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Daichi Ohara, Takasago-Shi JP
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20140309325 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CHLORINATED VINYL CHLORIDE RESIN - A method for producing a chlorinated vinyl chloride resin of the present invention includes chlorinating a vinyl chloride resin by irradiating the inside of a reactor, into which the vinyl chloride resin and chlorine have been introduced, with ultraviolet light, thereby producing a chlorinated vinyl chloride resin. The irradiation of ultraviolet light is carried out through use of at least one kind of light source selected from the group consisting of an ultraviolet LED, an organic EL, an inorganic EL, and an ultraviolet laser. A chlorinated vinyl chloride resin that shows suppressed initial coloring during hot forming and/or improved thermal stability can be provided by the method for producing a chlorinated vinyl chloride resin of the present invention. | 10-16-2014 |
20150148445 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING CHLORINATED VINYL CHLORIDE-BASED RESIN - According to a method of the present invention for producing a CPVC resin, the method includes the steps of: introducing chlorine into a slurry of a PVC resin in a first tank; transferring, from the first tank to a second tank, the slurry into which chlorine has been introduced; and irradiating, with UV light, the slurry in the second tank. This method improves an amount of chlorine dissolved into the slurry of the PVC resin and consequently, improves production efficiency of the CPVC resin. | 05-28-2015 |
20150203640 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CHLORINATED POLYVINYL CHLORIDE RESIN - The present invention relates to a method for producing chlorinated polyvinyl chloride resin in which polyvinyl chloride resin is chlorinated by radiating ultraviolet light in a reactor into which polyvinyl chloride resin and chlorine have been introduced, wherein the radiation of the ultraviolet light is performed by using at least one light source selected from the group consisting of an ultraviolet LED, an organic EL and an inorganic EL, the light source is disposed within the reactor, at least one radiation direction of the ultraviolet light is within a range of 30° or more and 115° or less with respect to a stirring direction of polyvinyl chloride resin, and an amount of ultraviolet light radiated within the range of 30° or more and 115° or less with respect to the stirring direction of polyvinyl chloride resin is 24% or more based on a total amount of ultraviolet light radiated from the light source taken as 100%. | 07-23-2015 |
Daiki Ohara, Wako JP
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20120126519 | AIRBAG CONTROL APPARATUS - An airbag control apparatus of a vehicle includes an occupant determination device, a deployment determination device, a storage device, an airbag controller, and a voltage variation detector. The airbag controller is configured to control deployment of an airbag based on the deployment/non-deployment information. The voltage variation detector is configured to detect a variation in a voltage of an in-vehicle battery and configured to output voltage variation information to the airbag controller. If the voltage variation information indicates that the voltage detected by the voltage variation detector varies, the airbag controller controls the airbag based on deployment/non-deployment information stored in the storage device immediately before the airbag controller receives the voltage variation information indicating that the voltage detected by voltage variation detector varies. | 05-24-2012 |
David O'Hara, Toronto CA
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20120012052 | CONTINUOUS FEED TABLET COATING SYSTEM - A system for coating tablets and other small articles is provided, comprising a housing, a drum or other pan within said housing for retaining a bed of coatable articles, and a coating dispenser for dispensing coating from a source onto the bed. The dispenser includes an extendible support member and opposing spray assemblies in end to end linear relation overhead of the pan. The spray assemblies include an elongate nozzle support, an array of spray nozzles mounted to the nozzle support for connection to a source of pressurized coating fluid and optionally to a source of compressed air, and an arm at an end of the nozzle support connecting the nozzle support to the extendible support member. The support member is extendible in length to permit retraction of at least one of the assemblies independently of the other assembly. | 01-19-2012 |
20120015101 | CONTINUOUS FEED TABLET COATING SYSTEM - A system for coating tablets and other small articles is provided. The system is comprised of an elongate housing containing a drum journalled for rotation about a horizontal axis. The drum has two open ends that receive and discharge a supply of tablets respectively. The drum is rotated about the axis by a drive means to tumble the tablets and advance the tablets through the drum. The system also includes a system for delivering a selected amount of coating to the tablets while they are being tumbled and a feeder for continually feeding tablets at a first end of the housing. The system employs a weir plate for maintaining a depth of tablets within the drum and for controlling the time that the tablets remain in the drum. The system has a tablet discharge region for receiving tablets for discharge. | 01-19-2012 |
20120121774 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COATING BULK ARTICLES - A system for coating to tablets or other articles includes an elongate pan for retaining a bed of articles, a coating discharge system comprising a plurality of individually-controlled spray zones located linearly along said pan, and a means for distributing said articles along the pan wherein the full surface of all of said articles is exposed to said spray. A controller is programmed to operate the system to initiate a batch mode start-up sequence to coat an initial load of articles, a continuous, or a shut-down sequence, by controlling the dispensing of coating fluid on a zonal basis, and optionally controlling the distribution of articles in the pan and their discharge by controlling the effective height of a weir and the degree of tilt of the system. | 05-17-2012 |
Fergus O'Hara, Queensland AU
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20080274220 | Portable Concrete Moulding Machine - A portable concrete molding machine can extrude concrete moldings of a range of widths by the provision of one or more tunnel plates within the mold, the machine being provided with respective pusher plates that have pusher faces of widths complementary to the effective widths of the mold. A pair of links connect a gearbox to the pendulum arms of the pusher means to ensure even driving force applied to the pusher plates as they undergo reciprocating movement to allow concrete to flow from a hopper through a mouth of the mold and to extrude the concrete from the mold, the machine being advanced in an extrusion direction by the extrusion of the concrete from the mold. | 11-06-2008 |
Fergus O'Hara, Jindalee AU
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20110117230 | PORTABLE CONCRETE MOLDING MACHINE - An adjustable mounting assembly ( | 05-19-2011 |
Go Ohara, Ome-Shi JP
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20110240934 | Oxide sintered body, manufacturing method therefor, manufacturing method for transparent conductive film using the same, and resultant transparent conductive film - An oxide sintered body substantially containing zinc, tin and oxygen; containing tin at an atomic number ratio, Sn/(Zn+Sn), of 0.23 to 0.50, and being composed mainly of a zinc oxide phase and at least one kind of zinc stannate compound phase, or being composed of at least one kind of zinc stannate compound phase; provided by a method for manufacturing the oxide sintered body by formulating an aqueous solvent to raw material powder containing powder of a zinc stannate compound, or mixed powder of tin oxide powder and zinc oxide powder, and after mixing the resulting slurry for equal to longer than 15 hours, by subjecting the slurry to solid-liquid separation, drying and granulation, and subsequently compacting by charging the granule into a mold, followed by sintering the resultant compact under sintering atmosphere at 1300 to 1500° C. for equal to or longer than 15 hours. | 10-06-2011 |
20130001080 | OXIDE SINTERED BODY, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILM USING THE SAME, AND RESULTANT TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILM - An oxide sintered body substantially containing zinc, tin and oxygen; containing tin at an atomic number ratio, Sn/(Zn+Sn), of 0.23 to 0.50, and being composed mainly of a zinc oxide phase and at least one kind of zinc stannate compound phase, or being composed of at least one kind of zinc stannate compound phase; provided by a method for manufacturing the oxide sintered body by formulating an aqueous solvent to raw material powder containing powder of a zinc stannate compound, or mixed powder of tin oxide powder and zinc oxide powder, and after mixing the resulting slurry for equal to longer than 15 hours, by subjecting the slurry to solid-liquid separation, drying and granulation and subsequently compacting by charging the granule into a mold followed by sintering the resultant compact under sintering atmosphere at 1300 to 1500° C. for equal to or longer than 15 hours. | 01-03-2013 |
Hideaki Ohara, Kanagawa JP
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20120093546 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a belt-like member provided so as to circularly move, a forming member disposed so as to come into contact with an outer peripheral surface of the belt-like member and forms a pressing portion, where a recording material is pressed, between the belt-like member and the forming member, a contact member that comes into contact with the belt-like member, a heating member positioned on a side more distant from the belt-like member as compared to the contact member, and heats the contact member, a receiving member positioned on a side more distant from the belt-like member as compared to the heating member, and receives heat from the heating member, and a heat transfer portion provided so as to be connected to the receiving member and the contact member, and transfers heat to the contact member from the receiving member. | 04-19-2012 |
20150030360 | FIXING DEVICE, HEATING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HEATING DEVICE - A fixing device includes a fixing member that fixes a toner image to a recording medium, a pressure member that forms, together with the fixing member, a pressure portion through which the recording medium carrying the toner image yet to be fixed passes, and a heating member including a heating layer that generates heat when energized and an insulating layer that encloses the heating layer so as to electrically insulate the heating layer. The heating member has a curved shape along an inner peripheral surface of the fixing member, in a state in which no external force is applied, and is in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the fixing member. | 01-29-2015 |
20150098737 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a fixing device including a fixing member that fixes a toner image onto a recording material, a pressurizing member that forms a pressurizing portion, in cooperation with the fixing member, through which the recording material holding a non-fixed toner image passes, a heating member that includes a heat generating portion having a predetermined pattern shape and being energized to generate heat, and heats the fixing member, a supporting member that supports the heating member along an inner circumferential surface of the fixing member, and a thermal diffusion member that faces the supporting member with interposing the heating member, and diffuses heat from the heating member and conducts the heat to the fixing member. | 04-09-2015 |
20150110530 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a fixing device including a fixing belt that is formed in an endless shape, is driven to rotate, and includes an outer circumferential surface pressed to a recording sheet holding a toner image, and a thin plate shaped heating member that contacts with an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt to generate heat and heats the fixing belt, wherein the heating member is supported to be fixed at one end portion in a circumferential direction of the fixing belt, contacts with the fixing belt along the circumferential direction, is elastically deformed so that a shape of the heating member is restrained by the fixing belt, and is pressed to the circumferential surface of the fixing belt by an elastic repulsive force. | 04-23-2015 |
20150125191 | FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a fixing device including a heating unit that includes a circularly moving heating belt, and a pressurizing roller that presses an external face of the heating belt, the fixing device fixing a toner image on a sheet onto the sheet by nipping the sheet between the heating belt and the pressurizing roller and by heating and pressurizing the sheet transported with the toner image being held. | 05-07-2015 |
20150160590 | HEATING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a heating device that heats a belt which transports a medium on which a non-fixed image to be fixed onto the medium through heating is formed, the heating device including a heating element, a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer that are arranged to nip the heating element, a first supporting layer that comes into contact with the first insulating layer and a second supporting layer that comes into contact with the second insulating layer, both of which are arranged to nip the first insulating layer, the heating element, and the second insulating layer, and a connection member that connects the first supporting layer and the second supporting layer in a normal direction of the first supporting layer and the second supporting layer. | 06-11-2015 |
Hideki Ohara, Niihama-Shi JP
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20140294703 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HIGH-PURITY COBALT SULFATE AQUEOUS SOLUTION - Disclosed herein is a method for easily and efficiently removing manganese from an aqueous acidic solution of sulfuric acid containing cobalt and manganese at low cast to obtain a high-purity cobalt sulfate aqueous solution usable as a raw material for lithium ion secondary batteries. The high-purity cobalt sulfate aqueous solution is obtained by mixing an aqueous acidic solution of sulfuric acid containing cobalt and manganese (aqueous phase) with an acidic organic extractant (organic phase) while adjusting the pH of the aqueous acidic solution of sulfuric acid to a value in a range between 2 and 4 with a pH adjuster such as sodium hydroxide to extract manganese into the organic phase. The acidic organic extractant to be used is preferably diluted so that the concentration of di-2-ethylhexyl phosphate is 10 to 30 vol %. | 10-02-2014 |
20150078972 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HIGH-PURITY NICKEL SULFATE - Provided is a method of producing high-purity nickel sulfate by an impurity-element removal method for selectively removing Mg from a Ni-containing solution. The method comprises a production process of producing nickel sulfate from a Ni-containing acid solution, the acid solution being treated in order of steps (1) to (3): (1) carbonation step, adding a carbonating agent into the Ni-containing solution to make Ni contained in the Ni-containing solution into a precipitate of nickel carbonate or a mixture of nickel carbonate and nickel hydroxide, thereby forming a slurry after carbonation including the precipitate and a solution after carbonation; (2) solid-liquid separation step, separating the slurry after carbonation formed in the carbonation step into the precipitate and the solution after carbonation; and (3) neutralization step, adding a neutralizing agent into the solution after carbonation separated through the solid-liquid separation step to recover Ni contained in the solution after carbonation as a Ni-precipitate. | 03-19-2015 |
Hideki Ohara, Ehime JP
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20140348732 | OPERATING METHOD IN HYDROMETALLURGY OF NICKEL OXIDE ORE - It is an object to provide a method for producing magnesium oxide by which magnesium oxide being high in purity and low in impurity content can be produced simply and efficiently from a sulfuric acid solution containing magnesium and calcium such as waste water. In the present invention, calcium is precipitated as calcium sulfate and separated by concentrating a sulfuric acid solution containing magnesium and calcium, and magnesium is precipitated as magnesium sulfate and separated by further concentrating the solution resulting from the separation of calcium. The separated magnesium sulfate is roasted together with a reductant, so that magnesium oxide and sulfur dioxide are obtained. The resulting magnesium oxide is washed to produce magnesium oxide with high purity. | 11-27-2014 |
20160115050 | WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS - A wastewater treatment process capable of selectively and efficiently separating and removing a manganese precipitate with high purity from sulfuric acid-acidic wastewater containing aluminum, magnesium, and manganese. In the wastewater treatment for a sulfuric acid-acidic wastewater containing aluminum, magnesium, and manganese, a magnesium oxide is used for part or all of the neutralizing agent to be added, the magnesium oxide is produced through the following steps (1) to (4): (1) effluent wastewater obtained by separating aluminum and manganese from sulfuric acid-acidic wastewater is concentrated, and calcium contained in the effluent wastewater is precipitated as a calcium sulfate; (2) the solution obtained in (1) is further concentrated, and magnesium is precipitated and separated as a magnesium sulfate; (3) the magnesium sulfate separated in (2) is roasted together with a reducing agent to obtain a magnesium oxide and sulfurous acid gas; and (4) the magnesium oxide obtained in (3) is washed. | 04-28-2016 |
20160137524 | HEMATITE MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND HEMATITE MANUFACTURED BY SAME - Magnesium oxide produced by a process is used as a neutralizing agent for preliminary neutralization treatment of a leached slurry obtained by leaching a nickel oxide ore at a high temperature and pressure with sulfuric acid added. A neutralizing agent is added to a leachate, obtained by leaching a nickel oxide ore, to separate impurities, and a sulfurizing agent is added to the resulting neutralized solution to obtain nickel and cobalt sulfides, followed by separating the sulfurized solution; discharge waste water, obtained by adding a neutralizing agent to the sulfurized solution to separate aluminum and manganese, is concentrated to precipitate and separate calcium contained in the discharge waste water as calcium sulfate; the resulting solution is concentrated to precipitate magnesium in the solution as magnesium sulfate; the magnesium sulfate is roasted with a reducing agent to obtain magnesium oxide and a sulfurous gas; and the magnesium oxide is washed. | 05-19-2016 |
Hiroki Ohara, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20130275003 | SUSPENSION CONTROL APPARATUS | 10-17-2013 |
20140291088 | SHOCK ABSORBER - The present invention provides a shock absorber having improved performance and durability. A damping force generation mechanism | 10-02-2014 |
20140324289 | SUSPENSION CONTROL APPARATUS | 10-30-2014 |
Hiroki Ohara, Atsugi JP
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20120156365 | DEPOSITION APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to carry out stable film deposition for a long stretch of time without an evaporation material being stuck in a manufacturing apparatus that carries out evaporation. A driving portion that can move a crucible up and down is provided for an evaporation source of an evaporation apparatus. When the opening of the crucible is clogged with the evaporation material, the crucible is moved down and sealed in the evaporation source. The heater of the evaporation source can heat the opening efficiently; therefore, the evaporation material with which the opening is filled is evaporated; therefore, the blockage can be dissolved. Thereafter, the crucible is moved above and heated to carry out evaporation. It is possible to carry out film deposition without exposure to the atmosphere for a long stretch of time, which can improve the productivity of an organic EL element. | 06-21-2012 |
Hiroshi Ohara, Taoyuan Hsien TW
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20090017302 | Speaker Damper Substrate - A speaker damper substrate is to be made from several types of yarns for fabrication. The yarns include a general-grade fiber and a lower-melting fiber, whose melting point is lower than the general-grade fiber. In addition, the proportion ratio of the general-grade fiber and the lower-melting fiber is in the range of 95˜5%:5˜100%. The surrounding region of the overlapping area of the yarns is bonded using the lower-melting fibers due to their melting behavior for improving the mechanical properties of the substrate. In addition, the substrate can perform the resin-immersion process to further improve its rigidity and the compression molding effectiveness. | 01-15-2009 |
Hiroshi Ohara, Taoyuan County TW
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20140102825 | SPEAKER DAMPER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A damper speaker includes a fiber cloth woven by fibers, each of the fibers is formed by a single fiber strand or several fiber strands. The fiber strand includes a first fiber, which is one or a combination of cotton, polyester and aramid fiber. When the first fiber is the combination of cotton, polyester and aramid fiber, the weight ratio of any one to the fiber cloth is 0˜100%, and the weight ratio of the other two is adjusted. When the weight ratio of the first fiber to the fiber cloth is less than 100%, the fiber cloth includes a second fiber, which is one or a combination of rayon, silk, flax, acrylic, rubber and synthetic fiber. The speaker damper includes a layer of resin, which is absorbed by and combined with the fiber cloth. The fiber cloth is then cut into a predetermined shape through a molding means. | 04-17-2014 |
Hiroshi Ohara, Miyagi-Ken JP
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20130291655 | PRESSING TYPE INPUT DEVICE - To provide a pressing type input device including: a load sensor which outputs a signal corresponding to an operation load from an operation member; a biasing member which generates an initial load with respect to the load sensor; a pressing member which presses the load sensor by receiving a biasing force of the biasing member; and a support member which oscillatably supports the pressing member, in which the pressing member has a pressed portion to receive the operation load from the operation member and a press portion to press the load sensor, and the operation load applied to the pressed portion causes a force to act on the press portion in a direction to reduce the initial load on the load sensor, in a position supported by the support member as fulcrum. | 11-07-2013 |
Hiroyuki Ohara, Kitaadati-Gun JP
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20120308628 | COATED POWDER AND COSMETIC PREPARATION USING THE COATED POWDER - A coated powder is obtained by coating a powder to be treated, with a mixture, as a coating agent, which includes 60 wt % to 90 wt % of an extremely hardened plant fat and oil having a melting point of 50° C. or more and 10 wt % to 40 wt % of an ester oil agent derived from a plant fat and oil. The powder is coated with the coating agent preferably at a temperature higher than the melting point of the extremely hardened plant fat and oil by 10 to 20° C. The powder is coated with the coating agent in an amount of 1 wt % to 15 wt %, particularly preferably 3 wt % to 10 wt %. Further, cosmetic preparations can be obtained by using the coated powder as a part or an entire part of the cosmetic preparations. | 12-06-2012 |
Hisanori Ohara, Machida-Shi JP
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20130097553 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SHIFTING OPERATION OF ON-SCREEN BUTTON - An information display device includes a display that includes a touch panel and displays an on-screen button to which a given function is allocated on a display screen; and a controller that (a) detects two or more points that an operator touches on the touch panel, (b1) judges whether or not the touched points coincide with an outline of the on-screen button, and (c1) transfers a normal operation mode to a shifting mode for shifting a position of the on-screen button when the touched points coincide with the outline of the on-screen button. According to the information display device, an on-screen button can be shifted at a short time. | 04-18-2013 |
Hisanori Ohara, Toyohashi-Shi JP
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20110217481 | ELECTROMAGNETIC STRIP STABILIZER - An electromagnetic strip stabilizer includes: a pair of electromagnets, opposed to each other, that generate magnetic forces to act on a steel strip passing between the electromagnets after a surface coating process being applied to the steel strip; a pair of sensors, each sensor provided for each of the electromagnets, that detect a distance between a corresponding one of the electromagnets and the steel strip; and a control section configured to control a current supplied to each of the electromagnets and control a vibration of the steel strip at least based on the distance between the steel strip and each of the electromagnets detected by each of the sensors. The control section determines control gains used to control the current supplied to each of the electromagnets at least based on a thickness and a width of the steel strip. | 09-08-2011 |
20130010397 | ELECTROMAGNETIC VIBRATION SUPPRESSION DEVICE AND ELECTROMAGNETIC VIBRATION SUPPRESSION CONTROL PROGRAM - An electromagnetic vibration suppression device | 01-10-2013 |
Hisayuki Ohara, Daito-Shi JP
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20130155331 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION - A display device includes a frame-shaped front cabinet that includes a light-guiding hole to guide light from a light source to outside, a display including a display region that is disposed so as to be exposed from the frame-shaped front cabinet, an operating board attached to an inner surface of the front cabinet and that includes a ground pattern on the surface thereof on a side of the inner surface of the front cabinet, and an LED as the light source that is attached to the operating board and that is disposed at a position farther behind the ground pattern on the operating board as seen from the front. | 06-20-2013 |
Ian Mark O'Hara, Grange AU
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20140093917 | METHODS FOR CONVERTING LIGNOCELLULOSIC MATERIAL TO USEFUL PRODUCTS - The present invention provides compositions and methods for the pretreatment of lignocellulosic material. The present invention further provides for pretreated lignocellulosic material that can be used to produce useful products, such as fermentable sugars. | 04-03-2014 |
20140093918 | METHODS FOR CONVERTING LIGNOCELLULOSIC MATERIALS TO USEFUL PRODUCTS - The present invention provides compositions and methods for the pretreatment of lignocellulosic material. The present invention further provides for pretreated lignocellulosic material that can be used to produce useful products, such as fermentable sugars. | 04-03-2014 |
20140093920 | METHODS FOR TREATING LIGNOCELLULOSIC MATERIALS - The present invention provides compositions and methods for the pretreatment of lignocellulosic material. The present invention further provides for pretreated lignocellulosic material that can be used to produce products, such as fermentable sugars. | 04-03-2014 |
Isao Ohara, Fujisawa-Shi JP
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20130058838 | EXHAUST PIPE - The present invention relates to an exhaust pipe, which prevents a reducing agent from penetrating a support member for an exhaust purification catalyst, and effectively prevents the exhaust purification catalyst from being damaged due to the expansion of the support member. An exhaust gas purification catalyst | 03-07-2013 |
20130064725 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION DEVICE - An exhaust gas purification device with a first exhaust pipe section for leading exhaust gas discharged from an engine, a second exhaust pipe section having in a side section on an upstream side thereof an opening section for introducing exhaust gas from the first exhaust pipe section, the second exhaust pipe section being connected at a side section thereof to the first exhaust pipe section so that flow of exhaust gas therein becomes a swirl flow and having provided on a downstream side thereof a post-processing device, and a reduction agent supply device provided at an upstream end of the second exhaust pipe section. The opening section is formed so as to include at least a first tilted side extending in a direction tilted relative to an axis of the second exhaust pipe section. | 03-14-2013 |
Isao Ohara, Hadano-Shi JP
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20140351360 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, SERVER MODULE, AND STORAGE MODULE - An exemplary computer system includes a server module including a first processor and first memory, a storage module including a second processor, a second memory and a storage device, and a transfer module. The transfer module retrieves a first transfer list including an address of a first storage area, which is set on the first memory for a read command, from the server module. The transfer module retrieves a second transfer list including an address of a second storage area in the second memory, in which data corresponding to the read command read from the storage device is stored temporarily, from the storage module. The transfer module sends the data corresponding to the read command in the second storage area to the first storage area by controlling the data transfer between the second storage area and the first storage area based on the first and second transfer lists. | 11-27-2014 |
20150127872 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, SERVER MODULE, AND STORAGE MODULE - An exemplary computer system includes a server module including a first processor and first memory, a storage module including a second processor, a second memory and a storage device, and a transfer module. The transfer module retrieves a first transfer list including an address of a first storage area, which is set on the first memory for a read command, from the server module. The transfer module retrieves a second transfer list including an address of a second storage area in the second memory, in which data corresponding to the read command read from the storage device is stored temporarily, from the storage module. The transfer module sends the data corresponding to the read command in the second storage area to the first storage area by controlling the data transfer between the second storage area and the first storage area based on the first and second transfer lists. | 05-07-2015 |
Isao Ohara, Kanagawa JP
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20140185877 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND FILTER SETTING METHOD - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including an image data acquisition section, a metadata acquisition section, a display section, a filter setting section, and a combination setting section. The image data acquisition section is configured to acquire image data from a camera. The metadata acquisition section is configured to acquire, from the camera, metadata representing information concerning an object of surveillance. The display section is configured to display a setting screen usable for setting a plurality of filters. The filter setting section is configured to perform filter setting using the information of the metadata. The combination setting section is configured to set a combination of the plurality of filters. The filter setting section and the combination setting section are provided on the same setting screen. | 07-03-2014 |
Isao Ohara, Hadano JP
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20120144223 | COMPUTER SYSTEM - Without disposing any dedicated management module, it is possible to monitor sensors of shared sections shared among computer modules. A computer system includes a state machine for monitoring a power state of each computer module and a state of a baseboard management controller of the computer module, shared modules of shared sections shared among the computer modules, and switches corresponding to the shared modules for selecting one of the baseboard management controllers to establish connections between the baseboard management controllers and the shared modules. At occurrence of an abnormality in the power state or the baseboard management controller of any one of the computer modules, the state machine dynamically conducts a switching operation to designate one of the baseboard management controllers to monitor sensors of the shared modules. | 06-07-2012 |
Jason O'Hara, Dublin IE
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20110182985 | Solid Pharmaceutical Composition with Enhancers and Methods of Preparing thereof - The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions which are effective in providing therapeutically effective blood levels of a therapeutically active ingredient to a subject when administered to a gastrointestinal tract. In one aspect, the pharmaceutical compositions comprise a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutically active ingredient; at least one water soluble enhancer, e.g., a medium chain fatty acid or a salt, ester, ether, or derivative of a medium chain fatty acid and has a carbon chain length of from about 4 to about 20 carbon atoms; and a saccharide. | 07-28-2011 |
John O'Hara, East Lindfield AU
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20150227895 | System for Handling Network Transactions - A method of securing a transaction that comprises a trust entity computer in communication with data storage, a first party and a second party over a network, and receiving a request from the first party to undertake a transaction with the second party. In addition, receives a first token, storing the first token in the data storage, receiving a second token from the second party, comparing the stored first token and the received second token, if the stored first token and the received second token are a match, enabling the transaction. | 08-13-2015 |
John O'Hara, Lindfield AU
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20090313148 | SYSTEM FOR HANDLING NETWORK TRANSACTIONS - The present invention relates to a method of enabling a computer network transaction for a product being purchased by a buyer from a seller, comprising the steps of generating a once-only transaction identification means associated with the transaction, providing the transaction identification means to a transaction acquirer, together with a buyer identification means which identifies the buyer to the transaction acquirer, and providing the once-only identification means to the seller, whereby the seller may provide the transaction identification means to the transaction acquirer and the transaction acquirer can match the transaction identification means received from the seller with the transaction identification means they have been provided with and, if they match, can enable settlement of the transaction. | 12-17-2009 |
Katsuyoshi Ohara, Kanazawa JP
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20130144577 | MEDIUM RECORDING SIMULATION PROGRAM, SIMULATION METHOD AND SIMULATION APPARATUS - A computer is caused to calculate an interface of a fluid model that expresses the fluid as a collection of particles based on input boundary condition and initial condition, to calculate surface energy of the calculated interface, to calculate a surface tension of the interface based on the calculated surface energy, and to output a state of the fluid for each specified time interval based on the calculated surface tension, so that simulation results are prevented from exhibiting non-physical behaviors. | 06-06-2013 |
Kazuhiro Ohara, Minato-Ku JP
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20120260708 | CONTROL SETUP DEVICE AND CONTROL SETUP METHOD - According to a certain embodiment, a control setup deice ( | 10-18-2012 |
Kazuhisa Ohara, Hiroshima JP
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20130303619 | Antibacterial Compositions - The present invention relates to oral antibacterial compositions comprising trihydroxybenzoate derivatives, e.g., useful for the treatment of gum diseases (e.g., gingivitis or periodontitis) and to methods of using such compositions. | 11-14-2013 |
Keisuke Ohara, Osaka-Shi JP
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20140342200 | SEALED LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - The present invention provides a sealed lithium secondary battery in which redox shuttle reactions of an aromatic compound that is an overcharge inhibitor are inhibited, and the aromatic compound decomposes appropriately, and a desired amount of gas can be generated more stably than in conventional instances, even in high-temperature environments. In the sealed lithium secondary battery ( | 11-20-2014 |
20150221951 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - This invention provides a lithium secondary battery that comprises a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode active material layer and a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer are placed to face each other. The negative electrode active material layer has an area A comprising a non-positive-electrode-facing portion that does not face the positive electrode active material layer. The area A comprises a negative electrode active material, a hot-melt binder and a temperature-sensitive thickener. The hot-melt binder has a melting point and the temperature-sensitive thickener has a gelation temperature both in a range of 45° C. to 100° C. | 08-06-2015 |
20150255786 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY - Provided is a positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries including a positive electrode mixture layer formed of a positive electrode mixture paste containing a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material has a particle diameter of 2 μm or more and less than 7 μm. The positive electrode mixture layer includes a first mixture layer in which a maximum diameter of pores formed between particles of the positive electrode active material is more than 1.0 μm and 5.0 μm or less, and a second mixture layer in which a maximum diameter of the pores is 1.0 μm or less. The second mixture layer is arranged closer to the current collector than the first mixture layer. A ratio of a thickness of the first mixture layer to a thickness of the second mixture layer is more than 0.1 and 1.0 or less. | 09-10-2015 |
20150280209 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY - The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that comprises a positive electrode sheet comprising a positive electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode sheet comprising a negative electrode active material layer. The positive electrode sheet and the negative electrode sheet are arranged such that the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer face each other. The negative electrode active material layer comprises a face-to-face region N | 10-01-2015 |
Kenichiro Ohara, Kawasaki-Shi JP
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20120189139 | Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Having a Switched Charge Pump Unit and Operating Method Thereof - Power source noises of a digital amplifier arising from regenerative current of an inductor of a low pass filter is reduced. A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a digital amplifier, a driver; and a charge pump unit which is supplied with a positive operating voltage and generates a positive power supply voltage and a negative power supply voltage. An output terminal of the digital amplifier is coupled to a low pass filter including an inductor and a filter capacitor. The charge pump unit includes a first switch through a sixth switch, and a first capacitor through a fourth capacitor, all connected via a first node through a sixth node. Regenerative current which flows between the filter capacitor and the positive power supply voltage or the negative power supply voltage is absorbed by the second capacitor, by controlling the sixth switch to an on state. | 07-26-2012 |
Kenji Ohara, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20130071741 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR SECONDARY BATTERY, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - A negative electrode for a secondary battery according to the present invention has a collector and a negative electrode active material layer formed on a surface of the collector and containing negative electrode active material particles. In the negative electrode active material layer, an insulating material is arranged between the negative electrode active material particles so as not to develop conductivity by a percolation path throughout the negative electrode active material layer. It is possible in this configuration to effectively prevent the occurrence of a short-circuit current due to an internal short circuit and the generation of heat due to such short-circuit current flow in the secondary battery while securing the battery performance of the secondary battery. | 03-21-2013 |
20150116801 | SINGLE LONGITUDINAL MODE DIODE LASER MODULE WITH EXTERNAL RESONATOR - A single longitudinal mode diode laser module including a laser diode ( | 04-30-2015 |
Kensuke Ohara, Kanagawa JP
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20130070316 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, a controlling unit and a changing unit. The reading unit receives a reflected light from a sheet onto which a light is irradiated from a light source, converts the received light into an image signal, and accumulates a charge corresponding to the image signal in accordance with a reading time of the sheet. The controlling unit controls the light source to be turned off in accordance with a reading mode of the sheet so that an amount of the accumulated charge does not reach a saturated amount. The changing unit changes an amplification factor of an amplifying unit in accordance with a turn-off time of the light source to amplify the image signal to a predetermined level when the controlling unit controls the light source to be turned off. The amplifying unit amplifies the image signal at a predetermined amplification factor. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070319 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image reading apparatus includes a conversion unit and a setting unit. The conversion unit converts first image information into second image information by using a predetermined color conversion factor group. The setting unit (i) obtains the second image information of a color sample of a plurality of colors converted by the conversion unit from the first image information, the first image information generated by reading the color sample, the color sample used to correct a color level difference according to a light source, (ii) selects a color conversion factor group corresponding to the obtained second image information of the color sample based on the correspondence relationship between a color conversion factor group and a color level of the second image information of the color sample, and (iii) sets the selected color conversion factor group instead of the predetermined color conversion factor group of the conversion unit. | 03-21-2013 |
Kenton O'Hara, Sydney AU
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20100091687 | STATUS OF EVENTS - An event management system is configured to provide first status information corresponding to a scheduled event to at least a first person associated with an in progress event where the in progress event includes a first plurality of event endpoints that provide a first set of media streams to a first set of attendees. The event management system is also configured to provide second status information corresponding to the in progress event to at least a second person associated with the scheduled event where the scheduled event is scheduled to include a second plurality of event endpoints that provide a second set of media streams to a second set of attendees. | 04-15-2010 |
Kohei Ohara, Shiga JP
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20110269886 | ALLERGEN REDUCTION-PROCESSING AGENT FOR FIBROUS PRODUCT - Provided is an allergen reduction-processing agent capable of giving an allergen reducing effect to a fibrous product while restraining whitening, and chalk marks. As chemical agents having an allergen-restraining effect, a zirconium based compound and a sulfonyl group-containing aromatic compound are used. An aqueous dispersion containing these components is used as an allergen reduction-processing agent for processing a fibrous product. The ratio by weight of the zirconium based compound to the aromatic compound is preferably 1 to 6:0.05 to 1.5. | 11-03-2011 |
20110305885 | HEAT-RESISTANT RESIN PRINT TREATED CLOTH - A cloth has a pattern made of a resin print composition formed on a surface thereof. The resin print composition contains a resin selected from an acrylic resin and a urethane resin, and a torque is from 0.085 N·m to 0.315 N·m when a twist is applied at 1°/sec for 60 seconds while pressing at 0.35 MPa under a condition of 170° C. The resin print treated cloth hardly generates deformation or discoloration even when pressed in a state to which a high temperature is applied. | 12-15-2011 |
20110306714 | HEAT-RESISTANT RESIN PRINT COMPOSITION - A resin print composition for imparting a pattern to a fiber product such as a cloth imparts a decorated pattern that hardly generates deformation or discoloration onto the cloth even when pressed in a state to which a high temperature is applied. The resin print composition is made of an aqueous dispersion containing a resin selected from an acrylic resin and a urethane resin, wherein a torque is from 0.085 N·m to 0.315 N·m when a twist is applied at 1°/sec for 60 seconds while pressing at 0.35 MPa under a condition of 170° C. after the aqueous dispersion is brought into a solid state by volatilizing volatile components from the aqueous dispersion. | 12-15-2011 |
Koji Ohara, Toyota-Shi JP
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20110285114 | AIRBAG DEVICE - The present invention obtains an airbag device that can effectively protect an upper body and knees of a passenger by a simple airbag structure. An airbag that structures an airbag device for a passenger's seat has a main bag that restrains an upper body of a vehicle passenger from a front side in a vehicle longitudinal direction, a sub-bag that has a smaller volume than the main bag and that restrains knees of the passenger from the front side in the vehicle longitudinal direction, and an inner tube that is folded-up together with the main bag and the sub-bag and is inflated and expanded within the airbag by a gas supply from an inflator. The inner tube directly supplies gas of the inflator to the main bag and the sub-bag respectively. A check valve is provided at a gas exit that communicates the inner tube with the sub-bag. | 11-24-2011 |
20120112441 | AIRBAG DEVICE - An airbag device equipped with an airbag having a reduced volume. An airbag inflated and expanded, by supplied gas, from a state folded in the rear of an instrument panel with respect to the vehicle's front-rear direction has an outer bag for restraining the upper body of a vehicle occupant from the front side in the vehicle's front-rear direction and also has a reaction force support tube inflated and expanded, by supplied gas, at the front on the inner side of the outer airbag. An inflator supplies gas to each of the outer bag and the reaction force support tube. When the outer bag restrains the upper body of the vehicle occupant, gas discharge from the reaction force support tube is suppressed by a one-way valve and the pressure in the reaction force support tube is maintained at a pressure higher than the pressure in the outer bag. | 05-10-2012 |
20120153601 | COLUMN-MOUNTED KNEE AIRBAG DEVICE - An airbag module is stored within a column lower cover of a steering column. The airbag module is structured to include a supporting plate, an inflator, and a knee airbag. A gap is formed between a lower surface of the knee airbag and the column lower cover. Ribs are formed to project at inner side surfaces of corner portions of the column lower cover. The ribs are pressed against the knee airbag and are made to be an interfering design. | 06-21-2012 |
Masaaki Ohara, Osaka-Shi JP
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20120256349 | TIRE MOLD, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PNEUMATIC TIRE, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - A tire mold has a tire molding surface. The tire molding surface is pressed against an outer surface of an uncured tire. A vent hole is provided in the tire molding surface. A surface of an outer edge region surrounding an opening of the vent hole is formed by a smooth surface. The smooth surface is smoother than a surface in a peripheral region of the outer edge region. | 10-11-2012 |
Masahiro Ohara, Fukui JP
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20110215987 | ANTENNA DEVICE - An antenna device includes an antenna, a case accommodating the antenna therein, a sealing cap partially inserted into the case, and a connection terminal extending from the antenna in a predetermined direction. The sealing cap includes an insert portion inserted into the case, and a connector portion exposed from the case. The minimum width of the case in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction is smaller than the minimum width of the connector portion in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction. This antenna device is flexibly adaptable to a change of a vehicle connector which is inserted into the device, while maintaining a compact size. | 09-08-2011 |
20110241957 | ANTENNA DEVICE - An antenna device includes a core portion made of a magnetic material, and a coil including a conductive wire wound on the core portion. The coil includes a winding portion, and an inductance adjuster portion wound at a larger pitch than the winding portion. The coil has an inductance changing according to a position of the inductance adjuster portion. This antenna device has a resonance frequency which is adjustable in a wide range. | 10-06-2011 |
Masanori Ohara, Osaka-Shi JP
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20120223921 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device ( | 09-06-2012 |
20120242630 | SHIFT REGISTER - Unit circuits | 09-27-2012 |
20120326955 | SHIFT REGISTER - Provided is a shift register configured by cascade-connecting unit circuits | 12-27-2012 |
20130201090 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A first gate driver that drives a gate bus line corresponding to a first sub-pixel section and a second gate driver that drives a gate bus line corresponding to a second sub-pixel section are monolithically formed inside a panel. A shift register inside the second gate driver has a configuration where stages corresponding to respective rows and dummy stages each disposed for each row, are connected in series with one another. In such a configuration, a frequency of a clock signal for controlling an operation of the second gate driver is made twice as large as a frequency of a clock signal for controlling an operation of the first gate driver. | 08-08-2013 |
20140055329 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In a liquid crystal display device having a configuration in which one pixel is divided into a plurality of sub-pixels to improve the view angle characteristic, the number of IC chips for driving a panel is reduced more than that in the conventional technique. A gate driver is provided with a first shift register ( | 02-27-2014 |
Masanori Ohara, Utsunomiyashi JP
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20120217798 | VEHICLE ELECTRIC LOAD SYSTEM - An electric load system and method for a vehicle includes an electric load, electric devices, an electrically driven element operating in an operating state, an electric load detector to measure an electric load generated by the electric devices, and an electric control unit communicating with the electric load detector and the electrically driven element to determine an electric load of the electric load system. The method includes estimating an electric load of the electrically driven element based on an operating state of the electrically driven element via the electric control unit and adding the electric load from the electrically driven element to an electric load measured by the electric load detector. | 08-30-2012 |
Masayoshi Ohara, Odawara JP
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20130138916 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD - A controller for the storage apparatus: creates a second logical volume in a storage area provided by one or more storage devices; stores management information of a snapshot of a first logical volume, which is to be provided to a host computer, in the second logical volume; and reads the management information of a necessary snapshot from the second logical volume to a memory when needed, executes processing using the read management information, and returns the management information, which becomes no longer necessary, from the memory to the second logical volume. When reading the management information of the necessary snapshot from the second logical volume to the memory when needed, the controller changes the number of generations and address range of the snapshot of the management information to be read to the memory according to a generation and address of the snapshot whose management information is required. | 05-30-2013 |
Michael O'Hara, Calgary CA
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20160139023 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZING SAND CONTROL INSERTS - An open flow area test apparatus and test method for characterizing the performance of a sand control insert, such as slotted liner or wire-wrapped screen or other sand control apparatus. A sand control insert is set at or near the base of a pressure tight body, a sand pack is provided above the sand control insert, and a piston head applies a simulated overburden pressure to the sand pack. A test fluid is pumped through the sand control insert and differential pressures and sand flow through measured. | 05-19-2016 |
Minoru Ohara, Hyogo JP
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20110293836 | THERMAL BARRIER COATING METHOD, MASKING PIN AND COMBUSTOR TRANSITION PIECE - A thermal barrier coating method forms a thermal barrier coating by spray coating over the surface of a component where cooling holes are made. The thermal barrier coating is formed by spray coating after masking pins, which do not protrude above the surface of the component, are inserted into the cooling holes or masking pins protruding above the surface of the component are inserted and get shrunk due to heat while spray coating, obtaining the protruding amount equal to or less than the thickness of the thermal barrier coating after shrinkage, which characterizes the method. By way of this method, a thermal barrier coating can be formed all over the surface without clogging the cooling holes. | 12-01-2011 |
20140023787 | THERMAL BARRIER COATING METHOD, MASKING PIN AND COMBUSTOR TRANSITION PIECE - A thermal barrier coating method forms a thermal barrier coating by spray coating over the surface of a component where cooling holes are made. The thermal barrier coating is formed by spray coating after masking pins, which do not protrude above the surface of the component, are inserted into the cooling holes or masking pins protruding above the surface of the component are inserted and get shrunk due to heat while spray coating, obtaining the protruding amount equal to or less than the thickness of the thermal barrier coating after shrinkage, which characterizes the method. By way of this method, a thermal barrier coating can be formed all over the surface without clogging the cooling holes. | 01-23-2014 |
Naoyuki Ohara, Machida-Shi JP
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20130311728 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A communication apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store content data, a transmission unit configured to transmit the content data stored in the storage unit to an information processing apparatus, an operation unit configured to receive a user instruction, and a receiving unit configured to, after the operation unit accepts an instruction for starting transmission processing for transmitting the content data stored in the storage unit to the information processing apparatus, receive content data stored in another communication apparatus from the other communication apparatus, wherein, when the receiving unit receives the content data stored in the other communication apparatus, the transmission unit considers the content data received by the receiving unit in addition to the content data stored in the storage unit as transmission target content data to the information processing apparatus. | 11-21-2013 |
20140118610 | FOCUS DETECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM AND FOCUS DETECTION METHOD - A focus detection apparatus which includes an image pickup element having first and second photoelectric conversion elements sharing a lens, wherein the first and second photoelectric conversion elements perform a photoelectric conversion of images passing through different exit pupils of an image pickup optical system so as to output a focus detection signal used for focusing by a phase difference detection method, the focus detection apparatus includes an image shift amount calculator which performs a correlation calculation by using each of signal values obtained independently from the first and second photoelectric conversion elements and calculate an image shift amount, a defocus amount calculator which calculates a defocus amount by multiplying the image shift amount by a coefficient, and a coefficient correcting portion which corrects the coefficient in accordance with the signal value obtained from the first photoelectric conversion element or the second photoelectric conversion element. | 05-01-2014 |
20140204241 | Imaging Apparatus - An imaging apparatus performs a focus detecting operation with an image sensor including a photoelectric conversion portion that has a pupil-dividing function. The imaging apparatus increases a line addition number according to a target exposure value corresponding to a pixel dynamic range that is variable depending on an exposure setting value. Thus, the imaging apparatus can reduce the amount of noise and can suppress the dispersion of focus detection result. Further, the imaging apparatus changes the line addition number according to a lens diaphragm aperture size, a defocus amount, or a pixel signal reading mode. Thus, the imaging apparatus can secure the resolution in the vertical direction and can prevent the detection accuracy from deteriorating even in a case where a photographic subject is obliquely positioned in a focus detection area. | 07-24-2014 |
20150319356 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor having focus detection pixels arrayed in pixel lines, and controls a ratio of pixel line addition to signal correlation amount addition in a focus detection region in accordance with subject information to perform focus detection with increased resolution and suppressed noise based on an image signal of a subject slanting in relation to the focus detection region. | 11-05-2015 |
Norma O'Hara, Airdrie CA
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20140334268 | METHODS FOR MODIFICATION OF INSECT BEHAVIOUR - A method is described for emitting an insect behaviour modification signal to create a protected zone into which insect entry is minimized. The use of complex waveforms is described, emitted at frequencies from 150.000 Hz to 250.000 Hz. First and second waveforms are emitted at resonant frequencies to strengthen the protective effect. Further refinements include modulation of the transmitted signal, and frequency hopping of the transmitted signal. | 11-13-2014 |
Osamu Ohara, Yokohama-Shi JP
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20140274788 | LEUKEMIA STEM CELL MARKERS - The invention provides a test method for predicting the initial onset or a recurrence of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) comprising (1) measuring the expression level of human leukemic stem cell (LSC) marker genes in a biological sample collected from a subject for a transcription product or translation product of the gene as an analyte and (2) comparing the expression level with a reference value; an LSC-targeting therapeutic agent for AML capable of suppressing the expression of a gene selected from among LSC marker genes or a substance capable of suppressing the activity of a translation product of the gene; a method for producing a sample containing hematopoietic cells for autologous transplantation or allogeneic transplantation for AML patients, comprising obtaining an LSC-purged sample with at least 1 kind of LSC marker as an index; and a method of preventing or treating AML. | 09-18-2014 |
Osamu Ohara, Kanagawa JP
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20110307964 | MOUSE HAVING HUMAN LEUKEMIC STEM CELL AND LEUKEMIC NON-STEM CELL AMPLIFIED THEREIN, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - The invention relates to a method of selectively expanding human leukemic cells in a non-adult NOD/SCID/IL2rg | 12-15-2011 |
20120070450 | LEUKEMIA STEM CELL MARKERS - The invention provides a test method for predicting the initial onset or a recurrence of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) comprising (1) measuring the expression level of human leukemic stem cell (LSC) marker genes in a biological sample collected from a subject for a transcription product or translation product of the gene as an analyte and (2) comparing the expression level with a reference value; an LSC-targeting therapeutic agent for AML capable of suppressing the expression of a gene selected from among LSC marker genes or a substance capable of suppressing the activity of a translation product of the gene; a method for producing a sample containing hematopoietic cells for autologous transplantation or allogeneic transplantation for AML patients comprising obtaining an LSC-purged sample with at least 1 kind of LSC marker as an index; and a method of preventing or treating AML. | 03-22-2012 |
Ryoichi Ohara, Hyogo-Ken JP
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20140283618 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND STRAIN MONITOR - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor substrate, an insulating gate field-effect transistor, and a strain gauge unit. The semiconductor substrate is placed on the substrate and has first and second regions. The insulating gate field-effect transistor is provided in the first region of the semiconductor substrate. The strain gauge unit has a long metal resistor, a first insulating film and a second insulating film. The long metal resistor is provided inside of an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate in the second region of the semiconductor substrate. The first insulating film is provided between the semiconductor substrate and the metal resistor and extends up to the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. The second insulating film is provided above the first insulating film across the metal resistor. | 09-25-2014 |
20150069414 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first and second electrodes, and first, second, and third semiconductor regions. The first semiconductor region has a first conductivity type. The first electrode is provided above the first semiconductor region. The second semiconductor region has a second conductivity type and is provided between the first semiconductor region and the first electrode. The third semiconductor region is provided between the first semiconductor region and the first electrode, and has the second conductivity type. The third semiconductor region has an impurity concentration substantially equal to an impurity concentration of the second semiconductor region, and has first and second portions. The first and second portions constitute a concave-convex form on a side of the first semiconductor region of the third semiconductor region. The second electrode is provided above an opposite side of the first semiconductor region from the first electrode. | 03-12-2015 |
20150357482 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region, a first electrode, a second semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region, a fourth semiconductor region, a fifth semiconductor region, and a second electrode. The first electrode forms a Schottky junction with the first region. The second region is provided between the first region and the first electrode. The third region is provided between the first region and the first electrode and forms an ohmic junction with the first electrode. The fourth region is provided between the first region and the third region. The fourth region has a higher impurity concentration than the first region. The fifth region is provided between the third region and the first electrode. The fifth region has a higher impurity concentration than the third region. The second electrode is provided on opposite side of the first region from the first electrode. | 12-10-2015 |
Ryoichi Ohara, Himeji-Shi JP
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20120241762 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a first region of a second conductivity type selectively provided in a first major surface of the semiconductor layer, a second region of the second conductivity type selectively provided in the first major surface and connected to the first region, a first electrode provided in contact with the semiconductor layer and the first region, a second electrode provided in contact with the second region, and a third electrode electrically connected to a second major surface of the semiconductor layer opposite to the first major surface. | 09-27-2012 |
Ryota Ohara, Ishikawa JP
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20120219988 | COMPOSITION FOR POLYMERIZING A PROTEIN - The present invention provides a highly efficient method of polymerizing a protein and a composition of polymerizing a protein. For example, the present invention provides a method comprising contacting a tyrosinase derived from nameko mushroom ( | 08-30-2012 |
20130203149 | COLOR REACTION USING TYROSINASE AND PEPTIDE - The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method and a kit for easily performing a color reaction for coloration of bright green to blue colors by using tyrosinase. The above-mentioned problem was solved by providing a coloration method comprising the steps of: (a) mixing peptide and tyrosinase; (b) incubating the mixture; and (d) cryopreserving the incubated mixture; and by providing a kit for performing a color reaction, comprising: (i) peptide; and (ii) tyrosinase. | 08-08-2013 |
Satoshi Ohara, Moriya-Shi JP
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20130183724 | Method for Producing Sugar - Provided is a method for efficiently producing sugar and simultaneously efficiently producing ethanol. A method for producing sugar characterized by comprising a pretreatment step in which a plant-origin sugar solution is fermented by a microorganism having no sucrose-degrading enzyme and a step for producing sugar from the fermented sugar solution. A method for producing sugar characterized by comprising a pretreatment step in which a plant-origin sugar solution is fermented by a microorganism in the presence of a sucrose-degrading enzyme inhibitor and a step for producing sugar from the fermented sugar solution. | 07-18-2013 |
20150111270 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUGAR AND ETHANOL BY SELECTIVE FERMENTATION - A method for producing sugar and ethanol including the steps of: heating and cleaning a sugar liquid derived from a plant; fermenting the cleaned liquid which has been adjusted to suitable temperature to selectively convert sugar components other than sucrose in the cleaned liquid into ethanol; and concentrating the obtained fermented liquid. | 04-23-2015 |
Shigeyoshi Ohara, Kawasaki JP
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20140223097 | DATA STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE - A storage system has a plurality of control modules for controlling a plurality of storage devices, which make mounting easier with maintaining low latency response even if the number of control modules increases. A plurality of storage devices are connected to the second interface of each control module using back end routers, so that redundancy for all the control modules to access all the storage devices is maintained. Also the control modules and the first switch units are connected by a serial bus, which has a small number of signals, constituting the interface by using the back panel. By this, mounting on the printed circuit board becomes possible. | 08-07-2014 |
Shinya Ohara, Utsunomiya-Shi JP
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20130016396 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM CONFIGURED TO PRINT IMAGE PROJECTED BY THE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUSAANM Ohara; ShinyaAACI Utsunomiya-shiAACO JPAAGP Ohara; Shinya Utsunomiya-shi JP - The printing system includes a computer and an image display apparatus. When receiving the printing condition from the image display apparatus, the computer generates print data based upon a printing condition and image data having a higher resolution among a second image data stored in a second memory in the computer and the first image data stored in a first memory in the computer, which corresponds to the identification information contained in the printing condition, and sends the print data to a printer connected to the computer for printing. | 01-17-2013 |
20140355012 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM CONFIGURED TO PRINT IMAGE PROJECTED BY THE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The printing system includes a computer and an image display apparatus. When receiving the printing condition from the image display apparatus, the computer generates print data based upon a printing condition and image data having a higher resolution among a second image data stored in a second memory in the computer and the first image data stored in a first memory in the computer, which corresponds to the identification information contained in the printing condition, and sends the print data to a printer connected to the computer for printing. | 12-04-2014 |
Shinya Ohara, Kakogawa-Shi JP
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20140260322 | SUPPORT MECHANISM FOR HEAVY STRUCTURE - To provide a support mechanism for a heavy structure, capable of accommodating thermal deformation of component parts of a device operated under high temperature condition, a support mechanism for supporting the heavy structure by suspending includes a fast pulley fixed to an inner wall of a package that accommodates the heavy structure which is an object being supported, a movable pulley to function cooperatively with the fast pulley, a rope-like connecting member having one end connected with the structure and movably wound on the fast pulley and the movable pulley, a counterweight unit coupled to the other end of the connecting member and including a counterweight having adjustable weight to utilize the weight of the counterweight to support the heavy structure, and a suspending device in the counterweight unit to suspend and position the heavy structure at a position upwardly relative to a normal support position. | 09-18-2014 |
Takao Ohara, Kyoto JP
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20130103748 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - In an example information processing system including a server and at least one apparatus capable of communicating with the server, the apparatus includes at least an application execution unit. The application execution unit executes a predetermined application. The system includes, by either one of the apparatus and the server or by a cooperation of the apparatus and the server, an execution state determination unit and a writing management unit. The execution state determination unit determines whether or not a state of the execution performed by the application execution unit has satisfied a predetermined condition. The writing management unit, when the state has satisfied the predetermined condition, permits a user of the apparatus to write in information managed by the server. | 04-25-2013 |
Takao Ohara, Ome-Shi JP
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20140105368 | X-RAY ANALYSIS APPARATUS - An X-ray analysis apparatus for detecting, using an X-ray detector, X-rays given off by a sample when the sample is irradiated with X-rays, the X-ray analysis apparatus having replaceable components. The X-ray analysis apparatus comprises labels attached to the replaceable components and including symbols indicating the types of replaceable components, a camera for photographing the replaceable components and the labels, and CPU and image recognition software for specifying the types of replaceable components by calculation based on the symbols in the labels. | 04-17-2014 |
Takashi Ohara, Anan-Shi JP
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20140061661 | SAPPHIRE SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT - [Technical Problem] | 03-06-2014 |
20150115307 | SAPPHIRE SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT - [Technical Problem] | 04-30-2015 |
Takeshi Ohara, Saitama JP
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20110210597 | VEHICULAR SEAT, WATERCRAFT SEAT, METHOD FOR MAKING VEHICULAR SEAT, AND METHOD FOR MAKING WATERCRAFT SEAT - A vehicular seat, a watercraft seat, a method for making the vehicular seat, and a method for making the watercraft seat that can achieve a favorable riding comfort, reduce the number of work processes involved, and reduce a manufacturing cost even by foaming a first cushion member of urethane on a second cushion member of a thermoplastic elastomer to make an integrated assembly of the first cushion member of urethane and the second cushion member. A vehicular seat includes a first cushion member formed of urethane and covered with a seat skin and a second cushion member formed of a thermoplastic elastomer and disposed between the first cushion member and a bottom plate. A covering sheet is disposed between the first cushion member and the second cushion member. | 09-01-2011 |
Takuya Ohara, Yokosuka-Shi JP
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20130004168 | CLIENT SIGNAL ACCOMMODATING MULTIPLEXING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In an apparatus for accommodating and multiplexing asynchronous client signals in which an idle signal is defined, the transmission side transmits client signals after synchronizing the client signals by inserting or removing, with reference to a specific client signal, an idle signal to/from the same type of another client signal, and in the receiving side, a PLL part is shared by recovering a clock from a client signal and distributing the clock for another client signal. | 01-03-2013 |
20130259481 | CLIENT SIGNAL MAPPING CIRCUIT AND MAPPING METHOD - A client signal mapping circuit for accommodating a client signal in a transmission frame, including: a buffer unit configured to temporarily store the client signal; a buffer used amount monitoring unit configured to report a used amount of the buffer unit; a stuff processing determination unit configured to compare the used amount of the buffer unit with a predetermined reference value, and a pseudo random sequence signal and the comparison result; an overhead insertion unit configured to add an overhead to the client signal read from the buffer unit to form a transmission frame; and a reading control unit configured to perform control for reading the client signal from the buffer unit based on determination by the stuff processing determination unit. | 10-03-2013 |
20150333838 | OPTICAL RECEIVING DEVICE AND PHASE CYCLE REDUCTION METHOD - An optical receiving device receives an optical signal that has been modulated by means of phase modulation or quadrature amplitude modulation, converts the received optical signal into an electrical signal using coherent detection, and performs phase compensation on the converted received signal, and includes: a carrier phase estimation unit that estimates carrier phase errors in a received symbol string obtained from the received signal; a gain adjustment unit that performs gain adjustment on symbols input into the carrier phase adjustment unit; a phase cycle slip reduction unit that, by performing statistical processing on an output from the carrier phase estimation unit, detects general noise that causes a phase cycle slip, and reduces the phase cycle slip; and a phase compensation circuit that compensates carrier phase errors contained in the received signal using an output from the carrier phase estimation unit. | 11-19-2015 |
Tatsunori Ohara, Yokohama JP
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20130003669 | TRANSMISSION POWER ADJUSTMENT METHOD IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND BASE STATION - Necessary transmission power of terminals is secured while suppressing total transmission power in base station, so that FFR technology is realized with high frequency utilization efficiency to thereby realize both of compactness of base station and increase of communication capacity. Frequency resource is divided into frequency for boundary area of cell and frequency for central area of cell. Transmission power per unit frequency is fixed in the frequency for boundary area of cell and is set to be variable in the frequency for central area of cell. Transmission power per unit frequency is adjusted so as to satisfy necessary power of terminals connected to frequency for central area of cell. When it is judged that total transmission power of base station exceeds prescribed value, terminal is moved from central area to boundary area of cell, so that total transmission power is suppressed to be equal to or smaller than standard. | 01-03-2013 |
Tatsuya Ohara, Hyogo JP
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20130096075 | COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTION, AMELIORATION OR TREATMENT OF METABOLIC SYNDROME - A composition comprising (a) and (b), and a food or drink or a medicine comprising the composition, wherein | 04-18-2013 |
20150190448 | COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTION, AMELIORATION OR TREATMENT OF METABOLIC SYNDROME - A primary object of the invention is to provide a composition for the prevention, amelioration, or treatment of metabolic syndrome and to provide a food or drink, a medicine, or a feed comprising the composition. A composition for the prevention, amelioration, or treatment of metabolic syndrome, the composition comprising the following (a) and (b): | 07-09-2015 |
20150265645 | Composition For Prevention, Amelioration Or Treatment Of Metabolic Syndrome - A composition comprising (a) and (b), and a food or drink or a medicine comprising the composition, wherein | 09-24-2015 |
Teruhiko Ohara, Chiyoda-Ku JP
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20130109804 | POLYCARBONATE DIOL AND PRODUCING METHOD THEREOF, AND POLYURETHANE AND ACTIVE ENERGY RAY-CURABLE POLYMER COMPOSITION BOTH FORMED USING SAME | 05-02-2013 |
Tomoaki Ohara, Nagoya-Shi JP
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20110280175 | WIRELESS RELAY DEVICE - A switch switches between an external connection state where a port functions as an external-network-side port, and an internal connection state where the port functions as an internal-network-side port. A transfer process section transfers, when the switch is in the external connection state, a packet between a station belonging to a wirelessly connected internal network and a modem wiredly connected to the port, and otherwise transfers, when the switch is in the internal connection state, a packet between a station wiredly connected to the port and a network device belonging to a wirelessly connected external network. | 11-17-2011 |
20110283122 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The wireless communication device includes a main body, and an accessory device connectable to the main body. The accessory device includes a power supply interface configured to supply power to the main body when the accessory device is connected to the main body. The main body includes a wireless communication interface and a secondary battery. A determination section determines whether a predetermined condition in which the main body is connected to and supplied with power from the accessory device, is satisfied. A wireless output power level determination section determines a low power level value to be used as a wireless output power level of the wireless communication interface. A wireless output control section sets the wireless output power level to a predetermined standard power level value when the predetermined condition is satisfied, and to the low power level value when the predetermined condition is not satisfied. | 11-17-2011 |
20110283132 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a communication device for utilization in a communication network. The communication device includes a communication process section for controlling communications in the communication network, a battery for supplying power to the communication process section, a battery control section for controlling supplying of power to the battery, a sub-board temperature detection section for detecting temperature of a battery housing section, and a temperature control section for, (A) when charging of the battery is underway and the temperature detected by the sub-board temperature detection section is outside a predetermined first charging-temperature range, controlling the battery control section to halt the charging of the battery, and, (B) when supplying of power from the battery to the communication process section is underway and the temperature detected by the sub-board temperature detection section is outside a predetermined first discharging-temperature range, halting the supplying of power from the battery to the communication process section. | 11-17-2011 |
20140286249 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CHANNEL SELECTING METHOD - A wireless communication device that obtains a current degree of interference at each of a plurality of available channels; determines whether a wireless communication is susceptible to interference based on whether a condition corresponding to implementation of the wireless communication is satisfied; and sets a channel for the wireless communication among the plurality of available channels based on the current degree of interference at each of the plurality of available channels when it is determined that the wireless communication is susceptible to interference | 09-25-2014 |
20140286253 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A channel for which connection has been established is classified into an unavailable channel or an available channel. When there are a plurality of available channels, one or more channels among the plurality of available channels is selected as a channel for which connection is to be maintained for communication. | 09-25-2014 |
20140287790 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO WAVE MONITORING APPARATUS - A radio wave monitoring apparatus that communicates with a wireless communication device which is separately provided from the radio wave monitoring apparatus and is configured to perform wireless communication via a channel selected from a plurality of channels; detects a specific radio wave at the plurality of channels; selects a channel for the wireless communication in response to a request from the wireless communication device and based on a result of the detecting; and sends channel information indicating the selected channel to the wireless communication device. | 09-25-2014 |
Tomoko Ohara, Kitasaku-Gun JP
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20120257413 | SPREAD ILLUMINATING APPARATUS - A side-light type spread illuminating apparatus includes a light guiding plate; a light source arranged along a light entering face of the light guiding plate; a double-sided prism sheet arranged at a light emitted face side of the light guiding plate; and an optical member arranged at a back face side facing the light emitted face of the light guiding plate. The optical member includes a light absorption member allowing prevention of reflection of light that has been introduced into the optical member. | 10-11-2012 |
20130070477 | SPREAD ILLUMINATING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a two-sided prism sheet, and an optical path conversion unit with linear prisms. Each apex angle of the prisms increases the closer the linear prism is formed to the center in the light guide direction, and when a pair of inclined surfaces of each of the prisms has a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface, an inclination angle of the second inclined surface is larger than the one of the first inclined surface. Among the prisms, inclination angles e | 03-21-2013 |
20130100698 | SPREAD ILLUMINATING APPARATUS - A spread illuminating apparatus includes a light guide plate in which two side end surfaces that oppose each other are incident light surfaces and one of two principal surfaces that oppose each other is an emitting surface; and a pair of light sources that are respectively arranged along the two incident light surfaces of the light guide plate and that are alternately illuminated, wherein light absorbers are formed in regions toward the incident light surfaces of one or both of the principal surfaces of the light guide plate. | 04-25-2013 |
Toru Ohara, Utsunomiya-Shi JP
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20130308931 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS, CAMERA, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - An interchangeable lens detachable from a camera includes a variator lens configured to change a focal length by moving in an optical axis direction, a focus lens configured to change a focusing state of an object image by moving in the optical axis direction, a diaphragm configured to adjust an amount of light, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an amount of change in image magnification corresponding to information about a position of the variator lens, a position of the focus lens, and an aperture value of the diaphragm, and a lens control unit configured to transmit the amount of change in image magnification to the camera. | 11-21-2013 |
20140248043 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS, CAMERA, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - An interchangeable lens detachable from a camera includes a variator lens configured to change a focal length by moving in an optical axis direction, a focus lens configured to change a focusing state of an object image by moving in the optical axis direction, a diaphragm configured to adjust an amount of light, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an amount of change in image magnification corresponding to information about a position of the variator lens, a position of the focus lens, and an aperture value of the diaphragm, and a lens control unit configured to transmit the amount of change in image magnification to the camera. | 09-04-2014 |
Toshiaki Ohara, Moriyama-Shi JP
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20120282349 | PLANT DISEASE CONTROL COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PLANT DISEASE BY APPLYING THE SAME - This is to provide a plant disease control composition having a broad spectrum against various plant pathogens, and shows excellent controlling effects (synergistic controlling effects) which cannot be expected from a single component alone. | 11-08-2012 |
Toshihiko Ohara, Matsumoto-Shi JP
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20140165407 | ROTARY ELECTRIC SHAVER - A rotary electric shaver with an outer cutter having a circular shaving top surface with numerous hair introduction openings and an inner cutter having a small cutter slidably rotating in contact with a bottom surface of the outer cutter. The rotary electric shaver includes an outer cutter set wherein the outer cutter is assembled in an outer cutter holding unit and an inner cutter set wherein the inner cutter is assembled in an inner cutter holding unit. The outer cutter set and the inner cutter set are respectively provided with a positioning convex portion on one and a positioning concave portion on the other. The positioning convex portion can fit in the positioning concave portion such that the outer cutter set can be assembled with the inner cutter set only in a case where the outer cutter set and the inner cutter set are in a predetermined assembly position. | 06-19-2014 |
Wayne O'Hara, Dunedin NZ
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20090114219 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO INHALERS - An inhaler device ( | 05-07-2009 |
Wayne Douglas O'Hara, Lower Hutt NZ
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20140292052 | CHAIR AND SUPPORTS - A chair has a supporting frame | 10-02-2014 |
Yasuaki Ohara, Yokohama JP
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20130051065 | ILLUMINATION UNIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An illumination unit includes an LED and a tabular light guide plate having a light emitting surface for emitting light from the LED as planar light, wherein a recessed portion is formed in the opposite surface of the tight emitting surface of the light guide plate, and wherein the LED is provided in the recessed portion so that the optical axis of the LED becomes parallel to the light emitting surface of the light guide plate. Further, a plurality of LEDs are arranged along the longer direction of the recessed portion, a dimming pattern is provided at a location corresponding to each of a plurality of LED of the light emitting surface of the light guide plate, and the shape or the size of the dimming pattern is varied with a location on the light emitting surface of the light guide plate. | 02-28-2013 |
Yasunori Ohara, Hitachinaka-Shi JP
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20130163964 | METHOD OF USING AV DEVICES AND AV DEVICE SYSTEM - A plurality of devices and a device system are disclosed, in which a plurality of input devices generate an input AV signal, a related device records and reproduces the AV signal, and a display device displays the AV signal. The input devices, the related device and the display device are interconnected to configure an AV system having a bus for transmitting or receiving the AV signal and management information. The related device of the AV system includes a recording medium for recording the AV signal, and the input devices transmit to the related device a request to secure a recording area on the recording medium. | 06-27-2013 |
Yoshihide Ohara, Okazaki-Shi JP
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20110308348 | STEERING SYSTEM AND COUPLING WIRE - A telescopic-type steering system includes an upper tube and a lower tube that are coupled to each other such that relative displacement between the upper tube and the lower tube is allowed. The steering system includes a coupling wire that is at least partially formed of an insulating member and that has one end portion and the other end portion that are electrically insulated from each other. In the steering system, the upper tube and the lower tube are coupled to each other by the coupling wire. | 12-22-2011 |
20130298718 | STEERING DEVICE - First and second lower support mechanisms ( | 11-14-2013 |
20130305871 | STEERING SYSTEM - A steering system includes a steering column which supports rotatably a steering shaft to which a steering wheel is connected and a pair of support mechanisms which support the steering column so as to tilt relative to a vehicle body. Each of the support mechanisms includes a support bracket having a column-side fastened portion and a body-side fastened portion, a fulcrum bolt, and a bush. A fastening hole through which a fastening bolt is inserted to fasten the support bracket to a fixed member is formed in the body-side fastened portion. Each of the support mechanisms includes an elastic member which can be compressed in an axial direction of the fulcrum bolt, and the support bracket is configured to oscillate relative to the steering column by the elastic member being compressed. | 11-21-2013 |
20140076093 | STEERING APPARATUS - A steering apparatus includes a tilt hinge shaft fixed to a vehicle body, a steering column that rotationally supports the steering shaft, and a ground clamp, which is made of an elastically deformable conductive material. The ground clamp is arranged between the tilt hinge shaft and the steering column. The ground clamp includes a second arcuate section that contacts the tilt hinge shaft, a first bent section that contacts the steering column, and a deformation section that extends between the second arcuate section and the first bent section. The deformation section is elastically deformable such that the second arcuate section and the first bent section approach each other. The ground clamp is arranged between the tilt hinge shaft and the steering column with the deformation section being elastically deformed. | 03-20-2014 |
Yuki Ohara, Sapporo JP
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20130282423 | CROP CULTIVATION SUPPORT METHOD AND APPARATUS - A crop cultivation support method that is executed by a computer includes retrieving from among dispersed fields displayed on a map on a screen, a set of fields as cultivation candidates for a designated crop, based on properties of the fields; determining from among the set of fields and based on estimated yields of the designated crop for each of the fields in the set of fields, a field combination that satisfies a targeted yield of the designated crop; changing a display format of each of the fields in the field combination to a predetermined display format that differs from a display format of other fields excluded from the field combination, and displaying the fields in field combination in the predetermined display format on the map. | 10-24-2013 |
Yuuki Ohara, Kitakyushu-Shi JP
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20130269465 | ROBOT AND ROBOT INSTALLATION METHOD - A robot includes a base unit hoisted up from below a bottom surface portion of a chamber defining a work space and connected to the bottom surface portion of the chamber. The robot further includes an arm unit carried into the chamber from above the chamber and connected to an upper portion of the base unit connected to the bottom surface portion of the chamber. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272822 | TRANSFER ROBOT - A transfer robot includes a first arm having a base end portion rotatably connected to an arm base, a second arm having a base end portion rotatably connected to a tip end portion of the first arm, and a hand having a hand base rotatably connected to a tip end portion of the second arm, the hand serving to hold a substrate. The first arm includes a specified drive system arranged therein, and the second arm is driven by the first arm. A reflector plate is arranged between the first arm and the second arm and configured to upwardly reflect heat coming from the substrate held on the hand. | 10-17-2013 |
Yuuki Ohara, Fukuoka JP
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20130164101 | ROBOT ARM STRUCTURE AND ROBOT - An arm structure of a robot installed in a vacuum chamber kept in a depressurized state includes a first arm, a second arm, and an end effector configured to hold a workpiece. The first arm is provided with a specified drive system arranged in an inside of the first arm, and the inside of the first arm is kept in an atmospheric pressure state. The second arm has no drive system therein. A partition wall is provided near a connecting portion of the first arm and the second arm to isolate the atmospheric pressure state maintained within the first arm from the depressurized state. An airtight terminal is provided in the partition wall to electrically interconnect an atmosphere side and a vacuum side in an airtight state. | 06-27-2013 |