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| 20090059097 | Image display apparatus - An image display apparatus includes: a light source; a spatial light modulation element modulating light from the light source based on a video signal; light quantity adjustment section adjusting the light quantity of light from the light source based on luminance information in the video signal; image correction section correcting luminance level of the video signal in accordance with light quantity adjustment by the light quantity adjustment section, and supplying a corrected video signal to the spatial light modulation element; and re-adjustment section performing re-adjustment such that a light quantity adjustment target is re-adjusted to a lower value, in a case that a final display luminance level, representing a luminance of the light modulated by the spatial modulation element, is lower than a predetermined first luminance level, where the light quantity adjustment target represents a adjustment target value in the light quantity, employed by the light quantity adjustment section. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090135208 | Image display apparatus - An image display apparatus may include a light source, a spatial light modulation element, light quantity adjustment section, image correction section and re-adjustment section. The re-adjustment section may perform re-adjustment such that, of a light quantity adjustment target and a luminance level correction target, at least the luminance level correction target is re-adjusted to a value in an opposite direction from a correction direction by the image correction section, in a case that a final display luminance level, representing a luminance of the light modulated by the spatial modulation element, is higher than a predetermined luminance level, where the luminance level correction target represents a correction target value in the luminance level of the video signal, employed by the image correction section, and the light quantity adjustment target represents a adjustment target value in the light quantity, employed by the light quantity adjustment section. | 05-28-2009 |
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| 20090103836 | SYSTEM FOR ENDOSCOPE DATA MANAGEMENT, AND SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGER FOR WASHING DATA MANAGEMENT - A system for endoscope data management of an endoscopic image of a body acquired by an endoscope is provided. An image filing apparatus retrieves the image from the endoscope, and records data of the image and scope ID assigned to the endoscope in association with one another. A washer washes the endoscope. A memory is incorporated in the washer, for storing log information of washing of the endoscope. A data manager retrieves the log information on line with the washer, to record the scope ID and the log information in association with one another. A server device records the data of the image, the scope ID and the log information on line with the image filing apparatus and the data manager. Furthermore, the data manager includes an editor for editing the log information of the washer. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20100094101 | Medical Inspection Aid System, Medical Inspection Aid Method and Computer Readable Medium - Adequate use item information and subject's condition criterion information are determined in advance. Actual use item information and actual subject's condition information are inputted. The actual use item information includes information of at least one used medical device and information of at least one used medicine. The actual subject's condition information indicates biological conditions of the subject after conduction of the inspection. The actual use item information is compared with the adequate use item information and the actual subject's condition information is compared with the subject's condition criterion information so that pieces of information with difference therebetween are extracted as difference information. Whether the conducted specific medical inspection was carried out adequately or not is determined based on the difference information. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100094647 | Medical Service Support System, Medical Service Support Method and Computer Readable Medium - A medical service support system includes: a first input unit that inputs first patient information on a patient in carrying out a medical examination of the patient; a second input unit that inputs second patient information on the patient in executing, to the patient, a pretreatment of an inspection being ordered according to a medical examination result of the patient; a memory that stores the first patient information inputted by the first input unit and the second patient information inputted by the second input unit; a consistency judging unit that judges match or mismatch of respective common items contained in both of the first patient information and the second patient information stored in the memory, by comparing the first patient information with the second patient information for each common item; and a display unit that displays a consistency judgment result by the consistency judging unit. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20110077960 | INSPECTION ROOM DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM, INSPECTION ROOM DECISION SUPPORT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An inspection room decision support system for providing support in deciding one inspection room in which a requested endoscopic inspection will be conducted, plural inspection rooms, the system includes: an input unit that inputs information; a registration unit that registers at least information about each of the inspection rooms, information about a number of persons waiting for inspection in each of the inspection rooms and information about an endoscope used in each of the inspection rooms into a database in accordance with the information inputted by the input unit; and a control unit which reads at least the information about each of the inspection rooms, the information about the number of persons waiting for inspection in each of the inspection rooms and the information about the endoscope in each of the inspection rooms from the database, and makes a display device display these pieces of information associated with each other. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078307 | COOPERATIVE SYSTEM AND COOPERATIVE PROCESSING METHOD AMONG MEDICAL SECTORS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A cooperative processing method includes: transmitting pathological inspection request information from an endoscopic sector to a pathological sector, the pathological inspection request information being created by use of an endoscopic inspection report and for requesting the pathological sector to perform pathological inspection; managing status information for the pathological inspection request received on the pathological sector side; issuing a request to change the transmitted pathological inspection request information corresponding to the report when there occurs a change in the report; acquiring the status information of the pathological inspection request information upon reception of the change request and determining whether the pathological inspection request information can be changed or not; and changing the pathological inspection request information when it is concluded that the pathological inspection request information can be changed, and transmitting a change rejection notification when it is concluded that the pathological inspection request information cannot be changed. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078632 | INSPECTION INFORMATION ADMINISTERING SYSTEM, INSPECTION INFORMATION ADMINISTERING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An inspection information administering system for recording and managing various kinds of information about an inspection, includes: a selection unit which selects a piece of information to be referred to or edited; and a display unit which displays a reference/edition screen corresponding to the piece of information selected by the selection unit. The selection unit can select a plurality of pieces of information. The display unit displays reference/edition screens corresponding to a plurality of pieces of information in different display regions simultaneously and respectively, when the plurality of pieces of information are selected by the selection unit. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20120078045 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, ENDOSCOPE IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, ENDOSCOPE IMAGE ACQUISITION ASSISTING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Plural predetermined examination parts of a patient are imaged sequentially and still images of the respective examination parts are thereby acquired by inserting an endoscope insertion unit having an imaging optical system in its tip portion into the body cavity of the patient. To this end, the number of still images taken is counted every time one of the predetermined examination parts. The counted number of still images taken is compared with a preset number of images which corresponds to the number of the plural predetermined examination parts. An alert is generated when non-coincidence is detected between the counted number of still images taken and the preset number. The operator is thus notified of occurrence of a failure to image. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078046 | ENDOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An endoscopic image display apparatus reads taken image data in which a taken image outputted from an endoscope is recorded, and reproduces and displays the taken image. The taken image data includes intensity information about a plurality of fundamental color components. The endoscopic image display apparatus includes an intensity changing unit which selectively reduces intensity of a specific color component in the taken image data by using the intensity information. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120084095 | PATIENT BURDEN EASING SUPPORT APPARATUS, PATIENT BURDEN EASING SUPPORT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An endoscopic sector server as a patient burden easing support apparatus executes a step of acquiring preparation completion information indicating that preparation for an endoscopic inspection has been completed, a step of acquiring inspection start information indicating that the endoscopic inspection has been started, a determination step of determining whether predetermined conditions about a time between acquisition of the preparation completion information and acquisition of the inspection start information are satisfied or not, and a warning step of outputting warning information when determination is made that the predetermined conditions are satisfied. | 04-05-2012 |
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| 20080319325 | Biologic Information Detecting Apparatus - In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is therefore difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value, and there is a problem of measuring blood pressure stably. It is also difficult to measure blood pressure in daily life activities or to measure blood pressure at predetermined intervals or continuously in a state where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of providing a method of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention has been achieved to solve the problems and an object of the invention is to provide an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20110295081 | Biologic Information Detecting Apparatus - In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is therefore difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value, and there is a problem of measuring blood pressure stably. It is also difficult to measure bloodpressure in daily life activities or to measure blood pressure at predetermined intervals or continuously in a state where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of providing a method of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention has been achieved to solve the problems and an object of the invention is to provide an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295092 | Biologic Information Detecting Apparatus - In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is therefore difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value, and there is a problem of measuring blood pressure stably. It is also difficult to measure blood pressure in daily life activities or to measure blood pressure at predetermined intervals or continuously in a state where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of providing a method of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention has been achieved to solve the problems and an object of the invention is to provide an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295131 | Biologic Information Detecting Apparatus - In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is therefore difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value, and there is a problem of measuring blood pressure stably. It is also difficult to measure blood pressure in daily life activities or to measure blood pressure at predetermined intervals or continuously in a state where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of providing a method of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention has been achieved to solve the problems and an object of the invention is to provide an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295132 | Biologic Information Detecting Apparatus - In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is therefore difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value, and there is a problem of measuring blood pressure stably. It is also difficult to measure blood pressure in daily life activities or to measure blood pressure at predetermined intervals or continuously in a state where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of providing a method of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention has been achieved to solve the problems and an object of the invention is to provide an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295133 | Biologic Information Detecting Apparatus - In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is therefore difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value, and there is a problem of measuring blood pressure stably. It is also difficult to measure blood pressure in daily life activities or to measure blood pressure at predetermined intervals or continuously in a state where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of providing a method of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention has been achieved to solve the problems and an object of the invention is to provide an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information. | 12-01-2011 |
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| 20090231454 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD - An imaging apparatus provided with a function of shooting a moving image and a still image, and capable of displaying an image to be captured on a display unit includes a first display control unit configured to display an confirmation image for checking an in-focus state on the display unit when a moving image is shot; and a second display control unit configured to change the confirmation image for checking an in-focus state displayed on the display unit by the first display control unit when a still image is shot during moving image shooting. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20100259652 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - Edge components in a predetermined direction of a captured image are extracted to generate a waveform image representing the levels of the extracted edge components and the extracted positions. The waveform image is displayed with the captured image. For example, the operability and visibility for focusing in manual focusing can be improved. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100277645 | VIDEO APPARATUS AND IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - This invention can reduce the circuit scale by synthesizing OSD data to be superposed on a picture of each resolution by using common OSD data. According to this invention, a video resolution converter converts an HD (High Definition) video signal into an SD (Standard Definition) video signal such as an NTSC or PAL video signal. A memory controller receives a sync signal identical to an SD picture obtained by frequency-dividing an HD video signal, and a sync signal based on an SD video signal, and reads out OSD data (4 bits per pixel) from the memory on the basis of these sync signals. The OSD data read out on the basis of the SD video signal is synthesized with the SD video signal by an SD_OSD_MIX unit, and then output. The OSD data read out on the basis of the SD sync signal synchronized with the HD is multiplied by an integer by an OSD resolution converter, synthesized with an HD video signal by an HD_OSD_MIX unit, and then output. | 11-04-2010 |
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| 20080266569 | NONCONTACT SURFACE FORM MEASURING APPARATUS - A noncontact form measuring apparatus emits a laser beam L. In the apparatus, a prism bends the laser beam into an X-axis direction, so that a Z-axis displacement of an objective optical system is converted by the prism into an X-axis displacement on a measurement coordinate system. A movement of an X-axis stage is converted into a Z-axis displacement on the measurement coordinate system. The apparatus moves an internal gear as a measurement object and the prism, reads X, Y, and Z coordinates at each focal point, and measures a three-dimensional form of inner teeth of the internal gear. The apparatus may translate the internal gear in a Y-axis direction, to measure a partial form of the inner teeth. The apparatus may turn the internal gear in an angular θ-direction, to measure a whole circumferential form of the inner teeth. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090213362 | OPTICAL MEASURING SYSTEM - An optical measuring system has a first optical measuring instrument and a second optical measuring instrument. The optical measuring system includes a first optical path to guide a first beam from a measuring region to the first optical measuring instrument, a second optical path to guide a second beam from the measuring region to the second optical measuring instrument, an optical system through which the first and second optical paths extend and in which the first and second optical paths are paraxial, a reflection area to change the direction of the first optical path, the second optical path crossing the reflection area, and a light transmission area arranged at a position where the reflection area and second optical path cross each other, the light transmission area having a higher light transmittance than the reflection area. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20110279826 | NONCONTACT SURFACE SHAPE MEASURING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Even if a return beam from a work to be measured does not agree with the center of a two-piece sensor, a correction value is calculated according to a voltage difference between two sensors of the two-piece sensor if the voltage difference is within a neighborhood range. The correction value is added to an actual position of an objective lens in an up-down direction, to calculate a movement amount of the objective lens up to a focused state (a state in which the return beam agrees with the center of the two-piece sensor). | 11-17-2011 |
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| 20090310890 | Duplex-Chamber Package - This invention provides a duplex-chamber package that has a high level of water vapor barrier properties, can realize mixing of plural contents in a hermetically sealed state, and can reduce the elution of a material contained in the sheet of a duplex-chamber package material into the contents of the package. The duplex-chamber package comprises a package comprising a first sheet superimposed onto a second sheet, the peripheral part of the assembly having been sealed, a weakly sealed part for partitioning the inside of the package into two or more chambers having been provided in a part of the package. The first sheet (I) is a laminated sheet comprising a heat seal layer, a mass transfer layer and a mass transfer blocking layer, and the mass transfer blocking layer being interposed between the heat seal layer and the mass transfer layer. The second sheet (II) is a laminated sheet comprising a heat seal layer, a mass transfer layer, a mass transfer blocking layer and a moisture blocking layer, and the mass transfer blocking layer being interposed between the heat seal layer and the mass transfer layer. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100163446 | LIQUID CONTAINER - To provide a liquid container, which exhibits excellent storage stability and impact resistance and which can be used for producing a soft bag pharmaceutical product of an injection liquid containing nitroglycerin, a protein, hyaluronic acid, a vitamin, a trace element, a radical scavenger, and the like. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110135223 | MULTILAYERED LIQUID CONTAINER - A multilayered liquid container having a discharge port welded under specified conditions to a sealant, which is constituted of a resin comprising a cycloolefin resin as a main component. The discharge port is composed of: an innermost layer constituted of a resin comprising a cycloolefin as a main component; and a surface layer whose main part is constituted of a resin comprising a specific type of polyethylene as a main component. According to the present invention, there can be provided a multilayered liquid container, which can prevent an effective component of a content fluid from being adsorbed onto or penetrating through not only the container body, but also the resin constituting the discharge port, and enables high temperature sterilization treatment, coupled with the discharge port having high welded strength and drop strength. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110266184 | POURING PORT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME AND CONTAINER FOR LIQUID PROVIDED WITH THE POURING PORT - A pouring port of a container for liquid at one end of which a rubber stopper allowing the penetration of an injection needle therethrough is embedded, wherein: the pouring port is formed by welding a port part, at least the innermost layer of which forming the discharge channel thereof comprises a resin containing a COP-based resin as the main component, with a stopper body part, which holds the rubber stopper and comprises a resin containing a COP-based resin as the main component, via the resin layers containing the respective COP-based resins as the main component; and at least the resin constituting the stopper body part contains a rubber component in an amount of not more than 30% by mass, or has, in the main chain, a molecular structure represented by general formula (1) | 11-03-2011 |
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| 20100068626 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM RECHARGEABLE BATTERY - A negative electrode material for lithium secondary batteries includes carbon microspheres having an arithmetic mean particle diameter do measured using an electron microscope of 150 to 1000 nm, a volatile content Vm of 5.0% or less, a ratio ΔDst/Dst (where, Dst indicates the Stokes mode diameter Dst measured using a disk centrifuge (DCF), and ΔDst indicates the half-width of the Stokes mode diameter Dst) of 0.40 to 1.10, and a lattice spacing (d002) measured by X-ray diffractometry of 0.370 nm or less. The negative electrode material is used for a high-output lithium secondary battery that has a high lithium ion doping-undoping speed and excellent cycle characteristics, and is suitable as a power supply for portable instruments, hybrid cars, electric vehicles, and the like. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20120086916 | ILLUMINATION UNIT, PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY UNIT, AND DIRECT VIEW TYPE DISPLAY UNIT - An illumination unit includes one or more light sources each including a solid-state light-emitting device having a light emission region configured of one or more light-emission spots, one or more traveling-direction angle conversion device each converting a traveling-direction-angle of light, and an integrator including a first fly-eye lens having cells which receive light from the traveling-direction angle conversion device and a second fly-eye lens having cells which receive light from the first fly-eye lens, the integrator uniformalizing illumination distribution in a predetermined illumination area. An optical system configured with the traveling-direction angle conversion device and the first and second fly-eye lenses has an optical magnification which allows each of light source images to have a size not exceeding a size of the cell in the second fly-eye lens, the light source images being formed on the second fly-eye lens by the respective cells in the first fly-eye lens. | 04-12-2012 |
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| 20100179137 | PYRIDONE COMPOUND - [Solving Means] The present inventors have conducted extensive studies on an EP4 receptor agonist, and as a result, found that a novel pyridone compound characterized in that the 1-position in the pyridone ring is substituted with a group having an acidic group such as a carboxyl group and the 6-position is bonded with an aromatic ring group via lower alkyl, lower alkylene, ether, or thioether, has an excellent EP4 receptor agonistic action, thereby completing the present invention. Since the compound of the present invention has an excellent EP4 receptor agonistic action and a blood flow increasing action in the hindlimb of a rat, it is useful as a pharmaceutical, in particular, an agent for treating peripheral arterial occlusive disease. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20110082133 | PYRIDONE COMPOUNDS - [Problems] A useful compound which can be used as a pharmaceutical, in particular, an agent for treating peripheral arterial occlusive disease is provided. | 04-07-2011 |
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| 20110184707 | PID ADJUSTMENT SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD - A PID adjustment support device has: a recognition tolerance interval storing portion for storing, in advance, a recognition tolerance interval understood by a user regarding target quantity data of a model to be controlled; and a display processing portion for graphing and displaying, on a displaying portion, the target quantity data and, as a modeling result, a model-response waveform that is a control-response waveform calculated based on the model to be controlled, and for overlaying with the modeling result and displaying the recognition tolerance interval stored in the recognition tolerance interval storing means. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20120020831 | AIRFLOW CONTROLLING DEVICE AND METHOD - The airflow controlling device includes a bacteria counting portion counting bacteria of a controlled space; a first smoothing processing portion performing a first smoothing process on the bacteria count; a second smoothing processing portion performing a second smoothing process on the bacteria count; a bacteria reducing capability storing portion storing a bacteria reducing capability relative to each flow rate; a first flow rate evaluating portion selecting a flow rate matching a bacteria reducing capability compatible with an increase in a bacteria count forecasted from the processing result of the first smoothing processing portion; a second flow rate evaluating portion selecting a flow rate matching a bacteria reducing capability compatible with an increase in a bacteria count forecasted from the processing result of the second smoothing processing portion; and a flow rate determining portion selecting a flow rate into the controlled space based on the flow rates selected by the first and second flow rate evaluating portions. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120029658 | OPERATION CONTROLLING SYSTEM AND OPERATION CONTROLLING DEVICE AND METHOD - An operation controlling system is provided with an operation controlling device that is installed removably in a facility equipment, and an operating terminal for sending an instruction signal to the operation controlling device. The operation controlling device not only has communicating means for receiving the instruction signal sent from the operating terminal, but also operation controlling means for turning ON/OFF, in accordance with the instruction signal, the facility equipment that is connected locally, and/or output controlling means for controlling, in accordance with the instruction signal, an output value of the facility equipment that is connected locally. | 02-02-2012 |
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| 20100284074 | POLARIZING GLASS, OPTICAL ISOLATOR, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLARIZING GLASS - A polarizing glass includes shape-anisotropic metal particles oriented and dispersed in a glass substrate, the concentration of the metal particles having a distribution in which in the travel direction of light in which a polarizing function is exhibited, the concentration is substantially zero near one of the surfaces of the glass substrate and near the other surface, gradually increases from one of the surfaces of the glass substrate to the other surface, becomes a value within a predetermined range in the glass substrate, and then gradually decreases toward the other surface. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110181953 | POLARIZING ELEMENT - A polarizing element includes fine metal particles formed in numerous regions that were occupied by respective substantially needle-like metal halide fine particles before reduction that are oriented and dispersed in a glass substrate such that the lengthwise directions thereof are almost the same, the fine metal particles being produced by heat-treating the glass substrate in a reducing atmosphere to reduce the substantially needle-like metal halide fine particles. The number of fine metal particles present in at least some of the numerous regions is two or more in each region, 90% or more of the regions each have a volume of 2,500 to 2,500,000 nm | 07-28-2011 |
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| 20100062412 | METHOD OF REMOVING ABNORMAL PRION PROTEIN FROM BLOOD PRODUCTS - Provided are a method of conveniently and efficiently removing abnormal prion protein from a blood product and a method of removing leukocyte simultaneously with abnormal prion protein. The method of removing an abnormal prion protein from a blood product includes filtering the blood product through a filter filled with a carrier coated with a polymer, which is composed of three units including 20 mol % or more and 40 mol % or less of a unit originating from a hydrophobic polymerizable monomer, 5 mol % or more and 13 mol % or less of a unit originating from a polymerizable monomer containing a basic nitrogen-containing part, and a unit originating from a polymerizable monomer containing a protonic neutral hydrophilic part as the balance, and then recovering the filtered blood product. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20120067810 | BLOOD PROCESSING FILTER AND THE METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - This invention relates to a blood processing filter comprising a sheet-like filter element, an inlet-side flexible container and an outlet-side flexible container that sandwich the filter element and are sealed thereto, an inlet port provided in the inlet-side flexible container for accepting blood before being processed by the filter element, and an outlet port provided in the outlet-side flexible container for discharging blood after being processed by the filter element. The blood processing filter also includes a flow channel securing sheet arranged between the filter element and the outlet-side flexible container. A flow channel hole through which blood processed by the filter element passes is formed in the flow channel securing sheet. The outlet port is provided so as to be capable of communicating with the flow channel hole. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120067811 | BLOOD PROCESSING FILTER AND THE METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - This invention relates to a blood processing filter including a band-shaped first seal part that seals an inlet-side flexible container of the blood processing filter and a filter element of the blood processing filter so as to surround an inlet port, and an annular second seal part that seals at least the inlet-side flexible container and an outlet-side flexible container and is formed surrounding the first seal part at a position that is closer to an outer edge than the first seal part. A valley part corresponding to the first seal part is provided on an outlet side of the filter element. An outlet opening that communicates with an inside of the outlet-side flexible container is formed in the outlet port. At least one portion of the outlet opening is arranged so as to overlap with the valley part. | 03-22-2012 |
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| 20100070558 | SERVICE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A service processing apparatus that is realized by a computer is provided. A service ID generating/adding component of the service processing apparatus generates a service ID including a call origin ID and a call destination ID, in each of which an ID element is set, and adds the generated service ID to a service request transmitted when no upper service processing apparatus to the own apparatus exists, and, when an upper service processing apparatus to the own apparatus exists, generates a service ID including a call origin ID in which is set an ID element set as the call destination ID in a service ID added to a service request received from the upper service processing apparatus and a call destination ID in which is set an ID element and adds the generated service ID to the service request. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070559 | SERVICE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A service processing apparatus that is realized by a computer is provided. The apparatus forms a service processing system, and transmits and receives information, with at least one other service processing apparatus. The apparatus performs processing to execute at least a service other than services for which processing is complete and that are not idempotent among at least one service corresponding to the services for which re-execution is requested, when re-execution is requested for a service for which execution has been previously requested by receipt of a service request to which the same service ID is added as to a previously received service request, and transmits a response to a transmission origin of the service request, when the processing to execute is completed. | 03-18-2010 |
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| 20090020766 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A power semiconductor device less prone to cause a reaction between a metal material for interconnection and an electrode or the like connected to a semiconductor region during the high-temperature operation thereof and less prone to be strained during the high-temperature operation thereof. The power semiconductor device can be an SiC power device or the like in which a first metal layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Pt, Ti, Mo, W and Ta is formed on a source electrode formed on the semiconductor region, such as a source region or the like. A second metal layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Mo, W and Cu is formed on the first metal layer. A third metal layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Pt, Mo and W is formed on the second metal layer. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090173997 | MOSFET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MOSFET - The present invention provides a MOSFET and so forth that offer high breakdown voltage and low on-state loss (high channel mobility and low gate threshold voltage) and that can easily achieve normally OFF. A drift layer | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090250705 | SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE COMPRISING SILICON CARBIDE LAYER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A p base ohmic contact of a silicon carbide semiconductor device consists of a p++ layer formed by high-concentration ion implantation and a metal electrode. Since the high-concentration ion implantation performed at the room temperature significantly degrades the crystal of the p++ layer to cause a process failure, a method for implantation at high temperatures is used. In terms of switching loss and the like of devices, it is desirable that the resistivity of the p base ohmic contact should be lower. In well-known techniques, nothing is mentioned on a detailed relation among the ion implantation temperature, the ohmic contact resistivity and the process failure. Then, in the ion implantation step, the temperature of a silicon carbide wafer is maintained in a range from 175° C. to 300° C., more preferably in a range from 175° C. to 200° C. The resistivity of the p base ohmic contact using a p++ region formed by ion implantation at a temperature in a range from 175° C. to 300° C. becomes lower than that in a case where the p++ region is formed by ion implantation at a temperature over 300° C. Further, this can avoid any process failure. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100219417 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same, to appropriately determine an impurity concentration distribution of a field relieving region and reduce an ON-resistance. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first drift layer, a second drift layer, a first well region, a second well region, a current control region, and a field relieving region. The first well region is disposed continuously from an end portion adjacent to the vicinity of outer peripheral portion of the second drift layer to a portion of the first drift layer below the vicinity of outer peripheral portion. The field relieving region is so disposed in the first drift layer as to be adjacent to the first well region. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100314629 | SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In order to obtain a silicon carbide semiconductor device that ensures both stability of withstand voltage and reliability in high-temperature operations in its termination end-portion provided for electric-field relaxation in the perimeter of a cell portion driven as a semiconductor element, the termination end-portion is provided with an inorganic protection film having high heat resistance that is formed on an exposed surface of a well region as a first region formed on a side of the cell portion, and an organic protection film having a high electrical insulation capability with a little influence by electric charges that is formed on a surface of an electric-field relaxation region formed in contact relation to an outer lateral surface of the well region and apart from the cell portion, and on an exposed surface of the silicon carbide layer. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110210392 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A structure of a power semiconductor device, in which a P-well region having a large area and a gate electrode are opposed to each other through a field oxide film having a larger thickness than that of a gate insulating film such that the P-well region having a large area and the gate electrode are not opposed to each other through the gate insulating film, or the gate electrode is not provided above the gate insulating film that includes the P-well region having a large area therebelow. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110278599 | SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A SiC semiconductor device capable of increasing a switching speed without destroying a gate insulating film. In addition, in a SiC-MOSFET including an n-type semiconductor substrate formed of SiC, a p-type semiconductor layer is entirely or partially provided on an upper surface of a p-type well layer that has a largest area of the transverse plane among a plurality of p-type well layers provided in an n-type drift layer and is arranged on an outermost periphery immediately below a gate electrode pad. It is preferable that a concentration of an impurity contained in the p-type semiconductor layer be larger than that of the p-type well layer. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110284874 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In a cell region of a first major surface of a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first well of a second conductivity type is in an upper surface. A diffusion region of a first conductivity type is in the upper surface in the first well. A first gate insulating film is on the first well, and a first gate electrode on the first gate insulating film. A second well of a second conductivity type is in the upper surface of the first major surface on a peripheral portion of the cell region. A second gate insulating film is on the second well, and a thick field oxide film is on the peripheral side than the second gate insulating film. A second gate electrode is sequentially on the second gate insulating film and the field oxide film and electrically connected to the first gate electrode. A first electrode is connected to the first, second well and the diffusion region. A second electrode is connected on a second major surface of the semiconductor substrate. A gate wiring is on the field oxide film, going around a periphery of the cell region, and electrically connected to the second gate electrode. The gate wiring is a silicide of a constituting substance of the second gate electrode. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120058617 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The present invention includes steps below: (a) forming, on a drift layer, a first ion implantation mask and a second ion implantation mask individually by photolithography to form a third ion implantation mask, the first ion implantation mask having a mask region corresponding to a channel region and having a first opening corresponding to a source region, the second ion implantation mask being positioned in contact with an outer edge of the first ion implantation mask and configured to form a base region; (b) implanting impurities of a first conductivity type from the first opening with an ion beam using the third ion implantation mask to form a source region in an upper layer part of the silicon carbide drift layer; (c) removing the first ion implantation mask after the formation of the source region; and (d) implanting impurities of a second conductivity type with an ion beam from a second opening formed in the second ion implantation mask after the removal of the first ion implantation mask to form a base region deeper than the source region in the upper layer part of the drift layer. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120061688 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a power semiconductor device that switches at a high speed, a displacement current flows at a time of switching, so that a high voltage occurs which may cause breakdown of a thin insulating film such as a gate insulating film. A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a drift layer of the first conductivity type formed on a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate; a first well region of a second conductivity type formed in a part of a surface layer of the drift layer; a second well region of the second conductivity type formed in a part of the surface layer of the drift layer at a distance from the first well region, the second well region having a smaller area than that of the first well region when seen above an upper surface thereof; a low-resistance region of the first conductivity type formed in a surface layer of the first well region, the low-resistance region having a higher impurity concentration than that of the first well region; a gate insulating film formed on and in contact with a surface of the first well region; and a gate electrode formed on and in contact with a surface of the gate insulating film. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120074508 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A power semiconductor device less prone to cause a reaction between a metal material for interconnection and an electrode or the like connected to a semiconductor region during the high-temperature operation thereof and less prone to be strained during the high-temperature operation thereof. The power semiconductor device can be an SiC power device or the like in which a first metal layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Pt, Ti, Mo, W and Ta is formed on a source electrode formed on the semiconductor region, such as a source region or the like. A second metal layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Mo, W and Cu is formed on the first metal layer. A third metal layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Pt, Mo and W is formed on the second metal layer. | 03-29-2012 |
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| 20100245880 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus which prevents one host computer from occupying the apparatus and enables a user of the host computer having sent a processing request thereto to quickly know a processing result. A connection request is accepted from one of a plurality of host computers. In response to the accepted connection request, the host computer having sent the connection request is connected, and a process requested by the connected host computer is executed. Information indicative of the connected host computer is stored. Control is performed such that a reconnection request from the host computer indicated by the stored information is accepted with priority over connection requests from other host computers. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110019813 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - This invention provides a communication apparatus, which suppresses abrupt changes of a current and voltage generated in a communication line upon connecting an external telephone to the communication line, and a control method thereof. To accomplish this, in a communication apparatus of this invention, when an off-hook state of an external telephone is detected upon connecting the external telephone to a communication line, an SOC captures a line using a first line capture means having an impedance lower than the external telephone side, and then switches an H-relay to connect the external telephone to the communication line. Furthermore, the SOC temporarily switches a line capture state to a second line capture means having an impedance higher than the first line capture means after the H-relay is switched and before the line is released. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110135335 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus having an image forming unit and a fixing unit. The image forming unit may form an image on a sheet based on image data by using a recording agent. The fixing unit may fix the recording agent on the sheet. The image forming apparatus may include a control unit to receive the image data and transmit the received image data to the image forming unit and a determination unit to determine a type of an interface via which the image data has been received. The control unit additionally determines whether to start raising a temperature of the fixing unit before the image data becomes ready to be transmitted to the image forming unit based on the type of the interface determined by the determination unit. | 06-09-2011 |
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| 20090057417 | IC CARD - The present invention realizes a card on which a secure IC chip (a first semiconductor chip) that operates on both of a high power source voltage and a low power source voltage, and a nonvolatile semiconductor storage chip that operates on the lower power source voltage are mounted. Means for operating the card without exerting an adverse influence of the nonvolatile semiconductor storage chip when the high power source voltage is supplied is realized. A card has a voltage supply interrupting unit which is coupled to a power source terminal to which a first power source voltage and a second power source voltage higher than the first power source voltage are supplied, and a grounding terminal to which a grounding voltage is supplied. The voltage supply interrupting unit, when the first power source voltage is supplied, supplies voltage to a nonvolatile semiconductor storage chip and, when the second power source voltage is supplied, stops supplying the voltage to the nonvolatile semiconductor storage chip. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20100183240 | Image processing method and imaging apparatus - An image processing method for reducing noise of an image to be filtered; the method includes a step of creating shrunken image of shrinking ratio r×r (where r is a natural number) by averaging the pixel values for each pixel in a block for every r pixels, a step of obtaining the pixel value in the shrunken image that correspond to the focus pixel in the source image by performing linear interpolation from the shrunken image pixels, a step of determining the noise reduction filter from the focus pixel and reference pixel in the shrunken image, and a step of computing the compensated pixel value of the focus pixel in the source image by weighted sum of each pixel value applying the filter to the focus pixel in the source image and the corresponding shrunken pixel. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20110216981 | Partial expansion method of encoded images and image processing apparatus - A method for partially up/downscaling an image encoded on a macroblock basis utilizing a computer, includes: a step of storing the encoded image in a storage device of the computer; a step of creating map data from bitstream of the encoded image, the map data being utilized to decode at least one macroblock of the encoded image, creating a shrunken image of a predetermined size based on a screen resolution of a display device, and storing the map data and the shrunken image so as to relate the map data and the shrunken image with the encoded image in the storage device; a step of outputting, to the display device, the shrunken image related with the encoded image to be displayed based on a control request received from an input device; a step of determining at least one macroblock to be decoded based on a display area of the shrunken image; a step of partially decoding the encoded image for the determined macroblock using the map data; and a step of outputting to the display device, the image data of the display area of the partially decoded image. | 09-08-2011 |
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| 20090179261 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device wherein the generation of voids is prevented in aluminum-based electrodes or the like. The method is suitable for manufacturing a semiconductor device adapted for vehicles, which is required to have a high reliability. However, it is very difficult that power semiconductor devices such as power MOSFETs, in particular, trench gate type power MOS devices are formed without having any void since the thickness of aluminum-based electrodes thereof is as large as about 3500 to 5500 nm (2.5 μm or more). In the present invention, a method is provided wherein at the time of forming an aluminum-based electrode metal film positioned over a wafer and having a thickness of 2.5 μm or more over a highland/lowland-repeated region in a line and space form by sputtering, the temperature of the wafer is set to 400° C. or higher and lower than 500° C. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20100009532 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS THEREFOR - Provided is a manufacturing method for improving the reliability of a semiconductor device having a back electrode. After formation of semiconductor elements on the surface of a silicon substrate, the backside surface thereof, which is opposite to the element formation surface, is subjected to the following steps in a processing apparatus. After deposition of a first metal film over the backside surface of the silicon substrate in a first chamber, it is heat treated to form a metal silicide film. Then, a nickel film is deposited in a third chamber, followed by deposition of an antioxidant conductor film in a second chamber. Heat treatment for alloying the first metal film and the silicon substrate is performed at least prior to the deposition of the nickel film. The first chamber has therefore a mechanism for depositing the first metal film and a lamp heating mechanism. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100291767 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In MOSFET having SBD as a protection element, a TiW (alloy having tungsten as a main component) film is used as an aluminum-diffusion barrier metal film below an aluminum source electrode in order to secure properties of SBD. The present inventors have found that a tungsten-based barrier metal film is in the form of columnar grains having a lower barrier property than that of a titanium-based barrier metal film such as TiN so that aluminum spikes are generated relatively easily in a silicon substrate. In the present invention, when a tungsten-based barrier metal film is formed by sputtering as a barrier metal layer between an aluminum-based metal layer and a silicon-based semiconductor layer therebelow, the lower layer is formed by ionization sputtering while applying a bias to the wafer side and the upper layer is formed by sputtering without applying a bias to the wafer side. | 11-18-2010 |
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| 20100237470 | EPITAXIAL WAFER - An epitaxial wafer is provided capable of eliminating particles in a device process, particles being generated from scratches in a boundary area between a rear surface and a chamfered surface of a wafer. The number of scratches in the boundary area between the rear surface and the chamfered surface is small, and thus the number of particles generated from the scratches is reduced at a time of immersion in an etching solution in the device process. Thereby, a device yield is increased. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100261341 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EPITAXIAL WAFER - An epitaxial wafer is provided capable of eliminating particles in a device process, particles being generated from a scratch in a boundary area between a rear surface and a chamfered surface of a wafer. The scratch in the boundary area between the rear surface and the chamfered surface is removed in a scratch removal process. Thus, no particles exist caused by a scratch, at a time of immersion in an etching solution in the device process, and thus a device yield is increased. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20110065365 | GRINDING METHOD AND GRINDING APPARATUS FOR POLISHING PAD FOR USE IN DOUBLE-SIDE POLISHING DEVICE - The present invention provides an apparatus capable of uniformly grinding an polishing pad. Further, the present invention provides a method of grinding an polishing pad by using the grinding apparatus. Specifically, the present invention provides a method of, in a double-side polishing device having a carrier for holding a work, a pair of upper and lower rotating surface plates disposed to face each other to sandwich the carrier therebetween, and the polishing pad provided on each of the facing surfaces of the rotating surface plates for polishing the work, grinding the polishing pad, the method comprising the steps of: separating the upper and the lower rotating surface plates away from each other when the polishing pads on the upper and the lower rotating surface plates are to be ground; inserting, between the separated upper and lower rotating surface plates, an arm having at a front end portion thereof a grinding plate of a diameter smaller than those of the rotating surface plates; and pressing the grinding plate against the polishing pad of each of the rotating surface plates and rotating the grinding plate, thereby grinding the polishing pad of each of the rotating surface plates. The present invention also provides an apparatus which enables the grinding method described above. | 03-17-2011 |
