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Ban, JP

Akane Ban, Kanagawa-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110287220	SURFACE STRUCTURE OF ARTICLE - In the surface structure of an article	11-24-2011

Atsushi Ban, Osaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100253668	LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - First and second data signal lines are provided for a column of pixels, and signal potentials of opposite polarity to each other are supplied to the data signal lines respectively. In at least one embodiment, a predetermined pixel is taken as the first pixel. A pixel other than the (2×n×i+1)-th pixel in the scanning direction is connected to a data signal line different from that connected to the previous pixel, whereas the (2×n×i+1)-th pixel is connected to the same data signal line as that connected to the previous pixel. The polarity of the signal potential supplied to each data signal line is inverted every n horizontal scanning periods. Every adjacent two scan signal lines starting from the scan signal line connected to the predetermined pixel are sequentially selected at the same time among scan signal lines. A liquid crystal display with this structure enables an increase of the pixel charging time as well as prevention of flickering.	10-07-2010
20100259715	ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - An active matrix substrate (	10-14-2010

Atsushi Ban, Nara JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080315204	Thin Film Transistor, and Active Matrix Substrate and Display Device Provided with Such Thin Film Transistor - Improves the electric current driving capability of a thin film transistor without the yield being decreased due to a defective leak between a source electrode/drain electrode and a gate electrode or due to a decrease in an off-characteristic.	12-25-2008
20110057192	ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY UNIT PROVIDED WITH IT - An active matrix substrate includes a substrate; scanning lines formed on the substrate; an insulating film covering the scanning lines; signal lines intersecting the scanning lines via the insulating film; switching elements formed on the substrate, each operating in response to a signal which is applied to the corresponding scanning line; and pixel electrodes each capable of being electrically connected to the corresponding signal line via the switching elements. The insulating film is a multilayer insulating film including a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer. The first insulating layer is formed of an insulating material containing an organic component, and the multilayer insulating film has a low-stack region in at least a portion of a region overlapping each switching element, the first insulating layer not being formed in the low-stack region. The active matrix substrate reduces the capacitance formed at each intersection between a scanning line and a signal line, without causing an increase in the wiring resistance or a degradation of the driving ability of switching elements.	03-10-2011

Atsushi Ban, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080255427	LIGATION APPARATUS AND A LIGATION MEMBER - Provided is a grasper including an introduction tube that is capable of being inserted into a body cavity; an operational elongate body that is inserted into the introduction tube so as to advance and retract; and a clip that is attached to a distal end portion of the introduction tube and is operated by the relative movement between the operational elongate body and the introduction tube so as to grasp a body tissue, then is indwelled in a body. The clip has a plurality of grasping arms which are operated to be moved by the operational elongate body or the introduction tube, at least in a direction where the grasping arms are closed, so as to grasp the body tissue; and a retracting portion which retracts a portion of the body tissue between the plurality of grasping arms.	10-16-2008

Atsushi Ban, Osaka-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100265410	LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - In a liquid crystal display, a first data signal line and a second data signal line are provided for each pixel column. In at least one embodiment, in a case where every two pixels in the pixel column are paired, one of two pixels in each pair is connected with the first data signal line and the other of the two pixels is connected with the second data signal line, two scanning signal lines respectively connected with the two pixels are simultaneously selected during one horizontal scanning period so that signal potentials are written into the two pixels from the first data signal line and the second data signal line, respectively, during each horizontal scanning period, supply of the signal potentials to the first data signal line and the second data signal line is performed after supply of preliminary potentials to the first data signal line and the second data signal line. This allows improving the display quality of a liquid crystal display in which a larger size, higher definition, or higher-speed driving etc. makes full charging of pixels difficult even when simultaneous scanning.	10-21-2010

Hajime Ban, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110144285	RESIN COMPOSITION - The present invention provides a resin composition with favorable melt fluidity, sliding characteristics, toughness, mechanical strength, etc.	06-16-2011

Hideyuki Ban, Kodaira JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110002516	METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DIVIDING AREA OF IMAGE OF PARTICLE IN URINE - An objective is to provide a method and an apparatus for accurately extracting a region of an object particle from a urine particle image obtained by taking an image of urine particles in a urine specimen having varying properties. First, a first object region is extracted using one or more of an R image, a G image, and a B image of a urine particle image taken by an image input optical system configured to input particle images. Then, a density distribution and a size of the first object region of one or more of the R image, the G image, and the B image are calculated. Based on these feature parameters, the first object region is classified into a predetermined number of groups. A second object region is extracted from a local region including the first object region, by using one or more of the R image, the G image, and the B image, depending on each of the groups. This configuration allows stable region segmentation for each particle image even for a urine specimen in which urine particles having different sizes and tones coexist.	01-06-2011
20110125415	METHOD FOR ASSISTING JUDGMENT OF ABNORMALITY OF REACTION PROCESS DATA AND AUTOMATIC ANALYZER - In the event of a suspected abnormality in the device, sample or reagent, a laboratory technician had to examine the abnormal reaction process data item by item, and infer the cause of the abnormality, which took effort and time in some cases. Abnormality judgment is assisted using: indicator computation means that computes an indicator indicating a feature parameter of a given waveform by applying a pre-defined evaluation formula to time series data of photometric values; relative indicator computation means that computes a value indicating a relationship of the indicator of target data to the indicator computed in the past; and indicator display means that simultaneously displays a value computed by the indicator computation means and the value computed by the relative indicator computation means. According to the present method, which is a method for assisting judgment of abnormality wherein a feature parameter of a given absorbance change is computed, it can be made easier to find certain abnormalities, and it becomes possible to attain more efficient device maintenance and improved device reliability without the addition of any new parts.	05-26-2011

Hiroaki Ban, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100155466	INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, PORTABLE TERMINAL, INFORMATION OUTPUTTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information providing system includes a portable terminal including an IC chip, and an information providing apparatus that carries out wireless communications with the IC chip. The information providing apparatus includes a browser that reads content and that outputs the content on a screen based on screen-output control information embedded in the content data and defining an output format or a data structure of the content, and a wireless communication unit that carries out wireless communications with the IC chip. In the content data, transmission target information to be transmitted to the portable terminal, and transmission control information instructing transmission of the transmission target information, are also embedded. The browser instructs the wireless communication unit to transmit the transmission target information to the portable terminal based on the transmission control information. The wireless communication unit transmits the transmission target information to the IC chip based on the instruction.	06-24-2010

Hiromasa Ban, Odawara JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090217231	INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN SUPPORT PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH SAID PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - Provided is an integrated circuit design support apparatus capable of estimating the optimal wiring length and wiring congestion at the stage of implementing a logical design of an integrated circuit, thereby preventing the do-over of the logical design or functional design caused by a wiring delay that is discovered at a packaging design stage, and shortening the time required for designing the integrated circuit. The present invention is able to accurately estimate the wiring length between the modules and the wiring congestion in the modules at the stage of implementing the logical design of the integrated circuit, and reflect the logical design result of the integrated circuit in the packaging design of the integrated circuit.	08-27-2009
20110283116	STORAGE CONTROLLER AND POWER SAVING METHOD - This invention proposes a storage controller and its power saving methods capable of significantly saving power consumption. The storage controller of this invention is connected to host terminals and storage devices, controls data storage in the storage devices, and includes a microprocessor including one or more ports and at the same time controlling the entire relevant device via the relevant ports, and multiple types of components including one or more ports and at the same time configuring data paths between the host terminals and the storage devices via the relevant ports, and the microprocessor detects, among the ports of the relevant microprocessor or the component, those not connected to any of the host terminals, any of the storage devices, or any of the ports of the other components as unconnected ports, and stops the power supply to the detected unconnected ports.	11-17-2011

Hiroshi Ban, Kanagawa JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100201390	PROBE CARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PROBE CARD, AND PROBER APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a probe card in which the positional shift of the tip of a probe can be compensated for in response to a change in the temperature, and a wafer test in a wide range of temperatures can be performed. More specifically, the probe card includes a substrate, a probe composed of a first metallic material having a first thermal expansion coefficient, a base of the probe being joined to the substrate, a tip of the probe coming into contact with a connection terminal of an electronic device, and a thermal compensation member composed of a second metallic material having a second thermal expansion coefficient that is higher than the first thermal expansion coefficient, a base of the thermal compensation member being fixed to the substrate, a tip of the thermal compensation member coming into contact with the probe at an intermediate portion between the base of the probe and the tip of the probe.	08-12-2010

Hiroshi Ban, Ibaraki JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110287538	METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF REPROGRAMMED CELL USING CHROMOSOMALLY UNINTEGRATED VIRUS VECTOR - An objective of the present invention is to provide vectors for conveniently and efficiently producing ES-like cells in which foreign genes are not integrated into the chromosome. The present inventors discovered methods for producing ES-like cells from somatic cells using chromosomally non-integrating viral vectors. Since no foreign gene is integrated into the chromosome of the produced ES-like cells, they are advantageous in tests and research, and immunological rejection and ethical problems can be avoided in disease treatments.	11-24-2011

Hiroyuki Ban, Hazu-Gun JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080231340	Level shift circuit - A level shift circuit includes a first capacitor circuit including capacitors connected in series between a ground and a predetermined potential, a first trigger circuit coupled to the predetermined potential side of the first capacitor circuit, an input terminal coupled to the ground side of the first capacitor circuit, a second capacitor circuit including capacitors connected in series between the ground and the predetermined potential, a second trigger circuit coupled to the predetermined potential side of the second capacitor circuit, an inverter coupled between the input terminal and the ground potential side of the second capacitor circuit, and a SR latch circuit having a first input coupled to an output of the first trigger circuit and a second input coupled to an output of the second trigger circuit.	09-25-2008
20090127605	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same - A semiconductor device includes: n transistor elements; n resistive elements; and n capacitive elements, each kind of elements coupled in series between the first and second terminals. The gate of each transistor element has a gate pad, and each transistor element includes transistor pads disposed on both sides. Each resistive element includes resistive pads disposed on both sides. Each capacitive element includes capacitive pads disposed on both sides. The gate pad other than the first stage transistor element, a corresponding resistive pad, and a corresponding capacitive pad are electrically coupled. One transistor pad, one resistive pad, and one capacitive pad in the first stage are electrically coupled. One transistor pad, one resistive pad, and one capacitive pad in the n-th stage are electrically coupled.	05-21-2009
20100238632	Load driving device - A load driving device includes: an output power device for driving a load; a driving IC for controlling the output power device, wherein the driving IC is electrically coupled with the output power device through a wire or a connection member; and a first electrode substrate. The output power device and the driving IC are mounted on the first electrode substrate. In this case, the output power device is controlled with high speed, and a mounting area of the output power device and the driving IC is reduced.	09-23-2010

Hiroyuki Ban, Takasago-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100178213	REACTOR AND REACTING METHOD - It is aimed to improve reaction efficiency by increasing a contact area of first and second reactants per unit volume without reducing dimensions of an inlet path for the first reactant and an inlet path for the second reactant in a layer-thickness direction.	07-15-2010
20100179230	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID MICROSPHERES - The present invention provides microsphere manufacturing method and apparatus capable of stable obtaining microspheres of a desired size and reducing facility cost. According to the method and the apparatus, to manufacture microspheres made of a second liquid in a first liquid, the first liquid is supplied into a first channel to flow therein and the second liquid is supplied to an intermediate part of the first channel through a second channel. The supply velocities of the first and second liquids are set such that the second liquid closes the first channel and the closing part of the second liquid is cut off due to a pressure difference between an upstream side and a downstream side to form microspheres.	07-15-2010

Junko Ban, Osaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090054502	Benzimidazole Derivative and Use as Angiotensin II Antagonist - The present invention provides (5-methyl-2-oxo-1,3-dioxol-4-yl)methyl 2-cyclopropyl-1-{[2′-(5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-1,2,4-oxadiazol-3-yl)biphenyl-4-yl]methyl}-1H-benzimidazole-7-carboxylate represented by the formula:	02-26-2009

Kazuhiro Ban, Ohta-Ku JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100227308	INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND DISEASE DIAGNOSIS METHOD - An information acquisition method for acquiring information on a target object, that includes a step of promoting ionization of the target object using a substance for promoting ionization of the target object to cause the target object to emit, and a step of acquiring information on the mass of the flew target object using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry.	09-09-2010

Kazuo Ban, Osaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090077918	FLOORING SYSTEM - Flooring blocks which can be easily joined to each other and removed have a square-shaped main body and have, on the sides of a square-shaped main body, concave portions and convex portions. In the block main body, block main body side pin insertion paths are perforated along the sides on which the concave portions are formed, and in the convex portions, convex portion side pin insertion paths are perforated. In the block main body side pin insertion paths, pin main bodies of lock pins are inserted slidably between joining positions and housed positions, and the block main body side pin insertion path is partially formed into an open groove opened to the block main body surface, and the open groove is provided with a first lateral groove and a second lateral groove, and block main bodies adjacent to each other are joined to each other by sliding the pin main body of the lock pin in a state that the concave portion and the convex portion are engaged with each other.	03-26-2009

Kazuo Ban, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100194307	POWER CIRCUIT AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS - A series load circuit is a circuit formed by connecting a light-emitting device unit	08-05-2010

Kazuo Ban, Nara-Shi Nara JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100137155	BIOSENSOR, METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME, DETECTING METHOD UTILIZING THE SAME - A biosensor capable of highly sensitive detection of a recognition target substance while having structural stability is provided at low cost. The biosensor is for capturing and detecting a recognition target substance and includes a linker made of a hydrocarbon compound having two or more particular functional groups, a peptide serving as a molecular recognition substance directly bonded to one particular functional group of the linker, and a support directly bonded to the other particular functional group of the linker. Preferably, the particular functional groups each are a reaction product functional group of an epoxy group and an amino group. The peptide is an artificially synthesized peptide including three or more consecutive amino acid sequences, among amino acid sequences of a natural immunoglobulin, that exist in a part corresponding to a hypervariable area of the natural immunoglobulin.	06-03-2010

Keiji Ban, Osaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080197231	TAPE CARTRIDGE - A tape cartridge has a reel having an external peripheral surface and a tape wound around the external peripheral surface of the reel. The peripheral surface has a shallow recess defined therein and extending in a peripheral direction of the reel. The recess is extended in a direction opposite a tape winding direction from a first point to a second point away from the first point. The recess is defined by an end wall extending inwardly from the first point to a third point away from the first point and a height substantially the same as a thickness of the tape. The recess also has a bottom wall extending peripherally from the third point to the second point and having a depth decreasing in proportion to a distance from the third point toward the second point. The portion of the tape is positioned in the recess so that the end wall abuts or opposes the end portion of the tape.	08-21-2008

Kenji Ban, Gifu JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100096968	SPARK PLUG - A spark plug in which the rising of a ground electrode is more reliably restrained. The spark plug includes a ground electrode having a core portion extending from a proximal end section toward a distal end section via a bent section, a heat transfer portion extending from the proximal end section toward the distal end section via the bent section, and an external layer located externally of the core portion and the heat transfer portion and extending from the proximal end section to the distal end section via the bent section. As viewed on a section of the ground electrode taken orthogonally to a direction along which the ground electrode extends, at least at an intermediate position of the bent section with respect to the direction, the center of the core portion is offset toward a center electrode from the center of the heat transfer portion.	04-22-2010
20100314987	SPARK PLUG - A spark plug is such that a front end portion of an insulating member projects 2 mm or larger from a front end face of a metal shell and a volume of a portion of the insulating member which lies within a range from a front end of the insulating member to a position lying 1 mm towards a rear end side from the front end is 11 mm	12-16-2010
20110025186	SPARK PLUG FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A spark plug in which a front end portion of a ground electrode is positioned outside of a virtual outer circumferential face that is formed by extending a front and outer circumferential face of a center electrode in the axis direction, and positioned on a front end side in the axis direction with respect to a virtual face including a front end face of the center electrode. Further, the equation 1.1≦b/a≦1.6 is satisfied, where “a” (mm) represents a first minimal distance between the front end portion of the center electrode and the front end portion of the ground electrode and, where “b” (mm) represents a second minimal distance between the front end portion of a ceramic insulator and the front end portion of the ground electrode.	02-03-2011
20110095672	SPARK PLUG - A spark plug capable of preventing breakage of a ground electrode. The spark plug is comprised of a ground electrode having a base end portion fixed to a metal shell, a bend portion integrally formed with the base end portion and being bent and a front end portion integrally formed with the bend portion and forming a spark discharge gap “g” with a center electrode. The ground electrode is comprised of a core extending from the base end portion towards the front end portion through the bend portion; and an outer layer disposed outside the core and extending from the base end portion up to the front end portion through the bend portion. The core is made of Hastelloy C serving as a first metal, and the outer layer is made of Inconel 601 serving as a second metal. Hardness of Hastelloy C is higher than that of Inconel 601.	04-28-2011

Koichi Ban, Tokai-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090293461	Exhaust Heat Recovery Device - An exhaust heat recovery device includes an accommodating portion extending continuously without shrinking a section therein and adapted to allow exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine to pass therethrough, a catalyst disposed in the accommodating portion for cleaning the exhaust gas, an evaporator disposed adjacent to the catalyst on a downstream side of an exhaust gas flow in the accommodating portion, and a condenser for condensing the working medium by radiating heat of the working medium flowing thereinto from the evaporator so as to recover exhaust heat on the coolant side. The condenser is located to return the condensed working medium to the evaporator.	12-03-2009

Koichi Ban, Toukai-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100251703	WASTE HEAT CONTROL APPARATUS - The waste heat control apparatus is used in a heat recovery system for recovering and reusing waste heat of an engine. The waste heat control apparatus includes a plurality of waste heat amount adjusting sections activated to increase an amount of the waste heat of the engine, and a control section which performs waste heat control in accordance with a heat utilization demand to increase the amount of the waste heat of the engine by activating at least one of the plurality of waste heat amount adjusting sections.	10-07-2010

Koichi Ban, Tokai-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090078400	TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE FOR ON-BOARD BATTERY PACK - A temperature control device has a heat exchanger recovering heat from exhaust gas of an engine, a water circulating passage in which a cooling water is circulated while receiving the recovered heat, an air conditioning unit heating air with the hot cooling water of the passage to produce a temperature controlled air, an air duct, a water heater attached to the bottom surface of a battery pack, and an electric heater attached side surfaces of the pack. The conditioning unit blows the controlled air against the battery pack through the duct. The water heater receives the hot cooling water of the passage and raises the temperature of the battery pack. The electric heater subsidiarily warms the battery pack with heat generated from electric power of the pack.	03-26-2009

Koji Ban, Shizuoka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090198858	Semiconductor memory device and operation method therefor - Disclosed herein is a semiconductor memory device, including: a memory array section wherein a memory array which is accessed with a predetermined data bus width is formed; an interface section configured to carry out interfacing between an external apparatus and the memory array section; and a converter having a conversion function of data and a control signal between the interface section and the memory array section and having conversion functions corresponding to specifications of the memory array; the interface section including a plurality of interface modules individually corresponding to different memory types and selectively adapted for the interfacing process between the external apparatus and the memory array section; the converter having a data width variation function of issuing a command and an address for the memory array based on information of access data of the memory array and outputting the access data after varying or without varying the data width.	08-06-2009
20090238021	Semiconductor memory device and operation method therefor - Disclosed herein is a semiconductor memory device, including: a memory array section wherein a memory array which requires a refresh operation is formed; an interface section configured to carry out an interfacing process between an external apparatus and the memory array section; and a refresh control block for controlling the refresh operation; the interface section configured to include a plurality of interface modules individually corresponding to a plurality of memory types and selectively applied to the interfacing process between the external apparatus and the memory array section; the refresh control block having a function of issuing a refresh command within a refresh cycle and another function of preventing, if, upon issuance of the refresh command, an access command and the refresh command to the memory array are estimated to collide with each other, the collision.	09-24-2009

Kunikazu Ban, Kita-Ku JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090183498	Exhaust emission control device - An exhaust emission control device includes an adsorbent trapper having an adsorbent for adsorbing and desorbing hydrocarbon in exhaust gas, a catalytic converter, a main exhaust gas passage with a first valve, a bypass exhaust gas passage with a second valve and a control unit. The bypass exhaust gas passage bypassing the first valve is connected with the adsorbent. The control unit controls the first and second valves to desorb the hydrocarbon from the adsorbent when a condition is satisfied. The condition is that the catalyst converter is in active, an oxygen adsorption amount of the catalyst converter is not less than a first predetermined amount and an exhaust gas amount is not more than a second predetermined amount. The first valve is opened and the second valve is closed when the condition is not satisfied during desorption of the hydrocarbon from the adsorbent.	07-23-2009

Kunikazu Ban, Saitama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090199551	EXHAUST MANIFOLD - An exhaust manifold includes a plurality of branch pipes	08-13-2009

Masakazu Ban, Nirasaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110265952	MICROWAVE PLASMA PROCESSING DEVICE AND GATE VALVE FOR MICROWAVE PLASMA PROCESSING DEVICE - A gate valve includes a plate-shaped valve element which is rectangular-shaped to suit the shape of an opening of a processing chamber and has a size larger than the opening. A hermetically sealing member to perform hermetic sealing by abutting on and being pressed against an outer side of the processing chamber is provided in the valve element. A microwave reflecting mechanism which is formed in a groove shape so as to surround a periphery of the hermetically sealing member is provided at an outer peripheral portion of the hermetically sealing member.	11-03-2011

Masakazu Ban, Ikoma-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090286786	Compounds having a 4-pyridylalkylthio group as a substituent - A compound having the following formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof:	11-19-2009
20100016354	NOVEL OXADIAZOLE DERIVATIVES AND THIADIAZOLE DERIVATIVES HAVING NEOVASCULARIZATION INHIBITORY ACTIVITY - The present invention relates to Compounds represented by the formula (I) or salts thereof. In the formula (I), the ring A represents a benzene ring, a thiophene ring, or a pyridine ring; R	01-21-2010

Masakazu Ban, Osaka-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100016380	TNF-alpha production inhibitors - A compound having the following formula	01-21-2010

Masakazu Ban, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100197988	METHOD FOR SEPARATING AND PRODUCING CYCLOHEXENE - There is provided a method for separating cyclohexene comprising the steps of: (a) separating a mixed solution containing cyclohexene, cyclohexane, and benzene by distillation using N,N-dimethylacetamide as an extractant; and (b) feeding at least a portion of a first bottom liquid obtained by separating cyclohexene, cyclohexane, and benzene from the mixed solution in the step (a) to an extractant purification column, withdrawing an azeotrope of cyclohexyl acetate and N,N-dimethylacetamide from a top of the extractant purification column to an outside of a system, and recycling a second bottom liquid of the extractant purification column to the step (a).	08-05-2010

Mitsuhiro Ban, Hyogo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090081766	MICRO BIO SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE MICRO BIO SENSOR - A micro bio sensor which detects a microbe existing in a specimen is provided. The microbial sensor includes a base, a detector formed on the base, and a reaction layer formed on the detector, wherein the reaction layer is comprised of a self-assembled monolayer which is formed on the detector and an antibiotic which is immobilized through the self-assembled monolayer on the detector. By using the micro bio sensor, it is possible to detect species of the microbe concurrently and improve sensitivity for detecting the species of the microbe. Further, a method for manufacturing such a micro bio sensor is also provided.	03-26-2009

Naoma Ban, Hitachinaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080263028	Report Search Method, Report Search System, and Reviewing Apparatus - An object of the present invention is to provide a report search method, and a reviewing apparatus by which a measure against abnormalities such as a defect of a sample may be quickly obtained by searching desired information in a report recording past information.	10-23-2008
20090206259	REVIEW METHOD AND REVIEW DEVICE - A defect review method and a defect review device using an electron microscope, reduce the number of user processes necessary to set automatic focal adjustment of an electron beam to provide easier sample observation.	08-20-2009

Naomichi Ban, Nagoya JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110187039	IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus with a double-face printing function is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a sheet feeding path including a regular feeding path and a return-feeding path and capable of accommodating a plurality of recording sheets, a sheet-ejection controller to eject the recording sheet out of the sheet feeding path through a sheet outlet. The sheet-ejection controller controls a recording sheet closer to the sheet outlet in the direction of sheet-conveyance along the sheet feeding path to be ejected prior to a recording sheet further from the sheet outlet when cancellation of the print job is entered during a double-face printing operation, in which the images are formed on one side of N pieces of recording sheets continuously and the other side of M pieces of recording sheets thereafter, whilst M is smaller than or equal to N.	08-04-2011

Naomichi Ban, Nagoya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110076076	PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus comprising: a printing section including a conveyer, a reconveyer, and a printer; a sensor; a determination section; and a controller. The determination section determines whether a pair of the first sheet and the second sheet is eligible for the high-speed duplex printing based on the combination of the length of the first sheet and the length of the second sheet before the second sheet conveyed by the reconveyer. The controller controls the printing section to convey the first sheet and the second sheet to the reconveyer when the pair of the length of the first sheet and the second sheet is eligible for the high-speed duplex printing, and controls the printing section to eject at least one of the first and the second sheet when the pair of the length of the first and the second sheets is not eligible for the high-speed duplex printing.	03-31-2011

Nobutaka Ban, Saitama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110180345	COWLING STRUCTURE FOR SADDLE-RIDE TYPE VEHICLE - A cowling structure for a saddle-ride type vehicle for cooling an engine and providing a windshield for a rider. The cowling structure includes a seat for a rider to sit thereon, the seat is arranged behind and above an engine suspended from a vehicle body frame. An under cowl covers at least part of a lower portion of the engine. The under cowl is formed to cover at least part of a side surface of the engine. A guide portion is provided in an upper portion of the under cowl, the guide portion extending inward in a vehicle width direction and toward the side surface of the engine. An opening is provided in front of the guide portion, the opening introducing a flow of air into the under cowl. The guide portion has a slope surface which slopes downward from the front to the rear of the vehicle.	07-28-2011

Nobuyuki Ban, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110252833	FILMED METAL MEMBER FOR FLOAT GLASS MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT AND FLOAT GLASS MANUFACTURING METHOD - The present invention provides a metal member that is used so that there is a portion that is exposed to the atmosphere in a float bath, and with which diffusion of Fe into the float bath is inhibited and thereby preventing the defect from being generated on the surface of a plate glass. The present invention relates to a metal member with a film for a float glass manufacturing equipment that has a portion exposed to the atmosphere in a float bath in which the film has a mean thickness of from 50 to 500 μm and contains Ni and/or Co, Cr and Al	10-20-2011

Nobuyuki Ban, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100071419	APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PLATE GLASS - An apparatus	03-25-2010

Ryuichiro Ban, Funabashi-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100093418	ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND ACCESS CONTROL PROGRAM - An access control device which controls access to a server from a plurality of terminal devices includes a receiving section which receives requests from the terminal devices to access the server, a lottery section which conducts a lottery for the terminal devices making the access requests from among the access requests received by the receiving section, and a lottery result transmitting section which transmits connection destination information which is used to access the server to the terminal devices which were successful in the lottery conducted by the lottery section.	04-15-2010
20100107082	COMMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, COMMENT DELIVERY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR - A comment delivery server associates comment contents in which an elapsed contents playback time has been set as a comment attachment time with contents identification information, and stores these as comment information. The comment delivery server reads from a comment information storage section comment information which corresponds to contents identification information received by a contents identification information receiving section, and delivers it to a terminal device. The terminal device transmits identification information for contents targeted for playback to the comment delivery server, receives comment information transmitted from the comment delivery server, and stores the received comment information. Of the comment information stored in the comment information storage section, comments to which have been assigned a comment attachment time which corresponds to an elapsed contents playback time for the contents being played back are displayed so as to be synchronized with the elapsed contents playback time of the contents being played back.	04-29-2010

Shinichi Ban, Kobe-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090049541	IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, FUNCTION EXTENSION METHOD, AND A COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING FUNCTION EXTENSION PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - An image formation apparatus: previously stores first information allowing functions that a plurality of users are authorized to use, respectively, to be determined, receives second information input to determine a user, the second information allowing that user to be determined, determines from the previously stored first information a normal function that the determined user is authorized to use, is set to make the determined normal function available, receives third information input from a first storage medium having the third information stored therein, to determine an extended function, the third information allowing the extended function to be determined; and is set to make the determined extended function available in addition to the normal function set available.	02-19-2009

Shinji Ban, Gifu JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110220854	ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE OXIDE SINTERED COMPACT, THERMISTOR ELEMENT EMPLOYING THE SAME, AND TEMPERATURE SENSOR EMPLOYING THE SAME - A sintered electroconductive oxide (	09-15-2011

Takao Ban, Toyohashi-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080236274	Flow measuring device - An airflow measuring device includes a sensing portion provided in a bypass passage, which perpendicularly deflects part of air from a main passage to therethrough bypass the part of air. The sensing portion includes a heating resistor energized and dissipate heat to airflow. The sensing portion is configured to measure airflow in the bypass passage based on the heat radiation. The sensing portion further includes a pair of support members erected in the bypass passage to support the heating resistor. The heating resistor of the sensing portion is inclined at a first inclination angle with respect to a direction, which is perpendicular to a flow direction of air in the bypass passage. The heating resistor is inclined toward downstream at an outer streamline of the airflow in the bypass passage.	10-02-2008
20090299657	AIR FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND AIR FLOW CORRECTION METHOD - An air flow measurement device measures a flow amount of air. A flow sensor is configured to output a voltage value corresponding to a given flow amount of the air. A temperature sensor is configured to output temperature of the air. A correction coefficient memory portion is configured to store a correction coefficient for correcting the voltage value of the flow sensor to a corrected voltage value associated with the given flow amount based on a predetermined standard temperature. A relationship between the voltage value of the flow sensor and the flow amount of the air changes based on temperature of the air. A correction portion is configured to correct the output voltage value of the flow sensor to the corrected voltage value using the correction coefficient.	12-03-2009
20110271768	AIR FLOW MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - An air flow measurement apparatus includes an air flow sensor for outputting an air flow signal indicative of detected air flow, a reference voltage generator for outputting reference voltage signals, a multiplexer for sequentially selecting the signals in a predetermined order, an A/D converter for converting the signals into digital data in an order selected by the multiplexer, and a signal processing unit for applying correction processing to air flow voltage data corresponding to the air flow signal using reference voltage data corresponding to the reference voltage signals. The signal processing unit has a sampling timing setting section for determining sampling timings at which the A/D converter samples the signals in such a manner that the sampling timing at which the air flow signal is sampled is interposed between the sampling timings at which successive two of the reference voltage signals are sampled.	11-10-2011

Takashi Ban, Kariya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20120014825	ROOTS TYPE FLUID MACHINE - A roots type fluid machine includes a case having a side wall, a pair of rotary shafts provided in the case, a pair of rotors engaged with each other and fixed to the pair of rotary shafts so as to extend axially, respectively, a suction space formed by the case and the pair of rotors for introducing fluid, a discharge space formed by the case for discharging fluid and the pair of rotors and a transfer chamber formed by the case and the rotor. The rotor has a rotor end surface. A clearance is formed between the side wall and the rotor end surface. The transfer chamber transfers gas introduced in the suction space to the discharge space in accordance with the rotation of the pair of rotors. The case has a guide groove formed in the side wall facing the rotor end surface. Gas leaked from the discharge space into the clearance is introduced to the transfer chamber through the guide groove.	01-19-2012

Takashi Ban, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110191734	DESIGNING APPARATUS, DESIGNING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - In general, according to one embodiment, a designing apparatus includes a clock tree generator, a logic modifier, a layout modifier, and an outputting module. The clock tree generator is configured to generate a clock tree. The logic modifier is configured to logically insert a delay element in such a manner that a hold violation is modified without considering a setup timing with respect to circuit data corresponding to the clock tree generated by the clock tree generator. The layout modifier is configured to modify a layout of a semiconductor integrated circuit based on a processing result of the logic modifier. The outputting module is configured to output the layout of the semiconductor integrated circuit. The layout is modified by the layout modifier.	08-04-2011

Takeomi Ban, Osaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090252020	OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup according to the present invention includes: an objective lens	10-08-2009

Takeshi Ban, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090076408	PET BODY FAT MEASURING TOOL - A pet body fat measuring tool	03-19-2009
20090148560	PET FOODS - A pet food containing (A) an oil or fat and (B) one or more carbohydrate sources selected from the group consisting of modified starch, barley, sorghum, corn and high-amylose starch, wherein a content of diacylglycerol in the whole oil or fat is 20 wt % or higher.	06-11-2009

Takeshi Ban, Sumida-Ku JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100126525	ALLERGEN DEPRESSANT AND DEPRESSION METHOD - The invention provides a means capable of effectively inactivating and removing allergen or a precursor thereof. The invention relates to an allergen-reducing agent containing water and a water-soluble polymer compound having units having hydroxy or carboxy groups wherein at least a part of hydrogen atoms of the hydroxy or carboxy groups are substituted by specific groups containing a polyether group.	05-27-2010

Takuma Ban, Kokubunji JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100215324	OPTICAL MODULE - An optical module having a flexible substrate having, even after actual manufacturing steps, excellent transmission characteristics of high-frequency signals and an advantage that electromagnetic field radiation is reduced even when it is connected with a package. The flexible substrate used in external connection of the package of the optical module uses a flexible substrate having a coplanar line to which a lead pin is fixedly attached, a grounded coplanar line which is in contact with the coplanar region, and a microstrip line which is in contact with the grounded coplanar line. The flexible substrate has an electrode layout in which an electromagnetic field component of a surface ground line and a signal line is more dominant than an electromagnetic field component of a back-surface ground line and the signal line in a region of the coplanar line adjacent to the grounded coplanar line.	08-26-2010
20100247043	OPTICAL MODULE AND WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING OPTICAL MODULE - An optical module is formed by sticking the optical element mounting substrate and the sealing substrate together, then by sealing the stuck body. The optical mounting substrate includes an optical element on its top surface and it is used to guide electrical signals to its back side through a through-via hole provided in itself. The sealing substrate includes a lens at its back side and a recessed part used to hold an optical fiber at its front side.	09-30-2010

Takuma Ban, Kamakura JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100006863	OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A metal pattern for a high frequency signal is patterned on a flexile substrate, and the flexile substrate is bent in such a way as to form a substantially right angle at a spot corresponding to an end of the metal pattern for the signal. And an end of the metal pattern is fixedly attached to a lead pin for signaling, attached to a stem, for electrical continuity, so as to be in a posture horizontal with each other. Meanwhile, a part of the lead pins attached to the stem, being in such a state as penetrated through respective holes provided in the flexible substrate, is fixedly attached to a part of metal patterns provided on the flexible substrate so as to ensure electrical continuity therebetween.	01-14-2010
20100054671	STRUCTURE COMPRISING OPTO-ELECTRIC HYBRID BOARD AND OPTO-ELECTRIC PACKAGE - A structure which is able to stably achieve electrical coupling, and which is capable of efficient optical coupling is provided. Optical coupling is achieved with the lower surface of an opto-electric package and the upper surface of an opto-electric hybrid board. On the other hand, electrical connection is achieved by means of contact between electrodes on the side surfaces of the opto-electric package and electrodes on the inner-wall side surfaces of a socket mounted on the opto-electric hybrid board. The electrodes are in electrical contact with electrical wiring.	03-04-2010

Takuma Ban, Kodaira JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090316745	OPTICAL MODULE - A laser diode has a horizontal cavity and a mirror attached to the horizontal cavity at an angle of substantially 45° or substantially 135°. The laser diode is mounted on a stem substantially horizontally with taking light vertically emitted to the horizontal cavity as an optical signal, and light horizontally emitted as an optical signal for monitoring, respectively. A photodetector is mounted on the stem substantially orthogonally and so as to let in the optical signal for monitoring.	12-24-2009

Teruichiro Ban, Itabashi-Ku JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090166095	WEIGHING MACHINE - A weighing machine having a weighing platform includes a detection unit for outputting a detection voltage depending on a load acting on the measuring platform; a first data generation unit for A-D converting the detection voltage to generate first data; a second data generation unit for A-D converting the detection voltage to generate second data; and a control unit which stops operating the second data generation unit and monitors the first data in a standby state, switches from the standby state to a measurement state when the control unit senses that an object is placed on the weighing platform, then stops operating the first data generation unit and operates the second data generation unit, and outputs the measured weight of the object according to the second data. The first data generation unit consumes less power but has a lower A-D conversion precision than the second data generation unit.	07-02-2009

Tetsuo Ban, Iwakuni-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100068496	PITCH-BASED CARBON FIBER, WEB AND RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT CONTAINING THEM - To provide a carbon fiber reinforcement having excellent thermal conductivity and mechanical properties which is manufactured by mixing together two different types of pitch-based carbon short fibers having a ratio of the degree of filament diameter distribution to average fiber diameter of 0.05 to 0.2 and a fiber length of 20 to 6,000 μm which differ from each other in average fiber diameter or by mixing one of them with a pitch-based carbon fiber web to improve dispersibility into a matrix resin or increase the dispersion ratio of the pitch-based carbon short fibers.	03-18-2010

Tetsuo Ban, Yamaguchi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090061193	CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE SHEET, USE THEREOF AS A HEAT CONDUCTOR AND PITCH-BASED CARBON FIBER WEB SHEET FOR USE IN THE SAME - A carbon fiber composite sheet comprising a pitch-based carbon fiber web and a matrix resin, wherein	03-05-2009
20090075054	PITCH-BASED CARBON FIBER, WEB AND RESIN MOLDED PRODUCT CONTAINING THEM - To provide a carbon fiber reinforcement having excellent thermal conductivity and mechanical properties which is manufactured by mixing together two different types of pitch-based carbon short fibers having a ratio of the degree of filament diameter distribution to average fiber diameter of 0.05 to 0.2 and a fiber length of 20 to 6,000 μm which differ from each other in average fiber diameter or by mixing one of them with a pitch-based carbon fiber web to improve dispersibility into a matrix resin or increase the dispersion ratio of the pitch-based carbon short fibers.	03-19-2009

Tetsuya Ban, Kyoto JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090137266	PORTABLE TELEPHONE - A user enters a numeric string on a standby screen of a cellular telephone, and then presses a predetermined function key, the numeric string obtained by numerical conversion of a piece of registration information, in accordance with an assignment relationship indicated on numerical keys of the cellular telephone. A database in which numeric data obtained by the numerical conversion of a piece of registration information in accordance with the above-mentioned assignment relationship and the piece of registration information are associated with each other is previously held in the cellular telephone. The database is searched by using the entered numeric string as a search key, so that pieces of registration information associated with numeric data containing the numeric string are extracted. An exactly matching one of the extracted pieces of registration information is sorted in a high rank and displayed.	05-28-2009

Wataru Ban, Saitama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080234065	GOLF CLUB - This invention provides a wood type golf club including a shaft, a grip at one end of the shaft, and a head at the other end of the shaft, wherein a mass m (g) of the golf club and a length L (cm) from a grip side end of the golf club to a barycentric position of the golf club satisfy m×L=2.55×104 (g·cm) and m×L	09-25-2008
20080287208	GOLF BALL MOVEMENT MEASURING APPARATUS - A golf ball movement measuring apparatus includes: a camera for taking a plurality of images of a golf ball hit by a golf club; a dark-colored background material which is disposed so as to configure a background of the golf ball in the images; and a processing unit to which the images are transmitted from the camera, the processing unit masking a background portion excepting the dark-colored background material in the images in black through image processing, and the processing unit analyzing a movement of the golf ball hit by the golf club.	11-20-2008
20090088267	GOLF CLUB HEAD - This invention provides a hollow golf club head including a fixing member which includes a shaft body formed with a threaded portion at one end, and a head portion at the other end of the shaft body, a viscoelastic body having an opening through which the shaft body extends, a recess portion formed in a circumferential wall of the golf club head and in which the viscoelastic body is disposed, and a screw hole formed in a bottom portion of the recess portion and threadably engages with the threaded portion. The viscoelastic body is fixed between the head portion and the bottom portion by threadably engaging the threaded portion with the screw hole.	04-02-2009
20090240479	METHOD OF IDENTIFYING AN ANTINODE OF A PRIMARY VIBRATION MODE OF A GOLF CLUB HEAD - This invention provides a method of identifying an antinode of a primary vibration mode of the golf club head having a hollow golf club head having a face portion, a crown portion, a sole portion, and a side portion. A viscoelastic body is to be mounted in at least one of the face portion, crown portion, sole portion, and side portion. The viscoelastic body is mounted in a part of a portion where the viscoelastic body is to be mounted, the part corresponding to an antinode of a primary vibration mode.	09-24-2009
20100075774	GOLF CLUB HEAD - A golf club head of this invention includes a head body, a weight member attached to the head body, and a fixing unit to fix the weight member at any one of a plurality of attachment positions of the head body. The plurality of attachment positions are located on a straight line included in a plane. The plane includes the center-of-gravity position of the head body without the weight member attached thereto and is perpendicular to the toe-and-heel direction of the head body.	03-25-2010
20100144461	GOLF CLUB HEAD - A golf club head of this invention includes a head body, a weight member attached to the head body, and a fixing unit to fix the weight member at one of a plurality of attachment positions of the head body. The plurality of attachment positions are located on a plane. The plane includes the center-of-gravity position of the head body without the weight member attached thereto and the axis of a shaft to be attached to the golf club head.	06-10-2010
20100167837	GOLF CLUB HEAD - A golf club head of this invention includes a head body, a weight member attached to the head body, and a fixing unit to fix the weight member at one of a plurality of attachment positions of the head body. The plurality of attachment positions are located on a virtual cylindrical surface having the axis of a shaft to be mounted to the golf club head as a center.	07-01-2010

Yasumitsu Ban, Kawasaki JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100142609	Reception Station, Communication System And Transmission Diversity Control Method - In a transmission diversity control method in which a request to start or stop transmission diversity is issued by a reception station to a transmission station having a transmission diversity function, the reception station is provided with an equalizer to reduce multipath interference on the basis of a signal correlation, a transmission diversity start request is issued from the reception station to the transmission station when an effect generated by the equalizer is small, and a transmission diversity stop request is issued from the reception station to the transmission station when the effect generated by the equalizer is large.	06-10-2010
20110140973	ANTENNA APPARATUS AND RADIO TERMINAL APPARATUS - An antenna apparatus including: a first and second antenna elements which transmit or receive radio signal; a ground pattern; and a wiring pattern which is provided on a line segment connecting the first and second antenna elements, and directly connected to the ground pattern, wherein a circumventing path is formed by the wiring pattern and a part of the ground pattern.	06-16-2011
20110207422	ANTENNA APPARATUS AND RADIO TERMINAL APPARATUS - An antenna apparatus, including: a substrate; an antenna element which is arranged on the substrate and transmits or receives a radio signal; a feed point which is connected to the antenna element and feeds a current or a voltage to the antenna element; and a wiring pattern, one end of which is connected to a ground pattern formed on a portion of the substrate, wherein two or more sets of the antenna element, the feed point, and the wiring pattern is included if the antenna element, the feed point, and the wiring pattern form one set.	08-25-2011

Yoko Ban, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110298290	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In one embodiment, to maintain the operation stability of a semiconductor device even when an external voltage changes. An input signal discrimination unit operates with a power supply potential supplied from a first power supply line VDDI. The input signal discrimination unit compares an input signal VIN with a reference potential Vref. The comparison result is inverted into a signal V	12-08-2011

Yoshiaki Ban, Wakayama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100028569	POLYESTERS FOR THERMAL TRANSFER IMAGE-RECEIVING SHEETS - The present invention relates to a polyester for thermal transfer image-receiving sheets which includes a polyester A produced from an alcohol component containing 50 mol % or more of an alkyleneoxide adduct of 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane and an acid component containing 80 mol % or more of an aliphatic carboxylic acid and/or an alicyclic carboxylic acid as a total amount thereof, and a polyester B produced from an alcohol component containing 80 mol % or more of the alkyleneoxide adduct of 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane and an acid component containing 10 to 35 mol % of a trivalent or higher valent aromatic polycarboxylic acid; a resin dispersion containing the polyester; a process for producing the resin dispersion; a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet using the polyester; and a process for producing the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet. The thermal transfer image-receiving sheet is capable of satisfying all of a dyeability, a light resistance and a releasability at the same time.	02-04-2010
20100139013	THERMAL TRANSFER IMAGE-RECEIVING SHEETS - The present invention relates to a resin for use in a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which is excellent in dyeability with dyes and releasability of the sheet, a resin dispersion using the resin, and a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet. The resin for a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet is obtained by addition polymerizing and condensation polymerizing (a) raw monomers of a polyester, (b) a raw monomer of an addition polymer-based resin containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of styrene and styrene derivatives and (c) at least one dually reactive monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid and derivatives of these acids, wherein the raw monomers (a) of a polyester include an alcohol component containing 80 mol % or more of an alkyleneoxide adduct of 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane.	06-10-2010

Yoshinori Ban, Kariya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080280602	Vehicle control apparatus with data reprogrammable via wireless communication network - In a vehicle control apparatus for reprogramming data stored therein based on a reprogramming instruction transmitted thereto via a wireless communication network, an asking unit is provided. The asking unit asks a data reprogramming unit about whether the reprogramming instruction is validated or not. The data reprogramming unit has been authorized to reprogram the data stored in the vehicle control apparatus. A determining unit is provided in the vehicle control apparatus. The determining unit receives a reply to the asking transmitted from the data reprogramming unit via the wireless communication network and determines whether to enable or disable the reprogramming of the data stored in the vehicle control apparatus based on the received reply.	11-13-2008

Yoshinori Ban, Anjo-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090088923	VEHICULAR CONTROL APPARATUS AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - Whether an anomaly occurs in a data-rewritable second nonvolatile memory is determined by comparison between (i) a diagnosis code stored in the second nonvolatile memory and (ii) data contents stored as a diagnosis table in a first nonvolatile memory. The first nonvolatile memory previously stores the diagnosis table for listing diagnosis codes. If the diagnosis codes are appropriately registered in the diagnosis table, it is thereafter unnecessary to take into consideration whether the diagnosis codes are normally stored in the first nonvolatile memory. This configuration requires no further rewriting of information in the first nonvolatile memory unlike other memories, and thus decreases a possibility of an occurrence of an anomaly to garble the information in the first nonvolatile memory in comparison with other memories. Whether an anomaly occurs in the second nonvolatile memory can be thus performed more appropriately.	04-02-2009
20090132117	VEHICULAR MEMORY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - When a non-volatile memory such as an EEPROM has a trouble code storage area and a status information area, status information is stored in the status information area after completion of storage of a trouble code in the trouble code storage area. Even when storage of the trouble code in a second storage area is interrupted due to a power fault with a result of three area discrepancy, the storage of the trouble code in the storage area is determined as not complete based on the status information, thereby leading to an appropriate data recovery of the trouble code in the trouble code storage area for an improvement of storage reliability of a vehicular memory management apparatus.	05-21-2009
20090271804	CONTROL UNIT AND PROGRAM FOR SAME - The first memory of a control unit has a control program stored therein, and an update of the control program is performed at a predetermined timing. After the update of the control program, the second memory in the control unit is referred to, and an event code stored in the second memory is extracted if the event code does not correspond to any one of event code group respectively associated with events that can possibly be generated by the updated control program. Due to the decreased necessity for use as reference data, the extracted event code may be considered as un-necessary and may be deleted, for example, from the memory.	10-29-2009

Yoshiyuki Ban, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100043025	PROGRAM GUIDE DISPLAY APPARATUS - In order to provide a program guide display apparatus that improves the user convenience by performing identification display to a program guide according to a reception state of the broadcast, the program guide display apparatus of the present invention comprises a 1seg reception unit	02-18-2010
20110154398	PROGRAM GUIDE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The portable terminal includes a receiving unit for selecting a channel and receiving a program, an obtaining unit for obtaining the program guide for each channel received by the receiving unit, a display unit for displaying the program guide obtained by the obtaining unit, a memory for storing setting information set up to view the program received by the receiving unit, a remaining battery capacity detecting unit for detecting the remaining capacity of the battery, and a control unit for determining the possible viewing time according to the operation mode stored in the memory and the remaining capacity of the battery detected by the remaining battery capacity detecting unit and controlling the display unit so as to identifiably display the possible viewing segment corresponding to the possible viewing time in the program guide.	06-23-2011

Yuichi Ban, Koriyama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090064718	Method and apparatus for producing glass fiber - It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method and an apparatus for continuously producing high quality glass fiber that shows excellent characteristics required to various glass fiber products in terms of fiber length, fiber quality and fiber distribution and, at the same time, that allows to prolong the service life of the rotating body, that improve the productivity, and that suppress any increase in the producing cost. An axial and/or circumferential rows of orificeless sections are provided in a peripheral wall of a hollow rotating body. Also, a gas flow is provided around a flame flow, and a compressed gas flow are also provided.	03-12-2009

Yukihiro Ban, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090253844	RESIN COMPOSITION AND MOLDED PRODUCT THEREOF - An object of the present invention is to provide a resin composition in which a surface resistivity and a volume resistivity actually measured in an antistatic region and an electrostatic diffusion region are equivalent to each other, and a remolded product produced by reutilizing a molded product which can hold the above properties. Specifically, disclosed is a resin composition comprising: 100 parts by weight of (a) a thermoplastic resin; 20 to 80 parts by weight of (b) a nonconductive fibrous inorganic filler having an average fiber diameter of not more than 15 μm; and 10 to 70 parts by weight of the total of (c1) a graphite and (c2) a graphite in which (c) graphite having an average particle diameter of 1 μm to 50 μm wherein each kind thereof has a different particle diameter; and at least one of differences in average particle diameter between two kinds thereof is not less than 5 μm.	10-08-2009

Yukinobu Ban, Nishio-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080297724	Ophthalmic apparatus and a method to determine power of an intraocular lens - An ophthalmic apparatus capable of obtaining characteristics of a cornea which are suitable for calculating power of an intraocular lens to be injected into an examinee's eye which has undergone refractive surgery comprises an input unit which inputs data on a shape of the cornea after refractive surgery, and a calculation unit having a program which calculates post-operative corneal refractive power based on the post-operative corneal shape, wherein the program determines a non-corrected region based on the post-operative corneal shape, estimates a pre-operative corneal shape in a corrected region by calculating an approximate curve from a corneal shape in the non-corrected region, calculates pre-operative corneal refractive power based on the pre-operative corneal shape, calculates correction refractive power in the refractive surgery based on the post-operative corneal shape and the pre-operative corneal shape, and calculates post-operative corneal refractive power based on the pre-operative corneal refractive power and the correction refractive power.	12-04-2008
20090033869	Ophthalmic ultrasonic measurement apparatus, and an ophthalmic measurement method - An ophthalmic ultrasonic measurement apparatus capable of narrowing differences in measurement results obtained by the apparatus which are made because of differences among examiners who operate the apparatus comprises an ultrasonic probe arranged to be brought into contact with a cornea of an examinee's eye, a calculation unit arranged to obtain a measured value of a length from the cornea to a given section inside the eye based on an echo from the eye by an ultrasonic wave which is emitted from the probe, and a memory arranged to store information on examiners and adjustment information for narrowing differences in measured values of the length which are made because of differences among the examiners while the adjustment information is associated with the examiners' information, wherein the calculation unit corrects the obtained measured value using the stored adjustment information.	02-05-2009
20090281552	Apparatus for selecting an intraocular lens and a method of selecting the intraocular lens - An intraocular lens selection apparatus and an intraocular lens selection method for selecting an intraocular lens to be implanted into an examinee's eye. The apparatus has an input unit which inputs corneal wavefront aberration of the eye, a memory which stores wavefront aberrations of a plurality of intraocular lens models, an unit which sets, as a target value, desired post-operative residual wavefront aberration of the eye after the lens is implanted, an unit which calculates, as an estimated value, post-operative residual wavefront aberration of the eye to be obtained when each lens model is implanted, based on the inputted corneal wavefront aberration and the stored wavefront aberration of each lens model, and specifies one of the lens models which renders the estimated value close to the set target value, a monitor, and a display control unit which controls the monitor to display information of the specified lens model.	11-12-2009