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20110310527 | DIELECTRIC RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FILM CAPACITOR, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND FILM CAPACITOR - To increase the heat resistance of a film capacitor, a cured article obtained by curing a mixed solution of a polyvinyl acetal having a hydroxyl group content of 10% to 38% by weight, the number of backbone carbon atoms of the polyvinyl acetal being 100 or more, and a polyisocyanate having an isocyanate content of 1% to 50% by weight is used as a dielectric resin films material arranged between first and second counter electrodes facing each other. At least the polyvinyl acetal is subjected to high-pressure homogenization in which a shearing force is applied such that a pressure applied to the polyvinyl acetal is 50 MPa or more when the material is passed through a path having a diameter of 0.125 mm and a length of 5 mm, so that the solubility is increased to allow a curing reaction to proceed uniformly. The cured article has a glass transition temperature of 130° C. or higher and a breakdown voltage of 350 V/μm or more. | 12-22-2011 |
20120008250 | DIELECTRIC RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FILM CAPACITOR AND FILM CAPACITOR - To increase the heat resistance of a film capacitor, a dielectric resin composition is used as a material for a dielectric resin film used in a film capacitor, the dielectric resin composition being cured by mixing and crosslinking two or more organic materials having functional groups that react with each other to provide a cured article. At least one pair highly cohesive atomic groups which has a molecular cohesive energy equal to or higher than that of a methyl group and capable of cohering with each other due to the molecular cohesive energy is linked to the organic material. The highly cohesive atomic groups form a cohesive portion serving as pseudo-crosslinking. | 01-12-2012 |
20140368970 | DIELECTRIC RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FILM CAPACITOR AND FILM CAPACITOR - A resin composition constituting dielectric resin films of a film capacitor includes a first atom group including at least one functional group selected from among a methylene group, an aromatic ring and an ether group and having a relatively small molar polarizability, and a second atom group including at least one functional group selected from among a hydroxyl group, an amino group and a carbonyl group and having a relatively large molar polarizability. The resin composition satisfies the condition that a value calculated from the formula (sum of absorption band intensities of first atom group)/(sum of absorption band intensities of second atom group) is 1.0 or more. Herein, as absorption band intensities of the functional groups, peak intensities detected in specific wavenumber ranges are employed. | 12-18-2014 |
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20130097088 | WARRANTY EXPIRATION DATE DETERMINING DEVICE AND WARRANTY EXPIRATION DATE DETERMINING METHOD - A warranty expiration date determining device includes: a receiving unit which receives owner information, appliance information, and operating information of a device; an obtaining unit which obtains, from an information database in which at least owner information, appliance information, and operating information of appliances are registered in association with respective owners of the appliances, operating information associated with a specific owner inferred among the owners of the appliances, based on the owner information and the appliance information of the device received, a usage period estimating unit which estimates a usage period of the appliance based on the obtained operating information and the received operating information; and a warranty expiration date determining unit which determines a first day of use of the appliance by extending back the estimated usage period from current time and date, and determines the warranty expiration date of the appliance. | 04-18-2013 |
20130151703 | INFORMATION NOTIFICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information notification apparatus includes a first reception unit that receives a first state change notification indicating that the operating state of an electrical appliance has changed to a first state, a transmission unit that transmits a state notification indicating that the operating state of the electrical appliance is the first state to an information terminal, and a second reception unit that receives an acknowledgement notification. The first reception unit further receives a second state change notification indicating that the electrical appliance has been changed to a second state from the electrical apparatus. The transmission unit calculates a correlation value for each of information terminals and transmits the state notification to an information terminal having a calculated correlation value higher than a threshold value, the correlation value indicating a degree of likelihood that the owner of the information terminal has performed an operation corresponding to the second operating state. | 06-13-2013 |
20140065959 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROGRAM, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION UPDATING METHOD FOR SERVER APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A reference image acquisition unit ( | 03-06-2014 |
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20140317233 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, APPLIANCE CONTROL METHOD, AND APPLIANCE CONTROL DEVICE - A communication method including: generating image data of an item on which an electric appliance performed processing; obtaining setting information of the electric appliance which indicates the processing performed on the item; converting the obtained setting information into reference setting information that is setting information in a general format; generating combined data by adding the converted reference setting information to the generated image data; and transmitting the generated combined data to a storage server. For instance, in the communication method, setting information of the electric appliance when the processing was performed on the item is obtained by performing proximity wireless communication with the electric appliance. | 10-23-2014 |
20150017913 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, MOBILE TERMINAL, HOME ELECTRIC APPLIANCE, AND HOME ELECTRIC APPLIANCE OPERATION SETTING SYSTEM - When an appliance communication portion of a home electric appliance receives a set operation data piece transmission request from a mobile terminal, the appliance communication portion transmits a stored set operation data piece. When the appliance communication portion receives the set operation data piece from the mobile terminal, the appliance communication portion sets an operation, defined by the received set operation data piece, as an operation of the home electric appliance to be executed. When a data piece processing portion of the mobile terminal receives a set operation data piece acquisition command from an input portion and receives the set operation data piece from the home electric appliance, the data piece processing portion causes a data piece storage portion to store the received set operation data piece. When the data piece processing portion receives an operation setting command from the input portion, the data piece processing portion causes a first terminal communication portion to transmit the set operation data piece. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019987 | INFORMATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION TERMINAL CONTROL PROGRAM - An information terminal includes a first radio communication unit that performs communication with a server, a condition input unit through which a condition for retrieving a specific cooking recipe information group from cooking recipe information groups stored in the server is input, and a display unit that displays the specific cooking recipe information group specified based on the condition input through the condition input unit. Further, the display unit displays list screen ( | 01-15-2015 |
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20100170345 | Elastic wave measurement apparatus and method - The elastic wave measurement apparatus, when a high-frequency burst signal is input to the first ball SAW device, an input destination of the high-frequency burst signal is switched in sequence to another one of the ball SAW devices before a detection time at which an output signal from the first ball SAW device is detected, and at and after the detection time, output signals of the response characteristics of those ball SAW devices from the first ball SAW device to the last ball SAW device are detected in sequence. | 07-08-2010 |
20110138904 | Fluid measurement device, method of measuring fluid, and fluid special distribution visualization device - A fluid measurement device includes a fluid measurement unit which includes a plurality of fluid measurement sections configured to measure a measurement fluid introduced into a measurement chamber from the outside, each of the fluid measurement sections including a fluid measurement sensor on which the measurement fluid introduced into the measurement chamber acts. The fluid measurement devise includes a measurement controller which sequentially introduces the measurement fluid into each of the fluid measurement sections every set time shorter than a fluid measurement time required for one of the fluid measurement sections to conduct one fluid measurement, the measurement controller measuring the fluid to provide a time difference for each of the fluid measurement sections, and a central controller which accumulates fluid measurement data from the fluid measurement sensors and rapidly measures a change of the external measurement fluid. | 06-16-2011 |
20110148250 | Spherical surface acoustic wave apparatus - A spherical surface acoustic wave apparatus includes a surface acoustic wave propagation substrate which has a surface acoustic wave circulation path on an outer surface thereof. The path is configured to be annular and continuous using at least a part of a spherical shape, and is able to be excited to generate surface acoustic wave and allows the excited surface acoustic wave to propagate and circulate therein in its annular and continuous direction. The apparatus further includes a substrate support which supports a region of the outer surface of the substrate, the region excluding the circulation path, and a support for a surface acoustic wave excitation/detection unit, which supports an elastic member supporting the excitation/detection unit, which makes the excitation/detection unit being in contact with the circulation path of the outer surface of the substrate through the elastic member, and which elastically deforms the elastic member. | 06-23-2011 |
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20100071592 | IMAGE-FORMING MATERIAL - An image-forming material includes a perimidine-based squarylium dye represented by the following Formula (I): | 03-25-2010 |
20110177263 | RECORDING MEDIUM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording medium includes a first image that is read with infrared light and that is formed of plural dots having infrared absorptivity, part of the plural dots being invisible first dots, the remaining dots being visible second dots; and a visible second image that is formed of the second dots or the second dots and visible third dots not having infrared absorptivity. | 07-21-2011 |
20110194162 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMATION CONTROL APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes an obtaining unit, an image forming section, and a controller. The obtaining unit obtains color signals containing color components the number of which is n, n being a natural number. The image forming section forms an image on a medium, the image being based on the color signals obtained by the obtaining unit. The controller performs control so that colors in a color gamut that is not reproduced if area coverage modulation, not density modulation, is used for expression are included in the image by expressing densities of the n color components contained in the color signals obtained by the obtaining unit by using density modulation and area coverage modulation. | 08-11-2011 |
20120177410 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, OUTPUT DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a first image-forming material that contains a colored pigment and a second image-forming material that contains the colored pigment having a concentration lower than that of the first image-forming material, a first image forming unit that forms a code image representing encoded information on a recording medium using the second image-forming material, and a second image forming unit that forms a non-code image at a position other than the position of the code image on the recording medium using an image-forming material other than the second image-forming material. | 07-12-2012 |
20120195643 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes first and second image forming units. The first image forming unit forms a first image on a surface of a recording medium which has ratios of reflecting incident light. The second image forming unit forms a second image on the surface. The ratios of the recording medium are equal to or greater than a threshold value in all of a specular direction and a specific direction other than the specular direction. The first image has a ratio of reflecting the incident light in the specular direction being equal to or greater than the threshold value and a ratio of reflecting the incident light in the specific direction being less than the threshold value. The second image has the ratios of reflecting the incident light in the specular direction and in the specific direction being less than the threshold value. | 08-02-2012 |
20120199731 | RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFRARED READING METHOD - A recording medium includes a surface in which an infrared absorptance is less than a threshold value; and plural dot images that records information by an arrangement pattern formed on the surface, in which the infrared absorptance is equal to or more than the threshold value, and a specular gloss to infrared rays is equal to or less than 22%. | 08-09-2012 |
20120328975 | PERIMIDINE-BASED SQUARYLIUM DYE, DYE-CONTAINING COMPOSITION, AND IMAGE-FORMING MATERIAL - A perimidine-based squarylium dye contains a compound represented by Formula (I), | 12-27-2012 |
20130077982 | IMAGE INSPECTION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image inspection device includes an acquiring section that reads an image formed on an image carrying medium using an image forming material and acquires first inspection image information; and a decoloring section that leaves an infrared absorbent on the image carrying medium, and decolors a decolorable composition on the image carrying medium by physical treatment or chemical treatment, wherein the image forming material contains the infrared absorbent having an optical absorption peak in an infrared region, and the image forming material contains the decolorable composition having an optical absorption peak in a visible region in a color-developed state and being decolored by physical treatment or chemical treatment. | 03-28-2013 |
20130222820 | IMAGE DETERMINATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image determination device including a sheet detecting unit that detects a sheet on which a code image is printed, a first acquiring unit that acquires information on the code image and an absorption wavelength of the code image, a second acquiring unit that acquires a reading unit necessary for decoding a code portion of the code image, a third acquiring unit that acquires a document image of an electronic document, a dividing unit that divides the document image into plural blocks corresponding to the reading unit, a detecting unit that detects a block in which an image portion of the document image that uses a color having an absorption band at the absorption wavelength of the code image overlaps with the code portion of the code image as an undecodable block, and an output unit that outputs a warning indicating the generation of an undecodable area. | 08-29-2013 |
20140105501 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD - A character recognition apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts a numerical value reading region in which a numerical value that is a character string of a numeral is read from an image that is a character recognition target, a character recognizing unit that performs character recognition on the extracted numerical value reading region and obtains plural recognition candidates for each numerical value, and a selecting unit that selects a potential candidate from the plural recognition candidates on the basis of a numerical value range set for each numerical value reading region. | 04-17-2014 |
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20110057611 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - To properly resume charging when insertion and removal of a charging cable connector are repeated, a control apparatus includes a power control unit that turns on a charging mode signal when a signal state changes from a state with no change for a certain period of time to a changed state, to activate a charging control unit, and turns off the charging mode signal when detecting a charging completion signal turned on by the charging control unit and outputted from a signal generating unit included in the charging cable which connects an external power source to the vehicle; and the charging control unit turns on the charging completion signal when the charging has been completed, and thereafter turns off the charging completion signal when detecting that the charging mode signal has been turned off by the power control unit. | 03-10-2011 |
20160034226 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE, METHOD OF STORING DATA, AND ON-VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - A memory having a plurality of storage blocks, and a memory control unit, are included, and each of the storage blocks is partitioned into a management data area and an actual data area. The management data area stores therein writing-in-progress management data indicating that writing of actual data has started, validity management data indicating that the writing of the actual data has been completed, and pre-erasure management data indicating that stored actual data have been brought into an erasable state. The memory control unit determines, based on a storage state of the management data, the storage block storing therein the latest data. | 02-04-2016 |