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20100084796 | IRON CORE ANNEALING FURNACE - An iron core annealing furnace that is used in annealing of an amorphous iron core requiring strict control of annealing temperature. There is provided an iron core annealing furnace comprising a furnace body fitted at its superior area with a heat source and a fan, wherein the furnace body has a double layer structure consisting of a furnace interior defined by the inside division wall of the furnace body and an interspace defined by the division wall and the outside wall of the furnace body, and wherein the fan is disposed in the center of a superior area of the furnace body, and wherein the fan is adapted to introduce hot air from the furnace interior of the double layer structure, feed the hot air to the outside of the double layer structure, allow the hot air to enter the furnace interior from an inferior area of the furnace body and heat the iron core, and circulate the hot air. | 04-08-2010 |
20100089255 | PRECISION PRESS DEVICE AND PRESS LOAD CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a precision press device and a press load control method thereof for downsizing a vacuum chamber in press work in the vacuum chamber, shortening a time required to reach a vacuum and further performing high accuracy pressure control. To downsize a chamber | 04-15-2010 |
20100307732 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING HEATING AND COOLING OF TRANSFER UNIT IN PRECISION HOT PRESS APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for controlling heating and cooling of a transfer unit in a precision hot press device capable of suppressing overheating and supercooling, and of performing quick heating and cooling, wherein the method and apparatus compares an amount of energy (amount of heat) given to the transfer unit or taken from the transfer unit by a heating unit or a cooling unit with an amount of energy observed to enter into or exit from the transfer unit before the temperature of the transfer unit reaches a target temperature, calculates an amount of surplus or supercooled energy from a difference between the two energy mounts, and heats or cools the transfer unit based on the amount of surplus or supercooled energy. | 12-09-2010 |
20110109011 | FINE STRUCTURE FORMATION APPARATUS - A fine structure formation apparatus includes a preheating heater to heat up the surface of belt-like mold alone, right before contacting the belt-like mold to heating and pressurizing rollers, the temperature of the surface of the belt-like mold is made equal to that of the heating and pressurizing rollers, enabling to reliably obtain a predetermined temperature, and cooling rollers or a cooling blower are arranged right after the heating and pressurizing rollers, enabling cooling by a forced cooling and pressure holding, and to transfer a pattern. | 05-12-2011 |
20120301569 | PATTERN TRANSFERRING APPARATUS AND PATTERN TRANSFERRING METHOD - Provided is a pattern transferring apparatus ( | 11-29-2012 |
20130078330 | PRECISION PRESS DEVICE AND PRESS LOAD CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A precision press device and a press load control method is provided for downsizing a vacuum chamber in press work in the vacuum chamber, shortening a time required to reach a vacuum and performing high accuracy pressure control. A pressure sensor is set up outside the chamber | 03-28-2013 |
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20110049093 | Stacked crystal resonator and manufacturing method thereof - An object of the invention is to provide a method of manufacturing a stacked crystal resonator whereby a large number of stacked crystal resonators formed on a wafer can be easily broken away from the wafer, and the risk of damage to the outside surfaces and the like of the stacked crystal resonators is reduced. There is formed a framed crystal plate connected to a first wafer by a first support section, a cover connected to a second wafer by a second support section, and a base connected to a third wafer by a third support section, and a thickness of at least one of the first support section through third support section is thinner than a thickness the connected wafer. | 03-03-2011 |
20110203083 | PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATING PIECES COMPRISING EDGE MESA STEPS, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An exemplary method for a producing a piezoelectric vibrating piece having at least one mesa step includes forming a metal film on a main surface of a piezoelectric wafer. A through-groove is formed through the thickness of the wafer to form a plan profile of a desired piezoelectric substrate. A film of photoresist is formed on the surface of the metal film. A resist is applied, exposed, and formed into a resist pattern that defines a first mesa step along at least a portion of the plan profile. In regions not protected by the metal film, the piezoelectric substrate is etched to a defined depth to form a mesa step. The denuded edge surface of the metal film is edge-etched. A second mesa step, inboard of the first mesa step, can be formed by repeating the edge-etching and substrate-etching steps using the metal film as an etch protective film. | 08-25-2011 |
20110227457 | PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATING PIECES AND DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - Piezoelectric vibrating pieces are disclosed having selectively roughened surfaces. An exemplary piece is made of a piezoelectric material configured as a piezoelectric substrate. The piece also includes at least one excitation electrode and at least one extraction electrode. The substrate has opposing main surfaces initially having low surface roughness. At least one main surface is formed in a mesa or reverse mesa manner, wherein the central region has a different thickness than the peripheral region. The central region has relatively low surface roughness (irregular unevenness), while the peripheral region has relatively high surface roughness. The excitation electrode is formed on the central region (mesa or reverse mesa) while the extraction electrode (connected to the excitation electrode) is formed on the peripheral region. | 09-22-2011 |
20120242193 | QUARTZ-CRYSTAL DEVICES EXHIBITING REDUCED CRYSTAL IMPEDANCE - Quartz-crystal devices are disclosed, of which the CI value is reduced by adjusting the shortest distance between an edge of electrically conductive adhesive and an edge of the excitation electrode. The device has a quartz-crystal plate having long-edges and short-edges. Excitation electrodes are on first and second surfaces of the plate. Conductive pads are electrically connected to respective excitation electrodes and extend to the short-edge of the quartz-crystal plate. A package having a pair of external mounting terminals and respective connecting electrodes are situated on opposing sides of the mounting terminals for making electrical connections to the mounting terminals. An electrically conductive adhesive bonds the connecting terminals and respective conductive pads together, and the quartz-crystal plate onto the package. The shortest distance between an edge of the adhesive and an edge of the excitation electrode is 10%-15% the length of the quartz-crystal plate in the long-edge direction. | 09-27-2012 |
20120242195 | CRYSTAL DEVICE AND INSPECTION METHOD OF CRYSTAL DEVICE - A crystal device and an inspection method for inspecting the crystal device are provided. The crystal device includes: a crystal plate; excitation electrodes formed on the crystal plate; extraction electrodes extending from the excitation electrodes; electrode pads electrically connected with the extraction electrodes; a package including mounting terminals formed on a mounting surface and connection terminals formed on a bottom surface, which is on the other side of the mounting surface, and electrically connected with the mounting terminals; and an electrically-conductive adhesive agent bonding and fixing the connection terminals to the electrode pads. An bonding status inspection region, on which no metal film is formed, is formed in the crystal plate, and the bonding status inspection region is surrounded by or adjacent to the electrode pads. In addition, the bonding status inspection region occupies not more than 25% of the area of the electrode pads. | 09-27-2012 |
20130043771 | MESA-TYPE QUARTZ-CRYSTAL VIBRATING PIECE AND QUARTZ CRYSTAL DEVICE - A mesa-type quartz-crystal vibrating piece includes a vibrator in a quadrangular shape with both main surfaces, a pair of excitation electrodes on both the main surfaces, a thin portion outside of the quadrangular shape, and a pair of extraction electrodes. The thin portion has a thickness thinner than a thickness of the vibrator. The pair of extraction electrodes are extracted from the excitation electrodes to a predetermined direction. A center of a first length in the predetermined direction of the excitation electrode is decentered from a center of a second length in the predetermined direction. The second length includes a length of the vibrator and a length of the thin portion. The center of the first length is decentered toward an opposite side of the extraction electrode by 25 μm to 65 μm. | 02-21-2013 |
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20090224613 | Corrosion-resistant magnetic circuit and voice coil motor or actuator - Provided are a magnetic circuit capable of being manufactured inexpensively due to omission of formation of a corrosion-resistant metallic surface film as well as a voice coil motor or an actuator by utilizing the same. The magnetic circuit comprises yoke members prepared from a plate material of 0.1 mm to 5 mm thickness of a martensite-type, ferrite-type or precipitation-hardening stainless steel material or a Cr-based heat-resistant steel material containing 0.0001-1% (% by mass, the same hereinbelow) of C, 0.0001-5% of Si, 0.001-2% of Mn, 0.0001-0.1% of P, 0.0001-0.2% of S, 0.0001-5% of Al, 0.0001-0.1% of O, 0.0001-0.1% of N, 0.0001-1% of Ni and 10.5-30% of Cr together with at least one alloying element selected from Ti, Co, Cu, Zr, Nb, V, Mo, W, Ta and B as the additive elements in a total amount of 0.0001-5%, the balance being Fe. | 09-10-2009 |
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20110150530 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including, a photosensitive body for carrying toner images, a transfer section for nipping the recording sheet at a position facing the photosensitive body and transferring the toner images carried on the photosensitive body onto a recording sheet, a driving section for driving the photosensitive body, and a control section for giving instructions to the driving section to conduct a velocity control to rotate the photosensitive body at a predetermined velocity, wherein the control section sets a gain of velocity control to be greater than normal condition, at a time which is at least one of a time when the recording sheet enters the transfer section, or a time when the recording sheet separates from the transfer section. | 06-23-2011 |
20110222922 | FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING THE SAME - Disclosed is a fixing device, which makes it possible to prevent the air blasting section from deterioration, caused by heat transferred from the duct to the air blasting section. The fixing device includes a fixing section to fix the toner image onto the paper sheet; a heat source; and a separating section to separate the paper sheet from the pair of fixing members. On the other hand, the separating section includes: a gas blasting section to blast a gas; and a duct to guide the gas towards the pair of fixing members, and that is provided with a duct wall serving as a heat receiving surface to receive radiation heat irradiated from the fixing section, and at least one of the gas blasting section and the duct is provided with such a connection structure that suppresses heat transferring action from the duct to the gas blasting section. | 09-15-2011 |
20110280603 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In order that the air surrounding a fixing member is prevented from entering a blowing section for blowing separation air, a wind speed setting section is provided with switchable control modes, namely, a first control mode (control mode for operating the blower fan at a wind speed for separation) and a second control mode (control mode for operating the blower fan at a low speed). This structure allows the blower fan to be controlled in conformity to any one of these first and second control modes. | 11-17-2011 |
20110305492 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes: a fixing section which passes a sheet through a fixing nip portion formed by a pair of fixing members and thereby fixes a toner image on the sheet by heating; a blowing section which separates the sheet from the fixing members by blowing separation wind from a sheet discharge side of the fixing nip portion to the fixing members; an opening setting section which is provided with an opening region in which an opening width in a sheet width direction is adjustable, and adjusts a blowing range in the sheet width direction of the separation wind blown through the opening range from the blowing section to the fixing members; a temperature detection sensor for detecting temperature of the fixing members; and a control section which controls the opening width of the opening setting section based on the temperature detected of the fixing members. | 12-15-2011 |
20120098917 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus to form an image by scanning with a light beam through a polygon mirror, having a motor drive section to rotate and drive the polygon mirror based on a polygon drive clock pulse and an image processing section capable of adjusting image magnification through image processing, and a control section to control that at least image magnification adjustment by changing revolution of the polygon mirror or image magnification adjustment through the image processing in the image processing section is selected in accordance with an output form of the image when the image magnification is adjusted. | 04-26-2012 |
20120127520 | OPERATION PANEL AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an operation panel using a touch panel method disposed on an image forming apparatus, wherein a CPU judges whether the same coordinate of an input section is in a pressurization when the operation panel is turned on and whether the first time period has elapsed while the above pressurization continues at the same coordinate, makes a display section to display a massage that the input section is unusable and a message to prompt a user to switch the input section to a substitution device, judges whether the pressurization continues after the second time period and the first time period have elapsed and makes the display section to display a warning to indicate that a malfunction occurs at the input section of the operation panel in case the input section is judged to be in the pressurization after the second time period elapsed. | 05-24-2012 |
20120147115 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including; an exposure section provided with, a light emitting element, a polygon mirror to receive light beams from the light emitting element, and to expose an image carrier using light beam via the polygon minor based on image data; an image processing section to adjust image magnification by image processing of the image data; and, a control section configured to select at least either of a first magnification adjustment to change a rotation speed of the polygon mirror and a second magnification adjustment to carry out image processing of the image data by the image processing section, based on comparison results between a paper interval time during recording paper conveyance in image formation and the first magnification adjustment time required to stabilize polygon mirror rotation in the first magnification adjustment, when adjusting image magnification with respect to recording paper. | 06-14-2012 |
20120189329 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus having a first sheet dimension sensor at a conveyance path in a reverse conveyance section | 07-26-2012 |
20120200025 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus which enables quick removal of remaining sheets in the image forming apparatus via an orthogonal reverse section in case a jam occurs inside the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a main conveyance section to convey a sheet in the image forming apparatus and to convey the sheet to an ejected sheet section; an orthogonal reverse section to receive the sheet from the main conveyance section and turn over the sheet without swapping a front edge for a rear edge of the sheet by conveying the sheet in a direction perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction of the main conveyance section and a sheet ejection section to eject the sheet in the orthogonal reverse section outside the orthogonal reverse section along a direction to turn over the sheet by the orthogonal reverse section. | 08-09-2012 |
20120217698 | SHEET REVERSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SHEET REVERSING METHOD - A sheet reversing apparatus including: a right angle reversing conveyance section which reverses front/back sides of a sheet while changing a conveyance direction of the sheet, being conveyed in a first conveyance direction, to a second conveyance direction perpendicular to the first conveyance direction; a sheet skew sensor which detects a sheet skew of the sheet being conveyed by the right angle reversing conveyance section; and a sheet skew correction mechanism which corrects the sheet skew of the sheet while the sheet is being conveyed by the right angle reversing conveyance section. | 08-30-2012 |