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20090090428 | REINFORCING BAR BINDING MACHINE - A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a device for detecting a power supply voltage during a binding wire twisting step subjected to the heaviest load and comparing the power supply voltage with a predetermined CPU operation voltage, and a control device for driving a motor in a reverse direction when the voltage has dropped below the predetermined CPU operation voltage. The power supply voltage during operation is monitored, and twisting operation is suspended before the voltage drops below the CPU operation voltage, whereby the binding wire twisting mechanism is returned to the initial position. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the binding wire twisting mechanism from being stopped while grasping the binding wire, when the CPU stops. | 04-09-2009 |
20090126824 | REINFORCEMENT BINDING MACHINE, REEL, AND METHOD OF DETECTING ROTATION OF REEL - A reinforcement binding machine capable of detecting, by the rotation of a reel, that wire on the reel is consumed and the reel, the reinforcement binding machine wherein an interrupter is installed in the cassette case of a binding machine body, a cover is rotatably held on a reel mounting shaft, an opening part is formed in the cover, a projection is formed on the reel and fitted into the opening part, and a color with a lightness different from that of the cover is applied to the projection to detect the rotation of the reel by the interrupter. | 05-21-2009 |
20130285482 | ROTOR OF ELECTRIC MOTOR, MOLD MOTOR, AIR CONDITIONER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE MOLD MOTOR - A rotor resin assembly of a rotor of an electric motor includes a rotor magnet including a substantially cylindrical yoke molded from thermoplastic resin containing a soft magnetic material or ferrite and a resin magnet integrally formed in the outer circumference of the yoke, a position detection magnet arranged at one end in the axial direction of the rotor magnet, and a substantially doughnut-like rotor core arranged in the inner circumference of the rotor magnet and formed by laminating a predetermined number of electromagnetic steel plates. The rotor magnet, the position detection magnet, and the rotor core are integrally formed by resin. A shaft is inserted into an inner diameter section of the rotor core, and the rotor resin assembly is caulked by a jig to form a recess in the vicinity of the inner diameter sections of both end faces of the rotor core and assembled to the shaft. | 10-31-2013 |
20150028708 | MOTOR - A drive device driving a power converter that includes a switching element formed from a wide bandgap semiconductor, includes a PWM-signal output unit that generates a drive signal that drives the switching element with PWM; an on-speed reducing unit that, when the switching element is changed from off to on, reduces a change rate of the drive signal; and an off-speed improving unit that, when the switching element is changed from on to off, draws charge from the switching element at a high speed and with a charge drawing performance higher than that at a time when the switching element is changed from off to on. | 01-29-2015 |
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20080210911 | VARISTOR ELEMENT - In a varistor element, Ca exists in the grain interior of grains consisting primarily of ZnO in a varistor element body and Ca also exists in a grain boundary. In this crystal structure Ca replaces oxygen defects in the grain interior of grains consisting primarily of ZnO, in the varistor element body to make the ceramic structure denser Such crystal structure also decreases a ratio of an element tending to degrade the stability of the temperature characteristic of the varistor element, e.g., Si as a firing aid, in the grain boundary between grains. As a result, the varistor element has a stable temperature characteristic, which can decrease change in capacitance and tanδ (thermal conversion factor of resistance) against change in temperature. | 09-04-2008 |
20080308312 | CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A ceramic electronic component comprises a ceramic element body and an outer electrode arranged on the ceramic element body. The outer electrode includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer formed on the first electrode layer. The first electrode layer is formed on an outer surface of the ceramic element body and contains Ag and a glass material. The second electrode layer contains Pt and has a plurality of holes reaching the first electrode layer at respective locations. | 12-18-2008 |
20090015367 | NONLINEAR RESISTOR CERAMIC COMPOSITION, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND MULTILAYER CHIP VARISTOR - A nonlinear resistor ceramic composition has a major component containing zinc oxide, a first minor component containing an oxide of a rare-earth metal, a second minor component containing an oxide of Ca, and a third minor component containing an oxide of Si. A percentage of the second minor component to 100 moles of the major component is in the range of 2 atomic % ≦ the second minor component <80 atomic % in terms of Ca. A percentage of the third minor component to 100 moles of the major component is in the range of 1 atomic % ≦ the third minor component <40 atomic % in terms of Si. An atomic ratio of Ca to Si (Ca/Si) is not less than 1. | 01-15-2009 |
20090021341 | VARISTOR - A varistor has a ceramic composition to exhibit nonlinear voltage-current characteristics, and at least two electrodes arranged to sandwich at least a portion of the ceramic composition. The ceramic composition contains a mixture phase in which a first phase containing zinc oxide as a major component, and a second phase comprised of an oxide of Ca and Si are mixed. | 01-22-2009 |
20090296312 | CHIP-TYPE ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A chip-type electronic component has: a ceramic element body; a plurality of first and second internal electrodes arranged in the ceramic element body so as to be opposed at least in part to each other; a first external connection conductor to which the plurality of first internal electrodes are connected; a second external connection conductor to which the plurality of second internal electrodes are connected; first and second terminal electrodes; a first internal connection conductor arranged in the ceramic element body and connecting the first external connection conductor and the first terminal electrode; and a second internal connection conductor arranged in the ceramic element body and connecting the second external connection conductor and the second terminal electrode. The number of the first internal connection conductor is set to be smaller than the number of the first internal electrodes and the number of the second internal connection conductor is set to be smaller than the number of the second internal electrodes. | 12-03-2009 |
20110141638 | ELECTROSTATIC PROTECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS EQUIPPED THEREWITH - The electrostatic protection device in accordance with the present invention is the electrostatic protection device for protecting a plurality of electronic elements electrically connected in series against static electricity, the device comprising a plurality of first electrostatic protection elements having a current-voltage nonlinear resistance characteristic, a plurality of second electrostatic protection elements having a current-voltage nonlinear resistance characteristic, and a ground terminal for electrically connecting with a ground. The plurality of first electrostatic protection elements are electrically connected in parallel to the respective electronic elements, while the plurality of second electrostatic protection elements are electrically connected between input terminals of the respective electronic elements and the ground terminal. | 06-16-2011 |
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20090264172 | GAME SYSTEM - A game system includes a plurality of pedometers. The plurality of step count data respectively counted by the plurality of pedometers are acquired in the game apparatus. In the game apparatus, by utilizing the plurality of step count data, a predetermined arithmetic operation is executed, and the result of the arithmetic operation is reflected on the game. Alternatively, in a server, a predetermined arithmetic operation is executed by utilizing the plurality of step count data, and the result of the arithmetic operation is reflected on the game in the game apparatus. For example, game processing depending on the number of players walking in the same time slot is executed, or game processing according to the totalized value of the accumulated total step count values of the plurality of pedometers is executed. | 10-22-2009 |
20090323888 | STEP COUNT MEASURING SYSTEM - A step count measuring system includes a pedometer and a step count managing apparatus which are able to communicate, with each other. In the pedometer, a step count value sequentially detected for each unit of time is stored, and a time counted in the pedometer is stored as first time data by being brought into associated with each of the step count values. When a battery is replaced in the pedometer, a reset is executed to start initialization processing, and the time stored as first time data is stored as second time data which can be discriminated from the first time data. A recording time of each of the step count values being associated with the first time data before the initialization processing is set on the basis of the time counted by the step count managing apparatus, and a recording time of each of the step count values being associated with the second time data after the initialization processing is set on the basis of the second time data. | 12-31-2009 |
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20120114252 | Search Skip Region Setting Function Generation Method, Search Skip Region Setting Method, and Object Search Method - According to one embodiment, a search skip region setting function generation method includes associating, detecting, and generating. The associating associates a template used to search a model image for an object with a designated search point on the model image, and detects a designated search point similarity between the designated search point and the template. When the designated search point similarity exceeds an object detection determination threshold, the detecting detects surrounding search point similarities between a plurality of surrounding search points around the designated search point on the model image and the template. The generating generates a function required to set a search skip region of the object based on relative positions between the object and the template, which are estimated based on a distribution of the surrounding search point similarities. | 05-10-2012 |
20120274818 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes, a calculation module configured to find the correspondence between an arbitrary pixel of a first image input as a first image signal and an arbitrary pixel of a second image input as a second image signal acquired at the same time as the first image signal about the same subject, a determination module configured to compare the arbitrary pixel of the first image with the arbitrary pixel of the second image based on the calculation result of the calculation module and to determine whether the individual pixels are noise pixels or non-noise pixels differing from noise pixels, and a noise removal module configured to correct noise pixels based on the determination result of the determination module. | 11-01-2012 |
20120294538 | SEARCH SKIP REGION SETTING FUNCTION GENERATION METHOD, SEARCH SKIP REGION SETTING METHOD, OBJECT SEARCH METHOD, SEARCH SKIP REGION SETTING FUNCTION GENERATION APPARATUS, SEARCH SKIP REGION SETTING APPARATUS, AND OBJECT SEARCH APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a search skip region setting function generation method includes estimating. The estimating includes estimating a relative position between a object and a template based on a distribution of surrounding search point similarities, and generates a function required to set a search skip region which allows to skip the object search on each model reduced-scale image based on the estimated relative position. | 11-22-2012 |
20130050200 | OBJECT SEARCH DEVICE, VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE AND OBJECT SEARCH METHOD - An object search device has an object searching unit configured to search for an object in a screen frame, an object position correcting unit configured to correct a position of an object area comprising the searched object so that the searched object is located at a center of the object area, an object area correcting unit configured to adjust the area size of the object area so that a background area not including the searched object in the object area is reduced, and a coordinate detector configured to detect a coordinate position of the searched object based on the object area corrected by the object area correcting unit. | 02-28-2013 |
20140252869 | POWER FEEDING DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, AND WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A power receiving device, a power feeding device, and a wireless power transmission device are provided. The power receiving device receives power wirelessly transmitted from the power feeding device and includes one or more power receiving units. At least one of the power receiving units in the power receiving device is disposed along two or more surfaces which form the outer shape of the power receiving device and are not parallel to each other. | 09-11-2014 |
20140361631 | COIL DEVICE FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION - A coil device for wireless power transmission mounted on a movable body includes a coil body and a magnetic flux conductor. A winding forming the coil body mainly contains aluminum, and the magnetic flux conductor contains a magnetic material and a resin. | 12-11-2014 |
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20080245762 | SQUARE BOTTLE MANUFACTURED FROM SYNTHETIC RESIN - Disclosed herein are bottle-shaped containers having a trunk portion approximating a square. The trunk portion comprises four tabular side walls arrayed about a center axis and four corner walls connected to adjacent side walls in a corner-cutting form. The width of the corner walls expands from the top end and the bottom end toward a position about midway between the top end and the bottom end. By making the widths of the side walls and the corner walls about equal at a location about midway between the top portion and the bottom portion, the distance between the corner walls in mutual opposition with respect to the center axis can be decreased, forming a waist portion. | 10-09-2008 |
20080314862 | Beverage container with easy label removal - A beverage container or plastic bottle that allows easy label or film removal is provided. The beverage container includes a shoulder portion, a base portion, a body portion extending between the shoulder portion and the base portion, the body portion having a reinforcing concave rib circumferentially formed on the body portion, the concave rib having an asymmetrical shape at a vertical cross-section of the concave rib, and a heat shrink film disposed over the body portion, the heat shrink film having an edge disposed over the concave rib. | 12-25-2008 |
20090101660 | Plastic beverage container - A beverage container including a finger insertion indentation is provided. The beverage container includes a barrel portion having a substantially square cross-sectional shape defined by a plurality of walls including at least a front wall, a rear wall, a left side wall, and a right side wall. The container also includes a pair of indentations formed in at least one of the front and rear walls for insertion of, and engagement with, a finger, and a column portion separating the pair of indentations into left and right portions. Each of the pair of indentations has a bottom wall, a first side wall extending from the bottom wall to the column portion, and a second side wall extending from the bottom wall and facing the first side wall, the second side wall having a peak portion extending along a corner portion of the substantially square cross-sectional shape. | 04-23-2009 |
20090166314 | Plastic bottle - A plastic bottle is provided with a constricted portion and a non-constricted portion contiguous above and below with the constricted portion. One of the constricted portion or the non-constricted portion has a substantially polygonal cross-sectional shape, and the other one of the constricted portion or the non-constricted portion has a circular cross-sectional shape. | 07-02-2009 |
20100089863 | PLASTIC BOTTLE WITH A MOUTH - To provide a plastic bottle whose weight can be reduced without sacrificing strength of a bottle mouth, the plastic bottle is provided with a bottle mouth having a circumferential wall, including a threaded section formed on an outer circumferential surface of the circumferential wall, a support ring protruding from the outer circumferential surface below the threaded section, and punched sections formed on the circumferential wall. | 04-15-2010 |
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20080227699 | Therapeutic Agent for Neurodegenerative Diseases - The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment and/or prevention of a neurodegenerative disease, comprising the following polypeptide shown in any of (a) to (c): (a) a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence represented by Ser-Ala-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Ile-Pro-Ala-Pro-Ala-Gly-Ala-Ser-Arg-Leu-Leu-Leu-Leu-Thr-Gly-Glu-Ile-Asp-Leu-Pro (SEQ ID NO: 1); (b) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having a deletion, substitution, insertion, and/or addition of one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence consisting of Ser-Ala-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Ile-Pro-Ala-Pro-Ala-Gly-Ala-Ser-Arg-Leu-Leu-Leu-Leu-Thr-Gly-Glu-Ile-Asp-Leu-Pro (SEQ ID NO: 1), and having an activity that inhibits neuronal cell death associated with neurodegenerative disease; and (c) a modified polypeptide from the polypeptide (a) or (b), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as an effective ingredient. | 09-18-2008 |
20090075900 | Therapeutic agent for motor neuron disease - An object of the present invention is to provide an agent effective for the treatment and/or prevention of motor neuron disease such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The present invention provides a therapeutic and/or preventive agent for motor neuron disease comprising the following oligopeptide shown in any of (a) to (c) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient: (a) an oligopeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by Ser-Ala-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Ile-Pro-Ala (SEQ ID NO: 1); (b) an oligopeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence having a deletion, substitution, insertion, or addition of one or several amino acids in Ser-Ala-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Ile-Pro-Ala (SEQ ID NO: 1), and having an activity that inhibits neuronal cell death caused by a mutant superoxide dismutase-1 gene; and (c) a modified oligopeptide from the oligopeptide (a) or (b). | 03-19-2009 |
20100223684 | HUMANIN RECEPTOR OR HUMANIN-LIKE POLYPEPTIDE RECEPTOR - One aspect of the present invention is directed to search receptors based on the information of HN signaling pathways in order to find Humanin receptor or Humanin-like polypeptide receptor (HNR), and to reveal a mechanism of promoting or suppressing the intracellular signal transduction for neuroprotecting activity of HN and identify a compound involved in the mechanism. The aspect of the invention is directed to a method for screening of HNR agonist and HNR antagonist, to utilize the screened compound in development of a drug for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease, and to provide an assay system of AD neuronal cell death, and to provide methods for the compulsory expression of HNR gene or knocking-out of intracellular genes. | 09-02-2010 |
20100279942 | METHODS FOR TREATING MOTOR NEURON DISEASE - An object of the present invention is to provide an agent effective for the treatment and/or prevention of motor neuron disease such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The present invention provides a therapeutic and/or preventive agent for motor neuron disease comprising the following oligopeptide shown in any of (a) to (c) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient: (a) an oligopeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by Ser-Ala-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Ile-Pro-Ala (SEQ ID NO: 1); (b) an oligopeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence having a deletion, substitution, insertion, or addition of one or several amino acids in Ser-Ala-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Ile-Pro-Ala (SEQ ID NO: 1), and having an activity that inhibits neuronal cell death caused by a mutant superoxide dismutase-1 gene; and (c) a modified oligopeptide from the oligopeptide (a) or (b). | 11-04-2010 |
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20100304288 | ELECTROPHOGRAPHIC TONER - A toner comprising toner particles, wherein a surface-treated titanate compound is contained on the surface of parent toner particles comprising a resin and a colorant, and the titanate compound having a carbon amount of not less than 0.15% by mass and not more than 0.50% by mass. | 12-02-2010 |
20110183331 | RNA IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION - Disclosed is a method for identifying the presence of a target gene mRNA, which comprises hybridizing one or more oligonucleic acid probes with the target gene mRNA expressed in a tissue sample, and detecting a low-molecular-weight compound label added to at least one of the bases of the oligonucleic acid probes,
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20140287354 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT - Provided is a toner for electrostatic image development, having low-temperature fixability and long-term stable charge property and also having heat-resistant storage stability. The toner for electrostatic image development includes toner particles containing a binder resin. The binder resin has a domain-matrix structure in which a crystalline polyester resin is dispersed as a domain phase in a matrix phase formed of an amorphous vinyl polymer formed using at least a vinyl-based monomer. The amorphous vinyl polymer has a carboxy group concentration of not less than 0.2 mmol/g and not more than 1.0 mmol/g, and the crystalline polyester resin has an ester group concentration of not less than 0.1 mmol/g and not more than 7.1 mmol/g. | 09-25-2014 |
20140349231 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT - Disclosed is a toner for electrostatic image development that has excellent low-temperature fixability and also has sufficient heat-resistant storage stability. The toner for electrostatic image development includes toner particles containing an amorphous resin including amorphous resins A and B and a crystalline polyester resin. The toner particles have a domain-matrix structure in which a domain phase including fine core particles of the crystalline polyester resin is dispersed in a matrix phase formed of the amorphous resin A composed of a vinyl-based polymer. The surface of the fine core particles of the crystalline polyester resin is coated with the amorphous resin B composed of a vinyl-based polymer. | 11-27-2014 |
20140377699 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT - Provided is a toner for electrostatic image development having low-temperature fixability and providing stability of glossiness for various types of paper. The toner for electrostatic image development includes toner particles having a domain-matrix structure. In the domain-matrix structure, a domain phase including a crystalline polyester resin having a melting point of 40 to 90° C. and a domain phase including a vinyl resin B having a weight average molecular weight of 250,000 to 400,000 are dispersed in a matrix phase including a vinyl resin A having a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 to 50,000. | 12-25-2014 |
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20130027662 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS - An ophthalmologic apparatus includes a first casing which includes a light source for emitting illumination light including at least one of ultraviolet light and far-infrared light so as to illuminate a fundus of an eye to be examined, and an attenuation unit attenuating at least one of the ultraviolet light and the far-infrared light included in the illumination light, and a second casing which includes at least a part of an illumination optical system for guiding the illumination light attenuated by the attenuation unit to the fundus or a part of an imaging optical system for guiding the light reflected from the fundus to an imaging unit for imaging the fundus, and which is formed of a material lighter than the material forming the first casing. | 01-31-2013 |
20140118693 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an illumination projection unit configured to project an illumination light onto a fundus of a subject's eye, an index projection unit configured to project an index onto the subject's eye, an image capturing unit configured to capture a fundus image including an index image based on light returning from the subject's eye, a focusing unit configured to focus the light returning from the subject's eye onto the photographic unit, a detection unit configured to detect a position of the index image in the fundus image, a determination unit configured to determine the area in the fundus image which does not include the index image based on results detected by the detection unit, and a control unit configured to control the focusing unit based on contrast of the area determined by the determination unit. | 05-01-2014 |
20140211162 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an imaging unit for imaging the fundus image of a subject's eye, a displacement acquisition unit for acquiring the displacement of an imaging position by the imaging unit between fundus images captured by the imaging unit, and a display control unit for displaying the fundus image captured by the imaging unit and a region of interest on the display unit so that the region of interest is positioned at a predetermined position of the fundus image based on the displacement acquired by the displacement acquisition unit and displaying the region of interest on the display unit by changing a size of the region of interest according to an range where the fundus image is captured. | 07-31-2014 |
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20090022918 | Method for Manufacturing Pressure-Resistant Container Liner and Liquid Crystal Resin Liner - A resin composition formed by blending 10 to 25 weight parts of the epoxy modified polystyrene resin (B) to 100 weight parts of the liquid crystal polyester and/or the liquid crystal polyester amide (A) and by melt-kneading the two materials, wherein the resin composition having a melt viscosity of 60 to 4000 Pa·s at a shear rate of 1000/second at a temperature which is 20° C. higher than the melting point and having a melt tension of 20 mN or more at a take-over speed of 15 m/minute, is melt within a temperature range of a melting point to the melting point +40° C., a parison P is formed by extruding it with an extrusion speed equal to or higher than 0.3 kg/minute and lower than 5 kg/minute, a pair of moldings placed so as to sandwich the parison P are closed at a predetermined mold closing pressure, and air is blown into the parison P. | 01-22-2009 |
20100028584 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRESSURE-RESISTANT CONTAINER LINER AND LIQUID CRYSTAL RESIN LINER - A resin composition formed by mixing 99 to 70 weight % of specific whole aromatic polyesteramide liquid crystal resin (A) with 1 to 30 weight % of epoxy modified polyolefin-base resin (B) and by melting and kneading both of the resins, wherein the resin composition having a melt viscosity of 60 to 4000 Pa·s at a shear rate of 1000/second at a temperature which is 20° C. higher than the melting point and having a melt tension of 20 mN or more at a take-over speed of 14.8 m/minute, is melt within a temperature range of a melting point to the melting point +40° C., a parison (P) is formed by extruding it with an extrusion speed equal to or higher than 0.3 kg/minute and lower than 5 kg/minute, a pair of moldings placed so as to sandwich the parison (P) are closed at a predetermined mold closing pressure, and air is blown into the parison (P). | 02-04-2010 |
20100116420 | TANK FOR VERY LOW TEMPERATURE LIQUIDS - The present invention relates to a tank for holding a cryogenic liquid. According to the present invention, there is provided a light and durable tank which is airtight even at cryogenic temperatures without generating cracks. The tank includes: a pressure-resistant layer having an inner shell and an outer shell; and an airtight resin layer on an inner surface of the inner shell, wherein the inner shell is comprised of a fiber-reinforced resin composite which can withstand temperatures above the melting point of the airtight resin layer, and the outer shell is comprised of another fiber-reinforced resin composite which can be cured at a temperature below the melting point of the airtight resin layer. | 05-13-2010 |
20100163565 | Pressure-Resistant Container - In a pressure-resistant container | 07-01-2010 |
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20140045252 | CELL CULTIVATION CONTAINER AND CELL CULTURING APPARATUS - Provided is a cell cultivation container equipped with electrodes, which enables automatic culturing, observation of automatically cultured cells, and measurement of electrical resistances. A circular electrode ( | 02-13-2014 |
20140087455 | Cell Culture Device and Transport Device - The present invention provides a carrier device including a culture vessel and a flow channel, which have a closed structure, for supplying cell liquid or a culture medium into the flow channel; and a method of aseptically injecting liquid, such as the cell or the culture medium, into the culture vessel and the flow channel. The present invention provides a carrier jig | 03-27-2014 |
20140141499 | Cell Culture Device and Cell Culture Method - Provided is a cell culture device having a culture area for culturing the stem or progenitor cells, from which tissues are formed. The cell culture device includes an oxygen adjusting part that adjusts the oxygen supply in the culture area, a controller that controls the oxygen adjusting part, and another controller that controls a first oxygen supply during a first period of the period, in which the stem cells and the progenitor cells differentiate; and a second oxygen supply greater in amount than the first supply during a second period, during which the stem cells and the progenitor cells differentiate, out of the whole culture period, and that controls the oxygen adjusting part based on the growth progress of the stem cells and the progenitor cells through self-replication to change the first oxygen supply to the second oxygen supply. | 05-22-2014 |
20140186941 | CELL CULTURE VESSEL, AND CULTURE DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH SAME - Disclosed is a cell culture vessel of the present invention, which is composed of a space enclosed by a housing that supports a medium and a cell attachment part, disposed on the bottom surface of the space, that attaches and supports the cells, the cell attachment part having a cell immobilizing mechanism that guides the cells in the space to the cell attachment part to immobilize there and a cell detachment mechanism that detaches the cells attached in the cell attachment part, the cell immobilizing mechanism having a step of applying a voltage to an electrode disposed in the cell attachment part to generate a heterogeneous electric field in the space, and the cell detachment mechanism having a step of applying a voltage to an electrode disposed in the cell attachment part to induce electrolyte in the space. | 07-03-2014 |
20140302597 | CELL CULTURE CONTAINER, AND AUTOMATED CELL SUBCULTURE DEVICE AND CELL SUBCULTURE METHOD USING SAME - Provided is a cell culture container that makes it possible to subculture cells without a dispensing operation using a pipette and also to prevent microbial contamination in the culture container during cell subculture. The cell culture container is provided, within a culture container ( | 10-09-2014 |
20150072401 | CULTURE VESSEL AND AUTOMATED CULTURE APPARATUS - In a closed system culture vessel to be used in an automated culture apparatus, some of the ports perform both liquid supply and gas supply functions. Culture medium is thereby made to flow always in one direction. The culture vessel is also configured so that, in the complete culture medium exchange process and the effluent recovery process for analyzing culture medium components, waste liquid medium does not get mixed into fresh culture medium. | 03-12-2015 |
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20080239434 | MULTI-BEAM SCANNING OPTICAL SYSTEM - A multi-beam scanning optical system configured to scan a plurality of laser beams on a scanned surface in a predetermined scanning direction includes a light source emitting a plurality of laser beams from respective laser emitters spaced from each other in the predetermined scanning direction, a diverging property changing element changing a diverging property of each of the emitted laser beams, a deflector configured to be sine-functionally oscillated and to deflect each of the laser beams with the diverging property thereof as changed so as to scan each of the laser beams on the scanned surface in the predetermined scanning direction, and a scanning speed controlling element configured to control a scanning speed at which each of the laser beams deflected by the deflector is scanned on the scanned surface. The multi-beam scanning optical system is configured to satisfy a predetermined condition. | 10-02-2008 |
20080239439 | SCANNING OPTICAL SYSTEM - A scanning optical system configured to scan laser light on a scanned surface in a scanning direction, includes a light source emitting the laser light, a converging element converging the emitted laser light in the predetermined scanning direction, a deflector deflecting the converged laser light to scan the laser light on the scanned surface, and a scanning speed controlling element controlling the deflected laser light to be scanned at a constant scanning speed. The scanning optical system is configured to satisfy predetermined conditions. | 10-02-2008 |
20100302610 | MULTIBEAM SCANNING DEVICE - A multibeam scanning device, comprising: a plurality of first optical systems, each of the plurality of optical systems including a light source unit configured to emit a non-collimated light beam, and an optical element having a predetermined power and having an optical effect on the laser beam; a second optical system arranged on a downstream side of the plurality of first optical systems, including a first deflector on which light beams emitted by the plurality of first optical systems are incident, the first deflector being to deflect the laser beams, and a common optical system configured to change degree of divergence of each of the plurality of light beams; and an optical path shifting system configured to translate an incident optical path of the light beam which is emitted by the light source and incident on the optical element, wherein all the light beams incident on the first deflector are incident on the first deflector at substantially the same position, and wherein the optical elements are arranged such that optical axes of the optical elements intersect at a position spaced from the optical element by a distance equal to a focal length of the optical element. | 12-02-2010 |
20110001855 | IMAGE SENSOR - An imaging sensor comprising a plurality of pixels is provided. The pixels comprise photoelectric converters and optical members. The optical member covers the photoelectric converter. Incident light passes through the optical member. The pixels are arranged in two dimensions on a light-receiving area. First differences are created for the distances between the photoelectric converter and a far-side surface of the optical member in two of the pixels in a part of pixel pairs among all of the pixel pairs. The far-side surface is an opposite surface of a near-side surface. The near-side surface of the optical member faces the photoelectric converter. The pixel pair includes two of the pixels selected from the plurality of the pixels. | 01-06-2011 |
20110001856 | IMAGE SENSOR - An image sensor comprising a plurality of first pixels is provided. The pixels comprise photoelectric converters and first optical members. The first optical member covers the photoelectric converter. Light incident on the photoelectric converter passes through the first optical member. The first pixels are arranged on a light-receiving area. First differences are created for the thicknesses of the first optical members in two of the first pixels in a part of first pixel pairs among all first pixel pairs. The first pixel pair includes two of the first pixels selected from the plurality of said first pixels. | 01-06-2011 |
20110013247 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING PROJECTOR - A two-dimensional scanning projector causing a light beam to scan in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, comprising: a first deflector which deflects the light beam in the first direction; and a scanning optical system arranged between the first deflector and a scanned surface, wherein the first deflector is arranged such that a rotation axis of the first deflector is inclined, in a plane including an optical axis of the scanning optical system and the second direction, by a first angle with respect to the second direction, and the light beam is incident on the first deflector such that, in the plane including the optical axis and the second direction, a chief ray of the light beam entering a center of a projected image is obliquely incident on the first deflector to form a second angle with respect to the optical axis. | 01-20-2011 |
20110157454 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging sensor comprising a plurality of pixels is provided. Each pixel comprises photoelectric converters and optical members. The optical member covers the photoelectric converter. Light toward the photoelectric converter passes through the optical member. The pixels are arranged in two dimensions on a light-receiving area. At least a part of the light-receiving area comprises an area of irregularity. First and second pixels are arranged irregularly in the area of irregularity. Distances between the photoelectric converter and a far-side surface of the optical member are first and second distances in the first and second pixels, respectively. The far-side surface is an opposite surface of a near-side surface. The near-side surface of the optical member faces the photoelectric converter. The second distance is shorter than the first distance. | 06-30-2011 |
20110176191 | SCANNING OPTICAL DEVICE - A scanning optical device that scans a light beam through a relay optical system, the relay optical system comprising: front group lenses arranged at a light source side; rear group lenses arranged at a side of a surface to be scanned; and first and second minors arranged between the front group lenses and the rear group lenses and supported by a common supporting member, wherein a normal vector of a minor surface of the first minor makes an angle (180−ω) with an incident optical axis from the front group lenses, a normal vector of the second minor makes an angle α (α≠180×m) with the normal vector of the first minor, and the supporting member includes a mechanism being linearly movable in a direction which makes an angle (ω−α+90) with the normal vector of the first mirror. | 07-21-2011 |
20110176192 | SCANNING OPTICAL DEVICE - A scanning optical device includes at least one light source unit for emitting a light beam, a first deflector for deflecting the emitted light beam in an auxiliary scanning direction, a condensing optical system for generating an intermediate image of the light beam deflected by the first deflector, a collecting optical system for condensing a light beam diverged from the generated intermediate image, a second deflector for deflecting the condensed light beam in a main-scanning direction, and a scanning optical system for scanning the surface to be scanned with the light beam deflected by the second deflector. The condensing optical system has an f-θ characteristic, the collecting optical system has an f-sin θ characteristic, and the scanning optical system has an f-sin θ characteristic. | 07-21-2011 |
20130003154 | MULTIBEAM SCANNING DEVICE - A multibeam scanning device, comprising: a plurality of first optical systems, each of the plurality of optical systems including a light source unit configured to emit a non-collimated light beam, and an optical element having a predetermined power and having an optical effect on the laser beam; a second optical system arranged on a downstream side of the plurality of first optical systems, including a first deflector on which light beams emitted by the plurality of first optical systems are incident, the first deflector being to deflect the laser beams, and a common optical system configured to change degree of divergence of each of the plurality of light beams; and an optical path shifting system configured to translate an incident optical path of the light beam which is emitted by the light source and incident on the optical element is provided. | 01-03-2013 |
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20100198738 | PATENT POWER CALCULATING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING PATENT POWER CALCULATING DEVICE - To propose a patent value evaluating device capable of identifying the causal association with business activity. A patent power calculating device comprises a patent history data acquiring section, an item content extracting section for searching for a combination of names of standard items indicating legal procedures and extracting the item contents and their procedure dates according to the combination of standard item names searched for, a search result holding section for holding the extracted item contents and the procedure dates, a cost table holding section for holding a cost table where the combinations of item contents and prepared costs are associated with one another, an obsolescence function storage section for storing obsolescence functions used as measures of the obsolescences of the techniques in each technical field, a post-obsolescence cost calculating section for acquiring costs from the cost table and calculating the post-obsolescence cost on the calculation reference date by using the calculation reference date, the procedure date, the application date, and the obsolescence function, a totalizing section for totalizing the calculated post-obsolescence costs for the applications, and an output section for outputting the calculated total. | 08-05-2010 |
20130290197 | PATENT POWER CALCULATING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING PATENT POWER CALCULATING DEVICE - To propose a patent value evaluating device capable of identifying the causal association with business activity. A patent power calculating device comprises a patent history data acquiring section, an item content extracting section for searching for a combination of names of standard items indicating legal procedures and extracting the item contents and their procedure dates, a cost table holding section for holding a cost table where the combinations of item contents and prepared costs are associated with one another, an obsolescence function storage section for storing obsolescence functions used as indications of the obsolescence of the technology of the patent, a post-obsolescence cost calculating section for acquiring costs from the cost table and calculating the post-obsolescence cost by using the procedure date, and the obsolescence function, a totalizing section for totalizing the calculated post-obsolescence costs, and outputting the totalized value as the patent power. | 10-31-2013 |
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20080295259 | METHOD FOR STABILIZING LEUCO-TYPE COLORANT - Provided are a method of stabilizing a leuco dye storable as a liquid for a long time, a method of reducing nonspecific color development thereof at a time of a color development reaction, and a stable liquid reagent composition using the methods. The inventors of the present invention found that coexistence of the leuco dye with a specific reducing agent resulted in suppression of self color development and its remarkably improved stability in a solution, and that when a color development reaction of the leuco dye with hydrogen peroxide was performed, coexistence of the leuco dye, in a reaction solution, with another dye which had an absorption spectrum not influencing a measurement wavelength of the leuco dye and did not react with hydrogen peroxide suppressed nonspecific color development and lowered a reagent blank value, which was applied to an analytical reagent. | 12-04-2008 |
20120040387 | METHOD AND REAGENT FOR MEASURING MEVALONIC ACID, 3-HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A, AND COENZYME A - The present invention provides a method for measuring the concentration of an analyte in a test solution wherein the analyte is mevalonic acid and/or 3-hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A, comprising the following steps (p) and (q): (p) a step of allowing an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction represented by Reaction Formula 1 and an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction represented by Reaction Formula 2 to act on a test solution containing mevalonic acid and/or 3-hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A in the presence of a hydrogen acceptor X, a hydrogen donor Y, and coenzyme A; and (q) a step of measuring an amount of: a reduced hydrogen acceptor X that is produced; or an oxidized hydrogen donor Y that is produced; or a hydrogen acceptor X that is decreased; or a hydrogen donor Y that is decreased, wherein the hydrogen donor Y and the reduced hydrogen acceptor X are not the same. | 02-16-2012 |