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Patent JP-2002228463-A (JP)
Title: Fee notice device and fee information memory medium
Inventor: MIYANO KAZUHIKO
IPC: G06Q50/30
Filed: 2001-02-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fee notice device enabling the displaying of a fee at each passage through a toll road different in the fee system and a fee information memory medium accomplishing a reduced memory area of fee information. SOLUTION: Fee information is recorded in a DVD 162 for each of toll roads different in the fee system. When a course is searched by a navigation apparatus, information on a toll booth is generated for each of the toll roads different in the fee system. Starting and ending points of each fee range are paired on the same sequence. Fee between the starting and ending points thus paired is calculated to be notified.
Patent JP-2002228183-A (JP)
Title: Air conditioner
Inventor: YAMAGUCHI TAKASHI
IPC: F24F13/20
Filed: 2001-02-02
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air conditioner, in which it is not required to install separately an indication means and a cover for a remote-control signal receiver. SOLUTION: In the air conditioner, there is installed a receiver for receiving a signal from a remote controller opposingly to the direction of visual recognition of a user who uses the indicator panel.
Patent JP-2002230421-A (JP)
Title: Device, system and method for issuing ticket, storage medium, and re-issuable ticket
Inventor: NAKAMURA YOSHITAKA
IPC: G06Q30/02
Filed: 2001-02-05
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reissue the same ticket, even if a ticket is lost. SOLUTION: When a ticket reservation is made by making by making specific customer information 23 correspond to specific ticket information, by accessing a ticket information file according to input information from an input means, a printer part is driven to issue a ticket T which has reserved ticket information 22 printed at ticket parts 9 and 10 and the customer information 23 made to correspond to the ticket information 22, printed at a certificate part 11. Consequently, even if the customer loses the issued ticket T, the same ticket T can be reissued by specifying the ticket information 22, according to the customer information 23.
Patent JP-2002234632-A (JP)
Title: Imaging device
Inventor: MARUMOTO TAKESHI
IPC: B65H5/06
Filed: 2001-02-06
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily eliminate jammed paper. SOLUTION: A copying machine 1 is provided with a pair of paper feeding rollers 211 to carry out sheets placed on a tray one by one. A paper feeding mechanism 200 to carry the sheets carried out from the paper feeding rollers 211 through a joining point 205a with a vertical carrying passage 204 to a transfer roller 108 is included in a copying machine body 101. A jam processing unit 300 between the paper feeding roller 211 and the joining point 205a is composed to be extractable out of the copying machine body 101.
Patent JP-2002233830-A (JP)
Title: Cleaning and stripping apparatus
Inventor: KISHIMOTO KAZUO
IPC: B08B3/02
Filed: 2001-02-07
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cleaning and striping apparatus which is simply constituted and made small in size, whose installation space can be reduced and in which granular particles can stably be supplied to a jetting nozzle with fixed quantity. SOLUTION: A medium recovering part 6 is arranged in the lower part of the working space for carrying out cleaning and stripping treatment so that the used medium to be treated is recovered. A filter 8 is arranged in the part 6 as a separating means for separating granular particles. The granular particles accumulated on the filter 8 are directly conveyed, circulated and used by arranging a horizontally moving screw conveyer 9 in the upper part of the filter 8. A replenishing pipe 28 from a granular particle supplying means is connected to the part 6 for replenishing the part 6 with the granular particles recovered through the pipe 28.
Patent JP-2002235886-A (JP)
Title: Conduit tube joint
Inventor: TANIZAWA HIROTO
IPC: H02G3/22
Filed: 2001-02-07
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a conduit tube joint used for a wave-shaping conduit tube successively having projecting portions and trough portions, being coupled by a single motion, and preventing a cap nut from being tightened to a joint body too much or loosening. SOLUTION: This conduit tube joint comprises the joint body 5, a rubber packing, the cap nut, and a stopping collar 7. A projecting portion 13 having a taper surface increasing tilt along a cap nut tightening direction is provided on an outer peripheral surface in a center part side from a screw portion 9 of the joint body 1, and a taper surface 16 increasing tilt along the cap nut tightening direction and a stepped portion abutting on the projecting portion of the joint body by rotating in a loosening direction are provided on an inner peripheral surface of the cap nut. A tool insertion port 18 for tool and for elastically deforming a part of the cap nut in a radius direction so as to release abutting of the projecting portion of the joint body 5 and the stepped portion of the cap nut is provided near the stepped portion.
Patent JP-2002169211-A (JP)
Title: Flash photography system
Inventor: KAWASAKI MASAHIRO
IPC: G03B15/03
Filed: 2001-02-09
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flash photography system and a flash device which improve compatibility with a conventional camera and a conventional flash device which are not compliant with a new system. SOLUTION: A flash unit 50 is provided with a wireless photodetector 57 and acts as a slave flash. When the light control mode requirement is TTL, a flash CPU 65 performs emission control on the basis of a preliminary emission command signal, a magnification signal and a main emission command signal sequentially transmitted from the camera side. Meanwhile, when the light control mode requirement is a manual operation or external light A, the flash CPU 65 confirms whether the flash device 50 is compliant with the conventional camera. When the flash device 50 is compliant with the conventional camera, emission is started when the light quantity received by the wireless photodetector 57 reaches the prescribed quantity.  When not compliant with the conventional camera, emission control will be performed on the basis of the preliminary emission command signal, magnification signal and main emission command signal.
Patent JP-2002242599-A (JP)
Title: Lining elements for constructing underground structure and method for constructing underground structure
Inventor: GOTO YOSHINORI
IPC: E21D11/14
Filed: 2001-02-13
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide lining elements for constructing an underground structure, which prevent occurring of heaves and depressions of the ground when inserted into the natural ground, to thereby prevent a railroad or a road from undergoing roadbed deformation, and to provide a method for constructing an underground structure using the lining elements. SOLUTION: The method is carried out by arranging, side by side, a large number of the lining elements 2, 3, 3, etc., having joints 6, 9, 10, respectively, along a longitudinal direction from a starting side toward an arrival side, with the adjacent joints 6, 10 (or 9, 10) being fitted to each other, and sequentially inserting the elements into the natural ground, to thereby construct the underground structure. The joints 9 out of the joints 9, 10 of the lining element 3 which is precedently inserted into the natural ground, are to accept fitting of the joints 10 of the lining element 3 which is subsequently inserted into the natural ground. According to the method, joints 12 of a temporary cover element 11, which extend from both ends thereof along a longitudinal direction, are fitted to the joints 9.  Thereafter, upon insertion of subsequent lining element into the natural ground, the temporary cover element 11 is squeezed out to the arrival side.
Patent JP-2001243116-A (JP)
Title: Write only system for updating least recently used bit
Inventor: UNDY STEPHEN R
IPC: G06F12/12
Filed: 2001-02-13
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for a cache memory system that updates efficiently the least recently used data. SOLUTION: The method and the device for tracking time sequence steps of a multiple accesses of way (305) in a cached data set (303) are disclosed. An updating mechanism (101) for the least recently used(LRU) bits selects only the specified bits of LRU, which indicates the sequence of access time to the ways being accessed. The mechanism (101) for the least recently used(LRU) can write new values only on the selected memory positions where the LRU specified bits are stored. Consequently, the mechanism can updates the LRU bits by taking a newly detected cache access into consideration without reading out the current value of the LRU bit from LRU array memory (102).
Patent JP-2002247675-A (JP)
Title: Speaker system
Inventor: YUI HIROYUKI
IPC: H04R1/02
Filed: 2001-02-14
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speaker system and a speaker that can prevent box sounding and is hardly restricted by the layout. SOLUTION: The circumferential part of a front of a body section (10) of the speaker is supported at a circumferential part of an opening (23) formed to a case (20) via a vibration buffer body (41), a cone (30) acting as a virtual ground is fixed to a rear side of the body section (10). The speaker system of this invention comprises the speaker containing the virtual ground (30) acting as a fixed point in the case (20) to bring the body section (10) to an ideal state with respect to vibration and supports (52, 53, 54, 55), which are suspended bodies or the like to prevent irregular reflection of sounds and vibrations.
Patent JP-2002241759-A (JP)
Title: Carbonization furnace
Inventor: MATSUNAGA SHUICHI
IPC: C10B53/00
Filed: 2001-02-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a running cost of a carbonization furnace performing a carbonization treatment of organic wastes. SOLUTION: The carbonization furnace comprises a carbonization furnace body 8 to which a charging port 1 for materials to be treated and an unloading port 2 for carbonized material are linked, and inside which the material to be treated is carbonized, and a combustion chamber 7 surrounding the carbonization furnace body 8 and heating it by burning an external fuel. In the combustion chamber 7, an oxidizing activity-having catalyst 15 is placed. The use of the fuel can be reduced by catalytic burning and heat storage by the catalyst in the combustion chamber, and the running cost is suppressed.
Patent JP-2002244267-A (JP)
Title: Temperature control method for thermal developing device and thermal developing device
Inventor: KOWADA KAZUTERU
IPC: G03D13/00
Filed: 2001-02-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a temperature control method for a thermal developing device which can determine the optimum temperature controlled variables for various operation states of the device and the thermal developing device to secure a quick response of startup temperature. SOLUTION: This temperature control method is for the thermal developing device which performs development while conveying a sheet to be thermally developed which has a latent image formed by exposure by a thermal processing part 13, and temperature is detected with a 1st sensor 71 which is provided in an opening/closing cover opening the thermal processing part 13 and exposed to outside the device when the opening/closing cover is opened. At the same time, a 2nd sensor 73 provided at the position of the thermal processing part 13 where it is not exposed even when the opening/closing cover is opened performs temperature detection.  According to the optimum controlled variables corresponding to combinations of previously stored temperature drop quantities detected by the 1st sensor 71 and 2nd sensors 73, the temperature of the thermal processing part 13 is controlled at the start of the operation of the device.
Patent JP-2002239197-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: NAGANO MITSUYOSHI
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2001-02-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pachinko machine making it possible for a game player to use a cellular phone in the bustle and noisy atmosphere of a pachinko hall. SOLUTION: In this pachinko machine 1a, a holder part 29 is continuously provided to a left side of a storage plate 28, and inside of the holder part 29 and a part over the holder part 29 can be used as a put-on port 6 for the cellular phone T. A top lamp 4 is provided at an upper edge of a front frame 3, and several LED 5, 5, etc., are built in the top lamp 4. When the cellular phone T put on the put-on port 6 receives a signal from outside, the LED 5, 5, etc., inside of the top lamp 4 emit the light with the work of a signal receiving recognizing substrate provided in the back surface.
Patent JP-2002246662-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing thermoelectric semiconductor
Inventor: SAKAKIBARA TSUTOMU
IPC: B22F5/00
Filed: 2001-02-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the performance of a thermoelectric semiconductor by applying shear stress to the thermoelectric semiconductor and hence improving the orientation in the direction of an inclined surface. SOLUTION: The manufacturing method of the thermoelectric semiconductor for compressing the thermoelectric semiconductor obtained by sintering by punching comprises a first inclination punch 51 where inclined surfaces 51a and 51b are provided in the axial direction of compression, and a second inclination punch 52 where an inclined surface is provided in the axial direction of compression against the first inclination punch. At the melting temperature or below of the thermoelectric semiconductor C3, either the inclination punch 51 or the second inclination punch 52 is slid for compression, thus applying shear stress to the thermoelectric semiconductor, and orientating the crystal particle of the thermoelectric semiconductor in the directions of the inclined surfaces 51a and 51b.
Patent JP-2002251426-A (JP)
Title: Plant design system, plant design method, and program
Inventor: WADA SHINJI
IPC: G06F17/50
Filed: 2001-02-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plant design system in which an integrated design ranging from facility layout to an external appearance is made possible and each drawing can be displayed in any shape with 3-D. SOLUTION: The integrated design ranging from the facility layout in a plant to the external appearance is made possible by a plant design system 100 in this invention since it stores equipment information about the equipment, selects the equipment to constitute the plant out of stored equipment information, arranges the selected equipment in a desired position of the plant, designs a construction space of a building in the plant to house the arranged equipment and the external appearance of the designed plant. Therefore, a concurrent evaluation and adjustment is made possible under mutual environment and flexibility in thinking can be enhanced.
Patent JP-2002252155-A (JP)
Title: System and method for charged particle beam
Inventor: MORITA KENJI
IPC: B65G49/00
Filed: 2001-02-22
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system having improved throughput by reducing the time for waiting the stabilization of a sample size caused by cooling of atmosphere gas, due to adiabatic expansion in a load lock chamber. SOLUTION: The temperature of a treatment chamber is set lower than the ambient temperature of charged particle beams, corresponding to the sample temperature to be carried. As a result, treatment can be started, immediately after carrying the sample into the treatment chamber, and thereby throughput is improved.
Patent JP-2002259729-A (JP)
Title: Goods sales method and system using network
Inventor: SUZUKI MAKOTO
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2001-02-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system to sell goods manufactured by a plurality of makers on a network. SOLUTION: A communication server 1 of any seller enters the customer information into a customer database 6, verifies any purchaser's connection to the sales site, presents the entry items including the specifications of goods, quantity, etc., to the purchaser, receives the request items placed by the purchaser, displays the goods list containing the specifications and prices extracted from the specifications database 3 accumulating the maker goods information and the price database 4 accumulated by the own code, records the received order information in the customer database, and forwards the received order to the maker.
Patent JP-2002260566-A (JP)
Title: Charged beam device
Inventor: MIKAMI YOSHIAKI
IPC: H01J37/305
Filed: 2001-02-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve irradiation precision of a charged beam by eliminating inclination of a charged beam column provided to a charged beam device, and to improve maintainability and assembly reproducibility. SOLUTION: A charged beam column 1 of the charged beam device is provided on a column support 18 which is provided straddling over a vacuum chamber 12, and air-tightness with the vacuum chamber 12 is kept through a flexible body 17 such as a bellows, accordion-folding, or the like.
Patent JP-2002253854-A (JP)
Title: Game system and computer program therefor
Inventor: KOJIMA HIDEO
IPC: A63F13/822
Filed: 2001-02-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To differ the result caused in a character attacked according to various states during the progress of a game. SOLUTION: This game system comprises an image display device, an input device for outputting a signal according to a user's operation, and a control device for progressing a game in reference to the output of the input device and displaying an image according to the progress state on the screen of the display device. The control device comprises an instruction detecting means for detecting whether the user inputs an instruction for shooting a flying matter to a specified target to a hero character or not, and a judgment means for performing a hit judgment by use of either one of preliminarily formed whole hit data and partial hit data for the target according to the game progress state at the point of time when the input of the instruction by the user is detected.  The whole hit, data include coordinate data showing the area occupied by the whole target within a virtual space, and the partial hit data include the area occupied by each of a plurality of portions constituting the target in the virtual space.
Patent JP-2002260403-A (JP)
Title: Obstacle light control system and lighting control system
Inventor: MORITA MASAYUKI
IPC: F21Y101/00
Filed: 2001-02-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an obstacle light control system 21 capable of controlling plural obstacle lights 12. SOLUTION: The system is provided with plural obstacle light control terminals 23 controlling the obstacle lights 12 and a monitor and control 24 monitoring and controlling the plural obstacle light control terminals 23. These obstacle light control terminals 23 and the monitor and control 24 are connected via a signal line 22 so as to enable intercommunication each other. The monitor and control 24 communicates with each obstacle light control terminal 23 connected to the signal line 22 to provide centralized control for the obstacle lights 12. Thus wiring can be simplified because only the connection with the signal line 22 may be necessary without requiring individual control panel independently controlling plural obstacle light control terminals 23.
Patent JP-2002258607-A (JP)
Title: Developing device and process cartridge
Inventor: MIYABE SHIGEO
IPC: G03G15/08
Filed: 2001-03-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the assemblability and the accuracy of mounting position of a magnetic sealing member. SOLUTION: A magnetic sealing member 50 is fitted into a mounting groove 17k, and the pin 55d of the bearing member of a developing roller 18 is inserted into a positioning hole 50d through the hole of a development frame body 17. The end of an elastic sealing member 51 which supports the space between a blade sheet metal 26a and the development frame body 17 is compressed between the blade sheet metal 26a and an end surface part 50c to push the bottom end surface of the magnetic sealing member 50 against an end surface 17k4.
Patent JP-2002254244-A (JP)
Title: Deburring tool, deburring method and device for umbrella-shaped gear wheel
Inventor: MORIYAMA JUNICHI
IPC: B23C3/12
Filed: 2001-03-02
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve at least either work efficiency or reliability in a deburring tool, a deburring device for an umbrella-shaped gear wheel and the like. SOLUTION: A deburring wheel 52 is relatively movably and relatively unrotatably installed in a tool shaft 130 to be energized on its tip side by a spring 164. The deburring wheel 52 is formed into a discoid and installed by which some a plurality of grooves 192 are inclined in the radial direction on a circular deburring side 190. After chamfering each ridge line of the front cone side of a spiral bevel gear 16 and a back cone side 144 by a chamfering milling 50, the deburring wheel 52 is moved to bring the deburring side 190 into line contact with the back cone side 144 to be pressed resiliently by the energization power of the spring 164. The deburring wheel 52 and the spiral bevel gear 16 are allowed to rotate in this state to cut the burr on the ridge line by edges of the ditches 192.
Patent JP-2002257905-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor integrated circuit
Inventor: MATSUMOTO SHOICHI
IPC: G01R31/28
Filed: 2001-03-06
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain the increase in the cost of a burn-in test and in the unit price of chip by making a burn-in test pattern capable of enhancing the activation ratio able to be set in a short time in the burn-in test for a logical LSI. SOLUTION: In the burn-in test, a plurality of test patterns for the burn-in are selectively generated by a circuit 20 for generating the burn-in test patterns on the chips of the LSI, and inputted in parallel to a flip-flop circuit 15 for scanning forming scan paths.
Patent JP-2002270485-A (JP)
Title: Processing apparatus and temperature control system
Inventor: YAMAGUCHI TAKAMITSU
IPC: G03F7/30
Filed: 2001-03-08
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a processing apparatus that is simplified in a structure and improved in operability and management by reducing the number of pipes and the number of wirings. SOLUTION: A resist applying and developing system 100 of the processing apparatus has developing units (DEV) 24a to 24c, a cooling unit (COL) for cooling a substrate G subjected to a developing process after a heat treatment, and temperature control heads 53a to 53c for circulating temperature control water between the developing units (DEV) 24a to 24c and the cooling unit (COL) and between them and a chiller 52. The independent control of the temperature control heads 53a to 53c and the chiller 52 can reduce the number of wiring for controlling and the number of pipes for flowing the temperature control water and thus improve assembling ability and controllability.
Patent JP-2002266338-A (JP)
Title: Simplified cutoff structure for water way, and simplified cutoff method
Inventor: SHOJI KAZUHIRO
IPC: E02B7/22
Filed: 2001-03-09
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simplified cutoff structure for a water way, which facilitates cutoff of the water way, and to provide a simplified cutoff method. SOLUTION: The simplified cutoff structure A for the water way is formed of a bar screen 1 set in the water way W, a cutoff plate 2 for ascending/ descending the bar screen 1, and guide portions (guide rails) 3 attached to bars 1a, 1a at both ends of the bar screen 1, for guiding ascent/descent of the cutoff plate 2.