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20090245904 | IMAGING FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus including: a rotatable image-carrier; a charging unit that contacts and charges a surface of the image-carrier; an exposing unit that exposes the surface and forms a latent-image; a developing unit that develops the latent-image with a developer; a transfer unit that transfers a developed-toner-image onto a transfer-receiving member; a cleaning unit that is provided with a plate shaped cleaning member having a free end that faces upwards a corner portion of the free end contacting the surface, the cleaning member cleaning off developer remaining on the surface after transfer, and a developer pooling member provided between the cleaning member and the transfer unit, that temporarily pools the cleaned off developer at the free end; and a friction-coefficient reducing unit that reduces a friction-coefficient at the surface, and that reduces the friction-coefficient during non-image forming period to less than that during image forming period is provided. | 10-01-2009 |
20120230737 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, VISIBLE IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes a developer container; a developer holding body including a magnet member and a substantially cylindrical member; a transport member including a rotating shaft and a substantially spiral transport blade; a layer-thickness regulating member; and an interrupting member that is arranged between the developer holding body and the transport member, that intersects with a first virtual plane passing through a facing position between the regulating member and the developer holding body and being adjacent to a rotation locus of a radial-direction outer edge of the transport blade at a position at which a speed in a circumferential direction of the transport blade has a speed component toward the regulating member, and a second virtual plane passing through rotation centers of the developer holding body and transport member, and that interrupts movement of the developer pushed and moving in the radial direction of the transport blade. | 09-13-2012 |
20120251189 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a rotating image carrier, a charging device, a latent image forming device, a developing device having a developer holder and developing a latent image as a visible image, a voltage application unit that generates a potential difference between the image carrier and the developer holder to form an electric field, by which toner is directed toward the latent image, in a developing region, and a transfer device that transfers the visible image of the image carrier to a medium, wherein the developer holder having a concavo-convex portion having a convex portion and a concave portion is provided in an outer surface thereof and formed such that the volume resistivity of a portion corresponding to the convex portion is set to be larger than the volume resistivity of a portion corresponding to the concave portion. | 10-04-2012 |
20140029986 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes a developing member including a magnet member on which plural magnetic poles including a developing main magnetic pole are magnetized in a circumferential direction and a developer holder that faces an image supporting member, receives the magnet member, and holds a developer, wherein the distribution of a magnetic attraction force in a circumferential direction has a gradient that increases toward a downstream end from an upstream end of a developing area in a developer transport direction of the developer holder, and the magnetic poles are magnetized on the magnet member so that the amount of the increase of the magnetic attraction force between the upstream end and a middle position of the developing area is larger than that between the middle position and the downstream end. | 01-30-2014 |
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20100231717 | IMAGE ADJUSTING DEVICE, IMAGE ADJUSTING METHOD, AND ON-VEHICLE CAMERA - An image adjusting device for an on-vehicle camera mounted on a vehicle includes an operations unit configured to input mounting position information regarding a mounting position of the on-vehicle camera on the vehicle; a storing unit configured to store image processing parameters in association with various mounting positions of the on-vehicle camera; a control unit configured to read the corresponding image processing parameters from the storing unit based on the mounting position information input from the operations unit; and an image processing unit configured to process image data obtained by an imaging unit of the on-vehicle camera according to the image processing parameters read by the control unit. | 09-16-2010 |
20110134282 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes a lens array including multiple lenses facing a subject; an image sensor obtaining a compound-eye image including single-eye images of the subject formed by the lenses; and a computing unit processing the compound-eye image obtained by the image sensor. The lenses have different radii of curvature and substantially the same back focal length, and the computing unit extracts an in-focus image from the compound-eye image. | 06-09-2011 |
20110216215 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND RANGE DETERMINATION SYSTEM - An image pickup apparatus comprises a lens array with a plurality of lenses, a part of which lenses makes one or more stereo lens pairs; an image pickup device for taking a multifaceted compound-eye image consisting of a set of monocular images formed by the plural lenses; and a computing unit for computing range imagery from one or more pairs of the monocular images formed by said one or more stereo lens pairs. The computing unit includes imaging position determination means for determining from the monocular images an image pickup position of each of one or more subjects whose relative positional relationships with respect to the image pickup apparatus are known by dividing the multifaceted compound-eye image into the monocular images, and image distortion parameter determination means for determining an image distortion parameter based upon a determination result of the imaging position determination means. | 09-08-2011 |
20120212605 | DEFECT INSPECTION APPARATUS AND DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD - A defect inspection apparatus includes an imaging apparatus configured to include a lens array configure to include plural lenses arranged in a form of an array, and an imaging device configured to image a compound-eye image that is a collection of ommatidium images of an object approximately formed by the respective plural lenses of the lens array; and a processing apparatus configured to process the compound-eye image obtained from imaging the object by the imaging apparatus, and determine whether there is a defect of the object. | 08-23-2012 |
20140078379 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - An image capturing device and an image capturing system are provided. The image capturing device includes an optical system, a first filter provided near a diaphragm position of the optical system, a sensor, and a lens array. The first filter includes a plurality of filters respectively having different spectral characteristics. The sensor includes a plurality of filters respectively having different spectral characteristics. The lights from an object pass through the respective filters of the first sensor and the respective filters of the second sensor to simultaneously form a plurality of types of spectral image of the object on an image plane of the sensor. | 03-20-2014 |
20140098212 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - An image capturing device and an image capturing system are provided. The image capturing device includes an optical system that focuses lights from an object to generate optical information, a filter provided near a diaphragm position of the optical system, the filter having a plurality of types of spectral characteristics, a sensor that converts the optical information of the object to electronic data, the sensor providing a plurality of spectral transmittance values that sequentially and spatially change, and a lens array having a plurality of lenses being arranged in substantially parallel in a direction of a two-dimensional surface of the sensor. | 04-10-2014 |
20140152983 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF ESTIMATING SPECTRUM OF OBJECT - An apparatus or system of estimating a spectrum of an object includes a plurality of filters or a plurality of filter areas that respectively have spectral characteristics different from one another, wherein at least two filters or filter areas have transmittance greater than a predetermined value throughout a wavelength range subject for estimation. The image capturing apparatus or system estimates a line spectrum of an object using spectral images of the at least two filters or filter areas having transmittance greater than the predetermined value. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153775 | SIMILARITY DETERMINATION APPARATUS, SIMILARITY DETERMINATION SYSTEM, AND SIMILARITY DETERMINATION METHOD - A similarity determination apparatus, a similarity determination system, and a similarity determination method are provided, each of which calculates spectral information of an object, transforms the spectral information of the object into characteristic quantity, generates a similarity determination criterion from one or a plurality of items of characteristic quantity of a reference item, and checks the characteristic quantity of the object against the similarity determination criterion to determine similarity of the object with reference to the reference item. | 06-05-2014 |
20140375994 | MEASURING APPARATUS, MEASURING SYSTEM, AND MEASURING METHOD - A measuring apparatus and a measuring method are provided. The measuring apparatus includes an optical system to condense light, a light receiving device to receive light condensed by the optical system at a plurality of light receiving positions and convert the light into an electric signal, a plurality of optical band-pass filters arranged near a lens stop of the optical system, each of the optical band-pass filters having a different spectral transmittance, a lens array arranged between the optical system and the light receiving device, the lens array having a plurality of lenses each of which is arranged substantially in parallel with a two-dimensional surface of the light receiving device, and a correction unit to correct the electric signal for each one of the plurality of light receiving positions of the light receiving device. The measuring method is performed by the measuring apparatus. | 12-25-2014 |
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20090199796 | ENGINE VALVE DEVICE - An engine valve device includes an intake valve which opens and closes an intake port by a pressing force of a rotating cam and a pressing force of a valve spring, a piston which is movable in a same direction as the intake valve, a cylinder portion which houses the piston such that the piston is movable inside, a hydraulic actuator including the piston and the cylinder portion, a supply discharge pipe line which communicates with a pressure chamber formed by the piston and the cylinder portion, an accumulator which accumulates hydraulic oil flowed out from the pressure chamber via the supply discharge pipe line, and an electromagnetic on-off valve which controls a flow of the hydraulic oil between the pressure chamber and the accumulator. The electromagnetic on-off valve is arranged on the supply discharge pipe line between the hydraulic actuator and the accumulator. | 08-13-2009 |
20110130280 | THERMOREVERSIBLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND THERMOREVERSIBLE RECORDING MEMBER - The present invention provides a thermoreversible recording medium which includes a support, a thermoreversible recording layer which comprises a thermoreversible composition containing an electron-donating color-forming compound and an electron-accepting compound, a metal compound-containing layer which includes a resin, an organic metal compound, and an inorganic layer compound, in which the resin is at least one selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohol polymers, and ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers, and the organic metal compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of an organic titanium compound and an organic zirconium compound, and a protective layer which protects the metal compound-containing layer, wherein the support, the thermoreversible recording layer, the metal compound-containing layer and the protective layer are laminated in this order. | 06-02-2011 |
20120238446 | REVERSIBLE THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MEDIUM AND REVERSIBLE THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MEMBER - A reversible thermosensitive recording medium including: a support; a reversible thermosensitive recording layer on the support; and a protective layer on the reversible thermosensitive recording layer, wherein the reversible thermosensitive recording layer contains an electron-donating color-forming compound and an electron-accepting compound, wherein the protective layer contains a polyester acrylate resin, and wherein the protective layer has a glass transition temperature of 230° C. or higher and has an elongation of 10% or higher. | 09-20-2012 |
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20090092778 | POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME AND MOLDED BODY - Provided are a resin composition which is colored little and has excellent gas barrier properties, transparency and mechanical properties, a method for producing it, and a shaped article. The composition is a polyester resin composition comprising from 2 to 30% by weight of a specific polyamide resin (A), from 69.5 to 97.99% by weight of a specific polyester resin (B) and from 0.01 to 0.5% by weight of a di- and/or tri-polycarboxylic acid compound (c), which satisfies a≦b, 60≦a+b≦150, 1≦c×Cc≦20, 1≦c×Cc/(a×Ca)≦12 (wherein a is a concentration of the terminal amino group of the polyamide resin (A), b is a concentration of the terminal carboxyl group of the polyamide resin (A), c is a concentration of the carboxyl group in the polycarboxylic acid compound (C), Cc is a concentration of the polycarboxylic acid compound (C) in the polyester resin composition, and Ca is a concentration of the polyamide resin (A) in the polyester resin composition (g/g). The method is for producing the resin composition; and the shaped article is obtained by shaping the resin composition. | 04-09-2009 |
20100180979 | Method for Filling Into Multilayer Bottle - There is provided a method for filling a multilayer bottle including outermost and innermost layers and at least one barrier layer interposed between the outermost and innermost layers, with a material to be stored therein. In the filling method, the material to be stored is filled in the multilayer bottle having the barrier layer satisfying a specific glass transition point (Tg) and a specific water content as measured by a Carl-Fisher method at 230° C. for 30 min. The multilayer bottle obtained by the filling method of the present invention hardly undergoes delamination between the layers owing to dropping or impact, and is applicable to a filling method such as hot filling. | 07-22-2010 |
20100233401 | Multi-Layer Bottle - There is provided a multilayer bottle including outermost and innermost layers each made mainly of a polyester (A) and at least one barrier layer interposed between the outermost and innermost layers. The polyester (A) is a thermoplastic resin obtained by polymerizing a dicarboxylic acid component containing 80 mol % or more of terephthalic acid with a diol component containing 80 mol % or more of ethylene glycol. The barrier layer is composed of a polyamide (B) and a polyamide (C). The polyamide (B) is obtained by polycondensing a diamine component containing 70 mol % or more of m-xylylenediamine with a dicarboxylic acid component containing 70 mol % or more of an α,ω-linear aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 4 to 20 carbon atoms. The polyamide (C) has a higher saturation water content than that of the polyamide (B) as measured at 23° C. and 50% RH under 1 atm, and a content of the polyamide (C) in the barrier layer is 20% by weight or less on the basis of a weight of the barrier layer. The multilayer bottle hardly suffers from delamination upon dropping or upon exposure to impact and, therefore, is not required to have a shape with less irregularities or less bends for preventing the delamination, and further has a large freedom of design choice. | 09-16-2010 |
20100304164 | INJECTION MOLDED BODY HAVING EXCELLENT BARRIER PROPERTY - The present invention relates to a multilayer injection molded article comprising a layer of a barrier resin composition including (A) 10 to 70% by mass of a polyamide resin including a diamine constitutional unit 70 mol % or more of which is derived from m-xylylenediamine and a dicarboxylic acid constitutional unit 70 mol % or more of which is derived from a dicarboxylic acid containing a C | 12-02-2010 |
20120082861 | INJECTION MOLDED BODY HAVING EXCELLENT BARRIER PROPERTY - A multilayer injection molded article comprising a layer of a barrier resin composition including (A) 10 to 70% by mass of a polyamide resin including a diamine constitutional unit 70 mol % or more of which is derived from m-xylylenediamine and a dicarboxylic acid constitutional unit 70 mol % or more of which is derived from a dicarboxylic acid containing a C | 04-05-2012 |
20120263962 | INJECTION MOLDED BODY HAVING EXCELLENT BARRIER PROPERTY - An injection molded article comprising: (A) 10 to 60% by mass of a polyamide resin comprising a diamine unit 70 mol % or more of which is one or more m-xylylenediamine units and a dicarboxylic acid unit 70 mol % or more of which is one or more dicarboxylic acid units comprising a C | 10-18-2012 |
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20100296769 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL MODULATOR AND OPTICAL MODULATING APPARATUS - A semiconductor optical modulator that includes a first semiconductor optical waveguide having a laminated structure including a core layer, a first clad layer, a second clad layer, and a barrier layer, the first clad layer and the second clad layer being disposed below and above the core layer, the barrier layer being inserted between the second clad layer and the core layer; a second semiconductor optical waveguide having a laminated structure in which the second clad layer has a p-type semiconductor penetrating locally through a n-type semiconductor in a laminated direction in the laminated structure of the first semiconductor optical waveguide; a first electrode connected to the first clad layer of the first semiconductor optical waveguide; and a second electrode electrically connecting the second clad layer of the first semiconductor optical waveguide and the p-type semiconductor of the second clad layer of the second semiconductor optical waveguide. | 11-25-2010 |
20110202122 | STENT - A stent includes a stent body in which struts are joined mutually while intersecting and which is formed tubularly as a whole, and a drug coat layer on the outer surface of the struts. The strut has a bend which is deformed as the stent body expands/contracts in the radial direction, and the drug coat layer with which the bend is coated is formed in such a manner that the drug coat layer is mountain-shaped in a cross-section perpendicular to the axis of the strut and the ridgeline of the mountain shape extends in a wavy shape along the longitudinal direction of the strut. The drug coat layer deforms relatively easily without using plasticizer as the stent deforms and is not so susceptible to causing problems such as peeling, destruction, damage or falling off of the drug coat later | 08-18-2011 |
20120165923 | STENT - A stent able to minimize occurrences of strain and stress concentration in a drug coat layer upon expansive deformation of the stent in a radial direction to avoid the possibility of the drug separating from the stent, includes a stent body and a drug coating layer coated on the outside surface of the stent body so that the thickness of the drug coating layer gradually decreases toward a bent portion of the stent. | 06-28-2012 |
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20090197948 | Skin External Preparation - The present invention is to provide a skin external preparation with good moisture retention, a rough skin improving effect, and an improved feeling in use. A skin external preparation comprising a polyoxyalkylene glycol/polyethylene glycol copolymer alkyl ether derivative represented by the below-described general formula (I): | 08-06-2009 |
20100075882 | External Skin Preparation And Skin Cleanser - The present invention was made in view of the above-described circumstances, and an object of the invention is to provide an external skin preparation having a rough skin improving effect, excellent in texture in use, especially excellent in smoothness, free of sticky feeling, and excellent in stability. Another object is to provide a skin cleanser excellent especially in usability and a cosmetic removing effect. That is, the external skin preparation of the present invention is characterized by comprising a block-type alkylene oxide derivative represented by the below-described formula (I). | 03-25-2010 |
20100190864 | Alkylene Oxide Derivative And Skin External Preparation Containing The Same - The present invention is to provide a new compound having a rough skin improving effect, excellent in safety, excellent in texture in use, especially free of sticky feeling, excellent in refreshing feeling, and capable to improve the base agent stability as a component. An alkylene oxide derivative is characterized by being represented by the below-described general formula (I): | 07-29-2010 |
20110245344 | ARGININE DERIVATIVE AND COSMETIC CONTAINING THE SAME - An object of the invention is to provide a novel arginine derivative and a cosmetic satisfactory in compatibility with the skin and hair, excellent in skin softening effect and skin-conditioning effect, and satisfactory in use feeling with little sticky feeling and tense feeling. | 10-06-2011 |
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20120056966 | THERMAL PAPER ROLL, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A thermal paper roll includes a paper core, a thermal paper wound on the paper core, a flange attached to at least one end surface of the paper core, and a contacted surface formed on a plane intersecting a roll axis of the paper core at a side opposite to the paper core side of the flange in order to detect or identify a state of the thermal paper roll. | 03-08-2012 |
20140061350 | ROLL SHEET ASSEMBLY AND ROLL SHEET FLANGE - There is provided a roll sheet assembly including a cardboard tube, a roll sheet wound around the cardboard tube, and a pair of flanges each disposed at one of both ends of the cardboard tube. The flanges each include a flange main body covering an end face of the roll sheet, a cylindrical body projecting at a center of an inner surface of the flange main body, and being inserted into the cardboard tube, and a fixing unit fixing the cylindrical body being inserted into the cardboard tube to an inner circumferential surface of the cardboard tube. The cylindrical body has a spiral cutting line formed thereon. | 03-06-2014 |
20140061351 | ROLL SHEET ASSEMBLY AND ROLL SHEET FLANGE - There is provided a roll sheet assembly including a cardboard tube, a roll sheet wound around the cardboard tube, a pair of flanges each disposed at one of both ends of the cardboard tube, and an inner shaft being inserted through the cardboard tube, and coupling the pair of flanges. At least one of the flanges includes a flange main body covering an end face of the roll sheet, and a joint provided at a center of an inner surface of the flange main body, and joined to an end of the inner shaft. The flange main body has a cutting line formed thereon, the cutting line being for separating the joint joined to the inner shaft from the flange main body. | 03-06-2014 |
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20100262976 | Task Processor - A task processor includes a CPU, a save circuit, and a task control circuit. A task control circuit is provided with a task selection circuit and state storage units associated with respective tasks. When executing a predetermined system call instruction, the CPU notifies the task control circuit accordingly. When informed of the execution of a system call instruction, the task control circuit selects a task to be subsequently executed in accordance with an output from the selection circuit. When an interrupt circuit receives a high-speed interrupt request signal, the task switching circuit controls the state transition of a task by executing an interrupt handling instruction designated by the interrupt circuit. | 10-14-2010 |
20100287360 | Task Processing Device - The speed of task scheduling by a multitask OS is increased. A task processor includes a CPU, a save circuit, and a task control circuit. The CPU is provided with a processing register and an execution control circuit operative to load data from a memory into a processing register and execute a task in accordance with the data in the processing register. The save circuit is provided with a plurality of save registers respectively associated with a plurality of tasks. In executing a predetermined system call, the execution control circuit notifies the task control circuit as such. The task control circuit switches between tasks for execution upon receipt of the system call signal, by saving, in the save register associated with a task being executed, the data in the processing register, selecting a task to be executed next, and loading data in the save register associated with the selected task into the processing register. | 11-11-2010 |
20110246728 | Memory Management Device - A second memory stores data in units of segments. An assignment control circuit sets up a buffer space as a logical address space. A buffer space is formed as a set of at least one segment. A state storage circuit stores association between a buffer space and segments as segment assignment information. An address conversion circuit refers to segment assignment information to convert a logical address into a physical address. A segment queue stores a free segment and a buffer queue stores a free buffer. The state storage circuit includes a plurality of register groups each of which includes a plurality of segment registers. A register group is associated with one of the plurality of buffer spaces. A range number identifying a range of logical addresses in the associated buffer space is set up in a segment register. | 10-06-2011 |
20110252428 | Virtual Queue Processing Circuit and Task Processor - A queue control circuit controls the placement and retrieval of a plurality of tasks in a plurality of types of virtual queues. State registers are associated with respective tasks. Each of the state registers stores a task priority order, a queue ID of a virtual queue, and the order of placement in the virtual queue. Upon receipt of a normal placement command ENQ_TL, the queue control circuit establishes, in the state register for the placed task, QID of the virtual queue as the destination of placement and an order value indicating the end of the queue. When a reverse placement command ENQ_TP is received, QID of the destination virtual queue and an order value indicating the start of the queue are established. When a retrieval command DEQ is received, QID is cleared in the destination virtual queue. | 10-13-2011 |
20120096472 | VIRTUAL QUEUE PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND TASK PROCESSOR - A queue control circuit controls the placement and retrieval of a plurality of tasks in a plurality of types of virtual queues. State registers are associated with respective tasks. Each of the state registers stores a task priority order, a queue ID of a virtual queue, and the order of placement in the virtual queue. Upon receipt of a normal placement command ENQ_TL, the queue control circuit establishes, in the state register for the placed task, QID of the virtual queue as the destination of placement and an order value indicating the end of the queue. When a reverse placement command ENQ_TP is received, QID of the destination virtual queue and an order value indicating the start of the queue are established. When a retrieval command DEQ is received, QID is cleared in the destination virtual queue. | 04-19-2012 |
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20080296072 | Input Device Having Tactile Function, Information Input Method, and Electronic Device - A digital camera includes an input detection section, which has an input detection plane, that detects a touching position of a finger of an operator and a sliding speed of the finger, a controller that computes a vibration pattern based on the sliding speed detected by the input detection section, and a vibration section that vibrates the input detection plane based on the vibration pattern thus computed. The controller computes a vibration pattern of the input detection plane to generate vibrations from its low frequency and small amplitude to its high frequency and large amplitude, as the finger goes away from a position where it has touched the input detection plane. | 12-04-2008 |
20100085169 | User Interface Feedback Apparatus, User Interface Feedback Method, and Program - A user interface feedback apparatus includes an operable element, a sensor, a processing unit, and a tactile control module. The operable element has a two-layer structure made up of a conductor and an insulator. The sensor detects, in the form of user contact information, at least a user contact position with respect to the insulator of the operable element. The processing unit acquires the detected information from the sensor, and determines parameters for an electrical signal to be output to the conductor. The tactile control module controls the frictional force between the insulator and the user by outputting to the conductor an electrical signal regulated by the parameters determined by the processing unit. | 04-08-2010 |
20110248728 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION DETECTION METHOD - An electronic device includes an input plane member that includes a plurality of first conductive layers that is elastically deformed when a pressing operation is received from a user, a base that includes a plurality of second conductive layers that comes in contact with the first conductive layer when the input plane member is deformed, a capacitance detection unit that detects capacitance between the plurality of first conductive layers and between the plurality of second conductive layers, a resistance value detection unit that detects a resistance value between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer when the first conductive layer comes in contact with the second conductive layer, and a switch unit that controls electrical connection between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer and either of the capacitance detection unit and the resistance value detection unit. | 10-13-2011 |
20110248962 | INFORMATION PRESENTING DEVICE, TACTILE SENSE PRESENTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information presenting device of present invention includes a conductive layer to which an AC voltage is applied, an insulating layer for covering the conductive layer and presenting a tactile sense when a part of a body of a user set to a ground potential is in contact with the insulating layer. | 10-13-2011 |
20110292348 | BALLOON AND BALLOON CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a balloon including an envelope and a projecting unit that projects an image, which switches display mode between first display mode that displays the image projected by the projecting unit on the envelope and second display mode that displays the image projected by the projecting unit on an external object through the envelope. | 12-01-2011 |
20140049252 | SCALE MEASURING DEVICE, METHOD FOR GENERATING POSITION INFORMATION, AND DEVICE WITH MULTI-AXIS STAGE - A scale device includes a scale main body having at least two incremental tracks, at least two or more incremental signal detection heads for detecting incremental signals from the incremental tracks, and an operation processing unit that generates, based upon detection outputs by the two or more incremental signal detection heads, relative positional information in a measuring direction of a measuring axis and parallel movement amount information in a direction orthogonal to the measuring direction. | 02-20-2014 |
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20110095374 | METHOD, DESIGN APPARATUS, AND DESIGN PROGRAM OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A design method of a semiconductor device includes setting an inspection region of layout data generated based on circuit data, calculating an area ratio of a first area to a second area, the first area indicating an area of the inspection region, the second area indicating a sum of a surface area of a plane that a first member contacts with a second member, the second member contacting with the first member constituting a circuit element included in the inspection region, the second member further having different heat reflective properties from the first member, and arranging a dummy element in the layout data so that the area ratio is within a predetermined range in each inspection region of the layout data. | 04-28-2011 |
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20110081753 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device is provided for improving the reliability of a semiconductor device including a MISFET with a high dielectric constant gate insulator and a metal gate electrode. A first Hf-containing insulating film containing Hf, La, and O as a principal component is formed as a high dielectric constant gate insulator for an n-channel MISFET. A second Hf-containing insulating film containing Hf, Al, and O as a principal component is formed as a high dielectric constant gate insulator for a p-channel MISFET. Then, a metal film and a silicon film are formed and patterned by dry etching to thereby form first and second gate electrodes. Thereafter, parts of the first and second Hf-containing insulating films not covered with the first and second gate electrodes are removed by wet etching. At this time, a wet process with an acid solution not containing hydrofluoric acid, and another wet process with an alkaline solution are performed, and then a further wet process with an acid solution containing hydrofluoric acid is performed. | 04-07-2011 |
20110215423 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a semiconductor device which can be miniaturized without being deteriorated in characteristics, and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface, a source region and a drain region formed apart from each other in the main surface, a gate electrode layer formed over the main surface sandwiched between the source region and the drain region, a first conductive layer formed so as to be in contact with the surface of the source region, and a second conductive layer formed so as to be in contact with the surface of the drain region. A recess is formed in the main surface so as to extend from the contact region between the first conductive layer and the source region through a part underlying the gate electrode layer to the contact region between the second conductive layer and the drain region. | 09-08-2011 |
20130084684 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The present invention improves the production yield of a semiconductor device having nonvolatile memory cells of a split gate structure. The level difference of a lower layer resist film with which an end of a memory mat is covered is gentled, the uniformity of the thickness of a resist intermediate layer formed over the lower layer resist film is improved, and local thickness reduction or disappearance is prevented by, after forming a silicon oxide film and a silicon nitride film over each of selective gate electrodes formed in a memory cell region of a semiconductor substrate, removing the silicon oxide film and the silicon nitride film over the selective gate electrode located on the outermost side (a dummy cell region) of the memory mat in the gate length direction. | 04-04-2013 |
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20080202613 | Hermetic Compressor - A hermetic compressor that has a pedestal of the valve plate to which a discharge reed equipped with an opening/closing part and discharge reed holding part, a spring reed equipped with a movable part and spring reed holding part, and a stopper equipped with a regulation part and stopper holding part, are fixed in this sequence, and also has a discharge valve device in which the spring reed is shaped in a substantially crank-like form is provided. A space is formed between the movable part of the spring reed and the opening/closing part of the discharge reed, and both are not adsorbed each other, thus preventing a delay in closing of the discharge reed. This makeup suppresses a decrease in freezing capacity of a fridge-freezer device and the like, thus implementing higher efficiency. | 08-28-2008 |
20080247886 | Hermetic Compressor - A hermetic compressor has a hermetic container storing an oil, and a compressing element accommodated in the hermetic container and compressing a refrigerant gas; the compressing element has a compressing chamber, a cylinder forming the compressing chamber, a piston inserted into the cylinder and reciprocating, and a suction muffler ( | 10-09-2008 |
20090004031 | Hermetic Compressor - A hermetic compressor includes a hermetic container having an inner space, a cylinder accommodated in the hermetic container and arranged to compress refrigerant, an intake muffler accommodated in the hermetic container and having a silencer space having a longitudinal direction, a communication tube communicating with the cylinder, and a tail tube communicating with the inner space of the hermetic container. The communication tube and the tail tube have first and second opening ends opening in the silencer space, respectively. The first and second opening ends are located in a predetermined direction from a center of the silencer space along the longitudinal direction of the silencer space. A distance between the first opening end and the second opening end along the longitudinal direction is shorter than at least one of a distance between the first opening end and the center along the longitudinal direction and a distance between the second opening end and the center along the longitudinal direction. The hermetic compressor produces little noise and has a stable performance. | 01-01-2009 |
20090116985 | Hermetic compressor - A hermetic compressor including a discharge valve system in a cylinder. A discharge valve system includes a discharge reed having an opening/closing portion and a discharge reed holding portion, a spring reed having a movable portion and a spring reed holding portion, and a stopper having a regulation portion and a stopper holding portion. The discharge reed, the spring reed and the stopper are fixed in this order to a pedestal of a valve plate. At a spring reed bending portion provided in a movable portion, the movable portion is bent toward the direction of the valve seat and the tip portion is brought into contact with the plate contact portion. Space is provided between the movable portion of the spring reed and the opening/closing portion of the discharge reed, and both are not brought into close contact with each other. Thus, delay in closing discharge reed can be prevented and deterioration of the refrigerating capacity can be suppressed. | 05-07-2009 |
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20090219455 | Liquid Crystal Display Apparatus - A liquid crystal display apparatus which includes an optical compensation layer in addition to a liquid crystal panel and which is capable of preventing degradation of the optical compensation layer, thereby providing high long-term reliability in display characteristics, is provided. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel | 09-03-2009 |
20100220278 | Method of manufacturing liquid crystal display device and liquid crystal display device fabricated by the same - A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device includes the steps of: forming a seal layer on one of a pair of substrates having a display region at a position opposed to each other and having a surrounding region around the display region, in which the seal layer is formed to have substantially a frame configuration in the surrounding region of one of the pair of substrates and configured of a thermosetting resin; dropping a liquid crystal within the frame configuration of the seal layer; forming a liquid crystal layer between the pair of substrates by superposing the pair of substrates under reduced pressure and by releasing the pressure thereafter; and thermally curing the seal layer after forming the liquid crystal layer. | 09-02-2010 |
20100225871 | Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same - A liquid crystal display includes: a pair of substrates having display regions in positions facing each other and surrounding regions around the display regions, respectively, one of the pair of substrates including a wire made of a material blocking an ultraviolet ray in the surrounding region; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates; and a sealing layer arranged so as to overlap a part or the whole of the wire in a direction where the pair of substrates face each other, and sealing the liquid crystal layer, in which the sealing layer is made of a light-curable resin or a combination type resin and includes a photopolymerization initiator, and the content of the photopolymerization initiator is within a range of 0.01 wt % to 1 wt %, and the photopolymerization initiator has a wavelength peak of 320 nm to 420 nm. | 09-09-2010 |
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20110226315 | ELECTROLYTE FOR PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENTS, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL USING THE ELECTROLYTE - An object of the present invention is to provide an electrolyte for photoelectric conversion elements, and a photoelectric conversion element and a dye-sensitized solar cell using the electrolyte, wherein high energy conversion efficiency can be achieved while substantially not including iodine. The electrolyte for a photoelectric conversion element of the present invention includes an ionic liquid (A) and a carbon material (B) having a specific surface area of from 1,000 to 3,500 m | 09-22-2011 |
20110253202 | ELECTROLYTE FOR PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENTS, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL USING THE ELECTROLYTE - An object of the present invention is to provide an electrolyte for photoelectric conversion elements, and a photoelectric conversion element and a dye-sensitized solar cell using the electrolyte, wherein high energy conversion efficiency can be achieved while substantially not including iodine. The electrolyte for a photoelectric conversion element of the present invention includes an ionic liquid (A) and a carbon material (B). The carbon material (B) is a carbon material (B1) displaying a pH, measured by a pH measuring method specified in Japanese Industry Standard (JIS) Z8802, of from 2 to 6 and/or a boron-modified acetylene black (B2). A content of the carbon material (B) is from 10 to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the ionic liquid (A). | 10-20-2011 |
20120037230 | ELECTROLYTE FOR PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENTS, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL USING THE ELECTROLYTE - An object of the present invention is to provide an electrolyte for a photoelectric conversion element that can achieve superior heat resistance, and a photoelectric conversion element and a dye-sensitized solar cell using the electrolyte. The electrolyte for a photoelectric conversion element of the present invention includes an organic salt compound (A) containing a tertiary or quaternary cation. Additionally, at least an organic salt compound (a1) containing a tertiary or quaternary cation and a thiocyanate anion is used as the organic salt compound (A). | 02-16-2012 |
20130008502 | ELECTROLYTE FOR PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENTS, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL USING THE ELECTROLYTE - An object of the present invention is to provide an electrolyte for a photoelectric conversion element that can achieve superior moisture resistance, and a photoelectric conversion element and a dye-sensitized solar cell using the electrolyte. An electrolyte for a photoelectric conversion element of the present invention includes an ionic liquid (A) and a lamellar clay mineral (B). Additionally, the lamellar clay mineral (B) contains an alkylsilyl group. | 01-10-2013 |
20130146143 | ELECTROLYTE FOR PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT USING THE ELECTROLYTE, AND DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL USING THE ELECTROLYTE - An object of the present invention is to provide an electrolyte for a photoelectric conversion element that can achieve superior moisture resistance. The electrolyte for a photoelectric conversion element of the present invention is an electrolyte for a photoelectric conversion element which contains an organic salt compound (A) and a lamellar clay mineral (B), wherein the above-mentioned organic salt compound (A) contains more than 50 mass %, in terms of cationic weight, of an organic salt compound (a1) having a specific cation. | 06-13-2013 |
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20130206235 | ELECTROLYTE FOR PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL USING SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide an electrolyte for a photoelectric conversion element that can achieve superior moisture resistance, and a photoelectric conversion element and a dye-sensitized solar cell using the electrolyte. The electrolyte for a photoelectric conversion element of the present invention includes an organic solvent (A) and a lamellar clay mineral (B). The organic solvent (A) has a boiling point of 150° C. or higher, and a relative dielectric constant of 20 or higher. | 08-15-2013 |
20140030594 | CONDUCTIVE POLYMER/POROUS CARBON MATERIAL COMPOSITE AND ELECTRODE MATERIAL USING SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide: an electric double-layer capacitor, a lithium ion secondary battery, and a lithium ion capacitor, each of which has excellent cycle characteristics; an electrode material which is capable of providing the electric double-layer capacitor, the lithium ion secondary battery, and the lithium ion capacitor; and a composite which is used in the electrode material. The composite of the present invention is a composite produced by compositing from 0.5 to 5 parts by mass of nitrogen atom-containing conductive polymer per 100 parts by mass of porous carbon material. The composite of the present invention is a composite where the peak area ratio (nitrogen/carbon ratio) of peak area derived from nitrogen atoms to peak area derived from carbon atoms in the spectrum by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy becomes 0.005 to 0.05. | 01-30-2014 |
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20100309938 | LASER DRIVING DEVICE AND LASER DRIVING METHOD - A laser driving device includes: a pulse signal generating unit that, after a voltage has risen from a predetermined reference voltage to a predetermined output voltage and a time of a sum of an oscillation period of relaxation oscillation and a light emission start time in a predetermined laser diode has nearly elapsed, generates a pulse signal having a waveform that falls divisionally in two or more stages from the output voltage to the reference voltage; and an output unit that generates a laser drive signal by performing signal processing on the pulse signal and outputs the signal to the laser diode. | 12-09-2010 |
20110194391 | LASER DEVICE, OPTICAL PICKUP, AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE - A laser device includes a semiconductor laser, a signal generating circuit generating a pulse signal for driving the semiconductor laser, an amplifying circuit amplifying the pulse signal, and a control circuit unit provided between the amplifying circuit and the semiconductor laser and controlling the pulse signal by letting alternating-current components of the pulse signal pass through and removing at least part of direct-current components of the pulse signal. | 08-11-2011 |
20120044791 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus, which records information in an optical recording medium, includes: a mode-lock laser unit including a saturable absorber section that applies a bias voltage, a gain section that feeds a gain current, a semiconductor laser that emits laser light used to record the information on the optical recording medium, and an external resonator; an optical modulation unit performing amplification modulation on the laser light emitted from the mode-lock laser unit; a reference signal generation unit generating a master clock signal and supplying a signal synchronized with the master clock signal to the gain section of the semiconductor laser; a recording signal generation unit generating a recoding signal based on the master clock signal; and a driving circuit generating a driving pulse used to drive the optical modulation unit based on the recording signal. | 02-23-2012 |
20120063288 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus for recording information on an optical recording medium includes a mode-locked laser unit that includes a semiconductor laser emitting a laser beam for recording the information on the optical recording medium, and an external resonator, an optical modulation unit that amplifies and modulates the laser beam emitted from the mode-locked laser unit, a recording signal generation unit that generates a recording signal based on a reference signal from a drive of the optical recording medium, and a modulation unit that generates a modulation signal for driving the optical modulation unit by latching the recording signal using a laser clock generated by an oscillation pulse of the laser beam emitted from the mode-locked laser unit. | 03-15-2012 |
20130021425 | OPTICAL OSCILLATION DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is a recording apparatus including a self-excited oscillation semiconductor laser that has a double quantum well separate confinement heterostructure and includes a saturable absorber section to which a negative bias voltage is applied and a gain section into which a gain current is injected, an optical separation unit, an objective lens, a light reception element, a pulse detection unit, a reference signal generation unit, a phase comparison unit, a recording signal generation unit, and a control unit. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021887 | OPTICAL OSCILLATION DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is a recording apparatus including a self-excited oscillation semiconductor laser that has a double quantum well separate confinement heterostructure and includes a saturable absorber section to which a negative bias voltage is applied and a gain section into which a gain current is injected, an optical separation unit, an objective lens, a light reception element, a pulse detection unit, a reference signal generation unit, a phase comparison unit, a recording signal generation unit, and a control unit. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021891 | OPTICAL OSCILLATION DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is a recording apparatus including a self-excited oscillation semiconductor laser that has a double quantum well separate confinement heterostructure and includes a saturable absorber section to which a negative bias voltage is applied and a gain section into which a gain current is injected, an optical separation unit, an objective lens, a light reception element, a pulse detection unit, a reference signal generation unit, a phase comparison unit, a recording signal generation unit, and a control unit. | 01-24-2013 |
20130235710 | LIGHT SOURCE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - There is provided a light source including a mode-lock laser unit that includes a semiconductor laser and an external resonator unit and emits a laser beam having a predetermined frequency, the semiconductor laser including a saturable absorber unit that applies a reverse bias voltage and a gain unit that applies a gain current, a semiconductor optical amplifier that performs amplification modulation on the laser beam emitted from the mode-lock laser unit, a laser clock generating unit that generates a laser clock synchronized with the laser beam based on a signal detected from the saturable absorber unit when the laser beam oscillates in the mode-lock laser unit, and a modulating unit that generates a driving current synchronized with the laser clock and applies the driving current to the semiconductor optical amplifier. | 09-12-2013 |