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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7526747 | Inspection method and inspection system using charged particle beam Secondary electrons and back scattered electrons generated by irradiating a wafer to be inspected such as a semiconductor wafer with a charged particle beam are detected by a detector. A signal proportional to the number of detected electrons is generated, and an in... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526668 | Failover method of remotely-mirrored clustered file servers By incorporating a referral mechanism, a failover method and system for remotely mirrored clustered file servers enables a client computer to transparently access a remotely mirrored file system during a failover of a first NAS (network attached storage) storing the... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525813 | Semiconductor device In a semiconductor device such as a high-frequency power amplifier module, a plurality of amplifying means are formed on a semiconductor chip which is mounted on a main surface of a wiring substrate, and electrodes of the semiconductor chip are electrically connecte... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523541 | Method for manufacturing radio frequency IC tag Method for manufacturing a small radio frequency IC tag, where the radio frequency IC tag which can obtain sufficiently long communication distance with radio wave in the microwave band even if an antenna is made small and the radio frequency IC tag is embedded in m... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523258 | Disk array apparatus and method for controlling the same An apparatus includes a controller and a plurality of disk drives. The controller has a communication control unit for accepting a data input/output request, a disk controller unit for controlling a disk drive, and a cache memory for temporarily storing data transfe... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7523254 | Method for analyzing performance information A performance information display method using a computer, includes the steps, in the computer, of reading out information data of a storage device previously stored in a storage device and information data of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device, dis... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522997 | Navigation apparatus A controller of a navigation terminal (navigation apparatus) is configured to find a plurality of paths from a current position of a vehicle and a destination based on a plurality of different and prioritized path-finding conditions, respectively, and causes a displ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521744 | Resin-encapsulated semiconductor apparatus and process for its fabrication The present invention provides a resin-encapsulated semiconductor apparatus comprising a semiconductor device having a ferroelectric film and a surface-protective film, and an encapsulant member comprising a resin; the surface-protective film being formed of a polyi... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521703 | Automatic analyzer In an automatic analyzer which includes a reaction container which contains reaction solution therein, a light source which emit light to be transmitted through the reaction solution, a spectral detector which measures the light transmitted through the reaction solu... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519851 | Apparatus for replicating volumes between heterogenous storage systems In the remote mirroring system of this invention, the primary system has the capability of treating the volume in the remote storage system as a virtual storage devices in the primary storage system. The primary storage system realizes remote mirroring between diffe... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519745 | Computer system, control apparatus, storage system and computer device A computer system which enables more efficient use of a storage system shared by plural host computers and optimizes the performance of the whole system including the host computers and storages. A computer device has a first control block which logically partitions... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519038 | Adaptive EDCA algorithm using traffic prediction in wireless local area networks A method comprises buffering at least one frame for a particular access class, e.g., video, in a transmission queue; performing contention-based procedures for access to a wireless medium; computing the size of the at least one frame in the transmission queue; predi... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518851 | Distribution switchgear A distribution switchgear has an equipment room, main busbar room and cable room, which are formed in a distribution panel housing by partitioning the housing, from front to back such that the equipment room is located just behind the front door of the housing, with... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7516080 | Freight information management method and freight management system using electronic tags A collection request inputted at a consignor destination system is recorded on an electronic tag attached to freight and sent to a collection management system so as to be received. During collection of freight, information concerning collection is recorded on the e... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7516021 | Optical system for measuring metabolism in a body, method and program Apparatus and method for hemoglobin measurement including irradiating light to a living body, detecting light that has propagated through the living body, and acquiring measured data that represents a change in the concentration of oxidized hemoglobin in the living ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515809 | Heat-resisting plastic optical fiber and manufacturing method thereof A heat-resisting plastic optical fiber which excels in heat resistance and mass production and a manufacturing method thereof. The heat-resisting plastic optical fiber has a core which consists of transparent resin, and clad coated on the outer periphery of the core... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515157 | Data transmission device, data transfer system and method A data transfer method is executed to transit a three-state transmitting circuit from a high-impedance state into a data output state, transmit a preamble (dummy data) onto a bus, and sequentially transmit the essential data. The shortening of a waveform caused in t... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7514293 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device According to the method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a lead frame is provided wherein the thickness of a tab-side end portion of a silver plating for wire connection formed on each suspending lead 1e is smaller than that of a silver plating... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512100 | Method of mobile communication and apparatus therefor In order to accomplish efficient communication of data between a base station and a plurality of mobile terminals, particular orthogonal codes are transmitted from the mobile stations to the base station as alert signals indicating the presence of data to be transmi... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511327 | Capacitive electrode having semiconductor layers with an interface of separated grain boundaries The present invention relates to a structure of a capacitor, in particular using niobium pentoxide, of a semiconductor capacitor memory device. Since niobium pentoxide has a low crystallization temperature of 600° C. or less, niobium pentoxide can suppress the oxid... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511277 | Nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus, positron emission computed tomography apparatus, and detector units A nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus is provided that can improve time resolution and energy resolution and diagnosing accuracy by enhancing radiation detectors in terms of moisture-proofing and dust-proofing effects while efficiently cooling the radiation detect... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509331 | Method and apparatus for managing faults in storage system having job management function A computer system identifies jobs affected by a fault which occurs in any device or mechanism in a storage system to control the execution of such jobs. The computer system includes a DBMS server device, a virtualization switch device, and storage device. Each of th... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509236 | Remote maintenance system, monitoring center computer used for the same, monitoring system and method of communication for maintenance A remote maintenance system is comprised of: a monitoring computer for monitoring a facility; and a monitoring center computer for using maintenance management. The monitoring computer has a database for storing image data of the monitored facility. The monitoring c... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509001 | Optical circuit board An optical circuit board which facilitates a mounting process and provides advantageous aspects of electric interconnection and optical interconnection. An optical circuit board comprises a flexible circuit board composed of a film having a flexibility; one or more ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508822 | Communication system and communication method The usage of communication systems is improved. An IM server 4 manages presence information regarding each of IM clients and usable media and user information such that each of the IM clients can obtain these kinds of information. In order to perform text cha... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508347 | Radio frequency integrated circuit tag and method of using the RFIC tag An RFIC tag includes an IC chip and a thin metal plate. The IC chip is mounted approximately in the center of a slit part on the thin metal plate. The thin metal plate has connecting parts at both longitudinal-direction ends fixed on a metal member by soldering, and... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508296 | Reading method, responder, and interrogator Transmission and reception of the identification number to/from an interrogator includes an interrogator that reads a recognition number from a responder by radio. When a clock pulse is modulated on a high-frequency carrier and transmitted to the responder from the ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7506107 | Shared memory multiprocessor system In a shared memory multiprocessor system, data reading accesses and data write-back completion notifications are selected in synchronism with all of the nodes to order them. In each of the nodes, a subject address of ordered data reading access is compared with a su... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504903 | Communication semiconductor integrated circuit device and a wireless communication system In a communication semiconductor integrated circuit device, an oscillator of a PLL circuit can operate in a plurality of frequency bands. With a control voltage (Vc) of the oscillator fixed to a predetermined value (VDC), an oscillation frequency of the oscillator i... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502372 | Multicast routing method and apparatus for routing multicast packet A communications apparatus for converting an IPv4 multicast packet transmit form an IPv4 terminal into an IPv6 multicast packet and transmitting the converted IPv6 multicast packet to one of a plurality of IPv6 networks. The communications apparatus has information ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502363 | Voice communication system and voice communication method A voice communication system, which is connected to LAN to which communication terminals are connected and to a public network to which telephones are connected, is provided with a communication server between the LAN and public network having different protocols fr... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501896 | High frequency power amplifier circuit, high frequency power amplifier electronic component and method thereof A high frequency power amplifier electronic component (RF power module) is so constituted as to apply bias to an amplifier FET in current mirror configuration. In this RF power module, deviation of a bias point due to the short channel effect of the FET is corrected... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501633 | Radiological imaging apparatus and transmission imaging method A radiological imaging apparatus includes an imaging apparatus having an opening for insertion of a bed thereinto, and an attenuation correction data creating device. The imaging has a plurality of radiation detectors disposed around the opening and a plurality of g... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499819 | Flow measuring device A flow measuring device has a sensor element for outputting a nonlinear signal according to a flow rate. In the device, a first signal processing system obtains a first signal by filtering the nonlinear signal output from the sensor element, thereafter corrects a se... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7493978 | Traveling hydraulic working machine A traveling hydraulic working machine has a target revolution speed of an engine commanded by an input and sensors for detecting an operating situation of a hydraulic actuator and an operating situation of a traveling system. A prime-mover revolution speed control m... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7493500 | Personal computing device having single-cell battery The present invention features a personal computing device that may be powered by a single battery having a single lithium-ion cell or by a plurality of lithium-ion cells connected in parallel. The personal computing device may provide computing power comparable to ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493444 | Substrate structure of disk array apparatus, disk array apparatus and disk array system In a substrate structure of a primary disk array apparatus of a disk array system, the primary disk array apparatus contains in one housing at least a plurality of disk drives and a controller substrate with a controller section for controlling the disk drives, and ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7487735 | Interchangable superstructures and hulls for ocean going vessels An ocean going vessel with interchangeable superstructure and hull in which the superstructure has control units for controlling propulsion and steering, as well as components for communication and navigation. The superstructure and the hull each have an interface p... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7487400 | Method for data protection in disk array systems A method and a system for implementing the method are disclosed relating to archival storage of information in large numbers of disk units. The reliability of the stored information is checked periodically using data verification operations whose results are saved. ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487390 | Backup system and backup method Provided is a method causing a node of a local site or of a remote site to take over a file server when a failure occurs to a node of the local site. The method includes the steps of: setting a priority of the failover to the respective nodes of the local site; sett... | 02/03/2009 |
