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Patent JP-2009252017-A (JP)
Title: Pedometer for running
Inventor: TSUBATA KEISUKE
IPC: G06M3/00
Filed: 2008-04-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact pedometer for measuring steps with a step sensor worn on a wrist, which can accurately measures steps in running.  <P>SOLUTION: The step sensor 101 for detecting running is arranged such that an angle X between a longitudinal direction A of a strap and a sensitivity axis B of the step sensor 101 is within a range of 10 to 33 degrees in the clockwise direction from the longitudinal direction A of the strap. A user of the pedometer for running wears a pedometer body 201 on the back of the left wrist by the strap, starts a step measuring process using an input means 109, starts to run, and starts to measure steps. The measured steps and time are displayed on a displaying means 110.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009251464-A (JP)
Title: Imaging apparatus and control method therefor
Inventor: YASUDA HITOSHI
IPC: H04N5/232
Filed: 2008-04-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus that carries out TV-AF type autofocus control using object information obtained from an image and improves focusing speed.  <P>SOLUTION: In the imaging apparatus that carries out the TV-AF type autofocus control by setting an AF frame on a predetermined object, for example, a person's face, that is detected in the image, in a case in which an in-focus position search direction can not be determined from an AF evaluation value, changes in the size of the region of the object are detected. Focus detection is carried out by determining the in-focus position search direction based on the changes in the size of the region of the object.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009249154-A (JP)
Title: Sheet feeder and image forming apparatus
Inventor: FUKUSAKA TETSUO
IPC: G03G15/00
Filed: 2008-04-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sheet feeder, dehumidifying and humidifying a sheet to efficiently feed the sheet while dispensing with special cleaning.  <P>SOLUTION: This sheet feeder 1 includes: a sheet storage 115; a solid polyelectrolyte film 200 fitted to an opening of a wall of the sheet storage 115; a first humidity adjusting means 102 having an anode porous electrode 202 disposed inside the sheet storage 115 and a cathode porous electrode 201 disposed outside the sheet storage 115; a second humidity adjusting means 101 having a cathode porous electrode 201 inside the sheet storage 115 and an anode porous electrode 202 outside the sheet storage 115; and a humidity sensor 104 for detecting the humidity of the interior of the sheet storage 115, wherein according to the detection result of the humidity sensor 104, the interior of the sheet storage 115 is dehumidified by the first humidity adjusting means 102 or the interior of the sheet storage 115 is humidified by the second humidity adjusting means 101.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009251524-A (JP)
Title: Drive circuit of display device
Inventor: KUBOTA HIDEMASA
IPC: G09G3/20
Filed: 2008-04-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means to reduce EMI without affecting the image quality of an interface-type display device, in a drive circuit 100 of the display device which transmits the image data from a timing controller 10 to each source driver 11 on a point-to-point basis.  <P>SOLUTION: By changing mutually the phase of timing signals supplied to the source driver 11, the operation timing of the respective source driver 11 is shifted intentionally. Thereby, radiation noises caused by the operation of each source driver 11 interfere with each other, and EMI can be reduced without significantly affecting the image quality.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009259432-A (JP)
Title: Connector come-off preventing tool
Inventor: HASEGAWA YUTAKA
IPC: H01R13/639
Filed: 2008-04-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a connector come-off preventing tool for preventing the come-off of a plurality of connectors while preventing the missing of fixing screws by allowing a position change of the connector come-off preventing tool in a connector come-off preventive or extractable manner without removing the fixing screws which fix the connector come-off preventing tool to electronic equipment.  <P>SOLUTION: The connector come-off preventing tool 5 comprises an inverted-L-shaped locking part 7 having a plurality of semicircular fitting portions 6 at the front end for fitting cables 2 extending from the connectors 3, for pressing and preventing the come-off the connectors 3, and a fixing part 10 formed at the base end of the locking part 7 and having guide holes 9 for the fixing screws 8 which fix the tool to the electronic equipment 1 to be inserted therethrough. In the state of loosening the fixing screws 8, it is mounted slidably between a position where the locking part 7 locks the connectors 3 and a position where the connectors 3 are released in an extractable manner.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009258819-A (JP)
Title: Service provision system in apartment house and management server
Inventor: MATSUMURA RIKI
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2008-04-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a service provision system for providing service for residents having contents specialized in property of an apartment house, in the apartment house such as a condominium.  <P>SOLUTION: In this service provision system, management terminals 410, client terminals each installed inside a residence 500, store terminals 300, and a management server 100 are connected to a network 600. The management server 100 has: a DB holding information about the apartment houses 400, information about the residents, information about stores, and information about commodities/service; a user authentication part 110; and an order reception management part 140, and presents a content and the commodities/service peculiar to the apartment house 400 to the client terminals. The client terminal transmits a purchase request for the commodities/service to the management server 100. The management server 100 receives the purchase request, manages it as order reception information, and notifies the store terminal 300 or the management terminal 410 about the effect of having received an order.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008176822-A (JP)
Title: Microcontroller testing circuit
Inventor: TOGO KIYOTAKE
IPC: G06F15/78
Filed: 2008-04-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem wherein external terminals for inputting/outputting expected values increase if the number of peripherals increases.  <P>SOLUTION: This microcontroller testing circuit has: a test register control part 120 connected to a common bus and capable of transmitting and receiving control signals and the expected values from the outside through the bus; a first register 138 receiving the expected value from the test register control part 120, temporarily holding the expected values and writing them into the peripherals through signal lines; and a second register 139 reading and temporarily holding the expected values after they are written, and transmitting the expected values to the test register control part 120. The expected values are input and output from the external terminal of the common bus.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009258316-A (JP)
Title: Map display apparatus, map display method, map display program
Inventor: FUJITA YUZURU
IPC: G09B29/00
Filed: 2008-04-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure wherein, when displaying map information properly in accordance with the actual distance, processing can be efficiently performed by a simple operation.  <P>SOLUTION: In a map display apparatus 10, an own vehicle position information receiving section 11 receives the present position information of a vehicle, and a map information acquisition section 12 acquires the map information. A latitude direction length calculation section 13 specifies a drawing object area in the acquired map information and, on the basis of latitude information and longitude information of a prescribed position in the drawing object area, calculates the proportion of the actual length in the latitude direction to the actual length in the longitude direction. Further, in accordance with this proportion, the latitude direction length calculation section 13 calculates the proportion of the length in the latitude direction so that the proportion of the actual length in latitude direction and that in longitude direction becomes 1:1 on the basis of the length in longitude direction. Then, a map information output section 15 adjusts the length in the latitude direction of the drawing area in the map information acquired by the map information acquisition section 12 on the basis of the calculated proportion of the length in latitude direction, and outputs the map information after the adjustment.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009260764-A (JP)
Title: Imaging apparatus
Inventor: SUGA TATSUKI
IPC: G03B7/16
Filed: 2008-04-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact imaging apparatus capable of adjusting the optimal illuminating state for an object even in short-range photography in the same way in long-range photography, by solving the problem that while it is necessary to provide a driving device for changing the illuminating direction of the outgoing rays of light of illumination in order to set the optimal illuminating state to an object according to the movement of the object and a photographic distance with the object in photography, an illumination part is relatively large in size in comparison with the imaging apparatus, and the driving device is largely scaled, and it is difficult to miniaturize the imaging apparatus including the illumination part as a result.  <P>SOLUTION: This imaging apparatus having an imaging part which images the image of an object is provided with: an illumination part for illuminating an object; an imaging part varying part for varying the imaging part; and a focal distance detection part for detecting a focal distance with the object, and configured to vary the imaging part by using the imaging part varying part in the direction to the object illuminated by the illumination part.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009266985-A (JP)
Title: Manufacturing apparatus for semiconductor device
Inventor: FURUMURA YUJI
IPC: H01L21/3205
Filed: 2008-04-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve reliability of wiring by adding an oxidization process for a bimetal, laminating a different kind of seed layer, laminating a barrier layer, and so on while maintaining a high throughput of an apparatus.  <P>SOLUTION: The throughput of the apparatus is improved by eliminating variation in thin film process among chambers by minimizing the number of chambers having the shortest tact time among chambers wherein a thin-film alloy seed layer is grown or chambers wherein a thin-film bimetal is grown, or standardizing and using chambers exclusively for one device so that two or three chambers or more are in use for a process having a long tact time.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009263992-A (JP)
Title: Rain chain
Inventor: SAITO SATORU
IPC: E04D13/08
Filed: 2008-04-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rain chain which is equipped with a new "presentation function" not available in a conventional rain chain, by providing a function of rotating a rain chain element by a flowing water force of rainwater, which rotates the rain chain element by the flowing water force of the rainwater, and which prevents a spray of water from being splashed on a nearby person, an exterior wall, etc., by preventing the scattering of the spray of water during the rotation of the rain chain element.  <P>SOLUTION: In this rain chain 2, the plurality of rain chain elements 1 are vertically arranged. The rain chain elements 1 are rotatably attached to the shaft body 3. The rain chain element 1 is constituted in such a manner that a rotor blade portion 5 for rotating a tubular body 4 by receiving the flowing water force of the rainwater is provided in the vertically-opened tubular body 4. An upper end of the rotor blade portion 5 provided in the tubular body 4 is located in a position to be pulled in below an upper end of the tubular body 4.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009262967-A (JP)
Title: Supply container for liquid soaps
Inventor: SHIBATA KAZUO
IPC: C11D17/08
Filed: 2008-04-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a supply container for liquid soaps for allowing a liquid soap inside a refill bag to be transferred easily and certainly into the supply container.  <P>SOLUTION: In the supply container for liquid soaps, the upper end 1a of a container body 1 is opened. An outer lid 5 including pump means 3 is separably attached to the upper end of the container body. An inner lid 13 is provided at the upper end of the container body so as to be opened and closed. A slit 17 penetrating the inner lid from inside to outside is formed in the inner lid. The outer lid is separated from the container body, and in a state in which the inner lid is open, a refill bag 19 accommodating the liquid soap is inserted into the container body and an end 19a of the refill bag is opened. In a state in which the other end 19b of the refill bag is inserted into the slit of the inner lid, the inner lid is fitted to the upper end of the container body. By pulling the other end of the refill bag upwardly, the liquid soap inside the refill bag is squeezed out into the container body owing to the slit.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009266017-A (JP)
Title: Storage device and method of starting the storage device
Inventor: SAKAGAMI YUICHI
IPC: G06F1/26
Filed: 2008-04-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To start add-on storage devices in conjunction with the start of the higher level device and in a descending order from the higher level device.  <P>SOLUTION: An OOB sequence monitoring unit 100 detects that an OOB sequence performed between a master device 30 as a higher level device and a connection I/F unit 90 (operative even if an add-on device 10A1 is in a standby state) has been shifted to a given stage. Based on the detection by the OOB sequence monitoring unit 100, a power supply control unit 110 instructs a starting power supply unit 120 to supply power. When the add-on device 10A1 is started, the OOB sequence is performed in the same way between the connection I/F of the add-on device 10A2. Thereby, add-on devices are started in a descending order from the higher level add-on device.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009264689-A (JP)
Title: Cooling system, cooling method, cooling controller, and cooling program
Inventor: KANBARA OSAMU
IPC: F25D11/00
Filed: 2008-04-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooling system that changes the controlling contents of a plurality of cooling equipments by taking into consideration the relation of relative positions of each cooling equipment with respect to a refrigerant feeder, a cooling method, a cooling controller, and a cooling program.  <P>SOLUTION: The cooling system is equipped with the refrigerant feeder and the plurality of cooling equipments arranged respectively, a refrigerant pipe connecting the refrigerant feeder to the plurality of cooling equipments and through which the refrigerant flows, a control device for controlling the refrigerant feeder and the cooling equipments, and a communication line connecting the refrigerant feeder, the plurality of cooling equipments, and the control device, and which is used by the control device for controlling the refrigerant feeder and the cooling equipments. The control device sets the controlling contents of the plurality of cooling equipments based on the relation of the relative positions of a specific position where the refrigerant feeder is arranged and each prescribed position of the plurality of cooling equipments.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009271216-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing retardation layer, and color filter
Inventor: YAKURA TAKESHI
IPC: G02B5/20
Filed: 2008-05-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a retardation layer, in which the retardation layer can be formed without providing an oriented film on a substrate and to provide a color filter comprising the retardation layer.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for producing the retardation layer comprises the steps of: applying a coating liquid containing a photopolymerizable liquid crystal onto a resin layer on the surface of a blanket 10; orienting liquid crystalline molecules on the surface of the resin layer; irradiating a coating film on the blanket 10 with ionizing radiation to cure the coating film and keep the oriented states of the liquid crystalline molecules; and transferring the cured coating film onto a substrate 2 to obtain the retardation layer 6.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009268392-A (JP)
Title: Wash-free rice and method for producing the same
Inventor: WADA MICHIO
IPC: A23L7/10
Filed: 2008-05-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide wash-free rice holding mineral components containing deep sea water as raw material.  <P>SOLUTION: The wash-free rice is produced by allowing the surface of the wash-free rice to hold mineral components containing deep sea water as raw material, wherein water content 27 is added to polished rice 26 to soften the finely-powdered rice bran layer 24 of the polished rice surface, a heat adhesive material 28 heated to have a prescribed temperature is admixed to the softened polished rice and the mixture is stirred to adsorb the rice bran of the rice surface to the heat adhesive material 28 to be eliminated, and then the polished rice 26 and the heat adhesive material 28 are separated from each other. The water content 27 has a structure obtained by adding mineral adjustment liquid containing the deep sea water as raw material to desalted water of the deep sea water, and the use of the one obtained by adding the mineral adjustment liquid containing the deep sea water as raw material to the desalted water of the deep sea water as the water content 27 results in a structure the surface of the wash-free rice 29 holds mineral components containing the deep sea water as raw material.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008310806-A (JP)
Title: Two-level grouping of principals for collision warning system
Inventor: GREENE DANIEL H
IPC: G08G1/09
Filed: 2008-05-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To hierarchically group principals to facilitate collision warning.  <P>SOLUTION: This system for hierarchically grouping principals to facilitate collision warning includes a data acquisition mechanism configured to acquire information on a number of principals; a first grouping mechanism configured to construct one or more first-level groups of principals; and a second grouping mechanism configured to construct one of more second-level groups in the first level groups, thereby facilitating an assessment of probability of collision between a second level group and a primary principal.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009270772-A (JP)
Title: Heat transfer suppression plate body
Inventor: INADA SHIGEAKI
IPC: F28F13/08
Filed: 2008-05-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat transfer suppression plate body capable of blocking heat entering into a member or coming out from a member on the surface of the member, capable of suppressing convective heat transfer generated between the surface of the member and the atmosphere and thermal radiation itself, and having cost advantage.  <P>SOLUTION: A large number of recessed parts 2 are provided on the surface of the heat transfer suppression plate body 1 and are arranged intersecting with the convection of the atmosphere on the surface, so that naturally convecting fluid stagnates in the recessed parts 2. The plate body 1 is formed of a metal plate material etc. having a small thermal radiation ratio, and the large number of recessed parts 2 have a circular shape and can be arranged zigzag. When the surface of the plate body 1 has natural convection of the atmosphere, the naturally convecting fluid stagnates in the recessed parts 2, so as to develop a thermal boundary layer. As a result, convective heat transfer can be suppressed. By using the well-polished metal plate material for the member, the thermal radiation ratio can be reduced so as to suppress thermal radiation.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009270051-A (JP)
Title: Continuous apparatus for liquefying waste plastic into oil
Inventor: TAKAHASHI KENZO
IPC: C08J11/12
Filed: 2008-05-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a continuous apparatus for liquefying waste plastic into oil which can continuously treat waste plastics and simultaneously remove foreign matters.  <P>SOLUTION: The apparatus for liquefying waste plastic into oil is equipped with a melting tank 12 for melting waste plastics, a gasification device 13 for gasifying a melted liquid introduced from the melting tank 12, and a recycled oil-recovering portion 14 for cooling the gas produced in the gasification device 13 to recover the recycled oil. In the apparatus, a liquid-transferring conveyer 15 is disposed which comprises a screw conveyer connecting the bottom of the melting tank 12 to the gasification device 13 to transfer the melted liquid and residues, and an ash conveyer 16 is connected to the gasification device 13, which comprises a screw conveyer for scraping up and discharging the residues.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009272568-A (JP)
Title: Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus
Inventor: TOGU AKIHIRO
IPC: H01L23/532
Filed: 2008-05-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid-state imaging device and camera that not only improve the sensitivity but also reduce the color mixture by further improving the characteristics observed in dark current, flake defects and the like.  <P>SOLUTION: The solid-state imaging device includes a photodiode (PD) formed for each pixel on a light receiving surface on which a plurality of pixels of a semiconductor substrate 10 are integrated, insulating films (15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31) formed on the semiconductor substrate to shield the photodiode, wirings (19, 24, 29) formed by being embedded in the insulating films, an etching stopper film (ST) which shields at least a photodiode forming region and which comprises a silicon carbide disposed in the vicinity of the semiconductor substrate away from the lowest layer wiring out of the wirings, a recess H which is formed on the insulating film at an upper portion of the photodiode so as to reach the etching stopper film, and optical waveguides (36, 37) having a refractive index higher than that of the insulating film formed by being embedded in the recess.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009272586-A (JP)
Title: Group iii nitride semiconductor device, and manufacturing method thereof
Inventor: SUGIMOTO MASAHIRO
IPC: H01L21/338
Filed: 2008-05-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure wherein a depletion layer traverses an n-type layer piercing a p-type layer during an off period in an n-channel vertical group III nitride semiconductor device including an n-type group III nitride semiconductor layer piercing the p-type layer.  <P>SOLUTION: Firstly, a part of a first nitride gallium layer 4 formed on a surface of a nitride gallium substrate 2 is etched up to a depth not reaching the nitride gallium substrate 2. Secondly, a second nitride gallium layer 6 is formed on a surface of the first nitride gallium layer 4. Thirdly, a part of the second nitride gallium layer 6 is etched up to such a depth as to expose a projection 4a of the first nitride gallium layer 4 to form a recess. Fourthly, a third nitride gallium layer 8 is formed in the recess. Silicon and oxygen are taken in during growth of the third nitride gallium layer 8 to raise the concentration of n-type impurities. A layer 4a having a low concentration of n-type impurities and a layer 8a having a high concentration of n-type impurities exist together in a piercing layer 9.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT