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20100320570 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The present invention includes a memory cell area that includes a plurality of transistors, and a core area that is arranged adjacent to the memory cell area. The memory cell area and the core area include a semiconductor layer, and an n-type well region and a first p-type well region formed above the semiconductor layer. The memory cell area further includes a second p-type well region formed under the n-type well region and the first p-type well region in the semiconductor layer. The second p-type well region contacts to at least the first p-type well region. | 12-23-2010 |
20130200565 | SHEET THICKNESS DETECTING DEVICE, FEEDING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet thickness detecting device for detecting a thickness of a sheet includes a fixed roller rotatably supported by a shaft so that the fixed roller faces the sheet; a movable roller rotatably provided so that the movable roller and the fixed roller sandwich and feed the sheet, and configured to be displaced in accordance with the thickness of the sandwiched sheet; a swing member rotatably supporting the movable roller and including a shaft so that the swing member is swung around the shaft, wherein the swing member further includes a detection target part formed in a manner that a distance between the detection target part and the shaft is greater than that between a position where the movable roller is supported by the swing member and the shaft; and a detecting unit detecting the displacement amount of the detection target part of the swing member. | 08-08-2013 |
20140015192 | SHEET THICKNESS DETECTOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A sheet thickness detector incorporated in an image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveying member to rotate and convey a sheet in a sheet conveyance direction, a driven sheet conveying member to contact the sheet conveying member and form at least one first transfer nip therebetween in a lateral direction and to displace by an amount equivalent to a thickness of the sheet passing through the first transfer nip and rotated with the sheet conveying member in the sheet conveyance direction, a displacement member to contact the sheet conveying member and form a second transfer nip smaller than the first transfer nip in the lateral direction and to displace by an amount equivalent to the thickness of the sheet passing through the second transfer nip and supported at a support member, and a displacement amount detector to detect an amount of displacement of the displacement member. | 01-16-2014 |
20140175740 | MULTI-FEED JUDGING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MULTI-FEED JUDGING METHOD AND MULTI-FEED JUDGING PROGRAM - A multi-feed judging device includes a transporting unit that holds a recording medium between a driving roller and a driven roller, which is driven by the driving roller, and transports the recording medium by rotating the driving roller; a detecting unit that detects a position of the driven roller; a calculating unit that calculates a thickness of the recording medium based on positions of the driven roller when the recording medium is transported and when the recording medium is not transported; a reference value updating unit that updates a reference value of the thickness by using the calculated thickness; a judging unit that judges, using the reference value, whether recording media, which are transported after the reference value was updated, are transported while overlapping each other or not. The calculating unit calculates the thickness when the position is within a predetermined range. | 06-26-2014 |
20140300921 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROL SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes a reception part that receives, from a request part connected via a network, a power supply stop request that designates at least one of a plurality of power supply stop modes for stopping power supply in the image forming apparatus; a selection part that selects, when stopping the power supply in the image forming apparatus is not allowed in the designated power supply stop mode, power supply stop modes from the plurality of power supply stop modes in each of which stopping the power supply in the image forming apparatus is allowed; and a notification part that notifies the request part of the power supply stop mode selected by the selection part. | 10-09-2014 |
20140374983 | RECORDING MEDIUM SETTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording medium setting device includes a base plate on which recording media are set; guide members being moved in a width direction of the recording media that are set on the base plate; a contact detection unit detecting a contact between the guide members and the recording media; an approach unit moving the guide members in a direction so as to sandwich the recording media set on the base plate until the contact detection unit detects the contact between the guide members and the recording media; and an additional approach unit moving the guide members, moved by the approach unit, at a predetermined distance in the direction to squeeze the recording media after the contact detection unit detects the contact between the guide members and the recording media. | 12-25-2014 |
20150023709 | RECORDING MEDIUM PLACEMENT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording medium placement device includes a placement unit in which a recording medium is placed; a guide member provided along an edge of the recording medium and movable in a first direction orthogonal to the edge, the edge being at a first position; a distance detection unit that detects a distance between the guide member and the edge; a drive unit that moves the guide member in the first direction until the distance detection unit detects that the guide member contacts the recording medium; a gap length calculation unit that calculates a length of a gap between the recording medium and the guide member when a movement of the guide member is stopped using a detection output from the distance detection unit; and an adjustment unit that moves the guide member to the edge at the first position based on the length of the gap. | 01-22-2015 |
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20100138978 | CHEMICAL RESISTANT GLOVE - A chemical resistant glove is provided which comprises a chloroprene-based rubber as a first layer and a mixed rubber layer containing a nitrile-butadiene-based rubber and a chloroprene-based rubber as a second layer sequentially formed on a fabric glove, wherein a mixing ratio of the nitrile-butadiene-based rubber and the chloroprene-based rubber in the mixed rubber layer as the second layer is 60:40 to 10:90 in a solid weight ratio. The chemical resistant glove of the present invention is excellent in chemical resistance, tactile feeling and the abrasion resistance. | 06-10-2010 |
20100180871 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - There is provided an internal-combustion engine that allows plasma to be used safely, efficiently, and in a manner conducive to resource conservation. An internal-combustion engine having an intake valve for opening and closing a combustion chamber, the internal-combustion engine comprising a valve-driving mechanism for driving the intake valve; and a plasma-generating device positioned within a region containing gas used for combustion during a combustion stroke, the plasma-generating device being composed of an antenna and a microwave-generating device, wherein the plasma-generating device composed of the antenna and the microwave-generating device generates plasma at a timing intimately associated with a state of openness of the intake valve in response to the driving of the valve by the valve-driving mechanism. | 07-22-2010 |
20100196208 | IGNITION OR PLASMA GENERATION APPARATUS - There is provided an ignition or plasma generation apparatus that eliminates the need for resonance means in a combustion chamber and simplifies the electrode structure within the combustion chamber in an instance where energy from each of a spark discharge and microwaves is used to ignite an air-fuel mixture gas in an internal combustion engine. The ignition or plasma generation apparatus includes a mixing circuit for mixing a high-voltage pulse from a high-voltage pulse generator and microwave energy from a microwave generator; and an ignition plug into which an output from the mixing circuit is supplied, the plug used for introducing the output into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The output supplied from the mixing circuit to the ignition plug is supplied in a manner in which the microwave energy and the high-voltage pulse are superimposed on each other on a same transmission line. | 08-05-2010 |
20140248188 | PLASMA GENERATION DEVICE - A plasma generation device | 09-04-2014 |
20140326206 | IGNITION PLUG AND INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE - Provided is an ignition plug ( | 11-06-2014 |
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20100159843 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE CAPABLE OF MEASURING QUALITY OF WIRELESS SIGNAL AT VARIABLE TIME INTERVALS - A wireless communication device is disclosed in which signal quality values C[t] of a wireless signal received by the wireless communication device is successively measured at variable time intervals Δt, mean value μ of the successively-measured signal quality values C[t] is calculated, standard deviation σ of the successively-measured signal quality values C[t] is calculated, a determination is made as to whether the signal quality value C[t] at present time satisfies a predetermined inequality which represents that a signal quality value C[t] at arbitrary time lies within k times the standard deviations σ away from the mean value μ, and lengths of the time intervals Δt for the measurement device are controlled based on the determination. | 06-24-2010 |
20120039159 | SPECTRUM AGGREGATION FOR COMMUNICATION USING ROTATION ORTHOGONAL CODING - A method is disclosed of transmitting a plurality of transmit signals through a plurality of transmit antennas, respectively. The method includes: performing a pre-coding technique in the form of rotation orthogonal coding for a plurality of transmit symbols for a plurality of carriers having respective distinct frequency bands, each of which serves a pre-encoded transmit symbol, to thereby generate a plurality of encoded transmit symbols for the distinct carriers, respectively; and transmitting the generated encoded transmit symbols, through the plurality of transmit antennas, in the transmit signals, respectively, towards a plurality of receive antennas of a receiver through which the transmit signals are received, respectively, to thereby perform spectrum aggregation using the rotation orthogonal coding. | 02-16-2012 |
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20100055001 | REACTION ANALYSIS APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND CONTROL SYSTEM - The present invention is capable of determining that a reaction region is in an abnormal reaction state precisely with high reproducibility, executing proper analysis processing in accordance with the determined state of the reaction region, and efficiently analyzing a characteristic of the reaction region. The present invention obtains intensity values of first and second wavelength components by measurement of light emitted from the reaction region with a spectrometer. A relative intensity calculator calculates relative intensity of the first wavelength component relative to the second wavelength component from the intensity values of the first and second wavelength components. The apparatus determines whether or not the calculated relative intensity is a value within a predetermined range. An output portion provides notification that the state of the reaction region is a predetermined state when it is determined that the relative intensity is within the predetermined range. | 03-04-2010 |
20120012077 | IGNITION APPARATUS, INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE, IGNITION PLUG, PLASMA EQUIPMENT, EXHAUST GAS DEGRADATION APPARATUS, OZONE GENERATING/STERILIZING/DISINFECTING APPARATUS, AND ODOR ELIMINATING APPARATUS - Stable and highly efficient combustion/reaction is provided, even when fuel ratio of mixture is decreased and combustion/reaction of the lean mixture is performed in a heat engine such as a reciprocating engine, for controlling dielectric constant of mixture in a combustion/reaction chamber | 01-19-2012 |
20120013254 | IGNITION APPARATUS, INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE, IGNITION PLUG, PLASMA EQUIPMENT, EXHAUST GAS DEGRADATION APPARATUS, OZONE GENERATING/STERILIZING/DISINFECTING APPARATUS, AND ODOR ELIMINATING APPARATUS - Stable and highly efficient combustion/reaction is provided, even when fuel ratio of mixture is decreased and combustion/reaction of the lean mixture is performed in a heat engine such as a reciprocating engine, for controlling dielectric constant of mixture in a combustion/reaction chamber 8 by introducing water and/or exhaust gas into the combustion/reaction chamber, by introducing water and/or exhaust gas into the combustion/reaction chamber. A microwave radiation antenna for irradiation of the combustion/reaction chamber, and a discharge unit for igniting the mixture in the combustion/reaction chamber are provided. The dielectric constant of the mixture before the combustion/reaction of the mixture is controlled so that the resonance frequency of the mixture corresponds to the frequency of the microwave. | 01-19-2012 |
20150064073 | HEATING DEVICE - The objective of the present invention is to reduce the loss in functionality due to the burn-out of micro-coils in a heating device, which uses micro-coils formed of carbon or molecules that include carbon as a principal component for heating a target object located in a space where high-temperature gases flow. The present invention relates to a heating device comprising: a heat producing layer having a micro-coil formed of carbon or molecules that include carbon as a principal component, where the heat producing layer is installed together with the target object located in a target space where high-temperature gases flow; and an electromagnetic (EM)-wave-emitting device that emits EM radiation into the target space. The target object is heated by producing heat in the micro-coil by EM radiation from the EM wave emitting device emitted to the target space. The heating device further comprises a covering layer, which coats the entirety of the heat producing layer. | 03-05-2015 |
20150068479 | PLASMA GENERATING DEVICE, AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - To simplify a configuration of a plasma generation device that generates plasma by means of an electromagnetic wave using thermal electrons as a trigger. The plasma generation device | 03-12-2015 |
20150085281 | ANALYZER AND ANALYSIS METHOD - The objective of the present invention is to reduce the dispersion of a powdered substance, which is the target substance, during the analysis period in an analyzing device that analyzes the target substance by analyzing the light originated from the substance which is in the plasma state. The present invention relates to an analyzing device including a plasma generation means which generates plasma in the space and maintains plasma using the energy of EM radiation emitted from a radiation antenna; and an optical analysis means which analyzes a target substance by analyzing the plasma light generated from target substance of plasma state in the plasma area during the plasma maintenance period where the plasma is maintained by the plasma generation means using the energy of EM radiation. The plasma generation means emits the EM radiation from the radiation antenna in continuous waves during the plasma maintenance period. | 03-26-2015 |