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20100090257 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD - A channel is formed at a recessed portion or a projecting portion of a substrate, and a gate insulating film is formed so as to have first to third insulating regions along the channel. Each of the gate insulating films of the first and third insulating regions has a first gate insulating film containing no electric charge trap formed on a plane different from a principal surface of the substrate, an electric charge accumulating film containing an electric charge trap, and a second gate insulating film containing no electric charge trap. The gate insulating film of the second insulating region at the middle is formed on a plane parallel to the principal surface of the substrate and is composed of only a third gate insulating film containing no electric charge trap. | 04-15-2010 |
20110311178 | OPTICAL MODULATION STRUCTURE AND OPTICAL MODULATOR - The components are a lower clad layer ( | 12-22-2011 |
20130064491 | OPTICAL MODULATOR - To provide an optical modulator having a reduced size and reduced power consumption and capable of being easily connected to a waveguide and a method of manufacturing the optical modulator. The optical modulator has at least semiconductor layer ( | 03-14-2013 |
20150118566 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR SECONDARY BATTERY, AND SECONDARY BATTERY - The present invention relates to a negative electrode material for secondary batteries, comprising graphite; wherein
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20150300956 | QUALITY MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL OF LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING NEGATIVE ELECTRODE OF LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, NEGATIVE ELECTRODE OF LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY - An object is to provide means, which is capable of performing quality management with sufficient precision even in a case where the thickness of an amorphous carbon layer is small, as quality management means for a negative electrode active material of a lithium-ion secondary battery including an amorphous carbon layer on a surface. Provided is a quality management method for a negative electrode active material of a lithium-ion secondary battery which includes an amorphous carbon layer on a surface. In the quality management method, an aspect of a change in a plurality of D/G ratios, which are obtained by performing a first process of heating an inspection object at a predetermined heating temperature, and of measuring each of the D/G ratios through Raman scattering spectroscopy measurement a predetermined number of times while changing the heating temperature, is set as an index of the quality management. | 10-22-2015 |
20150311513 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING SAME - There is provided a negative electrode material for lithium ion secondary batteries having a structure in which in charged and discharged states, a Li | 10-29-2015 |
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20090012054 | Cephem Compounds and Use as Antimicrobial Agents - The present invention provides a compound of the formula [I]: wherein R1 is lower alkyl, etc. and R2 is hydrogen, etc., or R1 and R2 are bonded together to form lower alkylene; R3 is a group represented by wherein R6 and R7 are independently optionally protected amino, etc.; m and n are independently an integer of 0 to 6; R8 and R9 are independently optionally protected amino, etc., and q and r are independently an integer of 0 to 6, or R8 and R9, together with the adjacent alkylene(s) and the nitrogen atom, form saturated nitrogen-containing heterocycle optionally having substituent(s); R4 is lower alkyl, etc.; and R5 is amino, etc., or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 01-08-2009 |
20100120672 | CYCLIC PEPTIDE COMPOUNDS - The present invention relates to a new cyclic peptide compound or a salt thereof, which has anti-hepatitis C virus activities based on inhibitory activity against the RNA replication of hepatitis C virus replicon, a process for preparation thereof, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same, and a method for prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of hepatitis C in a human being or an animal. | 05-13-2010 |
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20080206906 | Method of manufacturing nitride semiconductor device including SiC substrate and apparatus for manufacturing nitride semiconductor device - Excitation light is irradiated onto a GaN layer on a silicon carbide substrate constituting a layered product that is set on a stage. Then light is emitted from a defective part caused by a structural defect of the silicon carbide substrate out of the GaN layer. By using this light luminescence phenomena, a position of a defective part of the silicon carbide substrate can be detected. | 08-28-2008 |
20080246959 | Method of manufacturing nitride semiconductor device including SiC substrate and apparatus for manufacturing nitride semiconductor device - Excitation light is irradiated onto a GaN layer on a silicon carbide substrate constituting a layered product that is set on a stage. Then light is emitted from a defective part caused by a structural defect of the silicon carbide substrate out of the GaN layer. By using this light luminescence phenomena, a position of a defective part of the silicon carbide substrate can be detected. | 10-09-2008 |
20090001381 | Semiconductor device - A semiconductor device includes a substrate, laminated layers provided on the substrate. The laminated layers include an AlGaN barrier layer as an uppermost layer. A gate electrode is provided in a channel region of the laminated layers. A source electrode and a drain electrode are provided so as to face each other via the channel region interposed therebetween. A silicon nitride film is formed to cover an exposed surface of the laminated layers exposed via the gate electrode, the source electrode and the drain electrode. The silicon nitride film has characteristics that an etching rate thereof is in a range from 1 nm per/min to 2 nm/min for an etchant in which hydrofluoric acid having a concentration of 50 weight percent and ammonium fluoride having a concentration of 40 weight percent are mixed at a mixing ratio of 1:9. | 01-01-2009 |
20090045439 | Heterojunction field effect transistor and manufacturing method thereof - A heterojunction field effect transistor includes a laminated body. The laminated body includes a channel layer of GaN, an electron supply layer of AlN or Al | 02-19-2009 |
20090212324 | HETEROJUNCTION FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR - An aspect of the invention provides a heterojunction field effect transistor that comprises: a base; a first GaN channel layer formed on the base; an AlN electron supply layer formed on the first GaN layer, and a second GaN cap layer formed on the AlN layer. | 08-27-2009 |
20090242937 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method - A semiconductor device has source and drain electrodes formed on a substrate, a gate insulation film formed on the substrate between the source and drain electrodes, and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulation film. These elements are all covered by a dielectric sub-insulation film. An opening is formed in the sub-insulation film, partially exposing the gate electrode. A field plate extends from the top of the gate electrode down one side of the gate electrode as far as the sub-insulation film covering the gate insulation film, filling the opening. The thickness of the sub-insulation film can be selected to optimize the separation between the field plate and the substrate for the purpose of reducing current collapse by reducing electric field concentration at the edge of the gate electrode. | 10-01-2009 |
20100258845 | Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same - There is provided a semiconductor device capable of deactivating 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layers in a buffer layer having a multi-layer film structure. The buffer layer is formed in a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) formed on a silicon (Si) substrate. The semiconductor device includes the substrate whose uppermost layer is the Si layer, the buffer layer constructed by alternately stacking a plurality of first layers and a plurality of second layers on the Si layer, third layer serving as an electron transit layer formed on the buffer layer, and fourth layer serving as an electron supplying layer formed on the third layer. The first layer is composed of the same material as for the third layer. A p-type impurity is introduced into the first layers so as to deactivate the 2DEG layers formed in the first layer near interfaces between the first and second layers. | 10-14-2010 |
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20130098508 | GRAIN ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A grain oriented electrical steel sheet (1) suppresses the content of Cr in the grain oriented electrical steel sheet to 0.1 mass % or less; (2) sets the coating weight of a forsterite coating, in terms of basis weight of oxygen therein, to at least 3.0 g/m | 04-25-2013 |
20130263981 | METHOD OF PRODUCING NON-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET - A non-oriented electrical steel sheet having a high magnetic flux density in a rolling direction of the steel sheet is produced by hot rolling a raw steel material including C: not more than 0.03 mass %, Si: not more than 4 mass %, Mn: 0.03˜3 mass %, Al: not more than 3 mass %, S: not more than 0.005 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass % and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and then cold rolling and finishing annealing to produce a non-oriented electrical steel sheet, characterized in that a crystal grain size before the cold rolling is rendered into not more than 100 μM and the finishing annealing is conducted by rapidly heating up to a temperature exceeding recrystallization temperature at an average temperature rising rate of not less than 100° C./sec. | 10-10-2013 |
20140345751 | NON-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET - A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition including, in mass %, C: 0.005% or less, Si: 5% or less, Al: 3% or less, Mn: 5% or less, S: 0.005% or less, P: 0.2% or less, N: 0.005% or less, Mo: 0.001 to 0.04%, Ti: 0.0030% or less, Nb: 0.0050% or less, V: 0.0050% or less, Zr: 0.0020% or less, one or both of Sb and Sn: 0.001 to 0.1% in total, and the balance being iron and incidental impurities. | 11-27-2014 |
20150027590 | METHOD OF PRODUCING ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET - A method produces a high strength electrical steel sheet in which a cumulative rolling reduction ratio in rough rolling is 73.0% or more, in which in a hot band annealing step, an annealing condition is selected that satisfies an area ratio of recrystallized grains after hot band annealing of 100%, and a recrystallized grain size of 80 μm to 300 μm, under a condition where annealing temperature is 850° C. to 1000° C., and annealing duration is 10 seconds to 10 minutes, and in which in a final annealing step, an annealing condition is selected that satisfies an area ratio of recrystallized grains after the final annealing of 30% to 95%, and a length in the rolling direction of a connected non-recrystallized grain group of 2.5 mm or less, under a condition where annealing temperature is 670° C. to 800° C., and annealing duration is 2 seconds to 1 minute. | 01-29-2015 |
20150059929 | METHOD OF PRODUCING NON-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET - A non-oriented electrical steel sheet having a high magnetic flux density and a low iron loss is produced by hot rolling a steel slab including C: not more than 0.005 mass %, Si: not more than 4 mass %, Mn: 0.03˜3 mass %, Al: not more than 3 mass %, P: 0.03˜0.2 mass %, S: not more than 0.005 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, Ca: 0.0005˜0.01 mass %, provided that an atom ratio to S (Ca (mass %)/40)/(S (mass %)/32) is within a range of 0.5˜3.5, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, hot band annealing, cold rolling and then conducting recrystallization annealing by heating at an average temperature rising rate of not less than 100° C./sec up to at least 740° C. | 03-05-2015 |
20150213928 | HIGH-STRENGTH ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - According to the present invention, a high-strength electrical steel sheet that is suitable as rotor material for a high speed motor, steadily has high strength, and also has excellent magnetic properties can be obtained by setting the chemical composition thereof to include, by mass %, C: 0.005% or less, Si: more than 3.5% and 4.5% or less, Mn: 0.01% or more and 0.10% or less, Al: 0.005% or less, Ca: 0.0010% or more and 0.0050% or less, S: 0.0030% or less, and N: 0.0030% or less, Ca/S being 0.80 or more, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, and by setting the sheet thickness to 0.40 mm or less, the non-recrystallized deformed microstructure to 10% or more and 70% or less, tensile strength (TS) to 600 MPa or more, and iron loss W | 07-30-2015 |
20150270042 | HOT-ROLLED STEEL SHEET FOR PRODUCTION OF NON-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - The pickling loss when a hot-rolled steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition is annealed at 1000 ° C. for 30 seconds in a nitrogen atmosphere and then immersed in a solution of 7 % HCI at 80 ° C. for 60 seconds is in a range of 40 g/m | 09-24-2015 |
20160076125 | NON-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET HAVING AN EXCELLENT HIGH-FREQUENCY IRON LOSS PROPERTY - A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition that includes C: not more than 0.005%, Si: 1.5-4%, Mn: 1.0-5%, P: not more than 0.1%, S: not more than 0.005%, Al: not more than 3 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, Bi: not more than 0.0030% as mass % and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities or a chemical composition containing C: not more than 0.005%, Si: 1.5-4%, Mn: 1.0-5%, P: not more than 0.1%, S: not more than 0.005%, Al: not more than 3 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, Bi: not more than 0.0030% and further one or two of Ca: 0.0005-0.005% and Mg: 0.0002-0.005%, and is stably excellent in the high-frequency iron loss property even if a great amount of Mn is included. | 03-17-2016 |
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20130164988 | CONNECTING COMPONENT - A connecting component includes a housing, housing connection terminals secured to the housing, an abutment located beneath the housing connection terminals, a first guide portion located beneath the housing connection terminals for regulating a position of a bottom surface of the subsidiary board, second guide portions located in front of the first guide portion as seen in a subsidiary board insertion direction for regulating the top surface of the subsidiary board, and third guide portions located in front of the first guide portion as seen in the subsidiary board insertion direction on a straight line passing through the first guide portion and the second guide portions and disposed in a position away from the abutment by a distance longer than an overall length of the subsidiary board, the third guide portions regulating the position of the bottom surface of the subsidiary board. | 06-27-2013 |
20130337663 | CONNECTOR - One lane is formed by a combination of two signal pins S and adjacent one or two ground pins G of a connector that handles differential signals. When allocating differential signals to pins staggered in two rows, for pin allocation on the board soldering side, (SGS) is allocated to a left end of a first row to form a first lane and then (SGS) is allocated to odd-numbered lanes and (GSSG) to even-numbered lanes while (GSSG) is allocated to a left end of a second row to form a first lane and then (GSSG) is allocated to odd-numbered lanes and (SGS) to even-numbered lanes. | 12-19-2013 |
20140187097 | REVERSIBLE CONNECTOR - A connector includes a plurality of contacts, which are held by a holder member and are arranged in a pitch direction perpendicular to a front-rear direction. Each contact has a terminal portion to be connected and fixed to an object and a connection portion which is, at least in part, held by a plate-like portion of the holder member and is positioned forwards of the terminal portion in the front-rear direction. The connection portion has a first contact portion, a second contact portion and a rear connection portion. The first contact portion is, at least in part, exposed on the first surface. The second contact portion is, at least in part, exposed on the second surface. The rear connection portion connects a rear of the first contact portion with a rear of the second contact portion and is connected to the terminal portion. When the connector is mated with a mating connector, one of the first contact portion and the second contact portion electrically connects a mating contact of the mating connector to the terminal portion. | 07-03-2014 |
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20090036743 | MEDICAL APPARATUS - A medical apparatus includes: a first illumination window through which a first illumination light from a first light source is irradiated to a subject; a second illumination window at different position than the first illumination window, through which a second illumination light from a second light source is irradiated to the subject; an electronic image pickup section which picks up subject images; an image creation section which generates observation images based on image pickup signals obtained by the electronic image pickup section; a light adjustment section which synchronously adjusts respective amounts of illumination lights irradiated from the first and second illumination windows; and a control unit which controls the light adjustment section or image creation section to maintain color tone of the observation image to a predetermined one according to increase/decrease of the illumination light amount from the first illumination window. | 02-05-2009 |
20090129704 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR ENHANCEMENT OF IMAGE RESOLUTION - In super-resolution processing in which a plurality of low resolution images are synthesized to generate a high resolution image, a high-quality high-resolution image is to be generated with suppression of the noise ascribable to motion estimation error. Motion estimating means | 05-21-2009 |
20100002292 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A switching filter is provided in a light source device according to the present invention. The switching filter has a first dichroic filter which transmits illumination light in a first wavelength band from a lamp and a fluorescence observation filter which transmits at least illumination light in a second wavelength band and is rotatably provided such that the first dichroic filter and the fluorescence observation filter pass through an illumination light optical axis. An LED portion has a blue LED which emits illumination light in the first wavelength band toward the switching filter. A second dichroic filter capable of transmitting illumination light from the lamp and reflecting illumination light from the LED portion to a condenser lens is also arranged at the switching filter. | 01-07-2010 |
20100195934 | IMAGE INTERPOLATION METHOD, IMAGE INTERPOLATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - An image interpolation method obtains an image line pixel value between two adjacent image lines. The method acquires a luminance change of pixels of two image lines and decides a region of two image lines where only one portion similar to a part of the luminance change of one of the image lines exists in the luminance change of the other image line in the vicinity of the image to be interpolated. Then, among pixel sets located at the symmetric positions about the object image to be interpolated with respect to the pixel within the region, the set having the highest similarity is selected. By using the pixel value of the selected set, the pixel value of the pixel to be interpolated is decided. | 08-05-2010 |
20110007210 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image-processing method determines the interpolation reliability for interpolated pixels in a progressive image, generated by interpolation of an interlaced image, by combining at least any of a first interpolation reliability determined based on the absolute value of the difference between pixels in an upper line and pixels in a lower line used to calculate the value of the interpolated pixels, a second interpolation reliability determined based on the width of the region used to determine the pixels in the upper line and the pixels in the lower line used to calculate the value of the interpolated pixels, and a third interpolation reliability determined by combining the change in luminance for the upper line and the change in luminance for the lower line within the region. | 01-13-2011 |
20110007211 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - The composition ratio used when synthesizing a first progressive image, which is generated from an interlaced image at a given time, and a second progressive image, which is generated from multiple interlaced images at times different from the aforementioned time, is computed based on motion estimation reliability that is determined by consolidating a first motion estimation reliability determined based on the absolute difference value between pixels within an interlaced image at a preceding time and pixels within an interlaced image at a subsequent time that are used to compute the values of pixels to be interpolated for the generation of the aforementioned second progressive image, a second motion estimation reliability determined based on the sizes of the areas of the interlaced images at the preceding and the subsequent times used to compute the values of the aforementioned pixels to be interpolated, and a third motion estimation reliability determined from a combination of the line brightness change of the interlaced image at the preceding time and the line brightness change of the interlaced image at the subsequent time within the aforementioned areas. | 01-13-2011 |
20110293178 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device ( | 12-01-2011 |
20120321185 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - The disclosed image processing method uses a plurality of images as input images, and on the basis of a degree of similarity to an input image group and an evaluation of the quantity of edges of an overall image, a new image is generated; and is an image processing method for estimating a specified color characteristic degree indicating a degree of similarity between a pixel color of a generated image predicted from the input image group and a specified color that has been specified beforehand, and for, on the basis of the specified color characteristic degree, modifying a weight corresponding to the edge quantity of each pixel within the generated image, and generating an image wherein the manner of reproduction of edges of areas of the specified color differs from other regions. | 12-20-2012 |
20130035550 | CONNECTOR SYSTEM - A connector system is a connector system including a plug section, and a receptacle section having a concave portion in an inside of which the plug section can be inserted, wherein the plug section includes a flange portion including a first inclined surface portion which increases in diameter toward an extraction direction, and a second inclined surface portion which decreases in diameter toward the extraction direction on an extraction direction side of the first inclined surface portion, in which an inclination angle with respect to an insertion direction of the second inclined surface portion is larger than an inclination angle with respect to the insertion direction of the first inclined surface portion, and the receptacle section includes a ball which is placed to be projectable/retractable from a side surface portion of the concave portion. | 02-07-2013 |
20130129214 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present invention is an image processing device which has tone mapping curve generation means for local tone correction, which generates a tone mapping curve for local tone correction using the luminance of peripheral areas for each pixel of interest within an input image; prediction means which predicts the overall luminance and/or the contrast of the image after the local tone correction on the basis of the average luminance of partial areas into which the input image has been partitioned; tone mapping curve generation means for global tone correction, which generates a tone mapping curve for global tone correction on the basis of the prediction; and correction means which integrates the tone mapping curve for local tone correction and the tone mapping curve for global tone correction so as to simultaneously execute the local tone correction and the global tone correction. | 05-23-2013 |
20140049624 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - Provided is an endoscope system including: a light source apparatus detecting which color LED fails by a color sensor; a scope that irradiates a subject with illuminating light and takes in an optical image of the subject; a CCD that picks up an image of the optical image of the subject; a video processor that processes the picked up image; and a monitor that displays a processed image, wherein if a failure of any of the LEDs is detected by the color sensor, the light source apparatus generates illuminating light using LEDs of colors other than a color of the light-emitting device for which the failure is detected, and wherein the video processor switches image processing to image processing according to a color of the LED for which the failure is detected. | 02-20-2014 |
20140054450 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - A light source apparatus that generates a light to be supplied to an endoscope, which includes: LEDs of respective colors that emit lights; collimator lenses that receive emitted lights and emit the received lights; and illuminance sensors arranged at positions where the illuminance sensors can receive both of leak lights of the lights emitted from the LEDs of respective colors, which are not used as illumination lights, and lights emitted from the LEDs of respective colors and reflected by the collimator lenses. | 02-27-2014 |
20140205202 | NOISE REDUCTION APPARATUS, NOISE REDUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention is directed to a noise reduction method, comprising: for each of multi-layer regions each containing a pixel of interest and having a successively reducing area, calculating a pixel statistic value of pixels in that region; for each of successive layers, correcting the pixel statistic value for a region at a current layer using a corrected pixel statistic value for a region at a preceding layer having a greater area than that of the region at the current layer; and correcting the pixel of interest using a corrected pixel statistic value for a region with a smallest area. | 07-24-2014 |
20150304524 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including a skeleton component separation unit configured to separate a skeleton component illustrating a perspective structure from a source image, a mist/fog correction unit configured to calculate, based on color information in each color channel of the skeleton component, a correction factor that lowers brightness of a pixel as the pixel is brighter and correct, based on the correction factor, brightness of each pixel of the source image, and a brightness restoration unit configured to restore brightness of the brightness-corrected source image to brightness of environmental light as target brightness. | 10-22-2015 |
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20110141275 | POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM AND IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - A positioning device comprising: a movement measurement unit that measures relative position variation; a positioning unit that enables measurement of positional information; and a control unit that starts continuous measurement of position variation by the movement measurement unit and measurement of positional information by the positioning unit at each predetermined timing for at least a specified position, and determines a position determination spot based on positional information of any of the at least two positions in a case that the difference between the amount of position variation and the amount of relative position variation is determined by the determining unit to be within a predetermined range, and calculates positional information of the specified position based on positional information of the position determination spot and information of position variation that has been continuously measured by the movement measurement unit. | 06-16-2011 |
20110150452 | POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A positioning device including: a positioning unit that performs positioning of position information at each time when predetermined positioning conditions are met; a storage unit that stores position information of at least one specified position, in association with a category from among a plurality of types of categories; a position setting unit that sets a specified position from among specified positions stored in the storage unit; a region setting unit that sets a region of a size corresponding to a category to which the specified position set by the position setting unit belongs, in association with the specified position; a region determining unit that determines whether or not position information obtained by the positioning unit belongs to the region set by the region setting unit; and a positioning control unit that changes the positioning conditions of the positioning unit based on determination results determined by the region determining unit. | 06-23-2011 |
20110156900 | INFORMATION ACQUISITION DEVICE, POSITIONAL INFORMATION STORAGE METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information acquisition device, includes: a positioning unit that measures a current position and acquires positional information thereof; an information acquisition unit that acquires information; a storage unit that stores information acquired by the information acquisition unit and positional information acquired by the positioning unit; and a control unit that causes the positioning unit to perform positioning, while the information acquisition unit is activated, at an interval shorter than while the information acquisition unit is stopped, and causes positional information acquired while the information acquisition unit is activated, outside a time period determined in advance with a time in which acquisition of information was performed by the information acquisition unit as a reference point, among positional information acquired in the positioning unit, to be thinned and stored in the storage unit. | 06-30-2011 |
20150070214 | INFORMATION ACQUISITION DEVICE, POSITIONAL INFORMATION STORAGE METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information acquisition device includes: a positioning unit that measures a current position and acquires positional information thereof; an information acquisition unit that acquires information; a storage unit that stores information acquired by the information acquisition unit and positional information acquired by the positioning unit; and a control unit that causes the positioning unit to perform positioning, while the information acquisition unit is activated, at an interval shorter than while the information acquisition unit is stopped, and causes positional information acquired while the information acquisition unit is activated, outside a time period determined in advance with a time in which acquisition of information was performed by the information acquisition unit as a reference point, among positional information acquired in the positioning unit, to be thinned and stored in the storage unit. | 03-12-2015 |
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20090001501 | Fiber Soi Substrate, Semiconductor Device Using Same and Method for Manufacturing Same - The present invention provides a SOI substrate that can realize a composite device formed of a MOS integrated circuit and a passive device and can reduce a size and a manufacturing cost of a semiconductor device. | 01-01-2009 |
20100021727 | Method of forming continuous thin film and linear glass substrate with thin film - A method of continuously forming a thin film includes the step of: moving a glass substrate with a thin strip shape having a constant db/2(d+b), where d is a thickness thereof and b is a width thereof in a cross section thereof, within a range from 0.015 to 0.15 through a film depositing region in which a reaction gas is supplied and a temperature is controlled to be high so that the glass substrate is rapidly heated; and moving continuously the glass substrate, immediately after the film depositing region, to pass through a cooling region in which a temperature is lower than that of the film depositing region, so that the glass substrate is rapidly cooled and the thin film formed of a component of the reaction gas is formed on the glass substrate. | 01-28-2010 |
20110100059 | SHEET GLASS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SHEET GLASS - A sheet glass that has a side surface with an average surface roughness equal to or less than 0.2 μm is provided. Furthermore, a method of manufacturing a sheet glass is provided that includes processing a base-material glass sheet to obtain a sheet glass that has a side surface with an average surface roughness equal to or less than 0.2 μm. Moreover, a method of manufacturing a sheet glass is provided that includes processing a base-material glass sheet so that an average surface roughness of a side surface becomes equal to or less than a predetermined value according to a section modulus of the sheet glass that is to be manufactured. | 05-05-2011 |
20130023090 | FIBER SOI SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THIS, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a SOI substrate that can realize a composite device formed of a MOS integrated circuit and a passive device and can reduce a size and a manufacturing cost of a semiconductor device. There is provided a fiber SOI substrate | 01-24-2013 |
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20110197829 | UPSIDE-DOWN TYPE LOW NOX BOILER - In a low NOx boiler of the present invention, a high-temperature reductive combustion zone is provided to an upper portion of a rectangular combustion chamber, and a second-step combustion zone is provided to a middle stage of the combustion chamber. A wall provided below the second-step combustion zone is tapered to narrow the combustion chamber, with a taper angle of approximately 35° or so, relative to a vertical line. An ash discharge port is provided to a furnace bottom portion, and a gas outlet port communicated with a rear pass water wall is provided to a lower side face of the second-step combustion zone. This rear pass water wall is connected with a further post-treatment step, via a super-heater tube and an economizer. | 08-18-2011 |
20110310643 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a first terminal, a second terminal, a first plurality of switching elements and anti-parallel diodes coupled between the positive electrode and the first terminal and the second terminal, a second plurality of switching elements and anti-parallel diodes coupled between the negative electrode and the first terminal and the second terminal and a PiN diode coupled between the positive electrode and the negative electrode with reverse polarity. | 12-22-2011 |
20110316460 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - A system and method for a vehicle control system is disclosed herein. The system includes an inverter circuit, a permanent magnet synchronous motor, and a crossover connected between the inverter circuit and the permanent magnet synchronous motor. The system may also include at least one current sensor installed between the inverter circuit and the permanent magnet synchronous motor. A contactor may also be connected between the inverter circuit and the permanent magnet synchronous motor and may pass or shut off electricity between the inverter circuit and the permanent magnet synchronous motor. The system may also include a control unit connected to the contactor and the current sensor. The control unit may detect a current abnormality using information from the current sensor and open the contactor if an abnormality is detected. | 12-29-2011 |
20120249032 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - Disclosed herein are electric vehicle control device which can distribute the heat generated by the semiconductor devices in the DC/AC converter efficiently. Also disclosed herein are methods of converting DC to AC while keeping the heat value of the semiconductor devices stable. | 10-04-2012 |
20130103984 | FAULT INSPECTION UNIT, CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT, AND FAULT INSPECTION METHOD - A CPU changes the operating mode to a test mode in which the CPU does not terminate a program being executed even if an MMU outputs a CPU exception notification, outputs an address signal for causing the MMU to output a CPU exception notification to the MMU in the test mode, and detects whether or not a CPU exception notification is input after the address signal is output to the MMU. This allows inspection as to whether or not a fault that prevents detection of an illegal access has occurred in the MMU while executing another program. | 04-25-2013 |
20130104013 | ADDRESS TRANSLATION CHECKING DEVICE, CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT, AND ADDRESS TRANSLATION CHECKING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes an MMU that translates between a virtual address and a physical address on the basis of a translation table for translation between physical addresses that are addresses in physical memory and virtual addresses that are addresses in virtual memory. Stored in a RAM are page table information indicating a page table, as well as error detection information attached to the page table information for detecting the presence or absence of an error in translation between a virtual address and a physical address performed by the MMU. A CPU detects the presence or absence of an error in translation between a virtual address and a physical address performed by the MMU on the basis of the error detection information. | 04-25-2013 |
20130245794 | SAFETY DEVICE AND COMPUTATION METHOD FOR SAFETY DEVICE - A safety device includes a first computation unit, a second computation unit, an output control unit, and a first central processing device. The first computation unit is configured to perform a first computation on a detected value detected from a subject to be controlled, thus obtaining a first result value. The second computation unit is configured to perform a second computation on the detected value, thus obtaining a second result value which is to be determined if equal to the first result value. The output control unit is configured to output the first result value in a case that the second computation unit determines that the first result value is equal to the second result value, and not to output the first result value in a case that the second computation unit determines that the first result value is not equal to the second result value. | 09-19-2013 |
20140312810 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE - According to one embodiment, an electric vehicle control apparatus is provided with a converter having a diode and a switching device which convert an AC voltage or a DC voltage supplied from an input side into a DC voltage, whose output side is connected to a main motor through an inverter, a battery connected to the converter through a reactor, to provide a power source for the main motor, and a boosting chopper circuit composed the diode and the switching device which the converter has, so as to boost a voltage of the battery. | 10-23-2014 |
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20160001811 | STEERING CONTROL DEVICE, AND STEERING CONTROL METHOD - Provided are a steering control device and a steering control method therefor, which reduce a steering feeling of discomfort due to a pulsed change (short abrupt change) in steering assist torque caused when control such as steering wheel return control is turned on/off, and which acquire a sufficient control effect even when high control response is required, by reducing a fluctuation in steering assist torque caused when one steering assist torque is selected from two or more steering assist torques by low-pass filtering, and by correcting the low-pass filtering depending on a change amount of the selected steering assist torque. | 01-07-2016 |
20160001814 | STEERING CONTROL DEVICE, AND STEERING CONTROL METHOD - Provided are a steering control device and the like, including the steps of: calculating a steering assist torque to be applied to an actuator for applying the steering assist torque to a steering system of a vehicle in order to improve return characteristics of the steering system; determining a steering state of a driver; correcting the steering assist torque depending on a result of the steering state determination; and controlling the actuator depending on the corrected steering assist torque, in which the step of determining a steering state of a driver includes determining the steering state of the driver based on a combination of at least two of the following: a manually-operating steering state determination; an abrupt steering wheel return determination; a high-acceleration steering wheel return determination; a manual return steering determination; and an additional-steering determination. | 01-07-2016 |
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20110102449 | Image Display Device, Image Display Method and Computer-Readable Information Recording Medium - An eye socket surface arranged in a virtual space cylindrically concaves from a face surface to the interior of a head, and a pupil surface is arranged back inside the eye socket surface. A memory unit stores contours, positions, directions, and textures of those surfaces, a position and direction of a projection point and a projection plane. An updating unit updates the position and direction of the projection point and the projection plane in accordance with an instruction input by a user. A generating unit projects individual surfaces on the projection plane based on the contour, position, and direction of the surfaces, positions and directions of the projection point and the projection plane, pastes a corresponding texture on each region in the projection plane, thereby generating an image of a character which looks like that a pupil is directed toward the projection point. | 05-05-2011 |
20130331190 | GAME CONTROL DEVICE, GAME CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND GAME SYSTEM - There is provided a game control device that allows a user, while executing or intending to execute a certain game, to know information about himself or herself in relation to another game. The game control device includes an execution means for executing a first game, a first determining means for determining whether a state of the first game satisfies a first condition when the user is executing the first game, an information obtaining means for obtaining user information of the user for a second game associated with the first game when the first condition is determined to be satisfied by the first determining means, and a notifying means for notifying the user about the user information for the second game obtained by the information obtaining means. | 12-12-2013 |
20140121407 | DEUTERATED PHENYLPROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE - A compound corresponding to 3-[4-[(5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-5,5,8,8-tetramethyl-2-naphthalenyl)carbamoyl]phenyl]propionic acid in which a part or all of hydrogen atoms in the ethylene group constituting the propionic acid moiety are replaced with deuterium atoms, a salt thereof, or an ester thereof, and a prodrug for releasing Am80 as an active medicament after being absorbed into a living body, which comprises the aforementioned compound, a salt thereof, or an ester thereof as an active ingredient. | 05-01-2014 |
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20130200825 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - To provide a motor control device which can apply an electric brake to a motor when power supply is stopped, and achieve a miniaturization and a cost reduction. A first switch | 08-08-2013 |
20140001998 | MOTOR CONTROLLER | 01-02-2014 |
20140062360 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND MOTOR CONTROL METHOD - A motor control device includes an energization pattern output portion and an inverter circuit. The energization pattern output portion cyclically outputs a plurality of energization patterns. The inverter circuit selectively connects respective coils provided in a motor to a rectifier circuit according to the output energization pattern. The energization pattern output portion delays the output timing of the energization pattern according to a rotation speed of the motor. | 03-06-2014 |
20140369813 | FAN MOTOR CONTROL UNIT - A fan motor control unit includes sensor units that each detect a rotational position of the fan motor, a switching unit that selectively connects each of stator coils of the fan motor to a rectifier circuit, a current sensor that detects a current flowing in the fan motor, and a switching control unit that advances, in the case where the current detected by the current sensor exceeds a threshold, a energization timing from the rectifier circuit to the stator coils with respect to the energization timing applied while the current detected by the current sensor is lower than the threshold, on the basis of the rotational position detected by the sensor units. | 12-18-2014 |
20150084564 | CONTROL DEVICE OF FAN MOTOR - A control device of a fan motor includes: a voltage sensor that detects a voltage applied to a fan motor; a switching portion that selectively connects to each of coils of the fan motor and a rectifier circuit; and a switching control portion that reduces a duty ratio of a driving pulse applied to the switching portion if the voltage detected by the voltage sensor exceeds a threshold. | 03-26-2015 |
20150357887 | PRODUCT SPECIFICATION SETTING APPARATUS AND FAN MOTOR HAVING THE SAME - A product specification setting apparatus includes: an electronic tag for updatably storing specifications of a product; and a control computer for controlling the product according to the stored specifications. A fan motor includes: a motor driving unit for driving a motor for rotating a fan; an electronic tag for updatably storing specifications of the fan motor; and a control computer for controlling the motor driving unit according to the stored specifications. | 12-10-2015 |
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20100239213 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR - An optical connector in which a seal member is difficult to be damaged during assembly. A seal member-accommodating portion that accommodates the seal member in a compressed state is formed as an intermediate portion of a through hole of a housing. When an insertion member is inserted into the through hole, an insertion portion of the insertion member presses the seal member into the seal member-accommodating portion. | 09-23-2010 |
20100303417 | Optical connector device - An optical connector device has a first connector including a ferrule for holding an optical fiber and a guide portion projecting longer than the ferrule. The optical connector device also has a second connector for receiving an end of the ferrule along an optical axis of the optical fiber. The second connector includes a receiver for receiving the guide portion and a shutter having a cover part. The shutter is movable between a cover position at which the optical axis intersects the cover part and an open position at which the optical axis does not intersect the cover part. The guide portion is operable to move the shutter from the cover position to the open position when the guide portion is received into the receiver. | 12-02-2010 |
20110075974 | Optical connector and optical connector cable - An optical connector is selectively attachable to one of optical fiber cables including a first type optical fiber cable and a second type optical fiber cable. Each of the optical fiber cables includes a common optical fiber and a common ferrule fixed to the common optical fiber. The first type optical fiber cable further includes a tension member. The second type optical fiber cable further including a tensile member. The optical connector has a swage portion through which the common ferrule is inserted forward when one of the optical fiber cables is attached to the optical connector. The swage portion has an outer surface on which the tensile member is swaged when the second type optical fiber cable is attached to the optical connector. The optical connector also has a fixing portion having at least one receiver hole formed therein for receiving and fixing an end of the tension member of the first type optical fiber cable. The fixing portion is located forward of the swage portion. | 03-31-2011 |
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20130301993 | Connector - A receptacle includes a hollow cylinder and a flange. A plug includes a barrel having a cylindrical body, a semicylindrical section extending from the body, and an engaging section provided at an end of the semicylindrical section and a coupling nut. A boom-like retaining piece is cut out and formed in the semicylindrical section and a retaining hook is formed at an idle end of the retaining piece located in the engaging section. The coupling nut is screwed onto threads of the hollow cylinder so that the plug is connected to the receptacle. Before the connection, the engaging section is engaged with and inserted into the hollow cylinder and the retaining piece is caught in the receptacle, so that the plug is temporarily retained to the receptacle securely. | 11-14-2013 |
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20140329946 | RUBBER COMPOSITION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SAME - The present invention is a rubber composition containing a rubber component, a specific hydroxy group-having thiourea derivative, a thioamide compound, an acidic compound, a combination of a nucleophilic reagent except guanidine compounds and a guanidine compound, a compound selected from a phosphorous acid compound and a salt of a phosphorous acid compound, and a filler containing an inorganic filler, and a method for the rubber composition, providing the rubber composition having an improved low-heat-generation property and its production method. | 11-06-2014 |
20140350174 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING RUBBER COMPOSITION - The present invention relates to a method for producing a rubber composition obtained by compounding a rubber component (A) containing at least one kind selected from natural rubber and synthetic diene rubber, a filler containing an inorganic filler (B), a silane coupling agent (C), and thiourea, the method comprising kneading the rubber composition in plural stages, the rubber component (A), the whole or a part of the inorganic filler (B), the whole or a part of the silane coupling agent (C), and the thiourea being kneaded in the first stage of kneading, and thus provides a method for producing a rubber composition excellent in low-heat-generation property through enhancement of the reactivity between the coupling agent and the rubber component. | 11-27-2014 |
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20080239216 | Optical device, labeled article, optical kit and discrimination method - Increased is the variety of changes of an image in accordance with observation conditions displayed on an optical device including a solidified liquid crystal material. An optical device includes a layered structure including a recess-forming layer with light-transmitting property, a main surface of which includes one or more recess-forming regions each provided with first grooves equal in longitudinal directions to one another and adjacent to one another in a direction crossing the longitudinal directions, and a liquid crystal layer supported by the main surface and made of a solidified liquid crystal material, and a reflection layer facing the layered structure. | 10-02-2008 |
20080253258 | Information recording medium and method of reading information from information recording medium, and image detection apparatus - In an information recording medium according to the present invention, in which an information recording medium has diffraction grating cells arranged therein, a plurality of types of the diffraction grating cells make up one information recording area. At least one type of the diffraction grating cells included in the diffraction grating cells making up the information recording area are information recording elements, while the other types of the diffraction grating cells included in the diffraction grating cells making up the information recording area are information hiding elements. The information is recorded by two-dimensional arrangement of the diffraction grating cells constituting the information recording elements in the information recording area. | 10-16-2008 |
20080272883 | Display and labeled article - A higher forgery prevention effect is realized. A display includes a first interface section provided with a relief-type diffraction grating constituted by a plurality of grooves, and a second interface section provided with a plurality of recesses or projections arranged two-dimensionally at a center-to-center distance smaller than the minimum center-to-center distance of the plural grooves, and each having a forward tapered shape. | 11-06-2008 |
20100071237 | Display and labeled article - [Problems] A higher forgery prevention effect is realized. | 03-25-2010 |
20100080938 | Display and information-printed matter - A display includes a substrate with a light-transmitting property, a relief structure-forming layer disposed on at least one surface of the substrate and including a relief-structured region on a surface thereof opposite to its surface in contact with the substrate, a light-reflecting layer disposed on the surface of the relief structure-forming layer including the relief-structured region, and a printed layer formed on a surface of the substrate opposite to the surface on which the relief structure-forming layer is disposed, or between the relief structure-forming layer and the light-reflecting layer, or on a side of the light-reflecting layer opposite to its surface in contact with the relief structure-forming layer. The relief-structured region is constituted by recessed or protruding portions arranged two-dimensionally, has low reflectivity and low diffusibility under a normal illumination condition, and exhibits a diffracted light-emitting property under a specific condition. | 04-01-2010 |
20100254007 | Display and labeled article - A display includes light-scattering regions. Each of the light-scattering regions is provided with linear protrusions and/or recesses having the same longitudinal direction. The light-scattering regions are different from each other in the longitudinal direction. | 10-07-2010 |
20120127547 | IMAGE DISPLAY AND LABELED ARTICLE - An image display according to an embodiment includes a first image-displaying portion that displays first information about a certain object as a first image of object color, and a second image-displaying portion that displays second information about the object as a second image of structural color provided by a relief structure, the relief structure including at least one structure selected from the group consisting of diffraction grating, hologram, and light-scattering structure having an anisotropic light-scattering property. According to an example, the object is a person, and the first image includes a facial image of the person. A labeled article according to another embodiment includes the image display, and a substrate supporting the image display. | 05-24-2012 |
20140293424 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD OF READING INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE DETECTION APPARATUS - In an information recording medium, in which an information recording medium has diffraction grating cells arranged therein, a plurality of types of the diffraction grating cells make up one information recording area. At least one type of the diffraction grating cells included in the diffraction grating cells making up the information recording area are information recording elements, while the other types of the diffraction grating cells included in the diffraction grating cells making up the information recording area are information hiding elements. The information is recorded by two-dimensional arrangement of the diffraction grating cells constituting the information recording elements in the information recording area. | 10-02-2014 |
20150124323 | DISPLAY AND LABELED ARTICLE - A higher forgery prevention effect is realized. A display includes a first interface section provided with a relief-type diffraction grating constituted by a plurality of grooves, and a second interface section provided with a plurality of recesses or projections arranged two-dimensionally at a center-to-center distance smaller than the minimum center-to-center distance of the plural grooves, and each having a forward tapered shape. | 05-07-2015 |
20150151561 | DISPLAY HAVING LIGHT-SCATTERING PROPERTY - A display includes light-scattering regions. Each of the light-scattering regions is provided with linear protrusions and/or recesses having the same longitudinal direction. The light-scattering regions are different from each other in the longitudinal direction. | 06-04-2015 |
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20140044989 | HIGH-STRENGTH COLD-ROLLED STEEL SHEET HAVING EXCELLENT UNIFORM ELONGATION AND HOLE EXPANDABILITY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - This high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet having excellent uniform elongation and hole expandability contains, C: 0.01 to 0.4%; Si: 0.001 to 2.5%; Mn: 0.001 to 4.0%; P: 0.001 to 0.15%; S: 0.0005 to 0.03%; Al: 0.001 to 2.0%; N: 0.0005 to 0.01%; and O: 0.0005 to 0.01%; in which Si+Al is limited to less than 1.0%, and a balance being composed of iron and inevitable impurities, in which at a sheet thickness center portion, an average value of pole densities of the {100}<011> to {223}<110> orientation group is 5.0 or less, and a pole density of the {332}<113> crystal orientation is 4.0 or less, a metal structure contains 5 to 80% of ferrite, 5 to 80% of bainite, and 1% or less of martensite in terms of an area ratio and the total of martensite, pearlite, and retained austenite is 5% or less, and an r value (rC) in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 0.70 or more and an r value (r30) in a direction 30° from the rolling direction is 1.10 or less. | 02-13-2014 |
20140087208 | COLD-ROLLED STEEL SHEET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A cold-rolled steel sheet satisfies that an average pole density of an orientation group of {100}<011> to {223}<110> is 1.0 to 5.0, a pole density of a crystal orientation {332}<113> is 1.0 to 4.0, a Lankford-value rC in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 0.70 to 1.50, and a Lankford-value r30 in a direction making an angle of 30° with the rolling direction is 0.70 to 1.50. Moreover, the cold-rolled steel sheet includes, as a metallographic structure, by area %, a ferrite and a bainite of 30% to 99% in total and a martensite of 1% to 70%. | 03-27-2014 |