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Patent JP-2004163830-A (JP)
Title: Focus changeover structure of camera
Inventor: MAEDA SOICHI
IPC: H04N5/225
Filed: 2002-11-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the focus changeover structure of a camera by which area occupied by components related to a camera is made small and a camera part is arranged at a free position, and to provide a cellular phone with a camera.  <P>SOLUTION: By rotating the projection 8-2 of a decorative ring 8 with a finger, rotation is transmitted to a lens rotating lever 6 by the arm 8-1 of the ring 8. The lever 6 moves a camera lens 5 up and down simultaneously with the rotation, so that the focus changeover for ordinary photography and close-up photography is performed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004127898-A (JP)
Title: Vibration responsive switch
Inventor: KANO HIROSHI
IPC: H01H35/14
Filed: 2002-10-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vibration responsive switch in which the switch is automatically turned on in response to the external vibration of earthquakes or the like and in which the switch is turned off automatically after emitting light for a certain period of time.  <P>SOLUTION: A pendulum 17 of a ferromagnetic material hung by a metal wire 18 swings with the external vibrations, and it is attracted to a permanent magnet 24 at the position of the pendulum 30 away from the center of the permanent magnet 24, and the switch is turned on by contacting the conductive face 25. When a shape memory alloy comes to a transformation point by heat generation due to current from a battery connected in series to the metal wire 18 covered by an insulating body 22 having a high heat capacity, the metal wire 18 of the shape memory alloy is deformed and the length to suspend the pendulum 30 becomes short, and the contact of the pendulum 30 and the conductive face 25 is released to turn off the switch, and the pendulum 30 returns to the former position of the pendulum 17. For a certain period until the shape memory alloy reaches the transformation point, the switch is turned on.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004170679-A (JP)
Title: Lighting inspection device for display panel
Inventor: IKURA TSUNEO
IPC: H01J11/20
Filed: 2002-11-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting inspection device for performing accurate inspection by faithfully reproducing display quality exhibiting when the product is produced.  <P>SOLUTION: The lighting inspection device is provided with a panel lighting unit 3 having a panel lighting circuit 32, arranged in a device main body 2, for inputting a lighting signal to a display panel 1, and a drive control circuit 7, arranged in the device main body 2, for driving the device. By supporting the panel lighting unit 3 with a support member 4 made of an electrical insulation material and arranging it in the device main body 2, the panel lighting circuit 32 is electrically insulated against the drive control circuit 7.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003230012-A (JP)
Title: Image processing based on header information
Inventor: CATHERINE BARKNER
IPC: G06T3/40
Filed: 2002-11-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for segmenting an image, for adaptively scaling an image, and for automatically scaling and cropping an image based on code stream headers data.  <P>SOLUTION: A file that can provide a header that contains multi-scale entropy distribution information on blocks of an image is received. For each block, the block is assigned to a scale from a set of scales that maximizes a cost function. The cost function is a product of a total likelihood, which is the product of the likelihoods of the blocks, and a prior. The image is segmented by grouping together blocks that have been assigned equivalent scales. The file represents an image in JPEG 2000 format.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004168383-A (JP)
Title: Sealingly-closed type storing spoon and lid for container
Inventor: ISHIMOTO NORIO
IPC: A47G19/18
Filed: 2002-11-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spoon storing means which does not require any cleaning or washing every time after the spoon is used, which is convenient in use, sanitary and shows a high degree of sealed state.  <P>SOLUTION: A handle portion of a spoon has a fine shaft shape and a middle part of the handle portion is provided with a resilient packing 15 and a spaced-apart wall 17. A lid for a container is provided with a through-pass hole and a concave part 16. The resilient packing for the spoon and the concave part of the lid are removably arranged. When they are fitted to each other, an inside part of the container is sealingly closed. In turn, when they are removed from each other, the lid for the container can be removed from the container with the spoon being left as it is. In addition, also when the lid is closed, it is not necessary to take out the spoon from the container and the lid can be closed together with the spoon. Further, its partition wall prevents jam or the like from adhering the resilient packing.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004166621-A (JP)
Title: Seasoning apparatus
Inventor: KOSAKA AKIRA
IPC: A23L19/18
Filed: 2002-11-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely and uniformly season an article group fed in a feeding part when the article group is conveyed to a discharge part while seasoning the article group.  <P>SOLUTION: The seasoning apparatus 20 carries the article group X fed in the feeding part A to the discharge part B while seasoning the article group X. The seasoning apparatus 20 is equipped with a screw member 21 for housing the article group X fed in the feed part A into partition every the group X and conveying the article group X to the discharge part B, a cylinder member 22, a rotation motor 25 and seasoning feed means 46 and 56 for feeding the seasoning every the article group X. In the seasoning apparatus, intervals of spiral blades 21A of the screw member 21 are widened on the way conveyed to the discharge part B to enlarge a flat cross section of the division.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004167425-A (JP)
Title: Device for injecting definite quantity of liquid in spraying can system
Inventor: NAKAYAMA SAKAE
IPC: B05B9/04
Filed: 2002-11-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a definite quantity of liquid to be injected into a spraying can simply with a good measurement.  <P>SOLUTION: One end of a shaft 19 to be slid by rotation of a valve opening / closing lever 14 is mounted in an eccentric position of the valve opening / closing lever 14 formed at one end of a T-shaped external pipe 13. The other end of the shaft 19 is attached to a valve mounted at the other end of the T-shaped external pipe 13, and a cap 22 to be screwed into an outlet port of a liquid tank is mounted on the other end of the T-shaped external pipe 13. A transparent metering tank 29 is mounted at a lower end of the T-shaped external pipe and a valve mechanism to be closed normally with elastic force of a coil spring 32 and opened when a slide member 31 is pushed up against this coil spring 32 is provided at a lower end of the metering tank 29.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004170883-A (JP)
Title: Wide-angle photographic lens
Inventor: KUDO YOSHINOBU
IPC: G02B9/06
Filed: 2002-11-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wide-angle photographic lens which is shortened in overall length and has high telecentricity although the lens has a wide angle.  <P>SOLUTION: An imaging device has, in order from an object side to an image-plane side, a stop 3, a wide-angle photographic lens comprising a 1st biconvex lens 1 and a 2nd lens 2 as a positive meniscus lens which is convex to the image-plane side, and a semiconductor imaging element 5 comprising a low-pass filter 4 and a CCD. The 1st lens and 2nd lens are both plastic lenses and their lens surfaces are aspherical.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004174301-A (JP)
Title: Structure for making water high in hydrogen concentration
Inventor: AKIYAMA TOMOKO
IPC: C02F1/68
Filed: 2002-11-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simple structure for making a water high in hydrogen concentration capable of ensuring a sufficient hydrogen concentration when used.  <P>SOLUTION: A cloth bag 20 is put in a columnar container 10 which has a large number of holes 14 bored in its side surface, has an opening 28 provided to one end part thereof and closed at its other end part and a hydrogen concentrating agent 22 containing magnesium and tourmaline is housed in the bag to constitute the structure for making water high in hydrogen concentration. This structure for making a water high in hydrogen concentration is housed in a water container along with water and this container is shaken by the hand to produce hydrogen by the contact of water with magnesium. Since hydrogen is continuously produced so far as water is in contact with magnesium, high hydrogen-concentration water having a sufficient dissolved hydrogen concentration when used can be obtained.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004179759-A (JP)
Title: Virtual ring optical burst transfer method and node unit
Inventor: IMAYADO WATARU
IPC: H04B10/291
Filed: 2002-11-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a virtual ring optical burst transfer method whereby an OXC mesh network realizes the avoidance of collision between optical burst signals and a minimum warrant for an optical burst transfer band.  <P>SOLUTION: In an optical path cross connect network for transferring optical burst, a plurality of optional nodes configuring the optical path cross connect network are used for one group, one virtual ring network is defined by an aggregate of optical channels interconnecting the nodes configuring the group in a ring form, each node of the group shares the transmission band of the virtual ring network, and on the occurrence of communication traffic in each node, the transmission band of the virtual ring network is reserved and the optical burst signals are transferred through the band.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004173828-A (JP)
Title: Mattress with laminated structure
Inventor: MATSUO MASAHIRO
IPC: A47C27/15
Filed: 2002-11-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mattress having high body pressure dispersing function and heat radiating effect.  <P>SOLUTION: This laminated mattress is formed of urethane foam and comprises a low layer part 2 formed of high density urethane foam, an intermediate layer 3 formed of low repulsive urethane foam and the upper layer 4 formed of filter foam having an open cell structure. The high density urethane foam 2 retains an appropriate cushion performance, the low repulsive urethane foam 3 provides the body pressure dispersing function and the filter foam 4 exhibits a high ventilating function.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004176821-A (JP)
Title: Chain tensioner
Inventor: SATO SEIJI
IPC: F16H7/08
Filed: 2002-11-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a cost of a relief valve maintaining a pressure of a pressure chamber of a chain tensioner at a set pressure or less, and to prevent leakage of hydraulic oil in the pressure chamber from an oil drain passage incorporated with the relief valve in a closed state of the relief valve.  <P>SOLUTION: A plunger 3 and a spring 5 are incorporated in a cylinder chamber 2 formed in a housing 1. The relief valve 30 comprising an assembly of a valve body 33, a valve element 34, and a spring 35 is fixed to the oil drain passage 20 communicating the pressure chamber 6 formed in a back part of the plunger 3 with the outside to prevent axial movement of the relief valve 30 by pressure fluctuation of the pressure chamber 6, and the leakage of the hydraulic oil in the pressure chamber 6 to the outside from the oil drain passage 20 in the closed state of the relief valve 30 is prevented. The cost of the relief valve 30 is reduced by forming the valve body 33 by a sleeve 31, and a cap 32 pressed in an opening end part of the sleeve 31.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004176503-A (JP)
Title: Viscous liquid mixing mixer
Inventor: HOSOYA KATSUYASU
IPC: E01C19/02
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mixing tank which is effective for the efficient and uniform mixing of room temperature setting polyurethane serving as a viscous liquid material.  <P>SOLUTION: A rotating shaft of the mixing tank is fitted with at least three blades having the following functions, that is, the agitating blade (1) having the function of performing multi-layered liquid draining on a vertical surface, the agitating blade (2) having the function of performing single-layered liquid separation on a horizontal surface, and the agitating blade (3) having the function of replacing upper and lower layers with each other. A mixture, which undergoes the uniform mixing and into which foam is taken, can be obtained and used as an elastic pavement material, so that a uniform and good elastic surface can be obtained.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004182383-A (JP)
Title: Conveyance device
Inventor: HAYASHI TOSHIO
IPC: B65G47/19
Filed: 2002-12-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a conveyance device provided with a dummy shutter, having a simple structure, and capable of dispensing with setting, management, and maintenance for electric control.  <P>SOLUTION: This conveyance device 1 is provided with a hopper 101, a shutter 102, a large amount trough 104, and feeders 105, 106 for large and small amount. A small amount trough 2 is used to attach the dummy shutter 3 and attach a small feeder part 20 by drawing it close to one end of a carry-out part 21 of the small amount trough 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004185999-A (JP)
Title: Light source device
Inventor: SUGA TOSHIYUKI
IPC: F21Y101/00
Filed: 2002-12-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light source device allowing the positioning of each lamp with respect to a reflecting mirror to be adjusted in a fine range in the respective lamps, and capable of firmly holding the lamps so as not to break down the positional relationship between the reflecting mirror and each lamp after the positioning of the lamps.  <P>SOLUTION: This light source device is equipped with the reflecting mirror fixed in a casing; a light source lamp L; and a lamp holding mechanism 10. The holding mechanism 10 has a mounting member 11, a fitting member 12, an insulation member 13 and a power feeding member 14. The mounting member 11, the fitting member 12, the insulation member 13 and the power feeding member 14 are fixed to a casing bottom surface C1, the mounting member 11, the fitting member 12 and the insulation member 13 so as not to change their positions by screw mechanisms, respectively. Required loose insertion parts are formed in screw insertion holes for constituting the respective screw mechanisms to bring them into a movable state among predetermined members, so that the position of the source lamp L can be finely adjusted with respect to the optical axis M of the reflecting mirror.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003202746-A (JP)
Title: Optical toner concentration sensor
Inventor: GROSS ERIC M
IPC: G01N21/47
Filed: 2002-12-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem that toner concentration relies on an indirect measuring technique whose SN ratio is lowered by being measured by a toner concentration (TC) sensor which is expensive and is not so accurate.  <P>SOLUTION: This toner maintaining control system incorporates a sump (44) to store developer including a toner material, a member (46) to feed the developer from the sump, a viewing window (210) to see the developer, an optical sensor device (200) to measure light reflected at the viewing window and the developer and a means (controller) to generate a signal meaning the toner concentration in the sump. A sensor is adjacently arranged to the surface of a transparent viewing window, so that the level of the toner concentration is calculated by generating a proportional electric signal in accordance with the light reflected by the transparent viewing window and the developer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003183037-A (JP)
Title: Quartz glass blank for optical part and use thereof
Inventor: UEBBING BRUNO
IPC: C03C3/06
Filed: 2002-12-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a quartz glass blank for optical parts for transmitting UV rays of 250 nm or shorter wave length and to provide a use of the blank in microlithography with regard to UV rays of 250 nm or shorter wave length.  <P>SOLUTION: The quartz glass blank is characterized by containing 3×10<SP>17</SP>-2.0×10<SP>18</SP>mol/cm<SP>3</SP>of H<SB>2</SB>, 500-1,000 wt.ppm of OH, less than 2×10<SP>17</SP>mol/cm<SP>3</SP>of SiH group, and having less than 2 ppm of inhomogenity Δn of refractive index, and less than 2 nm/cm of the strain birefringence.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004181887-A (JP)
Title: Printer and printer control method
Inventor: KAWAMURA HIDEHIKO
IPC: B65H7/06
Filed: 2002-12-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer which prevents defective issuance of a label due to omission of tearing of a preceding label, through a simple structure by using a single separation sensor.  <P>SOLUTION: The printer is comprised of a cutter member 6, the separation detecting sensor 5, and a transport control means 11. The cutter member 6 is set at an issuing port 12. The separation detecting sensor 5 is arranged between a printing section 4 and the issuing port 12, and detects whether a mountless strip label 8 which is printed at the printing section 4 and transported to the issuing port 12, is present or not. The transport control means 11 transports the mountless strip label over a predetermined distance until perforation at a rear edge of the preceding label is positioned to the cutter member 6, and then halts the transport once. Thereafter, when the mountless strip label is transported backward to a location out of the separation detecting sensor after a predetermined lapse of time from the halting state, if the preceding label is present as a result of detection by the separation detecting sensor 5, the mountless strip label 8 is transported to the issuing port 12 again, and the perforation is positioned to the cutter member 6. On the other hand, if no label is present as a result of the detection, the mountless strip label 8 is positioned to a printing location of the printing section 4.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004187193-A (JP)
Title: Image processing apparatus
Inventor: KATO MASAO
IPC: H04N1/405
Filed: 2002-12-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form image data with high image quality by applying optimum error spread processing without enforcing an image data processing burden to inputted multi-value image data even in the case an image processing apparatus which has limited image data processing capabilities is employed.  <P>SOLUTION: In the image processing apparatus which outputs the result of the error spread processing by applying the error spread processing to the multi-value image data consisting of a plurality of density components, a quantization selection part of a quantization part performs: the error spread processing of at least one color among the plurality of density components by changing at least one value of a quantization threshold and a quantization spread coefficient which are used for the error spread processing on the basis of a multi-value image data value of the density components or a value calculated from the multi-value image data value; and, for the remaining density components, the error spread processing of the quantization threshold and the quantization spread coefficient to be used for the error spread processing by a fixed value.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004187225-A (JP)
Title: Monitoring system
Inventor: MARUYAMA KIYOYASU
IPC: H04N5/915
Filed: 2002-12-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control a visual recording apparatus and to obtain a terminal which easily watches monitoring video that is recorded in a monitor recording apparatus, and records necessary video.  <P>SOLUTION: The monitoring system is provided with a recording and reproducing part for recording and reproducing a monitoring image, and a terminal 121 for remotely controlling the recording and reproducing part. Besides, the recording and reproducing part has: a remote control signal receiving part 113 for receiving a control signal for remote control, an input image processing part 102; hard disk 103 for recording an output image signal of a camera 112 according to the control signal; and an output image processing part 104, and an image signal processing part 114 for transmitting the output image of the camera 112 or the reproduced image according to the control signal. Further, the terminal 121 has: an image signal receiving part 125 for receiving a transmitted image; a monitor 128 for displaying the image; an image signal processing part 126 and a compact flash 127 for recording the image; a control part 123 which generates the control signal and is linked with remote control to control a second receiving means and a second recording means; and a remote control signal transmitting part 124 for transmitting the control signal.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004192156-A (JP)
Title: Image retrieval program, storage medium storing the program, image retrieval system and image retrieval method
Inventor: WADA TOSHIAKI
IPC: G06K9/62
Filed: 2002-12-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image retrieval program capable of easily performing a precise retrieval with minimized omission without requiring a keyword giving work which requires much labor hour, a storage medium storing the program, an image retrieval device and an image retrieval method.  <P>SOLUTION: This program makes a computer execute the image retrieval step of retrieving a second image similar to a reference image from a plurality of first image stored in a storage means; the image display step of displaying an index image of the contracted retrieved second image; the image selection step of making the user of the image retrieval device select a third image similar to the reference image on the basis of the displayed index image; and the mark assignment step of newly providing a category that is a data area for assigning a mark showing the similarity with the reference image to each selected third image and assigning a mark showing the similarity to the category.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004192249-A (JP)
Title: Composite display card and processor therefor
Inventor: ISHIKAWA NOBUTAKA
IPC: B42D15/10
Filed: 2002-12-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composite display card having both a display function of a visible magnetic card and a display function of a rewrite card using a thermosensitive layer, and to provide a processor therefor.  <P>SOLUTION: This composite display card 1 has: an information display part 2 having a see-through window part 12a formed of the transparent thermosensitive layer 3, arranging magnetic particles 13 movably sealed in a tightly shut space part 12 by magnetic action to display rewritable information, and allowing visual recognition of the display information through the window 12a; and the thermosensitive layer 3 allowing printing of the display information by use of a leuco dye reversibly varying between a color developing state and a color fading state in response to thermal energy. The processor can singly execute a magnetic process to the information display part 2 and a thermosensitive process to the thermosensitive layer 3.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI