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Patent JP-2004176337-A (JP)
Title: Planar heating element for snow melting apparatus
Inventor: KAJIURA TOMOAKI
IPC: E01H5/10
Filed: 2002-11-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a planar heating element for a snow melting apparatus for effectively using the quantity of snow melting heat for melting snow, and to provide the snow melting apparatus.  <P>SOLUTION: The planar heating element has a heating means 7 for supplying the quantity of heat for melting snow, a surface plate 8 heated by the heating means 7, and support members 9, 10 for supporting the surface plate 8. The surface plate 8 is at least partially formed in downward inclined shape toward the end faces with respect to an approximate plane. Snow is thereby melted on the surface plate 8, and melted snow water is automatically drained along the inclination by the own shape of the surface plate 8. The quantity of heat for melting snow can be effectively used for melting snow without needing to use the quantity of heat for the prevention of refreezing.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004073818-A (JP)
Title: Toilet seat device
Inventor: FURUKAWA HIDEKI
IPC: A47K13/00
Filed: 2002-11-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a toilet lid in the upright position from getting higher than a low tank.  <P>SOLUTION: The toilet lid 13 is divided into a front toilet lid 14 and a rear toilet lid 15, and the rear toilet lid 15 is joined to be operated with the front toilet lid 14.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004177821-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus
Inventor: YONEMOTO SATORU
IPC: G03G15/00
Filed: 2002-11-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus having a mechanism of easily performing a jamming processing in order to solve such a failure that it is very difficult to remove a jammed recording sheet when the recording sheet is jammed between a recording sheet storing means arranged on the upstream side in the recording sheet conveying direction and the conveying guide, as to the image forming apparatus wherein the recording sheet storing means are arranged in parallel under a reconveying path for reconveying the recording sheet to an image forming part so as to transfer images on both sides of the sheet after forming and transferring an image on one side of the sheet and reversing the image-transferred side of the recording sheet.  <P>SOLUTION: The conveying guide for guiding the recording sheet fed from the recording sheet storing means arranged on the upstream side in the recording sheet conveying means and making the recording sheet join to the conveying path of the recording sheet fed from the recording sheet storing means arranged on the downstream side in the recording sheet conveying direction is arranged under the reconveying path, and the conveying guide and the recording sheet storing means arranged on the upstream side of the recording sheet conveying direction can be pulled out together in a right angle direction to the recording sheet conveying direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004178490-A (JP)
Title: Numerical value information search device
Inventor: SASAKI MIKI
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a numerical value information search device capable of searching numerical value information without minding a notation or a unit system.  <P>SOLUTION: The device comprises an input means 1 which inputs a document to be searched or a quantitative expression desired to be searched, an attribute information dictionary 3 which stores therein an attribute name which represents an attribute and conditions for imparting the attribute, an attribute imparting means 2 which imparts the attribute to the input document or quantitative expression with reference to the attribute information dictionary, a conversion information dictionary 5 which stores therein the attribute name which represents the attribute, a pre-conversion character string and a post-conversion character string, and a quantitative conversion means 4 which converts a quantity of the attribute-imparted portion from the pre-conversion character string to the post-conversion character string with reference to the conversion dictionary information for the attribute-imparted document or numerical expression, thereby converting the numerical value information on the attribute-imparted portion.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004184150-A (JP)
Title: Magnetic detecting device, direction detection system, and portable communication terminal
Inventor: KO TAIKO
IPC: H01L43/08
Filed: 2002-12-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small-sized, light, and high-sensitivity magnetic detecting device.  <P>SOLUTION: The flowing direction of a detecting current which is caused to flow in a magnetoresistance element 2 to detect a change in current as a change in a magnetic field, is switched alternately by a current polarity switchover means 9. By finding the average value of output voltage values detected by a voltage detecting means 8 when detecting currents are caused to flow in individual directions, a magnetic field can be detected reducing an error caused by the influence by a magnetic field generated by the detecting current, and improvement of the sensitivity of magnetic field detection is realized without using any external coils.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004182658-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing alicyclic tetracarboxylic acid
Inventor: SUZUKI HIDEO
IPC: C07C51/23
Filed: 2002-12-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an industrial manufacturing method which permits ready management of temperature control by improving reaction conditions into milder ones, increases the yield of the aimed product as the result of suppression of by-products, decreases by-produced NO<SB>2</SB>gas generation, and causes no contamination with impurity metals in the aimed product.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing 1,2,4-tricarboxy-3-carboxymethylcyclopentane (TCMP) represented by formula [2] comprises oxidizing a hydroxydicyclopentadiene represented by formula [1] by nitric acid in the absence of a catalyst in the presence of a solvent (for example, 1,2-dichloroethane and the like).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004185408-A (JP)
Title: Circulation device
Inventor: KATAGISHI YUICHI
IPC: G06F1/00
Filed: 2002-12-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a circulation device changing the information to be provided according to persons to be circulated.  <P>SOLUTION: A circulating device 1 is provided with an information display part 2 and fingerprint input part 3A and 3B. An information display part 2 is constituted of a display device using an electronic paper technology or a liquid crystal display panel or the like to display information such as images or text. The fingerprint input parts 3A and 3B are configured to input the fingerprints of a browser from at least one of the fingerprint input parts 3A and 3B when the circulating device 1 is gripped by the browser of the circulating device 1 with his or her fingers. The circulating device 1 identifies the browser and displays the different information at an information display part 2 according to the identification result. The identification of the browser is made by detecting his or her fingerprints.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004190058-A (JP)
Title: Method of separating and refining iridium
Inventor: ASANO SATOSHI
IPC: C22B3/46
Filed: 2002-12-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of selectively and securely separating only iridium from an aqueous solution containing iridium and accompanying elements and refining it even if any platinum group element and the other accompanying elements are coexistent.  <P>SOLUTION: The method of separating and refining iridium comprises: a reduction precipitating stage where, as a reducing agent, a metal with a standard single electrode potential (based on a standard hydrogen electrode) of 0 to 0.5 V is added to an aqueous solution containing iridium and accompanying elements, and contact reaction is caused to remove the resultant precipitates; and a crystallization refining stage where the obtained mother liquor is subjected to oxidation treatment, and thereafter, alkali salt is added thereto to separate iridium as crystalline precipitates.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003338528-A (JP)
Title: Cof film carrier tape manufacturing method
Inventor: SAKATA MASARU
IPC: H01L21/60
Filed: 2002-12-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a COF film carrier tape manufacturing method for improving the reliability and productivity of an IC chip mounting line without the thermal fusion bonding of an insulation layer to a heating tool and stage.  <P>SOLUTION: There is provided the manufacturing method for the COF film carrier tape equipped with an insulation layer 12 and an interconnection pattern patterned with a conductive layer 11 laminated in one side of the insulation layer 12. A process is included in which a mold release agent layer 13 formed on a transcriptional film 14 is transcribed in the insulation layer 12.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004165109-A (JP)
Title: Luminaire with human detection sensor
Inventor: MORI TOMOTERU
IPC: F21Y103/02
Filed: 2002-11-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a luminaire, wherein when a person wakes up for going to wash the person's hands or doing minor things in a bedroom or at other places at night, a security lamp is lit by detecting the person, thereby improving the safety of the person's steps up to the exit of the bedroom and preventing the person from waking up from physiological sleep due to being none too bright as would be the case with the lighting of a main lighting lamp.  <P>SOLUTION: The lighting fitting comprises the main lighting lamp 4, the security lamp 5 whose light output is lower than that of the main lighting lamp 4, a switching means for switching stepwise the states of lighting of the main lighting lamp 4/lighting of the security lamp 5/all lights-out to a predetermined state, a human detection sensor 2 for detecting the change of the amount of infrared rays, and a forced stepping means for forcing the switching means to step to the state of lighting of the security lamp 5, when a detecting signal is output from the human detection sensor 2 in the state of all lights-out.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004201043-A (JP)
Title: Personal digital assistant
Inventor: HONJO MASATO
IPC: G06F21/10
Filed: 2002-12-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent internal data of a personal digital assistant (PDA) from leaking without fail.  <P>SOLUTION: When a data leakage prevention signal from outside is received by a communication means 100, an operation of either deletion of data inside a data storage means 130, prohibition of reading of the data inside the data storage means, or prohibition of display or output of the data inside the data storage means is selected and executed by the data leakage preventing means 180 in the PDA 10 in accordance with the data leakage prevention signal. The data leakage preventing means for executing either the data deletion, the prohibition of reading data, or the prohibition of display or output of the data can be mounted on the PDA or can be downloaded and executed when the necessity arises.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003276410-A (JP)
Title: Tire condition monitoring device
Inventor: OKUBO YOICHI
IPC: B60C23/04
Filed: 2002-12-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tire condition monitoring device allowing easy registration of an ID code of a transmitter in a receiver.  <P>SOLUTION: When the ID code of the transmitter 3 is registered in the receiver 4, a commander 5 connected to the receiver 4 via a cable 6 is first moved close to the desired transmitter 3. Then, an operation switch 7 of the commander 5 is depressed. Thereby, a command signal is transmitted from the commander 5 to the transmitter 3 and the turned-on state of the operation switch 7 is transferred to the receiver 4 via the cable 6. The transmitter 3 transmits a response signal including the ID code by wireless, depending on the command signal. Receiving the response signal from the transmitter in the condition of the turned-on state of the operation switch 7 being transmitted, the receiver 4 stores the ID code in the received response signal.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003271829-A (JP)
Title: System for automatic bill payment and method therefor
Inventor: EDEN GUY
IPC: G06Q20/14
Filed: 2002-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for paying an amount of a bill automatically.  <P>SOLUTION: In this system, the received bill is scanned, an access is made to a standard template library (STL), a bill template from STL is compared with the received bill, each parameter is read from each data region on the received bill, the bill template is used to distinguish each data region, and payment is transmitted by corresponding to each parameter. Usually, an account number, a service provider address, term of payment, and an amount to be paid are pointed out as each parameter.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004202288-A (JP)
Title: Air blow device and air blow method
Inventor: HORI HIDEKI
IPC: B05B1/14
Filed: 2002-12-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air blow device which reduces the consumption of compressed air and enables a fine adjustment and reproduction of a flow rate, and also provide an air blow method.  <P>SOLUTION: A nozzle 20 is arranged so that a blowing port 24 may be arranged to be adjacent to but not in contact with an air blow object 1 and the blowing port 24 may be arranged to be obliquely opposite to the conveying direction of the air blowing object 1. A plurality of small pores 22 are lined up in the direction of the width of the air blow object 1. Air blowing out from the small pores, which are the neighbors to each other, is overlapped slightly on the air blow object 1. The air blowing out from the blowing port 24 is deviated slightly from both sides of the direction of the width of the air blow object 1. The effective cross-sectional area S<SB>1</SB>of a pipe 32 connecting a pressure-reducing valve 30 with the nozzle 20 and the totaled effective cross-sectional area S<SB>2</SB>of the plurality of the small pores have a relation represented by an equation of 2S<SB>2</SB>≤S<SB>1</SB>≤3S<SB>2</SB>.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004201873-A (JP)
Title: Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and program
Inventor: IMAI YASUHIRO
IPC: G06T1/00
Filed: 2002-12-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To acquire many-sided and useful information regarding the medical treatment of aneurysm or the like.  <P>SOLUTION: The central point 0 of a CT cross section of a blood vessel part is determined from a CT tomographic image of the blood vessel. Then, a blood vessel part central line C is formed by interpolating an area from the central point 01 to 0n of respective adjacent blood vessel part CT cross sections with a smooth curve in a first step. A blood vessel part vertical section which is vertical to the central line C is formed for each micronic zone of the central line C, and at the same time, the contour shape of the blood vessel vertical section is approximated with a polygonal shape in a second step. The length of the blood vessel wall is determined by accumulate-adding micro distances which are determined for spaces between respective apices of the adjacent polygonal cross sections in a third step. This image processing method comprises those three steps.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003263139-A (JP)
Title: Liquid crystal driving device
Inventor: DATE YOSHITO
IPC: G09G3/20
Filed: 2002-12-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To lighten the load capacity of a data bus and to lower power consumption in a data bus and at the same time to enhance a data transfer rate by separating a bus for latching data and a bus for transferring data inside a liquid crystal driving device in a cascade-connected liquid crystal driving device.  <P>SOLUTION: In this liquid crystal driving device, a selector is provided for separating the bus for latching data and the bus for transferring data, so that only a bus in operation is caused to operate while a bus in standby is fixed at an L or at an H to be brought into an operation stop state. Thus, it becomes possible to lower power consumption in the data bus and to speed up the data transfer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004206392-A (JP)
Title: Power unit assembly system for automobile
Inventor: TAKAHASHI NAOTO
IPC: B62D65/18
Filed: 2002-12-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automobile assembly system for eliminating the necessity to plan the production of power units, and solving the problem wherein the stock of the power units is held.  <P>SOLUTION: In the power unit assembly system for an automobile, vehicle body information of a vehicle body 31 being conveyed in order is read at a predetermined reading point in a vehicle body assembly line 2. A power unit assembly order plan for assembling the corresponding power unit 32 for the automobile in an automobile power unit assembly line 6 is generated based on the read vehicle body information. Then power unit assembly indicating information is generated on the basis of the generated power unit assembly order plan, and provided to the automobile power unit assembly line 6. Thus, the power unit 32 for the automobile is assembled in the power unit assembly line 6 in response to the specification of the vehicle body 31 which is actually produced and assembled in the vehicle body assembly line 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004206801-A (JP)
Title: Optical pickup device and its assembling method
Inventor: AKINAGA AKIRA
IPC: G11B7/08
Filed: 2002-12-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup device which can position the optical components in an optical path length direction with high accuracy and efficiently and its assembling method.  <P>SOLUTION: The optical pickup device is equipped with a housing 10, optical components which are mounted in the housing 10 and which can perform irradiation with a laser beam and/or can detect the laser beam and a mounting means which is prepared in optical component mounting position of the housing 10 and which makes the optical components to be mounted directly in the housing 10. The mounting means is equipped with an elastic shock absorber 14 which protects end part elements of the laser beam irradiation side and/or the laser beam receiving side of the optical components at the time of mounting optical components in the housing 10 and at the time of the positioning of the components in an optical length direction (Z direction).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004204573-A (JP)
Title: Method of preventing liquefaction of ground
Inventor: MIYAKE NORIJI
IPC: E02D27/34
Filed: 2002-12-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize an effective method of preventing liquefaction with excellent reliability obtaining sufficient liquefaction preventing effect.  <P>SOLUTION: An underground water level is lowered by pumping up underground water from the ground 3 to be prevented from liquefaction, and the ground is put in an unsaturated state by injecting water 6 with a large quantity of dissolved air into the ground to recover the underground water level. The pumped-up underground water is aerated to enhance the quantity of dissolved air, and injected into the ground. Pumping of underground water from the ground and injection of water with the large quantity of dissolved air into the ground are performed at the same time. Injection of water with the large quantity of dissolved air into the ground is performed by infiltrating the water into the ground from a ground surface part. While measuring the degree of saturation of the ground, pumping of underground and injection of water with the large quantity of dissolved air are repeated until the degree of saturation reaches a prescribed set value. While monitoring the degree of saturation of the ground, pumping of the underground water and injection of water with the large quantity of dissolved air are performed based on the result to maintain the degree of saturation to the set value.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004213945-A (JP)
Title: Fuel cell system
Inventor: TAJIMA KAZUHIRO
IPC: H01M8/04
Filed: 2002-12-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell system equipped with a fuel cell, an auxiliary machine necessary for operating the fuel cell, and a computer for controlling the operation state of the auxiliary machine, and capable of reducing a stop time as much as possible.  <P>SOLUTION: This fuel cell system 10 includes the fuel cell 12 and a reformer 14, and is provided with pumps (or blowers or motors) 16a-16c, 18a-18b and 24a-24b for supplying a raw fuel gas, air or pure water to them. The pumps are subjected to feedback control for flow control with the computer (not shown); a control output value like, for instance, a PWM value is indicated to each pump (auxiliary machine) for the feedback control thereof; a time until the auxiliary machine is brought into an uncontrollable state is estimated based on the control output value; a remaining life time is estimated from it; and an alert is allowed to be issued when the remaining life time exceeds a set remaining life time. Since a component for repairing the auxiliary machine can be ordered early in response to the alert, the stop time of the fuel cell system can remarkably be reduced as compared with the case where the repair component is ordered after a failure occurs.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004031892-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing semiconductor device using amorphous carbon
Inventor: KAWAMURA EIICHI
IPC: G03F7/11
Filed: 2002-12-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for selectively etching or almost completely peeling a carbon film against a resist film.  <P>SOLUTION: An amorphous carbon film 46 is formed on a substrate on which a film to be patterned is formed. A resist pattern 47 is formed on the surface of the amorphous carbon film. At least one gas of a group configured of gas containing reducing fluoride gas, halogen gas, and oxygen is used, and the substrate is heated at 70°C to 450°C, and the amorphous carbon film in an area which is not covered with any resist pattern is removed by dry etching.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004210480-A (JP)
Title: Discharge mechanism for paper sheet handling device
Inventor: IMAI ATSUYASU
IPC: B65H5/06
Filed: 2002-12-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a discharge mechanism for a paper sheet handling device allowing an operator to remove a jammed paper sheet from an operation side, and allowing a guide plate to move in a direction for separating from a feed roller to take out the jammed paper sheet in a carrying direction of a carrying means.  <P>SOLUTION: The guide plate 4 of the carrying means D formed of the feed roller 1 and the guide plate 4 having an arc-like guide part is pivotally supported by an inside frame 6 of a main body casing A at a lower end thereof, and guided by a swing guide groove 18 of a slider 17 to be guided by the guide part of the frame 6 freely to slide at a required position in a back surface. The slider 17 is energized by the downward elastic force, and the guide part 19 positioned in an upper end of the rock guide groove 18 at a lowering end thereof and projected toward the top surface in an upper part thereof is made to abut on the back surface of the guide plate 4 freely to separate, and a knob 20 projected toward the top surface in a lower part thereof is guided upward and downward through the guide plate 4, and while a pushing upper end of the knob 20 is positioned.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI