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20100172225 | INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An information recording/reproduction apparatus which can reduce the time required for recording power adjustment and suppress consumption of PCA is provided. The information recording/reproduction apparatus is provided with an asymmetry detection circuit which detects a recording state that varies according to a recording power, from a reproduction signal reproduced from a recording medium, a recording power setting circuit which performs recording power adjustment, a reproduction clock generation circuit which generates a reproduction clock based on the reproduction signal, a phase error detection circuit which detects a phase error between the reproduction signal and the reproduction clock, a pattern detection circuit which detects patterns of the reproduction signal, a pattern phase error averaging circuit which obtains an average of phase errors for each pattern, a recording light-emission waveform adjustment circuit which adjusts a recording light-emission waveform based on an output of the pattern phase error averaging circuit, and a recording power adjustment execution judgment circuit which controls the recording power setting circuit so as not to perform recording power adjustment when the detected recording state is within the predetermined range. | 07-08-2010 |
20110032808 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An information recording/reproducing apparatus including an optical pickup unit for generating an RF signal performs signal processing to acquire, at a restart of recording after a halt of recording, a data ID to be used as a reference for specifying a recording restart position in the recording medium based on the RF signal. The signal processing includes reproduced signal generation processing to generate a reproduced signal based on the RF signal, and data ID acquisition determination processing to determine, at the restart of recording after the halt of recording, whether or not the data ID has been properly acquired, based on the reproduced signal. If it is determined in the data ID acquisition determination step that the data ID has not been properly acquired, a reproduction parameter to be used for generating the reproduced signal in the reproduced signal generation step is adjusted. | 02-10-2011 |
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20110309177 | DUAL-BEARING REEL SPEED CHANGE OPERATION MECHANISM - A dual-bearing reel speed change operation mechanism is configured for a user to switch transmission speed from rotation of a handle to a spool at either a first speed or a second speed. The dual-bearing speed change operation mechanism includes a handle a handle shaft, an operating shaft, an operating shaft urging member, a base member, a lock member, and a lock member urging member. The handle arm includes a first through hole penetrating therethrough in a direction intersecting with a longitudinal direction of the handle arm, and a first protrusion protruding from the handle arm away from the spool. The base member formed in a plate shape. The base member is configured on a front surface of the handle arm. The base member includes a third through hole communicating with the first through hole, and a fourth through hole in which the first protrusion is inserted. | 12-22-2011 |
20110315802 | Fishing reel - A fishing reel for winding a fishing line includes a reel unit, a spool, a handle, a tension detection section, a temperature detection section, a detected tension correction section, and a corrected tension output section. The spool is rotatably attached to the reel unit and configured to wind the fishing line thereon. The handle is mounted to the reel unit, and configured to rotate the spool. The tension detection section is configured to detect tension applied on the fishing line by converting the tension into an electric signal. The temperature detection section is disposed to detect temperature of the tension detection section. The detected tension correction section is configured to correct the tension after being detected on the basis of the temperature of the tension detection section after being detected. The corrected tension output section is configured to output the tension after being corrected by the detected tension correction section. | 12-29-2011 |
20130112795 | FISHING-REEL REEL UNIT, FISHING REEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FISHING-REEL REEL UNIT - A method of manufacturing a fishing-reel reel unit including a main body member having an opening includes forming the main body member having the opening and a processing reference, accommodating a bearing mounting part in the opening where the bearing mounting part has a bearing opening and an inner peripheral surface, accommodating a bearing in the bearing opening where the bearing is fixedly mounted on the inner peripheral surface, and machining the inner peripheral surface of the bearing mounting part after the bearing is fixedly mounted on the inner peripheral surface, based on the processing reference. | 05-09-2013 |
20130153700 | FISHING-REEL REEL UNIT AND FISHING REEL - A fishing-reel reel unit includes a main body member; a first outer member, and a first inner member. The first outer member is mounted on the main body member, and the first outer member includes a corrosion-resistant coating formed thereon. The first inner member is formed in a tubular shape, when the first inner member is fixed to an inner periphery of the first outer member. The first inner member has a first inner peripheral surface on which a first bearing is mounted, and the first inner member is made of a corrosion-resistant material. | 06-20-2013 |
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20090036241 | TENSIONER LEVER - In a pivoted tensioner lever extending upward from a pivot axis, both ends of boss through which a pivot shaft extends are provided with funnel-shaped grooves that guide oil adhering to the lever body into a region between the shaft and the inside of the boss. Oil guiding walls, continuous with the boss, and downwardly sloping reinforcing ribs with oil passages formed at their lower ends, increase flow of oil adhering to the lever body to the region between the shaft and the inside of the boss | 02-05-2009 |
20090247335 | HYDRAULIC TENSIONER - In a hydraulic tensioner having a hollow plunger that cooperates with a housing to form a high pressure oil chamber, the movable element of the check valve that allows oil to flow into the high pressure oil chamber is a bar-like element that extends into a coiled plunger-biasing spring and is biased into engagement with a valve seat by another coiled valve-biasing spring that extends into the plunger-biasing spring. The bar-like element has a larger diameter portion the diameter of which is slightly less than the inner diameter of the plunger-biasing spring, and a smaller diameter portion the diameter of which is slightly less than the inner diameter of the valve-biasing spring. The valve-biasing spring bears against a shoulder at the location at which the smaller and larger-diameter portions of the bar-like element meet. | 10-01-2009 |
20100298077 | RATCHET-TYPE TENSIONER - In a ratchet-type tensioner, a rocking ratchet pawl is released from a rack of teeth on a tensioner plunger following engine start-up by a hydraulically operated pin slidable in a pin hole and caused to protrude therefrom by oil under pressure received directly from an external oil supply, or alternatively from the tensioner's high pressure oil chamber through a passage in the tensioner housing. Optionally, an orifice can be provided within the pin hole to control flow of oil when the supply is excessive and to avoid leakage when the supply is insufficient. | 11-25-2010 |
20100298078 | RATCHET-TYPE TENSIONER - In a ratchet tensioner, a linearly moving ratchet for engagement with rack teeth on a plunger is operated a piston that is spring-biased in a direction to engage the ratchet teeth with the rack, and movable by oil pressure in a direction to disengage the ratchet teeth from the rack. The piston is located within a hole in the housing and, with that hole, forms a second high pressure oil chamber that can receive oil through an oil supply path independent of the oil supply path that carries oil to a first high pressure oil chamber formed by the plunger and the tensioner housing. | 11-25-2010 |
20110105258 | CHAIN GUIDE MECHANISM - In a chain guide mechanism, fixed and movable guides are attached to a guide bridge by cooperation of bosses on the guides with boss-receiving holes formed in spaced-apart elements of arms of the bridge. A fixed guide is held against rotation by cooperation of a projection on its mounting boss with a notch in a boss-receiving hole in a guide bridge arm element. A base, extending from an intermediate location at which the arms come together has a pressing structure that engages bosses on a driving sprocket, and a groove for receiving teeth of the driving sprocket. | 05-05-2011 |
20110183796 | RATCHET-TYPE TENSIONER - In a ratchet-type tensioner having a toothed ratchet piston biased toward a rack of teeth formed on a protruding plunger in a direction transverse to the direction of plunger movement, the rack teeth and the ratchet teeth are mutually engageable and inclined at angles such that the biasing force urging the teeth of the ratchet piston into engagement with the rack teeth is sufficient to block retraction of the plunger during engine start-up but can be overcome when chain tension becomes excessive during engine operation following engine start-up. | 07-28-2011 |
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20100224316 | HEAT-PEELABLE PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE SHEET FOR CUTTING LAMINATED CERAMIC SHEET AND METHOD FOR CUT-PROCESSING LAMINATED CERAMIC SHEET - The invention relates to a heat-peelable pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for cutting a laminated ceramic sheet, which is used for temporary fixing at cutting of the laminated ceramic sheet, the heat-peelable pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including a base material and, formed on at least one surface of the base material, a heat-expandable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing a pressure-sensitive adhesive and a foaming agent, in which the heat-expandable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a gel fraction of 50% by weight or more, and the heat-expandable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a glass transition temperature of −40° C. to 30° C. | 09-09-2010 |
20110200744 | ADHESIVE SHEET, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CUTTING MULTILAYERED CERAMIC SHEET - The present invention relates to an adhesive sheet including a substrate and, an adherent layer containing heat-expandable microspheres, the adherent layer being disposed on at least one side of the substrate, in which the adherent layer has a thickness of 10 to 38 μm, and wherein the heat-expandable microspheres have a maximum particle diameter equal to or smaller than the thickness of the adherent layer and have a mode diameter of 5 to 30 μm. The adhesive sheet of the invention enables a high-accuracy processing in the step of processing an electronic part such as a small ceramic capacitor to thereby greatly improve product characteristics and productivity. | 08-18-2011 |
20130240141 | HEAT-RESISTANT PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE TAPE FOR PRODUCTION OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE TAPE - The present invention provides a heat-resistant pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for the production of a semiconductor device, including a base material layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on each side of the base material layer, in which at least the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer at a side on which a semiconductor chip is to be encapsulated with a resin contains a silicone pressure-sensitive adhesive. The heat-resistant pressure-sensitive adhesive tape is used for temporarily fixing a chip in a method for producing a substrateless semiconductor package which does not use a metal lead frame. | 09-19-2013 |
20130260120 | HEAT-PEELABLE PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE SHEET - There are provided a base material-less double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet without warping due to shrinkage of a base material after heat treatment, and having good peelability in heat peeling, and a method for manufacturing electronic parts or semiconductors by using the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet. A heat-peelable pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet which is a base material-less double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including a heat-expandable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing heat-expandable microspheres and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer different from the heat-expandable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and laminated thereon, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a higher elastic modulus than the heat-expandable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. | 10-03-2013 |
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20150228816 | SOLAR CELL - A solar cell is provided with a semiconductor substrate upon which a textured structure that includes multiple convex parts is formed. The textured structure has chamfered sections between main sloped surfaces of the convex parts, and sharp trough parts, which are sandwiched by adjacent multiple convex parts. | 08-13-2015 |
20150228817 | SOLAR CELL - A solar cell has a plurality of texture elements adjacent to each other, wherein the texture elements include a first texture element having a vertex, the curvature radius of which is larger than the curvature radius of the valley between adjacent texture elements. | 08-13-2015 |
20150255644 | SOLAR CELL - A solar cell has a texture and is equipped with an electrode formed on the texture and including flakes in addition to conductive particulates, wherein an average value of the longest axis diameters of the flakes is larger than an average value of the distances between the vertices of the texture. | 09-10-2015 |
20150270416 | SOLAR CELL - Provided is a solar cell comprising a photoelectric conversion unit on which textures are formed, and an electrode that includes a plurality of conductive particles. The average size of the textures is adjusted so that the diameter of an inscribed circle in a space surrounded by the ridgelines of a plurality of textures that are adjacent to each other in the textures and a virtual line that connects the vertices of the adjacent textures is smaller than the average particle size of the conductive particles. | 09-24-2015 |
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20100053682 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable storage medium containing image processing program - An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a blank document determination section determining whether or not input image data is image data of a blank document, regardless of a process mode set for setting a process with respect to the input image data; a storage device storing the input image data in association with a determination result made by the blank document determination section; and a control section (i) reading out the input image data from the storage device and (ii) excluding the input image data determined as image data of a blank document by the blank document determination section, from images to be displayed by the image display device, when the image display device carries out a preview display of the input image data. This configuration makes it possible to carry out a preview display in which a blank document (blank page document) is skipped, without reading the document again. | 03-04-2010 |
20100053689 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM CONTAINING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus of the present invention uses a spatial filter section or an enlarging/reducing section to perform a blur process on image processing data to be supplied to an image display device, thus allowing the image display device to display a preview without deterioration in image quality. | 03-04-2010 |
20110102867 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - An image processing apparatus includes a two color process section and a color material usage estimation and calculation section. The two color process section generates, based on input image data of RGB inputted by reading an original document, image data of CMY for outputting a two-color image. The color material usage estimation and calculation section calculates, based on the image data of CMY generated by the two color process section, a usage of color materials used when the two-color image is outputted and generates information concerning the usage of color materials from a result of the calculation. The color material usage estimation and calculation section outputs the generated information concerning the usage of color materials to an image display device. | 05-05-2011 |
20110102869 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A two color process section included in the image processing apparatus includes a luminance and chroma calculation section, an image-data determination section, and an output-color generation section. The luminance and chroma calculation section calculates a luminance value and a chroma value based on input image data. The image-data determination section determines the input image data, the chroma value of which is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, as first input image data constituting a chromatic color in a two-color image and determines the input image data, the chroma value of which is less than the threshold, as second input image data constituting an achromatic color in the two-color image. The output-color generation section generates image data of CMY from the first input image data based on the chroma value and the luminance value and generates image data of CMY from the second input image data based on the luminance value. | 05-05-2011 |