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Patent JP-2004140583-A (JP)
Title: Information providing apparatus
Inventor: NISHIMURA HIROFUMI
IPC: G10L13/08
Filed: 2002-10-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information providing apparatus whereby a user can easily view and listen to video and superimposed character included in contents.  <P>SOLUTION: The information providing apparatus is configured to include: a contents input means 110 for receiving contents including video information, audio information and character information; a video image providing means 120 for providing the video information included in the contents received by the contents input means 110; a voice synthesis means 160 for applying voice synthesis to the character information included in the contents received by the contents input means 110 at a prescribed speech speed; and a voice output means 170 for outputting a synthesized voice in response to the voice synthesis information subjected to the voice synthesis by the voice synthesis means 160 and outputting a voice in response to the voice information included in the contents received by the contents input means 110.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004137805-A (JP)
Title: Door lock device
Inventor: HAYAKAWA SHIGERU
IPC: E05B79/08
Filed: 2002-10-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a door lock device capable of preventing troubles of an operation without complicating the constitution of the door lock device.  <P>SOLUTION: When a locking lever 24 is moved to a locking position from an unlocking position, an open link is abutted on the locking lever 24 to move to the locking position from the unlocking position, and when the locking lever 24 is moved to the unlocking position from the locking position, the locking lever 24 is detachably placed, at the same time, when it is placed at the unlocking position, it is abutted in the direction of a lift lever 23 in compliance with an open lever 21, and when it is placed at the locking position, it misses the lift lever 23 in compliance with the movement of the open lever 21, when it moves in the direction of the unlocking position from the locking position in a missing state, the open link 22 abutting on the lift lever 23 in the other direction is provided.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004146488-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
Inventor: ICHINOSE YASUJI
IPC: H01L23/50
Filed: 2002-10-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure a distance between a gold wire and a chip, and to provide a package that can be made thinner.  <P>SOLUTION: In a leadframe 21 having a tab 23 and a post 25 arranged to face each other, leads 24 and 26 extend from the tab 23 and the post 25. A difference in height H1 exists between the lead 24 and the tab 23, a difference in height H2 between the lead 26 and the post 25, and a difference in height H3 between the tab 23 and the post 25. A semiconductor chip CH is bonded onto the tab 23 of the leadframe 21 by using a die-bonding material such as a silver paste. The surface electrode exposed on the surface of the semiconductor chip CH and the post 25 of the leadframe 21 are connected to each other by using a conductive wire 51 which may be a gold wire, and then the periphery of the semiconductor chip CH is coated with sealing resin 62.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004141356-A (JP)
Title: Dishwasher
Inventor: TOGA KEIICHI
IPC: A47L15/42
Filed: 2002-10-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dishwasher which realizes a low cost and a compact size.  <P>SOLUTION: A door is lifted and lowered along a guide rail 61 on the side of a main body of the dishwasher by rolling of a guide roller 78 in a space formed on a guiding surface 66 on the side of the main body. A chevron-shaped protruding part 87 protruding toward a third guiding surface 64a from a main body 86 of the roller is provided on the guide roller 78. Since the vertex part 87a of the protruding part has a clearance of a prescribed size from the third guiding surface 64a to make a sliding contact with the third guiding surface 64a when the door D is lifted and lowered, the top part 87a of the chevron-shaped protruding part 87 rubs against the third guiding surface 64a when the door D is lifted and lowered. Consequently, the door D is lifted and lowered smoothly .  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004151848-A (JP)
Title: Pressure control valve for varying outlet pressure
Inventor: TAKAHASHI NAOTO
IPC: G05D16/06
Filed: 2002-10-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pressure control unit for facilitating countermeasures to both an LPG and an LNG.  <P>SOLUTION: A main body 11 is combined with a cover 12 to form a gas channel 15 and a pressure receiving chamber 16 and a spring chamber 17, and a control valve mechanism 20 is arranged at the gas channel 15, and a pressure receiving board 21 and a control spring 22 and a spring seat 23 and a pushing bar 24 are arranged to be made in close contact with a diaphragm 14 in the spring chamber 17 , and the upper edge of the cover 12 is covered with a gap 25, and a lever 27 is linked with an interlocking element 26 fixed to the diaphragm 14 to operate the control valve mechanism 20 in a pressure control valve 10. Long/short grooves 32 and 33 are formed on the internal face of the lower edge of a through-hole 28h of a boss 28 formed at the upper part of the cover 12, and a 6-cleavage skirt 38 equipped with a hook 34 and the pushing bar 24 are inserted into the long/short grooves, and the hook 34 is alternately fit into the long/short grooves 32 and 33. Thus, it is possible to facilitate countermeasures to both an LNG or LPG.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004151872-A (JP)
Title: Health insurance card management device, health insurance card management method, health insurance card management program, health insurance card
Inventor: MIYAMOTO YOSHIAKI
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2002-10-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate convenience in working which is required, when a health insurance card which is issued to each person is recovered.  <P>SOLUTION: Each of qualified persons is identified by personal information including a branched number for identifying a qualified person constituting the same household assigned, separately from assured person information including the symbol/number of the health insurance card. On a personal card which will be issued to each person, the insured person information, including the personal information, is recorded by two-dimensional codes. An insurer side system has a recovery management database 24, in which the personal information is associated with a recovery-finished flag and is held. A recovery management part 16, when the personal card is recovered on a household basis, sets the recovery-finished flag corresponding to the personal information read with a card reader 10. If personal information is found for which the recovery-finished flag is not set, when recovery check for one household is finished, it is decided that the omission of personal card recovery has occurred in the household.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004148655-A (JP)
Title: Digital camera with printer
Inventor: GOTO MASAYA
IPC: H04N5/225
Filed: 2002-10-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To protect a recording head even when the output voltage of a secondary battery drops during recording operation.  <P>SOLUTION: The digital camera with a printer comprises a capacitor for supplying power to a flash tube for photographing, a means for supplying power to the printer, a means for detecting output voltage from the power supply means, and a means for making a switch from the power supply means to the capacitor. When recording is started, the switching means is switched if the voltage detected by the voltage detecting means is lower than a specified threshold level and capping operation is started.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004152021-A (JP)
Title: Lunch reservation method and system
Inventor: ISHII YOHEI
IPC: G06Q10/10
Filed: 2002-10-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a user to make a reservation for any date other than that date, or to preliminarily make a reservation for a plurality of dates, and to carry out the cancellation or change of reservation according to the condition of a user without requiring any operation by the user.  <P>SOLUTION: In the first embodiment, it is possible for a user to make a reservation for any date other than that date, or to preliminarily make a reservation for a plurality of dates by making a reservation for his or her desired date on the picture of a terminal used by the user. In the second embodiment, it is possible to carry out the cancellation or change of reservation according to the condition of the user without requiring any operation by the user by using the task management data of the user.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004151383-A (JP)
Title: Image forming device
Inventor: OKAMOTO SUEAKI
IPC: G03G15/16
Filed: 2002-10-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the amount of positional deviation in overlapping color toner images while conducting transfer of the images by precisely adjusting the relationship between the running speed of transfer belts and the transporting speed of a recording pater by a pair of fixing rollers.  <P>SOLUTION: In an image forming device, the recording paper being transported by a resist roller is transported to each color image carrying body by transfer belts and the toner images on the bodies are transferred onto the paper. The running speed of the transfer belts and the transporting speed of the paper by a pair of the fixing rollers are detected (S121 and S122) and driving control or a fixing motor is conducted so that the running speed of the transfer belts is slightly faster than the transporting speed of the paper by the fixing roller pair with a prescribed speed difference (NO on S123, S124).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003178706-A (JP)
Title: Fixing tool for assembling each member composing a device such as wien filter
Inventor: DUVAL PAUL J
IPC: H01J37/05
Filed: 2002-10-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing tool that can secure relative positioning of the members precisely and reliably in the assembly of a plurality of magnetic poles to a support structure.  <P>SOLUTION: This is a fixing tool for assembling a plurality of members to a support structure and comprises a body (10, 12) for defining a space that is structured to accommodate the support structure and a plurality of members, an arm that is fitted on the outside structure (12) so as to be capable of moving in the pushing direction of the member and engages with the corresponding outside end portion of the plurality of members in such movement, a means driven by gravity (weight C) that engages the arm with the plural members by energizing in the pushing direction of the member and thereby pushes the plural members onto the engaging position for the support structure.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2004152655-A (JP)
Title: Battery pack and its manufacturing method
Inventor: WATABE KOJI
IPC: H01M50/296
Filed: 2002-10-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery pack, and its manufacturing method, which can be mass-produced efficiently at low cost with a high yield with the use of a simple manufacturing device, with its surface of a uniform film thickness even with errors in outer shapes of unit cells, and which can be insulated by being covered with a thin plastic protection film.  <P>SOLUTION: In the battery pack, polyurethane emulsion containing a reaction product obtained by emulsifying and dispersing an intermediate product produced from an A compound made of an organic diisocyanate, a B1 compound made of a polyol mixture having at least an average functional group larger than 2.05, and a B2 compound having one hydrophilic center and at least two active hydrogen groups in water, is coated on the surface of the unit cells 2, and a plastic protective film 1 is adhered thereon.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004149310-A (JP)
Title: Sheet feeder
Inventor: NISHIDA HAJIME
IPC: B65H3/52
Filed: 2002-10-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a friction separation system sheet feeder for enhancing foreign sound prevention effect with a simple configuration.  <P>SOLUTION: In the friction separation type sheet feeder, a friction member 2 is pressure-welded to a sheet feeding roller 1 by a pressing spring 5, and sheets are separated one by one at the nip section between the sheet feeding roller 1 and the friction member 2 for feeding from the uppermost sheet position. A vibration-proofing member 6 is provided at one end of the pressing spring 5.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004155252-A (JP)
Title: Wiper arm
Inventor: SAWARA HIDESHI
IPC: B60S1/34
Filed: 2002-11-05
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wiper arm to reduce obtrusive property.  <P>SOLUTION: The wiper arm 14 has an arm head 15, an arm member 29 and an energizing means 39. The arm member 29 is turnably connected to the arm head 15. The energizing means 39 is interposed between the arm head 15 and the arm member 29. The energizing means 39 energizes the arm member 29 toward a wiped-out surface 12a. The energizing means 39 is locked to a locking section 20 disposed on the base end side of the arm head 15.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004003420-A (JP)
Title: Turbocharger
Inventor: IGARASHI OSAMU
IPC: F02B39/16
Filed: 2002-11-06
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily cool an electric motor to prevent efficiency for the motor from being lowered.  <P>SOLUTION: This turbocharger 11 is provided with the electric motor 11b for rotation-driving a turbine/compressor 11a, a turbo-housing 11c built-in with the motor 11b, an introducing passage 25 of which the one end is connected to the housing 11c, and a gas flow generating means 11a(26) for generating a gas flow directed to an inside of the housing 11c inside the introducing passage 25.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003299342-A (JP)
Title: Linear motor
Inventor: NAKA KOKI
IPC: H02K41/03
Filed: 2002-11-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable high-speed and highly precise positioning by reducing cogging by a tip effect without extending the overall length of an armature.  <P>SOLUTION: A linear motor is equipped with a field pole which is constituted by arranging a plurality of plate-shaped permanent magnets 1 rectilinearly so that they are alternately heteropolar; and an armature which has an armature core 2 provided with a plurality of teeth 21 disposed via a space opposite to the magnetic pole faces 11 of the permanent magnets, and a armature winding 3 wound on the teeth and being shorter than the length in the arrangement direction of the permanent magnet of the field pole, and whose armature and field pole move relatively. Tips of the teeth 21a and 21a are positioned at both ends in the movement direction of the armature, and at least one part on the side where there are no adjacent teeth is cut off. Therefore, its length in the movement direction of the armature is shorter than the length in armature movement direction of tips of other teeth.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2003164447-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for minimizing phase misregistration artifact in gated ct image
Inventor: OKERLUND DARIN R
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2002-11-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for generating an optimally registered working set of two-dimensional CT images in a gated CT system.  <P>SOLUTION: The method (140) includes, where an acquisition period is divided into sequential acquisition phases, obtaining CT image data for separate phase ranges during each acquisition phase (142), generating phase image sets including 2D images for each phase range (152), and selecting one phase range image set corresponding to each acquisition phase (158, 160, 162) to generate a working image set where the selected phase range image sets are optimally aligned.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003154764-A (JP)
Title: Thermal transfer image receiving sheet and photoprinted matter
Inventor: KUDO MIKIKO
IPC: B41M5/52
Filed: 2002-11-08
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermal transfer image receiving sheet, the various durabilities, especially light resistance, of thermal transfer images of which can be kept over a long period of time, and its photoprinted matter. SOLUTION: In the thermal transfer image receiving sheet used in combination with a thermal transfer sheet, some layer of the thermal transfer image receiving sheet includes a cerium-based ultraviolet absorber. Further, in the photoprinted matter having a dye image, the dye image is formed through a sublimation transfer system on the thermal transfer image receiving sheet. Thus, the volatility and extractability, which are the defects of a conventional benzotriazol-based and benzophenon-based ultraviolet absorber, is remarkably improved and the thermal transfer image receiving sheet, the ultraviolet- absorbing effect of which does not reduce with time, can be obtained. Furthermore, the photoprinted matter excellent in durability, especially light resistance over a long period of time, can be obtained.
Patent JP-2004161641-A (JP)
Title: Cosmetic
Inventor: AKAZA MASAFUMI
IPC: A61K35/02
Filed: 2002-11-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cosmetic for preventing and improving acne, characterized by containing one or more kinds of mineral spring water selected from melanterite spring and alkaline simple spring or one or more mineral spring ingredients.  <P>SOLUTION: This cosmetic for preventing and improving the acne is characterized by containing one or more kinds of mineral spring water selected from melanterite spring and alkaline simple spring or one or more mineral spring ingredients, having an excellent inhibiting effect against coproporphyrin produced by Propionibacterium acne. The cosmetic has excellent stability and an excellent action for preventing and improving the acne.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004160804-A (JP)
Title: Image formation device
Inventor: SUGA SHOICHI
IPC: B41J2/18
Filed: 2002-11-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image formation device which maintains/recovers a normal ink discharge state of a recording head by preventing ink accumulation in the vicinity of an ink discharge opening of a recovery system.  <P>SOLUTION: In the image formation device, a discharge opening for a second liquid sucked by a second suction pump is arranged in the vicinity of a discharge opening for a first liquid sucked from the recording head by a first suction pump. Moreover, the discharge opening for the second liquid is set near above in a vertical direction of the discharge opening for the first liquid. The liquid discharged from the discharge opening for the second liquid is adapted to fall on the discharge opening for the first liquid.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004165913-A (JP)
Title: Solid-state imaging unit and its signal reading method
Inventor: UENO TAKAHISA
IPC: H04N5/369
Filed: 2002-11-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain proper picture quality even for a subject which is moving by suppressing random noise without making a high-speed read repeatedly by a nondestructive read type pixel circuit.  <P>SOLUTION: A solid-state imaging unit is provided with two output circuits 4A and 4B which read signals out of one pixel array part through different paths are provided. Two video signals outputted by the output circuits 4A and 4B are processed by addition and averaging to remove random noise. The signals are read by the two output circuits 4A and 4B in the same timing to suppress random noise included in each output system. Further, the two output circuits 4A and 4B are made different in readout timing and then signals of pixels are sequentially outputted at different time from the output circuits 4A and 4B and processed to suppress the random noise included in respective pixels.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004172271-A (JP)
Title: Solar cell and method for manufacturing same
Inventor: HAYASHI MASUMI
IPC: H01L21/304
Filed: 2002-11-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a solar cell in which a semiconductor substrate for obtaining the degree of cleaning for anticipating the improvement in a power generating efficiency is used as a base material by removing a metal adhered to the surface by a safe, extremely simple and inexpensive process.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing the solar cell includes a step S2 of removing a damaged layer of the step of manufacturing the solar cell, a step S3 of forming a texture, and a step SW of cleaning the semiconductor substrate immediately after a step S4 of forming a pn junction or a step S5 of separating the PN junction. In this method, the step SW of cleaning the semiconductor substrate repeats a series of the steps of immersing the semiconductor substrate of the base material of the solar cell in a pure water for a predetermined time, thereafter immersing the substrate in a hydrofluoric acid solution and removing the oxide film formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate a plurality of times, and removing the metal adhered onto the semiconductor substrate.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004171944-A (JP)
Title: Applying method and device for sealing material to lead wire used in small battery
Inventor: ASAKURA TOMOMI
IPC: H01M50/178
Filed: 2002-11-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an applying method and device capable of easily changing applying pitch or the like of a sealing material while securing adhesiveness between the sealing material and a lead material used in a small battery.  <P>SOLUTION: The sealing material 3 is cut into a plurality of individual pieces of a predetermined length by using a cutting tool. Each individual piece is held by a crimp tool. A set is made by positioning adjacent individual pieces on vertically opposite sides of the lead material 5. After positioning the sets at predetermined intervals, the sealing material 3 is applied to the lead material 5 via the crimp tool.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004171973-A (JP)
Title: Fuel cell power generation system
Inventor: SAITO YOICHI
IPC: H01M8/04
Filed: 2002-11-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell power generation system in which solar energy can be utilized effectively, and which can suppress repetition of starting and shutdown of the fuel cell.  <P>SOLUTION: This fuel cell power generation system 10 is provided with a solar cell 11, a water electrolysis apparatus 12, in which electric power of the solar cell 11 is directly used, a hydrogen storage tank 13 in which hydrogen generated by the electrolysis is stored, a fuel cell 15 in which hydrogen of the hydrogen storage tank 13 is used, and an interconnection inverter 16. The fuel cell power generation system 10 is used in a state that it is connected to a load 20 and the system power supply 21 at the interconnection inverter 16. A control device 17 judges whether electric power to be supplied to the load becomes in short supply by the shortage of the generated power of the fuel cell 15, and when it judges that electric power becomes in short supply, it switches the interconnection inverter 16 so that the electric power is supplied to the load 20 from the system power supply 21.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2004172050-A (JP)
Title: Face for lighting
Inventor: ASHIZAWA HIROKI
IPC: F21Y101/00
Filed: 2002-11-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a face for lighting and a highly creative lighting in Japanese style.  <P>SOLUTION: The lighting comprises the light-transmitting face member 1 formed of a Japanese paper or a Japanese paper composite, and supporting members 2 to 4 to fix the face member in front of a light source.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO