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Aoki, Kawasaki

Jun Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Katsushi Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080276213Method of shield line placement for semiconductor integrated circuit, design apparatus for semiconductor integrated circuit, and design program for semiconductor integrated circuit - A semiconductor integrated circuit design apparatus includes: an association information creating unit which creates association information for associating wiring information of a signal line with wiring information of a shield line placed for the signal line; an association information storage unit which stores the thus created association information; and a shield wiring unit which, when the placement of the signal line is changed, changes in interlinking fashion with the changed placement the placement of the shield line that is associated with the signal line by the association information.11-06-2008

Masaki Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080239796MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF WRITING INTO THE SAME - A magnetic memory device includes a memory cell including magnetoresistance effect elements MTJ10-02-2008
20090059651SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF WRITING INTO THE SAME - A method of writing into a semiconductor memory device, which includes a resistance memory element 03-05-2009
20090168495SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF WRITING INTO SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - In the semiconductor memory device having a resistance memory element, a first transistor having a drain terminal connected to one end of the resistance memory element and a source terminal connected to a ground voltage, and a second transistor having source terminal connected to the resistance memory element, when a write voltage is applied to the resistance memory element via the second transistor to switch the resistance memory element from a low resistance state to a high resistance state, a voltage is controlled to be a value which is not less than a reset voltage and less than a set voltage by applying to a gate terminal of the second transistor a voltage which is not less than a total of the reset voltage and a threshold voltage of the second transistor and is less than a total of the set voltage and the threshold voltage.07-02-2009
20100157655RESISTIVE MEMORY AND DATA WRITE-IN METHOD - An ReRAM of the present invention includes a high speed write-in region and a main memory region, only memory cells designated to have the storage state out of the memory cells corresponded to data are set to the storage state in the high speed write-in region. The data written in the memory cell array are transferred to the main memory region, the memory cells of the memory cell array corresponded to the data transferred from the high speed write-in region are reset to the no-storage state in the main memory region, only the memory cells designated to have the storage state out of the memory cells are set, and all memory cells are reset to the no-storage state, or the initial state, in the high speed write-in region.06-24-2010
20100208515MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY - The spin torque transfer magnetic random access memory includes a magnetic tunnel junction element including a pinned layer, a free layer, and a tunnel insulating film formed between the pinned layer and the free layer, and a memory cell select transistor having one diffused region electrically connected to a side of the fee layer of the magnetic tunnel junction element.08-19-2010
20110222334SPIN TRANSFER TORQUE MRAM, AND WRITE METHOD AND READ METHOD THEREFOR - A method of writing data into a memory cell of spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory includes writing a first data into a first memory cell that includes a first magnetic-tunnel-junction element and a first selection transistor wherein an end of the first memory cell is connected to a first signal line and a different end of the first memory cell is connected to a common signal line during a first period, and writing a second data which is an opposite of the first data into the second memory cell that includes a second magnetic-tunnel-junction element and a second selection transistor wherein an end of the second memory cell is connected to a second signal line and a different end of the second memory cell is connected to the common signal line during a second period following the first period.09-15-2011
20120087172SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY AND SYSTEM - A semiconductor memory includes a real memory cell including a selection transistor and a resistance variable element which are connected in series between a first voltage line and a second voltage line through a connection node, a real amplification transistor having a gate connected to the connection node, a source connected to a reference voltage line, and a drain connected to a real read line, and a sense amplifier to determine a logic held in the real memory cell by receiving a voltage of the real read line varied with a voltage generated in the connection node by resistance dividing between a source/drain resistance of the selection transistor, and the resistance variable element, the selection transistor receiving a read control voltage at the gate thereof.04-12-2012

Patent applications by Masaki Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Michimasa Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080260527Fan assembly - A centrifugal fan assembly has a fan with a number of vanes at a peripheral edge of a rotor, a motor, arranged coaxially to the inside of the rotor, that rotates the fan, and a casing that houses the fan and the motor. The casing has an air inlet in the direction of a rotating shaft of the fan, and an air outlet in a radial direction. A first part of the casing near the air inlet is arranged relatively towards a center of the casing as compared to the other part of the casing. The motor is mounted on the first part.10-23-2008
20100039772Cooling device and electronic device - In a cooling device, an electronic component is attached to one surface on one side of a heat pipe so that heat can be conveyed, a first heat-radiating fin is provided on another surface on another side of the heat pipe, a first fan unit that sends an airflow to the first heat-radiating fin is provided on one side of the heat pipe, and a first duct that guides the airflow produced by the first fan unit to the first heat-radiating fin is provided on the other surface of the heat pipe.02-18-2010
20100139891RADIATOR AND COOLING UNIT - A radiator for dissipating heat by liquid coolant flowing includes a plate including at least two flat sections parallel to each other, a flection connecting the flat sections, a passage configured within the two flat sections and the flection to allow the liquid coolant to flow from a first opening to a second opening provided at each end of the two flat sections, the two flat sections opposed to each other, and the plate including a plurality of fins; an inlet tube having an opening formed so as to fit the first opening and an end opening for allowing the liquid coolant to flow in the passage; and an outlet tube having an opening so as to fit of the second opening and an end opening for allowing the liquid coolant to flow out the passage. The outlet tube is disposed in parallel with the inlet tube.06-10-2010
20100142145COOLING JACKET, COOLING UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A cooling jacket includes: a flow channel member through which a cooling medium flows, at least a part of which is in contact with an object to be cooled, and which includes a region having a channel cross-sectional area larger than that of any other region; and a projection portion which is provided at a downstream side of the region where the channel cross-sectional area is large.06-10-2010
20110122574ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus 05-26-2011
20110128706ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus 06-02-2011
20110272121COOLING JACKET AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A cooling jacket includes: first and second pipe portions through which a coolant flows; and a main portion connected with side surfaces of the first and second pipe portions, defining, with a single member, a flow path through which the coolant flows, and cooling an object to be cooled.11-10-2011
20110272128RADIATOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A radiator includes: a tube through which a coolant flows; and a single tank including: a supplying chamber communicating with an end of the tube, for supplying the tube with the coolant; and a collecting chamber communicating with the other end of the tube, partitioned to the supplying chamber, and for collecting the coolant discharged from the tube.11-10-2011
20120033382HEAT SINK, LIQUID COOLING UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A heat sink for absorbing heat which is generated by an electronic module by using a coolant which flows in its internal portion, comprises a housing which is provided with, in its internal portion, a first surface which is located in the vicinity of the electronic module and a second surface which faces the first surface and comprises fins which extend from the first surface toward the second surface, wherein a projecting portion projecting from the second surface toward the first surface is formed at the second surface, between the top edges of the fins on the second surface side and the second surface.02-09-2012
20120055654Radiator and electronic apparatus having coolant pathway - A radiator includes a core unit, which includes a flow inlet which coolant enters, a flow outlet from which the coolant exits, a plurality of coolant pathways including at least an outer coolant pathway, an inner coolant pathway, a branching point, and a merging point, the outer coolant pathway being disposed to surround the inner coolant pathway, the coolant being divided at the branching point and merging at the merging point, and a connecting pathway to connect between the merging point of the outer coolant pathway and the branching point of the inner coolant pathway, wherein the flow inlet is in communication with a branching point of an outermost one of the plurality of coolant pathways, and the flow output is in communication with a merging point of an innermost one of the plurality of coolant pathways.03-08-2012
20120055655HEAT SINK, LIQUID COOLING UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A heat sink for absorbing heat which is generated by an electronic module by a coolant which flows through its internal portion, provided with a first heat sink part which is contiguous with the electronic module, a second heat sink part which is contiguous with the electronic module, and a heat discharger which is arranged spaced from the first heat sink part and second heat sink part at an opposite side from the electronic module and which is arranged in a flow path between the first heat sink part and second heat sink part.03-08-2012

Patent applications by Michimasa Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Naozumi Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080320360CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A transmitting side device (12-25-2008
20090240893Information processing device, memory control method, and memory control device - The present invention provides an information processing device, a memory control method, and a memory control device. In the information processing device that includes nodes each having a main memory and a processor including a cache memory, the system controller of at least one of the nodes is designed to include a holding unit that holds specific information about primary data present in the main memory of its subject node, with the cache data corresponding to the primary data not present in the cache memory of the nodes other than its subject node. With this structure, the latency of each memory access is shortened, and the throughput of each snoop operation is improved.09-24-2009

Patent applications by Naozumi Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Nobuhisa Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090279641Delay Detection Circuit, Distortion Compensation Circuit, And Communication Apparatus - A delay detection circuit, including: a conversion circuit which converts time-domain signal into frequency-domain signal or which converts frequency-domain signal into time-domain signal, wherein the conversion circuit is used in a signal processing circuit which performs signal processing by quadrature modulation for a transmission signal, and the conversion circuit outputs a delay amount of a first signal with respect to the transmission signal.11-12-2009
20110181355SIGNAL-COMPENSATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A signal-compensation device includes a band-limitation unit that performs band limitation on a signal based on a variably adjusted band-set value and externally transmits the signal subjected to the band limitation to an amplifier, a measurement unit that measures a signal level of each of first and second signal components of a feedback signal which is part of an output of the amplifier fed back by a feedback unit to the band-limitation unit, where the each of first and second signal components is based on at least one of a property of variability of the band-set value, a feedback of the feedback signal by the feedback unit, and a nonlinear distortion of the amplifier, and an adjustment unit that adjusts the band-set value based on the signal level of each of the first and second signal components.07-28-2011

Patent applications by Nobuhisa Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Shigenori Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080199129OPTICAL MODULE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An optical module with a first optical waveguide substrate having end faces; a second optical waveguide substrate which includes a first optical waveguide, a second optical waveguide, and end faces, the second optical waveguide substrate having an opening between the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide; and a first deflection device which is mounted in the opening, wherein one of the end faces of the first optical waveguide substrate and one of the end faces of the second optical waveguide substrate are coupled to each other.08-21-2008
20080205894OPTICAL MODULE FOR OPTICALLY COUPLING OPTICAL FIBER AND SURFACE OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical module including a first optical device having an opening on a surface thereof, and a second optical device including a pillar-shaped elastic member on a surface thereof. The first and second optical devices are optically coupled to each other.08-28-2008
20090317035Optical module,optical transmission system, and fabrication method for optical module - An optical module includes a substrate, one or a plurality of planar optical devices mounted on the substrate, and a waveguide block including one or a plurality of curved waveguides formed on a plane. The waveguide block is mounted on the substrate such that the plane on which the curved waveguides are formed is perpendicular to the substrate and the curved waveguides and an incidence face or an emitting face of the planar optical device are opposed to each other on one end face of the waveguide block. Further, the waveguide block is configured so that an optical fiber can be connected to the other end face of the waveguide block which is orthogonal to the one end face.12-24-2009
20110243516OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE - An optical waveguide device includes optical waveguide wiring in which an optical waveguide crosses, and a relay part arranged at a crossing part of the optical waveguide and having a refractive index higher than that of a core of the optical waveguide.10-06-2011

Patent applications by Shigenori Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Shinichi Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090285536Optical module - An optical module includes a housing including a groove part formed inside the housing; and a receptacle received in the housing, the receptacle to which an optical connector having an optical fiber is connected, the receptacle including a brim part and a stub part where the brim part is formed in a body. An elastic body is provided in the groove part, the groove part where the brim part is provided. The elastic body is configured to adhere to and hold the stub part.11-19-2009
20120082420OPTICAL MODULE - An optical module includes: a flexible board having a first surface on which a component is mounted and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a bottom electrode part having a bottom surface on which a heat release electrode is provided, the bottom electrode part mounted on the first surface of the flexible board; and a heat release member configured to absorb heat from the bottom electrode part and release the heat to outside. The heat release member is arranged close to said second surface of the flexible board at a position where the bottom electrode part is mounted.04-05-2012

Patent applications by Shinichi Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Shin-Ichi Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090010653Optical module - According to an aspect of the embodiment, an optical module includes a case, an optical transceiver part in the case, a radiating part on the case; a thermal conductive sheet having a property of transferring and having a first end and second end; a first fixing part for fixing the first end of the thermal conductive sheet to the optical transceiver unit; and a second fixing part for fixing the second end of the thermal conductive sheet to the radiating point.01-08-2009

Shunsuke Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090249109STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STORING INTERNAL INFORMATION - A storage apparatus stores data in a storage area, and includes a judgment unit and an internal information management unit. The judgment unit judges whether a preconfigured given condition is satisfied. The internal information management unit associates the satisfied preconfigured condition with internal information relating to an operation or a status of the storage apparatus and manages the condition and the internal information when the judgment unit judges that the given condition is satisfied.10-01-2009
20090282282STORAGE APPARATUS, MEDIUM CONTAINING RETRY PROGRAM, AND RETRY METHOD - The storage apparatus includes a detection unit (MPU 11-12-2009

Patent applications by Shunsuke Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Tomoka Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090168261HEAD SLIDER AND MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE - A magnetoresistive element is located between a lower shielding layer and an upper shielding layer. The magnetoresistive element receives an electric current through the lower shielding layer and the upper shielding layer. A non-magnetic conductive layer is embedded in the insulating film between the slider body and the lower shielding layer. An air layer is formed between the head slider and a storage medium. Capacitive coupling is established between the head slider and the storage medium. The capacitive coupling allows transmission of the noise from the storage medium to the slider body. The noise affects capacitance established between the lower shielding layer and the slider body. The non-magnetic conductive layer serves to prevent variation in a potential difference resulting from transmission of the noise between the lower shielding layer and the upper shielding layer.07-02-2009
20090236216METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THIN FILM MAGNETIC HEAD - A method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic head is capable of forming a gap depth at high precision. The method includes: a step of forming, on a lower front end magnetic pole of a recording head unit that constructs the thin film magnetic head, a resist layer that has a shape where, in a cross section in a recording track direction and a head height direction, a length in the head height direction increases from a lower part of the resist layer toward an upper part; and a step of lifting off that forms a gap depth setting layer by sputtering on an insulating layer that is adjacent to the lower front end magnetic pole and on the resist layer and then carries out a lift off process that removes the resist layer and leaves the gap depth setting layer in a predetermined form.09-24-2009

Patent applications by Tomoka Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Tsuyoshi Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090080119HEAD SLIDER, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HEAD SLIDER - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a head slider includes: a slider substrate; and an operating unit arranged on the slider substrate, the operating unit having a pair of electrodes and a piezoelectric component arranged between the pair of electrodes, the pair of electrodes being constituted by a first electrode and a second electrode, in which the product of the Young's modulus and the thickness of the first electrode in the direction from the first electrode to the second electrode is larger than the product of the Young's modulus and the thickness of the second electrode in the direction from the first electrode to the second electrode. The head slider further includes a magnetic head arranged on the slider substrate with the operating unit, opposite to the slider substrate.03-26-2009
20090219653HEAD SLIDER EQUIPPED WITH PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - A head slider includes a slider substrate, an actuator provided in an end portion of the slider substrate and equipped with a piezoelectric element, and a magnetic head disposed on a side opposite to the slider substrate with interposition of the actuator. The piezoelectric element has piezoelectric bodies polarized along a first direction connecting the slider substrate and the magnetic head. The piezoelectric element has electrodes which apply an electric field to the piezoelectric bodies along a second direction intersecting the first direction.09-03-2009
20090237841MAGNETIC HEAD AND MAGNETIC RECORDING DEVICE - A magnetic head includes a head element recording and reading data on and from a recording medium, a slider having an air bearing surface facing the recording medium, and having the head element forming surface which the head element being present on, and a piezoelectric device attached above the head element forming surface and the head element, and configured to displace a part of the head forming surface in a direction perpendicular to the air bearing surface.09-24-2009
20100073823PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, HEAD SLIDER AND MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE - A piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric body; a first and a second electrode for applying an electric field to the piezoelectric body in order to polarize the piezoelectric body in a first direction at an elevated temperature, at least one of the first and the second electrode including a material whose resistivity decreases with elevation of the temperature; and a third and a fourth electrode for applying an electric field to the piezoelectric body in a second direction across the first direction of the polarization of the piezoelectric body in order to actuate the piezoelectric body.03-25-2010
20100244635PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a piezoelectric element is provided by forming a first electrode film on a major surface of a substrate, forming a modified film by modifying at least a portion of the major surface of the substrate by heating the substrate in an ambient containing oxygen, and forming a piezoelectric film by depositing a piezoelectric material on the first electrode film, forming a second electrode film on the piezoelectric film, adhering a support on the second electrode film, and peeling off a multilayered structure including at least the first electrode film, the piezoelectric film, the second electrode film, and the support from the substrate.09-30-2010
20120007470PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric generating apparatus includes a plurality of piezoelectric bodies arranged at intervals via a gap. Each of the plurality of piezoelectric bodies includes a fixed end and a free end. A first surface electrode is formed on one side of each of the plurality of piezoelectric bodies, and a second surface electrode is formed on an opposite side of each of the plurality of piezoelectric bodies. A weight spans the plurality of piezoelectric bodies and attached to the free ends of the plurality of piezoelectric bodies. The plurality of piezoelectric bodies are curved upon application of acceleration to the weight from the outside in a lateral direction.01-12-2012
20120086311ACCELERATION SENSOR, VIBRATION POWER GENERATOR DEVICE, AND ACCELERATION SENSOR MANUFACTURING METHOD - An acceleration sensor includes a piezoelectric layer formed on a substrate, and sensing electrodes formed in the piezoelectric layer. In the acceleration sensor, the piezoelectric layer interposing between the sensing electrodes is polarized in a film thickness direction of the piezoelectric layer.04-12-2012

Patent applications by Tsuyoshi Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Yasuhiro Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120121127IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus executes acquiring, on a first image having a pattern having first areas and second areas that have a different color from the first areas, center position of the pattern where the first areas and the second areas cross, acquiring boundary positions between the first and second area, converting the first image to a second image having its image distortion corrected by using the center position and the boundary positions, acquiring, by scanning on the second image, expectation values which are areas including the point where the first and second areas cross excluding the center position, acquiring a intersection position of the intersection on the second image based on the expectation values, acquiring the center position and the positions on the first image corresponding to the intersection position by inverting the second image to the first image, determining the points corresponding to the acquired positions as features.05-17-2012
20120121137IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing program causes a computer to execute processing of obtaining an image, photographed with a camera, of markers disposed in a real space, creating vectors from the camera and to the markers, selecting a reference marker from the markers, calculating a inner product of the vectors, canceling use of a negative sign included in an equation that obtains a distance between the camera and a remaining marker, creating sign patterns based on to the cancelled remaining markers, setting a first distance between the reference marker and the camera, calculating candidates of a distance between the camera and the remaining markers, calculating error between an inter-marker distance in a real space and the sign patterns, calculating other error when a second distance is set, determining the distance according to the error and the other error, and calculating a position and pose of the camera according to the determined distance.05-17-2012

Yuji Aoki, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120033757MONITORING SYSTEM, DEVICE, MONITORING METHOD, AND MONITORING PROGRAM - In a monitoring system, a first device among devices includes a generating unit that generates third data indicating a string of an identical section when strings each indicated in first data and second data acquired through communications with the devices are identical to each other by a predetermined proportion or more, and a first transmitting unit that transmits the third data generated by the generating unit and information for identifying the third data to a second device included in the devices. The second device includes a second transmitting unit that transmits, when a string indicated in fourth data to be transmitted to the first device includes the string indicated in the third data, fifth data indicating a string obtained by excluding the string indicated in the third data from the string indicated in the fourth data, and the information for identifying the third data to the first device.02-09-2012