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20100029690 | NITROGEN-CONTAINING HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS - Nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds represented by the following Formula (1) are provided. The compounds or salts thereof have a strong EP1 antagonistic activity when they are administered to a human or an animal, and they are useful as an effective component of a pharmaceutical agent for prophylaxis and/or treatment of an overactive bladder, for example. Furthermore, they are useful as an effective component of a pharmaceutical agent for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of symptoms including frequent urination, urinary urgency and urinary incontinence. | 02-04-2010 |
20100029733 | BICYCLIC NITROGEN-CONTAINING HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS - A nitrogen-containing bicyclic heterocyclic compound represented by the following formula (1) is provided. When the compound or a salt thereof is administered to a human being or an animal, the compound has a strong antagonistic action against EP1 receptors, and is useful, for example, as an active ingredient of a medicine for the prevention and/or treatment of overactive bladder. The compound is also useful as an active ingredient of a medicine for the prevention and/or treatment of symptoms such as frequency urinary, urinary urgency, or urinary incontinence. | 02-04-2010 |
20100152265 | INDAZOLE DERIVATIVES - Compounds represented by the Formula (A-1) and the Formula (1) or salt thereof are provided. The compounds represented by the Formula (A-1) and the Formula (1) or salt thereof have a β3 adrenergic receptor agonist activity, and therefore are useful as an agent for the prevention and treatment of diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia, depression, biliary stone, a disorder derived from hyperactivity of biliary tract, a disorder derived from hyperactivity of digestive tract, interstitial cystitis, overactive bladder, urinary incontinence or a disorder derived from decreased tear secretion, etc. | 06-17-2010 |
20100160256 | INDAZOLE COMPOUNDS - Provided are compounds represented by the following formula (A-1) and formula (1), or salts thereof. The compounds of formula (A-1) and formula (1) or salts thereof have 133 adrenergic receptor agonist activity, and thus are useful as therapeutic and prophylactic agent for diabetes mellitus, obesity, hyperlipidemia, depression, diseases caused by gallstones or hypermotility of the biliary tract, diseases caused by hyperactivity of the digestive tract, interstitial cystitis, overactive bladder or urinary incontinence, or as therapeutic and prophylactic agents for diseases concomitant with decreased tears. | 06-24-2010 |
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20100175077 | DISK REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A disk reproducing apparatus includes a disk detecting lever that has a switch abutting section and a light intercepting section and rotates according to the loading operation and the ejecting operation of a disk caused by abutment of the outer edge of the disk against a detecting pin; a single switch that is switched by the switch abutting section and thereby detects the loading start position, and also the inserting position of the disk; and a single photosensor that detects the inserting position of the disk with keeping the light intercepting condition thereof by either the light intercepting section or the disk and also detects the ejection end position when the light intercepting condition brought about by the disk has been released and then the light intercepting condition brought about by the light intercepting section is released. | 07-08-2010 |
20100180288 | DISC DEVICE - A disc device includes a conveying roller and a disc guide which are disposed in such a way as to be able to move upwardly and downwardly with respect to a main unit thereof, and a moving unit for downwardly moving said conveying roller and said disc guide by different amounts of travel respectively in synchronization with a downward movement of an inserted disc and placement of the disc on a turntable. | 07-15-2010 |
20100205624 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - A lever having an end rotatably supported by a rack is disposed, a long groove is formed in either another end of the lever or a base chassis and extends in a direction approximately perpendicular to a direction of transporting an optical pickup, a fulcrum member is disposed in either the base chassis or the other end and is rotatably and slidably engaged with the long groove, and to slide along the long groove when the optical pickup is transported, and a spring that always exerts a pushing force in a direction of rotating the lever with the other end being a fulcrum and with the end being a point of action to exert a pushing force of bringing the rack into contact a gear series upon the rack is disposed between a predetermined position of the base chassis and an intermediate position of the lever. | 08-12-2010 |
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20100168319 | FLUOROCOPOLYMER AND WATER AND OIL PROOFING COMPOSITION, AND PROCESSES FOR THEIR PRODUCTION - A fluorocopolymer capable of exhibiting excellent water and oil resistance even with its perfluoroalkyl group being a short chain, and a water and oil proofing composition containing it, are provided. | 07-01-2010 |
20140045992 | WATER/OIL REPELLENT COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION AND ARTICLE - A water/oil repellent composition comprising a polymer having structural units based on the following monomer (a) and structural units based on the following monomer (b), and an aqueous medium containing water and the following amide solvent (I) is used. Monomer (a): a compound represented by (Z—Y) | 02-13-2014 |
20140051805 | WATER/OIL REPELLENT COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION AND ARTICLE - To provide a water/oil repellent composition with which an article which has favorable water/oil repellency and washing durability, and into which infiltration of a coating liquid can be suppressed, is obtained, and which presents a low environmental impact, its production method and an article having its surface treated with the composition. A water/oil repellent composition comprising a copolymer (X) having structural units based on the monomer (a) and structural units based on the monomer (b), and an aqueous medium, wherein the mass average molecular weight of the copolymer is at least 60,000, and the proportion of the structural units based on the monomer (a) is 60 to 95 mass %. Monomer (a): by (Z—Y) | 02-20-2014 |
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20120253209 | VENOUS PRESSURE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - A non-invasive venous pressure measurement apparatus is provided, including: a first cuff attached to a portion including a vein and an artery in a living body; a pressure control unit that changes a first applied pressure applied by the cuff to the portion; a pulse wave detection unit that detects a pulse wave from a pressure received by the cuff from the portion; another pulse wave detection unit that detects another pulse wave including at least an arterial pulse wave in another portion of the living body; an analyzing unit that analyzes a correlation between the two pulse waves, which are changed as the applied pressure is changed by the pressure control unit changes; and a venous pressure calculation unit that calculates a venous pressure based on the applied pressure and a result of analysis by the analyzing unit. | 10-04-2012 |
20130158419 | APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION - An apparatus for evaluating a vascular endothelial function, includes: a cuff pressure controlling unit configured to perform continuous pressure stimulation on a part of a body of a subject for a predetermined time, by using a cuff adapted to be wrapped around the part of the body of the subject; a cuff pressure detecting unit configured to detect a cuff pressure from an output of a pressure sensor connected to the cuff; a pulse wave detecting unit configured to detect a pulse wave from the output of the pressure sensor; and an analyzing unit configured to evaluate the vascular endothelial function by comparing vessel viscoelastic indexes which are obtained from the pulse wave detected in two of zones before, during, and after the pressure stimulation, and which exclude an amplitude of the pulse wave. | 06-20-2013 |
20130165787 | CUFF AND METHOD OF OBSERVING A TISSUE UNDER PRESSURE BY USING THE SAME - A cuff includes: a belt-like body which is adapted to be wrapped around a desired region of a living body; a fixing portion which is provided in the body, and which is configured to fix the body in a state where the body is adapted to be wrapped around the region of the living body; a pressurizing portion which is provided in the body, and to which a fluid pressure is to be supplied to be inflated to pressurize the region of the living body; and an ultrasonic transmissive portion which is provided in the body, and through which an ultrasonic wave for observing a tissue in the region of the living body is transmissible. | 06-27-2013 |
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20110016486 | PASSENGER INFORMATION CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIDEO DATA FOR PASSENGER INFORMATION CONTROL DEVICE - A passenger information control device having a video display controller that transmits video data sent from a ground transmission controller to display devices in a train includes: a storage unit that stores a program table and the video data, the program table storing a number of times an advertisement video has been presented, a validity period of the advertisement video, a time period from the last presentation time to the present, and a volume of the video data, being associated with each advertisement; a deletion determining unit that determines whether to designate the video data as a candidate for deletion based on a program table; and a deleting unit that deletes the video data stored in the storage unit based on determination by the deletion determining unit. | 01-20-2011 |
20110314494 | ON-TRAIN INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, ON-TRAIN INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, AND AUDIO DATA PROVIDING METHOD - The on-train information providing device, which is provided with a controlling unit that transmits to the display device video data that is transmitted from the ground transmitting and receiving device to the on-train transmitting and receiving device, includes a storage unit that stores therein a program listing in which a valid period of video is stored in accordance with each advertisement, audio data transmitted from the ground transmitting and receiving device to the on-train transmitting and receiving device, and video data including audio data; and a sound recognizing unit that attaches a value of 1 or greater as an audio flag to the program listing when the video data does not include any audio data, and attaches 0 as the audio flag to the program listing when the video data includes audio data. The controlling unit sends the audio data corresponding to the audio flag to the radio radiating device. | 12-22-2011 |
20130211670 | IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION SYSTEM - An in-vehicle information system that notifies passengers in a vehicle of guidance information, including a display input unit having a display unit that displays the guidance information and an input unit that covers the display unit and detects touch operations by the passengers to be output as input operation information, and an information control unit that switches and outputs the guidance information to the display unit according to driving states of the vehicle and classifies the guidance information into first information to be provided to the passengers according to the input operation information and second information to be provided to the passengers according to the driving states of the vehicle to output the first information to the display unit according to the input operation information. | 08-15-2013 |
20130283655 | VIDEO INFORMATION DISTRIBUTING AND DISPLAYING SYSTEM AND VIDEO INFORMATION DISTRIBUTING AND DISPLAYING METHOD - A screen creating unit selects component contents for displaying a station name array, in which a plurality of station names on a route are arrayed in order of arrival, from a component-content storing unit, moves, according to component arrangement definition data and component motion definition data, the component contents little by little in an array direction from a state in which only a part of station names on a starting station side among the station names are arranged in a scroll display region to a state in which only a part of station names on a terminal station side are arranged, and creates an image of only a portion in the scroll display region without creating the image of a portion outside the scroll display region among the component contents to thereby create a plurality of frames continuous in time series. | 10-31-2013 |
20140049408 | IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD - An in-vehicle information distribution device includes a current-status-information acquisition unit that acquires current-status information, a status-type determination unit that refers to a status-type list table, and determines to which of status types classified in the status-type list table the current-status information corresponds, a status determination unit that refers to a status-type/status-determination-information correspondence table, acquires status-determination information corresponding to the determined status type, and determines a status of a train based on the status-determination information, and a display-content decision unit that refers to a status-type/display-content-information correspondence table, which classifies a display content to be displayed on a display device (AC-drive) and a display device (DC-drive) into status types, acquires display-content information corresponding to the determined status type, and selects display data corresponding to the display-content information. | 02-20-2014 |
20140324346 | IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS - An in-vehicle information providing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores therein a station-facility image management table in which station-facility image selection conditions including at least a station name, a traveling direction, and a door opening direction are associated with station facility images, and a station-facility image database in which a plurality of station facility images corresponding to the station-facility image selection conditions are registered for each station. The in-vehicle information providing apparatus further includes an image-display control unit that selects, from the station-facility image database, a station facility image in which train information acquired from a train information management apparatus matches with the station-facility image selection conditions, by referring to the station-facility image management table, and transmits the selected station facility image as station-facility image information to the respective display units. | 10-30-2014 |
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20080264098 | Heat Exchanger, Air Conditioning Device Equipped with Heat Exchanger, and Air Property Converter - A heat exchanger has multiple laminated fins | 10-30-2008 |
20130007514 | REDUNDANT SYSTEM - The reliability of output data is enhanced, and the frequency of stopping arithmetic devices is reduced. A redundant system includes an input device; a plurality of arithmetic devices that receive input data from the input device; and an output device that receives output data output from the arithmetic devices, the redundant system causing the arithmetic devices to perform the same processing. Each of the arithmetic devices includes: a first communication unit that acquires the input data from the input device; and a second communication unit that sends the input data acquired by the first communication unit to other arithmetic device and receives the input data acquired by the other arithmetic device from the other arithmetic device. | 01-03-2013 |
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20130245792 | CONTROL PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANGING CONTROL PROGRAM - A control arithmetic device controls so that an approval-receiving device displays a content of a new control program that the control arithmetic device received from the editing device. The approval-receiving device receives input of approval information that indicates whether a change of a control program is approved or not from an manager. The control arithmetic device changes the control program to the new control program in the case where the approval information received from the approval-receiving device indicates approval of the control program. | 09-19-2013 |
20130245794 | SAFETY DEVICE AND COMPUTATION METHOD FOR SAFETY DEVICE - A safety device includes a first computation unit, a second computation unit, an output control unit, and a first central processing device. The first computation unit is configured to perform a first computation on a detected value detected from a subject to be controlled, thus obtaining a first result value. The second computation unit is configured to perform a second computation on the detected value, thus obtaining a second result value which is to be determined if equal to the first result value. The output control unit is configured to output the first result value in a case that the second computation unit determines that the first result value is equal to the second result value, and not to output the first result value in a case that the second computation unit determines that the first result value is not equal to the second result value. | 09-19-2013 |
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20080303790 | PROGRAM FOR GAME APPARATUS, GAME APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR GAME APPARATUS - An object is to provide a program for a game apparatus for making a plurality of moving objects including a moving object operated by a player to compete in virtual space against each other, in which players are capable of fully using the stage effects specific to a virtual game to enjoy a heated racing game even when they vary in skill. In a program for a game apparatus comprising moving-object operating means, image-information generating means, and image-information outputting means, the program causes a computer to perform a step of producing land-configuration information, a step of monitoring movement information regarding a plurality of moving objects, a step of producing a special area object when results of monitoring meet predetermined requirements, a step of displaying the special area object in such a manner as to be viewable for the player, and a step of allowing another moving object to ride therein. | 12-11-2008 |
20090005139 | Program for racing game device, storage medium storing the program, and racing game device - A racing game device comprises means for setting a plurality of paths in a virtual space in advance as a course for a moving object, means for setting a first path used during normal moving and a second path used only while a special mode is activated, means for allowing the moving object to move onto the second path (for example, a ceiling surface part) when the special mode (for example, a mode allowing the operation of gravity) is activated by an activation instruction from the operating means, means for setting, while a moving object is moving on the second path, a merging point which merges with the first path when it is judged that a predetermined condition is fulfilled, and means for allowing, when it is judged that the predetermined condition is fulfilled, the moving object moving on the second path to merge at the merging point. | 01-01-2009 |
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20120030364 | Proxy appparatus and operation method thereof - A proxy apparatus includes a multi-core CPU comprising a plurality of CPU cores; and an extended listen socket comprising a plurality of queues provided for the plurality of CPU cores respectively. A kernel thread and a proxy thread operate on each of the plurality of CPU cores. The kernel thread executes a receiving process of an establishment request packet of a first connection with a client terminal, assigned to a corresponding one of the plurality of CPU cores, and registers an establishment waiting socket which contained information of the first connection, on a corresponding one of the plurality of queues. The proxy thread refers to the corresponding queue, and establishes the first connection based on the establishment waiting socket when the establishment waiting socket is registered on the corresponding queue. | 02-02-2012 |
20120039338 | NETWORK SYSTEM, CONTROLLER, AND NETWORK CONTROL METHOD - A switch transfers a predetermined packet to an appliance. The appliance generates a rewritten packet by carrying out the packet header rewriting on the predetermined packet and forwards the rewritten packet back to the switch. The switch transfers the rewritten packet received from the appliance to a controller. In a case when the rewritten packet meets a predetermined condition, the controller generates entry setting data which instructs to set a new entry on the basis of a destination of the rewritten packet and the predetermined rewriting mode, and sends the entry setting data to the switch. The new entry indicates that packets belonging to the same flow as the predetermined packet are transferred to the destination without being routed through the appliance. The switch adds the new entry to the flow table in accordance with the entry setting data received from the controller. | 02-16-2012 |
20130311647 | CENTRAL CONTROL VERIFYING APPARATUS, CENTRAL CONTROL VERIFICATION PROGRAM, AND CENTRAL CONTROL VERIFYING METHOD - A central control verifying apparatus includes a plurality of quasi switches respectively corresponding to a plurality of switches in a network; a connection data managing section which manages connection data between the plurality of switches; and a verifying section. Each of the plurality of quasi switches is communicably connected with the network central control section through a control link. A requesting quasi switch of the plurality of quasi switch transmits a route setting request to the network central control section. A target quasi switch of the plurality of quasi switches receives the route indication data generated in response to the route setting request from the network central control section. The verifying section refers to the connection data and the route indication data received by the target quasi switch to verify whether or not a desired route setting is performed according to the route setting request by the network central control section. | 11-21-2013 |
20130315248 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND NETWORK FLOW TRACING METHOD - In a flow-based network such as an open flow network system, even when a network appliance such as NAT and NAPT for translating a packet header is passed through, a correspondence relation of two flows before and after the passing can be grasped to make it possible to trace the flow in end-to-end. | 11-28-2013 |
20150055656 | NETWORK APPLIANCE REDUNDANCY SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, NETWORK APPLIANCE REDUNDANCY METHOD AND PROGRAM - A network appliance redundancy system includes: a first switch arranged upstream of two different models of network appliances each of which switchably operates in an active system and a standby system; a second switch arranged downstream of the two different models of network appliances; and a control apparatus comprising a translation rule management unit learning a header translation rule(s) of a network appliance operating in the active system on the basis of header information of a packet transmitted from the first switch and header information of a packet received by the second switch via the network appliance operating in the active system and instructing, when the appliances in the active and standby systems are switched, the second switch to rewrite header information on the basis of the header translation rule(s) so as to obtain the same output packet as that from the network appliance operating in the active system. | 02-26-2015 |
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20120239666 | FORENSIC SYSTEM, FORENSIC METHOD, AND FORENSIC PROGRAM - Embodiments of the inventive concept can extract digital document information related with a specific individual to achieve a work load reduction associated with evidentiary material preparation for litigation. Recorded digital information can be displayed and user-specifying information can be set for each of a plurality of document files. The user-specifying information shows which user contained in user information one or more document files is related with. A recording unit can record the set user-specifying information. At least one user is selected, and a document file where user-specifying information which corresponds to the selected user was set is searched. Additional information showing whether or not the searched document file is related with the litigation is set via a display unit. A document file which is related with litigation is outputted based on the additional information. | 09-20-2012 |
20120246185 | FORENSIC SYSTEM, FORENSIC METHOD, AND FORENSIC PROGRAM - Embodiments of the inventive concept can extract digital document information related with a specific individual to achieve a work load reduction associated with evidentiary material preparation for litigation. A specific individual is selected from at least one individual included in user information. Only digital document information which was accessed by the specific individual is extracted based on access history information regarding the selected specific individual. Additional information indicating whether or not document files in the extracted digital document information are each related with the litigation is set, and a document file related with the litigation is outputted based on the additional information. | 09-27-2012 |
20120290578 | FORENSIC SYSTEM, FORENSIC METHOD, AND FORENSIC PROGRAM - Embodiments of the inventive concept reduce the burden of creating litigant sources of evidence or other evidentiary materials in connection with litigation in a court of law. Designation of at least one document file included in digital document information is accepted and designation of a language into which the designated document file is translated is accepted. The document file, the designation of which is accepted, is translated into the language the designation of which is accepted. A common document file representing the same content as that of the designated document file is extracted from digital document information recorded in a recording unit. Translation-related information representing that the extracted common document file is translated by invoking a translated content of the translated document file is generated, and, based on the translation-related information, a litigant-related document file is output. | 11-15-2012 |
20140330812 | FORENSIC SYSTEM, FORENSIC METHOD, AND FORENSIC PROGRAM - Embodiments of the inventive concept can extract digital document information related with a specific individual to achieve a work load reduction associated with evidentiary material preparation for litigation. Recorded digital information can be displayed and user-specifying information can be set for each of a plurality of document files. The user-specifying information shows which user contained in user information one or more document files is related with. A recording unit can record the set user-specifying information. At least one user is selected, and a document file where user-specifying information which corresponds to the selected user was set is searched. Additional information showing whether or not the searched document file is related with the litigation is set via a display unit. A document file which is related with litigation is outputted based on the additional information. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337367 | FORENSIC SYSTEM, FORENSIC METHOD, AND FORENSIC PROGRAM - Embodiments of the inventive concept can extract digital document information related with a specific individual to achieve a work load reduction associated with evidentiary material preparation for litigation. A specific individual is selected from at least one individual included in user information. Only digital document information which was accessed by the specific individual is extracted based on access history information regarding the selected specific individual. Additional information indicating whether or not document files in the extracted digital document information are each related with the litigation is set, and a document file related with the litigation is outputted based on the additional information. | 11-13-2014 |
20150088876 | FORENSIC SYSTEM, FORENSIC METHOD, AND FORENSIC PROGRAM - A forensic system includes a result information receiving unit that receives result information which is a determination result of connection between a lawsuit and a document group including a predetermined number of documents, which is extracted from document data included in digital information, by a user, an element selection unit that calculates evaluation values of elements which commonly appear in the document group in each result information item from the characteristics of the elements and selects the elements on the basis of the evaluation values, a score calculation unit that calculates a score of each document in the document data from the selected elements included in each document of the document data and the evaluation values of the selected elements, and a recall ratio calculation unit that calculates a recall ratio related to the determination of the connection to the lawsuit on the basis of the score. | 03-26-2015 |
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20100139547 | PIPING STRUCTURE FOR OIL TANKER - An ore/coal carrier is provided with piping passages | 06-10-2010 |
20100162939 | LNG TANKER AND METHOD FOR MARINE TRANSPORTATION OF LNG - An LNG tanker is provided which can have larger tank capacity for its hull size, be easily built, and reduce the sloshing in membrane type tanks during a heavy weather. The foremost LNG tank is made in a spherical independent type ( | 07-01-2010 |
20110246568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL USERS ACCESSING A WEB SITE - An improved method and system for identifying individual users accessing a web site. A web site server is able to identify distinct users by using a unique identifier associated with each client computer system requesting access to the web site. The unique identifier comprises an Internet address, such as an Internet Protocol (IP) address, and a time value associated with each client computer system requesting access to the web site. On starting up a web browser, an application program or browser plug-in may synchronize the internal clock included with the client computer system with a global time standard. The synchronized time value may be based on an event associated with the client computer system, such as the start of a web browser. A web site server may determine the uniqueness of the client computer system by comparing unique identifier records of users accessing the web site. A user may be identified as distinct if no matching record exists in the database. Multiple client computer systems having a common Internet address may be identified by using this method. Users privacy is also protected as the unique identifiers are erased when the client computer system's user exits the web browser or powers down the computer. | 10-06-2011 |
20120158777 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL USERS ACCESSING A WEB SITE - A web site server is able to identify distinct users by using a unique identifier associated with each client computer system requesting access to a web site. The unique identifier comprises an Internet address, such as an Internet Protocol (IP) address, and a time value associated with each client computer system requesting access to the web site. On starting up a web browser, an application program or browser plug-in may synchronize the internal clock included with the client computer system with a global time standard. A web site server may determine the uniqueness of the client computer system by comparing unique identifier records of users accessing the web site. A user may be identified as distinct if no matching record exists in the database. Users privacy is also protected as the unique identifiers are erased when the client computer system's user exits the web browser or powers down the computer. | 06-21-2012 |
20140174333 | LNG TANK MOUNTED ON LNG SHIP AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided a LNG ship that is manufactured in a short construction period by assembling a LNG tank on land and mounting the LNG tank in a hold of the ship. | 06-26-2014 |
20140330665 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEGOTIATING IMPROVED TERMS FOR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES BEING PURCHASED THROUGH THE INTERNET - A method and system for negotiating improved terms for a product being purchased over the Internet. Once a purchaser has made a decision to buy a specific product over the Internet, the purchaser may use the services of a personal negotiating broker-agent program to beat the best available purchase transaction within a specifiable time window. The personal broker-agent program may detect an issuance of a commitment to purchase over the Internet by a purchaser. The personal broker-agent program may then make an offer to the purchaser the option of waiting a predetermined amount of time while the broker agent searches for improved items. On acceptance of the option by the purchaser, the personal broker-agent program may conduct an auction and/or search the Internet for a better deal and may evaluate the auction and/or search responses to determine the best deal. The personal broker-agent program may then execute the best deal. If the purchaser elects not to accept the option from the personal broker-agent program, then the purchaser may execute the commitment to purchase transaction without delay. | 11-06-2014 |
20150007763 | Ultra large marine floating system - A method to improve the safety and comfort of an ultra large marine floating system is provided. The ultra large marine floating system has a length of 350 to 550 m, a width of 45 to 80 m, and a depth of 25 to 35 m. The ultra large marine floating system has a tank zone and a plant zone that are visibly separated from one another. Additionally, the tank zone has LNG storage tanks, self-supporting spherical (MOSS type) tanks, a membrane tank arranged in a hold, and the plant zone includes a liquefied natural gas plant. | 01-08-2015 |
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20100049612 | CONTENT PROVISION, DISTRIBUTION, REGISTRATION, MANAGEMENT, AND REPRODUCTION - The present invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for aggressive business content use and control purposes, using media properties that powerfully convey content. An example embodiment includes an advertisement and/or other content distribution system comprising: a content provider system, for providing for a user terminal content to which an identifier has been added; the user terminal, for receiving the content, via a network, from the content provider system, and for identifying and outputting, to the network, the identifier added to the content; an advertiser system, for the distribution to the user terminal, based on the identifier output by the user terminal, of a predetermined advertisement via the network; and an agent server system, for managing the identifier added to the content, and for employing the identifier, output by the user terminal, to transmit an advertisement distribution trigger to the advertiser system for the distribution of the predetermined advertisement. | 02-25-2010 |
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20080212508 | POWER SAVING METHOD IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM FOR PERMITTING TERMINAL STATION TO PROMPTLY TRANSITION TO DOZE STATE BY TRANSMITTING EMPTY DATA FRAME - A power saving method in a wireless LAN system is disclosed for permitting a terminal station to promptly transition to a doze state irrespective of the presence or absence of data destined to the terminal station in a base station. Upon receipt of a PS-Poll signal from a terminal station subordinate to a base station for prompting a transmission of data destined to the terminal station, the base station transmits an ACK signal to the terminal station for indicating a successful reception of the PS-Poll signal. Further, the base station transmits a data frame including data destined to the terminal station when there is such data, or transmits an empty data frame when there is no data destined to the terminal station. Then, upon receipt of the data frame (including the empty data frame), the terminal station transmits an ACK signal to the base station, and then transitions to the doze state in which a transmission/reception function is made inoperative. | 09-04-2008 |
20090010226 | Communication Terminal, Access Point Switching Method, and Access Point Switching Control Program - [Subject] To realize optimum handover in consideration of not only reception environment of a communication terminal itself but also situations on the other party of communication. | 01-08-2009 |
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20140016502 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A network monitoring unit and a transmission path monitoring unit provided along a wired transmission path connected to a wireless communication device determine a traffic volume by detecting a volume of data on a wired transmission path. Wireless communication devices change a multi-level modulation scheme based on the determined traffic volume and set transmission power so that a minimum level of data transmission can be guaranteed using a transmission rate corresponding to the multi-level modulation scheme. | 01-16-2014 |
20140177435 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless transmission system includes an active wireless communication apparatus, a standby wireless communication apparatus, and a selecting apparatus for switching an operation. The standby wireless communication apparatus receives a signal transmitted from an opposing apparatus. When the standby wireless communication apparatus detects a failure information indicating that a failure has occurred in the active wireless communication apparatus as a result of reception, the standby wireless communication apparatus performs notification that the failure has occurred in the active wireless communication apparatus. The selecting apparatus that has received the notification performs switch control for switching the operation. Accordingly, it is possible to continue communication in a short switching time in case of a failure while maintaining high frequency utilization, for example. | 06-26-2014 |
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20080259241 | AREA LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS ASSEMBLY - Disclosed herein is an area light source apparatus for illuminating a liquid crystal display apparatus of the transmission type, which has a display area formed from a plurality of pixels arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix, from the back, including: a plurality of light emitting element assemblies each provided as a light source and each including a light emitting element and a lens through which light emitted from the light emitting element passes; and a plurality of dummy lenses disposed in the proximity of each of the light emitting element assemblies and configured same as the lenses of the light emitting element assemblies. | 10-23-2008 |
20100033649 | SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT - A surface light source device which illuminates a transmission-type liquid crystal display unit from the back surface includes P×Q surface light source units with individually controlled light sources. Each of the light sources includes a plurality of light-emitting element units. Each of the light-emitting element units includes at least one red light-emitting element that emits red light, at least one green light-emitting element that emits green light, and at least one blue light-emitting element that emits blue light. The center of mass of a luminance profile based on each of a plurality of red light-emitting elements, a plurality of green light-emitting elements, and a plurality of blue light-emitting elements in each surface light source unit substantially coincides with the center of mass of the surface light source unit. | 02-11-2010 |
20100133559 | AREA LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS ASSEMBLY - Disclosed herein is an area light source apparatus for illuminating a liquid crystal display apparatus of the transmission type, which has a display area formed from a plurality of pixels arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix, from the back, including: a plurality of light emitting element assemblies each provided as a light source and each including a light emitting element and a lens through which light emitted from the light emitting element passes; and a plurality of dummy lenses disposed in the proximity of each of the light emitting element assemblies and configured same as the lenses of the light emitting element assemblies. | 06-03-2010 |
20130033488 | DISPLAY METHOD, DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC SYSTEM, AND LIGHTING UNIT - A lighting unit includes: a plurality of two-dimensionally-arrayed light emitting sections; and a drive section that drives the plurality of light emitting sections on an individual basis. | 02-07-2013 |
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20090115548 | BALUN CIRCUIT AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - A balun circuit includes a first CPW line | 05-07-2009 |
20090238206 | BAND CONTROL METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - The present invention intends to improve communication efficiency between two communication apparatuses each engaged in the communication by full duplex communication method by using a surplus band of the one to transmission band of the other. A first bandwidth required by a first communication apparatus (A) at data transmission and a second bandwidth required by a second communication apparatus (B) at data transmission are presumed. Next, the first bandwidth presumed as mentioned is compared to a first bandwidth used which the first communication apparatus (A) currently uses and at the same time, the second bandwidth presumed as mentioned is compared to a second bandwidth used which the second communication apparatus (B) currently uses. The first bandwidth and the second bandwidth are then adjusted, and a third bandwidth which the first communication apparatus (A) uses at data transmission and a fourth bandwidth which the second communication apparatus (B) uses are determined. | 09-24-2009 |
20110221045 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a semiconductor device with a high breakdown voltage yield of a bipolar transistor and a high bandwidth and quantum efficiency of a light receiving element. An optical semiconductor device includes monolithically integrated transistor and light receiving element. The light receiving element includes a p-type semiconductor layer, an n-type epitaxial layer formed on the p-type semiconductor layer, and an n-type diffusion layer formed on the n-type epitaxial layer. An n-type impurity concentration of the n-type diffusion layer is 3×10 | 09-15-2011 |
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20120007556 | BATTERY DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND METHOD - An apparatus is disclosed that includes a resistance measuring unit operable to determine a solution resistance Rsol and a charge transfer resistance Rct of a battery; and at least one computer-readable non-transitory storage medium comprising code, that, when executed by at least one processor, is operable to provide an estimate of the present value of the battery by: comparing Rsol and Rct to historical deterioration transition information; estimating the number of remaining charge cycles before a discharge capacity lower limit is reached by the battery using the comparison; and estimating the number of remaining charge cycles before a discharge time lower limit is reached by the battery using the comparison. The estimate of the present value of the battery includes the smaller of the number of remaining charge cycles before a discharge capacity lower limit is reached or the number of remaining charge cycles before a discharge time lower limit is reached. | 01-12-2012 |
20120146652 | ASSEMBLED BATTERY SYSTEM AND FAILURE DETECTION METHOD OF ASSEMBLED BATTERY SYSTEM - An assembled battery system is disclosed that includes a plurality of serially-connected battery cells; voltage detecting lines connectable at one ends to electrodes of the battery cells of the assembled battery; electric resistors serially-connected at one ends to the other ends of the voltage detecting lines; capacitors connected to the other ends of the electric resistors, each of the capacitors being configured to electrically interconnect one of the voltage detecting lines and the other voltage detecting line; voltage measuring circuits connected respectively to each of the voltage detecting lines; electrically openable short-circuiting switches arranged between the capacitors and the voltage measuring circuits and parallel-connected to the capacitors; and a monitoring circuit that detects a difference between a first measurement result and a second measurement result with respect to each of the short-circuiting switches and a failure of the voltage detecting lines, the short-circuiting switches or the voltage measuring circuits. | 06-14-2012 |
20140103934 | BATTERY DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND METHOD - An apparatus is disclosed that includes a resistance measuring unit operable to determine a solution resistance Rsol and a charge transfer resistance Rct of a battery; and at least one computer-readable non-transitory storage medium comprising code, that, when executed by at least one processor, is operable to provide an estimate of the present value of the battery by: comparing Rsol and Rct to historical deterioration transition information; estimating the number of remaining charge cycles before a discharge capacity lower limit is reached by the battery using the comparison; and estimating the number of remaining charge cycles before a discharge time lower limit is reached by the battery using the comparison. The estimate of the present value of the battery includes the smaller of the number of remaining charge cycles before a discharge capacity lower limit is reached or the number of remaining charge cycles before a discharge time lower limit is reached. | 04-17-2014 |
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20120066240 | FACILITY SEARCH DEVICE - A facility search device includes: a facility information storage unit that stores facility information; an additional information storage unit that stores additional facility information; a facility search unit that searches for facilities from the facility information and the additional facility information; a sameness determination unit that determines the sameness of facilities based on identifiers contained in the facility information on each of the facilities when the plurality of facilities are searched for by the facility search unit; a facility information synthesis unit that synthesizes the facility information on the facilities determined to be the same by the sameness determination unit among the searched facilities; a display image generation unit that generates images for displaying the searched facilities or the facilities synthesized by the facility information synthesis unit; and a display unit that displays the images generated by the display image generation unit. | 03-15-2012 |
20120229376 | INPUT DEVICE - An input device displays a screen including character input buttons to each of which characters are assigned, and each of which specifies one character assigned thereto, as a character to be inputted, according to the number of times that a selection operation is performed thereon, and display area B in which a character to be inputted specified through a selection operation performed on the character input buttons is displayed in order on a display device, specifies candidate characters each of which can be inputted to follow a character string being inputted and displayed in the display area B from the character strings of words each including the character string being inputted, and, when a character to be inputted which is specified to follow the character string is not included in the candidate characters, tones down and displays the character to be inputted immediately after the character string. | 09-13-2012 |
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20100222347 | PROPHYLACTIC AND/OR THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR ANEMIA, COMPRISING TETRAHYDROQUINOLINE COMPOUND AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT - Disclosed is a low-molecular-weight compound having an EPO production-promoting activity and/or a hemoglobin expression-enhancing activity. Specifically disclosed is an EPO production promoter and/or a hemoglobin expression enhancer comprising a 1-acyl-4-(phenoxy, benzyloxy or phenylamino)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline derivative, more specifically a tetrahydroquinoline compound represented by the general formula (1); | 09-02-2010 |
20120004197 | PROPHYLACTIC AND/OR THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR ANEMIA COMPRISING TETRAHYDROQUINOLINE COMPOUND AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT - Disclosed is a compound which has a low molecular weight and has an activity of enhancing the production of EPO and/or an activity of enhancing the production of hemoglobin. Specifically disclosed is and EPO production enhancer and/or a hemoglobin production enhancer comprising a 1-acyl-4-(substituted oxy, substituted amino, or substituted thio)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline derivative, more specifically a tetrahydroquinoline compound represented by general formula (1) [wherein R | 01-05-2012 |
20120108581 | FUSED PIPERIDINE COMPOUND AND PHARMACEUTICAL CONTAINING SAME - The present invention provides a low molecular weight compound having EPO production-promoting action and/or hemoglobin production-promoting action. The present invention relates to a fused piperidine compound represented by the following general formula (1): | 05-03-2012 |
20130172345 | 1-ACYL-4-(PHENOXY, BENZYLOXY, OR PHENYLAMINO)-1,2,3,4-TETRAHYDROQUINOLINE DERIVATIVES - Disclosed is a low-molecular-weight compound having an EPO production-promoting activity and/or a hemoglobin expression-enhancing activity. Specifically disclosed is an EPO production promoter and/or a hemoglobin expression enhancer comprising a 1-acyl-4-(phenoxy, benzyloxy or phenylamino)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline derivative, more specifically a tetrahydroquinoline compound represented by the general formula (1); | 07-04-2013 |
20140249144 | PROPHYLACTIC AND/OR THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR ANEMIA COMPRISING TETRAHYDROQUINOLINE COMPOUND AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT - Disclosed is a compound which has a low molecular weight and has an activity of enhancing the production of EPO and/or an activity of enhancing the production of hemoglobin. Specifically disclosed is and EPO production enhancer and/or a hemoglobin production enhancer comprising a 1-acyl-4-(substituted oxy, substituted amino, or substituted thio)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline derivative, more specifically a tetrahydroquinoline compound represented by general formula (1) [wherein R | 09-04-2014 |
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20120009436 | NON-ORIENTED MAGNETIC STEEL SHEET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A non-oriented magnetic steel sheet contains, by mass %, C: 0.005% or less; Si: 2% to 4%; Mn and V: totally 11% or less; and Al: 3% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a Mn concentration (mass %) and a V concentration (mass %) in a thickness direction satisfy the following formula. 0.1<(Xs | 01-12-2012 |
20120152411 | HIGH-STRENGTH GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a galvanized steel sheet having a tensile strength of 770 MPa or more including a steel sheet portion, and a plated layer formed on the surface of the steel sheet portion, in which the plated layer is a galvanized plated layer or an galvannealed plated layer, the steel sheet portion has a soft layer that directly adjoins the interface with the plated layer and an inside layer that is other than the soft layer, the thickness D of soft layer is 0.001% to 5% of thickness t of the steel sheet portion, and, when the hardness of the soft layer measured by nano-indentation method is indicated by H1, and the representative hardness of the steel sheet portion measured by the nano-indentation method is indicated by Ha in cross section that goes along the thickness direction of the steel sheet portion, H1 is 5% to 75% of Ha. | 06-21-2012 |
20120282488 | HOT-DIPPED STEEL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME - The present invention provides a hot-dipped steel | 11-08-2012 |
20120295130 | HOT-DIP ALUMINUM ALLOY PLATED STEEL HAVING EXCELLENT SHEAR CUT EDGE CORROSION RESISTANCE AND PROCESSED PART CORROSION RESISTANCE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The hot-dip aluminum alloy plated steel has a base steel and a plated layer, in which the composition of the plated layer contains, by % by mass, Fe: 25% to 75%, Mg: 2% to 20%, and Ca: 0.02% to 2% with a remainder of Al and inevitable impurities, the plated layer contains one or both of an α-Mg phase and an Al | 11-22-2012 |
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20090096705 | Antenna Device - An antenna device includes: a winding component having an approximately cylindrical shaped winding shaft portion and a flange portion disposed to project outside the winding shaft portion in at least one end portion of both end portions in an axial direction of the winding shaft portion; a pair of binding terminals disposed to project outside the flange portion in at least one of the flange portions; and a winding both ends of which are bound to the pair of binding terminals. The flange portion on which the binding terminals are disposed has an approximate disk shape. At least one binding terminal is disposed to be oriented along a direction approximately perpendicular to an outer periphery of the flange portion on which the binding terminal is disposed. | 04-16-2009 |
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20100188180 | MAGNETIC ELEMENT, AND ANTENNA DEVICE USING THE MAGNETIC ELEMENT - Provided is a magnetic element capable of enhancing fixing strength of a base with respect to a core even if the base is fixed to the core by insert molding. A magnetic element ( | 07-29-2010 |
20130048616 | METHOD FOR CONNECTING LEADER LINE - Disclosed is a method for connecting a core wire of a wire rod covered with an insulating coating and pulled out from a coil component with a substrate by irradiating a laser beam, the method comprising the steps of: (a) forming a bond part between the wire rod and the substrate, the bond part being made of a material having a high optical absorptance for laser beam; and (b) irradiating a laser beam on an area to be connected under a state that at least one of the wire rod and the substrate is being pulled toward the other. | 02-28-2013 |
20130154788 | COIL COMPONENT - A coil component includes: a bar-like core; and a winding part formed of a conducting wire that is wound in a plurality of layers around the outer periphery of the core according to a solenoidal winding method. Winding collapse preventing shifts D | 06-20-2013 |
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