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Patent JP-2004151180-A (JP)
Title: Sound generating device
Inventor: MIYAUCHI KAZUHISA
IPC: G10K9/122
Filed: 2002-10-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a separate excitation buzzer emit a plurality of timbres even when only a single PWM signal output port is used.  <P>SOLUTION: The sound generating device is provided with: a chime sound generating circuit 2 which performs ON/OFF control over supply of a current to a separate excitation buzzer 6 while gradually attenuating the PWM signal; a chime sound inhibiting circuit 3 which inhibits the current from being supplied to the separate excitation buzzer 6 by the chime sound generating circuit 2 by stopping the supply of the PWM signal; a buzzer sound generating circuit 4 which performs ON/OFF control over the supply of the current to the separate excitation buzzer 6 according to the PWM signal, and a buzzer sound inhibiting circuit 5 which inhibits the current from being supplied to the separate excitation buzzer 6 by the buzzer sound generating circuit 4 by stopping the supply of the PWM signal. A microcomputer 1 supplies the same PWM signal to the chime sound generating circuit 2 and buzzer sound generating circuit 4 to perform control for generating a buzzer sound by driving the chime sound inhibiting circuit 3 or control for generating a chime sound by driving the buzzer sound inhibiting circuit 5.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004148577-A (JP)
Title: Thermal print head
Inventor: YAMAMOTO MASAYA
IPC: B41J2/335
Filed: 2002-10-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermal print head in which reliability is enhanced in electrical connection.  <P>SOLUTION: The thermal print head (1) comprises a substrate (2) having a glaze layer (21) formed on the surface, a wiring (22) formed on the glaze layer (21), an electrode (6) arranged on the wiring (22), and a clip connector (5) for connection with an external unit wherein the clip connector (5) is soldered directly to the electrode (6). The electrode (6) comprises a pad (61) formed to cover the wiring (22), and an electrode upper part layer (62) formed on the pad (61) with a smaller area than the pad (61) and exhibiting excellent solder wettability as compared with the pad (61).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004151867-A (JP)
Title: Trading system
Inventor: SAITO AKIKO
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2002-10-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a trading system capable of realizing the safe and proper exchange transaction of a really existing trading card by securing the matching of the attribute information of the trading card of each owner with attribute information shown by the transaction on a network.  <P>SOLUTION: An information registration processing part 101 of a transaction management server 100 preliminarily applies authentication ID concerning a trading card being the target of transaction in this trading system, and stores the attribute information of each trading card in a data base 103 by associating it with the authentication ID. A card transaction processing part 102 compares attribute information included in acquisition desired information received from user terminals 120A to 120N with attribute information acquired from the data base 103 based on the authentication ID included in provision desired information received from the user terminals 120A to 120N to carry out the exchange transaction processing of each trading card.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004152362-A (JP)
Title: Optical pickup and optical disk device using the same
Inventor: MORI HIROMITSU
IPC: G11B7/09
Filed: 2002-10-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide, in an optical device, a technique capable of improving sound quality in reproduction by reducing operation sound when driving an objective lens, and inhibiting the sound from intruding into a recording microphone.  <P>SOLUTION: As a construction of an optical pickup, a magnet fixing member 107 for fixing a magnet 106 for applying a magnetic field to a tracking coil 105 and a focus coil 104 is supported at one end at a position deviated from the optical axis of the objective lens 102 via an elastic member 113. Also, either or both of the upper cover 119 and the lower cover for protecting the inside of the optical pickup are provided with an opening 120 capable of inhibiting, by the opening, the operation sound from resonating when driving the objective lens.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004147872-A (JP)
Title: Method for diagnosing degeneration of brain tissue
Inventor: TAKAI TOSHIYUKI
IPC: G01N33/483
Filed: 2002-10-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an invasive or noninvasive diagnostic method for schizophrenia resulting from developmental disorder of myelin and degeneration of brain tissue such as senile dementia originating therefrom, which uses changes in acoustic characteristics of ultrasonic waves in brain tissues or brain tissue specimens.  <P>SOLUTION: The diagnosis of degeneration of brain tissue is performed by irradiating the brain tissues or brain tissue specimens of central part, or the like, comprising the thalamus or hippocampus with an ultrasonic beam with a frequency of 100-200 MHz using a scanning acoustic microscope (SAM), calculating attenuation value after calculating the thickness from frequency characteristics using changes in acoustic characteristics of reflected ultrasonic waves such as analysis of intensity and phase difference of reflected waves and detecting attenuation of ultrasonic waves in oligodendroglia.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004113756-A (JP)
Title: Head massaging device
Inventor: HARA TAKUJI
IPC: A61H11/00
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device that comprises a head massaging tool to massage the forehead skin and a hair trimming massaging tool made of a comb-type glass tube fitted with a high-frequency wave generating beam tube, and enabling easy massaging of the forehead skin and head hairs at any time, producing a synergistic massage effect on the head through vertical massaging of the forehead skin and stimulating of the hairs by trimming.  <P>SOLUTION: This head massaging device comprises the hair trimming massaging tool made of the comb-type glass tube fitted with the high-frequency wave generating beam tube, and the forehead massaging tool made of an air head belt equipped with an air-open inner bag sealed by an external belt that is wound round the forehead.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004155266-A (JP)
Title: Car washing system
Inventor: TAKAZAWA KAZUYA
IPC: G06Q50/10
Filed: 2002-11-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a car washing system whereby a user can freely set an original car washing menu with the usage of the Internet, can select from a wide menu which cannot be achieved by an individual car washer, and can carry out the set or selected car washing menu by a desired car washer.  <P>SOLUTION: The car washer is provided with a communication terminal and the car washer is remotely accessed to a management center. The user accesses the management center through the Internet, originally sets the desired car washing menu, selects from the wide menu, and transmits data of the set or selected car washing menu from the management center to a designated car washer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004159074-A (JP)
Title: Clock phase control circuit and its control method
Inventor: ANZAI MUTSUMI
IPC: H04B1/74
Filed: 2002-11-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clock phase control circuit where the number of occurred errors due to a difference of modulation timing is reduced when a transmission system is switched.  <P>SOLUTION: Modulators 1 and 2 modulate input signals branched into two by using two clock signals in which one signal is phase-controlled. A voltage control-type variable phase shifter 3 phase-adjusts the clock signal inputted from outside. Transmitters 4 and 5 convert outputs of the modulators 1 and 2 into RF frequencies. A change-over switch 6 changes over outputs of the transmitter 4 and 5 and transmits them to an antenna 7. Envelope detectors 8 and 9 detect outputs of the transmitters 4 and 5. Comparators 10 and 11 output pulses when outputs of the envelope detectors 8 and 9 drop to a level close to "0". A phase comparator 12 compares timing of outputs of the comparators 10 and 11. A phase controller 13 outputs a control signal matching modulation timing based on an output of the phase comparator 12.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004156096-A (JP)
Title: Alloy thin-sheet for shadow mask of tension type superior in magnetic shielding property
Inventor: FUJITA KOICHIRO
IPC: C22C38/08
Filed: 2002-11-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an alloy thin-sheet for a shadow mask of a tension type, which prevents a color shift by the thermal expansion of a shadow mask, and a color shift by the drift of an electron beam due to terrestrial magnetism.  <P>SOLUTION: The alloy thin-sheet for the shadow mask of the tension type superior in magnetic shielding properties is made from an Fe-Ni-based alloy including, by mass%, 33%-45% Ni as a chemical composition and is characterized by 50% or lower of an integration degree in the crystal orientation of <100> in a tension-added direction; alternatively by 10% or higher of an integration degree in the crystal orientation of <110> instead of <100>; or by 5% or higher of an integration degree in the crystal orientation of <111>; and further by the content of 0.01% or less C, 0.1% or less Si, 0.01-0.5% Mn, 0.01% or less P and 0.01% or less S.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004125763-A (JP)
Title: Radioactive substance containment vessel and manufacturing method therefor
Inventor: OSONO MASANARI
IPC: G21F9/36
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To absorb axial thermal elongation of a neutron shield.  <P>SOLUTION: A mold-release material is provided inside each heat transfer fin disposed around a barrel body of a cask. Even if the thermal elongation is generated in the neutron shield filled inside the mold-release material, the mold-release material itself axially slides to absorb the thermal elongation.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004158656-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
Inventor: MORI AYAKO
IPC: H01L21/3205
Filed: 2002-11-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device having high reliability in electrical connection and to provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device.  <P>SOLUTION: The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor chip 2, a metal pad 3, a passivation film 4 having an opening, and a metal bump 6 formed by an electroplating method. An extension portion is provided wherein the passivation film is extended onto a connecting region of the metal pad.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004156847-A (JP)
Title: Hot-water supply device
Inventor: KUNIMOTO KEIJIRO
IPC: F25B13/00
Filed: 2002-11-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hot-water supply device carrying out heating of a hot water storage tank in a midnight power time zone wherein electricity cost is low.  <P>SOLUTION: By providing a heating means 16 for heating water in the hot water storage tank 15 by a predetermined heating amount to carry out heating operation, and a heating control means 17 for changing the heating amount when there is operation other than the heating operation in a predetermined time, the hot water storage tank 15 can be heated in the predetermined time since the heating amount is corrected by the heating control means 17 so that the hot water storage tank 15 is heated in the predetermined time even when a heating operation condition of the hot water storage tank 15 changes, heating of the heating means 16 stops, and the heating amount changes within the predetermined time of the midnight power time zone.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004159210-A (JP)
Title: Information terminal
Inventor: IWABUCHI KAZUNORI
IPC: G06F3/041
Filed: 2002-11-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information terminal capable of direct and equal peer to peer communications without using E-mails.  <P>SOLUTION: An information terminal comprises a display and a pen input means. At the information terminal, both of network connecting means are connected directly to each other without via an E-mail server. A comment such as an additional note is written by hand writing on hard copy information displayed currently on the information terminal, and it is transferred and acquired equally. Accordingly, direct communications can be carried out without using E-mails, and a comment can be easily obtained by hand writing without printing it on paper.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004155492-A (JP)
Title: Storing apparatus and storing method
Inventor: OGATA NORITOSHI
IPC: B65D81/26
Filed: 2002-11-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To store boots, a high quality garment, a bag and a leather product for a long period of time without maintenance.  <P>SOLUTION: A storing apparatus is so composed as to enclose the boots, the high quality garment, the bag, the leather product and the like in the inside of a bag 2 together with an oxygen absorber 4 hermetically to eliminate oxygen in the air in the inside of the bag. In this way, since the oxygen content in the air in the inside of the hermetically sealed bag 2 becomes zero or very small quantity, the stored goods are prevented from mold growing, worm-eaten state or damaging even when they are stored for a long period of time as they are and it becomes very easy to store them.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004163469-A (JP)
Title: Developer accommodating device, image forming apparatus, and computer system
Inventor: OKAMOTO KATSUMI
IPC: G03G15/00
Filed: 2002-11-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provice a developer accommodating device in which a relative position between a first housing part and a second housing part is set highly precisely, and to provide an image forming apparatus and a computer system.  <P>SOLUTION: A first housing part and a second housing part are provided for accommodating developer in the developer accommodating device. The first housing part and the second housing part are welded in a state with a projecting part provided in the first housing part fitted to the recessed part provided in the second housing part. A biasing member is provided to have the projecting part put aside to one of the two side surface parts provided to the recessed part.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004164877-A (JP)
Title: Separator for alkaline battery and alkaline battery using the same
Inventor: KOSAKA AKIKO
IPC: H01M2/16
Filed: 2002-11-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a separator for an alkaline battery excellent in mechanical strength and a retention property of electrolyte solution, and an alkaline battery using the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The separator for the alkaline battery is made of a fiber sheet only composed of surface-porous fiber having pores on the surface of the fiber alone. It is preferable that an average depth of the pores is 0.1 to 10 μm, an average diameter 0.1 to 10 μm, and the number of the pores is around 10 to 1,000 per 100 μm<SP>2</SP>. Further, it is preferable that the surface-porous fiber is provided with hydrophilicity by discharge treatment. The alkaline battery is provided with the separator for the alkaline battery.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004165847-A (JP)
Title: Digital camera
Inventor: YAGI HIRONORI
IPC: H04N5/907
Filed: 2002-11-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a digital camera for easily and quickly transmitting image data photographed by the digital camera to a desired destination by an electronic mail.  <P>SOLUTION: A plurality of destinations are set to the digital camera 10 in advance, and a folder is prepared for each destination. A user selects a destination and photographs an object. The destination folder sequentially stores photographed image data. When the user depresses a transmission button of the digital camera 10, the image data in the destination folder are converted into text data, and subject (subject matter) data in electronic mail are automatically created and transmitted to a mail server 14 via the Internet 12.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004162770-A (JP)
Title: Solenoid valve
Inventor: SOGA HIDEHIRO
IPC: F16K49/00
Filed: 2002-11-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a solenoid valve which prevents reduction of suction force due to a coil temperature rise and materializes miniaturization without increasing coil temperature even if current-carrying condition is continuously kept for a long time.  <P>SOLUTION: A liquid reservoir space 2a for coil cooling is provided between an outer periphery of a coil 2 and a case 1 so that the control pressure region and the liquid reservoir space 2a for coil cooling are communicated. A fluid passage for coil cooling is provided which has a fine diameter part 9a provided not to affect pressure of liquid in the control pressure region while feeding fluid from the control pressure region to the liquid reservoir space 2a for coil cooling.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004164287-A (JP)
Title: Information recording system
Inventor: NIWANO SATOSHI
IPC: H04N21/418
Filed: 2002-11-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a low-cost recording medium allowing safe recording of information without requiring consideration of a rewriting service life when using the recording medium.  <P>SOLUTION: This recording medium 2 comprises: an area management server authentication means 211; an area configuration version comparison means 212; a user authentication means 213; a use command falsification detection means 214; an area configuration update means 215 changing an area configuration; an area configuration information requirement means 216 requiring area configuration information to an area management server 1; an individual authentication means 217 authenticating a holder of the recording medium 2; and a recording area and a recording medium identification 218 uniquely specifying the recording medium 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004163696-A (JP)
Title: Device and method for encoding music information, device and method for decoding music information, and program and recording medium
Inventor: SUZUKI SHIRO
IPC: G10L19/02
Filed: 2002-11-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently encode music information containing a white noise component and to prevent noise from being generated owing to the variation of a reproduction band between frames.  <P>SOLUTION: A music information encoding device when encoding a music signal containing a white noise component includes, in a code sequence, the index iL of energy of the white noise component and an index iR specifying a start index of a random number table. A music information decoding device 20 generates by a white noise generation part 25 a white noise signal S<SB>w</SB>(t) on the time base which has the same level with the white noise by using the indexes iL and iR included in the code sequence C and an adder 26 adds it to a decoded music signal S<SB>f</SB>(t) on the time base, so that the resulting signal is outputted as an output music signal S<SB>o</SB>(t).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003159157-A (JP)
Title: Stackable simple bed and corner element therefor
Inventor: VIGNERON BERTRAND
IPC: A47D7/00
Filed: 2002-11-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stackable simple bed which is constituted by spreading a sheet in between a long longitudinal element and lateral element mutually combined by corner elements to form a square frame as a whole.  <P>SOLUTION: Each corner element (2) is equipped with a leg (6) on the downside and a vertical dent part (7) aligned with the leg (6) on the up side. The dent part (7) is used to accept a leg (6) of another same type bed stacked on the bed. Each corner element (2) has an upper part (10) and a lower part (11) to be mutually combined. The dent part (7) is formed in the upper part (10) which is opened outward, extended sufficiently along a whole of the height, and equipped with a vertical slot shape side opening opened upward.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004162650-A (JP)
Title: Exhaust control valve
Inventor: KANEKO YUKIO
IPC: F01N1/08
Filed: 2002-11-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhaust control valve in which a noise reduction request required in low speed revolution of an engine and a back pressure reduction request required in high speed revolution of the engine are accomplished at the same time.  <P>SOLUTION: The exhaust control valve comprises: a valve element 2 disposed to be capable of opening/closing, through a spindle 3, to a valve seat 1 disposed at an end part of an exhaust pipe P in a muffler body; and a coil spring 4 for making the valve element 2 be in contact with a seat face 12 of the valve seat 1 to urge the valve element in a direction of closing the control valve. A cylinder part 13 is extended from the downstream of the seat face 12 in the valve seat 1 part, so that the cylinder part has an inside diameter ϕd2 larger than an inside diameter ϕd1 of the seat face 12 partitioning to form an exhaust pressure receiving face in an initial valve opening of the valve element 3. A flange part 23 is extended from a valve element 2 side positioned in the cylinder part 13 to close an upper end opening part of the cylinder part 13, from a state where the valve element 2 is in contact with the seat face to close the control valve up to a predetermined valve opening θ1 position.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004166146-A (JP)
Title: Digital camera
Inventor: NAKAJIMA YASUMASA
IPC: H04N5/225
Filed: 2002-11-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a digital camera capable of easily discriminating a state that a still image is not selected and a state that the still image is selected in a photographic mode.  <P>SOLUTION: Presence/no presence of pixels to be superimposed and composited on a digital image is discriminated about the selected still image. When the still image having the pixels to be superimposed and composited on the digital image is selected, a thumbnail image and a digital moving image of the selected still image are composited and displayed on a display (S140) in a state that a still image recording instruction can be inputted and when the still image without the pixels to be superimposed and composited on the digital image is selected, a prescribed object and the digital moving image are composited and displayed on the display (S130) in the state that the still image recording instruction can be inputted.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004171856-A (JP)
Title: Inter-battery connection structure, battery module and battery pack
Inventor: HIRANO FUJIO
IPC: H01M10/643
Filed: 2002-11-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inter-battery connection structure capable of reducing electric resistance although it is composed in a simple process and at a low cost; to provide a battery module equipped with a robust structure strong against vibration and shock; and to provide a battery pack composable into a required structure by easily connecting multiple battery modules.  <P>SOLUTION: This inter-battery connection structure has a shape capable of wrapping the whole outer shape of two electric cells 13; and flat connection plates 38 each composed by forming auxiliary pieces 25 on both sides of the central part are each made to straddle between a connection electrode part 28 of one of the two electric cells 13 arranged side-by-side, and the bottom face of the battery case 14 of the other side thereof, and positions adjacent to each other are welded to connect them. In this battery module 12, the cylindrical electric cells 13 are housed in respective cell housing parts 31 each having an oblong shape in a plan view of a synthetic resin holder case 30 in an arrangement so as to set the cell axes parallel with one another. This battery pack 49 is composed by integrating a plurality of the battery modules 12 by mounting them to an armoring plate 50 in an arrangement with the battery modules combined with one another.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO