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Patent JP-2003247833-A (JP)
Title: Car navigation system
Inventor: SUMITOMO YOSHITAKA
IPC: G09B29/10
Filed: 2002-02-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inhibit a car navigation system with a communicating function from executing downloading map information from a server when a user does not need it.  <P>SOLUTION: The system is made up so that the user can set and select whether the user permits or not downloading the map information into a vehicle from the server during the travel. When next map information is required, a map is displayed by using the next map information in the case it is previously downloaded into a memory card (step 101-106). In the case that the next map information is not downloaded previously, and downloading the map information is permitted, it is downloaded from the server and written into the memory card so as to be enable to use it (step 101, 107-109). In the case downloading is not permitted, a wide area map which is previously stored in the memory card, is used, enlarged and displayed by reducing its scale factor (step 107, 110).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003162326-A (JP)
Title: Group robot system, sensing robot used therefor, base station and pheromone robot
Inventor: HARA KEITA
IPC: G05D1/02
Filed: 2002-02-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a group robot system which can extend the range of search in the condition that a base station is stopped.  <P>SOLUTION: The communication system of the group robot system 100 is made to have a hierarchical structure composed of sensing robot groups 102, 103 and 104, having the base station 101 as the uppermost layer. In the hierarchical structure, information on the control of the operation of each of the sensing robot groups 102, 103 and 104 is transmitted in descending order to the sensing robot groups 102, 103 and 104 in the lower part of the hierarchical structure, and information on the search of the object of each of the sensing robot groups 102, 103 and 104 is transmitted in ascending order from each of the sensing robot groups 102, 103 and 104 to the base station 101 in the upper part of the hierarchical structure.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002329217-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for encoding morphologic deformation information of three-dimensional object
Inventor: KIM SEONG-JIN
IPC: G06T19/00
Filed: 2002-02-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for encoding three-dimensional object morphologic deformation information. SOLUTION: This method for encoding vertex information constituting the morphology of a three-dimensional object by a key framing method for the morphological deformation of the three-dimensional object includes a stage where a parser 205 analyzes node information on the three-dimensional object to extract a key indicating the position of a key frame on the time axis, a key value showing characteristic information of the key frame from the key, and its related information, a stage where a vertex connectivity processing part 215 generates vertex connectivity information from the related information on the key value, a stage where an ADPCM processing part 205 generates respective difference values between keys for removing the redundancy of time data and key values for removing the redundancy of spatiotemporal data, a stage where the difference values are quantized,  and a stage where the quantized keys and key values are inputted to an entropy encoding part and redundancy between bits is removed to generated a compressed bit stream.
Patent JP-2003257904-A (JP)
Title: Polishing composition and method for forming wiring structure using the same
Inventor: ONO KOJI
IPC: B24B37/00
Filed: 2002-03-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a polishing composition which can polish tungsten at a high speed, and simultaneously can prevent the contamination of a polished object by iron, and a method for forming a wiring structure using the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The polishing composition is prepared by mixing (A) silicon dioxide, (B) at least one kind selected from periodic acid and its salts, (C) at least one kind selected from tetraalkylammonium hydroxide and tetraalkylammonium chloride, (D) hydrochloric acid, and (E) water.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003256925-A (JP)
Title: Serpentine type commodity storing rack for automatic vending machine
Inventor: TAKENAKA KENGO
IPC: G07F11/34
Filed: 2002-03-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a serpentine type commodity storing rack so that the dropping attitude of a charged commodity can be prevented from being disturbed due to interference between a square hole of a movable side plate arranged in a commodity passage and the commodity and the commodity can be stored in a stable attitude.  <P>SOLUTION: The movable side plate 8 and a parallel link mechanism for holding the side plate 8 in a vertical attitude are arranged in the commodity passage of the serpentine type commodity storing rack, the parallel link mechanism consists of a combination of a pair of upper and lower links 9 and a link connection board 10, the link connection board 10 is arranged along a channel part 8a of the side plate 8 from the commodity passage side, and bearing parts 10a formed on the upper and lower ends of the connection board 10 are inserted into square holes 8a-1 opened on the channel part 8a of the side plate 8 so as to be mutually coupled with the links 9 and bearing parts 10b of the side plate 8. In this case, a guard rail 8d connecting the upper and lower edges of the square hole 8a-1 of the side plate 8 and projected to the commodity passage side is formed as a protection means for preventing the square hole 8a-1 from being blocked up with a cap of a charged commodity (plastic bottle) to stabilize the dropping attitude of the charged commodity.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003257539-A (JP)
Title: Structure of waterproof connector
Inventor: SUZAKI HIROAKI
IPC: H01R13/52
Filed: 2002-03-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve waterproofing of an electric wire connecting part in a waterproof connector.  <P>SOLUTION: With the structure of the waterproof connector structured by including a housing 16 housing inside a terminal connected to a tip part of an electric wire and a sealing member 20 wrapping up the electric wire 12 in an axial direction, insertion-coupled with a terminal insertion opening 18 formed at one end of the housing 16 and plugging and sealing the terminal insertion opening, tubular parts 22 having an inner wall continuing to an inner wall of the terminal insertion opening are formed in protrusion at an end of the housing 16, and at the same time, a solid cylindrical lid part 20A with its end faces formed almost flat is set in the sealing member 20 which plugs opening ends of the tubular parts 22 by pinching the inner and the outer walls of the tubular parts 22 while wrapping up the electric wire 12 in the axial direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003262122-A (JP)
Title: Heat exchanger for engine
Inventor: MIYAZAKI HIROAKI
IPC: F01P3/20
Filed: 2002-03-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat exchanger for an engine capable of improving durability of a cooling member and efficiently cooling exhaust gas.  <P>SOLUTION: In this heat exchanger for an engine 1 arranged in an engine 1 wherein a cylinder head 5 and an exhaust manifold 6 are cooled with cooling water, a cooling water discharge opening 56 of the cylinder head 5 is arranged in the vicinity of an exhaust-gas path 61 of the exhaust manifold 6. The cooling water discharge opening 56 of the cylinder head 5 is made to coincide with a thermal expansion direction of the exhaust manifold 6, and a connection pipe 9 inserted in the cooling water discharge opening 56 of the cylinder head 5 is provided with an O ring 10.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003261444-A (JP)
Title: Hemangioendothelial function improving agent
Inventor: SUZUKI ATSUSHI
IPC: A61P9/14
Filed: 2002-03-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an agent for the prevention and treatment of arteriosclerosis by promoting an NO action and improving a hemangioendothelial function, having high safety and orally administrable over a long period and, accordingly, usable not only as a medicine but also as a functional food, a specified health food, or the like.  <P>SOLUTION: The agent for the prevention and treatment of arteriosclerosis as the agent for promoting the NO action and as the agent for improving the hemangioendothelial function is composed of one or more components selected from chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, ferulic acid and their salts.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003264431-A (JP)
Title: Signal generator
Inventor: WAKAMATSU HIDEAKI
IPC: H03B28/00
Filed: 2002-03-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent increase of amplitude variation and spurious radiation in a specific frequency due to an output phase in a signal generator including a DDS oscillator.  <P>SOLUTION: In the case of generating an output signal in a prescribed frequency by providing a first DDS oscillator 10 with a reference clock and frequency data from a second DDS oscillator (reference clock generating origin) 20 and an oscillator control means 40, a frequency of the reference clock to be outputted from the second DDS oscillator 20 is made controllable by the oscillator control means 40. When the reference clock is defined as a default frequency, whether or not the output signal of the first DDS oscillator 10 is integer/integer of the default frequency (for example, 1/integer) is discriminated, when the output signal is not integer/integer, the reference clock is set as the default frequency, and when the output signal is integer/integer, the reference clock is set as a frequency shifted from the default frequency by the prescribed frequency.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003262678-A (JP)
Title: Scintillator panel for radiation detector, and manufacturing method thereof
Inventor: NAGANO KAZUMI
IPC: G01T1/20
Filed: 2002-03-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a uniform phosphor layer by providing a phosphor-supporting substrate, without warpages in a scintillator for radiation detectors, where a columnar phosphor is formed on the support substrate.  <P>SOLUTION: The scintillator panel for radiation detectors has a stress- relaxing layer located between a phosphor-support substrate and a phosphor layer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003274238-A (JP)
Title: Digital camera
Inventor: CHAN RAYMOND
IPC: H05K5/02
Filed: 2002-03-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a digital camera in which a shutter switch being fixed to the end face part of a circuit board can be supported well.  <P>SOLUTION: A shutter supporting member 96 is fixed to a circuit board 86, a shutter switch 94 is mounted on the shutter supporting face 96A of the shutter supporting member 96 and then the shutter switch 94 is connected electrically with the circuit board 86 by soldering, or the like. Depressing force of the key top of a shutter button can be received by the shutter supporting member 96 through the shutter switch 94.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003273443-A (JP)
Title: Method and circuit for setting laser bias current of laser printer
Inventor: YAMAMOTO HIROYUKI
IPC: B41J2/44
Filed: 2002-03-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a circuit for setting a laser bias current of a laser printer for providing the laser printer of stable image quality.  <P>SOLUTION: A bias current setting device for a laser printer that forms an image by scanning with laser comprises a bias current setting means for setting a bias current of a laser diode, a monitor means for monitoring the output light of the laser diode, a comparing means for comprising the output of the monitor means at lighting the laser diode for all the time during a single pixel period, with an output of the monitor means at lighting while for a specified time during a single pixel period, and a bias current deciding means for deciding a bias current value of the laser diode based on the result of the comparison of the comparing means.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002363343-A (JP)
Title: Additive for cellulose ester film and cellulose ester film
Inventor: TAKEUCHI HIROSHI
IPC: C08J5/18
Filed: 2002-03-14
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To exactly achieve objective optical characteristics of a cellulose ester film even when it is stretched at a low draw ratio. SOLUTION: A rod-shaped compound represented by formula (I): Ar<1> -L<1> -Ar<2> (wherein Ar<1> and Ar<2> are each independently an aromatic group; and L<1> is a divalent binding group selected from the group consisting of alkylene groups, alkenylene groups, alkynylene groups, divalent saturated heterocyclic groups, -O-, -CO- and combinations thereof) and having a maximum absorption wavelength (λmax) shorter then 250 nm in the ultraviolet absorption spectrum of its solution is added to a cellulose ester film.
Patent JP-2003269103-A (JP)
Title: Scroll expansion machine and its driving method
Inventor: HASEGAWA HIROSHI
IPC: F01C20/00
Filed: 2002-03-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an extreme reduction of energy generated from an introduced fluid by producing a volume ratio and an introduction volume corresponding to introduced pressure.  <P>SOLUTION: This scroll expansion machine comprises a bypath port 14 for communicating a high pressure part 7 at its predetermined position with an operation chamber located between a minimum position side and a maximum position side and a valve mechanism 15 provided in the bypath port 14, which is open when the introduced pressure Ps as pressure in the high pressure part 7 is a set one or less.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003266330-A (JP)
Title: Stapler
Inventor: URANO AKIYOSHI
IPC: B25C5/02
Filed: 2002-03-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stapler which can pull a staple out extremely easily of a sewn paper even if the number of sheets of paper sewn by staples is small.  <P>SOLUTION: In this stapler for binding a plurality of sheets with the staple by pressing the U-shaped staple onto a base having a groove in the predetermined shape with a plurality of sheets between them, the groove of the base is formed in such a shape that both ends of the staple is bent in the same direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002312290-A (JP)
Title: Method of electronic mail
Inventor: MILOVANOVIC RAJKO
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2002-03-15
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To safely transmit a message to a correct receiver. SOLUTION: This improved method of transmitting electronic mails includes a message step for generating a message, an address step for addressing an envelope for sending the message, and a stuff and send step for sending the message. The address step is not permitted till the message is proofread and signed, and the stuff and send step is not permitted till the address is listed.
Patent JP-2003011802-A (JP)
Title: Brake hydraulic pressure control unit for on-vehicle device
Inventor: OISHI YUJI
IPC: B60T8/34
Filed: 2002-03-18
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a resistance property to metallic corrosion such as galvanic corrosion without increasing the size of the device and a manufacturing cost. SOLUTION: A cover member 21 of a reservoir 15 attached to a cylinder bore 18 of a base block 11 is formed by aluminum material same as the base block 11. The base block 11 and the cover member 21 are contacted with each other by the same aluminum material, so that the progress of galvanic corrosion can be certainly prevented even if brake liquid or moisture is adhered to an inner surface and an outer peripheral surface of the cover member 21 under an outside air atmosphere. The cover member 21 need not to be covered with a cover and subjected to surface treatment, thereby simultaneously downsizing the device and decreasing a manufacturing cost.
Patent JP-2003274259-A (JP)
Title: Electronic view finder indication system
Inventor: KITAMURA NOBUO
IPC: H04N5/232
Filed: 2002-03-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic view finder indication system which can suppress the consumption of battery energy and the heat generation by image indication, by changing the speed of indicating an image in a liquid crystal view finder, corresponding to the motion of a subject.  <P>SOLUTION: The image of a subject is picked up by a camera part 17, and the image data are sent to a CPU 14. The CPU 14 captures images at a speed of 15 frames/speed though it was captured them at a speed of 30 frames/second at first unless a motion detection means 14a detects a motion for a certain time. In case that the motion detection means 14a detects the motion within a certain time when its is performing image processing at a speed of 15 frames/ second, it returns the capture speed to that of 30 frames/second. The CPU 14 indicates the processed image data on an LCD 3 after performing image thinning processing so that it can indicate them with the number of picture elements of the image resolution of the LCD 3.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003271143-A (JP)
Title: Device and method for providing playing sound, communication terminal, program and recording medium
Inventor: KOSEKI SHINYA
IPC: G10H1/00
Filed: 2002-03-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user to acquire the playing sound made by his/her desired musical instrument even though the user has no desired musical instrument.  <P>SOLUTION: When a playing sound providing device 30 receives from a communication terminal 10 a musical sound file including the designation of musical sound pitch and sounding timing, the playing sound providing device 30 stores in a storage device 302 a playing sound file representing sounds emitted from a prescribed musical instrument when the musical instrument is automatically played on the basis of the musical sound file. Further, the playing sound providing device 30 transmits the playing sound file stored in the storage device 302 to the communication terminal 10. Meanwhile, the communication terminal 10 outputs sounds on the basis of the playing sound file.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003267076-A (JP)
Title: Driving force transmission device for four-wheel drive vehicle
Inventor: TAKAHASHI TSUKASA
IPC: B60K6/38
Filed: 2002-03-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving force transmission device for a four-wheel drive vehicle, having simplified mechanical construction for preventing the hunting of a clutch.  <P>SOLUTION: The driving force transmission device comprises a sun gear 11 to which driving force is input from a first or second driving source, a planetary gear 12 meshing with the sun gear 11, a ring gear 13 meshing with the planetary gear 12, a carrier 14 pivotally supporting the planetary gear 12, to which rotating force to be transmitted to other wheels 2 is output, one clutch member 16 to be rotated together with the ring gear 12, the other clutch 16 to be rotated together with the carrier 14, an elastic member 17 for energizing both clutch members 16 in the direction of fastening each other, and a centrifugal element member 18 using centrifugal force for thrusting both clutch members 16 in the direction of releasing each other. A planetary gear set 10 is so constructed that the thrust of the ring gear 13, generated by mutually meshing the gears, is applied to both clutch members 16 in the direction of releasing each other in accordance with driving force input to the sun gear 14.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003277870-A (JP)
Title: Aluminum alloy sheet having excellent bending workability and hardenability in coating/baking, and production method thereof
Inventor: UCHIDA HIDETOSHI
IPC: C22C21/06
Filed: 2002-03-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an aluminum alloy sheet which has excellent bending workability capable of flatting hem working, has excellent hardenability in coating/baking, and further has excellent corrosion resistance, and to provide a production method thereof.  <P>SOLUTION: The aluminum alloy sheet comprises 0.5 to 2.0% Si and 0.2 to 1.5% Mg, and satisfying 0.7Si%+Mg%≤2.2%, and the balance Al with impurities. Alternatively, the aluminum alloy sheet comprises one or more kinds of metals selected from ≤0.5% Zn, ≤1.0% Cu, ≤1.0% Mn, ≤0.3% Cr, ≤0.2% V, ≤0.2% Zr, ≤0.1% Ti and ≤50 ppm B in addition to the composition of the above aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy sheet has the characteristics that the intensity ratio in the Cube orientation of the texture is ≥20. A cast ingot is homogenized at ≥450°C, is thereafter cooled to a prescribed temperature of <350°C at a cooling rate of ≥100°C/h, and is hot-rolled at the same prescribed temperature. The sheet is further cold-rolled, and is subsequently solution-treated and quenched at ≥500°C, so that the aluminum alloy sheet is produced.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003279422-A (JP)
Title: Heat quantity integration display label
Inventor: KANZAKI REIKO
IPC: G01K11/06
Filed: 2002-03-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that a low-cost means does not exist, for knowing the total heat quantity received by an object body with the passage of time, which is required to be known as well as a mere temperature change at each time or instantaneous temperature information, relative to some of articles requiring temperature control.  <P>SOLUTION: Pigment-containing wax 2 formed by dispersing a pigment in wax starting fusion at a temperature set beforehand is superimposed on the wide side end of an oblong wax absorber 1 having a tapered plane shape having the width reducing in proportion to the distance from one end toward the other end in the longitudinal direction, and the whole surface of the wax absorber 1 and the pigment-containing wax 2 is covered with a transparent film 5.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2002366737-A (JP)
Title: System/device for providing cooking related information, cooking appliance, method for providing the information, method for obtaining the information, program for providing the information and program for obtaining the information
Inventor: KUDO TAKAHIRO
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2002-03-22
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily provide and obtain proper recipe data, etc., corresponding to the user of a microwave oven. SOLUTION: A recommended data determining part 508 determines recommended menus based on history information on the using history, etc., of the electronic range sent from a transmission source and a recommendation rule stored in a recommendation rule database 507, and information showing the determined recommendation menus is transmitted from a data transmission part 506. When the transmission instruction of the recipe data on one of the recommended menus is sent from the transmission source, cooking information such as recipe data according to the instruction is read from a cooking menu database 509 and transmitted from the part 506.
Patent JP-2003009528-A (JP)
Title: Dc-dc converter, and control method there for
Inventor: NISHIYAMA TOMOHIRO
IPC: H02M3/28
Filed: 2002-03-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a DC-DC converter which reduces the loss at a light load, and a control method for the DC-DC converter. SOLUTION: This DC-DC converter is obtained by modifying a conventional DC-DC converter where a main switching element applies the power from a power source intermittently to the primary winding of a transformer for converting the voltage, and an active clamp circuit where at least a capacitor and a sub switching circuit are connected in series is connected in parallel. This device has a first controller which turns on/off the main switching circuit based on the error between the output voltage and the desired output voltage, and a second controller which turns on the above subswitching element for a specified time after turning off the main switching element.