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20090206523 | Manufacturing method of resin container - A manufacturing method of a resin container includes continuously supplying a base material resin forming a container body from a main extruder, discharging from a discharge portion provided in a die head a sub-material supplied from a sub-extruder so that the sub-material joins the base material resin, extruding a parison from a slit portion opened on an end side of the die head, and blow-molding the parison, thereby forming a coating layer which covers the whole or a part of the container body by using the sub-material. A thickness reducing portion in which a thickness is continuously reduced is formed in the coating layer while adjusting a resin pressure in a supply path of the sub-material fed from the sub-extruder by performing suck-back control which pulls back the sub-material from the discharge portion at an arbitrary timing when joining the sub-material with the base material resin. | 08-20-2009 |
20090208599 | Manufacturing apparatus of resin container - A manufacturing apparatus of a resin container includes a main extruder which supplies a base material resin, and a sub-extruder which supplies a sub-material. The sub-material supplied from the sub-extruder is discharged from a discharge portion provided in a die head so that the sub-material joins the base material resin continuously supplied from the main extruder. A parison is then extruded from a slit portion opened on an end side of the die head, and subjected to blow molding, thereby forming a coating layer which covers the whole or a part of a container body formed of the base material resin by using the sub-material. A suck-back mechanism which pulls back the sub-material from the discharge portion is provided between the sub-extruder and the die head, and the discharge portion is provided in the vicinity of the slit portion in-the die head. | 08-20-2009 |
20120122049 | HEATING APPARATUS - The present invention is directed to suppressing cracks in the surface layer of the rotating member including fluororesin. According to the present invention, there is provided a heating apparatus comprising: a rotating member which has a surface layer comprising fluororesin, flexibility, and is open at both ends thereof; a heating member for heating the rotating member; a holding member for the rotating member, which is disposed inside the rotating member and has a sliding surface against an inner peripheral surface of the rotating member; and a pressurizing member for forming a nip portion together with the rotating member, the heating apparatus heating a recording material while conveying the recording material by nipping at the nip portion and rotating the rotating member and the pressurizing member, wherein a lubricant comprising a straight-chain and a side-chain type perfluoropolyethers is interposed between the rotating member and the sliding surface of the holding member. | 05-17-2012 |
20150063885 | FILM AND IMAGE HEATING DEVICE USING FILM - A cylindrical film used in an image heating device heating a recording material, on which an image has been formed, has a resin layer, this resin layer being made from a resin in which a crystalline resin and an amorphous resin having a higher glass transition temperature than the crystalline resin are blended, wherein a volume ratio of the crystalline resin with respect to the amorphous resin in the resin layer is 70/30 to 99/1. | 03-05-2015 |
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20120295469 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING CONNECTOR - An electronic device having a connector includes a case including an open end and a closed end, a circuit board housed in the case, an inner connector including a conduction terminal which is connected to the circuit board via a connecting portion, an outer connector including a contact face coming in contact with the circuit board, the outer connector being engaged with the open end, and a play preventing portion fixed in the case, and engaged with the circuit board by causing the circuit board to move from the open end to the closed end, wherein a position of the contact face is determined so that the circuit board is pressed by the contact face so as to cause the circuit board to be engaged with the play preventing portion, and the outer connector does not press the inner connector toward the closed end. | 11-22-2012 |
20150042798 | IN-VEHICLE CAMERA - An in-vehicle camera that is provided with a substrate, a camera body, a housing including the substrate and the camera body. The substrate is provided with the opening, and the camera body is attached to the position of the opening of the substrate. Furthermore, the camera body is included in the housing, with a part thereof inserted into the opening. | 02-12-2015 |
20150042874 | IN-VEHICLE CAMERA - An in-vehicle camera that is provided with a substrate, a camera body, a housing including the substrate and the camera body. The substrate is provided with the opening, and the camera body is arranged at the position of the opening of the substrate. Furthermore, the camera body is included in the housing, with a part thereof inserted into the opening. | 02-12-2015 |
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20090009619 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image sensor includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units disposed in line and column directions, transfer capacitances that store a signal read out from the (n−1)th line (n being an integer of 2 or more) of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units, transfer capacitances that store a signal read out from the nth line of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units, and a system control CPU that controls the image sensor. While a level of a predetermined driving pulse generated within the image sensor changes during the period where the signal of the (n−1)th line stored in the transfer capacitance is read out from the transfer capacitances, the system control CPU control not to output the signal of the (n−1)th line from the transfer capacitances. | 01-08-2009 |
20100020206 | IMAGE SENSING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image sensing system comprises a solid-state image sensor including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and vertical output lines connected by column to each pixel, with signals in accordance with voltages of the vertical output lines each output to a horizontal output line via column circuits provided for each vertical output line. Electrical charges in photoelectric conversion elements included in the pixels are not output to the vertical output lines, while signals corresponding to voltages of the vertical output lines and output to the horizontal output line via the column circuits are averaged by column to acquire a correction value. Then, electrical charges in the photoelectric conversion elements are output by row to the vertical output lines, and signals corresponding to voltages of the vertical output lines and output to the horizontal output line via the column circuits are corrected using the correction value. | 01-28-2010 |
20100208096 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to eliminate the influences of the leakage etc. of charges from a photodiode to a storage part during the electronic shutter operation. To achieve this object, the present invention includes: a photodiode which generates and accumulates a signal charge according to the amount of light from an object; an amplification part which amplifies a signal charge outputted from the photodiode and outputs the amplified signal to the outside; a storage part which temporarily stores the signal charge; and a transfer device which transfers the signal outputted from the photo-electric conversion device to the storage part via the amplification part. | 08-19-2010 |
20110080493 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - In a solid-state image sensor, first and second column readout lines are provided to each pixel column, pixel rows are divided into pixel rows of first and second groups, the first group is divided into subgroups each formed from pixels of an identical color, the second group is divided into subgroups each formed from pixels of an identical color, signals from pixels of the pixel rows of the first group are output to the first column readout lines, and signals from pixels of the pixel rows of the second group are output to the second column readout lines. Pixels of an identical subgroup in an identical pixel column share a conversion region and an amplification element, a given conversion region and another conversion region included in a pixel column identical to a pixel column of the given conversion region do not intersect with each other. | 04-07-2011 |
20110134297 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - An image sensor comprises: a pixel unit array; a driving unit; a second holding block; a first output amplifier; and a second output amplifier, each column of the pixel unit array including a plurality of first pixel units and a plurality of second pixel units, wherein the driving unit drives the pixel unit array to parallel-perform, on each column of the pixel unit array, an operation to transfer signals from the first pixel units to the first holding block via the first vertical output line, and an operation to transfer signals from the second pixel units to the second holding block via the second vertical output line. | 06-09-2011 |
20140027620 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A solid-state image pickup device is provided that is capable of effectively reducing color noise caused due to differences between sensitivities of color filters of an optical filter. The image pickup device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two dimensional matrix to respectively correspond to color filters. Pixels in odd-numbered rows of respective columns are connected to first column output lines, and pixels in even-numbered rows of respective columns are connected to second column output lines. First and second column units are provided to respectively correspond to the first and second column output lines, and amplify pixel signals output from these column output lines at gains that are set to different values according to the color filters. | 01-30-2014 |
20140055646 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus obtains a picked-up image which is output from an image pickup element which includes a microlens array for obtaining the picked-up image including ray directional information of an object image formed by a photographing optical system, generates a reconstruction image by reconstructing the obtained picked-up image on the basis of the ray directional information, and detects a defect pixel of the generated reconstruction image. | 02-27-2014 |
20140139716 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - An image sensor comprises a plurality of pixels, and each pixel having: a plurality of photoelectric conversion units configured to receive light fluxes that pass through different exit pupil regions of an optical system disposed on an object side of the image sensor and accumulate charges, respectively; a separation portion configured to separate the photoelectric conversion units; and setting means configured to selectively set an electric potential of the separation portion to any one of a plurality of electric potentials. Signals can be separately read out from the photoelectric conversion units. Taking an electric potential of a separation portion that separates the plurality of pixels as a reference potential, the plurality of electric potentials include first to third electric potentials; higher than the reference potential, lower than the reference potential, and higher than the reference potential and lower than the first electric potential. | 05-22-2014 |
20140160333 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - An image sensor comprises: a pixel unit array; a driving unit; a second holding block; a first output amplifier; and a second output amplifier, each column of the pixel unit array including a plurality of first pixel units and a plurality of second pixel units, wherein the driving unit drives the pixel unit array to parallel-perform, on each column of the pixel unit array, an operation to transfer signals from the first pixel units to the first holding block via the first vertical output line, and an operation to transfer signals from the second pixel units to the second holding block via the second vertical output line. | 06-12-2014 |
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20150210318 | STABILITY CONTROL DEVICE - A stability control device is provided that is capable of reducing an unpleasant sensation imparted to a driver in a steer-by-wire vehicle. The stability control device includes a steer-by-wire controller that controls a turning amount of the turning part based on a steer-by-wire turning amount that corresponds to a steering amount of the steering unit, a turning amount for suppressing the yaw angle, which is an angle formed by a white line and a traveling direction of a host vehicle, and a turning amount for returning the host vehicle to the center of a lane when the host vehicle has departed from the center of the lane. The controller controls a steering reaction force based on the steering amount without the yaw angle-suppressing turning amount and the lane-center-returning turning amount being reflected in the steering reaction force imparted to the steering unit. | 07-30-2015 |
20150217801 | STEERING CONTROL DEVICE - The turning amount of a turning unit is controlled according to the steering amount of a steering unit mechanically uncoupled from the turning unit. A steering reaction force characteristic such that the larger the self-aligning torque, the larger the steering reaction force is set on coordinates with the self-aligning torque and the steering reaction force as coordinate axes. When a steering reaction force corresponding to the self-aligning torque is applied to the steering unit based on the steering reaction force characteristic, the steering reaction force characteristic is offset on the coordinates in such a direction that the larger the integral value of a yaw angle, the larger the absolute value of the steering reaction force, the yaw angle being an angle formed by a white line and a traveling direction of an own vehicle. | 08-06-2015 |
20150225014 | STEERING CONTROL DEVICE - A steering control device is provided that calculates a white line approach suppression steering reaction force that is based on a distance in which a host vehicle is separated from either a left or a right white line when the host vehicle approaches the left or a right white line. The steering control device applies a steering reaction force to a steering unit that receives steering input from a driver, based on the white line approach suppression steering reaction force, and upon determining that the other among the left and right white lines cannot be detected and a distance between the host vehicle and the left or right white line is decreasing, the white line approach suppression steering reaction force is limited. | 08-13-2015 |
20150225015 | STEERING CONTROL DEVICE - A steering control device includes a steering reaction force control unit that applies a steering reaction force to a steering unit in accordance with a steering reaction force characteristic that is based on steering torque and steering angle of the steering unit in which the steering torque increases as the steering angle increases. A curvature detection unit detects a curvature of a white line. An offset unit calculates an offset amount that increases as the detected curvature increases and that offsets the steering reaction force characteristic such that a neutral point of the steering is moved in a curve direction according to a magnitude of the detected curvature. A lateral acceleration detection unit detects a lateral acceleration of a host vehicle. An offset suppression unit suppresses an increase in the offset amount more as an absolute value of the detected lateral acceleration increases. | 08-13-2015 |
20150225017 | STEERING CONTROL DEVICE - A steering control device is provided that calculates a white line approach suppression turning amount that is based on a distance between a host vehicle is separated from either a left or a right white line when a host vehicle approaches either a left or a right white line. The steering control device controls a turning unit for turning a turnable wheel based on the white line approach suppression turning amount, and upon determining that the other among the left and right white lines cannot be detected and a distance between the host vehicle and the left or right white line is decreasing, an increase in the white line approach suppression turning amount is inhibited while permitting a decrease in the white line approach suppression turning amount. | 08-13-2015 |
20150232124 | STEERING CONTROL DEVICE - A steering control device includes a steering reaction force control unit that applies a steering reaction force to a steering unit in accordance with a steering reaction force characteristic that is based on steering torque and steering angle of the steering unit in which the steering torque increases as the steering angle increases. Upon applying the steering reaction force to the steering unit, an offset amount is calculated that is greater as a curvature of the white line increases, and a suppression offset amount is calculated that applies a predetermined limit to a change rate of the offset amount. When the steering torque that is opposite of the curvature is detected upon offsetting the steering reaction force characteristic, the predetermined limit is changed to a greater limit than the predetermined limit to suppress an increase in the offset amount. | 08-20-2015 |
20150246686 | STEERING CONTROL DEVICE - The turning amount of a turning unit is controlled based on the steering amount of a steering unit mechanically uncoupled from the turning unit, and the change amount of the steering reaction force relative to the change amount of the self-aligning torque in a steering reaction force characteristic is increased as a curvature of a white line is increased when the steering reaction force corresponding to the self-aligning torque is applied to the steering unit based on the steering reaction force characteristic corresponding to the self-aligning torque such that the larger the self-aligning torque, the larger the steering reaction force. | 09-03-2015 |
20150246687 | STABILITY CONTROL DEVICE - The turning angle of the left and right front wheels is controlled based on an SBW command turning angle corresponding to the steering angle of a steering wheel mechanically uncoupled from the left and right front wheels and a disturbance suppression command turning angle to suppress the yaw angle generated in the vehicle by disturbance. The steering reaction force to be applied to a column shaft is controlled based on the steering angle of the steering wheel. | 09-03-2015 |