Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi
Akemi Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20100135484 | HASH VALUE CALCULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A hash value calculation apparatus, which calculates a hash value of a message, includes: an input unit adapted to input an extended block obtained from a message to be processed; a hash value calculation unit adapted to execute a hash value calculation of the input block and to output a hash intermediate value; a plurality of intermediate value storage units adapted to store the hash intermediate value output by the hash value calculation unit for the message to be processed; an output unit adapted to output a hash intermediate value associated with all blocks of the message to be processed as a hash value of the message; and a hash value calculation control unit adapted to control hash value calculations for a plurality of messages by switching the intermediate value storage units used to store the hash intermediate value output from the hash value calculation unit. | 06-03-2010 |
Daisuke Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20080313289 | Mobile terminal apparatus, server apparatus and mobile communication network system - In a mobile communication network system provided with a cellular telephone enabling use of mail service for mobile terminals using a mobile communication network and Web mail service, and a server apparatus that manages e-mail addresses assigned to the cellular telephone for both the mail service, already input information is stored in the terminal when creation of Web mail is suspended in the cellular telephone, while the stored information is transmitted as an e-mail in the mail service for mobile terminals, and when the server apparatus receives the e-mail, the server apparatus replaces an e-mail address of a sender with an e-mail address for the Web mail service to transfer. | 12-18-2008 |
Haruhide Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20130248862 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSING DEVICE AND CAMERA - According to one embodiment, a solid-state image sensing device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first and second surface, an insulating film covering an element on the first surface, a pixel array including pixels configured to photoelectrically convert light applied on the side of the second surface, contact regions in the semiconductor substrate, one or more through-electrodes respectively provided in the contact regions, and first pads provided on the side of the second surface to correspond to the respective contact regions. The first pad extends in a first direction from the contact regions toward the pixel array. | 09-26-2013 |
Hirokazu Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20120199982 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of interconnect layers disposed at different heights from the semiconductor substrate, each interconnect layer including an interconnection formed therein; and a via formed in a columnar shape extending in the stack direction of the interconnect layers, the via electrically connecting the interconnections of the different interconnect layers, the interconnections including a plurality of intermediate interconnections in contact with the via in the intermediate portion thereof, the intermediate interconnections including a plurality of first type intermediate interconnections passing through the via in a direction perpendicular to the stack direction, and the first type intermediate interconnection of a first one of the interconnect layer and the first type intermediate interconnection of a second one of the interconnect layer are intersecting each other in the via. | 08-09-2012 |
20120223438 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of interconnect layers disposed at different heights from the semiconductor substrate, each interconnect layer including an interconnection formed therein; and a via formed in a columnar shape extending in the stack direction of the interconnect layers, the via electrically connecting the interconnections of the different interconnect layers, the interconnections including an intermediate interconnection in contact with the via in the intermediate portion thereof, and the intermediate interconnection including a first type intermediate interconnection passing through the via in a direction perpendicular to the stack direction and in contact with the via on the top surface, bottom surface, and both side surfaces thereof. | 09-06-2012 |
Jun Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20130217076 | POLYPEPTIDE CAPABLE OF ENHANCING CELLULOSIC BIOMASS DEGRADATION - The saccharification efficiency of cellulase is enhanced within reaction temperature regions of general fermenting microorganisms other than heat-resistant yeast. Cellulosic biomass is saccharified with cellulase in the presence of a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 or 4 and having a function of enhancing the saccharifying activity of cellulase. | 08-22-2013 |
20140356925 | POLYPEPTIDE CAPABLE OF ENHANCING CELLULOSIC BIOMASS DEGRADATION - The saccharification efficiency of cellulase is enhanced within reaction temperature regions of general fermenting microorganisms other than heat-resistant yeast. Cellulosic biomass is saccharified with cellulase in the presence of a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 or 4 and having a function of enhancing the saccharifying activity of cellulase. | 12-04-2014 |
Keisuke Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20130050194 | INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, UTILIZING AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNIQUE - An exemplary embodiment provides an information processing program. The information processing program includes image obtaining instructions, search target detection instructions, event occurrence instructions, virtual image generation instructions, and display control instructions. The search target detection instructions cause a computer to detect a search target from an image of a subject. The event occurrence instructions cause the computer to cause an event to occur in a virtual space in accordance with variation in number of search targets. The virtual image generation instructions cause the computer to generate a virtual image by shooting the event with a virtual camera arranged in the virtual space. The display control instructions cause a display to display the virtual image such that the virtual image is visually recognized by a user as superimposed on the image of the subject or on the subject seen through a screen of the display. | 02-28-2013 |
20130050500 | INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, UTILIZING AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNIQUE - An exemplary embodiment provides an information processing program. The information processing program includes image obtaining instructions, search target detection instructions, shape recognition instructions, event occurrence instructions, virtual image generation instructions, and display control instructions. The search target detection instructions cause a computer to detect a search target from an image of a subject obtained in accordance with the image obtaining instructions. The shape recognition instructions cause the computer to recognize a shape of the search target. The event occurrence instructions cause the computer to cause an event to occur in a virtual space in accordance with the shape of the search target. The virtual image generation instructions cause the computer to generate a virtual image by shooting the event that occurs in accordance with the event occurrence instructions with a virtual camera arranged in the virtual space. | 02-28-2013 |
Ken Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20150279722 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes processes of forming a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode on a nitride semiconductor layer, forming an insulating film including, on a surface thereof, a step that covers the gate electrode and reflects a shape of the gate electrode, and a flat portion, forming a mask on the insulating film, forming an opening in the mask, the opening including a shape in which a side surface of the step is located on an inner side of the opening and an upper surface end portion of the gate electrode is located on an outer side of the opening, and having an overhang shape extending in a depth direction, and forming a field plate extending from a side surface of the step to the flat portion using the mask. | 10-01-2015 |
Kenji Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20110058857 | TONER CONTAINER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME, AND CONNECTING STRUCTURE FOR CONNECTING TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner container includes a cylindrical container body, a cap having a toner outlet, and a shutter. The cap includes a primary positioning primary positioning hole, formed in a top front surface perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the toner container, extending in the longitudinal direction, to determine an installation position of the cap relative to the image forming apparatus, a secondary positioning hole, formed in a bottom front surface perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the toner container, extending in the longitudinal direction forward the toner outlet, to subsidiary determine the installation position of the cap, and a first restriction member to position the cap in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, projecting vertically upward from an outer circumferential surface of the cap and symmetrical about a virtual perpendicular line passing through a cross-sectional center position of the primary positioning hole perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. | 03-10-2011 |
20140119780 | TONER CONTAINER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME, AND CONNECTING STRUCTURE FOR CONNECTING TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner container includes a cylindrical container body, a cap having a toner outlet, and a shutter. The cap includes a primary positioning primary positioning hole, formed in a top front surface perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the toner container, extending in the longitudinal direction, to determine an installation position of the cap relative to the image forming apparatus, a secondary positioning hole, formed in a bottom front surface perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the toner container, extending in the longitudinal direction forward the toner outlet, to subsidiary determine the installation position of the cap, and a first restriction member to position the cap in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, projecting vertically upward from an outer circumferential surface of the cap and symmetrical about a virtual perpendicular line passing through a cross-sectional center position of the primary positioning hole perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. | 05-01-2014 |
Kouji Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20100083789 | Accelerator pedal device - An accelerator pedal device having a pedal arm working in conjunction with an accelerating pedal, a housing to rotatably support the pedal arm around a prescribed pivot axis line between a rest position and a maximum applied position, a hysteresis generation mechanism that comes in contact with the vicinity of an upper end of the pedal arm to generate hysteresis in a pedal force of the accelerator pedal, and an active control mechanism to push back the pedal arm toward the rest position under prescribed conditions between the pivot axis line and the hysteresis generation mechanism. The active control mechanism includes a drive source provided in the housing, and a return lever that is rotated in the same direction as the direction of the swinging of the pedal arm in conjunction with the drive source and is detachably engaged with the vicinity of the upper end of the pedal arm. | 04-08-2010 |
Masanori Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20150294712 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND PRINTED WIRING BOARD - A first reception circuit and a second reception circuit are mounted on a printed circuit board, and receive signals via wiring thereof from a transmission circuit. The printed wiring board includes a trunk wiring, a first branched line branching from a first branch connection point, and a second branched line branching from a second branch connection point in order. A wiring area between the start end and the first branch connection point is divided into a first wiring portion and a second wiring portion, in order from the start end, and a wiring area between the first branch connection point and the second branch connection point is a third wiring portion. The characteristic impedance of the first wiring portion is set to equal or lower than the characteristic impedance of the third wiring portion, and the characteristic impedance of the second wiring portion is set higher than the characteristic impedance of the first wiring portion. | 10-15-2015 |
Mutsumi Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20120099899 | DEVELOPING UNIT AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - A developing unit includes: a developing roller; a first conveying member provided in a first container, having a first shaft and a spiral blade, that agitates and conveys developer; a second conveying member provided in a second container connected to the first container via a hole, having a second shaft and a spiral blade, that agitates and conveys the developer; and a supplying member having a third shaft and a paddle blade, that supplies the developer conveyed by the first or the second conveying member to a developing roller, wherein: at least one of the first and second shafts includes a first portion that faces the hole and a second portion that does not face the hole; and a diameter of the at least one of the first and second shafts in at least a part of the first portion is smaller than a diameter in the second portion. | 04-26-2012 |
Shigemitsu Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20100313596 | COOLING WAREHOUSE AND AIR REFRIGERANT TYPE COOLING SYSTEM - The object of the present invention is to cool an inside space of cooling warehouse uniformly by using a air refrigerant type cooling apparatus. A piping for taking in air in the cooling warehouse is installed. The air taken in by the piping (higher temperature) is mixed by the air sent from the air refrigerant type cooling apparatus (lower temperature) and blown off to the cooling warehouse. The temperature of the mixed air is closer to the temperature inside of the cooling warehouse than the air sent from the air refrigerant type cooling apparatus so that the inside of the cooling warehouse is cooled more uniformly. Furthermore, the amount and speed of the air blown off into the cooling warehouse are increased so that the inside space of the cooling warehouse is more uniformly cooled. | 12-16-2010 |
Shoji Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20100045765 | PRINTER AND PRINTING PAPER - A printer includes a printing unit configured to print on a sheet medium, a reading unit configured to read an identification mark when a sheet medium on which the identification mark is formed is used, and a control unit configured to specify a print setting for the sheet medium based on a read result of the reading unit, wherein the identification mark is a coded pattern drawn using a material containing a substance that scatters or absorbs ultraviolet light and containing no fluorescent substance, and wherein the reading unit includes an emitter configured to mainly emit ultraviolet light and a detector configured to detect fluorescence generated by excitation from a fluorescent whitening agent contained in the sheet medium and modulated by the coded pattern. | 02-25-2010 |
Takehiko Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20150241648 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL DEVICE - A semiconductor optical device includes a substrate including first and second regions arranged in a first direction, a photodiode disposed on the first region, an optical waveguide disposed on the second region, and a buried layer disposed on a side surface of the photodiode. The side surface of the photodiode extends in the first direction. The photodiode has a first end surface intersecting with the first direction, and the optical waveguide is in direct contact with the first end surface. The buried layer is composed of a III-V compound semiconductor doped with a transition metal. The photodiode includes a stacked semiconductor layer including a first cladding layer, a light-absorbing layer and a second cladding layer stacked in that order on the substrate. The light-absorbing layer has a side surface having at least a portion recessed with respect to a side surface of the first cladding layer. | 08-27-2015 |
Teppei Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20140321885 | TONER-CONTAINER SUPPORT UNIT AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - A toner-container support unit is provided. The toner-container support unit includes: a toner container housing toner; a container mount including an internal space to accommodate the toner container; a toner-container receiver which is provided on an internal end side of the internal space of the container mount; a positioning hole formed on the back end surface of the toner container; a positioning pin provided in the toner-container receiver; a retracting assembly retracing a back end portion of the toner container to the toner-container receiver side when inserting the toner container into the container mount; and an inclination stopper which prevents the inclination of the toner container when the back end portion of the toner container is retracted by the retracting assembly toward the toner-container receiver. | 10-30-2014 |
Tomoho Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20130078116 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GAS REPLACEMENT OF CONTAINER - Disclosed is a device for gas replacement capable of reducing the amount of replacement gas, improving a gas replacement rate, and reducing the amount of split liquid. In a replacement nozzle ( | 03-28-2013 |
Toshihiro Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20090170023 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER - A process for producing an electrophotographic photosensitive member. The electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive support and a surface layer provided thereon containing at least a resin. The process has the step of forming a plurality of depressed portions on the surface layer by irradiation with laser light having a wavelength of 400 nm or less and having an output characteristic of a pulse width of 100 ns or less. | 07-02-2009 |
20090262809 | VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination, generating a predictive error signal representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal, and encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination. | 10-22-2009 |
20100303520 | RESIN COMPOSITION, LAMINATION FILM CONTAINING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT USES LAMINATION FILM AS COMPONENT - An object of the present invention is to provide a porous material (resin composition) having high heat insulation properties, mechanical properties, and electrical properties by controlling function of a porous film by setting a porosity size, distribution of the porosity size, and a porosity ratio of the porous film in predetermined ranges. The resin composition according to the present invention is comprised of an engineering plastic having porous structure in which not less than 80% of a total porosity is comprised of independent porosities, a mean porosity size is not less than 0.01 μm and not more than 0.9 μm, and not less than 80% of the total porosity has a porosity size within ±30% of the mean porosity size. | 12-02-2010 |
20110223714 | NOVEL COMPOUND AND METHOD OF PRODUCING ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of producing an organic semiconductor device is provided in which a layer composed of an organic semiconductor having excellent crystallinity and orientation in a low-temperature region can be formed, and the device can be produced in the air. The method includes forming a layer composed of an organic semiconductor precursor on a base body and irradiating the organic semiconductor precursor with light, wherein the organic semiconductor precursor is a porphyrin compound or an azaporphyrin compound having in its molecule at least one of the structure represented by the following general formula (1) or (2): | 09-15-2011 |
20120065284 | METHOD OF PRODUCING POROUS POLYMER FILM AND POROUS POLYMER FILM PRODUCED BY THE METHOD - A porosity is freely controlled in preparation of a porous polymer film by a phase separation method. A solvent absorption sheet is used for a solvent in a polymer solution so that the coating film of the polymer solution may be covered with the sheet. After that, the solvent in the film is selectively removed. Then, the resultant is immersed in a poor solvent. Thus, a porous polymer film can be produced. | 03-15-2012 |
20140017605 | FILM, APPARATUS HAVING FILM, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - There is provided a film having resistance to an increase in the friction coefficient resulting from wearing. The film has a first portion having hardness of 0.01 to 3 GPa and a second portion. The hardness ratio of the second portion to the first portion is of 1.2 to 30. The first portion and the second portion form a first surface portion and a second surface region of the film, respectively. Each of the first portion and the second portion extends to a depth of 75% or more of the thickness of the film. In a 1 mm×1 mm square region disposed on an arbitrary position of the surface of the film, the second surface region accounts for 10% to 80% by area of the square region, and the first surface region and the second surface region account for 50% or more by area of the square region. | 01-16-2014 |
20150197616 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A RESIN COMPOSITION HAVING A POROUS STRUCTURE WITH INDEPENDENT POROSITIES - An object of the present invention is to provide a porous material (resin composition) having high heat insulation properties, mechanical properties, and electrical properties by controlling function of a porous film by setting a porosity size, distribution of the porosity size, and a porosity ratio of the porous film in predetermined ranges. The resin composition according to the present invention is comprised of an engineering plastic having porous structure in which not less than 80% of a total porosity is comprised of independent porosities, a mean porosity size is not less than 0.01 μm and not more than 0.9 μm, and not less than 80% of the total porosity has a porosity size within ±30% of the mean porosity size. | 07-16-2015 |
Yosihiro Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20090245381 | VIDEO ENCODING / DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination, generating a predictive error signal representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal, and encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination. | 10-01-2009 |
Yuichi Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20130011095 | OPTICAL COMPONENT - In an optical component, a part of a waveguide type optical device is fixed to a convex portion of a mount. The optical component includes an optical support base, a pressure member and a pressure support base. The optical device support base is interposed between the mount and the presser member enough to be slidable in a direction parallel to surfaces of the mount and the presser member. | 01-10-2013 |
20130136393 | OPTICAL COMPONENT - In an optical component configured to fix to a mount an optical device chip in which a plurality of waveguide type optical devices having different thermal expansion coefficients are butt-jointed, deterioration in reliability due to thermal stress is suppressed. The optical component ( | 05-30-2013 |
20140023333 | OPTICAL COMPONENT - An optical component has first and second planar lightwave circuits. The first and second planar lightwave circuits are aligned and jointed such that the position of an i-th optical waveguide (where i is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to n) of the first planar lightwave circuit and that of an i-th optical waveguide of the second planar lightwave circuit are matched on a joint interface. An angle formed by the i-th optical waveguide of the first planar lightwave circuit and a normal of the interface is configured to vary in accordance with a value of i within a range satisfying the Snell's law. | 01-23-2014 |
Yuma Kikuchi, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20120196206 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING STRONGLY ACIDIC ZIRCONIUM PARTICLES, PROTON CONDUCTING MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROTON CONDUCTING MEMBRANE, PROTON CONDUCTING MEMBRANE, ELECTRODE FOR FUEL CELL, MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, FUEL CELL - The disclosed methods enable zirconium sulfophenyl phosphonate, zirconium sulfate, or zirconia sulfate, which has high performance as a proton conducting material and high catalytic activity, to be produced at low temperature by reaction by adding sulfophenyl phosphonic acid or sulfuric acid to zirconium nanoparticles, the zirconium nanoparticles being a precursor of strongly acidic zirconium particles obtained by reacting zirconium alkoxide with zirconium butoxide as a chelating agent and nitric acid as a catalyst in isopropyl alcohol as a solvent. | 08-02-2012 |