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| 20100260274 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication method includes: (a) dividing one bit data group into a plurality of bit groups, the one bit data group being taken out from a plurality of bit data groups defined by a communication protocol for transmitting predetermined information, and exerting no substantial influence on the predetermined information even when arbitrarily inverting a value of the bit; (b) determining whether or not the values of the bits constituting the bit group are all the same by each of the plurality of bit groups divided into in step (a); (c) inverting at least one of the values of the bits of the bit group determined in step (b) that the values of the bits are all the same; and (d) arranging the plurality of bit groups, each of which has at least one of the values of the bits inverted in step (c), in the plurality of bit data groups except the one bit data group at regular intervals. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20110018554 | INCLINATION DETECTION METHOD AND INCLINATION DETECTION APPARATUS - An inclination detection method is disclosed, which uses a pair of electrodes placed so as to face each other and having a fixed positional relation and an electric conductor which can move between the pair of electrodes, wherein the pair of electrodes is in either a conducting state or a nonconducting state depending on the position of the movable electric conductor, the conducting state in a predetermined period is expressed as any one of a plurality of level values, and a movement state of the pair of electrodes is estimated based on which of the plurality of level values the conducting state takes on. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110098979 | DETECTING METHOD AND DETECTING APPARATUS - A detecting method employing a first sensor and a second sensor, includes: first processing for detecting, on the basis of an output value of the first sensor, a predetermined state defined in advance; second processing for starting the second sensor according to the detection of the predetermined state; and third processing for generating interpolation data from an output value of the first sensor in a predetermined time until the second sensor becomes capable of outputting a measurement value after being started. | 04-28-2011 |
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| 20090308305 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SINGLE-CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE WITH OFF ANGLE - The invention provides a process for producing a single-crystal substrate with an off-angle, which comprises using, as a substrate, a material capable of epitaxial growth by a vapor-phase synthesis method, whose surface has an off-angle with respect to a crystal plane capable of epitaxial growth; implanting ions into the substrate having a surface with an off-angle to form a layer with a deteriorated crystal structure near the surface of the substrate; growing a crystal on the surface with an off-angle of the substrate by a vapor-phase synthesis method; and separating a grown crystal layer from the substrate. In accordance with the process of the invention, when producing off-substrates usable in vapor-phase synthesis of single crystals, the manufacturing costs can be reduced, and substrates with an identical off-angle can be produced easily and in large quantities. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100166636 | LARGE DIAMOND CRYSTAL SUBSTRATES AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a method for producing a large substrate of single-crystal diamond, including the steps of preparing a plurality of single-crystal diamond layers separated form an identical parent substrate, placing the single-crystal diamond layers in a mosaic pattern on a flat support, and growing a single-crystal diamond by a vapor-phase synthesis method on faces of the single-crystal diamond layers where they have been separated from the parent substrate. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100206217 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING SURFACE LAYER OR GROWTH LAYER OF DIAMOND - The present invention provides a method for separating a surface layer of a diamond, which comprises implanting ions into a diamond to form a non-diamond layer near a surface of the diamond; and etching the non-diamond layer in the diamond by applying an alternating-current voltage across electrodes in an electrolytic solution; and a method for separating a grown layer of a diamond, which further comprises the step of growing a diamond by a vapor-phase synthesis method, after forming a non-diamond layer according to the above-described method. | 08-19-2010 |
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| 20110196626 | MOTION STATE DETECTING METHOD AND MOTION STATE DETECTING APPARATUS - A motion state detecting method using a detector, detecting one of a conducting state and a non-conducting state according to a movement of an object, includes: first processing to measure either a first number of times, indicating the number of times of change from the conducting state to the non-conducting state per unit time or a second number of times that is the number of times of change from the non-conducting state to the conducting state per the unit time; and second processing to regard either the first number of times or the second number of times as a change determination value and change a length of the unit time based on the change determination value; wherein a proportion of time of the conducting state per the unit time or the non-conducting state per the unit time is changed by changing the length of the unit time. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110202304 | MOTION STATE DETECTION METHOD AND MOTION STATE DETECTOR - A motion state detection method which uses a pair of electrodes, facing each other to fix mutual positional relationship, and a movable spherical conductor disposed between the pair of electrodes, putting the pair of electrodes into either a conduction state or a non-conduction state, includes: defining a plurality of level values determined by the proportion of a duration of the conduction state in a unit time period and calculating a level value in the unit time period among the plurality of level values as a first level value; adding a second predetermined value to the first level value to calculate a second level value; and calculating the sum of squares of a plurality of first level values in a plurality of consecutive unit time periods as a first detection value and calculating the sum of squares of a plurality of second level values as a second detection value. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110281539 | RADIO WAVE ARRIVAL ANGLE DETECTING DEVICE AND RADIO WAVE ARRIVAL ANGLE DETECTING METHOD - A radio wave arrival angle detecting device includes: a first receiver antenna; a second receiver antenna that is located apart from the first receiver antenna by a distance less than the wavelength of the signal wave; an oscillator that outputs an oscillation wave at the same frequency as the signal wave; a first multiplier that outputs a first mixture wave by multiplying the first signal wave by the oscillation wave; a first filter that extracts a first DC component of the first mixture wave; a second multiplier that outputs a second mixture wave by multiplying the second signal wave by the oscillation wave; a second filter that extracts a second DC component of the second mixture wave; and an arrival angle calculator that calculates a phase difference between the first signal wave and the second signal wave and that calculates an arrival angle of the signal wave. | 11-17-2011 |