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20090093908 | Target Position detection apparatus for robot - A target position detection apparatus for a robot includes: a robot including an arm configured to be freely moved in at least two directions of X and Y axes, the arm having a wrist axis provided at a distal end of the arm and configured to be freely moved in a horizontal direction, and the wrist axis being provided with an end effector; and a control unit adapted for driving a memory to store a teaching point therein and controlling an operation of the robot such that the end effector will be moved toward the teaching point stored in the memory. The control unit is further adapted for changing a pressing force of the end effector against a target by changing a control loop gain, and bringing the end effector into contact with the target, while setting the control loop gain of the wrist axis lower than a predetermined value at least from a position adjacent to the teaching point at which the target is located, so as to capture a position in a state in which the end effector is in contact with the target, thereby detecting the position of the target. | 04-09-2009 |
20100290886 | Robot having end effector and method of operating the same - The present invention relates to an end effector including: blade members for holding substrates, each configured to hold the substrate, and configured such that each interval between the blade members can be changed; a blade support unit configured to support the blade members, the blade support unit being configured to be driven integrally with the blade members by the robot; and blade drive means configured to change the interval between the blade members by moving at least one of the blade members relative to another blade member. | 11-18-2010 |
20110054683 | ARTICLE CARRIER ROBOT - An article carrier robot includes: a horizontal base; a horizontally movable unit supported by the horizontal base so as to be movable in a horizontal direction; a robot main body supported by the horizontally movable unit; at least one of wiring and piping introduced into the robot main body from the horizontal base; and a restriction unit supported by the horizontally movable unit so as to be swayable about a pivot provided to the horizontally movable unit. The restriction unit is configured to restrict deformation of a part of the at least one of wiring and piping. | 03-03-2011 |
20130202393 | PLATE-SHAPED MEMBER TRANSFER FACILITY - A stocker facility includes a rack configured to store glass plates in a standing state such that the glass plates are arranged in a front-rear direction and a stocker configured to cause the glass plate to move in a left-right direction to transfer the glass plate to and from the rack. Thus, the present invention provides a plate-shaped member transfer facility capable of carrying the plate-shaped member in between two spaced-apart plate-shaped members between which a storage pitch is short and carrying any one of a plurality of plate-shaped members out from the rack without inserting an end effect in a substrate storage portion of the rack. | 08-08-2013 |
20160107317 | ROBOT HAVING END EFFECTOR AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - The present invention relates to an end effector including: blade members for holding substrates, each configured to hold the substrate, and configured such that each interval between the blade members can be changed; a blade support unit configured to support the blade members, the blade support unit being configured to be driven integrally with the blade members by the robot; and blade drive means configured to change the interval between the blade members by moving at least one of the blade members relative to another blade member. | 04-21-2016 |
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20100208343 | Adhesive for Polarizing Plate and Polarizing Plate Having Adhesive Layer - An adhesive composition for polarizing plates in which an acrylic polymer, a tin compound having a dialkyl group and serving as a cross-linking accelerator and an isocyanate cross-linker are dissolved in an organic solvent, the acrylic polymer being formed by copolymerization of monomers containing an alkyl (meth)acrylate, a hydroxyl group containing monomer and/or a carboxyl group containing monomer, wherein preferably, a solution containing 30% by weight of the acrylic polymer which constitutes the adhesive composition, dissolved in 70% by weight of ethyl acetate has a viscosity in the range of 0.5 to 10.0 Pa·s measured at 23° C., and the acrylic polymer has a weight-average molecular weight in the range of 300,000 to 700,000. | 08-19-2010 |
20160083630 | Composition for Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive and Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Sheet - A composition for a pressure-sensitive adhesive, includes (A) a (meth)acrylic ester polymer having a trithiocarbonate structure, having hydroxyl groups at both ends of a molecule and having a weight-average molecular weight (Mw), as measured by gel permeation chromatography, of 50,000 to 300,000, and (B) an isocyanate compound having an average number of isocyanate groups in one molecule being more than 2. | 03-24-2016 |
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20080237906 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PELLET AGGREGATE - A method for manufacturing a pellet aggregate by melting a raw material including a saturated norbornene resin and an additive to prepare a fluid, and cutting the fluid into pellets. In the method, the cutting of the fluid into the pellets is performed in a liquid to separate powder generated in manufacturing the pellets together with the liquid. And/Or, the manufactured pellets are passed through a sieve having a mesh size of 1 mm or more and 2 mm or less to separate powder generated in manufacturing the pellets. Whereby, the content of the powder in the pellet aggregate becomes a predetermined amount or less. | 10-02-2008 |
20080242824 | HEAT TREATMENT METHOD OF THERMOPLASTIC RESIN FILM AND APPARATUS THEREOF - An aspect of the invention provides a heat treatment method of a thermoplastic resin film comprising running a strip shaped thermoplastic resin film in a longitudinal direction and heating the thermoplastic resin film while holding the edge of the film in a width direction to conduct a heat treatment, wherein a tension of the thermoplastic resin film in the width direction is controlled to be constant. According to the aspect of the invention, since a thermoplastic resin film during a heat treatment is held with a constant tension in a width direction, the thermoplastic resin film during the heat treatment can be prevented from sagging or pulling excessively. Therefore, occurrence of variability of optical characteristics can be prevented, and thus a thermoplastic resin film excellent in optical characteristics can be produced. | 10-02-2008 |
20090042005 | HEAT TREATMENT OF THERMOPLASTIC FILM, AND THERMOPLASTIC FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A thermoplastic film is transversely stretched, and then transported in a heat-treating zone ( | 02-12-2009 |
20090108489 | FILM STRETCHING AND RELAXING METHOD AND SOLUTION CASTING METHOD - In a stretching area of a tenter, a film is stretched in a Z2 direction. The film has a residual solvent level of not less than 0.03 wt. % and not greater than 10 wt. %. Out of the stretching area, the film enters a relaxing area to relax the film at a predetermined relaxation rate Y (%). Surface temperatures Tp, Ts, Th (° C.) and the relaxation rate Y are controlled to satisfy an expression of 6≦{(− 1/12)×Tp}+{(−⅕)×Ts}+{(⅓)×Th}+Y≦18, where Tp is the temperature of the film five seconds before entering the stretching area, Ts is the temperature of the film at the center in a film transfer direction of the stretching area, and Th is the temperature of the film five seconds after departing the stretching area. | 04-30-2009 |
20090286972 | CELLULOSE ACYLATE FILM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to the present invention, a film is formed from a powdered cellulose acylate resin using a twin-screw extruder which has complete-mating-type screws and whose L/D is set in the range of 20 to 55, while setting the temperature of the resin in the extruder in the range of Tm+10° C. to Tm+70° C., keeping the average residence time of the cellulose acylate resin within 5 minutes, and drawing a vacuum so that the degree of vacuum in extruder after the powdered cellulose acylate resin has been melted is kept at 100 Torr or lower, whereby the color change or deterioration in mechanical strength of the resin can be decreased, and thus, a high-quality and high-functionality film which is good for the optical application can be provided. | 11-19-2009 |
20100040877 | METHOD FOR LONGITUDINALLY STRETCHING THERMOPLASTIC RESIN FILM AND LONGITUDINALLY STRETCHED FILM PRODUCED BY THE METHOD - The invention provides a method for longitudinally stretching a thermoplastic resin film, by which a wrinkle or a scratch is not formed during longitudinally stretching a thermoplastic resin film and the retardation at a desired level can be developed, as well as a longitudinally stretched film produced by the method. | 02-18-2010 |
20100099863 | METHOD FOR LONGITUDINALLY STRETCHING THERMOPLASTIC RESIN FILM AND LONGITUDINALLY STRETCHED FILM PRODUCED BY THE METHOD - A method according to one of the aspects of the present invention, for longitudinally stretching a thermoplastic resin film by drawing the thermoplastic resin film by a pair of rolls rotating at different circumferential velocities is characterized in that an draw initiation position is set between the pair of the rolls, and that the thermoplastic resin film is longitudinally stretched, while being heated locally and rapidly by contact-free local and rapid heating device installed at the draw initiation position along the film width direction in a range from Tg of the resin film −5° C. or higher to Tg +30° C. or lower. | 04-22-2010 |
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20100016723 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus for generation of image data based on harmonic wave components of ultrasound reception signals. The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes a transmission/reception control unit configured to set a plurality of ultrasound transmission/reception directions to an object, an ultrasound probe having a plurality of transducers, a transmission/reception unit configured to produce drive signals of a different polarity for transmission of ultrasound into the object and configured to receive reception signals from the object at the transmission/reception directions, a harmonic wave component extracting unit configured to extract harmonic wave components in the reception signals by performing summation of a plurality of reception signals that is sequentially received through the transmission/reception unit, a reception signals processing unit configured to generate first ultrasound data by performing a logarithmic conversion of a fundamental-wave component included in the reception signals, and to generate second ultrasound data by performing a logarithmic conversion of the harmonic wave components in the reception signals, a subtraction unit configured to perform a subtraction between the first ultrasound data and the second ultrasound data, and an image data generating unit configured to generate the image data based on the subtracted ultrasound data acquired along each of the transmission/reception directions. | 01-21-2010 |
20110270087 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS - An apparatus for ultrasonic diagnosis including a probe configured to transmit ultrasonic waves and to receive reflected ultrasonic waves, an image generator configured to generate an ultrasonic image based on the reflected waves, an image synthesizing unit configured to generate a synthetic image in which a puncture guideline, which indicates a passing line of a puncture needle inserted from a puncture adapter attached to the probe, is superposed on the ultrasonic image, a display area adjusting unit configured to adjust a display area of the synthetic image based on the passing line of the puncture needle, and a display controller configured to display the synthetic image on a monitor based on the display area adjusted by the display area adjusting unit. | 11-03-2011 |
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20090115083 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PELLET AGGREGATE - A pellet aggregate preferably used in forming a film is obtained by a melt-film forming method. A raw material, which is formed of a cellulose acylate and an additive, is placed in a hopper. The pellet raw material is supplied from the hopper to an extruder, melted therein and extruded as a strand in a water vessel to cool the strand. The strand is then fed into a cutting unit. Washing water is supplied from a water supply unit to a cutting section of the cutting unit. The strand is cut into pellets by the cutting section and the generated powder is recovered by a powder separation unit. After the pellets are separated by a pellet/water separation unit, they are fed to a sieve unit to further remove powder by the sieve. The pellets from which the powder is removed is fed to a vessel and stored as a pellet aggregate. | 05-07-2009 |
20090233008 | CELLULOSE ACYLATE GRAINS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THEM, CELLULOSE ACYLATE FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING IT, POLARIZER, OPTICAL COMPENSATORY FILM, ANTIREFLECTION FILM AND LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Cellulose acylate grains having a heat quantity of crystalline fusion of at most 10 J/g. A film prepared by melt-casting the grains is free from the problem of yellowing when built in liquid-crystal display devices. | 09-17-2009 |
20130319913 | SIEVING SYSTEM, AND METHODS OF NOTIFYING INFORMATION, DRIVING AND FEEDING - A sieving system includes a filter; a blade stirring a powder accumulated on the filter; a driver driving the blade; a notifier notifying predetermined information of a status of the filter, based on a load of the driver while driving the blade. | 12-05-2013 |
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20090117421 | METHOD OF OPERATING HYDROGEN AND POWER GENERATING SYSTEM - If the combination fuel cell and ion pump is judged to be operating in a hydrogen generation mode, an input amount of electricity supplied to the combination fuel cell and ion pump is controlled, so as to control an amount of refined hydrogen generated thereby. If the combination fuel cell and ion pump is judged to be operating in an electricity generation mode, an output amount of electricity supplied from the combination fuel cell and ion pump is controlled, so as to control an amount of electricity generated thereby. The input amount of electricity supplied to the combination fuel cell and ion pump, or the output amount of electricity supplied from the combination fuel cell and ion pump, is corrected based on the temperature of a combustor. | 05-07-2009 |
20120255868 | WATER ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME - A water electrolysis system includes a water electrolysis apparatus for electrically decomposing water to generate oxygen and high-pressure hydrogen having a pressure higher than the oxygen, a gas-liquid separator connected to a hydrogen pipe which discharges the high-pressure hydrogen from the water electrolysis apparatus, for separating water contained in the high-pressure hydrogen, a high-pressure hydrogen outlet pipe for delivering the high-pressure hydrogen separated from water from the gas-liquid separator, a water drainage line for discharging the water from the gas-liquid separator, and a gas depressurizing line connected to the gas-liquid separator, for degassing the gas-liquid separator before the water is discharged from the water drainage line into the water drainage line. | 10-11-2012 |
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20120035242 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATING OBESITY OR DIABETES - The invention is intended to provide a pharmaceutical composition for treating or preventing obesity or type II diabetes and a method for treatment for them. A pharmaceutical composition comprising an Acsl-1 inhibitor of this invention as an active ingredient is useful for prevention or treatment of obesity or type II diabetes. | 02-09-2012 |
20120315658 | AMELIORATION OF METABOLIC SYNDROME USING PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF SPHINGOMYELIN SYNTHASE SMS2, OR SCREENING METHODS FOR AMELIORATING AGENTS - Disclosed is a method for screening for a medicinal agent that can decrease a body weight, a medicinal agent that can reduce a visceral fat, a medicinal agent that can reduce a triglyceride in the liver, and a medicinal agent that can ameliorate obesity and fatty liver. The method involves a step of measuring the inhibitory activity of a candidate substance on a sphingomyelin synthase, wherein the candidate substance is determined to have at least one function selected from the group consisting of an anti-obesity agent, a visceral fat-reducing agent, a fatty liver-treating agent and an adiponectin expression enhancer when the candidate substance has an inhibitory activity on the sphingomyelin synthase. | 12-13-2012 |
20130231383 | NUCLEIC ACID HAVING AN ANTI-METABOLIC SYNDROME EFFECT - The problem of the present invention is to prove a medicament for decreasing body weigh, a medicament for decreasing visceral fat, a medicament for decreasing triglyceride in the liver, and a method for screening a medicament for ameliorating obesity and fatty liver. The problem is solved by a method comprising measuring an activity of a candidate material for inhibiting a sphingomyelin synthetase wherein if the candidate material has an activity for inhibiting a sphingomyelin synthetase, the candidate material is judged to have at least one function selected from the consisting of an anti-obesity drug, a drug for decreasing visceral fat, a drug for treating fatty liver and an agent for increasing adiponectin expression. | 09-05-2013 |
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20120171014 | BARREL-TYPE MULTISTAGE PUMP - A barrel-type multistage pump with uniformed velocity distribution in an axial direction, on a cross-section of a rotating flow channel, to suppress fluid loss in a last stage, and including: plural stages of centrifugal impellers, covered by an inner casing; diffusers and return channels provided on downstream sides of said centrifugal impellers, to guide the flow of a fluid to a centrifugal impeller in the next stage, and return vanes arranged at respective return channels; a cylindrical outer casing having a suction pipe and a discharge pipe, wherein a cylindrical rotating flow channel connected to a discharge opening is provided between an outer casing and an inner casing, a connecting channel to connect between a rotating flow channel and diffusers. | 07-05-2012 |
20150285254 | BARREL-TYPE MULTISTAGE PUMP - A barrel-type multistage pump with uniformed velocity distribution in an axial direction, on a cross-section of a rotating flow channel, to suppress fluid loss in a last stage, and including: plural stages of centrifugal impellers, covered by an inner casing; diffusers and return channels provided on downstream sides of said centrifugal impellers, to guide the flow of a fluid to a centrifugal impeller in the next stage, and return vanes arranged at respective return channels; a cylindrical outer casing having a suction pipe and a discharge pipe, wherein a cylindrical rotating flow channel connected to a discharge opening is provided between an outer casing and an inner casing, a connecting channel to connect between a rotating flow channel and diffusers. | 10-08-2015 |
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20130096430 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC SCANNING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a detector detects a position at a leading end of a puncture needle. A determination unit determines a first scanning region in a subject and a second scanning region based on the position at the detected leading end, the second scanning region being narrower than the first scanning region. A transmission/reception controller controls a transmitter and a receiver to switches between first ultrasonic scanning for the first scanning region and second ultrasonic scanning for the second scanning region according to an instruction from an operator. | 04-18-2013 |
20130281846 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a scanning unit scans the inside of an object administered with a contrast agent with ultrasonic waves. A signal generation unit outputs a packet signal based on the reception signal output from the scanning unit. A first wall filter has a passband corresponding to a blood flow component. A second wall filter has a passband corresponding to a tissue perfusion component and blood flow component. A maximum value holding computation processing unit applies maximum value holding computation processing to a first image corresponding to an output from the first wall filter. A display unit displays the first image having undergone maximum value holding computation processing and a second image corresponding to an output from the second wall filter. | 10-24-2013 |
20140148701 | ULTRASOUND PROBE AND ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - In an ultrasound probe according to an embodiment, a first ultrasound transducer array scans a first scanned plane. A second ultrasound transducer array engages with the first ultrasound transducer array, is provided so as to intersect the first ultrasound transducer array, and scans a second scanned plane different from the first scanned plane. A probe main body is provided with the first ultrasound transducer array and the second ultrasound transducer array, has an opening in a position where the first and the second ultrasound transducer arrays intersect each other, and has a through hole extending to the opening. An engaging part that causes the first and the second ultrasound transducer arrays to engage with each other is configured in such a manner that the angle at which the first and the second ultrasound transducer arrays intersect each other is changeable. | 05-29-2014 |
20150018677 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes a transmitter/receiver, a signal processor, and an image generator. The transmitter/receiver transmits, at least once in each scanning line, a first ultrasound pulse and a second ultrasound pulse whose amplitude corresponds to amplitude of the first ultrasound pulse modulated at a given ratio and acquires a received-signal group consisting of multiple received signals. The signal processor acquires, on the basis of a coefficient that reduces the energy of a first composite signal that is obtained by combining, in accordance with the given ratio, multiple received signals contained in the first received signal group acquired by the transmitter/receiver, a second composite signal by combining multiple received signals contained in a second received signal group that is acquired by the transmitter/receiver and that is different from the first received signal group. The image generator generates an ultrasound image based on the second composite signal. | 01-15-2015 |
20150201906 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a medical image diagnostic apparatus comprises a position acquisition unit, a data acquisition unit, an alignment unit, a decision unit, and a data generation unit. The position acquisition unit acquires the position of a medical tool in an imaging region with respect to the imaging region at the time of obtaining the medical image. The data acquisition unit acquires volume data corresponding to a three-dimensional region including the imaging region. The alignment unit decides the position of the volume data. The decision unit decides the position of the medical tool with respect to the volume data based on the position of the medical tool and the position of the volume data. The data generation unit generates support volume data by adding support information indicating the position of the medical tool to the volume data. | 07-23-2015 |
20150223776 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - In general, according to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is used to observe a position and puncture direction of a puncture needle in an object in a paracentesis, and comprises data acquisition unit, image generation unit and a display. The data acquisition unit acquires a plurality of first ultrasound data concerning an inside of the object, acquire a plurality of second ultrasound data concerning the inside of the object, and acquire a plurality of third ultrasound data concerning the inside of the object. The image generation unit generates a tissue image displaying a living body tissue by using the first ultrasound data, generate a puncture image displaying the puncture needle based on image processing using the second ultrasound data and the third ultrasound data, and generate a composite image visualizing the living body tissue and the puncture needle by using the tissue image and the puncture image. | 08-13-2015 |