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20090167253 | Charging circuit, charging system and charging method - A charging circuit includes: a connecting terminal for connection to a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery; a heating portion heating the nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery; a charging portion charging the nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery connected to the connecting terminal; and a control unit which allows the charging portion to charge the nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery after allowing the heating portion to heat the nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, lowers the temperature of the nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, and allows the charging portion to further charge the nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery. | 07-02-2009 |
20090242072 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE PLATE FOR ALKALINE STORAGE BATTERY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An alkaline storage battery including a strip-shaped porous metal substrate and a material mixture filled into the substrate. The substrate has an unfilled portion where the material mixture is not filled along at least one of two longitudinal sides of the substrate. The substrate has a weight per unit area of 150 to 350 g/m | 10-01-2009 |
20100045236 | DISCHARGE CONTROLLER - A discharge controller includes secondary battery, a switch section for opening/closing a discharge path from the secondary battery to a load, a voltage detector for detecting a terminal voltage of the secondary battery, and a cut-off voltage control section for controlling the switch section to be opened when the terminal voltage as detected by the voltage detector is not more than a predetermined cut-off voltage of discharge V | 02-25-2010 |
20110316487 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY CHARGING METHOD AND BATTERY PACK - A lithium ion secondary battery which includes: a power generation element including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte; a case accommodating the power generation element and having an opening; and a sealing plate sealing the opening of the case is charged. The sealing plate has an external terminal of the positive or negative electrode, and an internal terminal electrically connected to the positive or negative electrode. The external and internal terminals are connected to each other and have an electrical resistance therebetween of 0.1 to 2 mΩ. Two or more constant-current charging steps in each of which the secondary battery is charged at a constant charge current until a charge voltage reaches an end-of-charge voltage are performed. In the two or more constant-current charging steps, the secondary battery is subjected to constant-current charging at a current Ic( | 12-29-2011 |
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20110129259 | OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A housing ( | 06-02-2011 |
20130164037 | OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A housing includes a base portion for installation of an optical beam emission unit, a light guiding unit, and a deflection unit, and a cover portion that includes an indented heat emission channel that transmits heat in an inner portion of the housing to a fluid. | 06-27-2013 |
20130315626 | STATIC ELIMINATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A static eliminating device includes: a housing; a substrate mounted to the housing; a light-emitting part mounted on a mounting surface of the substrate; a partition member connected to the housing to cover the substrate and the light-emitting part and face a portion of the housing to which the substrate and the light-emitting part are mounted so that an opening facing the surface of the image carrier is formed in a light-emitting region across which light is delivered from the light-emitting part to the surface of the image carrier; and a restricting protrusion abutting at a distal end thereof against the partition member to support the partition member and restricting the position of the partition member to ensure the formation of the opening. A distal side portion of the restricting protrusion located within the light-emitting region has a tapered shape narrowing with approach toward the partition member. | 11-28-2013 |
20140341608 | CHARGING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A charging device includes a housing, a charging roller, and a brush roller. The housing is disposed adjacent to an optical path of light emitted an the exposure device to irradiate a photoconductor. Charging roller is rotatably supported in housing, and is configured to charge a circumferential surface of the photoconductor through contact. Brush roller is rotatably supported in housing together with charging roller, has multiple brush hairs flocked on a base shaft thereof extending in a longitudinal direction of the charging roller, and is configured to clean a surface of charging roller when brush hairs are brought in contact with charging roller. Furthermore, a predetermined segment of housing is located in a space within a predetermined distance toward a side of housing from the optical path, and is formed from a material having a charge property equivalent to that of the brush hairs. | 11-20-2014 |
20140356041 | CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A drum cleaning device includes a toner supply roller, a toner layer restricting member, and a toner receiving member. The toner layer restricting member includes an inclined portion formed in a lateral region outside of an image forming region to incline gradually away from a surface of a cleaning roller with increasing distance from an inner side of the lateral region. The toner receiving member includes a lower-level upper end portion provided in the lateral region outside of the image forming region, the lower-level upper end portion being located below a second contact region where the cleaning roller and the toner supply roller come into contact with each other. The inclined portion is disposed in a region overlapping the lower-level upper end portion. | 12-04-2014 |
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20100315853 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - In a semiconductor integrated circuit including a memory macro, such as a DRAM, an SRAM, a ROM, a flash memory, or the like, and a logic circuit, memory macro test-dedicated pads are provided on the memory macro, whereby an increase in the number of normal pads is reduced or prevented to reduce or prevent an increase in the chip area. Moreover, by fixing arrangement (positions) of the pads provided on the memory macro between memory macros of a plurality of memory macro-including semiconductor integrated circuits, a single common probe card for a single chip can be used for the memory macro-including semiconductor integrated circuits, thereby providing low-cost testing. | 12-16-2010 |
20110026385 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC REPRODUCING DEVICE - A semiconductor storage device including a memory cell and having a function of refreshing the memory cell, includes a clock generation circuit configured to receive a first clock, generate a second clock based on an inversion of the first clock, and output the second clock. The semiconductor storage device performs operation of the refresh function in synchronization with at least one of the first and second clocks. | 02-03-2011 |
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20120074059 | CLEANING METHOD FOR FILTRATION MEMBRANE AND MEMBRANE FILTRATION APPARATUS - There is provided a cleaning method for a hydrophobic filtration membrane used for membrane filtration of water to be treated such as seawater, discharged water and ballast water including a jelly-like suspended substance and clogged with the suspended substance in the water to be treated, the filtration membrane being brought into contact with limonene-containing water, or backwashing of the filtration membrane with a cleaning liquid being done, and then, a flow having air taken therein being applied onto a surface of the filtration membrane or a water stream from an eductor nozzle being sprayed onto the filtration membrane. There is also provided a membrane filtration apparatus capable of efficiently performing the above-mentioned cleaning method. | 03-29-2012 |
20120118824 | WATER TREATMENT APPARATUS AND WATER TREATMENT METHOD - There is provided a water treatment apparatus, including: first membrane filtration means in which a filtration membrane having an average pore diameter of 1 μm or more is used; second membrane filtration means for treating water filtered by the first membrane filtration means, by using a microfiltration membrane or ultrafiltration membrane; and reverse osmosis membrane filtration means for treating water filtered by the second membrane filtration means. In particular, there is provided a water treatment apparatus, wherein a hydrophobic polymer membrane that is not subjected to hydrophilicizing processing is used as the filtration membrane having an average pore diameter of 1 μm or more. There is also provided a water treatment method that can be implemented by these water treatment apparatuses. | 05-17-2012 |
20130092617 | WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND WATER TREATMENT APPARATUS - A water treatment unit is usable in a water treatment apparatus that performs water treatment using a reverse osmosis membrane. The water treatment unit includes: a casing; a separation membrane mounted in the casing and bent into a pleated shape; a reinforcing member attached to the separation membrane and having a function of reinforcing the separation membrane; a rotating mechanism rotating the separation membrane; and a cleaning device capable of cleaning the separation membrane. The separation membrane has a plurality of island-like portions and a plurality of fiber-like portions extending from the island-like portions and having a width smaller than that of the island-like portions, and an area of the fiber-like portions at a membrane surface is set to be larger than that of the island-like portions. | 04-18-2013 |
20130092618 | SEPARATION MEMBRANE, WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND WATER TREATMENT APPARATUS - A separation membrane is usable in a water treatment apparatus that performs water treatment using a reverse osmosis membrane. The separation membrane includes a plurality of island-like portions and a plurality of fiber-like portions extending from the island-like portions and having a width smaller than that of the island-like portions, and an area of the fiber-like portions at a membrane surface is set to be larger than that of the island-like portions. A water treatment unit includes: a casing; the aforementioned separation membrane mounted in the casing; and a cleaning device attached to the casing and capable of cleaning the separation membrane. The water treatment apparatus includes: a first water treatment unit capable of performing pretreatment of water to be treated; and a second water treatment unit capable of performing main treatment of the water to be treated. The first water treatment unit includes the aforementioned water treatment unit. | 04-18-2013 |
20140205966 | HUMAN BODY INFORMATION EXTRACTION DEVICE, HUMAN BODY IMAGING INFORMATION REFERENCE PLANE CONVERSION METHOD, AND CROSS SECTION INFORMATION DETECTION DEVICE - There is provided a human body information extraction device for extracting human body information including position information from a reference position, from 3D information on the human body elements obtained from a CT information or the like in which the position information from the reference position with respect to a human body element is unknown. In the human body information extraction device, a reference plane for positioning is detected by detecting information on a common positioning member contained in both of the 3D human body information from the CT information and a 3D model information from a human body model. The both reference planes are matched on the display so that the 3D human body information is positioned on the reference plane. Furthermore, only human information corresponding to the 3D model information is extracted from the CT information. By using this device, it is possible to obtain 3D human body information positioned on the reference plane from which a noise is excluded. | 07-24-2014 |
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20090096528 | AGC CIRCUIT - There is provided an AGC circuit that has a very small offset voltage and is easy for integration, without using any of external capacities. For that reason, a variable gain amplifying circuit (GCA | 04-16-2009 |
20090115495 | DRIVE CIRCUIT, VOLTAGE CONVERSION DEVICE AND AUDIO SYSTEM - The first control transistor is connected between a first input node for receiving a first input signal swinging between a first voltage and a second voltage and an intermediate node for outputting an output signal, and receives the second voltage at its gate. The second control transistor is connected between a second input node for receiving a second input signal swinging between a third voltage and a fourth voltage in synchronization with the first input signal and the intermediate node, and receives the third voltage at its gate. The voltage difference between the first voltage and the third voltage is smaller than or equal to the source-drain breakdown voltage of the second control transistor, and the voltage difference between the second voltage and the fourth voltage is smaller than or equal to the source-drain breakdown voltage of the first control transistor. | 05-07-2009 |
20090195298 | CHARGE PUMP CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A pumping circuit includes: a pumping capacitance; a first drive transistor connected between an input node for receiving an input voltage and one terminal of the pumping capacitance; and a second drive transistor connected between an output node for outputting an output voltage and the one terminal of the pumping capacitance. In a charge storing mode, the first drive transistor is turned ON to store charge in the pumping capacitance, while in a charge transfer mode, the second drive transistor is turned ON to transfer the charge stored in the pumping capacitance to the output node. The protection circuit puts at least one of the first and second drive transistors in a high-resistance state in which the resistance value is higher than when the transistor is ON, based on whether the output voltage is higher or lower than a predetermined judgment voltage. | 08-06-2009 |
20100259330 | AGC CIRCUIT - A count control signal generating section for generating a count control signal on the basis of an output signal of a variable gain amplifier; an up/down counter for performing an up-count operation or a down-count operation on the basis of the count control signal; a gain control signal generating section for generating a gain control signal to be supplied to the variable gain amplifier on the basis of a count value of the up/down counter; and a state detector section for outputting a state detection signal indicating whether a state of a circuit operation is a steady state or another state are provided. When the state detection signal indicates that the state of the circuit operation is the steady state, the operation of at least one of the up/down counter and the gain control signal generating section is controlled so as to fix the gain control signal. | 10-14-2010 |
20110267014 | ELECTRICAL LOAD DRIVE DEVICE - An electrical load drive device can reduce the offset voltage without requiring means of initializing the charge of an integrating capacitance or a terminal for offset correction. The input selector of the electrical load drive device selects an input signal or no signal, and outputs an input selection signal. An integrator integrates the input selection signal and outputs the integrated signal. The load driver produces a load drive signal by pulse width modulation and amplification of the integrated signal. A first path is a path for feeding back the load drive signal. A second path is a path for feeding back the integrated signal. The path selector produces a feedback signal by selecting the first path or the second path. The offset correction signal generator produces an offset correction signal for adjusting the integrated signal so that the feedback signal offset decreases. The integrator adds and integrates the feedback signal with the input selection signal, and adjusts the integrated signal based on the offset correction signal. | 11-03-2011 |
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20090041657 | Hydrogen generating material and method for producing the same, and method for producing hydrogen - A hydrogen generating material of the present invention includes at least one metal material selected from aluminum and aluminum alloy. The metal material has a surface film that includes a metal phase containing aluminum in the metallic state and an inactive phase containing an oxide or hydroxide of aluminum. A method for producing the hydrogen generating material of the present invention includes pulverizing aluminum or aluminum alloy in a liquid containing water and an organic solvent. A method for producing hydrogen of the present invention includes producing hydrogen by a reaction between the hydrogen generating material of the present invention and water. | 02-12-2009 |
20090049749 | Hydrogen-Generating Material and Hydrogen Generator - A hydrogen generating material of the present invention includes a metal material that reacts with water to generate hydrogen, and a heat generating material that reacts with water to generate heat and is a material other than the metal material. The heat generating material is unevenly distributed with respect to the metal material. The hydrogen generating material has a plurality of regions that differ in content of the heat generating material. The content of the heat generating material is preferably 30 wt % to 80 wt % in a region with the highest content of the heat generating material. A hydrogen generator of the present invention includes the hydrogen generating material and a vessel containing the hydrogen generating material. The vessel can accommodate another inner vessel. | 02-26-2009 |
20090098424 | HYDROGEN PRODUCING APPARATUS AND FUEL CELL SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A hydrogen producing apparatus according to the present invention includes a hydrogen-generating-material containing vessel | 04-16-2009 |
20090267023 | Hydrogen Generating Material and Method for Producing the Same - In a method for producing a hydrogen generating material including at least one metal powder selected from the group consisting of an aluminum powder and an aluminum alloy powder of the present invention, a metal flake powder is formed by pulverizing aluminum or aluminum alloy mechanically in a treatment solvent containing an organic solvent that is corrosive to aluminum. The hydrogen generating material of the present invention includes, e.g., at least one metal powder selected from the group consisting of an aluminum powder and an aluminum alloy powder. The metal powder is in the form of a flake and includes 60 wt % or more of aluminum in the metallic state. The carbon content of the metal powder measured by a combustion-infrared absorption method is 0.5 wt % or less. | 10-29-2009 |
20100209338 | HYDROGEN-GENERATING MATERIAL COMPOSITION, HYDROGEN-GENERATING MATERIAL FORMED BODY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROGEN - A hydrogen-generating material composition of the present invention contains at least one metallic material selected from the group consisting of aluminum, silicon, zinc, magnesium, and alloys mainly composed of at least one of those metal elements, and a water-soluble salt of hydroxy acid. In the hydrogen-generating material composition, the ratio of the water-soluble salt of hydroxy acid to the total of the metallic material and the water-soluble salt of hydroxy acid is 1 mass % or more. A method for producing hydrogen according to the present invention is provided, wherein hydrogen is generated by supplying water to the hydrogen-generating material composition of the present invention so that a reaction occurs between the metallic material and the water. | 08-19-2010 |
20110159385 | HYDROGEN GENERATOR AND FUEL CELL SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention provides a hydrogen generator capable of estimating the remaining amount of hydrogen without adding a detection means, which leads to an increase in the cost, and a fuel cell system including the hydrogen generator. The hydrogen generator includes the following: a hydrogen generating portion ( | 06-30-2011 |
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20100027520 | Transmission terminal, reception terminal, and information distribution system - A transmission terminal includes an information generation unit, a transmission unit, a delivery management unit, and a reception unit. The information generation unit generates information that is to be transmitted to a destination reception terminal. The transmission unit transmits information that the information generation unit has generated. The delivery management unit manages transmission of information. The reception unit receives information that the destination reception terminal transmits. Furthermore, the information generation unit generates or receives transmission information that is to be transmitted to the destination reception terminal and generates redundant information for the destination reception terminal to restore the transmission information. The delivery management unit causes the information generation unit to generate, and causes the transmission unit to retransmit, the redundant information when the reception unit has not received a successful reception reply from the destination reception terminal. | 02-04-2010 |
20100225471 | Information providing server, server system, and method - An information providing server obtains user information from a user apparatus. The user information is dependent on a place at which the user was previously located. The information providing server decides, from the user information, whether the user has been present within a permission zone including an information acquisition apparatus, and interconnects the user apparatus and the information acquisition apparatus, directly or indirectly, only if such is the case. Users who were present within the permission zone are able to obtain information acquired by the information acquisition apparatus without going through a preliminary registration procedure, while other users are unable to obtain the acquired information. | 09-09-2010 |
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20140121243 | NOVEL 1-SUBSTITUTED INDAZOLE DERIVATIVE - A medicament for treating diseases associated with cholinergic properties in the central nervous system (CNS) and/or peripheral nervous system (PNS), diseases associated with smooth muscle contraction, endocrine disorders, neurodegenerative disorders and the like, which comprises a compound of Formula (I): | 05-01-2014 |
20140121244 | NOVEL 1-SUBSTITUTED INDAZOLE DERIVATIVE - A medicament for treating diseases associated with cholinergic properties in the central nervous system (CNS) and/or peripheral nervous system (PNS), diseases associated with smooth muscle contraction, endocrine disorders, neurodegenerative disorders and the like, which comprises a compound of Formula (I): | 05-01-2014 |
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