Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080198449 | Laser microscope - It is possible to change a focal position or spot diameter of an optical stimulation laser beam without causing any misalignment of the optical axis, thus precisely applying optical stimulation to a desired position or region on a specimen. The invention provides a laser microscope comprising an observation light path for guiding an observation laser beam; an optical stimulation light path for guiding an optical stimulation laser beam; and a light-path combining unit for combining these light paths; and the laser microscope also comprises, in at least the optical stimulation light path, a focal-position adjusting unit for adjusting a focal position of the laser beam; an optical-axis misalignment detector for detecting an amount of misalignment of an optical axis between the focal-position adjusting unit and the light-path combining unit; and an alignment unit for adjusting an optical axis position on the basis of the amount of misalignment of the optical axis detected by the optical-axis misalignment detector. | 08-21-2008 |
20080246715 | Image displaying apparatus and image displaying method - In an image displaying apparatus, first and second detecting units detect quantities of light propagating through a light path at two different locations. A variation calculating unit calculates the variation in the light quantity in the light path based on the quantities of light detected by each of the first and second detecting units. A controlling unit controls the quantity of light propagated to the screen if the variation in the light quantity exceeds a predetermined value. | 10-09-2008 |
20080247038 | SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE - A scanning confocal microscope can provide an image while preventing a decrease in brightness and blurring due to strain caused in optical and mechanical systems by thermal effects in a high-temperature, high-humidity incubation container. This scanning confocal microscope includes an incubation container that has a space in which a specimen is disposed and that can maintain an internal environment thereof at a predetermined temperature and high humidity and an optical system space adjacent to the incubation container and separated therefrom based on humidity. The optical system space accommodates a light-scanning unit and a scanner optical system, an objective lens, a confocal pinhole, and a focus adjustment mechanism. The optical system space further accommodates a temperature-maintaining unit for the optical system space to maintain the optical system space at a temperature substantially equal to the temperature in the incubation container. | 10-09-2008 |
20080266551 | Multiphoton-excitation laser scanning microscope - A multiphoton-excitation laser scanning microscope capable of efficiently collecting fluorescence emitted from a specimen to acquire a brighter multiphoton-excitation fluorescence image is provided. This multiphoton-excitation laser scanning microscope includes a multiphoton-excitation laser light source for emitting ultrashort pulsed laser light, a light-scanning unit configured to scan a specimen with the ultrashort pulsed laser light emitted from the multiphoton-excitation laser light source in two dimensions, an objective lens configured to focus the ultrashort pulsed laser light scanned by the light-scanning unit on the specimen, a collector lens disposed opposite the objective lens, with the light-scanning unit disposed therebetween, to collect fluorescence emitted from the specimen, and a light detector configured to detect the fluorescence collected by the collector lens. The collector lens has a higher numerical aperture and a larger field number than the objective lens. | 10-30-2008 |
20090109527 | SCANNING LASER MICROSCOPE - A scanning laser microscope includes a laser light source; an acousto-optic deflector having a crystal, being arranged in an optical path of a laser beam emitted from the laser light source and capable of changing a traveling direction of the laser beam when frequencies of acoustic waves applied to the crystal are changed; a frequency control unit configured to simultaneously apply acoustic waves having a plurality of frequencies to the crystal of the acousto-optic deflector; an objective lens configured to converge the laser beam emitted from the laser light source to form a beam spot on a specimen; and an optical scanning device configured to two-dimensionally scan the scanning spot by deflecting the laser beam in two directions perpendicular to each other. The acousto-optic deflector, the optical scanning device, and a pupil of the objective lens are arranged at positions optically conjugate with each other. | 04-30-2009 |
20090115870 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: interpolation G calculating units that calculate a plurality of types of G interpolation candidates G | 05-07-2009 |
20090133691 | AEROSOL ASPIRATOR AND AEROSOL SUCKING METHOD - An aerosol aspirator has a casing ( | 05-28-2009 |
20090137381 | Dielectric ceramic composition and method of production thereof - The object of the present invention is to provide a method of production of dielectric ceramic composition which can lower the firing temperature without compensating the dielectric characteristics. The method of production according to the present invention is characterized by comprising steps of; | 05-28-2009 |
20090202426 | Method for producing dielectric powder - Method for producing dielectric powder comprising steps of;
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20090246541 | Dielectric ceramic composition, an electric component and a manufacturing method thereof - The present invention relates to a dielectric ceramic composition comprises a main component including a dielectric oxide having a composition shown by [(Ca | 10-01-2009 |
20090264276 | Production method of dielectric particles - A method of producing fine and uniform barium titanate particles having high crystallinity by performing a heat treatment on titanium dioxide and barium carbonate having a specific surface area of at least 20 m | 10-22-2009 |
20090264399 | HETEROCYCLIC JANUS KINASE 3 INHIBITORS - The invention relates to compound of the formula (I) or its salt, wherein —R | 10-22-2009 |
20090270376 | HETEROCYCLIC JANUS KINASE 3 INHIBITORS - The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) having an excellent JAK3 inhibition activity and being useful as an active ingredient of an agent for treating and/or preventing various immune diseases including autoimmune diseases inflammatory diseases, and allergic diseases. The compound according to the present invention has an inhibition activity against JAK3 and is thus useful as an active ingredient of an agent for treating or preventing diseases caused by undesirable cytokine signal transmission (e.g., rejection during organ/tissue transplantation, autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, asthma, atopic dermatitis, Alzheimer's disease, and atherosclerotic disease), or diseases caused by abnormal cytokine signal transmission (e.g., cancer and leukemia). | 10-29-2009 |
20100074580 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS - A light source unit includes a laser element that includes a plurality of light emitting points that are arranged along one direction on an end face thereof and irradiates laser beams having a spread in a spreading direction that is perpendicular to the one direction. A cylindrical lens held by a first body tube collimates the laser beams in block. Circular lenses held by a second body tube condense the collimated beams into an inlet of an optical fiber. The first body part and the second body part are positioned and directly coupled to each other so that an optical axis of the cylindrical lens accords with that of the circular lenses. | 03-25-2010 |
20100079857 | LASER MICROSCOPE APPARATUS - Observation is performed using bright, clear multiphoton fluorescence images produced by efficiently generating a multiphoton excitation effect, without the need for a complex interference film structure. The invention employs a laser microscope apparatus including a first dichroic mirror that reflects visible laser light guided via a first light path and that transmits IR pulsed laser light guided via a second light path to combine the first light path and the second light path; an XY galvanometer mirror that scans the laser light from the first dichroic mirror on a specimen; an objective lens that irradiates the specimen with the scanned laser light and that collects fluorescence produced in the specimen; a second dichroic mirror that reflects the visible laser light and transmits the fluorescence from the specimen; and a detection unit that detects the fluorescence transmitted through the second dichroic mirror. | 04-01-2010 |
20100086202 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a color difference calculating unit for generating an (R−G)G(B−G) Bayer array image from an RGB Bayer array image; a band-limited interpolation unit for interpolating a sampling position whose number is smaller than the number of U pixel to obtain an equal number of interpolation (R−G), G, and (B−G) pixels from the (R−G)G(B−G) Bayer array image: and an RGB calculating unit for obtaining interpolation R, G and B pixels which constitute a color image with the sampling position where R, G and B pixels coincide, based on the obtained interpolation (R−G), G, and (B−G) pixels. | 04-08-2010 |
20100118283 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An object is to provide a light source unit that focuses a laser beam, having different divergence angles in longitudinal direction and lateral direction, so as not to allow longitudinally and laterally deviating from an incident end-face of an optical fiber. The light source unit herein provided is configured to form the laser beam | 05-13-2010 |
20100141809 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus including a noise reducing portion for applying noise reduction to RGB Bayer array image data for each of RGB channels with a noise reduction amount H, and calculating R | 06-10-2010 |
20100194933 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a pixel extraction section that extracts an extraction region made up of a target pixel and a plurality of pixels included in a region peripheral to the target pixel, a similitude calculation section that calculates similitude of each pixel value in the peripheral region with respect to a pixel value of the target pixel, a similitude filter processing section that performs filter processing on the similitude, a first filter determining section that determines a first filter used in the filter processing of the similitude filter processing section, a second filter determining section that determines a second filter used for the extraction region based on the similitude subjected to the filter processing by the similitude filter processing section, and a noise reduction processing section that performs noise reduction processing on the target pixel based on the second filter determined by the second filter determining section. | 08-05-2010 |
20100195926 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a recording section that stores an image to be processed and a past image corresponding to the image to be processed, a pixel extraction section that extracts a first predetermined region including a target pixel in the image to be processed and a second predetermined region of the past image corresponding to the target pixel, a noise amount estimation section that estimates an amount of noise corresponding to the target pixel, a similitude calculating section that calculates a first similitude between the target pixel in the first predetermined region and pixels peripheral thereto and a second similitude between the target pixel in the first predetermined region and a pixel in the second predetermined region, a similitude feature value calculating section that calculates a feature value according to the similitude, a similitude correcting section that corrects the similitude based on the feature value, a filter coefficient calculating section that calculates a filter coefficient based on the corrected similitude, and a noise reduction section that reduces noise of the target pixel based on the filter coefficient. | 08-05-2010 |
20100225790 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a region extracting section that extracts a first predetermined region including a target pixel in a current frame and a second predetermined region including a pixel located at the same position as the target pixel in a previous frame, a motion vector calculating section that calculates a motion vector of the first predetermined region with respect to the previous frame based on part or all of the pixels in the first predetermined region and part of the pixels in the second predetermined region, a filter coefficient determining section that determines a filter coefficient for a plurality of pixels in the second predetermined region based on the motion vector, and a noise reducing section that reduces noise in the target pixel based on the plurality of pixels in the second predetermined region and the filter coefficient. | 09-09-2010 |
20100236546 | AEROSOL INHALATION SYSTEM - An aerosol inhalation system has an inhalator ( | 09-23-2010 |
20100242956 | AEROSOL INHALATOR - An aerosol inhalator has an aerosol generation passage extending from an ambient air inlet ( | 09-30-2010 |
20100259650 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes an image data input unit that receives image data; a pixel extracting unit that extracts a pixel area including a pixel of interest to be processed and peripheral pixels located around the pixel of interest from the image data; a pixel group generator that generates a plurality of pixel groups by dividing pixels in the pixel area in accordance with a pixel value distribution in the pixel area; a pixel group similarity calculator that calculates a similarity between a pixel group and a pixel group including the pixel of interest for each pixel group as a pixel group similarity to be defined for pixels belonging to the pixel group in the pixel area; a pixel value similarity calculator that calculates a pixel value similarity of each pixel in the pixel area on the basis of a pixel value of the pixel of interest; a filter coefficient calculator that calculates filter coefficients to be applied to pixels in the pixel area on the basis of the pixel group similarity and the pixel value similarity; and a smoothing processing unit that performs a smoothing process on the pixel value of the pixel of interest on the basis of pixel values in the pixel area and the filter coefficients. | 10-14-2010 |
20100294949 | SCANNING MICROSCOPE DEVICE - Spectrum detection is performed at a high S/N ratio, high sensitivity, and high speed. Provided is a scanning microscope device that includes a light source that irradiates a sample with laser light; an X-Y galvanometer mirror that scans the laser light from the light source on the sample; an objective lens that irradiates the sample with the laser light scanned by the X-Y galvanometer mirror and collects fluorescence generated at an irradiated position of the laser light; a non-descan-detection excitation DM that is disposed between the X-Y galvanometer mirror and the objective lens and separates the laser light and the fluorescence from each other; an fiber for epi-fluorescence that receives the separated fluorescence through an entrance end thereof, guides the fluorescence, and emits the fluorescence from an exit end thereof that is formed in a substantially linear shape; a diffraction grating that disperses the fluorescence emitted from the exit end of the fiber for epi-fluorescence in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the exit end; and a multi-anode PMT having a plurality of cells arrayed in the dispersing direction of the fluorescence dispersed by the diffraction grating. | 11-25-2010 |
20110039822 | HETEROCYCLIC JANUS KINASE 3 INHIBITORS - The present invention provides a compound having an excellent JAK3 inhibition activity and being useful as an active ingredient of an agent for treating and/or preventing various immune diseases including autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, and allergic diseases. | 02-17-2011 |
20110069192 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a determining unit, a modifying unit, a selecting unit, and a generating unit. The determining unit determines, with respect to a missing pixel position that does not have a signal of a specified color among colors forming an image, an interpolation process type indicating the type of an interpolation process of the signal of the specified color. The modifying unit modifies the determined interpolation process type based on interpolation process types of peripheral missing pixel positions located at the vicinity of the missing pixel position. The selecting unit selects a color-difference signal that is a difference between signal of a color except the specified color and the signal of the specified color in correspondence with the modified interpolation process type. The generating unit generates an interpolation signal of the signal of the specified color at the missing pixel position based on the color-difference signal. | 03-24-2011 |
20110118104 | DIELECTRIC CERAMIC COMPOSITION - A purpose of the present invention is to provide a dielectric ceramic composition which is available to obtain a multilayer ceramic capacitor having a high specific permittivity and a small temperature change of capacitance. | 05-19-2011 |
20110168639 | WASTEWATER TREATMENT METHOD AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT APPARATUS - A wastewater treatment method in which magnetic flocs are formed by adding to wastewater an inorganic flocculant, magnetic particles, and a high molecular polymer as a polymeric flocculant, and the magnetic flocs are collected with magnetic force to thereby obtain treated water having the magnetic flocs removed from the wastewater, wherein the improvement comprises that
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20110176730 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a demosaicing section that receives an image that includes a first color signal, a second color signal, and a third color signal, and performs an interpolation process that interpolates a missing color signal among the first color signal, the second color signal, and the third color signal on each pixel of the image, and an image output section that outputs an output image based on an image obtained by the interpolation process and output from the demosaicing section. The demosaicing section performs a space-variant interpolation process that implements a different interpolation process depending on a pixel position on a first image that has information within a first wavelength band. The demosaicing section performs a space-invariant interpolation process that implements an interpolation process independently of a pixel position on a second image that has information within a second wavelength band. | 07-21-2011 |
20110192408 | NON-COMBUSTION FLAVOR INHALATION ARTICLE - A non-combustion flavor inhalation article includes a heating device including a heater to be heated to a temperature between 80 and 140° C., and a roll including a tobacco sheet to be disposed in contact with the heater. | 08-11-2011 |
20110218742 | CALCULATING DEVICE AND FLOW METER EQUIPPED WITH CALCULATING DEVICE - The calculating device has first and second Fourier transform portions performing Fourier transforms on two respective inputted signals; a complex conjugate deriving portion deriving a complex conjugate of a value outputted from the first Fourier transform portion; a multiplier multiplying the complex conjugate with the value outputted from the second Fourier transform portion, and outputting the value after the multiplication; a Hilbert transform portion performing a Hilbert transform on the value after multiplication; first and second inverse Fourier transform portions performing respective inverse Fourier transforms on the value after multiplication and the value outputted from the Hilbert transform portion; a phase relationship deriving portion deriving a phase relationship between the two inputted signals based on the values outputted from the first and second inverse Fourier transform portions; and a time difference deriving portion deriving a time difference between the two inputted signals based on the phase relationship. | 09-08-2011 |
20110228064 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - An endoscope system includes an imaging section that includes an optical system and an imaging element, an observation mode setting section that sets an object observation mode, a diaphragm control section that selects a diaphragm state based on the observation mode, and an image processing section that processes an image acquired by the imaging section. The diaphragm control section selecting a first diaphragm state when the observation mode is a first observation mode. The first diaphragm state being a state in which a resolution determined by a diffraction limit based on a diaphragm of the optical system is lower than a resolution determined by the imaging element. The diaphragm control section selecting a second diaphragm state when the observation mode is a second observation mode. The second diaphragm state being a state in which the resolution determined by the diffraction limit based on the diaphragm of the optical system is equal to or higher than the resolution determined by the imaging element. | 09-22-2011 |
20110228167 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An object is to perform effective noise reduction and to minimize a drop in resolution. The invention includes a recording unit for recording a processing target frame image and previous and future frame images relative to the processing target frame image; a first pixel-extracting section for extracting a plurality of pixels in a prescribed region in the processing target frame image; a second pixel-extracting section for extracting a plurality of pixels in a region corresponding to the prescribed region in the previous and future frame images; a first distance calculating section for calculating temporospatial distances between a target pixel in the prescribed region and both the plurality of pixels in the prescribed region and the plurality of pixels in the region corresponding to the prescribed region; a second distance calculating section for calculating inter-pixel-value distances between the pixel value of the target pixel in the prescribed region and both pixel values of the plurality of pixels in the prescribed region and pixel values of the plurality of pixels in the region corresponding to the prescribed region; and a noise reduction section for performing noise reduction processing of the processing target frame image on the basis of the temporospatial distance and the inter-pixel-value distance. | 09-22-2011 |
20110230467 | 4,6-DIAMINONICOTINAMIDE COMPOUND - [Problem] The present invention provides a 4,6-diaminonicotinamide compound which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition for treating diseases caused by undesirable and/or abnormal cytokine signal transduction. | 09-22-2011 |
20120242859 | OPTICAL CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, OPTICAL SCOPE, AND SCANNING OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical control device is provided in a scanning optical device that applies light emitted from a light source to an observation target as spot light that is applied in a spot-like shape, and detects reflected light from the observation target while scanning with the spot light, the optical control device including an intensity enhancement section that enhances intensity of light within a specific wavelength band included in a wavelength band of white light emitted from a white light source, an irradiation section that applies specific wavelength band-enhanced white light to the observation target, the specific wavelength band-enhanced white light being white light for which intensity of light within the specific wavelength band is enhanced, and a light detection section that detects reflected light from the observation target when the irradiation section applies the specific wavelength band-enhanced white light to the observation target. | 09-27-2012 |
20130019862 | LIQUID TANK FOR AEROSOL INHALATOR - A liquid tank ( | 01-24-2013 |
20130019888 | SMOKING ARTICLE - A smoking article comprises a multilayered tube member ( | 01-24-2013 |
20130083180 | FOCUS CONTROL DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS, AND FOCUS CONTROL METHOD - A focus control device includes an image acquisition section that acquires a captured image that has been captured by an imaging optical system, an evaluation value calculation section that calculates a focus evaluation value based on the captured image, the focus evaluation value being used to evaluate an in-focus state of an object in the captured image, a determination information calculation section that calculates determination information based on the focus evaluation value, a determination section that determines whether to start or stop an autofocus control process based on the determination information, and a focus control section that starts or stops the autofocus control process based on a determination result of the determination section. | 04-04-2013 |
20130250391 | LASER MICROSCOPE - A laser microscope includes an objective lens that radiates a laser beam onto a specimen; a stimulation optical system having an LCOS-SLM located at a position optically conjugate with the pupil position of the objective lens and which modulates the phase of the laser beam; and an observation optical system having a galvanometer mirror that scans the laser beam across the specimen, as observation illuminating light, and a PMT that detects the observation light coming from the specimen and collected by the objective lens. A control unit forms a three-dimensional image of the specimen and sets, in that image, stimulation sites in the specimen to be irradiated with a laser beam serving as a stimulation beam by the stimulation optical system at a plurality of different positions in the optical axis direction. The LCOS-SLM modulates the laser beam such that the stimulation sites are irradiated with the laser beam. | 09-26-2013 |
20130271810 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND MICROSCOPE APPARATUS INCLUDING THE ILLUMINATION DEVICE - An illumination device includes a phase-modulation type spatial light modulator that is arranged at a position optically conjugate to a pupil position of an illumination lens between a light source and the illumination lens for irradiating light emitted from the light source on a sample, and a pupil projecting optics system for projecting at least one area within the pupil of the illumination lens onto a plurality of different areas of the spatial light modulator. | 10-17-2013 |
20130286172 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS, INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The endoscope apparatus includes an image acquisition section (image composition processing section) that acquires a captured image in a zoom observation state in time series, the zoom observation state being an observation state in which a magnification of an optical system is higher than that in a normal observation state, a defocus amount information extraction section (texture extraction section) that extracts defocus amount information from the captured image in the zoom observation state, and a defocus amount correction section (texture correction amount calculation section, texture correction section, and blending section) that corrects the captured image based on the extracted defocus amount information. | 10-31-2013 |
20140109905 | AEROSOL INHALATOR - An aerosol inhalator of the invention has an inner tube ( | 04-24-2014 |
20140138663 | MATERIAL FOR FORMING ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING LAYER, COATING LIQUID FOR FORMING ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - In an organic light-emitting element including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer placed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the light-emitting layer includes a host material, a first emitter, and a second emitter, the emission peak wavelength of the first emitter is longer than the emission peak wavelength of the second emitter, and an aromatic heterocyclic ligand or an auxiliary ligand of the first emitter include an electron withdrawing group. Accordingly, an organic light-emitting element can be provided in which the HOMO value of a specific luminescent dopant is closer to the HOMO value of another luminescent dopant. | 05-22-2014 |
20140204187 | ENDOSCOPE IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An endoscope image processing device includes an image acquisition section and a boundary region correction section. The image acquisition section acquires image signals that form a front image corresponding to a front field of view and a side image corresponding to a side field of view as a single acquired image. A region within the acquired image that corresponds to the front field of view is referred to as a front region, and a region within the acquired image that corresponds to the side field of view is referred to as a side region. The boundary area correction section performs a process that causes at least one of an image of the front region and an image of the side region to overlap a boundary region that is a region that defines a boundary between the front region and the side region. | 07-24-2014 |
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20140356258 | Method for Separating and Recovering Rare-Earth Elements - A method for separating and recovering a plurality of rare-earth elements, the method including a step of introducing, into a liquid, a mixture containing a rare-earth oxychloride and a rare-earth chloride, the rare-earth oxychloride constituted from a rare-earth element different from a rare-earth element constituting the rare-earth chloride, thereby obtaining an insoluble matter containing the rare-earth oxychloride and a liquid in which the rare-earth chloride is dissolved, a step of recovering the rare-earth oxychloride from the insoluble matter, and a step of recovering the rare-earth chloride from the liquid in which the rare-earth chloride is dissolved. | 12-04-2014 |
20140367341 | COAGULANT, COAGULATION METHOD, AND WATER TREATMENT APPARATUS - In order to rapidly remove an organic acid dissolved in contaminated water, a coagulant capable of forming a floc with the organic acid in the contaminated water is configured to include an iron oxide bearing an inorganic acid on surface thereof, and an aqueous solution of an acidic-group-containing polymer. Upon removal of the organic acid as a floc from the contaminated water using the coagulant, the iron oxide bearing an inorganic acid on surface is initially added to the contaminated water, and then the aqueous solution of the acidic-group-containing polymer is added to precipitate a floc, and the floc is magnetically separated. A water treatment apparatus enabling removal of an organic substance from contaminated water is provided with a mechanism for stirring the contaminated water, a mechanism for adding an iron oxide bearing an inorganic salt on surface to the contaminated water, a mechanism for adding an aqueous solution of an acidic-group-containing polymer to form a floc, and a mechanism for magnetically separating the formed floc. | 12-18-2014 |
20140375736 | Ink, Base to be Printed, Printing Device, Printing Method, and Method for Producing Base to be Printed - The purpose of the present invention is to prevent the discoloration of an ink even when the ink is printed on a base to be printed and then exposed to a high-temperature environment. An ink comprising a glass composition, wherein the glass composition ( | 12-25-2014 |
20150053621 | METHOD FOR TREATING WATER AND FLOCCULANT FOR ORGANIC SUBSTANCES - Provided are a method for treating water and a flocculant used in the method. The method includes the steps of adding a first polymer compound formed by multiply binding a first repeating unit into water to be treated, and adding a second polymer compound formed by multiply binding a second repeating unit into the water. The first repeating unit includes a first linked main chain which constructs a main chain via repeatedly bound one another, and an adsorption site directly or indirectly bound to the first linked main chain so as to adsorb organic compounds contained in the water to be treated. The second repeating unit has a similar structure to the first repeating unit except that the number of carbon atoms in the second linked main chain is different from that in the first linked main chain. The flocculant includes the first and second polymer compounds. | 02-26-2015 |
20150060367 | COAGULATION PROCESSING METHOD, COAGULATION PROCESSING UNIT, AND WATER PROCESSING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a coagulation processing method capable of adding a sufficiently-dissolved coagulant aqueous solution to being processed water and materializing high-efficiency coagulation processing, a coagulation processing unit, and a water processing apparatus. | 03-05-2015 |
20150071564 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS, ISOLATED POINT NOISE CORRECTION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE - An image processing device includes an isolated point noise detection section, and an isolated point noise correction section. The isolated point noise detection section determines whether or not isolated point noise is included within a given area based on a first index value that represents the range of first to nth pixel values being obtained by arranging the pixel values of pixels within the given area including an attention pixel in ascending or descending order, and a second index value that represents the range of a pixel value group being obtained by excluding at least one of the first pixel value and the nth pixel value from the first to nth pixel values. The isolated point noise detection section determines whether or not the attention pixel is a pixel that corresponds to isolated point noise when it has been determined that isolated point noise is included within the given area. | 03-12-2015 |
20150077477 | Charge Control Type Ink Jet Printer and Printing Method - The visibility of a printing object using a photo-curable ink is improved. A charge control type ink jet printer includes a nozzle which continuously forms ink droplets, a charging electrode which charges each of the ink droplets, a deflection electrode which deflects the charged ink droplet, and a print head which discharges the deflected ink droplet to print the droplet onto a printed substrate. The print head has a UV light source. The UV light source has a focusing member which focuses UV light onto at least part of a flying path of the ink droplet between the print head and the printed substrate and onto a landed region of the printed substrate, and a light emission source. | 03-19-2015 |