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20110261218 | COMPONENT IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPONENT IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - To image a component larger than the field of view of a camera, a range based on the shape and dimension of the component to be imaged and the field of view of the camera, a range of the component is divided, and imaging ranges of a plurality of characteristic parts to be imaged are determined. Then, images of the plurality of characteristic parts obtained by imaging the plurality of characteristic parts with the camera are combined to create a combined image of the characteristic parts of the component. Based on the combined image, the position of the component is measured. | 10-27-2011 |
20120013731 | COMPONENT PRESENCE/ABSENCE JUDGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A component presence/absence judging apparatus judges the presence/absence of a component through a registration step and an inspection step. The registration step comprises an ante-mounting color information acquisition step, a post-mounting color information acquisition step and an inspection area determination step. Ante-mounting color information is acquired from an ante-mounting image taken at a predetermined portion on an ante-mounting board. Post-mounting color information is acquired from a post-mounting image taken at the predetermined portion on a post-mounting board. Then, a section having a large difference between both color information of the ante-mounting image and the post-mounting image is identified and is determined as an inspection area. At the inspection step, the presence/absence of the component at a predetermined place on each inspection board to be inspected is judged in dependence on the color information on the determined inspection area. | 01-19-2012 |
20120020545 | COMPONENT PRESENCE/ABSENCE JUDGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A component presence/absence judging apparatus judges the presence/absence of components through a registration step and an inspection step. The registration step includes an ante-mounting feature acquisition step, a post-mounting feature acquisition step and a classifier configuration step. At the ante-mounting and post-mounting feature acquisition steps, ante-mounting features and post-mounting features are respectively acquired from an ante-mounting image and a post-mounting image taken at each of predetermined places on an ante-mounting board and a post-mounting board. At the classifier configuration step, a classifier is configured by registering the ante-mounting features and the post-mounting features as training data to a support vector machine. Then, at the inspection step, the presence/absence of a component at each of the predetermined places on each post-mounting operation board to be inspected is judged by inputting post-mounting operation features acquired from each of the predetermined places on each post-mounting operation board to the support vector machine configured as the classifier. | 01-26-2012 |
20120162405 | IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATING METHOD - An image generating apparatus includes: a lighting apparatus that emits illumination light to an imaging area where at least a part of an electronic component is located; an imaging apparatus that images the imaging area irradiated with the illumination light; and an image processing apparatus that processes a captured image obtained by the imaging. The image processing apparatus generates a before-adjustment image based on the captured image, generates an adjusted image by adjusting luminance of the before-adjustment image, and generates an optimal image by setting a difference in average luminance between a designated area and a comparison area in the adjusted image largest. | 06-28-2012 |
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20150205557 | TECHNIQUE FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device may receive a file selecting operation for selecting a particular file, and send the selected particular file and a registering request to a first server, the file information including identification information for identifying the selected particular file. The information processing device may obtain thumbnail image data of the selected particular file, receive the identification information from the first server, store the thumbnail image data and the identification information in association with one another, receive a first access operation for accessing K items of file information, send, to the first server, a first access request for accessing the K items of file information, so as to receive, from the first server, K items of the identification information, and display K items of thumbnail images. | 07-23-2015 |
20150205558 | TECHNIQUE FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device may cause a display unit to display a first screen, in response to accepting an instruction for displaying the first screen. The first screen may include M pieces of first images indicating M pieces of data stored in a first storage unit of the information processing device and include a first background image. The information processing device may cause the display unit to display a second screen, in response to receiving, from a server device, N pieces of identification information for identifying N pieces of data stored in a second storage unit of the server device. The second screen may include N pieces of second images indicating the N pieces of identification information and include a second background image which is different from the first background image. | 07-23-2015 |
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20100165072 | Video conference system, band control method, conference control device, video conference terminal device and recording medium recording program - A conference control device includes: a communication processing unit which performs transmission/reception processing of conference information containing voice information and image information between the conference control device and a plurality of video conference terminal devices through a network; an information collecting unit which collects information on connection paths between the conference control device and the respective video conference terminal devices; a grouping unit which sorts the plurality of video conference terminal devices into a plurality of groups based on information on the connection paths collected by the information collecting unit; a band monitoring unit which monitors a use band of the communication processing unit in accordance with every group; and a bandwidth control unit which is, when the group having the use band of less than a predetermined value is detected by the band monitoring unit, controls the bandwidth of the video conference terminal devices belonging to the group. | 07-01-2010 |
20110211469 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A communication device transmits a plurality of measurement packets to another communication device while successively varying a transmitting interval. After the plurality of measurement packets have been transmitted, the communication device determines a location of a usable bandwidth in relation to a first bandwidth range that is a range within which bandwidths are measured. The communication device resets the first bandwidth range to a second bandwidth range that is a range within which the bandwidths are measured and in which at least one of an upper limit and a lower limit is different from the corresponding limit in the first bandwidth range in accordance with the determination. The communication device selects a bandwidth that will be used when the measurement packets are transmitted. The communication device transmits the measurement packets to the other communication device using the bandwidth that has been selected. | 09-01-2011 |
20120195388 | Encoding Apparatus, Encoding Method, and Storage Medium - Encoded data may be generated and transmitted from one computing device to another via a network. To address bandwidth use efficiency issues, an available bandwidth for the other computing device may be determined or acquired. A time at which the available bandwidth is determined/acquired may be estimated. Media data (e.g., audio, video, etc.) may be encoded for transmission. Scheduled change time, at which a setting of an encoding condition is expected to be changed, is further determined. Change timing, at which the setting of an encoding condition is to be changed, is determined on the basis of the scheduled change time and the estimated time. The setting of the encoding condition may then be changed in accordance with the available bandwidth when the change timing is reached. | 08-02-2012 |
20140119243 | Remote Conference Saving System and Storage Medium - A remote conference system includes: a communication terminal; and a conference server connected to the communication terminal via an IP network, wherein the communication terminal performs processes comprising: detecting a state of the IP network between the conference server and the communication terminal; performing first determination on whether to transmit partial media data to the conference server, based on the detected state of the IP network; performing first transmission of transmitting the partial media data to the conference server if it is determined to transmit the partial media data; performing first saving of saving the partial media data in a storage device of the communication terminal when it is determined to not transmit the partial media data; and performing second transmission of transmitting partial media data saved in the storage device, as missing partial media data, to the conference server at a predetermined timing. | 05-01-2014 |
20140298205 | Program, Communication Apparatus and Control Method - In a communication apparatus, a first portion of a shared material is displayed in a first display area within a remote conference screen which is displayed in a display connected to the communication apparatus. When the communication apparatus is in a state for receiving an input of an annotation to the shared material, a second display area is set as an area for receiving a first input. When the first input is received, a portion of the shared material displayed in the first display area is changed from the first portion to a second portion of the shared material. When a second input is received to a position outside the second display area, an annotation corresponding to the second input is displayed to be superimposed on the first portion in the first display area. | 10-02-2014 |
20150189235 | Remote Conference System and Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium Storing Program for Remote Conference - A communication device obtains video data. The video data includes a plurality of inter-frame coded image data and a plurality of intra-frame coded image data. The communication device displays a portion of a video layout region on a video display region of a display of the communication device. A plurality of captured images, reproduced from video data, is laid out in the video layout region. When a specific captured image is not included in the video display region, the communication device determines update frequency information. The update frequency information sets at least a portion of the plurality of inter-frame coded image data included in specific video data, corresponding to the specific captured image, as a non-target for transmission. The communication device transmits the update frequency information via a communication unit of the communication device. | 07-02-2015 |
20150189236 | Server and Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium Storing Program For Remote Conference - A server obtains video data and layout information. The layout information includes at least a portion of identification information and status information associated with each other. The status information relates to a display condition of each of a plurality of captured images in a video display region. The server judges whether a specific captured image is included in the video display region. The server determines update frequency information when the specific captured image is not included in the video display region. The update frequency information sets a portion of a plurality of inter-frame coded image data included in the video data of the second communication device as a non-target for transmission. The server transmits the video data in which the portion of the plurality of inter-frame coded image data are not included. | 07-02-2015 |
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20090021246 | ROTATION ANGLE DETECTION DEVICE AND ROTATION ANGLE CORRECTION METHOD - A device for detecting an absolute rotation angle of multiple rotation with a high accuracy and high resolution by using a target connected to the rotation axis and having an outer circumferential surface to which magnetic poles of alternate polarities are magnetized. The device includes: a first rotor holding a target connected to an input axis and having an outer circumferential surface to which magnetic poles of alternate polarities are magnetized at an identical interval and having a multi-rotatable gear; a second rotor connected to the gear of the first rotor, rotated at a low speed by the first rotor, and having a magnet at the center portion; a first detection unit and a second detection unit for detecting the rotation angles of them. With a simple configuration, it is possible to detect an absolution rotation angle with a high accuracy and a high resolution. | 01-22-2009 |
20090058405 | ROTATION ANGLE SENSOR - A rotation angle sensor is provided with a shaft portion having a torsion bar, a rotation angle sensing portion for detecting rotation angle of the shaft portion, and a torque sensing portion for detecting angle of torsion of the torsion bar. The rotation angle sensing portion and the torque sensing portion improve their own detecting accuracies by using each other's detecting result, whereby the rotation angle sensor can detect rotation angle and angle of torsion of a multi-turn rotatable body with high accuracy and high resolution. | 03-05-2009 |
20090211374 | ROTATION ANGLE AND TORQUE DETECTION APPARATUS - A rotation angle and torque detection apparatus includes: a target having magnetic poles magnetized at an outer circumference face so that the magnetic poles have alternately-different polarities and the target can be rotated multiple times; and a detector that is positioned to have a fixed distance from the target in a radial direction of the target and to have a fixed distance from the center of lo the target in an axial direction and that is provided at a plane vertical to the radial direction of the target. This rotation angle and torque detection apparatus can sense a torque and a multiple rotation angle with high resolution and high accuracy. | 08-27-2009 |
20090320613 | ROTATION ANGLE AND TORQUE DETECTION DEVICE - A detection device includes a first rotating body, a first target fixed to the first rotating body, a first gear fixed to the first rotating body, a first magnetic detector element for detecting a rotation angle of the first rotating body, a second gear engaged with the first gear, a second rotating body having the second gear fixed thereto, a magnet provided at the second rotating body, a second magnetic detector element for detecting a rotation angle of the second rotating body, a third rotating body, a second target fixed to the third rotating body, a third magnetic detector element for detecting a rotation angle of the third rotating body, a torsion bar connected between the first rotating body and the second rotating body, and a controller operable to determine the rotation angle of the first rotating body and a torque applied to the torsion bar based on signals output from the first, second, and third magnetic detector element. The detection device detects an absolute rotation angle of plural turns and a torque. | 12-31-2009 |
20120056617 | ROTATION ANGLE DETECTING DEVICE - A rotation angle detecting device includes a rotating body rotating according to rotation of a vehicle pedal; a magnet attached to the rotating body; a magnetism detection element disposed facing the magnet at a predetermined interval from the magnet; and a first control circuit connected to the magnetism detection element. The center of the magnet is placed at the rotation center of the rotating body. The magnetism detection element detects magnetism of the magnet to output a detection signal. The first control circuit outputs an angle signal corresponding to a rotation angle of the rotating body according to the detection signal, and outputs a switching signal according to the rotation angle of the rotating body. The rotation angle detecting device reliably detects a rotation angle and turns a stop lamp on and off for example with a simple structure. | 03-08-2012 |
20130249538 | ROTATION ANGLE AND TORQUE DETECTION DEVICE - A rotation angle and torque detection device includes a first rotating body, a second rotating body, a first magnet, a first magnetism detecting element, a first detecting body, a second magnet, a second magnetism detecting element, a second detecting body, a third magnet, a third magnetism detecting element, and a control circuit. The control circuit outputs a rotation torque signal and a rotation angle signal. The first magnetism detecting element outputs a torque detection signal. | 09-26-2013 |
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20100287880 | Medicine Dispensing System and Medicine Dispensing Device - There is provided a medicine dispensing system configured such that a medicine dispensing device includes a sub unit having a function to dispense medicine that is connected to a medicine dispensing device that includes a main unit having a function of packing medicines. There is also provided a medicine dispensing device that can be appropriately integrated with such a medicine dispensing system. The medicine dispensing system includes, in some embodiments a main unit, a sub unit and a transfer device connecting the main unit and the sub unit. The medicine dispensing system transfers the medicine dispensed in the sub unit to the main unit by means of a transfer device and dispenses the medicine at a medicine packing part together with the medicine dispensed from a main storage part in the main unit. | 11-18-2010 |
20110107591 | MEDICINE PACKAGING DEVICE AND CART FOR CHANGING PACKAGING UNIT - There is provided a medicine packaging device that can resolve the problem in which fine mechanical adjustments are needed for changing setting conditions of a packaging part or when the packaging part fails. The medicine packaging device has a device body | 05-12-2011 |
20120124938 | MEDICINE DISPENSING SYSTEM AND MEDICINE DISPENSING DEVICE - There is provided a medicine dispensing system configured such that a medicine dispensing device includes a sub unit having a function to dispense medicine that is connected to a medicine dispensing device that includes a main unit having a function of packing medicines. There is also provided a medicine dispensing device that can be appropriately integrated with such a medicine dispensing system. The medicine dispensing system includes, in some embodiments a main unit, a sub unit and a transfer device connecting the main unit and the sub unit. The medicine dispensing system transfers the medicine dispensed in the sub unit to the main unit by means of a transfer device and dispenses the medicine at a medicine packing part together with the medicine dispensed from a main storage part in the main unit. | 05-24-2012 |
20120124939 | MEDICINE DISPENSING SYSTEM AND MEDICINE DISPENSING DEVICE - There is provided a medicine dispensing system configured such that a medicine dispensing device includes a sub unit having a function to dispense medicine that is connected to a medicine dispensing device that includes a main unit having a function of packing medicines. There is also provided a medicine dispensing device that can be appropriately integrated with such a medicine dispensing system. The medicine dispensing system includes, in some embodiments a main unit, a sub unit and a transfer device connecting the main unit and the sub unit. The medicine dispensing system transfers the medicine dispensed in the sub unit to the main unit by means of a transfer device and dispenses the medicine at a medicine packing part together with the medicine dispensed from a main storage part in the main unit. | 05-24-2012 |
20120130532 | MEDICINE DISPENSING SYSTEM AND MEDICINE DISPENSING DEVICE - There is provided a medicine dispensing system configured such that a medicine dispensing device includes a sub unit having a function to dispense medicine that is connected to a medicine dispensing device that includes a main unit having a function of packing medicines. There is also provided a medicine dispensing device that can be appropriately integrated with such a medicine dispensing system. The medicine dispensing system includes, in some embodiments a main unit, a sub unit and a transfer device connecting the main unit and the sub unit. The medicine dispensing system transfers the medicine dispensed in the sub unit to the main unit by means of a transfer device and dispenses the medicine at a medicine packing part together with the medicine dispensed from a main storage part in the main unit. | 05-24-2012 |
20130168405 | MEDICAMENT DISPENSING MACHINE - The disclosed device increases the accommodation amount of blister packages and enables smooth dispensing even if a blister package is bent or similar. The device is provided with: a device body ( | 07-04-2013 |
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20120309170 | EXPANDABLE FILM, DICING FILM, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - To provide an olefinic expandable substrate and a dicing film that exhibits less contamination characteristics, high expandability without necking, which cannot be achieved by conventional olefinic expandable substrates. In order to achieve the object, an expandable film comprises a 1-butene-α-olefin copolymer (A) having a tensile modulus at 23° C. of 100 to 500 MPa and a propylenic elastomer composition (B) comprising a propylene-α-olefin copolymer (b1) and having a tensile modulus at 23° C. of 10 to 50 MPa, wherein the amount of the component (B) is 30 to 70 weight parts relative to 100 weight parts in total of components (A) and (B). | 12-06-2012 |
20130153880 | SURFACE SEALANT FOR OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ORGANIC EL DEVICE, ORGANIC EL DEVICE AND ORGANIC EL DISPLAY PANEL USING THE SAME - To provide a resin composition for sealing an optical semiconductor, which is a raw material for a sealing resin layer having good curability and excellent storage stability; preferably a raw material for a sealing resin layer further having excellent weather resistance. The surface sealant for an optical semiconductor of Embodiment 1 according to the present invention contains epoxy resin (a) having two or more epoxy groups in a molecule, and metal complex (b1) which contains at least one metal ion selected from the group consisting of Zn, Bi, Ca, Al, Cd, La and Zr, a tertiary amine capable of forming a complex with the metal ion and having no N—H bond and an anionic ligand having a molecular weight of 17 to 200, in which the surface sealant has a viscosity of 10 to 10000 mPa·s, as measured by E-type viscometer at 25° C. and 1.0 rpm. | 06-20-2013 |
20140131691 | POLYMERIZABLE EPOXY COMPOSITION AND ORGANIC EL DEVICE - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a polymerizable resin composition with which the cured product refractive index is high and the viscosity under a high shear stress is a specific viscosity or lower. Provided is an polymerizable epoxy composition comprising (A1) an S-containing epoxy resin represented by a general formula, (A2) an epoxy compound having a softening point of 70° C. or lower, (B) a curing promoter, and (C) a thiol compound having two or more thiol groups per molecule, wherein viscosity at 25° C. and 60 rpm as determined using a B viscometer is between 100 and 15,000 mPa·s. | 05-15-2014 |
20150034928 | OPTICAL-DEVICE SURFACE-SEALING COMPOSITION, OPTICAL-DEVICE SURFACE-SEALING SHEET, DISPLAY, AND DISPLAY MANUFACTURING METHOD - The purpose of the present invention is to provide the following: an optical-device surface-sealing composition that makes it possible to fabricate an optical-device-using display with a low amount of warpage even if there is a large difference between the coefficients of linear expansion of substrates used in said display; a display with a low amount of warpage; and a manufacturing method therefor. The storage modulus of elasticity (G′(80)) of this optical-device surface-sealing composition, measured at 80° C. after said composition is heated from 40° C. to 80° C. at 5° C./min and then held at 80° C. for 30 minutes, is between 1.0×10 | 02-05-2015 |
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20080213559 | PHOSPHOR FILM AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE PHOSPHOR FILM - A phosphor film high in efficiency and less in luminescence irregularity and a method of producing the phosphor film are provided. The phosphor film includes a zinc sulfide compound containing an additive element(s). The additive element is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Cu and Au; the concentration of the additive element is 0.2 mol % or more and 5 mol % or less with respect to Zn; and the film thickness of the phosphor film is 10 nm or more and 2 um or less. | 09-04-2008 |
20080303035 | COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR FILM, LIGHT EMITTING FILM, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a compound semiconductor film which is manufactured at a low temperature and exhibits excellent p-type conductivity, and a light emitting film in which the compound semiconductor film and a light emitting material are laminated and with which high-intensity light emission can be realized. The compound semiconductor film has a composition represented by a Cu | 12-11-2008 |
20090039378 | LIGHT-EMITTING FILM, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a light-emitting film having controllable resistivity, and a high-luminance light-emitting device, which can be driven at a low voltage, using such light-emitting film. The light-emitting film includes Cu as an addition element in a zinc sulfide compound which is a base material, wherein the zinc sulfide compound includes columnar ZnS crystals, and sites formed of copper sulfide on a grain boundary where the ZnS crystals are in contact with each other. | 02-12-2009 |
20090134427 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - There has not been a DC drive type light emitting device capable of providing high brightness. The present invention provides a light emitting device, including: a pair of electrodes; a light emitter placed between the electrodes; and a semiconductor laminated to be adjacent to the light emitter, in which the semiconductor contains one of a chalcopyrite and an oxychalcogenide. | 05-28-2009 |
20100221420 | PHOSPHOR FILM AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE PHOSPHOR FILM - A phosphor film high in efficiency and less in luminescence irregularity and a method of producing the phosphor film are provided. The phosphor film includes a zinc sulfide compound containing an additive element(s). The additive element is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Cu and Au; the concentration of the additive element is 0.2 mol % or more and 5 mol % or less with respect to Zn; and the film thickness of the phosphor film is 10 nm or more and 2 um or less. | 09-02-2010 |
20110008584 | FLUORESCENT MATERIAL, FLUORESCENT SUBSTANCE, DISPLAY, AND PROCESS FOR PREPARING FLUORESCENT SUBSTANCE - The present invention aims at providing a novel oxide fluorescent material. The novel oxide fluorescent material is a fluorescent material including: as constituent elements, at least one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba; at least one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Si and Ge; at least one or more elements selected from the group consisting of rare earth elements; and oxygen, wherein the crystal structure is a pseudowollastonite crystal structure. The fluorescent substance includes a layer | 01-13-2011 |
20120064654 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIGHT-EMITTING FILM AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - Provided is a light-emitting film having controllable resistivity, and a high-luminance light-emitting device, which can be driven at a low voltage, using such light-emitting film. The light-emitting film includes Cu as an addition element in a zinc sulfide compound which is a base material, wherein the zinc sulfide compound includes columnar ZnS crystals, and sites formed of copper sulfide on a grain boundary where the ZnS crystals are in contact with each other. | 03-15-2012 |
20120312999 | RADIATION DETECTING ELEMENT - Provided is a radiation detecting element, including: needle crystal scintillators and a protruding pattern in which: one end of the needle crystal scintillators is in contact with of upper surfaces of the multiple protrusions; a gap corresponding to a gap between the multiple protrusions is provided between portions of the needle crystal scintillators in contact with the upper surfaces of the multiple protrusions; and a number of the needle crystal scintillators in contact with one of the upper surfaces is 5 or less. Conventionally, since the needle crystals exhibit a state of a polycrystalline film in an early stage of vapor deposition, and light also spreads in a horizontal direction, the light received by a photodetector portion and the spatial resolution was lower than ideal values. The present invention enables the deviating region to be the ideal state in an early stage of growth. | 12-13-2012 |
20150034841 | SCINTILLATOR PLATE AND RADIATION DETECTOR - Provided is a scintillator plate including a crystalline body formed of a compound having a crystal structure of a Cs | 02-05-2015 |
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20080231411 | RESISTANCE PLATE AND LIQUID LEVEL DETECTION APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAID RESISTANCE PLATE - In a resistance plate, a first slide portion includes a plurality of first conductive segments arranged at intervals generally in a direction of sliding movement of a sliding arm, the adjacent first conductive segments being connected together via a resistor. A first conducting path | 09-25-2008 |
20080289414 | LIQUID LEVEL DETECTION APPARATUS - A liquid level detection apparatus includes a resistance plate which has a conducting pattern formed on a board, the conducting pattern including a first slide portion, a second slide portion, a plus electrode electrically connected to the first slide portion, and a minus electrode electrically connected to the second slide portion, a float which moves in accordance with a change of a liquid level, a float arm connected to the float, a sliding arm which slides over the resistance plate in accordance with a pivotal movement of the float arm, a plus connection terminal connected to the plus electrode, a minus connection terminal connected to the minus electrode, and a protective layer formed on the plus connection terminal so as to cover the plus connection terminal. | 11-27-2008 |
20080295592 | Liquid level detection device - A liquid level detection device includes a sensor provided in a container which stores a liquid therein and having a variable resistance which changes a resistance value in association with a change of liquid level to output a voltage signal according to the resistance value of the variable resistance when a voltage is applied thereto, and a power supply circuit applying the voltage to the sensor intermittently on a predetermined cycle. A conducting time during which the power supply circuit applies the voltage to the sensor is equal to or less than 40 ms per cycle. | 12-04-2008 |
20080309471 | LIQUID LEVEL DETECTING APPARATUS - A liquid level detecting apparatus includes a liquid level sensor of a variable resistance type which includes a sliding contact and a resistor, and which detects a resistance change corresponding to a change of a liquid level of a liquid in a tank and outputs a detection signal based on the change of the liquid level when the liquid level sensor is energized and a controlling unit which controls to supply energization pulses periodically to the liquid level sensor, and controls a displaying portion to display a remaining amount of the liquid in the tank, on the basis of the detection signal output from the liquid level sensor. The controlling unit changes a number of the energization pulses supplied to the liquid level sensor in a predetermined time, on the basis of the detection signal output from the liquid level sensor. | 12-18-2008 |
20090000376 | LIQUID LEVEL DETECTING APPARATUS - A liquid level detecting apparatus includes a resistance plate which includes an insulating plate and a resistor mounted on the insulating plate, the resistor having a plurality of conductive segments, and a sliding body which has a contact for contacting on the conductive segments, and the contact sliding over the conductive segments in accordance with a change of a liquid level of a liquid. At least a surface of a constituent member of the sliding body except for the contact is comprised of a material having a corrosion resistance to the liquid. | 01-01-2009 |
20120186340 | LIQUID LEVEL DETECTING APPARATUS - A liquid level detecting apparatus is provided. A resistance plate has a plurality of elongated conductive segments arranged therein. A float is configured to be moved upward and downward depending on a displacement of a liquid level to be measured. A floating arm has one end attached to the float and the other end rotatably supported to be rotated in response to upward and downward movements of the float. A contact is configured to be slid on the plurality of conductive segments in association with a rotation of the float arm depending on the liquid level. The plurality of conductive segments comprise a plurality of first segments made of a first metal material containing at least silver (Ag) and palladium (Pd), and a plurality of second segments made of a second metal material essentially containing gold (Au). | 07-26-2012 |
20130025366 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CONDUCTIVE SEGMENT, AND CONDUCTIVE SEGMENT - A method for producing a conductive segment, includes: a step of printing a metal conductive paste on a substrate, and drying the paste; a step of printing other metal conductive paste on the metal conductive paste after drying, and drying the paste; and a step of burning the metal conductive paste after drying and the other metal conductive paste after drying, wherein the conductive metal paste is an Ag—Pd conductive paste comprising silver (Ag) and palladium (Pd), and the other metal conductive paste is an Au conductive paste comprising gold (Au) as a main component; or the metal conductive paste is an Au conductive paste comprising gold (Au) as a main component, and the other metal conductive paste is an Ag—Pd conductive paste comprising silver (Ag) and palladium (Pd). | 01-31-2013 |