| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080273354 | Power Supply - There are provided an inductive load current control circuit for detecting and controlling a current flowing to an inductive load with high accuracy, and a power supply. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090008432 | HEATING DEVICE, REFLOW DEVICE, HEATING METHOD, AND BUMP FORMING METHOD - A solder bump is formed on a substrate by using a heating device where a lid structure blocks hot air from directly blowing against a solder composition. The heating device can reduce high-temperature oxygen molecules that come into contact with the solder composition, oxidation of the solder composition is suppressed. As a result, although the hot air is used for heating, a solder bump can be formed by the liquid-like solder composition. Further, because the lid structure is uniformly heated by the hot air, radiation heat from the lid structure is also uniform, and a container is more uniformly heated. In addition, because the hot air is suppressed from directly blowing against a liquid surface, the liquid-like solder composition is not scattered by the hot air. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090024848 | Terminal Identification Method, Authentication Method, Authentication System, Server, Terminal, Wireless Base Station, Program, and Recording Medium - A terminal identification method is provided which enables two-way communications between terminals and a network while identifying terminal IDs and protecting privacy. Also, authentication method and system are provided which require no complicated calculating process, less steps and smaller amount for wireless communications, and less power consumption. A server and terminal share a hash function and an initial value determined for each terminal, calculate the same temporary ID by hashing the initial value the same number of times with the hash function, and identify the terminal using the calculated temporary ID. The server and the terminal also hold a common hash function and authentication information, acquire an authenticating communication parameter from communication parameters temporarily common during communication, and generate an authentication key using the authentication information, the authenticating communication parameter, and the hash function. Then at least one of the server and terminal performs authentication using the generated authentication key. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090045711 | THIN SLIDE UNIT - Provided is a thin slide unit which allows, in a case where two ball plates each formed with a track-like ball groove are combined to thereby construct an endless circulation path for balls, by merely directly connecting the two ball plates without using a guide plate, balls to smoothly circulate, and a slider to smoothly reciprocate with respect to a guide rail. An endless circulation path for the balls of the slider is formed such that the two ball plates each formed with the track-like ball groove are caused to face each other, and that the ball plates are directly connected. Peripheral sides of the two ball plates oppose to each other, to thereby form a load opening portion for causing the balls in the endless circulation path to contact a rolling groove of the guide rail, and form a scooping-up portion for raising the balls from the rolling groove to guide the balls into the endless circulation path. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090271580 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR MANAGING HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION - An electronic information format includes a header module and a history module in addition to source electronic information. A control program is incorporated in the header module, and the control program is expanded on a reception side. An operation on the electronic information on the reception side is recorded by the control program, and is written in the history module when the electronic information is closed. On a providing side, there are provided a program for creating electronic information of the present format, and a program for reading the history data from the electronic information. By this system, when the electronic information is provided, an operation, which is executed on the electronic information on the reception side, is recorded, and the record can be confirmed on the providing side. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100161606 | INFORMATION SEARCH SYSTEM, INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM - This invention provides an information search system including a management table which stores a name of a memory area and memory area information indicating the memory area in association with each other. When received source information search destination information indicates that source information to be searched is stored in a memory, the information search system searches the management table for a name of a memory area which matches a received source information name of the source information to be searched. When the name of the memory area which matches the received source information name of the source information to be searched is retrieved, the system acquires information which matches the received search target condition information from memory area information associated with the retrieved name of the memory area. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110072121 | Terminal Identification Method, Authentication Method, Authentication System, Server, Terminal, Wireless Base Station, Program, and Recording Medium - A terminal identification method is provided which enables two-way communications between terminals and a network while identifying terminal IDs and protecting privacy. Also, authentication method and system are provided which require no complicated calculating process, less steps and smaller amount for wireless communications, and less power consumption. A server and terminal share a hash function and an initial value determined for each terminal, calculate the same temporary ID by hashing the initial value the same number of times with the hash function, and identify the terminal using the calculated temporary ID. The server and the terminal also hold a common hash function and authentication information, acquire an authenticating communication parameter from communication parameters temporarily common during communication, and generate an authentication key using the authentication information, the authenticating communication parameter, and the hash function. Then at least one of the server and terminal performs authentication using the generated authentication key. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110156678 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DC-TO-DC CONVERTER - In general, according to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a device main body, a semiconductor substrate. The device main body includes a semiconductor substrate mounting part and a first conductor provided around the semiconductor substrate mounting part. The semiconductor substrate includes a DC-to-DC converter control circuit having a detector to detect at least one of a current flowing through the first conductor and a voltage supplied to the first conductor. The semiconductor substrate is disposed on the semiconductor substrate mounting part so that the detector comes close to the first conductor. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120068202 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND DISPLAY EQUIPMENT USING ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURED BY THE SAME METHOD - The present invention provides an active matrix substrate and a method of manufacturing the same by decreasing the number of photolithographic processes to reduce the manufacturing cost. The invention also provides a display device using an active matrix substrate manufactured by said manufacturing method. In a process for preparing pixels on an active substrate, which constitutes a display device, a bank or an etching pattern is formed by performing half-tone exposure on a photo resist film or on a black color photo resist film where an active matrix and a display electrode are prepared by coating, and an insulator film is fabricated, and a transparent conductive film and a color filter are prepared by inkjet method. | 03-22-2012 |
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| 20090083432 | Traffic control system and traffic control method - A traffic control system | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090125583 | PRIORITY CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A priority control system includes a terminal, and a processing server coupled over a network. The processing server has an operation processing sections each of which executes a predetermined process, a communications device, a priority determination section, and a priority assignment section. The processing server also has priority information about priorities to be assigned according to a type of operation processing section. Each of the operation processing sections executes the predetermined process based on a packet, provided by the terminal, and generates screen information with a result of the predetermined process. The communications device transmits screen information with an assigned priority. The terminal receives the screen information transferred by a network device on the network in accordance with the priority, and displays the screen information. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20110066677 | Network System - A network system including a management device with both a status managing unit for collecting status information on a terminal status and a terminal instructing unit for transmitting a shift start message to the terminal to make transfer data to the server on the basis of the status information collected by the status managing unit. The terminal includes a determining unit for determining data transfer in response to the shift start message, a data transferring unit for transferring the data to the server when the determining unit determines the data transfer, a storage device control unit for erasing the data from a storage device after completion of data transfer, and a thin client shifting unit for causing the terminal to function as a thin client after erasure of data. | 03-17-2011 |
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| 20090219989 | CODING DEVICE AND EDITING DEVICE - A coding device includes a coding unit ( | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090257491 | MOVING PICTURE CODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, AND STREAM DATA - A signal separation unit ( | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090279841 | METADATA RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A metadata recording device that inserts an invalid byte for anti-emulation without scanning the contents of metadata and allows a data length after the anti-emulation is performed to be a fixed length is a metadata recording device that records main data and metadata, which are binary data, and includes: a generation unit configured to generate pieces of invalid data, each of which is data of a value not included in a specific byte sequence that is a byte sequence having a specific meaning; an insertion unit configured to insert each piece of the invalid data into the metadata at intervals shorter than a length of the specific byte sequence; and a recording unit configured to record the metadata into which the pieces of the invalid data are inserted. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100021127 | DATA CONTROL APPARATUS, DATA BACKUP APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A data control apparatus includes: a separating unit for separating material data included in original video and audio files into a used portion and an unused portion, based on editing information indicating the used portion of the material data in the video and audio files, and generating first data including only the used portion and second data including only the unused portion; a connection information generation unit for generating connection information associating information about positions of the first data and the second data in the original video and audio files with information about positions of the first data and the second data on an external recording medium; and a formatting unit for arranging the first data, the second data, the connection information, and the editing information in a predetermined order, and outputting, as backup data, the first data, the second data, the connection information, and the editing information. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100119214 | VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS, MULTIPLEXING METHOD, PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR VARIABLE FRAME-RATE RECORDING - A video recording apparatus provides a slow motion effect or a quick motion effect by digitally converting the frame-rate instead of by changing the playback speed of the film, and using few recording media without requiring any special device at playing. A picture encoding part encodes only valid frames by changing a rate-controlling method so that a predetermined playing frame-rate is obtained at a standard data-rate at playing. And a TS multiplexing part multiplexes by converting a frequency of a standard STC clock by only a ratio of valid frame-rate and playing frame-rate, and generating values for PCR, PTS, and DTS. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100234666 | METHOD FOR PURIFICATION OF SUBSTANCES CONTAMINATED WITH ORGANIC CHEMICALS - The present invention provides a method for purifying organic chemical-containing contaminated substances by which various organic chemicals (contaminants) can be readily and sufficiently decomposed in a short time, the method comprising the steps of adding a metal salt and a transition metal ionic compound to water or soil that contains organic chemicals, decomposing the organic chemicals by irradiating with light, and separating/collecting the detoxified organic chemicals. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110013849 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - An image encoding device includes: an image division section for dividing one frame of image into a plurality of image fragments, grouping the plurality of image fragments into N sets (N: an integer of 2 or more), and outputting the N sets of image fragments as N partial images; an image swapping section for swapping at least one image fragment with another between the N partial images to thereby output N partial images each having shuffled image fragments; and an encoding section for encoding the N partial images output from the image swapping section. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110169820 | 3D IMAGE SPECIAL EFFECT DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR CREATING 3D IMAGE SPECIAL EFFECT - A 3D image special effects device for creating special effects on a 3D image including a first image and a second image having disparity. The 3D image special effects device includes: a range specification receiving unit capable of receiving an input of a specified range of the first image on which the special effects are created; a first block division unit capable of dividing the specified range into a plurality of first image blocks; a first special effects unit capable of creating the special effects on each of the plurality of the first image blocks; a block matching unit capable of determining an image which corresponds to an image of the each of the plurality of the first image blocks from the second image, and deriving a parallax vector which represents directionality and a magnitude of parallax between the first image blocks and the corresponding image; a second block division unit capable of determining a plurality of second image blocks on the second image in accordance with the parallax vector, the second image blocks corresponding to the plurality of first image blocks; and a second special effects unit capable of creating the special effects on the determined plurality of second image blocks. | 07-14-2011 |
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| 20100025618 | PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL - Provided is a piezoelectric material which includes a compound free of lead and alkali metal and has a good piezoelectric property. The piezoelectric material where tungsten bronze structure oxides being free of lead and alkali metal and represented by A | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100155647 | OXYNITRIDE PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided are an oxynitride piezoelectric material which exhibits ferroelectricity and has good piezoelectric properties and a method of producing the oxynitride piezoelectric material. The oxynitride piezoelectric material includes a tetragonal perovskite-type oxynitride represented by the following general formula (1): | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100231096 | PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE - Provided is a piezoelectric material having a good piezoelectric property and Curie temperature (Tc) of 150° C. or higher, and a piezoelectric device using the piezoelectric material. The piezoelectric material includes a sintered body made of a perovskite-type metal oxide represented by the following general formula (1): xBi(Mg | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110219990 | ALIGNMENT STAGE - In an alignment stage, a top table | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110297870 | PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is an oriented piezoelectric material with satisfactory sintering property free of Pb that is a hazardous substance, and a water-soluble alkaline ion, and a production method therefor. To this end, provided is a compound, including a tungsten bronze structure metal oxide, in which: the tungsten bronze structure metal oxide contains at least metal elements of Ba, Bi, Ca, and Nb, the metal elements satisfying the following conditions in terms of molar ratio; and has a C-axis orientation. The compound shows Ba/Nb=a: 0.363 | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110298336 | CERAMIC, PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - To provide a piezoelectric ceramic containing BiFeO | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120044511 | TRANSFER APPARATUS FOR OFFSET PRINTING - The present invention relates to a transfer apparatus for offset printing, in which a gate-shaped frame ( | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120067232 | OFFSET PRINTING APPARATUS - On a guide rail ( | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120079953 | OFFSET PRINTING APPARATUS - An offset printing apparatus includes a frame; guide rails that are provided on the frame; a plurality of guide blocks that are provided on the guide rails; a plate table that travels via one portion of the guide blocks among the plurality of guide blocks; a print target table that travels via another portion of the guide blocks among the plurality of guide blocks; and a blanket roll that is provided on the frame; wherein transfer from the plate to the blanket roll, and retransfer from the blanket roll to the print target are performed by causing the blanket roll to successively make contact from above with a plate that is held on the plate table, and a print target that is held on the print target table; a step portion for positioning that consists of a vertical surface that is formed by a machining process so that the linearity increases and a horizontal surface is provided at mounting locations of the guide rails on the upper surface portion of the frame; and one side surface and the bottom surface of the guide rails are pressed against the vertical surface and the horizontal surface of the step portion, respectively, to be fixed. | 04-05-2012 |
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| 20080236156 | Electro hydrostatic actuator with swash plate pump - A fluid pressure actuator includes an output cylinder, a fluid pressure pump, an electric motor, a first output cylinder passage, a second output cylinder passage, a return passage and a swash plate control cylinder. The output cylinder includes a first output cylinder chamber, a second output cylinder chamber and an output piston arranged between the first output cylinder chamber and the second output cylinder chamber. The fluid pressure pump includes a first supply and discharge port, a second supply and discharge port and a swash plate for changing displacement of the fluid pressure pump. The electric motor drives the fluid pressure pump. The first output cylinder passage connects the first output cylinder chamber and the first supply and discharge port. The second output cylinder passage connects the second output cylinder chamber and the second supply and discharge port. The return passage is connected to an accumulator for accumulating working fluid leaked from the fluid pressure pump. The swash plate control cylinder is supplied with working fluid from one passage of the first output cylinder passage and the second output cylinder passage having higher pressure than another passage, drives the swash plate and discharges working fluid to the return passage. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080304967 | Actuation system, helicopter using the same, and controlling method therefor - An actuation system includes a pump assembly configured to form a pump chamber; an actuator having first and second chambers and a movable member and configured to convert pressures applied to the first and second chambers into a movement of the movable member; and a valve section. A controller controls the valve section to open a first flow path between the pump chamber and the first chamber and close a second flow path between the pump chamber with the second chamber, during a discharge period during which the pump chamber is pressurized, in a first mode; to close the first flow path and open the second flow path during an intake period during which the pump chamber is depressurized, in the first mode; to close the first flow path and open the second flow path during the discharge period in a second mode; and to open the first flow path and close the second flow path during the intake period in the second mode. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090165457 | Double redundancy electro hydrostatic actuator system - A double redundancy electro hydrostatic actuator system includes two hydraulic pumps; two fail safe valves connected with the two hydraulic pumps, respectively; one dual tandem hydraulic cylinder connected with the two fail safe valves and having a piston rod, wherein the piston rod is moved by switching supply and discharge of the fluid; two switching valves connected with the two fail safe valves; two accumulators connected with the two switching valves and the two hydraulic pumps, respectively; and two chambers connected with the two switching valves, respectively. Each of the two accumulators accumulates the fluid from a corresponding one of the two hydraulic pumps, and sends the fluid to a corresponding one of the two fail safe valves. The two chambers receive the fluid from the two fail safe valves, respectively. | 07-02-2009 |
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| 20080212010 | Display device and manufacturing method thereof - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can easily prevent the generation of longitudinal smear. The display device includes a display panel having a plurality of scanning signal lines, a plurality of video signal lines, a plurality of thin film transistors and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix array. In a state that a gap between two neighboring video signal lines with one pixel electrode out of the plurality of pixel electrodes sandwiched therebetween in a region where one pixel electrode is arranged is larger than a gap between two neighboring video signal lines with another pixel electrode different from one pixel electrode sandwiched therebetween in a region where another electrode is arranged, a size of one pixel electrode is set larger than a size of another pixel electrode. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080225191 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device which can reduce easily the brightness unevenness produced by the insufficient writing of TFT, wherein, the display device having: a display panel which, over a surface of an insulating substrate, includes plural scanning signal lines; plural picture signal lines; plural TFTs; plural pixel electrodes coupled to sources of the TFTs; and a counter electrode, wherein the pixel and counter electrodes are arranged over the same surface of an insulating layer overlying the surface of the insulating substrate, and when a gate insulating film provided at one TFT among the TFTs is thinner than a gate insulating film provided at another TFT among the TFTs, a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the one TFT and the counter electrode is set to be wider than a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the another TFT and the counter electrode. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090033817 | Display device - A display device comprising a plurality of scan signal lines; a plurality of picture signal lines three-dimensionally intersecting the plurality of scan signal lines; and numerous TFT elements arranged in a matrix; and having a display panel in which each of the TFT elements has a gate connected to one of the plurality of scan signal lines, and a drain or source connected to one of the plurality of picture signal lines; wherein the TFT elements respectively differ in terms of channel width, channel length, or both, depending on a distance from a signal input terminal of the scan signal line to which the gate is connected and a distance from a signal input terminal of the picture signal line to which one of the drain and the source is connected. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090155933 | Manufacturing Method of Display Device - To suppress the occurrence of image quality irregularities in a liquid crystal display device having a TFT substrate which is manufactured by performing steps a plurality of times in such a manner that one region is divided into a plurality of exposure regions, and the plurality of exposure regions is exposed. In a manufacturing method of a display device which performs, for a preliminarily determined one region on a surface of an insulation substrate, an exposure/development step including a step of exposing a formed film made of a photosensitive material and a step of developing an exposed film made of the photosensitive material a plurality of times, said each exposure step is performed such that said one region is divided into the plurality of exposure regions by a boundary line which has no overlapping portion and is not aligned with a boundary line between the exposure regions in the exposure step for at least one time out of other exposure steps, and the whole of said one region is exposed by individually exposing the respective exposure regions. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20110157508 | DISPLAY DEVICE WHEREIN A GATE INSULATING FILM PROVIDED AT ONE TFT IS THINNER THAN A GATE INSULATING FILM PROVIDED AT ANOTHER TFT, AND A GAP BETWEEN A PIXEL ELECTRODE AND A COUNTER ELECTRODE IS WIDER FOR THE ONE TFT THAN THE ANOTHER TFT - A display device which can reduce easily the brightness unevenness produced by the insufficient writing of TFT, wherein, the display device having: a display panel which, over a surface of an insulating substrate, includes plural scanning signal lines; plural picture signal lines; plural TFTs; plural pixel electrodes coupled to sources of the TFTs; and a counter electrode, wherein the pixel and counter electrodes are arranged over the same surface of an insulating layer overlying the surface of the insulating substrate, and when a gate insulating film provided at one TFT among the TFTs is thinner than a gate insulating film provided at another TFT among the TFTs, a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the one TFT and the counter electrode is set to be wider than a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the another TFT and the counter electrode. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120001835 | Display Device - In a display device of built-in driver circuit type including a non-rectangular image display area, the frame area surrounding the display area is reduced and the wiring delay is reduced. The image display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in an orthogonal matrix form, a plurality of scanning wiring lines connected to the plural pixels, a plurality of signal wiring lines connected to the plural pixels, the signal wiring lines being disposed to construct an orthogonal matrix form with the plural scanning wiring lines; signal wiring internal circuits for driving the plural signal wiring lines, and an image display area including a plurality of pixels, the image display area having a non-rectangular outer contour. The signal wiring internal circuits are separated from each other in an extending direction of the signal wiring lines in a unit of length of the pixel. | 01-05-2012 |
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| 20110120494 | DUST REMOVING DEVICE AND DUST REMOVING METHOD - In a piezoelectric device, a first electrode and a second electrode are disposed to be opposed to each other on plate surfaces of the piezoelectric device, a first electrode plane of the piezoelectric device is fixedly bonded to a plate surface of a vibrating plate, a piezoelectric material forming the piezoelectric device is polarized in a direction parallel to the first electrode plane, the piezoelectric device is fixed to a base through a second electrode plane of the piezoelectric device, and the piezoelectric device generates a thickness-shear vibration with the fixed second electrode plane being a reference plane. The piezoelectric vibration generated by the piezoelectric device generates a flexural vibration in the vibrating plate, to thereby remove dust adhering to a surface of the vibrating plate. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110128327 | PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMIC, METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME, PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, AND ULTRASONIC MOTOR - A piezoelectric ceramic that includes barium titanate and 0.04 mass % or more and 0.20 mass % or less manganese relative to barium titanate. The piezoelectric ceramic is composed of crystal grains. The crystal grains include crystal grains A having an equivalent circular diameter of 30 μm or more and 300 μm or less and crystal grains B having an equivalent circular diameter of 0.5 μm or more and 3 μm or less. The crystal grains A and the crystal grains B individually form aggregates and the aggregates of the crystal grains A and the aggregates of the crystal grains B form a sea-island structure. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20120032557 | VIBRATION GENERATING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR, FOREIGN SUBSTANCE REMOVING DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DEVICE - Provided is a vibration generating device in which more improvement of drive efficiency can be realized than conventional ones. The vibration generating device includes: a piezoelectric element including a piezoelectric material interposed between electrodes; a vibration member; a power source for applying an alternating voltage to the piezoelectric element; and a control section for controlling a frequency of the alternating voltage applied by the power source, in which the control section controls the frequency of the alternating voltage applied to the piezoelectric element so that the resonance frequency of the piezoelectric element is successively changed from low frequency side to high frequency side in a frequency range including a change range of a resonance frequency of the piezoelectric element. | 02-09-2012 |
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| 20110181578 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus has a driver circuit which generates drive voltage for driving a display panel; and a drive power supply circuit which supplies power supply voltage and reference voltage for specifying a value of the drive voltage to the driver circuit. The drive power supply circuit comprises a reference voltage conversion unit which changes the reference voltage value according to a control voltage value; and a power supply voltage conversion unit which changes the power supply voltage value according to the control voltage value, or the reference voltage value output from the reference voltage conversion unit, so that both the power supply voltage and the reference voltage decrease or increase. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110273492 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD - An apparatus includes a display panel, a scanning circuit, a modulation circuit and a potential generation circuit. The display panel includes a matrix wiring including a plurality of row wirings and column wirings, an electron source connected to the matrix wiring, a display member opposed to the electron source, an anode provided on the display member in an overlapping manner, and a feeding member connected to the anode in a joint portion, a scanning circuit, connected to the plurality of row wirings, a modulation circuit configured to output a modulated potential to the plurality of column wirings, and a potential generation circuit configured to output a first potential, which is higher than a potential of the electron source, to the feeding member during the first selected time period and a second potential, which is higher than the first potential, to the feeding member during the second selected time period. | 11-10-2011 |
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| 20120084030 | ENERGY MONITORING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND ENERGY MONITORING PROGRAM - A processing machine processes a work and repeats processes on the work, thereby consuming energy. Within the consumed energy, room for improvement is computed by an energy monitoring device and is referred to as an amount of energy that can be improved. An energy monitoring device includes a power data acquirer that acquires a time-series power data measured by a power meter, a cycle detector that detects a single-cycle power data from the power data acquired by the acquirer, a divider that divides the single-cycle power data detected by the detector into an added-value creating portion and an unproductive portion, and a computing unit that computes an amount of energy consumed in the unproductive portion divided by the divider and defines it as the amount of energy to be improved. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084031 | EQUIPMENT OPERATION STATE MEASUREMENT DEVICE, EQUIPMENT OPERATION STATE MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - The invention is directed towards an equipment operation state measurer having a power data acquirer and an operation state determiner. The power date acquirer acquires power consumption of equipment changing according to an operation state of the equipment. Additionally, a cause inputter accepts an input of a stop cause of the equipment from an operator, with respect to a stopped state determined by the operation state determiner, and sets the stop cause of the stopped state based on the input. Also, a computing unit obtains electric energy consumption for each stop cause, by integrating a period during which the stopped state corresponding to the stop cause continues and the power consumption in the period during which the stopped state continues, and is capable of measuring duration of the stopped state and the electric energy consumption for each stop cause of the equipment. | 04-05-2012 |