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20080316519 | Image input and output system, method and recording medium - An image input and output system is provided in which a common operation screen for a plurality of image output devices having different attributes is displayed. Based on attribute information of each of printers, the server generates a signal for generating an operation screen, and transmits the signal to the scanner. At the scanner, image data is inputted, and a common operation screen, which is generated based on the signal for generating the operation screen, is displayed on a display panel. When information designating the printer and information relating to an output format of an image is inputted from the display panel, the inputted information and the image data are transmitted to the server. The server transmits, to a designated printer, the image data and the information relating to the output format of the image, which are transmitted from the scanner, and images are outputted. | 12-25-2008 |
20080316520 | Image input and output system, method and recording medium - An image input and output system is provided in which a common operation screen for a plurality of image output devices having different attributes is displayed. Based on attribute information of each of printers, the server generates a signal for generating an operation screen, and transmits the signal to the scanner. At the scanner, image data is inputted, and a common operation screen, which is generated based on the signal for generating the operation screen, is displayed on a display panel. When information designating the printer and information relating to an output format of an image is inputted from the display panel, the inputted information and the image data are transmitted to the server. The server transmits, to a designated printer, the image data and the information relating to the output format of the image, which are transmitted from the scanner, and images are outputted. | 12-25-2008 |
20080316531 | Image input and output system, method and recording medium - An image input and output system is provided in which a common operation screen for a plurality of image output devices having different attributes is displayed. Based on attribute information of each of printers, the server generates a signal for generating an operation screen, and transmits the signal to the scanner. At the scanner, image data is inputted, and a common operation screen, which is generated based on the signal for generating the operation screen, is displayed on a display panel. When information designating the printer and information relating to an output format of an image is inputted from the display panel, the inputted information and the image data are transmitted to the server. The server transmits, to a designated printer, the image data and the information relating to the output format of the image, which are transmitted from the scanner, and images are outputted. | 12-25-2008 |
20130249940 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, PRINTING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A display control device includes: an obtaining unit that obtains a stacking image formed by stacking plural specific images for specifying respective contents of images recorded on at least one surface of each of plural recording media; and a controller that exerts control so that a process is displayed on a display screen, the process sequentially performing an operation to select one specific image from the plural specific images in the stacking image obtained by the obtaining unit and to change the one specific image to represent a state in which at least a part of a recording medium corresponding to the one specific image is turned, to thereby show at least a part of another specific image hidden behind the one specific image while changing one specific image to be selected. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250346 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, PRINTING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A display control device includes: an accepting unit that accepts part-designation information for designating plural parts to be printed included in data and processing-designation information for designating print processing that performs predetermined processing on every K parts of the plural parts, where K is an integer not less than 2; a generating unit that generates plural specific images for specifying contents of the plural respective parts designated by part-designation information accepted by the accepting unit; and a controller that, when the accepting unit accepts the processing-designation information, exerts control so that a process for performing an operation to select K specific images from the plural specific images generated by the generating unit and to change a state of the K specific images in accordance with the predetermined process in order while changing the K specific images to be selected is displayed on a display screen. | 09-26-2013 |
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20080238980 | LIQUID CIRCULATION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND LIQUID CIRCULATION METHOD - A liquid circulation apparatus includes: a plurality of liquid ejection elements each of which includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber which is connected to the nozzle and accommodates liquid, and a piezoelectric element which displaces a wall of the pressure chamber to eject the liquid in the pressure chamber through the nozzle; a plurality of individual supply channels which are respectively connected to the liquid ejection elements; a common supply channel which is connected to the individual supply channels, the liquid being supplied from the common supply channel to the liquid ejection elements through the individual supply channels; a plurality of individual circulation channels which are respectively connected to the liquid ejection elements; a common circulation channel which is connected to the individual circulation channels, the liquid being circulated from the liquid ejection elements to the common circulation channel through the individual circulation channels; and a control device which controls a circulation volume of the liquid circulated from the liquid ejection elements to the common circulation channel, by adjusting a supply volume of the liquid supplied from the common supply channel to the liquid ejection elements in accordance with an ejection volume of the liquid ejected from the liquid ejection elements. | 10-02-2008 |
20090086190 | LIQUID DROPLET MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND LIQUID DROPLET MEASUREMENT METHOD - A liquid droplet measurement apparatus has: a first laser light source emitting a laser light; a first optical device which makes, in terms of a beam cross-section of the laser light, a beam width in a direction perpendicular to a direction of ejection of a liquid droplet, greater than a beam width in the direction of ejection of the liquid droplet, and makes light intensity of the laser light fall within a prescribed range within a range where variation in a position of the liquid droplet occurs in the direction perpendicular to the direction of ejection of the liquid droplet, at a position where the laser light from the first laser light source is irradiated onto the liquid droplet ejected; a first light receiving device which receives the laser light that has been irradiated onto the liquid droplet by the first optical device and generates a determination signal; and a first liquid droplet characteristics calculation device which calculates at least one of a volume of the liquid droplet and a velocity of the liquid droplet, from the determination signal generated by the first light receiving device. | 04-02-2009 |
20090086219 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A document processing apparatus has: a reading device which optically reads in a printed document on which original information has been printed, to obtain a read image; an analysis device which analyses the read image obtained by the reading device and classifies each part of the read image into the original information and a blank portion; an information processing device which processes the original information to generate additional recording information; an arrangement device which determines arrangement, on the printed document, of the additional recording information which is to be recorded additionally onto the printed document, according to analysis result of the analysis device; and a printing device which additionally records the additional recording information onto the printed document according to the arrangement of the additional recording information determined by the arrangement device. | 04-02-2009 |
20110316918 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejection head has a recording element including a set of ejection elements. Each of the ejection elements includes a pressure chamber, a supply flow channel connected to the pressure chamber, an ejection energy generating device arranged correspondingly to the pressure chamber, and an ejection port connected to the pressure chamber. The ejection elements constituting the same set have identical ejection operation characteristics. The ejection energy generating devices included in the ejection elements constituting the same set are connected to a common signal wire, and are configured to be applied with the same drive signal through the common signal wire to be simultaneously driven. In the ejection elements constituting the same set, when the ejection energy generating devices are simultaneously driven, liquids are ejected from the pressure chambers through the ejection ports and deposited to a same pixel on an image formation medium in an image formation operation. | 12-29-2011 |
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20080298800 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND ROUTE VERIFYING METHOD - A transmission device transmitting a data frame to an opposite transmission device by use of one virtual transmission path built up by a plurality of communication channels comprises a route control unit determining each of routes of the communication channels building up the virtual transmission path between the transmission device and the opposite transmission device, a circuit setup unit performing a circuit setup of the self-device based on the routes determined by the route control unit, and a test signal transmitting unit transmitting test signals to the opposite transmission device via the communication channels based on the circuit setup. | 12-04-2008 |
20090162075 | Transmission system and transmission method - A transmission system includes a transmission device that performs data communication with adjacent transmission devices. The transmission device calculates the error rates of data communication, and set line cost based on the error rate. The transmission device synchronizes obtained line costs, and learn the line cost of each line between the transmission devices. The transmission device selects a path with the lowest line cost and perform data transmission through the path. | 06-25-2009 |
20090297141 | Transmission apparatus, path testing method, and storage medium - A transmission apparatus in a network where a path is set up is disclosed that includes a processing part configured to transmit a frame of the network to an egress node of the path when being set as an ingress node of the path, the frame having setup information of the path written therein, and to loop back the frame when being set as the egress node, the frame having response information written therein based on the setup information read from the frame, the response information indicating that the path is set up correctly. | 12-03-2009 |
20100118872 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND PATH SETTING CONTROL METHOD - A communication apparatus operable to set a path based on path setting information used to set a communication path over a communication network formed by a plurality of the communication apparatuses, the communication apparatus including a first storage medium operable to store first path setting information formatted with a first format, a second storage medium operable to store second path setting information formatted with a second format, and a controller operable to control to convert control information of the communication apparatus in which the first path setting information stored in the first storage medium is set, to the second path setting information formatted with the second format. | 05-13-2010 |
20130216227 | RING NETWORK SETUP METHOD - A network setup method used in a ring network including a plurality of transmission equipments. The method includes: transmitting a frame in the ring network; causing each of the transmission equipments to write an identifier to the frame according to a specified rule; determining whether or not a plurality of identifiers written to the frame by the plurality of transmission equipments satisfy a specified condition; and causing each of the transmission equipments to obtain a corresponding identifier according to the specified rule from among the plurality of identifiers, when the plurality of identifiers satisfy the specified condition. | 08-22-2013 |
20130294229 | FAILURE PROTECTION METHOD AND NODE APPARATUS - A failure protection method of a network connecting between nodes by multiple working paths and a protection path is disclosed. An allocation bandwidth is determined to allocate to a detected path where a failure is detected in multiple paths being set to the multiple working paths, depending on the detected path. The detected path is switched from one of the multiple working paths to the protection path. Data to be transmitted by the detected path is transmitted by using the allocation bandwidth determined within an entire bandwidth of the protection path. | 11-07-2013 |
20140363154 | OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An optimization unit in an optical receiver divides a symbol region out of a plurality of symbol regions into which signal points that specifies symbol information included in an optical signal are classified, into a plurality of division regions from the symbol center coordinate of the symbol region. Moreover, the optimization unit accumulates the signal points of the symbol information for every division region in the symbol region. Furthermore, based on the accumulated number of signal points for every division region, the optimization unit controls the average length of a phase estimation unit when the phase noise of the optical signal is calculated. | 12-11-2014 |
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20090304404 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Developing bias is set as follows. An electric field intensity between a developing roller and a photoconductor is set to cause normally-charged toner to fly in an image area and not to cause the toner to fly in a background area. Thus, the normally-charged toner does not fly in the background area. The normally-charged toner caused to fly is therefore unlikely to flick low-charged toner and oppositely-charged toner. The low-charged toner and the oppositely-charged toner will not adhere to the background area and cause image fogging. Accordingly, an image forming apparatus can be provided to prevent the low-charged toner and the oppositely-charged toner from adhering to the background area of an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor and to avoid the occurrence of image fogging in the background area on a printed material. | 12-10-2009 |
20090310995 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - In case new and old toners may be mixed, a developing bias is set as follows. The time is first clocked. The number of times toner is replenished from a hopper into a buffer for a clocked period is counted. If a replenishment amount per clock time is a threshold value or higher, considering that new and old toners are mixed, the setting of the developing bias is changed. An electric field intensity between a developing roller and a photoconductor is set to cause normally-charged toner to fly in an image area but not to fly in a background area. No image fogging is therefore generated in the background area. Thus, an image forming apparatus and method capable of preventing low-charged toner and oppositely-charged toner generated by mixing of new and old toners from adhering to the background area of an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor, thereby avoiding generation of image fogging. | 12-17-2009 |
20120003014 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A two-component developing device using a developer containing toner and magnetic carrier particles. The developing device comprises a housing, a developing roller, a magnetic field generator mounted inside the developing roller, and a developer restricting member, and further comprises a developer guide member providing a developer guide path for guiding the developer to the developer amount restricting clearance, providing a developer circulation path for circulating the developer to an upstream end of the guide member, and providing a communication path for bringing the developer guide path into communication with the developer circulation path, an upstream end of the guide member being positioned above the position of a peak of magnetic flux density of the magnetic pole of the magnetic field generator which is closest to a low-magnetic force area downstream of the low-magnetic force area or positioned upstream of such a position and downstream of the low-magnetic force area. An image forming device in which such a two-component developing device is employed as at least one developing device. | 01-05-2012 |
20120177416 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, wherein the packing density at a closest point where the first peripheral surface and the second peripheral surface are the closest to each other is within a range from 0.3 to 0.4; wherein a maximum magnetic flux density of a principal magnetic pole for generating the magnetic field for development is located in an upstream side from the closest point with respect to the specified direction and at a point where the packing density is equal to or greater than 0.2; and wherein a magnetic flux density of the principal magnetic pole at a point where the packing density is 0.2 in a downstream side from the closest point with respect to the specified direction is equal to or less than ½ of a magnetic flux density of the principal magnetic pole at a point where the packing density is 0.2 in the upstream side. | 07-12-2012 |
20140169839 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device having: a developing sleeve in which a magnetic member is inserted, transporting two-component developer to a developing area facing an image carrier; and a restriction member for restricting the amount of developer to be no greater than 250 g/m | 06-19-2014 |
20140360252 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PATTERN SUBSTRATE AND METHOD OF LOCATING COMPONENT - There is provided a method of manufacturing a pattern substrate in which a pattern is formed on the surface of the substrate. The manufacturing method includes a step of preparing the substrate and a step of arranging a liquid-repellent or lyophilic material on the surface of the substrate so as to form the pattern on the surface of the substrate in which the surface of the substrate has a liquid-repellent region and a lyophilic region, the pattern is formed by one of the liquid-repellent region and the lyophilic region and the pattern is used to locate a component by the surface tension of a liquid member. | 12-11-2014 |
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20130164181 | REDUCING AGENT AQUEOUS SOLUTION MIXING DEVICE AND EXHAUST GAS POST-TREATMENT DEVICE - A reducing agent aqueous solution mixing device includes an exhaust pipe, an injector, an inner pipe and a tubular guide member. The exhaust pipe includes an elbow part having a curved portion, and a linear part disposed on a downstream side of the elbow part. The injector is disposed outside the curved portion and injects only a reducing agent aqueous solution into the elbow part towards the linear part. The inner pipe is disposed on an exhaust stream downstream side of the injector within the exhaust pipe with an inlet portion opening thereof facing the injector and an outer peripheral surface thereof being spaced apart from the inner wail of the linear art. The inner pipe allows the exhaust as to flow through the inside thereof and the outer periphery thereof. A tubular guide member directs the reducing agent aqueous solution injected from the injector to the inner pipe. | 06-27-2013 |
20130164182 | REDUCING AGENT AQUEOUS SOLUTION MIXING DEVICE AND EXHAUST GAS POST-TREATMENT DEVICE - A reducing agent aqueous solution mixing device includes an exhaust pipe, an injector, a mixing pipe and an inner pipe. The exhaust pipe includes an elbow part having a curved portion, and a linear part disposed on the downstream side of the elbow part. The injector is disposed outside the curved portion and injects the reducing agent aqueous solution towards the linear part. The mixing pipe is disposed inside the elbow part to enclose a surrounding of the reducing agent aqueous solution injected from the injector, and includes a plurality of openings on an outer peripheral surface thereof. The inner pipe is disposed on the downstream side of the mixing pipe and spaced apart from an outlet portion of the mixing pipe and from an inner wall of the linear part, and allows the exhaust gas to flow through the inside thereof and the outer periphery thereof. | 06-27-2013 |
20130164183 | REDUCING AGENT AQUEOUS SOLUTION MIXING DEVICE AND EXHAUST GAS POST-TREATMENT DEVICE - A reducing agent aqueous solution mixing device includes an exhaust pipe, an injector, a mixing pipe, an inner pipe and a flow section. The exhaust pipe includes an elbow part and a linear part. The injector is disposed in the elbow part and injects a reducing agent aqueous solution. The mixing pipe is disposed to enclose a surrounding of the reducing agent aqueous solution injected from the injector, and includes an outlet portion formed spaced apart from an inner wall of the exhaust pipe, and a plurality of openings formed on the outer peripheral surface thereof. The inner pipe is disposed in the linear part and allows the exhaust gas to flow through the inside and the outer periphery thereof. The flow section is formed between the outlet portion of the mixing the inner wall of the exhaust pipe and directs the exhaust gas to the inner pipe. | 06-27-2013 |
20140290220 | ENGINE UNIT - An engine unit includes an engine, an exhaust gas treatment device and a connecting pipe. The engine has an exhaust gas port. The exhaust gas treatment device is arranged above the engine. The connecting pipe connects the exhaust gas port and the exhaust gas treatment device. The connecting pipe has an expandable-contractible bellows portion. The bellows portion has a linear form following the upward-downward direction. The lower end portion of the bellows portion is positioned lower than at least a part of the exhaust gas port. | 10-02-2014 |
20140290222 | EXHAUST GAS POST-TREATMENT UNIT AND CONSTRUCTION VEHICLE CARRYING SAME - An exhaust gas post-treatment unit includes a diesel particulate filtering device that treats engine exhaust gas, a selective catalyst reduction device that treats the engine exhaust gas, a connecting pipe, an injection device, a cooling water supply pipe and a cooling water return pipe. The connecting pipe connects the diesel particulate filtering device and the selective catalyst reduction device. The injection device is disposed on the connecting pipe and injects a reducing agent into the exhaust gas supplied to the selective catalyst reduction device. The a cooling water supply pipe guides cooling water to the injection device to cool the injection device. The cooling water return pipe discharges the cooling water from the injection device. At least one of the cooling water supply pipe and the cooling water return pipe has a convection section extending upward along the connecting pipe from a connecting portion with the injection device. | 10-02-2014 |
20140290781 | EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT UNIT - An exhaust gas treatment unit includes an exhaust gas treatment device, a bracket and a connecting pipe. The exhaust gas treatment device is mounted on a bracket. The connecting pipe is connected to the exhaust gas treatment device. The connecting pipe directs exhaust gas to the exhaust gas treatment device. The connecting pipe may include a supporting portion and a pipe portion, with the supporting portion supporting the bracket and the pipe portion being integrated with the supporting portion. Alternatively, the exhaust gas treatment unit may further include a supporting member having a supporting portion supporting the bracket and a pipe portion integrated with the supporting portion, with the pipe portion connected to the connecting pipe. | 10-02-2014 |
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20090286035 | METHOD OF PRODUCING SHEET JOINED BODY AND SHEET JOINED BODY - An object of the present invention is to provide a sheet joined body having a high joint strength while limiting an amount of adhesive to be used. A method of producing a sheet joined body includes: abutting ends of sheet members against each other, coating an abutted part with a joining member containing a thermoplastic resin, and irradiating a part coated with the joining member, with laser light to join the sheet members with the joining member by welding, thereby joining the ends with each other to manufacture a sheet joined body. | 11-19-2009 |
20100028606 | OPTICAL FILM CUTTING METHOD AND OPTICAL FILM - This invention relates to an optical film cutting method, which includes: a laser beam generation step of performing a waveform shaping of a laser beam to generate a laser beam having a rectangular waveform, and a cutting step of irradiating an optical film with the laser beam obtained by the laser beam generation step and having a rectangular waveform to thereby cut the optical film; as well as to an optical film that is cut by the cutting method and having a size of a raised part generated on a cutting surface thereof of 30 μm or less. According to the optical film cutting method of this invention, it is possible to provide an optical film cutting method for cutting an optical film such as a polarizing film by not using a gaussian beam but using a laser beam of which a waveform is shaped into a rectangular waveform, which is capable of maintaining a raised part size as small as possible in a cutting surface of the optical film and preventing generation of bonding defect and optical defect when the optical film is incorporated into various optical panels. | 02-04-2010 |
20100116800 | OPTICAL FILM CUTTING METHOD AND OPTICAL FILM - This invention relates to an optical film cutting method which includes cutting an optical film by irradiating the optical film with a laser beam under conditions that an energy per unit length is 0.12 to 0.167 J/mm and that a continuous irradiation time is 0.1 msec or less; as well as to an optical film that is cut by the cutting method and has a size of a raised part generated on a cutting surface thereof of 30 μm or less. According to the optical film cutting method of this invention, it is possible to maintain the raised part size on the optical film cutting surface as small as possible even in the case where the laser beam has characteristics of a gaussian beam, thereby enabling prevention of bonding defect and optical defect when the optical film is incorporated into various optical panels. | 05-13-2010 |
20100167076 | LASER BEAM PROCESSING METHOD AND LASER PROCESSED PRODUCT - There is provided a laser beam processing method in which generation of foreign substances from cut can be suppressed and contamination of a surface of a work can be decreased when performing the processing method using a laser beam on the work made of a polymer material, and a laser processed product. Further, the present invention is to provide a laser beam processing apparatus that is used in the laser beam processing method. The present invention relates to a laser beam processing method for processing the work made of a polymer material using a laser beam, wherein the work is irradiated with a laser beam in a state that the optical axis of the laser beam is tilted in the advancing direction of processing by a prescribed angle with respect to the vertical direction of the work. | 07-01-2010 |
20140360992 | IMPACT-ABSORBING PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE SHEET AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - An impact-absorbing pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an impact-absorbing pressure-sensitive adhesive layer including an impact-absorbing layer. A side surface of the impact-absorbing pressure-sensitive adhesive layer includes a tapered surface; and the tapered surface has a taper angle of 65° or more. | 12-11-2014 |
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20080262444 | Percutaneously Absorbable Preparation, Percutaneously Absorbable Preparation Holding Sheet, and Percutaneously Absorbable Preparation Holding Equipment - Self-dissolving needle-like or filamentous shape percutaneously absorbable preparations, by which inherently poorly absorbable drugs into the body through the skin is efficiently administered. The preparations are made of at least one material selected from the group consisting of proteins, polysaccharides, polyvinyl alcohols, carboxyvinyl polymers and sodium polyacrylic acids. An active substance contained therein is released in a sustained-release fashion (1) by forming a water-insoluble layer on its surface, (2) by holding the active substance in porous materials, or (3) by imparting a long-acting characteristic to the active substance. The present invention also provides a sheet-like carrier for holding the preparations on at least one of the sides thereof, and a piece of equipment for holding the preparations so as to facilitate the administration of them. | 10-23-2008 |
20110028905 | PREPARATION FOR BODY SURFACE APPLICATION AND PREPARATION FOR BODY SURFACE APPLICATION-HOLDING SHEET - It is an objective to provide a microneedle and a microneedle array formed from a self-dissolving base which can realize higher absorption efficiency and a higher pharmacological availability. A preparation | 02-03-2011 |
20110127690 | Stamper For Microneedle Sheet, Production Method Thereof, And Microneedle Production Method Using Stamper - Microneedle sheets are produced by injecting a needle raw material into a stamper formed with a concavity in a base material. However, it was not easy to increase the degree of sharpness of the concavity which corresponds to the stamper tips. A method for producing a stamper including the steps of heating a sheet-like base material and an original plate having a conical protrusion, inserting the protrusion of the original plate into the base material to form a conical concavity in the original plate, cooling the original plate with the original plate still inserted in the base material, releasing the original plate from the base material, and heating the base material. | 06-02-2011 |
20110152792 | MICRONEEDLE ARRAY USING POROUS SUBSTRATE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - In order to produce a microneedle array which includes a macromolecular drug such as a vaccine antigen and insulin at its acral portion using a water-soluble thread-forming polymer for a base, there is a need for a substrate which enables a solvent to be efficiently removed so that a base dense solution containing a target substance can be dried and cured while still inserted in a mold. This problem is resolved by using a porous water-insoluble substrate or a porous filter as a substrate, which allows drying and curing as well as peeling from a female mold to be carried out while the base dense solution containing a target substance is still filled in the mold. | 06-23-2011 |
20110192562 | STAMPER FOR MICRONEEDLE SHEET, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, AND MICRONEEDLE PRODUCTION METHOD USING STAMPER - Microneedle sheets are produced by injecting a needle raw material into a stamper formed with a concavity in a base material. However, because the stamper concavity is very small, there is the problem that air cannot escape due to air and surface tension of the material, thereby preventing a needle from being formed in part. The present invention provides a stamper for producing a microneedle sheet. The stamper comprises a sheet-like base material including a conical concavity formed from a first surface of the sheet-like base material toward a second surface thereof; and a through-hole formed from a bottom of the concavity toward the second surface. Air can escape via this through-hole, allowing a microneedle sheet which is filled with a needle raw material as far as the bottom of the concavity to be obtained. | 08-11-2011 |
20130072902 | MICRONEEDLE ASSEMBLY FORMULATION FOR SKIN TREATMENT - A problem to be solved of the present invention is to provide a drug formulation and a method of administering an active ingredient which allow the active ingredient to be delivered evenly into the site of action in the skin with high efficiency while ensuring stability of the active ingredient over a long time, and which are easily handled and are less stressful for patients. Mean for solving the problem is a microneedle assembly formulation for skin treatment comprising a platform and a plurality of conical or pyramidal microneedles formed on the platform containing a base composed of a bio-soluble and thread-forming polymer substance and an objective substance retained in the base, wherein the objective substance is a substance effective for prevention or treatment of skin senescence, or treatment of skin scar. | 03-21-2013 |
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20100048119 | Data center - A data center includes an air-conditioned room, two rack rows formed on a floor surface of the air-conditioned room and each composed of a plurality of racks arranged in a horizontal direction, each of the plurality of racks housing electronic devices in multistage configuration, an air conditioner for conditioning air in the air-conditioned room to eliminate heat generated from the electronic devices housed in the plurality of racks, and a hot zone in the air-conditioned room. The hot zone is defined by the two rack rows arranged on the floor surface of the air-conditioned room such that rear sides thereof are opposite each other at a distance, a ceiling disposed above the two rack rows, two panels disposed at both ends of the two rack rows in the horizontal direction and extending from a lower end of the two rack rows to the ceiling, and two partitions disposed at an upper front top end of the two rack rows and extending to the ceiling. The ceiling includes an exhaust port for discharging heat in the hot zone, and the air conditioner is operable to introduce air-conditioned air from the air-conditioned room through front sides and then the rear sides of the two rack rows into the hot zone. | 02-25-2010 |
20100064714 | Data center - A data center includes an air-conditioned room, two rack rows formed on a floor surface of the air-conditioned room and each composed of a plurality of racks arranged in a horizontal direction, each of the plurality of racks housing electronic devices in multistage configuration, an air conditioner for conditioning air in the air-conditioned room to eliminate heat generated from the electronic devices housed in the plurality of racks, and a hot zone in the air-conditioned room. The hot zone is defined by the two rack rows arranged on the floor surface of the air-conditioned room such that rear sides thereof are opposite each other at a distance, a ceiling disposed above the two rack rows, two panels disposed at both ends of the two rack rows in the horizontal direction and extending from a lower end of the two rack rows to the ceiling, and two partitions disposed at an upper front top end of the two rack rows and extending to the ceiling. The ceiling includes an exhaust port for discharging heat in the hot zone, and the air conditioner is operable to introduce air-conditioned air from the air-conditioned room through front sides and then the rear sides of the two rack rows into the hot zone. The data center further includes a heat recovery means for recovering a heat of the air discharged through the exhaust port from the hot zone before cooling down the air by the air conditioner. | 03-18-2010 |
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20120310843 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING PRICES FOR KEYWORD PHRASES - A method for updating prices for phrases may begin by receiving, at a computing device, a real-time data feed comprising a plurality of messages. The method may continue by detecting, by the computing device, a topic associated with a message in the plurality of messages using natural language processing. The topic may indicate the subject of the message. The method may continue by calculating, by the computing device, a score for the topic using temporal data associated with the message. The score may indicate the popularity of the topic. The method may continue by extracting, by the computing device, a keyword phrase from the topic. The method may conclude by determining, by the computing device, a price associated with the keyword phrase using the score. | 12-06-2012 |
20130080208 | User-Centric Opinion Analysis for Customer Relationship Management - In one embodiment, for each of one or more users, the user having provided one or more opinions concerning one or more products, deriving one or more opinion records from the one or more opinions, wherein each opinion record is derived from a specific opinion provided by the user concerning a specific product; generating a user-preference profile based on the one or more opinion records, wherein: the user-preference profile comprises one or more user-preference vectors corresponding to the one or more products; and each user-preference vector comprises one or more features of the corresponding product and one or more feature scores respectively corresponding to the one or more features. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080428 | User-Centric Opinion Analysis for Customer Relationship Management - In one embodiment, a personal information profile is constructed for a user having a collection of information items. The personal information profile comprises one or more information topics, and each information topic comprises one or more information items. Each information topic has an interesting score, which indicates a level of interest the user has in the information topic. In one embodiment, a social network is inferred among a group of users, each having a personal information profile. A connection exists between every two users that share at least one common-interest information topic, indicated by their respective personal information profiles. | 03-28-2013 |
20130268457 | System and Method for Extracting Aspect-Based Ratings from Product and Service Reviews - A system method that may include generating a text feature vector including a plurality of elements for an aggregate review text associated with one or more multi-aspect reviews of a product or service, each element of the text feature vector associated with a term in the aggregate review text, calculating an average aspect rating for each of a plurality of aspects having a rating in the one or more multi-aspect reviews of the product or service, generating a rating vector, the rating vector including a plurality of values and elements, each element of the rating vector corresponding to an average aspect rating, and generating an inference model based on the text feature vectors and a frequency of occurrence of each rating vector, such that the inference model may be applied to text reviews to infer aspect ratings associated with the text reviews. | 10-10-2013 |
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20140149441 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING PERSONS IN AN OPEN LEARNING SYSTEM - In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for matching persons in an open learning environment is presented. The method includes gathering helper information and helpee information and calculating a measure of similarity between the helper information and the helpee information. The method further includes calculating a matching score, wherein the matching score is a function of the measure of similarity between the helper information and the helpee information, and generating a list of helper candidates ranked according to the matching score. | 05-29-2014 |
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20140188882 | SPECIFIC ONLINE RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION AND EXTRACTION - A method of automatically identifying and extracting distributed online resources may include locating in a website a candidate entry list page. The method may also include verifying the candidate entry list page as an entry list page using repeated pattern discovery. The method may also include segmenting the entry list page into a plurality of entry items. The method may also include extracting from the plurality of entry items a plurality of candidate target pages. The method may also include verifying at least some of the candidate target pages as target pages including analyzing a visual structure and presentation of the candidate target pages. The method may also include extracting metadata from the target pages. The method may also include organizing the target pages and/or the metadata in one or more databases. | 07-03-2014 |
20150064684 | ASSESSMENT OF CURATED CONTENT - A method of assessing curated content may include receiving curated content. The method may also include assessing a quality of the curated content based on a predefined quality criteria and a selected template. The method may further include measuring user engagement with the curated content based on a predefined user engagement criteria. The method may also include generating a quality assessment result and a user engagement assessment result based on the assessed quality of the curated content and the measured user engagement of the curated content. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066917 | ITEM SELECTION IN CURATION LEARNING - A method of ranking candidate curation items includes receiving a query. The method also includes extracting items from multiple curations. The method also includes calculating, based on the query, a content similarity measurement for each of the extracted items. The method also includes extracting, from each of the extracted items, multiple curation-specific features. The method also includes calculating one or more curation-specific measurements for each of the extracted items based on the extracted curation-specific features, the one or more curation-specific measurements being different than the content similarity measurement. The method also includes ranking each of the extracted items based on both the content similarity measurement and the one or more curation-specific measurements to generate multiple curation item results. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066918 | CURATION SELECTION FOR LEARNING - A method of ranking curations includes receiving a query. The method also includes calculating, based on the query, a content similarity measurement for each of multiple curations. The method also includes extracting, from each of the curations, multiple curation-specific features. The method also includes calculating a curation credit measurement for each of the curations based on the extracted curation-specific features. The method also includes ranking each of the curations based on the corresponding content similarity measurement and the corresponding curation credit measurement. | 03-05-2015 |
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20100203246 | DEPOSITION METHOD AND DEPOSITION APPARATUS FOR NITRIDE FILM - A deposition method of depositing a nitride film, including steps of introducing one or more nitrogen supplying gas selected from hydrazine and nitrogen oxides into a catalyst reaction apparatus; enabling a reactive gas generated by contacting the nitrogen supplying gas with catalyst to be spouted out from the catalyst reaction apparatus; and reacting the reactive gas with a compound gas, thereby depositing a nitride film on a substrate is disclosed. | 08-12-2010 |
20100323108 | DEPOSITION APPARATUS AND DEPOSITION METHOD - A disclosed deposition apparatus includes a catalyst reaction apparatus including an introduction part that introduces a first source gas, a catalyst container that contains a catalyst that produces reactive gas from the first source gas introduced from the introduction part, and a reactive gas ejection part that ejects the reactive gas from the catalyst container; a reactive gas separator that allows the reactive gas ejected from the reactive gas ejection part to go therethrough; a substrate supporting part that supports a substrate; and a supplying part that supplies a second source gas that reacts with the reactive gas that passes through the reactive gas separator, thereby depositing a film on the substrate. | 12-23-2010 |
20110229637 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A disclosed substrate processing method includes steps of: arranging a substrate in a chamber; introducing H | 09-22-2011 |
20110247560 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A disclosed substrate processing apparatus comprises a reaction chamber; a substrate supporting portion that is provided in the reaction chamber and configured to support a substrate; and plural catalyst reaction portions that are arranged in the reaction chamber in order to oppose the substrate supporting portion, and configured to produce a reaction gas by allowing a source gas introduced from a gas introduction portion to contact a catalyst and to eject the reaction gas to an inner space of the reaction chamber, thereby processing the substrate supported by the substrate supporting portion with the ejected reaction gas. | 10-13-2011 |
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20100039621 | PROJECTOR - A projector includes: a light source; a polarization conversion element array having an entrance surface on which an effective entrance area and an ineffective entrance area are disposed to form stripes; a modulation device adapted to modulate a linearly polarized light beam emitted from the polarization conversion element array in accordance with an image signal; a projection device adapted to project the modulated light beam; a first light shielding section, a part of the entrance surface being provided with the first light shielding section adapted to shield a part of the incident light beam to the effective entrance area; and a first opening section, the first opening section being another area of the entrance surface than the part provided with the first light shielding section, at least a part of the first opening section reaches an end of the entrance surface. | 02-18-2010 |
20110096302 | PROJECTOR - In at least one embodiment of the disclosure, a projector includes a light shield unit that shields a portion of a light emitted from a light source. The light shield unit is driven by a drive mechanism and rotates around a predetermined rotation axis to change a size of a light shield area. The light shield unit includes a leading edge having a contour defined by a plurality of first edges and a second edge disposed between the first edges. The second edge configured so as to be shifted toward the light source and away from the first edges during rotation of the light shield unit. | 04-28-2011 |
20110310358 | LIGHT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PROJECTOR - A light control apparatus that controls the amount of light passing therethrough by blocking part of an incident light flux, includes: a pair of pivotal members having pivotal axes extending along a direction substantially perpendicular to a central axis of the light flux; and a pair of light blocking members held by the pair of pivotal members and changing the size of a light blocking area as the pair of pivotal members pivot, the light blocking area blocking part of the light flux, wherein the pivotal axes are located in positions that overlap with an area where the light flux passes, and the pair of light blocking members are located in positions that do not overlap with the pivotal axes. | 12-22-2011 |
20130286360 | PROJECTOR - Even when coherent light (specific light), such as laser light, is used as a light source, providing a first dichroic film having a seamless, single-film configuration as a film in a cross dichroic prism prevents a fringe pattern resulting from a highly interfering component contained in light combined in the cross dichroic prism from being produced, whereby the amount of image degradation can be reduced. | 10-31-2013 |
20140146291 | PROJECTOR - A projector includes a solid-state light source, a diffuser member, an excitation light source, a phosphor, a light modulator, a projection system, a first and a second light blocking members. When the area, viewed in the direction of the optical axis of diffused light, of an opening of the first light blocking member and the area of a portion over which the first light blocking member blocks the diffused light are defined as A | 05-29-2014 |