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Patent JP-2004172020-A (JP)
Title: Alkaline primary cell
Inventor: NAKAMURA MITSUHIRO
IPC: H01M4/52
Filed: 2002-11-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a primary cell in which a function as the primary cell is made to be retained stable for a long period by suppressing capacity decrease due to self-discharge, and which is superior in heavy load discharge characteristics, in the alkaline primary cell using nickel oxy-hydroxide as a positive electrode active material, and using a positive electrode mixture containing the positive electrode active material by molding and solidifying it in a prescribed shape.  <P>SOLUTION: By making the positive electrode mixture 13 contain sodium carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), or making the positive electrode mixture 13 contain polyethylene, the self-discharge in storage is suppressed. Otherwise, a negative electrode mixture 15 is made to contain 3 to 10 wt% of zinc with a particle size of 50 to 75 μm.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004175150-A (JP)
Title: Air bag unit
Inventor: YANAKA TAKEHIRO
IPC: B60R21/16
Filed: 2002-11-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a steering wheel having a Steering-By-Wire type structure, by which an impact applied upon a crew member can be effectively absorbed.  <P>SOLUTION: The steering wheel 10 has the so-called Steering-By-Wire type structure which does not have a conventional steering shaft. A first air bag body 30 and a second air bag body 32 are stored within an air bag unit 16 arranged at the central portion 14 of the steering wheel 10 in the folded state respectively. The first air bag body 30 expands between the front surface 10A of the steering wheel 10 and the member 38 of crew and the second air bag body 32 expands between the back surface 10B of the steering wheel 10 and an instrument panel 40.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004178666-A (JP)
Title: Contents reproducing device
Inventor: YASUDA TAKEHIKO
IPC: G11B27/00
Filed: 2002-11-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contents reproducing device with which a user can easily enjoy the contents again which are reproduced by the user in the past, and provide a contents reproducing method.  <P>SOLUTION: The contents reproducing device is provided with a condition acquiring part (a position acquiring part 111, a time acquiring part 113 or the like) for acquiring environmental condition information when the contents of voice and video are reproduced and a storage part 140 which stores the environmental condition information by relating the information with the contents. Moreover, a control part 150 compares the present environmental information acquired by the condition acquiring part 11 (a position acquiring part 111, the time acquiring part or the like) with the past environmental information which is stored in the storage part 140 and the part 150 selects contents based on the result of the comparison.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004177601-A (JP)
Title: Transfer belt
Inventor: YONEYAMA MASARU
IPC: B32B27/40
Filed: 2002-11-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transfer belt whose surface shows excellent electrification voltage and half-life of the voltage so that an image is free from failure such as toner scattering or transfer degradation without causing the scattering of superposed toner, void or the like in the toner transfer in forming the image.  <P>SOLUTION: The transfer belt is constituted of: semiconductive belt base material, molded of resin material including a specified amount of conductive agent; and a conductive layer. The resin material in the belt base material is composed of polyurea and/or polyurethane resin, the conductive agent is composed of polypyrrole conductive polymer, and the conductive layer is composed of polypyrrole conductive polymer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004180099-A (JP)
Title: Image processing apparatus
Inventor: KAWAKAMI YASUHIRO
IPC: H04N1/387
Filed: 2002-11-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing apparatus capable of printing even a manuscript mixed with characters and photographs without deteriorating the printing quality.  <P>SOLUTION: An image processing apparatus 1 conducts image processing, to convert image data read by an image input device 2 into data of higher resolution and output by an image output device 3, when the printing resolution of the image output device 3 is higher than the reading resolution of the image input device 2. The image processing apparatus 1 employs a configuration, by which image area separation processing for distinguishing between characters and photographs is conducted, and resolution of a character area is arranged at a level higher than the one of a photograph area within the identical manuscript, while the number of pixels is made uniform for an output image as a whole after binaryization of each area, if characters and photographs intermingle within the manuscript.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003230393-A (JP)
Title: Adiposity-inhibiting ability assaying method
Inventor: OTSUBO TSUGUTERU
IPC: A61K35/57
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simple adiposity-inhibiting ability assaying method essential for searching out an adiposity-inhibiting ability-possessing substance in a fat tissue.  <P>SOLUTION: This adiposity-inhibiting ability assaying method is characterized by (1) having the first process for measuring the activity of nicotinamide phosphoribosyl transferase in the contact system of the nicotinamide phosphoribosyl transferase with a test substance and (2) the second process for evaluating the adiposity-inhibiting ability of the substance on the basis of a difference obtained by comparing the activity measured in the first process with the activity of a control.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004187332-A (JP)
Title: Controller for fuel cell vehicle
Inventor: HASUKA YOSHINOBU
IPC: H01M8/00
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller for a fuel cell vehicle which can protect an output controller for controlling the output current and output voltage of a fuel cell.  <P>SOLUTION: This controller 20 limits the current value of an output current (the primary current I<SB>1</SB>of a current/voltage controller 12) taken out of the fuel cell 11 by the current/voltage controller 12 at start of the fuel cell vehicle, and sets the specified secondary upper limit current I<SB>2U</SB>for the secondary current I<SB>2</SB>of the current/voltage controller 12, in condition that the capacitor 13 is charged by the limited current (the secondary current I<SB>2</SB>of the current/voltage controller 12). The controller 20 computes the primary upper limit current I<SB>U</SB>of the primary current I<SB>1</SB>corresponding to the secondary upper limit current I<SB>2U</SB>, based on each detected value of the output voltage (the primary voltage V<SB>1</SB>of the current/voltage controller 12) of the fuel cell 11 and the voltage (the secondary voltage V<SB>2</SB>of the current/voltage controller 12) between the terminals of the capacitor 13 and the set specified secondary upper limit value I<SB>2U</SB>, and controls the current/voltage controller 12 so that the detected value of the primary current I<SB>1</SB>may be not more than the primary upper limit current I<SB>1U</SB>.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004180766-A (JP)
Title: Clothes-drying stand
Inventor: KIDA KYOHEI
IPC: D06F57/06
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clothes-drying stand which hardly becomes an obstruction at the time of nonuse and whose stability is excellent even at the time of drying a heavy object such as futon.  <P>SOLUTION: A pole receiving rod is made freely turnable in a horizontal direction, a pole receiving part is provided freely turnably on the pole receiving rod, the interval of columns facing each other is made larger than the outer diameter of a clothes-drying pole and a holding part having a holding hole for holding the clothes-drying pole is provided between the columns facing each other. At the time of not using the clothes-drying stand, by performing turning while keeping the clothes-drying pole mounted on the pole receiving part provided on a clothes-drying rod and turning the clothes-drying pole and the pole receiving rod to roughly parallel positions, space is not occupied by the clothes-drying pole. Also, at the time of drying the heavy object, when the clothes-drying pole and the pole receiving rod are used at positions near the parallel positions, the possibility of falling of the clothes-drying stand is lowered. Also, when the clothes-drying pole is disposed to the holding hole provided between the columns, the stability is increased further and there is no danger of falling.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004181718-A (JP)
Title: Stretched member made of polyoxymethylene resin and its manufacturing method
Inventor: OKAWA HIDETOSHI
IPC: B29C55/00
Filed: 2002-12-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stretched member having high strength and high elastic modulus comprising a polyoxymethylene copolymer.  <P>SOLUTION: After a rod-shaped or hollow molded object is obtained by the melt extrusion of the polyoxymethylene copolymer which contains 0.5-10 mol of a specific oxyalkylene unit per 100 mol of an oxymethylene unit in its polymer chain mainly comprising a repeating oxymethylene unit and has a melt index (190°C, load: 2,160 g) of 0.3-20 g/10 min, it is stretched under heating to obtain the stretched member with a cross section of 0.003-700 mm<SP>2</SP>.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004184281-A (JP)
Title: Reflection-type optical sensor, carriage, and information processing apparatus
Inventor: KATO TETSUYA
IPC: B41J29/48
Filed: 2002-12-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reflection-type optical sensor which can prevent detection accuracy from lowering due to disturbances and angular errors in sensor arrangements, and to provide a carriage and an information processing apparatus.  <P>SOLUTION: A medium sensor 68 has a cap member 85 with a common aperture section 85b, thereby enabling both a projection angle range of a light-emitting element 82 and photo acceptance angle range of a light-sensitive element 83 to be limited to small ranges, reducing the influence of the disturbance and preventing the detection accuracy from lowering, even when low-cost elements having low directivity are employed therein. In the medium sensor 68, the light-emitting element 82 and the light-receiving element 83 are arranged in the direction identical to one which is perpendicular to a paper P, thereby reducing the lowering of the detection accuracy, because of the angular errors in the arrangements of respective elements and the sensor itself, in comparison with a sensor in which respective elements are arranged obliquely, enabling scaling down of the arrangement regions of the respective elements in the sensor and miniaturizing of the sensor.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004186038-A (JP)
Title: Erasing method of electromagnetic wave emitted from surface heating and the surface heating
Inventor: KIYOKAWA SUSUMU
IPC: F24D13/02
Filed: 2002-12-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method in which electromagnetic wave intensity emitted from a surface heating is made to have a small value, and provide the surface heating.  <P>SOLUTION: Among electric power supply parts 3b arranged in a parallel state, two sheets of the heating 2-1, 2-2 on which the heating part 3a consisting of a sheet-formed electrical resistor is mounted via an electric insulation sheet 4 are mutually superposed so that the respective electric power supply parts 3b and the heating part 3a are mutually opposed, polarities of the opposed electric power supply parts 3b are mutually reversed and connected to an AC power supply (not shown) and directions of the electric currents respectively flowing to the opposed parts of the two sheets of the heating 2-1, 2-2 are made mutually reversed, and the electromagnetic wave can be eliminated, namely, emitted electromagnetic wave strength can be made as 1/100 milligauss or less. Furthermore, incorrect operation of a breaker for a leakage current by the leakage current based on an airraid capacity of the surface heating can be prevented.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004190867-A (JP)
Title: Holding frame of filter for range hood
Inventor: OKADA KENJI
IPC: F24F7/06
Filed: 2002-12-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a holding frame of a filter for a range hood where the clearance is not generated between adjacent frames even if the two holding frames are used in parallel.  <P>SOLUTION: The holding frame of the filter for the range hood is constituted so as to expand each of four sides of a square shaped holding frame. The frame is provided with a slidably displaceable first flange 21 and a second flange 31 which are overlapped on each upper outside of a slidably fitted first member 20 and a second member 30, and straight shaped ends 21a, 31a at the outer peripheral side of the first flange 21 and the second flange 31 are formed on the same plane.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004193171-A (JP)
Title: Reference wafer, method for calibration, method for position detection, method for exposure and program
Inventor: SUGIHARA TARO
IPC: G01B11/00
Filed: 2002-12-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize the accurate calibration of an imaging device.  <P>SOLUTION: Each calibration mark PRM on a reference wafer SW includes a first pattern and a second pattern each having a predetermined width and crossing perpendicularly to each other. Each pattern has at least two edges with respect to their widthwise directions. Accordingly, the imaged data obtained by imaging each mark include at least two information for detecting the positional information with respect to the perpendicular two axial directions of the respective marks in the respective directions. The positional information of the direction of each mark can be accurately detected by using these information. At least three calibration marks in which their positional relationship is clear and which are not present on the same straight line, are formed so as to be simultaneously kept in the imaging field of the imaging device. Thus, the calibration information of the imaging device can be accurately obtained based on the detected results and the designed values of the positional information of these marks.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004193784-A (JP)
Title: Image processor
Inventor: HIRAHARA ATSUSHI
IPC: H04N5/92
Filed: 2002-12-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an image processor in which an image file can be transferred easily and surely even if the free capacity of a recording medium in a destination apparatus is insufficient.  <P>SOLUTION: When an image file is transferred to an external digital camera communicable through communicating sections 102 and 108, file size of the image file to be transferred is reduced if a sufficient free capacity is not present in the recorder of a destination digital camera. Consequently, the image file can be transferred even if the free capacity of the destination digital camera is insufficient without requiring a labor for securing the free capacity of the destination digital camera.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003191178-A (JP)
Title: Axial striking type electric hand tool device
Inventor: VOULKIDIS ORESTIS
IPC: B25D17/04
Filed: 2002-12-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To intuitively and slide-freely control output parameters of an axial striking energy in particular and to reduce vibration transmitted to the hands of a user in an electric hand tool device performing, at least, partially axial striking.  <P>SOLUTION: This electric hand tool device 1 is provided with a striking element 2, a main grip 4, and, at least, single electric control means 5 for output parameter, and, at least, performing the partially axial striding to process a workpiece. A planar force sensors 6' and 6" slide-freely detecting pushing pressures F and F' applied by the user in the direction of the workpiece are disposed between, at least, two mutually entangled pressurizing surfaces 7a and 7b extended in the direction, at least, partially crossing with a striking axis A, and the control means 5 is controllably connected to the force sensors 6' and 6".  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003192796-A (JP)
Title: Method and means for lowering emission of formaldehyde in processing thermoplastic resin mixed with polyacetal
Inventor: WULF STEFAN
IPC: C08J3/20
Filed: 2002-12-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for lowering the amount of the formaldehyde liberated during the processing of a polyacetal/thermoplastic resin mixture in a melt of the resin.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for lowering the emission of formaldehyde from a thermoplastic resin/polyacetal mixture comprises melting the mixture in the presence of at least one stabilizer in a mixer and subjecting the melt to a further processing. By adding a suitable additive/stabilizer during the processing, the emission of formaldehyde due to the decomposition of the polyacetal can be markedly lowered.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003274678-A (JP)
Title: Driving arrangement
Inventor: KURITA KAZUHITO
IPC: H01L41/09
Filed: 2002-12-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve a structure for preventing vibration from a support member 4 such as a chassis from being easily transmitted to a vibration element 1, and to enable the vibration of accurate specifications in the vibration element 1 in a driving arrangement that fixes a movable shaft 2 to one end of the vibration element 1 that is expanded and contracted in a specific axial direction by applying a specific voltage, and drives a movable section 5 that is subject to friction engagement with the movable shaft 2 by changing speed in the expansion and contraction of the vibration element 1 so that the movable section 5 is moved.  <P>SOLUTION: A damping means 10 is provided, which damps a fixing section 3 of the vibration element 1 to a support member 4 such as the chassis for supporting. As the damping means 10, a viscoelastic body having a vibration coefficient different from that of the vibration element 1 is used. As a result, unnecessary vibration from the support member 4 such as the chassis is absorbed by the damping means 10, is attenuated, and cannot be easily transmitted to the vibration element 1. Additionally, the vibration element is not affected by vibration from the outside, the vibration of the accurate specifications in the vibration element 1 can be made, and at the same time the vibration element 1 does not resonate with the damping means 10.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004192768-A (JP)
Title: Information recording medium and reproducing method of the information recording medium
Inventor: YAMAZAKI YUJI
IPC: G11B7/24091
Filed: 2002-12-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a recording medium that makes it impossible to delete identification information peculiar to a disk, which is recorded to an optical disk or the like for preventing unauthorized copying, by forming the identification information irreversibly and to form a false mark in a conventional drive, and also provide a method for reproducing the recording medium.  <P>SOLUTION: This is a reproducing method for a phase-variable optical disk having a land and a groove to which information can be rewritten. The phase-variable optical disk is provided with a management region which records information by means of a mark irreversibly formed outside the recording region of user data. The irreversibly provided mark is provided continuously and in one united body with the adjacent land and groove with the phase matched. Reproduction data are generated by reading out the management region under a servo-off state, and unauthorized copying is prevented by reproducing the user data based on the reproduction data.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004197855-A (JP)
Title: Pipe joint
Inventor: KISHIDA YOSHIYUKI
IPC: F16L21/08
Filed: 2002-12-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pipe joint capable of easily moving a sleeve 9 in the axial direction without receiving the self-weight and bending load of a pipe P, improved in its workability, and surely stably obtaining the predetermined stopping function, in the pipe joint comprising the stopping mechanism 12 formed by mounting the sleeve 9 and a ball 11 held in the sleeve 9 between a joint main body 1 and the pipe P, and preventing the slip-off of the pipe P by pressing the stopping ball 11 to an outer face of the pipe P through a taper face 3a formed on an inner face of the joint body 1 in a state of enlarged at a depth side.  <P>SOLUTION: Projections 20 larger than an inner diameter of the sleeve 9 and smaller than an outer diameter of the pipe P are formed on opening end part of the joint body 1 at specific intervals in the circumferential direction, and cuts 21 of a predetermined depth are formed from one end of the sleeve 9 to fit the projections 20 of the joint body 1, so that the self-weight and bending load of the pipe P are received by the projections 20 of the joint body 1.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004200486-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device
Inventor: YAMAMOTO FUMIHISA
IPC: H01L27/06
Filed: 2002-12-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device equipped with a normally operating surge protecting circuit.  <P>SOLUTION: This semiconductor device is provided with a surge protecting circuit 51 electrically connected to a signal input terminal 34, and equipped with an npn transistor 32 and an npn transistor 33. The narrowest area of the base of the npn transistor 32 is configured to have a width different from that of the narrowest area of the base of the npn transistor 33. Thus, the npn transistor 32 is configured to more easily yield than the npn transistor 33.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004203062-A (JP)
Title: Actuator for hood jumping-up device
Inventor: KORECHIKA KOJI
IPC: B60R21/34
Filed: 2002-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an actuator for a hood jumping-up device capable of securing long causing no buckling, nor a long storing length.  <P>SOLUTION: In this actuator for the hood jumping-up device, a telescopic pipe 3 extendable in an axial direction is constituted by mutually slidably fitting a plurality of tapered pipes 31 to 35. An inflator 10 is disposed inside the telescopic pipe 3 to elongate the telescopic pipe 3 by injecting high pressure gas. Brackets 4 and 5 are mounted at upper and lower ends of the telescopic pipe 3. A fabric extendable seal cylinder 6 surrounding the telescopic pipe 3 is mounted between the brackets 4 and 5 at the upper and lower ends.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004205075-A (JP)
Title: Air-conditioner assisting fan device
Inventor: MATSUDA CHOJI
IPC: F24F5/00
Filed: 2002-12-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air-conditioner assisting fan device offering construction for effectively developing/holding the comfortable living condition (particularly, winter cold draft countermeasures) of an existing air-conditioner being used in a building already constructed, with simple work.  <P>SOLUTION: A shielding device for defining a window space is arranged inside a window glass facing to the outside of the building and the fan device is arranged under the lower end of the shielding device, namely, on the side of a living room inside the shielding device. A clearance is formed at the lower end of the shielding device to create circulation air passages in the living room and the window space with the linkage of the air-conditioner with the fan device, thus greatly improving air conditioning efficiency.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI