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Patent JP-2004052385-A (JP)
Title: Hybrid geotheremal snow melter
Inventor: SUZAWA AKIMI
IPC: E01C11/26
Filed: 2002-07-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a snow melter for surely and serviceably melting snow over the entire length of a road surface by using geothermy.  <P>SOLUTION: A geothermal exchanger 1, a first heat radiating pipe 2 arranged under a first road surface F and a second heat radiating pipe 4 arranged under a second road surface S are connected by a first circulating pipe 3 and a second circulating pipe 5. A heat pump 6 and the geothermal exchanger 1 side of the second circulating pipe 5 are connected by a first circulating passage 7 via a three-way solenoid valve 8, and the second heat radiating pipe 4 side is connected by a second circulating passage 9 provided with a solenoid valve 10. When the temperature of the first road surface F reaches a preset value or lower, an antifreezing solution for gathering the geothermy by the geothermal exchanger 1 is circulated to both the first and second heat radiating pipes 2 and 4, and melts snow on the first and second road surfaces S and F. When detecting the existence of moisture when the temperature of the second road surface S reaches a preset value lower than that temperature, the antifreezing solution is supplied to the heat pump 6, and the heated antifreezing solution heated by the heat pump 6 is circulated to the second heat radiating pipe 4, and melts the snow on the second road surface S.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004049730-A (JP)
Title: Hanger for clothing
Inventor: YAMAMOTO SATOSHI
IPC: A47G25/36
Filed: 2002-07-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a low-cost hanger for clothing by which clothing does not lose its shape or is not wrinkled, the adhesion of bodies and sleeves is prevented, and which is made by a consumer himself/herself by effectively utilizes a bottle such as a plastic bottle.  <P>SOLUTION: A connection part 16 is attached to the lower end part of a hanging hook 10, wherein a pair of sockets 18 for connecting the spouts 1a of the bottles 1 are arranged in the opposite and obliquely downward directions. Female screws 18a to be screwed onto male screws formed in the respective spouts of the bottles 1 are formed in the sockets 18.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004058742-A (JP)
Title: Steering device for vehicle
Inventor: SUZUKI HIROSHI
IPC: B62D5/04
Filed: 2002-07-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a steering device for a vehicle capable of adjusting a transmission ratio from a steering wheel shaft to a steering shaft (steered shaft) by taking a road surface situation into consideration.  <P>SOLUTION: The steering device for the vehicle is equipped with a steering control part which interposes a transmission ratio variable device varying the transmission ratio, and changes the transmission ratio with a predetermined element in the middle of a steering transmission system connecting the steering wheel and steered wheels. The vehicle has a road surface reaction force detection device detecting the road surface reaction force (road surface friction force) during traveling. The transmission ratio of the transmission ratio variable device is changed by the steering control part according to the size of the road surface friction force detected with the road surface reaction force detection device.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004060776-A (JP)
Title: Spring load adjusting apparatus of hydraulic buffer
Inventor: KAJINO TSUTOMU
IPC: F16F9/32
Filed: 2002-07-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spring load adjusting apparatus of a hydraulic buffer capable of easily adjusting the spring load of a suspension spring and easily performing air purge work.  <P>SOLUTION: The spring load adjusting apparatus of the hydraulic buffer 10 can adjust the spring load of the suspension spring 11, and a spring adjuster 105 having an operation element 106 is disposed rotatably in the cap 104 and lockably via a detent mechanism section 107. The operation element 106 of the spring adjuster 105 has a boss section 106A and a plurality of handle parts 106B radially extending from the outer periphery of the boss section 106A. The spring adjuster 105 is formed so that a plug bolt 120 for degassing lies between the handle part 106B and the handle part 106B of the operation element 106 when it is locked to the cap 104 by the detent mechanism section 107.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004064468-A (JP)
Title: Image pickup device
Inventor: TSUGITA MAKOTO
IPC: H04N9/73
Filed: 2002-07-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image pickup device capable of carrying out image pickup with a satisfactory white balance by accurately judging the light source kind.  <P>SOLUTION: In a CCD 16, a plurality of light receiving elements PD2(red end-infrared sensors) mounted with a red end light transmitting filter for transmitting lights with wavelength which is 630nm or more is arranged between a plurality of light receiving elements PD1 mounted with a color filter so as to be spread across the CCD 16. Then, evaluation values(IR<SB>0</SB>/G<SB>0</SB>and B<SB>0</SB>/R<SB>0</SB>) for judging the light source kind are calculated based on the light reception result of the red end-infrared sensor, and the light source kind is judged based on the calculated IR<SB>0</SB>/G<SB>0</SB>and B<SB>0</SB>/R<SB>0</SB>, and a gain value corresponding to the judged light source kind is decided. A white balance adjusting circuit 30 adjusts the white balance by multiplexing a digital signal obtained by image pickup by the decided gain value.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004061914-A (JP)
Title: Optical transmission apparatus
Inventor: OKADA JUNJI
IPC: G02B6/10
Filed: 2002-07-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical transmission apparatus having high efficiency of utilizing light by ameliorating the optical coupling loss of light guides and optical elements.  <P>SOLUTION: The optical transmission apparatus is provided with the light guides 11 having light incident and exit sections in stepped parts of a plurality of staircase shapes, a substrate 12 for fixing the light guides, and light receiving elements 14 and light emitting elements 15 arranged on the substrate in correspondence to the light incident and exit sections of the light guides. The light receiving elements 14 and the light emitting elements 15 are arranged on the substrate by using optical connectors 13. Here. the coefficients of linear expansion and the dimensional change rate (or percentage of water absorption) by water absorption of the light guides 11 and the substrate 12 are made nearly equal to each other.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004059765-A (JP)
Title: Process for preparing emulsion composition for coating
Inventor: OCHI IKURO
IPC: C09D133/00
Filed: 2002-07-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a process for preparing an aqueous coating resin composition which shows a sufficient weather resistance and an excellent gloss.  <P>SOLUTION: In an aqueous medium, a (meth)acrylic monomer is subjected to a first emulsion polymerization. After reaching a conversion ratio of 70%, a pre-emulsion prepared by pre-emulsifying a polymerizable, UV-stable monomer and/or a polymerizable, light-stable monomer, preferably a pre-emulsion prepared by pre-emulsifying these with the (meth)acrylate monomer, is added to perform a second emulsion polymerization.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004057607-A (JP)
Title: Method for positioning image in game machine, and game board corresponding to the method
Inventor: TORII AKIHITO
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-07-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for positioning an image in a game machine suitable for displaying the display image at the proper position of a translucent member in a game board, and also to provide the game board corresponding to the method, concerning the game machine including: the game board having the translucent member; and an image projection display device for displaying the image on the translucent member.  <P>SOLUTION: Two positioning through-holes 85a are respectively arranged at the left upper and right lower places by viewing from a front part in plywood 85 constituting the game board. When positioning images 92b are projected from the rear surface side of the game board 81, the game images 92b are included in a game image 92 so that the game image is displayed at the proper position of the translucent member when the positioning through-holes 85a of the plywood 85 are superimposed on the positioning images 92b in the case of viewing the game image 92 from the front surface side.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004066892-A (JP)
Title: Connector structure of mirror surface angle adjusting unit
Inventor: ISHIGAMI SHIGEMI
IPC: H01R31/08
Filed: 2002-08-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a connector structure of a mirror surface angle adjusting unit capable of improving productivity by using commonalized cords for feeding on the right and left sides.  <P>SOLUTION: A connector main body 42 of the mirror surface angle adjusting unit 18 is connected with four cords for feeding 28 to 34 in total which are connected with an adjusting motor 20 for vertical direction and an adjusting motor 22 for left and right directions. Furthermore, a cover 48 is mounted on the connector main body 42 to obtain any specification of a door mirror device 10 for vehicle on the right side and a door mirror device 12 for vehicle on the left side depending on use of a conductor 64 for 2-3 connection and use of a conductor 66 for 2-4 connection when mounting the cover 48. Consequently, cords for feeding 28 to 34 can be used in common to improve productivity.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004071818-A (JP)
Title: Supporting device and stage device, and exposure device
Inventor: TAKAHASHI MASATO
IPC: H01L21/027
Filed: 2002-08-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To correspond to microfabrication of a device without upsizing of the device or the reduction of exposure accuracy.  <P>SOLUTION: The supporting device is provided with a supporting surface 68a to support an object 6. It is also provided with an air chamber 30 that is filled with an air of specified pressure and supports the object 6 by the air in a first direction crossing orthogonally the supporting surface 68a, and a driving device 31 that is arranged in the air chamber 30 to drive the object 6 by an electromagnetic force in the first direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004071418-A (JP)
Title: Switch unit
Inventor: KONISHI HIROMICHI
IPC: H01H3/50
Filed: 2002-08-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a button switch style switch unit having an excellent click feeling with a small number of components.  <P>SOLUTION: A moving rubber contact 3 is fixed by an outer shell member 2 by interposing a plastic sheet 4 between an operation button 1 and itself. The rubber contact 3 is rocked by operating the operation button 1 to bend the skirt part of the rubber contact 3, and thereby the conductive surface of the rubber contact 3 located in a pressing part comes into contact with a pair of fixed contacts on a switch board 5 to electrically turn on the circuit of the fixed contacts. Then, the plastic sheet 4 is pressed and bent between the operation button 1 and the rubber contact 3. The repulsion and the restoring force thereof significantly enhance the click feeling and a pressing load as compared with a simple-rubber switch unit.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004071948-A (JP)
Title: Alignment device and alignment method
Inventor: YANO SHOJI
IPC: H01L21/68
Filed: 2002-08-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an alignment device and method whereby a product processing apparatus is accurately installed, product mounting positions for receiving / supplying products can accurately be designated while minimizing the error, and product receiving / supplying positions for receiving / supplying the products from / to a product automatic carrying device can accurately be aligned in a short time.  <P>SOLUTION: The product processing apparatus 1 is provided with an alignment device main body 1a placed on a product mount stage 1g of the product processing apparatus 1; a laser emission device 1e provided to the alignment device main body 1a via a plate 1b and emitting a laser beam to indicate a product mounting center 1p of the product processing apparatus or other reference position onto a ceiling; and a strings attached weight 1d instructing the other reference position related to the product mounting center of the product processing apparatus onto a floor face, and the product processing apparatus and the product automatic carrying device are installed on the basis of the emission of the laser beam by the laser emission device 1e and / or the instruction by the weight.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004069620-A (JP)
Title: Basket for storing recycle fuel assembly and container for storing recycle fuel assembly
Inventor: OSONO MASANARI
IPC: G21F5/008
Filed: 2002-08-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a basket for storing recycle fuel assemblies which can be set up easily.  <P>SOLUTION: Protrusions 20s<SB>1</SB>and 20s<SB>2</SB>extending in the longitudinal direction of plate members 20 are placed at both long side ends of the plate members 20 constituting the basket 100 for stowing the recycle fuel assemblies. Then, cells 10 for stowing the recycle fuel assemblies are composed by combining the long side ends of four plate members 20 with each other as shown in the figure. Spacers 30a and 30b whose outside shapes are fitted into a part of the shape of the inside face of a cavity 201c are also located on the outer periphery of a group of the cells 10. Additionally, the basket 100 for storing the recycle fuel assemblies is set up by combining the spacers 30a and 30b with the long side ends of the plate members 20 constituting the group of the cells 10.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004076763-A (JP)
Title: Rubber expansion tube and its manufacturing method
Inventor: ITO TAKEMI
IPC: B29K105/12
Filed: 2002-08-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rubber expansion tube, which can be used for a geological survey, and has a large expansion capacity in the radial direction and a large scratch resistance.  <P>SOLUTION: The rubber expansion tube 16 expands in the radial direction by the pressure of the fluid introduced therein. An inner reinforcing layer 34 and an outer reinforcing layer 36 are provided inside the region between an inner rubber layer 30 and an outer rubber layer 32. The outer reinforcing layer 36 is a longitudinal reinforcing string layer having reinforcing strings 38 which elongate substantially in parallel with the tube axis. The inner reinforcing layer 34 is a layer having reinforcing strings 40 which cross the longitudinal reinforcing strings of the outer reinforcing layer 36 making an acute angle of 10°. These inner reinforcing layer 34 and outer reinforcing layer 36 form a network structure.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004075799-A (JP)
Title: Polycarbonate resin composition
Inventor: YOSHIDA SHU
IPC: G02B1/04
Filed: 2002-08-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a polycarbonate resin composition exhibiting good mechanical properties and excellent impact resistance, having high heat resistance, a high refractive index and a high Abbe number and further exhibiting excellent crack resistance.  <P>SOLUTION: The polycarbonate resin composition comprises an aromatic-aliphatic copolycarbonate resin, comprised of a constituting unit derived from an aromatic dihydroxy compound, a constituting unit derived from tricyclo(5.2.1.0<SP>2.6</SP>)decanedimethanol and a constituting unit derived from a spiroglycol, and an aromatic polycarbonate resin.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004079832-A (JP)
Title: Masking tape for manufacturing capacitor
Inventor: MITSUYA KEIICHI
IPC: H01G13/00
Filed: 2002-08-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a masking tape for manufacturing a capacitor that is superior in adhesion to capacitor and can withstand metal spraying, and has heat resistance and strength enough not to be broken in a brushing step or a peeling step, and leaves no paste on the capacitor in the peeling step.  <P>SOLUTION: In the masking tape for manufacturing a capacitor where a rubber-based adhesive layer is formed on a plastic film base material, a primer layer is held between the plastic film base material and the rubber-based adhesive layer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004076684-A (JP)
Title: Exhaust emission control device for internal combustion engine
Inventor: NAKATANI KOICHIRO
IPC: F01N3/02
Filed: 2002-08-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique capable of regenerating a filter while keeping the capture ratio of PM by the filter.  <P>SOLUTION: This device comprises a particulate filter supporting a catalyst having oxidizing ability, which can temporarily capture a particulate matter included in the exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine; a filter temperature detection means for detecting the temperature of the particulate filter; an operating state detection means for detecting the engine operating state; and an engine control means for controlling the operation of the internal combustion engine based on the detection value of the filter temperature detection means and the detection value of the operating state detection means. According to such a structure, the accumulated quantity of the particulate matter can be controlled within a prescribed range to keep the capture ratio of PM.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003176773-A (JP)
Title: Internal combustion fastener-driving tool and its spark unit
Inventor: PORTH CHRIS H
IPC: H01T13/39
Filed: 2002-08-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel improved spark plug unit used inside an internal combustion fastener-driving tool.  <P>SOLUTION: This spark unit 10 for the internal combustion fastener-driving tool is provided with a spark plug body 32 placed in a boss part 30 of a cylinder head 12 of a tool. A spark unit cathode electrode 34 is mounted in the spark plug body 32. The tip part 36 of the spark unit cathode electrode 34 projects below from the bottom of the mounting boss 30 of the cylinder head 12, i.e., the lower surface part. Thus, the tip part 36 of the spark unit cathode electrode 34 is not arranged in a recessed part or a pocket region so that dirt or oil deposits which may adversely affect on spark generation and ignition characteristics of a spark plug unit, and the performance of the fastener-driving tool are not accumulated.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004083627-A (JP)
Title: Composition of glycolic acid polymer and its processed product
Inventor: HAYASHI HIDEKI
IPC: C08K5/10
Filed: 2002-08-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a resin composition having excellent biodegradability, flexibility and processability, practical strength, thinner walls, barrier properties, or the like, when plasticized.  <P>SOLUTION: The composition of a glycolic acid polymer is a resin composition (C) composed of a resin (A) consisting essentially of a polyglycolic acid aliphatic polyester having 110-230°C crystal melting point and an additive (B). The composition is characterized as follows. The content of the additive (B) is 0.5-30 wt.% and the principal component of the additive (B) is at least one kind selected from saturated ester compounds of citric acid. In the saturated ester compounds of the citric acid, an acid component constituting an ester bond with one alcohol group in the citric acid is a saturated fatty acid and an alcohol component constituting the ester bonds with three carboxy groups in the citric acid is an aliphatic saturated alcohol. The sum total of carbon numbers of the saturated fatty acid and aliphatic saturated alcohol constituting the above four ester bonds is ≥7 and ≤18.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004085675-A (JP)
Title: Automatic focus system
Inventor: KANAYAMA TOKUJI
IPC: G02B7/28
Filed: 2002-08-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an autofocus system which can surely move a focus by a stable operation to a focusing position by the operation of the focus adaptive to the characteristics of focus evaluation values by forming the system in such a manner that the focus is moved by respectively determining the focus evaluation values indicating the sharpness of an image from a plurality of imagers arranged in positions varying in optical path lengths, by determining a moving quantity to be successively converged to zero as the focus of a taking lens moves closer to the focusing position by using the difference or ratio of these two focus evaluation values and by determining the value obtained by adding the moving quantity to the present moving target position as the fresh moving target position.  <P>SOLUTION: A CPU (Central Processing Unit) 40 of a lens device 10 determines the value obtained by multiplying the difference between the focus evaluation values obtained from the imagers 32A and 32B for focus point state detection during AF (Auto Focus) control with a predetermined AF gain AFG as a moving quantity and determines the value obtained by adding the moving quantity to the present moving target position of the focus lens 16 as the fresh moving target position of the focus lens 16.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004082233-A (JP)
Title: Ball end mill
Inventor: MATSUMOTO MOTOKI
IPC: B23C5/10
Filed: 2002-08-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To better maintain chips dischargeability and to prevent deterioration in strength of a cutting edge.  <P>SOLUTION: An internal edge 17 of a top cutting face 14A is constructed by mutually and smoothly connecting two curves 18, 19. As viewed opposite to the tip cutting face 14A, the internal edge 17 of the top cutting face 14A is allowed to pass through a tip end 17A and a rear end 17B of the internal edge 17, is located internally from a curve X with radius of curvature of 1.3R for the radius R of an almost arc formed by a circular arc edge 16 and is located externally from a straight line Y which passes through the tip end 17A and the rear end 17B of the internal edge 17. Out of the two curves 18, 19 which comprise the top cutting face 14A, the radius of curvature a of the curve 18 which comprises a section of the tip end 17A side in the internal edge 17 is made larger than the radius of curvature b of the curve 19 which comprises a section of the rear end 17B in the internal edge 17.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004085246-A (JP)
Title: Carbon dioxide sensor
Inventor: ADACHI KINYA
IPC: G01N27/416
Filed: 2002-08-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a carbon dioxide sensor having excellent heat resistance, and capable of detection even in a high-temperature environment in flue gas or the like.  <P>SOLUTION: This solid-electrolyte carbon dioxide sensor X is equipped with a cation-conductive solid electrolyte 1 having a divalent or polyvalent cation as main conductive species, an oxide-ion-conductive solid electrolyte 2 having oxide ions as conductive species, and a heat-resistant detection pole 3.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004084208-A (JP)
Title: Railless movable partition wall
Inventor: MIYAZAKI KUNIO
IPC: E05F15/14
Filed: 2002-08-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a railless movable partition wall, by which a time and a cost for installing a guide rail can be reduced and which can be moved freely in a mounted space.  <P>SOLUTION: Partitions 20 and 22 can partition a fixed space 10 into a plurality of spaces while being constituted so that the partitions are moved in the fixed space 10 and can change the sizes of the partitioned spaces. Traveling mechanisms composed of caterpillars moved in the fixed direction are installed to the bottom sections of the partitions 20 and 22. Guide means are mounted on the partitions 20 and 22, and the guide means are composed of guide lines 30 for preventing the oblique traveling and meandering traveling of the partitions and sensors detecting the guide lines 30 while article housing functions are secured.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO