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| 20090010123 | Data recording/reproduction method and data recording/reproduction apparatus - A data recording/reproduction method for performing a data recording/reproduction process on a flexible optical disk by rotating the flexible optical disk while controlling an axial runout of the flexible optical disk with a stabilizing member that applies an aerodynamic force to the flexible optical disk, and irradiating an optical beam and focusing the optical beam to the flexible optical disk is disclosed that includes the steps of a) generating a first axial runout, b) generating a focus error signal forming an S-curve when the first axial runout is generated, c) determining a position of the optical beam according to the focus error signal, d) generating a second axial runout that is smaller than the first axial runout after step c), and e) conducting at least one of the data recording process and the data reproduction process after step d). | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090231975 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD - A recording/reproducing apparatus is disclosed that includes a spindle motor unit including a spindle on which a flexible recording disk is placed, a stabilizer plate disposed so as to face the recording disk, a torque detection unit configured to detect a drive torque applied to the spindle motor unit, an adjustment unit configured to adjust a gap between the recording disk and the stabilizer plate, and a determination unit configured to determine an optimal gap to be set to the gap based on the drive torque detected by the torque detection unit, in which the adjustment unit sets the optimum gap determined by the determination unit to the gap. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20100058373 | DISK ROTATING DEVICE, DISK, DISK ASSEMBLY, DISK CARTRIDGE, AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE - A disk rotating device includes a flexible disk in which information is recordable, a turntable on which the disk is held, a spindle that rotates the disk held on the turntable, and a stabilizer that stabilizes the rotating disk. In the disk rotating device, a rotation transmitting device transmits the rotation of the spindle to the disk via the turntable, and a disk holding device holds the disk so that the disk is elastically deformable from a center of the rotation of the disk in a radial direction of the disk. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110072446 | DISK CLAMPING MECHANISM AND DISK DRIVE SYSTEM - A disclosed disk clamping mechanism includes a turntable fixed on a rotational shaft of a spindle motor to rotate a flexible thin optical disk, a stabilizer member configured to suppress a run-out of the flexible thin optical disk by an applying aerodynamic force to the rotating flexible thin optical disk so as to stabilize the run-out of the rotating flexible thin optical disk, and a clamper movably supported in a center of the stabilizer member in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the flexible thin optical disk. In the disclosed disk clamping mechanism, the flexible thin optical disk is sandwiched between the turntable and the clamper such that the turntable and the clamper rotate the flexible thin optical member sandwiched in-between. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110283299 | DISK LAMINATE, DISK CARTRIDGE, DISK LOADING/UNLOADING MECHANISM, DISK CONVEYING DEVICE, DISK CONVEYING MECHANISM, AND THIN DISK DRIVING SYSTEM - A disk laminate includes thin disks laminated to each other, which are to be suctioned and conveyed; and spacers provided between the thin disks to prevent the thin disks from directly contacting each other, the spacers having air permeability. | 11-17-2011 |
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| 20080238358 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CHARGING METHOD THEREFOR, AND BATTERY - An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a battery, a main body, a charging section, an obtaining section, and a controlling section. The battery has first information with which charging of the battery is controlled. The main body operates with the battery as a power supply. The charging section charges the battery. The obtaining section obtains the first information from the battery. The controlling section controls the charging section based on the obtained first information and causes the charging section to perform a charging according to another battery. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090125979 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND BATTERY - An authenticating system according to the present invention has a characteristic structure of which an authenticating section | 05-14-2009 |
| 20100007310 | BATTERY PACK, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CHARGE CONTROL SYSTEM, CHARGE CONTROL METHOD BY BATTERY PACK, AND CHARGE CONTROL METHOD BY CHARGE CONTROL SYSTEM - A battery pack includes: an obtaining unit for obtaining computation information for calculating a charge current including temperature information of a battery; a computation unit for computing a charge current for the battery based on the computation information; and a notification unit for notifying a computer of the charge current computed by the computation unit. The notification unit uses a dedicated command to notify the computer of the charge current. The battery pack includes: a storage unit for storing therein a first threshold value and a second threshold value relating to the temperature information, and the computation unit may compute the optimal charge current depending on which of ranges divided by the first threshold value and the second threshold value the temperature information belongs to. | 01-14-2010 |
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| 20090061124 | HEAT-SENSITIVE TRANSFER IMAGE-RECEIVING SHEET AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet having a support and, on each of both sides of the support, at least one receptor layer containing at least one kind of latex polymer; a heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet containing a support and, on each of both sides of the support, are formed at least one interlayer, at least one heat insulation layer containing at least one kind of hollow polymer, and at least one receptor layer in this order from the support; and a method of producing a heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet comprising a support and, on each of both sides of the support, at least one receptor layer containing at least one kind of latex polymer, which method including forming the receptor layer by applying a receptor layer-coating liquid which has a solid content in the range of from 5% by mass to 50% by mass, per one coating operation. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090087552 | METHOD OF PRODUCING HEAT-SENSITIVE TRANSFER IMAGE-RECEIVING SHEET - A method of producing a heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet having, on a support, a heat insulation layer and a receptor layer, having a step of: forming both the heat insulation layer and the receptor layer by an aqueous simultaneous multilayer coating; wherein the heat insulation layer has at least one kind of hollow polymer particles and at least one resin having a glass transition temperature (Tg) in the range from 20° C. to 80° C. | 04-02-2009 |
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| 20090080418 | TUNNELING APPARATUS AND TUNNEL FRAME SORTING METHOD AND ITS PROGRAM FOR USE THEREIN - The present invention provides a tunneling apparatus which can perform tunneling without requiring the network to be suspended or requiring the existing configuration of a local network to be modified. The frame sorting part | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090113073 | REMOTE ACCESS SYSTEM AND ITS IP ADDRESS ASSIGNING METHOD - An IP address assigning method for assigning a fixed address to a user terminal apparatus through a network in a system for remote accessing to the network to which a tunneling apparatus belongs from the user terminal apparatus. The user terminal apparatus connected to a first network requests a setting of a communication tunnel to the tunneling apparatus for remote accessing a second network. The tunneling apparatus receiving the request sends a DHCP message including a MAC address assigned to a physical NIC of the user terminal apparatus to a DHCP server connected to the network. The DHCP server sends a DHCP message including a fixed IP address corresponding to a preset MAC address. The tunneling apparatus assigns the IP address included in the received DHCP message to the user terminal apparatus. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090245251 | FRAME PROCESSING METHOD AND FRAME PROCESSING APPARATUS - When a data link layer frame whose destination address has been designated as a multiple address is inputted from a tunneling source via a decapsulation unit | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100118738 | MULTICAST TREE DESIGNING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A multicast tree design apparatus designs a multicast tree by mathematical programming. The multicast tree design apparatus is one for designing a multicast tree for transferring a packet from a source node to a plurality of destination nodes on a network that includes nodes and links connecting the nodes, the apparatus including a problem creating unit and a problem solving unit, and wherein: the problem creating unit includes a multiple route constraint creating unit for creating constraint expressions for constructing a plurality of routes that start from a source node and end at a plurality of destination nodes, a tree constraint creating unit for creating a constraint expression for superposing all the routes to construct a multicast tree, a confluence constraint creating unit for creating a constraint expression for preventing the plurality of routes from being superposed into a topology that causes a confluence of the routes, and an objective function creating unit for creating an objective function for minimizing an evaluation index pertaining to the links or the nodes that constitute the multicast tree; and the problem solving unit solves a mathematical programming problem including the constraint expressions and the objective function created by the problem creating unit to determine a set of links that constitute the multicast tree. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20110228682 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM, AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTER - A communication network includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links connecting between the nodes. A management computer managing the communication network has a storage means, an entry control means and a monitoring means. A route information indicating a transfer route of frames in the communication network is stored in the storage means. The monitoring means performs, based on the route information, transmission and reception of frames to and from the communication network. The entry control means instructs each node to set up a forwarding table indicating a correspondence relationship between an input source and a forwarding destination of frames. More specifically, the entry control means instructs the each node to set up the forwarding table such that frames are forwarded along the transfer route indicated by the route information. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231545 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM, AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTER - A communication network management system has: a communication network including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links connecting between the plurality of nodes; and a management computer that manages the communication network. The management computer has: a storage means in which a route information indicating a transfer route of frames in the communication network is stored; and a monitoring means configured to perform, based on the route information, transmission and reception of frames to and from the communication network. The monitoring means transmits a frame to the transfer route. Each of the plurality of nodes, when receiving a frame, not only forwards the received frame along the transfer route but also sends a reply to the management computer. The monitoring means identifies a location of failure occurrence on the transfer route, based on reception state of the reply from the plurality of nodes. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110264795 | Communication network managment system, method and program, and management computer - A communication network management system has: a communication network including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links connecting between the plurality of nodes; and a management computer connected to the plurality of nodes. A loop-shape communication route in the communication network is a loop route. The management computer transmits a frame to one node on the loop route. When receiving the frame, each node on the loop route forwards the received frame to a subsequent node along the loop route and, if a predetermined condition is satisfied, returns a response back to the management computer. The management computer determines whether or not a failure is occurring, based on reception state of the response. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110305167 | Communication system, and method of collecting port information - The control unit specifies an undetected connection destination port and sends a reply request to a connection destination of the undetected connection destination port. The packet transfer unit determines whether the received reply request is to be transferred to any other packet transfer unit. The packet transfer unit, upon determining the reply request to be transferred to any other packet transfer unit, transfers the reply request to any other packet transfer unit. The packet transfer unit, upon determining the reply request not to be transferred to any other packet transfer unit, returns a reply that includes information on ports of the local packet transfer unit, the reply being sent along a path leading to the control unit. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305168 | Communication system, and method of creating topology information - Provided is a communication system that includes a plurality of packet transfer units and a control unit which controls each packet transfer unit, in the communication system of which, a communications network used for each packet transfer unit to transfer packets, and a communications network used for the control unit to control each packet transfer unit can be integrated into one kind. The control unit transmits a reply request to each packet transfer unit. The packet transfer unit, upon receiving the reply request, transmits the reply request from a port other than that through which the packet transfer unit has received the reply request. Upon receiving the reply request, the packet transfer unit also returns a reply including information on ports of the local packet transfer unit, the reply being transmitted through a path for the control unit. On the basis of the reply transmitted from each packet transfer unit, the control unit creates topology information, the topology information including port interconnection information relative to ports provided at the control unit and each port of the packet transfer units. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110314517 | Communication system, authentication device, control server, communication method, and program - A configuration that can perform access control for each user/client, without arranging an Authenticator or an EAPoL pass switch at each location. A forwarding node processes a packet between a supplicant and a prescribed authentication device, in accordance with a processing rule that has been set. The authentication device performs a prescribed authentication procedure with the supplicant and notifies a result thereof to a control server. In a case where an authentication procedure with the authentication device succeeds, the control server creates a first forwarding path between the supplicant and a destination node, and transmits a processing rule for a packet received or transmitted between the supplicant and a destination node, following the first forwarding path, in at least one forwarding node in the first forwarding path. | 12-22-2011 |
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| 20090206490 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAE - A semiconductor device having redistribution interconnects in the WPP technology and improved reliability, wherein the redistribution interconnects have first patterns and second patterns which are electrically separated from each other within the plane of the semiconductor substrate, the first patterns electrically coupled to the multi-layer interconnects and the floating second patterns are coexistent within the plane of the semiconductor substrate, and the occupation ratio of the total of the first patterns and the second patterns within the plane of the semiconductor substrate, that is, the occupation ratio of the redistribution interconnects is 35 to 60%. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20100117158 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - To provide a technique capable of improving the reliability of a semiconductor device even if the downsizing thereof is advanced. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20110001236 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device having redistribution interconnects in the WPP technology and improved reliability, wherein the redistribution interconnects have first patterns and second patterns which are electrically separated from each other within the plane of the semiconductor substrate, the first patterns electrically coupled to the multi-layer interconnects and the floating second patterns are coexistent within the plane of the semiconductor substrate, and the occupation ratio of the total of the first patterns and the second patterns within the plane of the semiconductor substrate, that is, the occupation ratio of the redistribution interconnects is 35 to 60%. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110260256 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - To provide a technique capable of improving the reliability of a semiconductor device even if the downsizing thereof is advanced. | 10-27-2011 |