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20130217126 | DRIED HYDROGEL, DRIED VITRIGEL MEMBRANE, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A dried vitrigel membrane is produced by a method including the following steps of (1) a step of keeping a hydrogel in the inside of a wall surface mold with a shape the same as the desired shape disposed on a substrate, and discharging a part of free water within the hydrogel from a gap between the substrate and the wall surface mold; (2) a step of removing the wall surface mold from the top of the substrate; (3) a step of drying the hydrogel to remove the residual free water, thereby fabricating a vitrified dried hydrogel; (4) a step of rehydrating the dried hydrogel to fabricate a vitrigel membrane; and (5) a step of redrying the vitrigel membrane to remove free water, thereby fabricating a vitrified dried vitrigel membrane. | 08-22-2013 |
20130280807 | CELL CULTURE CHAMBER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, TISSUE MODEL USING CELL CULTURE CHAMBER, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A single cell-culture chamber is provided that includes a dried vitrigel membrane covering and secured to one open end surface of a tubular frame. Also provided is a double cell-culture chamber that includes two tubular frames of substantially the same planar cross-sectional shape adhesively secured to each other with a dried vitrigel membrane interposed between the opposing open end surfaces of the tubular frames so as to form a first chamber and a second chamber via the dried vitrigel membrane. | 10-24-2013 |
20140319728 | DRIED HYDROGEL, DRIED VITRIGEL MEMBRANE, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A dried vitrigel membrane is produced by a method including the following steps of (1) a step of keeping a hydrogel in the inside of a wall surface mold with a shape the same as the desired shape disposed on a substrate, and discharging a part of free water within the hydrogel from a gap between the substrate and the wall surface mold; (2) a step of removing the wall surface mold from the top of the substrate; (3) a step of drying the hydrogel to remove the residual free water, thereby fabricating a vitrified dried hydrogel; (4) a step of rehydrating the dried hydrogel to fabricate a vitrigel membrane; and (5) a step of redrying the vitrigel membrane to remove free water, thereby fabricating a vitrified dried vitrigel membrane. | 10-30-2014 |
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20080243388 | Autonomous driving apparatus and executing program thereof - An autonomous driving apparatus includes: an obstacle detecting unit for detecting a presence of an obstacle or judging a distance to the obstacle; a driving unit for driving a main body; and a control unit for changing a moving direction of the main body by controlling the driving unit based on obstacle information from the obstacle detecting unit, wherein the control unit has a reciprocating mode in which the main body is reciprocatively moved within a moving area while being also moved in a direction normal to a reciprocating direction. If the control unit judges that the main body is in a movement-stuck state in which movement of the main body is stuck within a movement-stuck area by an obstacle placed in the moving area, the control unit switches the reciprocating mode to an obstacle avoiding mode in which the main body escapes from the movement-stuck area. | 10-02-2008 |
20120234179 | DUST COLLECTING SYSTEM - An indoor dust collecting system includes an air conditioner having an indoor unit that generates an air current, a dust collector, and a controller for controlling the air current from the indoor unit. A moving body detector is provided to detect a moving body such as, for example, a person, a pet, a cleaning robot, and the like. The air current from the indoor unit is controlled by the controller based on the position of the indoor unit, the position of a spot of occurrence of dust detected by the moving body detector, and the position of the dust collector such that the air current from the indoor unit reaches the dust collector via the spot of occurrence of dust in order for the dust collector to effectively suck the dust. | 09-20-2012 |
20130063253 | RFID DEVICE, HOST, RFID-EMBEDDED APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING RFID DEVICE - A radio frequency identification (RFID) device includes: a contact interface for wired communication with a host; a contactless interface for contactless communication with a reader/writer; a command processing unit that obtains a command from the reader/writer in the contactless communication and process the command, the command instructing a data access; and a memory that holds data. The command processing unit determines a communication mode, and (i) executes the data access instructed in the command between the reader/writer and the memory, when the communication mode is determined as a first communication mode, and (ii) executes the data access instructed in the command between the reader/writer and the host, when the communication mode is determined as a second communication mode. | 03-14-2013 |
20140065971 | TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, FAULT DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM, AND FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD - A state updating unit updates first information stored in a storage unit whenever the state of a control unit transitions from an idle state to an active state or from the active state to the idle state. A second power supply unit induces electric power from radio waves received by the antenna unit. An information acquiring unit operates after receiving the supply of electric power from the second power supply unit, acquires second information indicating whether electric power is supplied from the first power supply unit, acquires the first information from the storage unit, and transmits the acquired first and second information to the control device. A diagnosing unit diagnoses faults in the terminal device based on the first and second information transmitted from the information acquiring unit of the terminal device. | 03-06-2014 |
20140236328 | LAUNDRY SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROGRAM AND WASHING MACHINE - A display control unit switches a display screen to a detergent name list screen based on detergent name list screen information received by a second communication unit, an operation unit accepts a selection of an arbitrary detergent name by a user from a plurality of detergent names displayed as a list on the detergent name list screen, the second communication unit transmits, to a server, detergent name specifying information for specifying the arbitrary detergent name accepted by the operation unit and washing machine specifying information and receives, from the server, detergent information related to a detergent specified based on the detergent name specifying information and the washing machine specifying information, and a first communication unit transmits the detergent information received by the second communication unit to a washing machine. | 08-21-2014 |
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20150017913 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, MOBILE TERMINAL, HOME ELECTRIC APPLIANCE, AND HOME ELECTRIC APPLIANCE OPERATION SETTING SYSTEM - When an appliance communication portion of a home electric appliance receives a set operation data piece transmission request from a mobile terminal, the appliance communication portion transmits a stored set operation data piece. When the appliance communication portion receives the set operation data piece from the mobile terminal, the appliance communication portion sets an operation, defined by the received set operation data piece, as an operation of the home electric appliance to be executed. When a data piece processing portion of the mobile terminal receives a set operation data piece acquisition command from an input portion and receives the set operation data piece from the home electric appliance, the data piece processing portion causes a data piece storage portion to store the received set operation data piece. When the data piece processing portion receives an operation setting command from the input portion, the data piece processing portion causes a first terminal communication portion to transmit the set operation data piece. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019987 | INFORMATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION TERMINAL CONTROL PROGRAM - An information terminal includes a first radio communication unit that performs communication with a server, a condition input unit through which a condition for retrieving a specific cooking recipe information group from cooking recipe information groups stored in the server is input, and a display unit that displays the specific cooking recipe information group specified based on the condition input through the condition input unit. Further, the display unit displays list screen ( | 01-15-2015 |
20150275414 | CONTROL METHOD FOR WASHING MACHINE, WASHING MACHINE - A control method for a washing machine including a wireless communication unit for communicating with an electronic device includes: causing the washing machine to operate a washing tub of the washing machine as a preliminary operation; acquiring motion information regarding a motion of the electronic device during the preliminary operation; determining whether or not the electronic device is inside the washing tub based on the acquired motion information and information indicating the preliminary operation; and giving the washing machine a notification indicating that the electronic device is inside the washing tub if the determining step determines that the electronic device is inside the washing tub. | 10-01-2015 |
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20150309431 | TONER - A toner comprising a coloring agent, an amorphous polyester, a crystalline polyester, ester wax comprising of multiple ester compounds, each having a carbon number selected from 32 to 54 and, hydrophobic silica having an average primary particle diameter of 8 to 35 nm, wherein when the ion intensity ratio of each ester compound having a different carbon number is expressed as percentage, the content (a) of the ester compound having a carbon number of (Cn) showing the maximum intensity ratio is from 20 to 55% by weight of the entire ester wax, and the sum (d) of the content (b) of the ester compound having a carbon number of (Cn−4) and the content (c) of the ester compound having a carbon number of (Cn−2) satisfies the following formula: 0.619≦d/a≦0.783. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309435 | TONER - A developer having low-temperature fixability and storage stability, and capable of prolonging the service life is provided. A toner includes a coloring agent, an amorphous polyester, a crystal line polyester, ester wax containing multiple ester compounds, each having a carbon number selected from 32 to 54, and hydrophobic silica having an average primary particle diameter of 8 to 35 nm. When the ion intensity ratio of each ester compound having a different carbon number is expressed as percentage, the content (a) of the ester compound having a carbon number of (Cn) showing the maximum intensity ratio is from 20 to 55% by weight of the entire ester wax, the sum (g) of the content (e) of the ester compound having a carbon number of (Cn+2) and the content (f) of the ester compound having a carbon number of (Cn+4) satisfies the following formula: 0.065≦g/a≦0.200. | 10-29-2015 |
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20110008076 | TONER CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a toner cartridge includes a cartridge body, a stirring member configured to stir toner contained in the cartridge body, and a scraping member having elasticity. The stirring member includes a rotation shaft contained in the cartridge body, and plural stirring rods protruded from the rotation shaft and arranged in an axial direction of the rotation shaft. The stirring rods have tips opposite to an inner surface of the cartridge body. The tips of the stirring rods are separate from each other. The scraping member extends in the axial direction of the rotation shaft to scrape toner adhered to the inner surface of the cartridge body, and includes plural elastically deformable strips divided along the axial direction of the rotation shaft. | 01-13-2011 |
20110281214 | DEVELOPING AGENT - According to one embodiment, there is provided, a developing agent including a toner containing a toner particle containing a coloring agent, an amorphous polyester, a crystalline polyester having an endothermic peak temperature T | 11-17-2011 |
20150185651 | TONER USED FOR FORMING IMAGE - A toner includes a binder resin, a colorant, a wax including 40 to 80 weight percent of an ester wax having an endothermic peak temperature of 65 to 75° C. in a differential scanning calorimetry curve and 60 to 20 weight percent of a carnauba wax having an endothermic peak temperature of 80 to 90° C. in the differential scanning calorimetry curve, and a crystalline polyester material. With respect to the total weight of the binder resin, the wax, and the crystalline polyester material, the wax comprises 4 to 10 weight percent and the crystalline polyester material comprises 3 to 20 weight percent. | 07-02-2015 |
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20130071783 | DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, provided is a developer, which is used for a full-color image forming apparatus, wherein the developer includes a monochrome toner and a color toner, each including a coloring material, an amorphous polyester resin, a crystalline polyester resin, and an ester wax which includes ester compounds having an alkyl group and also having a carbon number of from 32 to 48, the amorphous polyester resin to be blended in the monochrome toner has a melting point (Tm | 03-21-2013 |
20130095419 | DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer according to an embodiment includes toner particles, wherein the toner particles contain an amorphous polyester resin, a crystalline polyester resin, a coloring material, and a charge control agent containing metal elements of aluminum and magnesium, and have an endothermic peak temperature as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) of from 90 to 100° C. and an acid value of from 9 to 19 mgKOH/g. | 04-18-2013 |