Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080290156 | ELECTRONIC MONEY SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC MONEY TERMINAL DEVICE, AND INFORMATION CARD - An electronic money system includes a plurality of electronic money terminals for withdrawing a sum of money which is spent by a user from money data which has been deposited into an information card. Utilization-history data including the number of times the information card has been utilized, and accumulated in the information card is read out at the time when data relating to the spent money is also withdrawn from the information card. Utilization-history data read out from each of the electronic money terminals are gathered and coordinated, so as to coordinate and tabulate the utilization-histories of the information card which has been utilized on any of the plurality electronic money terminals | 11-27-2008 |
20090080710 | Biological Information Storing Apparatus, Biological Authentication Apparatus, Data Structure for Biological Authentication, and Biological Authentication Method - A biological information storing apparatus includes: a biological information storing unit for storing biological information for authenticating reception of a first service; a biological information acquisition unit for acquiring biological information for authenticating reception of a second service different from the first service; and a determination unit for determining whether the biological information acquired by the acquisition unit and the biological information stored in the storing unit coincide with each other, wherein when the determination unit determines that the biological information acquired by the acquisition unit and the biological information stored in the storing unit coincide with each other, either the biological information acquired by the acquisition unit or the biological information stored in the storing unit is selected and stored into the storing unit as biological information for authenticating the reception of the first service and the second service. | 03-26-2009 |
20090100266 | SERVICE PROVISION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A first memory unit is arranged outside a block that is under security control. The block includes: a second memory unit; an acquisition unit for acquiring biological information on a living body from a captured image of a location of the living body; an encryption unit for encrypting attribute information with an encryption key; a registration unit for registering encrypted attribute information encrypted by the encryption unit into the first memory unit, and registering the biological information and the encryption key into the second memory unit; and a presentation unit for decrypting the encrypted attribute information with the encryption key and presenting the attribute information decrypted to the service provision server if the biological information registered in the second memory unit and biological information acquired by the acquisition unit coincide with each other. | 04-16-2009 |
20090129635 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, MASK FABRICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing system and a mask preparation method able to prepare a mask by simple processing and a program executed in such an image processing system are provided. To extract the edges of the image, strings of pixels corresponding to the contours of an object are extracted from the edge extracted image, and border lines for the masking are acquired based on an approximation line thereof. | 05-21-2009 |
20090129681 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE JUDGMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing system and image judgment method able to suitably judge whether or not an image includes an image of a predetermined subject to be captured as the image and a program run in the image processing system are provided. Edges of a captured image are enhanced, and an evaluation value Ev concerning intensities of edges and/or amounts of edges included in the captured image is acquired based on values of pixels included in this edge enhanced image. It is judged whether or not the captured image includes an image of a predetermined subject FG based on this acquired evaluation value Ev. It becomes possible to accurately judge if the captured image includes an image of the predetermined subject FG. Further, it is also possible to judge if the image of that subject FG is suitable for a predetermined purpose (for example a template use image of biometric authentication) in accordance with the evaluation value Ev. | 05-21-2009 |
20090141944 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - An authentication apparatus includes: a first determination section that determines whether a condition for determining that there is a possibility of an erroneous determination is satisfied based on information indicating the similarity between the shape of a biological part included in a biological image to be authenticated and the shape of a biological part included in a registration biological image; a change section that changes an aspect ratio of the biological image to be authenticated and registration biological image in the case where the above condition is satisfied; and a second determination section that determines whether a person to be authenticated is a registrant based on the similarity between the shape of a biological part included in a biological image to be authenticated whose aspect ratio has been changed and the shape of a biological part included in a registration biological image whose aspect ratio has been changed. | 06-04-2009 |
20090147633 | OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CONSTITUTING THE SAME, AND OPERATION METHOD - In order to cancel an offset caused by a variation of a signal inputted from an optical pickup, variations of elements in an integrated circuit, etc., a calibration circuit which generates and feeds back an offset adjustment amount that makes the offset zero by a comparison with a reference value, and an offset adjustment circuit that makes the offset zero using the fed-back control signal are provided in an analog front-end LSI. The offset adjustment by the calibration circuit is automatically done in response to commands supplied from a digital signal processing LSI, a host control device, etc. On the other hand, as for a signal on which arithmetic processing such as gain control, addition and subtraction, is performed, the offset adjustment is performed by sending the offset adjustment amount obtained by an arithmetic operation performed by software processing of the digital signal processing LSI to the analog front-end. | 06-11-2009 |
20090150671 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE - There is provided a communication terminal device configured to include: a mutual authentication unit that performs mutual authentication with a service providing server; an obtaining unit that obtains biometric information of an authentication target associated with an encryption key common to the service providing server, which is obtained as a successful result of the mutual authentication performed by the mutual authentication unit; a biometric authentication unit that performs biometric authentication by using the biometric information of the authentication target, which has been obtained by the obtaining unit, and biometric information of a registration target; and a notification unit that encrypts a message indicating that the biometric authentication has succeeded, by using the encryption key and notifies the service providing server of the message, if the biometric authentication of the biometric authentication unit succeeds. | 06-11-2009 |
20090175505 | Authentication Apparatus, Authentication Method, Registration Apparatus and Registration Method - An authentication apparatus includes: a vein data extracting unit that extracts vein data representing veins, from an image including the veins existing in a finger; an extracting unit that extracts position data representing the position which the contour of the finger has at an intermediate stage of extracting the vein data; and a determining unit that determines a collation candidate to be collated with the vein data, from the similarity between the position data and data associated with vein data to be registered. | 07-09-2009 |
20090271314 | Electronic money system and electronic money terminal - An electronic money system terminates communication to a management center indistinguishably from a case in which the communication to the management center is completed within a predetermined period when it is impossible to complete the communication to the management center within the predetermined period. By switching an operation mode, a predetermined portable terminal is used instead of a communication line to upload and download data. When it is impossible to obtain data required for processing through the communication line, processing is performed based on data possessed up until that time. | 10-29-2009 |
20090285453 | AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, REGISTRATION DEVICE AND REGISTRATION METHOD - An authentication device includes: a vein information extraction section that extracts a piece of vein information representing a vein from an image containing a vein of a finger; an extraction section that extracts a piece of information representing the position of the finger's outline at an intermediate stage of the process of extracting the piece of vein information; and a determination section that determines, based on the degree of similarity between the piece of information and a piece of information associated with a piece of registration-target vein information, a verification target to be compared with the piece of vein information. | 11-19-2009 |
20090290763 | VEIN AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND VEIN AUTHENTICATION METHOD - According to the present invention, there is provided a vein authentication apparatus including an imaging unit that generates a plurality of pieces of vein imaged data, a vein pattern extraction unit that extracts a vein pattern from each of a plurality of pieces of vein imaged data, a rotation amount calculation unit that calculates a rotation direction and a rotation amount of a finger accompanying a rotational motion of each extracted vein pattern, and a registration information selection unit that selects the vein pattern to be registered as a template from a plurality of the vein patterns to make the vein pattern registration information if, after calculating a shift amount of the imaging range and determining whether a shift width of the imaging range is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold, the shift width of the imaging range is less than the predetermined threshold. | 11-26-2009 |
20100008546 | PATTERN IDENTIFICATION METHOD, REGISTRATION DEVICE, VERIFICATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A pattern identification method and other things to improve the accuracy of authentication are proposed. For each of living body's patterns obtained from a plurality of living body's samples, two or more form values representing the shape of the pattern are calculated; the center of the distribution of the two or more form values and a value representing the degree of the spread from the center are calculated; a distance between the two or more form values of a pattern obtained from those to be registered or to be compared with registered data and the center of the distribution of the two or more form values is calculated with the use of the value representing the degree of the spread from the center; the pattern is disposed of if the distance is greater than a predetermined threshold. | 01-14-2010 |
20100014760 | Information Extracting Method, Registration Device, Verification Device, and Program - To propose an information extracting method, a registration device, a verification device, and a program for improving the authentication accuracy while suppressing the amount of information of an identification target. From a plurality of images having viewpoints in a biological body portion environment, common portions of the silhouette of a biological body portion shown in the images are generated as a stereogram in a target space, and values representing shapes of a plurality of cross-sections of the stereogram, the plurality of cross-sections each having a predetermined positional relationship with a reference position of the stereogram, are extracted as identification information. The stereogram can be represented in a discrete manner since the identification data is extracted as data representing cross-sections each having a certain relationship with a reference position in an outer shape of the stereogram as well as cross-sections of portions of the stereogram of the biological body portion. | 01-21-2010 |
20100040294 | Authentication Method, Registration Apparatus, Collation Apparatus, and Program - The present invention improves authentication accuracy. A first ranking among a plurality of reduced registration images is determined based on the similarities of the plurality of reduced registration images with respect to each of the reduced registration images used as a reference. Further, a second ranking among the plurality of reduced registration images is determined based on the similarities of the plurality of reduced registration images with respect to a reduced comparison image. Then, in the case where none of first ranking data has a ranking correlation value with respect to second ranking data equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, it is determined that authentication has failed. | 02-18-2010 |
20100045432 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, REGISTRATION APPARATUS, REGISTRATION METHOD, REGISTRATION PROGRAM, AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM - The present invention has been made to be able to highly probably prevent erroneous authentications due to a sham from taking place by means of a simple arrangement. The present invention generates an image signal S | 02-25-2010 |
20100059149 | HIGH STRENGTH HOT ROLLED STEEL PLATE FOR SPIRAL LINE PIPE SUPERIOR IN LOW TEMPERATURE TOUGHNESS AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION OF SAME - The present invention provides hot rolled steel plate for spiral pipe superior in low temperature toughness, thick in gauge, for example, having a plate thickness of 14 mm or more, and having a high strength of the API-X65 standard or more spiral pipe and a method of production of the same, that is, steel plate containing, by mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.1%, Si: 0.05 to 0.5%, Mn: 1 to 2%, P≦0.03%, S≦0.005%, O≦0.003%, Al: 0.005 to 0.05%, N: 0.0015 to 0.006%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.08%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.02%, N−14/48×Ti>0%, Nb−93/14×(N−14/48×Ti>0.005%, Mo: 0.01% to less than 0.1%, Cr: 0.01 to 0.3%, and Cu: 0.01 to 0.3%, and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, characterized in that an elongation rate of a microstructure unit in a cross-section in the pipe circumferential direction after pipemaking is 2 or less. | 03-11-2010 |
20100073378 | OBJECT-SHAPE GENERATION METHOD, OBJECT-SHAPE GENERATION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - Even in a situation in which an image of the back side of an object cannot be captured, the shape of the object can be generated with high accuracy. For individual images captured from the circumference of an object, projection regions projected in an area from the surface of projection in a projective space to a projective plane that is distant from the surface of projection by a predetermined length in a depth direction in a case where the object reflected in the individual images is projected to the projective space from viewpoint positions of the individual images are detected. A portion common to the individual detected projection regions is extracted. | 03-25-2010 |
20100084054 | HIGH STRENGTH HOT ROLLED STEEL PRODUCTS FOR LINE-PIPES EXCELLENT IN LOW TEMPERATURE TOUCHNESS AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME - The present invention provides high strength hot rolled steel plate for line-pipes superior in low temperature toughness, and a method of production of the same, containing, by mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.1%, Si: 0.05 to 0.5%, Mn: 1 to 2%, P: ≦0.03%, S: ≦0.005%, O: ≦0.003%, Al: 0.005 to 0.05%, N: 0.0015 to 0.006%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.08%, and Ti: 0.005 to 0.02%, where N−14/48×Ti>0% and Nb—93/14×(N−14/48×Ti)>0.005%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, said steel plate characterized in that its microstructure is a continuously cooled transformed structure, a reflected X-ray intensity ratio {211}/{111} of the {211} plane and {111} plane parallel to the plate surface in the texture at the center of plate thickness is 1.1 or more, and an in-grain precipitate density of the precipitates of Nb and/or Ti carbonitrides is 10 | 04-08-2010 |
20100098299 | Information Extraction Method, Information Extraction Device, Program, Registration Device, and Verification Device - An information extraction method, an information extraction device, a program, a registration device, and a verification device that improve authentication accuracy simultaneously with reduction of the amount of information concerning an identification target are proposed. From a plurality of first images obtained from viewpoints in surroundings of a living body portion, common portions of silhouettes of the living body portion that is shown in the images are generated as a first stereoscopic image in a target space. From a plurality of second images obtained from the viewpoints in the surroundings of the living body portion, common portions of silhouettes of an inner surface image of the living body portion that is shown in the images are generated as a second stereoscopic image in the target space. A value representing a shape of a cross section of the second stereoscopic image that has a predetermined positional relationship with respect to a reference position of the first stereoscopic image is extracted as an identification information item. | 04-22-2010 |
20100135531 | Position Alignment Method, Position Alignment Device, and Program - A position alignment method, a position alignment device, and a program in which processing load can be reduced are proposed. A group of some points in a first set of points extracted from an object appearing in one image and a group of some points in a second set of points extracted from an object appearing in another image are used as a reference, and the second set of points is aligned with respect to the first set of points. Thereafter, all the points in the first set of points and all the points in the aligned second set of point are used as a reference, and the second set of points is aligned with respect to the first set of points. | 06-03-2010 |
20100158323 | Biometric Authentication System and Biometric Authentication Method - There is provided a biometric authentication system including a plurality of information processing devices divided to a first group for performing a primary authentication based on feature quantity information unique to a biological pattern of a user associated with biological information, and specifying an identification number assigned to the user, and a second group for performing a secondary authentication on the biological information that succeeded in the primary authentication based on the identification number and registered biological information registered in advance. The input biological information is transmitted to all information processing devices belonging to the first group, the biological information that succeeded in the primary authentication is added as queuing information to a queue, and each of the information processing devices belonging to the second group acquires the queuing information positioned at a head of the queue when the secondary authentication process being executed in the own device is terminated. | 06-24-2010 |
20100198078 | VEIN AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND TEMPLATE REGISTRATION METHOD - A vein authentication apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a vein pattern extraction unit for extracting a vein pattern from each of the plurality of vein image data, a rotational amount calculation unit for calculating a rotational direction and an amount of rotation of the finger, a registration information selection unit for calculating a shift width of the imaging range, and for determining whether the shift width of the imaging range is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value, and for selecting a vein pattern to be registered as a template from among the plurality of vein patterns, and for setting the selected vein pattern as registration information, and a registration information compression unit for compressing, in accordance with the shift width of the imaging range, each of the plurality of selected registration information. | 08-05-2010 |
20100202665 | REGISTRATION DEVICE, REGISTRATION METHOD, AUTHENTICATION DEVICE AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A registering device, a registering method, an authentication device and an authentication method that can perform authentication with high speed while reducing an increase in the storage capacity are proposed. From a living-body image for authentication, a feature area included in the living-body image is detected. Further, a part having the same shape and the same size as those of the feature area is cut out from each of a plurality of living-body information items that are stored in a storage means based on position information associated with the living-body information item. A candidate for verification against the living-body image for authentication is selected from the plurality of living-body information items based on the resemblance between each of these cut-out parts and the feature area of the living-body image for authentication, and it is determined whether or not a registered person based on the result of verification of a living body indicated by a selected living-body information item against a living body shown in the living-body image for authentication. | 08-12-2010 |
20100208947 | Registration Device, Checking Device, Program, and Data Structure - There is proposed a registration apparatus, a verification apparatus, and a program capable of improving authentication accuracy and an identification data structure capable of improving reliability. A blood vessel line included in an image is divided into a plurality of partial lines on the basis of end points and a diverging point of the blood vessel line. Coefficients of terms corresponding to degrees included in a polynomial equation for an n-th order curve representing each of the partial lines are extracted. Data including points at both ends of each of the partial lines and the coefficients is generated. | 08-19-2010 |
20100208948 | Vein Pattern Management System, Vein Pattern Registration Apparatus, Vein Pattern Authentication Apparatus, Vein Pattern Registration Method, Vein Pattern Authentication Method, Program, and Vein Data Configuration - There are provided an imaging unit for capturing an image of a portion of a body surface of a living body with near-infrared light and generating near-infrared light imaging data, a vein pattern extraction unit for extracting a vein pattern from the near-infrared light imaging data by applying a differential filter, which outputs a large value for a pixel having a large difference between the pixel and its surrounding pixel, to a plurality of pixels constituting the near-infrared light imaging data, and a pseudo-vein pattern determination unit for determining presence of a pseudo-vein pattern intentionally formed on a part of the captured body surface based on the extracted vein pattern. | 08-19-2010 |
20100215223 | Vein Pattern Management System, Vein Pattern Registration Apparatus, Vein Pattern Authentication Apparatus, Vein Pattern Registration Method, Vein Pattern Authentication Method, Program, and Vein Data Configuration - An imaging unit capturing an image of a body surface with near-infrared light while changing a magnification, and generating multiple pieces of near-infrared light imaging data having different magnifications, a vein pattern extraction unit extracting multiple vein patterns corresponding to each of the multiple pieces of the near-infrared light imaging data from each of the multiple pieces of the near-infrared light imaging data, a fractal dimension calculation unit calculating a fractal dimension corresponding to each of the vein patterns for the extracted multiple vein patterns, and a pseudo-vein pattern determination unit determining presence of a pseudo-vein pattern intentionally formed on a part of the captured body surface based on the calculated fractal dimension are provided. | 08-26-2010 |
20100226545 | VEIN PATTERN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, VEIN PATTERN REGISTRATION APPARATUS, VEIN PATTERN AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, VEIN PATTERN REGISTRATION METHOD, VEIN PATTERN AUTHENTICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND VEIN DATA CONFIGURATION - There are provided a vein pattern management system, a vein pattern registration apparatus, a vein pattern authentication apparatus, a vein pattern registration method, a vein pattern authentication method, a program, and a vein data configuration that can determine presence of a pseudo-vein pattern intentionally formed on a body surface. | 09-09-2010 |
20100226558 | Registering Device, Checking Device, Program, and Data Structure - A registering device, a collating device, and a program which are capable of improving authentication accuracy and a data configuration of identification data capable of improving reliability are proposed. Parameters representing shapes of partial lines obtained by dividing a blood vessel line appearing in an image by setting end points and branch points of the blood vessel line as reference points are extracted and data including the parameters of the partial lines and positions of points of opposite ends of the partial lines is generated as data identifying a live body. | 09-09-2010 |
20100239129 | VEIN PATTERN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, VEIN PATTERN REGISTRATION APPARATUS, VEIN PATTERN AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, VEIN PATTERN REGISTRATION METHOD, VEIN PATTERN AUTHENTICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND VEIN DATA CONFIGURATION - An imaging unit capturing an image of a body surface with near-infrared light and generating near-infrared light imaging data, a vein pattern extraction unit extracting multiple kinds of near-infrared light vein patterns from one piece of the near-infrared light imaging data by applying a differential filter outputting a large value for a pixel having a large difference between the pixel and its surrounding pixel to multiple pixels constituting the near-infrared light imaging data and changing a parameter changing an output property of the differential filter, and a pseudo-vein pattern determination unit determining presence of a pseudo-vein pattern intentionally formed on a part of the captured body surface based on the extracted vein pattern are provided. | 09-23-2010 |
20100253471 | SERVICE PROVIDING DEVICE, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, BIOMETRIC INFORMATION AUTHENTICATION SERVER, BIOMETRIC INFORMATION AUTHENTICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM - Provided is a service providing device including a biometric information extraction unit for extracting biometric information, which is information unique to a living body, from living body image data obtained by capturing an image of a part of the living body, an authentication request unit for transmitting the biometric information extracted by the biometric information extraction unit and collation order information, which is information relating to an order of collating at least a piece of registered biometric information registered in advance with the biometric information at a time of authentication of the biometric information, to a biometric authentication server for authenticating the biometric information based on the at least a piece of registered biometric information registered in advance, and for requesting the authentication of the extracted biometric information, and a service providing unit for providing a specific service to a user according to an authentication result for the biometric information. | 10-07-2010 |
20100272326 | Registration Device, Authentication Device, Registration Method and Authentication Method - The present invention suggests a registration apparatus and a registration method that are capable of reducing occupancy of a memory storing biometric information, and an authentication apparatus and an authentication method that are capable of shortening an authentication time. There are provided a non-vein information obtaining unit ( | 10-28-2010 |
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20110007943 | Registration Apparatus, Checking Apparatus, Data Structure, and Storage Medium (amended - A registration apparatus, a checking apparatus, a data structure, and a storage medium that are capable of achieving an improved authentication accuracy are provided. The registration apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a venous image for a vein of a living body, an extraction unit configured to extract a parameter resistant to affine transformation from part of the venous image, and a registration unit configured to register the parameter extracted by the extraction unit in storage means. The part of the venous image is set as a target for extracting the parameter resistant to affine transformation. | 01-13-2011 |
20110008638 | PAPERMAKING ADDITIVE AND PAPER CONTAINING THE SAME - A papermaking additive comprising cellulose nanofibers whose aqueous solution at a concentration of 2% (w/v) has a B-type viscosity (60 rpm, 20° C.) of 500 to 7000 mPa·s, preferably 500 to 2000 mPa·s is used to prepare a paper having improved air resistance and smoothness. This additive is prepared by oxidizing a cellulosic material with an oxidizing agent in the presence of (1) N-oxyl compound (s) and (2) bromide, iodide or a mixture thereof to prepare oxidized cellulose, and finely grinding the oxidized cellulose in a wet condition to convert the oxidized cellulose into nanofibers. | 01-13-2011 |
20110012711 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program - There is provided an information processing apparatus according to the present invention including an authentication processing unit for authenticating biometrics information unique to a living body and an application control unit for controlling an application providing a predetermined service according to the authentication result of the biometrics information and requesting the authentication processing unit to authenticate the biometrics information. The authentication processing unit includes a biometrics information authentication unit for authenticating the biometrics information based on registered biometrics information that is biometrics information registered in advance and an attribute certificate generation unit for generating an attribute certificate indicating information about a valid period of the authentication result of the biometrics information when the biometrics information authentication unit has successfully authenticated the biometrics information. When the attribute certificate is issued for the biometrics information whose authentication is requested, the issued attribute certificate is stored. | 01-20-2011 |
20110013809 | Information processing apparatus, block detection method, and program - There is provided an information processing apparatus according to the present invention including a Hough transform unit executing the Hough transformation on a biometrics image which is image information unique to a living body, and a block detection unit detecting whether a block having a predetermined shape is included in a Hough space image which is a Hough-transformed biometrics image, outputting present position information representing a position at which the block is located in the Hough space image when the block is determined to be included in the Hough space image. | 01-20-2011 |
20110016317 | Key storage device, biometric authentication device, biometric authentication system, key management method, biometric authentication method, and program - Provided is a key storage device including a receiving unit for receiving package data that includes a template key for decrypting an encrypted template and an authentication key that is used for authentication performed with a terminal that uses the template key and the package data being in a data format that allows restoration only by the key storage device, a key information storage unit for restoring the template key and the authentication key, and for storing the template key and the authentication key in a tamper resistant non-volatile memory, a authentication unit for performing, in case a request for use of the template key is received from the terminal, authentication with the terminal by using authentication information that is based on the authentication key, and a key state management unit for placing, in case the authentication succeeds, the template key in a state usable by the terminal. | 01-20-2011 |
20110079328 | HIGH STRENGTH HOT ROLLED STEEL SHEET FOR LINE PIPE USE EXCELLENT IN LOW TEMPERATURE TOUGHNESS AND DUCTILE FRACTURE ARREST PERFORMANCE AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION OF SAME - The present invention has as its object the provision of hot rolled steel sheet (hot coil) for line pipe use in which API5L-X80 standard or better high strength and low temperature toughness and ductile fracture arrest performance are achieved and a method of production of the same. | 04-07-2011 |
20110211024 | RECORDING HEAD - A recording head includes: a recording element substrate having a plurality of discharge ports discharging a liquid and an energy generating element generating energy used to discharge the liquid from the discharge ports; an electrical wiring substrate having an opening portion in which the recording element substrate is provided and applies a driving signal to the recording element substrate; an electrical connection portion in which an electrode portion of the recording element substrate and an electrode portion of the electrical wiring substrate are electrically connected to each other by a wire; and a sealing material covering and sealing the electrical connection portion, wherein the electrical connection portion is provided with a reference member as a reference of at least one of an upper limit position and a lower limit position of the height of the surface of the sealing material with respect to thickness direction of the recording element substrate. | 09-01-2011 |
20110292125 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is a liquid discharge head including a recording element board provided with an energy generating element; an electrical wiring board to supply the energy generating element with an electrical signal; a supporting member to support the recording element board and the electrical wiring board; a plurality of wires to connect a plurality of terminals provided on the recording element board and a plurality of terminals provided on the electrical wiring board; and a sealing member; wherein the plurality of wires include a plurality of transmitting wires contributory to transmission of the electrical signal and a plurality of non-transmitting wires non-contributory to the transmission formed at a higher position than the transmitting wires from that surface of the supporting member which supports the recording element board, and the sealing member is arranged to cover the plurality of transmitting wires as well as to join the plurality of non-transmitting wires. | 12-01-2011 |
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20110310163 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid discharge head includes a recording element substrate including an energy generation element for generating energy used to discharge a liquid and a terminal electrically connected to the energy generation element, and an electric wiring board including an electrode electrically connected to the terminal via a wire to transmit an electric signal supplied from outside to the energy generation element, wherein the terminal has an area twice or more larger than a contact area between the terminal and the wire and the electrode has an area twice or more larger than a contact area between the electrode and the wire. | 12-22-2011 |
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20120041220 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FATTY ACID ALKYL ESTER - The present invention provides a method for producing a fatty acid alkyl ester, including step 1 of adding at least one surfactant selected from anionic surfactants, cationic surfactants and amphoteric surfactants and water to a crude fatty acid alkyl ester and stirring to obtain a mixture containing aggregates, and step 2 of separating the aggregates from the mixture from step 1 so that the removal rate of steryl glucoside is 60% or more. | 02-16-2012 |
20120065389 | METHOD FOR RECOVERY/REUSE OF N-OXYL COMPOUND - An effluent produced in oxidation of a cellulosic material with an oxidizing agent in the presence of an N-oxyl compound and a bromide and/or iodide is deionized by electrodialysis to an inorganic salt concentration of less than 0.4%, whereby the N-oxyl compound in the effluent is concentrated and recovered. The N-oxyl compound thus recovered can be reused in oxidation of a cellulosic material. Preferably, the effluent is subjected to reduction treatment and ion exchange resin treatment prior to the electrodialysis. | 03-15-2012 |
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