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Patent JP-2004316509-A (JP)
Title: Sealing structure of turbine casing
Inventor: UYAMA NORIYOSHI
IPC: F01D25/00
Filed: 2003-04-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sealing structure capable of suppressing cooling air leaks between a turbine casing and a blade ring even when there arises a relative thermal shrinkage difference between them.  <P>SOLUTION: An annular groove 7b is formed in the front end surface 7a of an inward flange section 7 in the turbine casing 3, and a seal ring consisting of a segment 8 contacted with the rear end surface 6a of the outward flange section 6 in the blade ring 2 at one end surface 8a, and at the same time, divided in the circumferential direction is fitted in the annular groove 7b. The outer peripheral edge and the inner peripheral edge of the end surface 8a in the segment 8 are notched linearly, and an outer edge L1 and an inner edge L2 are formed. When the segment 8 is tilted by a thermal shrinkage difference in a manner that the inner edge L2 is separated from the rear end surface 6a having the outer edge L1 as a spindle, the outer edge L1 is contacted with the rear end surface 6a thoroughly with no space between them.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004319765-A (JP)
Title: Compound semiconductor wafer and its manufacturing method
Inventor: IWASAKI TAKASHI
IPC: H01L31/072
Filed: 2003-04-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compound semiconductor wafer and its manufacturing method capable of stably manufacturing an InGaAs light receiving layer of excellent crystallinity.  <P>SOLUTION: The compound semiconductor wafer is formed with an In<SB>x</SB>As<SB>1-x</SB>P graded buffer layer 12 composed of a plurality of layers held between an InP substrate 11 and an InGaAs layer 14, and positioned on the InP substrate and an In<SB>y</SB>As<SB>1-y</SB>P buffer layer 13 positioned on the graded buffer layer. The maximum value of PL emission intensity at boundaries of the respective layers of the graded buffer layer and the buffer layer is less than 3/10 of the maximum value of the PL emission intensity of the buffer layer at all the boundaries.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004315174-A (JP)
Title: Announcement device for wheelchair-accessible elevator
Inventor: ISHII HIROTO
IPC: B66B1/14
Filed: 2003-04-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an announcement device for a wheelchair-accessible elevator capable of allowing not only a person in a wheelchair but also ordinary passengers to easily understand the operation of the elevator when a dedicated operation button for a wheelchair is operated, and preventing unnecessary operation of the dedicated operation buttons for a wheelchair.  <P>SOLUTION: A dedicated guide indicating lamp 15 is mounted to indicate and output that the dedicated operation button for wheelchair mounted at a landing or a car of the elevator is operated, and a storing part 16 is mounted for storing the contents to be indicated on the dedicated guide indicating lamp 15 in advance. A control part 18 indicates and outputs the contents to be indicated output, stored in the storing part 16 on the dedicated guide indicating lamp 15, when the dedicated operation button for the wheelchair 12 is operated.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004346485-A (JP)
Title: Hydraulic driving device
Inventor: ISHIKAWA HIROJI
IPC: E02F9/22
Filed: 2003-04-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hydraulic driving device capable of utilizing pressure oil on a holding side of a first hydraulic cylinder to increase speed of a second hydraulic cylinder when performing composite operation of the first and second hydraulic cylinders.  <P>SOLUTION: This hydraulic driving device is provided with a main hydraulic pump 21, a boom cylinder 6 and an arm cylinder 7, a direction control valve 23 for boom and a direction control valve 24 for arm, an operation device 25 for boom and an operation device 26 for arm, and a pressure oil supply means for supplying pressure oil in a rod side chamber 6b of the boom cylinder 6 to the upstream side of the direction control valve 24 for arm when bottom pressure of the arm cylinder 7 becomes high pressure exceeding a predetermined pressure. The pressure oil supply means includes a confluence change-over valve 44 which is provided in a tank passage 42 capable of communicating with the rod side chamber 6b of the boom cylinder 6 and holds a communicating passage 40 connecting the tank passage 42 with the upstream side of the direction control valve 24 for arm in a condition in which pressure oil can be supplied to the upstream side of the direction control valve 24 for arm when bottom pressure of the arm cylinder 7 exceeds a predetermined pressure.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004318685-A (JP)
Title: Voting system, candidate list production device for voting system, voting card production device, voting device, card counting and totaling system, voting method, candidate list production method for voting method, voting card production method, voting method, and card counting and totaling method
Inventor: HIROSE YASUYUKI
IPC: G06Q50/10
Filed: 2003-04-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a voting system capable of preventing the injustice of voting without storing candidate information into a voting device.  <P>SOLUTION: This voting system comprises: a candidate list production device 2 for producing a candidate list 22 and issuing a plurality of security keys 21 described later, on the basis of voting information inputted by an election administrator; a voting card production device 3 for producing a voting card 31 lent to a voter; the voting device 4 for allowing the voter to refer to the candidate list 22 to execute a vote; and a counting and totaling device 5 for reading a voted result from a recording medium 41 for storing voted result information, and totaling a plurality of voted results. The security keys 21 are installed to the voting card production device 3/voting device 4 and the counting and totaling device 5, and security information included in the voting information and a voting type are compared to prevent the injustice in voting and counting.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004313654-A (JP)
Title: Lid for cooking vessel
Inventor: SENDA TOSHIHIRO
IPC: A47J36/06
Filed: 2003-04-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable suitable application to a multiple number of cooking vessels with an opening of different sizes.  <P>SOLUTION: A cooking vessel has a lid body 3 having positioning means (that is, protrusions 5A, 5B, 5C) positioned on a plurality of annular tracks (e.g., circular track R<SB>1</SB>, R<SB>2</SB>, R<SB>3</SB>) passing one point P on the outer peripheral part of the body 3 on the bottom face of its outer peripheral part of the lid body 3 and engaged with the rim of the opening of the cooking vessel to form openings with different diameters. When used, the engagement part with the rim of the opening is prevented from moving in radial directions on the one point P side which a multiple number of the tracks (for example circular tracks R<SB>1</SB>, R<SB>2</SB>, R<SB>3</SB>) pass.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004325569-A (JP)
Title: Receptacle and optical semiconductor element packaging module using the same
Inventor: SHIMO AKITOSHI
IPC: G02B6/42
Filed: 2003-04-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a receptacle which minimizes an increase in coupling loss when an external force is exerted to a ferrule inserted into the receptacle and an increase of an attenuation rate of reflection and an optical semiconductor packaging module using the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The receptacle is equipped with a precision sleeve 11 holding a built-in stub ferrule 14 which is fixed with an optical fiber 15 to be coupled via space light to an optical semiconductor element at its central part and an insertion ferrule 16 which is inserted from outside and is made to abut on the ferrule 14 as a guide. The precision sleeve 11 is a sleeve of a uniform cylindrical shape which does not have a slit on its side face.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004323383-A (JP)
Title: METHOD FOR PURIFYING alpha-HYDROXY CARBOXYLIC ACID
Inventor: SHIBUYA NOZOMI
IPC: C07C51/43
Filed: 2003-04-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for simply purifying an α-hydroxy carboxylic acid, by which by-products can be removed.  <P>SOLUTION: This method for purifying the α-hydroxy carboxylic acid in a high purity is characterized by cooling the α-hydroxy carboxylic acid at a constant cooling rate (5 to 30°C / hr) to crystallize the α-hydroxy carboxylic acid. When the α-hydroxy carboxylic acid is especially mandelic acid and when phenylglycine is contained as an impurity, the cooling of the α-hydroxy carboxylic acid at the constant cooling rate can give the highly pure mandelic acid. The method for purifying the α-hydroxy carboxylic acid is a suitably used method, when a solution containing the α-hydroxy carboxylic acid as a purification target is produced by an enzymatic method.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004323887-A (JP)
Title: Method of producing nickel powder of hyperfine particle
Inventor: NAGASE NORIYUKI
IPC: B22F1/00
Filed: 2003-04-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide nickel powder with a mean particle diameter of <0.1 μm which has excellent dispersibility in paste, and is suitable as the one for the internal electrode of a multilayer ceramic condenser, and to provide a method of producing the same.  <P>SOLUTION: In the method of producing nickel powder, a mixture comprising a nickel compound and a sintering preventive is subjected to hydrogen reduction, and the obtained reduced product is subjected to wet treatment. The method includes: a pulverizing stage where the nickel compound and the sintering preventive are subjected to wet mixing and pulverizing to produce slurry in which the mean particle diameter (microtrack D50) of the solid matter after the pulverizing is ≤0.3 μm; a drying stage where the slurry obtained in the pulverizing stage is dried to produce a mixture of the nickel compound and the sintering preventive; a reducing stage where the reduced product containing the metal nickel particles is produced; and a wet treating stage where the sintering preventive is removed to obtain the metal nickel particles.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004323908-A (JP)
Title: Functional medical equipment, and its manufacturing method
Inventor: UCHIYAMA HIROAKI
IPC: A61M25/09
Filed: 2003-04-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide lightweight functional medical equipment which has excellent biocompatibility.  <P>SOLUTION: A Ti-Mo based alloy only using elements having satisfactory biocompatibility including Ti and Mo and either or both of Sn and Ag, and in which, in a three point bending test, at the time when 0.2% permanent strain occurs, the applied total strain is ≥1.7%, and also, permanent strain at the time when 1% bending strain is applied, permanent strain is ≤0.05%, is used, so that the lightweight functional medical equipment having high biocompatibility and having high strength and a low elastic modulus can be obtained. Further, antibacterial properties can also be imparted thereto.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004323066-A (JP)
Title: Gas filling and packaging machine
Inventor: ISHIWATARI TOSHIO
IPC: B65B31/06
Filed: 2003-04-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gas filling and packaging machine capable of preventing a filling gas from leaking by bringing a bag part at a nozzle inserting position into good airtight contact with the outer periphery of a gas nozzle, filling the gas into a packaging bag under a fully filled expanding condition, and improving the shape retention of the packaging bag after packaging is completed.  <P>SOLUTION: The gas filling and packaging machine is provided with a sealing mechanism part 6 for press-contacting and sealing an opening part of the packaging bag 21 provided within a packaging region by upper and lower sealing blocks 31a and 31b, a vacuum pump for evacuating the inside of the packaging bag 21, and the gas nozzle 5 for filling the gas into the evacuated packaging bag 21. Bag pressing members 23a and 23b for pinching the bag part at the nozzle inserting position from the top and the bottom are provided above and below the gas nozzle 5 inserted into the opening part of the packaging bag 21 in which an article 22 to be packaged is stored, and as these upper and lower bag pressing members 23a and 23b, a gel material 40 is mounted.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004328680-A (JP)
Title: Solid-state imaging device and method of driving the same
Inventor: TAKEDA KATSUMI
IPC: H04N5/359
Filed: 2003-04-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid-state imaging device for preventing the occurrence of blooming during the interlaced reading of a field.  <P>SOLUTION: The solid-state imaging device comprises a driving means for reading, in a first field output period, the signal charge of the field from a reading gate electrode VΦ1 to which a middle voltage has been applied in a horizontal effective period, thereby setting at a low level a gate electrode VΦ3 corresponding to a second field which has not been read in the first field output period.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004330037-A (JP)
Title: Solid-liquid separating apparatus
Inventor: MORI TOYOSHIGE
IPC: B01D33/06
Filed: 2003-05-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for separating a liquid to be treated, which is suitable for treating the liquid to be treated in large quantities.  <P>SOLUTION: This solid-liquid separating apparatus is provided with a rotor 14 or 64 which has a concave part 13 or 63 for housing the liquid to be treated and in which at least a part of a bottom wall 31 or 81 of the part 13 or 63 is composed of a filter F, a rotating means for rotating the rotor 14 or 64 around a non-vertical shaft so that the filter F is made to pass through a low place L and a high place H, a supplying means for supplying the liquid to be treated in the part 13 or 63, a pressure reducing means for reducing the pressure of the filter F from the outside of the part 13 or 63 so that the liquid to be separated is made to pass through the filter F and a solid to be separated is made to remain on the filter F, and a removing means for removing the solid made to remain on the filter F.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004329076-A (JP)
Title: Tilling device
Inventor: KOBASHI KENJI
IPC: A01B33/12
Filed: 2003-05-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tilling device with which soil is plowed with straws, or the like, in a deep position below cultivated soil.  <P>SOLUTION: This tilling device 1 has a rotatable puddling rotor 10 and a rake body 50 arranged at the rear side of the rotatable puddling rotor. The puddling rotor 10 has a puddling shaft 11 supported rotatably in the horizontal direction and a plurality of puddling tines 20 arranged on the outer periphery of the puddling shaft at fixed intervals in the shaft direction of the puddling shaft 11. The puddling tines 20 have first puddling tines 21 and second puddling tines 31 having turning radii larger than those of the first puddling tines. These puddling tines are arranged adjacently at fixed intervals in the shaft direction of the puddling shaft 11 and in a mutually displaced state in the peripheral direction. Water between the first puddling tines 21 and the second puddling tines 31 adjacent in the shaft direction flows out from the tip part sides of the first puddling tines to the tip part sides of the second puddling tines 31 with the rotation of the puddling rotor 10 and soil is plowed with straws, or the like, in the deep position in stirred cultivated soil. Straight blades are installed instead of the second puddling tines 31 and soil is plowed with straws, or the like, in a deep position in cultivated soil.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004331578-A (JP)
Title: Cell activator
Inventor: YAMAMURA TATSURO
IPC: A61Q1/00
Filed: 2003-05-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a cell activator exhibiting excellent effects; and to provide a skin care preparation for external use and a food, exhibiting excellent cell-activating effects by formulating the cell activator exhibiting the excellent effects.  <P>SOLUTION: Alpha-D-Glucopyranosylglycerol having the cell-activating activities is used as the cell activator. The α-D-glucopyranosylglycerol having the cell-activating activities is formulated with the skin care preparation for external use as the cell activator. The α-D-glucopyranosylglycerol having the cell-activating activities is formulated with a food as the cell activator.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004334106-A (JP)
Title: Negative resist composition
Inventor: YASUNAMI SHOICHIRO
IPC: G03F7/038
Filed: 2003-05-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a negative resist composition which simultaneously satisfies high sensitivity, high resolution, a preferable pattern profile and a decrease in microbridges by solving problems related to the techniques for improving the performance in microfabrication of a semiconductor device using high energy beams, in particular, electron beams, X rays or EUV light.  <P>SOLUTION: The negative resist composition contains (B) a crosslinking agent which crosslinks with a compound having a phenolic hydroxy group by the action of an acid; (C) a compound which generates an acid by irradiated with active rays or radiation; and (D) a phenol compound having 7 to 15 benzene rings in the molecule.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004333437-A (JP)
Title: Strain gage
Inventor: HIROTA KAZUO
IPC: G01B7/16
Filed: 2003-05-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a strain gage provided with a plurality of sensor parts capable of measuring a plurality of measuring objective positions.  <P>SOLUTION: Gage lines connected electrically to the sensor parts 1a, 1b by coated respectively by gage line coating tubes 2a, 2b are connected to lead wires inside one MI cable 3 by a connection part 5. Signals from the respective sensor parts 1a, 1b are thereby transmitted respectively to a measuring instrument or the like by the lead wires inside one MI cable 3 and lead wires inside a soft cable 4, after transmitted by the gage lines inside the gage line coating tube 2a, 2b.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004329177-A (JP)
Title: Food-forming device
Inventor: KOBAYASHI MASAO
IPC: A21C11/16
Filed: 2003-05-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food-forming device capable of coping with the change of an outer skin material or inner material by a simple constitution and performing a sealing action surely without bending the edge part of the outer skin material.  <P>SOLUTION: This device is provided by supplying the outer skin material F on a thin plate 70 formed with an opening part 71 at its central part, forming the outer skin part material F as folded into two by pushing the central part of the outer skin material F into the opening part 71 with a pushing member 30, then supplying the inner material to the inside of the outer skin material F and moving a sealing member 20 being an opened state in advance for nipping the outer skin material F folded into two from both sides to seal the edge part of the outer skin material F. At this time, the whole edge part of the outer skin material F is uniformly sealed by sealing the upper end part of the outer skin material F with a sealing member 10.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004337272-A (JP)
Title: Slot machine
Inventor: YAMAZAKI TOMOKI
IPC: A63F5/04
Filed: 2003-05-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid feeling troublesomeness in the case of change operation by preventing continuing of performance based on a state before change operation when performing the change operation of a set value.  <P>SOLUTION: A control circuit consists of a game control substrate and a performance control substrate, and change operation of the set value is performed under the control of the side of the game control substrate. By supplying a power source after turning on a set key switch (S101), the change operation of the set value becomes possible. Before the supply, an initialization command is transmitted to the performance control substrate (S105). The set value is changed by the operation of the set switch (S109 to S112). When turning off the set key switch after operating a start lever (S107 and S108), a changed set value is defined (S113), and a state command including the set value is transmitted to the performance control substrate (S114). In the performance control substrate, RAM is cleared (the set value is also cleared) by the reception of the initialization command, and the set value is stored in the RAM by the reception of the state command.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004342213-A (JP)
Title: Magnetic disk device and method and program for optimizing read gate
Inventor: YAMAZAKI YUICHIRO
IPC: G11B5/09
Filed: 2003-05-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform reading with a small number of errors by optimizing the reading time.  <P>SOLUTION: A hard disk controller 28 generates a read gate signal RG having a predetermined read start time and a predetermined reading end time set with a sector pulse as a reference. A read data demodulation part 76 reproduces the read data from a medium read signal by reading based on the read gate signal RG. A read gate optimizing part 66 detects the error in the read data demodulated by a read data demodulation part 76 while changing the read start time and the read end time of the read gate signal RG, determines a read start time and a read end time in which the detected error becomes minimum and sets them in a read gate generation part.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004343441-A (JP)
Title: Light receiving circuit and distance measuring unit
Inventor: SUGAWARA RYOICHI
IPC: G01S17/08
Filed: 2003-05-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a low-noise and wide-band light receiving circuit amplifying a current signal generated by a photoelectric conversion section for output, and a distance measuring unit using the same.  <P>SOLUTION: A constant bias current Ib supplied by a bias circuit 3 is superimposed on a current signal Ipd supplied from a photodiode 2. The resulting current signal Ipd+Ib is amplified m times by means of a current amplifier 4 composed of a current amplification type current mirror circuit 40. A voltage conversion circuit 5 converts an amplified current signal Ia into a voltage signal Vo. The bias current Ib positively operates the current mirror circuit 40 and is set to the minimum magnitude to secure a required response frequency (band). Thus, the current mirror circuit 40 is not brought into an inoperative state even when the current signal Ipd is extremely weak. In addition, the development of shot noise is controlled to the minimum. Thus, the detection of weak light and high-speed operation are compatible.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI