Patents by Inventor Tadashi Nakamura

Tadashi Nakamura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7471434
    Abstract: A common photodetecting unit detects a plurality of beams scanned by a plurality of polyhedral reflection mirrors provided in a multiple stages with a common rotation axis, and generates a synchronization detection signal based on detected beams. The reflection mirrors make a predetermined angle ?1 in a direction of rotation of the reflection mirrors. When time between two consecutive synchronization detection signals on a time line generated by the common photodetecting unit is ti, where i is a positive integer equal to or smaller than number of split beams, at least one of ti is different from others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakamura, Yoshinori Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20080308304
    Abstract: A multilayer wiring board employs a thin insulating substrate having substantially only resin flow as the compression property effect, and has an any-layer IVH structure where at least one core layer is formed without burying wiring. For sufficiently securing an effective compression amount of the crush-allowance of a conductor, the ratio of the thickness of a cover film to that of the electrical insulating substrate is increased, and a via can be formed in the core layer without burying the wiring in the insulating substrate. Thus, a multilayer wiring board having an any-layer IVH structure that can achieve high-density component mountability and wiring storability in an extremely small thickness can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakamura, Fumio Echigo, Shogo Hirai
  • Publication number: 20080304382
    Abstract: A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section at least performs a process including: allocating a contiguous area to a specific location in the user data area other than the location specified by the recording instruction; controlling the recording/reproduction section to record the data in the allocated contiguous area; and generating new disc management information including first replacement management information for mapping a start location of the contiguous area specified by the recording instruction to a start location of the allocated contiguous area and second replacement management information for mapping an end location of the contiguous area specified by the recording instruction to an end location of the allocated contiguous area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080304377
    Abstract: A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section at least performs a process including: receiving a reproduction instruction; determining whether or not the reproduction of a latest replacement management information list has failed in response to the reproduction instruction; controlling the recording/reproduction section to reproduce location information before replacement recorded in the spare area and the user data area when the reproduction of the latest replacement management information list is determined to have failed; generating the latest replacement management information list based on the reproduced location information before replacement; and controlling the recording/reproduction section to record the latest replacement management information list at a predetermined location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080279063
    Abstract: A drive apparatus of the present invention includes: a recording/reproduction section, a drive control section and a memory circuit. The drive control section performs a process including: receiving a recording instruction specifying at least data to be recorded; storing the data to be recorded in the memory circuit; defining data from a start location of the data stored in the memory circuit to a location corresponding to a next writable address as a first data portion; defining data from the location corresponding to the next writable address to an end location of the data stored in the memory circuit as a second data portion; and controlling the recording/reproduction section to record the second data portion before recording the first data portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDSUTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080273448
    Abstract: A drive apparatus of the present invention includes: a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section performs a process including: receiving a recording instruction including a location at which data is to be recorded; determining a track among at least one tracks corresponding to the location included in the recording instruction; controlling the recording/reproduction section to record data at a replacement location in the user data area instead of the location included in the recording instruction; determining whether or not the recording of the data at the replacement location in the user data area has succeeded; and when the recording of the data at the replacement location in the user data area has failed, controlling the recording/reproduction section to record the data at a location in the spare area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080259754
    Abstract: A recording apparatus for recording information on a write-once recording medium, the write-once recording medium including a disk management information area and a volume space, the recording apparatus including: a host apparatus; and a drive apparatus, the host apparatus including: a first instruction section for instructing the drive apparatus to allocate at least one first track and at least one second track to the volume space; a second instruction section for instructing the drive apparatus to record a file on the at least one first track; a third instruction section for instructing the drive apparatus to record a file structure on the at least one second track, the file structure managing the file; a fourth instruction section for instructing the drive apparatus to record a virtual allocation table structure in the volume space, the virtual allocation table structure managing a recording location of the file structure; and a fifth instruction section for instructing the drive apparatus to record track
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakamura, Yoshiho Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20080259751
    Abstract: A recording apparatus for recording second information on a write-once recording medium having first information recorded thereon, the recording apparatus including: a host apparatus; and a drive apparatus, wherein the host apparatus includes a storage section for storing the second information; and an instruction section for instructing the drive apparatus to record the stored second information on the write-once recording medium, the drive apparatus includes a generation section for generating correlation information for correlating the first information and the second information; a head section for recording the second information on the write-once recording medium; and a control section for controlling the head section to record the second information and the correlation information on the write-once recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakamura, Yoshiho Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20080259744
    Abstract: The drive apparatus of the present invention includes: a recording/reproduction section; and a drive control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080218829
    Abstract: In an optical scanning apparatus, an aperture is provided between a semiconductor laser in a light source unit and an oscillating mirror, and between a cylindrical lens and the oscillating mirror. When a light beam from the semiconductor laser comes into an reflection surface of the oscillating mirror, the optical scanning apparatus is configured to limit a beam width of the light beam to a width appropriate to the reflection surface, and then to ensure an irradiation position of the light beam in a main-scanning direction to come into the reflection surface of the oscillating mirror, by causing the light beam to pass through an opening of the aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventor: Tadashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20080212431
    Abstract: A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section performs a process including: determining a first track of the plurality of tracks, based on the physical address corresponding to the logical address included in the recording instruction and the track management information; determining whether or not the first track is a closed track; when the first track is determined to be the closed track, performing a process including: determining a second track different from the first track, the second track being an open track; determining as a next writable address a physical address indicating a location at which data can be recorded next in the second track, based on the last recorded address in the second track; pseudo-overwrite recording the data at the next writable address as a replacement location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080204305
    Abstract: On adjusting a target specification data error predicted value so as to become larger on detecting maneuver of a target, the target specification data error predicted value is adjusted, in consideration of type of the maneuver and a course of the target, so as to make a direction of varying specification data large and to make a direction of constant specification data small. It is therefore possible to quickly recover a delay of the following of the varying specification data and to avoid increasing an error of the constant specification data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, NIPPON AVIONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken KINOSHITA, Tadashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20080204841
    Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a deflecting unit, a first sensor, and a modulating system. The deflecting unit deflects a plurality of beams in a main scanning direction to a writing area of a surface to be scanned for scanning the writing area. The first sensor detects a beam to be incident on a point on a first side of the writing area, and outputs a signal in response to detected beam. The modulating system modulates the beams in synchronization with the signal output from the first sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Seizo SUZUKI, Yoshinori Hayashi, Tadashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080198710
    Abstract: A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080192323
    Abstract: An optical scanning device includes, in an effective scanning area in the target surface, a mechanism that causes a scanning speed at each scanning position with respect to a scanning speed at an approximately center in the effective scanning area to be within a range under a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakamura, Tomohiro Nakajima, Shigeaki Imai
  • Publication number: 20080149966
    Abstract: Buffers are arranged in a concentrated manner in a region distant from pads. The region refers to a region in a main region of a semiconductor integrated circuit, except for a central processing unit, a non-volatile memory and a volatile memory. As the buffer requiring a large area is not provided around the pad, a pitch between the pads or a pitch between the pad and an internal circuit (such as the central processing unit) can be made smaller and hence a chip size can be reduced. Therefore, a semiconductor integrated circuit capable of achieving a reduced chip size can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: RENESAS TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakamura, Kiyohiko Sakakibara, Yutaka Takikawa
  • Patent number: 7386553
    Abstract: A data processor includes a stream assembling section which divides video and audio data into a plurality of packets, and makes a plurality of data units, in each of which a video packet representing a fraction of the video data and an audio packet representing a fraction of the audio data are multiplexed together to generate a data stream composed of a plurality of data units; and a writing section for writing the data stream on a storage medium. The stream assembling section determines what video packets and audio packets are included in each data unit, and if a portion of audio data, which is associated with the video data stored in a predetermined data unit, is missing from the predetermined data unit, then copied data, obtained by copying partial audio data including at least that missing portion of the audio data, is put into the data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Itoh, Osamu Okauchi, Tadashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080130433
    Abstract: A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section, a drive control section and a memory circuit. The drive control section performs a process including: receiving a next writable logical address request instruction at least specifying the track; determining a size of the at least one data to be recorded stored in the memory circuit; determining as a next writable address a physical address indicating a location at which data can be recorded next in the track specified by the next writable logical address request instruction, based on a last recorded address in the track specified by the next writable logical address request instruction and the size of the at least one data to be recorded; translating the next writable address into a next writable logical address; and outputting the next writable logical address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7383039
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes ID control equipment, a operation control unit, line controller, pieces of base station, and radio terminals. In the radio communication system, environment information about identification information (IDs) etc. set for the radio terminals is managed effectively. In the ID control equipment, an ID information setting means sets information about IDs for the radio terminals. In the ID control equipment, the operation control unit or the line controller, an ID information storage unit (e.g. memory 4) stores the information about IDs set for the radio terminals by the ID control equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakamura, Hidetoshi Nishiyama, Koichi Kawahata
  • Publication number: 20080121416
    Abstract: In a case of multilayer circuit boards where a plurality of conventional films are used as insulating layers, the films are connected with each other using an adhesive, and therefore, the adhesive sometimes negatively affects reduction in thickness. Therefore, a plurality of two-sided boards with films used therein are pasted together with a paste connection layer interposed therebetween, the paste connection layer being configured such that through holes formed in a prepreg are filled in with a conductive paste which is then cured, and second wires are electrically connected with each other through the conductive paste with which the through holes formed in the paste connection layer in advance are filled in, and thus, a multilayer board can be provided without using an adhesive, and the entirety of the multilayer circuit board can be reduced in thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Hirai, Fumio Echigo, Tadashi Nakamura, Toshio Sugawa