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Patent JP-2004261971-A (JP)
Title: Consumables container capable of measuring remaining amount of consumables
Inventor: NISHIHARA YUICHI
IPC: B41J2/175
Filed: 2003-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for reducing a burden for adjustment in the adjustment of a consumables container capable of measuring a remaining amount of consumables by using a piezoelectric element.  <P>SOLUTION: A method for manufacturing the consumables container capable of measuring the remaining amount of the stored consumables comprises the steps of (a) generating piezoelectric element characteristic information indicative of characteristics of the piezoelectric element by measuring the characteristics of the piezoelectric element, (b) preparing a consumables tank for storing the consumable article, (c) mounting the piezoelectric element, a detection signal generating circuit for charging and discharging the piezoelectric element, and also for generating a detection signal including information indicative of a period of residual vibration after the discharge of the piezoelectric element, and a nonvolatile memory at the consumables tank, (c) setting discharge characteristics of the piezoelectric element according to the piezoelectric element characteristic information, and (d) recording set information indicative of the set discharge characteristics into the nonvolatile memory. The period can be used to determine whether or not the remaining amount of the consumables is larger than a predetermined amount.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004237234-A (JP)
Title: Coating tool and coating device
Inventor: YASUTAKE MUTSUMI
IPC: B05C5/02
Filed: 2003-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coating tool capable of uniformly coating a coating liquid having a high viscosity, and a coating device.  <P>SOLUTION: In the coating tool provided with a plurality of head members, discharging the coating liquid from an opening part 8 of a slot formed of the side faces 7 of the head members facing each other, and used for coating work, a gap of the opening part 8 is characterized by being formed so as to gradually narrow from both end parts in a longitudinal direction to a center part. Further, the relation between a space W1 at both the end parts and a space W2 at the center part is defined in the range of 0<(W1-W2)/2<0.1 mm, and the opening part 8 is formed of a pair of edge members provided on the tip end of the head member.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003200592-A (JP)
Title: Ink cartridge
Inventor: FUJII HIROYUKI
IPC: B41J2/175
Filed: 2003-02-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ink cartridge in which a user never miss an action for opening the upstream end of a ventilation groove to the atmosphere before use.  <P>SOLUTION: The ink cartridge comprises an ink injection opening 13 formed in one surface of a cartridge case 2 in correspondence with an ink supply opening 10, a protrusion 8 formed by projecting a part of one surface of the cartridge case 2 outward, a ventilation groove 14 made in one surface of the cartridge case 2 and having a downstream end 14a communicating with the ink injection opening 13 and an upstream end 14b extending to the protrusion 8, and a cover member 15 provided airtightly to one surface of the cartridge case 2 to cover the ink injection opening 13 and the ventilation groove 14 wherein at least the protrusion 8 out of the protrusion 8 and a part 15b of the cover member 15 covering the protrusion 8 is separable at a specified position where the ventilation groove 14 is made.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003296698-A (JP)
Title: System and method for solving nogood database
Inventor: MAXWELL JOHN TURNER III
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2003-02-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve capability of solving a nogood database.  <P>SOLUTION: The system 100 and the method for solving the nogood database involve generating a representation comprising a plurality of contexted disjunctions, conjoining all of the contexted disjunctions to form a conjunction 112 of the contexted disjunctions, and storing the representation as the conjunction 112 of the contexted disjunctions. Nogoods 114 are eliminated by refining the representation until a result of the conjunction 112 of the contexted disjunctions is backtrack-free or the result of the conjunction 112 of the contexted disjunctions reduces to false. In various embodiments, the refining is carried out without reordering the disjunctions and/or without merging the disjunctions.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004243934-A (JP)
Title: Shift change device of outboard motor
Inventor: MIZUGUCHI HIROSHI
IPC: F16H61/28
Filed: 2003-02-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shift change device of an outboard motor for simplifying the connection mechanism between a shift rod and an actuator by arranging the actuator for driving the shift rod inside the outboard motor, for preventing the actuator or a shift change mechanism from being damaged by relaxing excessive stress operating between the shift clutch and the actuator, and for reducing vibration in the outboard motor.  <P>SOLUTION: The shift rod 80 is rotated by an electric motor 50 for shifting arranged inside the outboard motor, a shifter clutch 78 is driven for shift change, the shift rod 80 is partially reduced in diameter for forming a torsion section 80a (stress attenuation mechanism), and at least specific (excessive) stress operating between the electric motor 50 for shifting and the shift clutch 78 is attenuated (relaxed) by torsion in the torsion section 80a.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004244200-A (JP)
Title: Method and device for removing defective portion of roll paper
Inventor: KONISHI KOJI
IPC: B65H26/02
Filed: 2003-02-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and device for removing a defective portion of roll base paper including the defective portion.  <P>SOLUTION: The defective portion removing device 1 is structured so that the recycled roll paper 83 is manufactured by removing the defective portion from the roll base paper 81 including the defective portion, and is located between an unwinder 84 to pay off the paper base 81 and a winder 88 to take up a web 85 paid off from the roll base paper 81 as recycled roll base paper 83. The device 1 is equipped with a two-side adhesive tape affixing a device 2 to affix two-side adhesive tapes 92 in front of and in the rear of the cutting line of the web 85, a paper cutting device 30 to cut the web 85 in the transverse direction, a sheet feed changeover guide device 50 to change over the feeding direction of the web 85 after being cut, a defective portion winding device 110, and a paper-end moving device 131 to replenish cut ends of the web 85 removed with the defective portion.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004243983-A (JP)
Title: Vehicle brake control device
Inventor: SOGA MASAYUKI
IPC: B60T17/22
Filed: 2003-02-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle brake control device ready for an electronic-controlled brake capable of determining abnormality of a stroke simulator part.  <P>SOLUTION: In an electronic-controlled brake system capable of controlling the braking force by adjusting the hydraulic pressure to be applied to wheel cylinders 48FL-RR by a pressure source 4 and a hydraulic control unit 6, the hydraulic pressure applied to the wheel cylinder 48FL is boosted by the pressure source 4 when a brake is not in operation while a vehicle is stopped. Then, a master cut valve 20 is opened to release the hydraulic pressure to a master cylinder 14. By examining the change in the master pressure by a master pressure sensor 24, abnormality of a stroke simulator 18 and a simulator cut valve 16 is determined.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003228007-A (JP)
Title: Stereomicroscope
Inventor: ISHIKAWA TOMONORI
IPC: A61B19/00
Filed: 2003-02-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stereomicroscope which can arrange a position of an eyepoint in a lowest possible position where workability is good no matter whether additional devices, such as a viewing device for an assistant, recorder, etc., exist or not.  <P>SOLUTION: The stereomicroscope which has a body section provided with an objective lens 4, a variable power optical system 5 disposed behind the objective lens 4 and a viewing optical system having an imaging lens 6 and eyepiece 8 and can make variable power is furnished with first optical axis deflecting means 17 for bending an optical axis 16 of incident light entering the inside of the body section from an area to be examined at an angle of 90° and second optical axis deflecting means 19, 21, and 23 for aligning the optical axis bent by the first deflecting means 17 again to the same axis as the optical axis 16 of the incident light while bending the optical axis a plurality of times at the angle of 90°, in which the variable power optical system 5 is arranged on the optical axis 18 bent from the optical axis 16 of the incident light by the first or the second deflecting means 17, 19, 21, and 23.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004248762-A (JP)
Title: Hanging scroll
Inventor: ODAKA TETSUO
IPC: A47G1/16
Filed: 2003-02-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hanging scroll wherein a sheet-like work can simply and smoothly be replaced without being damaged, the integrated feeling of the sheet-like work and a hanging scroll is kept similarly to a conventional hanging scroll, and the work is appreciated as an elegant artistic work created by the original work of the hanging scroll and the hanging scroll compositely.  <P>SOLUTION: As for the hanging scroll, a frame-like holding part is formed at the center of the hanging scroll main body so as to stably fix the surrounding of the sheet-like work such as a handwritten work with an edge frame surrounding it. One corner of the edge frame is made to be openable and closable for replacing the sheet-like work by easily putting it in and out through an opening at the center of a front surface without being damaged.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004248587-A (JP)
Title: Combine harvester
Inventor: NAKAHATA AKIHIRO
IPC: A01D61/00
Filed: 2003-02-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a combine harvester including a conveying unit comprising a feeder housing revolvable at an inflection point and a conveyor equipped therein, intended to convey reaped grain culms more smoothly.  <P>SOLUTION: The general-purpose combine harvester comprises the conveying unit 9. In this conveying unit 9, the endless conveyor equipped therein is composed of a front conveyor 41 and a rear conveyor 42, which are disposed in the longitudinal direction, and their speeds of conveyance are designed to be higher in the order of the front conveyor 41, the rear conveyor 42 and a 1st rotor( or a threshing cylinder 37 ) as the threshing rotator equipped in a threshing apparatus 18.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004249430-A (JP)
Title: Vibration isolation handle
Inventor: OTSU SHINKI
IPC: B25F5/02
Filed: 2003-02-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a handle for a power tool, which includes a grip portion, a fixing portion for fixing the handle, and elastic members connecting the grip portion and the fixing portion, wherein the elastic members are prevented from degrading at the time of mounting the handle on the power tool by twisting the handle, or at the time of pressing the handle to operate the tool, due to excessive stress imposed on a peripheral portion of each of the elastic members.  <P>SOLUTION: According to the structure of the handle, a gap is defined by a spherical central member 20 and a spherical enclosure member 14, and the gap is filled with the elastic members 40, 41. Therefore when the handle is pressed to operate the tool, the elastic members 40, 41 undergo shear deformation, and thus exhibit soft characteristics. Further, recesses 23 and protrusions 16 engageable with each other are formed on the spherical central member 20 and in the spherical enclosure member 14, respectively, across a gap which is then filled with the elastic members 40, 41. When the handle is mounted on the power tool by twisting the same and undergo deformation, the elastic members are compressed and pulled, to thereby exhibit rigid characteristics. Further, by arrangement of the central member 20 and the enclosure member 14, the members are prevented from being excessively deformed, and the handle is prevented from coming off.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004251827-A (JP)
Title: Ultrasonic level meter
Inventor: TSUCHIDA SADAO
IPC: G01F23/28
Filed: 2003-02-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an ultrasonic level meter permitting more precise level measurement, by precisely correcting the propagation velocity of an ultrasonic wave sensitive to the surrounding temperature, even in the condition in which the surrounding temperature from an ultrasonic wave transmitter/receiver to the surface to be measured is not uniform.  <P>SOLUTION: The ultrasonic level meter includes a detector 1 for emitting an ultrasonic pulse to the surface to be measured and for receiving the ultrasonic pulse reflected by the surface to be measured, a plurality of thermometers 10 for obtaining a plurality of temperature data; a temperature distribution analysis part 7 for analyzing the distribution of the surrounding temperature on the basis of the plurality of temperature data; a temperature correction part 8 for measuring the time from the emission to the receiving of the ultrasonic pulse by the detector 1 and for outputting the propagation velocity data in which the temperature is corrected, on the basis of the time and the distribution of the surrounding temperature; and a signal convertor 9 for measuring the level of the surface to be measured and for outputting it as a level measurement signal, on the basis of the propagation velocity data in which the temperature is corrected.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004259314-A (JP)
Title: Recording and reproducing device
Inventor: SAKAI RYUICHI
IPC: G11B27/00
Filed: 2003-02-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a recording and reproducing device capable of simply retrieving each of two or more programs continuously recorded in video programs by automatically dividing the program into the contents and recording information being recorded in video for creating a recording history, when each program comes to an end, in the case of continuously two or more programs recorded in video.  <P>SOLUTION: A program information requesting part 107 requests presently recorded program information from a program information supply server 111 present on the Internet; a termination detecting part 110 detects that the termination time information obtained from the program information supply server 111 coincides with the present time from a clock part 101; based on the result, a control part 104 is a division instruction to a recording and reproducing part 105 and an information storage part 106 recording information in video; and history management of the video-recording program is performed; and thus, it becomes possible to retrieve each of the programs continuously recorded in video.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004258304-A (JP)
Title: Image reader
Inventor: UMEMURA MASAHIRO
IPC: H04N1/04
Filed: 2003-02-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image reader low in cost, small in size and capable of obtaining an excellent image free from image irregularity.  <P>SOLUTION: The image reader for reading image information from a stimulable phosphor sheet by photoelectrically converting stimulated luminescence generated by stimulating light radiated from a light source to a plate member 11 holding the stimulable phosphor sheet is equipped with a linear motor 15 for moving the plate member, a guide member 14 extended in the longitudinal direction of the linear motor so as to guide the movement of the plate member and a supporting member 12 extended in the longitudinal direction so as to support the linear motor and the guide member. The linear motor and the guide member are arranged nearly at right angle to the supporting member.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004254929-A (JP)
Title: Dish washer
Inventor: KUBOTA TORU
IPC: A47L15/42
Filed: 2003-02-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the reliability of bacteria elimination in a wash water circulating route.  <P>SOLUTION: A body 1 is provided with a washing tub 6 and a washing device 7 in its inside. When a washing pump 24 of the washing device 7 is operated, the wash water of the water storage tank 6b is sucked and jetted out from a jet arm 19. The jetted wash water is returned to the water storage tank 6b and circulated. The water storage tank 6b, where water is stored in the washing tub 6, is provided with antibacterial property. That is to say, the water storage tank 6b is constituted of thermoplastic resin such as heat resistant polypropylene and the thermoplastic resin is kneaded with antibacterial agent.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004266462-A (JP)
Title: Address solution method of optical network system
Inventor: UMEDA ICHIRO
IPC: H04L12/70
Filed: 2003-02-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the degree of freedom of a network structure in a user network by making path setting in an optical network automatically and efficiently performable with less burden of a manager.  <P>SOLUTION: In an optical network system constituted so that the optical network to be constituted of a plurality of nodes 41, 42 stores a plurality of user networks, the respective user networks have a plurality of nodes 31, 32, parts of the nodes 31, 32 in the user networks are connected with the optical network by one or more UNIs 21, 22, the respective UNIs 21, 22 have different addresses on the optical network side and the user network side and an interval between the nodes 31, 32 of the user networks is connected by setting the path connecting between the UNIs 21 and 22 in the optical network, it is characterised in that address solution processing for calculating an address of the destination UNI 22 of the path on the optical network side based on the address of the destination UNI 22 on the user network side is performed with the nodes in the user networks or the nodes in the optical network.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004261844-A (JP)
Title: Foot switch device
Inventor: YOSHIDA HIDEHIKO
IPC: H01H13/16
Filed: 2003-03-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a foot switch device which has simple constitution, relives burden on an worker, is movable in an arbitrary direction and easily attachable to an existing foot switch device later.  <P>SOLUTION: Roller members 14 which are freely movable in an arbitrary direction are attached on both sides of a foot switch box in which foot switches 22, 23 are housed and an elastic member 17 is interposed between the roller member 14 and the foot switch box 12. When the foot switches 22, 23 are not operated, the switch box 12 is raised from the ground and when the foot switches 22, 23 are operated, the bottom surface of the switch box 12 is brought into contact with the ground by the weight of the worker S.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004262112-A (JP)
Title: Recorder
Inventor: TOKI NOBUHIRO
IPC: H04N5/225
Filed: 2003-03-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a recorder to which a digital camera can be secured easily with high versatility by utilizing a screw hole for fixing a tripod normally provided in the bottom face of the digital camera.  <P>SOLUTION: The recorder has a coupling member being coupled with a coupling screw hole provided in a digital camera 2 and the digital camera can be secured to the recorder.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004268719-A (JP)
Title: Multiplex-communication system and occupant protection device using it
Inventor: MIZOKOSHI KAZUYOSHI
IPC: B60R22/46
Filed: 2003-03-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multiplex-communication system capable of connecting many slave stations with a network and transmitting data between a master station and slave stations at high speed, and an occupant protection device using it.  <P>SOLUTION: The occupant protection device connects a plurality of slave stations connected to a collision sensor 3 mounted in a vehicle and a master station controlling the collision sensor 3, supplies power from the master station to the slave stations, transmits the data between the master station and respective slave stations, and protects the occupant by operating an occupant protection means mounted in the vehicle when the collision of the vehicle is detected with the collision sensor 3. The master station sets the address of the respective slave stations at initial time, and the slave stations sequentially transmit the data regarding the collision sensor 3 from the plurality of the respective slave stations to the master station when the voltage value of the signal outputted from the master station lowers from 24 volt to 5 volt.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004272812-A (JP)
Title: Data editing device, program for executing data editing method on computer
Inventor: IGA SOICHIRO
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 2003-03-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To notify an operator that there is a tag screen associated with a manipulated file when the file associated with the tag screen is manipulated.  <P>SOLUTION: The data editing device is constituted with a generation part 105 for generating the tag screen displayed on a screen for a computer, a file associating part 109 for associating at least either information generated by the computer or the information stored with the tag screen, a file update detecting part 111 for detecting that the information associated with the tag screen is updated, and an update notifying part 107 in which a display state for the tag screen associated with the information, which update is detected, is controlled and the associated information updated is notified.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004279521-A (JP)
Title: Toner and method for manufacturing the same
Inventor: KADOTA TAKUYA
IPC: G03G9/08
Filed: 2003-03-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner having improved fixing strength onto paper or a recording medium of OHP or the like and cracking and peeling resistances, excellent in chargeability, anti-hot-offset properties and transparency, and excellent also in grindability in manufacture, and to provide a method for manufacturing the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The toner includes a polyurethane resin as a binder resin, wherein the polyurethane resin is a mixed resin consisting of a polyurethane resin (A) having a flow softening point of 80-110°C obtained using a poly-active-hydrogen compound containing an ester group and a polyurethane resin (B) having a flow softening point of 115-160°C obtained using a poly-active-hydrogen compound mixture of a bisphenol A ether compound and a poly-active-hydrogen compound in a (A) to (B) weight ratio of 50:50 to 90:10, and the toner has a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 1,200-18,000, a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 55-70°C and a flow softening point (Tm) of 100-120°C.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI