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Nobumasa Abe, Nagano JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090022507Liquid Toner Concentration Detecting Device, and Image Forming Apparatus and Method of Controlling Concentration of Liquid Toner - A first container is operable to accommodate a liquid toner, and provided with a window. A reflector is disposed in the first container. A light emitter is operable to emit light to the reflector through the window and the liquid toner. A light receiver is operable to receive the light reflected by the reflector through the liquid toner and the window. A detector is operable to detect a concentration of the liquid toner based on the light received by the light receiver.01-22-2009

Nobumasa Arashiba, Tokyo JP

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20110146886RUBBER COMPOSITION AND PNEUMATIC TIRE USING THE SAME - This invention provides a rubber composition comprising 1-10 parts by mass of sulfur and 0.1-10 parts by mass of a compound represented by the following general formula (1) or a composition containing the compound as a main component based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component as well as a pneumatic tire in which at least one of a carcass (06-23-2011

Nobumasa Fukushima, Okaya-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090257803GAP ADJUSTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A gap adjusting device includes a moving mechanism having a first member supported by a first object so as to be movable along a first axis, and capable of moving the first object in one direction and its opposite direction along a second axis intersecting the first axis according to the movement of the first member in one direction along the first axis relative to the first object, thereby adjusting a gap between the first object and a second object.10-15-2009
20090262160IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a moving mechanism having a first member supported by a recording section so as to be movable along a first axis, and capable of moving the recording section in one direction and its opposite direction along a second axis intersecting the first axis according to the movement of the first member in one direction along the first axis relative to the recording section, thereby adjusting a gap between the recording section and a target; a first drive mechanism which moves the recording section supporting the first member along the first axis; and an abutting member which is arranged in a position capable of abutting on the first member by the movement of the recording section, and moves the first member in one direction relative to the recording section by the abutment on the first member.10-22-2009
20090267284TRANSPORT DEVICE AND IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - A transport device includes a transport path which connects an inlet and an outlet and is formed between a first curved surface which is convex in a first direction, and a second curved surface which faces the first curved surface via a gap, and along which a sheet-like medium is transported, a protruding portion which is arranged on the first curved surface and protrudes from the first curved surface, and a first roller which is arranged on the second curved surface, and at least a portion of which protrudes from the second curved surface. The protruding portion is arranged in a position where the sheet-like medium which has entered the transport path through the inlet contacts the protruding portion prior to the first roller.10-29-2009

Nobumasa Furuya, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100055604Image-Forming Apparatus and Image-Forming Process - An image-forming apparatus comprises: an image carrier; a charging unit; a latent image forming unit; a developing unit that uses a toner maintaining a non-color-developing state when provided with coloring information through exposure to light; a coloring information providing unit that provides the toner image with coloring information by exposing the toner image to light having a predetermined wavelength determined depending on the color not to be developed based on color component information of image data; a transfer unit; a fixing unit; a color-developing unit that develops a color of the toner image provided with the coloring information; and a control unit that controls the coloring information providing unit to expose a background region on the image carrier to light having a predetermined wavelength for preventing color development of the toner.03-04-2010
20100247165DEVELOPING DEVICE, METHOD OF PRODUCING DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes a magnet roll magnetized with plural magnetic poles including a main magnetic pole, a sleeve in a cylindrical shape which is arranged so as to be opposed to an image holding body, and a supporting frame that stably supports the magnet roll in a manner of restraining the magnet roll from rotating in the tangential direction, and supports the sleeve so as to rotate in the tangential direction around the magnet roll. The magnet roll is so arranged that the main magnetic pole is opposed to the image holding body, and a point on the peripheral face where magnetic flux density of the main magnetic pole in the tangential direction at a position along the peripheral face of the magnet roll is zero is set at a position predetermined with respect to a position where the magnet roll comes most closely to the image holding body.09-30-2010

Nobumasa Hayashi, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120043372Cast-coated paper - The present invention aims to provide a cast-coated paper having good coated paper quality and printability combined with the property of decomposing hazardous substances upon exposure to light.02-23-2012

Nobumasa Hino, Yokohama-Shi JP

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20090155844METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING A SUPPRESSOR tRNA, DNA CONSTRUCT AND USE THEREOF FOR PRODUCING A NON-NATURAL AMINO ACID-INCORPORATED PROTEIN - There are provided a DNA construct comprising non-eukaryote-derived suppressor tRNA gene containing no internal promoter functioning in a eukaryotic cell, and a eukaryote-derived or bacteriophage-derived promoter linked at the 5′ end of the tRNA gene, a method for synthesizing a suppressor tRNA by using the DNA construct, and a process for producing a non-natural amino acid-incorporated protein by using the same.06-18-2009

Nobumasa Kobayashi, Nara JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110314595WORK-MASK WEARING DEVICE AND HELMET USING THE SAME - [Problem] It is to obviate the trouble of making fine adjustments of a mounting angle to a helmet even if there are significant differences among individual workers in position of the mouth.12-29-2011

Nobumasa Naito, Ome-Shi JP

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20100135436SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a first encoder encodes main information, a second encoder encodes sub-information, a first modulator modulates a carrier based on an output of the first encoder, a duplicating module duplicates an output of the second encoder to generate encoded sub-information units, and a second modulator amplitude-modulates an output of the first modulator based on the encoded sub-information units. The second modulator amplitude-modulates with σ/(μ×(206-03-2010

Nobumasa Nakao, Okayama JP

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20080210534MOVABLE CONTACT, SHEET HAVING MOVABLE CONTACT, AND SWITCH APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The invention relates to a movable contact used for a sheet having a movable contact for example used for an electronic device such as a mobile phone and provides a movable contact that realizes, even when having a smaller size, a required pressing force and a favorable click touch response. To realize this, a part surrounded by a conical circumferential edge in which a circular outer circumference edge when seen from the upper side has an inclined surface forms a spherical surface-like section that swells in an upward direction. Both ends of the circle having an identical distance to center line of the circle are straightly cut off. Then, parts at which these straight cut edges intersect with the circular edges are chamfered to have a circular arc to provide a movable contact having a substantially oval shape having circular arc corners.09-04-2008

Nobumasa Sato, Fukuyama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100117401GLASS RUN - A glass run 05-13-2010

Nobumasa Sato, Ageo-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080259336IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND CAMERA - An image processing system which performs photography of the teeth of a patient while causing a plurality of illumination light LEDs of different wavelengths to emit light by means of a photography device when producing a crown repair or denture of the patient, whereby image data are acquired. The image data are transmitted to a dental filing system constituting a processing device where color reproduction data are determined through computation. In addition, color reproduction data are transmitted to the dental technician's office via a public switched network. A repair material compound ratio calculation database is searched and compound data for a material that matches the hue of the patient's teeth is retrieved, so that a crown repair or denture or the like that very closely matches the color of the patient's teeth can be produced.10-23-2008
20080284902IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND CAMERA - An image processing system which performs photography of the teeth of a patient while causing a plurality of illumination light LEDs of different wavelengths to emit light by means of a photography device when producing a crown repair or denture of the patient, whereby image data are acquired. The image data are transmitted to a dental filing system constituting a processing device where color reproduction data are determined through computation. In addition, color reproduction data are transmitted to the dental technician's office via a public switched network. A repair material compound ratio calculation database is searched and compound data for a material that matches the hue of the patient's teeth is retrieved, so that a crown repair or denture or the like that very closely matches the color of the patient's teeth can be produced.11-20-2008
20080292295IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND CAMERA - An image processing system which performs photography of the teeth of a patient while causing a plurality of illumination light LEDs of different wavelengths to emit light by means of a photography device when producing a crown repair or denture of the patient, whereby image data are acquired. The image data are transmitted to a dental filing system constituting a processing device where color reproduction data are determined through computation. In addition, color reproduction data are transmitted to the dental technician's office via a public switched network. A repair material compound ratio calculation database is searched and compound data for a material that matches the hue of the patient's teeth is retrieved, so that a crown repair or denture or the like that very closely matches the color of the patient's teeth can be produced.11-27-2008
20100220211PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING COLOR CORRECTION OF AN IMAGE OF A SUBJECT USING SPECTROSCOPIC INFORMATION OF THE SUBJECT - A photographing system for photographing a subject includes a color information detecting section for detecting color information of the subject, a color image capturing section for capturing a color image of the subject, and a color correcting section for performing color correction of a color image captured by the color image capturing section from corresponding position information of the color information detecting section and the color image capturing section, so as to enable highly accurate color correction.09-02-2010

Patent applications by Nobumasa Sato, Ageo-Shi JP

Nobumasa Suzuki, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090204153ROD CONNECTOR - A rod connector for connecting, to each other, opposed ends of a plurality of rods held by a rod holding tool which is fixed to a vertebra, wherein a cylindrically formed connector body is previously curved or bent according to a curve of the vertebral column constructed by the vertebra, both ends of the connector body are provided with a rod insertion hole, rod insertion openings into which the rods are inserted are formed in both end surfaces of the connector body, and the connector body includes screw holes through which fixing screws are threadedly inserted for fixing the rods inserted into the rod insertion hole.08-13-2009

Nobumasa Suzuki, Moriya-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090275209PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed is a plasma processing apparatus and a plasma processing method, by which ions of plasma can be injected uniformly over the whole surface of a substrate to be processed, in a short time. Specifically, when the substrate is processed in a reaction container, the gas pressure inside the reaction container is increased. Alternatively, the distance between a plasma processing portion and the substrate is enlarged, or the substrate is temporally moved outwardly of the reaction container. As a further alternative, a shutter is disposed between the plasma producing zone and the substrate. With this procedure, incidence of ions of the plasma upon the substrate can be substantially intercepted for a predetermined time period from the start of plasma production.11-05-2009

Nobumasa Ueda, Nagoya-City JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080252242Apparatus and method for driving rotary machine - A motor driving apparatus has a loss-of-synchronism monitoring circuit that monitors the rotation of a rotary machine such as a brushless DC motor to detect a sign of transition to a state of loss of synchronism. When the sign is detected, an energization control circuit temporarily stops driving of the rotary machine to bring it into a free running state, and thereafter carries out control so as to resume driving of the rotary machine. Further, the motor driving apparatus has an inverter and a drive control circuit that controls switching operation of the inverter based on rotation of the rotary machine.10-16-2008
20090174350Control system for multiphase electric rotating machine - A control system controls a multiphase rotating machine by a 120° energization process and a PWM process. In the 120° energization process, respective ones of switching elements of a high side arm and switching elements of a low side arm of a power conversion circuit are turned on. In the PWM process, the switching elements of the power conversion circuit turn on/off so that two phases that are connected to the switching elements that are in the on-state are alternately rendered conductive to the high potential side input terminal and the low potential side input terminal of the power conversion circuit.07-09-2009
20110080127Apparatus and method for driving rotary machine - A motor driving apparatus has a loss-of-synchronism monitoring circuit that monitors the rotation of a rotary machine such as a brushless DC motor to detect a sign of transition to a state of loss of synchronism. When the sign is detected, an energization control circuit temporarily stops driving of the rotary machine to bring it into a free running state, and thereafter carries out control so as to resume driving of the rotary machine. Further, the motor driving apparatus has an inverter and a drive control circuit that controls switching operation of the inverter based on rotation of the rotary machine.04-07-2011

Patent applications by Nobumasa Ueda, Nagoya-City JP

Nobumasa Ueda, Nagoya JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110231032ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE - A control circuit board has a plurality of connectors that can connect each control module circuit board to control a plurality of in-vehicle equipment. A power supply circuit board has a power supply circuit that controls a power supply from a battery to a controlled equipment of the control module circuit boards connected with each connector. The control circuit board and the power supply circuit board are electrically connected and accommodated in a case. When the control module circuit boards are connected with any connector of the control circuit board, the power supply circuit is controlled by the control module and it becomes possible to control the controlled equipment such as engines.09-22-2011
20110231042VEHICLE POWER SYSTEM - A vehicle power system is provided with a switching power supply that generates an operation power for operating a plurality of ECU by stepping down a power supply supplied from at least one of a generator and a battery, and a power distributor that distributes and supplies the operation power generated by the switching power supply to the individual ECUs.09-22-2011

Nobumasa Yakushji, Okayama-Shi JP

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20100120742REXINOID COMPOUND HAVING ALKOXY GROUP - Disclosed is a compound represented by the general formula shown below, which can bind to a retinoid X receptor (RXR), which is one of nuclear receptors, and exhibit an agonistic or antagonistic action. [Wherein, R05-13-2010

Nobumasa Yoshida, Koriyama-Shi JP

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20090098370BLACK SYNTHETIC QUARTZ GLASS WITH A TRANSPARENT LAYER - To provide a black synthetic quartz glass with a transparent layer, which has high emissivity in the far infrared region, has excellent light-shielding properties, maintains the same degree of purity as synthetic quartz glass in terms of metal impurities, has high-temperature viscosity characteristics comparable to natural quartz glass, can undergo high-temperature processing like welding, and does not release carbon from its surface; together with a method for the production thereof.04-16-2009

Nobumasa Yoshida, Fukushima JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090139265Method and device for manufacturing silica glass06-04-2009
20100316858SYNTHETIC OPAQUE QUARTZ GLASS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is a method for producing a synthetic opaque quartz glass where flame processing can be performed in high purity with a simple way and even a large sized one can be produced, and the synthetic opaque quartz glass.12-16-2010

Patent applications by Nobumasa Yoshida, Fukushima JP