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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160121024 | BONE DEFECT FILLING MATERIAL, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - Rebuilding a defected bone by activating the innate self-regeneration ability of bone requires a considerably long period of time. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a bone defect filling material that initiates a bone rebuilding activity as quickly as possible after implantation and thereafter remains in the defect to continue promoting bone formation activity until sufficient bone formation has been achieved for the rebuilding of the defect. The present invention provides a cotton-like bone defect filling material comprising biodegradable fibers produced by electrospinning. The biodegradable fibers contain 40-60 wt % of calcium phosphate particles and 10 wt % or more of silicon-releasing calcium carbonate particles, with the remainder containing 30 wt % or more of poly(L-lactic acid) polymer, and the amount of the poly(L-lactic acid) polymer that is non-crystalline is 75-98%. | 05-05-2016 |
20140242473 | ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION FOR MAGNESIUM BATTERY AND MAGNESIUM BATTERY CONTAINING THIS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION - Provided is an electrolyte solution for a magnesium battery, containing a mesoionic compound represented by the following general formula (1): | 08-28-2014 |
20140203752 | POSITIONING CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ACTUATOR PROVIDED WITH WAVE GEAR DEVICE - A positioning control system for an actuator provided with a strain wave gearing is provided with: a semi-closed feedback controller FB(s) that controls a load shaft position θ | 07-24-2014 |
20140084203 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MATERIAL FOR AT LEAST ANY ONE OF AN ENERGY DEVICE AND AN ELECTRICAL STORAGE DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a material for at least any one of an energy device and an electrical storage device, the method being able to form a dense nanostructure, and the material for at least any one of an energy device and an electrical storage device. Disclosed is a method for producing a material for at least any one of an energy device and an electrical storage device, the method including the steps of: treating a raw material including a vitrifiable element with alkali, and solidifying the alkali-treated raw material in a temperature condition of 15 to 30° C. | 03-27-2014 |
20140074153 | INSERTION DEVICE, TRAINING DEVICE, AND RECORDING SYSTEM - This insertion device is an insertion device for inserting a medical linear body ( | 03-13-2014 |
20130320774 | RESONANCE COIL, ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, ELECTRIC POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A resonance coil includes plural unit coils where directions of magnetic fields which are formed by flowing of electric current are the same, in which the plural unit coils are arranged around a coil center line, and when the resonance coil is seen in a direction of the coil center line, the coil wire that forms the resonance coil is formed so as not to be overlapped. | 12-05-2013 |
20130234509 | COIL UNIT, CONTACTLESS POWER TRANSFER APPARATUS, VEHICLE, AND CONTACTLESS POWER FEEDING SYSTEM - A coil unit includes a second self-resonant coil electromagnetically resonating with a spaced, first self-resonant coil to perform at least one of transmitting power to the first self-resonant coil and receiving power from the first self-resonant coil, the second self-resonant coil including a first coil and a plurality of second coils provided inside the first coil, the direction of a magnetic field formed by the first coil is the same as those formed by the second coils. | 09-12-2013 |
20130209915 | ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION FOR LITHIUM BATTERY, LITHIUM BATTERY INCLUDING ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION, ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION FOR LITHIUM AIR BATTERY, AND LITHIUM AIR BATTERY INCLUDING ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION - An electrolyte solution for a lithium battery contains 1-butyl-3-methyltetrazolium-5-olate represented by formula (1). | 08-15-2013 |
20130167893 | THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION MATERIAL - A thermoelectric material has a Heusler alloy type crystal structure and is based on an Fe | 07-04-2013 |
20130127411 | COIL UNIT, NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, NON-CONTACT POWER RECEIVING APPARATUS, VEHICLE, AND NON-CONTACT POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM - A coil unit includes a second resonance coil that has a plurality of unit coils and performs at least one of transmission and reception of electric power to and from a first resonance coil spaced apart from the second resonance coil via electromagnetic resonance with the first resonance coil. The directions of magnetic fields formed by the unit coils are the same. | 05-23-2013 |
20130004061 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE - An image processing device includes a texture component up-sampling portion for up-sampling a texture component of an input image and a component mixing portion for mixing an up-sampled structure component of the input image and the up-sampled texture component obtained by the texture component up-sampling portion, wherein the texture component up-sampling portion up-samples the texture component by means of a learning-based method using a reference image. | 01-03-2013 |
20120326499 | POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND POWER SUPPLY DEVICE FOR VEHICLES - A power transmission system has an AC power source and a high-frequency power driver that make up a high-frequency power source, and a primary self-resonant coil and a secondary self-resonant coil. The secondary self-resonant coil is magnetically coupled, by magnetic field resonance, to the primary self-resonant coil, and receives as a result high-frequency power from the primary self-resonant coil. The coils of the primary self-resonant coil and the secondary self-resonant coil resonate in an even mode when high-frequency power is transmitted from the primary self-resonant coil to the secondary self-resonant coil. Specifically, the primary self-resonant coil and the secondary self-resonant coil resonate in a state where currents in mutually opposite directions flow in the two coils. | 12-27-2012 |
20120315319 | GUIDED BONE REGENERATION MEMBRANE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A guided bone regeneration material is disclosed. The guided bone regeneration material includes biodegradable fibers produced by an electro spinning method. The biodegradable fibers produced by the method include a silicon-releasing calcium carbonate and a biodegradable polymer. The silicon-releasing calcium carbonate is a composite of siloxane and calcium carbonate of vaterite phase. The biodegradable fibers may be coated with apatite. When the guided bone regeneration material is immersed in a neutral aqueous solution, silicon species ions are eluted from the calcium carbonate. The guided bone regeneration material excels in bone reconstruction ability. | 12-13-2012 |
20120271459 | POSITIONING APPARATUS FOR ACTUATOR WITH WAVE GEAR DEVICE - In a positioning apparatus for an actuator, a sliding mode controller for compensating for nonlinear characteristics of a wave gear device of the actuator generates a control input u to a controlled object, based on a position command θ | 10-25-2012 |
20120223600 | ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE - A rotary electric machine includes a rotor core, a stator, a field yoke, and a field winding. The rotor core is fixed to a rotary shaft, which includes a magnetic body for forming a magnetic path, and magnetic salient poles. The stator has teeth and a stator winding wound around the teeth by concentrated winding. A slot is formed between adjacent ones of the teeth in a circumferential direction. The field yoke magnetically connects the stator and the magnetic body. The field winding is located in proximity to at least one of the winding ends of the stator winding in an axial direction of the rotary shaft. The field winding generates a magnetic pole on the magnetic salient poles when energized. | 09-06-2012 |
20120209146 | SOFT TISSUE ELASTICITY DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT METHOD AND SOFT TISSUE ELASTICITY DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT DEVICE - An aspiration chamber is provided with an aspiration aperture, having a shape in which a width becomes larger from one edge toward another edge, and aspirates soft tissue through the aspiration aperture. A deformation amount measurement portion measures aspiration deformation amounts of the soft tissue within the aspiration aperture along a virtual line from the one edge to another edge. Based on the aspiration deformation amounts that have been measured by the deformation amount measurement portion, a computer uses a finite element model of the soft tissue to derive an approximation equation according to a numerical function for the aspiration deformation amounts and positions on the virtual line and determines a distribution of elasticity from the surface of the soft tissue into its interior by substituting parameters of the approximation equation into estimation equations that are derived by assuming that the deformation along the virtual line reflects elasticity distribution parameters. | 08-16-2012 |
20120188192 | TACTILE DISPLAY AND CAD SYSTEM - A tactile device of a tactile display slides above an object. The tactile device comprises three rods which are free to move up and down. Lower ends of the rods are in contact with a surface of the object. Upper ends of respective rods touch a palmar-side skin equivalent to positions of three joints of a first finger or a second finger. When the tactile device is slid, upper ends of respective rods move up and down in accordance with a surface relief of the object. In response to the movement of the tactile device, the three rods push three finger joint positions of the palmar-side skin with a stroke equal to a height of the relief. | 07-26-2012 |
20120160767 | ADDITIVE USED IN A MEMBRANE-SEPARATION ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS - In order to provide a means that can process organic wastewater via a membrane-separation activated sludge process that is stable over a long period of time, by reducing the quantity of biological polymers that can cause permeability problems, an additive is provided that is added to the activated sludge when treating organic wastewater via a membrane-separation activated sludge process. Said additive contains microorganisms that decompose polysaccharides. | 06-28-2012 |
20120137889 | BUBBLE REMOVAL METHOD AND BUBBLE REMOVAL DEVICE - A bubble removal method is for removing a bubble from liquid whose viscosity is reduced when shear occurs. A vessel, including a liquid inlet and multiple liquid outlets, whose volumetric capacity is variable and a means for giving resistance to the passage of liquid between the inside and the outside of the vessel are used. The liquid is passed through the vessel against resistance and the volumetric capacity of the vessel is increased and reduced. The interior of the vessel is depressurized and pressurized by the means for giving resistance to the passage of liquid in conjunction with increase and reduction in the volumetric capacity of the vessel. | 06-07-2012 |
20120136090 | FIBER WADDING FOR FILLING BONE DEFECTS - A fiber wadding for filling bone defects having a flocculent three-dimensional structure is disclosed. The fiber wadding includes a plurality of fibers that contain a biodegradable resin as a principal component and a siloxane. Outside diameter of the plurality of fibers of the wadding is from about 0.05 μm to about 30 μm. Bulk density of the fiber wadding is about 0.005-0.3 g/cm | 05-31-2012 |
20120075878 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE - Three-dimensional information is presented directly on the surface of a target three-dimensional object without using a display device such as a display monitor and an HUD. Spatially coded light patterns are projected from two projectors on a target object surface. The light projected from the two projectors are added up on the object surface to produce unified color and luminance. On the object surface, light is simply added up, so that a pattern whose color and brightness correspond to distance and height appears. Hence, a distance to an object or a three-dimensional shape of an object can be highlighted by the color and brightness presented on the object for perception by human beings. | 03-29-2012 |
20110319771 | VITAL LUMINAL PART EVALUATING APPARATUS - A pressure vessel is provided with an annular inflation bag and an annular inflation bag for sealing the pressure vessel at intermediate positions of brachium and antebrachium of the live body in longitudinal direction of the arms of the live body, and is configured to permit a change of an internal pressure therein over a pressure range a lower limit of which is a negative value, while a portion of the brachium and antebrachium between first and second positions in the longitudinal direction is accommodated in the pressure vessel, so that the pressure vessel can be comparatively small-sized even where arterial vessel (luminal part) of a comparatively large diameter is accommodated in the pressure vessel, whereby the physical and mental burden on the subject person can be reduced. | 12-29-2011 |
20110245922 | MATERIAL FOR FILLING BONE DEFECTS AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A material for filling bone defects has a flocculent three-dimensional structure composed of a fibrous substance containing a biodegradable resin as a principal component and further containing a siloxane. The material is produced by dissolving or suspending a substance in a solvent to give a solution or slurry of the substance, the substance containing the biodegradable resin as a principal component and further containing the siloxane, the solution or slurry having such a viscosity as to form a fibrous substance having an average diameter of 10 μm or more; and carrying out electrospinning of the solution or slurry, in which the electrospinning is performed with air blowing. The flocculent three-dimensional structure is expected to show high cell invasion efficiency, because a two-dimensionally structured nonwoven fabric shows high cell invasion efficiency when it has an average diameter of 10 μm or more. | 10-06-2011 |
20110241598 | ELECTRIC MOTOR DRIVING DEVICE AND VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - An electric motor driving device that drives an electric motor including a field winding, a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor and the stator each foam a field pole by passing a field current through the field winding, includes: a power supply device; a converter including a reactor that at least partially serves as the field winding shared with the electric motor, and configured to receive a voltage from the power supply device to carry out voltage conversion between first and second power lines and to pass the field current through the field winding during voltage conversion operation; an inverter configured to convert a direct-current power received from the converter to an alternating-current power for driving the electric motor; and a controller controlling the converter so that a current flows through the field winding in the same direction both during power running and regeneration of the electric motor. | 10-06-2011 |
20110239551 | Self-centering compact damper unit applicable to structures for seismic energy dissipation - The damper unit | 10-06-2011 |
20110198218 | CERAMIC ELECTRODE MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A corrosion-resistant ceramic electrode material includes ceramic particles and, present between them, a three-dimensional network electroconducting path composed of a reductively fired product of a carbon-containing polymeric compound. This material is manufactured by a method in which a polymerization reaction of a polymerizable monomer previously contained in a ceramic slurry is performed to gel the ceramic slurry to thereby give a green body; and after drying and degreasing, the green body is fired in a reducing atmosphere. | 08-18-2011 |
20110188958 | CUTTING METHOD - There is provided a cutting method for cutting a work by rotating a rotary tool with a circular cutting edge around an axis while a cutting fluid is supplied thereto. Cutting is performed by means of the rotary tool which is rotated in the same rotational direction as an outflow direction of chips, and the rotary tool is rotated at a rotational speed of the rotary tool at which a circumferential speed of the cutting edge is higher than an outflow speed of the chips. Thus, the area of direct solid contact between the rotary tool and the chips is reduced with the aid of a dynamic pressure effect, and the abrasion of the rotary tool is suppressed. | 08-04-2011 |
20110087340 | MOVING OBJECT FEED-FORWARD CONTROL METHOD - In a case where a position command path for a control position of a load | 04-14-2011 |
20110060413 | GUIDED BONE REGENERATION MEMBRANE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A guided bone regeneration membrane has a bilayer structure including a first nonwoven fabric layer and a second nonwoven fabric layer. The first nonwoven fabric layer includes a fibrous substance containing a biodegradable resin as a principal component and further containing a siloxane, and the second nonwoven fabric layer includes a fibrous substance containing a biodegradable resin as a principal component. The first and second nonwoven fabric layers are electrospun nonwoven fabric layers, and the fibrous substance constituting the second nonwoven fabric layer has an average diameter smaller than that of the fibrous substance constituting the first nonwoven fabric layer. Specifically, the fibrous substance constituting the second nonwoven fabric layer preferably has an average diameter of more than 0 μm and equal to or less than 5 μm. | 03-10-2011 |
20110054820 | METHOD FOR COMPENSATING FOR ANGULAR TRANSMISSION ERROR OF WAVE GEAR DEVICE - A positioning system ( | 03-03-2011 |
20110053761 | SOLIDIFICATION METHOD OF CERAMIC POWDER AND SOLIDIFIED CERAMICS - [Object] Providing a solidified ceramic body with an improved mechanical strength, wherein the solidified ceramic body is fabricated by activating ceramic powder through mechanochemical treatment and solidifying the activated ceramic powder through alkali treatment. | 03-03-2011 |
20110040411 | POWER ASSIST DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A control method for a power assist device provided with an operation handle, a force sensor that detects an operation force applied to the operation handle and an orientation of the operation force, a robot arm, and an actuator. When the orientation of the operation force is detected to be within a predetermined angle range with respect to a preset advancing direction of the operation handle, the actuator is controlled so as to move the operation handle along the advancing direction by employing only a component of the operation force along the advancing direction; and when the orientation of the operation force is detected to be outside the predetermined angle range, the actuator is controlled to move the operation handle by the operation force applied to the operation handle and the orientation of the operation force. | 02-17-2011 |
20110015433 | Simple preparation of trifluoromethionine and derivatives thereof - Disclosed is a process for the simple preparation of trifluoromethionine, its analogs trifluoromethylcysteine, fluoroalkylhomocysteines, and fluoroalkylcysteines, and derivatives of them. These compounds are drug-candidate compounds or raw materials of drug-candidate compounds. Specifically, trifluoromethionine, trifluoromethylcysteine, a fluoroalkylhomocysteine, or a fluoroalkylcysteine is simply and conveniently prepared directly without passing through homocysteine or cysteine by adding metallic sodium to an optically active or racemic homocystine or cystine in liquid ammonia and further adding a fluoroalkyl iodide thereto under Birch reduction conditions. | 01-20-2011 |
20110009522 | MATERIAL FOR FILLING BONE DEFECTS AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a material for filling bone defects having a three-dimensional steric structure. This material is produced by dissolving or suspending a substance in a solvent to give a solution or slurry, the substance containing a biodegradable resin as a principal component and bearing a siloxane; adding water to the solution or slurry to give a spinning solution, the water having a relative dielectric constant larger than that of the biodegradable resin; subjecting the spinning solution to electrospinning while applying a positive charge to a collector by a voltage supply and grounding a nozzle of a syringe without applying a charge thereto; thereby yielding the material on the collector. | 01-13-2011 |
20110001127 | SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL, METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor material is provided comprising: a composition graded layer, formed on a Si substrate or an interlayer formed thereon, comprising a composition of Al | 01-06-2011 |
20100294020 | Method for detecting low concentration gas - Disclosed is a method for detecting a low concentration gas. In the method, a measurand gas containing the target gas in a concentration of 50 ppm or less is supplied to an oscillation element which contains a quartz crystal resonator and a zeolite including a metal complex (such as a zeolite including a cobalt phthalocyanine complex) present on or above the quartz crystal resonator. The target gas is then detected through a change in resonance frequency of the quartz crystal resonator, the change being caused by the adsorption of the target gas by the metal-complex-including zeolite. | 11-25-2010 |
20100119564 | Guided bone regeneration membrane and manufacturing method thereof - Disclosed is a guided bone regeneration membrane including a novel mechanism that effectively induces a bone reconstruction ability. The mechanism is provided by forming a bi-layered structure of a first nonwoven fabric layer containing a silicon-releasable calcium carbonate and a poly(lactic acid) as principal components and a second nonwoven fabric layer containing a poly(lactic acid) as a principal component; and coating the first nonwoven fabric layer with an apatite. The guided bone regeneration membrane is available by using a nonwoven fabric manufacturing technique through electrospinning and a simulated body fluid soaking technique. | 05-13-2010 |
20100094020 | POLYCATIONIZED PHOSPHOLIPID DERIVATIVES - The present invention provides novel phospholipid derivatives. Furthermore, the present invention provides lipid membrane structures excellent in gene/nucleic acid introduction efficiency into a cell. | 04-15-2010 |
20100076224 | NOVEL TRIHALOMETHIONINE DERIVATIVE AND PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT CONTAINING THE SAME - A compound represented by the formula (I) is used as an active ingredient in a medicament for treatment or prevention of infectious diseases caused by protozoa or bacterium. | 03-25-2010 |
20100071971 | DRIVE DEVICE OF ELECTRIC MOTOR - An electric motor ( | 03-25-2010 |
20100026584 | Microstrip array antenna - The microstrip array antenna includes a dielectric substrate formed with a conductive ground plate at a back surface thereof, and strip conductors formed on a front surface of the dielectric substrate. The strip conductors includes a linear main feeding strip line, and a plurality of array elements connected to the main feeding strip line, the array elements being disposed at least one of both sides of the main feeding strip line at a predetermined interval along a longitudinal direction of the main feeding strip line. Each of the array elements includes a sub-feeding strip line connected to the main feeding strip line, a rectangular radiating antenna element connected to a terminal end of the sub-feeding strip line, and a stub connected to the sub-feeding strip line. The stub is disposed between the main feeding strip line and the radiating antenna element. | 02-04-2010 |
20090218565 | RESISTANCE VARIABLE ELEMENT - A resistance variable element is provided, which is capable of performing bipolar operation by a specified mechanism and usable as a memory. The resistance variable element has a laminated structure including an electrode, an electrode, an oxide layer between the electrodes, and an oxide layer in contact with the oxide layer between the oxide layer and the electrode. The oxide layer is switchable from the low-resistance state to the high-resistance state by donating oxygen ions to the oxide layer, and from the high-resistance state to the low-resistance state by accepting oxygen ions from the oxide layer. The oxide layer is switchable from the low-resistance state to the high-resistance state by accepting oxygen ions from the oxide layer, and from the high-resistance state to the low-resistance state by donating oxygen ions to the oxide layer. | 09-03-2009 |
20090190651 | PWM SIGNAL GENERATOR, PWM SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE, AND DIGITAL AMPLIFIER - In a full digital amplifier for an audio amplifier or the like, it is possible to suppress the concentration of an electromagnetic noise emission spectrum at a specific frequency. A sampling period variation type digital filter is realized by varying the coefficient of a noise shaping filter for the delta-sigma modulator of the full digital amplifier depending on a sampling period. This allows the variation in the carrier frequency of the pulse width modulation. | 07-30-2009 |
20090176995 | Soluble fullerene derivatives - Disclosed are soluble diarylmethanofullerene derivatives that are effective as acceptors for organic thin-film solar batteries. They help to constitute effective organic thin-film solar batteries. | 07-09-2009 |
20090062506 | CATALYST USING HYDRAZONE COMPOUND, HYDRAZONE POLYMER COMPOUND, AND CATALYST USING HYDRAZONE POLYMER COMPOUND - A catalyst obtained by calcining a hydrazone metal complex in which at least one catalytic metal species is coordinated to a hydrazone compound represented by a General Formula (1) below, a hydrazone polymer compound including at least a structural unit derived from a hydrazone compound represented by the General Formula (1) below as a repeating unit, and a catalyst obtained by calcining a hydrazone polymer metal complex in which at least one catalytic metal species is coordinated to a hydrazone polymer compound including at least a structural unit derived from a hydrazone compound represented by the General Formula (1) below: | 03-05-2009 |
20090057603 | Urethane foam molded article, manufacturing method thereof, and magnetic induction foam molding apparatus - A magnetic induction foam molding apparatus comprising: a pair of electromagnet parts, each of which has a core part composed of a ferromagnet and a coil part placed on the outer circumference surface of the core part, and that are placed so as to face each other and depart from each other with a predetermined distance in the axis direction of the core part; a foaming mold interposed between the pair of electromagnet parts, inside which a cavity is defined; and a yoke part connecting back surfaces of the respective core parts of the pair of the electromagnet pats so as to form a magnetic path between a pair of the back surfaces. In the cavity of the foaming mold, a uniform magnetic field is formed. | 03-05-2009 |
20080306655 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR ELECTRIC POWER STEERING SYSTEM - There is provided a control apparatus that controls a motor of an electric power steering system to assist a steering effort of an operator. The control apparatus includes a sensor, a parameter computer, a difference computer, a target torque computer, and a motor driver. The parameter computer computes a current value of one of physical parameters of one of constituents of the electric power steering system based on a steering parameter determined by the sensor referring to an equation of motion. The difference computer computes a difference between the current value of the one of the physical parameters computed by the parameter computer and a predetermined value of the one of the physical parameters. The target torque computer computes a target torque of the motor which compensates for the difference between the current value and the predetermined value of the one of the physical parameters. | 12-11-2008 |