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20140127084 | EXHAUST GAS CATALYST, METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CARRIER, METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF EXHAUST GAS CATALYST, AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING EXHAUST GAS - An exhaust gas controlling catalyst includes zirconia particles; ceria particles which contact the zirconia particles, of which a mean particle size is smaller than a mean particle size of the zirconia particles; and an active metal that is supported on at least the ceria particles in a dispersed manner. | 05-08-2014 |
20140134087 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXHAUST GAS CONTROL OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An exhaust gas control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: a NOx purification catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine; a degradation degree estimating unit estimating a degradation degree of the NOx purification catalyst; and an air-fuel ratio control unit adjusting an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the NOx purification catalyst, wherein, until the estimated degradation degree of the NOx purification catalyst reaches a predetermined degradation degree, the air-fuel ratio control unit adjusts the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas to a rich air-fuel ratio, and, when the estimated degradation degree of the NOx purification catalyst exceeds the predetermined degradation degree, the air-fuel ratio control unit changes the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas from the rich air-fuel ratio to a lean air-fuel ratio so that the NOx purification catalyst is regenerated. | 05-15-2014 |
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20100027032 | EDGE DETECTION METHOD - An edge detection method includes preparing a transparent substrate which includes a first main face having a first main region and a first peripheral region and a second main face having a second main region and a second peripheral region, the first peripheral region having an inclination angle of θa1 and the second peripheral region having an inclination angle of θa2, causing measuring light to enter the first peripheral region from a direction perpendicular to the first main region, detecting a non-emitting region where the measuring light is not emitted from the second peripheral region, and detecting an edge of the transparent substrate on the basis of the non-emitting region, wherein if a refractive index of the transparent substrate is n, the inclination angles θa1 and θa2 satisfy the following expression: | 02-04-2010 |
20110068476 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having first and second main surfaces, and a through hole passing through between the first and second main surfaces, a pad on the first main surface, a through electrode in the through hole, and a connection structure including a connection portion to directly connect the pad and the through electrode, and another connection portion to indirectly connect the pad and the through electrode. The method includes forming an isolation region in the first main surface, the isolation region being in a region where the through electrode is to be formed and being in a region other than the region where the through hole is to be formed, forming the pad, and forming the through hole by processing the substrate to expose a part of the pad. | 03-24-2011 |
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20110109822 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display element includes: a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal material reflecting light having a certain wavelength; and an electrode layer configured to apply a driving voltage to the liquid crystal material, wherein an alignment direction of first liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal material is a first direction substantially parallel to a liquid crystal display surface. | 05-12-2011 |
20120092600 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device including: a liquid crystal display element that includes a liquid crystal layer, and an upper substrate and a lower substrate opposed to each other via the liquid crystal layer, a plurality of liquid crystal display elements being stacked; wherein a condensing direction of a reflected light by directional control in at least one of the liquid crystal display elements is different from a condensing direction of a reflected light by directional control in at least one of another liquid crystal display elements. | 04-19-2012 |
20120154735 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device includes forming a structure on a first substrate, bonding a second substrate onto the structure to form a first space and a second space which are isolated by the structure between the first substrate and the second substrate, injecting a first liquid crystal material containing a photo-curable resin into one of the first space and the second space while selectively irradiating a boundary area of the first space and the second space with a light, and injecting a second liquid crystal material different from the first liquid crystal material into another one of the first space and the second space. | 06-21-2012 |
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20140024432 | REEL FOR GAMING MACHINE AND GAMING MACHINE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING REEL - A method of manufacturing a reel for a slot machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: forming an opening in a reel strip on which a plurality of first symbols are printed; forming a second symbol on an optical sheet by vacuum forming the optical sheet to form a symbol piece, the second symbol including a protrusion and a depression; attaching the symbol piece to the reel strip such that the second symbol is exposed through the opening of the reel strip; and attaching the reel strip to a reel frame for the slot machine. | 01-23-2014 |
20140312565 | REEL BELT OF GAMING MACHINE AND GAMING MACHINE - Provided is a reel unit for a gaming machine which suppresses decrease in visibility of a reel belt due to the formation of image of light source on a reel even if light emission intensity for illuminating the reel is high. It is provided a first light diffusion sheet with translucency having a light refraction surface including a surface formed thereon for refracting light passing therethrough in various directions, the first light diffusion sheet stacked on a base sheet; and a second light diffusion sheet having the light refraction surface, the second light diffusion sheet stacked on the first light diffusion sheet. | 10-23-2014 |
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20160042614 | GAMING MACHINE - Probability of prize occurrence is easily controlled without provision of a blank between symbols on a reel. A gaming machine comprises: a lower image display panel configured to variably display a plurality of symbol arrays with a plurality of symbols including normal symbols and specific symbols more advantageous than the normal symbols, and then display a game result by rearranging the symbols in a symbol display region containing a matrix of cells; bet buttons capable of receiving a bet; and a controller configured to run a normal game which rearranges symbols on the symbol display device on condition that a bet is placed, the controller is configured to modify the symbols arrayed in the plurality of symbol arrays, so that the ratios of the specific symbols to the total number of the symbols in all the symbol arrays increases with an increase in the bet amount. | 02-11-2016 |
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20110317813 | WAVELENGTH-CLASSIFYING TYPE X-RAY DIFFRACTION DEVICE - A wavelength-classifying type X-ray diffraction device bombards a sample with characteristic X-rays generated from an X-ray generation source, and detects characteristic X-rays diffracted by the sample using an X-ray detector. The X-ray generation source is composed of several metals of different atomic number, respective metals generating several characteristic X-rays of different wavelengths. An X-ray detector is composed of several pixels for receiving X-rays and outputting pulse signals corresponding to X-ray wavelengths. Pixels are respectively furnished with classification circuits. The classification circuits classify and output pixel output signals based on each of characteristic X-ray wavelengths. X-ray intensity is detected on a per-wavelength basis in individual pixels | 12-29-2011 |
20120161019 | X-RAY DETECTOR - To provide an X-ray detector facilitating the installing and replacement work of a module while reducing the possibility of breakage. An X-ray detector | 06-28-2012 |
20120161027 | X-RAY DETECTOR - An X-ray detector is connected to a large number of detector modules connected in series. The X-ray detector detects X-ray image data for each detection module, each module synchronously reading X-ray image data detected by itself based on an internal clock φ, each module transferring the read X-ray image data one after another. Each of the detection modules receives the transferred X-ray image data, and resynchronizes the received X-ray image data by using the internal clock, and transfers the same together with the detected X-ray image data. This enables arranging the detection module at an arbitrary position without a change in the method of transferring data for each measurement or without a load on a control device. | 06-28-2012 |
20140236523 | X-RAY DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, X-RAY DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND X-RAY DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - An X-ray data processing apparatus for processing X-ray data that is obtained by simultaneously measuring X-rays of multiple wavelengths. The apparatus includes a management unit | 08-21-2014 |
20150146960 | CORRECTION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD AND CORRECTION INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS - A correction information generation method and a correction information generation apparatus enabling easy Flat-Field Correction operation without special accessory equipment are provided. The correction information generation method for performing Flat-Field Correction of X-ray detection sensitivity on a pixel detector, includes the steps of: moving the relative position of a detector | 05-28-2015 |
20150212213 | RADIATION DETECTOR, AND X-RAY ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND RADIATION DETECTION METHOD USING THE SAME - There are provided a radiation detector capable of detecting radiation without occurrence of dead time while maintaining an exposure state in which radiation enters continuously, and an X-ray analysis apparatus and a radiation detection method using the radiation detector. A radiation detector | 07-30-2015 |
20150213623 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method and an image processing apparatus which remove the effects of cosmic rays, noise and defective pixels without losing data in a specified time and which can correct image data efficiently and with high accuracy are provided. An image processing method of performing correction processing on an abnormal value of X-ray image data is provided which includes the steps of: (S | 07-30-2015 |
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20110231042 | VEHICLE POWER SYSTEM - A vehicle power system is provided with a switching power supply that generates an operation power for operating a plurality of ECU by stepping down a power supply supplied from at least one of a generator and a battery, and a power distributor that distributes and supplies the operation power generated by the switching power supply to the individual ECUs. | 09-22-2011 |
20140375153 | ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE FOR VEHICLES - A rotating electric machine for vehicles has a rotor, a stator, and an electric power converter. The electric power converter has a plurality of MOS modules including a MOS transistor on a high side and another MOS transistor on a low side. Each of the MOS modules has a length and a plurality of terminals are pulled out from both ends of the switching module, the plurality of terminals are disposed in positions where currents that flow through insides of the modules are faced to each other in opposite flowing direction, and bus bars are disposed at upper surface side of each module. | 12-25-2014 |
20140375180 | ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE FOR VEHICLES - A rotating electric machine for vehicles has a rotor, a stator, and an electric power converter. The electric power converter has an even number of switching modules including MOS transistors, and bus bars. Each of the bus bars extends in two directions sandwiching an input/output terminal therebetween while the same number of the MOS modules are connected to each of the bus bars in the two directions. | 12-25-2014 |
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20090222845 | DISC CHANGER DEVICE - The disc changer device, for housing a plurality of discs, and transporting a selected disc to carry out a recording/reproducing operation on the disc, is provided with a plurality of trays, a first tray driving unit for moving the tray reciprocatingly between a stand-by position and a recording/reproducing position, a traverse unit having an optical pickup and a turn table, a clamp unit for moving the traverse unit to a clamp position as well as to a retreat position, a pickup moving unit for moving the optical pickup, a first motor for driving the first tray driving unit, the pickup moving unit and the clamp unit, an elevation unit that raises and lowers the traverse unit, a second tray driving unit for moving the tray reciprocatingly between the stand-by position and an exchange position, and a second motor for driving the elevation unit and the second tray driving unit. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222847 | TRAY CARRY-OUT METHOD FOR DISC CHANGER DEVICE - The tray carry-out method for a disc changer device, comprising, while transporting the tray from a recording/reproducing position to a stand-by position by driving the first motor, starting to drive the second motor for bringing a tray driving gear unit into a tray simultaneously transportable state, and upon completion of the transport of the tray to the stand-by position, with the tray driving gear unit being set to the tray simultaneously transportable state, starting to drive the second motor to carry out the tray from the stand-by position to an exchange position. | 09-03-2009 |
20110283300 | DISK DEVICE - There is provided a disk device having a buffer portion capable of relatively moving at least a rack at the beginning of meshing with a drive gear in an opposite direction to a moving direction of a slide cam member moved by conveyance of a disk, when the disk is conveyed to a replayable position by a disk conveyance mechanism and the slide cam member moves so that the drive gear and the rack are meshed with each other. | 11-17-2011 |
20120005695 | DISK DEVICE - A disk device is provided with a pair of slide cam members respectively starting movement when a disk is conveyed to a replayable position, and a pair of clamper lifters respectively having clamper support portions supporting clamper, the pair of clamper lifters are moved in opposite directions to each other in a horizontal direction orthogonal to a thickness direction of the disk device in conjunction with the movement of the pair of slide cam members, and formed so that timings to start movement in the opposite directions to each other are different from each other, and the clamper support portions have inclined surfaces being contacted with an outer peripheral part of the clamper in accordance with the movement of the pair of clamper lifters in the opposite directions to each other so as to move the clamper in the thickness direction of the disk device. | 01-05-2012 |
20120089995 | DISK APPARATUS - A disk device of the invention is provided with a trigger member rotated by being contacted with and pressed by a disk having a different diameter to be conveyed to a replayable position, a slide cam member which drives a disk installment mechanism by being pressed and moved by the trigger member, and a centering member which centers the disk so that the disk faces a turntable at the replayable position. The trigger member has a rotation shaft portion serving as a rotation center, a disk contact portion to be contacted with the disk, and a pressing portion for pressing the slide cam member, and the centering member is provided movably in a disk conveying direction by being contacted with and pressed by the conveyed disk, and has a guide portion for moving the rotation shaft portion of the trigger member in accordance with movement in the disk conveying direction. | 04-12-2012 |
20130326548 | DISC DEVICE - The disc device supplies a disc to each of the plurality of disc drives. The disc device includes a carrier which retains a plurality of discs being stacked in such a stacked state, which separates one disc from the retained plurality of discs above a tray ejected from an arbitrary one of the disc drives, and which places the separated disc on the tray. The carrier includes a plurality of claw portions holding the inner circumferential portion of the bottommost disc out of the plurality of discs, and a disc press pressing the topmost disc out of the plurality of discs so as to be in parallel to the disc placing face of the tray. | 12-05-2013 |
20130326549 | DISC DEVICE - The disc device includes a carrier which retains a plurality of discs in such a stacked state, which separates one disc from the retained plurality of discs above a tray ejected from arbitrary one of the disc drives, and which places the separated disc on the tray. The carrier includes a spindle unit inserted into a center hole formed in each of the discs, a first hold claw portion which holds an inner circumferential portion of the disc, and a second hold claw portion provided at a position higher than the first hold claw portion by a substantially thickness of one disc, the second hold claw portion holding an inner circumferential portion of the disc. One disc from the retained discs is separated by shifting the first and second hold claw portions back and forth between an inner side and an outer side of the spindle unit. | 12-05-2013 |
20130336098 | DISC DEVICE - A disc device with which the disc replacing time can further be suppressed includes a carrier which retains a plurality of discs in a stacked state, which supplies the retained plurality of discs to a plurality of disc drives, respectively, and which collects the supplied plurality of discs in a stacked state. The carrier is structured to retain a stacked object made up of a first plurality of discs collected from the plurality of disc drives and a second plurality of discs to be supplied next to the plurality of disc drives. | 12-19-2013 |
20130347012 | MAGAZINE BOX - There is provided a magazine box for removably storing a plurality of disc-storing magazines used in a disc apparatus for feeding a disc to each of a plurality of disc drives; wherein the magazines each include a tray for storing the disc, a case for removably storing the tray, and a first locking mechanism for releasably locking the tray to the case; the magazine box further includes a second locking mechanism for releasably locking the case of each of the plurality of magazines to the magazine box, and the second locking mechanism maintains the locked state at least during the automatic tray-ejection from the case in the disc apparatus is conducted. | 12-26-2013 |
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20090085593 | Test socket - A support block has a first face, a second face opposed to the first face, and first and second through holes communicating between the first face and the second face, and is formed with resin material. The first face, the second face, and the first and second through holes are covered with an electrically conductive plated coating. First and second probes are electrically connected to terminals of a device to be tested provided on a side of the first face and to terminals connected to a testing apparatus provided on a side of the second face. The first probe is provided in the first through hole and is electrically connected to the plated coating on the first through hole, the second probe is provided in the second through hole and is electrically connected to the plated coating on the second through hole. A pattern for defining a first region electrically connected to the first probe via the plated coating and a second region electrically connected to the second probe via the plated coating is formed by partially removing the plated coating on the first face and the second face, where the second region is electrically isolated from the first region. Electrodes of an electronic component are respectively connected to the first and second regions. | 04-02-2009 |
20090230983 | SOCKET FOR INSPECTION - A support block is provided with a plurality of through holes for supporting probes. The probes for signals, for power supply and for grounding are secured in the through holes of the support block and electrically interconnect electrode terminals of a device to be inspected, which is provided on one face side of the support block, and wiring terminals connected t an inspection unit, which is provided on the other face side of the support block. A device guide is integrally formed with or separately fixed to the one face side of the support block, and includes an opening having a square shape in a plan view for guiding the device to be inspected. A centering mechanism adjusts a position of the device to be inspected at a center position of the opening of the device guide. | 09-17-2009 |
20100188112 | INSPECTION SOCKET - An inspection socket connects electrode terminals of an object to be inspected to wirings of a wiring board. The inspection socket includes: a metal block formed with first holes; contact probes provided in the first holes and including at least a contact probe for RF signals, the contact probes provided with plungers capable of moving in an axial direction at distal ends of the contact probes; and an insulating board securing the contact probes and formed with second holes through which the plungers are passed, the insulating board provided with a GND member around the contact probe for RF signals. | 07-29-2010 |
20100244872 | INSPECTION SOCKET AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - An inspection socket configured to connect an electrode terminal of an object to be inspected and a wiring of a wiring board, includes: a metal block including a first surface to be opposed to the object to be inspected and a second surface to be opposed to the wiring board, and provided with a through hole connecting the first surface and the second surface in a first direction, an inner wall of the through hole having a part which is not rectilinear in the first direction; and a contact probe for grounding provided in the through hole, and being connected to the inner wall of the through hole, at least in vicinity of the part which is not rectilinear. | 09-30-2010 |