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Patent JP-2004121310-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: FUKANO SHIRO
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine with which the movement of a game ball is fully enjoyed.  <P>SOLUTION: In the game machine, a game part 2 having a plurality of winning ports is provided on the surface of a game board 1 and a profit is imparted to a player when the game ball flowing down inside the game part 2 enters the winning port. Inside the game part 2, game ball repelling devices 21L and 21R which repel the game ball and change the moving direction of the game ball are provided. Also, the game ball repelling devices 21L and 21R are provided below the vertical direction center part of the game board 1 and the game ball repelling devices 21L and 21R are attached at a position and a direction such that the game ball is repelled in the direction of a start winning port 8 by the game ball repelling devices 21L and 21R. Also, the game machine is provided with a game ball detection switch 24 for detecting that the game ball is brought into contact with the game ball repelling devices 21L and 21R and a controller 30 and a speaker 38 for generating sound effects when the game ball detection switch 24 detects the game ball.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004125939-A (JP)
Title: Image forming method
Inventor: IIMURA HARUO
IPC: G03G5/06
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming device which can form images of high image quality without the occurrence of clearing in a midsection during transfer.  <P>SOLUTION: The image forming method comprises at least forming electrostatic latent images on an image carrier, forming toner images on the image carrier by supplying toner to the electrostatic latent images and transferring the toner images formed on the image carrier onto an intermediate transfer member or a recording material. The toner images are formed on the image carrier in such a manner that the average value of the area of a region of the higher pile height than the average value of the pile heights of the toner layer in a solid image section attains the value within 10 times the average area (=πD<SP>2</SP>/4) of one particle of the toner calculated from the volume average grain size D of the toner when the toner layer forms ≥2 layers of the solid images on the image carrier.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004126826-A (JP)
Title: Fire alarm facility
Inventor: SUGIYAMA KAZUHIRO
IPC: G08B17/00
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fire alarm facility capable of rapidly responding to earth fault by facilitating the detection of the occurrence of earth fault in a C-line or L-line connecting a fire receiver to a fire sensor and enabling the reporting by display or sound, in the occurrence of earth fault, to a person.  <P>SOLUTION: This fire alarm facility has the P-type fire receiver, the fire sensor, an earth fault detecting circuit for detecting the earth fault of the C-line or L-line connecting the P-type fire receiver to the fire sensor, and an earth fault alarming means for alarming the earth fault by display or sound in the detection of the earth fault by the earth fault detecting circuit.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004125638-A (JP)
Title: Displacement sensor and method for fixing interferometer
Inventor: KATO SHIGEKI
IPC: G01B9/02
Filed: 2002-10-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the influence of a displacement sensor to the precision of an external environmental temperature.  <P>SOLUTION: A case member 11 incorporating a sensor is fixed to an attachment 12 by screws 37. Strips of spring member 33, 34 are attached to both the sides of the attachment 12, and are fixed to a mounting member 13 by passing screws 38 through a screw hole being provided on a free end face 35. Even if a thermal expansion difference is generated between the case member 11 and the mounting member 13, the thermal expansion difference is absorbed by the spring sections 33, 34 being provided at the attachment 12.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004122717-A (JP)
Title: Extruded foam sheet of polypropylene resin, its manufacturing method, and molded product of the same
Inventor: SHIBATA TETSUYA
IPC: B29C48/305
Filed: 2002-10-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an extruded foam sheet of a polypropylene resin exhibiting excellent rigidity in particular, in addition to heat resistance and solvent resistance, and a molded product and its manufacturing method.  <P>SOLUTION: The polypropylene resin foam sheet has a density of 0.10 to 0.30 g/cm<SP>3</SP>and a closed-cell ratio of 50% or more. A base resin such as a polypropylene-based resin or the like contains an inorganic filler of 5 to 20 wt.% and has a cell density of 100 pieces/mm<SP>3</SP>.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004137948-A (JP)
Title: Exhaust silencer
Inventor: YOSHIKAWA KIMITOSHI
IPC: F01N1/08
Filed: 2002-10-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust silencer in which a flow of exhaust gas is smooth without increasing a pressure loss only by simply modifying a structure, a direct collision of the gas to an end plate, etc. is prevented and occurrence of an air flow sound or an emission sound is small at a low cost.  <P>SOLUTION: In the exhaust silencer 1 in which the exhaust gas sequentially flows in a plurality of pipes 5, 6 and 7 juxtaposed with each other, a downstream side opening of at least one pipe 6 of the pipes near the end plate 2 is closed by a porous dispersing unit 8 in which many pores 9 are perforated, and a total sum of opening areas of the pores 9 in the dispersing unit 8 is assured to be at least three times as large as a sectional area of the pipe 6. The gas is emitted/dispersed in an expansion chamber through the opening areas of the pores 9 having a sufficient total sum area without introducing the increase in the pressure loss for bringing about a stress, and the occurrence of the air flow sound or the emission sound can be reduced by effectively preventing the direct collision of the gas with the end plate 2, etc.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004136321-A (JP)
Title: Hot-rolled steel sheet manufacturing method
Inventor: IMAI NORIO
IPC: B21B1/26
Filed: 2002-10-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a fine-grain hot-rolled steel plate suitable for a material of a high-strength member used for automobiles and various kinds of industrial machines.  <P>SOLUTION: In the hot-rolled steel plate manufacturing method to perform the finish rolling by using a tandem rolling mill train, a steel plate is rolled at a temperature above Ar<SB>3</SB>point by the rolling mill one stage before the final rolling mill of the rolling mill train, and cooled to the temperature zone below "the Ar<SB>3</SB>point -50°C" at an average cooling rate of ≥ 50°C/sec. Next, the steel plate is rolled by the final rolling mill at the draft of ≤ 20%. The steel plate is preferably cooled to the temperature zone below "the Ar<SB>3</SB>point -100°C" at the average cooling rate of ≥100°C/sec. after the rolling, and more preferably cooled to the temperature zone below "the Ar<SB>3</SB>point -100°C" at the average cooling speed of ≥200°C/sec. after the rolling.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004135884-A (JP)
Title: Absorbent article
Inventor: KIGATA TETSUYUKI
IPC: A61F5/44
Filed: 2002-10-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an absorbent article preventing its twisting and slippage during wearing and stably exhibiting the estimated absorbing performance and liquid leakage preventing performance.  <P>SOLUTION: This absorbent article is provided with a liquid-retaining absorbent layer and an impermeable leakage preventing layer, substantially formed into a vertically long shape, provided with an adhesive layer R in a skin non-abutment surface and adhesive parts P and P in the longitudinally both side parts of a skin abutment surface.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004136945-A (JP)
Title: Capper
Inventor: HAGANO HIROYUKI
IPC: B65D51/00
Filed: 2002-10-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operation handle 45 of a fuel cap 10 which is excellent in operability and can be assembled with a lid 40 with the small number of components.  <P>SOLUTION: The fuel cap 10 of this capper has a lid 40 carried in a casing body 20 and equipped with the operation handle 45 to be in a posture of standing or falling down. The operation handle 45 is pivoted by a pivoting mechanism 50, which includes shaft supporting parts 51 and 52 provided on the lid 40 and shaft supported parts 55 and 56 of the handle 45. The capper is designed so that after the part 55 is assembled with the part 51, a shaft supporting piece 56b constituting a portion of the part 56 is flexed from its foot and pressure-fitted, thereby assembling the part 56 with the part 52.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004146137-A (JP)
Title: Separator for electrochemical element
Inventor: TSUKUDA TAKAHIRO
IPC: H01G9/02
Filed: 2002-10-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a separator for an electrochemical element excellent in reflow heat resistance and a high-rate charge-discharge characteristic, and having low internal resistance.  <P>SOLUTION: This separator for an electrochemical element is formed of a non-woven fabric containing a fibrillated polymer having a melting point or a pyrolysis temperature above 250°C, a fiber diameter below 1 μm in at least a part thereof, and a weight-average fiber length of 0.2-2 mm, and an organic fiber having a fineness below 3.3 dtex. The separator is characterized by having a volume resistivity above 1×10<SP>11</SP>Ωcm.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004143789-A (JP)
Title: Gravity type offshore breakwater
Inventor: SUMITA NORIYASU
IPC: E02B3/06
Filed: 2002-10-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel gravity type offshore breakwater having a high wave absorbing performance and whose construction is simple.  <P>SOLUTION: A swash plate 1 is fitted to the upper face of a box body 8 and fixed thereto. A number of deformed blocks 14 are put in the box body 8 to impart a gravity. A horizontal slit 15 is made to penetrate in the inside and the outside direction a front plate 9 and a rear plate 10. After the breakwater is conveyed to the offshore, and lifted down, then, it is lowered by its own weight and settled down on the sea bottom 4. The surface wave 18a is absorbed by the swash plate 1 and progressive waves 19 in the submarine zone are absorbed by passage into the slit 15 of the front plate 9 and further, absorbed by the deformation blocks 14.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004142583-A (JP)
Title: Bound bumper mounting structure of suspension device
Inventor: KANDA YASUSHI
IPC: F16F7/00
Filed: 2002-10-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform swing limit position adjustment of a suspension member when a wheel bounds, by a simple adjustment work, without changing a bound bumper.  <P>SOLUTION: A bound bumper 1 can be mounted by a bolt 9 to any rotation position on an upper surface 2b of a lower arm 2. The rotation position can be selected by fitting a positioning projection 10 and a selected positioning recess. The swing of the lower arm 2, when the wheel bounds, is limited under a buffer by collision of the top 8a of the bound bumper 1 and a bound bumper abutting surface 3a in the vehicle side member 3. The top 8a is off-set from the bolt 9 which is the rotation center of the bound bumper 1, and the bound bumper mounting surface 2b and the bound bumper abutting surface 3a are arranged in non-parallel each other, which enables a buffer clearance β to be obtained only by mounting position adjustment in a rotation direction of the bound bumper 1, thus adjusting the swing limit position of the suspension member.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004144023-A (JP)
Title: Pump for washer and scalp washer
Inventor: ITO KAZUMASA
IPC: A47K7/00
Filed: 2002-10-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure sealing performance; and to improve reliability by uniformizing a press of a piston tip thin part and a cylinder inside surface.  <P>SOLUTION: This pump for a washer sucks in and delivers water by reciprocating a resin piston 1 in a cylinder 3, and has the thin part 1a formed on the tip of the piston 1 and having the outside contacting with the cylinder 3 and a comb-shaped plate spring 2 arranged inside the thin part 1a, having a tip shape forming a comb-teeth shape, and energizing the thin part 1a to the inside surface side of the cylinder 3, and thereby improves adhesion of the thin part 1a of the piston 1 and an inside surface of the cylinder 3.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004142334-A (JP)
Title: Ink jet recorder
Inventor: SAKAMOTO ATSUSHI
IPC: B41J2/01
Filed: 2002-10-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ink jet recorder having a trigger means for judging replacement of an ink tank with high accuracy and no cost increase without requiring an extra component while sustaining reduction in size in which the frequency for confirming replacement of the ink tank from a user is reduced extremely.  <P>SOLUTION: The ink jet recorder comprising a recording head section for ejecting ink and a replaceable ink tank for containing ink, a carriage for mounting them, and a scanning means for moving the carriage along the main scanning direction is further provided with a detecting means for judging whether a user touched the carriage or not, and a means for triggering judgment of whether the user has replaced the ink tank or not by detecting a signal from the detecting means wherein the detecting means is a means for detecting the main scanning position of the carriage.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004151766-A (JP)
Title: Image processor
Inventor: KODAMA MARI
IPC: B41J21/00
Filed: 2002-10-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently and effectively use overprint warning function so that an actual print finish can be confirmed efficiently.  <P>SOLUTION: A print server, if the overprint warning function is set, confirms whether a trapping function is turned on; and if it is so, makes trapping setting for an object of warning (steps 100 to 108). Then, the print server extracts the overprint, confirms whether a K overprint, and a register mark caption are set as the objects of warning, then performs warning processing for an object of warning, and makes print setting, thereby making the print setting (steps 110 to 129) so as to make the object of warning selected distinct.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004151924-A (JP)
Title: Autonomous mobile robot and control method for the same
Inventor: HOSHINO KAZUHIRO
IPC: B25J13/08
Filed: 2002-10-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To exert more complete autonomy by autonomously charging a driving battery.  <P>SOLUTION: When electric power in a built-in battery in an autonomous mobile robot is consumed to pose a need of charging, the robot automatically moves to a charging station to execute a charging operation without manual control. For a movement to a movement target, the movement target has a light flash signal source (for example, light modulator) with an LED or the like as a light source, and the autonomous mobile robot has means for reading in the position and flash pattern of light emission by the light flash signal source, whereby a movement direction is derived. In a basic movement action, the distance to the movement target is computed on a principle of triangulation by a light section method, and a movement is made nearer to the movement target. After the movement nearer to the movement target, the form and position of the movement target are recognized in stereoscopic surface form measurement by a light section method, and an accurate movement is made to a given position on the target.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004152407-A (JP)
Title: Magnetic head and its manufacturing method
Inventor: SUGAWARA AKIRA
IPC: G11B5/127
Filed: 2002-10-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a magnetic head with improved head characteristics and improved productivity and its manufacturing method.  <P>SOLUTION: This magnetic head is provided with a front core part 2 made of single crystal ferrite, a back core part 3 made of polycrystalline ferrite, and a winding wire window part 10 formed over the front core part 2 and the back core part 3. The back core part 3 is made of the polycrystalline ferrite being a single member.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004158251-A (JP)
Title: Female terminal
Inventor: HARADA TOMONORI
IPC: H01R13/115
Filed: 2002-11-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a female terminal in which the female terminal can be set in the cavity without becoming loose regardless of the structure of the cavity of the housing.  <P>SOLUTION: This is the female terminal which comprises a connection part 5 that has an elastic member 3 to become a contact with a male terminal and is connected to the male terminal, a barrel part 7 that continues from the connection part 5 and supports this connection part 5 or envelopes the elastic member 3 of the connection part 5, and which is formed by bending processing of a sheet of formed conductive metal plate. An end edge 27 which is a portion forming this barrel part 7 of the metal plate 7 is positioned on one corner side of the barrel part 7, and a protruded part 25 which protrudes toward opposite side to this end edge 27 is formed on the corner side on the opposite side of the corner on the side where the end edge 27 is positioned, on the face of this end edge 27, and at least a part of the end edge 27 and the protruded part 25 cover the mutually corresponding corner respectively.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004154737-A (JP)
Title: Component supply device
Inventor: TAKABAYASHI MASATOMI
IPC: B07C5/342
Filed: 2002-11-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide novel configuration of a component supply device which is provided with an inspection apparatus for inspecting ≥2 surfaces of component and which can prevent upsizing of the device even if the device is provided with the inspection apparatus.  <P>SOLUTION: The component supply device (100) for sending up the component from the inner bottom of a bowl-shaped vessel (102) along a helical route disposed at the vessel and supplying the component from the outer peripheral part at the top edge of the vessel to the outside is provided with inspection means (T1 to T4) for inspecting the surfaces of the component in the outer peripheral part at the top edge and a twisting track section (105a) for rotating the component of the outer peripheral part at the top edge around the axis of their conveyance. The inspection positions of the inspection means and the twisting track section are alternately arranged on the conveyance route along the going-around direction of the outer peripheral part at the top edge such that the different surfaces around the conveyance axis of the component are successively inspected.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003142780-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor laser
Inventor: KUME MASAHIRO
IPC: H01S5/343
Filed: 2002-11-08
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a GaN-based semiconductor laser that is low in threshold current and can obtain aberration-free laser light. SOLUTION: The GaN-based semiconductor laser is a gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor laser provided with a substrate 112 and a laminated structure 150 on the substrate 112. The structure 150 is formed of an Inz Ga1-z N active layer 115 (0<=z<=1) formed in at least a first area, a pair of n-type Alx Ga1-x N clad layer 114 (0<=x<=1) and p-type Aly Ga1-y N clad layers 116 and 118 (0<=y<=1) holding the active layer 115 in between, and Alu Ga1-u N (0<=u<=1). Further, the structure 150 is provided with a current constricting structure 117 having an opening 180 which is formed correspondingly to the first region for constricting an electric current to the first area.
Patent JP-2004163526-A (JP)
Title: Multi-output driver and fluorescent display tube module
Inventor: TAMURA TAKESHI
IPC: G09G3/291
Filed: 2002-11-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize the output of an IC when the source voltage of a semiconductor circuit having a multiple-power-source system is off.  <P>SOLUTION: A control voltage detecting circuit 1 is composed of an output power source system and its output is inputted to an output fixing circuit 3 connected to the output of a level holding circuit 2. This circuit can fix the output of the IC even when no control electric power is supplied and output electric power is left. Specially, a multi-output driver circuit which drives a display body such as a liquid crystal display, a plasma display, and a fluorescent display tube can fix the output of the IC, so that abnormal light emission of display and abnormal display can securely be eliminated.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004165392-A (JP)
Title: Photovoltaic element
Inventor: SHIOZAKI ATSUSHI
IPC: H01L31/06
Filed: 2002-11-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a totally excellent photovoltaic element with a lightweight and a high conversion efficiency manufactured at a low cost in a final product form of the element provided with a transparent protection member.  <P>SOLUTION: The photovoltaic element including a first pin junction having an i-type amorphous semiconductor 111, a second pin junction having an i-type microcrystal semiconductor 108, and a third pin junction having an i-type microcrystal semiconductor 105 from a light incident side in this order, is provided with at least the transparent protection member and a transparent electrode layer at the light incident side of the first pin junction, and a photoelectric current produced in the third pin junction is minimum among photoelectric currents produced in a plurality of the pin junctions.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004162617-A (JP)
Title: Control device for internal combustion engine
Inventor: KANEKO TOMOHIRO
IPC: F02D17/00
Filed: 2002-11-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device suppressing a lowering of temperature of an exhaust emission controlling catalyst when an engine is stopped in the control device for an internal combustion engine automatically performing idling stop and restarting.  <P>SOLUTION: An engine ECU 60 being the control device for the internal combustion engine 1 stops the internal combustion engine 1 in an early stage by such a manner that when the engine 1 is stopped for idling stop, the valve lift timing of at least one of an intake valve 41 and an exhaust valve 42 is changed by variable valve timing means 43, 44 so that negative valve overlap time, that is, time from the closing of the exhaust valve 42 to the opening of the intake valve 41 is lengthened, thereby the workload of a piston 11 is increased.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004164344-A (JP)
Title: Evaluation supporting method and system capable of using the same method
Inventor: SAKUMA TAKUYA
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2002-11-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly evaluate employees for improving the labor productivity of an enterprise.  <P>SOLUTION: This evaluation supporting system 10 is constituted of a plurality of user terminals 12 and a management server 14 connected through a network 16. When data are written in a file, the user terminal 12 detects the data quantity, and transfers the detection result to the management server 14. The management server 14 stores the written data quantity for each user, and evaluates the result of the employee based on its size or frequency.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO