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Patent JP-2003325373-A (JP)
Title: Foot washing mat
Inventor: NISHIMURA TATSUO
IPC: A47K7/02
Filed: 2002-05-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a foot washing mat enabling the rubbing of a foot so as to enclose the sole and inside and outside surfaces of the foot.  <P>SOLUTION: This mat has a pair of flat surfaces 2 and 2 juxtaposed on a base 1, an elastic semi-cylindrical swollen part 10 provided between the flat faces 2 and 2, and a number of elastic bristles 6 substantially vertically planted on the base 1, and the surface formed by the tips of the bristles 6 is corrugated from one flat surface to the other flat surface to provide U-shaped circular faces on the flat surfaces 2 and 2, respectively. Both feet are simultaneously placed thereon to rub off the grime and dirty adhered to the skin while simulating the skin of the inside and outside surfaces by the bristles 6 in a proper strength. When the swollen part 10 is bent in the axial direction, and the feet are placed in the direction orthogonal to the swollen part, the inside and outside surfaces of the feet can be rubbed while stimulating the arches, and the toes can be simultaneously rubbed on the bristles 6.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003334700-A (JP)
Title: Powder compacting apparatus and powder compacting method
Inventor: SONODA TOMOAKI
IPC: B22F3/03
Filed: 2002-05-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a powder compacting method capable of compression- molding a powder compact having a plurality of pores in which the inside is partitioned by a thin partition wall, so soundly that a crack or other defects are prevented from occurring in sintering the compact.  <P>SOLUTION: A powder compacting apparatus consists of a die 2 provided with a die hole 20, a fixed punch 3 to be inserted into the die hole 20 from the lower portion of the die 2, a floating punch 4 to be inserted into a punch hole of the punch 3 from the lower portion of the punch 3 and stopped by a stopper 8 so as not to descend, and an upper punch 3 to be inserted into the die hole 20 from the upper portion of the die 2. Also, the apparatus includes an elastic energizing means 5 fixed on the upper punch 3 so as to be pressed and moved downward, a depressing rod 6 connected to the means 5 to extend downward, and a holding rod 7 arranged so as to be fixed on the punch 4 so that its upper end can abut on the lower end of the rod 6. The timing of abutting of the rod 6 on the rod 7 is adjustable.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003330039-A (JP)
Title: Liquid crystal display
Inventor: NISHIHATA TOSHIHIKO
IPC: G02F1/1343
Filed: 2002-05-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display capable of inhibiting a deterioration in display quality even in the case of high integration of pixels.  <P>SOLUTION: In the liquid crystal display comprising a transparent substrate 28 above which a pixel is formed by sequentially laminating switching transistors Tr and capacitors Cs formed in a 2nd conductive type well 5 of a 1st conductive type semiconductor substrate 4, and pixel electrodes 71, 72 connected to the switching transistors Tr; the plurality of pixels are two- dimensionally formed in a matrix form; which has a specified gap on the pixel electrodes 71, 72; and which has a transparent common electrode 27 placed to face the pixel electrodes 71, 72 and cemented thereon, and comprising a liquid crystal layer 29 filled in the specified gap, a lower electrode 18 of the capacitors Cs is formed of a 1st conductive type layer diffused in the 2nd conductive well 5, and the 2nd conductive well 5 is provided with openings M so that the lower electrode 18 is in contact with the 1st conductive semiconductor substrate 4.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003332285-A (JP)
Title: Wafer treatment apparatus and method
Inventor: HARANO RIICHIRO
IPC: H01L21/683
Filed: 2002-05-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wafer treatment apparatus and method in which a part of a surface of a wafer is uniformly and precisely treated with a treatment liquid.  <P>SOLUTION: A wafer treatment apparatus (1) or the like for treating a desired annular area on the surface of the wafer has treatment liquid feeding parts (8, 10, 50) for feeding the treatment liquid for treating the surface of a wafer (A) held to be rotated within an approximately horizontal plane to the desired annular area on a surface (A1) of the wafer. Each treatment liquid feeding part has an annular guide surface (50) extending to a peripheral edge near an inner peripheral edge located to face an inner peripheral edge of the desired annular area on the surface of the wafer such that the peripheral edge forms a most expanded diameter portion. The annular guide surface (50) is rotated concentrically with the wafer (A) and the treatment liquid is fed to the annular guide surface (50).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003334547-A (JP)
Title: Ultraviolet radiation apparatus
Inventor: NAKATSUKA TAKESHI
IPC: H01J61/72
Filed: 2002-05-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high efficiency ultraviolet radiation apparatus which can make ultraviolet rays about 185 nm in wavelength low in permeability and ultraviolet rays about 254 nm in wavelength high in permeability effectively act on raw water.  <P>SOLUTION: One or more ultraviolet lamps 20 are housed in an ultraviolet permeable protective tube 30. The tube 30 is housed in a reactor 40 to form a clearance on the outside of the tube 30, and the raw water is passed axially through the clearance. A plurality of first flow straightening bodies 50 are arranged in the reactor 40 so that the clearance formed on the outside of the tube 30 is contracted to the vicinity of the outer surface of the tube 30. A plurality of second flow straightening bodies 60 are arranged in the reactor 40 to be adjacent to the first flow straightening bodies 50 so that the clearance is contracted to the vicinity of the inner surface of the reactor 40. High-output low-pressure ultraviolet lamps sealing an amalgam which exhibit a high output in the vicinity of 254 nm wavelength and in the vicinity of 185 nm wavelength are used as the ultraviolet lamps 20.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003337236-A (JP)
Title: Optical ring resonator, optical waveguide device and method of manufacturing optical ring resonator
Inventor: YAMAZAKI HIROYUKI
IPC: G02B6/34
Filed: 2002-05-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an optical ring resonator, an optical waveguide device and a method of manufacturing the optical ring resonator in which a usable band is expanded by contriving a directional coupler which composes an optical coupler.  <P>SOLUTION: The optical waveguide device 200 is composed of a an input/ output waveguide 202 formed on an optical waveguide substrate 201, the optical ring resonator 203 and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer 204 which connects these devices. The Mach-Zehnder interferometer 204 is composed by being provided with two MMI optical couplers 205<SB>1</SB>and 205<SB>2</SB>, and two waveguide arms 202<SB>1</SB>and 203<SB>1</SB>arranged between them. The length of the optical ring resonator 203 is shortened because the MMI optical couplers 205<SB>1</SB>and 205<SB>2</SB>are miniaturized, and the usable band is expanded.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003339017-A (JP)
Title: Image encoding apparatus and video camera using the same
Inventor: YATABE YUSUKE
IPC: H04N19/503
Filed: 2002-05-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video camera for photographing wide angle/telescopic images, applying compression encoding to the images, and realizing the reduction of an encoding processing amount and the enhancement of encoding accuracy.  <P>SOLUTION: An image encoding apparatus utilizes a motion vector being wide angle image encoding information, inter-image/in-image switching and an encoding amount control variable or the like to apply encoding to the telescopic image. Further, the image encoding apparatus applies no encoding a telescopic image part of the wide angle information but utilizes the telescopic image information as it is.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003341734-A (JP)
Title: Storage battery packaging box
Inventor: UENISHI SUSUMU
IPC: B65D5/468
Filed: 2002-05-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper-made packaging box for housing a storage battery, which does not tear even if get soaked in rain or wet under a humid environment, thus enabling the safe transportation of the battery.   <P>SOLUTION: The packaging box comprises a board for bearing the battery in such a way that the lower face of the battery is kept above the bottom of the packaging box, and recessions which are formed on the part of both side faces of the box that covers from the bottom of the box to the top face of the board and into which fingers can be inserted. The recessions may be hollows or holes formed on the side faces.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003336235-A (JP)
Title: Snowplow
Inventor: ABE TAKANORI
IPC: B60K23/00
Filed: 2002-05-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To bring a clutch for traveling into an on-state, only when the on- operations of a plurality of levers are intentionally performed, each time a snowplow is made to travel.  <P>SOLUTION: In this snowplow 10, a snowplow body is equipped with a power source, a traveling body and an auger; the clutch for the traveling is provided in a traveling power transmission mechanism for transmitting power to the traveling body from the power source; and a traveling clutch lever 91 for the on-off operation of the clutch for the traveling is provided. Furthermore, the snowplow 10 is equipped with: a lever fixing mechanism 150 for fixing the clutch lever 91 in an arbitrary position; a lever returning mechanism 170 for forcedly returning the clutch lever 91 to an off-position when the mechanism 150 is in an unoperated state; and an auxiliary lever 110 which puts the mechanism 150 into an operated state by being held by an operator, and puts the mechanism 150 into the unoperated state when the holding of the auxiliary lever 110 is released.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003341842-A (JP)
Title: Device for collecting powdery granule and system for collecting and carrying waste
Inventor: ARAKI HIDETAKA
IPC: B65G53/24
Filed: 2002-05-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for collecting powdery granule for efficiently collecting powdery granule such as dust by separating the powdery granule sucked in together with air from a suction hose from an air flow.   <P>SOLUTION: A powdery granule discharging mechanism 25 comprises a cylindrical horizontal casing 27 having a discharge port 26 on a lower surface portion facing to a powdery granule falling port of a main body portion 21, a rotor shaft 33 supported on an end plate blocking both end openings of the casing 27, a plurality of blades 34 placed on the shaft 33 radially, and an elastic sealing member 35 held on end edges portions of the blades 34. The mechanism 25 is placed on a lower end portion of the portion 21, and the sealing member 53 is slidingly fitted to an inner surface of the casing 27 and the end plate.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003339406-A (JP)
Title: Midsole structure of shoe for sports
Inventor: KITA KENJIRO
IPC: A43B5/10
Filed: 2002-05-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the manufacturing cost of a midsole structure of a shoe for sports.   <P>SOLUTION: This midsole structure is provided with an upper midsole 3 made of soft elastic member, a lower midsole 4 disposed on the lower side and made of soft elastic member, and a resin-made wave plate assembly 5 disposed between them. The web plate assembly 5 is composed of a corrugated sheet-like base member 50, and a pair of right and left erect wall members 51 provided separately from the base member 50 and disposed on both side parts of the base member 50. The erect wall members 51 respectively have an erect wall part 51a raised upward to be disposed on the side surface of the upper midsole 3, and a corrugated part 51b overlapping the base member 50. In this case, the base member 50 and the erect wall members 51 are made as separate members, whereby layout of molds can be simplified so as to reduce the manufacturing cost.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003344947-A (JP)
Title: Image projecting device
Inventor: KURODA KAZUHIKO
IPC: G09F19/18
Filed: 2002-05-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enter the direct sunshine into a room at a specified date and time according to the natural movement of the sun and to project its reflected image in the room.   <P>SOLUTION: An incidence opening 5 for entering the direct sunshine 6 into the room at the specified date and time is bored in a roof surface 3 or wall surface of a building and inside the incidence opening 5, a reflecting device 7 is installed which reflects the direct sunshine 6 entered through the incidence opening 5 to project its reflected image 1 on a ceiling surface 2, wall surface, or floor surface in the room. The reflecting device 7 enlarges and projects an image drawn on the surface of a convex mirror.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003344827-A (JP)
Title: Liquid crystal display device
Inventor: OMURA NORIO
IPC: G02F1/1335
Filed: 2002-05-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display device having a single liquid crystal layer and making a double faced display feasible without making a viewer conscious of a non-display region.   <P>SOLUTION: A liquid crystal display device 10 is provided with: a first substrate 11 having a common electrode 14 installed thereon; a second substrate 12 having a scanning electrode and a display electrode 15 installed thereon; a liquid crystal layer 13 injected between the first and second substrates 11, 12; a plurality of first reflection plates 17 disposed on the first substrate 11 at certain intervals; and a plurality of second reflection plates 18 disposed on the second substrate 12 so as to fill the certain intervals in the case seen from a direction vertical to the first substrate 11. Furthermore, the surface parts of the second substrate 12 opposed to the first reflection plates 17 serve as display surfaces 12a and the surface parts of the first substrate 11 opposed to the second reflection plates 18 serve as display surfaces 11a so as to make the double faced display feasible.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2002355230-A (JP)
Title: Wrist watch type body fat meter
Inventor: YAMAZAKI IWAO
IPC: A61B5/05
Filed: 2002-05-30
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a body fat meter which is made into a wrist watch type to be used by usually putting on a body and small and light to be conveniently carried to enable a user to measure a body fat rate anytime as desired by a simple procedure. SOLUTION: A body impedance measuring circuit is embedded in the main body 1 and a band 3 is attached thereon to be wound around a wrist. One power supply side electrodes H1 and detection side electrodes H2 to constitute four terminal electrodes as the outside electrodes mutually and electrically insulated are fixed on both ends of the insulated surface of the main body as well as the display part D of an LCD and some key switches K. The other power supply side electrodes H1 and detection side electrodes H2 to constitute four terminal electrodes as the inside electrodes mutually and electrically insulated are fixed on the backside of the main body 1 or the inside of the band 3.  When a right or left hand is placed in the main body 1 wound around a left or right wrist preventing both hands from mutually touching, an AC voltage is generated between the detection side electrodes H2 on the surface of the main body 1 and the detection side electrodes H2 on the backside of the main body 1 or the inside of the band 3. Thus human body impedance between both hands can be measured.
Patent JP-2003347869-A (JP)
Title: Tuning method for sound volume
Inventor: NAKANO MAKI
IPC: H03G1/00
Filed: 2002-05-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the risk of excessive sound volume being outputted at power supply turn-on immediately after a change in combination of an STB, which stores setting values, such as sound volume and conducts the control, and a display integrating a speaker at a DTV system comprising both apparatus.   <P>SOLUTION: A sound volume setting value is stored in both the STB and the display. When the system is activated, such as turning on of power supply, a sound volume setting values stored at the STB is compared with the one stored at the display, and reproduction is conducted with a smaller sound setting value or the reproduction sound is gradually made louder starting from the smaller sound setting value, in order to give the user a margin of time for tuning the sound volume, if they are different. Additionally, it is determined whether the connection between both apparatus is new, and reproduction is conducted with a smaller sound setting value, if the combination is new.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004004233-A (JP)
Title: Positive photosensitive resin composition
Inventor: TAKAGI YOSHIHIRO
IPC: G03F7/022
Filed: 2002-05-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positive photosensitive resin composition which can be developed by an aqueous alkaline solution, has a high sensitivity, and permits easy formation of patterned thin films excelling in various properties, such as planarity, high resolution, developability, heat resistance, chemical resistance, adhesion properties to substrates, transparency, and insulation properties, or permits the easy formation of the patterned thin-films having excellent dielectric properties together with the various properties described above and a pattern forming method using the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The positive photosensitive resin composition includes at least an alkaline soluble resin consisting of a copolymer having at least styrenes or benzyl (meth)acrylate, acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, and hydroxy alkyl ester as constitutional units, 1,2-naphthoquinone azido group containing compound, and a bridge agent. In the pattern forming method, light intensity applied in the second exposure is 1-15 times of that of a first exposure in performing the processes of spreading, the first exposure, development, the second exposure, and heat treatment one by one for the positive photosensitive resin composition.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004007206-A (JP)
Title: System of network image forming apparatus and registration method of image forming apparatus to network
Inventor: HAGA TATSUYOSHI
IPC: G06F3/0484
Filed: 2002-05-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the system of a network image forming apparatus in which a connection parameter of the image forming apparatus and a network can easily be set and changed by using electronic mail and to provide a registration method of the image forming apparatus to the network in the system.  <P>SOLUTION: In the system, a data processing part (CPU) 22 generates the connection parameter following setting input from an operation part 25 and sends it to a memory 26, monitors the connection state of a transmission/reception part 21 and a transmitted mail storage part 31 and/or the connection state of the transmission/reception part 21 and a received mail storage part 32 by using the connection parameter, discriminates whether the connection parameter is valid or not, and sends discrimination result display data for displaying a discrimination result and input prompting display data for performing display for prompting the operation means to re-input the connection parameter to a display part 27, if needed, when the connection parameter is discriminated to be invalid. A display part 27 performs display on the basis of the discrimination result display data and the input prompting display data, if needed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003050797-A (JP)
Title: Scaleable machine translation system
Inventor: MENEZES ARUL A
IPC: G06F17/28
Filed: 2002-06-03
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a scaleable machine translation system. SOLUTION: A computer translates a textural input in a first input language to a textural output into a second language. An input logical form is generated based on the texture input. When a plurality of transfer mappings in a tranfer mapping database match the input logical form (or at least a portion thereof), one or more of those matching transfer mappings is selected, based on the predetermined metric Textual output is generated, based on the selected transfer logical form.
Patent JP-2004013362-A (JP)
Title: Personnel control system
Inventor: YAMADA YUICHI
IPC: G06Q50/10
Filed: 2002-06-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely improve a behavior characteristic for an employee, and to precisely obtain a futuristic behavior characteristic for a company side.  <P>SOLUTION: A personnel arrangement control part 103 provides personnel relocation information on a workplace for the employee on the basis of a desired behavior characteristic of the employee and a diagnostic test result by a characteristic value calculating part 102. A future characteristic value arithmetic operation part 104 determines a future behavior characteristic value of the whole employees in the future. The personnel arrangement control part 103 arithmetically operates a difference between a future company side target behavior characteristic value targeted by the company side and the future behavior characteristic value of the whole employees, and calculates the behavior characteristic and a shortage quantity when there is an insufficient behavior characteristic. An object person determining part 106 selects the employee for providing learning contents for compensating for the shortfall of the behavior characteristic calculated by the future characteristic value arithmetic operation part 104.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004012674-A (JP)
Title: Color recorder
Inventor: SATOU MASAAKI
IPC: G03G15/16
Filed: 2002-06-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attach and detach an intermediate transfer medium without allowing a cleaning mechanism to flaw the surface of a photoreceptor in attaching and detaching the intermediate transfer medium while reducing the size of the recorder.  <P>SOLUTION: The color recorder for forming a color image on a recording medium by using an intermediate transfer belt 112 is constituted by dividing the cleaning mechanism 118 for cleaning the belt 112 to a cleaning block 401 having a blade 403 for scraping off the residual toners from the belt 112 and a residual toner conveying block 402 for conveying the residual toners and providing belt 112 side with the cleaning block 401 and the recorder body side with the block 401.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004014287-A (JP)
Title: Ito film, its manufacturing method and organic el element
Inventor: KINOSHITA KIMIO
IPC: H05B33/28
Filed: 2002-06-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ITO film, which sufficiently prevents transmission of water vapor, and its manufacturing method, as well as an organic EL element including the ITO film.  <P>SOLUTION: The organic EL element 10 comprises a substrate 12, an anode 14, a main body of the element, and a cathode, layered on the substrate in order. The substrate 12 is a board or a film of resin and the anode 14 is an ITO film made of two layers: a first layer 22 and second layer 20 on the first layer formed on the substrate 12. The first layer 22 has a low-crystallized structure and the second layer 20 has a high-crystallized structure.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO