Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185775 | Virtual computer system and control method thereof When a failure occurs in an LPAR on a physical computer under an SAN environment, a destination LPAR is set in another physical computer to enable migrating of the LPAR and setting change of a security function on the RAID apparatus side is not necessary. When a fai... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184992 | Optical field receiver and optical transmission system An optical field receiver comprises an optical brancher that branches a received optical multilevel signal into first and second optical signals; an optical delayed detector that performs delayed detection on the first optical signal by a delayed detector with a del... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183925 | High frequency power amplifier and operating method thereof A high-frequency power amplifier which can reduce a variation of power gain due to the dependence on gate length of a power amplification field effect transistor is provided. The high-frequency power amplifier comprises, over a semiconductor chip, a bias control cir... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183862 | Eddy current testing device An eddy current testing device which confirms that a change in characteristics of a target object is detected regardless of the magnitude of the change and specifying the position of a portion from which the change is detected. The device uses an eddy current probe ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183735 | Rotating electrical machine The present invention provides a rotating electrical machine including a rotor core that does not produce narrow areas in rotor slots even if circumferential ends of fan-shaped segment cores are displaced radially outwardly and circumferentially during operation. In... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183616 | Semiconductor device, RF-IC and manufacturing method of the same Provided is a technology capable of reducing parasitic capacitance of a capacitor while reducing the space occupied by the capacitor. A stacked structure is obtained by forming, over a capacitor composed of a lower electrode, a capacitor insulating film and an inter... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183115 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having elevated layers of differing thickness There is provided an SOI-MISFET including: an SOI layer; a gate electrode provided on the SOI layer interposing a gate insulator; and a first elevated layer provided higher in height from the SOI layer than the gate electrode at both sidewall sides of the gate elect... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181234 | Authentication system in client/server system and authentication method thereof The security of an authentication system using a one-time password is increased, a shift from an authentication system using a fixed password is simplified, and a range of use is increased. An authentication system wherein a one-time password is synchronized with ti... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180989 | Storage controller and storage control method A storage controller having a plurality of storage devices and a control circuit providing a plurality of virtual volumes, to each of which a storage area in a plurality of pool volumes provided with the plurality of storage devices can be mapped for writing data in... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180979 | Storage system and operation method of storage system The present invention is able to improve the processing performance of a storage system by respectively virtualizing the external volumes and enabling the shared use of such external volumes by a plurality of available virtualization storage devices. By virtualizing... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179931 | Wavelength tunable filter and wavelength tunable laser module A wavelength tunable filter and a wavelength tunable laser module are a codirectional coupler type whose characteristics do not vary significantly with a process error. They are structured so as to include a semiconductor substrate which has a first optical waveguid... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179134 | Handling robot of magnetic head assembly, magnetic head test method and magnetic head tester An upward warp of a terminal pad of a flexible cable which is kept horizontal by a suction head is prevented by a pressing arm which contacts with an upper surface of a rear portion of the flexible cable. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178977 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same When a through-hole electrode and a rear-surface wire are formed on a rear surface of a chip, a convex portion is formed on the rear surface of the chip due to a rear-surface wiring pad which is a part of the through-hole electrode and the rear-surface wire. This ca... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176847 | Method for assessing the plausibility of at least one measured value determined in a printing press The plausibility of at least one measured value, that is determined in a printing press, and that includes a density of an ink applied to a stock, is assessed. The stock is conveyed through the printing press and the ink is applied to the stock in several inking zon... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176359 | Disk array system and control method thereof A disk array system, upon detecting a failure in any data disk from among a plurality of data disks providing one or more RAID groups, conducting a correction copy to any spare disk, using one or more other data disks belonging to the same RAID group as the data dis... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176248 | Method and system of collection performance data for storage network This invention provides a user or an operator with a management apparatus or method for displaying logical connection information between an interface connected to a computer and a switch and a storage system or a logical unit in the storage system in a virtual stor... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176211 | 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... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176010 | Remote copy system In a system in which data employed by a computer is stored in a storage system, the storage system transfers this data to another storage system and a copy of the data is maintained in the other storage system. The consistency of the copy is maintained even when dat... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175023 | Radiocommunication system and multicast data distribution method in the radiocommunication system Radio resources are utilized efficiently and the communication quality is improved by flexibly adapting to the state of radio waves at a base station varying every moment or the topology of the distribution area of contents in multicast communication. The base stati... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171847 | Printing press including fold formers of different widths and at least one fold former that is movable in a direction transverse to web travel A superstructure of a printing press includes a turning tower with at least one turner bar that is usable to deflect a web section from a transport direction by 90°. A second turner bar, that is shorter than the first turner bar, is also used to deflect a web secti... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171126 | Storage network system, managing apparatus, managing method and program A management computer includes a memory storing toplogical information including identifiers of ports of computers, storage apparatuses, and switches. The management computer includes a processor, which is configured to: collect a plurality of performance informatio... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171119 | Program deployment apparatus and method With a management server that is connected via a network to at least one physical server including a physical server with a virtualization facility for providing a virtual server to a client and deploys a program to the at least one physical server as necessary, and... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169008 | Semiconductor device The present invention miniaturizes a HEMT element used as a switching element in a radio frequency module. A single gate electrode 17 is formed in an active region defined by an element separation portion 9 on a main surface of a substrate 1 com... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166209 | Computer system provided with hypervisor A hypervisor acquires an I/O command that has been issued from a virtual computer. The hypervisor judges whether or not a target of an I/O that complies with the I/O command is an unassigned port associated device that is a device associated with an I/O port that is... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165743 | Controller for inverter A high-reliability controller for inverter is provided with a simple configuration. The controller for inverter includes a CPU 14 controlling energy of a vehicle, a CPU 15 controlling a power generation amount or an assist amount of a first motor 26... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165601 | Positional information system In an indoor positioning system, for establishment of a cost sharing system, the positioning information transmission device does not directly transmit positional information but performs concealment and variablization on the device ID and transmits the concealed an... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165123 | Packet forwarding device and packet priority setting method A packet forwarding device with a shaping unit, which is provided with queues for storing high priority packets and queues for storing low priority packets. The shaping unit transmits a packet read out from the non priority queue by giving a high priority when no tr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162618 | Method and device for controlling pump torque for hydraulic construction machine A current load rate of an engine 10 is computed and a maximum absorption torque of at least one hydraulic pump 1, 2 is controlled so that the load rate is held at a target value. Engine stalling can be prevented by decreasing the maximum absorption tor... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162087 | Construction machine A top cover (17) is provided at an upper position of a supporting structure (12) of heat exchange device (11), and an upper opening (20C) is configured to be provided in a detachable type cover (20) for constituting this top cover ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161736 | Exhaust gas cleaning system for engineering vehicle An exhaust gas cleaning system for an engineering vehicle, such as a hydraulic excavator, is capable of performing manual regeneration control of a regeneration fuel injector 40 that is started only under the following conditions: a manual regeneration starti... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161051 | Method and apparatus for data processing with index search In a database management apparatus for managing a database where an index is used in a search for data, the data is stored in a table that has attributes of the data as columns. The index is created in association with at least one column. The columns include an ind... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160778 | Steering system for engineering vehicle A hydraulic steering unit 5 generates a control pressure corresponding to the rotational quantity and rotational direction of the steering wheel 109 on the basis of pressurized oil of a pilot pump 13. Signals of pressure sensors 6a | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160773 | Travel drive apparatus for a working vehicle In case a temperature (T) of a lubricant oil (G) cannot be detected by an oil temperature sensor (51) provided on an output side of a lubricant pump (46), the temperature (Tm) of a wheel drive motor (17) is detected by using a motor temperature ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160178 | Transmitter A transmitter has a transmission modulator including first and second modulators, a phase comparator and a controller. First and second non-inverted local signals supplied to the modulators are set to have a predetermined phase difference. In a calibration action fo... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159346 | RFID system, RFID cable system, and RFID cable laying method When an RFID is attached to an object to assist testing operations, the following problems are encountered; (1) the RFID of write type tends to cause a failure and is troublesome due to the necessity of rewrite each time the situation is changed, (2) the incorporati... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159058 | Semiconductor device having wiring substrate stacked on another wiring substrate Miniaturization and high-performance of a semiconductor device are promoted, which has a package on package (POP) structure in which a plurality of semiconductor packages is stacked in a multistage manner. A testing conductive pad for determining the quality of a co... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158058 | Automatic analyzer An automatic analyzer is disclosed that includes a supplementary reagent storage section and reagent bottle transfer mechanism besides an analysis reagent storage section, and that, by managing information on reagents stored in these two reagent storage sections, is... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156561 | Method and apparatus for setting access restriction information Access restriction information that an old storage device has is transferred to a new storage device. A management server 2200 obtains a port management TL 2445 that the old storage device 2400 has, through a LAN 2600 which is separated f... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155834 | Traveling drive unit for working vehicle A lubricant circulation pump (46) which is driven by an electric motor (47) is provided in the course of a circulation path (41A, 41B) for circulating lubricant oil to a wheel mounting case (19) which is rotated together with a rea... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155423 | System and method for tracing bank notes A system and method are provided for tracing bank notes or, specifically, counterfeit money. In one example of the tracing system, an automatic teller machine (ATM) electronically connected to one or more devices is provided. The one or more devices comprise a depos... | 04/10/2012 |
