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20140027013 | AUTOMATIC SUPPLY SYSTEM OF CONSUMABLE MATERIAL - An automatic supply system of a consumable material includes: an automatic supply device that automatically supplies a consumable material to a vehicle capable of being loaded with a cargo; and a control device that obtains loading information indicating whether or not the cargo is loaded on the vehicle, and is able to control an automatic supply of the consumable material to the vehicle based on the obtained loading information, wherein, when the control device determines that the cargo is loaded on the vehicle from the obtained loading information, the control device controls the automatic supply device not to perform the automatic supply of the consumable material to the vehicle. | 01-30-2014 |
20140027228 | SELF-PROPELLED CABLE RELAY TRUCK - A self-propelled cable relay truck includes: a power transmission relay unit to which a power supply side cable configured to perform power transmission between a power supply and the relay truck, and a work machine side cable configured to perform power transmission between an electric work machine and the relay truck are connected to perform relay of the power transmission between the power supply side cable and the work machine side cable; a travel device configured to perform traveling operation so as to be able to move the power transmission relay unit; and a movement control unit configured to perform movement control of the travel device. | 01-30-2014 |
20140027229 | TRANSPORT VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH CURRENT COLLECTOR - A dump truck | 01-30-2014 |
20140032006 | MINE POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A mine power management system includes: a first power line provided at an ascent and configured to exchange electric power with an ascending vehicle traveling on the ascent; a second power line provided at a descent and configured to exchange electric power with a descending vehicle traveling on the descent; and a power supply and storage apparatus configured to exchange electric power at least between the first power line and the second power line. | 01-30-2014 |
20140041951 | TRANSPORT VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH CURRENT COLLECTOR - A transport vehicle equipped with a current collector, includes: a vessel to load a load; a current collector that extends to receive electric power from an overhead line and contracts and retracts so as to be disposed away from the overhead line; and a vehicle body that rotationally drives driving wheels by at least one of the electric power from the current collector and a self-propelled driving source and on which the vessel is placed; a pantograph position detector that detects a relative position of the current collector and the overhead line; and a control device that controls a driving direction of the vehicle body or gives an instruction of information with which a direction in which the vehicle body is to be operated can be recognized, so that the relative position is brought to a position where the current collector and the overhead line are connected. | 02-13-2014 |
20140107849 | FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM AND EARTH-MOVING MACHINE - A fuel supply system includes: a fuel supply facility capable of supplying fuel; an earth-moving machine capable of traveling toward the fuel supply facility; and a control apparatus that acquires execution permission information indicating whether or not fuel can be supplied to the earth-moving machine, and is capable of executing control based on the acquired execution permission information, wherein when the control apparatus determines that fuel cannot be supplied to the earth-moving machine based on the execution permission information at a time of supplying the fuel to the earth-moving machine, the control apparatus executes entry restriction control for restricting an entry to the fuel supply facility by the earth-moving machine. | 04-17-2014 |
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20110214953 | SHOCK ABSORBER - A shock absorber has an inclined surface that is inclined to a moving direction of the free piston in at least one of a free piston contact surface of a free piston with which an elastic body is in contact and a housing contact surface of a housing with which the elastic body is in contact. A shortest distance between the free piston contact surface and the housing contact surface is changed by movement of the free piston. | 09-08-2011 |
20110214955 | SHOCK ABSORBER - A shock absorber includes a first passage and a second passage to which a working fluid flows out from one chamber in a cylinder by movement of a piston, a damping valve installed on the first passage and configured to regulate a flow of the working fluid caused by sliding of the piston to generate a damping force, a back pressure chamber applying an internal pressure to the damping valve in a closing direction of the damping valve, a back pressure chamber inflow oil passage introducing the working fluid from one chamber into the back pressure chamber, a pressure chamber provided in-between on the second passage, and a free piston installed in the pressure chamber so as to freely slide in the pressure chamber. | 09-08-2011 |
20120160620 | DAMPING FORCE CONTROL TYPE SHOCK ABSORBER - Oil grooves of a shutter and oil holes of a stepped rod constitute first orifices as variable orifices whose opening areas are variable according to the rotational position of the shutter. The oil grooves of the shutter and oil holes of the stepped rod constitute third orifices as variable orifices. Cut portions of inner disk valves constitute second orifices. The opening areas of the variable orifices are changed by rotating the shutter, thereby controlling damping force characteristics in a low piston speed region and the relief pressures of pressure control valves independently of each other, and thus increasing the degree of freedom for adjusting the damping force characteristics. | 06-28-2012 |
20120160624 | SHOCK ABSORBER - A frequency-dependent mechanism provided at the lower end of a piston rod includes a tubular housing displaceable in an inner tube, together with the piston rod as one unit, and further includes a free piston and O-rings. A shutter of a passage area varying mechanism is provided with an axially extending inner hole, orifices, and oil grooves. The opening area between oil holes | 06-28-2012 |
20120248670 | SHOCK ABSORBER - A shock absorber includes first passages configured to communicate two chambers to flow a working fluid therebetween by movement of a piston, and a second passage configured to communicate with one chamber of the two chambers. The first passages have damping valves configured to suppress a flow of the working fluid generated by movement of the piston to generate a damping force. The second passage has a variable orifice having an area adjusted by an elastic member when a piston rod moves in an extension direction, a pressure chamber installed in series with the variable orifice, and a free piston configured to vary a volume of the pressure chamber by movement of the piston. | 10-04-2012 |
20140231201 | SHOCK ABSORBER - A shock absorber has an inclined surface that is inclined to a moving direction of the free piston in at least one of a free piston contact surface of a free piston with which an elastic body is in contact and a housing contact surface of a housing with which the elastic body is in contact. A shortest distance between the free piston contact surface and the housing contact surface is changed by movement of the free piston. | 08-21-2014 |
20140238796 | SHOCK ABSORBER AND VEHICLE USING THE SAME - A shock absorber includes a first and a second passage configured to flow a working fluid out of one chamber by movement of a piston, a first damping force generation mechanism installed at the first passage and configured to generate a damping force, a housing having at least a partial passage of the second passage formed therein, a free piston movably installed in the housing and configured to partition the second passage into an upstream side and a downstream side, and a spring member disposed in the housing and configured to hole the free piston at a neutral position, wherein a second damping force generation mechanism including a friction member installed at an inner side of the cylinder with respect to the sealing member and constituted by an annular elastic rubber section in sliding contact with the piston rod and an annular base section to which the elastic rubber section is fixed and a communication passage configured to reduce a pressure difference between both sides in an axial direction of the friction member is provided. | 08-28-2014 |
20140252735 | SHOCK ABSORBER - A shock absorber includes a first passage ( | 09-11-2014 |
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20130265726 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - Provided is a printed circuit board capable of increasing an inductance value of a power pattern and a ground pattern while keeping a low electric resistance value of the power pattern and the ground pattern. The printed circuit board includes a printed wiring board including: a power layer having a power pattern formed therein; and a ground layer having a ground pattern formed therein. On the printed wiring board, an LSI as a semiconductor device and an LSI as a power supply member are mounted. The ground pattern has a first ground region that overlaps the power pattern as viewed from the direction perpendicular to the surface of the printed wiring board. In the first ground region, at least one defect portion is formed. In the first ground region, the defect portion forms a region that is narrower than the power pattern. | 10-10-2013 |
20130343024 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND PRINTED WIRING BOARD - On a surface layer of a printed wiring board, main power supply patterns to be applied with different DC voltages are disposed in a second region. Power supply patterns are disposed on the surface layer, and the power supply patterns are led from the main power supply patterns to a first region. The power supply patterns connect power supply terminals of terminal groups in the second region. The power supply patterns connect the power supply terminals between the terminal groups in the first region. Power supply terminals of the terminal groups of a semiconductor package are electrically connected to the main power supply patterns by the power supply patterns. Thus, potential fluctuations are reduced and radiation noise is suppressed, and the number of layers of the printed wiring board is reduced. | 12-26-2013 |
20140268586 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - A substrate of a semiconductor package comprises a conductor pattern which is formed in a surface layer, and is electrically connected to one terminal out of a power terminal and a ground terminal of a semiconductor element. The substrate also comprises in the surface layer a conductor pattern which is arranged while being separated from the conductor pattern, and a conductor pattern which is formed so as to have a wiring width thinner than that of the conductor pattern and connects the conductor pattern with the conductor pattern. The substrate also comprises a conductor pattern which is formed in an inner layer, faces the conductor pattern through a dielectric and is electrically connected to the other terminal out of the power terminal and the ground terminal of the semiconductor element. | 09-18-2014 |
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20130271523 | INK, INK CARTRIDGE AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - The invention provides an ink containing a first coloring material and a second coloring material, wherein the first coloring material is a compound represented by a general formula (1), and the second coloring material is a compound represented by a general formula (2). | 10-17-2013 |
20130335490 | INK, INK CARTRIDGE AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - Provided is an ink capable of recording an image that is excellent in ozone resistance, hardly causes blurring or color change even in a high-humidity environment, and is excellent in humidity resistance. The ink includes a coloring material and a lithium ion. The coloring material includes a compound represented by the following general formula (I) and a content of the lithium ion in the ink is 3.5 times or more in terms of molar ratio with respect to a content of the compound represented by the general formula (I). | 12-19-2013 |
20150022585 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink jet recording apparatus is provided which includes a recording unit including a recording head having a surface provided with an ejection opening therein, an aqueous ink that is ejected from the ejection opening to record an image on a recording medium, a protection unit including a covering member that covers the surface having the ejection opening, and a recovery unit separate from the covering member, having no member that scrapes the ink deposited in the ink receiving member or sucks the ink from the ejection opening. The recovery unit includes an ink receiving member that receives waste ink discharged from the ejection opening according to preliminary ejection data, directly from the ejection opening without interposing any other member. The aqueous ink contains a self-dispersible pigment containing the carboxyl group or the sulfonate group. | 01-22-2015 |
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20100328804 | MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD CONTROLLING OF MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk storage device includes a magnetic disk, a head, a clock generator, an estimating module, and a controller. The magnetic disk includes a servo area and a corresponding data area, and has a surface divided into zones in the radial direction. The basic frequency varies in the servo area depending on the zones. The head is driven to read a signal from the magnetic disk. The clock generator generates a clock signal for decoding a signal read from the data area corresponding to the servo area based on a signal read from the servo area. The estimating module estimates the position of the servo area in the radial direction, from which the head reads a signal next. The controller controls the clock generator to generate a clock signal of the basic frequency before the head reaches the servo area based on the estimated position. | 12-30-2010 |
20110249354 | DISK STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SERVO CONTROLLING - According to one embodiment, a disk storage apparatus includes a disk and a servo demodulator. The disk has a servo area, in which a first phase servo pattern, a second phase servo pattern that is in phase with the first servo pattern, and a third servo pattern that is inverse in phase to the first and second servo patterns. The third servo pattern comprises at least two phase servo pattern segments. The servo demodulator is configured to perform a phase servo demodulating process that includes integration operation on integration sections of the same ratio, using a read signal read from the servo area by a head. | 10-13-2011 |
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20090033765 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus is provided which includes an image pickup device; a display unit configured to perform a control operation to display a signal output from the image pickup device on a monitor; a first photometry section configured to measure luminance of an image of an object based on the signal output from the image pickup device; a second photometry section configured to measure luminance of the image of the object using a photometric sensor mounted at a position different from the image pickup device; and a controller configured to control exposure based on photometric information obtained from the second photometry section in a case where, before photometric information is obtained from the first photometry section, a request is made by a user to capture an image for recording an output of the image pickup device. | 02-05-2009 |
20090217204 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - A display control apparatus for displaying images of a plurality of files as a list on a display unit, comprises: a setup unit which sets a specific file type among a plurality of file types as a reference file type; a reference file retrieval unit which retrieves a file of the type set among the plurality of files as the reference file; an associated file retrieval unit which retrieves an associated file from among the plurality of files; and a control unit which controls the display unit such that a list of the images of a plurality of reference files arranged in a first direction and the images of the associated files arranged in a second direction intersecting with the first direction at the location of the image of each reference file. | 08-27-2009 |
20100254693 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, LIGHT EMISSION DEVICE, AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM - An image pickup apparatus capable of obtaining a satisfactory picked up image, even if a light emission device cannot emit the requested light amount. When notified that at least one of slave flash devices is unable to emit a set amount of light, a master flash device recalculates amounts of light emission of the flash devices based on a possible light emission amount of a flash device having a maximum deficiency of light amount relative to a set light emission amount, thereby maintaining light amount ratios at the time of multiple flash photographing. | 10-07-2010 |
20120274802 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An imaging apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform control to record an uncombined image captured in a multiple exposure shooting mode on a recording medium, and, if the number of images to be combined to generate a multiple combined image is one when the multiple exposure shooting mode ends, to prevent the multiple combined image from being generated or recorded. | 11-01-2012 |
20140016024 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus is provided which includes an image pickup device; a display unit configured to perform a control operation to display a signal output from the image pickup device on a monitor; a first photometry section configured to measure luminance of an image of an object based on the signal output from the image pickup device; a second photometry section configured to measure luminance of the image of the object using a photometric sensor mounted at a position different from the image pickup device; and a controller configured to control exposure based on photometric information obtained from the second photometry section in a case where, before photometric information is obtained from the first photometry section, a request is made by a user to capture an image for recording an output of the image pickup device. | 01-16-2014 |
20140125861 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - An imaging apparatus including an imaging element that includes a pixel portion sets a first readout area and then performs detection processing for detecting the phase difference of an image signal read out from the area to thereby output the reliability of the phase difference. If the imaging apparatus determines that phase difference detection has been successful, the imaging apparatus executes focus adjustment processing based on the detected phase difference. If the imaging apparatus determines that the phase difference has failed to be detected, the imaging apparatus sets a second readout area having a range wider than that of the first readout area as a readout area, and then sets an area other than an area which is included in the first readout area from the second readout area and is used for generating a display image as a trimming target. | 05-08-2014 |
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20090009035 | ACOUSTIC BACKING COMPOSITION, ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - Disclosed is an acoustic backing composition comprising an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer containing 20 to 80% by weight of the vinyl acetate units and a filler contained in the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer. | 01-08-2009 |
20090069486 | ACOUSTIC LENS COMPOSITION, ULTRASONIC PROBE, AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - Provided is an acoustic lens composition which comprises 40 wt % or more of silicone rubber and 15 to 60 wt % of a zinc oxide powder, suppresses ultrasonic attenuation, and has superior molding properties. | 03-12-2009 |
20120143061 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY ULTRASONIC PROBE - A two-dimensional array ultrasonic probe includes a plurality of channels arranged apart from each other in a two-dimensional direction, each channel including a laminated piezoelectric element and an acoustic matching layer formed on the laminated piezoelectric element, the laminated piezoelectric element including a plurality of first and second electrodes arranged alternately within a piezoelectric body in a thickness direction of the piezoelectric body such that the side edges alone of the first electrodes and the second electrodes are exposed to the two mutually facing side surfaces of the piezoelectric body, respectively. The laminated piezoelectric element is mounted to a backing member. A signal side electrode and a ground electrode are formed to respectively extend from both side surface of the piezoelectric body to reach the backing member and are connected to the side edges of the first and second electrodes exposed to the side surface of piezoelectric body, respectively. | 06-07-2012 |
20140062261 | ULTRASONIC PROBE, PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ULTRASONIC PROBE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER - According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic probe includes a single crystal piezoelectric body with first and second planes facing each other and having a crystal orientation of [100], first and second electrodes on the respective first and second plane of the piezoelectric body, an acoustic matching layer on the first electrode, and a backing member under the second electrode, wherein the piezoelectric body is polarized along a first direction passing through the piezoelectric body and first and second electrodes, a fracture surface of the piezoelectric body that includes the first direction has a multilayer shape along one of the first and second electrodes, and a thickness of each layer of the multilayer shape is not less than 0.5 μm and not more than 5 μm. | 03-06-2014 |