Patents Assigned to NEC
  • Publication number: 20090059070
    Abstract: Pulse detection portion detects pulses in a horizontal synchronization signal and acquires the occurrence period and the pulse width of the detected pulses. Synchronization pulse decision portion determines pulses, for which the differences between the occurrence period and the reference period and between the pulse width and the reference pulse width are within their respective error tolerance ranges, as synchronization pulses. Mean period acquisition portion obtains the mean period by averaging occurrence periods of the synchronization pulses. Reference period correction portion carries out either or both of correcting the reference period so as to get closer to the mean period and correcting the error tolerance range of the reference period so as to get narrower, under the condition that the occurrence frequency of the synchronization pulses for which the difference between the occurrence period and the mean period is outside of a predetermined tolerance range exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeo Matsui
  • Publication number: 20090060503
    Abstract: An optical line terminal (OLT), network and method include input and output switching modules configured to switch between input and output channels. A transmission module is configured for physical layer transmission using at least one of a plurality of transmission technologies to provide multiple uses of an existing transmission line. A dynamic resource module is configured to allocate network resources dynamically to one or more storage area networks (SAN) based on storage resource requests. A service differentiation module is configured to determine and implement different service levels for SAN users. An existing network infrastructure is enabled to provide custom SAN services without a dedicated line and without interfering with existing services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Si Yin, Yuanqiu Luo, Lei Zong, Stephen Rago
  • Publication number: 20090059366
    Abstract: An image display device capable of maintaining continuity of images of adjacent image display elements on a display screen that is composed of a plurality of image display element includes image display elements (1, 2) and a prism (3). The prism (3) is an L-shaped prism having two planar surfaces, and image display elements (1, 2,) are arranged on the portion of the prism that corresponds to the rear side as seen from the viewing direction (9). Image display elements (1, 2) are arranged such that the virtual images (5, 6) of the image display portions of each are optically continuously connected in the prism (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Imai
  • Publication number: 20090061256
    Abstract: An electromagnetic noise suppressor including a ferrite film is formed by regularly arranging constituents such as magnetized grains or one analogous to that. In the ferrite film, the constituents have at least one of the uniaxial anisotropy and the multiaxial anisotropy. The ferrite film has the magnetic anisotropy or the magnetic isotropy. The ferrite film is formed by a plating method in the presence of a magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC TOKIN Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Kondo, Okikuni Takahata, Tatsuya Chiba, Hiroshi Ono, Shigeyoshi Yoshida, Masanori Abe, Masahiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20090057851
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including: arranging multiple dies planarly between a first lead frame plate and a second lead frame plate, which face each other, to connect the multiple semiconductor chips to each of the first lead frame plate and the second lead frame plate; filling a resin between the first lead frame plate and the second lead frame plate to seal the multiple dies; performing a first dicing on a laminated body including the first lead frame plate, the resin, and the second lead frame plate, between the adjacent dies, to separate at least the first lead frame plate by cutting; applying plating to the laminated body with at least the first lead frame plate being separated by cutting; and performing a second dicing on a remainder of the laminated body between the adjacent dies, to separate the laminated body into individual semiconductor devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiharu KANEDA
  • Publication number: 20090063508
    Abstract: A storage including an access processor configured to access data according to an access request specifying a file or a directory as an object of processing according to a content of a file handle cache held in a source of the request, further includes an access capability assigning unit configured to assign, when a file or a directory is made, an access capability serving as an identifier for uniquely identifying the file or the directory, and store the assigned access capability paired with a file handle for the file or the directory as metadata for the file or the directory and an access capability decision unit configured to decide, for the access request received by the access processor, whether the file handle specified as the object of processing of the access request is valid or invalid, based on a combination of the file handle and the access capability, wherein the access processor returns the access capability along with the file handle paired with the access capability according to a file handle a
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi YAMATO, Yoshiaki SAKAE
  • Publication number: 20090057893
    Abstract: In order to solve a problem of occurrence of delamination of interlayer film due to occurrence of a crack in an LSI wiring layer in a UBM lower layer immediately under a solder bump in an outer periphery of an LSI chip, a semiconductor apparatus of the present invention includes a stress boundary between compressive stress and tensile stress in an LSI wiring layer of a bump lower layer and in order to alleviate the stress present in the bump lower layer tensile stress material is arranged on a compressive stress side or compressive stress material is arranged on a tensile stress side with a stress boundary of the LSI wiring layer as a boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Iwaki
  • Publication number: 20090057926
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus capable of simply detecting a crack generated in plural semiconductor chips while the design freedom is improved, includes a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip that is laminated on the first semiconductor chip, in which a first wiring that is formed along the outer periphery of the first semiconductor chip and a second wiring that is formed along the outer periphery of the second semiconductor chip are connected in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kou Sasaki, Takashi Yonezawa
  • Publication number: 20090063875
    Abstract: A data processing device including a power supply terminal having a first power supply voltage applied thereto; a regulator that generates a second power supply voltage based on the first power supply voltage; an internal circuit having an operation clock, wherein the second power supply voltage is supplied to the internal circuit through a power supply; and a power supply voltage variation suppressor connected between the power supply terminal and the power supply line. In this device, the power supply voltage variation suppressor sets an auxiliary period and supplies auxiliary current to the power supply line during the auxiliary period, and wherein the auxiliary period is synchronized with the operation clock of the internal circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuhiro TERAZONO
  • Publication number: 20090057806
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, the segmented photodiode includes a p type substrate, a p type epitaxial layer formed on the p type substrate, an n type epitaxial layer formed on the p type epitaxial layer, and p type segmenting region provided in the n type epitaxial layer separately from the p type epitaxial layer and segmenting the photosensitive region, and is configured that a depleted layer (first depleted layer) created in an n type region right under the segmenting section located between the p type segmenting region and the p type epitaxial layer by applying a reverse bias voltage is configured to reach a depleted layer (second depleted layer) formed in a junction surface between the n type epitaxial layer and the p type epitaxial layer so that the photosensitive region is electrically isolated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaki MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20090059153
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate having a group of terminal electrodes on one side thereof, at least one of the terminal electrodes forming a branched electrode with an isolation region extending along an elongating direction of each the terminal electrode and a second substrate opposing the first substrate such that the terminal electrodes are exposed from an overlapping area of the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyounei Yasuda, Futoshi Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20090059958
    Abstract: The task of the present invention is to reduce a load caused by a transmission of control information related to data packets and enhance a communication efficiency. In the present invention, when packets are transferred from a transferring node 101 to a transferring node 102, control information stored in each of data packets 301 is compiled together into a leader packet 302 located in the front position of a packet block 300-1, and then, transmitted from the transferring node 101 to the transferring node 102. When receiving this packet block 300-1, the transferring node 102 controls, based on the received control information in the leader packet, the transmission of the packets to be transferred to the transferring node 101.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuneo Nakata
  • Publication number: 20090061271
    Abstract: For the purpose of efficiently discharging CO2 generated therein while increasing the fuel utilization efficiency, a fuel cell comprises a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, a cathode arranged in contact with one side of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane, an anode arranged in contact with the other side of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane, a cathode collector and an anode collector respectively arranged in contact with the cathode and anode, a sealing member arranged in the rim of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane and sandwiched between the solid polymer electrolyte membrane and the anode collector, a fuel supply controlling membrane for vaporizing a liquid fuel and supplying the vaporized fuel to the anode, and a discharging unit for discharging a product produced by electrical reaction at the anode to the outside. An air vent formed in the sealing member serves as the discharging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shouji Sekino, Kenji Kobayashi, Hideaki Sasaki, Takeshi Obata, Shin Nakamura, Tsutomu Yoshitake, Yoshimi Kubo
  • Publication number: 20090061875
    Abstract: A method of conducting soft combining of at least two received MBMS signals in a user equipment (112) of a radio telecommunications network (100), the method including: demodulating (202) at least a subset of the received MBMS signals; converting (208-1-208-m) a floating point slot data vector to a fixed point slot data vector for each demodulated received MBMS signal; and soft combining (214) the fixed-point slot data vectors derived from at least two of said received MBMS signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xinhua Wang, Thanh Ngoc Bui, Dobrica Vasic
  • Publication number: 20090064079
    Abstract: An apparatus, includes a search unit which searches a critical signal path from a plurality of candidate signal paths connecting a first terminal and a second terminal, the critical signal path including the most strict delay limit in the plurality of candidate signal paths, and a display control unit which controls a display device for displaying an information regarding to a circuit element, the circuit element including the critical signal path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Risako Uchida
  • Publication number: 20090056093
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solid electrolytic capacitor has the steps of: mixing valve metal powders with organic binder for granulation, press-molding granulated powders embedded with a valve metal lead, sintering a press-molded compact in vacuum to produce a sintered body, and anodizing the sintered body to form a dielectric oxide film layer. The method further has a step of performing a cathode electrolytic cleaning to the sintered body before the step of forming the dielectric oxide film layer. The cathode electrolytic cleaning is performed in an acid solution, which is a mixed acid solution of hydrofluoric acid, nitric acid, and sulfuric acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC TOKIN Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Sugawara, Masako Ohya, Katsuhiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20090061847
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a mobile radio communications device arranged for communication by way of a mobile radio communications network, and by way of one of a plurality of frequencies, the mobile radio communications device having control means arranged to allow for a period of inter-frequency measurement within the device, wherein the mobile radio communication device is arranged to determine the said period of inter-frequency measurement in a manner responsive to higher layer events within the mobile radio communications device and which higher layer events can comprise application layer events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael Roberts
  • Publication number: 20090058453
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with technology for externally deciding if the stress test was performed or not. A semiconductor device includes a stress test circuit and a stress test decision circuit. The stress test circuit outputs control signals for executing the stress test to the stress test decision circuit and the object for testing. The stress test decision circuit then outputs the decision results if the stress test was performed, based on the control signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshikatsu JINBO
  • Publication number: 20090057857
    Abstract: A lead frame according to one aspect of the present invention is used for a resin-sealed-type semiconductor device and includes a first lead frame having a frame body part and a lead part, and a second lead frame having a frame body part and a lead part. The lead part of the first lead frame and the lead part of the second lead frame do not contact with each other and an inner lead part formed in the lead part of the first lead frame and an inner lead part formed in the lead part of the second lead frame are provided in substantially the same plane when the frame body part of the first lead frame and the frame body part of the second lead frame are laminated together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiharu KANEDA
  • Publication number: 20090059351
    Abstract: A demodulator and demodulation method includes an optical coupler configured to receive an input signal. The optical coupler couples the signal to an even number of branches. Each branch including at least one interferometer configured to split, combine and interfere with an optical signal from one of within the branch or from another branch. A common optical delay is disposed on one of every two branches between the optical coupler and the interferometer of the branch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: LEI XU, TING WANG, JIANJUN YU, PHILIP NAN JI, YUTAKA YANO