baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2004239659-A (JP)
Title: Road shape recognition device
Inventor: KURODA KOICHI
IPC: G09B29/00
Filed: 2003-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a road shape recognition device which acquires more map data at a branch point without lowering operation processing speed.  <P>SOLUTION: This device is equipped with: an own car position detection means 101 for detecting the position of own vehicle; a road information storage means 102 for storing road shape data at least as an aggregate of point data; a road shape acquisition means 103 for acquiring only in a fixed range, the point data on the road shape in the traveling direction of own vehicle based on the own car position detected by the own car position detection means; a branch point detection means 104 for detecting whether a branch point of the road exists in the point data acquired by the road shape acquisition means or not; and a road shape acquisition range restriction means 105 for restricting the acquisition range of the point data on the road shape ahead of the branch point when the branch point is acquired by the road shape acquisition means.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004266344-A (JP)
Title: Device, method, and system for photographing face image
Inventor: MIZUO SHIGERU
IPC: H04N5/225
Filed: 2003-02-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent mistake of taking a selected picture of a subject person for a selection confirming picture by an operator when selecting the most suitable photographed image for a photograph of the face out of a plurality of photographed images for the photographs of the faces formed by photographing the subject by the operator's operation.  <P>SOLUTION: A device for photographing face images has: a camera part 10 for photographing the subject person 5 and obtaining a plurality of face images; a first display means 14 which displays the plurality of face images photographed by the camera part 10 and arrange them so that the subject 5 can view them; identifying means 8A and 8B attached to the plurality of face images displayed to the first display means 14; a first selecting means 4 for selecting an arbitrary face image out of the plurality of images displayed by the first display means 14; and discrimination displaying means 9A and 9B for discriminating the face image selected by the first selecting means 4 from other face images.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004238250-A (JP)
Title: Method of processing carbonized material containing harmful material, method of recovering processed carbonized material and harmful material and method of treating dehydrated sludge
Inventor: KASHIWAGI YOSHIYUKI
IPC: B09B3/00
Filed: 2003-02-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of processing a carbonized material containing a harmful material by which the content of the harmful material in the carbonized material is decreased, the elution of the harmful material is suppressed, the carbonized material is effectively utilized and the application of the carbonized material is enlarged by cleaning the carbonized material to previously elute the harmful material and to provide a method of recovering the processed carbonized material and the harmful material and a method of treating dehydrated sludge.  <P>SOLUTION: The processed carbonized material is obtained by cleaning the carbonized material transferred from a carbonation furnace 2 by a fluid medium in a heavy metal dissolving tank 3 to elute the harmful material into the fluid medium, separating the fluid medium containing the harmful material from the carbonized material and heating the carbonized material in a drying oven 4 to remove the fluid medium stuck on the carbonized material. A gas produced in the heating of the carbonized material is supplied to a gas combustion furnace 6 and a heat exchanger 7. The heated air obtained in the heat exchanger 7 can be used for a heat source for the heating. The steam or the hot water obtained by being heated by the heated air can be used as the fluid medium. The processed carbonized material is recycled for example, as a reclamation material, a civil engineering material, a land reforming material or a snow melting material.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004240822-A (JP)
Title: Inverse adaptation control circuit
Inventor: AKITA SHINICHI
IPC: G05F1/56
Filed: 2003-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a noise canceling circuit capable of significantly improving load stability and ripple noise removing capability even with extremely minimized operating current and idling current without increasing the gain of an error amplifier.  <P>SOLUTION: In a stabilized voltage output device including an error amplifying means, a reference voltage means, a voltage current output means, and an output voltage means, this output device further comprises a voltage control current feedback means for controlling a ripple noise signal generated in a power supply line by inverse-proportionally reducing the current feedback quantity according to an increase in power source voltage to reduce the reference voltage output of the reference voltage generation means.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004243246-A (JP)
Title: Gas separation membrane structure, gas separation membrane assembly, and gas separating apparatus
Inventor: IGAMI SHUNICHI
IPC: B01D63/00
Filed: 2003-02-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gas separation membrane structure capable of improving gas separation efficiency by making the surface area of a gas separation membrane per a unit volume larger, a gas separation membrane assembly, and a gas separating apparatus.  <P>SOLUTION: The gas separation membrane structure 1 comprises a gas permeable substrate 2 having a hollow section 3 and the gas separation membrane 5 disposed on the surface of the substrate 2. The substrate 2 has a hollow cylindrical form and has a plurality of collars 7 extending outward from its external side face 6. This invention includes one or a plurality of the gas separation membrane structures, the gas separation membrane assembly provided with a sheet-like base board where one end of the gas separation membrane structure is disposed, and the gas separating apparatus mounted with the gas separating membrane assembly.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004253851-A (JP)
Title: Information distribution system and method
Inventor: SHIMIZU ATSUSHI
IPC: G06Q30/02
Filed: 2003-02-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem in which information cannot be distributed to suit the convenience of a user because a user only transited a story floor not being a target story cannot be discriminated from a user visiting the story floor as the target story only through the installation of a user detection means at an end of the story floor connected to an upper lower story moving means such as a staircase, an escalator and an elevator connecting story floors of upper and lower stories in a hierarchical structure.  <P>SOLUTION: Information can be distributed to a user terminal 2 possessed by a user 1 without being affected by a transit story due to a transit area 5 by installing a user detection part 4 around the transit area 5, the transit area 5 being a range of ends of a story floor connected to the upper lower story moving means 3 and tentatively stepped by the user when the user 1 transits the story as a transit story on the way of moving from a present story on which the user 1 stays at present to the target story by using the upper lower story moving means 3 in order to use the upper lower story moving means 3 for a start point of information distribution.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004251146-A (JP)
Title: Turbo-fan jet engine
Inventor: NAGANO SHIGERU
IPC: F02K3/06
Filed: 2003-02-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an engine capable of generating a swirling flow in the air flowing on an external wall outside a cowling of the turbo-jet engine, smoothening the air flow, and promoting mixture of jet exhaust and ambient air.  <P>SOLUTION: Swirl vanes 35 projecting outwardly in the radial direction of an exhaust duct (exhaust nozzle) 23 of the turbo-jet engine are spirally provided along an external wall part outside the exhaust duct (exhaust nozzle) 23 to generate the swirling flow in fluidizing air flowing at high speed around the exhaust duct (exhaust nozzle) 23 and to exhaust the flow of the fluidizing air flowing on the external wall outside the exhaust duct (exhaust nozzle) 23 smoothly backwards.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004253970-A (JP)
Title: Image processor, method therefor, and program thereof
Inventor: IIDA TAKAYUKI
IPC: H04N1/62
Filed: 2003-02-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly and automatically correct the poor color tone of the pupil region.  <P>SOLUTION: An image having a red eye region (a pupil region with a poor color tone corresponding to the pupil of a human figure) is processed to correct the power color tone of the red eye region. Each time an operator takes part to determine correction parameters, the emergence rate and the correction parameters of the red eye region are accumulated and stored in a memory 42 as a red eye correction history for each type of cameras used for taking the image. After the accuracy of the red eye correction history exceeds a fixed level, a computer 34 without participation of the operator automatically identifies the type of the camera used for taking an image under processing, determines the emergence probability of the red eye region based on the red eye correction history corresponding to the identified type, searches an image decided to be high in emergence probability for a red eye region, and determines correction parameters for the red eye region.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004249552-A (JP)
Title: Record erasing method, record eraser, and recorder
Inventor: SHOJI SHINICHI
IPC: B41M5/28
Filed: 2003-02-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance work efficiency by ensuring good erasability even if a reversible thermal recording medium is carried at a high speed.  <P>SOLUTION: In the record eraser 34, a reversible thermal recording sheet 26 being fed by a sheet feeding means (not shown) is introduced between a recording surface guide member 2 and a non-recording surface guide member 3 by means of a pair of carry rollers 12. A ceramic heater 4 and a heat insulating material 6 are provided on the rear surface of the recording surface guide member 2 whereas a ceramic heater 5 and a heat insulating material 7 are provided on the rear surface of the non-recording surface guide member 3. The non-recording surface guide member 3 is supported by a fixed frame 19 whereas the recording surface guide member 2 is supported by a movable frame 9 sliding while being urged by a spring 11 and the reversible thermal recording sheet 26 is carried between both guide members while abutting. Abrupt temperature variation is suppressed by the thermal capacity of the guide member at the time of erasure and the recorded content can be erased while carrying the recording sheet at a high speed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004248909-A (JP)
Title: Game machine, recording medium, and program
Inventor: ONO YOICHI
IPC: A63F5/04
Filed: 2003-02-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide novel and interesting games for players.  <P>SOLUTION: In a game machine 10, a normal game or a special game (BB or RB) is switched to a particular game (AT) by lot drawing. A particular game switching lot-drawing means 130 performs the lot drawing for determining whether the normal game or the special game is switched to the particular game or not. A storing means 24 stores a plurality of particular game lot-drawing judging region data 24a and 24b, which are applied at the time of the lot drawing for switching to the particular game. A player's profit determining means 140 determines profit obtained or to be obtained by the player. The particular game lot-drawing judging region data 24a and 24b have mutually different probabilities of winning for switching to the particular game. The particular game lot-drawing judging region data 24a or 24b applied at the time of lot drawing for switching to the particular game is selected based on the profit obtained or to be obtained by the player, which is judged by the player's profit determining means 140.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004160969-A (JP)
Title: Ink-jet printer
Inventor: AOKI TETSUSHI
IPC: B41J2/165
Filed: 2003-02-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make an ink jet printer small-sized and inexpensive by enabling the changeover of atmosphere communication state/non-communication state only by the attaching and detaching operation of a suction cap with respect to a recording head to avoid a valve or a drive means.  <P>SOLUTION: The ink jet printer is provided with a recording head having discharge orifices on its discharge surface, a suction device for sucking ink and the suction cap closely brought into contact with the discharge surface so as to cover the discharge orifices of the recording head at the time of suction of the ink, and further provided with a support member for supporting the suction cap so as to oppose the same to the discharge surface and a contact/separation moving machanism for moving at least one of the support member and the recording head in a direction for bringing the suction cap and the recording head to contact and separation states. The contact/separation moving mechanism brings the suction cap and the recording head into contact with each other and subsequently allows the recording head to approach the support member to hermetically close the communication port provided to the suction cap by a lid member while compressing a shaking support member for supporting the suction cap in a shakable manner.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004257288-A (JP)
Title: Control valve
Inventor: TOSHIMA KAZUTO
IPC: F16K31/06
Filed: 2003-02-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential pressure actuated control valve of low cost, a simple structure, excellent durability and high degree of freedom in small size design.  <P>SOLUTION: A spherical ball valve element 13 is provided in a bore 12 of a round section formed on a valve housing 11 movably in an axial direction of the bore 12, the bore 12 is divided to a first pressure chamber 14 and a second pressure chamber 15 by the ball valve element 13, differential pressure between the first pressure chamber 14 and the second pressure chamber 15 is directly applied on the ball valve element 13 and the ball valve element 13 is moved in the axial direction by the differential pressure to increase and decrease opening of a valve port 22.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004261276-A (JP)
Title: Optical output device, relay device and information processing terminal
Inventor: WATANABE KAZUHISA
IPC: G06Q50/22
Filed: 2003-02-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical output device, a relay device and an information processing terminal which enable the gentle learning of the present state and mind of a specified person (lovers, family etc.) or the gentle conveyance of the present state and the mind to the specified person.  <P>SOLUTION: An information processing system has a user identifier transmitting device, the information processing terminal, the relay device and the optical output device. The user identifier transmitting device transmits the user identifier stored therein to the information processing terminal. The information processing terminal acquires external information, receives the user identifier and transmits the external information and the remote information having the user identifier. The relay device receives the remote information from the information processing terminal and transmits the remote information to the optical output device. The optical output device receives the remote information transmitted from the relay device, makes a direction to shift the optical output to one or more states from three or more states based on the remote information and produces an optical output. This enables the gentle learning of the present state of the person by the optical output.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004265057-A (JP)
Title: Method and system for selecting remanufacturing component
Inventor: MASUDA CHIYO
IPC: G06Q50/10
Filed: 2003-02-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a system for selecting remanufacturing components which enable the efficient selection of remanufacturing components manufactured for supplying inexpensive components for replacement in the repair of a vehicle and enable the expansion of the range of object remanufacturable components.  <P>SOLUTION: The system for selecting remanufacturing components is provided with a remanufacturing database and a search engine and unitarily manages information to efficiently extract and determine object components. Component codes for discriminating components replaced with for the repair of the vehicle and attributes of the components are stored in such a manner that they are made to correspond to each other into the remanufacturing database. The search engine retrieves the remanufacturing database on the basis of a set retrieval condition.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004274295-A (JP)
Title: Device and program for controlling radio data communication, and radio communication system
Inventor: YAMAGUCHI KENJI
IPC: H04L12/28
Filed: 2003-03-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve security in the radio data communication of radio communication equipment.  <P>SOLUTION: A wireless station 12 is provided with a data communicating part 121 for performing radio data communication with an OA (Office Automation) equipment resource 20 and a management database 123 for managing a MAC address of a client terminal 14 with which the OA equipment resource 20 can perform radio data communication, and transmits the MAC address to the OA equipment resource 20. The OA equipment resource 20 inhibits performing radio data communication with a communication terminal other than the client terminal corresponding to the MAC address.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004272593-A (JP)
Title: Information processor, and power saving method and program
Inventor: KONO SEIICHI
IPC: G06F1/32
Filed: 2003-03-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily stop the supply of a clock and power to a VRAM without the need of storing the contents of the VRAM and performing recovery based on stored data.  <P>SOLUTION: This information processor is provided with power saving means 21-24 for shifting a memory for display to a power saving state where image data are to be lost and restoring it, a storage area 25 for storing a prescribed starting condition, a routine starting means for starting a prescribed routine when the starting condition is satisfied, routine ending means 21 and 22 for ending the routine, and a re-plotting means for performing re-plotting to the memory for display when the routine is ended. Then, the information processor is provided with a starting condition rewrite means 26 for rewriting the starting condition stored in the storage area so as to start the routine at the time of shifting to the power saving state or at the time of restoration from the state, and a start condition restoration means 26 for returning the rewritten starting condition to the original condition after the routine is started.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004268430-A (JP)
Title: Inkjet recording head and inkjet recording device
Inventor: HAMAZAKI SATONOBU
IPC: B41J2/05
Filed: 2003-03-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To use as a heating element, a Ta-Si-O ternary alloy thin film resistor which has a self oxidation film good in the energy transmission efficiency to ink and resistant to corrosion, and to prevent a life reduction of a Ta-Si-O system thin film resistor because of cavitation.  <P>SOLUTION: A heater 26 discharges the ink filled in the vicinity of a nozzle 16 of a discrete channel 22 through the expansion of bubbles generated in the ink by a heat energy from the Ta-Si-O system thin film resistor from the nozzle as ink liquid drops, and at the same time makes bubbles generated in the discrete channel 22 communicate with the atmosphere through the nozzle 16. The cavitation on the heater 26 is thus prevented, so that a mechanical destruction of the Ta-Si-O system thin film resistor by the cavitation is prevented. The self oxidation film is formed at a surface layer part of the Ta-Si-O ternary alloy thin film resistor of the heater 26, whereby the corrosion of the Ta-Si-O system thin film resistor by the ink is effectively prevented.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004270330-A (JP)
Title: Partition panel device
Inventor: UNO CHITOSHI
IPC: E04B2/74
Filed: 2003-03-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a load of an accessory from being directly imposed on a panel, and to firmly support the accessory.  <P>SOLUTION: In a partition panel device 1 wherein a plurality of upper and lower panels 6 are mounted among horizontally arranged supports 2, a supporting rail 16, at least either the front surface or rear surface of which is provided with a horizontally directed locking groove 21 capable of locking and supporting the appropriate accessory, is provided between the adjacent upper and lower panels 6.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004267577-A (JP)
Title: Polyurethane foam pillow and manufacturing method therefor
Inventor: KAMATA MASAHIRO
IPC: C08G101/00
Filed: 2003-03-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a polyurethane foam pillow which exerts adequate acupressure effects without causing a pain during sleep, and a manufacturing method therefor.  <P>SOLUTION: In this polyurethane foam pillow 10, an acupressure member 14 is embedded inside a flexible polyurethane foam 12. The polyurethane foam pillow is manufactured by a manufacturing method wherein the acupressure member is arranged in a mold capable of forming a pillow-shaped cavity and an expandable stock-solution composition for forming the flexible polyurethane foam is injected, foamed and cured.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004270623-A (JP)
Title: Intake device of engine
Inventor: ITO ATSUSHI
IPC: F02M35/10
Filed: 2003-03-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that a resin manifold is low in silencing properties as compared with a metallic intake manifold if an intake manifold is made of a synthetic resin instead of a metal for the purpose of reducing weight so that the resin manifold has to be provided with a heavy wall thickness for transmitting engine noises outside or has to be provided with a rib or a sound insulation cover so that weight reduction effect becomes small.  <P>SOLUTION: The intake manifold body (2) is covered with a sound insulating cover (8) comprising a monolithic metallic plate (9) and an elastic body (10) in advance. For installation on an internal combustion engine (3), the plate (9) and a stay (13) integrated with the plate (9) are screwed on the internal combustion engine (3). Screwing positions can be spaced apart from each other widely. The stay (13) can be formed simultaneously at the time of press-forming the monolithic plate (9).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI