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Patent JP-2004218748-A (JP)
Title: Toroidal type continuously variable transmission
Inventor: ONO YOSHIHIRO
IPC: F16D1/06
Filed: 2003-01-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toroidal type continuously variable transmission of long service life capable of preventing disk cracks for a long time by mitigating specific stress concentration based on specific moment load.  <P>SOLUTION: The toroidal type continuously variable transmission comprises input and output shafts 3 and 6j having spline shaft parts 3a and 6k, and input and output disks having recessed track surfaces 5b and 6c with a power transmission roller 7 brought into rolling contact with a side thereof and having spline holes 5a and 6m to be fitted to the spline shaft parts 3a and 6k of the input and output shaft 3 and 6j at a rotational center part. The surface hardness of inner wall surfaces of the spline holes 5a and 6m is set to be substantially higher (about HRC 5-10) than the surface hardness on outer wall surfaces of the spline shaft parts 3a and 6k.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004252497-A (JP)
Title: Method and system for providing dish or drink in restaurant
Inventor: KUJIRADA MASANOBU
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2003-01-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method, system and program for providing a dish or drink, which enables to serve the next dish or drink so as to be matched to the progress of eating of an individual customer while reducing the personnel cost for waiters or waitresses.  <P>SOLUTION: This method for providing a dish or drink in a restaurant comprises an imaging step for imaging the dish or drink present on a table in the restaurant, and an image information providing step for providing the image information taken by the imaging means to the store side as the information to be used for determining the timing of inquiring for an additional request of service from the store side to the customer side. The system and program are adapted to realize such a method.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004221006-A (JP)
Title: Conductive paste
Inventor: NAKAJIMA NAOSHI
IPC: H01B1/22
Filed: 2003-01-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a conductive paste superior in adhesiveness to a substrate such as metal and polyimide, and superior in heat resistance and solvent resistance.  <P>SOLUTION: This conductive paste is composed of conductive powder, binder resin and organic solvent, and contains as the binder resin polyamideimide and/or polyimide of which at least one kind or more components selected from a group consisting of butadiene rubber, isoprene rubber, IIR, ethylene-propylene rubber, chloroprene rubber, fluororubber, silicone rubber, urethane rubber, polyester, polycarbonate, polyether, polylactone and dimer acid are copolymerized.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004221504-A (JP)
Title: Thermoelectric conversion device and its manufacturing method
Inventor: MORIYAMA SEISHI
IPC: H01L35/34
Filed: 2003-01-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermoelectric conversion device wherein a p-type thermoelectric element and an n-type thermoelectric element are arranged linearly and which is excellent in productivity and in cooling or heating performance and power generation efficiency when compared to a conventional technique, and to provide its manufacturing method.  <P>SOLUTION: The device has a p-type semiconductor chip 4a and an n-type semiconductor chip 4b. The p-type semiconductor chip 4a and the n-type semiconductor chip 4b are electrically connected in series alternately. It has an electrode circuit 6 with which the p-type semiconductor chip 4a and the n-type semiconductor chip 4b are in contact, an electrical circuit 7 which forms a layer via the electrode circuit 6 and an insulating substrate 5, and a conducting member 9 conductively connecting the electrode circuit 6 and the electric circuit 7.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004224201-A (JP)
Title: Air-conditioner for vehicle
Inventor: NOMURA TOSHIAKI
IPC: B60H1/00
Filed: 2003-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air-conditioner of an air mix type for a vehicle capable of enhancing the mixing performance of cold and hot winds using the small number of component parts.  <P>SOLUTION: The air-conditioner of the air mix type for the vehicle includes air mix doors 22 and 23 which are formed of plate doors rotating around rotary shafts 24 and 25 and provided with cold wind guide members 30 and 31 in such a way as to be rotatable in a single piece, and the guide members 30 and 31 are provided with circumferential wall surfaces in shapes of circular arcs for guiding the cold winds in cold wind bypass passages 17 and 18 toward the hot wind having passed a heat exchanger 15 for heating.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004227398-A (JP)
Title: Subcontract management method and subcontract management system
Inventor: YONEYAMA HIROBUMI
IPC: G06Q10/06
Filed: 2003-01-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately grasp working results of a subcontract worker.  <P>SOLUTION: When a registration mode is designated by a mode designation means 25, a registration means 28 registers biological information about the subcontract worker read by a biological information reader 21 into a storage device 29 together with personal information about the worker. A biological information authentication means 30 decides whether the biological information read by the biological information reader 21 when a working management mode is designated by the mode designation means 25 is registered in the storage device 29 or not. When it is decided that the biological information is registered, a working information record means 32 records date information of that time into the storage device 29 as an entrance date or an exit date of the worker to/from a construction site. When the registration mode is designated by the mode designation means 25, a totaling process means 33 executes a totaling process of working results on the basis of date information about each the worker recorded in the storage device 29, and displays and outputs the working results or a result of the totaling process.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003294146-A (JP)
Title: Vacuum flange and vacuum flange unit
Inventor: KIMURA TAKASHI
IPC: F16L23/16
Filed: 2003-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vacuum flange which constructs a hermetic seal under an ultra-high vacuum even if an edge part is damaged or some foreign matters are clamped between a gasket and the edge part.  <P>SOLUTION: This vacuum flange 1 is provided with a gasket housing part 1g on the end face of a main body part 1b, and two ring-type edge parts 1f and 1h protruded from the gasket housing part 1g are arranged in the gasket housing part 1g. Therefore, the vacuum flange 1 constructs a tighter hermetic seal in comparison with a conventional vacuum flange having only one edge part in the gasket housing part. In this vacuum flange 1, the edge part 1h constructs a seal substantially equivalent to the conventional vacuum flange even if the edge part 1f loses its function.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004230940-A (JP)
Title: Treating agent supply device in car washer
Inventor: TAKEUCHI EIJI
IPC: B60S3/06
Filed: 2003-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a treating agent supply device having a simple constitution and high durability for always supplying a predetermined amount of treating agent even when a solid matter or the like is mixed into the treating agent, in a car body washing device for producing treating agent diluted solution by directly mixing stock solution of the treating agent to washing water fed by pressure from a supply source.  <P>SOLUTION: The stock solution of the treating agent supplied from treating agent tanks T1-T3 by treating agent pumps P1-P3 is mixed with the washing water fed from a water pump PW to be diluted, and the treating agent diluted solution is injected from nozzles 27, 42 and 51 to a car body surface. The treating agent pumps P1-P3 employ a tube pump that does not require a check valve. The treating agent pumps P1-P3 are driven by respective motors M1-M3 repetitively and intermittently. When supply amount of the treating agent is changed, period of pulse voltage applied to the motors M1-M3 is changed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004232554-A (JP)
Title: Device for feeding gas fuel to engine
Inventor: TAKADA KAZUYOSHI
IPC: F02M21/04
Filed: 2003-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the output of an engine by uniformly diffusing a gas fuel in an intake air passage.  <P>SOLUTION: A throttle valve 24 and a gas fuel control valve 25 are provided in the intake air passage 21 such that their axes are in parallel to each other and the former is positioned downstream the latter. An annular passage 43 for feeding a gas fuel is formed around the intake air passage 21 between the valves. The annular passage 43 and the intake air passage 21 are communicated with each other through gas discharging holes 44 formed between the passages. The gas discharging holes 44 are formed at positions which do not overlap with the axes of the valves and are axisymmetric with respect thereto as viewed in the axial direction of the intake air passage 21.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004229988-A (JP)
Title: Electronic endoscope
Inventor: WADA YUJI
IPC: A61B1/06
Filed: 2003-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent protection transistor bias signal wires from being disconnected in prior to other signal wires by dispersedly disposing a plurality of protection transistor bias signal wires, disposing the protection transistor bias signal wires in the center of a cable, or making the thickness of the protection transistor bias signal wires thicker than those of the other signal wires.  <P>SOLUTION: This electronic endoscope 10 is provided with the cable 11 formed by bundling the multiple signal wires 56, etc. The multiple signal wires 56, etc. include the two protection transistor bias signal wires 56A and 56A and multiple other signal wires 56B and those wires are dispersedly disposed in a cross section orthogonally crossing with the axis of the cable 11.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004232587-A (JP)
Title: Idling stop control device of vehicle
Inventor: KOGA MASAHITO
IPC: F02D29/00
Filed: 2003-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an idling stop control device of a vehicle, performing idling stop control without lowering of startability at the time of automatically starting a driving source even under the condition that the startability is lowered by viscosity of oil.  <P>SOLUTION: In automatically stopping an engine 10e by idling stop control, in the steps 111 to 114, the delay time Δt from a motor driven oil pump 25 is started until the engine 10e is started stopping is calculated. After that, in the steps 115 to 117, the engine 20e is not stopped until the delay time Δt elapses after the motor driven oil pump 25 is started. In the lapse of delay time Δt after the motor driven oil pump 25 is started, the stop of the engine 10e is started.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004234478-A (JP)
Title: Marketing system and method
Inventor: IMAGAWA MASAKI
IPC: G06Q30/02
Filed: 2003-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a consumer to easily and safely take part in a campaign activity and also a maker hosting a campaign to provide marketing information at low cost.  <P>SOLUTION: The consumer who belongs to a trust organization having a personal information management server 2 for registering personal information takes part in the campaign activity of a sales promotion hosted by the maker by a communication means including the Internet by the use of a user computer 1. When a commodity is purchased, a sales information management server 4 possessed by a store transmits POS data of the campaign commodity purchased to the personal information management server 2. A marketing data management server 3 of the maker which is the provider of the commodity receives the personal information and questionnaire information of the consumer who has purchased the campaign commodity from the personal information management server 2 to perform marketing analysis. Since the information necessary for marketing analysis is delivered through a trust organization independent from the maker, outflow of the personal information of the consumer can be prevented.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004238230-A (JP)
Title: Method for promoting reforming reaction by selective heating of radiant gas, wavelength- selective heat-emitting material, and method for producing the same
Inventor: YUGAMI HIROO
IPC: C01B3/36
Filed: 2003-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for selectively heating a heat-emitting gas, which reduces a useless consumption of energy applied and promotes a reforming reaction by effectively heating hydrocarbon-based gas molecules or water molecules, to provide a wavelength-selective heat-emitting material, and to provide a method for producing the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The reforming reaction of the heat-emitting gas is promoted by raising its temperature by preparing a wavelength selective heat-emitting material 8 having a heat-emitting surface 7 having arranged thereon many two-dimensionally arranged microcavities 5 which form a periodical surface fine irregular pattern, applying energy to the wavelength-selective heat-emitting material 8, selectively radiating heat-radiating electromagnetic waves corresponding to the wavelength region of a specified light absorption band of the heat-emitting gas molecules from a heat-emitting surface 7, and applying the heat-radiating electromagnetic waves to heat-emitting gas molecules such as methane molecules.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004239013-A (JP)
Title: Joint structure of pile and footing
Inventor: MAEKAWA TOSHIO
IPC: E02D27/12
Filed: 2003-02-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a joint structure between a pile and a footing with higher seismic energy absorbing performance.  <P>SOLUTION: The joint structure 22 of the pile 10 installed underground and the footing 12 placed on the pile comprises at least one steel bar 24 formed of a shape memory alloy, arranged inside the pile and footing and having both end parts 26, 28 anchored to the pile and footing respectively.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004247798-A (JP)
Title: Transmission method, and wireless apparatus and wireless base station utilizing the same
Inventor: NANBA AKIRA
IPC: H04B1/04
Filed: 2003-02-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To decrease the distortion in the signal outputted from an amplifier even when the amplifier receives a signal with greater power than estimated for the signal received by the amplifier.  <P>SOLUTION: A plurality of terminals are connected to antennas 10. A PA 24 amplifies an RF signal to be transmitted and outputs a final output signal 208. A base band processing section 14 executes modulation-demodulation processing and adaptive array processing. A transmission frequency conversion section 60 applies analog / digital conversion to a base band transmission signal 202 and thereafter carries out frequency conversion so that the converted signal has the frequency of the RF signal to be transmitted. A transmission gain adjustment section 28 controls power of the RF signal to be transmitted on the basis of a gain control signal 204 and gives the result to the PA 24. A detection section 30 receives the final output signal 208, detects it and outputs a detection signal 206.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004245627-A (JP)
Title: Charging rate prediction device for secondary battery
Inventor: YUMOTO DAIJIRO
IPC: H01M10/48
Filed: 2003-02-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charging rate prediction device for a secondary battery capable of accurately predicting a charging rate step SOC.  <P>SOLUTION: This device comprises a parameter predicting means 1 which performs adoptive digital filter calculation by using the battery model of a continuous time system shown in formula 1 and collectively predicts parameters corresponding to the coefficients of A(s), B(s), and C(s) by using the measured currents I and terminal voltages V, an open circuit voltage calculation means 2 calculating an open circuit voltage Vo by substituting the currents I, terminal voltages V, and the predicted parameters in the formula 1, and a charging rate predicting means 3 predicting a charging rate from a relation between the open circuit voltage Voand the charging rate step SOC by using the predicted open circuit voltage Vo. When a current is cut off, the measured current values and terminal voltage values tend to be easily affected by noise and a parameter predicting accuracy is deteriorated. To prevent this problem, when the current is cut off (when the absolute value of current is below a specified value), the predicted values of the parameters are held at the previous calculated values.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004247877-A (JP)
Title: Ic for driving inductive load, its use method, and electronic device
Inventor: MATSUURA YUICHIRO
IPC: H03K17/695
Filed: 2003-02-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an IC for driving an inductive load, with which an electronic device for controlling the inductive load can surely be made small in size and low in cost.  <P>SOLUTION: A plurality of driving circuits KCm driving the inductive load Lm in accordance with a control signal SGm (m is 1 to n) from a microcomputer 33 are incorporated in IC 29. In each driving circuit KCm, a dynamic clamping circuit where four Zener diodes D1 to D4 in which number of connection stages is varied by switch elements SW1 to SW3 and a diode 13 for preventing current sneak are connected in series is connected between an output terminal (drain) and a gate on a load-side of output MOSFET 11 as an arc extinguishing circuit. In IC 29, arc extinguishing voltage can be changed without changing hardware by changing the number of connection stages in the Zener diodes D1 to D4 in the driving circuit KCm with setting data at every driving circuit KCm, which is transmitted from the microcomputer 33.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004243648-A (JP)
Title: Ink jet printer head
Inventor: ISONO JUN
IPC: B41J2/055
Filed: 2003-02-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ink jet printer head in which failure can be eliminated when a piezoelectric actuator 12 is bonded to a cavity unit 11.  <P>SOLUTION: On the upper surface of the top sheet 35 in the piezoelectric actuator 12 of the ink jet printer head, individual surface electrodes 66 led out from each individual electrode 36 through an inner conduction electrode and being bonded electrically to a flat cable 13 are formed in an array, at an appropriate interval, along the direction of a nozzle array. Each individual surface electrode 66 is arranged above a barrier wall 70 between adjacent pressure chambers 23 and 23. When the piezoelectric actuator 12 is bonded to a cavity unit 11, it can be bonded surely to the barrier wall 70 and leakage of ink can be reduced between the pressure chambers. Since a pressing force does not act directly onto each hollow pressure chamber 23, each pressure chamber 23 is not deformed nor the piezoelectric actuator 12 is cracked.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004246743-A (JP)
Title: Touch panel and screen input type display device equipped with same
Inventor: KITAMURA MUNEO
IPC: G06F3/041
Filed: 2003-02-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the durability and moisture resistance of a touch panel, and to reduce its costs.  <P>SOLUTION: Upper and lower substrates where one faces of transparent insulating substrates 12 and 2 are formed with transparent electrodes 13 and 3 and leading electrodes 14, 15, 4 and 5 connected to the transparent electrodes are oppositely arranged with the transparent electrode sides faced inside, and the upper and lower substrates are bonded with seal materials. In this case, the upper transparent insulating substrate 12 is constituted of thin and flexible glass, and the lower transparent insulating substrate 2 is constituted of thick and hard glass. As the seal materials between the both glasses, elastic seal materials 81 are used around the outer peripheral area of the upper substrate, and normal temperature hardening type fixing materials 83 are used at the corner parts of the upper substrate 11 to bond and integrate the upper and lower substrates. Thus, high temperature sealing is not carried out, so that the deformation of the glass substrates in a production process due to thermal expansion can be prevented, and that the opening of the seal materials which used to be absolutely necessary for a touch panel constituted of glass can be omitted.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004246292-A (JP)
Title: Word clustering speech database, and device, method and program for generating word clustering speech database, and speech synthesizing device
Inventor: SEGI HIROYUKI
IPC: G10L13/06
Filed: 2003-02-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a word speech database wherein words can be clustered while phoneme environments before and after the same word are assumed, a device, method and program for word clustering speech database generation, and a speech synthesizing device capable of generating a synthesized speech fast.  <P>SOLUTION: The word clustering speech database generating device 1 that generates the word clustering speech database 19 which contains a plurality of words and is used for speech synthesis is equipped with a feature quantity calculation part 7 which calculates a sound feature quantity as an acoustic feature quantity and a word clustering part 9 which generates word clustering information for clustering words according to the sound feature quantity.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004251657-A (JP)
Title: Method for detecting leakage location of fluid from piping etc. and indicator used therefor
Inventor: NAKADA HIDEO
IPC: G01N31/22
Filed: 2003-02-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and simply detect gas leakage from the joint of plant piping etc.  <P>SOLUTION: A detecting agent made of a dye, a pigment, or the like which reacts with a specific gas and develops color or discolors is applied to or impregnated into a substrate. The substrate is wound on a location of, for example, a joint at which gas leakage is predicted. In the case of the occurrence of leakage from piping, the location of the occurrence of gas leakage is verified by visual observation etc. by the discoloration of the substrate. The detecting agent or a pH indicating agent of the dye, the pigment, or the like having a chemical composition which discolors on contact and reaction with a leakage substance in the case of the occurrence of leakage is applied to or impregnated into the substrate and used as an indicator.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004254397-A (JP)
Title: Module component
Inventor: SEKO HISATAKA
IPC: H02M3/00
Filed: 2003-02-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a module component for a switching power supply with high heat radiation using resin, capable of attaining reduction in material cost and man-hours by using a sealant without using a sealing plate as a means for preventing resin leakage.  <P>SOLUTION: This module component for a switching power supply is structured so as not to leak a filling material by using a sealant for preventing resin leakage, without using a sealing plate for preventing resin leakage. By this constitution, the use of the sealing plate for preventing resin leakage can be eliminated, thus providing cost reduction. It is also possible to obtain the module component for the switching power supply capable of improving workability.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI