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20090174938 | MICROSCOPE - A microscope includes a condenser lens that is provided in an illumination light path and in which at least one optical device is insertable into and removable from an illumination light axis for switching observation method. The microscope also includes a first polarizing plate that is provided in the same light axis as the optical device and is insertable into and removable from the illumination light axis integrally with the optical device; and a second polarizing plate that is provided in the illumination light axis independently from insertion and removal of the optical device into and from the illumination light axis. | 07-09-2009 |
20100053744 | MICROSCOPE - A microscope includes a main body, a transmitted light source, and a transmitted-light illumination optical system. The main body has a substantially C-shape when viewed from side, and is composed of a lower horizontal portion, an upper horizontal portion, and a brace portion. The brace portion connects between the lower horizontal portion and the upper horizontal portion on their rear side. The transmitted-light illumination optical system brings an illumination light from the transmitted light source to a specimen supported by the main body, and illuminates the specimen with the illumination light transmitted therethrough. The transmitted-light illumination optical system and the transmitted light source are removably attached to the lower horizontal portion of the main body. | 03-04-2010 |
20110170181 | MICROSCOPE AND LAMPHOUSE - A microscope includes an illuminating unit that includes an excitation light source emitting an excitation light, and a phosphor receiving the excitation light and emitting illumination light in a specific wavelength range. The illuminating unit illuminates a specimen with the illumination light. The microscope also includes an observation unit for observing the specimen illuminated by the illuminating unit. | 07-14-2011 |
20120224257 | MICROSCOPE - A microscope includes a condenser lens that is provided in an illumination light path and in which at least one optical device is insertable into and removable from an illumination light axis for switching an observation method. The microscope also includes a first polarizing plate that is provided in a same light axis as the optical device and is insertable into and removable from the illumination light axis integrally with the optical device, and a second polarizing plate that is provided in the illumination light axis independently from insertion and removal of the optical device into and from the illumination light axis. | 09-06-2012 |
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20090316334 | Electro-chemical element electrode - An electrochemical element electrode for obtaining electrochemical elements having both low internal resistance and high capacitance, and a secondary battery and an electric double layer capacitor using the electrode are provided. | 12-24-2009 |
20090325075 | Composite particles for electrochemical element electrode - The present invention provides a method of producing composite particle for high density electrochemical element electrodes in electrochemical elements having low internal resistance and high capacitance. | 12-31-2009 |
20100047690 | BINDER COMPOSITION, SLURRY FOR ELECTRODES, ELECTRODE AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY - The present invention aims at providing slurry for electrodes having advantageous homogeneity and stability, an electrode having advantageous homogeneous thickness and density, and further, a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having small variability in battery properties. | 02-25-2010 |
20120151750 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING MOLDED STATOR OF ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE - Provided is a method for fabricating a molded stator of a rotary electric machine, the method comprising: a lamination step of laminating a plurality of core sheets each having a plurality of core pieces connected to one joining portion via bridge portions, thereby forming a divided-laminated-core group structure; a winding step of winding a coil on a teeth portion of each divided laminated core of the divided-laminated-core group structure; a cutting step of cutting the bridge portions, thereby separating the divided laminated cores wound with the coils; a temporary fixing step of temporarily fixing the divided laminated cores circularly arranged to form a stator; and a molding step of placing, in a mold, the stator into which a mold mandrel is inserted along the inner circumferential surface, and molding an outer circumferential surface of the stator with resin. | 06-21-2012 |
20120264014 | COMPOSITE PARTICLES FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL ELEMENT ELECTRODE - The present invention provides a method of producing a composite particle for high density electrochemical element electrodes in electrochemical elements having low internal resistance and high capacitance. Slurry containing an electric conductive material and a binder is obtained, and the slurry is sprayed to a fluidized electrode active material to carry out fluidized-granulation, and further particles obtained by the fluidized-granulation are rolling-fluidized granulated, and thereby, composite particle for electrochemical element electrode, containing electrode active materials, electric conductive materials, and binders, and being structured of an outer layer portion (outer shell portion) and an inner layer portion (core portion) are obtained. | 10-18-2012 |
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20090040513 | PATTERN INSPECTION APPARATUS AND PATTERN INSPECTION METHOD - A pattern inspection apparatus includes a light source configured to emit a pulsed light, a stage on which an inspection target workpiece is placed, a sensor, including a plurality of light receiving elements two-dimensionally arrayed, configured to capture a pattern image in a two-dimensional region of the inspection target workpiece which is irradiated with the pulsed light, by using the plurality of light receiving elements, and a comparing unit configured to compare data of the pattern image with predetermined reference pattern image data, wherein the stage moves to be shifted by a number of pixels, being the number of natural number times one pixel, between pulses of the pulsed light. | 02-12-2009 |
20090087082 | PATTERN INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A pattern inspection apparatus includes a stage configured to mount a target workpiece to be inspected thereon, a sensor configured to include a plurality of light receiving elements arrayed in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction which moves relatively to the stage, and to capture optical images of the target workpiece by using the plurality of light receiving elements, an accumulation unit configured to accumulate each pixel data of the optical images overlappingly captured by the sensor at positions shifted each other in the second direction by a pixel unit, for each pixel, and a comparison unit configured to compare the each pixel data accumulated for each pixel with predetermined reference data. | 04-02-2009 |
20090129664 | PATTERN INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A pattern inspection apparatus includes a stage configured to mount thereon a target workpiece to be inspected where patterns are formed, at least one sensor configured to move relatively to the stage and capture optical images of the target workpiece to be inspected, a first comparing unit configured to compare first pixel data of an optical image captured by one of the at least one sensor with first reference data at a position corresponding to a position of the first pixel data, and a second comparing unit configured to compare second pixel data of an optical image captured by one of the at least one sensor at a position shifted by a sub-pixel unit from the position where the optical image of the first pixel data is captured, with second reference data at a position corresponding to the position of the second pixel data. | 05-21-2009 |
20090284591 | RETICLE DEFECT INSPECTION APPARATUS AND RETICLE DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD - The present invention provides a reticle defect inspection method and a reticle defect inspection apparatus capable of calibrating the offset and gain of a sensor amplifier using a product reticle even though black and white regions each sufficiently wider than a TDI sensor imaging area do not exist in the product reticle. An output of each pixel of the TDI sensor is amplified by the sensor amplifier. A bottom value of the amplified amount-of-light signal of each pixel is stored by bottom value storing means of offset/gain calibrating means, and a peak value thereof is stored by peak value storing means. The offset of each pixel is calculated by offset calculating means based on the bottom value of each pixel. The gain of each pixel is calculated by gain calculating means based on the offset of each pixel and the peak value of each pixel. The calculated offset and gain of each pixel are stored in a register and thereby the offset and gain of the sensor amplifier are calibrated. | 11-19-2009 |
20100060890 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PATTERN INSPECTION - A pattern inspection apparatus includes a pulsed light source configured to emit pulsed light; a stage configured to mount thereon an inspection target object with a pattern formed thereon; a time delay integration (TDI) sensor configured to detect, a plurality of times with a time delay, each pixel value of an optical image of the inspection target object, wherein the optical image is acquired by emitting the pulsed light onto the inspection target object, and to integrate a detected each pixel value for each pixel of the optical image; a light quantity sensor configured to detect a light quantity of the pulsed light after emitting the pulsed light onto the inspection target object; a light quantity measurement circuit configured to input the light quantity detected by the light quantity sensor, and to measure a light quantity of each pulse while being synchronized with a period of the pulsed light; a correction unit configured to input the light quantity of each pulse and an integrated pixel value output from the TDI sensor, and to correct the integrated pixel value output from the TDI sensor, for each pixel of the optical image, using a total light quantity of the light quantity of corresponding each pulse; and an inspection unit configured to inspect whether there is a defect of the pattern, using the integrated pixel value corrected. | 03-11-2010 |
20110044528 | INSPECTION SYSTEM - The entire surface of a photomask | 02-24-2011 |
20110044529 | INSPECTION SYSTEM AND INSPECTION METHOD - A control computer | 02-24-2011 |
20110176719 | INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Optical image data of a mask is acquired. Reference image data associated with the optical images is created from design pattern data. Regional image data that includes pixel values denoted by multi-valued resolution based on importance level information of the patterns is created from region data including at least one portion of the patterns defined in the design pattern data. Defect determination is conducted on a pixel-by-pixel basis by comparing the optical image data with the reference image data, by means of either a plurality of threshold values determined by each pixel value within the regional image data or a plurality of defect determination methods. Image data of a section whose Mask Error Enhancement Factor (MEEF) is equal to or greater than a predetermined value is created from the region data including at least one portion of the patterns defined in the design pattern data. | 07-21-2011 |
20110188734 | DEFECT ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD AND INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Acquired mask data of a defect portion is sent to a simulated repair circuit | 08-04-2011 |
20120140060 | INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - An inspection apparatus and method, which can perform defect determination and estimate a defect on a mask and the resultant influence on a wafer. Each of the transfer images is reviewed in order of following (1) to (3):
| 06-07-2012 |
20130044205 | PATTERN INSPECTION APPARATUS AND PATTERN INSPECTION METHOD - A pattern inspection method according to one aspect of the present invention includes generating a first positional deviation amount map by using data acquired by a pre-scan, generating a second positional deviation amount map by using data acquired by a full scan, generating a first positional deviation difference map by calculating a difference between the first positional deviation amount map and the second positional deviation amount map, generating a third positional deviation amount map from the first positional deviation difference map and the second positional deviation amount map, and judging existence of a value exceeding an allowable value, in values defined by the third positional deviation amount map. | 02-21-2013 |
20130093878 | DEFECT ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD AND INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Acquired mask data of a defect portion is sent to a simulated repair circuit | 04-18-2013 |
20130094752 | DEFECT ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD AND INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Acquired mask data of a defect portion is sent to a simulated repair circuit | 04-18-2013 |
20140314304 | PATTERN INSPECTION APPARATUS AND PATTERN INSPECTION METHOD - In accordance with one aspect of this invention, a pattern inspection apparatus includes an optical image acquisition unit configured to acquire optical images regarding dies of a target object to be inspected on which the dies having a same pattern formed therein is arranged; a sub-optical image division unit configured to divide an optical image of the optical images regarding a die of the dies positioned in a non-resolved pattern region into sub-optical images using non-resolved pattern region information capable of recognizing the non-resolved pattern region in which a non-resolved pattern that is not resolved is formed; a first comparison unit configured to compare the sub-optical images divided from the optical image of the same die regarding the non-resolved pattern region pixel by pixel; and a second comparison unit configured to compare optical images of the optical images regarding different dies of the dies pixel by pixel. | 10-23-2014 |
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20090281142 | THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE - [Problem] To provide a compound which is useful as a GK activator. | 11-12-2009 |
20100152165 | CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVES - [Problem] To provide a pharmaceutical, particularly a compound which can be used as an insulin secretion promoter or a preventive or therapeutic agent for diabetes mellitus and the like diseases in which GPR40 is concerned. | 06-17-2010 |
20100267775 | OXADIAZOLIDINEDIONE COMPOUND - A pharmaceutical agent having GPR40 receptor agonistic action, particularly a compound which is useful as an insulin secretagogue or an agent for preventing and/or treating diabetes mellitus. The present inventors have examined a compound having GPR40 receptor agonistic action, confirmed that an oxadiazolidinedione compound which has a substituent such as a benzyl group, etc. linked with a substituent such as a phenyl group, etc. through a linker at the 2-position of an oxadiazolidinedione ring, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof has an excellent GPR40 agonistic activity, and thus completed the invention. The oxadiazolidinedione compound has excellent insulin secretagogue action and anti-hyperglycemic action, and therefore can be used as an insulin secretagogue or an agent for preventing and/or treating diabetes mellitus. | 10-21-2010 |
20110319385 | QUINOXALINE COMPOUND | 12-29-2011 |
20130085134 | QUINOXALINE COMPOUND - Quinoxaline compounds of formula (I) have a PDE9-inhibiting action and are useful as an active ingredient for an agent for treating and/or preventing storage dysfunction, voiding dysfunction, and bladder/urethral diseases, and the like. | 04-04-2013 |
20130296329 | QUINOXALINE COMPOUND - The present inventors have investigated a compound which has a PDE9-inhibitory action and is useful as an active ingredient for an agent for treating and/or preventing storage dysfunction, voiding dysfunction, and bladder/urethral diseases, and the like, and thus, have found that an imidazoquinoxaline compound or a triazoloquinoxaline compound has a PDE9-inhibitory action, thereby completing the present invention. | 11-07-2013 |
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20110096421 | Drive Device, Lens Barrel, Imaging Device, Lens Drive Method and Method of Producing Shape Memory Alloy - A lens barrel, an image pickup apparatus, a lens drive method and a method of producing a shape memory alloy used for the drive device are disclosed. A drive device includes: a lens group for guiding light from a subject; a shape memory alloy adopted to be deformed by an electricity supplied to the shape memory alloy, for moving the lens group in a direction of an optical axis; and electricity-supply controlling means for controlling an amount of the electricity supplied to the shape memory alloy; and a detecting means for detecting whether a movement of the lens group starts or not. In the drive device, a movement amount of the lens group in the direction of the optical axis is controlled based on the amount of electricity supplied when the detecting means detects the movement of the lens group. | 04-28-2011 |
20110226392 | Drive device, lens barrel, image pickup apparatus, lens drive method and method of producing shape memory alloy - A lens barrel, an image pickup apparatus, a lens drive method and a method of producing a shape memory alloy used for the drive device are disclosed. A drive device includes: a lens group for guiding light from a subject; a shape memory alloy adopted to be deformed by an electricity supplied to the shape memory alloy, for moving the lens group in a direction of an optical axis; and electricity-supply controlling means for controlling an amount of the electricity supplied to the shape memory alloy; and a detecting means for detecting whether a movement of the lens group starts or not. In the drive device, a movement amount of the lens group in the direction of the optical axis is controlled based on the amount of electricity supplied when the detecting means detects the movement of the lens group. | 09-22-2011 |
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20090233274 | DRUG DEVELOPMENT TARGET PROTEIN AND TARGET GENE, AND METHOD OF SCREENING - The present invention provides novel target proteins and target genes for drug discovery, and the means that enable the development of novel drugs using the same. More particularly, the present invention provides NCS proteins and genes thereof; screening methods for drug (for example, anti-central nervous disease drug); agents for regulating disease (for example, central nervous disease); production methods of a drug derivative; a complex comprising a drug and NCS protein, and a method of producing the complex; a kits comprising a drug or a salt thereof; determination methods for the onset or risk of onset of a specified disease, determination methods for susceptibility to a drug, and determination kits used for the determination methods; and the like. | 09-17-2009 |
20120166123 | IMPULSE RESPONSE MEASURING METHOD AND IMPULSE RESPONSE MEASURING DEVICE - An impulse response measurement with high precision is made possible with a simple device or signal processing, even if sampling clocks on the transmitting side and the receiving side are asynchronous at the time of measuring an impulse response of a measured system. An impulse response measuring method includes an input signal generating step of generating an input signal of an arbitrary waveform to be input to a measured system by using a synchronization signal having a first sampling clock frequency, a signal converting step of performing conversion on a measured signal output from the measured system into a discrete value system by using a synchronization signal having a second sampling clock frequency, and an inverse filter correcting step of correcting at least a phase of an inverse filter which is an inverse function of a function showing a frequency characteristic of the input signal according to a frequency ratio of the first sampling clock frequency and the second sampling clock frequency. Then, the impulse response of the measured system is measured using the inverse filter after correction. | 06-28-2012 |
20120250680 | NETWORK APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, CONTROL PROGRAM AND PACKET NETWORK SYSTEM - A switching process includes an SRAM/CAM storing registration data including a forwarding database used for packet-forwarding and a DRAM storing packet data. The registration data including the forwarding database of the SRAM/CAM for packet-forwarding is stored into the DRAM as a copy of the registration data, and the registration data of the DRAM is used to refresh the registration data of the SRAM/CAM for a predetermined time interval. A data error in the SRAM/CAM caused by a soft-error is rewritten to normal data by periodical refreshing so that data is guaranteed with relatively low cost and the reliability of the network apparatus is improved. | 10-04-2012 |
20130086295 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM, SWITCHING NODE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM - In a switching node, high-speed and advanced service protocol processing function is achieved by utilizing an external control server without affecting performance of conventional service protocol processing. Specifically, a forwarding engine has PCI express and an LAN interface. Depending on a type of an input packet, destination of the packet is switched to the PCI express side for conventional network service and to the LAN interface side for extended network service that cooperates with the external control server. A CPU having the PCI express and the LAN interface is provided ahead of the LAN interface. The CPU performs communication of service inquiry with the external control server at high speed via the LAN interface. After response from the control server is obtained, setting of the forwarding engine is performed through the PCI express. | 04-04-2013 |
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20090143285 | TARGET PROTEIN AND TARGET GENE FOR DRUG DISCOVERY AND SCREENING METHOD - The present invention provides target proteins and target genes for bioactive substances such as drugs, and means that enable the development of novel bioactive substances using the same. More specifically, the present invention provides target proteins and target genes for bioactive substances; screening methods for substances capable of regulating bioactivities; bioactivity regulators; a bioactive substance derivative production method; a complex comprising a bioactive substance and a target protein, and a method of producing the complex; and kits comprising a bioactive substance or a salt thereof; determination methods for the onset or risk of onset of a specified disease or condition, determination methods for susceptibility to a bioactive substance, and determination kits used for the determination methods, and the like. | 06-04-2009 |
20100136524 | TARGET PROTEIN AND TARGET GENE IN DRUG DESIGNING AND SCREENING METHOD - The present invention provides a novel target protein and a gene for drug discovery, and a means that enables development of a novel pharmaceutical agent by using the same. More particularly, the present invention provides CARP and genes thereof; screening methods for drugs (e.g., antiallergic drugs); a regulator of diseases (e.g., allergic diseases); a drug derivative production method; a complex comprising a drug and CARP, and a production method thereof; kits comprising a drug or a salt thereof; determination methods for the onset or risk of onset of a specified disease, determination methods for susceptibility to a drug, and determination kits used for said methods, and the like. | 06-03-2010 |
20110269141 | TARGET PROTEIN AND TARGET GENE FOR DRUG DISCOVERY, AND SCREENING METHOD - The problems of the present invention are to provide target proteins and target genes for bioactive substances such as drugs, and means that enable the development of novel bioactive substances using the same. The present invention provides target proteins and target genes for bioactive substances; screening methods for substances capable of regulating bioactivities; bioactivity regulators; a bioactive substance derivative production method; a complex comprising a bioactive substance and a target protein, and a method of producing the complex; and kits comprising a bioactive substance or a salt thereof; determination methods for the onset or risk of onset of a specified disease or condition, determination methods for susceptibility to a bioactive substance, and determination kits used for the determination methods, and the like. | 11-03-2011 |
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20120010387 | ANTIBODY VARIANTS COMPOSITION - Among N-glycoside-linked sugar chains which are bound to the Fc region of an antibody, sugar chains which are bound to Asn at position 297 relates to the activity and stability of the antibody in blood, but there is a possibility that extra sugar chains bound to the amino acid residues at positions other than 297 have influences upon the antibody constant region-mediated activity and a possibility of causing a problem of uniformity as a therapeutic antibody preparation. Accordingly, among N-glycoside-linked sugar chains which bind to the Fc region of the antibody, a method for controlling extra sugar chains which are bound to Asn residues at positions other than position 297 according to the EU index is required. The present invention provides an antibody variant composition, comprising amino acid residues of an Asn-X-Ser/Thr (X represents an amino acid residue other than Pro) sequence at positions other than positions 297 to 299 according to the EU index in an Fc region of a human IgG antibody, in which at least one amino acid substitution selected from an amino acid substitution of Asn to other amino acid residue, an amino acid substitution of X to Pro and an amino acid substitution of Ser/Thr to other amino acid residue is carried out, and a fragment of the antibody variant composition. | 01-12-2012 |
20140120581 | HETERODIMER PROTEIN COMPOSITION - According to the present invention, a heterodimer protein composition that is composed of a first polypeptide comprising an immunoglobulin heavy chain constant region and a second polypeptide comprising CL-Fc prepared by fusion of an immunoglobulin light chain constant region (CL) and Fc region, and also has a deletion or substitution of Cys residues involved in disulfide bonds between CL and CH1, a purification method of the protein composition thereof, a preparation method of the protein composition thereof, a DNA and a vector encoding the protein composition thereof are provided | 05-01-2014 |
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20080240007 | INTER-RING FAIRNESS CONTROL METHOD AND RPR NODE DEVICE - The fairness of communication traffic guaranteed within an RPR ring is guaranteed also at a ring interconnection. Transmit weight information used for fairness control is extracted from RPR control information in an arrival packet. In addition to this transmit weight information, a source address, a service class, a fairness bit, and a ring transmit direction are also extracted. If the packet has a fairness bit of “0,” the packet is temporarily stored in an output queue by service class. If the packet has a fairness bit of “1,” the packet is weighted by source and ring transmit direction, based on the transmit weight information, and is temporarily stored in an output queue by source and ring transmit direction. Reading of packets from the output queue by service class is performed prior to reading of packets from the output queue by source and ring transmit direction. | 10-02-2008 |
20090219818 | NODE DEVICE, PACKET SWITCH DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATING PACKET DATA - A node device including a congestion detection unit which detects an occurrence and release of congestion for each class of a second communication quality classification, output to a ring-type network, when packet data for each class classified by a first communication quality classification received from a port; a class association table which stores association between each class of the second communication quality classification and each class of the first communication quality classification; a class conversion unit which converts a class of the second communication quality classification detected by the congestion detecting unit into an associated class of the first communication quality classification; and a notification unit which notifies a class of the first communication quality classification to the port as a target data for stopping read out or starting read out is provided. | 09-03-2009 |
20090245099 | REPEATER AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A repeater for sending and receiving a routing message for changing routing information determines whether a routing message received from a first adjacent repeater which is disposed adjacent to the repeater is to be sent or not. If it is judged that the routing message is not to be sent, then the repeater generates a pseudo-routing message and sends the generated pseudo-routing message, instead of the routing message received from the first adjacent repeater, to a second adjacent repeater which is disposed adjacent to the repeater. | 10-01-2009 |
20110292788 | FRAME DATA COMMUNICATION - A switch node stores reception connection information for identifying the connection of frame data that are received in association with transmission connection information for identifying the connection to which the frame data are to be transmitted, and upon receiving frame data, searches for the transmission connection information that was placed in association with the reception connection information of the frame data that were received and distributes and transmits the frame data to the connection of the transmission connection information that was found. | 12-01-2011 |
20130170838 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A cross connecting unit outputs an including frame whose type matches a type of an including frame stored in a storage unit in association with identification information of a multiplexing unit having a problem among including frames generated by an including unit to a backup multiplexing unit when any one of multiplexing units has a problem. | 07-04-2013 |
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20110255175 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND HOUSING - An optical device includes a first substrate which is transparent to incident light, a second substrate which is transparent to incident light, and a frame member which connects the first substrate to the second substrate. A lens chamber surrounded by the first substrate, the second substrate, and the frame member is filled with first and second liquids constituting a liquid lens. A region composed of an inorganic material and a region composed of an organic material coexist in the inner surface of the first substrate and the inner surface of the frame member. A first insulating layer composed of an inorganic material, an adhesion layer composed of an organic material, and a second insulating layer composed of an organic material are stacked in that order on the inner surface of the first substrate and the inner surface of the frame member. | 10-20-2011 |
20110299171 | LIQUID OPTICAL ELEMENT ARRAY AND DISPLAY - A liquid optical element array with good long-term stability is provided. The liquid optical element array includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; barrier ribs arranged upright on a surface facing the second substrate of the first substrate and sectioning a region on the first substrate into a plurality of cell regions; a first electrode and a second electrode arranged on wall surfaces of the barrier ribs to face each other; a third electrode arranged on a surface facing the first substrate of the second substrate; a projection arranged upright in each of the cell regions on the first substrate or the second substrate; and a polar liquid and a nonpolar liquid sealed between the first substrate and the third electrode and having different refractive indices. | 12-08-2011 |
20130083385 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, DISPLAY APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND WIRING SUBSTRATE - An optical element includes: first and second substrates arranged opposite to each other; a plurality of partition walls which rise from an inner surface of the first substrate, which faces the second substrate, and which also adjoin to one another in a first direction, and extend in a second direction differing from the first direction; and first and second through-holes which are formed in a region held between the adjoining paired partition walls on the first substrate. The element further includes: first and second electrodes which are formed on the surface of the partition walls in such a way that they partly face each other; an insulating film covering the first and second electrodes; a third electrode formed on an inner surface of second substrate, which faces the first substrate; and polar and apolar liquids, both having mutually different refractive indices, which are enclosed between the first and third electrodes. | 04-04-2013 |
20140027168 | PRINTED WIRING BOARD, PRINTING METHOD, AND LIQUID DEVICE - A printed wiring board, in which a pattern is formed by screen printing, includes: a land group including lands each provided corresponding to a through-hole; and a dummy pattern provided in proximity to the land group, and free from electrical connection. | 01-30-2014 |
20140313428 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, COOLING UNIT, AND COOLING METHOD - An image display apparatus includes at least one light modulation device, an outer frame portion, and a cooling portion. The at least one light modulation device is configured to modulate light coming from a light source unit. The outer frame portion is arranged around the at least one light modulation device to enclose the at least one light modulation device. The cooling portion includes a base portion, a heat reception portion, and a heat discharge portion. The base portion is connected to the outer frame portion to enclose the at least one light modulation device. The heat reception portion is configured to receive internal heat on an inside of the base portion. The heat discharge portion is thermally connected to the heat reception portion and configured to discharge the internal heat on an outside of the base portion. | 10-23-2014 |
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20080318961 | Drugs comprising chymase inhibitors and ACE inhibitors as effective ingredients - It is an object of the present invention to provide drugs which are effective for treatment of hypertension, cardiac disease (cardiac hypertrophy, cardiac failure, myocardial infarction, etc.), cerebral apoplexy, nephritis and the like. The invention also provides circulatory disease treatment agents in forms that allow combined use of chymase inhibitors and ACE inhibitors, and circulatory disease treatment methods which produce simultaneous chymase inhibition and ACE inhibition. | 12-25-2008 |
20090169371 | STATOR CASCADE OF TURBO TYPE FLUID MACHINE - In the invention, stator blades are arranged in such a manner that respective intervals between the adjacent stator blades (SV) become unequal at least partly. If the stator blades are arranged as mentioned above, there are formed wave fronts having different moving directions and phases, and these wave fronts are interfered with each other so as to be attenuated. Accordingly, an interference noise is reduced. Therefore, in accordance with the invention, it is possible to reduce an interference noise without enlarging a rotor stator blade interval as well as reducing a used amount of a sound absorption material. | 07-02-2009 |
20090196739 | AXIAL FLOW FLUID DEVICE - An axial flow fluid device in which blade rows having radially-arranged blades are provided in a flow passage of a fluid (Y). The axial flow fluid device includes a turbulent flow eliminating device for eliminating turbulent flow components (Y | 08-06-2009 |
20090220332 | AXIAL FLOW FLUID APPARATUS AND BLADE - An axial flow fluid apparatus axially provided with a plurality of blade rows having a plurality of blades arranged around a shaft is provided. A fluid passage for jetting a fluid to a downstream velocity defect region resulting from a blade is formed in at least one of blades constituting a blade row installed on the upstream side of the plurality of blade rows so as to lead from a positive pressure surface to a negative pressure surface or a trailing edge. | 09-03-2009 |
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20110193100 | SIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing an SiC semiconductor device according to the present invention includes the steps of (a) by using a single mask, etching regions of an SiC semiconductor layer which serve as an impurities implantation region and a mark region, to form recesses, (b) by using the same mask as in the step (a), performing ion-implantation in the recesses of the regions which serve as the impurities implantation region and the mark region, at least from an oblique direction relative to a surface of the SiC semiconductor layer and (c) positioning another mask based on the recess of the region which serves as the impurities implantation region or the mark region, and performing well implantation in a region containing the impurities implantation region. | 08-11-2011 |
20120223335 | METHOD OF MARKING SiC SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER AND SiC SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER - Marking of an SiC wafer with an identifier is realized by irradiation with a pulsed laser using a harmonic of a wavelength four times that of a YAG laser. A speed at which a laser head moves, an orbit in which the laser head moves, the output power and Q-switch frequency of a pulsed laser to be applied, and the like are determined such that pulse-irradiated marks formed as a result of irradiation with corresponding pulses of the pulsed laser do not overlap each other. | 09-06-2012 |
20130235373 | DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD - A defect inspection method according to the present invention is a defect inspection method for inspecting a defect of a semiconductor wafer, including the steps of: (a) forming a mark on a semiconductor wafer that is an inspection object, the mark corresponding to the size of a device chip that will be obtained from the semiconductor wafer, the mark being formed with respect to a predetermined device chip on the semiconductor wafer; and (b) during a predetermined process included in a semiconductor wafer process or before the semiconductor wafer process, performing a defect inspection on the semiconductor wafer and recognizing defect information based on the mark as a reference. | 09-12-2013 |
20130237043 | SiC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing an SiC semiconductor device according to the present invention includes the steps of (a) by using a single mask, etching regions of an SiC semiconductor layer which serve as an impurities implantation region and a mark region, to form recesses, (b) by using the same mask as in the step (a), performing ion-implantation in the recesses of the regions which serve as the impurities implantation region and the mark region, at least from an oblique direction relative to a surface of the SiC semiconductor layer and (c) positioning another mask based on the recess of the region which serves as the impurities implantation region or the mark region, and performing well implantation in a region containing the impurities implantation region. | 09-12-2013 |
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20090118021 | NETWORK GAME SYSTEM, GAME MACHINE, GAME MACHINE CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide a network game system capable of switching a server-client machine, while avoiding deterioration in the excitement of a game. A network game system ( | 05-07-2009 |
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20140120993 | GAME DEVICE, GAME DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide a game device capable of assisting a user to make a pass to a teammate player character in a game performed between a user character group operated by the user and an opponent character group. A setting unit sets a plurality of positions in an area around a character holding the moving object as receiving position candidates for another character to receive a pass. A receiving position selecting unit selects at least one of the receiving position candidates, based on the position of a character belonging to the opponent character group. A character selecting unit selects a character corresponding to the receiving position candidate from among the player characters belonging to the user character group other than the character holding the moving object. A character control unit moves the character corresponding to the selected receiving position candidate toward a position based on the selected receiving position candidate. | 05-01-2014 |
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20120207318 | SOUND SIGNAL OUTPUT APPARATUS, SPEAKER APPARATUS, AND SOUND SIGNAL OUTPUT METHOD - A sound signal output apparatus includes: a wearing state determination unit which determines whether or not a connected speaker apparatus is fitted to an ear of a user; a volume adjustment unit which adjusts volume of a sound signal to be supplied to the speaker apparatus; and an accumulative computation unit which computes an accumulative value of output volume in accordance with a volume level and sound output time of the sound signal, causes the volume adjustment unit to execute volume regulation when the accumulative value reaches a regulatory value, and does not compute the accumulative value during a period in which the wearing state determination unit determines that the speaker apparatus is not fitted to the ear. | 08-16-2012 |
20120207319 | SOUND SIGNAL OUTPUT APPARATUS AND SOUND SIGNAL OUTPUT METHOD - A sound signal output apparatus includes: a wearing state determination unit which analyzes an electric output of a connected speaker apparatus and determines whether the speaker apparatus is in a wearing state or in a non-wearing state in a user's ear; a sound signal output processing unit which outputs a sound signal to be supplied to the speaker apparatus; and a control computation unit which computes an accumulative value of output volume in accordance with a volume level and sound output time of the sound signal, causes the sound signal output processing unit to execute volume regulation when the accumulative value reaches a regulatory value, and does not compute the accumulative value during a period in which it is determined by the wearing state determination unit that a current state is the non-wearing state. | 08-16-2012 |
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20090228623 | COMMUNICATION CONVERTER AND COMMUNICATION CONVERSION SYSTEM - A communication converter includes: a first communication interface making capable of communicating with a medical control device through a predetermined communication cable; a second communication interface making capable of making a connection to a signal distribution unit which is provided in a housing device capable of housing one or more communication converters, and distributes a signal from the medical control device to each of the communication converters; a switch unit for switching communication lines to either a communication line through the first communication interface or a communication line through the second communication interface; a detection unit for detecting whether or not the signal distribution unit is connected to the second communication interface; a switch control unit for controlling the switch unit based on a detection result; and a third communication interface making capable of performing communications with a medical device. | 09-10-2009 |
20090238572 | REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE AND REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM - A remote control device controls a medical device or a medical control device for controlling the medical device by infrared light communication, and includes: an infrared light emission unit for emitting infrared light for performing infrared light communication; a control unit for allowing the infrared light emission unit to emit first infrared light for conveying control information for control of the medical device, and second infrared light conveying predetermined information and having a frequency different from that of the first infrared light; and an infrared light reception unit for receiving the infrared light emitted from the infrared light emission unit. The control unit determines whether or not the infrared light received by the infrared light reception unit is the second infrared light. | 09-24-2009 |
20090287065 | COMMUNICATION CONVERTER, ITS SYSTEM AND ITS METHOD - A communication converter converts a communication system and/or a communication protocol to enable communications to be performed between medical equipment and a medical control device for controlling the medical equipment, and includes: a primary substrate on which a control unit for controlling the communication converter is arranged; n (n indicates any integer) pieces of secondary substrate electrically isolated from the primary substrate and the housing of the communication converter; and n (n indicates any integer) pieces of grounding switch unit corresponding to each of the n pieces of secondary substrate for switching the grounding state of the secondary substrate. | 11-19-2009 |
20140375768 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus includes a first processing section that encodes an inputted medical image based on setting information and outputs a first encode result, a second processing section that encodes the inputted medical image based on the setting information and outputs a second encode result, a setting section that retains the setting information, and a control section that controls, based on the setting information corresponding to an operation signal generated based on an output signal of an electric knife, an operation signal obtained by an endoscope that generates a medical image, or an operation signal for designating a medical case scene, the first and second processing sections to output at least one of the first and second encode results and determines a recording destination of the first and second encode results based on the setting information corresponding to the operation signal. | 12-25-2014 |
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20090237520 | IMAGE PICK-UP APPARARUS AND SYNCHRONIZATION-SIGNAL-GENERATING APPARATUS - An image signal generation portion | 09-24-2009 |
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20140293082 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a color variation amount/normalized dynamic range operation unit that operates color variation amounts indicating variation amounts of a first color component and a second color component for a third color component of the plurality of color components in pixels of the designated region of a first image output from a single-plate type pixel portion, and a coefficient reading unit that reads a coefficient stored in advance on the basis of a result of class sorting of the designated region, in which an operation method of pixel values of the second image formed by pixels of only the first color component and an operation method of pixel values of the second image formed by pixels of only the second color component are changed on the basis of the color variation amounts and the normalized dynamic ranges. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293083 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a representative value calculation unit that selects a designation area from a first image, and that calculates a representative value of each of the color components in the designation area, a class classification unit that performs class classification on the designation area, a coefficient reading unit that reads a coefficient that is stored in advance, a color component conversion unit that sets the pixel value relating to a predetermined pixel within the designation area to be a prediction tap, sets the pixel value of one color component, to be a reference, and converts the pixel value of each color component into a conversion value, and a product and sum calculation unit that sets the conversion value to be a variable and calculates each of the pixel values of a second image, by performing product and sum calculation which uses the coefficient which is read. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293084 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a representative value calculation unit that selects a designation area from a first image, and that calculates a representative value of each of the color components in the designation area, a class classification unit that performs class classification on the designation area, a coefficient reading unit that reads a coefficient that is stored in advance, a color component conversion unit that sets the pixel value relating to a predetermined pixel within the designation area to be a prediction tap, sets the pixel value of one color component, to be a reference, and converts the pixel value of each color component into a conversion value, and a product and sum calculation unit that sets the conversion value to be a variable and calculates each of the pixel values of a second image, by performing product and sum calculation which uses the coefficient which is read. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293088 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a class tap selection unit that selects pixel values related to pixels corresponding to a plurality of color components as a class tap, from a first image formed by image signals which are output from a single-plate type pixel portion, a class sorting unit that sorts out target pixels of second images as any one of a plurality of classes on the basis of a feature amount of the class tap, a prediction tap selection unit that selects pixel values related to pixels corresponding to a first color component of the plurality of color components as a prediction tap from the first image, and a product-sum operation unit that uses the pixel values of the first color component of the prediction tap as variables, and operates pixel values of the second images through a product-sum operation using the read coefficient. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294294 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a prediction tap selection unit which selects a pixel which is a prediction tap used for prediction operation for acquiring a pixel value of a target pixel which is a target from a second image obtained by converting a first image, from the first image; a classification unit which classifies the target pixel to any class from a plurality of classes; a tap coefficient output unit which outputs a tap coefficient of a class of the target pixel from tap coefficients, acquired by learning to minimize an error between a result of the prediction operation using a student image corresponding to the first image and a teacher image corresponding to the second image; and an operation unit which acquires a pixel value of the target pixel by performing the prediction operation using the tap coefficient and the prediction tap. | 10-02-2014 |
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20080265928 | Semiconductor device and test method therefor - A semiconductor device, in which a test element group (TEG) including check patterns is formed together with a chip on a wafer so as to measure electric characteristics thereof, includes an interface circuit for selecting the check pattern from the test element group, a protection resistor connected in series with the test element group so as to protect the test element group, and a dummy element connected in series with the test element group. It allows the TEG test, which can be performed after packaging, to be easily performed at a high precision irrespective of dispersions of parasitic resistances and protection resistors. The test result is corrected based on the calculated values of the parasitic resistance and protection resistor and is then stored in a specific table form, wherein a pass/fail decision is made as to whether or not the test result falls within the prescribed range. | 10-30-2008 |
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20090291499 | BIOLOGICAL TISSUE-REINFORCING MATERIAL, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, USE OF THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CULTURING CELLS - A method of producing a biological tissue-reinforcing material, which is applicable to a site required to be reinforced and which enables to improve the working properties for transplantation, comprising the step S | 11-26-2009 |
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20100129128 | Bookbinding apparatus and image forming system - A bookbinding apparatus, which applies adhesive onto a back of a bundle of sheets and forms a booklet, comprising: an adhesive tank which is configured to store the adhesive; a heating section which is configured to heat and melt the adhesive stored in the adhesive tank; an adhesive supplying member which is configured to be submerged in the adhesive stored in the adhesive tank, and to be rotated to supply the adhesive onto the back of the bundle of sheets; and a control section which controls the heating section to heat the adhesive to a predetermined coating temperature as a warm-up process, and to control the adhesive supplying member to rotate during the warm-up process. | 05-27-2010 |
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| 06-03-2010 |
20100260581 | Sheet finisher and image forming system provided therewith - In a sheet finisher including an adhesive coating section, a movement mechanism, a control section that controls actions of the adhesive coating section and of the movement mechanism, is capable of multiple coating on a spine of a sheet bundle by causing the movement mechanism to move the adhesive coating section reciprocally and relatively with respect to the spine, and is capable of conducting a preparation process to cause the rotary adhesive supplying section to rotate for a prescribed period of time in a rotation direction corresponding to a movement direction of the adhesive coating section under a condition of no coating of the adhesive on the spine of the sheet bundle, after the movement direction of the adhesive coating section and the rotation direction of the rotary adhesive supplying section are switched, following the reciprocating movement in the case of the multiple coating. | 10-14-2010 |
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