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20120006811 | INDUCTION HEATING COOKER - An object of the present invention is to provide an induction heating cooker with improved assemblability, and with which a reduction in the temperature sensing precision of an infrared sensor can be suppressed and a reduction in the thickness of the induction heating cooker can be achieved. To this end, the induction heating cooker of the present invention includes a duct | 01-12-2012 |
20120097664 | INDUCTION HEATING DEVICE - Plural induction heating coils for inductively heating to-be-heated object are provided under a top plate on which to-be-heated object is placed, and plural inverter circuits for supplying high-frequency currents to the plural induction heating coils, respectively, are adapted to be cooled by cooling air flows from cooling portions, and placed in a longitudinal row along the cooling air flows, in air-flow blowing path spaces through which cooling air flows from the cooling portions are blown, so as to facilitate cooling designing for an induction heating device and to improve the cooling performance of the induction heating device. | 04-26-2012 |
20120118281 | HEATING COOKER - A heating cooker of the present invention includes a plurality of light emitting indicator units | 05-17-2012 |
20120118714 | OPERATION DEVICE AND HEATING COOKER USING OPERATION DEVICE - The present invention provides an operation device which has a stable operation feeling with a simple configuration and has a high reliability and an excellent operability. An electrode terminal portion which is arranged just below an operation region on a top plate made of a material having an electric insulating property, and serves as an electrostatic capacity type touch switch has a detection portion which comes into close contact with a back surface of the operation region, a spring portion which has an elastic force pressing the detection portion to the back surface of the top plate, and a slide portion which is movably retained in the guide holder. | 05-17-2012 |
20120118870 | HEATING COOKER - A heating cooker of the present invention is structured such that, an indicator sheet | 05-17-2012 |
20120152933 | INDUCTION COOKING APPLIANCE - To reduce the air exhausted to outside a main body after cooling a heat generating component from being taken in again from an intake port. The flow of cooling wind cooled the heat generating component is discharged from an exhaust port | 06-21-2012 |
20120223070 | INDUCTIVE HEATING DEVICE - An inductive heating device is structured such that a coil base ( | 09-06-2012 |
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20130001209 | WELDING CONDITION DETERMINING METHOD, AND WELDING DEVICE - A method to determine welding conditions includes relational expressions or tables about various parameters for setting welding conditions. The method can determine and display the recommended values for the welding conditions which are suitable for the information about the object to be welded and the information about the welding method set by the operator. The welding conditions include a welding current, a welding voltage, a wire feed speed, a welding speed, and a leg length. Furthermore, if the operator changes the recommended value for a welding condition to a new value, the method can determine new recommended values for the other welding conditions compatible with the new value and display the new recommended values. | 01-03-2013 |
20130068744 | ARC WELDING CONTROL METHOD AND ARC WELDING APPARATUS - In an arc welding control method of repeating a short circuit and an arc to perform welding, control is carried out to conduct a welding current having a first polarity for a short circuit period, and a first commutation to commutate the welding current from the first polarity to be a polarity of the welding current for the short circuit period to a second polarity to be opposite to the first polarity is carried out for an arc period subsequent to the short circuit period. Furthermore, control is performed to carry out a second commutation to commutate the welding current from the second polarity to the first polarity for the arc period in which the first commutation is executed. Consequently, it is possible to reduce an energy input amount to a base metal, thereby suppressing burn-through in welding of a thin plate. | 03-21-2013 |
20150096965 | ARC WELDING CONTROL METHOD - As a conventional problem, welding on surface-treated material, such as a zinc-coated steel plate, considerably generates air holes including blowholes and also generates lots of spatters. Present invention provides a method of controlling arc welding performed in a manner that a short-circuit period, in which a short circuit is generated between a welding wire and an object to be welded, and an arc period, in which an arc is generated after release of the short circuit, are repeated alternately. According to the method, welding current is increased from an arc-regeneration-before current to a first welding current at a detection of release of the short circuit such that an increase gradient of the welding current becomes not less than 750 A/msec. This suppresses generation of air holes and spatters in welding work on a surface-treated material, such as a zinc-coated steel plate. | 04-09-2015 |
20150096966 | ARC WELDER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ARC WELDING - An arc welder alternately repeats a short circuit period in which a wire and a welding object are short-circuited and an arc period in which an arc occurs between the wire and the welding object. The arc welder includes a welding output section, a joint type setting section, a storage section, and a waveform parameter determining section. The welding output section performs welding output, and the joint type setting section sets a joint type. The storage section stores a plurality of combinations of joint types and waveform parameters. The waveform parameter determining section determines a waveform parameter based on the joint type set by the joint type setting section and the plurality of combinations. The welding output section performs welding output based on the waveform parameter determined by the waveform parameter determining section. Thus, vaporized zinc is easily released and sufficient welding is performed. | 04-09-2015 |
20150209888 | WELDING DEVICE - A method to determine welding conditions includes relational expressions or tables about various parameters for setting welding conditions. The method can determine and display the recommended values for the welding conditions which are suitable for the information about the object to be welded and the information about the welding method set by the operator. The welding conditions include a welding current, a welding voltage, a wire feed speed, a welding speed, and a leg length. Furthermore, if the operator changes the recommended value for a welding condition to a new value, the method can determine new recommended values for the other welding conditions compatible with the new value and display the new recommended values. | 07-30-2015 |
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20100290132 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel of the present invention includes a fixing frame | 11-18-2010 |
20100296176 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel of the present invention includes: a fixing frame having a plurality of cam grooves that are formed an inner circumferential surface of the fixing frame and also having a protrusion provided between any adjacent two of the cam grooves among a plurality of the cam grooves; and a drive frame having cam followers that are provided to an outer circumferential surface of drive frame, are engaged with the cam grooves, and are movable along the cam grooves. With this configuration, when an external force is applied to the drive frame, an end portion of the drive frame comes into contact with the protrusion to prevent the cam followers from coming out of the cam grooves. | 11-25-2010 |
20120307380 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel includes a fixing frame provided with cam grooves formed in an inner circumferential surface of the fixing frame, and a drive frame provided with cam followers formed on an outer circumferential surface of the drive frame and a plurality of engaging teeth to the outer circumferential surface of the drive frame, located on substantially the same circumference as the cam followers. With the drive frame incorporated in the fixing frame, the cam followers are fitted in the cam grooves, drive force is transmitted via the engaging teeth, and the drive frame can move relative to the fixing frame in the optical axis direction of a lens as the cam followers move along the cam grooves. In this lens barrel, cam followers are less likely to come out of the cam grooves. | 12-06-2012 |
20130342917 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel of the present invention includes: a fixing frame having a plurality of cam grooves that are formed an inner circumferential surface of the fixing frame and also having a protrusion provided between any adjacent two of the cam grooves among a plurality of the cam grooves; and a drive frame having cam followers that are provided to an outer circumferential surface of drive frame, are engaged with the cam grooves, and are movable along the cam grooves. With this configuration, when an external force is applied to the drive frame, an end portion of the drive frame comes into contact with the protrusion to prevent the cam followers from coming out of the cam grooves. | 12-26-2013 |
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20090078645 | Plant Capable of Accumulating Inorganic Phosphate at High Level and Use of the Plant - The present invention provides: a plant body with high phosphate accumulation, which is transformed to express a gene encoding a transcription factor of a gene involved in phosphate starvation reaction; a method for producing the same; a recombinant expression vector for use in the production; and a method for utilizing the same. | 03-26-2009 |
20100258499 | PLANT CAPABLE OF ACCUMULATING INORGANIC PHOSPHATE AT HIGH LEVEL AND USE OF THE PLANT - The present invention provides: a plant body with high phosphate accumulation, which is transformed to express a gene encoding a transcription factor of a gene involved in phosphate starvation reaction; a method for producing the same; a recombinant expression vector for use in the production; and a method for utilizing the same. | 10-14-2010 |
20140033369 | NOVEL GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE GENE AND USE THEREOF - Provided is a polynucleotide encoding a protein having an activity to transfer a sugar to the hydroxy groups at the 4′- and 7-positions of a flavone. The polynucleotide is selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polynucleotide which comprises a base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, or 12; (b) a polynucleotide which hybridizes to a polynucleotide comprising a base sequence complementary to a base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, or 12 under high stringency conditions, and encodes a protein having an activity to transfer a sugar to the hydroxy groups at the 4′- and 7-positions of a flavone; (c) a polynucleotide which encodes a protein comprising an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, or 13; (d) a polynucleotide which encodes a protein comprising an amino acid sequence in which one or more amino acids have been deleted, substituted, inserted, and/or added in an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, or 13 and having an activity to transfer a sugar to the hydroxy groups at the 4′- and 7-positions of a flavone; etc. | 01-30-2014 |
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20080292287 | HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL DISK FOR RECORDING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO, OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING DEVICE - An optical disk for recording stereoscopic videos and high-quality video signals and a system for reproducing the videos and signals from the optical disk are made compatible with the conventional video reproducing system. A reproducing device which is used for reproducing stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains stereoscopic video or high-quality videos by reproducing both first and second interleaved blocks on the optical disk in which first and second video signals are alternately recorded on the left and right sides by dividing the first and second video signals into frame groups of one GOP or more and a reproducing device which is not used for reproducing the stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains ordinary videos by only reproducing either the first or second interleaved block by jumping tracks. | 11-27-2008 |
20100020158 | HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL DISK FOR RECORDING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO, OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING DEVICE - An optical disk for recording stereoscopic videos and high-quality video signals and a system for reproducing the videos and signals from the optical disk are made compatible with the conventional video reproducing system. A reproducing device which is used for reproducing stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains stereoscopic video or high-quality videos by reproducing both first and second interleaved blocks on the optical disk in which first and second video signals are alternately recorded on the left and right sides by dividing the first and second video signals into frame groups of one GOP or more and a reproducing device which is not used for reproducing the stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains ordinary videos by only reproducing either the first or second interleaved block by jumping tracks. | 01-28-2010 |
20110080468 | HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL DISK FOR RECORDING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO, OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING DEVICE - An optical disk for recording stereoscopic videos and high-quality video signals and a system for reproducing the videos and signals from the optical disk are made compatible with the conventional video reproducing system. A reproducing device which is used for reproducing stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains stereoscopic video or high-quality videos by reproducing both first and second interleaved blocks on the optical disk in which first and second video signals are alternately recorded on the left and right sides by dividing the first and second video signals into frame groups of one GOP or more and a reproducing device which is not used for reproducing the stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains ordinary videos by only reproducing either the first or second interleaved block by jumping tracks. | 04-07-2011 |
20110181695 | HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL DISK FOR RECORDING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO, OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING DEVICE - An optical disk for recording stereoscopic videos and high-quality video signals and a system for reproducing the videos and signals from the optical disk are made compatible with the conventional video reproducing system. A reproducing device which is used for reproducing stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains stereoscopic video or high-quality videos by reproducing both first and second interleaved blocks on the optical disk in which first and second video signals are alternately recorded on the left and right sides by dividing the first and second video signals into frame groups of one GOP or more and a reproducing device which is not used for reproducing the stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains ordinary videos by only reproducing either the first or second interleaved block by jumping tracks. | 07-28-2011 |
20110181696 | HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL DISK FOR RECORDING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO, OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING DEVICE - An optical disk for recording stereoscopic videos and high-quality video signals and a system for reproducing the videos and signals from the optical disk are made compatible with the conventional video reproducing system. A reproducing device which is used for reproducing stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains stereoscopic video or high-quality videos by reproducing both first and second interleaved blocks on the optical disk in which first and second video signals are alternately recorded on the left and right sides by dividing the first and second video signals into frame groups of one GOP or more and a reproducing device which is not used for reproducing the stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains ordinary videos by only reproducing either the first or second interleaved block by jumping tracks. | 07-28-2011 |
20110234751 | HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL DISK FOR RECORDING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO, OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING DEVICE - An optical disk for recording stereoscopic videos and high-quality video signals and a system for reproducing the videos and signals from the optical disk are made compatible with the conventional video reproducing system. A reproducing device which is used for reproducing stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains stereoscopic video or high-quality videos by reproducing both first and second interleaved blocks on the optical disk in which first and second video signals are alternately recorded on the left and right sides by dividing the first and second video signals into frame groups of one GOP or more and a reproducing device which is not used for reproducing the stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains ordinary videos by only reproducing either the first or second interleaved block by jumping tracks. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234752 | HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL DISK FOR RECORDING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO, OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING DEVICE - An optical disk for recording stereoscopic videos and high-quality video signals and a system for reproducing the videos and signals from the optical disk are made compatible with the conventional video reproducing system. A reproducing device which is used for reproducing stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains stereoscopic video or high-quality videos by reproducing both first and second interleaved blocks on the optical disk in which first and second video signals are alternately recorded on the left and right sides by dividing the first and second video signals into frame groups of one GOP or more and a reproducing device which is not used for reproducing the stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains ordinary videos by only reproducing either the first or second interleaved block by jumping tracks. | 09-29-2011 |
20110236001 | HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL DISK FOR RECORDING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO, OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING DEVICE - An optical disk for recording stereoscopic videos and high-quality video signals and a system for reproducing the videos and signals from the optical disk are made compatible with the conventional video reproducing system. A reproducing device which is used for reproducing stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains stereoscopic video or high-quality videos by reproducing both first and second interleaved blocks on the optical disk in which first and second video signals are alternately recorded on the left and right sides by dividing the first and second video signals into frame groups of one GOP or more and a reproducing device which is not used for reproducing the stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains ordinary videos by only reproducing either the first or second interleaved block by jumping tracks. | 09-29-2011 |
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20080311869 | Broadcast Information Receiving Terminal - A broadcast information receiving terminal which notifies a user, when a broadcast program is unreceivable, of such unreceivability, and also notifies the user, when a reception of the broadcast program has been recovered, of such recovery of the reception is provided. | 12-18-2008 |
20090103892 | Stream Data Recording Device, Stream Data Recording/Reproducing Device, Stream Data Reproduction Device, Stream Data Editing Device, Stream Recording Method, and Stream Reproducing Method - A stream data recording device is provided for recording stream data on a recording medium. The stream data recording device includes a stream reception/analysis unit ( | 04-23-2009 |
20090207305 | Caption Display Device - A caption display device is provided in which display settings, such as arrangement of caption/text and the like, can be changed with a consistent operation system independent of the type of a terminal, and caption/text can be viewed even during displaying of a menu or a dialogue. In the caption display device, by causing a document data converting section ( | 08-20-2009 |
20110081132 | VIDEO PROCESSOR, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR VIDEO PROCESSING, VIDEO PLAYBACK DEVICE - A video processing apparatus acquires audio-visual environment information that indicates an audio-visual environment of a viewer that views video. The audio-visual environment information includes information of a display size of the video that is being viewed, information of brightness around a display apparatus that displays the video, and information of a distance between the viewer and the display apparatus. The video processing apparatus corrects, depending on information indicated by the audio-visual environment information, a basic reduction amount to reduce a quantity of motion of the video that is being played back, and processes the video with use of a corrected reduction amount. In the case where the display size is large, in the case where it is dark around, or in the case where the distance from the viewer to the display apparatus is short, the reduction amount to reduce a motion is set to be large. | 04-07-2011 |
20120069159 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a stereoscopic image display device that improves visibility of a stereoscopic pointer image when the pointer position moves between objects in the stereoscopic image that have greatly different display depths. The display device changes the display depth of the stereoscopic pointer image in accordance with the display depth of an object in the stereoscopic image. When the pointer position moves between objects that have greatly different display depths from time t | 03-22-2012 |
20120139900 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE EDITING METHOD - A stereoscopic image editing apparatus and method, in which a stereoscopic image having a stereoscopic effect desired by the user can be obtained, are provided. The stereoscopic image editing apparatus includes a storage section for storing the stereoscopic image, a compression/decompression section for converting the stereoscopic image to a format displayable on a display, an operation section for allowing the user to specify a crop-edit region and set the fiducial disparity, which is the disparity of the frame of the crop-edit region, with respect to a left-eye and a right-eye images of the stereoscopic image, and a cropping and editing section for cropping and editing the left-eye and the right-eye images of the stereoscopic image, based on the crop-edit region, and a crop-edit region correcting section for correcting the crop-edit region, based on the fiducial disparity with respect to the cropped and edited left-eye and right-eye images. | 06-07-2012 |
20120154443 | RECEPTION DISPLAY APPARATUS, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEPTION DISPLAY INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, RECEPTION DISPLAY PROGRAM, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, AND OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A reception display apparatus and the like which display display information regarding an information transmission apparatus blocked by an obstacle, on an image representing a taken video image, such that the display information corresponds to the position of the information transmission apparatus, are provided. A reception section time-sequentially takes an image and receives, from an apparatus ( | 06-21-2012 |
20120299862 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device, while in a first input mode for receiving a touchless operation as an input, receives a touchless operation as an input, and starts processing that corresponds to the received touchless operation. If the information processing device detects a switch operation, which is made with a touch on the information processing device for switching from the first input mode to a second input mode that is a mode for receiving a touch operation as an input, within a predetermined time period after the reception of the touchless operation, the information processing device sets an output status obtained as a result of the started processing to an output status which has been obtained before the start of the processing. | 11-29-2012 |
20130069988 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF SWITCHING DISPLAY DIRECTION - A portable display device comprises: a tilt detection unit detecting an angle of rotation, measured between a vertical plane component of a tilt vector of a predetermined reference line in the display and a gravitational vector, as a display tilt; a facial orientation specification unit recognizing a face of a person facing the display and specifying an upright orientation of the face; a terminal orientation determination unit establishing a plurality of angle ranges, and determining whether the display tilt newly detected by the tilt detection unit exceeds a given angle range and enters another angle range, the given angle range including the angle detected by the tilt detection unit upon updating a previous display orientation; and a control unit causing the facial orientation specification unit to begin the specification when the terminal orientation determination unit makes an affirmative determination, and updating the display orientation according to the specified upright orientation. | 03-21-2013 |
20130330059 | CONTENT PLAYBACK DEVICE AND CONTENT PLAYBACK METHOD - A content playback device includes: a video playback unit which plays content having plural scenes; an object appearance information acquisition unit which acquires, for each of the plural scenes, object appearance information of each of one or more objects which appear in the content by analyzing metadata which includes appearance scene data for identifying the one or more objects appearing in at least one of the scenes, the object appearance information indicating whether the object appears at least in or after the scene; and a display unit which presents the object appearance information acquired for a scene being played, when the video playback unit is playing the content. | 12-12-2013 |
20140074830 | DEVICE FOR PRESENTING RECIPE AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING RECIPE - A recipe presentation device includes: a recipe storage unit storing recipes each including preparation elements of ingredients, intermediate ingredients, and a dish to be served; a receiving unit which receives a dish specified by a user; a search unit which searches the recipe storage unit for a first recipe which is a recipe for the dish; a similarity calculation unit which calculates similarities between the individual recipes for the dishes stored in the recipe storage unit and the first recipe; a selection unit which selects, according to the similarities, a second recipe which is a recipe similar to the first recipe among the recipes for the dishes; and a presentation unit which presents a dish corresponding to the selected second recipe. | 03-13-2014 |
20140089299 | RECIPE PRESENTATION SYSTEM AND RECIPE PRESENTATION METHOD - A recipe presentation system which presents an integrated recipe for a plurality of dishes includes: a recipe storage unit storing recipes for dishes including preparation elements arranged in a hierarchy according to closeness to completion of preparation of the respective dishes; a recipe selection unit which allows a user to select a first recipe and a second recipe from among the recipes; an overlapping preparation element identification unit which identifies common preparation elements between the first recipe and the second recipe; a recipe integration unit which generates the integrated recipe by arranging, in order of preparation, the preparation elements included in the first recipe and the preparation elements included in the second recipe, in a manner such that the user recognizes, as a single preparation element, the common preparation elements; and a recipe output unit which outputs the integrated recipe. | 03-27-2014 |
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20100117602 | SECONDARY BATTERY PROTECTION CIRCUIT - A secondary battery protection circuit has: a first switch that permits or inhibits charging of a secondary battery by switching a charge conductor between a conducting and a non-conducting state; a voltage detection portion that monitors the voltage of the secondary battery to output an error signal when the voltage is an overvoltage; and a first current path that has one end connected to the positive-side conductor and the other end connected to the negative-side conductor, and through which a current corresponding to the supplied electric power passes. The first current path, other than during charging of the secondary battery, is kept in a non-conducting state and, when the error signal is outputted while the first current path is in a conducting state, is irreversibly brought into a non-conducting state by a current of a predetermined amount or more passing therethrough. The first switch, when the first current path is in a conducting state, permits charging and, when the first current path is in a non-conducting state, inhibits charging. Thus, other than during charging, electric power consumption associated with overcharge protection is reduced, and once an overcharged state occurs, charging never again takes place. | 05-13-2010 |
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20100328735 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes a timing predicting unit that predicts a reading-start-timing by detecting a front-end and predicts a reading-end-timing by detecting a back-end, an image reading unit that generates density data, a line density data classification unit, a first, second and third specific density data storage units, a determination unit that determines whether or not a foreign substance is attached to a reading position, and a peak density position specifying unit. | 12-30-2010 |
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20150281502 | IMAGE READER AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image reader includes a platen, a carriage, a light shielding unit, a positioning mark, an ambient light detecting unit, and a control unit. The positioning mark is arranged in an area in which the light shielding unit is disposed or in an area adjacent in a main scanning direction to the area in which the light shielding unit is disposed, at a position falling within the range that can be read by the carriage. When the ambient light detecting unit detects the presence of ambient light, the control unit causes the carriage to move with the exposure lamp turned off to detect a position of the positioning mark. When the ambient light detecting unit detects the absence of ambient light, the control unit causes the carriage to move with the exposure lamp turned on to detect the position of the positioning mark. | 10-01-2015 |
20150281516 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading device, at a starting time point, starts one mode gain setting processing, which is processing of obtaining a gain set value of a shared amplifier in one of a color mode and a monochrome mode. After the one mode gain setting processing is completed, the image reading device performs an other mode gain setting processing, which is processing of obtaining a gain set value of the shared amplifier in the other mode. In a case where an instruction to perform a reading job in the one mode is received while the other mode gain setting processing is being performed, the image reading device discontinues the other mode gain setting processing and performs the reading job in the one mode. | 10-01-2015 |
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20110170614 | VIDEO/AUDIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND VIDEO/AUDIO RECEPTION DEVICE - A video/audio encoding unit encodes an inputted video/audio signal in a format compliant with a predetermined technical standard. A differential signal output unit outputs the encoded data in the form of a differential signal defined by the predetermined technical standard. The differential signal output unit appends the data encoded by the video/audio encoding unit to a data transmission unallocated region of a communication line defined by the predetermined technical standard and then transmits the resulting data. Because the data transmission unallocated region, which is not directly used in normal data transmission, is thus effectively utilized in data transmission, a larger volume of information can be transmitted and received. | 07-14-2011 |
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20090019407 | CLOCK SUPPLY CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF DESIGNING THE SAME - A clock supply circuit according to the present invention has a clock tree structure, supplies a clock signal to operating elements, includes driving elements arranged in levels in the clock tree structure and includes connection lines which connect output terminals of the driving elements either to input terminals of driving elements arranged in levels immediately succeeding the levels of the respective driving elements with which the respective connection lines start or to input terminals of the operating elements with which last ones of the connection lines end, and in the clock supply circuit, the connection lines include first lines formed in a standard wiring layer and at least one second line formed above a circuit block which uses the standard wiring layer, and at least one second line formed above the circuit block is in a predetermined wiring layer higher than the standard wiring layer. | 01-15-2009 |
20110159382 | NONAQUEOUS SOLVENT, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION AND NONAQUEOUS SECONDARY BATTERY USING THE SAME - The nonaqueous solvent of the present invention for a nonaqueous secondary battery primarily contains a mixed solvent of a fluorinated cyclic carbonate having a structure in which one fluorine atom is bonded to each of two alkoxy group carbon atoms adjacent to carbonate oxygen atoms and a fluorinated acyclic carbonate having a similar structure. The fluorinated cyclic carbonate, in comparison with the unsubstituted cyclic carbonate, has not only an enhanced thermal stability but also a suppressed reactivity with the positive electrode in a charged state even at elevated temperatures. In addition, it forms a protective film which, with respect to a negative electrode in a charged state, suppresses reactivity between the negative electrode and the nonaqueous electrolyte solution. The fluorinated acyclic carbonate suppresses the reactivity with the positive electrode in a charged state and also lowers the viscosity of the nonaqueous electrolyte solution. | 06-30-2011 |
20110236765 | NONAQUEOUS SOLVENT, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION AND NONAQUEOUS SECONDARY BATTERY THAT USE NONAQUEOUS SOLVENT - The nonaqueous solvent for a nonaqueous secondary battery of the present invention includes: a fluorinated cyclic carbonate having at least one fluorine in each designated location in the molecule; and a fluorinated phosphazene having at least one fluorine bound to a phosphorus atom in the phosphazene molecule and a ratio of the number of fluorine atoms to the number of phosphorus atoms being 4/3 or more. The fluorinated cyclic carbonate forms a good protective coat by reductive decomposition at a negative electrode, thereby improving cycle characteristics of the nonaqueous secondary battery. The fluorinated phosphazene suppresses generation of organic ions in the nonaqueous solvent, thereby reducing gas production in the nonaqueous secondary battery. | 09-29-2011 |
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20150325883 | ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE - The present application provides an electrochemical energy storage device with a desirable reaction reversibility by using a metal halide as an electrode active material. The electrochemical energy storage device disclosed herein includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte in contact with the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein: at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode contains a metal halide as an electrode active material; and the non-aqueous electrolyte contains, as a solvent, an ionic liquid of which a component is a cation having an alkoxyalkyl group. | 11-12-2015 |