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Patent JP-2003178501-A (JP)
Title: Transport assembly for moving cartridge, cartridge storage system and method for transporting cartridge
Inventor: GARIEPY JEFFREY A
IPC: G11B15/68
Filed: 2002-10-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the throughput of a storage system (10) by using a transport assembly (18) for moving a plurality of cartridges (26) between a storage rack (12) and a tape drive (14).  <P>SOLUTION: A transporter (28) moving along a guide (32) between the storage rack (12) and the tape drive (14) includes a first transport receiver (36A) and a second transport receiver (36B) and the transport receivers can each receive and transport one of the cartridge (26). With this design, while one cartridge (26) is being used by the tape drive (14), the transport assembly (18) can retrieve another cartridge (26) from the storage rack (12) for immediate insertion into the tape drive (14) upon rewinding of the cartridge (26).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004139437-A (JP)
Title: Image processing apparatus for performing keystone transform processing
Inventor: MORIYA MASAAKI
IPC: G06T3/00
Filed: 2002-10-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing apparatus for projecting a correct-shaped image on a screen by preventing expressing as a faded line or point even when performing keystone transform processing on a thin line having a width of one pixel or a point composed of one pixel.  <P>SOLUTION: A luminance value of pixel data of a thin line or a point which fades in color due to keystone transform processing is controlled in advance based on a correction value of a luminance value based on a differential value of a luminance value of background pixel data around that, for example, correction is made by adding the correction value to the luminance value of the pixel data. Preferably, a background pixel for obtaining the correction value can be accurately selected by detecting edge types, such as a vertical line, a horizontal line and independent point, from input image data.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004135627-A (JP)
Title: Moss vegetation
Inventor: MIYATA NORIAKI
IPC: A01G1/00
Filed: 2002-10-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a moss vegetation realizing a growth environment suitable for moss on a medium base and enabling suitable culture of moss.  <P>SOLUTION: The moss vegetation is provided with a medium base 1 produced by forming a porous material in the form of a plate to form the upper surface as the planting face 10 and a protrusion 2 to shield the sunshine and air flow on the upper face of the medium base.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004145409-A (JP)
Title: Storage device and storage device subsystem
Inventor: HONDA KIYOSHI
IPC: G06F3/06
Filed: 2002-10-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control system, wherein an access request from an upper device on a file basis is processed cooperatively by a plurality of storage devices forming a storage device subsystem, in a storage device subsystem holding redundant data.  <P>SOLUTION: Each of the storage devices, forming the storage device subsystem, has a means of processing access requests from the upper device on file basis and for updating the redundant data involved by the access request. Further, the storage device has a means of holding positional information on a recording medium for each file to be stored in its own, access history information and the like, and rearranging storage areas under arbitrary conditions.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004141011-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing tangle for stock extraction and tangle processed food using the tangle
Inventor: SAKAMOTO AYAKO
IPC: A23L27/10
Filed: 2002-10-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing stock tangle by which genuine stock excellent in all of taste, flavor and texture can be rapidly extracted by a simple method; and to provide tangle processed food using the tangle for stock extraction.  <P>SOLUTION: The tangle processed food is produced by using tangle for stock extraction obtained by the following process: heating dried raw tangle as it is under specific condition to lower the molecular weights of hetero polysaccharides forming the surface tissue of tangle which is turned into glutinous components when cooked.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004145465-A (JP)
Title: System for supporting sales
Inventor: KAMIWAKI FUTOSHI
IPC: G06Q30/02
Filed: 2002-10-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for supporting sales, which enables a customer inquiring about a merchandise to work toward purchasing for the person introducing and introducing the merchandise to other prospects, by reporting the status of business negotiation to the person introducing inquiry on the merchandise.  <P>SOLUTION: The system for supporting merchandising comprises a database 16 for storing the status of business discussion under negotiations, a means 17 for registering the information of the person introducing, who has introduced the prospect for purchasing the merchandise, in the database 16, a business data input means 20 for acquiring the business information and storing them in the database 16, and a mail-transmitting means 21 for generating a report mail, on the basis of the business discussions registered in the database 16 and transmitting it to the person introducing the prospects, via the Internet 12, when business information is input through the input means 20.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004105665-A (JP)
Title: Distance recognition system using rise or fall of sound
Inventor: KODAIRA MICHITOKU
IPC: A61F9/08
Filed: 2002-09-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a distance recognition system for a blind or amblyopic person to recognize the surrounding circumstances, which system has functions that (1) the person can sense the distance to an object using a distance sensor, (2) can distinguish between a plurality of distance sensors and (3) can sense a wall that located at an angle with respect to the distance sensor and (4) which has the function of compensating for a walking stick, a seeing eye dog or a navigation guidance system and (5) which is small, lightweight and portable.  <P>SOLUTION: The distance recognition system has following characteristics: (1) the person can sense the distance using his or her own ears by converting the distance detected by the distance sensor to a rise or a fall in the sound of an audio frequency; (2) the plurality of distance sensors can be distinguished by using different tones; (3) the wall that is located aslant can be sensed by using three distance sensors 2, 3 and 4 having different attachment angles; (4) the system has a compensating function to understand the surrounding circumstances; and (5)the system uses microsensors fixed to a hair band.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003202360-A (JP)
Title: Measuring apparatus for electronic component
Inventor: TOYODA AKIKAZU
IPC: G01R31/26
Filed: 2002-10-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a measuring apparatus which can measure an electronic component in such a way that an object or a human body around a measuring environment does not affect a characteristic of the electronic component.  <P>SOLUTION: The measuring apparatus is constituted of a stage 21 on which mounted is a measuring board 22 comprising bumps 25, 26 coming into contact with a terminal of an element such as a chip antenna 29 or the like and copper interconnections 23, 24 electrically connected to the bumps 25, 26; and a conveyance means by which the element is carried onto the measuring board 22 mounted on the stage 21 or by which the element is carried out from the measuring board 22. The stage 21 comprises a support face 21a which supports the measuring board 22, and constituted to be hollow. A trimmer capacitor is installed at the copper interconnection 23 on the measuring substrate 22.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004144416-A (JP)
Title: Carrying device for dregs from melting furnace, and control method for the same
Inventor: TERABE YASUNORI
IPC: F23J1/02
Filed: 2002-10-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a carrying device for dregs from a melting furnace, and a control method for that, capable of eliminating generation of fusion or cracking of molds by high-temperature dregs including molten slag and molten metal discharged from the melting furnace, and achieving high peeling performance.  <P>SOLUTION: This carrying device for dregs is provided with a mold conveyor 10 to carry dregs including molten slag 32 or molten metal 33 discharged from the melting furnace 30. The mold conveyor 10 is provided with a plurality of molds 11 having an alloy layer on a dregs receiving surface. At a mold return part of the mold conveyor 10, between a dregs discharge position B and a dregs drop position A, a cooling water film downflow means 13 to cool the molds 11 to a temperature range of about 100-300°C by downflow of a water film is provided.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004143321-A (JP)
Title: Ink composition for inkjet recording
Inventor: SEGAWA HIROAKI
IPC: C09D11/38
Filed: 2002-10-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ink composition for inkjet recording, having excellent dispersibility, dispersion stability, gas resistance, light fastness, fixity and color development.  <P>SOLUTION: The ink composition for the inkjet recording contains at least water, surface-treated superfine particles of an organic pigment, a sulfo group-containing (co)polymer and an ultra-penetrating agent.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004149815-A (JP)
Title: Nonferrous metal scrap melting furnace
Inventor: KUSAKA KAZUO
IPC: F27B3/04
Filed: 2002-10-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nonferrous metal scrap melting furnace which prevents the damage to a pump by completely melting a nonferrous metal scrap before it reaches the pump and which is excellent in decreasing the oxidation loss of the scrap.  <P>SOLUTION: The melting furnace has a warming chamber 2 equipped with a burner 6, a swirl chamber 1 into which a nonferrous metal scrap is put, and a pump 3 for circulating a molten metal M. The swirl chamber 1 is installed in the proximity of the downstream side of the pump 3 and at the upstream side of the warming chamber 2. Into the swirl chamber 1, the molten metal M is supplied in a swirly state by the delivery force of the pump 3 from a level higher than the surface S of the molten metal in the warming chamber 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004151321-A (JP)
Title: Image forming method and image forming apparatus
Inventor: ASANO MASANARI
IPC: G03G15/043
Filed: 2002-10-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming method which prevents occurrence of fog at the start of copying and prevents occurrence of image unevenness, periodic image defects, etc., and can form an electrophotographic image good in sharpness, with respect to an image forming method in which an electrostatic latent dot image is formed and this image is visualized to a digital image using toner in a developing step, and to provide an image forming apparatus.  <P>SOLUTION: In the image forming method in which an electrostatic latent dot image is formed on a photoreceptor and this image is visualized to a digital image using toner in a developing step, the photoreceptor is an organic photoreceptor having a charge generating layer containing an adduct of titanyl phthalocyanine to a diol having hydroxyl groups on two adjacent respective carbon atoms on a conductive substrate and a charge transport layer on the charge generating layer, and in the developing step, a toner having a saturated water content of 0.1-2.0 mass% in an environment at 30°C and 80% RH is used.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004148196-A (JP)
Title: Sludge separation apparatus, sludge recovery apparatus, and sludge separation method
Inventor: ANDO KENJI
IPC: B01D21/00
Filed: 2002-10-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sludge separation apparatus which efficiently sediments sludge in a turbid liquid to separate it and prevents the sludge from flowing out, a sludge recovery apparatus, and a sludge separation method.  <P>SOLUTION: The sludge separation apparatus 1 separates the sludge S from the turbid liquid T in which the sludge S is mixed in water to purify the turbid liquid T. A sludge separation tank 4 has a discharge opening 4b in the bottom part 4a and an inclined surface 4c inclined from the periphery of the discharge opening 4b toward the discharge opening 4b. A separation cylinder 5 has an opening 5a above the bottom part 4a of the sludge separation tank 4 and is erected through a holding part 6 to be separated at a prescribed distance L1 from the inner wall 4d of the tank 4. A supply pipe 7 supplies the turbid liquid T between the inner wall 4d of the sludge separation tank 4 and the outer wall 5b of the separation cylinder 5. In a pure water pipe 8, a drain port 8a for discharging water outside the sludge separation tank 4 is formed in the vicinity of the upper end of the separation cylinder 5.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004149261-A (JP)
Title: Elevator car
Inventor: TAKAHASHI TOSHIAKI
IPC: B66B11/02
Filed: 2002-10-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elevator car capable of executing inside the car the maintenance works for a hall position display installed on the wall on the hall side without requiring of the maintenance operator that he should get on the oversurface of the car periphery or get off into the pit in the shaft.  <P>SOLUTION: The elevator car 4 is structured so that an opening/closing panel 8 is installed on the side wall part of an elevator doorway and a sub-panel 13 is provided in such a way as covering the rear surface of the panel 8, wherein the sub-panel 13 is furnished with an opening 14 to enable the maintenance work for a hall position display 2 installed on the wall 1 on the hall side and a working door 15 covering the opening 14 and capable of being opened and closed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004149860-A (JP)
Title: Wear resistant roller, manufacturing method therefor and manufacturing apparatus therefor
Inventor: UMEMURA MITSUGI
IPC: C23C24/08
Filed: 2002-10-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a roller having wear resistance.  <P>SOLUTION: The roller comprises a roller body material M made from metal, and a hard layer having a predetermined form, which is welded to the surface of the roller body material M so as to cover or wrap it, and has such a structure as to wrap many fine particles having higher hardness than that of the roller body material M before being heated with a metallic foil.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004151063-A (JP)
Title: Navigation system
Inventor: TADA ATSUKO
IPC: G09B29/00
Filed: 2002-11-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform effective guidance by registering beforehand into an image, additional information (a weather, a time zone at day or night or the like, or the like) in addition to position information at a photographing time of the image, selecting and displaying the image having the additional information optimum to the present position even in the case of the same spot at a navigation time, and displaying the image fit to the weather, the time zone or the like at actual traveling, in a navigation system for displaying the present position and a designated route on a map.  <P>SOLUTION: This navigation system is equipped with a database acquired by linking and registering an image photographed at a previous traveling time, position information at that time, and the additional information comprising at least the weather and the time zone, a means for retrieving the database based on the present position or on the present position and the traveling direction and extracting the image coincident to the highest degree, and a means for displaying the extracted image in addition to the present position and the designated route.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004156225-A (JP)
Title: Plane handle device
Inventor: SUGIMURA ATSUAKI
IPC: E05B5/02
Filed: 2002-11-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plane handle device positively protected from violent unlocking malpractices by forced insertion of a driver or the like.  <P>SOLUTION: A front portion of a front end 7 of a handle 2 extends to form a nose 8 which shield a gap between an end face 7a of the front end 7 and an inside face 3a of a front recessed portion 3 and form a nose receiving portion 9 in which the nose 8 is stored during set-in rotation of the handle 2. A first uneven portion 10 is formed on the back side of the nose 8 along the longitudinal direction of the handle 2 and a second uneven portion 11 is formed on the front side of the nose receiving portion 9 for engaging with the first uneven portion 10.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004155848-A (JP)
Title: Rubber composition, hose and high pressure hose
Inventor: TSUNODA KATSUHIKO
IPC: B32B25/16
Filed: 2002-11-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high pressure hose which can be used in both water pressure and oil pressure operating systems and is improve in productivity, and to obtain a rubber composition which can be advantageously used in this high pressure hose.  <P>SOLUTION: The rubber composition is obtained by dispersing an inorganic filler organically treated with a di(polyoxyalkylene)alkylmethylammonium into a rubber. This high pressure hose comprises a tubular inner side rubber layer, a wire-reinforcing layer for covering the inner side rubber layer, and a tubular outer side rubber layer for covering the wire-reinforcing layer, and at least the inner side rubber layer is formed of the above rubber composition.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004154678-A (JP)
Title: Hammer in crusher
Inventor: HORIMOTO NOBORU
IPC: B02C13/28
Filed: 2002-11-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the dropout of a hammerhead used in a crusher constituted so that the hammerhead can be replaced by pulling out a hammer pin when the hammerhead is worn.  <P>SOLUTION: The dropout of the hammerhead 16 is prevented by preventing the hammer pin 17 from coming out of a head upper hole 24 by engaging the half of the front surface of an upper part pin 17U of the pin 17 with the front surface of the hole 24 of the hammerhead 16 when the hammerhead 16 is rotated and the centrifugal force is exerted on the hammerhead 16 and preventing the pin 17 from coming out of the hole 24 by controlling the rotation of the pin 17 by a head lower hole 25 of the hammerhead 16 when the hammerhead 16 is moved back against the centrifugal force and upward force is exerted on the pin 17.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003249545-A (JP)
Title: Ceramic substrate for semiconductor manufacturing and inspection apparatus
Inventor: HIRAMATSU YASUJI
IPC: H01L21/02
Filed: 2002-11-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ceramic substrate which keeps a sufficiently high breakdown voltage, even though the diameter of the maximum pore is 50 μm or smaller, which is larger than conventional ones, possesses increased fracture toughness because it has pores, withstands thermal shocks, and possesses reduced warping at high temperatures.  <P>SOLUTION: This ceramic substrate is constituted by forming an electric conductor on the surface of or inside the ceramic substrate, wherein the ceramic substrate is composed of oxygen-containing nitride ceramic, and the diameter of the maximum pore is 50 μm or smaller.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004165241-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device and its manufacturing method
Inventor: SEGAWA YASUO
IPC: G02F1/1362
Filed: 2002-11-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent occurrence of dielectric breakdown and leakage due to insulation failure of a gate insulating layer of a thin film transistor.  <P>SOLUTION: A first semiconductor layer 15 to which a gate electrode 20 of a TFT 10 is capacitively coupled via a gate insulating layer 66, and a second semiconductor layer 16 to which a holding capacity line 42 of a holding capacity Csc is capacitively coupled via the gate insulating layer 66, are mutually separated and the first semiconductor layer 15 and the second semiconductor layer 16 are connected by a metal wiring 40. In other words, since the gate electrode 20 of the TFT 10 is capacitively coupled to the first semiconductor layer 15, and the holding capacity line 42 of the holding capacity Csc is capacitively coupled to the second semiconductor layer 16 separately so that potential of the respective semiconductor layers change by the coupling, a large potential difference will not be generated in the gate insulating layer 66 and occurrence of breakdown and leakage due to insulation failure is prevented.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004160468-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing bottle can and apparatus for forming screw
Inventor: HOSOI MASAHIRO
IPC: B65D1/02
Filed: 2002-11-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing bottle cans by which the male screw part for every bottle can is formed into the same quality and at a fixed lead angle without forming a line-like part in the male screw part and also the height of the thread is uniformly formed, and to provide a device therefor.  <P>SOLUTION: A screw forming apparatus 20 is provided with: an inner rolling member 23 having the screw forming part for forming, on the outer circumference, the screw part in the base part of a bottle-shaped body; an outer rolling member 24 having a screw forming part 22 of a shape corresponding to the screw forming part 21 of the inner rolling member 23; and a press mechanism 25 which is rotated by holding the base part between the inner and outer rolling members 23 and 24 which are supported so as to freely be rolled when performing the screw forming work. A brake mechanism 30 for releasing the regulation of rolling of the members 23 and 24 at the start of the screw forming work and regulating the rolling of the members 23 and 24 at the completion of the screw forming work is provided.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004164119-A (JP)
Title: Communication support system and communication support method
Inventor: FUJIMURA AKIKO
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2002-11-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system in which the person at the other end who receives a print such as a conventional compact-sized one can obtain various kinds of information by adding an image, a voice, an animation and so on to the print, and also provide a method therefor.  <P>SOLUTION: When the identifier of a wireless tag 112 is read from a wireless tag-mounted print 110 through a wireless tag data reader 120, personal data are taken in from the outside and the identifier and the personal data, which are correlated, are transmitted to a data input-and-output request integration device 140, they are stored in a personal information database 150. The person at the other end who receives the wireless tag-mounted print 110 reads the identifier of the wireless tag 112 from the wireless tag-mounted print 110 by using a wireless tag data readout device 130 and obtains the personal data corresponding to the identifier from the personal information database 150. The wireless tag data readout device 130 which receives the personal data displays the contents of the data, executes reproduction and so on.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO