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Akihiko Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100231963	Print Control Apparatus and Printing Apparatus - Disclosed is a print control apparatus that makes it possible to conduct the print controlling operations in the interruption printing mode, so as to optimize the beneficial balance between the interrupting side and the interrupted side. The apparatus includes a job-status parameter acquiring section to acquire job-status parameters including a residual printing time of the first print job, a printing time of the second print job, a first priority degree representing an implementation priority of the first print job and a second priority degree representing another implementation priority of the second print job and a controlling section to determine whether or not the interruption printing operation should be allowed, namely, an availability of the interruption printing operation, based on the residual printing time of the first print job, the printing time of the second print job, and at least one of the first priority degree and the second priority degree.	09-16-2010
20110103587	DATA CONCEALING APPARATUS, DATA DECRYPTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING DATA ENCRYPTING FUNCTION - Disclosed is a data concealing apparatus, which makes it possible to heighten the strength of the encryption processing that employs such the data cryptography method in which the encryption of compressed image data is achieved by destroying a part of the compressed image data concerned. The data concealing apparatus includes: an establishing section to establish a data size of a portion of compressed data in a changeable manner; a cryptography key extracting section to extract the portion of compressed data from the compressed data as the cryptography key data, while making a data size of the cryptography key data coincide with the data size established by the establishing section; and an encrypting section to encrypt the compressed data by replacing the portion of compressed data, extracted as the cryptography key data by the cryptography key extracting section, with certain data being different from the cryptography key data.	05-05-2011

Daisuke Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090073009	SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE HAVING ERROR CORRECTION FUNCTION - A semiconductor memory device configured such that the time required for its access test can be reduced comprising a memory cell array, a row decoder, a column decoder, an error correction circuit, and an output circuit. The error correction circuit performs error correction on a code word read through the bit lines selected by the column decoder from ones of memory cells located at places at which the word line selected by the row decoder and the selected bit lines cross over, thereby detecting an error position in the code word to generate error detection data indicating the error position and corrects the information bit in the detected error position to generate error corrected data. The output circuit relays to the outside the error corrected data when a normal operation mode has been designated and the error detection data when a test operation mode has been designated.	03-19-2009
20090077337	DATA READING METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - The present invention provides a data reading method suitable for use in a semiconductor memory device equipped with a plurality of semiconductor memory chips, which is capable of suppressing an increase in layout area as compared with a required storage capacity, and a semiconductor memory device. Two memory chips are sequentially selected in the way of combinations different from each other from within a plurality of memory chips each having a first storage area and a second storage area. Data are simultaneously read from the first storage area of one of the selected two memory chips and the second storage area of the other thereof.	03-19-2009

Eisei Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100130376	DNA CHIP FOR PREDICTION OF OCCURRENCE OF LATE ADVERSE REACTION IN URINARY ORGAN AFTER RADIOTHERAPY, AND METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF OCCURRENCE OF LATE ADVERSE REACTION IN URINARY ORGAN AFTER RADIO THERAPY USING THE SAME - A DNA chip and a prediction method for predicting the occurrence of a late adverse reaction in a urinary organ after C-ion RT are provided. The DNA chip comprises a supporting means for supporting a DNA probe thereon, and a plurality of genetic markers supported on the supporting means. The prediction method comprises a first step of hybridizing a genetic marker with a labeled DNA prepared from a subject to be examined, a second step of identifying bases of both alleles of the labeled DNA hybridized with the genetic marker, and a third step of determining a genotype of the labeled DNA as a risk genotype if the combination of the identified bases corresponds to the specified combination, and predicting that the subject is predisposed to develop a late adverse reaction in a urinary organ after radiotherapy when the number of the risk genotypes is three or more and the subject is not predisposed to develop a late adverse reaction in a urinary organ after radiotherapy when the number of the risk genotypes is two or less. The method enables to predict whether or not a subject is affected with a late adverse reaction in a urinary organ after radiotherapy.	05-27-2010

Haruhiro Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100066179	COOLING DEVICE OF LINEAR MOTOR - A cooling device of a linear motor to cool a primary side of the linear motor including an iron core and a coil accommodated in slots of the iron core, including an elongate cover covering coil end portions exposed from both side faces of the iron core in a longitudinal direction, an air channel serving as blower for forcing a current of cooling air inside the cover, and a partition plate dividing the inside of the cover into upper and lower spaces. It is configured in such a manner that the upper space divided by the partition plate is used as a ventilation portion through which a current of cooling air is forced and the lower space is used as a cooling portion in which the coil end portions are accommodated and cooled. A slit is formed almost along a full length of the partition plate on a side closer to the iron core for bringing the ventilation portion and the cooling portion into communication with each other, and a vent is provided in a lower portion of the cooling portion.	03-18-2010

Hidekazu Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080308869	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WHICH HAS MOS STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The technology which can control a threshold value appropriately, adopting the material which fitted each gate electrode of the MOS structure from which a threshold value differs without making the manufacturing process complicated, and does not make remarkable diffusion to the channel region from the gate electrode is offered.	12-18-2008
20090081843	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING GATE ELECTRODE FOR APPLYING TENSILE STRESS TO SILICON SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A gate insulating film (	03-26-2009
20090253235	METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH OFFSET SIDEWALL STRUCTURE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device with NMOS and PMOS transistors is provided. The semiconductor device can lessen a short channel effect, can reduce gate-drain current leakage, and can reduce parasitic capacitance due to gate overlaps, thereby inhibiting a reduction in the operating speed of circuits. An N-type impurity such as arsenic is ion implanted to a relatively low concentration in the surface of a silicon substrate (	10-08-2009
20110207312	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING GATE ELECTRODE FOR APPLYING TENSILE STRESS TO SILICON SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A gate insulating film (	08-25-2011
20110275185	METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH OFFSET SIDEWALL STRUCTURE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device with NMOS and PMOS transistors is provided. The semiconductor device can lessen a short channel effect, can reduce gate-drain current leakage, and can reduce parasitic capacitance due to gate overlaps, thereby inhibiting a reduction in the operating speed of circuits. An N-type impurity such as arsenic is ion implanted to a relatively low concentration in the surface of a silicon substrate (	11-10-2011

Hideshi Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110190714	HEAT GENERATING DEVICE - A heat generating device includes a holder and a heat generating member that is enclosed in the holder and that contains an oxidizable metal, a reaction accelerator, an electrolyte, and water. The heat generating member contains a transdermally-absorbable medicament and a solvent for dissolving the transdermally-absorbable medicament. It is preferable that the solvent is at least one type of polyol selected from polyols that are in their liquid state at 25° C. It is also preferable that the heat generating member further contains at least one type of solvent composed of an oily agent that is in its liquid state at 25° C. It is also preferable that the heat generating member further contains a surfactant. It is also preferable that the polyol is polyethylene glycol.	08-04-2011

Hidetsugu Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090123676	Ink Jet Recording Medium - This invention provides an ink jet recording medium, which is small in coverage and, at the same time, can simultaneously realize high gloss and ink absorption. The ink jet recording medium is produced by coating a lower layer comprising a water-absorptive pigment, a latex, and boric acid or its salt and an upper layer comprising a submicron pigment and polyvinyl alcohol, and conducting casting.	05-14-2009

Hiroji Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100120975	EPOXY SILICONE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND CURABLE MIX COMPOSITION USING SAME AND USE THEREOF - An epoxy silicon, which comprises at least a compound represented by the following general formula (1), and a compound represented by the following general formula (2); and which is represented by an average composition formula (3), wherein a value of [g/(a+b+c+d+e+f+g+h+i+j)] falls within a range of 0.020 or less.	05-13-2010

Hiromi Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090292697	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LEXICAL MAPPING BETWEEN DOCUMENT SETS HAVING A COMMON TOPIC - Terms (e.g., words) used in an expert domain that correspond to terms in a naïve domain are detected when there are no vocabulary pairs or document pairs available for the expert and naive domains. Documents known to be descriptions of identical topics and written in the expert and naive domains are collected by searching the Internet. The frequencies of terms that occur in these documents are counted. The counts are used to calculate correspondences between the vocabularies of the expert and naive language expressions.	11-26-2009
20100057442	DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING RELATIVE POSITION OF WORD IN LEXICAL SPACE - The position of a word in the lexical space is determined stably and highly accurately by arbitrarily setting a predetermined initial condition, determining the occurrence frequency and cooccurrence relationship of the word under a given condition, and minimizing the difference between the values of the occurrence frequency and cooccurrence and the initial layout values arbitrarily set.	03-04-2010
20100076745	Apparatus and Method of Detecting Community-Specific Expression - Conventional publications concerning collections of community specific expressions include collections of technical terms including nouns and compound nouns in technical fields. However, application to new expressions other than nouns is difficult. Even in the field of collection of unknown words and new words, the objective is limited substantially to nouns, and no techniques of collecting new expressions systematically have been proposed. The invention solves the above problem by (a) means for extracting n-gram collocations specific in a predetermined community from a set of documents used in the community, (b) means for selecting a radical which might be a core of specific expressions, (c) means for expanding the selected radical toward the front and back, and (d) means for screening the expanded radicals according to the grammar.	03-25-2010

Hirotaka Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110219297	LAYOUT EDITING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides a user interface that aligns an object corresponding to an image or a text on an object corresponding to a page of an electronic album and displays the object in a list so that the user can easily, visually, and correctly recognize change of alignment of the objects when editing a layout of the objects. In an information processing apparatus of the present invention, a plurality of pages and reduced images corresponding thereto are orderly displayed in a list in a window. When first one of the reduced images is dragged and overlaps with second one of the reduced images, the second reduced image is shifted from an original alignment position and displayed in the window. When the first reduced image is dropped at an original alignment position of the second reduced image, an order of each page is changed.	09-08-2011

Jitsuo Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110263762	POLYLACTIC ACID COMPOSITION AND MOLDED ARTICLE THEREOF - A composition comprising polylactic acid and having excellent heat stability, especially moist heat stability, and a molded article thereof.	10-27-2011

Kensaku Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20120018192	CONDUCTOR OF AN ELECTRICAL WIRE FOR WIRING, METHOD OF PRODUCING A CONDUCTOR OF AN ELECTRICAL WIRE FOR WIRING, ELECTRICAL WIRE FOR WIRING, AND COPPER ALLOY SOLID WIRE - A conductor of an electrical wire for wiring, which is obtained by stranding a plurality of copper alloy wire materials each having a composition containing 0.3 to 1.5 mass % of Cr, with the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, and which has a tensile strength of 400 MPa or more and 650 MPa or less, an elongation of 7% or more when broken, an electrical conductivity of 65% IACS or more, a ratio between a 0.2% proof stress and the tensile strength of 0.7 or more and 0.95 or less, and a work-hardening exponent of 0.03 or more and 0.17 or less; a method of producing the same; an electrical wire for wiring, in which an insulating cover is provided on the conductor; and a copper alloy solid wire for the conductor.	01-26-2012

Koji Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090159884	THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a thin-film transistor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the step of forming a gate insulator on a gate electrode. The gate insulator includes at least a first region being in contact with a hydrogenated amorphous silicon film, and a second region positioned below the first region. The first and second regions are deposited using a source gas including NH	06-25-2009
20100078816	DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A display device includes a metal conductive layer formed on a substrate, a transparent electrode film formed on the substrate and joined to the metal conductive layer and an interlayer insulating film isolating the metal conductive layer and the transparent conductive film. The metal conductive layer has a lower aluminum layer made of aluminum or aluminum alloy, an intermediate impurity containing layer made of aluminum or aluminum alloy containing impurities and formed on a substantially entire upper surface of the lower aluminum layer and an upper aluminum layer made of aluminum or aluminum alloy and formed on the intermediate impurity containing layer. In the interlayer insulating film and the upper aluminum layer, a contact hole penetrates therethrough and locally exposes the intermediate impurity containing layer, and the transparent electrode film is joined to the metal conductive layer in the intermediate impurity containing layer exposed from the contact hole.	04-01-2010
20110198606	THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An exemplary aspect of the present invention is a thin film transistor including: a gate electrode formed on a substrate; a gate insulating film that includes a nitride film and covers the gate electrode; and a semiconductor layer that is disposed to be opposed to the gate electrode with the gate insulating film interposed therebetween, and has a microcrystalline semiconductor layer formed in at least an interface in contact with the nitride film, in which the microcrystalline semiconductor layer contains oxygen at a concentration higher than that of contained nitrogen in at least the vicinity of the interface with the nitride film, the nitrogen being diffused from the nitride film.	08-18-2011

Kunio Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080283188	FERRITE PASTE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAMINATED CERAMIC COMPONENT - The ferrite paste according to the present invention contains a ferrite powder and an organic vehicle, and the organic vehicle contains an organic solvent and a binder made of a polyvinyl acetal resin and ethyl cellulose. The binder content in the ferrite paste is at least 3.0 weight parts and no more than 5.0 weight parts per 100 weight parts of the ferrite powder, and the polyvinyl acetal resin content is at least 0.5 weight part and no more than 2.0 weight parts per 100 of the weight parts ferrite powder. The ethyl cellulose content is the remainder of subtracting the polyvinyl acetal resin content from the binder content.	11-20-2008
20080296528	MULTILAYER INDUCTOR COMPONENT - A multilayer inductor component has a multilayer part having a plurality of magnetic layers laminated therein and a conductor part arranged within the multilayer part. The magnetic layers are formed from a ferrite material and an additive. The ferrite material contains Fe	12-04-2008
20090115563	Laminated inductor and method of manufacture of same - A laminated inductor, in which there is extremely little tendency for cracking to occur between adjacent conductor patterns in portions of a laminate in the lamination direction even when the conductor pattern thickness is large, as well as a method of manufacturing such a laminated inductor, are provided.	05-07-2009
20100108233	METHOD FOR PRODUCING MULTILAYER INDUCTOR - A production method of a multilayer inductor is provided as one capable of readily producing a multilayer inductor which can achieve satisfactory inductance and de bias characteristics together. In this production method of the multilayer inductor, there occurs interdiffusion of a Ni component in a magnetic layer and a Zn component in a nonmagnetic sheet to form an interdiffusion layer in a region of the nonmagnetic sheet inside a conductive pattern. This method allows the interdiffusion layer to be formed without need for complicated processing of the nonmagnetic sheet. Furthermore, there is no boundary region between the magnetic layer and the nonmagnetic sheet around it, which suppresses occurrence of cracking. In the multilayer inductor, the nonmagnetic layer is located between turns of a coiled conductor to suppress degradation of dc bias characteristics and a magnetic body penetrates in a region inside the coiled conductor to suppress reduction in inductance due to provision of the nonmagnetic layer between turns of the coiled conductor.	05-06-2010

Kyoichiro Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080198295	BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND TRANSMISSION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A backlight device includes: a first prism sheet which has a triangular prism row on a major surface thereof; a first light source which emits light having directivity in a slanted direction with respect to a normal line direction of a light outgoing surface of the first prism sheet in opposite side to the triangular prism row side so as to enter into the triangular prism row of the first prism sheet; and a second light source which emits light having directivity in the normal line direction of the light outgoing surface of the first prism sheet so as to enter into the triangular prism row of the first prism sheet.	08-21-2008
20080297431	Liquid Crystal Display Apparatus and Information Device - In a liquid crystal display, a pixel driving circuit	12-04-2008
20110285816	PICTURE SIGNAL PROCESSOR, PICTURE DISPLAY AND PICTURE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A picture signal processor includes: a frame-rate conversion section performing a frame-rate-increasing conversion, which brings an over-double frame rate, on each of a plurality of time-series picture streams each including a plurality of unit pictures, and providing frame-rate-converted picture streams to a display section which displays pictures through performing time-divisional switching of picture streams from one to another in order; and a shutter control section controlling a shutter eyeglass device to perform an open/close operation in synchronization with a display switching timing between the frame-rate-converted picture streams in the display section.	11-24-2011

Mikio Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090026565	Optical Module - The present invention includes: photoelectric conversion element	01-29-2009
20090232443	CONNECTION STRUCTURE OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL CIRCUIT - Optical elements (light sources	09-17-2009
20100002999	Assembly-type durable optical connector adapter - In an optical connector adapter for use in connecting a first and a second optical connector plug to each other, a second adapter half is butted against a first adapter half in a predetermined direction. The first and second adapter halves have engaging means for maintaining the first and second adapter halves in a butted state in the predetermined direction. The engaging means is configured to be disposed inside the optical connector adapter and to be prevented from releasing engagement thereof by at least one of the first and second optical connector plugs.	01-07-2010
20100098383	PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION/CONNECTION DEVICE - In a photoelectric conversion/connection device (	04-22-2010
20100158450	Optical connector having an internal clearance at a part to be connected to an optical fiber - In an optical connector including a base housing, a cover housing, and a clamp fixing the cover housing to the base housing, the base housing is provided with a groove for positioning and holding an optical fiber of an optical cable, a first recessed portion continuously formed from the groove, and a second recessed portion continuously formed from the first recessed portion. The first and the second recessed portions have bottom portions different in level from each other to have a stepped portion formed therebetween. The cover housing has a first coating portion for covering the groove and a second coating portion for covering the first and the second recessed portions. The bottom portion of the second recessed portion and the second coating portion presses a coating member of the optical cable to clamp the optical cable.	06-24-2010
20100295936	Optical connector inspection apparatus capable of inspecting a held posture of an optical fiber - The light source is disposed in a direction traversing the axial direction A of the optical connector. The optical connector holder comprises an inspection light reflecting portion. The inspection light reflecting portion deflects and reflects the inspection light from the light source to the axial direction A so that the inspection light enters the reference hole portion of the optical connector.	11-25-2010
20100328894	OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION DEVICE - Provided is an optical interconnection device in which a volume required for cooling is reduced. In the optical interconnection device, a plurality of optical modules (	12-30-2010
20120128302	OPTICAL CONNECTOR DEVICE AND MATING OPTICAL CONNECTOR DEVICE - Optical connectors can be easily attached to and detached from a housing.	05-24-2012

Mitsuo Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110263017	TECHNIQUE FOR REGULATING REGENRATION OF TISSUE OR FAULTY OR ABNORMAL PART IN ORGAN USING NELL-1 - The object aims to form and maintain a cell, a tissue or an organ induced by differentiation. Disclosed is a composition for inducing the differentiation of a cell capable of being differentiated in a given direction to thereby produce a cell, a tissue or an organ through the further induction of the differentiation in the given direction. The composition comprises NELL-1 or a substance which can be altered so as to act as NELL-1 upon the differentiation. Also disclosed is a composition for maintaining a cell, a tissue or an organ produced by the induction of the differentiation.	10-27-2011

Mizuho Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20120075336	POSITION INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, POSITION INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, POSITION INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A position information providing device includes a display control portion which controls, based on sound position information showing sound data transmission positions, the display of a map display screen where icons showing the sound data transmission positions are superimposed on a map.	03-29-2012

Naoki Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080237467	BOLOMETER-TYPE THZ-WAVE DETECTOR - In a micro-bridge structure in which a temperature detecting portion (diaphragm) including a bolometer thin film is supported by a supporting portion in a state floated from a circuit substrate, a reflective film reflecting a THz wave is formed on the circuit substrate, an absorbing film absorbing the THz wave is formed on the temperature detecting portion, and an optical resonance structure is formed by the reflective film and temperature detecting portion. A gap between the reflective film and temperature detecting portion measures approximately ¼ infrared wavelength (e.g., 1.5 to 2.5 μm). Sheet resistance of the temperature detecting portion is set in a range in which an absorptance of the THz wave becomes a predetermined value or above on the basis of the THz wave (approximately 10-100 Ω/sq.). The absorptance of the THz wave is drastically improved while using the structure and manufacturing technique of a bolometer-type infrared detector.	10-02-2008
20080237469	BOLOMETER-TYPE THz-WAVE DETECTOR - In a bolometer-type THz-wave detector in a micro-bridge structure in which a temperature detecting portion (diaphragm) including a bolometer thin film is supported by a supporting portion in a state suspended from a circuit substrate, a member (dielectric cover) made of a dielectric material for efficiently collecting a THz wave is added to an upper part of the temperature detecting portion, and when a refractive index of the dielectric cover is n, thickness is t, and a wavelength of the THz wave is λ, a setting is made so as to have nt>λ, and a gap between the dielectric cover and the temperature detecting portion is set at integral multiples of λ/2. By this arrangement, an absorption of the THz wave can be improved using a structure and manufacturing method of a bolometer-type infrared detector, and a high-performance bolometer-type THz-wave detector can be manufactured with a high yield.	10-02-2008
20100006757	DUAL-WAVELENGTH THERMAL INFRARED SENSOR - A dual-wavelength thermal infrared sensor includes a first and a second type pixels that detect infrared in different wavelength ranges. The pixels of both types include a diaphragm supported by beams, an eave formed to spread outward from the diaphragm, and reflection film on the substrate. The diaphragm includes a thermoelectric conversion material thin film, an electrode, and protective films. The protective films and eaves are made of a material having larger absorption coefficient for infrared in the first wavelength range and a smaller absorption coefficient for infrared in second wavelength range. First-type pixels further have metal thin films formed on the top of the diaphragm and eaves. First-type pixels have sensitivity to infrared in a first wavelength range and in a second wavelength range defined by optical interference occurring between the metal thin films and the reflection film. Second-type pixels have sensitivity to first wavelength range infrared.	01-14-2010
20100018289	GAS MEASURING APPARATUS AND GAS MEASURING METHOD - A gas measuring apparatus includes: an infrared detecting section that receives an infrared ray from a measurement area and outputs infrared spectrum data relating to the infrared ray; a variation detecting section that detects, by using the infrared spectrum data, a variation in intensity of the infrared ray, which is caused in the infrared ray that radiates from the measurement area and which is caused by a measuring object gas in the measurement area; a converting section that converts the infrared spectrum data to radiance temperature spectrum data which represent wavelengths in an infrared region and radiance temperatures at each wavelength; a background temperature detecting section that detects, as background temperature of the measuring object gas, a maximum radiance temperature from among radiance temperatures represented by the radiance temperature spectrum data; a gas temperature detecting section that detects the temperature of the measuring object gas by using a radiance temperature in a wavelength band included in the water vapor absorption band in the infrared region from among the radiance temperatures represented by the radiance temperature spectrum data; and a computing section that computes surface density of the measuring object gas on the basis of the variation in intensity of the infrared ray, the background temperature of the measuring object gas, and the temperature of the measuring object gas.	01-28-2010
20110108729	THz WAVE DETECTOR - A THz wave detector including a thermal isolation structure in which a supporting unit containing electrode wirings connected to a readout circuit formed in an substrate supports a temperature detecting unit connected to the electrode wirings so that one face of said temperature detecting unit and said substrate are opposed to each other with a predetermined gap, wherein a reflective film reflecting THz waves is formed on the substrate so as to face the temperature detecting unit, an absorbing film absorbing the THz waves is formed on the temperature detecting unit, the reflective film and the temperature detecting unit form an optical resonant structure, the distance between the reflective film and the temperature detecting unit is set to 8 to 14 μm, and the sheet resistance of the absorbing film is set to 100 to 200 Ω/square.	05-12-2011
20110303847	BOLOMETER TYPE TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTOR - A bolometer type Terahertz wave detector comprises: a temperature detecting portion having a thin bolometer film formed on a substrate, a reflective film that reflects Terahertz waves formed on the substrate at a position facing the temperature detecting portion, and an absorption film formed on the top surface of part of an eave-like member that extends to the inside from the perimeter edge section of the temperature detecting portion and that absorbs Terahertz waves. The reflective film and the absorption film form an optical resonant structure. A thermal isolation structure is formed by a support portion that supports the temperature detecting portion such that it is separated from the substrate by a gap. The eave-like member is supported by the support portion so that it is separated from the substrate by a gap.	12-15-2011

Naotaka Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100065750	BURN-UP PROFILE MEASURING METHOD, BURN-UP PROFILE MEASURING APPARATUS, RADIATION SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION MEASURING APPARATUS, AND BURN-UP PROFILE MEASURING PROGRAM - An upper detector and a lower detector that face at least one side of a fuel assembly, on which neutrons are irradiated in a nuclear reactor, and detect radiation are set at a predetermined interval in an axial direction of the fuel assembly. Distributions of radiation signals are measured by the upper detector and the lower detector while the fuel assembly and the upper detector and the lower detectors are relatively moved along the axial direction of the fuel assembly. Soundness of radiation signals measured by the upper detector and the lower detector is determined in every measurement by comparing radiation signal distributions obtained by measuring the same portion in the axial direction of the fuel assembly in a multiplexed manner with the upper detector and the lower detector. Thereafter, relative burn-up is calculated by utilizing the measured radiation signals to measure a burn-up profile. According to the present invention, it is possible to measure a burn-up profile of the fuel assembly while securing reliability of a measurement result.	03-18-2010

Nobuhiko Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20120020625	OPTICAL CONNECTOR PLUG - An optical connector plug is comprised of a pair of divided front and rear housings formed generally in a quadrilateral tubular shape for receiving a ferrule to hold an optical fiber. A housing, one of the housings is provided with engagement openings on at least opposite wall portions thereof, and the other housing is provided with engagement projections on its opposite wall portions to be engaged in the engagement openings. Furthermore, fitting projections are formed in the longitudinal direction on the wall portions in which the engagement openings are formed, and fitting recesses to be fitted with the fitting projections are formed in the wall portions on which the engagement projections are formed. The pair of housings are firmly joined to each other by engaging the engagement projections with the engagement openings and by fitting and engaging the fitting projections in the fitting recesses.	01-26-2012

Ryouji Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110257336	BLOCK COPOLYMER COMPOSITION, FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BLOCK COPOLYMER COMPOSITION - An object of the present invention is to provide a block copolymer composition containing an aromatic vinyl-conjugated diene-aromatic vinyl block copolymer, which is capable of achieving a high-level balance between a high elastic modulus and a small permanent set, and is capable of producing a highly isotropic molded product having uniform mechanical properties even when a molding method which is likely to cause molecular orientation, such as extrusion molding, is applied. The object is attained by providing a block copolymer composition comprising a block copolymer A represented by the following Formula (A) and a block copolymer B represented by the following Formula (B), wherein a weight ratio (A/B) between the block copolymer A and the block copolymer B is 36/64 to 85/15:	10-20-2011
20110257337	BLOCK COPOLYMER COMPOSITION AND HOT-MELT ADHESIVE COMPOSITION - Provided is a hot-melt adhesive composition which can be easily applied at a relatively low temperature, has a long open time, and also has high holding power. A hot-melt adhesive composition comprising a block copolymer composition which includes a block copolymer A and a block copolymer B, and a tackifying resin, wherein a weight ratio (A/B) of the block copolymer A and the block copolymer B is 25/75 to 90/10, and an aromatic vinyl monomer unit content of the block copolymer A is 41% or greater.	10-20-2011
20110308412	BLOCK COPOLYMER COMPOSITION FOR FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATES - Disclosed is a block copolymer composition for flexographic printing plates, which is capable of providing a flexographic printing plate that has much more excellent wear resistance than conventional flexographic printing plates, while maintaining sufficient rubber elasticity. The block copolymer composition for flexographic printing plates comprises a block copolymer A and a block copolymer B, each of which is an aromatic vinyl-conjugated diene-aromatic vinyl block copolymer having a specific structure, wherein a content of the aromatic vinyl monomer unit in the block copolymer A is 41% or more.	12-22-2011
20110319549	ADHESIVE COMPOSITION FOR LABELS - Provided is an adhesive composition for labels, which can be easily applied at a relatively low temperature and has satisfactory die cutting properties so that the adhesive composition can contribute to an improvement of the productivity of labels, and which is capable of producing labels having excellent holding power and tackiness. There is disclosed an adhesive composition for labels comprising: a block copolymer A represented by the following general formula (A); a polymer C, which is a polymer having a glass transition temperature of −30° C. or lower, or a block copolymer that has a polymer block having a glass transition temperature of −30° C. or lower at an end of the polymer chain; and a tackifier resin D.	12-29-2011
20120088423	COMPOSITION FOR STRETCHABLE FILM - The present invention provides a composition for a stretchable film, which achieves a high-level balance between a high elastic modulus and a small permanent elongation, which is excellent in adhesive force when laminated with a non-woven fabric or the like, and also has good formability. The present invention also provides a composition for a stretchable film comprising a block copolymer composition containing a block copolymer A represented by the following general formula (A) and a block copolymer B represented by the following general formula (B), and a polyolefin-based thermoplastic resin:	04-12-2012

Ryunosuke Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100169774	Electronics apparatus, method for displaying map, and computer program - An electronics apparatus includes an information storing unit that stores map data; a display unit that displays an image; a touched position detecting unit that detects a touched position on the displayed image in the display unit; and a control unit that displays a map in the display unit using the map data, wherein the control unit sets a target position in accordance with the position detected by the touched position detecting unit, and if the target position is located on the map, the control unit displays the map so that the target position is matched with a predefined position by scrolling the map, and if the target position is not located on the map, the control unit creates another map in which the target position is matched with the predefined position using the stored map data, and replaces the map displayed by the display unit with the created map.	07-01-2010
20110158556	Imaging apparatus, data processing method, and program - An imaging apparatus includes: an orientation sensor that detects orientation representing the direction in which the imaging apparatus is oriented; a controller that produces data formed of a captured image and attribute information associated with the captured image and records the data in a recording section; and the recording section that stores a captured image and attribute information, wherein the controller successively records an entry in a memory, the entry relating orientation information calculated by successively receiving a value detected with the orientation sensor to a time stamp representing the time at which the detected value is inputted from the orientation sensor, extracts a plurality of entries having time stamps close to the time at which the image was captured from the entries recorded in the memory, and calculates orientation information representing the direction in which the image was captured by using the plurality of pieces of orientation information in the extracted entries.	06-30-2011

Shigeto Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100060017	PROTECTION AND CONTROL SYSTEM - A system for protecting, controlling, and monitoring substation devices of a power system, includes a spare protection and control unit that, when there is a failure in a protection and control unit from among protection and control units that perform a protection and control operation for the substation devices, downloads unit information including software and a device setting value of failed protection and control unit from a database unit and functions as an alternative unit for the failed protection and control unit.	03-11-2010

Shinji Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090301219	Multi-Vortex Flowmeter Integrating Pressure Gauge - A multi-vortex flowmeter (	12-10-2009

Shoji Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090176780	NITROGENOUS HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS - The present invention relates to nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which have inhibitory activity on the phosphorylation of kinases, which inhibits the activity of such kinases. The invention is also related to a method of inhibiting kinases and treating disease states in a mammal by inhibiting the phosphorylation of kinases. In a particular aspect the present invention provides nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which inhibit phosphorylation of a PDGF receptor to hinder abnormal cell growth and cell wandering, and a method for preventing or treating cell-proliferative diseases such as arteriosclerosis, vascular reobstruction, cancer and glomerulosclerosis.	07-09-2009
20100113468	QUINAZOLINE DERIVATIVES AS KINASE INHIBITORS - The present invention relates to nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which have inhibitory activity on the phosphorylation of kinases, which inhibits the activity of such kinases. The invention is also related to a method of inhibiting kinases and treating disease states in a mammal by inhibiting the phosphorylation of kinases. In a particular aspect the present invention provides nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which inhibit phosphorylation of a PDGF receptor to hinder abnormal cell growth and cell wandering, and a method for preventing or treating cell-proliferative diseases such as arteriosclerosis, vascular reobstruction, cancer and glomerulosclerosis.	05-06-2010

Shuhei Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090320943	Flowing water splitting apparatus, flowing water splitting method and sewage system - To provide a flowing water splitting apparatus, a flowing water splitting method, and a sewage system each capable of enhancing the flow quantity splitting function for flowing water by a simple structure to reduce the flow quantity of the flowing water flowing to a dirty water pipe.	12-31-2009

Tomiichiro Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090286794	Preventives or remedies for alzheimer's disease, or amyloid protein fibril-formation inhibitors, which include a nitrogen-containing heteroaryl compound - The present invention relates to preventives or remedies for Alzheimer's disease, or to amyloid protein fibril-formation inhibitors, which include as an active ingredient a compound of general formula (I) below or a pharmacologically permitted salt thereof; and also to nitrogen-containing heteroaryl derivatives having specific substituents, or pharmacologically permitted salts thereof, which are valuable as preventives or remedies for Alzheimer's disease, or as amyloid protein fibril-formation inhibitors:	11-19-2009
20090286809	Preventives or remedies for alzheimer's disease, or amyloid protein fibril-formation inhibitors, which include a nitrogen-containing heteroaryl compound - The present invention relates to preventives or remedies for Alzheimer's disease, or to amyloid protein fibril-formation inhibitors, which include as an active ingredient a compound of general formula (I) below or a pharmacologically permitted salt thereof; and also to nitrogen-containing heteroaryl derivatives having specific substituents, or pharmacologically permitted salts thereof, which are valuable as preventives or remedies for Alzheimer's disease, or as amyloid protein fibril-formation inhibitors:	11-19-2009
20110275640	Preventives or remedies for alzheimer's disease, or amyloid protein fibril-formation inhibitors, which include a nitrogen-containing heteroaryl compound - The present invention relates to preventives or remedies for Alzheimer's disease, or to amyloid protein fibril-formation inhibitors, which include as an active ingredient a compound of general formula (I) below or a pharmacologically permitted salt thereof; and also to nitrogen-containing heteroaryl derivatives having specific substituents, or pharmacologically permitted salts thereof, which are valuable as preventives or remedies for Alzheimer's disease, or as amyloid protein fibril-formation inhibitors:	11-10-2011
20110275641	Preventives or remedies for Alzheimer's disease, or amyloid protein fibril-formation inhibitors, which include a nitrogen-containing heteroaryl compound - The present invention relates to preventives or remedies for Alzheimer's disease, or to amyloid protein fibril-formation inhibitors, which include as an active ingredient a compound of general formula (I) below or a pharmacologically permitted salt thereof; and also to nitrogen-containing heteroaryl derivatives having specific substituents, or pharmacologically permitted salts thereof, which are valuable as preventives or remedies for Alzheimer's disease, or as amyloid protein fibril-formation inhibitors:	11-10-2011

Tomoya Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090194207	Cooling Method of Steel Plate - A cooling method of steel plate able to raise a cooling uniformity in a steel plate conveyance direction comprising, at a front stage part of a cooling apparatus, not spraying while a front end region of steel plate is passing, spraying by successively increasing the cooling water rate from 80 to 95 vol % (Q	08-06-2009

Toshiaki Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100261933	METHOD FOR PREPARING CARBOXYLIC ACID COMPOUND - A method for conveniently preparing 2,2-dichloro-12-(4-chlorophenyl)-10-hydroxydodecanoic acid useful as an active ingredient of therapeutic agents for diseases such as diabetes at a high yield, which comprises the step of reacting a compound represented by the following general formula (A):	10-14-2010

Toshio Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090011448	PRETREATMENT AGENT FOR LIMULUS TEST - A pretreatment agent for a sample to be subjected to Limulus assay comprising an alkali metal sulfate and/or an alkaline earth metal sulfate wherein the sulfate(s) has a final concentration of 20 mM or more when the sulfate(s) is allowed to contact with the sample, or an alkali metal halide and/or an alkaline earth metal halide wherein the halide(s) has a final concentration of from 0.4 M to 1.2 M or less when the halide(s) is allowed to contact with the sample, or a kit for Limulus assay reagent comprising thereof as a composing article.	01-08-2009

Yasuharu Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090003732	DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR IMAGE INFORMATION - On a display processing apparatus, on a case data selection screen, display call buttons for respectively instructing the display of the case data selection screen, a listing display of red color detection bars, a listing display of average color bars, a listing display of thumbnails extracted as observation targets, a digest listing display of thumbnails extracted from a database based on a predetermined reference, and a diagnostic report are displayed at the bottom of the screen in addition to the display of a case data listing display window in which a case data number in a case data number field, and data such as the name and the ID of a patient, an examination date, etc. in an identification data field are displayed to be scrollable.	01-01-2009
20100022830	MEDICAL-INFORMATION MANAGEMENT NETWORK SYSTEM - A medical-information management network system including a receiving device that stores in-vivo images captured by a body-insertable apparatus that is inserted into a subject; one or more image display devices that are connected to the receiving device to obtain the in-vivo images stored in the receiving device and perform predetermined processes; and one or more medical-information management servers that are connected with the image display device on a network. The medical-information management server has a management unit that collects information transferred from the image display device and unifies the management of the information.	01-28-2010
20100041950	MEDICAL-INFORMATION MANAGEMENT NETWORK SYSTEM - A medical-information management network system, including a medical-information management server to which a server-identification information is individually given, the medical-information management server configured to manage patient information, examination information, and a diagnosis result; a receiving device that stores an in-vivo image, which is captured by a body-insertable apparatus inserted into a subject, and information received from the body-insertable apparatus; and an image display device that is connected with the medical-information management server via a network and obtains the in-vivo image and the information received from the body-insertable apparatus that are stored in the receiving device.	02-18-2010
20110196201	IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, EXTERNAL DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system includes an external device including an orientation specifying unit that specifies orientation of the body-insertable apparatus at the time of capturing the image data with respect to a reference direction, a rotation correcting unit that performs rotation correction on image data received by the input unit based on the orientation specified by the first orientation specifying unit, thereby aligning orientations of a plurality of pieces of image data, a screen generating unit that generates a screen displaying the image data subjected to the rotation correction, an average color bar generating unit that calculates an average color of the image data subjected to the rotation correction, generates an image of the calculated average color, and generates an average color bar in which images of the generated average colors are connected in accordance with order of the image data, and an organ image generating unit that generates an organ image, as an image of an organ in the subject, obtained by superimposing the images of the average colors generated by the average color bar generating unit. The screen generating unit generates the screen in which the average color bar generated by the average color bar generating unit is incorporated, and incorporates the organ image into the screen.	08-11-2011

Yoshihiro Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100008556	VOICE DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, VOICE DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A voice data processing apparatus which converts voice data to voice playback data by an OLA method to correspond to a set magnification of playback velocity, including a voice data block setting device which partitions the voice data to set a plurality of voice data blocks, a segment setting device which sets voice data segments to the voice data to correspond to respective voice data blocks, a segment adjuster which adjusts positions and lengths on a time base, of the voice data segments set by the segment setting device, and a voice playback data generator which combines the respective voice data segments adjusted by the segment adjuster so as to overlap each other along the time base thereby generating the voice playback data.	01-14-2010
20110128001	MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a plurality of coil elements for receiving magnetic resonance signals of a subject in a plurality of selectable combinations. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus also includes a sensitive region storage device for storing respective sensitive regions for the combinations of the coil elements, a setting device for setting scan regions, a calculation device for calculating a scan volume rate indicating each of proportions of overlap regions between the scan regions and the sensitive regions to the scan regions, and a sensitivity volume rate indicating each of proportions of the overlap regions to the sensitive regions, and a selection device for selecting each combination of the coil elements used to receive the magnetic resonance signals of the subject, out of the combinations of the coil elements, based on the scan volume rate and the sensitivity volume rate.	06-02-2011
20110190620	MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus scans a region including a predetermined part of a subject to acquire magnetic resonance signals. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a plurality of coil elements, a calculation device for calculating a proportion of the predetermined part to a first scan region of a first subject and a position of the predetermined part, based on magnetic resonance signals acquired from the first scan region, a prediction device for predicting a region of the predetermined part from within a second scan region of a second subject, based on the proportion and position of the predetermined part related to the first subject, the proportion and position being calculated by the calculation device, and a coil element selection device for selecting at least one coil element used to receive each magnetic resonance signal in the second scan region from within the coil elements, based on the region of the predetermined part predicted by the prediction device.	08-04-2011

Yoshimi Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20120134470	CONTROL APPARATUS OF RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD OF RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM - A control apparatus of a radiotherapy system of the present invention includes an irradiation object detecting section configured to calculate a target position based on a position of a specific part of a sample; and a swing position control section configured to control a drive unit to drive a radiation irradiating unit which irradiates a therapeutic radiation, such that the radiation irradiating unit directs to a post-correction target position at a control time after the measurement time. The post-correction target position indicates a position near a position to which the radiation irradiating unit directs rather than the target position in the preparation period before a therapy period, and the target position in the therapy period.	05-31-2012

Yuji Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100329426	MOBILE X-RAY APPARATUS - The present invention is directed to a mobile X-ray apparatus having a main unit, a moving carriage for installing the main unit, a column standing on the moving carriage, an X-ray generator supported by the column, and an image reader for reading X-ray image information from an imaging plate in which the X-ray image information is stored. The X-ray apparatus is provided with a brake for putting a brake on the moving carriage, a brake control means for applying the brake or releasing the brake, a read control means for prohibiting reading by the image reader, while the brake control means releases the brake, a cassette loading slot for inserting a cassette enclosing the imaging plate into the image reader, a blocking member for closing at least a part of the cassette loading slot to block the cassette to be inserted, and an open and close control means for closing the blocking member to prevent insertion of the cassette while the read control means prohibits reading.)	12-30-2010
20100329427	MOBILE X-RAY APPARATUS - A mobile X-ray apparatus including a main body portion, a mobile dolly on which the main body portion is mounted, a support pole that is erectly provided on the mobile dolly, an X-ray generator supported on the support pole, and an image reading device for reading image information from an imaging plate in which X-ray image information is stored, and further including detecting means for detecting whether the mobile dolly is being moved, and reading control means for prohibiting reading of the image reading device when it is detected by the detecting means that the mobile dolly is being moved.	12-30-2010

Yukiyoshi Oda, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090028600	Developer cartridge, developing device and image forming apparatus - A developer cartridge includes a storing portion that stores developer and has an opening, a shutter member that opens and closes the opening, and a seal member that seals between the shutter member and the storing portion. The seal member is so provided that both end portions thereof face each other. One end portion of the seal member has at least one angled portion provided inside both side end edges of the seal member in width direction of the seal member, and the other end portion has an angled portion along the angled portion of said one end portion.	01-29-2009
20090324290	Charging apparatus, print engine that incorporates the charging apparatus, and image forming apparatus that incorporates the print engine - A charging apparatus includes a charging member and at least one projection formed on the charging member. The charging member includes a surface that faces the surface of a photoconductive body. The at least one projection is formed on the first surface to extend in a direction parallel to the longitudinal direction of the photoconductive body. The projection is in contact with the surface of the photoconductive body.	12-31-2009
20100189469	Developer storing container, developing device and image forming apparatus - A developer storing container includes a developer storing portion having a developer outlet opening at a substantially longitudinal center portion, and an agitation member rotatable about a rotation axis to thereby agitate and eject the developer via the developer outlet opening. The agitation member includes a mounting portion with a mounting surface along the rotation axis, and an elongated flexible member having first and second ends. The flexible member is mounted to the mounting portion at the first end so that the second end defines a sliding end portion at which the flexible member slides in a sliding direction. Both longitudinal end portions of the sliding end portion of the flexible member slide along the inner surface of the developer storing container, ahead of a substantially longitudinal center portion of the sliding end portion in the sliding direction, and are inclined with respect to a direction perpendicular to the sliding direction.	07-29-2010
20100215410	Developer regulating member, developing device, image forming apparatus and manufacturing method of developer regulating member - A developer regulating member regulates a thickness of a layer of a developer on a surface of a developer bearing body. The developer has a degree of circularity in a range from 0.94 to 0.97. The developer regulating member includes a resilient plate member composed of a metal material and having a bent portion. An outer surface of the bent portion contacts the surface of the developer bearing body so that a ridge line of the outer surface of the bent portion crosses a moving direction of the surface of the developer bearing body. A curvature radius R (μm) of the outer surface of the bent portion and a mean crystal grain diameter D (μm) of the metal material satisfy the relationship:	08-26-2010
20100247160	Developer storing body, image forming unit and image forming apparatus - A developer storing body is detachably attached to an image forming unit main body of an image forming unit. The developer storing body includes a cartridge main body for storing a developer. The cartridge main body has a developer outlet opening through which the developer is ejected. The developer storing body includes an outlet shutter member movable with respect to the cartridge main body so as to open and close the developer outlet opening. A movable direction of the outlet shutter member is substantially the same as a direction in which the developer storing body is attached to or detached from the image forming unit main body.	09-30-2010
20110129252	IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body, and a replaceable part detachably attached to the image forming apparatus main body and movable in attaching-and-detaching direction to be attached to or detached from the image forming apparatus main body. The replaceable part includes a storage portion, the storage portion including a memory for storing information of the replaceable part and/or the image forming apparatus main body, and a first contact portion electrically connected to the memory. The image forming apparatus main body includes a second contact portion that electrically contacts the first contact portion. The first contact portion has an inclination at a predetermined angle with respect to the attaching-and-detaching direction.	06-02-2011
20110129254	Neutralization device, developing device and image forming apparatus - A neutralization device includes a light emitter, an optical conductor and multiple diffusion portions. The light emitter emits light for neutralizing an object. The optical conductor, which is opposed to the object and extends in a longitudinal direction, directs and applies the light to the object. The diffusion portions are arranged on the optical conductor in a zig-zag manner from one end of the optical conductor to the other and diffuse the light.	06-02-2011
20110142494	POWDER MATERIAL AGITATOR AND CARTRIDGE - A powder material cartridge includes a shaft and a sheet-holding member. The shaft extends in a longitudinal direction and is rotatable about a longitudinal axis. The sheet-holding member is formed on the rotatable shaft and holds one end of the sheet member. The sheet-holding member includes a first portion that extends substantially parallel to the shaft and a second portion that extends at an angle with the shaft such that the second portion extends in a direction away from the shaft so that the sheet member includes a third portion that extends substantially parallel to the shaft and a fourth portion that extends at an angle with the shaft.	06-16-2011
20120057886	DEVELOPER DETECTION DEVICE CAPABLE OF DETECTING AMOUNT OF DEVELOPER IN DEVELOPER ACCOMMODATING CONTAINER - A developer detection device includes: a rotating member including a first part and a second part being joined to the first part, the first part having a light-blocking section and a light-passing section, the second part temporarily stopping rotating at a rotation position corresponding to a developer upper surface position of developer stored in an accommodating container; a rotation driving member pushing the rotating member in a predetermined rotation direction; and a detecting unit including a light-emitting unit and a light-receiving unit; wherein the rotating member is formed so that when the second part is at a lower position in the accommodating container, the light-passing section is positioned on an optical path from the light-emitting unit to the light-receiving unit.	03-08-2012