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20110232352 | METHOD OF PRODUCING ULTRATHIN-WALL SEAMLESS METAL TUBE USING FLOATING PLUG - Proposed is a method of producing an ultrathin-wall metal tube by a cold drawing method capable of drastically expanding an available size range toward much thinner side with respect to wall thickness of metal tubes. This is a diameter-expanding drawing method, in which an entry solid die, the diameter of which increases, remains constant or decreases from the engaging entry side toward the finishing exit side, and a delivery solid die, the diameter of which decreases at least in the vicinity of the engaging entry, are arranged in series and in an abutting relation on the same pass line, and a tapered plug, the diameter of which increases from the engaging entry side toward the finishing exit side, is caused to float along the pass line, whereby in the entry solid die region, the wall thickness is reduced while the mid-wall diameter of a hollow shell is being expanded between the solid die and the plug, and in the delivery solid die region, the tapered plug is caused to float by performing reduction working of the outside diameter. This method offers tremendously great economic advantages, because it is possible to produce ultrathin-wall seamless metal tubes and to make longer length tubes, and to realize the rationalization of processes in terms of yield, efficiency and the like. | 09-29-2011 |
20110271731 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEAMLESS METALLIC TUBE BY COLD ROLLING - In cold rolling of a seamless metallic tube with a cold pilger mill, when a reduction ratio of an outside diameter becomes excessive in comparison to a reduction ratio of a wall thickness, strain in a circumferential direction on flange regions becomes excessive. As a result, compressive stress in a circumferential direction becomes excessive, so that wrinkle imperfections are generated inside a tube and folded on groove bottom regions to become folded defects. This process is repeated to be developed into inside defects. When a hollow shell is produced by the Mannesmann-mandrel process instead of the extrusion process, inside wrinkle imperfections are generated with a sizing mill (a stretch reducer or a sizer) at a stage of hollow shell. Since the inside wrinkle imperfections further grow in cold rolling, it is necessary to pay attention thereto. In consideration of these, (a reduction ratio of an outside diameter/a reduction ratio of a wall thickness both in a cold pilger mill) is set to not more than 1/2. It is, thereby, possible to obtain a high-quality seamless metallic tube, inside defects thereof being suppressed, produced by cold rolling. | 11-10-2011 |
20120036911 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ULTRATHIN-WALL SEAMLESS METAL TUBE BY COLD ROLLING METHOD - A method for producing an ultrathin-wall seamless metal tube, which employs a cold pilger mill of mechatronics drive type including a mechanism to give a feed and a turn angle to a tube material, utilizes a roll having a tapered groove whose diameter gradually increases or gradually decreases from an engaging entry side to a finishing exit side of a pair of rolls, and a tapered mandrel whose diameter similarly gradually increases from the engaging entry side to the finishing exit side to elongate the tube material by reducing a wall thickness while expanding a mid-wall diameter of the tube material. By giving amounts of a turn angle and/or a feed equivalent or nearly equivalent to the forward stroke to the tube material immediately before the start of a backward stroke, it is possible to achieve a further increase in the reduction-rate of rolling, a further reduction of wall thickness, and improvement of dimensional accuracy of the product. | 02-16-2012 |
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20100110545 | RETROREFLECTIVE ARTICLE - A retroreflective object having a retroreflective clement layer in which a large number of cube corner retroreflective elements of total internal reflection type are disposed. In the back surface of the retroreflective element layer, an optical characteristic adjusting layer is partially provided, and in the back surface of the optical characteristic adjusting layer, an air layer is provided. With the invention, an optical characteristic adjusting layer for adjusting a hue and occupant area ratio can be provided on the back surface of the retroreflective element layer of an existing object in a simple way for easy adjustment, thus enabling a retroreflective object to be manufactured at high productivity and low cost. Therefore, retroreflective objects suitable for reflective plates for traffic related signs such as a traffic sign, a regulation sign, an information sign, and a construction work sign, commercial sings, and reflected-light sensors for visible light, laser beam, or infrared light can be manufactured effectively with use of existing products. | 05-06-2010 |
20110013281 | TRIANGULAR PYRAMID TYPE CUBE CORNER RETROREFLECTION ARTICLE, AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD - The present invention relates to a triangular pyramidal cube corner retroreflective article and a producing method thereof. In the triangular pyramidal cube corner retroreflective article, a triangular pyramidal cube corner retroreflective element pair group is disposed in a closest-packed fashion on a common plane defined by three base lines, and the each of retroreflective elements in a pair having one base line (A-B) shared by the retroreflective elements in the pair. The triangular pyramidal cube corner retroreflective article includes a first element pair group, in which two interior angles (α=∠BAC and β=∠ABC) formed by the shared base line of the element pair and two other base lines are different from each other and the element pair is line-symmetrically disposed in relation to the shared base line (A-B); and a second element pair group, in which the element pair is congruent to a line-symmetrical shape to the first element pair in relation to a line segment connecting vertexes of the base planes. | 01-20-2011 |
20110043915 | CUBE-CORNER RETROREFLECTIVE ARTICLE - [Object] An object to be solved by the invention is to improve a retroreflective characteristic of a quadrilateral element that is a cube-corner element, which has reflective lateral surfaces including two trapezoidal reflective lateral surfaces and one pentagonal or isosceles-triangular reflective lateral surface, and which has a projection shape of a quadrangle when projected onto a common plane and is particularly to provide a cube-corner retroreflective article provided with a quadrilateral element excellent in an entrance angle characteristic and a rotation angle characteristic. | 02-24-2011 |
20110227238 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL SHEETING - [Object] An apparatus and a method for producing optical sheeting with which increased productivity can be achieved while maintaining the accuracy of produced optical sheeting. | 09-22-2011 |
20110286097 | RETROREFLECTIVE ARTICLE - A retroreflective article having excellent retroreflective efficiency, entrance angle characteristic, observation angle characteristic, and rotation angle characteristic is provided. | 11-24-2011 |
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20110180210 | PRESSURE BONDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - To provide a pressure bonding apparatus comprising a plurality of pressure bonding units comprising pressing members including pressing surfaces for pressing objects against pressure bonding areas on edge portions of a substrate and edge portion support members for supporting the edge portions of the substrate, the plurality of pressure bonding units arranged in a row along a first direction, a protection sheet supplying device for supplying along the first direction a protection sheet that has a width more than at least twice a width of the pressing surfaces of the pressing members in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and that protects the pressing surfaces by being interposed between the pressing surfaces of the pressing members and the objects and for suspending the protection sheet under tension along the first direction between the plurality of pressing members and the edge portion support members, and a second direction sheet moving device for moving the protection sheet in a range not smaller than the width of the pressing surfaces of the pressing members in the second direction and changing contact positions of the pressing members on the protection sheet in the second direction. | 07-28-2011 |
20150083335 | COMPONENT MOUNTING APPARATUS - A component mounting apparatus includes a tape attaching unit, a component mounting unit and a component compression unit provided in this order. A time measuring unit measures time having passed after attachment of the adhesive tape in the tape attaching unit. When a predetermined time has passed after the start of measurement performed by the time measuring unit, the substrate, to which the adhesive tape of a measuring target is attached, is forcibly transferred to the downstream side, and the component is compressed to the substrate in the component compression unit. | 03-26-2015 |
20150083336 | COMPONENT MOUNTING APPARATUS - A component mounting apparatus includes a tape attaching unit, a component mounting unit and a component compression unit provided in this order. A time measuring unit measures time having passed after completion of predetermined work performed on all the substrates transferred to the tape attaching unit, the component mounting unit, and the component compression unit, respectively. When preparation for transferring the substrates to the tape attaching unit is not completed within a predetermined time after the start of measurement performed by the time measuring unit, the respective substrates, which wait in the tape attaching unit, the component mounting unit, and the component compression unit, are forcibly transferred to the downstream sides and predetermined work is performed on the respective substrates that are forcibly transferred to the component mounting unit and the component compression unit. | 03-26-2015 |
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20130097231 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is an information providing apparatus, wherein information desired by users is provided with a high-precision selection, and at low processing cost. The information providing apparatus comprises: a data storing means for storing therein utilization log data that includes a plurality of sets of a plurality of context values inputted from a user terminal upon accessing a piece of content, and one or more information selection criterion values for the piece of content; a totalizing means for totalizing frequencies of accesses to pieces of content, from the utilization log data, for each of the combinations of the values that each of the contexts can take and the values that each of the information selection criteria can take; a context-influence calculating means for calculating a coefficient of association between each of the information selection criteria and each of the contexts, from the result of the totalization conducted by the totalizing means, and outputting the result to an information providing means; and the information providing means for selecting n [h] pieces (n [h] is one or more, and h is 1 to (the aforementioned m)) of contexts in priority from those having higher association with each of m pieces (m is one or more) of information selection criteria, on the basis of the coefficient of association, and selecting, on the basis of values of the n [h] pieces of contexts (current values) inputted from one of the user terminals (a current terminal), a piece of content to be outputted to the current terminal. | 04-18-2013 |
20130226658 | CONTENT ANALYZING SYSTEM, CONTENT ANALYZING APPARATUS, CONTENT ANALYZING METHOD, AND CONTENT ANALYZING PROGRAM - A contents analysis system comprises a user terminal, and a contents analysis device which receives a predetermined request from the user terminal and returns a result, wherein the contents analysis device comprises a propagation pattern extraction unit which extracts a pattern of propagation indicating, with respect to each of contents included in history data formed of histories of use of a plurality of contents, how the content propagated to a user, and a correlation calculation unit which obtains a correlation between the patterns of propagation of the contents. | 08-29-2013 |
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20080302173 | INTAKE AIR MASS FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICE - In an intake air mass flow measurement device, for preventing clogging in a pressure intake tube due to water or the like entering the pressure intake tube in a device measuring a pressure in the intake air tube, the intake air mass flow measurement device includes a mass air flow measurement device for measuring an intake air mass flow in an intake air tube; and a pressure sensing device for sensing pressure in the intake air tube, the pressure sensing device being integrated with the mass air flow measurement device, and an aperture plane opened to the inside of a main air flow passage for detection of the pressure takes in pressure by using a gap generated between a main air flow passage constituting member and an insertion part of the mass air flow measurement device when a measurement part of the mass air flow measurement device is inserted into the main air flow passage. With this construction, it is possible to provide a structure in which water or the like can hardly clog the pressure intake port. | 12-11-2008 |
20090064968 | CONFIGURATION OF AIR INTAKE PARTS APPLIED TO THERMAL TYPE AIR FLOW MEASURING INSTRUMENT - It is an object of the present invention to expand an air flow measuring range of a thermal type air flow measuring instrument. A squeeze | 03-12-2009 |
20110072894 | Sensor Structure - The present invention utilizes self-heating of electronic components to improve a humidity sensing part with low environment resistance, such as a condensation problem and the like, and also to enhance the heat radiation efficiency of electronic components. The humidity sensing part is used in an intake tube of an automobile by integrating, for example, with a heating resister type mass air flow measurement device. A humidity sensing element is mounted on an electronic circuit board in a mass air flow measurement device with the temperature thereof starting to increase immediately after a sensor has been actuated. This urges the temperature of the humidity sensing element to start increasing (being heated) immediately after the sensor has been actuated. To urge the humidity sensing element to be further heated, a base plate is composed of two types of materials, resin and metal. A part of the base plate holding an area of the electronic circuit board generating a large quantity of heat is composed of the metal. A part of the base plate corresponding to the periphery of the humidity sensing part which is to be heated is composed of the resin. | 03-31-2011 |
20120060599 | Thermal Type Air Flow Meter - A thermal type air flow meter that is capable of suppressing deformation of a base member at the time of molding is disclosed, to thereby secure dimension accuracy and reduce an influence of a dimension change on measuring accuracy. The meter includes a housing member placed in an intake passage of an internal combustion engine, and a base member fixed to the housing member and includes a secondary air passage into which part of air passing through the intake passage flows. The base member is a plate-like resin molded component formed of a synthetic resin material and includes a reinforcing structure integrally formed between a board fixing part to which a circuit board is fixed; and a secondary passage constituting part formed at a leading end part of the board fixing part, the reinforcing structure enhancing strength of the base member. | 03-15-2012 |
20120085324 | Sensor Structure - A sensor structure capable of achieving both resistance to pollution and measurement performance such as humidity responsiveness is disclosed as is a multifunction sensor capable of facilitating integration of detecting devices for various physical quantities. The sensor structure includes a housing including a connector that mediates an input/output exchange with an outside and a terminal of the connector; and an electronic circuit board that is mounted inside of the housing and includes a humidity sensing element, the terminal of the connector and the electronic circuit board being electrically connected to each other, the sensor structure being inserted to be attached to an airflow tube through which a main air flows, via a seal material provided in the housing. The housing includes a plurality of bypass channels that each communicate an inside of the housing with an inside of the airflow tube. | 04-12-2012 |
20140360261 | Thermal Type Air Flow Meter Having a Reinforcing Structure Provided on the Base Member between the Board Fixing Part and the Secondary Passage Constituting Part - A thermal type air flow meter that is capable of suppressing deformation of a base member at the time of molding is disclosed, to thereby secure dimension accuracy and reduce an influence of a dimension change on measuring accuracy. The meter includes a housing member placed in an intake passage of an internal combustion engine, and a base member fixed to the housing member and includes a secondary air passage into which part of air passing through the intake passage flows. The base member is a plate-like resin molded component formed of a synthetic resin material and includes a reinforcing structure integrally formed between a board fixing part to which a circuit board is fixed; and a secondary passage constituting part formed at a leading end part of the board fixing part, the reinforcing structure enhancing strength of the base member. | 12-11-2014 |
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20110002516 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DIVIDING AREA OF IMAGE OF PARTICLE IN URINE - An objective is to provide a method and an apparatus for accurately extracting a region of an object particle from a urine particle image obtained by taking an image of urine particles in a urine specimen having varying properties. First, a first object region is extracted using one or more of an R image, a G image, and a B image of a urine particle image taken by an image input optical system configured to input particle images. Then, a density distribution and a size of the first object region of one or more of the R image, the G image, and the B image are calculated. Based on these feature parameters, the first object region is classified into a predetermined number of groups. A second object region is extracted from a local region including the first object region, by using one or more of the R image, the G image, and the B image, depending on each of the groups. This configuration allows stable region segmentation for each particle image even for a urine specimen in which urine particles having different sizes and tones coexist. | 01-06-2011 |
20120064636 | AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS DEVICE AND ANALYSIS METHOD - Provided are an automated analyzer and an automatic analysis method for highly accurately determining presence or absence of abnormality based on reaction process data obtained when concentration of a chemical component or an activity level of an enzyme is measured. The reaction process data is approximated by a function, and shape feature quantities indicating features of a shape of a curve section at an early stage of reaction are calculated. The obtained shape feature quantities are used to determine the presence or absence of abnormality. | 03-15-2012 |
20120065898 | AUTOMATIC ANALYZER - To change a photometric time for each item or to change a measurement time for each specimen so that time required for biochemical measurement can be reduced, an index that indicates an end of a reaction is required. Unfortunately, however, no methods have been available for determining the end of the reaction. In measuring a substance to be measured contained in a sample, a parameter in an approximate expression is calculated using a measured value that changes with time, a degree of convergence of a reaction is determined according to a degree of convergence of the parameter, and a measured value at the end of the reaction is calculated using the parameter at a point in time at which it is determined that the reaction has converged. | 03-15-2012 |
20120076349 | FLOW TYPE PARTICLE IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND DEVICE - At each of mutually different multiple focal positions, focal adjustment parameter values are obtained from images of standard particles made of the same substance. Each focal adjustment parameter value is figured out as any one of the ratio between the density value around the center of the standard particle image and the density value around the outline, the difference therebetween, and the density value around the center. The in-focus position is adjusted on the basis of the relationship between the obtained focal adjustment parameter values and the focal positions. Moreover, on the basis of the relationship between the focal adjustment parameter values and the focal positions, the parameter values are converted into focal positions, and the focal positions and dispersion thereof are used to check the displacement of the in-focus position and the thickness of the sample liquid. | 03-29-2012 |
20120109534 | AUTOMATIC ANALYZER AND ANALYSIS METHOD - In known automatic analyzers for detecting an abnormality by approximating reaction process data using a function, accuracy of detecting a reaction abnormality is degraded because of poor approximation accuracy depending on test items. Data processing means stores the absorbance and time of day at which the absorbance is measured as time-series data. Letting x denote absorbance, t denote time, and * denote a symbol representing multiplication, we have a function x=a | 05-03-2012 |
20120134559 | PARTICLE IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS - The particle analysis apparatus includes means that perform processes upon image processing of images ( | 05-31-2012 |
20130046480 | AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS METHOD - There is provided a technique for automatically determining or predicting a line range specific to a sample that appears in a reaction curve in an automated analyzer for mixing a specimen and a reagent and measuring a change in a mixture of the specimen and the reagent with time. This invention approximates reaction curve data by a function and automatically determines a curve part at an early stage or a second stage of a reaction. The invention determines a line range not including a curve part for each sample and calculates a laboratory test value using absorbance data within the determined line range. This invention also automatically determines a start time of line at the early stage of the reaction on the basis of absorbance data obtained up to a point halfway through the reaction curve, predicts a line range on the basis of the end time of line and a planned end time of line, and calculates a predictive value on the basis of a result of the prediction. | 02-21-2013 |
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20130122596 | AUTOMATIC ANALYZER, ANALYSIS METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSOR - An automatic analyzer includes sample vessels containing samples to be measured and reaction vessels in which to mix a sample and a reagent. A sample dispenser | 05-16-2013 |
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20100225984 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: a first determination unit that determines whether each of an image regions is for a vector image; a color number counting unit that counts the number of colors in the pixels of high-resolution image data; a frequency counting unit that counts a number of times where the difference between the colors of each of the pixels in the high-resolution image data and the colors of at least one pixel located around each of those pixels is greater than or equal to a threshold; a second determination unit that determines that the image region is not an image region for a vector image; and a generation unit that generates image data in which a process for rendering images in the image regions determined by the first determination unit to be image regions for vector images is defined by numerical values or numerical formulas. | 09-09-2010 |
20100239166 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION DEVICE, IMAGE-READING DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD - A character recognition device includes: an acquiring unit that acquires image data describing pixel values representing colors of pixels constituting an image; a binarizing unit that binarizes the pixel values; an extracting unit that extracts boundaries of colors in the image; a delimiting unit that delimits plural image areas in the image; a specifying unit that specifies, with regard to first image areas arranged according to a predetermined rule, pixels binarized by the binarizing unit, as a subject for character recognition, and specifies, with regard to second image areas not arranged according to the predetermined rule, pixels of areas surrounded by boundaries extracted by the extracting unit, as a subject for character recognition; and a character recognition unit that recognizes characters represented by the pixels specified by the specifying unit as a subject for character recognition. | 09-23-2010 |
20110043852 | DOCUMENT OUTPUT DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND DOCUMENT OUTPUT METHOD - A document output device includes an acquisition unit and a controller. When a printed document is read by a reading device and output of the document on the basis of read document information is instructed, the acquisition unit acquires at least one of attribute information of a document receiver, attribute information of an output instructor, and second identification information inputted by the output instructor. If it is determined, on the basis of a first identification information and the acquired information, that an output of a constituent element specified as an object of output restriction is not permitted, the controller restricts the output of the constituent element which is the object of output restriction in the document. | 02-24-2011 |
20110222762 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a separation section, a background color setting section, and a generating section. The separation section separates at least one image component having different attributes contained in electronic document data expressing an original image. The background color setting section selects a coloring method, from among a plurality of coloring methods for coloring a background, according to software to be used and sets a background color. The generating section generates software data corresponding to the software by coloring the background color based on the setting of the background color setting section, and re-arranging the at least one image component. | 09-15-2011 |
20120038659 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus that includes a character recognition component, a determining component and a generating component is provided. The determining component determines, when document data is generated that contains first data representing the document and representing the entity in which the characters are mixed and second data containing character code data of the characters recognized by the character recognition component and representing a character block displaying the characters represented by the character code data, whether to hide the character block represented by the second data behind the entity represented by the first data or to display the character block represented by the second data in front of the entity represented by the first data when the document represented by the document data is displayed, based on lightness or distribution of the lightness of a background region around the characters of the entity or the like. | 02-16-2012 |
20120176654 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading device includes a reading unit, a first correcting unit, and a second correcting unit. The reading unit includes multiple read pixel-arrays and converts a signal charge obtained from pixels in each read pixel-array to an electric signal and outputs the electric signal as a read signal of each read pixel-array. The first correcting unit individually delays the read signals of the respective read pixel-arrays output from the reading unit so as to correct misregistration of the read signals. The second correcting unit corrects the misregistration of the read signals of the respective read pixel-arrays corrected by the first correcting unit by performing a two-point interpolation process so that a correction amount for the read signal of one specific read pixel-array among the multiple read pixel-arrays is not smaller than a correction amount for the read signal or signals of the remaining read pixel-array or pixel-arrays. | 07-12-2012 |
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20090252176 | Gateway Device - Provided is a gateway device for interconnecting an IEEE1394 network and an IP network, which automatically detects and operates an AV device connected to the IEEE1394 network from a player device connected to the IP network, thereby enabling the player device to watch and hear contents stored in the AV device. The gateway device interconnects a network, to which an AV/C installed IEEE1394 device is connected, and a network, to which a player device compliant with a UPnP is connected, and includes: a conversion unit for converting Plug-and-Play processing of the IEEE1394 device to each step of Plug-and-Play of the UPnP; a conversion unit for converting an action of a UPnP AV to an AV/C command of the IEEE1394 device; and a stream transfer unit for transferring stream data transmitted from the IEEE1394 device to the IP network. | 10-08-2009 |
20100020174 | DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display system is provided which determines an effective image area by automatically detecting a boundary between the effective image area and a non-image area created owing to the difference between the pixel numbers of the camera image sensor and television signal, to thereby display the images on a monitor by adjusting a display size and position suitable for the effective image area, whereby an inappropriate display size and position are avoided from being set while a lighting device for illuminating a camera's field of vision is off. The display system receives a signal notifying about activation of the lighting device from the lighting controller that provides on/off control of the device; the system then determines the effective image area if the device is on, and does not if it is off. | 01-28-2010 |
20100045782 | CONTENT REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In a content reproducing apparatus for displaying three dimensional image using image data for the right eye and left eye, stored after being downsampled in order to reduce data, a high quality image is obtained even at the scene changes or in still pictures. The content reproducing apparatus includes a similar region detector ( | 02-25-2010 |
20100046925 | VIDEO/AUDIO PLAYBACK APPARATUS - A video/audio playback apparatus that can continue playback even if the external storage means are disconnected during playback, includes a virtual file system section | 02-25-2010 |
20100049834 | FILE TRANSFER METHOD AND FILE TRANSFER SYSTEM - A file transfer method and a file transfer system are provided for making it possible to minimize aggregate waiting time of the whole users for data transfer using a multicast protocol. In the file transfer method of transferring a plurality of program files from a recorder storing a plurality of program files via a network to a plurality of mobile terminals using a multicast protocol, the recorder determines order of transfers of the plurality of program files for the purpose of transferring the plurality of program files in order of digital data files, which is the ascending order of file size of the plurality of program files (step S | 02-25-2010 |
20110277020 | AUTHENTICATION TERMINAL AND NETWORK TERMINAL - Responsive to a proxy authentication request from a network terminal, a display for prompting a user to start an authentication operation is performed; authentication data for performing personal authentication are read by a user operation; an authentication request is sent together with the read authentication data to an authentication server; an authentication result is received from the authentication server; the network terminal is notified of the result. When a service requiring personal authentication is used, via a network, a request for proxy authentication can be made from a network terminal lacking an interface for personal authentication to a proxy authentication terminal having an interface for personal authentication, whereby the interface of the proxy authentication terminal can be used to perform the personal authentication. | 11-10-2011 |
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20100215503 | TRANSONIC BLADE - A transonic blade is provided that operates in a flow field where flow has a transonic speed or higher in an axial-flow rotating machine and that concurrently achieves a reduction in shock loss and in the local stress of the blade. | 08-26-2010 |
20110162369 | Gas Turbine, Exhaust Diffuser, and Method of Modifying Gas Turbine Plant - A method of modifying a gas turbine plant which is provided with a one-shaft gas turbine having a compressor for compressing air, a combustor for generating a combustion gas from the air compressed by the compressor and a fuel, and a one-shaft turbine driven by the combustion gas generated by the combustor and supported by a rotational axis common to the compressor, and an electric generator for generating electric power by driving force of the one-shaft turbine, wherein: the one-shaft turbine is replaced with a two-shaft gas turbine including a compressor for compressing air, a combustor for generating a combustion gas from the air compressed by the compressor and a fuel, and a high-pressure turbine driven by the combustion gas generated by the combustor and supported by a first rotational axis common to the compressor, and a low-pressure turbine driven by the combustion gas used to drive the high-pressure turbine and supported by a second rotational axis, which is different from the axis for the high-pressure turbine. | 07-07-2011 |
20120060509 | Inner Bleed Structure of 2-Shaft Gas Turbine and a Method to Determine the Stagger Angle of Last Stage Stator of Compressor for 2-Shaft Gas Turbine - An inner bleed structure of the 2-shaft gas turbine includes a slit for leading part of compressed air to a cavity is formed between a wall surface of a rotor wheel of the compressor equipped with a last stage rotor of the compressor which is connected to a first rotating shaft and end of an inner casing, and a bleed hole for leading part of compressed air after flowing down the last stage of the compressor to a cavity formed in the inner side of the inner casing at the downstream side of the last stage of the compressor. | 03-15-2012 |
20120070267 | Axial Flow Compressor, Gas Turbine System Having the Axial Flow Compressor and Method of Modifying the Axial Flow Compressor - There is provided an axial flow compressor that improves reliability on an increase in a blade loading on a last-stage stator vane of the axial flow compressor due to a partial load operation of a gas turbine. An annular flow passage is formed by a rotor having multiple rotor blades fitted thereto and a casing having multiple stator vanes fitted thereto, two or more of the stator vanes are disposed downstream of a last-stage rotor blade that is the rotor blade disposed. at the most downstream side in a flow direction of the annular flow passage, a blade loading on a first stator vane disposed at the most upstream side is set to be smaller than a blade loading of a second stator vane disposed downstream of the first stator vane by one row. | 03-22-2012 |
20120093637 | Axial Compressor - An axial compressor includes a plurality of stator vanes attached to an inner surface of a casing defining an annular flow path and a plurality of rotor blades attached to a rotating rotor defining the annular flow path. A flow path is defined between a pressure surface of a stator vane and a suction surface of a stator vane, the vanes being circumferentially adjacent to each other, or between a pressure surface of a rotor blade and a suction surface of a rotor blade, the blades being circumferentially adjacent to each other. The flow path is formed so that a throat portion at which a flow path width is minimized is provided on the upstream side of 50% of an axial chord length. | 04-19-2012 |
20120163965 | Axial Compressor - When a gas turbine is operated with inlet guide vanes (IGVs) closed during part load operation or the like, the degradation of aerodynamic performance and of reliability may potentially occur since the load on rear stage side vanes of a compressor increases. An object of the present invention is to suppress the degradation of the aerodynamic performance and of reliability of an axial compressor. | 06-28-2012 |
20130259668 | Transonic Blade - The present invention provides a transonic blade that concurrently achieves reduction in shock loss at a design point and improvement in stall margin in blades operating in a flow field of transonic speed or higher in an axial-flow rotating machine. A cross-sectional surface at each of spanwise positions of the blade is shifted parallel to a stagger line connecting a leading edge with a trailing edge of the blade. A stacking line is shifted toward an upstream side of working fluid. The stacking line connects together respective gravity center positions of blade cross-sectional surfaces at spanwise positions in a range from a hub cross-sectional surface joined to a rotating shaft or an outer circumferential side casing of a rotating machine to a tip cross-sectional surface lying at a position most remote from the hub cross-sectional surface in a spanwise direction. | 10-03-2013 |
20130318973 | Axial Compressor and Gas Turbine Having Axial Compressor - An axial compressor that can remove an attachment within a groove of a casing and recover an effect of suppressing stall on rotor blades, and a gas turbine provided with the axial compressor, are provided. The axial compressor includes a compressor body | 12-05-2013 |
20140034752 | Atomizer - In an atomizer constructed to cool inlet air for a gas turbine by spraying fine droplets of water into the inlet air, a spray nozzle is disposed to spray the finely atomized droplets of water from an outer edge of an atomized airstream into a high-speed zone thereof, towards a central region of the airstream. The atomized airstream meets an airstream of a low-speed zone formed at a downstream side, and after the two kinds of airstreams have been mixed and unified, this mixture is supplied to an axisymmetric compressor. Devices such as a feed water pipe and spray nozzle are placed in the low-speed zone so as not to obstruct the airstream. | 02-06-2014 |
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20090124457 | VEHICLE BRAKING FORCE CONTROLLER - A braking force application control is performed when a change in a driver's posture takes place while a brake pedal is turned on when a vehicle is stopped. As a consequence, in a case in which the driver's posture changes such as when the driver turns to a rear seat side to get something without intending to release depression of the brake pedal, creep of the vehicle that the driver does not intend to happen can be inhibited. Furthermore, the vehicle stop retention is only performed when a travelling direction is a forward direction or a seatbelt is worn. As a result, performance of the vehicle stop retention can be inhibited when it is considered that the driver intentionally desires to let the vehicle creep. | 05-14-2009 |
20100168975 | MOTION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - A motion control system is applied to a vehicle, which has front wheel side suspensions with an anti-dive geometry and rear wheel side suspensions with an anti-lift geometry. A degree of an anti-lift effect of the anti-lift geometry is larger than a degree of an anti-dive effect of the anti-dive geometry. Normally, a controller controls a hydraulic unit such that a brake force distribution between front wheels and rear wheels during a braking-period is adjusted to a basic distribution. In contrast, in a state where abrupt application of brakes is started, the controller controls the hydraulic unit such that the brake force distribution is adjusted to a first distribution, at which a brake force respectively applied to the rear wheels is larger than that of the basic distribution only for a predetermined short time period upon starting of the application of the brakes. | 07-01-2010 |
20100174453 | MOTION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - A motion control system is applied to a vehicle, which has front wheel side suspensions with an anti-dive geometry and rear wheel side suspensions with an anti-lift geometry. When abrupt steering operation is started from a straight-ahead driving state of the vehicle in a non-operating period of a brake pedal of the vehicle, a controller controls a hydraulic unit such that a brake force is applied to a radially outer one of front left and right wheels, which is located on an outer side in a radial direction of an arc of turn of the vehicle upon starting the steering operation, and also to a radially inner one of rear left and right wheels, which is located on an inner side in the radial direction of the arc of the turn for a predetermined short time period. | 07-08-2010 |
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20090271413 | TRIAL LISTENING CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - The present invention provides a content distribution system capable of improving user convenience and effectively distributing content for trial listening. A terminal apparatus includes: a content database that stores plural kinds of content data for trial listening received from a content distribution server; a usage history information recording unit that records usage history information of a user; a user preference estimating unit that estimates user preference on the basis of the usage history information of the user recorded in the usage history information recording unit, and generates preference information; a content extracting unit that calculates similarity between the preference information and each of the content data for trial listening stored in the content database, and extracts content data for trial listening having high similarity from the content database; and a content data playing unit that plays the extracted content data for trial listening. | 10-29-2009 |
20100161622 | INFORMATION FILTERING APPARATUS - A search unit | 06-24-2010 |
20120072466 | CONTENTS CREATING DEVICE AND CONTENTS CREATING METHOD - To provide a contents creating device and a contents creating method capable of distributing contents having an article arrangement with high relativity to a user as distribution destination. A contents creating device | 03-22-2012 |
20120221965 | Discussion Enlivenment Assistance Device, Discussion Enlivenment Assistance Method, and Computer Program Therefore - A discussion enlivenment assistance device includes: a state visualization unit which generates discussion state data displaying index values indicating a state of each discussion site; a user characteristic presentation unit which generates participating user characteristic data in relation to users participating in a discussion site specified by a user, the participating user characteristic data displaying index values indicating profiles of the users in a discussion; a user control unit which generates invitation nominated user data displaying an invitation nominated user appropriate for the discussion site specified by the user; and a display unit which displays the discussion state data, the participating user characteristic data, and the invitation nominated user data. | 08-30-2012 |
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20090153118 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROLLER AND MECHANICAL APPARATUS USING THE SAME - There is a need for improving switching regulator characteristics and providing a stable power supply controller. The power supply controller uses a battery and either or both functions of stepping up and stepping down a battery voltage. The power supply controller includes a means that prevents a ripple voltage from occurring by stopping the up conversion function for a switching operation in connection with a battery during a predetermined period without changing conditions for a conventional switching device or smoothing circuit and fast stabilizes a primary voltage using only the down conversion function. | 06-18-2009 |
20090174980 | Load Driving and Diagnosis System and Control Method - A load driving and diagnosis system controls the feed and block of a load current flowing into an inductor such as a solenoid. The load driving and diagnosis system holds a counter-electromotive force, which is developed when the load current is blocked, at a voltage higher than a supply voltage so that the load current will decay for a short time. When an overcurrent condition is established in the load driving and diagnosis system because of a short circuit to a power supply, a malfunction of a circuit or destruction thereof may take place. In addition to a voltage holding means that holds a switching circuit output voltage at a predetermined voltage, a voltage holding means having a different predetermined voltage set therein is included. Moreover, a selection switch that switches the predetermined voltages according to a detected overcurrent condition is included. | 07-09-2009 |
20130049459 | SERIES REGULATOR ON ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT FOR AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - A capacitor connected to a microcomputer voltage wiring is downsized. A series regulator on an electronic control unit for automotive includes a battery as an in-vehicle power supply, a relay, an input side capacitor, a series regulator circuit, and an output side capacitor, and is connected to a microcomputer. The series regulator circuit includes an n-channel MOSFET, a gate voltage regulator circuit as an output control circuit of an FET, and a gate voltage holding capacitor. A capacitor GND voltage (gate voltage) is adjusted by the gate voltage regulator circuit to convert an input side capacitor voltage into an output side capacitor voltage, and supply a microcomputer current to the microcomputer. | 02-28-2013 |
20130057245 | Current Regulator - A current regulator has a current regulating semiconductor device and a microcontroller which outputs a PWM pulse for driving a load to the current regulating semiconductor device and receives outputs of a high-side current detection circuit and a low-side current detection circuit from the current regulating semiconductor device. An output mixer of the current regulating semiconductor device switches, in synchronization with the PWM pulse, between the output of the high-side current detection circuit and the output of the low-side current detection circuit on one signal line to output the output to the microcontroller. | 03-07-2013 |
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20090069684 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ULTRASONIC IMAGE - An imaging part transmits ultrasonic waves to a subject and receives reflected waves from the subject, thereby acquiring plural volume data of the subject. A specifying part specifies a surface site included in a face corresponding to the surface of the subject, in each of the plural volume data. A synthesizer executes position matching of the subject shown in each of the plural volume data. The synthesizer couples the plural volume data after position matching, and couples the respective surface sites specified in the respective volume data, thereby generating synthesized volume data. Based on the synthesized volume data, an image generator generates morphology image data showing the morphology of the subject and surface image data showing the coupled surface sites. A display controller controls a display to display a morphology image based on the morphology image data and a surface image based on the surface image data. | 03-12-2009 |
20090099451 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ULTRASONIC IMAGE - A transmitter transmits ultrasonic waves to an object via an ultrasonic probe. A receiver receives echo signals reflected from the object via the ultrasonic probe. The receiver executes a delaying process on the echo signals in accordance with a plurality of set sound velocities for a delaying process, thereby generating a plurality of reception signals with different set sound velocities. An image generator generates a plurality of image data with the different set sound velocities based on the reception signals with the different set sound velocities. A contrast calculator obtains the contrast of each of the plurality of image data with the different set sound velocities. A selector selects image data with the highest contrast from among the plurality of image data. A display controller controls a display to display an image based on the image data selected by the selector. | 04-16-2009 |
20100185091 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS, ULTRASOUND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - As an ROI for display and an ROI for valve observation as well as a projecting direction are input, a volume-rendering processing unit creates a first image in the ROI for display through volume rendering processing, and the ray-tracing processing unit creates a second image in the ROI for valve observation through ray tracing processing. An image compositing unit then creates a composite image by compositing the first image and the second image, and the composite image created by the image compositing unit ( | 07-22-2010 |
20100198073 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus has a unit which sets a display region for displaying a 3D image, a unit which transmits and receives ultrasound waves, a unit which generates volume data, a unit, on the basis of the volume data, which sets an analysis region, a unit, on the basis of the data on the analysis region contained in the volume data, which analyzes a fluctuations in signal intensity over time, a unit, on the basis of the analysis result, which calculates a cardiac cycle, a unit, on the basis of the cardiac cycle and the volume data, which generates data set constructed by data with substantially equal cardiac cycle, and generates data sets corresponding to a plurality of cardiac cycles, and a unit which displays the 3D images based on the data sets as a moving image. | 08-05-2010 |
20110282204 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprises an ultrasonic probe, an ultrasonic transmission/reception unit, an echo processing unit configured to generate complex data based on the echo signals, a phase shifting unit configured to shift a phase of each ensemble data constituted by N complex data associated with the same depth on the same ultrasonic raster in accordance with a reference phase, an interpolation processing unit configured to interpolate ensemble data associated with an interpolated raster between adjacent ultrasonic rasters based on the phase-shifted ensemble data, and an image data generation unit configured to generate image data based on the phase-shifted ensemble data and the interpolated ensemble data. | 11-17-2011 |
20110301470 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - In one embodiment, a scanning unit repeatedly scans an internal region of an object with an ultrasonic wave at a predetermined frame rate via an ultrasonic probe. An image generation unit extracts a blood flow signal based on a Doppler effect from a reflection signal and repeatedly generates a blood flow image representing a spatial distribution associated with power of the blood flow signal at the frame rate. A power average value associated with a frame or local region is calculated for the blood flow image. The blood flow image is corrected. In the correcting, a gain on the power values in the frame or local region in which the power average value exceeds the threshold are substantially reduced, and power values in the frame or local region in which the power average value is not more than the threshold are maintained. | 12-08-2011 |
20120197125 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - As one illustrative embodiment, a first calculator obtains a first power value, which is the sum of the absolute value of a plurality of data obtained by a plurality of transmissions. A velocity-vector calculating unit obtains the velocity vector based on a plurality of data. A second calculator obtains a second power value, which is the absolute value of the velocity vector. A post-filter processor comprises one or more post-filter processes to determine the power value, and in the one or more post-filter processes, a power value other than the power value used in obtaining the threshold value for determination is selected as the power value at each observation point and the selected power value is determined based on the threshold value for determination. | 08-02-2012 |
20130066210 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a transmission/reception unit generates a reception signal. A signal extraction unit extracts a harmonic signal and fundamental wave signal from the reception signal. A calculation unit calculates a feature amount based on values corresponding to the amplitudes of the harmonic signal and fundamental wave signal. An area determination unit determines an area in a scanned area based on the feature amount and a predetermined threshold. A change unit changes the value corresponding to the amplitude of the harmonic signal in the determined area. An image generation unit generates a corrected harmonic image based on the harmonic signal in the scanned area including the determined area having the changed value. | 03-14-2013 |
20140059486 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM STORED IN NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM EXECUTED BY COMPUTER - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus equipped with a display unit configured to display an ultrasonic image, has a controller. The controller executes a setting for a position of an area of interest in the displayed ultrasonic image and a displaying of a mode selection menu on the display unit, simultaneously, in response to a single action while the ultrasonic image is displayed on the display unit. | 02-27-2014 |
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20090004227 | Peroral Vaccine Carrier System - The present invention provides a system in which a recombinant plant expressing a target peptide is orally administered to thereby achieve exertion of the function of the peptide, along with the genetically recombinant plant, and the present invention relates to a carrier system for oral administration of a target peptide by oral administration of a plant (potato) that expresses a target peptide by expressing for example a fused gene obtained by fusing the LRE1 gene coding for the immunogenic peptide LRE1 derived from the | 01-01-2009 |
20090274715 | TICK CHITINASE - A novel chitinase, a polynucleotide encoding the same, a vector and a transformant comprising the polynucleotide, an antibody against the chitinase, and a screening method for screening a substance capable of modifying the chitinase, are disclosed. According to the chitinase, polynucleotide, or vector, it is possible, for example, to exterminate ticks, or to treat or prevent tick-borne infections such as piroplasmosis, Q fever, or viral encephalitis. | 11-05-2009 |
20120115776 | ADIPONECTIN-CONTAINING EATING BEHAVIOR CONTROL AGENT FOR ORAL ADMINISTRATION - Disclosed is a technique that facilitates the oral ingestion of adiponectin in a large quantity and enables the expansion of the range of use applications of adiponectin. Specifically disclosed is an appetite control agent for oral administration, which comprises adiponectin as an active ingredient. Particularly, the appetite control agent comprises a transformant capable of expressing adiponectin. Also specifically disclosed is a food composition for controlling appetite, which comprises the appetite control agent. | 05-10-2012 |
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20110216195 | IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE AND IN-VEHICLE CAMERA - An image-capturing device including: an imaging optical system which is configured to capture an optical image of a subject; an imaging optical system retaining member which retains the imaging optical system; an imaging element which is configured to convert the optical image into an electrical signal; a substrate which is arranged on a back side of the imaging optical system retaining member and retains the imaging element; and a plurality of substrate joint pieces each of which extends from the imaging optical system retaining member toward the substrate, wherein tip parts of the plurality of substrate joint pieces on a substrate side and the substrate are joined by an indirect bond structure using at least one joint intermediate member which is adhered to at least one of the tip parts of the plurality of substrate joint pieces and the substrate with an adhesive, and a fixation structure. | 09-08-2011 |
20120133825 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes a welded part on a lens barrel side that is hardened after a contact portion of a lens barrel or a contact part on the lens barrel side is softened, where the contact portion of the lens barrel and the contact part on the lens barrel side are fixed, and a welded part on a light-receiving circuit side that is hardened after a contact portion of the light-receiving circuit or a contact part on a light-receiving circuit side is softened, where the contact portion of the light-receiving circuit and the contact part on the light-receiving circuit side are fixed. | 05-31-2012 |
20130141766 | OPTICAL RADIATION DEVICE, IMAGE READER, AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An optical radiation device includes a long light source unit in which light emitting elements are arranged in array, a long substrate on which the light source unit is mounted, a long optical guide to guide the light beams from the light emitting elements to a predetermined plane, and an optical collector to collect the light beams reflected by the predetermined plane. The length of an effective read area from a reading center of the optical collector to one end of the predetermined plane is different from that of an effective read area from the reading center to the other end thereof. The optical guide formed by injection molding includes a gate at one end in a length direction and a surface at the other end to exert total reflection, and is disposed so that the gate is positioned on the a same side as a shorter effective read area. | 06-06-2013 |
20140146214 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes a welded part on a lens barrel side that is hardened after a contact portion of a lens barrel or a contact part on the lens barrel side is softened, where the contact portion of the lens barrel and the contact part on the lens barrel side are fixed, and a welded part on a light-receiving circuit side that is hardened after a contact portion of the light-receiving circuit or a contact part on a light-receiving circuit side is softened, where the contact portion of the light-receiving circuit and the contact part on the light-receiving circuit side are fixed. | 05-29-2014 |
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20120032327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REINFORCING CHIP PACKAGES - In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a chip package is provided. The chip package may include a chip, a substrate, and an interconnect layer disposed between the chip and the substrate. In some embodiments, the interconnect layer may include an array of bonding interconnects configured to provide electrical communication between the chip and a printed circuit board and reinforcement interconnects arranged around an outermost row of the array of bonding interconnects. | 02-09-2012 |
20130026634 | Hybrid Interconnect Technology - In one embodiment, an interconnect structure between an integrated circuit (IC) chip and a substrate comprises a plurality of materials. | 01-31-2013 |
20140124917 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING CHIP INCLINATION DURING FLIP-CHIP MOUNTING - A method for alignment of a first substrate coupled to a second substrate includes determining an inclination angle for the first substrate or the second substrate due to warpage. The method includes determining a joint height difference based on the inclination angle and configuring a size for one or more bond pads based on the joint height difference. | 05-08-2014 |
20140145324 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING CHIP WARPAGE DURING BONDING - A semiconductor assembly includes a first substrate and a chip. The chip is coupled to and spaced apart from the substrate. Further, the chip has a first surface facing the substrate. The chip also has a warpage profile indicating stress imparted on the chip following a reflow operation. The assembly includes a back layer disposed on the chip on a second surface substantially opposite from the first surface. The back layer has a non-uniform thickness. Additionally, the thickness of the back layer on each of a plurality of elements of the chip is based on the warpage profile. | 05-29-2014 |