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20110227999 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING INK-MIST BLOCKING MECHANISMS - An image forming apparatus includes a printing head having an ink nozzle configured to discharge ink droplets onto a recording medium in order to form an image on the recording medium in a recording operation; a carriage on which the printing head is mounted and being moved in a main-scan direction during the recording operation; a linear encoder sheet having a counter for detecting a position of the carriage; an encoder sensor mounted on the carriage and detecting the position of the carriage by optically reading the counter of the linear encoder sheet; an carriage unit enclosure in which at least the carriage, the linear encoder sheet, and the encoder sensor are disposed; and an internal pressure adjusting unit adjusting an internal pressure of the carriage unit enclosure to be other than a negative pressure. | 09-22-2011 |
20120212543 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a print head to form an image on a recording medium; a carriage, including the print head, which scans in a main scanning direction; a linear encoder scale with scale marks and elongated in the carriage moving direction to detect a position of the carriage; an encoder sensor disposed on a side wall of the carriage including a groove with an upper open concave-shaped cross-section if seen from the carriage moving direction and reads scale marks on the linear encoder scale by passing the linear encoder scale through the groove; and a through-hole forming member, disposed on the side wall of the carriage, configured to cover the encoder sensor, and forming a through-hole extending in the carriage moving direction which the linear encoder scale is passed through. The through-hole forming member is disposed openable with respect to the carriage. | 08-23-2012 |
20120228821 | PAPER SUPPLY UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A disclosed paper supply unit includes a paper supply cassette having a bottom plate for placing stacked recording media therein and a sending out part. When the paper supply cassette is loaded at a paper supply position, the sending out part faces the bottom plate, the bottom plate is lifted and the recording media come into contact with the sending out part. A support member is rotatably fitted to the paper supply cassette. An elastic member is fastened between the support member and the bottom plate. The support member has plural fastening parts for fastening the elastic member. The elastic force of the elastic member is changeable using the plural fastening parts. | 09-13-2012 |
20130001850 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a sheet feed cassette to hold a stack of recording media, a cover detachably attachable to the sheet feed cassette to cover an opening of the sheet feed cassette through which the recording media are supplied, an image forming part to form images on the recording media, and a discharge tray having a top surface on which the recording media discharged from the image forming apparatus after image formation are stacked. The sheet feed cassette is disposed below the discharge tray and is contractibly extendable, protruding outwardly from the image forming apparatus to accommodate large-sized recording media in its extended state. The cover includes a displaceable discharge auxiliary member slidable against the cover so as to be flush with the top surface of the discharge tray and detachably attachable to the sheet feed cassette together with the cover. | 01-03-2013 |
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20120008430 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - According to the embodiments, a memory cell stores therein data, a dummy cell replicates an operation of the memory cell, a write control unit makes the dummy cell to perform writing in synchronization with write timing of the memory cell, and a row decoder performs opening and closing of a word line that performs a row selection of the memory cell based on a monitored result of a write condition of the dummy cell. | 01-12-2012 |
20120096323 | DIAGNOSTIC CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - According to one embodiment, a certain amount of data is held in the memory cells, and after a state of the data held in the memory cell is transferred into an indefinite state, data autonomously held in the memory cell is read, and a change of the threshold voltage of transistors is diagnosed on the basis of the distribution of the data autonomously held in the memory cell. | 04-19-2012 |
20120127784 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a dummy cell simulates an operation of a memory cell. A main dummy bit line transmits a signal read out from the dummy cell. An inverter makes a sense amplifier circuit to operate based on a potential of the main dummy bit line. n (n is a positive integer) number of auxiliary dummy bit lines are provided. A switching element connects at least one of the n number of auxiliary dummy bit lines to the main dummy bit line. | 05-24-2012 |
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20090199796 | ENGINE VALVE DEVICE - An engine valve device includes an intake valve which opens and closes an intake port by a pressing force of a rotating cam and a pressing force of a valve spring, a piston which is movable in a same direction as the intake valve, a cylinder portion which houses the piston such that the piston is movable inside, a hydraulic actuator including the piston and the cylinder portion, a supply discharge pipe line which communicates with a pressure chamber formed by the piston and the cylinder portion, an accumulator which accumulates hydraulic oil flowed out from the pressure chamber via the supply discharge pipe line, and an electromagnetic on-off valve which controls a flow of the hydraulic oil between the pressure chamber and the accumulator. The electromagnetic on-off valve is arranged on the supply discharge pipe line between the hydraulic actuator and the accumulator. | 08-13-2009 |
20110214631 | VARIABLE VALVE DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A variable valve device and a method of controlling the variable valve device, wherein, in order to prevent a shortage of oil film in a spool section, only the spool of a solenoid on/off valve is moved at a timing not affecting operation of an air intake valve, to thereby stabilize operation of the solenoid on/off valve. | 09-08-2011 |
20110220045 | VARIABLE VALVE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A variable valve device has a hydraulic actuator that implements discharge of operating oil in a pressure chamber and a hydraulic control valve that controls supply and discharge of the operating oil to and from the hydraulic actuator by opening and closing, thereby preventing the closing movement of the intake valve. After a signal that closes the hydraulic control valve in a current engine control cycle is output at a prescribed crank angle, the crank angle of a crankshaft, when surge pressure in the pressure chamber has exceeded a prescribed threshold value resulting from closing of the hydraulic control valve, is determined, and at least either an output crank angle or a waveform of the signal that closes the hydraulic control valve is corrected based on the operation start crank angle, and the corrected signal is output to the hydraulic control valve in a next control cycle. | 09-15-2011 |
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20110261600 | POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - A power conversion apparatus includes a plurality of semiconductor modules and a plurality of bus bars. The plurality of bus bars include a positive electrode bus bar connected to a positive electrode power terminal, a negative electrode bus bar connected to a negative electrode power terminal, and a plurality of AC bus bars connected to an AC power terminal. Of a DC bus bar group Including the positive electrode bus bar and the negative electrode bus bar, and an AC bus bar group including the plurality of AC bus bars, part of one of the bus bar groups is sealed with insulating resin, and the other of the bus bar groups is not sealed with insulating resin. A seat is formed on the insulating resin sealing the one of the bus bar groups, and the other of the bus bar groups is mounted on a seat face of the seat. | 10-27-2011 |
20120006595 | BUS BAR MODULE - A bus bar module, which is electrically connected to a power terminal of an at least one semiconductor module having a semiconductor element, includes at least one bus bar made of a conductor, and a sealing member made of resin which seals part of the bus bar. The bus bar has at least one welded plate including an at least one welded part welded to the power terminal, and a held plate held by the sealing member. Part of the held plate configures a sealed part sealed with the sealing member. At least one slit is formed between the welded plate and the held plate. The welded plate and the held plate are connected to each other at a predetermined position farther from the sealed part than from the at least one welded part. | 01-12-2012 |
20130058143 | POWER CONVERTER EQUIPPED WITH SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE - In a power converter, a plurality of AC busbars are electrically connected to an AC load. An insulating support surrounds at least part of a stacked converter unit of semiconductor modules and refrigerant paths. The set of busbars are fixedly mounted on the insulating support. A terminal holder has a mount surface on which one end of each of the plurality of AC busbars is mounted as a terminal. A current sensor has a through-hole and measures a current flowing through at least part of at least one of the plurality of AC busbars. The current sensor is attached to the terminal holder with the at least part of the at least one of the plurality of AC busbars being fitted in the through-hole of the current sensor. | 03-07-2013 |
20130335918 | POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS WITH GROMMET INSERTED INTO CASING - A power conversion apparatus is equipped with grommets each of which hermetically seals between one of a coolant inlet tube and a coolant outlet tube of a cooler. Each of the grommets has a sealing protrusion and is fit in a cut-out formed in an end of a side wall of a casing with the sealing protrusion pressed against an inner wall of the cut-out. The installation of each of the grommets is achieved by inserting the grommet through the cut-out in a direction from outside to inside the casing so that a portion of the grommet protrudes from the wall into the casing. The visual perception of such protrusion made by an assembly worker, therefore, enables the assembly worker to determine whether the grommet has been installed in place in the cut-out to establish a desired hermetical seal or not. | 12-19-2013 |
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20080310704 | SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE AND METHOD OF IMAGING AN OBJECT BY USING THE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE - A scanning electron microscope capable of modifying the focal position of a condenser lens with high speed and high reproducibility in order that low-magnification images are obtained at large depths of focus and that high-magnification images are obtained at high resolution. The microscope has a specimen-holding portion, an electron beam source, a condenser lens for converging the electron beam, an objective lens for focusing the converged beam into a very small spot onto a specimen, scan coils, a detector for detecting a specimen signal emanating from the specimen, and a display portion for displaying the detected specimen signal as an image. An axisymmetric electrode is disposed within the magnetic field produced by the condenser lens. A voltage is applied to the electrode. | 12-18-2008 |
20110095184 | SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE AND METHOD OF IMAGING AN OBJECT BY USING THE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE - A scanning electron microscope capable of modifying the focal position of a condenser lens with high speed and high reproducibility in order that low-magnification images are obtained at large depths of focus and that high-magnification images are obtained at high resolution. The microscope has a specimen-holding portion, an electron beam source, a condenser lens for converging the electron beam, an objective lens for focusing the converged beam into a very small spot onto a specimen, scan coils, a detector for detecting a specimen signal emanating from the specimen, and a display portion for displaying the detected specimen signal as an image. An axisymmetric electrode is disposed within the magnetic field produced by the condenser lens. A voltage is applied to the electrode. | 04-28-2011 |
20110101223 | Electron Beam Apparatus And Electron Beam Inspection Method - An electron beam apparatus which includes a sample stage on which a sample is placed, and an electron optical system. The electron optical system includes an electron gun that generates a primary electron beam, an immersion objective lens that converges the primary electron beam on the sample, an ExB deflector that separates a secondary particle, which is generated from irradiation of the primary beam to the sample, from an optical axis of the primary beam, a reflecting member to which the secondary particle collides, an assist electrode which is located under the reflecting member, a plurality of incidental particle detectors that selectively detect a velocity component and an azimuth component of a ternary particle which is generated by the secondary particle colliding to the reflecting member, and a center detector that is located above the reflecting member. | 05-05-2011 |
20120091362 | CHARGED PARTICLE RADIATION DEVICE - Disclosed is a high resolution and high throughput charged particle radiation device that attenuates the natural vibration of an ion pump in a short time, excited by a reaction force at the time of driving the stage, and prevents occurrence of a loop of force and a loop of current. The charged particle radiation device includes a sample chamber ( | 04-19-2012 |
20120193550 | CHARGED PARTICLE RADIATION DEVICE - Provided is a charged particle radiation device enabling suppression of both inclination and vertical vibration of a charged particle optical lens barrel, with a simple configuration. A charged particle radiation device according to the present invention includes a vibration damping member ( | 08-02-2012 |
20120261574 | Electron Beam Apparatus and Electron Beam Inspection Method - An electron beam apparatus which includes a sample stage on which a sample is placed, and an electron optical system. The electron optical system includes an electron gun that generates a primary electron beam, an immersion objective lens that converges the primary electron beam on the sample, an E×B deflector that separates a secondary particle, which is generated from irradiation of the primary beam to the sample, from an optical axis of the primary beam, a reflecting member to which the secondary particle collides, an assist electrode which is located under the reflecting member, a plurality of incidental particle detectors that selectively detect a velocity component and an azimuth component of a ternary particle which is generated by the secondary particle colliding to the reflecting member, and a center detector that is located above the reflecting member. | 10-18-2012 |
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20110224020 | COLORED GOLF BALL - An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having a high performance as well as the visibility and the fashionable appearance. The present invention provides a colored golf ball having a color other than white and comprising: a core having a center and at least one intermediate layer disposed around the center, and a cover disposed around the core, wherein the cover and at least one of the intermediate layer preferably contain a fluorescent dye and/or a fluorescent pigment. | 09-15-2011 |
20120165123 | GOLF BALL - A golf ball | 06-28-2012 |
20130005506 | GOLF BALL - A golf ball | 01-03-2013 |
20130005508 | GOLF BALL - A golf ball | 01-03-2013 |
20130053180 | GOLF BALL - A golf ball | 02-28-2013 |
20130053186 | GOLF BALL - A golf ball includes a core, a cover covering the core, and a clear layer covering the cover. The cover has dimples and a land. An xy coordinate of a hue of an outermost layer in the core excluding a colorless and transparent layer is included in any one of eight zones I to VIII. An xy coordinate of a hue of the cover is included in any one of the eight zones I to VIII which is different from and is not adjacent to the zone in which the xy coordinate of the hue of the outermost layer is included. A ratio (T | 02-28-2013 |
20130095954 | COLORED GOLF BALL - An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having a high performance as well as the visibility and the fashionable appearance. The present invention provides a colored golf ball having a color other than white and comprising: a core having a center and at least one intermediate layer disposed around the center, and a cover disposed around the core, wherein the cover and at least one of the intermediate layer preferably contain a fluorescent dye and/or a fluorescent pigment. | 04-18-2013 |
20130172113 | GOLF BALL - A golf ball | 07-04-2013 |
20130196791 | GOLF BALL - A golf ball | 08-01-2013 |
20130288824 | GOLF BALL - A golf ball | 10-31-2013 |
20130324313 | GOLF BALL - A golf ball | 12-05-2013 |
20130324315 | GOLF BALL - A golf ball | 12-05-2013 |
20130324316 | GOLF BALL - A golf ball | 12-05-2013 |
20130324318 | GOLF BALL - The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a golf ball body with a spherical core having one or more layers, an intermediate layer disposed outside the spherical core and a cover disposed outside the intermediate layer and a paint film formed on a surface of the golf ball body, and having a friction coefficient calculated using a contact force tester of 0.35 or more and 0.60 or less, wherein the golf ball body has specific plurality of dimples on the surface thereof, at least one layer of the spherical core is a rubber layer having a specific hardness distribution, and the rubber layer has a hardness at the outermost point which is greater than a hardness at the innermost point, and the intermediate layer has a slab hardness (Hm) which is greater than a slab hardness (Hc) of the cover. | 12-05-2013 |
20130324320 | GOLF BALL - The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core composed of a spherical inner core layer and an outer core layer, an intermediate layer and a cover, wherein the inner core layer has a hardness difference (Hs1-Ho) between a surface hardness (Hs1) and a center hardness (Ho) of 5 or less in JIS-C hardness, the outer core is such that R | 12-05-2013 |
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20090242102 | FEEDING APPARATUS - The feeding apparatus is provided with a first feeding section for feeding a long-formed sheet in the longitudinal direction of the sheet, a second feeding section for feeding the long-formed sheet delivered from the first feeding section in a direction intersecting obliquely with the feeding direction of the first feeding section and a control section for controlling the first feeding section and the second feeding section so that the second feeding section starts to operate before the leading end of the long-formed sheet delivered from the first feeding section is in contact with the second feeding section. | 10-01-2009 |
20140054365 | RIM EXCHANGE APPARATUS OF TIRE TESTING MACHINE - Provided is a rim exchange apparatus of a tire testing machine having a simple and space-saving configuration and capable of rotating a turntable having a plurality of rim placing parts with no interference and appropriately identifying a plurality of rim assemblies set on the turntable. A turntable is installed to be rotated about a rotary shaft with respect to the support part, a plurality of rim placing parts on which a rim assembly is placed are provided to the turntable about the rotary shaft, and reading parts are attached to the support part at a lower side of the turntable. Then, the reading parts read rim identification information of the rim assembly placed on the rim placing parts through the turntable at a predetermined reading position. Accordingly, the identification information of the rim assembly can be appropriately read with no interference with rotation of the turntable. | 02-27-2014 |
20140060181 | TIRE TESTING APPARATUS - A tire testing apparatus allows attachment and detachment of a rim assembly in which first and second rims are integrated and performs testing of a tire attached to the rim assembly. The tire testing apparatus includes a first attaching part; a second attaching part; a rotating part that rotates the first attaching part around a reference axis orthogonal to the first reference surface of the first rim attached to the first attaching part; a fixing part that fixes the first attaching part and the second attaching part to each other and is capable of releasing the fixation; an attaching portion moving part that adjusts the distance in a direction along the reference axis between the first attaching part and the second attaching part; and a rotation regulating part that regulates rotation of the second attaching part around the reference axis. | 03-06-2014 |
20140069180 | RIM ASSEMBLY, TIRE TESTING MACHINE, AND RIM ASSEMBLY REPLACING METHOD - To provide a rim assembly to which even a small tire can be mounted, a tire testing machine, and a rim assembly replacement method. The rim assembly having an upper rim and a lower rim in a pair to which a tire to be tested is mounted, includes: a pin provided on the lower rim; a pin receiving portion that is provided on the upper rim and engageable with the pin; and a groove portion having a recessed groove with a recessed section that can house at least a part of a tip of the pin, formed in a surface of the upper rim on a side of the lower rim. | 03-13-2014 |
20140230534 | TIRE TESTING APPARATUS - A tire testing apparatus includes: a lower rim that is formed with a lower through hole, and a rim-side inclined surface that increases in diameter in a downward direction of an inner peripheral surface of a lower end portion of the lower through hole; an upper rim that is held to face the lower rim; an insertion part capable of being inserted through the lower through hole; and an apparatus-side inclined surface that is provided at a lower end portion of the insertion part, increases in diameter from an outer peripheral surface of the insertion part in the downward direction, and is capable of coming into contact with the rim-side inclined surface. | 08-21-2014 |
20150047790 | TIRE HOLDING APPARATUS - A tire holding apparatus which holds a tire using an annular rim that is detachably mounted, includes: a body section having a support surface which supports the rim; an inflation gas supply portion which has an inflation flow passage that passes from an inner portion of the body section to a center portion of the rim and supplies inflation gas into a tire supported by the rim; and a clamping portion which is mounted on the body section and clamps the rim to the support surface of the body section by using pressure of the inflation gas that flows through the inflation flow passage as a drive force. | 02-19-2015 |
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20080292042 | Method of stress corrosion cracking mitigation for nuclear power plant structural materials - The object of this invention is to provide a method for mitigating a stress corrosion cracking of reactor structural material which makes it possible to suppress the rise in the main steam line dose rate without secondary effects such as a rise in the concentration of radioactive cobalt-60, etc. in the reactor water. Hydrogen and a reductive nitrogen compound containing nitrogen having a negative oxidation number (for example, hydrazine) are injected into the core water of boiling water nuclear power plant. By injecting the reductive nitrogen compound containing nitrogen having a negative oxidation number into the core water, the stress corrosion cracking of structural material of reactor can be mitigated without side reactions such as a rise in the concentration of cobalt-60, etc. | 11-27-2008 |
20090190712 | METHOD OF STRESS CORROSION CRACKING MITIGATION FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT STRUCTURAL MATERIALS - The object of this invention is to provide a method for mitigating a stress corrosion cracking of reactor structural material which makes it possible to suppress the rise in the main steam line dose rate without secondary effects such as a rise in the concentration of radioactive cobalt-60, etc. in the reactor water. Hydrogen and a reductive nitrogen compound containing nitrogen having a negative oxidation number (for example, hydrazine) are injected into the core water of boiling water nuclear power plant. By injecting the reductive nitrogen compound containing nitrogen having a negative oxidation number into the core water, the stress corrosion cracking of structural material of reactor can be mitigated without side reactions such as a rise in the concentration of cobalt-60, etc. | 07-30-2009 |
20100206729 | ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION POTENTIAL SENSOR - An electrochemical corrosion potential sensor (ECP sensor) has an electrode cap, an electrode fixing body, a tubular insulator, a tubular metallic housing, and a conductive wire. Both ends of the tubular insulator are connected to the electrode fixing body and the tubular metallic housing respectively. A conductive wire passes through the tubular insulator and the tubular metallic housing, and is connected to an inner surface of the electrode fixing body. The electrode cap | 08-19-2010 |
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20090070115 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM, SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD - It is an objective of the present invention to provide waveform concatenation speech synthesis with high sound quality utilizing its advantages in the case where there is a large quantity of speech segments while providing waveform concatenation speech synthesis with accurate accents in other cases. Prosody with both high accuracy and high sound quality is achieved by performing a two-path search including a speech segment search and a prosody modification value search. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, an accurate accent is secured by evaluating the consistency of the prosody by using a statistical model of prosody variations (the slope of fundamental frequency) for both of two paths of the speech segment selection and the modification value search. In the prosody modification value search, a prosody modification value sequence that minimizes a modified prosody cost is searched for. This allows a search for a modification value sequence that can increase the likelihood of absolute values or variations of the prosody to the statistical model as high as possible with minimum modification values. | 03-12-2009 |
20100011217 | WATERMARK SIGNAL GENERATING APPARATUS - An apparatus | 01-14-2010 |
20120059654 | SPEAKER-ADAPTIVE SYNTHESIZED VOICE - An objective is to provide a technique for accurately reproducing features of a fundamental frequency of a target-speaker's voice on the basis of only a small amount of learning data. A learning apparatus learns shift amounts from a reference source F0 pattern to a target F0 pattern of a target-speaker's voice. The learning apparatus associates a source F0 pattern of a learning text to a target F0 pattern of the same learning text by associating their peaks and troughs. For each of points on the target F0 pattern, the learning apparatus obtains shift amounts in a time-axis direction and in a frequency-axis direction from a corresponding point on the source F0 pattern in reference to a result of the association, and learns a decision tree using, as an input feature vector, linguistic information obtained by parsing the learning text, and using, as an output feature vector, the calculated shift amounts. | 03-08-2012 |
20120197644 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer readable non-transitory storage medium for analyzing words reflecting information that is not explicitly recognized verbally. An information processing method includes the steps of: extracting speech data and sound data used for recognizing phonemes included in the speech data as words; identifying a section surrounded by pauses within a speech spectrum of the speech data; performing sound analysis on the identified section to identify a word in the section; generating prosodic feature values for the words; acquiring frequencies of occurrence of the word within the speech data; calculating a degree of fluctuation within the speech data for the prosodic feature values of high frequency words where the high frequency words are any words whose frequency of occurrence meets a threshold; and determining a key phrase based on the degree of fluctuation. | 08-02-2012 |
20120316880 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer readable non-transitory storage medium for analyzing words reflecting information that is not explicitly recognized verbally. An information processing method includes the steps of: extracting speech data and sound data used for recognizing phonemes included in the speech data as words; identifying a section surrounded by pauses within a speech spectrum of the speech data; performing sound analysis on the identified section to identify a word in the section; generating prosodic feature values for the words; acquiring frequencies of occurrence of the word within the speech data; calculating a degree of fluctuation within the speech data for the prosodic feature values of high frequency words where the high frequency words are any words whose frequency of occurrence meets a threshold; and determining a key phrase based on the degree of fluctuation. | 12-13-2012 |
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20080285794 | Watermark signal generating apparatus, watermark signal generating method, computer-executable program for performing the same method and computer-readable storage medium in which the same program is stored, digital watermark embedding apparatus, as well as digital television apparatus including the same digital watermark embedding apparatus - An apparatus | 11-20-2008 |
20090022361 | Audio content digital watermark detection - Digital watermark detection apparatus including detection units which calculate detected values of watermark signals by use of keys for PCM data of channels of audio content, a plurality of units which add the detected values corresponding to each of the channels and each of the keys for each possible combination of the respective channels and the respective keys, and a unit which selects and outputs one adding result from the respective adding results by the plurality of detected value adding units. Moreover, it includes units which accumulate the detected values in accumulation cycles different from one another to restore messages embedded as digital watermarks from the accumulated detected values, and perform boundary detection of the audio contents to detect the audio contents in which the digital watermarks are embedded, and a detection result output unit which synthesizes and outputs respective processing results by the message restoration units. | 01-22-2009 |
20100125459 | STOCHASTIC PHONEME AND ACCENT GENERATION USING ACCENT CLASS - Exemplary embodiments provide for determining a sequence of words in a TTS system. An input text is analyzed using two models, a word n-gram model and an accent class n-gram model. A list of all possible words for each word in the input is generated for each model. Each word in each list for each model is given a score based on the probability that the word is the correct word in the sequence, based on the particular model. The two lists are combined and the two scores are combined for each word. A set of sequences of words are generated. Each sequence of words comprises a unique combination of an attribute and associated word for each word in the input. The combined score of each of word in the sequence of words is combined. A sequence of words having the highest score is selected and presented to a user. | 05-20-2010 |
20130268275 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM, SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD - Waveform concatenation speech synthesis with high sound quality. Prosody with both high accuracy and high sound quality is achieved by performing a two-path search including a speech segment search and a prosody modification value search. An accurate accent is secured by evaluating the consistency of the prosody by using a statistical model of prosody variations (the slope of fundamental frequency) for both of two paths of the speech segment selection and the modification value search. In the prosody modification value search, a prosody modification value sequence that minimizes a modified prosody cost is searched for. This allows a search for a modification value sequence that can increase the likelihood of absolute values or variations of the prosody to the statistical model as high as possible with minimum modification values. | 10-10-2013 |
20140358533 | PRONUNCIATION ACCURACY IN SPEECH RECOGNITION - A reading accuracy-improving system includes: a reading conversion unit for retrieving a plurality of candidate word strings from speech recognition results to determine the reading of each candidate word string; a reading score calculating unit for determining the speech recognition score for each of one or more candidate word strings with the same reading to determine a reading score; and a candidate word string selection unit for selecting a candidate to output from the plurality of candidate word strings on the basis of the reading score and speech recognition score corresponding to each candidate word string. | 12-04-2014 |
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20080264719 | SILENCER - A silencer for attenuating a sound includes an inner duct in which gas flows, and an outer duct surrounding the inner duct with a gas layer formed between the outer duct and the inner duct. The sound is generated in one of an upstream side of the inner duct in a gas flow direction, a downstream side of the inner duct in the flow direction, and an inside of the inner duct. The inner duct includes a thin film over its entire surface. The film has a first reinforcement section formed in a direction parallel to the flow direction, and a plurality of vibrating surfaces. The film is bent at the first reinforcement section. Each combination of adjacent two of the plurality of vibrating surfaces is connected by the first reinforcement section. The first reinforcement section of the inner duct is fixed to the outer duct. | 10-30-2008 |
20080296811 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING DUCT - According to a method for producing a duct, a cylindrical preform, which opens at its both end portions in a longitudinal direction and has a central part, is formed. The central part is narrowed with respect to the both end portions. The central part has a smaller cross-sectional area than that of the both end portion. The preform is formed from a thermoplastic material, which increases in strength when stretched. Next, the preform is heated. Then, stretch blow molding is performed on the preform by stretching the preform in axial and radial directions thereof, such that the cross-sectional area of the central part becomes generally the same as that of the both end portion, or equal to or larger than that of the both end portion. The central part is narrowed to such an extent that it retains predetermined strength after performing the molding on the preform. | 12-04-2008 |
20090000587 | SOUND QUALITY CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A sound quality control apparatus includes an air intake duct defining a suction passage, through which air is supplied to an engine, and having a double tube part, and an air cleaner that filters the air flowing through the suction passage. The double tube part includes an outer pipe and an inner pipe disposed in the outer pipe. The inner pipe defines a communicating passage communicating with the suction passage. The outer pipe and the inner pipe define a resonant chamber therebetween. The outer pipe has a branch opening part that opens in a vehicle interior of an automobile, or a branch opening part that opens toward a vicinity of the vehicle interior of the automobile. The inner pipe has a thin film partition wall that divides the resonant chamber airtightly from the communicating passage. | 01-01-2009 |
20090000588 | TORQUE INCREASE RESONATOR - A torque increase resonator for facilitating delivery of intake air to a combustion chamber of an engine by resonating with intake air pulsation generated by the delivery of intake air to the combustion chamber includes a chamber wall. The chamber wall projects in a surge tank of an intake manifold to define a resonance chamber. The resonance chamber is prevented from communicating with intake air. The chamber wall includes a resonating member, which is a thin film and resonates with the intake air pulsation. The chamber wall is integrally formed. | 01-01-2009 |
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20100244617 | STATOR HAVING IMPROVED STRUCTURE FOR RESTRICTING RELATIVE DISPLACEMENT BETWEEN STATOR CORE AND STATOR COIL - A stator for an electric rotating machine includes a hollow cylindrical stator core and a stator coil made up of a plurality of electric wires mounted on the stator core. The stator core has a plurality of slots that are formed in a radially inner surface of the stator core and spaced at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction of the stator core. The stator core also has a plurality of tooth portions each of which is formed to radially extend between one circumferentially-adjacent pair of the slots. Moreover, the stator core further has a plurality of displacement restricting portions each of which is formed, as an integral part of the stator core, on an axial end face of a corresponding one of the tooth portions of the stator core to restrict displacement of the stator coil relative to the stator core. | 09-30-2010 |
20110174038 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROLLING ELECTRIC WIRE FOR STATOR COIL OF ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE - Disclosed is an apparatus for rolling a substantially planar electric wire by more than one turn into a spiral shape. The apparatus includes an inner pressing member having an outer surface, an intermediate pressing member having radially inner and outer surfaces, and an outer pressing member having an inner surface. The inner and intermediate pressing members together press a first part of the electric wire between the outer surface of the inner pressing member and the inner surface of the intermediate pressing member, thereby plastically deforming the first part to extend along the outer surface of the inner pressing member. The intermediate and outer pressing members together press a second part of the electric wire between the outer surface of the intermediate pressing member and the inner surface of the outer pressing member, thereby plastically deforming the second part to extend along the outer surface of the intermediate pressing member. | 07-21-2011 |
20140084744 | ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE - In a rotary electric machine having a rotor core of a skew structure, when one of the core blocks is sequentially stacked on the other of the core blocks to form a step skew, a communication reference groove is formed along an axial direction of the rotor core by aligning a side section of a short protruding section in one core block with a side section of the long protruding sections in the other core block, and by aligning a side section of a long protruding section in one core block with a side section of a short protruding section in the other core block. The core blocks are correctly stacked by aligning the side section of the long protruding sections with the side section of the short protruding sections. | 03-27-2014 |
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20100116727 | MEMBRANE CONTAINER - Modularized water separating membranes in a plural number of units are provided. A membrane container used in a dehydration system for separating water from treated fluid includes a shell part | 05-13-2010 |
20100249463 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING MONO-LOWER-ALKYLMONOALKANOLAMINE - An amine producing apparatus includes a reactor that reacts a mono-lower-alkylamine and an alkylene oxide, an unreacted-raw-material-recovery distillation column that separates unreacted raw materials by distillation from a product including unreacted raw materials obtained in the reactor, a non-aqueous distillation column that removes water and a light component by a distillation method from a reactive product from which unreacted raw material have been separated, and a purification and distillation column that separates by distillation a desired reactive product (mono-lower-alkylmonoalkanolamine) and residue (mono-lower-alkyldialkanolamine which is a dimer) from a reactive product from which the water and the light component have been removed. | 09-30-2010 |
20110071318 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING MONO-LOWER-ALKYL MONOALKANOLAMINE - A reaction column ( | 03-24-2011 |
20120027659 | CO SHIFT CATALYST, CO SHIFT REACTOR, AND METHOD FOR PURIFYING GASIFIED GAS - A CO shift catalyst according to the present invention reforms carbon monoxide (CO) contained in gas. The CO shift catalyst is prepared from one or both of molybdenum (Mo) and cobalt (Co) as an active ingredient and an oxide of one of, or a mixture or a compound of, titanium (Ti), silicon (Si), zirconium (Zr), and cerium (Ce) as a carrier for supporting the active ingredient. The CO shift catalyst can be used in a halogen-resistant CO shift reactor ( | 02-02-2012 |
20120058036 | CO SHIFT CATALYST, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND CO SHIFT REACTOR USING CO SHIFT CATALYST - A CO shift catalyst according to the present invention reforms carbon monoxide (CO) and is prepared from one or a mixture of platinum (Pt), ruthenium (Ru), iridium (Ir), and rhodium (Rh) as an active ingredient and at least one of titanium (Ti), aluminum (Al), zirconium (Zr), and cerium (Ce) as a carrier for supporting the active ingredient. The CO shift catalyst can be used in a halogen-resistant CO shift reactor ( | 03-08-2012 |
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20110156825 | OSCILLATING APPARATUS - An oscillating apparatus includes: a transfer gate including a P-channel transistor and a N-channel transistor; a first inverter for inverting an output signal of the transfer gate and outputting the inverted output signal of the transfer gate; a second inverter for inverting the output signal of the first inverter and outputting the inverted output signal of the first inverter; a third inverter for inverting the output signal of the first inverter and outputting the inverted output signal of the first inverter; a fourth inverter for inverting the output signal of the third inverter and outputting the inverted output signal of the third inverter to an input-terminal of the transfer gate; a first capacitor connected between an output-terminal of the transfer gate and an output-terminal of the second inverter; and a second capacitor connected between the output-terminal of the transfer gate and a reference potential node. | 06-30-2011 |
20110227636 | REFERENCE VOLTAGE CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A reference voltage circuit includes a first amplifier configured to output a reference voltage, a second amplifier coupled to the first amplifier, an offset adjustment voltage generation circuit, a first load device and a first pn junction device, and second and third load devices and a second pn junction device. The offset adjustment voltage generation circuit is configured to generate a voltage which is input to the third and fourth input terminals of the second amplifier, and reduce an offset voltage between the first and second input terminals of the first amplifier through the second amplifier. The first input terminal is coupled to a coupling node of the first load device and the first pn junction device, and the second input terminal is coupled to a coupling node of the second load device and the third load device. | 09-22-2011 |
20110234433 | A/D CONVERTER - An A/D converter includes a capacitive DAC configured to perform conversion of high-order bits by receiving a differential signal, a resistive DAC configured to perform conversion of low-order bits, a resistive correction DAC configured to operate to correct the capacitive DAC, and a comparator. The capacitive DAC includes a positive-side capacitive DAC and a negative-side capacitive DAC operating in a complementary fashion, and the comparator, which includes a plurality of differential circuits, is configured to compare output potentials of the positive-side capacitive DAC and the negative-side capacitive DAC. The positive-side capacitive DAC and the negative-side capacitive DAC include first capacitive elements each formed from interconnect layers excluding an uppermost interconnect layer, and the comparator includes second capacitive elements each provided between adjacent ones of the differential circuits and formed from interconnect layers including the uppermost interconnect layer. | 09-29-2011 |
20120075128 | SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION A/D CONVERTER - A successive approximation A/D converter, has a main DAC having a capacitive element group coupled to a top node and a switch group; a comparator comparing voltage of the top node with comparison reference voltage; a correction DAC generating correction voltage in accordance with a capacitance error of a capacitive element pair to be balanced in the main DAC, and supplying the correction voltage to the top node; and a control circuit generating internal digital input for controlling the switch group and a correction code for controlling the correction voltage, and outputting a successive approximation result by the comparator when the A/D conversion is performed. The control circuit measures a capacitance error of the capacitive element pair to be balanced, and determines an offset-removed capacitance error where an offset generated in the measurement is removed from the capacitance error. | 03-29-2012 |
20120212194 | REFERENCE VOLTAGE CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A reference voltage circuit includes a first amplifier, a first load device and a first PN junction device, second and third load devices and a second PN junction device, an offset voltage reduction circuit, a coupling node potential takeout circuit, and an area adjustment circuit. The offset voltage reduction circuit is configured to reduce an offset voltage between the first and second input terminals at the first amplifier, and the coupling node potential takeout circuit is configured to take out potentials of the first and second coupling nodes. The area adjustment circuit is configured to adjust an area of the second PN junction device in accordance with the potentials of the first and second coupling nodes which are taken out by the coupling node potential takeout circuit. | 08-23-2012 |
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20100033286 | LAMINATED DEVICE - A laminated device comprising pluralities of magnetic ferrite layers, conductor patterns each formed on each magnetic ferrite layer and connected in a lamination direction to form a coil, and a non-magnetic ceramic layer formed on at least one magnetic ferrite layer such that it overlaps the conductor patterns in a lamination direction, the non-magnetic ceramic layer comprising as main components non-magnetic ceramics having higher sintering temperatures than that of the magnetic ferrite, and further one or more of Cu, Zn and Bi in the form of an oxide. | 02-11-2010 |
20100085140 | LOW-LOSS FERRITE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FORMED BY SUCH FERRITE - A low-loss ferrite comprising as main components 46.5-49.5% by mol of Fe | 04-08-2010 |
20100283447 | MULTILAYER INDUCTOR AND POWER CONVERTER COMPRISING IT - A multilayer inductor comprising a coil embedded in a magnetic portion, and a magnetic gap formed by a non-magnetic portion in part of a magnetic path, the magnetic portion being made of Ni ferrite, whose relative temperature coefficient αμ | 11-11-2010 |
20100321140 | LOW-LOSS FERRITE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FORMED BY SUCH FERRITE - Low-loss ferrite comprising 100% by mass of main components comprising 47.1-49.3% by mol of Fe | 12-23-2010 |
20110181274 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING DC SUPERPOSITION CHARACTERISTICS OF INDUCTANCE DEVICE, AND ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SIMULATOR - A method for analyzing the DC superposition characteristics of an inductance device using a magnetic field analysis simulator, comprising a first step of determining an initial magnetization curve from initial magnetization to saturation magnetization, and pluralities of minor loops at different operating points, on a toroidal core made of the same magnetic material as that of the inductance device, and obtaining point-list data showing the relation between magnetic flux density or magnetic field strength and incremental permeability from the incremental permeability at each operating point; a second step of determining an operating point at a predetermined direct current on each element obtained by mesh-dividing an analysis model of the inductance device by a magnetic field analysis simulator based on the initial magnetization curve of the core, allocating the incremental permeability to the operating point from the point-list data, and integrating the inductance of each element obtained from the incremental permeability to determine the inductance of the entire inductance device; and a third step of repeating the second step at different direct current levels to determine the DC superposition characteristics. | 07-28-2011 |
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20080253215 | Semiconductor memory circuit - The present invention provides a semiconductor memory circuit capable of reducing current consumption at non-operation in a system equipped with a plurality of chips that share the use of a power supply, address signals and a data bus. The semiconductor memory circuit has an internal circuit which is capable of selectively performing the supply and stop of an operating voltage via switch means and includes a memory array. An input circuit, which receives a predetermined control signal therein, controls the supply and stop of the operating voltage by the switch means to reduce a DC current and a leak current when no memory operation is done, whereby low power consumption can be realized. | 10-16-2008 |
20090122038 | SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT - A semiconductor circuit with the reduced scale of circuitry and a semiconductor integrated circuit chip which is obtained by integrating the semiconductor circuit and enables chip size reduction are provided. For this purpose, a two-decode method is used. The method uses: a pre-decode circuit comprising a first decoder of the preceding stage which decodes an arbitrary bit of an address signal of eight bits and a second decoder of the preceding stage which decodes the remaining bits; level conversion circuits which shift the output of the pre-decode circuit; and post-decode circuits which decode the decode outputs of the decoders in the pre-decode circuit, level-converted through the level conversion circuits. | 05-14-2009 |
20110032777 | Semiconductor memory circuit - The present invention provides a semiconductor memory circuit capable of reducing current consumption at non-operation in a system equipped with a plurality of chips that share the use of a power supply, address signals and a data bus. The semiconductor memory circuit has an internal circuit which is capable of selectively performing the supply and stop of an operating voltage via switch means and includes a memory array. An input circuit, which receives a predetermined control signal therein, controls the supply and stop of the operating voltage by the switch means to reduce a DC current and a leak current when no memory operation is done, whereby low power consumption can be realized. | 02-10-2011 |
20110261639 | Semiconductor memory circuit - The present invention provides a semiconductor memory circuit capable of reducing current consumption at non-operation in a system equipped with a plurality of chips that share the use of a power supply, address signals and a data bus. The semiconductor memory circuit has an internal circuit which is capable of selectively performing the supply and stop of an operating voltage via switch means and includes a memory array. An input circuit, which receives a predetermined control signal therein, controls the supply and stop of the operating voltage by the switch means to reduce a DC current and a leak current when no memory operation is done, whereby low power consumption can be realized. | 10-27-2011 |