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Hitachi patent applications published on 20 November 2008

Administrator — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:28:35 +0000

46 US patent applications published on 20 November 2008 and assigned to Hitachi

1	20080288833	Method of Recording/Reproducing Digital Data and Apparatus for Same
2	20080288832	Method of Recording/Reproducing Digital Data and Apparatus for Same
3	20080288831	Method of Recording/Reproducing Digital Data and Apparatus for Same
4	20080288671	Virtualization by multipath management software for a plurality of storage volumes
5	20080288497	Exclusive control method for database and program
6	20080288455	System for managing the property of research and development
7	20080288217	Data Logging Method
8	20080287103	Electronic device and computer-readable medium
9	20080286980	Substrate Processing Apparatus and Semiconductor Device Producing Method
10	20080286846	Method and equipment for treating microcystin-containing water
11	20080286595	R-Fe-B Rare Earth Sintered Magnet and Method for Producing Same
12	20080286246	Internally administered therapeutic agents for cranial nerve diseases comprising mesenchymal cells as an active ingredient
13	20080286075	Method for producing semiconductor device, and substrate processing apparatus
14	20080285974	Optical Multiplexer/Demultiplexer
15	20080285972	Packet communicating apparatus
16	20080285928	Optical fiber mounting waveguide device and method for fabricating same
17	20080285914	Optical Module
18	20080285590	STORAGE SYSTEM, COMPUTER SYSTEM AND INTERFACE MODULE
19	20080285420	Optical Pickup and Optical Drive
20	20080285290	LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
21	20080285185	SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
22	20080284935	LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNITS WITH DATA AND/OR ADDRESS LINES BEING FORMED OF COPPER ALLOY AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME
23	20080284727	Input apparatus and information processing apparatus
24	20080284687	Display apparatus
25	20080284685	Plasma display device and capacitive load driving circuit
26	20080284645	Relative Positioning Method and Relative Positioning System Using Satellite
27	20080284482	SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT
28	20080284470	Direct Digital Synthesizer and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Instrument Using the Same
29	20080284413	Method and system for detection of biomaterials using magnetic marker
30	20080284375	CELL CONTROLLER, BATTERY MODULE AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM
31	20080284270	Driving Apparatus
32	20080284269	Permanent Magnet Electric Rotating Machine and Electromotive Vehicle Using Permanent Magnet Electric Rotating Machine
33	20080283997	Electronic Device and Pressure Sensor
34	20080283945	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
35	20080283867	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
36	20080283819	SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE
37	20080283778	Apparatus for ion beam fabrication
38	20080283750	Sample Observation Method and Transmission Electron Microscope
39	20080283748	Electron microscope
40	20080283747	Scanning Electron Microscope and Three-Dimensional Shape Measuring Device That Used It
41	20080283746	MICRO-SAMPLE PROCESSING METHOD, OBSERVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS
42	20080283744	Charged Particle Beam Device
43	20080283740	MASS SPECTROMETRY SYSTEM AND MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD
44	20080283234	Heat sink and method of making same
45	20080283159	Soft copper alloy, and soft copper wire or plate material
46	20080282791	Thermal Flowmeter

Hitachi patents granted on 18 November 2008

Administrator — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:28:26 +0000

39 US patents granted on 18 November 2008 and assigned to Hitachi

1	RE40,573	Master cylinder
2	7,454,795	Disk control unit
3	7,454,769	Optical pickup apparatus
4	7,454,752	Method for generating policy rules and method for controlling jobs using the policy rules
5	7,454,656	Storage device and storage device power consumption control method
6	7,454,652	System for and method of managing resource operations
7	7,454,591	Storage system control method, storage system, and storage apparatus storing information relating a first logical unit number (LUN) used to access a volume by a host computer and a second LUN used to access the volume by another storage system with remote copy procedure
8	7,454,584	Storage control system and storage controller
9	7,454,583	Storage controller and control method for dynamically accomodating increases and decreases in difference data
10	7,454,582	Initial copy system
11	7,454,281	Fault diagnosis apparatus for sensors used in a system
12	7,454,216	in-facility information provision system and in-facility information provision method
13	7,453,905	Mobile node, mobile agent and network system
14	7,453,854	Radio signal communication method, base station and terminal station
15	7,453,842	Method and apparatus for mobile network
16	7,453,779	Apparatus for capturing and recording video information
17	7,453,774	Disk array system
18	7,453,738	Semiconductor device
19	7,453,561	Method and apparatus for inspecting foreign particle defects
20	7,453,541	Liquid crystal display having particular electrodes and a spacer
21	7,453,540	Liquid crystal display device with particular electrodes
22	7,453,539	Active matrix type liquid crystal display device having a common line in every other pixel region
23	7,453,532	Display device
24	7,453,434	Liquid crystal display device
25	7,453,428	Driving method for display device
26	7,453,242	Power generation apparatus using AC energization synchronous generator and method of controlling the same
27	7,453,240	Generating apparatus and motor control apparatus
28	7,453,181	Permanent magnet synchronous motor and compressor using the same
29	7,453,179	DC brushless motor for electrical power steering and the production method thereof
30	7,453,138	Electronic circuit device and manufacturing method thereof
31	7,453,072	Method for depositing a film using a charged particle beam, method for performing selective etching using the same, and charged particle beam equipment therefor
32	7,452,926	Resin pulley formed of a resin composition having a phenol resin, an inorganic powder , a reinforcing fiber, and a lubricant
33	7,452,798	Semiconductor chip mounting substrate, a method of producing the same, and a method of mounting a semiconductor chip
34	7,452,489	Conductive material, method of producing the same, visual display device, and glass spacer thereof
35	7,452,478	Method for converting and purifying materials for modifying surfaces of semiconductor nanoparticles
36	7,452,197	Resin application method on panel, manufacturing method of panel for display and resin applying apparatus thereof
37	7,452,181	Plant facility
38	7,452,177	Working mechanism for construction machine
39	7,451,656	Semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor and manufacturing method thereof

Hitachi patent applications published on 13 November 2008

Administrator — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:21:00 +0000

24 US patent applications published on 13 November 2008 and assigned to Hitachi

1	20080282118	Highly Reliable Distributed System
2	20080282047	METHODS AND APPARATUS TO BACKUP AND RESTORE DATA FOR VIRTUALIZED STORAGE AREA
3	20080281914	Computer system
4	20080281876	METHODS AND APPARATUS TO RECOVER DATA AND CONFIGURATION OF STORAGE SYSTEM
5	20080281497	Engine Controller
6	20080280352	Method and equipment for cultivating anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria
7	20080279680	Multistage Centrifugal Compressor
8	20080279445	Pattern defect inspection method and apparatus
9	20080279195	Multi-plane cell switch fabric system
10	20080279083	OBJECTIVE LENS DESIGN METHOD, LENS, AND OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL HEAD, AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS USING THE SAME
11	20080278860	EXTRAORDINARY MAGNETORESISTIVE (EMR) DEVICE WITH NOVEL LEAD STRUCTURE
12	20080278855	PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING WRITE HEAD WITH TRAILING SHIELD HAVING NOTCH AND THROAT HEIGHT DEFINED BY NONMAGNETIC PAD LAYER
13	20080278636	Optical unit, video display apparatus, and color switching method
14	20080278418	PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF DRIVING THE PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS
15	20080278417	PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS
16	20080278413	Plasma display apparatus
17	20080278017	Rotor of Permanent Magnet Rotating Electric Machine
18	20080277938	Wind Power Generation System and Operating Method Thereof
19	20080277679	Light-emitting device
20	20080277661	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
21	20080277583	Charged particle beam apparatus
22	20080277575	Ion mobility spectrometer and ion-mobility-spectrometry/mass-spectrometry hybrid spectrometer
23	20080276907	Electromagnetic Fuel Injection Valve Device
24	20080276448	METHOD FOR DEFINING THE TRAILING SHIELD THROAT HEIGHT IN A PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING WRITE HEAD

Hitachi patents granted on 11 November 2008

Administrator — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:09:31 +0000

68 US patents granted on 11 November 2008 and assigned to Hitachi

1	D580,247	Portable electric driver
2	7,451,485	Information processing unit having tamper-resistant system
3	7,451,473	Video distribution method and video distribution system
4	7,451,346	Storage control device and data recovery method for storage control device
5	7,451,341	Storage system and communications path control method for storage system
6	7,451,289	Storage device and system for providing communications buffer reservation function
7	7,451,287	Storage system and remote copy method for storage system
8	7,451,285	Computer systems, management computers and storage system management method
9	7,451,284	Storage system and control method of the same
10	7,451,279	Storage system comprising a shared memory to access exclusively managed data
11	7,451,261	Data storage device and control method with buffer control thereof
12	7,451,204	Storage network management system and method
13	7,451,164	System and method for replicating data
14	7,450,982	Magnetic resonance imaging system and method
15	7,450,842	Manufacturing method of color cathode ray tube
16	7,450,816	Digital signal recording and reproduction apparatus suitable for recording and reproducing a compressed video signal
17	7,450,815	Image recording and reproducing apparatus
18	7,450,803	Optical waveguide
19	7,450,789	Micro sensor device
20	7,450,492	Correlation detection apparatus and fourier transform apparatus
21	7,450,458	Dynamic random access memories and method for testing performance of the same
22	7,450,350	Current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) magnetoresistive sensor with antiparallel-pinned structure having segregated grains of a ferromagnetic material and additive Cu, Au or Ag
23	7,450,349	Magnetic head with soft magnetic shield and magnetic storage
24	7,450,347	Head suspension with bridge portion separating apertures near lift tab
25	7,450,346	Method and apparatus for reducing heat absorption around solder pads on an electrical lead suspension
26	7,450,345	Magnetic head supporting mechanism with two openings proximate to pivot of load beam
27	7,450,343	Device, apparatus and method for removing particulate contamination from the trailing edge of a hard disk drive air bearing
28	7,450,340	Head design with overlapping coil for narrow pitch tape head
29	7,450,339	Disk drive with support structure for damping plates and disk-vibration capacitive sensors
30	7,450,337	Apparatus and method for guiding bypass reentry flow through contraction and filter in a hard disk drive
31	7,450,335	Reducing read/write head track misregistration
32	7,450,333	Electrostatic fly-height control
33	7,450,304	Autostereoscopic display
34	7,450,288	Optical modulation device, optical transmitter, and optical transmission equipment
35	7,450,210	TFT active matrix liquid crystal display devices
36	7,450,192	Display device
37	7,450,182	Image display apparatus and picture quality correction
38	7,450,099	Display apparatus and driving device for displaying
39	7,450,090	Plasma display panel and imaging device using the same
40	7,450,061	Relative position measurement system using satellite
41	7,449,997	Auto light system
42	7,449,898	Method and apparatus for reviewing defects by detecting images having voltage contrast
43	7,449,890	Apparatus and method for circulated flow nuclear magnetic resonance measurement
44	7,449,885	Magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus
45	7,449,818	Actuator and method of manufacturing actuator module
46	7,449,817	Actuator and method of manufacturing actuator module
47	7,449,810	Electric motor and electric tool having the motor
48	7,449,797	Storage apparatus power supply unit and storage apparatus management method
49	7,449,790	Methods and systems of enhancing stepper alignment signals and metrology alignment target signals
50	7,449,787	Liquid crystal display
51	7,449,722	Semiconductor light emitting element
52	7,449,720	Epitaxial wafer for semiconductor light-emitting devices, and semiconductor light-emitting device
53	7,449,701	Particle beam irradiation equipment and particle beam irradiation method
54	7,449,692	Charged particle beam apparatus
55	7,449,690	Inspection method and inspection apparatus using charged particle beam
56	7,449,689	Dimension measuring SEM system, method of evaluating shape of circuit pattern and a system for carrying out the method
57	7,449,685	Gas monitoring apparatus
58	7,449,367	Adhesive film for semiconductor, metal sheet with such adhesive film, wiring substrate with adhesive film, semiconductor device, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
59	7,449,251	Heat resistant article having thermal barrier coating
60	7,449,235	Composite indium oxide particle which contains tin (Sn) and zinc (Zn), method for producing same, conductive coating material, conductive coating film, and conductive sheet
61	7,449,227	Vacuum insulation panel and refrigerator incorporating the same
62	7,449,157	Catalytic exhaust gas decomposition apparatus and exhaust gas decomposition method
63	7,449,100	Method for forming electroplating film on surfaces of articles
64	7,449,076	Punched adhesive tape for semiconductor, method of manufacturing lead frame with the adhesive tape, lead frame with the adhesive tape, and semiconductor device comprising the lead frame
65	7,448,880	Multilayer printed circuit board for high-speed differential signal, communication apparatus, and data storage apparatus
66	7,448,841	Front device
67	7,448,825	Method for continuous on-site recycling of an asphalt mixture layer of a pavement and a motor-driven vehicle system therefor
68	7,448,699	Electro mechanical brake, control device and control methods

Hitachi patent applications published on 06 November 2008

Administrator — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:48:18 +0000

29 US patent applications published on 06 November 2008 and assigned to Hitachi

1	20080276120	Volume and failure management method on a network having a storage device
2	20080276038	Storage system using flash memory modules logically grouped for wear-leveling and raid
3	20080275962	Remote access providing computer system and method for managing same
4	20080275926	STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COPYING DATA
5	20080275620	Ignition detecting method for gas turbine
6	20080275619	Ignition detecting method for gas turbine
7	20080274576	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF
8	20080274381	PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PATTERNED MAGNETIC ISLANDS AND NONMAGNETIC TRENCHES AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING SURFACE DIFFUSION OF TRENCH MATERIAL
9	20080274009	R-T-B BASED SINTERED MAGNET
10	20080273705	Broadcasting method and broadcast receiver
11	20080273450	Optical disk
12	20080273446	Recording medium, information recording and reproducing method, and recording and reproducing apparatus
13	20080273268	PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING WRITE HEAD WITH COPLANAR MAIN POLE AND RETURN POLES AND MAGNETIC RECORDING SYSTEM
14	20080273262	Magnetic disk drive, preamplifier for magnetic disk drive, flexible printed cable assembly for magnetic disk drive
15	20080273193	PATTERN DEFECT INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD
16	20080273157	Display device having misalignment detection pattern for detecting misalignment between conductive layer and insulating layer
17	20080273142	LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
18	20080273135	Liquid crytal display device having particular pixel region
19	20080273001	Level converter circuit and a liquid crystal display device employing the same
20	20080272854	Antenna duplexer and wireless terminal using the same
21	20080272685	Dispay unit
22	20080272646	HYDRAULIC APPARATUS FOR FLUID PRESSURE CONTROL
23	20080272507	Stably preserved microspheres
24	20080272300	Charged particle beam apparatus
25	20080272297	Scanning electron microscope and CD measurement calibration standard specimen
26	20080271821	R-T-B BASED SINTERED MAGNET
27	20080271564	Hydraulic Power Transmission Device and Work Vehicle
28	20080271435	Deterioration Diagnosis System for an Air-Fuel Ratio Sensor
29	20080271308	METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC WRITE HEAD HAVING A WRAP-AROUND TRAILING SHIELD AND A CONCAVE TRAILING EDGE MAIN POLE

Hitachi patents granted on 04 November 2008

Administrator — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:37:11 +0000

62 US patents granted on 04 November 2008 and assigned to Hitachi

1	7,448,055	Disk assembly having integral clamp and/or spacer
2	7,447,933	Fail-over storage system
3	7,447,932	Semiconductor data processing device and data processing system
4	7,447,887	Multithread processor
5	7,447,863	Storage resource management system, method, and computer for dividing volumes based on priority, necessary capacity and volume characteristics
6	7,447,859	Method of performing active data copying processing, and storage subsystem and storage control apparatus for performing active data copying processing
7	7,447,858	Storage system which controls access to logical devices by permitting attribute modes for the logical devices to be set
8	7,447,855	Data processing method providing remote copy in a system having first, second, and third storage systems
9	7,447,843	Storage system with independently adjustable cache memory partitions
10	7,447,840	Disk array and method for reading/writing data from/into disk unit
11	7,447,832	Automated on-line capacity expansion method for storage device
12	7,447,816	Disk array system and disk drive unit
13	7,447,711	Method and system for high-availability database
14	7,447,708	Data processing apparatus and network system that outputs quality of service information to a user
15	7,447,557	Method and system for reducing production cycle time of a hard disk drive by featuring an inventoried generic hard disk drive with customized microcode
16	7,447,497	Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication network and software upgrading method
17	7,447,430	Optical cross connect apparatus and optical transmission system
18	7,447,398	Optical crossconnect apparatus
19	7,447,339	Unique code generating apparatus, method, program and recording medium
20	7,447,332	Image distribution system of surveillance camera with privacy protection
21	7,447,269	Method and adaptive modulation in multi-carrier communication
22	7,447,256	Receiver for receiving a spectrum dispersion signal
23	7,447,241	Multiplexed audio data decoding apparatus and receiver apparatus
24	7,447,121	Disk array system
25	7,447,091	Sense amplifier for semiconductor memory device
26	7,447,036	Disk array device and disk array device cable support method
27	7,446,986	Magnetic tunnel junction with in stack biasing layer providing orthogonal exchange coupling
28	7,446,985	Epitaxial oxide cap layers for enhancing GMR performance
29	7,446,984	Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) having increased reference layer anisotropy through ion beam etch of magnetic layers
30	7,446,982	Pinning structure with trilayer pinned layer
31	7,446,981	Magnetic head, fabrication process of magnetic head, and magnetic disk storage apparatus mounting magnetic head
32	7,446,980	Method for manufacturing a stitched “floating” trailing shield for a perpendicular recording head
33	7,446,979	Laminated draped shield for CPP read sensors
34	7,446,977	Recording heads having electrical pads on multiple surfaces
35	7,446,976	Tape cartridge with visible management information
36	7,446,973	Disk and clamp assembly
37	7,446,969	Thermally assisted recording system
38	7,446,967	Method of measuring head characteristics of a data storage device, and data storage device
39	7,446,966	Method for precompensation/write-current latching to improve error rate
40	7,446,958	Imaging lens unit
41	7,446,866	Apparatus and method for inspecting pattern
42	7,446,824	Liquid crystal display device having control circuit for inserting an elimination signal of 20% or less of the appied maximum voltage in a video signal
43	7,446,760	Display device and driving method for a display device
44	7,446,723	Linear actuator
45	7,446,685	Read signal processing circuit, read signal processing method, and optical disc drive
46	7,446,508	Battery charger for charging lithium-ion battery
47	7,446,473	Organic electroluminescence display device
48	7,446,448	Permanent magnet electric rotating machine and electromotive vehicle using permanent magnet electric rotating machine
49	7,446,319	Semiconductor radiation detector and radiological imaging apparatus
50	7,446,313	Scanning electron microscope
51	7,445,858	Magnetic recording medium using magnetic powder having a core portion and an outer layer portion including a rare earth element and magnetic recording cassette
52	7,445,760	Method of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel
53	7,445,755	Method and apparatus for manufacturing beads array chip
54	7,445,701	Capillary array unit and electrophoresis based thereon
55	7,445,678	Maraging steel and method of producing the same
56	7,445,455	Electronic device
57	7,445,240	Drive device of hydraulic cylinder for working
58	7,445,091	Electrically operated brake
59	7,444,985	Apparatus and method for controlling ignition timing of internal combustion engine
60	7,444,971	Valve timing control apparatus of internal combustion engine
61	7,444,819	Gas turbine installation including a compressed air humidifier and method
62	7,444,739	Method for fabricating improved sensor for a magnetic head utilizing reactive ion milling process