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Patent JP-2004169222-A (JP)
Title: Processed product of phenol resin-based fiber
Inventor: WATANABE HIDEKI
IPC: D04H3/04
Filed: 2002-11-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a processed product of a fiber, making not only powder-keeping function, properties for facilitating handling when mixing materials, and properties for preventing uneven distribution of materials in a molded product, but also various kinds of characteristics such as heat resistance and strength good in an application for mixing the phenol resin-based fiber with other materials having shapes such as a powder, and molding the mixture.  <P>SOLUTION: The processed product of the phenol resin-based fiber, having the powder-keeping function, the properties for facilitating the handling when mixing the materials, and the properties for preventing the uneven distribution of the materials in the molded product is obtained by using highly crimped phenol resin-based fiber bundles as a main skeleton, partially bonding the fiber bundles to each other with a phenolic resin, and forming the main skeleton into an aggregate by irregularly bonding many phenol resin-based fibers to the main skeleton with the phenolic resin.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004172437-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for chemical treatment, and manufacturing method of semiconductor device using the same
Inventor: NAKAMOTO TAKEO
IPC: H01L31/072
Filed: 2002-11-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of a defective treatment caused by an air trap.  <P>SOLUTION: A chemical liquid 20 is made to flow at all times along a surface 31 to be treated in an almost constant direction. A speed gradient of the chemical liquid 20 on the surface 31 is set to be ≥300/second. Thus, the air trap in a blind hole is settled for a wanted chemical liquid treatment. A member 30 to be treated is placed in a chemical liquid treatment cup 10, and the chemical liquid 20 is made to flow along the surface 31 by a pump device.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004172000-A (JP)
Title: Connection terminal
Inventor: MACHIDA YUKIFUMI
IPC: H01R13/115
Filed: 2002-11-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize the insertion of a mating insertion connection terminal; to eliminate a risk of buckling of a moving contact piece; and to keep desired contact pressure.  <P>SOLUTION: A connection part 11 is formed into a nearly box-like shape by bending a bottom plate 14, side plates 15 formed continuously on both its left and right sides, and a top plate 17 formed continuously on one of the side plates 15. The base part of the linear piece-shaped moving contact piece 18 is attached to the front side part of the side plate 15. The contact piece 18 has: an upper piece 18a along the inside of the top plate 17; a lower piece 18b bent in the deep part and folded back to the front side; and a contact part 18c swelling downward in the vicinity of the center part in the connection part 11 to be formed into an inverted mountain-like shape, and formed at the top part of the lower piece 18b; and is shaped into the form of a plate spring having elasticity. A mounting hole 18d is formed in the base part of the upper piece 18a, and a free end 18e at the tip of the lower piece 18b can be inserted into the mounting hole 18d.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004169171-A (JP)
Title: Blocking structure of blast furnace tuyere
Inventor: HIRANO JUNKICHI
IPC: C21B7/16
Filed: 2002-11-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the risk of the lowering in furnace heat by easily, surely, and gradually enlarging the opening hole diameter even without stopping blasting or decreasing blasting.  <P>SOLUTION: In the blocking structure of a tuyere in a blast furnace provided with a sleeve 30 fitted into the tuyere in the blast furnace and a blocking member 40 for blocking up the opening hole of this sleeve 30, this sleeve 30 is constituted of a plurality of divided pieces 31 in the peripheral direction by dividing this sleeve 30 into several pieces in the peripheral direction and also, and the plurality of divided pieces 31 in the peripheral direction and the member 40 are integrally joined with an adhesion means of an adhesive tape etc.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004178385-A (JP)
Title: Car sharing supporting system, method for supporting car sharing, and computer program
Inventor: NISHIKAWA KIYOSHI
IPC: G06Q30/06
Filed: 2002-11-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for supporting reservations of a car and leaving the car on the spot in order to improve and popularize the convenience of car sharing.  <P>SOLUTION: The system is provided with: a vacant car data receiving means for receiving vacant car data about the number of shared cars from a plurality of parking lots; a vacant car database for storing the vacant car data correlated with the addresses of the parking lots; a member database for storing attribute information including the addresses of sharing members; a member's vacant car data calculation means for calculating member's vacant car data correlated to the address of each sharing member by using the vacant car database and the member database; a member's vacant car data transmitting means for transmitting the member's vacant car data to each sharing member; and a shared car reservation data receiving means for receiving shared car reservation data from each sharing member.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004177780-A (JP)
Title: Heat fixing roller and its manufacturing method
Inventor: MURATA MAKOTO
IPC: G03G15/20
Filed: 2002-11-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat fixing roller which prevents trouble such as image staining, image unevenness, luster unevenness and image fixation defects, has improved durability and is processed at suppressed cost by reducing a deterioration in heat-resisting synthetic rubber constituting the elastic layer of the roller due to heat in fluorocarbon resin burning, and its manufacturing method.  <P>SOLUTION: The heat fixing roller 10 which has the elastic layer 2 formed of heat-resisting synthetic rubber and a releasing layer 5 formed of fluorocarbon resin in order on a base 1 is provided with, between the elastic layer 2 and the releasing layer, an infrared-ray reflecting layer 3 containing a material having a reflection characteristic in the wavelength range of near infrared rays of 0.75 to 2.0 μm. The infrared-ray reflecting layer 3 also serves as a primer layer. The material having the reflection characteristic in the wavelength range of near infrared rays of 0.75 to 2.0μm is preferably potassium titanate fiber.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003211059-A (JP)
Title: Flow controller for hot melt adhesive
Inventor: MCGUFFEY GRANT
IPC: B05C5/04
Filed: 2002-11-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hot melt adhesive feeder which is decreased in the number of adhesive manifold plates, the number of associated seals and the number of leakage routes or leakage points that can occur.  <P>SOLUTION: A flow controller 10 for hot melt adhesives is furnished with an input manifold 22 for accepting the adhesives supplied from an adhesive source 30, a plurality of flow control valves 20 for controlling the discharge of the adhesives, multiport pumps 12 and 13 for discharging the adhesives toward a plurality of the valves 20 from the input manifold, an output manifold 28 for heating the adhesives discharged from the pumps 12 and 13 and supplying the hot melt adhesives to a plurality of the flow control valves and a distribution plate 24 disposed between the input manifold 22 and the output manifold 28.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004173643-A (JP)
Title: Method for breeding poultry and poultry house
Inventor: KAKEGAWA HIROYA
IPC: A01K67/00
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase breeding effect on poultry in no need of artificial energy, e.g., electric power.  <P>SOLUTION: In this method for breeding poultry, a structure 100 that has a carbon material 300 exposed at least on a part of the structure surface is arranged on a cage 410 for receiving poultry so that the exposed face of the carbon material comes to the underside. The structure 100 used here emits sound waves from the carbon material 300 by undergoing irradiation of natural light or temperature change. The sound waves act on the poultry 420 in the cage 410 to reduce the feed consumption of the poultry and increase their egg-laying rate.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004146324-A (JP)
Title: Discharge lamp lighting device
Inventor: ADACHI YUKIFUMI
IPC: H05B41/24
Filed: 2002-10-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inverter device of half-bridge type having a high power factor, that is simple and of low cost.  <P>SOLUTION: The device comprises a forward series and a pair of first switching elements 31 and second switching elements 32, and a control circuit 20 that alternately makes on and off so as to form a long On period on the first switching element 31 and a short On period on the second switching element 32. A first capacitor 71 which supplies a forward direction current to an AC load circuit 50 through the first switching element 31 and a second capacitor 72 that supplies a reverse direction current to the AC load circuit 50 through the second switching element 32 are provided. An auxiliary diode 90 which is arranged at a position which becomes forward series with the first switching element 31 and becomes reverse series with a first flywheel diode 41 is provided, and the discharge of an auxiliary capacitor 80 is made between the auxiliary diode 90 and the auxiliary capacitor 80 through a rectified power source 10. A diode 95 for electrical discharge selecting for choosing that the discharge is not made via the first capacitor 71 is provided.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004185956-A (JP)
Title: Nickel-hydrogen storage battery
Inventor: KAITA OSAMU
IPC: H01M4/52
Filed: 2002-12-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nickel-hydrogen storage battery capable of preventing a minute short circuit between a positive electrode and a negative electrode without causing self-discharge.  <P>SOLUTION: This nickel-hydrogen storage battery is equipped with the positive electrode containing nickel hydroxide as a main constituent; the negative electrode containing a hydrogen storage alloy as a main constituent; a separator for separating both the electrodes from each other; and an alkaline electrolyte; and provided with a cation exchanger between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004182409-A (JP)
Title: Elevator device
Inventor: KOSHIISHI HIROICHI
IPC: B66B7/00
Filed: 2002-12-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elevator device with which machine tables and/or winches can be installed while a good space efficiency is assured for the building.  <P>SOLUTION: The elevator device is structured so that a common machine table and two machine tables installed pinching the common machine table are installed in the machine chamber of the elevator where two winches are mounted, wherein one of the winches is supported by the common table and one of the machine tables, while the other winch is supported by the common table and the other machine table.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004182138-A (JP)
Title: Electric power steering device
Inventor: MINAKI KIICHI
IPC: B62D5/22
Filed: 2002-12-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric power steering device for absorbing a shock generated at a rack moving end of a rack and pinion type movement conversion mechanism provided with a variable gear ratio mechanism without damaging each mechanism of a power transmission system.  <P>SOLUTION: When a rack shaft 21 provided with a tooth part meshing with the tooth part of a pinion shaft 22 is moved in an "a" direction of an arrow due to the rotation of the pinion shaft 22 by steering, tie rods 24, 25 coupled with both ends of the rack shaft 21 are also moved in the "a" direction of the arrow and a direction of a wheel is changed. Even when the wheel runs on a curbstone or is rotated from an outside during the maintenance of the vehicle or the like, the rack shaft 21 moves with high speed in the "a" direction of the arrow, and a shock absorbing member 35 collides against an abutting member 33, an electric motor or each mechanism of the power transmission system are not damaged as the shock absorbing member constituting a shock absorbing mechanism 38 is elastically deformed to absorb the shock. The shock can be further absorbed by using a brushless motor with less inertial force.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004187798-A (JP)
Title: High-rigidity forceps tip structure for active forceps and active forceps having it
Inventor: NAKAMURA YOSHIHIKO
IPC: A61B19/00
Filed: 2002-12-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a forceps tip structure, supporting a forceps prong with high rigidity to perform laparoscopic surgical operation requiring large force such as a surgery for harvesting organs which has been difficult for a medical robot heretofore.  <P>SOLUTION: This forceps tip structure includes: a forceps prong support member 3 having a support part 3a for supporting the forceps prong and three leg parts 3b to 3d located at equal spaces in the circumferential direction round the central axis C1 and fixed to the support part to be projected backward from the support part; and three forward and backward moving members 4, 5, 6 disposed at equal spaces in the circumferential direction round the central axis C2 extending towards the front and rear ends, and connected to each other to relatively move toward the front and rear ends, where three leg parts 3b to 3d are respectively connected to the front end parts thereof to rock and slide in the direction intersecting perpendicularly to a designated central axis C2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004156411-A (JP)
Title: Systematic metal shape composing metal screen
Inventor: SUDO AKIO
IPC: E06B9/28
Filed: 2002-11-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a metal shape with integrally molded insertion ports, having good design and function, by using a metallic material which is advantageous when used in a building outer surface and outdoors, good in weatherability and strength, free from rusting, light in weight, and good in workability; and to provide a metal screen at a low cost, which is easy to assemble and easy to exchange an assembled portion thereof in the construction field.  <P>SOLUTION: The metal shapes are each formed of the metallic material light in weight and strong. The metal shapes include one having a circular portion 2 on an upper side thereof, and one having an open circular void portion 3 which can be fitted onto the circular portion in a manner covering the same. Further the metal shapes include one having the upper and lower circular portions, and one having open circular void portions which can be fitted onto the upper and lower circular portions in a manner covering the same. Then the metal shapes are variously combined with each other to exhibit spatially various design in a manner preventing direct incidence of sunlight, to thereby construct the metal screen with permeability.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004191698-A (JP)
Title: Light diffusion sheet
Inventor: YAMADA TAKESHI
IPC: C08K7/20
Filed: 2002-12-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light diffusion sheet in an extremely advantages industrial way, which is superior in impact strength and in light diffusion property and balance in physical properties, of which contamination is little when the sheet is fabricated.  <P>SOLUTION: In the light diffusion sheet, a resin composition containing a copolymer having the main components of a stylene monomer unit and a (meth) acrylic ester monomer unit, glass beads, and crosslinked resin beads is made as an intermediate layer of a multilayer sheet, and the copolymer not including the glass beads or the crosslinked resin beads and having the main components of the stylene monomer unit and the (meth) acrylic ester monomer unit is made as the surface layer and the rear surface layer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004187611-A (JP)
Title: Method for modifying and storing rice
Inventor: SAKAIRI TOSHIMITSU
IPC: A23B9/00
Filed: 2002-12-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for storing rice enabling keeping quality of new rice without causing at the time of eating deterioration of flavor, palate feeling and taste with the lapse of time and which is preservable without requiring smoking and steaming treatment.  <P>SOLUTION: This method for storing rice comprises getting 1,200 kg of brown rice after two months post-harvesting, preparing 40 bags with sheets of paper with a polyethylene film inserted in a sandwich form and housing the brown rice through dividing and packing every 30 kg, and holding and storing the 40 bags of the brown rice in a freezer controlled at -20°C for a week. The method further comprises stopping the action of a freezing machine of the freezer followed by leaving the bags as they are in the freezer until the temperature becomes 15°C, and moving the 40 bags of the brown rice to a storehouse controlled at 15°C followed by continuing to store the bags. The brown rice is refined just before shipment.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004194171-A (JP)
Title: Cathode-ray tube device
Inventor: YAMADA TAKESHI
IPC: G09G1/00
Filed: 2002-12-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize raster amplitude at a voltage that is equal to or greater than an anode voltage Va by detecting a region where the anode voltage Va changes rapidly when an anode current Ia becomes small.  <P>SOLUTION: A cathode-ray tube device is provided with: a distortion correction circuit 3 for supplying a distortion correction waveform to a horizontal deflection circuit 2; a flyback transformer 5 for feeding the anode voltage to a cathode-ray tube 1; and a raster amplitude stabilization circuit 4. The raster amplitude stabilization circuit 4 is provided with: a detecting part 10 for detecting the anode current; a control signal output part 11 for converting an electrical signal detected by the detecting part 10 into a direct current and outputting the direct current; and an adjusting part 12 for adjusting the voltage of the electrical signal outputted from the control signal output part 11 to the distortion correction circuit part 3.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004194490-A (JP)
Title: Brushless motor controlling method
Inventor: SHINDO YOICHI
IPC: H02P6/08
Filed: 2002-12-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the reliability of a brushless motor, by providing redundancy to a failure of a rotor position detecting device.  <P>SOLUTION: A first sensor group H1, that comprises a plurality of Hall sensors 10 (H1a, H1b, H1c) and detects a rotor rotational position by detecting the magnetism of a rotor magnet, and a second sensor group H2, that comprises a plurality of Hall sensors (H2a, H2b, H2c) arranged at an interval by a deflection angle X to each of the Hall sensors H1a, H1b, H1c are provided. When the Hall sensor H1a operates normally, an overlapped conducting control is performed with both sensor groups H1, H2. If any one of the Hall sensors fails, a square-wave control is performed using the sensor group that does not include the failed sensor.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003220045-A (JP)
Title: Observation device and method for patient by noninvasive cardiac output observation
Inventor: NIELSEN ERIC
IPC: A61B5/0245
Filed: 2002-12-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To noninvasively observe the cardiac output of a patient.  <P>SOLUTION: This patient observation device (100) is equipped with a noninvasive cardiac output sensor (146) and a patient observation console (110). The noninvasive cardiac output sensor (146) can acquire a signal from the patient which indicates a bloodstream passing through the heart of the patient. The patient observation console (110) includes an analysis module (175) and a display. The analysis module (175) is connected with the noninvasive cardiac output sensor (146), processes the signal from the patient indicating the bloodstream and forms a value regarding the cardiac output. The display is connected with the analysis module (175) and displays the value regarding the cardiac output.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003218454-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor laser structure
Inventor: BOUR DAVID P
IPC: H01S5/32
Filed: 2002-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a graded semiconductor layer for reducing the threshold voltage of a nitride-based laser diode structure.  <P>SOLUTION: The graded semiconductor layer between a GaN layer 120 and an AlGaN layer 118 of the nitride-based semiconductor laser structure 100 reduces the threshold voltage of the laser structure by reducing the electric potential barrier at an interface between the GaN layer 120 and the AlGaN layer 118. The graded semiconductor layer can be a plurality of AlGaN layers with increasing aluminum content to form step graded layers. A continuous graded semiconductor layer will linearly increase the aluminum content in a single layer. A digital graded semiconductor layer will have a super lattice of alternating GaN quantum wells and AlGaN barrier layers, with the GaN quantum wells decreasing in thickness as the AlGaN barriers increase in thickness.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003205089-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: OKADO FUMIHIRO
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable even a player who does not know the arrangement of character patterns to easily estimate stop patterns before stopping pattern change in a game machine which changes the patterns including the character patterns and numerical patterns and displays them.  <P>SOLUTION: A Pachinko machine as the game machine includes a display device 4, a start port switch 17 and a controller 20. The display device 4 displays the plurality of patterns 10 including the character patterns and the numerical patterns and the switch 17 detects prize-winning in the start port by a game ball 6. The controller 20 changes and displays the patterns 10 in the display device 4 and stops them when the switch 17 detects the prize-winning in the start port. The controller 20 also changes-over the change speed of the patterns from a first speed (high) to a second speed (low) before stopping the change of the patterns. The controller 20 also enlarges and displays the numerical pattern of at least one pattern 10 which is changed at the second speed. By the enlargement, the numerical pattern changing at the second speed is easily seen.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004203558-A (JP)
Title: Article supporting device of conveyor
Inventor: EGUCHI KAZUHIRO
IPC: B65G21/00
Filed: 2002-12-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an article supporting device for a conveyor without need for installing any separate device for supporting article, capable of reducing the equipment costs, and enabling part of the conveyor oversurface to serve as a working table simply.  <P>SOLUTION: The article supporting device of the conveyor is structured so that U-shaped supporting arm rising at one end side and capable of supporting the article such as a tool 23 is installed on the undersurfaces of a pair of conveyor frames 3 and 3 facing to fore-and-aft direction.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI