baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2004136341-A (JP)
Title: Empty vessel pressing device
Inventor: KAWANISHI HIROYASU
IPC: B30B9/32
Filed: 2002-10-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To securely press an empty vessel and to reduce its volume without being influenced by the shape, strength or the like of the periphery of its pouring opening.  <P>SOLUTION: An empty vessel pressing device is provided with: a first exhaust path (11) communicated with the inside of the empty vessel (4), extending from the edge part (2) of the opening of a vessel storage part (1) toward the vessel storage part through the inside of a cover body (6), and connected to an exhaust means (7); and a second exhaust path (13) whose tip is located in the vicinity of a cover body mounting part (12) of the empty vessel storage part, communicating with the inside of the empty vessel storage part, and connected to the exhaust means. A switching means (14) for switching the exhaust path to either the first and second exhaust paths is provided on the way along the paths, and a control means of controlling the operation of the switching means is provided.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004141035-A (JP)
Title: Bread-cooking apparatus using frozen dough
Inventor: DOI YASUYUKI
IPC: A21B1/22
Filed: 2002-10-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bread-cooking apparatus which prevents troubles such as wetting due to dewing at low temperature on freezing, has a door material and a constitution corresponding to a wide employment temperature range capable of ensuring the heat-resistant strength of a heat-resistant window at high temperature on baking, can singly carry out functions from the frozen storage to thawing, secondary fermentation, baking, and cooling and heat-keeping of the baked bread.  <P>SOLUTION: This bread-cooking apparatus is characterized by comprising a cooking box 2 comprising a heat-resistant chamber 3 having heat resistance and a door 5 capable of being opened or closed on the front side and used for cooking the frozen bread dough, a heater (20) for heating the cooling chamber 2 and a cooler (34) for cooling the cooling chamber 2, wherein the door 5 has a heat-resistant winder 6 in which a heat-resistant space is formed from a plurality of glass sheets 6a, 6b, 6c and a window frame 12 for holding their glass sheets and further wherein the winder frame 12 is formed from a heat-resistant heat.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004144615-A (JP)
Title: Appearance image inspection device
Inventor: TAKAHASHI KAZUYOSHI
IPC: G06T1/00
Filed: 2002-10-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a high-speed and highly-accurate appearance image inspection device by a method for determining existence of a foreign material by dividing an inspection image into small windows and calculating a standard deviation.  <P>SOLUTION: This appearance image inspection device has following means. (1) The image is divided into the windows having a window size (for example, 16×16 pixels), and the standard deviation is calculated. (2) Productivity is improved by defective image taking and a place mark. (3) Two kinds of means, namely, a means for accumulating and displaying only defective images and a means for accumulating and displaying the whole images, are provided. (4) A mechanism capable of easily setting an image processing parameter of an inspection area is formed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004143628-A (JP)
Title: Stretch warp knitted fabric
Inventor: ONO HIROSHI
IPC: A41C1/02
Filed: 2002-10-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stretch warp knitted fabric for use in the neck parts, cuffs and skirts in garments demanding high stretchability and lady's underwear demanding high stretchability as a whole, ensuring elastic warps not to slip off warp knit yarns even under repeated stretch/contraction.  <P>SOLUTION: The stretch warp knitted fabric comprises a plurality of warp knit yarns in the form of continuous loops knitted as chain crochets, elastic warps inserted so as to pass through the loops of the warp knit yarns, and wefts inserted so as to join two or more of the warp knit yarns. In this stretch warp knitted fabric, the warp knit yarns consist of elastic yarns, thus ensuring the elastic warps not to slip off the loops of the warp knit yarns even under repeated stretch/contraction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004146708-A (JP)
Title: Device and system for processing substrate
Inventor: SATO MASANOBU
IPC: H01L21/027
Filed: 2002-10-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and a system for processing a substrate of superior versatility by which a specified substrate processing is performed while positioning the substrate to a desired processing position.  <P>SOLUTION: In a lift mechanism 8, a lifter pin stand 81 is raised by an actuator 84, and then a supporting part 82 is positioned at a substrate delivering position P81. After receiving an unprocessed substrate S from a transfer robot, the actuator 84 moves in a reverse direction to send down the lifter pin stand 81 integrally while supporting a peripheral part of the unprocessed substrate S with the supporting part 82. Consequently, when the supporting part 82 moves down to a substrate processing position P83, the peripheral part of the substrate S is engaged with a supporting pin 3. Further, the unprocessed substrate S is mounted on the supporting pin 3 at the point of moving the supporting part 82 to a position lower than the supporting pin 3, and then positioned at the substrate processing position P83.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004149242-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus
Inventor: SUNADA HIDENORI
IPC: G03G15/00
Filed: 2002-10-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the efficiency of the maintenance of a machine body by automatically averaging the periods of the service lives of recording paper feed stages without labor on users while referring to the use amount of parts of the recording paper feed stages.  <P>SOLUTION: This image forming apparatus comprises a paper feed means having a plurality of paper feed stages in which recording paper of a same size are stored, a control means selecting the specific paper feed stage for feeding paper from among the plurality of paper feed stages, a counter for counting the use amount of the plurality of paper feed stages for each paper feed stage, and a storage means storing the service lives of the plurality of paper feed stages for each paper feed stage. Based on the counted values by the counter and life values stored in the storage means, the control means selects the desired paper feed stage from among the plurality of paper feed stages.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004148343-A (JP)
Title: Continuous casting method by vertical bending type continuous casting apparatus and cast slab manufactured thereby
Inventor: TSUKAGUCHI YUICHI
IPC: B22D11/041
Filed: 2002-10-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a continuous casting method capable of executing a stable casting operation by a vertical bending type continuous casting apparatus and a cast slab with high surface quality.  <P>SOLUTION: The cast slab is cast so that a cooling water volume Q1(L/min) rate per unit of time in the upper surface side of the cast slab from a vertical section on and after a casting mold exit to a curving complete section by the vertical bending type continuous casting apparatus is more than the cooling water volume Q2(L/min) in the lower surface side of the cast slab or so that a cooling water volume density Qd1(L/m2/min) in the upper surface side of the cast slab is more than the cooling water volume density Qd2(L/m2/min) in the lower surface side of the cast slab. In the continuous casting method, the (2)Qd1, Qd2 and the cooling water volume density Qd3 in the short side surface of the cast slab satisfy 0.8≤ Qd1/Qd2≤2.5, and 0.3≤Qd3/ä(Qd1+ Qd2)/2}≤2.5. Further, the continuous cast slab is set ≤0.2% of an average cast slab width between the cast slab width in the upper surface side and the cast slab width in the lower surface side.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003216776-A (JP)
Title: METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING USER PROFILE BY Web USAGE ANALYSIS
Inventor: ADAR EYTAN
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2002-10-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a system usable for predicting user profile information from Web usage.  <P>SOLUTION: A machine-implemented method for predicting the user profile information from web page access patterns of a user comprises: a step of detecting a set of web pages accessed by the user; a step of mapping at least a subset of the web pages to a first data structure, the first data structure identifies the web page access pattern of the user; a step of comparing the first data structure to a second data structure to obtain a comparison result, the second data structure identifies the web page access pattern of a set of known users, the known users having a user profile attribute in common; and a step of assigning the user profile attribute to the user in response to the comparison result.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004157427-A (JP)
Title: Image forming method and image forming apparatus
Inventor: NAKAMURA MASAHIDE
IPC: G03G15/10
Filed: 2002-11-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming method and an image forming apparatus capable of forming a toner image at a low cost with excellent fixability, when the toner image is formed using a liquid developer prepared by dispersing toner in a liquid carrier.  <P>SOLUTION: In the liquid developer 32, a toner comprising coloring pigments, a resin for bonding the coloring pigments, a charge control agent for giving a prescribed charge to the toner, and a dispersant for uniformly dispersing the coloring pigments is dispersed in a liquid carrier. The resin contains a functional group having ability for hydrogen bonding with water molecule in its molecule. When the toner is fixed onto a recording medium 4, the functional group forms a hydrogen bond with water molecule contained in the recording medium 4, thereby an anchoring effect of the toner to the recording medium 4 is produced. By setting the fixing temperature at a temperature of <100°C, reduction of the water content of the recording medium 4 is suppressed to assure the anchoring effect.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004157090-A (JP)
Title: Path delay measuring circuit
Inventor: KOBAYASHI TAKUYA
IPC: H01L27/04
Filed: 2002-11-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically measure the path delay of a combination circuit without any LSI tester in a path delay measuring circuit which compares, with an expected value, an output of the combination circuit fetched in by a capture action using the mechanism of a scan test circuit, and varies the time required for performing the capture action, thereby determining signal transition time of the combination circuit.  <P>SOLUTION: The path delay measuring circuit comprises a pattern generating circuit 10 which generates a test pattern to be given to a combination circuit 101; a comparing/determining circuit 106 which compares an output of the combination circuit with an expected value; a clock generating circuit 301 with a clock mode counter outputting a clock mode value updated in each determination of signal transition time, which generates a clock in which the clock interval of the time required for performing a capture action depending on the clock mode value can be varied; and a timing signal generating circuit 107 which supplies action timing signals of the respective circuits.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004161429-A (JP)
Title: Unloader
Inventor: KITSUKI JUZO
IPC: B65G65/22
Filed: 2002-11-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an unloader capable of eliminating the need of a drive device for rotating paddle and rotating screws and rotating the rotating paddle and the rotating screw independently of each other at any rotational speeds.  <P>SOLUTION: This unloader comprises a carrying conveyor 6 installed in a boom 2, the rotating paddle 3 installed at the tip of the boom 2 and delivering bulk materials to the carrying conveyor 6, and the rotating screws 4 installed at both sides of the rotating paddle 3 and taking the bulk materials therein and feeding to the rotating paddle 3. The rotating shaft 3a of the rotating paddle 3 and the rotating shaft 4a of the rotating screw 4 are formed coaxially with each other and so as to be rotated independently of each other. The unloader comprises a first transmission device 16 transmitting the drive force of the carrying conveyor 6 to the rotating shaft 3a of the rotating paddle 3 and a second transmission device 17 transmitting the drive force of the carrying conveyor 6 to the rotating shaft 4a of the rotating screw 4.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004161142-A (JP)
Title: Air conditioner for automobile
Inventor: SHICHIMA YUTAKA
IPC: B60H1/00
Filed: 2002-11-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate assembly of a baffle plate provided to a location where a cold air passage and a heating passage come into one in an air conditioner for an automobile.  <P>SOLUTION: The heating passage in which a heater core is arranged and the cold air passage are formed in an air conditioning case, and the baffle plate expediting mixture of cold air with hot air is provided to the location where the heating passage and the cold air passage come into one.One side of the baffle plate is inserted in a mounting groove formed on the air conditioning case and the other side is mounted to hold a heater core holding part formed in the air conditioning case in-between.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004159940-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: UGAWA SHOHACHI
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-11-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a second-class game machine that reserves a start winning during a big win, attracts a player's attention to the opportunities of opening a big win opening that is increased by the reservation, and improves interest.  <P>SOLUTION: When a game ball enters prescribed start winning openings 7a to 7c, opening and closing members 22a and 22b of a variable winning device 6 open and close. When a winning ball due to the opening and closing of the opening and closing members 22a and 22b enters a V zone 27a formed in a second electric accessory 27 through a first electric accessory 26, a big win materializes. By the action of the first and second electric accessories 26 and 27 varies the ease of winning in the V zone between a high rate and a low rate. A start winning during a big win is stored in a reservation memory. When a big win condition ends, reservation information stored in the reservation memory is read, and judges whether the winning ball due to the opening and closing of the opening and closing members 22a and 22b is likely to enter the V zone or not on the basis of the operation mode of the first and second electric accessories 26 and 27 and reports.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003149145-A (JP)
Title: Non-invasive glucose level measuring device
Inventor: KOTARI KATSUE
IPC: G01N21/35
Filed: 2002-11-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a glucose level measuring device compact in size and low in cost, capable of simple and reliable non-invasive measurement irrespective of difference between individual patients. SOLUTION: A periodically wavelength-modulated laser beam emitted by a wavelength-variable semiconductor laser device 11 undergoes periodic intensity modulation in an attenuator 12. The beam is separated into optical paths 13a, 13b in a beam splitter 14, and the beam out of the path 13a is applied to a part 17 to be examined for glucose level measurement. The intensity of the beam transmitted through or reflected from the part 17 and the intensity of the laser beam in the path 13b are detected in a 1st detector 21 and a 2nd detector 22, and the ratio between the two is detected in a logarithmic ratio amplifier 25. The rate of change in this ratio relative to the change in wavelength after wavelength modulation is detected in a lock-in amplifier 26 and, out of this rate of change, differential spectral signals of the absorbance spectrum of glucose in the object part are extracted.  The data processor 27 detects the glucose level at the part 17 based on the differential spectral signals.
Patent JP-2004168536-A (JP)
Title: Discharge amount control method for powder and granular material, and powder and granular material receiving hopper
Inventor: FUJISAWA SHINICHI
IPC: B65G65/40
Filed: 2002-11-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To safely and surely supply a fixed quantity of powder and granular material such as raw material for iron manufacture from the receiving hopper to a conveyer and further safely and surely receive the powder and granular material from a raw material ship without overflow.  <P>SOLUTION: This discharge quantity control method for powder and granular material is performed by supplying the powder and granular material from the receiving hopper to the conveyer. The side of the receiving hopper is provided with a plurality of air nozzles. The injection position, the time pitch and pressure of high pressure air jetted from the air nozzles are regulated to control the discharge quantity of the powder and granular material.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004178039-A (JP)
Title: Power generation plant maintenance work sharing arrangement supporting method and system therefor
Inventor: OTSU RYUICHI
IPC: G06Q50/06
Filed: 2002-11-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry out the optimal role sharing of a power company/plant maker/cooperation company or the like to obtain the balance of costs/quality, and to bring it close to each target.  <P>SOLUTION: When a power generating principal uses a power generating plant, the sharing arrangement of maintenance work sharing associated with the maintenance of the plant is supported among the power generating principal, a plant manufacturing principal, and the other principals. This method comprises: a requested quality information inputting process for inputting requested quality information associated with requested quality concerning a maintenance work requested by the power generating main body to an electronic computer; a temporary sharing information inputting process for temporarily inputting temporary sharing information associated with the sharing of the maintenance work to the electronic computer; a cost calculating process for calculating the costs of each principal sharing the maintenance work based on the temporary sharing information and the requested quality information; a sharing changing process for calculating overall costs based on the costs of each principal calculated by the cost calculating process, and for changing the sharing of the maintenance work to a direction in which the overall costs are minimized; and an output process for outputting the costs of each sharing and principal as the result of the sharing change process.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004174512-A (JP)
Title: Casting method
Inventor: SHIMOBATAKE YUKIRO
IPC: B22C9/22
Filed: 2002-11-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-accuracy casting method without wasting time and cost for an experimental production by reducing discarding quantities of a mold and a core, repeating trial-and-error in a method for manufacturing the casting.  <P>SOLUTION: A metal mold is manufactured based on a completed design drawing for the casting and a casting means is contemplated and determined based on the design drawing and, based on the drawing and the casting means, a numerical analysis model of the casting and the mold (and the core if required) is created and a deformation and (or) stress analysis are performed through the numerical analysis and, based on the results of the analyses, cracks evaluation is executed and, based on the evaluation, the numerical analysis is again performed or the experimental production of the casting begins.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004174848-A (JP)
Title: Image recording apparatus
Inventor: SHIMIZU MEGUMI
IPC: B41J2/045
Filed: 2002-11-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a capacity increase of a correction table, to reduce the time and effort for forming the correction table, and to lessen density irregularities generated for every head unit.  <P>SOLUTION: A recording head part constitutes a line head by connecting a plurality of recording head units each having a nearly equal recording characteristic in the same direction as an arrangement direction of recording elements. A recording head driving part records images to a recording medium by driving a plurality of recording elements of the recording head part according to image data. A correction table part 70 has one or more correction tables recorded therein. Correction characteristics for improving qualities of images to be recorded are recorded in the correction tables. A correction process part 64 carries out an image signal correction process on the basis of the correction table based on position conditions of recording elements to be subjected to the correction process.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004175198-A (JP)
Title: Car navigation system
Inventor: OKUNO KENJI
IPC: G01C21/26
Filed: 2002-11-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a car navigation system which comprises a security function capable of improving effects which make it difficult to forget authentication information and protect a vehicle from a theft.  <P>SOLUTION: This car navigation system comprises a position information acquisition part for acquiring the position information, a map information memory part for storing the map information, a display part for displaying the position information and the map information, an authentication information input means for inputting the position information as the authentication information by specifying a spot of the map information, an authentication information memory part for storing the authentication information, an authentication information collating part for controlling permit of an engine start by collating the two authentication information. Basic authentication information inputted before starting the engine is stored in the authentication information memory part. If the authentication information collating part compares the comparison authentication information inputted in starting the engine with the basic authentication information and they meet each other, the starting of the engine is permitted.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003229377-A (JP)
Title: Laser irradiating device
Inventor: YAMAZAKI SHUNPEI
IPC: H01L29/786
Filed: 2002-11-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus using a laser crystallizing method which can raise the efficiency of substrate processing.  <P>SOLUTION: Of a semiconductor film, a part left behind on a substrate after patterning is grasped in accordance with a mask. A scanning part of a laser beam is specified so that a part obtained by at least patterning can be crystallized, and a beam spot is hit on the scanning part to partially crystallize the semiconductor film. In the beam spot, a part having low output energy is shielded by a slit. The overall semiconductor film is not irradiated with the laser beam for scanning, and the laser beam is scanned so that at least a necessary and essential part is crystallized to a minimum level. With this arrangement, a time of irradiating the laser beam on a part to be removed by patterning after the semiconductor film is crystallized can be omitted.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO