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Kawabata, Osaka

Akihiro Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100128058IMAGE VIEWING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Image browsing device and method for displaying a list so that the viewers can efficiently grasp the contents of a lot of images. The image browsing device includes an image classifying unit, a representative color extracting unit, and a representative color layout unit, and further includes a shooting date/time obtaining unit, an ordinary/extraordinary setting unit, a display mode managing unit, a representative color switching unit and the like. The image browsing device, with this structure, extracts a representative color for each image group which has been obtained by classifying images in accordance with a predetermined criterion, so that the representative color represents the image group. This enables viewers to grasp efficiently and panoramically the contents of a large number of images which are displayed in a display area of a limited size.05-27-2010

Eiji Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090233246METHOD FOR PRODUCING MATERIAL CONTAINING SENSITIZER DISPERSED THEREIN FOR THERMAL RECORDING ARTICLE AND THERMAL RECORDING ARTICLE - The invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material, which is highly sensitive, is almost free of staining on the background, and gives a recorded image excellent in stability during storage, by using a finely divided sensitizer dispersion excellent in shelf stability produced in a short time with high volumetric efficiency. The invention relates to a method of producing a sensitizer dispersion, which comprises emulsifying and finely dividing a heat-sensitive recording sensitizer by melting under heating in an aqueous emulsifying dispersant, and then crystallizing the finely divided emulsified dispersion under rapid cooling, wherein the sensitizer is at least one member selected from the group consisting of 1,2-bis(phenoxy)ethane, 1,2-bis(3-methylphenoxy)ethane, 1,2-bis(4-methylphenoxy)ethane, p-benzylbiphenyl, di-p-methylbenzyl oxalate, and β-naphthyl benzyl ether.09-17-2009

Hideki Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110195229MOISTURE-PERMEABLE WATERPROOF FABRIC AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The invention provides a moisture-permeable waterproof fabric which not only has a tear strength at a practical level but also is light, thin, soft in texture and excellent in moisture permeability and waterproofness. The moisture-permeable waterproof fabric is a fabric in which two urethane resin layers are coated at least on one surface of a woven fabric, wherein a first urethane resin layer is a porous urethane resin layer which is discontinuously coated on the surface of the woven fabric to fill recesses of a weave crimp but not to cover at least a part of projections of the weave crimp; and a second urethane resin layer is a hydrophilic urethane resin layer which is continuously coated on the first urethane resin layer and the projections of the weave crimp.08-11-2011

Hiroki Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110309732RAIL DEVICE AND REFRIGERATOR USING THE SAME - The invention provides a refrigerator with a rail device having a bracket which is fixed to an inner surface of an inner box, and a first rail, a second rail and a third rail which are arranged in such a manner that longitudinal directions are identical and have an elongated shape, and supporting a storage container so as to be movable forward and backward. The second rail has flanges protruding right and left in upper and lower sides in the longitudinal direction, the lower flange is held to the first rail so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction, the first rail is bonded to the bracket, and has flanges extended to a height going beyond the lower flange of the second rail in right and left sides in the longitudinal direction, and the third rail holds the flange on the second rail so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction, and supports the storage container.12-22-2011

Hiroshi Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080276588Rear Discharge Mower - A rear discharge mower comprising: a first shaft; a first blade that is rotated in unison with the first shaft; a second shaft that is configured to be rotated in a direction opposite from a rotational direction of the first shaft; a second blade that is rotated in unison with the second shaft, wherein a grass-clippings discharge path is formed through which grass clippings are discharged in a rearward direction from the area between the first shaft and second shaft; an enclosing casing that supports the blade shafts; and a power train that is accommodated in the enclosing casing and that transmits power to the first and second blade shafts.11-13-2008
20090241702Work Vehicle - A work vehicle including: a body frame; an engine supported by the body frame through an elastic body; a belt transmission mechanism connected to an output shaft of the engine in a power transmissive manner; and a power takeoff (PTO) mechanism connected to the belt transmission mechanism in a power transmissive manner to take out power from the engine. A PTO support bracket configured to support the PTO mechanism is attached to the engine.10-01-2009

Patent applications by Hiroshi Kawabata, Osaka JP

Hirosuke Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080318072Imide Resin, Production Method of Imide Resin, and Usage of Imide Resin - To realize an imide resin which is favorable in optical use.12-25-2008

Katsuhiro Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110024077HEAT EXCHANGER AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - A heat exchanger for exchanging heat under the ground or water includes an outer pipe (02-03-2011
20110048049HEAT EXCHANGER AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - A heat exchanger installed under the ground or water includes an outer pipe installed vertically or installed inclinedly under the ground or water; and a heating heat-transfer pipe inserted into the outer pipe, and evaporating refrigerant injected thereto. A heat medium is sealed in the outer pipe. A heat exchange is performed by using a change in phase of the heat medium and a heat medium guiding section for guiding the heat medium condensed on an outer surface of the heating heat-transfer pipe to an inner wall surface of the outer pipe by using surface tension of the heat medium or by reducing an angle of contact on the inner surface is formed in an upper section of the outer pipe.03-03-2011
20110247354UNDERGROUND HEAT EXCHANGER AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - An outer pipe (10-13-2011

Kazuhiro Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090317638POLISHING SLURRY, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE POLISHING SLURRY, NITRIDE CRYSTALLINE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PLISHING SURFACE OF THE NITRIDE CRYSTALLINE MATERIAL - The invention offers a slurry for polishing the surface of a nitride crystal. The polishing slurry contains oxide abrasive grains, at least one dispersant selected from the group consisting of an anionic organic dispersant and an inorganic dispersant, and an oxidizing reagent. The polishing slurry has a pH of less than 7. The slurry efficiently polishes the surface of the nitride crystal.12-24-2009

Manabu Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100245663SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND TRANSMITTER APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A semiconductor integrated circuit (09-30-2010

Masae Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110063199DISPLAY DEVICE - A storage capacitor bus line (CsL) connected to a CS trunk line (bb) of at least one of CS trunk line groups (BB03-17-2011
20110221760DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME - In at least one embodiment, a display device includes: a correction section for carrying out gray scale correction on gray scale data to be supplied to a display driver, by use of a correction amount corresponding to a position of each column to which the data signal is to be supplied, the each column being on a display panel, the correction section carrying out the gray scale correction by setting the correction amount to zero for at least (i) gray scale data corresponding to a lowest positive-polarity data signal potential and (ii) gray scale data corresponding to a lowest negative-polarity data signal potential of first gray scale data to be supplied to at least one column constituting a part of all columns, the gray scale data (i) and (ii) being among the gray scale data inputted into the correction section.09-15-2011
20110221970LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVESION RECEIVER - At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including: scanning signal lines provided in a display area; and a dummy scanning signal line provided in a non-display area, the scanning signal lines being divided into groups each of which includes a plurality of scanning signal lines, the groups being sequentially selected, signal electric potentials of an identical polarity being sequentially supplied to a data signal line while scanning signal lines belonging to a selected group are sequentially scanned horizontally, the polarity of the signal electric potentials being inverted when the selected group is changed from a preceding group to a succeeding group which is selected immediately after the preceding group, a dummy scanning period being inserted between a horizontal scanning period corresponding to last horizontal scanning in the preceding group and a horizontal scanning period corresponding to first horizontal scanning in the succeeding group, and the dummy scanning signal line being subjected to dummy scanning during the dummy scanning period. With the arrangement, it is possible to suppress horizontal-shaped unevenness that occurs in a case where block inversion driving is carried out.09-15-2011
20110221971LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including a display unit having scan signal lines divided into a plurality of groups which are successively selected. While the scan signal lines belonging to the selected group are successively scanned horizontally, signal potentials of the same polarity are successively supplied to a data signal line. The polarity of the signal potential is reversed between a preceding group and a subsequent group which are selected continuously. A plurality of dummy scan periods are inserted between the horizontal scan period corresponding to the last horizontal scan in the preceding group and the horizontal scan period corresponding to the first horizontal scan in the subsequent group. In each of the dummy scan periods, one of the scan signal lines which belong to the group selected after the preceding group is subjected to a dummy scan so that the scan signal line is maintained in an active state for a predetermined period and then deactivated so as to align the load state of a scan signal line drive circuit. This can reduce irregularities of the horizontal stripes when the data signal line is subjected to the block reverse drive.09-15-2011
20110221972LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including: pixels each of which includes a plurality of sub-pixels; and scanning signal lines provided in a display area, the scanning signal lines being divided into groups each of which includes a plurality of scanning signal lines, the groups being sequentially selected, the polarity POL of signal electric potentials being inverted when the selected group is changed from a preceding group to a succeeding group which is selected immediately after the preceding group, a plurality of (for example, two) dummy scanning periods being inserted between a horizontal scanning period corresponding to last horizontal scanning (scanning of G09-15-2011
20110234625DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME - A display device carries out an overshoot process on gray scale data of a target frame, the gray scale data being to be converted into a data signal, the overshoot process converting the gray scale data so that the gray scale data includes an overshoot amount in accordance with at least the gray scale data of a predetermined frame preceding the target frame and the gray scale data of the target frame, and further carrying out gray scale correction on overshoot-processed gray scale data obtained by carrying out the overshoot process on the gray scale data of the target frame, the gray scale correction being carried out by use of a correction amount corresponding to each of positions of respective columns to each of which the data signal is to be supplied, the respective columns being on a display panel.09-29-2011

Minoru Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090146503COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - When a certain period of time has elapsed since a direction retrieval unit received a control signal from an appliance controller, the direction retrieval unit instructs the microwave transmitter to transmit microwaves, and then instructs the microwave transmitter to perform scanning of the microwaves. When a notification signal receiver receives a notification signal from a remote controller, the direction retrieval unit instructs the microwave transmitter to stop the scanning of the microwaves. After this, the direction retrieval unit instructs a power controller to raise a power level of the microwaves. The direction retrieval unit determines whether or not the notification signal receiver receives from the notification signal transmitter of the remote controller at regular time intervals charging-in-progress signals indicating that charging is in progress and whether or not the notification signal receiver receives from the notification signal transmitter a charging-complete signal indicating that the charging is completed.06-11-2009

Patent applications by Minoru Kawabata, Osaka JP

Shinichi Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090156345Speed Changing Transmission Apparatus - A composite planetary transmission section (P) is provided for synthesizing output from a stepless speed changing section (06-18-2009

Shinji Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100193668Optical Scanning Type Photoelectric Switch - There is provided an optical scanning type photoelectric switch capable of facilitating control of holding a set detection sensitivity, wherein first and second reflection surfaces with different reflection factors are built as reference objects in the optical scanning type photoelectric switch, and arranged in a measurement invalid range in rotation of a scanning mirror, a light projection path, a light reception path, a laser light source LD and a light receiving element, which are used for scanning in the measurement area, are shared, and when a light reception intensity of the white second reflection surface is smaller than a “reference light reception intensity (white)”, a light projection driving section is controlled to increase the light projection intensity.08-05-2010
20100194583Safety Photoelectric Switch - There is provided an optical scanning type photoelectric switch capable of preventing interference with another photoelectric switch by use of its own capability, wherein, as for light projection pulse periods of the first and second optical scanning type photoelectric switches, the period is set to 30 μs in the first optical scanning type photoelectric switch while the period is set to 33 μs in the second optical scanning type photoelectric switch 08-05-2010
20100198365Safety Photoelectric Switch - A photoelectric switch reduces a cost load of a user while ensuring its protection function inherent to safety equipment without impairing its safety function, and an optical scanning type photoelectric switch is provided with a muting function settable by the user, which is a function of temporarily invalidating sensing of part or the whole of a protection area, and is provided with two output systems, with respect to each of which the muting function is settable and on each output of which an inspection signal is superimposed at a different timing in a time-division manner.08-05-2010

Susumu Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100268452NAVIGATION DEVICE, NAVIGATION METHOD, AND NAVIGATION PROGRAM - Provided is a navigation device which can superpose a route guide object on an actually captured image so that the route guide object coincides with a road even if the accuracy of the road shape data is at the current level. The navigation device displays on a screen, a route guide object indicating a route along which a vehicle should advance. The navigation device includes: an imaging unit for capturing an actual image in front of the vehicle; a white line detection unit which detects a road white line on the actually captured image; a map information storage unit which stores map information containing road shape data expressing a road shape; a road shape data correction unit which corrects the road shape data according to the road white line detection result so that the route guide object is displayed along the road white line; a route guide object generation unit which generates a route guide object according to the corrected road shape data; and a display unit which displays the generated route guide object on the screen.10-21-2010

Teruo Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080295082PROGRAM RE-WRITING APPARATUS - A program re-writing method which re-writes an inputted program into a program for a processor for controlling whether or not a process is executed based on a yes or no execution flag, said program re-writing method including: inserting a comparison process into the inputted program, the comparison process comparing first address information, which is memory address information accessed by a first memory access process included in the inputted program, and second address information, which is address information of a memory accessed by a second memory access process included in the inputted program, and writing a comparison result into the yes or no execution flag; and inserting a yes or no execution flag-attached logic preservation process into the inputted program, the yes or no execution flag-attached logic preservation process being a process executed based on a value of the yes or no execution flag and preserving the same result as a result of the inputted program when executed.11-27-2008
20080307177PROGRAM CONVERSION DEVICE - An analysis section analyzes the live range of a first variable shared among subroutines and the live range of a second variable used only in a subroutine. The allocation section allocates the second variable in an allocation memory for the first variable if the live ranges of the first and second variables do not overlap each other.12-11-2008
20110252410PROGRAM CONVERTING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM CONVERSION METHOD - A compiler, which corresponds to a recent processor having a multithread function, that enables execution of efficient instruction scheduling and allows a programmer to control the instruction scheduling includes: an instruction scheduling directive receiving unit which receives, from a programmer, a directive for specifying an instruction scheduling method; and an instruction scheduling unit which executes, conforming to one of instruction scheduling methods, instruction scheduling of rearranging intermediate codes corresponding to the source program. The instruction scheduling unit selects one of instruction scheduling methods according to the directive received by the instruction scheduling directive receiving unit, and executes instruction scheduling conforming to the selected instruction scheduling method.10-13-2011

Patent applications by Teruo Kawabata, Osaka JP

Toru Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090150913INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - An information recording/reproducing device is provided with a tray (06-11-2009
20110025252STEPPING MOTOR DRIVE APPARATUS AND STEPPING MOTOR DRIVING METHOD - In order to provide a stepping motor drive apparatus and a stepping motor driving method that attain a constant rotation angle per step at every angular position despite variations in load and that are free of rotational fluctuation, a drive control unit of a stepping motor drive apparatus drives a driving coil of one phase of a stepping motor (02-03-2011

Yuuji Kawabata, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120023914Exhaust Purification Apparatus - Disclosed is an exhaust purification apparatus which comprises: a first processing unit (02-02-2012