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20080275573 | Electronic Device Control Apparatus, Method for Controlling Electronic Device, Electronic Device Control Program, and Computer-Readable Recording Medium Having Recorded Electronic Device Control Program - To make settings to enable associated control that suits the life pattern of the user and the characteristics of connected electronic devices with ease and precision. | 11-06-2008 |
20090055210 | ADVICE APPARATUS, ADVICE METHOD, ADVICE PROGRAM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE ADVICE PROGRAM - The present invention provides advice suitable to the personality of a user. | 02-26-2009 |
20090173731 | INDUCTION HEATING COOKER, INDUCTION HEATING COOKING METHOD, INDUCTION HEATING COOKING PROGRAM, RESONANCE SOUND DETECTION DEVICE, RESONANCE SOUND DETECTION METHOD, AND RESONANCE SOUND DETECTION PROGRAM - An object of the invention is to accurately detect a state of an object to be heated in a cooking vessel and effectively avoid cooking failure. An induction heating section ( | 07-09-2009 |
20100096950 | FLAT-PLATE LAMINATION-TYPE CONDUCTIVE POLYMER ACTUATOR AND FLAT-PLATE LAMINATION-TYPE CONDUCTIVE POLYMER ACTUATOR DEVICE AS WELL AS OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - Conductive polymer films are respectively connected to fixed frames via a link member, and an electrolyte holding layer is placed so as to be made in contact with the conductive polymer films. The fixed frames are regulated by the link member. | 04-22-2010 |
20100110571 | LENS HOLDER DRIVING DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP UNIT EMPLOYING PLANARY-DRIVEN POLYMER ACTUATOR - There are provided a lens holder being capable of holding a lens and having flange portions at opposite end portions thereof along an optical axis, a planary-driven actuator including driving arm portions having lens holder support points for holding the outer surface of the lens holder at a plurality of opposing positions and having free-end side contact portions, a lens-holder retaining plate having spring-characteristic portions, and fixing frames which form the outer surfaces of a lens holder driving device and fix the respective components. | 05-06-2010 |
20110121691 | POLYMER ACTUATOR - There is provided a polymer actuator including a first electrode layer as an active member layer made of a conductive polymer, a second electrode layer opposing to the first electrode layer, and an electrolyte placed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, so that the polymer actuator is driven by a voltage applied between both the electrode layers, wherein the electrolyte is constituted by a first electrolyte layer having a sliding function and a second electrolyte layer having an insulation maintaining function. | 05-26-2011 |
20110133676 | CONDUCTIVE POLYMER ACTUATOR DEVICE, CONDUCTIVE POLYMER ACTUATOR CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - An actuator is provided with a conductive polymer film portion, an electrode, and an electrolyte portion, and by detecting a waveform of a current that flows upon application of a voltage between the conductive polymer film portion and the electrode, a displacement amount of the actuator is detected so that based on the displacement amount thus detected, a voltage is applied to the conductive polymer film portion so that the displacement amount of the actuator is adjusted. | 06-09-2011 |
20110227455 | FLAT STACKED-TYPE CONDUCTIVE POLYMER ACTUATOR - A first conductive polymer film, a plate-shaped first porous member, a second conductive polymer film, and a plate-shaped second porous member are stacked on one another, and the adjacent members are connected with each other on one end portions so as to form a zigzag pattern. The first and second porous members each have an ionic solution injected thereinto so as to function as an electrolyte retention layer, so that operations can be carried out with tensions being always maintained upon both of the expansion and the contraction, and rigidity and a driving force can be exerted in both of the contracting and expanding directions. | 09-22-2011 |
20130185996 | PLANT CULTIVATION STRUCTURE AND SOIL FOR PLANT CULTIVATION - There is provided a structure including water repellent sand obtained by applying water repellent coating to sand, a plant having roots that grow in the water repellent sand, and a plurality of water retaining layers scattered in the water repellent sand, such that each of the roots grows to reach at least one of the water retaining layers. | 07-25-2013 |
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20100270954 | DRIVING APPARATUS, OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND DRIVING SIGNAL CONTROL CIRCUIT - A driving apparatus includes a piezoelectric element which undergoes expansion/contraction motion by a driving signal; a driving shaft which is mounted on the piezoelectric element, and undergoes reciprocating movement according to the expansion/contraction motion of the piezoelectric element; a first movement member which is friction-engaged with the driving shaft, and moves due to the reciprocating movement of the driving shaft; and a first control portion which applies driving signals to the piezoelectric element; the first control portion applies driving control pulse signals when the first movement member is to be moved, and applies stop control pulse signals when the stopped first movement member is not to be moved to put the first movement member into a vibration-arrested state. By this means, the stopped first movement member can be smoothly moved, and the first movement member in motion can be smoothly stopped. | 10-28-2010 |
20100271700 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, PIEZOELECTRIC-ACTUATOR CONTROL CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE-STABILIZATION CONTROL CIRCUIT - Abnormal noise generated while driving a piezoelectric actuator is prevented. A pulse-generation circuit is capable of selectively generating a displacement pulse and a stationary pulse as a drive pulse for application to a piezoelectric element, the displacement pulse having a duty ratio for causing a lens to be displaced by a predetermined step width, and the stationary pulse having a duty ratio for causing the lens to remain stationary in a current position. The pulse-generation circuit controls the production of the drive pulse continuously for a plurality of times within the servo control cycle, causes the displacement pulse to be produced when the remainder of a required amount of displacement is equal to or greater than a threshold value, and causes the stationary pulse to be continuously produced until the initiation of the next servo control cycle when the remainder is less than the threshold value. | 10-28-2010 |
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20110184173 | Pyripyropene Derivatives Having An ACAT2-Inhibiting Activity - The present invention is a compound having the general formula (I), (II), or (III) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt, solvate, or hydrate thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition containing such a compound, or its pharmacologically acceptable ester, or other pharmacologically acceptable derivative thereof as an active ingredient. The compound has an excellent ACAT 2-inhibiting activity by a mechanism different from that of a statin drug and is useful as a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for obesity, adiposis, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, disorder of lipid metabolism, and arteriosclerosis, as well as obesity-derived hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, disorder of lipid metabolism, arteriosclerosis, and hypertension. | 07-28-2011 |