element. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130152 | Antenna apparatus An antenna apparatus is disclosed that includes an antenna element having an inverted teardrop shape and configured to be fed with electrical power from an external power source; a ground element coupled to the antenna element; and a holding member configured to hol... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129259 | Manufacturing method of preparing a substrate with forming and removing the check patterns in scribing regions before dicing to form semiconductor device A disclosed device includes a manufacturing method of semiconductor device including preparing a semiconductor substrate including semiconductor chip forming regions, scribing regions surrounding these regions, and cutting regions formed in the scribing regions and ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8124523 | Fabrication method of a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of (a) forming a plasma of a gas having carbon and fluorine, and forming an internal insulation film provided with a fluorine-doped carbon film formed on a substrate using the plasma; (b) forming a m... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123539 | Connector A female connector for supplying received power has a recess, terminals including power terminals for supplying the power, a locking mechanism to lock a male connector that is inserted into the recess in a mated state in response to insertion of the male connector i... | 02/28/2012 |
