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Patent JP-2004096455-A (JP)
Title: Apparatus and system for optical spatial communication
Inventor: WATANABE JIICHI
IPC: H04B10/11
Filed: 2002-08-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a system for optical spatial communication that can stably communicate even if a deviation from an opposite-side apparatus in the short-diameter direction of a beam irradiation pattern is large when a light emission part forming beam irradiation patterns in a long circular shape is used.  <P>SOLUTION: An optical spatial communication apparatus 10 which communicates with the opposite-side apparatus installed at a distance place by using a light beam is provided with a plurality of light emission parts 11a to 11d which emit light beams forming irradiation patterns 15a to 15d in a nearly long circular shape respectively, wherein the light emission parts being so set that beam irradiation patterns from at least two of the plurality of light emission parts overlap with each other at a photodetection part of the opposite-side apparatus and the width of a composite irradiation pattern, formed of a group of light beams from the plurality of light emission parts, in the short-diameter direction of the beam irradiation pattern from one light emission part is ≥1.5 time as large as the short-diameter directional width of the irradiation pattern of the light beam from the one light emission part.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004092234-A (JP)
Title: Shield starting device for branch-line shield tunneling machine
Inventor: HONDA FUMIO
IPC: E21D9/06
Filed: 2002-08-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a branch tunnel to be constructed in a desired direction at any angle with respect to a main-line tunnel.  <P>SOLUTION: Cylindrical lining steel 11 is provide so as to open an area of a special segment which is arranged in the branch position of the main-line tunnel 5; a rotating sleeve 13 with a starting pit mouth 15 is rotatably supported inside the lining steel 11; and a part between the lining steel 11 and the rotating sleeve 13 is sealed with a first sealing member 43 on both the sides of the special segment 9. A branch-line shield machine 1, which is sealed with a second sealing member 45, is assembled to the pit mouth 15; the rotating sleeve 13 is rotated by a rotating-sleeve driving means 33; and the shield tunneling machine 1 is positioned in the desired branch direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004102359-A (JP)
Title: Image processing device, method and program
Inventor: MUKODA SHIGERU
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2002-09-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing device, method and program for extracting the characteristic of a specific attribute of an image without depending on subjectivity.  <P>SOLUTION: A plurality of personal face images are stored. Coordinate values of a plurality of characteristic points of each stored face image are extracted. An age attribute value of each face image is acquired. The shape characteristic vector F<SB>i</SB>of each face image is configurated by using the coordinate values of the plurality of characteristic points and the age attribute value acquired for each face image. A characteristic value σ<SB>1</SB>of a first main component is calculated by analyzing the main component on the basis of the shape characteristic vector F<SB>i</SB>of the plurality of face images. A main component characteristic vector P<SB>max</SB>, P<SB>min</SB>of the first main component is configurated by using a characteristic value σ<SB>1</SB>of the first main component. A face shape vector F<SB>max</SB>, F<SB>min</SB>of the first main component is configurated by using the characteristic value σ<SB>1</SB>of the first main component. The face shape vector F<SB>max</SB>, F<SB>min</SB>of the first main component is reconfigurated by using the characteristic value σ<SB>1</SB>of the first main component, and the age characteristic vector F representing the age attribute characteristic is extracted. The face image of the desired age is composed by using the age characteristic vector F.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004103952-A (JP)
Title: Quantum logic element using exciton and quantum logic operation method
Inventor: KOMORI KAZUHIRO
IPC: H01L29/82
Filed: 2002-09-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a quantum logic element using exciton and a quantum logic operation method which enable great reduction in a fundamental operation time by large increase of a decoherence and an extremely ultra-short pulse laser technique.  <P>SOLUTION: The quantum logic element is constituted of two semiconductor quantum well structures (a, b) of different widths. The quantum logic element utilizes inter-selfpolarization interaction between excitons having polarization which is subjected to optical excitation to each quantum well structure in a magnetic field applied at a desired angle θ to a substrate with a semiconductor quantum well structure. Instead of the inter-selfpolarization interaction, it utilizes spin exchange interaction between excitons subjected to spin selective excitation of the same energy having opposite direction each other, which is produced in each semiconductor quantum well structure by right-handed circularly polarized light cast to the semiconductor quantum well structure (a) and left-handed circularly polarized light cast to the semiconductor quantum well structure (b) in a magnetic field applied at a desired angle θ to a semiconductor substrate with the semiconductor quantum well structure.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004099138-A (JP)
Title: Drink dispenser
Inventor: HIRATE YOSHIYUKI
IPC: B67D3/00
Filed: 2002-09-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To uniform a concentration of a drink housed in a drink tank by being extracted by means of dripping, dropped and supplied.  <P>SOLUTION: In a drink dispenser A which is provided with the drink tank 11 housing the drink D extracted by means of dripping, dropped and supplied from upward and having an opening 11b on the bottom portion communicating with a spout 14 and a heat insulation water vessel 12 enclosing the bottom portion and the side portion of the drink tank 11 and housing heat insulation water with which the drink D in the drink tank 11 is cooled and heat insulated, the drunk D in the drink tank 11 being capable of being spouted from the spout 14, an introduction pipe 22 is mounted to collect and house the drink D dropped and supplied from the upward portion of the drink tank 11 in an upper end opening portion 22a and introduce it within the bottom portion of the drink tank 11.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004048631-A (JP)
Title: Piezoelectric oscillator
Inventor: SATO TOMIO
IPC: H03B5/12
Filed: 2002-09-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oscillation circuit of which the low voltage operation is possible, with high stability and which enables low power consumption and low crystal current.  <P>SOLUTION: A serial circuit of a capacitor C1 and a capacitor C2 is inserted and connected between a base and a ground of a transistor TR1 for oscillation, a connection midpoint A of the serial circuit is connected with an emitter of the transistor TR1 for oscillation and an emitter resistance R1 is connected. Furthermore, a resistor R3 is connected with a power source VCC via a high resistor R2 on the base of the transistor TR1 and furthermore, a serial ciruit of a piezoelectric vibrator Xtal and and a capacitor C5 is inserted and connected between the base and the ground of the Transistor TR1. In addition, the emitter of the transistor TR1 is directly connected with a base of a transistor TR2 for bias control, a collector is connected with a connection midpoint B between the resistor R3 and the high resistor R2, grounded via a capacitor C3 and an emitter is further grounded. In addition, a bypass capacitor C4 is connected between the power source VCC and a ground GND.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004108162-A (JP)
Title: Windmill provided with link ring type wing passage area regulating device, and method for operating the same
Inventor: SHIBATA MASAAKI
IPC: F03D7/04
Filed: 2002-09-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a windmill provided with a wing passage area regulating device capable of changing the passage area of wings in accordance with the axial center wind speed of a rotor head by connecting a rotor head to the wings through connecting rings, and holding the output of the windmill at the maximum in such a range that the generation of fatigue breakage can be avoided, and a method for operating the same.  <P>SOLUTION: This windmill is provided with connecting rings rotatably connected to the outer circumference of the rotor head on the inner circumferential side, and bent at prescribed bend angles relative to the wings to be installed on outer circumferential sides of bent parts. It is also provided with a wing inclining mechanism to incline the wings by rotations of the connecting rings in the axial center direction of the rotor head for changing the inclination angles, so that the wing passage area is regulated.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004106618-A (JP)
Title: Rolling bearing unit for supporting wheel
Inventor: NAKAMURA YUJI
IPC: F16F15/32
Filed: 2002-09-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rolling bearing unit for supporting a wheel capable of reducing or eliminating rotational unbalance of a hub 4a while enabling a critical design of the hub 4a for weight reduction.  <P>SOLUTION: A rotation test of the hub 4a relative to an outer ring 1 is performed to investigate the rotational unbalance of the hub 4a after mutually assembling each member constituting the rolling bearing unit for supporting the wheel. When the rotation unbalance exists, a weight 24 is attached to a part of a mounting flange 8a to reduce or eliminate the rotational unbalance of the hub 4a for the outer ring 1. At this time, the critical design of the hub 4a becomes possible to solve the problem since strength of the mounting flange 8a is not lowered.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004108517-A (JP)
Title: Planetary gear train
Inventor: YAMASHITA YOZO
IPC: F16H48/20
Filed: 2002-09-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase a torque bias ratio of a planetary gear train.  <P>SOLUTION: A carrier 2 is fixed to one end opening part of a cylindrical device body 1. A carrier 2 is provided with a plurality of accommodation holes 2d extended in parallel with an axis of rotation L at intervals in the circumferential direction. Planetary gears 4 are rotatably accommodated in the accommodation holes 2d. An internal gear 5 and a sun gear 9 having axes aligned to the axis of rotation L of the device body 1 are mounted inside the device body 1. The internal gear 5 is meshed with the planetary gear 4 at its outer side. The sun gear 9 is meshed with the planetary gear 4 at its inner side. The meshing part of the internal gear 5 and the planetary gear 4, and the meshing part of the sun gear 9 and the planetary gear 4 are shifted from each other in the direction of the axis of rotation L, so that they are not overlapped in the direction of the axis of rotation L.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004112480-A (JP)
Title: Curing light irradiating method and lens block
Inventor: KANETANI SHISEI
IPC: H04N5/335
Filed: 2002-09-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a curing light irradiating method for preventing occurrence of a time difference in curing between two adhesives to thereby prevent a positional displacement between a solid-state imaging element and a lens caused by curing of the adhesives, and also to provide a lens block to which the irradiation method is applied.  <P>SOLUTION: An adhesive surface between an imaging element unit 6 and an intermediate member 8 and an adhesive surface between a holding member 7 and the intermediate member 8 are irradiated with ultraviolet ray 11 simultaneously from a direction Y1 of a bisector of an angle made between the two adhesive surfaces. Consequently, an identical quantity of ultraviolet ray 11 can be applied simultaneously onto both an adhesive 9A between the unit 6 and the intermediate member 8, and an adhesive 9B between the holding member 7 and the intermediate member 8.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004109685-A (JP)
Title: Microscope apparatus
Inventor: KAWANABE HIDEYUKI
IPC: G02B7/16
Filed: 2002-09-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a microscope apparatus which can reduce power consumption.  <P>SOLUTION: The microscope apparatus has an upper-limit sensor 12 and a lower-limit sensor 13 for detecting the state of a stage 2 mounted on a microscope main body 1; and a sensor power source control part 15 which supplies electric power to those sensors 11 and 13. When the stage movement stops, the sensor power source control part 15 stops supplying the electric power to the sensors 12 and 13 as instructed by a stage driving control part 14.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004107078-A (JP)
Title: Automatic feed trough
Inventor: INOUE TAKAHARU
IPC: B65G47/44
Filed: 2002-09-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic feed trough capable of reducing device costs by a small and simple structure, eliminating a need for supporting to a device frame and the like, making it difficult to adhere a carried article, and facilitating cleaning.  <P>SOLUTION: This feed trough 3 is provided with a bottom plate 21 vibrated by an exciting mechanism and carrying the carried article on a top face; a pair of side plates 22 uprightly installed on both sides along a carrying direction of the bottom plate 21, and preventing the carried article from dropping; a pair of parallel splash preventing side plates 23 extending from a pair of the side plates 22 in a manner to project from one end of the bottom plate 21; and a splash preventing front face plate 24 connecting extending tip ends of a pair of the splash preventing side plates 23, and surrounding a dropping space 25 of the carried article with one end of the bottom plate 21 and a pair of the splash preventing side plates 23.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004114779-A (JP)
Title: Panel structure
Inventor: SAKUMA HITOSHI
IPC: B62D33/04
Filed: 2002-09-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a panel structure capable of suppressing the time and the labor for assembling a surface of a cargo bed by reducing the part number of tightening members or the like, and rapidly addressing any change of the length or the width of the cargo bed.  <P>SOLUTION: In the panel structure for constituting a cargo bed 18 of a truck 1, a surface of the cargo bed 18 having pillars is constituted by assembling a plurality of panels 21. The time and labor for assembling the surface of the cargo bed 18 is suppressed by reducing the part number. If the length L or the width of the cargo bed 18 constituted on a vehicle is changed, the size of the surface of the cargo bed 18 can be easily changed by increasing/decreasing the number of the panels 21, and any change of the length L or the width of the cargo bed 18 can be rapidly addressed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004118543-A (JP)
Title: Method for retrieving structured document, and method, device and program for supporting retrieval
Inventor: HATTORI MASAKAZU
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2002-09-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structured document retrieving method for rapidly and efficiently retrieving a desired structured document, while narrowing retrieval results without being conscious of the document structure of the structured document, and also to provide a retrieval support device using the method.  <P>SOLUTION: When at least one keyword is inputted as an initial condition, the plurality of structured documents including the keyword in the element of a configuration element are retrieved from a database with the plurality of structured documents being different in document structure stored. Then the retrieved structured documents are defined as the documents to be processed. Then the document structure, and vocabulary included as the element value of the configuration element of each document to be processed are compared, so as to display the element name of the configuration element, or the vocabulary included as the element value, which are extracted as the candidates of a narrowing condition from the documents to be processed. The structured document satisfying the narrowing condition which is selected from the structured documents retrieved last time is retrieved through the use of the candidate selected from the displayed candidates as the narrowing condition.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004115217-A (JP)
Title: Intermittent feeding conveyor
Inventor: SAKURA SHUNJI
IPC: B65G23/42
Filed: 2002-09-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an intermittent feeding conveyor where a feed stop position of intermittent feeding is accurate, without protruding from the side of the conveyor.  <P>SOLUTION: An intermittent feed driving device 61 which intermittently feeds a carrying bush chain 51 wrapped between two sprockets 26, 37, comprises a base 62, an electric actuator 63 installed on the base 62 along a feeding direction of the carrying bush chain 51, a reciprocating table 68 reciprocated along the feeding direction of the carrying bush chain 51 by operation of the electric actuator 63, and a stopper claw mounting body 76 installed on the base 62 at a position opposite to the reciprocating table 68. A stopper claw drive cam 69 and a rockable feeding claw 70 energized by a spring 72 in the direction of engaging with a bush 51a of the carrying bush chain 51, are installed on the reciprocating table 68. A rockable stopper claw 78 is mounted on the stopper claw mounting body 76 in opposition to the stopper claw drive cam 69 and the feeding claw 70.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004128247-A (JP)
Title: Method and device for exposure
Inventor: SUZUKI MOTOKO
IPC: G03F7/20
Filed: 2002-10-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and a method for exposure which shorten the time of conveyance of a wafer to an exposure device.  <P>SOLUTION: The inner side of a wafer cassette 10 is partitioned into a plurality of sections 11, which are each provided with a lamp 15 for wafer heating. When exposure is carried out, a plurality of wafers W are put in the cassette 10 and heated with lamps 15 and then the cassette 10 is carried into a load lock chamber 27 for vacuum evacuation, and then the wafers in the cassette 10 are carried to a wafer vacuum load chamber 33. Then the wafers W are taken out of the cassette W and carried onto a wafer stage 131. Thus, the plurality of wafers are heated at the same time while putting into the cassette 10, and carried after the vacuum evacuation, so there is no waste of the conveyance time and the throughput is improved.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003176287-A (JP)
Title: Heterocyclic compound oxazole derivative, method for producing the same and use thereof
Inventor: TASAKA AKIHIRO
IPC: A61P43/00
Filed: 2002-10-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heterocyclic compound having tyrosine kinase inhibitory actions and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same.  <P>SOLUTION: This compound is represented by formula (I) [wherein, m denotes an integer of 1-3; n denotes 1 or 2; R<SP>1</SP>denotes a halogen atom or a 1-2C alkyl group which may be halogenated, R<SP>2</SP>and R<SP>3</SP>denote each hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group or a lower alkoxy group; R<SP>4</SP>denotes a group represented by formula (IIa) or formula (IIb) (wherein, p denotes an integer of 2-5; R<SP>5</SP>denotes a 1-4C alkyl group having an alkoxycarbonyl group, carbamoyl group, carbamoyloxy group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an alkylsulfinyl group, sulfamoyl group, carbamoylamino group, an alkylsulfonylamino group, an acylamino group or the like as a substituent)] or its salt.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003160247-A (JP)
Title: Method of taking out thin plate-like chip parts
Inventor: MIYASHITA NORIO
IPC: H05K13/04
Filed: 2002-10-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To positively take out only one thin plate-like chip part by a head.  <P>SOLUTION: In this method of taking out thin plate-like chip parts, a large number of thin plate-like chip parts are stacked and stored in holes formed in a magazine, and the bottom faces of the stored chip parts are pushed up by a pusher while sucking the uppermost one of the pushed-up chip parts by a head. Gas is blown to the sucked chip part from the side to blow off the stuck chip parts on the lower side, and then the chip part sucked by the head is taken out. In a process of sucking the uppermost chip part by the head to take it out, the uppermost chip part is sucked by stopping the head with a slight distance kept between the uppermost chip part and the head so that the head does not abut on the uppermost chip part.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004131305-A (JP)
Title: Process and apparatus for liquid phase epitaxy of silicon crystal and solar battery manufacturing process
Inventor: NISHIDA AKIYUKI
IPC: H01L21/208
Filed: 2002-10-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid phase epitaxy process for a silicon crystal which enables continuous growth and offers high productivity, a solar battery manufacturing process and a liquid phase epitaxy apparatus for the silicon crystal.  <P>SOLUTION: In the liquid phase epitaxy process for the silicon crystal, a substrate 102 is dipped into or contacted with a solvent 104 to grow the silicon crystal on the substrate 102. Here, at least a portion of a gas containing a raw material and/or dopant is decomposed by energizing the gas before supplying it to the solvent 104.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004132830-A (JP)
Title: Information gathering system
Inventor: GOYA EIJI
IPC: G01C21/00
Filed: 2002-10-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily obtain various information from providers and update various information with high accuracy and frequency.  <P>SOLUTION: The system is provided with an information center including a navigation device, an update means updating a database based on new information transmitted from the navigation device, and a user database, and an information transmitting center transmitting predetermined information to a user. The navigation device transmits user identification information and transmitting time information together with the information to the information center. When the information center receives identical new information from a first predetermined number of users, the information center updates the database based on the information, and specifies a second predetermined number of users, which is less than the first predetermined number, from the user database based on the order in which the new information is transmitted to the information center. The information center transmits predetermined information only to the specified users.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004129925-A (JP)
Title: Game system, method for controlling the system, and game machine
Inventor: SAITO KATSUHIKO
IPC: A63F13/33
Filed: 2002-10-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technique for optimally managing a game machine when a game hall is closed for the day.  <P>SOLUTION: A game system consists of: the game machine comprising an interface where a prescribed storage medium is removable; and a server for communicating with the game machine via a network. The game machine includes: a game processing means for controlling the advance of a game on the basis of information recorded in the prescribed storage medium; a clock means for clocking the present time; a discharge means for discharging the prescribed storage medium from the interface when the clocked present time elapses beyond a predetermined discharge time during the progress of the game; and a transmitting means for transmitting information concerning the advance situation of the game to the server in order to record the information in the server when the clocked present time elapses beyond a predetermined discharge time during the progress of the game.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO