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Patent JP-2003322746-A (JP)
Title: Connection structure for optical fibers and process for connecting optical fibers
Inventor: SASAKI KYOICHI
IPC: G02B6/38
Filed: 2002-09-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a connection structure for optical fibers and a process for connecting optical fibers, by which the optical fibers are prevented from being damaged, the working time required for the connection is shortened, the yield is improved, and the efficiency of connection working is improved.  <P>SOLUTION: The connection structure for optical fibers comprises two connecting members 13, 14 butted against each other and each having a through- hole and two optical fibers inserted into the respective through-holes of the connecting members. The two optical fibers are connected within the through- hole of one connecting member. The connection structure is formed by inserting optical fibers into respective through-holes of the two connecting members so as to locate an end surface of each optical fiber at an outlet of the through- hole or in the vicinity of the outlet, bringing the end surfaces of the two connecting members face to face with each other, and sliding the two connecting members in a direction of the center axis of the optical fibers to connect the optical fibers within the through-hole of one connecting member.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004111580-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device and its fabricating process
Inventor: SUGIURA NAOTO
IPC: H01L21/66
Filed: 2002-09-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a semiconductor device in which the orientation can be judged readily when it is observed by means of an SEM or an SIM regardless of the fact whether the surface is planarized or not.  <P>SOLUTION: A non-point symmetric analytic mark 6 indicative of a specified orientation is put on a protective film 5, i.e. the uppermost layer, being observed by means of an analytic equipment. Orientation of a semiconductor device 1 can be judged readily from the analytic mark 6. Consequently, CAD rink can be effected and inspection or machining can be carried out while grasping the position of an objective part on the semiconductor device 1 surely based on CAD data.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004108230-A (JP)
Title: Idle-stop vehicle
Inventor: SHOJI ATSUSHI
IPC: B60K28/08
Filed: 2002-09-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an idle-stop vehicle for determining an idle stop with excellent accuracy when an engine is started.  <P>SOLUTION: The idle-stop vehicle has an engine 1, a motor for starting the engine, and batteries 11 and 14 to supply power to the motor, and stops and re-starts the engine according to voltages of the batteries when the vehicle is stopped. For the voltages of the batteries, values processed by a filter of a time constant slower than a regular one are employed when determining the engine idle-stop.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004106115-A (JP)
Title: Robot hand's finger drive mechanism and robot hand
Inventor: KIMIZUKA GENICHI
IPC: B25J15/08
Filed: 2002-09-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a robot hand and its finger drive mechanism having a simple structure, miniaturizing the size, and reducing the weight cost.  <P>SOLUTION: This robot hand's finger drive mechanism is provided with finger parts 7 moving similarly to the bending of the fingers of a person, a first drive part 10 bending the finger parts 7, a second drive part 50 swinging the finger parts 7. The second drive part 50 comprises a pair of shape memory alloy linear members 55 and 56 shortening the line length by being heated in energization. When energizing either one of the pair of shape memory alloy linear members 55 or 56, the either one side of the energized shape memory alloy linear members 55 or 56 is contracted to swing the fingers 7.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004107482-A (JP)
Title: Rubber composition for tread of tire for ice/snow-covered road
Inventor: SHIROKAWA TAKASHI
IPC: C08K3/04
Filed: 2002-09-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rubber composition suitable for the tread of tires for ice/snow-covered roads realizing low hardness without deteriorating their performances including abrasion resistance and high elastic recovery percentage of elongation.  <P>SOLUTION: The rubber composition comprises (i) a master batch comprising (A) natural rubber(NR) and/or polyisoprene rubber(IR) accounting for ≥50 wt.% of the total rubber and (B) carbon black 105-155 m<SP>2</SP>/g in nitrogen adsorption specific surface area and 100-150 m<SP>2</SP>/g in CTAB adsorption specific surface area accounting for ≥50 wt.% of the total reinforcing filler, (ii) 20-50 pts. wt. of polybutadiene rubber(BR)( based on 100 pts. wt. of the total rubber component ) and (iii) 40-65 pts. wt., in terms of the total reinforcing filler, of a reinforcing filler based on 100 pts. wt. of the total rubber component.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004109535-A (JP)
Title: Method, device, and program for speech synthesis
Inventor: SEGI HIROYUKI
IPC: G10L13/02
Filed: 2002-09-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method, a device, and a program for speech synthesis that can use a cost function taking into consideration properties of words by search words of a database for speech synthesis.  <P>SOLUTION: The speech synthesizing device 1 which synthesizes a speech of text data is equipped with a word division/phoneme and rhythm information addition part 5 which divides the text data into words and adding phoneme and rhythm information as information including phonemes, rhythms and basic frequencies to the words, a data search part 7 for speech synthesis which searching the database 13 for speech synthesis for word division candidates having minimum phoneme and rhythm costs and connection costs according to matching of words in the database 13 for speech synthesis against phoneme representation by a dynamic programming method, a phoneme and rhythm correction part 9 which makes corrections at connection parts by word division candidates of a searched speech data sequence and at parts different from predicted rhythm, and an output part 11 which outputs correction results as speech synthesis data.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004110952-A (JP)
Title: Buffer controller
Inventor: UESUGI KEIICHIRO
IPC: G06F3/06
Filed: 2002-09-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that when under-run is discriminated and discrimination is performed only by comparison of "holding values" of a page register, recognition/decision of before/after the the under-run whether process till the under-run or the situation becomes worse or not cannot be performed.  <P>SOLUTION: The device has a means for measuring an access speed to the memory of each master, measured speed information is used for discriminating over-run and the under-run. Access speed to the memory is measured on the basis of address information of the respective masters and page register updating information of the respective masters.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004117470-A (JP)
Title: Method of manufacturing nd filter, and aperture device and camera having the nd filter
Inventor: UCHIYAMA SHINJI
IPC: G03B9/02
Filed: 2002-09-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing an ND filter having a gradation density distribution such that uniformity of the quality of light is improved and spectral characteristics at each density are flat.  <P>SOLUTION: When the ND filter is manufactured by forming at least two kinds of films on a plastic substrate 102, one layer other than an outermost layer is formed by revolving a slit mask 106 on a dome integrally with the substrate to form a gradation density distribution, and a film of the outermost layer is formed to a constant film thickness without using the slit mask 106.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004119488-A (JP)
Title: Vacuum suction apparatus, substrate transport plate, and substrate processing equipment
Inventor: IGARI HIROSHI
IPC: B25J15/06
Filed: 2002-09-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vacuum suction apparatus which can eliminate particles adhered to a placing part or the like of a vacuum suction apparatus without needing manual cleaning work or the like, and can restrain complication of device structure and increase of manufacturing cost by realizing elimination of particles with simple constitution, and to provide a substrate transport plate and substrate processing equipment.  <P>SOLUTION: When a semiconductor wafer W is sucked and held and it is conveyed, a changeover value 5 is switched to suction source 4 side, Suction of a suction opening 2c is performed through a suction lateral 1a, and the semiconductor wafer W is sucked and held on the placing part 2. When cleaning of the changeover 2 is performed, the changeover valve 5 is switched to cleaning gas supply source 6 side, and gas for cleaning (e.g. air, nitrogen gas, etc.) is supplied from the cleaning gas supply source 6, through a suction lateral 3 and the suction lateral 1a. The gas is spouted from the suction opening 2c.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003114036-A (JP)
Title: Three face discharge type air conditioner
Inventor: KIN RYUTAKU
IPC: F24F13/20
Filed: 2002-09-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air conditioner, which conditions air in a room properly, in particular, a three face discharge type air conditioner capable of effecting a more comfortable function of the air conditioner by making it possible to perform air suction/air discharge to an inclined side face as well as to a front face. SOLUTION: In the air conditioner constituted such that a cabinet is formed with suction ports and discharge ports so that the condition of the air is changed after sucking air in the room and discharged air to the room, the suction ports are formed on the side of the lower sections of both side faces of the cabinet, and the discharge ports are formed in the upper section of the front face of the cabinet and on the sides of the upper sections of both side faces of the cabinet.
Patent JP-2004116650-A (JP)
Title: Pipe joint for inspection
Inventor: MIZUGUCHI NORIO
IPC: F16L21/08
Filed: 2002-09-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily detach and attach a pipe while maintaining sealing performance and extraction prevention performance.  <P>SOLUTION: When an inspection is performed, a lock means 20 is brought into an unlock state, and the end part of the pipe Pa is fitted onto a connection part 16a. When the lock means 20 is displaced to a lock state, a clearance between the connection part 16a and the pipe PA is sealed by a seal material 18a, and the extraction of the pipe Pa from the connection part 16a is restricted by the lock means 20. After the inspection, since the pipe Pa can be extracted from the connection part 16a when the lock means 20 is displaced to the unlock state, the pipe 16a must not be disposed of together with a joint for inspection by cutting. Also, since the pipe Pa is separated from the lock means 20 when the pipe Pa is fitted onto the connection part, the connection work of the pipe Pa is not obstructed by the interference of the pipe Pa with the lock means 20.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004120452-A (JP)
Title: Digital broadcast receiver and receiving method therefor
Inventor: ISHIZUKA MITSURU
IPC: H04N21/435
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a digital broadcast receiver capable of detecting appendant information of other system even when one system is selected from a plurality of digital broadcast systems.  <P>SOLUTION: This digital broadcast receiver selects one optional system from a plurality of digital broadcast systems and decodes transport stream of the system. The receiver is individually formed front side receiving circuits 2 and 12 from tuners 3 and 13 to demultiplexers 6 and 16 for every reception path of each digital broadcast system. This receiver is provided with a selection control unit 21 which detects packet of appendant information from transport stream of each digital broadcast system, and switches output destination of each packet, an appendant information decoding part 51, and a storage part which stores the content of the decoded appendant information.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004113558-A (JP)
Title: Rice cooker and warmer
Inventor: SAITO SEIJI
IPC: A47J27/00
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve cooked rice in all seasons, and to provide the delicious cooked rice without differences all the time.  <P>SOLUTION: A rice cooker and warmer is equipped with an inner pot 1 to put rice in, a temperature detecting means 2 for detecting a temperature of the inner pot 1, a heating means 3 for heating the inner pot 1, a timing means 4 for timing at least a date, an input means 5 for setting to input directions or the like for cooking the rice and the date or the like into the timing means 4, and a control means 6 for controlling an electric power pattern and a heating time for the heating means 3 depending on a result obtained by comparing the temperature detected by the temperature detecting means 2 and a prescribed temperature threshold value in a plurality of rice cooking processes. The control means 6 determines a season at the time of cooking the rice by the timing means 4 and controls to cook the rice by correcting the prescribed temperature threshold value and the electric power pattern and the heating time output by the heating means 3 depending on the season.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004115714-A (JP)
Title: Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape
Inventor: MABUCHI TOSHIAKI
IPC: C09J201/00
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape using a base material composed of a resin composition consisting mainly of a polyolefin-based polymer and having good hand cuttability and good flexibility.  <P>SOLUTION: The pressure-sensitive adhesive tape comprises the base material and an adhesive layer. The resin composition constituting the base material is obtained by compounding 100 pts. wt. polyolefin-based polymer with 50-100 pts. wt. metal hydroxide subjected to silane coupling treatment or non-halogen-based filler subjected to silane coupling treatment.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004120586-A (JP)
Title: Communication terminal, control station and abnormal base station detection method
Inventor: NAKANO TAKAYUKI
IPC: H04W56/00
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent failure of communication by setting reference timing while eliminating a base station of which the transmission/reception timing is abnormal in a communication terminal.  <P>SOLUTION: A timing extraction part 104 calculates difference in reception timing among base stations by reception timing from the base stations, and outputs the calculated difference in reception timing to an abnormality decision part 105. The abnormality judgment part 105 compares the received difference in reception timing with specified time width and decides a base station of which the difference in reception timing is equal to or larger than the specified time width for all the base stations as an abnormal base station. A reference timing setting part 107 sets reference timing by using only normal base stations excluding the base station decided as abnormal by the abnormality decision part 105. A transmission part 106 outputs a transmission signal at the timing set by the reference timing setting part 107.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004128577-A (JP)
Title: Imaging method for solid-state imaging element
Inventor: ODA KAZUYA
IPC: H04N5/369
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the effect of dispersion in the sensitivity of slave photosensitive sections of photosensitive elements configuring a solid-state imaging element.  <P>SOLUTION: Opening a transfer gate 40 provided between the sub-photosensitive sections 16 and a vertical transfer path (VCCD) 42 during exposure of photo diodes 12 transfers electric charges from the sub-photosensitive sections 16 to the vertical transfer path 42. Thus, the electric charges in excess of a saturation amount of the sub-photosensitive sections 16 are stored in the sub-photosensitive sections 16 and the vertical transfer path 42.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004126819-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing ic card
Inventor: HIRONAKA MUNEATSU
IPC: B42D15/10
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing an IC card capable of shortening a manufacturing time, and preventing the performance of each product from fluctuating.  <P>SOLUTION: This method for manufacturing an IC card 5 functioning in a predetermined frequency band, which is formed with antenna coils 11 respectively equipped with coils 14 revolving like almost whirlpools comprises a coil position adjusting process for adjusting a distance between the predetermined coils, and for matching it with the predetermined frequency band.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004125027-A (JP)
Title: Electric disc brake
Inventor: USUI TAKUYA
IPC: F16D66/00
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric disc brake which can use a thrust sensor of a relatively lower strength, and allows a variety of materials to be chosen for the thrust sensor.  <P>SOLUTION: In the thrust sensor 30, an outer circumferential surface 30f and a side surface 30b are tightly engaged with an opening step part 7a as an inner circumferential part of a circular base body 7 to be fixed to a caliper main body 9. An outer circumferential surface 31d of an outer circumferential ring 31a and a side surface 31e on the opposite side to a facing side surface to a disc rotor D are applied to a step part 30a of the thrust sensor 30 to fix a bearing 31 to the circular base body 7 through the thrust sensor 30. The inner circumferential side of an inner circumferential ring 31b of the bearing 31 is applied to the outer circumferential side of a first disc member 32. The facing side surface 31f to the disc rotor D in the inner circumferential ring 31 is applied to a large diameter part 32a provided on the outer circumferential surface of the first disc member 32. The first disc member 32 is thus positioned in diametric and axial directions by the bearing 31.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004124844-A (JP)
Title: Fuel supplying device
Inventor: NAKAI HIDEYUKI
IPC: F02M37/10
Filed: 2002-10-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel supplying device capable of easing shock from fuel discharged from a fuel pump along with vapor, and preventing the occurrence of noise.  <P>SOLUTION: The vapor generated inside the fuel pump 40 is discharged from a discharge passage 81 of a fuel discharge part 8 along with pressurized fuel. A suction filter 50 and a cup member 90 which are integral are mounted on the fuel discharge part 80. Fuel discharged from the discharge passage 81 to the cup member 90 flows out from a hole 93 formed in a cylinder part of the cup member 90 to a groove part formed on a cushion member 100 after colliding with the bottom part of the cup member 90. The fuel collides with the bottom of the cup member 90, the flowing speed upon the fuel being discharged with vapor is decreased, and energy is lowered. The fuel is discharged with the vapor of the fuel from the fuel pump 40 in a state wherein energy of the fuel is lowered, and the occurrence of noise is prevented.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004123334-A (JP)
Title: Accelerator pedal for industrial vehicles
Inventor: TAKENAKA TAKAAKI
IPC: F02D11/02
Filed: 2002-10-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an accelerator pedal for industrial vehicles for reducing fatigue of a driver when switching the pedal in the forward-backward traveling, improving the rapidity in the pedal switching operation, preventing the slip of a foot on the pedal, and reliably performing the switching operation between the forward-backward traveling.  <P>SOLUTION: A forward-backward traveling switching pedal 14 with a forward step-in part 40 and a backward step-in part 42 arranged in parallel is swingably and pivotably attached to a main pedal 12 to adjust the accelerator opening, and the step-in parts 40 and 42 are raised with respect to a switching pedal body 30.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003155202-A (JP)
Title: Microsphere and method for producing the same
Inventor: KOIKE MASAHIKO
IPC: A61K31/44
Filed: 2002-10-04
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a microsphere which contains a high-molecular polymer and has excellent sustained release properties and in which a medicine is efficiently taken and to provide a method for producing the same. SOLUTION: This microsphere is obtained by making a solution which contains a water-soluble medicine and about 30-90% (W/W) of a high-molecular polymer having 1,000-150,000 average molecular weight into an oil phase, emulsifying the oil phase into water to give an O/W type emulsion and drying the emulsion by a method for drying in liquid. The microsphere is useful as a component for a medicine composition or an agricultural and horticultural composition.
Patent JP-2004124591-A (JP)
Title: Glass fixing structure of sash
Inventor: YAMADA TOSHIHIRO
IPC: E06B3/60
Filed: 2002-10-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a glass fixing structure of a sash which firmly holds single sheet glass in a casing for a conventional composite sash.  <P>SOLUTION: The casing 6 is formed of a metal casing 30 and a resin casing 40 covering the inside exposed portion of the metal casing 30. The glass fixing structure of the sash 2 is constructed by inserting a glass body 5 into a glass insertion channel 6a defined by an extending piece 31a formed at the outside edge of the casing 6 and a bead member 60 formed inside the same. In the glass fixing structure thus constructed, a bridging member 50 is arranged inside the extending piece 31a of the casing 6 which has an engaging portion 51 engageable with the extending piece 31a, an abutting portion 52 abutting on the glass body 5, and an inner wall 53 having a predetermined width and connecting the engaging portion 51 and the abutting portion 52. Then the engaging portion 51 is engaged with an extending piece 31a, and the abutting portion 52 is abutted on the glass body 5 via a cushioning member 35b.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004124613-A (JP)
Title: Joint cover for ceiling
Inventor: GOTO HIDEO
IPC: E04B1/62
Filed: 2002-10-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a joint cover for a ceiling which is usually set at a joint portion in a substantially horizontal state, rotated to absorb swinging when a joint portion becomes narrow, and automatically returns to its original state when swinging stops.  <P>SOLUTION: The joint cover 1 for the ceiling comprises two or more support bars 7, hanging rods 8, a joint cover body 12, right and left guide members 16, 15, and a horizontality holding mechanisms 17. Each support bar 7 has both ends diagonally arranged in a pair of rails 5 and slidably movable along the same. The rails 5 are fixed to right and left ceiling skeletons of right and left buildings at locations that face the joint portion. Each hanging rod 8 has its upper end attached to the almost central portion of the support bar 7. The joint cover body 12 has the almost central portion thereof rotatably attached to the lower edge of the hanging rod 8, has both edges thereof formed like slopes inverted to each other, and functions to cover the joint portion. The guide members 16, 15 make surface-contact with the slopes at the respective edges of the joint cover body 12, and are fixed to the right and left ceiling skeletons. The horizontality holding mechanisms 17 usually holds the joint cover body 12 in a nearly horizontal state.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO