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Patent JP-2003199584-A (JP)
Title: Plant's semi-dwarf gene and its utilization
Inventor: MINOBE YUZO
IPC: C12N15/09
Filed: 2002-04-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new plant's semi-dwarf gene, especially the semi-dwarf gene originated from rice, and a method for using the gene to change the height of the plants, thereby changing the form of the plants, and further provide a method for evaluating the semi-dwarf property of the plants.  <P>SOLUTION: This method for utilizing the semi-dwarf gene is provided by isolating the semi-dwarf gene sd-1 of the rice by a linkage analysis, and changing the height of the plant by the introduction of the gene and control of its expression, and further by detecting the presence or absence of the functional gene for evaluating the height of the plant.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003321718-A (JP)
Title: Method of producing titanium carbonitride sintered compact
Inventor: SATSU HIROYUKI
IPC: C22C29/04
Filed: 2002-05-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of producing a titanium carbonitride sintered compact which has high strength and oxidation resistance and low adhesion for aluminum or the like.  <P>SOLUTION: Titanium carbonitride powder of 64 pts.wt., titanium carbide powder of 30 pts.wt., AFM alloy iron powder as an assistant of 6 pts.wt. and methanol are mixed in a ball mill for 48 hours, and obtains spray granulated powder. The spray granulated powder is subjected to CIP (cold isostatical press) compacting, is degreased and is subsequently fired at 1460°C, so that the titanium carbonitride sintered compact 1A is obtained.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003328164-A (JP)
Title: Method for preventing adhesion of marine organism to titanium ship
Inventor: ITO KIMIO
IPC: B63B59/04
Filed: 2002-05-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique of preventing adhesion of marine organisms, which technique makes paintless use of a titanium ship possible and reduces the burden on the environment.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for preventing the adhesion of the marine organisms to the titanium ship having a structure to electrically insulate screw propellers and their shaft from the hull comprises maintaining reference electrodes for bringing the hull of the titanium ship into contact with seawater at a potential of 1.2 to 1.4 V (based on a saturated KCl Ag/AgCl reference electrode).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003320228-A (JP)
Title: Manufacturing method for microporous membrane and microporous membrane
Inventor: TAN KOICHI
IPC: B01D71/34
Filed: 2002-05-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a microporous membrane having high strength and high water permeability and developing an excellent separation capacity by using a polyvinylidene fluoride resin having high chemical resistance.  <P>SOLUTION: A polymer solution containing a polyvinylidene fluoride resin and a solvent is discharged from a discharge orifice with a temperature Ts and the discharged solution is cooled to obtain the microporous membrane. The crystallization temperature Tc of the polymer solution is 40-120°C and the average temperature falling speed of the polymer solution at the time of passage at a temperature Tc when the polymer solution is cooled is 2×10<SP>3</SP>-10<SP>6</SP>°C/min and Ts satisfies the relation of Tc≤Ts≤Tc+90.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003329781-A (JP)
Title: Rain gauge
Inventor: NAKANO KENICHIRO
IPC: G01W1/14
Filed: 2002-05-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress a decrease in measurement accuracy and measurement faults due to foreign articles and reduce maintenance cost.  <P>SOLUTION: Rain water is received with a filter 6 and the rain water drained from the filter 6 is guided to a rainfall measuring part 5 arranged below so that rainfall is measured with a rain gauge. The filter 6 comprises a funnel 6a receiving rain water and a plurality of drain pipes 6c and 6d placed in the funnel 6a in an inclined state. Rain water received with the funnel 6a is drained from the upper end openings 6c1 and 6d1 on drain pipes 6c and 6d to supply them from the lower end openings 6c2 and 6d2 to the rainfall measuring part 5.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003333337-A (JP)
Title: Image reading apparatus, image reading method, and program therefor
Inventor: KAKINUMA KIYOYUKI
IPC: G06T5/20
Filed: 2002-05-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image reading apparatus and an image reading method, for applying noise elimination filter processing only to a noise part included in image data, and to provide a program.  <P>SOLUTION: An image read section reads image information from an object and outputs image data resulting from digitizing the image information. An image memory 13 stores image data outputted from the image read section. A pixel discrimination processing section 16 reads pixel data of the image data from the image memory 13 and discriminates whether or not the read pixel data within a range on the basis of data range information deciding the range of a value of the pixel data. A filter processing section 17 uses target pixel data being pixel data discriminated to be outside the range by the pixel discrimination processing section 16 and data of pixels around the target pixel in a pixel sequence of the image data, to perform median filter processing.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003332358-A (JP)
Title: Charge transfer element and its manufacturing method
Inventor: TSUNAI SHIRO
IPC: H01L21/339
Filed: 2002-05-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a CCD which can be miniaturized without causing reduction in charge transfer quantity.  <P>SOLUTION: The CCD has first and second layer charge transfer electrodes 11, 12, a transfer channel 17, made of a charge storage layer (N-type well) disposed underneath the electrode 11 and a barrier layer (N<SP>-</SP>-type well) disposed underneath the electrode 12, and a pair of wirings 41, 42. The width of the barrier layer is made narrower than that of the charge storage layer, and a contact 13 for connecting the wiring 41 to the charge transfer electrode and a contact 13 for connecting the wiring 42 to the charge transfer electrode are disposed in a zigzag manner, as seen in the transfer direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003326531-A (JP)
Title: Magnetic attracting and holding device
Inventor: HOSOKAWA TOMIAKI
IPC: B29C45/26
Filed: 2002-05-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a predetermined magnetic force to act on an object to be fixed even when the object to be fixed is separated from a fixing surface to prevent the object to be fixed from falling or shifting from the fixing surface.  <P>SOLUTION: A magnetic holding member 30 movable so as to advance and retreat in the direction vertical to the molding fixing surface 12a and capable of partially protruded from the molding fixing surface 12a and a spring 31 for energizing the magnetic holding member 30 toward a protruding side are provided to each of a plurality of block members 12 each having the molding fixing surface 12a. The magnetic holding member 30 is attracted to a mold 2a when the mold 2a is fixed to the molding fixing surface 12a and protruded by the energizing force of the spring 31 to be held to the state attracted to the mold 2a when the mold 2a is separated from the mold fixing surface 12a.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003336608-A (JP)
Title: Link type clamp cylinder
Inventor: NODA MITSUO
IPC: F15B15/14
Filed: 2002-05-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clamp cylinder strong in a bending moment, making a clamper attitude during clamping horizontal with high accuracy.  <P>SOLUTION: When the forward bending moment M is applied to a support member 30, the bending moment M is loaded as a load to a direction wherein a left step difference part 31c pushes up a left step part 23c, or as a load to a direction wherein the lower face 32 pushes down a push screw 39. The compression load is applied to the push screw 39, and the load on the left step difference part 31c and the step part 23c is a load in a portion unrelated to the push screw 39. Accordingly, a load by a tensile load on a bolt is not present at all as compared with a conventional clamp cylinder wherein a bending moment is loaded by the tensile load caused by the fastening bolt.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003337942-A (JP)
Title: Image processor
Inventor: ARAHATA HIROYUKI
IPC: A61B6/00
Filed: 2002-05-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processor which exhibits effects of frequency processing such as sharpening and dynamic range compression while storing an edge structure.  <P>SOLUTION: The image processor is provided with a frequency band decomposing means of decomposing a frequency band into a plurality of parts, a coefficient converting means of decreasing the value of a frequency coefficient decomposed by the frequency band decomposing means while keeping constant a value of a frequency coefficient within a range wherein the constitution of the edge structure is not affected, and a reconverting means of reconverting the frequency coefficient converted by the coefficient converting means.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003346037-A (JP)
Title: Shop management device and information distribution method for it
Inventor: MOCHIZUKI HIROKI
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2002-05-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically select information to be offered to consumers within a local area from business information fed from a head office for distributing it to the respective consumers.   <P>SOLUTION: An extraction condition of information to be distributed to the local consumers is previously set. A shop management device extracts information satisfying the set extraction condition from information received from a head office system 2, and on the basis of the extracted information, edits distribution information to the local consumers. The edited distribution information is transmitted to user terminals from 7A-1 to 7A-m and from 7B-1 to 7B-n used by the local consumers via the Internet 5.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003342630-A (JP)
Title: Method for continuous casting molten steel containing added rare earth element
Inventor: KATO TORU
IPC: B22D11/00
Filed: 2002-05-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a continuous casting method, which prevents blockage in a nozzle due to adhesion of oxides of rare earth elements onto the inner surface of the immersion nozzle.   <P>SOLUTION: This casting method comprises: in a process of continuously casting a molten steel containing 0.005-0.1 mass% rare earth elements, previously performing preliminary deoxidation with Si and Mn; subsequently adding such an amount of Al as the Al content in the molten steel becomes 0.01 mass% or more, to deoxidize it; then adding one or two of Ca and Mg into the molten steel in such a single or total amount as the content of Ca and/or Mg in the molten steel becomes 0.001 mass% or more; then adding the rare earth elements to it; and continuously casting the molten steel. If an alumina graphite refractory having a low SiO<SB>2</SB>content, an aluminous refractory, and a ZrO<SB>2</SB>-CaO-C-based refractory are employed for a material composing the inner surface of the immersion nozzle, the effect of preventing adhesion of the above oxides is further improved.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003340565-A (JP)
Title: Method for reinforcing cast body and tool used for the same
Inventor: NOYORI TAKASHI
IPC: B22D29/00
Filed: 2002-05-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for reinforcing a cast body which can repair defect caused in the cast body.   <P>SOLUTION: The invented method for repairing the defect caused on the initial face (20a) which results in a bore wall face defining the bore (2) in manufacturing the cast body (10) having a cylindrical bore (2) comprises a plastic flow process and a finish process. The plastic flow process forms a continuous corrugated face (3) consisting of groove portions (31) retracting from the initial face (20a) and protrusion portions (32) which adjoin the groove portions (31) and protrude from the initial face (20a), with the plastic flow of the metallic structure of the initial face (20a) caused by sliding the sliding portion of a tool having a sliding portion while making the sliding portion of the tool touch and press the initial face (20a). The finish process forms a finished face by cutting and removing the portions deeper than the groove portions (31) within the extent of the depth in which the plastic flow of the metallic structure has been caused in the continuous convexo-concave face (3).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003037283-A (JP)
Title: Avalanche photodiode array
Inventor: NISHIMURA KEN A
IPC: H01L27/146
Filed: 2002-05-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To decide and impress optimum bias voltage to and upon an avalanche photodiode array, by utilizing the characteristics of the array that the constituent elements of the array are identical. SOLUTION: The photodiode array (24', 30, and 50) contains a plurality of individual diode elements constituted in array-like states. The diode elements contain at least one active photodiode (32(1)) and at least one reference diode (32(2)). Preferably, the diode elements are manufactured on one semiconductor substrate.
Patent JP-2003342177-A (JP)
Title: Liquid agent for increasing local oxygen concentration
Inventor: OCHIAI ATSUSHI
IPC: A61K47/06
Filed: 2002-05-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid agent for increasing oxygen concentration in a tissue locally without affecting normal tissues.   <P>SOLUTION: This liquid agent for maintaining a local oxygen concentration in a high state in a tissue for a long time is provided with a local oxygen concentration-increasing liquid agent containing at least a liquid perfluorocarbon allowed to have a substituent and saturated with oxygen.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003341172-A (JP)
Title: Animation image printer
Inventor: KAWAOKA YOSHIKI
IPC: G11B27/034
Filed: 2002-05-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an animation image printer for printing a plurality of frames extracted from recorded animation data in which the image taking range can be determined not from a time measurement but from a reproduced image on a screen and a desired print can be obtained more simply.   <P>SOLUTION: Animation image data recorded on a recording medium is read out, the layout and the number of image frames of a print output are set, a list of animation image files is displayed on a list display screen 24 and an animation image file to be printed is selected. The selected animation image file is reproduced in a confirmation area 26 by pushing an animation control button 28 and, while viewing the reproduced image, at least one of a print start image and a print end image is set by pushing a 'from here' button or a 'till here' button, and then images of a specified number of frames are extracted from the image in a set range at a uniform interval within a set range. The extracted images are edited to be arranged in a set layout before being printed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003067660-A (JP)
Title: Drum management system and drum lease system
Inventor: YOSHIARA HISATO
IPC: G06Q30/06
Filed: 2002-05-31
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drum management system and a drum lease system capable of generally performing even inventory management of wires or the like wound around drums by establishing recycle use of the drums and managing the drums. SOLUTION: Information regarding transactions of the drums is gathered in a drum management server 10 and unitary inventory management of the drums is performed among a power company where a power company terminal 20 is installed, a wire manufacturing company where a wire manufacturing company terminal 30 is installed, a recycle agent where a recycle agent terminal 40 is installed, a material center where a material center terminal 50 is installed and a construction company where a construction company terminal 60 is installed.
Patent JP-2004005268-A (JP)
Title: Business form identifying device, business form defining method and business form identifying method
Inventor: ETO HIROKO
IPC: G06K9/20
Filed: 2002-05-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a business form identifying method capable of identifying various kinds of business forms including a business form on which a letter string for identification is not printed (not having preprinted letter) at a high speed.  <P>SOLUTION: This business form defining device 10 prepares various kinds of business forms one by one as dictionary business forms, and reads out an image by a scanner. The script for executing the definition of the business form having a plurality of identification items including ruled lines and identification items of an identification letter string is created on a business form definition file 20. An OCR device 30 identifies each business form (p) on the basis of the script defined by the business form defining device 10 and the business form definition, and performs the letter recognition on the identified business form.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004012497-A (JP)
Title: Camera
Inventor: TAKASAKI MINORU
IPC: G03B7/30
Filed: 2002-06-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent calculation of an erroneous range-finding result or photometric result due to covering of a range finder or a photometric circuit with a photographer's finger in a range finer camera, whereby a failed photograph is taken.  <P>SOLUTION: The camera in which a range finder and a photometric device have independent light receiving optical systems has a lightness sensing means to sense the lightness of a subject from an output signal from the light receiving element of the range finer, a means to sense lightness from the photometric device, a means to compare pieces of information on the lightness, and a detecting means to detect blocking of the optical path of either the light receiving optical system of the photometric device or the light receiving optical system of the range finer from the compared result, and when the blocking is detected, a warning means gives a warning.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004015899-A (JP)
Title: Cable routing system through branched pipings and branching device
Inventor: TANAKA HIROSHI
IPC: H04N7/16
Filed: 2002-06-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cable routing system through branched pipings capable of cable routing within pipings even if the number of receptacles for terminal connections is increased, improving the workability of cable routing, and achieving a fine appearance.  <P>SOLUTION: The system comprises a main piping 24 which is laid from an information distributing board 21 within a building 20 to one or more branching devices 23 and is capable of housing a plurality of cables, and branched pipings 25 which is laid from the branching devices 23 to one or more receptacles 22 for terminal connections situated in a room and is capable of housing the cables. The cables are routed from the information distributing board 21 to the receptacles 22 for terminal connections through the main piping 24, the branching devices 23, and the branched pipings 25.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004015407-A (JP)
Title: Transmission method and apparatus for ring network
Inventor: FUJIYAMA TAKEHIKO
IPC: H04L12/42
Filed: 2002-06-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for transmitting over a ring network, which avoids repeating of the switching, in the event of a periodic or random circuit failure and ensures stable communication.  <P>SOLUTION: In a ring network with adjacent nodes interconnected with two-way transmission lines, by having each node switched to and operates as either a terminal station or an intermediate station, so that two adjacent nodes change to the terminal stations and other nodes change to the intermediate stations. Since the two adjacent nodes become the terminal stations, these nodes at both sides of a circuit failure point act as terminal stations to avoid repeating the switching and ensure stable communication, in when there is a periodic or random circuit failure.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003321865-A (JP)
Title: Flowing water sound generator with electric portable coupler
Inventor: YAMAGIWA ATSUKO
IPC: E03D9/00
Filed: 2002-05-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric flowing water sound generator which is provided with a place for mounting a portable coupler, so that a person can use a toilet while giving consideration to others anywhere (even in the toilet with no sound generator) at any time, and in which the coupler is passed through the place and annexed to the place.  <P>SOLUTION: Characteristically, the flowing water sound generator (2), which has an IC sound generating part, is built into a main body (1) which is made of a fabric, acrylic or the like and formed in a concrete or abstract shape; a power source (3) and an operating stopping switch (4), which is installed so as to be exposed outside, are connected together by a service wire (5), so that the sound generator (2) can be created; the place (6) for mounting the portable coupler is provided in the sound generator (2); and the portable coupler (7) is passed through the place (6) or annexed to the place (6).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004015694-A (JP)
Title: Data input/output management apparatus and image pickup device
Inventor: MIYAGAWA YOSHIO
IPC: G06T1/60
Filed: 2002-06-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce labor or time required for a sending operation by enabling a user to easily recognize whether data are sent or not thereby avoiding the data from being erroneously sent double in a data input/output management apparatus and an image pickup device.  <P>SOLUTION: The data input/output management apparatus is provided with a generation part 15 for automatically generating a novel directory in a storage part 11 when image data D stored within a current directory of the storage part 11 are sent to an external information processing apparatus, and an input part 12 for defining the generated novel directory as a new current directory, and the image data D newly inputted from the input part 12 to the storage part 11 are stored in the new current directory. Then, the image data D within the new current directory are defined as a target of sending and the image data D are prevented from being sent double.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004017289-A (JP)
Title: Apparatus for monitoring printed color tone, apparatus for controlling printed color tone, and method for monitoring printed color tone
Inventor: INOMATA TAKASHI
IPC: B41F33/14
Filed: 2002-06-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly monitor or control a printed color tone by reducing the influence of the change in behavior of printing paper on a measured value, decreasing a measurement error, and doing precise measurement when a printed pattern is measured directly.  <P>SOLUTION: The color or the optical density of each printed pattern in the traveling printing paper is measured, and the positional displacement of each printed pattern from a reference sample is measured. The measured color or the optical density of the printed pattern is compared with a reference value corresponding to the measured positional displacement of the printed pattern from the reference sample to calculate a color difference or an optical density difference, or the the measured color or the optical density of the printed pattern is corrected by a correction function for correcting the change of the measured color or the optical density of the printed pattern by the positional displacement from the reference sample and compared with the value of the reference sample, so that the color difference or the optical density difference is calculated.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO