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20130306396 | STEERING SYSTEM - A steering system includes a rack housing and a drainage device. The drainage device has a drainage case, and a drainage valve made of a resin. The drainage case has a case inlet port communicated with a housing space of the rack housing, case outlet ports communicated with the outside of the rack housing, a drainage space communicated with the case inlet port and the ease outlet ports, and a convex portion. The drainage valve has a valve body inlet port portion, and a ‘valve body outlet port portion that interrupts communication between the case inlet port and the case outlet ports when the valve body outlet port portion comes into contact with the convex portion. | 11-21-2013 |
20140291062 | ELECTRIC POWER STEERING SYSTEM - A drainage device of an electric power steering system has a drain case and a drain valve. The drain case has a groove portion formed in a peripheral edge portion of a case inlet. The drain valve has a main body, and a flange disposed so as to face the case inlet. The flange has a bulged portion bulged toward the case inlet, and an annular seal portion. When the seal portion is brought into tight contact with the peripheral edge portion of the case inlet, the drainage device is placed in a valve closed state to form an annular space between the groove portion and the seal portion. When the seal portion is elastically deformed to form a gap between the seal portion and the peripheral edge portion of the case inlet, the drainage device is placed in a valve open state. | 10-02-2014 |
20140345966 | ELECTRIC POWER STEERING SYSTEM - An electric power steering system includes: a steered shaft, a housing containing the steered shaft therein in a movable manner; a ball screw nut engaged threadedly to the steered shaft via a plurality of balls and configured to move the steered shaft in an axial direction; a double row angular contact ball bearing configured to retain the ball screw nut and to support the retained ball screw nut rotatably relative to the housing; a wall portion placed at either side of the double row angular contact ball bearing in the axial direction of the steered shaft, the wall portion being formed integrally with the housing; and an elastic member provided between the wall portion and the outer ring portion and configured to retain the double row angular contact ball bearing to be elastically displaceable in the axial direction. | 11-27-2014 |
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20140330045 | COMPOUND HAVING 2-FLUOROPHENYLOXYMETHANE STRUCTURE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a compound having both a low viscosity (η) and good miscibility with another liquid crystal compound; it is another object of the present invention to provide a method for producing the same. It is another object of the present invention to provide a liquid crystal composition containing such a compound; it is another object of the present invention to provide a liquid crystal display device in which the compound is used. | 11-06-2014 |
20150087847 | COMPOUND HAVING 2-FLUOROPHENYLOXYMETHANE STRUCTURE - There is provided a compound having a good miscibility with another liquid crystal compound and having a combination of a low viscosity (η), high storage stability, and high T | 03-26-2015 |
20150184076 | NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITION - A liquid crystal composition exhibits a positive dielectric anisotropy and sufficiently low viscosity without decreasing or increasing refractive index anisotropy or nematic phase-isotropic liquid phase transition temperature, and does not cause display failures. The liquid crystal composition contains one or more compounds selected from compounds represented by general formula (LC0) and one or more compounds selected from a group of compounds represented by general formula (LC1) to general formula (LC5), in which the liquid crystal composition contains one or more compounds in which at least one of A | 07-02-2015 |
20150203757 | NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITION - The present invention relates to a nematic liquid crystal composition useful as an electro-optic liquid crystal display material and having a positive dielectric anisotropy (Δ∈). The liquid crystal composition has refractive index anisotropy (Δn) adjusted to a desired level, a sufficiently low viscosity (η), and a positive dielectric anisotropy (Δ∈) while degradation of the temperature range of the nematic phase is avoided by suppressing the decrease in nematic phase-isotropic liquid phase transition temperature (T | 07-23-2015 |
20150218451 | NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITION - Provided is a liquid crystal composition having a positive dielectric anisotropy, the liquid crystal composition containing two or more compounds selected from compounds represented by general formula (LC0-1) to general formula (LC0-3), and one or more compounds selected from groups of compounds represented by general formula (LC1) to general formula (LC5). The liquid crystal composition has features of a large Δ∈ and a low viscosity, and provides a practical, highly reliable liquid crystal display element that can realize low-voltage driving and high-speed response. The liquid crystal composition is useful for an active matrix driving liquid crystal display element. The liquid crystal composition can be applied to a liquid crystal display element of an IPS mode or the like. | 08-06-2015 |
20150259599 | COMPOUND HAVING FLUORINATED NAPHTHALENE STRUCTURE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITION OF THE SAME - There is provided a liquid crystal composition containing the compound represented by the general formula (1) and a liquid crystal display device that uses the liquid crystal composition. The compound represented by the general formula (1) has high Δ∈, high T | 09-17-2015 |
20150284634 | NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITION - A liquid crystal composition having positive dielectric anisotropy and sufficiently low viscosity without decreasing refractive index anisotropy or increasing nematic phase-isotropic liquid phase transition temperature, and prevents display failures is provided. The liquid crystal composition comprises one or more compounds selected from compounds represented by general formula (LC0) and one or more compounds selected from the group of compounds represented by general formula (LC1) to general formula (LC5), wherein the liquid crystal composition comprises one or more compounds in which at least one of A | 10-08-2015 |
20150322343 | NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITION - Provided is a liquid crystal composition that has a positive dielectric anisotropy (Δε) and a refractive index anisotropy (Δn) adjusted to a desired level, and sufficiently low viscosity (η) without degrading the nematic phase temperature range. The liquid crystal composition having positive dielectric anisotropy comprises one or more compounds selected from compounds represented by general formula (LC0) and one or more compounds selected from the group of compounds represented by general formula (LC1) to general formula (LC5), wherein the liquid crystal composition comprises a compound in which at least one of Y | 11-12-2015 |
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20120315576 | CHARGE CONTROLLING AGENT AND TONER USING SAME - The present invention provides a charge control agent containing, as an active substance(s), one or two or more rhodanine compounds represented by the following formula (1). | 12-13-2012 |
20130177843 | CHARGE CONTROL AGENT AND TONER USING SAME - The present invention provides a charge control agent containing, as an active substance(s), one or two or more thiazolidinedione derivatives represented by the following formula (1), | 07-11-2013 |
20130177844 | CHARGE CONTROL AGENT AND TONER USING SAME - The present invention provides a positive-charge control agent containing, as an active substance(s), one or two or more rhodanine compounds represented by the following formula (1). | 07-11-2013 |
20130266895 | CHARGE CONTROL AGENT AND TONER USING SAME - The present invention provides a charge control agent containing, as an active substance(s), one or two or more hydantoin derivatives represented by the following formula (1): | 10-10-2013 |
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20130149641 | CHARGE CONTROLLING AGENT AND TONER USING SAME - To provide a charge controlling agent for electrophotography, which presents sufficient triboelectric chargeability to a toner, is useful particularly for a color toner and further for a polymerized toner, increases a charge rising rate, has a high electric charge amount, is excellent in charging characteristics, stability over time and environmental stability and yet is safe without posing any problem regarding waste regulations, and a negatively chargeable toner for developing an electrostatic image, which uses such a charge controlling agent and which has a high charging performance. A charge controlling agent comprising, as an effective component, at least one type of cyclic phenol sulfide represented by the following formula (1), and a toner comprising such a charge controlling agent: | 06-13-2013 |
20140205945 | CHARGE CONTROLLING AGENT AND TONER USING SAME - To provide a charge controlling agent for electrophotography, which presents sufficient triboelectric chargeability to a toner, is useful particularly for a color toner and further for a polymerized toner, increases a charge rising rate, has a high electric charge amount, is excellent in charging characteristics, stability over time and environmental stability and yet is safe without posing any problem regarding waste regulations, and a negatively chargeable toner for developing an electrostatic image, which uses such a charge controlling agent and which has a high charging performance. A charge controlling agent comprising, as an effective component, at least one type of cyclic phenol sulfide represented by the following formula (1), and a toner comprising such a charge controlling agent: | 07-24-2014 |
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20150242207 | PROGRAM INFORMATION GENERATION SYSTEM, METHOD OF GENERATING PROGRAM INFORMATION, COMPUTER-READABLE PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND PROGRAM INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM - In a system according to any one of embodiments, program structure information may include interval information. Each interval information may include source code position information indicating a successive region on a source code of a target program and parent-child information for specifying a parent-child relationship with respect to the interval information. The program structure information may include a reference interval without a parent. A processing unit may specify the number of parents existing between each interval information and the reference interval as a depth of each interval information from the reference interval, and create display information by arranging the interval information on a coordinate system defined by a first axis representing depth from the reference interval and a second axis representing the parent-child relationship based on the depth from the reference and the parent-child information. | 08-27-2015 |
20150254115 | DISPLAY INFORMATION GENERATING DEVICE, PROGRAM-EXECUTION STATUS DISPLAY SYSTEM, PROGRAM-EXECUTION STATUS DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A system according to an embodiment is configured to display program execution results with respect to a common axis. The system includes a first unit that acquires event information about two or more events, acquires reference-event identification information to be used in identifying reference events, and generates event objects which represent the events, and a second unit that acquires axis information which represents information about the common axis. The event information contains timing information indicating positions of the events. The first unit sets the reference events as references for the program execution results based on the acquired reference-event identification information, determines display positions of the reference events with respect to the common axis to be same position based on timing information in event information about the reference events, and generates event objects representing the reference events based on the determined display positions with respect to the common axis. | 09-10-2015 |
20150254879 | PROGRAM INFORMATION GENERATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROGRAM INFORMATION GENERATION, PROGRAM FOR PROGRAM INFORMATION GENERATION, AND PROGRAM INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM - A system according to an embodiment may include: a generation unit that acquires axis information in a coordinate system drawing execution status of a program, and generates an axis object representing the coordinate system based on the axis information; a display event information generation unit that acquires event information related to each of the two or more events and program structure information related to a section of the program generating the two or more events, and generates display event information related to one or more display events representing the two or more events; and an object generation unit that acquires the display event information and display event unit information indicating a display unit of the display event, and generates one or more event objects based on the display event information and the display event unit information. | 09-10-2015 |
20150268953 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage, an accepting unit, an analyzer, a determination unit, and an output controller. The storage stores therein one or more pieces of first feature information respectively representing features of one or more source codes, and one or more pieces of assistance information representing update situations of the source codes, in a corresponding manner. The accepting unit accepts input of second feature information representing a feature of a source code to be analyzed. The analyzer calculates similarity between the first feature information and the second feature information. The determination unit selects, based on the similarity, assistance information to be output, from the pieces of assistance information stored in the storage. The output controller outputs the selected assistance information. | 09-24-2015 |
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20160062871 | PROGRAM INFORMATION GENERATING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A program information generating system includes an acquisition unit that acquires dependency information indicating dependency among a plurality of events generated by execution of a program and selection information identifying a selected event that is the event selected by a user; a generation unit that generates display information, on the basis of the dependency information and the selection information, such that a dependency path that is formed of the plurality of events having the dependency and includes the selected event is displayed in a distinguishable manner; and a display control unit that controls a display unit, on the basis of the display information, such that a display image indicating an execution state of the program is displayed. | 03-03-2016 |
20160085517 | PROGRAM INFORMATION GENERATING SYSTEM, PROGRAM INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A program information generating system includes an acquisition unit, a generating unit, and display control unit. The acquiring unit acquires program information which represents structure of a computer program and operation information which represents structure of operations. The generating unit generates first display information for generating a first display image which visually represents the structure of the computer program and second display information for generating a second display image which visually represents the structure of the operations. The program information includes section information which identifies a position of sections included in the computer program. The operation information includes section identification information which identifies the section corresponding to the operations. The generating unit generates the first display information and the second display information on the basis of the section information and the section identification information so that correspondence relationship between the sections and the operations becomes identifiable. | 03-24-2016 |
20160093075 | GRAPH DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A graph display device includes a condition receiver, a time information display circuitry, an instruction receiver and a graph display circuitry. The condition receiver receives a condition for specifying at least one data item from graph data including a plurality of data items. The time information display circuitry displays time information relative to a time to display a graph based on the specified data item. The instruction receiver receives an instruction for starting display of the graph. The graph display circuitry displays the graph when the instruction is received. | 03-31-2016 |
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20130001411 | OPTICAL ENCODER - An optical encoder includes a light projecting portion, a light receiving portion, and a scale arranged between the light projecting portion and the light receiving portion. The scale includes a light guiding portion which allows light to transmit therethrough and has a light guiding function of guiding at least a part of the light projected by the light projecting portion in a direction vertical to thickness direction thereof through the light guiding portion. The light receiving portion receives the light guided by the scale and relatively moves with respect to the scale. | 01-03-2013 |
20130176149 | ENCODER SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT - An encoder signal processing circuit is connected to encoder heads outputting an encoder signal in accordance with a relative displacement with respect to a corresponding scale in such a way that signals can be transmitted to and received from the encoder heads, and processes encoder signals from the encoder heads. The circuit includes a processing unit and a processing decision unit. The processing unit generates displacement information from the encoder signal. The processing decision unit decides at least one of content of processing for the encoder heads and content of processing on encoder signals read from the encoder heads after starting to read an encoder signal from one of the encoder heads. | 07-11-2013 |
20140222214 | BENDING OPERATION SYSTEM - A bending operation system includes an elongated tubular portion including a bending portion, a first linear member and a second linear member which cause the bending portion to bend, and a drive portion which displaces the first linear member and the second linear member. The bending operation system further includes a first displacement detector which acquires a displacement of the first linear member as a first displacement, a second displacement detector which acquires a displacement of the second linear member as a second displacement, and a calculator which calculates operation assist information by use of one or both of the first displacement and the second displacement. | 08-07-2014 |
20140230562 | TUBULAR INSERTION DEVICE - A tubular insertion device includes a tubular insertion portion including a flexible portion in a predetermined part, bending sensors distributed and arranged in the flexible portion, and an operation support information calculating unit. The operation support information calculating unit extracts operation support information including at least first external force information regarding an external force applied to the tubular insertion portion by a combinational calculation based on detection information from the bending sensors. | 08-21-2014 |
20140336462 | INSERTION PORTION DETECTION DEVICE AND INSERTION PORTION DETECTION SYSTEM - An insertion portion detection device provided with a light source unit which emits measuring beam to an outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical shape of an insertion portion to be inserted into an insertion target and to be a detection target, an optical pattern detection unit which receives reflected light from the outer circumferential surface and which sequentially acquires image data in a predetermined range of the outer circumferential surface including given optical patterns so that at least some of the optical patterns correspond to the image data, and a displacement amount calculation unit which detects a corresponding optical pattern from the image data and calculates at least one of an insertion amount of the insertion portion and an amount of rotation around the central axis of the cylindrical shape. | 11-13-2014 |
20150208947 | INSERTION SYSTEM HAVING INSERTION PORTION AND INSERTION MEMBER - To accurately recognize the position and direction of an insertion member, there is provided an insertion system which detects operation support information such as an insertion amount and a rotation amount of the insertion member, and the position and shape of the distal end thereof. The insertion system includes an insertion portion including at least a grasp portion, an insertion portion to be inserted into a specimen, an insertion channel passing from the proximal end of the insertion portion to the distal end, the insertion member to be inserted into the insertion channel, a first state detector which is disposed in the insertion portion and which detects information to calculate at least one of an insertion amount of the inserted insertion member in an insertion direction along a longitudinal direction and a rotation amount of the insertion member around its central axis along the insertion direction, and a calculation unit which calculates operation support information from a detection result by the first state detector. | 07-30-2015 |
20150216391 | OBSERVATION APPARATUS, OBSERVATION SUPPORTING DEVICE, OBSERVATION SUPPORTING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An inserting state acquiring section is configured to acquire inserting state information of an inserting section that is to be inserted into an insertion subject, and an insertion subject shape acquiring section is configured to acquire insertion subject shape information that is shape information of the insertion subject. A positional relation calculating section is configured to be input the inserting state information and the insertion subject shape information and to calculate a positional relation of the inserting section to the insertion subject, and an output section is configured to output the calculation result of the positional relation calculating section as display information. | 08-06-2015 |
20150216392 | OBSERVATION APPARATUS, OBSERVATION SUPPORTING DEVICE, OBSERVATION SUPPORTING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A relative position information acquiring section acquires relative position information, in relation to an insertion subject, of a portion of an inserting section which becomes a position detection object. An image acquisition position calculating section calculates an image acquisition position that is at least one of an image acquisition region, a part of the image acquisition region and a point in the image acquisition region, by use of the relative position and shape information of the insertion subject. A display calculating section sets a display format on the basis of weighting information of the image acquisition position calculated on the basis of a weighting index parameter. An output section outputs the display format and the image acquisition position. | 08-06-2015 |
20150223670 | INSERTION SYSTEM, INSERTION SUPPORTING DEVICE, INSERTION SUPPORTING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An inserting state acquiring section is configured to acquire inserting state information of an inserting section that is to be inserted into an insertion subject, an insertion subject shape acquiring section is configured to acquire insertion subject shape information that is shape information of the insertion subject, and a positional relation calculating section is configured to be input the inserting state information and the insertion subject shape information and to calculate a positional relation of the inserting section to the insertion subject. When an output section outputs the calculation result of the positional relation calculating section, a control section is configured to control an output state of the calculation result in the output section. | 08-13-2015 |
20150249465 | ENCODER SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT - An encoder signal processing circuit is connected to encoder heads outputting an encoder signal in accordance with a relative displacement with respect to a corresponding scale in such a way that signals can be transmitted to and received from the encoder heads, and processes encoder signals from the encoder heads. The circuit includes a processing unit and a processing decision unit. The processing unit generates displacement information from the encoder signal. The processing decision unit decides at least one of content of processing for the encoder heads and content of processing on encoder signals read from the encoder heads after starting to read an encoder signal from one of the encoder heads. | 09-03-2015 |
20150305597 | INSERTION ASSIST INFORMATION DETECTION SYSTEM FOR ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS AND ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - An insertion assist information detection system includes an endoscope apparatus and a movement amount detection sensor. The endoscope apparatus includes an insertion portion to be inserted into a tube, a grasp portion which is grasped by an operator, and a movable portion which mechanically connects the insertion portion and the grasp portion to relatively move the insertion portion and the grasp portion. The movement amount detection sensor detects a relative movement amount of the insertion portion and the grasp portion in the movable portion. | 10-29-2015 |
20150335226 | BENDING APPARATUS - A bending apparatus includes a shape sensor including a light source, an optical fiber, a detecting part, and a light receiver. The shape sensor utilizes a variation in optical characteristics, which is detected by the detecting part in accordance with a variation of curvature of the optical fiber when the optical fiber is bent. The shape sensor is freely bendable in any direction and having directivity in detection sensitivity for a bending direction. A bending direction restriction mechanism is combined with the shape sensor and has bending directivity including such a property of ease in bending that bending is easy in at least a specific direction other than a direction of a center line, and such a property of difficulty in bending that bending is difficult in directions other than the specific direction. | 11-26-2015 |
20150342500 | RELATIVE POSITION DETECTING SYSTEM OF TUBULAR DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - A relative position detecting system of a tubular device includes a shape sensor and a relative position detecting section. The shape sensor is configured to detect a shape of the tubular device to be inserted into a tubular cavity of an object. The relative position detecting section is configured to detect a relative positional relation between at least one position in a first range in which the shape of the tubular device is detectable by the shape sensor and at least one position in the tubular cavity. | 12-03-2015 |
20150359419 | OBJECT INSERTION SYSTEM - An object insertion system includes an insertion portion, a first information generator, a storage unit, a second information calculator and an output unit. The first information generator includes at least one sensor and is configured to generate first information indicating at least one of an insertion state and an operation state of the insertion portion in a body cavity. The second information calculator is configured to calculate second information based on the first information generated by the first information generator and at least one of third information and fourth information stored by the storage unit, the second information being operation support information to insert the insertion portion to perform a predetermined work. The output unit is configured to output the second information. | 12-17-2015 |
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20140243148 | DRIVE FORCE CONTROL SYSTEM - A drive force control system includes an engine for controlling an output in accordance with an operation of an accelerator of a vehicle, a drive motor assisting a torque of the engine, an operation state detection portion detecting an operation state of the accelerator, and a control portion performing an advancing compensation control by the drive motor together with a drive control of the engine on the basis of an amount of change of the operation state of the accelerator generated within a predetermined time to provide greater acceleration than a case where the operation state of the accelerator is maintained. | 08-28-2014 |
20140277886 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - A vehicle control apparatus includes a determination portion determining whether a vehicle is running by using a motor without using an engine or the vehicle is running by using both of the engine and the motor, a detection portion detecting a start-up request of the engine, a drive power calculation portion calculating a requested drive power in a case where it is detected that the vehicle is running by using the motor without using the engine and the start-up request is detected, and an engine start-up control portion driving a drive shaft by outputting the drive power by means of the motor at a start-up of the engine, the engine start-up control portion causing the vehicle to run by using both of the engine and the motor after the output of the drive power is completed. | 09-18-2014 |
20150375747 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE AND DRIVE SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - A control signal output unit (a drive control unit) executes control to retain a gear position corresponding to a motor generator during deceleration of a vehicle and regeneration executed by the motor generator. | 12-31-2015 |
20160059842 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - A vehicle control apparatus of embodiments includes a regeneration control portion, a judgment portion, a driving control portion and a discharge control portion. The regeneration control portion performs a regeneration control by the motor generator. The judgment portion determines whether or not the regeneration control by the motor generator is under execution and determining whether or not a state quantity of a battery exceeds a predetermined threshold value in a case where the regeneration control is under execution. The driving control portion disconnects between a driving shaft of the vehicle and the motor generator in a case where the regeneration control is under execution and the state quantity of the battery exceeds the predetermined threshold value. The discharge control portion discharges the battery by controlling the motor generator to perform a power operation in a state where the driving shaft and the motor generator are disconnected. | 03-03-2016 |