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Patent JP-2008248702-A (JP)
Title: Wind turbine generator
Inventor: SHIOZAKI AKIRA
IPC: F03D3/02
Filed: 2007-03-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wind turbine generator capable of starting power generation with a simple structure, even if wind power energy is small.  <P>SOLUTION: Wind turbines 300, 350 having a plurality of vanes are vertically disposed with respect to a shaft 400. That is, the first wind turbine 300 is disposed to an upper part of the shaft 400, and the second wind turbine 350 is disposed to a lower part of the shaft 400. In the first wind turbine 300, a shaft fixing part 330 is fixed to the shaft 400, a wind turbine support pipes 310 are disposed to be opened from the shaft fixing part 330 at 120 degrees, and vanes 301 are disposed at the tip of the wind turbine support pipes 310. In the second wind turbine 350, the wind turbine support pipes 310 are disposed at an interval of 90 degrees from the shaft fixing part 330, and vanes 302 are disposed at the tip of the wind turbine support pipes 310. The first wind turbine 300 has a property suitable for power generation in higher in speed, i.e., higher in wind power energy than the second wind turbine 350.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008249807-A (JP)
Title: Speech recognition method and device, and speech recognition program and its recording medium
Inventor: KATO TSUNEO
IPC: G10L15/14
Filed: 2007-03-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve recognition processing speed without reducing recognition accuracy, by restricting expansion to a front direction of search space in a non-speech zone, and by reducing the number of status hypotheses.  <P>SOLUTION: As it is determined that, regarding the status hypothesis which is transited to a Hidden Morkov Model (HMM) status [1] shown in Fig 4(c), adjoining other HMM status [2] in two transitional places is in a restriction zone, when a sound feature parameter is the sound feature parameter before utterance, status transition from the HMM status [1] to the HMM status [2] is forbidden. As self transition is determined to be transition to outside of the restriction zone, even if it is transition from the HMM status [1], status transition and likelihood calculation are performed. When the sound feature parameter is the sound feature parameter after utterance, as shown in Fig.4 (d), the status transition and the likelihood calculation are performed without restricting the transition place.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008248978-A (JP)
Title: Vibration damping structure
Inventor: AMANO HIROYUKI
IPC: F16F15/02
Filed: 2007-03-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vibration damping structure capable of providing a sufficient vibration damping effect by using a member capable of converting kinetic energy into heat energy.  <P>SOLUTION: In this vibration damping structure, a plurality of wires 6 so held as to be brought into contact with each other and displaceably relative to each other and a covering member 7 covering the periphery of the wires 6 are mounted on an object 1 to be damped, and the kinetic energy when the object 1 to be damped is vibrated is converted into a heat energy by relatively displacing the wires 6 by the kinetic energy to damp the vibration of the object 1 to be damped. A mounting member 8 is installed on the object 1 to be damped, and the wires 6 and the covering member 7 are integrally connected and fixed to the mounting member 8.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008247792-A (JP)
Title: Bowel movement-improving agent
Inventor: FUKUI KENSUKE
IPC: A61P1/10
Filed: 2007-03-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To develop a bowel movement-improving agent excellent in flavor, capable of being utilized in a wide range of foods and beverages, also exhibiting an effect of improving the bowel movement by a small amount and having a high safety.  <P>SOLUTION: This bowel movement improving agent is provided by using a triglyceride containing ≥1 group of ≥20C long chain saturated fatty acids and ≥1 group of ≥16C unsaturated fatty acids as the constituting fatty acids, as an active ingredient. Also, by containing the triglyceride as the active ingredient, bowel movement-improving oils and fats component or a bowel movement-improving food is provided. The bowel movement-improving oils and fats composition or the bowel movement-improving food preferably contains ≥4 and ≤30 wt.% content of the triglyceride as the ≥20C long chain saturated fatty acids in the composition or in the oils and fats.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2007312361-A (JP)
Title: Imaging apparatus and radiographic imaging system
Inventor: KAMESHIMA TOSHIO
IPC: H04N5/378
Filed: 2007-03-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus which can improve the electric power consumption characteristics, noise characteristics, and dynamic range characteristics.  <P>SOLUTION: An imaging apparatus includes a sensor array, where a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element (102) and a switching element (103) are arrayed in the row direction and in the column direction; signal wirings (108) connected to a plurality of the switching elements provided in the column direction; and a reading-circuit unit (105) connected to the signal wiring, where the reading-circuit unit includes a first operating region (106) including a first amplifying circuit (201), connected to the signal wirings and a second operating region (107), including a second amplifying circuit (211) connected to the latter stage of the first operating region, with the maximum of the power-supply voltage range of the first amplifying circuit being larger than the maximum of the power-supply voltage range of the second amplifying circuit.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008212912-A (JP)
Title: Two-dimensional resonance vibration motor
Inventor: IMAGAWA TAKAHITO
IPC: H02K33/16
Filed: 2007-03-02
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently convert an electric current into vibration motion and to enable control of shape and direction of the vibration motion by way of controlling the electric current.  <P>SOLUTION: A two-dimensional resonance vibration motor constituted of electromagnetic coils 1, 2, an attracting magnet member 3 and a movable magnet member 4 each disposed in a manner as shown in figure 1 is disclosed. The moving magnet member 4 contacting the attracting magnet member 3 in a mutually attracting manner in a hollow part of the apparatus is movable relative to the attracting magnet member 3. The moving magnet member 4 is caused to perform a resonance vibration in the right-left direction by virtue of the period control of an electric current sent to the electromagnetic coil 1 and is caused to perform a resonance vibration in the vertical direction by virtue of the period control of an electric current sent to the electromagnet coil 2. The shape and the direction of the vibration are controlled by controlling the amount and the phase difference of the cyclic currents each sent to the electromagnetic coils 1, 2 respectively.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008246146-A (JP)
Title: Ball delivery trough
Inventor: IZUMIYAMA TOMOHIRO
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2007-03-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ball delivery trough capable of successively being used without the occurrence of dislocation or the occurrence of wrinkles on a surface thereof.  <P>SOLUTION: The ball delivery trough includes a ball delivery trough body 1 and a plastic cushion sheet 11 laid on an upper surface of a bottom wall 2 thereof. A plurality of engagement holes 4 are imparted in the bottom wall 2 of the ball delivery trough body 1 parallel to the longitudinal direction, and a plurality of engaging members 12 are provided to align corresponding to positions of the respective engagement holes 4 parallel to the longitudinal direction on a backside of the cushion sheet 11. Each of the engaging members 12 has a tying part 13 on a root part side and a widening part 14 on a tip side. An interval S between an end surface 13a located in a downstream side of each tying part 13 and an inner periphery surface 4a of the engagement hole 4 opposed to each other is set to widen little by little with the progression to the downstream side of the ball delivery trough body 1 in a state of laying the cushion sheet 11 on the upper surface of the bottom wall 2 and engaging the respective engagement holes 4 with the respective engaging members 12.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008258365-A (JP)
Title: Position detection device, pattern drawing apparatus, and position detecting method
Inventor: FUJIMOTO HIROMI
IPC: G03F7/20
Filed: 2007-04-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain mutual position of a substrate with high accuracy and in a stable manner, relative to a reference point that faces the principal plane of the substrate.  <P>SOLUTION: A belt-shaped irradiation region on the principal plane 91 of a substrate 9, on which a linear pattern is formed is irradiated with light from a direction inclined to the direction of the normal line of the substrate 9. An imaging portion 42 receives reflection light and acquires an image containing the irradiation region on the principal plane 91. At pattern drawing, drawing light beam is emitted from a head portion 31 along with the movement of the substrate 9, and a summed image is acquired, by summing a plurality of images acquired at a plurality of positions on the principal plane 91. Average intensity distribution is acquired, by summing a plurality of pixel values in line the longitudinal direction at each position of the width direction of the irradiation region in the summed image. A light receiving position for the reflection light on an image taking surface 420, in a direction corresponding to the width direction of the irradiation region is specified, based on the average intensity distribution. As a result, the mutual position of the substrate 9, relative to a reference point can be obtained with high accuracy and stably by a trigonometrical survey method.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008256283-A (JP)
Title: Vertical reduction melting furnace
Inventor: KUME SHOICHI
IPC: F23G5/44
Filed: 2007-04-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vertical reduction melting furnace capable of effectively preventing damage of an inner surface furnace material constituting a connection part of a gas recovery pipe recovering high temperature gas at a temperature of 800°C or more by optimizing an upper connection part of the gas recovery pipe disposed on a side part of a furnace lower part side of a furnace body.  <P>SOLUTION: The vertical reduction melting furnace is provided with the furnace body 2 and the gas recovery pipe 3, wherein the gas recovery pipe 3 is extended upward so that an angle of the upper connecting part 10 formed by an upper inner wall surface 8 and an upper inner wall surface 9 of a furnace body side part 2a is a small angle α smaller than 90° when viewed on the cross section including both of a longitudinal center axis of the furnace body 2 and an extension direction center axis of the gas recovery pipe, and chamfering with a prescribed radius of curvature R is applied to the upper connecting part 10, and a thickness of an end of the upper connection part 10 is thick enough to withstand thermal impact in the furnace.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008259066-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus and control method of image forming apparatus
Inventor: GYU RENKO
IPC: G03G21/04
Filed: 2007-04-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an operational load on a user from being increased even when the number of kinds of memory cards or the number of port numbers is increased.  <P>SOLUTION: A class of portable medium or a port number is identified and associated with print setting information and the associated print setting information is stored in a work memory 108 to thereby print document data on the basis of the stored print setting information. Furthermore, when storing scanned document data into the portable medium, a print ticket is also created, such that print setting can be performed separately in accordance with the class of the portable medium and also a job ticket of document data to be printed can be reflected.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008259093-A (JP)
Title: Output buffer circuit, and signal transmission interface circuit and apparatus
Inventor: MURAOKA SATOSHI
IPC: H04L25/03
Filed: 2007-04-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an output buffer circuit which implements the performance test of a receiving circuit in a state where a single LSI unit or short wiring is connected, by achieving the pseudo transmission loss of a practical use state by adjusting an adjustable pre-emphasis amount of the output buffer circuit including a pre-emphasis function.  <P>SOLUTION: An output buffer circuit which transmits a logic signal to a transmission line includes a transmission pre-emphasis output circuit 3 and a transmission pre-emphasis amount determination circuit 4. The transmission pre-emphasis output circuit 3 controls a pre-emphasis amount in accordance with the output signal of the transmission pre-emphasis amount determination circuit 4. The transmission pre-emphasis amount determination circuit 4 adjusts the pre-emphasis amount and the number of pre-emphasis taps in accordance with a pseudo loss control signal and controls the pre-emphasis amount of a transmission signal in such a way that signal amplitude is more reduced in the signal component of a higher frequency than in the signal component of a lower frequency, and signal deterioration is applied to a receiving waveform to spuriously achieve a transmission loss.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008257117-A (JP)
Title: Liquid crystal display
Inventor: MORITA TETSUO
IPC: G09G3/20
Filed: 2007-04-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display, wherein the image quality is improved by preventing the display defect such as transverse crosstalk due to polarity inversion driving.  <P>SOLUTION: Video signals of different positive and negative polarities are applied to mutually adjacent pixel electrodes in a row direction of signal lines X, and on the other hand, the video signals of the same polarity are applied to the pixel electrodes connected to the signal lines X6 etc., at the ends of groups GP1 and the pixel electrodes adjacent to the pixel electrodes connected to the signal lines X7 etc., belonging to the groups GP2 etc. Thereby, when the checker patterns and the like used in an ordinary screen are displayed, the numbers of the positive polarities and negative polarities of the pixels displaying a medium contrast can be made nearly uniform without deviation and therefore, the occurrence of the transverse crosstalk due to the polarity inversion is prevented.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008256191-A (JP)
Title: Washer device and friction damper equipped therewith
Inventor: TANAKA TAKESHI
IPC: F16F15/02
Filed: 2007-04-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a washer device for producing initially set proper friction resistance between the sliding surface of two fastened plates and a sliding plate over a long period while keeping a fastening force between the two fastened plates with a nut and a bolt at an initial value over a long period of time, and to provide a friction damper equipped therewith.  <P>SOLUTION: The friction damper 1 comprises the rigid metal nut 2, the bolt 4 threaded to the nut 2 and having a swollen head 3, a fastened body 5 fastened by threading the bolt 4 to the nut 2, the washer device 6 provided between the nut 2 and the fastened body 5 in an axial direction A, a flat washer 7 provided between the nut 2 and the washer device 6 in the axial direction A, and a flat washer 8 provided between the fastened body 5 and the swollen head portion 3 of the bolt 4 in the axial direction A.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008259596-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: ICHIHARA TAKAAKI
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2007-04-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine capable of reducing a sense of dissatisfaction when playing a game.  <P>SOLUTION: A main body frame 3 is provided with a pair of main body frame side wall parts adjacent to both side face inner walls of an outer frame 2 and a main body frame upper wall part adjacent to the upper surface inner wall of the outer frame 2 as thin wall bodies (peripheral surface walls) 290-293 nearly erected from the front surface of the outer frame 2 to a position 13 cm or more at the back over the back surface. A game plate part having a game panel in a transparent plate shape is housed inside the main body frame 3, and a foul port is formed on the game plate part side. The glass plate of a door frame is formed in a non-circular shape in which the width of a lower end is widened so as to make the foul port visible with respect to a roughly circular game area.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008260432-A (JP)
Title: Traveling vehicle with cabin
Inventor: FUKUNAGA TOMOAKI
IPC: G10K11/16
Filed: 2007-04-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently reduce the noise in a cabin by providing a traveling vehicle with the cabin in which the noise in the cabin is easily transmitted to a sound absorbing material, and a surface of the sound absorbing material is hardly fouled while the appearance thereof is excellent.  <P>SOLUTION: In the traveling vehicle with the cabin with the cabin 8 being supported by a traveling vehicle body 3, an opening part 53 having a plurality of openings 53A formed therein is formed in a part of an interior surface of the cabin 8, and a sound absorbing material 55 is provided on an inner surface 50A side of an interior surface having the opening part 53.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008271095-A (JP)
Title: Television receiving apparatus and method
Inventor: WAKABAYASHI HIDENORI
IPC: H04N21/431
Filed: 2007-04-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the deterioration of definition in the graphics of a data screen by temporarily invalidating over-scan setting when over-scan is being set and data other than a moving picture are displayed.  <P>SOLUTION: When the over-scan is being set, a digital television broadcast receiving apparatus performs magnification displaying by validating the over-scan setting when only the moving picture of a received television program is displayed, and performs displaying by invalidating the over-scan setting when a data broadcast image is displayed. Besides, displaying is performed by invalidating the over-scan setting when the data broadcast image and the reduced moving picture are displayed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008272763-A (JP)
Title: Clad sheet and method for producing the same
Inventor: MOCHIZUKI TOMOTOSHI
IPC: B23K3/06
Filed: 2007-04-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To securely and firmly stick an alloy powder having corrosion resistance or brazability to a sheet-shaped base material.  <P>SOLUTION: In the method for producing a clad sheet, by which a sheet-shaped base material 2 composed of a stainless steel or a nickel base alloy is joined with a clad layer 3 containing at least chromium, silicon and phosphorous, the stage of forming the clad plate 3 includes a press sticking stage where a powdery mixture obtained by mixing alloy powder including any substance selected from chromium, silicon and phosphorous with nickel powder composed of nickel is press-fixed to the base material 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008274566-A (JP)
Title: Toilet stool main body and western style flush toilet stool
Inventor: KONDO YASUHIRO
IPC: E03D11/02
Filed: 2007-04-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a Western style flush toilet stool capable of facilitating its installation work.  <P>SOLUTION: This toilet stool body 1 is provided with an outer peripheral wall 1W constructed on a floor surface F, a toilet bowl 2 formed in the outer peripheral wall 1W, an ascending flow passage 3 formed in the outer peripheral wall 1W and communicating with a flow-in port 3i at a lower end of the toilet bowl 2 to ascend, and a storage space 1W formed behind the toilet bowl 2 in the outer peripheral wall 1W to store a washing water supply device 50 and an air intake device 40. Upper and lower parts of the storage space 1W are opened, and the ascending flow passage 3 is provided in the uppermost part 3a or on the downstream side more than the uppermost part 3a and is provided with a communicating pipe 40 having a communicating port 41 opened downward in substantially vertical direction. The Western style flush toilet stool is provided with a water drain connection pipe 10 connected with a floor water drain pipe 20 rising from the floor surface F into the storage space 1W and connected with the communicating pipe 40 in upper and lower parts in the storage space 1W.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008273327-A (JP)
Title: Variable gear ratio steering device for vehicle
Inventor: MORIKAWA KUNIHIKO
IPC: B62D1/16
Filed: 2007-04-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a variable gear ratio steering device for a vehicle using a gear ratio changing unit including a built-in steering torque assistance motor, capable of enhancing easiness to be mounted to a board by separating the assistance motor from a road wheel turning mechanism.  <P>SOLUTION: A steering input to a shaft 14 from a steering wheel 9 is led to a first ring gear 33, and forwarded to an output shaft 15 via a second ring gear 34 by the rotation of a pinion 35 around its own axis, thus enabling the turn of the road wheels. During the turn of the road wheels, a rotation transmitting ratio (steering gear ratio) between the input 14 and the output shafts 15 can be controlled by operating a gear ratio control motor 37 and rotating a carrier 36 of a differential gear mechanism 32 in the direction opposite to the steering direction. A steering force can be controlled so as to compensate light steering by operating the steering force assist motor 39 in the same direction with respect to the steering direction, thereby assisting the steering force to the output shaft 15 through a reduction gear 40.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008277475-A (JP)
Title: Method of manufacturing semiconductor device
Inventor: ISOBE ATSUO
IPC: H01L27/08
Filed: 2007-04-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device having a novel structure for achieving the low voltage operation and the low power consumption of an integrated circuit, and to provide a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device.  <P>SOLUTION: An island-shaped semiconductor layer is formed, a first insulating layer is formed on the semiconductor layer, the first insulating layer is selectively etched to locally expose the semiconductor layer, the exposed surface of the semiconductor layer is etched to locally thin the semiconductor layer, a second insulating layer is formed on the thinned region and remaining first insulating layer, an electrically conductive layer is formed on the second insulating layer, and a third insulating layer is formed on the electrically conductive layer by an application method. The third insulating layer and the electrically conductive layer are etched at nearly the same etching rate until the second insulating layer formed on the first insulating layer or the first insulating layer is exposed to make the electrically conductive layer remain in the region where the semiconductor layer is thinned, thereby the gate electrode is formed. The first insulating layer and the second insulating layer are etched using the gate electrode as a mask.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT