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| 20090221178 | Electrical Connector for Flat Cable - An electrical connector for a flat sheet-like cable includes an insulative housing with a plurality of terminals and an actuator. The actuator is moveable between a first insertion position and a second operational position with the first position permitting insertion of the cable into the connector and the second position being configured such that the contact pads of the cable engage the contact portions of the terminals. The actuator has an abutting part formed on opposite ends thereof. A pair of generally planar securing members is provided at opposite ends of the housing. Each securing member includes a stop surface to define a depth to which the cable may be inserted, a restraining member that interacts with said abutting part of said actuator upon positioning said actuator in the second position to define a restraining surface to prevent removal of said cable and a recess portion defined between the stop surface and said restraining surface. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090305550 | FPC Connector With Rotating Latch - A cable connector includes a housing with an insertion recess for receiving an end of a flat cable and a plurality of terminals disposed in the housing for connecting to conductive leads of the flat cable. An actuator is attached to the housing so that the attitude of the actuator can be changed between a first position at which the flat cable can be inserted into the opening and a second position at which the actuator presses the conductive leads of the inserted flat cable into contact with the terminals. The actuator is attached to the housing at a cable insertion end side thereof and brought to the second position when the attitude of the actuator is changed in an insertion direction of the flat plate-like cable. A fulcrum of the attitude-changing movement of the actuator in the insertion direction is positioned further from the second position, as viewed from an effort point of a force applied by the flat cable to the actuator at the second position, than a point of action of the force being applied. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100068938 | Relay Connector - A flat flexible cable connector ( | 03-18-2010 |
| 20110021052 | STACKED FPC CONNECTOR - A connector for joining together two lengths of FPC or FFC-type cable has a housing ( | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110117765 | CABLE CONNECTOR - A cable connector is provided including an insulative housing having an insertion opening through which a flat flexible cable may be inserted. An actuator is movably mounted on the housing and configured to be moved from a first position at which the flat flexible cable may be inserted and a second position at which the contact pads of the flat flexible cable are operatively engaged by terminals of the connector. A plurality of conductive terminals are mounted in the housing. Each terminal is configured to be electrically connected to a contact pad of the flat flexible cable. A first group of the terminals has an actuator holding arm portion that engages the actuator to facilitate movement of the actuator between the first and second positions. Each of a second group of the terminals has a plurality of distinct, resilient, cantilevered, contact arm portions configured to be electrically connected to one of the contact pads of the flat flexible cable. | 05-19-2011 |
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| 20100181004 | HOLOGRAM PATTERN FORMING METHOD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FILM HAVING HOLOGRAM PATTERN, LAMINATE FILM AND CONTAINER - There is provided a hologram pattern forming method and a method for manufacturing film having hologram pattern which enable to reduce a manufacturing cost for forming the hologram pattern, while suppressing a cost of a mother die. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100221645 | FILM HAVING HOLOGRAM PATTERN AND CONTAINER HAVING HOLOGRAM PATTERN - There is provided a film having hologram pattern and a container having hologram pattern which prevents the hologram pattern from disappearing by liquid droplets, sebum, and sweat being adhered to the hologram pattern, and in which, the hologram pattern can be checked visually, without selecting a state and a condition of storage, transportation, and arrangement, during a period after manufactured till consumed. The film having hologram pattern of the present invention which is to be used by disposing on an outer surface of an object includes a hologram-pattern forming layer, on one surface of which, a hologram pattern is formed, and a thin-film layer is formed along that shape, on the hologram pattern, and at least one layer which is disposed at an outer side of the hologram-pattern forming layer. | 09-02-2010 |
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| 20090072275 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF AS WELL AS DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device with a structure such that an electrode for reading a signal charge is provided on one side of a light-receiving sensor portion constituting a pixel; a predetermined voltage signal V is applied to a light-shielding film formed to cover an image pickup area except the light-receiving sensor portion; a second-conductivity-type semiconductor area is formed in the center on the surface of a first-conductivity-type semiconductor area constituting a photo-electric conversion area of the light-receiving sensor portion; and areas containing a lower impurity concentration than that of the second-conductivity-type semiconductor area is formed on the surface of the first-conductivity-type semiconductor area at the end on the side of the electrode and at the opposite end on the side of a pixel-separation area. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090075418 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF AS WELL AS DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device with a structure such that an electrode for reading a signal charge is provided on one side of a light-receiving sensor portion constituting a pixel; a predetermined voltage signal V is applied to a light-shielding film formed to cover an image pickup area except the light-receiving sensor portion; a second-conductivity-type semiconductor area is formed in the center on the surface of a first-conductivity-type semiconductor area constituting a photo-electric conversion area of the light-receiving sensor portion; and areas containing a lower impurity concentration than that of the second-conductivity-type semiconductor area is formed on the surface of the first-conductivity-type semiconductor area at the end on the side of the electrode and at the opposite end on the side of a pixel-separation area. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090078976 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF AS WELL AS DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device with a structure such that an electrode for reading a signal charge is provided on one side of a light-receiving sensor portion constituting a pixel; a predetermined voltage signal V is applied to a light-shielding film formed to cover an image pickup area except the light-receiving sensor portion; a second-conductivity-type semiconductor area is formed in the center on the surface of a first-conductivity-type semiconductor area constituting a photo-electric conversion area of the light-receiving sensor portion; and areas containing a lower impurity concentration than that of the second-conductivity-type semiconductor area is formed on the surface of the first-conductivity-type semiconductor area at the end on the side of the electrode and at the opposite end on the side of a pixel-separation area. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090078977 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF AS WELL AS DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device with a structure such that an electrode for reading a signal charge is provided on one side of a light-receiving sensor portion constituting a pixel; a predetermined voltage signal V is applied to a light-shielding film formed to cover an image pickup area except the light-receiving sensor portion; a second-conductivity-type semiconductor area is formed in the center on the surface of a first-conductivity-type semiconductor area constituting a photo-electric conversion area of the light-receiving sensor portion; and areas containing a lower impurity concentration than that of the second-conductivity-type semiconductor area is formed on the surface of the first-conductivity-type semiconductor area at the end on the side of the electrode and at the opposite end on the side of a pixel-separation area. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090294884 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Channel stop sections formed by multiple times of impurity ion implanting processes. Four-layer impurity regions are formed across the depth of a semiconductor substrate (across the depth of the bulk), so that a P-type impurity region is formed deep in the semiconductor substrate; thus, incorrect movement of electric charges is prevented. Other four-layer impurity regions of another channel stop section are decreased in width step by step across the depth of the substrate, so that the reduction of a charge storage region of a light receiving section due to the dispersion of P-type impurity in the channel stop section is prevented in the depth of the substrate. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20110298024 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF AS WELL AS DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device with a structure such that an electrode for reading a signal charge is provided on one side of a light-receiving sensor portion constituting a pixel; a predetermined voltage signal V is applied to a light-shielding film formed to cover an image pickup area except the light-receiving sensor portion; a second-conductivity-type semiconductor area is formed in the center on the surface of a first-conductivity-type semiconductor area constituting a photo-electric conversion area of the light-receiving sensor portion; and areas containing a lower impurity concentration than that of the second-conductivity-type semiconductor area is formed on the surface of the first-conductivity-type semiconductor area at the end on the side of the electrode and at the opposite end on the side of a pixel-separation area. | 12-08-2011 |
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| 20100149054 | RADIO WAVE ABSORBER, ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND RADIATED IMMUNITY SYSTEM - A radio wave absorber for use in an electromagnetic field probe that measures an electromagnetic field by means of an antenna section provided therewith, the radio wave absorber including: a first end section; a second end section that is located at a position opposite the first end section; and an intermediate section that is located between the first and second end sections, the intermediate section having outer dimension and thickness that increase in accordance with a distance from the first end section toward the second end section. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100156696 | RADIO WAVE ABSORBER, ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND RADIATED IMMUNITY SYSTEM - A radio wave absorber for use in an electromagnetic field probe that measures an electromagnetic field by means of an antenna section provided therewith, the radio wave absorber including: a first end section; a second end section that is located at a position opposite the first end section; and an intermediate section that is located between the first and second end sections, the intermediate section having outer dimension and thickness that increase in accordance with a distance from the first end section toward the second end section. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110285405 | RADIO WAVE ABSORBER, ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND RADIATED IMMUNITY SYSTEM - A radio wave absorber for use in an electromagnetic field probe that measures an electromagnetic field by means of an antenna section provided therewith, the radio wave absorber including: a first end section; a second end section that is located at a position opposite the first end section; and an intermediate section that is located between the first and second end sections, the intermediate section having outer dimension and thickness that increase in accordance with a distance from the first end section toward the second end section. | 11-24-2011 |
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| 20080283986 | System-in-package type semiconductor device - A system-in-package type semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor chips, a first semiconductor chip | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090077516 | Semiconductor integrated device and apparatus for designing the same - A semiconductor integrated device includes a plurality of power system circuit units, a first circuit unit | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077517 | Semiconductor intergrated device and apparatus for designing the same - A semiconductor integrated device includes a plurality of power system circuit units, a first circuit unit | 03-19-2009 |
| 20110022376 | ESD ANALYSIS DEVICE AND ESD ANALYSIS PROGRAM USED FOR DESIGNING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF DESIGNING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) analysis device includes: a circuit simulation unit; a border cell extraction unit; and a check unit. The circuit simulation unit executes a circuit simulation of design data of a semiconductor integrated circuit including a plurality of circuits of a plurality of power supply systems, to calculate potentials in a plurality of current paths between pads of different two of the plurality of power supply systems, when one of an ESD current and an ESD voltage is applied between the pads. The border cell extraction unit extracts border cells from circuits of the different two of the plurality of power supply systems, wherein the circuits are included in the plurality of circuits, the border cells input and/or output signals between the circuits. The check unit checks an ESD tolerance by calculating a potential difference between the border cells, based on the calculated potentials, the extracted border cells. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110102962 | Semiconductor device with a plurality of power supply systems - A protection circuit that includes a first power supply system including a first power supply and a first ground, a second power supply system including a second power supply and a second ground, the second power supply system being connected to the first power supply system via a signal line through which signal transfer is performed between a circuit in the first power supply system and a circuit in the second power supply system, and a control circuit that, when coupled to an electro-static discharge (ESD) stress being applied to the first power supply system controls a switch, the switch being provided between the signal line and the first power supply. | 05-05-2011 |
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| 20090161643 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A radio communication system and apparatus is disclosed wherein setting necessary for communication with a desired radio communication apparatus with which a user wants to communicate can be performed with certainty by an operation system familiar to the user and a high security level can be assured for the communication which uses the setting. When a first radio communication apparatus receives a request for communication information necessary for communication through a radio network from a second radio communication apparatus through a radio circuit, it transmits identification information for the radio network and information regarding the security set in advance as communication information therein to the second radio communication apparatus through the radio circuit. The second radio communication apparatus sets the communication information to itself. The invention can be applied to a radio LAN for which a household electric appliance is used. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090183567 | OPERATION DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS, OPERATION DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, AND OPERATION DEVICE - To provide an operating device control device for obtaining information about a rotational angle of an operating device, while reducing the influence due to an individual difference and/or variation of a reference sensor signal in accordance with a sensor signal output from the gyro sensor mounted in the operating device. A control device of an operating device having a gyro sensor for detecting an angular velocity and outputting a sensor signal in accordance with the detected angular velocity, the control device obtains an output signal from signal output means for outputting an output signal in accordance with a difference between the sensor signal output from the gyro sensor and a predetermined reference signal, then estimates a reference sensor signal to be output by the gyro sensor when no angular velocity is detected, based on the output signal, and changes the predetermined reference signal according to the estimated reference sensor signal. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20110187660 | MOBILE TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME AND INFORMATION MEMORY MEDIUM - Provide is a portable image display device which allows a user to perform many different operation inputs with ease. The portable image display device includes: a display screen having a substantially rectangular shape; and a plurality of touch sensors provided along at least two sides defining a circumference of the display screen, for each detecting a position touched by a finger of a user. The portable image display device changes an image displayed on the display screen in accordance with a combination of the positions of a plurality of the fingers which are respectively detected by the plurality of touch sensors. | 08-04-2011 |
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| 20080198386 | Vibration detection device - A vibration detection device includes: a light source emitting a laser beam; an interferometer including a first vibrating body and a second vibrating body both capable of reflecting the laser beam, the interferometer splitting the laser beam into beams traveling along first to third optical paths, and the interferometer causing interference between a first reflected beam reflected by the first vibrating body in the first optical path and a reference beam passing through the third optical path to form a first interference pattern, and causing interference between a second reflected beam reflected by the second vibrating body in the second optical path and the reference beam to form a second interference pattern; and a detection means quantizing the vibrations of the first and second vibrating bodies on the basis of the formed first and second interference patterns to detect the vibrations. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080225274 | Vibration detection device - A vibration detection device includes: a light source emitting a laser beam; an interferometer including a vibrating body and a reflecting body both capable of reflecting the laser beam, a polarizing beam splitter splitting a laser beam emitted from the light source into beams traveling along first and second optical paths, a first ¼ wave plate arranged between the polarizing beam splitter and the vibrating body in the first optical path, and a second ¼ wave plate arranged between the polarizing beam splitter and the reflecting body in the second optical path, the interferometer causing interference between a reflected beam reflected by the vibrating body and a reference beam reflected by the reflecting body to form a interference pattern; and a detection means quantizing the vibration of the vibrating body on the basis of the formed interference pattern to detect the vibration. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080273192 | Vibration detection device - A vibration detection device capable of improving detection sensitivity when optically performing vibration detection is provided. A vibration detection device includes: a light source emitting a laser beam; an interferometer including a vibrating body and a first reflection body both capable of reflecting the laser beam, and a second reflection body capable of at least partially reflecting the laser beam, the interferometer splitting the laser beam emitted from the light source into beams traveling along first and second optical paths, the interferometer causing interference between a reference beam reflected by the first reflection body in the first optical path and reflected beams multiply reflected between the vibrating body and the second reflection body in the second optical path to form interference patterns; and a detection means for detecting the vibration of the vibrating body on the basis of the formed interference patterns. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090092163 | LASER DIODE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a laser diode which realizes NFP with a stable and uniform shape. The laser diode includes, on a semiconductor substrate, an active layer, one or a plurality of strip-shaped current confinement structures confining a current which is injected into the active layer, and a stacked structure including one or a plurality of strip-shaped convex portions extending in an extending direction of the current confinement structure. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090137078 | Semiconductro laser device - This semiconductor laser device has the same structure as the conventional broad-area type semiconductor laser device, except that both side regions of light emission areas of active and clad layers are two-dimensional-photonic-crystallized. The two-dimensional photonic crystal formed on both side regions of the light emission area is the crystal having the property that 780 nm laser light cannot be wave-guided in a resonator direction parallel to a striped ridge within the region. The light traveling in the direction can exist only in the light emission area sandwiched between two photonic crystal regions, which results in the light laterally confined by the photonic crystal region. The optical confinement of the region suppresses the loss in the light at both edges of the stripe serving as the boundary of the optical confinement, which reduces the curve of wave surface and uniforms the light intensity distributions of NFP and FFP. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090161716 | Laser diode - A laser diode capable of effectively inhibiting effects of feedback light is provided. A laser diode includes a substrate, and a laminated structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer having a light emitting region, and a second conductive semiconductor layer having a projecting part on the surface thereof, on the substrate, wherein a feedback light inhibition part is provided on a main-emitting-side end face, and effects of feedback light in the vicinity of lateral boundaries of the light emitting region are inhibited by the feedback light inhibition part. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090262432 | LASER BEAM MULTIPLEXER - A laser beam multiplexer capable of easily multiplexing a plurality of laser beams is provided. A laser beam multiplexer includes a multiplexing element having a hollow portion with a sectional elliptical shape, in which the multiplexing element includes: a plurality of light-incident apertures guiding laser beams from outside toward one of two focal points of the hollow portion, a reflective layer arranged on a wall surface of the hollow portion, and multiplexing a plurality of incident laser beams while reflecting the plurality of laser beams, and a light-emitting aperture guiding laser beams multiplexed by the reflective layer toward outside. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20110182313 | LASER DIODE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A laser diode which realizes NFP with a stable and uniform shape. The laser diode includes, on a semiconductor substrate, an active layer, one or a plurality of strip-shaped current confinement structures confining a current which is injected into the active layer, and a stacked structure including one or a plurality of strip-shaped convex portions extending in an extending direction of the current confinement structure. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110206080 | LASER DIODE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A laser diode which realizes NFP with a stable and uniform shape. The laser diode includes, on a semiconductor substrate, an active layer, one or a plurality of strip-shaped current confinement structures confining a current which is injected into the active layer, and a stacked structure including one or a plurality of strip-shaped convex portions extending in an extending direction of the current confinement structure. | 08-25-2011 |
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| 20090128877 | Optical Scanning Actuator - An optical scanning actuator includes a leaf spring member that has a base end fixed and a tip end, a light source that is fitted to the leaf spring member, an electromagnetic driving unit that oscillates the tip end of the leaf spring member, and an optical element that is fitted to the leaf spring member and that is irradiated with light outgoing from the light source to reflect and refract the light to thereby scan the light. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090290204 | OPTICAL SCANNING ACTUATOR - An optical scanning actuator includes a fixed member having a light source, a movable member having an optical element that deflects light emitted from the light source and caused to vibrate by a driving unit in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical element, and a joint unit that connects the fixed member and the movable member, supports the movable member, and is bent in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of light emitted from the light source by vibration of the movable member. The optical scanning actuator scans light emitted from the light source in an vibration direction by vibration of the optical element along with the vibration of the movable member. The joint unit includes pairs of joint members connected via at least one deformation reducing member that reduces bending deformation of the joint members caused by the vibration of the movable member. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100103427 | OBJECT DETECTOR - An object detector has a light projecting unit that projects light, a light scanning actuator that scans the light, and a light receiving unit. The light scanning actuator includes plate springs, each having a thin-plate shape and one end in a longitudinal direction thereof being fixed; a movable part attached to the other ends in the longitudinal directions of the plate springs; and an electromagnetic driving unit having a magnet that generates a magnetic flux, a yoke that forms a closed magnetic circuit with the magnet and has a part being stacked on the magnet, and a coil held by the movable part and positioned in a gap between the magnet and the yoke such that an aperture plane is substantially orthogonal to a stacking direction of the magnet and the yoke, the electromagnetic driving unit configured to drive the movable part by an electromagnetic force applied to the coil. | 04-29-2010 |
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| 20090197440 | Board to Board Connector - A board mounted connector for a board to board connector system is disclosed which can be smaller, provide a more robust connection to a conductive circuit on a printed circuit board while allowing for a high degree of circuit design freedom on the board circuit due to the terminal insertion from the mating side of the housing where the terminals are generally above a bottom portion ( | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090305528 | Board-to-board connector pair - An electrical connector comprises a generally rectangular dielectric housing with a mating face and a mounting face. A plurality of terminal support posts extend in a direction from the mounting face towards the mating face and each support post has oppositely facing first and second sidewalls and a connecting surface. A plurality of terminal receiving cavities are spaced along a longitudinal axis of the housing for receiving terminals therein. A plurality of terminals are provided with each including a solder tail portion and a generally U-shaped contact portion. The solder tail portion is positioned along the mounting face and the contact portion includes a first, distal contact leg, a second, proximal contact leg spaced from and generally parallel to the first contact leg and a connecting portion extending between the first and second contact legs. The first contact leg extends along the first sidewall, the second contact leg extending along the second sidewall, and the connecting portion extending along the connecting surface. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20110097936 | HIGH DENSITY SURFACE MOUNT CONNECTOR - A surface mount connector includes first terminals and second terminals to be mated to counterpart terminals of a mating counterpart connector. The first terminals and the second terminals are mounted in a housing in an alternating array. Each of the first terminals includes a contact portion to be connected to a first counterpart terminal, a fixing portion connected to an outer side of the contact portion and fixed to the housing, and a surface-mounting soldering portion connected to an outer side of the fixing portion. Each of the second terminals includes a contact portion to be connected to a second counterpart terminal, a fixing portion connected to an outer side of the connecting portion and fixed to the housing, and a surface-mounting soldering portion connected to a mounting-surface side end of the fixing portion. | 04-28-2011 |