| National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology Patent applications |
| Patent application number | Title | Published |
|---|
| 20120099401 | SENSOR AND SENSING METHOD - A sensor and sensing method are provided in which a ghost which significantly occurs when only higher frequencies are present can be reduced, and a high directivity which is not obtained when only lower frequencies are present can be obtained. A sensor | 04-26-2012 |
| 20110301876 | TACTILE SENSOR UNIT, ROBOT INCLUDING THE TACTILE SENSOR UNIT, AND LOAD CALCULATION METHOD - A tactile sensor unit is provided, which includes a substrate; a coat formed on the substrate; and a cantilever beam structure having one end fixed to the substrate and curved to rise in such a direction that the other end of the cantilever beam structure is farther from the substrate than the one end. The tactile sensor unit detects a load applied to the coat. The cantilever beam structure is capable of resonating at a first resonant frequency and a second resonant frequency which is different from the first resonant frequency. The tactile sensor unit further includes a computation section for calculating a directional component of the load based on a change ratio of the first resonant frequency obtained in accordance with a change in the load and a change ratio of the second resonant frequency obtained in accordance with the change in the load. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110292402 | INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING INTERFERENCE - An embodiment of the present invention realizes an interference measurement apparatus which can obtain an interference image to be used for obtaining three-dimensional information of a subject which dynamically changes. An interference measurement apparatus of the present invention, which captures an interference image formed by the reference light beam and the object light beam which has reached the image-capturing element via a subject, the interference measurement apparatus includes: a laser light source; a beam splitter which splits a laser beam into a reference light beam and an object light beam; and an image-capturing element; a polarization splitting section which splits the object light beam into two types of object light beams which are different in polarization direction so that an angular difference is caused between respective propagation directions of the two types of object light beams; and a polarizer array device which allows (i) the reference light beam and (ii) the two types of object light beams which have reached the polarizer array device via the subject to pass through the polarizer array device ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110250456 | COMPOSITE MOLDED ARTICLE HAVING TWO-LAYER STRUCTURE - The present invention has an object of providing a molded article of a composite structure obtained by bonding a polar thermoplastic resin, especially polyacetal, with another resin in a simple manner. According to the present invention, a molded article of a composite structure obtained by bonding a polar thermoplastic resin and a resin containing an aliphatic ester structure as a main component to each other in the state where at least a face at which both of the materials contact each other is in a melted state can be provided. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110198016 | FIBER REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN MOLDING - The present invention provides thermoplastic resin molding fiber that is reinforced with natural fiber. The natural fiber is linen fiber to be twisted into spun yarns, and the spun yarns are pulled parallel in at least one direction and are molded integrally with a thermoplastic resin. The linen fiber is flax yarn (linen) fiber molded into the fiber thermoplastic resin molding by a film-stacking method in which a thermoplastic resin film is melted and compressed while having an equilibrium moisture regain. Consequently, the thermoplastic resin molding reinforced with a plant fiber of the present application poses no environmental problem, has a high strength, and has a uniform physical property. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110185527 | POLYACETAL-CONTAINING BRUSH - The object is to provide a brush which does not easily damage metal during contact therewith. The present invention can provide a brush formed using polyacetal-containing filaments, in which the flexural rigidity per filament is 1 to 100 μg·m | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110009518 | Photosetting type bio-based coating composition and its coated article - There are provided a photosetting type bio-based coating composition and its coated article, wherein the coating composition has a sufficient hydrolysis resistance and a sufficient crosslinking density so as to be excellent in such as long-term stability, and is inexpensive, and is applicable also to an aqueous solvent. The photosetting type bio-based coating composition according to the present invention is characterized by comprising: a bio-based photopolymerizable compound as a film-forming ingredient which compound has at least one lactic acid unit and at least one photopolymerizable group together in a molecule; and a photopolymerization initiator. The coated article according to the present invention is characterized by being obtained by being coated with the aforementioned coating composition. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20100249315 | Bio-based coating composition and its coated article - There are provided: a bio-based coating composition which is a bio-based ingredient coating composition in consideration of environment and does not need any expensive ingredient and is also excellent in hydrolysis resistance; and an article coated with the coating composition. The bio-based coating composition is characterized by comprising the following film-forming ingredients: a lactic acid polymer (A) which contains a polyfunctional compound having a hydroxyl group and/or a carboxyl group in a functionality of not less than 3 and lactic acid as essential monomer ingredients and has a specific SP value; and a resin (B) which contains a hydroxyl group and/or a carboxyl group and has a specific SP value; wherein the difference (ΔSP) between the SP values of the lactic acid polymer (A) and the resin (B) is in the range of 0.2 to 4.0. The coated article is characterized by being obtained by being coated with the aforementioned coating composition. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100234730 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device ( | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100216651 | VIRAL POLYHEDRA COMPLEXES AND METHODS OF USE - Cypoviruses and baculoviruses are notoriously difficult to eradicate because the virus particles are embedded in micron-sized protein crystals called polyhedra. The remarkable stability of polyhedra means that like bacterial spores these insect viruses remain infectious for years in soil. Although these unique in vivo protein crystals have been extensively characterized since the early 1900s, their atomic organization remains elusive. Here we describe the 2 crystal structure of both recombinant and infectious silkworm cypovirus polyhedra determined using 5-12 micron crystals purified from insect cells. These are the smallest crystals yet used for de novo X-ray protein structure determination. It was found that polyhedra are made of trimers of the viral polyhedrin protein and contain nucleotides. Although the shape of these building blocks is reminiscent of some capsid trimers, polyhedrin has a new fold and has evolved to assemble in vivo into 3-D cubic crystals rather than icosahedral shells. The polyhedrin trimers are extensively cross-linked in polyhedra by non-covalent interactions and pack with an exquisite molecular complementarity similar to that of antigen-antibody complexes. The resulting ultra-stable and sealed crystals shield the virus particles from environmental damage. The structure suggests that polyhedra can serve as the basis for the development of robust and versatile nanoparticles for biotechnological applications such as in cell culture systems, microarrays and biopesticides. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100203332 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE FIBER AND POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE FIBER - The present invention provides a method for producing a PTFE fiber that makes it possible, unlike the emulsion spinning process, to obtain a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) fiber, particularly a long PTFE fiber, without using a matrix material, is more productive than conventional production methods such as a slit yarn process, and is capable of enhancing mechanical properties and the degree of freedom in diameter of the obtained fiber. The method for producing the PTFE fiber of the present invention includes the step of reducing a diameter of a string-shape PTFE-containing solid material (a first solid material) by drawing the first solid material at a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point of PTFE. The first solid material can be obtained from a PTFE-containing solid material (a second solid material) containing water and a surfactant, by reducing an amount of the water contained in the second solid material. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20090279768 | IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION DEVICE, IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD, IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION PROGRAM, AND CT APPARATUS - A computerized tomography apparatus and program for obtaining a cross-sectional image corresponding to projections are provided in which, for a temporary cross-sectional image f(x, y) obtained in some manner, an evaluation function E is defined which includes differences between projections calculated from f(x, y) and measured projections, and f(x, y) is changed in a manner which substantially decreases E. The computerized tomography apparatus and program are characterized in which a back projection operation, which is required by conventional computerized tomography, is not essentially required. The computerized tomography apparatus and program are particularly effective in removal or reduction of metal artifacts, aliasing artifacts and the like. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090045119 | POROUS POLYMER AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a polymeric porous material characterized in that: the porous material has a bimodal pore size distribution attributable to macropores having a pore size of at least 50 nm and mesopores having a pore size of from 2 nm to less than 50 nm, the proportion of the specific surface area of the macropores to the specific surface area of all pores of the porous material is at least 10%, and the porous material is produced by (1) polymerizing a monomer in the presence of a polymerization initiator using as a porogen a solution obtained by dissolving a polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of at least 100,000 and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of not more than 1.5 in a good solvent for the monomer, and (2) removing the porogen from the resultant product. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20080287021 | SMC SHEET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A SMC sheet includes: a sheet material body made of a resin compound containing uncured thermosetting resin; and a fiber sheet embedded as an intermediate layer in the sheet material body and impregnated with the thermosetting resin of the sheet material body. Short fiber is distributed on at least one side of the fiber sheet in the sheet material body. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080277670 | SiC crystal and semiconductor device - The present invention discloses a SiC crystal, comprising: acceptor impurities that are in a concentration greater than 5×10 | 11-13-2008 |
