baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2008523984-A (JP)
Title: 疎水性液を脱気する方法及びそれから形成されたエマルション
IPC: B01D63/02
Filed: 2005-12-22
Abstract: 本発明は、疎水性液に溶解したガスの少なくとも一部が水性液に移されるように、疎水性液を、疎水性多孔質膜の一方の側に沿って通し、かつ同時に、脱気水性液を、その膜のもう一方の側に沿って通すことを含む溶解ガスを含む疎水性液を脱気する方法に関する。本発明はまた、調製された脱気された疎水性液を水性液と一緒に用いてエマルションを調製する方法にも関する。このようにして調製されたエマルションは、乳化剤、界面活性剤又は安定剤を実質的に含まない。
Patent JP-2008524070-A (JP)
Title: 自動車用の油圧ブレーキ装置を運転するための方法
IPC: F16D65/18
Filed: 2005-12-21
Abstract: 本発明は、フットブレーキシステムが、少なくとも１つの外部制御可能な油圧源を有する２つのブレーキ回路（Ｉ，ＩＩ）を接続させたペダル操作可能な油圧供給装置（１０）を備え、それぞれ１つのブレーキ回路に、入口及び出口弁（１３，１４）を備えている油圧操作可能なフロントアクスル車輪ブレーキ（２）と、入口及び出口弁（１７，１８）を備えている油圧操作可能なリヤアクスル車輪ブレーキ（３）が付設されており、パーキングブレーキ装置が、リヤアクスル車輪ブレーキ（３）のブレーキピストン（６）をロックするための手段（３０）を備え、パーキングブレーキ装置の起動又は停止をするために、ブレーキピストンが、油圧源（４，４０）によって使用可能な油圧の作用を受ける、フットブレーキシステムとパーキングブレーキ装置から成る、自動車用の油圧ブレーキ装置を運転するための方法に関する。パーキングブレーキ装置の停止をする際に外部制御可能な油圧源（４，４０）の運転時間を短縮するために、本発明によれば、油圧が、パーキングブレーキの停止を行なった後少なくとも部分的にフロントアクスル車輪ブレーキ（２）を操作するために使用される。
Patent JP-2008531242-A (JP)
IPC: C09C1/30
Filed: 2006-02-02
Abstract: The present invention provides a process of preparing particulate products, the process comprising the steps of (i) printing a liquid precursor of a non-metal particulate onto or into a collecting substrate and (ii) recovering non-metal particulates.
Patent JP-2008544834-A (JP)
Title: Ｅｈｄエアゾール分配装置および噴霧方法
IPC: A61M11/00
Filed: 2006-02-10
Abstract: 特に芳香エアゾールであるエアゾールを送達するための方法において、ＥＨＤ微粉砕部位を備える毛管ウィック（３４）を、液体供給源（２９）と接触させるステップであって、液体の少なくとも一部が、ＥＨＤ微粉砕部位へと移動するステップと、液体供給源（２９）から離隔されたＥＨＤ微粉砕部位付近の位置にて、毛管ウィック（３４）内の液体に電圧を印加するステップと、ＥＨＤ微粉砕部位の外部の位置にて接地基準（２６）を印加するステップであって、液体の少なくとも一部が、ＥＨＤ微粉砕されてほぼばらつきのない流量を有する噴霧を形成するステップとを含む方法、およびそのための装置。
Patent JP-2008531270-A (JP)
Title: メンブレンモジュール用スペーサ
IPC: B01D63/10
Filed: 2006-02-24
Abstract: 本発明は、少なくとも１つの挿入部材と、透過液を少なくとも１つの透過液収集装置まで案内する流路を支持部材と挿入部材との間に形成する少なくとも１つの挿入部材によって互いに間隔を置いて配置された支持部材とを有し、少なくとも１つの透過液収集装置は、流路に垂直に接触するか又は濃縮液をメンブレンモジュールの外に流路を通して案内する、メンブレン用のスペーサに関する。本発明はさらに、透過液スペーサを有するメンブレンモジュール、メンブレンモジュールの用途及び透過液スペーサを有する螺旋状に巻かれたメンブレンに関する。
Patent JP-2009162722-A (JP)
Title: Guidance device, guidance technique, and guidance program
Inventor: HIRANO MUNEAKI
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2008-01-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a guidance device extracting information served as potential landmarks from image data to give guidance information including the landmarks concerned.  <P>SOLUTION: The guidance device obtains landmark information composed of characteristic parts of image data around a guidance location to output guidance information attaching landmark information concerned to map information around the guidance location. Accordingly, the guidance device is a part served as potential landmarks for users. Since characteristic parts of the image data are output around the guidance location, compared with outputting of the whole image data around the guidance location, high quality guidance information can be provided to users.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009168512-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor strain sensor and its manufacturing method
Inventor: KOBAYASHI BUNYA
IPC: C04B35/626
Filed: 2008-01-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor strain sensor of further high sensitivity compared with a semiconductor strain sensor using a silicon monocrystal and its manufacturing method.  <P>SOLUTION: A liquid mixture containing a silicon source, a carbon source, and a catalyst, is supplied to the interior of a container. The container is introduced into a drying chamber. The liquid mixture is set/dried in the drying chamber to produce solid matter. The produced solid matter is introduced into a heating oven. The solid matter is carbonized/baked in the heating oven. The carbonized/baked solid matter is pulverized to produce β-silicon carbide powder. The carbide powder and non-metallic sintering aids are together mixed/granulated to produce a granulated body. The produced granulated body is sintered to form a silicon carbide sintered body. An electrode is attached to the surface of the sintered body to detect a change in its resistivity concurring with a strain of the sintered body.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009170769-A (JP)
Title: Thin-film transistor
Inventor: MORI AKIRA
IPC: H01L29/786
Filed: 2008-01-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thin-film transistor generating no defective.  <P>SOLUTION: The thin-film transistor is composed of a gate electrode film 2 formed on a glass board 1, a silicon nitride film 3 formed on the glass board 1 and the gate electrode film 2 and an amorphous Si film 4 formed on the silicon nitride film 3. The thin-film transistor is further composed of a copper-containing silicon oxide film consisting of Cu, Si and O or a copper M-containing silicon oxide film 19 consisting of Cu, Si, M and O formed on the amorphous Si film 4 and a drain electrode film 5 and a source electrode film 6 being formed on the copper-containing silicon oxide film or the copper M-containing silicon oxide film 19 and consisting of pure copper or a copper alloy. The thin-film transistor is further composed of silicon oxide or an aluminum oxide film 16 formed on the drain electrode film 5 and the source electrode film 6 and a silicon nitride film 13 formed on silicon oxide or the aluminum oxide film 16.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009176532-A (JP)
Title: Lighting device
Inventor: HIRATA KENJI
IPC: F21Y101/02
Filed: 2008-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting device which can suppress a heating value and efficiently illuminate commodities displayed in a showcase.  <P>SOLUTION: In the lighting device including: an LED unit; a light guide plate 3 which reflects light emitted from the LED unit and incident from one end face on a reflection portion disposed on one side; and a reflection sheet 4 which adheres to the reflection portion of the light guide plate 3 and further reflects light reflected on the reflection portion to the other side opposed to the one side. The reflection portion is a groove 31a formed in parallel to the incident direction of the light incident from the one side, and the reflection sheet 4 has a surface on which fine irregularities 4a for diffuse reflection of light are formed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009174412-A (JP)
Title: Valve train for internal combustion engine
Inventor: YOSHIHARA AKIRA
IPC: F01M1/06
Filed: 2008-01-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a valve train for an internal combustion engine, feeding oil from the base end of a rocker arm to the front end thereof in a simple structure while suppressing deterioration of dynamic characteristic of the rocker arm.  <P>SOLUTION: This valve train includes: the first rocker arm 4 having the base end 41 attached to a rocker shaft 2, the front end 42 provided with an abutting portion 23 abutting on the upper end 71 of an intake valve 7, and a roller 13 made to slidably contact with a first cam 11 between the base end 41 and the front end 42; and an oil transport pipe 24 attached to the outside of the first rocker arm 4 in order to close a portion between a main oil passage 19 formed in the rocker shaft 2 and the front end 42 of the first rocker arm 4.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009175463-A (JP)
Title: Method of manufacturing optical scanner, and optical scanner
Inventor: UCHIGAKI TOMOYOSHI
IPC: H04N1/113
Filed: 2008-01-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method suitable for manufacturing an optical scanner for executing optical scanning by vibrating magnetically an oscillator having a mirror reciprocation-swingingly, to prevent the warpage and waviness of a mirror surface from being generated caused by a thermal remaining stress strain in an inside of the oscillator.  <P>SOLUTION: The oscillator 40 includes a body part 12, and a laminate 34 attached locally onto a surface of the body part, the laminate 34 is laminated with the mirror 18 and a magnetic coil 32 each other. The laminate 34 is thereafter manufactured independently from the body part 12, by (a) manufacturing nonheatingly the body part 12 and by (b) laminating heatingly the mirror and the magnetic coil, (c) the body part 12 and the laminate 34 are bonded each other nonheatingly, thus the oscillator 40 is completed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009174798-A (JP)
Title: Refrigerator
Inventor: KAMISAKO TOYOSHI
IPC: F25D19/00
Filed: 2008-01-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem wherein there is a possibility of causing a puddle in an interior, or there is a possibility of causing water spots in stored objects such as vegetables due to spraying of mist for the purpose of providing high humidity in an interior, but an atomization amount cannot be adjusted, and there is excessive spraying.  <P>SOLUTION: A refrigerator has an partitioned storage compartment in nonconductive condition, a door 118 closing a front opening of the storage compartment, a housing container provided in the storage compartment, and a mist spraying means for spraying mist into the housing container, and the mist spraying means is provided on a radiation face cooling the storage compartment by radiation cooling from an adjacent low temperature environment in the storage compartment. By this, since mist is sprayed on the vegetables without sending cold air, a preservation function is improved by carrying out moisturizing and temperature reduction of the vegetables.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009178934-A (JP)
Title: Impression cylinder of stencil process printing device
Inventor: SATO KEIICHI
IPC: B41L13/04
Filed: 2008-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a master part of paper, which comes into contact with an upstream edge part and both side edge parts of paper in the rotating direction of an impression cylinder, from breaking, without a troublesome operation to attach a tape etc. to the master side, even in case a pressure is repeatedly placed on the upstream edge part and both side edge parts of the paper, with regard to the printing of the paper, especially, a postal card, a drawing paper, a board using the impression cylinder of a stencil process printing device.  <P>SOLUTION: An elastic layer 50 is opposed to and comes into contact with the upstream edge part Pa and both side edge parts Pb of the postal card P (paper) in the rotating direction B of the impression cylinder 10A. In a specified region of the elastic layer 50, a recess 100 for relieving the upstream edge part Pa and both side edge parts Pb of the postal card P, is formed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009182754-A (JP)
Title: Image processor
Inventor: YOSHIMURA NAOHIRO
IPC: G06F3/153
Filed: 2008-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform multidisplay of video signals from a plurality of monitoring cameras by synchronizing the video signals.  <P>SOLUTION: A multi image obtained by synchronizing the video signals of the monitoring cameras 2a to 2c can be displayed regardless of a delay in compressed image data transfer from the monitoring cameras 2a to 2c to a PC 6 and a delay in decoding processing in MPEG decoders 46a to 46c in the PC 6 by controlling timing of rendering processing of buffers 48a to 48c on the basis of a synchronizing signal output from the PC 6.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009188441-A (JP)
Title: Mobile device and roaming control method
Inventor: SHIMIZU KIYOKO
IPC: H04W36/36
Filed: 2008-02-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To limit communication charge of a user while controlling consumption of a battery, and to limit roaming according to the intention of a user by eliminating inconvenience of being bothered by an unexpected reception or call termination.  <P>SOLUTION: A mobile device 2 which can belong to a plurality of communication networks has a section 6 for storing information indicating whether roaming is possible for every communication network, a wireless communication section 4 for detecting a communication network where roaming is possible based on a predetermined system, and a section 9 for determining whether roaming to a communication network is possible with reference to the information indicating whether roaming to a detected communication network is possible, wherein the wireless communication section 4 prohibits processing for belonging to that communication network when a judgment is made that roaming to a communication network is impossible.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009187984-A (JP)
Title: Polishing composition and polishing method using the same
Inventor: SHIMIZU MIKIKAZU
IPC: B24B37/00
Filed: 2008-02-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a polishing composition which can be suitably used to polish polysilicon, and to provide a polishing method using the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The polishing composition contains an anionic surfactant having a monooxyethylene group or a polyoxyethylene group and abrasive grains, and its pH is 9 to 12. When the anionic surfactant in the polishing composition has a polyoxyethylene group, the number of repetitions of the polyoxyethylene group in a unit of oxyethylene is preferably 2 to 8. The anionic surfactant included in the polishing composition may contain further a phosphorous acid group, a carboxy group or a sulfo group. The content of the anionic surfactant in the polishing composition is preferably 20 to 500 ppm.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009185398-A (JP)
Title: Production system of commodity such as clothes
Inventor: YOSHIOKA HIDEKI
IPC: A41H3/06
Filed: 2008-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing clothes, capable of improving working efficiency.  <P>SOLUTION: This method for producing clothes comprises inputting user information such as sizes into a computer, making processing information and an electronic dress pattern from the user information in a server, printing a processing instruction sheet from the processing information, and storing the electronic dress pattern in the server. Furthermore, the method comprises, when working based on the processing instruction sheet, reading in a bar code of the processing instruction sheet, reading out a related electronic dress pattern from the user identifying information, and working through projecting the electronic dress pattern with a projector to a placing stand where a fabric is placed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009188331-A (JP)
Title: Coil winding method and coil winding body
Inventor: NOMURA TOMOHIRO
IPC: H01F41/06
Filed: 2008-02-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve isolation property of a coil (wire rod) wound around a coil bobbin.  <P>SOLUTION: A volute tongue portion of the wire rod 106 is lead out along a lower surface 124b of a flat plate part 124 of a lower side flange part 104 of a coil bobbin 101. After laminating a plurality of states along a cylindrical part 28 of the coil bobbin 101, a winding end portion of a coil laminate 108 is lead out along an upper surface 104a of the flat plate part 124 of the lower side flange part 104 while crossing the volute tongue portion, and the flat plate part 124 of the lower side flange part 104 made of a resin material is interposed between the volute tongue portion and the winding end portion so as not to contact them mutually.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008214626-A (JP)
Title: Laminate and image display device
Inventor: NAKAHARA ATSUHIRO
IPC: G02B1/111
Filed: 2008-02-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laminate which balances transparency, heat resistance, light resistance and impact resistance in a high level and can form light functional thin films having small specific gravities.  <P>SOLUTION: This laminate is characterized by forming at least one functional thin film layer having a thickness of 0.001 to 30 μm on a substrate comprising a β-pinene polymer having a specific gravity of 0.85 to less than 1.0 and a glass transition temperature of ≥80°C by a coating method.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009189500-A (JP)
Title: Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
Inventor: OKAMURA YOKO
IPC: A61B8/00
Filed: 2008-02-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely extract the desired tissue of a lesion and to preserve the extracted tissue as an image after actually extracting the tissue.  <P>SOLUTION: The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus for three-dimensionally scanning a subject using an ultrasonic wave by a probe and sampling the tissue of the lesion detected by the scan by inserting a puncture needle of a double structure into a subject and inserting it to the lesion by projecting an inner needle from the outer needle includes: an image creating unit 15 configured to create an image 26a of the lesion 26 and an image 22a of the puncture needle 22 inserted into the subject P on the basis of the scan data of ultrasonic waves; and a monitor 4 configured to display the image 26a of the lesion 26 and the image 22a of the puncture needle 22 created by the image creating unit 15. The image creating unit 15 displays the tissue expected to be extracted from the lesion as an image 28 on the monitor 4 if the inner needle is projected from the outer needle immediately before the inner needle of the puncture needle 22 is inserted into the lesion.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009191522-A (JP)
Title: Joint of steel pipe pile
Inventor: MATSUMOTO TAKASHI
IPC: E02D5/24
Filed: 2008-02-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To abolish welding operations at site for a joint structure of a steel pipe pile rotatively intruded into a ground, easily perform the alignment and the engagement of upper and lower piles without using a guide ring, and remarkably improve the bending strength and a torque transmission capacity of a joint part.  <P>SOLUTION: Flanges 20a, 20b are formed at the ends of the steel pipe piles 10a, 10b, respectively. The outer diameter part of each of the flanges comprises a pile joint structure having a circumferentially harved first ring 40 and a second ring 50 fitted onto the tapered outer diameter thereof for tightening. Arcuate pieces 30a (and 30b) project from the inner diameter parts of the flanges 20a, 20b in the pile axial direction along the circumference. The circumferential end surfaces of the arcuate pieces 30a, 30b of the upper and lower piles 10a, 10b are opposed to each other through a small gap.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008281553-A (JP)
Title: Current position positioning method, program, storage medium, positioning device, and electronic device
Inventor: MITSUNAGA SHINICHI
IPC: G01C21/00
Filed: 2008-02-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately determine and select a satellite group of high positioning accuracy from a plurality of satellite groups.  <P>SOLUTION: An evaluating point E to the current position candidate of each satellite group is calculated according to E=k<SB>1</SB>×f<SB>1</SB>(APR)+k<SB>2</SB>×f<SB>2</SB>(PDOP)+k<SB>3</SB>×f<SB>3</SB>(the number of satellites) based on the recursive residual APR (APR value), a PDOP (Position Dilution of Precision) value, and the number of satellites of the satellite group. Then, evaluation coefficients k<SB>1</SB>-k<SB>3</SB>for respectively weighting evaluation functions f<SB>1</SB>-f<SB>3</SB>are determined based on the APR average value.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009198648-A (JP)
Title: Method and unit for belt skewing compensation and image forming apparatus
Inventor: KUMA KAZUOSA
IPC: G03G15/16
Filed: 2008-02-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a unit for belt skewing compensation which can compensate belt skewing without giving stress to a belt, and to provide an image forming apparatus.  <P>SOLUTION: The belt skewing compensation apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt 3 which is driven to travel by being trained about a plurality of supporting rollers 4, 5 and 6 and compensates the skewing of the belt for the intermediate transfer belt 3. One of the rollers is composed as a roller 5 which can be inclined. In addition, the belt which travels on the roller 5 is inclined to skew in a prescribed direction beforehand. Then, the intermediate transfer belt 3 is travelled and the supporting roller 5 is adjusted to incline so that the inclination of the supporting roller 5 and the skewing of the intermediate transfer belt 3 may be well balanced by using skewing force of the intermediate transfer belt 3.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009196457-A (JP)
Title: Regenerative control system for idle-stop vehicle
Inventor: OTSUKA TOSHIHIKO
IPC: B60L7/20
Filed: 2008-02-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To assure a longer idle-stop time to enhance fuel economy.  <P>SOLUTION: A regenerative control system for an idle-stop vehicle comprises: each regenerative unit to regenerate travel energy by being driven by a crankshaft rotating by receiving wheel rotation transmitted during vehicle deceleration or fuel cutting; an accessory energy storage unit provided for the regenerative unit to store the regenerated energy as energy to be used for operating an accessory in idle-stop mode; an accessory ready time calculation means (S41) to calculate the time for which the accessory can operate in idle-stop mode using the energy stored by each accessory energy storage unit before regeneration; and regenerative control means (S43, S45, S49) to control the regeneration by each regenerative unit so that vehicle decelerating acceleration falls within predetermined acceleration so as to preferentially extend the ready time of the accessory having the shortest ready time between/among the calculated individual accessory ready times.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009195159-A (JP)
Title: Nursery stock pot
Inventor: SAITO YOSHIJI
IPC: A01G23/04
Filed: 2008-02-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nursery stock pot allowing to open and close a joint by one action, and suppressing occurrence of a looping phenomenon in roots when raising a deep rooted nursery stock.  <P>SOLUTION: This nursery stock pot is formed in a circular cylinder shape or a square cylinder shape by a plate-like member with flexibility so as to hold soil 20 and a nursery stock 21. The nursery stock pot has a pot body 10 which has an openable and closable joint along a central axis line 10a, a bottom member 12 which is detachably set on one end side of the pot body 10 so as to suppress the soil 20 and the nursery stock 21 from dropping off from the pot body 10, and a fastening part 13 which is formed projectedly from the pot body, extending to almost full length of the pot body 10, and opens and closes the joint 11 by simple operation.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009172334-A (JP)
Title: Pineapple cutter
Inventor: TAKANEZAWA RIE
IPC: A47J43/28
Filed: 2008-01-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pineapple cutter for simultaneously and simply removing the core and peel of a pineapple.  <P>SOLUTION: The upper and lower parts of a pineapple with leaves are cut off and the resulting pineapple is stood on a chopping board. In the state, a blade surface is placed on the pineapple by fitting an inner blade of the cutter to the core with the core at the center, and right and left handles are gripped and pushed downward with both of the hands. Thus, the core and peel are removed simultaneously and the pineapple is cut to be semicircular with the pineapple cutter.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009205302-A (JP)
Title: Seamless display type operation device
Inventor: KAWAMORI JUN
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 2008-02-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a seamless display type operation device allowing easy comprehension of relevance between display screens before and after a changeover when operating a screen display-change-over operation means to change over display of the display screen.  <P>SOLUTION: On an in-vehicle display, as a top menu of a user interface, a main menu screen 14 is displayed. In the main menu screen 14, when a vertical display changeover switch disposed in a steering wheel is operated, display of screen contents are changed over to display in a single-axis direction (the vertical direction of the screen in this example) in a seamless state (without a seam) from display of an earth scale to display of a user level (one's own scale).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT