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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7948291 | Logic circuit The invention includes a two terminal switching device having two stable resistivity values for each applied voltage, which when a voltage of not more than a first threshold voltage (Vth1) is applied, becomes in a first state having a higher resistivity, wher... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948094 | Semiconductor device The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor layer, an interlayer dielectric film formed on the semiconductor layer, a wire formed on the interlayer dielectric film with a metallic material to have a width of not more than 0.4... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947593 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having an intermetallic terminal pad and solder junction structure A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a Zn system material directly on a copper terminal pad formed over an underlying base; disposing a Pb-free solder ball over the Zn system material; and performing a heating process for reflowing th... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947514 | Semiconductor device production process A semiconductor device production process includes forming, on a prepared SOI wafer, semiconductor functional devices and substrate contacts. The substrate contacts connect to a support substrate of the SOI wafer. The semiconductor device production process also inc... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946399 | Hydraulic shock absorber Provided is a hydraulic shock absorber enabling an increase in a variable range of both damping forces produced in an extension stroke and a compression stroke thereof. A cylinder (1) filled with hydraulic oil is divided into first and second oil chambers ( | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946107 | Mixture ratio stabilizer for liquid propellant rocket engine There is provided a mixture ratio stabilizer for a liquid propellant rocket engine which comprises: a body internally having a chamber and a fuel supply hole communicating with an end of the chamber to receive fuel from a fuel supply pump, an oxidizer inlet, and a f... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941054 | System for extracting a clock signal from optical signal including plural clock frequencies and a method therefor In a clock signal extraction system, an optical modulator modulates an input optical signal having its clock frequency equal to a first or second frequency with a modulation electrical signal having its frequency equal to the average of the first and second frequenc... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940951 | Silent heat dissipation device A heat dissipation device includes a hollow housing and a speaker. The hollow housing has a first opening and a second opening. The speaker is disposed at the first opening, wherein the speaker includes a diaphragm oscillating within a frequency scope the human ear ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940565 | Reading circuitry in memory A reading circuit in a memory, having a first memory cell coupled to a first bit line and a second bit line, a second memory cell coupled to the second bit line and a third bit line and a third memory cell coupled to the third bit line and a fourth bit line, is prov... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940331 | Edge adaptive de-interlacing apparatus and method thereof An edge adaptive de-interlacing apparatus and method are disclosed. The edge adaptive de-interlacing apparatus includes a complexity detection module, a qualifier, a comparator and a mixer. The complexity detection module detects complexity associated with a target ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940330 | Edge adaptive de-interlacing apparatus and method thereof An edge adaptive de-interlacing apparatus and method are disclosed. The edge adaptive de-interlacing apparatus includes a complexity detection module, a qualifier, a comparator and a mixer. The complexity detection module detects complexity associated with a target ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940134 | Active YIG oscillator driving device and driving method thereof An active YIG oscillator driving device is comprised of: an YIG oscillator including a main coil, an FM coil, a frequency generator operating to generate an output frequency in response to a magnetic field generated from the FM coil; a phase locker setting the outpu... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940011 | Lamp drive circuit for driving a number of lamps and balancing currents flowing through the lamps A lamp drive circuit used for driving a number of lamps is provided. The lamps are used in the backlight module. The backlight module is used for providing a light source when a liquid crystal display displays. The lamps are respectively electrically connected to a ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939983 | Generator having first and second windings with same-direction electromotive forces There is provided a generator which produces electromotive forces in the same direction on all windings to prevent occurrence of leakage magnetic fields of the windings and lowering of the rotational forces of rotor plates due to the leakage magnetic fields from the... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939951 | Mounting substrate and electronic apparatus A mounting substrate having a structure allowing reduction of the cost and an electronic apparatus formed by surface-mounting a semiconductor device thereon are provided. The mounting substrate is a mounting substrate mounted with a semiconductor device having exter... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939931 | Semiconductor device There is provided a semiconductor device whose cost is low and whose case is restrained from breaking. In the semiconductor device having a semiconductor sensor chip, a signal processing circuit for processing signals output from the semiconductor sensor chip and a ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939884 | Semiconductor device A trench semiconductor device is provided which ensures a reduced turn-on time. The semiconductor device (1) includes: a first epitaxial layer provided on a semiconductor substrate; a second epitaxial layer provided in contact with an upper surface of the fir... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939833 | Nitride semiconductor light emitting device There is provided a nitride semiconductor light emitting device having high internal quantum efficiency by accelerating recombination radiation while employing a multiple quantum well structure in which each of well layers has a relatively large thickness. The nitri... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939799 | Tandem fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer A tandem Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer is provided. In the mass spectrometer, the ions selected by a FT-ICR mass analyzer, which can perform an ion selection process and a mass measurement process with a time interval between the proces... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939429 | Nitride semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a division guide groove by applying a laser beam having a wavelength and energy density causing multiphoton absorption to a surface of a substrate having a group III nitride semi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937967 | Method of manufacturing a glass substrate, glass substrate manufactured by the method, and magnetic recording medium using the glass substrate An object of the present invention is to provide a method of manufacturing a glass substrate containing alkali metals. A glass substrate manufactured by the method exhibits excellent performances including durability by virtue of suppressing elution of alkali metals... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937846 | Inclination position sensor and inclination position sensor manufacturing method An inclination position sensor where, on a substrate on which wires are formed, plural electrodes electrically connected to the wires are disposed, a conductive ball that can simultaneously contact at least two of the plural electrodes is disposed, an enclosure that... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937002 | Original document reading apparatus A document reading apparatus has a controller for conveying original documents from a section for loading documents via a section for reading documents to a section on which the documents are stacked, and controlling an operation of reading the documents. The appara... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936765 | Method and apparatus for dynamically allocating bandwidth by hierarchical weight round robin Provided are method and apparatus for dynamically allocating unlink bandwidth in Ethernet PON. In the method and apparatus, report value, which are received for each logical link identifications (LLID), is controlled to be less than a maximum gate value set for each... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936152 | Switching power source An error voltage Verr, as amplified by an amplifier, and an input voltage Vin, are multiplied together by a multiplier to generate a first threshold value signal Vth1, which is in phase with and similar in waveform to the input voltage Vin, and proportional i... | 05/03/2011 |
| D637164 | Cover lens for a light emitting diode lamp | 05/03/2011 |
| 7931281 | Variable stiffness stabilizer device A variable stiffness stabilizer device (1) has a stabilizer bar (2) and actuators (3). The stabilizer bar (2) has a torsion bar (4) extending in the lateral direction (X1) of a vehicle and arms (6) connected through b... | 04/26/2011 |
| D636724 | Battery charger | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929308 | Power device package having enhanced heat dissipation A power device package controls heat generation of a power device using a semi-permanent metal-insulator transition (MIT) device instead of a fuse, and emits heat generated by the power device through a small-sized heat sink provided only in one region on the power ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928581 | Semiconductor device having a conductive member including an end face substantially fush with an end face of a wiring board and method of manufacturing the same A manufacture method for semiconductor device (1, 21) including: a sealing-resin-layer forming step of forming a sealing resin layer (7) on a conductive member (13) formed at lest on one surface of a base substrate (11) formed with a plur... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928572 | Composite semiconductor device A composite semiconductor device includes a substrate; a plurality of circuits formed on the substrate; one or more wiring layers each including a plurality of wiring patterns connected to circuits of the plurality of circuits, a plurality of dummy patterns electric... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928546 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof With the objective of enabling a reduction in the size of a final semiconductor device and its thinning, and attaining facilitation of a manufacturing process, the semiconductor device includes a circuit chip having a flat mounted surface, a circuit chip smaller in ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928519 | Method for manufacturing capacitive sensor, and capacitive sensor In the method for manufacturing a capacitance sensor according to the present invention, after a protection layer is pattern-formed on the surface of a silicon substrate, a first metal layer is formed on the surface of a silicon substrate so as to be opposed to a pr... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926795 | Front fork A front fork comprises a telescopic tube (1, 32) in which a damper cylinder (3) generates a damping force. The damper cylinder (3) comprises a guide sleeve (4) and a free piston (6) having an inner circumference which slides on the... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925837 | Maintaining write cache and parity update footprint coherency in multiple storage adaptor configuration A method, computer program product and computer system for maintaining write cache and parity update footprint coherency in a multiple storage adaptor configuration for storage adaptors in a storage subsystem, which includes providing atomic updating of the storage ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923834 | Interposer and semiconductor device An interposer and a semiconductor device including the interposer, which can prevent thermal warpage of an insulative substrate. The interposer is provided with a semiconductor chip in a semiconductor device and may be disposed between the semiconductor chip and a m... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923765 | Non-volatile memory device A non-volatile memory device includes a memory cell region which is formed on a semiconductor substrate to store predetermined information, and a peripheral circuit region which is formed on the semiconductor substrate. The memory cell region includes a gate electro... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920874 | Position estimating system A position estimating system capable of accurately estimating the position assumed by a target terminal user based upon measurement of wireless reception signal levels of signals from a target terminal is provided. The position estimating system includes a target te... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920715 | Apparatus and method for embedding electronic watermark An electronic watermark embedding apparatus for embedding watermark information as digital information into a document image includes a background eliminating unit that determines whether pixels on an input image are pixels composing a background image and eliminate... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7919336 | Fabrication method for semiconductor device A semiconductor device fabrication method can improve yield of semiconductor devices and decrease (or prevent) waste of non-defective semiconductor chips. This fabrication method has a step of performing characteristic inspection after packaging a semiconductor chip... | 04/05/2011 |
