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20090022461 | OPTICAL FIBER - An optical fiber which reduces transmission loss increase even in a high humidity environment or under water is provided. To solve the above issue, an optical fiber according to the present invention comprises a glass optical fiber coated with at least two coating layers, soft and hard layers. The optical fiber is further coated by a colored resin to make a colored optical fiber. The hard layer and the color layer of the colored optical fiber have a free volume radius of at least 0.290 nm according to positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy. | 01-22-2009 |
20090232461 | Optical fiber and optical fiber ribbon - The present invention relates to an optical fiber accommodated in an optical fiber cable, and more particularly, to an optical fiber which optimizes optical fiber coating resin and color resin and restrains an increase in transmission loss of the optical fiber due to an operating environment and aged deterioration and provides an optical fiber and optical fiber ribbon without any increase of transmission loss irrespective of the operating environment and aged deterioration, and especially when exposed to water or high humidity. | 09-17-2009 |
20090269015 | Optical fiber provided with reliable coating layers - An optical fiber is provided, which is unlikely to cause interlayer delamination between a glass optical fiber and a primary coating layer even when it is immersed in water. The optical fiber of the present invention includes a glass optical fiber | 10-29-2009 |
20100046900 | Optical Fiber - The present invention provides an optical fiber in which composites constructing its coating are not complicated, so, there is also little constraint in view of production, and, moreover, delamination between a glass optical fiber and a primary layer, and a bubble in the primary layer hardly arise. The optical fiber of the present invention is an optical fiber which has a glass optical fiber which has a core | 02-25-2010 |
20100119198 | COATED OPTICAL FIBERS - A coated optical fiber of the present invention comprises a glass fiber coated by at least two coating layers (a soft layer and a hard layer), wherein the glass surface of the glass fiber, where the at least two coating layers of the optical fiber are removed, has a peak intensity ratio of 0.6 or more in C | 05-13-2010 |
20100266257 | OPTICAL FIBERS - An optical fiber, which is less likely to increase its transmission loss even when it is exposed to a high-humidity environment or immersed in water, is provided. The optical fiber comprises a glass fiber and at least two coating layers (a soft layer and a hard layer) coated at the circumference of the glass fiber, wherein the limit-adhesion strength between the glass fiber and the coating layer under a hot and humid environment is 0.50N/10 mm or more. Preferably, the glass-transition temperature of the hard layer is less than 90° C. | 10-21-2010 |
20110002247 | SIGNAL MULTIPLEXING METHOD, SIGNAL DEMULTIPLEXING METHOD, DIGITAL SIGNAL REFERENCE FREQUENCY CORRECTION METHOD, MULTIPLEXING DEVICE, DEMULTIPLEXING DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND DIGITAL SIGNAL REFERENCE FREQUENCY CORRECTION DEVICE - A multiplexing/demultiplexing device has a phase difference detection part for detecting a phase difference from a reference frequency of a multiplexed signal and a reference frequency of each of input/output lines, an interpolation part for performing an interpolation on a digital transmitting/receiving signal of each of the input/output lines with a signal delayed by time corresponding to the phase difference for each of the input/output lines based on the phase difference detected by the phase difference detection part to obtain a digital transmitting/receiving signal sampled with the reference frequency of the multiplexed signal for each of the input/output lines, and a signal multiplexing/demultiplexing part for performing a multiplex/demultiplex of the digital transmitting/receiving signals of the input/output lines with use of the reference frequency of the multiplexed signal. | 01-06-2011 |
20110274396 | OPTICAL FIBER - The present invention provides an optical fiber in which the transmission loss increase is suppressed even under a high-humidity condition or under a water-immersed condition. A colored optical fiber ( | 11-10-2011 |
20120143451 | VEHICLE SHIFT CONTROL APPARATUS - In a vehicle shift control apparatus, a T/M_ECU has data of cancellation conditions stored therein in advance, which vary depending on modes of driving force characteristics and, in a temporary manual shift mode, selects a cancellation condition for the temporary manual shift mode which corresponds to a current mode and makes a determination as to whether the cancellation condition is satisfied. If it is determined that the cancellation condition for the temporary manual shift mode is satisfied, the T/M_ECU returns the temporary manual shift mode to the automatic shift mode. | 06-07-2012 |
20120150396 | GEAR SHIFT CONTROL UNIT FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - In a gear shift control unit for an automatic transmission, when an up-shift switch or a down-shift switch of a paddle shift switch is turned ON, a gear shift mode is set to a temporary manual shift mode, and a target transmission gear stage is shifted up or shifted down. Subsequently, a manual assist control is executed. In the manual assist control, an acceleration is calculated from a temporal differentiation of a vehicle speed. After it is detected that the acceleration is larger than or equal to an acceleration determination threshold, an accelerator pedal return acceleration is calculated from a double temporal differentiation of an accelerator opening degree. When the accelerator pedal return acceleration is smaller than or equal to another acceleration determination threshold, the current target transmission gear stage is automatically shifted down. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158258 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION - In a control apparatus for a continuously variable transmission, when the difference between a target transmission gear ratio calculated immediately after switching the control mode from a manual shift mode to an automatic shift mode and a current transmission gear ratio (that is, a fixed transmission gear ratio of the transmission gear stage selected in the manual shift mode immediately before the switching) is greater than or equal to a set value, a shift control unit sets a temporary target transmission gear ratio between the target transmission gear ratio and the current transmission gear ratio. If a temporary target transmission gear ratio is set, the shift control unit causes the transmission gear ratio obtained during transition of mode from the manual shift mode to the automatic shift mode to match the target transmission gear ratio stepwise via the temporary target transmission gear ratio. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158261 | VEHICLE DRIVING-FORCE CONTROL DEVICE - In a vehicle driving-force control device, when a brake switch is turned on, a transmission control unit determines a currently-selected engine mode and sets a deceleration determination value by referring to a determination-value table corresponding to the currently-selected engine mode, using a vehicle speed as a parameter. Then, the transmission control unit compares an absolute value of a deceleration with an absolute value of the deceleration determination value, and shifts down the gear stage if the absolute value of the deceleration exceeds the absolute value of the deceleration determination value. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158262 | VEHICLE SHIFT CONTROL APPARATUS - A vehicle shift control apparatus has a plurality of driving force modes in which an engine generates driving force in response to an accelerator operation, a shift control unit for controlling a transmission gear stage or a transmission ratio of an automatic transmission according to a preset shift characteristic, The apparatus sets a different shift characteristic for each of the modes upon shifting from a current transmission gear stage or transmission ratio to a target transmission gear stage or transmission ratio by means of the shift control unit, and performs a gear shift according to a currently selected shift characteristic. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166053 | VEHICLE DRIVING-FORCE CONTROL DEVICE - In a vehicle driving-force control device, if a primary speed is not lower than or equal to a kick-down allowable speed and an accelerator pedal depression amount is larger than or equal to a kick-down allowable depression amount, a shift control device identifies an intention of acceleration from a driver's accelerator operation and kick down a gear stage to a lower stage, even in a manual shift mode having been selected. In this case, the kick-down allowable speed is set to a different value for each of driving force characteristic modes, and a speed range in which a kick-down operation is allowed to be automatically performed on the basis of the primary speed is set narrower for a driving force characteristic mode having higher responsiveness to an accelerator operation. | 06-28-2012 |
20120189257 | OPTICAL FIBER, OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON AND OPTICAL FIBER CABLE - According to the present invention, there is provided an optical fiber, an optical fiber ribbon and an optical fiber cable that reduce both the increase in transmission loss and the decrease in strength. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an optical fiber in which an outer circumferential surface of an optical fiber is coated with a primary coating layer. In the optical fiber, the primary coating layer includes a ultraviolet curable resin, and the ultraviolet curable resin contains 0.05 or more and 0.75 or less parts by weight of a reactive silane coupling agent and 0.05 or more and 0.75 or less parts by weight of an unreactive silane coupling agent. | 07-26-2012 |
20120320710 | ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - In order to provide an ultrasonic probe capable of suppressing the influence of multiple reflections occurring on the interface of a transducer with a CMUT chip and a backing layer, an ultrasonic probe of the present invention has a structure where an acoustic lens | 12-20-2012 |
20130127931 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A projection display apparatus comprises a lamp; a display element that modulates light emitted from the lamp according to an amplitude of the image signal, and emits the light as the image light; a light intensity controller that changes a lamp power according to a power changing operation, and, if the changed lamp power is lower than a rated power of the lamp and supplied to the lamp for a certain period of time, increases the lamp power and then reduces the lamp power to an original power, identifies an amplitude of the image signal where an intensity of the image light is constant before and after the change of the lamp power; and an image signal controller that controls the amplitude of the image signal to the identified amplitude, and supplies the display element with the image signal. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128241 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A projection display apparatus includes: a display element that displays an image; a lamp that illuminates the display element to cause the display element to emit an image light; a variable light intensity element that allows the light emitted from the lamp to pass therethrough, the intensity of light passing through the variable light intensity element being variable; and a light intensity controller that determines whether the display element is at an image mute state in which a full-black image is displayed, or at a normal lighting state other than the image mute state, and when the display element is at the image mute state, reduces the amount of power supplied to the lamp to a level that is lower than that of the normal lighting state to decrease the intensity of light emitted from the lamp, and also decreases the intensity of light that passes through the variable light intensity element. | 05-23-2013 |
20130141005 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - In an electronic device including a discharge lamp, and a lamp power supply section that supplies power to the discharge lamp, a control section makes the lamp power supply section execute a lamp refresh process of supplying power necessary for generation of a halogen cycle to the discharge lamp at predetermined time intervals during low power operation in which the discharge lamp is lighted with power less than the rated power. Further, the control section records, in a recording section (non-volatile memory), a control instruction which is issued to the lamp power supply section during low power operation. | 06-06-2013 |
20130265293 | PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF RESTART PROCESSING - An object of the present invention is to reduce the power consumption of a lamp that maintains lighting state after a power OFF operation is performed. The display device includes a lamp driver that supplies drive power to a lamp employing a halogen cycle; and a controller that controls the lamp driver to supply power that is lower than rated power of the lamp and that is lower than power satisfying the halogen cycle to the lamp for a predetermined lamp and then cause the lamp to extinguish, when the controller receives a light off signal that causes the lamp to extinguish. | 10-10-2013 |
20130266281 | COLORED COATED OPTICAL FIBER - The present invention provides a colored coated optical fiber which hardly has an increase in transmission loss even when immersed in water. A colored coated optical fiber according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a glass optical fiber, a primary coating layer covering the glass optical fiber, a secondary coating layer covering the primary coating layer, and a colored layer covering the secondary coating layer. A ratio of a thermal expansion coefficient of a laminate including the secondary coating layer and the colored layer covering the secondary coating layer to that of the secondary coating layer is 0.98 or more and 1.03 or less. A ratio of a glass transition temperature based on a dynamic viscoelasticity within a temperature range from −100° C. to 150° C. of the laminate to that of the secondary coating layer is 0.96 or more and 1.03 or less. | 10-10-2013 |
20130297159 | VEHICLE CONTROL UNIT - There is provided a vehicle control unit. The vehicle control unit provides an automatic mode that automatically determines a gear ratio in accordance with an operational status of a vehicle and a temporary manual mode that, with a driver's operation, selects any one predetermined gear ratio from among predetermined gear ratios set in advance and automatically switches a mode of operation to the automatic mode according to the operational status of the vehicle. When switching a mode of operation from the automatic mode to the temporary manual mode through a downshift operation that changes a gear ratio to a lower one in a transmission and an engine speed is lower than a reference rotational speed set in accordance with a vehicle speed, the vehicle control unit selects any one of the predetermined gear ratios such that the engine speed is equal to or more than the reference rotational speed. | 11-07-2013 |
20130331699 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS - Even when electroacoustic conversion elements with high nonlinearity are employed, a nonlinear imaging is carried out with extracting more nonlinear components. An ultrasonic wave beam is transmitted twice from the transmitter to an identical position on the imaging target, and the signal processor performs computation on the reception signals obtained in every transmission performed twice, thereby extracting a nonlinear component included in the reception signals. In one transmission out of the transmission performed twice, the transmitter delivers the transmission signal to all of multiple electroacoustic conversion elements for driving the electroacoustic conversion elements, and in the other transmission, the transmission signal is delivered selectively only to a part of the multiple electroacoustic conversion elements for driving the electroacoustic conversion elements. | 12-12-2013 |
20140009641 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - When a key for directly transferring from the screen of a “video mode” of tape reproduction to the screen of memory stick reproduction is separately arranged, the ratio of an occupation area of the key on the screen is increased. Therefore, a setting operation is performed such that a stop key ( | 01-09-2014 |
20140116151 | OPTICAL FIBERS - An optical fiber, which is less likely to increase its transmission loss even when it is exposed to a high-humidity environment or immersed in water, is provided. The optical fiber comprises a glass fiber and at least two coating layers (a soft layer and a hard layer) coated at the circumference of the glass fiber, wherein the limit-adhesion strength between the glass fiber and the coating layer under a hot and humid environment is 0.5N/10 nm or more. Preferably, the glass-transition temperature of the hard layer is less than 90° C. | 05-01-2014 |
20140301704 | COLORED OPTICAL FIBER, OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON AND OPTICAL FIBER CABLE - A colored optical fiber including a glass optical fiber; a primary coating layer that covers the glass optical fiber; a secondary coating layer that covers the primary coating layer; and a colored layer that coats the secondary coating layer. The relaxation modulus after 24 hours at 60° C. of of the layers coated is 140 MPa or less. | 10-09-2014 |
20150133783 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS - When subject tissue such as a living body is a viscoelastic body, a shear wave propagation velocity is changed according to the frequency of a shear wave. An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus applies a displacement generating transmission beam from an ultrasound probe based on a signal from a displacement generating unit to generate a shear wave, applies a pulse wave to the biological tissue by a displacement detecting unit, detects the particle velocity of the shear wave, estimates a viscosity parameter from a temporal extent of a waveform of the particle velocity of the shear wave detected at a viscoelasticity analyzing unit, and displays the estimated viscoelasticity on a display unit. | 05-14-2015 |
20150234140 | OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON - An optical fiber ribbon according to the present invention includes a collective coating layer containing an ultraviolet curable resin containing amorphous PPG and an amorphous monomer, the collective coating layer formed around coated optical fibers. The collective coating layer has an equilibrium elastic modulus of 12 MPa to 20 MPa, both inclusive, and a yield point elongation of 5% to 9%, both inclusive, and the adhesion between the collective coating layer and the outermost layers of the coated optical fibers is 12 N/cm to 15 N/cm, both inclusive. | 08-20-2015 |
20150313575 | Ultrasonic Probe and Ultrasonic Diagnostic Apparatus - An ultrasonic probe includes a plurality of ultrasonic transducers. The ultrasonic probe is connected to a reception system circuit including at least one first delay adder circuit in which a predetermined number among the plurality of ultrasonic transducers is configured as one subarray and delaying and adding are performed in subarray units with respect to an ultrasonic wave reception signal that is acquired from the ultrasonic transducers included in the subarray, and a second delay adder circuit in which delaying and adding are performed with respect to the ultrasonic wave reception signal that is acquired from the ultrasonic transducers. The plurality of ultrasonic transducers include a first group which transmits the reception signal to the second delay adder circuit passing through the first delay adder circuit and a second group which transmits the reception signal directly to the second delay adder circuit without passing through the first delay adder circuit. | 11-05-2015 |
20150323657 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR ULTRASONIC PROBE, ULTRASONIC PROBE, AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS DEVICE - Both controlling damage when assembling an ultrasonic probe using a chip formed with a capacitive ultrasonic transducer and securing operational reliability are achieved. In a semiconductor substrate on which the capacitive ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) is formed on a first primary surface, a protective film is formed on the surface of the ultrasonic transducer which is formed on the first primary surface of the semiconductor substrate which is then thinned by polishing a second primary surface opposite to the first primary surface of the semiconductor substrate, an ultrasonic transducer chip is cutout of the semiconductor substrate, a sound absorbing material is provided on the surface opposite to the surface formed with the ultrasonic transducer, and the protective film formed on the surface of the ultrasonic transducer is removed. | 11-12-2015 |
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20110182601 | Image Forming Apparatus - In the image forming apparatus, the partial image data for gradation adjustment is threshold conversion data of a partial image, the partial image is a part of a base pattern image with a predetermined size and does not contain any sides of the base pattern image, and the base pattern image is an image generated in an error diffusion method; and the patch image generator unit generates an image of a toner pattern by arranging the partial image of the partial image data repeatedly, and forms the toner pattern. | 07-28-2011 |
20110206398 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MEASURING LINEAR SPEED - An image forming apparatus including an image carrying member, a detecting section, and a linear-speed deriving section. The image carrying member carries a toner image. The detecting section detects passages of a mark, provided on the image carrying member, at a plurality of predetermined detection positions. The linear-speed deriving section determines a linear speed of the image carrying member from times at which the detecting section detects the passage of the mark. | 08-25-2011 |
20120044113 | ANTENNA UNIT AND ELECTRIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An antenna unit includes a substrate ( | 02-23-2012 |
20130136913 | URETHANE RESIN COMPOSITION, COATING AGENT, LAMINATE, AND LEATHER-LIKE SHEET, USE OF URETHANE RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SURFACE SKIN LAYER OF LEATHER-LIKE SHEET - A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a urethane resin composition capable of forming a film having excellent adhesiveness to an adhesive, a putty material, and the like and having excellent durability such as moisture-heat resistance, hydrolysis resistance, and the like. The present invention relates to a urethane resin composition containing a urethane resin (C) produced by reacting a polyol (A) with a polyisocyanate (B), the polyol (A) containing a polyether polyol (a1), which has an oxyethylene structure (a1-1) and an oxyalkylene structure (a1-2) other than the oxyethylene structure (a1-1), and a polyoxytetramethylene glycol and/or a polycarbonatediol (a3), wherein the polyether polyol has a ratio by mass [(a1-1)/(a1-2)] of the oxyethylene structure (a1-1) to the oxyalkylene structure (a1-2) in a range of 3/7 to 9/1, and the ratio by mass of the polyether polyol (a1) is 10% by mass to 50% by mass. | 05-30-2013 |
20140163164 | POLYURETHANE FILM AND PROCESSED FILM PRODUCED USING SAME - A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a polyurethane film that offers both soft texture and high strength. The present invention relates to a polyurethane film obtained by solidifying a polyurethane (A) obtained by reacting a polyol (a1) including an aliphatic polyester polyol having an anionic group (a1-1), and a polyester polyol (a1-2) other than the aliphatic polyester polyol (a1-1) with a polyisocyanate (a2), using a metal salt, in which the polyurethane (A) has an aromatic structure in the range of 500 mmol/kg to 2,000 mmol/kg with respect to the entire polyurethane (A). | 06-12-2014 |
20140178109 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a sensor, a pattern forming section, and a position correction section. The position correction section specifies a first reference position and a second reference position. In a registration correction carried out when the image bearing member is in a time-elapsed state that is a state after the initial state, the position correction section specifies the position of each of the patch images of the respective colors included in the registration correction pattern formed by the pattern forming section at the time of registration correction and corrects based on the first reference position and the second reference position the correction amount to be applied to each image forming position specified in the registration correction currently being carried out. | 06-26-2014 |
20150063849 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus, a high-density portion and a low-density portion are arranged close to each other such that a boundary between the high-density portion and the low-density portion intersects with the conveyance direction of a density detection patch. A controller compares, in the conveyance direction, temporal change in the density detection value at a boundary portion shifting from the high-density portion to the low-density portion, with temporal change in the density detection value at a boundary portion shifting from the low-density portion to the high-density portion, and sets a process condition based on a result of the comparison. | 03-05-2015 |