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20090203500 | AUTOMATIC WEIGHT STACK CONTROLLER FOR FITNESS EQUIPMENT - An automatic weight stack controller for fitness units adapted to a frame provided with weights piled up is disclosed, wherein the weights are provided with central vertical holes having inner circular grooves and a tube fit into said central holes, said tube being provided with radial holes disposed at the level of each weight wherein balls are housed, so that said balls can be pushed towards the grooves by a piston that slides vertically inside the tube, having conical ends and threaded on a vertical threaded bar centrally to the tube, where there is an eyelet for the steel cable designed to raise the weights, the selection of weights being carried out through a panel of instruments, with a digital display, and buttons to increase or decrease the number of weights. | 08-13-2009 |
20110095100 | SAFE HANDLING SPRAYING DEVICE - Safe handling spraying device, which comprises a reservoir where is assembled an actuating lever or, manually or automatically actuating air pumps, that perform the internal reservoir pressurization. Inside of it, there is a pressure chamber where is stored water and the Chemical Concentrated product that is inside a pliable tightly closed bag. The reservoir ( | 04-28-2011 |
20110124466 | PARTLY-INLAID TREADMILL - A partially-inlaid treadmill system includes a running deck, a wide belt assembled on two parallel rollers to slide over the running deck, side handrails, a panel for controlling and monitoring the treadmill system, a partition that separates a first part of the treadmill system positioned for access to the user from a second part of the treadmill system that includes mechanisms and electro-electronics for driving the belt, incline devices, belt lubrication, ventilation and regulating devices, an emergency control lever, a drawer, a plurality of directional ventilation openings, and an aisle provided on the same side of the partition as the second part of the treadmill for accessing components of the second part of the treadmill system. | 05-26-2011 |
20110124467 | PARTLY-INLAID ELLIPTICAL GYMNASTICS EQUIPMENT - A partially-inlaid elliptical gymnastics equipment system includes a plurality of pedals connected to moving arms that move in synchronism with said pedals, at least one fixed member configured within a reach of a user, a panel for controlling and monitoring the equipment system, a mechanical and electric assembly that connects at least one pair of pedals and moving arms to define an elliptical system and promotes an alternating displacement of the at least one pair of pedals and arms, a vertical partition that includes a first pair of vertical windows through which distal end parts of bars pass, each bar connecting one the pedals to the elliptical system and a pair of vertical windows through which the moving arms pass, the moving arms being synchronized with the movements of the pedals, and an aisle providing access to the mechanical and electric assembly. | 05-26-2011 |
20110294628 | ELECTROMECHANICAL MECHANISM FOR CONTROLLING FRACTIONAL WEIGHT LIFTING PLATES IN WORKOUT STATIONS - An electromechanical mechanism for controlling fractional weight lifting plates is installed in a weight tower of a workout station and includes two vertical columns, joined at the top by a crossbeam and at the bottom by a base, on which there rests a stack of unit weights that can be vertically moved by a steel cable. The tower includes a pulley that deflects the steel cable coming from a lower part of the tower towards a center of the tower, where it is attached to the unit weights. Mounted on either side of a central pulley is a fractional weight pulley having a coupling and a linear actuator for translating a steel cable, which hangs vertically down inside a tube attached to the crossbeam and to the base of the tower, the cylindrical fractional weight being held at the end of the steel cable in the tube. | 12-01-2011 |
20120094809 | ENHANCEMENT OF THE FLOOR OF A GYM'S WEIGHTROOM - A floor of a gym's weight room is configured to encompass the installation of weight stations with weight towers controlled remotely from a control panel, with said weight station assembled atop a weight room floor. The floor of the gym, for each station-tower combination, includes two reinforced boxes embedded in the floor, each having an opening at floor level, wherein one box is located below the base of the weight station and one box is located in front of the respective weight tower, preferably positioned far from the station, the two boxes being connected by at least two parallel tubes located beneath the level of the gym's floor, and wherein the interior of each box is affixed with a cable pulley and bearing, each cable pulley being at a level so that the horizontal section of a steel cable runs toward a center of one of the tubes. | 04-19-2012 |
20120100961 | ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM FOR SELECTING WEIGHTS IN FITNESS STATION WEIGHTS TOWERS - An electromechanical system for selecting weights in fitness station weight towers, wherein a vertical hollow rod, fixed to the cursor which fastens to the steel cable, which lifts the plates of unit weight, extends traversing central holes of these plates, traversing the upper wall of the base of the tower, which is hollow, this rod having a rotating shaft or screw that moves the weight selector upwards and downwards, mounted on the rod by bearings, and projecting below this bearing where it has at the end radial teeth that incase between protrusions existing in a circular low relief of a pulley, which is mounted on a bearing whose shaft is collinear to the rod and fixed to the lower face of the base, this pulley having a channel for a belt, driven by an electric motor fixed to the base. | 04-26-2012 |
20120165157 | FITNESS CENTER WORK-OUT STATION WITH ELECTROMECHANICAL CONTROL OF END OF STROKE POSITION - A fitness center work-out station with electromechanical control of the end of stroke position, including a base, from which there arises a structure where there is fastened a seat, a back rest, arms for action by the user, pulley for connecting the arms, and a steel cable which descends to the level of the base passing through a compensating pulley and following on horizontally to the opposite end of the base where there is a vertical tower where there are stacked the weights, where the end of the steel cable is connected. The base is provided with a contour structure, with two centrally supporting frame rails of the upper structure and a compensating pulley pivoted between the pair of frame rails and at the base of the structure. | 06-28-2012 |
20130015263 | INTRODUCED TO A PORTABLE SAFETY SPRAYING DEVICEAANM NISHIMURA; TakashiAACI SAO PAULOAACO BRAAGP NISHIMURA; Takashi SAO PAULO BR - A portable safety spraying device includes a container of pressurized water and chemical product stored in a flexible pouch with quick-release coupler and is manufactured in a size and weight that is compatible with carrying a user. Nearly the entire volume of the container is held in or composes the pouch. A container lid includes a control valve for releasing the chemical product. The container receives pressurized clean water flowing from a stationary motorized pump through a long hose and is fed by water recycled by a motorized pump through an adjustable sequential valve. The valve operates to keep the hose pressure constant, independent of any pressure releasing action. | 01-17-2013 |
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20100201002 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME - Provided is a semiconductor device including: a base plate; a thermally conductive resin layer formed on an upper surface of the base plate; an integrated layer which is formed on an upper surface of the thermally conductive resin layer, and includes an electrode and an insulating resin layer covering all side surfaces of the electrode; and a semiconductor element formed on an upper surface of the electrode, in which the integrated layer is thermocompression bonded to the base plate through the thermally conductive resin layer. This semiconductor device excels in insulating properties and reliability. | 08-12-2010 |
20100226095 | HEAT CONDUCTIVE SHEET AND POWER MODULE - Provided is a heat conductive sheet obtained by dispersing an inorganic filler in a thermosetting resin, in which the inorganic filler contains secondary aggregation particles formed by isotropically aggregating scaly boron nitride primary particles having an average length of 15 μm or less, and the inorganic filler contains more than 20 vol % of the secondary aggregation particles each having a particle diameter of 50 μm or more. The heat conductive sheet is advantageous in terms of productivity and cost and excellent in heat conductivity and electrical insulating properties. | 09-09-2010 |
20110112354 | ARTIFICIAL HEART CONTROL DEVICE, ARTIFICIAL HEART SYSTEM AND ARTIFICIAL HEART CONTROL METHOD - Provided is an artificial heart control device for controlling a blood pump which assists flow of blood in a heart, the artificial heart control device including: a timing detection part which is configured to detect reference timing within a cardiac cycle of the heart; and a blood pump control part which is configured to control a rotational speed of the blood pump, wherein the blood pump control part controls, with reference to the reference timing detected by the timing detection part, the rotational speed of the blood pump such that the rotational speed becomes a rotational speed corresponding to a predetermined control pattern. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an artificial heart control device, an artificial heart system and an artificial heart control method which can provide a load control optimum for the recovery of functions of a patient's own heart. | 05-12-2011 |
20120039045 | POWER MODULE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING INSULATION DEGRADATION THEREOF - A method and device for detecting insulation degradation of a power module, which detects, in advance, degradation of an insulating sheet based on a current change immediately before breakdown of an insulation characteristic from a current value of a current flowing through the insulating sheet, thereby detecting a failure of a power module caused by the degradation of insulation. The device includes: a current detector sampling and detecting a current value of a current flowing through an insulating sheet of the power module at a predetermined time interval; a calculator determining, based on the current value, a state in which the insulation characteristic of the insulating sheet is so degraded that the breakdown is imminent, and outputting a degradation determination result of YES when it is determined that the insulating sheet is in the state immediately before the breakdown; a current storage storing a current value i(n−1) at a previous sampling time point; and an alarm generating an alarm in response to the degradation determination result of YES. The calculator outputs the degradation determination result of YES when a present current value in exceeds ten times the previous current value i(n−1). | 02-16-2012 |
20130012621 | THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION, B-STAGE HEAT CONDUCTIVE SHEET, AND POWER MODULE - Provided is a thermosetting resin composition including an inorganic filler and a thermosetting resin matrix component, in which the inorganic filler includes secondary sintered particles each formed of primary particles of scaly boron nitride, and at least some of the secondary sintered particles each have a maximum cavity diameter of 5 μm to 80 μm. The thermosetting resin composition can be used for providing a heat conductive sheet in which electrical insulation property is kept by controlling where the defects such as voids and cracks occur and their size, and which has excellent heat conductivity. | 01-10-2013 |
20130042492 | WASHING MACHINE AND DRYING MACHINE - A washing machine includes an outer casing, a tub mounted in the outer casing, a rotating tub rotatably mounted in the tub and a vibration damping device located in the outer casing for damping vibration of the tub using a cylinder enclosing an operating fluid. The operating fluid includes a functional fluid. The washing machine further includes a control unit which is configured to control a viscosity of the functional fluid. The control unit is configured to change the viscosity of the functional fluid according to rotation of the rotating tub in a dehydration step to vary a damping force of the vibration damping device. | 02-21-2013 |
20130306991 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor-element substrate in which a front-surface electrode pattern is formed on a surface of an insulating substrate and a back-surface electrode is formed on another surface; semiconductor elements affixed to the surface of the front-surface electrode pattern opposite the insulating substrate; and a sealing resin member which covers the semiconductor element and the semiconductor-element substrate, wherein at a position of the front-surface electrode pattern where the position has potential equivalent to that of the front-surface electrode pattern at a position where a semiconductor element is bonded, an insulating terminal table formed with a conductive relay terminal and an insulating member that insulates the relay terminal and the front-surface electrode pattern from each other are provided, and wiring from the semiconductor element to the outside is led out via the relay terminal. | 11-21-2013 |
20150076517 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A power semiconductor device is provided with a semiconductor-element substrate in which a front-surface electrode pattern is formed on a surface of an insulating substrate; semiconductor elements for electric power which are affixed to the surface of the front-surface electrode pattern; a partition wall which is provided on the front-surface electrode pattern so as to enclose the semiconductor elements for electric power; a first sealing resin member which is filled inside the partition wall; a second sealing resin member which covers the first sealing resin member and a part of the semiconductor-element substrate which is exposed from the partition wall, wherein an electrode for a relay terminal is provided on a surface of the partition wall, and a wiring from inside of the partition wall to outside of the partition wall is led out via the electrode for a relay terminal. | 03-19-2015 |
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20090091045 | Themosetting Composition for Optical Semiconductor, Die Bond Material for Optical Semiconductor Device, Underfill Material for Optical Semiconductor Device, Sealing Agent for Optical Semiconductor Device, and Optical Semiconductor Device - A thermosetting composition for an optical semiconductor containing a silicone resin having a cyclic ether-containing groups and a thermosetting agent capable of reacting with said cyclic ether-containing group, wherein the silicone resin has, as the principal components, a structural unit expressed by the following formula (1) and a structural unit expressed by the following formula (2). The content of the structural unit expressed by the formula (1) is 0.6 to 0.95 (on a molar basis) and the content of the structural unit expressed by the formula (2) is 0.05 to 0.4 (on a molar basis) when total number of the structural units contained is taken as 1, and the content of the cyclic ether-containing group is 5 to 40 mol %: | 04-09-2009 |
20100171414 | SEALING AGENT FOR OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT - The sealing agent for an optical semiconductor device, which comprises: a silicone resin having a cyclic ether-containing group in the molecular structure; a heat curing agent capable of reacting with the cyclic ether-containing group; and a fine particulate material of silicon oxide, and the sealing agent having a viscosity of 500 to 10,000 mPa·s measured by an E-type viscometer at 25° C. at 5 rpm, a thixotropic value of 1.2 to 2.5 calculated by dividing a viscosity measured by the E-type viscometer at 25° C. at 1 rpm by a viscosity measured at 10 rpm (viscosity at 1 rpm/viscosity at 10 rpm), and a minimum viscosity of 100 mPa·s or higher measured at 1 s | 07-08-2010 |
20120070778 | RESIN, RESIST COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIST PATTERN - A resin having a structural unit derived from a compound represented by the following formula (I), wherein R | 03-22-2012 |
20120122034 | RESIN AND PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME - The present invention provides a resin comprising a structural unit represented by the formula (aa): | 05-17-2012 |
20120153342 | DIE-BONDING MATERIAL FOR OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING SAME - The present invention provides a die bonding material for an optical semiconductor device which has high thermal conductivity and can prevent cracking in an optical semiconductor device including the die bonding material. | 06-21-2012 |
20120294487 | OBJECT DETECTING DEVICE, IMAGE DIVIDING DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, METHOD OF DETECTING OBJECT, OBJECT DETECTING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An object detection device is provided with a plurality of processor units each detecting an object included in an image. The object detection device generates divided images by dividing the image, taking into consideration both the processing load for detection of an object by each processor element and the transfer load for transfer of the divided images to the processor elements. Independently of each other, the processor elements detect an object in each of the divided images. | 11-22-2012 |
20130094777 | IMAGE COMPRESSION DEVICE, IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, PROGRAM, AND PICTURE DISPLAY APPARATUS - Degradation in image quality of color difference components is to be suppressed. Provided is an image compression device that performs fixed length compression of data to be compressed composed of a plurality of components including a luminance component. The image compression device includes a code amount allocation unit configured to determine, according to the luminance component, the code amount to be allocated to each of the plurality of components such that a total of the code amount allocated to each of the components remains constant, and a compression unit configured to compress each of the plurality of components in accordance with the code amount determined by the code amount allocation unit. | 04-18-2013 |
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20100138042 | ROBOT SYSTEM - Teaching images are acquired at a plurality of separate teaching points on a running route extending from a running start position to a goal position, respectively, under a first light environmental condition and a light environmental condition different from the first light environmental condition, and the teaching images are stored. A present teaching image serving as a target for a robot body in a running direction at present is selected from the stored teaching images. A driving mechanism is controlled so as to increase the matching degree between the present teaching image and an actual image taken by a camera. | 06-03-2010 |
20140188323 | MOBILE ROBOT AND MOBILE TRUCK - A mobile robot includes a truck capable of traveling by servo control, a robot arm mounted on the truck, and a control portion servo-controlling the traveling of the truck. The control portion is configured to set a servo gain of the servo control for the truck to a robot arm operation gain during the operation of the robot arm. | 07-03-2014 |
20140277723 | ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROBOT SYSTEM - A robot system of the present disclosure includes: a robot including an operable working arm; a motion speed detection unit configured to detect a motion speed of the working arm; a region setting unit that sets a region with a predetermined range around the robot; a moving body detection unit configured to detect a position of the moving body other than the robot; and an abnormality determination unit configured to determine abnormality when detecting of the position of the moving body within the region, wherein the region setting unit changes the range of the region according to the motion speed of the working arm. | 09-18-2014 |
20140277724 | ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROBOT SYSTEM - A robot system of the present disclosure includes: a robot including an operable working arm driven by an actuator; an operation load detection unit configured to detect an operation load of the actuator; a region setting unit that sets a region with a predetermined range around the robot; a moving body detection unit configured to detect a position of a moving body other than the robot; and an abnormality determination unit that determines abnormality when detecting of the position of the moving body within the region, wherein the region setting unit changes the range of the region in accordance with the operation load of the actuator. | 09-18-2014 |
20140277725 | ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROBOT SYSTEM - A robot system of the present disclosure includes a robot and a controller configured to control motion of the robot, and the controller includes: a motion mode storage unit storing a plurality of motion modes for controlling the robot to switch a motion state of the robot from a normal motion state to a special motion state when a predetermined first condition is satisfied; and a motion mode switching unit configured to switch the motion mode of the robot to another motion mode when, while a particular motion mode stored in the motion mode storage unit is in execution, a predetermined second condition for the particular motion mode is satisfied with a first condition for the particular motion mode satisfied. | 09-18-2014 |
20140277726 | ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE ROBOT SYSTEM - A robot system is provided, which includes a robot having an operable operation arm, an attachment detector for detecting one or more attachments, each attached to a wearing article equipped by a movable body, and a motion-control changer for changing a motion control of the robot based on a detection result detected by the attachment detector. | 09-18-2014 |
20140316564 | MOBILE ROBOT, POSITIONING SYSTEM OF MOBILE ROBOT, AND POSITIONING METHOD OF MOBILE ROBOT - A mobile robot has a seating part, a moving apparatus to move the seating part, and a robot part with a base part to be attached to the seating part, a body capable of rotating around a vertical axis normal to an attaching surface which the seating part to be attached to the base part, and an arm connected to the body having a plurality of joints. The seating part has a first surface facing a work that is subject to the operation by the robot part and a second surface that is different from the first surface, and the arms are formed such that the positional relationship between the arms and the first surface is substantially identical to the positional relationship between the arms and the second surface according to the rotation of the body around the vertical axis. | 10-23-2014 |
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20110317096 | PLANAR LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE WITH THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a planar lighting device includes a plurality of light sources, a light guide layer provided on a light-emission side of the light sources and configured to guide light from the light sources, and a reflective layer provided on an opposite side of the light guide layer to the light sources and through which a part of the light is transmitted. The light guide layer includes light-scattering properties for scattering light and is formed so that optical transmittance T based on the light-scattering properties is 40%≦T≦93%. | 12-29-2011 |
20120134161 | LIGHTING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an lighting apparatus includes a base member, a light source configured to emit visible light, and a translucent cover including a translucent region which covers at least a front surface of the light source and emits the light emitted from the light source to the outside. The light source is provided on a front surface flat section of the base member, a luminous intensity of the light emitted from the light source has a directionality which is strong in a normal direction of the front surface flat section and becomes zero on a rear surface side. The translucent cover includes a domed shape having a maximum diameter at a position higher than a height of the position where the light source is arranged, and a transmittance of a region opposing the light source is 60% or less. | 05-31-2012 |
20120327330 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE WITH THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a lighting device includes a light source, and a semi-transmissive reflection layer opposing the light source. The semi-transmissive reflection layer includes a pattern including transmitting portions or reflecting portions. The pattern includes a pattern formed of the transmitting portions each having a hole conformation in a region to which a high volume of light form the light source incident, and a pattern formed of the reflection portions each having a dot conformation in a region to which a low volume of light form the light source incident. | 12-27-2012 |
20130010232 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a lighting device includes a radiation surface, at least one light source provided to face the radiation surface, and an optical control member provided between the radiation surface and the light source and includes optical characteristics of transmission, diffraction, diffusion, and reflection, which vary for regions in the optical control member, a distribution of each of the optical characteristics being determined by positions relative to the at least one light source. The optical control member is formed in a sheet shape which is controlled by at least one of a reflective film having a reflection factor distribution, and a reflective film having a numerical aperture distribution, and lenses. | 01-10-2013 |
20130335966 | LIGHTING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a lightning device includes a base member, a light source on the base member, a light guide body configured to guide at least part of light forwardly emitted from the light source. The light guide body includes an incident portion covering the front of at least the part of the light source, a bent light guide portion outwardly bent from the incident portion and configured to curvedly guide incident main light to the outside, and a light-emitting surface located on the distal end of the bent light guide portion, directly exposed to the outside of the device, and configured to emit the curvedly guided light laterally or rearwardly relative to the light source. | 12-19-2013 |
20140043828 | LIGHTING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a lighting device includes a base member, a light source on the base member, a light-transmitting cover configured to cover the light source and to emit light emitted from the light source to the outside, and a light guide body provided opposite the light source and configured to guide, to the rear of the light source, at least part of the light from the light source. The cover includes a back light-transmitting region having a plane-normal line directed rearwardly. The light guide body includes a light-incident portion facing the light source and a light guide-emitting portion curvedly extending outward from the light-incident portion, having a distal end portion extending along the back light-transmitting region and directed to the rear. | 02-13-2014 |
20140097738 | LIGHTING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a lighting device includes a light source with a directivity and a light-transmitting cover including a light-transmitting area configured to emit light from the light source to the outside. The light-transmitting cover is in a dome shape and formed of a material doped with scattered fillers dispersed in a volume thereof. The light-transmitting cover includes a vertically elongated shape with an aspect ratio higher than 0.6, and having a transmittance of 70% or less. The aspect ratio is the quotient of a height of the light-transmitting area in an optical axis thereof divided by the width of a rear-end portion of the light-transmitting area. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098546 | LIGHTING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a lighting device includes a light source, and at least one light distribution control member configured to control distribution of light from the light source. The light distribution control member includes a base member higher in refractive index than air, and two optical control layers located opposite each other with a predetermined space therebetween on either side of the base member. The two optical control layers each includes a first region and a second region formed in correlative patterns. The light distribution control member is configured to control the light distribution based on a change of an overlap between the first and second regions depending on a direction of transmitted light. | 04-10-2014 |