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Patent JP-2004116932-A (JP)
Title: Hot water heating heat source machine
Inventor: IKEZAWA TAKASHI
IPC: F24D3/10
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hot water heating source machine capable of detecting the level of the whole range in an expansion tank and preventing the overflow from the expansion tank.  <P>SOLUTION: This hot water heating heat source machine has a pressure sensor 49 for detecting the pressure of hot water in a circulating passage and a temperature sensor 50 for detecting the hot water temperature in the circulating passage. The level L in the expansion tank 46 is detected based on the pressure and temperature detected by the pressure sensor 49 and the temperature sensor 50, respectively, in the stopped state of a circulating pump 45, and the heating operation of a burner is stopped when the level L is an upper limit level LH or higher.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004119800-A (JP)
Title: Substrate processing device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
Inventor: MINAMI MASAKATSU
IPC: C23C16/46
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the in-plane temperature uniformity of a wafer in manufacturing a semiconductor device, and to enhance the uniformity in film thickness.  <P>SOLUTION: A substrate processing device comprises a processing chamber 4 for processing a substrate 10, a substrate holding member 17 for holding a substrate in the processing chamber in multi-stages in a horizontal attitude, and a heater unit 20 surrounding the processing chamber for heating the substrate. The heater unit comprises oblique heat generators 27b, 28b, 29b, 30b, 31b.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004115881-A (JP)
Title: TiCN-BASED CERMET AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD
Inventor: TOKUNAGA TAKASHI
IPC: B23B27/14
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cutting tool made of TiCN-based cermet having excellent wear resistance and fracture resistance.  <P>SOLUTION: In the TiCN-based cermet, a hard phase in which TiCN and a part of WC, MoC, etc., are made into solid solution is bonded by 1 to 30wt.% of a binder phase of Co and/or Ni, and the hard phase consists of a first hard phase of black color and a second hard phase of grayish white color. The TiCN-based cermet is formed so that the average grain size d<SB>1in</SB>of the first hard phase in the inner part, is 0.05 to 0.5μm; the area ratio S<SB>1in</SB>of the first hard phase, is 40 to 80 area%; the average grain size d<SB>2in</SB>of the second hard phase, is 0.6 to 2μm; and the area ratio S<SB>2in</SB>of the second hard phase, is 5 to 40 area%. Moreover, a surface region existing at the surface of the cermet has the following characteristics: the average grain size d<SB>1sf</SB>of the first hard phase, is 0.3 to 1μm and larger than the d<SB>1in</SB>; the area ratio S<SB>1sf</SB>of the first hard phase, is 5 to 20 area%; the average grain size d<SB>2sf</SB>of the second hard phase, is 1 to 2μm and larger than the d<SB>2in</SB>; and the area ratio S<SB>2sf</SB>of the second hard phase, is 50 to 80 area%.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004116938-A (JP)
Title: Ejector cycle
Inventor: SAKAI TAKESHI
IPC: F25B41/00
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve separability between liquid phase coolant and refrigerating machine oil inside a vapor-liquid separator.  <P>SOLUTION: As the refrigerating machine oil, oil having lower compatibility in a low-pressure side thereof in comparison with that in a high-pressure side thereof is used. Even if the liquid phase coolant and the refrigerating machine oil are circulated by convection in the vapor-liquid separator 50, the liquid phase coolant and the refrigerating machine oil stay in the vapor-liquid separator 50 in the separated condition. Even if a density difference between the liquid phase coolant and the refrigerating machine oil is a little, since the liquid phase coolant and the refrigerating machine oil can be easily separated for extraction, deterioration of the heat absorbability of an evaporator 30 and shortage of lubrication of a compressor 10 can be previously prevented. Furthermore, a coefficient of performance and reliability of an ejector cycle can be improved.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004116492-A (JP)
Title: Fuel injection apparatus for rotary engine
Inventor: SHIMIZU MAKOTO
IPC: F02D9/02
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve combustibility of a mixture by optimizing fuel distribution in working chambers 5 to efficiently lead fuel into the working chambers 5 without sticking the fuel to a side face or the like of a rotor 6 in a rotary engine 1 wherein the working chambers 5, 5, 5 on the outer peripheral side carry out each stroke of intake, compression, expansion and exhaust in sequence while moving circumferentially following the rotation of rotors 6 accommodated in housings 2, 3.  <P>SOLUTION: First and second intake ports 11, 13 opened to side housings 3, 3 on both sides of the rotor 6 are provided for every cylinder 4. When the total injection quantity Q corresponding to the operating state of the engine 1 is larger than the first set quantity Q1, fuel is distributed to three injectors 25, 26, 32 to basically lead approximately the same quantity of fuel into the working chambers 5 through the first and second intake ports 11, 13, and the injection operation of fuel by each injector is performed in a prescribed suitable injection period. When fuel distribution to the secondary injector 32 reaches the quantity which cannot be injected within the suitable injection period, the fuel is injected beyond the suitable injection period.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004122271-A (JP)
Title: Micromotion control method and micromotion stage
Inventor: MASUDA MINETOMO
IPC: B25J9/10
Filed: 2002-10-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a micromotion control method enabling a micro operation using singularity neighborhood region of a multiple flexibility parallel mechanism and to provide micromotion stage having high resolution controlled based on the control method in the multiple flexibility parallel mechanism.  <P>SOLUTION: This micromotion control method in the multiple flexibility parallel mechanism independently drives a plurality of drive sources 1' disposed in parallel respectively and controls the motion of an end effector 2' connected to the drive sources 1' via intermediate links 3'. In Jacobian matrix expressing the micro momentum of the end effector 2' relative to the micro momentum of the drive sources 1' and having an inner product of a direction unit vector expressing the driving direction of the drive sources 1' and a direction unit vector expressing the direction of the links in diagonal components, the motion of the drive sources 1' is controlled in the neighborhood region of an under singularity where the determinant of the Jacobian matrix becomes 0.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004121972-A (JP)
Title: Manufacturing method of ultrasonic wave transmitting/receiving instrument having biased directivity characteristic
Inventor: TANIGUCHI YOSHIHARU
IPC: H04R17/00
Filed: 2002-10-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To resolve the problems that excellent performance and yield cannot be satisfied at the same time unless the ratio of a driving body electrode surface area s of good performance and the yield to a driven body surface area S, s/S, is within a specific range, and if the ratio is excessively small or excessively large, the performance or the yield of a satisfactory level cannot be obtained.  <P>SOLUTION: In a means of finding an industrial value as a merit curve C by researching in details the ratio of the driving body electrode surface area s to the driven body surface area S, s/S, a range of 0.32-0.92 is set as an optimum range for the ultrasonic wave transmitting/receiving instrument having biased directivity characteristics.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004121161-A (JP)
Title: Method for adiabatically carrying out compression sterilization
Inventor: HAYAKAWA ISAO
IPC: A61L2/04
Filed: 2002-10-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a adiabatic compression sterilization method capable of surely sterilizing microorganisms including a heat-resistant spore bearing bacterium in a short time and being inexpensively sterilizable without impairing the quality of a material to be sterilized, e.g. a food.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for adiabatically carrying out compression and sterilization comprises dispersing the material to be sterilized into a pressure medium generating heat by adiabatic compression, heating the material to be sterilized at a prescribed initial temperature within the range capable of suppressing heat deterioration caused by excess heating of the material to be sterilized at 60°C to 70 °C or above under ordinary pressure, making the pressure medium intrude into a microbial cell of a microorganism to be sterilized by rapid heating obtained by carrying out adiabatic compression and then adiabatically expanding the microbial cell.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004133512-A (JP)
Title: Network system
Inventor: MIURA SHIGEO
IPC: G06F3/12
Filed: 2002-10-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To answer status inquired from a network at minimum energy and a low cost even when an image forming apparatus is in a low power consumption state.  <P>SOLUTION: Each of digital composite machines 101a, 101b detects its own status, and only when a mode is shifted to a low power consumption mode or the detected status information is changed, transmits the status information to a server 102. The server 102 stores the status information data of the digital composite machines 101a, 101b which are respectively transmitted from the digital composite machines 101a, 101b, and in the low power consumption mode of the digital composite machines 101a, 101b, substitutively performs inquiries from PCs 103a, 103b which are information processors to the digital composite machines 101a, 101b and transmits the stored status information of the digital composite machines 101a, 101b to the PCs 103a, 103b as answers.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004132801-A (JP)
Title: Surface defect inspection device for band like body
Inventor: KONNO YUSUKE
IPC: G01N21/892
Filed: 2002-10-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surface defect inspection device for a band like body using a time delay integration type video camera capable of carrying out image pickup by an optional angle.  <P>SOLUTION: The surface defect inspection device for the band like body is provided with an irradiator 10 irradiating bar like illumination light I crossing the band like body 1 on a surface of the moving band like body 1, and the time delay integration type video camera 20 carrying out image pickup of a reflected image of the illumination light I reflected by the band like body surface with a shift speed of picture element rows in synchronization with a moving speed of the band like body 1. The video camera 20 is arranged so that an optical axis 24 of a sensor 22 is perpendicular to the band like body surface, and an image pickup lens of the video camera 20 comprises a shift lens 26 capable of shifting an optical axis 28 in a longitudinal direction L of the band like body 1. By adjusting a shift amount δ of the shift lens 26 in response to inspection conditions or a reflection angle of the illumination light, a sharp image with no blur can be provided even when image pickup is carried out at an optional angle.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004131595-A (JP)
Title: Resin composition
Inventor: YAMADA TOSHIAKI
IPC: C08L81/02
Filed: 2002-10-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a resin composition improved in compatibility and comprising an aromatic polyamide-imide resin and a polyarylene sulfide resin.  <P>SOLUTION: The resin composition is obtained by incorporating a total of 100 pts. wt. of (A) the aromatic polyamide-imide resin prepared by reaction between an aromatic tricarboxylic acid anhydride and a diisocyanate compound, wherein following ≥70% completion of an amidation reaction, an imidization reaction is carried out, and (B) the polyarylene sulfide resin with (C) 0.001-20 pts. wt. of an epoxy compound of the general formula( wherein, E is an epoxy group; R<SB>1</SB>is a 1-18C hydrocarbon group; X is a single bond, ether linkage, thioether linkage, carbonyl linkage or amido linkage; Y is H, a vinyl, OH, amino, ureido, isocyanate or mercapto group; R<SB>2</SB>is a 1-18C hydrocarbon group; n is an integer of ≥1; m is an integer of ≥1; and (n+m)≤5 ).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003179015-A (JP)
Title: Carrier head having multilayer retaining ring for chemical mechanical polishing
Inventor: ZUNIGA STEVEN M
IPC: B24B37/30
Filed: 2002-10-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To decrease a process yield by decreasing an end effect at an end edge of a substrate to be polished and thus decreasing an overall flatness.  <P>SOLUTION: A carrier head 100 for chemical mechanical polishing apparatus includes a retaining ring 110 having a flexible lower portion 180 and a rigid upper portion 184. The lower portion 180 of the retaining ring 110 has a bottom surface which is made of a first material and is to be contacted with a polishing pad during polishing operation. The upper portion 184 of the ring is made of a second material with a rigidity larger than the first material. Thereby, end effect is decreased and thus the flatness and finish of the substrate can be improved.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004140099-A (JP)
Title: Chemical liquid pump, pipeline system, substrate treatment unit, substrate treatment apparatus, substrate discharge method, chemical liquid distribution method,
Inventor: MORITA AKIHIKO
IPC: B05C11/10
Filed: 2002-10-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent air ingestion or microbubbling in a chemical liquid discharge process.  <P>SOLUTION: A chemical liquid pump 12 is provided with a compression chamber 20, a partition member 22 for dividing the compression chamber 20 into a cleaning compression chamber 20a and a discharge compression chamber 20b, a filter 21 arranged on the primary side of the discharge compression chamber 20b, and a drive mechanism 23. The cleaning compression chamber 20a and the discharge compression chamber 20b are each provided with two openings each having a check valve 24, so that resist liquid flows only in a (+Z) direction. The drive mechanism 23 moves the partition member 22 in a (-X) direction for the cleaning chamber 20a to suction the resist liquid and for the discharge compression chamber 20b to discharge the resist liquid. The drive mechanism 23 moves the partition member 22 in a (+X) direction for the discharge compression chamber 20b to suction the resist liquid from the filter 21 and for the cleaning compression chamber 20a to supply the resist liquid to the filter 21, with the same amount as the amount suctioned by the discharge-oriented compression chamber 20b.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004137200-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing fluorenylidenediallylphenol
Inventor: MORI HIROAKI
IPC: C07C37/055
Filed: 2002-10-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an industrially advantageous method for producing 4,4'-(9-fluorenylidene)diallylphenol useful as a raw material for functional polymers.  <P>SOLUTION: This method for producing 4,4'-(9-fluorenylidene)diallylphenol comprises (a) the 1st step of producing 4,4'-(9-fluorenylidene)diphenol diallyl ether by making an allyl halide act on 4,4'-(9-fluorenylidene)diphenol in the presence of a basic compound and (b) the 2nd step of subjecting the 4,4'-(9-fluorenylidene)diphenol diallyl ether to Claisen rearrangement reaction in a high-boiling solvent.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004144833-A (JP)
Title: Heating device
Inventor: UEKAWA EIJI
IPC: H05B6/14
Filed: 2002-10-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a crack in the end of a metallic sleeve 13 and restrict shaving of an end flange 15 by improving the sliding property of the metallic sleeve 13 and the end flange 15 that restricts longitudinal movement of the sleeve to one side of it, in a heating device using the metallic sleeve 13 as a fixing film.  <P>SOLUTION: A lubricative grease is applied to the sliding sections of the metallic sleeve end face and the end restriction flange. Alternatively, a solid lubricant layer is formed to improve sliding property.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004147421-A (JP)
Title: Switching power supply
Inventor: KITANO SABURO
IPC: H02M3/28
Filed: 2002-10-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a switching power supply capable of improving flexibility in circuit design as well as application range for an operation control circuit that controls the output of a main output circuit at a lower cost, and also capable of reducing power consumption during standby of a load side equipment.  <P>SOLUTION: When a load side equipment comes in a standby state, the control signal representing the standby state is inputted in an operation control circuit 15, so that a flip-flop of the operation control circuit 15 controls a main output circuit 23 to turn off the output of a main voltage. As a result, the load side equipment is supplied with a power only from a sub-voltage of a sub output circuit 14. Since the flip-flop is used as the operation control circuit 15, the flexibility in circuit design as well as application range for the operation control circuit 15 is improved with a reduced cost, resulting in a reduced power consumption even in a standby state of the load side equipment.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004143298-A (JP)
Title: Double-sided adhesive tape for waterproofing use and waterproofing method
Inventor: IZUGAMI TOMOYASU
IPC: C09J5/00
Filed: 2002-10-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a double-sided adhesive tape causing no decline in adhesivity to a moisture-permeable waterproof sheet even if left to stand outdoors for a long period with a release paper left laminated thereon, and to provide a waterproofing method enabling a house opening sash and a moisture-peameable waterproof sheet to be surely stuck with each other via such a double-sided adhesive tape even if left to stand outdoors for a long period with a release paper left laminated thereon.  <P>SOLUTION: The double-sided adhesive tape is such one that both sides of a substrate are provided with tackifying resin-containing acrylic adhesive layers respectively, and at least one of the acrylic adhesive layers is laminated with a release paper ≤2% in the transmittance of rays of light with ≤400nm wavelength. The waterproofing method comprises sticking a house opening sash and a moisture-permeable waterproof sheet with each other via the double-sided adhesive tape.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004147224-A (JP)
Title: Image communication equipment and image information printing method
Inventor: IZUMI MICHIHIRO
IPC: G06F13/00
Filed: 2002-10-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide image communication equipment and an image information printing method for printing the downloaded information according to the selection by a user without displaying the information.  <P>SOLUTION: The image communication equipment is provided with: a key operation part for a user to input an instruction by operating it; a liquid crystal display part for displaying the information; and a communication means which accesses a prescribed server via a public communication network and downloads the information stored in a server according to the instruction inputted by an input means. When a first instruction is inputted from the key operation part, the image communication equipment displays the downloaded information on a display means, converts the information the printing of which is instructed by the input means into printing data, and prints it on a recording medium. When a second instruction is inputted from the key operation part, the image communication equipment converts the donwnloaded information into the printing data and prints it on the recording medium without displaying it on a display means.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004152515-A (JP)
Title: Lighting system and display device using it
Inventor: YAMAMOTO TSUNENORI
IPC: F21Y103/00
Filed: 2002-10-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display animation without blur and enhance the utilization efficiency of the light of a backlight.  <P>SOLUTION: An almost parallel flat plate-shaped light guide plate 102 and a linear light source 101 are installed on one face of a side edge to a light outgoing surface of the light guide plate 102 or two faces of the facing side edges, an optical axis of light after being incident from the light source 101 to the light guide plate 102 is made non-parallel to the light outgoing surface of the inside of the light guide plate 102, and a reflector comprising a unit reflector 103 divided into m pieces in the vertical direction to the light outgoing surface of the light guide plate 102 is installed on the opposite side of the light outgoing surface of the light guide plate 102. The reflector is controlled so as to contact to and separate from the light guide plate 102 every divided unit reflector 103, the surface coming in contact with the light guide plate 102 is formed of a material having an index of refraction almost equal to a light guide body, and a reflecting surface reflecting light incident to the inside of the unit reflector 103 from the inside of the light guide plate when the surface comes in contact with the light guide plate 102 is formed inside the unit reflector 103.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004147520-A (JP)
Title: Fallen object-treating tool
Inventor: KOYAMA KIKUO
IPC: A01K23/00
Filed: 2002-10-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fallen object-treating tool which can easily treat a fallen object such as excrement excreted from a pet or fallen leaves or refuses fallen in a ditch.  <P>SOLUTION: This fallen object-treating tool 1 having an openable or closable capturing portion 3 at the tip and an opening or closing operation portion 4 for opening or closing the capturing portion 3 at the base end is characterized by forming a connection portion 2 for connecting the capturing portion 3 to the opening or closing operation portion 4 in a length capable of capturing the fallen object in a standing posture and disposing bendable joint portions 14, 15 for changing the direction of the capturing portion 3 in the longitudinally central portion of the connection portion 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004148966-A (JP)
Title: Refrigeration cycle apparatus
Inventor: YAMADA ETSUHISA
IPC: F25B43/00
Filed: 2002-10-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the degree of influence such as dimension variation in manufacturing of a discharged gas refrigerant passage of a compressor with respect to an adjusting action of a liquid refrigerant in a gas/liquid separator.  <P>SOLUTION: This refrigeration cycle apparatus comprises a first heat exchange section 5 for radiating heat of the discharged gas refrigerant of the compressor 1 and condenses it, a second heat exchange section 6 disposed on the downstream side of the refrigerant flow of the first heat exchange section 5, a pressure-reducing device 3 disposed on the downstream side of the refrigerant flow of the second heat exchange section 6, an evaporator 4 disposed on the downstream side of the refrigerant flow of the pressure-reducing device 3, the gas/liquid separator 7 into which the entire amount of the refrigerant having passed through the first heat exchange section 5 and part of the discharged gas refrigerant of the compressor 1 flow and that separates the gas and liquid of the inflow refrigerant, and a gas refrigerant return passage 12 for introducing the gas refrigerant in the gas/liquid separator 7 into the second heat exchange section 6.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO