baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2004170748-A (JP)
Title: Developing device and image forming apparatus
Inventor: YOKOGAWA KAZUKI
IPC: G03G15/09
Filed: 2002-11-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developing device where the scattering of magnetic toner is prevented by preventing the magnetic toner adhering to the outer peripheral surface of a developing sleeve from rising even when a gap is made between a developing blade and a magnetic seal member.  <P>SOLUTION: A magnetic plate 90 is constituted of a base part 92 whose cross section is rectangular and a projecting part 94 projecting from the base part 92. The base part 92 is the circular-arc shaped one extended along the outer peripheral surface 72a of the developing sleeve 72. The projecting part 94 is formed at the center part in the longitudinal direction (circular-arc direction) of the base part 92 on a more upstream side in the rotating direction (direction shown by an arrow E) of the sleeve 72 than a doctor blade 80. The projecting part 94 projects from the side surface 92a of the base part 92 orthogonal to the outer peripheral surface 72a of the sleeve 72 nearly perpendicularly to the surface 92a. The projecting part 94 projects to cover from the base part 92 to an opposed area opposed to the doctor blade 80 out of the outer peripheral surface 72a of the sleeve 72.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004169243-A (JP)
Title: Method of producing bleached pulp for paper making
Inventor: IWASAKI MAKOTO
IPC: D21C9/10
Filed: 2002-11-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an economical bleaching method in which chlorous acid is inexpensively reduced without use of environmentally troublesome chemicals such as formaldehyde and can efficiently carry out the chlorine dioxide bleaching and a method for producing pulp of high whiteness by using a reduced amount of chlorine dioxide.  <P>SOLUTION: The pulp using lignocellulose material as a starting material is subjected to (a) the alkaline oxygen bleaching step and (b) the enzyme treatment step, and then allowed to undergo (c) the ECF (element chlorine free) bleaching process that starts with the chlorine dioxide step. The reacted filtrate at the enzyme treatment step is allowed to pass through a membrane filter to obtain permeate. At least a part of the permeate is added to the chlorine dioxide bleaching step whereby the lignocellulose material is bleached.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003238300-A (JP)
Title: Method of growing crystal
Inventor: SASAKI TAKATOMO
IPC: C12N9/00
Filed: 2002-11-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of growing a crystal, by which the crystal quality is improved, and a large size crystal can be grown without causing a damage to the crystal.  <P>SOLUTION: In the method for growing the crystal from a solution, mutually insoluble two kinds of solutions comprising a solution (2) for crystal growth and a solution (3) having a specific gravity higher than that of the solution (2) are poured into a growth vessel (1), and then, the solutions (2) and (3) are separated into two layers of an upper layer and a lower layer. Thereafter, the crystal is grown by increasing the degree of the supersaturation of the solution (2) for crystal growth under such a condition that a crystal (4) grown from a natural nucleus in the solution (2) being the upper layer or a seed crystal is floated on the interface of the two kinds of the solutions.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004175711-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing polyhydric alcohol ethers
Inventor: WADA NATSUKO
IPC: C07B61/00
Filed: 2002-11-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a polyhydric alcohol ester in a high selectivity, by which by-products such as a polyether, an intermolecular dehydration condensation compound, etc., are controlled in the method for producing the polyhydric alcohol ether, by which one water molecule is eliminated from the two molecules of the polyhydric alcohols by the intermolecular dehydration condensation reaction of the polyhydric alcohols in the presence of a catalyst.  <P>SOLUTION: A layered phosphate such as layered titanium phosphate, layered aluminum phosphate and layered zirconium phosphate, etc., is used as the catalyst.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004175434-A (JP)
Title: Dual container
Inventor: OMOTE HIROYUKI
IPC: B65D83/76
Filed: 2002-11-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dual container equipped with a design interesting to children.  <P>SOLUTION: In the dual container, an interior bottle 1B has its thin-walled body part 3B hung down from the mouth-neck part 2B engaged with the inside of the neck part 2A of an exterior bottle 1A, and the whole of the exterior form of the thin-walled body is shaped modeling after a character, etc., and the exterior bottle 1A is made transparent.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004180173-A (JP)
Title: Imaging device
Inventor: TSUGITA MAKOTO
IPC: G06T5/00
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a main subject image determining device which prevents wrong decisions, when retrieving an area of a human face.  <P>SOLUTION: A main subject image is pre-photographed previously is retrieved (step 22). If the horizontal size of the retrieved image is 1/10 or larger than that of a photographic range and the number of the retrieved image is one ("Yes" in step 23), a histogram of the image is calculated (step 24). If distribution in the histogram is 40% or larger than the intensity range ("Yes" in step 25), soft-tone characteristics for a portrait are set (step 26), and soft-tone processing is performed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004186844-A (JP)
Title: Camera apparatus
Inventor: IMANISHI SHINYA
IPC: H04N19/70
Filed: 2002-12-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a camera apparatus capable of recording and transmitting compressed image data before and after the occurrence of a fault with high image quality and selecting a compression system matching the expansion decoding system of a transmission destination by acquiring the compressed image data without missing even when data transmission is disabled depending on a state of a transmission path with respect to the camera apparatus having a first encoding means for applying compression encoding to an imaged video image to transmit the image to a network and a second encoding means for applying compression encoding to the video image to record the image to a recording means.  <P>SOLUTION: The camera apparatus can acquire required compressed image data through the configuration wherein a first encoding section 102 applies compression encoding to image data generated by a camera section 101 with an expansion decoding system in matching with that of a transmission destination, the resulting image data are transmitted to a transmission path such as a network, a second encoding section 103 applies compression encoding to the same generated image data by a compression system providing higher definition than that of the compressed image data generated by the first encoding section 102, and an image recording section 105 stores the generated compressed image data.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004185291-A (JP)
Title: Double adjustable pedal
Inventor: FUJIWARA NOBORU
IPC: B60T7/06
Filed: 2002-12-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light and inexpensive double adjustable pedal of which the number of parts is made small in which the arrangement positions of a pair of pedals adjustable backward and forward can be relatively freely set.  <P>SOLUTION: An interlocking link 48 is arranged to link a first pedal shaft 38 to a second pedal shaft 58, and a second adjustment link 56 is rotated around a second supporting shaft 28 by a single adjusting device 32 so that a first adjustment link 36 can be rotated around a first supporting shaft 26 through an interlocking link 48, and that the backward and forward positions of a pair of first pedal 40 and second pedal 60 can be simultaneously adjusted. The interlocking link 48 is arranged to link the first pedal shaft 38 to the second pedal shaft 58 to which the first pedal 40 and the second pedal 60 are linked. Thus, it is possible to provide a simple, light and inexpensive double adjustable pedal of which the number of parts is made smaller than that at the time of separately arranging an interlocking lever arm, and to arrange the double adjustable pedal in a limited space.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004189518-A (JP)
Title: Method for preparing highly concentrated calcium carbonate slurry
Inventor: YAMASHITA KAZUO
IPC: C01F11/18
Filed: 2002-12-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a highly concentrated, low-viscous calcium carbonate slurry which shows a sharp particle distribution profile and is excellent in dispersibility and fluidity.  <P>SOLUTION: Lime milk, obtained through absorption of carbon dioxide by slaked lime milk, is concentrated to achieve a solid content of ≥30% and heated and dehydrated at ≥100°C to form a highly concentrated cake. After granulating the highly concentrated cake, water and a viscosity-reducing agent are added to form the slurry with a desirable concentration. This yields the low-viscous, low-flow slurry having a concentration of 70-90%. The highly concentrated slurry is used to manufacture coated paper excellent in printability.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004193896-A (JP)
Title: Cdma type portable telephone
Inventor: TANIGAWA MITSURU
IPC: H04B1/707
Filed: 2002-12-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a CDMA type portable telephone which can properly establish a positional registration or a communication such as the transmission and the reception of a voice and data at the time of closing power supply time or at the time of moving out of a communication range to the communication range, even when a difference exists in the gains of a transmitting band and a receiving band in an antenna.  <P>SOLUTION: When the transmission level of a transmission signal is decided in response to the level of the signal received from a base station, a gain difference is calculated from the gain of the transmitting frequency and the gain of the frequency of the receiving signal according to a gain information table 100, the transmitting level decided in response to the level of the receiving signal is corrected by using the corrected transmitting level, and the signal is transmitted at the corrected transmitting level. Thus, since the CDMA type portable telephone 1 can transmit the signal at the level expected by the base station even when the gain difference exists in the transmitting band and the receiving band, the positional registration at the time of closing power supply or at the time of moving out of the communication range to the communication range, the communication such as the transmission, the reception etc. of the voice and the data can be properly established.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004191174-A (JP)
Title: Navigation system, method and program
Inventor: ICHIKAWA HIROMICHI
IPC: G01C21/26
Filed: 2002-12-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a navigation system, a method and a program capable of updating landmark data surely, accurately and inexpensively, by automatically carrying out updating processes such as a new data adding process, a position correcting process or the like about the landmark data representing facilities of a communication partner, on the basis of position coordinates at which data communication is carried out by using an ETC.  <P>SOLUTION: In the navigation system, a vehicle-mounted ETC (electronic toll collection system) automatically carries out the updating processes such as the new data adding process, the position correcting process or the like, in the case the landmark data contained in map data differs from actual conditions, on the basis of facility relational data representing the kind of facilities or the like and own vehicle positional data obtained during a period when the data communication with the facilities such as a tollbooth, a shop or the like is carried out to clear the charge. Therefore, the landmark data can be updated surely, accurately and inexpensively without communicating with a server and without forcing a user to carry out complex operations, and thereby improving the accuracy of the navigation.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003266512-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing heat-resistant paper container for heat cooking
Inventor: KUROKAWA YOICHI
IPC: B29K67/00
Filed: 2002-12-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat-resistant container which is excellent in food storing properties; can be used as it is for cooking by a heat cooking machine such as a microwave oven and an oven; is tasteless and odorless; gives no change in taste and odor of a food after cooking.  <P>SOLUTION: A laminated body prepared by laminating a heat-resistant paper with a polybutylene terephthalate resin with a terminal carboxyl group content of less than 60 m-equivalent/kg by controlling a ratio of crystallization of the polybutylene terephthalate resin in a range of 10-30%, is molded into the heat- resistant paper container for heat cooking.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004026789-A (JP)
Title: Energy-active sulfonium salt and its application
Inventor: KAMABUCHI AKIRA
IPC: C07C381/12
Filed: 2002-12-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel sulfonium salt having anionic species with strong acidity and a chemically amplified positive resist composition containing the sulfonium salt and a resin component, suitable for an excimer laser lithography and having excellent resolving property of isolated patterns.  <P>SOLUTION: The sulfonium salt expressed by formula (1') is obtained. In the formula, Q is a 3-7 C cloaliphatic hydrocarbon group which completes a ring with S<SP>+</SP>shown in the formula; Q<SP>3</SP>is a hydrogen atom; Q<SP>4</SP>is a 1-6 C alkyl group, a 3-10 cycloalkyl group, or a 6-14 C aryl group or Q<SP>3</SP>combines with Q<SP>4</SP>to form a 2-oxocycloalkyl group together with an adjacent CHC(O) group; and Q<SP>5</SP>and Q<SP>6</SP>are each a 1-4 C perfluoroalkyl group. The chemically amplified positive resist composition containing the sulfonium salt and a resin which has polymerization units each having a group unstable to acids, is insoluble or hardly soluble in an alkali, and becomes alkali-soluble by the action of an acid is obtained.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003264812-A (JP)
Title: Points totaling system and receiving terminal device
Inventor: MIZUGUCHI KAZUMI
IPC: H04N7/16
Filed: 2002-12-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system which provides a variety of services by using an electronic program guide (EPG) and encourages the use of such services.  <P>SOLUTION: Pressing an EPG key on a remote control outputs EPG-related information accumulated in a RAM onto an image display unit 2. The EPG 50 is displayed on the upper 4/5 portion of the screen of the image display unit 2, with service information displayed in a column 60 on the remaining 1/5 portion. The column 60 displays questionnaire, commercial, commodity sale, and retrieval service; when a user selects a service of one's choice out of these on-screen services, the user can receive that service and, in addition, obtain points set corresponding to each service, thereby encouraging the use of these services.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004196924-A (JP)
Title: Polymer-fixed formamide and catalyst thereof and method of allylation reaction
Inventor: KOBAYASHI OSAMU
IPC: C08F8/30
Filed: 2002-12-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new organic catalyst using a metallic component, highly easy to recover from a synthetic reaction product and reuse, or to provide a polymer-fixed organic substance useful as e.g. an intermediate for synthesis, and a catalyst with the same as the active component, and to provide a method of allylation reaction for an aldehyde compound using the catalyst.  <P>SOLUTION: A polymer-fixed formamide as the catalyst represented by the formula[ wherein, R<SP>1</SP>is a (substituted) hydrocarbon chain optionally having a cyclic portion and/or heteroatom(s); R<SP>2</SP>is a (substituted) hydrocarbon group or (substituted) hydrocarbon chain forming a ring through binding to R<SP>1</SP>; and the black circle denotes a polymeric element ] is provided.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004198684-A (JP)
Title: Electronic equipment with built-in camera
Inventor: SASAKI RYUTA
IPC: H04N5/225
Filed: 2002-12-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily incorporate a variable focus imaging optical system in electronic equipment at a low cost.  <P>SOLUTION: First and second cam frames 26, 31 are arranged on both outsides of first and second lens holding frames 24, 25 and a spring 29 is arranged between the first and second lens holding frames 24, 25. The spring 29 energizes the first and second lens holding frames 24, 25 to directions which cause cam pins 33, 35 which are provided in the first and second lens holding frames 24, 25 to be respectively in contact with first and second cam surfaces 34, 36 which are provided in the first and second cam frames 26, 31. Ring-shaped permanent magnets 37, 38 are formed in circumferences of first and second lens holding frames 28, 30 and the frames 28, 30 rotate in synchronization by the attraction between the magnets 37, 38 and a magnet 39 provided in a rotating barrel 32 and move in accordance with the displacement of the first and second cam surfaces 34, 36.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004200032-A (JP)
Title: External operating handle of circuit breaker
Inventor: HATAYAMA YUTAKA
IPC: H01H73/02
Filed: 2002-12-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an external operating handle that can make display of "contact-ON " which can be applied to a circuit breaker conforming to a disconnect (isolation ) function.  <P>SOLUTION: This external operating handle for circuit breaker comprises a frame 2 which axially supports the rotation shaft 1a of the handle 1, and two twist springs 8 and energizing springs 9 which support a slider 7 capable of moving linearly to the frame 4 integrated with the frame 2 and, by engaging with this slider 7 a knob 10a of the circuit breaker 10 and an offset pin 6 for converting the rotation of the handle 1 into linear movement respectively, energize in opposition the slider 7 or the rotation shaft 1a of the handle 1 in "ON" direction and "OFF" direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003263077-A (JP)
Title: Apparatus with operation procedure guide and method for guiding the operation procedure of the apparatus
Inventor: KROLCZYK MARC J
IPC: B41J29/42
Filed: 2002-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically guide operators through about various sequences for maintenance and repair without referring to electronic manuals, UIs, etc., one after another.  <P>SOLUTION: For example, a sensor in a printer 30 detects a paper jam of a copy sheet feeder 12 and informs an operator by an unillustrated UI that two main cabinet doors need to the opened. The operator views an illuminated fixture 15 for disassembly such as a handle immediately after opening the cabinet doors 20 and 21. For the illumination, for example, an LED, etc., embedded in the fixture 15 is preferably used. The illumination immediately attracts operator's attention to the fixture 15 for disassembly to let the operator know that step should be taken first. After the 1st step is correctly completed, the illumination of the fixture 15 goes off and other illumination attracts the operator's attention to a fixture which should be operated next. The illumination of the fixture 15 does not goes off until operations of the fixture 15 are correctly completed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004205613-A (JP)
Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus
Inventor: TOMITA KUNIHIKO
IPC: G03G15/20
Filed: 2002-12-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce energy consumption and steadily fix an image, in a fixing device using a fixing belt.  <P>SOLUTION: An endless fixing belt 53 is applied to a fixed heating element 50, a drive roller 51, and a follower roller 52. An endless pressure belt 60 is applied to the pressure member 55 and the follower roller 59. The pressing member is pressed by a spring 58, and the elastic body 57 of the pressure member is pressed against the fixed heating element 50 via the pressure belt 60 and the fixing belt 53. Thus, while a recording medium is conveyed by running the fixing belt through rotation of a drive roller, pressing force is first exerted to the recording medium by the pressing member in the beginning of fixing, thereby prefixing an unfixed image under pressure. Then, the unfixed image on the recording medium is heated and fixed by the fixed heating element for 50 msec or longer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004206265-A (JP)
Title: Coin processing machine
Inventor: SEKINE MASASHI
IPC: G07D3/00
Filed: 2002-12-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coin processing machine capable of preventing a carrying belt from being deviated from a carrying pulley in carrying each coin by the carrying belt while guiding the coin by a coin guide passage of a folded shape.  <P>SOLUTION: The coin processing machine comprises the coin guide passage 42 of the folded shape which is constituted of three straight parts 48-50 and a carrying means 43 for moving each coin along the coin guide passage 42. The carrying means 43 comprises carrying pulleys 202B-202E arranged so that respective axial lines are parallel with the passage surface 41 of the coin guide passage 42 while making pairs with respective straight parts 48-50 on the upstream side and the downstream side, three carrying belts 44-46 spread on respective carrying pulleys 202B-202E making pairs and arranged on respective straight parts 48-50 to carry the coin and a driving force transmission part 222 for driving these three carrying belts 44-46 by the driving force of one driving source.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004205792-A (JP)
Title: Automatic focusing control method and image recording device
Inventor: ITOU TAKEYOSHI
IPC: H04N5/232
Filed: 2002-12-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic focusing control method capable of excellently focusing a photographic scene that is hard for servo AF control to handle, and to provide an image recording device.  <P>SOLUTION: Automatic focusing control is realized by providing an AF switch button (a portion of an operation part 58) which switches lens movement control from: the servo AF control wherein a focusing position is searched for during moving picture photography by constantly moving a photographic lens 12; to one-shot AF control wherein the photographic lens is stopped at a target focusing position to lock focusing. To avoid a photographic scene that is hard to handle for the servo AF control or a failure in putting the photographic lens 12 in focus, the AF switch button is switched from the servo AF control to the one-shot AF control and then excellent focusing is realized. The focusing of the photographic lens which is obtained once is locked, and hence stable focusing is obtained.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004205364-A (JP)
Title: Guiding system
Inventor: ANDOU MASAMOTO
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2002-12-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an easy-to-use guiding system which executes a route guidance without displaying routes for moving.  <P>SOLUTION: In the system, a guidance center 2 computes the routes between a starting place and a destination whose data are transmitted from a vehicle 1, and makes guiding voice data which show branch points on the routes. In the case such a judgement is made that the vehicle 1 deviates from the route or gets close to a branch point, based on information on current positions and moving speeds transmitted from the vehicle, the guiding voice data showing the deviation from the route or showing the branch point are transmitted to the vehicle 1, and the route guidance is executed audibly.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI