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20090008893 | REAR FENDER OF MOTORCYCLE - A rear fender of a motorcycle includes a hollow stay portion which extends in the vehicle rearward and downward direction from a base portion thereof arranged in the inside of a rear portion of a seat rail, the stay portion is configured to be dividable, and lines for electric components are encased in a hollow portion of the stay portion. | 01-08-2009 |
20090008900 | STEP HOLDER MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF MOTORCYCLE - In the step holder mounting structure of a motorcycle which mounts step holders for supporting steps of a rider on a seat rail extending rearwardly from a main frame, the step holders are fastened to the seat rail from the inside of a vehicle. | 01-08-2009 |
20130055841 | GEAR SHIFT CONTROL DEVICE OF SADDLE RIDE TYPE VEHICLE - A gear shift control device of a saddle ride type vehicle includes an operation pedal; a movable part which includes a movable member interlocking with and connected to the operation pedal and which has at least one of a click mechanism configured to give click feeling to an operation of the operation pedal, a stopper mechanism configured to restrict a turning operation range of the operation pedal, and a return mechanism configured to apply a spring force in a return direction to the operation pedal; and a detector which detects a gear shift operation performed by using the operation pedal, the gear shift control device configured to make a transmission perform a gear shift on the basis of a detection result of the detector. | 03-07-2013 |
20150274251 | SADDLE TYPE VEHICLE - A saddle type vehicle wherein restrictions in the weight and the layout are reduced for slimmer and lighter vehicle. Pivot plates are provided as separate bodies from seat rails. An upper end of a shock absorber is received by a cross member located between left and right seat rails. The cross member is a separate body from the seat rails. Both ends of the cross member are supported by recesses provided in the left and right seat rails at inner sides of the seat rails so as to face each other. The cross member is fastened to the seat rails by cross member fastening members. The seat rail is attached to a main frame at its one front-side end and to the pivot plate at its other front-side end. The main frame and the seat rail are fastened to each other in the vertical direction by a first fastening member. | 10-01-2015 |
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20150076897 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A BRAKE SYSTEM - In a method of controlling a brake system, a basic control to operate an electric vacuum pump is performed when a booster internal pressure, i.e., an actual pressure of a negative pressure chamber of a brake booster, is larger than a target booster internal pressure, i.e., a target pressure in the negative pressure chamber. The electric vacuum pump is not operated under a predetermined condition even when the booster internal pressure is larger than the target booster internal pressure. | 03-19-2015 |
20150143996 | FUEL VAPOR PROCESSING APPARATUS - A fuel vapor processing apparatus may include a canister, a closing valve provided in a vapor passage connecting the canister and the fuel tank, an actuator coupled to the movable valve member, and a control device coupled to the actuator. The control device may perform a learning control, in which a valve opening start position is learned based on a stroke distance of the movable valve member, which is given at the time when an internal pressure of the fuel tank is reduced by a predetermined pressure value while the moving distance of the movable valve member is changed such that (a) the movable valve member moves from the reference position to a learning start position at a first speed in a valve opening direction and (b) the movable valve member moves further from the learning start position at a second speed in the valve opening direction. | 05-28-2015 |
20150330338 | VAPORIZED FUEL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A vaporized fuel processing apparatus has a fuel tank, a canister configured to adsorb vaporized fuel and connected to an internal combustion engine, a vapor path connecting the fuel tank to the canister, a closing valve having a stepping motor and configured to open and close the vapor path, and an electric control unit configured to cause the closing valve to an initial position in order to initialize the closing valve. The electric control unit is configured to determine whether it is in a predetermined initialization permission time when the initialization of the closing valve does not adversely affect running of the internal combustion engine. When it is determined that it is in the predetermined initialization permission time, the electric control unit is configured to output signals to start the initialization of the closing valve. | 11-19-2015 |
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20080230366 | LIQUID CONDENSATION SYSTEM - A liquid condensation system heats a liquid raw material under a decompressed circumstance and evaporates a volatile component from a liquid surface to condense the liquid raw material. Therefore, the liquid condensation system includes: liquid condensers, each of which condenses the liquid raw material; a vacuum pump that is in communication with the liquid condensers; and a warm water circulation system as a heating source that heats the liquid raw material in the liquid condensers. The volatile component evaporated in the liquid condensers is led to the outside of the liquid condensers through vapor lines. The condensed liquid that is not evaporated in the liquid condensers is led to the outside of the liquid condensers through condensed-liquid lines. | 09-25-2008 |
20110046243 | MACHINE AND METHOD FOR EMULSIFICATION - A multi-parallel processing emulsification machine excellent in ease of priming and cleaning the interior of flow paths, capable of also coping with a liquid that precipitates is provided. A component through which a continuous phase to be the solvent of emulsion flows is stacked over a component through which a disperse phase to be the solute of the emulsion flows. Further, a component through which the produced emulsion flows is stacked thereover to form a microfluidic device for emulsification. When they are stacked together, multiple minute cross-shaped globule production portions are formed and in these globule production portions, the disperse phase flows from downward to upward. The continuous phase merges into them from left and right to form a sheath flow in which the continuous phase encircles the circumference of the disperse phase. In the sheath flow, the disperse phase is divided and turned into globules by a difference in velocity of flow between the continuous phase and the disperse phase. Thus an emulsion is produced and flows upward through the globule production flow paths. All the minute flow paths are so structured that they are open upward. As a result, fine particles in liquid are less prone to precipitate and air can be easily exhausted. | 02-24-2011 |
20110076200 | CHEMICAL PLANT - It is made possible to scale up the throughput of a chemical plant using microreactors. The chemical plant has a liquid sending line communicating with a raw material tank at a bifurcation of raw material and a means for detecting the flow of raw material and a control valve for adjusting the flow located in the line. In each branch line to each of the multiple microreactors connected in parallel, there are provided a means for monitoring the flow rate of raw material and a means for adjusting this flow rate. A control apparatus monitors the flow rate in each liquid sending line and adjusts the quantity of liquid sent from each control valve and each pump to avoid the influence of an air bubble or deposit in each line. | 03-31-2011 |
20150192403 | ROTATIONAL ANGLE DETECTING DEVICE - A rotational angle detecting device includes a resistor of which one end is connected to the power source and the other end is grounded, a rotary potentiometer having two wipers which come into sliding contact with the surface of the resistor, a control unit which detects voltage applied to each of the wipers depending on the positions thereof upon the surface of the resistor, two resistors connected at one end to each of the two wipers, and switching means which switch the connection state between the other end of the two resistors and the power source under control of the control unit. | 07-09-2015 |
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20100242594 | BUBBLE COLUMN TYPE HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS REACTOR, AND SLURRY LEVEL DETECTING METHOD - There is provided a bubble column type hydrocarbon synthesis reactor which synthesizes a hydrocarbon compound by a chemical reaction of a synthesis gas including hydrogen and carbon monoxide as main components, and a slurry having solid catalyst particles suspended in liquid. The hydrocarbon synthesis reactor includes a reactor main body which accommodates the slurry, a synthesis gas supplying section which supplies the synthesis gas to the slurry; one pressure sensor which is arranged higher than the liquid level of the slurry to measure the pressure of the synthesis gas above the liquid level, another pressure sensor which is arranged lower than the liquid level of the slurry to measure the pressure of the slurry, and a liquid level detecting device which detects a liquid level position of the slurry on the basis of measurement results of the pressure sensors. A plurality of the other pressure sensors are provided at arbitrary intervals in an axial direction of the reactor main body. | 09-30-2010 |
20100247392 | BUBBLE COLUMN TYPE HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS REACATOR, AND HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS REACTION SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - There is provided a bubble column type hydrocarbon synthesis reactor which synthesizes a hydrocarbon compound by a chemical reaction of a synthesis gas including hydrogen and carbon monoxide as main components, and a slurry having solid catalyst particles suspended in liquid. The hydrocarbon synthesis reactor includes a reactor main body which accommodates the slurry, a synthesis gas supplying section which supplies the synthesis gas to the slurry, and an introducing portion which introduces a cooling fluid having a lower temperature than the slurry into the reactor main body. | 09-30-2010 |
20110039957 | METHOD OF EXTRACTING CONTENTS FROM THE INSIDE OF A REACTOR KEPT AT HIGH TEMPERATURE AND HIGH PRESSURE, AND SYNTHESIS REACTION SYSTEM OF HYDROCARBON COMPOUND - A method of extracting the contents from the inside of a reactor kept at high temperature and high pressure includes the steps of introducing the contents of the reactor into a pipe having an internal space which communicates with the reactor, closing the pipe to enclose the contents in the internal space, removing unnecessary gas from the internal space, and supplying an inert gas to the internal space, thereby replacing the contents enclosed in the internal space with the inert gas. The contents are discharged from the internal space by replacing the contents enclosed in the internal space with the inert gas. | 02-17-2011 |
20110044859 | SYNTHESIS REACTION SYSTEM FOR HYDROCARBON COMPOUND, AND METHOD OF REMOVING POWDERED CATALYST PARTICLES - A synthesis reaction system is provided with: a reactor which synthesizes a hydrocarbon compound by a chemical reaction of a synthesis gas including hydrogen and carbon monoxide as main components, and a slurry having solid catalyst particles suspended in liquid; a separator which separates the hydrocarbon compound from the slurry; and a filtering device which filters the hydrocarbon compound extracted from the separator to trap powdered catalyst particles. | 02-24-2011 |
20110190403 | Hydrocarbon compound synthesis reaction unit and operating method thereof - A hydrocarbon compound synthesis reaction unit which synthesizes a hydrocarbon compound by a chemical reaction of a synthesis gas including a hydrogen and a carbon monoxide as the main components, and a slurry having a solid catalyst suspended in liquid hydrocarbons, the hydrocarbon compound synthesis reaction unit is provided with: a reactor which contains the slurry inside, into which the synthesis gas is introduced, and from which the gas after the reaction is discharged from the top thereof; an internal separation device provided inside the reactor to separate the catalyst and the synthesized liquid hydrocarbons in the slurry; and an external separation device provided outside the reactor to separate the catalyst and the liquid hydrocarbons in the slurry which is extracted from the reactor. | 08-04-2011 |
20110196048 | Hydrocarbon synthesis reaction apparatus, hydrocarbon synthesis reaction system, and hydrocarbon synthesizing method - A hydrocarbon synthesis reaction apparatus which synthesizes a hydrocarbon compound by a chemical reaction of a synthesis gas including a hydrogen and a carbon monoxide as the main components, and a slurry having solid catalyst particles suspended in a liquid, the apparatus is provided with: a reactor in which the synthesis gas contacts with the slurry; and an unreacted gas supply device which draws unreacted gas from the reactor, then pressurizes the unreacted gas, and supplies the unreacted gas to a constituent device which constitutes the hydrocarbon synthesis reaction apparatus. | 08-11-2011 |
20110200492 | Catalyst separation system - A catalyst separation system which separates catalyst particles from liquid hydrocarbons synthesized by a chemical reaction of a synthesis gas including a hydrogen and a carbon monoxide as the main components, and a slurry having solid catalyst particles suspended in a liquid, the catalyst separation system is provided with: a reactor; a storage tank which stores the slurry drawn from the reactor; a plurality of filters which filters the slurry; and a filtrate recovery vessel which recovers a filtrate which has passed through the plurality of filters, wherein the plurality of filters is disposed in series in a flow line for the slurry from the storage tank to the filtrate recovery vessel. | 08-18-2011 |
20110245356 | Bubble column reactor and method of controlling bubble column reactor - A bubble column reactor includes a reactor body which contains a slurry having solid catalyst particles suspended in a liquid, an inflow port which is provided at the bottom of the reactor body and allows a synthesis gas including a carbon monoxide gas and a hydrogen gas as the main components to flow into the slurry therethrough, and an outflow port which is provided at the top of the reactor body and allows gaseous hydrocarbons synthesized by a chemical reaction between the synthesis gas and the slurry, an unreacted synthesis gas, and the like to flow out therethrough. The distance in a vertical direction between the liquid surface of the slurry and the outflow port is 1.4 m or more and 10 m or less. | 10-06-2011 |
20120177539 | HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS REACTION APPARATUS, HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS REACTION SYSTEM, AND HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS REACTION METHOD - A hydrocarbon synthesis reaction apparatus includes a reactor, and a synthesis gas supply line through which a synthesis gas is supplied to the reactor, and syntheses hydrocarbons by contacting the synthesis gas and the catalyst slurry in the reactor. The hydrocarbon synthesis reaction apparatus includes a spare supply line which is connected to the synthesis gas supply line, and supplies inert gas or hydrogen gas to the reactor through the synthesis gas supply line when supply of the synthesis gas to the synthesis gas supply line from the synthesis gas supply device is stopped, and a fluid heating device which heats at least one of a fluid which flows through a flowing line of the synthesis gas supply line located closer to the reactor than a portion connected with the spare supply line, and a fluid which flows through the spare supply line. | 07-12-2012 |
20130327687 | MAGNETIC-SEPARATION FILTER DEVICE - According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a magnetic-separation filter device that removes contaminants of fine ferromagnetic particles from a fluid containing such contaminants, comprising: a substantially cylindrical housing; two partition plates that are disposed in an inside of the housing so as to extend in a vertical direction of the housing, dividing the inside of the housing by being disposed in parallel to each other; | 12-12-2013 |
20140157813 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM - A temperature control system of the invention recovers reaction heat in a reactor in which an exothermal reaction occurs, to control the temperature in the reactor. The temperature control system includes: a refrigerant drum in which vapor and a liquid refrigerant are stored in a vapor-liquid equilibrium state; a heat removing section arranged in the reactor to evaporate a part of the liquid refrigerant supplied from the refrigerant drum by the reaction heat; a Return line that returns mixed phase fluid of vapor and the liquid refrigerant generated in the heat removing section to the refrigerant drum; a Vapor outlet line that supplies vapor in the refrigerant drum to outside of the system; and a Replenishing line that supplies makeup water in an amount matched with an amount of vapor discharged to the outside of the system, to the Return line. | 06-12-2014 |
20150267123 | START-UP METHOD OF HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS REACTION APPARATUS - A start-up method for a hydrocarbon synthesis reaction apparatus, comprising: an initial slurry-loading step in which the slurry is loaded into the reactor at the initial stage of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction at a lower loading rate than that applied to the reactor in a steady-state operation; and a CO conversion ratio-increasing step in which the liquid level of the slurry in the reactor is raised by adding to the slurry the hydrocarbons synthesized at the early stage of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction so that the CO conversion ratio is increased in proportion to a rise in the liquid level of the slurry in the reactor. | 09-24-2015 |
20150353839 | HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS REACTION APPARATUS - A hydrocarbon synthesis reaction apparatus includes a reactor bringing synthesis gas into contact with a slurry having a solid catalyst suspended in liquid hydrocarbons to synthesize hydrocarbons by the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction; a cylindrical inner tube having a lower end arranged within the reactor at a predetermined distance from the bottom thereof; and a sparger arranged on an inner lower side of the inner tube, which blows the synthesis gas toward the inside of the inner tube. A Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction region, where the slurry including bubbles flows out from inside the inner tube through an upper end thereof, is formed in a space between a virtual extension portion of the upper end of the inner tube and an inner surface of the reactor, wherein the slurry is held within the reactor until the upper end of the inner tube is lower than the liquid level of the slurry. | 12-10-2015 |
20160046870 | HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS REACTION APPARATUS - The hydrocarbon synthesis reaction apparatus according to the present invention includes a reaction vessel that brings a synthesis gas having carbon monoxide gas and hydrogen gas as main components into contact with a slurry having a solid catalyst suspended in a liquid hydrocarbon compound to synthesize a liquid hydrocarbon compound using a Fischer-Tropsch reaction; a filter that is provided within the reaction vessel and is configured to separate the liquid hydrocarbon compound from the catalyst; and a powdered catalyst particles-discharging device configured to discharge powdered catalyst particles in the solid catalyst in the slurry to the outside of the reaction vessel. | 02-18-2016 |
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20150232830 | GENE, MICROBE, CONVERSION METHOD, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD - A gene is selected from the group consisting of a gene (a) that has a base sequence of sequence number 1, a gene (b) that has a base sequence such that one or more bases are deleted, substituted, or added in a base sequence of sequence number 1, wherein the gene (b) has a base sequence with an identity greater than or equal to 90% with respect to the base sequence of sequence number 1, and a gene (c) that hybridizes with a gene that has a base sequence complimentary with a gene that has a base sequence of sequence number 1 on a stringent condition, wherein the selected gene in combination with a gene that codes enoyl-CoA hydratase is able to provide a microbe or a culture of the microbe with an ability to convert 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA into 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA or 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA into 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA. | 08-20-2015 |
20150252390 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A BUTANEDIOL - A method of manufacturing a butanediol includes a step of culturing a microbe that contains a gene that codes acetoacetyl-CoA synthase that catalyzes a reaction that irreversibly produces acetoacetyl-CoA from acetyl-CoA and malonyl-CoA, acetoacetyl-CoA reductase that catalyzes a reaction that produces 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA from acetoacetyl-CoA, and an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction for producing a butanediol from 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA. | 09-10-2015 |
20150275236 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING 1,4-BUTANEDIOL AND MICROBE - A method of manufacturing 1,4-butanediol, using a microbe and/or a culture thereof, by an enzyme reaction system that uses acetoacetyl-CoA reductase and enoyl-CoA hydratase, via acetoacetyl-CoA, 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA and crotonyl-CoA in this order, wherein each of the acetoacetyl-CoA reductase and the enoyl-CoA hydratase is specific to a stereoisomer of 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA. | 10-01-2015 |
20150291985 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING 1,4-BUTANEDIOL AND MICROBE - A method of manufacturing 1,4-butanediol by an enzyme reaction system via 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA, crotonyl-CoA and 4-hydroxybutyryl CoA, in this order, using a microbe and/or a culture thereof, wherein the 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA is an optically active substance, and wherein the microbe includes (1) a gene that codes enoyl-CoA hydratase, (2) a gene that codes vinylacetyl-CoA delta-isomerase, (3) a gene that codes 4-hydroxybutyryl CoA dehydratase, and (4) a gene that codes acyl-CoA reductase whose substrate specificity has an optical selectivity opposite to that of the 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA. | 10-15-2015 |
20150307905 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A BUTANEDIOL, FABRICATION METHOD FOR A MICROBE FOR MANUFACTURING A BUTANEDIOL, AND MICROBE - A method of manufacturing a butanediol through 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA that uses a microbe and/or a culture thereof and utilizes an enzyme reaction that is caused by an acyl-CoA reductase, wherein the microbe in the manufacturing method for a butanediol is characterized in that an activity of an acyl-CoA hydratase (EC number: 3. 1. 2. −) is deleted or reduced. | 10-29-2015 |
20150353962 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING 1,4-BUTANEDIOL AND MICROBE - A method of manufacturing 1,4-butanediol, using a microbe and/or a culture thereof, by an enzyme reaction system that uses acyl-CoA reductase, via 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA, crotonyl-CoA and 4-hydroxybutyryl CoA in this order, wherein the reactivity of the acyl-CoA reductase to 4-hydroxybutyryl CoA is greater than or equal to 0.05 times of the reactivity of the acyl-CoA reductase to 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA. | 12-10-2015 |
20150376657 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR 1,4-BUTANEDIOL, MICROBE, AND GENE - A method of manufacturing 1,4-butanediol through acetyl-CoA, acetoacetyl-CoA, 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA, crotonyl-CoA, and 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA by using a microbe and/or a culture thereof, wherein the microbe in the manufacturing method for 1,4-butanediol includes any one of genes among (a) a gene that has a base sequence of sequence number 1, (b) a gene that has a base sequence such that one or more bases are deleted, substituted, or added in a base sequence of sequence number 1, wherein the gene has a base sequence with an identity greater than or equal to 90% with respect to the base sequence of sequence number 1, and (c) a gene that hybridizes with a gene that has a base sequence complementary with a gene that has a base sequence described in sequence number 1 on a stringent condition, and includes any one or more genes among (d) genes that have base sequences of sequence numbers 2 to 9, (e) genes that have base sequences such that one or more bases are deleted, substituted, or added in base sequences of sequence numbers 2 to 9, wherein the genes have base sequences with an identity greater than or equal to 90% with respect to original base sequences thereof, and (f) genes that hybridize with genes that have base sequences complementary with genes that have base sequences of sequence numbers 2 to 9 on a stringent condition. | 12-31-2015 |
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20130185573 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR EXECUTING A PROXY IN RESPONSE TO A HEARTBEAT - An image forming apparatus automatically recognizes and responds to an encrypted heartbeat packet only with a small amount of calculation, without causing a sub control unit to execute an SSL/TLS decryption process. As a result, the image forming apparatus can execute a proxy response with less power consumption. | 07-18-2013 |
20150044988 | MOBILE DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - Determining an initial number of TCP connections, dynamically determining increases and decreases in the number of TCP connections, and so on depending on a wireless communication method that is used enables a plurality of TCP connections to be used for wireless communication methods having higher communication bandwidths, and can thus improve communication speeds. Meanwhile, a drop in communication speed can be suppressed when using wireless communication methods having lower communication bandwidths. | 02-12-2015 |
20150120882 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD - If a plurality of streams and an environment in which a dependent relationship exists between the streams are assumed, fairness may not be maintained by a conventional technique. The priority of a stream is determined by the dependent relationship between the streams. | 04-30-2015 |
20150188986 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an information processing apparatus that establishes first communication connection with a server device, acquires information indicating whether or not content has been generated from the server device which dynamically generates the content, establishes second communication connection with the server device, and acquires the generated content. The information processing apparatus maintains the second communication connection until the content is completely acquired. | 07-02-2015 |
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20150189159 | FOCUSING DEVICE, CAMERA SYSTEM AND FOCUSING METHOD - A focusing device includes an imaging element, an imaging lens, a focus evaluation value detecting section, a control section. The imaging lens includes focus lens groups including first and second focus lens groups, and the imaging element to enable focus adjustment. The focus evaluation value detecting section detects a focus evaluation value based on an image signal acquired by the imaging element. The control section moves focus lens groups based on the focus evaluation value, effects a wobbling operation of the first focus lens group to focus on the subject, and moves the second focus lens group while effecting the wobbling operation of the first lens group for one period alone, so that image surface positions of the focus lens groups are moved by predetermined amounts. | 07-02-2015 |
20150192759 | OPTICAL INSTRUMENT - An optical instrument comprises a ring member which is arranged to be rotatable with respect to a lens barrel, and also to slide in an optical axis direction, a movement mechanism for slide movement of the ring member to a first position or a second position in the optical axis direction, an encoder that generates signals in accordance with a rotation operation of the ring member, a slide position determination section for determining positional change accompanying slide movement to the first position or the second position by the movement mechanism, and a control section for performing determination of the signals from the encoder to switch the display operation, and prohibiting switching of the display operation when the slide position determination section has determined a positional change accompanying the slide operation. | 07-09-2015 |
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20120327274 | OPTICAL INSTRUMENT, AND METHOD FOR OPTICAL INSTRUMENT - An optical instrument of the present invention comprises a ring member which is arranged to be rotatable with respect to a lens barrel, and also to slide in an optical axis direction, a movement mechanism for slide movement of the ring member to a first position or a second position in the optical axis direction, an encoder that generates signals in accordance with a rotation operation of the ring member, a slide position determination section for determining positional change accompanying slide movement to the first position or the second position by the movement mechanism, and a control section for performing determination of the signals from the encoder to switch the display operation, and prohibiting switching of the display operation when the slide position determination section has determined a positional change accompanying the slide operation. | 12-27-2012 |
20120328277 | OPTICAL INSTRUMENT, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR OPTICAL INSTRUMENT - An optical instrument comprising a focusing lens provided inside a lens barrel, a ring member that is arranged to rotate with respect to a lens barrel, and to slide to a first position and a second position, a focusing mode setting section, provided on a camera body, for setting focusing mode, and a control section for, when the ring member has been slid to the first position, carrying out focusing in a focusing mode that was set in the focusing mode setting section, and when the ring member has been slid to the second position, stopping focusing the focusing mode that was set in the focusing mode setting section, and performing focusing of the focusing lens to a distance corresponding to an absolute position of the ring member. | 12-27-2012 |
20140079380 | OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device includes an optical system, a diaphragm unit, a diaphragm unit, a focus-lens driving unit, a diaphragm driving unit, and a diaphragm control unit. The diaphragm control unit controls the diaphragm driving unit in accordance with the position to which the focus lens group has been moved by the focus-lens driving unit, thereby controlling the aperture opening of the diaphragm unit and ultimately limit a light beam passing through the camera system. | 03-20-2014 |
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20100229794 | VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY APPARATUS OF GROUP III NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR - Provided is a vapor phase epitaxy apparatus for a III nitride semiconductor, including a susceptor for holding a substrate, an opposite face of the susceptor, a heater for heating the substrate, a raw material gas-introducing portion provided at the central portion of the susceptor, and a reactor formed of a gap between the susceptor and the opposite face of the susceptor, in which a distance between the installed substrate and the opposite face of the susceptor is extremely narrow, and a constitution through which a coolant is flown is provided for the opposite face of the susceptor. The vapor phase epitaxy apparatus further includes, on the opposite face of the susceptor, a fine porous portion for ejecting an inert gas toward the inside of the reactor and a constitution for supplying the inert gas to the fine porous portion. The vapor phase epitaxy apparatus for a III nitride semiconductor is capable of efficient, high-quality crystal growth even when a crystal is grown on the surface of each of many large-aperture substrates held by a susceptor having a large diameter or even when a substrate is heated at a temperature of 1000° C. or higher before a crystal is grown. | 09-16-2010 |
20100307418 | VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY APPARATUS OF GROUP III NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR - Provided is a vapor phase epitaxy apparatus of a group III nitride semiconductor capable of improving the uniformity of the film thickness distribution, and reaction rate, of a semiconductor. The vapor phase epitaxy apparatus of a group III nitride semiconductor includes: a susceptor for holding a substrate; the opposite face of the susceptor; a heater for heating the substrate; a reactor formed of a gap between the susceptor and the opposite face of the susceptor; a raw material gas-introducing portion for supplying a raw material gas to the reactor; and a reacted gas-discharging portion. In the vapor phase epitaxy apparatus of a group III nitride semiconductor, the raw material gas-introducing portion includes a first mixed gas ejection orifice capable of ejecting a mixed gas obtained by mixing three kinds, i.e., ammonia, an organometallic compound, and a carrier gas at an arbitrary ratio, and a second mixed gas ejection orifice capable of ejecting a mixed gas obtained by mixing two or three kinds selected from ammonia, the organometallic compound, and the carrier gas at an arbitrary ratio. | 12-09-2010 |
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20120298462 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION MECHANISM - In the case of a return from an idle stop control in which an engine is automatically stopped, a hydraulic pressure is so supplied that a low brake is set in a completely engaged state and a high clutch is set in a slip interlock state where the high clutch is not completely engaged. | 11-29-2012 |
20120302400 | AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - When the temperature of oil supplied to an electrical oil pump is detected and the oil temperature is lower or higher than normal oil temperature, a gradient threshold value smaller than that at normal oil temperature is set, a gradient of a road surface on which a vehicle is stopped is detected, and an idle stop is prohibited when the detected gradient of the road surface is larger than the set gradient threshold value. | 11-29-2012 |
20120302402 | AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION AND HYDRAULIC CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A transmission controller operates an electrical oil pump in a steady mode, in which an operating load of the electrical oil pump is set at a steady load, during an idle stop, but operates the electrical oil pump in a high-pressure mode, in which the operating load of the electrical oil pump is higher than the steady load, for a predetermined period when an engine stops rotating. | 11-29-2012 |
20130179002 | ACCELERATION DETECTION DEVICE - An acceleration detection device is provided with a zero point correction unit for correcting a zero point position of a sensor signal by a correction amount based on the acceleration signals when the neutral control starts and ends, respectively, and an acceleration signal Gsen-r that is eliminated of a body vibration from an acceleration signal Gsen-f after passing a filter at transition from a vehicle stationary state to the running state. | 07-11-2013 |
20130192333 | ACCELERATION DETECTION DEVICE - An acceleration detection device is provided with a zero point correction unit for correcting a zero point position of a sensor signal value by using the correction amount (absolute value of a correction value) based on the acceleration when the vehicle transitions from a stopped state on a sloping road to a running state. The acceleration detection device is also provided with a correction amount restriction unit for restricting the correction amount, thereby suppressing calculation of an excessive correction amount due to road surface irregularities or movement of the occupant and deterioration in correction accuracy. | 08-01-2013 |
20140129103 | VEHICLE DRIVING DEVICE AND VEHICLE DRIVING METHOD - An output power of the internal combustion engine ( | 05-08-2014 |
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20120069121 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus which forms an image by forming an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive member with a laser beam, developing the electrostatic latent image with a developer to obtain a developer image, and transferring the developer image to a sheet, the image forming apparatus including: a light source which outputs the laser beam for exposing the photosensitive member; a PLL circuit which generates a multiplied clock that is obtained by multiplying a reference clock; a pulse-width modulating circuit which outputs a pulse-width-modulated signal based on image data and the multiplied clock in order to drive the light source; and a CPU which obtains image data to be input to the pulse-width modulating circuit and, when it is unnecessary to output the pulse-width-modulated signal based on the obtained image data, controls the PLL circuit so as not to generate the multiplied clock. | 03-22-2012 |
20130027501 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT USES LASER BEAM - An image forming apparatus which is capable of properly correcting a scanning length while suppressing occurrence of moiré fringes to reduce degradation of image quality. A laser drive device generates laser beam by driving a laser beam source on an auxiliary pixel basis according to a lighting pattern that defines a pattern for turning on or off the laser beam on an auxiliary pixel basis. A CPU sets the scanning magnification of a photosensitive member in a main scanning direction. Further, the CPU sets the lighting pattern, based on the image data, according to the set scanning magnification, pixel by pixel basis such that the lighting pattern becomes aperiodic in a sequence of pixels. The CPU outputs the lighting pattern to the laser drive device. | 01-31-2013 |
20140168338 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT SUPPRESSES OCCURRENCE OF COLOR SHIFT IN IMAGES AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image forming apparatus that suppresses occurrence of color shift in images transferred from image bearing members onto an intermediate transfer member. A surface of each of a first photosensitive drum and second photosensitive drums is charged. An exposure device, provided for each photosensitive drum, forms an electrostatic latent image by exposing an associated one of the charged photosensitive drums. A developing device, provided for each photosensitive drum, develops the electrostatic latent image with toner. An intermediate transfer belt friction-drives the photosensitive drums for rotation and has the developed images transferred thereon. Timing for exposing the second photosensitive drums is controlled based on a first surface distance from an exposure light irradiated position to a primary transfer position of the first photosensitive drum, and a second surface distance from an exposure light irradiated position of each second photosensitive drum to a primary transfer position thereof. | 06-19-2014 |
20150278659 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus which can reduce the required number of line buffers and random number generation circuits when performing a magnification changing process in a band process. The CPU | 10-01-2015 |
20150286901 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus for easily setting a parameter for avoiding an occurrence of defective image by the sector deformation is provided. The image forming apparatus forms a test image. The test image having a first line drawing and a second line drawing, each of which is extending in a first direction, and the first line drawing and the second line drawing are provided at different positions in a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction. Further, the image forming apparatus obtains the length information of the first and the second line drawings. Based on the length information of the first and the second line drawings, a correction condition is set. Then, the image forming apparatus corrects the image data based on the correction condition according to a position of the second direction. | 10-08-2015 |
20150286909 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus which inhibits occurrence of defective image caused when buffer consumption amount in the sector correction exceeds a previously estimated capacity. The image forming apparatus comprises a line buffer for temporarily storing image data. The image forming apparatus performs correction processing to the image data to correct distortion of the image to store the corrected image data in the line buffer. Further, the image forming apparatus forms images on a recording medium based on the image data having experienced the correction processing. The CPU of the image forming apparatus determines whether a size of the image data having experienced the distortion correction by a first correction value based on the sector correction seed value exceeds the number of lines in the line buffer. If it is determined that it exceeds the number of lines, the CPU obtains a second correction value, in which the first value is corrected. | 10-08-2015 |
20150288852 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image on a recording medium, a fixing unit for fixing the image on the recording medium, a storage unit configured to store image data representing the image, a first generation unit for generating a first position information which represents a position of a target pixel in a first direction which corresponds to a conveyance direction of the recording medium. The apparatus further includes a second generation unit for generating a second position information which represents a position of the target pixel in a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction; a setting unit for setting, based on magnification changing information in the first direction which corresponds to a conveyance direction of the recording medium, a division condition for dividing the image data representing the image into two or more areas in the first direction. | 10-08-2015 |