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20130308677 | TEMPERATURE MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A FLUID IN A MICRO CHANNEL - Provided is a temperature measuring apparatus for a fluid in a micro channel, having a micro channel through which a fluid is allowed to flow; a unit for measuring an amount of flow of the fluid; a unit for measuring pressures at an inlet and an outlet of the micro channel; and a unit for calculating a viscosity of the fluid and a temperature in the micro channel from a difference between the pressures. | 11-21-2013 |
20140038189 | METHOD OF DETERMINING HOMOZYGOTE AND HETEROZYGOTE - In order to accurately determine a homozygote and a heterozygote in a melting curve analysis, provided is an apparatus for detecting a signal from a specimen, the apparatus including a fluidic device including: a fluid path through which the specimen is passable; a reaction unit provided in the fluid path; a heater configured to elevate a temperature of the specimen in the reaction unit so as to perform the melting curve analysis; and a heater driving unit configured to drive the heater. The heater driving unit is configured to drive the heater at a first temperature elevation rate that is equal to or higher than 1° C./s and a second temperature elevation rate that is different from the first temperature elevation rate so that the fluidic device performs multiple times of the melting curve analysis for specimens including the same component. | 02-06-2014 |
20140073042 | FLUIDIC DEVICE, CHEMICAL REACTION SYSTEM, AND NUCLEIC-ACID ANALYZING SYSTEM - A fluidic device in which a first member and a second member are connected by an expanding member is provided. The fluidic device includes a first member having a fluid channel communicating with an opening; and a second member having a supply channel supplying a fluid to the fluid channel through the opening. An expanding member having a through-hole is fit into the opening, the fluid channel and the supply channel communicate with each other through the through-hole in the expanding member, and the first member and the second member are connected to each other with at least the expanding member being in an expanded state. | 03-13-2014 |
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20150110688 | CHANNEL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - A method for fabricating a channel device that is formed by bonding a first substrate having a first adhesion surface to a second substrate having a second adhesion surface, the second adhesion surface having a plurality of grooves that become channel wall surfaces, the method including a first step of forming a layer of a liquid composed of a curable adhesive between the first adhesion surface and the second adhesion surface; a second step of forming menisci of the liquid in the vicinities of wall surfaces of the plurality of grooves after the first step by applying a pressure to bring the first adhesion surface and the second adhesion surface close to each other; and a third step of curing the adhesive while the first adhesion surface and the second adhesion surface are close to each other. | 04-23-2015 |
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20090055212 | RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH DELEGATION MEDIATING PROGRAM IS RECORDED, DELEGATION MEDIATING APPARATUS AND DELEGATION MEDIATING METHOD - A delegation mediating apparatus which presents a voter who wants to collect delegations to another voter who is looking for a delegatee, in a decision to be made by voting by multiple voters, the apparatus including, voting history storage unit for storing each voter's past voting history in a voting history storage unit, similarity degree calculation unit for calculating a degree of voting action similarity between the voter who wants to collect delegations and the other voter who is looking for a delegatee, with the use of the past voting history stored in the voting history storage unit, and delegatee presentation unit for presenting the voter who wants to collect delegations if the degree of similarity to the other voter who is looking for a delegatee is high, to the other voter who is looking for a delegatee. | 02-26-2009 |
20090259652 | INFORMATION SEARCHING APPARATUS, INFORMATION SEARCHING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An information searching apparatus retrieves a sub graph matching an inquiry graph from a graph to be searched. The apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts, from among clusters of nodes in the graph to be searched, plural cluster pairs that each include a first cluster and a second cluster including a node linked by a link to a node in the first cluster and a calculating unit that calculates a bonding strength for each of the cluster pairs. The apparatus further includes a determining unit that determines, among the cluster pairs and based on the bonding strength of each of the cluster pairs, a cluster pair to be merged; a merging unit that merges the cluster pair; and a searching unit that searches the merged clusters for a sub graph matching the inquiry graph. An output unit outputs a search result of the searching unit. | 10-15-2009 |
20140040267 | INFORMATION SEARCHING APPARATUS, INFORMATION SEARCHING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An information searching apparatus retrieves a sub graph matching an inquiry graph from a graph to be searched. The apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts, from among clusters of nodes in the graph to be searched, plural cluster pairs that each include a first cluster and a second cluster including a node linked by a link to a node in the first cluster and a calculating unit that calculates a bonding strength for each of the cluster pairs. The apparatus further includes a determining unit that determines, among the cluster pairs and based on the bonding strength of each of the cluster pairs, a cluster pair to be merged; a merging unit that merges the cluster pair; and a searching unit that searches the merged clusters for a sub graph matching the inquiry graph. An output unit outputs a search result of the searching unit. | 02-06-2014 |
20150186476 | SEARCH METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An acceptance unit accepts a focus and a standpoint from a user, and a page screen generation unit acquires a page screen definition on the basis of the standpoint. A gadget screen generation unit then uses a plurality of gadget definitions included in the page screen definition to generate a plurality of pieces of gadget screen data. A screen display unit thereafter displays a screen including the plurality of gadget screens. When a company corresponds to the focus and a vendor organization corresponds to the standpoint, for example, a search unit displays on the gadget screen a pie chart representing a sum of order volume by each orderer, a pie chart representing a sum of order volume by each orderer including affiliated companies, and an organization chart. | 07-02-2015 |
20150186477 | METHOD FOR INTER-GADGET DISPLAY COOPERATION AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method for inter-gadget display cooperation acquires a first query processing result using a first gadget to which first query processing allocated and acquires a second query processing result using a second gadget to which second query processing allocated. Then, the method applies a common display mode to objects, which are included in the acquired first query processing result and the second query processing result and of which display modes are to be common between the first gadget and the second gadget, in a display corresponding to the first gadget and in a display corresponding to the second gadget. | 07-02-2015 |
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20100104030 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND COMMUNICATIONS METHOD - A communications device | 04-29-2010 |
20110090067 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS ENABLING COEXISTENCE OF SYSTEMS - A frequency band is divided into N subchannels. Sub-channels are first allocated for a power line communication system having a higher priority, such as public communication or the like. Sub-channels for a power line communication system having a relatively low priority, such as in-home communication or the like, are allocated from free subchannels. In this case, the subchannels used by the power line communication system having the high priority are limited to a plurality of consecutive subchannels from an upper side or a lower side of the frequency band. | 04-21-2011 |
20110222554 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS ENABLING TEMPORAL COEXISTENCE OF SYSTEMS - A coexistence controller which performs management and control of time division for coexistence, is provided in a power line communication modem which has a function as a QoS controller for a QoS type communication system and a power line communication modem for a best-effort type communication system. In the QoS type communication system, by controlling allocation of a communication band in accordance with priorities given to the communication systems by cooperation of the coexistence controller and the QoS controller, the power line communication systems having different schemes can coexist. | 09-15-2011 |
20120119701 | POWER LINE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND VEHICLE - A power line communication apparatus that enables communication to be performed between an authentication apparatus and a vehicle, thereby enabling authentication processing to be performed, even before power is supplied to a communication section from a charging apparatus or an electrical storage apparatus. | 05-17-2012 |
20120221164 | POWER CONTROLLER FOR ELECTRIC DEVICES, AND TELEPHONE - A power controller ( | 08-30-2012 |
20120274278 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND VEHICLE CHARGING APPARATUS - A low-pass filter ( | 11-01-2012 |
20130026988 | VEHICLE CHARGING DEVICE AND VEHICLE CHARGING SYSTEM USING SAME - Disclosed is a vehicle charging device that can perform communication even if the vehicle charging device and a charging instruction device are connected to power line pairs having different phases in a multiple-wire power line. The vehicle charging device ( | 01-31-2013 |
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