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| 20080228760 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus detecting a characteristic amount of a group of contents of a series configured of contents corresponding to episodes, the information processing apparatus including: a first generating means for detecting a characteristic amount in a time series of the contents corresponding to the episodes and generate a characteristic amount in the episode based on a detected result; a computing means for computing a representative value of the generated characteristic amount in the episode; a second generating means for arranging the computed representative values corresponding to the episodes in a time series and generate a characteristic amount in the series indicating a characteristic amount in a time series of the group of the contents of the series; and a database means for storing the generated characteristic amount in the series in a database in association with the group of the contents of the series. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080288243 | Information Processing Apparatus, Informaton Processing Method, Program, and Recording Medium - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus for analyzing text data, including: acquisition means for acquiring the text data; morpheme information registration means for registering morpheme information for use in analyzing the text data morphologically; morphological analysis means for analyzing the text data acquired by the acquisition means; compound word processing rule registration means for registering compound word processing rules for creating a compound word not registered in the morpheme information registration means; and compound word processing means, by use of the compound word processing rules registered in the compound word processing rule registration means, for combining the morphemes included in the morphological analysis information created by the morphological analysis means, into the compound word not registered in the morpheme information registration means and detecting the created compound word. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20100039378 | Information Processing Apparatus, Method and Program - An information processing apparatus includes an imaging unit, an icon display control unit causing a display to display an operation icon, a pickup image display processing unit causing the display to sequentially display an input operation region image constituted by, among pixel regions constituting an image picked up by the imaging unit, a pixel region including at least a portion of a hand of a user, an icon management unit managing event issue definition information, which is a condition for determining that the operation icon has been operated by the user, for each operation icon, an operation determination unit determining whether the user has operated the operation icon based on the input operation region image displayed in the display and the event issue definition information, and a processing execution unit performing predetermined processing corresponding to the operation icon in accordance with a determination result by the operation determination unit. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100142925 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data processing device including an output control unit configured to extract a character string targeted for a search from subtitle data of content data including image data, voice data, and the subtitle data, search the voice data for data of a voice uttering the character string, acquire timing information indicating time when the character string is uttered, which is included in the image data, generate subtitle timing information including identification information provided to identify the subtitle data including the character string and the timing information, where the identification information and the timing information are associated with each other, so that the subtitle timing information is acquired, and synchronize the subtitle data and image data of time indicated by timing information associated with identification information of the subtitle data, and output the subtitle data and the image data based on the subtitle timing information is provided. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100179972 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data processing apparatus includes a text acquisition mechanism acquiring texts to be used as keywords which will be subject to audio retrieval, the texts being related to contents corresponding to contents data including image data and audio data; a keyword acquisition mechanism acquiring the keywords from the texts; an audio retrieval mechanism retrieving utterance of the keywords from the audio data of the contents data and acquiring timing information representing the timing of the utterance of the keywords of which the utterance is retrieved; and a playback control mechanism generating, from image data around the time represented by the timing information, representation image data of a representation image which will be displayed together with the keywords and performing playback control of displaying the representation image corresponding to the representation image data together with the keywords which are uttered at the time represented by the timing information. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20110213773 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, KEYWORD REGISTRATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a reception unit for receiving a predetermined trigger, a keyword estimation unit for estimating a keyword, desired to be registered by a user who transmits the trigger, in a content and metadata corresponding to the content provided in a predetermined period immediately before a time when the trigger is received, and a keyword registration unit for registering the keyword estimated by the keyword estimation unit. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110222788 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a recognition section for recognizing a feature keyword representing a feature of at least part of text content, an additional information acquisition section for acquiring additional information related to the text content from an outside of the text content in response to the recognized feature keyword, and a control section for controlling the additional information acquired by the additional information acquisition section to be output along with the part of the text content. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20120022854 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a selection of displayed content from a user. An obtaining unit is configured to obtain data corresponding to the selection. The data includes text data. An identification unit is configured to identify a keyword within the text data, and a storage unit is configured to generate a command to transmit the keyword to a device. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023398 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a selection of displayed content from a user. An obtaining unit is configured to obtain data corresponding to the selection. The data includes text data. An identification unit is configured to identify a keyword within the text data, and a storage unit is configured to store the keyword in a keyword database. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023399 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit selecting at least a part of a text included in contents, an acquisition unit acquiring a processing result of natural language processing for the part of the text selected by the selection unit, a specifying unit specifying a predetermined part of the text based on the processing result acquired by the acquisition unit, a detection unit detecting a keyword from the predetermined part of the text based on the processing result acquired by the acquisition unit, a tag generation unit automatically generating a tag in accordance with the keyword detected by the detection unit, and an association unit associating the tag generated by the tag generation unit with the predetermined part of the text. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023447 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a selection of displayed content from a user. An obtaining unit is configured to obtain data corresponding to the selection. The data includes text data. An identification unit is configured to identify a keyword within the text data, and a control unit configured to generate a signal to highlight the keyword within the displayed content. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120040688 | Electronic Apparatus, Information Determining Server, Information Determining Method, Program, and Information Determining System - A method is provided for determining a category of a location. The method comprises determining, at a first time, information identifying a first device location of a first device associated with a user; and storing the first device location information and information identifying the first time in a location history. The method further comprises determining, at a second time, information identifying a second device location of the first device; and storing, in the location history, the second device location information and information identifying the second time. The method still further comprises determining, based on the location history, a category of a location. | 02-16-2012 |
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| 20110283087 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A first processing unit is implemented by executing a first application program by using an internal computer in an environment where a first operating system is operating. The first processing unit performs a first process or an external service call in accordance with instruction information describing a process to be executed. A second processing unit is implemented by executing a second application program by using the internal computer or an additional computer connected to the internal computer in an environment where a second operating system is operating. The second processing unit performs a second process when instructed by an external service call to execute the second process. When the instruction information includes information specifying the second process as the process to be executed, a transfer unit updates the information included in the instruction information, and transfers the updated instruction information to the first processing unit. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110283282 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF ACQUIRING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: a first processing section that, in an environment where a first operating system is running, executes a process for a first application program, and performs a generation process for generating identification information for identifying the process for the first application program; and a second processing section that, in an environment where a second operating system is running, executes a process for a second application program, and when the process for the second application program is instructed to be executed, performs an identification information acquisition process for acquiring identification information newly generated through the generation process of the first processing section as identification information for identifying the process for the second application program. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110321046 | PROCESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR - A process information management apparatus includes a first processor, a management unit, a second processor, a generator, and a third processor. The first processor executes a first process based on a first application program in an environment where a first system is operating. The management unit manages information regarding a process executed in an environment where a second system is operating, based on a second application program in the environment. The second processor executes a second process based on the second application program in the environment. The generator generates, when the first process is executed, an execution instruction for a third process corresponding to the first process to regard the first process is executed in the environment, and, when the first process is completed, generates a completion instruction for the third process. Based on the second application program in the environment, the third processor executes and completes the third process. | 12-29-2011 |
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| 20120022717 | TAXI USER EXTRACTION DEVICE, TAXI USER EXTRACTION METHOD, TRANSPORTATION USER EXTRACTION DEVICE, AND TRANSPORTATION USER EXTRACTION METHOD - In a taxi user extraction device, an automobile movement extraction unit creates line data of each user, using point data transmitted from mobile terminals, which is stored in a user location information storage unit, and probe data acquired by a probe information acquisition unit, and extracts first line data indicative of movement by automobile from the data. A taxi movement extraction unit extracts second line data, based on the probe data. A taxi use extraction unit extracts data agreeing with the second line data out of the first line data and stores the extracted data as third line data. A taxi using user extraction unit extracts an identifier of mobile terminal having formed the third line data. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120040649 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION ANALYZING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION ANALYZING METHOD - For easily and quickly collecting data regarding macroscopic population distribution, and easily and quickly obtaining the survey results, an RNC includes: a location registration signal receiver that receives location registration signals, and a signal number counting module that counts the number of the location registration signals for each sector, and an information analyzing apparatus includes: a population distribution calculation module that calculates population distribution information based on the number of the location registration signals; and an output module that outputs the population distribution information. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120058780 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS METHOD - A communications system and a communications method that enable to collect location information without imposing a load on the network. In an RNC of a communications system, when a communication controlling module performs communication connection processing to a mobile station among a plurality of mobile stations, a positioning module measures the location of the mobile station and the communication controlling module transmits location information of the mobile station to an exchange when communication is connected with the mobile station. In the exchange, a communication controlling module receives the location information transmitted from the RNC and a storage module stores the received location information. Then, in response to a request from a management center, the exchange transmits the location information stored in the storage module. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120064914 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION ANALYZING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION ANALYZING METHOD - For easily and quickly collecting data regarding macroscopic population distribution, and easily and quickly obtaining the survey results, an RNC includes: a positioning module that measures a position of a mobile station in response to a given trigger event; an RNC communication controller that transmits location information as information regarding the position of the mobile station that the positioning module measures, identification information as an identifier that makes the mobile station uniquely identifiable; and time information as information regarding a time when the positioning module measures the position of the mobile station, to an information analyzing apparatus, and the information analyzing apparatus includes: a location calculation module that calculates location information regarding a location in which the mobile station is located at a given time based on the location information, the identification information, and the time information; and an output module that calculates distribution information by integrating the calculated location information and outputs the distribution information thus calculated. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120064915 | MOBILE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile station, a communication system, and a communication method that are capable of efficiently collecting location information of any user. A communicating module receives a positioning request including attribute specifying information from a management center, a determining module determines whether measurements of the location are necessary or not based on the attribute specifying information in the received positioning request and the attribute information stored in advance. Then, when the determining module determines that measurements of the location are necessary, a positioning module performs measurements of the location and sends location information thus measured to the management center. Accordingly, it is possible to collect the location information of the mobile station that agrees with an attribute that the management center desires and therefore, it is possible to provide an attentive service and the like based on the location information. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066207 | DATA COMBINATION SYSTEM AND DATA COMBINATION METHOD - A data join system of the present invention includes a table determination unit | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066266 | MESH DATA CREATION METHOD - Provided is a mesh data creation method allowing appropriate expression of population densities while making a balance between accuracy and granularity. In the mesh data creation method, when the number of samples in a region of reference mesh data with a predetermined size is not less than a threshold, divided mesh data is created by dividing the region of the reference mesh data. Namely, each portion with a high population density can be expressed by a fine region of mesh data and each portion with a low population density by a coarse region of mesh data. The above makes it feasible to prevent meshes from becoming too fine to ensure accuracy or, conversely, from becoming too coarse to maintain granularity, thereby resulting in failing to achieve a detailed grasp of population densities, and thus to achieve appropriate expression of population densities while making a balance between accuracy and granularity. | 03-15-2012 |
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| 20100130576 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION - To provide a pharmaceutical composition containing a 2-nitroimidazole derivative, which has high solubility in an aqueous carrier and high stability. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100168200 | ANTIFUNGAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION - Disclosed is an antifungal agent for external use, which is characterized by containing a compound represented by the general formula (1), 50 to 95 mass % of an alcohol such as ethanol, 0.1 to 35 mass % of water or the like, and 0.01 to 5 mass % of a cellulose thickening agent. X is a halogen or H. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100173965 | ANTIFUNGAL COMPOSITION - Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition for antifungal use, comprising: 1) one or more compounds selected from compounds represented by the general formula (1) below and physiologically acceptable salts thereof; 2) one or more compounds selected from polypropylene glycol, diesters of dibasic acids, triacetin, 2-ethyl-1,3-hexanediol, lauromacrogol, and polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene glycol; and 3) one or more compounds selected from glucono-δ-lactone, propylene glycol, glycerin, and lactic acid. General formula (1) (In the formula, X represents a halogen or hydrogen). | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100204293 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION - Disclosed is an antifungal agent for external use, which is characterized by containing a compound represented by the general formula (1) below, 50-95% by mass of an alcohol, and 0.1-35% by mass of water and/or an anionic surfactant. | 08-12-2010 |
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| 20110206429 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus including a color toner image forming unit that forms a color toner image on a recording medium; a first colorless transparent toner image forming unit that forms a first colorless transparent toner image on the color toner image; a first fixing unit that fixes the image on the recording medium; a gloss level increasing device that increases a gloss level of the entire image on the recording medium that has been fixed; a second colorless transparent toner image forming unit that forms a second colorless transparent toner image on the image whose gloss level has been increased; and a second fixing unit that fixes the second colorless transparent toner image on the recording medium. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110223527 | Image forming method, image forming apparatus, varnish applicator, and toner - An image forming method including forming a toner image on a transfer medium with a toner comprising a wax having a polar group, and applying a varnish to the toner image. The wax may be a plant wax having an ester group, a wax having a polar group derived from a fatty acid, an oxidized wax, or a mixture thereof. The varnish may include a surfactant, such as a polyoxyethylene glycol, and may be photocurable. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20120063819 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - After at least one toner image is transferred to a medium to which an image is transferred from at least one of a plurality of image forming stations used, at least one toner image is transferred from at least one of the rest of the image forming stations, and this transfer operation is repeated a plurality of times to transfer toner images to the medium to which an image is transferred. In this manner, the toner images on the medium to which an image is transferred are formed using a desired number of color toner including a transparent toner. In addition, the order in which the transparent toner is transferred from the image forming station that is used for the transparent toner and toner other than the transparent toner is transferred from image forming stations in which the transparent toner is not used can be freely or automatically selected. | 03-15-2012 |
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| 20090257750 | Optical code division multiplex communication method, system, and module - An optical communication system uses superstructured fiber Bragg gratings (SSFBGs) to encode and decode an optical pulse signal transmitted between two optical communication devices. Each SSFBG has uniformly spaced fiber Bragg gratings, producing a chip pulse train with a uniform phase difference between chips. The phase difference defines a code. There is one SSFBG at one of the two devices and two or more SSFBGs at the other device, using different codes to encode or decode the same optical signal. Using one code to encode and multiple codes to decode, or multiple codes to encode and one code to decode, provides a high signal-to-noise ratio and permits stable performance despite environmental temperature variations. For bidirectional communication, each communication device has at least three SSFBGs, divided into a transmitting group and a receiving group, mounted on a mounting plate with a negative thermal expansion coefficient. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090317034 | Optical pulse time spreading device for spreading light pulse over time axis - An optical pulse time spreading device includes an optical fiber and a superstructured fiber Bragg grating (SSFBG) formed in the optical fiber. The SSFBG includes unit fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) having the effective refractive index of the optical fiber periodically varying in the longitudinal direction of the fiber, and phase shifters having a constant effective refractive index. Each unit FBG is arranged between the adjacent phase shifters in the longitudinal direction. The unit FBG having its unit grating length in the longitudinal direction shorter than the unit segment length which is the distance between the unit FBGs next to each other. The optical pulse time spreading device provides the peak intensity of the autocorrelation wave less dependent on a code used for encoding and decoding. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100215370 | OPTICAL CODE DIVISION MULTIPLEX SIGNAL GENERATOR - An optical code division multiplexing signal generator provided with an optical pulse light source, a first encoder to an N | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100221010 | Encoding-decoding method, optical pulse time spreading apparatus, optical add-drop-multiplexer, and optical communication system - An optical pulse time spreading apparatus wherein an optical splitter divides an input optical pulse into first to U-th input optical pulses; first to U-th optical pulse time spreaders respectively have the first to U-th input optical pulses input thereto and output first to U-th chip pulse sequences each consisting of N chip pulses from a first to an N-th chip pulse arranged in order on a time axis into which the input optical pulse is time-spread; and an interval between adjacent ones of unit FBGs arranged in a p-th optical pulse time spreader and a Bragg reflection wavelength of the unit FBGs in the p-th optical pulse time spreader are set such that spectra of the first to U-th chip pulse sequences are different from each other. | 09-02-2010 |
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| 20090217674 | MAGNETIC MATERIAL FOR MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION APPARATUS, AMR BED, AND MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION APPARATUS - There are provided a magnetic material for a magnetic refrigeration apparatus, which improves magnetic refrigeration efficiency by the wide operation temperature range of it, AMR bed using the magnetic material, and a magnetic refrigeration apparatus. The magnetic material is used for the magnetic refrigeration apparatus using a liquid refrigerant, formed by approximately uniformly blending at least two kinds of magnetic particles having different magnetic transition temperatures, and the magnetic particles exhibit an approximately spherical shape with maximum diameter of 0.3 mm or more to 2 mm or less. The AMR bed is filled with the magnetic particles. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090217675 | MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION DEVICE AND MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION SYSTEM - A magnetic refrigeration device, which can be reduced in size and improve magnetic refrigeration efficiency, and a magnetic refrigeration system can be provided. The magnetic refrigeration device has a heat exchanger vessel of a helical structure filled with magnetic particles having a magnetocaloric effect, a magnetic circuit, a driving unit configured to relatively move the heat exchanger vessel and the magnetic circuit so that a magnetic field can be applied to and removed from the magnetic particles, a low temperature side heat exchanging unit, a high temperature side heat exchanging unit, a refrigerant flow device, and a refrigerant circuit formed by connecting the heat exchanger vessel, the low temperature side heat exchanging unit, the high temperature side heat exchanging unit, and the refrigerant flow device by a pipe for circulating a refrigerant. The magnetic refrigeration system is arranged to use the magnetic refrigeration device. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20100058775 | MAGNETICALLY REFRIGERATING MAGNETIC MATERIAL, MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION APPARATUS, AND MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION SYSTEM - There are provided a magnetic material for magnetic refrigeration improving a magnetic refrigeration efficiency by including a wide operation temperature range and a magnetic refrigeration apparatus and a magnetic refrigeration system using the magnetic material. The magnetically refrigerating magnetic material is formed of a magnetic material shown by a composition formula of Gd | 03-11-2010 |
| 20120031108 | MAGNETIC REFRIGERATING DEVICE AND MAGNETIC REFRIGERATING SYSTEM - The magnetic refrigerating device according to one embodiment includes a fixed container filled with a refrigerant, the fixed container including a magnetic material container that is filled with a magnetic material and that can move in the fixed container and an elastic member provided at the end of the magnetic material container. The magnetic refrigerating device also includes a magnetic-field applying/removing mechanism that is provided at the outside of the fixed container, and that can apply and remove a magnetic field to and from the magnetic material and can generate a magnetic torque to the magnetic material container in moving direction of the magnetic material container. | 02-09-2012 |
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| 20090236558 | MAGNETIC POLYMER PARTICLE FOR DEVELOPING MAGNETIC LATENT IMAGE, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, LIQUID DEVELOPER FOR MAGNETIC LATENT IMAGE, CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A magnetic polymer particle develops a magnetic latent image. The magnetic polymer particle includes a magnetic component, a polymer, and a colorant. The magnetic component is a magnetic particle containing iron having a number average particle diameter of from about 0.2 μm to about 1.2 μm. The magnetic particle is contained in one magnetic polymer particle in an amount of from 1 to 10 particles. The number average particle diameter of the magnetic polymer particle is from about 2.0 μm to about 7.0 μm. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090239174 | FLUORESCENT MAGNETIC POWDER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, MAGNETIC INK COMPOSITION, MAGNETIC POLYMER PARTICLE, LIQUID DEVELOPER FOR MAGNETIC LATENT IMAGE, CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Fluorescent magnetic powder in which a fluorescent dye is attached to the particles of magnetic powder is provided. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100227982 | INK RECEIVING PARTICLES, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND CURABLE RESIN DISPERSION COMPOSITION - Ink receiving particles is provided. The ink receiving particles includes polymer particles, the polymer particles including a resin including an acidic group and a polyoxyethylene chain, the acidic group at least partially having a salt structure. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100248111 | PARTICLE DISPERSION LIQUID, PARTICLES, PARTICLE DISPERSION LIQUID CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides a particle dispersion liquid including (meth)acrylic resin-containing hydrophobic particles, an acetylene glycol surfactant adsorbed to the hydrophobic particles, and water; the particle size, in a state of being swollen due to absorbing water until saturation, of the hydrophobic particles to which the acetylene glycol surfactant has been adsorbed being 1.1 to 2 times as large as the particle size of the hydrophobic particles in a dried state. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100248127 | LIQUID DEVELOPER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIQUID DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A liquid developer includes: magnetic polymer particles including a magnetic material containing yttrium iron garnet (YIG), a polymer compound having a carboxylate salt structure, and a colorant; and a dispersion medium in which the magnetic polymer particles are dispersed. | 09-30-2010 |
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| 20090116899 | Connector For Fuel Tank - A connector includes an outer melt-bonding projection | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100089466 | VALVE DEVICE FOR FUEL TANK - A valve body and a float body are combined by respectively coupling two or more coupling parts provided on one of the valve body and the float body to coupled parts provided on the other of the valve body and the flat body in a state allowing upward and downward movements of the valve body. During descent of the float body, one coupling part of the two or more coupling parts is caught on the coupled parts ahead of the other coupling parts whereby the valve body is tilted, and the other coupling parts restrict the tilting of the valve body. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100108155 | FUEL TANK VALVE DEVICE - A valve body and a float body are coupled so that the valve body is allowed to move in a direction along a central axis of movement of the float body, and the seated valve body is unseated when the float body descends. On a central axis side of the movement of the float body, a pair of guide members is provided, and when the valve body tilts, the valve body and the float body contact each other on a lower side of a tilt of the valve body and the float body ascends, so that the guide members correct the tilt. Also, when the float body ascends, the float body and the valve body do not contact each other in a rest of a portion. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100224265 | VALVE DEVICE - A valve device is used by being attached to a fuel tank. The valve device includes a main body portion provided with ventilation openings which become an inner end of a connecting passage with the outside of the fuel tank, a valve body opening and closing the ventilation openings using a liquid surface of a fuel, and a skirt portion extending down from the main body portion so as to surround the valve body, and also constructed so as to admit fuel due to a pressure difference between inside and outside of the fuel tank when the liquid surface of the fuel reaches a cuff portion of the skirt portion. | 09-09-2010 |
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| 20100116331 | PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME - A photovoltaic device and a process for producing the device that enables a higher level of performance to be achieved at low cost. The photovoltaic device includes at least two laminated photovoltaic layers, and an intermediate layer that is disposed between the two photovoltaic layers and connects the two photovoltaic layers electrically and optically, wherein the surface of the intermediate layer has a plasma-resistant protective layer. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100229935 | PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - The short-circuit current of a photovoltaic device is improved by optimizing the transparent conductive layer. A photovoltaic device comprising a first transparent electrode layer, an electric power generation layer, a second transparent electrode layer and a back electrode layer on a substrate, wherein the film thickness of the second transparent electrode layer is not less than 80 nm and not more than 100 nm, and the light absorptance for the second transparent electrode layer in a wavelength region from not less than 600 nm to not more than 1,000 nm is not more than 1.5%. Also, a photovoltaic device wherein the film thickness of the second transparent electrode layer is not less than 80 nm and not more than 100 nm, and the reflectance for light reflected at the second transparent electrode layer and the back electrode layer is not less than 91% in the wavelength region from not less than 600 nm to not more than 1,000 nm. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100269897 | PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME - A photovoltaic device that exhibits improved light absorption properties for the electric power generation layer and a process for producing such a photovoltaic device are provided by optimizing the surface shape of the back surface structure. A photovoltaic device | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100330374 | PRESSURE MEMBER, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A pressure member is used for fixing in electrophotography and includes at least a substrate, an elastic layer provided on the substrate, and a surface layer includes carbon and a fluororesin having a structure represented by Formula (1): | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110019190 | RESISTIVITY TESTING METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR - An object is to efficiently measure the resistivity of a transparent conductive film with high accuracy in a non-destructive and non-contact manner. Provided is a resistivity testing device that includes a light emitting device that emits p-polarized emission light having a wavelength selected by a preliminarily performed test-condition selecting method toward a transparent conductive film, formed on a light-transmissive substrate conveyed along a manufacturing line, from a film-surface side at an incidence angle selected by the method; a light detecting device that detects reflected light reflected at the transparent conductive film; and an information processor that calculates an evaluation value related to the amount of light of the reflected light with respect to the wavelength on the basis of the intensity of the detected light and obtains a resistivity from the calculated evaluation value by using a correlation characteristic in which the evaluation value and the resistivity are associated with each other in advance. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110126903 | PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - A photovoltaic device in which, by optimizing the structures for a substrate-side transparent electrode layer, an intermediate layer, and a back electrode layer, the extracted electrical current can be increased. The photovoltaic device includes at least a transparent electrode layer, a photovoltaic layer and a back electrode layer provided on a substrate, wherein the surface of the transparent electrode layer on which the photovoltaic layer is disposed includes a textured structure composed of ridges and a fine micro-texture provided on the surface of the ridges, the pitch of the textured structure is not less than 1.2 μm and not more than 1.6 μm, the height of the ridges is not less than 0.2 μm and not more than 0.8 μm, the pitch between peaks in the fine micro-texture is not less than 0.05 μm and not more than 0.14 μm, and the height of peaks is not less than 0.02 μm and not more than 0.1 μm. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110205556 | THIN-FILM INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - A thin-film inspection apparatus includes a storage section ( | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110311285 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes: a fixing member that fixes a developer image on a recording medium while rotating; an external heating member that heats the fixing member, the external heating member being driven-rotated by rotation of the fixing member while contacting with an outer peripheral face of the fixing member; an oil supply member that supplies oil to a surface of the external heating member; a switching unit that switches between contact and non-contact of the external heating member to the outer peripheral face of the fixing member, the switching unit causing the external heating member to contact with the outer peripheral face of the fixing member after a fixing operation by the fixing member is started; and a rotation mechanism that rotates the fixing member and rotates the external heating member in a state where the external heating member is separated from the fixing member by the switching unit. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110318037 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a fixing device including: a heating member that, while rotating, heats and fixes a developer image onto a recording medium; a pressing member that nips and presses the recording medium between itself and the heating member; an external heating member configured to make contact with an outer surface of the heating member and to move away from the outer surface of the heating member, the external heating member making contact with the outer surface of the heating member and heating the heating member; and a moving section that computes a contact position of a leading edge of the recording medium and the outer surface of the heating member, and moves the external heating member such that the external heating member contacts the outer surface of the heating member based on the computed position. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120012168 | PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - A film thickness configuration for a triple-junction photovoltaic device that is suitable for obtaining high conversion efficiency. The photovoltaic device comprises, on top of a substrate, a transparent electrode layer, a photovoltaic layer containing three stacked cell layers having pin junctions, and a back electrode layer, wherein an incident section cell layer provided on the light-incident side has an amorphous silicon i-layer having a thickness of not less than 100 nm and not more than 200 nm, a bottom section cell layer provided on the opposite side from the light-incident side has a crystalline silicon-germanium i-layer having a thickness of not less than 700 nm and not more than 1,600 nm, and the ratio of germanium atoms relative to the sum of germanium atoms and silicon atoms within the crystalline silicon-germanium i-layer is not less than 15 atomic % and not more than 25 atomic %, and a middle section cell layer provided between the incident section cell layer and the bottom section cell layer has a crystalline silicon i-layer having a thickness of not less than 1,000 nm and not more than 2,000 nm. | 01-19-2012 |
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| 20080241134 | USES OF HUMAN MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES AGAINST OXIDIZED LDL RECEPTOR - Various human monoclonal antibodies that bind to human LOX-1 and inhibit the binding of in-vivo LOX-1 ligands to LOX-1, and the LOX-1-mediated incorporation of the ligands into cells, were obtained by immunizing human antibody-producing transgenic mice (created by genetic engineering) with soluble human oxidized LDL receptor (LOX-1). Furthermore, the human monoclonal antibodies were found to be effective in preventing and treating a variety of diseases | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090040445 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - There is provided a high quality liquid crystal panel having a thickness with high accuracy, which is designed, without using a particulate spacer, within a free range in accordance with characteristics of a used liquid crystal and a driving method, and is also provided a method of fabricating the same. The shape of a spacer for keeping a substrate interval constant is made such that it is a columnar shape, a radius R of curvature is 2 μm or less, a height H is 0.5 μm to 10 μm, a diameter is 20 μm or less, and an angle α is 65° to 115°. By doing so, it is possible to prevent the lowering of an opening rate and the lowering of light leakage due to orientation disturbance. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090322698 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - There is provided a high quality liquid crystal panel having a thickness with high accuracy, which is designed, without using a particulate spacer, within a free range in accordance with characteristics of a used liquid crystal and a driving method, and is also provided a method of fabricating the same. The shape of a spacer for keeping a substrate interval constant is made such that it is a columnar shape, a radius R of curvature is 2 μm or less, a height H is 0.5 μm to 10 μm, a diameter is 20 μm or less, and an angle α is 65° to 115°. By doing so, it is possible to prevent the lowering of an opening rate and the lowering of light leakage due to orientation disturbance. | 12-31-2009 |