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| 20110019231 | RECORDING SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD FOR A RECORDING SYSTEM - A host computer and recording device can be connected using an existing communication interface, and data can be transmitted between the host computer and recording device at high speed. A recording system | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110169899 | LIQUID CONTAINER AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - Provided is a liquid container containing a liquid which is to be supplied to a liquid ejecting apparatus, including: a containing portion containing the liquid and including a liquid out-flowing hole for out-flowing the liquid to an external portion and an air introducing hole for introducing external air into the containing portion, and a deforming portion being deformed in such a direction that a volume of the containing portion is reduced according to a decrease in an internal pressure of the containing portion; wherein the air introducing portion includes: a first sealing portion disposed in a circumference of the air introducing hole inside the containing portion; a second sealing portion displaceably disposed inside the containing portion and capable of closing the air introducing hole by pressing the first sealing portion outwards; and a biasing portion pressing the second sealing portion toward the first sealing portion. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110234719 | LIQUID CONTAINER AND LIQUID-CONSUMING DEVICE - A liquid container including a liquid chamber formed to have a flexible member as its one part enables highly accurate detection of the remaining volume of a liquid contained in the liquid chamber. An ink cartridge | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110241231 | LIQUID CONTAINER AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid container which contains liquid to be supplied to a liquid ejecting apparatus, includes: a containing section which contains liquid and includes a liquid delivery section, an air introduction section, and a deformation section, wherein the deformation section includes a rigid body section and a flexible section, the liquid container further includes a stop section which at least blocks the displacement equal to or greater than a predetermined amount with respect to a portion of the rigid body section, and in displacement of the rigid body section accompanying a reduction in the pressure, in the displacement of the rigid body section accompanying a reduction in the pressure, the air introduction section introduces the air into the containing section by transmission of displacement of the other portion of the rigid body section, the displacement of the portion of which has been blocked. | 10-06-2011 |
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| 20100281500 | AV DEVICE AND UI DISPLAY METHOD - To solve the problems that it is necessary to perform an overlapped operation even if final viewing is to be decided while a plurality of contents included in a specified list of UI are compared (selected for a plurality of times) and that extra operation burden is given to a user in conventional technology. An AV device for giving priority to the list of a viewing source device to which the content outputted at present belongs and displaying it in UI at the time of receiving a list request of the content from the user is provided. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100299403 | GRAPHIC INSTRUCTION TRANSMITTER AND METHOD FOR GRAPHIC INSTRUCTION TRANSMISSION - In related art, it takes time on a client to receive or draw a graphic element that is not important as data constituting graphics. Optimum graphic data is not transmitted to the client. To solve the above-described problems, the present invention proposes a graphic instruction transmitter having functions of selecting respective instructions constituting entire graphics according to information, such as client instruction execution capability information and information about graphic importance, and transmitting an instruction group generated on the basis of the selected instructions to the client. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100302283 | GRAPHIC DISPLAY DEVICE - When a user carries out a specific operation at high speed in a conventional display device and the like, information stored in advance at a memory is not sufficient to display but it is necessary to acquire the information required for displaying from a server on a network, an external electronic apparatus, such as an HD, or an internal long term memory device of a display device every time it happens. Because of this, a user is kept waiting until desired information is displayed, so that it is hard to smoothly reflect a high speed operation on a graphic display. In order to solve the problem, the present invention proposes a display device characterized in caching graphic information that has the possibility to be used for display in the future in response to a user's operation history of graphics. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100325648 | CONTENTS WATCHING DEVICE AND CONTENTS RECOMMENDING METHOD - A conventional contents-watching device, etc. calculate users' tastes of contents only on the basis of watching frequencies, so that variety programs that the users are less interested in but that are broadcasted every week are apt to get a higher degree of users' tastes than a soccer game of the Japanese national team that the users are highly interested in but that is broadcasted only several times per year. In order to solve the problem set forth above, the present invention proposes a contents-watching device that calculates a taste value by normalizing a watching index indicative of the number of contents-watching times or the like for every contents-attribute with an emergent index indicative of the number of contents-watching chances, acquires an contents-attribute connected with contents to be a subject for watching recommendation, and has a function to calculate watching recommendation information by using the taste value of the contents-attribute. | 12-23-2010 |
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| 20090178496 | REAGENT VESSEL CAP AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING REAGENT - A reagent vessel cap includes a sealing member for sealing the opening of a vessel body; an pressurizing member linked to a retaining part for sealing the sealing member, for bringing the sealing member in close contact with the opening all the time, wherein when pressure is applied, the pressurizing member lifts the sealing member against the biasing force of itself to open the vessel and, when the pressure is eliminated, the pressurizing member returns to position by the biasing force to close the vessel by the sealing member; and a cap body capable of mounting the sealing member and the pressurizing member to the opening of the vessel body containing a reagent. The reagent is collected using the cap structure. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090260703 | Resin Pipe with Mouthpiece and Method of Manufacturing the Same - Disclosed is a resin pipe with a mouthpiece comprising: a mouthpiece; and a resin pipe of which one end is joined to the mouthpiece, wherein the one end is disposed in the mouthpiece, and an outer peripheral surface of the one end is joined to an inner peripheral surface of the mouthpiece by fusion. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090260745 | Method of Manufacturing Resin Pipe - Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a resin pipe, including: heating a sheet member after winding the sheet member around a bar desired multiple times and holding the sheet member, wherein the sheet member is melted and molded into a resin pipe by the heating, and the bar is removed from the resin pipe after the heating. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090317948 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - A method is provided for manufacturing a QFN type semiconductor integrated circuit device using a multi-device lead frame having a tie bar for tying external end portions of plural leads, wherein sealing resin filled between an outer periphery of a mold cavity and the tie bar is removed by a laser and thereafter a surface treatment such as solder plating is performed. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100123240 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device is provided with improved reliability. A semiconductor chip is mounted over a chip mounting portion of a lead frame via solder. A metal plate is arranged over a source pad of the semiconductor chip and a lead portion of a lead frame via solder. A solder reflow process is performed thereby to bond the semiconductor chip over the chip mounting portion with a solder, and to bond the metal plate to the source pad and the lead portion with the other solders. The lead frame is formed of a copper alloy, and thus has its softening temperature higher than the temperature of the solder reflow process. The metal plate is formed of oxygen-free copper, and has its softening temperature lower than the temperature of the solder reflow process, whereby the metal plate is softened in the solder reflow process. Thereafter, a gate pad electrode of the semiconductor chip is coupled to a lead portion via the wire, a sealing resin portion is formed, and then the lead frame is cut. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100258922 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - To prevent, in a resin-sealed type semiconductor package, generation of cracks in a die bonding material used for mounting of a semiconductor chip. A semiconductor chip is mounted over the upper surface of a die pad via a die bonding material, followed by sealing with an insulating resin. The top surface of the die pad to be brought into contact with the insulating resin is surface-roughened, while the bottom surface of the die pad and an outer lead portion are not surface-roughened. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20110205343 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A stereoscopic video processing device includes a candidate coordinate range calculation unit configured to calculate a range of candidate coordinates of a display position of a reference point of a two-dimensional object in a screen, a parallax total value calculation unit configured to calculate a total value of parallax values of pixels of a region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, for each candidate coordinate, a display position determination unit configured to determine a candidate coordinate having a smallest total value of the parallax values as the display position of the reference point of the two-dimensional object, a maximum value specifying unit configured to specify a maximum value of the parallax values of the pixels of the region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, and a parallax setting unit configured to set the parallax of the two-dimensional object displayed in the stereoscopic video. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110316137 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, a chip mounting portion, a suspension lead, and a plurality of leads. Each of the plurality of leads has a first part and a second part, and the suspension lead has a first part and a second part. The first part of each of the plurality of leads and the suspension lead project from the plurality of side surfaces of the sealing body, respectively. Parts of the side surfaces of the plurality of leads and the suspension lead are exposed from the plurality of side surfaces of the sealing body, respectively. An area of the obverse surface of the first part of the suspension lead is larger than an area of the obverse surface of the first part of each of the plurality of leads in a plan view. | 12-29-2011 |
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| 20090073610 | Magnetic head slider and magnetic disk drive - Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic head slider having a surface that is formed into a multiple step configuration to stabilize flying of the slider. According to one embodiment, a magnetic head slider has an air bearing surface including surfaces in three stages different in height from one another. An outflow side rail surface and inflow side rail surfaces, in a first stage are approximately the same in height. A rear step bearing surface, front step bearing surface, and side step bearing surfaces and, which are in a second stage, are shallow step surfaces being approximately the same in height, and being formed lower than the surfaces in the first stage. A deep cavity surface is formed further lower than the surfaces in the second stage. A film for preventing adhesion of organic contaminants and a lubricant is formed on the shallow step surfaces, and in the second stage. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100025928 | MEDIUM DISCHARGING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A medium discharging device includes a medium stacking portion, a medium discharge member and a moving mechanism. A medium having an image recorded thereon is to be stacked on the medium stacking portion. The medium discharge member discharges the medium to the medium stacking portion. The moving mechanism includes a separation member. Based on a discharge timing at which the medium is discharged from the medium discharge member, the separation member moves the medium discharge member between an advanced position at a downstream end in the medium conveyance direction and a retracted position that is located upstream of the advanced position in the medium conveyance direction, to separate from the medium discharge member a rear end of the discharged medium in the medium conveyance direction. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100143854 | REACTOR EMPLOYING HIGH-TEMPERATURE AIR COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY - In a burning air feeding device ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20110215400 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - To improve the performance and reliability of semiconductor devices. For the semiconductor chip CP | 09-08-2011 |
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| 20090284882 | PROTECTION CIRCUIT FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR - A surge protection circuit comprises a surge detection circuit | 11-19-2009 |
| 20110187277 | LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT DRIVING CIRCUIT - A light emitting element driving circuit for driving a light emitting element in accordance with a differential data signal for causing the light emitting element to turn on or turn off is provided. The circuit includes a first transistor, a first constant current source connected to a drain and gate of the first transistor and configured to supply a constant current through the drain and source of the first transistor, a second transistor configured to supply a certain current, and a control circuit configured to electrically connect or disconnect the gate of the first transistor to or from a gate of the second transistor via a first resistor. The control circuit may supply, to the gate of the second transistor, an intermediate potential in accordance with the other of the differential data signals, while the gate of the first transistor is electrically disconnected from the gate of the second transistor. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110310210 | DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SAME - A device includes a first element substrate and a second element substrate for driving a driving element; a first signal input unit connected to an input terminal of the first element substrate; a second signal input unit connected to an input terminal of the second element substrate; and a signal output unit. Each of the first and second element substrates includes a driving element, a first signal generation unit configured to output a first signal, a second signal generation unit configured to output a second signal, an input terminal, an output terminal, and a selection unit configured to receive a signal from the first and the second signal generation units, select one of a state of the first signal, a state of the second signal, and a high-impedance state on the basis of the selection signal input from the input terminal, and output the state to the output terminal. | 12-22-2011 |
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| 20080277625 | Phosphor And Production Process Of Same - The present invention provides a lowly toxic phosphor and a production process thereof, and more particularly, the synthesis of nanoparticles having a chalcopyrite structure, a phosphor by compounding with a metal chalcogenite, and a production process thereof. The phosphor is a first compound composed of elements of groups I, III and VI having a chalcopyrite structure, or composite particles or composite compound containing the first compound, and the particle diameter of the first compound, or the composite particles or composite compound, is 0.5 to 20.0 nm. The phosphor is produced by mixing a first solution (Solution A), in which one or more of copper (I), copper (II), silver (I), indium (III), gallium (III) and aluminum (III) are respectively dissolved and mixed in a solution to which has been added a complexing agent, and a second solution (Solution C), in which a chalcogenite compound has been dissolved, followed by heat-treating under pre-determined synthesis conditions. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090159849 | FLUORESCENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - To provide a fluorescent having low toxicity and high quantum yield, and a method for producing the same. The fluorescent is a compound comprising each one of I, III and VI group elements having a chalcopyrite structure, has a particle diameter of 0.5 to 20.0 nm and a quantum yield of at least 3% but not more than 30% at room temperature. The fluorescent is produced by: mixing a first solution (solution A), which is prepared by dissolving and mixing copper (I) salt and indium (III) salt in a solution added with a complexing agent coordinating copper (I) and indium (III), with a second solution (solution C) in which a sulfur compound is dissolved; ripening the mixed solution for a predetermined amount of time as a pretreatment; heat-treating the ripened solution under predetermined heat conditions; mixing the ripened solution with the second solution (solution C); and heating thus obtained mixed solution under predetermined synthesis conditions. In addition, a product produced by this production method is subjected to compositing treatment with ZnSe, ZnS or the like to improve the quantum yield. | 06-25-2009 |