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Patent JP-2008112751-A (JP)
Title: Method of diagnosing electrostatic chuck, vacuum treatment device and storage medium
Inventor: SASAKI YASUHARU
IPC: H01L21/683
Filed: 2006-10-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To predict the service life of an electrostatic chuck by a simple method.  <P>SOLUTION: The method includes: electrostatically adsorbing a substrate by an electrostatic chuck provided on the upper part of a placing pedestal, regularly executing a diagnostic recipe as the same plasma processing in executing plasma treatment for the substrate, adjusting the pressure of a backside gas supplied to a gap between the front surface of the electrostatic chuck and the rear surface of the substrate so that the temperature of each substrate may become a defined temperature at this time, recording the pressure of the backside gas after adjustment, and monitoring a change with time in the pressure of the backside gas. In this way, the service life of the electrostatic chuck can be easily predicted.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008112354-A (JP)
Title: Synthetic franchise communication system
Inventor: MIYAWAKI ISATO
IPC: G06Q50/10
Filed: 2006-10-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a synthetic franchise communication system capable of handling an inquiry from a user such as a customer or a trader concerned with readiness in the individual franchise of a synthetic franchise, and raising service for a user.  <P>SOLUTION: An integrated center 100 receives an inquiry request from the user, determines with which individual franchise the request is concerned, and transfers the inquiry request to the head office computer of a franchise communication system corresponding to the franchise. The head office computers 20a-20n of the individual franchise communication systems determine the presence or absence of a franchise member which can respond to a transferred inquiry request content, and then transmit the inquiry request to the terminal computer of the franchise member. The terminal computers 140a-140m perform response processing relative to the user inquiry content transmitted from the head office computers 20a-20n.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008118324-A (JP)
Title: High-frequency power combiner or divider, and radio relay device using same
Inventor: MISAWA ATSUSHI
IPC: H01P5/12
Filed: 2006-11-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve high-frequency characteristics of a high-frequency power combiner or divider called as a power switchable combiner/divider which is preferably embodied to a radio relay device for a high-frequency signal of a terrestrial digital television broadcast, a mobile phone, etc.  <P>SOLUTION: A high-frequency switch provided to each branch transmission line or a stub is separated into parts of contacts SW1a to SW4a, and SW11a to SW13a, and a switch main body; and the contact parts are arranged in waveguide spaces H1 to H4, and H11 to H13 formed in a base block 12 to constitute coaxial lines, and movable contacts SW1a to SW4a are brought into contact with a single transmission-line-side fixed contact K0a at one point (a nodule point H10). Therefore, there is no physical distance between a combination point for high-frequency signal and the high-frequency switch and the switch has no terminal for stubs ST1a to ST3a, thereby improving high-frequency characteristics.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008117471-A (JP)
Title: Nonvolatile semiconductor storage device and nonvolatile memory system
Inventor: INOUE ATSUSHI
IPC: G11C16/04
Filed: 2006-11-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device having a means which narrows a threshold distribution of the multi-valued nonvolatile semiconductor storage device and also reduces an erroneous writing, and to provide a nonvolatile memory system.  <P>SOLUTION: In the multi-valued nonvolatile semiconductor storage device, when data are written into a memory cell, a threshold level storage section for storing the threshold level is arranged for changing over a first write method (usual write method) and a second write method (write method for applying a write control voltage to a bit line, which becomes a potential between 0V and Vdd when exceeding a verify low voltage), and when the data are written into the memory cell, the threshold level of the write data and the threshold level stored in the threshold level storage section are compared, and based on a result of this comparison, the first write method or the second write method is set to control the write voltage and write control voltage.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008115000-A (JP)
Title: Sheet feeder
Inventor: HIGASHIYAMA MASAKI
IPC: B65H1/28
Filed: 2006-11-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sheet feeder capable of achieving smooth sheet feeding.  <P>SOLUTION: This sheet feeder 10 is provided with a sheet feed tray 24, a multipurpose tray 31, and a pickup roller 16 carrying paper sheets mounted on the paper feed tray 24 and the multipurpose tray 31. The paper feed tray 24 repeats rocking motion in feeding sheets. The multipurpose tray 31 is arranged above the paper feed tray 24. The pickup roller 16 is arranged above the paper feed tray 24. A space 45 is formed between a tip part 32 of the multipurpose tray 31 and the pickup roller 16. The paper sheet on the paper feed tray 24 moves in a direction coming close to the space 45 with the rocking motion of the sheet feed tray 24. The sheet feeder 10 is provided with sheet members 41m and 41n arranged in the space 45, and supporting the paper sheet fed from the multipurpose tray 31. The sheet members 41m and 41n have elasticity.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008119766-A (JP)
Title: Electric power tool
Inventor: HIRANUMA TOSHIO
IPC: B25F5/00
Filed: 2006-11-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric power tool having an illumination device, which is excellent in workability in an illuminated state, and prevents the deterioration of the working efficiency even when the illumination is unnecessary.  <P>SOLUTION: In the electric power tool 1, a tool body is composed of a trunk portion 2 and a grip portion 3 elongating downward from the rear part of the trunk portion 2. The trunk portion 2 of the tool body is provided with an illumination means 10 for irradiating the portion in front of the trunk portion 2 and a storage portion 27 for storing the illumination means 10 inside the trunk portion 2. The illumination means 10 is composed of: an irradiating section 14 serving as a light source; and supporting sections 11, 12, 13 which are fixed to the irradiating section 14 at their one ends and are movably attached to the trunk portion 2 at their other ends.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008120169-A (JP)
Title: On-vehicle communication apparatus
Inventor: YOKOTA TOSHIICHI
IPC: B60R16/02
Filed: 2006-11-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an on-vehicle communication apparatus capable of apparently informing a user of reception of a signal without interfering with the display of a main image that has been displayed since before the reception of the signal.  <P>SOLUTION: This vehicle navigation device is provided with a display device. On the display screen 211 of the display device, a main display section 212 capable of displaying a main image PG as a map image and a degeneration section 213 displaying icons SG1-SG3 for notifying a user that the communication apparatus receives a signal from the outside the vehicle at the time of the reception when the main image PG is displayed on the main display section 212 are formed side by side. The icons SG1-SG3 are formed to have a display area smaller than that of the main image PG. The degeneration section 213 is formed to permit the plurality of icons SG1-SG3 to be displayed at the same time, and moreover, the icons SG1-SG3 are put in order of reception by the communication apparatus, and displayed on the degeneration section 213.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008119594-A (JP)
Title: Abnormality detecting apparatus for coated surface grounding inspecting device
Inventor: TANAKA BUNZO
IPC: G01N27/00
Filed: 2006-11-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply detect the abnormality of a coated surface grounding inspecting device before the detection of the coating surface of a material to be coated when the coated surface grounding inspecting device is not normally operated caused by failure or like.  <P>SOLUTION: The abnormality detecting apparatus includes: an electrifying plate 11 capable of being electrified separately from a material to be coated by an electrifier 7 of the coated surface grounding inspecting device 1 and detecting a surface potential by a surface potential detecting sensor 8 of the coated surface grounding inspecting device 1 in non-contact state; and an abnormality detecting circuit 12 for detecting the operation abnormality of the coated surface grounding inspecting device 1 by the output from the surface potential detection sensor 8 when the surface potential is detected.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2007088502-A (JP)
Title: Solid-sate image pickup element and method for manufacturing solid image pickup element
Inventor: KASUGA TAKU
IPC: H01L27/148
Filed: 2006-11-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid-state image pickup element for achieving pixel multiplexing while securing sufficient sensitivity.  <P>SOLUTION: This solid-state image pickup element includes a plurality of optical sensors 4 arranged like a matrix on the surface part of a semiconductor substrate 6. Charge generated by the optical sensors 4 is transferred by first and second transfer electrodes 12 and 14 embedded at the lower part of the optical sensors 4. The semiconductor substrate 6 is configured by laminating a support substrate 16 constituted of silicon, a buffer layer 18 and a thin film silicon layer 20 constituted of mono-crystal silicon. The optical sensors 4 are constituted of a p+ type region 22 and an n+ type region 24, and a p- type region 26 (overflow barrier) and an n type region 28 as a transfer path are formed at the lower part. The first and second transfer electrodes 12 and 14 are embedded between the n type region 28 and the buffer layer 18, and an insulating film 30 is interposed with the n type region 28. Thus, any transfer electrode does not exist on the surface part, and a light receiving region is enlarged so that even when the optical sensors 4 are made compact for pixel multiplexing, the sensitivity can be secured.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008124379-A (JP)
Title: Aligner, aligning method, and device manufacturing method
Inventor: KIUCHI TORU
IPC: H01L21/027
Filed: 2006-11-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an aligner capable of improving throughput.  <P>SOLUTION: The aligner comprises: a first optical member for emitting an aligning beam; a first moving body movable while holding a substrate in a first area including a first position to be irradiated with the aligning beam from the first optical member; a second moving body movable while holding the substrate independent of the first moving body in the first area; and a driving device for moving the first moving body by a first moving track in the first area in order to irradiate the substrate held by the first moving body with the aligning beam and moving the second moving body by a second moving track different from the first moving track in the first area so as to irradiate the substrate held by the second moving body with the aligning beam.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008123973-A (JP)
Title: Surface light source device and liquid crystal display
Inventor: MORI AKIHIRO
IPC: G02F1/13357
Filed: 2006-11-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surface light source device which achieves both uniform brightness and miniaturization (including reduction in thickness) of the surface light source device.  <P>SOLUTION: The surface light source device includes a light guide 4, and a horizontal surface light source 3. The light guide 4 has a concavity (or hole) 4a in an area that serves as a display area. The horizontal surface light source 3 emits a light, having directionality in a direction that is substantially parallel with a light-emitting surface 4b of the light guide 4. A plurality of the horizontal surface light source 3 are arranged in the concavity (or inside the hole) 4a.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008128000-A (JP)
Title: Pump device
Inventor: YAMAGUCHI HIROSHI
IPC: F04D15/00
Filed: 2006-11-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pump device capable of accurately detecting whether a liquid is present or not in a pump during a steady state operation.  <P>SOLUTION: This pump device comprises the pump 10 having an impeller and a pump casing 10a, a drive source 15 for driving the pump 10, a measuring device 26 for measuring at least one parameter varying according to a load on the pump 10, and a waterfall detection part 28 for detecting a waterfall according to an output value from the measuring device 26. The waterfall detection part 28 is formed to determine that a waterfall occurs when the output value reaches a predetermined set value. The waterfall means that the liquid to be fed is absent in the pump casing 10a and the impeller is not dipped in the liquid.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2007143163-A (JP)
Title: User authentication system in communication network and method thereof
Inventor: ZENG KE
IPC: H04L9/32
Filed: 2006-11-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a user authentication system in a communication network and a method thereof.  <P>SOLUTION: A credential authority publishes an accumulator and issues tokens and credentials to the users who are authorized to access a service. A user terminal uses a derived credential computed based on the published credential and proves to a verifier terminal using the derived credential. If a new user is authorized, other users and the verifier terminal need not update any data. If a user ever authorized is revoked, the credential authority computes the updated accumulator based on the token issued to the banned user, and publishes a revocation increment data comprising the updated accumulator and the increment data about the revoked token. Other users compute their updated credentials by themselves based on the updated revocation increment data received. The revocation increment data can be propagated among the credential authority, the users and the verifiers.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008131712-A (JP)
Title: Motor drive device
Inventor: NISHIZONO MASARU
IPC: H02M7/00
Filed: 2006-11-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a motor drive device which reduces the influence of switching noises of a power element to improve responsiveness in current control.  <P>SOLUTION: The motor drive device includes a carrier signal generator 1 outputting a triangle wave carrier signal, a current detecting trigger generator 2 outputting a current detection trigger, a current detector 3 detecting a motor current, a current controller 4 performing current control, and a PWM controller 5 outputting a PWM signal. The current detection trigger generator 2 outputs the current detection trigger earlier by the processing time of the current detection and current control from the peaks and bottoms of the carrier signal.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008128416-A (JP)
Title: Hydraulic circuit
Inventor: FUKUSHIMA HIROSHI
IPC: F15B11/00
Filed: 2006-11-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hydraulic circuit having increased degree of freedom in circuit design by simplifying a circuit to promote space saving and reduction in cost.  <P>SOLUTION: The hydraulic circuit comprises a first valve body 2 including a ball chamber 7 containing a check ball 5 arresting a flow of oil and communicating with a first oil passage 6 for supplying oil pressurized by a pump; a second valve body 3 internally having a second oil passage 8 for supplying oil to operate a working body; and a plate 4 held between the first valve body 2 and the second valve body 3, and having a through-hole 2 and a seating part 12 provided on the surface part on the ball chamber 7 side to surround the through-hole 11 so as to seat the check ball 5. An orifice 10 is formed on at least one of the check ball 5 and the plate 4 so as to restrict flowing of the oil carried between the first oil passage 6 and the second oil passage 8.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008128436-A (JP)
Title: Linearly guiding device
Inventor: NAKAGAWA TAKUMI
IPC: F16C29/06
Filed: 2006-11-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a linearly guiding device capable of enhancing more excellent restrained force of a ball retainer to a slider without obstructing a ball from rolling smoothly.  <P>SOLUTION: The ball retainer 10 is provided with a linear part 15 which is received in a recessed groove 2 of a ball rolling groove 1 of a guide rail G and a hooking part 16 which is formed on both ends of the linear part 15. The hooking part 16 comprises a first bent part 16a continuously extended from the linear part 15 and a second bent part 16b. An end cap E is provided with an outer peripheral groove 13 on outer peripheral surface corresponding to a bent pathway 6, and the groove 13 is provided with a hooked part 17 fitted with the second hooking part 16b of the ball retainer 10 on the outer peripheral groove 13.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008130498-A (JP)
Title: Switching device
Inventor: MAEDA ISAO
IPC: H01H89/00
Filed: 2006-11-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a switching device wherein contacts of movable contact pieces can be formed without requiring an expensive separate member and work to assemble the separate member to reduce its cost.  <P>SOLUTION: In this switching device formed so that a passive mechanism is operated by an operating member operated by a user, the movable contact pieces 58-60, 61-63 are deformed and restored by the passive mechanism which has been operated, and switching action to have the contacts 76-78, 79-81 of the movable contact pieces 58-60, 61-63 contacted and separated from a stationary contact is thereby carried out, the contacts 76-78, 79-81 of the movable contact pieces 58-60, 61-63 are formed by applying a mechanical process to make some of the movable contact pieces 58-60, 61-63 protrude.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008129559-A (JP)
Title: Cleaning device and image forming apparatus provided with the same
Inventor: MITSUYANAGI HIDETO
IPC: G03G21/10
Filed: 2006-11-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cleaning device which is capable of preventing the accumulation of toner by stirring the toner, without requiring an exclusive drive mechanism and with a simple configuration.  <P>SOLUTION: In the cleaning device 6a configured in such a manner that a sweep roller (toner conveying roller) 24 is housed in a toner discharge path in a housing 21, a cylindrical spring-like member (rotating body) 27 which comes into contact with the sweep roller 24, to be driven rotated is rotatably arranged between the inwall of the housing 21 and the sweep roller 24. At this time, two (plurality) spring-like members 27 are arranged in the axial direction of the sweep roller 24.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008132055-A (JP)
Title: Absorber
Inventor: KODA TAKUYA
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 2006-11-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an absorber having an increase in liquid absorbing speed and a reduction in the return of a liquid.  <P>SOLUTION: The absorber 10 contains pulp fibers 2 and particles 3 of a high absorbable polymer and has a first surface 1A and the second surface 1B opposed thereto. The average particle size of the particles 3 of the high absorbable polymer gradually becomes a small diameter from the first surface 1A to the second surface 1B, and the weight of the pulp fibers 2 on the side of the second surface 1B is larger than that of the pulp fibers 2 on the side of the first surface 1A and the gap ratio on the side of the first surface 1A is different from that on the side of the second surface 1B.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008135265-A (JP)
Title: Discharge lamp lighting device
Inventor: SATO YOSHINORI
IPC: H05B41/18
Filed: 2006-11-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable to impress a high voltage pulse efficiently on a discharge lamp from an ignitor at starting of lighting, and to supply power efficiently to the discharge lamp at normal lighting.  <P>SOLUTION: An AC voltage Va1 is generated from a primary side coil n1 of a transformer TR to constitute a first DC/DC conversion circuit 13 which outputs respectively an output converted into a desired DC and AC voltage from the voltage of a DC power supply 11, and this AC voltage is converted into a DC voltage Vd3 of a constant voltage circuit 18. This DC voltage is supplied as a power source for a control circuit 20 for generating the AC voltage Va1 and for a DC/AC conversion drive circuit 19 for driving a DC/AC conversion circuit 17 to light the discharge lamp 16. A filter circuit 21 for high frequency cut constituted of inductors L1, L2 and a capacitor C1 is connected between the output of the DC/AC conversion circuit 17 and an ignitor 15, and after the discharge lamp 16 is lighted, the capacitor C1 is disconnected.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008134470-A (JP)
Title: Electrophotographic photoreceptor, electrophotographic method and apparatus using the same, and process cartridge for electrophotographic apparatus
Inventor: IKEGAMI TAKAAKI
IPC: G03G5/05
Filed: 2006-11-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrophotographic photoreceptor which has high durability even in the case of long-term repeated use, suppresses image degradation due to image density lowering or image blurring, and stably gives high-quality images.  <P>SOLUTION: A photosensitive layer containing a tertiary amine compound represented by general formula (1) is disposed on a conductive support.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008136516-A (JP)
Title: Apparatus and method for computing consumed calorie
Inventor: KISHI KOJI
IPC: B62D1/02
Filed: 2006-11-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method for accurately computing a calorie consumed by operating a vehicle.  <P>SOLUTION: The apparatus for computing a consumed calorie 1 is connected to a vehicle having an operating section used by a driver to carry out driving operation and obtains operation information from the vehicle. The apparatus comprises a physiology measuring section 10 for obtaining physiological information of a driver of the vehicle, an autonomic nerve activity index computing section 20 for computing an autonomic nerve activity index that shows the active state of the autonomic nerve system of the driver on the basis of the physiological information obtained by the physiology measuring section, an input section 30 for receiving individual information of the driver, a basal metabolism rate determining section 40 for determining a basal metabolism rate of the driver on the basis of the inputted individual information and the computed autonomic nerve activity index, and a consumed calorie computing section 50 for computing an amount of exercise of the driver related to the driving operation on the basis of the obtained operation information and for computing a consumed calorie of the driver from the amount of exercise and the basal metabolism rate.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT