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20110261990 | SPEAKER UNIT, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL - A frame includes terminals. A diaphragm is supported by a frame so as to vibrate in one direction. A magnet is fixed to frame. A voice coil includes a winding portion and wire portions. Winding portion is fixed to diaphragm so as to receive a magnetic field from magnet. Wire portions and serve to electrically connect wiring portion and terminals, respectively. Wire portions have bending portions bent in one direction from winding portion towards terminals. | 10-27-2011 |
20110311092 | SPEAKER UNIT AND PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL - A speaker unit adaptable to limited mounting space, allowing reduction in the lowest resonance frequency, and realizing higher sound pressure and smaller distortion is provided. A diaphragm includes a trunk portion | 12-22-2011 |
20110317867 | SPEAKER UNIT AND PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL - To provide a speaker unit and a portable information terminal suppressing a decrease in a vibration area and a reduction in a diaphragm edge portion path length caused along with miniaturization and slimming-down. A speaker unit includes a diaphragm member which has a first convex portion at an outer peripheral portion, a voice coil fixed to the diaphragm member, a magnet disposed to be spaced from the voice coil, and a frame which supports the magnet and has a second convex portion on a more inner peripheral side than the first convex portion. The diaphragm member is attached to the frame such that an inner peripheral surface of the first convex portion faces an outer peripheral surface of the second convex portion. | 12-29-2011 |
20140355811 | SOUND PLAYBACK DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING SAME - A protective portion is provided on a lower surface of a sound reproducing device, and has a protective wall that restrains a deformation of a terminal in a direction different from an elastic deformation direction of the terminal. The terminal includes a restrained portion in which the deformation is restrained with the protective wall. The restrained portion is provided at at least one of a position closer to a base than a feeding portion of the terminal and a position closer to a tip portion of the terminal than the feeding portion. The protective wall extends along the restrained portion. This configuration can suppress a plastic deformation of the terminal even when a force in the direction different from the elastic deformation of the terminal is applied to the terminal. | 12-04-2014 |
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20080294769 | Efficient synchronization of agents starting a task where the agents poll a server to learn the task start time - A server sets a task start time equal to a next polling time by a last agent that has most recently polled the server. In response to each of a number of agents, including the last agent, polling the server, the server provides the task start time. At each agent, a task is started at the task start time, such that all the agents start the task at a same time. As such, all the agents except for the last agent have to wait for the task start time to start the task after polling the server, whereas the last agent starts the task immediately after polling the server. The server may also determine a polling interval time based on a number of the agents that have polled the server, where the polling interval time indicates how long each agent waits between successive pollings of the servers. | 11-27-2008 |
20120167059 | Evaluating Coverage of a Software Test - Evaluating the coverage of a test, the evaluating including using an apparatus that includes a storage component, an analysis component, and an output component. The storage component is for storing log data of a plurality of tests. The log data includes a plurality of input values that are input to a specified input field on a specified screen and transmitted to a server in each of the plurality of tests that use the specified screen displayed on a client device. The analysis component is for performing analysis that includes analyzing to what extent the plurality of input values included in the log data stored in the storage component cover values that should be input to the specified input field in the plurality of tests. The output component is for outputting a result of the analyzing from the analysis component. | 06-28-2012 |
20130055026 | CREATING DATA FOR PLAYING BACK TRANSACTIONS - Playback data is created for testing a server. Recorded data that includes transactions executed in a session established between a client and a server at a designated point in time is extracted. A reduction process that includes deleting data related to certain transactions from the extracted recorded data is performed. The certain transactions are part of a specific transaction group which includes transactions that were executed on or before the designated point in time and includes a transaction that was executed without requiring the execution of a predetermined prior transaction. The playback data is output. | 02-28-2013 |
20160092330 | DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING SYSTEM TESTING - In an approach for testing the operations of a host system during a host system migration, a terminal agent exchanges messages already exchanged between the current host system and a terminal with the new host system. A manual operation replay unit replays messages generated by manual operations among the messages sent to the current host system by the terminal. An automatic response unit automatically generates a response message for messages received from the new host system. The automatic response unit also generates screen data for a screen displayed on the terminal on the basis of messages received from the new host system. A comparison unit compares and evaluates screen data generated by the automatic response unit and screen data from a screen generated by the terminal on the basis of messages received from the current host system. | 03-31-2016 |
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20080239934 | Optical recording medium and recording film material - An optical recording medium is provided which includes two or more information layers in which an Sb-based eutectic material is used as the material for a recording film of a translucent information layer. There is also provided a recording film material for the optical recording medium. The translucent information layer is configured to include a recording film formed of a phase change material Sb | 10-02-2008 |
20080310279 | Rewritable phase-change optical recording medium - A rewritable phase-change optical recording medium is provided, which includes a substrate, a first information layer, a spacer layer, a second information layer, and a cover layer. The second information layer includes a recording film containing Sb as a main component and V or V and In as second components. When an amorphous mark formed in the recording film is irradiated with a reproduction beam, crystallization of the amorphous mark occurs only in a central portion in the width direction of the amorphous mark. The width direction is orthogonal to the scanning direction of the laser beam. The recording film is formed of a material that exhibits a change in degree of modulation of 5% or less when recorded information is repeatedly reproduced. The change in degree of modulation is a change from when the number of times of reproduction is 100,000 to when it is 400,000. | 12-18-2008 |
20160027587 | THIN-FILM DIELECTRIC AND THIN-FILM CAPACITOR ELEMENT - The present invention provides a thin-film dielectric having a higher dielectric constant than usual ones and not requiring a special single crystal substrate, and also provides a large-capacity thin-film capacitor element using the thin-film dielectric. | 01-28-2016 |
20160079002 | DIELECTRIC FILM AND DIELECTRIC ELEMENT - A dielectric film contains as a main component a dielectric composition represented by the general formula (Ba | 03-17-2016 |
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20100202909 | FLUID MACHINE AND REFRIGERATION CYCLE APPARATUS - A fluid machine ( | 08-12-2010 |
20140360187 | ELECTRICITY GENERATION UNIT AND COGENERATION SYSTEM - An electricity generation unit | 12-11-2014 |
20150068208 | AIR COOLING UNIT - An air cooling unit is an air cooling unit used in a Rankine cycle system and includes an expander and a condenser. The expander recovers energy from a working fluid by expanding the working fluid. The condenser cools the working fluid using air. The air cooling unit includes a heat-transfer reducer that reduces heat transfer between the expander and an air path. | 03-12-2015 |
20150084346 | POWER GENERATION CONTROL SYSTEM, POWER GENERATION APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR RANKINE CYCLE SYSTEM - A power generation control system includes a converter and a controller. The converter controls a generator of a Rankine cycle system, the Rankine cycle system including an expander, the generator, which is interconnected to the expander, a pump which feeds a working fluid, and an evaporator which evaporates a working fluid. The controller causes the converter to execute, in at least one of a startup operation and a shutdown operation of the Rankine cycle system, first control in at least one of a startup operation and a shutdown operation of the Rankine cycle system such that the expander is prevented from expanding a working fluid if the working fluid at an outlet of the evaporator contains a liquid component while the pump is operating. | 03-26-2015 |
20150107252 | RANKINE CYCLE APPARATUS - A Rankine cycle apparatus ( | 04-23-2015 |
20150121876 | EXHAUST HEAT RECOVERY APPARATUS, HEATING SYSTEM, STEAM BOILER, AND DEODORIZATION SYSTEM - An exhaust heat recovery apparatus includes an exhaust heat passage through which a first heat medium holding exhaust heat flows; a second heat medium passage through which the second heat medium, of which temperature is lower than that of the first heat medium, flows; a Rankine cycle which includes a pump, an evaporator, an expander, and a condenser and causes heat exchange at the evaporator between the first heat medium flowing through the exhaust heat passage and a working fluid, so that the working fluid is evaporated, the evaporated working fluid expands at the expander, and power is generated; and an exhaust heat recovery heat exchanger which causes heat exchange between the first heat medium flowing through the exhaust heat passage and the second heat medium flowing through the second heat medium passage, so that the second heat medium is heated and exhaust heat of the first heat medium is recovered. | 05-07-2015 |
20150184546 | RANKINE CYCLE DEVICE, EXPANSION SYSTEM AND EXPANSION MACHINE - To improve the reliability of the Rankine cycle device using a sealed-type expansion machine, the Rankine cycle device | 07-02-2015 |
20150252685 | RANKINE CYCLE DEVICE - A Rankine cycle device in the present disclosure includes an evaporator as a heater, an expander, a cooler, a first temperature sensor, a second temperature sensor, and a control device. The first temperature sensor detects a temperature of the working fluid flowing from an outlet of the heater to an inlet of the expander in the circuit of the working fluid. The second temperature sensor detects a temperature of the working fluid flowing from an outlet of the expander to an inlet of the cooler. The controller controls a number of rotation of the expander based on a difference between a detected temperature of the first temperature sensor and a detected temperature of the second temperature sensor. | 09-10-2015 |
20150267568 | RANKINE CYCLE APPARATUS, COMBINED HEAT AND POWER SYSTEM, AND RANKINE CYCLE APPARATUS OPERATION METHOD - A Rankine cycle apparatus includes a pump, an evaporator, an expander, a condenser, and an internal heat exchanger. The internal heat exchanger allows heat exchange to take place between a working fluid discharged from the expander and a working fluid discharged from the pump. A temperature of the working fluid at an inlet of the expander is set so that a temperature of the working fluid at an outlet of the expander be higher than a saturation temperature on a high-pressure side of the cycle. | 09-24-2015 |
20150267569 | COMBINED HEAT AND POWER SYSTEM - A CHP system includes a combustor (heat source), a Rankine cycle apparatus, and a second heat exchanger. The Rankine cycle apparatus includes, as an evaporator, a first heat exchanger that absorbs thermal energy produced in the combustor. The second heat exchanger is located farther from the combustor than is the evaporator, is in direct contact with the evaporator or in indirect contact with the evaporator via a thermally-conductive member, absorbs thermal energy produced in the combustor, and transfers the thermal energy to a heat medium. | 09-24-2015 |
20150285101 | COMBINED HEAT AND POWER SYSTEM - A combined heat and power system according the present disclosure includes a Rankine cycle apparatus including an evaporator that heats a working fluid by heat exchange between the working fluid and a heat source medium, an expansion machine that converts expansion power of the working fluid into rotational power, and a condenser that cools the working fluid by heat exchange between the working fluid and a heat medium, and a thermal circuit for using the heat medium heated by the condenser. An expansion volume ratio of the expansion machine is equal to or less than an expansion ratio in a theoretical Rankine cycle determined based on a state of a temperature and a pressure of the working fluid at a discharge port of the expansion machine and a state of a temperature and a pressure of the working fluid at a suction port of the expansion machine. | 10-08-2015 |
20150308294 | RANKINE CYCLE APPARATUS AND COMBINED HEAT AND POWER SYSTEM - A Rankine cycle apparatus includes a pump, an evaporator, an expander, and a condenser. The evaporator has a plurality of heat transfer tubes arranged in rows in a flow direction of a high-temperature fluid to be heat-exchanged with a working fluid. The heat transfer tube located in a most upstream row in the flow direction of the high-temperature fluid is defined as a most upstream heat transfer tube. For example, the most upstream heat transfer tube forms an inlet of the evaporator so that the working fluid flows into the evaporator through the inlet and first passes through the most upstream heat transfer tube. | 10-29-2015 |
20150369085 | EVAPORATOR, RANKINE CYCLE APPARATUS, AND COMBINED HEAT AND POWER SYSTEM - An evaporator which heats working fluid with high-temperature fluid to evaporate the working fluid includes: a working fluid channel which is arranged in a flow direction of the high temperature fluid and through which the working fluid flows; and a temperature sensor which is provided for the working fluid channel. A part of the working fluid channel is exposed to outside of a housing of the evaporator, and the temperature sensor is provided in the part of the working fluid channel exposed to the outside of the housing of the evaporator in a region other than an inlet of the working fluid channel into which the working fluid flows from the outside of the evaporator and other than an outlet of the working fluid channel through which the working fluid flows out of the evaporator. The output value of the temperature sensor is used to adjust the temperature of the working fluid in the evaporator. | 12-24-2015 |
20160040556 | COMBINED HEAT AND POWER SYSTEM - A CHP system includes a combustor (heat source), a Rankine cycle apparatus, and a second heat exchanger. The Rankine cycle apparatus includes, as an evaporator, a first heat exchanger that absorbs thermal energy produced in the combustor. The second heat exchanger is located closer to the combustor than is the evaporator, absorbs thermal energy produced in the combustor, and transfers the thermal energy to a heat medium. | 02-11-2016 |
20160061530 | COMBINED HEAT AND POWER SYSTEM - A CHP system includes a combustor as a heat source, a Rankine cycle apparatus, a second heat exchanger, and a thermal fluid flow path. The Rankine cycle apparatus includes, as an evaporator, a first heat exchanger that absorbs thermal energy from combustion gas (thermal fluid). The second heat exchanger absorbs thermal energy from the combustion gas and transfers the thermal energy to a heat medium. The first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger are disposed in the thermal fluid flow path. The thermal fluid flow path includes a first flow path that allows the combustion gas to reach the first heat exchanger directly from the combustor and a second flow path that allows the combustion gas to reach the second heat exchanger directly from the combustor. | 03-03-2016 |
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20110029624 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus including: a first email creator to create a first email including first header information and a message body based on a user's request; a second email creator to create a second email including second header information containing a request for acquisition of a status of an external apparatus when the first email is created and to send the second email to the external apparatus; an email analyzer to receive a third email containing a status response to the second email from the external apparatus and to analyze the third email to output an analysis result of whether the external apparatus can receive an email; and a controller to send the first email when the analysis result is that the external apparatus can receive and to notify the user that the external apparatus cannot receive when the analysis result is that the external apparatus cannot receive. | 02-03-2011 |
20120236349 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND MAIL TRANSFER APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a communication unit capable of transmitting and receiving a mail through a network; a data storage unit for storing the mail; a print unit for printing image data of the mail; a mail generation unit for generating a mail and an open mail notification instruction; a mail analysis unit capable of analyzing an open mail notification response; a processing control unit for deleting the mail when the mail analysis unit determines that an external device opens the mail including the open notification instruction. The processing control unit is also provided for notifying a user to open the mail stored when the mail analysis unit determines that the external device does not open the mail. | 09-20-2012 |
20130258417 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND FACSIMILE SYSTEM - A communication device includes an input unit specifying a transmission destination telephone number, a communication unit transmitting an e-mail to a specified server connected to a network, a mail generating unit generating a facsimile server addressed e-mail, and a control unit. Wherein, the control unit controls the mail generating unit and the communication unit in such a manner that, when a plurality of transmission destination telephone numbers are specified as the one or more numbers of the transmission destination telephone numbers by the input unit, the mail generating unit generates a facsimile server addressed e-mail to which a facsimile server addressed mail address, and the communication unit transmits the facsimile server addressed e-mail to a facsimile server as a destination fewer times than the number of the plurality of the transmission destination telephone numbers. | 10-03-2013 |
20140268230 | IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD - An image formation device includes a communication unit configured to receive image data from an external device connected to the image formation device through a network, a control unit configured to set a priority order for the image data received from the external device by the communication unit, a print unit configured to print the image data from the external device and image data requested to be printed from within a local area of the image formation device, based on the priority order, and a timer unit configured to be activated when the priority order is set and detect an elapse of a set time. The control unit lowers the priority order after the elapse of the set time detected by the timer unit. | 09-18-2014 |
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20090005695 | PULSE METER, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PULSE METER, WRISTWATCH-TYPE INFORMATION DEVICE, CONTROL PROGRAM, STORAGE MEDIUM, BLOOD VESSEL SIMULATION SENSOR, AND LIVING ORGANISM INFORMATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE - The present invention realizes calculating a pulse rate accurately, even when a body movement component has no periodical characteristics, by surely removing the body movement component generated in a living organism from a pulse wave component. A pulse wave detecting section includes a pulse wave sensor and outputs a pulse wave detection signal to an MPU functioning as a body motion component removing section. A body motion sensor outputs a body motion detection signal corresponding to a body motion that affects the behavior of venous blood to the MPU. As a result, to the MPU removes the body motion component from the pulse wave detection signal based on the body motion detection signal. A pulse rate calculating section calculates the pulse rate based on the pulse wave detection signal from which the body motion component has been removed. The pulse rate is displayed on a liquid crystal display device. | 01-01-2009 |
20130289418 | BIOMETRIC INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, BIOMETRIC INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A biometric information processing device has a heart rate detection unit that detects the heart rate of a subject; a relative heart rate calculation unit that calculates a relative heart rate, which is the relative value of the heart rate to the prescribed resting heart rate of the subject; a relative oxygen intake calculation unit that calculates a relative oxygen intake based on the relative heart rate; an oxygen intake estimation unit that estimates the oxygen intake from the relative oxygen intake; and a calorie expenditure calculation unit that calculates calorie expenditure based on the oxygen intake. | 10-31-2013 |
20140288437 | BIOMETRIC INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, BIOMETRIC INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A biometric information processing device includes a main case that is designed to be worn on a body of a user. The main case includes a battery unit that provides power to a pulse sensor, a processing unit that determines a biometric information of the user based on information from the pulse sensor, a display unit that displays at least one of the biometric information and a calorie expenditure information spent by the user, and a rotation stop unit that is formed in unison with the main case and is disposed at a 6 o'clock side of the main case, and has an electrical circuit to send an electrical signal to the processing unit. | 09-25-2014 |
20140288439 | BIOMETRIC INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, BIOMETRIC INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A biometric information processing device includes a heart rate detection unit, a relative heart rate calculation unit, a relative oxygen intake calculation unit, an oxygen intake estimation unit and a calorie expenditure calculation unit. The relative heart rate calculation unit calculates a relative heart rate obtained from a first difference over a second difference, the first difference being by subtracting a resting heart rate of the subject from the heart rate, the second difference being by subtracting the resting heart rate from a maximum heart rate. The relative oxygen intake calculation unit calculates a relative oxygen intake based on the relative heart rate. The oxygen intake estimation unit estimates the oxygen intake from the relative oxygen intake. The calorie expenditure calculation unit calculates calorie expenditure based on the oxygen intake. | 09-25-2014 |