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20090161257 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes protruded magnetic patterns formed on a substrate, and a non-magnetic material filled in recesses between the magnetic patterns and made of a multi-element amorphous alloy containing Ni or Cu, and two or more metals selected from the group consisting of Ta, Nb, Ti, Zr, Hf, Cr, Mo and Ag. | 06-25-2009 |
20090243152 | IMPRINTING METHOD AND STAMPER - According to one embodiment, an imprinting method includes applying a resist to a substrate, imprinting a stamper on which protruded patterns are formed against the resist applied to the substrate, forcing a distal end of a peeling wedge into a part between the substrate and the stamper, and introducing a gas between the substrate and the stamper to peel off the stamper from the substrate, in which a gap between the substrate and the stamper is made larger than a thickness of the resist at a part into which the distal end of the peeling wedge is forced. | 10-01-2009 |
20090246310 | RESIN IMPRINT STAMPER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a resin imprint stamper formed of a resin material in an annular shape having a through-hole in a central part thereof, including a pattern area formed on a part of a surface thereof in which a plurality of lands and grooves are circumferentially arranged with a track pitch of 100 nm or less, and the pattern height of at most 100 nm, wherein no protrusion and step having a height exceeding 10 μm from a top surface of the pattern area are present in a region less than 3 mm from an end of the pattern area toward an inner periphery thereof. | 10-01-2009 |
20090277574 | PATTERN TRANSFER METHOD - According to one embodiment, a pattern transfer method includes spin-coating one surface of a medium substrate with photopolymer having viscosity of 10 cps or less to form an photopolymer layer having a thickness of 200 nm or less, bonding the one surface of the medium substrate and the patterned surface of the first transparent stamper under vacuum with the photopolymer layer sandwiched therebetween, applying an ultraviolet ray to the photopolymer layer through the first transparent stamper to cure the photopolymer layer, and peeling off the first transparent stamper to form the photopolymer layer to which patterns of protrusions and recesses are transferred on the one surface of the medium substrate to control a thickness of the photopolymer layer remaining in recesses to 100 nm or less. | 11-12-2009 |
20090280285 | STAMPER HOLDER, MOLDING DIE AND MOLDED SUBSTRATE FOR RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a stamper holder which holds a disk-shape metal stamper for molding having a center hole with an inner diameter of 17.5 mm or less and formed with patterns of protrusions and recesses for a recording medium on a surface in a state that the stamper holder is fixed to a first die having a center hole, in which the stamper holder has an approximately cylindrical shape so as to be inserted into the center hole of the first die and comprises a flange provided at one end configured to hold an inner peripheral portion of the stamper surface near the center hole, and an outer diameter of the flange is 17.6 mm or less. | 11-12-2009 |
20110242706 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a servo area of a magnetic recording medium includes magnetic dots arrayed at a period L | 10-06-2011 |
20110259849 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING IMPRINT MOLD AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method for producing an imprint mold includes forming, on a substrate, a plurality of guides including a first wall surface and a second wall surface, wherein an angle between at least one of the first and second wall surfaces and an exposed substrate surface is 131° or less, applying a self-assembling material, which forms a sphere when phase-separated, to a guide groove area defined by the first wall surface, the second wall surface and the substrate surface, and self-assembling the self-assembling material to form a dot pattern, etching the substrate by using the dot pattern as a mask to transfer the dot pattern and forming an imprint mold by using the substrate with the dot pattern transferred as a master mold. | 10-27-2011 |
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20130069272 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MOLD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - In one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a mold includes: forming a first layer having an affinity to a second polymer on a substrate having an affinity to a first polymer; forming first and second openings in the first layer; filling a resist in the second openings and hardening the resist to obtain a hardened resist; and forming a second layer containing a block copolymer and causing it to self-assemble. | 03-21-2013 |
20130075361 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD - A pattern forming method according to an embodiment includes: forming a pattern film on a first substrate, the pattern film having a concave-convex pattern, the pattern film being made of a material containing a first to-be-imprinted agent; forming a material film on a second substrate, the material film containing a second to-be-imprinted agent having a higher etching rate than an etching rate of the first to-be-imprinted agent; transferring the concave-convex pattern of the pattern film onto the material film by applying pressure between the first substrate and the second substrate, with the pattern film being positioned to face the material film, and by curing the second to-be-imprinted agent; detaching the first substrate from the pattern film; and removing the material film by etching, to leave the pattern film on the second substrate. | 03-28-2013 |
20130256263 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD AND IMPRINT MOLD MANUFACTURING METHOD - In one embodiment, a pattern forming method includes: forming a functional layer having a functional group to cross-link a first polymer on a substrate; forming a diblock copolymer layer having the first polymer and a second polymer on the functional layer; self-assembling the diblock copolymer layer to form a self-assembled layer, the self-assembled layer having a first domain corresponding to the first polymer, and a plurality of second domains corresponding to the second polymer and surrounded by or interposed in the first domain; cross-linking the first polymer in the self-assembled layer with the functional group in the functional layer to form a bonding layer disposed in the self-assembled layer and bonded to the functional layer; and washing or etching the self-assembled layer to remain the bonding layer. | 10-03-2013 |
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20150082886 | INERTIAL SENSOR - According to one embodiment, an inertial sensor includes a base portion, a weight portion, a connection portion, and a first sensing element unit. The connection portion connects the weight portion and the base portion and is capable of being deformed in accordance with a change in relative position of the weight portion with respect to the position of the base portion. The first sensing element unit is provided on a first portion of the connection portion and includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and a nonmagnetic first intermediate layer. The nonmagnetic first intermediate layer is provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. | 03-26-2015 |
20150082918 | STRAIN SENSING ELEMENT, PRESSURE SENSOR, MICROPHONE, BLOODPRESSURE SENSOR, AND TOUCH PANEL - According to one embodiment, a strain sensing element is provided on a film unit configured to be deformed. The strain sensing element includes a functional layer, a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and a spacer layer. The functional layer includes at least one of an oxide and a nitride. The second magnetic layer is provided between the functional layer and the first magnetic layer. A magnetization of the second magnetic layer is variable in accordance with a deformation of the film unit. The spacer layer is provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. At least a part of the second magnetic layer is amorphous and includes boron. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088008 | PRESSURE SENSOR, MICROPHONE, BLOOD PRESSURE SENSOR, AND TOUCH PANEL - According to one embodiment, a pressure sensor includes a support, a film unit supported by the support, having an upper surface, and capable of being deformed, and a first sensing element provided on the upper surface. The first sensing element includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer provided apart from the first magnetic layer and a first intermediate unit including a first intermediate layer including a portion provided between the first and second magnetic layers. The first magnetic layer extends in a first direction parallel to the upper surface, and a first major axis length of the first magnetic layer is longer than a first minor axis length. The second magnetic layer extends in a second direction parallel to the upper surface and crossing the first direction, and a second major axis length of the second magnetic layer is longer than a second minor axis length. | 03-26-2015 |
20150266717 | PRESSURE SENSOR - According to one embodiment, a pressure sensor includes: a support section; a film section; and a strain sensing element. The film section is supported by the support section and deformable. The film section includes a first film and a second film. The first film includes a first region located in a central part and a second region located in a peripheral part around the first region. The second film is provided on the first region. The strain sensing element is provided on part of the second region. The strain sensing element includes a first magnetic layer; a second magnetic layer; and an intermediate layer. Magnetization of the first magnetic layer changes in response to deformation of the second region. The intermediate layer is provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271586 | PRESSURE SENSOR, MICROPHONE, AND ACOUSTIC PROCESSING SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a pressure sensor includes: a base body; a sensor section; and a processing circuit. The sensor section includes: a transducing thin film; a first strain sensing element; and a second strain sensing element. The transducing thin film has a film surface and is flexible. The processing circuit is configured to output as an output signal at least one of a first signal obtained from the first strain sensing element upon application of external pressure to the transducing thin film and a second signal obtained from the second strain sensing element upon application of the external pressure to the transducing thin film. | 09-24-2015 |
20150338293 | PRESSURE SENSOR, MICROPHONE, ULTRASONIC SENSOR, BLOOD PRESSURE SENSOR, AND TOUCH PANEL - According to an embodiment, a pressure sensor includes a substrate, a support part, a flexible membrane part, and a magnetoresistive element. The support part is adhered on the substrate by using a first adhesive material with a first Young's modulus and a second adhesive material with a second Young's modulus different from the first Young's modulus. The membrane part is supported by the support part. The magnetoresistive element is provided on the membrane part, and includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and a spacer layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. | 11-26-2015 |
20150338300 | PRESSURE SENSOR, MICROPHONE, ULTRASONIC SENSOR, BLOOD PRESSURE SENSOR, AND TOUCH PANEL - According to an embodiment, a pressure sensor includes a support part, a flexible membrane part, and a magnetoresistive element. The flexible membrane part is supported by the support part, and includes a first region and a second region with rigidity lower than rigidity of the first region. The magnetoresistive element is provided on the membrane part, and includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and a spacer layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. | 11-26-2015 |
20160003697 | PRESSURE SENSOR - A pressure sensor according to an embodiment includes: a support member; a membrane supported by the support and having flexibility; and a strain detection element formed on the membrane. The strain detection element includes a first magnetic layer formed on the membrane and having a magnetization, a second magnetic layer having a magnetization, and an intermediate layer formed between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. A direction of at least one of the magnetization of the first magnetic layer and the magnetization of the second magnetic layer changes relatively to that of the other depending on a strain of the membrane. Moreover, the membrane includes an oxide layer that includes aluminum. | 01-07-2016 |
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20140090486 | PRESSURE SENSOR, AUDIO MICROPHONE, BLOOD PRESSURE SENSOR, AND TOUCH PANEL - According to one embodiment, a pressure sensor includes a substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic, a spacer layer, a third magnetic layer. The substrate includes a first region and a second region. The first electrode is provided on the first region. The second electrode is provided on the first electrode. The first magnetic layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The second magnetic layer is provided between the first electrode and the first magnetic layer or between the first magnetic layer and the second electrode. The spacer layer is provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer in a stacking direction of layers from the first electrode to the second electrode. The third magnetic layer is provided continuously with the second magnetic layer on the second region. | 04-03-2014 |
20140137658 | MICROPHONE PACKAGE - According to one embodiment, a microphone package includes: a pressure sensing element including a film and a device; and a cover. The film generates strain in response to pressure. The device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and a first magnetic layer. The first magnetic layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and has a first magnetization. The cover includes: an upper portion; and a side portion. The side portion is magnetic and provided depending on the first magnetization and the second magnetization. | 05-22-2014 |
20140137668 | PRESSURE SENSOR, MICROPHONE, BLOOD PRESSURE SENSOR, AND TOUCH PANEL - According to one embodiment, a pressure sensor includes a base unit, a film unit, and a plurality of sensing elements. The plurality of sensing elements is provided on the film unit radially with respect to a centroid of the film unit. The plurality of sensing elements has a first side and a second side intersecting the first side. Each of the plurality of sensing elements includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and an intermediate layer. Each of the plurality of sensing elements has a shape anisotropy characterized by a length of the first side being longer than a length of the second side intersecting the first side. The plurality of sensing elements is provided at lines having radial configurations extending from the centroid to have a prescribed angle between the first side and the line. | 05-22-2014 |
20140369530 | PRESSURE SENSOR, ACOUSTIC MICROPHONE, BLOOD PRESSURE SENSOR, AND TOUCH PANEL - According to one embodiment, a pressure sensor includes a film part, and a sensing unit. A circumscribing rectangle circumscribing a configuration of a film surface of the film part has a first side, a second side, a third side connected to one end of the first side and one end of the second side, a fourth side connected to one other end of the first side and one other end of the second side, and a centroid of the circumscribing rectangle. The circumscribing rectangle includes a first region enclosed by the first side, line segments connecting the centroid to the one end of the first side, and to the one other end of the first side. The sensing unit includes sensing elements provided on a portion of the film surface overlapping the first region. Each sensing element includes a first, second magnetic layers, and a spacer layer. | 12-18-2014 |
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20090201434 | PORTABLE SCREEN - A portable screen includes: a frame body having a rectangular shape; and a screen sheet provided with tension within the frame body and having an image projection surface, wherein one opposing side of two sets of opposing sides forming the frame body is configured to allow the frame body to be extendable along the side, and the other opposing side of two sets of opposing sides forming the frame body is configured to allow the frame body to be spreadable or foldable. | 08-13-2009 |
20100007950 | SCREEN - A screen includes: a flexible screen body on which image light is projected; a fixed column arranged in a central portion; an arm sliding unit configured to pivotably support the second arm member of the first pantograph mechanism and the second arm member of the second pantograph mechanism with respect to the fixed column so as to be slidable in the vertical direction, in which the first pantograph mechanism and the second pantograph mechanism are expanded and contracted to move the first supporting unit and the second supporting unit toward and away from each other by a sliding movement of the arm sliding unit, and an urging member configured to urge the first supporting unit and the second supporting unit to move away from each other is provided. | 01-14-2010 |
20100079860 | SCREEN - A screen includes: a rectangular flexible screen cloth having which image light is projected; tubular portions provided along respective side edges of the screen cloth; an annular member inserted into the tubular portions; a frame member having a plurality of arm members connected so as to be capable of bending and stretching and assuming a rectangular frame shape in a state in which the plurality of arm members are extended; four hooking portions provided at four corners of the frame member and configured to hook the annular member to position the screen cloth in the frame of the frame member; and a tension applying mechanism provided on the frame member and configured to apply a tensile force to the screen cloth, at least two of the four hooking portions are provided movably inside and outside the frame member, the tension applying mechanism urges the at least two hooking portions outward the frame. | 04-01-2010 |
20130201409 | LIGHT-ADJUSTING UNIT AND PROJECTOR - A light-adjusting unit includes: a pair of light-shielding plates arranged about an illuminating optical axis of an incoming light flux and configured to block the light flux in response to the amount of rotation; a pair of rotation transmitting gears configured to hold and rotate the pair of light-shielding plates respectively; a pair of supporting shafts configured to rotatably support the pair of rotation transmitting gears respectively; a supporting substrate on which the pair of supporting shafts are provided; and a pair of urging members configured to press and urge the pair of rotation transmitting gears respectively against the supporting substrate. | 08-08-2013 |
20130215396 | LIGHT-ADJUSTING UNIT AND PROJECTOR - A light-adjusting unit includes: a light-shielding plate centered an optical axis of an incoming light flux and configured to block the light flux in response to the amount of rotation; a rotation transmitting gear configured to hold and rotate the light-shielding plate; a supporting shaft configured to rotatably support the rotation transmitting gear; and a supporting substrate on which the supporting shaft is provided, and the light-shielding plate is provided on one surface side of the supporting plate, and the rotation transmitting gear is provided on the other surface side of the supporting substrate opposite to the one surface side. | 08-22-2013 |
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20090174085 | SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor chip is provided comprising a semiconductor substrate on which an integrated circuit is formed. The semiconductor chip, which is provided on the semiconductor substrate in an area array, further comprises a plurality of electrodes electrically coupled with the inside of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the electrodes are arranged into a plurality of first groups respectively lined along a plurality of paralleling first straight lines and, further, into a plurality of second groups respectively lined along a plurality of second straight lines which extend so as to intersect with the first straight lines. | 07-09-2009 |
20100289153 | SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor chip is provided comprising a semiconductor substrate on which an integrated circuit is formed. The semiconductor chip, which is provided on the semiconductor substrate in an area array, further comprises a plurality of electrodes electrically coupled with the inside of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the electrodes are arranged into a plurality of first groups respectively lined along a plurality of paralleling first straight lines and, further, into a plurality of second groups respectively lined along a plurality of second straight lines which extend so as to intersect with the first straight lines. | 11-18-2010 |
20110079915 | SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor chip is provided comprising a semiconductor substrate on which an integrated circuit is formed. The semiconductor chip, which is provided on the semiconductor substrate in an area array, further comprises a plurality of electrodes electrically coupled with the inside of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the electrodes are arranged into a plurality of first groups respectively lined along a plurality of paralleling first straight lines and, further, into a plurality of second groups respectively lined along a plurality of second straight lines which extend so as to intersect with the first straight lines. | 04-07-2011 |
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20130096860 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes an analysis unit, a gathering place determination unit, and a correction unit. The analysis unit analyzes an action history including at least a position of a subject, in accordance with action information obtained by detecting an action of the subject. The gathering place determination unit determines a position of a gathering place where plural subjects including the subject are together, in accordance with position information indicating the position of the subject which is included in the action information. The correction unit corrects position information about the subject, in accordance with the position of the gathering place determined by the gathering place determination unit. | 04-18-2013 |
20130096869 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes an analysis unit, a starting point determination unit, and a coordinate conversion unit. The analysis unit analyzes an action history of a first subject, in accordance with action information obtained by detecting an action of the first subject. The starting point determination unit determines a position of a starting point of an action of the first subject, in accordance with the action history analyzed by the analysis unit. The position of the starting point is represented as a relative coordinate position. When a second subject different from the first subject has an absolute coordinate position, the coordinate conversion unit converts the relative coordinate position representing the starting point of the action of the first subject into an absolute coordinate position, in accordance with the absolute coordinate position of the second subject. | 04-18-2013 |
20140039827 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, ACTION DETECTION APPARATUS, AND ACTION DETECTION METHOD - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes calculating a variance of acceleration in individual sections obtained by dividing, by a first predetermined time interval, acceleration information for multiple axis directions detected from a subject whose action is to be determined; extracting, as a first candidate region, a section with the largest variance of acceleration from among the sections; calculating a variance of acceleration in individual sections obtained by shifting the first candidate region forward and backward by a second predetermined time interval; selecting, as a second candidate region, a section with the largest variance of acceleration from among the first candidate region and the sections obtained by shifting the first candidate region forward and backward; calculating a feature value for the second candidate region; and determining the action of the subject based on the feature value. | 02-06-2014 |
20140357252 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a transmission controller. The receiving unit receives a notification to inquire about a state of a user of the information processing apparatus, which is portable, from a different information processing apparatus. If the notification is received by the receiving unit, the determining unit determines whether communication from the other information processing apparatus is acceptable in the state of the user. If the determination unit determines that the communication from the other information processing apparatus is not acceptable in the state of the user, the transmission controller controls transmission so as not to transmit the state of the user. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359100 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit, a first acceptance unit, a second acceptance unit, a measurement unit, a third acceptance unit, and a restriction unit. The determination unit determines whether information necessary for a meeting is to be downloaded. The first acceptance unit accepts first electric energy information indicating electric energy necessary to download the information. The second acceptance unit accepts second electric energy information indicating electric energy necessary to present the information in the meeting. The measurement unit measures remaining electric energy. The third acceptance unit accepts a result of subtraction of the electric energy indicated by the first electric energy information and the electric energy indicated by the second electric energy from the remaining electric energy. The restriction unit imposes, on the basis of the subtraction result, a restriction on a function in a first time period and in a second time period. | 12-04-2014 |
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20080271081 | Content guide information processing apparatus, content guide information processing method and computer program thereof - Guide information is provided relating to playing/viewing of content retrieved through various modalities such as television broadcasting and a computer network. A unified program list is created that comprehensively handles program content. For a self-recorded program, program metadata retrieved during a recording operation is additionally registered. For a network program, a network program list is periodically retrieved from a service site, modified and recorded. To play the content, a guide screen is created and supplied based on a unified program list. When a self-recorded program is selected, the program is read and played from an HDD. When a network program is selected, the program is played in a streaming manner via the Internet. | 10-30-2008 |
20090235362 | DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND METHOD, DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The protection of data against illicit transfer with respect to specific data can be ensured. An integrated receiver decoder determines whether or not ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding) data requiring authentication is contained in selected piece-of-music data in accordance with determination data added into transmitted data. When ATRAC data requiring authentication is contained, the integrated receiver decoder performs an authentication process between it and a storage which is a transfer destination of the ATRAC data, and performs downloading of the ATRAC data after confirming that the storage is a valid apparatus to which the downloading may be performed. | 09-17-2009 |
20100265932 | Wireless transmitter, wireless transmission method, wireless receiver and wireless reception method - A wireless transmitter which includes: a packetizer which generates a special packet with a payload containing transmitted video signals and a header containing distinguishing information used to distinguish the special packet from an IP packet; and a wireless transmitting section for generating and transmitting wireless radio signals which contain a special packet generated by the packetizer. | 10-21-2010 |
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20150124884 | TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DEVICE, METHOD, AND CODING/DECODING DEVICE - Provided is a transmitting device including a hierarchical classification section that classifies image data of each picture constituting moving image data into a plurality of layers, an image coding section that codes the classified image data of each layer, and generates a video stream holding the coded image data of each layer, and a transmitting section that transmits a container in a prescribed format that includes the generated video stream. The image coding section performs coding so that a referenced picture belongs to a layer of referencing image data and/or a layer lower than the layer of the referencing image data. | 05-07-2015 |
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20120239979 | RADIO DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A test method which is performed by a computer, the test method includes reducing a first period of timer interruption to a second period by multiplying the first period by a prescribed coefficient; converting, by using the computer, a wait time of a task, which waits for processing operating asynchronously with the timer interruption, into a first periodicity which is obtained by dividing the second period; obtaining a second periodicity by dividing the first periodicity by the prescribed coefficient; and determining the timer interruption on the basis of the second periodicity. | 09-20-2012 |
20130246831 | SELECTION DEVICE, SELECTION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A selection device includes an interface connected to at least a clock signal line and a chip select signal line among output lines of a first device, a plurality of interfaces respectively connected to chip select signal lines of a plurality of second devices each operated in synchronization with a clock signal of the first device, a measuring unit that measures a clock frequency of the first device, and a selecting unit that, according to the clock frequency of the first device measured by the measuring unit, selects a chip select signal line connected to one of the plurality of second devices, and outputs a chip select signal from the first device to the selected chip select signal line. | 09-19-2013 |
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20100294743 | ELECTRIC DISCHARGE DEVICE - To provide an electric discharge device capable of performing an optimum process that achieves a high-quality process in a satisfactory quality of processing precision and the like. In an electric discharge device that processes a workpiece by electric discharge, a reserve electric-discharge pulse is applied by alternately switching between a positive polarity and a reverse polarity, and a current waveform shape of a main electric-discharge pulse is differentiated corresponding to a polarity of a reserve electric-discharge pulse, to a main electric-discharge pulse to be applied after detecting electric discharge following the reserve electric-discharge pulse. With this arrangement, a processing current shape can be optimized corresponding to an electric discharge characteristic, and thus a high-precision process can be performed. | 11-25-2010 |
20100308017 | ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING DEVICE - An electric discharge machining device that performs processing by applying a voltage pulse to space between the processing electrode and the workpiece and suitably switching the polarity of the voltage pulse attains both desired processing accuracy and desired controllability. The electric discharge machining device is provided with the first to fourth switching elements. The controlling unit that controls these switching elements, when setting a period time in which the first switching element is turned on, a period of time in which the fourth switching element is in an on-state in the same period, and, when setting a period time in which the second switching element is turned on, a period of time in which the third switching element is in an on-state in the same period so that a desired voltage pulse is applied to the space between the processing electrode and the workpiece. | 12-09-2010 |
20110000889 | ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING APPARATUS AND ELECTRIC DISCARGE MACHINING METHOD - In a waveform of switching signals, which is output from a full-bridge circuit formed of four switching elements, includes a normal polarity pulse group and a reversed polarity pulse group for controlling an output timing of voltage pulses. A duty cycle of the normal polarity pulse group containing a plurality of normal polarity pulses, which apply a positive power-supply polarity to a workpiece and apply a negative power-supply polarity to a machining-purpose electrode, is configured so as to be different from a duty cycle of the reversed polarity pulse group containing a plurality of reversed polarity pulses, which apply a negative power-supply polarity to the workpiece and apply a positive power-supply polarity to the machining-purpose electrode. | 01-06-2011 |
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20110226742 | WIRE ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING APPARATUS - An object is to enable highly accurate machining by correcting machining conditions by referring to a programmed trajectory to obtain a desired machining shape. A wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes a machining-condition correcting unit that corrects machining conditions in each machining stage corresponding to a circular arc radius of a portion corresponding to a corner portion of a programmed trajectory, in the corner portion formed by changing a direction of relatively moving a wire electrode, when the wire electrode is moved on a wire center trajectory, which is offset from the programmed trajectory prestored in order to obtain a desired machining shape to perform finish machining in each machining stage with an offset amount being changed. | 09-22-2011 |
20140116989 | WIRE ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING APPARATUS AND COOLING CONTROL DEVICE - The present invention includes a post-cooling temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the machining fluid immediately after being cooled by a cooling device as a post-cooling fluid temperature, and an intra-tank temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the machining fluid in a work tank as an intra-tank fluid temperature, for a cooling control device that controls a fluid temperature of the machining fluid in a wire electric discharge machining apparatus, and the cooling control device has a first temperature-feedback control unit that feeds back the post-cooling fluid temperature into a cooling instruction value as an instruction value for the cooling device, and a second temperature-feedback control unit adjusts the cooling instruction value by feeding back the intra-tank fluid temperature to cause the intra-tank fluid temperature to follow a target temperature. | 05-01-2014 |
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