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Patent JP-2006322852-A (JP)
Title: Ranging device, ranging technique, and ranging program
Inventor: IWAKI HIDEKAZU
IPC: B60R21/00
Filed: 2005-05-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ranging device capable of acquiring highly precise and detailed range information quickly.  <P>SOLUTION: The ranging device 1 is equipped with a range arithmetic section 20 calculating the range to an object located within an imaging field of view based on an imagery signal group output from an imaging section 10, a radar 60 detecting the range to the object located in detection range, and an interpolating section 31 creating the range data combining the in-range data interpolated with the calculated value of the range arithmetic section 20 between the detected values of the radar 60 with the outlying data consisting of the calculated values corresponding to the outlying range of the radar 60. Also, the interpolating section 31 creates the range data using the previous outlying data, up to the finalization of acquiring of the outlying data in now processing.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006326990-A (JP)
Title: Inkjet recording apparatus
Inventor: SASA MASAHIKO
IPC: B41J2/01
Filed: 2005-05-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inkjet recording apparatus capable of performing edge-less recording at a high speed.  <P>SOLUTION: A platen 42 has a channel 116 covering the whole ink delivering region of a recording head. A plurality of movable ribs 104 are provided in the channel 116. The movable ribs 104 slide from a first position to a second position by synchronizing carrying a recording paper 146. The first position is a position between adjoining first fixing ribs 102, and the second position is a position between adjoining second fixing ribs 103. The movable ribs 104 are projected upward from the upper face 109 of the platen 42. The movable ribs 104 surely support the recording paper carried on the channel 116.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006333020-A (JP)
Title: Image reader
Inventor: SHIOZAKI SEIYA
IPC: H04N1/44
Filed: 2005-05-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image reader which improves security for originals after reading the image.  <P>SOLUTION: The image reader is provided with: original recovery trays 54, 56, and 58 with locks for housing originals after reading the images; a memory 34 for storing identifying information such as user IDs and passwords; an operating unit 36 for receiving inputs of identifying information, a collator 38 for collating the identifying information received by the operating unit 36 with the identifying information stored in the memory 34, and a controller 20 for unlocking the locks of the original recovery trays 54, 56, and 58 having locks, if the collation result shows that both match.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006330315-A (JP)
Title: Optical apparatus and method of wiring optical apparatus
Inventor: WATABE KAZUO
IPC: G02F1/01
Filed: 2005-05-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical apparatus having a first optical component and a second optical component and whose characteristic deterioration is suppressed.  <P>SOLUTION: The optical apparatus 1 has the first optical component 10, a second component 20 and a connection part 30. The first optical component 10 has M optical waveguides G<SB>1</SB>-G<SB>M</SB>, M ports P<SB>0.1</SB>-P<SB>0.M</SB>and M ports P<SB>1.1</SB>-P<SB>1.M</SB>, in it, the optical waveguides G<SB>1</SB>-G<SB>M</SB>in parallel and the optical waveguide G<SB>m</SB>guides waves of light betwen the port P<SB>0.m</SB>and the port P<SB>1.m</SB>. The second optical component 20 has M ports P<SB>2.1</SB>-P<SB>2.M</SB>and a port P<SB>3</SB>, provided with band transmission characteristics of peak wavelength λ<SB>m</SB>between the port P<SB>2.m</SB>and the port P<SB>3</SB>and peak wavelength λ<SB>1</SB>-λ<SB>M</SB>satisfy relation of "λ<SB>1</SB><λ<SB>2</SB><...<λ<SB>m</SB><...<λ<SB>M</SB>". The connection part 30 mutually and optically connects the port P<SB>1.m</SB>and the port P<SB>2.m</SB>. Any other optical waveguide exists between each waveguide G<SB>n</SB>and an optical wagevuide G<SB>n+1</SB>included in the M optical waveguides G<SB>1</SB>-G<SB>M</SB>.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006335381-A (JP)
Title: Method for detecting hopper inserted state in bagging machine
Inventor: KAWAMURA KENJI
IPC: B65B39/12
Filed: 2005-05-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To correctly detect whether the inserted end of a hopper is normally inserted into a bag mouth in a bagging machine for opening the bag mouth of a bag 1 pinched by a pair of grippers 2 and 2 provided around an intermittently rotary table 3, inserting the hopper 4 into the bag mouth, filling an article 5 to be packaged into the bag 1 through the hopper 4, then drawing out the hopper 4 from the bag mouth, sealing the bag mouth, and thereafter discharging the product bag out of the machine.  <P>SOLUTION: Photoelectric sensors 7 and 7 are provided at a position in a supplying process of the article 5 to be packaged. The deformation of the bag mouth caused by the insertion of the hopper 4 is detected, and whether the hopper 4 is normally inserted into the bag mouth is determined from the detection result. If the leading edge of the lowering hopper 4 is caught on the bag mouth and the bag mouth is pressed and bent (as shown by a virtual line and then a solid line), a bag surface comes out of a detection part 9 (light passage) of the sensors 7 and 7, light emitted from light emission parts of the sensors 7 and 7 enters a reflector 6, and reflected light is detected by light receiving parts of the sensors 7 and 7.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006049831-A (JP)
Title: Manufacturing method for photovoltaic panel
Inventor: ASAI KOUICHI
IPC: H01L31/042
Filed: 2005-05-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase tolerance of outer diameter, shape, and sphericity of a photovoltaic element (granular silicon) used for manufacturing a photovoltaic panel.  <P>SOLUTION: A plastic sealing material 23 is filled into a recess 21 of a cradle 22 and a molding die 24 is set on the cradle 22, then the granular photovoltaic element 11 is stored singly in each bowl-shaped recess 26 of the molding die 24, and then each photovoltaic element 11 is pressed from above to fit a lower part of the each photovoltaic element 11 into a through-hole 27 of the each bowl-shaped recess 26, and then the lower part of the each photovoltaic element 11 is pressed into the plastic sealing material 23 in the recess 21 such that a lower end of the each photovoltaic element 11 is contacted or substantially contacted to the bottom of the recess 21 of the cradle 22. After that, a resin liquid of a transparent resin 12 is injected into a molding cavity 25 of the molding die 24, thereby a photovoltaic panel 10 is molded, in which many photovoltaic elements 11 are integrated in a panel form by the transparent resin 12.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006337621-A (JP)
Title: Developing device and image forming apparatus
Inventor: SUDO TERUTAKA
IPC: G03G15/08
Filed: 2005-06-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developing device in which even though a member for stirring developer while cooling it is made of a metal, the occurrence of metal powder from the member can be reduced or restrained.  <P>SOLUTION: The stirring member 132 for stirring developer in the developing device 13a comprises a screw-shaped stirring vane 1321 and a hollow shaft 1322. The shaft 1322 is freely rotatably supported by bearings 135 attached to a casing and is designed so as to allow air from an air blower, not shown, to flow from point A to point B as indicated in the drawing. The stirring vane 1321 and the shaft 1322 are made of the metal, such as aluminum or copper, which is excellent in heat conductivity and whose surface has been subjected to a wear-resistant treatment. Accordingly heat, such as frictional heat, applied to the developer is quickly dissipated. Also, occurrence of metal powder from the stirring vane 1321 and shaft 1322 can be reduced or restrained.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006340142-A (JP)
Title: Real time motion picture processing system, motion picture decoding method, and program
Inventor: NOJIMA TOMOYUKI
IPC: H04N7/173
Filed: 2005-06-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce arithmetic capacity to be needed for a real time motion picture processing system having input data of a plurality of systems (process choices).  <P>SOLUTION: A real time motion picture processing system for making the number of process choices n more than the number of processable objects m comprises processing object determining means for determining whether or not input motion picture data which is to be one of the process choices is a processing object, and frame skip means for skipping a motion picture decoding process and an image storage process when determined as not being the processing object. According to the above configurations, a real time motion picture process can be enabled in a device not having high arithmetic capacity, while the number of process choices (input motion picture data) per one device can be increased in a device having the high arithmetic capacity.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006340144-A (JP)
Title: Image processing device
Inventor: NISHIZAWA AKINORI
IPC: H04N1/393
Filed: 2005-06-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing device capable of making an output image to be well enhanced one whose edge is effective, and capable of saving recording materials to be used for a printing process when an input image is to be printed out after being performed an edge enhancing process.  <P>SOLUTION: The image processing device 1 comprises an enlargement processing circuit 12 for processing enlargement of the input image, an edge detecting circuit 20 for detecting pixels at an edge portion within a character line image area from enlarged image acquired from an enlargement process, and a print image data producing circuit 27 for performing the edge enhancing process for enhancing images at the edge portion by adding concentration gradient to each pixel so that density of pixels between the edge portions sandwiched by pixels at a detected edge portion becomes lower than density of the pixels at the edge portion.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006339574-A (JP)
Title: Substrate inspection device
Inventor: ANDO BUICHI
IPC: B65G49/07
Filed: 2005-06-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substrate inspection device which is capable of reducing loading imposed on an operator due to warpage of substrates, when the substrates are transferred.  <P>SOLUTION: The warpage information regarding wafers are stored in the recipe 5 of a control unit 4 other than measurement and inspection programs (position of inspection and inspection content). The warpage information regarding the wafers includes the presence warpage, magnitude of the warpage, the type (convex or concave) of the warpage, etc. The control unit 4 modifies wafer transfer conditions, such as changes in the threshold of vacuum pressure, addition of internal retrying process, change in the vacuum pressure, etc, based on the warpage information regarding the wafers.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006340879-A (JP)
Title: High frequency treatment instrument for endoscope
Inventor: SUGITA NORIYUKI
IPC: A61B1/00
Filed: 2005-06-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-frequency treatment instrument for an endoscope which can variably configure a direction of water spouting out of a water nozzle at the distal end of the high-frequency treatment instrument for an endoscope although its diameter is only 2 to 3 mm and can effectively wash dirty solution or blood on the surface of a membrane.  <P>SOLUTION: A rod-shaped high-frequency electrode 4 moving forward/backward to protrude forward from a distal end surface 1a of a sheath 1 through an operation at the proximal end of the sheath 1 and a water nozzle 3a to spout water W forward from the distal end surface 1a of the sheath 1 are disposed in parallel. A space e between the high-frequency electrode 4 and the water nozzle 3a is set to make the water W spouted out of the water nozzle 3a to be drawn toward the high-frequency electrode 4 protruded from the distal end of the sheath 1 and to bend its spouting direction. By spouting water W out of the water nozzle 3a and moving the high-frequency electrode 4 forward/backward, the spouting direction of water W from the water nozzle 3a can be changed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006345266-A (JP)
Title: Image forming device and image forming system
Inventor: IRIYAMA TOKUO
IPC: G03G21/00
Filed: 2005-06-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a device constitution simple while two or more image forming devices perform the same operation process.  <P>SOLUTION: Each of copying machines 20A-20C as an image forming device includes an image forming means which records an image of image data on a record medium; an operating means which receives an operation input of operation information; a communication means for communicating with outer devices; and a controlling means for performing process based on the operation information received by the communication means, or based on the input operation information, determining whether the operation information may correspond to the entered information or not, and transmitting the operation information to the destination image forming unit through the communication means if it corresponds to the information.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006342739-A (JP)
Title: Variable valve system of internal combustion engine
Inventor: MURATA SHINICHI
IPC: F01L13/00
Filed: 2005-06-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a variable valve system of an internal combustion engine with a simple and compact structure which can suppress a load acting on a rocking fulcrum of a transmission shaft during high valve lift and high rotation speed operation.  <P>SOLUTION: In the composition of a rocking fulcrum S1 of a transmission arm 35 in the variable valve system, the rocking fulcrum S1 of a transmission arm 35 and a turning center S2 of a control shaft 11 are arranged between the direction T1 of the maximum load which is produced when a rocking cam 45 rocks in a valve opening direction and the direction T2 of the maximum load opposite to the direction T1 which is produced when a rocking cam 45 rocks in a valve closing direction during high valve lift and high rotation speed operation of an internal combustion engine. By so doing, the loads when the cam rocks in the valve opening direction and when cam rocks in the valve closing direction alternatively act on the control shaft 11 so as to reduce the strain of the control shaft 11.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006345306-A (JP)
Title: Content distribution system and method therefor, as well as terminal device and content management method for terminal device
Inventor: KUDO SHIGETAKA
IPC: H04N21/4722
Filed: 2005-06-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a content distribution system capable of coping with a dynamic change in a play list held by a content server.  <P>SOLUTION: When a play list is selected at a terminal side, the terminal browses the number of contents stored at a play list held by a server. The terminal acquires content information, for example up to 50 pieces, from the server based on the browsing result. If an access operation is performed on a content out of a range for information stored at a play list held by the terminal when the access operation is performed by the terminal side based on the play list, the terminal browses again the number of contents stored at the play list held by the server. If the number of contents browsed originally is changed, the terminal browses again content information up to 50 pieces from the play list held by the server. Even if a dynamic change occurs at the play list held by the server, the terminal side can cope with the situation.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006025593-A (JP)
Title: Piezoelectric ceramic fiber with metal core
Inventor: THIESEN JACK
IPC: B60C23/04
Filed: 2005-06-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved wire structure of a piezoelectric material having the slender piezoelectric material, a metal core and a conductive sheath.  <P>SOLUTION: The metal core 14 is surrounded by the slender piezoelectric material 12 and functions as a first electrode. The conductive sheath 16 covers a selected region of the piezoelectric material and functions as a second electrode of the structure 10 of the piezoelectric material. The piezoelectric material is of barium titanate ceramic fiber, and the unleaded structure is attained. The wire structure of the piezoelectric material is polarized at low polarization voltages and at low temperature levels, and the required voltage for mechanical operation is also lower. When used as an electric power generating device, the wire structure of the piezoelectric material supplies electric power to a tire electronic equipment component, such as a rotation speed counter.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006346069-A (JP)
Title: Dishwasher
Inventor: OHASHI TATSUNARI
IPC: A47L15/46
Filed: 2005-06-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dishwasher capable of accurately detecting abnormal production of bubbles in an early stage.  <P>SOLUTION: A first float 74 is a float of large buoyancy to bubbles and a second float 80 is a float of small buoyancy to the bubbles. A magnet 78 is attached to the upper part of the first float 74 and a lead switch 84 is attached to the upper part of the second float 80. When the bubbles are not produced in washing water, positional relation for exerting magnetic force of the magnet 78 to the lead switch 84 (positional relation that the height of the magnet 78 and the height of the lead switch 84 overlap even partially) is attained, and the lead switch 84 is turned on. When the bubbles are abnormally produced in the washing water, a height difference is generated between the two floats 74 and 80, the positional relation for not exerting magnetic force to the lead switch 84 (positional relation that the height of the magnet 78 and the height of the lead switch 84 are completely shifted) is attained, and the lead switch 84 is turned off.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006346704-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing nut
Inventor: KATO HIROYASU
IPC: F16B37/02
Filed: 2005-06-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a nut, by which the nut can be manufactured from a metallic material having a thickness thinner than the length of a female screw, and can suppress an unnecessary waste of a material.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing the nut comprises thickness increasing steps (a) to (c) for increasing the thickness of a metallic material 10 around a through-hole 11 formed therein by enlarging the diameter of the through-hole 11 by press work, and a female screw forming step for forming a female screw on the inside peripheral surface of the through-hole 11 enlarged in the thickness increasing steps. In the thickness increasing steps, the outside peripheral surface of the metallic material 10 is bound by means of a press die so as not to deform the outside peripheral shape of the metallic material 10. Further, in the thickness increasing steps, the portion around the through-hole 11 in one surface (a punch side surface 13) of the metallic material 10 is heaved by press work, and the other surface (a die side surface 12) of the metallic material 10 is restrained by means of the press die so as to become a flat surface.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2006020302-A (JP)
Title: System and method for link quality routing using weighted cumulative expected transmission time metric
Inventor: ZILL BRIAN D
IPC: H04L12/56
Filed: 2005-06-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and method for link quality routing using a weighted cumulative expected transmission time path metric.  <P>SOLUTION: A system for routing in a multi-hop ad hoc network, and a method for measuring the link quality of a route in the network, include assignment of a weight to a link in accordance with an expected transmission time of a packet over the link, and a combining of individual link weights for a route into a path metric. The path metric accounts for interference among links that uses a shared channel. In the calculation of the path metric, the expected transmission times of links that interfere with one another are added, while the expected transmission times for non-interfering links are considered separately.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006350171-A (JP)
Title: Display device and light emitting device
Inventor: HASHIMOTO SATOSHI
IPC: G03B21/00
Filed: 2005-06-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a projector, other display devices and a light emitting device achieving the improvement of the image quality of a projected video by performing illumination corresponding to a plurality of areas to be illuminated with a simple illumination system.  <P>SOLUTION: The display device is equipped with a liquid crystal panel 61 having an effective area 73 and constituting an optical modulator to modulate illuminating light made incident on the effective area 73; a light emitting device 22 having a plurality of light emitting areas (for example, three light emitting body layers (31a, 31b and 31c)) having nearly similar external shape corresponding to the external shape of a plurality of effective image modulation areas (73a, 73b and 73c) set in the effective area 73 and capable of emitting light and turning off the light; and a critical illumination system setting luminous flux by the light emission of the light emitting device 22 as the illuminating light and making it incident on the effective image modulation areas (73a, 73b and 73c) in the effective area 73 of the liquid crystal panel 61.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2005278655-A (JP)
Title: Seedling planter
Inventor: KATO SATORU
IPC: A01C11/02
Filed: 2005-06-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a seedling planter solving the problem that since a conventional pot seedling planter of multirow planting style has many seedling stands for respective rows arranged transversely, operations for these seedling stands are difficult to be made.  <P>SOLUTION: The seedling planter includes seedling stands 11 for putting thereon pot seedling cases each with pots arranged at given intervals, seedling case guides 2 of U-shape seen sideways for guiding the pot seedling cases fed from the seedling stand 11, and an unloading device 13 for unload and convey the pot seedling cases each pitch through the guide path of each of the seedling case guides 2, wherein the seedling stands 11 and the seedling case guides 2 are arranged transversely so as to provide spacings A therebetween. In this seedling planter, a seedling feed lever 53 enabling the pot seedling cases to be unloaded by manually operating an unloader 13 is furnished for each of the seedling case guides 2 at a position shifted toward the left or right end of the spacing A, and steps 51 fixed on the rear end of the vehicle body and situated at only the spacings A without overlapping on the seedling stands 11 and the seedling case guides 2 when viewed from the top are provided at the respective centers of the spacings A in the transverse direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI