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20110273135 | GRID PLATE FOR LEAD ACID STORAGE BATTERY, PLATE, AND LEAD ACID STORAGE BATTERY PROVIDED WITH SAME PLATE - There is provided a method for operating a lead acid storage battery in order to compensate for fluctuations in the amount of power generated by a solar power generation apparatus, a wind power generation apparatus, or another natural energy power generation device, the lead acid storage battery being charged by a power generation device and discharged to a load. The state of charge of the lead acid storage battery is maintained in a range of 30 to 90% where the fully charged state of the lead acid storage battery is 100%; and the lead acid storage battery is charged and discharged while the battery voltage is kept in a specified range of 1.80 to 2.42 V per cell to extend the service life of the battery. A reference temperature of 25° C. is established, and when the ambient temperature has risen above or fallen below the reference temperature, the upper and lower limit values of a specified range are corrected within a range of −4 mV/° C. to −6 mV/° C. per cell according to the amount by which the temperature has increased or decreased so that a corrected voltage range is obtained. The storage battery is charged and discharged while the battery voltage is kept in the corrected voltage range, and the battery is operated. | 11-10-2011 |
20110305957 | GRID PLATE FOR LEAD ACID STORAGE BATTERY, PLATE, AND LEAD ACID STORAGE BATTERY PROVIDED WITH SAME PLATE - A grid plate for a lead acid storage battery comprising a frame section having a pair of quadrangular contour shape, and longitudinal grid strands and lateral grid strands that form a grid inside the frame section. The longitudinal grid strands and lateral grid strands are composed of thick strands of smaller thickness than the frame section, and thin strands of smaller width and thickness than the thick strands. The thick strands and thin strands are arranged so that the strands adjacent to the thick strands are thin strands, and space is reliably provided for facilitating the flow of active material to the sides of the thick strands. The two ends of the thick strands in the thickness direction are positioned further inward from the two end faces of the frame section in the thickness direction, and the end portions of one end side of the thin strands in the thickness direction are positioned in positions offset to one end side of the thick strands in the thickness direction, whereby the active material is readily packed into the reverse surface side of the grid plate. | 12-15-2011 |
20120094182 | LEAD ACID STORAGE BATTERY - A lead acid storage battery composed of plates, the lead acid storage battery being obtained by packing an active material into a grid plate provided with a frame section having a quadrangular profile shape, and lateral grid strands and longitudinal grid strands that form a grid inside the frame section. The lateral grid strands are composed of thick lateral strands having a thickness equal to the thickness of the frame section, and thin lateral strands of smaller width and thickness than the thick strands, the longitudinal grid strands being composed of thick longitudinal strands that have a thickness that is less than thickness of the frame section, one end in the thickness direction being arranged in the same plane as one end of the frame section in the thickness direction, and thin longitudinal strands of smaller width and thickness than the thick longitudinal strands, end faces of one end side of the thin lateral strands and the thin longitudinal strands in the thickness direction being positioned further inward in the thickness direction than an end face of one end side of the frame section in the thickness direction, and end faces of the other end side of the thin lateral strands and the thin longitudinal strands in the thickness direction being positioned further inward in the thickness direction than an end face of another end side of the frame section in the thickness direction. | 04-19-2012 |
20140106233 | LEAD ACID STORAGE BATTERY - A lead acid storage battery composed of plates, the lead acid storage battery being obtained by packing an active material into a grid plate provided with a frame section having a quadrangular profile shape, and lateral grid strands and longitudinal grid strands that form a grid inside the frame section. The lateral grid strands are composed of thick lateral strands having a thickness equal to the thickness of the frame section, and thin lateral strands of smaller width and thickness than the thick strands, the longitudinal grid strands being composed of thick longitudinal strands that have a thickness that is less than thickness of the frame section, one end in the thickness direction being arranged in the same plane as one end of the frame section in the thickness direction, and thin longitudinal strands of smaller width and thickness than the thick longitudinal strands. | 04-17-2014 |
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20100193465 | SEPARATING METHOD FOR CONDUCTIVE CERAMICS SINTERED BODY - There are provided an aqueous solution for separation of a conductive ceramics sintered body in which a conductive ceramic sintered body separated form a glass can be collected in a recyclable condition, and a separating method therefor, and an aqueous solution for separation with which a dark ceramics sintered body, a conductive ceramics sintered body and a glass are separately collected from a glass with a dark ceramics sintered body in which a conductive ceramics sintered body is formed on the dark ceramics sintered body, and a separating method therefor. A treatment liquid having an etching ability for at least one of a glass and a conductive ceramic sintered body is prepared as an aqueous solution | 08-05-2010 |
20100206005 | Interlayer Film Separation Solution and Interlayer Film Separation Method - There are provided an interlayer film separation solution and an interlayer film separation method capable of separating an interlayer film and a glass for a short period of time and collecting the separated interlayer film in a recyclable condition. An interlayer film separation solution | 08-19-2010 |
20100227752 | SEPARATING METHOD FOR DARK CERAMICS SINTERED BODY - There are provided an aqueous solution for separation of a dark ceramics sintered body, which can easily collect in a recyclable condition a glass from a glass with a dark ceramics sintered body, and a separating method therefor, and an aqueous solution for separation with which a dark ceramics sintered body, a conductive ceramics sintered body and a glass are separately collected from a glass with a dark ceramics sintered body formed with the dark ceramics sintered body and the conductive ceramics sintered body, and a separating method therefor. A treatment liquid (hydrofluoric acid, a mixture of ammonium fluoride and an acid, etc.) having an etching ability for at least one of a glass and a dark ceramic sintered body is prepared as an aqueous solution | 09-09-2010 |
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20130122768 | Resin Composition, Prepreg Using The Same, and Fiber-Reinforced Composite Material - A resin composition that has good heat resistance and handleability and that can produce a prepreg which has a good balance between tackyness and drapability and which causes little resin flow during prepreg molding, a prepreg that is manufactured using the resin composition, and a fiber-reinforced composite are provided. A resin composition that contains a maleimide compound, diallyl bisphenol A, and a diallyl isophthalate polymer, a prepreg in which reinforcing fibers are impregnated with the resin composition, and a fiber-reinforced composite material that is obtained by molding the prepreg are provided. | 05-16-2013 |
20130327479 | MATRIX RESIN COMPOSITION, PREPREG AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL - The present invention relates to a method for producing a prepreg which contains reinforcing fibers and a matrix resin composition with the weight per square meter of the reinforcing fibers being 250-2,000 g/m | 12-12-2013 |
20130330478 | Production Method for Obtaining Fiber-Reinforced Composite Material, and Epoxy Resin Composition Used Therein - Provided is a method for producing a good epoxy resin composition for obtaining fiber-reinforced plastics. A production method for obtaining a fiber-reinforced composite material by impregnating a fiber assembly with an epoxy resin composition and then curing the epoxy resin composition, wherein the epoxy resin composition contains a component [A], a component [B] and a component [C] respectively satisfying the conditions described below. When the blending amount of the component [B] is set to b parts by mass and the blending amount of the component [C] is set to c parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the component [A] contained in the epoxy resin composition, formula (2) is satisfied within the range of formula (1), formula (4) is satisfied within the range of formula (3), and formula (6) is satisfied within the range of formula (5). | 12-12-2013 |
20130338266 | EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION, PREPREG, AND FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL - The present invention relates to an epoxy resin composition which comprises a phosphorus-containing modified epoxy resin (A) consisting of a compound (a) represented by Formula (a); a novolak epoxy resin (B); a hardener (C) for epoxy resins; and a metal hydroxide (D), wherein the content in mass % of the phosphorus-containing modified epoxy resin (A), C | 12-19-2013 |
20150099832 | Epoxy Resin Composition, Prepreg, and Fiber-Reinforced Composite Material - The present invention relates to an epoxy resin composition which comprises a phosphorus-containing modified epoxy resin (A) consisting of a compound (a) represented by Formula (a); a novolak epoxy resin (B); a hardener (C) for epoxy resins; and a metal hydroxide (D), wherein the content in mass % of the phosphorus-containing modified epoxy resin (A), C | 04-09-2015 |
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20090024848 | Terminal Identification Method, Authentication Method, Authentication System, Server, Terminal, Wireless Base Station, Program, and Recording Medium - A terminal identification method is provided which enables two-way communications between terminals and a network while identifying terminal IDs and protecting privacy. Also, authentication method and system are provided which require no complicated calculating process, less steps and smaller amount for wireless communications, and less power consumption. A server and terminal share a hash function and an initial value determined for each terminal, calculate the same temporary ID by hashing the initial value the same number of times with the hash function, and identify the terminal using the calculated temporary ID. The server and the terminal also hold a common hash function and authentication information, acquire an authenticating communication parameter from communication parameters temporarily common during communication, and generate an authentication key using the authentication information, the authenticating communication parameter, and the hash function. Then at least one of the server and terminal performs authentication using the generated authentication key. | 01-22-2009 |
20110072121 | Terminal Identification Method, Authentication Method, Authentication System, Server, Terminal, Wireless Base Station, Program, and Recording Medium - A terminal identification method is provided which enables two-way communications between terminals and a network while identifying terminal IDs and protecting privacy. Also, authentication method and system are provided which require no complicated calculating process, less steps and smaller amount for wireless communications, and less power consumption. A server and terminal share a hash function and an initial value determined for each terminal, calculate the same temporary ID by hashing the initial value the same number of times with the hash function, and identify the terminal using the calculated temporary ID. The server and the terminal also hold a common hash function and authentication information, acquire an authenticating communication parameter from communication parameters temporarily common during communication, and generate an authentication key using the authentication information, the authenticating communication parameter, and the hash function. Then at least one of the server and terminal performs authentication using the generated authentication key. | 03-24-2011 |
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20100015889 | Processing end point detection method, polishing method,and polishing apparatus - The present invention relates to a processing end point detection method for detecting a timing of a processing end point (e.g., polishing stop, changing of polishing conditions) by calculating a characteristic value of a surface of a workpiece (an object of polishing) such as a substrate. This method includes producing a spectral waveform indicating a relationship between reflection intensities and wavelengths at a processing end point, with use of a reference workpiece or simulation calculation, based on the spectral waveform, selecting wavelengths of a local maximum value and a local minimum value of the reflection intensities, calculating the characteristic value with respect to a surface, to be processed, from reflection intensities at the selected wavelengths, setting a distinctive point of time variation of the characteristic value at a processing end point of the workpiece as the processing end point, and detecting the processing end point of the workpiece by detecting the distinctive point during processing of the workpiece. | 01-21-2010 |
20130268106 | REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR POLISHING END POINT DETECTION UNITS - The present invention relates to a remote monitoring system for polishing end point detection units mounted to polishing apparatuses for polishing wafers, such as substrates. The remote monitoring system includes: polishing end point detection units each configured to detect a polishing end point of a substrate; and a host computer coupled to the polishing end point detection units via a network. The host computer includes a memory configured to store polishing end point detection data sent from the polishing end point detection units and a display screen configured to display the polishing end point detection data. The host computer is configured to send a new polishing end point detection recipe to at least one polishing end point detection unit selected from the polishing end point detection units to rewrite a polishing end point detection recipe of the least one polishing end point detection unit. | 10-10-2013 |
20140004773 | PROCESSING END POINT DETECTION METHOD, POLISHING METHOD, AND POLISHING APPARATUS | 01-02-2014 |
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20090185032 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE AND LENS UNIT - An image pickup apparatus of the present invention varies optical properties by moving a part of lenses of an objective lens, and includes a solid-state image pickup device unit that is disposed at a rear-end section and that subjects a subject image to photoelectric conversion, a fixed lens frame that retains the objective lens that is disposed in front of the solid-state image pickup device unit, a movable lens frame that retains the part of lenses that moves along a photographing optical axis O inside the lens frame, and an actuator having one end connected to the movable lens frame and that moves the movable lens frame forward and backward. The actuator includes a rigid member provided so as to extend to the vicinity of the rear end at which the solid-state image pickup device unit is disposed and a shape memory alloy that is coupled to the rigid member. | 07-23-2009 |
20090292169 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - An electronic endoscope apparatus includes: an image pickup apparatus mounted at a distal end portion of an insertion portion; an operation portion provided consecutively at the insertion portion, with a frame member incorporated therein; and an electrical cable extended from the operation portion for connection with an external device. In the electronic endoscope apparatus, the frame member has a circuit board portion which establishes electrical connection between shields of the insertion portion and the electrical cable, and on which various electronic parts for exchanging signals with the image pickup apparatus are mounted. In spite of the arrangement of the image pickup apparatus that can acquire high-quality images at a distal end portion of the insertion portion, a size of the apparatus, in particular, a diameter of the insertion portion, can be prevented from being increased. | 11-26-2009 |
20120292079 | SIGNAL CABLE FOR ENDOSCOPE - A composite cable formed by unitizing coaxial wires of a drive signal system by twisting and bundling, and a composite cable formed by unitizing coaxial wires of an output signal system by twisting and bundling are arranged so as to be positioned substantially on a straight line passing through a cable center axis, and other electric wires of a power supply system are arranged at positions that are substantially symmetrical to each other with respect to the straight line passing through the cable center axis. Then, the composite cables and the simple wires are collectively twisted and bundled, a binding tape is wound on an outer circumference thereof, and an outer circumference of the binding tape is further shielded by an overall shield and covered by a sheath, which is an outer coating, thereby forming a signal cable. | 11-22-2012 |
20140078276 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT FOR ENDOSCOPE AND ENDOSCOPE - In this invention, an image pickup unit for endoscope including an image pickup device includes, in an optical black region of the image pickup device, a phase reference pixel region in which a pixel that outputs a signal capable of being used for phase adjustment of the video by receiving light is disposed, and an optical axis of an objective optical system member having an image circle which is narrower than an effective pixel region of the image pickup device is arranged at a position closer to the phase reference pixel region with respect to a center of the effective pixel region such that light transmitted through the objective optical system member can reach the phase reference pixel region. | 03-20-2014 |
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20130251424 | FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE FIXING APPARATUS - A fixing apparatus includes a roller, a first unit configured to heat the roller, the first unit including a first tubular film, a heating portion forming member to form a heating portion with the roller, and a first guide member dotted with first protruding portions contacting the inner surface of the first tubular film, and a second unit configured to form a nip portion with the roller, the second unit including a second tubular film, a nip portion forming member to form the nip portion with the roller, and a second guide member dotted with second protruding portions contacting the inner surface of the second tubular film, wherein there is a non-overlapping area between the first protruding portions and the second protruding portions in a generatrix direction of the roller. | 09-26-2013 |
20140003847 | FIXING DEVICE | 01-02-2014 |
20140023413 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - The image heating apparatus, for heating a toner image while conveying a recording material bearing the toner image at a nip portion, includes a rotary member in contact with the toner image, an endless belt, and a nip portion forming member that is in contact with the inner surface of the belt and forms the nip portion together with the rotary member via the belt. The nip portion forming member is a metal member having a surface which is in contact with the inner surface of the belt and on which an oxide layer is formed by an alumite treatment. | 01-23-2014 |
20140153950 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus configured to form a toner image on a recording material, includes: an image forming unit configured to form a unfixed toner image on the recording material; a fixing unit configured to heat the recording material where the unfixed toner image is formed while conveying the recording material using a nip portion, and to fix the unfixed toner image on the recording material; and a control unit configured to perform control so that temperature of the fixing unit is maintained in target temperature, with the target temperature (T | 06-05-2014 |
20140308052 | FIXING APPARATUS - In one aspect of the invention, a fixing apparatus that heats a recording material having a toner image while conveying the recording material at a nip portion to make the toner image fix onto the recording material includes a cylindrical belt having a heat generating layer that generates heat by being energized and a contact for supplying electricity to the heat generating layer. The contact is in contact with one of an outer surface and an inner surface of an end of the belt in the generatrix direction of the belt. An electrically conductive layer is provided, along the direction of rotation of the belt, on a surface of the heat generating layer opposite to a surface of the heat generating layer at which the contact is present. | 10-16-2014 |
20140314437 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming portion; a fixing portion; a first air blowing portion; and a second air blowing portion. The apparatus is operable in a first air blowing mode in which both the first and second air blowing portions are driven and in which the direction of the air near the exit is the recording material feeding direction, and is operable in a second air blowing mode in which both the first and second air blowing portions are driven and in which a direction of the air near the exit is a recording material feeding direction and a speed of the air is lower than a speed of the air in the first air blowing mode or in which the direction of the air near the exit is the opposite direction to the recording material feeding direction. | 10-23-2014 |
20140314458 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion; and a fixing portion. The fixing portion includes a cylindrical film, a nip-forming member and a roller including a shaft portion and an elastic layer. The elastic layer contacts an outer surface of the film except an end region of the film with respect to a generatrix direction. In the end region, the shaft portion and the outer surface of the film oppose each other with a spatial region with respect to a radial direction of the shaft portion. The image forming apparatus includes a spacer occupying at least a part of the spatial region. | 10-23-2014 |
20150063885 | FILM AND IMAGE HEATING DEVICE USING FILM - A cylindrical film used in an image heating device heating a recording material, on which an image has been formed, has a resin layer, this resin layer being made from a resin in which a crystalline resin and an amorphous resin having a higher glass transition temperature than the crystalline resin are blended, wherein a volume ratio of the crystalline resin with respect to the amorphous resin in the resin layer is 70/30 to 99/1. | 03-05-2015 |
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20080204714 | ON-VEHICLE FUEL PROPERTY DETECTION DEVICE - The detection device provides with an optical fiber composed of a core, a clad and a fiber jacket. A grating is applied to the core, and the fiber jacket located at the portion to which the grating is applied is removed so that the clad is in contact with a fuel fed to an injector of a vehicle. The detection device also provides with a light source for incidence of a light in a range of clad mode wavelength to the optical fiber, and a light-sensitive part for detecting an intensity of the light transmitting through the region to which the grating is applied. The optical fiber, light source and light-sensitive part are held in a conduit disposed in a fuel tank or between a fuel pump and the injector of the vehicle. | 08-28-2008 |
20090034901 | OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR - An optical fiber sensor that can detect a liquid level or detect a property of liquid with high reliability even under a frequently vibrational environment. The optical fiber sensor includes an optical fiber that includes a core having an area where a grating is formed and a clad, and is disposed so that at least a part of the area with the grating is immersed in liquid, a light source for making light incident to the optical fiber so that a cladding mode light having a wavelength band is occurred by the grating, and a light receiving unit for detecting the intensity of light which is incident from the light source to the optical fiber and transmitted through the grating. | 02-05-2009 |
20100080502 | OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR - An optical fiber sensor measuring refractive index of a medium with high sensitivity in a wide range. The optical fiber sensor includes an optical fiber causing a transmission loss due to leakage in the clad propagation mode from a portion of a core and a clad where a Bragg grating is provided, a light source permitting light in a wavelength band in the clad propagation mode to enter the optical fiber, and a light-receiving section receiving the transmitted or reflected light transmitted through the core and the clad at the portion where the Bragg grating is provided. The refractive index of the medium to be measured in contact with the clad is measured according to total intensity of the light received by the light-receiving section. The Bragg grating is inclined at a predetermined angle of inclination to the vertical line vertical to the length direction of the optical fiber. | 04-01-2010 |
20100296080 | OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR - An objective of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber sensor which has a simple configuration to enable sensitively measuring a refractive index of a measurement medium in a wide range of refractive indexes. An optical fiber sensor according to the present invention includes; an optical fiber having a core in which a short-period gratings are formed and a cladding, the optical fiber being made so that transmission loss occurs due to cladding-propagation-mode leakage at its cladding portion where the short-period gratings are formed; a light source from which light having a wavelength range of the cladding propagation mode is emitted; and a light receiving unit for receiving transmission or reflection light having passed through the cladding at the position where the short-period gratings are formed. The optical fiber sensor detects, based on the total receiving light intensity that the light receiving unit receives, the refractive index of the measurement medium contacting the cladding, in which the optical fiber is multi-mode one, and the short-period gratings have plural kinds of periods. | 11-25-2010 |
20110043799 | OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR AND FUEL SUPPLY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An optical fiber sensor includes: an optical fiber; a light source portion; and a light receiving portion. The optical fiber includes: a core that includes a grating that generates a clad mode upon receipt of light; a clad that covers the core; and a fiber jacket that covers the clad, wherein a part of the fiber jacket corresponding to an area where the grating is formed is removed so that the lad is contactable with the fuel. The light source portion includes a light cutting element that emits light, whose wavelength is within a wavelength band of the cladding mode toward the optical fiber. The light receiving portion that detects intensity of the light transmitted through the grating. The optical fiber, the light receiving portion and the light source portion are arranged linearly. | 02-24-2011 |
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20130126906 | SILICON CARBIDE EPITAXIAL WAFER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, SILICON CARBIDE BULK SUBSTRATE FOR EPITAXIAL GROWTH AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR AND HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS - A method is provided in order to manufacture a silicon carbide epitaxial wafer whose surface flatness is very good and has a very low density of carrot defects and triangular defects arising after epitaxial growth. The silicon carbide epitaxial wafer is manufactured by a first step of annealing a silicon carbide bulk substrate that is tilted less than 5 degrees from <0001> face, in a reducing gas atmosphere at a first temperature T | 05-23-2013 |
20140295136 | SINGLE-CRYSTAL 4H-SiC SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a single-crystal 4H-SiC substrate includes: preparing a flat 4H-SiC bulk single-crystal substrate; and epitaxially growing a first single-crystal 4H-SiC layer having recesses on the 4H-SiC bulk single-crystal substrate, wherein the first single-crystal 4H-SiC layer has a thickness of X (μm), the recesses have a diameter Y (μm) no smaller than 0.2*X (μm) and no larger than 2*X (μm), and a depth of Z (nm) no smaller than (0.95*X (μm) +0.5 (nm)) and no larger than 10*X (μm). | 10-02-2014 |
20150267320 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device includes: preparing a silicon carbide single crystal substrate having a flatness with an average roughness of 0.2 nm or less; gas-etching a surface of the silicon carbide single crystal substrate under an atmosphere of a reducing gas; and forming a silicon carbide layer on the gas-etched surface of the silicon carbide single crystal substrate, wherein an etching rate of the gas etching is made in a range of 0.5 μm/hour or faster to 2.0 μm/hour or slower. | 09-24-2015 |
20150354090 | SIC EPITAXIAL WAFER PRODUCTION METHOD - A method for manufacturing a SiC epitaxial wafer includes: a first step of, by supplying a Si supply gas and a C supply gas, performing a first epitaxial growth on a SiC bulk substrate with a 4H—SiC(0001) having an off-angle of less than 5° as a main surface at a first temperature of 1480° C. or higher and 1530° C. or lower; a second step of stopping the supply of the Si supply gas and the C supply gas and increasing a temperature of the SiC bulk substrate from the first temperature to a second temperature; and a third step of, by supplying the Si supply gas and the C supply gas, performing a second epitaxial growth on the SiC bulk substrate having the temperature increased in the second step at the second temperature. | 12-10-2015 |
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20100182312 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processor that calculates information concerning a three-dimensional shape comprises: a three-dimensional-shape input unit that inputs drawing data of a three-dimensional shape used for displaying a three-dimensional shape; a display unit that displays a three-dimensional shape of drawing data input to the three-dimensional-shape input unit; and a shape-value-information calculating unit that sets a shape element of a three-dimensional shape displayed on the display unit to data used for calculating a three-dimensional shape, based on an instruction input from outside, calculates a value of a shape concerning the three-dimensional shape not clearly shown within the drawing data as shape value information by using the set shape element, and displays a calculation result on the display unit. | 07-22-2010 |
20120089242 | AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING APPARATUS AND AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING METHOD - Automatic programming apparatus includes: a material shape data input unit that receives input of data of material shape; a processing program storage unit that stores therein data of material shape and processed unit data; a processed unit data input part that receives an input of other-processed-unit-reference-type processed unit data referencing processed region shape data contained in the processed unit data; a processed region shape generating unit that generates processed region shape data in the processed unit data for partial processing, based on data of material shape and processed region shape data referenced by other-processed-unit-reference-type processed unit data; and a control command generating unit that generates control command data, based on processed unit data for partial processing containing processed region shape data. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089246 | AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING APPARATUS AND AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING METHOD - To obtain an automatic programming apparatus, capable of generating a tool path for the chamfering process with a simple operation and capable of shortening the operation period and improving machining efficiency, the automatic programming apparatus includes a chamfering tool path generating unit and machining condition data. The chamfering tool path generating unit includes: a chamfered plane defining unit that generates shape data defining a chamfered plane obtained after the chamfering process is performed with respect to a shape of the chamfering target part; a reference point sequence generating unit that generates a reference point sequence used as a reference for generating the tool path data used for performing the chamfering process; and a tool reference position generating unit that, generates a reference position of a machining tool used when the machining tool passes while performing the chamfering process. | 04-12-2012 |
20150220079 | AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING DEVICE AND METHOD - An automatic programming device includes: a machining-area-shape generation unit that generates machining-area shape data that is a machining area shape machined on the basis of machining-area data; and a chamfering tool-path generation unit that, when the machining area shape is a chamfering target part, generates chamfering tool-path data for chamfering according to chamfering data including the machining-area shape data, data on tool-to-be-used, and data on machining condition. When performing chamfering on a boundary of the shaped raw material and the machining area shape defined on a curved surface that is a shaped raw material, the chamfering tool-path generation unit generates a machining path, as the chamfering tool-path data, for realizing chamfering by using 2-axis machining of a rotating axis parallel to a central axis of the shaped raw material and with a linear axis parallel to a bottom surface of the machining area shape. | 08-06-2015 |