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20100260019 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In order to ensure a favorable recording characteristic for a write-once recording medium whose recording layer is made of an organic dye having an absorption spectrum at a wavelength λ=405 nm, this optical information recording apparatus includes a unit to set a write power to form recording marks, a space forming power to form spaces and a pulse width of a cooling pulse, and a unit to record information onto the recording medium according to the setting. The pulse width of the cooling pulse and a ratio of the space recording power to the write power are determined from a favorable region in a plane whose one coordinate axis represents the ratio and whose other coordinate axis represents the pulse width of the cooling pulse. | 10-14-2010 |
20120218875 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - To ensure a favorable recording characteristic for a write-once recording medium for a bluish-purple laser, an optical information recording apparatus includes ways to write power to form recording marks, a space forming power to form spaces, pulse width of a cooling pulse and ways to record information onto the optical information recording medium according to the setting of the write power, the setting of the space forming power and the setting of the pulse width of the cooling pulse. At this time, the pulse width of the cooling pulse and a ratio whose numerator is the write power and whose denominator is the space forming power have a preferable region of the recording characteristic, and information is recorded onto the optical recording medium by using values in this range. | 08-30-2012 |
20140030467 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM - An optical recording medium is provided having a recording layer that absorbs light with a wavelength of 350 nm to 500 nm, the optical recording medium having good recording playback properties even when the ambient temperature changes, and allowing playback distortion to be controlled even when stored in a high temperature environment. A write-once type optical recording medium including: a substrate; a reflective layer that reflects light with a wavelength of 350 nm to 500 nm on the substrate; a recording layer that absorbs light with a wavelength of 350 nm to 500 nm; and a light transmission layer with a single-layer construction that transmits light with a wavelength of 350 nm to 500 nm, the light transmission layer having a modulus of elasticity at 75° C. that ranges from 50 MPa to less than 170 MPa. | 01-30-2014 |
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20090055273 | METHOD OF PROVIDING ADVERTISING INFORMATION, SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING INFORMATION, AND PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING INFORMATION - A method of providing advertising information to a communication terminal includes acquiring location information from the communication terminal and extracting advertising information of advertisers which locate within a predetermined range from a base point corresponding to the location information. The extracted advertising information is provided to the communication terminal. | 02-26-2009 |
20090247190 | ADVERTISING INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, ADVERTISING INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, ADVERTISING INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM AND ADVERTISING INFORMATION RANKING PROGRAM - By using the location information of a wireless communication terminal, an advertising information display method, etc. is provided to display on a display, highly useful advertising information, that is, advertising information of an advertising information transmission source, which is located at a location that is close to the location at which the user of the wireless communication terminal is present. This advertising information display method, which displays, on a display | 10-01-2009 |
20110061003 | ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY METHOD, ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY PROGRAM - An advertisement display method includes displaying, on a display position on a map displayed on a screen of a communication terminal of a user based on user specified location information specified by the user, location information of an advertiser based on advertiser specified location information specified by the advertiser. The display position corresponds to the advertiser specified location information. Advertisement information associated with the advertiser specified location information is displayed on the map in accordance with the location information of the advertiser. Ranking information of the advertisement information is generated. A display mode of at least one of the location information of the advertiser and the advertisement information is changed based on the ranking information and display criteria adjusted by the user. | 03-10-2011 |
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20100108956 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SHIELDING MATERIAL AND SHEET - An electromagnetic wave shielding material and a sheet using the same are described. Also described is a gel state electromagnetic wave shielding material including an ionic liquid, and fine particles capable of reflecting, suppressing or absorbing an electromagnetic wave suspended in the ionic liquid. The electromagnetic wave shielding material may provide both high electromagnetic interference shielding ability and flexibility when used in sheet form, and in some applications, may provide flame and heat resistance. | 05-06-2010 |
20110097585 | GEL COMPOSITION, METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME, AND IMPACT RESISTANT ABSORBING MATERIAL USING THE SAME - A gel composition usable as an impact resistant absorbing material, comprises a polymer comprising, as a constituent unit, at least one of an acidic group or a basic group, and 50 weight % or more of an ionic liquid. In addition, a method for preparing the gel composition comprises (a) preparing a mixture liquid comprising a monomer or polymer comprising, as a constituent unit, at least one of an acidic group or a basic group, a cross-linking agent and 50 weight % or more of an ionic liquid, and (b) polymerizing and cross-linking said monomer or cross-linking said polymer in said mixture liquid to form a gel composition. | 04-28-2011 |
20110268950 | Electromagnetic Wave Shielding Gel-Like Composition - A gel-like composition that includes a gel, wherein the gel includes a polymer and an ionic liquid contained in the network of the polymer; and an electromagnetic wave suppressor, wherein the electromagnetic wave suppressor is dispersed in the gel and wherein the thermal conductivity of the gel-like composition is at least 0.8 W/mK. | 11-03-2011 |
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20100025918 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There are provided a sheet conveying apparatus and an image forming apparatus, which enable stable sheet conveyance without depending on sheet size. | 02-04-2010 |
20100171406 | ELECTROCONDUCTIVE LAMINATE - To provide an electroconductive laminate which has a broad transmission/reflection band and which is excellent in electrical conductivity (electromagnetic wave shielding properties), visible light transmittance, visible light antireflection properties, near infrared shielding properties and moisture resistance, and an electromagnetic wave shield for a plasma display employing such a laminate. | 07-08-2010 |
20100278574 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A before-toner-fixation conveying guide is provided between a transfer portion configured to transfer a toner image, which is formed by an image forming portion, onto a sheet and a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image, which is transferred on the sheet by the transfer portion, to the sheet. The before-toner-fixation conveying guide guides the sheet, on which the toner image is transferred, to the fixing portion. A plurality of consecutive chevron shapes are formed, along a direction orthogonal to a sheet conveying direction, in an end portion on a downstream side in the sheet conveying direction of the before-toner-fixation conveying guide. | 11-04-2010 |
20100327519 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet conveying apparatus and an image forming apparatus are provided which can prevent the collision of the side end of a sheet with the upstream end in the sheet conveying direction of an abutment reference member. The sheet conveying speed of a pair of conveying rollers | 12-30-2010 |
20110260395 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There are provided a sheet conveying apparatus and an image forming apparatus, which enable stable sheet conveyance without depending on sheet size. | 10-27-2011 |
20120087687 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus may include a transfer nip, a first conveyance belt, a second conveyance belt, a fixing nip, a fixing drive unit, and a control unit. The first conveyance belt conveys the sheet to which a toner image is transferred and fixed. The fixing drive unit drives the fixing nip so that the fixing nip conveys the sheet at a speed that is higher than the transfer speed in a high speed fixing mode in which the fixing nip fixes the toner image to the sheet while conveying the sheet. The control unit sets a circumferential speed of the first conveyance belt and a circumferential speed of the second conveyance belt so that the sheet bridging the first and second conveyance belts is pulled by the second conveyance belt to slide on the first conveyance belt in the high speed fixing mode. | 04-12-2012 |
20120091653 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A skew feeding correction portion includes a first pair of skew-feed rollers that has rollers, a second pair of skew-feed rollers, a third pair of skew-feed rollers, as skewing at the downstream side of the second pair of skew-feed rollers, and a reference member that is arranged along a sheet conveying direction and that corrects the skew feeding of the sheet in such a manner that a side end of the sheet, which is conveyed as being skewed by the respective pairs of skew-feed rollers, is brought into contact with the reference member, wherein the first pair of skew-feed rollers releases the nip of the sheet by separating the rollers from each other before the sheet is nipped by the third pair of skew-feed rollers after the sheet is nipped by the second pair of skew-feed rollers. | 04-19-2012 |
20130113158 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A reference member which regulates a position of one side end of a sheet along the sheet conveying direction is provided at one side of a sheet conveying path in the width direction so as to follow the sheet conveying direction and to be rotatable about its downstream end portion in the sheet conveying direction. Then, one side end of the sheet is skew-conveyed toward the reference member by a plurality of pair of skew-conveying rollers which is arranged in the sheet conveying path along the sheet conveying direction. Then, when forming an image on both faces of the sheet, a control portion rotates the reference member so that the sheet is displaced to the center side in the sheet conveying path compared to the case of forming an image on one face of the sheet. | 05-09-2013 |
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20110050263 | PROBE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PROBE - A probe is made to contact an electrode terminal in an electric circuit or an electronic part for an electric measurement of the electric circuit or the electronic part. The probe includes a terminal portion which is brought in contact with the electrode terminal at one end of the probe, a spring portion in which U-shaped unit portions are arrayed in a zigzag formation, and a housing portion which surrounds the spring portion. The probe is formed of a sheet of a sheet-metal plate which is bent multiple times, the sheet-metal plate having a predetermined configuration in which a portion corresponding to the terminal portion, a portion corresponding to the spring portion, and a portion corresponding to the housing portion are continuously linked together. | 03-03-2011 |
20110293264 | CAMERA MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CAMERA MODULE - A camera module includes a camera unit, a board, and a driving unit mounted on the board and configured to drive the camera unit. The camera module also includes an elastic camera-side connecting part configured to connect a terminal of the camera unit with wiring on a first surface of the board. | 12-01-2011 |
20130101281 | CAMERA MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CAMERA MODULE - A camera module includes a camera unit, a board, and a driving unit mounted on the board and configured to drive the camera unit. The camera module also includes an elastic camera-side connecting part configured to connect a terminal of the camera unit with wiring on a first surface of the board. | 04-25-2013 |
20130247375 | PROBE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PROBE - A probe is made to contact an electrode terminal in an electric circuit or an electronic part for an electric measurement of the electric circuit or the electronic part. The probe includes a terminal portion which is brought in contact with the electrode terminal at one end of the probe, a spring portion in which U-shaped unit portions are arrayed in a zigzag formation, and a housing portion which surrounds the spring portion. The probe is formed of a sheet of a metal sheet which is bent multiple times, the metal sheet having a predetermined configuration in which a portion corresponding to the terminal portion, a portion corresponding to the spring portion, and a portion corresponding to the housing portion are continuously linked together. | 09-26-2013 |
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20100064068 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided are an apparatus, a method, and a program for displaying an operating screen in a short time when the apparatus is powered on after change in configuration thereof. After the apparatus is powered on, the operating screen on the previous activation is displayed, and a simplified screen is displayed if the configuration of the apparatus is different from that on the previous activation. | 03-11-2010 |
20100241873 | INSTALLATION OF APPLICATION PACKAGE PACKAGING PLURAL APPLICATIONS - An application packaging device is provided, which comprises a decryption component configured to decrypt each of a plurality of applications, a replication component configured to replicate an end user license agreement included in each of the plurality of decrypted applications, and a component configured to package respective replicas of the end user license agreements and the plurality of applications before the decryption so as to obtain an application package. | 09-23-2010 |
20110228319 | SERVER APPARATUS, CLIENT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF SERVER APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF CLIENT APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A server apparatus is disclosed which communicates with a client apparatus and an image forming apparatus. The server apparatus executes a print service to transmit print data to the image forming apparatus and allows the image forming apparatus to print the print data in accordance with a print request transmitted from the client apparatus. The server apparatus then transmits a processing situation of the executed print service in accordance with a request repeatedly transmitted from the client apparatus. The server apparatus finally stops the request repeatedly transmitted from the client apparatus in response to completion of a process corresponding to the print request in the executed print service. | 09-22-2011 |
20110295970 | CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM, SERVER COMPUTER, DEVICE CONNECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A cloud computing system includes an initial request reception unit, a request reception unit, and a transmission unit. The initial request reception unit receives a connection request from a device. In a case where the device has tried to access a request reception unit, the request reception unit receives a service usage request and service identification information from the device and determines whether a back-end processing unit is present that both corresponds to the device and is configured to execute the service. If present, a service utilization preparation completion screen is transmitted to the device. If not present, an instance generation instruction is sent to a management unit and instruction to launch an instance generated to execute the service is sent. After the instance is launched and the back-end processing unit is realized, the service utilization preparation completion screen is transmitted to the device. | 12-01-2011 |
20120218595 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINT SYSTEM, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing system may include at least an image processing device and includes a receiving unit, a specifying unit, an acquiring unit, and an adjusting unit. The receiving unit receives a print request and identification information. The specifying unit specifies a queue corresponding to image forming device based on the identification information. The acquiring unit acquires the number of jobs stored in the specified queue. The adjusting unit adjusts the number of print services depending on whether the number of acquired jobs is equal to or larger than a predetermined value for the number of jobs set in the identification information and depending on whether the number of print services that process the jobs stored in the queue is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value for the number of print services set in the identification information. | 08-30-2012 |
20150062647 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINT SYSTEM, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing system may include at least an image processing device, a receiving unit, a specifying unit, an acquiring unit, and an adjusting unit. The receiving unit receives a print request and identification information. The specifying unit specifies a queue corresponding to an image forming device based on the identification information. The acquiring unit acquires the number of jobs stored in the specified queue. The adjusting unit adjusts the number of print services depending on whether the number of acquired jobs is equal to or larger than a predetermined value for the number of jobs set in the identification information and depending on whether the number of print services that process the jobs stored in the queue is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value for the number of print services set in the identification information. | 03-05-2015 |
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20120259990 | PROVISIONING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF SETTING NETWORK PARAMETER IN PROVISIONING NETWORK - A provisioning device connected to field devices, which are objects of provisioning, via a provisioning network separated from a target network may include a router advertisement unit that designates a field device, which is an object of provisioning, among the field devices located within a router advertisement zone of the provisioning device to transmit a router advertisement to the designated field device in a unicast mode, a connection control unit that controls a connection to the provisioning network of the field device that receives the router advertisement, and a parameter setting unit that performs setting of network parameters in the field device, the network parameters being managed by the field device. | 10-11-2012 |
20140351591 | INFORMATION SETTING METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An information setting method for a setting device includes the following processes. A first certificate and identification information are obtained from a wireless device to be caused to join a wireless network managed by a management device. The first certificate certifies that the wireless device is a formal wireless device and includes a first public key. The identification information is information that identifies the wireless device. A second certificate is obtained from the management device. The second certificate certifies that the management device is a formal management device and includes a second public key. Apparatus information required for the wireless device to join the wireless network is encoded using the first public key and is output to the wireless device. Management information including the apparatus information and the identification information associated with the apparatus information is encoded using the second public key and is output to the management device. | 11-27-2014 |
20150055637 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A management apparatus, which manages a wireless network constituted by a plurality of wireless communication devices each capable of performing a wireless communication using TDMA system, is characterized by comprising an extended link management unit that manages an extended link obtained by setting, to a link for which a channel and time slots to be used for wireless communications using the TDMA system are specified and for which a communication direction is determined, attribute information that characterizes the wireless communications performed by the wireless communication devices by use of the link. | 02-26-2015 |
20150068311 | ULTRASONIC PIPE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - An ultrasonic pipe measurement apparatus includes: a plurality of ultrasonic transceivers discretely disposed on a pipe wall of a pipe; and a control unit configured to control the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers and detect a generation point of damage caused in the pipe based on an ultrasonic signal exchanged between the ultrasonic transceivers. | 03-12-2015 |
20150089508 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device communicating in conformance with a prescribed communication standard includes a storage storing at least a first virtual program that includes a program implementing a first function of the communication device and a second virtual program that includes a program implementing a second function of the communication device, an executer configured to successively execute the first and second virtual programs, and a switching controller configured to read at least a part of either one of the first and second virtual programs from the storage, to store the part of either one of the first and second virtual programs into a memory of the executer, to execute the part of either one of the first and second virtual programs in the executer, after completion of the processing of the one virtual program, to delete at least a part of the one virtual program from the memory in accordance with free area in the memory, to read at least a part of the other virtual program of the first and second virtual programs from the storage, to store the part of the other virtual program into the memory of the executer, and to execute the part of the other virtual program in the executer, thereby, to switch the first and second virtual programs to be executed in the executer. | 03-26-2015 |
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20140319674 | SEMICONDUCTOR COOLING DEVICE - A semiconductor cooling device includes: a cooling medium flow channel, through which a cooling medium for cooling a semiconductor chip flows; a laminar flow section which is provided in a region upstream of the cooling medium flow channel and allows the cooling medium to flow in the form of laminar flow; and a turbulent flow section which is provided in a region downstream of the laminar flow section in the cooling medium flow channel and allows the cooling medium, which flows in the form of laminar flow from the laminar flow section, to flow in the form of turbulent flow. | 10-30-2014 |
20150243581 | SEMICONDUCTOR COOLING DEVICE - A semiconductor cooling device includes: a cooling medium flow channel, through which a cooling medium for cooling a semiconductor chip flows; a laminar flow section which is provided in a region upstream of the cooling medium flow channel and allows the cooling medium to flow in the form of laminar flow; and a turbulent flow section which is provided in a region downstream of the laminar flow section in the cooling medium flow channel and allows the cooling medium, which flows in the form of laminar flow from the laminar flow section, to flow in the form of turbulent flow. | 08-27-2015 |
20150270186 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An electrode includes an extending portion extending such that both ends thereof get into a first recessed portion and a second recessed portion provided in a first inner wall and a second inner wall, respectively, facing each other in a lateral direction of a case. The extent to which both the ends of the extending portion get into is set such that positions of both the ends thereof in a case where both the ends are narrowed toward a midpoint therebetween to reduce a length of the extending portion to 70% of the length of the extending portion exist between positions of the first and second inner walls in a case where the first and second inner walls are each narrowed toward a midpoint therebetween by 10% of the distance between the first and second inner walls. | 09-24-2015 |
20160095213 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element and a ceramic circuit substrate on which the semiconductor element is mounted. The ceramic circuit substrate includes a ceramic substrate having one surface and the other surface facing each other, a metal circuit board joined to the one surface of the ceramic substrate and electrically connected to the semiconductor element, and a metal heat-dissipation plate joined to the other surface of the ceramic substrate. The metal circuit board is greater in thickness than the metal heat-dissipation plate. A surface of the metal heat-dissipation plate on a side opposite to the ceramic substrate is larger in area than a surface of the metal circuit board on a side opposite to the ceramic substrate. Thereby, a semiconductor device capable of suppressing warpage of the ceramic substrate can be achieved. | 03-31-2016 |
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20100130794 | 6,8,10-UNDECATRIEN-3-OL OR 6,8,10-UNDECATRIEN-4-OL, AND AROMA COMPOSITIONS - This invention offers 6,8,10-undecatrien-3-ol and 6,8,10-undecatrien-4-ol. These compounds possess not only woody green note, but also fruity note rich in naturality and freshness, and aroma compositions blended therewith are useful for imparting fragrance and flavor to food and beverage, perfumed cosmetics, medicaments and the like. | 05-27-2010 |
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20090068491 | TOOL FOR FRICTION STIR WELDING, METHOD OF WELDING WITH THE SAME, AND PROCESSED OBJECT OBTAINED BY THE SAME - It is an object of the invention to reduce mixing of an impurity from a friction stir welding tool, reduce abrasion of the tool, and prevent the tool from being easily broken even though an object to be worked formed by a metal or an alloy having a high melting point of 1350° C. or more is friction-stir-welded. | 03-12-2009 |
20100034564 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a developer carrying member to which a developing bias is applied. A frequency f of a developing bias waveform, a developing area S1 which is a time-integrated value of a difference between a voltage value of the developing bias and a solid electrostatic image potential VL in a developing period of the developing bias, a collecting area S2 which is a time-integrated value of a difference between the voltage value of the developing bias and VL in a collecting period of the developing bias, and a developing contrast value Vcon are used for defining a range of a value of the developing bias frequency f, a range of a value of a voltage change rate α at VL during transition of the developing bias voltage value from a developing-side voltage to a collecting-side voltage, and a range of a value represented by the formula: | 02-11-2010 |
20100159382 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT CARRIER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER AND IMAGE-FORMING METHOD USING THE TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER - A carrier has an impedance Z having a frequency dependence, obtained by alternating current impedance measurement. When the frequency dependence is fitted by a fitting function, parameter α lies in a range of 0.70 to 0.90 in an electric field of 10 | 06-24-2010 |
20100209147 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A duty ratio Du (%), denoted by (T | 08-19-2010 |
20110111337 | MAGNETIC CARRIER - In the formation of images by a two-component development system, provided is a magnetic carrier that can be used to output an image which has sufficient density, in which few white spots are present in a low-density portion located near the boundary between a high-density region and a low-density region, and in which the low-density portion has good graininess. The magnetic carrier contains magnetic carrier particles each of which has resin and a magnetic particle. The magnetic particle contains ferrite phases and phases comprising a perovskite-structured compound. The ferrite phases and phases comprising a perovskite-structured compound are combined. | 05-12-2011 |
20110274943 | METAL MATERIAL PROCESSING METHOD, STRUCTURE PROCESSED USING METAL MATERIAL PROCESSING METHOD AND ROTARY TOOL - In a metal material processing method, two metal materials are arranged to face each other in a processing portion, and a distal end of a rod-shaped rotary tool is inserted into the processing portion while rotating the rotary tool, thereby the two metal materials are processed. The distal end of the rotary tool has a probe protruding in a central portion and a shoulder in a peripheral portion. The probe and the shoulder are constituted by different materials in at least surface portions that are in contact with the metal materials. | 11-10-2011 |
20120237788 | METAL MATERIAL PROCESSING METHOD, STRUCTURE PROCESSED USING METAL MATERIAL PROCESSING METHOD AND ROTARY TOOL - A metal material processing method includes arranging two metal materials to face each other in a processing portion and inserting a distal end of a rod-shaped rotary tool into the processing portion while rotating the rotary tool, the two metal materials are processed. The distal end of the rotary tool has a probe protruding in a central portion and a shoulder in a peripheral portion, and the probe and the shoulder are constituted by different materials in at least surface portions that are in contact with the metal materials. | 09-20-2012 |
20130101931 | TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND TWO-COMPONENT TYPE DEVELOPER - A toner containing toner base particles and an external additive, wherein regions with different tribocharging polarities with respect to a magnetic carrier are present in a domain-matrix structure on the surface of the toner base particles. The island region B has a predetermined height, the external additive has a reverse polarity to the region B in terms of tribocharging polarity to the magnetic carrier, the external additive contains a first external additive having a number-average primary particle size of 80-150 nm and a second external additive having a number-average primary particle size of 10-60 nm, and an average coverage Cb (%) with the first external additive in the region B is 27-100% and a coverage Ca (%) with the first external additive in the sea region A is 12% or less. | 04-25-2013 |
20130216263 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member; an electrostatic image forming device; and a developer carrying member. The developer carrying member is provided so as to be rotated in a direction opposite to a rotational direction of the image bearing member at a peripheral speed higher than that of the image bearing member. When the peripheral speed of the image bearing member is Vp (m/sec), the peripheral speed of the developer carrying member is Vs (m/sec), and a time, of movement of the developer from the surface of the developer carrying member to the image bearing member, actually measured in a gap between the image bearing member and the developer carrying member is Tsd (sec), the peripheral speeds Vp and Vs and the time Tsd satisfy the following relationship: (Vs−Vp)×Tsd<3×10 | 08-22-2013 |
20130223861 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum; a first sleeve for carrying a developer containing toner and a carrier having a volume resistivity lower than that of the toner and for developing an image on the drum by rubbing the drum with the developer; a second sleeve for carrying the developer received from the first sleeve and for developing the image by rubbing the drum with the developer carried on the second sleeve; a voltage source for applying a developing bias voltage including a DC voltage component and an AC voltage component to the first sleeve and second sleeve; and a driving device for rotating the first sleeve at a peripheral speed higher than the drum and for rotating the second sleeve at a peripheral speed which is higher than the drum and which is lower than the first sleeve. | 08-29-2013 |
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20110104361 | TASTE-IMPROVING AGENT FOR POTASSIUM SALT OR POTASSIUM SALT-CONTAINING FOOD OR DRINK - The invention improves the unpleasant taste characteristic of potassium salts without affecting the original flavor of foods or drinks and increases the value of potassium salt as a salt substitute, in order to provide means and a salt composition for reducing sodium in foods and drinks. | 05-05-2011 |
20110204012 | COMMODITY DISPLAY TAKE-OUT UNIT AND COMMODITY DISPLAY SHELF USING THE UNIT - The invention can be used by being mounted on a shelf plate of an article display rack, prevents the shelf plate from being distorted due to a weight of the articles, prevents a distortion of an article support member, and prevents a forward feeding function of the articles from being deteriorated. In an article display and take-out unit with rollers used by being mounted on a shelf plate of an article display rack, the article display and take-out unit is provided with an article support member in which the rollers that support the articles vertically to a moving direction of the articles are rotatably installed in parallel, a rigid plate for preventing a distortion of the article support member caused by a weight of the articles, a first attachment that holds the rigid plate and the article support member and integrates them together, and a second attachment that holds at least the rigid plate at a desired height position. | 08-25-2011 |
20130224361 | TASTE-IMPROVING AGENT FOR POTASSIUM SALT OR POTASSIUM SALT-CONTAINING FOOD OR DRINK - The invention improves the unpleasant taste characteristic of potassium salts without affecting the original flavor of foods or drinks and increases the value of potassium salt as a salt substitute, in order to provide means and a salt composition for reducing sodium in foods and drinks. | 08-29-2013 |
20140104518 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device is configured to form a three dimensional image on the vertical view by applying a first voltage between a narrow electrode on the first substrate and a wide electrode on the second substrate, and a second voltage lower than the first voltage between the wide electrode on the first substrate and the wide electrode on the second substrate, and to form a three dimensional image on the horizontal view by applying the first voltage between the wide electrode on the first substrate and a narrow electrode on the second substrate, and the second voltage between the wide electrode on the first substrate and the wide electrode on the second substrate so as to reduce generation of domain in the horizontal electric field. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104545 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes an display panel, a liquid crystal lens panel disposed on the display panel, and adapted to form a lenticular lens by switching, and a polarization plate disposed on an opposite side of the liquid crystal lens panel to the display panel, the liquid crystal lens panel includes a liquid crystal layer, a first insulating substrate disposed on the display panel side of the liquid crystal layer, a second insulating substrate disposed on the polarization plate side, and having an oriented film with a rubbing direction perpendicular to a rubbing direction of an oriented film of the first insulating substrate, and a plurality of strip electrodes extending in one direction, arranged side by side on the first insulating substrate, wherein a polarization axis direction of the polarization plate is the same as the rubbing direction of the second oriented film. | 04-17-2014 |
20140267958 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal material is driven in a twisted nematic mode so that while liquid crystal molecules lose, on a stripe electrode, rotary power toward a direction along an electric field by a voltage applied between the stripe electrode and a second electrode and form, in a region between the adjacent stripe electrodes, refractive index distribution of a lenticular lens that includes a cylindrical lens in which a cylindrical axis is arranged in a first direction. The cylindrical lens faces at least two rows of pixels, and has an effective refractive index for causing light from the at least two rows of pixels to advance in separating directions from each other after emission from a second polarizing plate. A distance d of a cell gap and an interval s between the adjacent stripe electrodes satisfy the relation of 3.5≦s/d≦7. | 09-18-2014 |
20150029079 | DRIVE CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DRIVE METHOD - A drive circuit for a light emitting element small in the number of components which can correct a threshold voltage of a drive transistor is provided. The drive circuit includes a line that is connected between two reference voltages, a light emitting element on the line, a drive transistor on the line, a first capacitor connected between a gate and a drain of the drive transistor, a second capacitor connected between the gate and a source of the drive transistor, a first switching element connected to the gate of the drive transistor and turning on during a signal writing period to supply a signal voltage to the gate of the drive transistor, and a second switching element disposed on the line and having one side connected to the source of the drive transistor, and the second capacitor. | 01-29-2015 |
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20110128291 | PROGRAM GENERATION DEVICE, PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - When a generating device generates a control program for displaying images of characters on a display screen of a mobile terminal, if a character represented in accordance with a font identity not supported by the mobile terminal is included, an item of image data representing an image that depicts the character according to the font identity is generated in advance in the generating device. When the control program is executed in the mobile terminal, a character represented in accordance with a font identity not supported by the mobile terminal can be displayed by use of the image data that has been generated in advance. With regard to a font identity supported by font data stored in the mobile terminal, an image depicting a character according to the font identity can be generated using the font data, so that the image is displayed on the mobile terminal. | 06-02-2011 |