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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184672 | Frequency hopping A cellular communications system includes a base station and a plurality of user devices, wherein each user device is operable to communicate with the base station over a communication channel having a plurality of frequency resources, wherein the base station is op... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184292 | Unevenness detecting apparatus, method, and computer readable medium Provided is an unevenness detecting apparatus comprising a determining section that determines a polarization state of returned light obtained from radiated light; an uneven portion judging section that judges whether an uneven portion is present based on the polari... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183695 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor chip region provided with a plurality of internal circuits, and a plurality of electrode pads provided proximate to an outer edge of the semiconductor chip region and each electrically connected to any one of the plurali... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183645 | Power semiconductor device including gate lead-out electrode Flexibility for the design of the pattern layout of the gate lead-out electrode and the source electrode is enhanced without increasing the chip thickness of the semiconductor device. A semiconductor device includes a cell region where plural transistor cells are ar... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182384 | Power transmission chain and power transmission apparatus A gap with a predetermined size is formed between adjacent links arranged in a chain width direction, the size of the gap is set smaller than a maximum warpage amount of the links. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182095 | Apparatus for cooling heat generating spot of electronic device, cooling method therefore, and liquid crystal projector apparatus A silent cooling apparatus for effectively reducing the operating temperature of an electronic device includes a plurality of components which include surfaces opposite to each other with a spacing therebetween and have a heat generating spot on at least any of the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181947 | Spring assembly To provide a spring assembly whose production cost is low. It includes a coil spring 1, and a pair of retainers 2 disposed respectively at opposite end portions of the coil spring 1, and the retainer 2 includes a plate member 3 | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181632 | Supercharger A supercharger includes a housing, and a turbine shaft supported in a center hole in the housing through rolling bearings. Lubricating oil for the rolling bearings exists only within the housing. A cooling water jacket is provided within a body portion of the housin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181142 | Method of processing dummy pattern based on boundary length and density of wiring pattern, semiconductor design apparatus and semiconductor device A semiconductor device, includes a first wiring pattern in a first region, a second wiring pattern in a second region, and at least one first dummy pattern formed in the first region and at least one second dummy pattern formed in the second region. A total area of ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179951 | Transmission output control apparatus, multicarrier transmission system, transmission output control method and transmission output control program in computer-readable storage medium It is an object of the present invention to provide a multicarrier transmission system for enabling degradation of a transmission speed in an adjacent line adjacent to a communication line, to be avoided. For this purpose, a multicarrier transmission system in the p... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177438 | Double row thrust roller bearing A double row thrust roller bearing includes a pair of inner and outer cages arranged radially in two rows in separate coaxial relation, each cage including an annular inner peripheral wall, an annular outer peripheral wall, a plurality of pillar portions interconnec... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176681 | Roof side weather strip for automobile A roof side weather strip has an upper side portion, a vertical side portion and a corner portion. The vertical side portion has a mounting base portion which is to be mounted on a pillar, a hollow seal portion which is formed on a vehicle-interior inner surface of ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176455 | Semiconductor device design support apparatus and substrate netlist generation method A semiconductor device design support apparatus for generating a substrate netlist so as to be able to perform substrate noise analysis with high accuracy in a short time. The semiconductor device design support apparatus comprises a unit that divides a semiconducto... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174922 | Anti-fuse memory cell and semiconductor memory device An anti-fuse memory cell includes: a first transistor connected with a word line and configured to output a second voltage based on a first voltage supplied to the word line in a write mode; a second transistor connected with a bit line, and configured to output a t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174915 | Semiconductor memory device and method of testing the same A device and a method controlling the device are provided. A first command is supplied to the device in synchronization with a clock signal of a first frequency. The first command is to have the device perform a first operation. The frequency of the clock signal is ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174909 | Nonvolatile semiconductor memory and method for testing the same A nonvolatile semiconductor memory, includes a nonvolatile memory array, a voltage generator circuit that generates a drive voltage which changes depending on a supply voltage and a code, a control circuit that applies the generated drive voltage to the nonvolatile ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174808 | Load driving device A load driving device according to an aspect of the present invention may includes an output transistor and a load connected in series between first and second power supply lines, a protection transistor connected between a gate of the output transistor and the seco... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174543 | Display device driving circuit of which power consumption is reduced, control method thereof, and display device using the same A display device driving circuit includes: a grayscale signal output circuit, grayscale signal lines, a grayscale voltage output circuit, grayscale voltage lines, a digital-analog conversion circuit, a first to third switches. The grayscale signal output circuit out... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174516 | Image display system, image signal transmitter and image display unit An object of the present invention is to realize a transmission distortion correction system for allowing an image signal including a plurality of picture signals to be corrected, and to realize an image signal transmitter and an image display unit. The image displa... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174302 | Pulse signal generator, and method of generating pulse signal A pulse signal generator includes a period setting unit that receives a period set signal including an information indicative of a pulse period, and that outputs a period control signal controlling the pulse period, a duty ratio setting unit that receives a duty rat... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174296 | Buffer circuit having switch circuit capable of outputting two and more different high voltage potentials A buffer circuit includes a first power source node receiving a first voltage, a second power source node receiving a second voltage lower than the first voltage, an output node driving the first and second voltage, a first transistor coupled between the first power... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174117 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same Provided is a semiconductor device having a substrate, a semiconductor chip flip-chip mounted on the substrate, and a stacked film provided in a gap between the substrate and the semiconductor chip. The stacked film is composed of a protective film covering the surf... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174102 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including: a substrate formed with a concave portion at one surface thereof; and a first semiconductor chip provided in the concave portion of the substrate and is adhered to the substrate by an underfill in the concave portion, wherein the co... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174092 | Semiconductor device having high frequency wiring and dummy metal layer at multilayer wiring structure A semiconductor device, includes a semiconductor device, a wiring layer provided on the semiconductor substrate, a high frequency wiring provided in the wiring layer, and plural dummy metals provided in the wiring layer apart from the high frequency wiring, wherein ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174043 | Light emitting apparatus In a light-emitting apparatus using a silicone resin as a sealant of its light-emitting element, it is intended to prevent discoloration of its lead frame. A light-emitting element fixed to a lead frame is sealed with a sealed portion formed by a silicone resin. An ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173905 | Wiring structure and method for fabricating the same A wiring structure has a silicon layer, a backing layer provided on the silicon layer, the backing layer comprising a copper alloy containing a nickel, and a copper layer provided on the backing layer, and a diffusion barrier layer having an electrical conductivity,... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173508 | Semiconductor device having vertical type MOSFET and manufacturing method thereof A method (and resultant structure) includes forming a semiconductor layer having plural stripe-like trenches, forming a gate electrode buried partially in each of the plural trenches, and introducing an impurity into the semiconductor layer by ion implantation after... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172462 | Rolling bearing and rolling bearing assembly There is provided a rolling bearing including an inner ring having an inner ring raceway surface, an outer ring having an outer ring raceway surface and a shoulder portion formed on one axial side of the outer ring raceway surface, a plurality of rolling elements wh... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172443 | Light source unit A light source unit includes a light source portion including a mounting board, a light emitting element mounted on the mounting board, a rectangular solid sealing material for sealing the light emitting element, the sealing material including a first distance betwe... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170385 | Light coupler and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a light coupler and a manufacturing method thereof. The light coupler of the invention includes a plurality of light input terminals, a plurality of light output terminals, a plurality of half mirrors, and an optical wave guide connect... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170284 | Apparatus and method for displaying image of view in front of vehicle An apparatus and a method for displaying an image of a view in front of a vehicle, each of which detects edges in a monochrome image obtained by a camera, which is mounted on the vehicle and photographs a view in front of the vehicle, to generate an edge image indic... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170168 | Clock data recovery circuit A simple circuit that supports high and low data rates is provided. The circuit includes: a detection circuit 11 for detecting whether D1≠D2 or D1≠D3, assuming that logical values of an input data signal DATAIN sampled at timin... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170080 | Frequency hopping A communications system is described in which user devices communicate with an associated base station. The user devices employ frequency hopping techniques to provide frequency diversity in their communications with the base station. Techniques are described for re... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169544 | Image processing apparatus and method To eliminate a signal deviation that occurs when scaling processing is performed on image data including multiple signals having different data rates, there is provided an image processing apparatus which performs scaling processing on image data including multiple ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169037 | Semiconductor integrated circuit including transistor having diffusion layer formed at outside of element isolation region for preventing soft error A MISFET includes a drain diffusion layer of a first conductivity type, a source diffusion layer of the first conductivity type, a gate electrode, and a substrate/well of a second conductivity type. In the MISFET, first diffusion layers of the first conductivity typ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167750 | Resin pulley A resin pulley includes: an outer cylindrical portion having an outer circumferential surface on which a belt is to be wound; an inner cylindrical portion which is disposed radially inwards of and concentrically with the outer cylindrical portion; and a plurality of... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167500 | Bearing apparatus for axle An inner ring, an outer ring, a circular cone roller constituting a rolling elements arranged between the inner ring and the outer ring, a first seal member arranged at an opening portion between the inner ring and the outer ring, and a second seal member arranged o... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167499 | Rolling bearing device with sensor A first spacer, a second tubular member, and a second spacer are externally fitted and fixed to an outer peripheral surface of a nut. The second tubular member is formed by stacking a plurality of silicon steel plates without any gap, and is arranged between the fir... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167498 | Bearing apparatus for axle and method of manufacturing the same A body part of a rotation detecting sensor of a rotation number detector which is provided on a bearing apparatus for an axle has a large diameter part formed in its upper part and a small diameter part formed in its lower part, and at the same time, a sensor fittin... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165794 | Positioning apparatus and positioning method A positioning method includes performing a first positioning by carrying out information communication with an external part of an positioning apparatus to obtain a first information indicating a position of an object to which the method is applied, displaying a fir... | 04/24/2012 |
