Ouchi, JP
Akihiko Ouchi, Ibaraki JP
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20080306255 | Method for Selective Separation of Cellulosic Polymer and Apparatus Therefor - A matter to be treated which contains a cellulosic polymer is heated in a solvent in the presence of an acid catalyst, to thereby selectively decompose the cellulosic polymer to a fine powder. Furthermore, a matter to be treated which contains a cellulosic polymer is reacted with an esterification agent in the presence of an acid catalyst, to thereby selectively dissolve or disperse the cellulosic polymer. In either method, the treated matter other than the cellulosic polymer does not change in state but remains solid, so that both can be easily separated by sieving or solid-liquid separation. | 12-11-2008 |
Akihiro Ouchi, Kanagawa JP
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20130189001 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An intermediate transfer device includes an intermediate transfer member, intermediate transfer member support members, and two frame members each including first and second positioning members each having a positioning portion. At least one of the frame members satisfies a condition L | 07-25-2013 |
20130195481 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image to be formed on a recording medium. The image formed by the image forming unit has a size larger than a size of the recording medium that is transported, the image forming unit causing the image to adhere to the entire area of the recording medium. A width of the image in a direction substantially orthogonal to a transporting direction of the recording medium increases from a front end toward a rear end of the recording medium in the transporting direction of the recording medium. | 08-01-2013 |
20130223894 | ROTATION SHAFT COUPLING STRUCTURE, INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER UNIT INCLUDING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A rotation shaft coupling structure includes a roller drive shaft including a recessed portion having an internal thread; a rotation roller including a coupling member housing the recessed portion of the roller drive shaft; and a coupling shaft extending through the rotation roller in the axial direction. The coupling shaft includes a threaded portion at a first end portion thereof, the threaded portion mating with the internal thread of the recessed portion, and the coupling shaft couples the roller drive shaft and the rotation roller to each other. The first end portion of the coupling shaft in the axial direction is joined to the roller drive shaft and the rotation roller in the coupling member of the rotation roller, and a second end portion of the coupling shaft in the axial direction is a free end that allows the coupling shaft to extend and contract in the axial direction. | 08-29-2013 |
20140112690 | TRANSFER DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A transfer device includes a first support member that supports a wound member, an endless transferred body being wound around the wound member; a second support member that supports a transfer member, the transfer member and the wound member pinching the transferred body and a recording medium, the transfer member causing a developer image on the transferred body to be transferred onto the recording medium; a coupling portion that couples the second support member to the first support member so that an angle of the second support member is changeable relative to the first support member; and an urging portion that is provided at the first support member and urges the second support member in a direction in which the transfer member presses the wound member. | 04-24-2014 |
20140133890 | POWDER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A powder container includes a container body for storing powder, the container body having an introduction port from which the powder is introduced; a transport member having one end provided, in a rotatable manner, on a side wall of the container body, at a position below the introduction port, and the other end serving as a free end that is displaced upward as the amount of powder recovered in the container body increases, the transport member transporting the powder from the one end to the other end by being rotated; and guide portions provided on the container body to guide the transport member in directions intersecting a direction in which the other end of the transport member is displaced as the transport member is displaced upward. | 05-15-2014 |
20140178115 | TRANSPORT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A transport device includes an endless belt having a recording-medium transport surface provided with multiple holes; stretching members between which the endless belt is stretched so as to be able to revolve; and a suction unit provided inside the endless belt. The suction unit has an opening having a larger width than the endless belt. The opening is exposed at both sides of the endless belt in the width direction. The suction unit draws air through the opening to cause the recording medium to stick to the endless belt. | 06-26-2014 |
Akira Ouchi, Minato-Ku JP
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20100052163 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME AND METHOD OF REPAIRING SAME - A semiconductor device in which opposing electrodes of a semiconductor component and of a wiring board are arranged to conduct via bumps, comprises: a first conductive resin bump provided on the electrode of the semiconductor component; and a second conductive resin bump provided on the electrode of the wiring board. The difference between a glass transition temperature of the first conductive resin bump and a glass transition temperature of the second conductive resin bump is equal to or greater than 40° C. | 03-04-2010 |
Atsushi Ouchi, Osaka JP
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20090018705 | DEMAND CONTROL DEVICE - A demand control device includes a storing unit ( | 01-15-2009 |
20090308089 | Control System, Integrated Control Apparatus, And Control Program - An object of the present invention is to provide a control system, an integrated control apparatus, and a control program that are capable of well maintaining freshness and quality of food articles, by reducing time for performing a recovery operation following a frost removing operation of cooling devices. In response to a start of the frost removing operation of a first showcase, an integrated control apparatus provides a second device controller (device control unit) with a “lower limit cooling instruction (increase instruction)” to increase the refrigerant supplied to a second showcase to an amount larger than that before the frost removing operation starts. In response to the “lower limit cooling instruction (increase instruction),” the second device controller (device control unit) increases the amount of the refrigerant supplied to the second showcase. | 12-17-2009 |
20130055742 | Equipment Control System, Control Device and Control Program - An equipment control system for equipment such as a refrigeration device, its control device, and its control program are provided in which defrosting operation start time can be changed appropriately. The integrated controller controls a defrosting operation to remove frost adhered to the equipment, in which the defrosting operation is started at a fixed or varying time interval. The integrated controller stores past data based on required time for past defrosting operations for different environmental conditions. The integrated controller includes an environmental condition acquisition unit for obtaining environmental conditions; a database control unit for obtaining required time for a defrosting operation based on the past record data corresponding to the present environmental conditions from the stored past data; and a start time changing unit for changing start time of the present-round defrosting operation based on the obtained required time. | 03-07-2013 |
Atsushi Ouchi, Takatsuki City JP
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20090183519 | Cooling System, Control Device, and Control Program - A cooling system is provided in which an integrated controller | 07-23-2009 |
20090217684 | Equipment Control System, Control Device and Control Program - An equipment control system for equipment such as a refrigeration device, its control device, and its control program are provided in which present-round defrosting operation start time can be changed appropriately. The integrated controller | 09-03-2009 |
Hirobumi Ouchi, Ibaraki JP
Hirofumi Ouchi, Ibaraki JP
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20100017076 | Automatic Transmission Device For Wheel Loader And Wheel Loader - An automatic transmission device for a wheel loader includes: a shift mechanism; a work detection device that detects that the wheel loader is performing an excavation work; and a shift control device that executes control so as to downshift a speed stage at the shift mechanism if the work detection device detects that the wheel loader is performing the excavation work. | 01-21-2010 |
Hirofumi Ouchi, Mito JP
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20130193960 | Eddy Current Flaw Detection System and Eddy Current Flaw Detection Method - An eddy current flaw detection system includes an eddy current flaw detection probe having a substrate facing an inspection surface, and at least one exciting coil and at least two detecting coils provided on the substrate, a scanning device which scans the probe on the inspection surface, a scan control device which drives and controls the scanning device, an eddy current flaw detection device which acquires results of detection of a plurality of detection points corresponding to combinations of the exciting and detecting coils for each scan position of the probe, and a data processing/display device which processes data from the scan control device and the eddy current flaw detection device and thereby displays a result of flaw detection. The data processing/display device acquires three-dimensional coordinates of the detection points for each scan position of the probe and thereby creates three-dimensional flaw detection data. | 08-01-2013 |
Hirofumi Ouchi, Hitachi JP
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20090009162 | EDDY CURRENT FLAW DETECTION PROBE - Disclosed is an eddy current flaw detection probe that is capable of pressing itself against an inspection target whose curvature varies. A flaw sensor is configured by fastening a plurality of coils to a flexible substrate that faces the surface of the inspection target. A first elastic body is positioned opposite the inspection target for the flaw sensor, is obtained by stacking two or more elastic plates, and has an elastic coefficient that varies in a longitudinal direction. A second elastic body is a porous body positioned between the flexible substrate and the first elastic body. A pressure section is employed to press the first elastic body toward the inspection target. | 01-08-2009 |
Jun Ouchi, Sunto-Gun JP
Junko Ouchi, Mie JP
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20130008603 | COAXIAL CABLE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, there is provided a coaxial cable that transmits radio frequency power. The coaxial cable includes an inner tube, an outer tube, and an insulating support member. The inner tube is made of a conductor. The outer tube is disposed outside the inner tube coaxially with the inner tube and is made of a conductor. The insulating support member is disposed between the inner tube and the outer tube. Cooling gas flows into at least one of a first space inside the inner tube and a second space between the inner tube and the outer tube. | 01-10-2013 |
Katsuhiro Ouchi, Saitama JP
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20090158832 | Method and apparatus for detecting a stroke of a 4-cycle internal combustion engine, based on changes in rotary engine speed - A stroke detection apparatus performs a stroke detection of 4-cycle engine based on a rotary engine speed when a throttle opening is large. A first crank-pulse time interval between a crank pulse inputted before a top dead center by 30°, and a crank pulse of the top dead center is measured by a pulse-interval calculation unit, and at the same time, a second crank-pulse time interval between a crank pulse inputted after the top dead center by 60° and a crank pulse inputted after the top dead center 90° is measured. An interval difference calculation unit calculates time-interval difference by subtracting the second crank-pulse time interval from the first crank-pulse time interval, for two continuous top dead centers. A stroke detection unit determines whether two top dead centers are a compression top dead center or an exhaust top dead center based on magnitudes of the time-interval differences. | 06-25-2009 |
20090241649 | Method and system for detecting a crank angle of an engine - A method and a system for detecting a crank angle of an engine includes detecting a non-toothed portion of a crank pulse rotor during a inlet valve open period for preventing falsely recognizing compression top dead center as a position of the non-toothed portion. A crank angle sensor is arranged at a position facing an outer circumference of a crank pulse rotor including a non-toothed portion thereof. An interval calculating unit measures crank pulse time intervals between adjacent teeth based on a sensing signal received from the crank angle sensor. The measured successive crank pulse time intervals are compared for detection of the non-toothed portion. A ratio calculating unit calculates a ratio of crank pulse intervals. A maximum ratio detecting unit determines presence of the non-toothed portion when the calculated ratio of crank pulse interval is the maximum in the cycle of the engine. | 10-01-2009 |
Katsumi Ouchi, Kawasaki JP
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20100049905 | Flash memory-mounted storage apparatus - In a data center, there is a limit in power capacity supplied to a storage apparatus, and the rated power consumption of the storage apparatus may exceed the power supply capacity by addition of storage capacity. A storage apparatus according to the invention includes one or plural packages mounting plural flash memories and a circuit controlling the flash memories as well as information of power supply capacity. The number of flash memories performing writing, erasing or reading at the same time is designated with respect to each package based on the information of power supply capacity. | 02-25-2010 |
20100106988 | CONTROL METHOD WITH MANAGEMENT SERVER APPARATUS FOR STORAGE DEVICE AND AIR CONDITIONER AND STORAGE SYSTEM - To provide a system that can reduce the power consumption of an air conditioner and the power consumption of a storage device. A control method with a management server apparatus for a plurality of storage devices and an air conditioner includes calculating plural combinations of allocating the work amount to the plurality of storage devices, calculating the heating value of each storage device included in the plurality of storage devices for each of the plural combinations, calculating the quantity of heat conducted to the air conditioner, based on the heating value and positional information of the plurality of storage devices and the air conditioner, calculating the power consumption to cool the quantity of heat conducted to the air conditioner, selecting a combination included in the plural combinations based on the power consumption of the air conditioner, and issuing a move instruction of moving the data stored in a first storage device to a second storage device to the plurality of storage devices, based on the selected combination. | 04-29-2010 |
20110016336 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF STORAGE DEVICE - The present invention provides a technique that enables, in an environment in which an upper limit of electric energy consumption is prescribed for a specific period, operations of a storage device while keeping the electric energy consumption within the prescribed upper limit and, at the same time, maintaining operations of a disk device of a storage device necessary for providing services to a user. A storage system according to the present invention includes a storage device having one or more energized parts and a management device that manages operations of the storage device. The management device acquires electric energy consumption of the energized part and controls the operational state of the energized part so that the electric energy consumption of the storage device over a predetermined period does not exceed a prescribed upper limit. | 01-20-2011 |
20110264854 | STORAGE SYSTEM - To maintain reliability even when the repetition of the power saving control for storage systems occurs frequently due to the access from the host computer. During the course of controlling the operation mode of the drives, the controller measures the start/stop cycle count and the load/unload cycle count, calculates the S/S wear-out rate showing the ratio of the measured value of the start/stop cycle count to the first upper limit value and the L/U wear-out rate showing the ratio of the measured value of the load/unload cycle count to the second upper limit value, and for the drives in the idle operation mode, selects the low-speed rotation operation mode if the S/S wear-out rate is greater than the L/U wear-out rate, or selects the standby operation mode if the S/S wear-out rate is less than the L/U wear-out rate. | 10-27-2011 |
20110307721 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND POWER CONSUMPTION ESTIMATION METHOD - Proposed are a storage apparatus and a power consumption estimation method capable of easily and accurately estimating the power consumption of a physical drive without having to use a wattmeter. Operational information concerning a seek amount and a data transfer amount in the relevant hard disk drive which are internally recorded and retained by the respective hard disk drives is collected from each of the hard disk drives, and power consumption of each of the hard disk drives is estimated based on the acquired operational information of each of the hard disk drives. | 12-15-2011 |
20120151169 | STORAGE APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to provide a storage apparatus that can suppress access performance degradation owing to processing of data deduplication. The storage apparatus according to the present invention acquires a sum of the access frequencies to each of redundantly allocated pieces of data, and performs the deduplication on the pieces of data having the sum of access frequencies less than a prescribed threshold (FIG. | 06-14-2012 |
20120226856 | CONTROL METHOD WITH MANAGEMENT SERVER APPARATUS FOR STORAGE DEVICE AND AIR CONDITIONER AND STORAGE SYSTEM - Arrangements reducing power consumption of an air conditioner and a storage device. A control method with a management server apparatus for a plurality of storage devices and an air conditioner includes calculating plural combinations of allocating the work amount to the plurality of storage devices, calculating the heating value of each storage device included in the plurality of storage devices for each of the plural combinations, calculating the quantity of heat conducted to the air conditioner, based on the heating value and positional information of the plurality of storage devices and the air conditioner, calculating the power consumption to cool the quantity of heat conducted to the air conditioner, selecting a combination included in the plural combinations based on the power consumption of the air conditioner, and issuing a move of the data stored in a first storage device to a second storage device, based on the selected combination. | 09-06-2012 |
Katsuya Ouchi, Settsu-Shi JP
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20100041810 | CURABLE COMPOSITION AND CATALYST COMPOSITION - An object of the present invention is to provide a curable composition made mainly of an organic polymer having a reactive silicon group, exhibits a good curability without using any organic tin compound substantially, and gives a cured product having a sufficient strength; and to provide a catalyst composition. The object is solved by a curable composition, comprising a polymer (A) having a silicon-containing group which can be crosslinked by forming a siloxane bond, and a fluoride salt compound (B). | 02-18-2010 |
20100152373 | CURABLE COMPOSITION - An object of the present invention is to provide a curable composition which is made mainly of a polymer having one or more reactive silicon groups, has good curability even when filler is used while a non-organotin catalyst is used, and is further high in industrial practicability. The object is solved by a curable composition, comprising, as constituents, a polymer (A) having one or more reactive silicon groups on average per molecule thereof, the reactive silicon group(s) being (each) a group which can be crosslinked by forming a siloxane bond, a Lewis acid and/or derivative thereof (B), an amine compound (C), a compound (D) having a reactive silicon group, and filler (E), and obtained by mixing the constituents with each other. | 06-17-2010 |
20100222525 | CURABLE COMPOSITION - Cured products constituted with conventional epoxy compounds have been disadvantageous in heat-resistant and light-resistant transparency, and crack resistance. An object of the present invention is to provide: a modified polyorganosiloxane compound having an epoxy group and/or an oxetanyl group which provides a cured product that is excellent in heat-resistant and light-resistant transparency, and crack resistance; a curable composition thereof; and a cured product obtained by curing the same. Disclosed is a modified polyorganosiloxane compound having two or more epoxy group and/or oxetanyl group in a molecule, the compound being a hydrosilylation reaction product of the following compounds: | 09-02-2010 |
20130082369 | CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION, CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION TABLET, MOLDED BODY, SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE, SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT AND LIGHT EMITTING DIODE - The present invention aims to provide a curable resin composition which gives a cured product having a low linear expansion coefficient. The curable resin composition of the present invention contains, as essential components, (A) an organic compound having at least two carbon-carbon double bonds reactive with SiH groups per molecule, (B) a compound containing at least two SiH groups per molecule, (C) a hydrosilylation catalyst, (D) a silicone compound having at least one carbon-carbon double bond reactive with a SiH group per molecule, and (E) an inorganic filler. | 04-04-2013 |
20130116378 | CURABLE COMPOSITION - An object of the present invention is to provide a curable composition which is made mainly of a polymer having one or more reactive silicon groups, has good curability even when filler is used while a non-organotin catalyst is used, and is further high in industrial practicability. The object is solved by a curable composition, comprising, as constituents, a polymer (A) having one or more reactive silicon groups on average per molecule thereof, the reactive silicon group(s) being (each) a group which can be crosslinked by forming a siloxane bond, a Lewis acid and/or derivative thereof (B), an amine compound (C), a compound (D) having a reactive silicon group, and filler (E), and obtained by mixing the constituents with each other. | 05-09-2013 |
Katsuyuki Ouchi, Sapporo-Shi JP
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20130058716 | Air-blowing-type Road Surface Snow-melting System - Provided is an air-blowing-type road surface snow-melting system which makes it possible to reduce the height of a hollow roadbed body while also making the amount of air blown out from an air-permeable structure substantially uniform. An air-blowing-type road surface snow-melting system ( | 03-07-2013 |
Kazunori Ouchi, Kitakyushu-Shi JP
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20110127876 | LAMINATED STATOR CORE - A laminated stator core | 06-02-2011 |
Kazushige Ouchi, Saitama JP
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20090018408 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PULSE WAVES - Pulse wave signal data expressing the pulse wave of a subject and body movement signal data expressing body movements of the subject are obtained so that a correlation coefficient expressing the degree of correlation between the pulse wave signal data and the body movement signal data is calculated. One or more pieces of the pulse wave signal data in which the correlation coefficient is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value are eliminated. | 01-15-2009 |
20090082681 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A biological information processing apparatus obtains a pulse wave signal indicating a pulse wave of a subject, and acceleration measured according to body motion of the subject and calculates an amount of body motion of the subject using the acceleration. By using at least one of the body motion amount and the acceleration, the apparatus approximates a heart rate of the subject and sets a parameter to be used for detection of a pulse interval using the heart rate. Then, the apparatus detects each pulse interval using a pulse waveform indicated by the pulse wave signal and the parameter. | 03-26-2009 |
20110310034 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a detecting unit that detects an operation to first and second touch panels respectively provided above first and second display; a determining unit that determines, when the detecting unit detects a selection operation for selecting a region of a screen on the first display using the first touch panel, kind of an object in a selected region; a generating unit that generates an application list including application candidates to be started to open the object according to the kind; a display controller that displays, when the detecting unit detects a transmission operation for transmitting the selected region to the second display using the first touch panel, the application list on the second display; and an application controller that starts, when the detecting unit detects a selection operation for selecting any one of the applications, a selected application. | 12-22-2011 |
20130321261 | RECOGNITION APPARATUS - The acquiring unit is configured to acquire positions of a particular part of a user in time series. The calculator is configured to calculate a feature value of a motion of the particular part from the positions acquired in time series. The comparing unit configured to compare the feature value and a first threshold. The recognizing unit is configured to recognize the motion of the particular part using a first recognition method and a second recognition method which is different from the first recognition method. The control unit configured to control the recognizing unit to select the first recognition method for recognizing a position or a motion of the particular part when the feature value is smaller than the first threshold, and select the second recognition method when the feature value is equal to or larger than the first threshold. | 12-05-2013 |
20150040004 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a display control device includes a selector and a controller. The selector is configured to acquire display condition information in which combinations of pieces of position-time information of a user and pieces of activity-time information are associated with pieces of display information to be displayed on a display device, respectively, specify a combination of a piece of position information and a piece of activity information associated with the time corresponding to the piece of position information, from among the combinations of the pieces of position information and the pieces of activity information in the display condition information, and select the piece of display information corresponding to the specified combination. The controller is configured to control to display the selected piece of display information on the display device. | 02-05-2015 |
Kazushige Ouchi, Saitama-Ken JP
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20100217588 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING A CONTEXT OF AN OBJECT - Moving information of an object is input, and first sound information around the object is input. A motion status of the object is recognized based on the moving information. Second sound information is selectively extracted from the first sound information, based on the motion status. A first feature quantity is extracted from the second sound information. A plurality of models is stored in a memory. Each model has a second feature quantity and a corresponding specified context. The second feature quantity is previously extracted by the second extraction unit before the first feature quantity is extracted. A present context of the object is decided based on the specified context corresponding to the second feature quantity most similar to the first feature quantity. The present context of the object is output. | 08-26-2010 |
20120162540 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION, AND TELEVISION EQUIPPED WITH APPARATUS FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - An embodiment of an apparatus for speech recognition includes a speech input unit configured to acquire acoustic signal, a first recognition unit configured to recognize the acoustic signal, a communication unit configured to communicate with an external server, a second recognition unit configured to recognize the acoustic signal by utilizing the external server via the communication unit, and a remote signal input unit configured to acquire a control signal from a remote controller. The switching unit is configured to switch between the first recognition unit and the second recognition unit for recognizing the acoustic signal in response to a start trigger. The switching unit selects the second recognition unit when the start trigger is detected from the control signal, and the switching unit selects the first recognition unit when the start trigger is detected from the acoustic signal. | 06-28-2012 |
20120226502 | TELEVISION APPARATUS AND A REMOTE OPERATION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a television apparatus includes a speech input unit, an indication input unit, a speech recognition unit, and a control unit. The speech input unit is configured to input a speech. The indication input unit is configured to input an indication to start speech recognition from a user. The speech recognition unit is configured to recognize the user's speech inputted after the indication is inputted. The control unit is configured to execute an operation command corresponding to a recognition result of the user's speech. The control unit, if a volume of the television apparatus at a timing when the indication is inputted is larger than or equal to a threshold, temporarily sets the volume to a value smaller than the threshold while the speech recognition unit is recognizing. | 09-06-2012 |
20140088967 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - Apparatus for speech recognition includes a recognition unit configured to recognize a speech signal and to generate a first recognition result, a transmitting unit that transmits at least one of the speech signal and a recognition feature to a server, a receiving unit that receives a second recognition result from the server, a result generating unit configured to generate a third recognition result, a result storage unit that stores the third recognition result and a dictionary update unit configured to update the client recognition dictionary. | 03-27-2014 |
Kazuyuki Ouchi, Nagano JP
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20090038556 | Method For Culturing Benthic Organisms Without Feeding - A method for culturing benthic organisms in a culture pond without feeding uses an apparatus for continuously drawing up bottom layer water and dispersing it into upper layer water. The apparatus is provided for a culture pond of benthic organisms. Organic matter in the bottom layer water is mixed with the upper layer water to be mineralized, thereby raising the density of inorganic nutrient salts, so that photosynthesis in the upper layer water is activated to increase plant plankton. | 02-12-2009 |
20100199905 | SAILING SHIP EQUIPPED WITH A HARD SAIL - A sailing ship comprises a hard sail assembly. The hard sail assembly comprises a plurality of hard sails of wing-shaped hollow cross section. The hard sails are vertically stacked so that each except the lowermost is received in the one immediately below. The sailing ship further comprises means for driving the hard sails to move each except the lowermost toward and away from the one immediately below, a post extending vertically to support the lowermost hard sail, and second means for rotating the post around its longitudinal axis. Overlapping lengths between vertically adjacent hard sails are variably controlled to make the hard sail assembly expand and contract vertically. | 08-12-2010 |
20110226172 | SAILING SHIP - A sailing ship includes a sailing unit, which comprises a hard sail assembly comprising a plurality of hard sail sections of wing-shaped hollow cross section vertically stacked so each, except the lowermost, fits on the one immediately below; a mast assembly comprising a plurality of mast sections of hollow cross section vertically stacked so each, except the lowermost, fits in the one immediately below; connecting members for connecting upper ends of the hard sail sections to upper ends of the mast sections located at the same level; first means for moving each mast section, except the lowermost, toward and away from the one immediately below; and second means for rotating the mast assembly around its longitudinal axis. Overlapping lengths between vertically adjacent mast sections are variably controlled so as to variably control overlapping lengths between vertically adjacent hard sail sections. Thus, the hard sail assembly vertically expands and contracts. | 09-22-2011 |
Kazuyuki Ouchi, Hikone JP
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20090158596 | ELECTRIC HAIR REMOVER - An electric hair remover, includes: a body part having a head end part in a longitudinal direction, a blade part for cutting hair being formed at the head end part; a holder part mounted to the body part in such a configuration as to slide along the longitudinal direction of the body part; an operator mounted to the body part and adapted to switch an on-operation and an off-operation of a power source of the blade part; and a slide lock mechanism interlocked with the on-operation by the operator and configured to lock the sliding operation of the holder part relative to the body part. | 06-25-2009 |
20090288298 | PERSONAL TRIMMING SYSTEM - A personal trimming system includes a main body having a motor and a part of a driving unit for converting a rotation of the motor into a reciprocating motion; and a head portion having a driven member moving in a reciprocating motion. The head portion is pivotably supported with respect to the main body, and a gap is provided between the main body and the head portion. | 11-26-2009 |
20110005080 | PERSONAL TRIMMING SYSTEM - A personal trimming system includes a main body having a motor and a part of a driving unit for converting a rotation of the motor into a reciprocating motion; and a head portion having a driven member moving in a reciprocating motion. The head portion is pivotably supported with respect to the main body, and a gap is provided between the main body and the head portion. | 01-13-2011 |
20110005081 | PERSONAL TRIMMING SYSTEM - A personal trimming system includes a main body having a motor and a part of a driving unit for converting a rotation of the motor into a reciprocating motion; and a head portion having a driven member moving in a reciprocating motion. The head portion is pivotably supported with respect to the main body, and a gap is provided between the main body and the head portion. | 01-13-2011 |
Kei Ouchi, Osaka JP
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20090244654 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image reading device is provided. The image reading device suppresses uneven intensity of light emitted on a subject, by disposing a diffusion plate between the subject and a plurality of luminescence portions, and an image forming device that includes this image reading device. The image reading device includes an illumination portion that irradiates light onto a subject. The illumination portion includes: a plurality of LED's disposed at predetermined intervals in a main scanning direction; and an elliptical diffuser plate that is disposed between the subject and the plurality of LED's and diffuses light emitted by the plurality of LED's in a higher diffusion rate in the main scanning direction than in a sub-scanning direction. | 10-01-2009 |
20090290199 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - The present invention is aimed at providing an image reading device that suppresses generation of a so-called edge shadow while suppressing uneven intensity of light emitted onto an original. A color copy machine | 11-26-2009 |
20100012852 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention aims at providing an image reading device and an image forming apparatus including a light guiding body having a first emission surface and a second emission surface. A color copy machine includes a luminescence portion including: LEDs composed of a plurality of dot-shaped luminescence members disposed at predetermined intervals in a main scanning direction and/or an elongated luminescence member that is formed to extend in the main scanning direction; and a light guiding body that is disposed between the LEDs and an original, and has a light incidence portion disposed on a side to the LEDs and an emission portion disposed on a side to the original. The emission portion has a first emission surface and a second emission surface that is formed on a different plane from a plane including the first emission surface. | 01-21-2010 |
20140355290 | LIGHT GUIDE AND ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A light guide includes an incident surface, an exit surface and a reflective surface. The reflective surface is located opposite to the exit surface to extend in the main scanning direction and includes a plurality of light reflecting patterns formed to reflect the incident light toward the exit surface. The light reflecting patterns have an oval hemispherical shape rising toward the exit surface and a first diameter of the oval hemispherical shape along a sub-scanning direction is equal to or longer than a second diameter thereof along the main scanning direction. The light reflecting patterns are formed to vary the ratio of the first diameter to the height of the oval hemispherical shape depending upon the location on the reflective surface in the main scanning direction. | 12-04-2014 |
Kei Ouchi, Naka-Gun JP
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20110096667 | PACKET COMMUNICATION DEVICE, PACKET COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PACKET COMMUNICATION MODULE, DATA PROCESSOR, AND DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM - A transmit packet generated by a CPU | 04-28-2011 |
Kei Ouchi, Naka-Machi JP
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20090092147 | Packet communication device, packet communication system, packet communication system, packet communication module, data processor, and data transfer system - A transmit packet generated by a CPU | 04-09-2009 |
Keiichi Ouchi, Chiba-Shi JP
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20100237739 | PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATOR MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATOR, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND RADIO CLOCK - A piezoelectric vibrator manufacturing method includes a cavity forming step for forming depressions for a cavities on at least one of two wafers; a bonding electrode film forming step for forming bonding electrode films on bonded surfaces of the both wafers; a mount pattern forming step for forming a pair of mount patterns in the cavity; a through hole forming step for forming a pair of through holes in the cavity; a through electrode forming step for forming a pair of through electrodes electrically connected with the pattern in the cavity; a mount step for electrically connecting the pattern and a piezoelectric vibrating strip, a superimposing step for superimposing the both wafers and storing getter materials; a bonding step for anodically bonding the both wafers to fabricating a wafer member; a gettering step for adjusting the degree of vacuum in the interior of the cavity while measuring a series resonance resistance value; and a cutting step for cutting the wafer member into individual pieces. | 09-23-2010 |
Kengo Ouchi, Shibata-Gun JP
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20090231390 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of heads each of which discharges liquid droplets, a base member to hold the heads arranged thereon, and a liquid supply member provided on each head to extend in a direction in which the heads are arranged, and to form a common channel for distributing and supplying liquid to the heads. The liquid supply member includes a first supply opening to receive ink in the liquid supply member, a second supply opening to supply ink to the head, and an annular seal member and provided between the liquid supply member and the head to connect the first and second supply openings by sealing a connection portion between the liquid supply member and the head. | 09-17-2009 |
Kenji Ouchi, Kawasaki-Shi JP
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20110187890 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus comprises an estimation unit which estimates, from color distribution information of an image obtained by capturing an object, a depth of water at which the captured object is positioned, and a white balance control unit which performs white balance control along an axis different from a black body radiation axis in accordance with the depth of water estimated by the estimation unit. | 08-04-2011 |
20130057727 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus generates first image data based on a first white balance correction value corresponding to a first light source, and second image data based on second white balance correction value corresponding to a second light source, selects one white evaluation region for determining a combination ratio from a plurality of white evaluation regions, compares a color evaluation value of the image data with the selected white evaluation region under the second light source, determines a combination ratio of the first image data and the second image data based on a result of the comparison, and combines the first image data and the second image data according to the determined combination ratio. | 03-07-2013 |
20140036106 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A white balance control circuit calculates a first white balance correction value based on image data captured at light-emission timing of a flash unit and calculate a second white balance correction value based on image data captured at non-emission timing of the flash unit. The white balance control circuit acquires an image capturing condition corresponding to the image data captured at the light-emission timing of the flash unit or scene information obtained from color information of the image data captured at the light-emission timing of the flash unit. The white balance control circuit corrects at least one of the first white balance correction value and the second white balance correction value based on the image capturing condition or the scene information. | 02-06-2014 |
20150036019 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus comprises an estimation unit which estimates, from color distribution information of an image obtained by capturing an object, a depth of water at which the captured object is positioned, and a white balance control unit which performs white balance control along an axis different from a black body radiation axis in accordance with the depth of water estimated by the estimation unit. | 02-05-2015 |
Kimihiro Ouchi, Aichi-Ken JP
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20090294565 | WEBBING TAKE-UP DEVICE - A webbing take-up device provided with a clutch disposed between a take-up shaft and a motor, the clutch coupling and releasing coupling of the take-up shaft to the motor. When a gear wheel of the clutch is rotated in a take-up direction by the motor, a friction spring mounted to a spring housing portion of the clutch housing moves a pawl with a first protrusion of the friction spring, causing the pawl to mesh with a ratchet wheel. Relative rotation of the gear wheel with respect to the ratchet wheel (spool) in the take-up direction is thereby restricted, and the spool rotates with the gear wheel in the take-up direction. Since the pawl is directly moved by the friction spring mounted on the clutch housing, the configuration for moving the pawl can be simplified. | 12-03-2009 |
Kiyoshi Ouchi, Chiba JP
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20120025213 | THIN FILM SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A flat panel display is manufactured by mass production and easily stored and transported at low cost. Provided is a thin film semiconductor substrate which faces a plastic substrate | 02-02-2012 |
Kiyoshi Ouchi, Kodaira JP
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20080290344 | Image Display Device And Method For Manufacturing The Same - An image display device manufactured by using a polycrystalline semiconductor film. The polycrystalline semiconductor film is composed of crystal grains with a region free from crystal grain boundaries of at least 2 μm in width and at least 3 μm in length, small crystal grain boundary groups each composed of three or more crystal grain boundaries arranged substantially in parallel to each other and with an interval of not greater than 100 μm are included in a part of the region, and the small crystal grain boundary groups are partially eliminated. | 11-27-2008 |
20120127403 | Image Display Device and Manufacturing Method of the Same - Disorder in the initial orientation (pretilt angle) and active orientation of liquid crystal molecules associated with higher resolution can be reduced to achieve high image quality displays. A layer having a drive element is bonded into an adhesive layer above color filters provided on the inner surface of a rear panel. The layer with the drive element, a drive electrode (pixel electrode), and a counter electrode are buried in the adhesive layer, so that the surface on the liquid crystal layer side is smooth. An orientation film is formed on the smooth surface to have a liquid crystal orientation control capability (orientation capability). A front panel includes a transparent substrate formed of glass or resin, with a smooth surface on the liquid crystal layer side. An orientation film is formed on the smooth surface of the front panel also to have liquid crystal orientation control capability (orientation capability). | 05-24-2012 |
Makoto Ouchi, Suwa JP
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20120277909 | ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM, ROBOT SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - A robot control system includes a storage unit which stores a sequence command described by one or plural commands, a processing unit having an execution unit which carries out execution processing of the sequence command, and a robot control unit which controls a robot based on a result of processing by the processing unit. The storage unit stores plural normal operation sequence commands, and plural error processing operation sequence commands which have the same command system as the normal operation sequence commands. The execution unit, at the time of normal operation, executes the normal operation sequence commands, and at the time of error occurrence, executes an error processing operation sequence command corresponding to an error status. | 11-01-2012 |
20130073079 | ROBOT CONTROL APPARATUS, ROBOT SYSTEM, AND ROBOT CONTROL METHOD - A robot control apparatus includes a scenario acquiring unit acquiring a scenario in which a plurality of instructions, each occupying at least one entity that performs an operation, the at least one entity of a plurality of resources containing a plurality of entities that perform operations as different resources, are arranged in a serial execution order; an instruction queue generating unit generating an instruction queue for each resource, the instruction queue in which the instructions which have not been executed yet and occupy the resource are arranged in the execution order described in the scenario; and an instruction executing unit making a robot execute the plurality of instructions in parallel, the instructions each being first in the execution order in the instruction queues corresponding to all of the resources to be occupied. | 03-21-2013 |
Makoto Ouchi, Matsumoto-Shi JP
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20090096938 | IMAGE CORRECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD - An image correction apparatus that corrects images displayed by a plurality of image display apparatus, the images arranged contiguously or superimposed is disclosed. The image correction apparatus includes a correction reference value generator that generates a correction reference value common to the plurality of image display apparatus based on display characteristics of each of the image correction apparatus that form the plurality of image display apparatus, and a correction data generator that generates correction data for each of the image display apparatus, the correction data used to correct pixel values with reference to the correction reference value. | 04-16-2009 |
20110169776 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processor includes: an estimated image generating unit that generates an estimated image from image data based on image information obtained by taking a model image displayed on a display screen with a camera without being blocked by an object to be detected; an object-to-be-detected detecting unit that detects an object-to-be-detected region blocked by the object to be detected in a display image; and an application processing unit that detects, as an indicated position, a position corresponding to the user's fingertip in the object-to-be-detected region detected by the object-to-be-detected detecting unit and performs the predetermined process in accordance with the indicated position. | 07-14-2011 |
20110169777 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: an under-detection object detecting section that detects an under-detection object area in an image displayed on a display screen based on image data, the detection being performed based on a captured image obtained by using a camera to capture the displayed image blocked by the under-detection object; and an application processor that extracts an under-detection object captured image contained in the under-detection object area, acquires shape data representing an image of the under-detection object from a database that stores the shape data and information data representing information on the under-detection object, checks the under-detection object captured image against the shape data, acquires the information data related to the shape data that matches the under-detection object captured image from the database, and outputs the information data. | 07-14-2011 |
Makoto Ouchi, Tochigi JP
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20090129879 | TOOL HEAD, MACHINE TOOL AND BORING METHOD OF BORE OF CYLINDER BLOCK USING THE MACHINE TOOL - The spindle drive unit of a combined machine tool drives the spindle. The tip end of the spindle is provided with a boring tool and a tool head having a rough grinding stone and a finishing grinding stone. The spindle drive unit has a first support unit and a second support unit capable of receiving the spindle therethrough and supporting it rotatably, a linear motor and a column slide mechanism for moving the first and second support unit in the axis direction of the spindle, and a spindle motor for rotating the spindle. | 05-21-2009 |
Masahide Ouchi, Kanagawa JP
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20110115526 | Microcomputer, Hysteresis comparator circuit, and voltage monitoring apparatus - A microcomputer includes a first comparator which compares a voltage to be monitored, with a first reference voltage, a second comparator which compares the voltage to be compared, with a second reference voltage, and an interrupt control circuit which monitors the voltage to be monitored by the first and second comparators in parallel and, when a preset condition is satisfied, generates an interrupt signal. | 05-19-2011 |
Masutaka Ouchi, Kyoto-Fu JP
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20120061612 | Electrode Active Material for Secondary Battery and Method for Producing the Same, Precursor for Same, and Secondary Battery - A method for producing an electrode active material for a secondary battery, which contains a lithium containing phosphate compound with a olivine-type framework represented by LiMPO | 03-15-2012 |
20120115039 | All Solid Secondary Battery and Manufacturing Method Therefor - A solid secondary battery that includes a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer including an oxide-based solid electrolyte, and a negative electrode layer. At least one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, and the solid electrolyte layer are joined by sintering. At least one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer includes an electrode active material, and a conductive agent containing a carbon material, and the conductive agent includes a carbon material which has a specific surface area of 1000 m | 05-10-2012 |
Miki Ouchi, Kanagawa JP
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20100134820 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An accumulating unit accumulates image data of an original read by a reading unit. A combining unit combines the image data accumulated in the accumulating unit in a single printing sheet according to a predetermined copy mode. An output unit prints and outputs the image data according to the copy mode. An input unit receives an input of a read instruction. When a total number of originals read by the reading unit is smaller than a total number of originals specified in the copy mode and when the input unit does not receive an input of the read instruction within a predetermined time, a discard determining unit discards the image data accumulated in the accumulating unit, and finishes a printing process. | 06-03-2010 |
Mikihiro Ouchi, Osaka JP
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20100128822 | OFDM RECEIVING APPARATUS, OFDM RECEIVING METHOD, OFDM RECEIVING CIRCUIT, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM - A synchronization section | 05-27-2010 |
20110211630 | INTER-CARRIER INTERFERENCE REMOVAL DEVICE AND RECEPTION DEVICE USING THE SAME - An inter-carrier interface removal device can improve estimation accuracy of inter-carrier interference caused by Doppler shift in a received multi-carrier signal moving at a high speed, and a reception characteristic of the multi-carrier signal after removing the inter-carrier interference. The inter-carrier interference removal device includes a channel estimation unit estimating a channel frequency characteristic according to a carrier signal, an equalization unit equalizing the carrier signal with the channel frequency characteristic and outputs tentative carrier data, a reliability value calculation unit calculating a reliability value according to the channel frequency characteristic, a weighting unit weighting the tentative carrier data with the reliability value, an ICI component estimation unit estimating an ICI component according to the weighted tentative carrier data and the estimated channel frequency characteristic, and an ICI removal calculation unit removing the ICI component from the carrier signal. | 09-01-2011 |
20110317682 | OFDM TRANSMITTER DEVICE, OFDM TRANSMISSION METHOD, OFDM RECEIVER DEVICE, AND OFDM RECEPTION METHOD - An OFDM transmitter and an OFDM receiver respectively transmit and receive N (N≧2, N is an integer) control symbols. For each control symbol, a guard interval time-domain signal is, for example, identical to a signal obtained by frequency-shifting at least a portion of a useful symbol time-domain signal by an amount different from any other symbol, or to a signal obtained by frequency-shifting one or both of a portion and a span of a useful symbol interval time-domain signal different from any other symbol by a predetermined amount. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317785 | PILOT PATTERNS FOR OFDM SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - The present invention relates to orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems with multiple transmit antennas receive antennas, and in particular to methods for inserting scattered pilots (SPs) into the transmit signals of such OFDM systems, for estimating channel properties on the basis of the scattered pilots, a multi-antenna OFDM transmitter, and an OFDM receiver. In this context, it is the particular approach of the present invention to keep the same SP pattern like in the single-transmitter case, to partition the pilots into as many subsets as there are transmitters (transmit antennas), and to interleave these subsets both in time and in frequency. In this manner, the granularity of pilots of the same subset is reduced. This offers increased flexibility in designing the scattered pilot patterns and greater accuracy of the estimated channel properties. | 12-29-2011 |
20120121034 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD AND RECEPTION APPARATUS - All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. | 05-17-2012 |
20120219089 | TRANSMISSION METHOD AND TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by switching between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol along the frequency axis and the time axis all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. | 08-30-2012 |
20120224651 | SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS - A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 09-06-2012 |
20120288029 | TRANSMITTER, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEIVER, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A transmitter | 11-15-2012 |
20120300877 | PRECODING METHOD, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND RECEIVING DEVICE - A transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped. | 11-29-2012 |
20120307159 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING METHOD, AND RECEIVING METHOD - In order to implement both a physical later pipe (PLP) structure and a plurality of receiver classes, a transmitting apparatus includes: a signaling information generation unit which generates signaling information including a transmission parameter for each of PLPs; a PLP processing group which performs processing based on the transmission parameter for each of the PLPs; and a transmitting unit which transmits data including the generated signaling information and PLP data for each of the PLPs. The PLP data is received by a receiving apparatus that is indicated by a flag of the PLP and is not received by another receiving apparatus, the receiving apparatuses being included in a plurality of receiving apparatuses classified under a plurality of states. The generated signaling information includes, as the transmission parameter for each of the PLPs, the flag of the PLP. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307842 | TRANSPORT STREAM PACKET HEADER COMPRESSION - A demultiplexer | 12-06-2012 |
20130089164 | PRE-CODING METHOD AND TRANSMITTER - Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal over the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping by a precoding weight and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped. | 04-11-2013 |
20130114752 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMITTER APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD AND RECEIVER APPARATUS - Transmission quality is improved in an environment in which direct waves dominate in a transmission method for transmitting a plurality of modulated signals from a plurality of antennas at the same time. All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. | 05-09-2013 |
20130121306 | SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE - A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121307 | METHOD OF SIGNAL GENERATION AND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE - A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121438 | PRECODING METHOD, AND TRANSMITTING DEVICE - Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121441 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, AND RECEPTION DEVICE - Provided is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, including the steps of selecting a matrix F[i] from among N matrices, which define precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, while switching between the N matrices, i being an integer from 0 to N−1, and N being an integer at least two, generating a first precoded signal z | 05-16-2013 |
20130136208 | SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE - A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 05-30-2013 |
20130322566 | PRECODING METHOD, PRECODING DEVICE - Disclosed is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals that are transmitted in the same frequency bandwidth at the same time. According to the precoding method, one matrix is selected from among matrices defining a precoding process that is performed on the plurality of baseband signals by hopping between the matrices. A first baseband signal and a second baseband signal relating to a first coded block and a second coded block generated by using a predetermined error correction block coding scheme satisfy a given condition. | 12-05-2013 |
20140029509 | SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE - A transmission method of simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals. One of signal generation processing in which phase change is performed and signal generation processing in which phase change is not performed is selectable, thereby improving general versatility in signal generation. | 01-30-2014 |
20140037029 | RELAY METHOD AND RELAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a relay method including: receiving, as input, respective reception signals by two receive antennas, the reception signals each including a reception signal resulting from multiplexing respective transmission signals transmitted by two transmission antennas in a first frequency band; performing frequency conversion on the reception signal received by one of the receive antennas so as to obtain a signal of a third frequency band; and performing frequency multiplexing on the signal having the third frequency band and the reception signal received by the other of the receive antennas. | 02-06-2014 |
20140044218 | PRE-CODING METHOD AND PRE-CODING DEVICE - Disclosed is a precoding method comprising the steps of: generating a first coded block and a second coded block with use of a predetermined error correction block coding scheme; generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2 by performing a precoding process, which corresponds to a matrix selected from among the N matrices F[i], on a first baseband signal s1 generated from the first coded block and a second baseband signal s2 generated from the second coded block, respectively; the first precoded signal z1 and the second precoded signal z2 satisfying (z1, z2) | 02-13-2014 |
20140093013 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - Provided is a frame configuration usable for both SISO transmission and MISO and/or MIMO transmission. According to the frame configuration, a frame has a preamble, a control symbol, and transmission data symbols. A transmission device includes the designation of a transmission scheme of the transmission data symbols in the control symbol and includes the designation of a transmission scheme of the control symbol in the preamble. This improves the reception performance (detection performance) of a reception device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140098914 | RECEIVING METHOD AND RECEIVING APPARATUS - All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by switching between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol along the frequency axis and the time axis all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. | 04-10-2014 |
20140105322 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - Provided is a frame configuration usable for both SISO transmission and MISO and/or MIMO transmission. A frame configurator of a transmission device configures a frame by gathering data for SISO and configures a frame by gathering data for MISO and/or MIMO data, thereby to improve the reception performance (detection performance) of a reception device. | 04-17-2014 |
20140133589 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - A transmission device transmits by performing SISO using a first polarization and by performing MISO and MIMO using the first (V) polarization and a second (H) polarization. For SISO communication, transmission is performed using an antenna having the first (V) polarization. For MISO and MIMO communication, transmission is performed using the antenna having the first (V) polarization and an antenna having the second (H) polarization. Accordingly, a reception device equipped only with a system for the antenna having the first (V) polarization is able to continue receiving the transmit data by SISO. | 05-15-2014 |
20140133599 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - Provided is control information related to polarizations of antennas for MISO communication. The control signal generator generates polarization information indicating whether antennas used for transmission by MISO have only a first polarization or have a second polarization as well as the first polarization. With this structure, the present invention allows for the use of combinations of SISO, MISO and MIMO, taking the polarization of antennas. Furthermore, the present invention enables the receiver to reduce the power consumption. | 05-15-2014 |
20140146915 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - Provided is a frame configuration usable for both SISO transmission and MISO and/or MIMO transmission. A frame configurator of a transmission device configures a frame by gathering data for SISO and configures a frame by gathering data for MISO and/or MIMO data, thereby to improve the reception performance (detection performance) of a reception device. | 05-29-2014 |
20140205032 | SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE - A transmission method for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. Each signal has been modulated according to a different modulation scheme. The transmission method applies precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix, applies different power change to each signal, and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 07-24-2014 |
20140219389 | SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATING APPARATUS - A transmission method for simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at the same frequency includes performing precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changing the phase of at least one of the signals. In this method, the power ratio between a plurality of signals transmitted from a plurality of antennas at the same frequency and at the same time differs from the power ratio between a plurality of pilot signals transmitted from the plurality of antennas at the same frequency and at the same time, whereby the accuracy of channel estimation by a reception device is improved. | 08-07-2014 |
20140241476 | RECEIVING METHOD AND RECEIVING APPARATUS - All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by switching between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol along the frequency axis and the time axis all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. | 08-28-2014 |
20140286451 | PRECODING METHOD, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND RECEIVING DEVICE - A transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped. | 09-25-2014 |
20140321572 | OFDM TRANSMITTER DEVICE HAVING A SYMBOL GENERATOR FOR GENERATING NON-ZERO CONTROL SYMBOLS, AND OFDM TRANSMISSION METHOD INCLUDING GENERATING NON-ZERO CONTROL SYMBOLS - An OFDM transmitter and an OFDM receiver respectively transmit and receive N (N≧2, N is an integer) control symbols. For each control symbol, a guard interval time-domain signal is, for example, identical to a signal obtained by frequency-shifting at least a portion of a useful symbol time-domain signal by an amount different from any other symbol, or to a signal obtained by frequency-shifting one or both of a portion and a span of a useful symbol interval time-domain signal different from any other symbol by a predetermined amount. | 10-30-2014 |
20140341317 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, AND RECEPTION DEVICE - Provided is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, including the steps of selecting a matrix F[i] from among N matrices, which define precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, while switching between the N matrices, i being an integer from 0 to N−1, and N being an integer at least two, generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2, generating a first encoded block and a second encoded block using a predetermined error correction block encoding method, generating a baseband signal with M symbols from the first encoded block and a baseband signal with M symbols the second encoded block, and precoding a combination of the generated baseband signals to generate a precoded signal having M slots. | 11-20-2014 |
20140348257 | PRE-CODING METHOD AND TRANSMITTER - Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal over the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping by a precoding weight and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped. | 11-27-2014 |
20140362947 | PILOT PATTERNS FOR OFDM SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - The present invention relates to orthogonal frequency—division multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems with multiple transmit antennas receive antennas, and in particular to methods for inserting scattered pilots (SPs) into the transmit signals of such OFDM systems, for estimating channel properties on the basis of the scattered pilots, a multi-antenna OFDM transmitter, and an OFDM receiver. In this context, it is the particular approach of the present invention to keep the same SP pattern like in the single-transmitter case, to partition the pilots into as many subsets as there are transmitters (transmit antennas), and to interleave these subsets both in time and in frequency. In this manner, the granularity of pilots of the same subset is reduced. This offers increased flexibility in designing the scattered pilot patterns and greater accuracy of the estimated channel properties. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362948 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMITTER APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD AND RECEIVER APPARATUS - Transmission quality is improved in an environment in which direct waves dominate in a transmission method for transmitting a plurality of modulated signals from a plurality of antennas at the same time. All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. | 12-11-2014 |
20150016570 | METHOD OF SIGNAL GENERATION AND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE - A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 01-15-2015 |
20150085952 | SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE - A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 03-26-2015 |
Minefumi Ouchi, Nomi-Shi JP
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20090201105 | ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE - An acoustic wave device includes first and second 3-IDT acoustic wave filters provided on a piezoelectric substrate. A second IDT in the first acoustic wave filter is electrically connected to a second IDT in the second acoustic wave filter and a third IDT in the first acoustic wave filter is electrically connected to a third IDT in the second acoustic wave filter to cascade the first acoustic wave filter with the second acoustic wave filter. An acoustic wave resonator is connected to a first IDT in the first acoustic wave filter. In the acoustic wave device, NA/NB is in a range from about 2.6 to about 3.5 and fB/fa is in a range from about 0.995 to about 1.010, where NA denotes the number of electrode fingers of the first IDT in the first acoustic wave filter, NB denotes the number of electrode fingers of each of the second and third IDTs in the first acoustic wave filter, fB denotes the end frequency of a stop band of each of reflectors in the first and second acoustic wave filters, and fa denotes an anti-resonant frequency of the acoustic wave resonator. | 08-13-2009 |
Minefumi Ouchi, Nagaokakyo-Shi JP
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20110316647 | ELASTIC WAVE BRANCHING FILTER - A reception filter includes a first and second longitudinally coupled resonator-type surface acoustic wave filter portions and a surface acoustic wave resonator. The first and second longitudinally coupled resonator-type surface acoustic wave filter portions each include at least three IDT electrodes. The surface acoustic wave resonator includes one IDT electrode connected to at least one of the at least three IDT electrodes. The reception filter is arranged such that a ratio of a capacitance of the surface acoustic wave resonator to a capacitance of each of the at least one of the at least three IDT electrodes included in the longitudinally coupled resonator-type surface acoustic wave filter portion, the at least one of the at least three IDT electrodes being electrically connected to the one IDT electrode of the surface acoustic wave resonator, is in the range of about 1.9 to about 2.5. | 12-29-2011 |
Nao Ouchi, Nagaokakyo-Shi JP
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20110195297 | SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery that includes a sheet-like member containing at least an electrode active material and an electrolyte; and first and second conductive layers containing at least a conductive aid and which are positioned on the opposed principal surfaces of the sheet-like member. The electrode active material contains an organic compound (for example, an organic compound having a stable radical) which participates in both oxidation and reduction reactions such that the positive electrode active material and negative electrode active material are formed from the same organic compound. In addition, the sheet-like member includes at least a polymer compound, and the organic compound contains at least one of a nitroxyl radical, a verdazyl radical, and a nitronyl nitroxyl radical. | 08-11-2011 |
Natsuko Ouchi, Kawasaki-Shi JP
Natsuko Ouchi, Kawasaki JP
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20120047167 | PORTABLE TERMINAL - A portable terminal includes a word extracting unit that extracts a word contained in data of a Web page being viewed; a Web search request unit that transmits a search request to a search site with the word extracted by the word extracting unit as a search word and that receives a list of Web pages that contain the search word from the search site as a search result; and a display unit that displays the search result received by the Web search request unit. | 02-23-2012 |
Noritomo Ouchi, Sagamihara JP
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20120030132 | SHIPPING INSTRUCTION DETERMINATION SYSTEM - A shipping instruction determination system provides a storage device which stores a shipping request in a supply destination, a supply available schedule of a supply source, information of a packaging form indicating a combination of products and its number of units to be able to be packed in packaging boxes to be used for a shipment and a physical distribution cost for every packaging form, and a shipping instruction calculation unit which calculates a combination, a physical distribution cost of which becomes minimum, of a shipping date, the number of shipping units and a packaging form from among the shipping available combinations of the shipping date, the number of shipments and the packaging form, from the shipping request, the supply available schedule, the information of packaging form and the physical distribution cost for every packaging form to determine a shipping instruction. | 02-02-2012 |
Noriyuki Ouchi, Mizuho-Ku JP
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20110274689 | COMPOUNDS AND METHODS TO MEASURE METABOLIC FUNCTION AND RESTORE NORMAL METABOLIC FUNCTION - The invention relates to treatment to restore normal metabolic function, including but not limited to normal glucose levels. The invention in one embodiment contemplates methods of reducing elevated glucose levels in subjects with elevated glucose levels by administering a composition comprising at least a portion of human Sfrp5. The invention in one embodiment contemplates methods of reducing elevated glucose levels in subjects with elevated glucose levels by administering a composition comprising an inhibitor of Wnt5a, including but not limited to an antibody inhibitor. | 11-10-2011 |
Noriyuki Ouchi, Nagoya JP
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20130035282 | METABOLIC AND CARDIOPROTECTION BY THE MYOKINE FOLLISTATIN-LIKE 1 POLYPEPTIDE - Described herein are methods and compositions related to the discovery that the Follistatin-like 1 protein (Fstl-1) has metabolic and cardioprotective effects in vivo. Fstl-1 and portions and derivatives or variants thereof can be used to treat or prevent metabolic diseases or disorders and to treat or prevent cardiac damage caused by interrupted cardiac muscle blood supply. | 02-07-2013 |
Rieka Ouchi, Kawasaki-Shi JP
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20090051029 | FLIP-CHIP TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A flip-chip type semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate. A plurality of electrode terminals are provided and arranged on a top surface of the semiconductor substrate, a sealing resin layer is formed on the top surface of the semiconductor substrate such that the electrode terminals are completely covered with the sealing resin layer. | 02-26-2009 |
Satoshi Ouchi, Kamukura JP
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20090303410 | Display apparatus and back light unit to be used therefor - A back light unit includes a light source unit combined with an optical waveguide having translucency to guide a light of light source in a direction of liquid crystal panel, and a chassis for holding or supporting the light source unit. The optical waveguide is formed in plate-like shape, a face opposing to the back face of liquid crystal panel is used as a light emitting surface, a face opposing to the chassis is used as a reflecting face for reflecting a light, one of a plurality of side faces adjacent to light emitting surface and reflecting face is used as a light incidence surface where a light from the light source is injected. The light source unit is arranged in multiple in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction of the liquid crystal panel, in the back face side of the liquid crystal panel. | 12-10-2009 |
Shigeki Ouchi, Kanagawa JP
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20120047554 | WEB SERVICE PROVISION SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, AND METHOD - A web application server includes a user information management unit that manages user IDs and attributes such that each of the user IDs is associated with corresponding one of the attributes, a security policy management unit that manages security policies such that each of security policies is associated with corresponding one of the attributes, a security policy acquisition unit that acquires one of the security policies based on one of the attributes associated with one of the user IDs, and an HTML file generation unit that generates an HTML file in which a script to acquire personal data of corresponding one of users from an intra-company database server is embedded based on one of the security policies of the corresponding one of the users. | 02-23-2012 |
20140150052 | WEB SERVICE PROVISION SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, AND METHOD - A web application server includes a user information management unit that manages user IDs and attributes such that each of the user IDs is associated with corresponding one of the attributes, a security policy management unit that manages security policies such that each of security policies is associated with corresponding one of the attributes, a security policy acquisition unit that acquires one of the security policies based on one of the attributes associated with one of the user IDs, and an HTML file generation unit that generates an HTML file in which a script to acquire personal data of corresponding one of users from an intra-company database server is embedded based on one of the security policies of the corresponding one of the users. | 05-29-2014 |
Shinji Ouchi, Ogaki-Shi JP
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20120006592 | WIRING BOARD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A wiring board including a first insulation layer, a conductive pattern formed on the first insulation layer, a second insulation layer formed on the conductive pattern and the first insulation layer and having an opening portion exposing at least a portion of the conductive pattern, and a connection conductor formed in the opening portion of the second insulation layer such that the connection conductor is positioned on the portion of the conductive pattern. The connection conductor has a tip portion which protrudes from a surface of the second insulation layer and which has a tapered side surface tapering toward an end of the tip portion. | 01-12-2012 |
20120008295 | WIRING BOARD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A wiring board has a first resin insulation layer, a first conductive pattern formed on the first resin insulation layer, a second resin insulation layer formed on the first conductive pattern and having an opening portion exposing at least a portion of the first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern formed on the second resin insulation layer, and a via conductor formed in the opening portion of the second resin insulation layer and electrically connecting the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern. The via conductor has a side surface extending between the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern and a bent portion where an inclination of the side surface of the via conductor changes in a depth direction of the via conductor. | 01-12-2012 |
20130341077 | METHOD FOR REPAIRING DISCONNECTION IN WIRING BOARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WIRING BOARD, METHOD FOR FORMING WIRING IN WIRING BOARD AND WIRING BOARD - A method for repairing a disconnection in a wiring board includes positioning a substrate including an insulation layer and a conductive layer formed on the insulation layer, the conductive layer having a wiring line disconnected such that the wiring line has a disconnected portion formed between conductive patterns forming the wiring line, applying in the disconnected portion between the conductive patterns a conductive paste including a non-conductive material and conductive particles such that the conductive paste fills the disconnected portion between the conductive patterns and joins the conductive patterns forming the wiring line in the conductive layer, and irradiating laser upon the conductive paste applied in the disconnected portion such that at least a portion of the conductive paste in the disconnected portion is sintered and forms a sintered portion connecting the conductive patterns of the wiring line in the conductive layer. | 12-26-2013 |
20140231990 | WIRING BOARD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip and a wiring board formed on the semiconductor chip. The wiring board includes a first insulation layer, first conductive patterns on the first layer, first via conductors formed in the first layer and connecting the first patterns and electrode pads of the chip, respectively, a second insulation layer on the first layer, second conductive patterns on the second layer, and second via conductors formed in the second layer and connecting the first conductive patterns and the second patterns, respectively, each second via conductors has a side surface extending through the second layer such that the side surface has a bent portion which changes inclination of the side surface in depth direction of each second via conductor, and the second patterns are positioned to fan in or out with respect to the electrode pads. | 08-21-2014 |
Syunichiro Ouchi, Saitama-Shi JP
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20110128641 | LENS APPARATUS - A lens apparatus is capable of adjusting only the inclination of an optical axis in a desired direction. A focus lens frame is movably supported by a first guide shaft and a second guide shaft. The first guide shaft is provided in a lens barrel with both end parts of the first guide shaft being fixed. A front end part of the second guide shaft is swingably supported, a rear end part thereof is fitted into a horizontal elongate hole, and the second guide shaft is movably supported only in a horizontal direction. The second guide shaft is inserted through a first elongate hole formed in a swinging frame, and when the swinging frame is swung, the second guide shaft is horizontally swung. Then, when the second guide shaft is horizontally swung, the focus lens frame is horizontally swung, whereby the horizontal inclination of the optical axis is adjusted. | 06-02-2011 |
Tadao Ouchi, Toyama JP
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20100229737 | METHOD FOR ORNAMENTING CONTAINER, ORNAMENTED CONTAINER MANUFACTURED BY THE METHOD, AND MANDREL, DRUM, AND ORNAMENTING APPARATUS USED FOR THE METHOD - [Problem to be Solved] To provide a method for ornamenting a container, a mandrel, drum, apparatus used for the method, in which the number of manufacturing process and the manufacturing cost are reduced, and prevents scratches in the inner and outer surface of the container. | 09-16-2010 |
Takaharu Ouchi, Shizuoka-Ken JP
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20110085205 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a detection unit which detects connection of an external storage device; a determination unit which acquires path information of one or plural files in the external storage device that is detected as being connected, by the detection unit, and determines which hardware unit should be started up on the basis of the path information; a startup unit which starts up a hardware unit corresponding to the determination by the determination unit; and a processing execution unit which executes processing to the file, using the hardware unit started up by the startup unit. | 04-14-2011 |
20120092683 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT EDITING METHOD - An image forming apparatus that can efficiently execute space reduction of a document file is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a file designating unit which designates a document file; a document file acquiring unit which acquires the document file designated by the file designating unit, from a storage area; a setting information acquiring unit which acquires setting information of processing to change the size of a space in the document file acquired by the document file acquiring unit, from a setting information storage area; and a space processing control unit which performs the processing to change the size of a space in the document file acquired by the document file acquiring unit, based on the setting information acquired by the setting information acquiring unit. | 04-19-2012 |
Takashi Ouchi, Bunkyo-Ku JP
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20110011551 | PAPERMAKING FELT - Papermaking felts include a base material and a batt layer provided on one or both sides of the base material. The batt layer includes a water-absorbing resin, and the water-absorbing resin has a coefficient of water absorption of from 1.05 and 10. | 01-20-2011 |
Takashi Ouchi, Ichihara-Shi JP
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20090047114 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM LAMINATED MEMBER AND METHOD OF CONVEYING THE MEMBER THEREIN - An apparatus for manufacturing a thin-film laminated member by laminating a plurality of thin films on the surface of a band-shaped flexible substrate includes a substrate conveying device for conveying the band-shaped flexible substrate in the horizontal direction with the widthwise direction of the band-shaped flexible substrate oriented in the vertical direction. A plurality of film forming chambers are arranged in succession along the direction in which the band-shaped flexible substrate is conveyed for forming films on the surface of the band-shaped flexible substrate. A pair of upper grip rollers are arranged between the plurality of film forming chambers for pinching an upper edge portion of the band-shaped flexible substrate while the band-shaped flexible substrate is being conveyed. A method thereof includes pinching the upper edge portion of the band-shaped flexible substrate with the pairs of upper grip rollers. | 02-19-2009 |
Takayuki Ouchi, Hitachi JP
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20080299861 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE - A scanning line, a signal line, a first current supply line, and a second current supply line are formed on a glass substrate, a first electrode is formed on the wiring layer comprising the above members, an organic layer comprising a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and an electron injection layer is formed on the first electrode, a second electrode is formed as cathode on the electron injection layer, the first electrode as anode is connected to a plus terminal of a power source through the driving devices and the first current supply line, whereas the second electrode as cathode is connected to a minus terminal of the power source, and is connected to the second current supply line in the display region of each pixel, with a contact hole serving as a feeding point, whereby wiring resistance due to the second electrode is reduced, and variations in the brightness of a panel is reduced. | 12-04-2008 |
20120146986 | SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY AND DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SAME - A switching power supply has a function of improving a power factor, and outputs insulated DC. The switching power supply performs two kinds of controls for switching devices exclusive to each other: controlling of a switching device provided in a direction in which the discharging of a primary-side smoothing capacitor is prohibited at the time of suspension of commercially available AC power and near the zero cross of an input voltage; and causing a switching device provided between the output side of a third winding and the primary-side smoothing capacitor to control a charging current, thereby charging a capacitor in a boosted manner. | 06-14-2012 |
20140139409 | DISPLAY MODULE - Organic EL display module including a pixel disposed in respective intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, which lines are aligned in a matrix, and a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, wherein the pixel includes an active device selected by the scanning line, a data storage device that stores a data signal that is supplied from the data line by control of the active device, and an organic light emitting device that emits light by the electric current supplied by the current supply line according to the data signal stored in the data storage device, wherein the data storage device provides a lower electrode, an insulating layer and an upper electrode, and wherein the lower electrode has a same layer with a channel layer of the active device and the upper electrode is made of a metal material. | 05-22-2014 |
Tetsuya Ouchi, Nagoya-Shi JP
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20090322821 | Image-Forming Apparatus - An image-forming apparatus is capable of performing a non-margin recording operation without a margin on a recording medium and providing a waiting time between a moment of termination of a movement of a carriage in one of opposite directions and a moment of initiation of a subsequent movement of the carriage in the other direction, if the non-margin recording operation is performed during the movement of the carriage in the above-indicated one direction. The carriage is moved in the other direction (returned) at a speed lower than that of the movement in the above-indicated one direction, so that the back surface of an edge portion (e.g., leading end portion) of the recording medium is protected from contamination with an ink mist produced from the ink droplets. The waiting time and the return speed of the carriage can be manually selected or changed by using an operator's control panel, so that the non-margin recording operation can be performed in a desired manner (in a high-image-quality mode or a high-speed mode). | 12-31-2009 |
20100079819 | PRINTER AND PRINT METHOD - A printer includes a print unit which prints an image on a recording medium by adhering recording material based on image data; a storage unit which stores a value corresponding to a reference recording material density; a reference density acquisition unit which acquires from the image data a reference recording material density of an area within the image; a specifying unit which specifies a value corresponding to the acquired reference recording material density by referring to the storage unit; a detection unit which detects a recording material density in the area of the printed image; a determination unit which determines whether the detected recording material density in the area is within a range determined based on the specified value; and a controller which indicates a print failure and/or stops printing if the determination unit determines that the detected recording material density detected is outside of the range. | 04-01-2010 |
20110076082 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus wherein the controller is configured to adjust a distance between a first recording medium and a second recording medium fed subsequently to the first recording medium in a medium feeding direction on the basis of a length L | 03-31-2011 |
Tomoharu Ouchi, Nagano JP
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20120002837 | SPEAKER AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SAME - There is provided a speaker which has a frame structure divided into a first frame and a second frame, wherein tinsel wires are arranged so as not to overlap, with respect to the plane direction, the second frame to which a magnetic circuit is attached, whereby the second frame can be arranged as forward as possible thus enabling reduction of the thickness of the speaker. Also, the first frame and the second frame are both provided with respective frame connection mechanisms and therefore can be easily positioned and connected to each other thus enhancing the workability. The speaker enables further reduction of the thickness without deteriorating input durability and bass range reproduction capability and can be produced with an excellent assembly workability. | 01-05-2012 |
Toshihiko Ouchi, Machida-Shi JP
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20100252738 | INSPECTION APPARATUS AND INSPECTION METHOD USING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE - An apparatus for acquiring information on a time waveform of a terahertz wave is comprised of a terahertz wave-generating unit, a waveform information-detecting unit, and a delay unit for changing the time after the terahertz wave is generated in the generating unit until it is detected as waveform information of the terahertz wave in the detecting unit, wherein the delay unit is configured so as to change a propagating distance of the terahertz wave generated by the generating unit, and associates waveform information of the terahertz wave, which is detected in the detecting unit, and the propagating distance every terahertz wave generated by the generating unit. | 10-07-2010 |
20110198501 | ANALYSIS APPARATUS - An analysis apparatus for analyzing a gas by a terahertz wave or an infrared ray comprises a generator for generating the terahertz wave or the infrared ray; a trapping unit having a trapping film for trapping a gas and being placed to be capable of causing interaction between the gas trapped by the trapping film and the terahertz wave or infrared ray generated by the generator; and a detector for detecting the interaction of the gas with the terahertz wave or infrared ray; wherein the trapping unit comprises a structure for contact with a site evolving the gas; and the structure holds the trapping film separately from the site. | 08-18-2011 |
20110215245 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL DEVICE AND TERAHERTZ TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An optical element includes a semiconductor layer having an energy band gap larger than a photon energy of light, and a plurality of electrodes in electrical contact with the semiconductor layer. At least one of the electrodes forms a Schottky junction between the electrode and the semiconductor layer; the Schottky junction has a barrier height smaller than the photon energy of the light. At least part of a junction surface between the electrode that forms the Schottky junction and the semiconductor layer includes a light irradiation surface arranged to be irradiated with the light from a surface of the semiconductor layer without the electrodes, and a portion of a coupling structure arranged to be coupled to a terahertz wave that is generated or detected through the irradiation with the light. | 09-08-2011 |
20110267600 | EXAMINING APPARATUS - In an examining apparatus or method, values of thickness and characteristic of an object, or distributions thereof can be simultaneously acquired. The examining apparatus includes a portion | 11-03-2011 |
20120105161 | OSCILLATOR HAVING NEGATIVE RESISTANCE ELEMENT - An oscillator has a negative resistance element and a resonator along with a capacitor electrically connected in parallel with the negative resistance element relative to a power bias circuit, a capacitance of the capacitor being so selected as to suppress any parasitic oscillation due to the power bias circuit and allow oscillation at a resonance frequency due to the negative resistance element and the resonator. | 05-03-2012 |
20120235040 | PHOTOCONDUCTIVE ELEMENT - Provided is a photoconductive element which solves a problem inherent in an element for generating/detecting a terahertz wave by photoexcitation that terahertz wave generation efficiency is limited by distortions and defects of a low temperature grown semiconductor. The photoconductive element includes: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor low temperature growth layer; and a semiconductor layer, which is positioned between the semiconductor low temperature growth layer and the semiconductor substrate and is thinner than the semiconductor low temperature growth layer, in which the semiconductor low temperature growth layer includes a semiconductor which lattice-matches with the semiconductor layer and does not lattice-match with the semiconductor substrate. | 09-20-2012 |
20120280128 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE - The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for transforming a time waveform of an electromagnetic wave into a time waveform suited for signal processing and the like so as to measure the time waveform. | 11-08-2012 |
20120318983 | TERAHERTZ-WAVE GENERATING ELEMENT, TERAHERTZ-WAVE DETECTING ELEMENT, AND TERAHERTZ TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY DEVICE - A terahertz-wave generating element includes a waveguide including an electro-optic crystal; an optical coupling member that extracts a terahertz wave, which is generated from the electro-optic crystal as a result of light propagating through the waveguide, to a space; and at least two electrodes that cause a first-order electro-optic effect in the electro-optic crystal by applying an electric field to the waveguide so as to change a propagation state of the light propagating through the waveguide. A crystal axis of the electro-optic crystal of the waveguide is set such that the terahertz wave generated by a second-order nonlinear optical process and the light propagating through the waveguide are phase-matched. | 12-20-2012 |
20130037721 | TERAHERTZ WAVE GENERATION ELEMENT, TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTION ELEMENT, AND TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPE DEVICE - A terahertz wave generation element is provided, which includes: an optical waveguide including a core of electro-optic crystal; an optical coupler for extracting a terahertz wave generated from the optical waveguide when light propagates in the optical waveguide to a space; and a reflecting layer disposed on the opposite side to the optical coupler with respect to the core of the optical waveguide, so as to reflect the generated terahertz wave. According to the element, it is possible to provide a generation element that can generate a relatively high intensity terahertz wave efficiently by photoexcitation or generate a terahertz wave having a relatively narrow pulse width, so as to flexibly control waveform shaping of the generated terahertz wave. | 02-14-2013 |
20130130237 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING STATE OF DNA - The present invention provides an analysis apparatus including: an irradiation section for irradiating the chromatin structure with terahertz waves; a detection section for acquiring a set of terahertz wave spectral information from the chromatin structure; a memory section for memorizing the sets of terahertz wave spectral information corresponding to the states of the chromatin structure; and a data processing section for analyzing the state of the chromatin structure by comparing the set of spectral information acquired in the detection section and the sets of spectral information memorized in the memory section. | 05-23-2013 |
20130146769 | OPTICAL PULSE GENERATING APPARATUS, TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY APPARATUS, AND TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - An optical pulse generating apparatus that supplies pump light and probe light includes a light source and a modulation unit configured to modulate light emitted from the light source, thereby dividing the light into the pump light and the probe light. The modulation unit is configured such that a frequency for modulating the light is variable. The modulation unit changes a difference between a moment of the pump light incident on an object and a moment of the probe light incident on the object by changing the frequency. | 06-13-2013 |
20130240740 | SENSOR DEVICE - A sensor device has an optical waveguide containing an electro-optic crystal for propagating light, a coupler provided adjacent to the optical waveguide to propagate a terahertz wave generated from the electro-optic crystal as a result of the propagation of light in the optical waveguide, and a detector for detecting the terahertz wave propagating through the coupler or the light propagating through the optical waveguide. The terahertz wave is totally reflected in a section of the coupler opposite to a section where the coupler is adjacent to the optical waveguide while passing through and propagating in the optical waveguide, and in the total reflection section, the terahertz wave interacts with a subject placed close to the total reflection section. | 09-19-2013 |
20130284929 | TERAHERTZ-WAVE ELEMENT, TERAHERTZ-WAVE DETECTING DEVICE, TERAHERTZ TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM, AND TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - A terahertz-wave element includes a waveguide ( | 10-31-2013 |
20140103209 | TERAHERTZ-WAVE ELEMENT, TERAHERTZ-WAVE DETECTING DEVICE, TERAHERTZ TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM, AND TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - A terahertz-wave element includes a waveguide ( | 04-17-2014 |
20140127707 | SUBJECT INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A subject information acquiring apparatus including: a generation section that generates terahertz waves to be irradiated at a test object in a plurality of kinds of states including a state in which a target material that takes a specific portion of the test object as a target has been introduced into the test object; a detection section that detects terahertz waves that are propagated from the test object and outputs a signal; a processing section that acquires information of the test object using the signals detected by the detecting section and information relating to a characteristic portion of a wavelength spectrum of the target material. | 05-08-2014 |
20140183363 | WAVEFRONT MEASURING APPARATUS, WAVEFRONT MEASURING METHOD, AND OBJECT MEASURING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a wavefront measuring apparatus and method, and object measuring apparatus which can increase resolution of wavefronts of electromagnetic wave pulses without being limited by the number of detecting elements. An embodiment of the present invention includes a detecting part detecting electric field strength of an electromagnetic wave pulse, and an optical delaying part delaying the electromagnetic wave pulse so as to provide a first propagation path and a second propagation path provided in a spatial region different from a spatial region of the first propagation path and having a length different from a length of the first propagation path, wherein time waveforms of the electromagnetic wave pulse are constructed using a signal associated with the electric field strength detected by the detecting part, and a wavefront is obtained based on the time waveforms and information associated with the lengths of the first and second propagation paths. | 07-03-2014 |
20140197896 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE GENERATION DEVICE AND DETECTION DEVICE - The invention provides an electromagnetic wave generation device. The device includes a substrate provided with a terahertz wave oscillation section including a resonant tunneling diode structure, a two-dimensional electron layer having a semiconductor heterojunction structure, and a transistor section including a source electrode and a drain electrode provided at end portions of the two-dimensional electron layer and a gate electrode provided above the two-dimensional electron layer. The terahertz wave output of the terahertz wave oscillation section changes distribution of electrons in the two-dimensional electron layer. | 07-17-2014 |
20140254615 | LASER DEVICE - A laser device comprises a waveguide including a resonance structure for causing electromagnetic waves to resonate. The waveguide by turn comprises a gain medium for generating electromagnetic waves, a first negative permittivity medium arranged electrically in contact with the gain medium, a second negative permittivity medium arranged electrically in contact with the gain medium at the side opposite to the first negative permittivity medium so as to dispose the gain medium between the first and second negative permittivity mediums, and lateral structures of a positive permittivity medium arranged to be in contact with lateral surfaces of the gain medium and sandwiched between the first and second negative permittivity mediums. The waveguide has a section in which the width w of the gain medium sandwiched between the lateral structures is not greater than twice of the thickness h of the lateral structures sandwiched between the first and second negative permittivity mediums. | 09-11-2014 |
20140264038 | TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE TRANSMITTING APPARATUS - To provide an electromagnetic pulse transmitting apparatus and a tomography apparatus capable of shortening an electromagnetic pulse. The apparatus performs processing such that two electromagnetic pulse portions emitted to an object have an electric field intensity of mutually opposite polarity and the time difference between pulse peaks of the two electromagnetic pulse portions is a time difference within a time of a pulse width. | 09-18-2014 |
20150051496 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING A LOCATION OF AN OBJECT AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FORMING AN OBJECT, USING AN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE IN A TERAHERTZ BAND - An apparatus includes an emitter unit configured to irradiate an object under observation with a terahertz wave, a receiver unit configured to receive a reflected terahertz wave returning from the object under observation, and a data processing unit configured to calculate a propagation time period spent in a propagation of the terahertz wave from the emitter unit to the receiver unit based on a signal received by the receiver unit and calculate a location of an abnormal tissue in the object under observation based on the propagation time period. | 02-19-2015 |
20150086150 | TERAHERTZ-WAVE ELEMENT, TERAHERTZ-WAVE DETECTING DEVICE, TERAHERTZ TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM, AND TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - A terahertz-wave element includes a waveguide ( | 03-26-2015 |
Toshihiko Ouchi, Kanagawa-Ken JP
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20080217538 | Optical Semiconductor Device - The present invention provides an optical semiconductor device including a semiconductor thin film ( | 09-11-2008 |
20080231384 | Frequency Tunable Oscillator - There is provided a frequency tunable oscillator that has less degradation of oscillation characteristics due to a parasitic reactance component or the like without mounting therein a lumped constant element such as a variable capacitance element. The frequency tunable oscillator includes a negative resistance element and a resonator which together form a feedback circuit. The frequency tunable oscillator further includes in at least a part of the feedback circuit, a distributed constant material so configured as to have a distributed constant such that an electrical length in the resonator is modulated, and a modification means for externally modifying the distributed constant material, wherein the oscillation frequency can be varied through the external modification by the modification means. | 09-25-2008 |
20080273207 | Sensor Device - It has been requested to enhance sensitivity of a surface plasmon resonance sensor in a frequency region from a millimeter wave band to a terahertz band, from 30 GHz to 30 THz. Then, the present invention provides a sensor whose sensitivity is further improved by an analyte holding portion being equipped with a semiconductor and a medium. | 11-06-2008 |
20080314152 | Sensing Device - The present invention provides a sensing device for obtaining information of a test sample using an electromagnetic wave including a frequency region within a frequency region of 30 GHz to 30 THz, the sensing device comprising an electromagnetic wave transmitting portion including a plurality of transmission portions ( | 12-25-2008 |
20090134329 | Detection apparatus for detecting electromagnetic wave passed through object - A detection apparatus for detecting electromagnetic waves that have passed through an object is provided which includes a transmission line for transmitting electromagnetic waves therethrough and a detector for detecting electromagnetic waves that have passed through an object, the transmission line having a gap for disposing the object therein. | 05-28-2009 |
Yasuhiro Ouchi, Sakura-Shi JP
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20090197437 | SOCKET, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOCKET, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A socket includes an insulating elastomeric sheet having a penetration hole, metal circuits formed on at least one of the front and rear surfaces of the elastomeric sheet, and a through-hole having a metal film formed on an inner wall of the penetration hole. The metal circuit on the front surface of the elastomeric sheet is electrically connected to the metal circuit on the rear surface of the elastomeric sheet via the through-hole. With such a configuration of the socket, it is possible to provide a socket contact terminal and a semiconductor device having the same, which is suitable for low-resistance, large-current, and high-speed configurations. | 08-06-2009 |
20090250256 | SOCKET CONTACT TERMINAL AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A socket contact terminal for electrical connection between a connection portion formed of a metal conductor on a printed circuit board and a connection terminal of an IC package. The contact terminal comprises a metal terminal composed of a main columnar portion and arm portions on both sides and having an angular U shape and an elastomeric member attached to the metal terminal. A metal surface is exposed from the outer surface of each arm portion. The elastomeric member is firmly held between the arm portions of the metal terminal and exhibits a repulsive force when the arm portions are pressed in the direction that the arm portions approach each other. | 10-08-2009 |
20100081342 | DOUBLE-SIDED CONNECTOR - This double-sided connector is provided with: an insulating member having an insulating substrate and an elastomer insert-molded on both faces of the insulating substrate, and a through-hole formed along a thickness direction of the insulating substrate and the elastomer; a conductive member formed on an inner face of the through-hole, both ends of the conductive member exposed at the both faces; and a contact terminal part provided at one end of the conductive member. A protrusion is formed on at least a first face of the two faces of the insulating member and near one of the two ends of the through-hole, the protrusion formed by a part of the elastomer protruding from the first face. The contact terminal part includes a ring part formed around the end of the through-hole on the first face, a sloping part connected to the ring part and extended slantingly toward a top of the protrusion, and an approximately hemispherical point of contact part connected to the sloping part and covering the top. | 04-01-2010 |
Yumiko Ouchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20090296205 | Microscope apparatus - Diffracted light generated by a diffraction grating passes through a tube lens, reflected by a reflection mirror and forms illuminating light in a strip pattern on the surface of a sample. Thus, fluorescence generated by an objective lens from the sample passes through the objective lens, the reflection mirror and a tube lens, and forms an image of the sample on the diffraction grating. When the diffraction grating is removed from an optical system and a dichroic mirror is arranged, instead of the reflection mirror, fluorescence from the sample passes through the dichroic mirror, and forms an image of the sample on an imaging surface of an imaging device by an imaging lens. Thus, a microscope which can be used by being switched from a normal fluorescent microscope and uses the diffracted light is provided. | 12-03-2009 |
20100157422 | MICROSCOPE DEVICE - A microscope device including a coherent light source, an illuminating optical system which has light beam splitting means that splits the coherent light source into light beams and phase-modulating means disposed near a pupil conjugate plane and adapted for modulating the phases of two of the light beams and projects illuminating light spatially modulated into an interference fringe structure by causing the two light beams to interfere with each other near the plane of a sample, an imaging optical system for forming an image of the sample with diffracted light, imaging means, and image processing means for creating a sample image by computation of the image captured by the imaging means each time the phase of the spatial modulation is modulated. | 06-24-2010 |
20100302628 | MICROSCOPE - The present invention relates to a microscope of which visibility, controllability and operability can be improved. In the microscope, an optical path and optical path of an image forming system are set so as to be perpendicular to each other when viewed from the top. In other words, in this microscope, there exists an ocular optical system that guides light, which propagates the optical path to optical path of the image forming system, to a user. The optical path is formed in a direction perpendicular to a direction of the light from a sample emitted from the ocular optical system to the user. The present invention can be applied to an inverted microscope. | 12-02-2010 |
20110141260 | Microscope apparatus and storage medium storing microscope apparatus control program - A microscope apparatus includes a monitoring optical system, an imaging unit capturing an image of an observation target through the monitoring optical system to generate a plurality of images, a correction unit disposed in the optical monitoring system and correcting various aberrations which occur due to an observation condition, and a decision unit deciding a correction amount of the correction unit based on the plurality of images generated by the imaging unit, whereby an image deterioration ascribable to the aberration occurring due to the observation condition in the microscope apparatus is appropriately and easily corrected according to a use condition of the microscope apparatus. | 06-16-2011 |
20120026311 | STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPE APPARATUS AND AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Polarized light which is emitted from an optical fiber becomes circular polarized light bypassing through a first quarter wave plate. The circular polarized light which has entered a second quarter wave plate is converted into nearly linear polarized light which has S polarization. P polarization components are removed from the nearly linear polarized light by a polarizer, but the polarizer is not always necessary. The optical axis of the polarizer is set to be a direction which allows transmitting of S polarized light. The light that has passed through the polarizer is separated into diffracted lights by a diffraction grating, and is used as the structured illumination light. | 02-02-2012 |
20120327509 | MICROSCOPE - The present invention relates to a microscope of which visibility, controllability and operability can be improved. | 12-27-2012 |
20130088776 | MICROSCOPE APPARATUS - There is provided a microscope apparatus including: a plurality of objective lenses having different magnifications; an imaging system that receives light, which is generated from a sample and emitted from the objective lens when excitation light is emitted to a sample including a fluorescent material that is activated when irradiated with activation light having a predetermined wavelength and fluoresces to be inactivated when irradiated with excitation light having a different wavelength from the activation light in the activation state and that images the light in a state where an astigmatic difference is given to the image of the sample; and an imaging device that captures the image of the sample from the imaging system. The imaging system includes an astigmatic difference changing device that changes the astigmatic difference according to the depth of focus of the objective lens. | 04-11-2013 |
20140104407 | STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPE DEVICE - An illumination optical system includes: a beam splitter located near a conjugate position of a specimen and configured to split beams from a light source into a plurality of groups of beams having different splitting directions around an optical axis; a beam selector configured to select and transmit one group of beams from the plurality of groups of beams and that is rotatable with respect to the optical axis; and a ½ wavelength plate located near the beam selector and rotatable about the optical axis. The rotation angles of the ½ wavelength plate and of the beam selector about the optical axis are respectively set so that the polarization direction of the beam which has passed through the ½ wavelength plate is perpendicular to the splitting direction of the one group of beams that has been selected by the beam selector and split by the beam splitter. | 04-17-2014 |
20140320957 | STRUCTURED ILLUMINATING APPARATUS, STRUCTURED ILLUMINATING MICROSCOPY APPARATUS, AND STRUCTURED ILLUMINATING METHOD - A structured illuminating apparatus includes a branching unit branching an exit light flux from a light source into at least two branched light fluxes, an illuminating optical system making the two branched light fluxes to be respectively collected at mutually different positions on a pupil plane of an objective lens and making the two branched light fluxes to be interfered with each other to illuminate a specimen with an interference fringe of the two branched light fluxes, and an adjusting unit adjusting a height from an optical axis of the illuminating optical system to two collecting points formed on the pupil plane of the objective lens by the two branched light fluxes. | 10-30-2014 |