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20080211212 | Steering column including an airbag apparatus - The steering column includes a column body, a column cover formed into a generally tubular contour and mounted around the column body and an airbag apparatus. The column cover includes an upper cover and a lower cover. The lower cover is separable from the upper cover and is split into a front section disposed proximate the airbag apparatus and a rear section disposed proximate a combination switch unit disposed at the rear of the airbag apparatus inside the column cover. The rear section is configured separable from the front section as is secured to the column body. | 09-04-2008 |
20090189374 | AIRBAG APPARATUS - An airbag apparatus includes an airbag with a first hole and a second hole; a tube vent disposed outside the airbag, wherein a proximal end portion of the tube vent is connected to a portion of the airbag, which is located around the first hole, so that communication is provided between an inside of the tube vent and an inside of the airbag through the first hole, and a distal end portion of the tube vent is inserted from an outside of the airbag into the inside of the airbag through the second hole; and a holding portion that holds the distal end portion of the tube vent from the inside of the airbag, wherein when the airbag is inflated and deployed, and the holding portion releases the tube vent, the distal end portion of the tube vent moves out of the second hole. | 07-30-2009 |
20090230661 | COLUMN-ATTACHED KNEE AIR BAG APPARATUS - A column-attached knee air bag apparatus is provided by being folded at inside of a column cover covering a steering column and is developed between an instrument panel and the knees of an occupant by being supplied with a gas. Upper and lower sides of the knee air bag are restricted such that a developing thickness in a front and rear direction is smaller at a lower portion than at an upper portion by an upper side strap and a lower side strap. An inflator and a diffuser are arranged such that an opening end of the diffuser of supplying a gas from the inflator to the knee air bag is disposed on a rear side of the instrument panel and at inside of a central expansion portion of the knee air bag. | 09-17-2009 |
20090236837 | AIRBAG DEVICE - An airbag device includes: a bag body that is deployed by internal pressure rising as a gas is supplied into the bag body; and a gas pressure adjustment portion that is provided on the bag body so as to be able to release the gas from the inside of the bag body during a deployed state of the bag body, and that is set so that the amount of the gas released from the bag body in the deployed state to an inward side in a vehicle width direction is larger than the amount of the gas released from the bag body in the deployed state to an outward side in the vehicle width direction. | 09-24-2009 |
20090322063 | Knee protecting airbag device - In a knee protecting airbag device of the present invention, in the lower area inside a column cover, a case housing an airbag is attached to a steering column. The steering column includes a movable member for moving toward the front side of a vehicle along the axial direction of the column at the time when an impact on the front of the vehicle acts, and an unmoving stationary member, so that the column can absorb the impact when the movable member moves. The case is attached to such an area of the movable member that the case hits the stationary member when the moving member moves and absorbs impact, and the case can be deformed before or at the time of hitting the stationary member so that the moving stroke of the movable member is preserved when it moves. | 12-31-2009 |
20110049847 | KNEE-PROTECTING AIRBAG APPARATUS - The knee-protecting airbag apparatus includes an airbag folded and housed in a lower area inside the column cover. The airbag pushes and opens a door section on the column cover upon deployment. When the door section is thus opened, a door of the door section blocks off an allowance gap formed between an outer circumference of the column cover subjected to position adjustment and a lower area of a peripheral region of an installation opening on a dashboard for installing the column cover by locating a rear edge region of the door to abut on a rear side of the dashboard or the lower area of the peripheral region of the installation opening on the rear side of the dashboard. | 03-03-2011 |
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20090033586 | NEGATIVE PEMEABILITY OR NEGATIVE PERMITTIVITY META MATERIAL AND SURFACE WAVE WAVEGUIDE - Each of unit cells constituting a negative permeability medium includes a metal patch formed on a surface of a dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate has a rear surface having a ground conductor formed on its entire surface. A positive permeability medium is an existing micro strip line and each of unit cells has a two-dimensional structure having a metal strip connected in four directions. The dielectric substrate has a rear surface having a ground conductor formed on its entire surface. The negative permeability medium is arranged at the left side adjacent to the positive permeability medium formed by unit cells arranged at the right side so that the media oppose to each other. A waveguide formed by the positive/negative permittivity medium or the positive/negative permeability medium of the meta material for propagation of a surface wave is formed at the boundary of the two media. | 02-05-2009 |
20090174609 | STRIPLINE-TYPE COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED TRANSMISSION LINE OR LEFT-HANDED TRANSMISSION LINE, AND ANTENNA THAT USES SAME - A stripline-type transmission line can easily change and control transmission characteristics by changing the permittivity of a substrate, and also provides an antenna that can extensively change and control the direction of radiation with the frequency of an electromagnetic wave constant, by using the transmission line. | 07-09-2009 |
20090179823 | Left-Handed Medium Using No Via - A two-dimensional structure medium comprising a conductor pattern as unit cells formed on the upper surface of a substrate and a conductor pattern formed on the lower surface of the substrate and exhibiting a left-handed characteristic achieved without using a via by utilizing the interaction between an inductance component formed by connecting a part of a floating island pattern out of the conductor pattern on the lower surface of the substrate with a pattern as the ground portion and a capacitance component of parallel-plate mode formed by the conductor pattern on the upper surface of the substrate and the conductor pattern on the lower surface of the substrate. | 07-16-2009 |
20100007436 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL LEFT-HANDED METAMATERIAL - The present invention provides a two-dimensional left-handed metamaterial that functions as a two-dimensional electromagnetic wave propagation medium in which the equivalent permittivity and permeability of the medium are both negative, exhibits superior low-loss, broadband characteristics as a left-handed material, and has a simple constitution, enabling low-cost manufacture. | 01-14-2010 |
20100118412 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL LEFT-HANDED METAMATERIAL - A three-dimensional left-handed metamaterial having a completely new constitution, which functions as a three-dimensional electromagnetic wave propagation medium and in which an equivalent permittivity and a permeability of the medium simultaneously take negative values. The three-dimensional left-handed metamaterial is structured such that cubic unit cells | 05-13-2010 |
20130017348 | INVISIBLE ENCLOSUREAANM Sanada; AtsushiAACI YamaguchiAACO JPAAGP Sanada; Atsushi Yamaguchi JP - An invisible enclosure includes a cylindrical central enclosure having a cavity formed therein and an outer shell formed of homogenous materials, with an object in the cavity and the central enclosure itself being substantially invisible with an electromagnetic wave. The central enclosure is formed by laminating a large number of cylindrical layered films formed by radially laminating a plurality of materials having different permittivities. Effective values of respective permittivities of respective parts of the central enclosure are adjusted by adjusting permittivities and radial thicknesses of respective layers of the layered films along a radius value of the central enclosure. The radial element of a permittivity tensor is set to be a value sequentially increasing along a radius from the innermost circumference of the central enclosure to the outermost circumference thereof and is set to be a predetermined value smaller than the permittivity of the outer shell at the outermost circumference. | 01-17-2013 |
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20090176262 | COENZYME-BINDING GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE - The present invention provides a microorganism-derived soluble coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase which catalyzes a reaction for oxidizing glucose in the presence of an electron acceptor, has an activity to maltose as low as 5% or less, and is inhibited by 1,10-phenanthroline. The invention also provides a method for producing the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase, and a method and a reagent for measuring employing the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase. According to the invention, the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase can be applied to an industrial field, and a use becomes possible also in a material production or analysis including a method for measuring or eliminating glucose in a sample using the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase as well as a method for producing an organic compound. It became also possible to provide a glucose sensor capable of accurately measuring a blood sugar level. Therefore, it became possible to provide an enzyme having a high utility, such as an ability of being used for modifying a material in the fields of pharmaceuticals, clinical studies and food products. | 07-09-2009 |
20100297743 | COENZYME-BINDING GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE - The present invention provides a microorganism-derived soluble coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase which catalyzes a reaction for oxidizing glucose in the presence of an electron acceptor, has an activity to maltose as low as 5% or less, and is inhibited by 1,10-phenanthroline. The invention also provides a method for producing the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase, and a method and a reagent for measuring employing the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase. According to the invention, the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase can be applied to an industrial field, and a use becomes possible also in a material production or analysis including a method for measuring or eliminating glucose in a sample using the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase as well as a method for producing an organic compound. It became also possible to provide a glucose sensor capable of accurately measuring a blood sugar level. Therefore, it became possible to provide an enzyme having a high utility, such as an ability of being used for modifying a material in the fields of pharmaceuticals, clinical studies and food products. | 11-25-2010 |
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20120038724 | ADD-ON TYPE ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An add-on type ultraviolet irradiation apparatus for being coupled to an inkjet recording apparatus that does not include an ultraviolet irradiation device for curing ultraviolet curable ink, so as to make the inkjet recording apparatus usable as an ultraviolet curing type image forming apparatus, includes: a detection device which detects a conveyance operation of a recording medium performed by the inkjet recording apparatus; an ultraviolet light source for radiating ultraviolet light onto an ultraviolet curable ink deposited on the recording medium by the inkjet recording apparatus; and an exposure control device which controls exposure performed by the ultraviolet light source according to a detection signal obtained from the detection device. | 02-16-2012 |
20120105532 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: an inkjet head having nozzles which eject ink onto a recording medium, the ink being curable by irradiation of an active light beam; a relative movement device recording medium; an active light beam irradiation device having an active light beam emission unit that emits the active light beam and is divided into units in a direction of the relative movement for irradiating the ink deposited on the recording medium with the active light beam while relative movement between the recording medium and the active light beam irradiation device is caused along with the inkjet head; and an active light beam irradiation control device which controls on or off switching with respect to each of the divided units. | 05-03-2012 |
20120120168 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus and an image forming method in which ink curing defects caused by differences in the activation energy absorption characteristics due to differences in the inks are avoided, and a desirable curing process can be achieved. | 05-17-2012 |
20130083108 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: an inkjet head which has a nozzle and an ejection energy generating element configured to cause droplets to be ejected from an ejection port of the nozzle; a head movement device which is configured to reciprocally move the inkjet head to scan a recording medium onto which the droplets ejected from the inkjet head are deposited; a linear encoder which is configured to output signals to determine a position of the inkjet head; an ejection trigger signal generating device which is configured to generate ejection trigger signals in accordance with the output signals of the linear encoder, the ejection trigger signals specifying ejection timings of the inkjet head with a temporal resolution of 0.1 μs order; and an ejection control device which is configured to cause the inkjet head to eject the droplets in accordance with the ejection timings specified by the ejection trigger signals. | 04-04-2013 |
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20090104066 | Production method for metal matrix composite material - A method of producing an aluminum matrix composite material is described that comprises the steps of: mixing an aluminum powder and a ceramic powder to prepare a mixed powder; providing a lower casing made of aluminum and formed in a hollow rectangular parallelepiped shape having an open top, and a closing member made of aluminum and formed in a shape adapted to hermetically close the open top of the lower casing; packing the mixed powder into the lower casing; closing the open top of the lower casing filled with the mixed powder, by the closing member, to prepare a pre-rolling assembly having the mixed powder hermetically sealed therein; preheating the pre-rolling assembly; and rolling the preheated assembly to obtain the aluminum matrix composite material, where the aluminum matrix composite material includes a pair of metal plates having the mixed powder therebetween. | 04-23-2009 |
20090104067 | Production method for metal matrix composite material - A method of producing an aluminum matrix composite material is described that comprises the steps of: mixing an aluminum powder and a ceramic powder to prepare a mixed powder; providing a lower casing made of aluminum and formed in a hollow rectangular parallelepiped shape having an open top, and a closing member made of aluminum and formed in a shape adapted to hermetically close the open top of the lower casing; packing the mixed powder into the lower casing; closing the open top of the lower casing filled with the mixed powder, by the closing member, to prepare a pre-rolling assembly having the mixed powder hermetically sealed therein; preheating the pre-rolling assembly; and rolling the preheated assembly to obtain the aluminum matrix composite material, where the aluminum matrix composite material includes a pair of metal plates having the mixed powder therebetween. | 04-23-2009 |
20090104470 | Production method for metal matrix composite material - A method of producing an aluminum matrix composite material is described that comprises the steps of: mixing an aluminum powder and a ceramic powder to prepare a mixed powder; providing a lower casing made of aluminum and formed in a hollow rectangular parallelepiped shape having an open top, and a closing member made of aluminum and formed in a shape adapted to hermetically close the open top of the lower casing; packing the mixed powder into the lower casing; closing the open top of the lower casing filled with the mixed powder, by the closing member, to prepare a pre-rolling assembly having the mixed powder hermetically sealed therein; preheating the pre-rolling assembly; and rolling the preheated assembly to obtain the aluminum matrix composite material, where the aluminum matrix composite material includes a pair of metal plates having the mixed powder therebetween. | 04-23-2009 |
20090214886 | METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE MATERIAL - A metal matrix composite material comprising a pair of metal plates having a powder mixture disposed therebetween forming an intermediate layer is disclosed. Each of the metal plates having a main wall with opposed lateral walls on each end. The first of the metal plates having a main wall having a length greater than a length of the main wall of the second of the metal plates, so that the opposed lateral walls of the second metal plate are each disposed inside of a respective opposed lateral wall of the first metal plate. The powder mixture includes a metal powder and a ceramic powder. The ceramic powder has a neutron absorbing function, wherein the intermediate layer has a theoretical density ratio at least 98%, and a percentage of a total thickness of the metal plates to an overall thickness of the intermediate layer is in a range of 15 to 25%. | 08-27-2009 |
20090220814 | METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE MATERIAL - A metal matrix composite material comprising a pair of metal plates having a powder mixture disposed therebetween forming an intermediate layer is disclosed. The powder mixture includes a metal powder and a ceramic powder. The ceramic powder has a neutron absorbing function and includes a B | 09-03-2009 |
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20110219984 | INORGANIC BLACK PIGMENT, AND PAINT, RESIN COMPOSITION AND AGRICULTURAL MULTI-FILM USING THE SAME - The present invention provides an inorganic black pigment which comprises no harmful elements and has an excellent infrared reflecting property and an excellent light transmittance. The inorganic black pigment of the present invention comprises a composite oxide comprising Fe, Co and Al as well as at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, Sn, Zr, Si and Cu, which inorganic black pigment has an average primary particle diameter of 0.02 to 2.0 μm, an average reflectance of not less than 10% as measured in a wavelength range of 300 to 2500 nm from a visible light region to an infrared region, and an average light transmittance of not less than 10% as measured in a wavelength range of 300 to 2500 nm from a visible light region to an infrared region. | 09-15-2011 |
20110247524 | Infrared reflecting black pigment, paint and resin composition - The present invention relates to an infrared reflecting black pigment which comprises a composite oxide containing Fe, Co and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, Sn, Zr, Si and Cu; has an average plate surface diameter of 0.02 to 5.0 μm, a blackness (L* value) of not more than 30, an average reflectance of not more than 10% in a visible light wavelength range of 250 to 780 nm and an average reflectance of not less than 35% in an infrared wavelength range of 780 to 2500 nm. There is provided an infrared reflecting black pigment which is capable of producing a heat-shielding paint containing no harmful elements and exhibiting an excellent infrared reflecting property. | 10-13-2011 |
20120270986 | INFRARED REFLECTING BLACK PIGMENT, AND PAINT AND RESIN COMPOSITION USING THE INFRARED REFLECTING BLACK PIGMENT - The present invention provides an inexpensive infrared reflecting black pigment which comprises Fe and Mn but comprises no harmful elements, and exhibits an excellent infrared reflecting property. The infrared reflecting black pigment according to the present invention comprises a compound comprising Fe, Mn and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Al, Ca, Si, Sr and Ba, and has a blackness (L* value) of not more than 30 and a solar radiation reflectance of not less than 15%. | 10-25-2012 |
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20090141465 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CIRCUIT BOARD - According to one embodiment, a circuit board carries thereon a connection pattern for the connection of a PC card receptacle selectively mounted in a mounting area, a connection pattern for the connection of an Express card receptacle, and a connection pattern for the connection of a smartcard receptacle. An end portion of the smartcard receptacle overlaps the connection pattern for the Express card receptacle. Therefore, the smartcard receptacle is connected to the connection pattern for the smartcard receptacle through a flexible printed wiring element and a connector with the connection pattern shifted to a position between the two connection patterns. | 06-04-2009 |
20110128698 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a cooling module configured to cool an electronic component, a thermoelectric element configured to absorb heat generated from the electronic component, and to generate first electricity by performing a thermoelectric conversion by use of the heat, a determination module configured to determine whether the supply source is a battery, and a switcher configured to switch between a first mode and a second mode, the thermoelectric element performing the thermoelectric conversion and the cooling module is driven by the first driving electricity generated from the first electricity in the first mode, and the thermoelectric element absorbing the heat and the cooling module is driven by the second driving electricity generated by use of second electricity from a supply source includes a battery in the second mode. | 06-02-2011 |
20110296223 | Electronic Apparatus and Control Method of the Electronic Apparatus - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display, an operating module, a power saving module, a sensor and a controller. The power saving module is configured to turn off a screen of the display when a non-operating period of the operating module reaches a reference period. The sensor is configured to detect a vibration. The controller is configured to change the reference period from a first value given as the initial value to a second value longer than the first value when the sensor detects a vibration. | 12-01-2011 |
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20110288674 | APPARATUS FOR MANAGING A HOLDER, APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A LAYERED SEMICONDUCTOR AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A HOLDER - Management of the holding member that holds the semiconductor substrate is efficiently implemented. Provided is a holding member management apparatus that manages a substrate holding member that holds a semiconductor substrate in a manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a stacked semiconductor apparatus by joining a plurality of semiconductor substrates; comprising a history storing part that stores the usage history of the substrate holding member in association with identification information that specifies the substrate holding member and a holding member specifying part that specifies and outputs identification information of the substrate holding member whose usage is to be suspended based on the usage history stored in the history storing part. | 11-24-2011 |
20130234956 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF DATA TRANSMISSION - A terminal device (electronic device) includes a display which displays an image that specifies data, a touch panel which is disposed on the display and detects a contact of an object, a transmission operation detection unit which, when the display displays the image that specifies data, detects that a transmission operation has been performed with respect to the data if the touch panel detects a contact that continues over at least a predetermined distance and is in a predetermined direction, and a data transmission unit which, when the transmission operation detection unit detects the transmission operation, transmits the data to another electronic device. | 09-12-2013 |
20130261811 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND VIBRATING METHOD - A portable terminal apparatus (electronic apparatus) includes a plurality of vibration devices, disposed at different positions, which generate vibrations, and a control unit that independently controls frequencies or strengths of the vibrations generated by the plurality of vibration devices for each of the vibration devices. | 10-03-2013 |
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20110080622 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND DOCUMENT SCANNING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A lighting device includes a light source, a housing, a heat radiator, and a connector. A part of heat generated by the light source is transmitted to the housing, and the housing radiates the part of the heat. Another part of the heat generated by the light source is transmitted to the heat radiator, and the heat radiator radiates the another part of the heat. The connector transmits heat from the housing to the heat radiator when a temperature of a portion of the housing around the connector is higher than a temperature of a portion of the heat radiator around the connector. The connector transmits heat from the heat radiator to the housing when the temperature of the portion of the heat radiator around the connector is higher than the temperature of the portion of the housing around the connector. | 04-07-2011 |
20110085212 | DOCUMENT SCANNING DEVICE - A document scanning device includes a pair of light guides that extend in a main scanning direction of a document and illuminate the document, and a reference plate that is positioned closer to the light guides than the document. Each of the light guides has a first area that illuminates the document and a second area that illuminates the reference plate. Each light guide illuminates the reference plate over a wider area between the light guides in the second area than each light guide illuminates the document in the first area. Therefore, the center of the reference plate is illuminated and a sufficient amount of light is reflected on the reference plate. | 04-14-2011 |
20110267659 | LIGHT GUIDE BODY, AND LIGHTING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT SCANNING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - Top surfaces and inclined surfaces of prisms on a side opposite to a light source are formed such that, in a region on a light source side, light traveling in a light guide body toward the side opposite to the light source is sequentially reflected by the top surfaces and the inclined surfaces of the side opposite to the light surface of the prisms and approaches a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the light guide body. The height of the prisms can be the lowest in the longitudinally central portion of the light guide body, and gradually increases toward the light source side and the side opposite to the light source, from the central portion. | 11-03-2011 |
20110286699 | LIGHT GUIDE BODY AND LIGHTING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - The present invention provides a light guide body that has a light incidence portion through which light enters the light guide body; a light reflecting portion positioned opposite a light emitting surface that extends from the light incidence portion in a longitudinal direction of the light guide body; and a tapered portion having an inner surface that gradually expands from the light incidence portion toward the light reflecting portion. The tapered portion has a light shielding portion to shield, from the light, a part of the light reflecting portion closest to the light incidence portion. | 11-24-2011 |
20130182091 | ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope includes an imaging unit capturing an image of an object; an imaging holder holding the imaging unit; two systems of driving force transmission mechanisms each including a pair of driving rods having distal ends connected in a diagonal position to each other relative to the imaging holder; a driving apparatus disposed on a base end side of the driving rods and driving forward and backward at least one of the driving rods in each of the driving force transmission mechanisms; and a cover member extending from a base member of the driving apparatus and covering at least a portion of the imaging unit, the imaging holder, and the driving force transmission mechanisms. The imaging unit rotates around two different axes according to forward and backward movement of the driving rods. | 07-18-2013 |
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20120060628 | TORQUE AND INDEX DETECTION APPARATUS - A torque and index detection apparatus includes a torque sensing section that senses torque exerted on a connecting shaft connecting a first and second shafts by a pair of magnetic sensing elements whose magnetic sensing directions are opposite, and a reference rotational position sensing section that senses a reference rotational position of the second shaft by the magnetic sensing elements. The reference rotational position sensing section includes a pair of magnets provided in the circumferential direction of the second shaft with like magnetic poles facing each other, a first magnetic part that is located between the magnets and the magnetic sensing elements, rotates integrally with the second shaft, and forms a magnetic path for magnetic flux of the magnets in the reference rotational position, and a second magnetic part that is provided between the magnetic sensing elements, and passes the magnetic flux from the first magnetic part uniformly to the magnetic sensing elements. | 03-15-2012 |
20120236479 | WATERPROOF STRUCTURE OF ELECTRONIC UNIT - A waterproof structure of an electronic unit includes a case that defines a housing portion housing a first terminal, and a connector that includes an insulating body attached to the case. The connector includes a second terminal that is supported by the insulating body and connects a conductor end portion of a cable to the first terminal. The insulating body includes a wall portion that partitions a part of the housing portion by covering an open portion of the case. The insulating body includes a cable lead-in portion that defines a cable lead-in hole for leading the cable into the case and is joined to the wall portion. A potting resin is filled in a space between the inner periphery of the cable lead-in hole and the outer periphery of the cable and the housing portion and cured. | 09-20-2012 |
20130229097 | WATERPROOF STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRONIC UNIT - A waterproof structure for an electronic unit includes a sub-case that defines an accommodating portion that accommodates a first terminal, and has a cable guiding hole that communicates with the accommodating portion. A potting resin filled in the accommodating portion is also filled in a space between a cable and the cable guiding hole. The cable includes a first sheath that covers a conductor and is made of a first resin material, and a second sheath that covers the first sheath. The second sheath and the potting resin are made of a second resin material that is different from the first resin material. | 09-05-2013 |
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20100162845 | VERTICAL ARTICULATED ROBOT - A vertical articulated robot includes a base; a turning base provided on the base so as to be pivotable about a first rotation axis; a first upper arm provided on the turning base so as to be turnable about a second rotation axis that is in a plane perpendicular to the first rotation axis; a second upper arm provided on a distal end portion of the first upper arm so as to be pivotable about a third rotation axis that is perpendicular to the second rotation axis; a front arm provided on a distal end portion of the second upper arm so as to be turnable about a fourth rotation axis that is in a plane perpendicular to the third rotation axis; and a wrist assembly mounted on a distal end portion of the front arm. A motor that rotates the second upper arm is mounted on a frame of the second upper arm. | 07-01-2010 |
20120312116 | VERTICAL ARTICULATED ROBOT - A vertical articulated robot includes a base, a turning base, a first upper arm, a second upper arm, a front arm, a wrist assembly, a first motor, a second motor, a third motor, a fourth motor, and a wire body. The wire body includes a first wire portion, a second wire portion, a third wire portion, a fourth wire portion, a fifth wire portion, and a sixth wire portion. The first wire portion extends from the turning base along a third rotation axis and is connected to an outer surface of the first upper arm. The second wire portion extends from the first wire portion along a plane perpendicular to the third rotation axis and is connected to an outer surface of the first upper arm. The third wire portion extends in a U-shape from the second wire portion. | 12-13-2012 |
20130017050 | PARALLEL LINK ROBOT AND PICKING SYSTEMAANM FUKUDOME; KazuhiroAACI FukuokaAACO JPAAGP FUKUDOME; Kazuhiro Fukuoka JPAANM Sanada; TakashiAACI FukuokaAACO JPAAGP Sanada; Takashi Fukuoka JPAANM Mihara; NobuhikoAACI FukuokaAACO JPAAGP Mihara; Nobuhiko Fukuoka JP - A parallel link robot includes a housing, a plurality of driving devices, and a plurality of arms. The housing includes arm coupling openings and a receiving opening. The plurality of driving devices are disposed in the receiving opening of the housing. The plurality of driving devices are attachable and detachable from and in a direction above the receiving opening. The plurality of arms are coupled to the respective driving devices through the respective arm coupling openings. | 01-17-2013 |
20140251058 | PARALLEL ROBOT - A parallel robot includes a plurality of actuators, a wrist portion, and a plurality of arms that respectively connect the wrist portion to the plurality of actuators. The wrist portion includes a base portion that includes a plurality of connection portions respectively connected to the plurality of arms and a rotation member that rotates about a rotation axis located outside an area surrounded by the plurality of connection portions. The rotation member is provided with a through-hole that is formed along the rotation axis. | 09-11-2014 |
20140360306 | PARALLEL ROBOT, ROBOT SYSTEM, AND ASSEMBLY METHOD FOR TRANSFER SYSTEM - A parallel robot includes a base casing, a plurality of arms, and an end unit. The base casing contains a plurality of actuators. Each of the arms is coupled to one of the actuators. The end unit is coupled to the plurality of arms. A communication hole for allowing piping and/or wiring to continue is formed in the base casing at its side facing the end unit. | 12-11-2014 |
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20080305427 | Lithographic Printing Plate - It relates to a processless lithographic printing plate requiring no post treatments after exposure to laser, wherein a difference between the lightness (L*1) of a laser unexposed area and the lightness (L*2) of a laser exposed area after irradiation with laser is 10□(L*2−L*1)<100. An object of the present invention is to provide plate bodies having excellent printing plate inspection in a lithographic printing plate in which drawing with laser light and processless are realized. When the lithographic printing plate of the present invention is used, it is possible to provide a processless lithographic printing plate, which is excellent in sensitivity and resolution, requires no treatments such as development, wiping-off or the like and is excellent in printing plate inspection in the laser exposed area by changing only the surface of the laser exposed area into the oleophilicity. | 12-11-2008 |
20090087783 | Original plate for lithography, and resin composition for photosensitive layer in original plate for lithography - The present invention provides a precursor that may provide a lithographic printing plate having an excellent image forming capability and having not only good hydrophilicity in a non-image part but also excellent printing resistance. Specifically, the present invention provides a lithographic printing plate precursor having a photosensitive layer containing a hydrophilic polymer, a crosslinking agent, hydrophobic polymer particles and a photo-thermal converter, wherein the hydrophilic polymer does not substantially contain, in its polymer chain, any of alcoholic hydroxyl groups and carboxyl groups (for example, 1.5% or less by mol of the repeating units of the hydrophilic polymer contain an alcoholic hydroxyl or carboxyl group). | 04-02-2009 |
20110133362 | MOLD RELEASE FILM FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR RESIN PACKAGE AND SEMICONDUCTOR RESIN PACKAGE MANUFACTURING METHOD USING SAME - Provided are: a mold release film, which has excellent mold releasability to a semiconductor resin package and does not easily generate warpage, wrinkles and the like; and a method for obtaining a semiconductor resin package having excellent dimensional accuracy by using such mold release film. The mold release film for manufacturing a semiconductor resin package has one or more base material layers (C), a pair of outermost layers (A) which sandwich the base material layers (C) and contain a 4-methyl-1-pentene polymer as a main component, and a pair of adhesive layers (B) which adhere together the base material layers (C) and the outermost layers (A). | 06-09-2011 |
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20100091429 | MONOLITHIC CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND MOUNTING STRUCTURE THEREOF - A monolithic ceramic electronic component includes a first internal electrode including a first region which extends to a first end surface and which has a relatively large dimension in a width direction and a second region which is located at the side closer to a front end than is the first region and which has a relatively small dimension in a width direction, wherein d | 04-15-2010 |
20100123994 | CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - In a ceramic electronic component having a thin structure, the occurrence of cracks due to stress applied when the ceramic component is being mounted or in a mounted state are prevented. Each of first and second external terminal electrodes has a substantially rectangular region on a principal surface of a ceramic element body, the principal surface being directed to the mounting surface side. An end of the first external terminal electrode, which is arranged in contact with a gap region, and an end of the second external terminal electrode, which is positioned in contact with the gap region, each preferably have a concave-convex shape on the principal surface. | 05-20-2010 |
20100128411 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT BUILT-IN SUBSTRATE - An electronic component includes an electronic component main body including opposed first and second main surfaces, opposed first and second side surfaces, and opposed first and second end surfaces and also includes first and second external terminal electrodes disposed on the first main surface. The first and second external terminal electrodes are spaced apart by a gap region. When a dimension in a longitudinal direction being a direction linking the first and second end surfaces of the electronic component main body is L, a dimension in a width direction being a direction linking the first and second side surfaces is W, and a dimension of the gap region along the longitudinal direction is g, W05-27-2010 | |
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20120018204 | CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND WIRING BOARD - A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic element body having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, and first and second external electrodes. The first and second external electrodes are provided on a first principal surface. Portions of the first and second external electrodes project further than the other portions in a thickness direction. A projecting portion of the first external electrode is provided at one end of the first external electrode in a length direction and a second projecting portion of the second external electrode is provided at another end of the second external electrode in the length direction. Thus, a concave portion is provided between the projecting portions, and a portion of the first principal surface provided between the first and second external electrodes is exposed. | 01-26-2012 |
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20120019099 | CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic base, first and second internal electrodes, and first and second external electrodes. The first external electrode is disposed at a first end portion of a first major surface in the longitudinal direction. The second external electrode is disposed at a second end portion of the first major surface in the longitudinal direction. A portion of each of the first and second external electrodes is opposed in the thickness direction to a region where the first and second internal electrodes are opposed to each other in the thickness direction. A condition ( 1/10)t | 01-26-2012 |
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20140332260 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND WIRING BOARD - A method of manufacturing a ceramic electronic component prevents variations in characteristics even when the ceramic electronic component is embedded in a wiring board. Ceramic green sheets containing an organic binder having a degree of polymerization in a range from about 1000 to about 1500 are prepared. A first conductive paste layer is formed on a surface of each of the ceramic green sheets. The ceramic green sheets are laminated to form a raw ceramic laminated body. A second conductive paste layer is formed on a surface of the raw ceramic laminated body. The raw ceramic laminated body formed with the second conductive paste layer is fired. | 11-13-2014 |