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Kenta Aoki, Ayase-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090159639	Friction stir spot joining device - There is provided a friction stir spot joining device wherein stirring-related members are unitized to form a unitized stirring unit and an opening is formed in a friction stir spot joining device body for housing the unitized stirring unit therein. A stirring motor, a stirring shaft and a power transmission mechanism are unitized to form a stirring unit, and bearings of an LM guide (registered trademark) are fixed to the stirring unit immediately under the stirring unit, and a ball nut is fixed to the back face of the stirring unit, wherein the friction stir spot joining device body is opened to form the opening at a rear upper portion through which the stirring unit is caused to move inside thereof.	06-25-2009

Kenta Aoki, Takatsuki JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090036444	5-5-Membered fused heterocyclic compound and use thereof as HCV polymerase inhibitor - The present invention relates to a fused ring compound represented by the following formula [I]	02-05-2009

Kenta Chiyo, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080244056	METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION SITUATION - An action acquiring unit acquires action information corresponding to operation information from a first storage unit for a first user, and stores acquired action information in a third storage unit. A receiving unit receives, via a network, action information of a second user from an external device. A situation acquiring unit acquires, from a second storage, a communication situation corresponding to received action information. A writing unit writes the action information of the first user indicated by the communication situation to the third storage unit, additionally.	10-02-2008

Kenta Doi, Okayama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090026973	LIGHTING APPARATUS - A lighting apparatus according to the present invention includes: a plurality of solid state light emitting devices; a holding unit which holds the plurality of solid state light emitting devices; a casing inside which the holding unit is disposed; a first terminal and a second terminal disposed at a longitudinal end of the casing; a third terminal and a fourth terminal disposed at the other longitudinal end of the casing; a first rectification unit which converts alternating current power, supplied from an external source to the first terminal and the third terminal, into direct current power, and to supply the direct current power to the plurality of solid state light emitting devices; and a second rectification unit which converts alternating current power, supplied from the external source to the second terminal and the fourth terminal, into direct current power, and to supply the direct current power to the plurality of solid state light emitting devices.	01-29-2009
20090207620	LIGHTING APPARATUS - A lighting apparatus according to the present invention includes: a voltage supply unit which supplies voltage; and a plurality of solid state light emitting devices which emit light using the voltage supplied by the voltage supply unit. The plurality of solid state light emitting devices are series-connected, the voltage supplied by the voltage supply unit is applied to the plurality of solid state light emitting devices which are series-connected, and the voltage supplied is set to a voltage such that a current flowing through each of the plurality of solid state light emitting devices is equal to or less than 1/N of the maximum rated current, where N is a number equal to or greater than 2.	08-20-2009

Kenta Endo, Mobara JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080309686	Display Device - To reduce heating value of the drain driver in a display device applying an FBI drive method. In a display device applying the FBI drive method in which each subpixel displays one gray scale required by an external system by displaying two gray scales which are a gray scale corresponding to first display data during one frame period of continuous two frame periods and a gray scale corresponding to second display data during the other frame period of the continuous two frame periods, and the luminance according to the second display data is lower than the luminance according to the first display data when the display data inputted from the external system is in a halftone gray scale, the power supply circuit supplies high-potential first power supply voltage to the driver during the first frame period and supplies low-potential first power supply voltage having the potential lower than the high-potential first power supply voltage during the second frame period.	12-18-2008
20090091558	Display Device - The present invention provides a display device which displays a black image by periodically inserting the black image, wherein after the display of the black image, a first period in which a video signal different from a video signal for the black image is outputted to video signal lines is made different from a succeeding period in length.	04-09-2009
20090201317	DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention reduces moving image blurring while suppressing the lowering of brightness, lowering of contrast and the increase of electricity necessary for light emission. A display device includes a first gradation voltage generation circuit which generates a first gradation voltage based on gradations of display data amounting to 1 screen displayed during 1 frame period, and a second gradation voltage generation circuit which generates a second gradation voltage based on the gradations of display data amounting of 1 screen displayed in 1 frame period, wherein the gradations of the respective pixels on the display data are displayed by performing a display based on the first gradation voltage and a display based on the second gradation voltage during 1 frame period. The first gradation voltage generation circuit and the second gradation voltage generation circuit respectively include a resistance voltage dividing circuit which is formed by connecting a plurality of resistances in series. In a region of the resistance voltage driving circuit of the first gradation voltage generation circuit where a plurality of resistances having a substantially fixed resistance value are continuously formed, a resistance of the resistance voltage dividing circuit of the second gradation voltage generation circuit is changed from a value lower than the resistance value of the resistance voltage dividing circuit of the first gradation voltage generation circuit to a value higher than the resistance value of the resistance voltage dividing circuit of the first gradation voltage generation circuit.	08-13-2009
20100020116	Display Device - In a display device which displays a black image by periodically inserting a black image, after the display of the black image, a first period in which a video signal different from a video signal for the black image is outputted to video signal lines is made different from a succeeding period in length.	01-28-2010

Kenta Fujimoto, Tendo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100195863	SPEAKER - A speaker having a drive cone and a diaphragm which can deal with higher output. The speaker comprises a frame, a magnetic circuit section, and a vibrating section. The magnetic circuit section is fixed to the frame. The vibrating section is housed in the frame and includes a drive cone (	08-05-2010

Kenta Fujimoto, Tendo-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100034419	SPEAKER - There is provided a speaker, in which a space surrounded by the drive cone, the diaphragm, and the frame is sealed, to prevent the sound quality from changing, and prevent an edge unit from being broken in particular with a large sound volume.	02-11-2010
20100086169	SPEAKER - There is provided a speaker allowing an air in a space between a diaphragm and a frame not to leak outside, and allowing connecting wires electrically connected to the voice coil to be guided out to an outside.	04-08-2010

Kenta Fukushima, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100002255	IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus connected to a network in which a plurality of devices having a transmission request reception function for transmitting a transmission-requested image to a designated destination is installed and including an address book used for registering destination data indicating the designated destination includes an address registration unit configured to register, in the address book, transmission request destination data designating one of the plurality of devices and the destination data in association with each other, an address designation unit configured to designate the destination data registered by the address registration unit, an image designation unit configured to designate an image to be transmitted, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image designated by the image designation unit and the destination data designated by the address designation unit to the device designated by the transmission request destination data associated with the destination data.	01-07-2010
20100231961	IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus comprises a first image reading unit configured to read an image and generate image data; a storage unit configured to store the image data generated by the first image reading unit; a printing unit configured to print, on a sheet, an image describing information for identifying the image data stored in the storage unit; a second image reading unit configured to newly read an image and generate image data; an extraction unit configured to extract the information from the image data which is generated by reading the image one the sheet printed by the printing unit; and a combining unit configured to combine the image data stored in the storage unit and the image data generated by the second image reading unit, based on the information extracted by the extraction unit.	09-16-2010

Kenta Hayashi, Obu-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100089999	VEHICLE UNIT, VEHICLE SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR SAME - A portable terminal receives a settlement record information instruction from a user for reading settlement record information, and requests a vehicle unit for an output of corresponding information represented by the user instruction. The vehicle unit then reads the corresponding settlement record information from among all information readable by the portable terminal, and transmits the information to the portable terminal. The settlement record information becomes therefore more accessible for the user without compromising privacy.	04-15-2010

Kenta Hayashi, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090309965	TESTING METHOD, TESTING AND PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROCESSING DEVICE, TESTING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING/TESTING DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING/TESTING METHOD - An inspecting method for grasping the inspection result on an intermediate (or an n-th) treatment without long extension of time, in case predetermined treatments of a predetermined number (N times) are exerted on a plurality of sheets running on a conveyor line, before all the treatments of N-times are ended. The inspecting method for inspecting an object subjected to the predetermined treatment includes performing the predetermined treatment repeatedly by the N-times (N: a natural number of 2 or more) sequentially on the individual objects being conveyed on the conveyor line, and an inspecting step of testing such a leading one of the objects as has been subjected to the n-th (n: a natural number of 1 or more but N or less) treatment, and returning the tested object to after such one of the targets as was subjected to the n-th treatment.	12-17-2009

Kenta Hayashi, Shinjuku-Ku JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100040258	PROJECTION HEIGHT MEASURING METHOD, PROJECTION HEIGHT MEASURING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An objection of the invention is to provide a projection height measuring method and a projection height measuring apparatus capable of measuring a height of a projection with high accuracy.	02-18-2010

Kenta Hosaki, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080317362	IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DECODING APPARAUTS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image encoding apparatus generate encoded data having a fixed length L which is less than or equal to m×n bits and an integral multiple of 32 by m×n pixel block, while resolution information and color information are excellently maintained. For this purpose, a block generation unit inputs image data by m×n pixels. A 2-color extraction unit extracts representative colors C	12-25-2008
20090080531	IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - This invention scans a block using a window having a size of p×q pixels, and encodes p×q sub-block data each formed from pixel data at relatively identical positions in windows. A blocking unit receives a 16×16-pixel block image. A sub-block division unit scans the received block for each 2×2-pixel window, and generates 2×2 sub-block data each having a size of 8×8 pixels. Each sub-block is formed from pixel data at relatively identical positions in windows. A variable length coding unit encodes each sub-block data. When the sum of encoded sub-block data exceeds an allowable encoded data amount, a sub-block elimination unit eliminates encoded sub-block data until the sum becomes equal to or smaller than the allowable encoded data amount. The sub-block elimination unit outputs the remaining encoded sub-block data as encoded data of a block of interest.	03-26-2009
20090097057	IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An apparatus for executing image processing by a plurality of serially connected image processing modules stores, in memory, set values for the plurality of image processing modules and image data to be processed by the plurality of image processing modules, adds headers to respective ones of the set values and image data that have been read out of the memory and transmits the result to a top image processing module among the plurality of image processing modules.	04-16-2009
20090285479	IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - This invention generates, from multi-value image data, encoded data having a fixed length of L bits for each block including m×n pixels. An extraction unit extracts representative two colors C	11-19-2009

Kenta Ishida, Naruto-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110076558	NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY CELL - The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell that has high voltage, high capacity and excellent high-temperature cycle characteristics at a low cost.	03-31-2011

Kenta Ishii, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100021820	Negative electrode material for lithium ion secondary battery and method for producing the same - A negative electrode material for lithium ion secondary batteries includes core-shell composite particles prepared by covering the surface of a graphite powder with an amorphous carbon powder via a carbide of binder pitch, the graphite powder having an average particle diameter of 5 to 30 μm and an average lattice spacing d(002) of less than 0.3360 nm, and the amorphous carbon powder having an average particle diameter of 0.05 to 2 μm and an average lattice spacing d(002) of 0.3360 nm or more. A method to produce the negative electrode material includes mixing a graphite powder with pitch having a softening point of 70 to 250° C., adding an amorphous carbon powder to the resulting product, kneading the mixture while applying a mechanical impact to soften the pitch, so that the amorphous carbon powder is dispersed and stabilized in the pitch that has softened, and carbonizing the pitch by heat treatment of the mixture at 750 to 2250° C. in a non-oxidizing atmosphere. The negative electrode material exhibits an excellent rate performance, a high reversible capacity, and a high first cycle charge-discharge efficiency.	01-28-2010
20100068626	NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM RECHARGEABLE BATTERY - A negative electrode material for lithium secondary batteries includes carbon microspheres having an arithmetic mean particle diameter do measured using an electron microscope of 150 to 1000 nm, a volatile content Vm of 5.0% or less, a ratio ΔDst/Dst (where, Dst indicates the Stokes mode diameter Dst measured using a disk centrifuge (DCF), and ΔDst indicates the half-width of the Stokes mode diameter Dst) of 0.40 to 1.10, and a lattice spacing (d002) measured by X-ray diffractometry of 0.370 nm or less. The negative electrode material is used for a high-output lithium secondary battery that has a high lithium ion doping-undoping speed and excellent cycle characteristics, and is suitable as a power supply for portable instruments, hybrid cars, electric vehicles, and the like.	03-18-2010

Kenta Kasai, Gergy-Pontoise FR

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110004811	Encoding/decoding apparatus and method - An encoder and a decoder employ an encoding scheme corresponding to a parity check matrix which is derivable from a bipartite protograph formed of variable nodes and check nodes, with each variable node corresponding to a codeword symbol position. The protograph has a plurality of groups of nodes, each group of nodes comprising both variable nodes and check nodes. Each of the check nodes in a group is of degree 2 and has connections to two variable nodes in the same group. The protograph also has a plurality of check nodes of degree n, where n is the number of said plurality of groups, wherein each of the plurality of check nodes has a connection to a variable node in each group such that the symbol positions in a codeword are interleaved between the groups of nodes.	01-06-2011

Kenta Kato, Kasugai-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080205134	Charge pump to supply voltage bands - The present invention provides a voltage generating circuit and a control method thereof which is capable of preventing an increase in the occupied area and suitable for raising the voltage of the power supply in a wide range.	08-28-2008

Kenta Kato, Seto-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100329003	MEMORY EMPLOYING INDEPENDENT DYNAMIC REFERENCE AREAS - A memory that employs separate Dref areas that are independently accessed to provide a threshold voltage reference signal. The memory includes the separate Dref areas, a data area positioned between the Dref areas, one or more sense amplifiers, and a switch component. The switch component is arranged to receive addressing data and to independently couple one of the separate Dref areas to the sense amplifiers based, at least in part, on a physical proximity of individual memory cells along a word line.	12-30-2010
20100329024	MEMORY EMPLOYING SEPARATE DYNAMIC REFERENCE AREAS - A memory that employs separate Dynamic reference (Dref) areas to provide a threshold voltage reference signal. The memory includes the separate Dref areas, a data area positioned between the Dref areas, a reference array, and one or more sense amplifiers. The data area is arranged to provide an output signal, the reference cell and the separate Dref areas are arranged to provide the threshold voltage reference signal, and the sense amplifiers are arranged to receive the output signal and the threshold voltage reference signal.	12-30-2010

Kenta Katsuhama, Hitachinaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080303459	Generator Control Unit - An object of the present invention is to provide a generator control unit having improved voltage response in a system which is not provided with a battery in a DC output unit.	12-11-2008
20090071735	Controller of Field Winding Type Synchronous Motor, Electric Drive System, Electric Four Wheel Driving Vehicle, and Hybrid Automobile - An object of the present invention is to provide a controller of a field winding type synchronous motor that can stably output torque even if the d-axis current pulsates by reducing torque pulsation without causing fluctuations in the magnetic flux acting on the torque, and also provide an electric drive system, an electric four wheel driving vehicle, and a hybrid automobile. A motor control unit	03-19-2009

Kenta Katsuhama, Hitachiaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090128069	Motor Control Apparatus and Control Apparatus for hybrid Electric Vehicles - To provide a motor control apparatus that uses an inverter to drive an AC motor and hybrid automotive control apparatus adapted to drive an AC motor by use of an inverter while reducing torque pulsations during switching from PWM driving to rectangular-wave driving.	05-21-2009

Kenta Kawakami, Wako-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090187313	VEHICLE DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS - In a vehicle driving assistance apparatus having an electric motor to impart steering torque to the driver and a driving control unit that conducts collision avoidance assistance control and other steering control including lane departure prevention control, power steering control and parking assistance control for providing assistance during parking of the vehicle, when a warning for alerting the driver is made by imparting torque to the steering wheel via the motor, the control input of the other steering control is suppressed, i.e. is reduced during either the first predetermined time before warning or the second predetermined time after warning. Owing to this configuration, the driver can be enabled to perceive the warning without fail even when another steering control is performed in parallel.	07-23-2009

Kenta Kawakami, Utsunomiya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080262676	STEERING RETENTION STATE JUDGING DEVICE, DRIVER WAKEFULNESS PREDICTING DEVICE, AND CORRECT COURSE KEEPING DEVICE - This steering wheel retention state judging device includes: a torque application unit that applies a torque on a steering wheel of a vehicle, the steering wheel operated by a driver; an angle sensor that detects a steering angle of the steering wheel; and a steering wheel retention state judging unit that judges a retention state of the steering wheel by the driver based on the steering angle of the steering wheel when the torque is applied by the torque application unit.	10-23-2008

Kenta Kawasaki, Aichi-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
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
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

Kenta Kitsuka, Gunma JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080217168	Electrode for electrolysis and electrolysis unit - There are disclosed an electrode for electrolysis capable of efficiently forming ozone by electrolysis of an electrolytic solution (e.g., water) at ordinary temperature with a low current density, and an electrolysis unit using the electrode. The electrode for electrolysis includes a substrate and a surface layer formed on the surface of the substrate, and the surface layer is made of an amorphous insulator, for example, a thin film of amorphous tantalum oxide, amorphous tungsten oxide or amorphous aluminum oxide.	09-11-2008
20090065352	ELECTROLYZING DEVICE - An electrolyzing device is capable of removing scales adhered to a cathode in an electrolyzing mode without deteriorating an electrode forming an anode.	03-12-2009

Kenta Kohatsu, Kumamoto JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090174153	Mold for Gasket, Method for Manufacturing the Gasket, and Gasket - This invention provides a mold for a gasket, which can render the planar shape of a mold for integral molding of a large-diameter gasket as small as possible to reduce the size of the manufacturing equipment and, at the same time, by virtue of integral molding, does not require labor and time in the manufacture thereof and does not cause a lack of strength in the connecting part. To this end, a mold (	07-09-2009

Kenta Kohigashi, Wako-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090288514	TRANSMISSION - A transmission has a movable transmission part movably connected to a fixed transmission part via a shaft to undergo pivotal movement relative to the fixed transmission part about an axis of the shaft. Each of the transmission parts has a hollow cylindrical connecting portion through which the shaft extends. One of the connecting portion of the movable transmission part and the connecting portion of the fixed transmission part is received in the other of the connecting portions with a single seal member disposed therebetween so that an internal space of the fixed transmission part and an internal space of the movable transmission part communicate with each other to thereby form a single hermetically-sealed space for holding therein a lubricating oil.	11-26-2009
20090291787	POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A power transmission device is capable of switching the rotation direction of a drive shaft between positive rotation and negative rotation as power is transmitted to the drive shaft from a drive source via the power transmission device. To cause positive rotation of the drive shaft, only the positive rotation belt is tensed by the belt switching means, and rotation from the positive rotation drive pulley is transmitted to the drive shaft via the positive rotation shaft. To cause negative rotation of the drive shaft, only the negative rotation belt is tensed by the belt switching means, and rotation from the negative rotation drive pulley is transmitted to the drive shaft via the negative rotation shaft.	11-26-2009

Kenta Kotsuji, Uji-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100006047	ROCKER ARM - A rocker arm supported by a support portion of an engine and to be driven by a cam includes a sheet-metal rocker arm body manufactured by plastic working and including a cam follower, a fulcrum portion manufactured by cutting and including a through hole supplying lubricant, and a lubricant discharging hole. The cam follower includes a first slide-contact surface being in sliding contact with the cam. The lubricant discharging hole is defined by an outer surface of the fulcrum portion and an outer surface of the sheet-metal rocker arm body and in communication with the through hole. The lubricant discharging hole biases the lubricant supplied from the through hole in a direction toward the first slide-contact surface.	01-14-2010

Kenta Kuruba, Fukui JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100233441	THREE-DIMENSIONALLY PATTERNED NATURAL LEATHER - A natural leather having a three-dimensional pattern formed on the surface thereof is provided. The three-dimensionally patterned natural leather permits a minute three-dimensional expression such as small dots and thin lines, is high in the degree of freedom of the three-dimensional pattern, can retain the three-dimensional pattern even with the lapse of time and retain the characteristics peculiar to the natural leather. The three-dimensional pattern is formed by a resin portion which covers by coating the surface of an undercoating layer of the natural leather partially in a pattern shape. The resin portion has a maximum thickness of 20 to 400 μm.	09-16-2010

Kenta Matsui, Inagi-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090279780	IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - Input image data is converted into vector data. The type of the input image data is determined. If it is determined that the input image data is of a first data type, information usable for a search is extracted from the input image data in processing of converting the input image data into the vector data, and information usable for a search is further extracted from the vector data later in the idle time of the image processing apparatus. If it is determined that the input image data is of a second data type, information usable for a search is extracted by performing region segmentation of the input image data. The extracted information is held in association with the vector data as additional information.	11-12-2009
20110043859	PRINT DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINT DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A print data processing apparatus includes a first processor configured not to execute a command to convert print data to intermediate data when a resource is rasterized in accordance with a command to rasterize the resource of the print data, and to convert the print data which is not converted to the intermediate data to the intermediate data when rasterizing of the resource of the print data is finished, a management unit configured to manage the resource rasterized by the first processor so that a processor except the first processor can refer to the resource when the print data is converted to the intermediate data, and a second processor configured not to execute a command to rasterize the resource of the print data and to convert the print data to the intermediate data with reference to the resource managed by the management unit.	02-24-2011
20110055694	IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - The present invention discloses an image processing apparatus for displaying a preview image of an input job and a method of controlling the apparatus. The apparatus determines an attribute of an object included in an input job, analyzes the job while switching the degree of the precision of analysis of the job based on a user-specified display size and the attribute of the object, and generates and displays a preview image of the job based on the analysis results.	03-03-2011

Kenta Miura, Yamanashi-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090009689	PLANAR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A planar light-emitting device includes a lightguide plate (	01-08-2009

Kenta Miyoshi, Kyoto JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110035763	TURNTABLE - A turntable for storage disk drive apparatuses includes a plate member made of a ferromagnetic material and a central resin member arranged at the center of the plate member and formed by injection-molding a resin. The central resin member includes a disk guide portion provided on an upper surface thereof to guide a central hole of a disk and a plurality of gate recess portions indented upwards from a lower surface of the central resin member. The gate recess portions include ceiling surfaces positioned higher than the plate member. The ceiling surfaces include a plurality of gate cut portions formed in an injection molding process.	02-10-2011

Kenta Mukai, Tochigi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100316863	GAS BARRIER MATERIAL - Provided is a material for gas barrier containing cellulose fibers having an average fiber diameter of not more than 200 nm, wherein the content of the carboxyl group in a cellulose composing the cellulose fiber is 0.1 to 2 mmol/g. A molded composite having gas barrier properties such as high oxygen barrier properties can be produced by applying the material for gas barrier on a substrate and drying.	12-16-2010

Kenta Naito, Kyoto JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090038300	Exhaust gas purification method and exhaust gas purification system - In order to remove by burning captured PM by using microscopic luminescent discharge that repeats generation and extinction randomly in time and space on the surface of an insulating filter with a minimum power consumption and to enhance the capturing efficiency and combustion-removal efficiency of PM in exhaust gas from diesel engines or the like, at least one electrode pair (	02-12-2009

Kenta Nakagawa, Oita JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090064820	Method for operating non-ferrous smelting plant - In the operation, a flux mainly composed of silica ore and a non-ferrous metal-ore raw-material are charged into a smelting furnace via a conveying system.	03-12-2009

Kenta Nakajima, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100210367	Universal Joint - A tripot universal joint includes a first rotatable shaft member having a first longitudinal axis and three longitudinal guide channels disposed parallel to the first longitudinal axis, each having two opposing concave side surfaces and a back surface. The joint also includes a rotatable second shaft member having a second longitudinal axis and comprising a spider having three radially extending trunnions equally, each of the trunnions having a convex outer surface disposed within an associated longitudinal guide channel. The joint further includes three rotatable rollers, each rotatably disposed on a convex outer surface of a respective trunnion, each roller having a convex outer surface that is configured for disposition within the concave side surfaces of the longitudinal guide channel with which it is associated for moveable engagement within the channel and an inner surface that is rotatably disposed on the convex surface of the trunnion.	08-19-2010
20100216556	Constant Velocity Joint Having Over-Articulation Protection - A tripot universal joint includes a first rotatable shaft member having a longitudinal axis and three longitudinal guide channels, each having two opposing concave side surfaces and a back surface. The joint also includes a rotatable second shaft member having a longitudinal axis and comprising a spider having three radially extending trunnions equally, each of the trunnions having a convex outer surface disposed within an associated longitudinal guide channel. The joint further includes three rotatable ball assemblies, each disposed on a convex outer surface of a trunnion, each ball assembly having an outer ball with a convex outer surface that is disposed within the concave side surfaces of the longitudinal guide channel with which it is associated for moveable engagement within the channel and an inner ball with an inner surface that is rotatably disposed on the convex surface of the trunnion with a detachably reattachable coupling.	08-26-2010

Kenta Nakamura, Wako JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090152038	EXHAUST SYSTEM FOR MOTORCYCLE AND MOTORCYCLE INCLUDING THE SAME - An exhaust system for a motorcycle includes a bracket which includes a joint portion, an engine support portion, and a swing-arm support portion. The joint portion is configured to be connected to a vehicle-body frame. The engine support portion is configured to support an engine. The swing-arm support portion is provided separately from the joint portion and configured to support a swing arm which is swingable with respect to the vehicle-body frame and at a rear end of which a rear wheel is provided. An exhaust pipe extends rearwards from the engine. A muffler is connected to a rear end of the exhaust pipe and disposed along the swing arm. A muffler is connected to a rear end of the muffler support stay and a front end of which is connected to the bracket separately from the joint portion.	06-18-2009

Kenta Nakayashiki, Sandvika NO

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100059109	Interdigitated Back Contact Silicon Solar Cells With Laser Ablated Grooves - Interdigitated back contact (IBC) solar cells are produced by depositing spaced-apart parallel pads of a first dopant bearing material (e.g., boron) on a substrate, heating the substrate to both diffuse the first dopant into corresponding first (e.g., p+) diffusion regions and to form diffusion barriers (e.g., borosilicate glass) over the first diffusion regions, and then disposing the substrate in an atmosphere containing a second dopant (e.g., phosphorus) such that the second dopant diffuses through exposed surface areas of the substrate to form second (e.g., n+) diffusion regions between the first (p+) diffusion regions (the diffusion barriers prevent the second dopant from diffusion into the first (p+) diffusion regions). The substrate material along each interface between adjacent first (p+) and second (n+) diffusion regions is then removed (e.g., using laser ablation) such that elongated grooves, which extend deeper into the substrate than the diffused dopant, are formed between adjacent diffusion regions.	03-11-2010
20100130014	TEXTURING MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON - Techniques are disclosed for surface texturing multicrystalline silicon using drop jetting technology to form mask or etch patterns on a surface of a multicrystalline silicon substrate.	05-27-2010
20100139754	Solar Cell With Co-Planar Backside Metallization - A solar cell includes two backside metallization materials that are simultaneously extrusion deposited on a semiconductor substrate such that both a back surface field (BSF) metal layer (e.g., Al) and a solder pad metal structure (e.g., AgAl) are coplanar and non-overlapping, and the two metals abut each other to form a continuous metal layer that extends over the backside surface of the substrate. In one embodiment, the solder pad metal is formed directly on the backside surface of the substrate, either by co-extruding the two materials in the form of a continuous sheet, or by depositing spaced apart structures that are then flattened to contact each other by way of an air jet device. In another embodiment, the solder pad metal is disposed over a thin layer of the BSF metal (i.e., either disposed directly on the BSF metal, or disposed on an intervening barrier layer) using a co-extrusion head.	06-10-2010
20100230771	METHODS AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DIFFUSING DOPANTS INTO SILICON - A method for diffusing two dissimilar dopant materials onto a semiconductor cell wafer in a single thermal processing step. The method includes placing a first dopant source on a semiconductor cell wafer, placing said cell wafer into a thermal processing chamber comprising one or more cell wafer slots, subjecting said cell wafer to a thermal profile; and annealing said cell wafer in the presence of a second dopant source.	09-16-2010
20110070676	Interdigitated Back Contact Silicon Solar Cells Fabrication Using Diffusion Barriers - Interdigitated back contact (IBC) solar cells are produced by depositing spaced-apart parallel pads of a first dopant bearing material (e.g., boron) on a substrate, heating the substrate to both diffuse the first dopant into corresponding first (e.g., p+) diffusion regions and to form diffusion barriers (e.g., borosilicate glass) over the first diffusion regions, and then disposing the substrate in an atmosphere containing a second dopant (e.g., phosphorus) such that the second dopant diffuses through exposed surface areas of the substrate to form second (e.g., n+) diffusion regions between the first (p+) diffusion regions (the diffusion barriers prevent the second dopant from diffusion into the first (p+) diffusion regions). The substrate material along each interface between adjacent first (p+) and second (n+) diffusion regions is then removed (e.g., using laser ablation) such that elongated grooves, which extend deeper into the substrate than the diffused dopant, are formed between adjacent diffusion regions.	03-24-2011
20110070681	Interdigitated Back Contact Silicon Solar Cells With Separating Grooves - Interdigitated back contact (IBC) solar cells are produced by depositing spaced-apart parallel pads of a first dopant bearing material (e.g., boron) on a substrate, heating the substrate to both diffuse the first dopant into corresponding first (e.g., p+) diffusion regions and to form diffusion barriers (e.g., borosilicate glass) over the first diffusion regions, and then disposing the substrate in an atmosphere containing a second dopant (e.g., phosphorus) such that the second dopant diffuses through exposed surface areas of the substrate to form second (e.g., n+) diffusion regions between the first (p+) diffusion regions (the diffusion barriers prevent the second dopant from diffusion into the first (p+) diffusion regions). The substrate material along each interface between adjacent first (p+) and second (n+) diffusion regions is then removed (e.g., using laser ablation) such that elongated grooves, which extend deeper into the substrate than the diffused dopant, are formed between adjacent diffusion regions.	03-24-2011

Kenta Nakayashiki, Smyrna, GA US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100233840	SILICON SOLAR CELLS AND METHODS OF FABRICATION - Devices, solar cell structures, and methods of fabrication thereof, are disclosed. Briefly described, one exemplary embodiment of the device, among others, includes: a co-fired p-type silicon substrate, wherein the bulk lifetime is about 20 to 125 μs; an n	09-16-2010

Kenta Ninose, Kanagawa-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090300078	MANAGING CONSISTENCY GROUPS USING HETEROGENEOUS REPLICATION ENGINES - Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for managing consistency groups using heterogeneous replication engines replicating data. A common linkage manager issues a prepare to create consistency group command to a first replication manager and a second replication manager, wherein the first and second replication managers issue create consistency group commands to first and second replication engines, respectively, to form a consistency group of data at a first source storage and a second source storage to copy to a first target storage and second target storage, respectively. The first and second replication managers form a first consistency group and a second consistency group of data from the first and second source storages, respectively, that are consistent as of a point-in-time in response to the create consistency group command; transmitting, by the first and second replication managers, the data in the formed first and second consistency groups to a first journal and second journal, respectively. The first and second replication managers commit the data in the first and second consistency groups in the first and second journals to the first and second target storages, respectively, in response to the first and second replication managers receiving a commit command.	12-03-2009
20090300304	MANAGING CONSISTENCY GROUPS USING HETEROGENEOUS REPLICATION ENGINES - Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for controlling a first storage system receiving commands from a first and second managers to create a consistency group with a second storage system. Host writes are received at the first storage system, wherein the first storage system includes a first storage system primary site and a first storage system secondary site. The first storage system sends the host writes from the first storage system primary site to the first storage system secondary site. Host write operations are quiesced at the first storage system in response to a first command from a first manager. Host write operations are resumed at the first storage system in response to receiving a second command from the first manager. The first storage system receives a run command with a marker, wherein the marker indicates a cycle number to control the cycles of the first and second storage systems. The first storage system sends the marker from the first storage system primary site to the first storage system secondary site. The first storage system sends the marker to a second manager. The first storage system applies the host writes to the first storage system secondary site. The first storage system sends a first message to the first storage system primary site from the first storage system secondary site after completing the applying of the host writes. The first storage system sends a second message to the first manager indicating whether conformation was received from the first storage system secondary site that the host writes were applied.	12-03-2009

Kenta Noda, Yokohama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090087185	OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An optical transmission apparatus comprising a first detector for detecting the power of the supervisory signal light separated from received wavelength-division multiplexed signal lights; a second detector for detecting the power of the wavelength-division multiplexed signal lights after the separation of the supervisory signal light; a gain-controlled type optical amplifier for amplifying the wavelength-division multiplexed signal lights; an optical attenuator coupled to the amplifier; and a control unit for controlling the optical amplifier and the optical attenuator so as to keep the output level of the wavelength-division multiplexed signal lights to a predetermined target value, wherein the control unit restrains automatic output level control by the optical attenuator when the supervisory signal light power fluctuates within its permissible range and fluctuations in the signal light power have deviated from its permissible range.	04-02-2009
20090324229	OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An optical transmission apparatus comprising a first detector for detecting the power of the supervisory signal light separated from received wavelength-division multiplexed signal lights; a second detector for detecting the power of the wavelength-division multiplexed signal lights after the separation of the supervisory signal light; a gain-controlled type optical amplifier for amplifying the wavelength-division multiplexed signal lights; an optical attenuator coupled to the amplifier; and a control unit for controlling the optical amplifier and the optical attenuator so as to keep the output level of the wavelength-division multiplexed signal lights to a predetermined target value, wherein the control unit restrains automatic output level control by the optical attenuator when the supervisory signal light power fluctuates within its permissible range and fluctuations in the signal light power have deviated from its permissible range.	12-31-2009
20100209116	OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, OPTICAL END TERMINAL EQUIPMENT, AND OPTICAL REPEATER EQUIPMENT - The present invention easily provides a network with high stability by setting a transmission rate without using a supervisory network in an optical repeater transmission system that uses multi-rate transponders. When setting a transmission rate of a multi-rate transponder, a rate changing data pattern is transmitted to a main signal to easily realize transmission rate setting for opposed equipment in an optical repeater transmission system through transmission and reception of the setting information.	08-19-2010
20110097077	OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A redundant optical transmission system for transmitting a gigabit Ethernet signal is disclosed. The system includes network devices having the auto negotiation function and transponders having the auto negotiation function based on the Ethernet standard. Upon occurrence of a fault in the optical signal path, a line fault such as the link disconnection with a network device is detected and the corresponding information is transferred to the opposite station. The opposite station restarts the auto negotiation with the network device, thereby positively repairing the line disconnection between the network devices.	04-28-2011

Kenta Noda, Koriyama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100248393	METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF ANTIGEN AND ANTIBODY AGAINST THE ANTIGEN, AND DETERMINATION REAGENT FOR USE IN THE METHOD - For determining an antigen or an antibody against the antigen in a sample, a determination reagent is used which comprises an antibody capable of causing an antigen-antibody reaction with the antigen contained in the sample and an antigen capable of causing an antigen-antibody reaction with both of the antibody contained in the sample and the antibody contained in the reagent. Either one of the antigen and the antibody in the reagent is supported on a microparticle. The sample is mixed with the reagent. The antigen or the antibody in the sample can be determined based on the degree of increase or decrease in agglutination caused by the antigen-antibody reaction. It becomes possible to determine both of an antigen and an antibody against the antigen in a sample accurately using one and the same reagent.	09-30-2010

Kenta Ogata, Ebina-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110018949	IMAGE POSITION DETECTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An image position detecting device includes a light irradiating unit and a photodetector. The light irradiating unit is disposed so as to face a movable body which is being moved in a certain direction. The light irradiating unit irradiates any of marks formed on the movable body with light having a wavelength in an ultraviolet range at a time. The marks are formed of color components, respectively. The photodetector is provided separately from the light irradiating unit to face the movable body. The photodetector detects light having a wavelength in the ultraviolet range from light regularly reflected by the irradiated mark.	01-27-2011

Kenta Ohnishi, Hamamatsu JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100101395	AUTOMATIC PLAYER MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AUTOMATIC PLAYING SYSTEM INCORPORATED THEREIN AND OVERHEAT PROTECTOR FOR AUTOMATIC PLAYING SYSTEM - An automatic player piano is equipped with solenoid-operated actuators for moving keys in automatic performance without fingering of a human player, and an overheat protector is provided for the solenoid-operated actuators so as to prevent the solenoid-operated actuators from overheat; the overheat protector includes not only a temperature sensor and a rescuer but also an information processor, and a computer program runs on the information processor so as to realize a temperature rise estimator for estimating a solenoid temperature on the basis of the amount of current flowing through the solenoid and an environmental temperature determined through the temperature sensor estimator and an overheat detector so as to find an overheated solenoid, thereby making the rescuer interrupt the current for preventing the solenoid-operated actuator from the overheat.	04-29-2010

Kenta Ota, Hadano JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100123979	SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY PROTECTION SYSTEM, MOTHER BOARD AND COMPUTER - By using switching power supplies a, b, and n, which have detection function of over-current, over-voltage and low voltage, in the case where a short-circuit occurred in a load which is connected to output of a switching power supply, and in the case where a MOSFET of the switching power supply is in a short-circuit state and broken, a main power is forced to be off, and a failure log of the switching power supply is stored in a non-volatile memory unit EEPROM; and also in the case where the main power was turned off and on, even if an abnormal log of the switching power supply logged in the non-volatile memory unit, reclosing of the main power is suppressed and which of the switching power supply occurred failure is notified to the outside.	05-20-2010

Kenta Saito, Hokkaido JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090253217	Method of Quickly Detecting Antigen Using Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy or Fluorescence Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy - The present invention is to provide a method of quickly detecting an antigen at an arbitrary concentration in an antigen sample, without a multi-stage examination of the concentration ratio between a detection reagent and an antigen to be detected, particularly when the concentration of the antigen in the sample is unknown, in the method of detecting an antigen using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) or fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (FCCS). By preparing (1) a series to which only a detection reagent is added and (2) a series to which an antigen and the detection reagent are added to achieve a maximum trimer concentration, and by performing a fluorescence spectroscopic analysis, the presence or absence of the antigen in the detection sample is quickly detected by the presence or absence of a trimer detection signal from a detector in the cases of (1) and (2), in a method of detecting an antigen by FCS or FCCS using as a detection reagent a fluorescent-labeled intact antibody or fluorescent-labeled antibody fragment targeted to an epitope of the antigen to be detected, and a non-fluorescent-labeled intact antibody or fluorescent-labeled intact antibody or fluorescent-labeled antibody fragment targeted to another epitope of the antigen.	10-08-2009

Kenta Sakaguchi, Shizuoka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100266231	ROLLING BEARING FOR ALTERNATOR - The object is to sufficiently suppress heat-up of a rolling bearing for an alternator, prevent deterioration of lubricating grease due to heat-up of the rolling bearing, and to extend the lubricating life of the rolling bearing.	10-21-2010
20110033145	GREASE-SEALED ROLLING BEARING WITH ROTARY OUTER RACE - A grease-sealed rolling bearing with a rotary outer race is provided of which the lubricating grease has a long life, and which produces less cold-time noise and can effectively prevent leakage of grease.	02-10-2011

Kenta Sashikuma, Amagasaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090236169	Working Vehicle and HST Unit - The working vehicle includes an axle unit that has a differential gear device, an axle case, an axle input shaft and first and second main output shafts, and an HST unit that has a hydraulic pump main body, a hydraulic motor main body, a capacity adjustment mechanism, an HST case, a pump shaft and a motor shaft, an HST input shaft, and an HST output shaft, wherein the axle unit is directly or indirectly supported by the vehicle frame so as to be positioned close to a first main driving wheel in a state where the axle input shaft extends in a vehicle widthwise direction, wherein the HST unit is directly or indirectly supported by the vehicle frame at a position away from the axle unit in a state where the HST output shaft extends in the vehicle widthwise direction, and wherein the HST output shaft and the axle input shaft are operatively connected to each other through an endless type transmission member.	09-24-2009

Kenta Sato, Kamiina JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110100125	ACCELERATION SENSOR - An acceleration sensor includes: a sensitive element having a vibrating beam, base ends located at both ends of the vibrating beam, and excitation electrodes which are formed on a surface of the vibrating beam; a supporting section connected to each of the base ends in order to support the sensitive element; a connecting section which is provided between one of the base ends and the supporting section so as to extend from the one base end in the opposite direction to the one base end on the same axis as the vibrating beam and which has a thin section formed along the longitudinal direction of the vibrating beam; and a spindle section which is disposed at both sides of the sensitive element in the width direction in a state of being connected to the one base end and extends toward the other base end side along the longitudinal direction.	05-05-2011

Kenta Sato, Chigasaki JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100095778	PRESURE SENSOR AND PRESSURE RECEIVER - A pressure sensor includes a pressure sensing element and a pressure receiver. The pressure sensing element includes a pressure sensing portion and a pair of base portions connected to both ends of the pressure sensing portion. The pressure receiver has a first main surface that is a pressure receiving surface and a second main surface that is a back side of the pressure receiving surface. The pressure receiver includes a pair of supporting portions provided on the second main surface. The pair of supporting portions cover one main surface of the pressure sensing element and support the pair of base portions of the pressure sensing element. The pressure receiver has a thick portion in a position symmetrical with respect to at least one of a first virtual line passing through a center of the second main surface and extending in a direction of an arrangement of the pair of supporting portions and a second virtual line passing through the center and extending in a direction perpendicular to the first virtual line.	04-22-2010
20100186515	PRESSURE DETECTION UNIT AND PRESSURE SENSOR - A pressure detection unit includes: a first piezoelectric resonator element having a vibrating portion and a pair of base portions connected to both ends of the vibrating portion; a second piezoelectric resonator element having a resonating arm and a base portion integrated with one end of the resonating arm; a diaphragm having a pair of supporting portions to which the base portions of the first piezoelectric resonator element are bonded; and a base disposed to be opposed to the diaphragm. In the pressure detection unit, the base portion of the second piezoelectric resonator element is joined to one of the base portions of the first piezoelectric resonator element in an identical plane.	07-29-2010

Kenta Sato, Chigasaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100212435	PRESSURE SENSOR ELEMENT AND PRESSURE SENSOR - A pressure sensor element includes: a package, a first diaphragm provided on a first surface of the package, a second diaphragm provided on a second surface of the package, and a pressure sensing element disposed in the package, the pressure sensing element including: a first base formed at one end in a longitudinal direction of the pressure sensing element, a second base formed at the other end in the longitudinal direction, and a resonating portion formed between the first base and the second base. In the element, the first and second surfaces are opposed to each other. The pressure sensor element is disposed such that the longitudinal direction is orthogonal to a displacement direction of each of the first and second diaphragms. The first base is connected to the first diaphragm while the second base is connected to the second diaphragm.	08-26-2010

Kenta Seki, Nagoya JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110087340	MOVING OBJECT FEED-FORWARD CONTROL METHOD - In a case where a position command path for a control position of a load	04-14-2011

Kenta Shofuda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090107445	Recoil Starter - According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recoil starter including: a base plate that has a bearing portion formed therein; a rotary shaft that is supported by the bearing portion so as to pass through the base plate; a rope reel that is rotatably supported at one side of the base plate; a recoil rope that is wound around the rope reel; a recoil spiral spring that urges the rope reel to rewind the recoil rope; a damper spring that has one end connected to the rotary shaft and the other end connected to the rope reel; and a clutch mechanism that is disposed on an end of the rotary shaft at the other side of the base plate and that transfer a rotational force to an engine.	04-30-2009

Kenta Sugiura, Arlington Heights, IL US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090298354	Spring connector and connector - A spring connector, includes: an electrically conductive metal tube, having a bottomed hole; a plunger, which is provided in the bottomed hole so as to freely move in an axial direction and so as not to slip out from the bottomed hole, and an tip end portion of which is protruded from the bottomed hole; and a spring coil, provided in the bottomed hole, and elastically urging the plunger in a protruding direction. The electrically conductive metal tube includes a small diameter tube part having a smaller outer diameter at a distal end side thereof from which the plunger protrudes, and a soldering part being larger than the small diameter tube part in width in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction, at a backward side of the small diameter tube part in the axial direction, and a face of a distal end side of the small diameter tube part is separated from the soldering part in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction.	12-03-2009

Kenta Toda, Tochigi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100209616	ELECTROSTATIC COATING METHOD AND ELECTROSTATIC COATING APPARATUS - An electrostatic coating method is provided. The electrostatic coating method includes: providing a rotary atomization type coating apparatus; supplying a coating material to a rotary atomization head of the rotary atomization type coating apparatus; changing the number of rotations of the rotary atomization head to change a particle diameter of particles of the coating material; adding a solvent to the coating material so that a NV value of a coated film formed on a coated surface of a workpiece falls within a predetermined range; and electrostatically coating the coated surface with the coating material.	08-19-2010

Kenta Touyamasaki, Osaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080259048	Operation Device and Image Formation Device - An operation device includes: a touch panel on which at least one operation button is displayed; a press position detection unit detecting a press position when a user presses the touch panel; a button operation detection unit determining whether an operation is applied to the operation button based on the press position; a button operation appropriateness determination unit determining whether a button operation by the user is appropriate; and a button operation facilitating unit facilitating subsequent button operations by the user when it is determined by the button operation appropriateness determination unit that the button operation by the user is inappropriate.	10-23-2008

Kenta Toyamasaki, Higashiosaka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090190169	IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a display section, a storage section, and a continuation reception section. The display section displays a plurality of setting items, and the setting items relate to only one of the plurality of functions. The storage section stores a single or plurality of groups of setting items relating to a function in a time-series manner. The continuation reception section receives an option of whether or not the provided function is continuously executed. When receiving the option, the continuation reception section causes the display section to display the group of the setting items and to display the history data in a list to select one from the single or plurality of groups of the setting items. When receiving the option for not continuously executing the provided function, the continuation reception section initializes setting of the provided function and clears all the history data.	07-30-2009

Kenta Uchiyama, Nagano-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100147561	WIRING BOARD WITH LEAD PINS AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A wiring board with lead pins includes: connection pads formed on a wiring board, and lead pins bonded through a conductive material to the connection pads, wherein each of the lead pins has a head portion that is formed in one end of a shaft portion to be larger in diameter than the shaft portion, the head portions are bonded to the connection pads by the conductive material, a face of the wiring board on which the connection pads are formed is resin-sealed by a first resin to be thicker than the head portions, except portions to which the head portions are bonded, and sides of faces of the head portions to which the shaft portions are connected are sealed to be in close contact with the first resin by a second resin.	06-17-2010
20100213616	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes an electronic component having an electrode pad provided on an electrode pad forming face, and a rear face positioned on a side opposite to the electrode pad forming face; an insulating member provided to seal a periphery of the electronic component, and having a first face exposing the electrode pad forming face of the electronic component and a second face exposing the rear face of the electronic component; a multi-layer wiring structure body provided to cover the first face of the insulating member, the electrode pad, and the electrode pad forming face, and including a plurality of insulating layers laminated on each other, and a wiring pattern; and a piercing electrode piercing the insulating member from the first face to the second face. The wiring pattern is directly connected to the electrode pad and the piercing electrode.	08-26-2010
20100252937	ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - An electronic device includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device includes a first electronic component, a first sealing resin, and a first multilayer interconnection structure including a first interconnection pattern directly connected to a first electrode pad of the first electronic component. The second semiconductor device includes a second electronic component, a second sealing resin, and a second multilayer interconnection structure including a second interconnection pattern directly connected to a second electrode pad of the second electronic component. The first semiconductor device is stacked on and bonded to the second semiconductor device through an adhesive layer with the first multilayer interconnection structure of the first semiconductor device facing toward the second sealing resin of the second semiconductor device. The first interconnection pattern and the second interconnection pattern are connected through a through electrode provided through the adhesive layer and the second sealing resin.	10-07-2010
20100258944	ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND FABRICATION METHOD OF THE SAME - A first semiconductor component and a second semiconductor component are attached together via an adhesion layer so that the first semiconductor component and the second semiconductor component are electrically connected with each other via a through electrode. The through electrode is formed to fill a through hole formed in the second semiconductor component and a through hole formed in a portion the adhesion layer. The through hole formed in the portion the adhesion layer is positioned between the through hole formed in the second semiconductor component and a second connection surface of a first semiconductor component through electrode.	10-14-2010
20100258946	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A disclosed semiconductor device includes a reinforcing board having first and second faces, an electronic part accommodating portion penetrating the reinforcing board, a through hole, an electronic part having a front face on which an electrode pad is formed and a back face, a through electrode installed inside the through hole, a first sealing resin filling a gap between the through electrode and an inner wall of the through hole, a second sealing resin filled into the electronic part accommodating portion while causing the bonding face of the electrode pad of the electronic part accommodating portion to be exposed to an outside, and a multi-layered wiring structure configured to include insulating layers laminated on the first face of the reinforcing board and an interconnection pattern, wherein the interconnection pattern is directly connected to the electrode pad of the electronic part and the through electrode.	10-14-2010

Kenta Yamakawa, Fukuchiyama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100123904	OPTICAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE - This invention provides an optical measurement device enabling a highly accurate measurement with respect to a measuring target object in which an inclined surface or a curved surface exists at one part of the surface or a tilted measuring target object. The light shielding portion is configured to define an incident angle range with respect to a light receiving center axis of a diffuse reflected light. In other words, a maximum angle formed by the advancing direction of the diffuse reflected light and the light receiving center axis when the diffuse reflected light passes through the opening of the light shielding portion is defined by the diameter of the opening. The light projecting portion projects a light projection beam so that a converging position on the light receiving center axis is included within a range of the light shielding portion on the light receiving center axis for the component converged by the lens portion of the light projection beam (i.e., reflected light beam) specular reflected at the surface of the measuring target object.	05-20-2010

Kenta Yamamoto, Minamitsuru-Gun JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090097830	MOTOR DRIVE DEVICE PROVIDED WITH DISTURBANCE LOAD TORQUE OBSERVER - A motor drive device (	04-16-2009
20100117568	CONTROLLER FOR CALCULATING ELECTRIC POWER CONSUMPTION OF INDUSTRIAL MACHINE - A controller of an industrial machine provided with an electric motor, a peripheral apparatus and an amplifier for the motor. The controller includes a motor power-consumption calculation section calculating motor power consumption by multiplying a motor current detection value, a motor rotation-speed detection value and a predetermined motor torque constant together; a power loss calculation section calculating sum power loss of the motor and amplifier by adding motor power loss determined by multiplying a square of the motor current detection value by a predetermined motor winding-resistance value, amplifier power loss determined by multiplying the motor current detection value by a predetermined amplifier power-loss coefficient, and predetermined fixed amplifier power consumption together; a fixed power-consumption calculation section calculating fixed power consumption of the peripheral apparatus; and a total power-consumption calculation section determining total power consumption of the industrial machine in a predetermined time period by integrating, for the time period, the calculated motor power consumption, the calculated sum power loss and the calculated fixed power consumption.	05-13-2010
20100214809	PWM RECTIFIER - Disclosed is a PWM rectifier in which switching losses in a semiconductor device are reduced without degrading the response of a control system. In a PWM overmodulation region, the modulation scheme is set to a three-phase modulation scheme. In other regions, a switchover condition such as the amplitude of an input current is acquired and compared with a switchover level. If the switchover condition equals or exceeds the switchover level, the modulation scheme is switched over to a modified two-phase modulation scheme which reduces the number of switching operations to two thirds for the same PWM frequency.	08-26-2010

Kenta Yamazaki, Iwata-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080248884	Constant Velocity Universal Joint - The pocket	10-09-2008

Kenta Yoshida, Shizuoka-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090246469	RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, IMAGE FORMING MATERIAL, RELIEF PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING, RELIEF PRINTING PLATE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RELIEF PRINTING PLATE - The invention provides a resin composition for laser engraving, containing at least (A) a polymerizable compound having two or more ethylenic unsaturated bonds, a carbon-sulfur bond being contained at the site where two among the two or more ethylenic unsaturated bonds are connected and (B) a binder polymer. The invention further provides an image forming material containing the resin composition, a relief printing plate precursor having a relief forming layer which contains the resin composition, a relief printing plate precursor having a relief forming layer which contains a product formed by subjecting the resin composition to cross-linking, a method for manufacturing a relief printing plate including subjecting the relief printing plate precursor having the relief forming layer which contains the resin composition to cross-linking, and a relief printing plate manufactured by the manufacturing method.	10-01-2009
20100243624	RELIEF PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RELIEF PRINTING PLATE - A relief printing plate precursor for laser engraving, including a relief forming layer formed by thermally crosslinking a resin composition including (A) a polymer having an ethylenically unsaturated bond in a side chain wherein the polymer is an acrylic resin or a polyvinyl acetal, (B) carbon black, and (C) a thermopolymerization initiator.	09-30-2010
20100247867	RELIEF PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING, RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, RELIEF PRINTING PLATE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RELIEF PRINTING PLATE - A resin composition for laser engraving is provided, which forms a film having good physical properties, imparts good printing durability to a printing plate having a relief forming layer made of the resin composition, and achieves high engraving sensitivity in laser engraving. The resin composition for laser engraving includes a compound (A) having at least two isocyanate groups in its molecule, and a polymer compound (B) having at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group and —NHR, in which R represents a hydrogen atom, a linear alkyl group, a branched alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group.	09-30-2010

Kenta Yoshida, Haibara-Gun JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090088582	CROSSLINKED CARBON NANOTUBE - A crosslinked carbon nanotube, in which multiple carbon nanotubes therein are crosslinked with each other at multiple cross-linking sites via a connecting group containing a π-electron conjugation system, and the bond between the connecting group and the carbon nanotube is not an ester or amido bond.	04-02-2009
20110076613	RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, RELIEF PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND RELIEF PRINTING PLATE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - A resin composition for laser engraving, including at least a phenol derivative (A) represented by the following Formula (A), a binder polymer (B), and a crosslinking agent (C), wherein the content of the phenol derivative (A) with respect to the total solid content of the resin composition is from 5% by mass to 50% by mass:	03-31-2011
20110156317	RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, RELIEF PRINTING STARTING PLATE FOR LASER ENGRAVING, PROCESS FOR MAKING RELIEF PRINTING PLATE, AND RELIEF PRINTING PLATE - A process for making a relief printing plate is provided that includes (1) a step of crosslinking by means of heat and/or light a relief-forming layer formed from a resin composition containing (Component A) a compound having a hydrolyzable silyl group and/or a silanol group, (Component B) a thermoplastic elastomer, and (Component C) a polymerizable compound, and (2) a step of forming a relief layer by laser-engraving the crosslinked relief-forming layer.	06-30-2011