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20110020524 | Tofu coagulant and process for producing the same - A method for producing tofu coagulant includes a mineral salt solution as water phase (tank T | 01-27-2011 |
20110108475 | Solid-liquid separator using roller system - A solid-liquid separator using a roller system includes a casing, rollers disposed within the casing and each provided with a screen that is formed in an outer periphery thereof with plural pores, a supply device disposed outside the rollers for supplying into the casing under appropriate pressure a solid-liquid mixture to be separated into a solid component via the plural pores and a liquid component filtered inside, a casing wall disposed adjacent to the rollers after the solid-liquid mixture supplied with the supply device is passed through the rollers rotated, a discharge window formed in the casing wall for discharging the solid component, and a pressure application lid formed on the casing wall for stably applying prescribed pressure in a direction of closing the discharge window with a pressure application device. The liquid component is separated from the solid-liquid mixture by means of the rollers and the solid component is discharged from the discharge window on which pressure has been exerted by means of the pressure application lid. | 05-12-2011 |
20110114552 | Solid-liquid separator using roller system - A solid-liquid separator using a roller system includes a casing, rollers disposed within the casing and each provided with a screen that is formed in the outer periphery thereof with plural pores for separating via the plural pores a solid substance from a solid-liquid substance disposed outside the rollers and filtering a liquid substance toward inside the rollers, inside drums each disposed along the inner circumference of each of the rollers, and a passageway which is formed by means of the screen and the inner drum and which is provided with an outlet. The liquid substance separated by means of the screen is allowed to flow along the passageway, collected at the outlet and discharged from the outlet. | 05-19-2011 |
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20100243317 | POWER SUPPLYING SYSTEM FOR A SLIDING STRUCTURE - A link arm is rotatably supported by a rotating shaft along a protector base, and urged in a harness-slack-absorbing direction by a torsion coil spring. A wiring harness is fixed to a harness-holding member at a tip end of the link arm and to a harness-fixing portion of the protector base, and routed flexibly between the harness-holding member and the harness-fixing portion via between the protector base and an opposite wall of the link arm opposite to the protector base. | 09-30-2010 |
20100243318 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS FOR SLIDABLE STRUCTURE - The present invention provides a power supply apparatus for a slidable structure which extends longitudinally, comprising: a pivotably-supported ring arm; a wiring harness having one end portion fixed to a tip portion of the ring arm and the other end portion fixed to a stationary structure; and an elastic member configured to bias the ring arm in a forward and upward direction. The ring arm is moved or rotated in a backward and downward direction while elastically deforming the elastic member due to tensile force of the wiring harness, when the slidable structure is moved forward toward its fully closed state. Also, the ring arm is moved or rotated in a forward and upward direction due to restoring force of the elastic member, when the slidable structure is moved backward toward its fully open state. | 09-30-2010 |
20100243319 | POWER SUPPLYING SYSTEM FOR A SLIDING STRUCTURE - A power-supplying system for a sliding structure includes: a protector cover having a base plate and a flange-shaped peripheral wall; a link arm rotatably supported along the base plate in the protector cover, and supporting a wiring harness at a top end side of a rotation; and an elastic member urging the link arm in a harness slack absorbing direction. The power-supplying system is disposed in the sliding structure. The protector cover is fixed to a panel of the sliding structure. An opening of the protector cover facing the base plate at a rear side is covered by the panel. The wiring harness is guided out from an oblong opening interposed between the protector cover and the panel toward a fixing structure. | 09-30-2010 |
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20100221028 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly thereof. The cartridge includes a developer carrying member for carrying a developer to develop with the developer a latent image formed on an image bearing member, an conductive member contactable to the carrying member, a developing chamber for holding the carrying member and the conductive member, a developer accommodating chamber for accommodating the developer, and a seal member for sealing an opening for permitting communication between the developing chamber and the developer accommodating chamber. The apparatus further includes a seal member removing device for removing the seal member, and a control device. The control device executes control for concurrently performing seal member removal and drive of the carrying member in a state in which the cartridge is mounted to the main assembly of the apparatus and then sends a detection signal relating to failure in removal of the seal member when a potential difference is provided between the carrying member and said conductive member during the execution of the control and then a value of current passing between the carrying member and the conductive member is not a threshold or less in a time from start of the control. | 09-02-2010 |
20120177387 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing a developer image; a driving portion for rotationally driving the image bearing member; a developing device for developing an electrostatic latent image on the image bearing member into the developer image; a cleaning blade, slidably contacting the image bearing member which is rotated, for removing from the image bearing member a developer remaining on the image bearing member after transfer of the developer image; a controller capable of executing a stop operation of the image bearing member in which the image bearing member is, after being temporarily stopped at the time of an end of an image forming operation, rotated in the same direction as that during the image forming operation and then is rotated in a direction opposite to that during the image forming operation; and a predicting portion for predicting a remaining usable lifetime of the image bearing member. In the stop operation of the image bearing member after the remaining usable lifetime is below a threshold, the controller controls an amount of rotation in the direction opposite to that during the image forming operation so as to be smaller than the amount of rotation before the remaining usable lifetime is below the threshold. | 07-12-2012 |
20150016829 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPING APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method of manufacturing a developer container including a frame configured to define a developer containing portion, a first electrode, and a second electrode arranged on a surface of the frame and having a surface opposed to the first electrode, a developer amount in the developer containing portion being detected based on a capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode, the method including: holding a conductive resin member constituting the second electrode on a mold configured to mold the frame, a surface of the conductive resin member being in contact with a surface of the mold configured to mold a surface of the frame on a side of the developer containing portion; injecting a resin to be formed into the frame, into the mold on which the conductive resin member is held; and curing the resin to form the frame to which the second electrode is fixed. | 01-15-2015 |
20150234315 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS, CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a developing apparatus, a cartridge, and an image forming apparatus, the positions of a regulating section, an opening, a bottom section of a development chamber, and a bottom section of a storage chamber are in a specific positional relationship, an optical discharging section is provided in a specific position, or the structure of a regulating member is a specific structure. | 08-20-2015 |
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20120172057 | ROADSIDE PORTION TRAFFIC AMOUNT CALCULATION DEVICE AND ROADSIDE PORTION TRAFFIC AMOUNT CALCULATION METHOD - A roadside portion traffic amount calculation device includes an acquisition unit that acquires positional information, a distribution determination unit that refers to road information stored in a road information storage unit and, based on a positional relationship between locations of users indicated by the positional information and a road, determines a passage roadside portion that is a roadside portion in which the locations of the users are distributed for each piece of the positional information, a summarizing unit that counts the number of pieces of the positional information for which the passage roadside portion has been determined by the distribution determination unit for each of the roadside portions and summarizes a roadside portion traffic amount that is an amount of user traffic on each of the roadside portions, and a processing result output unit that outputs the roadside portion traffic amount summarized by the summarizing unit. | 07-05-2012 |
20120185299 | HOUSEHOLD MEMBER NUMBER DISTRIBUTION ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND HOUSEHOLD MEMBER NUMBER DISTRIBUTION ESTIMATION METHOD - A household member number distribution estimation apparatus of the present invention includes a subscriber information acquisition unit that acquires subscriber information that is information regarding subscribers of mobile terminals of a specific carrier in a region within a predetermined range and with which user IDs and main line numbers of the mobile terminals are associated, a household terminal number extraction unit that, by referring to the subscriber information, extracts the number of household terminals that is the number of the mobile terminals for each main line number, a household number extraction unit that extracts the number of households per number of terminals, and a household number estimation unit that, by using a terminal subscription rate in the region within the predetermined range to correct the number of households per number of terminals, estimates the number of households per number of household members that is the number of households for each of the number of household members constituting a household. Thus, the household member number distribution estimation apparatus enables to obtain the number of households for each of the number of household members with high accuracy on the basis of easily obtainable data. | 07-19-2012 |
20120220274 | POSITION INFORMATION ANALYSIS DEVICE AND POSITION INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHOD - To approximate how many people from which area flow into a specific target area during a specific target time period, a location information analysis device includes: a point data reading module that reads point data containing time information indicating time within the target time period for all users; a target area point data extraction module that extracts, from the point data, point data containing location information indicating a location within the target area as target area point data; an address information reading module that reads address information about a user; a first combining module that combines the address information and the target area point data of the corresponding user; and an address information aggregation module that performs aggregation of number of inflow users flowing into the target area during the target time period for each of the flow-from areas based on the target area point data containing the address information. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221231 | POSITIONAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS DEVICE AND POSITIONAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHOD - To promptly provide useful person trip information, a location information analysis device ( | 08-30-2012 |
20120265580 | DEMAND PREDICTION DEVICE AND DEMAND PREDICTION METHOD - A demand prediction device and a demand prediction method capable of performing demand prediction with higher accuracy. A demand prediction server includes a data acquisition unit acquiring estimated population information that indicates population estimated in a predetermined area, a spatial weighing unit acquiring relative distance information that indicates a distance between a position of a prediction reference area included in the predetermined area and a position of a prediction target area for which the number of demands is to be predicted with the prediction reference area as a reference, and a regression analysis unit and a demand prediction unit for, by performing regression analysis using the estimated population information acquired by the data acquisition unit and a residual based on the relative distance information acquired by the spatial weighing unit, predicting the number of demands in the prediction target area. | 10-18-2012 |
20130090132 | NUMBER OF TERMINAL ESTIMATION DEVICE AND NUMBER OF TERMINAL ESTIMATION METHOD - A number-of-terminals estimation device has a unit to acquire location data; a unit to acquire location acquisition time information of second location data immediately preceding the first location data and third location data immediately following the first location data, from location data including the same identification information; a unit to calculate a feature amount of the first location data, based on at least two of the location acquisition time information of the first to third location data; a unit to acquire observation target location data including location acquisition time information after an observation start time and before an observation end time and including location information corresponding to observation area information; and a unit to estimate the number of terminals located in the observation area during the observation period, based on feature amounts of the observation target location data and the length of the observation period. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090891 | POPULATION CALCULATION SYSTEM AND POPULATION CALCULATION METHOD - A population calculation system includes: an acquisition module acquiring the number of counted people who are counted as samples in a count area containing a target area; a first calculation module calculating population in the count area on the basis of the number of counted people acquired and a scaling factor for determining the population in the count area on the basis of the number of counted people; a second calculation module calculating population in the target area on the basis of the population in the count area thus calculated; a quantization module concealing the population in the count area or the population in the target area on the basis of a class interval that is a product of concealment reference that is a reference value of a minimum summation unit and the scaling factor in calculation processing; and an output module outputting concealed population in the target area. | 04-11-2013 |
20130137459 | POSITION INFORMATION AGGREGATION DEVICE AND POSITION INFORMATION AGGREGATION METHOD - A position information aggregation device includes a position information receiving unit receives position information related to the positions of a plurality of mobile communication terminals together with a user ID specifying a user of the terminal corresponding to each position information and an address code of the user, an acquisition rate calculating unit that calculates a position information acquisition rate of each address code of the plurality of terminals using population statistics data and position information of each narrow area in a predetermined broad area, and an aggregating unit that aggregates a population distribution in a certain area by extracting the position information corresponding to the certain area based on the position information received by the position information receiving unit and aggregating the position information in which the position information acquisition rate corresponding to the address code included in the position information is reflected. | 05-30-2013 |
20130157689 | TERMINAL-COUNT ESTIMATION DEVICE AND TERMINAL-COUNT ESTIMATION METHOD - A number-of-terminals estimation device includes: a location data acquisition unit to acquire location data which are a collection of multiple pieces of location information including location registration information; a first presence count estimation unit to estimate a first presence count to be the number of terminals in observation area during observation period, based on the location data; a signal removal unit to extract location data in accordance with a type of location data from the location data; a second presence count estimation unit to estimate a second presence count to be the number of terminals in observation area during observation period, based on extracted location data; and a third presence count estimation unit to estimate a third presence count to be the number of terminals in observation area during observation period, based on one or both of first and second presence counts. | 06-20-2013 |
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20090131475 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF METABOLIC DISORDERS - The present invention relates to treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders utilizing fatostatin A and/or a derivative and/or analog thereof. In other aspects, the compound for treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders utilizes an A-B—C tripartite structure, wherein A, B, and C are identical or non-identical structures and are described in detail herein. In specific aspects, the metabolic disorder includes obesity or diabetes, for example. | 05-21-2009 |
20130005768 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF METABOLIC DISORDERS - The present invention relates to treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders utilizing fatostatin A and/or a derivative and/or analog thereof. In other aspects, the compound for treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders utilizes an A-B-C tripartite structure, wherein A, B, and C are identical or non-identical structures and are described in detail herein. In specific aspects, the metabolic disorder includes obesity or diabetes, for example. | 01-03-2013 |
20130012538 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF METABOLIC DISORDERS - The present invention relates to treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders utilizing fatostatin A and/or a derivative and/or analog thereof. In other aspects, the compound for treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders utilizes an A-B-C tripartite structure, wherein A, B, and C are identical or non-identical structures and are described in detail herein. In specific aspects, the metabolic disorder includes obesity or diabetes, for example. | 01-10-2013 |
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20090303373 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus allowing a user to easily process a captured image. This image processing apparatus displays an image generated based on image data and an item representing processing for the image data on a screen, detects a change in the orientation thereof, and performs processing upon the image data corresponding to the displayed image based on a detection result of the change in the orientation thereof. | 12-10-2009 |
20100188827 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes a wiring board, a main member to which the wiring board is fixed, a first component mounted rigidly on the wiring board and positioned with respect to the main member, and a second component mounted movably on the wiring board and positioned with respect to the main member, and a positioning portion provided on the wiring board to determine a position of the wiring board with respect to the main member, wherein a distance from the positioning portion to the first component is shorter than a distance from the positioning portion to the second component. | 07-29-2010 |
20100201838 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus that can prevent occurrence of crosstalk between different differential signals on a printed circuit board on which a wiring pattern of a differentially operated signal line is formed, and reduce unnecessary radiation noises. First and second wiring patterns are disposed on the printed circuit board and through which differentially operated signals are transmitted, and the first and second wiring patterns are electrically connected to first and second connection terminals, respectively. An electronic component is disposed on the printed circuit board, and includes first and second terminals electrically connected to the first and second wiring patterns, respectively. The first and second terminals of the electronic component are disposed on the printed circuit board, respectively, so that the first and second wiring patterns do not intersect each other. | 08-12-2010 |
20130021522 | IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS - An image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup element, a first wiring substrate where the image-pickup element is mounted, a second wiring substrate which is electrically connected with the first wiring substrate and a structure which has electrical conductivity. The first wiring substrate has a first wiring portion where a differential signal line is formed and a second wiring portion where a power-supply line is formed, a ground portion is formed on at least one surface of the first and second wiring portion which faces each other, the first wiring substrate is bended so that at least parts of the first and second wiring portion are overlapped with each other and the ground portion is located between the differential signal line and the power-supply line, and the bended first wiring substrate is arranged in the structure so that the second wiring portion is located between the first wiring portion and the structure. | 01-24-2013 |