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20100175259 | ELECTRIC SHAVER - An electric shaver including: a gripper portion to be held by the user's hand; and a head portion configured to hold a shaving-blade unit and supported to be swingable in predetermined directions with respect to the gripper portion, wherein the head portion is provided with an edge-trimmer-blade unit. | 07-15-2010 |
20100175260 | ELECTRIC SHAVER - An electric shaver including: a gripper portion to be held by the user's hand; and a head portion configured to hold a shaving-blade unit and supported to be swingable in predetermined directions with respect to the gripper portion, wherein the head portion is provided with: an edge-trimmer-blade unit configured to be switched between a ready-for-use state and a stored state by an operation element; and a engaging portion for fixing the head portion, the engaging portion configured to be engaged with the operation element when the edge-trimmer-blade unit is switched to the ready | 07-15-2010 |
20100175262 | ELECTRIC SHAVER - An electric shaver includes a grip unit capable of being held in one hand, a head unit supported above the grip unit, a blade section provided in the head unit and having an outer blade and an inner blade for shaving, and a connecting section provided at a top of the grip unit and protruded toward a rear face side of the grip unit. The head unit is provided on the connecting section. According to the electric shaver, the grip unit can be held firmly in one hand and the blade section can be pressed onto a skin firmly. | 07-15-2010 |
20100175263 | ELECTRIC SHAVER - An electric shaver includes a rod-shaped body part, a head part, and a link mechanism. The head part projects from one end portion, in a longitudinal direction, of the body part and is swingably attached to the body part with a support base between the body part and the head part. The head part includes a shaving portion and a drive mechanism. The shaving portion is formed to be elongated in a direction orthogonal to a projecting direction of the head part and has paired blades configured to operate relative to each other. The drive mechanism is configured to drive at least one of the paired blades. The link mechanism includes two link arms each connected to the support base and the head part respectively at connecting axes parallel to a longitudinal direction of the shaving portion. The link mechanism is configured to support the head part on the support base swingably. The two link arms are disposed asymmetrically with respect to a straight line passing on a center of gravity of the head part and extending parallel with the projecting direction of the head part, when viewed in the longitudinal direction of the shaving portion. | 07-15-2010 |
20100175264 | ELECTRIC SHAVER - An electric shaver includes a rod-shaped body part, a head part, and an interposer. The head part projects from one end portion, in a longitudinal direction, of the body part and swingably attached to the body part. The head part includes a shaving portion and a drive mechanism. The shaving portion is formed to be elongated in a direction orthogonal to a projecting direction of the head part and has paired blades configured to operate relative to each other. The drive mechanism is configured to drive at least one of the paired blades. The interposer is configured to support the head part swingably about a first swing axis parallel with a longitudinal direction of the shaving portion, and to be supported on the body part swingably about a second swing axis orthogonal to the projecting direction of the head part and orthogonal to the first swing axis. The second swing axis is located farther away from a tip portion, in the projecting direction, of a contact surface of the shaving portion to be brought into contact with a shaving area, than the first swing axis is. | 07-15-2010 |
20120005899 | RECIPROCATING ELECTRIC SHAVER - A reciprocating electric shaver | 01-12-2012 |
20130074344 | ELECTRIC SHAVER - An electric shaver includes a rod-shaped body part, a head part, and a link mechanism. The head part projects from one end portion of the body part and is swingably attached to the body part with a support base between the body part and the head part. The head part includes a shaving portion and a drive mechanism. The shaving portion is elongated in a direction orthogonal to a projecting direction of the head part and has paired blades configured to operate relative to each other. The drive mechanism is configured to drive at least one of the paired blades. The link mechanism includes two link arms each connected to the support base and the head part respectively at connecting axes parallel to a longitudinal direction of the shaving portion. The link mechanism is configured to support the head part on the support base swingably. | 03-28-2013 |
20140165406 | ELECTRIC SHAVER - An electric shaver includes a rod-shaped body part, a head part, and an interposer. The head part projects from one end portion, in a longitudinal direction, of the body part and swingably attached to the body part. The head part includes a shaving portion and a drive mechanism. The interposer is configured to support the head part swingably about a first swing axis parallel with a longitudinal direction of the shaving portion, and to be supported on the body part swingably about a second swing axis orthogonal to the projecting direction of the head part and orthogonal to the first swing axis. | 06-19-2014 |
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20100052417 | PRESSURE REGULATING RESERVOIR - A pressure regulating reservoir includes, first and second conduits, a reservoir chamber, first and second reservoir ports, a valve portion including a first hydraulic passage, first and second valve bodies, and a valve seat including a second hydraulic passage, a piston portion including a piston and a spring, a mobile member, a protruding portion and a shaft, wherein the first hydraulic passage is closed by the second valve body thereby interrupting the fluid communication when the pump is not actuated, a pressure difference between a brake hydraulic pressure within the reservoir chamber and a brake hydraulic pressure within the first reservoir port is regulated when the pump is actuated while the brake hydraulic pressure is generated by the brake hydraulic pressure generating means, and the second hydraulic passage is opened to establish the fluid communication when the pump is actuated while no brake hydraulic pressure is generated. | 03-04-2010 |
20130220461 | DIAPHRAGM DEVICE AND PRESSURE REGULATING RESERVOIR USING THE SAME - A diaphragm device comprising: a supporting member; a flexible membrane that is supported by the supporting member; and a housing that accommodates the flexible membrane and the supporting member, and wherein the flexible membrane air-tightly separates a first chamber and a second chamber connected to the outside through a through-hole formed in a membrane supporting portion of the supporting member, inside the housing, wherein an avoidance recessed portion to avoid interference with an opening edge of the through-hole is formed at a position corresponding to the through-hole in the flexible membrane, wherein the avoidance recessed portion is provided at a thick portion thicker than the other portion of the flexible membrane, and the thick portion protrudes toward the first chamber. | 08-29-2013 |
20130298758 | DIAPHRAGM DEVICE AND PRESSURE CONTROL RESERVOIR USING THE SAME - A diaphragm device that supports a diaphragm with sandwiching an annular attaching portion, in an axis direction, provided at outer circumference of a flexible film by the support member having a diaphragm mounting portion, wherein at least three protrusions are provided at an outer circumference of the annular attaching portion, and each of the at least three protrusions equally protrudes in a radial direction, and wherein when the annular attaching portion is compressed in the axis direction, each of the at least three protrusions contacts with an inner circumference of the diaphragm mounting portion which faces an outer circumference of the annular attaching portion. | 11-14-2013 |
20140130925 | PRESSURE CONTROL RESERVOIR WITH CHECK VALVE - A pressure control reservoir includes a valve ball and a shaft which is movable to move the valve ball to open or close a fluid path leading to a fluid reservoir chamber. The shaft has a tip with a slant surface which has a peripheral edge of a polygonal shape with even numbers of vertices and is inclined to the longitudinal center line of the shaft. Such a polygonal geometry increases an entire or inclined length of the slant surface, which results in an increased range where an angle which the slant surface makes with a plane extending perpendicular to an axial direction of the tip is permitted to be increased without causing the point of contact between the valve ball and the slant surface to be shifted close to the tip of the slant surface when the tip of the shaft moves the valve ball. | 05-15-2014 |
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20110073582 | Steering wheel - A steering wheel includes a rim metal core, a rigid covering member, a heating element, and a cover. The rim metal core forms the framework of the rim. The rigid covering member is provided about at least a part in the circumferential direction of the rim metal core. The heating element is formed by a flexible sheet having a heat generating member that generates heat when electrified. The heating element is arranged along the outer surface of the covering member. The cover is provided about the heating element and has an outer surface that serves as an ornamental surface of the rim. A hollow portion (an air layer) is formed between the rim metal core and a part of the covering member at which the heat generating member (a resistor layer) of the heating element is located. The hollow portion serves as a heat-insulating layer. | 03-31-2011 |
20130069350 | VIBRATION DAMPING STRUCTURE FOR STEERING WHEEL - A vibration damping structure for a steering wheel includes an airbag mounted in the steering wheel, an inflator arranged forward of the airbag, and a support member elastically supporting the inflator at a position forward of the inflator. The inflator includes a peripheral wall portion and gas ports formed in the wall portion. The support member has a hole facing the inflator. A sealing portion is provided to surround the hole. Through contact between the inflator and the support member at the sealing portion, gas leakage via the hole is prevented. The inflator has a pressure receiving portion in the vicinity of the gas ports to change the flow direction of gas, which is discharged outward from the gas ports in the radial direction of the wall portion, to a direction toward a rear side. The pressure receiving portion produces force acting forward by receiving pressure from the gas. | 03-21-2013 |
20130076011 | DAMPING SYSTEM FOR STEERING WHEEL - A damping system includes: a fixed member; an airbag device including a back holder and disposed on a rear side of the fixed member; an elastic member mounted in a mounting hole of the back holder; and a horn switch mechanism including a support member supported on the fixed member on a front side of the back holder, and a slider disposed between the support member and the elastic member. The airbag device functions as a damper mass of a dynamic damper, and the elastic member functions as a spring thereof. The horn switch mechanism includes an extended portion extending forwards. An engaged portion is formed at a circumferential edge portion of the mounting hole to extend rearwards. The elastic member includes an engaging portion opened in a front surface thereof The elastic member is sandwiched by the engaged portion fitted in the engaging portion and the extended portion. | 03-28-2013 |
20130255435 | VIBRATION SUPPRESSION STRUCTURE FOR STEERING WHEEL - A vibration suppression structure for a steering wheel includes elastic support portions for elastically supporting an inflator of an airbag apparatus. Each elastic support portion is formed as a cylinder having an axis extending in the longitudinal direction of a steering shaft. At any cross section orthogonal to the axis, each elastic support portion has an outer periphery of the same oval or the same circle and an inner periphery of the same oval or the same circle. When the outer periphery is circular, the inner periphery is oval, When the inner periphery is circular, the outer periphery is oval. | 10-03-2013 |
20130257024 | AIRBAG APPARATUS - An airbag apparatus, which is incorporated in a steering wheel, includes a bag holder in the longitudinal direction of the steering wheel. An inflator is elastically supported by the bag holder with elastic support portions. A retainer includes an annular bag attachment portion. The retainer is fastened to the bag holder such that the periphery of the airbag opening is held between the bag attachment portion and the bag holder. The retainer further includes arch portions and bag encompassing portions. The arch portions extend rearward in the longitudinal direction of the steering wheel from the inner rim of the bag attachment portion, and surround the inflator. The bag encompassing portions extend inward in a radial direction of the steering shaft from the inner rim of the bag attachment portion, and encompass the periphery of the airbag opening. | 10-03-2013 |
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20130048843 | MULTI-BEAM EXPOSURE SCANNING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND PRINTING PLATE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A multi-beam exposure scanning method includes: simultaneously emitting a plurality of beams with an interval between scanning lines toward a recording medium; and performing engraving on a surface of the recording medium by performing exposure scanning a plurality of times with a same scanning line, the method further includes: repeatedly performing interlaced exposure using a beam group with an interval between adjacent beams N times (N is an integer equal to 2 or more) larger than the interval between the scanning lines N×m times (m is an integer equal to 2 or more) on a first area surrounding a flat-shaped target area to be left on the surface, to expose each of the scanning lines m times; and performing non-interlaced exposure using a beam group with an interval between adjacent beams equal to the interval between the scanning lines on a second area, which is outside the first area. | 02-28-2013 |
20130074717 | RELIEF PRINTING PLATE - A relief printing plate includes: a plate material; and a relief formed on the plate material. The relief includes: a cap part including the top face; and a frustum part configured to support the cap part. The cap part includes: the top face including a flat surface parallel to a horizontal plane orthogonal to a gravitational direction when the top face is oriented upward; a cap chamfered part including a flange part of the top face, the flange part at least partially chamfered to form a curved surface not perpendicular to the top face; and a cap steep part formed downward from the cap chamfered part in the gravitational direction at a steep angle nearly perpendicular to the top face. The frustum part has a shape thicker than the cap steep part, and a cross sectional area of the frustum part gradually increases toward a bottom of the relief. | 03-28-2013 |
20130075376 | RELIEF PRINTING PLATE MANUFACTURING METHOD, RELIEF PRINTING PLATE CREATING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A relief printing plate manufacturing method includes: generating binary image data based on multivalued image data representing a printing image; generating, from the binary image data, target stereoscopic shape data; calculating, based on the target stereoscopic shape data, exposure amount data; providing a predetermined exposure amount to an outside image adjacent pixel in a range of predetermined pixels adjacent to an ON pixel; and applying laser light to an area of OFF pixels based on the exposure amount data to engrave a portion outside of an area, and applying laser light to the outside image adjacent pixel based on the predetermined exposure amount to form a relief having a projecting shape with a corner part of a flange part of a top face of the relief at least partially chamfered. | 03-28-2013 |
20140340497 | PROCESSOR DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, AND OPERATION METHOD OF ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - To display a brownish area distinguishably from residuum, a B image signal having a blue narrow-band signal corresponding to blue narrow-band light and a G image signal, out of a color image signal obtained by an endoscope, are inputted to a processor device. The B image signal is assigned as a B display image signal. The B display image signal and the G image signal are weighted independently, and the sum of the weighted B display image signal and the weighted G image signal is assigned as a G display image signal. The G image signal is assigned as an R display image signal. Based on the RGB display image signals, a special light image is displayed on a monitor. In the special light image, the residuum or residual fluid is displayed in a yellowish color, and structure including blood vessels and a lesion is visible translucently under the residuum. | 11-20-2014 |
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20110057875 | Display control apparatus, display control method, and display control program - A display control apparatus includes a recognizing unit configured to recognize a position of an operator and a position of a hand or the like of the operator, a calculating unit configured to regard a position of the operator in a screen coordinate system set on a screen as an origin of an operator coordinate system and multiply a position of the hand or the like with respect to the origin of the operator coordinate system by a predetermined function, thereby calculating a position of display information corresponding to the hand or the like in the screen coordinate system, and a control unit configured to cause the display information to be displayed at the position in the screen coordinate system calculated by the calculating unit. | 03-10-2011 |
20110215995 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a capture section capturing an image of an object, an acquisition section acquiring the image captured by the capture section, a calculation section calculating vibration information on the basis of the image acquired by the acquisition section, a determination section determining a vibration command on the basis of the vibration information calculated by the calculation section, and a control section executing predetermined processing on the basis of the vibration command determined by the determination section. | 09-08-2011 |
20110216075 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a gesture made by a user, a recognition unit configured to recognize a type of the gesture detected by the detection unit, a control unit configured to control operation of a first application and a second application, and an output unit configured to output information of the first application or the second application. If the gesture is recognized by the recognition unit while the control unit is controlling the operation of the first application in the foreground, the control unit controls the operation of the second application operating in the background of the first application on the basis of the type of the gesture recognized by the recognition unit. | 09-08-2011 |
20110320949 | Gesture Recognition Apparatus, Gesture Recognition Method and Program - There is provided a gesture recognition apparatus including a recognition unit for recognizing a gesture based on a set of gesture information input in a given input period, a prediction unit for predicting the gesture from halfway input gesture information among the set of gesture information, and a notification unit for notifying a user of prediction information about the result of predicting the gesture. A user can confirm what kind of gesture is recognized by continuing to input gesture information through a notification of the prediction information. | 12-29-2011 |
20120007857 | Information Processing Device, Information Processing Method, and Program - There is provided an information processing device including a display section configured to display a first object in a virtual three-dimensional space having a depth direction of a display screen, an operation section configured to acquire an operation for moving the first object in at least the depth direction, and a controller configured to move the first object on the display screen in accordance with the acquired operation, to execute, when a region of the first object overlaps a first overlap determination region, a first process to one or both of the first and second objects, and to execute, when the region of the first object overlaps a second overlap determination region, a second process to one or both of the first and second objects. The first overlap determination region may be a region obtained by extending the second overlap determination region in at least the depth direction. | 01-12-2012 |
20120047465 | Information Processing Device, Information Processing Method, and Program - There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire a curved movement of a body of a user as an operation, a display control section configured to display an object in a virtual three-dimensional space, and a process execution section configured to execute a process on the object based on the acquired operation. The object may be arranged on a first curved plane based on a virtual position of the user set in the virtual three-dimensional space, the first curved plane corresponding to the curved movement. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047466 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation vector based on a movement of a body part of a user, a correction section configured to correct a direction of the acquired operation vector, and a process execution section configured to execute a process in accordance with the corrected operation vector. | 02-23-2012 |
20120242576 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus may include a touchpad, a hardware processor, and a storage medium coupled to the processor. The storage medium may store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the information processing apparatus to receive a proximity signal indicative of whether a user is providing input to the touchpad; receive a movement signal indicative of whether the input includes movement of an object relative to the touchpad and/or whether the input includes movement of the object from an outer area surrounding an inner area of the touchpad to the inner area of the touchpad; and select one of a pointing user input mode or a scrolling user input mode based on the signals. | 09-27-2012 |
20120300086 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an image pickup unit photographing a subject; a movement detecting unit detecting changes in movement of a subject photographed by the image pickup unit; a data generating unit generating first timing data relating to change timing at which the movement detecting unit detected a change in the movement; a receiving unit receiving second timing data, which relates to change timing when movement of a subject photographed by another apparatus was detected, from the other apparatus during photographing by the image pickup unit; and a determining unit determining, based on the first timing data generated by the data generating unit and the second timing data received by the receiving unit, whether the subject photographed by the image pickup unit and the subject photographed by the other apparatus are the same or a similar subject. | 11-29-2012 |
20130021362 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes an input unit, a microphone, a control unit, and a voice recognition unit. The input unit is configured to receive a first type input and a second type input. The microphone is configured to receive an input sound signal. The control unit is configured to control a display to display feedback according to a type of input. The voice recognition unit is configured to perform recognition processing on the input sound signal. | 01-24-2013 |
20130088426 | GESTURE RECOGNITION DEVICE, GESTURE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a gesture recognition device that recognizes a gesture of shielding the front side of the imaging sensor, the gesture recognition device including a first detection unit that detects a change in a captured image between a state in which a front side of an imaging sensor is not shielded and a state in which the front side of the imaging sensor is shielded, and a second detection unit that detects a region in which a gradient of a luminance value of the captured image is less than a threshold value in the captured image in the state in which the front side of the imaging sensor is shielded. | 04-11-2013 |
20130120239 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a display screen having flexibility; a deflection detection unit configured to detect deflection of the display screen; and a control unit configured to recognize a change in the deflection detected by the deflection detection unit as an on operation input and output a corresponding process command. | 05-16-2013 |
20140040766 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A method is provided for enabling sharing of data. The method comprises defining a sharing region corresponding to a portion of a surface of an apparatus. The method further comprises enabling sharing of data with an external device in response to user input associating the data with the sharing region. | 02-06-2014 |
20140297289 | VOICE CONTROL DEVICE, VOICE CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a communication device to receive plural pieces of tag information corresponding to respective positions within a target area, the target area having a position defined by the position of the apparatus; and an output device to output a plurality of sounds such that for each sound at least a portion of the sound overlaps with at least a portion of another of the sounds, each of the sounds being indicative of a respective piece of tag information. | 10-02-2014 |
20140337807 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to control combining of a captured image and an operation target image so as to generate a combined image for feeding back gesture recognition to a user. A degree of visualization of the captured image appears to be changed in the combined image. | 11-13-2014 |
20150020014 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquiring unit configured to acquire at least one captured image; and an associating unit configured to associate a first information corresponding to a first object and a second information corresponding to a second object, wherein the acquired at least one captured image comprises at least one selectable object depicted therewithin, and at least one of the first object and the second object corresponds to a respective one or ones of the at least one selectable object. | 01-15-2015 |
20150049909 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided an information processing device including ail image acquisition configured to acquire a captured image, a change detection unit configured to detect a change in a state of a subject in a network service recognized from the captured image, and a depiction change unit configured to change a depiction of the subject shown in the captured image in a case where the change detection unit detects the change in the state. | 02-19-2015 |
20150062355 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing device is provided. The information processing device includes an image acquisition unit configured to receive an image; a recognition unit configured to acquire a recognition result of a user based on the received image, wherein the recognition result includes a position of the user, the user being associated with a display terminal; an image determination unit configured to determine an object based on the recognition result; and a display control unit configured to control display of the object on the display terminal. | 03-05-2015 |
20150077331 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In an illustrative embodiment, a display control device is provided. The display control device includes a display control section to control display of a virtual object according to a positional relationship between an imaging device and a display device. | 03-19-2015 |
20150086074 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing device including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image, a parameter acquisition unit configured to acquire a parameter associated with a user of a portable terminal, a specification unit configured to specify the user from the captured image on the basis of the parameter, and a display control unit configured to perform control in a manner that, in a case where the user is not specified by the specification unit, information indicating a movement of the user necessary to specify the user is displayed in the portable terminal. | 03-26-2015 |
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20100106384 | DRIVING POWER DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TORQUE COUPLING | 04-29-2010 |
20100121544 | DRIVING POWER DISTRIBUTION CONTROL APPARATUS, DIFFERENTIAL LIMITING CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TORQUE COUPLING, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DIFFERENTIAL APPARATUS - A driving power distribution control apparatus includes a torque coupling and an ECU. The torque coupling is provided in a drive power transmission system that transmits torque of an engine to each of a plurality of wheels. Based on the frictional engaging force of an electromagnetic clutch, the torque coupling is capable of changing the amount of torque that can be transmitted to right and left rear wheels, which serve as auxiliary drive wheels. The ECU controls the operation of the torque coupling based on the driving state of the vehicle. When slip of any one of the wheels is detected, the ECU reduces the torque transmission amount to a predetermined torque or a lower value. | 05-13-2010 |
20110167944 | DRIVING FORCE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A driving force transmission apparatus includes: a driving force transmission shaft receiving driving force of a driving source from a rotating member and transmitting the driving force from a main driving wheel side to an auxiliary driving wheel side; a first driving force interruption unit connects/disconnects the driving force transmission shaft to/from the rotating member; a second driving force interruption unit connects/disconnects the driving force transmission shaft to/from at least one of two auxiliary driving wheels so that transmitted torque is variable; and a control unit controls connection and disconnection of the first and second driving force interruption units. The control unit causes the second driving force interruption unit to connect/disconnect the driving force transmission shaft to/from the at least one of the auxiliary driving wheels before causing the first driving force interruption unit to connect/disconnect the driving force transmission shaft to/from the rotating member. | 07-14-2011 |
20110257858 | DRIVE STATE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A drive state control apparatus is applied to a vehicle which has not only a transfer including a multi-disc clutch mechanism but also a changeover mechanism interposed in an axle and which can be switched between 2WD and 4WD. When a 2WD-to-4WD changeover condition is satisfied, the multi-disc clutch is immediately switched from a “decoupled state” to a “coupled state.” Meanwhile, a connecting operation of the changeover mechanism is started upon establishment of a state in which left and right rear wheels have no acceleration slippage, and a state in which rotational speeds of first and second axles on opposite sides of the changeover mechanism are approximately equal to each other. In addition, in the case where the left and right rear wheels have acceleration slippage after the 2WD-to-4WD changeover condition has been satisfied, an E/G output reduction control is executed. Thus, the connecting operation can be performed smoothly. | 10-20-2011 |
20110282557 | DRIVE STATE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - An on-demand-type drive state control apparatus for a vehicle is provided. In the case where acceleration slippage occurs at drive wheels (rear wheels) of a vehicle when a drive system is in a two-wheel drive state, the drive system is switched from the two-wheel drive state to a four-wheel drive state. That is, the maximum transmittable torque of a multi-disc clutch mechanism increases from “0” to a predetermined value. In the four-wheel drive state, the maximum transmittable torque decreases stepwise from the present value by a predetermined value every time the vehicle travels over a predetermined distance in a state in which none of the wheels cause acceleration slippages. That is the clutch drive current supplied to the multi-disc clutch mechanism decreases gradually (stepwise or in a plurality of steps), and the drive torque distributed to the front wheels (rear wheels) decreases (increases) gradually. | 11-17-2011 |
20130030664 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL APPARATUS FOR FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLE - Discloses is a method of controlling a four-wheel drive vehicle equipped with a torque distribution device capable of changing a torque distribution amount for secondary driven wheels according to an input current to be applied thereto. This method comprises the steps of: applying, to the torque distribution device, a current value corresponding to a target torque distribution amount; and, performing a current changing control for increasing and reducing the input current to the torque distribution device. The step of performing a current changing control includes causing the input current to the torque distribution device to be temporarily increased to a value greater than the current value corresponding to the target torque distribution amount, and then returned to the current value corresponding to the target torque distribution amount, and repeating the temporary increasing of the input current at least at intervals of a predetermined time. | 01-31-2013 |
20130035831 | ROAD SURFACE FRICTIONAL COEFFICIENT ESTIMATION DEVICE, DRIVING FORCE DISTRIBUTION CONTROL DEVICE AND FOUR-WHEEL-DRIVE VEHICLE - A road surface frictional coefficient estimation device includes: a first straight travel determination unit configured to determine whether or not a vehicle travels straight based on a rotational speed difference between a plurality of wheels of the vehicle; a second straight travel determination unit configured to determine whether or not the vehicle travels straight based on a steering angle of the vehicle; a selection unit configured to select one of determination results of the first straight travel determination unit and the second straight travel determination unit; and a frictional coefficient estimation unit configured to estimate a frictional coefficient of a road surface on which the vehicle travels when the one of the determination results selected by the selection unit indicates that the vehicle travels straight. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035832 | DRIVING FORCE DISTRIBUTION CONTROL DEVICE AND FOUR-WHEEL-DRIVE VEHICLE - A driving force distribution control device, which is mounted on a vehicle including an engine configured to generate driving force for the vehicle, a transmission device configured to shift rotation of an output shaft of the engine by transmission ratios, and a driving force transmission system capable of transmitting output of the transmission device to main drive wheels and auxiliary drive wheels, includes: a control device configured to, when a rotational speed of the output shaft of the engine is in a range in which abnormal sound of the driving force transmission system due to pulsation of the driving force can be generated, set a torque value to a value capable of reducing the abnormal sound depending on the driving force; and a driving force transmitting device configured to transmit driving force depending on the set value to the auxiliary drive wheels. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035833 | DRIVING FORCE DISTRIBUTION CONTROL DEVICE AND FOUR-WHEEL-DRIVE VEHICLE - A driving force distribution control device mounted on a vehicle including an engine, a transmission device, a clutch engaging an output shaft of the engine with an input shaft of the transmission device, and a driving force transmission system capable of transmitting output of the transmission device to main and auxiliary drive wheels, includes: a control device obtaining a torque value to be transmitted to the auxiliary drive wheels, the control device reducing the torque value for a predetermined time when the vehicle is in a stopped state or in a state where a vehicle speed of the vehicle is lower than a predetermined value, and an increasing speed of engaging force of the clutch is equal to or greater than a predetermined value; and a driving force transmitting device transmitting torque depending on the obtained torque value to the auxiliary drive wheels. | 02-07-2013 |
20130184947 | VEHICLE CONTROL UNIT - When a vehicle speed is equal to or higher than a first vehicle speed threshold value or an uphill gradient is lower than a first gradient threshold value and uphill start control is cancelled, if a state where the vehicle speed is lower than a second vehicle speed threshold value and the uphill gradient is equal to or higher than a second gradient threshold value continues for a first set time, uphill start control is executed. When the vehicle speed is decreased after being once increased within a range where the vehicle speed is lower than the first vehicle speed threshold value and uphill start control is cancelled, if a state where the vehicle speed is lower than the second vehicle speed threshold value and the uphill gradient is equal to or higher than the second gradient threshold value continues for a second set time, the uphill start control is executed. | 07-18-2013 |
20140129105 | DRIVING FORCE DISTRIBUTION CONTROLLER AND FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLE - A driving force distribution controller comprises: a control device determining the value of torque which must be transmitted to a rear wheel; and a driving force transmission device transmitting torque corresponding to the torque value determined by the control device to the rear wheel. The control device reduces a torque value calculated based on an opening degree of an accelerator and a rotational speed difference when the rotational speed of an engine is lower than a first threshold value but higher than a second threshold value. | 05-08-2014 |
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20130080699 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A control method includes allocating a plurality of virtual disks to a virtual storage allocated to a physical storage, associating data with one of the plurality of virtual disks which has been instructed to store the data and storing the data in the physical storage, and selecting, by a processor, one of the plurality of virtual disks as a data movement target virtual disk from which data is to be moved in accordance with a network bandwidth of the physical storage corresponding to the virtual storage when free space in the virtual storage exceeds a threshold value. | 03-28-2013 |
20130246702 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A storage control device includes a memory configured to store a program; and a processor configured to execute a process based on the program. The process includes: writing additional data into an area reserved for allocation in a disk, detecting a volume of the data and the additional data written into the disk as a used amount of the disk, calculating an amount of increase or decrease in a current used amount of the disk with respect to the used amount of the disk previously detected, calculating a changed volume on the basis of a ratio between the amount of increase or decrease in the used amount of the disk and a volume of the area reserved for allocation, and allocating the area reserved for allocation to the disk so that the area reserved for allocation corresponding to the calculated changed volume is continued in the disk. | 09-19-2013 |
20140089579 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system that sets, coupling information defining a logically coupling corresponding to a first disk, to an uncoupled state indicating that a first logical machine associated with the first disk and the first disk are not coupled, in response to a request to stop the first logical machine, and releases a coupling between the first logical machine and the first disk based on the uncoupled state set in the coupling information. | 03-27-2014 |
20140289205 | DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD - An apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to determine a transfer purpose of data to be transferred from a first storage device to a second storage device via a network, and select transfer target data from data in the first storage device based on the determined transfer purpose of the data. | 09-25-2014 |
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20110094445 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL - An apparatus for manufacturing a thin film solar cell of the present invention includes a film forming chamber in which a film is formed on a film formation face of a substrate using a CVD method; an electrode unit including a cathode unit having cathodes to which voltages are to be applied arranged on both sides thereof, and a pair of anodes each of which is arranged to face a different one of the cathodes, at a separation distance therefrom; a mask for covering a peripheral edge portion of the substrate; and a discharge duct installed around the cathode unit. A film formation space is formed between the cathode unit and the substrate installed on the side of the anode, an evacuation passage is formed between the mask and the cathode unit, the discharge duct and the film formation space are connected together via the evacuation passage, and a film forming gas introduced into the film formation space is evacuated from the discharge duct through the evacuation passage. | 04-28-2011 |
20110094446 | THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A thin-film solar cell manufacturing apparatus, includes: a film formation space in which a substrate is disposed so that a film formation face of the substrate is substantially parallel to a direction of gravitational force, and in which a desired film is formed on the film formation face by a CVD method; a cathode unit including cathodes to which a voltage is applied, and two or more power feeding points, the cathodes being disposed at both sides of the cathode unit; and an anode distantly disposed so as to face the cathodes that are disposed at both sides of the cathode unit. | 04-28-2011 |
20110100296 | FILM FORMATION APPARATUS - A film formation apparatus includes: a film forming chamber in which a desired film is formed on a substrate in a vacuum; a loading-ejecting chamber fixed to the film forming chamber with a first opening-closing section interposed therebetween, being capable of reducing a pressure inside the loading-ejecting chamber so as to form a vacuum atmosphere; a second opening-closing section provided at a face opposite to the face of the loading-ejecting chamber on which the first opening-closing section is provided; and a carrier holding the substrate so that a film formation face of the substrate is substantially parallel to a direction of gravitational force, wherein the carrier or the substrate passes through the second opening-closing section, and is transported to the loading-ejecting chamber and is transported from the loading-ejecting chamber; a plurality of carriers is disposed in the loading-ejecting chamber in parallel to each other; the plurality of carriers is transported in parallel between the loading-ejecting chamber and the film forming chamber; and a film is simultaneously formed on a plurality of substrates that is held by the plurality of carriers in the film forming chamber. | 05-05-2011 |
20110100297 | THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A thin-film solar cell manufacturing apparatus includes a film forming chamber that is evacuated to a reduced pressure and forms a film on a substrate using a CVD method; a loading-ejecting chamber that is connected to the film forming chamber via a first opening-closing part and that is switchable between atmospheric pressure and reduced pressure; transfer rail that is laid at the film forming chamber and the loading-ejecting chamber; a carrier that holds the substrate and moves along the transfer rail; and a carrier transfer mechanism that transfers the carrier, wherein, the carrier transfer mechanism is provided in the loading-ejecting chamber to transfer the carrier between the film forming chamber and the loading-ejecting chamber. | 05-05-2011 |
20110107969 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL - An apparatus for manufacturing a thin film solar cell of the present invention has a film forming chamber in which a substrate is arranged so that the film formation face of the substrate is substantially parallel to the direction of gravitational force and a film is formed on the film formation face by a CVD method; an electrode unit including a cathode unit having cathodes to which voltages are to be applied arranged on both sides thereof, and a pair of anodes each of which is arranged to face the cathodes, respectively, at a separation distance therefrom; and a conveying part which supports the substrate and conveys the substrate to between the cathode and the anode facing the cathode. The separation distance is variable. | 05-12-2011 |
20110120370 | THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A thin-film solar cell manufacturing apparatus includes a film forming chamber which stores a substrate; and an electrode unit which performs film formation using a CVD method on the substrate in the film forming chamber. The electrode unit has an anode and a cathode; and a side wall portion which holds the anode and the cathode and forms a part of a wall portion of the film forming chamber, and is attachable to and detachable from the film forming chamber. | 05-26-2011 |
20110189384 | THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A thin-film solar cell manufacturing apparatus includes a film forming chamber that is evacuated to a reduced pressure and forms a film on a substrate using a CVD method; a loading-ejecting chamber that is connected to the film forming chamber via a first opening-closing part and that is switchable between atmospheric pressure and reduced pressure; a first carrier that holds a pre-processed substrate; and a second carrier that holds a post-processed substrate, wherein the loading-ejecting chamber simultaneously stores the first carrier and the second carrier. | 08-04-2011 |
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20130153410 | APPARATUS FOR PLATING CYLINDER - Provided is a plating apparatus for a cylinder, which is capable of extending service life of the entire apparatus in a technology of plating a cylinder, eliminating hardness nonuniformity of a plating layer on a cylinder surface by achieving a uniform hardness, and suppressing oxidation of a tip of chuck means. The plating apparatus for a cylinder includes: a plating bath to be filled with a plating solution; chuck means for holding a long cylinder at both ends in a longitudinal direction so as to be rotated and energized, and accommodating the long cylinder in the plating bath; and a pair of opposed insoluble electrodes which is vertically installed so as to face both side surfaces of the long cylinder in the plating bath, and is supplied with a predetermined current. The chuck means includes thermal cooling means, and the thermal cooling means includes a cooling medium and causes the cooling medium to circulate to cool a cylinder holding section of the chuck means so that heat accumulation in the long cylinder, in particular, a cylinder end portion and the cylinder holding section of the chuck means is eliminated. | 06-20-2013 |
20130160947 | FULL-AUTOMATIC GRAVURE PLATE-MAKING PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is a fully automatic gravure plate-making processing system capable of manufacturing a gravure plate-making roll more quickly as compared to a conventional case, achieving space saving, performing an unattended operation even in the nighttime, and reducing dust between individual processes. The fully automatic gravure plate-making processing system includes: a first industrial robot for chucking and handling an unprocessed plate-making roll; a second industrial robot for chucking and handling the unprocessed plate-making roll; a roll stock apparatus, a photosensitive film coating apparatus, a laser exposure apparatus, an ultrasonic cleaning apparatus with a drying function, a grinding wheel polishing apparatus, and a paper polishing apparatus, which serve as processing apparatus arranged in a handling area of the first industrial robot; and a degreasing apparatus, a copper plating apparatus, a developing apparatus, an etching apparatus, a resist removal apparatus, a surface hardening film forming apparatus, and an ultrasonic cleaning apparatus, which serve as processing apparatus arranged in a handling area of the second industrial robot, to thereby perform plate-making processing. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161196 | CYLINDER PLATING METHOD AND DEVICE - Provided are a plating method and a plating apparatus for a cylinder, which are capable of forming a plating layer having a uniform thickness in a technology of plating a cylinder, effectively preventing current concentration in cylinder end portions when being combined with a plating technology using divided insoluble electrodes, and performing plating with a more uniform thickness over the full length of a cylinder without generating defects such as rashes and pits irrespective of the size of the cylinder. The insoluble electrode has a shape in which a lower part thereof is curved inward, and is capable of rotating about an upper end thereof. Further, a thickness of a plating layer on an outer peripheral surface of the cylinder is adjusted by controlling an interval of closeness to the cylinder. | 06-27-2013 |
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20090286597 | TABLE GAME SYSTEM - A table game system comprises a plurality of playing cards and a card shooter apparatus. The cards include an ultraviolet-ray reaction code comprising at least two sets of code elements that are arranged along one side of a face of the card. The code represents at least the number of a card. The card shooter apparatus includes a card housing for containing the cards, a card guide unit that guides cards pulled out one by one from the card housing, one or more card detecting sensors that detect the existence or non-existence of a card pulled out along a card guiding direction of the card guide unit, and one or more black light sensors that read the ultraviolet-ray reaction code from the card guided by the card guide unit. | 11-19-2009 |
20110034243 | TABLE GAME SYSTEM - A table game system comprises a plurality of playing cards and a card shooter apparatus. The cards include an ultraviolet-ray reaction code comprising at least two sets of code elements that are arranged along one side of a face of the card. The code represents at least the number of a card. The card shooter apparatus includes a card housing for containing the cards, a card guide unit that guides cards pulled out one by one from the card housing, one or more card detecting sensors that detect the existence or non-existence of a card pulled out along a card guiding direction of the card guide unit, and one or more black light sensors that read the ultraviolet-ray reaction code from the card guided by the card guide unit. | 02-10-2011 |
20110210175 | CARD READING DEVICE AND CARD GAME FRAUD DETECTION DEVICE - A card used in a card game includes a code including at least two sets of code elements printed in UV-luminous ink on a surface of the card, the sets of code elements provided on one side of the surface of the card along a reading direction of a code reader. | 09-01-2011 |
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20130307215 | CARD DISPOSAL SYSTEM FOR TABLE GAME - A card disposal system for a table game is provided that is capable of assuring the disposal of all of cards corresponding to a predetermined number of decks that are used at a game table without any deficiency and without any fraudulent diversion being made over such cards. | 11-21-2013 |
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20140346733 | PLAYING CARDS AND SYSTEM - With conventional playing cards, when a game player holds together cards (the hand) in his/her hand during a game, if the cards are held shifted from each other, the indexes of all the cards in the corners thereof can be seen. If someone commits cheating (peeking) for the purpose of fraud, such third person can know all the cards held by the game player. Playing cards of the present invention can prevent fraudulent acts such as peeking in card games. | 11-27-2014 |
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20150081063 | SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards ( | 03-19-2015 |
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20080198046 | VARIABLE LENGTH CODE DECODING APPARATUS AND VARIABLE LENGTH CODE DECODING METHOD - When a combination between a plurality of FIFO memories and a variable length coding table is used, a load generated by an increase in number of FIFO memories serving as output destinations of a codeword length output from the variable length coding table when the codeword length is output is reduced. | 08-21-2008 |
20080238733 | IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS AND DECODING METHOD - According to the present invention, there is provided an image decoding apparatus having: a table selection controller configured to output a syntax selection signal which selects one of a prefix level_prefix, a suffix level_suffix, and a TrailingOnes syntax; a variable-length code decoding device configured to receive a bit stream, the syntax selection signal, and a suffix length suffixLength, and, by using data contained in the bit stream and the suffix length suffixLength, simultaneously decode the prefix level_prefix and the suffix level_suffix and output the result if the syntax selection signal selects the prefix level_prefix and the suffix level_suffix, and decode the TrailingOnes syntax and output the result if the syntax selection signal selects the TrailingOnes syntax; a level formation device configured to receive the decoded prefix level_prefix, the decoded suffix level_suffix, and the decoded TrailingOnes syntax, and form and output a level; and a suffix length updating device configured to receive the decoded prefix level_prefix, the decoded suffix level_suffix, and the decoded TrailingOnes syntax, and update the suffix length suffixLength. | 10-02-2008 |
20090274193 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE USED FOR THE SAME - A semiconductor integrated circuit for a radio communication terminal sequentially uses a plurality of frequency channels by instructions from a hopping frequency decision unit to receive packet data by a reception unit. When the integrated circuit cannot detect the head of the packet data in reception operations, the integrated circuit cannot receive packet data should be received originally then assumes that the received packet data is a packet error. And the integrated circuit calculates packet error rates for each frequency channel on the basis of the number of times of reception operations performed for each frequency channel and of the number of times of packet errors to estimate channel qualities by using the packet error rates. | 11-05-2009 |
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20130163641 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE USED FOR THE SAME - A semiconductor integrated circuit for a radio communication terminal sequentially uses a plurality of frequency channels by instructions from a hopping frequency decision unit to receive packet data by a reception unit. When the integrated circuit cannot detect the head of the packet data in reception operations, the integrated circuit cannot receive packet data should be received originally then assumes that the received packet data is a packet error. And the integrated circuit calculates packet error rates for each frequency channel on the basis of the number of times of reception operations performed for each frequency channel and of the number of times of packet errors to estimate channel qualities by using the packet error rates. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163642 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE USED FOR THE SAME - A semiconductor integrated circuit for a radio communication terminal sequentially uses a plurality of frequency channels by instructions from a hopping frequency decision unit to receive packet data by a reception unit. When the integrated circuit cannot detect the head of the packet data in reception operations, the integrated circuit cannot receive packet data should be received originally then assumes that the received packet data is a packet error. And the integrated circuit calculates packet error rates for each frequency channel on the basis of the number of times of reception operations performed for each frequency channel and of the number of times of packet errors to estimate channel qualities by using the packet error rates. | 06-27-2013 |
20140328376 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE USED FOR THE SAME - A semiconductor integrated circuit for a radio communication terminal sequentially uses a plurality of frequency channels by instructions from a hopping frequency decision unit to receive packet data by a reception unit. When the integrated circuit cannot detect the head of the packet data in reception operations, the integrated circuit cannot receive packet data should be received originally then assumes that the received packet data is a packet error. And the integrated circuit calculates packet error rates for each frequency channel on the basis of the number of times of reception operations performed for each frequency channel and of the number of times of packet errors to estimate channel qualities by using the packet error rates. | 11-06-2014 |