| Furuno Electric Company, Ltd. Patent applications |
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| 20100030080 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF DIAGNOSING BONE STRENGTH - A bone strength diagnostic device includes a wave-transmission module for deriving a speed of sound that transmits an ultrasonic wave from a wave-transmission transducer for deriving the speed of sound obliquely to a bone covered with soft tissues; a wave-reception module for deriving the speed of sound that receives, with a plurality of wave-reception transducers for deriving the speed of sound, the ultrasonic wave that exits from the bone to the side of the soft tissues, the ultrasonic wave being received after it is transmitted from the wave-transmission module for deriving the speed of sound and propagating along a front surface of the bone; a shape detection module for detecting the shape of the front surface of the bone; and a speed-of-sound deriving module for deriving the speed of sound of the ultrasonic wave that propagates along the front surface of the bone, based on the received wave signals, using the wave-reception module for deriving the speed of sound, and the shape of the front surface of the bone detected using the shape detection module. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20090030612 | GPS-based attitude determination system with self-diagnosis function - A GPS-Based ADS for determining attitude and heading of a moving body comprises a GPS receiver, an inertial sensor unit, a blockage area calculator, a sensor anomaly detector and a monitor. The GPS-Based ADS provides information useful for making a judgment on appropriateness of installation sites and mounting conditions of a GPS antenna and inertial sensors based on blockage area information concerning each satellite signal blockage area obtained by the blockage area calculator and sensor signal anomaly information concerning each inertial sensor anomaly obtained by the sensor anomaly detector. | 01-29-2009 |
