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Patent JP-2006054583-A (JP)
Title: Imaging apparatus
Inventor: WATANABE NOBUYUKI
IPC: H04N9/07
Filed: 2004-08-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus for enhancing the correction accuracy by reducing ununiformity of a spatial frequency band after distortion correction.  <P>SOLUTION: The imaging apparatus including an imaging element for applying photoelectric conversion to an image formed by an optical system, and a color filter array arranged to the imaging element and having a repetitive arrangement rule, is provided with: a read control section 124 for sampling a photoelectric conversion signal of the imaging element, acquiring luminance information of each channel of the color filter array and information at a sampled position as image data, and controlling reading of the image data from the imaging element in a way that the arrangement of channels of the read image data differs from the repetitive arrangement rule of the color filter array; and a distortion correction section 140 for correcting distortion of the image data read from the imaging element, and the distortion correction section 140 carries out distortion correction so that the arrangement rule of the channels of the image data subjected to the distortion correction is equal to the repetitive arrangement rule of the color filter array.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006054797-A (JP)
Title: Electronic camera
Inventor: OTA HIDEFUMI
IPC: G03B11/00
Filed: 2004-08-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a rotational position of an optical filter precisely and automatically where filter effect desired by a user is maximized in an electronic camera to which the optical filter can be fitted.  <P>SOLUTION: The electronic camera has an image pickup part for picking up a subject image and generating image data consisting of color information of a plurality of color components and a rotational position deciding part. The rotational position deciding part repeats rotational operation for rotating the optical filter and operation to have the image pickup part generate the image data after the rotational operation, obtains each density of a specific color component with respect to image data to be generated every rotational position of the optical filter, and decides a rotational position where the density of the specific color component is regarded maximum. Thus, by setting a color which the user wants to emphasize, for example, as a specific color component, it is possible to obtain a rotational position of the optical filter precisely and automatically where the filter effect desired by the user is maximized.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006055865-A (JP)
Title: Method for cooling slab
Inventor: YAMAMOTO SHINYA
IPC: B22D11/12
Filed: 2004-08-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive and efficient method for cooling a slab by which the developments of warping and rust can be prevented.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for cooling the slab includes: leaving continuously cast slabs in the atmosphere as they are till the temperature of the side surface thereof lowers to ≤600°C then stacking them to ≥1 m height, or stacking the slabs just after subjected to continuous casting to ≥1 m height then leaving them in the atmosphere as they are till the temperature of the side surface thereof lowers to ≤600°C; and cooling both side surfaces of the stacked slabs in the longitudinal direction thereof by spraying water, the stacked slabs being positioned beneath and except within the range from the upper surface of the uppermost stage of the stacked slabs downward to at least to 0.3 m. Further, it is preferable that a space in which water spraying equipment for cooling both side surfaces of the slabs in the longitudinal direction thereof can be arranged is secured when slabs are stacked, and that both side surfaces of the slabs in the longitudinal direction thereof except the range at least to 1 m toward the center part in the longitudinal direction of the slab from a marking surface is cooled by spraying water.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006055267-A (JP)
Title: Golf swing practice implement
Inventor: KOBAYASHI SHIGEAKI
IPC: A63B69/36
Filed: 2004-08-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a swing supporter facilitating a practice of a right golf swing.  <P>SOLUTION: Shoulder hanging recess parts 17 of the swing supporter 2 are hung to the both shoulders of a wearer and fixed. Winding parts 6 of the swing supporter 2 are wound around from the inside to the outside of the upper arms of the wearer. Clip bodies 9 at the tips of the winding parts 6 are fixed to wrist bands worn around the wrists of the wearer. The both arms of the wearer are drawn close to the body side by the elastic force of the swing supporter 2 to regulate deflections in the front/rear direction. The posture of the wearer thus becomes the one suited to the golf swing. The wearing of the swing supporter 2 can facilitate the practice of the right form of the golf swing.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006055367-A (JP)
Title: Air cleaning apparatus
Inventor: TAKAHASHI DAISUKE
IPC: F24F7/00
Filed: 2004-08-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air cleaning apparatus equipped with a suction opening in the top of a table member which can ensure a space of the air cleaning apparatus for user's feet and efficiently suck in contaminated air to keep it clean.  <P>SOLUTION: The air cleaning apparatus is provided with a main unit 3 in which an air blower 7 and a collecting device 9 for separating dust and odor from the air sucked by the air blower 7 are incorporated, the table member 11 having the flat top which is mounted on the main unit 3 and has an area larger than that of the main unit 3 when viewed from above and the suction opening 13 which is made in the top of the table member 11 and at least a part of which extends off from the main unit 3 when viewed from above. Air is sucked from the suction opening 13 by operating the air blower 7, the sucked air is cleaned by the collecting device 9 and the cleaned air is discharged.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006060943-A (JP)
Title: Motor
Inventor: SHINKO TADAYUKI
IPC: A01B33/02
Filed: 2004-08-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a motor capable of attaining high energy efficiency, prevention of motor driving due to the misoperations and improvement in safety.  <P>SOLUTION: This motor has a main switch 24 for turning on/off a power supply B, a motor M driven by the power supply B, a lever (an operation section), capable of starting driving of the motor M only when the main switch 24 is ON, and a tillage unit (a rotational movement section), rotating as a result of driving of the motor M operated by the lever being transmitted, is equipped with a timer (a time calculation section) T for counting the inoperative time of the lever. When the non-operating time reaches a fixed time in the timer T, the main switch 24 is turned off.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006067259-A (JP)
Title: Surface-mounted antenna, antenna unit using same, and radio communication apparatus
Inventor: WATADA KAZUO
IPC: H01Q5/10
Filed: 2004-08-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surface-mounted antenna capable of handling multiple frequencies, stably obtaining good antenna characteristics, and easily adjusting frequencies and matching.  <P>SOLUTION: A surface-mounted antenna 1 includes a ground electrode 3 formed on one side face of a substratum 2, two radiation electrodes 4, 5 each having one end connected to the ground electrode 3 and the other end as an open end, and two feed electrodes 6, 7 formed on the side face of the substratum 2 with the ground electrode 3 positioned intermediately for feeding to the two radiation electrodes 4, 5. Because of such the dispositions of the two feed electrodes 6, 7 and the open ends of the two radiation electrodes 4, 5, adjustments of frequencies and the matching are made easy. Also, because the two feed electrodes 6, 7 are positioned with the intermediary of the ground electrode 3, the interference between the feed electrodes 6, 7 can be restrained low.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006074466-A (JP)
Title: Digital data receiver
Inventor: NISHIZAWA SHUJI
IPC: H04N5/44
Filed: 2004-09-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a digital data receiver seamlessly making a switch between a strong hierarchy and a weak hierarchy without giving displeasure to a viewer.  <P>SOLUTION: This digital data receiver (10) has: a first video data generating part (20) for generating first video data from weak hierarchy received data; a second video data generating part (21) for generating second video data from strong hierarchy received data; a video switching part (24) for switching the first video data and the second video data; a composing part (26) for preparing a composed frame image of a frame image included in the first video data and a frame image included in the second video data; and a control part (34) for controlling the video switching part so as to make a switch from the frame image included in the first video data to the frame image included in the second video image through the composed frame image.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006074955-A (JP)
Title: Outdoor receiving and distributing board
Inventor: MASUHARA HIDEKI
IPC: H02B1/38
Filed: 2004-09-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an outdoor receiving and distributing board in which an open angle of an inner door can be increased and an apparatus contained in the distributing board can be drawn out easily from the front side.  <P>SOLUTION: Vertical frames 2 and 3 are juxtaposed on the front side of a receiving and distributing board 1 and front side ends are U-shaped. An outer door 4 is fixed to the vertical frame 2 and an inner door 6 is fixed to the vertical frame 3 so as to be freely opened and closed such that the inner door 6 and the outer door 4 open reversely from each other. The inner door 6 is provided with a section 7 for accommodating the U-shaped end 3a on the front side of the vertical frame 3 when the inner door is opened.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006078033-A (JP)
Title: Heat exchanger
Inventor: OZAKI TATSUO
IPC: F28F9/18
Filed: 2004-09-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To thin a thickness of a tube without deteriorating a fracture service life of the tube.  <P>SOLUTION: In the heat exchanger with an end of the tube 10 inserted in a tank 2 and joined to it, an insertion hole is provided in a protruding portion 210 protruding in a tube longitudinal direction X toward the outside of the tank 2. When a circumference of an outer circumferential face of the tube 10 is A, a circumference of a joined portion of the tube 10 and the tank 2 is B, and a joined part length ratio is B/A, the joined part length ratio is 1.15 or more. As the joined part length ratio becomes larger, stress generated in the tube 10 is distributed and the stress becomes smaller. Particularly, when the joined part length ratio is 1.15 or more, the stress is reduced by half in comparison with when the joined part length ratio is 1.0.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006076197-A (JP)
Title: Image forming device
Inventor: NARUSE SHINICHIRO
IPC: B41J2/01
Filed: 2004-09-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that when a carriage is removed from a device main body, liquid dropping occurs from the discharging port of a recording head, which deteriorates the maintainability because there is fear for staining the inside and the outside of the device main body.  <P>SOLUTION: A recess section 231, with which a connecting member 261 provided on an idle discharge receiver 126 is engaged, is formed on the side surface of the carriage 23. In the meantime, the connecting member 261 is pivotally supported by a spindle 262 in a manner to be freely turnable on the side surface of the idle discharge receiver 126. When the carriage 23 is removed from the device main body 1, after moving the carriage 23 to a position above the idle discharge receiver 126, the distal end section is fitted in and engaged with the engaging recess section 231 on the side surface of the carriage 23 by turning the connecting member 261 of the idle discharge receiver 126. Thus, the carriage 23 and the idle discharge receiver 126 are placed under a connected state.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006084666-A (JP)
Title: Prosody generation device and program
Inventor: OIDE NORIFUMI
IPC: G10L13/02
Filed: 2004-09-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate a prosody pattern which has high naturalness and is stable.  <P>SOLUTION: A prosody generation device which generates a prosody from a language analysis result and a clause string obtained by applying a linguistic analysis to an input document includes: a rule model prosody generating means of generating a regular prosody pattern from the clause string; a similar clause extracting means of extracting a candidate for a similar clause string from a database where prosody patterns of natural utterance and their linguistic analysis results are prestored and setting the similarity of the extracted similar clause string on the basis of the prosody pattern obtained by the rule model prosody generating means and the language analysis result; and a prosody pattern combining means of combining prosody patterns on the basis of the candidate for the similar clause string obtained by the similar clause extracting means and the prosody pattern obtained by the rule model prosody generating means.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006081678-A (JP)
Title: Openable/closable eyelet and closure used for the same
Inventor: INOMATA YOSHIYUKI
IPC: A41H37/00
Filed: 2004-09-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an eyelet having an openable/closable eyelet hole by using a conventional eyelet.  <P>SOLUTION: The eyelet (10) has the eyelet hole (15) at the center. The closure (3) is provided for elastically closing the eyelet hole. Each of the closures (3) is composed of a head part (20, 20A, 20B or 20C) having a diameter larger than that of the eyelet hole (15), and a leg part (21, 21A, 21B or 21C) having a diameter approximately equal to that of the eyelet hole. The leg part (21A) of the closing tool (3A) can be formed so that the diameter of a tip part is slightly larger than that of the base of the head part. Ring-like projections (23 and 24) can be arranged at the center or the tip of the leg parts (21B and 21C) of the closing tools (3B and 3C).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006055149-A (JP)
Title: Feed for giving dog and cat medicine
Inventor: SATO YOSHINORI
IPC: A23K1/20
Filed: 2004-08-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain feed for giving dogs and cats medicine intended for easily letting pets such as dogs and cats swallow a prescribed amount of medicine or supplements, and enabling a person who gives medicine to grasp the kinds and amount of remaining medicine even if medicine is left by any chance.  <P>SOLUTION: The feed for giving dogs and cats medicine is obtained by bringing the shape of jerky which dogs and cats willingly eat to a hollow structure, putting medicine or supplements to be administered to pets in the hollow part, and closing the hollow with jerky for a cover having a shape allowing to just cover the hollow part. When giving jerky having medicine inside to dogs and cats to be administered with medicine, they easily swallow without disgorging.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006086952-A (JP)
Title: Digital camera and program
Inventor: YAMAZAKI HITOSHI
IPC: G03B7/08
Filed: 2004-09-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a digital camera or the like by which a satisfactory shot image can be obtained by a simple operation.  <P>SOLUTION: When a shutter button of an operating section 130 is pushed down, a controller 110 controls a lens drive member 122 to change continuously a focal position of a lens unit 121. While the focal position of a lens unit 121 is changing continuously, an image-taking element 123 does the shooting at multiple times to obtain multiple shot images, storing the images in an image memory 150. An image processor 160 specifies focused focal points by calculating contrast values of the shot images stored in the image memory 150. A display controller 142 displays the shot images on a display unit 141 so as to demonstrate clearly the focused focal points specified. The controller 110 stores, in a memory card contained in a storage section 170, image data of the image specified by a user from among the images displayed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006086465-A (JP)
Title: Infrared solid-state imaging device
Inventor: FUJIWARA IKUO
IPC: H01L31/10
Filed: 2004-09-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an infrared solid-state imaging device of a silicon pn junction diode with higher sensitivity.  <P>SOLUTION: The infrared solid-state imaging device comprises an infrared ray absorbing part 235 which is formed above a silicon substrate 201 having a diaphragm 228, absorbs incident infrared rays, and converts the infrared rays to heat, and a thermoelectric conversion part which is formed above the diaphragm 228 and includes a pn junction diode for converting, to an electric signal, a temperature change caused by heat generated in the infrared ray absorbing part 235. Further, a visible radiation interception layer 225 having a thickness of 0.5 to 0.6 μm is formed between the infrared ray absorbing part 235 and the thermoelectric conversion part to intercept visible radiation incident on the thermoelectric conversion part.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006087632-A (JP)
Title: Cooking vessel for microwave oven
Inventor: FUKUDA YOSHITO
IPC: A47J27/00
Filed: 2004-09-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooking vessel for a microwave oven designing the allowable temperature limit of a component high, reducing the weight, and improving the usability of a user in a cooking vessel conventionally disposed with a heating body heating by absorbing microwaves in the rear face of the cooking vessel.  <P>SOLUTION: A square plate 6 forms a vessel part, which can retain water heated by the heat of the heating body and generating steam in the rear face of a heating planar surface part 13, along with the heating planar surface part 13 and a lower-step circumferential wall 16; and the steam generated in the vessel part is so constituted as to be guided inside a drainboard 7 mounted on the step part 17 provided around the upper end whole circumference of the lower step circumferential wall 16 for executing steam cooking.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005100408-A (JP)
Title: System and method for storage, investigation and retrieval of clinical information, and business method
Inventor: KENNEY STEPHEN W
IPC: G16H70/60
Filed: 2004-09-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system, which can retrieve and investigate medical information of patients in the state of anonymity so that the number of patient candidates, who are to be subjects for clinical trials, is increased and the success rate of subject solicitation is improved.  <P>SOLUTION: Medical information of a patient is divided into a first information part, which is included with personal specified information on the patient and specified information on a doctor in charge, and a second information part, which is included with clinical information of the patient, artificial statistical information and information to specify the doctor for the patient, and then independently stored. Each patient is assigned with a unique patient identification code, and the code is inputted into both of the information parts. A third-person retriever investigates the second information stored part to acquire information necessary for a clinical trial plan, and obtains the number of candidates without specifying patients. A doctor for the patients who are candidates has an access right to retrieve the first information part based on patient identification codes. The doctor, who is requested from the third-person retriever, can solicit participants for the clinical trial.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006090871-A (JP)
Title: Substrate crack inspection method and substrate crack inspection device
Inventor: YAGI KATSUYUKI
IPC: G01N29/12
Filed: 2004-09-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method capable of highly-reliable substrate crack inspection even in the presence of an external noise.  <P>SOLUTION: This substrate crack inspection method is characterized by having a process wherein (1) a vibration is applied to a substrate 1 to generate a sound, (2) at least a generated sound from the substrate 1 is grasped by using the first microphone 5a, and substantially simultaneously the external noise is grasped by using the second microphone 5b, (3) acoustic analysis is performed on the sounds grasped by the first and second microphones 5a, 5b, to thereby determine first and second power spectrums corresponding to each sound, and (4) existence of a substrate crack is determined based on the difference of the spectrum intensity between the first and second power spectrums in a prescribed frequency domain.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006091522-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus
Inventor: ODA YASUHIRO
IPC: G03G15/16
Filed: 2004-09-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus which can easily be made small in size, high in operating speed and reduced in energy consumption (mainly in a fixing device), and can perform a stable toner supply to a developing device.  <P>SOLUTION: In the image forming apparatus, in which the fixing device 5 is arranged just above an intermediate transfer type image formation engine 1 and a plurality of developing devices 9 are arranged on the opposite side of the fixing device 5 on both sides of an intermediate transfer member 8, a plurality of toner replenishing devices 10 corresponding to each developing device 9 is equipped with a removable toner cartridge 11 to the opposite side of the developing devices 9 on both sides of the intermediate transfer member 8, cartridges 11a to 11c except at least one are arranged in parallel, the remaining toner cartridge 11d is arranged in non-parallel at a state that a projection area of the toner cartridges 11 in parallel relation is reached and between replenishment ports on the side of each toner cartridge 11 and replenishment ports on the side of each developing device 9 is connected by an approximately linear replenishment duct 12 outward of an end part in the direction to perpendicularly cross the process ongoing direction of the intermediate transfer member 8.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006092986-A (JP)
Title: Fuel cartridge, residual quantity detecting device for fuel cell, fuel cell system, and electronic apparatus
Inventor: HANO YOSHIFUMI
IPC: H01M8/04
Filed: 2004-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cartridge, a residual quantity detecting device for a fuel cell, and an electronic apparatus, capable of accurately and surely controlling the residual quantity of fuel.  <P>SOLUTION: This fuel cartridge 1 is equipped with a rewritable storage device 13 storing information, regarding the residual quantity of contained fuel. This residual quantity detecting device 3 for this fuel cell is equipped with a cartridge-mounting part 31 to which the fuel cartridge 1 can be mounted, a read and write means 31 for reading and writing information for the storage device 13 of the fuel cartridge 1, and a fuel consumption measuring means for measuring the consumption of fuel in the fuel cartridge 1, and a residual quantity computing means 343 to compute the current residual quantity of fuel in the fuel cartridge 1, and updates the information regarding the current residual quantity of fuel which has been computed by the residual quantity computing means 341, by overwriting it in the storage device 13 of the fuel cartridge 1 by the read and write means 341.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI