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20090009048 | SPARK PLUG - A spark plug ( | 01-08-2009 |
20090309474 | SPARK PLUG - A spark plug has a center electrode, a ceramic insulator having an axial hole to support the center electrode therein, a metal shell holding the ceramic insulator, and a ground electrode, one end portion of which is fixedly connected with the metal shell, the other end portion of which is located apart from an outer circumferential surface of a top end portion of the center electrode for defining a spark discharge gap therebetween. The ceramic insulator is provided with recesses at an edge portion between a top end surface of the ceramic insulator and an inner circumferential surface of the axial hole. When defining first and second imaginary circles with the axis being their respective centers as circles passing through portions of the recesses whose radial distances from the axis are a maximum and a minimum respectively, a difference of diameters of the first and second imaginary circles is 0.08 mm or less. | 12-17-2009 |
20120256530 | SPARK PLUG - A spark plug including a center electrode and a ground electrode having a core portion and an outer layer covering the core portion, the core portion being formed from a material having a thermal conductivity higher than that of the outer layer. At least a portion in which thickness of the outer layer is 0.5 mm or less is present at a cross-section perpendicular to a direction in which the ground electrode is extended. Further, the composition of the electrode material forming the outer layer is as follows: Ni is 96 mass % or more, total of at least one kind selected from Y and rare earth elements is 0.05 mass % or more, Al is 0.5 mass % or less, and Si is 0.5 mass % or more and 1.5 mass % or less, where the total of Ni, Y, rare earth elements, Al, Si does not exceed 100 mass %. | 10-11-2012 |
20120293061 | SPARK PLUG - A spark plug including a center electrode and a ground electrode having a gap between the center electrode and the ground electrode, the ground electrode has an outer layer which is formed from an Ni-based alloy and a core portion which is covered by the outer layer and formed from a material having a thermal conductivity higher than that of the outer layer. Further, the melting point of the Ni-based alloy forming the outer layer is 1150° C. or more and 1350° C. or less. | 11-22-2012 |
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20090289540 | SPARK PLUG - A spark plug comprising a center electrode, a first noble metal tip joined to the center electrode, an insulator, a metallic shell, a ground electrode joined to the metallic shell and including an outer layer and an inner layer, and a second noble metal tip joined to the ground electrode by way of a melted portion, wherein in a cross section of the ground electrode, the protrusion height A of the second noble metal tip is 0.4 mm or more, the ground electrode includes a substantially flat joining surface to which the second noble metal tip is joined and an outwardly curved surface, the inner layer has at the joining surface side a substantially flat surface or recessed surface, and the minimum distance F between the melted portion and the inner layer is 0.1 mm or more. | 11-26-2009 |
20100264803 | SPARK PLUG FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SPARK PLUG - A spark plug including a center electrode and a ground electrode. A center electrode noble metal tip is joined to a leading end portion of a center electrode, and a ground electrode noble metal tip is joined to a center-electrode-side side surface of the ground electrode. A distal end portion of the ground electrode noble metal tip protrudes from a distal-end surface of the ground electrode by 0.1 mm to 1.5 mm. A center-electrode-side side surface of the ground electrode noble metal tip projects from a center-electrode-side side surface by 0.15 mm to 0.6 mm. The ground electrode includes chamfered portions. Thickness lengths and widthwise lengths of the respective chamfered portions achieved within a cross section perpendicular to a center axis of the ground electrode are set to 0.2 mm or more. | 10-21-2010 |
20110043093 | SPARK PLUG - A spark plug ( | 02-24-2011 |
20120013241 | SPARK PLUG - The object of the invention is to provide a spark plug including a central electrode and/or a ground electrode, which can suppress generation of corrosion-like generated foreign substances while maintaining high thermal conductivity and high strength. | 01-19-2012 |
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20130246964 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display which also serves as a touch operation input unit, and a display controller. The display controller includes a standby state output unit and a scroll controller. The standby state output unit displays, on the display, at least one of the images as a first image, and a second image as an array of a plurality of tabs. If the user swipes the display area of the second image, the scroll controller controls the plurality of tabs to scroll while maintaining the first image as a front image. | 09-19-2013 |
20140189593 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND INPUT METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic device displays, in first mode, a first user interface having a first size on a screen, the first user interface including first icons corresponding to styles of drawing performed based on input from a first sensor, and displays, in second mode capable of displaying at least a menu to set the styles, a second user interface having a second size larger than the first size on the screen, the second user interface including second icons corresponding to the styles. If one of first icons is selected in the first mode, the electronic device performs drawing on the screen in a first style based on input from the first sensor, the first style corresponding to the one of the first icons. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189594 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display controller and a selector. The display controller displays, on a screen, at least one or more note icons corresponding to a note file including a plurality of pages. The selector selects a first note icon displayed on the screen. If a display mode of a note icon transitions from a mode capable of selecting at least one or more note icons to a mode capable of manipulating a page of a first note file corresponding to the first note icon, the display controller displays a transition image including an enlarged image of the first note icon and an enlarged image of a region other than the first note icon. | 07-03-2014 |
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20090020918 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS THEREOF - A method of manufacturing a honeycomb structure having a plugged portion, which is faster and cheaper to manufacture, and a manufacturing apparatus thereof. A film is attached to an end face of a honeycomb structure in a state where the honeycomb structure is positioned in a table portion having a through hole into which the end face portion of the honeycomb structure is to be inserted, and the film is held in a flat state where a remaining portion of the film which is not attached to the end face is attached to the table portion. Then, holes opened so as to correspond to the openings of a part of cells are formed in the film to form the film as a mask, and a plugging material having fluidity is supplied onto the mask or onto the same plane as the mask to fill the cells with the plugging material. | 01-22-2009 |
20090181167 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING DEVICE THEREOF - A method of manufacturing a honeycomb structure having a plugged portion, wherein a mask is applied to the honeycomb structure, a plugging material is supplied on the mask or on the same plane as a surface of the mask, and a pressurizing apparatus disposed at an acute angle with respect to the surface of the mask and having a pressurizing face for pressurizing the plugging material is moved to fill the plugging material into the cells of the honeycomb structure. The pressurizing apparatus is moved on the mask with a part of the region of the pressurizing face being brought into surface contact with the mask via the plugging material to pressurize the plugging material toward the cell side and to push out an extra plugging material in the direction of movement to further pressurize and fill the material into the cells with forming the region of the surface contact. | 07-16-2009 |
20110070396 | HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A honeycomb structure | 03-24-2011 |
20110076443 | HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A honeycomb structure includes porous partition walls via which a plurality of cells constituting through channels for a fluid are partitioned; and an outer peripheral wall positioned in the outermost periphery of the structure. Open frontal areas of predetermined cells in an end face of the structure on a fluid inlet side thereof and open frontal areas of remaining cells in an end face of the structure on a fluid outlet side thereof have plugged portions. The outward end faces of the plugged portions are flat, the plugged portions do not have any bubble having a diameter of 0.3 mm or more, and a value obtained by dividing the standard deviation of the plugging depths of the plugged portions by the average plugging depth of the plugged portions is 0.15 or less. | 03-31-2011 |
20110108201 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE - A method of manufacturing a honeycomb structure having a plugged portion, which is faster and cheaper to manufacture, and a manufacturing apparatus thereof. A film is attached to an end face of a honeycomb structure in a state where the honeycomb structure is positioned in a table portion having a through hole into which the end face portion of the honeycomb structure is to be inserted, and the film is held in a flat state where a remaining portion of the film which is not attached to the end face is attached to the table portion. Then, holes opened so as to correspond to the openings of a part of cells are formed in the film to form the film as a mask, and a plugging material having fluidity is supplied onto the mask or onto the same plane as the mask to fill the cells with the plugging material. | 05-12-2011 |
20130062103 | COMPOSITE STRUCTURE, SOLID FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE COMPOSITE STRUCTURE - In the case where a coating film is formed on a curved outer peripheral surface of a base body from a slurry through a wet process, when pseudoplasticity is imparted to the slurry, the slurry exhibits favorable film formability, and the coating film formed on the curved surface exhibits favorable shape stability. A solid film obtained through solidification of the coating film is formed such that the following relation is satisfied: t | 03-14-2013 |
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20090317040 | OPTICAL FIBER AND OPTICAL FIBER PREFORM - An optical fiber is constituted by: a three-layer structured core which includes, a first core (having a relative refractive index difference of Δ | 12-24-2009 |
20100139323 | OPTICAL FIBER MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL FIBER MANUFACTURING METHOD - An optical fiber manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing an optical fiber by drawing a optical fiber preform, including: a drawing furnace having therein a muffle tube into which the optical fiber preform is inserted and heating the optical fiber preform; and a first seal member which is disposed at an insert side of the drawing furnace so as to be coaxial with the drawing furnace and which seals the optical fiber preform inserted into an opening formed at the center thereof, wherein the first seal member includes a plurality of inner-circumference slits formed in the inner circumference thereof and a plurality of outer-circumference slits formed in the outer circumference thereof. | 06-10-2010 |
20110214271 | METHOD OF ATTACHING AND DETACHING PREFORM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL FIBER - A method of attaching and detaching a preform to and from a support body, the preform being used to manufacture an optical fiber, the method including: inserting a connection pin through a penetration hole provided in the preform and a penetration hole provided in the support body; attaching the preform to the support body by hanging the preform on the connection pin inserted through the penetration holes; and detaching the preform from the support body by taking out the connection pin from the penetration holes after the connection pin is rotated about an insertion axis due to an action of a moment based on gravity when the hung state of the preform hung on the connection pin is released. | 09-08-2011 |
20120321891 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF POROUS SILICA BODY, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER PREFORM, POROUS SILICA BODY, AND OPTICAL FIBER PREFORM - A manufacturing method for a porous silica body including: a step of arranging a plurality of burners around an optical fiber core rod; and a deposition step of depositing a plurality of soot layers on an outer peripheral surface of the optical fiber core rod by the burners, wherein the deposition step comprises forming each of the plurality of soot layers by one of the burners, and depositing each soot layer to satisfy 0.2≦x≦0.5 and 0.1≦y≦4.0x2−3.8x+1.3 where x (g/cm3) is the average bulk density and y (mm) is the deposition thickness, and so that the maximum value of the bulk density of the soot layers becomes 0.6 g/cm3 or less. | 12-20-2012 |