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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8084886 | Uninterruptible power supply apparatus An uninterruptible power supply device connects a battery for power-outage backup to the output side of an AC/DC converter. An input monitoring circuit monitors alternating current input of the AC/DC converter and outputs an alternating current input monitor signal ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7650689 | Terminal inserting device A terminal inserting device is provided, by which pulling force to pull a terminal fitting can be changed after the terminal fitting is inserted. The terminal inserting device includes an inserting unit and a control device. The inserting unit includes a front chuck... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7595231 | Semiconductor device and its manufacture In a logic area, impurities are doped into the gate electrode and the source/drain diffusion regions of a MIS transistor. Thereafter in a memory cell area, word lines are patterned, source/drain regions are formed, and contact holes are formed. Side wall spacers of ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7573135 | Electronic parts packaging structure in which a semiconductor chip is mounted on a wiring substrate and buried in an insulation film The present invention includes the steps of forming a first resin film uncured on a wiring substrate including a wiring pattern, burying an electronic parts having a connection terminal on an element formation surface in the first resin film uncured in a state where... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7561106 | Electronic equipment The electronic equipment includes a housing accommodating an electronic circuit used in the operation of the device and a high-frequency circuit for wireless communication related to the operation of the device. A dielectric antenna is mounted on the rear surface of... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558608 | Superconducting device, fabrication method thereof, and filter adjusting method A superconducting device comprises a dielectric substrate, and a plane-figure type resonator pattern made of a superconductive material and formed on a first face of the dielectric substrate. The resonator pattern has a notch at least a portion of which is round. | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558023 | Head support unit with ramp structure and drive having the same A head support unit includes a head used to record information in or reproduce the information from the recording medium, a suspension that supports the head, and a lift tab that is connected to the suspension, and slides on a sliding surface of a ramp loading unit ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7557978 | Optical element An optical waveguide is formed of a stack of electro-optic effect films. A stress-relief layer is formed between a substrate and the optical waveguide. The stress-relief layer is comprised of a metal material having a thermal expansion coefficient of 10×10−6... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7557041 | Apparatus and method for supplying chemicals A chemical supplying apparatus includes first and second mixing tanks for mixing and supplying chemical slurries used in a semiconductor fabrication process. The slurries are alternately provided from the first and second mixing tanks such that the slurry is continu... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7551381 | Device and method for reading data from and writing data in storage medium A disk device writes data in or reads data from a disk. The disk device includes a head. The head includes a reading element that reads data from the disk and a writing element that writes data in the disk. The reading element and the writing element are placed apar... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7550895 | Method for driving micro-oscillating element having comb-teeth electrodes A micro-oscillation element includes a movable main section, a first frame and a second frame, and a first connecting section that connects the movable main section and the first frame and defines a first axis of rotation for a first rotational operation of the mova... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7550376 | Semiconductor device capable of suppressing current concentration in pad and its manufacture method An interlayer insulating film is formed on a semiconductor substrate. An intra-layer insulating film is formed on the interlayer film. A recess is formed through the intra-layer film. The recess has a pad-part and a wiring-part continuous with the pad-part. The pad-... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7545049 | Electronic parts packaging structure An electronic parts packaging structure of the present invention includes a wiring substrate having a wiring pattern, a first insulating film which is formed on the wiring substrate and which has an opening portion in a packaging area where an electronic parts is mo... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7542631 | Optical transmission system An optical transmission system which provides bandwidth restricted optical signal comprises an input terminal (10) for accepting an electrical binary signal, an amplifier (12) for amplifying said electrical binary signal to the level requested for oper... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7542201 | Semiconductor optical amplification device and optical integrated circuit A semiconductor optical amplification device is disclosed that has a gain spectrum of a wide bandwidth. The semiconductor optical amplification device includes an InP substrate and an active layer on the InP substrate. The active layer has a quantum well structure f... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7540428 | RFID tag, RFID-tag antenna, RFID-tag antenna sheet, and method of manufacturing RFID tag A radio-frequency-identification tag antenna includes a film base, a plurality of antenna patterns for transmission and reception, which is formed in parallel on the film base, and a cut line that is formed on the film base between adjacent antenna patterns along th... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539378 | Optical waveguide device and semiconductor device In order to make it possible to suppress the influence of reflected light on a connection interface easily and with certainty, an optical waveguide device includes a first optical waveguide (1), a second optical waveguide (2) formed from a material or ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7538023 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor wafer device having separated conductive patterns in peripheral area A method of manufacturing a semiconductor wafer device, includes the steps of: (a) forming lower wiring patterns over a semiconductor wafer, the lower wiring patterns being connected to semiconductor elements in a circuit area; (b) forming an interlevel insulating f... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536112 | Optical transmission system An optical transmission system which provides bandwidth restricted optical signal comprises an input terminal (10) for accepting an electrical binary signal, an amplifier (12) for amplifying said electrical binary signal to the level requested for oper... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536068 | Micro movable element and optical switching device A micro movable element includes a micro movable substrate, a package base and an electroconductive connector. The micro movable substrate is provided with a micro movable unit that includes a frame, a pivotally movable portion, a torsion connector connecting the fr... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535326 | Microswitching element A microswitching element includes a base substrate, a fixing portion attached to the base substrate, and a movable portion including a fixed end fixed to the fixing portion. The movable portion is surrounded by the fixing portion via a slit having a pair of closed e... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7528771 | Method and system for GPS position measuring and frequency error detecting method A receiver terminal receives a frequency from an external reference oscillator portion, which is more accurate than that of a frequency generated within the receiver in a local oscillator portion. The frequency from the local oscillator portion is measured using the... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7522360 | Flying height measurement apparatus and method therefor Provided is a new apparatus for measuring a flying height of a head requiring none of a specific magnetization pattern, that is, ahead flying height measurement apparatus for use within a disk drive including a reading head, including: a signal replay unit 300 | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522104 | Antenna and wireless apparatus An antenna that provides three resonance frequencies includes a dielectric, and an electrically conductive antenna element arranged on a dielectric, the antenna element branches into three parts and being connected to a single feeding point, and at least two of the ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7520733 | Multistage compression type rotary compressor There is provided an internal intermediate pressure multistage compression type rotary compressor capable of reducing a height dimension while reducing the amount of oil to be discharged outside. An electric element and first and second rotary compression elements w... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7518437 | Constant current circuit and constant current generating method A constant current circuit and a constant current generating method, wherein when a voltage in substantially no temperature dependence is applied to an element to output a constant current, temperature dependence of the element can be cancelled. A current indicative... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7513792 | Chained-terminals body, method of manufacturing the same, and crimper for crimping the same Providing a chained-terminals body, which can be crimped to a flat circuit body in one process even if a terminal pitch thereof is small, the chained-terminals body is formed by piling a pair of chained-terminals sub-bodies. Each of the pair of chained-terminals sub... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512546 | Store system A store system comprises: store controller 21 incorporating programs for executing sales and sales management tasks; display 27 for displaying a screen for the execution of a task specified by each of the programs; first input means for inputting data ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7501740 | Microscale driving unit and recording disk drive A microscale driving unit includes first and second elongated piezoelectric actuators extending in antiparallel directions. The base ends of the actuators are fixed to a support member. The tip ends of the actuators are fixed to a driven member. First and second ele... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501192 | Recording medium including protection layer having unequal property A first protection layer is overlaid on the surface of a recording layer in a recording medium. A second protection layer is overlaid on the surface of the recording layer at a position adjacent the first protection layer. The second protection layer has a compositi... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7497482 | Pipe joint A pipe joint comprises a first joint member of synthetic resin having an annular recessed portion in an end face thereof, and a second joint member of synthetic resin having an annular ridge on an end face thereof. The ridge is fitted in the opening of the recessed ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496127 | Optical device coupling light propagating in optical waveguide with diffraction grating An optical waveguide propagates a laser beam. Main diffraction grating and sub-diffraction grating couple light propagating in the optical waveguide. The main diffraction grating and the sub-diffraction grating couple the light in such a manner that propagation in a... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495866 | Recording disk drive capable of suppressing vibration of flexible printed circuit board A fixing member is spaced from a head actuator by a predetermined distance. A flexible printed circuit board extends at least from the head actuator to the fixing member. The flexible printed circuit board is superposed on the surface of the fixing member. A viscoel... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7490541 | Compressor A compressor comprises a compressing mechanism which compresses fluid including a lubricant, a separation chamber into which the fluid compressed by the compressing mechanism is introduced and in which at least a portion of the lubricant included in the fluid is sep... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7472893 | Swirling type micro-bubble generating system The swirling type micro-bubble generating system according to the present invention possesses a container main unit having a cylindrical space with bottom or a frusto conically shaped space, a liquid inlet provided in tangential direction on a part of circumferentia... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7473161 | Lapping machine and head device manufacturing method A lapping machine that polishes a head block in which plural head devices are connected in a row includes a jig that has a bottom surface that opposes to a grinding plane, and fixes the head block onto the bottom surface, a pressure mechanism that applies a pressure... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7466152 | Probe card and testing method of semiconductor chip, capacitor and manufacturing method thereof A probe card including probes, a build-up interconnection layer having a multilayer interconnection structure therein and carrying the probes on a top surface in electrical connection with the multilayer interconnection structure, and a capacitor provided on the bui... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7460327 | Magnetic disk apparatus Magnetic disk apparatus includes a magnetic head element having a read element and a write element, a heater provided in the magnetic head element for controlling a protruding amount thereof, a write resistance detector that detects a resistance value of the write e... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7458789 | Scroll compressor According to the present invention, an oil supply passage is formed in a suction space of a fixed scroll part, and an oil collision part is provided in the suction space. The oil collision part is provided in the suction space, an amount of oil to be supplied is con... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459331 | Micro mirror unit and method of making the same A micro mirror unit includes a moving part carrying a mirror portion, a frame and torsion bars connecting the moving part to the frame. The moving part, the frame and the torsion bars are formed integral from a material substrate. The frame includes a portion thicke... | 12/02/2008 |
