baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2008253724-A (JP)
Title: Toilet seat device
Inventor: SHIRAI SHIGERU
IPC: A47K13/30
Filed: 2007-08-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toilet seat device capable of swiftly raising the temperature of a toilet seat while securely insulating the toilet seat from a heating wire.  <P>SOLUTION: A linear heater 460 is made of an enamel wire 463 composed of the heating wire 463a and an enamel layer 463b. The heating wire 463a is made of a copper alloy including, for example, silver. The enamel layer 463b is made of polyester-imide (PEI), polyimide (PI) or polyamide imide (PAI). The enamel layer 463b is coated with an insulation coating layer 462. The insulation coating layer 462 is made of fluororesin such as a par fluoroalkoxy mixture (PFA), or polyimide (PI) or polyamide imide (PAI). The linear heater 460 is stuck on the lower surface of an upper toilet seat casing 410 in such a way as held between metal foils 451 and 453 made of aluminum, for example.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009060742-A (JP)
Title: Vehicle system
Inventor: ASADA TADATOSHI
IPC: B60R16/04
Filed: 2007-08-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle system which can improve the safety, response and expansibility of the system.  <P>SOLUTION: The vehicle system is provided with a battery 40, power generation means 30 and 32, high power systems 10 and 12 operating with supplied power and generating a rush current during operation, operation limit object systems 20 and 22 which can limit operation, as required, during operation of the high power systems 10 and 12, and a device 50 for managing the state of the battery 40. The high power systems 10 and 12 and the operation limit object systems 20 and 22 change the operating state, respectively, such that the terminal voltage of the battery 40 can be maintained higher than a limit voltage, based on an allowable power informed from the battery state managing device 50.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008067386-A (JP)
Title: Wireless communication system, transmission method for use in wireless communication system, intermediate apparatus included in wireless communication system, and computer-readable recording medium storing program thereof
Inventor: HART MICHAEL JOHN BEEMS
IPC: H04B7/15
Filed: 2007-09-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a relay enabling network entry procedure.  <P>SOLUTION: A transmission method for use in a wireless communication system comprises a subscriber station, a base station and an intermediate apparatus in the form of one or more relay stations. The method comprises, in the intermediate apparatus, determining whether the subscriber station has initiated a network entry process with the intermediate apparatus, for example by receiving a ranging code from the subscriber station. Upon such a determination, the intermediate apparatus notifies the base station of the fact whilst continuing to conduct the network entry process with the subscriber station. The base station responds with a return message to the intermediate apparatus, as part of a guidance process conducted from the base station to the intermediate apparatus so that the intermediate apparatus can manage completion of the network entry process. The method has particular relevance to multi-hop wireless systems based on standards such as IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009061459-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for laser joining
Inventor: SASAKI MASUMI
IPC: B23K26/00
Filed: 2007-09-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To always perform a uniform joining operation even if the thicknesses of workpieces are different along a joining line when the workpieces are joined by being irradiated with a laser beam.  <P>SOLUTION: Before a joining worikpiece W1 having the laser beam transmissibility is joined to a workpiece W2 to be joined by irradiating them with the laser beam L, the joining worikpiece W1 is irradiated with a pseudo laser beam Lg which has the same wave length with the laser beam L, but has the power lower than the laser beam L, and further the pseudo laser beam Lg passed through the joining worikpiece W1 is received by a photo detector 11, and then the laser beam transmissibility of the joining worikpiece W1 is obtained from the quantity of the received light. After that, the joining worikpiece W1 is joined to the workpiece W2 to be joined while adjusting the output of the laser beam L according to the measured transmissibility of the laser beam.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009065298-A (JP)
Title: Lens barrel rotation detecting apparatus and lens barrel rotation-type imaging apparatus
Inventor: MUKAI TAKANORI
IPC: H04N5/225
Filed: 2007-09-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately detect the rotation state (presence or absence of rotation and the limiting position of a range of the rotation) of a lens barrel and to avoid increase in the scale of a lens barrel detecting apparatus.  <P>SOLUTION: A lens barrel rotating detection apparatus is provided with a rotation detecting ring 71 which corotates with the rotation of the lens barrel and three photo-couplers 75 to 77. In the rotation detecting ring 71, light-transmitting portions 72 and light-shielding portions 73 detectable by the photo-couplers 75 to 77 are arranged alternately, at each θ° (=4°) with respect to the center of rotation, and a shutter 74 is formed at the limiting position of a range of the rotation. The first photocoupler 75 and the second photocoupler 76 are arranged at the interval of (2θ+(θ/2))°, with respect to the center of the rotation of the rotation detecting ring 71, while the second photocoupler 76 and the third photocoupler 77 are arranged at an interval of (2θ-(θ/2))°.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009061639-A (JP)
Title: Concrete mixer
Inventor: IDO HARUO
IPC: B28C5/14
Filed: 2007-09-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a concrete mixer equipped with ring members that are easy to work and can be formed inexpensively.  <P>SOLUTION: The mixer is equipped with two rotary shafts having blades that can knead a ready-mixed concrete. On the outer periphery of the rotary shafts a plurality of ring members for preventing the adherence of the concrete are freely fitted. Each ring member is formed by combining four flat bars 11A, 11B, 11C, 11D that are obtained by the bending work of making a flat strip into a semicircular shape.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009065920-A (JP)
Title: Cigarette and cigarette butt holder
Inventor: KURODA SHIGERU
IPC: A24F15/18
Filed: 2007-09-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reusable cigarette and cigarette butt holder capable of separately holding multiple cigarettes and cigarette butts and being usable as an ashtray when smoking.  <P>SOLUTION: The cigarette and cigarette butt holder is provided with a plurality of bottom-closed tubular holding members 10 each holding one cigarette T, a lid 20 to openably close the opening 11 of the holding member, a cigarette takeout member 30 to expose a cigarette held in the holding member to the outside of the opening, and an ash-receiving part 40 placed at the opening side of the holding member. Each holding member is attached detachably to a holding part 51 of a holder 50; the cigarette takeout member has a bottom-closed tubular form to enable the insertion of a cigarette; and a cigarette is taken out, by operating an operation tab 31 protruded from a side and slidably inserted into a slit 14 of the holding member. The ash-receiving part has a funnel form 41, formed at the opening of the cigarette takeout member and expanded, by exposing the cigarette takeout member to the outside of the holder.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009067293-A (JP)
Title: Vehicular side mirror structure
Inventor: AKAGAWA TAKESHI
IPC: B60R1/06
Filed: 2007-09-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular side mirror structure capable of recognizing a sense of distance more easily than conventional while securing a wide range from a side to a rear part of a conventional vehicle as a virtual recognition area.  <P>SOLUTION: A driver's seat side mirror 3 held by a single mirror body 4 is divided into two upper and lower stages. Its upper stage is used as a plane sub mirror 7, and its lower stage is used as a curved main mirror 8. In such a manner, the lower main mirror 8 is a conventional curved mirror, so that a wide range from a side to a rear part of a truck 1 (vehicle) can be virtually recognized from a driver's seat. Also, when wishing to precisely acquire a distance of a photographic subject which can be virtually recognized by the main mirror 8, an image without distortion reflected on the upper sub mirror 7 is virtually recognized again, so as to precisely judge the distance of the photographic subject.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009071731-A (JP)
Title: Image processor, image processing method, and program
Inventor: KAMEYAMA SUKEKAZU
IPC: H04N19/134
Filed: 2007-09-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively reduce the amount of data in a moving image for an image processor, an image processing method, and a program.  <P>SOLUTION: The image processor has: a moving image acquisition section for acquiring a moving image including a moving image configuration image having an intra-coded region; an amount-of-change detection section for detecting the amount of change in the image between the moving image configuration image having the intra-coded region and other moving image configuration images; and a recompression section for compressing an image in the intra-coded region in the moving image configuration image by inter-coding for referring to other moving image configuration images when the amount of change is smaller than a preset value.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009074898-A (JP)
Title: Bolometer-type non-cooled infrared sensor and its driving method
Inventor: FUNAKI HIDEYUKI
IPC: H04N5/365
Filed: 2007-09-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce fixed-pattern noise or 1/f noise without manufacturing any thermal reset mechanism.  <P>SOLUTION: This bolometer-type non-cooled infrared sensor is equipped with an imaging area 3 on a semiconductor substrate where detection pixels 1 are arranged in a matrix form each comprising one or a plurality of series-connected diodes for detecting incident infrared rays, a current source making it possible to pass a constant current through each of a plurality of row selection wires, a plurality of signal wires each provided in an imaging area correspondingly to each column of the detection pixels and connected to the cathodes of diodes in a corresponding column, voltage read circuits provided correspondingly to the plurality of signal wires and each reading a signal voltage generated on a corresponding signal wire, coupling capacitance provided between each signal wire and a corresponding voltage read circuit, and an operation part for operating a difference between two signal voltages corresponding to outputs of the same detection pixel with respect to two different current values from the current source and being read out by the read circuits.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009073632-A (JP)
Title: Printer
Inventor: TSUCHIYA MOTOHITO
IPC: B65H7/02
Filed: 2007-09-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer capable of selectively collecting a defective medium and a dead medium.  <P>SOLUTION: This printer comprises an eliminating mechanism 601 for eliminating a medium 111, which is determined abnormal, from a medium path 106 and a sorting mechanism 701 for sorting destination of the mediums 111 eliminated by the eliminating mechanism 601 to a dead medium collecting position (a dead medium collecting case 141) and a defective medium collecting position (a defective medium collecting case 161). In the case wherein the medium 111 is determined abnormal based on a communication failure of an IC tag, a driving source of the sorting mechanism 701 is controlled to sort destination of the medium 111 to the defective medium collecting position, and in the case wherein the medium 111 is determined abnormal based on the number of printing frequency read from the IC tag reaches the limit of frequency, the driving source of the sorting mechanism 701 is controlled to sort destination of the medium 111 to the dead medium collecting position.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009077251-A (JP)
Title: Video recording and playback device and video recording and playback method
Inventor: NEGISHI HISAFUMI
IPC: G11B27/00
Filed: 2007-09-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video recording and playback device and method capable of responding to the request of user that it is desired to complete viewing earlier as the date/time of video recording of a program is former among video-recorded programs.  <P>SOLUTION: A video recording and playback device is adapted to play back a program recorded by a video recording means 1 when the playback instruction of the program is received and includes a playback control means 7 which controls the playback time of the recorded program on the basis of the lapse of time from the date/time of video recording of the recorded program to reception of the playback instruction so that the playback time of the recorded program becomes equal to or shorter than the playback time of the relevant program specified in recording.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009054557-A (JP)
Title: In-liquid plasma generating device
Inventor: SAKAI OSAMU
IPC: C02F1/46
Filed: 2007-08-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an in-liquid plasma generating device in which liquid in a large mass can be plasma-treated in an energy saving way.  <P>SOLUTION: In the in-liquid plasma generating device 1, a pair of DC voltage impressing electrodes 3 facing each other for making electrolysis of an electrolysis solution (an electrolyte solution) 5 and an AC voltage impressing electrode 4 which is arranged to contact both of one of the single electrodes and bubbles 6-1 generated by the electrolysis and is coated by a dielectric are immersed in the electrolyte solution 5, and by impressing an AC voltage from the AC voltage impressing electrode 4, a dielectric barrier discharge is exited with the DC voltage impressing electrode 3 as a fixed electrode, and plasma is generated inside the bubbles 6-1.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009081549-A (JP)
Title: Signature verifying method, stream generating method, reception device, and stream transmission device
Inventor: MIYAKE TAKAYUKI
IPC: H04L9/32
Filed: 2007-09-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide stream authentication/verification technique (device, method) for suitably authenticating/verifying the whole stream.  <P>SOLUTION: A reception device comprises a reception unit which receives a transport stream with a signature and a signature verification packet, a generation unit which selects specified packets on the basis of a first identifier included in the verification packet from the received transport stream and uses selected TSP as many as the number that a second identifier included in the verification packet indicates to generate a hash value, a counter unit which counts the number of TSP selected on the basis of the first identifier after the verification packet is received, a collating unit which collates the generated hash value with a hash value of signature information in a verification packet received next, and a processing unit which excludes a section between verification packets from a signature verification section in the case that the number of packets counted in the section between the verification packets is not equal to the number of object packets, which should be present in the section between the verification packets, corresponding to the first identifier when the hash value of the verification packet and the generated hash value result in not being equal to each other after the collation.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009078450-A (JP)
Title: Non-chromate surface treated resin-coated metal sheet having excellent corrosion resistance at end face
Inventor: IWA TATSUHIKO
IPC: B32B15/08
Filed: 2007-09-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a non-chromate surface treated resin-coated metal sheet having excellent corrosion resistance at the end face, the red rust generation time of which can be delayed even when the end face or flawed part of the non-chromate surface treated resin-coated metal sheet is under such a wet environment that it is always exposed to water.  <P>SOLUTION: The non-chromate surface treated resin-coated metal sheet has an undercoating film and/or final coating film formed on a non-chromate surface treated film. The undercoating film and/or final coating film contain 5-40 parts mass slow-release rustproofing fine particle, in which a porous inorganic fine particle is mixed with a metal compound-based rustproofing pigment, on the basis of 100 parts mass coating film component other than the mass slow-release rustproofing fine particle. When hundred pieces of 1 mm×1 mm squares are carved on the resin-coated metal sheet and the square-carved metal sheet is immersed in a carbonate pH standard solution of 40°C, the elution rate of a metal ion eluted from the rustproofing pigment is 0.001-1.0 mg/l-m<SP>2</SP>-hr.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009079179-A (JP)
Title: Thermosetting resin composition and cured product of the same
Inventor: YONEDA KAZUYOSHI
IPC: C08L75/04
Filed: 2007-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermosetting resin composition suitable for forming a flexible coating film excellent in adhesiveness with a substrate, folding resistance, low warpage property, soldering heat resistance, electroless gold plating resistance, electric insulation property or the like, and to provide a flexible printed wiring board or the like having a protective film or an insulation layer comprising a cured product of the above composition formed therein.  <P>SOLUTION: The thermosetting resin composition contains (A) a carboxy group-containing urethane resin obtained by using a compound having an isocyanate group not directly bonded to an aromatic ring and (B) a thermosetting compound. The carboxy group-containing urethane resin is preferably a urethane resin obtained by the reaction of a compound (a) having an isocyanate group not directly bonded to an aromatic ring, which is preferably an aliphatic isocyanate compound or a branched aliphatic isocyanate compound, a compound (b) having two or more alcoholic hydroxy groups in one molecule, and a compound (c) having one alcoholic hydroxy group and one or more phenolic hydroxy groups in one molecule.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009083143-A (JP)
Title: Paper for z-fold postcard
Inventor: NOSHI HIDEYUKI
IPC: D21H21/40
Filed: 2007-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper for a Z-fold postcard which can be conveyed without avoiding multiple-feed and misfeed.  <P>SOLUTION: This paper for a Z-fold postcard includes a Z-fold postcard region with a contact-bonding paste applied to both sides; and a cut-off region to be separated from the postcard region, wherein a cover coat is applied to only one side of the cut-off region.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009083549-A (JP)
Title: Knee protective airbag
Inventor: IMAEDA HIROKI
IPC: B60R21/20
Filed: 2007-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a knee protective airbag capable of precisely receiving and protecting a knee while avoiding a leg pressing state, and manufacturable from non-coat cloth by reducing the tether number.  <P>SOLUTION: This knee protective airbag 40 is partitioned into upper-lower two chambers of an upper expansion chamber 44 and a lower expansion chamber 49 by a tether, by arranging the tether 51 for connecting a knee side wall part 41 and a vehicle body side wall part 42 on the inside. The tether is formed so that a connecting distance TL of the wall parts 41 and 42 falls within a range of 50-90 mm. The airbag 40 is provided by arranging a main flow of expansion gas flowing in the upper expansion chamber from the lower expansion chamber on both right-left sides. The upper expansion chamber 44 in the expansion is formed so that an outside diametrical dimension D1 is set in a range of 150-220 mm. The lower expansion chamber 45 has an installation part 43 to a case of the airbag in a part of the vehicle body side wall part 42. A top part 49b on the rear surface 49a side when completing the expansion, is set so as to be positioned on the front side more than a top part 44b on the rear surface 44a side of the upper expansion chamber within a range of 10-70 mm.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009085816-A (JP)
Title: Optical encoder and method of mounting the optical encoder
Inventor: KURODA YOSHIKI
IPC: G01D5/347
Filed: 2007-10-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical encoder having high reliability of electrical connection between a sensor head and outside wiring, while obtaining superior encoder signals, by easily regulating and fixing a relative position between the sensor head and a scale in desired arrangement relation, and to provide a method of mounting the optical encoder.  <P>SOLUTION: The optical encoder has arranged the sensor head arranged on a wiring substrate by having one or more light sources and one or more photodetectors in the inside; the relatively moving scale with the sensor head; a regulating member for regulating the relative position between the scale and the sensor head before fixing in the desired arrangement relation; and a fixing member for being held in the desired arrangement relationship regulating the scale and the sensor head.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009086439-A (JP)
Title: Charging member and electrophotographic apparatus
Inventor: IKEDA HIROSHI
IPC: F16C13/00
Filed: 2007-10-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contact type charging member in which a noise level for charging sound when AC electric field is applied is low, with a member surface with a sufficiently low viscosity, preventing attaching of toner and additives to the member surface and obtaining a stable, good and uniform charging property and output image quality and to provide the electrophotographic apparatus with the charging member.  <P>SOLUTION: The charging member provided with at least a conductive supporting member, a conductive foaming layer on the conductive supporting member and a base layer formed on the conductive foaming layer is surface processed on a surface of the base layer with a solution containing hardening components to have a hardened layer formed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009087209-A (JP)
Title: Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and processing methods for them and programs for them
Inventor: OKADA MIYUKI
IPC: G06T1/00
Filed: 2007-10-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the accuracy in calculation for the similarity degree of a subject.  <P>SOLUTION: Facial feature values for a specific person is stored to a facial feature value RAM390. A face detection section 200 detects a face contained in a photographed image. A normalization section 320 normalizes a face detected from the photographed image. An attribute-determining section 330 determines the attributes of the detected face. A feature points calculation section 340 determines the positions of the feature points to be set for the normalized facial image, based on the determined result for the facial attribute. A facial feature values extracting section 350 extracts the feature values at the set feature points in the normalized facial image, by using a Gabor filter with changed parameters, based on the determined result for the facial attributes. A similarity-calculating part 360 calculates the degree of similarity between a specific person's face and the detected face by comparing the feature values for the specific person and the feature values at the feature points set to the normalized facial image, by using a plurality of weak determiners with changed numbers or types, based on the determined result for the facial attributes.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT