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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7940472 | Zoom lens and optical apparatus equipped therewith A zoom lens is provided with comprising a plurality of lens groups including, in order from an object side, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power, a third lens group G3, a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7779333 | Semiconductor memory having embedded microcomputer with ECC function There is provided a semiconductor device of which the circuit scale does not significantly increase even with an ECC function. A microcomputer having an internal flash memory inserts one weight in a sense amplifier activation signal only when an error detection sign... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7648384 | Tightly sealed electrical hook-up device with multiple configurations An electrical hook-up device including an outlet, a plug and a tight-seal casing with a cover and a shutter and enabling a tightly sealed hook-up of the plug in the outlet. The casing takes the form of an accessory removably mounted on the outlet, and the shutter of... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7508592 | Zoom lens system Providing a zoom lens system having higher optical performance, a wide, maximum angle of view of 80 degrees or more, a zoom ratio of about 2.7, and a fast aperture ratio with an f-number of about 2.8. The zoom lens system includes, in order from an object, a first l... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7350816 | Impact absorbing steering column device A spacer is interposed between a body-side bracket and a column-side bracket for retaining a steering column. A pin insertion hole through which a supporting pin is passed is formed in the spacer. A portion of the spacer to be broken by the shock of collision is for... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7309879 | Semiconductor laser, manufacturing the same and semiconductor laser device A semiconductor laser element capable of reducing the contact resistance and the thermal resistance and realizing a high reliability is provided. The semiconductor laser element includes: a semiconductor substrate, an active layer formed on the semiconductor substra... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7277037 | Semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit including an A/D converter capable of converting an analog signal accepted through an external terminal into a digital signal. The A/D converter includes: a ladder-type resistor for generating a reference voltage; a set of first op... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7224629 | Memory device having high speed sense amplifier comprising pull-up circuit and pull-down circuits with different drivability for each A sense amplifier is constructed to reduce the occurrence of malfunctions in a memory read operation, and thus degraded chip yield, due to increased offset of the sense amplifier with further sealing down. The sense amplifier circuit is constructed with a plurality ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224052 | IC card with controller and memory chips An IC card capable of reinforcing the prevention of the electrostatic damage without causing a rise in the cost of a semiconductor integrated circuit chip. The semiconductor integrated circuit chip (2) is mounted on a card substrate (1), and plural con... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7196384 | Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing thereof A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same of forming a silicon nitride film selectively without giving damages or contaminations to a surface of the silicon substrate thereby forming different types of gate dielectrics in one identical silicon s... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196967 | Semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a memory circuit, an oscillator circuit which generates an internal clock signal, based on control information held in the memory circuit, and a logic circuit which generates control information that causes the frequency o... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7176601 | Piezoelectric power generation system and sensor system A piezoelectric power generation system which performs a highly efficient power generation using a piezoelectric element without dependency on the direction of an externally driven vibration. The piezoelectric power generation system includes a vibrator having a bea... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7076317 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor device A flagship line 1 includes a job shop environment and a flow shop environment where three different standalone processing apparatuses for different steps constitute the job shop environment and two different serial processing apparatuses constitute the flow s... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6985288 | Illumination apparatus for microscope and microscope A microscopic illumination apparatus to be applied to a microscope selectively using plural types of objective lenses having different magnifications comprises a light source, a collector lens for making a light flux emitted from the light source a substantially par... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6972918 | Magnetic disk memory system In a magnetic disk memory device, the shifting speed of the magnetic head in time of power supply interruption is detected, and a voice coil motor is controlled in accordance with the detected shifting speed to enable the head to be shunted safely and promptly. In a... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6914581 | Focused wave antenna Disclosed herein is an antenna that is integrally encompassed within a three-dimensional shaped substance that has a permittivity or permeability constant greater than one. Such an encompassed antenna results in the production of radiated energy at a particular freq... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6871045 | In-orbit reconfigurable communications satellite The footprint of a first satellite is reconfigurable in orbit by ground control to switch on and off different transponders. Each transponder is connected to a corresponding downlink antenna feed, each of which transmits a downlink beam independent of the others. Th... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6853089 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same In the manufacture of a semiconductor device by adopting a block molding method wherein a semiconductor chip is fixed onto a wiring substrate through an adhesive, the occurrence of a defect caused by flowing-out of the adhesive is to be prevented. The semiconductor ... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6794438 | Thermoset polymers with dispersed fluorocarbon additives A mixture comprising a cross-linkable thermosetting resin and a fluorocarbon additive which is curable to form a thermoset resin composition having a gradient concentration of the fluorocarbon additive through a cross-section thereof. ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6724463 | Projection exposure apparatus and method A scanning exposure apparatus and method in which an interferometer, operatively connected to a stage holding a mask or a substrate, outputs a measurement value corresponding to positional information of the stage in the scanning direction. Start and stop timing of ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6651881 | Card, in particular chip card, reading device The invention relates to a card (7) reading device (1) comprising a housing (10) equipped with a keyboard (5), a display unit (4), a slot (8) for inserting a card (7) into the housing (10) and a cover (2) adapted to be pivoted between an open and closed p... | 11/25/2003 |
