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Patent JP-2004036973-A (JP)
Title: Hot-water supply system
Inventor: MIYAKE TOMIO
IPC: F24H1/00
Filed: 2002-07-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hot-water supply system capable of giving preliminary announcement on boiling-up at a proper timing even when a hot-water pouring temperature is lowered than a bath set temperature in supplying the hot-water into a bathtub in an automatic hot-water supply mode.  <P>SOLUTION: A hot-water supply unit 20 having a function to automatically supply the hot-water into the bathtub, supplies the hot-water by utilizing the preheated hot-water supplied from a heat storage tank 14 of a solar energy utilization water heater 10. When the hot-water supply unit 20 supplies the hot-water into the bathtub in the automatic hot-water supply mode, the preliminary announcement is performed in a hot-water pouring stage or a reheating stage thereafter, and in the hot-water pouring stage, the total reheating time Tf is calculated in a period of one second while considering a hot-water pouring remaining time Tz, and the reheating calories G1 to the amount of poured hot-water in each point of time, and the preliminary announcement on boiling-up is performed at a time when the sum of the hot-water pouring remaining time Tz and the total reheating time Tf in each point of time becomes within 2.5 minutes, and the hot-water pouring remaining amount Qz becomes within 20 % of the initial necessary hot-water pouring amount Qi.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004033921-A (JP)
Title: Catalyst coat for cleaning exhaust gas, honeycomb carrier and exhaust gas cleaning catalyst
Inventor: SHIBATA KATSUHIRO
IPC: F01N3/10
Filed: 2002-07-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a catalyst coat for cleaning an exhaust gas of which thermal expansion coefficient is small and which can enhance thermal shock-resistance by making the difference of thermal expansion from a carrier small in the case where a honeycomb carrier is coated with it; a honeycomb carrier for cleaning the exhaust gas of which thermal expansion coefficient is large and which can enhance the heat shock-resistance by making the difference of thermal expansion from the catalyst coat small in the case where it is coated with the catalyst coat; and an exhaust gas cleaning catalyst in which the difference of thermal expansion of the honeycomb carrier and the catalyst coat is small and a heat shock-resistance is excellent.  <P>SOLUTION: A ceramic material of low expansion such as cordierite and α-alumina is added to the catalyst coat. A ceramic material of high expansion such as titania and zirconia is added into the honeycomb carrier made of cordierite. The difference of the thermal expansion coefficient of the honeycomb carrier and the catalyst coat of the exhaust gas cleaning catalyst is limited to three times or less of one of them.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004036492-A (JP)
Title: Treatment apparatus for air and waste liquid containing organic component
Inventor: SHIBATA RYOSUKE
IPC: F02C3/20
Filed: 2002-07-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve lower installation costs by giving efficient treatment to air containing an organic component and waste liquid containing an organic component at the same time.  <P>SOLUTION: The treatment apparatus 1 for the air and waste liquid containing the organic component comprises a duct 4 for feeding air containing organic solvent gas (organic component) from an organic waste discharge source W to a compressor 3 of a gas turbine 2, a fuel oil pipe 6 for supplying a fuel oil to a combustor 5. a waste liquid supply pipe 7 for supplying organic solvent waste liquid (the waste liquid containing organic component) from the organic waste discharge source W through a distillation device 9 to the combustor 5, and a recovery heat exchanger 13 for heating the air containing the organic component fed from the compressor 3 to the combustor 5 with exhaust gas from the turbine 10. In the duct 4, a concentration device 17 is provided on the upstream side which increases the concentration of the organic solvent gas in the air containing the organic component and a suction air cooling device 18 having almost the same structure as the heat exchanger 13 is provided on the downstream side which forcibly air-cools the air containing the organic component.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004034838-A (JP)
Title: Dual-mode vehicle capable of travelling in both of tire travelling mode and wheel travelling mode, and structure body for transferring travelling mode for the same
Inventor: SAKAMOTO SHINICHI
IPC: B60F1/02
Filed: 2002-07-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle capable of travelling in both of a tire travelling mode and a wheel travelling mode with a simple vehicle structure and a simple travelling operation, and a structure body for transferring travelling mode enabling transfer of travelling mode between tire travelling and wheel travelling while the vehicle is travelling.  <P>SOLUTION: A plurality of wheels 12 are pivotally supported by a front and a rear wheel axle 5, 9 of a dual mode bus 1 coaxially with tires 6, 8. The wheels 12 are set in a smaller diameter than the tire 6, 8 within a limitation of rail height. Transfer of the dual mode bus 1 between road travel by tires 6, 8 and track travel by wheels 12 is carried out on a mode transfer structure body having a tire travelling section at a part of a track and a mode transfer section having an ascent travel slope surface and a descent travel slope surface on a front side of the tire travelling section.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004038670-A (JP)
Title: Automatic vending machine
Inventor: SATOU TAKAAKI
IPC: G07F9/10
Filed: 2002-07-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic vending machine reducing the number of components and manufacturing work.  <P>SOLUTION: In the automatic vending machine, a harness cover 60 protecting a harness S is arranged between a side plate 15C forming an interior and a side rim of a chute M guiding sliding of a commodity delivered from an internal commodity holding rack to a commodity take-out opening side of a front face door. A receiving part 60D for mounting the chute M is provided on the harness cover 60.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004034904-A (JP)
Title: Tyre/wheel assembly, run-flat support and manufacturing method for the same
Inventor: KURAMORI AKIRA
IPC: B29D30/00
Filed: 2002-07-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide tyre/wheel assemblies which facilitate the manufacture of various sizes of tyre/wheel assemblies at lower cost and diversification of performances of them at lower cost, and also provide a run-flat support, and further provide a manufacturing method for the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The tyre/wheel assemblies insert into a cavity of a pneumatic tyre 2 the run-flat support 3 comprising an annular shell 4 having an outer peripheral side as a bearing plane and an inner peripheral side to be formed into a bifurcated leg and elastic rings 5 to bear the ends of the bifurcated leg on a rim 1. The annular shell 4 is formed through the joint of side edges 7 and 7 of at least two divided shells 4a having each single protruded outer peripheral surface.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004040669-A (JP)
Title: Image scanner
Inventor: SUGATA MITSUHIRO
IPC: G03B27/54
Filed: 2002-07-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect failures in a white LED that constitutes a white LED array.  <P>SOLUTION: When the white LED array is driven and controlled, where LED rows in which a plurality of white LEDs are connected in series are arranged in parallel in plural numbers, a scanner controller 206 detects current flowing in the LED array, compares a value of current detected with a predetermined threshold value, and determines whether the white LED is a failure, based on a comparison result.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004033644-A (JP)
Title: Folding mirror
Inventor: SHIMODA TORU
IPC: A47G1/04
Filed: 2002-07-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a folding mirror which can also be used as a portable dressing table surmounted three mirrors and can be used as a mirror even in a folded state.  <P>SOLUTION: The folding mirror has: a main mirror 9 arranged in a center and pivoted around an upper edge; a right-pivoted mirror 23 and a left-pivoted mirror 24, which are freely slid on the front side of the main mirror 9, freely pivoted in a state located on left and right sides of the main mirror 9 respectively, detent-positioned in a state that their mirror faces becomes a flat surface in a state located on the left and right sides of the main mirror 9 and have a mirror face on a surface in the same direction as the main mirror 9; and a sliding support plate 2 freely slid on the rear surface of the main mirror 9, pivoted in a state drawn to a prescribed position to be detent-positioned and having a support leg 4 for supporting the 3 mirrors when the main mirror 9 and the right- and left-pivoted mirrors 23, 24 are laid in a lateral direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003090036-A (JP)
Title: Ready-made pile and foundation pile structure
Inventor: KITANI YOSHINOBU
IPC: E02D27/12
Filed: 2002-07-08
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To strengthen bending strength corresponding with high axial force capable of thickening the thickness t4 of a concrete section of the upper part of a pile thicker 30% or more than the lower end section, embedding a reinforcing steel bar in the section and reinforcing the upper end section of the pile. SOLUTION: Circular projections (outside diameter D2 ) 5 and 6 are formed in a lower shaft section (outside diameter D0 and thickness t0 ) 33, and an upper shaft section (outside diameter D1 and thickness t1 ) 43 is formed in succession to the upper side projection 6. A steel pipe (thickness t5 and outside diameter D3 ) 50 is fitted to the upper end section of the upper shaft section 43. In the upper shaft section 43, t3 is the thickness of the whole upper end section, t5 is the thickness of the steel pipe 50 and t4 is the thickness of a concrete part. The following formulas are obtained, t3 =t5 +t4 . D2 >D3 =D1 >D0 and t3 =t1 >t0 and t4 >t0 .  The PC steel bar 37 is also embedded to the upper part of the pile as well as the lower part of the pile, and a reinforcing deformed steel bar 44 is embedded in parallel with the outside of the PC steel bar 37 inside of the vertical pile in a formed boundary section of the steel pipe section 50, and the ready-made pile 4 is constituted.
Patent JP-2004048852-A (JP)
Title: Method for planning power generation
Inventor: KUBOTA YASUKI
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2002-07-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a method for planning a power generation wherein the power generation of each power generating facility is planned so as to accurately perform rules of equal and simultaneous amounts in a power supply from a demander group having one or more demanders from a power generation facility group having a plurality of the power generation facilities.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for planning the power generation includes a total amount-of- prediction power reception-acquiring step for acquiring a total amount of prediction power reception of the overall demander group, and a power generation planning step for planning an amount of planning power generation of each power generation facility so as to optimize a predetermined evaluation value while satisfying limiting conditions under the limiting conditions that the total amount of the prediction power reception of the overall power generation facility group coincides with the total amount of the prediction power reception of the overall demander group acquired by performing the total amount-of-prediction power reception-acquiring step, and that a total regulation margin of the overall power generation facility group to the total amount of the planning power generation becomes a predetermined set total regulation margin or more.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003067662-A (JP)
Title: Expense settlement character message management device in portable communication terminal equipment and method therefor
Inventor: KANG DONG-SEOK
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2002-07-09
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for managing a character message relating to expense settlement in a portable communication terminal equipment, and a method therefor. SOLUTION: The device is characterized in that it is provided with a message reception part 401 receiving and storing the character messages, a settlement message management part 403 retrieving a settlement relating message from the stored character messages on the basis of attribute information of the stored character messages and generating statistic information relating to the settlement and a message display part 404 displaying the statistic information relating to the settlement to the outside. Thus, by being capable of seprately managing the settlement relating character message in the portable communication terminal equipment, a user can easily manage settlement expense information and can be provided even with a required statistic analyzed result.
Patent JP-2004044861-A (JP)
Title: Heating device
Inventor: NANBA MASAYUKI
IPC: F24H3/04
Filed: 2002-07-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently heat the whole room, while a user always feels heating by radiation without feeling unnatural feeling of air stream.  <P>SOLUTION: This device is provided with a high temperature gas generation means 21, a radiator 23, an air blow means 29 for supplying air stream, a circulation air blow means 26 for forming a circulation flow, a hot air blowoff port 28, a high temperature gas switching means 31 for switching the flow of air stream to switch a flow of high temperature gas to the radiator 23 and circulation air blow means 26 side or the hot air blowoff port 28 side, and a fluctuation control means 41. By performing a fluctuation control so that the high temperature gas switching means 31 may become irregular on the radiator 23 and circulation air blow means 26 side and the hot air blowoff port 28 side, the whole of the room is heated without generating habituation to produce comfortable heating since hot air heating and radiation heating are irregularly switched.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003228279-A (JP)
Title: Language learning apparatus using voice recognition, language learning method and storage medium for the same
Inventor: IN HEIGEN
IPC: G10L25/60
Filed: 2002-07-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve learning efficiency by comparing the pronunciation of the role selected by a learner with reference data and displaying it as a score according to the matching degree and automatically displaying the next suitable picture in accordance with the score.  <P>SOLUTION: With the language learning apparatus, a learner selects a situation or a role in a situation by executing a program loaded with reproduction data of a storage medium transferred from a player. The selected situation is displayed on a display, and the speech of another speaker in the situation is outputted from a loudspeaker. The learner's speech corresponding to the role of the speaker selected by the learner is transferred through a microphone and compared with the reference data loaded from the storage medium. The matching degree of the learner' speech is evaluated and put into a score to be displayed on the display.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004047700-A (JP)
Title: Planar magnetic element for non-contact charger
Inventor: KOHIKI HIDEAKI
IPC: H01F38/14
Filed: 2002-07-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remarkably thin a planar magnetic element loaded on a non-contact charger and to improve charging efficiency.  <P>SOLUTION: In the planar magnetic element, a spiral planar coil is embedded in one face of a magnetic layer. A magnetic window is given in a center of the planar coil and a part of the magnetic window is composed of a magnetic material whose relative permeability is not less than 100.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004044941-A (JP)
Title: Cooker
Inventor: HAYASHI TAIKI
IPC: H05B6/12
Filed: 2002-07-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the convenience to move a heater in a heating chamber without disconnecting the heater and a control circuit in cleaning the heating chamber of a cooker.  <P>SOLUTION: The heaters 31, 35 are mounted in the heating chamber 22. The heater 31 is mounted on a movable plate 230, and the movable plate 230 is mounted on the heating chamber 22 through a pin 240. The movable plate 230 is locked by properly fitting a locking part 230A to a rear face 22W of the heating chamber 22, and brought into a state of being rotatable in the direction of both arrows R on the pin 240 by slightly lowering the lock part 230A. When the movable plate 230 is rotated on the pin 240, the heater 31 fixed to the movable plate 230 is also moved, and the support of the heater 31 by a mounting tool 32 is released. The heater can recovered the state of being supported by the mounting tool 32 by fitting the lock part 310A into a fitting part 220A again.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003037012-A (JP)
Title: Laminated inductor
Inventor: IWAO HIDEMI
IPC: H01F27/29
Filed: 2002-07-16
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laminated inductor which can obtain stable characteristics even when a component carrying direction is changed by a form and a position of a terminal electrode. SOLUTION: A pair of terminal electrode 3 are provided at an end part in the longitudinal direction of a chip 1 which constitutes a laminated inductor, and as a round center line Y of a coil 2 embedded in the chip 1 is in parallel with a direction (the longitudinal direction of the chip) of connecting with the terminal electrode 3, even if the mounting direction is changed, the direction of the round center line Y of the coil 2 with respect to a board surface is not changed.
Patent JP-2004050936-A (JP)
Title: Water discharge structure of engine room of outboard engine
Inventor: YASUDA TOYOJI
IPC: F02B67/00
Filed: 2002-07-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a water discharge structure of an engine room of an outboard engine for smoothly discharging water entering the engine room of the outboard engine from the outside.  <P>SOLUTION: In the outboard engine, an outboard engine body comprising an engine, a propeller driven by the engine, a drive shaft to transmit the driving force to the propeller from the engine, a case means to support the engine and rotatably accommodate and support the drive shaft, and a cover to constitute at least a part of the engine room to accommodate the engine is fitted to a hull in a tiltable and steerable manner. The cover has a cover to constitute the engine room to accommodate the engine, and water discharge passages 61 and 71 communicating the inside of the cover with the outside of the cover. The water discharge passages have inlets 62 and 72 on the engine room side and outlets 63 and 73 to the outside of the engine room. The inlets and the outlets are separated from each other in the vertical direction, and arranged separately from each other in the horizontal direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004053389-A (JP)
Title: Measuring system, method for determining circulating direction of race body through track course, and time error correction device
Inventor: ASAI TAKASHI
IPC: G04R20/26
Filed: 2002-07-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically determine whether a race body runs a track course clockwise or counterclockwise.  <P>SOLUTION: A lap time measuring system comprises two or more furlong stations installed on the track course, and a furlong station controller 13. When a race horse passes either a first or third furlong station (Step 60), the passing time of the race horse through each furlong station is stored (Steps 64, 73) in a buffer after that, and passing time values of the race horse at adjoining two furlong stations are compared (Steps 66, 75). In addition, whether the race horse running the track course runs clockwise or counterclockwise is determined (Steps 66 or 75), on the basis of the comparison result.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004019943-A (JP)
Title: Nut and structural material
Inventor: TOMITA KOJI
IPC: F16B37/04
Filed: 2002-06-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nut and a structural member possible to insert the nut into a dovetail of the structural member from any desirable opening formed in a side surface and an end surface and possible to drill a hole in a side surface of the structural material, restricting dovetail width to the minimum possible to seat the nut, in the nut and the structural member for connection to other structural material or/and a mechanical material through bolts and connectors by inserting the nut from a nut insertion hole opened in a side surface of a long size structural material.  <P>SOLUTION: The nut 1 has flanges 5, 6 projecting in both sides of the flat top surface and a downward projection 10 having a flat lower surface 9 in a lower part. The structural material 14 has the dovetail 15 provided with the nut insertion port in a side surface. Nut insertion assist grooves 20, 21 formed corresponding to the shape of the flanges 5, 6 are recessed in opposie side walls 18 of a nut seat 17. A part of the nut seat 17 higher than the nut insertion assist grooves 20, 21 is formed with a space between the side walls 18 a little larger than the lateral width of the top surface of the nut 1 so that the nut 1 can vertically slide, and a lower part is formed into an r-shape so that width of a groove bottom 22 become narrower than the lateral width of the lower surface 9.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004061675-A (JP)
Title: Zoom lens
Inventor: SEKIDA MAKOTO
IPC: G02B13/18
Filed: 2002-07-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a zoom lens suitable for a photographing system using a solid-state image pickup element, constituted of a small number of lenses, especially, suitable as a collapsible zoom lens and having excellent optical performance that a variable power ratio is about 3.  <P>SOLUTION: In the zoom lens provided with three lens groups, that is, a 1st lens group having negative refractive power, a 2nd lens group having positive refractive power, and a 3rd lens group having positive refractive power in order from an object side and performing variable power by changing space between the respective groups, the 1st lens group is constituted of two lenses, that is, one negative lens and one positive lens, and the 2nd lens group is constituted of three lenses, that is, a positive lens whose both lens surfaces are convex and a doublet consisting of a negative lens and a positive lens in order from the object side, and the 3rd lens group has at least one positive lens. The zoom lens satisfies a condition: 1.5<f2/fw<2.5 when it is assumed that the focal distance of a wide angle end is fw and the focal distance of the 2nd lens group is f2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004060220-A (JP)
Title: Reinforcing soil structure and wall surface block
Inventor: SHIMADA SHUNSUKE
IPC: E02D17/20
Filed: 2002-07-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an extremely stable reinforcing soil structure and a wall surface block having no fear of collapse by avoiding swelling-out of and stress concentration into a partial block.  <P>SOLUTION: A wall body A is constituted by layering a plurality of wall surface blocks 1, and banking 2 is filled in a back part. Crushes stones 2a are filled in the specific thickness between the wall body A and the banking 2. A metallic banking reinforcing material 3 is buried in a plurality of layers in the banking 2 and the crushed stones 2a. An end part 3a of the banking reinforcing material 3 is connected to the wall surface blocks 1. The wall body A side of the banking reinforcing material 3 is buried in the crushed stones 2a.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO