Patent application number | Description | Published |
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20080248768 | Radio Communication Method and Radio Communication Device - A first receiving unit typically receives a control frame in a narrowband channel. A communication data selection unit controls power saving of a second receiving unit performing reception in a UWB channel, based on the control frame. A communication data generation unit generates communication time reservation response information by adding information reporting a normal reception to the received request for communication time reservation, and transmits this information from transmitting units in the narrowband channel, so that a second receiving unit is set to an operating mode only during a time slot when UWB communication is performed, and use of the time slot for performing UWB communication is reported to the radio communication device which has made the communication request and the radio communication devices in the area where transmission is possible. | 10-09-2008 |
20090117418 | FUEL CELL AND DRIVING METHOD FOR FUEL CELL - The present invention is a driving method of a fuel cell in which power is generated from a liquid fuel containing fuel and oxidant by a fuel cell main assembly | 05-07-2009 |
20090142967 | Contact Member, Holding Structure of Contact Member and Electrical Connector - An electrical connecter capable of preventing a contact member from being lifted up without inhibiting reduction in height is provided. A contact member of an electrical connector, which is held in a housing including a press-fit hole and a support surface, and is to be connected to a mating contact member is provided. The contact member includes a flat contact portion for contact with the mating contact member, and is disposed along the support surface, a flat press-fit fixing portion, which is connected to the contact portion, and is press-fitted into the press-fit hole, a tine portion connected to the press-fit fixing portion, and a lug extending from a side surface of the press-fit fixing portion, and the lug includes a support piece and an inclined piece. | 06-04-2009 |
20090167520 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK FAILURE DETECTION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION NETWORK FAILURE DETECTION METHOD AND FAILURE DETECTION PROGRAM - The system for detecting a failure on a communication network according to an objective basis by analyzing an alarm log output by a management server of the communication network and evaluating a degree of abnormality of the communication network tracing back to a more significant factor causing the alarm, calculates an occurrence intensity of the more significant factor | 07-02-2009 |
20090169965 | GAS-LIQUID SEPARATING APPARATUS AND LIQUID SUPPLY TYPE FUEL CELL - A gas-liquid separating apparatus includes a container | 07-02-2009 |
20090203887 | Novel Centromeric Protein Shugoshin - The present invention is to provide meiosis-specific novel kinetochore protein Sgo1 (shugoshin) derived from fission yeast | 08-13-2009 |
20090215994 | Novel Centromeric Protein Shugoshin - The present invention is to provide meiosis-specific novel kinetochore protein Sgo1 (shugoshin) derived from fission yeast | 08-27-2009 |
20090295981 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS AND CORRECTION METHOD - An image sensing apparatus comprises an image sensor, a driving unit that drives the image sensor so as to output electrical signals through multiple readout modes including at least a full pixel readout mode and a thinning readout mode, an acquisition unit that acquires lens magnification chromatic aberration correction information, a correction coefficient calculation unit that obtains a coefficient for a first magnification chromatic aberration correction method during full pixel readout and a coefficient for a second magnification chromatic aberration correction method during thinning readout, and a digital signal processor that corrects the electrical signals using the obtained coefficients. In the second magnification chromatic aberration correction method, the thinned and read-out electrical signals are corrected based on positions in the image sensor of pixels corresponding to the electrical signals. | 12-03-2009 |
20100008334 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A radio communication device includes a communication data selection unit for selecting from the received radio communication data containing communication time reservation request information in which a time slot for performing data transmission source radio communication device is described and a communication information analysis unit for extracting an identifier of the source radio communication device and the data transmission reservation time slot from the communication time reservation request information in the radio communication data. When the received radio communication data is addressed to the local device, a communication/response information generation unit correlates the identifier to the reservation time slot, records them in a communication reservation table, and generates communication time reservation response information including information of the reservation time slot. | 01-14-2010 |
20100074390 | METHOD FOR WEATHER MODIFICATION AND VAPOR GENERATOR FOR WEATHER MODIFICATION - A nuclear fusion reactor ( | 03-25-2010 |
20100147424 | ABRASION-RESISTANT STEEL EXCELLENT IN FORMABILITY AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - An abrasion resistant steel excellent in bending formability and suitable for members, e.g., power shovels, which come into contact with earth and sand, and a production method thereof are provided. Specifically, the steel contains, on a percent by mass basis, 0.05% to 0.35% of C, 0.05% to 1.0% of Si, 0.1% to 2.0% of Mn, 0.1% to 1.2% of Ti, 0.1% or less of Al, at least one element of 0.1% to 1.0% of Cu, 0.1% to 2.0% of Ni, 0.1% to 1.0% of Cr, 0.05% to 1.0% of Mo, 0.05% to 1.0% of W, and 0.0003% to 0.0030% of B, if necessary at least one element of 0.005% to 1.0% of Nb and 0.005% to 1.0% of V, and the remainder including Fe and incidental impurities, where DI* represented by the following formula is less than 60: | 06-17-2010 |
20100174945 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK FAILURE CAUSE ANALYSIS SYSTEM, FAILURE CAUSE ANALYSIS METHOD, AND FAILURE CAUSE ANALYSIS PROGRAM - A failure cause analysis system for estimating a cause of a failure in a communication network from recorded contents of internal processing of a communication apparatus includes: feature extraction means for extracting a statistical feature of the recorded contents at a time of occurrence of a failure; and failure cause estimation means for estimating a failure cause based on similarity between a statistical feature of the recorded contents that is acquired at a time of occurrence of a past failure with a known failure cause and the statistical feature of the recorded contents that is acquired at the time of occurrence of the failure. The failure cause analysis system of a communication network provided can acquire the correspondence between failure features and failure causes from past failure cases irrespective of the number of cases as to communication network failures that are detected from process logs retained in communication apparatuses, and quantitatively incorporate the range of dispersion of the features into a judgment to estimate the cause of occurrence of a failure. | 07-08-2010 |
20100214431 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - An image sensing apparatus includes an image sensor on which image sensing pixels (R, G, B) and focus detecting pixels (S | 08-26-2010 |
20100273493 | RADIO ACCESS NETWORK MANAGEMENT DEVICE, FACILITY PLAN SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND FACILITY PLAN SUPPORT METHOD USED THEREFOR - A radio access network management device capable of estimating the resource utilization ratio of an additionally installed radio base station to predict the date on which the next additional installation is required. The radio access network management device comprises a means for obtaining traffic demand per unit area for existing radio cells around the position at which a radio base station is additionally installed from the coverage of the existing radio cells and the time series of the past communication traffic statistics, a means for estimating the coverage of the radio cells after the additional installation of the radio base station, a means for predicting the traffic demand of the radio cells after the additional installation thereof from the coverage and traffic demand per unit area, and a means for predicting future communication quality from the predicted traffic demand. | 10-28-2010 |
20100284293 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK QUALITY ANALYSIS SYSTEM, QUALITY ANALYSIS DEVICE, QUALITY ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a communication network quality analysis technique which can identify a network side communication device, a communication area, or a terminal which causes degradation of quality of the communication network detected by an abnormal communication quality index. The technique analyzes a recording content of a call process performed by the network side communication device and acquires a distribution of quality degradation amounts in respective hierarchies such as a terminal, a network communication device, or a communication area. Thus, the technique estimates a terminal, a network side communication device, or a communication area causing degradation of the communication quality according to a degree of quality degradation degree distribution bias considering the belonging relationship of the terminal, the network side communication device, and the communication area. | 11-11-2010 |
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20110250612 | NOVEL CENTROMERIC PROTEIN SHUGOSHIN - The present invention is to provide meiosis-specific novel kinetochore protein Sgo1 (shugoshin) derived from fission yeast | 10-13-2011 |
20120083281 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, WIRELESS COVERAGE CONTROL METHOD AND WIRELESS COVERAGE CONTROL PROGRAM - A network management system includes: wireless link quality information collection means for collecting, from a mobile terminal that is connected to the mobile communication network, wireless link quality information that indicates wireless link quality measured by the mobile terminal, the wireless link quality information containing information about quality of wireless links between the mobile terminal and two or more wireless cells; coverage evaluation means for evaluating the wireless cell coverage on the basis of wireless link quality information calculated for each of the wireless cells using the wireless link quality information collected by the wireless link quality information collection means; and wireless parameter calculation means for calculating an amount of change in changing for a wireless parameter of a wireless base station on the basis of the result of the evaluation provided by the coverage evaluation means. | 04-05-2012 |
20120105667 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SMOOTHING DYNAMIC RANGE OF LUMINANCE OF AN IMAGE SIGNAL, COLOR CONVERSION PROCESS - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to capture an object image, a smoothing unit configured to smooth a dynamic range of luminance of an image signal generated based on the object image captured by the imaging unit, and a color conversion unit configured to perform a color conversion with respect to a color of the image signal whose dynamic range is smoothed by the smoothing unit and is specified by a user. | 05-03-2012 |
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