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Patent JP-2009167810-A (JP)
Title: Valve timing adjusting device
Inventor: TANAKA TAKEHIRO
IPC: F01L1/34
Filed: 2008-01-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a valve timing adjusting device of high responsiveness.  <P>SOLUTION: A valve member 130 of a direction control valve 100 has: a connecting passage 132 for connecting an ignition timing advance end part 132a and an ignition timing delay end part 132b to an ignition timing advance chamber and an ignition timing delay chamber in an ignition timing advance position and an ignition timing delay position; a first valve seat 152 and a second valve seat 162 formed in the connecting passage 132; a first valve element 154 seated on the first valve seat 152 by a flow of a hydraulic fluid to the ignition timing advance end part 132a side from the ignition timing delay end part 132b side and leaving by the flow of the hydraulic fluid in the inverse direction; a second valve element 164 seated on the second valve seat 162 by the flow of the hydraulic fluid to the ignition timing delay end part 132b side from the ignition timing advance end part 132a side and leaving by the flow of the hydraulic fluid in the inverse direction; and an input passage 134 for inputting the hydraulic fluid in the ignition timing advance position and the ignition timing delay position by communicating with the connecting passage 132. A first limiting member 170 and a second limiting member 180 of the direction control valve 100 respectively limit seating of the corresponding valve elements 154 and 164 in the ignition timing advance position and the ignition timing delay position of the valve member 130.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009171041-A (JP)
Title: Pon system and station side apparatus
Inventor: KAWANISHI YASUYUKI
IPC: H04L12/44
Filed: 2008-01-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a PON system to be completely duplexed by providing a plurality of station side apparatuses OLTs in geographically distant places.  <P>SOLUTION: The PON system comprises: a first station side apparatus OLT1 connected to an optical coupler 5; a second station side terminal OLT2 connected to the optical coupler 5 and installed in a place away from the first station side apparatus OLT1; and at least one customer station apparatus ONUi having the function of relaying signals between the first station side apparatus OLT1 and the second station side apparatus OLT2, which have passed through the optical coupler 5.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008218981-A (JP)
Title: Zinc oxide thin film
Inventor: NAKAHARA TAKESHI
IPC: C30B29/22
Filed: 2008-01-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ZnO thin film for making a flat film grow, when a ZnO thin film is to be formed on a substrate.  <P>SOLUTION: In Fig. (a), a ZnO thin film 2 is formed on a ZnO substrate 1. In Fig. (b), a ZnO laminate 10, which is a laminate of ZnO thin films, is formed on a ZnO substrate 1. The ZnO laminate 10 is a laminate, in which multiple ZnO semiconductor layers, including a ZnO semiconductor layer 3 and a ZnO semiconductor layer 4, are laminated. When the ZnO thin film 2 and the ZnO laminate 10 is laminated, the film and body are grown at a growing temperature of 750°C or higher, or are formed to have a prescribed step structure on the film surface so that the roughness of the film surface falls within a prescribed range.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009171344-A (JP)
Title: Image reader, and image forming apparatus
Inventor: NAGAO YOSHIAKI
IPC: H04N1/107
Filed: 2008-01-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image reader and image forming apparatus capable of preventing a supporting member, that supports slit glass, from being deformed by heat emitted by a light source.  <P>SOLUTION: There are provided a screw 142 for fixing one end portion of a frame 132 in a longer direction on a main body 21 so as not to move the one end portion in the longer direction and a shorter direction of the frame 132; a shoulder screw 141 and a screw hole 132a for fixing another end portion of the frame 132 in the longer direction on the main body 21 so as to move the other end portion in the longer direction of the frame 132. A width of the screw hole 132a in the shorter direction of the frame 132 is formed approximately equal to an outer diameter of the shoulder screw 141, and a width of the screw hole 132a in the longer direction of the frame 132 is formed larger than the outer diameter of the shoulder screw 141.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009167736-A (JP)
Title: Floating roof reinforcing/supporting structure and method of forming fixed roof using the structure
Inventor: ISHII KOJI
IPC: B65D88/34
Filed: 2008-01-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a floating roof reinforcing/supporting structure capable of reducing or preventing the deformation of a floating roof and a method of forming a fixed roof using the structure.  <P>SOLUTION: In this floating roof reinforcing/supporting structure, the floating roof of a floating roof storage tank having a deck plate is supported above a bottom plate at an interval, and the floating roof is reinforced and supported when the skeleton of the fixed roof is formed on the supported floating roof. The floating roof reinforcing/supporting structure comprises: a first reinforcement member disposed on the front surface of the deck plate; a second reinforcement member disposed on the rear surface of the deck plate and crossing the first reinforcement member through the deck plate; a first supporting device disposed on the first reinforcement member and supporting the skeleton; and a second supporting device disposed on the bottom plate and supporting the second reinforcement member.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009170789-A (JP)
Title: Solid-state imaging element and manufacturing method thereof, and electronic information equipment
Inventor: NAGAI KENICHI
IPC: H04N5/372
Filed: 2008-01-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a solid-state imaging element and a manufacturing method thereof that can simplify manufacturing steps, and electronic information equipment using the solid-state imaging element for an imaging unit.  <P>SOLUTION: An antireflective film 42 provided on a photodetector section and a gate side wall film 41 of a transistor of a peripheral circuit of the photodetector section area are formed of a common silicon nitride film 4 formed at the same time, so a silicon nitride film which is as thick as the gate side wall film 41 having a large film thickness is formed first and then formed so as to be a desired film thickness of the antireflective film 42 by using a mask having an opening only on a pixel section. Consequently, it is enough for the silicon nitride film 4 to be formed once.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008187710-A (JP)
Title: Method and system for specifying image characteristics, method for determining background color, control program and recording medium
Inventor: FERMAN AHMET MUFIT
IPC: G06V30/10
Filed: 2008-01-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To identify a plurality of background regions in image according to data appropriately, depending on the characteristics.  <P>SOLUTION: The image processor comprises an image acquisition section 152 for selecting a plurality of first pixels in a document image 10; an image analyzing section 153 for making a first histogram of a first channel value in the plurality of first pixels, a peak identifying section 154 for detecting a first peak from the first histogram; and a region specification section 156 for specifying the characteristics of the document image 10. The image analysis section 153 makes a second histogram of a second channel value in a plurality of second pixels, having a first channel value within the range of first peak from among the plurality of first pixels, the peak identification section 154 detects a second peak from among the second histogram, and the region specification section 156 specifies the characteristics based on the first and second peaks.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009177376-A (JP)
Title: Mobile terminal unit and program
Inventor: WATANABE HIDEOMI
IPC: G01C21/00
Filed: 2008-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile terminal unit capable of changing a set-up time established corresponding to predetermined processing according to user's action.  <P>SOLUTION: A control portion 1 monitors user's action, and acquires a time when the control portion detects a specific action as an action time. Then, the control portion changes a set-up time (for example, alarm broadcast time) of predetermined processing (for example, alarm broadcast processing) based on the action time and a standard action time. Namely, the control portion acquires a current position from a position acquisition portion 10, and compares the current position with a standard position registered beforehand. According to the comparison, the control portion 1 determines whether a user is in a specific position (for example, house position) or not. According to the determination, the control portion detects whether it is a specific action (for example, the user arrives at his/her home) or not. If the control portion detects that the user is in the specific position, it acquires the present time from a clock portion 9 as the action time (the arrival home time). Then, the control portion changes the set-up time (alarm broadcast time) of alarm broadcast processing based on the action time and the standard action time (standard arrival home time).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009176496-A (JP)
Title: Reflector, light source device, and projector
Inventor: ARIGA SUSUMU
IPC: G03B21/14
Filed: 2008-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reflector for efficiently supplying light to an irradiated surface while improving portability of the constitution including the reflector by thinning, and to provide a light source device and a projector using the reflector.  <P>SOLUTION: The reflector 13 used in combination with a light emitting part 12 for emitting light, and reflecting the light emitted from the light emitting part 12, has a base material deformable from a first shape into a second shape narrower in width in a specific direction than the first shape, and restorable from the second shape into the first shape. The base material is formed using a shape memory alloy.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009176521-A (JP)
Title: Lighting fixture using strip-shaped luminous body
Inventor: SHIRAISHI KAZUYA
IPC: F21Y101/00
Filed: 2008-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting fixture of novel visual quality capable of stereoscopically disposing each of a plurality of point light sources at a predetermined position in an appropriate posture very quickly, and producing a stereoscopic effect by a real image.  <P>SOLUTION: The lighting fixture includes: a first strip-shaped luminous body which is a strip-shaped member formed of a flexible material and on which a plurality of point light sources are arranged along its length direction; a second strip-shaped luminous body which is a strip-shaped member formed of a flexible material and on which a plurality of point light sources are arranged along its length direction; and a strip-shaped luminous body holding device holding the first strip-shaped luminous body in a state of being curved into a predetermined shape and at a front side of a front view of the lighting fixture, and holding the second strip-shaped luminous body in a state of being curved into a predetermined shape and at a back side of a front view of the lighting fixture.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009174989-A (JP)
Title: Measuring method for pressure loss of molten metal, casting condition deciding method, testing device for fluidity of molten metal
Inventor: NOMURA MASAHIRO
IPC: G01N33/20
Filed: 2008-01-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a testing device for fluidity of a molten metal and a measuring method for a pressure loss of a molten metal which are for absolutely measuring a pressure loss of a molten metal in consideration of an environmental condition and a material condition as of the point in time, and to provide a casting condition deciding method using the foregoing.  <P>SOLUTION: A fluidity testing device 1 comprises a molten metal port 11 through which a molten metal is injected, a flowing pathway 12 through which the injected molten metal flows, a standard pressure port 13 provided in the flowing pathway 12, and at least one pressure port for measurement 14 provided in the flowing pathway 12 downstream from the standard pressure port 13.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009174995-A (JP)
Title: Channel structure, channel substrate, and controlling method of fluid
Inventor: SHINODA MASATAKA
IPC: G01N35/10
Filed: 2008-01-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a channel structure capable of treating a sample with high accuracy and better efficiency by using a plurality of channels.  <P>SOLUTION: The channel structure includes a plurality of channels having at least a sample introducing section for introducing a sample, a treating section for treating the sample, and a discharging section for discharging the sample. Each channel includes a sheath liquid inlet section for introducing a sheath liquid into the sample, introduced from the sample introducing section. The distance between the treating section and the merging section of the channel and the sheath liquid inlet section is substantially equal for each channel.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009172907-A (JP)
Title: Shaping mold and manufacturing device of rubber roller and its manufacturing method
Inventor: TAKAHASHI TOSHIHIKO
IPC: B29L31/32
Filed: 2008-01-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shaping mold of a rubber roller which is used for casting a liquid rubber material into the shaping mold, curing and shaping the same and shows a good precision of run-out to leave little waste material in a runner part, and to provide a manufacturing device and a manufacturing method of the rubber roller.  <P>SOLUTION: The shaping mold of the rubber roller comprises at least a pipe mold main body having a cylindrical inner surface, and dowels on the casting-in side and the non-casting-in side both mated with both the ends of the pipe mold main body to hold a shaft concentrically to the central shaft of the pipe mold main body wherein the dowel on the non-casting-in side has a slide mechanism pressing both the end corner parts of the shaft in the axial direction to support the same while centering the same, and a hole through which a means for pressing the slide mechanism from the outside is inserted is mounted on the end surface of the dowel on the non-casting-in side.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009177663-A (JP)
Title: Antenna device
Inventor: NAKAJIMA SUSUMU
IPC: H01Q1/24
Filed: 2008-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an antenna device which enables a radiation conductor to be securely held on a base body.  <P>SOLUTION: The antenna device includes: the base body (2) mounted on a circuit board (90); and a metallic radiation conductor (31) which is provided to the base body and radiates radio waves, the radiation conductor being formed in a spiral shape and partially buried in the base body. The radiation conductor has a nearly octagonal cross section substantially orthogonal to the center axis of the spiral and four side portions (32a, 34a) whose normals are substantially orthogonal to each other are buried in the base body.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009175597-A (JP)
Title: Optical sheet and backlight unit using the same
Inventor: MAKIMURA YOICHIRO
IPC: G02B3/08
Filed: 2008-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical sheet capable of making light beams passed through respective Fresnel lens surfaces 1 a of the optical sheet 1 cross one another temporarily by the Fresnel lens surface through convergence, and then diverge to some extent by increasing curvature of a convex shape of each Fresnel lens surface 1a, and to provide a backlight unit using the same.  <P>SOLUTION: Angles of inclination of ends of both adjacent Fresnel lens surfaces 1 a, divided in a Fresnel lens shape, on an adjacent border side are so defined as to be inclined all the more in an inward direction because the Fresnel lens surface 1 a is on a side farther from the center of the Fresnel lens.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009176678-A (JP)
Title: Lighting apparatus
Inventor: TODA NAOHIRO
IPC: F21Y101/00
Filed: 2008-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lighting apparatus which does not impair workability of a person who does a work such as reading and yet does not prevent from entering a smooth sleeping.  <P>SOLUTION: The lighting apparatus 1 includes a light source 2, a cylindrical case 4 which has an irradiation face 3 to face a floor F, and a louver 6. The louver 6 has a plurality of annular flaps 5 with different diameters arranged on a concentric circle, and each flap 5 is fixed on the irradiation face 3 so that its normal line direction r1 may be nearly in parallel with the floor face F. Each flap 5 is constructed into a filter to reduce transmission of light of a wavelength component which has an action to suppress secretion of melatonin to a human body out of the light from the light source 2. The light going directly downward from the light source 2 does not pass the flap 5 and becomes direct light L1, and the color rendering property of the light of the light source 2 is maintained, thereby workability of a user P1 is not impaired. The light going in an inclined direction of a prescribed angle θ becomes light L2 which transmits the flap 5 and the light of a wavelength component which suppresses secretion of melatonin is reduced, thereby smooth entering into sleep of a user P2 is not prevented.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009180526-A (JP)
Title: Fuel pool water supply system
Inventor: AOKI YASUTAKA
IPC: G21C19/07
Filed: 2008-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel pool water supply system which enables automatically supplying fuel pool water, at an emergency, such as, earthquake.  <P>SOLUTION: The fuel pool water supply system includes a water source 1 of make-up water, a fuel-pool water level gauge 12 for measuring the water level of a fuel pool 8; a skimmer surge tank water level gauge 13 for measuring the water level of a skimmer surge tank 11; a pump 3 activated or stopped automatically by signals, from at least one of the fuel master water level gauge 12 and the skimmer surge tank water level gauge 13; a fuel pool master valve 7 placed in a pipe connected from the pump 3 to the fuel pool 8 and opened and closed automatically by signals from the fuel pool water level gauge 12; and a skimmer surge tank master valve 10, placed in a pipe branched off from the pipe to the fuel pool 8 and connected to the skimmer surge tank 11 and opened and closed automatically by signals from the skimmer surge tank water level gauge 13, in the fuel-pool water supply system for supplying the make-up water to the fuel pool 8 to store the spent fuel of a reactor.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009181778-A (JP)
Title: Porous conductive substrate having penetration structure, method of manufacturing the same, member for fuel cell gas diffusion layer, and fuel cell
Inventor: SAKAI MITSURU
IPC: H01M8/10
Filed: 2008-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a porous conductive substrate which can stably maintain a good gas diffusion property and discharging efficiency of generated water as a fuel cell gas diffusion layer; and to provide a fuel cell having suppressed reduction in output voltage and excellent power generation efficiency using the porous conductive substrate.  <P>SOLUTION: The porous conductive substrate is characterized in that the substrate has one or a plurality of portions which are disposed to penetrate in the thickness direction of the substrate and have a high affinity for water and the portions are imparted with the affinity for water by binding of a hydrophilic functional group to the substrate.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009182174-A (JP)
Title: Rolled piezoelectric conversion element, and method of manufacturing the same
Inventor: NAMATAME KOJI
IPC: H01L41/22
Filed: 2008-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rolled piezoelectric conversion element for which workability can be improved, and to provide a method of manufacturing the same.  <P>SOLUTION: Disclosed is the rolled piezoelectric conversion element constituted by rolling a sheet-like piezoelectric element 10 with electrodes, made of a ceramic-based piezoelectric material and having a first electrode 22 formed on a top surface 11 of the sheet-like piezoelectric element 10 to have a first non-electrode region 23 where the electrode is not formed at one end 13 of the sheet-like piezoelectric element 10 and also having a second electrode 22 formed on the reverse surface 12 to have a second non-electrode region 23 where the electrode is not formed at the other end 14 of the sheet-like piezoelectric element 10, in a state wherein the ends 13 and 14 of the sheet-like piezoelectric element 10 are folded back shifting from each other, with the folded-back portions as the inside center so that the first non-electrode region 23, first electrode portion 22, second non-electrode region 23, and second electrode portion 22 are exposed to the outside, the first and second electrode portions 22 or first and second non-electrode regions 23 have a surface shape including a uniquely-shaped portion 22.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009178749-A (JP)
Title: Stepped immersed nozzle with split-type weir
Inventor: ONODA HIROYUKI
IPC: B22D11/10
Filed: 2008-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an immersed nozzle capable of further reducing a drift current.  <P>SOLUTION: A pair of flow regulating protruding portions 4 extending in parallel to a direction of drilling molten steel discharging holes 2 are provided in the same column on an inner bottom surface 3. A pair of second flow regulating protruding portions 8 extending in parallel to the first flow regulating protruding portions 4 and opposing to each other with the first regulating protruding portions 4 sandwiched in viewing the bottom surface of the immersed nozzle 1 are provided on an inner circumferential surface 7 of the immersed nozzle 1.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009180638-A (JP)
Title: Physical quantity sensor
Inventor: HAYATA NORIFUMI
IPC: G01P15/125
Filed: 2008-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform self-diagnosis appropriately, even if actual physical quantity is input during the self-diagnosis.  <P>SOLUTION: A sensor output is differentiated by a differentiating circuit 23d, thereby obtaining a signal capturing only an edge of a sensor output offset. By using this signal, self-diagnosis is performed by a microcomputer 30, by determining whether the timing at which a diagnostic pulse is output and the timing at which a self-diagnostic output exceeds a self-diagnostic threshold match. An acceleration sensor can be thereby provided which can perform self-diagnosis appropriately, even if actual physical quantity is input during the self-diagnosis.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008214616-A (JP)
Title: Composition and light-emitting element using the composition
Inventor: AKINO YOSHIHIKO
IPC: C09K11/06
Filed: 2008-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a luminescent material having an excellent luminous efficiency when used in a light-emitting element etc.  <P>SOLUTION: The composition comprises a compound having a benzimidazole ring structure and a phosphorescent compound. For example, the compound having the benzimidazole ring structure has a benzimidazole ring structure represented by formula (P-1) (wherein n is a polymerization number).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT