Kenji Kobayashi
Kenji Kobayashi, Osaka JP
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20090149019 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - A semiconductor device has a first interlayer insulating film formed on a substrate, having a first interconnection buried therein, and having a depressed portion and an insulating barrier film formed on the first interlayer insulating film. A second interlayer insulating film is formed to fill in the depressed portion, cover the upper surface of the insulating barrier film, and have a second interconnection buried therein. | 06-11-2009 |
20110076435 | Shield plate and Vehicle Structure Provided With The Shield Plate - A shield plate includes a flat plate shaped member; and a stress-concentrating portion which is formed over the entire surface of the flat plate shaped member and bends when an external force is applied. | 03-31-2011 |
20120128072 | IMAGE CONVERTING APPARATUS, IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CONVERTING METHOD - An image reproducing apparatus that achieves a higher readiness, high-speed backward reproduction, and a minimum amount of data, at a time of executing a backward reproduction. An encoder-side intra predictor transcodes decode images of a front end and a back end of a GOP of an image stream. An encoder-side motion compensator transcodes a decode image other than that of the front end of the GOP of the image stream by setting a motion vector to 0 and using an immediately preceding reference image. | 05-24-2012 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Nishishirakawa JP
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20110039476 | DOUBLE-DISC GRINDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WAFER - A double-disc grinding apparatus having at least: a rotatable ring-shaped holder for supporting a sheet-like wafer having a notch for indicating a crystal orientation from an outer circumference side along a radial direction, the holder having a protruding portion to be engaged with the crystal-orientation-indicating notch; and a pair of grindstones for simultaneously grinding both surfaces of the wafer supported by the holder, in which the holder is provided with at least one protruding portion separately from the protruding portion to be engaged with the crystal-orientation-indicating notch, and the both surfaces of the wafer are simultaneously ground by the pair of the grindstones while the wafer is supported and rotated with the at least one protruding portion being engaged with a wafer-supporting notch formed on the wafer. | 02-17-2011 |
20110053470 | WORKPIECE DOUBLE-DISC GRINDING APPARATUS AND WORKPIECE DOUBLE-DISC GRINDING METHOD - A workpiece double-disc grinding apparatus including a holder that supports a thin-plate-like workpiece from an outer periphery along a radial direction and is rotatable; a pair of static pressure support members that support the holder from both sides along an axial direction of the rotation thereof in a contactless manner based on a static fluid pressure; and a pair of grinding stones that simultaneously grind both surfaces of a workpiece supported by the holder, in which an interval between the holder and the static pressure support member is not greater than 50 μm, and the static pressure of the fluid that is not lower than 0.3 MPa. As a result, the workpiece double-disc grinding apparatus and a workpiece double-disc grinding method can stabilize a position of the holder, which can be a cause that degrades a nanotopography of the workpiece in the double-disc grinding for the workpiece. | 03-03-2011 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Nagoya-City JP
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20110035099 | Display control device, display control method and computer program product for the same - In a display control device, a direction of a light source in a region around a self-vehicle is estimated, and whether the direction of the light source coincides with a display arrangement direction which indicates an arrangement direction of a display portion as viewed from a passenger in the self-vehicle is determined. Then, a brightness of the display portion is set to be increased when the direction of the light source coincides with the display arrangement direction, compared with when the direction of the light source does not coincide with the display arrangement direction. Therefore, the brightness of the display portion can be more accurately controlled such that the display portion is easily viewed by the passenger in the self-vehicle. | 02-10-2011 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Hino-Shi JP
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20090060545 | EXPOSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An exposing device which radiates light on a photoconductor drum which rotates, thereby executing exposure, includes a light-emitting element unit including light-emitting element having an emission area which emits light that is generated, the emission area having a rectangular shape with a long side along a direction perpendicular to a rotational direction of the photoconductor drum, and a short side along the rotational direction, a lens unit which focuses the light, which is emitted from the emission area, on a peripheral surface of the photoconductor drum, thereby executing exposure, and forming on the peripheral surface a beam spot, and a driving circuit which causes the light-emitting element to emit light, thereby making a width of the shape of the beam spot in a direction along the rotational direction close to a width of the beam spot in a direction perpendicular to the rotational direction. | 03-05-2009 |
20100245528 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CORRECTING EMISSION QUANTITY OF EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An exposure apparatus has a plurality of light emitting elements and a light quantity measuring circuit, sets a reference light quantity based on a plurality of emission quantities when the plurality of light emitting elements emit light in accordance with a specific gradation signal for a predetermined emission time, generates a plurality of corrected gradation signals by correcting the gradation signal based on the differences between the reference light quantity and the plurality of emission quantities so that the plurality of emission quantities of the plurality of light emitting elements become close to the reference light quantity, and corrects the emission time of the plurality of light emitting elements so that the plurality of emission quantities of the plurality of light emitting elements become close to the target reference light quantity set in accordance with image data. | 09-30-2010 |
20110007102 | PIXEL DRIVE APPARATUS, LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS AND DRIVE CONTROL METHOD FOR LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS - A pixel drive apparatus to drive a pixel has a function of compensating a change in characteristics of the pixel. The pixel includes a light-emitting element and a drive control element to drive the light-emitting element. The pixel drive apparatus acquires the electrical characteristic parameter that is used to compensate variation of electrical characteristics of the light-emitting drive circuit including the drive control element based on a voltage value of the detection voltage after applying a voltage having a voltage value exceeding a threshold voltage across the drive control element to elapse of at least one relaxation time, and acquires a light-emitting characteristic parameter that is used to compensate variation of characteristics of the light-emitting element based on light-emitting luminance of the light-emitting element that is operated to emit light in accordance with luminance measurement image data corrected based on the electrical characteristic parameter. | 01-13-2011 |
20110116819 | EXPOSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An exposing device which radiates light on a photoconductor drum which rotates, thereby executing exposure, includes a light-emitting element unit including light-emitting element having an emission area which emits light that is generated, the emission area having a rectangular shape with a long side along a direction perpendicular to a rotational direction of the photoconductor drum, and a short side along the rotational direction, a lens unit which focuses the light, which is emitted from the emission area, on a peripheral surface of the photoconductor drum, thereby executing exposure, and forming on the peripheral surface a beam spot, and a driving circuit which causes the light-emitting element to emit light, thereby making a width of the shape of the beam spot in a direction along the rotational direction close to a width of the beam spot in a direction perpendicular to the rotational direction. | 05-19-2011 |
20120081381 | DISPLAY DRIVE DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING CONTROL METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - display drive device includes a correction data memory circuit, a data reading control circuit, and an image data correction circuit. The correction data memory circuit stores a plurality of pieces of correction data according to characteristics of pixels in association with positions where the pixels are arranged in a display panel. The data reading control circuit sets a reading order of the plurality of pieces of correction data to an order corresponding to a display form and reads the correction data in the set reading order. The image data correction circuit associates the image data with each of the plurality of pieces of correction data and generates corrected image data obtained by correcting the image data using the corresponding correction data. | 04-05-2012 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Kanagawa JP
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20100296769 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL MODULATOR AND OPTICAL MODULATING APPARATUS - A semiconductor optical modulator that includes a first semiconductor optical waveguide having a laminated structure including a core layer, a first clad layer, a second clad layer, and a barrier layer, the first clad layer and the second clad layer being disposed below and above the core layer, the barrier layer being inserted between the second clad layer and the core layer; a second semiconductor optical waveguide having a laminated structure in which the second clad layer has a p-type semiconductor penetrating locally through a n-type semiconductor in a laminated direction in the laminated structure of the first semiconductor optical waveguide; a first electrode connected to the first clad layer of the first semiconductor optical waveguide; and a second electrode electrically connecting the second clad layer of the first semiconductor optical waveguide and the p-type semiconductor of the second clad layer of the second semiconductor optical waveguide. | 11-25-2010 |
20150036317 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND DISPLAY UNIT - A light source device includes: a substrate; a plurality of light sources disposed on the substrate; a wavelength conversion member disposed to face the plurality of light sources; and a diffusion member disposed between the wavelength conversion member and the plurality of light sources, and configured to uniformize distribution of traveling direction angle of incident light. | 02-05-2015 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Kawasaki JP
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20100241802 | STORAGE UNIT, DATA WRITE METHOD AND DATA WRITE PROGRAM - A storage unit includes a cache memory, a cache controller which accesses the cache memory, one or more disk units, a data receiving unit, a merge interpolation determination unit, a data readout unit, a write data generation unit and a data write unit. The data receiving unit receives, from the cache controller, unit readout data that includes update records updated by the cache controller and is unit of data read from the cache memory. The merge interpolation determination unit determines whether the received unit readout data is merge interpolated. The data readout unit reads, from the disk unit, data corresponding to the unit readout data when the unit readout data is determined to be merge interpolated. The write data generation unit generates data to be written to the disk unit by merge interpolating the unit readout data. The data write unit writes, to the disk unit, the generated data. | 09-23-2010 |
20110246717 | STORAGE APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE APPARATUS - A storage apparatus has a plurality of storage media including each storage area in which a stripe is set extending over the storage area of the plurality of storage media. An access unit that writes a format data into the storage area, wherein when the plurality of storage media are formatted, the access unit writes an unformatted-state identifier indicating incompletion of formatting into at least a portion of storage area to be included in the stripe, or when the storage area to be included in the stripe is accessed for writing new data, the access unit reads out existing data stored in the storage area included in the stripe to be accessed. And when the unformatted-state identifier is detected from the existing data that has been read out, the access unit writes the new data or the format data to be written by formatting into the storage area. | 10-06-2011 |
20110296103 | STORAGE APPARATUS, APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORAGE APPARATUS CONTROL PROGRAM - According to an embodiment, a storage apparatus including: a plurality of storage media of which a first RAID is composed, a logical storage area of the first RAID for storing data being set over; a plurality of expansion storage media of which a second RAID is composed; a spare storage medium that is different from in any of the storage media or the expansion storage media; and a configuration control unit that when the spare storage medium is set in the first RAID, sets the logical storage area in the storage media, and when the expansion storage media are set in the storage apparatus, sets the expansion storage media in the second RAID, excludes the spare storage medium that is set in the first RAID, and moves the logical storage area that is set in the first RAID to the second RAID. | 12-01-2011 |
20120233406 | STORAGE APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL APPARATUS THEREFOR - A control apparatus, coupled to a storage medium via communication links, controls data write operations to the storage medium. A cache memory is configured to store a temporary copy of first data written in the storage medium. A processor receives second data with which the first data in the storage medium is to be updated, and determines whether the received second data coincides with the first data, based on comparison data read out of the storage medium, when no copy of the first data is found in the cache memory. When the second data is determined to coincide with the first data, the processor determines not to write the second data into the storage medium. | 09-13-2012 |
20120236427 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND CONTROLLER - A storage apparatus includes a plurality of first storage mediums in which data is redundantly stored and a controller. The controller includes a formatting section which performs formatting in each of the plurality of first storage mediums, a detection section which detects a failure that has occurred in the plurality of first storage mediums, a control section which makes the formatting section stop the formatting at the time of the detection of the failure by the detection section and which rebuilds the data stored in the plurality of first storage mediums in which the failure has occurred in a second storage medium other than the plurality of first storage mediums, and a rebuild processing section which rebuilds the data stored in the plurality of first storage mediums in the second storage medium in accordance with instructions from the control section. | 09-20-2012 |
20130019122 | STORAGE DEVICE AND ALTERNATIVE STORAGE MEDIUM SELECTION METHODAANM Daikokuya; HidejirouAACI KawasakiAACO JPAAGP Daikokuya; Hidejirou Kawasaki JPAANM Ikeuchi; KazuhikoAACI KawasakiAACO JPAAGP Ikeuchi; Kazuhiko Kawasaki JPAANM Watanabe; TakeshiAACI KawasakiAACO JPAAGP Watanabe; Takeshi Kawasaki JPAANM Kubota; NorihideAACI KawasakiAACO JPAAGP Kubota; Norihide Kawasaki JPAANM Igashira; AtsushiAACI YokohamaAACO JPAAGP Igashira; Atsushi Yokohama JPAANM Kobayashi; KenjiAACI KawasakiAACO JPAAGP Kobayashi; Kenji Kawasaki JPAANM Tsukahara; RyotaAACI KasawakiAACO JPAAGP Tsukahara; Ryota Kasawaki JP - A storage device includes: a determination unit to determine an operation of a storage group including a plurality of storage medium based on an access operation on a logical volume serving as an access target of the storage group; and a selection unit to select based on the operation of the storage group, when a failure of at least one of the plurality of storage medium is detected, an alternative storage medium from the at least one of the plurality of storage medium. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024730 | DISK CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD OF DETECTING FAILURE OF DISK APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DISK DIAGNOSIS PROGRAM - A disk control apparatus includes a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor in which executes a process as follows. The process includes diagnosing whether or not a failure has occurred on each of a plurality of disk apparatuses, determining, when the failure has occurred, whether or not the failure is a pre-defined failure, and excluding from diagnosis targets, when the failure is the pre-defined failure, a disk apparatus group included in a RAID together with a failed disk apparatus that is determined to have the pre-defined failure in the plurality of disk apparatuses. | 01-24-2013 |
20130047028 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A control device manages a plurality of storage devices so that data to be recorded is redundantly recorded in different storage devices. An error monitoring unit monitors an occurrence of an error in each of the plurality of storage devices to register information indicative of error occurrence conditions in an error information storage unit for each storage device. When the use of one of the plurality of storage devices is stopped, a rebuild controller determines a timing to perform rebuild processing based on past error occurrence conditions in the storage devices other than the one storage device of the plurality of storage devices by referring to information registered in the error information storage unit. | 02-21-2013 |
20130047029 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage control apparatus manages a plurality of storage devices which belong to an RLU such that data is made redundant between different storage devices. If a first storage device fails, a rebuild controller executes a rebuild process to store the same data as recorded in the first storage device in a spare storage device. When the rebuild controller executing the rebuild process has failed in reading out data from a second storage device, a data recovery controller restarts the first storage device, and reads out data to be stored in the spare storage device from the restarted first storage device. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054907 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage system including first storage devices constituting a first logical storage area, second storage devices constituting a second logical storage area; and a storage control apparatus. The storage control apparatus manages the first and second logical storage areas so that the data stored in the first and second logical storage areas have redundancy, and parity data for the data stored in the second logical storage area are stored in parity storage areas arranged in part of the second storage devices. When part of the first storage devices constituting part of the first logical storage area fail, the storage control apparatus generates part of the data stored, before the failure, in the part of the first storage devices, and stores the generated part of the data in at least part of the second parity storage areas in the second logical storage area. | 02-28-2013 |
20130067165 | DISK ARRAY DEVICE AND DISK ARRAY DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - A disk array device includes hard disks from which RAID groups are configured. Therein, a volume setting unit sets one or more used areas. A data check control unit determines, on the basis of the state into which the used areas have been set, which areas in the RAID groups are subject to a diagnosis. A data check execution unit that executes a cyclical diagnosis on the areas determined, by the data check control unit, to be those subject to a diagnosis. | 03-14-2013 |
20130151771 | DISK ARRAY DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE AND DATA WRITE METHOD - A disk array device includes: a plurality of disk devices including a strip that stores divided data or a parity; a control device to divide the stripe for each of the plurality of disk devices into the divided data having a size of the strip and write the divided data; and a memory to store new data that corresponds to the divided data stored in the strip, wherein the control device detects whether or not the new data is discrete and performs a first write operation or a second write operation when the new data is discrete. | 06-13-2013 |
20130246862 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MAINTENANCE METHOD OF AN INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes: processing units to perform information processing, the processing units being capable of continuing the information processing even if a processing unit in the processing units stops its operation; and a control unit to perform a potential failure detection process of restarting the processing units one by one and outputting information requesting replacement or repair of a processing unit that is not restarted up. | 09-19-2013 |
20130262762 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage system includes a storage device having a command reordering function and a storage control apparatus that controls access to the storage device. Commands are issued to the storage device for reading or writing data. The storage control apparatus sets an upper limit to write data size or read data size specified in the commands during a predetermined period after a timeout of an issued command, so as to make it less likely for the storage device to postpone some of the issued commands. | 10-03-2013 |
20140009850 | CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - A control method of controlling a disk storage unit, includes: obtaining, by a computer, for a plurality of sectors allocated on a disk included in the disk storage unit, track identifying information that identifies a track to which sectors belong, in a first order starting from a first start sector; and storing, if first track identifying information obtained in a first sector of the plurality of sectors does not match second track identifying information obtained in a second sector of the plurality of sectors immediately before the first sector, a data length from the first start sector to the second sector in a storage unit. | 01-09-2014 |
20140075240 | STORAGE APPARATUS, COMPUTER PRODUCT, AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage controller detects a failure of any one of storage units making up a RAID group. The storage controller incorporates plural hot spares HS into the RAID group, as substitute storage units for the detected failed storage. The storage controller restores the memory contents of the failed storage unit onto each of the hot spares incorporated into the RAID group. Upon detecting replacement of the failed storage unit in the RAID group, the storage controller incorporates into the RAID group, a replacement storage unit that has replaced the failed storage unit. | 03-13-2014 |
20140089730 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGES - A processor copies first information stored in a first storage to a backup volume. The processor stores management information when a first piece of the first information is updated to second information after the copy. The processor executes, when a failure occurs in the first storage, first restoration based on the management information and reference information stored in reference storages other than the first storage. The first restoration restores the second information to a spare storage. The processor executes second restoration based on the management information and the reference information. The second restoration restores third information to the spare storage. The processor stops the second restoration when a failure occurs in a second storage while the second restoration is being executed. The processor executes third restoration based on the first information stored in the backup volume and the management information. The third restoration restores fourth information to the spare storage. | 03-27-2014 |
20140289478 | CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE SYSTEM - A control device that controls a reading process of information stored in a unit storage area under control of the control device and a unit storage area under control of a different control device in a distributed manner, the control device includes a processor. The processor executes a procedure including determining whether or not the reading process is a sequential reading process that reads information stored in a unit storage area under control of the control device in an order of logical addresses and whether or not a reading target area of the sequential reading process includes a last address in the unit storage area, and reporting to the different control device control information related to a sequential reading process including the last address determined by the first determination unit. | 09-25-2014 |
20140380090 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to detect medium error regions in a first memory device. A medium error has occurred in each of the medium error regions. The processor is configured to conduct, on a first medium error region, data recovery processing for recovering data stored therein. The processor is configured to conduct copy processing for copying first data of a peripheral region of the first medium error region from the first memory device to a second memory device other than the first memory device. | 12-25-2014 |
20150074452 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE DEVICES - A storage control device includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit is configured to store therein a first score calculated for a first storage device. The processor is configured to add, upon detecting an event occurred in the first storage device, points corresponding to the event to the first score. The processor is configured to determine upon the addition, based on the first score and a second score, whether a sign of failure of the first storage device is detected. The second score is calculated for a first redundant unit of storage devices including the first storage device. | 03-12-2015 |
20150121002 | RAID CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND RAID CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT METHOD | 04-30-2015 |
20150143167 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING STORAGE CONTROL PROGRAM - A storage control apparatus for controlling a storage system including a plurality of storage devices includes a monitor unit that collects statistics from each of the storage devices; and a selection unit that, in the event of a failure of any of the storage devices, selects a storage device to which data in the failed storage device is to be reconstructed, based on the statistics collected by the monitor unit. | 05-21-2015 |
20150143169 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a storage control device that is communicably connected to a plurality of storage devices and a plurality of spare storage devices through a plurality of paths. The storage control device includes: a memory configured to store path information associating the plurality of spare storage devices and the plurality of paths with each other; and a selection unit configured to select a spare storage device that is a replacing apparatus from among the plurality of spare storage devices based on a path connection condition determined in accordance with a path in which the storage device that is a replacement target among the plurality of storage devices is connected and the path information. | 05-21-2015 |
20150249676 | MONITORING METHOD AND MONITORING APPARATUS - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes obtaining, for each predetermined time period, from packets transmitted in a system, a packet set with a combination of a transmission source and a transmission destination different from a predetermined combination of a transmission source and a transmission destination; extracting, for the each predetermined time period, from the packets transmitted in the system, a related packet related to the obtained packet; generating, based on the extracted related packet, information indicating a degree of propagation; and outputting the generated information. | 09-03-2015 |
20150281345 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD - A control method for controlling a distributed processing system that performs distributed processing using a plurality of devices is executed by a processor. The method including acquiring load information from each of the plurality of devices, identifying a source device and a destination device based on the acquired load information, the source device being a device of a migration source of an allocated processing operation and the destination device being a device of a migration destination of the allocated processing operation. The method further including selecting as a processing operation of a migration target from among a plurality of processing operations allocated to the source device, a processing operation with which a rate that data used by the processing operation at the source device is to be used at the destination device is relatively high or higher than a predetermined rate. | 10-01-2015 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Minato-Ku JP
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20100203418 | SOLID POLYMER FUEL BATTERY - A solid polymer fuel cell includes an electrode—electrolyte membrane coupling structure | 08-12-2010 |
20130260866 | GAME SYSTEM AND GAME CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A game system comprises a first game control portion which makes a user of a game machine play a first game and a second game control portion which makes a user of a user terminal machine different from the game machine play a second game. The game control portion, where game play contents of the second game and identification information of the user are stored in a state of being correlated with each other, updates game data based on game play contents in the second game by the user each time the user plays the second game. The first game control portion obtains as reference data at least one portion of the game data when the user plays the first game, and generate effect in the first game depending on the reference data obtained. | 10-03-2013 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20090130743 | Vibration type microinjection device - A vibration type microinjection device capable of ensuring smooth piercing of membranes having different properties such as a zona pellucida, a cell membrane and a nuclear membrane included in a fertilized egg with high accuracy and efficiency is provided. | 05-21-2009 |
20100188724 | WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE SWITCH - A wavelength-selective switch with a switch unit having a lens array, a first lens and a beam expander, and a branching unit having a second lens, a diffraction grating, a third lens and a mirror, in which the switch unit and the branching unit are accommodated in independent casings, and a confocal point of the light transmitted through the first lens and the light transmitted through the second lens are arranged on a connecting surface of the casing of the switch unit and the casing of the branching unit. | 07-29-2010 |
20140193114 | OPTICAL MODULE - Provided is an optical module capable of inhibiting both the displacement of an optical axis caused by thermal changes and property degradation in an optical functional circuit. The optical module includes: a planar lightwave circuit including a waveguide-type optical functional circuit and a waveguide region where only an optical waveguide is formed in contact with a side, wherein an emission end face where output light is emitted from the optical functional circuit, or an entrance end face where input light is entered to the optical functional circuit is formed in contact with the side; a fixing mount employed to hold the planar lightwave circuit only in the portion where the waveguide area is located; and an auxiliary mount employed to hold the planar lightwave circuit in contact with a side that is opposite the side where the emission end face or the entrance end face. | 07-10-2014 |
20150247970 | OPTICAL CIRCUIT - Disclosed is an optical circuit including a transparent plate, which is light-transmittable, and a light shielding plate, which is adhered to the transparent plate with an adhesive and has an opening through which incident light passes, and in which the aspect facing to the opening has, on the side opposite to the transparent plate, projections in an overhang shape toward the center of the opening. | 09-03-2015 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Shiojiri-Shi JP
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20080239412 | Image reading apparatus and image reading method - The invention provides, as an aspect thereof, an image reading apparatus including: a light irradiating unit that has a red-light irradiating sub-unit that irradiates red light onto a reading target object, a green-light irradiating sub-unit that irradiates green light onto the reading target object, and a blue-light irradiating sub-unit that irradiates blue light onto the reading target object; a reading unit that detects the amount of each of the red light, the green light, and the blue light; a setting unit that sets an irradiation time period for each of the red light, the green light, and the blue light on the basis of the corresponding amount of light detected by the reading unit by commanding each of the red-light irradiating sub-unit, the green-light irradiating sub-unit, and the blue-light irradiating sub-unit to irradiate light for the number of times S (where S is the sum of K, L, and M, each of which is a positive integer, where at least one of K, L, and M differs in its value from other two thereof); and a controlling unit that commands the red-light irradiating sub-unit, the green-light irradiating sub-unit, and the blue-light irradiating sub-unit to irradiate light for the respective number of times K, L, and M for the respective irradiation time periods during each reading instruction signal time interval that is set for the reading unit to read out an image of the reading target object. | 10-02-2008 |
20090237688 | Control circuit of image reader, image reader, control method of image reader, and program - A control circuit of an image reader having at least one light source includes: a light source control portion that controls ON and OFF of the light source by performing current switching for adjusting a value of a current supplied to the light source; a black reference data creating portion that creates black reference data used for shading correction under control of the light source control portion; an image reading portion that reads image data under control of the light source control portion; and a shading correction portion that performs shading correction of the image data using the black reference data. The black reference data creating portion adds a noise, which is equivalent to a noise added to the image data by the current switching, to the black reference data, and the shading correction portion removes the noise added to the image data by performing the shading correction. | 09-24-2009 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Tsubame-Shi JP
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20090176596 | WEDGE TYPE GOLF CLUB INCLUDING PITCHING WEDGE, APPROACH WEDGE AND SAND WEDGE - There is provided a golf club capable of giving a strong backspin to a golf ball. A shaft is connected to a head formed with score lines on a face surface thereof. A height from a sole face of the head or a horizontal plane flush with the sole face is formed greater than a radius of a golf ball. An upper protrusion and a lower protrusion are provided spacedly rearwardly of upper and lower portions of the head, respectively. By providing the center of gravity of the head in an upper portion than the center of the golf ball, backspin can be accelerated by a gear effect generated at the time of hitting the golf ball. Further, the height of up to the center of gravity of the head is freely adjustable. | 07-09-2009 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Anjo-Shi JP
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20090113728 | Reciprocating power tool - It is an object of the invention to provide a useful technique for reducing vibration of a handgrip and improving the cutting efficiency while achieving weight reduction of a reciprocating power tool. According to the invention, a representative reciprocating power tool is provided to comprise a body, a tool bit, an actuating mechanism, a handgrip. The handgrip and the body can rotate with respect to each other via a pivot in a direction crossing the direction of reciprocating linear motion of the tool bit. An elastic element is disposed between the handgrip and the body and serves to absorb vibration transmitted from the body to the handgrip by elastically receiving the relative rotation of the handgrip and the body. According to the invention, vibration in the handgrip can be reduced and the cutting efficiency can be improved without complicating the construction. | 05-07-2009 |
20120247247 | POWER TOOL - Embodiments of the present invention may include a power tool including a drive motor and a continuously variable transmission mechanism. The continuously variable transmission mechanism may include a sun roller rotated by a drive motor, the sun roller configured to press on a plurality of planetary rollers, a holder radially supporting the plurality of planetary rollers, a shift ring being in internal contact with the plurality of planetary rollers, and a resistance reducing portion disposed at the holder to fill a gap between the two of the planetary rollers. | 10-04-2012 |
20130068491 | ELECTRIC POWER TOOL - An electric power tool includes: a motor; an operation unit; a control parameter setting unit; and a control unit. The control parameter setting unit sets, as a control parameter of the motor, an optimum maximum rotational speed of the motor corresponding to a predetermined set torque or a control amount corresponding to the optimum maximum rotational speed. The control unit is configured to drive the motor in response to an operation amount of the operation unit and to control a rotational speed of the motor at or smaller than the optimum maximum rotational speed based upon the control parameter. The control parameter setting unit determines, as the optimum maximum rotational speed, a rotational speed of the motor that rotates with a rotational energy required to rotate the output shaft at the set torque and sets the optimum maximum rotational speed as the control parameter. | 03-21-2013 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Nagoya JP
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20080203882 | SPARK PLUG AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a spark plug and a spark plug manufactured by the method in which a gasket used for securing the air-tightness when mounting the spark plug on an internal-combustion engine is prevented from falling out from the metal shell with a simple step. | 08-28-2008 |
20080231195 | Headlight control device - In a vehicle headlight apparatus, a projection unit having a same structure of an LED projector receives a light provided from a lamp. The projection unit generates and projects a projection image toward a vehicle front-area. A vehicle ECU has an image signal obtaining means for obtaining image signals representing a vehicle front-area image, a high brightness area determination means for analyzing the image signals in order to successively determine a high brightness area in the image signals, and a projection image determination means for determining a projection image so that the light, corresponding to the high brightness area and to be irradiated toward the vehicle front-area, becomes weak when compared with the light previously determined. Thereby, an intensity of the light to be irradiated to an object with a high reflection factor can be decreased. This can suppress decreasing of driver's frontal visibility. | 09-25-2008 |
20090067184 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SWIVEL ANGLES OF ON-VEHICLE HEADLIGHTS - An apparatus is provided to control an angle of a light axis of light from headlights mounted on a vehicle. In the apparatus, images of a field of view in front of the vehicle are captured, and the captured images are used to detect taillights of a preceding vehicle. A illumination target position is set by using, as a positional reference, a position of the detected taillights in the captured images, and the angle of the light axis so that the light axis is directed to the illumination target position. The command is provided to an angle changing device, where the provided command depends on the angle calculated. The angle changing device changes the direction of the light axis of the light at an angle commanded by the command. | 03-12-2009 |
20150332101 | LANE BOUNDARY LINE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR RECOGNIZING LANE BOUNDARY LINE ON ROADWAY - A boundary line recognition apparatus receives detection results transmitted from camera devices and a laser radar device performing different optical detection methods. These detection results indicate information regarding a lane boundary line of a vehicle lane on a roadway on which an own vehicle drives. The apparatus further obtains surrounding environmental information of the own vehicle on the roadway, and selects at least one of the camera devices and the laser radar device suitable for correctly recognizing the lane boundary line on the basis of the environmental information. The apparatus finally recognizes the lane boundary line with high accuracy on the basis of the detection result transmitted form one or more devices selected based on the environment information. | 11-19-2015 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Fukushima JP
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20090053978 | Double-Disc Grinding Machine, Static Pressure Pad, and Double-Disc Grinding Method Using the Same for Semiconductor Wafer - The present invention is a static pressure pad for supporting both sides of a raw wafer without contact by a static pressure of a fluid supplied to the both sides of the raw wafer in a double-disc grinding machine for a semiconductor wafer, wherein in patterns of lands to be banks of surrounding pockets formed on a surface side of supporting the raw wafer of the static pressure pad, an outer circumferential land pattern required to support the raw wafer is a concentric circle with respect to a rotation center of the raw wafer, and a land pattern inside the outer circumferential land pattern is a non-concentric circle with respect to the rotation center of the raw wafer and asymmetrical with respect to all the straight lines which bisect the static pressure pad. With this static pressure pad, there is provided the double-disc grinding machine and a double-disc grinding method for the semiconductor wafer, which can minimize a “middle ring” of average components obtained by averaging a nanotopography of the wafers after the double-disc grinding. | 02-26-2009 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Ota-Shi JP
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20090019884 | AIR CONDITIONER - An air conditioner having a heat-source side unit including a compressor and a heat-source side heat exchanger, plural use-side units each having a use-side heat exchanger and an inter-unit pipe for connecting the heat-source side unit to the plural use-side units, including an auxiliary heat source unit having a water-refrigerant heat exchanger for heat-exchanging refrigerant with water, a refrigerant side of the water-refrigerant heat exchanger being selectively connectable to one of the high-pressure gas pipe and the low-pressure gas pile through one of a first change-over valve and a second change-over valve, and also connected to a liquid pipe through an expansion valve, and a controller for controlling the auxiliary heat source unit so that the water-refrigerant heat exchanger of the auxiliary heat source unit functions as an evaporator with a water side thereof serving as a heat source when some of the user-side units are under heating operation. | 01-22-2009 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Shizuoka JP
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20080311453 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND FUEL CELL VEHICLE - In a fuel cell device, when a fuel cell device is not operated and an external power source enabling a battery charge of a secondary battery is connected to the secondary battery, a controller is provided to operate a water pump to circulate the cooling water via a circulation pipeline. The fuel cell prevents cooling water for cooling a fuel cell from corroding or freezing while a secondary battery and the fuel cell are used together. | 12-18-2008 |
20130333964 | FUEL CELL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLES - Fuel cell stacks | 12-19-2013 |
20130333965 | FUEL CELL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLES - A cowl top | 12-19-2013 |
20160053168 | LIGHT UP-CONVERSION LUMINESCENT SUBSTANCE - [Problem] To provide a novel light up-conversion organic luminescent substance having a high light up-conversion efficiency. | 02-25-2016 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Aichi JP
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20080278053 | Spark Plug - To provide a spark plug in which separation of a tip can be prevented and enough wear resistance can be obtained without increasing the content of nickel in the tip portion, and a use method of the spark plug. | 11-13-2008 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Tochigi JP
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20080249493 | Absorbent Article - An absorbent article | 10-09-2008 |
20120078212 | PULL-ON ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A pull-on absorbent article includes an outer cover and an absorbent assembly fixed on an inner side of the outer cover. The outer cover has a front portion to be worn around a wearer's front, a crotch portion to be worn around a wearer's crotch, and a rear portion to be worn around a wearer's rear. Opposite front side edges and opposite rear side edges of the outer cover are joined together to form a pair of side seals. The outer cover has non-bonded edges located along the front and rear side edges. The front side edge and the rear side edge are not joined to each other at the non-bonded edges. The non-bonded edges are located closer to the crotch portion than a part of the front and rear side edges where the side seals are formed. | 03-29-2012 |
20120095429 | PULL-ON ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - A pull-on absorbent article including a front outer cover to be worn around a wearer's front side, a rear outer cover to be worn around the wearer's rear side, and an absorbent assembly fixed to the front and the rear outer cover so as to bridge them and having a pair of side seals. The length of each of the front and the outer cover in the longitudinal direction of the article is uniform in the lateral direction and larger than that of the side seals so that the front and the outer cover have extension portions that extend downward from the side seals. The extension portions of the front and/or the rear outer cover have an elasticized region extensible in the lateral direction in a region located laterally outward of each side edge of the absorbent assembly. | 04-19-2012 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Aichi-Ken JP
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20080238137 | Automobile weather strip - The weather strip of the invention has an attachment base and a sealing part to be integrally attached to the attachment base for sealing a gap between a vehicle body opening open/close member and a vehicle body opening part. The attachment base has a substantially U-shaped section or a substantially J-shaped section that is formed of a vehicle exterior side wall, a vehicle interior side wall, and a bottom wall, and a sealant member formed from an adhesive material is attached to an inner surface of the attachment base having the substantially U-shaped section or the substantially J-shaped section. The tip of the flange is inserted into an inner part of the sealant member, and the attachment base is attached by an adhesion force of the sealant member. | 10-02-2008 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Nishinomiya-Shi JP
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20080216928 | Seamless steel pipe for line pipe and a method for its manufacture - A seamless steel pipe for line pipe having high strength and stable toughness and having resistance to sulfide corrosion cracking at low temperatures to room temperature is provided. A seamless steel pipe according to the present invention has a chemical composition comprising, in mass percent, C: 0.03-0.08%, Si: 0.05-0.5%, Mn: 1.0-3.0%, Mo: greater than 0.4% to 1.2%, Al: 0.005-0.100%, Ca: 0.001-0.005%, a remainder of Fe and impurities including N, P, S, O, and Cu, with the impurities containing at most 0.01% of N, at most 0.05% of P, at most 0.01% of S, at most 0.01% of O, and at most 0.1% of Cu, and having a microstructure comprising a bainitic-martensitic dual phase structure. | 09-11-2008 |
20150315685 | SEAMLESS STEEL PIPE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A seamless steel pipe has a carbon equivalent Ceq of 0.50% to 0.58%, and contains specified carbides containing Mo at a ratio of 50 mass % or more, V, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti and Nb, and having a size of 20 nm or more. | 11-05-2015 |
Kenji Kobayashi US
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20120005271 | METHOD OF AUTONOMIC REPRESENTATIVE SELECTION IN LOCAL AREA NETWORKS - A method and apparatus for selecting a client computer as a relay server to rebroadcast common application information that is broadcast from a server system over a network. The client computer is selected randomly to rebroadcast the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) information received from the server system and client computers receiving the UDP information from another client computer relay server on the network do not rebroadcast the information. If the client computer selected to rebroadcast the common information fails to rebroadcast, another client computer is randomly selected as a relay server and takes over rebroadcasting the common information. | 01-05-2012 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Utsunomiya-Shi JP
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20130281955 | PULL-ON WEAR ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A pull-on wear article having a front portion that is adapted to be worn around the front side of a wearer, a crotch portion that is adapted to be worn along the wearer's crotch region, and a rear portion that is adapted to be worn around the wearer's rear side, which is formed into a pants form by bonding lateral side edges of the front portion and lateral side edges of the rear portion, wherein the front portion and the rear portion are each constituted by an outer cover in which an inner layer material and an outer layer material are laminated, the outer cover has plural single layer areas that are formed of the inner layer material or the outer layer material at intervals in the direction of length of the outer cover, and the laminate areas where the inner layer material and outer layer material are laminated have elasticity in the waist-surrounding direction of the outer cover. | 10-24-2013 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Saitama City JP
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20130274543 | INFANT INCUBATOR - An infant incubator including: a left-side treatment door, a right-side treatment door, and an end-side treatment door which are rotatably held, and door-locking devices which fixes the left-side and right-side treatment doors on the end-side treatment door; the door-locking devices are formed from: open-close knobs each mounted rotatably on the left-side and right-side treatment doors and each having a hook-shaped distal end, and knob brackets each mounted on side of the end-side treatment doors having a hollow-shape, the infant incubator in which the treatment doors are fixed in a stand state by inserting the open-close knob into the knob bracket. | 10-17-2013 |
20130310634 | INFANT INCUBATOR - An infant incubator including: a bed of an infant; a first supporting-shaft disposed at obliquely above the bed, extends substantially horizontally, and rotatable back and forth at a predetermined extent around an axis; a rotation stay fixed to and rotated with the first supporting-shaft; a second supporting-shaft provided with the rotation stay and parallel to the first supporting-shaft; and a heater disposed at obliquely above the bed, supported to the rotation stay rotatably back and forth at a predetermined extent around the second supporting-shaft, and possible to emit heat ray obliquely to an upper surface of the bed, wherein a position of the heater can be varied between a heating position for emitting the heat ray and a folding position for moving away from above the bed; and at the heating position, an emission angle of the heat ray from the heater is further varied. | 11-21-2013 |
20130310635 | INFANT INCUBATOR - An infant incubator including: an infant chamber in which an infant is placed; an air-supply passage for supplying supply-air to the infant chamber; and a heater equipment for heating the supply-air having a mount base which is mounted in the air-supply passage and a heater which is held to the mount base rotatably, wherein the heater has: a support part provided at a base end of the heater and supported by the mount base rotatably; and a heating part provided at a top end of the heater and heating the supply-air, and the heating part is formed by winding a heating-wire into a coil-shape and disposed so that an axial direction of the coil-shape is orthogonal to a flow direction of the supply-air passing through the air-supply passage. | 11-21-2013 |
20130345494 | INFANT INCUBATOR - An infant incubator including: an infant chamber isolated from external air; a conditioning bath communicating with the infant chamber; an air-conditioning equipment circulating air in the infant chamber through the conditioning bath; a fan provided at the air-conditioning equipment and moving air in the conditioning bath; a heater provided at the air-conditioning equipment and heating the air in the conditioning bath; a humidifier provided at the air-conditioning equipment, removably installed on a constructional member of the conditioning bath, and supplying water-vapor to the air in the conditioning bath; and a channel member for supplying water-vapor removably installed on a water-vapor introduction port penetrating the constructional member of the conditioning bath, and connecting the humidifier and the conditioning bath, in this infant incubator, the channel member for supplying water-vapor closes the water-vapor introduction port when the humidifier is removed, and opens the water-vapor introduction port when the humidifier is installed. | 12-26-2013 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Shiga JP
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20130307352 | INVERTER APPARATUS AND SOLAR POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - An inverter apparatus comprising a first switch group that is connected to a DC power source and includes a first switch and a second switch connected in series; a capacitor that has one end thereof connected to a first connection point between the first switch and the second switch; a second switch group that is connected in parallel with the capacitor and includes a third switch and a fourth switch that are connected in series; a switch control section that controls an ON/OFF state of the first switch, the second switch, the third switch, and the fourth switch to convert DC voltage from the DC power source into AC voltage and output the AC voltage from a second connection point between the third switch and the fourth switch; and a smoothing circuit that is connected to the second connection point and normalizes a pulse waveform of the AC voltage. | 11-21-2013 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Hachioji-Shi JP
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20130141618 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL READING METHOD - A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit in which pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element and a signal accumulation circuit are arranged in a matrix shape and a plurality of pixels in a range of two or more rows form the same group, and a control unit that performs control to associate a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are targets from which signals are read in the same group with a plurality of signal accumulation circuits in the same group of an array having a number of rows smaller than a number of rows in an array of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, transfer signals generated by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements to the signal accumulation circuits associated with the respective photoelectric conversion elements, and output the signals accumulated in the signal accumulation circuits for each row. | 06-06-2013 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Gamagori JP
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20140145583 | SPARK PLUG - A spark plug includes a metal shell and a gasket. The metal shell includes a thread portion, a seat portion, and a thread root portion. The gasket has an inner diameter smaller than a thread size of the thread portion. The relationships 0.8L≦C≦L−2A and B≦0.75L are satisfied in a case where: in the seat portion, an outer diameter of a seating portion is L (mm); the maximum value of a relatively shiftable distance is A (mm), the gasket is shiftable along a direction orthogonal to the axis relative to the metal shell by the maximum value; in the gasket, an outer diameter is C (mm); and in the gasket, an inner diameter is B (mm). | 05-29-2014 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Kyoto JP
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20140273498 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD - In a substrate processing apparatus, provided are an upper nozzle for supplying a chemical liquid having a temperature higher than that of a substrate onto an upper surface of the substrate and a heating liquid supply nozzle for supplying a heating liquid having a temperature higher than that of the substrate onto a lower surface of the substrate. It is thereby possible to suppress or prevent a decrease in the temperature of the chemical liquid supplied on the upper surface of the substrate from a center portion of the substrate toward an outer peripheral portion thereof. In a supply nozzle, the heating liquid supply nozzle is positioned on the inner side of a heating gas supply nozzle for ejecting heating gas in drying the substrate. It is thereby possible to simplify and downsize a structure used for heating the lower surface of the substrate. | 09-18-2014 |
20140290703 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD - A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate supporting part for supporting a substrate in a horizontal state, an upper nozzle for discharging deionized water as a cleaning solution toward a center portion of an upper surface of the substrate, and a substrate rotating mechanism for rotating the substrate supporting part together with the substrate around a central axis directed in a vertical direction. In the substrate processing apparatus, the plurality of discharge ports are provided in the upper nozzle, and the flow rate of the deionized water to be supplied onto the center portion of the substrate from the upper nozzle can be ensured, with the flow rate of the deionized water from each discharge port reduced. It is thereby possible to perform appropriate cleaning of the upper surface of the substrate while suppressing electrification at the center portion of the substrate. | 10-02-2014 |
20150243542 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD - A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate heating unit arranged to heat the underside of a substrate while supporting the substrate thereon and an attitude changing unit arranged to cause the substrate heating unit to undergo an attitude change between a horizontal attitude and a tilted attitude. In an organic solvent removing step to be performed following a substrate heating step of heating the substrate, the substrate heating unit undergoes an attitude change to the tilted attitude so that the upper surface of the substrate becomes tilted with respect to the horizontal surface. | 08-27-2015 |
20150258553 | SUBSTRATE TREATMENT METHOD AND SUBSTRATE TREATMENT APPARATUS - A substrate treatment method is performed by a substrate treatment apparatus including a substrate holding unit which holds a substrate, and a hot plate which heats the substrate from below. The method includes: a treatment liquid supplying step of locating the hot plate at a retracted position at which the hot plate is retracted below the substrate holding unit and, in this state, supplying a treatment liquid to an upper surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding unit; a protection liquid film forming step of forming a liquid film of a protection liquid to cover an upper surface of the hot plate in the treatment liquid supplying step; and a substrate heating step of heating the substrate by the hot plate with the hot plate being located adjacent to a lower surface of the substrate or in contact with the lower surface of the substrate. | 09-17-2015 |
20150270146 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD - In parallel with a substrate heating step, a liquid surface sensor is used to monitor the raising of an IPA liquid film. An organic solvent removing step is started in response to the raising of the IPA liquid film over the upper surface of the substrate. At the end of the organic solvent removing step, a visual sensor is used to determine whether or not IPA droplets remain on the upper surface of the substrate. | 09-24-2015 |
20150279708 | SUBSTRATE TREATMENT METHOD AND SUBSTRATE TREATMENT APPARATUS - A substrate treatment method is provided, which includes: an organic solvent replacing step of supplying an organic solvent, whereby a liquid film of the organic solvent is formed on the substrate as covering the upper surface of the substrate to replace a rinse liquid with the organic solvent; a substrate temperature increasing step of allowing the temperature of the upper surface of the substrate to reach a first temperature level higher than the boiling point of the organic solvent after the formation of the organic solvent liquid film, whereby a vapor film of the organic solvent is formed below the entire organic solvent liquid film between the organic solvent liquid film and the substrate to levitate the organic solvent liquid film above the organic solvent vapor film; and an organic solvent removing step of removing the levitated organic solvent liquid film from above the upper surface of the substrate. | 10-01-2015 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Nishigo-Mura JP
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20150147944 | DOUBLE-DISC GRINDING APPARATUS AND WORKPIECE DOUBLE-DISC GRINDING METHOD - The invention is directed to a double-disc grinding apparatus including: a rotatable ring holder configured to support a sheet workpiece along a circumferential direction from an outer circumference side of the workpiece; a pair of grinding wheels for grinding surfaces of the workpiece supported by the ring holder; and a hydrostatic bearing for supporting the ring holder without contact from both of a direction of a rotational axis of the ring holder and a direction perpendicular to the rotational axis by hydrostatic pressure of fluid supplied from both directions, wherein supply pressures at which the fluid is supplied from the direction of the rotational axis and from the direction perpendicular to the rotational axis can be independently controlled. The invention provides a double-disc grinding apparatus and a workpiece double-disc grinding method that can improve variation in nanotopography depending on the lot of workpieces or grinding wheels to obtain nanotopography stably. | 05-28-2015 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Kyoto-Shi JP
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20150200087 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SUBSTRATE WITH FILM HAVING POROUS STRUCTURE (POROUS FILM) FORMED ON SURFACE LAYER THEREOF - A method for processing a substrate with a porous film having a porous structure formed on a surface layer thereof includes the following a) and b) steps. The a) step is a step of mixing a first processing solution containing water with gas to generate droplets of the first processing solution and injecting the droplets of the first processing solution to the porous film. In addition, the b) step is a step of, after the a) step, mixing a second processing solution which is an organic solvent having higher volatility than the first processing solution with the gas to generate droplets of the second processing solution and injecting the droplets of the second processing solution to the porous film. | 07-16-2015 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Chiba-Shi JP
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20150284600 | PROPYLENE-BASED POLYMER AND HOT MELT ADHESIVE - A propylene-based polymer which satisfies the following (a1) to (d1): (a1) [mmmm]=60 to 80 mol %; (b1) weight-average molecular weight (Mw)=10,000 to 55,000; (c1) Mw/Mn≦2.5; and (d1) [rmrm]≦2.5 mol %. | 10-08-2015 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Saitama JP
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20150335843 | GAS SUPPLY MASK APPARATUS - A gas supply mask apparatus has low possibility that a gas rising in a mask main body will flow out from the upper end and the surrounding vicinity of the mask main body and give discomfort to the eyes of a mask wearer. In this gas supply mask apparatus, an angle formed between a direction in which a gas introduction opening faces and a virtual vertical plane facing right frontways falls within the range of 30° to 60° (preferably, the range of 35° to 55°, and more preferably, the range of 40° to 50°) when the mask main body is viewed right sideways. | 11-26-2015 |
20150335844 | GAS SUPPLY MASK APPARATUS - A gas supply mask apparatus allows a mask wearer to inhale a gas such as oxygen gas such that air in a mask main body does not much mix in the gas approaching substantially lower ends and the vicinities of the nostrils of the mask wearer in the mask main body. In this gas supply mask apparatus, a gas introduction opening for introducing a gas such as oxygen gas and water vapor into the mask main body includes a first gas introduction opening capable of introducing the gas in, e.g., a bundle-like state into the mask main body, and a second gas introduction opening capable of introducing the second gas into the mask main body so as to surround, in a substantially ring-like state, the above-mentioned, first gas in a bundle-like state introduced into the mask main body from the first gas introduction opening. | 11-26-2015 |
20150335847 | GAS SUPPLY MASK APPARATUS - A gas supply mask apparatus comprises a mask main body which can be put on a mask wearer relatively simply and relatively reliably by extending a head-worn band such as an elastic bandage relatively simply and relatively reliably over the head of the mask wearer even when there is no head-worn string such as a rubber string at hand. A string attaching short hole and band attaching long hole are formed in each of the left and right end portions of the outer peripheral portion of the mask main body. | 11-26-2015 |
20160058965 | CANNULA DEVICE - A cannula device which supplies respiration gas to a patient provided with: a nasal cannula including nasal pipes inserted into nares of the patient; a pair of supplying tubes connected to both ends of the nasal cannula respectively; a bracket provided at at least one of the nasal cannula or the supplying tubes; and a locking part provided at the bracket, and detachably locking a fixture which attaches the nasal cannula on a head of the patient. | 03-03-2016 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Fukuoka JP
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20150341569 | IMAGE SWITCHING APPARATUS, IMAGE SWITCHING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE SWITCHING METHOD - Provided is an image switching apparatus that is capable of improving utilization efficiency of features of images in switching image display, by including: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire data that includes images captured by imaging devices; a feature amount detection unit configured to detect feature amounts of the acquired data; a designation unit configured to designate a continuous display time in a case of displaying the images corresponding to the data, the feature amounts of which are detected, on a display device based on the feature amounts of the data; and an image display control unit configured to switch and display the respective images on the display device for each designated continuous display time. | 11-26-2015 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Saitama-Shi JP
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20160051787 | NASAL CANNULA - A nasal cannula including: a cannula body having a tubular shape, which is provided with a pair of paths through which respiration gas flows, and a partition wall which partitions the paths and makes outer sides of bent parts of the paths respectively; a pair of introducing pipes which are formed integrally with the cannula body at both end parts of the cannula body so as to communicate with end parts of the paths respectively and to be connected to a pair of supply tubes supplying the respiration gas respectively; and a pair of nasal pipes which are formed integrally with the cannula body at a center part of the cannula body so as to communicate with other end parts of the paths respectively, and to be inserted into nares. | 02-25-2016 |
20160067440 | CANNULA DEVICE - A cannula device including: a nasal cannula having nasal pipes; respiration-gas flow tubes connected to the nasal cannula; an adaptor pipe communicated with the respiration-gas flow tubes; a connector pipe removably attached to the adaptor pipe; and a respiration-gas supplying tube connected to the connector pipe, in the cannula device, one of the adaptor pipe and the connector pipe is a female member having a receiving part and the other is a male member having an inserting part; and the male member is removably inserted into the female part, and the cannula device further including: a ring-shape part formed on a base-end part of the inserting part as a protruding ridge or a recessed groove extending on whole circumference of the inserting part; and a lock piece formed on the receiving part, having a projection part locking the ring-shape part of the inserting part inserted in the receiving part. | 03-10-2016 |
Kenji Kobayashi, Utsunomiya-Shi, Tochigi JP
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20160106601 | UNDERWEAR-STYLE ABSORBENT ARTICLE - In this diaper ( | 04-21-2016 |