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Patent JP-2003150370-A (JP)
Title: Computer system having voice interruption system and computer
Inventor: NEWMAN EDWARD G
IPC: G10L15/00
Filed: 2002-04-26
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hands free method for controlling power and heat generation by a computer including power interruption of the computer. SOLUTION: This computer system is provided with a housing, a power means, a storage means, a processor means, a voice converter, a conversion means and a display means, the processor means includes a voice recognition means, the voice converter and the conversion means communicate with the processor means for receiving verbal commands from a user and the voice converter and the conversion means are provided with a means for converting the verbal commands into electrical signals for controlling power of the system and a means for transmitting the electrical signal to the processor and other components in the computer in response to the verbal commands.
Patent JP-2003322328-A (JP)
Title: Flow straightening structure of draft air duct for combustion apparatus
Inventor: TAKAHATA SHIGETOSHI
IPC: F23L1/00
Filed: 2002-05-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To straighten the drift of a combustion air flow generated on the downstream side of a damper in a draft air duct by using a small space.  <P>SOLUTION: The combustion apparatus comprises a burner 6 for flame combustion, a blower for applying pressure to the combustion air to be supplied to the burner 6, and the draft air duct 1 connecting the blower to the burner. The damper 2 consisting of a rotating shaft 4 and a rotary vane 3 is provided in the draft air duct 1. The area of an opening portion of the damper formed between the end of the rotary vane and the wall face of the draft air duct is changed with a change in the angle of the rotary vane 3 to control the supply amount of combustion air to be supplied to the burner 6. A flow path restricting member 5 is provided in the draft air duct 1 on the downstream side of the damper 2 for reducing the flow cross section area of the draft air duct in the longitudinal direction of the rotating shaft of the damper.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003324815-A (JP)
Title: Sheath for cable passage
Inventor: HORAI KAORU
IPC: E03F3/06
Filed: 2002-05-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cable passage an optical cable into a sewer pipe by lessening the risk of the optical fiber breaking.  <P>SOLUTION: A sheath for cable passage is made into cylindrical shape, and the inside of the sheath is divided into a large division for passage of a trunk cable and a plurality of small divisions for passage of small-diameter cables.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003319725-A (JP)
Title: Supporter for cultivation
Inventor: IWAMOTO TOSHIYUKI
IPC: A01K61/00
Filed: 2002-05-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a supporter for cultivation, protected from an insect or the like and having improved durability even by using bamboo.  <P>SOLUTION: The supporter 10 for cultivation is made of the bamboo, and used by being inserted into the bottom 1 of sea to support a member 5 for cultivation. The supporter 10 has a body 11 of the bamboo, and a protective covering layer 15 arranged so as to cover the whole surface of the outer periphery of the body 11 of the bamboo at least at the vicinity of a boundary site 3 between the bottom 1 of the sea and seawater 2 when the supporter 10 is inserted into the bottom 1 of the sea.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003335813-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing n-substituted (meth)acrylamide polymer
Inventor: KITAYAMA TATSUKI
IPC: C08F4/44
Filed: 2002-05-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing an N-substituted (meth)acrylamide polymer having controlled stereoregularity which is useful as a constituting component of a functional polymer.  <P>SOLUTION: The N-substituted (meth)acrylamide polymer can be produced by polymerizing a (meth)acrylamide derivative in which the active proton of an N-substituted (meth)acrylamide is substituted with a substituent of SiR<SP>3</SP>R<SP>4</SP>R<SP>5</SP>(wherein R<SP>3</SP>, R<SP>4</SP>, and R<SP>5</SP>are the same or different hydrocarbon groups or alkoxy groups, respectively), and then converting the substituent of SiR<SP>3</SP>R<SP>4</SP>R<SP>5</SP>in the resulting polymer into a hydrogen atom.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003329946-A (JP)
Title: Optical switch
Inventor: KATO YOSHICHIKA
IPC: B81B3/00
Filed: 2002-05-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make easily settable the inter-electrode distance to a desired distance and easily formable a projection and an electrode pattern for sticking prevention or the like on a fixed electrode side.  <P>SOLUTION: An optical switch has a structure in which an upper substrate 60 is joined to a lower substrate 40 via a spacer 50. The upper substrate 60 has a three-layered structure of: an top-side single-crystal silicon layer 61 in which a V groove 64 is formed by anisotropic etching and micromirrors 65 are constituted by forming mirror bases and coating the mirror bases with metal; a rear-side single-crystal silicon layer 63 in which a movable electrode 67 and a flexure part 68 are formed; and a silicon dioxide layer 62 interposed between them. In the lower substrate 40, a fixed electrode 41 is formed. The inter-electrode distance is set according to the thickness of the spacer 50, the lower substrate 40 need not have a ridged part unlike before, and a fixed electrode formation surface is made flat.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003332746-A (JP)
Title: Multilayered build-up pcb
Inventor: ITO TOSHIHIDE
IPC: H05K3/46
Filed: 2002-05-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent interlayer delamination or interlaminar fracture between a power supply ground circuit layer and an adjacent insulating resin layer even when packaging or rework of parts is done by using Pb-free soldering.  <P>SOLUTION: The multilayered build-up PCB comprises a core substrate 10 having resin-embedded through-holes 14, and build-up layers 20 laminated on one side or both sides of the core substrate 10. The build-up layer 20 has a power supply ground circuit layer 22 formed on the face of the core substrate 10 via an insulating resin layer 21. The power supply ground circuit layer 22 includes a plurality of openings 23, each of which is located right above the corresponding resin-embedded through-hole 14. Each of the openings 23 may be located right above the midpoint of mutually adjacent resin-embedded through-holes 14.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003338877-A (JP)
Title: Emergency exchange controller at disaster and its method
Inventor: FUJIHASHI KAZUHIKO
IPC: H04M3/22
Filed: 2002-05-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an emergency exchange controller at disaster for controlling sending and receiving by exchanges, which takes into consideration the locations of the exchanges corresponding to a disaster area and traffic at the disaster.  <P>SOLUTION: A traffic controller 100 as this emergency exchange controller at disaster has a first exchange location information DB 110 for prestoring respective exchange areas information of a plurality of exchanges constituting a public line network 20, a first exchange specification processing part 112 for specifying a first exchange group being exchanges for conveying sending and receiving calls in the disaster area on the basis of disaster information received from a seismic observation system 10 and exchange area information of the first exchange location information DB 110, and a first traffic control instructing part 126 for instructing the specified first exchange group to perform control such that incoming calls to the disaster area do not exceed first prescribed traffic with an area code corresponding to the disaster area as a key.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003335817-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing polyvinyl acetal resin
Inventor: TSUZUKI MANABU
IPC: C08F8/28
Filed: 2002-05-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reasonably small-scale apparatus for producing a polyvinyl acetal having excellent cleaning removability of a metallic component, and a method for producing the polyvinyl acetal resin.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for producing the polyvinyl acetal resin comprises supplying polyvinyl alcohol, an aldehyde and an acid catalyst to a reactor of a first reaction apparatus, effecting acetalization to form a first reaction solution having a degree of acetalization of ≥10 mol%, then discharging this first reaction solution from the first reaction apparatus, subsequently supplying the first reaction solution to a second reaction apparatus composed of one reactor or two or more reactors connected in series, and effecting aging reaction to form a reaction solution having a degree of acetalization of ≥60 mol%.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003339587-A (JP)
Title: Suction implement for vacuum cleaner, and vacuum cleaner using the same
Inventor: URATANI HIROYUKI
IPC: A47L9/02
Filed: 2002-05-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To fulfill both operability and airtightness in a suction implement for a vacuum cleaner in which a floor nozzle is equipped with a small nozzle.   <P>SOLUTION: The small nozzle 7 detachably mounted to a suction implement body 1 comprises a nozzle part 7a, a coupling part 11 and a connecting part 12. The nozzle part 7a and coupling part 11, and the coupling part 11 and connecting part 12 are respectively connected so that either one of two parts is vertically movable while the other is rotatable, and the nozzle part 7a is mounted in a nonrotatable fixed state to the suction implement body 1 and constituted to communicate with the inside of the suction implement body when mounted to the suction implement body. The small nozzle can thereby be mounted to the suction implement body with sufficient airtightness, and any of vertical and lateral rotation parts is performed to the small nozzle to improve the operability of the suction implement body in a lateral direction in using the small nozzle by mounting it to the suction implement body.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003336905-A (JP)
Title: Separating valve and hot water supply system
Inventor: SAGO YOSHITO
IPC: F24H1/00
Filed: 2002-05-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a separating valve capable of rapidly switching a switching valve and a drain valve.  <P>SOLUTION: The cut-off valve 20 make warm water flowing in from a primary side pipe part 22 connecting to a heat exchanger 11 flow out to a secondary side pipe part 26 sequentially through a flowing-in chamber 23, a water receiving chamber 24 and a separating chamber 25. While a selector valve 31 is provided at the inlet 28 of a separating member 27 between the water receiving chamber 24 and the separating chamber 25, the drain valve 36 is provided at the drain port 30 of the lower part of the cut-off valve. While the selector valve 31 has a return spring 34, the drain valve 36 has a second return spring 38, so that valve opening operation is immediately carried out by the spring force of the second return spring when the drain valve 36 carries out the opening operation. Therefor, the opening operation of the drain valve 36 can be carried out with a good response.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003348038-A (JP)
Title: Node device and its redundant design method
Inventor: YONEZAWA HIROYUKI
IPC: H04L12/42
Filed: 2002-05-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a node device the size of which is saved without impairing a redundant switching function and its redundant design method.   <P>SOLUTION: The node device is constituted as 1:3 redundant structure by providing a multiplexing/demultiplexing part 3 which multiplexes/demultiplexes a signal by unit of AU-4 with service system switch parts 31 to 33 and a protection switch part 34 having throughput by unit of AU-3, respectively. In distribution parts 15, 42 and selection parts 16, 41, processing for distributing an AU-4 signal into three systems of AU-3 signals is performed and the AU-3 signals in the respective systems are distributed to the service system switch parts 31 to 33, respectively. Switching states of the respective switch parts 31 to 34 are defined as all the same and when a failure is caused in any of the service system switch parts 31 to 33, its signal path is saved in the protection system switch part 34.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003312661-A (JP)
Title: Knockdown bottle
Inventor: MATSUI TOSHIAKI
IPC: B65D8/04
Filed: 2002-04-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a knockdown bottle for drinking water and the like, which is assembled when it is used.  <P>SOLUTION: The knockdown bottle comprises a conical trapezoid part 1 having a base 6 through which a starp is put and a lip 18, and a conical trapezoid part 5 having a bottom board 17. Between the conical trapezoid parts 1 and 5, a plurality of truncated cones 2, 3, 4 are arranged so that each of them can be dissembled or assembled.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003345141-A (JP)
Title: Pre-transfer guide device and image forming apparatus having the same
Inventor: YONEDA SHINSAKU
IPC: B65H5/36
Filed: 2002-05-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pre-transfer guide member 60 that guides transfer paper to a transfer section composed of a photoreceptor drum 12 and a transfer roller 62, so that transfer is carried out satisfactorily even on a thick paper or thin paper.   <P>SOLUTION: The pair of pre-transfer guide members 60, upper and lower, guide sheet transported by a pair of resist rollers 5, or a pair or transport rollers, to the transfer section where a toner image formed on the photosensitive body drum 12, or an image carrier, is transferred to a sheet. The upper one (toner face guide) 72 of the pre-transfer guide members is provided with an elastic member 80 which has a free end 84 on the upstream side in the direction in which the sheet is transported. Thus, the transport guide that satisfactorily handles paper, from thick paper to thin paper, is realized.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003342489-A (JP)
Title: Method of extracting phycocyanin from blue-green algae
Inventor: FUKUDA YOSHIJI
IPC: C09B61/00
Filed: 2002-05-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of extracting phycocyanin having high blueness and a bright color tone from blue-green algae.   <P>SOLUTION: The method of extracting the phycocyanin comprises suspending the blue-green algae in a calcium ion-containing solution to prepare a suspension, conducting addition of a basic compound to the suspension and ultrasonication to obtain an extracted solution in which the phycocyanin in the blue-green algae in the suspension is extracted, and then separating the residue of the blue-green algae from the extracted solution in which the phycocyanin in the suspension is extracted.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003345844-A (JP)
Title: Interactive floor planner apparatus
Inventor: NAKAGAWA MANABU
IPC: G06F17/50
Filed: 2002-05-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an interactive floor planner apparatus which enables the strength of connection between components to visually be judged.   <P>SOLUTION: The interactive floor planner apparatus which determines the arrangement position of a function block for which function block information including information regarding pins and connection information on pins between function blocks are defined is constituted by being equipped with a function block shape extraction part which divides each function block into one or a plurality of division pieces according to the shape of the function block obtained from the function block information, an inter-function-block connection computation part which computes the number of connections between pins belonging to the division pieces between division pieces of two function blocks to be connected as the number of connections between the division pieces, and a rat's nest display part which display connections between the division pieces together in one to a line width corresponding to the number of connections between the division pieces.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003347237-A (JP)
Title: Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and manufacturing device thereof
Inventor: OGAWA TETSUYA
IPC: H01L21/20
Filed: 2002-05-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device manufacturing method which is capable of improving its energy efficiency in a process of laser-annealing an amorphous silicon film and to provide a manufacturing device thereof.   <P>SOLUTION: The amorphous silicon film 10 is made to undergo a laser annealing process by the use of a second harmonic obtained by letting a laser beam 21 emitted from a solid state laser oscillator 1 pass through a wavelength conversion crystal 5 in the semiconductor device manufacturing method. The amorphous silicon film 10 is irradiated with a mixed wave of the second harmonic obtained by converting the wavelength of the laser beam 21 and the fundamental wave of the laser beam that passes through the wavelength converting crystal 5 as its wavelength is kept unchanged.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003344062-A (JP)
Title: Navigation apparatus
Inventor: FUJIWARA KIYOZUMI
IPC: G01C21/36
Filed: 2002-05-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that a guidance route is hidden behind buildings to make it difficult to view when the guidance route is arranged and displayed in a road with the buildings three-dimensionally displayed.   <P>SOLUTION: It is detected by a detecting part 24 that the guidance route is hidden behind the buildings, and the guidance route is raised and displayed over the upper parts of the buildings by a guidance route deforming and image drawing part 23 in a guidance route image drawing part 22. At this time, the ratio of parts hidden behind the buildings is computed by a hidden part ratio computing part 25. Whether the ratio exceeds a predetermined value or not is determined by a part 26 for determining whether the guidance route is to be raised and displayed. When it exceeds the predetermined value, a computing part 27 computes the amount by which the guidance route is to be raised. The guidance route deforming and image drawing part 23 raises the guidance route by the amount and displays it. Then a building landmark image forming part 15 translucently displays the parts of the buildings, etc., over which the guidance route is raised and displayed as above.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004004260-A (JP)
Title: Image forming device
Inventor: NISHITANI SHUJI
IPC: G03G15/20
Filed: 2002-05-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming device which can make a fixed toner image smooth without making a fixing device large-sized, complicated, and increase in cost.  <P>SOLUTION: For improvement etc. of fixing property, a recording sheet P is carried to a fixing device 30 again with its print surface turned over by using both-surface carrying mechanisms (6, 20, 12, 25, 13 and 62) and is made to abut against a pressure roller 4 to perform fixation again by the fixing device 20 after a full-color toner image carried by an intermediate transfer belt 42 is transferred to the recording sheet P and the fixing device 30 fixes the unfixed toner image.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004000378-A (JP)
Title: Air bag and air massage machine equipped with the same
Inventor: SUZUKI YUJI
IPC: A61H7/00
Filed: 2002-06-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air bag providing a sufficient massage effect by smoothly changing a massaging position.  <P>SOLUTION: The air bag is provided with a plurality of air cells, or a first air cell 30 and a second air cell 31, inflated or contracted by inflow or exhaust of air, a conduit 32 connecting the first air cell 30 to the second air cell 31, and an air feed/exhaust port 33 provided in the first air cell 30 and feeding or exhausting the air. The bore R3 of the conduit 32 is set smaller than the bore R1 of the air feed/exhaust port 33.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004009824-A (JP)
Title: Wiper device and vehicle equipped with the same
Inventor: NAGAO TOSHIAKI
IPC: B60S1/34
Filed: 2002-06-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enlarge the visual field in front of a motorman of a train.  <P>SOLUTION: In this wiper device, a main arm 43 and a sub-arm 44 different in length are used, and a space between a first rotating shaft 41 and a second rotating shaft 42 is made narrower than a space between a first connection part 47 and a second connection part 48. A blade 46 thereby moves while changing its inclination.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003174411-A (JP)
Title: Optical transmission system
Inventor: AIKAWA KAZUHIKO
IPC: H04B10/25
Filed: 2002-06-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical transmission system capable of performing high speed transmission of 40 Gb/s or more with low residual dispersion while maintaining the yield of a dispersion compensating optical fiber.  <P>SOLUTION: A dispersion compensating optical fiber 2 is connected to each span of an optical fiber 1 for transmission. One set of an optical transmission path is formed by this optical fiber 1 for transmission and the dispersion compensating optical fiber 2, and this one set of optical transmission path is connected in multiple stages, and connected to a transmitting part 3 and a receiving part 4. The conditions of dispersion compensation in each span are comparatively leniently set, and the residual dispersion of each transmission span is managed, and each transmission span is suitably arranged. Thus, this optical transmission system is composed in which adequate dispersion compensation is performed over the entire optical transmission path.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004011230-A (JP)
Title: Snow melting device of platform
Inventor: ITO TOKUYA
IPC: E01H5/10
Filed: 2002-06-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a snow melting device of a coping stone block efficiently melting fallen snow in case of a snowfall and preventing freezing.  <P>SOLUTION: A heating wire is laid in the coping stone block in a suitable shape, both ends thereof are exposed on the side of the coping stone block, at the same time, the both ends of the heating wire are connected to a power source through a lead wire, and the coping stone block is heated by turning on the power to the heating wire to energize.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2002360812-A (JP)
Title: Pachinko game machine
Inventor: KASHIWAGI ATSUSHI
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-06-07
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pachinko game machine for further changing rolling and falling of a play ball by providing an accepting hole or ball guiding path for the play ball on the unit frame of a pattern display device provided on the surface of a play panel. SOLUTION: Ball accepting holes 106a and 106b are provided on an ornamental edge 100 comprising the unit frame of the pattern display device and play balls accepted in these ball accepting holes 106a and 106b are collected inside the unit frame or through first and second ball guiding paths 202, 204, 300a and 300b configured by combining the ornamental edge 100 and a unit attaching member 200 onto a ball guide-out tray 134 at the opening edge on the front face of the unit frame and rolled/dropped again onto the surface of a play panel 13. A ball extruding member 218 is provided on the rear part of the ball guide-out tray 134 and after the play ball is extruded to the side of the ball guide-out tray 134 corresponding to driving of a motor 220, the play ball is rolled/dropped onto the surface of the play panel 13 as well.