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Patent JP-2004343509-A (JP)
Title: System, apparatus, and method for radio communication, and computer program
Inventor: SUGAYA SHIGERU
IPC: H04L12/28
Filed: 2003-05-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a proper ad hoc network while preventing an interference between communication stations, in a communication environment where a plurality channel are prepared.  <P>SOLUTION: In building the ad hoc network while using the plurality channels, for judging which radio communication apparatus is housed in which channel, scanning operation is periodically applied to the plurality of channels at a predetermined period, informations about the timing of performing the scanning operation and the channels are notified by a beacon signal to notify all surrounding radio communication apparatuses about the utilization states of all the channels. If data communication is required during the period, a channel being used for the scanning operation is used to perform the communication.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004343924-A (JP)
Title: On-vehicle inverter device
Inventor: NISHI YASUHIKO
IPC: B60L50/15
Filed: 2003-05-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an on-vehicle inverter device capable of efficiently utilizing heat generated by an inverter as electric energy.  <P>SOLUTION: This on-vehicle inverter device is provided with a motor 7 for driving a vehicle; an inverter 4 that supplies prescribed electric power to the motor 7; a cooling mechanism 5 for the inverter 4; and a thermoelectric generating element 6 that is thermally connected to both the inverter 4 and the cooling mechanism 5 and that uses the inverter 4 at the high-temperature side, and the cooling mechanism 5 at the low-temperature side. By thermally connecting the thermoelectric generating element 6 in such a configuration that the inverter 4 is put at the high-temperature side and the cooling mechanism 5 at the low-temperature side, electric power can be generated using a temperature difference between the inverter 4 and the cooling mechanism 5, and this generated electric power can be outputted as usable electric energy.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004340076-A (JP)
Title: Drive mechanism, control method thereof and hybrid vehicle
Inventor: KATSUTA KOJI
IPC: B60L50/16
Filed: 2003-05-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent damage of a drive circuit used in starting an internal combustion engine and to start the internal combustion engine more surely and more quickly.  <P>SOLUTION: When cranking of an engine fails by a heating fail signal that is turned on when temperature of a switching element of an inverter driving a starter motor gets close to an upper limit of allowable temperature (S140), drive of the starter motor is stopped. After predetermined period of time set to a longer one of time required for cooling temperature of the switching element of the inverter and time required for returning a crank position of the engine to a normal stop position passes (S180), cranking of the engine is re-started. Consequently, the switching element of the inverter is prevented from damage due to overheat and cranking in engine re-start can be done more surely.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004338678-A (JP)
Title: Pedestrian protection device
Inventor: SUGANUMA HIROSHI
IPC: B60R21/34
Filed: 2003-05-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pedestrian protection device formed to be small-sized and lightweight, capable of alleviating an impact to a pedestrian hit by a vehicle and protecting the pedestrian from a projection or the like formed on an outer face of the vehicle.  <P>SOLUTION: The pedestrian protection device 100 is provided with a lid 11 mounted to an opening 2a formed in a front hood 2 of the vehicle 1 so as to be freely opened and closed and an airbag 14 housed under the lid 11, and protects the pedestrian 30 hit by the vehicle 1 with the expanded and developed airbag 14. An impact absorbing part 12 is formed on a backside of the lid 1 to absorb the impact applied to the pedestrian 30, and the impact applied to the pedestrian 30 is alleviated with the impact absorbing part 12 and the expanded and developed airbag 14 in a state of the lid 1 being opened.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004347337-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for evaluating characteristic of heterogeneous substance
Inventor: TANAKA HAJIME
IPC: G01N21/27
Filed: 2003-05-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and accurately evaluate various kinds of characteristics of a heterogeneous substance, such as colloidal dispersion, especially, dynamic characteristics.  <P>SOLUTION: First single wavelength light and second one are allowed to enter a specific heterogeneous substance, and are allowed to cross in the heterogeneous substance to form traveling interference fringes, where fringes travel at the differential frequency between the first single frequency and the second one. Then, third wavelength light is allowed to enter the traveling interference fringes for scattering, and the obtained scattered light is detected to evaluate the characteristics of the heterogeneous substance.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004345506-A (JP)
Title: Heat shielding structure of motor-bicycle
Inventor: HATA YASUO
IPC: B62J23/00
Filed: 2003-05-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To protect a fuel tank and on-vehicle apparatuses such as a battery, etc. arranged in the rear thereof from radiant heat of an engine and an exhaust pipe with a simple and inexpensive structure.  <P>SOLUTION: An air intake device 17 set above the V type engine 15 with cylinders 26F, 26R arranged in the front and the rear is disposed in such a way as to cover a space between the front and rear cylinders 26F, 26R of the V type engine 15 and to cover up the front cylinder 26F, and a heat shielding plate 54 to cover up at least the rear cylinder 26R and the exhaust pipe 34 of the rear cylinder 26R of the V type engine 15 by extending forward in a hood manner from a front part of a rear fender 23 is provided. The heat shielding plate 54 is fitted in a front surface lower part of a battery holder 40 provided on the front part of the rear fender 23.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004350061-A (JP)
Title: Image processing apparatus
Inventor: MASUDA TATSUO
IPC: G06T5/30
Filed: 2003-05-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce costs of an image processing apparatus by reducing the capacity of an image data storage means in the image processing apparatus for converting a shot image into a contour image.  <P>SOLUTION: The image processing apparatus 21 generates a binarized contour image from an original image outputted from an image-taking section 2 and then stores the generated image in a storage means 20. A line buffer 8 that is provided between an image-taking interface 2a and a contour extracting means 3 stores only data of 3 lines required for contour image generation. The contour extracting means 3 generates contour image data by differential processing to send the result to a binarizing means 4. A binarizing means 4 binarizes the data and then writes data of eight pixels in the storage means 20 as 1 byte data. Among the original image data, a processing target region is selected and specified and further throughput is reduced by reading in curtailed pixel data, thus reducing the capacity of the storage means.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004346650-A (JP)
Title: Handrail
Inventor: HORIICHI KOJI
IPC: A47K4/00
Filed: 2003-05-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a handrail which has a soft surface so that the user does not fail to grip the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The handrail is formed of a core 1, a cover layer 3, and an elastically deformable cushioning layer 4 interposed between the core and the cover layer. Specifically the cushioning layer 4 has a plurality of axially extending space portions 4a arranged therein in a circumferential direction, and an outer surface of the cushioning layer is covered with the cover layer 3 made of a soft synthetic resin. Therefore when the user grips the handrail, the soft cover layer 3 can collapse to be contracted and deformed according to the space portions 4a of the cushioning layer 4.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004313705-A (JP)
Title: Air purifier having effects of sterilization by ultraviolet ray irradiation, photocatalytic deodorant with inner cylinder having vertical, horizontal or slant partition
Inventor: KANO TERUHIKO
IPC: A61L9/20
Filed: 2003-04-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the effect by increasing the ultraviolet ray irradiation area and the air contact area in the simultaneous operation of the sterilization by the ultraviolet rays and the deodorization by irradiating the surface coated with a deodorant with the ultraviolet rays.  <P>SOLUTION: A vertical, horizontal or slant partition 7 is installed in an ultraviolet ray irradiation sterilization chamber 6 to increase the contact area with the air and the wall surface of the chamber is coated with a photocatalytic deodorant 11 and irradiated with the ultraviolet rays to diversify the stream 12 of the air. This can increase the ultraviolet ray irradiation area and the air contact area thereby enhancing the effect.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004005684-A (JP)
Title: Data converter, network system provided with data converter and data transmitting method
Inventor: SHIMADA TAKAO
IPC: H04N7/01
Filed: 2003-05-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To adjust the amount of data received by a client without changing a system configuration such as a function of a server.  <P>SOLUTION: A data converter is provided with an information input means for receiving input information comprising at least a kind of data and an instruction indicating that the data are objects for data conversion when the data are objects for data amount conversion, a data analysis means discriminating the kind of the data corresponding to the instruction constituting the input information and extracting the data corresponding to the kind of the data, a control means converting the amount of the extracted data according to a predetermined rule corresponding to the kind of data, an information constituting means replacing the converted data among the input information with data before conversion to reconstruct the input information, and an output means outputting the reconstructed information.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004345588-A (JP)
Title: Mirror control device
Inventor: TOKUTOME TETSUO
IPC: B60R1/06
Filed: 2003-05-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mirror control device capable of omitting the initial setting and being mounted in any type of vehicle without a tuning process.  <P>SOLUTION: The mirror control device 10 as one embodiment of the invention is equipped with a current sensing means 26 to sense the lock current flowing in a motor, a brush noise sensing means 28 to sense the brush noise generated by the motor operation, and a noise storing means 22 to count the sensed noises and store, and when the mirror is moved from its normal position to the down facing inclined position, the number of noised generated is stored by the noise storing means 22, and judgement is made that the mirror has reached the down facing inclined position from the lock current of the motor sensed by the current sensing means 26, and when the mirror is returned from the down facing inclined position to the normal position, the motor is rotated in the reverse direction on the basis of the number of noises stored in the noise storing means 22 so that the mirror is moved to the normal position.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004353167-A (JP)
Title: Snow melting system
Inventor: MISAWA TAKASHI
IPC: E01C11/26
Filed: 2003-05-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a snow melting system which is inexpensive, and extremely easy in the installation work.  <P>SOLUTION: A heating body 3 formed of a semiconductor heat generating element is installed on a tabular base plate 2 such as an asphalt, etc. Electric charge from a solar cell 4 is supplied to the heating body 3 through an electric double layer condenser 5 to actuate the heating body 3 through a controller 6 by signals from a temperature sensor 7. Thereby, a self-contained type snow-melting device without external electric source and connecting wires therefor can be obtained.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004156136-A (JP)
Title: Method for preventing elution of lead and nickel from copper alloy piping material such as valve and pipe joint and the copper alloy piping material
Inventor: SUGAYA TETSUKAZU
IPC: C23G1/10
Filed: 2003-05-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for preventing elution of nickel by reliably removing nickel attached to the inner surface of a piping material, efficiently (with respect to treating temperature, treating time, etc.) preventing elution of lead and/or nickel, neutralizing various kinds of fluid used for elution prevention and utilizing the neutralized fluids as industrial water, which leads to great reduction of the cost and to realization of sufficient environment-friendliness.  <P>SOLUTION: In a method for preventing elution of lead and nickel from a copper alloy piping material such as valves and pipe joints, at least a liquid-contact portion of a copper alloy piping material having lead and/or nickel is cleaned with cleaning liquid of nitric acid with hydrochloric acid added thereto as a inhibitor under the conditions of the treating temperature and the treating time for effectively removing lead and/or nickel, a film is deposited on a surface of the liquid-contact portion with hydrochloric acid, and the surface layer of the liquid-contact portion is effectively subjected to de-lead and/or de-nickel thereby.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004355946-A (JP)
Title: Square shape contact sensor
Inventor: HARADA KAZUMASA
IPC: H01H13/52
Filed: 2003-05-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contact type safety sensor in which sensitivity of a switch is improved, detection is immediately made when it contacts a human body, and a large impact is not inflicted on the human body.  <P>SOLUTION: This is a square shape contact sensor 1 in which mutually opposed two sheets of electrode plates 5, 9 are arranged in a state of having a space via a spacer 7, and in the square shape contact sensor 1 having a corner part 3 in which a current flows by the contact of the two sheets of electrode plates at pressing, the two sheets of the electrode plates are continued at the corner part 3, and the electrode plate on the side depressed by the corner part 3 can bend freely.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004351794-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing resin-coated temple for glasses
Inventor: TAKEDA KINJI
IPC: G02C5/14
Filed: 2003-05-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing resin-coated temples which can efficiently produce resin-coated temples excellent in decorative properties by injection molding while reducing costs.  <P>SOLUTION: An intermediate resin-coated part 12 is formed by applying first injection molding to the intermediate part 11 of the part 7 to be coated with a resin of a temple rod 5. After that, the front and rear parts of the part 7 are housed in the mold holes 29 and 30 of molds 26 and 27, and second injection molding is applied to the mold holes 29 and 30. In the second injection molding, the formed resin-coated part 12 and a part 31 in front of the part 7 are held by holders 21, respectively.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004351579-A (JP)
Title: Deburring device and method
Inventor: AOSHIMA MATSUHISA
IPC: B23H9/02
Filed: 2003-05-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suitably remove a burr of a conductive workpiece while reducing heat input to the workpiece.  <P>SOLUTION: In this deburring device 10 for removing the burr by discharging electricity between an electrode rod 11 and the burr K of the metal workpiece W, a low voltage is applied between the electrode rod and the metal workpiece, the electrode rod and the burr are continuously abutted and separated by continuously rotating the electrode rod by an electric motor, and the burr is removed by electricity discharged when the electrode rod is separated after abutted with the burr.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004062155-A (JP)
Title: Exposure head and exposure device
Inventor: SUNAKAWA HIROSHI
IPC: H01L21/027
Filed: 2003-05-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control a beam spot exposing the objective surface for exposure into a desired spot diameter without producing stray light or decreasing efficiency of light.  <P>SOLUTION: The exposure head 166 has a micro field lens array 72 disposed on the imaging plane of the micromirror of a DMD (digital micromirror device) 50 by a lens system 54, 58. Microlenses 74 are two-dimensionally arranged in the lens array 72 to correspond to the respective micromirrors in the DMD 50. A micro imaging lens array 76 is disposed at the backward focal position of the first microlens 74, and microlenses 78 are two-dimensionally arranged in the lens array 76 to correspond to the respective microlenses 74 in the microlens array 72. The exposure head 166 projects the real image of the micromirror in a minute size imaged by the second microlens 78 as the beam spot onto the objective surface 56 for exposure through the lens system 80, 82 to expose the surface 56.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004354023-A (JP)
Title: Cooling device
Inventor: YAMAZAKI HARUHISA
IPC: F25B1/00
Filed: 2003-05-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooling device having improved cooling performance while avoiding abnormal temperature rise on the high pressure side.  <P>SOLUTION: The cooling device comprises a refrigerant circuit using carbon dioxide as refrigerant, a microcomputer 80 as a control device for controlling the rotating number of a compressor 10 between the minimum rotating number and the maximum rotating number as preset, and an inside temperature sensor 91 for detecting the cooled condition of the inside of a refrigerating equipment body 105 cooled by an evaporator 92 in the refrigerant circuit. The microcomputer 80 increases the maximum rotating number of the compressor 10 when the inside temperature of the refrigerating equipment body 105 seized by the inside temperature sensor 91 is lower.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004363248-A (JP)
Title: Thermophotovoltaic power plant
Inventor: HOKOI KOJI
IPC: H01L31/04
Filed: 2003-06-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermophotovoltaic power plant which raises the generating efficiency by suppressing an influence of a temperature distribution of a combustion gas to the minimum and/or effectively utilizing a luminescence from a combustion chamber.  <P>SOLUTION: The thermophotovoltaic power plant transduces a radiating light from a light emitting substance heated by the combustion gas into electric power with a photoelectric transducer (photovoltaic element). The thermophotovoltaic power plant has the light emitting substances each having luminescent properties suitable for a combustion gas temperature of each part at a plurality of the parts on a course of the combustion gas. In this case, the photoelectric transducer having a power generation wavelength region corresponding to a wavelength of the radiating light from each light emitting substance is desirably provided oppositely to the light emitting substance of each part. In the thermophotovoltaic power plant for transducing the radiating light from the light emitting substance heated by the combustion gas into electric power by the photoelectric transducer, the combustion chamber may be constituted of the same material as the light emitting substance.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004361617-A (JP)
Title: Display device
Inventor: TAKAO KOICHI
IPC: G09F13/20
Filed: 2003-06-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problems that the coverage area of the IR (infrared) remote controller is limited and a lot of labor and time to change the setting of the display contents is required when the display device is mounted at a high position such as a pole, in the conventional display device capable of changing the setting of display contents by a signal from an IR remote controller.  <P>SOLUTION: The display device is constituted so that a photodetecting unit 20 is provided with of a first unit 20a and a second unit 20b, the first unit 20a is provided with a photodetecting section 25 which receives the signal from the remote controller and a gear section 36, and the second unit is provided with a worm gear 32 and a worm wheel 33 and the worm wheel 33 is rotated by a driver 40, by which the first unit 20a is cooperatively rotated through the worm gear 32.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004358514-A (JP)
Title: Method for improving fatigue strength of punching surface
Inventor: SETO KOJI
IPC: B21D28/34
Filed: 2003-06-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for working a punched surface excellent in a fatigue strength.  <P>SOLUTION: When the punching work is applied to a metal plate by using a punch 2 and a die 3, this method for improving the fatigue strength on the punched surface is performed, with after punching out the metal plate by making a clearance between the punch and the die to 80-200% of the plate thickness, the indentation work is applied as 490-1,960 N/mm indentation amount per unit length at a hole edge by using the punch having not less than the punching hole diameter to the outer shape at least in the corner part on the back surface of the punching surface and 90-160° angle at the tip end part.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004358830-A (JP)
Title: Screen printing plate and its manufacturing method
Inventor: HAYASHI YOSHIMITSU
IPC: B41N1/24
Filed: 2003-06-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a screen printing plate capable of obtaining a good pattern shape without occurring of blurring of printing by the way of a rear side even when printing is continuously carried out, and to provide its manufacturing method.  <P>SOLUTION: For the screen printing plate composed of at least a plate frame, gauze and a plate film forming a printing pattern, the plate film comprises a metal, and a film having water repellency and/or oil repellency is provided on a surface to a material to be printed side of the metal. Herein, the film is composed of fluorine or silicon. Further, the film is provided on a side wall of a pattern opening side of the metal. Furthermore, the film is provided on a rear surface to a printed surface side of the metallic film, and its thickness shall be ≤5 μm.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005003757-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing dielectric film with controlled thickness, liquid crystal element and method for manufacturing liquid crystal element
Inventor: TAKESHIMA KAZUKI
IPC: G02F1/13
Filed: 2003-06-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a liquid crystal element which has no part with liquid crystal layer thickness being approximately zero and of which the retardation is effectively controlled with only a pair of electrodes.  <P>SOLUTION: The liquid crystal element which has a first transparent substrate, a first transparent electrode formed on the first transparent substrate, a transparent dielectric layer formed on at least a partial region of the first transparent electrode with thickness continuously varying corresponding to the position, a first alignment layer formed on a region including the part above the transparent dielectric layer, a second transparent substrate disposed opposite to the first transparent substrate, a second transparent electrode formed on a surface of the second transparent substrate opposite to the first transparent substrate, a second alignment layer formed on the second transparent electrode and the liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second alignment layers, is manufactured.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI