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Patent JP-2002251534-A (JP)
Title: Radio retail commodity purchase system using mobile computing device
Inventor: PARRY TRAVIS J
IPC: G06Q50/12
Filed: 2001-12-19
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a system capable of specifying the purchase of a retail commodity at a purchase point or near the purchase point from a retail unit by radio based on electronic information by using a mobile computing device. SOLUTION: The method includes a step of direct communications by radio with electronic information between the mobile computing device and the retail unit. The mobile computing device receives a list from the retail unit and transmits a purchase request to the retail unit to order a commodity selected from the list.
Patent JP-2003181741-A (JP)
Title: Sludge conveyor provided with cyclone separator for industrial oil
Inventor: ASABA AKIO
IPC: C02F11/00
Filed: 2001-12-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sludge conveyor provided with a cyclone separator for industrial oil which is able to efficiently separate minute foreign matters.  <P>SOLUTION: The sludge conveyor provided with the cyclone separator for industrial oil is composed of the cyclone separator 33 and the sludge conveyor 32. The cyclone separator 33 includes an external cylinder 44 having a conical portion 52 below a cylindrical portion 51, an outflow port for foreign matters being arranged at the lower end of the conical portion 52, circular peripheral grooves arranged along an peripheral wall inside the cylindrical portion 51, and a dirty oil inflow port 70 communicated with the circular peripheral grooves provided in the tangential direction of the peripheral wall of the cylindrical portion. At least three internal cylinders are arranged inside the external cylinder 44 at equal intervals on a circle. Each of the internal cylinders has a conical portion below a cylindrical portion and an outflow port at the lower end of the conical portion for dropping foreign maters to the conical portion of the external cylinder 44, into passages arranged inside the external cylinder 44, and has an inlet aperture opened to the groove at the cylindrical portion of each internal cylinder and an exit aperture opened in the tangential direction of the peripheral wall of the internal cylinder. The area of the exit aperture is smaller than the area of the inlet aperture in order to increase flow velocity, and oil transfer pipes 49 are arranged at the centers inside the respective internal cylinders so as to elongate outside the external cylinder 44.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003183865-A (JP)
Title: Method for preventing corrosion in harbor steel structure
Inventor: AKAMINE KENICHI
IPC: C23F13/00
Filed: 2001-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the installation number of sacrificial anodes arranged for preventing corrosion in a submerged part of a harbor steel structure, and to effectively prevent corrosion in a tide band of the harbor steel structure.  <P>SOLUTION: This method for preventing corrosion comprises arranging electrodes with necessary spacing, for the submerged part B of a steel sheet piling 2 having at least one submerged part B which is submerged in seawater, forming an anti-corrosive precipitated film 11 on the surface of the submerged part B of the steel sheet piling 2 by passing a direct current through the electrodes, and the fixing the sacrificial anode on the surface of the submerged part B of the steel sheet piling 2, to restore the anti-corrosive precipitated film 11 by a cathodic protection method.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003189019-A (JP)
Title: Facsimile machine
Inventor: SASAKI YOSHIHIRO
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 2001-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a facsimile machine easy to operate for users like elderly people who are inexperienced in the handling of machine operations.  <P>SOLUTION: The facsimile machine is operative to perform operations like transmitting, setting, etc., by only responding to YES/NO type questions made by the facsimile machine when the operations are needed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003181355-A (JP)
Title: Coating material-supply nozzle
Inventor: IWAMOTO TOSHIRO
IPC: B05C5/02
Filed: 2001-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coating material-supply nozzle capable of supplying a coating material from the end in the longitudinal direction toward the coating material-supply nozzle, delivering the material uniformly over the total length of the nozzle hole, accomplishing uniform coating to the base member and easily adjusting by varying the feeding state of the coating material.  <P>SOLUTION: The coating material-supply nozzle 1 comprises a coating material storage part 8 which stores a coating material supplied from an exterior source to the inside of a nozzle body 2 and a long-formed nozzle slit 10 which delivers the coating material via a nozzle part 9. A coating material conveying pipe 11 which conveys the coating material is internally installed to cover the total length of the inside of the coating material storage part 8. At least one coating material conveying hole 12 is provided in the coating material conveying pipe 11 so that the coating material is led uniformly in the longitudinal direction within the coating maternal storage part 8.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003197535-A (JP)
Title: Vapor growth device, method for detecting temperature of vapor growth device, and method for controlling temperature of vapor growth device
Inventor: ISHIBASHI MASAYUKI
IPC: H01L21/205
Filed: 2001-12-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods for accurately measuring the temperature of the rear of a wafer and for accurately controlling a heating temperature for a wafer in a vapor growth device.  <P>SOLUTION: This vapor growth device is equipped with a suscepter provided with a through-hole. When the temperature of a wafer is measured in the vapor growth device, the vapor growth device is equipped with temperature detecting means each for the front and rear of the wafer, the temperature of the rear of the wafer is measured at a position at which the temperature detecting means is free from the influence of the through-hole provided to the suscepter, or when the temperature of the rear of the wafer cannot be measured, the temperature control of the rear of the wafer can be carried out by heating the rear of the wafer with a power obtained by multiplying a front-surface side power by a coefficient determined by an experiment or the like.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003196937-A (JP)
Title: Recording and/or playback device
Inventor: KURITA KAZUHITO
IPC: G11B7/085
Filed: 2001-12-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly stably drive a support base even when the parallelism between a driving shaft and a guiding shaft deteriorates.  <P>SOLUTION: The recording and/or playback device is provided with recording and reproducing means 14 and 15 for recording and/or reproducing a signal on/from a disk-shaped recording medium, a support means 20 having a support base 19 with the recording and reproducing means 14 and 15 mounted and supporting the support base 19 movably in the radial direction of the disk-shaped recording medium, a movable part 27 provided on the support base 19, and an impact driving means 9 having the driving shaft 24 supporting the movable part 27 slidably in the radial direction of the disk-shaped recording medium and an electromechanical conversion element 25 that extends and contracts in the axial direction of the driving shaft 24 in accordance with a driving pulse and slides the movable part 27 by displacingly driving the driving shaft 24 in an axial direction while extending or contracting the electromechanical conversion element 25. The movable part 27 has a pair of connection pieces 30 and 31 holding the driving shaft 24 between themselves and is curvedly formed such that a pricipal plane allowed to abut on the driving shaft 24 on the connection pieces 30 and 31 swells in an almost circular arc shape.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003190430-A (JP)
Title: Ball shooting control apparatus for pachinko game machine
Inventor: WAKASA MIKIO
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2001-12-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve game features.  <P>SOLUTION: As a result that a player selects automatic control with a shooting control switching operation mechanism 16 in a state where a controller 21 is started, an operation selection detecting means 22 receives an automatic operation signal from an automatic switch 18 and the player operates a ball shooting operation mechanism 15. Then, while the detection means 22 processes a program, a ball shooting mechanism shoots the ball to a target position where the ball easily enter a special pattern starting prize-winning device 7 when a normal pattern winning flag stands, the ball shooting mechanism shoots the ball to a target position where the ball easily enter a third-class right generator 9 when a special pattern winning flag stands, the ball shooting mechanism shoots the ball to a target position where the ball easily enter a third class starting prize-winning device 10 when a third class right generation flag stands, and the ball shooting mechanism shoots the ball to a target position where the ball easily enter a big prize-winning device 11 when a third class starting prize-winning flag stands.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002231810-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing semiconductor element
Inventor: TEI JOHITSU
IPC: H01L21/28
Filed: 2001-12-26
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor element having a contact pad. SOLUTION: In the method for manufacturing the semiconductor element according to the present invention, a plurality of parallel wiring patterns 60 are formed on the semiconductor substrate 51. A lower part interlayer dielectric 67 that covers the wiring patterns 60 and the semiconductor substrate 51 is formed. A hard mask 69 is formed on the lower part interlayer dielectric 67. By etching the lower part interlayer dielectric 67 using the hard mask 69 as an etching mask, a self-aligned contact hole 71, by which the semiconductor substrate 51 between the wiring patterns 60 is exposed, is formed. A surface treatment step is applied to the surface of the semiconductor substrate 51, which is exposed by the self-aligned contact hole 71. After the surface treatment step have been completed, a first conductive film 75 is conformally formed on the entire surface on the semiconductor substrate and then a protrusion 77 is formed on upper-part side wall of the self-aligned contact hole 71. The protrusion 77 is removed by anisotropically etching the first conductive film 75. After the protrusion 77 has been removed, a second conductive film 79, with which the self-arranged contact hole 71 is completely filled, is formed on the entire surface on semiconductor substrate.
Patent JP-2003200290-A (JP)
Title: Slotting device for resin flux cored wire solder
Inventor: FUSAMURA TOMOAKI
IPC: B23K35/40
Filed: 2001-12-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a slotting device for resin flux cored wire solder which is capable of slotting the wire solder without allowing the wire solder from escaping from a guide groove and facilitating initial setting of the wire solder by a simple structure.  <P>SOLUTION: The device is so disposed that the supply direction line L of the wire solder 10 fed from a wire solder discharge port 62 of a supply nozzle 6 is approximately equal to the tangent of a guide arc 12, that a guide start point A exists on the upstream side of a cutting point B, that the offset angle αbeing the central angle of a guide arc 12 from the guide start point A up to the cutting point B is an acute angle, and that the center D of rotation of a slotting blade exists on the side opposite to the center C of rotation of a guide roller across the supply direction line L in-between.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003195566-A (JP)
Title: Electrostatic charge image developing toner and image forming method using the same
Inventor: NAKANISHI YASUSHI
IPC: G03G9/08
Filed: 2001-12-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrostatic charge image developing toner wherein low-temperature fixing properties and blocking resistance can be compatible with each other and to form a toner image having satisfactory density with a small quantity of consumption of the toner without offset.  <P>SOLUTION: The electrostatic charge image developing toner is formed by using a binder resin containing a petroleum resin and a styrene-based copolymer or a styrene-based polymer and 1 to 7 pts.wt. wax having ≤10<SP>2</SP>mPa/s (cp) melt viscosity at 140°C to 100 pts.wt. toner as a release agent. The chromatogram of the binder resin measured by a gel permeation chromatography has the maximum value (PL) based on the petroleum resin at a molecular weight of 5×10<SP>2</SP>to 2×10<SP>3</SP>and the maximum value (PH) based on the styrene based copolymer or the styrene-based polymer at a molecular weight of 1×10<SP>5</SP>to 4.5×10<SP>5</SP>and the ratio of the petroleum resin to the styrene-based copolymer or the styrene-based polymer is in the range of 5:5 to 7:3 by weight.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003196725-A (JP)
Title: Merchandise carrying and ejecting device for automatic vending machine
Inventor: TANAKA OSAMU
IPC: G07F11/24
Filed: 2001-12-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a merchandise carrying and ejecting device for an automatic vending machine which can be applied to merchandise with a plurality of shapes, dispenses with setting work of a merchandise path outlet side and can prevent merchandise ejection trouble.  <P>SOLUTION: This merchandise carrying and ejecting device 20 has flappers 22 and 23 vertically. The upper flapper 22 is equipped with a projecting member 26. When both the upper flapper 22 and the projecting member 26 are retracted toward a frame 21, the point part (projecting part) 39 of the projecting member 26 projects toward the center of a merchandise path 2. The action of the projecting member 26 ensures a gap 46 between a square PET bottle 74 and the upper flapper 22, and the upper flapper 22 smoothly moves with no object disturbing the movement of the point side of the upper flapper 22. The upper flapper 2 projects to be allowed to abut on a corner part of the square PET bottle 74 and prevents a square PET bottle 75 from falling down.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003202507-A (JP)
Title: Optical switch
Inventor: IKEGAME TETSUO
IPC: G02B26/08
Filed: 2001-12-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical switch which is high in coupling efficiency with output side optical fibers and low in the loss of transmission light quantity.  <P>SOLUTION: In the optical switch having an optical path selection element for selectively switching one or more first optical paths to a plurality of second optical paths and making light incident on one or more optical waveguide members, light deflected by the optical path selection element is made incident on a condenser lens through a correcting optical element and then made incident on the optical waveguide members.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002137684-A (JP)
Title: Stop lamp
Inventor: SUZUKI MITSUAKI
IPC: B60Q1/44
Filed: 2001-11-30
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To discriminate between a stop state and a moving state of a body by eliminating such a problem that whether the body is moving or stopped cannot be determined merely by a brake lamp during an operation at night and in the rain. SOLUTION: An infrared-emitting diode and an infrared-receiving IC are installed on a speedometer panel at the graduation of zero. When a speed becomes zero, a speedometer needle cuts off infrared ray to light a warning lamp.
Patent JP-2003502032-A (JP)
IPC: C12N15/62
Filed: 2000-06-07
Abstract: A process of expressing a recombinant protein in a plant and of isolating the recombinant protein from the plant, the process is effected by (a) providing a plant, a plant derived tissue or cultured plant cells expressing a fusion protein including the recombinant protein and a cellulose binding peptide being fused thereto, the fusion protein being compartmentalized within cells of the plant, plant derived tissue or cultured plant cells, so as to be sequestered from cell walls of the cells of the plant, plant derived tissue or cultured plant cells; (b) homogenizing the plant, plant derived tissue or cultured plant cells, so as to bring into contact the fusion protein with a cellulosic matter of the plant, plant derived tissue or cultured plant cells, to thereby effect affinity binding of the fusion protein via the cellulose binding peptide to the cellulosic matter, thereby obtaining a fusion protein cellulosic matter complex; and (c) isolating the fusion protein cellulosic matter complex.
Patent JP-2003507133-A (JP)
IPC: A61L27/00
Filed: 2000-08-24
Abstract: Ocular implants composed of homopolymers containing stable elasticity inducing crosslinkers which contain rigid chemical groups disposed between at least two polymerizable ethyleneically unsaturated chemical groups are disclosed. These ocular implants are stable, elastic, soft, optically clear, have high refractive index and low-tack surfaces.
Patent JP-2003508182-A (JP)
IPC: F04B43/00
Filed: 2000-08-29
Abstract: Systems and the related methods for the pumping of fluids through a pump. The pump comprises a pump chamber (PPN), which is responsive to applied pressures to convey fluid. The systems and methods employ control measures, implemented through the controller (16), to monitor fluid flow through the pump, using either gravimetric (246) or electrical field sensing.
Patent JP-2003535031-A (JP)
Title: 部分的に中和した有機ケイ素化合物をベースとする化粧品組成物
IPC: A61K8/55
Filed: 1999-09-27
Abstract: (57)【要約】
【課題】  重合していないか又は相対的に重合していない水溶性有機ケイ素化合物を含む、水性化粧品組成物を提供すること。
【解決手段】  本発明は、１個のケイ素原子を含むシラン及び２個又は３個のケイ素原子を含むシロキサンから選択し、さらに１分子当たり少なくとも一の塩基性の化学官能基と少なくとも二の加水分解可能な基又はヒドロキシル基を含む一又は複数の重合していないか又は相対的に重合していない水溶性有機ケイ素化合物を、化粧品として受容可能な水性媒体中に、組成物の全質量に対して少なくとも０．０２質量％含む化粧品組成物であって、該有機ケイ素化合物が少なくとも一つの中和剤で中和されている組成物に関する。本発明をヘアケア組成物に適用することができる。
Patent JP-2003511497-A (JP)
IPC: C09D5/03
Filed: 2000-10-02
Abstract: A polymerizable solid aliphatic polyurethane containing olefinically unsaturated double bonds, having a very narrow melting range within the temperature range from 40 to 200° C., which is preparable fromA) at least one linear aliphatic diisocyanate,B) at least one aliphatic compound containing at least two isocyanate-reactive functional groups and/or water, andC) at least one olefinically unsaturated compound containing an isocyanate-reactive functional group,and its use as a powder coating material or for preparing powder coating materials.
Patent JP-2003514626-A (JP)
Title: 心血管構造を測定するためのサイジングカテーテル
IPC: A61B5/06
Filed: 2000-11-28
Abstract: (57)【要約】
患者内の予め選んだ内部開口部を測定してこの予め選んだ内部開口部の第１および第２の伸長径の迅速かつ正確な確定を行うサイジングカテーテル（１０）および方法。サイジングカテーテル（１０）は、膨張可能であり、予め選んだ開口部の大きさを測定するために利用される薄い拡張可能なプラスチックで構成された拡張バルーン（２６）を含む。拡張バルーン（２６）は管状シャフト（１２）の遠位端（１６）近くの管状シャフト（１２）に固定されている。拡張バルーン（２６）は膨張閾値に膨張し、拡張バルーン（２６）は予め選んだ開口部の周りで変形し、予め選んだ開口部近くの拡張バルーン（２６）の大きさが予め選んだ開口部の第１の伸長径に近づく。サイジングカテーテル（１０）および方法を利用して予め選んだ開口部内に配置すべき適切にサイジングされた装置を決定しうる。
Patent JP-2003518835-A (JP)
Title: テレビジョン制御システム
IPC: H04N5/60
Filed: 2000-12-12
Abstract: (57)【要約】
病院におけるテレビジョンの異なるモデルを制御するためのテレビジョン制御システム１０は、操作者からの入力１２を受信するための入力装置３２と、病院におけるテレビジョン４０とインターフェースするための制御器１６とを含む。制御器１６は入力１２を反映する制御信号クラスタ２８を生成し、またそのクラスタ２８は病院におけるテレビジョン４０の複数の異なるモデルの特定操作機能のための複数の順次生成される個々の制御信号を含む。
Patent JP-2003519217-A (JP)
Title: カルシウムチャネル遮断薬としての５，１０−ジヒドロアクリジン
IPC: A61P9/06
Filed: 2000-12-29
Abstract: (57)【要約】
本発明において、式（１ａ）または（１ｂ）の化合物またはそれらの塩、あるいは（Ｘ ２ ） ｎ Ａｒまたは（Ｘ ２ ） ｎ Ｃｙをアルキル（１〜６Ｃ）で置き換えた式（１ａ）または（１ｂ）の化合物が提供され、これらの化合物は、カルシウムチャネルを遮断する方法で有用である。また、これらの化合物は、発作、頭部の外傷、片頭痛、慢性疼痛、神経障害性疼痛および急性疼痛、癲癇、高血圧、心臓の不整脈のような状態、およびカルシウム代謝（シナプスカルシウムチャネル媒介機能を含めて）に関連した他の適応症の処置に有用である。
Patent JP-2003519298-A (JP)
IPC: D04H13/00
Filed: 2001-01-05
Abstract: A composite nonwoven fabric manufactured by joining a fibrous web that comprises wood fibers, or a mixture of wood fibers and synthetic fibers, to a spunlaid or other nonwoven baseweb by means of a hydroentanglement process. The spunlaid nonwoven web, which may be made of a polyester such as a poly (ethylene terephthalate) or of a polyolefin such as polypropylene, is a less-than-fully bonded web, which may be produced by a method in which the thermal calendering is effected at lower than normal temperatures, in particular temperature lower than the melting point or softening point of the polymeric material from which the spunlaid nonwoven web is made. The strength of the composite fabric may be significantly greater than that of the spunlaid nonwoven web itself, in certain embodiments the base web contributes no more than about 45 % of the strength of the composite fabric.
Patent JP-2003520131-A (JP)
IPC: C25D21/18
Filed: 2001-01-18
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for treating hexavalent chromium compounds occurring in effluents originating from the treatment of metals. In this method, hexavalent chromium compounds are reduced in acid conditions, and then the chromium hydroxide is precipitated by adding a base to the solution, and the sludge-like precipitate thus formed is concentrated by pressure-filtering to a high solid matter content. After this, the chromium hydroxide is dehumidified, heated to form amorphous chromium oxide, and the amorphous chromium oxide is heated to form crystalline chromium oxide.
Patent JP-2003528219-A (JP)
Title: 金属メッキ中に半導体被加工物の表面に対する電気接点を形成する装置
IPC: C25D5/06
Filed: 2001-02-22
Abstract: (57)【要約】
第１と第２の導電要素を含む特定の装置を使用して、導電材料を含有する電解液から、半導体ウエハを含む基板の表面上に導電材料をほぼ均一に堆積させることができる。第１の導電要素は、同一の又は異なる構成の多数の電気接点を有することができ、或いは導電パッドの形態をしていてもよく、また、基板表面のほぼ全体にわたって該表面と接触するか、又は別の方法で電気的に相互接続できる。電解液を基板表面及び第２の導電要素と物理的に接触させながら、第１及び第２の導電要素間に電圧が加えられると、導電材料が基板表面上に堆積される。堆積された導電材料の電解エッチングが実行できるように、陽極と陰極との間に加えられる電圧の極性を逆にすることが可能である。
Patent JP-2003531223-A (JP)
Title: グラフトされた顔料を配合したエネルギー硬化性グラビアインキおよびインクジェットインキ
IPC: C09D11/10
Filed: 1999-11-15
Abstract: (57)【要約】
顔料と、構造Ｐ−（Ｕ−Ｙ） s （式中、Ｐは有機顔料または染料の残基であり、Ｙはポリアルキレンオキシド部分であり、ＵはＹをＰに共有結合させる連結部分であり、ｓは１〜３の整数である）を有する流動添加剤と、化学線によって硬化される紫外線カチオン開始重合系、熱カチオン開始重合系またはラジカル開始重合系であることが可能であり、任意に光開始系を含有するエネルギー硬化性液体ビヒクルとを含有する無溶媒エネルギー硬化性低粘度グラビアインキおよびインクジェットインキ。
Patent JP-2004537075-A (JP)
Title: コンピュータのセキュリティ情報を管理するための方法およびシステム
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2001-04-27
Abstract: データ・ソースによって行われる処理の速度を低下させることなく、悪意のある振る舞いを示すかも知れない生イベントの間の関係を検出してコンソールに整理された情報の提示を行うために、複数のデータ・ソースからの情報を「融合」すなわち集めて整理しこの情報を解析するフュージョン・エンジンを含むセキュリティ管理システム。複数のデータ・ソースはネットワークのトラフィクまたは個々のコンピュータまたはその両方を監視するセンサまたはディテクタを含むことができる。センサは侵入探知システム（ＩＤＳ）に使用できるデバイスを含むことができる。データ・ソースはまたファイヤ・ウォール、追跡記録システム、および他の類似のデータ・トラフィックをリアルタイムで監視するセキュリティまたはＩＤＳデバイスなどを含むことができる。本発明は、１つまたはそれ以上のリアルタイムの生のコンピュータ・イベント間の関係を、それらをリアルタイムで受け取りながら、見つけ出すことができる。このフュージョン・エンジンは、成熟相関イベントに加えてリアルタイムの生イベントのリスクを評価し順位づけることもできる。 【選択図】図６
Patent JP-2003205446-A (JP)
Title: Polishing method and device
Inventor: MURATA OSAMU
IPC: B24B19/00
Filed: 2002-01-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem with the conventional polishing device, wherein it is difficult to collectively polish a large amount of works at one time or accurately polish the end faces thereof, and when foreign matter exists on a polishing surface plate, the end faces of all works are damaged.  <P>SOLUTION: This polishing device is equipped with a base 16, a polishing surface plate 17 supported on the base 16 to revolve, a surface plate driving motor 14, a driving gear 24, a synchronous gear 25 and an eccentric pin 28 for revolving the polishing surface plate 17 to the base 16, a slider supported on the base 16 to linearly reciprocate and move, a slider driving motor 15, a guide groove 34, a pin support plate 36 and an eccentric pin 38 for linearly reciprocate and move the slider to the base 16, a work holder 45 fitted to the slider opposite to the polishing surface plate 17, and a work mounting hole 45 provided in the work holder 45 to removably support a optical fiber ferrule 47.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO