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So Asano, Nagoya-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20130111690WIPER DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WIPER DEVICE, AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING WIPER DEVICE - A wiper device includes pivot shafts to which wiper arms are secured, pivot holders, which rotationally support the pivot shafts, coupling shafts, and a pipe frame having cylindrical ends. The cylindrical ends of the pipe frame are coupled to the coupling shafts. The coupling shafts each include a swaging part, which is swaged to the corresponding cylindrical end, and a flat portion, which is located at part of the coupling shaft exposed from the pipe frame. The flat portions have a predetermined angle with respect to the swaging direction of the swaging and are parallel to the axis of the coupling shafts.05-09-2013

So Fujiwara, Shioya-Gun JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090130524FUEL CELL - A fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly, and first and second separators. A first insulating bushing is attached to a first positioning hole of a first separator, and a second insulating bushing is attached to a second positioning hole of the second separator. An inner wall of the first insulating bushing is fitted to an outer wall of the second insulating bushing for positioning the first and second separators such that the first and second separators are insulated from each other.05-21-2009

So Fujiwara, Yaita-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100190068FUEL CELL STACK - An end plate of a fuel cell stack is directly fixed to a humidifier. A resin pipe is attached to an oxygen-containing gas outlet of an end plate through a resin coupling pipe. The resin pipe includes one end having a large diameter and the other end having a small diameter. The other end is provided at an off gas supply channel of the humidifier. The off gas supply channel includes an inclined channel. The other end extends up to an end of the inclined channel where inclination of the inclined channel is started. An off gas ejection port is formed at the other end. The off gas ejection port is opened to the end of the inclined channel where inclination is started. Condensed water returned along the inclined channel flows from the off gas ejection port into the resin pipe.07-29-2010
20100209798FUEL CELL STACK - A fuel cell stack includes a plurality of power generation cells stacked in a direction of gravity. In a cathode side separator of the power generation cell, an oxygen-containing gas discharge passage is connected to an oxygen-containing gas flow field, and a water guide member is provided for the oxygen-containing gas discharge passage for allowing condensed water to be directly dropped in the direction of gravity along the oxygen-containing gas discharge passage. The water guide member is a plate member protruding into the oxygen-containing gas discharge passage and inclined toward the direction of gravity.08-19-2010

Patent applications by So Fujiwara, Yaita-Shi JP

So Ichikawa, Okaya JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110227657VIBRATOR ELEMENT, SENSOR DEVICE, SENSOR, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A vibrator element includes: a base part; and a vibrating arm extended from the base part in a first direction, the vibrating arm including a first region, a second region, and a third region sequentially arranged from the base part side in the first direction, the first region to the third region including first electrodes and second electrodes that generate electric fields in second directions perpendicular to the first direction in a plan view and are electrically independent from each other, wherein electric field directions of the first region and the third region and an electric field direction of the second region are opposite to each other, and the vibrating arm is expanded and contracted in the first direction by the electric fields in the second directions, and the vibrating arm is vibrated in third directions as directions perpendicular to the respective first direction and second directions.09-22-2011

So Ishikawa, Shiojiri-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110057379RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes a sheet feeding cassette that can accommodate a stack of recording materials; a pick-up roller that comes into contact with the top recording material of the recording materials accommodated in the sheet feeding cassette to feed the recording material; a roller holder that is supported at a base end so as to be rotatable and has the pick-up roller at a tip, the pick-up roller being pressed against the recording material; and a lever that is supported at a base end so as to be rotatable and has a pressing portion at a tip, the pressing portion being pressed against the recording material. The lever is disposed on the roller holder and is supported coaxially with the roller holder.03-10-2011

So Ito, Kyoto-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090048426POLYMERIZABLE PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE AND ADHESIVE COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME - The present invention provides an adhesive composition comprising a polymerizable phosphonic acid derivative which is a composition having intramolecularly a polymerizable group and a phosphonic acid group, represented by the general formula [1]:02-19-2009

So Iwata, Kyoto-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110226622NOVEL CLEAR NATIVE ELECTROPHORESIS METHOD UTILIZING AROMATIC SULFONIC ACID COMPOUND - This invention provides a reagent for protein electrophoresis, an electrophoresis gel or buffer composition containing the reagent, and a protein separation method and an electrophoresis kit using the reagent and the composition.09-22-2011

So Ka Yan, Kowloon HK

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20140078135Virtual 3D Paper - The invention discloses a virtual 3D paper, comprising data reader (03-20-2014

So Kudo, Toyohashi-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20140205906ALKALINE STORAGE BATTERY CATHODE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ALKALINE STORAGE BATTERY CATHODE, ALKALINE STORAGE BATTERY, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ALKALINE STORAGE BATTERY, ALKALINE STORAGE BATTERY CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ALKALINE STORAGE BATTERY CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL - This alkaline storage battery cathode is provided with: nickel hydroxide particles covered by a cobalt-compound coating layer; a zinc compound; and an yttrium compound and/or an ytterbium compound. The zinc compound and the yttrium compound and/or ytterbium compound are blended at a blend ratio that is in accordance with the ratio of the capacity characteristics of the alkaline storage battery and the output characteristics of the alkaline storage battery.07-24-2014

So Kuranaka, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080233475Battery Pack - A battery pack is provided, in which a plurality of rechargeable batteries are held by a center frame, a bottom-side frame, and a terminal-side frame in a parallel spaced relationship, the plurality of rechargeable batteries being connected in series and integrated with a circuit substrate by mounting the circuit substrate on the terminal-side frame, the circuit substrate being provided with a resin mold, whereby the battery pack is free of damage to electrical circuit parts even in the event of entrance of water or dust through vents that are provided for suppressing temperature rise of the rechargeable batteries. The plurality of rechargeable batteries are connected in series by joining connection plates to the positive and negative electrode terminals formed on the sealing plates of plurality of the rechargeable batteries that are held by the terminal-side frame, and connection projections formed to each connection plate are fitted in respective connection holes in the circuit substrate so as to integrate the circuit substrate with the rechargeable batteries, whereby the wiring for connecting each of the rechargeable batteries to the circuit substrate is made simple.09-25-2008
20100143812POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A clean power supply unit with a high fuel utilization rate using a fuel cell is provided. The power supply unit of the present invention comprises a fuel cell using methanol as fuel; a secondary battery for supplying power to a load; a fuel cell control part for controlling the amount of fuel and/or air supplied to the above-mentioned fuel cell; and a power converter for converting the power output from the above-mentioned fuel cell to a predetermined voltage or current, supplying power to the load and/or the above-mentioned secondary battery and controlling the supplied power so as to fall within a predetermined range including the value at which the amount of methanol discharged from the above-mentioned fuel cell becomes minimized.06-10-2010

So Matsumoto, Toride-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120112406SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The sheet conveying apparatus includes first to third pairs of skew conveying rollers conveying a sheet, a reference portion, in which the reference portion corrects a skew feeding of the sheet by abutting a side edge of the sheet conveyed by the first to third pairs of skew conveying rollers against a reference surface placed in parallel with the sheet conveying direction, and a guide groove provided on the reference portion, which guides the side edge of the sheet skew-conveyed by the first to third pairs of skew conveying rollers to the reference surface, wherein a vertical width of an opening portion of the guide groove in an upstream area of the reference portion is wider than that of the guide groove in a downstream area of the reference portion, in the sheet conveying direction.05-10-2012
20140233968IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT FORMS A TEST PATTERN AND CARRIES OUT CORRECTION - An image forming apparatus, includes an image forming unit configured to form a reference pattern and a test pattern on a sheet, a measurement unit configured to detect the reference pattern formed on the sheet and to measure the test pattern formed on the sheet, and a control unit configured to control a measurement timing of the test pattern by the measurement unit according to a detection interval between two reference patterns detected by the measurement unit.08-21-2014
20150108709SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet conveying apparatus comprising: a conveying rotating member which is rotatably driven by a driving portion conveys a sheet; a cylindrical follower rotating member which is disposed to face the conveying rotating member; a support member which passes through a hollow portion of the follower rotating member and supports the cylindrical follower; a pressure portion which pressurizes the support member to the conveying rotating member so that the follower rotating member comes into contact with the conveying rotating member; and a bearing portion which is disposed between an outer peripheral surface of the support member and an inner peripheral surface of the follower rotating member and is disposed on an inner side in an axial direction of the support member from an end portion of the conveying rotating member, and rotatably supports the follower rotating member with respect to the support member.04-23-2015

Patent applications by So Matsumoto, Toride-Shi JP

So Matsumoto, Matsudo-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20150284204SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet conveying apparatus according to the present invention includes: a pair of conveying rollers 10-08-2015

So Miyamoto, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20150198821OPTICAL COMPONENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An optical component includes: a plastic base; and a multilayer film disposed on at least a rear surface of both surfaces of the plastic base, wherein the multilayer film has a maximum reflectivity of 3% to 50% in a wavelength range of 380 nm to 780 nm and has an average reflectivity of 20% or less in a wavelength range of 280 nm to 380 nm.07-16-2015

So Momoto, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120291468AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - It is intended to realize an air conditioning system of high operational efficiency without reducing the user's comfort. In an air conditioning system 11-22-2012

So Nakamura, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120016994DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - In a distributed cluster environment in which multiple pieces of business processing are performed in one system, an individual load distribution method can be selected according to the prioritization in each business processing and the processing capability of a distributed node for executing the processing, the automatic adjustment of the threshold value of the load determined by a user is tried in load distribution, and even when the performances of bases of nodes which constitute the distributed cluster environment are not particularly uniform, it is possible to make the best use of resources in the distributed cluster environment by parallel execution.01-19-2012

So Nakayama, Nisshin-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20160121388SAND FOR CASTING MOLD, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SAND CASTING-MOLD, AND CORE FOR METAL CASTING - Sand for a casting mold including sand, a binder, and an inorganic compound particle having poor water solubility and generating a gas, which is at least one of water vapor or carbon dioxide gas, by heat from a molten metal.05-05-2016

So Nishimura, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120327049VIDEO PROJECTION DEVICE AND VIDEO PROJECTION METHOD - There are provided a video projection device and a video projection method which can realize both a guarantee of safety and an increase in luminance of a screen. The video projection device includes: a laser light source unit which emits a laser; a laser scanning unit which is provided with one or more scanning directions and project video by performing a reciprocating scan of the laser with respect to a scanning direction with the highest scanning frequency; and a control unit which controls operations of the laser light source unit and the laser scanning unit depending on a video signal so that a scanning angle when emission of the laser in an outgoing path is stopped is different from a scanning angle when emission of the laser in a return path is started with respect to the scanning direction along which the reciprocating scan is performed.12-27-2012
20130222775IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE AND IMAGE PROJECTION METHOD - An image projection device includes a number-of-times measurement section that measures the number of passage times that the scanned laser light has passed through the light radiation members, a time measurement section that is triggered to measure an elapsed time when the number-of-times measurement section measures the number of passage times, an arithmetic section that calculates an initial timing at which the laser light source section starts outputting the laser light based on the measurement results of the number-of-times measurement section and the time measurement section, and a signal generation section that generates the switch signal at the initial timing calculated by the arithmetic section.08-29-2013
20130229580MULTI-PROJECTION DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING BRIGHTNESS THEREOF - A multi-projection display system is provided with a plurality of sensor units corresponding to projector units. The sensor units detect brightness for each color in a projected image that is projected on a screen and supply the detection results. The projector unit generates a brightness correction table on the basis of the image signal of a specific picture element of the projected image realized by an adjacent projector unit and on the basis of the brightness of the specific picture element of the projected image of the adjacent projector unit that is detected by a sensor unit for matching the brightness of the image projected by its own projector unit with that of the adjacent projector unit, refers to the brightness correction table to correct brightness for each color of the image signals that are received as input, and projects onto a screen the light of each color in accordance with the corrected image signals.09-05-2013
20130229630PROJECTOR AND CONTROL METHOD - A projector includes a screen which has color stripes that are periodically arranged and that generate visible light corresponding to incident light. A laser light source section emits a light beam. A laser scanning section scans the light beam on a region of the color stripes arranged on the screen. A light detection section detects feedback light radiated from the screen corresponding to the light beam. A control section adjusts a light emission timing and a light emission period of the laser light source section based on a detection result of the light detection section and causes the laser light source section to emit the light beam such that light pulses enter the individual color stripes.09-05-2013
20130278906PROJECTOR AND CONTROL METHOD - A projector includes a screen having a periodic array of color stripes for producing visible light depending on incident light, a light source that remits a light beam, a projection unit that scans an area of the screen where the color stripes are disposed, with the light beam in a direction across the color stripes, to display an image on the screen, a detector that detects the visible light from each of the color stripes as a feedback light pulse, and a controller that adjusts a start-of-emission timing of the light source based on a start-of-detection timing at which the feedback light pulse is detected by the detector and a detection period during which the feedback light pulse is detected by the detector, and controlling the light source to emit the light beam in order to apply light pulses to the color stripes within boundaries thereof.10-24-2013
20130335390Multi-projection Display and Brightness Adjustment Method Thereof - A multi-projection display includes: a plurality of projector units; a plurality of optical sensors that are provided corresponding to each of the projector units; and a main control unit that both causes adjustment images to be projected by each of the projector units and vertically synchronizes each projected adjustment image. Each projector unit acquires by a respective optical sensor brightness values of the picture elements that are adjacent between the adjustment image that is projected by the projector unit and the adjustment images that are projected by other projector units and adjusts the brightness of the projected image based on the differences in the acquired brightness values.12-19-2013
20130335641Projection System, Projection-type Image Display Device, and Multi-Projection System - A projection screen includes: phosphor regions arranged cyclically in an in-plane direction of a display region; a plurality of black stripes and reference black stripes that partition the display region into the phosphor regions; and an optical information formation unit that is provided in a specific position within the display region and that generates readable optical information.12-19-2013

So Ohta, Machida-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20130295045MEDICAMENT COMPRISING RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY AGAINST CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR4 - A medicament having a higher therapeutic effect than that provided by administration of a recombinant antibody against human CC chemokine receptor 4 or an antibody fragment thereof or an agent alone is provided.11-07-2013

So Ohta, Shizuoka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090202556ANTI-CLAUDIN-4 ANTIBODY - An object of the present invention is to provide a monoclonal antibody which is useful as a diagnostic agent or a therapeutic agent for a disease relating to a polypeptide encoded by Claudin-4 (hereinafter referred to as “CLDN4”) gene or a polypeptide encoded by a Claudin-3 (hereinafter referred to as “CLDN3”) gene, or a method for using the same. Accordingly, the present invention provides a monoclonal antibody or an antibody fragment thereof, which specifically recognizes three-dimensional structure of an extracellular region of CLDN4 and binds to the extracellular region; a monoclonal antibody or an antibody fragment thereof, which specifically recognizes three-dimensional structure of both of extracellular regions of CLDN3 and CLDN4 and binds to the extracellular regions; a hybridoma which produces the antibody; a DNA which encodes the antibody; a vector which comprises the DNA; a transformant obtained by transforming the vector; a process for producing an antibody or an antibody fragment thereof using the hybridoma or the transformant; and a diagnostic agent or a therapeutic agent for a disease relating to a polypeptide encoded by CLDN4 gene and/or CLDN3 gene using the antibody or the antibody fragment.08-13-2009

So Otsuka, Saitama JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100088493IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSOR - A restriction is given to the calculation function for image processing achieved by the hard-wired system and the memory access control of a buffer memory, and a range of the restriction is made variable by a program control and others. Data is inputted to the buffer memory from the outside with a restriction of “in units of memory line”, and the number of memory lines and positions of the same to which data is inputted can be programmable by the control circuit. The arithmetic circuit is subjected to the restriction of performing the calculation in units of data of one or plural memory lines supplied from the buffer memory, and a calculation processing content in units of calculation processing for the units of data can be programmably assigned by the control circuit.04-08-2010
20130212362IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSOR - A restriction is given to the calculation function for image processing achieved by the hard-wired system and the memory access control of a buffer memory, and a range of the restriction is made variable by a program control and others. Data is inputted to the buffer memory from the outside with a restriction of “in units of memory line”, and the number of memory lines and positions of the same to which data is inputted can be programmable by the control circuit. The arithmetic circuit is subjected to the restriction of performing the calculation in units of data of one or plural memory lines supplied from the buffer memory, and a calculation processing content in units of calculation processing for the units of data can be programmably assigned by the control circuit.08-15-2013

So Saito, Kashiwara-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20150077093ROTATION ANGLE DETECTING DEVICE - In a rotation angle detecting device, a first magnetic sensor and a second magnetic sensor are disposed at an interval of an electrical angle of 120 degrees around a rotation center axis of a rotor. An output signal of the first magnetic sensor is expressed by V03-19-2015

So Suzuki, Osaka-City JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080218705Projection display device - A projection display device comprises a main body cabinet, a projection lens section to which light modulated by a light modulating element entered, and a mirror section for reflecting the light emitted from the projection lens section to a projection plane. A level difference depending on an arrangement shift of the projection lens section and the mirror section is formed on a second side surface facing a first side surface having light projection port of the main body cabinet. Furthermore, the projection display device comprises a level difference correction section for directing the light from the mirror section in a desired direction by correcting the level difference, when the main body cabinet is planed on a plane to be placed, the second side surface facing the plane to be placed.09-11-2008
20080218707Projection display device and stand used for the projection display device - A projection display device accommodates, in a main body cabinet, a projection lens section to which light modulated by a light modulating element is entered, and a mirror section that reflects light transmitted through the projection lens section and directs the light to a projection plane. When the main body cabinet is mounted on a mounting plane so that the light transmitted through the projection lens section may get away from the mounting plane, a holding member which holds the main body cabinet in a upright state with regard to the mounting plane is mounted on the main body cabinet.09-11-2008
20110069242PROJECTION DESPLAY APPARATUS - A projection display apparatus (03-24-2011
20110075117PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - A projection display device includes a light source; an optical system which modulates light from the light source, and emits the modulated light; a projecting portion which enlarges and projects the light emitted from the optical system; a cabinet which houses the light source, the optical system, and the projecting portion; an opening which is formed in one surface of the cabinet to allow mounting or dismounting of an optical component constituting the optical system, or the light source; a cover which covers the opening; and a holding portion which holds the cover in such a manner that the cover is allowed to slide in a direction along the one surface.03-31-2011
20110279792PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - A projection display device is provided with an adjustable leg which adjusts an inclination of the main body cabinet. The adjustable leg includes a leg portion whose projection amount from the bottom surface is changed, and a foot portion which is contacted with an installation plane of the projection display device, the adjustable leg being expandable and contractible from a reference length position at which the main body cabinet is placed in parallel to the installation plane. The bottom surface of the main body cabinet has a recess portion which is configured so as to guide in and out of the foot portion, as the adjustable leg is contracted and expanded. The foot portion has an index portion which is set to the same height as the height of the bottom surface with respect to the installation plane, when the adjustable leg is positioned at the reference length position.11-17-2011

So Suzuki, Osaka-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100157175VIDEO PROJECTOR - A video projector has a housing, with front and side walls, and a projection lens arranged in the front wall. A carrying handle is fastened to the housing to allow the video projector to be hand carried. The housing includes a sloped wall formed between at least one of the side walls and the front wall. The sloped wall extends diagonally relative to the front wall and at least one of the side walls. The carrying handle has a grip extending along a hypothetical intersecting line of an extended plane of the front wall and an extended plane of at least one of the side walls. The carrying handle and the sloped wall define an opening into which the hand of a person gripping the carrying handle is insertable.06-24-2010

So Takagi, Kyoto-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110317166OPTICAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE - An optical measurement device is adapted to measure characteristics of a measurement targeted fluid based on a transmitted inspection light. The device comprises a cell having an internal space for accommodating the measurement targeted fluid to flow therein and having a pair of opposing through holes for transmitting the inspection light, each of the through holes sealed with a transparent member. The device includes a projection optical system member having a port for projecting the inspection light and a light-receiving optical system member having a port for receiving the inspection light transmitted through the internal space. A base member is provided for supporting the cell, the projection optical system member, and the light-receiving optical system member in a configuration with gaps between the cell and the respective optical system members to accommodate movement in a predetermined range along a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the inspection light.12-29-2011
20130273670Concentration Measuring Device used in Manufacturing Process - A semiconductor manufacturing system comprises a main body that exclusively flows a first fluid that is used in a manufacturing process and a second fluid whose concentration is known, and that outputs a state signal showing whether or not the fluid flowing in the flow channel is the second fluid and a concentration measuring device having a concentration measuring part that measures a concentration of a predetermined component in the fluid flowing in the flow channel, a state signal receiving part that receives the state signal from the main body, and a correcting part that obtains a reference measurement value as being a measurement value measured by the concentration measuring part during a period while it is judged that the second fluid flows in the flow channel by the state signal and that corrects the concentration measuring part based on the reference measurement value.10-17-2013
20140146317OPTICAL ANALYZER - The present invention includes: an optical fiber being provided either of between a light source and a measurement cell and between the measurement cell and a light detection part; and light path switching means adapted to achieve switching between a measurement cell passage state in which a light path formed by light transmission means passes through the measurement cell and a measurement cell non-passage state in which the light path formed by the light transmission means passes through a region different from the measurement cell, wherein calibration processing for a first calibration with a long calibration cycle is performed in the measurement cell passage state, and calibration processing for a second calibration with a short calibration cycle is performed in the measurement cell non-passage state.05-29-2014
20140185049SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS METHOD AND SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYZER - The present invention improves an S/N ratio and light intensity resolution provided by an A/D converter, and an analyzer includes: a measurement cell irradiated with light during sample measurement; a dimming element irradiated with the light during reference measurement; an amplifier configured to amplify an analog light intensity signal outputted from a light detector; an A/D converter configured to convert the analog light intensity signal into a digital light intensity signal; and an arithmetic device configured to calculate absorbance using a digital sample light intensity signal outputted from the A/D converter during the sample measurement and a digital reference light intensity signal outputted from the A/D converter during the reference measurement, wherein an amplification factor of the amplifier is set such that the analog reference light intensity signal and the analog sample light intensity signal become less than or equal to a full scale of the A/D converter.07-03-2014

Patent applications by So Takagi, Kyoto-Shi JP

So Tamura, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20150353104TRACK-GUIDED VEHICLE, AND CAR BODY TILT CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - This track-guided vehicle is provided with a car body, and a bogie that supports the car body from the bottom, and has a frame capable of pivoting around an axis perpendicular to a track. The bogie is provided with: a car body tilting part that tilts the car body to the left and right in the direction of travel; a detection part that detects the amount of pivot of the frame; and a tilt control part that allows the car body to be tilted by the car body tilting part on the basis of the amount of pivot detected by the detection part.12-10-2015
20150353106GUIDE-RAIL TRACK VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR CHANGING DISTANCE BETWEEN GUIDANCE WHEELS - This guide-rail track vehicle, which travels on a track, is provided with: a carbody disposed at the top of a vehicle; and a running device that supports the carbody from below, and has a guide frame to which at least a pair of guide wheels, which are guided by a guide rail disposed on the track, are attached. Moreover, the guide frame has: a pair of beam members that are capable of sliding in the width direction of the track, and to which the guide wheels are attached; a rotating part capable of rotating around a first axis in the direction of travel; and a transmission part that converts the rotation of the rotating part to motion in the width direction, and moves the guide wheels in a symmetrical fashion by synchronizing the pair of beam members. Thus, the guide-rail track vehicle has a running device that allows the distance between the guide wheels to be changed.12-10-2015
20160060835SNOW REMOVAL BRUSH, VEHICLE, COMBINATION VEHICLE, AND TRACK TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM - A snow removal brush includes a brush rotary shaft that is disposed on each of opposite lateral surfaces of a vehicle body traveling along a track and in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle body and is supported by the vehicle body to be rotatable about an axis extending in a direction intersecting a track surface of the track, and a brush part that protrudes from an outer circumferential surface of the brush rotary shaft to a radial outer side. The brush part is formed to come into contact with trolley wires provided for the track and supplying electricity to the vehicle body.03-03-2016
20160069033SNOW REMOVAL DEVICE, VEHICLE, AND TRACK TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM - A snow removal device includes: a brush rotary shaft that is mounted on a vehicle body traveling along a track and in front of a running wheel of the vehicle body and that is rotated in a direction opposite to the rotation direction of the running wheel; a travel brush part that protrudes radially outward from an outer circumferential surface of the brush rotary shaft and comes into contact with a runway of the track with which the running wheel is in contact; and a brush pressing part that presses the travel brush part toward the runway. The travel brush part is provided in a spiral region formed on the outer circumferential surface of the brush rotary shaft in a spiral manner extending toward an axis direction in which the axis extends as going toward a circumferential direction of the brush rotary shaft.03-10-2016

So Tanaka, Hamamatsu City JP

So Watanabe, Mito JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110133718Semiconductor Device and Power Conversion Apparatus Using the same - A semiconductor device provides a gate electrode formed on a lateral face of a wide trench, and thereby the gate electrode is covered by a gate insulating layer and a thick insulating layer to be an inter layer. Therefore, a parasitic capacitance of the gate becomes small, and there is no potential variation of the gate since there is no floating p-layer so that a controllability of the dv/dt can be improved. In addition, the conductive layer between the gate electrodes can relax the electric field applied to the corner of the gate electrode. In consequence, compatibility of low loss and low noise and high reliability can be achieved.06-09-2011
20120176828Semiconductor Devices and Power Conversion Systems - A semiconductor device includes first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type that is formed near a surface of the first semiconductor layer; a first main electrode that is electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer; a third semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type that neighbors the first semiconductor layer; a fourth semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type that is selectively disposed in an upper portion of the third semiconductor layer; a second main electrode that is electrically connected to the third semiconductor layer and the fourth semiconductor layer; a trench whose side face is in contact with the third semiconductor layer and the fourth semiconductor layer; a gate electrode that is formed along the side face of the trench by a sidewall of polysilicon; and a polysilicon electrode.07-12-2012
20120273897Semiconductor Device and Electric Power Conversion Device Using Same - The trench IGBT is provided with a plurality of trench gates disposed in a manner so as to form wide and narrow of gaps; has a MOS structure that has a channel of a first conductivity type and that is between the trench gate pair that is disposed with a narrow gap therebetween; and is provided with a floating semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type and that is separated from the trench gates by interposing a portion of a third semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type between the trench gate pair that is disposed with a wide gap therebetween. Also, this floating semiconductor layer is disposed parallel to and at a position corresponding to an emitter electrode and a first semiconductor layer having the same electric potential, with a insulating film therebetween.11-01-2012
20130020634Semiconductor Device and Electric Power Conversion System Using The Same - A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type on the first semiconductor layer; trenches in the first semiconductor layer; a semiconductor protruding part on the first semiconductor layer; a third semiconductor layer on the semiconductor protruding part; a fourth semiconductor layer on the third semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer disposed along the trench; a first interlayer insulating layer disposed along the trench; a first conductive layer facing to the fourth semiconductor layer; a second conductive layer on the first interlayer insulating layer; a second interlayer insulating layer covering the second conductive layer; a third conductive layer on the third semiconductor layer and fourth semiconductor layer; a contacting part connecting the third conductive layer and third semiconductor layer; and a fourth conductive layer formed on the second semiconductor layer.01-24-2013
20140001512Semiconductor Device and Power Conversion Apparatus Using the Same01-02-2014

Patent applications by So Watanabe, Mito JP

So Wong, Oregon, WI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120230938Polyconjugates for In Vivo Delivery of Polynucleotides - The present invention is directed to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for delivering polynucleotides or other cell-impermeable molecules to mammalian cells. Described are polyconjugates systems that incorporate targeting, anti-opsonization, anti-aggregation, and transfection activities into small biocompatible in vivo delivery vehicles. The use of multiple reversible or labile linkages connecting component parts provides for physiologically responsive activity modulation.09-13-2012
20150045573Polyconjugates for Delivery of RNAi triggers to Tumor Cells In Vivo - The present invention is directed compositions for delivery of RNA interference (RNAi) triggers to integrin positive tumor cells in vivo. The compositions comprise RGD ligand-targeted amphipathic membrane active polyamines reversibly modified with enzyme cleavable dipeptide-amidobenzyl-carbonate masking agents. Modification masks membrane activity of the polymer while reversibility provides physiological responsiveness. The reversibly modified polyamines (dynamic polyconjugate or conjugate) are further covalently linked to an RNAi trigger.02-12-2015

So Yano, Ibaraki-Shi JP

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20120294635IMAGE STABILIZATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS DIRECTED TO ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS - An image stabilization control system directed to an electrophotographic process is provided. The image stabilization control system includes a color measuring unit for measuring the color of a toner image after being fixed on a medium. The color measuring unit has an SCE color measuring function of measuring a component excluding specular reflection out of reflected light produced by light emitted from a light source being reflected at the toner image and an SCI color measuring function of measuring the reflected light including the specular reflection. A control value for a fixing step in the electrophotographic process is adjusted based on a first component attributed to a glossiness difference in chrominance, and a control value for a step other than the fixing step in the electrophotographic process is adjusted based on a second component attributed to another factor in the chrominance.11-22-2012
20130216262ROTARY DAMPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A plurality of first viscoelastic bodies are disposed in insertion holes of a first rotary member. A plurality of second viscoelastic bodies are disposed in guide holes of a second rotary member. Each of the first and the second viscoelastic bodies has an elastic coefficient changing in accordance with aging due to use. A guide member moves a contact member along the insertion hole and the guide hole. The contact member applies a compressive load to the first viscoelastic body. The aging of the second viscoelastic body due to the compressive load applied thereto moves a position of the first viscoelastic body where the compressive load is received from the contact member toward a farther side from a rotational shaft side.08-22-2013
20140043627COLOR CORRECTING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A color correcting system mountable in an image forming apparatus comprises an imaging unit configured to perform image formation and a control unit configured to acquire a control parameter for use in image formation by the imaging unit and a status parameter indicating a status at the time of image formation. If a value for a color in an image formed by the imaging unit does not exceed a first threshold, and at least one member selected from the group consisting of adhering toner amount, gloss, line width, and line position for the image formed by the imaging unit does not exceed a second threshold, the control unit is configured to determine a control parameter on the basis of the acquired control parameter and the acquired status parameter, such that at least a color difference decreases.02-13-2014
20140232805OPTICAL WRITING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical writing device having; a plurality of light-emitting points; a plurality of drive circuits for supplying drive currents to the plurality of light-emitting points respectively; a photodetector for outputting signals indicating quantities of light entering thereto from the respective light-emitting points; a gain switch circuit for outputting photodetection signals obtained by amplifying the signals output from the photodetector in regard to the respective light-emitting points with gains preset for the respective light-emitting points; and a control circuit for controlling the drive circuits such that the photodetection signals output from the gain switch circuit in regard to the respective light-emitting points coincide with a value substantially equal to a predetermined reference value. The gains for the respective light-emitting points are preset based on the distances between the photodetector and the respective light-emitting points.08-21-2014
20140267527OPTICAL WRITING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical writing device for forming an electrostatic latent image on a photoreceptor by exposing the photoreceptor to light modulated in accordance with image data. The optical writing device has: a substrate; a light-emitting-element array including a plurality of light-emitting elements supported by the substrate to be arranged in a main-scanning direction; and a light-receiving-element array substantially in parallel to the light-emitting-element array, the light-receiving-element array including a plurality of light-receiving elements supported by the substrate to be arranged in the main-scanning direction. For light-quantity measurement of one of the light-emitting elements, at least an output value output from one of the light-receiving elements of which center is located in a different position, with respect to the main-scanning direction, from a center of the one of the light-emitting elements is used.09-18-2014
20140375743LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - A light-emitting element having a light-emitting section and a light-receiving section provided on a substrate. The light-emitting section includes: an organic compound in which light is emitted; a translucent reflecting portion that transmits the emitted light which has spectral radiance changeable with changes in ambient temperature; and a transparent portion that radiates first part of the light coming through the translucent reflecting portion to outside and total-reflects second part that is light incident to a boundary surface therebetween at angles larger than a critical angle. Wherein, the light-receiving section is capable of receiving the light total-reflected at the boundary surface, the received light having a quantity of light changeable with changes in wavelength of the light passing through the translucent reflecting portion. The light-receiving section further outputs a signal which has an amplitude level in correlation to the quantity of light.12-25-2014
20150103865OPTICAL WRITING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND TEMPERATURE CALCULATION METHOD - An optical writing device having; a plurality of light-emitting points; a photodiode configured to output a signal which represents a quantity of incident light from a predetermined light-emitting point selected from the plurality of light-emitting points; and a calculation section for calculating a temperature of the photodiode based on a magnitude of a photodiode dark current included in the signal output from the photodiode while the predetermined light-emitting point is OFF.04-16-2015
20150239258OPTICAL PRINT HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical print head performs optical writing onto target, and includes: current-driven light-emitting elements arranged in rows in a predetermined direction; driving transistors that are each electrically series-connected with the light-emitting elements in one-to-one correspondence, and each supply a driving current to a corresponding light-emitting element; a current control unit that controls, for each light-emitting element, a driving current amount in accordance with variation in light-emitting properties of the light-emitting element that indicate relation between the driving current amount and a light amount emitted by the light-emitting element; an application unit that, upon receiving electrical power supplied from an external power source, applies application voltage to circuits each consisting of a light-emitting element and a corresponding driving transistor; and a voltage control unit that suppresses variation in divided voltage applied to each driving transistor by controlling the application unit to apply increased application voltage of the driving current amount increases.08-27-2015
20150266310OPTICAL PRINT HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Optical print head includes: light-emitting elements connected one-to-one to current supply lines branching from first power line at different positions in longitudinal direction; holding elements; signal writing unit writing luminance signal into each holding element, the luminance signal being represented by voltage indicating light emission amount of corresponding light-emitting element; second power line supplying reference voltage to each holding element, the reference voltage being reference when signal writing unit writes luminance signal into holding element; and driving drivers corresponding one-to-one with current supply lines and controlling current supplied to corresponding current supply line from first power line, in accordance with voltage held in corresponding holding element when signal writing unit has written luminance signal into corresponding holding element, wherein power source supplying the reference voltage to second power line is common with power source supplying voltage to signal output subunit outputting luminance signal.09-24-2015
20160124337OPTICAL WRITING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An optical writing device including light-emitting elements forming element arrays. The element arrays are each composed of light-emitting elements arranged in line in a main scanning direction, and reside at respective positions along a sub-scanning direction. A correction unit receives signal values in one-to-one correspondence with the light-emitting elements and performs correction to acquire corrected signal values each indicating a light amount of a corresponding light-emitting element. The correction is for eliminating a light amount difference in the main scanning direction occurring for each element array. A driving unit supplies driving currents to the light-emitting elements based on the corrected signal values, and a control unit performs a control of causing at least two element arrays to emit light for different durations within one main scanning period. The control is for eliminating a light amount difference in the sub scanning direction occurring between the at least two element arrays.05-05-2016

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20160089883LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND TRANSPORT AMOUNT ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A liquid discharging apparatus includes a discharging unit that includes a row of nozzles configured to discharge a liquid, the discharging unit being configured to reciprocate in an outward direction and a return direction, the outward and return directions being transverse to the nozzle row; and a transport unit configured to intermittently transport a medium in a direction transverse to the outward and return directions. The liquid discharging apparatus is configured to form at least one adjustment pattern for adjusting a transport amount of each individual transport during the intermittent transport. The liquid discharging apparatus is configured to form the at least one adjustment pattern such that the at least one adjustment pattern includes both an outward direction movement pattern formed while moving the discharging unit in the outward direction and a return direction movement pattern formed while moving the discharging unit in the return direction.03-31-2016
20160089918LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND LIQUID DISCHARGE POSITION ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A liquid discharging apparatus includes a discharging unit that includes a nozzle row that discharges a liquid, and that is able to reciprocate in a first direction that intersects the nozzle row; a transport unit that transports a medium in a second direction that intersects the first direction; and a reading unit that reads the liquid discharged from the discharging unit to the medium. The liquid discharging apparatus is configured to execute an adjustment pattern forming operation for forming a first adjustment pattern for adjusting a landing position of the liquid discharged from the discharging unit in the first direction and a second adjustment pattern for adjusting the landing position of the liquid discharged from the discharging unit in the second direction on the medium, and an adjustment pattern reading operation for reading the first and second adjustment pattern with the reading unit according to a single command.03-31-2016
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