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20090160311 | Light-emitting device, power feeding device, and power feeding method - An EL light-emitting device includes an insulating board, to which an EL light-emitting sheet is fixed on a front surface of the insulating board for allowing penetration, an output terminal disposed on a back surface of the insulating board, which exhibits conductivity and allows penetration, a drive circuit connected to the output terminal, and a conductive member with a pointed portion which fixes the EL light-emitting sheet to the front surface of the insulating board, and conducts the electrode of the EL light-emitting sheet and the output terminal by penetrating the electrode of the EL light-emitting sheet and the output terminal. The force for fixing a sheet EL element is sufficiently strong such that plural sheet EL elements are attached through simple installation work. | 06-25-2009 |
20100103558 | Magnetic tape library device - The magnetic tape library device is configured, including: a front magazine and a rear magazine for housing a large number of magnetic tape cartridges; a device main body in which the both magazines are housed in a parallel state in a freely slidable manner; an accessor mechanism for transporting the cartridge taken out from the magazines; and a magnetic tape drive which loads the magnetic tape cartridge and reads/writes data. A magazine pullout mechanism for pulling out the rear magazine and a magazine extracting mechanism for extracting the rear magazine from the device main body are provided. | 04-29-2010 |
20100270186 | MAGNETIC TAPE LIBRARY DEVICE - To provide a magnetic tape library device with which a plurality of housed magazines can be extracted safely from the device with the same operation, while the device is made to be simple. The magnetic tape library device includes: a plurality of magazines for housing a plurality of magnetic tape cartridges inside thereof; a device main body for housing the magazines within a same plane in a freely movable manner and in series in an inserting/extracting direction from an inserting/extracting slot; a connecting mechanism for enabling the plurality of magazines to be connected with each other or to be released by a releasing operation from outside; and a locking mechanism for enabling at least the magazine on the back side of the inserting/extracting direction of the device main body, among the plurality of magazines, to be locked or to be released from the locked state at the inserting/extracting slot side. | 10-28-2010 |
20110179615 | MOVING BODY SEPARATING DEVICE - The moving body separating device includes a separating device main body, which separates an upstream-side moving body disposed on a base plate to be movable in a straight-line direction and a downstream-side moving body connected to the upstream-side moving body on the base plate at a prescribed separating point when moving to a downstream side. The separating device main body includes a rotary body for pushing out the downstream-side moving body towards the downstream side through a rotary action, a supporting shaft held by the upstream-side moving body for supporting the rotary body to be freely rotatable, and an original-position returning spring held by the supporting shaft for returning the rotary body to an original position. A protrusion member which applies a rotary pressure force to the rotary body is fixed at a prescribed separating point on the base plate by corresponding to one end part of the rotary body. | 07-28-2011 |
20110194386 | LIBRARY APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM EXCHANGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM EXCHANGING METHOD - A storage medium exchanging device to discharge a movable cell, which is one of plural magazine cells for storing a storage medium inserted from a doorway, and to store the movable cell, include a carrying part on which the movable cell is mounted; and a wrong insertion preventing part which generates discharging force to make the carrying part discharged from the magazine and blocks at least a part of non-doorway of the discharged movable cell. | 08-11-2011 |
20120207539 | CARTRIDGE MISINSERTION PREVENTING MECHANISM AND MAGNETIC TAPE LIBRARY DEVICE CELL - Provided are: a first entry preventing nail that interferes with a cartridge at a position closer to an insertion/extraction port than an insertion completed position of an insertion-side end face of the cartridge inserted first; a second entry preventing nail at a position with a space from the first entry preventing nail slightly longer than length of the cartridge, which allows entry of the cartridge and retreat of the first entry preventing nail at that position when a tapered face of the cartridge is at that position while preventing the entry of the cartridge and retreat of the first entry preventing nail at that position when the tapered face of the cartridge is not at that position; and a linkage module which allows advancing and retreating actions of the first and second entry preventing nails in a tradeoff relation. | 08-16-2012 |
20140160912 | LOCKING MECHANISM AND LIBRARY APPARATUS - Disclosed is a locking mechanism which can perform the reduction of non-actual working hours of the library apparatus. | 06-12-2014 |
20150085396 | LINE-SHAPED MATERIAL CONVEYANCE MECHANISM, LINE-SHAPED MATERIAL CONVEYANCE METHOD, AND TAPE CONVEYANCE MECHANISM - A line-shaped material conveyance mechanism includes first and second support members, a guide groove, a first rotary arm, and a second rotary arm. One end of the first rotary arm is pivotally supported near the guide groove by a first rotary shaft. The other end of the first rotary arm connects one end of the second rotary arm in a state that can be rotated. A third support member is disposed on the other end of the second rotary arm. The third support member is guided and moves along the guide groove by rotating the first rotary arm around the first rotary shaft. | 03-26-2015 |
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20110085785 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor having a focus detection pixel group including a plurality of focus detection pixels that receive light passing through a part of a pupil area of an imaging lens for forming an object image and an image forming pixel group including a plurality of image forming pixels that receive light passing through the whole of the pupil area of the imaging lens; and an image processing unit that generates an image signal corresponding to the position of each of the focus detection pixels by using at least either of a signal of the focus detection pixel at the position and signals of neighboring image forming pixels of the focus detection pixel at the position, depending on the size of an aperture of the focus detection pixels. | 04-14-2011 |
20130164011 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer member disposed facing the image bearing member to form a transfer region therebetween, a transfer bias application device to apply to the transfer region a transfer bias including a direct current (DC) component and an alternating current (AC) component to transfer the toner image onto the recording medium as the recording medium passes through the transfer region, and a controller operatively connected to the transfer bias application device to allow, during a bias change period in a sheet absent period in which the image bearing member rotates and no recording medium passes through the transfer region, the transfer bias application device to selectively apply to the transfer region one of the transfer bias without the AC component and the transfer bias with a peak-to-peak voltage of the AC component less than that applied in image formation. | 06-27-2013 |
20130177329 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries an electrostatic latent image; a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image using a toner; an intermediate transfer body onto which toner image is transferred; a secondary transfer member that comes in contact with a surface of the intermediate transfer body; a power supply that outputs a voltage for transferring the toner image on the intermediate transfer body onto a recording member; and a protective agent supply unit that applies a protective agent including zinc stearate and boron nitride onto a surface of the image carrier. The voltage is alternatively switched in a transfer direction and an opposite direction. The voltage in the transfer direction enables transfer of the toner image from the intermediate transfer body to the recording member, and the voltage in the opposite direction has polarity opposite to polarity of the voltage in the transfer direction. | 07-11-2013 |
20130195483 | TRANSFER DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A transfer device includes a transfer bias power source, a switching device, and a sheet dependent condition setting device. The transfer bias power source applies to a transfer member, based on sheet dependent conditions for a recording medium onto which a toner image is transferred, one of a DC transfer bias and a superimposed transfer bias including an alternating current (AC) component superimposed on a DC component. The switching device switches a transfer mode between a DC transfer mode in which the DC transfer bias is applied to the transfer device and a superimposed-bias transfer mode in which the superimposed transfer bias is applied to the transfer device. The sheet dependent condition setting device sets arbitrarily at least one of the sheet dependent conditions for the recording medium at the superimposed-bias transfer mode. The sheet dependent conditions include a DC component value and an AC component value. | 08-01-2013 |
20130236201 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a toner forced consumption control unit that performs toner forced consumption control in which toner in a developing unit is forcibly consumed when a certain condition to perform the toner forced consumption control is met. The certain condition to perform the toner forced consumption control includes a specific performance condition that a transfer bias switching condition to switch a transfer bias to a superimposed transfer bias in which an alternating current component is superimposed on a direct current component, from a direct current transfer bias is met. When the specific performance condition is met, the toner forced consumption control unit performs preliminary toner forced consumption control in which the toner forced consumption control is performed before an image forming operation using the superimposed transfer bias is started. | 09-12-2013 |
20130308968 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a transfer bias output device and an information receiving device. The transfer bias output device outputs a transfer bias including a superimposed bias composed of an AC bias superimposed on a DC bias to form a transfer electric field in a transfer nip between an image bearing member bearing a toner image and a nip forming member, to transfer the toner image onto a recording medium in the transfer nip. A controller operatively connected to the information receiving device and the transfer bias output device causes the transfer bias output device to change a target output of a peak-to-peak voltage of the AC bias based on information received by the information receiving device that affects transfer of the toner image and to reduce a target output of the DC bias as the target output value of the peak-to-peak voltage of the AC bias increases. | 11-21-2013 |
20140029988 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A novel image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor to bear an electrostatic latent image on a surface thereof, a developing device to develop the electrostatic latent image into a toner image, an intermediate transfer member onto which the electrostatic latent image is transferred, a primary transfer member to apply a primary transfer bias to the intermediate transfer member to transfer the toner image thereto, a secondary transfer member supplied with a secondary transfer bias to transfer the toner image from the intermediate transfer member onto a recording medium, and a transfer bias power source to selectively apply to the secondary transfer member one of a secondary transfer bias consisting of a direct current (DC) voltage in a DC transfer mode and a secondary transfer bias consisting of a superimposed bias in which an alternating voltage is superimposed on a DC voltage. | 01-30-2014 |
20140079418 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a power source to output a voltage having an alternating waveform to transfer a toner image from an image bearing member to a recording medium. A time-averaged value (Vave) of the voltage has a polarity in a transfer direction, in which the toner image is transferred from the image bearing member to the recording medium, and an absolute value of the time-averaged value is greater than a midpoint value (Voff) of the voltage intermediate between a maximum value and a minimum value of the voltage. As a roughness of the recording medium increases, a duty ratio (Duty) expressed by A/(A+B) is reduced, where A is an area of the waveform of the voltage in a return direction opposite the transfer direction relative to the midpoint value in one cycle and B is an area in the transfer direction relative to the midpoint value. | 03-20-2014 |
20140248064 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a nip forming member, and a power source. The rotatable image bearing member bears a toner image on a surface thereof and rotates. The nip forming member contacts the surface of the image bearing member to form a transfer nip therebetween. The power source applies a transfer bias to the transfer nip to transfer the toner image from the image bearing member onto a recording medium interposed in the transfer nip. The transfer bias includes a superimposed transfer bias in which an alternating current (AC) component is superimposed on a direct current (DC) component and a polarity of the superimposed transfer bias changes with time. A phase difference between an AC voltage and an AC current output from the power source is equal to or less than 0.47 cycles. | 09-04-2014 |
20140314435 | TRANSFER DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A transfer device includes a transfer member and a bias applicator. The transfer member contacts a surface, on which a toner image is borne, of an image bearing body, to form a transfer nip. The bias applicator applies a DC voltage and an AC voltage as transfer bias to transfer the toner image on the image bearing body to a recording sheet in the transfer nip. The bias applicator applies a DC voltage having a same polarity as the DC voltage of the transfer bias and an AC voltage having an amplitude smaller than the AC voltage of the transfer bias or applies the DC voltage having the same polarity as the DC voltage of the transfer bias without applying an AC voltage, when an inter-sheet area that exists on the image bearing body passes through the transfer nip during a continuous image formation period. | 10-23-2014 |
20140328603 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer member, a power supply, and a control device that controls the power supply to output a DC-AC superimposed bias or a DC bias to transfer a toner image on the image carrier onto a recording medium. The control device controls the power supply to alternately output a first bias being a DC component the same in polarity as the DC bias and a second bias being a DC component opposite in polarity to the DC bias to clean the transfer member when image formation is not taking place. The first bias is output with two target output values including a first value and a second value lower than the first value. The second bias is output with one target output value. An output time of the second bias is longer than an output time of the first bias. | 11-06-2014 |
20140328604 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries a toner image; a transfer member that forms a transfer nip between the transfer member and the image carrier; and a power supply capable of outputting a superimposed transfer bias in which an alternating current component is superimposed onto a direct current component. The toner image on the image carrier is transferred onto a recording medium in the transfer nip by the superimposed transfer bias or a direct current bias consisting of the direct current component output by the power supply. The apparatus also includes a controller that controls the power supply so that an output target value of the direct current component when the direct current component rises up is larger than an output target value of the direct current component when the toner image is transferred onto the recording medium. | 11-06-2014 |
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20100126067 | BURNER FOR HIGHLY CAKING COAL, AND GASIFIER - In a burner for highly caking coal in which a solid fuel channel and a gasifying agent channel are provided in a double pipe structure, the temperature increase of the particles of a highly caking solid fuel and the resulting fusion and expansion of the particles are prevented or suppressed, thereby enabling a stable operation of the gasifier. In a burner for highly caking coal in which a solid fuel channel that is attached for gasifying a highly caking solid fuel that has been pulverized into particles and that supplies the solid fuel into the gasifier, and a gasifying agent channel that supplies a gasifying agent into the gasifier are provided in a double pipe structure, the burner has a triple pipe structure including a cooling water channel that circulates cooling water between the solid fuel channel and the gasifying agent channel, and the cooling water is recovered after use. | 05-27-2010 |
20100175364 | INTEGRATED COAL GASIFICATION COMBINED CYCLE FACILITY - An integrated coal gasification combined cycle facility is provided that can prevent a reduction in power generation efficiency even when low-grade coal having a relatively-high moisture content is used. Included are: a gasification section that gasifies supplied coal; a gas power generation section that generates power by using gas supplied from the gasification section; a steam power generation section that generates power by using the heat of exhaust gas discharged from the gas power generation section; and a coal drying unit that dries the coal by using exhaust heat discharged from the steam power generation section and that supplies the dried coal to the gasification section. | 07-15-2010 |
20100180502 | BURNER FOR HIGHLY CAKING COAL, AND GASIFIER - In a burner for highly caking coal in which a solid fuel channel that is attached penetrating through a surrounding wall of a gasifier for gasifying a highly caking solid fuel that has been pulverized into particles and that supplies the solid fuel into the gasifier by gas flow transportation, and a gasifying agent channel that supplies a gasifying agent into the gasifier are provided, a blockage detection unit that detects a blockage situation of the solid fuel channel is provided, and a process for reducing the temperature of the solid fuel is performed when the blockage detection unit detects a predetermined blockage situation. | 07-22-2010 |
20100180503 | STARTING METHOD OF COAL GASIFIER AND STARTING DEVICE THEREFOR - In a coal gasification furnace adapted to feed pulverized coal thereinto by the use of inert carrier gas and gasify the same, any startup burner can be unnecessitated thereby eliminating any startup combustion chamber. Further, even in the use of a startup burner, it is smaller and lighter in weight than conventional startup burners, allowing the startup combustion chamber to be compact and limiting the height of the entirety of the gasification furnace. As a characteristic feature, a pulverized coal fuel supply passageway ( | 07-22-2010 |
20110116979 | COAL GASIFIER - Provided is a coal gasifier enabling a reduction in size of a shift reactor by generating hydrogen-rich gasified coal gas. In a coal gasifier generating gasified coal gas by a gasification reaction proceeding in a furnace fed with a gasifiable raw material, such as coal, and a gasifying agent, at least one of water and steam is fed to the furnace as a material accelerating a hydrogen-generating reaction that proceeds simultaneously with the gasification reaction. | 05-19-2011 |
20110126743 | GASIFICATION FURNACE APPARATUS - Provided is a gasification furnace apparatus equipped with a supply source of low-oxygen-concentration drying gas that does not require fuel. A coal pulverizer that produces pulverized coal by pulverizing coal, an air separator that separates air into oxygen gas and nitrogen gas, and a gasification furnace that produces product gas by introducing thereinto the pulverized coal and the oxygen gas, are included. By receiving a supply of excess nitrogen gas from the air separator, the air diluted with nitrogen is used as a source of low-oxygen-concentration gas for drying the pulverized coal, and an air heater that heats the source of low-oxygen-concentration gas to a temperature at which drying can be performed is provided. | 06-02-2011 |
20110308230 | INTEGRATED COAL GASIFICATION COMBINED CYCLE PLANT - Provided is an integrated coal gasification combined cycle apparatus that can operate a coal pulverizer using gas turbine exhaust gas as drying gas even when the concentration of oxygen in the gas turbine exhaust gas to be used as the drying gas is temporarily increased. In the integrated coal gasification combined cycle plant using combustion exhaust gas from a gas turbine as the drying gas for a coal pulverizer and adjusting the temperature of the drying gas by mixing outlet gas from a denitration device installed inside an exhaust gas boiler and outlet gas from the exhaust gas boiler, an auxiliary burner is started when the concentration of oxygen in the drying gas is increased to a predetermined value or more and is installed so as to adjust the concentration of oxygen in the drying gas using the combustion exhaust gas generated thereby. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314814 | HYDROGEN PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - The amount of high-temperature steam supplied from external equipment is reduced. Provided is a hydrogen production system ( | 12-29-2011 |
20120006025 | THERMAL POWER PLANT USING LOW-GRADE COAL AS FUEL - A thermal power plant that uses low-grade coal as fuel and allows for increased thermal efficiency of the entire plant is provided. The thermal power plant includes a drying device ( | 01-12-2012 |
20120137689 | HYDROGEN PRODUCTION APPARATUS AND POWER GENERATION PLANT - A hydrogen production apparatus ( | 06-07-2012 |
20120247080 | INTEGRATED COAL GASIFICATION COMBINED CYCLE PLANT - Synthesis gas (syngas) gasified in a gasification furnace to which coal is introduced burns in a combustor. An exhaust-heat recovery boiler generates steam by using exhaust gas let out from a gas turbine equipped with the combustor. The steam generated in the exhaust-heat recovery boiler is introduced to a steam turbine. A generator is driven by the steam turbine and the gas turbine to generate electrical power. Part of the exhaust gas let out from the gas turbine is introduced to a carbon-dioxide recovery unit, where carbon dioxide is recovered therefrom. Coal is carried to the gasification furnace by the carbon dioxide. | 10-04-2012 |
20130112543 | GASIFICATION FACILITY - Provided is a gasification facility which uses flammable gas as a carrier medium for air-transporting powder fuel, used as a gasification raw material, to a gasification furnace and which can safely release the flammable gas, exhausted from a fuel feed hopper, to the atmosphere. In the gasification facility using flammable gas as a carrier medium for transporting pulverized coal as powder fuel from a pulverized coal feed hopper ( | 05-09-2013 |
20130247465 | HYDROCARBON FEEDSTOCK GASIFIER - A hydrocarbon feedstock gasifier (gasifier) is provided with: a heat transmission surface disposed within a gasification region of a gasifier configured from a pressure vessel for generating produced gas by partially oxidizing coal which is a hydrocarbon feedstock; a heat exchanger disposed on the path of a circulation line for a circulation medium circulating within the heat transmission surface and for exchanging the heat of the circulation medium; and a circulation pump for circulating the circulation medium. | 09-26-2013 |
20140231239 | BIN SYSTEM AND CHAR RECOVERY APPARATUS - In a bin system and a char recovery apparatus, reduction in size of the apparatus can be achieved. Provided are: a bin ( | 08-21-2014 |
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20100051939 | NITRIDE BASED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An interfacial reaction suppressing layer | 03-04-2010 |
20100195685 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT - A semiconductor laser element includes: a window region including a disordered portion formed by diffusion of a group-III vacancy, the diffusion promoted by providing on the window region a promoting film that absorbs a predetermined atom; a non-window region including an active layer of a quantum well structure; and a difference equal to or larger than 50 meV between an energy band gap in the window region and an energy band gap in the non-window region. | 08-05-2010 |
20100271690 | VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER ELEMENT, VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER ARRAY ELEMENT, VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER DEVICE, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND OPTICAL MODULE - Included are: an active layer provided between an upper multilayer film reflecting mirror and a lower multilayer film reflecting mirror formed on a GaAs substrate and formed of a periodic structure of a low-refractive-index layer formed of Al | 10-28-2010 |
20110261849 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF - A semiconductor light emitting element comprising: a buffer layer that is grown by using a growth substrate including ZnO, the buffer layer being made by using an AlGaInN-based material including In and being configured so that the growth surface thereof has a nitrogen polar plane; and an active layer that is formed on the buffer layer, the active layer being made by using an AlGaInN-based material including In and being configured so that the growth surface thereof has a group-III polar plane. | 10-27-2011 |
20110261852 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor laser element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first reflecting mirror, a second reflecting mirror, and a resonator. The resonator includes an active layer, a current confinement layer, a first semiconductor layer having a first doping concentration formed at a side opposite to the active layer across the current confinement layer, and a second semiconductor layer having a second doping concentration higher than the first doping concentration formed between the first semiconductor layer and the current confinement layer. The first electrode is provided to contact a part of a surface of the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer has a diffusion portion into which a component of the first electrode diffuses. The second semiconductor layer contacts the diffusion portion. The second semiconductor layer is positioned at a node of a standing wave at a time of laser oscillation of the semiconductor laser element. | 10-27-2011 |
20110274131 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE-EMITTING LASER ARRAY ELEMENT, SURFACE-EMITTING LASER DEVICE AND LIGHT SOURCE - Included are a plurality of surface-emitting laser elements each of which includes a substrate; a lower multilayer reflective mirror and an upper multilayer reflective mirror that are formed on the substrate and are formed from a periodic structure of a high-refractive index layer and a low-refractive index layer; an active layer provided between the lower multilayer reflective mirror and the upper multilayer reflective mirror; a lower contact layer positioned between the active layer and the lower multilayer reflective mirror, and is extended to an outer peripheral side of the upper multilayer reflective mirror; a lower electrode formed on a surface of a portion where the lower contact layer is extended; and an upper electrode for injecting a current to the active layer, wherein the surface-emitting laser elements are electrically connected in series to each other to form a series-connected element array. This allows provision of a two-dimensional surface-emitting laser array element capable of achieving high energy conversion efficiency with a simple structure and capable of high integration, and a surface-emitting laser device and a light source using the same. | 11-10-2011 |
20120320447 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER, SURFACE EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER, SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE, AND NON-LINEAR OPTICAL DEVICE - There is provided a semiconductor laser that includes a dielectric multilayer mirror ( | 12-20-2012 |
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20090154970 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus picks up each one of sheets stacked in a tray, allows a detecting sensor to detect whether a mark indicating a reusable sheet is assigned to the picked-up sheet, and cumulates the sheet in which the mark is not detected by the detecting sensor in a cumulative unit. The image forming apparatus erases a color of an image forming material by heating the sheet of which the mark is detected by the detecting sensor and receives the sheet of which the image forming material is erased in a sheet cassette. The image forming apparatus forms an image with the image forming material erasable by applying heat to the sheet received in the sheet cassette. | 06-18-2009 |
20110196672 | VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE - A voice recognition device is provided with a sentence selecting unit | 08-11-2011 |
20110276331 | VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A voice recognition system includes: a voice input unit | 11-10-2011 |
20120145023 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus picks up each one of sheets stacked in a tray, allows a detecting sensor to detect whether a mark indicating a reusable sheet is assigned to the picked-up sheet, and cumulates the sheet in which the mark is not detected by the detecting sensor in a cumulative unit. The image forming apparatus erases a color of an image forming material by heating the sheet of which the mark is detected by the detecting sensor and receives the sheet of which the image forming material is erased in a sheet cassette. The image forming apparatus forms an image with the image forming material erasable by applying heat to the sheet received in the sheet cassette. | 06-14-2012 |
20120226491 | RECOGNITION DICTIONARY CREATION DEVICE AND VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE - A recognition dictionary creation device identifies the language of a reading of an inputted text which is a target to be registered and adds a reading with phonemes in the language identified thereby to the target text to be registered, and also converts the reading of the target text to be registered from the phonemes in the language identified thereby to phonemes in a language to be recognized which is handled in voice recognition to create a recognition dictionary in which the converted reading of the target text to be registered is registered. | 09-06-2012 |
20120319348 | SHEET FEED APPARATUS AND SHEET FEED METHOD - A sheet feed apparatus which includes a sheet feed tray in which a plurality of sheets is loaded in piles; a sheet feed roller which is provided at a forward position of the sheet feed tray in a sheet feed direction, and sends the loaded sheets inside thereof; and a lift detection sensor which detects, by using a movable lever, a lift of a sheet bundle which occurs when the sheet bundle, of which a rear or a side in a sheet feed direction is bound, is sent by the sheet feed roller therein, the lift detection sensor being provided at a side position of the sheet bundle in a width direction and at a backward position with respect to the center of the sheet bundle in the sheet feed direction. | 12-20-2012 |
20130080146 | SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE - A speech recognition device includes: a speech recognition unit | 03-28-2013 |
20130158999 | VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A voice recognition apparatus creates a voice recognition dictionary of words which are cut out from address data constituting words that are a voice recognition target, and which have an occurrence frequency not less than a predetermined value, compares a time series of acoustic features of an input voice with the voice recognition dictionary, selects the most likely word string as the input voice from the voice recognition dictionary, carries out partial matching between the selected word string and the address data, and outputs the word that partially matches as a voice recognition result. | 06-20-2013 |
20140100847 | VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND NAVIGATION DEVICE - Disclosed is a voice recognition device including: first through Mth voice recognition parts each for detecting a voice interval from sound data stored in a sound data storage unit | 04-10-2014 |
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20100239506 | METHODS FOR DETECTION AND DETERMINATION OF VITAMIN C BY LUMINESCENCE - The present invention provides a method for detection or determination of vitamin C by luminescence that employs a redox-responsive fluorogenic probe consisting of porphyrin or phthalocyanine with a nitroxide radical(s), or that employs a liposome preparation comprising the said redox-responsive fluorogenic probe. The present method can overcome the problems of prior art methods, and in particular, are applicable for bioimaging to allow elucidation of the behavior of vitamin C in vivo. | 09-23-2010 |
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20090059397 | Lens barrel and imaging apparatus - A lens barrel that configures an imaging apparatus by being detachably attached to an imaging apparatus main body includes a lens barrel in which an imaging lens is formed and a connecting section to the imaging apparatus main body is formed on one end side in an optical axis direction of the imaging lens and a grip section provided on a side surface of the lens barrel and gripped by a camera operator during imaging. The grip section projects from the side surface of the lens barrel further to a side surface of the apparatus main body than an end face on the connecting section side. | 03-05-2009 |
20100041167 | DRUG FOR DIAGNOSING LARGE INTESTINAL CANCER AND/OR POLYP, OBSERVING POSTOPERATIVE COURSE AND MONITORING RECURRENCE - The present invention is directed to a method for diagnosing large intestinal cancer and/or polyp and a method for observing postoperative course or monitoring recurrence thereof, wherein each method includes detecting cystatin SN protein by use of an anti-cystatin SN antibody. The present invention is able to provide a kit for assaying cystatin SN, which can be used, in a simple manner, in a diagnosis performed prior to conventional barium enema examination and endoscopic examination which impose burdens on patients; as an indicator of metastasis and recurrence; and in the evaluation of therapeutic effects. The present invention provides a method for diagnosing or monitoring large intestinal cancer and/or polyp which can be performed in a simple manner, and thus can allow to design a new regimen rapidly. | 02-18-2010 |
20130243771 | HIGHLY EFFECTIVE ANTI-CADHERIN ANTIBODY FOR INDUCTION OF ANTIBODY-DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY IN VIVO - It is an object of the present invention to provide an anti-cadherin antibody having high antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity. The present invention provides an anti-cadherin antibody, which recognizes any one of an upstream region of EC1, a cadherin domain 4 (EC4) and a cadherin domain 5 (EC5), wherein an antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity at an antibody concentration of 1 μg/mL is 30% or more. | 09-19-2013 |
20130245232 | HIGHLY EFFECTIVE ANTI-CADHERIN ANTIBODY FOR INDUCTION OF ANTIBODY-DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY IN VIVO - It is an object of the present invention to provide an anti-cadherin antibody having high antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity. The present invention provides an anti-cadherin antibody, which recognizes any one of an upstream region of EC1, a cadherin domain 4 (EC4) and a cadherin domain 5 (EC5), wherein an antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity at an antibody concentration of 1 μg/mL is 30% or more. | 09-19-2013 |
20130317201 | ANTI-CDH3 ANTIBODY HAVING HIGH INTERNALIZATION CAPACITY - It is an object of the present invention to provide an anti-cadherin antibody having a high internalization capacity and provide an anti-cadherin antibody-drug conjugate that effectively kills cadherin-expressing cancer cells with the use of such antibody. The present invention provides an anti-cadherin antibody which recognizes a cadherin domain 1 (EC1) of cadherin and exhibits a high internalization capacity. | 11-28-2013 |
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20110091449 | Isolation of Anti-Desmoglein 1 Antibodies by Phage Display of Pemphigus Foliaceus Autoantibodies - This invention relates to compositions and methods for the use of anti-autoimmune reagents that specifically bind to anti-desmoglein antibodies, which are responsible for pemphigus foliaceus. In addition, the invention relates to methods and compositions for inhibiting the expression or function of a variable region of an anti-desmoglein (anti-Dsg) pathogenic autoantibody. | 04-21-2011 |
20120064132 | ANTIBACTERIAL MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide an antibacterial medical equipment which has sufficient antibacterial activity in vivo and is excellent in compatibility with living tissues, and also can maintain antibacterial activity over a long period and has high safety. | 03-15-2012 |
20120065695 | MEDICAL WIRE - The present invention provides a medical wire capable of significantly reducing the risk of its frontal end to puncture an anterior wall of a bone and to move out of the bone, thereby greatly improving safety of a surgery. The medical wire includes an end composed of a material that deforms to increase resistance during advancement in the bone and substantially regains initial shape during retreat from the bone. | 03-15-2012 |
20130008222 | MOLDING METHOD FOR PLATE-SHAPED WORKPIECE, AND MOLDED ARTICLE - Provided is a molding method for a plate-shaped workpiece including forming a concave portion ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130254498 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, STORAGE APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR - A storage control apparatus includes: a pre-processing-execution determining block for determining whether or not either one of an erase operation and a program operation is to be executed as pre-processing in a write operation to be carried out on a predetermined data area to serve as a write-operation object; and a pre-read processing block for reading out pre-read data from the data area prior to the write operation if a result of the determination indicates that the pre-processing is to be executed. The apparatus further includes a bit operating block for carrying out: the pre-processing and one of the erase and program operations which is not the pre-processing as post-processing if a result of the determination indicates that the pre-processing is to be executed; and the post-processing without carrying out the pre-processing if a determination result indicates that the pre-processing is not to be executed. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262737 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS , STORAGE APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a storage control apparatus including: a command processing section configured to receive a command requesting accesses to a plurality of access units by specifying an address in a memory space including a plurality of banks; and an address generating section configured to generate an address of an access unit serving as an object of the accesses in a bank selected from the banks as a bank determined in advance for the specified address. | 10-03-2013 |
20130272078 | STORAGE CONTROLLING APPARATUS, MEMORY SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROLLING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a storage controlling apparatus including: a decision portion configured to decide whether or not a bit number of a specific value from between binary values is greater than a reference value in at least part of input data to a memory cell, which executes rewriting to one of the binary values and rewriting to the other one of the binary values in order in a writing process, to generate decision data indicative of a result of the decision; and a write side outputting portion configured to output, when it is decided that the bit number is greater than the reference value, the input data at least part of which is inverted as write data to the memory cell together with the decision data. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275818 | STORAGE CONTROLLING APPARATUS, STORAGE APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a storage controlling apparatus, including: a status acquisition section configured to acquire status including a number of times of execution of verification after writing into a memory from the memory; a history information retention section configured to retain a history of the status as history information in an associated relationship with each of predetermined regions of the memory; and a region selection section configured to select a region which satisfies a condition in accordance with the history information when a new region is to be used in the memory. | 10-17-2013 |
20130282993 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, MEMORY SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage control device includes a first rewriting section, a second rewriting section, and a first retry control section. The first rewriting section performs first rewrite to rewrite other of two binary values into a memory cell in which one of the two binary values is written. The second rewriting section performs second rewrite to rewrite the one of the two binary values into the memory cell in which the other of the two binary values is written. The first retry control section causes the memory cell that has undergone the first rewrite to be subjected to the second rewrite followed by the first rewrite again if an error occurs during the first rewrite. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290620 | STORAGE CONTROLLING APPARATUS, STORAGE APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD - A storage controlling apparatus includes a command decoder and command processing section. The command decoder decides whether or not a plurality of access object addresses of different commands included in a command string correspond to words different from each other in a same one of blocks of a memory cell array which have a common plate. The command processing section collectively and successively executes, when it is decided that the access object addresses of the commands correspond to the words different from each other in the same block of the memory cell array, those of operations in processing of the commands in which an equal voltage is applied as a drive voltage between the plate and a bit line. | 10-31-2013 |
20130339637 | MEMORY CONTROL APPARATUS, MEMORY APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH - There is provided a memory control apparatus including: a pre-read processing section reading pre-read data from a data area to be written to before a write process in a predetermined data area of a memory cell array; a conversion determination section which, upon selectively allowing the pre-read data to transition to either a first conversion candidate or a second conversion candidate of the write data to be written in the write process, generates a determination result for selecting either of the candidates based on the larger of two values of which one is the number of bits transitioning from the first value to the second value and of which the other is the number of bits transitioning from the second value to the first value; and a conversion control section selecting either of the candidates in accordance with the determination result. | 12-19-2013 |
20140009996 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - There is provided a storage control device including a read processing unit that reads data and inversion state information indicating whether the data is in an inverted state or a non-inverted state from a specific region of a memory cell array that stores the data and the inversion state information with first intensity in association, and a write processing unit that writes data obtained by inverting the data and a state obtained by changing a state indicated by the inversion state information to an opposite state in the specific region with second intensity that is different from the first intensity. | 01-09-2014 |
20140025907 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, STORAGE APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHODS THEREOF - There is provided a storage control apparatus including a memory state acquisition unit acquiring a storage state of a memory associated with a write target, and an operation instruction generation unit generating an operation instruction of at least 2 bits per cell of the memory associated with the write target, from the acquired storage state and write data. | 01-23-2014 |
20140059268 | MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE, NON-VOLATILE MEMORY, AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a memory control device, including a write control unit that sequentially designates a memory block, a write processing unit that writes write data in the designated memory block, a verifying unit that reads read data from the memory block and verifies whether or not the read data matches the write data for each of a plurality of memory cells, a retry inhibiting unit that inhibits a retry process from being performed in a memory cell in which the read data matches the write data among the plurality of memory cells, and a retry control unit that designates at least some memory blocks among the plurality of memory blocks and simultaneously executes the retry process when the read data does not match the write data in any one of the plurality of memory cells in which all the write data is written. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059404 | MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE, MEMORY DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a memory control device, including a request determining unit that determines a type of a request, and a control unit that writes read data read from a memory cell array in the memory cell array in units of predetermined pages of the memory cell array when the request is a refresh request, and divides the page of write data into units of groups and writes the page of the write data in the memory cell array over twice or more when the request is a write request. | 02-27-2014 |
20140258606 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage control device includes: a partial unit buffer configured to hold at least one data assigned to a partial unit, in which the partial unit is one of a plurality of partial units that are each a division of a write unit for a memory; and a request generation section configured to generate, upon indication of a busy state in the memory for any of the partial units, a write request for the write unit of the memory when the holding of the data assigned to that partial unit is possible in the partial unit buffer. | 09-11-2014 |
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20090221028 | Novel Recombinant Human Hepatitis C Virus-Like Particle and Method for Producing the Same - The present invention relates to a method for producing a recombinant hepatitis C virus-like particle comprising the steps of introducing into (i) a cell in which an RNA replicon comprising a nucleotide sequence comprising the 5′ untranslated region, the nucleotide sequence coding for the NS3, NS4A, NS4B, NS5A, and NS5B proteins, and the 3′ untranslated region of a genome RNA derived from a hepatitis C virus strain autonomously replicates, (ii) a vector expressing the Core, E1, E2, and p7 proteins derived from a hepatitis C virus strain that is the same as or different from that as defined in the above (i), culturing the cell, and recovering the produced virus-like particle, and a recombinant hepatitis C virus particle produced by this method. | 09-03-2009 |
20100035345 | High Production System for Infectious Hepatitis C Virus Particle - The present invention relates to a method for producing infectious hepatitis C virus (HCV) particles, comprising a step of introducing an expression vector into a cell that allows HCV proliferation, such expression vector comprising: DNA sequences encoding the 5′ untranslated region, structural proteins, and, if necessary, non-structural proteins of HCV and DNA sequences encoding non-structural proteins and the 3′ untranslated region derived from the HCV JFH1 strain, which are located downstream of a polymerase I promoter; and a DNA fragment containing an RNA polymerase I terminator, which is located further downstream thereof. | 02-11-2010 |
20100243426 | METHOD FOR DECOMPOSING CARBON-CONTAINING COMPOUND, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBON NANO/MICROSTRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBON THIN FILM - There is provided a method for decomposing a carbon-containing compound including: changing the condition of the carbon-containing compound into a subcritical fluid, a critical fluid or a supercritical fluid state; irradiating the carbon-containing compound with light to decompose, wherein the carbon-containing compound is an organic compound. According to an aspect of the present invention, a carbon nano/microstructure such as a nano/microparticle is obtained at a temperature lower than those used conventionally. | 09-30-2010 |
20110065508 | GAME DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR GAME DEVICE, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a game device for executing a game of a sport to be played by using a moving object including: a position acquiring section for acquiring an initial position of the moving object when the moving object starts to move in a game space; a direction acquiring section for acquiring an initial direction of the moving object when the moving object starts to move in the game space; and a movement control section for causing the moving object to start to move based on the initial position acquired by the position acquiring section and the initial direction acquired by the direction acquiring section, to thereby move the moving object, in which the movement control section changes a moving direction of the moving object a plurality of times to a moving direction determined based on an original moving direction of the moving object and a random number. | 03-17-2011 |
20110223998 | GAME DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GAME DEVICE, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION STORING MEDIUM - To provide a game device capable of improving operability of operation means. First acquisition means ( | 09-15-2011 |
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20110007333 | COLOR PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD THEREFOR - A color processing apparatus configured to simulate a print product output by a printer on a monitor. The apparatus includes a first conversion unit configured to convert color data representing an image of the simulation object into color data in a printer color space, a first calculation unit configured to calculate color data of diffuse reflection in a line-of-sight direction from color data in the printer color space, a second calculation unit configured to calculate color data in the printer color space and specular reflection color data, a third calculation unit configured to calculate color data of specular reflection in a line-of-sight direction from color data of specular reflection calculated using a parameter representing an exitance of the glossiness and colorless light-source color data, a combination unit configured to combine the color data of diffuse reflection and color data of specular reflection, and a second conversion unit configured to convert the combined color data to color data in the monitor color space. | 01-13-2011 |
20110157386 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A control apparatus which controls a capturing device so as to obtain a plurality of captured images including an entire region of an object by capturing the object by a plurality of times while changing a capturing direction of the capturing device, the apparatus comprises: a derivation unit configured to derive a corrected capturing range when at least one of lens aberration correction and perspective correction which are based on a position and the capturing direction of the capturing device with respect to the object is applied to a capturing range obtained upon capturing the object by the capturing device; and a determination unit configured to determine a plurality of capturing ranges which cover the entire region of the object so that two corrected capturing ranges corresponding to two adjacent capturing ranges, respectively, overlap each other. | 06-30-2011 |
20130063571 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - This invention improves the image quality of areas that the user want sharply focused. Depth values representing positions in a depth direction of scenes including the photographed object are estimated to generate a depth map. The focus map generation unit, based on the virtual focus parameter | 03-14-2013 |
20130342662 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - By the prior art, it was not possible to cope with a change in the way colors are viewed depending on the posture of a viewer. An image processing device for an image display system including glasses having polarizing elements and an image display device, characterized by having a color correction unit configured to perform color correction processing on image data indicating an image to be displayed based on inclination information of the glasses with respect to a display screen of the image display device. | 12-26-2013 |
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20090115855 | PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A photography apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and acquire photographed image data; a display unit configured to perform an image display; and a control unit; wherein the control unit executes reading processing for reading out, from a storage medium which stores template information arranged to fit and display photographed image data imaged by the imaging unit into a target region within display screen data according to a predetermined display format, the template information, wherein instruction information for instructing what sort of image should be photographed as the photographed image data to be fit and displayed in the target region is correlated therewith, and instruction information display control processing for controlling the display unit so as to display the instruction information in a correlated manner with the target region, in accordance with the template information. | 05-07-2009 |
20120002883 | PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A photography apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and acquire photographed image data; a display unit configured to perform an image display; and a control unit; wherein the control unit executes reading processing for reading out, from a storage medium which stores template information arranged to fit and display photographed image data imaged by the imaging unit into a target region within display screen data according to a predetermined display format, the template information, wherein instruction information for instructing what sort of image should be photographed as the photographed image data to be fit and displayed in the target region is correlated therewith, and instruction information display control processing for controlling the display unit so as to display the instruction information in a correlated manner with the target region, in accordance with the template information. | 01-05-2012 |
20130097547 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a presentation section which presents an action log that is an action result of a third party, and a schedule adjustment section which incorporates the action log selected from the presented action log by a user as a schedule of schedule information of the user. | 04-18-2013 |
20150070513 | PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A photography apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and acquire photographed image data; a display unit configured to perform an image display; and a control unit; wherein the control unit executes reading processing for reading out, from a storage medium which stores template information arranged to fit and display photographed image data imaged by the imaging unit into a target region within display screen data according to a predetermined display format, the template information, wherein instruction information for instructing what sort of image should be photographed as the photographed image data to be fit and displayed in the target region is correlated therewith, and instruction information display control processing for controlling the display unit so as to display the instruction information in a correlated manner with the target region, in accordance with the template information. | 03-12-2015 |
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20090161587 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND POWER-SAVING TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION METHOD USED IN THEM - There is provided a mobile communication system that can prevent a situation in which, although there is no occasion to receive packets for a mobile station, the reception processing is continued and useless power is undesirably consumed. The mobile communication system includes a base station that repeats a transmission period and a transmission halt period with a constant control cycle, and mobile station that repeats a reception period and a reception halt period with a constant control cycle (antenna, duplexer, reception unit, user data separation unit, packet transmission determination unit, reception period determination unit, packet reception determination unit, and signal synthesis unit). The mobile station alternately repeats the reception period and reception halt period, sends the reception result to the base station, and starts the reception period according to the start of the transmission period of the base station to receive packets. In case all the packets cannot be correctly received during the reception period, the reception period is extended by a predetermined period in the control cycle. Furthermore, in case all the packets can be correctly received during the reception period, the mobile station transfers to the reception halt period to halt the reception. | 06-25-2009 |
20090219855 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD OF DOWNLINK PACKET COMMUNICATION AND WIRELESS BASE STATION - A wireless base station for transmitting a data packet to a plurality of mobile stations through a downlink shared channel determines two powers to be allocated to the downlink shared channel using two large and small transmission power margins. The wireless base station carries out a step of relating a first transmission format, which applies a phase modulation or a phase-amplitude modulation to a data packet to be transmitted by an allocation power corresponding to the larger margin, to the mobile stations and a step of relating a second transmission format, which applies only the phase modulation to the data packet to be transmitted using the allocation power corresponding to the other margin, to the mobile stations, compares the total numbers of bits to be transmitted by the respective transmission formats, and transmits the data packet by the transmission format corresponding to a larger value. With this operation, the communication fault of an HSDPA due to the transmission power margins can be prevented. | 09-03-2009 |
20110009154 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A wireless communication system according to the present invention includes a first base station forming a unicast area and a second base station forming a multicast area. The first base station is provided with a load status reporting unit for reporting the load status of the unicast area of the first base station to the second base station forming the multicast area within a certain distance from the unicast area of the first base station. The second base station is provided with a transmission power controlling unit for controlling, based on the reported load status of the unicast area, the transmission power of a signal transmitted in the multicast area of the second base station. | 01-13-2011 |
20110317563 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RESOURCE REALLOCATION METHOD IN RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A resource reallocation method that can suppress variations in reception delay time in reservation-type scheduling and a communication device using the method are provided. In a radio communications system in which a radio resource is reserved to periodically perform a communication between communication devices, the number of retransmissions of a packet transmitted to a communication device using the reserved radio resource (Step S | 12-29-2011 |
20120021798 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND ITS TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD IN RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A transmission power control method and a communication device using it are provided that can prevent the delay of a receipt from increasing and varying in reservation-type scheduling. In a radio communications system in which a radio resource is reserved (step S | 01-26-2012 |
20120163193 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND POWER-SAVING TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION METHOD USED IN THEM - Provided is a mobile station which communicates with a base station using a radio channel, the mobile station comprising: a switching unit configured to switch from a packet reception period, during which packet reception can be executed, to a packet reception halt period, during which packet reception is halted; a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the base station, a result of receiving a packet sent from the base station, as a reception result notification signal; a packet reception determination unit configured to determine a packet reception fault; and a reception period determination unit configured to extend the packet reception period if the packet reception fault is determined by the packet reception determination unit. | 06-28-2012 |
20120214529 | RADIO RESOURCE RANGE SETTING DEVICE, RADIO RESOURCE RANGE SETTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A device acquires load information representing a load of radio communication performed between a base station and a plurality of communication terminals performing radio communication with the base station by using a radio resource allocated by the base station. The device sets in response to the acquired load information, from a first radio resource range and a second radio resource range, a radio resource range that the base station can allocate to an edge communication terminal whose channel quality is less than a predetermined threshold. | 08-23-2012 |
20120224545 | BASE STATION, RADIO RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - For a communication terminal performing radio communication, a base station acquires communication path quality information representing a communication path quality, which is the quality of a communication path with the communication terminal. The base station allocates power larger than reference transmission power as transmission power to an edge terminal configuring at least part of an edge terminal group configured by an edge terminal that is a communication terminal whose communication path quality is lower than a threshold quality, allocates the reference transmission power as the transmission power to an edge terminal configuring a remaining part of the edge terminal group. | 09-06-2012 |
20120269249 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR THE SAME AND MOBILE STATION AND BASE STATION USED FOR THE SAME - A mobile station selecting one of a plurality of bands, obtaining two restored value candidates for respective adjacent bands in higher and lower directions by increasing or decreasing a predetermined step size by using the selected value as a reference, and generating relative value information on a restored value indicating which restored value candidate increased or decreased by the step size is the restored value candidate closer to the measured value as a bitmap. The mobile station transmits the communication channel quality information of the one band and the bitmap. The mobile station measures a communication channel quality of each of the plurality of bands obtained by dividing a communication band of a downlink. | 10-25-2012 |
20130072246 | WIRELESS RESOURCE SETTING METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS BASE STATION, AND PROGRAM - A wireless base station ( | 03-21-2013 |
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20150009888 | Radio Communication System and Communication Method - A communication system and method that allows a DeNB to identify a RN registered to another DeNB and to acquire necessary information for coordinating interference from RNs registered to the other DeNB are provided. The communication system includes a plurality of communication nodes which includes a plurality of base stations and a plurality of relay nodes, wherein each relay node has a radio connection with a base station, wherein each base station exchanges information indicating identity of a relay node with another base station. | 01-08-2015 |
20150031284 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system and method that can minimize interference between RN-access links and can maximize the capacity of RNs in the network is provided. The communication system has a plurality of communication nodes which includes a base station and a plurality of relay nodes, wherein the base station controls the relay nodes, each of which can provide a radio connection to at least one terminal via an access link, wherein the base station signals each of the relay nodes to report measurement information related to the access link. | 01-29-2015 |
20150043457 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A radio communication system includes: a plurality of cells having different scrambling sequences, respectively, wherein at least two cells communicate with at lease two user terminals connected to different serving cells; and a controller which controls the plurality of cells and provides a single scrambling sequence to said at least two cells and said at least two user terminals for control signal transmission and reception. | 02-12-2015 |
20150049621 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A radio communication system includes a network and a user terminal, wherein the network includes a plurality of radio stations and a controller which controls the plurality of radio stations, wherein at least two of the plurality of radio stations communicate with the user terminal, wherein the controller notifies the user terminal of information about resource for interference measurement, wherein the user terminal calculates and reports channel quality information based on the information. | 02-19-2015 |
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20110227239 | METHOD OF MOLDING - There is provided a method of molding which is capable of more highly precisely molding a molded article to be molded such as a lens than conventional technologies. | 09-22-2011 |
20110294948 | AROMATIC GROUP-CONTAINING (METH) ACRYLATE COMPOUND - Disclosed is a (meth)acrylate compound which can provide a cured article having a high refractive index and excellent transparency and heat resistance, and which has superior handling characteristics; further disclosed are a curable composition containing the (meth)acrylate compound, and a cured article thereof. The (meth)acrylate compound contains an aromatic group represented by the following general formula (1), the curable composition comprising the aromatic-group containing (meth)acrylate compound, and the cured article thereof. (In the formula, R | 12-01-2011 |
20130295446 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM BATTERY - A negative electrode material for a lithium ion battery, in which a fine particle (A) containing an element selected from Si, Sn, Ge and In and a carbon particle (B) obtained by heat-treating a petroleum-based coke and/or a coal-based coke at a temperature of 2,500° C. or more are connected through a chemical bond such as urethane bond, urea bond, siloxane bond and ester bond. Also disclosed are a negative electrode sheet obtained by coating a current collector with a paste containing the negative electrode material, a binder and a solvent, and then drying and pressure-forming the paste; and a lithium ion battery incorporating the negative electrode sheet. | 11-07-2013 |
20140212762 | COMPOSITE ELECTRODE MATERIAL - Particles (A) including an element capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions, carbon particles (B) capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions, multi-walled carbon nanotubes (C), carbon nanofibers (D) and optionally electrically conductive carbon particles (E) are mixed in the presence of shear force to obtain a composite electrode material. A lithium ion secondary battery is obtained using the above composite electrode material. | 07-31-2014 |
20140234724 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BATTERY ELECTRODE - A battery electrode is obtained by a method comprising: mixing active material (A), carbon fibers (B) having a fiber diameter of not less than 50 nm and not more than 300 nm, carbon fibers (C) having a fiber diameter of not less than 5 nm and not more than 40 nm, carbon black (D) and a binder (E) by dry process to obtain a mixture; to the mixture, adding not less than 5/95 and not more than 20/80 of a liquid medium by mass relative to the total mass of the active material (A), the carbon fibers (B), the carbon fibers (C), carbon black (D) and the binder (E); performing kneading while applying shear stress; and shaping the kneaded material into a sheet form. | 08-21-2014 |
20140272596 | COMPOSITE CARBON FIBERS - Provided is composite carbon fibers comprising multi-walled carbon nanotubes wherein 99% by number or more of the multi-walled carbon nanotubes have a fiber diameter of not less than 5 nm and not more than 40 nm, carbon particles having a primary particle diameter of not less than 20 nm and not more than 100 nm and graphitized carbon nanofibers wherein 99% by number or more of the graphitized carbon nanofibers have a fiber diameter of not less than 50 nm and not more than 300 nm, wherein the multi-walled carbon nanotubes are homogeneously dispersed between the graphitized carbon nanofibers and the carbon particles. | 09-18-2014 |
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20090317056 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SCHEDULES OF MONITORING DEVICE - A method for managing schedules of a monitoring device includes: editing schedules of a video camera; generating a display interface on which a plurality of schedules and corresponding attributes thereof can be displayed; checking the realizability of the schedules; and generating conflict indicating information for conflicting schedules according to a checking result. The present invention further provides a system for managing schedules of a monitoring device. The invention can be applied to display the schedules of the monitoring device intuitively and clearly to thereby simplify operations of determining a conflict and optimize operations of editing the schedules. | 12-24-2009 |
20100247963 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - A perpendicular magnetic recording medium is used for information recording of a perpendicular magnetic recording type. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a soft magnetic layer, an underlayer, and a magnetic layer having a multilayered structure including a plurality of magnetic layers. The soft magnetic layer, the underlayer, and the magnetic layer are formed on the substrate. At least one of the magnetic layers includes CoPt magnetic grains containing oxide. The oxide includes at least one material selected from the group consisting of SiO | 09-30-2010 |
20150053621 | METHOD FOR TREATING WATER AND FLOCCULANT FOR ORGANIC SUBSTANCES - Provided are a method for treating water and a flocculant used in the method. The method includes the steps of adding a first polymer compound formed by multiply binding a first repeating unit into water to be treated, and adding a second polymer compound formed by multiply binding a second repeating unit into the water. The first repeating unit includes a first linked main chain which constructs a main chain via repeatedly bound one another, and an adsorption site directly or indirectly bound to the first linked main chain so as to adsorb organic compounds contained in the water to be treated. The second repeating unit has a similar structure to the first repeating unit except that the number of carbon atoms in the second linked main chain is different from that in the first linked main chain. The flocculant includes the first and second polymer compounds. | 02-26-2015 |
20150060367 | COAGULATION PROCESSING METHOD, COAGULATION PROCESSING UNIT, AND WATER PROCESSING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a coagulation processing method capable of adding a sufficiently-dissolved coagulant aqueous solution to being processed water and materializing high-efficiency coagulation processing, a coagulation processing unit, and a water processing apparatus. | 03-05-2015 |
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20110163759 | CIRCUIT FAULT DETECTING DEVICE AND METHOD - To detect accurately an insulation fault in a load circuit, Power supply lines and an electric heater (a load circuit) are connected by a detecting portion to detect a detected voltage (detected value) in accordance with the magnitude of a leakage current Id that flows through a ground between the power supply lines and the electric heater, and an evaluation as to whether or not there is a breakdown of insulation of the electric heater relative to the ground is performed by an evaluating portion based on the detected value obtained when the relay contact points are open. | 07-07-2011 |
20140150532 | VALVE LEAK DETECTING METHOD AND COMBUSTION EQUIPMENT - A valve leak detecting method includes a pressure setting step before closing valves individually to set a pressure in a pipe, a first threshold value evaluating step for closing the valves after the pressure has been set to no less than the threshold value, and evaluating whether the pressure, after a specific time interval has elapsed, is at least threshold value, a second valve normalcy evaluating step for evaluating that one of the valves is operating properly or faultily if the pressure is at least or less than the threshold value, respectively, a second threshold value evaluating step for closing the valves and evaluating whether the pressure is less than the threshold value after a specific time interval has elapsed, and a first valve normalcy evaluating step for evaluating whether the valve is operating properly or faultily depending on the pressure being less or no less than the threshold value. | 06-05-2014 |
20140170570 | VALVE LEAK DETECTING METHOD AND COMBUSTION EQUIPMENT - A valve leak detecting method includes a started pressure setting step for opening and closing valves individually to set a pressure in a pipe, a first threshold value evaluating step for closing the valves, after the pressure being set to no less than the threshold value, and evaluating whether the pressure, after a specific time interval has elapsed, is at least threshold value, a second valve normalcy evaluating step for evaluating that one of the valves is operating properly or faultily if the pressure is at least or less than the threshold value, respectively, a second threshold value evaluating step for closing the valves and evaluating whether the pressure is less than the threshold value after a specific time interval has elapsed, and a first valve normalcy evaluating step for evaluating whether the valve is operating properly depending on the pressure being less or no less than the threshold value. | 06-19-2014 |
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20080306046 | Pyridyl Non-Aromatic Nitrogen-Containing Heterocyclic-1-Carboxylate Derivative - [Problem] To provide a compound usable for treatment of diseases associated with fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), especially for treatment of urinary frequency and urinary incontinence, overactive bladder and/or pain. | 12-11-2008 |
20100009971 | Pyridyl Non-Aromatic Nitrogen-Containing Heterocyclic-1-Carboxylate Compound - A novel pyridyl non-aromatic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic-1-carboxylate compound or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt has a potent FAAH-inhibitory activity. Further, the pyridyl non-aromatic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic-1-carboxylate compound of the present disclosure is also useful in the treatment of urinary frequency and urinary incontinence, overactive bladder and/or pain. | 01-14-2010 |
20100009972 | Pyridyl Non-Aromatic Nitrogen-Containing Heterocyclic-1-Carboxylate Compound - A novel pyridyl non-aromatic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic-1-carboxylate compound and its pharmaceutically acceptable salt has a potent FAAH-inhibitory activity. Further, the pyridyl non-aromatic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic-1-carboxylate compound of the present disclosure is also useful in the treatment of urinary frequency and urinary incontinence, overactive bladder and/or pain. | 01-14-2010 |
20110118311 | AZOLE COMPOUND - A compound which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treating neuropathic pain is provided. The present inventors have made extensive studies on compounds having an FAAH inhibitory activity, and as a result, have found that an azole compound substituted with an N-(pyridine-3-yl)oxycarbonyl-piperidin-4-yl group and a phenyl group or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof has an excellent FAAH inhibitory activity, thereby completing the present invention. The compound of the present invention is confirmed to have an excellent FAAH inhibitory activity and an antiallodynic effect in rat models with neuropathic pain, and thus is useful as an agent for preventing and/or an agent for treating neuropathic pain. | 05-19-2011 |
20110172230 | UREA COMPOUND OR SALT THEREOF - [Object] To provide a compound which can be used for the treatment of a disease associated with fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), particularly urinary frequency, urinary incontinence and/or overactive bladder. | 07-14-2011 |
20110212973 | CARBAMATE COMPOUND OR SALT THEREOF - [Problems] A compound useful as an active ingredient for a pharmaceutical composition for treating FAAH-related diseases is provided. | 09-01-2011 |
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20110044066 | REFLECTOR FOR VEHICLE - A reflector for a vehicle can include a plurality of retroreflective elements configured to retroreflect incident light incident parallel to a horizontally-arranged reference axis, obliquely upward at a prescribed angle with respect to the reference axis. The plurality of retroreflective elements can each include: a first reflection surface inclined at an angle ANG | 02-24-2011 |
20130143160 | RADIATION-SENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR FORMING RESIST PATTERN, AND POLYMER AND COMPOUND - A radiation-sensitive resin composition that provides a resist coating film in a liquid immersion lithography process is provided, the radiation-sensitive resin composition being capable of exhibiting a great dynamic contact angle during exposure, whereby the surface of the resist coating film can exhibit a superior water draining property, and the radiation-sensitive resin composition being capable of leading to a significant decrease in the dynamic contact angle during development, whereby generation of development defects can be inhibited, and further shortening of a time period required for change in a dynamic contact angle is enabled. A radiation-sensitive resin composition including (A) a polymer having a structural unit (I) represented by the following formula (1), and (B) a radiation-sensitive acid generator. | 06-06-2013 |
20140004463 | RADIATION-SENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR FORMING RESIST PATTERN, AND POLYMER AND COMPOUND | 01-02-2014 |
20140037313 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus according to the invention comprises a light source for emitting light in accordance with printing data, an image carrier carrying on a surface thereof a latent image based on the emitted light out of the light source, a developer carrier for developing the latent image carried on the image carrier, a supply member for supplying a developer to the developer carrier, and a controller for controlling a voltage between the developer carrier and the supply member in accordance with a light emitting amount of the light source at a prescribed use amount, for suppressing occurrences of image failures even where using different developers. | 02-06-2014 |
20140356033 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of developing portions. Each of the developing portions includes a developer supporting member for supplying developer containing at least a binder resin to an image supporting member that supports a static latent image to develop the static latent image; and a layer regulating member arranged to contact with a surface of the developer supporting member and regulate a layer of developer. The image forming apparatus includes a first developing portion that uses first developer containing a metal oxide in the binder resin, and a second developing portion that uses second developer containing no metal oxide in the binder resin. The layer regulating member of the first developing portion is configured to apply a pressure to the developer supporting member smaller than that of the layer regulating member of the second developing portion applied to the developer supporting member. | 12-04-2014 |
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20090011018 | Sustained release formulation for tacrolimus - A sustained release pharmaceutical composition for tacrolimus, comprising a solid dispersion containing tacrolimus or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a carrier for a sustained release pharmaceutical composition, wherein a dissolution rate of tacrolimus after 4 hours from the beginning of a dissolution test is less than 35%, is disclosed. | 01-08-2009 |
20110142933 | Controlled Release Dosage Form of Tacrolimus - A controlled release dosage form of tacrolimus, comprising a solid dispersion of tacrolimus, wherein a controlled release base, which is selected from the group consisting of a water-soluble macromolecule, a gum base, and a membrane forming agent and does not form the solid dispersion of tacrolimus, is further contained, is disclosed. The controlled release dosage form of tacrolimus has an excellent controlled release and shows a stable blood concentration. | 06-16-2011 |
20110281906 | SUSTAINED RELEASE FORMULATION FOR TACROLIMUS - A sustained release pharmaceutical composition for tacrolimus, comprising a solid dispersion containing tacrolimus or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a carrier for a sustained release pharmaceutical composition, wherein a dissolution rate of tacrolimus after 4 hours from the beginning of a dissolution test is less than 35%, is disclosed. | 11-17-2011 |
20140178756 | COMPOSITE PARTICLES FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE ELECTRODE, MATERIAL FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE ELECTRODE, ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE ELECTRODE, AND ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE - Composite particles for electrochemical device electrode containing an electrode active material and a particle-shaped binder, wherein said binder includes a copolymer which contains a nitrile group-containing monomer unit, a monomer unit which has an acidic functional group, and a monomer unit which contains a C | 06-26-2014 |
20140342225 | ELECTRODE FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE - An electrode for electrochemical device which is provided with an electrode active material layer containing an electrode active material and a binder, comprising binder-covered parts | 11-20-2014 |
20150038837 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING METASTASIS OF CANCER TO SENTINEL LYMPH NODE - Provided is a device capable of determining whether or not cancer has metastasized to a sentinel lymph node, such as the axillary lymph node, thickly covered with fat, safely and in a simple manner without confirmation by biopsy or extirpation. Fluorescence generated in a sentinel lymph node upon the excitation of protoporphyrin (a photosensitizing substance) derived from 5-ALA administered to a subject can be detected by passing a hollow tube, into which a small-diameter optical fiber for launching light and the small-diameter optical fiber for receiving light are inserted, through the lymph vessel to identify the presence or absence of the metastasis of cancer cells even before the surgery of cancer or during prognosis. | 02-05-2015 |
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20090133071 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus communicable with a plurality of content viewing devices via a network, including a viewing information receiving unit for receiving viewing information of a user in the past, present, and future from each of the content viewing devices, a user viewing content management unit for managing a user viewing content DB based on the viewing information received from each of the content viewing devices and a program guide, the user viewing content DB associating, in a form of program guide, past, present, and future contents represented in the program guide and identification information of users who have viewed the past content, those who are viewing the present content, and those who will view the future content, and a viewing information transmitting unit for transmitting the extracted viewing information of another user to the requesting content viewing device. | 05-21-2009 |
20090133081 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at the request source. | 05-21-2009 |
20100061878 | FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL SHEET FOR WATER HEATER EXCELLENT IN CORROSION RESISTANCE AT WELDED PART AND STEEL SHEET TOUGHNESS - A ferritic stainless steel sheet for a water heater with excellent corrosion resistance of welds and toughness includes, in terms of mass %, 0.020% or less of C, 0.30 to 1.00% of Si, 1.00% or less of Mn, 0.040% or less of P, 0.010% or less of S, 20.0 to 28.0% of Cr, 0.6% or less of Ni, 0.03 to 0.15% of Al, 0.020% or less of N, 0.0020 to 0.0150% of 0, 0.3 to 1.5% of Mo, 0.25 to 0.60% of Nb, and 0.05% or less of Ti, the remainder being composed of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and the ferritic stainless steel sheet satisfying the following formulae (1) and (2): | 03-11-2010 |
20100139818 | FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL SHEET HAVING SUPERIOR SULFURIC ACID CORROSION RESISTANCE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed is a ferritic stainless steel sheet which has excellent corrosion resistance against sulfuric acid in the high-temperature environment and shows less surface roughness at a bent part which is bent at 90° or more. Specifically disclosed is a ferritic stainless steel sheet which has the following chemical composition: C: 0.02 mass % or less, Si: 0.05 to 0.8 mass %, Mn: 0.5 mass % or less, P: 0.04 mass % or less, S: 0.010 mass % or less, Al: 0.10 mass % or less, Cr: 20 to 24 mass % Cu: 0.3 to 0.8 mass %, Ni: 0.5 mass % or less, Nb: 0.20 to 0.55 mass %, and N: 0.02 mass % or less, with the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities; and which has such a structure that the maximum particle diameter of an S-containing precipitate is 5 μm or smaller. | 06-10-2010 |
20110061777 | FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL SHEET HAVING SUPERIOR PUNCHING WORKABILITY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A ferritic stainless steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the ferritic stainless steel sheet include a composition which contains 0.0030 to 0.012 mass percent of C, 0.13 mass percent or less of Si, 0.25 mass percent or less of Mn, 0.04 mass percent or less of P, 0.005 mass percent or less of S, 0.06 mass percent or less of Al, 0.0030 to 0.012 mass percent of N, 20.5 to 23.5 mass percent of Cr, 0.3 to 0.6 mass percent of Cu, 0.5 mass percent or less of Ni, 0.3 to 0.5 mass percent of Nb, 0.05 to 0.15 mass percent of Ti, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities is hot-rolled at a finishing temperature of 900° C. or more and at a coiling temperature of 400 to 550° C., softening annealing is performed on an obtained hot-rolled steel sheet, picking is further performed, and cold rolling is subsequently performed. | 03-17-2011 |
20130001775 | CONDUCTIVE CONNECTING MEMBER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SAME - A conductive connecting member formed on a bonded face of an electrode terminal of a semiconductor or an electrode terminal of a circuit board, the conductive connecting member comprising a porous body formed in such manner that a conductive paste containing metal fine particles (P) having mean primary particle diameter from 10 to 500 nm and an organic solvent (S), or a conductive paste containing the metal fine particles (P) and an organic dispersion medium (D) comprising the organic solvent (S) and an organic binder (R) is heating-treated so as for the metal fine particles (P) to be bonded, the porous body being formed by bonded metal fine particles (P) having mean primary particle diameter from 10 to 500 nm, a porosity thereof being from 5 to 35 volume %, and mean pore diameter being from 1 to 200 nm. | 01-03-2013 |
20130047179 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at the request source. | 02-21-2013 |
20130086458 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes an edit command receiving unit and an editing unit. The edit command receiving unit is configured to receive a command with respect to a first image to edit a comic style page layout including a plurality of images. The editing unit is configured to edit the comic style page layout in accordance with the command and with respect to at least one of the plurality of images. | 04-04-2013 |
20130133005 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus communicable with a plurality of content viewing devices via a network, including a viewing information receiving unit for receiving viewing information of a user in the past, present, and future from each of the content viewing devices, a user viewing content management unit for managing a user viewing content DB based on the viewing information received from each of the content viewing devices and a program guide, the user viewing content DB associating, in a form of program guide, past, present, and future contents represented in the program guide and identification information of users who have viewed the past content, those who are viewing the present content, and those who will view the future content, and a viewing information transmitting unit for transmitting the extracted viewing information of another user to the requesting content viewing device. | 05-23-2013 |
20130302718 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING STAINLESS STEEL FOR FUEL CELL SEPARATOR, STAINLESS STEEL FOR FUEL CELL SEPARATOR, FUEL CELL SEPARATOR, AND FUEL CELL - A stainless steel for use in a fuel cell separator is produced by subjecting stainless steel containing 16 mass % or more of Cr to electrolytic treatment and thereafter to immersion treatment in a solution containing fluorine. The electrolytic treatment is carried out by anodic electrolyzation or by a combination of anodic electrolyzation and cathodic electrolyzation, and an anodic electrolytic quantity Qa and a cathodic electrolytic quantity Qc preferably satisfy Qa≧Qc. The solution containing fluorine preferably has a temperature of 40° C. or higher, and hydrofluoric acid concentration [HF] (mass %) and nitric acid concentration [HNO | 11-14-2013 |
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20090059008 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - A data processing apparatus includes: a detection section detecting an image of an object from moving image data; a table creation section recording position information indicating a position on the moving image data in a table on the basis of a detection result by the detection section; a dubbing processing section performing dubbing processing on the moving image data; and a control section controlling the dubbing processing section so as to extract a portion of the moving image data recorded on a first recording medium on the basis of the position information recorded in the table, and to perform the dubbing processing on the extracted portion onto a second recording medium. | 03-05-2009 |
20110302529 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - A display control apparatus includes an input unit configured to be operated to change the display state of a plurality of content items displayed on a display screen, a circling detector configured to detect a circling operation, detect the circling direction and number of revolutions thereof, and also determine an area enclosed by the circling operation to be a selection area, a content item search unit configured to search the plurality of content items for relevant content items that correspond to position information included inside the selection area, and a content display quantity adjuster configured to display or hide the relevant content items according to the circling direction, and in the case of a plurality of relevant content items, determine the number of relevant content items to display or hide from among the relevant content items on the basis of the number of revolutions. | 12-08-2011 |
20120293501 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus includes a detector and a display controller. The detector is configured to detect an inclination angle of a display surface of a display unit. The display controller is configured to control the display unit to display a plurality of menu items disposed along a depth direction perpendicular to the display surface, and to shift the plurality of menu items in a direction parallel to the display surface based on the inclination angle detected by the detector. | 11-22-2012 |
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20080266313 | COLOR PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - In order to obtain calorimetric data close to the color appearance under an actual viewing condition, a plurality of conversion data for converting calorimetric data measured under the first geometric condition of colorimetry into that measured under the second geometric condition of colorimetry are held, and the information of a viewing illuminant and calorimetric data measured under the first geometric condition of colorimetry are obtained. Conversion data which corresponds to the information of the viewing illuminant is interpolated from the plurality of conversion data which are held. The calorimetric data measured under the first geometric condition of colorimetry is converted into that measured under the second geometric condition of colorimetry using the interpolated conversion data. | 10-30-2008 |
20090201391 | COLOR PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided a color processing apparatus that performs color reproduction in accordance with the brightness of a subject at the time of photographing. An acquisition unit acquires image data. A setting unit sets viewing environment parameters for a plurality of luminance ranges based on a luminance histogram of the image data that is acquired. A processing unit performs color conversion processing using a color appearance model, using the viewing environment parameters that are set in accordance with the luminance of pixels of the image data that is acquired. | 08-13-2009 |
20100054589 | COLOR PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A first processor calculates a white point of a pixel of interest of image data from surrounding pixels of the pixel of interest, and executes adaptation processing using the calculated white point. A second processor executes adaptation processing using a fixed white point of image data. A selector selects an area of input image data. A color converter executes color conversion of the input image data using the first or second processor corresponding to the selected area. | 03-04-2010 |
20110026824 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Included are determining a position of a pixel serving as an extraction subject by using first image data photographed under a first light source; determining an extraction range corresponding to the determined position, by using a color value of the pixel at the determined position and a color value of a pixel at a peripheral position around the determined position in the first image data; calculating a first representative color value from the first image data and a second representative color value from second image data photographed under a second light source, on the basis of the position of the pixel serving as the extraction subject and the extraction range; and generating a color correction condition for converting a color value depending on the first light source into a color value depending on the second light source. | 02-03-2011 |
20120257088 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A plurality of image data obtained by divided-capturing an object and correction image data obtained by capturing a correction chart at an angle of view wider than that in the divided capturing are input. Heterogeneity of luminance in the plurality of image data is corrected based on the correction image data. Joined image data representing the entire image of the object is generated by joining the plurality of image data in which the heterogeneity of luminance has been corrected. | 10-11-2012 |
20130195357 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Included are determining a position of a pixel serving as an extraction subject by using first image data photographed under a first light source; determining an extraction range corresponding to the determined position, by using a color value of the pixel at the determined position and a color value of a pixel at a peripheral position around the determined position in the first image data; calculating a first representative color value from the first image data and a second representative color value from second image data photographed under a second light source, on the basis of the position of the pixel serving as the extraction subject and the extraction range; and generating a color correction condition for converting a color value depending on the first light source into a color value depending on the second light source. | 08-01-2013 |
20140055645 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - First image data obtained by capturing an image of a subject under a first light condition, and second image data obtained by capturing an image of the subject under a second light condition different from the first light condition are input. The sampling positions of colors used to generate correction parameters are acquired. First color signal values are sampled from the sampling positions in the first image data, and second color signal values are sampled from the sampling positions in the second image data. Correction parameters used to correct the first image data which depends on the first light condition into image data which depends on the second light condition are generated based on the first and second color signal values. | 02-27-2014 |
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20080287680 | Solifenacin Succinate-Containing Composition - A solifenacin succinate-containing composition with less impurities which can be used as a bulk for pharmaceutical is provided. | 11-20-2008 |
20100116777 | SYNTHETIC RESIN BOTTLE AND PROCESS FOR MOLDING THE SAME - A technical problem is to fully make up for a restricted upper limit to the preform body wall thickness. An object is to provide a bottle which is narrow-mouthed and yet has a substantially expanded body. The molding process comprises steps of: (1) injection molding a preform in the shape of a test tube taller than the bottle wherein the preform has a cylindrical mouth opening portion disposed in an upper part of the preform, and wherein the mouth opening portion of the preform serves also as a mouth opening portion of the bottle product; (2) thermally shrinking the preform from an initial height so that portions other than the mouth opening portion of the preform would have a height that is smaller than that of the bottle; and (3) setting this thermally shrunk preform in a blow mold and biaxially drawing and blow molding the preform into the bottle. | 05-13-2010 |
20110288325 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICA-SUPPORTED CATALYST, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING UNSATURATED CARBOXYLIC ACID OR UNSATURATED NITRILE - Disclosed is a silica-supported catalyst having excellent wear resistance, by which an object product can be obtained with excellent yield. Specifically disclosed is a method for producing a silica-supported catalyst which contains Mo, V, Nb and component X (that is Sb and/or Te), and is used in a vapor-phase catalytic oxidation reaction or vapor-phase catalytic ammoxidation reaction of propane. The method for producing a silica-supported catalyst comprises: (I) a step wherein Mo, V, Nb, component X, a silica sol and water are mixed, thereby preparing a starting material blended solution; (II) a step wherein the starting material blended solution is dried, thereby obtaining a dried powder; and (III) a step wherein the dried powder is tired, thereby obtaining a silica-supported catalyst. In the method for producing a silica-supported catalyst, the silica sol contains 10-270 ppm by weight of nitrate ions relative to SiO | 11-24-2011 |
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20140256977 | Method for Producing Silica-Supported Catalyst, and Method for Producing Unsaturated Carboxylic Acid or Unsaturated Nitrile - To produce a silica-supported catalyst having an excellent yield of a target product and excellent catalyst attrition resistance. | 09-11-2014 |