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Hirakawa, Tokyo

Atsuro Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100097530DISPLAY DEVICE AND RADIO TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD - A display device includes: a monitor and receiving set having a video signal receiving section, a display section, an image quality control section, a first control signal transceiver, and a first control section; and a control and transmission set having a television broadcast receiving section, a video signal input section, a video signal transmitting section, a second control signal transceiver, a key input section, and a second control section. The Power consumption of a first radio transmission path formed by the video signal transmitting section and the video signal receiving section is larger than that of a second radio transmission path formed by the first and second control signal transceivers. A control signal for a user interface is communicated by the first and second control signal transceivers. Only the second radio transmission path of the first and second radio transmission paths is communicable in a standby state.04-22-2010

Masaharu Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080283281Multilayer ceramic substrate - A multilayer ceramic substrate includes a plurality of ceramic layers laminated each other. The plurality of ceramic layers form a bulge and a cavity having such a shape that an opening area of the cavity gradually becomes smaller toward a bottom of the cavity.11-20-2008

Naoki Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090087220CONDUCTIVE RUBBER MEMBER - The conductive rubber member of the invention has a conductive elastic layer to which conductivity has been imparted and which serves as an outermost layer, and a surface-treated layer formed through impregnating a surface of the conductive elastic layer with a surface-treatment liquid containing at least an isocyanate component and an organic solvent, wherein the surface-treated layer is formed of an upper portion on the outermost side, and a lower portion beneath the upper portion, the upper portion has a density of the isocyanate component which is greater on the inner side than on the surface side within the upper portion, and the lower portion has a density of the isocyanate component that gradually decreases inwardly.04-02-2009
20090092758METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SURFACE TREATMENT OF RUBBER MEMBER - The method for performing surface treatment of a rubber member includes impregnating a rubber member with a first surface-treatment liquid containing an isocyanate component and an organic solvent, to thereby form a first impregnation layer, and sequentially treating a surface of the rubber member, without exposure to air, with a second surface-treatment liquid for partially removing the isocyanate component present in the first impregnation layer.04-09-2009
20100036005FOAMED RUBBER MEMBER - An object of the present invention is to provide a foamed rubber member which has low hardness and excellent durability. The foamed rubber member of the invention, produced through an impregnation treatment of a foamed elastic body with a treatment liquid containing an isocyanate compound and an organic solvent, the foamed elastic body being produced by foaming a base rubber, exhibits a compression set smaller than that of the foamed elastic body before undergoing the impregnation treatment, and exhibits a percent increase in stress, with respect to the stress of the foamed elastic body before undergoing the impregnation treatment, of 50% or less.02-11-2010
20100222193CONDUCTIVE RUBBER MEMBER - To provide a conductive rubber member which exhibits small variation in electrical resistance and a stable electrical resistance for a long period of time. The conductive rubber member include a conductive elastic layer formed of a rubber material which has been imparted with electrical conductivity, wherein the conductive elastic layer has a surface-treatment layer which has been produced through impregnating a surface portion of the conductive elastic layer with a surface-treating liquid containing an isocyanate compound and carbon black which has undergone dispersion treatment.09-02-2010

Seiji Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120097367INDOOR UNIT OF AIR CONDITIONER - The present invention provides indoor unit of air conditioner including a plurality of heat-exchangers, main-unit casing that accommodates heat-exchangers and includes suction air duct extending from air inlet to heat-exchangers and blowout air duct extending from heat-exchangers to air outlet, and air blower that is provided in blowout air duct and blows out air taken in from air inlet, from air outlet after having air passed through heat-exchangers. In indoor unit, heat-exchangers include rear-side heat-exchanger arranged opposite to air blower on upper side in main-unit casing with lower end thereof being arranged on rear surface side of main-unit casing, backplane that constitutes rear-side duct wall of blowout air duct is provided on rear surface side of main-unit casing, and heat transfer unit that transfers heat of air before passing through heat-exchangers or heat of air outside main-unit casing to backplane is provided in main-unit casing04-26-2012

Setsuko Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100190899HARDENABLE EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION - The epoxy resin composition of the present invention is characterized in that a polyamide compound having a moiety derived from a hydroxyl substituted aromatic amine having a phenolic hydroxyl group adjacent to an amino group is used as an epoxy resin hardener.07-29-2010

Takashi Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090021537SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A signal processing device for supplying a drive voltage signal to a display panel, includes a luminance detector, a memory to store a first correction factor for correcting the luminance level of the pixel to be changed by a voltage level difference between a drive voltage signal supplied to the display element and a drive voltage signal supplied to a first adjacent display element adjacent to the display element in the forward direction of the scanning line, and a second correction factor for correcting the luminance level of the pixel to be changed by a voltage level difference between a drive voltage signal supplied to the display element and a second adjacent display element adjacent to the display element in the reverse direction of the scanning line, a correction voltage level computing unit, and an adder to add the first correction voltage level and the second correction voltage level.01-22-2009
20090073090Digital signal processing apparatus, liquid crystal display apparatus, digital signal processing method and computer program - A digital-signal processing apparatus for processing elementary-color data to be output to a liquid-crystal display apparatus having a color panel structure, the digital-signal processing apparatus including: a line-unit weight-coefficient sum computation section; a compensation-coefficient computation section; a partial-weight-coefficient-sum computation section; a first-compensation-quantity-component computation section; a second-compensation-quantity-component computation section; a compensation-quantity computation section; a line memory used for applying a 1-line period extension process to each elementary-color data; and a horizontal-cross-talk compensation section for successively compensating each elementary-color data, which has been subjected to the 1-line period extension process in the line memory.03-19-2009
20090243983Video signal processing circuit, display apparatus, liquid crystal display apparatus, projection type display apparatus and video signal processing method - A video signal processing circuit is disclosed. The video signal processing circuit includes a difference detection section, first calculation section, and correction amount addition section. The difference detection section detects a difference between a drive voltage for each of pixels of a matrix drive type display panel as a pixel under consideration and a drive voltage of each of pixels adjacent to the pixel under consideration from an input video signal. The first calculation section calculates a correction amount of a drive voltage for a pixel under correction that has a luminance change due to an electric field caused by a difference of the drive voltages for the two pixels detected by the difference detection section. The correction amount addition section corrects a value of the drive voltage for a pixel under correction that has the luminance change based on the correction amount calculated by the first calculation section.10-01-2009
20100295837DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes: a pixel array unit including a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines; a scanning line driving unit that sequentially applies a driving voltage to the plurality of scanning lines according to a shift timing indicated by a shift clock; a signal line driving unit that drives the plurality of signal lines on the basis of an input video signal, and a clock adjusting unit that adjusts the shift clock such that there are n (n is a natural number equal to or greater than 2) shift timings within each one horizontal line period for which an image signal corresponding to one horizontal line is displayed.11-25-2010

Takenori Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100194061Head Used For Attracting a Workpiece - A workpiece vacuum chuck head, which serves to vacuum-chuck a light, minute workpiece and to release and place the vacuum-chucked workpiece on a workpiece placement surface, includes a base section, a workpiece vacuum chuck section, and a follower mechanism section for connecting together the base section and the workpiece vacuum chuck section. These sections form an integral structure. The base section has an attachment surface for attaching the workpiece vacuum chuck head to a head drive mechanism. The workpiece vacuum chuck section has a workpiece vacuum chuck surface and a negative-pressure chamber, which opens at the workpiece vacuum chuck surface via a suction hole. The follower mechanism section has a structure that is easily elastically deformable, and is appropriately deformed in a three-dimensional space so as to cause the workpiece vacuum chuck surface to follow an inclination of the workpiece placement surface.08-05-2010

Yasufumi Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110123171CONTENT REPRODUCTION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - Provided is a content reproduction control system equipped with: a signal characterizing quantity sequence extraction means that, for each content item stored in a content group storage unit that stores at least more than one content item, extracts a signal characterizing quantity sequence which is the sequence of the signal characterizing quantities associated with the content positions on the time axis; a common section group detection means that detects, as a common section group in the signal characterizing quantity sequence for each content item, a common section group for which the signal characterizing quantities for different content items are similar to each other; a content reproduction quality information collection means that, for each common section group, collects content reproduction quality information which indicates the reproduction quality of the content to which each common section of a common section group belongs; and a content reproduction control means that, when the content contained in the content group storage unit is reproduced, switches the content reproduced for the content to be reproduced for the sections included in the common section group and performs reproduction such that the reproduction quality of the content will be higher, based on the content reproduction quality information for the content to which each common section of a common section group belongs.05-26-2011
20110153609SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CONTENT TOPICALITY, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A system for determining content topicality comprises a feature value extracting means which extracts feature values of a plurality of contents from the contents; a content grouping means which compares the feature values of the plurality of contents extracted by the feature value extracting means, obtains identical contents and derived contents created using the contents, both of which are included in the plurality of contents, and groups the identical/derived contents, thereby computing identical/derived content grouping information; and a topicality determining means which totals viewing frequencies of the contents determined to be the identical/derived contents from viewing history information and the identical/derived content grouping information relating to the plurality of contents, computes total viewing frequencies of each of the identical/derived contents, and determines the topicality of the identical/derived contents according to the total viewing frequency.06-23-2011
20110258546EDITED INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, EDITED INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An edited section information acquisition unit generates edited section information and edited section association information based on edit history information. Pre-edit content/post-edit content correspondence relationship acquisition unit groups consecutive edited groups based on the edited section information of the edited section information acquisition unit and generates group information. An edited section information display screen generation unit generates screen information based on the edited section information and the edited section association information of the edited section information acquisition unit, the group information, inter-group association information, section/group association information of the pre-edit content/post-edit content correspondence relationship acquisition unit, and input information of an input unit. A provision unit displays the screen information obtained by the edited section information display screen generation unit.10-20-2011

Yoichi Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110319167Storage Medium, Game Apparatus, Game Controlling Method and Game System - A game apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU sets a weapon to be transmittable according to an instruction by a player. More specifically, a seed is generated from a weapon, and transmittable seed data corresponding to the generated seed is stored in a memory for saved data. When a game apparatus is carried in a sleep state by a player, it makes a communication with another game apparatus to thereby transmit and receive the transmittable seed data with the other game apparatus. Accordingly, the transmittable and receivable seed data, that is the seeds are exchanged. During the game, the received two seeds are fused to thereby generate a weapon.12-29-2011

Yoko Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080260741Preventive and/or Therapeutic Agent for Cancer - As the results of intensive studies aiming at providing a gene targeting a cancer cell or a cancer tissue, novel nucleotide sequences showing increased expression in a cancer cell or a cancer tissue compared with normal tissues are identified. As the results of the subsequent studies, genes showing increased expression in a cancer cell or a cancer tissue which are useful as a drug discovery target are found out.10-23-2008
20090053300MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY, GENE ENCODING THE ANTIBODY, HYBRIDOMA, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION, AND DIAGNOSTIC REAGENT - Disclosed is a monoclonal antibody which has a heavy chain variable region containing amino acid sequences depicted in SEQ ID NOs:74, 76 and 78 and a light chain variable region containing amino acid sequences depicted in SEQ ID NOs:80, 82 and 84. The monoclonal antibody can be used as a cancer therapeutic agent which acts selectively on a cancer tissue of non-small lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer or the like.02-26-2009
20100226974ANTIBODY RECOGNIZING ANTIGEN - The invention provides antibodies against a non-muscular myosin heavy chain type A or a mutant thereof, and F(ab′)09-09-2010

Patent applications by Yoko Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Yuichi Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110309585SHAFT SEAL DEVICE - A shaft seal device that seals between the outer peripheral surface of a rotating shaft and a stationary member that is provided on the outer peripheral side of the rotating shaft, provided with a thin-plate seal that has a plurality of thin plates that are arranged in the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft and an abradable seal that is arranged at a position differing with the thin-plate seal in the axial direction, and having a free-cutting material that is disposed at either one of the rotating shaft and the stationary member, and a seal fin that projects toward the rotating shaft or stationary member from the other of the rotating shaft and the stationary member.12-22-2011

Yutaka Hirakawa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100017875PASSWORD AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND PASSWORD AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A password authentication apparatus and a password authentication method for preventing the leakage of password information from user's password input operations includes a storage means for storing a correct answer symbol and selection information for selecting at least one input symbol for each digit of a password; a display means for displaying combinations of input symbol candidates based on user operation; a determination means for selecting, for each digit of the password, one or more input symbols from the combinations of input symbol candidates displayed by the display means based on the selection information corresponding to the digit to determine whether the correct answer symbol corresponding to the digit is included in the selected one or more input symbols; and an authentication means for authenticating that the password is entered correctly when the determination means determines that correct answer symbols for all the digits of the password are included.01-21-2010