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Patent JP-2004154486-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: ICHIHARA TAKAAKI
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-11-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine preventing a player from suddenly losing hope of making a "jackpot" after the termination of a game period during which a probability of making a "jackpot" such as a short time game is high.  <P>SOLUTION: In the pachinko machine 12 in which a lottery is executed when a pachinko ball enters a start hole 24, the short time game is played until the frequency of the variable display of special patterns is 100 times after the termination of a jackpot game. In the short time game, the period of time for variable display of special patterns per one entrance of the pachinko ball into the start hole 24 is shortened. However, if the frequency of the variable display till the termination of the short time game is not more than five times, the period of time for the variable display of special patterns per one entrance of the pachinko ball into the start hole 24 is extended.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004159671-A (JP)
Title: Air conditioner for vehicle seat
Inventor: KAMIYA TOSHIFUMI
IPC: B60H1/00
Filed: 2002-11-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a seat for a vehicle from becoming uncomfortable to sit on due to the connection of the inflow duct part of a blowing unit when the blowing unit is loaded inside the seat.  <P>SOLUTION: A seat air conditioner for the vehicle is provided with a cushion member 25 provided with an air guiding passage 25a for guiding air to the inside, the blowing unit, and the inflow duct part 30 for making blown air flow into the air guiding passage 25a on the air exit side part of the blowing unit. The inflow duct part 30 is inserted to the air guiding passage 25a so as to be apart from the outer peripheral surface 30c of the inflow duct part 30 by a clearance 25c. Between the air guiding passage 25a and the inflow duct part 30, a buffer member 32 for suppressing the transmission of the vibration of the blowing unit to the cushion member 25 is provided.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004164727-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing optical recording medium
Inventor: TAKAHASHI HIDENOBU
IPC: G11B7/26
Filed: 2002-11-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for removing a swell formed on a substrate outer peripheral part when an ultraviolet ray cured resin layer is formed on a substrate by spin-coating when forming the light transmissive layer of an optical recording medium.  <P>SOLUTION: An ultraviolet ray curable resin is dripped from a coating nozzle 9 to the light transmissive layer forming surface of a disk substrate 1, and applied on the full surface of the disk substrate 1 by spin-coating. Air is blown through an air blower nozzle 10 from the backside of the disk substrate 1 to the outer peripheral part thereof, and then ultraviolet rays are emitted to form an ultraviolet ray cured resin. Thus, by setting the pressure at a spot more outside than the outer peripheral end of the disk substrate 1 as negative pressure and removing the swell of the outer peripheral part of the disk substrate 1 formed by the spin-coating, an ultraviolet ray cured resin layer suited to the formation of the light transmissive layer is formed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004159556-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing cyclamen tuber, liquid medium used for the method, cyclamen tuber produced by the method and method for producing cyclamen seedling
Inventor: KUBOKI ATSUSHI
IPC: A01H4/00
Filed: 2002-11-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing cyclamen tubers, by which cyclamen tubers that are directly planted in culture soil and germinated are produced without requiring more labor for cutting off leaf and stem parts and root parts of young plant bodies.  <P>SOLUTION: The cyclamen tubers are produced by inducing calluses from tissue of cyclamen, culturing the calluses in a liquid medium exhibiting 220-750 mOsm osmotic pressure to induce the cyclamen tubers and enlarging the cyclamen tubers. Consequently, the cyclamen tubers enlarged into spherical shapes having 4-8 mm diameters are obtained. The cyclamen tubers are directly planted in culture soil, germinated and grown to simply produce a large amount of cyclamen seedlings without acclimation.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004129634-A (JP)
Title: Method for isolating soil microorganism
Inventor: JEROME GASPARD
IPC: C12Q1/24
Filed: 2002-10-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem such that since the cost for isolating/analyzing soil microorganisms is expensive, the development of simple and inexpensive method for isolating/analyzing them is expected.  <P>SOLUTION: This method for isolating the soil microorganisms is provided by sieving the soil microorganisms in soil suspension containing the soil microorganisms by using a sieve having ≤50 μm pore diameter under an irradiation of a supersonic wave, and also the method for separating the soil microorganisms efficiently by forming a boundary of 2 layers without having a disorder in the centrifugal separation of the soil suspension containing the microorganisms into 2 layers by using a buffering tool are provided.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004162227-A (JP)
Title: Method for controlling electric selvage forming apparatus and electric selvage forming apparatus
Inventor: HASEGAWA HIROAKI
IPC: D03D47/44
Filed: 2002-11-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the loosening of a selvage in the case of a selvage formation by an electric selvage-forming apparatus.  <P>SOLUTION: The electric selvage-forming apparatus 10 forms a selvage by rotating a rotary member 8 having a pair of guiding parts 14, 15 to pass at least two selvage yarns 12, 13. The rotary member 8 is rotated one turn in at least one direction from the rotation phase of the weft-insertion after inserting the weft 7 in the opening of the selvage yarns 12, 13 to newly open the selvage yarns 12, 13 and prepare the next weft-insertion step.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004163073-A (JP)
Title: Heat exchanger
Inventor: NAKAMURA MITSUGI
IPC: F16L13/10
Filed: 2002-11-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat exchanger that does not use an O-ring for promoting recycle of metal material as a sealing means in a connecting part between a base pipe 1 and a connecting pipe 2 disposed in the heat exchanger of an automobile air conditioner, allows sealing without employing brazing accompanied with heating work, and can reduce cost due to abolition of the O-ring or omitting of the heating work.  <P>SOLUTION: Engaging sections 12 and 22 between the base pipe 1 and the connecting pipe 2 are tapered and slid to each other, and the slid sections are joined to each other by an adhesive. Thus, the sealing is allowed and cost can be reduced without using the O-ring and without employing the brazing accompanied with heating work.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004028076-A (JP)
Title: Fuel delivery pipe
Inventor: TSUCHIYA HIKARI
IPC: F02M55/00
Filed: 2002-11-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel delivery pipe used for an electronic fuel injection type engine for automobile for reducing shock waves or pressure pulsation generated as opening/closing a fuel injection nozzle, and reducing generation, transmission, propagation and radiation of noise in a high frequency range.  <P>SOLUTION: A flat or arc-shaped flexible absorbing surface is formed on an outer wall surface of a communicating tube, and a restrictive member to connect a socket fitting surface to the absorbing surface inside is fixed in the communicating tube. The restrictive member is a pipe, a rod, a plate or a block member. The restrictive member is preferably located in a vicinity of an end part in the axial direction of the communicating tube. Alternatively, a socket body part is fixed to the socket fitting surface, an inner end part of the socket is fixed to the absorbing surface to form the socket as a restrictive member of the two surfaces, and an opening to receive a fuel from a fuel passage is formed in a side surface of the socket.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004168542-A (JP)
Title: Part feeder
Inventor: IWAMI SUSUMU
IPC: B65G47/14
Filed: 2002-11-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a part feeder capable of restraining variation in attitude in separating and feeding parts.  <P>SOLUTION: This part feeder includes: a pair of pitch adjusting shafts 17, 18 having cutout parts 17b, 18b for supporting parts and dropping the parts on a part transport path; a motor 19 driving the pitch adjusting shafts 17, 18 to rotate; and a drum hopper 9 for feeding parts such as screws S to the pitch adjusting shafts 17, 18. The cutout parts 17b, 18b of the pitch adjusting shafts 17, 18 are formed as cam-like cross sections formed by connecting support surfaces 171, 181 capable of supporting the parts and releasing surfaces 172, 182 incapable of supporting the parts. The support surfaces or the releasing surfaces respectively form different gaps, whereby the parts reaching the cutout parts 17b, 18b are once supported, and then released still in such attitude to be dropped.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004176093-A (JP)
Title: Accelerating agent for phosphate chemical conversion coating and manufacturing method therefor, and metal nitrite solution and manufacturing method therefor
Inventor: KOJIMA TAKASHI
IPC: C23C22/07
Filed: 2002-11-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing an aqueous metal nitrite solution as an accelerating agent for phosphate chemical conversion coating, while controlling the formation of impurities.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing the accelerating agent for the phosphate chemical conversion coating including the aqueous metal nitrite solution comprises the steps of: preparing the metal salt solution (a hydroxide or carbonate solution or the like) containing a metal included in the phosphate chemical conversion coating; introducing nitrous acid gas into the above metal salt solution; and introducing an oxidation inhibitor (for instance, nitrogen gas) for preventing the oxidation of the above nitrous acid gas into the above metal salt solution.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004178887-A (JP)
Title: Cover for illumination, and lighting fixture using the same
Inventor: TANAKA WATARU
IPC: F21Y103/02
Filed: 2002-11-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cover for illumination and a lighting fixture using the cover capable of obtaining stage effects on a pattern formed depending on the difference of an image when lighted and when turned off.  <P>SOLUTION: The cover for illumination comprises a cover base material 1 on one side of which, a luminous layer 2 combined with a luminous agent is formed, and the luminous layer 2 formed into a prescribed pattern 3. The cover base material 1 or the luminous layer 2 is constructed so that a color difference ΔE* between the cover base material 1 and the luminous layer 2 becomes 5 or less.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004177231-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor acceleration sensor element and acceleration sensor
Inventor: GOTO KOJI
IPC: H01L29/84
Filed: 2002-11-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a downsizable semiconductor acceleration sensor element and an acceleration sensor.  <P>SOLUTION: This acceleration sensor element formed by working a semiconductor substrate is equipped with an overlap part 3 having a rectangular surface along a principal surface of the substrate, a plurality of flexure parts 4 with one end each linked to a surface peripheral part of the overlap part 3 and the other end part each extended apart from the surface toward a center area of the surface, a support part 5 disposed in the surface center area of the overlap part 3 apart from the surface and linked to the other end of each of the flexure parts 4 to rockably support the overlap part 3, and piezoelectric resistance provided on the flexure parts 4. Since the support part 5 and the flexure parts 4 do not project from the overlap part 3 in a direction along the principal surface of the substrate, the sensor element 1 can be downsized in comparison with a case where the support part 5 is disposed so as to be aligned with the overlap part 3 in a direction along the principal surface of the substrate.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004184106-A (JP)
Title: Map updated information providing apparatus and updating apparatus for map information
Inventor: HIRAISHI TOSHIO
IPC: G09B29/00
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a map updated information providing apparatus a map information updating apparatus, a map information updating system for providing reliable map information about a map, and a program for realizing them.  <P>SOLUTION: In a navigation apparatus 1, the name of a shop opened newly in an A point, for example, is input by an input operation of a user. Then, the navigation apparatus 1 transmits data of the input name of the shop to a map information server 3. Information of a place where the input operation is carried out by the user, and information of a time of the input operation are transmitted concurrently therein. The map information server 3 compares the transmitted input operation place information with the A point of the new shop, the data as to the name of the new shop is judged as reliable as confirmed in the actual place, when the both places are judged not so distant from each other.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004186376-A (JP)
Title: Apparatus and method for manufacturing silicon wafer
Inventor: OKA TETSUSHI
IPC: H01L21/205
Filed: 2002-12-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method for manufacturing a silicon wafer that can make more uniform the resistivities of silicon thin films formed on silicon wafers manufactured as a batch.  <P>SOLUTION: The silicon wafer is formed by forming a silicon thin film containing boron as a dopant on a vapor-phase basis on a surface of a silicon single-crystal substrate W arranged in a reaction container 2. The manufacturing apparatus 1 for the silicon wafer is equipped with a heating device 7 which heats diborane so that an intermediate body produced halfway in a stage of thermal decomposition from diborane to boron can be introduced in a silicon single-crystal substrate arrangement area R in the reaction container 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004181856-A (JP)
Title: Recording and reproducing apparatus
Inventor: TAKEI HIROFUMI
IPC: B41J21/16
Filed: 2002-12-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently print data with a large amount of information, such as an image.  <P>SOLUTION: This recording and reproducing apparatus, which is a reproducer for applying recording and reproduction to a recording medium, comprises an identification data creating means for creating identification data corresponding to input data, and a data storage means for storing the identification data by associating them with each other. When the recording medium is input into the recording and reproducing apparatus, firstly, only the identification data are recorded, and after that, the corresponding input data are recorded in the case of the insertion of the recording medium where the identification data are recorded. The recording medium is a visiting card, and a recording method is used for doing printing on the vising card.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004185524-A (JP)
Title: Restricted area monitoring device
Inventor: OKAMURA KIYOSHI
IPC: G08B25/10
Filed: 2002-12-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect a vehicle, a person, or the like intruding into a restricted area with actual intention of illegal dumping only when they exist.  <P>SOLUTION: The restricted area monitoring device is provided with a display means 100 for displaying at least off-limits or the like and indicating the restricted area A1, a cuttable boundary sealing means 200 for partitioning the restricted area A1 from another area A2, a cutting detecting means 300 for detecting cutting of the boundary sealing means 200, a sending means 400 for receiving a detection result of the cutting detecting means S1 and sending a cut signal S1 when a rope or the like 220 composing the boundary sealing means 200 is cut, and a central monitoring means 500 for receiving the cut signal S1.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004193160-A (JP)
Title: Scanning aligner
Inventor: OSAKABE YUICHI
IPC: G03F9/00
Filed: 2002-12-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a scanning aligner which establishes a speedy and accurate alignment system.  <P>SOLUTION: Three or more position detecting systems 14a, 14b, and 14c are provided to an exposure light TTR microscope mounted on the scanning aligner, and the position detecting systems 14a, 14b, and 14c are each provided with a drive mechanism for making the TTR microscope observe an optional position. The detection ranges of, at least, the first position detecting system 14a and the second position detecting system 14b are extended nearly perpendicular to the scanning direction of an original stage 2, and the detection range of the third position detecting system 14c is extended nearly parallel to the scanning direction of the original stage 2. The third position detecting system 14c observes an optional position located inside and outside a lighting range of exposure light, and the standby position of the third position detecting system 14c when the image of an original pattern is projected onto a substrate 8 for exposure is substantially at the same position as a part of its detecting range or adjacent to it.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004190543-A (JP)
Title: Engine starter
Inventor: NAGAI TORU
IPC: H01H50/54
Filed: 2002-12-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an engine starter having a magnet switch for arranging a resistance so as to reduce heat damage to a switch coil.  <P>SOLUTION: This engine starter has a starter motor, a pinion driven by the starter and meshing with a ring gear of an engine by advancing-retreating, a pair of main contact points and a pair of auxiliary contact points for driving the starter motor at mutually different first and second speeds, the resistance connected to the pair of auxiliary contact points, a switch coil for separating-contacting the pair of main and auxiliary contact points and a starter switch having a driving mechanism for advancing-retreating the pinion. The resistance is adjacently arranged in the switch coil via a heat insulating layer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004190587-A (JP)
Title: Engine with a plurality of recessed portions at piston top
Inventor: KOBAYASHI TATSUO
IPC: F02D41/04
Filed: 2002-12-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an internal combustion engine capable of performing lean combustion, and generating less nitrogen oxide in exhaust gas.  <P>SOLUTION: This engine includes a cylinder 142, a piston 144, and a first fuel injection portion 15 which can inject fuel into a combustion chamber 150. The piston 144 includes a plurality of recessed portions 144p provided at its top 144h and a groove portion 144q provided so as to face a position of the first fuel injection portion 15 from the recessed portions 144p. The first fuel injection portion 15 injects at least part of the fuel burnt in one cycle toward the recessed portions 144p or the groove portion 144q. Part of the fuel is injected toward the recessed portions 144p, and then scattered to form a mixture. The other part of the fuel stays in the recessed portions 144p, and is vaporized later than part of the fuel forming the mixture to form a mixture with higher concentration than the one already formed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004196306-A (JP)
Title: Rice ball packaging apparatus
Inventor: AOKI MINORU
IPC: A23L7/10
Filed: 2002-12-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for automatically opening openings 15", 15" of a rice ball packaging bag 15 made by sticking a heat adhesive film on the inside face of a Japanese paper bag.  <P>SOLUTION: An intermittent rotary conveyor 2 having a pivot 3 is pivotally supported on the upper surface of a board 1, and rice ball housing through-holes 4 are drilled at every identical distance along the outer circumference of the conveyor 2. A rice ball lowering cutout 5 is formed on the board 1, and a rice ball lifting bearing block 6 is arranged underneath the cutout 5. A rice ball upper/lower surfaces guide 9 is arranged to move outward and retreat relative to the conveyor 2 from a given position on the upper surface of the bearing block 6 along the upper surface, and a reciprocative sliding implement 10 is arranged to push a rice ball 7 in the guide 9 out of it. Suction ports 11, 11' for opening the packaging bag are arranged to be opposite to each other on the upper front and lower front of the given position of the guide 9, which is moved forward into the packaging bag 15 to transfer the rice ball out of the apparatus.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004198594-A (JP)
Title: Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus
Inventor: KIKUCHI NORIHIRO
IPC: G03G5/147
Filed: 2002-12-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrophotographic photoreceptor having superior electrical properties as well as superior mechanical durability, a process cartridge with such an electrophotographic photoreceptor, and an electrophotographic apparatus.  <P>SOLUTION: In the electrophotographic photoreceptor having a photosensitive layer on a support and also having a surface layer comprising a resin obtained by curing a compound having a chain-polymerizable functional group by irradiation with an electron beam, a heat capacity per unit area of the support is ≥0.35 J/(cm<SP>2</SP>K) and an electron beam absorbed dose rate in the surface of the object to be irradiated in the irradiation is 1×10<SP>3</SP>-2×10<SP>7</SP>Gy/sec. A process cartridge with such an electrophotographic photoreceptor and an electrophotographic apparatus can be obtained.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004196705-A (JP)
Title: Cataplasm
Inventor: UEDA YUKINORI
IPC: A61K47/30
Filed: 2002-12-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a cataplasm which has excellent water holding property and shape retention, always keeps a paste in proper water content, consistency, touch, viscoelasticity and adhesiveness for a long period of time without being affected by temperature and humidity, neither increases nor reduces a water content during application by body temperature, perspiration, etc., in a short period, consequently does not cause so-called sagging and greasiness phenomena by drying and reversely by moisture absorption and softening and has reduced irritation to the skin.  <P>SOLUTION: The cataplasm comprises a composition consisting of (1) a water-soluble polymer substance and (2) aluminum hydroxide/aminoacetic acid/Co-Dried Gel or aluminum hydroxide/magnesium hydroxide/aminoacetic acid/Co-Dried Gel.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004201133-A (JP)
Title: Scanner driver
Inventor: YAMAZAWA YUICHIRO
IPC: H04N1/00
Filed: 2002-12-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a scanner driver capable of promptly setting a variety of settings onto an image scanner connected over a network.  <P>SOLUTION: The scanner driver for controlling the image scanner connected via the network is separated into a scanner selector and a scanner controller. In a graphical user interface of the scanner selector, capability information for each image scanner on the network is inquired in a batch, preserved, and displayed in a list, and an image scanner for use is selected. In the scanner controller, graphical user interface is structured and displayed, by reading out the capability information selected by the scanner selector. With this graphical user interface, a variety of settings for the selected image scanner are set, and a reading instruction and reception of an image data are performed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI