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| 20110076394 | OPTICAL SHEET MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL SHEET MANUFACTURING METHOD - An optical sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a first master including a first three-dimensional structure, a second master including a second three-dimensional structure, a first processing unit to heat a first surface of a resin sheet to a first temperature and transfer the first three-dimensional structure onto the first surface heated, a second processing unit to cool the first surface to a second temperature lower than the first temperature, heat a second surface of the resin sheet to a third temperature higher than the second temperature, and transfer the second three-dimensional structure onto the second surface heated, a third processing unit to cool the second surface to a fourth temperature lower than the third temperature, a first conveyance mechanism to perform conveyance from the first processing unit to the second processing unit, and a second conveyance mechanism to perform conveyance from the second processing unit to the third processing unit. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110242141 | OPTICAL SHEET LAMINATE BODY, ILLUMINATION UNIT, AND DISPLAY UNIT - An optical sheet laminate body includes: a first optical sheet having a top surface and a bottom surface, of which at least the top surface has asperities including projections and depressions; and a second optical sheet having a top surface and a bottom surface. Summits of the projections on the top surface of the first optical sheet are directly bonded, in a whole region facing the bottom surface of the second optical sheet, to the bottom surface of the second optical sheet without any intermediate material in between. | 10-06-2011 |
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| 20090207723 | OPTICAL DISC AND ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE COMPOSITION FOR OPTICAL DISC - An optical disc of the present invention includes at least a light reflection layer and a light transmission layer formed on a substrate, wherein recording and reading are performed by a laser beam through the light transmission layer, the light transmission layer is formed from a cured film of a ultraviolet-curable composition containing an epoxy acrylate resin obtained by reacting a half ester compound (A), which is obtained from a lactone-adduct of a hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate (a1) and a dibasic acid anhydride (a2), and an epoxy resin (B), and the film thickness of the light transmission layer is from 50 to 150 μm. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090324870 | Utraviolet-curable composition for optical disk and optical disk - By using an ultraviolet-curable composition, which contains a specific ultraviolet-curable compound obtained by modifying a bisphenol epoxy compound with a polyester having a flexible structure, as a light transmission layer. Accordingly, the present invention achieves an optical disk having excellent characteristics such as excellent durability, excellent light resistance and excellently reduced warp, while suppressing deterioration of the light reflection film due to environment of high temperature and high humidity or light exposure. Consequently the ultraviolet-curable composition of the present invention is most suitable for optical disks having a thick light-transmitting layer on which recording/reproduction is performed by using a blue laser. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100067347 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE COMPOSITION FOR LIGHT TRANSMISSION LAYER AND OPTICAL DISK USING SAME - An ultraviolet-curable composition of the present invention, which is used for a light transmission layer of an optical disk, includes a urethane (meth)acrylate having an isocyanate structure; and at least one of a monofunctional (meth)acrylate and a difunctional (meth)acrylate, wherein the combined amount of the urethane (meth)acrylate, the monofunctional (meth)acrylate and the difunctional (meth)acrylate is at least 90% by mass of the ultraviolet-curable composition. This ultraviolet-curable composition for a light transmission layer is able to realize an optical disk that exhibits excellent durability even under conditions of high temperature and high humidity, minimal decrease in light reflectance, and excellent adhesion between layers. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100075100 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE COMPOSITION FOR OPTICAL DISK, AND OPTICAL DISK - An ultraviolet-curable composition for an optical disk which is used in producing the optical disk which includes a substrate and, formed thereover, at least both a light reflection layer and a light transmission layer and in which data is read using a laser beam striking from the light transmission layer side. The composition is used to form the light transmission layer. The ultraviolet-curable composition for an optical disk contains an epoxy(meth)acrylate, a (metha)acrylate having two radical-polymerizable unsaturated bonds, and a free-radical photopolymerization initiator, in which the (meth)acrylate having two radical-polymerizable unsaturated bonds contains a (meth)acrylate of a neopentyl glycol hydroxypivalate compound, the content of the (meth)acrylate of the neopentyl glycol hydroxypivalate compound is 10 to 40% by mass, and the content of the free-radical photopolymerization initiator is 1 to 4% by mass. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100086725 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE COMPOSITION FOR OPTICAL DISK INTERMEDIATE LAYER AND OPTICAL DISK - An ultraviolet-curable composition for an optical disk intermediate layer includes a urethane(meth)acrylate (a) having three or more radical-polymerizable unsaturated bonds, a (meth)acrylate (b) having four or more radical-polymerizable unsaturated bonds which is other than the urethane(meth)acrylate (a), and a monofunctional alicyclic(meth)acrylate (c), wherein a B-type viscosity of the composition at 25° C. is not more than 1,000 mPa·s. The ultraviolet-curable composition may be used for producing the intermediate layers of optical disks by using a general-purpose resin such as a polycarbonate used as a stamper. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100278031 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE COMPOSITION FOR OPTICAL DISK AND OPTICAL DISK - With branched epoxy(meth)acrylate which comprises a phenyl skeleton serving as a stiff molecular skeleton, and which comprises in the molecular skeleton a number of branched structures capable of forming a coating structure at a high crosslinking density after ultraviolet curing, it becomes possible to design the coating hardness to be high even if the content of an acryloyl group is designed to be low to effect less crosslinking reaction induced by ultraviolet curing, and it becomes possible to relax distortions inside a cured film due to cure shrinkage which occurs at the time of ultraviolet curing. As a result, there can be realized an ultraviolet-curable composition for an optical disk which has a high elastic modulus and is less tilted at the time of curing even if the coating hardness is designed to be high. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110033650 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE COMPOSITION FOR LIGHT-TRANSMISSION LAYER AND OPTICAL DISK - An ultraviolet-curable composition of the present invention includes epoxy(meth)acrylate, urethane(meth)acrylate, and a silicone compound represented by formula (1): | 02-10-2011 |
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| 20090024810 | Memory area management method - In a storage device, a method is provided for preventing the risk of data loss and a significant decrease of writing speed due to area shrinkage when erased erase blocks have become fewer. A process of allocating a new page includes determining whether the length of a deallocated pages list is longer than n pages. If the list length is longer, one page is allocated from the deallocated pages list. If the list length is shorter, a capacity shortage error returns. Deleting a file using an erased pages list includes determining whether a page to be processed is emptied by deleting the file. If not so, the file is deleted from the page. If so, the contents of the last page-a in occupied pages are copied to the page, the page-a is written with data for erasure, and any erase block included in the page-a is made erasable. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090210413 | K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH METHOD, K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH PROGRAM, AND K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH DEVICE - Provided is a k-nearest neighbor search method of searching for a query number k of nearest points to an arbitrary point in a DBMS for creating a spatial index from multidimensional points, comprising setting a search conditions, judging which of a lowest branch and an intermediate branch of the spatial index a nearest region to the query point is, calculating, when the nearest region is judged to be the lowest branch, a distance between the query point and a child region of the nearest region, storing information of a divided region which has become a calculation target, calculating, when the nearest region is judged to be the intermediate region, a distance between the query point and a point included in the nearest region, storing information of the point which has become a calculation target, finishing search processing when the search conditions are satisfied, and obtaining a search result from the DBMS. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20110029554 | METHOD AND COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED STREAM DATA PROCESSING USING PLURAL OF COMPUTERS - In executing query distributed processing in a computer system having a plurality of computers, a query and a sliding window are inherited between different computers. If a tuple having a new principal key value is detected when a query is to be executed, a relevant individual query and a relevant sliding window are inherited between computers, and further a sliding window of a relevant common query is inherited between computers. | 02-03-2011 |
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| 20100098883 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING ONE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE - A method and apparatus for producing one-dimensional nanostructures are disclosed. The production of the nanostructures is carried out by disposing a vanadium containing target facing a substrate; irradiating the target with laser light; and depositing target sublimation materials to the substrate under pressure conditions so that a plasma, which is generated by the laser light irradiation including target sublimation materials and gas atmosphere, does not substantially reach the substrate. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100233874 | METHOD FOR FORMING FUNCTIONAL ELEMENT USING METAL-TO-INSULATOR TRANSITION MATERIAL, FUNCTIONAL ELEMENT FORMED BY METHOD, METHOD FOR PRODUCING FUNCTIONAL DEVICE, AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICE PRODUCED BY METHOD - A method for forming a functional element includes a first step of forming an insulating layer composed of an insulator phase of a transition metal oxide serving as a metal-to-insulator transition material, the transition metal oxide being mainly composed of vanadium dioxide, and a second step of causing part of the insulating layer to transition to a metallic phase, in which the insulator phase differs from the metallic phase in terms of electrical resistivity and/or light transmittance. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100264409 | MOLECULAR DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, PHOTOSENSOR, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A molecular device includes a gold electrode, cytochrome c552 or a derivative or variant thereof immobilized on the gold electrode, and an electron transfer protein coupled to the cytochrome c552 or the derivative or variant thereof. Electrons or holes, or both, are transferred through the electron transfer protein by transition of electrons between molecular orbitals of the electron transfer protein. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100314617 | VANADIUM DIOXIDE NANOWIRE, FABRICATION PROCESS THEREOF, AND NANOWIRE DEVICE USING VANADIUM DIOXIDE NANOWIRE - A vanadium dioxide nanowire grown long and thin along a [110] direction is disclosed. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110003320 | IMMUNOASSAY METHOD AND KIT AND DEVELOPING SOLVENT THEREFOR - An immunoassay method and a kit which comprises a combination of a test piece for immunochromatography and a developing solvent, by which a target substance is detected accurately in a short period of time while a preventing a nonspecific reaction. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110152443 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POLYMER MATERIAL - A method of manufacturing a polymer material which is allowed to manufacture β-phase PVDF easily and stably in a short time is provided. The method of manufacturing a polymer material includes a step of mixing an ionic liquid and a polymer compound including α-phase polyvinylidene difluoride to form a mixture, and then heating the mixture. | 06-23-2011 |
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| 20090066999 | DEVICE SYSTEM, SOURCE DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - A system includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit an application and data related to the application from a source device to a destination device and a notifying unit configured to notify the source device of the number of times the application has been used in the destination device. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20100182643 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention is to provide an image forming device, an image forming system, and an image forming method that provide greater convenience for users and minimize the capacity of print data to be stored in a server. The image forming device notifies a document information management server of “a deletion permitting instruction” of a document only when two conditions, i.e., “a record that a print job has been successfully completed” and “log out of a user”, are acquired. After inputting a print job into the image forming device, a print server notifies the document information management server of “information that a print job has been input to a printer”. The document information management server has a unit that performs a document deleting process only when two pieces of information, i.e., “the deletion permitting instruction” and “the information that a print job has been input to the printer”, are acquired. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100332878 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - In an information processing apparatus which is connected to a Web server and equipped with a Web browser for displaying an operation screen provided by the Web server and a processing unit for processing image data, an access from the Web browser to the Web server is detected, and, in a case where the Web browser accesses to the Web server, the processing unit is activated according to a content of the detected access. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110199645 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is a problem that operability is not considered for an image forming apparatus in which multiple web applications are installed. An information processing apparatus determines, upon occurrence of an error during execution of a job instructed through a first web application among the web applications, whether or not a first screen corresponding to the first web application is displayed in the frontmost side on the display screen of the display unit and controls a display unit so that when it is determined in the determining step that the first screen is displayed in the frontmost side, the display unit displays a first error screen for notification of the error in the frontmost side, and when it is determined in the determining step that that the first screen is not displayed in the frontmost side, the display unit does not display the first error screen in the foreground. | 08-18-2011 |
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| 20090161230 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, the second lens unit including a positive lens, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power. In the zoom lens, intervals between adjacent ones of the first lens unit, the second lens unit, and the third lens unit are variable during zooming. In the zoom lens, a refractive power of a material of the positive lens included in the second lens unit (Nd | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090237806 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM AND AN IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens system is provided that can be used as an optical system for an image pick-up device, which can have improved shading characteristics using multiple lens units, for example three lens units. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100238567 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, the second lens unit including a positive lens, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power. In the zoom lens, intervals between adjacent ones of the first lens unit, the second lens unit, and the third lens unit are variable during zooming. In the zoom lens, a refractive power of a material of the positive lens included in the second lens unit (Nd | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100254023 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The zoom lens which is compact and has high optical performance over the entire zoom range includes in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power. Distances between the first to third lens units are varied during zooming. The second lens unit includes a lens element whose image side surface has a concave shape, a most object side positive lens element and a most image side positive lens element. Conditions of | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110157715 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a zoom lens having high optical performance over the entire zoom range. The zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power, which are provided in order from an object side to an image side. During zooming, intervals between the respective lens units change. A focal length (fW) of the entire zoom lens at a wide angle end, a focal length (f | 06-30-2011 |
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| 20080218466 | Display device and electronic equipment - A display device includes a display unit in which pixels are arranged in a matrix state and a drive circuit selecting respective pixels in the display unit by each row and giving additional potential to pixel electrodes of the pixels by using coupling, in which the drive circuit has a function of allowing the reverse polarity of potential added to pixel electrodes to be a potential which can add suitable voltage to additional potential lines in a frame before adding the additional potential. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090213101 | Display Device and Electronic Apparatus - A display device able to amplify the same input as a power supply voltage of IC by using low temperature polysilicon having high threshold voltage and large variation and an electronic apparatus using the same, including MCK use level shifters | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090251445 | DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A method of driving a liquid crystal display and a drive circuit for a liquid crystal display module wherein the liquid crystal display of the liquid crystal display module is controlled and the image data displayed by the liquid crystal cells is refreshed. Received frames of image data are analysed to determine if individual frames of image data have characteristics prone to showing flicker. The refresh rate is reduced if the image analysis determines that the frames received of image data do not have characteristics prone to showing flicker. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090251629 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY MODULE - A liquid crystal display module including a liquid crystal display having a plurality of liquid crystal cells, a plurality of switches and a common connection, each liquid crystal cell being connected between a respective switch and a common connection. The common connection includes strips, each extending in a first direction and the strips being arranged side-by-side in a second direction. The liquid crystal cells are arranged in rows, each row being along and connected to a strip. The liquid crystal display has gate lines, each gate line operating a respective plurality of the switches. For dot inversion, each gate operates switches connected to respective liquid crystal cells of two adjacent rows. For each row, a first set of alternate liquid crystal cells are connected to respective switches operated by a respective gate line and a second set of interspersed liquid crystal cells are connected to respective switches operated by another respective gate line. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090273593 | Display Device and Electronic Device - A display device of a type capable of narrowing the pitch, realizing narrowing of the frame, and further lowering the power consumption and an electronic device using the device, wherein two horizontal drive circuits | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100128502 | ELECTRIC POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - A power converter includes: a converter ( | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100231159 | Power Conversion Device - A power conversion device includes a converter that converts AC power to DC power, a converter controller that controls an output voltage of the converter, an inverter that converts the DC power to AC power at a variable frequency, an inverter controller that controls an output frequency of the inverter, and a current detector that detects an AC current on an input side of the converter. It is configured in such a manner that the inverter controller adjusts a slip frequency of the induction motor in response to a fluctuation of the AC current on the input side of the converter detected by the current detector. It thus becomes possible to suppress a beat current in an output current of the inverter at the occurrence of a load fluctuation as well as a power supply voltage fluctuation. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110209861 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PLATE HEAT EXCHANGER AND PLATE HEAT EXCHANGER - In a plate heat exchanger, it is aimed to enhance strength, such as the pressure resistance and the internal pressure fatigue resistance, by increasing the joint area of a joint portion joined by brazing in a wave-patterned portion. Before a brazing process of the plate heat exchanger, a plurality of plates are stacked and pressure is applied thereto. By this pressure process, indentations of approximately “0.05 mm to 0.1 mm” are formed at contact points | 09-01-2011 |
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| 20080281791 | Database Management Program - A database management program in which even in a case where a row having a value of a column A duplicated is arranged in sequential space as an initial state for speeding-up a search with a condition of the column A, even if insertion, deletion and update of a row are repeated, a time required for the search with condition of the column A is not lengthen, and rearrangement requiring a long time in a case of solving this problem using a conventional method is not required. In the database management program, when managing a single or a plurality of sets of rows having values of the column A duplicated using relational database, in a case where the row having the value of the column A duplicated is arranged in the sequential space as the initial state for speeding-up the search with the condition of the column A, only the set of rows having the value of the column A duplicated is arranged in the sequential spaces when insertion, deletion and update of a row are performed. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090019057 | Terminal and data distribution system - Disclosed herewith is a terminal for receiving data distributed from a host computer. The terminal includes a database for storing data distributed from the host computer and a schedule manager for managing the schedule of the terminal. Upon receiving an update request for the data stored in the database, the terminal extracts a time band in which the usage frequency of the terminal is kept low as an updatable time through the schedule manager and sends an update request to the host computer in response to the received request. The terminal calculates a processing time required to update object data, as well as a value denoting the usefulness of the object data according to the update information received from the host computer and including the object data, then decides a processing order for the object data according to the processing time and the usefulness value calculated respectively for the object data, thereby updating the data stored in the database according to the decided processing order. Useful data is updated preferentially in the time band in which the usage frequency of the terminal is low. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090070343 | METHOD FOR MANAGING A DATABASE SYSTEM - To provide a database which has plural log storage areas, and eliminates the sort in the restoration process by means of the application of logs, thereby carrying out the restoration quickly. A management server allocates DB servers to a corresponding one of plural data storage areas so as to access the corresponding one. The DB servers store data to the allocated data storage areas. When the data is referenced or updated, a log representing a data change history is stored in preset log areas for each data server. When the management server transmits a notification to change the data storage areas, area remapping logs are stored in log areas. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20100023480 | INDEXING METHOD OF DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A database management system has a plurality of database servers and data can be transferred between them by partitioning a data area into small areas and altering allocation of the small areas to the database servers. After altering the configuration, there occurs degradation in processing speed that accompanies re-creation of the index. If this problem is solved by using conventional techniques, noticeable degradation in processing speed will occur to a specific query at the time of a steady state operation. Accordingly, an index created for each of the small areas and an index to all of the small areas are allocated to the database server and used in combination. | 01-28-2010 |