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Patent JP-2003215998-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus
Inventor: TAWADA TAKAAKI
IPC: G03G21/14
Filed: 2002-01-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately maintain a frictional force between a cleaning blade and a latent image carrier and prevent defective cleaning by forming a surface staining part of a thin toner film on a latent image carrier surface (non image forming part) corresponding to a paper passing interval, in the case the paper passing interval becomes longer when a toner image on the latent image carrier is transferred on a transfer paper.  <P>SOLUTION: As for the image forming apparatus provided with the latent image carrier 1, an electrifying device 2, an exposure means 3, a developing device 4, a transfer device 5, a paper feeding device 6, a cleaning device 10 equipped with a cleaning blade 11 for removing the toner remaining on the latent image carrier after a transfer process in contact with the surface of the latent image carrier, and a control part 20 for controlling the aforesaid carrier, devices and means, the surface staining part constituted of the toner is formed on the latent image carrier surface corresponding to the interval between the passing transfer papers fed to a transfer position by the paper feeding device, and the toner quantity on the surface staining part is controlled so as to increase/decrease in accordance with the length of the interval between the passing papers.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002224839-A (JP)
Title: Plasma arc torch and electrode
Inventor: SEVERANCE WAYNE STANLEY JR
IPC: B23K10/00
Filed: 2002-01-29
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method by which a sufficient amount of gas flow is supplied to a torch to remove heat from an arc and the torch without sacrificing the pressure attained in the nozzle chamber and a cutting speed, and to provide a torch which is easily assembled and with which torch the gas flow is directed from the electrode to the nozzle chamber without using a baffle. SOLUTION: A plasma arc torch and a method is provided by which the gas flow is directed substantially along the whole length of the electrode 40 before the gas is divided into a primary and a secondary flows. The torch 10 includes the electrode 40 which has a metallic holder 41 which forms a plurality of openings 50 at the front end part 45, thus the whole gas is introduced through the plurality of openings 50 into a chamber 90 which is formed with the holder 41 and the nozzle 60. The nozzle has a central hole 67 and a plurality of secondary openings 66 and divides the gas contained in the nozzle chamber into at least the primary and the secondary flows.
Patent JP-2003219997-A (JP)
Title: Electric cleaner
Inventor: HOSHINO SUSUMU
IPC: A47L9/28
Filed: 2002-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric cleaner in which power supply terminals is not short-circuited even if the upper case is separated from the lower case.  <P>SOLUTION: This is an electric cleaner which is constituted of a lower case 12, an upper case 14 installed on this lower case 12 in a separable manner, an electric blower 13 equipped in the upper case 14, a battery 17, which is equipped in the lower case 12 and drives the electric blower 13, motor terminals 35, 36 electrically connected to the electrodes of the electric blower 13 while being equipped in the upper case 14, and power supply terminals 31, 32, which are equipped in the lower case 12 and are connected to the electrodes of the battery 17, and also when the upper case 14 is mounted on the lower case 12, are electrically connected to the motor terminals 35, 36. A switching element 40, which intercepts the electrical connection of the power supply terminals 31, 32 and the battery 17 when the upper case 14 is separated from the lower case 12, is equipped.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003230086-A (JP)
Title: Information processor and information processing method
Inventor: TAKADA TOMOMI
IPC: H04N5/91
Filed: 2002-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely discriminate validity of meta data.  <P>SOLUTION: Meta data 702 corresponding to each section of contents 701 are attached to the contents 701. Each of the meta data describes meta data items (704 to 706) such as colors and people representative of the sections. Further, meta data 707 to 709 including descriptions for indicating edit contents to the contents 701 to give effect on the validity of each meta data items and for indicating an edit operation applied to a corresponding contents section are attached to the contents 701. The validity of each meta data items can be discriminated by using the meta data.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003226999-A (JP)
Title: Control method, program, recording medium and control device of plating area, and plating method
Inventor: NII MOTOHARU
IPC: H05K3/00
Filed: 2002-02-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plating method which can be easily adapted to the small lot multi-production or frequent design changes, and prevent fluctuation in the plating area.  <P>SOLUTION: This plating method includes a step of dividing an area to be plated into a group of mesh-like sections, a step of measuring the plating area for each section, a step of comparing the measurement value of the plating area and determining whether or not the plating area has fluctuation, and a step of changing the design of patterns including in the section when it is determined that the plating area has fluctuation and eliminating the fluctuation.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003230103-A (JP)
Title: Data stream recording equipment, data stream recording method and program
Inventor: YAMAGAMI YASUSHI
IPC: G11B27/02
Filed: 2002-02-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide data stream recording equipment or the like for securing sufficient protection of data.  <P>SOLUTION: A receiving unit 3 sends a data stream obtained by digital broadcast to a mother board 1, which divides TS packets contained in the data stream into two parts. One part is stored in an internal memory 33 for contents preservation, in the form of a packet collection file. Data for a label showing the earliest time out of data which shows each TOT (Time Offset Table) in the data stream is imparted to the packet collection file. The mother board 1 stores a substitution-finished data stream out of the data streams, in a storage 2 for the mother board. In the substitution-finished data stream, the TS packets stored in the internal memory 33 are substituted by dummy packets. In the case of reproduction, the dummy packets in the substitution- finished data stream are substituted by tinning-out object packets, thereby restoring an original data stream.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003105779-A (JP)
Title: Joining structure of steel pipe pile and upper structure and design method for it
Inventor: SAEKI EIICHIRO
IPC: E02D27/12
Filed: 2002-02-08
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an outer pipe pile head structure capable of eliminating complication of pile head reinforcement arrangement and dispensing with welding of a reinforcement bar by showing a suitable design method for the outer pipe pile head structure. SOLUTION: In this joining structure of a steel pipe pile and an upper structure, the strength design for each part of the pile head structure is performed concerning the external force applied to the pile head so that the compressive axial force is resisted by friction between the steel pipe pile and the concrete, or bearing pressure of stoppers mounted on the inner and outer surfaces of the steel pipe pile and concrete, the tensile axial force is resisted by bearing pressure of the stopper mounted on the outer surface of the steel pipe pile and concrete and a joint reinforcement bar, shearing force is resisted by a setting depth part to the upper structure of the steel pipe pile or the outside reinforcing pipe, and bending moment is resisted by bearing pressure generated in the steel pipe pile part,  the outside reinforcing pipe and concrete part between them when bending moment is applied to the pile head.
Patent JP-2003232615-A (JP)
Title: Method and device for measuring position of measurement point, method of measuring curved shape, and screen means
Inventor: KAWAMURA TSUTOMU
IPC: G01B11/00
Filed: 2002-02-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for easily measuring a measurement point.  <P>SOLUTION: Screens 1 are set on an object of measurement 5 at prescribed intervals, and laser beams are irradiated along the screen set on the object of measurement 5 by a laser beam emitter 2. The position of the measurement point can be found by detecting the position of an LED 3 on the screen 1. A TV camera 7 is installed in each screen 1 for imaging the spot position on which laser beams are reflected on the next screen 1 and the position of the LED 3 on the screen. The positions of the laser spot and the LED are calculated and the relative positions are operated. Based on the result of the operation, the quantity of displacement of each measurement point relative to the laser beam as the linear absolute position reference is calculated, and thereby, it is possible to measure whether the shape of the object of measurement is linear or curved.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003244381-A (JP)
Title: Facsimile apparatus
Inventor: TANIMOTO YOSHIFUMI
IPC: H04N1/32
Filed: 2002-02-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a facsimile apparatus capable of reducing communication expenses in use of a polling function under environment where the Internet can be used.  <P>SOLUTION: A control part 11 of the facsimile apparatus 1 performs facsimile communication with facsimile apparatus 2 from a facsimile communication part 12 through a telephone line 3, transmits a polling request that the Internet 4 is used after confirming that the facsimile apparatus 2 has a communication ability using the Internet 4 and disconnects the telephone line 3. When the polling request that the Internet 4 is used from the facsimile apparatus 1 is received via a facsimile communication part 22, a control part 21 of facsimile apparatus 2 disconnects the telephone line 3 and transmits polling data from an Internet communication part 23 to the facsimile apparatus 1 by electronic mail through the Internet 4. The facsimile apparatus 1 receives an electronic mail including the polling data from an Internet communication part 13.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003242334-A (JP)
Title: Server system for supporting business negotiation
Inventor: MAEKAWA YOSHIKATSU
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2002-02-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the efficiency of a business negotiation job between a maker and a customer by supporting the business negotiation job.  <P>SOLUTION: In a business negotiation support server system 100 for receiving accesses from makers 300 and user terminals of customers 400 through an information network 200 and interactively performing the following functions, an information registration function registers product information, advertisement information, obtainment information from a customer, notification information inside a maker, notification information inside the customer, a daily jobtime report of a person in charge of business of the maker in a storage device 120, an information reference function refers to various pieces of information registered by the information registration function, an information editing function edits materials for business negotiation presented to the customer from the maker, notification information transmitted to the customer from the maker or information provided to the maker from the customer, and an information analysis function analyzes actual sales results information, comment information inputted in the daily jobtime report of the person in charge of business of the maker or comment information of the customer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003237972-A (JP)
Title: Sheet conveyer, and image forming device provided with the same
Inventor: KOYAMA OSAMU
IPC: G03G15/00
Filed: 2002-02-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remove a foreign matters such as paper powder deposited on a sheet by simple constitution.  <P>SOLUTION: A sheet conveying means 8d is provided in a sheet-conveying- directional upstream in an image forming part 52, and the sheet S is conveyed to the image forming device 52 by the sheet conveying means 8d. Foreign matter removing means C1, C2 are brought into contact with the sheet conveying means 8d, and the foreign matters moved from the sheet S to a surface of the sheet conveying means 8d are removed by the foreign matter removing means C1, C2, when the sheet S is conveyed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003239514-A (JP)
Title: Strut of floor panel and positioning member for strut
Inventor: MATSUNOBU YUKIHIRO
IPC: E04F15/00
Filed: 2002-02-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positioning member for struts of a floor panel capable of reducing labor of marking, easily positioning the struts, and fixing the struts without an adhesive.  <P>SOLUTION: In the positioning member for the struts, four connecting pieces 5 are integrally formed so as to form a rectangular frame, and the struts supporting the floor panel installed on an installation face are positioned at four corner parts by arranging the rectangular frames sided by side on the installation face such as a floor backing 1. A connecting protrusion 6 is provided on a top face of any corner part of the four corner parts, a connecting hole 7 for inserting and fitting the connecting protrusion 6 is provided on a corner part different from the corner part provided with the connecting protrusion 6, and the corner part provided with the connecting hole 7 is raised for an amount of thickness of the connecting piece 5.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003243312-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor manufacturing device
Inventor: HONDA SHIGERU
IPC: H01L21/22
Filed: 2002-02-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a semiconductor manufacturing device having a rotating section requiring electrical supply from deteriorating the treated qualities of substrates by eliminating negative influence exerted upon the substrates from a feeding section.  <P>SOLUTION: The semiconductor manufacturing device is provided with a rotating section 31 having a power receiving section 32 in a reaction chamber 2, a hollow rotary shaft 44 which supports the section 31, and a fixed shaft 45 concentrically provided in the shaft 44. The fixed shaft 45 is provided with a fixed ring made of an insulating material and the hollow rotary shaft 44 is provided with a rotary ring which is slidably fit in the fixed ring and made of an insulating material. Either one of the fixed and the rotary rings is made of a ceramic material. In addition, either one of the fixed and rotary rings is provided with a sliding ring, and the other one of the rings is provided with a brush which is slidably contacted with the sliding ring so as to supply electric power to the power receiving section from an external power source through the brush and sliding ring.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003244914-A (JP)
Title: Continuous running mechanism based on permanent magnet
Inventor: KUNINAKA MOTOO
IPC: H02K21/12
Filed: 2002-02-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a continuous running mechanism which can be provided as a power source for power generation or the like.  <P>SOLUTION: The continuous running mechanism uses repulsive force produced between poles of the same polarities of permanent magnets as power for a machine to be rotated, and the continuous running mechanism is so constructed that each set of permanent magnets, arranged in a circle at equal intervals is moved by a certain distance by position-adjusting panels of fixed magnetic shells which are moved by the movement of a turntable. Drag in advancing is reduced by a servo mechanism, and effective repulsive force is utilized for rotation.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003247421-A (JP)
Title: Cooling device of engine
Inventor: YOSHIKAWA SHIGETAKA
IPC: F01P11/02
Filed: 2002-02-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooling device of an engine capable of improving serviceability on exchanging cooling medium in the cooling device equipped with a flow control valve for controlling circulating quantity of the cooling medium between a radiator and the engine.  <P>SOLUTION: Cooling water, flowing into an outlet passage 4 from an engine 2, flows out into a cooling passage 30. The cooling passage 30 is provided with the radiator 32. Cooling water cooled via the radiator 32 is controlled with the flow control valve 40 for the flow rate, and supplied in an inlet passage 50. Cooling water supplied into the inlet passage 50 is supplied into the engine 2 via a water pump 52. When cooling water temperature THW is not less than a predetermined value during stopping of the engine 2, the flow control valve 40 is controlled for closing the valve. Thereafter, when a change of cooling water is detected with a drain cock sensor 80, the flow control valve 40 is controlled for opening the valve.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003248695-A (JP)
Title: Document analysis support device, document search device, and computer program thereof
Inventor: KYOGOKU MAKOTO
IPC: G06Q50/10
Filed: 2002-02-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a document analysis support device, a document search device, and a computer program thereof allowing a user to easily recognize information of words with high importance included in a watched document.  <P>SOLUTION: This document analysis support device selects abbreviated expressions with high importance (an appearance rate) in the abbreviated expressions included in a document related to a patent application including abbreviated expressions (for example, a cited document n, a senior application n, a reference No.n, etc.), corresponding to a cited patent application number of a patent gazette and the document (a notification of reasons for refusal, an opposition to the grant of patent, etc.), related to the patent application including a part stating a correlation between the abbreviated expressions and the appropriate application number of the gazette for supporting the analysis by the user (S5), and presents the cited patent application number of the patent gazette corresponding to the selected abbreviated expressions with high importance to the user by collating the parts stating the correlation between the abbreviated expressions and the application number of the gazette (S15).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002312340-A (JP)
Title: Allocation releasing method of plural processor cores for l2 correctable error
Inventor: BAILEY SHELDON RAY
IPC: G06F12/16
Filed: 2002-02-26
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of releasing the allocation of plural processor cores sharing a failed memory bank. SOLUTION: This method provides the allocation releasing by applying the existing technology designed to use a new multiprocessor integrated circuit having an on-chip shared memory, with the single-processor integrated circuit technology. When the failure occurs in the shared memory, the failure is correlated with all the processors affected by the failure, whereby all the processors affected by the failure can be surely inactivated. In a preferable embodiment of this invention, the failure is reported several times, by one time to each affected processor. Whereby the multiprocessor integrated circuits sharing the memory, can be used in combination with the existing error reporting technology which correlates only one processor with the given failure.
Patent JP-2003247955-A (JP)
Title: Visual inspection device
Inventor: NOGAMI RYOJI
IPC: G01B11/00
Filed: 2002-02-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a visual inspection device that can reduce cost, simplify device structure and shorten an inspection cycle time.  <P>SOLUTION: For detecting a defect in surfaces of workpieces 151 to 153 as long parts, the visual inspection device comprises a line sensor camera 100 for imaging the workpieces 151 to 153 sequentially, an illumination part 110 made of a bar array of, for example, LEDs to illuminate the workpieces 151 to 153 evenly in an imaging region 120, a first rotary roller 130 and a second rotary roller 140 for rotating the workpieces 151 to 153, a first extrusion roller 180 and a second extrusion roller 190 for extruding the workpieces 151 to 153 continuously at a substantially constant speed in a rotation axis direction, and an image processing part 170 for processing data on the image picked up by the line sensor camera 100 to detect an inclination of the image and detect a defect in workpiece sides according to the detected inclination.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003257162-A (JP)
Title: Sound controller, sound control method, program, and recording medium
Inventor: NOGUCHI AKANE
IPC: G10K15/00
Filed: 2002-02-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the burden of a user when selecting any of a plurality of musical pieces.  <P>SOLUTION: Position detecting means 114 detects the relation between a position where an icon 51 corresponding to musical piece data is displayed in a display device 23 and a position where a pointer 53 for selecting the icon 51 is displayed. A sound processing section 115 applies the processing meeting the positional relation between the icon 51 and pointer 53 detected by the position detecting means 114 to the musical piece data stored in a memory section 113 and outputs the musical piece data after the processing to a sound output device 21.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002342046-A (JP)
Title: Method for managing printing queue and printer
Inventor: SOMMER MONIQUE GERARDINE M
IPC: G06K15/00
Filed: 2002-03-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer realizing printing with high productivity by having the control of a production process improved by an operator, and a method for managing a print queue. SOLUTION: Jobs are put into a print queue (64), and before the print processing of the job in the queue begins, a start condition for the job is checked and printing is started only when the start condition is fulfilled. The method is provided with the steps of: checking the status of a mode indicator indicating whether a printer (10) is in a 'processing continuing' mode or a 'sequence keeping' mode, and when a job (80) not fulfilling the start condition in the queue (64) reaches the head of the queue; postponing the print processing of the job; continuing the processing of the next job fulfilling the start condition, if any, when the printer is in the 'processing continuing' mode; and stopping the print processing when it is in the 'sequence keeping' mode.
Patent JP-2003258687-A (JP)
Title: Echo canceller
Inventor: TAKADA SHINSUKE
IPC: H04B3/23
Filed: 2002-03-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an echo canceller capable of removing echoes of an input signal wide in a frequency range without deteriorating the communication quality.  <P>SOLUTION: The echo canceller is provided with a noise generator 3 for generating noises in a prescribed frequency range, a switch 4 for connecting an output of the generator 3 to reception signal lines in order to overlap the noises generated by the generator 3 on the reception signal, and a timer 5 for opening the switch 4 to stop overlap of noises on the reception signal at the lapse of a prescribed time, after an adaptive filter 1 starts a converging operation of a filter coefficient.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO