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20100117910 | RADIO CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A radio controlled timepiece comprising: a housing and an antenna structure encased within the housing. The antenna structure includes a bar shaped core and a coil wound around the core, for receiving radio waves to set a current time. The housing comprises a short hollow cylindrical metal case and a metal back cover engaged with one end of the case for closing purpose. The housing further comprises: a housing fixing structure provided only on one of two parts of the housing divided by an axis of the bar shaped core. | 05-13-2010 |
20100202017 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING COST ALLOCATION OF MAINTENANCE CONSUMABLE - At least the following process is performed in order to properly allocate a cost of a consumable used for other than jobs. An amount of the consumable used for other than jobs is determined, and a cost of the consumable corresponding to the determined amount of the consumable is allocated to costs of a plurality of jobs executed. | 08-12-2010 |
20120294126 | RADIO WAVE TIMEPIECE - A radio wave timepiece includes: a display unit, a display drive unit, a receiver unit and a control unit. The display unit displays a current time in a digital manner. The display drive unit drives the display unit by a drive signal of a predetermined drive waveform frequency. The receiver unit is capable of receiving radio waves of a plurality of different frequencies including time information. The control unit sets the drive waveform frequency during the reception of a radio wave by the receiver unit so that harmonic frequencies with respect to the drive waveform frequencies can be different from a receiving frequency of the radio wave. | 11-22-2012 |
20120320717 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RADIO TIMEPIECE INCLUDING ANTENNA - An electronic device includes a circuit substrate, an antenna, an electronic component or a terminal, and a shield pattern. The antenna includes: a core having a length direction; and a coil part including a conducting wire wound around the core, and is disposed on a first side of the substrate in such away that the length direction is nearly parallel to the first side. The electronic component or the terminal is disposed on a second side of the substrate in such a way as to correspond to the antenna. The shield pattern is disposed on and/or in the substrate between the antenna and the electronic component or the terminal. The length of a part of the shield pattern, the part overlapping with the antenna, is shorter than the length of the coil part. | 12-20-2012 |
20130233769 | METHOD OF PRODUCING REGENERATED HYDROTREATING CATALYST AND METHOD OF PRODUCING PETROLEUM PRODUCTS - A method of producing a regenerated hydrotreating catalyst, including a first step of preparing a hydrotreating catalyst that has been used for hydrotreatment of a petroleum fraction and has a metal element selected from Group 6 elements of the periodic table; a second step of performing regeneration treatment for part of the catalyst prepared in the first step, then performing X-ray absorption fine structure analysis for the catalyst after the regeneration treatment, and obtaining regeneration treatment conditions in which a ratio IS/IO of a peak intensity IS of a peak attributed to a bond between the metal element and a sulfur atom to a peak intensity IO of a peak attributed to a bond between the metal element and an oxygen atom is in the range of 0.1 to 0.3 in a radial distribution curve obtained from an extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectrum. | 09-12-2013 |
20140036641 | TIME INFORMATION OBTAINING DEVICE AND RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A time information obtaining device and a radio-controlled timepiece are shown. According to one implementation, the time information obtaining device includes a receiving section, a code identifying section, a decoding section, and a consistency confirming section. The consistency confirming section confirms consistency of time information. The consistency confirming section generates the selected code string using the following: (i) a matching selected code string portion in which, for a code string portion including a code which may change according to the time information, a type of code is selected based on a degree of match between an identified code string and a model code string; and (ii) a majority selected code string portion in which, for a portion other than the above, a type of code is selected by majority determination among the codes identified to be a same position. | 02-06-2014 |
20140160898 | TIME INFORMATION OBTAINING DEVICE AND RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A time information obtaining device and a radio-controlled timepiece are shown. According to one implementation, the time information obtaining device includes a noise determining section and a reception cancelling section. The noise determining section determines whether noise mixed in a demodulated signal of a radio wave received within a predetermined unit of time is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold level. The reception cancelling section cancels reception of the radio wave when a number of times that the noise determining section determines that the noise mixed in the signal is equal to or more than a predetermined level is included at a percentage equal to or more than a predetermined percentage within a set time including a plurality of the units of time. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164885 | TIME INFORMATION OBTAINING DEVICE AND RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A time information obtaining device and a radio-controlled timepiece are shown. According to one implementation, the time information obtaining device includes the following. A code identifying section identifies each code of a code string in a radio wave. A first portion parity calculating section calculates a portion parity where a parity bit of a variable code is subtracted from a parity code showing a parity bit for a code string portion. A first portion parity deciding section decides a portion parity based on a calculated number of portion parities. A second portion parity deciding section obtains a portion parity from an invariable code other than the variable code. A parity confirming section confirms a match between the portion parities decided by the first portion parity deciding section and the second portion parity deciding section. | 06-12-2014 |
20140233357 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a display section, at least one substrate, a control section, a connecting section, a receiving section, and output wiring. The at least one substrate includes a plurality of wiring layers overlapped as a whole. Output wiring is provided on the first layer among the plurality of wiring layers and connects each of the plurality of the output terminals and the control section. From a planar view of the substrate, a bar antenna is attached on a face of a second layer on a side opposite of the first layer, in a position between positions corresponding to positions of the connecting section and the control section. The output wiring crosses between regions corresponding to both edge regions including both edges of the bar antenna. | 08-21-2014 |
20140355392 | RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - Disclosed is a radio-controlled timepiece. The radio-controlled timepiece includes an oscillating unit, a display unit, a display driving unit, an error storage unit, a radio wave receiving unit, and a frequency setting unit. The display driving unit drives the display unit with a driving signal of a predetermined driving waveform frequency generated by the clock signal output by the oscillating unit. The error storage unit stores error data of an oscillating frequency. The radio wave receiving unit tunes to a receiving frequency of a radio wave including time information, and receives the radio wave. The frequency setting unit sets the driving waveform frequency based on the error data so that the receiving frequency does not overlap with a higher order harmonic wave of the driving waveform frequency during a period that the radio wave is received. | 12-04-2014 |
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20100188307 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND RADIO-WAVE RECEIVER WITH SUCH ANTENNA DEVICE - A radio-wave receiver is provided with a hollow-cylindrical case, a plate-like module member accommodated within the cylindrical case, a transparent member closing one opening end of the cylindrical case, a cover closing the other opening end of the cylindrical case, and an antenna structure disposed on the side position of the plate-like module member. The antenna structure is provided with a core including a plurality of plate-like magnetic members layered on each other in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the plate-like module member, a coil wound around a central straight part of the core, and bent end portions extending from both ends of the core and bent to conform to the inner periphery of the cylindrical case. | 07-29-2010 |
20120008466 | TIME INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND RADIO CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A time information acquiring apparatus for acquiring time information from a time code signal included in a standard radio wave, including: a pulse measuring section which detects a degree of proximity of an individual pulse signal constituting the time code signal to a predetermined code value; a grouping section which groups pulse signals into one group; a code string estimating section which estimates a code string having a possibility of emerging in a portion of the group in a frame of the time code signal; a code string determining section which determines a probability that the code string indicated by the grouped pulse signals corresponds to the estimated code string based on the degree of proximity; and a time information generating section which generates the time information based on the code string for which the code string determining section determines that the probability is high. | 01-12-2012 |
20120014225 | RADIO CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A radio controlled timepiece includes: a radio wave receiving section which outputs a time code signal; an indicator display section which performs a display regarding a reception condition; a level change detecting section which detects a change of a signal level of the time code signal in a predetermined detection interval in a period of 1 second; an indicator control section which controls a content of the display based on a number of times that the change of the detected signal level appears; and an interval setting section which specifies the detection interval as a whole interval of the period of 1 second during a detecting process of a synchronization point in the time code signal every 1 second, and narrows the detection interval to be a certain interval within the period of 1 second after a detection of the synchronization point every 1 second. | 01-19-2012 |
20120014226 | MARKER DETECTING APPARATUS AND RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A marker detecting apparatus includes: a signal input section where a time code signal is inputted; a level detecting section detecting a signal level of a pulse signal of the time code signal at points in a marker characteristic interval to detect a match between the pulse signal and an ideal marker pulse signal in the signal level; a first calculating section calculating a number of the detected matches so as to obtain a value thereof, and correlating the obtained value with a pulse position of the pulse signal, the pulse position being a same in any of frames of the time code signal; a second calculating section adding up the obtained values correlated with the pulse position in the frames; and a marker determining section determining at which pulse position in the frames a marker pulse signal is disposed, based on the added-up value. | 01-19-2012 |
20120026841 | TIME INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - Disclosed is a time information acquiring apparatus wherein: a second data acquiring section acquires a second data by measuring pulse signals of a frame of a time code signal during a period of time including a period of time a first data acquiring section acquires a first data which is stored in a first data storing section; and when a time data, which is generated by a decoder based on information on a starting point of the frame detected by a detecting section and the second data stored in a second data storing section, is determined as inconsistent by a consistency determining section, a controller makes the detecting section re-detect the starting point of the frame, and makes the decoder re-generate the time data based on a result of the re-detection of the starting point of the frame and the second data stored in the second data storing section. | 02-02-2012 |
20120026842 | TIME INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE - A time information acquiring apparatus includes: a first decoder which decodes a time code signal frame by frame so as to generate solo-decoded time information; a first determining section which determines consistency of the solo-decoded time information; a second decoder which combines detection data of the frames, and performs a code determination on the time code signal based on the combined detection data so as to generate sum-up-decoded time information; a second determining section which determines the consistency of the sum-up-decoded time information; and a controller which makes the first decoder generate the solo-decoded time information, the first determining section determine the consistency of the solo-decoded time information, the second decoder generate the sum-up decoded time information, and the second determining section determine the consistency of the sum-up-decoded time information in a predetermined order so as to extract time information having the consistency. | 02-02-2012 |
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20100016195 | Lube Base Oil, Lubricating Oil Composition For Internal Combustion Engine, And Lubricating Oil Composition For Drive Transmissoin Device - The lubricating base oil of the invention satisfies at least one of conditions (a) or (b) below. The lubricating oil composition for an internal combustion engine according to the invention comprises the lubricating base oil of the invention, an ashless antioxidant containing essentially no sulfur as a constituent element, and at least one compound selected from among ashless antioxidants containing sulfur as a constituent element and organic molybdenum compounds. Also, a lubricating oil composition for a power train device according to the invention comprises the lubricating base oil of the invention, a poly(meth)acrylate-based viscosity index improver and a phosphorus-containing compound. | 01-21-2010 |
20100035777 | Lubricant base oil, lubricant composition for internal combustion engine and lubricant composition for driving force transmitting device - The lubricating base oil of the invention is characterized by satisfying at least one of the following conditions (a) or (b).
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20100041572 | Lube Base Oil, Process for Production Thereof, and Lubricating Oil Composition - The present invention provides a lubricating base oil comprising saturated components of 90% by mass or greater, wherein the proportion of cyclic saturated components among the saturated components is not greater than 40% by mass, and by having a viscosity index of 110 or higher and an iodine value of not greater than 2.5. The lubricating base oil of the invention exhibits excellent viscosity-temperature characteristics and heat and oxidation stability while also allowing additives to exhibit a higher level of function when additives are included. The lubricating base oil of the invention is suitable for use in various lubricating oil fields, and is especially useful for reducing energy loss and achieving energy savings in devices in which the lubricating base oil is applied. | 02-18-2010 |
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20140287202 | TRANSFER MOLD MANUFACTURING METHOD, TRANSFER MOLD MANUFACTURED THEREBY, AND COMPONENT PRODUCED BY THE TRANSFER MOLD - A transfer mold that is used in production of a component by electroplating and has high workability and superior durability as well as a component produced thereby are provided. A method therefor includes the steps of forming a pattern of a desired component by providing a reverse pattern of the pattern of the desired component on a metal substrate and etching the metal substrate using the reverse pattern as a mask and treating the reverse pattern with heat or removing the reverse pattern and forming an insulation layer in a portion where the reverse pattern has been removed. | 09-25-2014 |
20140291157 | TRANSFER MOLD MANUFACTURING METHOD, TRANSFER MOLD MANUFACTURED THEREBY, AND COMPONENT PRODUCED BY THE TRANSFER MOLD - A transfer mold, which has superior durability and high aspect ratio, for production of a component by electroplating and a component produced thereby are provided. A method therefor includes the steps of forming a resist pattern having a shape of a component with a desired aspect ratio on a metal substrate, a sidewall of the resist pattern forming a desired angle, creating a transfer mold by filing up the resist pattern having the shape of the component by electroplating to a predetermined thickness and providing a master mold by separating the transfer mold from the metal substrate. | 10-02-2014 |
20140311911 | MULTI-STAGE TRANSFER MOLD MANUFACTURING METHOD, MULTI-STAGE TRANSFER MOLD MANUFACTURED THEREBY, AND COMPONENT PRODUCED THEREBY - A multi-stage transfer mold manufacturing method that can save labor in a step of connecting by a multi-stage connection, a multi-stage transfer mold manufactured thereby, and a component produced thereby are provided for production of a multi-stage component by electroplating. A method therefor includes the steps of forming a resist pattern having a shape of a component with a desired aspect ratio on a metal substrate, a sidewall of the resist pattern forming a desired angle, forming, on the resist pattern, a resist pattern having a shape and a thickness of a connection pillar for connecting with an upper layer, creating a transfer mold by filling up the resist pattern on which the resist pattern having the shape of the connection pillar by electroplating to a predetermined thickness, and providing a master mold by separating the transfer mold from the metal substrate. | 10-23-2014 |