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Patent JP-2003298134-A (JP)
Title: Laminated piezoelectric actuator
Inventor: SAKAI TAKENOBU
IPC: H01L41/047
Filed: 2003-01-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laminated piezoelectric actuator in which the deterioration of the piezoelectric characteristic of a piezoelectric plate is reduced.  <P>SOLUTION: In this laminated piezoelectric actuator, the electrode material of an electrode layer contains a metallic component and an electrically conductive oxide. Namely, the deterioration of the piezoelectric plate can be prevented by supplying oxygen to a piezoelectric material from an electrode by adding the electrically conductive material using oxygen ions as carriers to the electrode material.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004215817-A (JP)
Title: Washing machine
Inventor: IKEMIZU MUGIHEI
IPC: D06F25/00
Filed: 2003-01-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a washing machine capable of finishing laundry by using a plurality of finishing materials such as a metal ion with a sterilizing function and a softener.  <P>SOLUTION: A horizontal drum type washing machine 601 is provided with a water tub 620 and a drum 630 in the inside and water is supplied to the drum 630 through a water supply port 53. The water supply port 53 is provided with a detergent chamber 54 and a finisher chamber 55 in the inside. A water supply valve 50 is provided with a main water supply valve 50a connected to the detergent chamber 54 and a sub water supply valve 50b connected to the finisher chamber 55 and an ion elution unit 100 is arranged between the main water supply valve 50a and the water supply port 53. By applying voltage between the electrodes 113 and 114 of the ion elution unit 100, the ion of an electrode-constituting metal is eluted in the water. A rinsing process is performed over two or more times, the rinsing process in which the metal ions are fed and the rinsing process in which a finisher is fed are different and the former precedes the latter.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004219359-A (JP)
Title: Method of detecting position, and position detector
Inventor: YAGI SHIGERU
IPC: G01B11/00
Filed: 2003-01-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of detecting position which conducts position detection with high resolution, using short-wavelength laser light and conducts position detection with a high signal-to-noise ratio, even in a lighted environment.  <P>SOLUTION: The method of detecting position detects the distance, from a position detector which comprises at least a transmission photoreceptor, including a semiconductor to an object to be measured by using a laser beam. The wavelength of the laser beam is not longer than 450nm, and the bandgap of the semiconductor is set not smaller than 2.0eV.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004222202-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus and method
Inventor: NAKAMURA TAKASHI
IPC: B41J29/42
Filed: 2003-01-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus and image forming method by which a user can intuitively perform the setting of equipment on a network on a setting screen.  <P>SOLUTION: This image forming apparatus has a communicating part for communicating with a plurality of pieces of equipment on the network to be connected, display parts 41 and 42 for collecting identification information of the plurality of pieces of equipment on the network via the communicating part and displaying in an image the plurality of pieces of equipment on the network in a tree shape on the basis of the identification information, and a processing part 2 for receiving the user's operation information based on the tree-shaped display of the plurality of pieces of equipment and performing prescribed processing. Then, the user can intuitively understand a network tree structure and easily specify the equipment. By displaying the network in a tree shape together with the plurality of pieces of equipment in an operation screen on a control panel, the user can easily understand a network structure. In addition, this provides a composite type image forming apparatus and image forming method by which the user can intuitively specify an acquisition destination and a transfer destination for image information.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004222540-A (JP)
Title: Apparatus for culturing fishes or shellfishes
Inventor: KATO KIYOSHI
IPC: A01K61/02
Filed: 2003-01-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for culturing fishes or shellfishes, which can automatically efficiently culture the fishes such as mackerels or porgies under a stable sea environment without relating to the changes in weather conditions.  <P>SOLUTION: This apparatus for culturing fishes or shellfishes is formed by vertically disposing four steel supports 8a to 8d on base members 7 set to the sea bottom, fixing side nets 9 to 12 over the supports 8a to 8d, closing an opening over the upper portions of the side nets 9 to 12 with upper nets 13, 14, and disposing the upper nets 13, 14 at a depth of about 3 mm or more below the surface of the sea water. Thereby, the culture space is maintained in a stable environment without relating to the change in weather. A long guide hole 17 is formed in the upper nets 13, 14, and a feeding means 35 is moved along the long guide hole 17. Thereby, feeds can be supplied over the whole upper and lower culture spaces 26, 26a at a uniform flow rate. Mackerels, porgies, or the like, are cultured in the upper culture space 26, and crabs are cultured in the lower culture space 26a.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004224209-A (JP)
Title: Mounting structure of pillar trim
Inventor: MASUMIZU KANAME
IPC: B60R21/213
Filed: 2003-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mounting structure of a pillar trim free of the risk of slipping off even when a curtain air bag is in the deployment motion and assuring easiness to perform the mounting works.  <P>SOLUTION: The mounting structure of the pillar trim includes an upper 14q and a lower engaging part 14r which engage the upper 15a and lower edges 15b of a mounting hole 15 inside the car cabin more than the upper 14o and lower ends 14p of an upper 14a and a lower protrusion part 14b on both sides in the condition that the pillar trim body 13a is mounted, and further the upper protrusion part 14q is furnished with an abutting surface 14x confronting the peripheral edge of the upper edge part 15a of the mounting hole 15 so that it is positioned parallel with a pillar panel 5.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004226328-A (JP)
Title: Appearance inspection system, quality evaluation system using the same and quality evaluation information providing system
Inventor: NAKAGAKI AKIRA
IPC: G01N21/956
Filed: 2003-01-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for miniaturizing an inspector installed at a point of production and easily configuring a process condition of a detected result.  <P>SOLUTION: An appearance inspection system for obtaining an image of an inspection object and inspecting an appearance is provided with an image detector 100 for detecting the image of the inspection object and an information processor 200 for processing the image detected by the image detector 100 and determining the existence of abnormality emerging in the image of the inspection object. The image detector 100 and the information processor 200 can be connected through a network 300. The image detector 100 adds a data identifier to at least one of the detected image and its processed data and transmits it to the information processor. The information processor 200 identifies the received image based on the identifier included in the received data and determines the existence of the abnormality.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004224990-A (JP)
Title: Polylactic acid-based polymer resin composition and molding of the same
Inventor: ITO FUMIO
IPC: C08L67/04
Filed: 2003-01-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a resin composition obtained by further imparting characteristics such as heat resistance, impact resistance, to a polylactic acid-based polymer having biodegradablity, and to provide a method for molding the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The polylactic acid-based polymer resin composition contains at least 1 kind of a phosphoric acid metal salt having a structure expressed by the formula [wherein, R<SB>1</SB>to R<SB>4</SB>are the same or different and are each H or an alkyl; M is a metal atom; and (m), (n) are each 1-3 integer]. The method for producing the polylactic acid-based polymer resin article comprises a step of loading the polylactic acid-based polymer and at least 1 kind of the phosphoric acid metal salt in a mold and a step of forming by regulating the temp. of the mold within a crystallization temperature range of the polylactic acid-based polymer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004235733-A (JP)
Title: Contents recorder
Inventor: HAMAGUCHI SHUNEI
IPC: G06F21/10
Filed: 2003-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contents recorder which surely records an extended program without managing the idle capacity of a hard disc 36 by an operator, i.e., surely prevents the program from being not recorded up to the end due to the extension of the broadcast time such as in baseball game broadcast, etc.  <P>SOLUTION: When a recording start time is up according to a record reservation stored on a reserve list 44 in a flash memory 42, a CPU 16 starts the recording according to the record reservation and ends it at the record end time. If the effect to extend the recording time is set at reserving, the CPU 16 extends the recording time for a preset time. The essential part from the recording start time to the end time is recorded on a main area 36a of a hard disc 36, and an extended part following the essential part is cyclically recorded on a sub-area 36b provided separately from the main area 36a.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004229767-A (JP)
Title: Absorbent article
Inventor: KUDO ATSUSHI
IPC: A61F13/511
Filed: 2003-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an absorbent article capable of speedily absorbing excretion liquid repeatedly applied to the surface on the skin side.  <P>SOLUTION: The absorbent article has a liquid capturing layer 18 made of airlaid nonwoven fabric mainly comprising hydrophilic fibers under a surface sheet 21. The excretion liquid applied to the surface sheet 21 penetrates liquid penetration holes 23 and is attracted and absorbed in the liquid capturing layer 18. As the excretion liquid absorbed in the liquid capturing layer 18 is attracted to a second compressed recess 24, in which the liquid capturing layer 18 is compressed, and diffused, the liquid capturing layer 18 located under the liquid penetration holes 23 is hardly saturated with the liquid. Accordingly, the excretion liquid repeatedly applied to the surface sheet 21 can be always speedily transferred to the liquid capturing layer 18.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004230265-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for concentrating substance of higher boiling point than that of water in exhaust gas
Inventor: KAWASE YASUHITO
IPC: B01D53/72
Filed: 2003-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently recover volatile chemical substances of higher boiling points than that of water such as a water-soluble solvent contained in exhaust gas by replacing it with steam and to recover powder of active carbon, or the like, having adsorbed chemical substances such as dioxins from exhaust gas containing the powder of the active carbon, or the like, having adsorbed chemical substances such as dioxins.  <P>SOLUTION: The apparatus is constituted so that the exhaust gas containing the substances of higher boiling points than that of water is introduced into a plate column provided with a plurality of stages of trays, having the structure in which gas cannot escape to an upper part without passing through water existing on the trays or into a packed column packed with a hydrophilic filler from a lower part thereof and meanwhile water is fed from an upper part of the column to concentrate the substances of higher boiling points than that of water based on the gas-liquid equilibrium relation between the exhaust gas and water at the lower part of the column and further to shift the residual substances in the exhaust gas into water at the upper part of the column.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004231457-A (JP)
Title: Boron nitride nanotube containing metallic molybdenum nanoparticle and its manufacturing method
Inventor: BANDO YOSHIO
IPC: B82B1/00
Filed: 2003-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a boron nitride nanotube containing metallic molybdenum nanoparticles and expected to be used as a nanocable or the like.  <P>SOLUTION: A mixture of a carbon nanotube, boron oxide, copper oxide, and molybdenum oxide is kept at 1,800-2,200 K in a nitrogen gas flow for about 20-40 min.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004231463-A (JP)
Title: Firing furnace and method for producing non-oxide ceramic sintered compact
Inventor: MATSUDA HIROTO
IPC: C04B35/638
Filed: 2003-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a firing furnace which requires only a small maintenance work and in which a dewaxing process and a sintering process can be performed for producing a sintered compact having a constant quality, and to provide a production method thereof using the firing furnace.  <P>SOLUTION: The firing furnace has a chamber which can be closed, a heating chamber which is provided in the chamber and has a heater, a first exhaust tube connected to the chamber, a first vacuum pump connected to the first exhaust tube, a second exhaust tube directly connected to the heating chamber, and a collecting apparatus for collecting binder components in the exhaust gas and a second vacuum pump which are connected to the second exhaust tube. The method for producing the non-oxide ceramic sintered compact comprises a process for continuously performing the dewaxing process and the sintering process by using the firing furnace.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004232561-A (JP)
Title: Combined power plant and method of operating the power plant
Inventor: MOTAI KENJI
IPC: F01K9/00
Filed: 2003-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a combined power plant and a method of operating the power plant with saved space and reduced cost.  <P>SOLUTION: In this combined power plant, feed water reduced in the amount of dissolved oxygen in a drum 33a for low-pressure, is sent to lines Lb and Lc for medium-pressure and high-pressure, respectively and steam is generated to drive a medium-pressure turbine 23 and a high-pressure turbine 24. At this time, a deaerator 50 for reducing dissolved oxygen in the feed water may be included on the rear-stage side of the drum 33a for low-pressure. In addition, feed water is sprinkled with a spray within the drum 33a for low-pressure and a heat-exchange fin may be formed inside the drum 33a for low-pressure for allowing the feed water to flow down on the surface of the fin. Further, it can be so configured that pressure within the drum 33a for low-pressure is reduced or that high-pressure steam is extracted for making the feed water flash-evaporated.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004229915-A (JP)
Title: Wash cabinet
Inventor: SUZUKI SHIYOUICHI
IPC: A47B67/02
Filed: 2003-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep the mirror from protruding from the front end of a washstand.  <P>SOLUTION: The wash cabinet is provided with a washstand having a basin installed thereon and a mirror cabinet 20 which is disposed on the basin and provided with a mirror. Rotary support devices 46 and 46 are so arranged as to enable the mirror 24 to be rotated and opened on the vertical axis at the middle position 27, slightly to the right in the horizontal way of the mirror 24. As a result, the distance D between the rotating tip of the mirror 24 and the axes of the rotary support devices 46 and 46 becomes smaller than the overall width W of the mirror to reduce the range in which the mirror 24 protruds forward from the plane of the mirror before the rotation of the mirror 24, Thus, the tip of the mirror 24 from protruding from the front end of the washstand when the mirror 24 is opened.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004233233-A (JP)
Title: Photogrammetric method of linear object
Inventor: OTSUKI MAMORU
IPC: G01C11/06
Filed: 2003-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a survey method capable of surveying a linear section even in the case markers such as a corner section and the like do not exist in a photographic image.  <P>SOLUTION: The photogrammetric method is provided with a first step in which images are obtained by photographing a linear object to be photographed from different observation points by using a camera, a second step in which two reference points are set arbitrarily on the object to be photographed with respect to different images obtained in the first step, and a third step in which a straight line prescribing the linear object to be photographed is calculated on the basis of the two reference points set on the respective different images in the second step and the observation points where the images are photographed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004236272-A (JP)
Title: Grip belt fixing apparatus
Inventor: TOMINAGA YUJI
IPC: H04N5/225
Filed: 2003-02-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a grip belt fixing apparatus in which the interference of a grip belt and a screw is prevented by providing a grip belt metal fitting with a cylindrical deep wringer, the screw can be prevented from being unfastened in any motion of the grip belt, and the grip belt can be prevented from being damaged.  <P>SOLUTION: A cylindrical deep wringer 202a is constituted in a grip belt metal fitting 202, thereby eliminating the interference of a grip belt 201 and a screw 207 and preventing the screw 207 from being unfastened in any motion of the grip belt 201 or preventing the grip belt 201 from being damaged. The grip belt fixing apparatus can prevent, in any motion of the grip belt provided on an equipment body of a video camera or the like, the screw from being unfastened or can prevent the grip belt from being damaged.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004240059-A (JP)
Title: Camera
Inventor: NONAKA OSAMU
IPC: G03B13/36
Filed: 2003-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a camera for highly accurately performing motor driving control in combination with the latest micro controller, and configuring a motor driver circuit without errors to fluctuation of power supply voltages easily at low cost.  <P>SOLUTION: A motor control circuit 12 having an input terminal for inputting a constant voltage output from a D/A conversion circuit and controlling the rotation of a motor at a constant voltage depending on the output voltage from the D/A conversion circuit has a first transistor Q1 to normally rotate a motor 8, a second transistor Q3 to reversely rotate the motor 8, and a motor driver IC 19 sharing the constant voltage input terminals of the first and the second transistors Q1, Q3 to rotate the motor 8.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003274999-A (JP)
Title: Nucleic acid sequence determination method
Inventor: LEE LINDA G
IPC: C09B11/08
Filed: 2003-02-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a linker that can enhance the effective energy transfer between the donor pigment and the acceptor pigment in energy transfer pigment.  <P>SOLUTION: The linker is for linking donor pigment having a general structure: R<SB>21</SB>Z<SB>1</SB>C(O)R<SB>22</SB>R<SB>28</SB>(wherein R<SB>21</SB>is a 1-5C alkyl bonded to the donor pigment; C(O) is carbonyl; Z<SB>1</SB>is NH, S or O; R<SB>22</SB>is a substituent bonded to the carbonyl carbon which may be an alkene, diene, an alkyne or a five- or six-membered ring or condensed ring structure; and R<SB>28</SB>includes a functional group that bonds the linker to the acceptor pigment) to acceptor pigment in the energy-transfer fluorescent pigment.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004238042-A (JP)
Title: Packaging equipment
Inventor: KODAMA MASAAKI
IPC: B65B51/10
Filed: 2003-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide horizontal-pillow packaging equipment which can suppress the occurrence of a wrinkle, caused by an end sealing mechanism, in a place on a tubular film to the utmost.  <P>SOLUTION: This horizontal-pillow packaging equipment is characterized in that film correcting members 25, which are to be used for removing the wrinkles in the tubular film F by coming into contact with the tubular film F immediately before the tubular film F is heat-sealed by the operations of seal members 9A and 9B, are arranged on both sides of the seal members 9A and 9B which are provided in the mechanism 9 and arranged in such a manner as to face each other in upper and lower positions.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004239836-A (JP)
Title: Method and device for micro trap screening
Inventor: YASHIKI MIKIO
IPC: G01N1/36
Filed: 2003-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow screening, to allow gas, a liquid and a solid to be applied as an inspection object, to allow application to a micro-sample such as a bio-sample to be applied, to allow all the substances ranging over compounds such as a low boiling point compound and a nonvolatile macromolecular compound to be analyzed by GC, HPLC, CE and the like, to attain high sensitivity, and to solve the problem of carry-over.  <P>SOLUTION: This method includes a container such as a vial with a septum of which the inner space is constituted of at least two phases by sealing a sample, a purge gas supply means for supplying purge gas into the one phase, and a trap means having a disposable micro-trap tube capable of introducing a substance constituting the other phase different from the one phase supplied with the purge gas, and prepared by cutting a GC capillary column.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004241316-A (JP)
Title: Connecting part of flat conductor
Inventor: SUZUKI YOSHIYUKI
IPC: H01R12/38
Filed: 2003-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a connecting part of a flat conductor with the connection work man-hour reduced for electric connection of a linear conductor and the flat conductor and with improved reliability of electric connection.  <P>SOLUTION: The connecting part 11 of the flat conductor 2 is for pressure welding a linear conductor 10. A through-hole of line symmetry is formed at the flat conductor 2, and the flat conductor 2 is folded at the line symmetry position of the through-hole and is provided with a pressure-welded parts 12, 12 opposing to each other with one side of the line symmetry in a U-shaped slit form, and the linear conductor 10 is pressure connected by being press fitted between the opposing pressure-welded parts 12, 12.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI