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| 20100013688 | SIGMA-DELTA TYPE ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL (AD) CONVERTER AND ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR USING SAME - An angular velocity sensor with a stable output characteristic using a sigma-delta type analog-to-digital converter comprising an integrator unit for integrating electric charges output from an input switching device and a digital-to-analog converter unit and holding at least two integrated values, a comparator unit for comparing at least the two integrated values output from the integrator unit with a predetermined value, and an arithmetic operation unit for operating an output signal of the comparator unit, the arithmetic operation unit provided with a differential operation unit for computing a difference between at least two comparison signals output from comparator unit. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100206069 | PLL CIRCUIT AND ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR USING THE SAME - A PLL circuit is provided with an AD converter, a DA converter to which output from the AD converter is inputted, a filter circuit filtering an output signal of the DA converter, a voltage control oscillator outputting a signal of a different frequency in accordance with an output signal from the filter circuit and a frequency divider dividing a signal which the voltage control oscillator outputs. The AD converter operates by a timing signal from the voltage control oscillator and the DA converter outputs an analog signal corresponding to a value which the AD converter outputs by the timing signal outputted from the frequency divider. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20150077579 | MOTION SENSOR, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS USING SAME - A motion sensor includes a sensor element that outputs a sense signal in response to a motion applied thereto and a sensor circuit that senses the motion based on the sense signal. The sensor circuit includes a sensor-element-signal amplifier that receives the sense signal. The sensor-element-signal amplifier operates switchably between at a normal mode and at a low-noise mode that consumes a larger electric power and produces a smaller noise than the normal mode. This motion sensor senses a small motion and a large motion accurately. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150204690 | PHYSICAL QUANTITY SENSOR - A physical quantity sensor includes a detection circuit that outputs a detection value indicating a physical quantity applied to a detecting element and a correction processor that corrects the detection value to output a corrected value. The correction processor causes the corrected value to be substantially 0 (zero) if all of conditions that an absolute value of a time-differentiated value of the detection value is not larger than a predetermined differential threshold and that an absolute value of the corrected value is not larger than a predetermined output threshold are satisfied. This physical quantity sensor prevents the output signal from changing due a temperature change in spite of a small number of components | 07-23-2015 |
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| 20110267383 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An object of at least one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof, in which a contour of an image is clearly recognized during movie display even in a case where a backlight is turned on and off so as to change intervals at which the backlight turns on. In at least one embodiment, the liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel and the backlight that irradiates the liquid crystal panel with light, one frame period including a turn-on period during which the backlight turns on and a turn-off period during which the backlight turns off, luminance being changed by changing turn-on intervals of the backlight, the turn-on intervals of the backlight being changed by changing lengths of the turn-on period and the turn-off period. The liquid crystal display device further includes an OS process circuit for controlling a drive voltage to be applied to the liquid crystal panel by setting an amplitude of the drive voltage to be applied to the liquid crystal panel during a gray scale transition. The OS process circuit sets the amplitude of the drive voltage to be applied to the liquid crystal panel during the gray scale transition so as to be greater as the turn-on period of the backlight is longer under a condition where gray scales that have not been subjected to a gray scale transition is equal to gray scales that have been subjected to the gray scale transition in a case where the turn-on period of the backlight varies. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20120113166 | Display Method And Display Device - A display method of an embodiment (i) determines a suitable length of an off period of an LED in accordance with a gray scale transition time, i.e., a time during which a transmittance of a liquid crystal is being changed, and (ii) turns off a light source for the determined length of the off period in a first half part of a one frame period. This makes it difficult for a halfway change in a gray scale transition to be reflected in a brightness of a pixel. Also, by performing a gray scale transition emphasis process to a display signal when the gray scale transition is caused, it is possible to increase the brightness of the pixel in the midst of the gray scale transition and to reduce a response time of the pixel. As such, it is possible to further improve a quality of moving image display. | 05-10-2012 |
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| 20110138084 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device comprises a plurality of memory components, a connector, a receiver, and a communication component. The connector is configured to operatively connect the electronic device to an external device. The external device is capable of individually recognizing the memory components one at a time or simultaneously recognizing only a few of the memory components. The receiver is configured to receive a select instruction that specifies which of the memory components will be recognized by the external device. The communication component is configured to automatically communicate with the external device to permit the external device to automatically recognize at least one of the memory components as a predefined memory component. The communication component is further configured to communicate with the external device when the receiver receives the select instruction to permit the external device to recognize at least one memory components according to the select instruction. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110267479 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image capture device having an image capture function includes an interface which receives first data from an external electronic device; and a processing section including a circuit which is used for transcode processing. The processing section performs the transcode processing on the first data using the circuit to generate second data. The interface transmits the generated second data to the electronic device. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20130262709 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device comprises a plurality of memory components, a connector, a receiver, and a communication component. The connector is configured to operatively connect the electronic device to an external device. The external device is capable of individually recognizing the memory components one at a time or simultaneously recognizing only a few of the memory components. The receiver is configured to receive a select instruction that specifies which of the memory components will be recognized by the external device. The communication component is configured to automatically communicate with the external device to permit the external device to automatically recognize at least one of the memory components as a predefined memory component. The communication component is further configured to communicate with the external device when the receiver receives the select instruction to permit the external device to recognize at least one memory components according to the select instruction. | 10-03-2013 |
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| 20110095781 | METHOD OF INSPECTING PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND INSPECTION DEVICE OF PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - A plurality of assembly sheets are placed on an upper surface of a substrate adsorption platform, and a pressing plate is placed on the plurality of assembly sheets placed on the substrate adsorption platform such that the plurality of assembly sheets are pressed by the pressing plate. In this state, a DC power supply device is turned on and causes the upper surface of the substrate adsorption platform to be charged, thereby causing the plurality of assembly sheets to be adsorbed on the upper surface by an electrostatic force. Then, the pressing plate placed on the plurality of assembly sheets is removed while the upper surface of the substrate adsorption platform is charged, and automatic appearance inspection is performed on the plurality of assembly sheets adsorbed on the upper surface of the substrate adsorption platform. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110262868 | METHOD OF DETECTING ALIGNMENT MARK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - When an alignment mark does not exist within an area of an image obtained by a camera, the coordinate of the alignment mark is calculated based on an identification mark existing in the area of the image and a previously stored positional relationship between the alignment mark and the identification mark. A distance by which a long-sized base material is to be moved for causing the alignment mark to be positioned within the imaging area of the camera is calculated based on the calculated coordinate of the alignment mark, and the long-sized base material is moved by the calculated distance. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110262869 | METHOD OF ALIGNING PHOTOMASK WITH BASE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - An exposure system includes an exposure device and an image processing device. The exposure device includes a plurality of cameras. Each of the cameras is configured so as to be selectively set to a full scan mode and a partial scan mode. The camera transmits all of obtained image data in the full scan mode, and extracts part of the obtained image data and transmits the partial image data in the partial scan mode. The image processing device paratactically performs processing using the image data transmitted from the camera and processing using the image data transmitted from the camera. | 10-27-2011 |
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| 20130114659 | RECEIVER, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, RECEIVING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A receiver includes a demodulator that demodulates a modulation wave modulated according to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The demodulator includes an interference wave detector that detects that received modulation wave includes interference wave when received power of each sample of the received modulation wave exceeds a threshold, and upon the detection, executes replacement processing of replacing a received signal exceeding the threshold with a predetermined value, a first interference wave power estimation unit configured to estimate interference wave power included in an OFDM symbol included in the received modulation wave on the basis of the number of samples that have been subjected to the replacement processing, and a demodulated data generator that demodulates the received modulation wave by executing demodulation processing of demodulating the received modulation wave that has been subjected to the replacement processing on the basis of the interference wave power. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130187852 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A three-dimensional image processing apparatus includes: an output unit configured to output a plurality of three-dimensional images to a display apparatus; a detection unit configured to detect a pointer in association with a three-dimensional image displayed on the display apparatus; an operation determination unit configured to determine a predetermined operation based on movement of the pointer detected by the detection unit; and an image processing unit configured to perform, on the three-dimensional image associated with the pointer, processing associated with the predetermined operation determined by the operation determination unit, and to cause the output unit to output the processed three-dimensional image. | 07-25-2013 |
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| 20090096958 | FLUORESCENT LAMP, BACKLIGHT UNIT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A cold cathode fluorescent lamp includes a glass bulb ( | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090200943 | External-electrode discharge lamp, external-electrode discharge lamp manufacturing method, and backlight unit - The present invention aims to provide an external-electrode discharge lamp able to suppress luminance variation, a manufacturing method for the lamp, and a backlight unit. A lamp ( | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090237597 | COLD-CATHODE FLUORESCENT LAMP, BACKLIGHT UNIT, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A cold cathode fluorescent lamp has an improved heat dissipation characteristic without an overall increase in size, and a lead wire thereof does not readily break. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100027244 | FLUORESCENT LAMP, AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING FLUORESCENT LAMP - A fluorescent lamp has a glass container that has a phosphor layer formed on an inner surface of the glass container, and that is hermetically sealed, wherein phosphors of the phosphor layer include a blue phosphor, a green phosphor, and a red phosphor, a main luminescence peak of the blue phosphor exists in a wavelength region in a range of 430 nm to 460 nm inclusive, a half-value width of a spectrum of the main luminescence peak of the blue phosphor is less than or equal to 50 nm, a main luminescence peak of the green phosphor exists in a wavelength region in a range of 510 nm to 530 nm inclusive, a half-value width of a spectrum of the main luminescence peak of the green phosphor is less than or equal to 30 nm, and a main luminescence peak of the red phosphor exists in a wavelength region in a range of 600 nm to 780 nm inclusive, and a difference between a wavelength of the main luminescence peak of the blue phosphor and a wavelength of the main luminescence peak of the green phosphor is in a range of 70 nm to 90 nm inclusive. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100220462 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DIRECT BACKLIGHT UNIT, FLUORESCENT LAMP AND BACKLIGHT UNIT - The orientation of fluorescent lamps is detected in a manufacturing method for a direct backlight unit that alternates orientations of adjacent fluorescent lamps. In a preparation step of the manufacturing method for the backlight unit of the present invention, a plurality of fluorescent lamps are prepared. In each of the fluorescent lamps, a length (a | 09-02-2010 |
| 20150036401 | DC POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT - In a DC power supply circuit, upon a switching element switching to a turned-on state, a first current path is formed from an output terminal at a high-potential side of a rectifier circuit to an output terminal at a low-potential side of a rectifier circuit, via an inductor and the switching element in respective order, and a second current path is formed between terminals of a capacitor, via a load, another inductor, and the switching element. Upon the switching element switching to a turned-off state, a third current path is formed from the output terminal at the high-potential side of a rectifier circuit to the output terminal at the low-potential side of a rectifier circuit, via the inductor, a diode, and the capacitor in respective order, and a fourth current path is formed between the inductors, via the diode and the load in respective order. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150303823 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT - A power supply circuit ( | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150357910 | DC POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT - In a DC power supply circuit ( | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150366014 | DRIVING CIRCUIT, ILLUMINATION LIGHT SOURCE, AND ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A driving circuit includes a rectifying and smoothing circuit that rectifies an AC dimming signal, and a voltage conversion circuit ( | 12-17-2015 |
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| 20080291573 | Magnetic Recording Medium, and Manufacturing Method, Manufacturing Apparatus, Recording and Reproduction Method, and Recording and Reproduction Apparatus for the Same - With a magnetic recording medium, servo pits have to be recorded one disk at a time, which is a problem in that it takes more time and is more expensive. In view of this, with the present invention, at least one signal region whose surface roughness is different from that of other than the signal region is formed on the substrate of a magnetic recording medium comprising a recording layer on a substrate, or on an under layer formed on a substrate. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080308395 | SWITCH - A switch has a case, a fixed contact, and a movable contact. The fixed contact is planted on an inner wall of the case and has a first metal layer on its surface. The movable contact is housed in the case in a movable manner, is in elastic contact with the fixed contact, and has a second metal layer on its surface. The first metal layer and the second metal layer have luster. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090103401 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD FOR MAGNETIC MEDIUM - A magnetic recording medium with excellent signal characteristics is provided in which the stability of recorded information is ensured even when recording is performed in high density or even when magnetic recording and reproduction are performed while the temperature of a recording film is increased by irradiation with light. The present invention provides a magneto-optical recording medium comprising at least a memory layer on a disk substrate, in which the memory layer is separated into magnetic grains to form magnetically isolated recorded domains, or in which a fine structure is formed by an aggregate of mutually isolated magnetic grains in the memory layer, and the memory layer has a large specific resistance. A production method thereof is also provided. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090268599 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - Magnetic recording media conventionally require a time-consuming and cost-increasing task of recording servo pits on each individual disk. Disclosed are a magneto-optical recording medium and a recording and reproducing method for the magneto-optical recording medium. The magneto-optical recording medium has the structure in which at least a recording layer magnetized in a direction perpendicular to the plane is formed on a disk substrate, and allows a format signal to be formed thereon by changing the magnetization direction or the magnetic anisotropy of the recording layer or by oxidizing the recording layer to form pits. This structure significantly improves the disk productivity and reduces the disk cost and also enables the magnetic recording medium to have good characteristics including stable servo characteristics. | 10-29-2009 |
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| 20090118179 | Therapeutic Agent for Dentin-Pulp Complex Regeneration - The present invention provides a therapeutic agent for regenerating a dentin-pulp complex, containing a basic fibroblast growth factor and/or a homolog thereof as an active ingredient. The present invention also provides a pulp-capping agent containing a basic fibroblast growth factor and/or a homolog thereof as an active ingredient. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100068188 | COMPOSITION FOR REGENERATION OF PERIODONTAL HARD TISSUE AND METHOD FOR REGENERATION OF PERIODONTAL HARD TISSUE - An object of the present invention is to provide technology of using a preadipocyte to restore comprehensively bone, cartilage and periodontal ligament, and cause a periodontal hard tissue to regenerate. By culturing a preadipocyte using a culture medium containing (i) at least one member selected from the group consisting of glycerophosphate and salts thereof, and (ii) at least one member selected from the group consisting of ascorbic acid, derivatives thereof and salts thereof and not containing an adrenal cortical hormone in such an amount that promotes differentiation of a preadipocyte into a periodontal hard tissue cell, differentiation of the cell into a periodontal hard tissue cell is induced efficiently. Furthermore, a scaffold is combined with the preadipocyte cultured with the above-mentioned culture medium to be transplanted into a periodontal tissue that requires regeneration. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20110142810 | CELL PREPARATION FOR BONE TISSUE REGENERATION - The present invention provides a cell preparation that can be prepared from cells collected from a patient of any age group, and that has an excellent bone tissue regenerative capacity and is effective for bone tissue regeneration. Undifferentiated osteoblasts obtained from alveolar bone, particularly those obtained by being cultured after the enzyme treatment of alveolar bone have a remarkable bone tissue regenerative capacity, and are therefore useful for a cell preparation for bone tissue regeneration. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20120029140 | LOW-STAINING ROOM TEMPERATURE CURABLE COATING COMPOSITION - The present invention provides a low-staining room temperature curable coating composition having an excellent low-staining property and recoatability, and comprising (A) a hydroxyl-containing resin, (B) an isocyanate based curing agent, (C) an organosilicate based hydrophilizing agent, (D) a recoatability modifier and (E) an organic solvent, in which the recoatability modifier (D) comprises at least (D1) an amide-containing polymer and (D2) a silane coupling agent. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20150107194 | POLYCHLOROTRIFLUOROETHYLENE FILM AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - There is provided a method for producing a PCTFE film having excellent moisture resistance, good tensile elongation, and excellent formability. Provided is a method for producing a polychlcrotrifluoroethylene film, the method including step (1) of melting and molding polychlorotrifluoroethylene into a film, step (2) of maintaining the formed film at a temperature of 100° C. to 170° C., and step (3) of cooling the film to room temperature after the maintaining, wherein the temperature of the film is not allowed to be 170° C. or lower during an interval between step (1) and step (2). | 04-23-2015 |
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| 20100142988 | FIXING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FIXING DEVICE - In a fixing device including (i) an external heat belt which abuts against a surface of a fixing roller so as to heat the fixing roller and (ii) a cleaning member which abuts against the external heat belt, a fixing temperature, which is a surface temperature of the fixing roller during a fixing process, is set per group into which recording media to be subjected to the fixing process are divided according to their widths in a direction of a rotary axis of the fixing roller, in such a way that the fixing temperature is set to a lower temperature for a group of narrower widths. This makes it possible to prevent a reduction in releasability of the fixing roller caused by a material, which is scraped off from the external heat belt by the cleaning member and then adhered to the fixing roller, thereby preventing the high-temperature offset. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100183345 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING SAME - A fixing device of the present invention includes: an external heating belt which is to contact with a surface of a fixing roller so as to heat up the fixing roller; and a cleaning member (a scraper and/or cleaning pad) which is to contact with the external heating belt. The cleaning pad which is impregnated with silicone oil is to contact with a surface of the external heating belt, thereby applying the silicone oil (release agent) to the surface of the external heating belt. This makes it possible to prevent generation of an offset. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100183346 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING SAME - No covering layer is provided onto that abutting surface of an external heating belt which has contact with a cleaning member. Accordingly, a belt substrate is exposed and has contact with the cleaning member. This suppresses the occurrence of offset in a fixing device including (i) the external heating belt for having contact with the surface of the fixing roller so as to heat a fixing roller, and (ii) the cleaning member having contact with the external heating belt. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20120001379 | SHEET SEPARATION MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet separation mechanism includes a separation claw holder, a separation claw, a first coil spring and a second coil spring. The separation claw holder can be provided at a predetermined place in the image forming apparatus. The separation claw includes a separation claw base pivotally supported by the separation claw holder and a separation claw front-end pivotally supported by the separation claw base. The first coil spring is configured to apply a force to rotate the separation claw base toward an intermediate transfer belt. The second coil spring is configured to apply a force to rotate the separation claw front-end toward the intermediate transfer belt. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20130058668 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer portion that transfers a toner image from a first image forming element to a second image forming element when transfer voltage is applied; and a control portion, at time of cleaning the plurality of image forming elements, after integrally forming a cleaning toner image to be supplied to the first image forming element and the second image forming element on the surface of the photoreceptor along a revolving direction, that controls the application of the transfer voltage to the transfer portion to transfer the toner image in a manner such that the toner image is divided into at least four sections along the revolving direction, out of which at least two sections that are not adjacent to each other are transferred from the first image forming element to the second image forming element. | 03-07-2013 |
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| 20130009555 | OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE AND ILLUMINATION SYSTEM PROVIDED THEREWITH - An object detection device comprises an active sensor, an amplifying circuit configured to divide and amplify a sensor signal outputted from said active sensor with respect to each a plurality of frequency bands through each amplifier, and a determining unit determining the presence or absence of a detection target object by comparing an output of said amplifying circuit with a predetermined threshold value. A noise determining unit controls a switching circuit so as to turn off a switch inserted between said determining unit and an amplifier having a band pass including a noise of a particular frequency, when determining that the noise of the particular frequency is produced constantly by using an analysis result outputted from a frequency analyzer detecting intensity of each frequency of the sensor signal. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130313977 | LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM - A lighting control system includes lighting devices arranged along a road for a moving body. Each lighting device includes a sensor that detects a moving body approaching the lighting device, a light source that emits light, a sensor that detects the moving body, a control unit connected to the sensor and the light source, and a communication unit. The sensor of the one of the lighting devices located in at least at one outermost position of the lighting devices has a higher detection frequency than the sensors of the other lighting devices. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130320865 | SENSOR DEVICE - A sensor device includes a sensor that transmits radio waves of a predetermined frequency and receives reflected waves of the transmitted radio waves. The sensor device detects presence of a moving body based on a difference between a frequency of the transmitted radio waves and a frequency of the reflected waves to activate a light source in accordance with the detection. A processor generates a sensor signal indicating the detection of the sensor. A determination unit determines whether or not the sensor signal has an intensity that is greater than a predetermined threshold. A controller controls activation of the light source when determined that the intensity of the signal is greater than the threshold. The controller restricts activation of the light source when determined that the intensity of the sensor signal is greater than the threshold until a first specified time elapses from the determination. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140247600 | LIGHTING DEVICE - A lighting device | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140306249 | LIGHTING APPARATUS - This lighting apparatus includes three or more LEDs arranged in a row. Each of the LEDs emits light of a color different from that of an LED adjacent to itself, and the LEDs include an LED having a relatively wide light distribution angle and others of the three or more LEDs each having a relatively narrow light distribution angle. The one LED is arranged in an inner portion in the row of the other LEDs. In this configuration, light emitted from the one LED is mixed well with lights emitted from the respective other LEDs adjacent to the one LED, and thus, color unevenness of illuminating light can be reduced. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140307453 | LIGHTING APPARATUS - A lighting apparatus includes a plurality of LEDs arranged in a row on an elongated wiring board; and a lens covering all the LEDs and controlling distribution of light emitted from each LED. An optical axis of the light emitted from each LED is orthogonal to the wiring board. The lens has a light emitting surface that controls distribution of the light emitted from each LED. When the light emitting surface is divided into at least three regions, the lens performs light distribution such that light radiated from a region is distributed in a direction tilted with respect to the optical axis of the light emitted from the LED. Thus, asymmetric distribution of light is achieved when the optical axis of the light from the LED is the axis of symmetry, and further, the luminous flux in the direction tilted with respect to the optical axis is increased most. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140307454 | LIGHTING SYSTEM - A lighting system includes a lighting apparatus provided along one side of an aisle and a specular reflection plate provided along the other side of the aisle to reflect the light emitted from the lighting apparatus toward a region where the lighting apparatus is provided. According to the above configuration, the lighting apparatus can illuminate the region where the lighting apparatus is provided. Therefore, it is possible to effectively illuminate a cabin of an aircraft with less lighting apparatuses as compared to conventional lighting apparatuses which are provided along both sides of the aisle. Moreover, since the number of the lighting apparatuses can be reduced, it is possible to improve fuel efficiency of the aircraft by reducing the total weight of the aircraft. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20150029712 | LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE AND LIGHTING APPARATUS - A light-emitting module includes: a board; and a plurality of light sources arranged in a two-dimensional array on the board and including a plurality of color temperatures. In a first direction of the two-dimensional array, light sources having a uniform color temperature are successively arranged. The number of light sources having a uniform color temperature and successively arranged in each array line in the first direction is less than or equal to half of the total number of light sources in the array line in the first direction. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150130652 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE - The signal processing device in accordance with the present invention includes: a frequency analyzer to convert a sensor signal corresponding to a radio wave reflected by an object into a frequency domain signal, and extract, by use of a group of individual filter banks with different frequency bands, signals of the individual filter banks from the frequency domain signal; a normalizer to normalize intensities of the signal passing through the individual filter banks by a sum of the signals extracted by the frequency analyzer or a sum of intensities of signals passing through predetermined filter banks, and output normalized intensities; and a recognizer to perform a recognition process of identifying the object based on at least one of a frequency distribution and a component ratio of the normalized intensities calculated from the normalized intensities of the individual filter banks outputted from the normalizer. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150289337 | LIGHTING FIXTURE - A controller of a lighting fixture is configured to set a light modulation level of an LED to a first light modulation level in a period from a beginning of a night time slot until when a predetermined first time period elapses, regardless of a detection result of a human detecting sensor, and set the light modulation level of the LED to a second light modulation level that is lower than the first light modulation level when the first time period elapses. The controller is configured to set, when the human detecting sensor detects a person in a state where the light modulation level of the LED is set to the second light modulation level, the light modulation level of the LED to the first light modulation level for a predetermined time period. | 10-08-2015 |
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| 20090046210 | AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM - An audiovisual system is provided in which the operability of selection by a user between internal speakers of a TV and external speakers connected to an audio amplifier has been improved, thus reducing the burdensomeness of operation. When an audio amplifier ( | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090232477 | AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In an audiovisual system in which a TV, an AV amplifier, a DVD player and the like are combined, another device constituting the system is automatically set to an optimal operation state according to the content recorded on an optical disc. A reproduction content judging unit | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090262256 | VIDEO/SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE AND EXTERNAL SPEAKER CONTROL DEVICE - A television set includes: an internal speaker which outputs sound; a memory which holds information; a remote controller receiver which receives an instruction from the outside of the television set; a microcomputer which causes, based on a mode specifying instruction for specifying a sound output mode received by the remote controller receiver, the memory to hold any one of (a) information that indicates a first sound output mode in which sound is outputted from the internal speaker and (b) information that indicates a second sound output mode in which sound is outputted from an external speaker that is a speaker outside the television set; and an HDMI/CEC communication unit which outputs the information that indicates the sound output mode and that is held by the memory, to an amplifier which controls to operate or not operate the speaker outside the television set. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090269036 | AUDIO OUTPUT SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD AND AUDIO OUTPUT SYSTEM - In an audio output system including a TV, an AV amplifier, a DVD player, and the like, a simple control program decides an audio output mode setting, i.e., whether to output audio from a built-in speaker of the TV or output audio from an external speaker connected to the AV amplifier by linking operations of the respective devices. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090284665 | SOUND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM - In an audiovisual system in which a source device and a television are connected via an AV amplifier, even when the AV amplifier is placed in a “Power Supply Standby State”, video/audio signals outputted from the source device can be viewed/listened to on the television without changing the wiring connections between the devices. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20110285921 | VIDEO/SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE AND EXTERNAL SPEAKER CONTROL DEVICE - A television set includes: an internal speaker which outputs sound; a memory which holds information; a remote controller receiver which receives an instruction from the outside of the television set; a microcomputer which causes, based on a mode specifying instruction for specifying a sound output mode received by the remote controller receiver, the memory to hold any one of (a) information that indicates a first sound output mode in which sound is outputted from the internal speaker and (b) information that indicates a second sound output mode in which sound is outputted from an external speaker that is a speaker outside the television set; and an HDMI/CEC communication unit which outputs the information that indicates the sound output mode and that is held by the memory, to an amplifier which controls to operate or not operate the speaker outside the television set. | 11-24-2011 |
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| 20100061871 | COMPRESSOR SLIDER, SLIDER PREFORM, SCROLL PART, AND COMPRESSOR - A compressor slider has a carbon content of 2.0 wt % to 2.7 wt %, a silicon content of 1.0 wt % to 3.0 wt %, a balance of iron that includes unavoidable impurities, graphite that is smaller than the flake graphite of flake graphite cast iron, and a hardness that is greater than HRB 90 but less than HRB 100 in at least a portion of the slider. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100111738 | SCROLL MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, COMPRESSION MECHANISM AND SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A method of manufacturing a scroll member for a compression mechanism installed in a scroll compressor includes a casting step and a cutting step. An iron casting is formed in the casting step, which includes a spiraling part. The iron casting obtained in the casting step is cut during the cutting step in order to obtain a final shape of the scroll member. The iron casting may include a fixed part having a central portion with a first axial thickness and an external periphery portion with a second axial thickness larger than the first axial thickness before the cutting step. A dimension of a specified portion of the spiraling part may be larger before the cutting step is performed than after the cutting step is performed, with the specified portion preferably disposed toward an external periphery of the spiraling part. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100111739 | SCROLL MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, COMPRESSION MECHANISM AND SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A method of manufacturing a scroll member includes a casting step and a cutting step. In the casting step an iron casting having a spiraling part is formed. In the cutting step, the iron casting obtained in the casting step is cut to obtain a final shape of the scroll member. Preferably the iron casting obtained in the casting step has a fixing part with the spiraling part extending from one side and a protruding part extending from an opposite side. A specified portion of the spiraling part, a central portion of the fixing part and/or the protruding part has a larger dimension before the cutting step is performed than after the cutting step is performed. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100202910 | COMPRESSION MECHANISM AND SCROLL COMPRESSOR INCLUDING THE SAME - A compression mechanism is configured to be used in a scroll compressor. The compression mechanism includes a fixed scroll and a movable scroll. One of the fixed scroll and the movable scroll is a cast iron molding fabricated through semi-molten die casting, and the other of the fixed scroll and the movable scroll is a grey iron casting. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100329914 | COMPRESSOR - A compressor is configured to compress a refrigerant and use a lubricating oil. The compressor includes a compression mechanism configured to compress the refrigerant, a driving shaft configured to rotate about a rotation axis in order to drive the compression mechanism, a slide bearing slidably supporting the driving shaft, a first surface fixed to the driving shaft and intersecting with a line arranged in parallel to the rotation axis, a second surface facially abutted to the first surface, and a recovery space formed in the compressor. The recovery space is configured and arranged to recover the lubricating oil leaking out of bottom ends of sliding surfaces of the slide bearing and the driving shaft. The first surface and the second surface respectively continue to surfaces forming the recovery space. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20150337837 | SCROLL MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, COMPRESSION MECHANISM AND SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll member for a compression mechanism installed in a scroll compressor is manufactured by a method including a casting step and a cutting step. An iron casting is formed in the casting step, which includes a spiraling part. The iron casting obtained in the casting step is cut during the cutting step in order to obtain a final shape of the scroll member. The iron casting may include a fixed part having a central portion with a first axial thickness and an external periphery portion with a second axial thickness larger than the first axial thickness before the cutting step. A dimension of a specified portion of the spiraling part may be larger before the cutting step is performed than after the cutting step is performed, with the specified portion preferably disposed toward an external periphery of the spiraling part. | 11-26-2015 |
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| 20120277924 | ENERGY CONSERVATION ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A terminal device sets a beneficial use time slot for regarding the electrical consumption in the beneficial use time slot as the beneficial, a waste use time slot for regarding the electrical consumption in the waste use time slot as the waste, and an efficiency improvement time slot for regarding the electrical consumption in the efficiency improvement time slot as the electrical consumption to be reduced. On the basis of the data of an amount of the electrical consumption of the device to be monitored, calculating an amount of the electrical consumption in each the time slot and displaying an amount of the electrical consumption in each time slot are preformed. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120290231 | ENERGY CONSERVATION DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM - An energy conservation diagnosis system manages electrical device K which consumes electricity to operate based on control schedule information, and comprises acquiring unit | 11-15-2012 |
| 20130253726 | APPARATUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND MOBILE TERMINAL WHICH IS USED IN APPARATUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The apparatus management system includes a plurality of environmental control apparatuses, a power supply regulation device and a mobile terminal. Each of the environmental control apparatuses is assigned first identification information for physically distinguishing and logical second identification information. The power supply regulation device regulates the respective power supply to the environmental control apparatuses according to apparatus operation information. The mobile terminal includes a terminal-side storage section for storing a conversion table indicative of the correspondence between the first identification information and the second identification; and a conversion section for extracting, from the conversion table, the second identification information corresponding to the inputted first identification information. The mobile terminal includes an apparatus operation setting section for setting the apparatus operation information in association with the second identification information; and a terminal-side communication section for transmitting the apparatus operation information to the power supply regulation device via wireless communication. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20140088775 | APPARATUS CONTROL SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL AND PROGRAM - Apparatus control system includes control device controlling operation of apparatuses and portable mobile terminal communicable with the control device. In the control device, control unit controls each apparatus in accordance with control schedule stored in device-side storage unit and control request from the mobile terminal. In the mobile terminal, date and time setting unit sets arbitrary date and time as set date and time. Terminal-side storage unit stores terminal-side schedule in which control contents are associated with control dates and times for each apparatus. Simulation unit simulates operating state of each apparatus assuming that the apparatus is operating at the set date and time set by the date and time setting unit, using the terminal-side schedule. Apparatus state reflection unit outputs control request to the control device to cause the control device to control each apparatus such that the apparatus is in the operating state simulated by the simulation unit. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140222169 | APPARATUS ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - Apparatus administration system includes control device that controls operation of apparatuses and display device communicable with the control device. In the control device, control unit controls each apparatus in accordance with operation schedule stored in schedule storage unit. Operation history storage unit stores operation history in which past operation states are associated with operated dates and times. In the display device, information acquisition unit acquires the operation schedule and the operation history from the control device. Date and time setting unit specifies past date and time to set as set date and time. Estimation unit estimates operation state at the set date and time through the operation schedule. Extraction unit extracts actual operation state at the set date and time from the operation history. Display unit displays the operation state under schedule control and the actual operation state adjacently. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20150116129 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - An information analysis unit of a management apparatus searches for a device existing within a predetermined distance from a portable terminal, namely a device positioned near the portable terminal, based on terminal position information received from the portable terminal by a radio communication unit and device position information stored in an information storage unit. The information analysis unit reads, from the information storage unit, energy usage information of the searched device existing near the portable terminal, and transmits it from the radio communication unit to an information acquisition unit of the portable terminal. Thus, the information acquisition unit acquires only the energy usage information of the device positioned near the portable terminal, so that a display unit displays only the energy usage information of the device positioned near the portable terminal. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150185720 | APPARATUS CONTROL DEVICE, APPARATUS CONTROL SYSTEM, PROGRAM - The obtainment unit obtains information indicative of a content of manual-operation performed by a user regarding control of an intended apparatus from a group of loads, and stores it as manual-operation information including an obtaining time. The identification unit identifies a type of control of the manual-operation information. The determination unit counts the number of times of obtaining the manual-operation information within a counting period equal to two days or more, for each type and for each time period, and determines whether the number of times of obtaining the same type of manual-operation information within the same time period is equal to a predetermined threshold or more. When the number of times of obtaining the same type of manual-operation information within the same time period is determined to be equal to the predetermined threshold or more, the schedule change unit changes a control schedule based on this manual-operation information. | 07-02-2015 |
| 20160004297 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An energy management system includes an instruction unit ( | 01-07-2016 |
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| 20100128315 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - When a halftone frequency inputted to a diffusion coefficient storage section is a low halftone frequency, or when the halftone frequency is a middle halftone frequency or high halftone frequency and a zoom level is a middle zoom level or high zoom level, the same set of diffusion coefficients are selected. Moreover, when the halftone frequency inputted to the diffusion coefficient storage section is the middle halftone frequency or high halftone frequency and the zoom level is the low zoom level, individual sets of diffusion coefficients are selected for respective current pixels. A diffusion error calculation section calculates diffusion errors to be diffused to respective not-quantized peripheral pixels of the current pixel, based on a quantization error inputted from a quantization error calculation section and the set of diffusion coefficients selected from the diffusion coefficient storage section. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20120121122 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - When dispersed large dots data associated with dispersed large dots which become visible as a result of making a copy or clustered small dots data (watermark pattern data) associated with clustered small dots which do not become visible as a result of making a copy is inputted to the watermark pattern generating section, the control section inputs the inputted dispersed large dots data or clustered small dots data to the watermark composition processing section. For a pixel corresponding to dispersed large dots data, the control section causes the watermark composition processing section to join data associated with an original image with data associated with a watermark and outputs obtained composite data to the image output apparatus. For a pixel corresponding to clustered small dots data, the watermark composition processing section outputs data associated with an original image to the image output apparatus. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120134580 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Unevenness in density (line noise) resulting from color misregistration among RGB components in a halftone region or a line screen region is suppressed. With respect to a document that is discriminated as a printed photo document or a text/printed photo document that includes black halftones by a document type discrimination section, or to a region segmented into a black halftone region by a segmentation section, a non-uniform image suppressing operation mode is executed. In the non-uniform image suppressing operation mode, a black generation and under color removal section does not carry out a black generation and under color removal process on a pixel in which a minimum value of the image data of the plurality of color components is at least equal to or less than a predetermined threshold. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20130003149 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In a case where a line noise suppression mode in which a line noise image is suppressed is enabled by a mode setting section | 01-03-2013 |
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| 20120037227 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLAR CELL AND SOLAR CELL - A method for manufacturing a solar cell ( | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120090674 | SOLAR CELL - A solar cell ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20130160847 | SOLAR CELL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A solar cell includes a solar cell substrate including a principal surface on which a p-type surface and an n-type surface are exposed, a p-side electrode formed on the p-type surface and including a first linear portion linearly extending in a first direction, and an n-side electrode formed on the n-type surface and including a second linear portion linearly extending in the first direction and arranged next to the first linear portion in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Corners of a tip end of at least one of the first and second linear portions are formed in a chamfered shape. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130180585 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLAR CELL, AND SOLAR CELL - A method of manufacturing a solar cell includes: forming a solar cell substrate having one main surface and the other main surface and having a p-type surface and an n-type surface which are exposed on one region and another region in the one main surface, respectively; forming seed layers in an electrically separated state on the p-type surface and the n-type surface, respectively; and forming a plated film on the seed layer on each of the p-type surface and the n-type surface by an electrolytic plating method. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130213452 | SOLAR CELL MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A solar cell module is provided with a plurality of solar cells and a wiring material. Each solar cell includes a p-side electrode and an n-side electrode arranged on one principal surface thereof. For each pair of adjacent solar cells, the wiring material electrically connects the p-side electrode of one solar cell and the n-side electrode of the other solar cell. Surface layers of the p-side electrodes and the n-side electrodes comprises, respectively, plating layers each containing at least one power-supplied point. The wiring material is bonded to the solar cells at regions each of which at least includes the power-supplied point. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130333743 | SOLAR CELL MODULE - The present invention improves the reliability of back contact solar cell modules that are electrically connected by means of wiring material. A solar cell module ( | 12-19-2013 |
| 20150162488 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLAR CELL - A solar cell includes a solar cell substrate including a principal surface on which a p-type surface and an n-type surface are exposed, a p-side electrode formed on the p-type surface and including a first linear portion linearly extending in a first direction, and an n-side electrode formed on the n-type surface and including a second linear portion linearly extending in the first direction and arranged next to the first linear portion in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Corners of a tip end of at least one of the first and second linear portions are formed in a chamfered shape. | 06-11-2015 |
