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20120044290 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus may include a recording unit, an ink receiver, and a control unit. The recording unit records an image on a sheet by causing a recording head including a plurality of nozzle arrays to reciprocate along a surface of the sheet in a direction in which the plurality of nozzle arrays is arranged. The ink receiver receives ink ejected outside the sheet in preliminary ejection from the recording head. Depending on a recording region on the sheet and which of the plurality of nozzle arrays is or are to be used for recording, the control unit determines a reversing position at which the recording head is reversed in direction of the reciprocation such that all of the plurality of nozzle arrays pass over the ink receiver in a single scan included in the reciprocation. | 02-23-2012 |
20140078203 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus that performs preliminary discharge operation without a carriage and a recording medium interfering with each other is provided. The inkjet recording apparatus performs, at a center region in a conveyance direction of a recording medium, the preliminary operation at a position according to an edge portion of the recording medium obtained by an optical sensor. Further, the inkjet recording apparatus performs, at a leading edge region and a trailing edge region of a recording medium, the preliminary operation at a position based on input data. | 03-20-2014 |
20160052266 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is provided an ink jet printing apparatus that does not give poor usability to users and a method for controlling the same. To achieve this, in recovery processing performed multiple times to recover an ejection state, in a case where a printing instruction is inputted, the recovery processing is suspended in an amount smaller than an amount required for recovery, depending on an amount of ink in an ink tank. | 02-25-2016 |
20160052289 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK AMOUNT DETECTION METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a main tank for containing ink; a sub tank for containing ink supplied from the main tank and containing ink to be supplied to a print head; a detection unit configured to detect an ink amount in the sub tank; and a filling unit configured to perform ink filling operation that fills the sub tank with ink from the main tank by driving a driving unit, in a case where the detection unit detects the ink amount in the sub tank that is less than a first predetermined amount, wherein in a case where the ink amount in the main tank is less than a second predetermined amount, the filling unit drives the driving unit at smaller drive amount than that in a case where the ink amount in the main tank is greater than the second predetermined amount. | 02-25-2016 |
20160052308 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A printing apparatus comprises a maintenance unit configured to execute a maintenance operation between a completion of printing on a preceding sheet serving as the printing sheet fed from a stacking unit first and a start of printing on a succeeding sheet serving as the printing sheet fed from the stacking unit next, and a determination unit configured to determine whether to execute the maintenance operation, wherein the determination unit determines, based on a feeding method of the succeeding sheet, whether to execute the maintenance operation. | 02-25-2016 |
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20080264068 | Magnetic Convection Heat Circulation Pump - A magnetic convection heat circulation pump, wherein magnets are disposed inside a magnetic field flow passage for passing a magnetic fluid therein or on a part of the inner wall surface of a circulation flow passage in a magnetic pump thermally joined to a heat receiving part. The magnetic fluid is driven since a magnetic force is directly applied to the magnetic fluid and a large temperature gradient is produced between the heat receiving part and the magnetic pump due to a difference between a heat quantity transferred from the heat receiving part indirectly to the magnetic pump and the heat quantity of the magnetic fluid led into the magnetic pump. | 10-30-2008 |
20080277100 | Heat Transfer Apparatus of a Forced Convection Type - A forced convection heat transfer apparatus wherein a large quantity of heat can be efficiently transferred even when a temperature difference is small, by transmitting power to a magnet, which is rotatable along a circulation flow path of a magnetic fluid, and obtaining a magnetic fluid circulation speed in proportion to the rotating speed. | 11-13-2008 |
20090139227 | ROTARY HEAT ENGINE - A rotary heat engine having a cylinder and a rotor having a rotating shaft rotatably placed in the cylinder. The cylinder has a heat receiving section for supplying heat to the inside of the cylinder and a heat radiating section for radiating heat from the inside. The engine also has an engine section body and an operation liquid storage section. A vaporized gas supply channel and a gas recovery channel communicating with the inside of the cylinder are provided, respectively, on the heat receiving section side and heat radiating section side of the cylinder in the engine section body. The operation liquid storage section is between the vaporized gas supply channel and the gas collection channel in order to aggregate and liquefy recovered gas and is installed such that both channels fluidly communicate with each other. Also, the operation liquid storage section has a heat insulation dam provided with a through hole for preventing backflow of fluid flowing inside. | 06-04-2009 |
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20080279601 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion which forms a toner image on a sheet; a fixing rotary member pair which fixes the toner image onto the sheet; a reversing rotary member pair capable of performing a refeeding operation in which, in order to form a toner image on another surface of the sheet having one surface on which an image has been formed, the reversing rotary member pair rotates forward and then rotates backward to refeed the sheet toward the image forming portion; and a drive portion which drives the fixing rotary member pair and the reversing rotary member pair by a common drive source, wherein the drive portion can continue to rotate the fixing rotary member pair even when the drive portion stops the refeeding operation of the reversing rotary member pair. | 11-13-2008 |
20090080934 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units, each provided with an image bearing member, detachably mountable to a main assembly of the image forming apparatus; an opening, provided in a side surface of the main assembly, for permitting insertion of the plurality of image forming units into the opening; a guide portion for guiding the plurality of image forming units toward the opening; and a projected portion, provided on the guide portion, for positioning a part of an associated image forming unit outside the opening by contacting the associated image forming unit when the associated image forming unit is inserted into the opening with an attitude different from the attitude of the associated image forming unit at the time when the associated image forming unit is disposed in the main assembly. | 03-26-2009 |
20090257768 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING HEAT-FIXING UNIT - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion; a fixing portion having a fixing nip portion which heats and fixes the unfixed image and an discharge roller which discharges the recording material, wherein in the case where the recording material is the plain paper which is equal to or larger than the predetermined size, the discharge roller conveys the plain paper in a range from a front edge to a rear edge at a predetermined speed, in the case where the recording material is the plain paper smaller than the predetermined size, the discharge roller conveys the plain paper at a first speed until the rear edge passes through the fixing nip portion, and the discharge roller conveys the plain paper at a second speed higher than the first speed after the rear edge passed through the fixing nip portion. | 10-15-2009 |
20100032895 | SHEET DISCHARGING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SHEET DISCHARGING DEVICE - In a sheet discharging unit including a pair of sheet discharge rollers which discharges a sheet P, the outer diameter of a sheet discharge drive roller included in the pair of sheet discharge rollers is set so that the outer diameter of a straight portion which is a central portion in the width direction perpendicular to the discharging direction of the sheet P is larger than the outer diameters of both end portions in the width direction. Further, in the sheet discharging unit, the pair of sheet discharge rollers respectively include metal shafts extending in the width direction and elastic layers respectively wound around the metal shafts and continuously formed to be longer in the width direction than the width of a sheet P with a passable maximum size. Further, at least one elastic layer of the pair of sheet discharge rollers is formed of a foamed material. | 02-11-2010 |
20100034559 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a main body; an image forming portion for forming a toner image on a recording material; a fixing unit for fixing the toner image on the recording material and including a nip forming member which forms a fixing nip that nips and conveys the recording material; a reverse roller unit for including a reverse roller, and the reverse roller rotates backward to convey the recording material to the image forming portion again after conveying the recording material which has passed through the fixing nip in a same direction as a conveying direction at the fixing nip; and a delivery roller for delivering the recording material which has passed through the fixing nip, out of the main body. The reverse roller unit is attached to the fixing unit, and is removably installable in the main body integrally with the fixing unit. | 02-11-2010 |
20110274464 | Image Forming Apparatus With Integral Unit of Fixing Unit and Reverse Rollers in Main Body - An image forming apparatus has a main body; an image forming portion for forming a toner image on a recording material; a fixing unit for fixing the toner image on the recording material and including a nip forming member which forms a fixing nip that nips and fixes and conveys the recording material; a reverse roller unit for including a reverse roller, and the reverse roller rotates backward to convey the recording material to the image forming portion again after conveying the recording material which has passed through the fixing nip in a same direction as a conveying direction at the fixing nip; and a delivery roller for delivering the recording material which has passed through the fixing nip, out of the main body. The reverse roller unit is attached to the fixing unit, and is removably installable in the main body integrally with the fixing unit and the main body includes a first positioning portion and a second positioning portion, and when an integral unit of the fixing unit and the reverse roller unit is installed in the main body, the fixing unit is positioned with respect to the first positioning portion, and the reverse roller unit is positioned with respect to the second positioning portion. | 11-10-2011 |
20120057893 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit configured to transfer an image to a recording material, a fixing unit configured to fix, to the recording material, the image transferred to the recording material, a first curvature detection unit located between the transfer unit and the fixing unit and configured to adjust an amount of curvature of the recording material to a first amount of curvature, and a second curvature detection unit located between the transfer unit and the fixing unit and configured to adjust the amount of curvature of the recording material to a second amount of curvature, wherein the second curvature detection unit is located in a position different from the first curvature detection unit in a width direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the recording material. | 03-08-2012 |
20130121737 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt; a heater, provided in an interior of the endless belt, for heating the endless belt; a back-up member contacted to an inner surface of the endless belt; a pressing member for forming a nip for nipping and feeding a recording material together with the back-up member through the endless belt; and a protecting member, provided surrounding the heater in the interior of the endless belt and rotatable around the heater, the protecting member includes a shield portion for blocking between the endless belt and the heater and an opening, arranged in a circumferential direction of the protecting member. | 05-16-2013 |
20130136515 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a sheet includes an endless belt; a roller contactable with the endless belt to form a nip for nipping and feeding the sheet; a heater provided inside the endless belt; a guiding member, provided inside the endless belt, for guiding rotation of the endless belt; a reinforcing member, provided between the endless belt and the heater in a radial direction of the heater, for reinforcing the guiding member, the reinforcing member being provided with an opening to permit radiant light from the heater to reach the endless belt; a protecting member, provided between the heater and the reinforcing member in the radial direction so as to oppose the endless belt through the opening, thus preventing contact between the endless belt and the heater. | 05-30-2013 |
20150104229 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a sheet includes an endless belt; a roller contactable with the endless belt to form a nip for nipping and feeding the sheet; a heater provided inside the endless belt; a guiding member, provided inside the endless belt, for guiding rotation of the endless belt; a reinforcing member, provided between the endless belt and the heater in a radial direction of the heater, for reinforcing the guiding member, the reinforcing member being provided with an opening to permit radiant light from the heater to reach the endless belt; a protecting member, provided between the heater and the reinforcing member in the radial direction so as to oppose the endless belt through the opening, thus preventing contact between the endless belt and the heater. | 04-16-2015 |
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20080277794 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor IC device which includes a circuit region and a peripheral region on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, a first insulating film formed over the main surface, external terminals arranged in the peripheral region and formed over the first insulating film, a conductive guard ring formed over the first insulating film and provided around the external terminals, and second insulating films formed in the internal region and the peripheral region, the second insulating film in the peripheral region is formed over the first insulating film and over the guard ring and is contacting the external terminals, the second insulating films of the circuit region and that of the peripheral region are separately formed and are isolated from each other. Separate second insulating film may be formed over the wirings of one or more of existing wiring levels of the semiconductor device. | 11-13-2008 |
20100252924 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes plural electrode pads arranged in an active region of a semiconductor chip, and wiring layers provided below the plural electrode pads wherein occupation rates of wirings arranged within the regions of the electrode pads are, respectively, made uniform for every wiring layer. To this end, in a region where an occupation rate of wiring is smaller than those in other regions, a dummy wiring is provided. On the contrary, when the occupation rate of wiring is larger than in other regions, slits are formed in the wiring to control the wiring occupation rate. In the respective wirings layers, the shapes, sizes and intervals of wirings below the respective electrode pads are made similar or equal to one another. | 10-07-2010 |
20120205788 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes plural electrode pads arranged in an active region of a semiconductor chip, and wiring layers provided below the plural electrode pads wherein occupation rates of wirings arranged within the regions of the electrode pads are, respectively, made uniform for every wiring layer. To this end, in a region where an occupation rate of wiring is smaller than those in other regions, a dummy wiring is provided. On the contrary, when the occupation rate of wiring is larger than in other regions, slits are formed in the wiring to control the wiring occupation rate. In the respective wirings layers, the shapes, sizes and intervals of wirings below the respective electrode pads are made similar or equal to one another. | 08-16-2012 |
20140159245 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes plural electrode pads arranged in an active region of a semiconductor chip, and wiring layers provided below the plural electrode pads wherein occupation rates of wirings arranged within the regions of the electrode pads are, respectively, made uniform for every wiring layer. To this end, in a region where an occupation rate of wiring is smaller than those in other regions, a dummy wiring is provided. On the contrary, when the occupation rate of wiring is larger than in other regions, slits are formed in the wiring to control the wiring occupation rate. In the respective wirings layers, the shapes, sizes and intervals of wirings below the respective electrode pads are made similar or equal to one another. | 06-12-2014 |
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20120013220 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR DRIVE UNIT - Disclosed is a piezoelectric actuator drive unit that includes a piezoelectric actuator drive amplifier and a piezoelectric actuator drive unit power supply. Combinations of high and low signal levels of a first control signal, which controls the supply voltage and amplifier bias voltage of the piezoelectric actuator drive amplifier, and a second control signal, which controls the driving force of the piezoelectric actuator drive amplifier, are associated with a haptic feedback function, a receiver function for generating an audio output, and a speaker function for generating music or the like. Thus, the piezoelectric actuator drive unit, which vibrates a piezoelectric actuator, is adapted to the haptic feedback function, the receiver function, and the speaker function, and can optimize its power and drive amplifier characteristics. | 01-19-2012 |
20120013403 | AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT - An amplifier circuit is configured to be preceded by a single-ended-to-differential translate circuit using a BTL configuration operating at a low voltage and succeeded by amplifiers to amplify output signals VOT and VOB from the single-ended-to-differential translate circuit. The amplifier circuit activates a mute function of the subsequent amplifiers during state transition when the single-ended-to-differential translate circuit turns on. Consequently, the amplifier circuit fixes output signals OUTP and OUTN to 0 V and masks an output noise. The amplifier circuit inactivates the mute function after signals VOT and VOB become stable. Thereby, the amplifier circuit is capable of easily preventing a pop noise using a BTL configuration requested for high voltage output to drive a piezoelectric actuator. | 01-19-2012 |
20120293353 | OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER - A temperature dependence adjustable operational amplifier circuit which suppresses a change in a gain caused by a change in an input voltage is provided. In an operational amplifier including a first input terminal and an output terminal, an operational amplifier having an inverting input terminal and a non-inverting input terminal, an input resistance circuit, and a feedback resistance circuit, each of the input and feedback resistor circuits has a resistor and a trimming resistor, which are different in temperature coefficient from each other, connected in series with each other, and a source-drain path of a MOS transistor included in the trimming resistor circuit is disposed between resistance and an inverting input terminal, and a substrate potential thereof is set to a potential of the inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier. | 11-22-2012 |
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20110051191 | Image Processing Device Capable of Executing A Plurality of Jobs In Parallel - An image processing device includes an image processing portion, a reception portion, a determining portion and a stopping portion. The image processing portion is configured to execute a plurality of jobs in parallel. Each job requires at least one of a reading process for reading a manuscript, a printing process for printing an image, a facsimile transmission process for transmitting facsimile data and a facsimile reception process for receiving facsimile data. The reception portion is configured to receive a stop request of a job. The determining portion is configured to determine one of a plurality of running jobs as one that is to be stopped when a plurality of jobs are executed at the time of reception of the stop request, and to give a priority to a job that is executed in a state of a high stop emergency degree over a job that is executed in a state of a low stop emergency degree when determining a job that is to be stopped. The stopping portion is configured to stop execution of the job that is determined as one that is to be stopped by the determining portion. | 03-03-2011 |
20110188098 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS - An image scanning apparatus having a feeding unit that feeds a document; a first scanning unit, which scans one face of the document fed, and which scans a document set on a document platen; a second scanning unit that scans the other face of the document fed; an instructing unit that, during a scanning operation being performed by a preceding-document scanning unit, which is one of the first scanning unit and the second scanning unit, instructs an other of the first scanning unit and the second scanning unit to scan a document not being scanned by the preceding-document scanning unit; and an executing unit that executes a scanning operation by a following-document scanning unit that is the other of the first scanning unit and the second scanning unit when the instructing unit instructs the other of the first scanning unit and the second scanning unit to start the scanning operation. | 08-04-2011 |
20110211238 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS - An image scanning apparatus includes: a feeding unit; an upstream scanning unit that scans an image of one surface of the document; a downstream scanning unit, which is arranged at a downstream side, and which scans an image of the other surface of the document; a memory unit, which stores both data of the upstream scanning unit and data of the downstream scanning unit; and a control unit that controls the document feeding by performing one of a first feeding process and a second feeding process, wherein the first feeding process is a feeding process in which the upstream scanning unit starts to scan a following document while the downstream scanning unit scans a preceding document, and wherein the second feeding process is a feeding process in which the upstream scanning unit starts to scan the following document after the downstream scanning unit scans the preceding document. | 09-01-2011 |
20140092452 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, a feeding unit, a carriage holding the reading unit, a motor, a motor-side transmission gear, a feeding unit-side transmission gear, a carriage-side transmission gear, a switching gear which switches between a meshing state of meshing with the feeding unit-side transmission gear at a feeding unit-side position and a meshing state of meshing with the carriage-side transmission gear at a carriage-side position, a restraint member which applies a restraint force for restraining the switching of the switching gear, and a motor control unit which when switching the switching gear between the carriage-side position and the feeding unit-side position, executes a large torque control of controlling the motor to generate a switching torque which is larger than a moving reading torque to be generated by the motor at a time of document reading when executing a moving reading. | 04-03-2014 |
20140198358 | Image Reading Apparatus For Reducing Start-Up Time - An image reading apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a reading unit, a carriage, a motor, a motor gear, a conveyance gear, a carriage gear, and a control device. The conveyance unit is configured to convey a document. The reading unit is configured to read an image on the document. The carriage is configured to support the reading unit and to be movable in a prescribed direction. The reading unit is selectively operable in a first mode in which the image on the document is read while conveying the document by the conveyance unit, and a second mode in which the image on the document is read by moving the reading unit in the prescribed direction. The switching gear is configured to be placed in a first position and a second position. The control device is configured to control the switching gear to move between the first position and the second position, acquire initialization data initializing the reading unit, and control the reading unit to read the image on the document. The control device acquires the initialization data while controlling the switching gear to move between the first position and the second position. | 07-17-2014 |
20150281491 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image reading apparatus includes a document feeder, a platen, an image reader, a drive unit, a memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the image reader to read a document fed by the document feeder over the platen at a reading position, control the image reader to read a reference plate over the platen at the reading position, to generate read data, determine whether the read data has an abnormality, store a value of the reading position of the image reader in the sub-scanning direction in the memory in response to determining that the read data has an abnormality, set a value of a position of the image reader in the sub-scanning direction to a value being different from the stored value within the predetermined range in response to determining that the read data has an abnormality and in response to receiving a reading instruction of another document, control the drive unit to move the image reader to the position of the set value, and control the image reader to read the other document fed by the document feeder over the platen after the image reader is moved to the position of the set value. | 10-01-2015 |
20160094749 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image reading apparatus includes a document feeder; a platen; an image reader configured to read the document, fed by the document feeder, through the platen; a memory; and a controller. The controller causes the image reader to read a reference plate at a predetermined reading position to generate read data, and detecting whether the read data has an abnormality; when the read data has the abnormality, stores a detection position; sets a reading position of the image reader in the sub-scanning direction to a set position spaced by a predetermined range or more from the detection position; when instruction to start reading is received, moves the image reader under standby at a standby position to arrange the image reader at the set position; and reads the document, fed by the document feeder, by the image reader. | 03-31-2016 |
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20090152967 | Brushless motor and manufacturing method thereof - A second ball bearing is installed from a first axial side toward a second axial side into an interior of a bearing holder of a rotor through an opening of the bearing holder, so that an outer race of the second ball bearing is press fitted to an inner peripheral portion of the interior of the bearing holder. A first ball bearing is inserted from the first axial side toward the second axial side into the interior of the bearing holder of the rotor through the opening of the bearing holder after the installing of the second ball bearing, so that an outer race of the first ball bearing is press fitted to the inner peripheral portion of the interior of the bearing holder and is axially spaced from the outer race of the second ball bearing. | 06-18-2009 |
20100072840 | Armature and motor - In an armature of a motor, each of windings is wound around at least two of a plurality of tooth portions of a core to form at least two wound parts of the winding. A crossover of each winding, which connects between corresponding two of the at least two wound parts, is placed on one axial side of a ring portion of the core. A crossover relief space is axially recessed in an end surface of the ring portion on the one axial side. At least a portion of each crossover is received in the crossover relief space. Guides project on the other axial side of the core and guide winding terminal portions of the windings. | 03-25-2010 |
20100295394 | Electric motor - Winding Start Sections and Winding End Sections of Winding Wires are Pulled out from slots of an armature core and are guided by wire guides of an insulator. Thereafter, each corresponding one of the winding start sections and the winding end sections is guided by a corresponding winding holding portion and is directly connected to a corresponding one of power supply terminal elements of a circuit apparatus without using an intermediate terminal. | 11-25-2010 |
20100299912 | BRUSHLESS MOTOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A second ball bearing is installed from a first axial side toward a second axial side into an interior of a bearing holder of a rotor through an opening of the bearing holder, so that an outer race of the second ball bearing is press fitted to an inner peripheral portion of the interior of the bearing holder. A first ball bearing is inserted from the first axial side toward the second axial side into the interior of the bearing holder of the rotor through the opening of the bearing holder after the installing of the second ball bearing, so that an outer race of the first ball bearing is press fitted to the inner peripheral portion of the interior of the bearing holder and is axially spaced from the outer race of the second ball bearing. | 12-02-2010 |
20110187215 | DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINE - Engaging protrusions of a lower end housing are axially snap-fitted into through holes, respectively, of a yoke housing to couple therebetween. Each of spacers is circumferentially placed between and is press-fitted between corresponding adjacent two of permanent magnets fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the yoke housing. Each spacer axially contacts a corresponding contact part of the end housing. A lower ball bearing and an upper ball bearing are supported by the lower end housing and an upper end housing, respectively, to rotatably support a shaft. A wave washer is axially positioned between the lower ball bearing and the lower end housing to exert an urging force between the lower end housing and the upper end housing through the shaft. | 08-04-2011 |
20140009011 | DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINE - Engaging protrusions of a lower end housing are axially snap-fitted into through holes, respectively, of a yoke housing to couple therebetween. Each of spacers is circumferentially placed between and is press-fitted between corresponding adjacent two of permanent magnets fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the yoke housing. Each spacer axially contacts a corresponding contact part of the end housing. A lower ball bearing and an upper ball bearing are supported by the lower end housing and an upper end housing, respectively, to rotatably support a shaft. A wave washer is axially positioned between the lower ball bearing and the lower end housing to exert an urging force between the lower end housing and the upper end housing through the shaft. | 01-09-2014 |
20140042848 | BRUSHLESS MOTOR - A brushless motor is provided including: a rotor housing including a circular-cylinder-shaped bearing housing portion and an outer cylinder portion; a rotor magnet provided at an inner peripheral face of the outer cylinder portion; a bearing housed in the bearing housing portion and assembled to a motor shaft; a stator core including a ring-shaped core main body provided in the radial direction between the bearing housing portion and the rotor magnet and a ring-shaped wall portion formed in a ring-shape along an inner peripheral portion of the core main body, extending from the core main body inner peripheral portion towards the radial direction inside, and facing one opening of the bearing housing portion; and a center piece including a main body portion facing one opening of the outer cylinder portion, and a close contact portion closely contacting in the stator core axial direction with the ring-shaped wall portion. | 02-13-2014 |
20140339936 | ROTATING ELECTRICAL DEVICE - A rotating electrical device comprising a circuit section being disposed offset from a motor section to one side or another side, in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the motor section as viewed in the axial direction of the motor section; a stator configuring the motor section together with a rotor, the stator comprising a plurality of teeth formed in a radial shape and a plurality of windings that each includes a terminal-end portion that extends in the axial direction of the motor section, the plurality of windings being respectively wound on any of the plurality of teeth such that each of the terminal-end portions is disposed further to a side in the orthogonal direction from a central axis of the motor section where the circuit section is disposed; and a plurality of terminals that wire-in the circuit section and the terminal-end portions of the plurality of windings. | 11-20-2014 |
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20090011460 | Calcium-binding photoprotein, gene encoding the same, and use thereof - A protein according to the invention can be used to detect or measure calcium ions is provided. Further the protein is useful as a reporter protein or a luminescence marker. A polynucleotide according to the invention is also useful as a reporter gene. | 01-08-2009 |
20100203585 | Calcium-Binding Photoprotein, Gene Encoding the Same, and Use Thereof - A protein according to the invention can be used to detect or measure calcium ions is provided. Further the protein is useful as a reporter protein or a luminescence marker. A polynucleotide according to the invention is also useful as a reporter gene. | 08-12-2010 |
20100311051 | Calcium-binding photoprotein, gene encoding the same and use thereof - The invention provides calcium-binding photoproteins which can detect light emission with a higher sensitivity. The proteins of the invention comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 can be used for the detection and measurement of calcium ions. The proteins of the invention are useful as reporter proteins, luminescent markers, etc. The polynucleotides of the invention are useful as reporter genes, etc. | 12-09-2010 |
20110159529 | FUSION PROTEIN HAVING LUMINESCENCE ACTIVITY - The fusion protein comprising (1) a first region comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 18 and (2) a second region comprising an amino acid sequence for a polypeptide containing at least one cysteine residue for binding to other useful compound via the thiol group can be modified by chemical modification, and thus has a high catalytic ability for a luminescence activity and is highly available for general purposes. | 06-30-2011 |
20110244481 | COELENTERAZINE ANALOGUES AND COELENTERAMIDE ANALOGUES - Coelenterazine analogues with different luminescence properties from conventional ones and coelenteramide analogues with different fluorescence properties from conventional ones have been desired. The invention provides coelenterazine analogues modified at the 8-position of coelenterazine and coelenteramide analogues modified at the 2- or 3-position of coelenteramide. | 10-06-2011 |
20120258486 | CALCIUM-BINDING PHOTOPROTEIN, GENE ENCODING THE SAME, AND USE THEREOF - A protein according to the invention can be used to detect or measure calcium ions is provided. Further the protein is useful as a reporter protein or a luminescence marker. A polynucleotide according to the invention is also useful as a reporter gene. | 10-11-2012 |
20130143233 | FUSION PROTEIN HAVING LUMINESCENCE ACTIVITY - The fusion protein comprising (1) a first region comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 18 and (2) a second region comprising an amino acid sequence for a polypeptide containing at least one cysteine residue for binding to other useful compound via the thiol group can be modified by chemical modification, and thus has a high catalytic ability for a luminescence activity and is highly available for general purposes. | 06-06-2013 |
20130252256 | FUSION PROTEIN HAVING LUMINESCENCE ACTIVITY - The fusion protein comprising (1) a first region comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 18 and (2) a second region comprising an amino acid sequence for a polypeptide containing at least one cysteine residue for binding to other useful compound via the thiol group can be modified by chemical modification, and thus has a high catalytic ability for a luminescence activity and is highly available for general purposes. | 09-26-2013 |
20140120538 | COELENTERAZINE ANALOGUES AND COELENTERAMIDE ANALOGUES - Coelenterazine analogues with different luminescence properties from conventional ones and coelenteramide analogues with different fluorescence properties from conventional ones have been desired. The invention provides coelenterazine analogues modified at the 8-position of coelenterazine and coelenteramide analogues modified at the 2- or 3-position of coelenteramide. | 05-01-2014 |
20140316137 | COELENTERAZINE ANALOGUES AND COELENTERAMIDE ANALOGUES - Coelenterazine analogs with different luminescence properties from conventional ones and coelenteramide analogs with different fluorescence properties from conventional ones have been desired. The invention provides coelenterazine analogs modified at the 8-position of coelenterazine and coelenteramide analogs modified at the 2- or 3-position of coelenteramide. | 10-23-2014 |
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