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Patent JP-2003331217-A (JP)
Title: Character input device, character input method and character input program
Inventor: NISHIYAMA KYOSUKE
IPC: G06K9/03
Filed: 2002-09-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a character input device capable of realizing input by accurate character recognition even when a high-quality photographed image can not be acquired because of resolution of a camera, deformation of a lens or the like.  <P>SOLUTION: This device is equipped with a data processing device 50 comprising a character extraction device 51 for extracting an image of a character part from an image photographed by a photographing device 10, a character recognition device 52 for performing character recognition from the image of the character part, and adding reliability to the character recognition result to acquire character recognition data, and a recognition data synthesis device 53 for detecting and connecting overlapped parts in the character recognition data acquired from a plurality of images in the same document, selecting highly- reliable character recognition data relative to the overlapped parts, and thereby synthesizing a plurality of the character recognition data into one synthesized recognition data, and also equipped with a recognition data storage device 60 for storing the synthesized recognition data and a display device 40 for displaying the photographed image or the character recognition result.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004101113-A (JP)
Title: Rotary cylinder type heat exchanger
Inventor: TANAKA YASUYUKI
IPC: F28D11/02
Filed: 2002-09-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rotary cylinder type heat exchanger capable of inhibiting the generation of looseness of an engagement part of a rotor post with a sleeve and the generation of defect such as the generation of noise.  <P>SOLUTION: In the rotary cylinder type heat exchanger, high temperature gas and low temperature gas are passed through the inside of a rotary cylinder provided with an upper rotor post 2a formed to a tapered shape with a tip end 2b whose diameter is gradually reduced toward a tip end, a sleeve 3 fitted to the tip end 2b of the upper rotor post 2a and formed to a cylindrical shape with a tip end 3b whose inner peripheral surface diameter is gradually reduced toward a tip end and a roller bearing 4 fitted to a lower part of the sleeve 3, with each gas separated from each other to transfer the heat of the high temperature gas to the lower temperature gas. A removal preventing means 13 for the upper rotor post 2a from the sleeve 3 is provided between an outer peripheral surface side of the tip end 2b of the upper rotor post 2a and an inner peripheral surface side of the tip end 3b of the sleeve 3.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004105217-A (JP)
Title: Golf club head and golf club
Inventor: NOGUCHI SHUICHI
IPC: A63B53/04
Filed: 2002-09-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a golf club head which enables the easier adjustment of the center of gravity position of the head as desired without an increase in the mass of the golf club head and a golf club with the golf club head.  <P>SOLUTION: The golf club has the golf club head 1, a shaft 2 and a grip. The golf club head 1 has a head body which has an opening at a second part 3b positioned on the side of the toe part at the sole part 3 and a plate 10 which is made of a material with the specific gravity thereof smaller than that of the head body and so mounted as to close the opening.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003168837-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor laser device
Inventor: HAMAZAKI HIROSHI
IPC: H01S5/022
Filed: 2002-09-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce noise even at the time of using high-speed APC without making a return light be incident on a photodetector for monitoring.  <P>SOLUTION: The semiconductor laser device is provided with a mount board 10 for which a pin photodiode is formed by stacking an i-type Si layer 12 and a p-type Si layer 13 on a part of an n-type Si substrate 11, and a part of a side face of the Si layers 12 and 13 is formed on a slope 15; a semiconductor laser element 40 mounted on the Si substrate 11 where the Si layers 12 and 13 are not formed of the mount board 10, so as to make a light emitting end face opposed to the slope 15; and a total reflection mirror 30 formed at a part of the slope 15. The total reflection mirror 30 is formed in a stripe shape in a direction orthogonal to an inclining direction of the slope 15, and is arranged so as to reflect the light 51 at an optical axis center part of output light beams of the laser element 40; output it to the outside; and make peripheral lights 53 and 54 be incident on a light receiving part of the photodiode.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004112701-A (JP)
Title: Method for sequential correction in microphone array coordinate system, method and equipment for correcting microphone reception signal in microphone array
Inventor: HORIUCHI TOSHIHARU
IPC: H04R3/00
Filed: 2002-09-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a correction method of a microphone reception signal in a microphone array, enabling conversion of a signal received from each microphone, constituting a microphone array to signals which have no differences in the delay time between each other.  <P>SOLUTION: In the correction method of the microphone reception signal in the microphone array, having no less than three microphones mounted on portable equipment and disposed at an equal distance from the origin on the xy plane of a three-dimensional space referenced from the portable equipment, the method includes a step of calculating the angle rotated about the x-axis and the rotation angle about the y-axis on a basis of a predetermined period, when the microphone array coordinate system is rotated about the x-axis and the y-axis so that the delay time difference of the object sound source signal reaching each microphone becomes zero; and a step of converting each microphone reception signal into a signal having no delay time difference, based on the rotation angle around the x-axis and the rotation angle around the y-axis calculated above.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004106499-A (JP)
Title: Optical writing apparatus
Inventor: IKEDA YOSHITO
IPC: B41J2/44
Filed: 2002-09-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical writing apparatus capable of increasing the writing speed of image data to a photoreceptor in an image forming apparatus.  <P>SOLUTION: In the optical writing apparatus of one polygon eight-beam system having a plurality of LDs in one semiconductor laser (LD) unit, the allotment order of image data to the LDs at every sub-scanning line is replaced in the image editing part of other LD unit wherein light is reflected by the surface opposed to the reflecting surface of the light from one LD unit on a polygon mirror.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003177006-A (JP)
Title: Optical test system including interferometer with micromirror and piezoelectric translator for controlling test path mirror
Inventor: PRIKRYL IVAN
IPC: G01J3/45
Filed: 2002-09-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an adjustable optical system that determines aberration in a source beam by comparing a test beam with a reference beam.  <P>SOLUTION: This optical system includes a test source for producing the source beam having a spatial intensity distribution including an aberration component, a wavefront analyzer for processing a fringe signal associated with the aberration component, and an interferometer interposed between the test source and wavefront analyzer. The interferometer includes a beamsplitter for splitting the source beam into the test beam and reference beam, a mirror disposed in the test beam path, and a micromirror disposed in the interference beam path. The micromirror reflects a central position of the ference beam toward an imaging device and allows an outer portion of the reference beam to pass thereby. Therefore, this optical system is not affected by the aberration existing in the source beam.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003205241-A (JP)
Title: Ceramic catalyst carrier and manufacturing method therefor
Inventor: KOIKE KAZUHIKO
IPC: B01J37/18
Filed: 2002-09-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the purification performance of a ceramic catalyst carrier by suppressing the grain growth due to the aggregation of a catalytic component in the support of the catalyst on the carrier to make fine powder.  <P>SOLUTION: When the catalytic component such as Pt is supported on the carrier using cordierite in which a part of constitutional substances is substituted and capable of directly supporting the catalytic component on the introduced substitution element, a precursor of Pt is supported and fired in a reductive atmosphere. Because the metallizing temperature is lowered to about 400°C in the reduction atmosphere, thermal oscillation is decreased to suppress the aggregation and an effect to make the average particle diameter of the catalyst equal to or below 100 nm is attained.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004115329-A (JP)
Title: Method of manufacturing nickel chloride crystal
Inventor: NAKAI OSAMU
IPC: C01G53/09
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing nickel chloride crystal where the grade of nickel in the obtained nickel chloride crystal meets the target or not is rapidly grasped in manufacturing the nickel chloride crystal.  <P>SOLUTION: In the method of manufacturing nickel chloride crystal by heating a nickel chloride solution for concentration and then cooling, whether the grade of nickel in the nickel chloride crystal is above the target grade or not is confirmed by measuring the temperature change generated during the temperature rise when the solution is left for a certain period of time after it is quenched to a required temperature in the cooling process. Alternatively, a relational equation between the temperature change after the temperature rise and the grade of nickel is obtained in advance and the grade of nickel in the nickel chloride crystal is estimated by the temperature change during the temperature rise.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004115689-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for measuring volume expansion of oven body of coke oven
Inventor: SAKAIDA MICHITAKA
IPC: G01B21/32
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a measuring method by which a volume expansion at an arbitrary position in the oven length direction of a coke oven can be measured easily by a combustion chamber pitch under operation of the coke oven without requiring a large-scale device in the measuring method for measuring the amount of the expansion in the oven length direction of the coke oven, and to provide an apparatus therefor.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for measuring the volume expansion of an oven body of the coke oven comprises measuring the positions in the oven length direction of fixed points 5 of the bottom parts of each combustion chamber from the top of the oven to measure the distribution of the expanded amounts in the oven length direction of each position of the coke oven, and the apparatus is used therefor. A position-measuring device is installed on the top of the coke oven so as to be movable in the oven length direction. The position-measuring device has a telescope 2 by which the angle to the perpendicular direction can be determined. The bottom part of each combustion chamber is observed from the top of the oven by the telescope 2, and the fixed point 6 in the view 10 of the telescope 2 is regulated so as to coincide with the fixed point 5 of the bottom part of the combustion chamber by moving the telescope 2 in the oven length direction, to measure the position in the oven length direction of the fixed point 5 at the bottom part of each combustion chamber based on the position in the oven length direction of the telescope 2 at the coincided position.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004001675-A (JP)
Title: Automobile body cover
Inventor: FUKAGAWA YOSHIHARU
IPC: B60J11/00
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily cover an automobile and to enclose an automobile body cover device which encloses a cover, in a trunk without damaging or modifying an automobile body.  <P>SOLUTION: Fold line parts 7 for folding guide are formed extending in the longitudinal direction of a cover body 2 so as to be foldable along the fold line parts 7, and a plurality of core materials 21 are disposed with prescribed spaces in the longitudinal direction between the fold line parts 7 and the right and left longitudinal side edges of the cover body 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004115742-A (JP)
Title: Curing agent composition for epoxy resin, epoxy resin composition using curing agent composition, and semiconductor device
Inventor: AKIYAMA MASAHITO
IPC: C08G59/62
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a curing agent composition capable of providing good curability, flowability and shelf life to an epoxy resin composition, the epoxy resin composition with good characteristics, and a semiconductor device excellent in solder crack resistance and moistureproof reliability.  <P>SOLUTION: The curing agent composition for epoxy resins comprises a compound (A) having two or more phenolic hydroxy groups in a molecule and a curing accelerator (B) represented by general formula (1), and is produced by heating and mixing 2-50 pts.wt. of the component (B) into 100 pts.wt. of the component (A) at a temperature of the softening point of the component (A) or higher. In general formula (1), Ar<SP>1</SP>, Ar<SP>2</SP>and Ar<SP>3</SP>denote each a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent aromatic group, and may be the same as or different from each other; and Ar<SP>4</SP>denotes a divalent aromatic group which is substituted with a substituent other than a hydroxy group or unsubstituted.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003204554-A (JP)
Title: Apparatus and method for encoding image signal
Inventor: KITAMURA TAKUYA
IPC: H04N19/149
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an encoding apparatus and encoding method for excellently performing processing for controlling a quantization step in accordance with the activity by each processing block.  <P>SOLUTION: The encoding method of this invention includes, a step S1 of obtaining the order of activity with respect to a current min<SB>-</SB>qq, a step S2 of initializing a variable i denoting the order to zero, a step S3 of substituting the i-th activity for the variable, a step S4 of obtaining a q<SB>-</SB>scale, a step S5 of obtaining the total quantity of codes when the q<SB>-</SB>scale is stepped down by one, a step S6 of comparing the total quantity of the codes with the target quantity of codes, a step S7 of advancing the variable i denoting the order of the activity because the quantization step can be stepped down when the total quantity of the codes is the target quantity of the codes or below, a step S8 of updating a total and returning to the step S3. The processing transfers to the process in the unit of macro blocks if it is discriminated in the step S6 that the generated quantity of the codes is greater than the target quantity of the codes, setting a min<SB>-</SB>act denoting that the total quantity of the codes is the target quantity of the codes or below. It is judged whether the quantization step is to be stepped down depending on the comparison result between the order of the activity of each macro block and the min<SB>-</SB>act.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004126688-A (JP)
Title: Offline diagnosis system
Inventor: SAITO YOJI
IPC: G05B19/418
Filed: 2002-09-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an offline diagnosis system that can streamline characteristic acquisition by increasing measuring resolution (number of measuring points), acquiring detailed input/output characteristics and acquiring step response characteristics at a sufficient frequency, without expanding physically limited memory capacity of a field instrument and a host application.  <P>SOLUTION: The offline diagnosis system comprises the field instrument for executing process control and having a self-diagnosis function or a valve diagnosis function, and the host application for establishing digital communication with the field instrument, and at an offline phase, executes a self-diagnosis of the field instrument or a diagnosis of a valve and transmits diagnosis results to the host application. A signal input range of the field instrument or valve is divided into a plurality of zones with respect to the time axis or input axis, and diagnosis results of each zone are successively transmitted to the host application.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004128913-A (JP)
Title: Image processor, control method of the image processor, and computer-readable storage medium storing program for executing the method
Inventor: NISHIMURA YUTARO
IPC: H04N1/60
Filed: 2002-10-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To normally operate an image processor while reducing traffic of a network and without lowering speed of a linking operation, and to minimize an image memory consumed on a slave side to enable other image processing processes to operate using a sufficient image memory.  <P>SOLUTION: The image processor has a color conversion means for converting a color in an image on the image processor serving as a transfer source, and a control means for not transferring color components of image data to the other image processor when an absolute value of a color difference component after the color conversion is at a predetermined threshold or lower in all pixels.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004122310-A (JP)
Title: Table device for processing machine
Inventor: MORINO ASAMI
IPC: B23Q7/08
Filed: 2002-10-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To continue laser processing against a plate material W without temporary interruption even when a cut piece Wa of intermediate size or a cut piece Wa of small size is conveyed out.  <P>SOLUTION: The table device for a processing machine is provided with a first work shooter 29 disposed in a first notch 27 formed on a table body 13 and conveying out a cut piece Wa of large size to a tip direction; a first pivoting actuator 37 for vertically pivoting the first work shooter 29; a plurality of second work shooters 47 disposed so as to be aligned in a second notch 45 formed on the first work shooter 29 and conveying out the cut piece Wa of intermediate size or the cut piece Wa of small size to a tip direction respectively; and a plurality of second pivoting actuators 55 for vertically and individually pivoting a plurality of second work shooters 47 respectively.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004128289-A (JP)
Title: Relief processing apparatus and manufacture of semiconductor device using the same
Inventor: KONDO TOKUYUKI
IPC: H01L21/82
Filed: 2002-10-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the precision of relief processing by eliminating a fuse cutting error.  <P>SOLUTION: In the manufacturing method of a semiconductor device in which relief processing is performed for switching a circuit to make it non-defective when a defect is detected in a part of a plurality of formed circuits, test data inputted to the relief processing apparatus are collated with circuit information, a fuse required for turning off the defective circuit is specified, a fuse required for turning on a substitutive circuit is specified, physical coordinate locations of the specified fuses are read out of the location data by a program incorporated in the relief processing apparatus and based upon the rear coordinate location data, and the fuses are cut. Thus, it is not necessary to create a coordinate list file for specifying the physical locations from fuse numbers as conventional, and occurrence of defects caused by artificial factors such as erroneous conversion caused by an error in a data input which is manually performed conventionally or caused by an operation error in data transfer.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004121628-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: ISHIZUKA KEITA
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-10-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine capable of enhancing the pleasure of a pachinko game and providing the pleasure derived from the integration of the pachinko game and variable display.  <P>SOLUTION: A display control circuit board D switches a solenoid 13 on to advance a movable member 12 when the animation with a primitive man running displayed in an LCD 3 while a "mammoth ready-to-win" game state, which is a display presentation in the variable display in the LCD 3, is being executed. The movable member 12 interlocks with the animation of the primitive man character displayed on the visual screen of the LCD 3, and the integrated visual presentation with both of them is provided for a player. The movable member 12 is also a member to provide an advantageous game state for the player in the pachinko game machine, and the shift of the game state to the advantageous game state can be directly indicated to the player by the movement of the movable member 12 performing the presentation of the variable display. Accordingly, the pleasure derived from the integration of the pachinko game and the variable display can be provided for the player.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004092626-A (JP)
Title: Manufacturing method of fluid injection valve
Inventor: MORITA HIROMITSU
IPC: F02M61/18
Filed: 2002-10-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of fluid injection valve facilitating the boring of a nozzle hole opened in a thin plate by flow rate control so as to enable the precise measuring of injection quantity of a fluid.  <P>SOLUTION: This manufacturing method of a fluid injection valve 1 for performing the measuring of the fluid and the determination of the injecting direction thereof by injecting the fluid from the nozzle hole 28a of a nozzle hole plate 28 comprises a preparatory hole working process 200 for working the preparatory hole of the nozzle hole 28a of the nozzle hole plate 28, and a shot blasting process 300 for blasting abrasive grains to the ridge lines 28Ue and 28Le of the preparatory hole of the nozzle hole 28a and the nozzle hole plate 28. The period of blasting abrasive grains in the shot blasting process 300 is set to a prescribed blasting time, whereby a prescribed flow rate (target flow rate) matched to the measuring of the fluid injected from the nozzle hole 28a can be adjusted. The prescribed blasting time corresponds to the sum of a prescribed ridge line working blasting time and a flow rate correcting blasting time.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004126423-A (JP)
Title: Method for displaying intrinsic information of storage medium, storage medium, and package of the same
Inventor: KATAGIRI SADAHITO
IPC: B65D77/22
Filed: 2002-10-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for displaying intrinsic information of a storage medium which allows intrinsic information to be easily included in a commodity management number and to provide a storage medium and a package of the same.  <P>SOLUTION: Intrinsic information prestored in a write-once-memory 11 is displayed on a write-once-memory 10 so that is can be visually read from the outside, and therefor, this method is useful for theft protection by setting a commodity management number including the intrinsic information 11 by a user in a shop who has seen the intrinsic information 11 displayed on the write-once-memory 10 shipped from a maker.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO