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20110008649 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a glass substrate for information recording medium, the method including: a lapping step of lapping a circular glass plate made of an alkali aluminosilicate glass; and a subsequent cerium oxide polishing step of polishing the circular glass plate with a slurry containing a cerium oxide abrasive, in which a difference (SiO | 01-13-2011 |
20110175018 | POLISHING LIQUID AND POLISHING METHOD - The present invention relates to a polishing slurry including: a colloidal silica having an average particle size of 40 nm or more; water; and a ζ potential adjusting component, in which (1) the ζ potential adjusting component includes at least one sodium salt selected from the group consisting of sodium nitrate and sodium sulfate, and the polishing slurry has a pH of 8 or more, or (2) the ζ potential adjusting component includes at least one water-soluble organic polymer selected from the group consisting of a water-soluble polyether polyamine and a water-soluble polyalkylene polyamine and at least one acid selected from the group consisting of hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, nitrous acid and amidosulfuric acid, and the ζ potential adjusting component contains the acid at a ratio of from 0.6 to 1.4 to the water-soluble organic polymer in terms of molar ratio, and the polishing slurry has a pH of 8 or more. | 07-21-2011 |
20110268994 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, POLISHING COLLOIDAL SILICA SLURRY FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention relates to a colloidal silica slurry used in a method for manufacturing a glass substrate for an information recording medium, the method including: a lapping step of lapping a main surface of a circular glass plate; a subsequent cerium oxide polishing step of polishing the main surface of the circular glass plate with a slurry containing a cerium oxide abrasive; and a colloidal silica polishing step of polishing the main surface of the circular glass plate with a slurry containing a colloidal silica abrasive after the cerium oxide polishing step, in which the colloidal silica abrasive has a BET average particle size determined by a BET specific surface area measuring method of 40 nm or less, and a smoothness index represented by a ratio (BET average particle size (nm)/Circularity) of the BET average particle size and a circularity indicated by 4·π·S/L | 11-03-2011 |
20120244388 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIA, PROCESS FOR ITS PRODUCTION, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - A process for producing a glass substrate for information recording media, comprising lapping a glass disk made of low alkali aluminosilicate glass that contains no alkali metal oxide or contains alkali metal oxides in a total amount of less than 4 mol %, and subsequently polishing the glass disk by using a slurry that contains cerium oxide abrasives, characterized by cleaning the glass disk by using a cleaning liquid that contains sulfuric acid at a concentration of from 20 mass % to 80 mass % and hydrogen peroxide at a concentration of from 0.5 mass % to 10 mass % at a liquid temperature of from 50° C. to 100° C., and thereafter polishing the main surface of the glass disk, by using a slurry that contains colloidal silica abrasives. | 09-27-2012 |
20140248775 | CLEANING AGENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON CARBIDE SINGLE-CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE - The present invention provides a detergent for effectively cleaning, by a safe and simple method, a manganese component remaining on and adhered to a substrate surface, after polishing a silicon carbide single crystal substrate with a manganese compound-containing polishing agent. The present invention relates to a detergent for cleaning a silicon carbide single crystal substrate polished with a manganese compound-containing polishing agent, the detergent including at least one of ascorbic acid and erythorbic acid, in which the detergent has a pH of 6 or less. | 09-04-2014 |
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20130197755 | SUSPENSION DEVICE - A suspension device includes damper interposed between vehicle body and wheel in vehicle and exerted damping force for suppressing vertical movements of vehicle body and wheel, damping force adjustment mechanism adjusts damping force, control device controls damping force adjustment mechanism, lateral acceleration detection unit detects an lateral acceleration acting on vehicle body, roll angular velocity detection unit detects roll angular velocity of vehicle body, and steering angular velocity detection unit detects steering angular velocity of steering wheel. The control device sets maximum damping force out of damping force calculated from steering angular velocity, damping force calculated from lateral acceleration and damping force calculated from roll angular velocity as steering initial stage additional damping force, calculates final damping force of damper using steering initial stage additional damping force and performs steering initial stage control of controlling damper when steering angular velocity exceeds predetermined dead band. | 08-01-2013 |
20140244093 | ELECTRIC ASSIST CART - An electric assist cart includes: a body frame; a drive wheel; a control handle by which a user can input a driving force to the body frame; a torque sensor that detects a driving torque input to the body frame from the control handle; a controller that computes an assisting force based on the driving torque; and an electric motor that applies the assisting force to the drive wheel. The controller includes an electric current determination part that determines whether or not an electric current having a magnitude equal to or larger than a first setting value continuously flows for a first setting time, and an electric current control part that reduces a maximum value of the electric current that can be supplied to the electric motor to be smaller than the first setting value based on the determination of the electric current determination part. | 08-28-2014 |
20140246261 | ELECTRIC ASSIST CART - An electric assist cart includes: a drive wheel provided in a body frame; a control handle used by an operator to input a driving force to the body frame; a torque sensor that detects a driving torque applied to the body frame from the control handle; a controller that computes an assisting force applied to the drive wheel based on the driving torque; an electric motor that applies the assisting force to the drive wheel; a brake that brakes the drive wheel and switches from a braking state to an unbraking state when a predetermined electric current flows; and a brake release switch manipulated by an operator to allow the controller to instruct the predetermined electric current to flow to the brake, wherein the controller maintains the braking state of the brake even when the brake release switch is manipulated without turning on power, and power is then turned on. | 09-04-2014 |
20140251704 | ELECTRIC ASSIST CART - An electric assist cart includes: a body frame where a burden can be loaded; a drive wheel provided in the body frame; a control handle by which an operator can input a driving force to the body frame; a torque sensor that detects a driving torque applied to the body frame by pushing and handling the control handle; an electric motor that applies an assisting force to the drive wheel depending on the driving torque detected by the torque sensor; and a controller that computes the assisting force applied to the drive wheel and supplies an electric current to the electric motor depending on the assisting force, wherein the controller has a plurality of modes having different characteristics for a change of a magnitude of the electric current depending on the driving torque, and the electric current can be supplied to the electric motor by switching the mode. | 09-11-2014 |
20140264207 | ELECTRIC ASSIST CART - Disclosed is an electric assist cart that can travel by applying an assisting force in addition to a driving force applied by an operator. A controller operates an electric motor to apply a determined assisting force to a drive wheel and lifts or lowers a deck lift portion in response to an instruction for lifting or lowering a deck. When a handling detection part detects an instruction for braking the brake, the brake is braked, and an operation of the electric motor is inhibited regardless of a detection result of the torque detection part. | 09-18-2014 |
20140265254 | CONVEYANCE CART - A conveyance cart that can convey a loaded burden, includes: a body frame supported by a wheel; a deck provided liftably against the body frame to load a burden; an electric actuator electrically driven to expand or contract to lift or lower the deck; and a controller that is configured to supply an electric current to the electric actuator. The controller stops supply of an electric current to the electric actuator when a continuous driving time of the electric actuator is equal to or longer than a predetermined time. | 09-18-2014 |
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20120320053 | POSITION AND ORIENTATION ESTIMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - There is provided a method for accurately estimating a position and orientation of an object even if the object is more dispersive in shape than a three-dimensional geometric model with a standard shape. The statistic of deviation of a feature constituting a three-dimensional model representing a three-dimensional standard shape of an object is estimated to determine a reliability for each feature. The amount of deviation is calculated between the feature extracted from observation data obtained by an imaging apparatus and the feature in the three-dimensional model. The three-dimensional position and orientation of the object is estimated based on the amount of deviation and the reliability related to each feature extracted from the three-dimensional model. | 12-20-2012 |
20150125035 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR POSITION AND ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT OF A MEASUREMENT TARGET OBJECT - To perform robust position and orientation measurement even in a situation where noise exist, an image including a target object is obtained, an approximate position and orientation of the target object included in the obtained image are obtained, information related to a shadow region of the target object in the obtained image is estimated, the approximate position and orientation are corrected on the basis of the estimated information related to the shadow region, and a position and orientation of the target object in the image are derived on the basis of the corrected approximate position and orientation and held model information. | 05-07-2015 |
20150254831 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus comprises a first feature extraction unit configured to extract, as a first feature, a feature of a component assembly in which components are assembled for each of viewpoints; a second feature extraction unit configured to extract a feature of the components as a second feature for each of the viewpoints; and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the first feature and the second feature, a viewpoint for inspecting an assembled state of the components. | 09-10-2015 |
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20120140337 | Zoom lens and image capturing apparatus - An inner focus type zoom lens includes a first lens group that has positive refracting power and is normally located at a fixed position, a second lens group that has negative refracting power and is movable in an optical axis direction for zooming, a third lens group that has positive refracting power, a fourth lens group that is movable for correction of a focal position due to the zooming and for focusing, and a fifth lens group that has positive refracting power, in order from an object side, wherein the first lens group includes a negative lens, a first positive lens, and a second positive lens arranged in order from the object side, wherein a first face of the negative lens has a shape of a concave surface turned on the object side, and wherein the zoom lens satisfies the following conditional equation (1) −10.006-07-2012 | |
20130148004 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, a first lens group having a positive refracting power and fixed in position, a second lens group having a negative refracting power and movable in a direction of an optical axis for zooming, a third lens group having a positive refracting power, and a fourth lens group movable in the direction of the optical axis. The first lens group includes three lenses including a negative lens, a positive lens and another positive lens disposed in order from the object side to the image side and satisfies | 06-13-2013 |
20130148009 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes, from the object side, a positionally-fixed first lens group having a positive refracting power, a second lens group having a negative refracting power and movable in an optical axis direction for zooming, a third lens group having a positive refracting power, and a fourth lens group movable in the optical axis direction. The first lens group includes a negative lens, a positive lens and another positive lens disposed in order from the object side and satisfies | 06-13-2013 |
20130188088 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refracting power and normally fixed in position, a second lens group having a negative refracting power and movable along an optical axis, and a third lens group having a positive refracting power and normally fixed in position, disposed in order from the object side to the image side. Two thirds or more of lenses of the first to third lens groups are formed from a resin material. The zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expressions (1) and (2): | 07-25-2013 |
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20080202308 | AUTOMATIC THIN-SECTION MANUFACTURING SYSTEM - An automatic thin-section manufacturing system for manufacturing thin sections by thinly cutting out an embedded block having embedded therein a biological sample while setting said embedded block at a predetermined rake angle, and said system comprising: a long cutting blade having a cutting edge on one end; a holder disposed in such a manner that it makes the rake angle with respect to the surface of the embedded block; a mounting plane which is provided to the front end of the holder, on which plural cutting blades are mounted and aligned with their cutting edges exposed to the outer side; an adsorptive member provided along the mounting plane, which maintains the posture of the cutting blades by adsorbing the base end side of the cutting blades mounted on the mounting plane; a first pressing member provided to the holder, which presses, among the plural cutting blades that are mounted and aligned on the mounting plane, the cutting blade allocated to the predetermined position against the mounting plane; a conveyor unit which slides out the cutting blades that are linearly aligned on the mounting plane, by sequentially conveying the plural cutting blades to feed them one by one on the mounting plane; a transportation unit which moves the embedded block relative to the holder, such that the cutting blade pressed by the first pressing member cuts out the thin section from the embedded block; and a control unit which, after performing thin sectioning for a predetermined time, exchanging the cutting blade used for the thin sectioning by operating the conveyor unit to slide out the cutting blades. | 08-28-2008 |
20100050839 | THIN-SECTION MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - To provide a thin-section manufacturing apparatus capable of firmly receiving and transferring a thin-section made by sectioning an embedded block by bringing a transfer belt into a wet state, a thin-section manufacturing apparatus | 03-04-2010 |
20100279342 | THIN-SECTION SLIDES MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTRING THIN-SECTION SLIDES - A thin-section slide-sample manufacturing apparatus and a method for manufacturing a thin-section slide sample by cutting out a thin section from an embedded block, transporting the thin section on a conveyor unit, transferring and mounting the thin section on a substrate, the thin-section slide-sample manufacturing apparatus including: a relay having a fixing plane onto which the thin section is fixed detachable; a rotating transportation unit which moves the relay between the conveyor unit and the substrate; and a control unit which moves the relay to the conveyor unit by using the rotating transportation unit, which moves the relay to the substrate where the thin section is detached and transferred to the substrate; wherein, the control unit rotates the relay according to the preliminarily set fixing plane and the relative position of the thin section around a rotation axis provided orthogonal to the fixing plane by using the rotating transportation unit. | 11-04-2010 |
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20100030364 | Automatic Thin-Section Slides Manufacturing System and Automated Thin-Section Slides Manufacturing Method - An automatic thin-section slides manufacturing system which reduces the burden of operators and automatically manufactures required number of thin section slide samples from plural embedded blocks while completely relating the manufactured thin section slide samples to the original embedded blocks to enable quality control at high precision, which comprises: a first transportation unit which is capable of transporting an arbitrarily selected embedded cassette from the plural embedded cassettes to the cutting position; a cutting unit which, after the embedded cassette is transported to the cutting position, cuts the embedded block to provide sheet-like thin sections at a predetermined thickness; a readout unit which reads out the individual data when the embedded cassette is transported to the cutting position; a flattening unit for flattening the thin section, which comprises a storage tank containing a liquid stored therein; a second transportation unit which transports the thin sections cut out by the cutting unit to the storage tank and sets them a float on the liquid surface; a transfer unit which prepares the thin section slide samples by transferring the thin section flattened in the flattening unit onto a substrate; a control unit which comprises a memory part for memorizing the individual data read out by the readout unit; and a recording unit which records the memorized individual data on the substrate upon receiving a command from the control unit. | 02-04-2010 |
20100229702 | Automatic Prepared Slide Fabricating Apparatus and Automatic Prepared Slide Fabricating Method - To enable to alleviate a burden on an operator and fabricate automatically an optimum and high quality prepared slide in accordance with a kind of an embedding block, there is provided an automatic prepared slide fabricating apparatus including first carrying means capable of carrying an embedding cassette to a cut position, cutting means for cutting out a section in a sheet-like shape by cutting an embedding block by a predetermined thickness after having been carried to the cut position, elongating means for elongating the section, second carrying means for carrying the cut section to the elongating means, transcribing means for transcribing the elongated section onto a board to fabricate a prepared slide, and controlling means for respectively controlling the respective means and having a condition table previously inputted with a fabricating condition in fabricating the prepared slide, in which the controlling means controls the respective means such that the embedding cassette carried by the first carrying means is checked with the fabricating condition inputted to the condition table, thereafter, fabricated by the condition in accordance with the embedding cassette. | 09-16-2010 |
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20090129456 | RECEIVER WITH MULTIPLE ANTENNAS AND METHOD OF RECEIVING SIGNALS - Provided are a multiple antenna receiver and a method of receiving a signal. A multiple antenna receiver includes a plurality of antennas to receive a plurality of received symbols, a QR decomposition unit to perform QR decomposition for a channel matrix, a Q-received symbol generator to generate Q-received symbols corresponding to the plurality of antennas, a subtractor to remove a component corresponding to at least one neighbor symbol from a target received symbol corresponding to one of the Q-received symbols, an adder to add a signal component to the target received symbol, a first FDE to perform frequency domain equalization for an output of the subtractor, and a second FDE to perform frequency domain equalization for an output of the adder. | 05-21-2009 |
20090196332 | COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING THE SAME - A cooperative communication system and method is provided. A cooperative communication relay station includes a signal receiving unit which receives a source signal from a source node and a multiple relaying signal relayed by a neighboring relay station, a signal generation unit which generates a first relay signal and a second relay signal, the first relay signal being generated by performing a decode-and forward scheme with respect to the multiple relaying signal and the second relay signal being generated by performing an amplify-and-forward scheme with respect to the source signal, and a signal transmission unit which transmits the first relay signal and the second relay signal to a destination node. | 08-06-2009 |
20100117904 | MULTI-ANTENNA SIGNAL RECEIVING DEVICE PROCESSING MULTI-PATH INTERFERENCE - Described herein is a multi-antenna signal receiving device that includes a plurality of reception antennas that is capable of maximizing a diversity gain while eliminating a multi-path interference (MPI). The device receives a first received signal of a first antenna that includes components corresponding to a plurality of first paths and the device receives a second received signal of a second antenna that includes components corresponding to a plurality of second paths. The multi-antenna signal receiving device detects a component corresponding to a first path among the plurality of first paths, and a component corresponding to a second path among the plurality of second paths. | 05-13-2010 |
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20100273948 | FLUORINE-CONTAINING POLYMER POWDER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME AND COATED ARTICLE - A stabilized fluorine-containing polymer powder having an average particle size of 5 to 100 μm is prepared by contacting a fluorine-containing polymer powder, which is prepared by milling the fluorine-containing polymer and removing fine particles, fibrous particles and coarse particles by classification, with a fluorinating agent so that the total number of unstable terminal groups is decreased to 7 to 50 per 10 | 10-28-2010 |
20120111601 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND POWDER COATING MATERIAL, PELLET, RESIN FORMED ARTICLE, AND ELECTRIC WIRE - The present invention provides a composition including a fluorine-containing polymer, and excellent in heat resistance even if only a small amount of additives is added to the composition. The present invention relates to a composition, comprising: a fluorine-containing polymer (a) and a cobalt compound (b). | 05-10-2012 |
20140163159 | FLUORINE-CONTAINING POLYMER POWDER, FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE-CONTAINING POLYMER POWDER - The present invention aims to provide a fluorine-containing polymer powder that is environmentally less harmful and forms a sufficiently smooth film without impairing the properties of the fluorine-containing polymers. The present invention relates to a fluorine-containing polymer powder including a fluorine-containing polymer prepared by suspension polymerization, which contains less than 0.1 ppm of a fluorine-containing surfactant and has an average particle size of not less than 1 μm and less than 100 μm and a bulk density of 0.90 to 1.50 g/cm | 06-12-2014 |
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20120162492 | IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An image pickup system includes an image pickup apparatus and a mount adaptor that adjusts a flange focal length between the image pickup apparatus and an interchangeable lens. The mount adaptor includes a phase-difference focus detection unit that can output a first phase-difference focus detection signal, and an optical device that separates first incident light into second and third incident light. The first incident light is transmitted from the interchangeable lens. The second incident light enters the image pickup apparatus. The third incident light enters the phase-difference focus detection unit. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device that can output a second phase-difference focus detection signal, and a controller that selects either of the first phase-difference focus detection signal and the second phase-difference focus detection signal on the basis of satisfaction of a predetermined condition and performs focusing. | 06-28-2012 |
20140028881 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - There is provided an image pickup apparatus including an image sensor including a plurality of phase difference detection pixels that each perform pupil division of a photographing lens, a gain acquisition unit for acquiring a gain used to correct an output of the phase difference detection pixels, and a correction processing unit for correcting the output of the phase difference detection pixels using the gain acquired by the gain acquisition unit. | 01-30-2014 |
20140036134 | FOCUS ADJUSTMENT DEVICE AND FOCUS ADJUSTMENT METHOD - There is provided a focus adjustment device including an image sensor including a plurality of phase difference detection pixels that each perform pupil division of a photographing lens, a correction value acquisition unit for acquiring a correction value for a focus position in a spatial frequency of a subject which is obtained by the image sensor, and a focus adjustment unit for adjusting a focus position of the photographing lens based on the correction value acquired by the correction value acquisition unit. | 02-06-2014 |
20140072290 | FOCUS DETECTION DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING FOCUS DETECTION DEVICE - There is provided a focus detection device including a phase difference acquisition unit that calculates an amount of deviation between light-reception amount distributions of a pair of light-receiving element groups arranged in a predetermined direction perpendicular to an optical axis direction as a phase difference, a conversion coefficient correction unit that corrects a conversion coefficient, representing a ratio of an amount of focus deviation in the optical axis direction to the phase difference when shapes of the light-reception amount distributions are same, according to a degree of discrepancy between the shapes of the light-reception amount distributions, and a defocus amount generation unit that generates the amount of focus deviation as an amount of defocus based on the corrected conversion coefficient and the phase difference. | 03-13-2014 |