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20080317529 | Waste toner collecting device and image forming apparatus incorporating the same - A waste toner collecting device includes: a tubular member provided with a toner inlet and a toner outlet; a roller that is provided upstream of the toner outlet in a toner transport direction inside the tubular member, that has a substantially horizontal rotation axis line, and that is elliptical in vertical section; a scraper that is provided on an inner wall of the tubular member on a downstream side of the toner outlet in a rotation direction of the roller, an edge of the scraper being in contact with the roller; and a waste toner collecting bag that is inflatable and is attached to the toner outlet of the tubular member. | 12-25-2008 |
20110236061 | SHAFT MEMBER HOLDING MECHANISM, PHOTOCONDUCTOR DRUM UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A shaft member holding mechanism comprising: a shaft member arranged rotatably about a rotation axis; a bearing that supports the shaft member rotatably, including an outer ring portion, and an inner ring portion that holds the shaft member and is arranged at an inside of the outer ring portion so that the inner ring portion can rotate relatively to the outer ring portion; a holding member having a bearing holding portion that holds the outer ring portion of the bearing in a state where a rotation of the outer ring portion is regulated; and an inclination suppression member that is arranged at one side of the bearing in the rotation axis direction of the bearing and suppresses the bearing from inclining. | 09-29-2011 |
20120201575 | Developing Device and Image Forming Apparatus Including the Same - A developing device includes a developing roller, toner supplying roller, regulation blade, and casing. The developing roller faces an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is to be formed, and supplies toner to the image carrier. The toner supplying roller faces the developing roller, and supplies the toner to the developing roller. The regulation blade faces the toner supplying roller at predetermined distance. The casing houses the developing roller, toner supplying roller, and regulation blade. The casing includes a toner catching support member facing the developing roller or the toner supplying roller between the regulation blade and the image carrier. The developing device further includes a toner catching member, which is arranged along a longitudinal direction of the toner catching support member and catches toner that drops from the developing roller, and a vibration generating portion, which vibrates the toner catching member. | 08-09-2012 |
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20080286017 | Belt fixing unit - A belt fixing unit has a fixing roller and a pressing roller that are provided in a pair midway along a transport passage through which paper having a toner image formed thereon is transported from bottom to top approximately in a vertical direction and that fix the toner image on the paper, a heating roller that is provided parallel to and in a position approximately horizontal to the fixing roller and that incorporates a heater for heating the fixing roller, and a fixing belt that is formed as an endless belt and that is wound around and between the fixing roller and the heating roller. A non-contact temperature sensor for controlling the fixing temperature is provided on a non-contact basis in the paper passage region on the surface of the upper one of the parts of the fixing belt facing each other up and down between the fixing roller and the heating roller. | 11-20-2008 |
20090067888 | TONER CONTAINER HAVING TONER AGITATING FUNCTION - A toner container is mounted to an image forming apparatus in a state of containing toners. The toner container includes: a container body for containing toners; and an agitating unit provided in the container body for agitating the toners. The agitating unit includes: a cylindrical member having a cylindrical peripheral wall and rotating about an axis of cylinder; an opening formed in the cylindrical peripheral wall for allowing the toners to pass through; and a conveying section for conveying the toners in a direction of the axis of the cylindrical member. | 03-12-2009 |
20090243199 | SHEET TRANSPORT DIRECTION SWITCHING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATED WITH THE SAME - A sheet transport direction switching device includes: a rotary guide member having a single guide passage for passing a sheet to be transported, and a support shaft extending in a direction orthogonal to a transport direction of the sheet; and a posture changing mechanism for changing the posture of the rotary guide member. The rotary guide member is operable to change the posture thereof by pivotal movement about an axis of the support shaft so that an exit of the guide passage faces one of at least two discharge destinations. The posture changing mechanism has a stepping motor for pivotally moving the rotary guide member about the axis of the support shaft. | 10-01-2009 |
20100150630 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus comprising: a paper feeding cassette which selectively stores at least two kinds of paper sheets having different size with respect to a paper feeding direction, and includes a posterior end cursor which restricts a posterior end position of the stored paper sheets with respect to the paper feeding direction, wherein the height of the posterior end cursor is changeable. According to this construction, a smaller space is provided to stack large-sized paper sheets which are not frequently used while a larger space is provided to stack small-sized paper sheets which are frequently used can be reserved. | 06-17-2010 |
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20090177885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCRYPTED AUTHENTICATION - A sink device including a first data processing unit and a second data processing unit authenticates the processing units, when turned on, to generate first authentication keys having the same data. When a data request is issued from the sink device to the source device, device authentication is made between the source device and the first data processing unit to generate second authentication keys having the same data. The source device encrypts an exchange key using the second authentication key, and sends the encrypted exchange key to the first data processing unit. The first data processing unit decrypts the encrypted exchange key using the second authentication key, encrypts the decrypted exchange key using the first authentication key, and sends the encrypted exchange key to the second data processing unit. The second data processing unit decrypts the encrypted exchange key using the first authentication key to obtain an exchange key. | 07-09-2009 |
20110026542 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A CR/CMP layer sets up isochronous channels, the number of which is that of data streams to be transferred, and sets channel numbers associated with the isochronous channels in IT packet processing units of IT processing units of bus control LSI units connected to data streams of AV devices. The IT processing units of the bus control LSI units are caused to perform transmission/reception of isochronous packets using isochronous channels having the set channel numbers. The IT packet processing unit of the IT processing unit of each stealth bus control LSI unit sets, in an SID field of the CIP header of an isochronous packet to be transmitted, the node ID of the representative bus control LSI unit instead of its own node ID. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026707 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus includes a plurality of isochronous transfer processing units, each of which is configured to perform isochronous transfer using an isochronous channel set thereto; a security ensuring processing unit coupled to each of the plurality of isochronous transfer processing units, and configured to perform security ensuring processing to ensure the security of isochronous transfer performed by the corresponding isochronous transfer processing unit; and a security ensuring control unit configured to, in response to a request from a second communication apparatus for ensuring security of isochronous transfer, cause the security ensuring processing unit corresponding to the isochronous transfer processing unit which performs the isochronous transfer using an isochronous channel having been notified from the second communication apparatus along with or in advance of the request for ensuring security of isochronous transfer to perform the security ensuring processing. | 02-03-2011 |
20110179276 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus performs data communication with a communication device, and includes an authentication processing portion configured to perform authentication processing, including a round trip time (RTT) test on authentication requests received from one or more unauthenticated communication devices and a data communication portion configured to perform data communications with the communication device authenticated by the authentication processing portion. If, in authentication processing of a current authentication request, a prior RTT test is being performed corresponding to a prior authentication request originating from the same communication device, the current RTT test is not performed, and authentication processing waits for the completion of the prior RTT test. If the result of the prior RTT test is successful, authentication processing uses the result of the prior RTT test as the result corresponding to the current authentication request. | 07-21-2011 |
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20080269413 | Impact Resistance Modifier and Resin Composition - Disclosed is a resin composition having excellent impact resistance and resistance to whitening by impact without deteriorating excellent transparency of a methacrylic resin. Specifically, an impact resistance modifier composed of a multilayered polymer having at least three layers, namely an innermost-layer polymer derived from an alkyl methacrylate, an intermediate-layer polymer derived from an alkyl acrylate and an outer-layer polymer having its Tg within the range of 20 to 80° C., wherein mass average particle diameter of the intermediate-layer polymer is 200 to 300 nm and the mass ratio of each layer is within an appropriate range, is blended with a methacrylic resin. | 10-30-2008 |
20080278457 | ACRYLIC RESIN, RESIN BOARDS, TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE BOARDS FOR TOUCH PANELS, TOUCH PANELS, AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCTION OF THEM - A method of producing an acrylic resin plate, comprising a step of adding 0.001 to 1 part by weight of a polymerization initiator having 10 hours half life temperature of 80° C. or more and 0.015 to 0.2 parts by weight of cyclohexadiene or terpenoid-based compound into 100 parts by weight of a mixture composed of an alkyl methacrylate having a C1-4 alkyl group and a poly-functional (meth)acrylate to give a polymerizable mixture, and a step of polymerizing said polymerizable mixture; an acrylic resin comprising 3 to 30 wt % of an alkyl methacrylate unit having a C8-20 alkyl group, 2 to 35 wt % of a mono-ethylenically unsaturated monomer unit containing an alkyl methacrylate unit having a C1-4 alkyl group and 35 to 95 wt % of a poly-functional (meth)acrylate unit; an acrylic resin plate made of the resin and production process the same, and a transparent electrode plate for touch panel and a touch panel having them. | 11-13-2008 |
20090036624 | OPTICAL COPOLYMER AND MOLDED PRODUCT COMPRISING THE SAME - This invention provides an optical copolymer which is excellent in balance among high transmittance, high heat resistance, low birefringent property, and mechanical strength, and an optical molded article comprising the optical copolymer. The optical copolymer comprises 50 to 80% by mass of methyl methacrylate units, 10 to 20% by mass of units derived from a specific lactone compound, and 10 to 30% by mass of trifluoroethyl methacrylate units. The mass ratio of the trifluoroethyl methacrylate units is in the range of 0.5 to 2.0 when the mass of the units derived from the specific lactone compound is presumed to be 1, and the glass transition temperature is 120° C. or above. The optical copolymer is suitable for objective lenses, prisms, condenser lenses, diffraction gratings, collimator lenses and sensor lenses. | 02-05-2009 |
20100175820 | LIGHT REGULATING FILM, LAMINATED LIGHT REGULATING FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIGHT REGULATING FILM AND LAMINATED LIGHT REGULATING FILM - Linear notch patterns at fixed intervals are formed by contacting blades | 07-15-2010 |
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20090268145 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An IPS type liquid crystal display device capable of preventing a blanking phenomenon generated to the periphery of a screen caused by charging at the inside of a counter substrate due to the effect of a gate voltage applied to scanning line leads. In a pixel area A constituting a display region, a pixel electrode is disposed by way of an insulative film above a common electrode formed in a planar shape. In a scanning line lead area, the scanning line leads have first scanning line leads and second scanning lines formed in different layers for decreasing the width of the scanning line lead area. The scanning line leads are covered with a shield electrode formed coplanar with the common electrode. Since the shield electrode is extended as far as a portion below a sealant, the shielding effect is enhanced. Further, since the insulative film is present between the sealant and the shield electrode, the sealing effect is not deteriorated. | 10-29-2009 |
20120176564 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A mounting unit of a second flexible circuit board is arranged on a rear surface side of a liquid crystal display panel. A portion of a first flexible circuit board at which a connection terminal is formed is bonded to an end portion of a display surface side of the liquid crystal display panel, is pulled out from the end portion of the liquid crystal display panel, is bent and overlapped with the opposite surface to the surface where the light emission components of the mounting unit are mounted with a space, and an external terminal is arranged on the rear surface side. An extended portion is pulled out from the mounting unit, is bent so as to return to the direction of the mounting unit, and is overlapped with the first flexible circuit board on an outer surface of the first flexible circuit board. | 07-12-2012 |
20120300152 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a display region which has first and second electrodes, a plurality of TFTs and a plurality of scanning signal lines connected to the plurality of TFTs, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the TFT and counter substrates, and sealed by a sealant, a plurality of scanning line leads connected to the plurality of scanning signal lines formed in a region outside of the display region, and a shield electrode formed on the TFT substrate covering the plurality of scanning line leads. The second electrode is connected to one of the plurality of TFTs, and liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are driven by an electric field, which is generated between the first and second electrodes. The shield electrode is electrically connected to the first electrode and overlapped with the sealant in plan view. | 11-29-2012 |
20140111755 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a display region which has first and second electrodes, a plurality of TFTs and a plurality of scanning signal lines connected to the plurality of TFTs, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the TFT and counter substrates, and sealed by a sealant, a plurality of scanning line leads connected to the plurality of scanning signal lines formed in a region outside of the display region, and a shield electrode formed on the TFT substrate covering the plurality of scanning line leads. The second electrode is connected to one of the plurality of TFTs, and liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are driven by an electric field, which is generated between the first and second electrodes. The shield electrode is electrically connected to the first electrode and overlapped with the sealant in plan view. | 04-24-2014 |
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20100085408 | Printing method for thermal printer, computer program, and thermal printer apparatus - To reduce sticking without increasing a print time period in a thermal printer, a printing method comprises: an energizing start delay time calculating procedure of calculating delay time from end of paper feed of the thermal paper until start of energizing of the thermal head based on interval time of paper feed of the thermal paper that is performed in a step manner and energization time for energizing the thermal head correspondingly to data to be printed; a measuring procedure of measuring elapsed time after the end of the paper feed of the thermal paper; an energizing procedure of energizing the thermal head after the delay time calculated in the energizing start delay time calculating procedure has passed based on a result of the measurement obtained in the measuring procedure; and a paper feed procedure of moving the thermal paper in a step manner after end of the energization of the thermal head in the power supplying procedure. | 04-08-2010 |
20140209593 | PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE FORCE EXPRESSING UNIT, PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE LABEL ISSUING DEVICE, AND PRINTER - A pressure-sensitive adhesive force expressing unit including: a thermal head including heater elements arranged along a width direction of a label, the thermal head being configured to heat the label, from an adhesive layer side to form openings in a function layer by the heater elements; and a controller for applying heat energy to the heater elements individually to control heat generation thereof, the controller being configured to control the application of heat energy to the heater elements so that opening lines in each of which the openings are arranged in the width direction of the label are formed in the conveyance direction and to control the application of heat energy so that adjacent at least two of the heater elements generate heat at the same time to form an opening group in which the openings are connected together in the width direction. | 07-31-2014 |
20140209595 | PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE FORCE EXPRESSING UNIT, PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE LABEL ISSUING DEVICE, PRINTER, PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE FORCE EXPRESSING METHOD, AND PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE FORCE EXPRESSING PROGRAM - A pressure-sensitive adhesive force expressing unit including: a conveyance unit for conveying a pressure-sensitive adhesive label in a predetermined direction; a thermal head including a plurality of heat generating elements arranged along a direction substantially orthogonal to the predetermined direction, the thermal head being configured to heat the pressure-sensitive adhesive label from a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer side to form a bore in a non-pressure-sensitive-adhesive function layer and expose the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer; and a control unit for energizing the plurality of heat generating elements individually to control the plurality of heat generating elements to generate heat, the control unit being configured to control the plurality of heat generating elements to generate heat by providing an intermittent energization period of intermittently energizing the plurality of heat generating elements in a heat generating period of one cycle of forming bores for one row in the non-pressure-sensitive-adhesive function layer. | 07-31-2014 |
20140230998 | PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE LABEL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE LABEL, AND LABEL ISSUING DEVICE - A pressure-sensitive adhesive label comprising: recording paper including a recording surface; a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer placed on a rear surface of the recording paper on an opposite side of the recording surface; and a function layer placed on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein a surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on the function layer side has a smoother surface than the rear surface of the recording paper, and the function layer is configured to be opened by heating to expose the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. | 08-21-2014 |
20140231006 | PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE LABEL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE LABEL, AND LABEL ISSUING DEVICE - A pressure-sensitive adhesive label comprising: recording paper including a recording surface; a barrier layer placed on the recording paper on an opposite side of the recording surface; a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer placed on the barrier layer; and a function layer placed on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, in which the function layer is configured to be opened by heating to expose the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. | 08-21-2014 |
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20080248374 | FUEL CELL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A fuel cell includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an enzyme including an oxidase that oxidizes a monosaccharide, the enzyme being immobilized on the negative electrode, an electron mediator including a compound having a naphthoquinone skeleton, the electron mediator being immobilized on the negative electrode, a coenzyme that is formed by oxidation of the monosaccharide, and a coenzyme oxidase that oxidizes the coenzyme, in which the ratio of the electron mediator to the coenzyme is in the range of 1.0 (mol):0.33 (mol) to 1.0 (mol):1.0 (mol). | 10-09-2008 |
20100009241 | FUEL CELL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF; AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT, MOBILE MACHINE, ELECTRIC POWER GENERATING SYSTEM, COGENERATION SYSTEM, AND ELECTRODE REACTION-BASED APPARATUS - A porous electroconductive material is provided. The electroconductive material enables efficient enzymatic metabolic reactions on electrodes and yields electrodes having immobilized enzymes thereon which remain stable in any working environment. The porous electroconductive material, which has a three-dimensional network structure, is formed from a skeleton of porous material and a carbonaceous material covering the surface of the skeleton. The porous material constituting the skeleton is foamed metal or alloy. This porous electroconductive material is made into an electrode, and enzymes are immobilized on this electrode. The resulting electrode with immobilized enzymes thereon is used as the anode of a bio-fuel cell. | 01-14-2010 |
20100323457 | BIOSENSING METHOD USING COATED MAGNETIC FINE PARTICLES AND BIOSENSING APPARATUS FOR BIOSENSING METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a novel biosensing method as the novel application development of the magnetic particles in the biosensing. In an affinity reaction of biosensing, ligands are immobilized to magnetic fine particles and the magnetic fine particles are forced to reaction fields of the affinity reaction by magnetic guiding so as to bring the affinity reaction, which is the velocity controlling factor in the sensing, to high rates. According to the present invention, coated magnetic fine particles with having both of the high dispersion performance and high magnetic responsibility as the above described magnetic fine particles and the affinity reaction occurs quickly and in high density such that the present invention makes it possible to obtain relatively large signals within significantly short time duration when compared to the conventional art. | 12-23-2010 |
20110006245 | POLYMER COATED INORGANIC FINE PARTICLE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide a polymer coated magnetic fine polymer by coating an inorganic fine particle with a thin polymer layer under precise control of a polymerization reaction and a method for preparing the same. Onto a surface of the inorganic fine particle the iniferter is fixed and grafted chains are formed on the inorganic fine particle by a living radical polymerization using the iniferter as an initiator which is defined by the following chemical formula: | 01-13-2011 |
20110183355 | POLYMER PARTICLE CONTAINING FLUORESCENT MOLECULE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Polymer particles are provided which contain fluorescent molecules with high presence ratio in a polymer layer thereof and a method for preparing thereof. Polymer particles are swelled in a non-aqueous solution excluding exclusively water preferably promotes selling of the polymer layer and transfer of the fluorescent molecules to the polymer layer could not protected by water molecules such that much more fluorescent molecule may be introduced into inside of the polymer layer. Furthermore, since the water is added to the reaction system prior to evaporation removal of the non-aqueous solvent, dry-up of the polymer particles is prevented by the water remained in the reaction system and the polymer particles including fluorescent molecules with high presence ratio of the fluorescent molecules preferably keep high dispersibility using the above described procedures. | 07-28-2011 |
20120269737 | POLYMER COATED FERRITE FINE PARTICLES AND METHOD FOR PREPARING POLYMER COATED FERRITE FINE PARTICLES - [Object] To provide a polymer coated ferrite fine particles being possible to control a particle size uniformly while having high aqueous dispersibility and preferred biomolecule immobilization ability and an easy method for preparing the same. | 10-25-2012 |
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20090139431 | INKJET INK - A non-water-based inkjet ink containing a colorant, is characterized in that a mixed solvent having a solubility parameter value of from about 8 to about 10 is used as a solvent. The ink is an inkjet ink of which solvent hardly erodes a head member so as to allow long term stable printing and also hardly penetrates the material of media so as to improve the printing quality. | 06-04-2009 |
20090139432 | INKJET INK - An inkjet ink containing a colorant, where an amine compound is added as a pH adjuster. The ink is capable of preventing the pH of the ink from being shifted to the acidity side due to corrosive substances (e.g., acid substances) generated by deterioration of ink, adverse effects due to water absorption and moisture absorption, or degradation of resin (e.g., degradation of vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin), thus preventing erosion of a head nozzle member. | 06-04-2009 |
20090143509 | INKJET INK - An inkjet ink is provided containing a colorant and using vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin, and characterized in that a stabilizer for preventing the vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin in the inkjet ink from being degraded with age is added. An inkjet ink is provided using VCVAC resin which is capable of preventing the VCVAC resin from being degraded and thus preventing increase in viscosity thereof. | 06-04-2009 |
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20090081380 | Reactor for polycrystalline silicon and polycrystalline silicon production method - The reactor for polycrystalline silicon is a reactor for polycrystalline silicon in which a silicon seed rod installed inside the reactor is heated by supplying electricity, a raw material gas supplied inside the reactor is allowed to react, thereby producing polycrystalline silicon on the surface of the silicon seed rod, and specifically, the reactor for polycrystalline silicon is provided with a raw material gas supply port installed on the bottom of the reactor and a raw material gas supply nozzle attached to the raw material gas supply port so as to be communicatively connected and extending upward, in which the upper end of the raw material gas supply nozzle is set to a height in a range from −10 cm to +5 cm on the basis of the upper end of the electrode which retains the silicon seed rod. | 03-26-2009 |
20090136408 | Polycrystalline silicon manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method - A polycrystalline silicon manufacturing apparatus efficiently produces high-quality polycrystalline silicon. There is provided a polycrystalline silicon manufacturing apparatus, in which a plurality of gas supplying ports | 05-28-2009 |
20090136666 | Method for manufacturing polycrystalline silicon - A method for manufacturing polycrystalline silicon with high quality by effectively preventing undesired shape such as giving an rough surface to silicon rods or an irregularity in diameter of the silicon rods. The method for manufacturing polycrystalline silicon includes: an initial stabilizing step of deposition wherein a velocity of ejecting the raw material gas from the gas ejection ports is gradually increased; the shaping step wherein first the ejection velocity is increased at a rate higher than that in the stabilizing step and then the ejection velocity is gradually increased at a rate lower than the previous increasing rate; and a growing step wherein, after the shaping step, the ejection velocity is made slower than that at the end of the shaping step until the end of the deposition. | 05-28-2009 |
20090165704 | Silicon seed rod assembly of polycrystalline silicon, method of forming the same, polycrystalline silicon producing apparatus, and method of producing polycrystalline silicon - A silicon seed rod assembly used for producing polycrystalline silicon by means of a vapor deposition method includes two rod-shape silicon seed rods; and a silicon connection member bridging the silicon seed rods, wherein an opening-end peripheral edge of a through-hole on one side surface of the connection member is sharper than that on the other side surface thereof, and an opening-end peripheral surface on the one side surface thereof is formed into a flat contact surface disposed in a direction perpendicular to a perforation direction of the through-hole, and wherein a upper end portion of the silicon seed rod is inserted into the through-hole so that the contact surface comes into contact with the support surface of the silicon seed rod. | 07-02-2009 |
20120266820 | REACTOR FOR POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON AND POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON PRODUCTION METHOD - The reactor for polycrystalline silicon is a reactor for polycrystalline silicon in which a silicon seed rod installed inside the reactor is heated by supplying electricity, a raw material gas supplied inside the reactor is allowed to react, thereby producing polycrystalline silicon on the surface of the silicon seed rod, and specifically, the reactor for polycrystalline silicon is provided with a raw material gas supply port installed on the bottom of the reactor and a raw material gas supply nozzle attached to the raw material gas supply port so as to be communicatively connected and extending upward, in which the upper end of the raw material gas supply nozzle is set to a height in a range from −10 cm to +5 cm on the basis of the upper end of the electrode which retains the silicon seed rod. | 10-25-2012 |
20130224401 | SILICON SEED ROD ASSEMBLY OF POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON, METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME, POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON PRODUCING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON - A silicon seed rod assembly used for producing polycrystalline silicon by means of a vapor deposition method includes two rod-shape silicon seed rods; and a silicon connection member bridging the silicon seed rods, wherein an opening-end peripheral edge of a through-hole on one side surface of the connection member is sharper than that on the other side surface thereof, and an opening-end peripheral surface on the one side surface thereof is formed into a flat contact surface disposed in a direction perpendicular to a perforation direction of the through-hole, and wherein a upper end portion of the silicon seed rod is inserted into the through-hole so that the contact surface comes into contact with the support surface of the silicon seed rod. | 08-29-2013 |
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20080268497 | TREATMENT SOLUTION, METHOD FOR PRETREATMENT, METHOD FOR ACQUIRING INFORMATION AND METHOD FOR DETECTION - The present invention intends to provide a high sensitivity method for identifying the type of a protein contained in each cell with a diameter of ten to several tens μm and a sample treatment solution required for it. The above is achieved by three steps of (1) treating a slice of a diseased tissue with an aqueous solution containing gold particles and a digestive enzyme, and digesting restrictively a protein of interest, (2) measuring a 2-dimensional distribution of fragmented peptides by TOF-SIMS, and (3) visualizing a 2-dimensional distribution of the target protein in the slice of the diseased tissue using the results of the proteome analysis and by means of a numerical analysis. | 10-30-2008 |
20090170220 | BISPECIFIC CAPTURING MOLECULE - A capturing molecule having an association containing a plurality of polypeptide chains that specifically bind to different sites of a target substance, characterized in that each of the polypeptide chains has a domain having a hypervariable loop structure at a binding site binding to the target substance and an association portion for forming the association, and the polypeptide chains are associated via the association portions present in the polypeptide chains. | 07-02-2009 |
20090215197 | TARGET SUBSTANCE CAPTURING MOLECULE - A capturing molecule having not less than two domains specifically binding to different sites of a target substance, wherein the not less than two domains comprise (1) a first domain having a hypervariable loop structure at a binding site to the target substance, and (2) a second domain having no hypervariable loop structure at a binding site to the target substance. | 08-27-2009 |
20100047928 | TARGET SUBSTANCE DETECTION ELEMENT, TARGET SUBSTANCE DETECTION METHOD, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TARGET SUBSTANCE DETECTION ELEMENT - It is intended to provide a target substance detection element wherein a target substance capturing body for capturing target substances is immobilized with good orientation in a desired region on the surface of the target substance detection element, a method for producing the target substance detection element, and a detection method using the target substance detection element. The present invention provides a target substance detection element for detecting the presence or absence or concentration of a target substance in a sample, characterized in that: the target substance detection element includes at least a detection substrate including plural layers and a target substance capturing body immobilized on the surface of the detection substrate; the target substance capturing body has at least a first peptide region specifically recognizing a first layer of the plural layers constituting the detection substrate and binding to the first layer and a second peptide region specifically recognizing a second layer different from the first layer of the plural layers and binding to the second layer; and the first layer and the second layer are adjacent to each other. | 02-25-2010 |
20110212842 | METHOD FOR SCREENING LIGAND - The present invention provides a method for screening for a ligand having an affinity for a target substance and having readiness for conformational change forming a desired conformation upon binding to a target substance. The method includes the steps of (a) contacting a first mixture of candidate ligands with a carrier, followed by separating and collecting, as a second mixture of candidate ligands, a mixture of free candidate ligands not bound to the carrier, (b) contacting the second mixture of candidate ligands with the target substance, and (c) contacting the carrier with a solution containing the target substance and the mixture of candidate ligands obtained in step (b), and then separating and enriching a ligand, at least a part of which forms the particular conformation. | 09-01-2011 |
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20090207772 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND INTERMEDIATE NETWORK DEVICE WITH BRANCH SELECTION FUNCTIONS - A communication method for use in a radio communications system in which a mobile station sends identical data to a plurality of radio base stations in a parallel fashion. The method determines which radio base stations should stop forwarding data to an intermediate network device managing them. The intermediate network device includes a monitor and a controller. The monitor checks continuity of sequence numbers affixed to data received from each radio base station, thereby detecting missing sequence numbers. Based on the statistics of missing sequence numbers, the controller selects which radio base station should be allowed to continue its data forwarding operation. The controller then requests the other, non-selected radio base stations to stop their data forwarding operation. | 08-20-2009 |
20100039942 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING HEADER COMPRESSION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION, WIRELESS BASE STATION, AND TRANSMITTER - The wireless base station notifies the missing to the transmitter upon detection of missing of a data segment received from the transmitter, and the transmitter controls the header compression state of the data segment addressed to the wireless terminal upon the reception of the notification of the missing. | 02-18-2010 |
20100080121 | Communication Method And Radio Network Control Device In A Mobile Communication System - A mobile communication system in which a mobile station copies data and transmits that copied data to a plurality of base stations, each base station sends that copied data to a serving radio network control device (S-RNC) directly or via a drift radio network control device (D-RNC), and the S-RNC selectively combines and outputs the received copied data; wherein a congestion monitoring unit monitors the congestion state of a line between the D-RNC and S-RNC, and when that line is congested, a D-RNC selectively combines the copied data that is inputted from the plurality of base stations and sends the result to that line, and when the line is not congested, the D-RNC sends the copied data that is inputted from the plurality of base stations to the line without performing selective combination. | 04-01-2010 |
20110038316 | CONTROL APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - A mobile communication system has a mobile terminal, basestations, and a Radio Network Controller (RNC). In the case where drop of a frame occurs during data communication in Iub/Iur (between the basestations and the RNC), the RNC executes retransmission of an EDCH FP frame between the RNC and the basestations by transmitting a TN frame to the basestations to repair the drop of the frame without executing retransmission with the terminal device. | 02-17-2011 |
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20090002795 | MICROMIRROR DEVICE - A micromirror device includes a micromirror chip, an electrode substrate, and an intermediate spacer sandwiched between the micromirror chip and the electrode substrate and having substantially the same shape as that of the micromirror chip, the intermediate spacer inhibiting the mirror support portion from being deformed by the moving movable mirror portion. The micromirror chip, the electrode substrate, and the intermediate spacer are arranged and stacked in a thickness direction. The intermediate spacer has an opening located substantially in the center of the intermediate spacer and a plate-like fixed member having a plurality of through-holes disposed around the periphery of the opening. A junction member is melted by desired heating and weighting and inserted and placed in each of the through-holes. When melted, the junction member joins the micromirror chip to the electrode substrate. | 01-01-2009 |
20090190319 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODULE - A three-dimensional module having a first substrate holding a function element, and a second substrate holding other components. The first and second substrates are laid one above the other in a three-dimensional fashion, and are electrically and mechanically connected. The module has inter-substrate joining members interposed between the first and second substrates and joining the first and second substrates. Each inter-substrate joining member has a stress-absorption member and an electrically conductive stress-absorption member. The stress-absorption member has elasticity and mechanically joining the first and second substrates. The electrically conductive stress-absorption member connects the first and second substrates and can deform in a desirable direction. | 07-30-2009 |
20110194859 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTER - An optical transmitter includes three or more emission optical fibers that are three-dimensionally arranged, a single reception optical fiber, and an optical path converting component to optically couple the emission optical fibers to the reception optical fiber. The optical path converting component includes optical transmission portions that are optically coupled to the three or more emission optical fibers one to one, respectively, and optically coupled commonly to the single reception optical fiber. Entry ends of the optical transmission portions are aligned with exit ends of the three or more emission optical fibers, respectively. Exit ends of the optical transmission portions are aligned, as a whole, with an entry end of the single reception optical fiber. The exit ends of the optical transmission portions are arranged substantially parallel to one another and in closer proximity to one another than the entry ends of the optical transmission portions. | 08-11-2011 |
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20110105925 | DROWSINESS DETECTOR - A drowsiness detector capable of detecting light drowsiness of a subject with high precision is provided. The drowsiness detector acquires the measurement data of a measurement device first, and acquires a value of the pulse rate by performing preprocessing on the measurement data and extracts a pulse fluctuation from the value of the pulse rate. Then, the drowsiness detector sets the reference section width of the pulse feature value referred to in order to acquire the standard deviation of the pulse feature value (value of the pulse rate and pulse fluctuation) and then calculates the standard deviation value of the pulse feature value in the reference section width and acquires the corrected standard deviation value of the pulse feature value by dividing the standard deviation value of the pulse feature value by the pulse feature value. Then, the drowsiness detector determines whether or not the driver is lightly drowsy using the corrected standard deviation value of the pulse feature value. | 05-05-2011 |
20110313259 | PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION ESTIMATION DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - Provided are a physiological condition estimation device and a vehicle control device capable of preventing an error in the operation of an apparatus, such as a vehicle, and improving the safety of the operation of the apparatus. The physiological condition estimation device includes an eye-open time acquiring unit that acquires the eye-open time of the driver, a variation calculating unit that acquires a variation in the eye-open time acquired by the eye-open time acquiring unit, and a drowsiness predicting unit that determines the physiological condition of the driver on the basis of the variation in the eye-open time acquired by the variation calculating unit. In this way, since the physiological condition is determined on the basis of the variation in the eye-open time, it is possible to detect a slight reduction in the arousal level and estimate a significant reduction in the arousal level to a value that will cause an error in the driving of the vehicle in the future. | 12-22-2011 |
20130241747 | VEHICLE INFORMATION TRANSMITTING DEVICE - A subject is to provide a vehicle information transmitting device capable of more clearly transmitting information to a driver. In the present embodiment, a virtual image for attracting attention in which a variation amount per unit change of color or luminance is set small is appeared under a situation where a relative deceleration of an object, i.e. a preceding vehicle, is small and thus attention attracting is necessary. A virtual image for warning in which the variation per unit change of color or luminance is set large is appeared under a situation where the relative deceleration of the object is large and thus warning is necessary. | 09-19-2013 |
20130249395 | VEHICLE INFORMATION TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A vehicle information transmission device includes: a display device that displays light in a first mode at a position of a vehicle body, at which visual recognition of a certain object is prompted, when the visual recognition is prompted and that displays light in a second mode different from the first mode on the vehicle body when the visual recognition is not prompted or when the visual recognition is prompted; and a control unit that adjusts light in the second mode on the basis of light in the first mode when the visual recognition is prompted. | 09-26-2013 |
20130249684 | VEHICLE INFORMATION TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A vehicle information transmission device prompts recognition of a certain object. The vehicle information transmission device prompts recognition of a position different from a position of the certain object. | 09-26-2013 |
20130258488 | VEHICLE INFORMATION TRANSMITTING DEVICE - In a vehicle information transmitting device, a plurality of light sources is arranged in an array form of plural rows or plural columns in the light source panel so that light can be irradiated in a horizontal direction (right and left direction) and vertical direction (height direction, up and down direction). The light source panel includes a diffusion plate and a shaft member for entirely or partially adjusting the transmitting degree (blurring degree of light) of the light of the light source in association with the arrangement position of the light source, and a plurality of springs that plays the role of a fail safe for maintaining the distance between the light source and the diffusion plate in a maximum state at the time of malfunctioning. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258693 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - The driver side of a light source panel is curved in a concave configuration which conforms with the curvature (curve) of the cross-section of the area of a front windshield glass, in which a virtual image is displayed. Individual light sources are arranged in the light source panel in a curved configuration which conforms with the curvature (curve) of the cross-section of the area of the front windshield glass, in which the virtual image is displayed. | 10-03-2013 |