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| 20080201083 | Cell Culture Evaluation System, Cell Culture Evaluation Method, and Cell Culture Evaluation Program - There is provided a cell culture evaluation system, a cell culture evaluation method, and a cell culture evaluation program which are capable of estimating and evaluating the lag time or the minimum doubling time and objectively and adequately determining whether or not a cell population is stimulated for proliferation by using an average projected area of a cultured cell population or the rate of increasing the ratio of the non-single-cells as an evaluation parameter when culturing the cells. Images of the cell population to be cultured statically are acquired in a culture vessel, the average projected areas of the cells are calculated from the images for the respective culture times, and the lag times at lag phase are calculated from the calculated average projected areas of the cells. The single-cells and the non-single-cells are discriminated from the images, and the increasing rate of the non-single-cells is calculated from the ratio of the non-single-cells in the cell population to determine the minimum doubling time from the increasing rate of the non-single-cells. Whether or not the cell population is stimulated for proliferation is determined from the ratio of the non-single-cells. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090042293 | Cell Culture Apparatus, Cell Culture Method, Cell Culture Program and Cell Culture System - The invention intends to provide a cell culture apparatus which is able to realize an adequate culture according to the culture state of cells while alleviating the labor of an operator. The cell culture apparatus includes a culture bag for causing the cells to proliferate, a cell inoculation cassette (or culture bag as an antibody stimulating and proliferation culture vessel) for stimulating the cells by an inducer for the proliferation, a culture medium cassette for storing a culture medium supplied to the culture bag and the cell inoculation cassette, a CCD camera | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090111179 | Cell Culture Shaking Device and Shaking Culture Method as Cell Culture Method - The invention intends to provide a cell culture shaking device which is able to improve the efficiency of cell culture while preventing the cells from becoming damaged. The shaking devices used in cell culture apparatuses for culturing cells in flexible culture bags for storing culture suspension having cells inoculated therein includes: shaking mechanisms having operating panels for pressing the culture bags repeatedly, so that the culture suspension in the culture bags is stirred by being pressed by a plurality of projections projecting for the operating panels. | 04-30-2009 |
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| 20080220568 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device in the form of a resin sealed semiconductor package is disclosed, wherein a gate terminal connected to a gate pad electrode formed on a surface of a semiconductor chip and a source terminal connected to a source pad electrode formed on the chip surface exposed to a back surface of a sealing resin portion, a first portion of a drain terminal connected to a back-surface drain electrode of the semiconductor chip is exposed to an upper surface of the sealing resin portion, and a second portion of the drain terminal formed integrally with the first portion of the drain terminal is exposed to the back surface of the sealing resin portion. When forming the sealing resin portion in such a semiconductor device, first the sealing resin portion is formed so as to also cover an upper surface of the first portion of the drain terminal and thereafter the upper surface side of the sealing resin portion is polished by liquid honing, thereby allowing the upper surface of the first portion of the drain terminal to be exposed on the upper surface of the sealing resin portion. Both heat dissipating property and production yield of the semiconductor device are improved. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080268577 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor chip is sealed by resin without covering an outer terminal of a semiconductor device having a power transistor. A semiconductor chip having a power transistor is housed within a recess of a metal cap while a drain electrode on a first surface of the semiconductor chip is bonded to a bottom of the recess via a connection material. A gate electrode and a source electrode are formed on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the semiconductor chip, and the gate electrode and the source electrode are bonded with metal plate terminals | 10-30-2008 |
| 20100187678 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In a structure of a semiconductor device, a Si chip and a metal leadframe are jointed by metallic bond via a porous joint layer made of high conductive metal, having a three-dimensional network structure and using Ag as a bonding material, and a film containing Zn oxide or Al oxide is formed on a surface of a semiconductor assembly contacting to a polymer resin. In this manner, by the joint with the joint layer having the porous structure mainly made of Ag, thermal stress load of the Si chip can be reduced, and fatigue life of the joint layer itself can be improved. Besides, since adhesion of the polymer resin to the film can be enhanced by the anchor effect, occurrence of cracks in a bonding portion can be prevented, so that a highly-reliable Pb-free semiconductor device can be provided. | 07-29-2010 |
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| 20090200934 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a display apparatus capable of reducing external light reflection to reduce an amount of glare of the outside, in which a translucent protection member is provided to cover an observation surface side of a display member including an organic EL light-emitting portion, in order to protect the display member. The display apparatus includes the display member with an organic EL light-emitting portion having a pair of electrodes and an organic compound layer provided between the pair of electrodes; and a casing for housing the display member, wherein a protection member is provided in the casing with a gap from the display member, and wherein a phase member and a polarizing member are formed on the protection member such that the polarizing member is located closer to a light extraction side than the phase member. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20110198966 | CAPACITIVE ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCER - A capacitive electromechanical transducer has at least one cell. The cell includes a first electrode, a movable vibrating portion including a second electrode disposed opposite the first electrode with a space therebetween, and a supporting portion that supports the vibrating portion. In order to regulate the strength of a border portion between the vibrating portion and the supporting portion, a strength regulating portion is provided. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20120163124 | ULTRASONIC DETECTION DEVICE AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - Provided is an ultrasonic detection device including: a capacitive electromechanical transducer including a cell that includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed so as to oppose with a space; a voltage source for developing a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an electric circuit for converting a current, which is caused by a change in electrostatic capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode due to vibration of the second electrode, into a voltage, in which the capacitive electromechanical transducer provides an output current with a high-pass characteristic having a first cutoff frequency with respect to a frequency, the electric circuit provides an output with a low-pass characteristic having a second cutoff frequency with respect to the frequency, and the second cutoff frequency is smaller than the first cutoff frequency. | 06-28-2012 |
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| 20080232818 | INTERFACE BOARD AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT - A circuit capable of processing signals of different signal types is provided for identifying the signal type by the signal type setting from an administrator or by the implementation of the optical module, thereby selecting a signal processor to be used. An OTN frame standardized by ITU is used in a fixed manner independent of the signal type to be accommodated, while a corresponding SDH/SONET frame standardized by ITU is used for signal accommodation. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20110176812 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION CARD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Multiplexing-technology based large-capacity transmission requires the installation of many types of interface card. In addition, supporting a redundant configuration for preventing data communication from being interrupted requires the devices and cards more than double those required for the production system. An optical communication card includes multiple optical signal transmission/reception units, main signal processing units corresponding to the optical signal transmission/reception units and required for a multiplexed system, and a connection selection unit that can switch among multiple optical transmission lines, and each of the main signal processing units includes multiple function units and a function selection unit. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110182188 | FAILURE DISPLAY METHOD, FAILURE SETTING DEVICE AND MONITOR CONTROL DEVICE - To provide an apparatus capable of receiving the signals different in various services and various signal types to facilitate an isolation of a fault location. To provide a layer integrated device in which a maintenance person can arbitrarily select a maintenance method for a maintenance according to needs for maintenance of an individual layers or needs for maintenance with a result of performing an inter-layer processing. A setting screen on which the maintenance person can select a layer type to manage and a management method is mounted on a setting device. The maintenance person selects and sets a layer integrated setting or a layer individual setting on a display section and a setting section. From a set result of the maintenance person, the setting device or an NE performs a corresponding process and displays a failure indication. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110216783 | SENDING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A transmission system is provided in a synchronous network, for establishing synchronization with a degree of precision and at a speed being comparable levels as a conventional technique, and further decreasing the probability of out-of-synchronization occurrence. In the present invention, a synchronization signal is detected without performing error correction until synchronization is established, and after the synchronization is established, it is monitored whether or not out-of-synchronization occurs, according to the synchronization signal that has been subjected to the error correction. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20120099871 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION CARD AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE - There arises a problem that power consumption increases along with an increasing throughout of an FEC function effective in speeding up of a transmission speed. FEC function information necessary for a system is prepared, and multiple FEC functions are properly used according to a selected transmission line, etc. | 04-26-2012 |
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| 20100013980 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - Provided is a digital photographing apparatus that includes a lens unit frame having an opening through which light enters from a forward direction, and having a lens unit to be disposed inside the frame, or having a lens barrel comprising a lens unit to be disposed inside the frame; and a lens unit base disposed at a rear of the frame so as to be coupled to the frame, wherein the frame comprises a first opening through which a printed circuit board (PCB) emerges from the inside of the frame to the outside of the frame, and wherein the frame and the lens unit base are disposed to form a gap therebetween, thereby forming a second opening corresponding to the gap through which a PCB emerges from the inside of the frame to the outside of the frame. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20110188137 | LENS BARREL AND PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS INLCUDING THE SAME - A lens barrel and a photographing apparatus including the lens barrel include a clutch assembly disposed on a plane orthogonal to an optical axis between a manual adjustment ring and a distance adjustment ring. The clutch assembly rotates on a fixing part of the lens barrel and includes first, second, and third clutch wheels and one or more rollers, wherein the first clutch wheel includes an operator disposed on an end thereof and that receives a rotation force of the manual adjustment ring, the second clutch wheel is disposed on an inner surface of the first clutch wheel, the third clutch wheel is disposed on an inner surface of the second clutch wheel and fixed to the distance adjustment ring, and the rollers are radially disposed with respect to the optical axis and comprise surfaces contacting the operator and other surfaces contacting an outer surface of the third clutch wheel, wherein the first and second clutch wheels are elastically fixed to each other by first elastic members, a second elastic member is disposed between the second clutch wheel and the fixing part, and a third elastic member is disposed at both ends of the second clutch wheel, supports ends of circumferential surfaces of the rollers, and controls positions of the rollers. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20120134032 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING OPTICAL ELEMENT - An apparatus that transfers an optical element includes: a driving unit that generates a driving force in response to an external signal, a rotating plate that rotates due to the driving unit, a first deceleration unit that is rotatably in frictional contact with the rotating plate, a rotating shaft that has an outer screw surface and that rotates by being mated to the first deceleration unit, an intermediate plate that is rotatably in frictional contact with the first deceleration unit, a second deceleration unit that is rotatably in frictional contact with the intermediate plate, a transmission unit that transmits an external rotational force to the second deceleration unit, and a moving unit that supports the optical element and that is engaged with the outer screw surface of the rotating shaft and moves with the rotating shaft as the rotating shaft rotates. | 05-31-2012 |
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| 20100266302 | TONER-DENSITY CALCULATING METHOD, REFLECTIVE OPTICAL SENSOR, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a reflective optical sensor in an image forming apparatus, an output from each N number of light-receiving elements (N≧3), obtained when M number of light-emitting elements (M≧3) included in a light-emitting unit emit detecting light, is separated into an amount of specularly reflected light and an amount of diffusely reflected light. The toner density of a pattern, which is formed on a supporting member in the image forming apparatus, is calculated based on a sum of the amounts of specularly reflected light and a sum of the amounts of diffusely reflected light. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100310284 | VELOCITY DETECTING DEVICE AND MULTI-COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A velocity detecting device includes an image-pattern acquiring unit that includes a laser light source and an area sensor that acquires a one-dimensional or a two-dimensional image. The image-pattern acquiring unit includes a lens between a moving member and the area sensor, irradiates a beam emitted from the laser light source to the moving member to make a scattering light of the moving member scattered from the moving member on the area sensor by using the lens, and acquires an image pattern at a predetermined time interval in association with movement of the moving member. A velocity calculating unit calculates the velocity of the moving member by computing the image pattern acquired by the image-pattern acquiring unit. The lens is a reduced optical system that projects a reduced object onto the area sensor. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110043810 | REFLECTIVE OPTICAL SENSOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A reflective optical sensor detects a position and/or a toner density of the toner pattern. The reflective optical sensor includes an illuminating system that has at least three light-emitting units, a light-receiving system that has at least three light-receiving units and receives light output from the illuminating system and reflected by the toner pattern, and an illuminating optical system that includes at least three illuminating condenser lenses individually corresponding to the at least three light-emitting units and that guides the light output from the illuminating system to the toner pattern. The at least three light-emitting units and the at least three light-receiving units are both arranged in equal distance with respect to one direction. Optical axes of the at least three illuminating condenser lenses are off-center in parallel to an axis passing through a center of and perpendicular to the corresponding light-emitting unit. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110044713 | REFLECTIVE OPTICAL SENSOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A reflective optical sensor includes at least three light-emitting elements; a lighting optical system that guides light emitted from the light-emitting elements to a toner pattern; and at least three light-receiving elements that receive the beams of light reflected by the toner pattern. The lighting optical system has a lateral magnification m that satisfies m≦P/S, where S is the size of the light-emitting elements and P is the arrangement pitch of the light-emitting elements. | 02-24-2011 |
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| 20090258205 | TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE WITH TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT INCLUDING THE SUBSTRATE - The present invention provides a transparent substrate with a transparent conductive film that is thin but has a surface with concavities and convexities of increased height. A manufacturing method of the present invention includes a process of forming a transparent conductive film containing crystalline metal oxide as its main component on a transparent substrate by a pyrolytic oxidation method. In the method, a gaseous material containing a metal compound, an oxidizing material, and hydrogen chloride is supplied onto the transparent substrate. The process includes sequentially: a first step in which a mole ratio of the hydrogen chloride to the metal compound in the gaseous material is 0.5 to 5; and a second step in which the mole ratio is 2 to 10 and is higher than the mole ratio to be employed in the first step. With the present invention, a transparent substrate with a transparent conductive film can be provided that has a haze ratio of at least 15% and includes a transparent conductive film whose thickness is 300 nm to 750 nm. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090291638 | Wireless Communication Device, Program, Wireless Communication Method, and Wireless Communication System - A wireless communication device includes: a generation portion that generates management information for forming a wireless network with wireless communication devices in the vicinity, and operation instruction information that instructs operation of at least one of the wireless communication devices in the vicinity; and a communication portion that periodically transmits, to the wireless communication devices in the vicinity, management information to which the operation instruction information has been added. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100048130 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A communication device of the present invention includes a physical layer for performing close-range one-to-one communication with a device of a communication counterpart by electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling; one or a plurality of PCL Emulations for converting a protocol of a higher level application to a protocol for communicating at the physical layer; and a PCL common for performing negotiation with the device of the communication counterpart without the higher level application started after the connection with the communication counterpart is established or at the same time as the connection establishment to select one PCL Emulation. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20110106984 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, METHOD OF RESPONDING TO HOST APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - There is provided a radio communication device including: a host connection interface which is connected to a host apparatus and receives commands input from the host apparatus; a radio communication interface which performs radio communication with another radio communication device; and a controlling unit which controls operation of the host connection interface and the radio communication interface, wherein the controlling unit controls the host connection interface to output device information indicating that the device itself is a peripheral device capable of accessing a storage medium to the host apparatus in response to a command indicating inquiry about information regarding the device. | 05-05-2011 |
