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20080278771 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - Disclosed in an image reading apparatus including a reading unit to obtain an image data by irradiating a document with a light and reading an image of the document, a paper thickness detection unit to detect a thickness of the document to be read by the reading unit, a process unit to process the image data which is obtained by the reading unit based on a parameter and a control unit to carry out a control of changing the parameter of the process unit according to the thickness of the document which is detected by the paper thickness detection unit. | 11-13-2008 |
20130057626 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system has a first image forming section to form an image on a sheet, wherein the first image forming section heats the sheet to fix the image on the sheet, a second image forming section to form an image to the sheet on which the image has been formed by the first image forming section, and a transporting section to transport the sheet from first image forming section to the second image forming section. The transporting section has a first transporting part to transport the sheet to a predetermined position, and a second transporting part to reverse a surface of the sheet which has been transported by the first transporting part as transporting the sheet from the predetermined position to an area below the predetermined position. | 03-07-2013 |
20130071167 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus contains a first printer forming a first image on a surface of the sheet member, a reversing section reversing a surface of the sheet member and a second printer forming a second image on a back of the sheet member. The second printer contains a correction section correcting a deflection of the sheet member. A straight sheet-member-transporting path extends from the reversing section to the second printer. A distance between a position at which the sheet member enters the sheet-member-transporting path and a position at which the correction section corrects the deflection of the sheet member is set so as to be not smaller than a length of the sheet member having the largest size among the sheet members to be handled. | 03-21-2013 |
20130142534 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes first and second. image-forming portions and an intermediate transporting portion. A control unit checks fixing units in the image-forming portions and determines whether or not the fixing unit, in the first image-forming portion is a fixing unit for an envelope. If not, the control unit controls a manipulation and display unit to display guidance for urging a user to exchange the first fixing unit. If so, the control unit determines whether or not too fixing unit in the second image-forming portion is a fixing unit for an envelope. If not, the control portion controls a manipulation and display unit to display a guidance for urging a user to exchange the second fixing unit, If both of fixing units in the first and second image-forming portions are fixing units for the envelope, the control unit allows an envelope mode control operation. | 06-06-2013 |
20130243468 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - In a serial tandem image forming system having a plurality of image forming apparatuses, a double-side printing job can be performed in a way according to the needs of users by taking into consideration an adjustment operation. The serial tandem image forming system includes an upstream apparatus | 09-19-2013 |
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20090322087 | Wind Turbine Generator System - To shorten a startup interval to reach a synchronizing condition, a phase difference and an amplitude difference between the grid voltage and the stator voltage of one phase of a winding are obtained. The difference in amplitude is decreased prior to or in parallel to synchronizing the stator voltage with the grid voltage. The calculated compensation phase compensation value is used as an initial value for synchronizing at the next synchronizing operation. | 12-31-2009 |
20110049889 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR SYSTEM - To shorten a startup interval to reach a synchronizing condition, a phase difference and an amplitude difference between the grid voltage and the stator voltage of one phase of a winding are obtained. The difference in amplitude is decreased prior to or in parallel to synchronizing the stator voltage with the grid voltage. The calculated compensation phase compensation value is used as an initial value for synchronizing at the next synchronizing operation. | 03-03-2011 |
20110215578 | WIND TURBINE GENERATOR SYSTEM - To shorten a startup interval to reach a synchronizing condition, a phase difference and an amplitude difference between the grid voltage and the stator voltage of one phase of a winding are obtained. The difference in amplitude is decreased prior to or in parallel to synchronizing the stator voltage with the grid voltage. The calculated compensation phase compensation value is used as an initial value for synchronizing at the next synchronizing operation. | 09-08-2011 |
20140077595 | BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM - A battery energy storage system including: a power control circuit group provided by electrically connecting a plurality of power control circuits in series with each other on a load connection terminal side, the plurality of power control circuits each having load connection terminals electrically connected with a load and having power supply connection terminals electrically connected with a power supply, and controlling power supplied to the load side connection terminals or the power supply side connection terminals and outputting the power from the power supply side connection terminals or the load side connection terminals; an electric energy storage device including a plurality of capacitors, a control device for controlling operation of the plurality of power control circuits; and a power usage rate changing section provided so as to correspond to each of the plurality of power control circuits. | 03-20-2014 |
20140111163 | Battery Energy Storage System - In order to provide a charge/discharge technology for controlling an assembled battery system without promoting degradation or reduction in the lifetime of the assembled battery system, the assembled battery system includes a function for controlling charge and discharge power of a plurality of units each including a secondary battery and a power converter as one unit, the plurality of units being electrically connected in parallel to each other. When each unit performs charge or discharge by at least one or more times, charge and discharge of the unit are controlled so as not to be performed until a predetermined pause time period elapses. | 04-24-2014 |
20140191576 | ELECTRIC STORAGE SYSTEM - An electric storage system includes at least two types of electric storage cells. A first electric storage unit is configured from a first electric storage cell, and a second electric storage unit is configured from a second electric storage cell. The first and second electric storage units are electrically connected to each other through a current controlling circuit. | 07-10-2014 |
20140214253 | CONSTRUCTION MACHINE AND BATTERY PACK THEREOF - A construction machine is provided with management units ( | 07-31-2014 |
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20080232127 | VEHICLE LAMP - A vehicle lamp can suppress dimensions in the depth direction and provide a large emission area with a simple configuration, and has a light-emitting surface of wraparound configuration with impressive appearance and aesthetic qualities. The vehicle lamp can include a light source unit and a light guide lens. The light source unit can include a light source, and a converting part for converting light from the light source to a narrow width light. The conversion part has an emission area for emitting the converted light. The light guide lens can include one end face having a shape corresponding to the emission area of the conversion part, a thin plate-like light guiding portion for guiding the incident light, and another end face being a farthest part away from the incident surface. The light guide lens guides the incident light toward the other end face and emits the guided light from a predetermined surface thereof as it travels on its way through the lens. | 09-25-2008 |
20090067186 | VEHICLE LAMP UNIT - In a vehicle lamp unit that is configured to be mounted on a vehicle, a semiconductor light source can be substantially covered with a first reflector and, therefore, the semiconductor light source is not visually observable (or, is difficult to see) from outside the lamp unit even when a projection lens is disposed in front of the opening of the first reflector and spaced from the first reflector so as not to contact the first reflector. Thus, a vehicle lamp unit having a novel design can be provided in which the projection lens appears as if it is floating in air and in which the semiconductor light source is not visually seen or is difficult to be seen from the outside. | 03-12-2009 |
20090231875 | VEHICLE LAMP - A vehicle lamp can include a plurality of light source modules each having an LED as a light source, and optical systems for distributing light from each of the light source modules frontward toward predetermined areas or predetermined patterns that are different from each other and which make up a light distribution pattern. Each of the optical systems can be optimized to emit light to a predetermined area, and each of the light source modules' LEDs can be optimally arranged for each of the corresponding optical systems. | 09-17-2009 |
20090316423 | LIGHTING DEVICE - A lighting device with a stable high light intensity can effectively dissipate heat generated by an LED so that the light emission efficiency does not deteriorate while the inside temperature distribution can be maintained in an even state. The lighting device can also be configured to prevent snow from adhering onto an outer lens by allowing an outer surface temperature of the lighting device to rise during actuation of the device. The lighting device can also be configured to improve light utilization efficiency. The lighting device can include a semiconductor light emitting device as a light source and can include structure(s) that guides the emission light to a projection lens. The semiconductor light emitting device can be configured to emit light in a reverse or opposed direction with respect to an illumination direction for the lighting device. A projection lens can be disposed in front of the semiconductor light emitting device. An elliptic reflector can be configured to reflect light from the semiconductor light emitting device and to direct the light to the projection lens. A lens holder can be made of metal and the semiconductor light emitting device and the projection lens can be disposed on the lens holder. | 12-24-2009 |
20100073951 | LED LAMP FOR LIGHT SOURCE - Whereas incandescent light bulbs and other similar light sources known in the related art emit light in all directions, LED lamps can emit light in a single direction, and this is manifested in the problem of being unable to achieve light distribution characteristics satisfied by conventional headlamp designs. In accordance with an embodiment of the presently disclosed subject matter, an LED lamp for a light source of a headlamp can include an LED chip in the vicinity of the focus of a projection means and a shielding member covering a portion of the LED chip in a formation allowing a light distribution characteristic suitable for a vehicle front-illumination light to be obtained when light from the LED chip is magnified and projected in an illumination direction by a projection lens or the like constituting the projection means. Accordingly, accurate light distribution characteristics can be obtained in a simple manner by projecting in the illumination direction using the projection lens. | 03-25-2010 |
20100177526 | OPTICAL LENS AND VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICE USING THE SAME - An optical lens for use in a vehicle light can be compact and less expensive and has an outer appearance that has a high commercial value and achieves a high light utilization efficiency. The optical lens can include a light incident surface that receives light from a light source and a light output surface to output the light. The light incident surface can include a center light incident surface formed at its center and being convex toward the light source with a plurality of prisms with a polygonal shape formed radially from its center to its periphery. The light output surface can include a toroidal surface corresponding to the center light incident surface and a surrounding light output surface corresponding to the prisms. | 07-15-2010 |
20100259153 | LAMP USING LED LIGHT SOURCE - A lamp can include an LED light source and a lens body having a first lens portion and a second lens portion arranged outside the first lens portion, the first and second lens portions being integrally formed with each other. The first lens portion can include a first light-incident surface and a refractive surface to form a main light distribution pattern condensation and refraction. The second lens portion can include a second light-incident surface, a first total-reflecting surface, a ring-shaped light projecting surface including an individual light projecting surface and a second total-reflecting surface, and a third total-reflecting surface. The second light-incident surface can be disposed beside the LED light source and can refract the light reaching the second light-incident surface to let the light enter the inside of the second lens portion. The first total-reflecting surface can totally reflect light entering through the second light-incident surface to condense the light in the front direction. The ring-shaped light projecting surface is disposed to cover an optical path range of light reflected from the first total-reflecting surface and is divided into a plurality of areas. The individual light projecting surface is provided in at least one of the plurality of divided areas and can transmit the light totally reflected from the first total-reflecting surface. The second total-reflecting surface can totally reflect the light from the first total-reflecting surface in the sideward and outward direction. The third total-reflecting surface can reflect light from the second total-reflecting surface to direct the light in the front direction. | 10-14-2010 |
20110122637 | VEHICLE LIGHT - A vehicle light can include an LED light source disposed such that the optical axis of the LED light source is directed downward, a first lens disposed forward of the LED light source, a second lens disposed below and forward of the first lens, and a first reflector extending from both sides of the LED light source to a position near the optical axis of the LED light source. The first reflector can be configured to reflect light beams from the LED light source toward the first lens so as to form a wide vertically converged and horizontally diffused light distribution pattern. The vehicle light can include a second reflector disposed at a position below and forward of the first reflector. The second reflector can be configured to reflect light beams from the LED light source toward the second lens so as to form a middle-area vertically converged and horizontally diffused light distribution pattern. The lens can be formed by a toroidal lens that is horizontally elongated and that is formed by horizontally extending an aspherical lens cross section having a focus near the LED light source in an arc shape, or by a cylindrical lens having a horizontal focus line. In particular, the lens can be formed by an upper-half lens portion of such a toroidal lens. The vehicle light can include a light shielding shutter having a first upper edge portion and a second upper edge portion lower than the first upper edge portion. | 05-26-2011 |
20110216549 | VEHICLE LIGHT UNIT AND VEHICLE LIGHT - A vehicle light unit can convert an LED light source to a linear light emitting state and can be incorporated into a vehicle light. The vehicle light unit can include a first to fourth lens part in front of an LED light source. The first to third lens parts can convert the point light source or the LED light source into a linear light emitting portion with improved light utilization efficiency by providing first to fourth total reflection surfaces utilizing internal reflection to the third lens part. The light rays through the linear light emitting portion can be incident on the fourth lens part. The fourth lens part can include a plate-shaped light guiding portion with a plurality of total reflection surfaces on one surface and corresponding lens cut portions on the other opposite surface. | 09-08-2011 |
20110317442 | VEHICLE LIGHT FITTING UNIT - Disclosed is a vehicle light fitting unit that can include a plurality of light sources, a reflecting plane which diffusely reflects light emitted from the plurality of light sources, and a lens which emits the light, which is diffusely reflected by the reflecting plane, to a front direction. The plurality of light sources can each be provided so that a pitch between one light source and another light source adjacent to the one light source is shorter than a light path length from the one light source to the lens passing through the reflecting plane. | 12-29-2011 |
20120188781 | VEHICLE LIGHT - A vehicle light using a projection lens of a novel appearance can provide a feeling of solidness as compared to a simple spherical shape. The vehicle light can include a projection lens having an optical axis and a plurality of separate lens portions divided in a radial pattern with respect to the optical axis of the projection lens. The separate lens portions can have respective light exiting surfaces of different curvatures, and respective light incident surfaces, the shapes of which are determined such that the separate lens portions have the same thickness and the same focal point. | 07-26-2012 |
20130137111 | DETECTION METHOD OF NOVEL RET FUSION - It was found that a new fusion gene of a portion of the KIF5B gene and a portion of the RET gene, which is present in a portion of cancer patients, is a gene responsible for cancer. Based on this finding, detection methods of a polynucleotide as the gene and a polypeptide encoded by the polynucleotide were established. The detection methods involve detecting a fusion gene of a portion of the KIF5B gene and a portion of the RET gene, or a fusion protein encoded by such a fusion gene. The primer sets and the detection kits comprise sense primers designed from a portion encoding KIF5B and antisense primers designed from a portion encoding RET. | 05-30-2013 |
20140142084 | NITROGEN-CONTAINING AROMATIC HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND - Provided is a compound useful as a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for bladder cancer. | 05-22-2014 |
20140220035 | METHOD FOR DETECTING NOVEL FGFR4 MUTANT - [Problem] An object of the present invention is to elucidate a novel genetic mutation which is a cause of cancer, and thereby, to provide a method for detecting the genetic mutation, or a protein which has the mutation, a method for detecting the presence of cancer in a subject, a method for diagnosing cancer in a subject, and a primer set, a probe and a detecting kit for the methods. | 08-07-2014 |