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Patent JP-2004177528-A (JP)
Title: Active matrix substrate and display device
Inventor: YOSHIDA MASAHIRO
IPC: G09G3/32
Filed: 2002-11-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a display device equipped with a plurality of display panels from having a display failure such as blocking.  <P>SOLUTION: The display device is equipped with two display panels 2 and 3 which have a plurality of source bus lines 4 and 5 and a plurality of gate bus lines 9 arranged in a lattice shape and also has TFTs arranged nearby intersections of the plurality of source bus lines 4 and 5 and the plurality of gate bus lines 9 and are equipped with pixel electrodes electrically connected to the source bus lines and gate bus lines respectively through the TFTs. The source bus lines 5 between the source bus lines 4 and 5 are shared by two active matrix substrates 7 and 8. Capacitors 6a and 6b are added to the source bus lines 4 arranged only on the active matrix substrate 7.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004177603-A (JP)
Title: Image exposure apparatus
Inventor: HASHIGUCHI AKIHIRO
IPC: B41J2/455
Filed: 2002-11-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain reproducibility of an image position with respect to a punched hole for positioning on a printing plate during printing in a printing apparatus by enabling the start position of a reference pin to be accurately determined without depending on mechanical errors of a transport guide unit.  <P>SOLUTION: The apparatus is equipped with: a rotary drum 50 on which a printing plate 12 is wound; a punching apparatus to punch a positioning hole in the printing plate 12; a transport guide unit 14 to guide the printing plate; lateral transfer unit which brings a transport pin 42 into contact with the edge in the width direction of the printing plate 12 and to transfer the plate in the width direction; a reference pin transfer unit to transfer the reference pin which regulate the edge in the width direction of the printing plate 12 according to the size of the printing plate 12; and a home position sensor to detect the start position of the reference pin 36.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004178521-A (JP)
Title: Recommendation system
Inventor: NOMURA TAKUYA
IPC: G06Q30/06
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for more appropriately and more flexibly recommending a curriculum, etc.  <P>SOLUTION: A learning history management means 14 records the curriculum taken by each user in a leaner DB 16. A correlation table generation means 18 and a strong correlation group creation means 24 perform grouping among users having similar course tendencies based on the leaner DB 16. A recommendation means 22 determines the curriculum to be recommended based on course history owned by the entire group to which a target user belongs and course history of the target user.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004180754-A (JP)
Title: Pinball game machine
Inventor: UCHIGASHIMA TOSHIHIRO
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the initial investment in a Pachinko game.  <P>SOLUTION: As an intermediate probability flag is set in a dispensed ball game (S306:Yes), the result in the game is determined based on an intermediate probability table with a higher probability of jackpot than in a normal game state (S308). Accordingly, the initial investment till a jackpot is made for the first time can be reduced and immediate quitting of the game by a player can be prevented, so that such an effect as letting the player play the game pleasantly for a long period of time can be provided.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004186379-A (JP)
Title: Manufacturing method for semiconductor device
Inventor: OGINO MASARU
IPC: H01L27/108
Filed: 2002-12-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method for a semiconductor device that can improve the capacity of a cylindrical capacitor.  <P>SOLUTION: The manufacturing method has a process of forming a contact hole 6 in a first insulating film 5 on a semiconductor substrate 1, forming a plug 8 in the contact hole 6, forming a second insulating film 9 on the first insulating film 5 and the plug 8, forming a resist pattern 10 on the second insulating film 9, forming a hole 11 where the plug 8 projects by etching the first and second insulating films 5 and 9 by using the resist pattern 10 as a mask, and forming a capacitor in the hole 11. In the processes, the cylindrical hole 11 is formed by etching the first and second inter-layer insulating films 5 and 9 by using the resist pattern 10 as the mask. Then while the resist pattern 10 is left, wet etching using a hydrofluoric acid is carried out to increase the diameter of the cylindrical hole 11.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004180590-A (JP)
Title: Hand-held seeding tool
Inventor: HIRAYAMA TAKESHI
IPC: A01C7/06
Filed: 2002-12-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a constant amount of seeds to be simply and easily released by one hand.  <P>SOLUTION: In the subject hand-held seedling tool releasing the constant amount of the seeds 2 from a storing part 3 through a duct 4 by operating an operation lever 1 by a finger, a tool body part 5 having the storing part 3 has a handle 6 to be held when operating the operation lever 1, and a leveling plate 7 for leveling the seeds 2 in the storing part 3 by a constant amount by the operation of the operation lever 1, and returning after the leveling when the finger is separated from the operation lever 1. A charging hole 7a of the seeds 2 dropping from the storing part 3 by dead weight is formed in the leveling plate 7 so as to penetrate the leveling plate 7 in the thickness direction of the plate 7. The duct 4 is installed at the lower surface part of the body part 5 corresponding to the moved position after leveling the charging hole 7a so as to communicate therewith.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004182881-A (JP)
Title: Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display element
Inventor: TOMI YOSHITAKE
IPC: C09K19/42
Filed: 2002-12-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal composition which satisfactorily has at least two of the following characteristics: a nematic phase with a wide temperature range, a low viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a low threshold voltage, and a high specific resistivity.  <P>SOLUTION: The liquid crystal composition contains at least one compound selected from among compounds represented by formulas (1) and (2) as a first component, at least one compound selected from among compounds represented by formula (3) as a second component, and at least one compound selected from among compounds represented by formula (4) as a third component. In formulas (1), (2), (3), and (4), R<SP>1</SP>is an alkyl; R<SP>2</SP>is an alkyl or alkenyl; Z<SP>1</SP>and Z<SP>2</SP>are each a single bond or -(CH<SB>2</SB>)<SB>2</SB>-; X<SP>1</SP>is H or F; and Y is F or -OCF<SB>3</SB>.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004181038-A (JP)
Title: Flashing apparatus for game machine
Inventor: YAMAGUCHI HIROSHI
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-12-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flasing apparatus for a game machine by which the number of wirings is reduced, and the number of ports to be used for the control means of the game machine is minimized.  <P>SOLUTION: The apparatus includes one charge/trigger control terminal 103 as an outer control terminal to be connected to the sub-control board of the game machine. A charge control circuit 110 controls the charging of a capacitor 120 based on a charge control signal. A trigger control circuit 130 controls the light emission of a xenon tube 140 based on a trigger control signal. A signal generating circuit 150 generates the charge control signal and the trigger control signal on the basis of signals transmitted from the sub-control board through the charge/trigger control terminal 103, and transmits the generated charge control signal and trigger control signal respectively to the charge control circuit 110 and the trigger control circuit 130. The signals generated as the charge control signal and the trigger control signal are the ones for only one operation between charging and light emitting.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003301167-A (JP)
Title: Process for producing sol and method for water repellent treatment of base material
Inventor: NISHIDE RIICHI
IPC: C01G33/00
Filed: 2002-12-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a process for producing a sol, which can give a thin film excellent in water repellency and having higher hardness, and a method for the water repellent treatment of a base material, by which the sol can be cured under mild conditions and which comprises forming a cured thin film of the sol on a base material.  <P>SOLUTION: The process for producing the sol comprises: mixing a salt solution or alkoxide solution of at least one element selected from groups 3 to 6 elements with at least one compound selected from the group consisting of aqueous ammonia, amines and quaternary ammonium compounds to give the hydroxide(s) of the element(s); and mixing the hydroxide(s) with water and/or an alcohol and nitric acid and/or an organic acid. The method for the water repellent treatment of the base material comprises applying the sol produced by the above process on the surface of the base material and curing it, alternatively comprises curing the sol produced by the above process and forming a thin film of the obtained cured material on the surface of the base material.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004191458-A (JP)
Title: Electrophotographic system
Inventor: TOYOMURA YUJI
IPC: B41J2/44
Filed: 2002-12-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain image forming conditions without increasing the deterioration speed of an organic EL element, in an electrophotographic system using the organic EL element as an exposure head.  <P>SOLUTION: The system comprises: the exposure head 52 having a light source in which the organic EL elements are arranged in a main scanning direction; a photoreceptor 47 on which an electrostatic latent image is formed with exposure light from the exposure head 52; a development sleeve 49 which forms a toner image on a photoreceptor 47 by supplying toner to the electrostatic latent image; a light receiving sensor 54 which detects an amount of light emitted by the organic EL element; and a CPU 111 which, based upon the result of the detection by the light receiving sensor 54, controls the peripheral speed of the photoreceptor in such a manner that the peripheral speed is decreased as the amount of light emitted from the organic EL element decreases.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004193822-A (JP)
Title: Communication system and communication method
Inventor: ICHII YUTAKA
IPC: G06F13/00
Filed: 2002-12-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication system and a communication method capable of applying interface control to many apparatuses by suppressing a memory capacity for storing particular commands to the utmost and allowing a user to be able to immediately use a newly connected apparatus after the connection without the need for the user awaiting preparation of a model.  <P>SOLUTION: When an opposite apparatus is connected to the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus inquires about apparatus information (step S1), and checks whether or not the communication apparatus has already acquired command data particular to the apparatus on the basis of the apparatus information obtained by the inquiry by checking a storage means (step S3). When the storage means stores no local command, the communication apparatus is connected to a server via an external network, receives the local command data of the model from the server and stores the data to the storage means (steps S5 to S8). Thus, the communication apparatus can use the local command data related to the opposite apparatus. Further, the communication apparatus can perform operations by basic commands even during the reception period.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004191757-A (JP)
Title: Progressive refracting power lens
Inventor: SHINOHARA SHUNEI
IPC: G02C7/06
Filed: 2002-12-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a progressive refracting power lens which is comfortably used for personal computer operation and other desk work etc., and gives little feeling of physical disorder by solving problems of a progressive refracting power lens conventionally called a shortsight-shortsight type.  <P>SOLUTION: The progressive refracting power lens is characterized in that the length of the progressive degree zone is 22 to 28 mm and a distinction vision area defined as an area of ≤0.5 diopter in astigmatism has its horizontal maximum width in a farsighted degree area ≤2 times as large as the horizontal maximum width in the progressive degree zone. Further, the distinction vision area defined as an area of ≤0.5 diopter in astigmatism has a width of at least 30 mm horizontally in the shortsighted degree area. The position where astigmatism laterally distributed in the lens becomes maximum is nearly in level with or above the center of farsightedness which is the upper end of the progressive degree zone.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004192524-A (JP)
Title: Supporting method, support apparatus and computer program
Inventor: KAWAMURA KINJI
IPC: G06F12/00
Filed: 2002-12-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a supporting method directly importing registration target data such as data sheets created by a plurality of different types of spreadsheet software in a dedicated software in a simple operation and registering them in database.  <P>SOLUTION: This supporting method is provided with a defining step creating correspondence information by corresponding data items and data items of registration object data including data pertaining to the data items with data items of the registration destination database; and a registration step, when newly inputting the registration object data, registering the registration object data in the database according to the correspondence information created by the defining step.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004193494-A (JP)
Title: Silicon carbide semiconductor device
Inventor: TANAKA HIDEAKI
IPC: H01L29/808
Filed: 2002-12-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a silicon carbide semiconductor device, having a structure which can be manufactured by simple processes and having a high-voltage resistance.  <P>SOLUTION: The silicon carbide semiconductor device of a high-voltage resistance is provided with a silicon carbide base substrate 13, constituted by forming an n<SP>-</SP>type silicon carbide epitaxial layer 12 on the first main surface side of an n<SP>+</SP>type silicon carbide substrate 11, a source area 14 formed on the first main surface side of the base substrate 13 and consisting of an n<SP>-</SP>type polysilicon, a gate region 15 formed so as to be brought into contact with the source area 14 and consisting of a p<SP>+</SP>type polysilicon, a source electrode 16 formed so as to be brought into contact with the source region 14, a gate electrode 17 formed so as to be brought into contact with the gate region 15, and a drain electrode 18 formed on the second main surface side of the base substrate 13.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004162502-A (JP)
Title: Locking device for face lattice
Inventor: TODA MITSUHARU
IPC: E06B9/01
Filed: 2002-11-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a locking device for a face lattice, which can be set/released through very simple operation, has crime preventive function when set, and enables persons in a building to smoothly escape in an emergency.  <P>SOLUTION: A locking member 8 engages with an operating member 5 exposed to a front side of a main body via an opening of the same, and the operating member 5 is vertically rotatably mounted. To lock the face lattice, the operating member 5 is erected from a hanging state to a horizontal state with the face lattice being closed, and by rotating the operating member 5, the locking member 8 is simultaneously rotated to protrude an abutting portion toward the interior of an opening frame 3 to maintain an engaging state, followed by dropping the operating member 5 downward while maintaining the engaging state, to thereby maintain a locking state. To unlock the face lattice, the operating member 5 is horizontally erected and then rotated reversely to the rotation at the time of locking, which triggers rotation of the locking member 2, followed by drawing the abutting portion from the interior of the opening frame 3 to assume a disengaging state with the opening frame 3, to thereby maintain an unlocking state.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004195912-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus
Inventor: FUKUDA YOSHIHITO
IPC: B41J2/01
Filed: 2002-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of stably ejecting ink even when a print head is used for a long time.  <P>SOLUTION: This image forming apparatus instructs a driving condition to be changed when a dot count recorded in a print head controller 54 exceeds 25% of a predicted endurance life. The instruction is indicated on a host computer 38. A user operates to change the driving condition by seeing the indication and the print head controller 54 controls each of the print heads 22K, 22C, 22M, 22Y so as to allow them to print measurement patches on a recording medium. The user inputs a head rank described in the patch adjacent to the patch inadequately printed among the patches adequately printed without being blurred, from an operation section 11 of a plotter 10 by visually observing the measurements patches. As a result, the print head controller 54 controls the print heads by the driving condition corresponding to the newly input head rank.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004203394-A (JP)
Title: Tube container
Inventor: BABA YASUHITO
IPC: B65D35/10
Filed: 2002-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tube container which is easy to cut when making a mouth, a head of a shoulder or the like, is free from the adhesion of a resin to a mold, can be stably compression-molded without a problem in yield, has the head flexible enough to be crushed or manually bent, and enables the contents to be smoothly squeezed so that the contents can be used up to the end without leaving in a molding of the head.  <P>SOLUTION: The tube container consists of a tubular container barrel having its closed lower end, a truncated conic shoulder connecting with the upper end of the tubular barrel, and a mouth connecting with the shoulder. The shoulder and the mouth are molded by using a linear low density polyethylene resin with a density of 0.90-0.94 g/cm<SP>3</SP>and a melt index of 0.5-40 g/10 min as a molding material.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004084457-A (JP)
Title: Drain block, and drainage structure for pavement using the same
Inventor: MATSUSHITA MASANORI
IPC: E01C11/24
Filed: 2002-12-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drain block for drainable pavement that prevents reduction in a drainage function of a drainage layer of drainable pavement by smoothly capturing water flowing in the drainage layer into a drainage channel without clogging.  <P>SOLUTION: The drain block for drainable pavement comprises a concrete pipe body 17 formed to a substantially rectangular cross-sectional form and internally provided with the longitudinally passing drainage channel 16. An upper portion of the pipe body 17 ranging from a top surface to the drainage channel 16 of the pipe body 17 consists of a porous concrete layer 18 thicker than a drainage layer 10 of drainable pavement 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004214270-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing piezoelectric element
Inventor: WADA TAKATSUGI
IPC: H01L41/319
Filed: 2002-12-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a piezoelectric element having excellent piezoelectric characteristics in which the composition can be controlled ideally and the polarizing direction of crystal can be arranged substantially in one direction.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing a piezoelectric element comprises a process (step S11) for thermally depositing an orientation layer having a specified composition ratio and oriented preferentially to a specified lattice plane on a substrate, a process (step S12) for nonthermally depositing an amorphous layer having a specified composition ratio on the orientation layer, and a process (step S13) for obtaining a piezoelectric layer oriented preferentially to the same lattice plane as the specified lattice plane by heat treating the amorphous layer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004214801-A (JP)
Title: Color image forming apparatus and method therefor
Inventor: HASEBE TAKASHI
IPC: G06F3/12
Filed: 2002-12-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a crime of counterfeiting securities and to prevent the alteration of a digital color copier etc. by reinforcing a connection protecting method between an original reading function and an image forming function when an arbitrary original is read to form a color image.  <P>SOLUTION: This apparatus is provided with an original reading unit 11 which reads an original and outputs color image information; an image processing means which applies image processing to this color image information; an image forming unit 18 which forms an image on the basis of the color image information subjected to the image processing by the image processing unit; and an image control unit 15 which receives individual identification information of the unit 11 and individual identification information of the unit 18 to examine the genuineness of the individual identification information, and connects the image processing means to the unit 18 on the basis of a result of examination. If it is examined that the individual identification information of the unit 18 is incompetent with respect to the individual identification information of the unit 11, the image processing unit can be kept in a communication operation disabled state with the unit 18.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004214849-A (JP)
Title: Image encoder, recording and reproducing apparatus, and computer software
Inventor: IGUCHI TAKUYA
IPC: H04N19/126
Filed: 2002-12-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image encoder, a recording and reproducing apparatus, and computer software whereby a stable code amount and image quality can be realized with a small system scale in a system wherein an image signal is received through a plurality of channels like a monitor camera system.  <P>SOLUTION: The image encoder includes: an image signal input means 11 for receiving an image signal of a plurality of channels; an image signal selection means 12 for selecting one channel among image signals of a plurality of channels received from the image signal input means 11; an image compression means 15 for applying image compression to an output signal of the image signal selection means 12 at a prescribed rate; an encoding amount recording means 15 for recording the channel selected by the image signal selection means 12 and the code amount of compressed image data outputted from the image compression means 15; and a rate control means 18 for reading the code amount of the channel same as that selected by the image signal selection means 12 from the code amount recording means and using the read code amount to decide the rate for applying the rate control to the image compression means 15.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI