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Hitachi Computer Peripherals Co., Ltd.

71Patents
39Active
71Granted
47Portfolio score

Filing activity: Apr 20, 1987 → Feb 23, 2012 · 32 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6795322B2 Power supply with uninterruptible function Electricity 303 Expired
US4872009A Method and apparatus for data compression and restoration Electricity 115 Expired
US6959359B1 Software prefetch system and method for concurrently overriding data prefetched into multiple levels of cache Physics 45 Expired
US7106904B2 Form identification method Physics 43 Expired
US7694092B2 Storage subsystem and back-up/recovery method Physics 39 Active
US7053502B2 Power supply with uninterruptible function Electricity 34 Expired
US7495415B2 DC backup power supply system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired
US7157810B2 Backup power supply Electricity 27 Expired
US5777952A Thin bias magnet unit for magneto-optical recording device Physics 25 Expired
US6507507B2 DC power supply device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired
US5159503A Phase and period synchronization for a slave disk drive Physics 23 Expired
US4803572A Recording/reproducing method and apparatus of magnetic disk unit in which playback commences before the magnetic head is completely centered on the track Physics 22 Expired
US5689481A Method of accessing multifile storage medium and library system Physics 20 Expired
US6977448B2 Backup power supply Electricity 20 Expired
US5623607A Data transfer control method for controlling transfer of data through a buffer without causing the buffer to become empty or overflow Physics 18 Expired
US5657176A Method and apparatus for optimizing the recording and reproducing of information from magnetic disks Physics 17 Expired
US7848118B2 Bi-directional DC-DC converter and method for controlling the same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Active
US7840840B2 DC backup power supply system, a disk array and a DC backup power supply Electricity 16 Active
US7589436B2 Data processing unit and DC backup power supply Physics 15 Expired
US5530830A Disk array system Physics 15 Expired
US7245469B2 DC backup power supply device and method for diagnosing the same Electricity 15 Expired
US6643152B2 DC power supply device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Expired
US7406623B2 DC backup power supply system and disk array using same Electricity 12 Expired
US7812575B2 Bidirectional DC-DC converter and power supply apparatus with the same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US5860087A Data search method wherein the court-key-data (CKD) storage subsystem disconnects from the central processing unit when searching Physics 12 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.