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Patent JP-2004278451-A (JP)
Title: Oil pump
Inventor: HANEHIRO SHIGEKI
IPC: F04C2/344
Filed: 2003-03-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To securely prevent the leakage of a working fluid from a seal device part, regardless of an increase in the flow velocity of the working fluid flowing into a seal chamber.  <P>SOLUTION: The working fluid is supplied to a bearing bush 13 and a mechanical seal 15 via a gap passage 18 between a bearing hole 12 of a pump housing 1 and a drive shaft 11. The working fluid flowing into the seal chamber 14 is returned to a pump suction side through a return passage 18 arranged outside in the diametrical direction of the gap passage 16. In this oil pump, a guiding wall 26 for changing the direction of the working fluid to the outside in the diametrical direction at the front side of the mechanical seal 15 is provided inside the seal chamber 14.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004282942-A (JP)
Title: Full refund system after 180 days
Inventor: ISHIKAWA KEN
Filed: 2003-03-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method enabling doing a business deal with a sense of security by giving refund of payment for a product to a purchaser of the product being an object of the business deal, if the purchaser cannot acquire better-luck effects, in a business deal of so-called "better-luck goods".  <P>SOLUTION: This system is a full refund system after-use, in which abstract effects such as "better luck" provided by purchasing a product is set forth as premise, if it is understood that the effects of the product are not exhibited after the deal of the product, the purchaser can have full refund after 180 days from the date of the deal. This is a full refund system after-use which other companies have not developed, and with this system, customers can purchase the product with a sense of security.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004281965-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device and its manufacturing method
Inventor: NAGANO YOSHIHISA
IPC: H01L21/768
Filed: 2003-03-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent oxidation of a contact for a capacitive element connected to the contact even if it is small in area.  <P>SOLUTION: A conductive oxygen barrier layer 14 that prevents diffusion of oxygen atoms to the contact 13 from un upper part is formed on an interlayer dielectric 12, wherein the barrier layer is constituted by a lower layer 14a consisting of conductive nitride, e.g. TiAlN, patterned so that it may come into contact with an upper face of the contact 13, and an upper layer 14b consisting of conductive oxide, e.g. IrO<SB>2</SB>. An insulating oxygen barrier layer 15 consisting of Al<SB>2</SB>O<SB>3</SB>of about 20nm in thickness is formed on a side face of the conductive oxygen barrier layer 14, wherein the barrier layer 15 prevents diffusion of the oxygen atoms to the contact 13 from a side of the lower layer 14a of the conductive oxygen barrier layer 14.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004297173-A (JP)
Title: Image processing apparatus and method
Inventor: KITO HIDEKAZU
IPC: G06T3/40
Filed: 2003-03-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing apparatus and method capable of reducing the influence of vignetting of a principal object.  <P>SOLUTION: The image processing apparatus calculates the difference of the aspect ratios of an original image 70 and recording paper before recording an image on the recording paper. When the difference of the aspect ratio is within 5%, the image processing apparatus calculates the magnification/reduction rate longitudinally and laterally, applies image processing to image data of the original image 70 on the basis of the obtained magnification/reduction rate to obtain an image 71 after the magnification/reduction processing. When the difference of the aspect ratio is greater than 5%, the image processing apparatus respectively calculates the magnification/reduction rate in the longitudinal direction and the lateral direction so as to avoid a blank from being formed to the recording paper, and performs the magnification/reduction processing to obtain an image 72 after the magnification/reduction processing. Further, the magnification/reduction rate is set to each region of the image so that the magnification/reduction rate of the peripheral parts is greater than that of the principal object, thereby decreasing the influence of vignetting of the principal object.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004297211-A (JP)
Title: Surface mount piezoelectric vibrator
Inventor: HATANAKA HIDEFUMI
IPC: H03B5/32
Filed: 2003-03-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surface mount piezoelectric vibrator with excellent reliability and productivity.  <P>SOLUTION: In the surface mount type piezoelectric vibrator wherein a flip-chip rectangular element 7 for controlling the vibration output on the basis of the vibration of a piezoelectric vibrating element 5 and mount bases 6a, 6b having external terminals 9b on their lower surfaces are fitted to a lower surface of a package 1 containing therein the piezoelectric vibrating element 5, a part of the upper surfaces of the mount bases 6a, 6b are located outwardly from a lower surface of the package 1, and first joining electrodes 8c provided on the lower surface of the package 1 and second joining electrodes 9a provided on the upper surface of the mount bases 6a, 6b are connected via conductive joining members 11. Then fillets F by the conductive joining members 11 are formed from the side faces of the package 1 over the upper surfaces of the mount bases 6a, 6b by adhering a part of the conductive joining members 11 to the side faces of the package 1.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004295954-A (JP)
Title: Optical pickup device and optical disk device
Inventor: SHIMADA KENICHI
IPC: G02B5/18
Filed: 2003-03-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup device which is suitable to DVD-reproduction/CD-recording or DVD/CD-recording, and can sufficiently reduce, the size of the light spot on an optical disk on the DVD even if a multilaser light source is used, for example.  <P>SOLUTION: An optical filter element in which the outer edge part has a higher transmission rate to a light beam of wavelength range of 650 nm compared with the vicinity of the center part is mounted in the optical pickup device, or a 3-spot diffraction grating in which the grating groove width is close to half the grating period around the center part, and the grating groove width is far from half the grating period is mounted in the optical pickup device.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004293744-A (JP)
Title: Control device for directly coupled clutch for vehicle
Inventor: NAKAMURA KAZUAKI
IPC: F16H61/14
Filed: 2003-03-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a directly coupled clutch for a vehicle for preventing the generation of hunting when temperature of operating fluid is low.  <P>SOLUTION: This control device includes an operating fluid temperature determining means 200 for determining whether oil temperature THO of the operating fluid is lower than a predetermined temperature THO<SB>ts</SB>or not, an input torque change determining means 10, an input torque change computing means 206 for computing a change of the input torque, and an operating fluid pressure changing means 212 for changing the oil pressure of the operating fluid to be supplied to a lockup clutch 32 to the predetermined oil pressure during a predetermined time t<SB>PC</SB>in the case where both the determination by the operating fluid temperature determining means 200 and the input torque change determining means 210 are YES. In the case where a relatively sudden change of the input torque is generated at a low temperature of the operating fluid, the operating fluid pressure of the lockup clutch 32 is temporarily set to the predetermined oil pressure to improve responsiveness.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004295782-A (JP)
Title: Currency transaction device and paper money information management system
Inventor: FUJIMURA NOBUAKI
IPC: G06Q20/18
Filed: 2003-03-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain detailed information on a currency determined not to be a true or doubtful banknote and to store currency information in order to track the ATM user who has used the paper money determined not to be a true or doubtful banknote.  <P>SOLUTION: This currency transaction device is like an ATM which has a discrimination unit for discriminating the truth or falsehood of a currency and discriminates a denomination, a first stacker for temporarily holding a currency determined to be a true currency in the discrimination unit, a second stacker for temporarily holding a currency determined to be false or doubtful by the discrimination unit, and a storage device for associating personal information inherent to a user and information of the currency inputted by the user and storing them. Although the currency held by the second stacker is discriminated again by the discrimination unit on the basis of a changed condition, wherein, for example, the current is carried at a speed slower than a current carrying speed in normal transactions to obtain detailed discrimination information of the currency in the discrimination unit. About the currency that is discriminated to be false or doubtful by the discrimination unit, the information of the currency is associated with the personal information of the user, for example, an account number and stored in the storage device.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004302532-A (JP)
Title: Snmp agent device
Inventor: SHUTOKU KOHEI
IPC: G06F13/00
Filed: 2003-03-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an SNMP agent device that can accurately read out detailed factors of an error occurring in the agent even when requests from a plurality of managers conflict.  <P>SOLUTION: The SNMP agent device comprises means 111 for holding detailed factors of an error for every SNMP manager 11 when processing is executed according to a request from the SNMP manager 11, and means 101 for allowing the SNMP manager 11 to read out the detailed factors held in the holding means 111.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004304922-A (JP)
Title: Converter
Inventor: IDA FUKUE
IPC: H02M3/00
Filed: 2003-03-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a converter in which an I/O terminal exposed from the converter body is prevented from grounding or short-circuiting while shielding radiation noise from the converter body.  <P>SOLUTION: The DC-DC converter 22 comprises a converter case 51 having a work opening part 80, a converter body 26 where a converter input terminal 88 and a converter output terminal 86 are contained in the converter case 51 while facing the work opening part 80, and a sheet metal case cover 81 closing the work opening part 80. A plurality of insulating protrusions 91 projecting to the converter case cover 81 side are stood on the circumference of the converter input terminal 88 and the converter output terminal 86 on the front surface 85a of a housing 85 constituting the converter body 26.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004308543-A (JP)
Title: Ionic-current detector of internal combustion engine
Inventor: DOI MASAKAZU
IPC: F02P15/00
Filed: 2003-04-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an ionic-current detector of an internal combustion engine by which a false ionic current is not generated, consequently false knocking-component signals are not generated, and a misjudgment on a combustion or a knock is not made.  <P>SOLUTION: The ignition current detector detects ionic current generated in spark plugs connected on the secondary coils of a plurality of ignition coils generating a high voltage for ignition. In the detector, the plurality of ignition coils 21-24 are arranged in a manner that at least adjoining ignition coils are not oriented in the same direction. Further, in placing the ignition coils 21-24, adjoining ignition-coils are oriented differently by securing means in which arrangement positions are predetermined in accordance with orientation of each ignition coil, and firmly installed in the engine so as not to orient the adjoining coils in the same direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004308280-A (JP)
Title: Sheet glass holding member
Inventor: MASUZAKA YOSHIKI
IPC: E06B3/58
Filed: 2003-04-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sheet glass holding member which can be easily mounted at an outer peripheral edge of a main body of a sheet glass body.  <P>SOLUTION: A double glazing body 1 comprises a main body 10 of double glazing, a double glazing holding member 30 which is fitted into the outer peripheral edge of the main body 10, and a sash 20 for holding the main body 10 via the member 30. The member 30 comprises an almost U-shaped cross-section rigid member 31 which has a groove 33 capable of housing the outer peripheral edge of the main body 10 and an outer shape capable of being fitted into the channel of the sash 20, and a pair of flexible members 32 whose lower edges are fixed to the upper edges of both the side parts of the rigid member 31, respectively. The member 30 is prefitted into the outer peripheral edge of the main body 10 before the main body 10 is fitted into the channel of the sash 20. Additionally, two cut parts 34a, which are formed in parallel with each other in a longitudinal direction, are provided in a bottom part 34 of the rigid member 31.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004305535-A (JP)
Title: Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
Inventor: UMEDA MANABU
IPC: A61B8/00
Filed: 2003-04-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus on which the puncturing direction of a puncturing needle is automatically displayed only when the puncturing needle is attached to a guide tool.  <P>SOLUTION: This ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprises an ultrasonic probe, an ultrasonic wave transmitting/receiving means which scans the inside of an objective part with an ultrasonic wave and, at the same time, receives echoes through the probe, and an image generating means which generates an image based on the echoes. The apparatus also comprises a displaying means which displays the image, the guide tool which is coupled with the ultrasonic probe and guides the puncturing needle punctured within the scanning extent of the ultrasonic wave, and a detecting means 10 which detects the direction of the puncturing needle guided by the guide tool. In addition, the apparatus also comprises a transmitting means 12 which transmits the detect signal of the detecting means 10, a figure generating means 14 which generates a figure showing the direction of the puncturing needle based on the transmitted signal, and a superimposing means 16 which superimposes the figure upon the displayed image.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004307718-A (JP)
Title: Proton conductive resin composition, proton conductive membrane, and crosslinked material
Inventor: ISHIKAWA JUNICHI
IPC: H01B1/06
Filed: 2003-04-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a proton conductive resin composition which has a high ion-conductivity, an excellent water resistance and solvent resistance, especially an excellent methanol barrier property, and besides an inexpensive price, and to provide a proton conductive membrane formed of this resin composition.  <P>SOLUTION: The proton conductive resin composition and the proton conductive membrane formed of this resin composition are each characterized by a blend of a proton acid group-containing, crosslinkable aromatic resin and a base group-containing aromatic resin.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003335434-A (JP)
Title: Paper sensing apparatus
Inventor: AHN BYUNG-SUN
IPC: B65H9/14
Filed: 2003-04-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper sensing apparatus capable of effectively controlling a leading end margin of a paper sheet for printing an image by correctly sensing a leading end position of the paper sheet conveyed by a conveying roller.  <P>SOLUTION: This paper sensing apparatus 130 comprises a sensor actuator being rotated on a pivot center of the register roller 23 mounted for the conveying roller closest to an image forming part by the paper sheet P, when the paper sheet P is conveyed, and a sensor part 133 for generating a paper sensing signal in accordance with a rotation of the sensor actuator 131. The sensor actuator 131 comprises a lever integrally formed with the paper top aligning part 140 rotatably mounted on a shaft 24 of the conveying roller 23 for aligning the tip of the paper sheet P. Whereby the leading end position of the paper sheet P can be surely grasped, and the leading end margin of the paper sheet P can be effectively controlled.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004083846-A (JP)
Title: Active energy ray curable organic inorganic hybrid resin composition
Inventor: TERAUCHI MAKOTO
IPC: C08F2/44
Filed: 2003-04-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composition which can form a coated film having hydrophilicity, high hardness, and good surface appearances such as transparency and which can, moreover, form a surface feasible to keep an antifogging property for a long period of time when painted on base materials.  <P>SOLUTION: The active energy ray curable organic inorganic hybrid resin composition comprises at least (A) a fine-grain of silica having chain structure, (B) an organic compound bearing a (meth)acryloyl or (meth)acrylamide group, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator. Thus, there is provided an active energy ray curable organic inorganic hybrid resin composition which can form a surface having hydrophilicity and high hardness and also provided are antifogging articles having an excellent antifogging property by having a surface of a paint film which is formed by applying the above-mentioned composition on base materials and by successive active energy ray radiation curing.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004328150-A (JP)
Title: Moving picture coding apparatus and method
Inventor: MATSUMURA ATSUSHI
IPC: H04N19/51
Filed: 2003-04-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a moving picture coding apparatus and method for optimally controlling a bit rate in response to coding difficulty of a moving picture so as to stabilize the image quality.  <P>SOLUTION: A virtual VBV for permitting even an underflow and an overflow manages a code amount generated in coding frames. A code amount usable next is 'stored' by causing the virtual VBV to overflow without too much decreasing a quantization scale even in a scene for ease of coding. Conversely, a code amount is 'borrowed' by causing the virtual VBV to underflow without too much increasing the quantization scale even in a scene whose coding is difficult.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004322535-A (JP)
Title: Solution casting film forming method, optical polymer film, polarizing plate and its protecting film, optical functional film and display device
Inventor: TSUJIMOTO TADAHIRO
IPC: B29C41/46
Filed: 2003-04-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To uniformize the thickness and optical characteristics of a film in a solution casting film forming method.  <P>SOLUTION: A casting dope containing a polymer, of which the main component is cellulose acylate, is cast on a support to form a cast film 35 according to the solution casting film forming method. A heating plate 51 is provided to the surface opposite to the casting surface of a band 31 and the solvent of the cast film 35 is volatilized. Further, a condensing plate 52 is arranged along the casting surface of the band 31 to condense the volatilized solvent to recover the same. The wind velocity above the casting surface is set to 0.01-0.5 m/sec and the band 31 is allowed to travel so that the casting surface is turned down from a casting start position PS. When the distance between the casting surface and the condensation plate is set to d mm, the temperature of the condensation plate is set to Tw°C and the temperature of the casting dope is set to Ts°C and the temperature of the casting dope is set to Ts°C, formulae: Q=(Ts-Tw)/d and 5<Q<100 are formed. The obtained film 36 is excellent in the uniformity of thickness and optical characteristics and suitable as an optical polymer film. Further, a polarizing plate and its protecting film, an optical functional film and a liquid crystal display device constituted of the optical polymer film is excellent in optical characteristics.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004324316-A (JP)
Title: External facing material for ventilating wall structure
Inventor: YAMAMOTO TAKESHI
IPC: E04F13/08
Filed: 2003-04-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel external facing material for ventilating wall structure obtaining a sufficient ventilating effect even if a distance between the external facing material and a backing structure material is comparatively short.  <P>SOLUTION: The external facing material used for the ventilating wall structure is provided with a plurality of projections 2 extending in a prescribed direction, on the back face. Each projection is parted by a parting groove 4 at least at one part in the extending direction to form a vent passage which crosses the projection, and recessed grooves 3 extending between the projections parallel with the projections communicate with each other through the vent passage. Further, both ends in the extending direction of the projection are provided with flat faces 5 having a height level between the top part 2a of the projection and the bottom part 3a of the recessed groove. The parting grooves 4a, 4b formed at the projections 2b, 2c at both ends have groove width narrower than the width of a fixing metal fitting 10 used to fix the external facing material. It is preferable to provide the parting grooves shifted in the extending direction of the projections.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004326639-A (JP)
Title: Disassembling/recycling plan of recovered product, manufacturing of product, and procurement planning method and device for manufacturing product
Inventor: NOMOTO TAZU
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2003-04-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a disassembling plan which reduces the amount of disassembling work of a used product to necessary minimum, and a method and a device of preparing a manufacturing/ procurement plan of the product so that the plan is consistent with this disassembling plan and the sum of a consumption cost is minimum, while satisfying a predetermined recycling ratio of a part or a material contained in the recovered product.  <P>SOLUTION: When a scheduled numerical quantity of recovery of recovered products, an available date and numerical quantity of each part which becomes available by procurement, and a manufacturing quantity requirement which is information on a request date when products are required and a numerical quantity of the products are inputted, linear programming algorithm-based calculation is conducted under predetermined constraints to output numerical quantities of items subjected to decomposition, regeneration, manufacturing and procurement. The constraints include information on recycle ratio and consumption cost of parts taken out from the recovered products.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI