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Patent JP-2004220827-A (JP)
Title: Switch device
Inventor: FUJITANI SHIGETOSHI
IPC: H01H13/02
Filed: 2003-01-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a switch device with a lock mechanism simple in attaching/detaching work, in a switch device wherein an operation part and a switch part are attached to and detached from each other while being rotated with respect to each other.  <P>SOLUTION: This switch device is provided with: an operation part (a); a switch part b; and a lock mechanism c interlaid between the operation part (a) and the switch part b, used for fixing and mounting either one of the switch part b and the operation part (a), having a rotating body c1 rotatably held to the other one of them, permitting attachment and detachment of the either one when the rotating body c1 is located at a first rotation position, and locking the rotating body c1 when the rotating body c1 is located at a second rotation position.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004221994-A (JP)
Title: Solid-state image pickup device, camera and camera system
Inventor: MORI MITSUYOSHI
IPC: H04N5/374
Filed: 2003-01-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid-state image pickup device for which the need of accelerating the color selection switch of an external circuit is eliminated and color mixture by the pixel signals of different colors adjacent in terms of time is reduced.  <P>SOLUTION: The solid-state image pickup device is provided with an image pickup part where a plurality of unit pixels for photoelectrically converting incident light are one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally arrayed, an output signal line where the pixel signals of the image pickup part are read, and an output part where the signals of the output signal line are outputted. After the pixel signals of the plurality of non-adjacent pixels of a first color are successively read from the output part, the pixel signals of the non-adjacent pixels of a second color are read from the output part.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004221481-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and method for cooling wafer
Inventor: IMAMURA MASAYA
IPC: H01L21/205
Filed: 2003-01-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress a pressure rise in the back of a wafer due to a cooling gas.  <P>SOLUTION: An opening/closing control means 15 is provided for controlling opening/closing timing of an opening/closing valve V3 or an opening/closing valve V2. The opening/closing valves V3 and V2 are opened and closed while interlocking the opening/closing of a cut valve 11.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004224357-A (JP)
Title: Packed shape retaining method and air bag used for same
Inventor: TERAMOTO KEIGO
IPC: B65D85/04
Filed: 2003-01-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a packed shape retaining method, which prevents the collapse of the packed shape of a freight having a hollow part, makes the handling of the freight easy, and reduces the cost of transportation or the like drastically.  <P>SOLUTION: According to the packed shape retaining method, a contracted air bag 10, which has an air inlet 11 and can be expanded/contracted by putting in or out air, is inserted into the hollow part 1a of the freight, such as a copper roughing coil 1. The air bag 10 is inflated with air within the hollow part 1a of the coil 1, so that the air bag 10 presses the interior of the hollow part outward. As a result, the packed shape of the coil 1 is retained solely by the light air bag 10 during transportation.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004227134-A (JP)
Title: Individual identification settlement system and individual identification settlement device
Inventor: MIZUSHIMA KEITA
IPC: G06Q50/16
Filed: 2003-01-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide individual identification settlement system/device with high safety, with which a user can easily perform commercial transaction without carrying cash and a card.  <P>SOLUTION: An iris is inputted from an iris input means 17 of a charge machine 1, iris data are coded and stored in an individual information/iris storage means 21. When a pay institution such as a rental shop 91 and a house 92 of sea, which are disposed in the facility, is used, settlement is performed based on iris data by a BM settlement terminal 5 installed in the rental shop 91 and the house 92 of sea.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004228205-A (JP)
Title: Spin treatment method of substrate and treating apparatus
Inventor: KIKUCHI TSUTOMU
IPC: F26B5/08
Filed: 2003-01-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spin treatment method capable of preventing particles from adhering to equipment when treating a semiconductor wafer by a treatment liquid before drying and treatment.  <P>SOLUTION: The spin treatment method for treating the semiconductor wafer by the treatment liquid before drying and treatment includes a process for supplying the treatment liquid for treatment while the semiconductor is being rotated; a process for stopping the supply of the treatment liquid and rotating the semiconductor wafer for specific time without increasing the speed of the semiconductor wafer after the semiconductor wafer is completely treated by the treatment liquid; and a process for stopping the supply of the treatment liquid for rotating the semiconductor wafer for the specific time, before the rotational speed of the semiconductor wafer is set faster than that in the treatment by the treatment liquid for drying and treating.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004225321-A (JP)
Title: Structure and method for semi-automatically connecting excavating rod
Inventor: SHINJO JUN
IPC: F16D1/02
Filed: 2003-01-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure and a method for semi-automatically connecting an excavating rod, which make the excavating rod automatically coupled to an excavator side by screwing, and which make the excavating rods coupled together by fitting a joint and inserting a pin in the addition of another excavation rod.  <P>SOLUTION: In joint structures which are provided at both ends of the excavating rod, one end serves as a coupling shaft part so that another excavating rod can be added; the other end serves as a supporting part with a recess into which the coupling shaft part is to be fitted; the coupling shaft part and the recess are set to have a polygonal cross section; a screw part is provided in the coupling shaft part; a driving shaft of the excavator is provided with a screw supporting part into which the coupling shaft part is to be fitted and into which the screw part is to be screwed; a driving rod is rotated by the rotation of a driving head, so that screw tightening can be automatically performed; and when the coupling shaft part is fitted into the recess of the receiving part, the pin is passed through a fitting part, so as to be latched to the upper excavating rod.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004226607-A (JP)
Title: Photorefractive element array substrate and image display device
Inventor: NAKANISHI HIROSHI
IPC: G02F1/1335
Filed: 2003-01-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photorefractive element array substrate which is suitable for an image display device having bright and superior display quality.  <P>SOLUTION: A photorefractive element array substrate 6 is provided with a first photorefractvie element array 2 which is provided with two dimensionally arranged first photorefractive elements 2a and a second photorefractive element array 4 which is provided with second photorefractive elements 4a that are arranged in a two dimensional manner so as to correspond to the elements 2a in a 1:1 manner and a transparent substrate 5 in the above order from a light beam incident side. The converging position of the light beams which are passed through the elements 2a and 4a is located in the vicinity of the light emitting side surface of the transparent substrate 5.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004226197-A (JP)
Title: Object identification method, object identification device, and object identification program
Inventor: MIYAZAKI SHINICHI
IPC: G01B11/22
Filed: 2003-01-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely and quickly discriminate an object robustly against illumination fluctuation, contamination, outline fluctuation and the like.  <P>SOLUTION: This method/device is provided with a plurality of distance image measuring means for measuring distance images of the prescribed objects, a model database for storing a dimension value of an circumscribed rectangular parallelopiped of the each object to be discriminated, and three-dimensional position coordinate values of each characteristic points of the object, while correlating them each other, the first discriminating means for finding the circumscribed rectangular parallelopiped of the each object, for retrieving the objects corresponding to a dimension value similar to the dimension value of the circumscribed rectangular parallelopiped as object candidates from the model database, and for preparing a discrimination list of the object candidates wherein the retrieved object candidates are arrayed according to an order of high consistency, and the second discrimination means for comparing three-dimensional shapes in every small block defined in the object, based on the dimension values stored in the model database and the three-dimensional position coordinate values of the each characteristic point, and for evaluating shape similarity in the every block to delete the object candidates of low similarity from the discrimination list.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004223134-A (JP)
Title: Electric vacuum cleaner
Inventor: MIYAHARA TOSHIFUMI
IPC: A47L9/00
Filed: 2003-01-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric vacuum cleaner, improved in usability of both a floor moving type and a portable type.  <P>SOLUTION: This electric vacuum cleaner includes: a vacuum cleaner body 1 having a motor-driven blower 2 generating suction air and a battery 6 for driving the motor-driven blower 2; and a charging table 8 having a charging circuit 7 for charging the battery 6. The charging table 8 includes a traveling means 9, and the vacuum cleaner body 1 and the charging table 8 are freely attached and detached to and from each other, whereby the electric vacuum cleaner can be improved in usability both in the floor moving type and the portable type.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004231689-A (JP)
Title: Thermochromic molding resin composition with metallic luster and thermochromic molded product with metallic luster using the same
Inventor: HARADA YUKI
IPC: C08K5/00
Filed: 2003-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a peculiar thermochromic molding resin composition with a metallic luster which exhibits a variety of appearance through combination of color change caused by temperature change and a luminous effect of the metallic luster with a stereoscopic effect and further exhibits different metallic luster colors when viewed from different angles, and a molded product using the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The thermochromic molding resin composition with a metallic luster comprises a cholesteric liquid-crystal luster pigment with a maximum particle size of 100 μm to 5 mm, a thermochromic composition and a molding resin. Here, the thermochromic composition essentially comprises an electron-donating, color-exhibiting organic compound, an electron-accepting compound and an organic compound medium capable of reversibly inducing their color reaction. The thermochromic molded product with the metallic luster is molded using the resin composition through methods such as injection molding, extrusion molding, blow molding or cast molding.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004233089-A (JP)
Title: Device and method for judging size of object to be inspected
Inventor: WATANABE YOSHUA
IPC: G01B11/08
Filed: 2003-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and method by which the size of an object to be inspected can be judged easily and surely without positioning the object with a high precision at the time of judging the size.  <P>SOLUTION: The device is provided with a light emitting section which projects light having a bundle width of rays larger than the object to be inspected, a light receiving section which is provided to face the light emitting section and receives the light emitted from the emitting section, and a scanning means which moves an optical path formed between the light emitting section and light receiving section and the object relatively to each other so that the object may cross the optical path. The device is also provided with a judging means which detects the quantity of light shielded by the object when the object is made to cross the optical path by means of the scanning means as a change in the quantity of the light received by means of the light receiving section and judges the size of the object from a maximum variation in the quantity of the light received by means of the light receiving section.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004235783-A (JP)
Title: Digital camera and digital camera system
Inventor: YOKONUMA NORIKAZU
IPC: G03B17/38
Filed: 2003-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a digital camera system in which various settings of a master camera and a slave camera at the time of a cooperative operation can easily be performed by the master camera.  <P>SOLUTION: A digital camera is provided with a cooperative operation means which is connected to the other digital camera and cooperatively operates, a setting means setting a prescribed item or a prescribed value to the camera and an instruction means setting the prescribed item or the prescribed value based on the setting result of the setting means and instructing the other digital camera to set the prescribed item or the prescribed value.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004233678-A (JP)
Title: Dispersion treatment method for liquid containing fine metal oxide particles, electrophotographic photoreceptor and method for manufacturing the same, electrophotographic apparatus, and process cartridge
Inventor: HASHIBA SHIGETO
IPC: B01F23/57
Filed: 2003-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dispersion treatment method by which, in dispersion treatment of a liquid containing fine metal oxide particles, the fine metal oxide particles can be efficiently and reliably dispersed while suppressing degeneration of the particles.  <P>SOLUTION: In the dispersion treatment method in which a horizontal media milling dispersion machine 1 is used and a liquid containing fine metal oxide particles is circulated in a cylinder 3 along a rotating shaft 4 while rotating stirring mills 5, a dispersion treatment is carried out in such a way that the volume of the cylinder 3 and the flow rate of the liquid to be treated in the cylinder 3 satisfy the expression (1): D/V≤2.5, wherein D represents the volume of the cylinder and V represents the flow rate of the liquid to be treated in the cylinder.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004013895-A (JP)
Title: File system for flash memory
Inventor: HWANG HO-SUNG
IPC: G06F12/02
Filed: 2003-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a file system for using a flash memory efficiently.  <P>SOLUTION: The file system is provided with a meta block for storing various file-related information, a data block for data to be stored actually and an information block for storing information about the data block. Therefore, differing from conventional methods, since one file does not use a particular memory area continually so that the early exhaust of a particular block lifetime in a flash memory is prevented, the whole memory area is equally used so that lifetimes of all blocks in the flash memory are kept in the same levels.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004240610-A (JP)
Title: Quality control system for printer
Inventor: YAMAGUCHI AKIRA
IPC: G16H10/60
Filed: 2003-02-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To trace the factor of abnormality, and to simplify a quality control operation in the quality control of a printer which outputs an image for medical diagnosis.  <P>SOLUTION: This quality control system of a printer is configured by connecting a printer having a function for printing latest quality control data specification information specifying the latest quality control data when a hard copy is outputted on the hard copy each time the hard copy is outputted and a control device having a storage means for storing the quality control data, an input means for inputting the latest quality control data specification information, a retrieving means for retrieving the storage means based on the inputted latest quality control data specification information and an output means for outputting the retrieved quality control data in a predetermined format to a network.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004240716-A (JP)
Title: Information processing apparatus and method, and as program
Inventor: URAYAMA KAZUHIKO
IPC: G06F15/02
Filed: 2003-02-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make non-contact communication with an IC card while avoiding a null point present in a communicable area.  <P>SOLUTION: In Step S1, the impedance is set to an output impedance A. In step S2, a command for communication confirmation is output from an antenna. In step S3, it is determined whether a response from a non-contact IC card could be received or not, and, in the case where it is determined that the response could not be received, the processing proceeds to step S4. In step S4, it is determined whether a predetermined time has elapsed or not, and, in the case where it is determined that the predetermined time has elapsed, it is determined that the non-contact IC card is positioned at a null point in the current output impedance, and the processing proceeds to step S5. In step S5, the impedance is switched to an output impedance B. The present method is applicable, for example, to a PDA which makes non-contact communication with the IC card.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004241318-A (JP)
Title: Spot lighting fixture
Inventor: OGAWA MASAHIRO
IPC: F21V29/00
Filed: 2003-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spot lighting fixture whose light emitting diode has improved luminance since the heat generated in the light emitting diode is radiated to the outside effectively.  <P>SOLUTION: The spot lighting fixture A has the light emitting diode 110 which is mounted on a substrate 100, an inverse cone shape reflecting plate 200 holding the light emitting diode 110 inside, which reflects the light of the light emitting diode 110 forward, and a thermally conductive member 300 which is mounted between the substrate 100 and the reflecting plate 200. Radiating fins 240 which radiate the heat conducted from the light emitting diode 110 via the substrate 100 and the heat conductive member 300 are formed on an outer periphery of the reflecting plate 200.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004211881-A (JP)
Title: Easily extracted nail hard to be loosened
Inventor: HASHIMOTO NAOJIRO
IPC: F16B15/00
Filed: 2003-01-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nail allowed to be driven faster than a screw, harder to be extracted than a conventional nail, and allowed to be easily extracted without breaking wood when a driver fails to hit the nail.  <P>SOLUTION: Threads are slightly formed just below the head of the nail, a positive or negative groove is formed in the head, and projections such as splinters are formed on the foot of the nail at positions. Usually, the nail is hard to be extracted since the projections are formed thereon. To extract the nail, when the nail is turned two to three times with a screwdriver, the head comes out of a plate because the threads are formed on the nail. Then, the nail can be removed by pulling it with a nail extractor hung on the nail.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004245055-A (JP)
Title: Discharge pump and air conditioner equipped with the same
Inventor: ONO MICHIAKI
IPC: F24F13/22
Filed: 2003-02-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a discharge pump of high pump efficiency with little power consumption of a motor and reducing noise by forming a passage with smooth flow from the suction to discharge of a fluid to be discharged while fixing a relative position between a pump body and a rotation body into a prescribed position without needing a special tool.  <P>SOLUTION: The rotation body is provided with a shaft part connected to a drive shaft of a driving motor; a first blade member with a large diameter provided at the shaft part to extend radially outward with respect to the axis of the shaft part; an approximately ring-like annular member provided at the lower end of the first blade member to extend radially outward with respect to the axis of the shaft part; an approximately cylindrical suction port extending downward from the inner diameter side of the annular member and projecting from a lower end opening part of a pump chamber; and a second blade member with a small diameter formed inside the suction port radially outward with respect to the axis of the shaft part to reach the internal wall of the suction port.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004243344-A (JP)
Title: Metallic mold of fin for heat exchanger, and heat exchanger
Inventor: ITO HIRONORI
IPC: B21D28/24
Filed: 2003-02-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the workability of exchange of a piecing punch for making punching holes for a metallic mold of fin for a heat exchanger.  <P>SOLUTION: This metallic mold is composed of an upper mold die-set 2 and a lower mold die-set, vertically moved at least in one side, an upper mold 3 and a lower mold arranged to the respective faced positions of the upper mold die-set 2 and the lower mold die-set, the plurality of piercing punches 4 set to the upper mold 3 or the upper mold die-set 2 and a driving part for shifting the piercing punches 4 to vertical optional position. The driving part is used and any optional piercing punch 4 is selected out of the plurality of piercing punches 4 and projected, and as a result, since the piercing punches 4 are unnecessary to exchange one by one, the exchanging time of the piercing punches 4 can be shortened.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004244375-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing dimethylnaphthalene
Inventor: IWAYAMA KAZUYOSHI
IPC: C07C15/24
Filed: 2003-02-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a dimethylnaphthalenes, by which the dimethylnaphthalenes can be produced from an inexpensive raw material in relatively reduced processes in a reduced environmental load state.  <P>SOLUTION: This method for producing the dimethylnaphthalenes is characterized by contacting a heavy oil containing naphthalene skeleton-having hydrocarbons as a supply raw material oil with an acid type catalyst in the presence of hydrogen to increase the concentration of the dimethylnaphthalenes. The acid type catalyst is preferably prepared and used by subjecting mordenite type zeolite, beta type zeolite, or CFI type zeolite (called CIT-5) to an ion exchange treatment, or the like, to impart the solid acidity and further carrying a hydrogenation active metal such as platinum, palladium, or rhenium on the product. It is more preferable to mix the supply raw material oil with a methyl group-having aromatic hydrocarbon.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI