Okamoto, Hyogo
Asako Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20110311617 | ORAL VACCINE - The present invention provides an oral vaccine against a bacterial infectious disease (e.g., typhoid fever, cholera, or dysentery). The oral vaccine of the present invention is a capsule formulation in which a transformed microorganism that expresses a flagellin antigen protein or that secretes a flagellin antigen protein out of the cell of the microorganism is encapsulated with an acid-resistant membrane. Examples of the microorganism include intestinal bacteria belonging to the genus | 12-22-2011 |
Chikashi Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20090247364 | Electric cable drive device and electric brake device - An cable drive device ( | 10-01-2009 |
20130056316 | ELECTRIC CABLE DRIVE DEVICE AND ELECTRIC BRAKE DEVICE - An cable drive device ( | 03-07-2013 |
Hironobu Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20090298033 | FIGURE-FORMING COMPOSITION, PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF FIGURES IN THREE DIMENSIONS BY USING THE COMPOSITION AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES - It is an object of the present invention to provide a figure-forming composition which enables the initiation of hardening even with a small amount of water and can attain a prescribed hardness, and which is suitable particularly for the production of three-dimensional living body models for surgical training by a rapid prototype process; and provide a three dimensional figure and a three-dimensional structure which are formed by using the composition. The figure-forming composition, for example, comprises a calcium-based material such as hemihydrate gypsum and polyvinyl alcohol resin, wherein the content of the polyvinyl alcohol resin is 2 to 20 weight parts when the total weight of the calcium-based material and the polyvinyl alcohol resin is 100 weight parts. | 12-03-2009 |
Kenichi Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20080223015 | Rubber Product-Reinforcing Metallic Cord and Method for Manufacturing Such a Cord - A rubber product-reinforcing metallic cord is provided which comprises three to five metallic filaments, which shows a high degree of penetration of rubber without reducing compressive rigidity, and which can be manufactured at low facility and production costs. A rubber product-reinforcing metallic cord | 09-18-2008 |
20080277040 | Connector For A Wrap Wire Of A Bead Cord - An object of the present invention is to prevent shifting of a connector for a wrap wire, reduced strength of the connector, and deterioration in balance, and to make it possible to easily connect the ends of the wrap wire. | 11-13-2008 |
20090008018 | Annular concentric-lay bead cord and method of manufacturing the same - An object of the present invention is to impart long-lasting, stable corrosion resistance to an annular core of an annular concentric-lay bead cord at a low cost. | 01-08-2009 |
20090087678 | Annular Metal Cord and Endless Metal Belt - An annular metal cord and an endless metal belt are provided which have superior breaking strength and which are easy to be produced. | 04-02-2009 |
Mako Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20090102544 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING DETECTOR CIRCUIT CAPABLE OF PERFORMING HIGH-SPEED OPERATION - A detector circuit and a negative voltage generating circuit capable of performing a high-speed operation are provided. A negative voltage generating circuit includes a charge pump circuit, a first voltage divider circuit that makes a voltage division between an output of the charge pump circuit and a power supply to output a detect potential, a reference voltage generating circuit that generates a reference potential, and a comparator circuit that compares the detect potential and the reference potential. The charge pump circuit is driven by an output signal of the comparator circuit and generates the negative voltage. In the first voltage divider circuit, NMOS transistors make the voltage division between the negative voltage and the power supply to obtain the detect potential. | 04-23-2009 |
Masafumi Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20090240025 | Organic Zinc Catalyst, and Process for Production of Poly(Alkylene Carbonate) Using the Same - The present invention has for its object to provide a novel organic zinc catalyst showing very high polymerizing activity in the reaction for producing a poly(alkylene carbonate) from carbon dioxide and an epoxide as well as a method of producing a poly(alkylene carbonate) using the same. | 09-24-2009 |
20120123066 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ALIPHATIC POLYCARBONATE - The present invention provides an aliphatic polycarbonate production method which, using carbon dioxide and an epoxide, easily produces aliphatic polycarbonates having a low metal catalyst content. | 05-17-2012 |
Masashi Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20110018460 | Discharge lamp lighting apparatus - In an optimum frequency detection sequence of a discharge lamp, the frequency control circuit performs a sweep operation in which, while the frequency control circuit monitors a syntonization degree signal, a frequency control signal is changed, so that frequency is changed, starting from either an upper or lower limit frequency of a periodic driving circuit, in a range that does not exceed the other frequency, wherein after completion of the sweep operation, the frequency control circuit determines a value of the frequency control signal corresponding to a resonance frequency of the resonant circuit, and inputs the value into a frequency driving circuit, wherein at least in a period of the sweep operation, an inverter receives power supply from a sweep time power supply circuit for supplying electric power with constant supply capability, which is limited to a range in which breakdown does not occur in the discharge lamp. | 01-27-2011 |
20110025219 | Discharge lamp lighting apparatus - In a discharge lamp lighting apparatus, in a starting sequence of a discharge lamp, while a frequency control circuit generates a inverter driving signal corresponding to resonance frequency of a resonant circuit, a power supply circuit outputs non-load open circuit voltage that is sufficient to maintain electric discharge, even when a boosting action accompanying a resonance phenomena disappears, and then a periodic drive circuit generates the inverter driving signal to gradually decrease frequency of the inverter from a frequency corresponding to the resonance frequency of the resonant circuit, until the frequency of the inverter reaches a first threshold frequency, and wherein when the frequency of the inverter reaches the first threshold frequency, while the periodic drive circuit generates the inverter driving signal so that the frequency of the inverter turns into a stable lighting frequency, the power supply circuit outputs current that is sufficient to maintain the electric discharge of the discharge lamp. | 02-03-2011 |
20110127926 | Discharge lamp light apparatus - A discharge lamp lighting apparatus for lighting a discharge lamp where a voltage generated in a secondary side winding can be superimposed on an output voltage of an inverter and is impressed between electrodes, where while a periodic drive circuit generates an inverter drive signal so that frequency of the inverter becomes a start-up initial frequency, electric supply control circuit controls a power supply circuit to output no-load opening voltage, where the frequency of the inverter gradually decreases until reaching a first threshold frequency from the start-up initial frequency, where when the frequency of the inverter reaches the first threshold frequency, the periodic drive circuit generates the inverter drive signal so that the frequency of the inverter becomes stable lighting frequency, and where the electric supply control circuit controls the power supply circuit to output current which is sufficient to maintain electric discharge of the discharge lamp. | 06-02-2011 |
20110254447 | Discharge lamp lighting apparatus - A discharge lamp lighting apparatus includes a capacitor, a charge circuit for charging the capacitor, a switching element, a gate driving circuit that controls ON and OFF states of the switching element, a simmer current supply circuit for passing simmer current through a discharge lamp, a starting circuit that impresses high voltage to a starting electrode, and an electric discharge sequence control circuit that generates the gate signal and the starting signal. When lighting the discharge lamp, a sequence of the gate signal corresponding to an alternating repetition of the ON and OFF states of the switching element is generated. Before outputting the starting signal, the switching element is ON as a stand-by state. Then the sequence starts when the starting signal is outputted. | 10-20-2011 |
20130051027 | LINEAR LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - A linear light source includes an LED, an LED drive circuit substrate disposed on a frame, a flexible substrate on which an electric supply pattern is formed and to which the LED is attached at one end and the LED drive circuit is attached at the other end, a linear light guide and a heat sink. The one end of the flexible substrate is attached to the heat sink. A face of the heat sink covered by the LED and a face of the one end of the flexible substrate are perpendicular to the light guide and to a substrate face of the LED drive circuit substrate, while a face of the other end of the flexible substrate is parallel to the light guide and a substrate face of the LED drive circuit substrate. A bent portion is formed between the two ends of the flexible substrate. | 02-28-2013 |
20130120717 | DISCHARGE LAMP LIGHTING APPARATUS AND PROJECTOR - A discharge lamp lighting apparatus for lighting a discharge lamp in which an electric discharge medium, which contains xenon, is enclosed in an electric discharge container, and a pair of cathode electrode and anode electrode for main discharge is arranged to face each other, comprises a starter for generating dielectric breakdown in the electric discharge container of a discharge lamp, and a power supply circuit for supplying discharge current to the discharge lamp, wherein the power supply circuit has an output current modulation circuit for modulating the magnitude of current passed through the discharge lamp in at least a lighting steady state, according to a modulation signal, and wherein the output current modulation circuit controls speed of change so as to be 2.6 A or less per millisecond in case the magnitude of the lamp current per square millimeter in a cross section of the cathode electrode decreases. | 05-16-2013 |
20130162955 | COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND PROJECTOR - A coherent light source apparatus includes a coherent light source, a first optical system, a light deflection unit, a second optical system and a light mixing unit disposed in that order. The coherent light source forms a first light emission region, and light projected therefrom forms a second light emission region near the light deflection unit, which deflects light flux from the second light emission region. The second optical system forms a third light emission region which is conjugate to the second light emission region near an input end of the light mixing unit, which mixes angle and a position components of incident light. The light deflection unit is configured to continuously changing a direction in which the light flux is deflected, thereby reducing speckling in light emitted from the light mixing unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130301013 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND PROJECTOR - A light source apparatus comprises a beam flux conversion optical system for making all the light emitting areas conjugate to one geometrical-optical output image, all the solid light emitting elements being in series connected to each other and fixed to a heat sink to be insulated to one another, circuits on the input and output sides of an electric supply circuit being not insulated, the electric supply circuit including an interface circuit for receiving a modulation amount specifying signal from a host circuit, wherein a ratio of ON time to a switching cycle of the switch element is controlled in a feedback manner so that a difference between current values indicated by the output current signal and a target current signal may become small, and the interface circuit generating analog quantity correlated to the amount of modulation specified by a modulation amount specifying signal through a data insulation transmission unit. | 11-14-2013 |
20130335710 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND PROJECTOR - A coherent light source apparatus comprises a first optical system, which has a first light emission region formed by a coherent light source, and which projects light from the first light emission region to form a second light emission region, a light deflection unit which deflects light flux in connection with formation of the second light emission region; a second optical system, which forms a third light emission region in response to the light flux which has been deflected by the light deflection unit, a light mixing unit for mixing a component of an incident light angle and that of a position thereof, and a light deflection unit drive circuit for receiving a periodic optical deflection synchronization signal, thereby driving the light deflection unit, wherein the light deflection unit operates to continuously change a direction in which the light flux is deflected while synchronizing with the optical deflection synchronization signal. | 12-19-2013 |
20140036240 | DISCHARGE LAMP LIGHTING APPARATUS AND PROJECTOR - A polarity-reversal control circuit gives a polarity-reversal order so that the polarity of an inverter is inverted each time the polarity-reversal timing notified by a signal is recognized. The number of times of consecutive appearances of a normal polarity-reversal interval period, in which an interval of adjoining polarity-reversal timings is equal to or less than an upper limit of a polarity-reversal interval desirable for a discharge lamp, is counted, and if the unusual polarity-reversal interval period, in which an interval of the adjoining polarity-reversal timing is longer than the upper limit of a polarity-reversal interval, appears, Npm is memorized as the maximum of the number of times of consecutive appearances and after that, when the polarity-reversals signal in which the number of times of consecutive appearances becomes equal to Npm is received, it is regarded as a start of an unusual polarity-reversal interval period, and additional polarity-reversal order is given. | 02-06-2014 |
20150029475 | COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTOR - There are provided a coherent light source apparatus and a projector that achieve avoiding of an issue that uniformity in projected light is degraded by a speckle that inevitably appears upon projection of coherent light of a semiconductor laser, any other laser, etc., and each including: a coherent light source; a first optical system configured to project light derived from a first light emission region to form a second light emission region, the first light emission region being formed on basis of the coherent light source; a light deflection section configured to deflect a bundle of rays in vicinity of the second light emission region, the bundle of rays being related to formation of the second light emission region; a second optical system provided downstream of the light deflection section; and a light mixing section provided downstream of the second optical system, and configured to mix components of angles and positions of rays incident on an incident end. The second optical system is configured to form, in distance, an image conjugate to the first light emission region, and form, at the incident end, a third light emission region substantially conjugate to an exit pupil of the first optical system. The light deflection section is configured to continue to perform an operation that causes a direction in which the bundle of rays is deflected to be continuously changed. | 01-29-2015 |
Shinichi Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20130025546 | COMBUSTION APPARATUS - According to the required amount of heating, a controller of a combustion apparatus exercises selective on-off switching control on capacity control switching valves for the supplying of gas to three different combustion areas partitioned respectively by a group of three combustion burners, a group of five combustion burners and a group of nine combustion burners, whereby the three combustion areas can selectively be burned, thereby the combustion capacity is changed and switched to any of a plurality of combustion capacity levels. A combustion exhaust temperature sensor is disposed in the vicinity of the inlet of an exhaust stack. Judgment temperatures corresponding respectively to combustion capacity levels for combustion exhaust high-temperature abnormality judgment are set. If the detected combustion exhaust temperature exceeds the judgment temperature corresponding to a current combustion capacity level, this provides a notification indicative of the occurrence of an abnormality while combustion is forcibly stopped. | 01-31-2013 |
20140116357 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR WATER HEATER - The present invention becomes possible to employ a main microprocessor with a relatively lower number of input ports, whereby while maintaining the performance and function of a water heater, the cost of a control apparatus is cut down. Some of sensors, adapted for measurement of various parameters which are for use in operational control of the water heater and in need of immediate response, are connected to a main microprocessor | 05-01-2014 |
Shinya Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20120045360 | CU-GA ALLOY SPUTTERING TARGET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a Cu—Ga alloy sputtering target which enables the formation of a Cu—Ga sputtering film having excellent uniformity in film component composition (film uniformity), enables the reduction of occurrence of arcing during sputtering, has high strength, and rarely undergoes cracking during sputtering. Specifically disclosed is a Cu—Ga alloy sputtering target which comprises a Cu-based alloy containing Ga, has an average crystal particle diameter of 10 μm or less, and has a porosity of 0.1% or less. | 02-23-2012 |
Tamao Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20080294287 | AUTOMATIC TRANSFER METHOD, TRANSFER ROBOT, AND AUTOMATIC TRANSFER SYSTEM - A transfer robot | 11-27-2008 |
20090018700 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ROBOT HANDLING CONTROL - A robot arm is provided with an end effecter for grasping an object and a force sensor for detecting a force acted upon the end effecter. In the state in which end effecter grasps an object, when there is a change in the force acting on the end effecter detected by the force sensor, outputted is a signal for releasing the force of the end effecter grasping the object. The object grasped by the end effecter can be taken out as if the object were handed from person over to person. | 01-15-2009 |
20100168919 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR MANIPULATOR - In a control method of a multi-jointed manipulator, the manipulator is controlled through a process to transmit a difference between an end position of the manipulator and a target position to the joint axes, and a process to adjust joint displacements and joint velocities of the joint axes independently of one another of the joint axes based on the difference, these processes being repeated until the end position coincides with the target position. By such a manipulator control method, there can be realized position control which is robust against ambient environments and which is easy to achieve even with redundancy or nonlinear drive elements involved. | 07-01-2010 |
20130343620 | DRUG SOLUTION INSPECTION DEVICE AND DRUG SOLUTION INSPECTION METHOD - A drug solution inspection device includes a jig that mounts thereon a syringe containing a drug solution, an imaging unit that captures an image of the syringe mounted on the jig, an exposure unit that performs exposure on the syringe mounted on the jig, and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the exposure unit to acquire inspection information. In order to inspect an amount of the drug solution in the syringe, the first control unit transmits the captured image of the syringe while changing an exposure state of the exposure unit. | 12-26-2013 |
Tetsu Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20100148686 | HIGH PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP LIGHTING APPARATUS - A discharge lamp lighting apparatus includes a discharge container, a pair of electrodes and a power supply apparatus. An alternating current of a frequency, which is lower than stationary frequency, is inserted periodically into the alternating current of stationary frequency. When a lighting current value of the discharge lamp is smaller than a predetermined lower limit, the frequency is set as predetermined minimum frequency. When the lighting current value of a discharge lamp is larger than a predetermined maximum value, the frequency is set as predetermined maximum frequency. When a lighting current value of the discharge lamp is between the lower limit and the maximum value, the frequency is set as a selected frequency corresponding to the lighting current value. The selected frequency increases according to an increase of frequency change as a lighting current value increases. | 06-17-2010 |
Yasukazu Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20090153655 | GESTURE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A gesture recognition apparatus including a detector, a controller and a gesture recognizer, and is able to detect a portion to be detected using an image captured at a first resolution without reducing the number of images to be entered per unit of time to an object detector by detecting an auxiliary portion instead when the portion to be detected is not detected at a second resolution, estimating the position of the auxiliary portion based on the position of the auxiliary portion, and extracting the periphery thereof from the image captured at the first resolution. | 06-18-2009 |
Yoshihiro Okamoto, Hyogo JP
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20090320646 | METHOD FOR SELECTIVE SEPARATION OF TRIVALENT AND TETRAVALENT ACTINOIDS FROM TRIVALENT LANTHANOIDS USING HYBRID DONOR TYPE EXTRACTANT HAVING FUNCTIONAL GROUP CARRYING ACTIVE OXYGEN AND NITROGEN ATOMS - A method for separating and recovering trivalent and tetravalent actinoids in a simple and less costly manner without using an organophosphorus compound is provided. This method selectively separates and recovers the tetravalent actinoid plutonium Pu (IV) and the trivalent actinoids americium Am (III) and curium Cm (III) from trivalent lanthanoids Ln (III), etc. with the use of an extractant having a functional group with neutral multidentate ligand activity which is a hybrid donor type organic compound having both of donor atoms, i.e., an oxygen atom and a nitrogen atom. | 12-31-2009 |