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| 20110257274 | Method For Producing Emulsion - The present invention has an objective to easily obtain an emulsion exhibiting superior storage stability, and in particular, an emulsion of a polyorganosiloxane. The present invention provides a method for producing an emulsion characterized by obtaining an emulsion by emulsifying a mixture of an oil and a surfactant, obtained by synthesizing the surfactant in the oil. In particular, the method is suitably used for the preparation of an emulsion of an organopolysiloxane (A) which is usually difficult to be stably emulsified. A silicone-based surfactant (B), and in particular, a silicone-based surfactant having a small degree of polymerization of a siloxane chain such as a trisiloxane is synthesized in an oil. Thereby, an emulsion exhibiting superior storage stability can be produced. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20120035275 | Emulsion, Method For Producing The Same, And Cosmetic Raw Material Formed From The Same - The present invention has objectives to provide an emulsion suitable as a cosmetic raw material and to easily obtain the aforementioned emulsion of organopolysiloxane exhibiting superior storage stability. The present invention provides an emulsion comprising (A) an organopolysiloxane, (B) a methyl polyglycerol-modified silicone-based surfactant having a specified structure, and (C) an aqueous medium, and provides a method for producing an emulsion characterized by obtaining an emulsion by emulsifying a mixture of (A) a organopolysiloxane and (B) a silicone-based surfactant, which is obtained by synthesizing the silicone-based surfactant of component (B) in the component (A). | 02-09-2012 |
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| 20080229262 | DESIGN RULE MANAGEMENT METHOD, DESIGN RULE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, RULE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND RULE VERIFICATION APPARATUS - Disclosed is a rule management apparatus which acquires a design rule for regulating a part shape from systems such as a CAD system 401, converts the acquired deign rule into data having a hierarchical node format, calculates relationship strength which indicates strength of a relationship between the design rule converted into data having a hierarchical node format and another node, sets to the relationship strength between design rules which are substantially the same but described in different systems to be a maximum value, and stores in an integrating rule DB 300 the relationship strength and the design rules in association with one another. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20100287523 | DESIGN RULE MANAGEMENT METHOD, DESIGN RULE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, RULE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND RULE VERIFICATION APPARATUS - A design rule management method implemented in a rule verification apparatus for checking a violation against a design rule which specifies a part shape when there is any change in parameters in a system, the rule verification apparatus including: a processing unit for processing information; an input unit for inputting information; and a storage unit for storing a first design rule, a second design rule and relationship strength therebetween in association with one another, the method allowing the processing unit to perform steps including: acquiring the changed parameter via the input unit; and in a rule verification to determine whether or not there is any violation in the design rules that use the changed parameter, acquiring from the storage unit all the design rules having the relationship strength of a predetermined value, and performing the rule verification on all the acquired design rules. | 11-11-2010 |
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| 20090132532 | PROCEDURE GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A procedure generation apparatus has, in a storage unit thereof, a database in which a name of input information and a name of output information name are stored, associated with a name of a work. The procedure generation apparatus retrieves one or more candidate work names associated with an input information name from the database, displays the retrieved one or more work names, receives a selection of a work name from among the displayed one or more work names, retrieves one or more candidate output information names associated with the selected work name from the database, displays the retrieved one or more output information names, receives a selection of an output information name from among the displayed output information names, retrieves one or more candidate input information names each having a similar name to the selected output information name, from the database, and displays the retrieved input information name. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20100333038 | Layout-Design Support System and Layout-Design Support Program - A logical designing part includes a logical connectivity data storage that stores logical connectivity data, indicating a logical connectivity between plant equipments, including first end point connection data. A geometry data designing part includes a geometry data storage that stores geometry data that is graphical shape data in a three-dimensional space and includes second end point data. A data linking part includes: an automatic correspondence table generating part that compares first end point connection data with second end point data and generates a logical connection and geometry data table including correspondence data that links the geometry connection data and the geometry data of which first and second end point connection data are matched each other. A correspondence storage stores the logical connection and geometry data table. An editing part edits the logical connection and geometry data table on the basis of a user command. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110238387 | APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING ROUTE - A route generating apparatus includes: storage section storing geometric data of connection objects; data representing connection relations of group of main route for directly connecting objects, and branch route branching from main route, and connection objects; and data representing each constraint condition for constraining disposition position of branch point on the main route; constraint region generating section that generates each constraint region where corresponding branch point can be disposed, based on the geometric disposition position of corresponding connection object, corresponding connection relation, and corresponding constraint condition; route generating section that generates, as each main route, a shortest main route passing through each constraint region and generates, as each branch route, a shortest branch route that branches from the main route; and constraint region and route display section that displays a geometric figure of each constraint region, each main route, and each branch route. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120221298 | Design Assist Device, Method, and Program - An arrangement possible/impossible determination part of a piping order edit device: refers a pipe constituting a pipe list as a pipe subjected to determination; searches a main-branched pipe relationship database for a given pipe using identification information on the pipe subjected to determination as a search key; acquires a main pipe and a branched pipe corresponding to the searched given pipe; and, if there is a branched pipe positioned before the pipe subjected to determination in the pipe list or if there is a main pipe positioned after the pipe subjected to determination in the pipe list, the “arrangement possible/impossible” of the pipe subjected to determination is set at “impossible”. | 08-30-2012 |
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| 20100157645 | MEMORY MODULE AND LAYOUT METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention provides a novel wiring method for LR-DIMM of VLP type that conforms to LR-DIMM technology. The LR-DIMM comprises a plurality of DRAMs mounted on a board, two connectors mounted on the board for receiving data, and a buffer device mounted on the board for redriving data applied to the two connectors to supply the data to the plurality of DRAMs. The buffer device is located near the center of the board on which the two connectors are arranged at both ends thereof, and supplies data from each connector to DRAMs arranged on the opposite side to the connector. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110051351 | Circuit board, semiconductor device including the same, memory module, memory system, and manufacturing method of circuit board - A circuit board according to the present invention includes a main surface, a back surface parallel to the main surface, a side surface positioned between edges of the main surface and the back surface, and first and second board terminals covering a portion of the main surface and a portion of the side surface, respectively. According to the present invention, because the board terminals are provided not only on the main surface but also on the side surface of the circuit board, the total number of board terminals can be increased while maintaining sufficient pitch and width of the board terminals. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110093764 | MEMORY MODULE ON WHICH REGULAR CHIPS AND ERROR CORRECTION CHIPS ARE MOUNTED - Regular chip packages that store user data therein and error-correction chip packages that store an error correction code therein are mounted on a module substrate. The module substrate has first and second mounting areas of different coordinates in an X direction, and the second mounting area has third and fourth mounting areas of different Y coordinates. The regular packages are oppositely arranged in the first mounting area on a surface and the back surface of the module substrate. The error-correction chip packages are oppositely arranged in the third mounting area on the surface and the back surface of the module substrate. A memory buffer that buffers user data and an error correction code is arranged in the fourth mounting area. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20120026772 | MEMORY MODULE AND LAYOUT METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention provides a novel wiring method for LR-DIMM of VLP type that conforms to LR-DIMM technology. The LR-DIMM comprises a plurality of DRAMs mounted on a board, two connectors mounted on the board for receiving data, and a buffer device mounted on the board for redriving data applied to the two connectors to supply the data to the plurality of DRAMs. The buffer device is located near the center of the board on which the two connectors are arranged at both ends thereof, and supplies data from each connector to DRAMs arranged on the opposite side to the connector. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120281348 | MEMORY MODULE AND LAYOUT METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention provides a novel wiring method for LR-DIMM of VLP type that conforms to LR-DIMM technology. The LR-DIMM comprises a plurality of DRAMs mounted on a board, two connectors mounted on the board for receiving data, and a buffer device mounted on the board for redriving data applied to the two connectors to supply the data to the plurality of DRAMs. The buffer device is located near the center of the board on which the two connectors are arranged at both ends thereof, and supplies data from each connector to DRAMs arranged on the opposite side to the connector. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20130063998 | SYSTEM AND MEMORY MODULE - A system includes: a controller, a first memory module connected to the controller through a first data bus, and a second memory module connected to the controller through a second data bus, wherein the first memory module includes: first and second memory chips; a first data terminal connected to the first data bus, and a first switch unit that electrical connects the first data terminal with either the first memory chip and the second memory chip, and the second module includes: third and fourth memory chips; a second data terminal connected to the second data bus, and a second switch unit that switches over electrical connection of the second data terminal with either the third memory chip or the fourth memory chip. | 03-14-2013 |
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| 20090310994 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus is provided with a control section which stores detection results of a toner sensor regarding detection patterns. When forming a plurality of detection patterns on an intermediate transfer belt, the control section determines circumference-directional lengths of the detection patterns formed this time, based on the detection results of the toner sensor regarding the detection patterns formed immediately before. Thereby, the waste toner amount and toner consumption are not only decreased but also the time taken to detect the density of a detection pattern is reduced, while maintaining the detecting accuracy thereof. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20110020022 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has an image bearing member that moves at a specified speed; a toner pattern forming section for forming toner patterns of a specified type on the image bearing member under specified image forming conditions; a toner pattern detection member for detecting the toner patterns formed on the image bearing member; a toner amount varying section for varying a target amount of toner to adhere to the toner patterns; and a control section that calculates a toner adherence amount and a toner adherence position from detection results outputted from the toner pattern detection member and that performs image stabilization control to adjust the image forming conditions based on the calculation results. In the image stabilization control, the control section uses detection results of the same toner patterns both to calculate the toner adherence amount and to calculate the toner adherence position. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110044705 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A color image forming apparatus having photosensitive members; developing devices for developing electrostatic latent images formed on the photosensitive members into toner images with developers comprising toner and carriers; toner concentration sensors for detecting toner concentrations of the developers in the respective developing devices; a toner image bearing member for bearing the toner images temporarily; a toner adherence amount sensor for detecting toner adherence amounts of the toner images held on the image bearing member; and a controller for calculating, with respect to the developing devices, individual optimal developing bias voltage ranges within which a target toner adherence amount can be achieved while the toner concentrations of the developers are within a predetermined toner concentration range from a lower limit to an upper limit, so as to specify a common optimal developing bias voltage range that are commonly suitable for all the developing devices to achieve the target toner adherence amount while the toner concentrations of the developers in the developing devices are within the predetermined toner concentration range, and for calculating target toner concentrations of the developers in the respective developing devices to achieve the target toner adherence amount while a voltage within the common optimal developing bias voltage range is applied between each of the photosensitive members and each of the developing devices. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20120274986 | Image Forming Apparatus and Gradation Correction Method - Image forming apparatus ( | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120301163 | Image Forming Apparatus and Image Forming Method - Provided are an image forming apparatus and an image forming method capable of easily forming an output image having desired gradation characteristics and capable of reducing running cost. In an intermediate transfer-type image forming apparatus, an image forming section is configured by including a first image forming section which forms a color toner image on a photoconductor, and a second image forming section which is located on the upstream side of the first image forming section and forms a transparent toner image on the photoconductor. Further, after the transparent toner image is formed on an intermediate transfer member by the second image forming section, the first image forming section forms, on the basis of image data (correction gradation values) corrected by a gradation correcting section, a color toner image so that the color toner image is superimposed on the transparent toner image. | 11-29-2012 |
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| 20090114501 | Frictional engagement device - A wave washer is interposed on an inner peripheral groove via a snap ring. The wave washer urges a radiation direction outer end of a bottom plate member against a wall surface side of the inner peripheral groove in a direction of an axis. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090188768 | FRICTIONAL ENGAGING PISTON AND SPRING SEAT - An annular frictional engaging piston includes an annular pressure apply portion which pushes a frictional engagement element in an axial direction against urging force of a return spring that urges in a direction opposite the frictional engagement element, and which has a cutout portion where a portion in the circumferential direction has been removed to avoid interference between the piston and another member. A partially removed region is provided, and a mounting hole for mounting the return spring on the piston is provided in a region other than the partially removed region. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20100126819 | WAVE SPRING HOLDING STRUCTURE AND FRICTIONAL ENGAGEMENT APPARATUS - A wave spring holding structure includes a wave spring that includes crest portions and recessed portions that are alternately formed in a circumferential direction thereof, and a first gap; a circular member provided to be rotatable around an axis; and an arc-shaped snap ring that includes a second gap, and that restricts movement of the circular member in a direction of the axis. The wave spring and the snap ring share the axis with the circular member. The wave spring and the snap ring are rotatable with respect to each other. The wave spring is disposed and held between the circular member and the snap ring so that the crest portions protrude toward the circular member, and the recessed portions protrude toward the snap ring. The first gap is formed in one of the crest portions. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100170764 | AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - An automatic transmission includes a clutch, a clutch drum, a piston, and a brake. The clutch drum, the clutch, and the brake are arranged in sequence in an interior space formed by joining a transmission case to a rear case in an axial direction from the rear case side. A separating/guiding wall that is provided in a circumferential direction so as to define a surplus lubricating oil trapping space for trapping surplus lubricating oil that gathers on an inner peripheral surface of the transmission case and in a second brake, and causes trapped surplus lubricating oil guided thereby into the surplus lubricating oil trapping space to flow downward in the circumferential direction, and a holding mechanism for restricting axial movement of the separating/guiding wall, are provided in relation to spline fitting portions formed on the inner peripheral surface of the transmission case. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20110203898 | VEHICLE POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A vehicle power transmission device includes: a first power transmission member including a cylindrical shaft end portion rotatably supported via a first bearing on an inner circumferential side of a non-rotating support wall; and a second power transmission member supported on the inside of the cylindrical shaft end portion via a second bearing radially overlapping with the first bearing by the cylindrical shaft end portion to be rotatable concentrically and relatively to the first power transmission member, the second power transmission member including a circular disc gear portion protruded to an outer circumferential side at a predetermined distance from the second bearing in a shaft center direction of the second power transmission member, at a portion facing the first bearing, the gear portion having an annular inner circumferential guide protruding portion for guiding to the first bearing a lubricant oil that passes through the second bearing for lubrication, that enters into a gap between the second bearing and the gear portion, and that travels to the outer circumferential side due to the centrifugal force. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110252906 | VEHICLE OIL PUMP - A vehicle oil pump that is driven by a drive gear provided on a rotating shaft that rotates in one direction when a vehicle travels forward and rotates in the opposite direction when the vehicle travel backward includes a first driven gear that is in mesh with the drive gear and provided on a drive shaft of the vehicle oil pump via a first one-way clutch, an idler gear that is in mesh with the drive gear, and a second driven gear that is in mesh with the idler gear and provided on the drive shaft of the vehicle oil pump via a second one-way clutch. The first one-way clutch is configured to transmit rotation of the first driven gear to the drive shaft when the vehicle travels in one direction, from among forward and backward, and the second one-way clutch is configured to transmit rotation of the second driven gear to the drive shaft when the vehicle travels in the other direction, from among forward and backward. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20120299419 | LUBRICATION STRUCTURE OF POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: A lubrication structure of a power transmission apparatus is provided with a lubricating liquid transport pipe for cooling a rotating electrical machine used to allow a lubricated member positioned axially outwardly of the rotating electrical machine to be lubricated in the axial direction. | 11-29-2012 |
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| 20100166589 | SCROLL TYPE FLUID MACHINE - The invention reduces a centrifugal force of a orbiting scroll which acts on an auxiliary crank mechanism. A crank pin which is eccentric from a main shaft portion is formed in a drive shaft, and a main balance weight is provided in a base end side of the crank pin. The main shaft portion of the drive shaft is rotatably supported by using a main bearing, and the crank pin is attached to a orbiting bearing which is provided in a back face side of a orbiting scroll. Further, an internal gap of the main bearing is set to a value which is larger than a value obtained by subtracting the double value of an eccentric amount difference between an eccentric amount of an auxiliary crank shaft and an eccentric amount of the drive shaft from an internal gap of the orbiting bearing. Accordingly, the internal gap of the main bearing does not come to 0 even if a compressor comes to a steady state. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110070116 | SCROLL FLUID MACHINE - To provide a higher sealing capability irrespective of the pressure difference between compression chambers, lips having leading ends extended toward the inner surface of a recessed groove are formed. At least some of the lips have a base end that is shaped to reduce rigidity against extension of the lips. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20120315174 | Scroll-Type Fluid Machine - A scroll-type fluid machine reduces intrusion of abrasion powders, generated by sliding of a conductor causing an orbiting scroll side and a fixed scroll side to be conducted, into a compression chamber, and improves reliability of a compressor. The scroll-type machine includes a casing, a fixed scroll having a flange surface attached to the casing, and a wrap portion provided at an end plate, an orbiting scroll having a wrap portion provided at the end plate, and provided in an opposed relationship with the fixed scroll, a drive shaft connected through a crank portion to the orbiting scroll, an orbiting bearing, a face seal portion arranged between the orbiting scroll and the fixed scroll, a cooling fan, and an orbiting scroll side conductive brush. | 12-13-2012 |
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| 20110158662 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image holder, a latent image forming unit, and a developing unit, the developing unit including a developer holder that is disposed to face the image holder and holds developer. Also included is a developer container, a replenishing unit that replenishes new developer to the developing unit, a discharge unit that discharges the developer, a calculation unit that calculates an image area coverage of a toner image formed on the image holder, an obtaining unit that obtains a potential difference between the developer holder and the image portion on the image holder, and a controller that increases a discharge amount of the developer, when the image area coverage calculated by the calculation unit is smaller than a predetermined reference image area coverage, and the potential difference obtained by the obtaining unit is larger than a predetermined reference potential difference. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120213535 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a first forming unit that forms a color image on a first image-carrier using a color toner, a first transfer unit that transfers the color image formed on the first image-carrier to a transfer medium at a first transfer bias, a second forming unit that, using an invisible toner absorbing infrared light or ultraviolet light, forms on a second image-carrier a code image representing information by an arrangement of dots, and a second transfer unit that transfers the code image formed on the second image-carrier to the transfer medium at a second transfer bias higher than the first transfer bias. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120213537 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A control device includes an acquiring unit acquiring code image data expressing a code image having dots arranged in an array that expresses information; a generating unit extracting the dots from the code image and generating patch image data expressing patch images having the dots orderly arranged in different densities; an image-formation control unit controlling an image forming unit so as to form the patch images based on the patch image data in accordance with a preset image forming condition by using an invisible toner; a measuring unit measuring densities of the patch images; and a changing unit changing the image forming condition if at least one measured density is outside a density range set according to a corresponding dot density based on a correspondence relationship between the measured densities and densities of the dots, so that all of the measured densities are set within the corresponding density ranges. | 08-23-2012 |