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20100013780 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a main unit to be held; a display unit provided on the main unit such that an information display screen is positioned on a front face thereof, to display information on the information display screen; a touch position detection unit to detect a touch position on the information display screen, and generate touch position detection data represented in terms of coordinates based on two axes intersecting at the detected touch position; and a control unit to display predetermined information on the information display screen, in the event of detecting that the touch position on the information display screen is being continually displaced from within a predetermined region on the information display screen in a predetermined first diagonal direction as to two directions following the two axes, based on the touch position detection data generated by the touch position detection unit. | 01-21-2010 |
20100244214 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - To improve the heat dissipation characteristics of a semiconductor device. | 09-30-2010 |
20120024647 | CYLINDER APPARATUS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SHOCK ABSORBER - The present invention provides a cylinder apparatus processing method capable of preventing a base shell from bending which otherwise would be caused due to a residual stress generated when the base shell is processed. The cylinder apparatus processing method comprises securely holding an outer diameter of the base shell | 02-02-2012 |
20120073918 | SHOCK ABSORBER - A piston with a piston rod coupled thereto is inserted in a cylinder, which sealingly contains oil. An oil flow generated by movement of the piston is controlled by a damping force generation mechanism, thereby generating a damping force. A separator tube is disposed around the cylinder, and the oil is transmitted to the damping force generation mechanism through a branch tube integrally formed on a cylindrical sidewall of the separator tube. The branch tube is tapered at the outer circumferential portion thereof with the outer diameter thereof reducing toward the distal end of the branch tube. | 03-29-2012 |
20120280379 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A semiconductor device has a die pad, a heat dissipating plate in the form of a frame arranged between the die pad and leads so as to surround the die pad, members that connect the die pad and the inner edge of the heat dissipating plate, and a suspension lead linked to the outer extension of the heat dissipating plate. A semiconductor chip larger than the die pad is mounted over the die pad and the members. Top surfaces of the die pad and the members in opposition to the back surface of the chip are bonded to the back surface of the chip with silver paste. Heat is conducted from the back surface of the chip to the heat dissipating plate via the silver paste, the die pad, and the members, and dissipated to the outside of the semiconductor device via the leads. | 11-08-2012 |
20120307309 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, INFORMATION FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming system includes a first storage unit that stores identification information and storage information with the identification information mapped to the storage information, the identification information identifying a user, the storage information indicating a storage location where image data corresponding to the identification information is stored, an identifying unit that, in response to the identification information input by the user, identifies the storage location indicated by the storage information stored on the first storage unit with the identification information mapped thereto, a retrieval unit that retrieves, from the storage location identified by the identifying unit, the image data corresponding to the identification information, and an image forming unit that forms an image responsive to the image data retrieved by the retrieval unit. | 12-06-2012 |
20120327457 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system includes plural server devices, a transmission device, and an image forming device. The transmission device includes a first memory, a selection unit, and a transmission unit. The first memory stores priorities assigned to the server devices. The selection unit selects an available server device having the highest priority. The transmission unit transmits user identification information and associated image data to the selected server device. Each server device includes a storage location for storing the transmitted identification information and image data. The image forming device includes a second memory, an acquisition unit, and an image forming unit. The second memory stores server information. Upon receipt of user identification information, the acquisition unit acquires image data associated with the user identification information from the storage location in the server device identified by the server information. The image forming unit forms an image corresponding to the acquired image data. | 12-27-2012 |
20130053745 | POLYMER MOLDED BODY FOR PULLING BIOLOGICAL TISSUE, MEDICAL PULLING MEMBER USING SAME, AND MEDICAL PULLING TOOL - According to a medical traction device containing a polymer molded article having biocompatibility as a weight for traction of a living tissue to be resected under observation with an endoscope, and a medical traction equipment containing the medical traction device and a grasping member connected to each other, such a medical traction device or traction equipment is provided that in ESD in a digestive tract, a dissected living tissue is efficiently removed from the operative field also in a direction that is different from the moving direction of the endoscope, thereby maintaining the field of view, and the procedures are thus performed safely and rapidly. | 02-28-2013 |
20130088754 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Provided is an image forming system including plural image forming devices that form an image, each including: a storage unit that stores user identification information for identifying users and image data that represents an image in correlation, a receiving unit that receives the user identification information of any of the users, a first acquiring unit that acquires image data correlated with the user identification information from the storage unit included in the subject device when the image data is stored in the storage unit, a second acquiring unit that acquires image data correlated with the user identification information and stored in the storage unit included in another image forming device different from the subject device when the first acquiring unit is unable to acquire the image data, and an image forming unit that forms an image corresponding to the image data acquired by the first or second acquiring unit. | 04-11-2013 |
20130094051 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a transmission apparatus, a reception section that is provided in the image forming apparatus and receives a designation of the transmission apparatus, a first transmission section that is provided in the image forming apparatus and transmits apparatus information indicating the own apparatus to a transmission apparatus designated in the reception section, a first storage unit that is provided in the transmission apparatus and stores the apparatus information transmitted from the first transmission section, a second transmission section that is provided in the transmission apparatus and transmits image data to an image forming apparatus indicated by the apparatus information stored in the first storage section, and an image forming unit that is provided in the image forming apparatus and forms an image corresponding to the image data transmitted from the second transmission section. | 04-18-2013 |
20130104732 | FASTENING METHOD AND CYLINDER DEVICE | 05-02-2013 |
20130107307 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | 05-02-2013 |
20130107315 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | 05-02-2013 |
20130114103 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system includes plural image forming devices, a determining unit determining an image forming device in which image data corresponding to user information is stored among the plural image forming devices, a first storage unit storing the user information and device information in a correlated manner, a transmitting device in which the user information is preset, a transmitting unit transmitting image data corresponding to the preset user information to the determined image forming device with respect to the user information, a second storage unit storing the transmitted image data, a receiving unit receiving an input of the user information, a first acquiring unit acquiring image data from an image forming device correlated with the input user information, and an image forming unit forming an image acquired by the first acquiring unit. | 05-09-2013 |
20140048364 | TUBE PROVIDED WITH BRANCH TUBE, SHOCK ABSORBER, AND METHOD FOR MAKING THEM - A shock absorber includes a cylinder sealingly containing oil, and a piston coupled with a piston rod and inserted in the cylinder. The shock absorber generates a damping force by controlling the oil flow generated according to movement of the piston with the use of a damping force generation mechanism. A separator tube is externally disposed around the cylinder. The oil is transmitted into the damping force generation mechanism via a branch tube integrally formed on a cylindrical sidewall of the separator tube. Both sides of a proximal portion of the branch tube in a circumferential direction of the sidewall of the separator tube are pressed from an inside to concave an inner circumferential surface radially outwardly, thereby forming recesses. | 02-20-2014 |
20140090938 | TUBE FORMING METHOD AND SHOCK ABSORBER - A separator tube | 04-03-2014 |
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20100095443 | TOILET SEAT APPARATUS - A linear heater is formed of an enamel wire composed of a heating wire and an enamel layer. The heating wire is made of a copper alloy containing silver, for example. The enamel layer is made of polyester imide (PEI), polyimide (PI) or polyamide imide (PAI), for example. The enamel layer is coated with an insulating coating layer. The insulating coating layer is made of fluororesin such as perfluoroalkoxy mixture (PFA), polyimide (PI), or polyamide imide (PAI). The linear heater is bonded to the lower surface of an upper toilet seat casing such that it is sandwiched between a metal foil and a metal foil made of aluminum, for example. | 04-22-2010 |
20130117920 | TOILET SEAT APPARATUS - A linear heater is formed of an enamel wire composed of a heating wire and an enamel layer. The heating wire is made of a copper alloy containing silver, for example. The enamel layer is made of polyester imide (PEI), polyimide (PI) or polyamide imide (PAI), for example. The enamel layer is coated with an insulating coating layer. The insulating coating layer is made of fluororesin such as perfluoroalkoxy mixture (PFA), polyimide (PI), or polyamide imide (PAI). The linear heater is bonded to the lower surface of an upper toilet seat casing such that it is sandwiched between a metal foil and a metal foil made of aluminum, for example. | 05-16-2013 |
20140119690 | OPTICAL MODULE - There is provided an optical module in which leaked light or the like from a plurality of optical elements on the same substrate is made less likely to affect adjacent optical elements, and a cross-talk noise can be thereby significantly reduced. The optical module includes an internal waveguide in a first trench of a substrate, a mirror section, and optical elements. A plurality of the first trenches of the substrate are formed independently of each other and substantially in parallel with each other, and lengths of adjacent first trenches from the end surface of the substrate are made different from each other. The optical elements are mounted on the surface of the substrate so as to oppose the minor sections formed at the tip portions of the first trenches having the different lengths. | 05-01-2014 |
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20090060574 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image forming apparatus comprising an image holding member that is rotationally driven, the image holding member comprising, on a substrate, a subbing layer and a photosensitive layer, a volume resistance value of the subbing layer decreasing in a rotation axis direction of the image holding member, from one end portion of a light source side of the image holding member towards another end portion of the image holding member, a charging unit, a latent image formation unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit, and a charge removal unit comprising a light source that, after transfer of the toner image, irradiates the surface of the image holding member from one side thereof, in a rotation axis direction of the image holding member, with charge removing light, to remove the charge from the surface of the image holding member. | 03-05-2009 |
20110318045 | CLEANING ELEMENT FOR AN IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, CHARGING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning element for an image-forming apparatus, includes: a shaft; a strip-shaped sheet which is disposed helically on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft; and an adhesive layer which is disposed between the shaft and the strip-shaped sheet and binds the shaft and the strip-shaped sheet, the strip-shaped sheet having, on a surface thereof facing the shaft, an unbound region in which the adhesive layer is absent, at an end in a width direction of the strip-shaped sheet which faces a downstream side in a rotation direction of the shaft. | 12-29-2011 |
20130108311 | CLEANING MEMBER FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CHARGING DEVICE, UNIT FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | 05-02-2013 |
20140099141 | CLEANING MEMBER, CHARGING DEVICE, ASSEMBLY, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning member includes a shaft body and a spiral portion including a contact portion that is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft body, protrudes spirally, and comes into contact with a body to be cleaned with the rotation of the shaft body, steps that are formed on the contact portion and face a rotation direction of the shaft body and an end portion that is positioned on a side where the contact portion comes into contact with the body to be cleaned first in a width direction of the contact portion and of which the height from the shaft body is gradually reduced from the height of the contact portion so that the end portion does not come into contact with the body to be cleaned. | 04-10-2014 |
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20120138176 | FLOW CHANNEL STRUCTURE - A flow channel structure that includes a first inlet path for a first fluid, a second inlet path for a second fluid, a merging portion that merges, in the thickness direction of a substrate, the first fluid and the second fluid, a first merged fluid channel in which both fluids merged in the merging portion flow along a top surface of the substrate, a flow direction altering portion that causes the flow direction of the fluid flowing through the first merged fluid channel to change from the top surface side of the substrate towards the back surface side thereof, and a second merged fluid channel for changing the flow direction of this fluid to flow to the downstream side so that the fluid flowing from the first merged fluid channel through the flow direction altering portion flows along the back surface of the substrate. | 06-07-2012 |
20120138266 | HEAT EXCHANGER - Disclosed is a heat exchanger that can more efficiently transfer heat between a heat-exchange fluid and an object with which heat is to be exchanged. A heat exchanger ( | 06-07-2012 |
20120234755 | FLOW CHANNEL STRUCTURE, AND MIXING METHOD, EXTRACTION METHOD, AND REACTION METHOD FOR FLUIDS - To promote mixture of fluids on a plurality of stages, flow channels include a plurality of merging portions which penetrate from a top surface to a back surface of a substrate. An end of each of the sub channels is disposed so as to overlap the main channel at each of positions separated along the direction in which the main channel extends, and each of the merging portions communicates the main channels and the ends of the sub channels with each other, thereby changing a flow direction of the second fluid flowing through the sub channels to the thickness direction of the substrate, and merges the second fluid with the first fluid flowing through the main channels. | 09-20-2012 |
20130118588 | FLUID TREATMENT METHOD - Provided is a fluid treatment method for treating fluid by use of a flow passage structure, comprising the steps of: circulating a mixed fluid formed by mutually-mixed plural types of fluid into a mixed fluid flow passage (mixed fluid circulation step); separating, in a separation space leading to the downstream side of the mixed fluid flow passage, the mixed fluid entered from the mixed fluid flow passage into a light fluid with a small specific gravity and a heavy fluid with a larger specific gravity than that of the light fluid in accordance with the difference in specific gravity, in which the separation space has a cross-sectional shape such that the light fluid and the heavy fluid are mutually separated in accordance with the difference in specific gravity; causing the heavy fluid to flow from the separation space to a heavy flow passage leading to an area where the heavy fluid is collected in the separation space; and causing the light fluid to flow from the separation space to a light flow passage leading to an area where the light fluid is collected in the separation space. | 05-16-2013 |
20130153071 | FLOW PASSAGE STRUCTURE - A flow passage structure having a plurality of flow passageways therein includes a first junction portion for joining a first fluid introduced into a first inlet path and a second fluid introduced into a second inlet path, a first joined fluid flow passage through which a fluid made by joining both the fluids flows, a branch portion for dividing the fluid flowing in the first joined fluid flow passage into two fluids, a first branch path through which one of the two divided fluids flows, and a second branch path through which the other flows, wherein a corresponding diameter of the first branch path and a corresponding diameter of the second branch path in each of the passageways are smaller than a corresponding diameter of the first joined fluid flow passage in the passageway. | 06-20-2013 |
20140020882 | HEAT SINK FOR LED LIGHTING - A heat sink for LED lighting formed of an aluminum material includes: a mounting face part having an LED element mounted on a surface thereof; a first fin part extending in a direction perpendicular to the mounting face part; and a second fin part extending in a direction perpendicular to the mounting face part and extending in a direction intersecting the first fin part. | 01-23-2014 |
20140133262 | LIQUID MIXING METHOD AND DEVICE - Provided is a method of mixing first and second liquids having mutual solubility inside a mixing flow channel formed by a micro flow channel. This method includes: causing the first and second liquids to be joined to each other inside the mixing flow channel; and forming a slug flow, in which mixing subject cells ( | 05-15-2014 |