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Patent JP-2004159220-A (JP)
Title: Image forming apparatus
Inventor: HAYASHI SHUJI
IPC: H04N1/48
Filed: 2002-11-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus which reduces data volume for a read image, and shorten processing time of data for image forming when the draft image is a monochrome image.  <P>SOLUTION: The apparatus comprises a draft sensing device 50 which reads the image on the draft and makes the image data as RGB image data, a YUV conversion unit 72 which translates the image data of the RGB image data components to YUV color space data, an ACS (Auto Color Selection) discrimination part 73 which discriminates whether the image data read by the draft sensing device 50 is color image data or monochrome image data, and an exposure processing part 74 which extracts only Y component (luminance component) from the YUV color space data and makes exposure processing when the ACS discrimination part 73 discriminates that the data are monochrome image data, and an image forming part 20K forms an image based on the image data consisted of the Y component.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004165326-A (JP)
Title: Method of manufacturing wiring board
Inventor: AKASHI OSAMU
IPC: H05K1/09
Filed: 2002-11-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wiring board on which the electrode of an electronic component can be connected firmly to a soldering pad.  <P>SOLUTION: After an electroless-plated copper layer 3a is formed on the surface of an insulating substrate 1 in a coating state, a plating resist layer 11 having an opening 11a exposing the soldering pad 3 forming portion of the copper layer 3a is formed on the copper layer 3a, and an electroplated copper layer 3b, an electroplated nickel layer 5, and an electroless-plated gold layer 6 are successively formed on the portion of the copper layer 3a exposed in the opening 11a. Then, after the resist layer 11 is peeled off, the soldering pad 3 is formed by etching off the electroless-plated copper layer 3a except the soldering pad forming portion, and the portion of the electroless-plate gold layer 6 formed on the outer peripheral section of the pad 3 is etched off. After etching off, a solder-resistant resin layer 4 is formed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004160341-A (JP)
Title: Oxidative decomposition method for sludge and apparatus therefor
Inventor: SHIMOMURA TATSUO
IPC: C02F11/06
Filed: 2002-11-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oxidative decomposition method for sludge, which accelerates the volumetric reduction of sludge by the oxidative decomposition thereof without reducing dissolved oxygen in the peripheral water, whirling up sludge in water, fundamentally consuming the energy from the outside and taking labor in control.  <P>SOLUTION: In a method for oxidizing and decomposing sludge or a deposit in water, one of a pair of the electrically connected electrodes of an oxidative decomposition apparatus for sludge is inserted in the sludge or deposit and the other one of them is arranged in water in such a state that at least a part thereof is exposed from the surface of the water.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004160881-A (JP)
Title: Print head and inkjet recording apparatus
Inventor: UCHIDA HIROYASU
IPC: B41J2/05
Filed: 2002-11-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a print head and an inkjet recording apparatus, which form a high-quality image by enhancing reliability and stabilizing the ejection of ink.  <P>SOLUTION: The print head 1 is equipped with a nozzle member 2 wherein a plurality of ink ejecting holes 7 are provided in an aligned state and which constitutes an end surface of an ink pressurizing chamber 12, a chip member 3 wherein an ink ejecting means 9 for generating ink ejecting energy is provided in a part facing the holes 7 of the nozzle member 2 and which constitutes the other end surface of the chamber 12, and a passage forming member 4 for forming an ink passage 14 which is joined to the chip member 3 so as to supply the ink to the chamber 12. The member 4 is formed of a material with corrosion resistance against the ink, high thermal conductivity, low linear expansibility and high rigidity.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004160001-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: HARADA NORIHIKO
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2002-11-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine which is excellent in amusement for attracting the interest of a game player.  <P>SOLUTION: This pachinko game machine is equipped with first and second stages 29 and 30 as a plurality of rolling surfaces on which game balls B can roll. The first stage 29 is equipped with selecting means (first and second openings 37 and 38) which select a falling path for the introduced game ball B, and the second stage 30 is equipped with selecting means (a recess 51 and a guiding groove 54) which select a falling path for the introduced game ball B from the first stage 29. Thus, the game ball B can select either one of a plurality of kinds of the falling paths. Therefore, the game player can visually recognize the behavior of the game ball B such as falling while either one of a plurality of kinds of the falling paths is selected by the first and second stages 29 and 30, and can enjoy it. As a result, the game machine of which the amusement is increased can be provided.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004172196-A (JP)
Title: Manufacturing method of semiconductor device
Inventor: IZUMITANI TETSUO
IPC: H01L21/66
Filed: 2002-11-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device wherein a process pattern is formed on a semiconductor wafer inexpensively without waste and a mask is superposed thereon highly accurately.  <P>SOLUTION: The manufacturing method is constituted of a forming process of a plurality of chip regions isolated from each other by a scribing region for effecting dicing on a semiconductor wafer, a patterning process for forming a device pattern for an integrated circuit formed on a plurality of chip regions, and a process pattern for positioning a mask with respect to the device pattern on the semiconductor wafer, a writing process for writing a predetermined data into the integrated circuit formed on a plurality of chip regions, and a dicing process for dicing the semiconductor wafer along the scribing region. At least one part of the process pattern are formed on the chip regions.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003314240-A (JP)
Title: Silencer for internal combustion engine
Inventor: YOKOI MASAYUKI
IPC: F01N1/06
Filed: 2002-11-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a large silencing effect without lowering the silencing effect of the high rotation range of an engine.  <P>SOLUTION: A silencer 1 for an internal combustion engine comprises: one or more expansion chambers 11 to 13 formed in the silencer 1; an inlet pipe 5 opened with the chamber 11 to introduce an exhaust gas into the silencer 1; and an outlet pipe 6 opened with the chamber 13 to lead out the exhaust gas from the silencer 1. Thus, the exhaust gas discharged from the opening 5a of the pipe 5 is inverted one or more times in the silencer 1, and introduced into the opening 6a of the pipe 6. Interfacing holes 7 having a plurality of pores which can communicate with the chambers 11 to 13 at a back flow L2, in which the flowing direction C of the exhaust gas flowing through the chambers 11 to 13 does not coincide with the flowing direction E of the exhaust gas flowing in the pipe 6 are provided at the pipe 6. The total opening area of the pores 7 is set to 1 to 5% of the surface area of the back flow L2 of the pipe 6.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004167393-A (JP)
Title: Apparatus and operation method for dynamic filtration
Inventor: KAMAIKE KAZUMASA
IPC: B01D37/04
Filed: 2002-11-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and operation method for dynamic filtration, wherein a dynamic filtration layer is controlled so as not to be overgrown, and a rise in differential pressure is prevented in the case of a constant-flow filtration, and a decrease in a transmission flux is prevented in the case of filtration at a constant pressure.  <P>SOLUTION: In the operation method for the dynamic filtration apparatus, firstly to-be-treated water is sucked at a prescribed filter-surface flow-velocity V<SB>1</SB>and at a transmission flux J<SB>1</SB>, then the to-be-treated water is sucked at a filter-surface flow-velocity V<SB>2</SB>higher than the flow velocity V<SB>1</SB>and at a transmission flux J<SB>2</SB>at most the same as the flux J<SB>1</SB>. It is preferable that the flow velocity V<SB>1</SB>is set at least at a sedimentation velocity of activated sludge and lower than 0.05m/s, and the velocity V<SB>2</SB>is set at least at 0.05m/s and at most 0.4m/s.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004167892-A (JP)
Title: Copy slip, and management slip for delivered article using the same
Inventor: ONO YUKIO
IPC: B42D15/10
Filed: 2002-11-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a copy slip which produces no trash of a release paper sheet in the use.  <P>SOLUTION: First and second leaves 11 and 12 are stuck together separably by the medium of a linearly applied paste 11a, and a third leaf 13 is adhered releasably by the medium of an adhesive 13a. Since no release paper sheet is included in this constitution, no trash of the release paper sheet is produced on the occasion when the third leaf 13 is peeled off and used.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004180374-A (JP)
Title: Spiral tube and manufacturing method therefor
Inventor: FUJITA KAZUHIDE
IPC: B29C48/32
Filed: 2002-11-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spiral tube improved in design that can be used without a sense of discomfort not only in a concealed place such as the back of an electric apparatus but also even in a front place.  <P>SOLUTION: In the spiral tube 1 formed of a synthetic resin strip-shaped body 2 spirally wound therewith, the strip-shaped body 2 is formed of a plurality of resins different in colors, a striped pattern (striped pattern such as a woodgrain tone) is formed to the strip-shaped body 2, and the designability is improved. The strip-shaped body is composed of two layers of a colored resin inner layer and a transparent resin outer layer, and pattern-forming filling materials are dispersed in the transparent resin that constitutes the outer layer, thus providing the surface pattern of the strip-shaped body of a marble tone or the like. Furthermore on the surface of the strip-shaped body, a pattern such as a letter, mark and character is formed by printing (for example, gravure offset printing).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004175952-A (JP)
Title: Antistatic vinyl chloride resin composition
Inventor: TSUKADA NOBORU
IPC: C08L101/00
Filed: 2002-11-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an antistatic plasticized vinyl chloride resin composition that has high antistatic functions with excellent durability, and furnishes excellent control over the antistatic properties.  <P>SOLUTION: This antistatic vinyl chloride resin composition comprises (A) 100 pts.wt. of a total amount consisting of (a-1) 10-90 pts.wt. of a vinyl chloride resin and (a-2) 90-10 pts.wt. of a plasticizer and/or internal plastic resin [wherein (a-1)+(a-2) = 100 pts.wt.], (B) 0.1-3 pts.wt. of at least one type of polyester compound having a structure represented by R-(Y-Z)<SB>n</SB>-Y-R or X-(Z-Y)<SB>n</SB>-Z-X (wherein R is an aliphatic alkoxy group, alicyclic alkoxy group or aromatic alkoxy group; Y is a 4-12C alkylene- or aromatic-dicarboxylic acid residue; X is a fatty acid residue or benzene monocarboxylic acid residue; Z is a 2-12C alkylene glycol residue; and n is an integer of not less than zero), and (C) 0.001-10 pts.wt. of an alkali metal salt and/or alkaline earth metal salt.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004175284-A (JP)
Title: Vehicle side part energy absorption structure
Inventor: TAKAHASHI MASAYOSHI
IPC: B60J5/00
Filed: 2002-11-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle side part energy absorption structure whereby ideal energy absorption characteristics for protecting the waist of an occupant at a vehicle side collision can be achieved without affecting the space in a cabin.  <P>SOLUTION: In this vehicle side part energy absorption structure equipped with a plastically deformable energy absorption member 16 on a predetermined portion of a vehicle side part abutting with the waist of the occupant at vehicle side collision, the energy absorption member 16 is formed to have a hollow parallelogram cross section shape, at least a part of the energy absorption member 16 is arranged between a door inner panel 12 of a side door 1 and a door trim 13 on the cabin inner side of the door inner panel 12 in such a manner that the longitudinal direction coincides with the vehicle front and rear direction, and one of interior angles of the parallelogram cross section shape of the energy absorption member 16 is made an acute angle θ.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004179561-A (JP)
Title: Electronic apparatus
Inventor: ADACHI TSUTOMU
IPC: H05K9/00
Filed: 2002-11-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic apparatus which can rigidly connect a shield cover to a multilayer wiring board and which has excellent productivity.  <P>SOLUTION: The electronic apparatus is obtained by mounting electronic part elements 3 on the multilayer wiring board 1 in which a plurality of insulating layers 1a are laminated and ground wiring is interposed between these insulating layers 1a, coating the multilayer wiring board 1 with the electronic part elements 3, and placing the shield cover made of a metal having sidewalls 2a on an outer periphery. In this electronic apparatus, a plurality of cutouts 4 are formed on at least the uppermost layer of the insulating layers 1a to expose the part of the ground wiring 5, and the exposed ground wiring 5 is electrically connected to the ends of the sidewalls 2a of the shield cover 2 via a conductive adhesive 6 partly contained in the forming region of the cutouts 4.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004186774-A (JP)
Title: Camera
Inventor: TOKIWA KENTARO
IPC: G03B31/00
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a camera having a single microphone capable of recording sounds from various directions.  <P>SOLUTION: The camera comprises a microphone holder 20 mounted on a camera body 2 movably from a shed position to a projecting position, and an operating means 10 for turning the microphone holder 20 for supporting a microphone 7 to change the orientation of the microphone 7.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2003283290-A (JP)
Title: Surface acoustic wave device and communication apparatus having the same
Inventor: TAKAMINE YUICHI
IPC: H03H9/68
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surface acoustic wave device improved about its VSWR and the deviation in its pass band, and a communication apparatus having the same.  <P>SOLUTION: The device comprises two surface acoustic wave filters 1, 2 involving at least three or more odd number of IDTs arranged in a propagating direction of surface acoustic waves on a piezoelectric substrate. The filters 1, 2 provide output signals with mutually different phases of about 180° from input signals and have balanced-to-unbalanced conversion functions. If the number of the IDTs is N, (N-1)/2+1 IDTs are connected to unbalanced signal terminals 13, and (N-1)/2 IDTs are connected to balanced signal terminals 14, 15 of the filters 1, 2, respectively. Each filter 1, 2 has 71 or more electrode fingers of the IDTs in total. If the electrode fingers of the IDTs connected to the unbalanced signal terminals 14, 15 of each filter 1, 2 total to N1 and the electrode fingers of the IDTs connected to the balanced signal terminal total to N2, then they satisfy the relation N1>N2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003242297-A (JP)
Title: Dispenser system and sales analysis method using the system
Inventor: IKEZAKI JUNJI
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2002-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To collect information through dispensers by keeping an eye on consumers who purchase commodities and realize a novel sales analysis based on the information thus obtained.  <P>SOLUTION: A dispenser 100 and an information control server 830 performs a sales analysis by using a dispenser system having a configuration connected through a network. The dispenser 100 transmits, after accepting data carrier presented by users 200 and extracting user information, sales information including at least the user information and information on the names of sold commodities, sold dates, or sold places to the information control server 830. The information control server 830 classifies the sales information for each user in the information control part 840, and prepares commodity purchase history information for each user. An information analysis part 833 performs a sales analysis based on the commodity purchase history information for each user.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004143130-A (JP)
Title: Agent for suppressing increase of human blood sugar level
Inventor: TSUBOI MAKOTO
IPC: A61P3/10
Filed: 2002-10-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an agent for suppressing the increase of human blood sugar level, derived from black rice and extremely effective for the prevention and amelioration of diabetes and the prevention of obesity, and provide a method for producing the agent.  <P>SOLUTION: The agent for suppressing the increase of human blood sugar level contains a hydrated alcohol extract of black rice as an active component. The black rice is defatted and extracted with hydrated ethanol. The agent for suppressing the increase of human blood sugar level is preferably added to a composition for preventing diabetes or a food or drink product for dietary cure.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004186557-A (JP)
Title: Method for manufacturing semiconductor device
Inventor: TANAKA HIROYUKI
IPC: H01L21/762
Filed: 2002-12-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device manufacturing method capable of improving the separating characteristic of separation of fine trench elements.  <P>SOLUTION: A silicon oxide film having uneven film thickness is stacked on trenches in an element separation area formed on a silicon substrate by etching so that only corner parts on the bottoms of the trenches are exposed. The silicon substrate is selectively etched from the trench corner parts of the trenches from which the silicon substrate is exposed to increase the volume of the trenches.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004182938-A (JP)
Title: Foam and foam particle formed from polyester/polycarbonate resin composition
Inventor: MATSUURA MICHIO
IPC: C08J9/00
Filed: 2002-12-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a foam and foam particles formed from a polyester/polycarbonate resin composition and being high in transparency and excellent in basic performances such as chemical resistance.  <P>SOLUTION: The foam or the foam particles are formed from the polyester/polycarbonate resin composition. The polyester/polycarbonate resin composition is prepared by melt-mixing a polyester with a polycarbonate and a polyfunctional component and has a controlled melt viscosity. Desirably, the foam or the foam particles have a single glass transition temperature between the glass transition temperature of the polyester and the glass transition temperature of the polycarbonate.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004193757-A (JP)
Title: Method for allocating telephone number
Inventor: YOSHIMURA KATSUJI
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2002-12-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for allocating a telephone number in which wrong telephone calls can be reduced when a telephone number not used due to the cancellation of a subscriber or the alteration of the number is reused.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for allocating a telephone number comprises a step for recording/managing records of communication among subscribers including incoming calls from subscribers of other communication enterprisers, a step for extracting the incoming call records for a telephone number not to be used due to the cancellation of the subscriber or the alteration of the number from the communication records, determining results of incoming calls from the incoming call records and evaluating the possibility of reuse and a reusable period based on the results of the incoming calls, and a step for determining an allocable telephone number or proposing its candidate for a new subscriber or a subscriber requesting the alteration of the number based on the evaluation results from the previous step when a telephone number is allocated to a new subscriber or a subscriber requesting the alteration of the number.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004190172-A (JP)
Title: False-twisted bulky yarn and method for producing the same
Inventor: SUYAMA HIROSHI
IPC: D02G1/02
Filed: 2002-12-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To readily provide a false-twisted bulky yarn having a large surface area by false-twisting a yarn of a PTFE-based fiber bundle; and to provide a sheet material capable of providing a sheet having improved easily slipping properties and resistance to frictional electrification, and matching with a toner of fine particles for a color copy.  <P>SOLUTION: The false-twisted bulky yarn is constituted of the polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)-based fiber bundle, and the number of false-twisted crimps of the fiber constituting the fiber bundle satisfies the formula: [the number (/20cm) of the crimps]≥30.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004194151-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for detecting motion
Inventor: YAMAUCHI TATSURO
IPC: H04N7/01
Filed: 2002-12-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the accuracy of motion detection in comparison with in a conventional practice by applying a method and an apparatus for detecting motion to, for example, a format converting device.  <P>SOLUTION: By making a feedback ratio variable in a recursible filter 24 in accordance with a change SDD in an absolute value SD of inter-frame difference, erroneous detection caused by noise is effectively avoided to surely detect switching to a still picture, thereby improving the accuracy of motion detection.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004197645-A (JP)
Title: Engine start-up prohibition device
Inventor: UMEZAKI KOICHIRO
IPC: F02N11/10
Filed: 2002-12-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To force a driver or his/her assistant to go out of a vehicle once before starting the vehicle for minimum safety check after start-up inspection, loading/unloading cargoes or the like, and to realize few erroneous operations with a simple structure and cost reduction.  <P>SOLUTION: This engine start-up prohibition device is structured so that a starter switch may not become effective unless either of two push-button switches provided to be operated from the outside of the vehicle are operated. In addition, the engine start-up prohibition device can restart an engine even if the push-button switch provided outside the vehicle is not operated, in case that the engine stops for some reason during running.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004201772-A (JP)
Title: Clothes dryer
Inventor: YABUUCHI HIDETAKA
IPC: F26B21/04
Filed: 2002-12-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To load a heat pump cycle compact without changing the size of a main body so much.  <P>SOLUTION: A clothes dryer is constituted of a horizontal shaft type rotary tank 5 provided inside a case body 1 and inclined so as to bring the front part to a high level to horizontal and the heat pump cycle constituted of a heat sink 8 and a radiator 7 and using a coolant. Then, the clothes dryer is constituted such that the heat sink 8 and the radiator 7 are arranged in a dead space generated between the rotary tank 5 and the back surface 1b of the case body 1 by inclining the rotary tank 5 and are arranged in a parallel direction along the back surface 1b of the case body 1.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI