Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080251998 | Sheet aligning device and image forming apparatus using the same - In a sheet aligning device, a pair of first rollers provided upstream of a stopper unit moves a sheet in an axial direction thereof after a pair of second rollers provided upstream of the first rollers is separated, and is returned to its home position just after the sheet passes therethrough. | 10-16-2008 |
20100064798 | FLOW METER AND FLOW CONTROLLING DEVICE - To provide a highly accurate flow meter. A Flow meter comprising an inflow opening into which a measurement fluid flows, an outflow opening from which a measurement fluid flows, and a flow path connecting the inflow opening and the outflow opening, wherein the flow path is bent at a first bend portion, wherein: a first porous plate is disposed in the first bend portion of the flow path at an angle relative to the direction in which the flow path extends before and after the first bend portion, and a flow sensor for detecting the flow speed or flow volume of a measurement fluid that flows in the flow path, disposed on the inner wall of the flow path on the outflow opening side of the first bend portion. | 03-18-2010 |
20100070095 | FLOW METER AND FLOW VOLUME CONTROLLING DEVICE - To provide a flow meter, and a flow volume controlling device equipped therewith, capable of reducing pressure loss while obtaining a flow rectifying effect in a measurement fluid. A flow meter for measuring the flow volume of a measurement fluid, equipped with a flow path wherein the measuring fluid flows, and a flow rectifier that is disposed within the flow path, where the flow rectifier has holes for rectifying the flow of a measurement fluid, and has an area that is wider than the flow path cross-sectional area in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction in which the flow path extends. The flow volume controlling device is provided with the flow meter, a controlling valve, and controlling means for adjusting the flow volume of a fluid that flows through the flow path of the flow meter through controlling the controlling valves based on information regarding the flow volume detected by the flow meter. | 03-18-2010 |
20100135354 | MECHANISM OF MONITORING UNIT OF ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINERY AND MONITORING METHOD OF ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINERY - A mechanism of a monitoring unit of an electric rotating machinery covered in a housing that intercepts photoelectron transmission, the mechanism has: a monitoring window penetrating a part of the housing and configured to allow passage of photoelectrons and not to allow passage of gas; a camera arranged outside the monitoring window and configured to receive radiated photoelectron generated in the housing and passing through the monitoring window and to generate image data from the radiated photoelectron; and a computing unit configured to process the image data. The computing unit has reference image data storage means for storing image data resulting from blackbody radiation occurring in a reference state in the housing, as reference image data, and temperature calculating means for comparing the image data with the reference image data, thereby to calculate the temperature in the housing. | 06-03-2010 |
20100168584 | BIOLOGICAL OBSERVATION APPARATUS, BIOLOGICAL OBSERVATION METHOD, AND ENDOSCOPIC APPARATUS - A biological observation apparatus comprises: a light source unit capable of selectively emitting illumination light beams of at least two or more kinds of wavelength regions; an irradiation optical system for irradiating a subject with the illumination light beams; a detection optical system for detecting scattered light beams from the subject, and acquiring respective images with respect to the respective wavelength regions; and an image processing section for performing comparison operation processing on at least two or more kinds of acquired images, wherein said two or more kinds of wavelength regions are selected so that a ratio of at least one spectral characteristic coefficient between at least one biological tissue serving as an identification target and at least another one biological tissue differing from the identification target with respect to at least one wavelength region among said wavelength regions is different from a ratio of this spectral characteristic coefficient therebetween with respect to at least another one wavelength region differing from the concerned one wavelength region among said wavelength regions. | 07-01-2010 |
20100317693 | 3,8-DIAMINOTETRAHYDROQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE - To provide a compound which has a potent agonistic activity on GHS-R and which is useful as a therapeutic agent for systemic wasting diseases such as cachexia. | 12-16-2010 |
20110088826 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - The aspect of the present invention is a pneumatic tire comprising a plurality of radial protrusions | 04-21-2011 |
20110094646 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - The characteristic of the present invention is a pneumatic tire comprising a plurality of radial protrusions | 04-28-2011 |
20120065899 | Analysis method of vibrational spectra - A plurality of Raman spectral datasets of an unknown sample acquired under the same measurement conditions is selected in a plurality of Raman spectral data items having different spectral profiles acquired by setting different measurement conditions in a plurality of unknown mixed samples, a spectrum acquired under the same measurement conditions as those of the Raman spectral dataset of the unknown sample is selected in the spectra of the benchmark molecule to be classified, a PCA loading is calculated from the Raman spectral dataset of the unknown sample, the correlation between the calculated PCA loading and the selected spectrum of the benchmark molecule to be classified is calculated, and the PCA loading having a highest correlation with the spectrum of the benchmark molecule to be classified is determined in the PCA loadings calculated from a plurality of Raman spectral datasets of the unknown sample having different measurement conditions. | 03-15-2012 |
20120235535 | ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE - There is provided a rotary electric machine. A stator is formed by laminating first steel plates and second steel plates, which are formed from an identical magnetic material and having an identical planar shape but different thickness dimensions. Hence, in contrast to a motor/generator (a comparative example) including a stator formed by laminating steel plates having an identical thickness dimension, with which a single resonance frequency is generated (such that a peak value is large), two resonance frequencies are generated, and therefore the peak value can be dispersed between the respective resonance frequencies (such that the peak value is small). | 09-20-2012 |
20120299253 | ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK APPARATUS - The present invention provides an electrostatic chuck apparatus including:
| 11-29-2012 |
20130012537 | 3,8-DIAMINOTETRAHYDROQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE - A method for treatment of a systemic wasting disease, by administering, to a subject in need thereof, an effective amount of a 3,8-diaminotetrahydroquinoline derivative represented by formula (Ia) (wherein X represents CH | 01-10-2013 |
20130162868 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING FUNCTION OF READING CAPTURED IMAGE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - During a zoom operation of an imaging optical system, a read position is decided in units of less than one pixel and set sequentially. Also, when the zoom operation has stopped, the read position is moved so to be an integer multiple of one pixel, if the read position at the time when the zoom operation stopped is not an integer multiple of one pixel. Smooth image display during zoom operation and suppression of sharpness reduction in an image displayed when zooming has stopped are thereby both achieved, in an image processing apparatus that controls the read position of a captured image according to a zoom position of the imaging optical system and a control method thereof. | 06-27-2013 |
20130187331 | SHEET ALIGNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A sheet aligning device may include a sheet conveyance path; a detecting unit configured to detect a side edge of a sheet being conveyed in the sheet conveyance path; a stopper on an upstream side of the detecting unit and configured to open/close so as to allow/prevent passage of the sheet and to position a leading edge of the sheet; a first conveying unit on an upstream side of the stopper, the first conveying unit including a pair of first rollers configured to come in contact with/ separate from each other; a second conveying unit on an upstream side of the first conveying unit, the second conveying unit including a pair of second rollers configured to come in contact with/separate from each other; and a horizontal movement unit configured to move the pair of first rollers in an axial direction based on a detection result output by the detecting unit. | 07-25-2013 |
20130232173 | DATA DISPLAY DEVICE, DATA DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - Displaying pieces of data includes displaying a tree structure on a display device, identifying, in response to a first node being selected from among nodes constituting the displayed tree structure, all nodes connected to the first node in a high-order direction and a low-order direction as a first node group, and identifying, in response to a second node being selected, the second node not being included in the first node group, all nodes connected to the second node in the high-order direction and the low-order direction as a second node group. The second node moves toward the first node according to an operation. A node not to be displayed is determined according to a rule and movement of the second node group. A display device is instructed to display the first node group and the second node group close to each other omitting display of the determined node. | 09-05-2013 |
20130283836 | EXPANSION VALVE AND VIBRATION-PROOF SPRING - An expansion valve includes a shaft for transmitting the drive force to a valve element and a vibration-proof spring, set between the body and the shaft, which generates the sliding friction by biasing the shaft. The vibration-proof spring includes a spring body of a hollow tube shape, a spring part, which is integrally formed with a side wall of the spring body, and a bulging portion formed on the spring part in a protruding manner such that the tip of the bulging portion is placed opposite to a part of the shaft. When the bulging portion abuts against the shaft inserted to the vibration-proof spring, the spring part is placed in a position along the spring body or is warped outwardly from the spring body, so that the elastically reactive force resulting from the warped spring part allows the shaft to slide in a stabilized manner. | 10-31-2013 |
20140101224 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE - A communication control device | 04-10-2014 |
20140111658 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image capture apparatus comprises a first shake detection unit configured to detect a shake of the image capture apparatus, a rotational shake calculation unit configured to calculate a rotational shake amount, a second shake detection unit configured to detect the shake of the image capture apparatus, a translational shake calculation unit configured to calculate a translational shake amount, a correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the rotational shake amount and the translational shake amount, a correction amount for correcting image blurring, and a correction unit configured to correct the image blurring, wherein the rotational shake calculation unit calculates a first translational motion component and perspective component, and wherein the correction amount calculation unit calculates a second translational motion component. | 04-24-2014 |
20140111659 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image capture apparatus comprises shake detection unit configured to detect a shake of the image capture apparatus translation component correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate, based on an output of the shake detection unit, a first correction amount configured to correct a translation component of image blurring generated in a captured image due to the shake, perspective component correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the first correction amount, a second correction amount for correcting a perspective component of the image blurring; and correction unit configured to correct the image blurring based on the first correction amount and the second correction amount. | 04-24-2014 |
20140111661 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS - An image capture apparatus comprises a shake detection unit configured to detect a shake, a translational motion correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate a first correction amount for correcting a translational motion component, a perspective component correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate a second correction amount for correcting a perspective component, an image stabilization unit configured to correct the image blurring of the captured image based on the first and second correction amount, and a control unit configured to restrict, if a panning state of the image capture apparatus is determined, the translational motion correction amount calculation unit and the perspective component correction amount calculation unit so as to decrease correction capability for the translational motion component and the perspective component. | 04-24-2014 |
20140184836 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit, a motion vector detection unit, a shake detection unit, a shake calculation unit configured to calculate a shake amount of the image capturing apparatus between the two images, an image blurring conversion unit configured to convert an output from the shake calculation unit into an image blurring amount of an image, a correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate, by using at least one of an output from the motion vector detection unit and an output from the image blurring conversion unit, a correction amount for electronically correcting the image blurring amount of the image, and a correction unit configured to electronically correct image blurring of the image based on an output from the correction amount calculation unit. | 07-03-2014 |
20140204975 | PLATE-SHAPED BODY FOR TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT AND TEMPERATURE MEASURING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - There are provided a plate-shaped body for temperature measurement which, simply by being mounted on a mounting surface of an electrostatic chuck apparatus and without using a semiconductor wafer itself which is a product, is able to easily optimize the in-plane temperature distribution of the mounting surface of the electrostatic chuck apparatus, the temperature rising characteristics, and the cooling characteristics during decreases in temperature, and a temperature measuring apparatus provided with the same. In such a wafer for temperature measurement (plate-shaped body for temperature measurement) ( | 07-24-2014 |