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20110053912 | PYRIMIDINE COMPOUND - A novel and excellent method for preventing and/or treating diseases related to a cannabinoid type 2 receptor, based on an agonistic action on a cannabinoid type 2 receptor. It was found that a hetero ring derivative mainly having two substituents, for example, a pyrimidine-5-carboxamide derivative having a substituent amino group at the 2-position, exhibits a potent agonistic action on a cannabinoid type 2 receptor, and can be an agent for preventing and/or treating diseases related to a cannabinoid type 2 receptor such as inflammatory diseases, pain, and the like. | 03-03-2011 |
20110152268 | NOVEL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATING NOCICEPTIVE PAIN - The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating nociceptive pain, containing a morpholine derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as an active ingredient. The present invention is useful in providing an excellent pharmaceutical composition for treating nociceptive pain. In addition, the present invention is particularly useful in providing a pharmaceutical composition for treating pain accompanying a disease selected from the group consisting of rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid spondylitis, osteoarthritis, spondylosis deformans, gouty arthritis, juvenile arthritis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, and cervical syndrome, lumbago, lumbago accompanying spondylosis deformans, menalgia, pain and tumentia after inflammation, operation or injury, pain after odontectomy, and cancer pain. In addition, the present invention is particularly useful for alleviating pain in a damaged cartilage region, and is particularly useful for osteoarthritis in which NSAIDs are not effective. | 06-23-2011 |
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20140042914 | LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM AND LIGHTING CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a lighting control unit turns on luminaires corresponding to a presence area among four detection areas adjacent to one another in a predetermined direction and a crossing direction. If there is one presence area among the four detection areas, the lighting control unit relatively reduces the brightness of the luminaires corresponding to remaining three absence areas. If there are two presence areas among the four detection areas, the lighting control unit relatively reduces the brightness of the luminaires on a side adjacent to the presence areas among the luminaires corresponding to the remaining two absence areas and turns off the remaining other luminaires. If there are three presence areas among the four detection areas, the lighting control unit turns off the luminaires corresponding to the remaining one absence area. | 02-13-2014 |
20140042915 | LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM AND LIGHTING CONTROL METHOD - Plural luminaires are installed in a lighting space surrounded by a wall part. A sensor equipment detects existence or nonexistence of a person in the lighting space. If existence of a person in the lighting space is detected, the sensor equipment detects a direction of the person. The sensor equipment detects a distance between the wall part positioned in front of the direction of the person and the person. A lighting control unit selectively switches between a first control for performing lighting control of the luminaires to illuminate the wall part positioned in front of the direction of the person if the detected distance is a specified distance or less, and a second control for performing lighting control of the luminaires to reduce brightness at a place as the place becomes farther from a position of the person if the detected distance is larger than the specified distance. | 02-13-2014 |
20140300277 | LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM AND LIGHTING CONTROL METHOD - Plural luminaires are installed in a lighting space surrounded by a wall part. A sensor equipment detects existence or nonexistence of a person in the lighting space. If existence of a person in the lighting space is detected, the sensor equipment detects a direction of the person. The sensor equipment detects a distance between the wall part positioned in front of the direction of the person and the person. A lighting control unit selectively switches between a first control for performing lighting control of the luminaires to illuminate the wall part positioned in front of the direction of the person if the detected distance is a specified distance or less, and a second control for performing lighting control of the luminaires to reduce brightness at a place as the place becomes farther from a position of the person if the detected distance is larger than the specified distance. | 10-09-2014 |
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20130241439 | Lighting Control System, Lighting Control Method, and Storage Medium - A lighting control system includes a plurality of lighting fixtures for ambient lighting, a plurality of lighting fixtures for task lighting, and a smart phone of a worker. The smart phone can execute an application program which controls a corresponding lighting fixture for ambient lighting, and starts up the application program when an ON state of a lighting fixture for task lighting is detected. | 09-19-2013 |
20130249436 | Lighting Control System and Central Control Apparatus - A lighting control system includes a central control apparatus and plural luminaires. A light color of each of the plural luminaires can be changed and each of them is assigned to one of plural groups to which different light colors are assigned or is duplicately assigned to the plural groups. The central control apparatus includes a control part and an output part. The control part generates control signals for controlling the light colors of the plural luminaires and causes a light color of a luminaire overlapping with the plural groups or an adjacent luminaire to become an intermediate light color between the assigned light colors for the respective plural groups when the plural luminaires assigned to the plural groups are lit and controlled. The output part outputs the control signals generated by the control part to the plural luminaires. | 09-26-2013 |
20130271030 | Road Lamp System - According to one embodiment, a road lamp system includes a light-emitting section configured to irradiate light and an image pickup section. A power supply section operates as a driving power supply for the light-emitting section and performs power line communication with an external management apparatus. A road-lamp control section receives a control signal from the management apparatus via the power supply section and controls the light-emitting section on the basis of the control signal. A camera control section receives the control signal and determines, on the basis of image information transmitted from the image pickup section, whether a control operation instructed by the received control signal is executed. | 10-17-2013 |
20140339988 | Lighting Control System, Arrangement Registering Method, and Recording Medium Storing Arrangement Registering Program - According to one embodiment, there is provided a lighting control system including an integral control unit capable of a control; a mobile terminal which photographs a plurality of lighting apparatuses among a plurality of lighting apparatuses as a photographing range; and a control unit which performs a first process of obtaining an association between an image portion of the lighting apparatus in a photographed image and an arranging position on a layout drawing; a second process which obtains a correspondence between the lighting apparatuses which are sequentially turned on and the lighting apparatuses on the layout drawing; and a third process in which each address corresponding to the lighting apparatuses which are arranged on the layout drawing is caused to correspond with each ID information of the plurality of lighting apparatuses. | 11-20-2014 |
20140354188 | Remote Monitoring Systems - According to one embodiment, a remote monitoring system includes a remote apparatus to be remotely controlled according to a specified control signal, and a remote control apparatus to communicate with the remote apparatus by specified communication and to remotely control the remote apparatus, in which the remote apparatus includes a holding part to hold location information of a location where the remote apparatus is installed, a detection part to detect specified information, and a communication part which associates the specified information detected by the detection part with the location information held by the holding part and transmits the associated information to the remote control apparatus. | 12-04-2014 |
20150076991 | Lighting Control System, Lighting Control Method and Storage Medium - According to an embodiment, a lighting control system includes a smartphone and a lighting control device, and the smartphone includes an illuminance sensor and a wireless communication section. The lighting control device performs dimming control of a plurality of lighting apparatuses that respectively illuminate the plurality of areas, based on detected values of a plurality of areal illuminance sensors, which detect brightness of the plurality of areas, and performs calibration of the areal illuminance sensors, based on a detected value of the illuminance sensor of the smartphone, which is received in a wireless communication device. | 03-19-2015 |
20150084523 | Power Measurement System, Method of Synchronizing Power Measurement Device Information and Method of Displaying Consumed Power - A lighting system according to an embodiment includes a plurality of lighting devices, and a host device which controls the lighting devices. In addition, the lighting system collects information according to a place where the lighting system is installed. Then, the lighting system performs, according to the collected information, a gradation control which turns on lighting devices at a periphery area which are installed on the periphery of lighting devices at a central area that are instructed to be turned on at a degree of dimming which is lower than a degree of dimming of the lighting devices at the central area. | 03-26-2015 |
20150084545 | Lighting Control System - A lighting control system includes a plurality of luminaires and a control device ( | 03-26-2015 |
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20090244673 | Projection Image Display Apparatus - Disclosed is a projection image display apparatus to display an image by projecting a light from a light source to a screen including a scan mirror to scan the light from the light source by vibrating in a sine vibration manner at least in an one-dimensional direction and a correction lens which is disposed between the scan mirror and the screen and which corrects a deflection angle of the light scanned by the scan mirror at least in the one-dimensional direction, and the correction lens carries out a correction so that the larger a scan angle of the scan mirror is, the larger the deflection angle is to be by the correction. | 10-01-2009 |
20090262314 | Laser Projector - Disclosed in a laser projector to display an image by projecting a laser beam from a laser light source to a projection screen including an electromagnetic driven scan mirror to scan the laser beam from the laser light source, a detection unit to detect a back EMF which is generated by a drive of the electromagnetic driven scan mirror at a time of start-up of the laser projector, a first determination unit to determine whether a value of the back EMF which is detected by the detection unit exceeded a predetermined threshold or not and a light source control unit to start a lighting of the laser light source when the value of the back EMF is determined as exceeding the predetermined threshold by the determination unit. | 10-22-2009 |
20100253860 | Projector - A projector includes: a determination section to specify a reflection position of a reflected light received by a light receiving sensor based on a horizontal synchronizing signal and a pixel clock signal of an image signal, and to determine an amplification quantity of the intensity of a reflected light reflected at the specified reflection position to be received by the light receiving sensor; an amplification section to amplify the intensity of the reflected light received by the light receiving sensor by the determined amplification quantity; an identification section to identify an external obstacle when the intensity of the amplified reflected light exceeds a predetermined threshold value; and a calculation section to calculate the position information of the external obstacle based on the timing of identifying the external obstacle, the horizontal synchronizing signal, and the pixel clock signal of the image signal. | 10-07-2010 |
20110051210 | Laser Projector - A laser projector including a laser light source, a scan unit to scan the laser beam, a scan signal generation unit to generate a pulse signal, a drive unit to drive the scan unit and a pulse pattern adjustment unit to adjust a pulse pattern, wherein the pulse pattern adjustment unit adjusts the pulse pattern to a first pulse pattern for adjusting the swing amount from a first swing amount to a second swing amount in a projection interval, adjusts the pulse pattern to a second pulse pattern for adjusting the swing amount from the second swing amount back to the first swing amount in a first-stage interval in a non-projection interval, and adjusts the pulse pattern to a third pulse pattern for keeping the swing amount at the first swing amount in a second-stage interval in the non-projection interval until a scan position returns to the projection interval. | 03-03-2011 |
20110069363 | Laser Projector - A laser projector can generate a pulse signal capable of being generated according to the resolution of the clock signal, the pulse signal having a basic period and a basic pulse width each infinitely approximated to the characteristics of the resonance frequency. Moreover, because the laser projector can generate a pulse signal capable of correcting the errors led to be included in the approximated pulse signal, the laser projector can drive the scanning section with a horizontal vibration width corresponding to the resonance frequency, and can suitably display a projected image on a projection plane. | 03-24-2011 |
20110102751 | Projector - This projector includes a laser beam emitting portion emitting a laser beam and a projecting portion projecting an image on an arbitrary projection region by scanning the projection region with the laser beam. This projector further includes a control portion controlling the laser beam emitting portion not to emit the laser beam by stopping supplying current to the laser beam emitting portion in a previously set partial scanning section within a scanning section for the laser beam. | 05-05-2011 |
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20080246766 | NUMERICAL ANALYSIS MESH GENERATING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The triangular mesh generating portion divides the surface of geometry model to be meshed in a meshed manner according to a target element dimension and generates a triangular mesh on the surface of geometry model. The regular mesh generating portion assumes a shaped parallelpiped enclosing the shape to be meshed. The parallelpiped is divided in a meshed manner by the hexahedral element whose distance between the nodes has the substantially same density as the triangular mesh on the surface. The resulting regular mesh located inside the triangular mesh on the surface of geometry model is divided into a tetrahedral meshed manner. The shell meshing area extracting portion extracts a shell-like space between the inner tetrahedral mesh and the triangular mesh on the surface of geometry model. The shell mesh generating portion generates the tetrahedral mesh in the overall shape to be meshed. | 10-09-2008 |
20080303817 | Analyzing mesh generating apparatus - An analyzing mesh generating apparatus has a model read unit for reading data, a required quality and shape data of an input hexahedral mesh model, a display unit for displaying said hexahedral mesh model, and a mesh element number reduction unit for reducing the number of mesh elements in the data. The analyzing mesh generating apparatus has also a mesh quality evaluation unit for evaluating a mesh quality regarding whether mesh element reduction is performed while maintaining the required quality data, and a mesh fine division unit for performing mesh fine division to change meshes to coarse/dense meshes, relative to the hexahedral mesh model with the reduced number of mesh elements in the data. | 12-11-2008 |
20090112529 | ANALYSIS MODEL GENERATION SYSTEM - An analysis model generation system, for generating an analysis model of an analysis target, by correcting a distortion configuration owned by a configuration mesh data, which is generated by changing configuration of the analysis target, being made up with hexahedrons, into meshes, comprises a mesh data read-in portion | 04-30-2009 |
20090262110 | GEOMETRIC MODELING SYSTEM AND OPTIMIZATION METHOD FOR GEOMETRIC FITTING - A system is provided for creating a modified analytical model from an existing analytical model and CAD data (geometric model data) of the modified model to reduce the workload in creating geometric and analytical models. The system includes means for reading a geometric model and an analytical model which are to be modified; means for storing correlation data showing relations between geometric elements of the object geometric model and nodes of the object analytical model; means for modifying the object analytical model to create a modified analytical model; and means for extracting geometric elements of the object geometric model which do not include the nodes in the modified object analytical model related to the object geometric model's geometric elements extracted from the correlation data and performing geometric fitting so as to fit the extracted geometric elements to the nodes to create a modified object geometric model from the modified analytical model. | 10-22-2009 |
20100138195 | ANALYSIS MESH GENERATION APPARATUS - The conventional technologies are impractical for the following reason. CAD has been the only solution for changing an analysis model with adding or deleting a fillet. In this case, it is necessary to repeat the mesh generation and condition configuration, which makes the work time longer especially for large-scale or complicated shape data. The present invention, accomplished to solve the above-mentioned problem, provides an analysis mesh generation apparatus including a computer for generating a mesh model. The apparatus is configured to create a screen for selecting an edge of a mesh model and entering a radius of a fillet to be applied to the selected edge; and to create a screen for generating a mesh for the applied fillet, generating a new mesh model by deleting or adding an area enclosed by a contour of the mesh model and the fillet, and displaying the new mesh model. | 06-03-2010 |
20100286809 | ANALYTICAL MODEL GENERATING APPARATUS - An analytical model generating-apparatus including: an input portion which inputs CAD data describing at least a first part and a second part, face-to-face angle threshold data, face-to-face distance threshold data, and leg length data of a welding bead; a CAD data reading-portion; a welding bead retrieving-portion comparing an angle between the first part and the second part with the face-to-face angle threshold data so as to retrieve a place where the welding bead should be produced; a clearance checking-portion comparing a distance between the first part and the second part with the face-to-face distance threshold data; a virtual shape creating-portion creating a virtual shape in the clearance between the first part and the second part; a welding bead producing-portion producing the welding bead in the virtual shape based on the leg length data of the welding bead; and a CAD data saving-portion saving CAD data including the produced welding bead. | 11-11-2010 |
20130226530 | MESH GENERATION SYSTEM - Generation of a mesh model that can be analyzed with sufficient analysis accuracy for result evaluation and within a minimum possible calculation time even if a user does not grasp a tradeoff relation between analysis accuracy and analysis time due to mesh size is made possible. A mesh generation system designates an evaluation point (site) on an analysis target shape, analyzes plural analysis model data created with plural types of mesh size, stores a relation among mesh size, analysis result and calculation time in a mesh know-how DB, search for a mesh size which meets a required accuracy and calculation time limit, sets the mesh size that is found by the search to an analysis model. And displays the relation among mesh size, analysis result and calculation time. | 08-29-2013 |
20130321415 | Analytical Model Information Delivery Device and Analytical Model Information Delivery Program - Using this analytical model information delivery device, it is possible to quickly create analytical models even when the designer and the analyst are different people. This analytical model information delivery device is provided in a device for creating numerical models from CAD data. A shape search unit searches the components making up the CAD data and extracts features, and matches the extracted features with shape creation rules pre-registered in an analytical modeling means database. Further, when modifying a three-dimensional CAD model using the shape creation rules, an input result display unit highlights the modification area of the three-dimensional CAD model modified in accordance with the shape creation rules. A model conversion unit creates a numerical model from the modified three-dimensional CAD model. A shape processing unit further interactively modifies the modified area of the numerical model displayed by a modeling area display unit. | 12-05-2013 |
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20110026968 | COLOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING MEMBER AND PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER CARTRIDGE - A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes: a drum cartridge, detachably mountable to the apparatus main assembly, for holding a drum; developing cartridges, each including a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the drum, demountable from the cartridge; a main assembly guide for guiding the cartridge from the main assembly; a drum cartridge guide for guiding the developing devices independently demountably from the cartridge; and a drum cartridge preventor for preventing movement of the cartridge. When the developing cartridge is demounted while drum cartridge is mounted in the main assembly, the preventor is movable between a first position preventing the cartridge from moving in a demounting direction and a second position permitting such movement. The apparatus includes a grip for facilitating demounting of the drum cartridge by facilitating a change of the preventor's position from the first position to the second position. | 02-03-2011 |
20120076538 | PHOTOSENSITIVE DRUM AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A photosensitive drum for use with an image forming apparatus includes a cylinder, having a photosensitive layer at its surface, to which process means is contacted; and a flange provided at a longitudinal end portion of the cylinder. The flange includes a supporting portion supporting an inner peripheral portion of the cylinder, a portion to be supported inside the cylinder by a supporting shaft for supporting the photosensitive drum, and a clearance portion which is provided in a region closer to a longitudinal end of the cylinder than the portion to be supported and which is out of contact with the supporting shaft. The portion to be supported is provided at a position that overlaps with the supporting portion with respect to a longitudinal direction of the cylinder as seen in a diameter direction of the cylinder. The clearance portion extends from the contact area to an area outside the contact area. | 03-29-2012 |
20140126930 | PHOTOSENSITIVE DRUM AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A photosensitive drum, for use with an image forming apparatus, includes a cylinder, which has a photosensitive layer at its surface, to which a processing unit is contacted, and a flange provided at its longitudinal end portion. The flange includes a portion to be supported inside the cylinder by a supporting shaft supporting the photosensitive drum, and a supporting portion for supporting an inner peripheral portion of the cylinder in a contact area in which the processing unit contacts the cylinder. The supporting portion is placed in a state in which the supporting portion supports the inner peripheral portion of the cylinder by supporting the photosensitive drum by the supporting shaft. | 05-08-2014 |
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20130060740 | DATA MANAGING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM OF PROGRAM, AND SEARCHING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM OF PROGRAM - A data management apparatus includes a storage device; and a processor that executes a procedure, the procedure including selecting a data group, each data in the data group including one of a plurality of tags, among a plurality of data, compressing the data group into a compressed data group, and storing the compressed data group in the storage device, the stored compressed data group being associated with tagging information which indicates that each data of the data group includes the certain tag. | 03-07-2013 |
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20150220306 | CALCULATION PROGRAM, CALCULATION DEVICE, AND CALCULATION METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a calculation program causing a computer to execute a process includes: dividing each of subtracted value data and subtraction value data into a plurality pieces of data in a byte; comparing sizes of each of the divided pieces of subtracted value data and each of the divided pieces of subtraction value data, which have a corresponding digit position; adding carry-down value data that is obtained from digit information of each of the divided pieces of subtracted value data, to the divided corresponding piece of subtracted value data, in accordance with a comparison result; and subtracting each of the divided pieces of subtraction value data, from the divided piece of subtracted value data, to which the carry-down value data is add, and which has the corresponding digit position. | 08-06-2015 |
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20080238257 | MEMS DEVICE AND PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL WITH SAID MEMS DEVICE - It is made possible to provide a MEMS device that has a low operation voltage, a large contact pressure force, and a large separation force. A MEMS device includes: a substrate; a supporting unit that is provided on the substrate; a fixed electrode that is provided on the substrate; an actuator that includes a first electrode, a first piezoelectric film formed on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the first piezoelectric film, one end of the actuator being fixed onto the substrate with the supporting unit, the actuator extending in a direction connecting the supporting unit and the fixed electrode, the first electrode being located to face the fixed electrode; and a stopper unit that is located above a straight line connecting the supporting unit and the fixed electrode, and is located on the substrate so as to face the first electrode. | 10-02-2008 |
20080317081 | SURFACE EMITTING TYPE OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - It makes possible to inject a current into the current confinement region substantially uniformly. A surface emitting type optical semiconductor device includes a semiconductor active layer provided above a substrate; a first and second reflecting mirror layers sandwiching the semiconductor active layer to form an optical cavity in a direction perpendicular to the substrate; a plurality of current confinement regions provided in the second reflecting mirror layer so as to be separated by an impurity region having impurities; a semiconductor current diffusion layer provided on the second reflecting mirror layer so as to cover the current confinement regions; and an electrode portion which injects a current into the semiconductor active layer. The electrode portion comprising a first electrode provided on the semiconductor current diffusion layer so as to surround the current confinement regions and a second electrode provided on an opposite side of the substrate from the semiconductor active layer. | 12-25-2008 |
20090051251 | PIEZOELECTRIC DRIVEN MEMS APPARATUS AND PORTABLE TERMINAL - A piezoelectric driven MEMS apparatus includes: a substrate; a support part provided on the substrate; a fixed electrode provided on the substrate; and an actuator having a first electrode film, a piezoelectric film formed on the first electrode film, and a second electrode film formed on the piezoelectric film, a first end of the actuator being supported by the support part, a second end of the actuator being disposed so as to be opposed to the fixed electrode. The second end of the actuator is divided into a plurality of electrode parts by a plurality of slits which pass through the first electrode film, the piezoelectric film and the second electrode film, at least a part of each electrode part is linked to parts of adjacent electrode parts, and each electrode part is capable of generating bending deformation individually. | 02-26-2009 |
20100064804 | MULTIAXIAL ACCELERATION SENSOR AND ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR - In a angular rate sensor, a weight and a base are connected directly through piezoelectric bimorph detectors and piezoelectric bimorph exciters each having a bent portion. When acceleration is applied to the weight, the weight is displaced so as to deform the piezoelectric bimorph detectors. Due to this deformation, charges generated in the piezoelectric bimorph detectors are detected so as to detect acceleration. If an angular rate is applied to the weight when the weight is vibrated by the piezoelectric bimorph exciters, Coriolis force is generated in the weight so as to deform the piezoelectric bimorph detectors. Due to this deformation, charges generated in the piezoelectric bimorph detectors are detected so as to detect the angular rate. | 03-18-2010 |
20120243835 | OPTICAL COUPLING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, an optical coupling element comprises an optical waveguide, a ferrule provided with a holding hole which holds the optical waveguide, electrical read frame formed on the element mounting surface of the ferrule, an optical semiconductor element which is mounted on the element mounting surface of the ferrule and connected to the electrical read frame, and a transparent adhesive which fills the gap between the optical semiconductor element and the optical waveguide. At least one side of the optical semiconductor element partially falls within a region obtained by extending the holding hole in the ferrule toward the optical semiconductor element. | 09-27-2012 |
20120275742 | OPTICALLY-COUPLED DEVICE AND METHOD OF FIXING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, an optically-coupled device includes a substrate and an optical fiber. The substrate is inclined from a first direction has a first width including a first surface optical device. The optical fiber is arranged in a second direction An end face has a second angle with respect to the first direction and has a radius of a second length. An outer edge of the end face of the optical fiber is it chamfered. A difference between the first angle and the second angle is not smaller than the difference with which the first surface optical device is protected from the end face of the optical fiber. | 11-01-2012 |
20130064511 | OPTICAL MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, an optical module includes an optical fiber, a ferrule which has a guide hole, a planar photonic device which is mounted on the ferrule, and a sleeve which includes a holding part for holding the optical fiber and a bumping part for making contact with one end of the ferrule and to which the optical fiber and the ferrule are fixed. The optical fiber is fixed to the sleeve in such a manner that the optical fiber protrudes from one end of the sleeve and has an end face formed using one end of the sleeve as a reference. The optical fiber with the formed end face is inserted in the guide hole in the ferrule and the ferrule is fixed to the sleeve with one end of the ferrule in contact with the bumping part of the sleeve. | 03-14-2013 |
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20090023856 | ADHESIVE COMPOSITION - The invention provides an adhesive composition including a specific phosphate group-containing monomer (a) having a fluorocarbon group, and a solvent (b). | 01-22-2009 |
20100036075 | POLYMERIZABLE MONOMER-CONTAINING COMPOSITION - The present invention provides a composition suitable for a dental composition. The present invention is a composition containing: a polymerizable monomer (A) having an unconjugated carbon chain with at least four carbon atoms bonded continuously, at least two polymerizable groups, and at least two hydroxyl groups; and a polymerizable monomer (B) having one polymerizable group and at least one hydroxyl group. When a suitable component is added to this composition, the resultant composition can be used suitably for dental materials such as a primer, bonding material, composite resin, and cement. | 02-11-2010 |
20100048762 | COMPOSITION AND DENTAL MATERIAL - The present invention provides a composition that exhibits excellent adhesive properties to tooth structure (particularly dentin) when applied as a dental material. The present invention is a composition containing a polymerizable monomer (A) having an unconjugated carbon chain with at least four carbon atoms bonded continuously, at least two polymerizable groups, and at least two hydroxyl groups, and a bisacylphosphine oxide (B) represented by the following formula (1): | 02-25-2010 |
20100130682 | POLYMERIZABLE MONOMER, POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION, AND DENTAL MATERIAL - The present invention provides a polymerizable composition that exhibits excellent adhesive properties to a tooth structure (particularly dentin) when applied as a dental material, and a polymerizable monomer that is used as a component of the polymerizable composition. The present invention is a polymerizable monomer (A) that is a compound having at least two polymerizable groups. The polymerizable monomer (A) has a retention time of 7 minutes to 30 minutes in a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) measurement conducted under a condition in which a column with an inner diameter of 3.9 mm and a length of 300 mm, packed with a C18 packing material having been crushed to have an average particle size of 10 μm and a pore size of 125 angstroms, is used, an eluent is a mixed solvent of methanol and water contained at a ratio of 3:7, a flow rate is 1.0 mL/minute, a measurement temperature is 50° C., a sample injection volume is 10 μL, and a dead volume from a sample inlet to a detection point excluding the column is 87 μL. The present invention also is a composition containing the polymerizable monomer (A). | 05-27-2010 |
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20100071448 | Engine Misfire Detection Apparatus, Hybrid Vehicle Equipped With the Same, and Engine Misfire Detection Method - At a Lo gear position of a transmission, the engine misfire detection process of the invention sets a first threshold value A | 03-25-2010 |
20110071748 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR AN ENGINE - In an engine having a variable valve timing mechanism to which an intermittent operation control is applied, appropriate execution of a foreign object removal process for the variable valve timing mechanism is enabled. An engine control device ( | 03-24-2011 |
20110077840 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE SYSTEM, FUEL INJECTION CONTROL METHOD OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, AND VEHICLE - The function determination of the air-fuel ratio sensor, including determination whether there occurs the rich-lean abnormality that is an abnormality where the air-fuel ratio sensor becomes less responsive to a change in the air-fuel ratio of the engine from the rich air-fuel ratio to the lean air-fuel ratio, is performed. When the engine is started up with motoring by the motor while the rich-lean abnormality flag F | 03-31-2011 |
20110174282 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE SYSTEM, METHOD OF DETERMINING OCCURRENCE OF AIR-FUEL RATIO IMBALANCE THEREIN, AND VEHICLE - When an engine is in a predetermined steady operating state, a gradient accumulation average value ΔAulsa corresponding to the amount of change in the air-fuel ratio AF, detected by an air-fuel ratio sensor, over the period of time from when an upper peak is reached, at which the direction of change in the air-fuel ratio AF is inverted to when a lower peak is reached, at which the subsequent inversion of the direction occurs, is calculated (S | 07-21-2011 |
20110192146 | MULTICYLINDER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, INTER-CYLINDER AIR/FUEL RATIO IMBALANCE DETERMINATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD THEREFOR - A multicylinder engine includes: combustion chambers; fuel injection valves corresponding to the individual combustion chambers; an exhaust control catalyst; an upstream-side air/fuel ratio sensor disposed upstream of the exhaust control catalyst; and a downstream-side A/F sensor disposed downstream of the catalyst. A first abnormality determination-purpose rich A/F control of controlling the A/F of the mixture formed in each combustion chamber to an A/F richer than stoichiometric is executed when it needs to be determined whether the downstream-side A/F sensor is abnormal. An inter-cylinder A/F imbalance determination of estimating the A/F of the mixture in each combustion chamber based on the output of the upstream-side A/F sensor is executed when the first abnormality determination-purpose rich A/F control is being executed, and it is determined whether there is a difference between the estimated A/Fs of the mixtures. | 08-11-2011 |
20120085157 | MALFUNCTION DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND MALFUNCTION DETERMINATION METHOD - A malfunction determination apparatus for a cooling apparatus that cools an internal combustion engine by circulating a coolant through an interior of the internal combustion engine, using an electric pump, after the internal combustion engine is started includes: a detection portion that detects the coolant temperature; and a determination portion that determines a malfunction has occurred in a thermostat, if a state in which the detected coolant temperature remains below a first threshold temperature after the electric pump begins operating, following start of the internal combustion engine, continues for at least a pre-determined time. The thermostat is a thermostat for switching from a first passage for circulating the coolant without passage via an interior of a radiator of the cooling apparatus to a second passage for circulating the coolant via the interior of the radiator, as the coolant temperature rises. | 04-12-2012 |
20120240669 | ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION METHOD FOR MULTI-CYLINDER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An abnormality determination apparatus for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine equipped with a duel-injection system that has two fuel systems for injecting and supplying fuel to each of cylinders, which determines whether there is an abnormal variation in air-fuel ratio among the cylinders, includes: an abnormal variation determining unit that determines whether there is an abnormal variation in a period during which fuel is separately injected by both the two fuel systems; and an abnormality estimating unit that estimates which one of the fuel systems has an abnormality on the basis of a fuel injection distribution ratio of both the fuel systems in the period. | 09-27-2012 |
20130297180 | VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE - A vehicle includes an engine, a first MG (motor generator), a second MG, a motive power split device, and an ECU. ECU temporarily determines whether or not an imbalance abnormality has occurred based on an air-fuel ratio, and when it is temporarily determined that the imbalance abnormality is present, controls the engine such that the engine is in an idle state and formally determines whether or not the imbalance abnormality has occurred based on fluctuations in engine rotation speed. During a stop at idle, ECU determines whether or not the formal determination process of the imbalance determination is ongoing and carries out pressing control to cause the first MG to generate pressing torque Tp when the formal determination process is not ongoing and does not carry out the pressing control so as not to cause the first MG to generate pressing torque Tp when the formal determination process is ongoing. | 11-07-2013 |
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20100180690 | ELECTRIC PART PROTECTION MEMBER AND ASSEMBLING METHOD THEREFOR - An electric part protection member for a projecting contact terminal which projects from a supporting portion of an electric part, includes a bottomed cylindrical cap portion, adapted to be detachably placed over the supporting portion, wherein: the cap portion is formed of a conductive member; and when the cap portion is placed over the supporting portion, the cap portion is electrically connected to a housing of the electric part, and the contact terminals are spaced apart from the cap portion. | 07-22-2010 |
20150183428 | VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a vehicle behavior control system. The vehicle behavior control system includes a steering angle obtaining module, a steering angular velocity obtaining module, a vehicle speed obtaining module, a standard yaw rate calculation module, a limit yaw rate setting module and a behavior stabilization control module. The behavior stabilization control module executes a behavior stabilization control so as to stabilize a behavior of the vehicle by giving a braking force to a turning outer wheel of the vehicle based on a target braking force. The behavior stabilization control module sets a control intervention threshold based on the limit yaw rate and the steering angular velocity, and determines that the behavior stabilization control is to be started in case the standard yaw rate exceeds the control intervention threshold. | 07-02-2015 |
20150217736 | VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a vehicle behavior control system. The vehicle behavior control system includes a behavior stabilization control module that is configured to execute a behavior stabilization control so as to stabilize a behavior of a vehicle by giving a braking force to a turning outer wheel of the vehicle based on a target braking force. The behavior stabilization control module has a target braking force setting section that sets the target braking force. The target braking force is set so as to be smaller for a second turn than for a first turn. | 08-06-2015 |
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20090128691 | Signal Processing Device, and Image Output Device - In a case of changing the resolution of the synthesized image signal obtained by synthesizing the first image signal and a second image signal, identification information for identifying whether or not the character signal is contained is added to the synthesized image signal based on presence/absence of the character signal, by a character signal creating unit and a character signal synthesizing unit. Then, based on the identification information, a resolution changing unit separates the synthesized image signal into a third image signal containing a component of the character signal and a fourth image signal containing no component of the character signal, changes the resolutions of the third image signal and the fourth image signal, and synthesizes the third image signal and the fourth image signal with the resolutions changed, based on the identification information. | 05-21-2009 |
20100045802 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE REPRODUCING DEVICE, IMAGE PRINTING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, IMAGE CORRECTING METHOD FOR IMAGE REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND IMAGE CORRECTING METHOD FOR IMAGE PRINTING DEVICE - Conventionally, there have been a problem that when an imaging device performs aberration correction by itself, the imaging device has to have high processing ability and a large storage capacity and a problem that since the object subjected to aberration correction is image data read from an analog film by means of a scanner or the like, a region on an analog film from which the gray scale is lost is corrected as the gray scale is lost. To solve the problems, the present invention provides an imaging device in which the image captured by a digital imaging device and information for aberration correction embedded in the image as tag data of the Exif format are transmitted to an image reproducing device and aberration correction is performed in the image reproducing device. Specifically, the imaging device comprises an imaging section for capturing an image, a holding section for holding aberration information representing the aberrations of the lens of the imaging section, and a transmitting section for transmitting the held aberration information to the captured image reproducing device. | 02-25-2010 |
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20140086648 | Fixing Device - A fixing device configured to thermally fix a developing agent image to a recording sheet includes a fixing belt having a tubular shape defining an inner space, a heat generating member and a nip plate which are disposed in the inner space, and a rotating member disposed outside the inner space. The nip plate includes a plate-shaped portion holding the fixing belt against the rotating member, and a bent portion located downstream of the plate-shaped portion in a conveying direction of the recording sheet and bent to define a recess facing away from the rotating member. The bent portion protrudes farther away from the heat generating member than the plate-shaped member. A temperature sensor for sensing a temperature of the nip plate is fitted in the recess of the bent portion so as not to be displaced in the conveying direction. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086649 | Fixing Device - A fixing device configured to thermally fix a developing agent image to a recording sheet includes a fixing belt having a tubular shape defining an inner space, a heat generating member, a nip member, and a stay which are disposed in the inner space of the fixing belt, and a rotating member disposed outside the inner space of the fixing belt. The fixing belt is nipped between the nip plate and the rotating member. The stay comprises a first receiving portion and a second receiving portion which are positioned upstream and downstream of the heat generating member, respectively, in a conveying direction of the recording sheet and are configured to receive a force exerted from the rotating member to the nip member. The heat insulator is disposed between the nip member and one of the first receiving portion and the second receiving portion of the stay. | 03-27-2014 |
20140294462 | Fixing Device Provided with Reinforced Nip Member - A fixing device may include a metal plate, an endless belt, a rotating body, and a stay. The metal plate may have a main part comprising a first end portion, a second end portion, and a center portion positioned therebetween and having rigidity higher than that of the first end portion and the second end portion. The endless belt may have an inner peripheral surface configured to be in sliding contact with the metal plate. The main part may be aligned with the rotating body in a direction from the metal plate to the rotating body. The stay may be disposed opposite to the nip region with respect to the metal plate. The stay and the main part of the metal plate may be deformable upon application of the load to the stay such that the main part may provide a convex shape protruding toward the rotating body. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294463 | Fixing Device Provided with Rotating Member Having Concave Shape - The present invention provides a fixing device that may include a nip member, a rotating body and an endless belt. The endless belt may be in sliding contact with the nip member. The rotating body may constitute a nip region. The nip region may define a first, second and third imaginary planes. The first imaginary plane may be perpendicular to the sliding direction. The second imaginary plane may be perpendicular to the axial direction of the rotating body and may contain a first end portion of the nip region. The third imaginary plane may contain a second end portion of the nip region. The first surface may be a convex shape in a first cross-section along the first imaginary plane, and may be concave shape concaved in a direction opposite to the rotating body in second and third cross-sections along the second and third imaginary planes. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294464 | Fixing Device Provided with Stay Having Rigidity Distribution - A fixing device may include a nip member, an endless belt, a rotating body, and a stay. The endless belt may be in sliding contact with the nip member. The rotating body may nip the endless belt to constitute a nip region. The stay may be disposed opposite to the nip region, and may receive a pressure from the nip member. A pressure direction may be defined as a first direction. The rotating body may define an axial direction as a second direction. The stay may have a first wall. The first wall may include a center portion, a first end portion, a second end portion and a supporting portion. The first end portion may include a first low rigidity portion. The second end portion may include a second low rigidity portion. The supporting portion may provide a convex shape protruding toward the nip member upon receiving the pressure. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294465 | Fixing Device Fixing Transferred Developing Agent Image to Sheet - The present invention provides a fixing device that may include a nip member, an endless belt, a rotating member and a stay. The stay may have a first supporting face. The first supporting face may have a first downstream edge. The first downstream edge may have a first portion, a third portion, and a second portion. The second portion may be positioned between the first portion and the third portion. The second supporting face may have a second downstream edge. The second downstream edge may have a fourth portion, a sixth portion, and a fifth portion. The second portion and the fifth portion may define a first distance. The first portion and the fourth portion may define a second distance. The third portion and the sixth portion may define a third distance. The second distance and the third distance may be longer than the first distance. | 10-02-2014 |