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Masahito Endo, Musashino-Shi JP
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20090103550 | IP network system - There is provided an IP network system. The IP network system includes: a plurality of relays making up a ring network; a source host for transmitting a packet and connected to the ring network; and a destination host which conducts a packet communication with the source host through the ring network. Each of the relays is operable to transfer received packets containing a transfer direction information to the destination host through a right-handed route of the ring network and through a left-handed route of the ring network, based on the transfer direction information. | 04-23-2009 |
20090105850 | Field control system and field control method - In a field control system in which a plurality of field equipments that are operated in a previously set schedule and constitute a control loop perform a packet communication via a network, there is provided a configurator for collecting measured result packets to which a time stamp of each field equipment is affixed respectively, grasping at least any one of communication times between respective field equipments based on the time stamp, and adjusting operation schedules of respective field equipments in response to the communication times. | 04-23-2009 |
20090287322 | INSTRUMENTATION CONTROL SYSTEM - Disclosed is an instrumentation control system, including: a first field device; and a second field device coupled to the first field device via a fieldbus. The first field device includes: a transmitting buffer to store data to be transmitted; a transmitter; and an inquiry processing section to cause the transmitter to retransmit the data stored in the transmitting buffer to the second field device in response to a request from the second field device. The second field device includes: a receiving buffer to store the data transmitted from the first field device; a checking section to determine whether the data stored in the receiving buffer is normal or not, and to make a data retransmission request to the first field device if the data stored in the receiving buffer is not normal; and a processing unit to perform predetermined processing based on the data which is determined to be normal. | 11-19-2009 |
20090292373 | FIELDBUS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - Disclosed is a fieldbus communication system, comprising: a field device to transmit data; a receiving device to receive the transmitted data; and a data management apparatus which is connectable to a communication system in which the field device and the receiving device are connected to a fieldbus, wherein the receiving device comprises a processing section to perform a transmission request regarding the transmitted data to the data management apparatus, and wherein the data management apparatus comprises: a transmitting/receiving section which is connectable to the fieldbus; a storage section to store the data transmitted from the field device; and a control section to read the stored data corresponding to the transmission request, from the storage section so as to transmit the read data to the receiving device, when the transmission request is received from the receiving device. | 11-26-2009 |
Masahito Fujita, Inuyama JP
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20080206087 | PLAIN BEARING AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A plain bearing is provided which has an Sn-and-Si-rich layer formed of an Al alloy containing Sn and Si, and a base material which does not contain Sn. The Sn-and-Si-rich layer have the sliding surface having an area ratio of Sn phase grains in a range of 6 to 40% and that of Si phase grains in a range of 5 to 25%. | 08-28-2008 |
20080241376 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING COATED BEARING - In the case where rolling printing is used to apply a coating liquid to an inner surface of a half bearing to form a coating layer thereon, the coating layer is formed in uniform thickness. | 10-02-2008 |
20080241515 | SLIDING MEMBER - In a sliding member, a coating layer containing a binder resin and a solid lubricant is formed on a surface of a bearing alloy layer or a base material. A flaky metal is added as a thermally conductive filler to the coating layer. The flaky metals are close to one another, or in contact with one another to form a heat transfer path which transfers heat of the surface of the coating layer to the base material. The thermal conductivity of the coating layer is set to 0.4 W/m·K or more, so that the heat generated on the surface of the coating layer due to rotation of a mating shaft is easily released to a bearing alloy layer | 10-02-2008 |
20120204786 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING COATED BEARING - A transfer roll rotates to have a coating liquid in a coating liquid tank filled in recesses formed on a roll surface thereof and to have a surplus coating liquid scraped off by a doctor blade, and rotates contacting with a coating roll. Thereby, the coating liquid in the recesses of the transfer roll is transferred to the coating roll. Thereafter, while the transfer roll is moved upward, an arm is rotated counterclockwise whereby the coating roll is separated from the transfer roll. The arm is further rotated whereby the coating roll is moved along an inner surface of a half bearing fixed to a jig and the coating roll applies the coating liquid to the inner surface of the half bearing. | 08-16-2012 |
Masahito Fujita, Inuyama-Shi JP
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20090214887 | SLIDING MEMBER - A sliding member comprises an overlay layer that is formed on a copper alloy layer including a second phase composition. The copper alloy layer and the overlay layer have an interface therebetween, and the second phase composition is included in the copper alloy layer except the interface. | 08-27-2009 |
20120174965 | SOLAR POWER GENERATOR - Disclosed is a solar power generator of novel construction. A solar power generator ( | 07-12-2012 |
Masahito Fujitomo, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20100059782 | OPTICAL-SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTRUING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing an optical-semiconductor device, including forming a plurality of first and second electrically conductive members that are disposed separately from each other on a support substrate; providing a base member formed from a light blocking resin between the first and second electrically conductive members; mounting an optical-semiconductor element on the first and/or second electrically conductive member; covering the optical-semiconductor element by a sealing member formed from a translucent resin; and obtaining individual optical-semiconductor devices after removing the support substrate. | 03-11-2010 |
20120007127 | OPTICAL-SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing an optical-semiconductor device, including forming a plurality of first and second electrically conductive members that are disposed separately from each other on a support substrate; providing a base member formed from a light blocking resin between the first and second electrically conductive members; mounting an optical-semiconductor element on the first and/or second electrically conductive member; covering the optical-semiconductor element by a sealing member formed from a translucent resin; and obtaining individual optical-semiconductor devices after removing the support substrate. | 01-12-2012 |
Masahito Furuya, Fuefuki-Shi JP
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20090003644 | ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER - An electroacoustic transducer includes a magnetic circuit unit that forms a magnetic gap, a voice coil inserted into the magnetic gap, and a diaphragm to which the voice coil is connected. The diaphragm has a central portion having an outer peripheral edge and an annular portion disposed underneath the central portion. The annular portion has an outer peripheral edge corresponding to the outer peripheral edge of the central portion, and an inner peripheral edge secured to the magnetic circuit unit. The diaphragm further has a joint portion formed at the outer peripheral edges of the central and annular portions, and the outer peripheral edges are joined together. The voice coil is disposed underneath the central portion of the diaphragm and joined to the joint portion. | 01-01-2009 |
Masahito Goka, Aichi JP
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20090151887 | Casting Method | 06-18-2009 |
Masahito Hamada, Koshi-Shi JP
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20110247659 | FILM REMOVING DEVICE AND FILM REMOVING METHOD - A film removing device includes an approach stage having a flat approach part having a surface substantially flush with the surface of a substrate supported on a support member. The flat approach part faces a first side surface of the substrate at a corner of the substrate where the first side surface and a second side surface of the substrate join. A film removing nozzle spouts a solvent toward a peripheral part of the substrate and sucks a solution while being moved along the second side surface and the approach stage. A gas is spouted into a gap between the flat approach part and the corner of the substrate so that the gas flows through the gap toward the second side surface. | 10-13-2011 |
Masahito Hamada, Kikuchi-Gun JP
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20090263577 | LIQUID PROCESSING APPARATUS AND LIQUID PROCESSING METHOD - In a liquid processing apparatus for forming a coating film on a polygonal substrate by spin coating in an ambient with a descending clean air flow, a spin chuck includes a support plate for substantially horizontally supporting the substrate thereon. Air flow control members are provided on the spin chuck such that the air flow control member being disposed adjacent to a periphery of the polygonal substrate supported on the spin chuck, wherein the air flow control member is not provided near corner portions of the substrate supported on the spin chuck. The liquid processing apparatus may includes an air flow regulation ring which is provided with an air inlet having an opening surrounding an outer periphery of the air flow control member, wherein the air inlet communicates with the exhaust unit. | 10-22-2009 |
20100034969 | COATING AND PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided a coating and processing apparatus including a spin chuck horizontally holding a quadrangular substrate and rotating the substrate in a horizontal plane, a coating solution nozzle for supplying a coating solution to a front surface of the substrate horizontally held by the spin chuck, and a solvent supply mechanism provided in the spin chuck for supplying a solvent to a back surface of the substrate, in which the solvent supplied to the back surface of the substrate is allowed to reach the back surface and side surface of each of corners of the substrate by centrifugal force, thereby removing the coating solution attached. | 02-11-2010 |
Masahito Hirai, Kawasaki-Shi JP
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20090222680 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER STATE THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THE SAME - An electronic apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first instruction information transmitted from an external apparatus, which instructs changing of a power state to a normal energized state, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire second instruction information transmitted from the external apparatus, which instructs changing of the power state to a power saving state, and a power state change unit configured to change the power state from the normal energized state to the power saving state based on an acquisition state of the first instruction information and the second instruction information. | 09-03-2009 |
20130107882 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | 05-02-2013 |
20140365801 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A hop count between a management device and a management target device is calculated, and a notification destination range of an unspecified notification pertaining to a power supply mode is obtained from the management target device. On the basis of the obtained results, it is determined whether or not an unspecified notification pertaining to the power supply mode can be received from the management target device. Furthermore, on the basis of the result of the determination, the management device requests the management target device to register the management device as an individual notification destination. | 12-11-2014 |
20150062626 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A management apparatus comprises: management unit which manages a power control rule for a change of a state of the one or more information processing devices; determination unit which determines whether or not the power control ability of the information processing device matches the power control rule; and setting unit which sets the managed power control rule to the information processing device if it has been determined that the power control ability of the information processing device matches the managed power control rule, and sets a new power control rule that matches the power control ability of the information processing device if it has been determined that the power control ability of the information processing device does not match the managed power control rule. | 03-05-2015 |
Masahito Ikeda, Qingdao City CN
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20090304225 | DOME-SHAPED DIAPHRAGM AND LOUDSPEAKER USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a dome-shaped diaphragm fabricated based on a film base of polyethylene terephthalate resin film. The diaphragm includes a first vibrating part of a dome shape or a flat shape, and a second vibrating part of an annular shape. The second vibrating part includes a peripheral portion of the film base provided around a central portion of the film base. The first vibrating part includes the central portion of the film base, a thermosensitive adhesive resin film, provided on the central portion, and a fiber sheet made of a woven fabric using carbon fiber or an embossed nonwoven fabric. The fiber sheet is layered over the central portion with the thermosensitive adhesive resin film interposed therebetween. | 12-10-2009 |
Masahito Imai, Chita-Shi JP
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20090014820 | Semiconductor mechanical sensor - A semiconductor mechanical sensor having a new structure in which a S/N ratio is improved. In the central portion of a silicon substrate | 01-15-2009 |
Masahito Imamura, Aichi JP
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20090176055 | Formable Laid Interior Decoration Material For Automobile - A formable laid interior decoration material ( | 07-09-2009 |
Masahito Ishihara, Fuchu-Shi JP
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20090059462 | Electrostatic chuck device - An electrostatic chuck device provided with a dielectric plate with a surface embossed to give it a plurality of projections, an electrode, and an external power source, wherein substrate supporting surfaces of the plurality of projections are covered by conductor wiring and the conductor wiring electrically connects the substrate supporting surfaces of the plurality of projections. At the time of substrate processing, when the embossed projections contact the back of the substrate, the back of the substrate and the conductor wiring is made the same in potential due to the migration of the charges, the generation of force between the back of the substrate and the conductor wiring being in contact with the same is prevented, and a rubbing state between the two is prevented. Due to this, the electrostatic chuck device reduces the generation of particles, easily and stably removes and conveys substrates, and realizes a high yield and system operating rate. | 03-05-2009 |
20090122459 | Electrostatic chuck device - An electrostatic chuck device provided with a dielectric plate with a surface embossed to give it a plurality of projections, an electrode, and an external power source, wherein substrate supporting surfaces of the plurality of projections are covered by conductor wiring and the conductor wiring electrically connects the substrate supporting surfaces of the plurality of projections. At the time of substrate processing, when the embossed projections contact the back of the substrate, the back of the substrate and the conductor wiring is made the same in potential due to the migration of the charges, the generation of force between the back of the substrate and the conductor wiring being in contact with the same is prevented, and a rubbing state between the two is prevented. Due to this, the electrostatic chuck device reduces the generation of particles, easily and stably removes and conveys substrates, and realizes a high yield and system operating rate. | 05-14-2009 |
20100046134 | Electrostatic chuck device - An electrostatic chuck device provided with a dielectric plate with a surface embossed to give it a plurality of projections, an electrode, and an external power source, wherein substrate supporting surfaces of the plurality of projections are covered by conductor wiring and the conductor wiring electrically connects the substrate supporting surfaces of the plurality of projections. At the time of substrate processing, when the embossed projections contact the back of the substrate, the back of the substrate and the conductor wiring is made the same in potential due to the migration of the charges, the generation of force between the back of the substrate and the conductor wiring being in contact with the same is prevented, and a rubbing state between the two is prevented. Due to this, the electrostatic chuck device reduces the generation of particles, easily and stably removes and conveys substrates, and realizes a high yield and system operating rate. | 02-25-2010 |
Masahito Ito, Hitaohinaka JP
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20090090173 | LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY ANALYSIS METHOD - An object of the present invention is to improve the accuracy in analysis repeatability of a liquid chromatography apparatus that feeds different eluent by use of a plurality of pumps and achieves the mixture of eluent. | 04-09-2009 |
Masahito Kakema, Wako-Shi JP
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20110260572 | MOTOR STATOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MOTOR STATOR - A motor stator ( | 10-27-2011 |
Masahito Kakema, Tochigi-Ken JP
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20110114781 | WIRE WINDING DEVICE - A wire winding device which uses a large-sized supply bobbin, which has a large capacity and a large diameter, to highly precisely suppress a variation in tension which variation occurs when a coil is formed by winding a wire material at high speed with the wire material aligned with a winding frame. Rotation (the number of rotation, and timing) of the supply bobbin relative to rotation of the coil is controlled based on the difference between the amount of take-up of the wire material taken up on the winding frame side and the amount of pay-out of the wire material paid out from the supply bobbin, and the control is performed such that the amount of the take-up and the amount of the pay-out agree with each other every moment. This can highly precisely suppress a variation in tension even if there are large differences between inertia of and the diameters of the coil and the supply bobbin. | 05-19-2011 |
Masahito Kaneko, Hiroshima-Ken JP
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20100212523 | PRINTED ITEM CONTACT MEMBER AND MEMBER FOR PRINTING APPARATUS - A printed item contact member | 08-26-2010 |
Masahito Kanekuro, Wako-Shi JP
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20090266463 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - This invention provides a pneumatic tire (T) including: a tacky sealant layer ( | 10-29-2009 |
Masahito Kataka, Ashigarakami-Gun JP
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20100085396 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - Inkjet apparatus includes: a tank; a first flow channel; a first liquid chamber; a second flow channel; a second liquid chamber; a first liquid movement; a second liquid movement device; a first pressure determination device; a second pressure determination device; a pressure control device which controls pressures in the first and second liquid chambers by respectively controlling the first and second liquid movement devices, in accordance with determination results of the first and second pressure determination devices, in such a manner that the internal pressures of the first and second liquid chambers respectively remain at the target pressures; a circulation path through which the liquid inside the first liquid chamber is circulated without passing through the inkjet head; and a deaeration device which is provided at an intermediate point of the circulation path and which removes dissolved gas. | 04-08-2010 |
Masahito Kataoka, Takasago-Shi JP
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20100303608 | Two-shaft gas turbine - A two-shaft gas turbine includes a high-pressure turbine having an annular gas-passage outlet, a low-pressure turbine having an annular gas-passage inlet, an annular intermediate duct that connects the gas-passage outlet to the gas-passage inlet, a bearing that supports a rotor of the high-pressure turbine and that is attached to a bearing case, and a plurality of struts that support the bearing case. The struts are arranged radially along the circumference of the bearing case so as to extend though the intermediate duct in a space between an outer peripheral surface of the bearing case and an inner peripheral surface of a casing wall that surrounds the intermediate duct. The intermediate duct has strut covers through which the struts extend and which function as first-stage stator blades for the low-pressure turbine. | 12-02-2010 |
Masahito Kato, Tokyo JP
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20080272060 | Method and Device for Cleaning Circulation Water - The object of the invention is to provide a method for cleaning circulation water, which reduces the cost of operation and maintenance as much as possible, without a cumbersome cleaning operation such as by detaching electrode plates from an electrolysis cleaning tank and removing scale from inside the tank, and to provide a device used in this method. Accordingly, the present invention provides a method for cleaning circulation water, comprising the steps of flowing circulation water to be cleaned between electrode plates placed in a face-to-face manner between one another; and applying DC voltage between the electrode plates, allowing one or more metal ions contained in the circulation water to be precipitated onto the negative electrode plates by electrolysis, to clean the circulation water, wherein the electrode plates used are made of titanium plates, and wherein a desired amount of current flows, while an anodized oxide coating formed on the surface of the positive electrode plates is compulsively subject to dielectric breakdown by increasing the voltage applied to the anodized oxide coating. FIG. | 11-06-2008 |
Masahito Kato, Chiyoda-Ku JP
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20110120887 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CLEANING CIRCULATION WATER - The object of the invention is to provide a method for cleaning circulation water, which reduces the cost of operation and maintenance as much as possible, without a cumbersome cleaning operation such as by detaching electrode plates from an electrolysis cleaning tank and removing scale from inside the tank, and to provide a device used in this method. Accordingly, the present invention provides a method for cleaning circulation water, comprising the steps of flowing circulation water to be cleaned between electrode plates placed in a face-to-face manner between one another; and applying DC voltage between the electrode plates, allowing one or more metal ions contained in the circulation water to be precipitated onto the negative electrode plates by electrolysis, to clean the circulation water, wherein the electrode plates used are made of titanium plates, and wherein a desired amount of current flows, while an anodized oxide coating formed on the surface of the positive electrode plates is compulsively subject to dielectric breakdown by increasing the voltage applied to the anodized oxide coating. FIG. | 05-26-2011 |
Masahito Kato, Suntou-Gun JP
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20100046987 | CHARGING MEMBER, CHARGING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - The present invention provides a charging member, a charging device, an image forming apparatus, and a process cartridge that minimize local unevenness in potential of a charged object resulting from soiling of the charging member with soiling microparticles or soiling aggregates, that do not cause image failure such as unevenness in image density and scumming, and that output good images through the life of the charging member. The charging member charges a surface of the object by receiving a voltage while being in contact with the object, and satisfies the condition that Rzjis≦30 and Rsk≦0, where Rzjis represents the ten-point average roughness of a surface of the charging member in contact with the object and Rsk represents the skewness of a roughness curve. | 02-25-2010 |
20110008064 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable drum; a charging roller, contacting the drum, for electrically charging the drum; a developing device for developing a latent image formed on the drum into a developer image; and a cleaning device for removing a developer remaining on the drum after the developer image is transferred from the drum onto a developer image receiving member. The cleaning device includes a cleaning blade contacting the drum and having a fixed end and a free end which is located upstream of the fixed end with respect to a rotational direction of the drum. The image forming apparatus further includes a control device for controlling a rotating operation of the drum. The control device is capable of performing an operation for rotating the drum, in a direction identical to the rotational direction of the drum during image formation effected by rotating the drum, after a lapse, without next instruction of image formation, of a predetermined period from a stop of rotation of the drum once made after completion of the image formation. The predetermined period is longer with a larger number of sheets subjected to the image formation in an image forming job before the rotation of the drum is stopped. | 01-13-2011 |
20110217059 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing a developer image; a developing device including a developer carrying member for forming the developer image on the image bearing member; a fixing device for fixing the developer image on a sheet material, on which the developer image has been transferred, by heating the sheet material; a memory medium for storing an operation hysteresis value, of the developing device, which varies depending on a state of an operation of the developing device from start of the operation; and a controller for controlling a temperature of the fixing device. The controller controls, when the operation hysteresis value stored in the memory medium reaches a preset threshold, the temperature of the fixing device so as to be lower than that before the operation hysteresis value reaches the preset threshold. | 09-08-2011 |
20130017007 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable drum; a developing device for developing a latent image formed on the drum into a developer image; and a cleaning blade for removing developer remaining on the drum after the developer image is transferred from the drum onto a developer image receiving member. After image formation, a predetermined amount of strain of the cleaning blade is released and the drum is subsequently rotated. The drum is subsequently rotated in a direction identical to a rotation direction of the drum during image formation. | 01-17-2013 |
Masahito Kitamura, Toyama-Shi JP
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20110008955 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including alternately repeating a process of forming a first metal oxide film including a first metal element and a process of forming a second metal oxide film including a second metal element on a substrate accommodated in a processing chamber, so as to form a third metal oxide film including the first and second metal elements with a predetermined composition ratio on the substrate. One of the first and second metal elements of the third metal oxide film has a concentration higher than a concentration of the other, and one of the first and second metal oxide films including the higher-concentration metal element is formed in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) mode or an atomic layer deposition (ALD) saturation mode, and the other of the first and second metal oxide films is formed in an ALD unsaturation mode. | 01-13-2011 |
Masahito Kobayashi, Ushiku-Shi JP
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20110188149 | SERVO PATTERNING COMPATIBLE WITH PLANARIZATION OF PATTERNED MAGNETIC DISKS - Embodiments herein illustrate patterned servo data that allows the patterned disk to be planarized with a relatively simple planarization process. A magnetic disk, in this regard, includes a data region having a plurality of tracks. The magnetic disk also includes a plurality of servo bursts patterned in the magnetic disk at a plurality of locations in each track. The servo bursts are operable to direct a controller to center a write head over a track in the data region and write a track identification. The servo bursts include magnetic lands and nonmagnetic grooves. The magnetic lands of the servo burst are generally configured with a uniform polarity of magnetization and a first uniform width. The nonmagnetic grooves are configured with a second uniform width. | 08-04-2011 |
20130010382 | PATTERNED MEDIA WITH AN ALTERNATING SERIES OF CONCENTRIC SERVO ZONES AND OVERLAP ZONES - Embodiments described herein provide for patterned media concentric zones with an alternating series of concentric servo zones and overlap zones. The overlap zones facilitate the writing of servo data between servo zones of different servo frequency. The overlap zones may be dual frequency zones. The dual frequency zones have a first set of overlap patterns with the substantially identical pattern as the bordering lower frequency servo zone and a second set of overlap patterns with the substantially identical pattern as the bordering higher frequency servo zone. A bootstrap zone can be included near the inner diameter to assist initial servo writing. Alternatively the overlap zones are bootstrap zones. Such bootstrap zones have both bootstrap patterns and overlap patterns, the overlap patterns have the substantially identical pattern as a bordering servo zone. Bootstrap patterns only require DC magnetization for servo operability. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010383 | PATTERNED MEDIA WITH AN ALTERNATING SERIES OF CONCENTRIC SERVO ZONES AND OVERLAP ZONES - Embodiments described herein provide for patterned media concentric zones with an alternating series of concentric servo zones and overlap zones. The overlap zones facilitate the writing of servo data between servo zones of different servo frequency. The overlap zones may be dual frequency zones. The dual frequency zones have a first set of overlap patterns with the substantially identical pattern as the bordering lower frequency servo zone and a second set of overlap patterns with the substantially identical pattern as the bordering higher frequency servo zone. A bootstrap zone can be included near the inner diameter to assist initial servo writing. Alternatively the overlap zones are bootstrap zones. Such bootstrap zones have both bootstrap patterns and overlap patterns, the overlap patterns have the substantially identical pattern as a bordering servo zone. Bootstrap patterns only require DC magnetization for servo operability. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010384 | SERVO PATTERN COMPATIBLE WITH PLANARIZATION CONSTRAINTS OF PATTERNED MEDIA AND USE OF A SINGLE MASTER TEMPLATE - Embodiments described herein provide for robust servo patterns that comply with planarization constraints and also allow use of a single master template for manufacture of both the front and back of a magnetic disk. Planarization constraints are met because only a portion of servo data is hard patterned on the magnetic disk and the hard patterned servo data areas comply with planarization constraints. The servo pattern has two symmetrical servo write assist patterns, one on each side of a central burst pattern. The servo sync, SAM, track-ID, sector-ID, and/or RRO values can be written magnetically by the write head onto these servo write assist patterns after the completion of the planarization process. The symmetric design of the servo pattern allows both a left-to-right and a right-to-left servo write and read back, thereby enabling use of a single master template in magnetic disk manufacture. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010385 | SERVO PATTERN COMPATIBLE WITH PLANARIZATION CONSTRAINTS OF PATTERNED MEDIA AND USE OF A SINGLE MASTER TEMPLATE - Embodiments described herein provide for robust servo patterns that comply with planarization constraints and also allow use of a single master template for manufacture of both the front and back of a magnetic disk. Planarization constraints are met because only a portion of servo data is hard patterned on the magnetic disk and the hard patterned servo data areas comply with planarization constraints. The servo pattern has two symmetrical servo write assist patterns, one on each side of a central burst pattern. The servo sync, SAM, track-ID, sector-ID, and/or RRO values can be written magnetically by the write head onto these servo write assist patterns after the completion of the planarization process. The symmetric design of the servo pattern allows both a left-to-right and a right-to-left servo write and read back, thereby enabling use of a single master template in magnetic disk manufacture. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010388 | PATTERNED MEDIA WITH AN ALTERNATING SERIES OF CONCENTRIC SERVO ZONES AND OVERLAP ZONES - Embodiments described herein provide for patterned media concentric zones with an alternating series of concentric servo zones and overlap zones. The overlap zones facilitate the writing of servo data between servo zones of different servo frequency. The overlap zones may be dual frequency zones. The dual frequency zones have a first set of overlap patterns with the substantially identical pattern as the bordering lower frequency servo zone and a second set of overlap patterns with the substantially identical pattern as the bordering higher frequency servo zone. A bootstrap zone can be included near the inner diameter to assist initial servo writing. Alternatively the overlap zones are bootstrap zones. Such bootstrap zones have both bootstrap patterns and overlap patterns, the overlap patterns have the substantially identical pattern as a bordering servo zone. Bootstrap patterns only require DC magnetization for servo operability. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010389 | PATTERNED MEDIA WITH AN ALTERNATING SERIES OF CONCENTRIC SERVO ZONES AND OVERLAP ZONES - Embodiments described herein provide for patterned media concentric zones with an alternating series of concentric servo zones and overlap zones. The overlap zones facilitate the writing of servo data between servo zones of different servo frequency. The overlap zones may be dual frequency zones. The dual frequency zones have a first set of overlap patterns with the substantially identical pattern as the bordering lower frequency servo zone and a second set of overlap patterns with the substantially identical pattern as the bordering higher frequency servo zone. A bootstrap zone can be included near the inner diameter to assist initial servo writing. Alternatively the overlap zones are bootstrap zones. Such bootstrap zones have both bootstrap patterns and overlap patterns, the overlap patterns have the substantially identical pattern as a bordering servo zone. Bootstrap patterns only require DC magnetization for servo operability. | 01-10-2013 |
Masahito Kochiwa, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20110054670 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD - A sheet processing machine transmits information indicating a degree of contamination or damage for each sheet detected by a discrimination unit to a teller PC as a discrimination result. The teller PC saves the discrimination result received from the sheet processing machine in a data storage unit. A CPU of the teller PC decides reference levels that can attain good bill ratio designated by the user for respective items required to discriminate good/bad states of a sheet based on the previous discrimination results saved in the data storage unit. The CPU of the teller PC sets the reference levels that can attain the good bill ratio designated by the user in the discrimination unit of the sheet processing machine. The discrimination unit set with such reference levels discriminates good/bad states of sheets based on the reference levels set by the teller PC. | 03-03-2011 |
Masahito Kogame, Kyoto-Shi JP
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20120034066 | VACUUM PUMP - A vacuum pump includes: a pump main body; a control unit which drives and controls the pump main body; a connector device including a first connector member on the pump main body side and a second connector member on the control unit side, at least one of power and a control signal being input and output between the pump main body and the control unit; and a connector attachment member attached to the pump main body coaxially with the pump shaft center between the pump main body and the control unit, the first connector member being attached to the connector attachment member. The connector attachment member is attached to the pump main body at one of a first phase of attachment and a second phase of attachment depending on a phase of attachment of the pump main body and the control unit. | 02-09-2012 |
20120219400 | VACUUM PUMP - A turbomolecular pump includes a drag pump unit constituted with a rotational cylinder portion disposed at a rotor and a fixed cylinder ( | 08-30-2012 |
Masahito Kojima, Kariya-Shi JP
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20110223868 | PORTABLE EQUIPMENT DETECTING SYSTEM - A portable equipment detecting system includes an antenna having a first element of which a longitudinal direction is defined as a running direction of the vehicle, a second element of which longitudinal direction is defined as a direction perpendicular to the running direction of the vehicle and the vertical direction of the vehicle, and a bypass wiring of which one end is connected to a connection point between the first and second elements; and detecting circuit adapted to switch between three power-supplied states of the antenna including a first supplied state, a second supplied state and a third supplied state, and to detect a location of the portable equipment based on an acknowledge signal from the portable equipment when the power-supplied state is switched. | 09-15-2011 |
Masahito Kudo, Toyota-Shi JP
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20100139606 | BAFFLE PLATE - A baffle plate includes a discharge portion that discharges lubricating oil that has dropped onto the baffle plate, to an oil pan. The discharge portion extends to be inclined in a direction in which cylinders are arranged, with respect to a rotation central axis of a crankshaft. The discharge portion includes a guide groove in which an upstream portion in a rotational direction of the crankshaft is located under a counter weight, and a downstream portion in the rotational direction of the crankshaft is located under a crank bearing. The discharge portion includes a discharge hole that is formed in the downstream portion of the guide groove in the rotational direction, and that provides communication between the oil pan and an engine block. | 06-10-2010 |
20130218432 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE CONTROL DEVICE - An internal combustion engine is provided with a ratchet one-way clutch between an output shaft of a starting motor and a crankshaft. The one-way clutch includes a claw piece which rotates integrally with the crankshaft, and an engagement part which rotates integrally with the starting motor and with which the claw piece engages. An electronic control device performs control for driving the starting motor when the engine is stopped to reduce the difference between the rotation speed of the engine and the rotation speed of the starting motor, that is, the difference between the rotation speed of the claw piece and the rotation speed of the engagement part. | 08-22-2013 |
Masahito Mizune, Tottori JP
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20110182412 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device is provided in which, in case of a power failure caused by an earthquake, a slave unit can be used as an illumination device, which includes a high-visibility display portion, in which notification lamps to be lit or blinked can be selected by a user, and in which the color of an incoming lamp that is lit at the time of normal reception can be prevented from being similar to that at the time of reception of the earthquake early warning. When a predicted period up to the arrival of a primary shock is calculated, the lighting and extinguishing of backlights arranged behind a group of operation buttons is controlled, and any of digits from 0 to 9 is displayed on an input portion. The colors of the lit backlights are changed according to the value of a predicted seismic intensity, and the predicted period is displayed. The color of the incoming lamp lit when the earthquake early warning is received cannot be set at the color of the incoming lamp lit when normal reception is performed. The user can select the incoming lamps to be lit or blinked. | 07-28-2011 |
Masahito Mori, Tokorozawa-Shi JP
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20100258529 | Plasma Processing Apparatus and Plasma Processing Method - The invention provides a plasma processing apparatus comprising a means for detecting the apparatus condition related to the ion flux quantity of plasma (plasma density) and the distribution thereof for to stabilizing mass production and minimizing apparatus differences. The plasma processing apparatus comprises a vacuum reactor | 10-14-2010 |
20110297533 | PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD AND PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - The invention provides a plasma processing apparatus and a dry etching method for etching a multilayered film structure having steps with high accuracy. The plasma processing apparatus comprises a vacuum reactor | 12-08-2011 |
20140116621 | PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD AND PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - The invention provides a plasma processing apparatus and a dry etching method for etching a multilayered film structure having steps with high accuracy. The plasma processing apparatus comprises a vacuum reactor | 05-01-2014 |
Masahito Mori, Kudamatsu JP
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20110253672 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention is intended to improve the uniformity in a distribution function of incident ion energy inside a wafer surface, and realize uniform plasma processing (etching or the like) inside the wafer surface. In a plasma processing apparatus, a bias application portion of a placement electrode on which a wafer is placed is divided into an inner electrode and an outer electrode at positions near the center of the wafer and the edge thereof. Each of a first bias power and a second bias power to be used to accelerate ions incident on the wafer is bifurcated, and the resultant bias powers are fed to the inner electrode and outer electrode using a power distributor by adjusting the power ratio. | 10-20-2011 |
20130228550 | DRY ETCHING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided dry etching apparatus including a stage on which a wafer is placed, an antenna electrode, a high frequency power supply, a shower plate, and an RF bias power supply. Further, a bias path controller is provided on the side of the antenna electrode. The bias path controller resonates in series with the static reactance formed by the shower plate with respect to the frequency of the RF bias. Then, the bias path controller changes and grounds the impedance by the variable inductive reactance. With this mechanism, highly uniform etching can be achieved even if a shower plate of quartz is used for corrosive gases. | 09-05-2013 |
Masahito Naito, Sagamihara-Shi JP
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20100197152 | SOCKET FOR CONNECTING BALL-GRID-ARRAY INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE TO TEST CIRCUIT - A simple structure socket | 08-05-2010 |
Masahito Nakamura, Miyagi-Ken JP
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20100003917 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system according to the present invention includes a transmitter for applying a transmission signal to a human body as an electric field, and a receiver for receiving the transmission signal by detecting the electric field via the human body. The receiver includes a reception electrode which faces the human body, a resonance circuit formed of a resonance inductor and a resonance capacitor, and a coupling capacitor for capacitively coupling the reception electrode and the resonance circuit. | 01-07-2010 |
20110021141 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC-FIELD COMMUNICATION - Provided is an electronic device for electric-field communication which is not easily affected by static electricity when electrostatically charged and is capable of maintaining sufficient performance. The electronic device for electric-field communication of the invention is an electronic device used as a transmitter | 01-27-2011 |
Masahito Nakamura, Niigata-Ken JP
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20110021148 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device for communicating with an external device using a human body as a signal transmission path, includes an electric field strength measuring unit configured to measure a noise level from a detected received electric field strength at the time of no signal after the received electric field strength is detected by the communication device when a transmission signal to be output to the external device is absent, a transmission output determination unit configured to determine an output level of the transmission signal to be transmitted to the external device on the basis of the measured noise level, and an output execution unit configured to output a transmission signal of the determined output level to the external device. | 01-27-2011 |
Masahito Nakanishi, Kirishima-Shi JP
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20100260972 | Protective Member and Protective Body Using the Same - This invention provides a protective member comprising a ceramic body comprising a plurality of first phases ( | 10-14-2010 |
Masahito Nakanishi, Kagoshima JP
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20080227618 | BORON CARBIDE SINTERED BODY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND PROTECTIVE BODY - A boron carbide sintered body having a plurality of pores, comprises a boron carbide as a main component and a plurality of graphite particles dispersed in the sinter. The graphite particles is exposed to the pores or is in the vicinity of the pores. | 09-18-2008 |
Masahito Nitta, Kanagawa JP
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20110069411 | HEAD SERVO CONTROL SYSTEM AND HEAD SERVO CONTROL METHOD - A servo control system configured to position a head in accordance with position error signals between servo data on a disk read by the head in a servo sampling cycle and a target position. The system includes a plurality of adaptive peak filters connected in parallel configured to filter the position error signals and configured to change filter coefficients adaptively, and an estimator configured to estimate head vibration caused by disturbances using the servo data read by the head. The system further includes a selector configured to select a portion of the plurality of adaptive peak filters at preset occasions, and a setter configured to update coefficient settings of the portion of the adaptive peak filters selected by the selector in accordance with an estimation by the estimator. | 03-24-2011 |
Masahito Numanami, Tokyo JP
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20080287090 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - The present invention is to provide a technique which optimizes a gate resistor of a bias circuit to thereby make it possible to greatly improve a distortion characteristic of a power amplifier. A bias circuit used as for biasing the gate of a final-stage power transistor is included in a power amplifier provided in a communication mobile system. In the bias circuit, an inductance and a resistor are series-connected between a power supply voltage and the gate of the power transistor. The resistance value of the resistor is set to approximately the same order as an input impedance of the power transistor. When the input impedance of the power transistor is about 10Ω or so, for example, the resistor is set to about a few Ω to about 100Ω. Thus, the gain of the power transistor at a low-frequency band can greatly be suppressed. | 11-20-2008 |
Masahito Ohashi, Kurashiki-Shi JP
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20110102639 | Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus equipped with same - A zoom optical system having a lens group I including two single lenses or one lens component, an aperture stop, and a lens group A disposed between the lens group I and the aperture stop, including a lens component made up of a positive lens LA and a negative lens LB that are cemented together, and having a negative refracting power as a whole. The distance between the lens group I and the lens group A on the optical axis changes for zooming, and the lens component has an aspheric cemented surface. When the shape of the aspheric surface is expressed by a certain equation, the shape of the air-contact surface of the positive lens LA and its aspheric components etc. satisfy conditional expressions (3a) and (3b). | 05-05-2011 |
Masahito Ohashi, Tokyo-To JP
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20090153979 | Zoom lens and electronic imaging apparatus using the same - A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, a first lens unit with negative power, a second lens unit with positive power, a third lens unit with positive power, and a fourth lens unit. When the magnification of the zoom lens is changed in the range from a wide-angle position to a telephoto position, spacing between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is narrowed and spacing between the second lens unit and the third lens unit is widened. An aperture stop moved integrally with the second lens unit is interposed between the most image-side lens element of the first lens unit and the most image-side lens element of the second lens unit. The first lens unit has, in order from the object side, a negative lens element and a positive lens element and satisfies the following conditions: | 06-18-2009 |
Masahito Ohkido, Okayama JP
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20090306306 | THERMOSETTING POLYIMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION AND CURED PRODUCT THEREOF - Disclosed is a highly heat-resistant thermosetting polyimide resin composition having long pot life, which enables to obtain a cured product having flexibility and adhesiveness. The thermosetting polyimide resin composition can be obtained through the following steps (1)-(3). Step (1): A step wherein a polyimide (A) is synthesized by a thermal reaction by blending a tetracarboxylic acid component, which is composed of a tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride represented by the formula (1) and one or more compounds selected from tetracarboxylic acids represented by the formula (2) and derivatives of such tetracarboxylic acids, with an aliphatic diamine represented by the formula (3) in such a ratio that the mole number of the tetracarboxylic acid component is higher than the mole number of the aliphatic diamine. Step (2): A step wherein a polyimide (B) is synthesized by a thermal reaction by blending the polyimide (A) obtained in the step (1) with an aromatic diamine represented by the formula (4). Step (3): A step wherein the polyimide (B) obtained in the step (2) is blended and mixed with a bismaleimide compound represented by the formula (5). | 12-10-2009 |
Masahito Ohkido, Kanagawa JP
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20100029893 | TWO-PART THERMOCURABLE POLYIMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION AND CURED PRODUCT THEREOF - It relates to a highly heat resistant thermosetting polyimide resin composition that is cured at a temperature of 150° C. or less, and provides a cured product that generates a less amount of decomposed gas even under heating to 250° C., and has flexibility and adhesiveness. | 02-04-2010 |
Masahito Okada, Nagano JP
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20090289622 | Angle Detector - It is an object of the present invention to obtain an ultrathin angle detector by disposing an annular rotor board face to face with stator windings of a plurality of stators provided on an annular stator board. An angle detector according to the present invention is constructed by providing magnetic cores and the stator windings on the respective stators provided on a surface of the annular stator board via slots, and disposing a corrugated curved surface formed on a board inner surface of the annular rotor board face to face with the stators so as to obtain an angular signal that changes according to a sinusoidal waveform. | 11-26-2009 |
20110285386 | ANGLE DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An angle detection system of the present invention includes: a stator | 11-24-2011 |
Masahito Ozaki, Toyota-Shi JP
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20090108674 | Power Supply Control Device and Method of Detecting Abnormality of Relay - When an ignition key is turn ON, an ECU drives a bidirectional DC/DC converter to charge a capacitor to a voltage Vth | 04-30-2009 |
Masahito Ozawa, Nirasaki City JP
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20110142579 | TRANSFER DEVICE AND TARGET OBJECT PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A transfer device includes a first transfer mechanism including a first shaft which is rotatable and vertically arranged and a horizontally extensible and retractable first arm having at a leading end thereof a first pick for holding a processing target object, the first arm being attached to the first shaft; and a second transfer mechanism including a second shaft which is rotatable and vertically arranged and a horizontally extensible and retractable second arm having at a leading end thereof a second pick for holding a processing target object, the second arm being attached to the second shaft. The first and the second transfer mechanism are vertically separated from each other while a rotation center of the first shaft and a rotation center of the second shaft coincide with each other. | 06-16-2011 |
20130180448 | SUBSTRATE TRANSFER DEVICE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM - A substrate transfer device includes a pick which has positioning pins to position a substrate and holds a positioned substrate; a drive unit which drives the pick such that the substrate is loaded/unloaded to/from a vacuum processing unit by using a pick; and a transfer control unit which controls a transfer operation of the substrate using the pick. The transfer control unit obtains in advance information on a reference position of the substrate at room temperature when the substrate is loaded into the vacuum processing unit, calculates a positional deviation from the reference position of the substrate when the substrate is loaded into the vacuum processing unit in actual processing, and controls a drive unit such that the substrate is loaded into the vacuum processing unit by correcting the positional deviation. | 07-18-2013 |
Masahito Saito, Tokyo JP
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20100139775 | FLOW RATE RANGE VARIABLE TYPE FLOW RATE CONTROL APPARATUS - A pressure type flow control device enabling a reduction in size and an installation cost by accurately controlling the flow of a fluid in a wide flow range. Specifically, the flow of the fluid flowing in an orifice ( | 06-10-2010 |
20130220451 | FLOW RATE RANGE VARIABLE TYPE FLOW RATE CONTROL APPARATUS - A pressure type flow rate control apparatus is provided wherein flow rate of fluid passing through an orifice is computed as Qc=KP | 08-29-2013 |
Masahito Sakai, Tokyo JP
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20100265837 | TERMINAL DEVICE AND FEEDBACK METHOD - A terminal device is provided for solving the problem of large overhead expended in the PMI calculation process. A reception quality measurement unit ( | 10-21-2010 |
20100317384 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS BASE STATION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION OF COMMON PILOT SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - In a wireless communication system that includes wireless base station ( | 12-16-2010 |
20110228835 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR APPROXIMATION IN FEEDBACK INFORMATION CALCULATION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a communication apparatus which calculates a CQI indicating reception quality of a reception signal in a receiver and feeds back the CQI to a transmitter, the CQI containing information obtained by averaging SNRs of a plurality of subbands, which are generated by dividing a reception band into a predetermined number, in the reception band, the communication apparatus including a CQI/PMI/RI estimation unit directly uses an initial value in a predetermined approximation method as an approximation calculation result obtained by the predetermined approximation method to thereby simplify the calculation, when the predetermined approximation method is used for calculation in the averaging in place of root calculation and when values of the SNRs are high. | 09-22-2011 |
20110310946 | RANK ESTIMATION DEVICE, RECEIVER, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RANK ESTIMATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - A rank estimation device in which a load on a rank estimation process can be reduced is provided. | 12-22-2011 |
20130294274 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS BASE STATION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION OF COMMON PILOT SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - In a wireless communication system that includes wireless base station ( | 11-07-2013 |
Masahito Saruban, Fukui-Shi JP
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20100302704 | LAMINATED ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A method for manufacturing a laminated electronic component includes the steps of preparing a component main body having a laminated structure, the component main body including a plurality of internal electrodes formed therein, and each of the internal electrodes being partially exposed on an external surface of the component main body, and forming an external terminal electrode on the external surface of the component main body such that the external terminal electrode is electrically connected to the internal electrodes. The step of forming the external terminal electrode includes the steps of forming a metal layer on exposed surfaces of the internal electrodes of the component main body, applying a water repellant on at least a surface of the metal layer and on a section of the external surface of the component main body at which an end edge of the metal layer is located, and then forming a conductive resin layer on the metal layer having the water repellant applied thereon. | 12-02-2010 |
20100328843 | LAMINATED CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - In a method for manufacturing a laminated ceramic electronic component, after a plating layer for an external terminal electrode is formed by applying copper plating to an end surface of a component main body at which respective ends of a plurality of internal electrodes primarily including nickel are exposed, when a heat treatment at a temperature of about 800° C. or more is applied in order to improve adhesion strength and resistance to moisture of the external terminal electrode, voids may occur in the plating layer. The step of applying a heat treatment at a temperature of about 800° C. or more to a component main body with plating layers formed thereon includes not only a step of maintaining a top temperature of about 1000° C. or more but also a step of maintaining a temperature of about 600° C. to 900° C. at least once before the step of maintaining the top temperature. These steps preliminarily diffuse copper included in the plating layers, which has a relatively high diffusion velocity, into the internal electrodes primarily including nickel, thereby reducing a difference in diffusion velocity between copper and nickel at the top temperature, which causes the occurrence of voids. | 12-30-2010 |
Masahito Saruban, Nagaokakyo-Shi JP
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20110193448 | LAMINATED ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A method for manufacturing a laminated electronic component in which, when first plating layers that respectively connect a plurality of internal electrodes to each other and second plating layers that improves the mountability of a laminated electronic component are formed as external terminal electrodes, the entire component main body is treated with a water repellent agent after the formation of the first plating layers, and the water repellent agent on the first plating layers is then removed before the formation of the second plating layers. The gaps between the end edges of the first plating films on the outer surface of the component main body and the outer surface of the component main body are filled with the water repellent agent. | 08-11-2011 |
20110235232 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - An electronic component includes a laminate including a plurality of insulating layers that are laminated on each other. A capacitor conductor is embedded in the laminate and includes an exposed portion exposed between the insulating layers at a predetermined surface of the laminate. An external electrode is provided on the predetermined surface by direct plating so as to cover the exposed portion. An outer edge of the external electrode is spaced away from the exposed portion by about 0.8 μm or more. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235234 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A laminate includes ceramic layers laminated to each other. Internal conductors are embedded in the laminate and include exposed portions that are exposed between the ceramic layers at a lower surface and an upper surface of the laminate. External electrodes are directly plated on the lower surface and the upper surface so as to cover the respective exposed portions. Regions of the lower surface at which the exposed portions are provided are arranged to protrude from the other regions of the lower surface, and regions of the upper surface at which the exposed portions are provided are arranged to protrude from the other regions of the upper surface. | 09-29-2011 |
20110309718 | CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - When an external terminal electrode of a ceramic electronic component such as a laminated ceramic capacitor is formed by plating, plating growth may be also caused even in an undesired location. The ceramic surface provided by a component main body is configured to include a high plating growth region of, for example, a barium titanate based ceramic, which exhibits relatively high plating growth, and a low plating growth region of, for example, a calcium zirconate based ceramic, which exhibits relatively low plating growth. The plating film constituting a first layer to define a base for an external terminal electrode is formed in such a way that the growth of a plated deposit deposited with conductive surfaces provided by exposed ends of internal electrodes as starting points is limited so as not to cross over a boundary between the high plating growth region and the low plating growth region toward the low plating growth region. | 12-22-2011 |
20120039015 | LAMINATE TYPE CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - In a laminate type ceramic electronic component, when an external electrode is formed directly by plating onto a surface of a component main body, the plating film that is to serve as the external electrode may have a low fixing strength with respect to the component main body. In order to prevent this problem, an external electrode includes a first plating layer composed of a Ni—B plating film and is first formed such that a plating deposition deposited with the exposed ends of respective internal electrodes as starting points is grown on at least an end surface of a component main body. Then, a second plating layer composed of a Ni plating film containing substantially no B is formed on the first plating layer. Preferably, the B content of the Ni—B plating film constituting the first plating layer is about 0.1 wt % to about 6 wt %. | 02-16-2012 |
20120169180 | LAMINATE TYPE ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - In a method of manufacturing a laminate type electronic component, when a heat treatment is carried out after plating films, which at least partially define external electrodes, are formed by growing plated depositions deposited on exposed ends of a plurality of internal electrodes in a component main body, the presence of the plating films may not only interfere with moisture release, but may also cause blisters or bulge defects in the plating films, while moisture such as a plating solution in the component main body is removed by evaporation. To avoid such problems, cuts to divide exposed ends into multiple sections are formed in extending sections of internal electrodes. Thus, plating films include slits extending in the stacking direction at locations corresponding to positions of the cuts. | 07-05-2012 |
20120194031 | LAMINATED CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - In a method of forming an external electrode by growing plated depositions on exposed ends of a plurality of internal electrodes in a component main body, the component main body is polished to increase exposure of the internal electrodes. To prevent decreased external electrode fixing strength, a radius of curvature is reduced to about 0.01 mm or less for an R chamfered section formed in a ridge section of the component main body during polishing by ion milling, and exposed ends of the internal electrodes are recessed from end surfaces of the component main body with a recess length of about 1 μm or less. Plating films to serve as external electrodes are formed to extend from the end surfaces of the component main body across the R chamfered section, and include end edges located on at least one of the principal surfaces and the side surfaces. | 08-02-2012 |
20120243143 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - An electronic component that is prevented from being inclined with respect to a circuit board during and after mounting includes a laminated body that is preferably configured by stacking a plurality of insulator layers, and includes a lower surface with depressions provided thereon. The lower surface includes a series of outer edges of the insulator layers. Capacitor electrodes are defined by internal conductors incorporated in the laminated body, which respectively have exposed sections that are exposed from between the insulator layers in the depressions on the lower surface. External electrodes, which are preferably formed directly by plating, are provided in the depressions to cover the exposed sections. | 09-27-2012 |
20130062994 | LAMINATED CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A method for manufacturing a laminated ceramic electronic component enables formation of a plating film as at least a portion of an external electrode which connects exposed ends of internal electrodes. A component main body including a plurality of ceramic layers and a plurality of internal electrodes partially exposed from the component main body is prepared such that the component main body has a conductive region formed by diffusion of a conductive component included in the internal electrodes at the end surfaces of the ceramic layers located between adjacent exposed ends of the plurality of internal electrodes. The ceramic layers are preferably composed of a glass ceramic containing a glass component of about 10 weight % or more. A plating film is formed directly on the component main body by growing the exposed ends of the internal electrodes and the conductive region as nucleuses for plating deposition. | 03-14-2013 |
20130250474 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - An electronic component includes a laminate including a plurality of insulating layers that are laminated on each other. A capacitor conductor is embedded in the laminate and includes an exposed portion exposed between the insulating layers at a predetermined surface of the laminate. An external electrode is provided on the predetermined surface by direct plating so as to cover the exposed portion. An outer edge of the external electrode is spaced away from the exposed portion by about 0.8 μm or more. | 09-26-2013 |
Masahito Sato, Yokote-Shi JP
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20110181662 | INK JET PRINTER - In an ink jet printer having a plural number of line heads arranged in a paper printing direction, it is sought to render the printing density high in the nozzle row direction without the need to exchange the line heads. | 07-28-2011 |
20130215198 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - To provide an inkjet recording apparatus capable of preventing nozzle clogging, capable of aligning the nozzle positions of line heads precisely and easily, and capable of adjusting the number of the line heads. | 08-22-2013 |
Masahito Sato, Komae-Shi JP
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20090077603 | Mobile terminal - A mobile terminal pre-stores address information of other terminals to be notification destinations of program information related to a television broadcast. During reception and display of the television broadcast, when a notification request for the program information related to the television broadcast being received is input, the mobile terminal generates notification data including the program information relating to the television broadcast while maintaining the reception and the display processing of the television broadcast, reads the address information of other terminals to be the notification destinations from the storage unit to transmit the generated notification data to other terminals on the basis of the read address information. | 03-19-2009 |
Masahito Sato, Tokyo JP
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20080281844 | Interactive Data Access Method and Interactive Data Access System - A variable is defined by one engineering device. A tag name is assigned to the variable that the other device accesses, and a corresponding table of the tag name and the variable name is created. Further, a tag object is converted to a tag list in a format that can be interpreted by the other device, and the tag list is downloaded to the other device. The tag name of the access from the other device is converted to the variable name with reference to the corresponding table. | 11-13-2008 |
Masahito Sato, Akita JP
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20120019599 | Inkjet recording apparatus - [Problem to be Solved] To provide an inkjet recording apparatus that is easy to maintain and is compact. | 01-26-2012 |
20130016165 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUSAANM Izawa; HideoAACI ChibaAACO JPAAGP Izawa; Hideo Chiba JPAANM Ooyama; KouichiAACI AkitaAACO JPAAGP Ooyama; Kouichi Akita JPAANM Sato; MasahitoAACI AkitaAACO JPAAGP Sato; Masahito Akita JP - [Object] To provide an inkjet recording apparatus that can obtain a recorded object with high quality by reliably inhibiting flapping of a travelling web to maintain travelling stability. | 01-17-2013 |
Masahito Satoh, Sapporo-Shi JP
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20080279762 | Method of producing Magnesium-based Hydrides and apparatus for producing Magnesium-based Hydrides - A first heat treatment is carried out in which a material powder comprising magnesium is kept in the atmosphere of hydrogen gas and the temperature and pressure in the atmosphere of hydrogen gas are maintained in the temperature-pressure region in which single Mg and H | 11-13-2008 |
Masahito Shima, Kobe JP
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20100232559 | ION GENERATING DEVICE AND NEUTRON GENERATING APPARATUS - A neutron generating apparatus includes an ion generating device. The ion generating device includes an ion generating tube to which deuterium gas or tritium gas is supplied, a magnet arranged outside of the ion generating tube for generating a magnetic field in the ion generating tube, a plasma generating antenna arranged outside of the ion generating tube for generating an electric field in the ion generating tube, and an RF power source that supplies high frequency power to the plasma generating antenna. The RF power source supplies the high frequency power to the plasma generating antenna by controlling the pulse thereof so that an unsteady state of plasma is generated repetitively in the ion generating tube. | 09-16-2010 |
Masahito Shimada, Incheon KR
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20100234489 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR WIPER BLADE AND WIPER BLADE MANUFACTURED THEREFROM - Disclosed is a coating composition for a wiper blade, which includes a silicone-based wax, a silicone oil and a solid lubricant so that the silicon-based wax in a liquid phase dissolved in the silicone oil coexists with the solid lubricant for extended time periods. Also, a wiper blade is provided, which has a rib including a coating layer formed from the coating composition, so that upon operation of the wiper blade, components of the coating layer dissolve out of the surface of the coating layer and are then transferred onto a windshield due to friction between the wiper blade and the windshield, thereby forming on the surface of the windshield a water repellent film which is hard and has outstanding durability. | 09-16-2010 |
Masahito Shimizu, Tokyo JP
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20100006410 | OPERATION KEY STRUCTURE - [PROBLEMS] To provide a small-sized operation key, in which various kinds of inputs by a user can be detected and that imparts the user with a predetermined tactile sensation in correspondence with each input to enable him/her to recognize his/her input. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] An operation key has a dome-like structure, a pressure detecting portion, a sheet member placed on the dome-like structure and pressure detecting portion, having a plate-like portion, and further having at least one first pusher and at least one second pusher formed on the lower surface of the plate-like portion, and an operating portion provided on the upper surface of the sheet member. In the operation key structure, the dome-like structure and the first pusher face each other and the pressure detecting portion and the second pusher face each other, and an initial load is applied to the pressure detecting portion by the second pusher. | 01-14-2010 |
Masahito Shiraishi, Ehime JP
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20100262389 | ANALYZING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an analyzing apparatus including a first drive part ( | 10-14-2010 |
20140354192 | DRIVING APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an analyzing apparatus including a first drive part ( | 12-04-2014 |
20140356232 | DRIVING APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an analyzing apparatus including a first drive part ( | 12-04-2014 |
Masahito Sugiura, Yamanashi JP
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20090045517 | METHOD FOR FORMING TUNGSTEN FILM, FILM-FORMING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A tungsten film with a lower specific resistance and a lower fluorine concentration over its boundary with the base barrier layer, which adheres to the barrier layer with a high level of reliability, compared to tungsten films formed through methods in the related art, is formed. | 02-19-2009 |
20090246373 | METHOD OF FORMING METALLIC FILM AND PROGRAM-STORING RECORDING MEDIUM - A metal film with a lowered resistance by controlling a crystal structure. A tungsten film is formed through a first tungsten film formation in which a first tungsten film with amorphous content is formed by alternately executing multiple times a supplying a metal base material gas such as WF | 10-01-2009 |
20130059091 | METHOD FOR FORMING CARBON NANOTUBES AND CARBON NANOTUBE FILM FORMING APPARATUS - A method for forming carbon nanotubes includes preparing a target object having a surface on which one or more openings are formed, each of the openings having a catalyst metal layer on a bottom thereof; performing an oxygen plasma process on the catalyst metal layers; and activating the surfaces of the catalyst metal layers by performing a hydrogen plasma process on the metal catalyst layers subjected to the oxygen plasma process. The method further includes filling carbon nanotubes in the openings on the target object by providing an electrode member having a plurality of through holes above the target object in a processing chamber, and then growing the carbon nanotubes by plasma CVD on the activated catalyst metal layer by diffusing active species in a plasma generated above the electrode member toward the target object through the through holes while applying a DC voltage to the electrode member. | 03-07-2013 |
Masahito Suzuki, Tokyo JP
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20090136858 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TRANSFER PAPER - The present invention is an electrophotographic transfer paper where at least one side of the base paper is given a coating layer with a pigment and an adhesive agent to form coated paper and where the aforementioned adhesive contains a branched poly(meth)acrylamide copolymer having a cationic groups and/or anionic groups and also has a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 to 1,000,000. The electrophotographic transfer paper in the present invention has superior high-speed throughput performance despite low basis weight and a low coating weight, therefore, good for high-speed copy machine and printer properties, especially, when it contained a printability improver in the coating layer, it has a good ink adhesion property and surface strength required in offset printing. | 05-28-2009 |
20140326705 | WELDING POSITION DETECTING APPARATUS AND WELDING POSITION DETECTING METHOD FOR LASER BEAM WELDING - A welding position detecting apparatus for laser beam welding includes: an imaging device that captures, at a predetermined time interval, images of an irradiated portion of a welding material irradiated with a welding laser beam, and a surrounding area thereof, of a welding material; an image processing device that identifies a position of the irradiated portion irradiated with the welding laser beam by performing image processing calculating, from two or more images acquired by the imaging device, a direction and an amount of parallel movement of points in the images; and a display device that displays the position of the irradiated portion irradiated with the welding laser beam, the position being identified by the image processing device. | 11-06-2014 |
Masahito Suzuki, Okazaki-Shi JP
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20100155162 | COOLING SYSTEM, VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE COOLING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE COOLING SYSTEM - A fan motor is controlled via a switching circuit from the moment when a cooling fan control routine is started until the moment when the rotational speed of the fan motor reaches a control-switching speed so that the higher the detected auxiliary battery voltage is when the cooling fan control is started, the lower the command duty ratio that is set. Accordingly, it is possible to activate the fan motor more reliably and to avoid generating excessive operating noise by the cooling fan when the fan motor is activated. | 06-24-2010 |
Masahito Suzuki, Seki-Shi JP
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20110061444 | CERAMIC HEATER AND GAS SENSOR INCLUDING THE SAME - A ceramic heater including: a ceramic substrate having a heater element which generates heat when energized and an electrode pad disposed on a surface of the ceramic substrate, the electrode pad being electrically connected to the heater element, and a connection terminal electrically connected to the electrode pad through a braze part bonded to the electrode pad, the braze part being made of an alloy of copper and gold and the connection terminal being made of nickel or a nickel alloy, wherein a first region of the braze part within a distance of 15 μm from a contact face between the braze part and the connection terminal has a gold content of more than 6 wt % and less than 10 wt %. | 03-17-2011 |
20130327123 | CERAMIC HEATER AND GAS SENSOR - A terminal connection portion has a plate shape extending in an axial direction and has a constant width dimension. A terminal front end edge thereof has a convex shape at a front end side in the axial direction and has a circular-arc shape with a radius from 0.5 times to 0.8 times the width dimension, and is arranged in the center between a first pad side edge and a second pad side edge, on an electrode pad. A brazing material portion has a form spreading to a front end side in the axial direction away from the terminal connection portion. A brazing material front end edge which is a front end edge of the brazing material portion has a convex and circular-arc shape at the front end side in the axial direction, and is configured to be apart from a pad front end edge. | 12-12-2013 |
Masahito Suzuki, Kanagawa JP
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20110100965 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A LASER WELDED STEEL PIPE - There is provided a method for manufacturing a laser welded steel pipe in which the status of laser welding is accurately assessed, and the assessment is used to modify welding conditions, so that laser welded steel pipes can be manufactured at a high yield rate and in a stable manner. Irradiation point(s) of laser beam(s), with which the longitudinal edges are irradiated from the side of the outer surface, are monitored from the side of the inner surface of an open pipe, and then conditions of welding with the laser beam(s) are assessed to be kept unchanged if any keyhole is found penetrating out of the inner surface of the open pipe, or modified if no keyhole is found penetrating out of the inner surface of the open pipe. | 05-05-2011 |
Masahito Takano, Hachioji-Shi JP
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20090080928 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS INCLUDING HOT-ROLL TYPE FIXING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING MALFUNCTION OF TEMPERATURE SENSOR IN THE SAME - A control portion determines whether a malfunction occurs or not in a roller temperature sensor and an ambient temperature sensor by comparing a trajectory (temporal behavior) actually created by two-dimensional data on a temperature table with a target trajectory. In other words, the control portion successively integrates a prescribed weight for each transition from one element to the adjacent element corresponding to a trajectory of two-dimensional data on the temperature table, and determines whether or not a malfunction occurs in the roller temperature sensor and the ambient temperature sensor, based on the integrated weight. | 03-26-2009 |
Masahito Tanaka, Kusatsu-Shi JP
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20100163546 | WIRING STRUCTURE, HEATER DRIVING DEVICE, MEASURING DEVICE, AND CONTROL SYSTEM - The number of wirings and the number of switching elements are decreased in a heater, a sensor, and the like. First to ninth heaters that heat a hot plate are connected into a matrix form between first power lines in a row direction and second power lines in a column direction. The first power lines are connected to one end of a power supply through three switching elements, respectively. The second power lines are connected to the other end of the power supply through three switching elements, respectively. On-off control is performed to the switching elements to select the heater to be driven. Therefore, the number of power lines and the number of switching elements are decreased compared with a conventional technique in which the heaters are separately wired. | 07-01-2010 |
Masahito Tanaka, Tokyo JP
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20080310990 | Stainless Steel Pipe Having Excellent Expandability for Oil Country Tubular Goods - There is provided a cost-effective stainless steel pipe having excellent expandability for oil country tubular goods, the stainless steel pipe having excellent CO | 12-18-2008 |
20090045170 | Earthing switch - In an earthing switch a release mechanism releases pressure stored in a puffer type arc cancelling chamber by releasing the chamber at a predetermined area toward a stationary contact unit during a full stroke extent of a movable contact unit so that the puffering operation can be deterred from execution. | 02-19-2009 |
20100259870 | GAS-INSULATED SWITCHGEAR - It is an object to provide gas-insulated switchgear that occupies less installation space, in which the number of bellows to be used can be reduced, and that can minimize a work range in disassembling at addition or accident, and in reassembling. In double-bus gas-insulated switchgear in which a bus-side device is arranged above a breaker to reduce installation space to be occupied, a bellows is arranged between bus-side devices arranged vertically to each other, and under a support frame of the breaker, another support frame that can be separated therefrom is arranged, thereby enabling disassembling of a lower bus-side device alone. | 10-14-2010 |
Masahito Tanaka, Tochigi JP
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20080287901 | Absorbent Article - An absorbent article | 11-20-2008 |
Masahito Watanebe, Tokyo JP
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20090103187 | Zoom lens and imaging apparatus incorporating the same - The invention relates to a zoom lens and an imaging apparatus incorporating the same, and more particularly to a zoom lens of small format that lends itself to imaging apparatus inclusive of video cameras and digital cameras. The zoom lens comprises, in order from its object side, a first lens group G | 04-23-2009 |
Masahito Yamada, Tokyo JP
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20100205865 | SLIDING DOOR DEVICE - A sliding door device has a first pin body provided, at a floor surface; a guide member provided at the door and having a guide groove in which the first pin body fits when the door is closed; and a second pin body that is provided on the floor surface and can be fit in a door groove formed at the door bottom. When the closed door slides in an opening direction and toward the back side of the wall surface, the guide member moves relatively along the first pin body while the first pin body is fit in the guide groove of the guide member. When the door slides further in the opening direction, the second pin body gets in the door groove of the door, and the door slides along the second pin body while the second pin body is fit in the sliding groove of the door. | 08-19-2010 |
20100314403 | PUSHING TYPE LID OPENING/CLOSING DEVICE OF A CONTAINER AND A PUSHING TYPE LID OPENING/CLOSING UNIT - A pushing type lid | 12-16-2010 |
Masahito Yamada, Ishikawa JP
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20090017485 | Alzheimer's Disease Examination Method - [Problems] To enable convenient and accurate examination of Alzheimer's disease. | 01-15-2009 |
Masahito Yamamoto, Osaka JP
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20100263706 | SOLAR CELL MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOLAR CELL MODULE - A solar cell module | 10-21-2010 |
Masahito Yoshida, Shiki-Shi JP
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20100330262 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD - A method includes pulling out and conveying a sheet having splice portions, acquiring information relating to a position of an indentation on the sheet formed in addition to a splice portion, and performing processing on the sheet but a position corresponding to the acquired position of the indentation and its vicinity. | 12-30-2010 |
20110097127 | METHOD OF CORRECTING CURL OF SHEET AND RECORDING APPARATUS - In a first step, a sheet is conveyed in a direction, whereby a leading end portion of the sheet is fed to a position between a decurl roller and a decurl pinch roller, which are in positions spaced apart from each other. In a second step, the leading end portion of the sheet is curved and held by causing the decurl pinch roller to come close to or press against the decurl roller. In a third step, the leading end portion of the sheet is withdrawn from between the decurl roller and the decurl pinch roller by conveying the sheet in a direction opposed to the conveying direction. After executing the first to third steps, the sheet is conveyed in the conveying direction through the first step while the sheet is curved by the decurl roller. | 04-28-2011 |
20110122189 | RECORDING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a line-type recording head including a plurality of recording elements formed thereon, a holding unit configured to hold a sheet, a conveyance mechanism configured to convey the sheet held by the holding unit to a position of recording by the recording head, a shift mechanism capable of relatively shifting a position of the sheet in a sheet width direction with respect to the recording head while the sheet is fed from the holding unit to the recording position, and a control unit configured to control the conveyance mechanism and the shift mechanism. | 05-26-2011 |
20110132957 | RECORDING-MEDIUM-CONVEYING DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A device includes a conveying roller configured to convey a recording medium, a follower roller configured to press the recording medium against the conveying roller, a detector configured to detect a direction of skew of the conveyed recording medium, and a changer configured to change a state of contact between the recording medium and the conveying roller in accordance with a result of the detection by the detector such that a length of a portion of the conveying roller that is in contact with the recording medium in a conveyance direction is larger on a side toward which the recording medium is skewed than on an opposite side. | 06-09-2011 |
20110135372 | BOTH-SIDE RECORDING APPARATUS - A both-side recording apparatus that enables both-side recording on continuous paper using a single recording head, without cutting the continuous paper at an intermediate position, is provided. Reduction in size and costs of the apparatus is achieved by eliminating a conveying path dedicated to both-side recording. The apparatus includes a paper-feeder that feeds continuous paper, a recording head that records an image on the continuous paper, a reversing unit that reverses the continuous paper such that a recording surface of the continuous paper facing the recording head is reversed, and a rewinding mechanism that rewinds the fed continuous paper to the paper-feeder. During both-side recording, recording is performed on the back side of the continuous paper by rewinding the continuous paper by the rewinding mechanism, setting the back side of the continuous paper to oppose the recording head by the reversing unit, and feeding the continuous paper from the paper-feeder. | 06-09-2011 |
20110211007 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND JAM RESTORATION METHOD IN PRINTING APPARATUS - In the event that occurrence of a jam has been detected during conveyance of a sheet, the sheet is cut at a cutter unit, and a user is prompted to perform manual jam restoration processing according to the location where the jam has occurred. If the jam has occurred upstream from the cutter unit, the cut sheets left downstream from the cutter unit are discharged as completed articles. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211030 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD - An apparatus for performing duplex printing having a sheet feeding unit, a printing unit, a cutter unit, a drying unit, and a reverse unit. In the duplex printing, the printing unit prints a plurality of images on a first surface of a sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit. The sheet is a continuous sheet. The sheet printed on the first surface passes through the drying unit and is led to the reverse unit. The reverse unit feeds the reversed sheet to the printing unit and the printing unit prints a plurality of images on a second surface that is a back of the first surface of the sheet fed from the reverse unit. The cutter unit cuts the sheet printed on the second surface into a plurality of cut sheets each having the image printed thereon. The cut sheets pass through the drying unit and are ejected. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211897 | PRINTING APPARATUS, SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND SHEET WINDING DEVICE - A device includes a winding rotary member having a cylindrical shape; a holder having a rotating member, which is provided in the vicinity of a cylindrical surface of the winding rotary member, capable of nipping and conveying the sheet; a first driving mechanism configured to rotate the winding rotary member; and a second driving mechanism configured to rotate the rotating member. The winding rotary member rotates with the sheet is nipped with the rotatable holder, whereby the sheet is wound around the winding rotary member. | 09-01-2011 |
20110239839 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CUTTING SHEET - A sheet is cut between a first conveying unit and a second conveying unit in a state in which the first and second conveying units halt and in which an upstream conveying unit conveys the sheet at a first speed; after the sheet is cut, the first conveying unit conveys the sheet at a second speed higher than the first speed to reduce a slack formed during the halting; after the sheet is cut, the second conveying unit conveys the downstream-side sheet at a third speed higher than the first speed; if the third conveying unit is nipping the sheet during cutting, the third conveying unit conveys the sheet at the third speed; and if the third conveying unit is not nipping the sheet, the third conveying unit conveys the sheet at the third speed or a fourth speed after the detecting unit detects the sheet. | 10-06-2011 |
20110262153 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - At least one of processing units is capable of being pulled out of a main body of an apparatus during the occurrence of a sheet conveyance jam. A first cutter and a second cutter are arranged in the vicinity of the processing unit. The first cutter is configured to cut the sheet on an upstream of the processing unit. The second cutter is configured to cut the sheet on a downstream thereof. When the processing unit is pulled, the sheet is cut on the upstream and downstream of the processing unit. | 10-27-2011 |
20110280642 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A control unit includes a memory storing correction data obtained by associating information acquired by a first acquisition unit (rotary encoder) with information acquired by a second acquisition unit (direct sensor) with respect to, at least one rotation of a conveying roller. When a plurality of images are sequentially printed on a first surface and a second surface of a continuous sheet, the control unit reads the correction data corresponding to the rotation information acquired by the first acquisition unit from the memory and corrects at least one of driving control of a print head and driving control of the roller. The correction data used in printing on the first surface of the sheet is different from that used in printing on the second surface of the sheet. | 11-17-2011 |
20120194597 | METHOD OF PRINTING AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A reference mark is formed for cutting a sheet in a region between a first image printed on the sheet being conveyed and a second image, and the sheet is cut based on the detected reference mark. The second image is printed such that the length of the region in a conveying direction in which the sheet is conveyed corresponds to the length of the first image in the direction. | 08-02-2012 |
20120204693 | RECORDING MEDIUM CUTTING APPARATUS - A recording medium cutting apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a recording medium, a conveyance path through which the recording medium to be conveyed by the conveyance unit passes, a cutting unit configured to cut the recording medium, a discharge port provided on the midway of the conveyance path, for discharging a portion cut off the recording medium by the cutting unit from the conveyance path, and a discharge unit configured, when the recording medium is cut, to come into contact with the recording medium from an opposite side to the discharge port, to cause a portion to be cut off of the recording medium to be positioned toward an outside of a conveyance path from the discharge port. | 08-16-2012 |
20130010043 | METHOD OF CORRECTING CURL OF SHEET AND RECORDING APPARATUS - In a first step, a sheet is conveyed in a direction, whereby a leading end portion of the sheet is fed to a position between a decurl roller and a decurl pinch roller, which are in positions spaced apart from each other. In a second step, the leading end portion of the sheet is curved and held by causing the decurl pinch roller to come close to or press against the decurl roller. In a third step, the leading end portion of the sheet is withdrawn from between the decurl roller and the decurl pinch roller by conveying the sheet in a direction opposed to the conveying direction. After executing the first to third steps, the sheet is conveyed in the conveying direction through the first step while the sheet is curved by the decurl roller. | 01-10-2013 |
20130100219 | SHEET CONVEYANCE APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND JAM CLEARING METHOD - A sheet conveyance apparatus comprising: a first processing unit including a first sheet conveyance mechanism; a second processing unit including a second sheet conveyance mechanism; a cutting unit, interposed between the first processing unit and the second processing unit, for cutting the sheet; and a controlling unit that controls, in a case of trouble with sheet conveyance, driving of the first sheet conveyance mechanism until an end of the sheet reaches the first processing unit side beyond a cutting position of the cutting unit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101329 | SHEET CUTTING DEVICE AND PRINTER - A sheet cutting device includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet, a cutting unit configured to cut the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, and a conveyance belt configured to convey a cut piece cut from the sheet cut by the cutting unit in a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the conveyance unit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101330 | SHEET CUTTING APPARATUS AND PRINTER - A sheet cutting apparatus includes a cutting unit configured to cut a sheet, a discharge unit configured to discharge a fragment of the sheet cut by the cutting unit, a blowing unit configured to blow air on the fragment discharged from the discharge unit, and a storage unit configured to store the fragment discharged from the discharge unit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130270062 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD - A method includes pulling out and conveying a sheet having splice portions, acquiring information relating to a position of an indentation on the sheet formed in addition to a splice portion, and performing processing on the sheet but a position corresponding to the acquired position of the indentation and its vicinity. | 10-17-2013 |
20140307020 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - In the case of performing duplex printing on a continuous sheet, by setting a length of a non-image area to an optimum length, both of mark detection having high reliability and the suppression of a sheet consumption amount are achieved. For this purpose, when duplex printing of a plurality of images on front and back surfaces of the continuous sheet is performed, on the basis of a length of the image to be printed precedently to a non-image area W | 10-16-2014 |