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| 20080278380 | ANTENNA UNIT COMPRISING FIRST AND SECOND ANTENNA PATTERNS - An antenna unit includes a board having first and second surfaces opposite to each other, a first antenna pattern, formed on the first surface of the board, for transmitting and receiving a first radio wave having a first frequency band, and a second antenna pattern, formed on the second surface of the board, for transmitting and receiving a second radio wave having a second frequency band different from the first frequency band. The first antenna pattern and the second antenna pattern are disposed so as to be opposed to each other through the board with they electrically disconnected. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090046026 | CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ANTENNA - To provide a circularly polarized antenna capable of obtaining an excellent axial ratio over a very wide range and having a great gain in a zenith direction. The circularly polarized antenna ( | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090058732 | Wideband antenna unit - To provide a thin wideband antenna unit capable of shrinking the size of a radiation element in a case where a dielectric is not used. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090303143 | Antenna Element - An antenna element is disclosed. A substrate is made of dielectric material and has a first face. A first antenna element is made of conductive material and is provided on the first face. A first power feeding portion is made of conductive material and is disposed on the first antenna element. A second antenna element is made of conductive material, is provided on the first face, and forms a loop surrounding the first antenna element with a gap. A second power feeding portion is made of conductive material. The second power feeding portion is extended from the second antenna element toward the first antenna element and is arranged to form an electromagnetic coupling with the first antenna element. A perturbation element is made of conductive material and is extended from the second antenna element. A length of loop is twice a circumferential length of the first antenna element. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100053006 | Antenna Device - An antenna device includes a plurality of loop elements. The loop elements are made of conductive material, and constitute a planar antenna element having N-fold rotationally symmetric shape with respect to a center portion of the planar antenna element, the N being an integer of three or more. Each of the loop elements includes at least two first elements extending in a first direction parallel to a radial direction of the planar antenna element and at least one second element extending in a circumferential direction of the planar antenna element. A ground plate is made of conductive material and opposes the planar antenna element. A power feeding line extends from the ground plate to the planar antenna element, and is electrically connected to the planar antenna element at the center portion. | 03-04-2010 |
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| 20080262309 | ENDOSCOPE AND ROTARY SELF-PROPELLED ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope of the present invention includes an insertion portion including a bending portion, an operation portion separate from the insertion portion, a bending operation wire that is inserted through the insertion portion and used for bending the bending portion in a predetermined direction with tugging in a forward/backward tugging direction, and connecting mechanisms that makes it possible to couple the insertion portion and the operation portion in a manner in which the bending wire is freely tugged in the operation portion. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090062608 | APPARATUS FOR ADVANCING AN ENDOSCOPE AND METHOD FOR MANIPULATING THE APPARATUS FOR ADVANCING AN ENDOSCOPE - In a region where an intestine is movable in the abdominal cavity, conventional endoscope apparatus have suffered from a difficulty in moving an endoscope advancing portion toward a deep intestinal portion. An apparatus for advancing an endoscope is provided, which can be easily manipulated to advance medical instruments having endoscopic functions toward a deep portion. The apparatus includes first and second medical instruments, each having, at a distal end portion thereof, a balloon portion that can be fixed to an intestinal wall. In a fixed state, the balloon portion of the first medical instrument is configured to form a gap for enabling a distal end portion of the second medical instrument to advance therethrough. In a fixed state, the balloon portion of the second medical instrument is configured to form a gap for enabling a distal end portion of the first medical instrument to advance therethrough. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20110009696 | ENDOSCOPE INSERTION APPARATUS - An endoscope insertion apparatus is provided that has an inner-side unit in which a plurality of inner-side fixing sections having an inner-side arm are uniformly arranged in a circumferential direction, an outer-side unit in which a plurality of outer-side fixing sections having an outer-side arm are uniformly arranged in a circumferential direction and in which slit portions that extend in a direction perpendicular to the circumferential direction and from which the inner-side arms protrude are uniformly arranged in the circumferential direction between the outer-side fixing sections, and an insertion operation portion that changes a front/rear relationship between the inner-side arms and outer-side arms. | 01-13-2011 |
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| 20090054549 | RUBBER COMPOSITION AND PNEUMATIC TIRE USING THE SAME - This invention relates to a rubber composition capable of improving a steering stability on a wet road and a low fuel consumption of a tire, and more particularly to a rubber composition comprising 5 to 60 parts by mass of a low-molecular weight aromatic vinyl compound-conjugated diene compound copolymer (B) having an aromatic vinyl compound content of 5 to 80% by mass, a vinyl bond content in a conjugated diene compound portion of 10 to 80% by mass and a weight average molecular weight as measured through a gel permeation chromatography and converted to polystyrene of 5,000 to 200,000 and 20 to 90 parts by mass of a filler (C) based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component (A) composed of at least one of natural rubber and synthetic diene-based rubbers, in which 50 to 90% by mass of the filler (C) is silica. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090075201 | PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE MATERIAL, AND CYCLIC UREIDE MOIETY-CONTAINING PHENOLIC RESIN AND ITS SYNTHETIC PROCESS - Disclosed is a planographic printing plate material comprising an aluminum support and provided thereon, an image formation layer containing a cyclic ureide moiety-containing phenolic resin in which a phenolic resin has a cyclic ureide moiety through a linkage group, the cyclic ureide moiety being derived from a cyclic ureide and the linkage group being derived from a linkage compound having both a monohalogenated alkyl group and one selected from a vinyl group, a carbonyl group, an ester group and a sulfonic acid ester group. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20110220895 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR - The present invention makes it possible to prepare a thin film transistor fitted with a resin substrate by lowering a process temperature during formation of an oxide semiconductor, and further makes it possible to improve manufacturing efficiency and reduce variations in thin film transistor performance. Disclosed is a thin film transistor of the present invention possessing a semiconductor containing metal oxide, the semiconductor comprising a coating film made from a solution or a dispersion of a precursor, wherein the metal oxide contains indium as a first metal element, gallium or aluminum as a second metal element, and zinc or tin as a third metal element, and a ratio of the third metal element to total metal elements in the metal oxide is 25 at % or less, or 0 at %. | 09-15-2011 |
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| 20080315876 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE GENERATING METHOD - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus configured to scan a subject in order to collect magnetic resonance signals from the subject in a magnetostatic field space, the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a scanning unit configured to execute an imaging pulse sequence after executing a preparation pulse sequence to transmit preparation pulses. The scanning unit, in executing the preparation pulse sequence, excites a spin of the subject by successively transmitting a first chemical saturation pulse, a T2 preparation pulse and a second chemical saturation pulse, which is a reversed pulse; transmits a first killer gradient pulse after transmitting the first chemical saturation pulse and before transmitting the T2 preparation pulse; transmits a second killer gradient pulse after transmitting the T2 preparation pulse and before transmitting the second chemical saturation pulse; and transmits a third killer gradient pulse after transmitting the second chemical saturation pulse and before executing the imaging pulse sequence. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090062640 | MRI APPARATUS - An MRI apparatus for imaging of a bodily fluid flowing inside a subject includes a gradient coil which applies gradient pulses to the subject, a transmission coil which transmits RF pulses to the subject, and a control part which controls the gradient coil and the transmission coil. The control part controls the gradient coil and the transmission coil in order to: saturate longitudinal magnetization of the bodily fluid in a field of saturation positioned on an upstream flow of the bodily fluid during a saturation period, invert the direction of longitudinal magnetization of the bodily fluid in an imaging field of view positioned on an downstream flow of the bodily fluid during an inversion period following the saturation period, and acquire MR signals from the bodily fluid in the imaging field of view during a data acquisition period following the inversion period. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090270719 | MRI APPARATUS - An MRI apparatus which images a subject in such that body fluid that flows is emphasized over background tissues, includes a first coil control device that causes a transmission coil and a gradient coil to execute a first pulse sequence for causing longitudinal magnetization components of the background tissues to differ from a longitudinal magnetization component of the body fluid, a second coil control device that causes the transmission coil and the gradient coil to execute a second pulse sequence that inverts the longitudinal magnetization components of the body fluid and the background tissues a plurality of times after the execution of the first pulse sequence, and a third coil control device that causes the transmission coil and the gradient coil to execute a third pulse sequence for acquiring each MR signal of the body fluid after the execution of the second pulse sequence. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100045290 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a coil control device that controls a transmission coil and a gradient coil such that (A) a longitudinal magnetization adjustment pulse sequence for setting a longitudinal magnetization component positive in value of a first body fluid smaller than a longitudinal magnetization component positive in value of a second body fluid is executed on the first and second body fluids, (B) a longitudinal magnetization reverse pulse for reversing the longitudinal magnetization components of the first and second body fluids is transmitted, and (C) a data acquisition pulse sequence for acquiring data of the first body fluid when an absolute value of the longitudinal magnetization component of the first body fluid flowing through an imaging area is larger than an absolute value of the longitudinal magnetization component of the second body fluid, is executed. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100327871 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus sequentially transmits a plurality of radio frequency (RF) pulses for refocusing transverse magnetization of spins, and brings the transverse magnetization of the spins to longitudinal magnetization after the refocusing of the transverse magnetization of the spins. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110190622 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus executes a pulse sequence for generating a phase shift of each spin, corresponding to a flow rate of the spin to thereby acquire magnetic resonance signals from a subject and determines a position of each blood vessel of the subject, based on each of the magnetic resonance signals. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a blood vessel position specifying device for specifying a position of each blood vessel, based on a change in signal intensity of the magnetic resonance signal with time and based on a change in the flow rate of the spin with time. | 08-04-2011 |
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| 20100166390 | Content display control apparatus, method therefor, program therefor, and recording medium therefor - A content display control apparatus includes control functions, in which, a content is obtained, data associated with a character string corresponding to the content is obtained, the character string associated with the data is segmented into a line in accordance with a criterion determined in advance, a display duration time of the character string is set on a line-by-line basis, the segmented line is sequentially superimposed and displayed in accordance with the corresponding display duration time set thereby, the number of characters included in the segmented line is counted, a period of time corresponding to the counted number of characters is calculated, the calculated period of time is set as the display duration time corresponding to the segmented line, and subsequent to completion of displaying of the segmented line of the character string corresponding to the obtained content, a different content is displayed. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100180008 | Disc reproducing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium - A disc reproducing apparatus includes: program readout means for playing back a disc loaded therein to read a program recorded thereon; disc-content readout means for executing the read program to read a content recorded on the disc; network-content acquisition means for executing the read program to acquire a content stored in a device connected over a network; and display control means for executing the read program to control display of the content read from the disc, and the content acquired from the device connected over the network. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100241976 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program - An information processing apparatus includes: a display element; an indicated position detection means whose manipulating face is placed on a display screen of the display element and which accepts an indicating manipulation performed by a user, and detects and outputs information on coordinates representing a position indicated with the indicating manipulation; a detection means for detecting the indicated position on the display screen and the style of the indicating manipulation on the basis of the information on coordinates fed from the indicated position detection means; and a display control means for dividing the display screen into a first area, in which at least item shifting operating pieces are disposed, and a second area in which display items that are objects of item shifting are displayed, and implementing control so that pieces of display information will be displayed in the first area and second area respectively. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110055775 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - To present the operating state of a tracing operation in the event of performing a tracing operation to scroll objects of display. | 03-03-2011 |
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| 20090029138 | Resin Composition Having Excellent Heat Resistance - Disclosed is a resin composition comprising 10 to 90 parts by weight of a mixture of two or more aromatic polyamides having different intrinsic viscosities [η] and 90 to 10 parts by weight of a polyphenylene ether, both relative to 100 parts by weight of the sum total of the aromatic polyamides and the polyphenylene ether. The resin composition is extremely useful for an automotive exterior panel (e.g., a car fender), an SMT-compatible part, a lamp-related part, and the like. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090081462 | LONG FIBER FILLER REINFORCED RESIN PELLET - The invention provides a long fiber filler reinforced resin pellet composed of a long fiber filler and a thermoplastic resin blend. In the pellet, the long fiber filler is aligned to form a spiral with a central axis along the longitudinal direction of the pellet, and the pellet has a skin layer part with a lower content of the long fiber filler, and a core part with a higher content of the long fiber filler, thereby the cross-section of the core part is in a range of 30% to 70% of the cross-section of the pellet. The thermoplastic resin blend in the pellet is composed of polyphenylene ether and a thermoplastic resin other than polyphenylene ether. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090275682 | Resin Composition Excellent in Flame Retardance - The present invention relates to a resin composition containing (A) a polyamide having a viscosity number (as measured in the 96% sulfuric acid according to ISO 307 (1997)) of from 50 ml/g to 250 ml/g; (B) a polyphenylene ether; and (C) a phosphinate represented by a particular formula. The resin composition according to the present invention is excellent in flame retardancy, impact resistance and thin-wall moldability and can significantly suppress gas generation during the molding process and substantially inhibit the generation of deposits on a mold during injection molding. As a result, a molded product thereof excellent in surface appearance can be provided. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090305016 | Heat-Resistant Resin Composition - Disclosed is a resin composition comprising an aromatic polyamide having a terminal amino group concentration of 5 to 45 μmoles/g inclusive, polyphenylene ether, a compatibilizing agent for the polyamide and the polyphenylene ether, and a crystal nucleating agent. The composition is extremely useful in an automotive body panel (e.g., an automotive fender), an SMT-compliant component or the like. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100155673 | Method for Producing Conductive Masterbatch - The present invention relates to a method for producing a conductive masterbatch containing a polyamide resin and a carbonaceous filler. The present invention provides a method for producing a conductive masterbatch which can suppress an increase in resin temperature during extrusion, formation of die drips, and strand breakage and can also significantly increase the output of extruding. The method is achieved by the steps of feeding the carbonaceous filler to a molten first polyamide to melt-knead them together and then feeding a second polyamide to the resulting melt-kneaded product to further melt-knead the second polyamide, the carbonaceous filler, and the first polyamide. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100173139 | POLYAMIDE-POLYPHENYLENE ETHER RESIN COMPOSITION AND FILM - The present invention provides a polyamide-polyphenylene ether resin composition comprising a polyamide having an alicyclic structure and composed of dicarboxylic acid units comprising from 20 to 100 mol % of cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid units and diamine units comprising aliphatic diamine units with from 6 to 12 carbon atoms, a polyphenylene ether, and a compatibilizer for a polyamide and a polyphenylene ether. | 07-08-2010 |
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| 20090064914 | THREADING DEVICE OF SEWING MACHINE - A threading device of a sewing machine is provided. The threading device includes a threading hook which moves forward to enter an eye of a needle to catch a needle thread, and moves rearward with the needle thread being caught to insert the needle thread through the eye, a threading shaft which holds the threading hook, an operating member which is operated to move the threading shaft, a threading operation mechanism which transmits the movement of the threading shaft to the threading hook to move the threading hook back and forth, and a restricting device which makes the threading operation mechanism inoperable when the spreader mechanism is attached to the sewing machine main body, and makes the threading operation mechanism operable when the spreader mechanism is detached from the sewing machine main body. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20100071603 | THREADING DEVICE OF SEWING MACHINE - A threading device of a sewing machine is provided. The threading device includes a threading hook which moves forward to penetrate through an eye of a needle to capture a thread and which moves backward to insert the thread into the eye, a threading shaft which holds the threading hook at a lower end thereof, a threading movement input mechanism from which an operation for causing the threading hook to carry out a threading movement is input, an up-and-down member which moves, in accordance with the operation to the threading movement input mechanism, in up and down directions to rotate the threading shaft, a thread holding mechanism which holds the thread to be inserted into the needle, and a thread releasing mechanism which releases the thread that is held by the thread holding mechanism. The thread releasing mechanism releases the thread when the threading hook is moving backward. | 03-25-2010 |