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| 20090287996 | IMAGE LAYOUT DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE LAYOUT METHOD - The image layout device configured to enable users to lay out images includes a layout data storing unit configured to store layout data sets that specify image arrangement regions for laying out the images, a layout selecting unit configured to automatically select the layout data set from the layout data storing unit based on a number of the users, an image storing unit configured to store images, one or more position instructing unit configured to select an image to be arranged based on the selected layout data set from stored images, and provide an instruction regarding an arrangement location with respect to the layout data set for the selected image and a layout processing unit configured to determine whether or not an instruction from the instructing unit is executable and, if it is executable, arrange the selected image in accordance with the selected layout data set. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20120017787 | RELIEF PRINTING PLATE, PLATE-MAKING METHOD FOR THE RELIEF PRINTING PLATE AND PLATE-MAKING APPARATUS FOR THE RELIEF PRINTING PLATE - According to an aspect of the invention, on the relief printing plate where a relief serving as a halftone dot is formed on a surface of a plate material, an elliptical frustoconical relief is formed as the relief as well as the minor direction of the elliptical frustum matches the printing direction so that the longitudinal section of the relief in the same direction as in the printing direction is smaller than the longitudinal section of the relief in a direction orthogonal to the printing direction. Thereby, the relief having the aforementioned sectional shape has resistance to pressure as a whole of the relief as well as flexibility in the printing direction. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120055360 | RELIEF PRINTING PLATE, PLATE-MAKING METHOD FOR THE RELIEF PRINTING PLATE AND PLATE-MAKING APPARATUS FOR THE RELIEF PRINTING PLATE - In a relief printing plate according to an aspect of the present invention, the relief can be formed to have resistance to pressure applied to the apex thereof thanks to the depth (d) and the ridge tilt angle (x). In particular, the resistance to pressure against a relief serving as a highlight halftone dot can be improved to prevent the relief from falling over by the pressure applied to the apex of the relief. Thereby, the relief serving as a highlight halftone dot can be made not to be dipped in a cell of the ink roller (e.g., anilox roller). | 03-08-2012 |
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| 20100026706 | OBJECT PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR THE PROGRAM - An aspect of the present invention provides an object processing apparatus, comprising: a connecting unit which connects to one or more external information terminals; an input unit which accepts input of a desired object manipulation among predetermined one or more kinds of object manipulations corresponding to a particular object from an information terminal connected via the connecting unit; a processing unit which processes a desired object based on a kind of an object manipulation accepted by the input unit; a usage environment identifying unit which identifies a usage environment of an information terminal connected via the connecting unit; and an input control unit which restricts, in accordance with a usage environment of an information terminal identified by the usage environment identifying unit, a kind of an object manipulation that the input unit can accept from the information terminal. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100173237 | Plate-making apparatus and printing plate manufacturing method - The plate-making apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an exposure head which engraves a surface of a plate material by emitting a light beam toward the plate material; a scanning device which performs exposure scanning by relatively moving the plate material and the exposure head; a correction profile generation device which generates a correction profile for correcting an emission amount of the light beam emitted by the exposure head according to a characteristic difference of the plate material; and an exposure control device which, when a correction profile for a plate material to be used is generated by the correction profile generation device, uses the correction profile for the plate material to be used to control the emission amount of the light beam. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100242760 | Apparatus and method for mounting printing plate - A printing plate mounting apparatus includes a mounting mark information acquiring device which acquires mounting mark information formed on each of a plate-making drum provided in a plate-making apparatus, and a printing drum provided in a printing apparatus that prints an image on an object to be printed; an image creating device which creates an image of each color; a first calculating device which respectively calculates a size of each printing plate corresponding to the color image and a mounting position of the printing plate on each of the plate-making drum and the printing drum; a second calculating device which calculates a position of a plate-making positioning mark according to the mounting mark, and also calculates a position of a printing positioning mark according to the mounting mark; and a printing device which prints the plate-making positioning mark and the printing positioning mark on a printing plate support. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110198325 | RELIEF MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND RELIEF MANUFACTURING METHOD - A relief manufacturing apparatus includes: a laser beam irradiating device configured to irradiate laser beam on an engraving material; a scanning device configured to move at least one of the engraving material and the laser beam irradiating device; a numerical value acquiring device configured to acquire a numerical value including a first inclination angle indicating inclination of the inclined face of the relief; a control device configured to control the scanning device and the laser beam irradiating device so that the laser beam is irradiated on a surface of the engraving material to form an initial inclined face having a second inclination angle smaller than the first inclination angle and thereafter the laser beam is irradiated on the initial inclined face to enlarge the inclination of the inclined face from the second inclination angle to the first inclination angle. | 08-18-2011 |
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| 20090001198 | AEROSOL-GENERTING APPARATUS, FILM-FORMING APPARATUS, AND AEROSOL-GENERATING METHOD - An aerosol-generating apparatus includes a body having a powder-accommodating chamber which accommodates a powder of the material particles, and an introducing port via which the carrier gas is introduced into the powder-accommodating chamber; a powder flow passage which has an inlet opening and an outlet opening both of which are open in the powder-accommodating chamber, the inlet opening being positioned at a position lower than that of the outlet opening in a vertical direction; and a transport mechanism which transports the powder in a direction directed from the inlet opening to the outlet opening of the powder flow passage. Accordingly, the aerosol-generating apparatus is provided, which makes it possible to stably produce the aerosol over a long period of time by appropriately reducing the aggregation of the material particles accommodated in the powder-accommodating chamber. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090165271 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - A method for producing a piezoelectric actuator having a diffusion-preventive layer and a piezoelectric layer stacked on a vibration plate includes providing the vibration plate having a surface on which a groove is formed; and blowing an aerosol containing ceramics particles toward an area, on the surface of the vibration plate, in which the groove is formed from a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction by using an aerosol deposition method to form the diffusion-preventive layer on the vibration plate. The aerosol is blown toward the vibration plate in the first and second directions. Therefore, the material particles contained in the aerosol can be collided with the inner walls of the groove formed on the vibration plate as well, and thus the diffusion-preventive layer can be formed on the vibration plate without causing any unevenness. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090191349 | AEROSOL GENERATOR, METHOD FOR GENERATING AEROSOL, FILM FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FILM FORMING BODY - An aerosol generator includes a generator vessel in which a powder of material particles is accommodated, a jetting port which jets a gas, in a direction having a component in a circumferential direction with a substantial center of an inner circumference of the generator vessel as a center of a circle, into the powder of the material particles which are accommodated and accumulated in the generator vessel, a first gas supply mechanism which supplies a gas to the jetting port; and a controller which controls the first gas supply mechanism to adjust supply amount of the gas to the jetting port. | 07-30-2009 |
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| 20100052795 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The present invention provides a semiconductor integrated circuit capable of reducing a chip occupied area and reducing variations in control gain of a digitally controlled oscillator. The semiconductor integrated circuit is equipped with the digitally controlled oscillator. The digitally controlled oscillator comprises oscillation transistors and a resonant circuit. The resonant circuit comprises inductances, a frequency coarse-tuning variable capacitor array and a frequency fine-tuning variable capacitor array. The frequency coarse-tuning variable capacitor array comprises a plurality of coarse-tuning capacitor unit cells. The frequency fine-tuning variable capacitor array comprises a plurality of fine-tuning capacitor unit cells. The capacitance values of the coarse-tuning capacitor unit cells of the frequency coarse-tuning variable capacitor array are set in accordance with a binary weight 2 | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110059704 | TRANSMITTER AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AVAILABLE FOR IT - The transmitter synthesizes amplitude and phase components and calibrates a delay mismatch between amplitude and phase components with high accuracy at high speed. The transmitter has: a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and a low-pass filter (LPF) in its amplitude-signal path; and a phase modulator operable to convert up a phase component into an RF component in its phase-signal path. In an operation of delay calibration, a test input signal is supplied to a delay-calibrating unit in the amplitude-signal path, and the delay-calibrating unit provides a test input signal to DAC. Then, LPF generates a test output signal. The delay-calibrating unit detects a delay of the test output signal relative to the test input signal, calibrates an amplitude signal delay in a range from the input of the delay-calibrating unit to the output of LPF, reduces the difference between amplitude and phase signal delays of the phase modulator in the phase-signal path. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110115571 | QUADRATURE MODULATOR AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH IT BUILT-IN - A quadrature modulator has first to fourth transistors, a first node, a second node, and a first output node. A non-inversion in-phase analog signal, an inversion in-phase analog signal, a non-inversion quadrature analog signal, and an inversion quadrature analog signal are supplied to input electrodes of the first to fourth transistors, respectively. Control electrodes of the first to fourth transistors respond to a non-inversion in-phase RF signal, an inversion in-phase RF signal, a non-inversion quadrature RF signal, and an inversion quadrature RF signal, respectively. Output electrodes of the first and second transistors are coupled to the first node, and output electrodes of the third and fourth transistors are coupled to the second node. A first high-pass filter is coupled between the first node and the first output node, and a second high-pass filter is coupled between the second node and the first output node. | 05-19-2011 |
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| 20090199660 | Bearing for Wheel with Sensor - To provide a sensor incorporated wheel support bearing assembly, in which a load sensor can be compactly installed in an automotive vehicle, the load acting on the vehicle wheel can be detected with high sensitivity and the manufacturing cost can be reduced, the bearing assembly having a plurality of rows of rolling elements interposed between an outer member and an inner member includes a sensor unit fitted to one of the outer member and the inner member, which serves as a stationary member. The sensor unit includes a sensor mounting member and a strain sensor fitted thereto. The sensor mounting member has two contact fixing portions fixed to the outer member and a first contact fixing portion is fixed to a flange surface of the outer member and a second contact fixing portion is fixed to a peripheral surface of the outer member. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090301222 | SENSOR-EQUIPPED BEARING FOR WHEEL - There is provided a sensor equipped wheel support bearing assembly with rolling elements interposed between outer and inner members and with a strain sensor fixed to a stationary member served by one of the outer and inner members. The strain sensor includes a strain generating member and a sensor element secured thereto. The strain generating member has first and second contact fixing segments respectively associated with a flanged face provided in the outer member and a peripheral surface of the stationary member. These contact fixing segments have a joint region therebetween having a bent portion convexed toward the outer member. A location in the strain generating member where the sensor element is secured is on the first contact fixing segment side of the bent portion and yet in the vicinity of the bent portion. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100046871 | SENSOR-EQUIPPED BEARING FOR WHEEL - To provide a sensor equipped wheel support bearing assembly, in which a load sensor can be installed compactly in an automotive vehicle, maintaining a high sensitivity while damage and/or malfunction caused by the external environments and/or the electromagnetic noises are avoided, with low manufacturing cost. This bearing assembly includes outer and inner members having respective rolling surfaces and a plurality of rows of rolling elements interposed between those rolling surfaces. A strain sensor unit including a sensor element is fitted to one of the outer and inner members, which is a stationary member, for example, the outer member. A sensor mounting surface of the strain sensor unit fitted with the sensor element has a covering member made of a resin, which is over-molded, or an elastomer bonded by vulcanization, so as to cover the sensor element sealingly. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100104231 | WHEEL BEARING DEVICE WITH ROTATION SENSOR - Intended is to prevent an output cable of a magnetic sensor, even if tensed, from coming out of a sensor unit. The output cable | 04-29-2010 |
| 20120014632 | SENSOR-EQUIPPED BEARING FOR WHEEL - A sensor-equipped wheel support bearing assembly capable of accurately estimating a load acting on a wheel, without the detecting accuracy deteriorated as a result of a long term use and/or a change in environment, is provided. The assembly includes a sensor unit provided in an outer member, which serves as a stationary member. The sensor unit has a strain generator and a sensor for detecting a strain occurring in the generator. A principal load estimator estimates the load acting on the wheel, with the use of an average value of a signal from the sensor, and an amplitude processed load estimator estimates the load, using amplitude of a signal wave outputted from the sensor, resulting from passage of rolling elements. A drift amount estimator estimates a drift amount of an estimated load output utilizing the average value and the amplitude, which is used to correct the estimated load. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120086440 | ROTATION DETECTING DEVICE AND BEARING EQUIPPED WITH ROTATION DETECTING DEVICE - A rotation detecting device, which is compatible regardless of whether a process control device for processing an output signal of the rotation detecting device is standard one or new one having high input signal resolving power, and, also, a rotation detecting device equipped bearing assembly having such rotation detecting device, are provided. The rotation detecting device includes an encoder provided rotatably and having a plurality of circumferentially equidistantly arranged to-be-detected poles, and a sensor for detecting the to-be-detected poles. The use is made of a multiplying unit for multiplying the phase of the to-be-detected poles from an output of the sensor. The use is also made of a pulse outputting unit for receiving an output of the multiplying unit or both the output of the multiplying unit and an output of the sensor and output pulses having two multiplying powers different from each other. | 04-12-2012 |
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| 20080241631 | Fuel Container for Fuel Cell - A fuel container for a fuel cell, comprises a container body, the container body having a liquid fuel chamber for the storage of liquid fuel and a discharge means accommodating chamber for accommodating means for discharging the liquid fuel, a valve disposed in the container body to discharge or shut off the liquid fuel, and a partition wall member disposed slidably in the interior of the container body, wherein the partition wall member partitions the interior of the container body into the liquid fuel chamber and the discharge means accommodating chamber, the liquid fuel chamber and the discharge means accommodating chamber are in communication with each other through the partition wall member, and at least one of sliding surfaces of the container body and the partition wall member contains a material of a low frictional coefficient. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080272128 | Fuel Container For Fuel Cell - A fuel container for a fuel cell, comprises a liquid fuel chamber having a space for the storage of liquid fuel, a valve disposed in an outlet of the liquid fuel chamber to discharge the liquid fuel from the space or stop the discharge, a partition wall member movable through the space toward the valve, and a compressed gas chamber communicating with the space and storing compressed gas, the compressed gas imparting a back pressure to the partition wall member so that the partition wall member moves through the space toward the valve, the liquid fuel chamber and the compressed gas chamber being integral with each other. This fuel container is used as a fuel container for replenishing fuel to a fuel container installed in a fuel cell or can be installed into a fuel cell. | 11-06-2008 |
