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| 20080291516 | Light Scanning Apparatus, Method of Controlling the Same and Image Forming Apparatus Equipped with the Same - A light scanning apparatus makes a light beam scan along a main scanning direction on an effective scanning region which has a predetermined width. The apparatus comprises: a light source which emits the light beam; a deflector which includes an oscillation mirror which oscillates about an oscillatory axis which is orthogonal or approximately orthogonal to the main scanning direction, deflects the light beam emitted from the light source using the oscillation mirror, and makes the light beam scan a second scanning range which contains but extends beyond a first scanning range which corresponds to the effective scanning region; a detector which detects the scanning light beam which moves through a position which is outside the first scanning range but is within the second scanning range, and outputs a signal; and a controller which controls a mirror drive signal fed to the oscillation mirror based on the output signal from the detector and accordingly adjusts the amplitude of the oscillation mirror. In the apparatus above, the controller stops driving the oscillation mirror when confirming based on the output signal that the oscillation mirror is under abnormal control. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090021817 | Light Scanning Apparatus, Method of Controlling the Same and Image Forming Apparatus Equipped with the Same - A light scanning apparatus makes a light beam scan along a main scanning direction on an effective scanning region which has a predetermined width. The apparatus comprises: a light source which emits the light beam; a deflector which includes an oscillation mirror which oscillates about an oscillatory axis which is orthogonal or approximately orthogonal to the main scanning direction, deflects the light beam emitted from the light source using the oscillation mirror, and makes the light beam scan a second scanning range which contains but extends beyond a first scanning range which corresponds to the effective scanning region; a detector which detects the scanning light beam which moves through a position which is outside the first scanning range but is within the second scanning range, and outputs a signal; and a controller which controls a mirror drive signal fed to the oscillation mirror based on the output signal from the detector and accordingly adjusts the amplitude of the oscillation mirror. In the apparatus above, the controller stops driving the oscillation mirror when confirming based on the output signal that the oscillation mirror is under abnormal control. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090135312 | Apparatus For And Method Of Forming Images With Oscillation Mirror - An image forming method which generates a video signal corresponding to an image forming command based on a video clock signal, modulates a light beam according to the video signal, and scans the modulated light beam along a main scanning direction by means of an oscillation mirror which resonates based on a drive signal, so as to form a latent image in an effective image region of a latent image carrier, the method includes: synchronizing the drive signal with the video clock signal to synchronize a detection signal with the video clock signal, the detection signal being output from a detector which detect the light beam scanned in the main scanning direction in a region away from an effective scan region which corresponds to the effective image region; controlling a resonant frequency of the oscillation mirror based on the detection signal so that the resonant frequency of the oscillation mirror almost coincides with the frequency of the drive signal; and adjusting a position, at which the latent image is written over the latent image carrier, is adjusted by adjusting output timing of the video signal based on the detection signal from the detector. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20100086297 | Concentration Detection Apparatus and Image Formation Apparatus - A concentration detection apparatus includes: a light-emitting element that emits light; a light-emitting-element holding unit that holds the light-emitting element; a light-receiving element that receives light emitted from the light-emitting element; a light-receiving-element holding unit that holds the light-receiving element and is provided opposite to the light-emitting-element holding unit with a gap therebetween; a moving unit that can move through or at the gap between the light-emitting-element holding unit and the light-receiving-element holding unit; and a gap adjusting unit that adjusts a value of the gap as a distance between the light-emitting-element holding unit and the light-receiving-element holding unit. | 04-08-2010 |
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| 20080224079 | Valve having diameter-reducible joint part, joint for diameter reduction, and plumbing system using these - A valve having a diameter-reducible joint includes a diameter-reducible housing having a flow path therein and accommodating a seal sleeve formed of rubber, a valve mechanism provided with a valve element and built in the housing to enable switching of the flow path and controlling of a flow rate, and a junction pipe having a junction end joined with the seal sleeve to the diameter-contracted joint in a tightly sealed fashion through diameter reduction of the housing. A plumbing system comprising a pipe that has a terminal and a valve which comprises a diameter-reducible joint part having diameter-enlarging and -reducing functions, a housing having one or both joint portions enlarged and reduced in diameter to join the pipe thereto and a disc disposed within the housing and which is attached to the terminal of the pipe. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090032757 | Valve Having Diameter-Reducible Joint Part, Joint for Diameter Reduction, and Plumbing System Using These - A valve is provided without processing junction sites thereof, in which pipes can infallibly be joined with ease only through the reduction in diameter of a housing to be fastened and, at the same time, the valve has appropriate flexibility relative to the joined pipes and is capable of absorb vibration etc., thereby exhibiting excellent durability. Furthermore, the valve has a diameter-reducible joint part, enables joining the pipes to the opposite sides thereof separately individually and can always maintain high sealability even when the pipes are joined thereto or detached therefrom, thus excelling in cost. The valve having a diameter-reducible joint | 02-05-2009 |
| 20100051846 | SHAFT SEALING DEVICE AND VALVE STRUCTURE USING THE SAME - A shaft sealing device with a simple internal structure switches a sealing state and an unsealing state of a fluid, with high sealing performance maintained, because of no abrasion accompanying the movement of a sealing material or a sealing member, thereby enabling feeding a fluid at a predetermined flow rate, and adjusts the expanding rate of the sealing material with the quantity of an external electric signal and accordingly adjusts the contact face pressure to enable controlling the amount of leakage of the fluid highly precisely, so that it can be used for all applications. The shaft sealing device includes a shaft sealing body formed of a macromolecular material and made expansible or contractible, or deformable, through external electrostimuli applied to a shaft sealing portion disposed in a device body, and flow passages disposed in the shaft sealing portion for feeding the fluid leaked due to the expansion or contraction, or the deformation, of the shaft sealing body. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100313983 | POLYMER ACTUATOR, AND VALVE AND SHAFT-SEALING STRUCTURE EACH USING THE SAME - The object is to provide a polymer actuator capable of being utilized for any of various drive sources, wherein the amount of deformation of the polymer actuator can particularly be used also for a valve or shaft-sealing device. The polymer actuator comprises a power driver deformed upon receiving electro stimuli and electrodes disposed on the upper and lower surface sides of the power driver in an opposite manner for applying positive and negative electro stimuli to the power driver in a planar fashion. The electrodes have different stimuli application regions to have different electrical field distributions for causing distribution of stress-generated in the power driver to be eccentrically located on one of positive and negative sides, thereby bending and deforming the power driver onto a side on which the opposite stimuli application regions do not exist. | 12-16-2010 |
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| 20110076066 | FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing apparatus includes: a first fixing unit including a first heating unit heats to a transfer material onto which an image has been transferred and a first pressure unit that forms a first nip portion; a second fixing unit including a second heating unit heats to the transfer material fixed in the first fixing unit and a second pressure unit that forms a second nip portion; and a fixing unit suction guide, including a suction surface that sucks the transfer material fixed in the first fixing unit upward with a surface of the transfer material onto which the image has been transferred facing downward, an end of the suction surface on a side toward the second fixing unit in a transport direction of the transfer material being located higher in the vertical direction than an imaginary line that connects the first nip portion and the second nip portion. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110076067 | FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing apparatus for forming an image on a transfer material includes first and second fixing roller units, a suction guide, and a movement member. The first fixing roller unit includes a first heating roller that heats the transfer material bearing the image and a first pressure roller being in contact with the first heating roller. The suction guide guides the transfer material, and includes a suction surface that vertically upwardly sucks the transfer material after being heated by the first fixing roller unit. The second fixing roller unit fixes the transfer material after being guided by the suction guide, and includes a second heating roller heating the transfer material and a second pressure roller being in contact with the second heating roller. The second pressure roller is disposed above the second heating roller in the vertical direction. The movement member causes the second pressure roller to move vertically upwardly. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110187767 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECORDING IMAGE TO ELECTRONIC PAPER - The quality of an image recorded on electronic paper is improved. Specifically, electronic paper for displaying an image is supplied in a region in which an electric field is generated in the thickness direction of the electronic paper, the electronic paper having charged color particles and being used for displaying an image as a result of charged color particles migrating in the thickness direction. Voltage for generating an electric field in the region is controlled by a voltage control section so that the value of the voltage varies together with time. The quality of an image recorded on electronic paper can thereby be improved. | 08-04-2011 |
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| 20100054787 | Fixing Device and Image Forming Apparatus - A fixing device that includes a first fixing unit including a first heating roller having a metallic roller and a resin layer formed on the metallic roller, and a first pressure roller coming into abutment with the first heating roller; and a second fixing unit having a second heating roller being configured to heat a transfer material heated by the first fixing unit and including a metallic roller, a elastic layer formed on the metallic roller, and a resin layer formed on the elastic layer, and a second pressure roller coming into abutment with the second heating roller is provided. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100272472 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus including a developing portion for developing a image carrier with liquid developer including a toner and a carrier liquid, a transfer portion for transferring the image developed on the image carrier in the developing portion onto a surface of the recording medium, and a recording medium transporting portion for transporting the recording medium onto which the image has been transferred with surface of the recording medium onto which the image has been transferred facing downward, with the upward facing surface being sucked and held by air flow. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100272479 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus including: an image carrier that carries an image; a transfer roller having a transfer material-gripping member that grips a transfer material, the transfer roller transferring the image carried by the image carrier to the transfer material; a transfer material-transporting belt that transports the transfer material onto which the image has been transferred while subjecting the transfer material to suction; a fixing section that fixes the transferred image on the transported transfer material; and a transfer material-guiding section having a guiding surface that guides the transported transfer material to the fixing section, the guiding surface being disposed in a direction in which the transfer material is sucked onto the transfer material-transporting belt relative to a transfer material-transporting surface of the transfer material-transporting belt. | 10-28-2010 |
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| 20100022572 | NOVEL SPIRO COMPOUND AND MEDICINE COMPRISING THE SAME - It is to provide a novel compound useful for preventing and/or treating diabetes, insulin resistance, diabetes complication, obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, fatty liver, or metabolic syndrome. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100144694 | 1,2-DIAZETIDIN-3-ONE DERIVATIVES AND DRUGS CONTAINING SAME | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100197698 | 5-PHENYL-3-PYRIDAZINONE DERIVATIVE - To find a compound having a tissue fibrinosis-inhibitory activity and a fibrinolytic activity, and to provide a novel compound that is useful for preventing and/or treating tissue fibrinosis diseases (pulmonary fibrosis, renal fibrosis etc.), diseases caused by pathological blood clots such as ischemic heart diseases (myocardial infarction, angina), intraatrial thrombus, pulmonary embolism, deep venous thrombosis, disseminated intravascular coagulation, ischemic cerebral diseases (cerebral infarction, cerebral bleeding) and arteriosclerosis and the like. To provide a pharmaceutical drug comprising a 5-phenyl-3-pyridazinone derivative represented by the following general formula (I): | 08-05-2010 |
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| 20080217177 | Capillary electrophoresis apparatus - There is provided a capillary electrophoresis apparatus wherein coupling efficiency of exciting irradiation light to a capillary array does not decline even if any one capillary array of two capillary arrays is removed. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080296161 | Electrophoresis apparatus and pump mechanism used in the same - To obtain a stable pressure to inject polymer into a capillary array in order to shorten the injection time and raise the processing capacity of the apparatus. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090009761 | SPECTROPHOTOMETER AND LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY SYSTEM - Detection sensitivity is improved by increasing the amount of light of beams that irradiate a sample cell without causing saturation of a detector with ultraviolet beams or visible beams. This spectrophotometer includes a sample cell, which stores a sample to be measured, a visible light source and an ultraviolet light source each for supplying an incident beam that enters the sample, a spectroscope, which disperses a beam that has passed through the sample, an optical detector, which detects beams dispersed from such beam (spectrum), and a dichroic element which reflects or transmits ultraviolet beams from the ultraviolet light source and which transmits or reflects visible beams from the visible light source. Optics are configured such that ultraviolet beams and visible beams that have passed through or have been reflected by the dichroic element enter the sample cell. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090183990 | CAPILLARY ARRAY UNIT AND CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS APPARATUS - In a capillary electrophoresis apparatus, a capillary array unit has a capillary array including capillaries having a capillary head and a detection unit, a frame for supporting the capillary array, and a load header for holding cathode ends of the capillaries. The frame has separators for separating and holding the capillaries. The capillary head, the detection unit, and the separators are disposed along one linear line. With this arrangement, there is provided the capillary array unit and the capillary electrophoresis apparatus which are arranged such that a job for mounting the capillary array can be executed easily. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20120024707 | CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS APPARATUS - The solution reservoir apparatus of the capillary electrophoresis apparatus securely affixes an evaporation-preventing membrane to a container when a capillary is inserted or withdrawn, without extending the cathode end of the capillary. The solution reservoir apparatus comprises a container for reserving a sample or solution, a cover having a bore through which the capillary is passed and covering the container, an evaporation-preventing membrane having a capillary hole through which the capillary is passed, and a container holder for holding the container. The evaporation-preventing membrane has a projection provided at the periphery of the capillary hole, the projection of the evaporation-preventing membrane is engaged with the bore on the cover when the evaporation-preventing membrane is positioned on the cover, and the evaporation-preventing membrane is supported by the cover. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120031762 | ELECTROPHORESIS DEVICE AND PUMP - Bubbles can be removed regardless of an individual difference of a pump to fill an electrophoresis medium into a capillary. Of flow passages formed between an inner side surface of a container for accommodating the electrophoresis medium and a side surface of a plunger, one of the flow passages causing an electrophoresis medium to be easily stagnant is formed to have the cross-sectional area larger than the cross-sectional area of the other flow passage on the opposite side. In other words, the flow passage portion causing the electrophoresis medium to be easily stagnant is formed in such a manner as to increase a flow amount of the electrophoresis medium. This can eliminate a region having an extremely small amount of electrophoresis medium flow in the pump. | 02-09-2012 |
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| 20090306880 | EVALUATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING VEHICLE DRIVING ASSIST SYSTEM THROUGH SIMULATION VEHICLE DRIVING - There is provided an evaluation method for evaluating a vehicle driving assist system through simulation of vehicle driving. The method including: simulating assist information which the driving assist system generates concerning traffic circumstances of roads in response to a driving operation which a driver performs; simulating detection of an object on the road on the basis of the generated assist information; simulating a situation of communication of information concerning the detection-simulated object to a vehicle-mounted apparatus; simulating displays of the detection-simulated object in accordance with the simulated communication situation on a display device; and evaluating an effect by the vehicle driving assist system for safety of driving. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100134325 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium - An image processing apparatus, includes: a state information obtaining unit obtaining state information that indicates a state of driving operation of the vehicle; an image storage unit storing a plurality of two-dimensional image data pieces obtained from the plurality of imaging devices whose viewing fields partly overlap with each other; a specifying unit compositing a plurality of two-dimensional image data pieces into a shape of a three-dimensional projection plane, and then specifying, in correspondence to the state information, a compositing method for overlapping portions of viewing fields to be used for transformation from a three-dimensional image into projection image data viewed from a position of a given viewpoint along a given line-of-sight direction; and an image transformation unit transforming the plurality of two-dimensional image data pieces into projection image data viewed from the position of the given viewpoint along the given line-of-sight direction, by using the compositing method. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100245573 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus - An image processing apparatus is provided that combines image data captured by multiple cameras and displays the resulting image of surroundings of the vehicle to monitor monitoring the surroundings of a vehicle. The image processing apparatus includes: an image memory; a camera-image acquisition unit; a projection surface geometry manager that manages projection surface geometry information including a set of three-dimensional coordinates for a projection surface that is virtually formed to surround the vehicle; a viewing movement controller that determines viewing information so that a viewpoint and a viewing direction relative to the projection surface are continuously transited according to a given viewing transition regulation; an image converter that projects and combines the image data on the projection surface, and converts the combined image data into two-dimensional image data; a display unit that displays the two-dimensional image data; and a periodic rendering trigger generator that generates a trigger signal to start an image conversion process by the image converter. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100245607 | Video processing apparatus - The video processing apparatus includes: a pattern information storing unit that stores use part information and location information; a plurality of video inputting units that input each of a plurality of video data; a video data generating unit that generates a plurality of types of generated video data; a generated video pattern selecting unit that selects a pattern of generated video data to be generated; a process unit that stores the use part of each video data in a storing unit; and a video outputting unit that coordinate-converts the generated combined video data with coordinate conversion data, generates the generated video data, and outputs the generated video data to the display unit. The use part information indicates a use part of each video data used for the generated video data, and the location information includes reduction ratio information of the use part of the each video data. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100283589 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - An image processing system including a display apparatus, a plurality of image capture units and an image processing apparatus is provided. The plurality of image capture units each include a camera capturing an image data, a storage unit storing segment information for identifying each of segments divided from the image data, and importance degrees calculated for the segments, an image compressing unit compressing each of the segments of the image data, and a transmitting unit transmitting the compressed image data to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes a network interface unit inputting the compressed image data, an image generating unit generating a combined image data based on the compressed image data, and a transmitting unit transmitting the combined image data to the display apparatus, and the display apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving the combined image data and a display unit displaying the combined image data. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100283864 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing system including a plurality of image capture units and an image processing apparatus, each of image capture units including a camera taking image data, a storage unit storing use part information indicative of a use part of the image data and importance degree calculated per use part, an image clipping unit clipping segment image data serving as the use part from the image data, a transmit image data generating unit performing image processing according to the importance degree of the use part to generate transmit image data, and a transmitting unit transmitting the transmit image data, and the image processing apparatus including a network interface unit inputting a plurality of pieces of the transmit image data, an image generating unit generating the combined image data based on the plurality of pieces of transmit image data, and an display unit outputting the combined image data. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110025483 | DRIVING SUPPORT SYSTEM, DRIVING SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A driving support system includes an image pickup apparatus captures an image of a periphery of a vehicle in which the image pickup apparatus is provided, a measurement apparatus measures a distance from the vehicle to an obstacle around the vehicle, a driving support apparatus, which includes a determination unit determines a driving danger level of a driver of the vehicle based on the distance, an image enlargement unit changes a size of a simulated image of the vehicle stored in advance based on a result of determination, and an image generation unit combines the image of the periphery of the vehicle and the simulated image of the vehicle changed by the image enlargement unit, and a display apparatus displays the image combined by the image generation unit. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110210868 | PARKING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS - A parking assistance apparatus includes: a generation unit that generates an overhead-view image as seen from a predetermined viewpoint, in accordance with an image captured by at least one image capturing apparatus mounted in a vehicle; and an output unit that superimposes, in the same coordinate system as the overhead-view image generated by the generation unit, an image of the vehicle on the overhead-view image and a predetermined figure at a position a predetermined distance away from the vehicle on the overhead-view image, and outputs the resulting overhead-view image to a display apparatus. | 09-01-2011 |
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| 20090208516 | PROMOTER FOR INTRODUCING A GENE INTO A LYMPHOCYTE OR BLOOD CELL AND APPLICATION THEREOF - It is intended to provide a promoter for inducing expression selectively and strongly in an immunocompetent cell and/or a blood cell such as a lymphocyte. In the invention, the object was achieved by finding that HHV6 MIE promoter, HHV7 MIE promoter and HHV7 U95 promoter unexpectedly induce a specific expression in an immunocompetent cell and/or a blood cell such as a T lymphocyte. By utilizing the promoters, a selective delivery of a DNA vaccine or the like can be realized. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090214579 | PROMOTER FOR INTRODUCING A GENE INTO A LYMPHOCYTE OR BLOOD CELL AND APPLICATION THEREOF - It is intended to provide a promoter for inducing expression selectively and strongly in an immunocompetent cell and/or a blood cell such as a lymphocyte. In the invention, the object was achieved by finding that HHV6 MIE promoter, HHV7 MIE promoter and HHV7 U95 promoter unexpectedly induce a specific expression in an immunocompetent cell and/or a blood cell such as a T lymphocyte. By utilizing the promoters, a selective delivery of a DNA vaccine or the like can be realized. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100005536 | Promoter for Introducing a Gene into a Lymphocyte or Blood Cell and Application Thereof - It is intended to provide a promoter for inducing expression selectively and strongly in an immunocompetent cell and/or a blood cell such as a lymphocyte. In the invention, the object was achieved by finding that HHV6 MIE promoter, HHV7 MIE promoter and HHV7 U95 promoter unexpectedly induce a specific expression in an immunocompetent cell and/or a blood cell such as a T lymphocyte. By utilizing the promoters, a selective delivery of a DNA vaccine or the like can be realized. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100119550 | RECOMBINANT MULTIVALENT VACCINE - The problems to be solved by the present invention are to provide: a recombinant varicella-zoster virus; a process for producing the same; a pharmacological composition containing a recombinant varicella-zoster virus; a vector containing a BAC vector sequence in the specific gene of a genomic gene of varicella-zoster virus; cells containing such a vector; a fragment capable of homologous recombination with a genome of varicella-zoster virus; a nucleic acid cassette containing the BAC vector sequence; and a multivalent vaccine. The above problems were solved by developing a process for producing a recombinant varicella-zoster virus, wherein the BAC vector sequence is inserted into a specific virus gene. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20110189233 | Recombinant Varicella-Zoster Virus - A recombinant varicella-zoster virus; a process for producing the same; a pharmacological composition containing recombinant varicella-zoster virus; a vector containing a genomic gene of varicella-zoster virus and BAC vector sequence; cells containing the above vector; a fragment capable of homologous recombination with a genome of varicella-zoster virus; and a nucleic acid cassette containing the BAC vector sequence. For these, there is provided a process for producing recombinant varicella-zoster virus, comprising use of the BAC vector sequence. | 08-04-2011 |
