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Furuta, JP
Akihiko Furuta, Chiba JP
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| 20100086806 | HOT-DIP Zn-Al ALLOY COATED STEEL SHEET AND PRODUCING METHOD THEREFOR - A hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coated steel sheet exhibiting a beautiful coating appearance with metallic luster, in which no spangle or very fine spangles are formed, and having excellent blackening resistance and a method for manufacturing the hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coated steel sheet are provided. The hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coated steel sheet includes a hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coating layer containing 1.0 to 10 percent by mass of Al, 0.2 to 1.0 percent by mass of Mg, 0.005 to 0.1 percent by mass of Ni, and the balance being Zn and incidental impurities on at least one surface of a steel sheet. The manufacturing method includes the steps of dipping the steel sheet into a hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coating bath and pulling up and cooling the steel sheet, wherein the steel sheet pulled up from the coating bath is cooled to 250° C. at a cooling rate of 1° C. to 15° C./sec. | 04-08-2010 |
Akira Furuta, Chiyoda-Ku JP
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| 20090020100 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE CONTROL APPARATUS - In order to accurately detect an abnormal state of a rotation direction detection unit for detecting a rotation direction of a crank shaft, provided is an internal combustion engine control apparatus including: a rotation detection unit including the rotation direction detection unit for detecting the rotation direction of the crank shaft of an engine to output a rotation direction signal, and a rotation speed detection unit for outputting a pulse signal according to a rotation speed of the crank shaft; a stop position calculation unit for calculating, based on an output from the rotation detection unit, a stop position of the crank shaft when the engine stops; and an abnormal state detection unit for detecting the abnormal state of the rotation direction detection unit when an actual rotation direction of the crank shaft differs from the rotation direction of the crank shaft based on the rotation direction signal. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090056652 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL DEVICE FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve timing control device includes: a unit for calculating a target valve timing for one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve in accordance with an operational state; a unit for detecting an actual valve timing of one of the intake valve and the exhaust valve; an actual valve timing control unit for generating a controlled variable for the VVT based on a difference between the target valve timing and the actual valve timing; a unit for learning a learning value of the controlled variable required for maintenance of the actual valve timing based on an integral correction value; and a unit for detecting a malfunction in a VVT from an amount of a shift in the actual valve timing when learning is not completed yet, and for detecting a malfunction in the VVT from the difference when learning is already completed. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20100242880 | VALVE TIMING CONTROLLER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - The valve timing controller for the internal combustion engine determines, based on a control parameter during phase angle feedback control, whether or not the valve timing variable mechanism is pressed against a limiting position defined by a stopper, sets a second target phase angle on a reference rotational phase angle value side of the camshaft by a first predetermined value from a detected real phase angle value of the camshaft when the stopper pressing determination means determines that the valve timing variable mechanism is pressed against the limiting position defined by the stopper, and switches a target phase angle during the phase angle feedback control from the first target phase angle to the second target phase angle. | 09-30-2010 |
Akira Furuta, Nagano JP
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| 20090239099 | LUBRICANT FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM USING THE LUBRICANT - A magnetic recording medium having high bonding capability between the surface lubricant and the diamond-like carbon (DLC) protective layer in the surface of the magnetic recording medium is disclosed. The lubricant is a fluorine-containing lubricant for magnetic recording media represented by the following formula (1), (2) or (3), wherein the substituents R | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100129686 | Magnetic recording medium for thermally assisted recording - A magnetic recording medium suppresses an anticipated decline in performance due to heating of the lubricant layer and protective layer in thermally assisted recording, and has superior durability and reliability. The magnetic recording medium comprises a layer stack comprising, in order on a nonmagnetic substrate, at least a magnetic recording layer, adiabatic layer, carbon-based protective layer, and lubricant layer. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100233513 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - A magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic substrate and at least a magnetic layer, a protective layer, and a lubricating layer provided on the nonmagnetic substrate. The magnetic recording medium is characterized in that the lubricating layer is formed of a lubricating agent represented by general formulas (1), (2) or (3), in which substituents R | 09-16-2010 |
Daisuke Furuta, Fukuoka-Shi JP
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| 20100332679 | FRAME RELAY DEVICE AND FRAME RELAY METHOD - A communication relay device includes a memory that stores a flooding destination address in advance separately from a learning table. When a source address received from a terminal is learned, the communication relay device determines whether the source address matches the stored destination address of the terminal, and when these addresses match each other, causes the matching source address to be learned more preferentially than other source addresses. | 12-30-2010 |
Daitaro Furuta, Kawasaki JP
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| 20090233613 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION, RADIO BASE STATION AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - A radio communication system where data is transferred from a mobile station to a radio base station in a band allocated by the radio base station at a band allocation period. The mobile station transfers a request for extending a next band allocation period by carrying the request together with the data to be transferred to the radio base station. The request is transferred when the mobile station detects that there is no data to be transferred at a next time. The radio base station extends the next band allocation period based on the request. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20110019774 | Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method - A wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless processing unit for performing communication by wireless and an application processing unit for executing an application. The wireless processing unit of the wireless communication apparatus detects reception of wireless function update information for updating a function of the wireless processing unit when update information for updating any function of the wireless communication apparatus is received. After that, the wireless processing unit updates the function of the wireless processing unit, if reception of wireless function update information is detected, by performing an update process specified in the wireless function update information without involving the application processing unit. | 01-27-2011 |
Daitarou Furuta, Kawasaki JP
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| 20090310579 | MOBILE STATION AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - In a mobile station UE1, a service-type information detection unit 41 for detecting service-type information contained in the header of a packet in which transmit data is carried is provided at a radio link control layer | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090311996 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM, CONTENT DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTING METHOD - In a MBMS system, a base station generates a data control task and a first header control task and second header control task corresponding to each terminal device for a MBMS function module. Each header control task synchronizes a compression state with an associated terminal device and transmits only header information to the terminal device, and the data control task distributes content information to the terminal device separately from header information. | 12-17-2009 |
Eiji Furuta, Kawasaki-Shi JP
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| 20090165538 | Indentation testing instrument and indentation testing method - Disclosed an indentation testing instrument including: a loading lever supported pivotally; an indenter provided on the loading lever; an indenter linkage section; a loading lever driving section; a reference lever supported pivotally having a same shaft center as the loading lever; an indenter reference section provided on the reference lever as a positional reference of a tip portion of the indenter; an indenter position detection section; a reference lever driving section; a stopper to stop the reference lever; a specimen surface reference measurement member to turn the loading lever from the state that the indenter reference section touches the specimen surface, and to measure a first indentation depth amount; and a machine frame reference measurement member to turn the loading lever from the state that the reference lever touches the stopper and the indenter reference section is spaced apart from the specimen surface, and to measure a second indentation depth amount. | 07-02-2009 |
Hajime Furuta, Nagoya-Shi JP
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| 20100107850 | STRAP CONNECTOR AND STRAP FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENT HAVING STRAP CONNECTOR - A strap for a guitar has a strap belt and two strap connectors each of which is provided at each end of the strap belt. Each strap connector includes a base plate having a first opening, a second opening, and a slit. The first opening has a diameter greater than a head portion of a connector pin. The second opening has a diameter smaller than a neck portion of the connector pin. The slit connects the first and second openings and has a width smaller than the diameter of a neck portion of the connector pin. In the strap connector, a portion of the base plate adjacent to the slit is bendable. | 05-06-2010 |
Hajime Furuta, Nagoya JP
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| 20100077902 | STRAP FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING LENGTH OF STRAP BELT - A guitar strap | 04-01-2010 |
Hideki Furuta, Nukata-Gun JP
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| 20090299559 | VEHICLE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND DRIVE UNIT - If an accelerator pedal is released, when a flag indicates 1, a vehicle travels in a traveling environment reflected operation mode where an engine and two motors are controlled in such a manner that a required torque is output to a drive shaft while the engine, in which fuel injection is stopped, is operated by the motor. If a vehicle speed is equal to or lower than a threshold at the time or after the flag is changed from 1 to 0, the vehicle travels in a normal operation mode where the engine and the two motors are controlled in such a manner that the required torque is output to the drive shaft with engine rotation stopped. If the vehicle speed is higher than the threshold when the flag is changed from 1 to 0, the vehicle travels in the traveling environment reflected operation mode until the vehicle speed becomes equal to or lower than the threshold. | 12-03-2009 |
Hideki Furuta, Kakuda-Shi JP
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| 20080203342 | Linear solenoid valve - A linear solenoid valve includes a solenoid having a coil wound around a coil bobbin, a fixed core, and a movable core for being attracted to the fixed core when the coil is energized, and a valve mechanism having a valve element for selectively bringing an inlet port and an outlet port into and out of fluid communication with each other responsive to a displacement of the movable core. The movable core has a nonmagnetic layer formed on an outer surface thereof and having a predetermined thickness. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080216781 | DRIVE MOTOR FOR USE IN VARIABLE VALVE OPERATING DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An actuator of a variable valve operating device includes an electric motor for varying the distance by which an intake valve of an internal combustion engine is lifted. The electric motor has a hollow cylindrical magnet assembly disposed around a hollow cylindrical holder, and a shaft rotatably supported in a housing, with a hollow region being defined between the shaft and the holder. The magnet assembly is skew-magnetized at a predetermined angle to the axis of the magnet assembly. | 09-11-2008 |
Hiroshi Furuta, Kochi-Shi JP
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| 20090269881 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THIN FILM TRANSISTOR INCLUDING LOW RESISTANCE CONDUCTIVE THIN FILMS - A manufacturing method of a thin film transistor includes forming a pair of source/drain electrodes on a substrate, such that the source/drain electrodes define a gap therebetween; forming low resistance conductive thin films, which define a gap therebetween, on the source/drain electrodes; and forming an oxide semiconductor thin film layer on upper surface of the low resistance conductive thin films and in the gap defined between the low resistance conductive thin films so that the oxide semiconductor thin film layer functions as a channel. The low resistance conductive thin films and the oxide semiconductor thin film layer are etched so that side surfaces of the resistance conductive thin films and corresponding side surfaces of the oxide semiconductor thin film layer coincide with each other in a channel width direction of the channel. A gate electrode is mounted over the oxide semiconductor thin film layer. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090286351 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING ACTIVE LAYER OF ZINC OXIDE WITH CONTROLLED CRYSTAL LATTICE SPACING - A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes forming an oxide semiconductor thin film layer of zinc oxide, wherein at least a portion of the oxide semiconductor thin film layer in an as-deposited state includes lattice planes having a preferred orientation along a direction perpendicular to the substrate and a lattice spacing d | 11-19-2009 |
Hiroshi Furuta, Isogo-Ku JP
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| 20080217297 | GAS INSULATED SWITCHGEAR AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ARC DAMAGE IN A GAS INSULATED SWITCHGEAR PART - The invention provides a gas insulated switchgear, and a method for detecting arc damage in a part used in a gas insulated switchgear, which detect directly when an electric contact or a peripheral part reaches an initially set wear limit. An insulating nozzle of a circuit breaker contains a marking substance that releases a gaseous substance inside a circuit breaker gas container as a result of wear by an arc. For ensuring heat resistance and insulation properties, the insulating nozzle is ordinarily formed of a fluororesin, but in the present invention, it is formed of the ordinarily used fluororesin having uniformly mixed therein, as the marking substance, a chlorine-containing resin which has excellent heat resistance and insulation properties such as polyvinylidene chloride. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20100326959 | GAS INSULATED SWITCHGEAR AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ARC DAMAGE IN A GAS INSULATED SWITCHGEAR PART - The invention provides a gas insulated switchgear, and a method for detecting arc damage in a part used in a gas insulated switchgear, which detect directly when an electric contact or a peripheral part reaches an initially set wear limit. An insulating nozzle of a circuit breaker contains a marking substance that releases a gaseous substance inside a circuit breaker gas container as a result of wear by an arc. For ensuring heat resistance and insulation properties, the insulating nozzle is ordinarily formed of a fluororesin, but in the present invention, it is formed of the ordinarily used fluororesin having uniformly mixed therein, as the marking substance, a chlorine-containing resin which has excellent heat resistance and insulation properties such as polyvinylidene chloride. | 12-30-2010 |
Hirotaka Furuta, Yokohama-Shi JP
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| 20100277574 | VIDEO OUTPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is provided a method for controlling a video output apparatus that displays on a display device three-dimensional video that a viewer facing a display surface of the display device can perceive as video protruding from the display surface to a viewer side, the method comprising steps of: acquiring a maximum protruding amount that is a value corresponding to a maximum protruding degree that the viewer perceives if the three-dimensional video is displayed on the display device; generating, using the acquired maximum protruding amount, a notification three-dimensional image for letting the viewer perceive the maximum protruding amount from the display surface; and displaying the generated notification three-dimensional image on the display device. | 11-04-2010 |
Hitoshi Furuta, Izumisano-Shi JP
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| 20090131699 | Antioxidant and process for producing the same - It is intended to provide a method of practically obtaining a natural antioxidant, which gives a sense of security to consumers when added to foods, by efficiently taking out an antioxidant component from soybeans. It is confirmed that a hot water extract obtained by extracting a soybean seeds with hot water at a high temperature exceeding 100° C. under weakly acidic conditions has an antioxidant effect. A low-molecular weight fraction of this hot water extract is further fractionated by taking advantage of a difference in solubility in a water-containing organic solvent or using an appropriate filter suitable for the molecular weight size to thereby efficiently give a highly antioxidant fraction. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20100028486 | BUBBLE STABILIZER AND SPARKLING BEVERAGE CONTAINING THE SAME - The object is to improve the bubble retention in a sparkling beverage such as a malt alcoholic beverage including a beer and a sparkling liquor, a sparkling alcoholic beverage produced without any malt and a carbonated refreshing beverage including a soda pop and a cream soda. Disclosed is a bubble stabilizer comprising, as an active ingredient, a water-soluble soybean polysaccharide which is produced by the heat-extraction from a soybean or a processed product of a soybean at a pH lower than the isoelectric point of a soybean protein and ranging from 2.4 to 4.0 at a temperature of 100° C. or higher. The bubble stabilizer can be added to a malt alcoholic beverage such as a beer and a sparkling liquor, a sparkling alcoholic beverage produced without any malt or a carbonated refreshing beverage such as a soda pop and a lemon soda to thereby improve the bubble retention in the beverage. | 02-04-2010 |
Katsuhiro Furuta, Okazaki-Shi JP
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| 20080202482 | EGR system for internal combustion engine - When the opening angle of an intake control valve is limited to a given opening angle by fuel cut, an EGR apparatus is activated, and a malfunction of the EGR apparatus is diagnosed on the basis of a change in intake manifold pressure before and after the activation of the EGR apparatus. When the control for reducing the intake-manifold negative pressure is not implemented, the change of the intake manifold pressure is corrected with a changing amount of first reference intake pressure (P(Ne)) changed by engine speed Ne. When the control for reducing the intake manifold genitive pressure is implemented, the change of the intake manifold pressure is corrected with a changing amount of second reference intake pressure (P | 08-28-2008 |
| 20100065031 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ENGINE - A control device for an engine includes an air-fuel ratio detector detecting an air-fuel ratio of an exhaust gas of the engine. A feedback controller performs a feedback control of an amount of a fuel injection of mixed fuel including alcohol so that the air-fuel ratio detected by the air-fuel ratio detector is come close to a target air-fuel ratio, the mixed fuel supplied from a fuel feeder. A concentration estimator estimates a concentration of the alcohol in the mixed fuel based on the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas and a correction amount for the amount of the fuel injection controlled by the feedback control. A malfunction determiner determines that the fuel feeder has a malfunction when the correction amount is greater than or equal to a value for a period which is longer than a first period in a second period. The second period is from a first time point when the feedback controller starts to perform the feedback control. | 03-18-2010 |
Kenji Furuta, Ota-Ku JP
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| 20090149002 | METHOD OF FORMING A MODIFIED LAYER IN A SUBSTRATE - First, mapping data storing interrupted areas is obtained. In a first modified-layer forming step, before a stacked article is stacked on a front surface of a substrate, a laser beam is directed to the interrupted areas based on the mapping data to form modified layers only at the interrupted areas. After the stacked articles have been stacked on the substrate, in a second modified-layer forming step, the laser beam is directed at least to the predetermined dividing line formed with no modified layer in the first modified-layer forming step to form a modified layer. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090170289 | WAFER DIVIDING METHOD - A laser beam is applied to an intersection area of each second street of a wafer by using a dicing apparatus to thereby form a first modified layer along the intersection area. Thereafter, the wafer is divided along each first street intersecting each second street at right angles to obtain a plurality of wafer strips. Thereafter, the laser beam is applied along the remaining area of each second street other than the intersection area to form a second modified layer along the remaining area of each second street. Thereafter, an external force is applied to each wafer strip in which the first and second modified layers have been formed along each second street, thereby dividing each wafer strip along each second street to obtain a plurality of devices. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20100044358 | LASER PROCESSING APPARATUS AND LASER PROCESSING METHOD - A laser processing apparatus including a holding unit for holding a workpiece, a processing unit for applying a laser beam to the workpiece held by the holding unit, a surface displacement detecting unit for detecting a surface displacement of the workpiece, and a focal position adjusting unit for adjusting the position of a focusing lens provided in the processing unit according to the surface displacement detected. The surface displacement detecting unit includes a detecting light source capable of oscillating light having a plurality of wavelengths different from the wavelength of the laser beam and a wavelength selecting section configured to select one of the plurality of wavelengths as the wavelength of detecting light. The detecting light having the selected wavelength is focused by the focusing lens and applied to the workpiece. | 02-25-2010 |
Makoto Furuta, Nakatsugawa-Shi JP
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| 20090308699 | BRAKING DEVICE OF MEASURING INSTRUMENT AND MEASURING INSTRUMENT - A braking device of a measuring instrument includes a body case and a spindle that penetrates the body case to be axially and reciprocably displaceable. The braking device includes a cylinder of which a first end is attached to the body case for accommodating a second end of the spindle, a piston provided on the second end of the spindle and accommodated to be reciprocably displaceable within the cylinder, a closing member provided on a second end of the cylinder to form a damper chamber between the closing member and the piston; a shaft connected to a side of the piston opposite to the spindle and penetrates the closing member; and a knob provided on a distal end of the shaft. A clearance is provided between the closing member and the shaft to circulate air. | 12-17-2009 |
Makoto Furuta, Kitasaku-Gun JP
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| 20100296284 | SPREAD ILLUMINATING APPARATUS - A spread illuminating apparatus includes: a light guide plate including a plurality of protrusions disposed along a side surface thereof such that a plurality of interspaces are formed with each interspace being located between two adjacent protrusions; and a plurality of LEDs which include first row LEDs and second row LEDs disposed in two rows respectively at the interspaces and the protrusions. The distal portion of the protrusion has, at its top end surface, a width which is larger than the width of an opening area of the recess of a lamp house and also smaller than the overall width of the lamp house. The first and second row LEDs adjacent to each other are disposed such that respective lamp houses of two adjacent LEDs partly overlap with each other when viewed from the light emission direction. | 11-25-2010 |
Mamoru Furuta, Kochi-Shi JP
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| 20090269881 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THIN FILM TRANSISTOR INCLUDING LOW RESISTANCE CONDUCTIVE THIN FILMS - A manufacturing method of a thin film transistor includes forming a pair of source/drain electrodes on a substrate, such that the source/drain electrodes define a gap therebetween; forming low resistance conductive thin films, which define a gap therebetween, on the source/drain electrodes; and forming an oxide semiconductor thin film layer on upper surface of the low resistance conductive thin films and in the gap defined between the low resistance conductive thin films so that the oxide semiconductor thin film layer functions as a channel. The low resistance conductive thin films and the oxide semiconductor thin film layer are etched so that side surfaces of the resistance conductive thin films and corresponding side surfaces of the oxide semiconductor thin film layer coincide with each other in a channel width direction of the channel. A gate electrode is mounted over the oxide semiconductor thin film layer. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090286351 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING ACTIVE LAYER OF ZINC OXIDE WITH CONTROLLED CRYSTAL LATTICE SPACING - A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes forming an oxide semiconductor thin film layer of zinc oxide, wherein at least a portion of the oxide semiconductor thin film layer in an as-deposited state includes lattice planes having a preferred orientation along a direction perpendicular to the substrate and a lattice spacing d | 11-19-2009 |
Masanori Furuta, Odawara-Shi JP
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| 20100142653 | A/D CONVERSION APPARATUS, A/D CONVERSION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - An A/D conversion apparatus includes: a first and a second D/A converter to sample an analog signal and successively compare the analog signal and a reference signal to generate a first and a second comparison signal respectively; a first comparator to compare the first comparison signal generated by the first D/A converter with a benchmark signal; a second comparator to compare the second comparison signal generated by the second D/A converter with the benchmark signal; and a converter to convert the analog signal to a digital signal according to results of the comparisons by the first and second comparators. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100150270 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND RECEIVER USING THE SAME - A signal processing circuit includes a decimation filter which down-samples over-sampled first three-phase digital signals to obtain second three-phase digital signals, and a converter which subjects the second three-phase digital signals to a three-phase to IQ conversion, and obtains orthogonal digital signals. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100156683 | AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT AND A/D CONVERTER - An amplifier circuit includes a current source that is connected between a power supply voltage and an output node and that is turned on when a switching control signal takes a first value and is turned off when the switching control signal takes a second value; a grounded voltage control current source whose amount of current is controlled by an input voltage; a cascode transistor connected between the voltage control current source and the output node; a boost amplifier connected between a gate electrode and a source electrode of the cascode transistor; and a switch that is connected between an output node of the boost amplifier and a bias voltage and that is turned on for a predetermined period of time when a value of the switching control signal is switched from the second value to the first value, to forcefully rise the boost amplifier. | 06-24-2010 |
Masanori Furuta, Kanagawa-Ken JP
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| 20100296612 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL CIRCUIT AND RECEIVER CIRCUIT - An automatic gain control circuit configured so that a response time is reduced until a gain converges is disclosed. A variable gain amplifier is configured so that a gain is varied by a first control signal. A detector circuit detects an intensity of an output signal of the variable gain amplifier. A comparator compares an output signal of the detector circuit with a reference signal. An integrator integrates a signal corresponding to an output signal of the comparator, and outputs an integration result to the variable gain amplifier as the first control signal. A loop gain control unit, connected between the comparator and the integrator, is configured so that a loop gain is varied by a second control signal. A level detection unit detects an intensity of an output signal of the integrator and outputs a detection result to the loop gain control unit as the second control signal. | 11-25-2010 |
Masaru Furuta, Kyoto-Shi JP
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| 20090166529 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SPECIMEN FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY - The present invention provides a specimen preparation method for mass spectrometry based on Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI), wherein the method enables to form microcrystals (cocrystals) between matrices and biological molecules (protein and the like) on a biological tissue to generate ions thereof highly efficiently and to perform highly sensitive measurement. Microcrystals are formed on the specimen containing biological molecules, i.e. objects of the measurement, by spraying matrix solution beforehand. Furthermore, dispensation of matrix solution on the microcrystals allows crystals to grow by making preformed micro-matrix crystals as crystal nuclei. Therefore, much finer and more homogeneous crystals (cocrystals) are prepared to enable to perform highly sensitive mass spectrometry based on MALDI. The present invention is a specimen preparation method for mass spectrometry based on matrix assisted laser desorption ionization, wherein the method comprises steps forming microcrystals of matrices on the specimen by spraying matrix solution on the specimen and allowing the microcrystals to grow further by dispensing matrix solutions to the specimen. | 07-02-2009 |
Masatoshi Furuta, Gifu JP
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| 20090056551 | Electrostatic Precipitator - The electrostatic precipitator ( | 03-05-2009 |
Masaya Furuta, Tochigi-Ken JP
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| 20100060047 | VEHICLE SEAT - A vehicle seat comprises a headrest mounted on the seatback frame so as to be movable in a front-and-back direction, a cushion plate mounted on the seatback frame, and a collision detector provided at back side of cushion plate. The headrest is connected to the collision detector by way of a active headrest mechanism. When the collision detector is moved backward, the headrest is moved forward. A space part is formed between an upper edge of the cushion plate and an upper frame of the seatback frame. The space part is enlarged by forming the upper frame by a pipe frame. | 03-11-2010 |
Masaya Furuta, Shioya-Gun JP
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| 20100276978 | HEADREST SUPPORT STRUCTURE - It is to suppress the deformation of a tubular support. A headrest support structure includes: a stay extending downward from a headrest; a bracket provided to a backrest so as to be formed in a tubular shape, and extending vertically; a tubular portion having an insertion hole in which the stay is inserted, the tubular portion being fitted into the bracket, and extending vertically; a first projection portion projecting from an outer peripheral surface of an upper part of the tubular portion, and facing to an inner surface of the bracket; a second projection portion projecting from the outer peripheral surface of a middle part in an up-and-down direction of the tubular portion, and facing to the inner surface of the bracket; a third projection portion projecting from the outer peripheral surface of a lower part of the tubular portion, and facing to the inner surface of the bracket; a first connection portion located between the first projection portion and the second projection portion; and a second connection portion located between the second projection portion and the third projection portion. | 11-04-2010 |
Masayuki Furuta, Fukuoka JP
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| 20080225858 | Data transferring apparatus and information processing system - A data transferring unit performs hit determination on a cache memory based on a management table and a request from a CPU board. If requested data is not available in the cache memory, the data transferring unit reads and sequentially transfers the requested data from a shared memory in packets of optimum packet length stored in a time table in such a way that the previous packet is transferred while the next packet is read. In addition, the data transferring unit measures a packet transfer time. A packet-length optimizing unit varies, based on the packet transfer time calculated by the data transferring unit and data stored in the time table, an optimum packet length so that the difference between the packet transfer time and a packet read time is minimized. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090307547 | Integrated circuit board with JTAG functions - In an integrated circuit board, a plurality of integrated circuits to be checked are connected together in a star shape. Operation clock data for JTAG of each integrated circuit and check data for checking each integrated circuit are stored. When an integrated circuit to be checked is specified, operation clock data for JTAG and check data for the specified integrated circuit are determined. With an operation clock for JTAG according to the determined operation clock data for JTAG, the determined check data is input to the specified integrated circuit. Based on the check data and output data output from the integrated circuit to which this check data is input, the integrated circuit board determines a malfunction in the integrated circuit, and then stores the determination result in a storage device. | 12-10-2009 |
Noboru Furuta, Fukuoka JP
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| 20090049681 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD - The inventive electronic component mounting apparatus for mounting an electronic component on a substrate includes a substrate positioning unit for individually positioning a single large-sized substrate or two small-sized substrates carried into a mounting conveyor in respective mounting work positions and a substrate underside support part arranged below the mounting conveyor and including a first underside support part and a second underside support part. It is thus possible to position a single substrate in a mounting work position in case a large-sized substrate is handled and to individually position a plurality of substrates in a plurality of mounting work positions in case a small-sized substrate is handled. This ensures flexible component mounting work on plural types of substrates by a compact facility. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090049682 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD - In an electronic component mounting system including a plurality of electronic component mounting apparatuses coupled in series, the system mounting an electronic component on a substrate to manufacture a mounted substrate, a substrate carried into a mounting conveyor is temporarily placed in a standby state in a substrate standby area formed by a first transfer conveyor (carry-in conveyor) of one electronic component mounting apparatus and a second transfer conveyor (carry-out conveyor) of another electronic component mounting apparatus positioned upstream of the one electronic component mounting apparatus. This eliminates the waste of time attributable to transfer of substrates and enhances the production efficiency by a compact facility. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090159216 | PASTE TRANSFER DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING APPARATUS - In a flux transfer unit to be used in an electronic component mounting apparatus for transferring flux to an electronic component picked up from a component feed unit and then mounting the electronic component onto a board, a blade holding head which has a first blade and a second blade for film formation use and scraping use of flux, respectively, and which is reciprocatively driven by a rodless cylinder via a drive transmission pin, is held by a movable member so as to be swingable about a swing support pin, and the movable member is braked with a specified braking force by a plate spring member. Thus, each time the direction of motion of the blade is reversed, the blade holding head swings, so that the first blade and the second blade can be automatically switched over without providing any exclusive drive mechanism. | 06-25-2009 |
Nobuo Furuta, Kasugai-Shi JP
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| 20090173630 | GAS SENSOR ELEMENT AND GAS SENSOR - A gas sensor element for detecting a specific gas component contained in a gas to be measured includes: a solid electrolyte layer; a first electrode disposed on the solid electrolyte layer; a second electrode disposed on the solid electrolyte layer; and a porous layer disposed on one of the first electrode and the second electrode such that the gas to be measured is introduced from the outside of said gas sensor element and passes through the porous layer to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode. The porous layer includes: a first porous layer including a first ceramic porous body which does not include noble metal particles dispersed therein; and a second porous layer provided on the first porous layer and including a second ceramic porous body and noble metal particles dispersed therein. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090255812 | LAMINATED GAS SENSOR ELEMENT AND GAS SENSOR - A laminated gas sensor element extending in a longitudinal direction and having a detection part including a plate-shaped element body which has a heater layer having an embedded resistance heating body and a detection layer laminated to the heater layer and having a vertical surface along a lamination direction and a horizontal surface perpendicular to the lamination direction; and a porous protective layer coating the vertical surface and the horizontal surface of the element body constituting the detection part, wherein a thickness of the protective layer formed on the vertical surface is thicker than a thickness of the protective layer formed on the horizontal surface. | 10-15-2009 |
Nobuo Furuta, Kasugai JP
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| 20090117007 | GAS SENSOR - A gas sensor including a detection element having a stacked structure configured to detect a specified gas component contained in a gas to be detected. The detection element includes: a sensing portion including one or more solid electrolyte layers containing a first material as a main component and having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a first portion stacked on the first surface and including one or more first base layers containing a second material as a main component different from the first material; and a second portion stacked on the second surface and including one or more second base layers containing the second material. A total thickness of the one or more second base layers in a stacking direction is not less than 80% but not more than 120% of a total thickness of the one or more first base layers. | 05-07-2009 |
Satoshi Furuta, Takasago-Shi JP
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| 20100116088 | HIGH-STRENGTH COMPOSITION IRON POWDER AND SINTERED PART MADE THEREFROM - A high-strength composition iron powder is prepared by mixing an iron base powder with 0.5 to 3.0 mass % of an Fe—Mn powder having a particle diameter of 45 μm or less and a Mn content in the range of 60 to 90 mass %, 1.0 to 3.0 mass % of a Cu powder, 0.3 to 1.0 mass % of a graphite powder, and 0.4 to 1.2 mass % of a powder lubricant for die-forming while adjusting the ratio of the amount of Mn contained in the Fe—Mn powder to the amount of the Cu powder in the range of 0.1 to 1. The high-strength composition iron powder is press-formed and sintered at a temperature equal to or higher than the melting point of Cu to produce a high-strength sintered part having a tensile strength of 580 MPa or higher without using expensive alloying elements such as Ni and Mo. | 05-13-2010 |
Satoshi Furuta, Saitama JP
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| 20080295394 | Cetane-Improving Component for Diesel Fuels and Diesel Fuels Containing it - Cetane improver for diesel fuels, characterized in that it comprises at least one ester of stearic acid, selected from the esters of linear or branched monoalcohols containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms: a) added in the pure state to a mixture of at least one vegetable or animal oil ester in crude or partially hydrogenated form b) or else included in a mixture of esters of one or more vegetable and/or animal oils, in crude or partially hydrogenated form, the mixtures of saturated or unsaturated esters being such that the ratio by mass of the amount of stearic ester(s) to the total sum of the amounts of unsaturated esters present in the vegetable or animal oil esters varies from 1% to 12%, and the unsaturated fatty acid esters being esters of mono or polyunsaturated acids containing at least 18 carbon atoms with monoalcohols. | 12-04-2008 |
Seiichi Furuta, Anjo-Shi JP
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| 20100094951 | DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE, ON-VEHICLE TERMINAL DEVICE, AND CENTER - A controller of a navigation device judges whether or not there are data for which reception has been interrupted, based on data stored in a memory. When there are data for which reception has been interrupted, a distribution request of remaining data of the interrupted reception is transmitted to a center ( | 04-15-2010 |
Shigeo Furuta, Ibaraki JP
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| 20090251199 | Switching Element - A switching element | 10-08-2009 |
Shinichi Furuta, Hamamatsu-Shi JP
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| 20080219312 | QUANTUM CASCADE LASER DEVICE - In a quantum cascade laser device | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090052488 | QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ELEMENT - A DFB quantum cascade laser element that can reliably CW-oscillate a single-mode light even at room temperature or a temperature in proximity thereof is provided. In a quantum cascade laser element | 02-26-2009 |
Shinji Furuta, Saitama JP
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| 20090000837 | SADDLE RIDING TYPE FUEL CELL VEHICLE - A saddle riding type fuel cell vehicle includes a fuel cell that generates power by a chemical reaction between a fuel gas and a reactive gas with radiators that cool cooling water of the fuel cell. The radiators are adjacently arranged in right and left sides of the fuel cell in a vehicle width direction. Each outer end surface of the radiators, outside in a vehicle width direction, is positioned closer to the front side of a vehicle body than each inner end surface inside in the vehicle width direction. Thus, each plane portion, which receives an air flow, is inclined to the inner side of the vehicle body, and air courses, which allow an air flow to be passed to the rear side of the vehicle body, are each formed between the inner end surface of each of the radiators and each side surface of the fuel cell. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090020347 | SADDLE SEAT TYPE FUEL-CELL ELECTRIC VEHICLE - A saddle seat type fuel-cell electric vehicle includes a body frame having a pair of right and left main frames connected at their front ends to a head pipe and extending downward therefrom and a pair of right and left under frames connected at their front ends to the head pipe and extending downward therefrom along the right and left main frames on the lower side thereof. A pair of hydrogen cylinders extend substantially vertically along the body frame between the front side of the head pipe and the front side of the front end portion of the footrest so as to interpose the body frame in the lateral direction of the vehicle. A fuel supply unit is provided in a space surrounded by the main frames and the under frames with the hydrogen cylinders being surrounded by a guard pipe connected to the main frames. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090075152 | SADDLE-RIDE TYPE FUEL CELL THREE-WHEELED VEHICLE - A saddle-ride three-wheeled vehicle has a fuel cell which generates an electric power by a chemical reaction between a fuel gas and a reaction gas. The three-wheeled vehicle includes a drain pipe which guides water discharged from the fuel cell out of a vehicle body; a rear body to which a pair of left and right rear wheels are journaled; and a linking mechanism which swingably links the rear body and a front body to allow the front body to sway left and right with respect to the rear body, wherein the drain pipe has a drain port between the pair of left and right rear wheels. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100078249 | ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE - The weight balance of an electric motorcycle including a battery, a power drive unit, and a driving power generating motor, in the left-and-right direction or in the frontward-and-rearward direction is easily secured. An electric motorcycle includes a power drive unit and a driving power generating motor which are mounted to a swing arm swinging about a pivot shaft in an upward-and-downward direction. A rear wheel WR is driven by the power generating motor. The electric motorcycle includes a battery to supply electric power to the power generating motor. A center of gravity (BC) of the battery is located at the side opposite to the power drive unit and the power generating motor about a central line CX of a motorcycle body. | 04-01-2010 |
Shinji Furuta, Osaka-Shi JP
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| 20080253804 | Image forming apparatus and intermediate transfer unit - An intermediate transfer unit of an image forming apparatus is provided between a plurality of developer containers for containing developer and a plurality of developing devices. The intermediate transfer unit includes an intermediate transfer unit for secondarily transferring primarily transferred developed images from the plurality of image carriers onto a paper, an intermediate transfer unit driving mechanism for driving the intermediate transfer unit, and a housing for supporting the intermediate transfer unit driving mechanism. One end of the housing includes a plurality of developer inlet ports positionally corresponding to the developer supply ports of the developer containers respectively, a plurality of developer outlet ports positionally corresponding to the developer receiving ports of the developing devices respectively, and a plurality of developer supply paths connecting between the developer inlet ports and the developer outlet ports respectively. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20100150613 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER UNIT - An intermediate transfer unit of an image forming apparatus is provided between a plurality of developer containers for containing developer and a plurality of developing devices. The intermediate transfer unit includes an intermediate transfer unit for secondarily transferring primarily transferred developed images from the plurality of image carriers onto a paper, an intermediate transfer unit driving mechanism for driving the intermediate transfer unit, and a housing for supporting the intermediate transfer unit driving mechanism. One end of the housing includes a plurality of developer inlet ports positionally corresponding to the developer supply ports of the developer containers respectively, a plurality of developer outlet ports positionally corresponding to the developer receiving ports of the developing devices respectively, and a plurality of developer supply paths connecting between the developer inlet ports and the developer outlet ports respectively. | 06-17-2010 |
Shinya Furuta, Toyota-Shi JP
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| 20100030434 | DRIVER CONDITION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, SERVER, DRIVER INFORMATION COLLECTING APPARATUS, AND DRIVER CONDITION ESTIMATION SYSTEM - A driver condition estimation apparatus | 02-04-2010 |
Shoji Furuta, Chiyoda-Ku JP
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| 20090085001 | LIQUID REPELLENT COMPOSITION, LIQUID REPELLENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND ARTICLE HAVING LIQUID REPELLENT FILM - To provide a liquid repellent composition which is excellent in liquid repellency and durability and an article having a liquid repelling film. | 04-02-2009 |
Takayuki Furuta, Yokosuka-Shi JP
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| 20080309426 | IRREVERSIBLE CIRCUIT ELEMENT - An irreversible circuit element is configured by including a magnetic substance, a plurality of central conductors L | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090206942 | NON-RECIPROCAL CIRCUIT DEVICE - A non-reciprocal circuit device comprising a magnetic plate F | 08-20-2009 |
Takayuki Furuta, Funabashi-Shi JP
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| 20100193265 | CAR, WALKING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF DETERMINING SHAPE OF WHEEL - A car having a rotatable wheel, the car being able to run by rotating the wheel, the car having a leg used by the car for walking, and an attitude stabilization section for stabilizing an attitude of the car. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198493 | CAR, WALKING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF DETERMING SHAPE OF WHEEL - A car having a rotatable wheel, the car being able to run by rotating the wheel, the car having a leg used by the car for walking, and an attitude stabilization section for stabilizing an attitude of the car. | 08-05-2010 |
Takayuki Furuta, Chiba JP
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| 20100230186 | CAR - A car includes a car body having a bottom portion, a wheel that is rotatable, and a supporting member for supporting the wheel, the supporting member being provided to the bottom portion. At least eight pairs of the wheel and the supporting member are provided. The supporting member has a first supporting portion for supporting the wheel rotatably, a second supporting portion for supporting the first supporting portion so that a direction of the wheel supported by the first supporting portion can be changed, and a turning portion that is rotatable about a rotation axis with its axial direction along a direction orthogonal to the bottom portion, the turning portion being provided to the bottom portion. The turning portion supports the second supporting portion so that a distance between the wheel and the bottom portion can be changed, and a position of the wheel can be moved by a rotation of the turning portion in a state that the distance is maintained. | 09-16-2010 |
Takayuki Furuta, Gunma-Ken JP
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| 20090270391 | THIENOPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE, OR QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE, OR QUINAZOLINE DERIVATIVE, HAVING c-MET AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION INHIBITING POTENCY - An objective of the present invention is to provide compounds having antitumor activity. According to the present invention, there is provided compounds represented by formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and solvates thereof: | 10-29-2009 |
Takeshi Furuta, Tottori JP
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| 20100316809 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR GRADED INDEX TYPE OPTICAL TRANSMISSION ELEMENT - A production method for an optical transmission element, wherein a cylindrical transparent resin is used as a core wire, a monomer becoming a polymer different in refractive index from the core wire after polymerized or a mixture of a monomer and a polymer is bonded to the outer periphery of the core wire and the monomer is diffused from the outer periphery of the core wire to thereby form the monomer inside the core wire at a proper concentration distribution, and then the monomer is further polymerized to the core wire to provide a distribution layer having different refractive indexes from the center toward the outer periphery, whereby it is possible to provide a graded index type optical transmission element at low costs with a simple facility. | 12-16-2010 |
Takeshi Furuta, Kyoto JP
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| 20080266147 | VARIABLE LENGTH CODE DECODING APPARATUS - A variable length code decoding apparatus according to the present invention includes: an extracting unit which extracts a bit string from a beginning of a bit stream; a first storage unit for storing a plurality of code words in which one piece of data has been coded, and decoded data and code lengths respectively corresponding to the code words; a second storage unit for storing a plurality of code words in which two or more pieces of data have been coded, and decoded data and code lengths respectively corresponding to the code words; a first judging unit which judges whether one of the code words stored in the first storage unit is included in the extracted bit string, and, when judged as being included, outputs the decoded data and the code length of the code word; and a second judging unit which judges whether a code word stored in the second storage unit is included in the extracted bit string, and when judged as being included, outputs the decoded data and the code length of the code word, wherein the extracting unit extracts the bit string to be decoded next in the same cycle as a cycle in which the judgment was made by the first judging unit, and extracts the bit string to be decoded next in a cycle following the cycle in which the judgment was made by the second judging unit. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090049219 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND EXCEPTION CONTROL CIRCUIT - To provide an information processing apparatus capable of performing switching between an exception handler and normal processing, the information processing apparatus comprising: An information processing apparatus comprising: a processor; a data processing unit operable to perform particular processing upon receiving a processing request from the processor; an interrupt controller operable to issue an interrupt request to the processor; and an exception control unit operable to control the interrupt controller, wherein the data processing unit is connected with the exception control unit via a dedicated line, the data processing unit includes a notification unit operable to notify, via the dedicated line, the exception control unit of status information showing a current status of the data processing unit, and based on the notified status information and setup information set by the processor, the exception control unit judges whether to cause the interrupt controller to issue an interrupt request to execute an exception handler to the processor. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20100289674 | VARIABLE-LENGTH CODE DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A variable-length code decoding apparatus that decodes a bitstream includes: a storage unit that stores a variable-length code table; a bitstream cutout unit that outputs a bit string of a fixed length; a reference unit that outputs decoded data and a code length with reference to the storage unit; a determination unit that determines whether a bit string of the fixed length is accumulated; a determination unit that determines whether a bit string of a length that is shorter than the fixed length is accumulated; and a selection unit that selects one of the determination results from the determination units. The bitstream cutout unit sets a starting bit based on the selected determination result, and the selection unit switches the selection of the determination results from the determination units. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110122952 | MOTION ESTIMATION DEVICE - A motion estimation device configured to estimate motion for blocks included in an input picture using a reference picture includes an internal reference memory configured to store the reference picture transferred from outside the motion estimation device; a motion estimator configured to estimate motion information for a target block that is a block of the input picture and where motion is to be estimated, using pixel data of the reference picture stored in the internal reference memory; a motion compensator configured to perform motion compensation for the target block using the motion information estimated by the motion estimator; and a reference memory manager configured to control the internal reference memory. The reference memory manager is configured to control the internal reference memory to store a luminance reference picture and a color-difference reference picture as the reference picture. | 05-26-2011 |
Tatsuo Furuta, Kawasaki-Shi JP
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| 20090213187 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND RECORDING DEVICE - A liquid discharge head include a discharge port for discharging liquid; a liquid chamber communicating to the discharge port; a piezoelectric element including one electrode layer, another electrode layer, and a piezoelectric film sandwiched between the one electrode layer and the other electrode layer independently arranged in correspondence to the liquid chamber, and including a piezoelectric drive portion at where the piezoelectric film deforms and displaces in correspondence to the liquid chamber; and a vibration plate interposed between the piezoelectric element and the liquid chamber, wherein a bending rigidity of both ends in an arranging direction of the one electrode layer of a portion corresponding to the piezoelectric drive portion of the vibration plate is greater than the bending rigidity of a region between both ends. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090315432 | METAL OXIDE, PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL AND PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - Provided are a piezoelectric material without using lead or an alkali metal, the piezoelectric material having a stable crystal structure in a wide temperature range, high insulation property, and high piezoelectric property, and a piezoelectric element using the piezoelectric material, in which the piezoelectric material is made of a metal oxide having a tetragonal crystal structure and expressed by Ba(Si | 12-24-2009 |
Tatsuo Furuta, Machida-Shi JP
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| 20100081559 | FERROELECTRIC CERAMIC MATERIAL - Provided is a ferroelectric ceramic material containing BaTiO | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100155646 | PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL - Provided is a piezoelectric material in which the product of the piezoelectric constant and the Young's modulus is large to give excellent piezoelectricity without using lead. A piezoelectric material including a perovskite type crystal represented by a compositional formula of ABO | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100225709 | PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, AND LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND RECORDING APPARATUS USING THE PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - Provided are a piezoelectric element that can effectively utilize a piezoelectric constant d | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110120494 | DUST REMOVING DEVICE AND DUST REMOVING METHOD - In a piezoelectric device, a first electrode and a second electrode are disposed to be opposed to each other on plate surfaces of the piezoelectric device, a first electrode plane of the piezoelectric device is fixedly bonded to a plate surface of a vibrating plate, a piezoelectric material forming the piezoelectric device is polarized in a direction parallel to the first electrode plane, the piezoelectric device is fixed to a base through a second electrode plane of the piezoelectric device, and the piezoelectric device generates a thickness-shear vibration with the fixed second electrode plane being a reference plane. The piezoelectric vibration generated by the piezoelectric device generates a flexural vibration in the vibrating plate, to thereby remove dust adhering to a surface of the vibrating plate. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110128327 | PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMIC, METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME, PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, AND ULTRASONIC MOTOR - A piezoelectric ceramic that includes barium titanate and 0.04 mass % or more and 0.20 mass % or less manganese relative to barium titanate. The piezoelectric ceramic is composed of crystal grains. The crystal grains include crystal grains A having an equivalent circular diameter of 30 μm or more and 300 μm or less and crystal grains B having an equivalent circular diameter of 0.5 μm or more and 3 μm or less. The crystal grains A and the crystal grains B individually form aggregates and the aggregates of the crystal grains A and the aggregates of the crystal grains B form a sea-island structure. | 06-02-2011 |
Toshiaki Furuta, Narashino-Shi JP
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| 20090023140 | CROSSLINKING AGENT, CROSSLINKING METHOD, METHOD OF CONTROLLING GENE EXPRESSION, AND METHOD OF EXAMINING GENE FUNCTION - The present invention provides a crosslinking agent which have photodegradable protective groups at two ends to crosslink double-stranded nucleic acid, a nucleic acid and a protein or a polypeptide, or proteins or polypeptides, in particular, double-stranded RNA; a method for crosslinking a double-stranded RNA or the like using the same; a method for regulating gene expression, which can control the expression of a target gene at an arbitrary timing and location; and a method for examining a gene function. | 01-22-2009 |
Toshiyuki Furuta, Shizuoka-Ken JP
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| 20090266508 | Cooling apparatus for a fuel cell powered vehicle - A cooling apparatus for a fuel cell powered vehicle includes a first cooling passage for providing cooling water between a fuel cell and a first radiator and a second cooling passage for providing cooling water between electric apparatuses other than the fuel cell and a second radiator. The first radiator is arranged behind a front bumper and in a center portion in a vehicle width direction, a pair of radiators constructing the second radiator are arranged in side portions in the vehicle width direction from the first radiator and in a space surrounded by curved portions of the front bumper. When the vehicle is viewed from an upper direction, each second radiator is curved along an inner surface of the front bumper, and inner edge portions of the second radiators are coupled by a cooling water piping. | 10-29-2009 |
Yasuhiro Furuta, Shimosuwa-Machi JP
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| 20100289798 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method includes: obtaining image portrayal information representing a relationship between coordinates of a rendered image obtained by performing rendering with a texture attached to a 3-dimensional model and coordinates of the texture and a relationship between colors of each pixel of the rendered image and colors of each pixel of the texture; and compressing the image portrayal information representing a relationship between coordinates of the rendered image and coordinates of the texture using a linear compression scheme. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100290712 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method of processing image portrayal information used for rendering by attaching textures includes separating a texture area to which the texture is attached and a non-texture area to which the texture is not attached in a coordinate system of a rendering-completed image represented by the image portrayal information, compressing the image portrayal information of the non-texture area by a first compression method, and compressing the image portrayal information of the texture area by a second compression method different from the first compression method. | 11-18-2010 |
Yasuhiro Furuta, Shimosuwa-Machi, Nagano JP
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| 20100207940 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a method of displaying an image including: rendering a predetermined pattern of which each coordinate is set to a different grayscale value by pasting the pattern to a three-dimensional model as a texture, setting a corresponding relationship between a coordinate of a rendered image, which is obtained in a bitmap image form by the rendering, and a coordinate of the predetermined pattern for storing the rendered image as image drawing information by analyzing the rendered image, and arranging a desired texture in the rendered image for display based on the stored image drawing information when the desired texture is supposed to be displayed as an image. | 08-19-2010 |
Yasuhiro Furuta, Kitakyushu-Shi JP
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| 20100020115 | IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - An image display control device for controlling display of an image to a display device having a plurality of unit display elements in which three unit display elements corresponding to signals of three primary colors, respectively, are arranged in a delta form, includes an image data input unit which inputs image data, and an image drawing unit which draws an image on the basis of the input image data such that two of the three unit display elements are in a pair and constitute one pixel of the image and the remaining one unit display element constitutes one pixel of the image. | 01-28-2010 |
Yasuyuki Furuta, Kounan-City JP
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| 20090297766 | HONEYCOMB FILTER - A honeycomb segment has two kinds of cells having different cross-sectional areas in a cross-section cut along a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the segnent. When the cells are cut along a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the cells, each cross-sectional area of first cells (large cells) is larger than that of second cells (small cells). The first cells are formed into an octagon where corners are cut off or into a square having circular arc corners. The second cells are formed into a square. The thickness of a 1-1 wall between the adjacent first cells is larger than that of a 1-2 wall between each first cell and each second cell adjacent to the first cell. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100093528 | HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE - There is disclosed a honeycomb structure having a plurality of segments and each including a plurality of cells, wherein each segment has a porous base material having the honeycomb shape, and a modified portion formed by impregnating a part of the base material with a slurry including particles smaller than the average pore diameter of the base material, followed by a heat treatment, the base material has a porosity of 30 to 80% and an average pore diameter of 5 to 40 μm, and the modified portion is partially formed on the section of the segment vertical to the axial direction of the cells, and has a porosity which is 2 to 20% lower than that of the base material and an average pore diameter which is 0.1 to 10 μm smaller than that of the base material. | 04-15-2010 |
Yasuyuki Furuta, Tokai JP
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| 20100050062 | SENDING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - The system has, provided in a sending device, a generator generating transmission data including data, a data error detection code generated from the data and a safety flag indicating a degree of reliability, and transmission data; has, provided in a receiving device, a plurality of components of extracting transmission data, a safety flag, and a data error detection code from a received frame, and detecting a data error, a comparator comparing the matching of a plurality of received frames, and a selector selecting one received frame, from the frame error detection result, the safety flag, the data error detection result, and the matching comparison result; and determines the validity of transmitted data by the detection corresponding to the degree of reliability set with the safety flag. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100235699 | FAULT DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD OF MULTI-CHANNEL ANALOG INPUT/OUTPUT CIRCUIT - A fault diagnosis apparatus and method capable of simultaneously detecting the fault of a multiplexer and the fault of an A/D converter and isolating and identifying causes of these faults, the multiplexer and the A/D converter being used in a multi-channel analog input/output circuit. Test-voltage values are inputted from a diagnosis-voltage input unit into the multiplexer and the A/D converter constituting an analog-signal conversion unit, the multiplexer having plural channels, the A/D converter converting outputs from the multiplexer into digital signals, the test-voltage values being different from each other for each channel of the multiplexer. Comparisons are made between the digital voltage values and the test-voltage values inputted, the digital voltage values being outputted for each channel of the multiplexer. From this comparison result, it is judged whether the multiplexer is at fault or the A/D converter is at fault. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110022936 | SENDING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A receiving device including: a receiver receiving two frames, each including substantially same data attached thereto with a data error detection code, a frame error detection code, and safety flag information indicating a safety function or not, respectively; a first detector connected to the receiver for performing error detection of the frames by use of the frame error detection code, respectively; a second detector connected to the receiver for performing error detection of the data by use of the data error detection code, respectively; and a Direct Memory Access Controller (DMAC) connected to the first and second detectors for outputting one among the data included in the two frames under a condition of the safety function in the two frames when no error is detected in the frame and data error detections. | 01-27-2011 |
Yoshihiro Furuta, Neyagawa-City JP
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| 20100079687 | LCD APPARATUS - An LCD apparatus includes LCD panels for modulating irradiated light based on picture signals, a projection lens for extendedly projecting the light modulated by the LCD panels, a light source for emitting light to irradiate the LCD panels, an inorganic polarizer having a relatively higher degree of polarization and disposed on a light-emission side of each of the LCD panels, and an absorptive polarizer having a lower degree of polarization than the inorganic polarizer and disposed on a light-emission side of the inorganic polarizer. The inorganic polarizer having the higher degree of polarization and the absorptive polarizer having the lower degree of polarization have respective light transmission axes coincident with each other. | 04-01-2010 |
Yoshinori Furuta, Kurokawa-Gun JP
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| 20080239130 | DRIVE METHOD OF CCD-TYPE SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A drive method of a CCD-type solid-state image pickup device, the image pickup device comprising vertical charge transfer path with vertical transfer electrodes, wherein the method transfers signal charges read from pixels of the image pickup device along the vertical charge transfer path, the method comprising a plurality of steps each of where transferring the signal charges along the vertical charge transfer path is stopped and the signal charges are retained in potential well(s) formed under given one(s) of the vertical transfer electrodes during the stopping of the transferring, wherein said plurality of steps comprises a given step in which the given one(s) of the vertical transfer electrodes are changed from those of the vertical transfer electrodes in another one of said plurality of steps. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080246863 | CCD SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE DATA CORRECTION METHOD - A CCD solid-state imaging device is provided and includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photodiodes arranged in a two-dimensional array; a plurality of vertical charge transfer paths, each reading a signal charge from the photo diodes, wherein electron multiplication of the signal charge is performed in each of the vertical transfer paths; and a storage section that stores data indicating a multiplication factor of the electron multiplication, the multiplication factor being detected at each place of the vertical transfer paths in which the electron multiplication is performed. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090185061 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CORRECTING A PICKED-UP IMAGE SIGNAL OF THE SAME - In a method for correcting a picked-up image signal of an image pickup apparatus including: a solid-state imaging device comprising a plurality of pixels which are arranged in a two-dimensional array form in a surface portion of a semiconductor substrate, and an amplifier which is provided at the semiconductor substrate, and which amplifies signals that are detected by the pixels in accordance with an amount of incident light; and an image signal processing section which processes a signal output from the amplifier, each of the pixels senses light emission produced when the amplifier operates, through the semiconductor substrate to obtain a signal amount as a correction amount, and the correction amount is subtracted from a detection signal amount of the pixel which is output from the amplifier, to correct the detection amount. | 07-23-2009 |
Yoshinori Furuta, Kurakawa-Gun JP
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| 20090109307 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE FOR COLOR IMAGING - A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements provided at a surface portion of a semiconductor substrate by being arranged in a form of a two-dimensional array, spectral elements each provided on a number of the photoelectric conversion elements which are arranged linearly, a trapezoidal opening which is longitudinally elongated in a direction from a base toward an upper side thereof and which introduces incident light to the number of the photoelectric conversion elements being provided in each of the spectral elements, so as to cause spectral separation in the longitudinal direction by interference between the incident light and light reflected on inner side surfaces of the trapezoidal opening and a signal reading unit for reading a signal which is detected by each of the number of the photoelectric conversion elements arranged in the longitudinal direction by receiving the light incident through the trapezoidal opening. | 04-30-2009 |
Yuji Furuta, Aichi-Ken JP
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