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Ayumu Inada, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110034773ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - The endoscope apparatus of the present invention includes: an insertion portion having a bending portion; an observation device that is provided at the insertion portion; an illumination unit that is provided at the insertion portion, and that illuminates a visual field of the observation device; a main body unit that is formed having a size that enables it to be held and operated by one hand of a user; an operating section that is used to operate the bending portion; a display unit that is connected to the insertion portion, and that displays images acquired by the observation device; a light emitting component that is provided in the main body unit, and that is connected via a light guide to the illumination unit; a heat discharge unit that is provided at the main body unit such that at least a portion thereof is exposed, and that is thermally connected to the light emitting component; and a shielding portion that is provided at the main body unit, and that covers at least a portion of the periphery of the heat discharge unit, and that also inhibits the heat discharge unit contacts with external portions thereof.02-10-2011
20110112361ENDOSCOPE DEVICE - An endoscope device has a scope unit that is used to observe an interior of a specimen subject, and a main body unit that controls the scope unit by communicating with the scope unit. The scope unit has an insertion portion, a bending portion that is provided on the insertion portion, a bending drive unit that drives the bending portion, an imaging unit that is provided on the insertion portion and acquires images of the specimen subject; and a structure storage section in which structure identification information that is based on the structure of the first scope unit is stored. The main body unit has a display unit that displays images acquired by the imaging unit, an operating section that is used to make operation inputs to operate at least the bending portion, and a control unit that controls the bending drive unit based on the structure identification information stored in the storage section.05-12-2011

Ichiro Inada, Tokyo JP

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20090267250Fuel Cell Separator Material and Process of Producing the Same - A fuel cell separator material which exhibits excellent electrical conductivity, high gas impermeability, high strain at break, and excellent strength, and a process of producing the same are disclosed. The fuel cell separator material includes a graphite/cured resin molded product obtained by binding spherical natural graphite particles with a thermosetting resin, the spherical natural graphite particles being prepared by spheroidizing natural flake graphite having an average particle diameter of 1 to 50 μm by dry impact blending, and having an average particle diameter of 20 to 100 μm, a particle density measured in water of 2 g/cm10-29-2009

Takanori Inada, Tokyo JP

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20090047142VACUUM PUMP UNIT - The present invention relates to a dry vacuum pump unit capable of achieving ultimate pressure of about 1 Pa. The vacuum pump unit includes a main pump (02-19-2009

Tetsugo Inada, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110072464DEVICE CONTROL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An apparatus and method capable of selecting and providing content while reducing the load on a user are provided. A controlled device is determined based on content identification information. Control information corresponding to the determined controlled device is generated and output to, for example, a remote controller, and device control is performed based on a control signal from the remote controller. The user can output and view content without performing processing necessary to output the content, such as processing on a control device, a channel operation to the control device, and searching for the content storage location. Further, content cards recording content information are displayed as a card group and content information of a card at a position of a cursor is displayed.03-24-2011

Patent applications by Tetsugo Inada, Tokyo JP

Yasuyuki Inada, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080310892IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - An image-forming apparatus comprises, 12-18-2008

Yoshiaki Inada, Tokyo JP

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20080211951IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - An imaging device is disclosed. The device includes: a unit pixel that outputs an analog electric signal in accordance with a signal charge; a local voltage supply circuit that generates a local voltage different from an operation voltage; a reference signal generation section that generates a reference signal based on the local voltage provided by the local voltage supply circuit; and a processing section that converts, by referring to the reference signal generated by the reference signal generation section, the analog signal provided by the unit pixel into a digital signal. In the imaging device, the reference signal generation section keeps constant a load current of the local voltage supply circuit in an operating state.09-04-2008
20080284886Image pickup circuit, CMOS sensor, and image pickup device - Disclosed herein is an image pickup circuit including: amplifying means for amplifying a charge corresponding to an amount of light received by a photodetector, and outputting a pixel signal; ramp signal generating means for generating a ramp signal whose voltage drops with a fixed slope from a predetermined initial voltage; and comparing means for comparing the pixel signal output by the amplifying means with the ramp signal output by the ramp signal generating means. A reference potential of the pixel signal output by the amplifying means and a reference potential of the ramp signal output by the ramp signal generating means are at a same level.11-20-2008
20100020211SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, DRIVING CONTROL METHOD, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a solid-state image pickup device, a driving control method, and an image pickup apparatus that are capable of performing, in the case of changing the resolution of AD conversion, changing of only a pulse that needs to be changed, with a more simplified configuration.01-28-2010

Patent applications by Yoshiaki Inada, Tokyo JP

Yoshihisa Inada, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090202257OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - Disclosed is an optical fiber transmission system for transmitting an optical signal by DPSK modulation includes a plurality of NZ-DSF (Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted single-mode optical Fiber) transmission line blocks, each of which has N spans of a span comprising a serially connected NZ-DSF and optical repeater, and one span that includes a dispersion compensating fiber and an optical repeater. The average wavelength dispersion value of each NZ-DSF transmission line block is made non-zero.08-13-2009
20090317093DPSK OPTICAL RECEIVER - A DPSK optical receiver includes a DPSK demodulation circuit, an optical bandpass filter, a first photodetector, and a first control circuit. The DPSK demodulation circuit demodulates a DPSK optical signal and outputs the DPSK demodulated optical signal. The optical bandpass filter extracts a demodulated optical signal near the center wavelength from the DPSK demodulated optical signal output from the DPSK demodulation circuit. The first photodetector detects the optical power level of the DPSK demodulated optical signal extracted by the optical bandpass filter. The first control circuit performs phase control on the DPSK demodulation circuit so as to optimize the DPSK demodulation circuit with respect to the center wavelength of the DPSK optical signal on the basis of the optical power level detected by the first photodetector.12-24-2009

Yoshinobu Inada, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100206995METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL GROUP CONTROL OF MOVING OBJECTS - Problems to be solved by the present invention relate to group control of moving objects in three dimensions, and the invention proposes a group control method, unlike conventional cumbersome methods, the method being stably provided with a function of causing a group to move in the same direction while preserving the aggregate form of the group, and with a function of causing the group to turn around a fixed point in the vicinity of an operational target. The method for three-dimensional group control of moving objects according to the present invention includes: setting, around individual moving objects, an interaction zone formed in a spherical or ellipsoidal three-layer structure of, sequentially from outside to inside thereof, an approach zone, a parallel-orientation zone and a repulsion zone; and employing, as an algorithm, a behavior model which comprises an approach rule, a parallel-orientation rule and a repulsion rule depending on the zone at which a neighbor moving object is present.08-19-2010

Yudai Inada, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100040175SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, WIRELESS RECEPTION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION RECEPTION DEVICE - It is possible to realize an ideal software reception device which can demodulate a higher-order modulation signal without losing vector information even if a carrier wave is sampled with a frequency lower than the carrier wave. A sampling frequency is set so that a phase relationship of the sampling point of an alias signal generated by sampling of a carrier with a sampling frequency lower than the carrier wave coincides with a phase relationship of the sampling point of the carrier wave. That is, the sampling frequency is set so that the carrier wave frequency “f02-18-2010