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20100087971 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CONTROLLER - An object is to obtain an electric vehicle controller capable of reducing a total sum of losses of an AD motor and losses of a main circuit. In a vector-control-command-value calculating unit, according to a torque command T*, a DC-voltage command value EFCR and a magnetic-flux command value F2R for which a total sum of losses of an AD motor and losses of a second main circuit is minimized is calculated and selected. The vector-control-command-value calculating unit outputs the magnetic-flux command value F2R to a vector control unit, and outputs the DC-voltage command value EFCR to a converter control unit. | 04-08-2010 |
20100110743 | INVERTER CONTROLLER - To suppress an unbalance of a dwell period in a changeover of phases in which switching is dwelled in an inverter controller. A PWM operation unit | 05-06-2010 |
20100128502 | ELECTRIC POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - A power converter includes: a converter ( | 05-27-2010 |
20120063176 | POWER CONVERTING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A control device for a vehicle, the control device including, in a housing that is installed under a floor of the vehicle: a power converter configured of a semiconductor switching circuit; a control unit that controls the output of the power converter so as to supply a required load to a power; a wiring that is connected to the power converter; a voltage detector that detects a voltage applied to the wiring and outputs the detected voltage to the control unit; and a shielding unit that shields radiation noise from the wiring to the voltage detector, wherein the control unit is disposed on a first side of the housing along a traveling direction of the vehicle, the power converter is disposed on a second side of the housing along the traveling direction of the vehicle and the voltage detector is disposed between the power converter and the control unit. | 03-15-2012 |
20130073252 | MAGNETIC-POLE POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES - An object is to provide a magnetic-pole position detection apparatus for synchronous machines that allows a desired accuracy of magnetic-pole position detection regardless of variation in DC voltage of a DC voltage source. Calculation means ( | 03-21-2013 |
20130106329 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR ROTATING MACHINE | 05-02-2013 |
20130113398 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AC ROTARY MACHINE - A control apparatus for an AC rotary machine includes: a current detection section detecting current from a power converter to the AC rotary machine; and a control section generating a three-phase AC voltage instruction to the power converter, based on current detected by the current detection section and a torque instruction. The control section includes: an observer calculating a magnetic flux estimated value of the AC rotary machine, based on detected current and the voltage instruction; a current instruction calculation unit calculating current instruction values on rotational two axes, based on the torque instruction and the magnetic flux estimated value from the observer; and a voltage instruction calculation unit calculating the voltage instruction, based on the current instruction values from the current instruction calculation unit and the magnetic flux estimated value from the observer. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113399 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR AC ROTARY MACHINE - A control apparatus for an AC rotary machine includes a control circuit, a power converter, a current detector, and a voltage detector. The control circuit includes: an activation current instruction unit which generates a current instruction for activation; and a start phase setting unit which sets an initial rotation phase for activation control, based on the rotation direction of the AC rotary machine just after activation and on the polarity of current detected by the current detector just after activation. Thus, the current amplitude and torque shock just after activation control is started can be reduced, and assured and stable reactivation is allowed without causing the protection operation. | 05-09-2013 |
20140232112 | HYBRID-VEHICLE POWER GENERATOR CONTROL APPARATUS - A hybrid-vehicle power generator control apparatus. Based on a difference electric power value, which corresponds to the difference between an electric power generator power command value given by a higher-hierarchy control unit and an output voltage value of an electric power generator, an electric power generator control unit calculates an electric power generator rotation speed command value and based on the calculated electric power generator rotation speed command value, the electric power generator control unit PWM-controls an output of the electric-power conversion system that performs electric conversion between the electric power generator and a battery, so that the rotation speed of the electric power generator is made to keep track of the electric power generator rotation speed command value and the output electric power value of the electric power generator is made to keep track of the electric power generator power command value. | 08-21-2014 |
20140232307 | VECTOR CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR, ELECTRIC MOTOR, VEHICLE DRIVE SYSTEM, AND VECTOR CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR - A vector control device includes a vector control unit computing an output voltage output from the electric power converter according to vector control based on torque command and flux command and generating a PWM signal for controlling the electric power converter based on the output voltage, a first flux-command generation unit generating a flux command for asynchronous PWM mode, and a second flux-command generation unit generating a flux command for synchronous PWM mode. When an output frequency of the electric power converter is lower than a predetermined value, a flux command generated by the first flux-command generation unit is input to the vector control unit, and when the output frequency of the electric power converter is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, a flux command generated by the second flux-command generation unit is input to the vector control unit. | 08-21-2014 |
20140232318 | POWER CONVERSION CONTROL DEVICE, POWER CONVERSION CONTROL METHOD, ELECTRIC MOTOR, AND VEHICLE DRIVING SYSTEM - A power conversion control device includes a modulation-wave generating unit generating a modulation wave based on output voltage phase angle command and modulation factor, a carrier-wave generating unit that, in a case of non-overmodulation state, generates a triangular wave or saw-tooth wave as the carrier wave, and, in a case of overmodulation state, generates, as the carrier wave, a signal fixed to −1 in a first section that is a predetermined range centering on timing corresponding to a peak position of the modulation wave, generates, as the carrier wave, a signal fixed to +1 in a second section obtained by shifting the first section by a half cycle of the modulation wave, and generates, as the carrier wave, a triangular wave or saw-tooth wave in remaining third section, and a comparing unit that compares the carrier wave and the modulation wave and generates a switching signal. | 08-21-2014 |
20140247003 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - A power conversion device formed of a converter for rectifying a single-phase AC voltage to a DC voltage and an inverter for driving an AC motor by converting the DC voltage to an AC voltage includes: a first compensation unit that uses a frequency component twice the frequency of the single-phase AC voltage with respect to the DC voltage outputted from the converter or a current outputted from the inverter as a compensation value for at least one of a torque command value, a current command value, a voltage command value, a frequency command value, and a phase angle command value; and a second compensation unit that uses the DC voltage outputted from the converter or a current outputted from the inverter after being subjected to low frequency cut-off processing and gain processing. | 09-04-2014 |
20140330462 | HYBRID-VEHICLE POWER GENERATION CONTROL APPARATUS - A hybrid-vehicle power generator control apparatus includes an integrated control unit that issues a driving command and a control command to an engine control unit and an electric-power conversion system control unit, respectively, based on requested electric power requested by a load apparatus, and a limiter that limits the control command from the integrated control unit such that when rotation frequency of an electric power generator is same as or lower than a predetermined value, the value of torque generated by the electric power generator becomes smaller than the value of torque generated by an engine. A limitation of the control command by the limiter prevents torques of the engine and the electric power generator from stepping out of the stable operating points. | 11-06-2014 |
20140350757 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR HYBRID VEHICLE FOR RAILROAD - In a vehicle control apparatus, a system controller that overall controls an engine controller and a converter controller is provided. The system controller drives, through the converter controller, a generator with a generator-rotational-speed command value ωc_ref1 smaller than idling maintenance minimum rotational speed ωe_idol_min of an engine, starts, through the engine controller, fuel injection to the engine after elapse of a predetermined time, and, when the rotational speed of the engine reaches a predetermined rotational speed threshold ωe_th that is larger than the generator-rotational-speed command value ωe_ref and smaller than the idling maintenance minimum rotational speed ωe_idol_min, outputs, to a converter, a gate cutoff signal GSTOP for turning off energization to the generator. | 11-27-2014 |
20150214856 | THREE-LEVEL POWER CONVERTING APPARATUS - First to sixth switching elements forming a power conversion circuit for one phase in a three-level power converting apparatus include transistor elements and diode elements connected in reverse parallel to the transistor elements. Second, third, fifth, and sixth transistor elements are configured by MOSFETs that enable an electric current to flow in two directions. | 07-30-2015 |
20150225000 | PROPULSION CONTROL DEVICE OF HYBRID VEHICLE - A propulsion control device of a hybrid vehicle that enables, during an operating state of a train, flexible control corresponding to the operating state includes a total control section that totally controls a power generating device, a power storage device, and a load device. The total control section monitors total generated power in all converters in a train formation and controls, on the basis of the total generated power and a fuel consumption characteristic of engines, speed we of the engines and generated power of the converters to further reduce a total fuel consumption in the formation. | 08-13-2015 |
20150251648 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - A high-order control unit provided in a control device for a hybrid vehicle includes an elevation MAP that is used in common for up and down lines and in which at least two predetermined elevation values on a running track are described, and an energy estimation unit that estimates a target charge/discharge amount SOC_ref with respect to a power storage device on the basis of a traveling direction signal Rev expressing a traveling direction of a vehicle, distance information Dis from a distance translation unit, and information on the elevation MAP, to control a power generation device on the basis of the target charge/discharge amount SOC_ref. | 09-10-2015 |
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20090251294 | ARTICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ARTICLE MANAGEMENT METHOD - As an assembly | 10-08-2009 |
20100197275 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT TERMINAL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Communication from inadmissible communication parties and communication accesses are excluded from an unspecified number of communication parties and communication accesses. A communication management system is provided with a communication device for communicating with communication parties connected through a communication network, a communication control device for controlling the communication, a communication history information memory device for storing communication history information indicative of communication history of the communication device, and a communication admissible party selecting device for selecting communication admissible parties who are admitted to communication with the communication device in accordance with the communication history information, wherein the communication control device has a communication admission control function to carry out admission control of communication from the selected communication parties. | 08-05-2010 |
20110055502 | DATA LOGGER, DATA SAVING METHOD AND PROGRAM - It is an object to provide a data logger which solves a problem in which data required to analyze a cause of occurrence of abnormality cannot be acquired. Temporary memory | 03-03-2011 |
20120109990 | INFORMATION SEARCH SYSTEM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An evaluation target information processing means ( | 05-03-2012 |
20130235995 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT TERMINAL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Communication from inadmissible communication parties and communication accesses are excluded from an unspecified number of communication parties and communication accesses. A communication management system is provided with a communication device for communicating with communication parties connected through a communication network, a communication control device for controlling the communication, a communication history information memory device for storing communication history information indicative of communication history of the communication device, and a communication admissible party selecting device for selecting communication admissible parties who are admitted to communication with the communication device in accordance with the communication history information, wherein the communication control device has a communication admission control function to carry out admission control of communication from the selected communication parties. | 09-12-2013 |
20150210207 | Vehicle Fog Lamp - A vehicle fog lamp includes a light source and reflective surface sections surrounding the light source. A screen light distribution pattern formed by illuminating light that is emitted from the light source and is reflected on the reflective surface section is divided into an outer pattern part and an inner pattern part. An upper end part of the outer pattern part is disposed above an upper end part of the inner pattern part. | 07-30-2015 |
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20090322935 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to receive an optical image transmitted through a lens unit and configured to convert the image into image data, a target image detection unit configured to detect a target image satisfying a predetermined form from the image data converted by the imaging unit, and a focus control unit configured to move a focus position of the lens unit by a predetermined amount according to a result of the target image detected by the target image detection unit. The target image detection unit detects the target image from image data converted by the imaging unit in the moved focus position when the focus control unit moves the focus position of the lens unit by the predetermined amount according to the detected result of the target image. | 12-31-2009 |
20100045849 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING SYSTEM AND FOCUS DETECTION METHOD - An image sensing apparatus including: an image sensor including a plurality of focus detection pixel pairs that perform photoelectric conversion on each pair of light beams that have passed through different regions of a photographing lens and output an image signal pair; a flash memory that stores shift information on relative shift between an optical axis of the photographing lens and a central axis of the focus detection pixel pairs; a correction unit that corrects a signal level of the image signal pair based on the shift information and exit pupil information of the photographing lens so as to compensate for an unbalanced amount of light that enters each of the focus detection pixel pairs; and a focus detection unit that detects a focus of the photographing lens using the image signal pair corrected by the correction unit. | 02-25-2010 |
20110096207 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - Light transmitted through the imaging lens | 04-28-2011 |
20110164169 | CAMERA AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A camera comprising at least a second focus detection unit out of a first focus detection unit which includes a first pupil-dividing unit for guiding light beams having passed through different pupil regions of a photographing lens and detects a focus of the photographing lens by using light beams guided by the first pupil-dividing unit, and the second focus detection unit which includes a second pupil-dividing unit different from the first pupil-dividing unit and detects the focus of the photographing lens on an image plane different from an image plane by the first focus detection unit by using light beams guided by the second pupil-dividing unit, wherein focus detection of the photographing lens by the second focus detection unit is performed using a correction value for focus detection that is stored in advance in the photographing lens in correspondence with the first focus detection unit. | 07-07-2011 |
20120057069 | AUTOFOCUS APPARATUS AND IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS - An autofocus apparatus includes a first focus detector configured to provide a focus detection by detecting a phase difference between a pair of image signals of an object, a second focus detector configured to wobble one of an image-pickup lens and an image-pickup element, to observe a variation of a contrast value of an image of the object, and to maintain an in-focus position, and a controller configured to make the first focus detector provide the focus detection in the wobbling by the second focus detector, and to correct a shift amount of an amplitude of wobbling by the second focus detector in the focus detection result by the first focus detector. | 03-08-2012 |
20120249846 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A solid-state image sensor which comprises a pixel group in which unit pixels each including a microlens and a plurality of photo-electric converters are arrayed two-dimensionally, wherein a shielding unit that shields part of all of a plurality of photo-electric converters corresponding to a single microlens is provided in a portion of the unit pixels. | 10-04-2012 |
20120268634 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image sensor comprising a plurality of image sensing pixel groups is provided. Each of the image sensing pixel groups has a plurality of first pixels each having photoelectric conversion portions arrayed in first and second directions for first and second numbers of divisions, respectively, and a plurality of second pixels each having photoelectric conversion portions arrayed in the first and second directions for third and fourth numbers of divisions, respectively. The photoelectric conversion portions comprising the first pixel and the second pixel have a function of photoelectrically converting a plurality of images formed by divided light fluxes of a light flux from an imaging optical system and outputting a focus detection signal for phase difference detection. The first and third numbers of division are coprime natural numbers, and the second and fourth numbers of divisions are coprime natural numbers. | 10-25-2012 |
20120274837 | CAMERA - A camera to which a lens unit is exchangeably attached includes a phase difference detection type focus detection unit, a contrast detection type focus detection unit, and a processor configured to acquire correction information used to correct a shift amount between a focus detecting light flux and an image-pickup light flux from the image pickup lens. The contrast detection type focus detection unit performs scanning in a single direction from a focus position detected by the phase difference detection type focus detection unit, the single direction being set based on the correction information. | 11-01-2012 |
20120300104 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image sensor comprises a first imaging pixel and a second imaging pixel each of which detects an object image formed by a photographing optical system and generates a recording image. Each of the first imaging pixel and the second imaging pixel comprises a plurality of photoelectric conversion units segmented in a first direction, the plurality of photoelectric conversion units have an ability of photoelectrically converting images formed by split light beams out of a light beam from the photographing optical system and outputting focus detection signals to be used to detect a phase difference. A base-line length of photoelectric conversion units to be used to detect the phase difference included in the first imaging pixel is longer than that of photoelectric conversion units to be used to detect the phase difference included in the second imaging pixel. | 11-29-2012 |
20130033152 | ULTRASONIC MOTOR AND LENS APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An ultrasonic motor includes a vibrator having a contact surface that is brought into contact with a member to be driven, and a piezoelectric element fixed thereto, the vibrator configured to drive the member to be driven by ultrasonic vibration excited by the piezoelectric element; and a pressurization unit supported by a fixing unit to apply a bias force to the vibrator so as to impress the contact surface against the member to be driven. The pressurization unit includes a pressurization member held by the fixing unit so as to move in a direction perpendicular to the contact surface while being restricted to move in a direction parallel to the contact surface; and an elastic member that applies an impressing force in the direction perpendicular to the contact surface to the vibrator via the pressurization member. | 02-07-2013 |
20130033771 | ULTRASONIC MOTOR AND LENS APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is an ultrasonic motor, comprising: a vibrator including a piezoelectric element and a contact surface to be brought into contact with a member to be driven, the vibrator driving the member to be driven by an ultrasonic vibration excited by the piezoelectric element; a holding part configured to hold the vibrator; a pressurization unit configured to apply a bias force for biasing the holding part toward the member to be driven so as to impress the contact surface against the member to be driven; and a fixing unit configured to support the pressurization unit, in which the holding part holds the vibrator on both sides of the contact surface in a driving direction of the member to be driven. | 02-07-2013 |
20130070350 | ULTRASONIC MOTOR AND LENS APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An ultrasonic motor, comprising: a member to be driven including a contact surface; a vibrator including at least one contact part, and a piezoelectric element, the vibrator driving the member to be driven by an ultrasonic vibration excited by the piezoelectric element; a retention part for retaining the vibrator; and a pressurization unit including an elastic member so as to apply an impressing force on the at least one contact part against the member to be driven, wherein: the retention part includes an abutting part including a line contact part that receives the impressing force from the elastic member and comes into line contact with the pressurization unit; the abutting part has a shape formed of a part of a cylinder; and a center axis of the cylinder is parallel to the at least one contact part and perpendicular to a driving direction of the member to be driven. | 03-21-2013 |
20130169858 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING SYSTEM AND FOCUS DETECTION METHOD - An image sensing apparatus including: an image sensor including a plurality of focus detection pixel pairs that perform photoelectric conversion on each pair of light beams that have passed through different regions of a photographing lens and output an image signal pair; a flash memory that stores shift information on relative shift between an optical axis of the photographing lens and a central axis of the focus detection pixel pairs; a correction unit that corrects a signal level of the image signal pair based on the shift information and exit pupil information of the photographing lens so as to compensate for an unbalanced amount of light that enters each of the focus detection pixel pairs; and a focus detection unit that detects a focus of the photographing lens using the image signal pair corrected by the correction unit. | 07-04-2013 |
20130193803 | ULTRASONIC MOTOR AND LENS DRIVING APPARATUS - An ultrasonic motor includes a vibrator configured to generate an elliptical vibration, a driven member configured to be driven by the vibrator, wherein the driven member is driven according to the elliptical vibration of the vibrator, a holding unit configured to hold the vibrator, and a pressure unit configured to press the vibrator against the driven member, wherein the holding unit includes a first holding member configured to hold the vibrator, and a second holding member configured to press the vibrator against the driven member, and wherein the first holding member and the second holding member are relatively movable in a direction perpendicular to a contact surface of the driven member with the vibrator. | 08-01-2013 |
20130250149 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The image capturing apparatus ( | 09-26-2013 |
20140247385 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING SYSTEM AND FOCUS DETECTION METHOD - An image sensing apparatus including: an image sensor including a plurality of focus detection pixel pairs that perform photoelectric conversion on each pair of light beams that have passed through different regions of a photographing lens and output an image signal pair; a flash memory that stores shift information on relative shift between an optical axis of the photographing lens and a central axis of the focus detection pixel pairs; a correction unit that corrects a signal level of the image signal pair based on the shift information and exit pupil information of the photographing lens so as to compensate for an unbalanced amount of light that enters each of the focus detection pixel pairs; and a focus detection unit that detects a focus of the photographing lens using the image signal pair corrected by the correction unit. | 09-04-2014 |
20140295972 | SERVER DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM - To increase the player's expectation in a fight game using game media, the present invention provides a server device that controls a game in which a player does a fight using game media in a game space through a network. The server device includes a storage unit configured to store player information including information about the game media that the player owns in the game space and about a status of the game media; a determining portion configured to determine whether a specific game medium among the game media that the player owns has satisfied a predetermined temporal requirement; and an updating portion configured to update the player information so as to change the specific game medium from a first status to a second status when the determining portion determines that the specific game medium has satisfied the predetermined temporal requirement. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295973 | SERVER DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM - In a combat type game using a network, an interchange between players is promoted. A server device that controls a game played by a player using game media in a game space through a network includes a storage unit that stores information about the game media owned by the player in the game space and about states of the game media; a medium transferring unit that transfers the game media from the player owning the game media such that the game media are owned by another player; a determining unit that determines whether a specific game medium among the game media has satisfied a predetermined transfer requirement; and a changing unit that changes, when it is determined that the specific game medium has satisfied the predetermined transfer requirement, the specific game medium from a first state to a second state and stores the changed state in the storage unit. | 10-02-2014 |
20140300977 | ULTRASONIC MOTOR AND LENS DRIVING APPARATUS - An ultrasonic motor includes a vibrator configured to generate a vibration, a relatively movable member configured to be movable by the vibrator, wherein the relatively movable member is movable relatively according to the vibration of the vibrator, a holding unit configured to hold the vibrator, wherein the holding unit includes a first holding member configured to hold the vibrator and a second holding member; and a damping member provided between the vibrator and the second holding member and configured to reduce a vibration transmitted to the second holding member, a pressure unit configured to press the vibrator against the relatively movable member, wherein the second holding member is configured to press the vibrator against the relatively movable member, and wherein the first holding member is made of a material having a higher damping capability against the vibrator than a material of the second holding member. | 10-09-2014 |
20150054384 | ACTUATOR - The actuator includes a vibration plate including a fixing portion for fixing the vibration plate to a holding member, and a connection portion for connecting a center portion and the fixing portion, and is provided between a surface and a friction-sliding surface in a direction in which the vibration plate is pressed against the rotor by a pressurizing force produced by a pressure member. When finishing a surface on which a piezoelectric device is to be fixed to the vibration plate to a uniform surface by polishing, a decrease in the performance of the ultrasonic motor due to deformation of the vibration plate that is caused by warping of support portions that extend from both ends thereof or by burrs or the like can be prevented, and the time required to polish the vibration plate can be reduced. | 02-26-2015 |
20150070548 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image sensor comprising a plurality of image sensing pixel groups is provided. Each of the image sensing pixel groups has a plurality of first pixels each having photoelectric conversion portions arrayed in first and second directions for first and second numbers of divisions, respectively, and a plurality of second pixels each having photoelectric conversion portions arrayed in the first and second directions for third and fourth numbers of divisions, respectively. The photoelectric conversion portions comprising the first pixel and the second pixel have a function of photoelectrically converting a plurality of images formed by divided light fluxes of a light flux from an imaging optical system and outputting a focus detection signal for phase difference detection. The first and third numbers of division are coprime natural numbers, and the second and fourth numbers of divisions are coprime natural numbers. | 03-12-2015 |
20150200610 | ULTRASONIC WAVE MOTOR AND ULTRASONIC WAVE MOTOR-EQUIPPED DEVICE - A driving device having a vibration element, a friction member, and a pressing member for applying pressure in a direction in which the vibration element and the friction member make contact with each other, causing the vibration element and the friction member to make a relative movement by vibration generated in the vibration element. The device includes a connection member configured to transmit a driving force caused by the relative movement to a holding member of another member, wherein the holding member makes a movement caused by the transmitted driving force, and a guide member configured to guide the holding member in a moving direction when the vibration element and the friction member make the relative movement. The connection member connects the holding member to the vibration element or the friction member so as not to apply a reaction force caused by the pressing member to the holding member. | 07-16-2015 |
20150222834 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A solid-state image sensor which comprises a pixel group in which unit pixels each including a microlens and a plurality of photo-electric converters are arrayed two-dimensionally, wherein a shielding unit that shields part of all of a plurality of photo-electric converters corresponding to a single microlens is provided in a portion of the unit pixels. | 08-06-2015 |
20150280615 | ULTRASONIC MOTOR AND LENS APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An ultrasonic motor includes a vibrator including a contact surface that is brought into contact with a member to be driven, and a piezoelectric element fixed thereto, the vibrator configured to drive the member to be driven by an ultrasonic vibration excited by the piezoelectric element; a fixing unit; and a pressing member supported by a restraining part of the fixing unit so as not to move in a direction parallel to the contact surface, the pressing member configured to apply a bias force to the vibrator so as to press the contact surface against the member to be driven. | 10-01-2015 |
20150340969 | ULTRASONIC MOTOR AND LENS APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is an ultrasonic motor, comprising: a vibrator including a piezoelectric element and a contact surface to be brought into contact with a member to be driven, the vibrator driving the member to be driven by an ultrasonic vibration excited by the piezoelectric element; a holding part configured to hold the vibrator; a pressurization unit configured to apply a bias force for biasing the holding part toward the member to be driven so as to impress the contact surface against the member to be driven; and a fixing unit configured to support the pressurization unit, in which the holding part holds the vibrator on both sides of the contact surface in a driving direction of the member to be driven. | 11-26-2015 |
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20090087336 | High-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility - A high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility for steel cord and the like is provided that experiences little breakage during drawing. The high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility is a high-carbon steel wire rod fabricated by hot rolling that that has a carbon content of 0.7 mass % or greater, wherein 95% or greater of the wire rod metallographic structure is pearlite structure and the maximum pearlite block size of pearlite at the core of the hot-rolled wire rod is 65 μm or less. The high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility has a tensile strength in a range of {248+980×(C mass %)}±40 MPa} and a reduction of area of {72.8−40×(C mass %) %} or greater. The high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility is characterized in that the average pearlite block size at the core of the hot-rolled wire rod constituted by ferrite grain boundaries of an orientation difference of 9 degrees or greater as measured with an EBSP analyzer is 10 μm or greater and 30 μm or less. | 04-02-2009 |
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20090277545 | High-Strength Wire Rod Excellent in Drawing Characteristics and Method of Manufacturing the Same - The invention provides wire rod excellent in drawability and steel wire made from the wire rod as starting material with high productivity at good yield and low cost. A hard steel wire rod of a specified composition is hot rolled, the hot-rolled steel is coiled in a specified temperature range, and the coiled steel is subjected to patenting at a predetermined cooling rate, thereby affording a high-carbon steel wire excellent in workability. It is high-strength steel wire excellent in drawability comprising a pearlite structure of an area ratio of 97% or greater and the balance of non-pearlite structures including bainite, degenerate-pearlite and pro-eutectoid ferrite and having a pearlite block size of not less than 20 μm and not greater than 45 μm. The invention also provides a high-carbon steel wire excellent in ductility, which is manufactured by subjecting the wire rod to intermediate patenting and cold drawing and has a tensile strength of 2800 MPa or greater. | 11-12-2009 |
20100212786 | High-Strength Steel Wire Excellent In Ductility and Method of Manufacturing the Same - The invention provides wire rod excellent in drawability and steel wire made from the wire rod as starting material with high productivity at good yield and low cost. A hard steel wire rod of a specified composition is heated in a specified temperature range to conduct post-reaustenization patenting and thereby obtain a high-carbon steel wire excellent in ductility that has a pearlite structure of an area ratio of 97% or greater and the balance of non-pearlite structures including bainite, degenerate-pearlite and pro-eutectoid ferrite and whose fracture reduction of area RA satisfies Expressions (1), (2) and (3) below: | 08-26-2010 |
20100239884 | PLATED STEEL WIRE FOR PARALLEL WIRE STRAND (PWS) WITH PARTICULAR TWIST PROPERTIES, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A plated steel wire for a parallel wire strand (PWS) with excellent twist properties can include, in terms of mass %, about 0.8 to 1.1% of C, about 0.8 to 1.3% of Si, about 0.3 to 0.8% of Mn, about 0.001 to 0.006% of N, and about 0.0004 to 0.0060% of B, where a quantity of solid-solubilized B is at least 0.0002%. Such exemplary wire can include either one or both of about 0.005 to 0.1% of Al and/or about 0.005 to 0.1% of Ti, and may contain, as the remainder, Fe and unavoidable impurities. For example, an area fraction of non-pearlite structures in a region from a surface layer down to a depth of about 50 μm is likely not more than about 10%, an area fraction of non-pearlite structures within an entire cross-section is likely not more than about 5%, and a surface of the steel wire can be galvanized with a plating quantity within a range from about 300 to 500 g/m | 09-23-2010 |
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20110284139 | High-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility - A high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility for steel cord and the like is provided that experiences little breakage during drawing. The high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility is a high-carbon steel wire rod fabricated by hot rolling that that has a carbon content of 0.7 mass % or greater, wherein 95% or greater of the wire rod metallographic structure is pearlite structure and the maximum pearlite block size of pearlite at the core of the hot-rolled wire rod is 65 μm or less. The high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility has a tensile strength in a range of {248+980×(C mass %)}±40 MPa} and a reduction of area of {72.8−40×(C mass %) %} or greater. The high-carbon steel wire rod of high ductility is characterized in that the average pearlite block size at the core of the hot-rolled wire rod constituted by ferrite grain boundaries of an orientation difference of 9 degrees or greater as measured with an EBSP analyzer is 10 μm or greater and 30 μm or less. | 11-24-2011 |
20120014831 | WIRE ROD, STEEL WIRE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a wire rod with a composition at least including: C: 0.95-1.30 mass %; Si: 0.1-1.5 mass %; Mn: 0.1-1.0 mass %; Al: 0-0.1 mass %; Ti: 0-0.1 mass %; P: 0-0.02 mass %; S: 0-0.02 mass %; N: 10-50 ppm; O: 10-40 ppm; and a balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein 97% or more of an area in a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the wire rod is occupied by a pearlite, and 0.5% or less of an area in a central area in the cross-section and 0.5% or less of an area in a first surface layer area in the cross-section are occupied by a pro-eutectoid cementite. | 01-19-2012 |
20120070687 | HIGH-STRENGTH ZN-AL COATED STEEL WIRE FOR BRIDGES WITH EXCELLENT CORROSION RESISTANCE AND FATIGUE PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed is a high-strength Zn—Al coated steel wire for bridges with excellent corrosion resistance and fatigue properties, the Zn—Al coated steel wire includes: a steel wire; and a Zn—Al coating having a coating body layer and an Fe—Al alloy layer formed in an interface between a surface layer of the steel wire and the coating body layer, wherein a chemical composition of a core material of the steel wire includes, by mass %: C: 0.70% to 1.2%; Si: 0.01% to 2.5%; Mn: 0.01% to 0.9%; P: limited to 0.02% or less; S: limited to 0.02% or less; N: limited to 0.01% or less; and the balance including Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein wire-drawn pearlite is most abundant microstructure among microstructures of the core material of the steel wire; wherein an average composition of the Zn—Al coating includes, by mass %, Al: 3.0 to 15.0%; and Fe: limited to 3.0% or less, and wherein the Fe—Al alloy layer has a thickness of 5 μm or less. | 03-22-2012 |
20130133789 | STEEL WIRE OF SPECIAL STEEL AND WIRE ROD OF SPECIAL STEEL - A predetermined composition is had, when a C content is represented by (C %), in a case of (C %) being not less than 0.35% nor more than 0.65%, a volume fraction of pearlite is 64×(C %)+52% or more, and in a case of (C %) being greater than 0.65% and 0.85% or less, the volume fraction of pearlite is not less than 94% nor more than 100%, and a structure of the other portion is composed of one or two of proeutectoid ferrite and bainite. Further, in a region to a depth of 1.0 mm from a surface, a volume fraction of pearlite block having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more is not less than 70% nor more than 95%, and a volume fraction of pearlite having an angle between an axial direction and a lamellar direction on a cross section parallel to the axial direction of 40° or less is 60% or more with respect to all pearlite. | 05-30-2013 |
20130263975 | WIRE ROD, STEEL WIRE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a wire rod with a composition at least including: C: 0.95-1.30 mass %; Si: 0.1-1.5 mass %; Mn: 0.1-1.0 mass %; Al: 0-0.1 mass %; Ti: 0-0.1 mass %; P: 0-0.02 mass %; S: 0-0.02 mass %; N: 10-50 ppm; O: 10-40 ppm; and a balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein 97% or more of an area in a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the wire rod is occupied by a pearlite, and 0.5% or less of an area in a central area in the cross-section and 0.5% or less of an area in a first surface layer area in the cross-section are occupied by a pro-eutectoid cementite. | 10-10-2013 |
20130302204 | HIGH CARBON STEEL WIRE ROD EXCELLENT IN DRAWABILITY AND FATIGUE CHARACTERISTICS AFTER WIRE DRAWING - High performance high carbon wire with refined inclusions after wire rolling, extremely low wire breakage rates at the time of drawing even in tough applications, and excellent in fatigue characteristics after wire drawing, characterized by having a predetermined composition of ingredients and in that the number ratio of inclusions satisfying (% SiO | 11-14-2013 |
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20140179695 | CHROMANE COMPOUNDS - The present invention provides a compound which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases or conditions associated with and/or mediated by β-secretase activity, hydrolysis of a β-secretase site of a β-amyloid precursor protein, and/or β-amyloid protein accumulation, including a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases including, but not limited to, Glaucoma, MCI (Mild cognitive impairment) or Alzheimer's disease, especially, Alzheimer's disease. | 06-26-2014 |
20140290806 | WIRE MATERIAL FOR NON-HEAT TREATED COMPONENT, STEEL WIRE FOR NON-HEAT TREATED COMPONENT, AND NON-HEAT TREATED COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A wire material used for manufacturing a non-heat treated component whose tensile strength is 900 MPa to 1300 MPa, containing, in mass %: C: 0.20% to 0.50%, Si: 0.05% to 2.0%, Mn: 0.20% to 1.0%, being limited to contain P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.030% or less, N: 0.005% or less, F1 defined by the following expression (1) is less than 0.60, with the balance made up of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a metal structure contains a pearlite structure of 64×(C %)+52% or more in a volume fraction, with the balance made up of one kind or two kinds of a pro-eutectoid ferrite structure and a bainite structure, an average block grain diameter of the pearlite structure at a region from a surface layer to 0.1 D is 15 μm or less when a diameter of the wire material is set to be D, and (the average block grain diameter of the pearlite structure at the region from the surface layer to 0.1 D)/(an average block grain diameter of the pearlite structure at a range from 0.25 D to a center) is less than 1.0. | 10-02-2014 |
20150044086 | STEEL WIRE ROD OR STEEL BAR HAVING EXCELLENT COLD FORGEABILITY - A steel wire rod or steel bar as hot-rolled, including: by mass %: C: 0.1 to 0.6%, Si: 0.01 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.5%, Al: 0.015 to 0.3%, and N: 0.0040 to 0.0150%, and P: limited to 0.035% or less and S: limited to 0.025% or less, and the balance substantially consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein a depth of d (mm) from the surface of the surface layer region with 20 HV 0.2 or more higher, relative to HV 0.2 that is the average hardness in the region where the depth from the surface is from sectional radius R×0.5 (mm) to the center satisfies the formula (1); the steel structure of the surface layer region has a ferrite fraction of 10% or less by area ratio, with the balance being one or two or more of martensite, bainite and pearlite; the steel structure where the depth from the surface is from the sectional radius R×0.5 (mm) to the center is ferrite-pearlite or ferrite-bainite; and the surface roughness Ra in the circumferential direction when scales adhering to the surface have been removed is 4 μm or less. | 02-12-2015 |
20150225386 | CHROMANE COMPOUNDS - The present invention provides a hydrate of N-[(4S)-2-amino-2′,2′-dimethyldispiro[1,3-oxazole-4,4′-chromene-3′,3″-oxetan]-6′-yl]-5-chloropyridine-2-carboxamide which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases or conditions associated with and/or mediated by β-secretase activity, hydrolysis of a β-secretase site of a β-amyloid precursor protein, and/or β-amyloid protein accumulation, including a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases including, but not limited to, Glaucoma, MCI (Mild cognitive impairment) or Alzheimer's disease, especially, Alzheimer's disease. | 08-13-2015 |
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20080253928 | Substrate for Biochip and Method for Manufacturing Substrate for Biochip - A substrate for biochips has a substrate surface having a reaction region capable of reacting with biological substances and a non-reaction region not reacting with the biological substances, sunken bottomed wells formed in the substrate surface, and a layer of a material capable of reacting with the biological substances having a surface exposed only at the bottoms of the bottomed wells, the exposed surface forming the reaction region. | 10-16-2008 |
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20100288727 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE FOR BIOCHIP - A substrate for biochips is manufactured so that the substrate has a substrate surface having a reaction region capable of reacting with biological substances and a non-reaction region not reacting with the biological substances, sunken bottomed wells formed in the substrate surface, and a layer of a material capable of reacting with the biological substances having a surface exposed only at the bottoms of the bottomed wells, the exposed surface forming the reaction region. | 11-18-2010 |
20110174773 | SUBSTRATE FOR BIOCHIP, BIOCHIP, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE FOR BIOCHIP, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BIOCHIP - A base plate having a surface on which a plurality of hydroxyl groups can be introduced, a metallic membrane disposed on the base plate and having a plurality of wells reaching the base plate, and a crosslinkable polymer membrane disposed on the metallic membrane are included. | 07-21-2011 |
20130081446 | PARTICLE DETECTING DEVICE EVALUATING SYSTEM AND PARTICLE DETECTING DEVICE EVALUATING METHOD - A particle detecting device evaluating system having a test chamber provided, in one face thereof, with a plurality of gas intake vents, where respective particle detecting devices are provided; an injecting device for injecting particles into the test chamber; a light sheet forming device for forming a light sheet within the test chamber; and an imaging device for imaging particles made visible by the light sheet. | 04-04-2013 |
20130081478 | ENVIRONMENT PROVIDING DEVICE, ENVIRONMENT PROVIDING METHOD, AND PARTICLE DETECTING DEVICE EVALUATING METHOD - An environment providing device having a test chamber; a spraying device for receiving the supply of a gas flow to spray, into the test chamber, a fluid that contains particles; a flow meter for measuring a measured value for the flow rate of the gas flow that is supplied to the spraying device; a flow rate controlling device for controlling to a prescribed value, based on the measured value, the flow rate of the gas flow that is supplied to the spraying device; a timer for measuring a time interval over which the fluid that includes the particles has been sprayed into the test chamber; and a spraying-device-controlling device for stopping the spraying of the fluid that contains the particles after spraying a prescribed quantity of particles into the test chamber. | 04-04-2013 |
20130081482 | ENVIRONMENT PROVIDING DEVICE AND ENVIRONMENT EVALUATING METHOD - An environment providing device having a test chamber provided, in one face thereof, with a plurality of gas intake vents, where a respective plurality particle detecting devices is provided; and an injecting device for injecting particles into the test chamber. | 04-04-2013 |
20140116256 | PARTICLE CONDENSING APPARATUS AND PARTICLE DETECTING APPARATUS - A particle condensing apparatus includes a gas-borne particle condensing device that condenses a gas that includes gas-borne particles. The gas-borne particle condensing device includes a cyclone portion that causes a supplied first gas to swirl along an inner wall face to cause centrifugal force to act on particles in the first gas to produce a second gas with a relatively high particle concentration and a third gas with a low particle concentration. A fluorocarbon polymer film is formed on an inner wall face of the cyclone portion. | 05-01-2014 |
20140123730 | VARIABLE FLOW PATH WIDTH VIRTUAL IMPACTOR AND PARTICLE DETECTING DEVICE - A virtual impactor includes a jet nozzle that jets, from a jet outlet, a gas that contains particles, an opposing nozzle that is disposed with a specific separation distance from the jet nozzle and draws in, as a secondary flow, from a vacuum inlet at one end portion, a portion of the gas that is jetted from the jet nozzle, and a variable mechanism that varies at least one of a width of the jet outlet, the specific distance, and a width of the vacuum inlet. | 05-08-2014 |
20140199725 | MICROORGANISM DETECTING SYSTEM AND MICROORGANISM DETECTING METHOD - A microorganism detecting device is provided for illuminating a solution with light, for detecting fluorescent light that is produced by a microorganism included in the solution, and for detecting the number of microorganisms included in the solution. The microorganism detecting device includes a relationship storing device that stores a correlation relationship between a number of microorganisms in a solution and a number of colonies formed by the microorganisms on a culture medium, and a converting portion that uses the correlation relationship to convert, into a number of colonies that may be formed, the number of microorganisms detected by the microorganism detecting device. | 07-17-2014 |
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20120257247 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus operable in a first power mode and a second power mode. The image forming apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus, a control unit configured to be communicably connected to the communication unit to process data transmitted from the communication unit, and a power control unit configured to control power supply to the communication unit. While the image forming apparatus is in the first power mode where power is supplied to the control unit and the communication unit, the control unit determines whether to shift the image forming apparatus to the second power mode, based on a communication state between the communication unit and the external apparatus. The power control unit performs control to stop power supply to the communication unit based on the determination made by the control unit, and shifts the image forming apparatus to the second power mode. | 10-11-2012 |
20130204400 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An information processing apparatus includes a switching unit configured to switch between supply and cutoff of power to the information processing apparatus, a driving unit configured to cause the switching unit to be OFF-state to cut off the supply of power to the information processing apparatus, and a control unit configured, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, to drive the driving unit to cause the switching unit to be OFF-state, in which, if the supply of power to the information processing apparatus is not cut off in response to the control unit driving the driving unit, the control unit reboots the information processing apparatus. | 08-08-2013 |
20130215449 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROLLING METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus operates in a first power state, a second power state returnable to the first power state by a return instruction, or a third power state power-saved as compared with the second power state. The image forming apparatus comprises: a controlling unit to transition the power state of the image forming apparatus to the first power state, the second power state or the third power state; and a power-supply switch to cut off power supply to the image forming apparatus by being turned off by an internal mechanical relay driven by a manual operation or controlling from the controlling unit, wherein the controlling unit controls to turn off the power-supply switch after transitioning the power state from the second power state to the third power state. | 08-22-2013 |
20140222236 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, POWER TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A power transmission device includes a power reception notification receiving unit configured to receive from a power receiving device a power reception notification indicating that the power receiving device has received power, a power determination unit configured to determine, if the power reception notification receiving unit has received the power reception notification, a transmission power value for power transmission to the power receiving device as first power, and to determine, if the power reception notification receiving unit does not receive the power reception notification, the transmission power value for power transmission to the power receiving device as second power, which is smaller than the first power, and a power transmission unit configured to wirelessly transmit the power determined by the power determination unit to the power receiving device. | 08-07-2014 |
20150213346 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a first control unit that outputs a command for driving an electric part, a detection unit that detects an abnormality of the first control unit, and a second control unit that controls whether or not supply of a drive signal based on the command for driving the electric part to the electric part can be performed, in which the first control unit outputs instruction signals for instructing execution and stop of the detection by the detection unit, and the second control unit cuts off the supply of the drive signal to the electric part in a case where the detection unit detects the abnormality of the first control unit and a case where the instruction signal for instructing the stop of the detection by the detection unit is output from the first control unit. | 07-30-2015 |
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20120147113 | NAIL PRINT APPARATUS - Disclosed is a nail print apparatus including a printing finger fixation section which fixes a printing finger and a printing section, and the printing finger fixation section includes at least on finger insertion member which is provided so as to slide along a finger inserting direction according to a length of the printing finger when the printing finger is inserted, and the finger insertion member includes a nail portion exposure window which is provided for exposing the nail portion in a side of the printing section, a finger pressing section for pressing a vicinity of a base of the nail portion from above when the printing finger is inserted, and an abutment member which is arranged in a back side in the finger inserting direction than the nail portion exposure window so that a tip portion of the printing finger abuts when the printing finger is inserted. | 06-14-2012 |
20120274683 | PRINT APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - A print apparatus includes a selection unit, a print unit and control unit. The selection unit categorizes a curve-shape of a print target surface into one specific shape pattern among a plurality of shape patterns having shapes whose degrees of curving are different from each other. The print unit has a recording head that applies ink on the print target surface. The control unit controls the print unit to set an ink amount to be applied at the edge parts of the print target surface to predetermined amount which is set corresponding to the specific shape pattern. | 11-01-2012 |
20120287192 | NAIL PRINTING DEVICE INCLUDING PRINTING HEAD THAT PERFORMS PRINTING ON FINGERNAIL, AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - A nail printing device includes: a printing head which implements printing for a nail of a finger; a fingernail image obtaining unit which picks up a region containing the nail, and obtains a nail region image from a picked-up image; a nail tip region extraction unit which extracts a nail tip region of the nail, the nail tip region not overlapping a nail bed of the finger, from the nail region image; and a shape adjustment-required region extraction unit which positionally aligns a model nail image with the nail region image, and extracts, as a shape adjustment-required region, a region located outward of an outline of the model nail image in the nail tip region. | 11-15-2012 |
20130083098 | NAIL PRINT APPARATUS INCLUDING DISPLAY CONTROL UNIT DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN FINGERNAIL UNDER PRINTING AND FINGERNAIL NOT UNDER PRINTING TO DISPLAY FINGERNAIL - A nail print apparatus includes a print head and a display control unit. The print head performs printing on a plurality of fingernails. The display control unit distinguishes between an under-printing fingernail and a not-under-printing fingernail to display the fingernails. The under-printing fingernail is a fingernail under printing performed by the print head. The not-under-printing fingernail is a fingernail not under printing performed by the print head. | 04-04-2013 |
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20140063084 | NAIL PRINT APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD THEREOF FOR FITTING FIRST DESIGN AND SECOND DESIGN THAT IS BACKGROUND OF FIRST DESIGN TO NAIL - A nail print apparatus, including: a print head which performs printing on a nail region on the basis of image data including a first design and a second design that is a background of the first design; and an image data processing unit which has a second image data processing unit that processes the image data so that the second design covers an entire nail region. | 03-06-2014 |
20140267517 | NAIL PRINT APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD THEREOF - A nail print apparatus, including: a nail placement unit on which a central area in a protruding portion of a nail of a finger or a nail of a toe is placed, the protruding portion of the nail is an area that protrudes from a distal portion of the finger or the toe and the central area includes a center of the protruding portion in a width direction of the nail; and a print head which performs printing on the nail that the central area is placed on the nail placement unit. | 09-18-2014 |
20150062216 | NAIL PRINT APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD THEREOF - A nail print apparatus, including: a print head which performs printing on a nail of a finger or a nail of a toe; an unprinted region detecting unit which detects an unprinted region on which a nail design is not printed in the nail having a printed region on which the nail design is printed, the unprinted region being generated by growth of the nail after the nail design is printed; and a printing control unit which controls the print head to perform printing on the unprinted region. | 03-05-2015 |
20150138264 | DRAWING APPARATUS AND DRAWING METHOD THEREOF - A drawing apparatus, including: a drawing unit which performs drawing of a design by applying inks of plural types to a drawing target area of a drawing target; and a control unit which controls the drawing unit on basis of image data of the design; wherein the control unit sets a plurality of unit areas each of which has a contact part contacting with each other in the drawing target area on basis of the image data, and the control unit controls the drawing unit to perform drawing on a specific unit area of the plurality of the unit areas when the control unit determines that every unit area contacting with the specific unit area is at least a dried unit area for which drying of the applied ink is finished or an un-drawn unit area to which the ink is not applied. | 05-21-2015 |
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20100282098 | SERVO PRESS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - The invention provides a servo press which can obtain a higher speed in a moving section of a slide, and a higher pressure in a pressurizing section near a bottom dead point without enlarging a capacity of a motor. The servo press is provided with a multi-toggle mechanism | 11-11-2010 |
20130038151 | ROTARY MACHINE - On an inner circumference side of a stator fixed in an inner housing, a rotor is arranged. The rotor rotates through a bearing with respect to a center shaft that is a stationary shaft fixed to outer housings. Oil introduced into a rotor oil inlet path in the center shaft flows through a communication path and a clearance on an outer circumference of the center shaft into an oil path in the rotor. The oil flowing through the oil path cools a permanent magnet, lubricates the bearing, and is discharged from a rotor oil discharge port to the outside of the inner housing. The oil in the clearance is sealed with a thread seal, i.e., an inner thread formed in an inner face of an end ring and is prevented from flowing toward the bearing. | 02-14-2013 |
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20080213656 | Battery, Charging Apparatus and Electronic Apparatus - In a battery ( | 09-04-2008 |
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20100232101 | Battery, Charging Apparatus and Electronic Device - In a battery including a battery cell formed in a flattened substantially parallelepiped shape and a terminal contacting section electrically connected to the battery cell, at one end in the longitudinal direction of a face of the battery opposing to the face on which the terminal contacting section is provided, a projecting portion which projects in the longitudinal direction of the face is provided. Meanwhile, another projecting portion which projects in the longitudinal direction of the face is provided at the other end. The projecting portions may have projecting lengths different from each other or may have projecting lengths and projecting thicknesses different from each other. A charging apparatus into which the battery is to be installed includes an accommodating section for the battery which in turn includes projection accommodating portions configured to individually accommodate the projecting portions. | 09-16-2010 |
20110086263 | Battery, Charging Apparatus and Electronic Device - In a battery including a battery cell formed in a flattened substantially parallelepiped shape and a terminal contacting section electrically connected to the battery cell, at one end in the longitudinal direction of a face of the battery opposing to the face on which the terminal contacting section is provided, a projecting portion which projects in the longitudinal direction of the face is provided. Meanwhile, another projecting portion which projects in the longitudinal direction of the face is provided at the other end. The projecting portions may have projecting lengths different from each other or may have projecting lengths and projecting thicknesses different from each other. A charging apparatus into which the battery is to be installed includes an accommodating section for the battery which in turn includes projection accommodating portions configured to individually accommodate the projecting portions. | 04-14-2011 |
20110285621 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing system including an information processing apparatus and a remote controller. The remote controller includes a cursor key operation unit capable of performing a focus shift operation to cause a user to shift a focus and an enter input operation to cause the user to select an object as an selection candidate on which the focus is disposed and a mouse operation unit capable of performing a cursor pointer movement operation to move a cursor pointer and an enter input operation to cause the user to select the object indicated by the cursor pointer. The information processing apparatus includes a judgment unit to judge the object selected and a first enter input restriction unit to invalidate the enter input operation of the mouse operation unit performed within a preset time period from when a latest focus shift operation of the cursor key operation unit is performed. | 11-24-2011 |
20110285833 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, SHUTTER GLASSES, VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Shutter glasses include: shutters transmitting or blocking video displayed with a specified display interval on a video display device by performing opening/closing operations based on control information; a clock counter | 11-24-2011 |
20110285920 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes an information processing apparatus main body and a remote controller capable of controlling the information processing apparatus main body. The information processing apparatus main body includes a connection unit capable of being connected with an electronic apparatus, a first storage unit to store model identification information, and a control unit to perform control so that display information of a model selection screen for causing a user to select a model of the electronic apparatus with the remote controller is supplied to the electronic apparatus, the model is determined, and model identification information corresponding to the model is transmitted to the remote controller. The remote controller includes a plurality of keys, a transmission unit, a second storage unit to store a list of control codes assigned to the plurality of keys, and an assignment unit to assign the control codes to the plurality of keys. | 11-24-2011 |
20110287306 | BATTERY LOADING AND UNLOADING MECHANISM - In a battery loading and unloading mechanism, a battery formed in a flat rectangular parallelepiped and having an almost square main surface is loaded and unloaded to and from a device. The battery is formed with projecting portions at longitudinal both ends of a back surface thereof and along the back surface, whereby the battery can be prevented from being erroneously inserted into the device. The projecting portion has an inclined surface acutely inclined with respect to the back surface, and when the battery is unloaded from the device, unloading of the battery from the device is accelerated by the inclined surface undergoing contact pressure of the retaining means. The device is formed with a notched portion which is adapted to expose the other projecting portion of the battery when the battery is loaded, thereby facilitating unloading of the battery. | 11-24-2011 |
20110289453 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A controller may include first and second input operating sections to input an instruction, and a control unit to control selection of an object on a screen display based on an instruction input at the first and second input operating sections. When an enter instruction is input at one of the first and second input operating sections following input of a movement instruction at the other of the first and second input operating sections, the control unit may control start of a function of an object at a position indicated based on the input of the movement instruction at the other of the input operating sections. | 11-24-2011 |
20110307726 | REMOTE CONTROL METHOD AND REMOTE CONTROLLER - A remote controller | 12-15-2011 |
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20150324022 | INPUT DEVICE - There is provided an information input device including an operator on which a user operates a sliding operation in a first direction, a first detection unit disposed at a rear surface of the operator detects a position and a pressure of the sliding operation operated by the user in the first direction, a second detection unit disposed adjacent to the first detection unit parallel to the first direction at the rear surface of the operator detects a position and a pressure of the sliding operation operated by the user in the first direction, a position measurement unit that measures an instructed position in the first direction based on the slide position detected by first detection unit or the second detection unit, and measures an instructed position in a second direction based on a difference of the pressures detected by the first detection unit and the second detection unit respectively. | 11-12-2015 |
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20090248637 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR NOTIFYING CONTENT SCENE APPEARANCE - An extracting unit extracts keywords from metadata extracted from played scenes. An attaching unit attaches a semantic class to the keywords. A semantic class determining unit determines whether the semantic class is a should-be-played class. When there is a keyword with the should-be-played class attached, an acquiring unit acquires at least one keyword without having the should-be-played class as a should-be-observed keyword. When the metadata includes the should-be-observed keyword and a keyword to which a should-be-stopped class is attached, an appearance determining unit determines that a scene including the should-be-observed keyword appears in contents. | 10-01-2009 |
20090259655 | DATA CREATING APPARATUS AND DATA CREATING METHOD - A data creating apparatus extracts meta data about a topic from a document, the meta data including at least one linguistic expression about a behavior, a plurality of the linguistic expressions having a first modification relation. The data creating apparatus converts the linguistic expressions included in the behavioral meta data into each class, based on a behavior ontology that is expressed by a graph where the linguistic expression about a behavior is an instance and a concept of the instance is a class to create behavior map data that represents each of the classes converted and also representing a second modification relation among the classes as a link. | 10-15-2009 |
20100017390 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PRESENTING NEXT SEARCH KEYWORD - Described is a next search keyword presentation apparatus, method and program for the presentation of the next recommended search keyword for use in conjunction with the search results. There is provided an apparatus of presenting relevant next search keywords, including an input unit for inputting a search keyword. A search control unit sends search keywords to a search system and receives search results which are displayed as documents on a display unit. A text body extraction unit extracts the text body and an analysis unit carries out a semantic attribute analysis of words contained within the text body. The search keywords are stored as user history data which is used with semantic attributes of each word to create document representative information. A cluster representative keyword extraction unit clusters document characteristic information and extracts cluster representative keywords which are displayed as search keyword candidates, providing recommended keywords based on browsing history. | 01-21-2010 |
20120036126 | DATA CREATING APPARATUS AND DATA CREATING METHOD - A data creating apparatus extracts meta data about a topic from a document, the meta data including at least one linguistic expression about a behavior, a plurality of the linguistic expressions having a first modification relation. The data creating apparatus converts the linguistic expressions included in the behavioral meta data into each class, based on a behavior ontology that is expressed by a graph where the linguistic expression about a behavior is an instance and a concept of the instance is a class to create behavior map data that represents each of the classes converted and also representing a second modification relation among the classes as a link. | 02-09-2012 |
20120185466 | RELEVANCY PRESENTATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a relevancy presentation apparatus includes a storage, an extraction unit, a first expansion unit, a second expansion unit, a determination unit and a generation unit. The storage stores topic networks. The extraction unit extracts subject keywords. The first expansion unit acquires first relevant words from the topic networks. The second expansion unit searches an ontologies for the subject keywords. The determination unit extracts common relevant words, and determines whether frequencies of appearances of relevant words are stationary. The generation unit generates search queries based on whether the frequencies of appearances are stationary, and generates search results. | 07-19-2012 |
20120239390 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING READING OF DOCUMENT, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an apparatus for supporting reading of a document includes a model storage unit, a document acquisition unit, a feature information extraction, and an utterance style estimation unit. The model storage unit is configured to store a model which has trained a correspondence relationship between first feature information and an utterance style. The first feature information is extracted from a plurality of sentences in a training document. The document acquisition unit is configured to acquire a document to be read. The feature information extraction unit is configured to extract second feature information from each sentence in the document to be read. The utterance style estimation unit is configured to compare the second feature information of a plurality of sentences in the document to be read with the model, and to estimate an utterance style of the each sentence of the document to be read. | 09-20-2012 |
20120266195 | Similar Content Search Device And Computer-Readable Storage Medium - According to one embodiment, a phrase similarity is reduced when a common genre characteristic word Is included in a program of interest interested by a user and a similar phrase program including the same phrase. A genre similarity is increased when a common genre characteristic word is included in the program of interest and a similar genre program including the same genre as the program of interest. The similar phrase program is presented based on the phrase similarity, and the similar genre program is presented based on the genre similarity. | 10-18-2012 |
20130080145 | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - According to one embodiment, a natural language processing apparatus includes a translation storage unit which stores (a) a plurality of translation documents having an unknown language document and one or more known language documents, and (b) domains of the translation documents; a translation search unit which specifies one of the domains and search the translation storage unit for the translation documents; a word extraction unit which extracts a pair of words corresponding an unknown language word to a known language word, from the translation documents; an answer creation unit which estimates an analysis result of the unknown language document in the translation documents based on the pair of words and an analysis result of the known language document in the translation documents; and an analyzer creation unit which creates an analyzer of the unknown language document based on the analysis result of the unknown language document. | 03-28-2013 |
20130268475 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, A METHOD AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF, AND AN INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, A CONTROL METHOD AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a contents storage unit stores a plurality of contents. An additional information storage unit stores a plurality of additional information each differently corresponding to each of the contents. A selection history storage unit stores a history of selection from the contents and the additional information by a user in the past. A first estimation unit estimates a first preference information representing a tendency of the user's preference for the contents, based on the history. A second estimation unit estimates a second preference information representing a tendency of the user's preference for the additional information, based on the history. A selection unit selects a recommended content from the contents, and selects a recommended additional information from the additional information, based on the first preference information and the second preference information. | 10-10-2013 |
20150249858 | IMAGE RECEIVING APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL, SERVER, IMAGE RECEIVING METHOD AND STORING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image receiving apparatus includes a tuner, a verification unit, a transceiver and a display. The tuner decodes a broadcast wave into a video content. The verification unit performs a verification that determines whether or not a use of the decoded video content falls under a personal use. The transceiver encrypts and transmits the video content to a server when the verification is successful, and transmits to the server an acquisition request and receives the list. The transceiver receives from the user a play request, transmits the play request to the server to receive the first video content which is encrypted, and decrypts the first video content which is encrypted. The display displays the decrypted first video content. | 09-03-2015 |
20150269927 | TEXT-TO-SPEECH DEVICE, TEXT-TO-SPEECH METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a text-to-speech device includes a receiver to receive an input text containing a peculiar expression; a normalizer to normalize the input text based on a normalization rule in which the peculiar expression, a normal expression of the peculiar expression, and an expression style of the peculiar expression are associated, to generate normalized texts; a selector to perform language processing of each normalized text, and select a normalized text based on result of the language processing; a generator generate a series of phonetic parameters representing phonetic expression of the selected normalized text; a modifier modifies a phonetic parameter in the normalized text corresponding to the peculiar expression in the input text based on a phonetic parameter modification method according to the normalization rule of the peculiar expression; and a output unit to output a phonetic sound synthesized using the series of phonetic parameters including the modified phonetic parameter. | 09-24-2015 |
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20100071434 | PRESS FORMING METHOD FOR METAL SHEET AND FRAME PART FOR AUTOMOTIVE BODY MANUFACTURED THEREBY - A press forming method for a metal sheet is provided. The method is capable of improving a forming limit at which a crack appears in a metal sheet and being easily applied to a large press machine for mass production with a low cost, without correcting the shape of dies, such as a punch and an upper die, or changing the shape or material of a blank to a special shape or material. Dies, a surface roughness of which is an arithmetical mean roughness Ra of 7.5 μm or smaller, are used as a punch, an upper die, and a blank holder. Fluid with a kinematic viscosity of 500 mm | 03-25-2010 |
20110174868 | CLOSED STRUCTURE PARTS, METHOD AND PRESS FORMING APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a closed structure part has a closed section using a blank made from a metal plate by pressing the blank using a press forming die and fixing a pair of joint ends of the blank to each other, the method including a pre-forming step of processing the blank into an interim part having a closed section corresponding to the closed structure part, a closing step of, after the pre-forming step is completed, moving the joint ends of the interim part toward each other and urging, against one of the joint ends, a concave flange processing portion formed on one of a pair of press forming surfaces of the press forming die at the edge end adjacent to the other press forming surface, and a press joining step of, after the closing step is completed, further moving the press forming die in a pressing direction, bending the one of the joint ends using a pressing force applied from the flange processing portion so that the joint end overlaps the outer surface of the other join end and a latch flange portion for latching the other joint end is formed and, simultaneously, pressing the blank using the pair of press forming surfaces and press-forming outer portions of the pair of the joint ends of the blank into predetermined shapes. | 07-21-2011 |
20110286203 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND BACKLIGHT DEVICE - The present invention relates to the rigidity of a backlight chassis and is applicable to a liquid crystal display device including a backlight chassis and a light source located in the backlight chassis. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a backlight chassis ( | 11-24-2011 |
20120171506 | CURVED PARTS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A curved-part forming method for obtaining a curved part by performing forming on a blank formed of a single metal plate, the method including a bending process in which the blank having a curved outline corresponding to a curve of the curved part in a longitudinal direction is bent into a sectional shape corresponding to a division portion of a sectional shape of the curved part; and a joining process in which two or more portions obtained by the bending process are joined together. | 07-05-2012 |
20150076215 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CURVILINEAL CLOSED STRUCTURE PARTS WITHOUT FLANGE AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A method and apparatus manufactures a closed structure part without flange having a curvature and welded edges along a longitudinal direction of the part and further having a varying cross-sectional shape, from two metal plates. Each of two metal plates provided with a curvature along the longitudinal direction of the plate and provided with both ends in a width direction of the plate, are press-formed such that a folding line is formed at positions corresponding to a non-welded bent edge in a cross section of the part, and stacked on each other vertically such that their bulging sides face outward. Their left ends and right ends in the width direction are mutually welded along the longitudinal direction to form welded edges. | 03-19-2015 |
20150082855 | METHOD OF PREPARING FORMING LIMIT DIAGRAM IN PRESS FORMING, METHOD FOR PREDICTING CRACK AND METHOD OF PRODUCING PRESS PARTS - A method of preparing a forming limit diagram in press forming includes obtaining a forming limit curve by subjecting a surface of a metal plate to be press-formed to marking at a distance between reference points of 0.5-1.0 mm, bulging the metal plate with a punch having a top minimum curvature radius of 3-10 mm and measuring a maximum principal strain and minimum principal strain at a time of generating cracks on the surface of the metal plate at a top portion of the punch from a change of the marking. | 03-26-2015 |
20150101388 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CLOSED-STRUCTURE PART AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A method manufactures a closed-structure part by forming a flat plate-shaped workpiece into a closed structure including a bottom portion curved along a longitudinal direction. The method includes a first forming step of forming a plurality of first out-of-plane deformed portions and a bent portion, the first out-of-plane deformed portions being formed in a region of the workpiece corresponding to the bottom portion and arranged along the longitudinal direction, each of the out-of-plane deformed portions having a recessed shape or a protruding shape; and a second forming step of squashing the first out-of-plane deformed portions between a pad and a punch such that the region of the workpiece corresponding to the bottom portion is curved and bending bent portions by pressing the punch into a space between dies while the region of the workpiece corresponding to the bottom portion is clamped between the pad and the punch. | 04-16-2015 |
20150292999 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING DYNAMIC PANEL STIFFNESS OF OUTER PANEL FOR AUTOMOBILE PARTS - A method of measuring panel stiffness of an automobile part outer panel by pushing an indenter onto a surface of the panel in a pushing direction intersecting the surface under a load to deform the panel and measuring deformation of the panel includes arranging grids in a lattice form to a surface of a site of the panel; arranging markers previously knowing three-dimensional position information on a periphery of the site; pushing the indenter onto the surface of the site under the load and moving the indenter in a direction perpendicular to the pushing direction, during which the grids on the surface deformed by loading of the indenter are simultaneously and repeatedly shot from plural positions by plural cameras; and calculating position information of the grids corresponding to the markers based on the image data to measure change in deformation of the panel associated with movement of the indenter. | 10-15-2015 |