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Patent JP-2012141255-A (JP)
Title: Ultrasonic sensor, tactile sensor and gripping device
Inventor: NISHIWAKI MANABU
IPC: B25J19/02
Filed: 2011-01-06
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tactile sensor and a gripping device capable of contact detecting a contact object with a simple configuration.SOLUTION: A tactile sensor comprises: a substrate 11; an elastic film 15 which is disposed on the substrate 11 and is elastically deformable by the contact of a contact object; an ultrasonic reflector 16 which is disposed inside the elastic film 15 and if the elastic film 15 is elastically deformed, is moved according to the deformation; a plurality of ultrasonic elements 20 which transmit ultrasonic waves into the elastic film 15 and receive ultrasonic waves reflected by the ultrasonic reflector 16; and a control part for controlling transmission and reception of the ultrasonic waves of each ultrasonic element 20. The ultrasonic reflector 16 has element opposing surfaces 161 facing the ultrasonic elements 20 so as to correspond to each of the ultrasonic elements 20.
Patent JP-2011102643-A (JP)
Title: Flow regulating valve
Inventor: HASUNUMA MASAHIRO
IPC: F16K1/32
Filed: 2011-01-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent occurrence of particles due to contact of a needle valve to an inner wall of a housing and abrasion when regulating a flow rate by rotating a flow regulation knob.  <P>SOLUTION: The flow regulating valve includes a housing 11 formed with a valve hole 13, the needle valve 60 moving with respect to a valve seat 16 in the housing 11, and the flow regulation knob 40 attached to a base end of the needle valve 60 extending from the housing 11. In the flow regulating valve wherein the needle valve 60 is moved with respect to the valve seat 16 by rotating the flow regulation knob 40 and thus a flow rate of a fluid flowing through the valve hole 13 is regulated, the needle valve 60 is constituted of a first portion 64 connected to the flow regulation knob 40 and a second portion 65 engaging with the valve seat 16, and the first portion 64 and the second portion 65 are connected such that rotation of the first portion 64 based upon rotation of the flow regulation knob 40 is not transmitted to the second portion 65.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2012145610-A (JP)
Title: Pedal device and electronic keyboard instrument with the same
Inventor: IWAMOTO TOSHIYUKI
IPC: G10H1/32
Filed: 2011-01-06
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To faithfully reproduce touches of a plurality of pedals with which an acoustic piano is provided by simple configuration.SOLUTION: A pedal device 1 of an electronic keyboard instrument includes: a plurality of pedals 10-1, 10-2, 10-3; and a plurality of coil springs 40-1, 40-2, 40-3 which deform according to stepping operations of the respective pedals 10-1, 10-2, 10-3 to apply reaction force to be generated to deformation to the respective pedals 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, and in the plurality of coil springs 40-1, 40-2, 40-3, characteristics of the reaction force to be applied to the corresponding pedals 10-1, 10-2, 10-3 are mutually different by differentiating at least one of their shapes, materials, installation positions to the respective pedals 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, and initial compression amounts at the initial positions where stepping operations of the respective pedals 10-1, 10-2, 10-3 are not performed from one another.
Patent JP-2012147063-A (JP)
Title: Telephone terminal, telephone system, and incoming call response method
Inventor: MATSUDAIRA KOICHI
IPC: H04M1/00
Filed: 2011-01-07
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a telephone terminal which, when a call is received, can automatically respond to the call dynamically depending on the situation of a telephone terminal user or who the caller of the received call is.SOLUTION: There are included a response message storage unit which stores and holds therein plural kinds of automatic response messages for incoming calls and incoming call response selection means which selects one incoming call response among plural choices of incoming call responses including plural kinds of automatic responses by the plural kinds of automatic response messages. When an incoming call is detected, a telephone directory is searched and, based on caller recognition information corresponding to a call originating telephone number, the caller is notified by notification means. Automatic response message transmission means, when an incoming call response by one of the plural kinds of automatic response messages is selected by the incoming call response selection means, automatically responds to the incoming call by reading out an automatic response message selected from the response message storage unit and transmitting it to the caller.
Patent JP-2011087461-A (JP)
Title: Open-air cable sealing end
Inventor: KAUMANNS JOHANNES
IPC: H02G15/064
Filed: 2011-01-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an open-air cable sealing end that functionally achieves reliable coupling with a cable.  <P>SOLUTION: An open-air cable sealing end includes an insulator 1 having first and second end areas 2 and 3, a receiver insulating section 10 having at least a portion projecting into an internal space 18 of the insulator 1 in the first end area 2, and a field control element 8 coupled with a cable 5. The field control element 8 is coupled to the receiver insulating section 10 so as to be inserted. The open-air cable sealing end further includes a connector 21 disposed in the second end area 3 of the insulator 1. The cable 5 can be electrically coupled with the connector 21, and in this instance, an insulating medium is provided in the internal space 18. A field control electrode 28 surrounding the receiver insulating section 10 with a predetermined amount of space therebetween is provided in the internal space 18. In the internal space 18, a coupling conductor 24 is provided between a connection point body 22 and the connector 21, and is electrically coupled with the connection point body 22.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011124237-A (JP)
Title: Catalyst composition for fuel cell and its application
Inventor: YOSHIDA TOMOAKI
IPC: H01M4/96
Filed: 2011-01-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a catalyst composition for a fuel cell, restraining "wettedness" in a catalyst layer, having a function for not changing or reducing electric resistance, having a function for improving gas permeability by securing a gas flow channel, improving power generation characteristics and capable of easily controlling humidification.  <P>SOLUTION: The catalyst composition for a fuel cell mainly consists of catalyst-supported conductive powder particles 14 and carbon nanotube, using the fiber diameter of 1 to 300 nm as the carbon nanotube, with fiber length of 100 μm or less.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2012144135-A (JP)
Title: Frame structure of vehicle seat
Inventor: MATSUOKA HISAYOSHI
IPC: B60N2/90
Filed: 2011-01-12
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a frame structure of a vehicle seat capable of avoiding resonance with vehicle body vibration, by reducing rigidity in the vehicle width direction, while securing rigidity in the vehicle longitudinal direction required for the vehicle seat.SOLUTION: A seat cushion frame 2 and a seat back frame 3 are connected by connecting members 4L and 4R, a substantially upper half part 11B of an arm part 11 of a reclining device 10 for constituting the connecting member 4L, is constituted as a rigidity adjusting means 20 made of a plurality of thin plate materials 11a adjacent in the vehicle width direction, and the rigidity in the vehicle width direction is reduced to the rigidity in the vehicle longitudinal direction.
Patent JP-2012145779-A (JP)
Title: Liquid crystal display device
Inventor: OKAZAKI KENGO
IPC: G02F1/1333
Filed: 2011-01-12
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow connection of a flexible wiring board to a touch panel without using an additional component when a liquid crystal display device with a touch panel is used.SOLUTION: A color filter substrate 20 is placed above a TFT substrate 10 and a touch panel 100 comprising one substrate is pasted on the color filter substrate 20 via a first adhesive layer 70. An upper polarizing plate 21 is pasted on the touch panel 100 and a front window 200 is pasted on the upper polarizing panel 21 via a second adhesive layer 80. The front window 200 covers a terminal part 15 where there is one TFT substrate 10 and mechanically protects the whole liquid crystal display panel. Since the upper polarizing panel 21 is placed on the touch panel 100, a connection part of a flexible wiring board 50 for a touch panel does not touch the front window 200, it is protected that the touch panel 100 is distorted.
Patent JP-2012018156-A (JP)
Title: Surface shape measurement apparatus and surface shape measurement method
Inventor: AMANAKA MASAHITO
IPC: G01B11/24
Filed: 2011-01-13
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surface shape measurement apparatus and a surface shape measurement method capable of more accurately measuring the surface shape of a measured object in nm order in a relatively short time.SOLUTION: The surface shape measurement apparatus SA of the present invention deals with three or more measuring points of a measured object Ob per one measurement spot MP. For example, the surface shape measurement apparatus SA executes the steps of: dividing a measuring light ML generated in a measuring light generation unit 1A into three measuring lights in a measuring unit 2A in order to irradiate each of three measuring points P1 to P3 with the measuring light ML; irradiating each of the three measuring points P1 to P3 of the measured object Ob with the divided measuring light ML1 to ML3; making a pair of reflected lights RL1, RL2 to interfere with each other as well as making a pair of reflected lights RL2, RL3 to interfere with each other so as to use a common reflected light RL2, where RL1 to RL3 are reflected lights of the measuring lights ML1 to ML3; and obtaining the surface shape of the measured object Ob based on a first interfering light IL1 and a second interfering light IL2 obtained by the above light interference.
Patent JP-2012148297-A (JP)
Title: Friction stir joining method
Inventor: CHIKUMA HIROSHI
IPC: B23K20/12
Filed: 2011-01-18
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a friction stir joining method for suppressing decrease in combining strength when carrying out friction joining so that a thin member to be joined and a thick member to be joined are abutted and a joining terminating position is returned at least to a joining starting position.SOLUTION: A joining starting part K1 of a pin 7a is made to be a position on an abutting line E of a thin cylinder body 1 and a thick cylinder body 2. The pin 7a is meandered and moved toward the joining starting part K1 to allow the pin 7a to move from the joining starting part K1 through a thin cylinder body 1 side toward a thick cylinder body 2 side in a range W where the dissolving part Y of the thin cylinder body 1 and the thick cylinder body 2 by the pin 7a overlaps relative to the abutting line E in the joining center line M of the pin 7a. The joining terminating part K2 of the pin 7a is made to be in a position passing the vicinity of the joining starting part K1, and the joining terminating part K2 at this position is made to be in a position closer to the thick cylinder body 2 than the position m of the pin 7a that is earlier meandered from the joining starting part K1.
Patent JP-2012148666-A (JP)
Title: Vehicle seat
Inventor: TOYAMA MASAYUKI
IPC: B60N2/90
Filed: 2011-01-19
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate the setting of resonators into a vehicle seat.SOLUTION: A vehicle seat has: a pad 3P forming a cushion structure of a seat body 1 (a seat cushion 3); and each S spring 3S elastically supporting the pad 3P from the rear side with respect to a cushion frame 3F. A flexible felt 3B is provided at the rear part of the pad 3P by integrally adhering it thereto in a laminated manner in order to be bendable together with the pad 3P by a working load applied to the seat cushion 3. Each opening hole 3B1 is formed in the flexible felt 3B penetratingly in the thickness direction. Each recess 3P1 is formed in the rear (a recess forming layer 3A) of the pad 3P in order to communicate with each opening hole 3B1 and to form each spatial volume, wider than the opening hole 3B1, inside the pad 3P. Each opening hole 3B1 and each recess 3P1 are made to communicate with each other in order to form each resonator 10.
Patent JP-2012149361-A (JP)
Title: Sewing thread, workpiece and reader
Inventor: HASEGAWA MASASHI
IPC: D02G3/46
Filed: 2011-01-19
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for maintaining readability of a code expressed by a sewing thread even if the sewing thread is used for sewing a workpiece.SOLUTION: A needle thread 10 is a long and linearly continuous thread of a natural fiber or a chemical fiber. A workpiece 20 is composed of a first clothing fabric and a second clothing fabric, and sewed by a lock stitch using the needle thread 10 and a bobbin thread 30. The needle thread 10 has a plurality of first parts 110 and a plurality of second parts 120. The second parts 120 expresses a one-dimensional code expressing information coded by the length of a part which appears on the surface of the workpiece 20 when a line of seams is formed by sewing the workpiece 20 by using the needle thread 10. Each of the first part 110 and the second part 120 is provided so as to be longer than the length of the total of the length of a seam 130 and the length of a hidden part 140.
Patent JP-2011129144-A (JP)
Title: Electronic apparatus
Inventor: KANEKO TAKEYOSHI
IPC: G06F1/20
Filed: 2011-01-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic apparatus for suppressing deterioration in cooling efficiency.  <P>SOLUTION: The electronic apparatus has: a case having a bottom wall in which an exhaust vent is formed and a circumferential wall having a blocked area; a printed circuit board housed in the case; an electronic component which is mounted on the printed circuit board and generates heat when powered; a fan which has an air outlet opposed to the blocked area and sends out a wind to the blocked area; a heat radiation member which is constituted of a plurality of fins, has a part opposed to the exhaust vent and a part opposed to the air outlet, and in which an end located on the opposite side of the part opposed to the exhaust vent and an end located on the opposite side of the part opposed to the air outlet are blocked, respectively; and a heat pipe which is thermally connected to the heat radiation member and transmits heat from the electronic component to the heat radiation member.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2012156632-A (JP)
Title: Periphery monitoring device
Inventor: TAKEICHI MASAKAZU
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2011-01-24
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress distortion of an object in a final output image of a periphery monitoring device.SOLUTION: In the periphery monitoring device, a picked-up image picked up by one camera is acquired (S120), converted to a bird's-eye image and stored (S150). Further, the plurality of bird's-eye images along a time base are composed to generate one bird's-eye image (that is, a composite image) (S160). Thereafter, a contour of an obstacle is estimated from a history along the time base of a spot on the outer shell of the same obstacle detected in an obstacle detection sensor (S210), the contour is defined as a boundary, and an object area larger than an area occupied by the obstacle in the composite image is specified (S220). Then, by executing compression along a direction toward a center position of a camera 10 present at the point of time of photographing respective picked-up images constituting the object area, for the specified object area of the composite image, the final output image is generated (S230).
Patent JP-2012155016-A (JP)
Title: Information processor, information processing method and program
Inventor: HASEGAWA HIROSHI
IPC: G06T3/40
Filed: 2011-01-24
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a processing performance of shifting a display range of an observation image by shifting a flame on a thumb nail map.SOLUTION: A thumb nail map composition part forms a thumb nail map by spatially compressing an original image by a first compression rate to form a thumb nail image, and composing thereon a flame showing a display range of the original image in an observation image formed by spatially compressing the original image by a second compression rate lower than the first compression rate. An image composition part outputs the composition of the observation image and the thumb nail map to a display device. When a user inputs a shift amount of the flame on the thumb nail map, a display range calculation part acquires a first correction shift amount by calculating an average value of shift amounts input in the last n times including the present time, and shifts the display range of the observation image according to the first correction shift amount.
Patent JP-2012153803-A (JP)
Title: Rolling bearing for steel rolling machine
Inventor: INAMI NOBUYUKI
IPC: C10M107/02
Filed: 2011-01-26
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rolling bearing for a steel rolling machine, which exhibits excellent water resistance and prevents smearing by enclosing grease excellent in flowability.SOLUTION: The rolling bearing for the steel rolling machine is configured by rollably arranging a plurality of rolling elements between inner and outer rings and enclosing lubricating grease in the rolling bearing. In the rolling bearing for the steel rolling machine, the grease is made by adding three rust preventives (a carboxylic acid-based rust preventive, a carboxylate-based rust preventive, and an amine-based rust preventive) to a base oil comprising at least one of a mineral oil and a synthetic oil and has mixing consistency of 300 to 400.
Patent JP-2011210703-A (JP)
Title: Organic light-emitting element
Inventor: KO HEE-JOO
IPC: H01L51/50
Filed: 2011-01-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a long service-life organic light-emitting element.SOLUTION: The long-life organic light-emitting element includes: a first electrode; a second electrode opposing to the first electrode; and an organic layer positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode contains metal to have an absolute value of work function smaller than that of the work function of ITO.
Patent JP-2012155255-A (JP)
Title: Positioning tool for lenticular print sheet
Inventor: NAKAYAMA KENJI
IPC: G02B27/06
Filed: 2011-01-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a print sheet and a lenticular lens to be correctly positioned to appropriately create a lenticular print sheet by which a visual effect in which an image seems to move is obtained.SOLUTION: A positioning tool comprises: a board body on which grooves are formed, the grooves which correspond to the shape of a plurality of convex lenses formed on the opposite side to the plane part of a lenticular lens and will fit the convex lenses; a lock lever energized and supported rotatably by the board body in a closing direction and forming an openable/closable alligator-clip like holder; and a position confirmation opening for confirming a print for positioning formed beforehand associated with an image on a print sheet when the print sheet is mounted on the board body and adjusting the relative positions of the print sheet and the lenticular lenses. A lenticular print sheet is created while it is positioned by using the above-described positioning tool.
Patent JP-2012160966-A (JP)
Title: Imaging apparatus
Inventor: IKEDA TAKAHIRO
IPC: H04N5/225
Filed: 2011-02-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display an indication indicating a plurality of imaging areas having aspect ratios different from one another in an easy-to-understand manner.SOLUTION: An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging element 12, image creation means 13 and 14 respectively creating an image corresponding to a first imaging area of a first aspect ratio and an image corresponding to a second imaging area of a second aspect ratio smaller than the first aspect ratio based on signals from the imaging element 12, display means 17 having a display area of a third aspect ratio and display control means 20 causing the display means 17 to display a reproduction image based on the signals from the imaging element 12. The display control means 20 causes the display means 17 to display a first frame indicating the first imaging area and a second frame indicating the second imaging area together with information necessary for discrimination of respective frames so as to overlap the reproduction image.
Patent JP-2012163701-A (JP)
Title: Multi-viewpoint aerial graphic display device
Inventor: MAEKAWA SATOSHI
IPC: G02B5/136
Filed: 2011-02-04
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new optical element capable of suppressing generation of stray light and allowing a clear image to be observed with multi-viewpoints of an observation side in spite of a simple method.SOLUTION: A multi-viewpoint aerial graphic display device 3A1 is configured in such a manner that: a plurality of biface corner reflectors as a unit optical element consisting of two mirror surfaces orthogonal to each other are formed on an element plane S constituting one plane and capable of transmitting light; light emitted from an object O to be projected on one side of the element plane S is reflected once to each of the two mirror surfaces by each biface corner reflector to transmit the light through the element plane S; and a mirror image P is imaged at a plane symmetrical position of the object O to be projected with respect to the element plane S. The multi-viewpoint aerial graphic display device 3A1 comprises rotating means 4 for rotating whole of the biface corner reflectors on the element plane S, or individual biface corner reflectors, or aggregation of a plurality of biface corner reflectors within a certain region in a plane parallel with the element plane S.
Patent JP-2011147141-A (JP)
Title: Wireless communication network with extended coverage range
Inventor: WALTON JAY RODNEY
IPC: H04W72/04
Filed: 2011-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a radio communication network which supports 802.11 b/g and a range extension mode, which supports at least one data rate lower than the lowest data rate in 802.11 b/g.  <P>SOLUTION: A transmitting station (which may be an access point or a user terminal) includes first and second processors. The first processor performs differential modulation and spectral spreading for a first set of at least one data rate (e.g., 1 and 2 Mbps) supported by 802.11 b/g. The second processor performs forward error correction (FEC) encoding, symbol mapping, and spectral spreading for a second set of at least one data rate (e.g., 250, 500, and 1,000 Kbps) supported by the range extension mode. The transmitting station can send a transmission at a data rate supported by either 802.11 b/g or the range extension mode, e.g., depending on the desired coverage range for the transmission. A receiving station performs the complementary processing to recover the transmission.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011139494-A (JP)
Title: Thermal transmission control of wireless data modem
Inventor: RAITH ALEX KRISTER
IPC: H04W72/12
Filed: 2011-02-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control transmissions based on the temperature in radio communication systems.  <P>SOLUTION: A mobile station includes a measuring device for determining an operating temperature. When the measured temperature exceeds a predetermined threshold temperature, the mobile station informs the system of an index indicating a reduced transmission rate, whereby the system can reallocate released resources, e.g., time slots and/or spreading codes to reduce the transmission rate. Furthermore, the mobile station also inform the user of the change in transmission rates and/or the temperature of the mobile station.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT