baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2010514623-A (JP)
IPC: B62D1/04
Filed: 2006-12-27
Abstract: A safety arrangement in the form of an air-bag module (1) to be mounted to the steering wheel of a motor vehicle. The air-bag module (1) comprises a housing (2) and a cover (3). The cover (3) is moveably mounted to the housing (2). A wire (25) is clipped to the cover (3) and the wire (25) is configured to engage contact members (16) provided on the housing (2) when the cover (3) is moved relative to the housing (2). The wire (25) and the contacts (16) together act as a switch arrangement which may be connected to an electrical circuit in the vehicle which controls the vehicle's horn.
Patent JP-2010516822-A (JP)
Title: ポリテトラヒドロフランまたはＴＨＦコポリマーを連続的に製造する際に所定の平均分子量Ｍｎを変化させる方法
IPC: C08G65/20
Filed: 2007-12-10
Abstract: 本発明の対象は、テトラヒドロフランをテロゲンおよび／またはコモノマーの存在で酸性触媒で重合させることによってポリテトラヒドロフランまたはテトラヒドロフランコポリマー、ポリテトラヒドロフランのモノエステルまたはジエステル、またはテトラヒドロフランコポリマーのモノエステルまたはジエステルを連続的に製造する際に所定の平均分子量Ｍ n を変化させる方法であり、この場合には：ａ）テロゲンとテトラヒドロフランとのモル比またはテロゲンとテトラヒドロフランおよびコモノマーとのモル比を変化させ、ｂ）次に、少なくとも１つの試料の平均分子量を測定し、ｃ）こうして測定された平均分子量が変化により達成すべき平均分子量Ｍ n からずれる場合には、既に形成されたポリテトラヒドロフランまたはテトラヒドロフランコポリマー、ポリテトラヒドロフランのモノエステルまたはジエステル、またはテトラヒドロフランコポリマーのモノエステルまたはジエステルを酸性触媒で少なくとも部分的に解重合し、ｄ）解重合によって回収されたテトラヒドロフランを少なくとも部分的に重合に返送する。
Patent JP-2010516606-A (JP)
Title: Ｃ０２捕獲ユニットと合体した発電所での加圧ｃ０２流の製造方法
IPC: C01B32/50
Filed: 2008-01-23
Abstract: 熱回収水蒸気発生器ユニットと、吸収器及び再生器付きのＣＯ ２ ガス捕獲ユニットとに連結したガスタービンを少なくとも１つ備える、ＣＯ ２ 捕獲ユニットと合体した発電所での加圧ＣＯ ２ 流の製造法において、（ａ）ガスタービンを出る熱排気ガスを熱回収水蒸気発生器ユニットに導入して第一量の水蒸気と、二酸化炭素含有煙道ガス流とを生成する工程、（ｂ）該煙道ガス流を吸収器中で吸収性液体と接触させて二酸化炭素に富む吸収性液体及び精製煙道ガスとし、こうして二酸化炭素含有煙道ガス流から二酸化炭素を除去する工程、（ｃ）該二酸化炭素に富む吸収性液体を再生器中、高温でストリッピングガスと接触させて再生吸収性液体、及び二酸化炭素に富むガス流を得る工程、（ｄ）ＣＯ ２ 圧縮機を使用して該二酸化炭素に富むガス流を加圧する工程を含み、熱回収水蒸気発生器ユニットで生じた水蒸気の第一部分をＣＯ ２ 圧縮機の駆動に使用することを特徴とする該方法。 【選択図】図１
Patent JP-2010517587-A (JP)
Title: 関心のある化合物を生産するための組み換え宿主細胞
IPC: C12N1/15
Filed: 2008-02-12
Abstract: 本発明は、関心のある化合物を生産するための組み換え宿主細胞に関する。本発明はまた、単離された真菌プロモーターＤＮＡ配列と、ＤＮＡコンストラクトと、ベクターと、関心のある化合物をコードするコード配列と作動可能に結合した関係にあるプロモーターを含んでなる真菌宿主細胞とにも関する。本発明はまた、本発明に従ったプロモーターを使用して、関心のある遺伝子を発現し、および／または関心のある化合物を生産する方法にも関する。 【選択図】図１
Patent JP-2010518172-A (JP)
Title: 腹腔内グルタミンによる術後癒着形成の減少
IPC: A61K47/38
Filed: 2008-02-14
Abstract: グルタミンの腹腔内投与を経て持続放出をもたらす放出プロファイルを有するグルタミン源処方物は、術後癒着形成を減少させる。
Patent JP-2010519030-A (JP)
Title: フィルタ・クロスを洗浄するためのデバイス及び方法
IPC: B01D33/44
Filed: 2008-02-21
Abstract: フィルタ１内のフィルタ・クロス１３を洗浄するためのデバイスが、洗浄ランプ２０を備え、この洗浄ランプ２０の上には少なくとも１つのスプレー・ノズル２１が配置される。スプレー・ノズル２１は、フィルタリング方向とは逆の方向にフィルタ・クロス１３上に洗浄流体をスプレーするように構成される。洗浄ランプ２１は、洗浄の際に回転ディスク・フィルタ１の長手方向Ｌに沿って洗浄ランプ２０を移動させるための駆動デバイス３０、３１を有する。また、フィルタ１の中のフィルタ・クロス１３を洗浄する方法が開示される。
Patent JP-2010520992-A (JP)
Title: クロマトグラフィカラムのための充填システムおよび方法
IPC: G01N30/60
Filed: 2008-03-05
Abstract: 本発明は、クロマトグラフィ媒体でクロマトグラフィカラムを充填するためのシステムおよびこれらのカラムで使用するための充填方法に関する。詳細には、本発明は、粒子状媒体のベッドを目標のベッド高さまで圧縮するための外部駆動手段を利用する、クロマトグラフィカラムを充填するための方法およびシステムに関する。
Patent JP-2010520342-A (JP)
Title: ポリアミン−ポリアクリレート分散剤
IPC: C09K23/00
Filed: 2008-02-25
Abstract: 本発明は、ポリアミン−グラフト−ポリアクリレートブレンドを基礎とする液体分散剤、溶剤系におけるその調合物及びその使用に、特に一般式（１）又は式（１）とＹとの化合物Ｔ−（Ａ１，Ａ２）−Ｙ１［式中、Ｔは、ポリアミン又はポリイミンであり、Ａ１は、アミド又はイミドから選択された橋かけ結合であり、Ａ２は、−Ｎ−Ｃ−橋かけ結合であり、Ｙは、一般式２で示される化合物のアクリレート残基であり、その際、Ｒ 1 及びＲ 2 は、独立して、水素又は炭素１〜２０個のアルキル、アリール、ヘテロアリール、置換されたアリールであり、ｎは、１〜１０００である］のポリアミン−ｇ−ポリアクリレート−グラフトコポリマーブレンドに関し、その際、ポリアミン−ｇ−ポリアクリレート−グラフトコポリマーブレンドは、５００００ｇ／ｍｏｌ〜１５００００ｇ／ｍｏｌの平均分子量、及び３より大きい多分散性Ｍ n ／Ｍ m を有する。
Patent JP-2010522332-A (JP)
Title: １，５−アンヒドロ−ｄ−グルシトールについてのアッセイを使用する糖尿病患者における薬剤有効性をモニターする方法
IPC: G01N33/66
Filed: 2008-03-20
Abstract: ＨｂＡ１ｃ測定は糖尿病管理に不可欠な要素であるが、血糖の測定法としてのＨｂＡ１ｃの重要な制限は、適時性の欠如である（それは、長期間についての平均グルコースレベルの測定であることから、適切に管理された糖尿病患者（ＨｂＡ１ｃ＜８）における潜在的な血糖変動レベルは検出しない）。ＨｂＡ１ｃは２から３カ月間についての低血糖症及び高血糖症の両方を平均し、したがって食後高血糖症におけるは改善を適切に反映しない。１，５−ＡＧも、１から２週間の短い時間枠についての血糖管理のマーカーであるが、ＨｂＡ１ｃとは異なる機構を有する。１，５−ＡＧの特有な生物学的及び生理学的特徴から、それは、急性及び一過性の高血糖エピソードに感受性があり、したがって、グルコース変動のより良い指標である。プラムリンチド及びエクセナチドなどのペプチド性糖尿病薬は、特有の作用機構を有し、これらの薬剤の血糖効果は、ＨｂＡ１ｃによっては適切に示されない。グルコース変動の有効な測定法である１，５−ＡＧは、これらの薬剤の潜在的な治療効果を明らかにし、且つそれらの用量の調節を助けることができる。
Patent JP-2011142467-A (JP)
Title: Image forming system and image forming apparatus
Inventor: KATSURA YUKIKO
IPC: G06F21/64
Filed: 2010-01-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow an electronic signature system to be inexpensively introduced by eliminating the need for managing a user's secret key in an image forming apparatus.  <P>SOLUTION: An image forming system includes: one or a plurality of image forming apparatus 1 connected to a network 2 so as to add an electronic signature to document data; and a signature server device 4 connected to the network 2 so as to provide an electronic signature of a log-in user of the image forming apparatus 1 about document data to the image forming apparatus 1, in response to an electronic signature request from the image forming apparatus 1.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011141833-A (JP)
Title: Device, method, and program for stock price prediction
Inventor: GOTO NOBUHIKO
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2010-01-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for predicting a stock price with high accuracy.  <P>SOLUTION: A stock price prediction device includes a means for extracting from each piece of a content, a word, and a combination of at least two words included in the same content according thereto, a means for acquiring a corporate name indicative of a stock name and a relevant word which is the other word in the combination of two words with the corporate name or the degree of a relationship indicative of the degree of the relationship with the corporate name itself, a means for calculating an evaluation value reflecting the degree of the relationship and a value representing the impression of the corporate name or the relevant word, a means for acquiring a stock price change value with a lapse of a predetermined period of time after the provision of the content including the corporate name or the relevant word and calculating the degree of an influence of the content provision source on the stock price with respect to the stock name indicated by the corporate name as a prediction coefficient by using the evaluation value corresponding to the corporate name or the relevant word, and a means for predicting the stock price of the stock name indicated by the corporate name by using the prediction coefficient and the evaluation value relative to the corporate name.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011143758-A (JP)
Title: Rail type transport apparatus
Inventor: YORITA YOJI
IPC: B61B13/02
Filed: 2010-01-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rail type transport apparatus facilitating replacement of a traveling body even in the middle of the rail, and increasing the degree of freedom for the rail.  <P>SOLUTION: The rail type transport apparatus includes the traveling body 12 for transporting a transporting object along a rail body 14; and the rail body 14. The traveling body 12 includes a moving body 30 for supporting the transporting object; an actuator 32 for moving the moving body 30; an engagement part 34 moved through engagement with an engagement part 24 of the rail body 14; a first rail grip body 40 fixed to the moving body 30 at the midpoint of the rail body 14 so as to be free to contact with and separate from a grip position of the rail body 14; and a second rail grip body 46 fixed to the moving body 30 at the midpoint of the rail body 14 so as to be free to contact with and separate from the grip position of the rail body 14.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011146895-A (JP)
Title: Information processing system, management device, server device and information processing apparatus
Inventor: ITO TAKASHI
IPC: G06F21/34
Filed: 2010-01-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the number of pieces of transmission of trap doors from an information processing apparatus to a server device, and to perform data retrieval to a retrieval request from a user within a range permitted to the user.  <P>SOLUTION: A group management device 401 issues a key in which permission generation ranges are set for every user of the information processing apparatus 301 while updating the key, the information processing apparatus registers a generation value and encrypted data of the key issued to the user in the server device 201, generates an integrated trap door which integrates trap doors for n (n≥1) generations on which a permission generation range of the user is reflected using the key issued to the user to be transmitted to the server device, the server device derives n trap doors from the integrated trap door, analyzes the respective trap doors, and limits a retrieval range of the encrypted data to the permission generation range of the user to retrieve the encrypted data. The information processing apparatus transmits the integrated trap door in which the trap doors for n generations are integrated, thereby a communication amount with the server device is reduced.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011146286-A (JP)
Title: Waterproof attaching structure for board connecting connector
Inventor: OSAWA FUMIO
IPC: H01R13/52
Filed: 2010-01-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a waterproof attaching structure for a board connecting connector with less number of part items and working cost, and less assembly manhours compared with conventional one.  <P>SOLUTION: The waterproof attaching structure for the board connecting connector is constituted to connect inner and outer printed boards each other, by engaging each other a connector socket 10 fixed onto the inner printed board 2 in an inside of a casing 1, and a connector plug 11 fixed onto the outer printed board 5 in an outside of the casing 1, through a window hole 3 opened in the casing 1, the connector socket 10 is exposed to the outside of the casing 1, through an inside of the window hole 3, the connector socket 10 is engaged with a seal material 20 comprising ring-like rubber-like elastic material astride a range from a peripheral edge part of an outer printed board side face thereof to a circumferential side face opposed to a window hole inner face of the connector socket, a clearance between an outer circumferential side face of the connector socket and the window hole inner face is made to be water-tight by the seal material, and the seal material is press-contact with an outer printed board surface in the periphery of the connector socket, to make water-tight a space with respect to the connector socket, by engaging the connector plug with the connector socket.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011143649-A (JP)
Title: Combination mask plate for printing
Inventor: AIZAWA MASAICHI
IPC: B41C1/14
Filed: 2010-01-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a combination mask for printing in which elongation of the pitch size of pattern holes is reduced by substantially reducing tension acting on a thin metal mask by enlarging the size of the thin metal mask where the pattern holes are arranged.  <P>SOLUTION: The combination mask for printing has a plate frame 1 constituted of a metal material, a screen silk gauge 2 comprising a net-like body stretched by adhering and fixing the outer periphery to the inside of the plate frame, and the thin metal mask 3 which is adhered and fixed to the center part of the printing face side of the screen silk gauge and in which the pattern holes are arranged, the width areas of the screen silk gauge located around the whole periphery of right and left and upper and lower part of the metal mask is in the range of 0.2 to 3.5 cm when the outer periphery part of the screen silk gauge is stretched to the plate frame by making lengths in longitudinal and lateral directions of the thin metal mask larger than the ordinary sizes.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011155045-A (JP)
Title: Multiwire board and method for manufacturing the same
Inventor: WATANABE AKITERU
IPC: H05K3/46
Filed: 2010-01-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multiwire board, wherein since there is no need for increasing the number of layers of a wiring layer, while coping with increase in the density of a power supply wiring pattern, is able to attain increased density as a whole, and reduce the man-hours and material cost, and to provide a method for manufacturing the multiwire board.  <P>SOLUTION: The multiwire board and the method for manufacturing the same includes: an internal layer having an internal layer pattern formed by circuit processing of a metal foil of an insulating substrate with the metal foil; a wiring layer laminated on the internal layer and having an insulating layer and an adhesive layer; and a wiring pattern formed by wiring an insulating coating wire in the adhesive layer of the wiring layer; and in the multiwire board, the wiring layer has a plurality types of wiring patterns, with different wire diameters being mixed in the same adhesive layer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011154096-A (JP)
Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus
Inventor: IKEDA TAMOTSU
IPC: G03G15/20
Filed: 2010-01-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing device capable of improving separating property of recording medium by improving bending rigidity of the recording medium.  <P>SOLUTION: Respective crown sections C1 and D1 and reverse crown sections C2 and D2, in a fixing roller 21 and a press roller 22, are formed by varying the thickness of respective elastic layers 21b and 22b along the axial direction. Ends, on the same side in the respective axial directions of the fixing roller 21 and the press roller 22, are positioned in the axial direction, and also the respective positioned ends and ends on the opposite side are configured to be variable in displacement in the axial direction. Inflection-points passage lines L21 and L22, in at least one of the fixing roller 21 and the press roller 22 in the separated state in which the fixing roller 21 and the press roller 22 are separated from each other, are configured to be in a projected state in the central section in the axial direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010111878-A (JP)
Title: Woody type perfuming ingredient
Inventor: MORETTI ROBERT
IPC: A61Q13/00
Filed: 2010-01-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide use of decalin derivatives of formula (I) as perfuming ingredients.  <P>SOLUTION: The decalin derivatives represented by the formula (I) are woody or woody-citrus type perfuming ingredients.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010166570-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for data communication over multiple channel
Inventor: AGASHE PARAG ARUN
IPC: H04L47/32
Filed: 2010-01-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for data communication of low delay data over multiple channels having different speed and latency and requiring a different amount of time to set up.  <P>SOLUTION: When a dedicated channel is to be utilized, a transmitter transmits on the dedicated channel packets to be transmitted on a common channel. Since the packets have the same sequence number, a receiver detects the duplicate packets.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011159499-A (JP)
Title: Flat battery
Inventor: KANEKO GENYO
IPC: H01M4/54
Filed: 2010-02-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flat battery capable of suppressing reduction in productivity, and of enabling cost reduction.  <P>SOLUTION: The flat battery 10 includes: a positive electrode can 1; a positive electrode mixture 2; a separator 3; an electrolytic solution retaining layer 4; a gasket 5; a negative electrode binder 6; and a negative electrode can 7. The positive electrode mixture 2 is composed of granular silver oxide, silver nickel complex oxide, and graphite. A particle diameter of the granular silver oxide is 50 μm to 500 μm, and the particle diameter of the silver nickel complex oxide is approximately 10 μm. A weight ratio of the granular silver oxide is within a range of 85 to 98.8 wt.% against all the positive electrode mixture 2. The weight ratio of graphite is within the range of 0.2 to 5 wt.% against all the positive electrode mixture 2. The weight ratio of the silver nickel complex oxide is within the range of 1 to 10 wt.%, preferably within the range of 1 to 5 wt.% against all the positive electrode mixture 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011159828-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
Inventor: FUJII HIROMOTO
IPC: H01L29/78
Filed: 2010-02-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase an ESD breakdown voltage of an IGBT, and to operate a bipolar transistor of the IGBT, without fail.  <P>SOLUTION: A sinker layer 115 is brought into contact with a first-conductivity-type well 102, and is separated from a first-conductivity-type collector layer 108 and a second-conductivity-type drift layer 104. A second-conductivity-type diffusion layer (second second-conductivity-type high-concentration diffusion layer) 116 is formed on a surface layer of the sinker layer 115. The second-conductivity-type diffusion layer 116 has impurity concentration higher than that of the sinker layer 115. The second-conductivity-type diffusion layer 116 and the first-conductivity-type collector layer 108 are isolated from each other via an element separation insulating film 16.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011159145-A (JP)
Title: Compression circuit, compression method and semiconductor integrated circuit
Inventor: SUKAMA YASUSHI
IPC: G06T15/00
Filed: 2010-02-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To read and reversibly compress apex data through random access.  <P>SOLUTION: An attribute-value pair generation unit 1a makes a plurality of kinds of attribute values belonging to image apexes into pairs each of two kinds; a rotation unit 1b sets the attribute value of each pair as a two-dimensional coordinate value, and for each kind of pair determines a rotation angle for making the covariance of the pair to 0, at a plurality of apexes, and rotates the attribute value of each pair by the rotation angle on a two-dimensional plane; a compression processor 1c determines the number of bits required to represent the attribute value on the basis of the maximum value and the minimum value of the attribute value after the rotation, compresses the attribute value into a fixed bit length according to the number of bits, and stores the fixed bit length in a memory 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010159167-A (JP)
Title: Substrate carrying device and vacuum processing device
Inventor: KAJIWARA YUJI
IPC: H01L21/677
Filed: 2010-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substrate carrying device capable of stable high speed carrying, by restraining swinging of a substrate tray and also dusting.  <P>SOLUTION: This substrate carrying device is composed of a carrier 20 attached with the substrate tray 23, a carrying mechanism 12 of the carrier, and a guide mechanism of the carrier for guiding an upper part of the carrier in a noncontact state, and is characterized in that the guide mechanism is constituted of a first magnet row 22 installed along a carrying passage in an upper part of the carrier and a second magnet row 14 installed in a vacuum chamber 10 along the carrying passage above or under this row. The first magnet row and the second magnet row are also arranged in a plurality of rows at a predetermined interval in the vertical direction to the carrying direction, and magnets are arranged so that attraction force operates between the opposed magnet rows and resiliency operates between the next opposed magnet rows.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011156315-A (JP)
Title: Dental work table
Inventor: NAKAGAWA SHOSUKE
IPC: A61C19/00
Filed: 2010-02-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily take out and return equipment on an upper work table by eliminating the interval between the upper work table 2<SB>1</SB>and a lower work table 2<SB>2</SB>in the work table of two-stage configuration and by lowering the height of the upper work table 2<SB>1</SB>.  <P>SOLUTION: The work table 2 includes the lower work table 2<SB>2</SB>fixed and disposed at the upper part of an instrument holder, and the upper work table 2<SB>1</SB>provided above the lower work table 2<SB>2</SB>so as to be slid and turned on the surface of the lower work table 2<SB>2</SB>. A linear slide groove 20 for sliding the upper work table 2<SB>1</SB>is provided in the lower surface of the upper work table (or in the upper surface of the lower work table), and a projection shaft 21 passing through the slide groove and movable along the slide groove, turnable within the slide groove, is provided on the upper surface of the lower work table 2<SB>2</SB>(or on the lower surface of the upper work table).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011161169-A (JP)
Title: Turnable cleaning tool
Inventor: UEDA MASAYUKI
IPC: A47L13/20
Filed: 2010-02-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cleaning tool in which a handle is turnable around a center shaft of a wiping member to enable a user to perform cleaning work easily without a burden in various cleaning positions, and an installation part is insertable to/removable from the wiping member at a touch.  <P>SOLUTION: A connection part of a joint member 9 includes a rotation mechanism to make an insertion piece 4 rotatable, and a turning mechanism to make an open end of the insertion piece 4 turnable toward the axis side of the handle 2. The rotation mechanism is a mechanism in which a turning bearing 10 connected to a root part 5 of the handle 2 is externally fitted on a shaft member 21 to be pivotally supported. The turning mechanism is a mechanism in which turning ends 15b and 16b of insert pieces 15 and 16 are pivoted by a shaft member 21, with the insert pieces 15 and 16 attachable to/releasable from the shaft member 21.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2011170486-A (JP)
Title: Direction inclination detecting device and conveying system
Inventor: HASHIZUME KENJIRO
IPC: B61B13/00
Filed: 2010-02-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that a conventional automatic conveying vehicle which controls a travel direction by detecting a tape stuck on a floor surface fails in detection of the tape in some cases.  <P>SOLUTION: A direction inclination detecting device is provided with: an optical sensor section having an optical sensor unit 12 which includes a first optical sensor 30, a second optical sensors 31 and 32, and a third optical sensor 33 arranged at different heights and is attached to a side surface of the vehicle; and a plurality of solid markers 20 which have a plurality of first linear grooves 21 irradiated with light of the first optical sensor and arranged at equal intervals, second linear grooves 22 and 23 irradiated with light of the second optical sensors and arranged at positions on an extension of at least one first groove, and reflective surfaces 24 irradiated with light of the third optical sensor and are arranged at predetermined intervals along a conveyance path. The second grooves represent positions of the solid markers in the conveyance path. The optical sensor section has a position detecting section for detecting a position of the vehicle in the conveyance path and an inclination detecting section for detecting an inclination of the vehicle with respect to the reflective surface.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT