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20080223706 | INPUT DEVICE - A flat-type input unit capable of outputting information regarding a position where a finger touches as coordinate data is provided in a casing of an input device. A main-switch unit and sub-switch units operated by the flat-type input unit are also provided in the casing. When ON output signals are simultaneously supplied from the main-switch unit and one of the sub-switch units, the flat-type input unit determines a position where the finger touches by performing a detection operation. It can be determined on the basis of the position whether the main-switch unit or the sub-switch unit is controlled. Moreover, since pressing any position of the flat-type input unit can cause the main-switch unit to supply an ON output signal, a confirmation input can be performed easily with the ON output signal supplied from the main-switch unit. | 09-18-2008 |
20090128510 | INPUT DEVICE - An input device includes an operation surface, a first detection means, a second detection means, an operation signal generating means, and a transmission means. The operation signal generating means generates an operation signal used to perform a first operation on a screen where a detection result of the first detection means has been reflected, if the duration of the detection, which is performed at the same contact position by the first detection means, is shorter than a predetermined time. The operation signal generating means generates an operation signal used to perform a second operation on the screen where a detection result of the second detection means has been reflected, as long as the detection is continued at the same contact position, if the duration of the detection, which is performed at the same contact position by the first detection means, reaches the predetermined time. | 05-21-2009 |
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20110266012 | BEACH CLEANER - There is provided a beach cleaner which can excellently screen out sand scraped up on a trash withdrawing member with requiring neither a meandering motion nor a sand removing work. | 11-03-2011 |
20120285711 | BEACH CLEANER - A beach cleaner has a frame formed by a longitudinal member and a lateral member, a ski member that is secured to a front portion of the frame and grounded to a sand surface GL, a trailing target portion that is trailed by a trailing vehicle, a separator that is provided at a front lower portion of the frame and scrapes up trash from a sand area while separating the trash from sand, a trash withdrawing member that is provided to the frame at a rear side of the separator to collect the trash scraped up by the separator onto a mesh member, and a wheel at a rear side of the frame. The trash withdrawing member has a fixed withdrawing body that is located at a front end portion and fixed to the frame, and a swing withdrawing body. | 11-15-2012 |
20130062260 | GARBAGE SEPARATION AND RECOVERY MACHINE FOR BEACH CLEANING - A garbage separation and recovery machine for beach cleaning that has mobility and can perform a garbage separation and recovery work according to the situation is provided. The garbage separation and recovery machine has a drum type sieve body ( | 03-14-2013 |
20130220896 | WORK VEHICLE - There is provided a work vehicle having a wheel lock mechanism that is compactly disposed while avoiding an effect of surrounding sand. A wheel lock mechanism | 08-29-2013 |
20130233579 | BEACH CLEANER - A beach cleaner for recovering relatively heavy garbage or stones while minimizing the amount of sand entering a garbage recovery unit. The beach cleaner includes a frame formed by a longitudinal member and a lateral member. A towed portion is provided at the front portion of the frame for towing by a tow vehicle. A separator is provided at the lower front portion of the frame to separate and scrape garbage from sandy ground. A recovery unit is provided behind the separator to collect garbage scraped onto the mesh member. At least one separation rod unit is provided having a plurality of longitudinal members and a lateral member for joining the rear ends of the respective longitudinal members. The front end of at least one separation rod unit is secured to the separator so as to be turnable in the up-and-down direction. | 09-12-2013 |
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20090011508 | Method for the production of a strain having a deleted region in chromosome - The purpose of the present invention is therefore to provide a transformant which will not produce a toxic substance such as Aflatoxin even after being manipulated with genetic engineering by efficiently deleting a large chromosomal region with a length of from several tens to hundreds kb such as a cluster of biosynthesis genes encoding the toxic substances such as Aflatoxin. | 01-08-2009 |
20090035863 | Method for the deletion of a large chromosomal region - In order to efficiently delete a large chromosomal region with a length of from several tens to hundreds kb such as a cluster of biosynthesis genes encoding a toxic substance such as Aflatoxin, the present invention provides a method for the deletion of a large chromosomal region comprising transforming a transformant having an increased frequency of homologous recombination due to suppression of a Ku gene, which is a mitosporic filamentous fungus belonging to Trichocomaceae with a vector for the deletion of a chromosomal region, which comprises a pair of homologous region arms having a nucleotide sequence that is homologous with a fragment at either end of said chromosomal region, and deleting the chromosomal region by means of homologous recombination between the resulting transformant and said vector. | 02-05-2009 |
20110070579 | POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE-NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE GENE - The objective is to provide a method for rapidly, and highly accurately performing genetic detection of the cyclopiazonic acid-producing ability in a strain belonging to genus | 03-24-2011 |
20120142051 | TRANSCRIPTION REGULATORY FACTORS FOR MANNANASES OR CELLULASES, AND GENES FOR THE TRANSCRIPTION REGULATORY FACTOR - Disclosed are: transcription regulatory factors capable of regulating the transcription or expression of genes for mannanases or cellulases, as mentioned below; and others. Specifically disclosed is a protein selected from the following proteins (a), (b) and (c): (a) a protein comprising the amino acid sequence depicted in SEQ ID NO:2; (b) a protein which comprises an amino acid sequence produced by deleting, substituting or adding one or several amino acid residues (e.g., 1 to 5 amino acid residues) in the amino acid sequence depicted in SEQ ID NO:2 and which is capable of regulating the transcription of genes for mannanases or cellulases; and (c) a protein which comprises an amino acid sequence having a 70% or higher sequence identity to the amino acid sequence depicted in SEQ ID NO:2 and which is capable of regulating the transcription of genes for mannanases or cellulases, or a partial fragment of the protein. Also specifically disclosed are a gene encoding the protein, and others. | 06-07-2012 |
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20090152941 | VEHICLE BRAKE DEVICE AND ITS RESERVOIR - A vehicular braking apparatus including a shut-off valve for shutting off, as needed, a flow of oil from a wheel cylinder to a master cylinder; a pressure increase-decrease control valve increasing and decreasing a pressure in the wheel cylinder; a reservoir receiving and storing in a reservoir chamber the oil from the wheel cylinder when the pressure increase-decrease control valve is in a pressure decrease position; a pump sucking in and pressuring the oil from the reservoir chamber and supplying the oil to the wheel cylinder via the pressure increase-decrease control valve when the pressure increase-decrease control valve is in a pressure increase position; and a communication control valve controlling communication between the master cylinder and the reservoir chamber. The communication control valve is a normally-closed valve and is opened by a suction pressure of the pump. | 06-18-2009 |
20140159471 | VEHICLE BRAKE DEVICE AND ITS RESERVOIR - A vehicular braking apparatus including a shut-off valve for shutting off, as needed, a flow of oil from a wheel cylinder to a master cylinder; a pressure increase-decrease control valve increasing and decreasing a pressure in the wheel cylinder; a reservoir receiving and storing in a reservoir chamber the oil from the wheel cylinder when the pressure increase-decrease control valve is in a pressure decrease position; a pump sucking in and pressuring the oil from the reservoir chamber and supplying the oil to the wheel cylinder via the pressure increase-decrease control valve when the pressure increase-decrease control valve is in a pressure increase position; and a communication control valve controlling communication between the master cylinder and the reservoir chamber. The communication control valve is a normally-closed valve and is opened by a suction pressure of the pump. | 06-12-2014 |
20140159472 | VEHICLE BRAKE DEVICE AND ITS RESERVOIR - A vehicular braking apparatus including a shut-off valve for shutting off, as needed, a flow of oil from a wheel cylinder to a master cylinder; a pressure increase-decrease control valve increasing and decreasing a pressure in the wheel cylinder; a reservoir receiving and storing in a reservoir chamber the oil from the wheel cylinder when the pressure increase-decrease control valve is in a pressure decrease position; a pump sucking in and pressuring the oil from the reservoir chamber and supplying the oil to the wheel cylinder via the pressure increase-decrease control valve when the pressure increase-decrease control valve is in a pressure increase position; and a communication control valve controlling communication between the master cylinder and the reservoir chamber. The communication control valve is a normally-closed valve and is opened by a suction pressure of the pump. | 06-12-2014 |
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20130006150 | BRUXISM DETECTION DEVICE AND BRUXISM DETECTION METHOD - A bruxism detection device includes: a sound collection unit that collects a sound produced from a subject and outputs a sound signal corresponding to the collected sound; a bruxism candidate detection unit that detects a period of a sound having a feature that is characteristic of bruxism, from the sound signal, as a bruxism candidate period; a breath detection unit that detects a period of a sound having a feature corresponding to a predetermined breathing state, from the sound signal, as a specific breathing period; and a determining unit that determines that the subject has bruxed, when the specific breathing period is present before or after the bruxism candidate period. | 01-03-2013 |
20130178756 | BREATH DETECTION DEVICE AND BREATH DETECTION METHOD - Whether a breath sound is contained in a current frame is determined by using a characteristic that a breath sound is small in autocorrelation and large in cross-correlation. Specifically, a harmonic-wave-structure estimating unit finds autocorrelation on the basis of a frequency spectrum of the current frame. A cross-correlation estimating unit finds cross-correlation between the frequency spectrum of the current frame and a frequency spectrum of a previous frame containing a breath sound. A breath detecting unit compares a value of a constant multiple of a value of the autocorrelation with a value of the cross-correlation, and, when the value of the cross-correlation is larger, determines that a breath sound is contained in the current frame. | 07-11-2013 |
20130281165 | PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE - A portable terminal device includes a vibrator configured to vibrate a housing; an analysis section configured to execute frequency analysis on an input sound from a microphone; a calculating section configured to calculate an amount of temporal change of a spectrum obtained by the analysis section for the input sound when the housing vibrates; and a control section configured to execute incoming-call control depending on the amount of temporal change calculated by the calculating section. | 10-24-2013 |
20140292684 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus causes, upon accepting a switching instruction, an event controller to switch a notification destination from a first process to a second process. The first process is run by execution of an application program that is related to a screen image currently displayed on a touch panel. The second process is run by execution of the control program. The information processing apparatus displays, upon being notified of a movement event from the event controller, the screen image at a shifted position on the touch panel. The information processing apparatus transfers, upon being notified of a first touch event from the event controller, a second touch event to the first process. The second touch event is obtained by adjusting the first touch event such that a touch position included in the first touch event is modified based on the movement vector. | 10-02-2014 |
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20080233915 | Signal Processing Circuit - A signal processing circuit is disclosed which comprises: an attenuating unit that attenuates a demodulated signal acquired by detecting a received signal; a detecting unit that detects a first signal indicating intensity of the demodulated signal; and an attenuation rate setting unit that sets an attenuation rate of the attenuating unit based on the first signal, wherein the attenuation rate setting unit sets the attenuation rate of the attenuating unit depending on: at least one signal of a second signal indicating a change in an envelope curve acquired based on an intermediate frequency signal of the received signal and a third signal indicating electric field intensity acquired based on the intermediate frequency signal; and the first signal. | 09-25-2008 |
20080279393 | Noise Eliminating Circuit - A noise eliminating circuit is disclosed which comprises a noise elimination processing unit that interpolates a generation period of pulse noise overlapped with a received signal depending on a first detection signal acquired by level detection of an intermediate frequency signal of the received signal, the first detection signal indicating the generation of the pulse noise, wherein the noise eliminating circuit comprises: a predicting unit that predicts a value of the intermediate frequency signal at a predetermined clock time based on an intermediate frequency signal generated a predetermined time earlier than the intermediate frequency signal; a detecting unit that compares a difference between the value of the predicted intermediate frequency signal and the value of the generated intermediate frequency signal, at the predetermined clock time, with a predetermined threshold, to output a second detection signal indicating the generation of the pulse noise; and a noise elimination controlling unit that selectively outputs the first detection signal and the second detection signal as a signal for interpolating the generation period of the pulse noise to the noise elimination processing unit depending on electric field intensity signal acquired based on the intermediate frequency signal. | 11-13-2008 |
20090061806 | BAND SWITCH CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY FILTER - A band-switch control apparatus for an intermediate-frequency filter comprising: an adjacent interference-signal detecting unit for detecting an adjacent interference-signal, having a frequency adjacent to the desired frequency, superimposed on a reception signal having a frequency tuned to a desired frequency; a modulation-degree detecting unit for detecting a modulation degree of the reception signal; a bandwidth selecting unit for selecting a pass bandwidth of the intermediate-frequency filter corresponding to the amplitude of the adjacent interference-signal; and a band-narrowing suppression control unit for selecting a lower limit value of the pass bandwidth of the intermediate-frequency filter corresponding to the demodulation degree, the intermediate-frequency filter for passing, with a variable pass bandwidth, an intermediate-frequency signal obtained by frequency converting the reception signal, and changing the pass bandwidth selected by the bandwidth selecting unit to the lower limit value, if the pass bandwidth selected by the bandwidth selecting unit is smaller than the value. | 03-05-2009 |
20090068973 | NOISE SUPPRESSION APPARATUS - A noise suppression apparatus comprising: a complex signal generation unit configured to convert an intermediate frequency signal into a complex signal having a real part and an imaginary part, the intermediate frequency signal being obtained by frequency-converting a reception signal; a noise detection unit configured to detect whether or not variation in level of the complex signal is greater than a predetermined threshold value, to detect generation of noise; and a noise suppressing unit configured to suppress level of the complex signal if the variation in level is greater than the predetermined threshold value. | 03-12-2009 |
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20090088918 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - A control means for controlling actuators of a vehicle creates a time series of a future behavior of the vehicle using a vehicle model. A state amount of the vehicle model is initialized on the basis of a state amount of the vehicle, and the future behavior is created starting from the initial state amount. The future behavior is created such that operation commands of the actuators in the vehicle model at the current time coincide with or approximate basic values based on operation of a manipulating device, such as a steering wheel of the vehicle. It is evaluated whether vehicle motion, road surface reaction force, and wheel sliding, in the created future behavior satisfy predetermined restrictive conditions. Based on the evaluation result, the operation commands of the actuators are successively decided. This permits ideal travel of the vehicle to be achieved by properly predicting future behaviors of the vehicle. | 04-02-2009 |
20110239819 | TRANSMISSION FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - Provided is a transmission for a hybrid vehicle which permits a compact, lightweight structure and yet allows the power of an internal combustion engine to be disconnected and which is capable of efficiently transmitting power without complicating the control. The transmission includes a speed changing unit which has a first input shaft | 10-06-2011 |
20110239820 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - Provided is a lightweight, compact power transmission device for a hybrid vehicle which permits a simplified construction of a speed changing unit that establishes a plurality of gear shift stages and a reduced size of a motor. The power transmission device is provided with a first speed changing unit which has a first input shaft | 10-06-2011 |
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20090001019 | Fluid Treating Apparatus - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an apparatus that can be used to treat fluids. The apparatus can include a housing with an inlet for receiving a process fluid to be treated, a surface within the housing for treating the process fluid that can be wet by the process fluid, and an outlet for removing treated process fluid. The housing includes a vent that aids in the removal of fluid components that separate from the process fluid. Removal of these separated fluids improves the efficiency and contact of the process fluid with the surfaces in the housing for treating the process fluid. | 01-01-2009 |
20090321339 | Filtration Module - A purification module is provided comprising a plurality of purification cartridges, a support for the cartridges, a manifold and a bowl. In one embodiment the support for the cartridges has two pitched partial screw threads on opposing surfaces which mate with pitched screw flights on the manifold when the partial screw threads are rotated into the screw flights. The support includes fluid passageways for directing filtered fluid from the filtration cartridges, through the support and into the manifold. In another embodiment, a purification module is provided comprising a purification cartridge, a manifold and a bowl. The purification cartridge has two pitched partial screw threads on opposing surfaces of the cartridge outlet which mate with screw flights on the manifold when the partial screw threads are rotated into the mating screw flights. | 12-31-2009 |
20140063860 | DC POWER SOURCE DEVICE AND POWER CONVERSION METHOD - FETs disposed in a DC/DC converter are each driven by a drive transformer. A voltage from a single drive power supply disposed in common for the FETs is divided into positive and negative biases to be applied to the FETs, and an operational state of the FETs is detected based on voltage signals. A sequence circuit turns on an input from a three-phase AC power supply by driving a relay circuit at a time point when it is confirmed that the FETs have normally started stable ON/OFF operation, and drives a power factor improvement circuit, which converts AC voltage from the three-phase AC power supply into a DC voltage by simultaneously performing full-wave rectification and power factor improvement. | 03-06-2014 |
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20120063793 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING CLEANING BLADE - An image forming apparatus includes photoconductors capable of carrying toner images of yellow (Y), magenta (M), cyan (C), and black (K), developing rollers capable of developing toner images of Y, M, C, and K, and a blade for removing toner adhering to each of the developing rollers. The photoconductors are driven in synchronization with each other when at least one of the developing rollers develops a toner image. When a print job of a monochrome image is accepted and if there is a likelihood of damage to the blade, at least one of the developing rollers adheres toner to at least one of the driven photoconductors during execution of the print job. | 03-15-2012 |
20120213534 | IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE - An image formation device for use with a consumable removably loaded therein, the consumable including a non-volatile consumable memory, the image formation device including: a non-volatile device memory; an abnormality detection unit detecting an abnormality pertaining to the consumable; a detection registration unit registering abnormality detection data into both memories when the abnormality pertains to the consumable and no relevant abnormality data are registered in either memory, the abnormality detection data representing the detected abnormality; a confirmation registration unit registering abnormality confirmation data after the consumable has been exchanged and new abnormality detection data pertaining to a new abnormality detected by the abnormality detection unit are registered in only one of the memories, the abnormality confirmation data replacing the new abnormality detection data in the appropriate memory; and a confirmation notification unit making a notification of abnormality confirmation when the abnormality confirmation data are registered by the confirmation registration unit. | 08-23-2012 |
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20090011188 | Nonwoven Fabric Sheet Having Cleaning Function - A nonwoven fabric sheet having a cleaning function having a total basis weight of 40 to 1,500 g/m | 01-08-2009 |
20090155556 | AIR-LAID SHEET FOR FOOD EXTRACTION - There is provided a sheet for food extraction using no chemical such as a chemical binder or a paper-making aid, using an adhesive composite fiber as a raw material, exerting no influence on the global environment, being excellent in safety to the human body and sanitation, and satisfying performance such as bag-making processability, heat stability, uniformity in texture, extraction properties and prevention of powder leakage, by an air-laid sheet for food extraction produced by preparing a fiber web (1), by an air-laid process, which mainly comprises a heat-adhesive composite fiber (A) having a fineness of 1.0 to 4.5 dt wherein a sheath component as a low-melting component of a sheath-core type composite fiber or a low-melting component of a side-by-side type composite fiber has a melting point of 110 to 170° C., and performing interfiber bonding by heating to achieve integration. | 06-18-2009 |
20090165235 | SHEET-LIKE WATER-DISINTEGRATABLE CLEANER - There is provided a water-disintegratable cleaner which is light in weight because of its being free from water, does not require a fungicide or a bactericide because of no risk of mold, is excellent in cleaning performance, compared to conventional wet disintegratable cleaners, and can be flushed down a toilet or the like. | 07-02-2009 |