Hitachi patents granted on 22 April 2014

42 US patents granted on 22 April 2014 and assigned to Hitachi

1 D703,160 Grounded electrode for a plasma processing apparatus
2 8,707,096 Storage system, data backup method, and system restarting method of a storage system incorporating volatile and nonvolatile memory devices
3 8,707,090 Storage system
4 8,707,004 Computer system and storage consolidation management method
5 8,706,986 Load equalizing storage controller and control method for the same
6 8,706,963 Storage managing system, computer system, and storage managing method
7 8,706,961 Storage apparatus and data management method
8 8,706,892 Communication system and server
9 8,706,870 Remotely managed device
10 8,706,859 Method and apparatus of data center file system
11 8,706,850 Computer system and configuration management method therefor
12 8,706,714 File aggregation method and information processing system using the same
13 8,706,338 Electric vehicle with pitch control device
14 8,705,965 Method of recovery from sleep state of an ONU in a PON system capable of power saving
15 8,705,841 Pattern inspection method, pattern inspection apparatus and pattern processing apparatus
16 8,705,796 Obstacle detection device
17 8,705,699 Mobile X-ray device
18 8,705,686 Adjustable hard stops for nuclear reactor restrainer brackets and methods of using the same
19 8,705,682 Feedwater temperature control methods and systems
20 8,705,386 Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method
21 8,705,328 Read signal evaluation method, information recording and reading method, and information recording and reading apparatus
22 8,705,327 Head for thermal assisted magnetic recording device, and thermal assisted magnetic recording device
23 8,705,325 Thermal-assisted magnetic recording head capable of supressing the temperature rise of scatterer
24 8,705,026 Inspection apparatus
25 8,705,024 Wavefront aberration measuring method and device therefor
26 8,704,735 Display method of plasma display apparatus and plasma display apparatus
27 8,704,663 Work direction determining method and device, and work provided with direction determining function
28 8,704,291 Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
29 8,704,177 Electron microscope, electron-microscope image-reconstruction system and electron-microscope image-reconstruction method
30 8,704,175 Scanning electron microscope
31 8,704,166 Ion trap type mass spectrometer and mass spectrometry
32 8,703,056 Automated analyzer and device for opening/closing the lids of reagent vessels
33 8,702,949 Capillary electrophoresis apparatus
34 8,702,933 Potentiometric sensor and analytical element
35 8,702,560 Construction machine
36 8,702,061 Hydraulic circuit for counterweight attaching/detaching device
37 8,701,979 Cabling work aiding system and work aiding method
38 8,701,621 Four-cycle engine, bush cutter and engine-driven tool having same
39 8,701,619 Internal combustion engine piston
40 8,701,504 Automatic analyzer and sample-processing system
41 8,701,492 Ultrasonic measurement method, ultrasonic measurement apparatus, and ultrasonic sensor
42 8,701,387 Exhaust gas treatment device