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Patent JP-2004054478-A (JP)
Title: Method of managing printer firmware
Inventor: HARADA TAKASHI
IPC: G06F3/12
Filed: 2002-07-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of managing printer firmware capable of reducing the time required to replace or add a program module by eliminating the need to dismantle a main body to take out and replace a ROM or prepare a special environment.  <P>SOLUTION: For a printer connected to a network, the method of managing printer firmware comprises a means (process) for receiving emails; a means (process) for analyzing the contents of the email; a means (process) for retaining and managing a program module; a means (process) for replacing an existing module with the module obtained by the analysis means; and a sending means for sending an updated software module as an attachment to the printer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004052143-A (JP)
Title: Elastic fabric and method for producing the same
Inventor: HAMANO AKIRA
IPC: D03D15/56
Filed: 2002-07-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elastic fabric which is suitable as a fabric for sport wears such as swimming wears or leotards and for inner wears or outer wears for women, and has excellent chemical resistance and excellent product dimensional stability.  <P>SOLUTION: This elastic fabric comprising a fabric comprising cross-linking type polyolefin fibers is characterized by having shrinkage rates of ≤8% in the warp and weft directions of the fabric, after the fabric is thermally treated at 65°C for 30 min in a dry state. The method for producing the elastic fabric is characterized by shrinking the fabric comprising the cross-linking type polyolefin fibers, when dyeing the fabric, and then thermally setting and finishing the fabric in a state that the fabric is stretched or relaxed at a stretch rate of ≤15%. Thus, the product having excellent dimensional stability is obtained.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004056381-A (JP)
Title: Communication system, communication apparatus, and communication control method
Inventor: KANAYAMA KENJI
IPC: H04W74/04
Filed: 2002-07-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication system capable of starting a slave unit upon a start request from a master unit side while reducing the power consumption of the slave unit.  <P>SOLUTION: The slave unit 12b can take: a start state wherein the slave unit 12b can make communication with the master unit 12a; a communication control state where the slave unit 12b can receive at least a start request signal transmitted from the master unit 12a and shifts to the start state through the reception of the start request signal; and a standby state wherein the power consumption is less than that in the start state and the communication control state. Further, the slave unit 12b is provided with a state control section that repetitively selects the slave unit 12b in the standby state into the communication control state in a predetermined timing and selects the slave unit 12b into the standby state when the communication control state is consecutive for a predetermined period without receiving the start request signal.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004056580-A (JP)
Title: Chip antenna element
Inventor: OKUBO NAOKI
IPC: H01Q9/42
Filed: 2002-07-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chip antenna element that is small and thin so as to be easily incorporated in mobile communication equipment and provides a wideband characteristics.  <P>SOLUTION: This chip antenna element comprises an insulating base body 12 made of a dielectric, a radiation electrode 14 made of a microstrip conductor, a terminal 16 for feeding and a fixed terminal 18 formed on a mounting surface, and a feed electrode 20 for connecting the feeding terminal and the radiation electrode. The radiation electrode consists of a meandering conductor 22 having one or more turning-back parts connected to the feed electrode and a wide conductor 24, where the conductor width is larger than that of the meandering conductor, the base end is connected to the meandering conductor and the front end is left open. In the wide conductor, it is preferable that there are formed cut parts 26a, 26b at a middle part between the base end and the front end on one side or both sides to locally form a small part in conductor width.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004059166-A (JP)
Title: Forklift
Inventor: TSURI SHIGETAKA
IPC: B66F9/075
Filed: 2002-07-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a forklift capable of maintaining high quality over a long period, even in a severe working environment.  <P>SOLUTION: An instrument panel 14 to cover upper sides of an equipment storing chamber 11 and a battery storing chamber 13 of the forklift is integrally formed by pressing a stainless steel plate. As a result, high external appearance quality having peculiar metallic luster and imparting high grade feeling can be obtained to enhance the value of the forklift. Since the substrate of the instrument panel 14 has antifungal property in addition to weather resistance and corrosion resistance, the forklift can be hygienically kept for the long period.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004059013-A (JP)
Title: Tank maintenance management support system
Inventor: NAKAGOME MASAKI
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2002-07-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a support system for acquiring information on risk evaluation, inspection result, maintenance company registration, insurance company registration, manufacturer registration, and maintenance skill in implementing maintenance management for a tank for storing liquid.  <P>SOLUTION: The support system comprises a risk evaluation result information sending means, which creates risk evaluation result information based on reference point information and reference maintenance plan information from specified tank registration information in an administrative terminal unit, and sends the evaluation result information to an owner terminal unit and records it in a data base; an inspection result information sending means, which creates inspection result information from an inspection result, which is included in the information, based on an inspection item in a inspection device equipped with a sensor, and sends the inspection result information to a maintenance management support unit; and an inspection result information sending/receiving means, which receives the inspection result information from an inspection terminal unit, and sends it to the owner terminal unit and records it in the data base.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004064373-A (JP)
Title: Acoustic reproducing apparatus
Inventor: KIYOHARA KENJI
IPC: H04R1/02
Filed: 2002-07-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an acoustic reproducing apparatus for utilizing an ultrasonic wave to reproduce an audible tone with strong directivity that solves a defect that a distance from an ultrasonic wave generating element to a reproduction point of the audible tone is too long.  <P>SOLUTION: In the acoustic reproduction method whereby a plurality of ultrasonic wave generating elements arranged in a form of a disk emit an ultrasonic wave signal subjected to amplitude-modulation by an audible signal and a super-directivity is realized in a desired direction by using the self demodulation effect utilizing the nonlinearity of a medium, a first reflecting plate placed a distance L away from the disk in a vertical direction at an angle ψ (=arctan(2a/L)2) with respect to a direction horizontal to the disk reflects the ultrasonic wave onto a plane including the disk, a second reflecting plate is placed on a plane including the disk and a third reflecting plate is placed on a plane at a distance of L in parallel with the plane including the disk multiply reflect the reflected ultrasonic wave, and a fourth reflecting plate whose mount angle is variable reflects the multiply reflected ultrasonic waves into a desired direction for reproduction of the sound in the desired direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004061986-A (JP)
Title: Electrophotographic photoreceptor
Inventor: KODERA TATSUYA
IPC: G03G5/06
Filed: 2002-07-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrophotographic photoreceptor whose sensitivity is excellent because potential by electrification is high and which demonstrates a stable performance because a variety of characteristics are not changed even if repeatedly used.  <P>SOLUTION: The electrophotographic photoreceptor possessing a photoreceptive layer containing an electric charge generating substance, an electric charge transporting material and binder on a conductive support as components incorporates compound possessing a specific structure as the electric charge transporting material and also incorporates polymerized compound incorporating a specific structural unit as the binder.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004031300-A (JP)
Title: Spark plug
Inventor: YOSHIMOTO OSAMU
IPC: C22C5/04
Filed: 2002-07-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spark plug suppressing the generation of the bore on the side face of a precious metal chip.  <P>SOLUTION: An area to a depth of 80 μm from the surface of the precious chip 31' is defined as a surface layer area 21, and an area further inside from the surface layer area is defined as an inner layer area 20. The inner layer area 20 is constituted of Ir or an Ir alloy. In the surface layer area 21, an abnormal consumption suppressing layer 24 in which the mass content of an abnormal consumption suppressing component containing at least one selected from among Ni, Re, Ag, and Au is set at higher level than that of the inner layer area 20 is formed on the radial directional circumference and on the tip surface 31t of the precious chip 31'. The abnormal consumption suppressing layer 24 is formed of a metal coating layer 23 and a diffusion layer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004068042-A (JP)
Title: Electroconductive precoated aluminum-alloy sheet
Inventor: HOSOMI KAZUHIRO
IPC: C23C28/00
Filed: 2002-08-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electroconductive precoated aluminum-alloy sheet having a paint film superior in electroconductivity as well as adhesiveness and formability.  <P>SOLUTION: The electroconductive precoated aluminum-alloy sheet 1 comprises a substrate 2 made of an aluminum-alloy sheet, a chemical conversion coating 3 formed on one side or both sides of the substrate 2, and an electroconductive layer 4 formed on the chemical conversion coating 3. The electroconductive layer 4 is made of an electroconductive synthetic resin film containing a Zr compound, and has a film thickness of 0.5 μm or thinner. A content of Zr composing the Zr compound in the electroconductive layer 4 is preferably 10-80 pts. wt., when a dry weight of the whole electroconductive layer is considered as 100 pts. wt. The electric resistance of the electroconductive layer 4 is preferably 10 Ω or lower.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003116142-A (JP)
Title: Electronic camera
Inventor: SHIMADA YOSHINAO
IPC: H04N9/73
Filed: 2002-08-02
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic camera capable of making white balance adjustment appropriate in strobe photographing so as to enhance image quality of a photographed image. SOLUTION: The electronic camera extracts an area with strobe light rays dominant therein according to various extract conditions in order to enhance a result of an indoor strobe photographing and sets white balance adjustment appropriate to the property of the area. Further, the electronic camera discriminates the propriety of correction for each white balance area according to the result of evaluation exposure of a steady light amount.
Patent JP-2004066580-A (JP)
Title: Forgery-proof printed matter
Inventor: KANEKO TOMOKAZU
IPC: B42D15/10
Filed: 2002-08-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize forgery-proof printed matter with a latent image effect using a projecting drawing line of a specific shape.  <P>SOLUTION: A plurality of projecting drawing lines (2) are divided into a background image part and a message image part and these parts (2) are constituted of a plurality of the projecting drawing lines (2) respectively. In addition, the lines (2) constituting the background image part and the message image part are such that the width (3) of the drawing line (2), in the width direction, of an ink transfer part located at the bottoms of the lines (2) of the background image part and the lines (2) of the message image part, is fixed and the width (3') of the drawing line in the width direction becomes narrower in proportion to the increasing height of an ink deposit in the height direction (5) of the lines (2), while the lines (2) in the longitudinal direction become wavy (6). The lines (2) which become wavy (6) of the background image part and the lines (2) which become wavy (6) of the message image part are constituted so that at least one of the period, amplitude, phase and the drawing line width, in the width direction of the projecting surface, of the lines (2) vary. Thus, the forgery-proof printed matter is obtained.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004006576-A (JP)
Title: Multilayer printed circuit board and method of manufacturing the same
Inventor: WATANABE SATORU
IPC: H01L23/12
Filed: 2002-08-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multilayer printed circuit board which can be used in a higher frequency band without deteriorating the electrical connection and connection reliability.  <P>SOLUTION: Since an IC chip 90 and a daughter board 94 are connected without use of through-hole by providing an aperture 30A to a metal plate 30 corresponding to a core board in the related art, providing a solder portion (solder bump in the related art) 36 to an area which is lower than the surface of board, and then connecting the board to the bump 92 of the IC chip 90 via the solder portion 36, the wiring length can be reduced and the high frequency performance can also be enhanced. Moreover, even when a thick metal plate 30 having higher strength is used, wiring does not become longer and electrical connection property and connection reliability can be improved.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004071918-A (JP)
Title: Chemical mechanical polishing tool for substrate and its forming method
Inventor: YAMADA TSUTOMU
IPC: B24D3/02
Filed: 2002-08-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a polishing tool with high speed polishing in dry polishing for a silicon bare wafer.  <P>SOLUTION: A mold is filled with a mixture of a coupled material with heat-resistance as high temperature as 600°C or more (for example, glacial cellulose with average polymerization degree of 50-400, and average grain size of 5-150μm), abrasive particle (for example, magnesium carbonate or calcium carbonate) with Mohs scale not more than a silicon substrate, polishing promotor with a melting point of 60-400°C (for example, chlorination isocyanuric acid or ammonium chloride) and hollow particles (void volume setting agent). The mixture is pressurized under the pressure of 100-1000kgf/cm<SP>2</SP>and the chemical mechanical polishing tool is molded with the die. During the polishing of the silicon substrate, the polishing promotor is also reacted chemically with the substrate, and the polishing speed is increased.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004069235-A (JP)
Title: Paint drying device
Inventor: YOSHISUE KENJI
IPC: B05C9/14
Filed: 2002-08-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paint drying device capable of uniformly drying paint applied onto an object.  <P>SOLUTION: Rotating shafts 22 and 22 disposed in a direction generally orthogonal to a vertical direction are installed in a container 10 for storing parts coated with antistatic paint, and a drive device 24 is connected to the rotating shafts 22 and 22. When the parts coated with the antistatic paint (hereafter referred to as paint) are stored in the container 10 and the container 10 is drivingly rotated by the drive device 24, first the parts are carried upward and then roll or fall toward the lowermost part of the container 10 at that time. In this case, extra part of the paint applied onto the parts is dispersed and the paint on the surfaces of the parts is generally uniformized. Then the paint is dried and formed into a uniform thin-film. Thus the paint applied onto the parts can be dried uniformly.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004069657-A (JP)
Title: Method of focusing scanning type probe microscope
Inventor: MURAYAMA TAKESHI
IPC: G02B21/00
Filed: 2002-08-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate a focusing operation for an optical microscope or the like onto a sample surface or a backface of a cantilever, to allow automatic focusing by a simple method, and to make a focusing method suitable for automatic measurement, in a scanning type probe microscope compounded with the optical microscope.  <P>SOLUTION: This method is applied for the scanning type probe microscope provided with a measuring part for measuring atomic force or the like as to the sample surface by scanning a sample 12 using a probe 25, a fine motion mechanism 24 for moving the probe finely, a prove approaching mechanism 11 for changing a space between the probe and the sample, the optical microscope 22, and a focusing driving mechanism 21. A focal point of the optical microscope is converged on the sample surface under the condition where the probe is approached to the sample by the prove approaching mechanism, positional information of the driving mechanism is stored at this time, the focusing for the optical microscope in the automatic measurement is carried out using the positional information as a reference.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004076982-A (JP)
Title: Stirling cold energy supply system
Inventor: INOUE TAKASHI
IPC: F25D19/00
Filed: 2002-08-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact stirling cold energy supply system 1 easy in its air vent.  <P>SOLUTION: A working gas-side heat exchanger 35 is built in a stirling refrigerating machine 4, two such stirling refrigerating machines 4 are prepared and accompanying this, two radiators 65 are also mounted. The cooling water is allowed to flow successively in a first radiator 65a, a first working gas-side heat exchanger 35a, a second radiator 65a, a second working gas-side heat exchanger 35a, and a cooling water pump 67. An air vent tube 85 is mounted on a position of the maximum difference in height in the cooling water circuit to release the air in the cooling water circuit, when the cooling water is charged into the cooling water circuit to be utilized, and an air vent valve 79 is mounted on its end part.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004044999-A (JP)
Title: Snow life system
Inventor: YOKOE TAKAO
IPC: F24F5/00
Filed: 2002-07-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive and simple snow life system capable of being used at any time and any place by any one to easily utilize the snow as unlimited energy all year long.  <P>SOLUTION: A natural convectional equipment and a low electric power device are used for a conventional snow storage and cooling system. The system can be easily utilized only by a transportation truck to achieve the purpose. The device can be used as a refrigerator or a cooler only by putting the snow taken out from the snow storage on a part of each device. Further the device can be used as an air filter and a warming prevention device.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004000407-A (JP)
Title: Vacuum cleaner
Inventor: OH JANG KEUN
IPC: A47L5/28
Filed: 2002-08-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vacuum cleaner by which a cyclone dust collecting device and a dust pocket type dust collecting device are selectively arranged for usage in response to a cleaning space by sharing one suction brush.  <P>SOLUTION: The vacuum cleaner includes: the one suction brush having a suction port brought into contact with the floor surface to be cleaned, and an air generating device for generating a suction force at the suction port; an intake passage whose one end is connected to the vacuum generating device in the suction brush; and a dust collecting device which is arranged to be connected to the other end of the intake passage, and separates and recovers dust contained in the air flowing-in along the intake passage.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004080369-A (JP)
Title: Color image processing apparatus
Inventor: MINAMINO KATSUMI
IPC: G06T5/00
Filed: 2002-08-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a color image processing apparatus capable of making conversion among a plurality of color systems at low cost.  <P>SOLUTION: The color image processing apparatus is provided with: a table (1) circuit 5; a matrix arithmetic circuit 6; a table (2) circuit; and an arithmetic circuit 8. In converting the RGB color system into the sRGB color system, an MPU 9 can set inverse gamma correction data of a device to the table (1) circuit 5, a matrix X×M to the matrix arithmetic circuit 6, and gamma correction data to the table (2) circuit 7. Further, in converting the RGB color system into the L*a*b* color system, the MPU 9 uses a RAM 11 and can set the inverse gamma correction data of a device to the table (1) circuit 5, a matrix X to the matrix arithmetic circuit 6, a cubic root arithmetic operation to the table (2) circuit 7, and a subtraction of 16 from the L* components to the arithmetic circuit 6. In converting the RGB color system into other second color systems, the color image processing apparatus can share its hardware for the color system conversion.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004080408-A (JP)
Title: Ladder saw filter and manufacturing method thereof
Inventor: TSUJI YOSHIOMI
IPC: H03H3/08
Filed: 2002-08-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ladder SAW filter in which surface acoustic waves are propagated in an isotropic manner, which has no occurrence of different propagation speeds of the surface acoustic waves caused by an arrangement direction of an IDT, and which has almost no deterioration of the broadband characteristics.  <P>SOLUTION: A piezoelectric layer 3 is formed by gathering a large number of crystal grains in an isotropic shape in a plan view on a substrate 2. A plurality of comb-shaped electrodes 4 having one array direction respectively on the piezoelectric layer 3. The ladder SAW filter 1 is doped in which at least one array direction of the comb-shaped electrode 4a among the comb-shaped electrodes is different from the array directions of the other comb-shaped electrodes 4b, 4c.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004074231-A (JP)
Title: Laser irradiation arc welding head
Inventor: HASEGAWA SHINICHI
IPC: B23K26/346
Filed: 2002-08-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a welding head which enhances shielding performance by shielding gases and of which the size is not increased.  <P>SOLUTION: In the laser irradiation arc welding head 14, an inner nozzle 15 is tapered off, an outer nozzle 17 is installed outside the inner nozzle 15. The outer nozzle 17 is provided with a notch 17b on the side where the nozzle 17 interferes with a laser beam 10, facilitating the irradiation of a workpiece 2 with the laser beam10 by making the laser beam 10 passing through the notch 17b.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO