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| 20080286595 | R-Fe-B Rare Earth Sintered Magnet and Method for Producing Same - In a method for producing an R—Fe—B based rare-earth sintered magnet according to the present invention, first, provided is an R—Fe—B based rare-earth sintered magnet body including, as a main phase, crystal grains of an R | 11-20-2008 |
| 20100182113 | R-Fe-B TYPE RARE EARTH SINTERED MAGNET AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF THE SAME - In an R—Fe—B based rare-earth sintered magnet according to the present invention, at a depth of 20 μm under the surface of its magnet body, crystal grains of an R | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100252145 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SURFACE-MODIFIED RARE EARTH METAL-BASED SINTERED MAGNET AND SURFACE-MODIFIED RARE EARTH METAL-BASED SINTERED MAGNET - An objective of the present invention is to provide a rare earth metal-based sintered magnet having imparted thereto sufficient corrosion resistance by an oxidative heat treatment, which is resistant even in an environment of fluctuating humidity, while suppressing the deterioration of the magnetic characteristics ascribed to the oxidative heat treatment, and to provide a method for producing the same. As a means of achieving the objective above, the surface-modified rare earth metal-based sintered magnet of the present invention is characterized in that the surface-modified part comprises a surface-modified layer comprising at least three layers formed in this order from the inner side of the magnet, a main layer containing R, Fe, B, and oxygen, an amorphous layer containing at least R, Fe, and oxygen, and an outermost layer containing iron oxide comprising mainly hematite as the constituent, and the method for producing the same is characterized in that it comprises a step of applying a heat treatment to a bulk magnet body in the temperature range of from 200° C. to 600° C., under an atmosphere with oxygen partial pressure in a range of from 1×10 | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100295644 | R-FE-B BASED SINTERED MAGNET HAVING ON THE SURFACE THEREOF VAPOR DEPOSITED FILM OF ALUMINUM OR ALLOY THEREOF, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An objective of the present invention is to provide an R—Fe—B based sintered magnet having on the surface thereof a vapor deposited film of aluminum or an alloy thereof, which maintains excellent adhesion strength with the adhered object even after subjecting it to a severe heat cycle test, and a method for producing the same. As a means for solving the problems, an R—Fe—B based sintered magnet having on the surface thereof a vapor deposited film of aluminum or an alloy thereof of the present invention is characterized in that the vapor deposited film of aluminum or an alloy thereof comprises a columnar crystalline structure grown broader from the surface of the bulk magnet body outward to the outer surface, which has a part within a region defined in the thickness direction of the film as taken from the surface of the bulk magnet body to ⅓ of the film thickness, 5 to 30 intercrystalline gaps of 0.01 μm to 1 μm in width as counted per 10 μm length in the lateral direction of the film are existing at the part. The method for producing the same is characterized by, on forming the vapor deposited film of aluminum or an alloy thereof on the surface of the R—Fe—B based sintered magnet, individually controlling the average film formation rate in the initial stage and in the later stage of the film formation as such that it is slower up to a predetermined point, and that it is speeded up later thereon. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110186181 | CORROSION-RESISTANT MAGNET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide an R—Fe—B based sintered magnet having on a surface thereof a chemical conversion film with higher corrosion resistance than a conventional chemical conversion film such as a phosphate film, and a method for producing the same. The corrosion-resistant magnet of the present invention as a means for achieving the object is characterized by comprising a chemical conversion film containing at least Zr, Nd, fluorine, and oxygen as constituent elements and not containing phosphorus directly on a surface of an R—Fe—B based sintered magnet, wherein R is a rare-earth element including at least Nd. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110273252 | CORROSION-RESISTANT MAGNET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide an R—Fe—B based sintered magnet that exhibits excellent corrosion resistance and maintains excellent adhesion strength to an adherend even under severe conditions, and a method for producing the same. A corrosion-resistant magnet of the present invention as a means for achieving the object is characterized by comprising a chemical conversion film containing at least Zr, V, Al, fluorine, and oxygen as constituent elements and not containing phosphorus over a surface of an R—Fe—B based sintered magnet with a film made of Al or an alloy thereof therebetween. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20120206227 | R-Fe-B TYPE RARE EARTH SINTERED MAGNET AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF THE SAME - In an R—Fe—B based rare-earth sintered magnet according to the present invention, at a depth of 20 μm under the surface of its magnet body, crystal grains of an R | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120229240 | R-Fe-B RARE EARTH SINTERED MAGNET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - In a method for producing an R—Fe—B based rare-earth sintered magnet according to the present invention, first, provided is an R—Fe—B based rare-earth sintered magnet body including, as a main phase, crystal grains of an R | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120299676 | CORROSION-RESISTANT MAGNET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide an R—Fe—B based sintered magnet having on a surface thereof a chemical conversion film with higher corrosion resistance than a conventional chemical conversion film such as a phosphate film, and a method for producing the same. The R—Fe—B based sintered magnet having a chemical conversion film on the surface thereof of the present invention as a means for achieving the object is characterized by comprising a chemical conversion film on a surface of an R—Fe—B based sintered magnet wherein R is a rare-earth element including at least Nd, the chemical conversion film having a laminate structure including at least an inner layer that contains R, fluorine, and oxygen as constituent elements and an outer layer that is amorphous and contains Zr, Fe, and oxygen as constituent elements, provided that no phosphorus is contained in the film. | 11-29-2012 |
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| 20080301771 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION METHOD, APPLICATION EXECUTION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM CONTAINING EXECUTABLE PROGRAM INSTRUCTION - The present invention claims and discloses an electronic device comprising a storage part for storing a license check processing program for checking a license in order to execute a processing function of an application program, license setting information containing location information where the license check processing program is executed within the application program; and an application program execution part for executing the application program by associating the license check processing program with a location preset in the application program based on the license setting information stored in the storage part. The present invention further teaches performing a license check processing by the license check processing program associated with the location, and when the license is not properly authenticated, the program in accordance with the present invention will skip the processing function corresponding to the license check processing program to execute a subsequent processing function. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090044205 | ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE, SERVICE OFFERING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention teaches and claims an electronic appliance for controlling a device via a controller comprises an application managing unit, a storing unit, a controller API and a secondary API. The application managing unit manages an application. The application is prepared with the use of an API, which operates the device to offer a service to a user, and is selected upon activation of the electronic appliance. The storing unit stores information about a correlation between the application and the API. The controller API is called by the application, and issues a request to the controller such that the controller operates the device. The secondary API has an interface so as not to be implemented in the controller API, and is called by the application on the basis of any correlation information, which consequently starts up the application with the use of the interface when version information of the API is newer than version information of the controller API. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20100212026 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, LICENSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND LICENSE MANAGEMENT METHOD - An image forming apparatus comprises a communication interface unit that performs communication with a terminal device, a storage unit that stores an application program installed under license and a management application program for managing the application program, an arithmetic processing unit that executes the application program and the management application program stored in the storage unit, a determination unit that determines whether or not predetermined software installed in the terminal device has a legitimate license code corresponding to the license of the management application program, and an installing unit that, when it is determined that the predetermined software has a legitimate license code, obtains the application program from the terminal device and installs the application program into the storage unit. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100302582 | Image Forming Apparatus and Image Forming System - An image forming apparatus includes an application management unit that detects a restricted function of which use by a given user is inhibited from among functions within an application. The image forming apparatus further includes a function monitoring unit that registers the restricted function detected by the application management unit, and inhibits the user from executing the restricted function. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110075204 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS MANAGEMENT METHOD - Provided is an image forming system, including an image forming apparatus connected to a communication network and a server connected to the communication network. The image forming apparatus includes a management service processing unit that transmits a registration request for registering the image forming apparatus as a target of a management service to the server. The server includes a data management unit that receives the registration request and registers the image forming apparatus that has transmitted the registration request as the target of the management service. The management service processing unit periodically collects device information including a state and/or a setting of the image forming apparatus and transmits the device information to the data management unit. The data management unit periodically acquires the device information from the management service processing unit and retains the device information. | 03-31-2011 |
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| 20090246635 | Polymer for Lithium Ion Secondary Battery and Lithium Ion Secondary Battery Using Same - A polymer for bonding the positive electrode and negative electrode of a lithium secondary battery, which includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte solution, with a separator arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The polymer contains a cationically polymerizable monomer unit (A), a monomer unit (B) providing affinity to the electrolyte solution, a monomer unit (C) providing poor solubility to the electrolyte solution, and a monomer unit (D) containing an anionic or nonionic hydrophilic group. This polymer can be obtained through radical polymerization such as emulsion polymerization or suspension polymerization, and is characterized by having a dissolution rate into a mixed solvent of ethylene carbonate (EC) and diethyl carbonate (DEC)[EC:DEC=5:5 (weight ratio)] of not more than 10% by weight. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090325077 | Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery - In a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material, and a nonaqueous electrolyte, as the positive electrode active material or as the negative electrode active material, a mixture containing molybdenum dioxide and lithium titanate in a weight ratio (molybdenum dioxide:lithium titanate) of 90:10 to 50:50 is used. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20110144598 | FILTERING DISPENSER CONTAINER - In a filtering dispenser container which includes a plug attached to a mouth portion of a bottle thereof and having a liquid discharge passage, and a filter and a check valve provided in the discharge passage, air lock is prevented, even if the container contains a highly percolative liquid, by preventing a very small amount of liquid percolating the check valve from reaching the filter. In the filtering dispenser container, a dam ( | 06-16-2011 |
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| 20100053682 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable storage medium containing image processing program - An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a blank document determination section determining whether or not input image data is image data of a blank document, regardless of a process mode set for setting a process with respect to the input image data; a storage device storing the input image data in association with a determination result made by the blank document determination section; and a control section (i) reading out the input image data from the storage device and (ii) excluding the input image data determined as image data of a blank document by the blank document determination section, from images to be displayed by the image display device, when the image display device carries out a preview display of the input image data. This configuration makes it possible to carry out a preview display in which a blank document (blank page document) is skipped, without reading the document again. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20120222036 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An MFP is provided with a main CPU for controlling operation of the MFP according an operating condition set to the MFP, a job management table for sequentially registering input jobs by priority, and a job execution control portion for determining whether or not to permit execution of the job according to the order of registration from a job with high priority that is registered in the job management table. The job execution control portion calculates, based on a job condition of a job intended for permission determination, utilization of the CPU associated with execution of the job, then restricts an operating condition of the MFP in a case where the calculated CPU utilization exceeds a predetermined value, and permits execution of the job according to the restricted operating condition in a case where the CPU utilization when the operating condition is restricted becomes the predetermined value or lower. | 08-30-2012 |