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20100026469 | INFORMATION ACCESS SYSTEM, INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE AND READER/WRITER DEVICE - An information access system includes a reader/writer device and an information storage device. In the information storage device, a receiver unit senses a carrier of an RF signal at a first frequency for detection, in a first time period occurring at time intervals, and receives an information request signal in response to detection of a carrier of an RF signal at the first frequency, and senses a carrier of an RF signal at a second frequency in response to reception of the information request signal. In the storage device, a control causes the receiver unit to sense a carrier of an RF signal at the first frequency for detection, in a second time period after a sleep time period which is shorter than the time interval, in response to non-detection by the receiver unit of a carrier of an RF signal at the first frequency in the first time period. | 02-04-2010 |
20100176930 | ACTIVE TAG APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - A communication apparatus and an active tag apparatus that conduct radio communication with for data transmission and reception by radio with each other are provided. A frequency designation data including local transmission frequency used for data transmission and specifying data on a frequency of a carrier sense to be carried by the active tag apparatus is provided. A controller commands the active tag apparatus to use the frequency designation data for radio communication. | 07-15-2010 |
20100225454 | WIRELESS TAG CONTROL METHOD, WIRELESS TAG, AND WIRELESS TAG CONTROL PROGRAM - A wireless tag operable to communicate with a reader/writer, the wireless tag including a sensor that measures a physical quantity and converts the measured physical quantity into an electrical signal and determines whether a pattern formed by the electrical signal corresponds to a first pattern stored in advance in a storage unit and a communicating unit that starts communication with the reader/writer when the sensor determines that the pattern corresponds to the first pattern. | 09-09-2010 |
20100271186 | LOCATION DETERMINATION SYSTEM - A reader device of a location determination system gradually changes a transmission power step by step and repeatedly sends an interrogation signal which contains therein information on a power level indicating the transmission power. A tag of the location determination system receives the interrogation signal, sends a response signal into which the information on the power level contained in the interrogation signal is incorporated. The reader device receives the response signal and sends, to a management device, the information on the power level contained in the response signal and identification information for identifying the subject reader device. The management device detects the position of the tag based on the information on the power level and the identification information thus received. | 10-28-2010 |
20110279247 | DATA READING WRITING APPARATUS FOR ACTIVE TAG DEVICE, ACTIVE TAG DEVICE AND SYSTEM THEREOF - An active tag device includes a controller to cause the wireless communication unit to carry out data transmission at intervals of a first period, and to cause to start measurement of a second period set for determining a timing for causing a wireless communication unit to carry out carrier sense to detect data output by a reading writing apparatus, synchronously with the data transmission, and to cause the wireless communication unit to carry out the carrier sense after the second period elapsed. The reading writing apparatus includes a controller to cause to start measurement of the first period set for synchronizing with carrier sense of the active tag device after a wireless communication unit detected reception of data from the active tag device, and to cause the wireless communication unit to carry out data transmission to the active tag device during the second period after the first period elapsed. | 11-17-2011 |
20120044058 | RFID TAG AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - An RFID tag that communicates information with an RFID reader/writer includes a receiving unit that receives ID information; a memory unit that stores the ID information; a table that stores a correspondence relation between a change in the ID information and a moving direction; a determining unit that refers to the table to determine a moving direction from ID information received by the receiving unit and previously received ID information stored in the memory unit; and a signal generating unit that sends an interruption signal to a control unit driven by electric power supplied from a battery when the moving direction is determined by the determining unit, and stops generating the interruption signal when the moving direction is not determined by the determining unit. | 02-23-2012 |
20120133491 | ACTIVE CONTACTLESS INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, METHOD, AND INFORMATION ACCESS SYSTEM - An active contactless information storage device includes: an operation controller that determines whether mode information of the active contactless information storage device indicates a mode in which the device communicates with a reader/writer device; a carrier-sense controller that determines whether a first frequency in a first period and determines whether a second frequency in a second period, when the mode information of the active contactless information storage device indicates the mode in which the device communicates with the reader/writer device; and a command processor that performs communication with the reader/writer device when the carrier sense controller determines that the first frequency is sensed; wherein, when the mode information of the active contactless information storage device does not indicate the mode in which the active contactless information storage device communicates with the reader/writer device, the carrier-sense controller waits for a predetermined amount of time. | 05-31-2012 |
20120239297 | VALUE ACQUIRING METHOD, SENSOR CONTROL APPARATUS, SENSOR CONTROL METHOD, SENSOR CONTROL MEDIUM, AND ACQUISITION INTERVAL CONTROL MEDIUM - A sensor value acquiring method employed in a computer, comprising:
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20120252502 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CORRECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus that conducts positioning on the basis of received signal strength indications obtained from access points, includes, a contact information detector that detects contact information between the information processing apparatus and a dielectric body, a recording module that stores a gain table including gain data corresponding to obtained contact information, a gain data correcting unit that extracts the gain data corresponding to the contact information obtained by the contact information detector from the gain table of the recording module and corrects gain by using the extracted gain data, and a positioning module that conducts the positioning by using the gain obtained by the correcting unit and the received signal strength indications. | 10-04-2012 |
20120295635 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information acquirer configured to acquire information transmitted from an access point, a movement determiner configured to determine whether or not the information processing apparatus is moving, and a registration deletion determiner configured to determine, based on the acquired information and a result determined by the movement determiner, whether to register or delete information of an location of the access point. | 11-22-2012 |
20120309336 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CORRECTION METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to receive signals, which are transmitted from a fixed station, including identification information for identifying the fixed station, measure receive signal strength indications of the received signals, and acquire position information indicating positions at which the receive signal strength indications are measured, the receive signal strength indications, and the identification information in association with each other; and a gain/attenuation rate calculating unit configured to calculate correction information including a transmission antenna gain in a specific direction from the fixed station and an attenuation rate in a propagation path, the correction information being obtained from the receive signal strength indication measured at a first distance in the specific direction from the fixed station and the receive signal strength indication measured at a second distance in the specific direction that is different from the first distance. | 12-06-2012 |
20130169417 | RFID TAG READER, RFID TAG READING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PERFORMING RFID TAG READING PROCESS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An RFID tag reader is disclosed that includes a signal intensity obtaining part configured to obtain signal intensities of a first RFID tag and a second RFID tag that are read at plural read processes, a read-number obtaining part configured to obtain a number of RFID tags, among the first and the second RFID tags, that are read at the same read process, a processing part configured to weight the signal intensity of the first RFID tag obtained by the signal intensity obtaining part based on the number obtained at the corresponding read process, and a selecting part configured to select a read result of the first RFID tag based on the signal intensity of the first RFID tag weighted by the processing part. | 07-04-2013 |
20130191322 | DISCLOSURE RANGE DETERMINATION METHOD, DISCLOSURE RANGE DETERMINATION APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM - A disclosure range determination method includes accepting a disclosure range of data and metadata of the data, extracting attribute information of a user that belongs to the disclosure range of the data accepted in the accepting based on association information associating a disclosure range of data with attribute information of a user that belongs to the disclosure range, converting the metadata accepted in the accepting into a keyword based on association information associating a conversion rule that converts the metadata into significant information with a keyword corresponding to the conversion rule, and determining, by a computer, whether or not a user that belongs to the disclosure range accepted in the accepting qualifies for the disclosure range accepted in the accepting, based on whether or not the keyword converted in the converting is included in the attribute information extracted in the extracting. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191834 | CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A method of controlling an information processing device includes selectively switching a first processor for executing a first operating system or a second processor for executing a second operating system to a user interface; storing a data table in which a first application program operating on the first operating system is associated with a second application program operating on the second operating system; sending information pertinent to activation of the first or second application program to a server device; receiving a result of a process from the server device, the process being performed by the server device for associating application programs based on the received information; updating the data table based on the received result; and activating the second application program, which is associated with the first application program being activated in the data table, in a state where the first processor has been switched to the user interface. | 07-25-2013 |
20130335582 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method of controlling an information processing apparatus causes contents in a first terminal to be shared with a second terminal. The method includes receiving sharing information for sharing the content from the second terminal, sending, by a processor, an acquisition request of the contents to the first terminal on a basis of the sharing information, acquiring the contents from the first terminal after the sending an acquisition request, and transmitting acquisition completion notification to the second terminal after the acquiring the contents. | 12-19-2013 |
20140081920 | MEDIUM, CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A medium stores a control program for an information processing apparatus. The control program causes the information processing apparatus to execute a procedure. The procedure includes obtaining history information on a type of an operation performed to each of a plurality of files, calculating a priority for a file among the files based on the type of the operation in the history information, and selecting a file among the files based on the priority. | 03-20-2014 |
20150106904 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD - A processor stores authentication information managed by a native environment of the communication terminal in a first storage region of the storage device. The processor stores authentication information of an application to be executed on a Web application execution environment of the communication terminal in a second storage region of the storage device. The processor performs a control to write the authentication information stored in the first storage region to the second storage region when authentication information used by the application is not stored in the second storage region and is stored in the first storage region. | 04-16-2015 |
20150153863 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A COMPUTER AND DEVICE - A method of controlling a computer including a display screen, the computer having a plurality of modes with respect to the display screen, includes: determining that the computer is set to a first lock mode after inactivity during a non-lock mode over a first time period before a second lock mode is set, the first lock mode, the second lock mode, and the non-lock mode being from among the plurality of modes; switching the computer from the first lock mode to the second lock mode when after inactivity over a second time period subsequent to the first time period; and returning, by a processor in the computer, the computer from the first lock mode to the non-lock mode when an input designating a position included in a certain area of the display screen is detected within the second time period. | 06-04-2015 |
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20080243059 | BREAST PUMP - A breast pump can include a breast pump main body having a milking portion and negative pressure generating structure for generating negative pressure. A storing structure can be provided for storing expressed milk, and an opening/closing structure can be disposed between the breast pump main body and the storing structure for temporarily halting or permitting passage of the expressed milk into the storing structure. The milking portion can include a shape maintaining portion and a negative pressure generating portion that serves as a part of the negative pressure generating structure and can be attached to and detached from an inner side of the shape maintaining portion. At least one end of the negative pressure generating portion on an enlarged diameter side can include a flexible diaphragm portion and a pressing portion formed when a folded-back portion of the diaphragm portion passes an imaginary line of extension of a contact portion contacting the breast to press the breast, while the other end of the negative pressure generating portion is connected to the opening/closing structure. | 10-02-2008 |
20090255944 | BEVERAGE CONTAINER - The disclosed subject matter provides a beverage container configured to prevent a beverage from leaking out even when a user tilts the container, and allows the user to easily drink the beverage even when pressure within the container is negative. The beverage container can include a container main body, a base member, and a cap body. The base member can have first ventilation means for regulating a pressure variation in the container main body, and second ventilation means for introducing air from the outside when the pressure within the container main body becomes negative in relation to the outside pressure and capable of preventing leakage of a liquid beverage contained in the container main body. The cap body can include ventilation open/close means and the like capable of changing the state of the first ventilation means to a ventilation state or a closed state. The ventilation open/close means can be configured to bring the first ventilation means into the closed state when in a portable state such as when the user carries the beverage container, and to bring the first ventilation means into the ventilation state when in an operating state. | 10-15-2009 |
20090308405 | Nipple Protector and Method - A nipple protector is provided, which is able to protect a nipple of a user reliably, by protecting the nipple area so as to maintain a non-contact state with the nipple area and thereby avoiding the causing of pain or unpleasant irritation to the nipple area, as well as avoiding the leaving of marks while reducing irritation when abutted against the breast. A nipple protector having a hard outer member or shell and an inner member made of a material which is more flexible and deformable than the outer member, with an internal space being formed inside the nipple protector, wherein the internal space is formed by a cylindrical portion which extends from the outer member and/or the inner member, and the inner member has an abutting section which surrounds with no gap the nipple area of a wearer completely, and the abutting section is a deformable abutting section which deforms elastically and is capable of making contact, with no gap, with the perimeter of the nipple area. | 12-17-2009 |
20120265245 | ARTIFICIAL NIPPLE, NURSING CONTAINER USING SAME, AND PACIFIER TOY - An artificial nipple can include a nipple tip section that can sufficiently reach the sucking fossa and can be appropriately squashed. The artificial nipple have a base section that widens to match an attachment object; an areola section that narrows gradually; and a nipple section that extends without widening halfway up to a tip and while narrowing slightly and gradually at a diameter-narrowing rate that is smaller than the diameter-narrowing rate of the areola section. The areola section has a wall thickness greater than that of the nipple section, the nipple section has a length sufficient to reach the sucking fossa, and a wall thickness at a boundary between the areola section and the nipple section is smaller than that of the areola section but greater than that of the nipple section, as a result of which a band-like weakened section is formed along the circumference of that site. | 10-18-2012 |
20120267334 | ARTIFICIAL NIPPLE AND NURSING CONTAINER USING SAME - An artificial nipple can include a nipple tip section that can sufficiently reach the sucking fossa and can be appropriately squashed The artificial nipple can have a base section that widens to match an attachment object, an areola section formed contiguously to the base section and that extends while narrowing gradually, and a nipple section that extends from the areola section and that narrows more than the areola section. A flange section can be provided in the base section with a predetermined thickness. A check valve can be formed with a valve body so as to be entirely accommodated within the thickness dimension of the flange, and provided in the base section. | 10-25-2012 |
20140100520 | Manual Breast Pump - The invention provides a manual breast pump which can be disassembled and assembled easily for cleaning purposes, and which can readily modify a negative pressure during expression of milk generated by a lever-type operating section. | 04-10-2014 |
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20110200352 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CLEANING METHOD OF CHARGING ROLLER - An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a charging roller and a guide member. The guide member is disposed near an outer circumferential surface of the charging roller, and extends in an axial direction of the charging roller, a cleaning member for cleaning the charging roller is engaged with and disengaged from the guide member, and the guide member guides the cleaning member in the axial direction of the charging roller. | 08-18-2011 |
20110274448 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CHARGING DEVICE, AND CHARGING ROLLER CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charging roller, a gap keeping member, a determining unit, and a driving unit. The gap keeping member comes into contact with an outer circumferential surface of the image bearing member and keeps a distance between the outer circumferential surface of the image bearing member and an electric resistance adjusting layer of the charging roller. The determining unit determines whether a contact section between the outer circumferential surface of the image bearing member and the gap keeping member is worn. The driving unit shifts, if the determining unit determines that the contact section is worn, a contact position between the outer circumferential surface of the image bearing member and the gap keeping member. | 11-10-2011 |
20110293330 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND GAP MAINTAINING METHOD OF CHARGING ROLLER - An image forming apparatus includes: a photoconductor that rotates about a first rotation axis; and a charging roller that rotates about a second rotation axis which is parallel to the first rotation axis, wherein the charging roller includes a conductive roller portion that extends in parallel with the first rotation axis and contains an ion-conductive agent, a flange portion that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the conductive roller portion further to the outside than an image forming area of the photoconductor in the second rotation axis direction so as to protrude outward from the outer peripheral surface in the radial direction of the conductive roller portion into a flange shape, and an insulating elastic layer that coats the outer peripheral surface of the flange portion and has an elasticity higher than that of a photoconductive surface of the photoconductor. | 12-01-2011 |
20120008982 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO CHARGE PHOTORECEPTOR IN NON-CONTACT MANNER AND CHARGING MEMBER - An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor and a charging member. The photoreceptor includes a long-shaped raw pipe and a photoconductive layer that covers a center portion of the raw pipe in a longitudinal direction and forms exposed parts at ends of the raw pipe in the longitudinal direction. The charging member is arranged in parallel to the photoreceptor through a gap. The charging member includes a long-shaped conductive support body and a resistance adjustment layer that covers a center portion of the conductive support body in the longitudinal direction, and charges the photoconductive layer. Besides, the charging member includes a gap keeping member and a discharge preventing part. The gap keeping member is provided at a position outwardly spaced from a photoconductive layer opposite area by a specified distance in the longitudinal direction of the conductive support body, contacts the exposed part, and keeps a gap between the resistance adjustment layer and the photoconductive layer. The discharge preventing part covers a separation area between the resistance adjustment layer and the gap keeping member in the longitudinal direction of the conductive support body, and prevents discharge from the exposed part to the separation area. | 01-12-2012 |
20120063794 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, GAP CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus according to the embodiments includes a photoconductor, a charging unit which charges the photoconductor and is disposed to face the photoconductor in a non-contact manner, a positioning portion which changes a gap interposed between the photoconductor and the charging unit, on the basis of at least the temperature. | 03-15-2012 |
20120063804 | CHARGING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A charging device includes a charging member that is arranged close to a rotating charge target member, and charges a charge target surface of the charge target member while rotating, a cleaning member that makes friction contact with the charging member to cause the charging member to be driven and rotated, and cleans a surface of the charging member, and a cleaning member driving part to rotate and drive the cleaning member. | 03-15-2012 |
20150104219 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing apparatus includes a developing unit configured to transfer a developer to an image carrying unit on which an electrostatic image is formed, a supplying unit configured to supply the developer to the developing unit, a regulating unit configured to regulate a thickness of the developer on the developing unit, and a repelling unit disposed between the supplying unit and the regulating unit and configured to repel the developer. | 04-16-2015 |
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20130240127 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTION APPARATUS - An aspect of the present embodiment, there is provided a method for fabricating a semiconductor device including placing a semiconductor substrate, onto which a BSG tape bonded via a supporting substrate, on a stage placed a peeling tape in a state that an adhesive surface of the peeling tape is oriented upwards and the BSG tape is oriented downwards to the stage, bonding the peeling tape onto the BSG tape in a state that the BSG tape is retained to be oriented downwards and placed on the adhesive surface of the peeling tape, drawing the peeling tape to a lower side of the stage to peel the peeling tape in a state that the peeling tape is retained to be bonded onto the BSG tape, and supporting the supporting substrate exposed from the BSG tape in the drawing of the peeling tape. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244351 | METHOD OF INSPECTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND INSPECTION TOOL - An aspect of one embodiment, there is provided a method of inspecting a semiconductor device, attaching an inspection tool on a back surface of a semiconductor substrate, the inspection tool including a sheet and a holding frame, the sheet being larger than the semiconductor substrate and being provided an opening in a center portion of the sheet, the opening being smaller than the semiconductor substrate, the holding frame holding an outer periphery of the sheet, a supporting substrate being attached on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate, removing the supporting substrate attached on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, and inspecting electrical characteristics of the semiconductor substrate. | 09-19-2013 |
20150056727 | METHOD OF INSPECTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND INSPECTION TOOL - A method of inspecting a semiconductor device includes attaching an inspection tool on a back surface of a semiconductor substrate including the semiconductor device, the inspection tool including a sheet and a holding frame, the sheet being larger than the semiconductor substrate and being provided with an opening in a center portion of the sheet, the opening being smaller than the semiconductor substrate, the holding frame holding an outer periphery of the sheet, and a supporting substrate being attached on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate, removing the supporting substrate attached on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, and measuring electrical characteristics of the semiconductor device. | 02-26-2015 |