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Kawai, Osaka

Kazuhiro Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110284528MICROWAVE OVEN - A microwave oven includes: heating chamber (11-24-2011

Ken Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100014343NONVOLATILE MEMORY APPARATUS AND NONVOLATILE DATA STORAGE MEDIUM - [Objective] A nonvolatile memory apparatus and a nonvolatile data storage medium of the present invention, including nonvolatile memory elements each of which changes its resistance in response to electric pulses applied, comprises a first write circuit (01-21-2010
20100103723NONVOLATILE MEMORY APPARATUS - Provided are a plurality of memory cell arrays 04-29-2010
20110007553NONVOLATILE STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WRITING INTO MEMORY CELL OF THE SAME - Provided is a nonvolatile storage device (01-13-2011
20110110144WRITING METHOD FOR VARIABLE RESISTANCE NONVOLATILE MEMORY ELEMENT, AND VARIABLE RESISTANCE NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - A writing method optimum for a variable resistance element which can maximize an operation window of the variable resistance element is provided. The writing method is performed for a variable resistance element that reversibly changes between a high resistance state and a low resistance state depending on a polarity of an applied voltage pulse. The writing method includes a preparation step (S05-12-2011
20110128773NONVOLATILE VARIABLE RESISTANCE MEMORY ELEMENT WRITING METHOD, AND NONVOLATILE VARIABLE RESISTANCE MEMORY DEVICE - To provide a variable resistance element writing method that, even when a variable resistance element has a possibility of becoming a half LR state, can ensure a maximum resistance change window by correcting the variable resistance element to a normal low resistance state. In a method of writing data to a variable resistance element (06-02-2011
20110216577VARIABLE RESISTANCE NONVOLATILE STORAGE DEVICE - The variable resistance nonvolatile storage device reduces variations in a resistance value of a variable resistance element (09-08-2011

Patent applications by Ken Kawai, Osaka JP

Kenzo Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110224154PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE AND COMPOSITION FOR PROMOTING TEAR SECRETION COMPRISING THE SAME - A composition for promoting lacrimal secretion which can be used safely and effectively in the lacrimal secretion promoting therapy, not in the conventional supplemental therapy of lacrimal fluid components is provided. The composition for promoting lacrimal secretion comprising a peptide derivative represented by the formula (I):09-15-2011

Kiyohumi Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090065987Molten metal ladle - An object of the present invention is to provide a molten metal ladle in which scales, slag, etc., that adhere to the lining surface can be removed easily and reliably.03-12-2009

Masanori Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080205645Digital broadcast reception apparatus - A digital broadcast reception apparatus includes a first reception unit for receiving a certain digital broadcast, a second reception unit for receiving another digital broadcast, a control signal reception unit for receiving an update instruction signal that is instruction information indicating an update of software information, and a display control section for displaying, on a display, video images that correspond to contents of the certain digital broadcast received by the first reception unit. An IC card attached to the digital broadcast reception apparatus includes an update execution section which acquires the software information through the second reception unit and installs the acquired software information when the update instruction signal is received by the control signal reception unit.08-28-2008

Shunsuke Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090322732METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - The method for driving a plasma display panel effects control of the subfields as follows. The all-cell initializing operation on the discharge cell is carried out in the initializing period of at least one sub-filed; the rest of the subfields other than the aforementioned subfield selectively carry out an addressing operation in each discharge cell. Gradation display is attained by combination of a subfield having an address discharge in the address period and a sub-filed with no address discharge in the address period. In a discharge cell where an address discharge is generated in the address period of a subfield that follows the subfield having the all-cell initializing operation in the initializing period, the subfield having the all-cell initializing operation has an address period for generating an address discharge.12-31-2009
20110122112PLASMA DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD FOR PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - Even in a plasma display panel of large screen size and high definition, address discharge is caused stably. A plasma display device has a plasma display panel and a scan electrode driving circuit. The plasma display panel includes a discharge cell having a display electrode pair that is formed of a scan electrode and a sustain electrode. A plurality of subfields having an initializing period, an address period, and a sustain period are disposed in one field period. The scan electrode driving circuit generates an increasing first ramp voltage in the initializing period of at least one subfield in one field period, generates sustain pulse voltage that varies from a base potential to a potential for causing sustain discharge in the sustain period, and generates second ramp voltage that is increased and is dropped immediately after reaching a predetermined potential at the end of the sustain period.05-26-2011

Takanao Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080267654Image-forming apparatus with customizable operation panel settings, method thereof, and recording medium - An Image-forming apparatus, which that can customize operation panel screens and customizes panel screen design information, having a communications unit that receives panel customizing information including sending origin identification information, user information, and panel customizing data from a server, user terminal or a plurality of Image-forming apparatuses. The panel customizing information control unit controls according to the type of sending origin determined by the sending origin determining unit and stores the received panel customizing information in the panel customizing information memory unit. The operation panel screen control unit controls the configurations of the operation panel screens and operating keys based on the stored panel customizing information, and standard screen design information.10-30-2008
20080301771ELECTRONIC DEVICE, APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION METHOD, APPLICATION EXECUTION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM CONTAINING EXECUTABLE PROGRAM INSTRUCTION - The present invention claims and discloses an electronic device comprising a storage part for storing a license check processing program for checking a license in order to execute a processing function of an application program, license setting information containing location information where the license check processing program is executed within the application program; and an application program execution part for executing the application program by associating the license check processing program with a location preset in the application program based on the license setting information stored in the storage part. The present invention further teaches performing a license check processing by the license check processing program associated with the location, and when the license is not properly authenticated, the program in accordance with the present invention will skip the processing function corresponding to the license check processing program to execute a subsequent processing function.12-04-2008
20100195144PRINT SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM THAT STORES PRINTING PROGRAM CODES AND METHOD OF PRINTING - A print system includes a print server and a first printer. The first printer receives print job data and executes printing. The first printer includes a job-data communication unit that receives the print job data from the print server; a job-processing-result notification unit that provides the print server with page-by-page print completion information; and a transfer request unit that transmits a request to transfer print job data corresponding to interrupted print job to the print server. The print server receives the print job data from a terminal device and includes a job-related-notification communication unit that receives the page-by-page print completion information; a job-data accumulation unit that accumulates the print job data from the terminal device and the page-by-page print completion information along with the print job data; and a job-data transfer unit that transfers the accumulated print job data to the first printer in response to the transfer request.08-05-2010
20110055323IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD - In a multifunction peripheral (MFP), a web browser displays a user interface screen on a display of an operation panel and transmits a first command by a predetermined protocol. A web server in the MFP receives the first command using the predetermined protocol. A request processing unit executes a first process corresponding to the first command received from the web server. Meanwhile, in a server device, a server application executes a second process corresponding to the second command transmitted to a web server in the server device from the web browser in the MFP. When using a function or data of the MFP, the server application transmits a third command corresponding to the function or the data to the web server in the MFP from a web client using the predetermined protocol.03-03-2011
20110055854IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a peripheral device interface, an interface driver configured to control the peripheral device interface, a platform configured to provide a runtime environment for a program written in a predetermined language on an operating system, and a device driver configured to operate on the platform and to cause the interface driver to control a peripheral device while performing communications with the peripheral device through the peripheral device interface.03-03-2011
20110153729Image Forming System, Image Forming Apparatus, and Image Forming Method for the Development, Distribution, and Maintenance of Image Forming Apparatus Operation Screens - A web browser of a multifunction peripheral transmits a request for screen data to a web server and causes an operation screen to be displayed on an operation panel on the basis of the screen data. A terminal-side web browser of a terminal apparatus transmits a request for screen data to the web server and causes an operation screen to be displayed on a display of the terminal apparatus on the basis of the screen data. Also, the web server transmits first screen data to the terminal-side web browser in response to a request from the terminal-side web browser, the first screen data being generated from basic screen data, and transmits second screen data to the web browser in response to a request from the web browser, the second screen data being generated from the basic screen data.06-23-2011

Patent applications by Takanao Kawai, Osaka JP

Takuya Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110189348COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING SUCRALOSE AND APPLICATION THEREOF - Novel utilization of sucralose which is a high intense sweetener. Compositions containing sucralose including: sweetening compositions having excellent sweetness qualities based on the characteristics of sucralose; foods with a masked unpleasant smell and unpleasant taste; performance food compositions (viscous food compositions, gel food compositions, emulsified food compositions); foods with improved flavors; preservatives and foods with improved quality of taste; and flavor compositions with improved flavors. Novel utilization of sucralose as a sweetener improver, a masking agent for unpleasant smell/unpleasant taste, a flavor improver, a function improver (viscosity, gelling properties, emulsification properties), a taste characteristic improver, and a flavor improver/enhancer.08-04-2011

Tetsuo Kawai, Osaka JP

Tomoji Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080215252Method of Determining Base Sequence of Nucleic Acid and Apparatus Therefor - In a preferred embodiment, an exploring needle of a probe 09-04-2008
20080308791ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND MAKING METHOD - In an organic field effect transistor with an electrical conductor-insulator-semiconductor structure, the semiconductor layer is made of an organic compound, and the insulator layer is made of a polymer obtained through polymerization or copolymerization of 2-cyanoethyl acrylate and/or 2-cyanoethyl methacrylate.12-18-2008
20100051927ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD - An organic field effect transistor (OFET) having a structure of a conductor layer/an insulator layer/a semiconductor layer is provided. This OFET comprises an insulator layer formed by mixing a polymer compound produced by polymerizing or copolymerizing a monomer represented by the formula (1):03-04-2010
20110021381Method for immobilizing self-organizing material or fine particle on substrate, and substrate manufactured by using such method - A method for immobilizing a self-organizing material or fine particles on a substrate, and a substrate whereupon the self-organizing material or the fine particles are immobilized. More specifically, the method for immobilizing the fine particles including a nucleic acid (for instance, DNA or RNA) or a metal oxide on the substrate, and the substrate whereupon the nucleic acid (for example, DNA or RNA) or the metal oxide is immobilized.01-27-2011
20110068875FLUCTUATION OSCILLATOR, FLUCTUATION OSCILLATING SYSTEM, OBSERVATION DEVICE AND CONTROL SYSTEM - Four stochastic resonators 03-24-2011

Patent applications by Tomoji Kawai, Osaka JP

Yasufumi Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110291271SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor chip such as an MMIC is provided. The semiconductor chip has: a Si semiconductor as a substrate; and a low-loss transmission line, and can be easily connected to a circuit board on which the semiconductor chip is to be mounted and can ensure a stable GND potential. The semiconductor chip is a flip-chip semiconductor chip, and includes: a Si substrate; an integrated circuit manufactured on a main surface of the substrate; a dielectric film formed above the integrated circuit; and a conductor film for grounding formed on an upper surface of the dielectric film. The integrated circuit includes a wiring layer including a signal line which transmits signals for the integrated circuit. The signal line, the dielectric film, and the conductor film constitute a microstrip line.12-01-2011

Yasutoshi Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100242367LID OPENING/CLOSING APPARATUS OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a lid opening/closing apparatus of an electronic device according to the present invention, a lid is supported on a housing through a slide type pivot mechanism, and can reciprocate among a fully closed position, a slide position, and a fully open position. The slide type pivot mechanism comprises: an axis part projecting from the base end part of the lid; an arm plate part formed on the housing; an engagement receiving part formed on the arm plate part and to be engaged with the axis part of the lid; a bearing part formed on the arm plate part and supporting the axis part of the lid rotatably; and a holding part formed on the housing, holding the axis part of the lid between the holding part and the arm plate part, and allowing the axis part to slide. The arm plate part is elastically deformable.09-30-2010
20110155453ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A video camera according to an embodiment of this invention includes a chassis that is fixed within a casing, a CMOS image sensor that is installed in the chassis, and a heat releasing member that releases heat generated from the CMOS image sensor to outside the casing. The heat releasing member extends along at least an area of one part of an inner face of the casing, and is adjacent to or in contact with the area. One part of the chassis contacts the rear face of the heat releasing member.06-30-2011
20110157798PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The present invention provides a portable electronic apparatus in which a control circuit that controls an apparatus operation and/or an integrated circuit that generates heat when driven are provided in a casing having a grip portion to be gripped by a hand, wherein the control circuit and/or the integrated circuit are placed in a region different from an inner region of the grip portion, in an inner region of the casing.06-30-2011

Yoshikazu Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090273837RETARDATION OF FILM AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention is to provide a retardation film having excellent durability against temperature change or the like and a production method of the retardation film. Particularly, the present invention is to provide a retardation film which realizes both reverse wavelength dispersion and durability and a production method of the retardation film. This is achieved by a retardation film including: a component (A) which is specific cellulose acylate; and a component (B) which is cellulose acylate or cellulose ether having a molecular weight different from a molecular weight of the component (A) and whose residual degree of hydroxyl group is 0.30 or more.11-05-2009
20100184957POROUS BASE MATRIX HAVING FORMYL GROUP, ADSORBENT USING THE POROUS BASE MATRIX, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF THE POROUS BASE MATRIX, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF THE ADSORBENT - The present invention relates to a porous base matrix having formyl group, which base matrix has a structure represented by the formula (2) as a spacer, which structure is obtained by cleaving a group represented by the formula (1):07-22-2010

Patent applications by Yoshikazu Kawai, Osaka JP

Yoshiko Kawai, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110224154PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE AND COMPOSITION FOR PROMOTING TEAR SECRETION COMPRISING THE SAME - A composition for promoting lacrimal secretion which can be used safely and effectively in the lacrimal secretion promoting therapy, not in the conventional supplemental therapy of lacrimal fluid components is provided. The composition for promoting lacrimal secretion comprising a peptide derivative represented by the formula (I):09-15-2011