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Akio Toba, Tokyo JP
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| 20120127765 | CONTACTLESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A contactless power transfer system, including a coil configured to supply or receive power contactlessly via magnetic coupling, a bridge circuit having two direct current (DC) terminals and two alternating current (AC) terminals, and a smoothing capacitor connected between the DC terminals. A load is connectable to either end of the smoothing capacitor. One of the AC terminals is connected to one end of the coil via a first capacitor. The other of the AC terminals is connected to the other end of the coil. The bridge circuit includes two serially-connected circuits each having upper and lower arms, each arm having a semiconductor switch and a diode in reverse parallel connection. A second capacitor is connected in parallel to the semiconductor switch of an upper arm, or of a lower arm, or to two semiconductor switches respectively of an upper arm and of a lower arms, of the bridge circuit. | 05-24-2012 |
Hidemitsu Toba, Tokyo JP
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| 20120088078 | OPTICAL MATERIAL, OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An optical material which has a relative permeability different from 1 to light having a wavelength in, for example, the infrared region or shorter than the infrared region and which is stable in structure, and a liquid and a solid (optical element) using the optical material. The optical material is a powder used as a component of a liquid or solid to which an illuminating light is irradiated, and includes a large number of resonating elements which constitute the powder and each of which is formed of a conductor having a width approximately same as or smaller than a wavelength of the illumination light, and a protective film which is formed of a disc-shaped insulator, wherein an entire surface of each of the split-ring resonators is covered by the protective film. | 04-12-2012 |
Hiromu Toba, Tokyo JP
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| 20080226298 | Optical Transmission System - The present invention has been achieved to provide a novel optical transmission system realizing high-speed optical transmission over greater distance by suppressing waveform degradation caused by mode dispersion and mode transition in a multimode optical transmission line. The optical transmission system of the present invention includes: an optical transmitter for transmitting incoherent light; an excitation mechanism for exciting a predetermined mode in the incoherent light transmitted from the optical transmitter; a multimode optical transmission line for transmitting the incoherent light transmitted from the excitation mechanism; a transmission mechanism for transmitting a predetermined mode in the incoherent light transmitted from the excitation mechanism; and an optical receiver for receiving the incoherent light transmitted from the transmission mechanism or the incoherent light transmitted from the transmission mechanism. | 09-18-2008 |
Hiroyuki Toba, Tokyo JP
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| 20090137216 | ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING TELEPHONE DIRECTORY LIST IN THE SAME - The present invention avoids taking much time for finding a person who speaks in a lot of numbers out of a telephone directory list of a mobile phone in a step of starting PTT communication. The device for receiving data receives voice signals from other mobile phones through a server. The device for controlling speaker's voice output outputs speaker's voice to a speaker, and further outputs his/her name to a display unit. The device for counting up a number of speeches counts up a number of speeches made by each of speakers stored in a telephone directory list. The device for terminating PTT communication terminates PTT communication. The device for re-arranging a telephone directory list re-arranges persons recorded in the telephone directory list, in accordance with a number of speeches. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090156246 | PUSH-TO-TALK TERMINAL, SERVER APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF NOTIFYING TERMINAL OF ACQUIRED RIGHT TO SPEAK - Provided is a Push-to-Talk (PTT) terminal having a user interface that makes it possible to immediately verify by sound who has acquired the right to speak at the time of PTT communication. The Push-to-Talk terminal has means for previously selecting and setting user-set melody data to be reproduced at acquisition of right to speak in the PTT function, and means for reproducing the selected and set user-set melody data, and transmitting the selected and set user-set melody data to the other terminals of the group by the PTT function, at acquisition of the right to speak in the PTT function. Following the sounding of a tone confirming acquisition of the right to speak (step S | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100259400 | MOBILE TERMINAL, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A mobile terminal, a control method, a program and a recording medium which can advise the user about a charge or a change to a charged battery is provided. There are provided: a control means for erasing a screen of a display device automatically and showing a reason of the erasing and/or a coping process to a user; and a detection means for detecting a battery exchange or attachment/detachment of an external power supply. | 10-14-2010 |
Isamu Toba, Tokyo JP
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| 20100302662 | TESTING METHOD OF WAFER WITH THIN-FILM MAGNETIC HEADS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THIN-FILM MAGNETIC HEAD - A testing method of a wafer provided with a plurality of thin-film magnetic heads is provided. Each of the plurality of thin-film magnetic heads includes a main pole layer, a first test pad formed on the wafer and electrically connected with an extended top end section of the main pole layer and a second test pad formed on the wafer and electrically connected with a back end section of the main pole layer. The testing method includes a step of measuring an electrical resistance between the first test pad and the second test pad, a step of judging whether the measured electrical resistance is within a set range, and a step of discriminating that the thin-film magnetic head is a non-defective product when the measured electrical resistance is within the set range. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110090595 | Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording and method of manufacturing same - A main magnetic pole includes a first part extending from a medium facing surface to a point at a predetermined distance from the medium facing surface, and a second part other than the first part. An accommodation part for accommodating the main magnetic pole includes: a first layer having a groove; a second layer lying between the first layer and the main magnetic pole in the first layer's groove; and a third layer interposed in part between the second layer and the main magnetic pole in the first layer's groove. The second layer is formed of a metal material different from a material used to form the first layer. The third layer is formed of an inorganic insulating material. The second and third layers lie between the first layer and the first part. The second layer lies between the bottom of the first layer's groove and the second part, but the third layer does not. The distance between the bottom of the first layer's groove and the second part is smaller than that between the bottom and the first part. | 04-21-2011 |
Koji Toba, Tokyo JP
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| 20100187907 | SECONDARY BATTERY CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD - To provide a secondary battery controlling apparatus and a controlling method that can keep a storage amount of a secondary battery used for supply and demand control of a power system not close to 100% or 0%. The present invention is a power supply and demand controlling apparatus of a small-scaled power system | 07-29-2010 |
| 20110137482 | POWER SUPPLY AND DEMAND CONTROL APPARATUS AND POWER SUPPLY AND DEMAND CONTROL METHOD - A power supply and demand control apparatus includes a power generation planning unit that calculates one day's power outputs of multiple distributed power sources and a power flow target of a linking point to another power system, a long-cycle control unit having a long-cycle supply-demand balancing control unit that performs control every few minutes so as to ensure the supply-demand balancing of electric energy in a given amount of time at the linking point in order to perform control for making deviations between total power output calculated by the power generation planning unit and load power in the power system constant, and a short-cycle control unit having a short-cycle supply-demand balancing control unit that performs similar control every few seconds. In the power supply and demand control apparatus, the long-cycle control unit and short-cycle control unit perform the supply-demand balancing control in a hierarchical fashion to determine output assignments of the distributed power sources. | 06-09-2011 |
Masahiro Toba, Tokyo JP
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| 20080304298 | System Interconnection Inverter - A system interconnection inverter includes a step-up converter and an inverter. Moreover, the system interconnection inverter includes a short-circuit current-interrupting diode with a cathode connected to an input terminal of a negative bus, a semiconductor switch connected to an anode of the short-circuit current-interrupting diode, a semiconductor switch drive circuit that drives the semiconductor switch, a semiconductor switch-off circuit that turns off the semiconductor switch drive circuit when negative power is applied such that electric current flows from a cathode toward an anode of the input terminal, and a control circuit that controls the semiconductor switch drive circuit. | 12-11-2008 |
Mayumi Toba, Tokyo JP
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| 20100170527 | APPARATUS FOR FIXING A WIG AND METHOD FOR FIXING A WIG USING THE APPARATUS - An apparatus for fixing a wig to head of a user, including a flexible plane sheet including a first opening and a second opening, a plurality of monofilaments each including a swollen head and protrusively provided on a first side of the flexible plane sheet, a first adhesive layer provided so as to cover the monofilaments, a net member provided on a second side of the flexible plane sheet, and a second adhesive layer provided on the net member of a first half area, the flexible plane sheet being divided into the first half area and a second half area by a line bisecting the flexible plane sheet is provided. The first opening is provided on the line bisecting the flexible plane sheet while having a thin and long shape so that a part of natural hair of the user passes through the first opening, and the second opening is provided at a predetermined position on the second half area so that other part of the natural hair of the user passes through the second opening. | 07-08-2010 |
Minako Toba, Tokyo JP
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| 20110093126 | Intra-Area Environmental Control System and Intra-Area Environmental Control Method - An environmental control system according to the present invention is a system for controlling environmental devices by which a work status and a behavior status are monitored and the environmental devices are finely controlled in accordance with the statuses to improve comfort. The environmental control system includes a communication unit, a unit for detecting environments, a unit for detecting a work status, a unit for obtaining power consumption, a unit for determining the control of a device, and a unit for transmitting a control signal, and enables fine control in accordance with a work type. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110153379 | STAFF ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM AND SERVER - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a skill level of a staff member is discriminated from an actual job log of the staff member, productivity including the skill level, a salary, and combination efficiency with another staff member is calculated, and a staff arrangement plan maximizing a productive efficiency is outputted. A system of calculating an optimum staff arrangement of staff arrangements for a job operated by a plurality of staff members, includes: a record database for a job amount generated during a certain period; a profile database for staff members; a combination-efficiency database for staff members; a skill-level database for staff members; means of acquiring a staff-profile data; means of acquiring a record of a past-generated job amount; means of calculating combination efficiency between staff members; means of predicting a job demand of the job in a specific period, from the record of the past-generated job amount; means of calculating the required number of staff members from the predicted job demand; means of calculating a working shift satisfying the required number of staff members; means of calculating a working-shift matching degree from data of the combination efficiency with the staff member and the working shift; means of performing an arrangement plan corresponding to the required number of staff members by sequentially arranging staff members in descending order of the high matching degree; and means of calculating productive efficiency of the arrangement plan, so that the arrangement plan having the highest productive efficiency is shown. | 06-23-2011 |
Ryuichi Toba, Tokyo JP
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| 20090057835 | Group III nitride semiconductor and a manufacturing method thereof - A manufacturing method of a group III nitride semiconductor includes the steps of: depositing a metal layer on an AlN template substrate or an AlN single crystal substrate formed by depositing an AlN single crystal layer with a thickness of not less than 0.1 μm nor more than 10 μm on a substrate made of either one of sapphire, SiC, and Si; forming a metal nitride layer having a plurality of substantially triangular-pyramid-shaped or triangular-trapezoid-shaped microcrystals by performing a heating nitridation process on the metal layer under a mixed gas atmosphere of ammonia; and depositing a group III nitride semiconductor layer on the metal nitride layer. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20110254135 | III-NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH SUBSTRATE, III-NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR EPITAXIAL SUBSTRATE, III-NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT, III-NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR FREESTANDING SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THESE - An object of the present invention is to address the problems described herein and to provide a III-nitride semiconductor epitaxial substrate, a III-nitride semiconductor element, and a III-nitride semiconductor freestanding substrate, which have good crystallinity, not only with AlGaN, GaN, or GaInN, the growth temperature of which is at or below 1050° C., but also with Al | 10-20-2011 |
| 20120061683 | GROUP III NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH SUBSTRATE, GROUP III NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR EPITAXIAL SUBSTRATE, GROUP III NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT AND GROUP III NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR FREE-STANDING SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide a Group III nitride semiconductor epitaxial substrate, a Group III nitride semiconductor element, and a Group III nitride semiconductor free-standing substrate, which have good crystallinity, with not only AlGaN, GaN, and GaInN the growth temperature of which is 1050° C. or less, but also with Al | 03-15-2012 |
Takeo Toba, Tokyo JP
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| 20100155845 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - A semiconductor integrated circuit device with a “PAD on I/O cell” structure in which a pad lead part is disposed almost in the center of an I/O part so as to reduce the chip layout area. In the I/O part, a transistor lies nearest to the periphery of the semiconductor chip. When seen in a plan view of the I/O part, a resistance lies above the transistor and a first and a second diode lie above the resistance; a second transistor lies above the diodes; and a logic block lies above the second transistor with a pad lead part, for example, formed in a metal wiring layer, therebetween. This permits the pad through the second transistor to be on the same node and therefore the pad lead part can be disposed almost in the center of the I/O part. | 06-24-2010 |
Yasuhiro Toba, Tokyo JP
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| 20100035819 | METHOD OF PROMOTING SKIN COLLAGEN PRODUCTION - It is intended to provide a skin collagen production promoter, foods and drinks for promoting skin collagen production and cosmetics for promoting skin collagen production which are useful in preventing skin chapping, wrinkles, worsening in skin fitness, etc. Namely, a skin collagen production promoter, foods and drinks for promoting skin collagen production and cosmetics for promoting skin collagen production which contain as the active ingredient(s) a milk-origin basic protein fraction and/or a basic peptide fraction obtained by digesting the above-described basic protein fraction with a protein digesting enzyme such as pepsin or pancreatin. The above basic protein fraction and basic peptide fraction have an effect of increasing skin collagen level. | 02-11-2010 |