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Patent JP-2008128527-A (JP)
Title: Hot water supply system and method
Inventor: TAKAGI TSUNEO
IPC: F24H1/00
Filed: 2006-11-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent degradation of the heat efficiency of an entire hot water supply system while securing the capacity of a hot water storage tank.  <P>SOLUTION: This hot water supply system comprises a hot water producing means 10 for producing hot water, a downstream-side hot water storage tank 21, an intermediate hot water storing portion 22 and an upstream-side hot water storage tank 23 for storing the hot water produced by the hot water producing means 10, hot water supply pipes 64, 65 for supplying the hot water stored in the downstream-side hot water storage tank 21 and the intermediate hot water storing portion 22, an intermediate water temperature sensor 32 for detecting a temperature of hot water in the intermediate storing portion 22, and a control portion 60 for selectively providing a first hot water supply state for supplying the hot water in the downstream-side hot water storage tank 21 to a hot water storing pipe, a second hot water supply state for supplying the hot water in the intermediate hot water storing portion 22 to the hot water supply pipe 64 through an intermediate pipe, and a third hot water supply state for supplying the hot water in both of the downstream-side hot water storage tank 21 and the intermediate hot water storing portion 22 to the hot water supply pipe 64 on the basis of the water temperature detected by the intermediate water temperature sensor 32.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2007136204-A (JP)
Title: Release handle of limb support for obstetric delivery bed
Inventor: RECKELHOFF JEROME EDWARD
IPC: A61G13/00
Filed: 2006-11-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a release handle of a limb support for an obstetric delivery bed which enables a sufficient flexion of patient's knee joints so as to place a patient in a desired posture for a delivery.  <P>SOLUTION: Limb supports 12, 14 coupled to a patient-support apparatus 10 is equipped with a frame having a pair of locks to prevent vertical and horizontal rotations of the limb support in relation to the patient-support apparatus. A lock release actuator is configured to be coupled to the frame to simultaneously unlock both the vertical and horizontal rotation locks. The limb support includes a storable leg support configured to support the patient's legs during the obstetric delivery.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008136264-A (JP)
Title: Phase adjustment type protective relay
Inventor: TOMITA MINORU
IPC: H02H3/38
Filed: 2006-11-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a phase adjustment type protective relay which can protect a power system from short-circuit faults or a ground faults, without malfunctioning.  <P>SOLUTION: An action judging circuit 20 that a short circuit direction distance relay 10 has is equipped with a phase angle calculating part 22 which obtains the phase angle θ of a short circuit current I to a bus voltage V, a property converter 26 which converts impedance properties, based on the phase angle θ; an action determining unit 27 which determines the operative/inoperative state of the short-circuit direction distance relay 10, using the impedance property converted by the property converter 26, and a property determining unit 24 which outputs a property conversion starting signal, to instruct it to start the property conversion to the property converter 26 and also outputs a determination instruction signal, to instruct it to perform determination processing, using the converted impedance property, to the action determining unit 27, when the phase angle θ is different from the phase angle θ', at the previous short-circuit fault.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008134745-A (JP)
Title: Commodity sales data processor and computer program
Inventor: TAKEUCHI KUNIHIRO
IPC: G06Q50/22
Filed: 2006-11-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate calculation of a patient's copayment at the time of selection of medical treatment at one's own expense.  <P>SOLUTION: In accordance with operation of an operation part, storing of declaration information for medical treatment at one's own expense in a storage area and deleting of declaration information for medical treatment at one's own expense stored in the storage area are performed. A point corresponding to an input diagnostic item is acquired (S301), and whether the declaration information for medical treatment at one's own expense is stored in the storage area or not is determined (S303). When the declaration information is stored (Y in S303), a medical treatment one's own expense unit price is acquired as point unit price (S304), and when the declaration information is not stored (N in S303), a general practice unit price is acquired as the point unit price (S311). The patient's copayment is calculated based on the total point obtained by totaling the points, the point unit price and a responsibility ratio (S305-308). Further, according to operation of the operation part, print information including the point, the point unit price and the patient's copayment is printed on a receipt paper and issued. (S310).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008140065-A (JP)
Title: Access arbitration device, access arbitration method and information processor
Inventor: IKUTA MASAAKI
IPC: G06F13/16
Filed: 2006-11-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To selectively perform either high-speed processing or processing for ensuring an access order.  <P>SOLUTION: A mode setting register 110 stores a predetermined value showing one of a first mode and a second mode. A mode switching part 107 outputs, when the predetermined value stored in the register 110 shows the first mode, a first access request received through a bus 101 to a first interface of a memory module 109, and outputs, when the predetermined value shows the second mode, the first access request to an access arbitration part 108. The access arbitration part 108 receives the first access request from the mode switching part 107, and a second access request from a bus 102. The arbitration part 108 arbitrates, when it receives the first access request and the second access request simultaneously, the order of outputting the first access request and the second access request according to a predetermined method to supply the requests to a second interface of the memory module 109.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008140946-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device
Inventor: SATO MOTOAKI
IPC: H01L21/60
Filed: 2006-12-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for coping with finer semiconductor chips and/or circuit boards and enhancing the flexibility in signals, power supplies, and wiring for electrode positions, thereby facilitating the miniaturization of semiconductor chips and the lamination of a plurality of semiconductor chips.  <P>SOLUTION: A projection consisting of a metal ball 2 at the tip of a metal fine wire 1 is arranged on an insulating layer 5 on the main surface of a contact semiconductor chip or a base having an electrical connection wiring layer. Further, the metal fine wire 1 is arranged along the insulating layer 5, and the metal fine wire 1 is bonded to an electrode 4 exposed at an opening in the insulating layer 5 in a part other than the metal ball 2 to form external wiring on the main surface of the semiconductor chip or the base.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008040454-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus
Inventor: FUJIMORI KOUTA
IPC: G03G15/00
Filed: 2006-12-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus that emits light to a test pattern, formed on an image carrier and detects reflected light from that by means of two light-receiving elements, thereby obtaining the density information of the test pattern, the apparatus being designed so as to obtain stable image quality, by decreasing the effect of a change in the distance and angle of a detection surface relative to a sensor.  <P>SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus includes one light-emitting part 51 and two light receiving parts. The first light-receiving part 62 is disposed at a position where it receives specular reflection, whereas the second light-receiving part 63 is disposed at a position where it receives diffusion light. In addition, the light-emitting part and the first light-receiving part are disposed so that a plane, containing the optical axis of light emitted from the light-emitting part and the optical axis of specular reflection light from the surface of the image carrier 105, is parallel to the direction 64 of the advancement of the image carrier. The second light-receiving part is not located in the plane, containing the optical axes of the light-emitting part and specular reflection light.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008145631-A (JP)
Title: Camera module
Inventor: KAMEYAMA YASUAKI
IPC: H04N5/225
Filed: 2006-12-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve a size reduction and to provide, with simple manufacturing equipment, a camera module capable of adjusting the position of a lens barrel relative to a lens barrel holding member.  <P>SOLUTION: The camera module includes the lens barrel 4a holding a lens 12, and the lens barrel holding member 4b holding the lens barrel 4a. The lens barrel 4a and the lens barrel holding member 4b have position adjustment mechanisms 20 capable of adjusting their mutual positions in the direction of the optical axis of the lens 12. Each of the position adjustment mechanisms 20 has a protrusion 21 formed on the external circumferential face of the lens barrel 4a, and a placing portion 22 formed on the internal peripheral face of the lens barrel holding member 4b, on which the protrusion 21 is placed freely rotatable in a circumferential direction. The protrusion 21 has a hook-shaped engagement portion 21b that engages with the lower part of the placing portion 22. By turning the protrusion 21 on the placing portion 22, the lens barrel 4a is made freely movable in the direction of the optical axis of the lens 12 with respect to the lens barrel holding member 4b.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008142986-A (JP)
Title: Inkjet recording apparatus
Inventor: TSUJI KIKUNOSUKE
IPC: B41J2/175
Filed: 2006-12-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inkjet recording apparatus capable of hold the life of a pressing element for a long time by performing swinging (flushing) only when an increase in viscosity with a specified value or higher of ink is actually generated by actually measuring the increase in the viscosity with the specified value or higher of the ink in a nozzle.  <P>SOLUTION: A delivering means for delivering ink and a detecting means for detecting delivery of the ink of an end part nozzle group are provided in the end part nozzle group which is not used for printing a head bar. In addition, a swinging means is provided for swinging the ink in all the nozzles when the detecting means does not detect the delivery of the ink. It is possible thereby that all the nozzles are swung only when the increase in the viscosity with the specified value or higher is actually observed in the end part nozzle group where the increase in the viscosity with the specified value or higher is most easily generated.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008144848-A (JP)
Title: Volume expansion/contraction absorber for automatic transmission
Inventor: TACHIBANA TOSHIKI
IPC: F16H57/029
Filed: 2006-12-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a volume expansion/contraction absorber for an automatic transmission capable of automatically adjusting level difference of an oil level inside a case by temperature variation while adjusting pressure variation of air inside the case by a single method.  <P>SOLUTION: The inside of the case 10 of the automatic transmission 1 is sealed in an air-tight state, and the volume expansion/contraction absorber 5 for absorbing expansion/contraction of the volume following temperature variation of air and oil sealed inside is provided. On the volume expansion/contraction absorber 5, a cylindrical cylinder 51 extending in a vehicle body longitudinal direction near a rear side of the vehicle body at a lower end of a trans-axle case 11 and a piston 52 slidably stored in the cylinder, moved to the inner side of the trans-axle case when the air and the oil inside the case are contracted and moved to the outer side of the trans-axle case when the air and the oil inside the case are expanded are provided. Further, the piston is arranged such that at least the lower part is contacted with the surface A of the oil stored inside the case.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008147397-A (JP)
Title: Solid-state imaging device and its manufacturing method
Inventor: NAKAGAWA ATSUO
IPC: H04N5/369
Filed: 2006-12-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid-state imaging device and its manufacturing method capable of preventing the occurrence of an etching residue without an etching time increased when a level difference adjustment film is formed.  <P>SOLUTION: The solid-state imaging device related to this invention includes a semiconductor substrate 101; a photoelectric converting unit 102 formed on the semiconductor substrate 101 and converting a light to a signal charge; an electrode 111 for reading the signal charge converted by the photoelectric converting unit 102; a first insulating film 114 formed over the photoelectric converting unit 102 and the electrode 111, and having a convex curve shape facing downward on the upper surface; a level difference adjustment film 115 formed over an electrode 111 through the first insulating film 114; a second insulating film 116 formed over the level difference adjustment film 115 and the first insulating film 114; and a third insulating film 117 formed on the second insulating film 116, composed of a material having a refractive index different from that of the material for comprising the second insulating film 116, and having a microlens shape contacting with the second insulating film 116 convex downward.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008143353-A (JP)
Title: Vehicle control device
Inventor: NOGUCHI YUTAKA
IPC: B60T8/1755
Filed: 2006-12-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle control device capable of securing controllability and stability of a vehicle at the time of braking of a parking brake during traveling.  <P>SOLUTION: The vehicle control device is provided with a yawing moment control means 100 for braking part of wheels of the vehicle in accordance with vehicle behavior to generate a yawing moment; a selection means 170 for selecting an operation standby state and non-operation state of the yawning moment control means 100; and a dynamic braking detection means 110 for detecting braking of a parking brake device 10 during traveling. The yawing moment control means 100 changes from the non-operation state to the operation standby state corresponding to detection of braking of the parking brake device 10 during traveling in the non-operation state.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008144034-A (JP)
Title: Lubrication system
Inventor: OBARA MIKA
IPC: C10N20/02
Filed: 2006-12-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lubrication system improving lubricant-holding power of a foamed lubricant holding a lubricant component and maintaining the amount of the lubricant at the necessary minimum, having excellent compatibility in the initial lubrication and responsive to demands of a longer life and a lower cost.  <P>SOLUTION: The lubrication system comprises the foamed lubricant 9 and grease 10 coexisting in the lubrication objective site. The foamed lubricant 9 contains the lubricant component in a resin which is foamed, cured and porosified. The grease 10 has ≥300 cone penetration. In the initial lubrication of the lubrication objective site, at least the grease 10 is present in a sliding part of the lubrication objective site.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008143858-A (JP)
Title: Hair cosmetic composition
Inventor: SUENAGA KOJI
IPC: A61Q5/06
Filed: 2006-12-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hair cosmetic composition which imparts a light slipping touch, a non-heavy collected touch, and the like, to hair.  <P>SOLUTION: This hair cosmetic composition is characterized by containing a both terminal long chain alkyl amino-modified polyorganosiloxane represented by general formula: MD<SB>x</SB>D'<SB>y</SB>M [wherein M is a siloxane unit represented by general formula: R<SP>1</SP>R<SP>2</SP><SB>2</SB>SiO<SB>0.5</SB>; D is a siloxane unit represented by general formula: R<SP>2</SP><SB>2</SB>SiO; D' is a siloxane unit represented by general formula: R<SP>2</SP>R<SP>3</SP>SiO; R<SP>1</SP>is a 16-50C alkyl; R<SP>2</SP>is a substituted or non-substituted 1-6C hydrocarbon group; R<SP>3</SP>is 3-aminopropyl and/or N-(2-aminoethyl)-3-aminopropyl; (x) is 1 to 2,000; (y) is a value of 1 to 100].  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008146467-A (JP)
Title: Content reproduction apparatus, settlement method, and settlement program
Inventor: TAKEHARA MITSURU
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2006-12-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry out settlement on the spot when a commodity is purchased, and to refund a part or the whole of the payment to a purchaser easily and surely at low cost after the commodity has been purchased.  <P>SOLUTION: When a user operates to purchase a commodity (article, content item, or service) introduced and sold on content while the content is received and reproduced, a CPU of a content receiving/reproducing apparatus deducts the cost of the commodity from electronic money existing in an electronic money card held over an electronic money interface to allow a distribution source of the commodity to receive it. When the distribution source of the commodity reduces the price of the commodity, the CPU adds a difference from a price upon purchase to the electronic money existing in the electronic money card and refunds it for the user.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008149792-A (JP)
Title: Propeller thrust transmission device for marine propulsion system
Inventor: IWASHITA TAKASHI
IPC: B63H23/34
Filed: 2006-12-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a propeller thrust transmission device for a marine propulsion system capable of restraining a spacer from causing precession around all circumferences of a propeller shaft tapered portion even if an upward resistance force of water works on the propeller.  <P>SOLUTION: A spacer 40 which is divided to a first division body 41 and a second division body 42 is fitted on the tapered portion 30b of an outer shaft portion 30a of the propeller shaft 30, and a thrust force working on the propeller 31 is received by the tapered portion 30b of the propeller shaft 30 through the spacer 40. The first division body 41 has a tapered hole 41a fitted in the tapered portion 30b so as to face each other. The second division body 42 has a portion extended from one side of the propeller side of an annular wall 42a which is fitted into a hole 33b of an attachment portion 33 with a gap S to the propeller shaft 30 as a small-diameter sleeve portion 42b, and a portion extended from the other side of the annular wall 42a which is fitted to an outer periphery surface 41c positioned outside the tapered hole 41a of the first division body 41, as a large-diameter sleeve portion 42c.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008148782-A (JP)
Title: Prize exchange device, prize exchange method, prize exchange system and issue for prize exchange
Inventor: FURUMIYA SHIGEO
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2006-12-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a prize exchange device capable of selecting other prizes in a shop outside a game hall instead of prizes selected inside the game hall and performing prize exchange processing in a law-abiding manner by settling a difference amount generated by the selection using values other than the storage number of game media acquired by a player, a prize exchange method, a prize exchange system, and an issue for prize exchange.  <P>SOLUTION: Terminal device 1100 outside a hall is provided in the shop outside the game hall, performs the prize exchange processing on the basis of information relating to prize provision for providing the prizes in exchange with at least the number of game media acquired in the game hall, and performs settling processing relating to the prize exchange using the values other than the number of the acquired game media.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008151202-A (JP)
Title: Transmission for vehicle
Inventor: YAMAGUCHI KENICHI
IPC: F16H57/027
Filed: 2006-12-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent oil leakage from a casing 10 while sufficiently adjusting the internal pressure of the casing 10 especially in high-speed rotation, in a transmission (trans-axle 1) for a vehicle so configured that oil in the casing 10 is scraped and fed to an appropriate portion in the casing 10 by the rotation of a gear 8 transversely positioned in the casing 10.  <P>SOLUTION: In the casing 10, a passage 30 opening to the atmosphere, which communicates with the outside of the casing 10 is formed on the upstream side (22) in the rotating direction of the gear 8.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008149916-A (JP)
Title: Airbag device for vehicle
Inventor: HIGUCHI HITOSHI
IPC: B60R21/276
Filed: 2006-12-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable swelling and deployment, while following an external shape when the swelling and deployment of an airbag are completed in the middle of swelling and deploying the airbag by solving a problem of swelling the airbag in a longitudinally long shape more than necessary in the middle of swelling and deploying the airbag, when arranging an introducing pipe in the airbag, in an airbag for a front passenger seat and an airbag for a driver's seat.  <P>SOLUTION: This airbag device 30 for a vehicle has the airbag 31 deployed toward an occupant of the vehicle 10, an inflator 32 supplying inflating gas to the airbag 31, and the introducing pipe 45 formed in the airbag 31 and introducing the gas toward the airbag 31 from the inflator 32. The side end of the airbag 31 of the introducing pipe 45 is folded so as to be positioned in the introducing pipe.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008148971-A (JP)
Title: Slot machine
Inventor: NINOMIYA HIROAKI
IPC: A63F5/04
Filed: 2006-12-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To variously change the fluctuation of ball putout and improve so-called ball-holding times of players in a slot machine having a replay state as a game state.  <P>SOLUTION: This slot machine is provided with a plurality of types of replay role where the combinations of winning symbols are different from each other, diversifies chances (chances of respective replay roles for starting RT (Replay Time)) for varying winning probabilities of the respective replay roles and RT continuation times in the respective replay roles so as to create diversified game states with different winning probabilities of the replay roles and variously change the game states.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008157042-A (JP)
Title: Wind turbine for wind power generation and wind power generator
Inventor: IHARA SATORU
IPC: F03D11/00
Filed: 2006-12-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wind turbine for wind power generation which is small-sized and continuously rotates on a roof and the like of a house.  <P>SOLUTION: The wind turbine includes a rotating base 5 rotating in the normal direction, masts 6 erected on the rotating base 5, each of triangle sails 8 which are unfurled by a first fixed point 31 fixed by the mast 6 above the rotating base 5, a second fixed point 32 fixed at the peripheral part of the rotating base 5, and a free point 33 movable with respect to the rotating base 5, and a control means 9 for controlling the range of the movement of the free point 33. When the sails 8 receive wind, respective free sides 34 in opposition to the second fixed points 32 in the triangle of the sails 8 are moved arcuately.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT