Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090087704 | FUEL CELL UNIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed is a fuel cell unit including a power generation cell having a first electrode and a second electrode, which generates electric power by using a first material supplied to the first electrode and a second material supplied to the second electrode, a heating unit to heat the power generation cell and a power collecting unit to take out electric power generated by the power generation cell from the first electrode or the second electrode, and the heating unit is provided at the power collecting unit. | 04-02-2009 |
20090270736 | CAPSULE-TYPE MEDICAL APPARATUS - A capsule-type medical apparatus includes a capsule to be introduced into a tubular body cavity, and a string member that extends from one end of the capsule and is able to be pulled when the capsule is pulled. The capsule is provided with a shunting section for shunting blocking substances that impede the movement of the capsule when the string member is pulled to pull the capsule | 10-29-2009 |
20090274959 | ENCLOSED NICKEL-ZINC PRIMARY BATTERY, ITS ANODE AND PRODUCTION METHODS FOR THEM - A high-capacity enclosed nickel-zinc primary battery excellent in characteristics such as capacity maintenance factor, energy density, and high-efficient discharge characteristics, an anode using it, and a production method for them. An enclosed nickel-zinc primary battery which uses as an anode an anode active material of nickel hydroxide compound, such as nickel oxyhydroxide, particles and uses zinc alloy gel as a cathode material, wherein a ratio of anode theoretical capacity to cathode theoretical capacity is 1.0-1.6, and a ratio of alkali electrolyte to anode theoretical capacity is 1.0-1.6 ml/Ah. | 11-05-2009 |
20100013949 | EYEBALL PARAMETER ESTIMATING DEVICE AND METHOD - A head posture estimating unit estimates, from a face image of a person photographed by a camera, a head posture of the person in a camera coordinate system. A head coordinate system eyeball central position candidate setting unit sets candidates of an eyeball central position in a head coordinate system based on two-point eyeball feature coordinates expressed in the head coordinate system. A camera coordinate system eyeball central position calculating unit calculates an eyeball central position ({right arrow over (a)}) in the camera coordinate system based on the head posture resulting from the estimating of the head posture estimating unit, the candidates of the eyeball central position set by the head coordinate system eyeball central position candidate setting unit, and a pupil central position detected from the face image. An eyeball parameter estimating unit estimates an eyeball central position (O) and an eyeball radius (r) in the head coordinate system based on the eyeball central position ({right arrow over (a)}) in the camera coordinate system. | 01-21-2010 |
20100254595 | GRAPHIC RECOGNITION DEVICE, GRAPHIC RECOGNITION METHOD, AND GRAPHIC RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A graphic recognition device, method, and recognition program recognize graphics without being influenced by an image shadow area. Image input unit acquires the image of the outside environment of a vehicle using a vehicle mounted camera. A light source location information acquiring unit calculates location of a light source such as the sun using the acquired image. User vehicle shape acquiring unit and other vehicle shape acquiring unit generate shape information for the vehicles indicating the location of points forming vehicle contours. Shadow area calculating unit calculates, on the basis of both vehicles' shape information, the object shape information and the light source location information, the location coordinates of the shadow area, and converts the location coordinates into two-dimensional coordinates to the shadow/non-shadow area emphasis flag recognizing unit, which recognizes the flag in the image by judging the presence/absence of the recognition object in each shadow and non-shadow area specified. | 10-07-2010 |
20110018989 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - The endoscope system of the present invention includes: an endoscope that has an image pickup device that picks up an observation image of a test object; an image display unit that converts image pickup signals that have been sent from the image pickup device into images and then displays these images; a first mounting portion that is provided in an operating section of the endoscope and on which the image display unit is mounted; and a second mounting portion that is provided in the operating section of the endoscope and on which the image display unit is mounted in a different position from that of the first mounting portion. | 01-27-2011 |
20120001437 | WIND POWER GENERATOR - Provided is a wind power generator that reduces the amount of heat input into a nacelle from the outside of the nacelle due to the solar radiation, and that improves the heat dissipation performance from the inside of the nacelle to the outside air. In a wind power generator in which a driving mechanism and power generation mechanism that are connected with a rotor head, to which wind-turbine blades are attached, are accommodated and installed in a nacelle, an outer wall surface of the nacelle is provided with, on at least a part of the wall surface where no direct sunlight is radiated, a heat-dissipation-resistance reducing portion that uses a member having a higher thermal conductivity than that of a peripheral wall member. | 01-05-2012 |
20120001438 | WIND POWER GENERATOR - A wind power generator is provided in which a reduction in weight is achieved by reducing the wall thickness of a nacelle, and an increase in the amount of heat input to the interior of the nacelle from sunlight is suppressed. In a wind power generator in which driving/power-generating mechanisms linked to a rotor head to which wind-turbine blades are attached are accommodated and installed inside a nacelle, a coating of high-reflectivity paint is formed on at least part of the outer wall that receives sunlight. | 01-05-2012 |
20130186144 | ELECTROMAGNETIC CASTING METHOD OF SILICON INGOT - Disclosed is an electromagnetic casting method of a silicon ingot in which a polycrystalline silicon ingot is continuously cast by charging silicon raw materials into a bottomless cold copper mold, melting the charged silicon raw materials through electromagnetic induction, pulling down to solidify the molten silicon, in which the length of a part of copper mold positioned below a lower end of an induction coil surrounding the copper mold is set to more than 40 mm and 180 mm or less. According to this method, a copper contamination of a silicon ingot incurred by a copper cold mold can be suppressed to produce a silicon ingot which is suitable as a starting material of the substrate of a solar cell. | 07-25-2013 |