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20090245759 | TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEIVER, AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - A reception apparatus which can link with an external device via a network, and where the external device receives and records a channel signal from broadcasted programs, including: a reception system configured to receive the channel signal from the external device; an output device configured to output the channel signal received by the reception system; and a request unit to send a request for time shift reading to the external device; wherein the external device starts time shift reading of said channel signal according to said request, and the reception system receives the channel signal time shift read and the output device outputs it. | 10-01-2009 |
20100135638 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - There is provided a method by which, when a broadcast receiving device downloads and stores a content with an expiration time from a communication line etc, and a user reproduces the content, an electronic clock for judging the validity of the expiration time is set to a correct time and whether to reproduce the content or not is properly judged by using the correct time. In the method, the user is not allowed to set the electronic clock inside the broadcast receiving device, the clock is not set when the receiving device is started up, and time information is acquired from a broadcast wave or a communication line. If the time information is successfully acquired, the electronic clock is set by the acquired time information and then is used for judging the expiration time for use of the content on the assumption that the clock has been set correctly. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138536 | DOWNLOAD CONTROL DEVICE - When download operations get started in unison in conformity to RSS metafile delivery time-and-date information, the traffic is temporarily concentrated to a server, resulting in the risk of a system failure or else. In addition, it is inevitable to periodically check whether an RSS file on Web server is updated or not; so, users must delete update-unnecessary RSS files from those objects to be monitored. In view of this, the periodical update check timing of download control information is dispersed, thereby scattering download requests to the server. The download control information is provided with the information indicating whether such download control information is put under update management and/or expire time-and-date information in case the update management is to be done, whereby an information processing apparatus performs, based on the information, erase processing of the download control information when the download processing is completed. | 06-03-2010 |
20100275006 | RECEIVER AND RECEIVING METHOD - By deciding procedures for downloading content data and downloading key information, a safe service is provided for a content distributor and a method which can start playback before completion of the downloading of the content data is provided, thereby providing a technique easy for a user. A receiver has: an interface unit being adapted to download encoded content data and key information for decoding the content data from a communication line; a storage unit being adapted to store the downloaded content data and key information from the interface unit; and a control unit which decodes the content data outputted from the storage unit using the key information. The control unit downloads the key information after the content data is downloaded entirely. | 10-28-2010 |
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20130040209 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION CONTAINING CYCLIC SULFONE COMPOUND, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - A non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing a cyclic sulfone compound having a 1,3-dithietane-1,1,3,3-tetraoxide structure is provided. The cyclic sultone compound is preferably a compound represented by formula (I) [wherein in formula (I), R | 02-14-2013 |
20130071732 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION CONTAINING SILYL ESTER GROUP-CONTAINING PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte solution which contains a silyl ester group-containing phosphonic acid derivative. | 03-21-2013 |
20130171514 | CYCLIC SULFATE COMPOUND, NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION CONTAINING SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - A non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing a cyclic sulfate compound represented by formula (I) is provided, wherein in formula (I), R | 07-04-2013 |
20140272556 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION CONTAINING PHOSPHONOSULFONIC ACID COMPOUND, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - The invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing a phosphonosulfonic acid compound represented by formula (I):
| 09-18-2014 |
20140367868 | SEALING COMPOSITION FOR SEMICONDUCTOR, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND POLYMER AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - In the invention, a sealing composition for a semiconductor is provided which includes a polymer that includes two or more cationic functional groups including at least one of a tertiary nitrogen atom or a quaternary nitrogen atom, that has a weight average molecular weight of from 2,000 to 1,000,000, and that has a branching degree of 48% or more, wherein a content of sodium and a content of potassium in the sealing composition are each 10 ppb by weight or less on an element basis. | 12-18-2014 |
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20130217466 | GAMING MACHINE - On a lower image display panel | 08-22-2013 |
20130217467 | GAMING MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The following steps are executed: a step of randomly determining a payout by display area random determination; a step of displaying, on a lower image display panel | 08-22-2013 |
20130217468 | GAMING MACHINE - When the game result of a base game in which symbols | 08-22-2013 |
20130217469 | GAMING MACHINE - On a lower image display panel | 08-22-2013 |
20130217484 | GAMING MACHINE - A gaming machine | 08-22-2013 |
20140094254 | GAMING MACHINE ARRANGING SYMBOLS - Provided is a gaming machine which does not bore the player through reel actions until completion of rearrangement of symbols. Under the condition where predetermined symbols are aligned on a payline when the symbols of a first scroll line of at least one of a plurality of scroll lines are being scrolled and symbols on the remaining second scroll lines are stopped, the gaming machine changes scrolling motion of symbols of the first scroll line. | 04-03-2014 |
20140200064 | GAMING MACHINE AND GAMING METHOD - A gaming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first display unit that includes a plurality of reels including a plurality of symbols thereon; and a controller configured to: determine whether a rendering effect activation is selected; execute a game by spinning and stopping the plurality of reels of the display device; and perform a rendering effect on the spinning and stopping of the plurality of reels when it is determined that the rendering effect activation is selected. | 07-17-2014 |
20140274293 | GAMING MACHINE HAVING A FIRST DISPLAY AND A SECOND DISPLAY - Provided is a gaming machine that can offer various play patterns and payout patterns without giving the player distrust or uncomfortableness. Upon establishment of a bonus trigger, a main CPU conducts a jackpot challenge lottery; if a jackpot is drawn, conducts another lottery to select either one of the prizes, Credit or Jackpot+Credit; if the prize Credit is drawn, pays out a determined amount to be credited; if the prize Jackpot+Credit is drawn, conducts another lottery for a jackpot prize, and pays out the amount corresponding to the drawn prize and the amount to be credited. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274300 | GAMING MACHINE - On a lower image display panel | 09-18-2014 |
20140315617 | GAMING MACHINE CAPABLE OF REPEATEDLY EXECUTING A UNIT GAME - A gaming machine that is capable of imparting diversified variations to the play of a bonus game is provided. A main CPU displays a selection screen in a case where a feature game trigger is established, and causes a player to select one of a free game and a roulette game. In a case where the free game is selected, a total of values of BONUS symbols that correspond to the feature game trigger is determined as the number of free games. On the other hand, in a case where the roulette game is selected, a game is completed by carrying out roulette game processing once, and the amount of payouts is determined based on the number of free games. The free game and the roulette game are respectively set so that expectation values of the number of payouts are equal to each other. | 10-23-2014 |
20140315618 | GAMING MACHINE CAPABLE OF REPEATEDLY EXECUTING A UNIT GAME - A gaming machine that is capable of achieving respectively different game patterns at a time of a bonus game is provided. A main CPU displays a selection screen in a case where a feature game trigger is established, and causes a player to select either one of a free game and a roulette game. In a case where the free game is selected, a total of values that correspond to BONUS symbols that correspond to the feature game trigger is determined as the number of free games. The main CPU conducts lottery processing for determination of symbols and lottery processing for determination of BONUS symbol values. The values that correspond to the BONUS symbols are added on one by one basis, and a progress of obtaining the number of free games is displayed as effect on a video display unit. | 10-23-2014 |
20140339768 | REEL BAND FOR GAMING MACHINE AND GAMING MACHINE - To provide a reel device for a gaming machine capable of increasing a reel illumination effect by varying illumination onto the reel. A reel band which is attached to a rotatable reel of a gaming machine includes a base sheet, a light reflecting sheet which has a reflecting surface reflecting light from a front surface side and is superimposed on the base sheet, and a light diffusing sheet which has a light refracting surface, which transmits light and refracts light to be transmitted in multiple directions, and is superimposed on the light reflecting sheet. | 11-20-2014 |
20150087387 | Gaming Machine - A gaming machine capable of realizing game patterns differing from one another in a bonus game is provided. A main CPU | 03-26-2015 |
20150087391 | GAMING MACHINE - A gaming machine capable of realizing game patterns differing from one another in a bonus game is provided. A main CPU | 03-26-2015 |
20150325083 | GAMING MACHINE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a gaming machine that offers wider applicability and more enjoyment. To this end, a slot machine | 11-12-2015 |
20150332544 | REEL STRIP FOR GAMING MACHINE - Provided is a gaming machine having a reel strip that enables the player to speedily and easily see whether a wining pattern is completed. The reel strip for the gaming machine includes a symbol area including a winning element symbol based on which winning or not is determined and a blank area including a blank symbol irrelevant to determination of winning; the symbol area and the blank area are disposed adjacent to each other and the blank area is formed seamlessly with the symbol area as a part of the symbol area. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332545 | GAMING MACHINE - Provided is a gaming machine that can prevent the player from getting bored with symbol effects until the symbols have been rearranged. The gaming machine randomly determines symbols to be rearranged in a display region, identifies an arrangement pattern of special symbols in the display region determined with the symbols determined in the symbol determination processing, and determines symbol effects by motion of symbols from start of movement until completion of rearrangement of the symbols based on the arrangement pattern. | 11-19-2015 |
20160086430 | GAMING SYSTEM - Gaming machines execute processes of: determining the symbols to be rearranged by symbol random determination in which random determination probabilities of the symbols are different between the gaming machines; based on the symbols rearranged by the symbol random determination, awarding the special payout; and awarding the special payout by second random determination in which random determination is executed at a predetermined probability, which is different from the symbol random determination. | 03-24-2016 |
20160093145 | GAMING MACHINE FOR PERFORMING FREE GAME TRIGGERED FROM NORMAL GAME AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREOF - To provide a gaming machine that can achieve higher entertainment properties. When the game transfers from the normal game to the free game, a roulette type selection process is carried out for determining a reference payout value that serves as a basis for the payout awarded when FEATURE symbols are arranged in a display window. In this roulette type selection process, it is determined that any of the fixed payout regions associated with the predetermined payout value or the non-fixed payout regions are stopped. When the fixed payout region is determined to be stopped, the payout value associated with the fixed payout region is awarded. When the non-fixed payout region is determined to be stopped, the mystery payout drawing process in which the awarded payout value is determined at random is additionally performed, and thus the payout value determined through the payout drawing is awarded. Then, the payout value awarded as described above is set as the reference payout value. | 03-31-2016 |
20160093146 | GAMING MACHINE THAT SHOWS CONSECUTIVE SYMBOLS OF SPECIFIC KIND - Provided is a gaming machine capable of changing a symbol when a predetermined condition is satisfied even though the gaming machine is a type of gaming machine that mechanically drives real reels. The gaming machine drives the reels to show a second symbol and drives the reels to show consecutive first symbols when the second symbol is shown. | 03-31-2016 |
20160093172 | GAMING MACHINE - A gaming machine includes: a display device; a storage device configured to store payout data indicative of relation between symbols and payouts; a controller configured to modify a setting of the group of reel strips, at a time of the second game so that the symbol arrays used in the second game leads to a higher expectation value for a payout determined based on a single set of the payout data, as compared with the symbol arrays used in the base game; and an input device for entering a selection of selectable targets displayed on the display device, the selectable targets including a selectable target corresponding to success and a selectable target corresponding to fail. When a payout is determined in the second game and the selectable target corresponding to success is selected through the input device, the controller executes a process of upgrading the payout through a predetermined calculation. | 03-31-2016 |
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20090068049 | ROTARY EQUIPMENT AND OIL PUMP - An oil pump has: a base part having a working chamber; and a rotor provided rotatably in the working chamber. The base part is configured by a plurality of split bodies. At least one of the plurality of split bodies is made of aluminum alloy, and on which an opposed sliding surface made of a ceramic film is formed. The ceramic film of the opposed sliding surface has a hardness of approximately Hv 500 to 1100 and a surface roughness of approximately 2 to 8 micrometers, and contains α-alumina and zirconia. | 03-12-2009 |
20090301887 | METAL PART AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING METAL PART - A method of manufacturing a metal part in which a base material of an aluminum alloy as an anode is immersed in an electrolyte together with a cathode, and at least a portion of a surface of the base material is anodized and coated with an anodic oxide film, the method includes: increasing a current density provided to both the anode and the cathode from an initial current density of 0 A/dm | 12-10-2009 |
20130193371 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SECONDARY BATTERY - A method of manufacturing a secondary battery, using an electrode plate having an electrode mixture layer formed from an electrode mixture paste, includes performing wet preliminary kneading to knead a powder and a solvent with a stirrer, while measuring kneading torque, determining a mixing ratio of the powder to the solvent used in the wet preliminary kneading in the case where the kneading torque once increases as kneading time passes from start of kneading, reaches a peak value, and then decreases, as a desirable mixing ratio, and performing main kneading to mix and knead the powder and the solvent of the electrode mixture paste, at the mixing ratio determined as the desirable mixing ratio, at a shearing speed that does not exceed a speed of shearing a mixture of the powder and the solvent with the stirrer during the wet preliminary kneading, and producing the electrode mixture paste. | 08-01-2013 |
20140056095 | KNEADING DEVICE AND KNEADING METHOD FOR ELECTRICITY STORAGE MATERIAL - A kneading device includes an index setting portion that sets an index for kneading based on a motion energy of particles of an electricity storage material, a mean free path of the particles of the electricity storage material, and a kneading time for the electricity storage material, a condition setting portion that sets a condition for the kneading based on the set index for the kneading, and a kneading control portion that controls the kneading of the electricity storage material in accordance with the set condition for the kneading. | 02-27-2014 |
20140374643 | MAGNET MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MAGNET - There is provided a magnet manufacturing method with which a high residual magnetic flux density is obtained without using dysprosium (Dy) and without using a bonding agent. Magnetic powders made of a hard magnetic material formed of a R—Fe—N compound containing a rare earth element as R or formed of a Fe—N compound are used. In a pressurizing step, the magnetic powders are pressurized by molds multiple times to form a primary compact. In a baking step, a secondary compact is formed by heating the primary compact in an oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature lower than a decomposition temperature of the magnetic powders to bond together the outer surfaces of the adjacent magnetic powders with oxide films formed on the outer surfaces of the magnetic powders. | 12-25-2014 |
20150200396 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICITY STORAGE MATERIAL - An apparatus and method for manufacturing an electricity storage material are provided which allow easily measuring the dissolution rate to solubility of a solution of a powder thickener dissolved in a liquid solvent. An apparatus for manufacturing an electricity storage material includes: a dissolving device that dissolves in a liquid solvent a thickener as powder that is ionized when dissolved; and a dissolution-rate-to-solubility determining device that measures conductivity of the solution produced by the dissolving device and determines a dissolution rate to solubility of the solution based on the measured conductivity. The dissolution rate to solubility can thus be determined without the need to stop the dissolving device during dissolution of the thickener in the liquid solvent. This can significantly improve production efficiency. Since excessive operation of the dissolving device can be prevented, energy saving can be achieved. | 07-16-2015 |
20150239151 | KNEADING DEVICE - A kneading device includes: a preliminary kneading device that produces a preslurry by agitating a powder and a liquid introduced and transferring them while wetting the powder with the liquid; and a main kneading device that causes the powder to be uniformly dispersed in the preslurry supplied from the preliminary kneading device to produce a slurry. The main kneading device includes a gap defined by two conical surfaces that face each other with a predetermined distance therebetween and rotate relative to each other about their central axes. The slurry is produced by passing the preslurry through the gap. With the preliminary kneading device, the powder is dispersed in the liquid after conforming to the liquid, which suppress damage to the powder. The conditions of main kneading can be changed only by adjusting the gap, which facilitates the operation of changing the conditions of the main kneading. | 08-27-2015 |
20150243963 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ELECTRICITY STORAGE MATERIAL - A production apparatus for producing an electricity storage material is provided. The electricity storage material includes at least a thickener and an active material. The production apparatus includes a solution production device and a mixture-kneading device. The solution production device produces a surfactant-containing solution of the thickener. The mixture-kneading device kneads the solution together with a powder of the active material. | 08-27-2015 |
20150360392 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICITY STORAGE MATERIAL - An apparatus and a method for manufacturing an electricity storage material are provided which can avoid defective coating of the electricity storage material. An apparatus for manufacturing an electricity storage material includes: a dissolving device that dissolves a thickener in a solvent; a viscosity adjusting device that adjusts viscosity of a solution produced by the dissolving device; a first filtering device that filters the solution having the viscosity adjusted by the viscosity adjusting device; and a kneading device that kneads the solution filtered by the first filtering device and an active material. Since the apparatus can remove almost all microgels of the thickener by the first filtering device, defective coating can be prevented in the coating of the electricity storage material, and satisfactory electrodes can be manufactured. | 12-17-2015 |
20150364737 | METHOD FOR DRYING SEPARATOR FOR NON-AQUEOUS ELECTRIC STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRIC STORAGE APPARATUS - In a method for drying a separator for a non-aqueous electric storage device including an organic material that thermally shrinks at a thermal shrinkage start temperature of 100° C. or lower, a solvent impregnation and a drying are executed in this order; the solvent impregnation includes bringing the separator into contact with a solvent that has affinity for water and that causes the azeotropic phenomenon at a temperature lower than the boiling point of water so as to lower an azeotropic temperature of a mixture of moisture in the separator and the solvent below a temperature at which the separator starts thermal shrinkage, and the drying includes drying the separator brought into contact with the solvent at a temperature lower than a temperature at which the separator starts thermal shrinkage and higher than the azeotropic point. | 12-17-2015 |
20160075052 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICITY STORAGE MATERIAL - An apparatus for manufacturing an electricity storage material includes: a dissolving device that dissolves a thickener in a solvent; a viscosity adjusting device that adjusts viscosity of the solution of the thickener; a stirring device that mixes the solution of the thickener adjusted in viscosity and powder of an active substance to produce a first mixture, and stirs the first mixture to produce a second mixture; a heating device that heats the solution of the thickener or the first mixture by the time the stirring of the first mixture is started after the solution of the thickener is produced, so as to heat the solution of the thickener contained in the first mixture; and a kneading device that kneads the solution of the thickener and the powder of the active substance which are contained in the second mixture to produce a third mixture. | 03-17-2016 |
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20090025144 | Flame-Retardant Bedding - The object of the present invention is to provide a bedding in which polyester having excellent elasticity is used for a batting therein, and which is provided with high-grade flame retardance so as to withstand long-time flaming, even though only a small amount of a halogen-containing fiber is used therein. By configuring the flame-retardant bedding product so that it is composed of a batting and a ticking for covering the batting and that the batting comprises a cellulose fiber (A), a polyester fiber (B), and a halogen-containing fiber (C) as essential components, the bedding product is caused to achieve the above-described object. In addition to the excellent flame retardance, the bedding product of the present invention is allowed to have excellent cushiony properties, since a large amount of a polyester fiber can be used therein because the amount of a halogen-containing fiber used therein is relatively small. Further, with the present invention, even a flame-retardant bedding product in which an easily inflammable fiber such as a polyester fiber or a cellulose fiber is used for a ticking exhibits sufficient flame retardance. Therefore, it is possible to provide a bedding that exhibits excellent feeling and touch as well as flame retardance. | 01-29-2009 |
20090311933 | Flame-retardant low-resilience urethane foam cushion - A low-resilience urethane foam cushion that is comfortable and has high flame retardancy. It sufficiently retains the unique texture and comfort inherent in low-resilience urethane foam materials for use as cushions or pillows. It further retains the intact excellent texture, touch feeling, and other properties inherent in fibrous materials. The low-resilience urethane foam cushion is obtained by covering a low-resilience urethane foam with a flame-barrier fabric made of at least two members selected from the group consisting of halogenated fibers (A), flame-retardant cellulosic fibers (B), cellulosic fibers (C), and polyester fibers (D), wherein the sum of (A) and (B) is 25 to 75 wt. % of the flame-barrier fabric, the sum of (B) and (C) is 30 wt. % or more of the flame-barrier fabric, the amount of (C) alone is up to 75 wt. % of the flame-barrier fabric, and the amount of (D) alone is up to 30 wt. % of the flame-barrier fabric. | 12-17-2009 |
20140048489 | ION-EXCHANGE FIBERS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, METHOD FOR REMOVING AND ADSORBING CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE IN WATER, AND DEVICE FOR REMOVING AND ADSORBING CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE IN WATER - Provided is an ion-exchange fiber including a polymer A obtained by introducing an ion-exchangeable substituent to 100 parts by weight of an acrylic polymer that is obtained by polymerization of a monomer composition containing 30% by weight or more of acrylonitrile with respect to 100% by weight of the composition and a polymer B obtained by introducing an ion-exchangeable substituent to 1 part by weight or more and 100 parts by weight or less of an epoxy group-containing polymer. Each ion-exchangeable substituent is introduced by reaction with an amine compound and is an ion-exchangeable substituent derived from the amine compound. A method for producing the ion-exchange fiber is also provided. | 02-20-2014 |
20150057380 | VINYL CHLORIDE-BASED COPOLYMER POROUS BODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A vinyl chloride-based copolymer porous body contains a vinyl chloride-based copolymer as the main component. The vinyl chloride-based copolymer porous body has continuous pores having a pore size of 0.1 to 40 μm, the pores have a skeletal diameter of 0.1 to 20 μm, and the vinyl chloride-based copolymer has a thickness of 1 mm or more. Such a vinyl chloride-based copolymer porous body can be produced by a production method including the steps of: heating and dissolving the vinyl chloride-based copolymer in a solvent to obtain a vinyl chloride-based copolymer solution; cooling the vinyl chloride-based copolymer solution to obtain a precipitated product; and separating and drying the product to obtain a porous body containing the vinyl chloride-based copolymer as the main component. | 02-26-2015 |